Chapter 6 - Revelations, Ami's Battle, The Awakening Begins
"Get that other
box over there."
"What there's another
box?"
"Yes and its a
large one."
"Ok I'll get it."
The man walked over and picked up the box. "It’s not as heavy as I thought
it would be."
"Careful it’s marked
fragile."
"Hmm its probably
got glass in it, it’s too light to be machinery."
"Oh well put in
the plane, you never know what these scientist types will take with them."
Kioku and the girls
are at the Hikari dojo. Kioku and Makoto both dressed in gi, bow to each
other and begin to fight. Their kicks punches, counter punches, and blocks
become so fast that the other girls soon lose track of it and, they begin
to talk among themselves.
"Ami should be
on her way by now." Rei started.
"I still can't
believe she went in a box." Mina answered back.
"I still don't
know why you insisted she take a purse."
"That was to hide
the Crystal in, it has a false bottom and the top is filled with makeup."
"But Ami doesn't
wear makeup."
"I know but an
empty purse looks funny."
"Ami had a bag
you know."
"Yea but a person
may offer to take your bag but ignore a purse."
"I give up on you,
you sometimes make less sense than Usagi." After that both girls just sat
there, almost in tears.
Kioku and Mako
finished and Mako went over to the other girls. Kioku than got his katana
sword. The sword had a curved blade of fine tempered steal. The guard was
made of pure gold, and the hilt was carved ivory capped with the head of
a dragon. This sword had been his father’s, before that his grandfather’s,
and his fathers’ before him, and so on for nearly twenty generations.
The doors swung
open, and Mamoru walked in also carrying a katana sword. His also had a
curved, well-tempered steel blade, and gold guard, but his hilt was made
of pure gold, with intricate designs carved into it. The two walked forward
bowed, to each other, then to the girls, then they went at it.
Rei and Mina were
shocked, but Mako quickly explained that Mamoru felt that he could best
help Usagi by being ready for anything. The two continued fighting for
what seamed like hours, moving so fast that it was difficult to see them.
Then all of a sudden Kioku fell backwards with a large bump on his forehead.
-flashback-
In Jupiter's room at the moon palace, Jupiter sits, putting away large
numbers of gifts. There is knocking at the door, Kintaro walks in wishes
her a happy birthday and gives her a small present. She smiles back at
him and opens the gift. It is the pair of rose earrings that she will always
wear. She loves them and immediately puts them on. She then thanks him
again and gives him a kiss.
Time moves forward to Princess Serenity's Sixteenth birthday. There are
hundreds of people there, Endymion is there wearing a mask. "So you're
here." Kintaro laughs as he sneaks up behind Endymion. "Where are those
four friends of yours, I'm surprised that they would miss this."
"I do not know, they have been spending much time with the sage Beryl,
and all five of them have been acting strange lately."
"The queen demands to see you in her quarters."
Kintaro turns to face the man. "In her quarters?"
"That is what she said."
Kintaro was puzzled now because except for the Princesses only the two
cat advisors were allowed into the Queen's chambers. He slowly opened the
door and walked in. "You wished to see me your majesty?"
"Please call me Serenity" Now this really bothered him. "But I must be
brief: we will be attacked, you have little time to ready your armies."
Now how the queen knew this, Kintaro had no idea, but he knew that she
was always ready to fight.
"As you wish." Kintaro turned to leave when he saw a portrait with: "In
memory of my late husband." written under it, what was surprising was the
picture itself. The man looked like Kintaro, older with golden hair, and
a moustache. Kintaro stared at the picture for a minute and whispered,
"father"
"From the first day I saw you I knew, the resemblance was to great. I am
sorry but I thought it better that you did not know, now I believe you
should know for I fear that you may never return."
"I swore to you the first day I came here that I would gladly give my life
in your service, that has not changed." With that Kintaro left the room.
"Move back, he's
waking up."
Kioku slowly opened
his eyes and moaned "Oh my poor sister."
"Huh sister?" everyone
stated at once.
"Oh nothing. "
Kioku answered. "Its not nothing."
Mamoru answered
back. "Well?"
Kioku answered,
"Do you remember the Queen's chamber's"
The others slowly
nod though they had never thought of this before. "I was there once I think."
Mamoru answered
"Do you remember
the portrait on the wall?" the others stared, puzzled, at Kioku for a minute,
then memories flooded back into there heads, memories of the Queen and
all the lovely times that were now long gone.
"Oh my god." Mamoru
almost fell over. The others could only just stare.
The plane landed
on Antarctica, and the scientists slowly unloaded their plane. Ami stuck
the little dentist's mirror she carries around out a small hole in the
box. Seeing that there was nobody around she kicked open the box grabbed
her bag and ran as far as she could. "Well I'm sure they can't see me now."
Ami thought so she transformed.
There is a bright
light and Undine appeared "Follow me." was all she said and Ami followed
her.
"This is the great
Ice Cave. One of the many gates to the holy land used to be here before
the goddess sealed them."
"Well" Ami said
"Let’s go."
Undine flashed
once and vanished. "Ok let’s go." Undine's voice came from inside Mercury's
head. The tunnels were long and twisting, and sometimes, there were more
than one way to go, but Undine told her which way to go and soon she was
standing before the Frost Gigas.
The brute was 20
feet tall, and covered with dull blue fur. It had glowing red eyes and
3 long foot claws. With no other option, Mercury attacked, she used attack
after attack, Shine Aqua Illusion, Mercury Aqua Rhapsody, she even reverted
back to her Shabron Spray. But nothing had worked.
Then she heard
a small voice inside her head. "Mercury Hail Storm!" A drop of water formed
between her hand than grew to an enormous size before splitting up into
smaller droplets, which all froze into needle like projectiles of ice.
Mercury motioned with her hands and the thousand's of ice darts flew at
the monster. It screamed in pain and rushed straight at her. Mercury barely
jumped out of the way. The monster raised its arms and several large blocks
of ice formed above its head which it threw at Mercury, They all missed
but one smashed across her leg. She heard something pop and pain shot up
and down her leg.
She lay there bleeding
as the monster slowly moved in for the kill. Mercury struggled to get to
her feet. She felt around and found a pole leaning against the wall. She
grabbed it and used it to get to her feet. Then she looked at it. It was
a spear that appeared to be made of light blue crystal. Mercury raised
the spear and spun it several times around her head, While she spun it,
water shot out in the direction of the Frost Gigas, knocking it back several
steps, then almost before it left her hand the spear was lodged in the
beast's throat. It stumbled backwards, water gushing from the wound, than
it slowly melted to the ground. All Mercury could do was breath a sigh
of relief.
The water crystal
lay where the Frost Gigas once stood, it was several shades of blue which
swirled over each other as if the crystal itself was made of water. Ami
slowly picked it up; she could feel the energy he held. She went back to
her bag, got the purse and put the crystal under the false bottom. She
wondered what to do about the spear but the pole shrank until it was only
six inches long in length. So she put it in the purse with the crystal.
Mercury got ready
and then transformed back into Ami, but nothing happened. She couldn't
un-transform. Ami wondered what to do, she got some clothes out of her
bag, took off her senshi outfit and changed clothes the old fashioned way.
Then she took off the Tiara and put it in her bag along with her other
clothes. "Well I guess this will do. " She then went back to the plane.
Ami walked up to
the scientists, "Hi I'm sorry my name is Mizuno Ami, I got on the wrong
plane, but I need to get home, I don't mind waiting though." The scientists
just stared at her. "Well you aren't going to leave me I hope." they still
said nothing, Ami was beginning to get worried by now.
"No, we'll take
you, you just startled us."
"And the tattoo
was a surprise also, not that I haven't seen a tattoo before, but, I've
never seen one glow."
Ami was shocked
to hear them say that, but she dug through her purse - she was surprise
how handy it was, until she found a mirror. She looked at herself and on
her forehead glowed the sign of Mercury.