Thanks to Isis Aurora Tomoe and Pom Pom, the other senshi will be making an
appearance in this Chappie and will be on Earth beginning of the next!!!
YAY!! Thank you all who read and all who reviewed. I have been inspired to
post my three other working fanfics, lol they are all Minako/Kunzite. Might
post my InuYasha one as well. hehe I'm getting ahead of myself! Oh well
have fun!
By the way, in previous chapters there are mentions of things not seen later IE: Minako's secret (1) the presence she feels (3) and so on! These will be addressed in Chapter 4. GOMEN!!!! I'm working on how to mix them all in nicely
P.S. I don't own n e thing like Sailor Moon and stuff (I have 20 dolls though!). the plot is my own, dream about it every night lol.
P.P.S. Probably no one who knows me is reading this! Yay!
P.P.P.S. on a serious note, might not update so much, oh well this might tide you off for a week two. Sorry but I have babysitting, a dog, and a sister who is leaving for a year AND I am making a costume for an amine convention. Actually BAAF, hey if you go, I'll be there on the Saturday, I'll be the one as Eternal Sailor Uranus, hyper and bouncey, with at Least a Tuxedo Kamen-girl and a no face and the dear Pom Pom you have heard so much about! Email me if you are going! I would love to meet you!
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"Lady Minako!" Telena called as she pulled back Minako's curtains to display the sunrise. "Time to awake, Lord General Kunzite said that you would have breakfast here and when you are ready join him in the training room as usual."
"I don't know why I bother going to morning trainings. They are such a bore. Kunzite is the only one I haven't defeated, and no one has yet to defeat me." Minako said laughing coolly. Minako had been on the Earth for more than three weeks now, and to her slight anoyment she was finding herself falling in love with the head general. Kunzite often talked to her about many things and occasionally kissed her for no real apparent reason. Minako had returned a few kisses but she still had mixed feelings for the General. She could not help but think that he was an intelligent and handsome man. She found herself wondering who he really was under stony exterior he seemed to always wear.
In a half an hour Minako was feed, bathed, and dressed in long pants and a matching shirt, ready to do battle with anyone who thought they could fight her. Summoning her sword, she walked with Telena to the training arena.
"Good morning Minako." Kunzite said flatly as she walked in not bothering to look up from sharpening his sword, he never gave her much attention while in company of others. The other men, Jadeite, Zoicite, and twelve others, seemed to be readying their weapons for the morning exercises.
"Ah good you are all here." The Earth King said upon entering the room. "A slight change of plans, you know how much the men like to see a good fight from their generals, and since the moral went down after the defeat on Venus, ((Minako snorted)) I was thinking that maybe a show of swords would be a nice change. I know it's been a while since that battle but the idea just occurred to us."
"What do you mean?" said the only general whose name Minako had not learned, but had gathered from Telena's ramblings that it was General Nephrite. He was the second tallest behind Kunzite, with wavy long brown hair.
"Only a tournament between all of you." The Queen laughed merrily. "Lady Minako, after your show of skill over the past couple weeks, we wished that you would join them."
"I would be honored to." Minako said sweeping a low bow. 'I really need to stop acting as if I was raised on the same level as they. I am only supposed to be a maid to. well, myself.'
With groans, and many discussions on the fact that training was not for show and only to strengthen the mind and body, the military leaders were quite annoyed with this idea. One by one they consented until only Kunzite was left, his only ground of refusal left was that he could not fight a woman, no matter who she was.
"Then I take it you will surrender to me when we are to fight?" Minako said with a curious gleam in her eye and a mischievous smile. Kunzite was taken aback for a moment, no one, especially not a woman had ever dare to act like that towards him.
"I will only spar with you if you are the only one left that I haven't defeated and visa-versa." Kunzite said, knowing that the chances of her defeating the three other generals and the five leading captains were slim.
"Good then you all agree! Good, now here is the idea of how the tournament shall be set." The King said happily.
'The King must have been planning this for more than a week.' Minako thought as she stood off to the sidelines of a wide coliseum. The King and Queen had arranged for the sixteen fighters to face off in pairs, and one by one be eliminated from the tournament. Killing and injuries were prohibited, except for the accidental cut of too close contact. The tournament was to take all day, giving the soldiers a day off.
"They might as well just give us wooden swords and tell us to pick daisies. What is the fun of battle with out risk?" Minako said, not realizing she was saying her thoughts out loud.
"Very true, there is no point. But if you truly dislike it you may quit now, and surrender to Captain Varquan who you were supposed to fight first." A voice said from behind Minako. She whirled around to see it was General Jadeite.
"I am not a quitter General. If the only way to defeat Kunzite is to fight in this silly tournament then so be it."
"You two are a perfect match." Jadeite chuckled, leaning down to Minako's ear he whispered. "You and Kunzite are too perfect together. You know he is crazy about you don't you? What do you think of him?"
"What is going on here?" Kunzite said staring at Jadeite as a dog might stare at a hated cat who tried to eat his food.
"Nothing Kunz, Lady Minako here was just confiding in me her feelings about you." Jadeite said smiling and walking off.
"I should introduce him to Rei." Minako hissed after him. "She would burn him to a crisp before the thought of saying such a lie would pass his mind."
"Jadeite rarely tells lies to my face my dear. I shall see you later, if you are lucky you might make it to the second round." Kunzite said smiling at the blonde girl as she glared back at him.
'He takes me way to easily. I shall when this tournament and even if he is not to fight me today, he will one day.' Minako thought as the King and Queen started to explain the day to the solders who had gathered there. Apparently there was to be a ball that night to celebrate the return of Prince Endymoin.
'Oh great a dreaded ball. Generally I dance with Rei for fear of stepping on people's feet. I wonder how Mars is doing?' Minako thought as the first fight of the tournament began.
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On The Moon
"Your Majesty! Sailor Venus as been taken by the Earth! Artemis reported in saying that her sword had disappeared from her room." a young lady with chocolate hair cried as she ran into the throne room. "What is our line of action? Have they issued a ransom? Might she be killed?"
"Enough Makoto! We already know." A raven haired girl shouted at her, tears streaming from her violet eyes. "Minako will destroy half the planet before anyone could even lay a hand on her is she in danger. With her sword on hand she can be much more brutal than any one ever recorded in history. The 'goddess of love' of still alive, she couldn't give out on me."
"Rei, I'm sorry. You'll see Minako safely back home any day now. Besides, it's been three weeks since that battle on Venus, she might only be doing her undercover work as usual." Another girl, with short blue hair said.
"Ami is right!" a young blonde with long streaming pigtails chirped. "I, Serenity, Princess of the Moon, shall find a way to get Minako home! I was starting to enjoy my vacation from drill-master Venus. I hate her training, it's too hard."
"Don't say that Serien, Venus is training you all to be good fighters." The Queen said. "Don't cry Rei, I swear tomorrow we shall start investigating the Earth for any clues about her. I'm sure that if Minako was in great danger and wanted to come home she would. Ami, Makoto and Rei, you should all be packed and ready to leave at dawn. Serenity shall stay here and contact you if they find any trace of her on Venus."
"Yes My Queen." Rei said standing up and walking to her chambers.
'Where are you my Minako? Are you okay? I know that the sacred fire cannot find you due to your stupid spell. Why the hell did you put that on you? What is the point of being non-searchable if I'm the only one who searches for you?' Rei fumed as she fell onto her bed. 'If only I knew you were safe, if you only sent me a sign. But you wouldn't think that I would be sitting her worrying about you, and if you did you would just show up one morning and say you were in your room wouldn't you?'
"Rei? I'm sorry about what I said about Minako. I'm sure she's all right, don't worry we'll find her." Makoto said following Rei and sitting beside her.
"Of course we will. Minako gives off a different kind of energy than most of the Earth people do. We just need to find the most powerful person with light energy." Ami said following suit and sitting on Rei's other side. Pulling out her pencil-case-size laptop she started to enter a search for Minako on Earth.
"Ami, you won't find her that way. Remember last class? She was trying to teach us how to disguise our energy to make it look as though we are weak to take the enemy off guard, when and if we show our power." Rei said thinking about her friend and leader. "She can mask her energy as well, I've noticed on occasions when she stands next to Serenity during a gathering or something she has a tendency to mirror the energy that Serenity give off. So not only you can't find her real nature of power, but also she lowers herself so you cannot guess her real power."
"I wonder how many fights Minako has gotten into so far today?" Makoto mused.
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On Earth
"Three down, one to go." Minako said as if telling someone her battle count. She was walking around in one of the gardens thinking about the day. Only she and Kunzite were left in the bizarre tournament of the Queen and King's. Being extremely bored, Minako had finished her opponents in under a minute. Now she was getting restless and planned to go into battle and let Kunzite chase her around for awhile before she would let him humiliate him self
"Good job Minako, you made it to the finals." Kunzite said, wrapping his arms around her waist and elbows so she couldn't hurt him too badly right then. "I have a bet for you. I win and I get to hold you like this all night, you win and I'll settle for just a kiss or two."
"You're on!" Minako said, thinking for a second, she reflected on what just happened. "Wait if I win. oh crap. I swear Seren is rubbing off on me. I'm too quick to except a challenge. Now get off me!"
"I'd rather not." Kunzite chuckled, leaning his chin on the top of her head. Minako tried to get him off but only ended up being kissed when she turned herself around in his arms. Thinking about the bet she had stupidly made, Minako kissed Kunzite back. She pulled his hands apart from behind her and lacing her fingers with his, she pulled his arms to his sides.
"There now when I win, nothing happens, you already got a kiss." Minako smiled, pulling away from Kunzite at last. "Sorry that you won't have any fun with me tonight."
"I said a kiss or two, one isn't enough for me. When I win, I won't let you run away from my kisses." Kunzite said smirking evilly. He leaned down again and almost kissed her but was interrupted by a cough of an unanticipated guest.
"General Kunzite what are you doing?" said a laughing voice as Minako quickly backed away from him and turned to see the new comer. "If I knew that while I left you would have found a lady I should have left a few years ago."
"Prince Endymoin, it's not like that." Kunzite started, blushing slightly. Minako noticed it was the first time she had ever seen him acting a bit stupid and confused. The other Generals appeared behind the Prince.
"Of it is!" Jadeite laughed, receiving a glare from Kunzite. "Isn't this unfair? I being the best looking one, still doesn't have a girl while all of you do? Minako you must know some Lady with fine taste in men who would like me?"
"That wouldn't be fine taste in men." Nephrite snickered.
"I would introduce you to someone, but she is not here and I would only introduce her to you because you would be burnt to a crisp several times before you could make a move on her." Minako said smiling
"That wasn't very nice Minako." Kunzite said smiling down at the blonde girl. "Save your anger and spite for our match, we began in only a few minutes. I would have told you when I found you but I half forgot after we made our bet."
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"Ready to pick daisies?" Jadeite jeered from the sidelines as Minako and Kunzite faced each other in the coliseum.
"What did that mean?" Kunzite questioned as he got into a position allowing him to quickly draw his sword.
"Nothing. just a stupid comment I make earlier. May the best woman win." Minako smiled back making sure that it was clear to Kunzite that everything she had would go it to this fight if needed for her to win.
"Are you ready to start this?" A young man said standing to the side, he had acted as referee for the other fights as well. "Let's get this started! Here we are in the finals, Head General, Lord Kunzite, ((huge cheers)) and the Lady Minako ((Silence)). Uh right! Okay take your positions, uh Minako?"
"Hum?" Minako responded.
"Aren't you going to call your sword?"
"Nope. Not yet at least, might not need it at all." She said smiling.
"Okay then." the man continued. "Ready! Set! FIGHT! And they, I mean, Kunzite is off! He is charging Minako his sword drawn and she dodges?"
The commentator was useless for the rest of the time due to the fact that his eyes could not keep up their movements. Minako hadn't really dodged Kunzite's attack, she just jumped over him.
"I'm over here!" She called before running again. After about fifteen minutes she started to get bored of having him chase her in circles. She was yet to summon her sword and was just starting to get Kunzite to really work at attempting to even get with ten feet of her, when she noticed some power tugging at her. Trying to analyze the type and origin of the power in her mind, Minako stopped quite suddenly in front of Kunzite who just happened to be running with his sword in hand.
"Didn't your Mother every tell you not to run with sharp objects in front of you? I knew I didn't need my sword this round." Minako said in a half whisper as she knelt to the ground clutching a deep gash in her stomach.
"Minako! You shouldn't joke about things like that." Kunzite said as he knelt to her side before trying to help her stand while leaning on him.
"Well this was interesting." The referee said blinking. "I suppose since General Kunzite broke the rules accident or not, Minako is the winner."
"Kunzite, if I walk all my blood will get every where. If you don't mind, could you pick me up and carry me some place where there aren't so many people?" Minako sighed after slumping down to the ground in a third attempt to walk. 'For once the pain has over powered me.'
"Anything for you Minako." Kunzite said sweeping her up in his arms. Before any of the nurses and doctors of the palace could stop him, Kunzite was running far away from the coliseum and towards the palace.
"Stop. Kunzite. I will lose too much blood this way. There's only one solution." Minako moaned holding on to his sleeve tightly, she continued in a whisper as he slowed down. "Venus teleport... don't give out on me! Venus teleport! Now damn it!"
Forcing all of her remaining energy into the last five words, Minako had safely transported Kunzite and herself into. well actually she had no idea where. The two were zooming through many galaxies. Minako sighed, the transportation would have taken them where ever Kunzite was going, and apparently he hadn't thought that far yet.
"Where are we going? Or rather where were you thinking of going?" She said looking up and frowning at Kunzite. The galaxies around them stopped spinning and they found themselves in Kunzite's room.
"Put me down." Minako commanded, and was soon laid on his bed. "Idiot, I should have thought before teleporting. Kunzite, come over here, you are covered in blood. Just sit next to me, I'll be fine in a minute, you may leave if you want, floating blood is never very pretty to most people."
Kunzite sat with his back leaning against the headboard of the large bed as Minako made a golden light shine from her body to prevent the escape of anymore blood and seriously thought of just going to sleep but knew better then to let herself stay in that condition. Touching the center of the blood stain on Kunzite's shirt, Minako slowly pulled her finger back, making a long strand of blood come out which slowly changed into a ball encased in golden light. She repeated this on her clothes and then just held a finger up to gather the blood from the arena and Kunzite's sword.
"Maybe I should just keep them there. I think they are pretty." Minako said slightly laughing at her blood-orbs. Touching each one with her finger, she swirled them around and let them make a small tornado looking form before they disappeared into her finger. The gash in her stomach healed itself and Minako looked extremely tired.
"Minako. I. I. I am sorry. I didn't mean-" Kunzite started before his lips were covered by Minako's finger.
"I'm fine. only a little tipsy, pardon me if I act drunk, this generally happens after I play with my blood." She laughed before cringing and curling up into a ball. "Damn it. Who the hell has their own blood on their sword?"
"Are you alright?" he said, his voice giving away his deep concern.
"Wonderful! Not unless you count the fact that your blood might kill me from the inside out. Stop worrying about me and I'll be okay, this is nothing compared to. ah who cares about ancient history." Minako blabbered, "Oh! I feel better already."
"Is there anything that I can do to make up for almost killing you?"
"No, you won the fight fair and square." Minako said, returning to her old self a bit. Getting up and walking around in a circle before deciding she was too tired and sat back down on the bed. "Congratulations I suppose."
"Actually according to the rule you won. I doubt that even you were healed to perfect health you would want to keep up your winning bet today." Kunzite said with a tint of evil in his voice. A soft smile started to show as he sat on the side of the bed.
"A fight is a fight and I gave out before you therefore you won." The warrior Minako lost her battle to a more flirtatious Minako as she leaned over and wrapped an arm around Kunzite's neck and ran her pointer and middle fingers over his lips. "You should smile more, you look even more appetizing then you do normally."
"Minako, you are this drunk just from putting your blood back in yourself?" he asked as she curled herself around his upper body and rested her head on his shoulder.
"I'm not really drunk. I just. I just don't put my mask on. Everything I say I mean. unless I lie, and if I do lie I have reason. You only know one lie from me." she murmured. Within a few minutes she was asleep, still attached to Kunzite, with his arms around her, yet now she was smiling a lazy smile. Deep down she was happy for herself, she could leave anytime if need be by teleportation but now she had a person who was more than a friend and had seen her softer side for a little while.
"A mask you say Minako? I hope I'll see everything that lies beneath it." Kunzite mused before drifting off to sleep.
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The light was just barely starting to fade out of his large east wards facing window, when Kunzite was awoken by a tingle running through his body.
"I wanted to see if I could make it to your lips before you woke up." Minako cooed, seeing his eyes open. The tingle he had felt was her kissing his neck. "I guess you are a pretty light sleeper. You look so calm while you were asleep, instead of the normal rigid atmosphere you posses. I'm sorry I had to awaken you, but don't you have a ball to attend?"
"Why now? I just want to stay here, balls are not my kind of thing anyway." he groaned wishing that he didn't open his eyes.
"You must. It is your responsibility as a Lord on Earth." She said as she started to disentangle herself from him. "You must go even though you may hate it, it is your duty. I'm sure there will be at least one woman who you dance with who won't step on your feet."
"You, I hope." Kunzite said smiling a little before wiping the happiness away. "Minako, why did you stop so suddenly during the battle?"
"Not telling if you aren't getting ready to go to the Prince's dance." She said stretching herself out on the bed.
"You aren't getting ready either."
"I don't have to go." Minako said sticking her tongue out at him. "I will hopefully never have to wear a dress made on the Earth again. On Venus you can actually breathe when you wear a dress."
"So you will not go? Not to save me from boredom and crazy women?" Kunzite pleaded as he leaned over her, holding himself up with his hands on either side of her neck.
"There is a slight chance that I will go. You get ready in any case and I'll see what I can do. But if I fall asleep during the party, it is your fault." Minako laughed pushing the silver hair falling in her face behind Kunzite's ears.
"You have to come Minako. You said that I won the fight, therefore I win the bet as well." Kunzite said smiling. He laughed as her ran his fingers down her cheek and she regretted her battle ideals.
"I can't get ready while you are on top of me." She said shifting herself and trying to wiggle out from under him. Slipping off the bed she made her way to her room leaving Kunzite to stare after her before changing into attire for the dreaded ball.
"Where are you.?" Minako whispered to the ceiling. She had dreamt of Rei crying in her chamber on the Moon. Minako mentally took herself to the moon and was soon in her mind running through endless corridors until she reached Rei's room. Rei was packing as Minako's spirit entered the room. Rei was in a daze and said out loud as if to no one.
"Minako, don't wear the orange one again, just because you wear it to every dinner doesn't mean it will make men walk away from you. You really should were that red dress of yours. that is only if you wish to impress." Rei looked around and noticed that Minako herself was not there at all. "I could have sworn I felt her come in. oh well I shall see her tomorrow when we go to the Earth. I'm sure she is there."
"Wonder what she'll say if she walks in on Kunzite and I during a little moment?" Minako giggled as she awoke from her trance. "Lovely gal, she's been worried about me this whole time I was gone. Well she told me I should so I might as well."
Minako grinned as she flicked her wrist and snapped. A long sleeveless red dress floated in the air, and soon a long red ribbon appeared beside it. After changing into the slim dress, quite difficult seeing that it had a lace-up back, and readjusting the light underskirts several times, Minako found herself staring at the floating ribbon and wondering about the spell she had use for it. Casting the spell on the shoes she was wearing, they blurred out of sight and into the space in front of her eyes.
'If you reverse the words to mean." she stared, trying out her new incantation, she soon found herself flying painfully slow around the room. "I knew it was too good to be true, this is the ancient version of the teleporting spell. Crud! Wait until I improve it and soar into battle!"
"Minako? Are you okay?" Kunzite called as she landed with a thud, she didn't exactly land on her feet. "Are you ready yet?"
"Aren't you impatient? And I'm fine just tripped. kinda. I'll be down in a minute." She called back, running to the mirror to tie her hair in a half pony-tail with the ribbon. Letting the rest of the ribbon trail down to almost the bottom of her hair she walked towards Kunzite's room. "How do I look?"
"Very pretty." Kunzite said as he noticed her every curve, and she laughed as she noticed a certain bulge emerging under Kunzite's pants. "You know we can still stay here and not go to the silly event."
"I could, but you certainly may not stay. Your Prince just returned, you have to go, whatever, I am leaving." She said walking out the door and turning left.
"You are going the wrong way love." Kunzite said as he put is arm around her waist and led her in the right direction. He didn't let go of her until they were bowing to the Queen, King, and Prince, in the ball room. Minako almost ran off to find a quite corner when Kunzite was stopped by a few women. She was stopped of her search when she ran into someone.
"Fighting so much you forgot how to curtsey?" a lady laughed as she held out her hand to Minako. "Greetings Venusian, I am Beryl, a sage on this planet."
"Minako," Minako said taking Beryl's hand and shaking it. A shock went through Minako's head as she locked eyes with Beryl. It seemed for eternity they were standing there as Minako tried to channel her energy into her hand to make the woman explode.
"You are too sleepy. Give it a rest!" Beryl said withdrawing her hand quickly and walking away. Minako walked in the other direction planting herself in the shadows of the castle, outside on a balcony. She took to walking on the rail several times and finally settling down on a rail and singing her bare feet over the edge, her shoes probably still floating in her room.
"May I have a dance?" a voice said from behind Minako.
"No." she replayed not even bothering to look. This happened several more times over the next hour, with other people coming and going, until one held her and drew her back to lean on him while she still sat on the railing. Minako was just about to jab him with her elbow and punch him when she looked up at who it was.
"You came to a ball but did not dance for the past hour?" Kunzite said as he stared up at the moon.
"No one asked me."
"I saw many men walking out here and coming back looking a bit upset, when I asked the last one he said you had rejected a dance with him."
"Right he was no one, no one I wanted to dance with."
"Am I someone?" Kunzite laughed as gently brushed his lips down Minako's neck.
"Maybe." She said, thinking which was better staying there or dancing. "I'll dance with you as long as you don't step on my feet."
"Agreed!" he said helping her down and escorting her into the center of the ball room. Minako felt a little embarrassed as more than three fourths of the room stopped to watch them. After Kunzite had taken her hand and but the other on her waist and begun to dance, Minako spent the rest of the night looking into his eyes and could care less if everything around her was suddenly destroyed, hell she probably wouldn't notice it.
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"You were right Rei, the red dress was a much better choice than the other one." Minako whispered as she lay down in her bed in her night gown. After about ten rather long daces with Kunzite, she had almost fallen asleep on her feet so had wisely retired to her room. That is after a long goodnight kiss in Kunzite's room.
"I wonder what you will think my dear sister in arms. The golden stone has been melted and fallen in love. I await your judgment when you come ere morning." Minako laughed thinking of her raven hair friend attempting to kill Kunzite.
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HAHA! Well that's the end of another Chappie! Crud! On Microsoft Word it is 13 pages!!! CRUD! Oh well! Hopefully chappie four will be up next week or the one after. I am quite busy these days. Sorry for how the format turned out, can't get the darn thing to indent. Oh well! Email me at CassieLaFearie@netscape.net for suggestions, questions, comments, WHATEVER!!! I'd love to hear from you!
By the way, in previous chapters there are mentions of things not seen later IE: Minako's secret (1) the presence she feels (3) and so on! These will be addressed in Chapter 4. GOMEN!!!! I'm working on how to mix them all in nicely
P.S. I don't own n e thing like Sailor Moon and stuff (I have 20 dolls though!). the plot is my own, dream about it every night lol.
P.P.S. Probably no one who knows me is reading this! Yay!
P.P.P.S. on a serious note, might not update so much, oh well this might tide you off for a week two. Sorry but I have babysitting, a dog, and a sister who is leaving for a year AND I am making a costume for an amine convention. Actually BAAF, hey if you go, I'll be there on the Saturday, I'll be the one as Eternal Sailor Uranus, hyper and bouncey, with at Least a Tuxedo Kamen-girl and a no face and the dear Pom Pom you have heard so much about! Email me if you are going! I would love to meet you!
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"Lady Minako!" Telena called as she pulled back Minako's curtains to display the sunrise. "Time to awake, Lord General Kunzite said that you would have breakfast here and when you are ready join him in the training room as usual."
"I don't know why I bother going to morning trainings. They are such a bore. Kunzite is the only one I haven't defeated, and no one has yet to defeat me." Minako said laughing coolly. Minako had been on the Earth for more than three weeks now, and to her slight anoyment she was finding herself falling in love with the head general. Kunzite often talked to her about many things and occasionally kissed her for no real apparent reason. Minako had returned a few kisses but she still had mixed feelings for the General. She could not help but think that he was an intelligent and handsome man. She found herself wondering who he really was under stony exterior he seemed to always wear.
In a half an hour Minako was feed, bathed, and dressed in long pants and a matching shirt, ready to do battle with anyone who thought they could fight her. Summoning her sword, she walked with Telena to the training arena.
"Good morning Minako." Kunzite said flatly as she walked in not bothering to look up from sharpening his sword, he never gave her much attention while in company of others. The other men, Jadeite, Zoicite, and twelve others, seemed to be readying their weapons for the morning exercises.
"Ah good you are all here." The Earth King said upon entering the room. "A slight change of plans, you know how much the men like to see a good fight from their generals, and since the moral went down after the defeat on Venus, ((Minako snorted)) I was thinking that maybe a show of swords would be a nice change. I know it's been a while since that battle but the idea just occurred to us."
"What do you mean?" said the only general whose name Minako had not learned, but had gathered from Telena's ramblings that it was General Nephrite. He was the second tallest behind Kunzite, with wavy long brown hair.
"Only a tournament between all of you." The Queen laughed merrily. "Lady Minako, after your show of skill over the past couple weeks, we wished that you would join them."
"I would be honored to." Minako said sweeping a low bow. 'I really need to stop acting as if I was raised on the same level as they. I am only supposed to be a maid to. well, myself.'
With groans, and many discussions on the fact that training was not for show and only to strengthen the mind and body, the military leaders were quite annoyed with this idea. One by one they consented until only Kunzite was left, his only ground of refusal left was that he could not fight a woman, no matter who she was.
"Then I take it you will surrender to me when we are to fight?" Minako said with a curious gleam in her eye and a mischievous smile. Kunzite was taken aback for a moment, no one, especially not a woman had ever dare to act like that towards him.
"I will only spar with you if you are the only one left that I haven't defeated and visa-versa." Kunzite said, knowing that the chances of her defeating the three other generals and the five leading captains were slim.
"Good then you all agree! Good, now here is the idea of how the tournament shall be set." The King said happily.
'The King must have been planning this for more than a week.' Minako thought as she stood off to the sidelines of a wide coliseum. The King and Queen had arranged for the sixteen fighters to face off in pairs, and one by one be eliminated from the tournament. Killing and injuries were prohibited, except for the accidental cut of too close contact. The tournament was to take all day, giving the soldiers a day off.
"They might as well just give us wooden swords and tell us to pick daisies. What is the fun of battle with out risk?" Minako said, not realizing she was saying her thoughts out loud.
"Very true, there is no point. But if you truly dislike it you may quit now, and surrender to Captain Varquan who you were supposed to fight first." A voice said from behind Minako. She whirled around to see it was General Jadeite.
"I am not a quitter General. If the only way to defeat Kunzite is to fight in this silly tournament then so be it."
"You two are a perfect match." Jadeite chuckled, leaning down to Minako's ear he whispered. "You and Kunzite are too perfect together. You know he is crazy about you don't you? What do you think of him?"
"What is going on here?" Kunzite said staring at Jadeite as a dog might stare at a hated cat who tried to eat his food.
"Nothing Kunz, Lady Minako here was just confiding in me her feelings about you." Jadeite said smiling and walking off.
"I should introduce him to Rei." Minako hissed after him. "She would burn him to a crisp before the thought of saying such a lie would pass his mind."
"Jadeite rarely tells lies to my face my dear. I shall see you later, if you are lucky you might make it to the second round." Kunzite said smiling at the blonde girl as she glared back at him.
'He takes me way to easily. I shall when this tournament and even if he is not to fight me today, he will one day.' Minako thought as the King and Queen started to explain the day to the solders who had gathered there. Apparently there was to be a ball that night to celebrate the return of Prince Endymoin.
'Oh great a dreaded ball. Generally I dance with Rei for fear of stepping on people's feet. I wonder how Mars is doing?' Minako thought as the first fight of the tournament began.
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On The Moon
"Your Majesty! Sailor Venus as been taken by the Earth! Artemis reported in saying that her sword had disappeared from her room." a young lady with chocolate hair cried as she ran into the throne room. "What is our line of action? Have they issued a ransom? Might she be killed?"
"Enough Makoto! We already know." A raven haired girl shouted at her, tears streaming from her violet eyes. "Minako will destroy half the planet before anyone could even lay a hand on her is she in danger. With her sword on hand she can be much more brutal than any one ever recorded in history. The 'goddess of love' of still alive, she couldn't give out on me."
"Rei, I'm sorry. You'll see Minako safely back home any day now. Besides, it's been three weeks since that battle on Venus, she might only be doing her undercover work as usual." Another girl, with short blue hair said.
"Ami is right!" a young blonde with long streaming pigtails chirped. "I, Serenity, Princess of the Moon, shall find a way to get Minako home! I was starting to enjoy my vacation from drill-master Venus. I hate her training, it's too hard."
"Don't say that Serien, Venus is training you all to be good fighters." The Queen said. "Don't cry Rei, I swear tomorrow we shall start investigating the Earth for any clues about her. I'm sure that if Minako was in great danger and wanted to come home she would. Ami, Makoto and Rei, you should all be packed and ready to leave at dawn. Serenity shall stay here and contact you if they find any trace of her on Venus."
"Yes My Queen." Rei said standing up and walking to her chambers.
'Where are you my Minako? Are you okay? I know that the sacred fire cannot find you due to your stupid spell. Why the hell did you put that on you? What is the point of being non-searchable if I'm the only one who searches for you?' Rei fumed as she fell onto her bed. 'If only I knew you were safe, if you only sent me a sign. But you wouldn't think that I would be sitting her worrying about you, and if you did you would just show up one morning and say you were in your room wouldn't you?'
"Rei? I'm sorry about what I said about Minako. I'm sure she's all right, don't worry we'll find her." Makoto said following Rei and sitting beside her.
"Of course we will. Minako gives off a different kind of energy than most of the Earth people do. We just need to find the most powerful person with light energy." Ami said following suit and sitting on Rei's other side. Pulling out her pencil-case-size laptop she started to enter a search for Minako on Earth.
"Ami, you won't find her that way. Remember last class? She was trying to teach us how to disguise our energy to make it look as though we are weak to take the enemy off guard, when and if we show our power." Rei said thinking about her friend and leader. "She can mask her energy as well, I've noticed on occasions when she stands next to Serenity during a gathering or something she has a tendency to mirror the energy that Serenity give off. So not only you can't find her real nature of power, but also she lowers herself so you cannot guess her real power."
"I wonder how many fights Minako has gotten into so far today?" Makoto mused.
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On Earth
"Three down, one to go." Minako said as if telling someone her battle count. She was walking around in one of the gardens thinking about the day. Only she and Kunzite were left in the bizarre tournament of the Queen and King's. Being extremely bored, Minako had finished her opponents in under a minute. Now she was getting restless and planned to go into battle and let Kunzite chase her around for awhile before she would let him humiliate him self
"Good job Minako, you made it to the finals." Kunzite said, wrapping his arms around her waist and elbows so she couldn't hurt him too badly right then. "I have a bet for you. I win and I get to hold you like this all night, you win and I'll settle for just a kiss or two."
"You're on!" Minako said, thinking for a second, she reflected on what just happened. "Wait if I win. oh crap. I swear Seren is rubbing off on me. I'm too quick to except a challenge. Now get off me!"
"I'd rather not." Kunzite chuckled, leaning his chin on the top of her head. Minako tried to get him off but only ended up being kissed when she turned herself around in his arms. Thinking about the bet she had stupidly made, Minako kissed Kunzite back. She pulled his hands apart from behind her and lacing her fingers with his, she pulled his arms to his sides.
"There now when I win, nothing happens, you already got a kiss." Minako smiled, pulling away from Kunzite at last. "Sorry that you won't have any fun with me tonight."
"I said a kiss or two, one isn't enough for me. When I win, I won't let you run away from my kisses." Kunzite said smirking evilly. He leaned down again and almost kissed her but was interrupted by a cough of an unanticipated guest.
"General Kunzite what are you doing?" said a laughing voice as Minako quickly backed away from him and turned to see the new comer. "If I knew that while I left you would have found a lady I should have left a few years ago."
"Prince Endymoin, it's not like that." Kunzite started, blushing slightly. Minako noticed it was the first time she had ever seen him acting a bit stupid and confused. The other Generals appeared behind the Prince.
"Of it is!" Jadeite laughed, receiving a glare from Kunzite. "Isn't this unfair? I being the best looking one, still doesn't have a girl while all of you do? Minako you must know some Lady with fine taste in men who would like me?"
"That wouldn't be fine taste in men." Nephrite snickered.
"I would introduce you to someone, but she is not here and I would only introduce her to you because you would be burnt to a crisp several times before you could make a move on her." Minako said smiling
"That wasn't very nice Minako." Kunzite said smiling down at the blonde girl. "Save your anger and spite for our match, we began in only a few minutes. I would have told you when I found you but I half forgot after we made our bet."
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"Ready to pick daisies?" Jadeite jeered from the sidelines as Minako and Kunzite faced each other in the coliseum.
"What did that mean?" Kunzite questioned as he got into a position allowing him to quickly draw his sword.
"Nothing. just a stupid comment I make earlier. May the best woman win." Minako smiled back making sure that it was clear to Kunzite that everything she had would go it to this fight if needed for her to win.
"Are you ready to start this?" A young man said standing to the side, he had acted as referee for the other fights as well. "Let's get this started! Here we are in the finals, Head General, Lord Kunzite, ((huge cheers)) and the Lady Minako ((Silence)). Uh right! Okay take your positions, uh Minako?"
"Hum?" Minako responded.
"Aren't you going to call your sword?"
"Nope. Not yet at least, might not need it at all." She said smiling.
"Okay then." the man continued. "Ready! Set! FIGHT! And they, I mean, Kunzite is off! He is charging Minako his sword drawn and she dodges?"
The commentator was useless for the rest of the time due to the fact that his eyes could not keep up their movements. Minako hadn't really dodged Kunzite's attack, she just jumped over him.
"I'm over here!" She called before running again. After about fifteen minutes she started to get bored of having him chase her in circles. She was yet to summon her sword and was just starting to get Kunzite to really work at attempting to even get with ten feet of her, when she noticed some power tugging at her. Trying to analyze the type and origin of the power in her mind, Minako stopped quite suddenly in front of Kunzite who just happened to be running with his sword in hand.
"Didn't your Mother every tell you not to run with sharp objects in front of you? I knew I didn't need my sword this round." Minako said in a half whisper as she knelt to the ground clutching a deep gash in her stomach.
"Minako! You shouldn't joke about things like that." Kunzite said as he knelt to her side before trying to help her stand while leaning on him.
"Well this was interesting." The referee said blinking. "I suppose since General Kunzite broke the rules accident or not, Minako is the winner."
"Kunzite, if I walk all my blood will get every where. If you don't mind, could you pick me up and carry me some place where there aren't so many people?" Minako sighed after slumping down to the ground in a third attempt to walk. 'For once the pain has over powered me.'
"Anything for you Minako." Kunzite said sweeping her up in his arms. Before any of the nurses and doctors of the palace could stop him, Kunzite was running far away from the coliseum and towards the palace.
"Stop. Kunzite. I will lose too much blood this way. There's only one solution." Minako moaned holding on to his sleeve tightly, she continued in a whisper as he slowed down. "Venus teleport... don't give out on me! Venus teleport! Now damn it!"
Forcing all of her remaining energy into the last five words, Minako had safely transported Kunzite and herself into. well actually she had no idea where. The two were zooming through many galaxies. Minako sighed, the transportation would have taken them where ever Kunzite was going, and apparently he hadn't thought that far yet.
"Where are we going? Or rather where were you thinking of going?" She said looking up and frowning at Kunzite. The galaxies around them stopped spinning and they found themselves in Kunzite's room.
"Put me down." Minako commanded, and was soon laid on his bed. "Idiot, I should have thought before teleporting. Kunzite, come over here, you are covered in blood. Just sit next to me, I'll be fine in a minute, you may leave if you want, floating blood is never very pretty to most people."
Kunzite sat with his back leaning against the headboard of the large bed as Minako made a golden light shine from her body to prevent the escape of anymore blood and seriously thought of just going to sleep but knew better then to let herself stay in that condition. Touching the center of the blood stain on Kunzite's shirt, Minako slowly pulled her finger back, making a long strand of blood come out which slowly changed into a ball encased in golden light. She repeated this on her clothes and then just held a finger up to gather the blood from the arena and Kunzite's sword.
"Maybe I should just keep them there. I think they are pretty." Minako said slightly laughing at her blood-orbs. Touching each one with her finger, she swirled them around and let them make a small tornado looking form before they disappeared into her finger. The gash in her stomach healed itself and Minako looked extremely tired.
"Minako. I. I. I am sorry. I didn't mean-" Kunzite started before his lips were covered by Minako's finger.
"I'm fine. only a little tipsy, pardon me if I act drunk, this generally happens after I play with my blood." She laughed before cringing and curling up into a ball. "Damn it. Who the hell has their own blood on their sword?"
"Are you alright?" he said, his voice giving away his deep concern.
"Wonderful! Not unless you count the fact that your blood might kill me from the inside out. Stop worrying about me and I'll be okay, this is nothing compared to. ah who cares about ancient history." Minako blabbered, "Oh! I feel better already."
"Is there anything that I can do to make up for almost killing you?"
"No, you won the fight fair and square." Minako said, returning to her old self a bit. Getting up and walking around in a circle before deciding she was too tired and sat back down on the bed. "Congratulations I suppose."
"Actually according to the rule you won. I doubt that even you were healed to perfect health you would want to keep up your winning bet today." Kunzite said with a tint of evil in his voice. A soft smile started to show as he sat on the side of the bed.
"A fight is a fight and I gave out before you therefore you won." The warrior Minako lost her battle to a more flirtatious Minako as she leaned over and wrapped an arm around Kunzite's neck and ran her pointer and middle fingers over his lips. "You should smile more, you look even more appetizing then you do normally."
"Minako, you are this drunk just from putting your blood back in yourself?" he asked as she curled herself around his upper body and rested her head on his shoulder.
"I'm not really drunk. I just. I just don't put my mask on. Everything I say I mean. unless I lie, and if I do lie I have reason. You only know one lie from me." she murmured. Within a few minutes she was asleep, still attached to Kunzite, with his arms around her, yet now she was smiling a lazy smile. Deep down she was happy for herself, she could leave anytime if need be by teleportation but now she had a person who was more than a friend and had seen her softer side for a little while.
"A mask you say Minako? I hope I'll see everything that lies beneath it." Kunzite mused before drifting off to sleep.
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The light was just barely starting to fade out of his large east wards facing window, when Kunzite was awoken by a tingle running through his body.
"I wanted to see if I could make it to your lips before you woke up." Minako cooed, seeing his eyes open. The tingle he had felt was her kissing his neck. "I guess you are a pretty light sleeper. You look so calm while you were asleep, instead of the normal rigid atmosphere you posses. I'm sorry I had to awaken you, but don't you have a ball to attend?"
"Why now? I just want to stay here, balls are not my kind of thing anyway." he groaned wishing that he didn't open his eyes.
"You must. It is your responsibility as a Lord on Earth." She said as she started to disentangle herself from him. "You must go even though you may hate it, it is your duty. I'm sure there will be at least one woman who you dance with who won't step on your feet."
"You, I hope." Kunzite said smiling a little before wiping the happiness away. "Minako, why did you stop so suddenly during the battle?"
"Not telling if you aren't getting ready to go to the Prince's dance." She said stretching herself out on the bed.
"You aren't getting ready either."
"I don't have to go." Minako said sticking her tongue out at him. "I will hopefully never have to wear a dress made on the Earth again. On Venus you can actually breathe when you wear a dress."
"So you will not go? Not to save me from boredom and crazy women?" Kunzite pleaded as he leaned over her, holding himself up with his hands on either side of her neck.
"There is a slight chance that I will go. You get ready in any case and I'll see what I can do. But if I fall asleep during the party, it is your fault." Minako laughed pushing the silver hair falling in her face behind Kunzite's ears.
"You have to come Minako. You said that I won the fight, therefore I win the bet as well." Kunzite said smiling. He laughed as her ran his fingers down her cheek and she regretted her battle ideals.
"I can't get ready while you are on top of me." She said shifting herself and trying to wiggle out from under him. Slipping off the bed she made her way to her room leaving Kunzite to stare after her before changing into attire for the dreaded ball.
"Where are you.?" Minako whispered to the ceiling. She had dreamt of Rei crying in her chamber on the Moon. Minako mentally took herself to the moon and was soon in her mind running through endless corridors until she reached Rei's room. Rei was packing as Minako's spirit entered the room. Rei was in a daze and said out loud as if to no one.
"Minako, don't wear the orange one again, just because you wear it to every dinner doesn't mean it will make men walk away from you. You really should were that red dress of yours. that is only if you wish to impress." Rei looked around and noticed that Minako herself was not there at all. "I could have sworn I felt her come in. oh well I shall see her tomorrow when we go to the Earth. I'm sure she is there."
"Wonder what she'll say if she walks in on Kunzite and I during a little moment?" Minako giggled as she awoke from her trance. "Lovely gal, she's been worried about me this whole time I was gone. Well she told me I should so I might as well."
Minako grinned as she flicked her wrist and snapped. A long sleeveless red dress floated in the air, and soon a long red ribbon appeared beside it. After changing into the slim dress, quite difficult seeing that it had a lace-up back, and readjusting the light underskirts several times, Minako found herself staring at the floating ribbon and wondering about the spell she had use for it. Casting the spell on the shoes she was wearing, they blurred out of sight and into the space in front of her eyes.
'If you reverse the words to mean." she stared, trying out her new incantation, she soon found herself flying painfully slow around the room. "I knew it was too good to be true, this is the ancient version of the teleporting spell. Crud! Wait until I improve it and soar into battle!"
"Minako? Are you okay?" Kunzite called as she landed with a thud, she didn't exactly land on her feet. "Are you ready yet?"
"Aren't you impatient? And I'm fine just tripped. kinda. I'll be down in a minute." She called back, running to the mirror to tie her hair in a half pony-tail with the ribbon. Letting the rest of the ribbon trail down to almost the bottom of her hair she walked towards Kunzite's room. "How do I look?"
"Very pretty." Kunzite said as he noticed her every curve, and she laughed as she noticed a certain bulge emerging under Kunzite's pants. "You know we can still stay here and not go to the silly event."
"I could, but you certainly may not stay. Your Prince just returned, you have to go, whatever, I am leaving." She said walking out the door and turning left.
"You are going the wrong way love." Kunzite said as he put is arm around her waist and led her in the right direction. He didn't let go of her until they were bowing to the Queen, King, and Prince, in the ball room. Minako almost ran off to find a quite corner when Kunzite was stopped by a few women. She was stopped of her search when she ran into someone.
"Fighting so much you forgot how to curtsey?" a lady laughed as she held out her hand to Minako. "Greetings Venusian, I am Beryl, a sage on this planet."
"Minako," Minako said taking Beryl's hand and shaking it. A shock went through Minako's head as she locked eyes with Beryl. It seemed for eternity they were standing there as Minako tried to channel her energy into her hand to make the woman explode.
"You are too sleepy. Give it a rest!" Beryl said withdrawing her hand quickly and walking away. Minako walked in the other direction planting herself in the shadows of the castle, outside on a balcony. She took to walking on the rail several times and finally settling down on a rail and singing her bare feet over the edge, her shoes probably still floating in her room.
"May I have a dance?" a voice said from behind Minako.
"No." she replayed not even bothering to look. This happened several more times over the next hour, with other people coming and going, until one held her and drew her back to lean on him while she still sat on the railing. Minako was just about to jab him with her elbow and punch him when she looked up at who it was.
"You came to a ball but did not dance for the past hour?" Kunzite said as he stared up at the moon.
"No one asked me."
"I saw many men walking out here and coming back looking a bit upset, when I asked the last one he said you had rejected a dance with him."
"Right he was no one, no one I wanted to dance with."
"Am I someone?" Kunzite laughed as gently brushed his lips down Minako's neck.
"Maybe." She said, thinking which was better staying there or dancing. "I'll dance with you as long as you don't step on my feet."
"Agreed!" he said helping her down and escorting her into the center of the ball room. Minako felt a little embarrassed as more than three fourths of the room stopped to watch them. After Kunzite had taken her hand and but the other on her waist and begun to dance, Minako spent the rest of the night looking into his eyes and could care less if everything around her was suddenly destroyed, hell she probably wouldn't notice it.
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"You were right Rei, the red dress was a much better choice than the other one." Minako whispered as she lay down in her bed in her night gown. After about ten rather long daces with Kunzite, she had almost fallen asleep on her feet so had wisely retired to her room. That is after a long goodnight kiss in Kunzite's room.
"I wonder what you will think my dear sister in arms. The golden stone has been melted and fallen in love. I await your judgment when you come ere morning." Minako laughed thinking of her raven hair friend attempting to kill Kunzite.
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HAHA! Well that's the end of another Chappie! Crud! On Microsoft Word it is 13 pages!!! CRUD! Oh well! Hopefully chappie four will be up next week or the one after. I am quite busy these days. Sorry for how the format turned out, can't get the darn thing to indent. Oh well! Email me at CassieLaFearie@netscape.net for suggestions, questions, comments, WHATEVER!!! I'd love to hear from you!