Ami looked at Zoisite, who floated several feet off the ground, smiling at her with cold, wrathful eyes. They were the eyes of a stranger, not of the man she loved.
“Zoisite why? Why would you do this? WHY?????” This last she practically screamed, her heart tearing in two. She had only ever loved two men, and one had just almost killed the other for no good reason. It was like a nightmare, and she willed herself to wake up, though nothing happened. Zoisite chuckled again, then began to float closer to her.
“He was in my way,” he said, smiling evilly. “I had to get rid of him if I as going to be able to reach you.”
Ami stood slowly and looked at him with eyes that now were filled with fear. “What are you talking about? Why would you attack David like that? Is this jealousy?” she asked, now beginning to feel angry. Zoisite just laughed and waved his hand, causing both Ami and David to go crashing into the wall behind them. Ami cried out in pain as she hit the wall, then slid to the ground, groaning. David, however, was eerily silent.
“Now princess, what reason in the world would I have to be jealous of that pathetic human? And over you? Don’t make me laugh.” His mouth curved into a malicious grin as he floated over to Ami, who had begun to push herself into a siting position. She looked up and saw his approach, but was too weak to move.
“What…..what are you saying….Zoisite?” she asked weakly, struggling to stand. She looked at him with tearful eyes. “Why are you doing this? Don’t you love me?”
He exploded in a fit of laughter. “You? Love you? How amusing.” He wiped a tear from one eye, holding his aching stomach with his other hand. He looked at her then, his eyes suddenly gone hot and red, still grinning maniacally. “Amusing, but wrong all the same. I have come to destroy you.”
Ami felt as if she had been dropped into a bottomless pit. Her heart broke in two and she stared at Zoisite, shocked into silence. What had happened to him? Had he forgotten her? Had it been so long since they had been together that he no longer felt what he once did? Or was it that he had never really felt that at all, that he had been fooling her into believing something that wasn’t true?
She never had a chance to voice her thoughts, because with another gesture Zoisite sent a beam of blackness at Ami, which hit her full on. She crashed into the wall again, pinned there by the veritable wall of energy bearing down on her. She screamed in pain, feeling as if she was being crushed beneath a ton of bricks. She could almost feel her ribs breaking, her insides being crushed……..
Suddenly the pressure was gone. She fell forward, half-conscious, and landed face-down on the ground. She could hardly move, and when she did it felt as if her muscles were being ripped to shreds. She moaned, forcing herself to sit up, slowly. Again the low chuckle from above, though a bit farther away now. Her mind was fuzzy, she couldn’t think straight, she couldn’t even see straight. Then suddenly she heard a familiar voice in her mind, one that drove away the fog and opened her eyes.
*You are sailor senshi, one of the legendary guardians of this galaxy. It is your destiny to protect your planet and our universe from the dark forces. We need you………*
“Queen…..Serenity……” she said weakly. “The henshin pen…….” She fumbled in the small pocket at her waist and found the slender, rounded shape of the pen. Closing her fingers around it, she drew it out of the pocket and held it in front of her, looking at the star which held her planet’s symbol. As she looked, she was suddenly filled with understanding, acceptance, and most importantly, energy. She felt her weakened body begin to heal as she stood up, raising the pen above her head. Even without being told what she was to do, she knew. She could feel it now, her planets natural energy, pulsing in the ground beneath her feet, flowing in the air around her, and now coursing through her body. Holding the pen above her head, it was suddenly filled with a blinding light. Zoisite cursed and threw up his arms against the light, shielding his eyes.
“Blast………what is this light?” he growled, unconsciously backing away a few feet.
Ami felt the light envelop her, and closed her eyes. She knew what she had to do.“Mercury Princess Power, Make Up!” she shouted, and suddenly she was spinning and twirling, becoming wrapped in ribbons of water and ice that, surprisingly, felt warm rather than cold. Then in an explosion of bubbles, she henshined into a blue and white sailor fuku, a gold tiara across her brow set with a sapphire stone. As she struck her final pose, she felt as if this was the most natural thing in the world. She felt the deities of her planet feeding their energy into her body, and she began to glow with a soft blue light, looking at Zoisite with determination.
Zoisite lowered his arms tentatively and looked at the warrior who now stood where Ami had been. He looked at her in confusion, and backed away another foot when he saw the energy glowing around her body, fear visible in his eyes for a fleeting instant.
“Who…..who are you?” he asked, his voice trembling slightly. Ami, now Sailor Mercury, looked at him with blazing eyes.
“I am the sailor-suited pretty soldier of love and intelligence, guardian senshi of the planet Mercury, Sailor Mercury!” The glowing aura around her grew brighter as she drew even more strength from the planet. “I will never forgive you for what you have done! In the name of this planet, for the sake of all that is good, I will make you pay!!!!!”
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