This part is basically when Mercury dies, so there will be character deaths and sadness. This chapter contains some angst. By the way, I won't be able to update as fast because Footloose is opening next week and it will be crazy!
Ami sighed, turning off the TV. She turned to her mother and smiled weakly. Her mother shook her head. "So many natural disasters. What could be happening?"
Ami stared into space remember what Artemis had told them. 'We're running out of time. But I don't know where Zoi-kun is…' Ami teared up at this and her mother turned to her.
"Dear, what's the matter?" Her mother hugged her.
Ami shook her head. "It's nothing, mother. Just a little tired. I think I'll go to bed…" She kissed her mother on the cheek. "Oyasumi nasai (good night, sweet dreams)."
"Oyasumi nasai, Ami." Her mother hugged her, but Ami hugged harder back, tears coming down.
"Ami, ii desu (it's okay)." She told her, hugging her.
When Ami pulled back, she wiped her eyes. "Oyasumi nasai, mother." She turned and walked to her room, but stopped and turned, just staring at her mother.
"Sweetheart, what's wrong?" She took a step, but Ami shook her head.
"I'm fine. Just tired." Ami told her.
Her mother turned to go, but Ami called out to her. Her mother turned. "Hai?" she asked.
"Aishite ru (I love you)." She smiled, then turned into her room.
"What's wrong with her? I'll check on her later tonight." Her mother walked back to the living room.
Ami shut her door and leaned on it, tears falling down. "Sumimasen (I'm sorry), mother, but I have to do this." She climbed out of her window and began to climb down the side, landing on the ground. She ran down the street to Rei-chan's temple.
When she reaches it, she hears Mako-chan talking about all her boyfriends. "I can't believe I won't have another one…" she whined.
Ami laughed. "We're going to take on the most powerful being in the universe and you're worrying about boys?"
The girls turned to the approaching girl. "Hey, Ami-chan." Minako greeted, hugging her.
"Hey, girls." Ami hugged back, waving to the others.
"So, Ami, who do you miss?" Rei teased.
Ami blushed. "No one." But her thoughts strayed to Zoisite.
The others must have noticed because Usagi stepped forward and enveloped her. "You're worrying about Zoi-chan, aren't you?"
Ami nodded, tears softly falling. Usagi hugged tighter. "Don't worry. When we come back, we'll find him and you will have a happy reunion and hug and kiss and we'll gag…" She laughed, but the laugh was a little hollow.
Ami hugged Usagi. "Usagi-chan, don't worry about Mamo-chan. He'll be fine." She hugged her tighter, slowly rocking as Usagi cried.
Artemis jumped in and told them that it was time to change. Nodding, the girls took out their wands/broach up and shouted out:
"Moon Prism Power…Mercury Power…Mars Power…Jupiter Power…Venus Power…MAKE UP!"
Standing in their senshi forms, they hold hands in a ring and concentrate. An energy field forms around them.
Artemis shouts out. "Sailor…TELEPORT!" and the girls are gone.
"Good luck…" Artemis murmurs, staring at the spot. Luna walks up to them and rubs against him. "I hope that girls are going to be okay."
Artemis returns the rub. "We can only wait now…"
Mercury opens her eyes and looks around. "We're at the North Pole." She states the obvious.
Moon shivers. "I'm cold."
"Deal with it." Mars snapped at her and with that, the senshi move toward the entrance, a dark, purple doorway.
"So they made it here, huh?" Beryl sits on her throne and stares into the crystal ball she has. She calls out for her five most powerful youma.
They appear and Beryl tells them to stop and destroy the Sailor Senshi before they can enter the Dark Kingdom.
Meanwhile, the girls make their way across the terrain. "At least the storm has stopped and the weather has cleared." Venus said out loud to lighten the mood.
When no one answers, she sweat drops and becomes silent. Moon suddenly stops.
The girls turn around to see her rushing forward. "Wait!" they shout, piling on top of her.
"Let me go! He needs help!" she cries out loud, struggling.
"Who?" Mercury asks, then looks up to see Tuxedo Kamen hanging on ropes.
"Tuxedo Kamen! I'll help you!" Moon pushes the others off, but Jupiter hangs on.
Mercury takes out her computer and, typing in a few numbers, gasped. "Sailor Moon, that isn't Tuxedo Kamen! That's a youma!"
"No, it can't be! It's really him!" Moon breaks out of Jupiter's grasp and runs to him.
"Sailor Moon!" they cried, running after her, but the blond girl was pretty fast.
"Tuxedo Kamen!" she cried, tears running down her face as she reached out to him.
"No!" Venus cried, grabbing her from behind and threw her to the ground. They began to roll around, getting covered in snow.
"We have to get rid of it now!" Mars cried.
"Way ahead of you!" Jupiter cried, getting ready to destroy it when the image changed to Nephrite.
Jupiter hesitated, which was bad, because 4 tentacles grabbed her & suspended her 10 feet in the air!
The youma attacked with electricity, causing Jupiter to cry out. "Jupiter!" the girls shouted, getting ready to attack, but Jupiter got their before them.
She invoked her "Supreme Thunder" and fought electricity with electricity . Two of the youma are destroyed by the backlash.
Jupiter was left lying on an ice mound. A guilt-ridden Sailor Moon tries to get to her, but Jupiter simply wishes some words of encouragement and dies. Sailor Moon screams and begs Mako-chan not to die.
Mercury could tell Sailor Moon was defeated, that her resolve had been crushed with Mako-chan's death.
She stood up and yells to the Dark Kingdom that the crystal is theirs.
"Stop it!" Mars and Venus shout, grabbing Sailor Moon, who doesn't stop struggling and crying.
Mercury walks over and slaps the hysterical Sailor Moon. Everyone is of course shocked, but Mercury apologizes.
"I'm sorry, but Mako-chan died for this job that we're all committed too…" But she was interrupted when her computer began to beep.
Looking at it, she could tell that the other 3 youma have regrouped and were heading their way.
Closing her eyes, she spoke up. "I'll lead the youma off by using myself as a decoy."
"No, Mercury. I can't lose anyone else." Sailor Moon cried, but Mercury interrupted her.
"It's better this way since I am the least powerful of all of us and maybe I can buy enough time for you guys to get in." She watched as Mars and Venus gripped Moon's arms and lead her away.
Mercury waved to her departing friends, tears forming. "Goodbye my friends…" She turned to her beeping computer, telling her the youma had arrived.
"Ami…" a voice called out. Mercury looked up to see an image of Zoisite hanging. Her heart stopped, but she told herself is was just an image and nothing else.
She shook her head, laughing at the gall of the youma and scanned the image. The ground began to shake as a lava flow went in front of her.
Mercury used her Shabon Spray to stop it. Opening her eyes, she saw the youma form a huge energy boulder. It proceeded to run Mercury over, but using her computer, Mercury found the source of the illusion power.
She used her Shabon Spray to protect herself and found herself inside the boulder. "Whoa…" was all she said before two of the youma grabbed her and fried her with energy.
Mercury was about to collapses still suspended in midair when another energy blast stopped them.
The youma let go and looked to see a man with long dark blond hair and brown eyes. "Lord Zoisite!" they gasped as their former master walked over to Mercury.
"Zoi-kun…" she weakly called out as Zoisite gathered her into his arms.
"Shh, Ami-chan. It's fine. I'm here & I'm not going to leave you." He helped her up. "These are Beryl's most powerful youma. We have to be careful."
Mercury nodded. "Of course."
The youma laughed in their faces. "What do you think? You'll actually beat us? How sad!" the first one laughed as the second one joined in shortly.
Mercury glared at them and ran at them, kicking one in the stomach as she punched the other!
"Ooof!" they called out, landing backwards. Pushing themselves up, they growled. "Why you…"
But whatever they were about to say was stopped by Zoisite's energy ball hitting them straight on.
A bright light & the two stood in awe. "Is it over?" Mercury made her way slowly over.
Zoisite saw a light and knew what he had to do. "Ami-chan, watch out!" he cried, running at her.
Mercury looked up to see a huge energy ball fly at her! She screamed and shielded her eyes as she felt herself being shielded and heard a cry of pure pain that broke her heart.
Opening her eyes, she cried as Zoisite leaned over her, coughing up blood. "Zoi-kun, hang on! We'll get help!" she cried, trying to push him off, but he wouldn't let go as the youma continued attacking. "Please stop this! You'll die!"
"Life without you isn't life at all. I would rather die than you. You have so much to give the world and I spent most of my life taking." He teared up.
"No, Zoi-kun. You didn't take anything but my heart." She cried as he went limp on top of her. "Hang on, Zoi-kun. Please…" she begged, crying harder.
He looked at her, locking eyes. "Please take care, Ami. You'll be in my heart. Forever." With that, he closed his eyes and went completely limp.
"No, Zoisite!" Ami cried out in pure heartache.
The illusion-youma floated in front of Mercury. "Looks like he's gone…" she laughed.
Mercury glared at the youma. "You'll pay for this! I promise you that!" She concentrated, using her computer to break the illusion-youma's power.
The boulder disappeared and the only things left on the ice mound was the bodies of Sailor Mercury and Zoisite.
Mercury coughed weakly as she grabbed Zoisite's limp hand. "I'll be with you soon, my love. I promise." She began to close her eyes when a haze covered her.
"What's going on?" She felt herself being lifted out of her body and looked down at her limp body clutching Zoisite's hand. "Is this even possible?" she wondered out loud.
"Of course it is, sweetheart." a feminine voice called out.
Ami turned in surprise to see two figures. "Who are you?"
"You know us. In your heart." another voice, this time masculine, answered.
Ami squinted as the figures became more clear. She recognized them at first sight and her eyes teared up. "Momma? Papa?" she whimpered as the familiar adults smiled at her, arms open.
"We're here, sweetie." the woman said as Ami run into their arms.
"I missed you so much!" Ami sobbed, clutching her parent's shirts.
"Shh, we know." the man cooed, rubbing her back.
"Don't leave me. I already lost so much…" She cried as Meridian hugged her closer.
"We know. Zoisite is here with us." she told her.
"Really? So I can be together with you three forever?" she asked, smiling.
"No you can't." Meionite told her, frowning.
"Papa? Why?" Ami asked, eyes showing confusion.
"He's right. You belong on Earth with the others." Meridian told her, letting go slowly.
"No! I want to be with you!" Ami clutched them, not letting go, tears falling down her face. "Don't leave me!"
Meionite hugged his daughter. "We love you & will always be in your heart." They began to fade away.
Ami panicked. "No! Don't go! Stay!" She cried, reaching out.
Meridian smiled a sad smile, tears running down her face as well. "We love you, Ami, Princess of Mercury." With that, they disappeared forever.
Ami cried out in pure agony. "No! Come back!"
Just as Ami was about to give up hope, she faintly heard Princess Serenity cry out. "Everybody, lend me your strength!"
Realizing what she had to do, Ami took one last look at the body of her one true love and closed her eyes, arriving to help Serenity beat the evil Queen Beryl.
And we know what happened after that, so we'll stop here. Okay, so Ami didn't really die, but in a way she did. Next part is the future! Please RR