Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon E(ternals) ❯ Love is In the Air. Eternal Sailor Mercury’s Healing Dance ( Chapter 9 )

A/N: My muse has been whispering in my ear about this story so I figured I should continue on before too much gets lost with the translation. I'm currently…eight chapters ahead (not counting this one). This will be a rather long story. I'm estimating between 40 and 45 chapters. That might grow to a little longer in size, depending on how the story moves along. I know it's titled Sailor Moon Eternals but it's really a love story (in case you can't tell!). So just to review, last chapter, Mercury got her Eternal power-up. This chapter, we're going to see her new move and some fluff between Ami and Shingo…*hearts in eyes*. I love them as a couple.

 

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sailor Moon characters. Naoko Takeuchi has that illustrious honor. I do however own the villains, Sailor Sun, the unknown missing third senshi, and the story line I am writing about

 

 

Chapter 9

Love is In the Air. Eternal Sailor Mercury's Healing Dance

 

Beniha, watching from the shadows, looked up as the shout of “MERCURY ETERNAL POWER! MAKE-UP!” rent the air. She quickly saw a girl who had blue hair before she was covered with an intense blue light, and then Sailor Mercury was standing in her place. “I am Eternal Sailor Mercury. Time to wash you off!”

 

“Oh for…” Beniha stepped out of the shadows and faced her nemesis. Before she could say anything to Mercury, a whip wrapped around her neck. She turned and looked at Kamen no Mercury, who was concentrating on the whip. As she was struggling to get loose, she felt a burning sensation around her throat and realized that Merc had sent ice up the whip tan it was burning her throat. She gathered her pain and put it completely into getting out of there. The last thing she saw was a blue and white object forming in Sailor Mercury's hands.

 

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While Merc was busy with Beniha, who had stepped out of the shadows, Mercury took a good look at the monster the man had become. She pulled out her computer and turned her left earring a quarter turn around, causing her visor to move across her line of vision. She quickly tapped some keys and watched the screen as a diagram of the monster came up. When she was done, she let the visor fade and she put her mini-computer back in the sub-space pocket she usually kept it in. It was only then that she realized she had no idea on how to continue.

 

Sailor Mercury closed her eyes and concentrated, finally hearing a male voice echo in her head. “Daughter, use the talent of Mercury.”

 

Papa? “Thank you, King Hermes.” She opened her eyes and found that a staff had come to her hands. It was about four feet long and made mostly of white gold. Around the staff, starting at the bottom, were two blue snakes. The snakes were very light blue in color and they were wrapped tightly at the bottom, but as they neared the top, they widened out. They ended with their heads facing each other with a rounded hollow between them. Something fits there, Mercury thought, her hand at her throat. She felt the stone on her choker and pulled it off, wondering vaguely why she had a stone. A bright light went off in her head as she finally remembered the words she had to say.

 

Throwing the staff and stone up in the air, she called out, “Mercury…” A bright flash of light and the staff, now joined with the stone, was in her hands, Mercury's left hand above her right. “…Water…” With both hands still on the staff, bubbles and jets of water started swirling around the staff and Mercury's body. “…Serpents…” Gently, she tipped the top of the staff towards the ground and when it touched, the bubbles and water coalesced into a bright blue light, which moved towards the man turned monster. “…Cure!” The bright blue light surrounded the monster, which turned back into a man and collapsed backwards, spread eagle. A shimmer of golden light appeared and the Mind Soul flashed back into existence over his head, and then disappeared.

 

“Very powerful, Mercury.”

 

“Thank you, Merc.” Mercury was grinning at Merc, waiting for him to say something else when she felt a sharp pain in her back. She half turned and saw Beniha standing behind her with a feral grin on her face and a long fiery knife. The jewel in Mercury's staff flashed once and made the knife disappear. Beniha, cursing disappeared just as the jewel flashed again.

 

Mercury sunk to her knees. Is this how it will end? She thought. As darkness overtook her, she thought she heard Merc cry out her name in anguish.

 

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The first thing Ami realized when she came to was that she was no longer transformed. Then she noticed her surroundings and realized she was in a hospital bed. There was pressure on her right hand and realized someone was leaning on her bed. She looked over and saw Shingo, with his hand wrapped around hers and fast asleep.

 

“Shingo-chan,” Ami whispered.

 

With a start, Shingo sat up. “Oh, thank God you're alive, Ami-chan. I was so worried when you collapsed.” Ami opened her mouth to respond when she felt Shingo's strong arms around her. “I thought I lost you, Darling. I can't live without you, don't make me.”

 

Ami smiled, knowing half her battle was won as she returned the hug. “I'll never make you let me go, Shin-chan.”

 

Shingo smiled and buried his face in her neck. He knew he shouldn't do this to himself. That he should let her go and find someone else to love, but he couldn't let her go just yet. When he lifted his head, he saw Ami smiling slightly. “What?”

 

“Shin-chan, how will you be able to give up your ability to protect me if you get so worried about me?”

 

“I…uh…” Shingo fumbled around, mentally cursing the fact that Ami had always been and will always be logical.

 

Ami, realizing he was floundering took his hands in hers. “Tsukino Shingo, I'll say this one last time. I don't want anyone other than you to protect me. Do you understand that?”

 

“Ami…I…”

 

Ami sighed and put her head down on the pillow in exasperation. She brightened as she got an idea. “If I can't convince you with words, maybe I'll be able to by my actions?”

 

“What do you…?” The rest of Shingo's question was cut short when he felt the soft lips of Ami touch his. The kiss was gentle and rather shy. Through his open eyes, he could see a blush lighting up his beloved's face.

 

Ami kept her eyes closed, but she knew Shingo was shocked. She felt a blush grow a cross her face and started to wonder if the kiss was such a good idea in the first place. She pulled away and opened her eyes, only to see Shingo looking at her with a bemused, yet stunned, expression on his face. “Well? Have I convinced you?”

 

“Eh…” Shingo croaked.

 

Ami fidgeted and looked down, but the next instant, she felt the breath leave her as Shingo returned the kiss, this time making it a bit heavier and deeper. They broke apart, flushed and breathing hard when they heard someone clearing their throat in the doorway to Ami's room. Shingo spun around and looked up, not expecting who they say.

 

“Mamoru-san?”

 

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Chiba Mamoru walked down the hall of the hospital at a quick pace. He didn't like the idea that one of the Sailor senshi was in the hospital, while another was missing, along with a man known to have a crush on her. When Rei went missing, Usagi sent Mamoru to Germany to talk to Ami, hoping she would have some information. When he got to the university Ami was attending, he heard from people around the dorm that there had been an attack of some sort and Ami hadn't been seen since.

 

“She must've been one of the people hurt by the demon,” a young man said, flushing slightly and gulping. “I hope she's okay.”

 

Mamoru rushed to the hospital and was told that, yes, Ami Mizuno was there and that she was in stable condition. A young man by the name of Shingo Tsukino brought her in. “She's in room 110 on the seventh floor if you'd like to go up and visit her.”

 

“Thank you.” Mamoru hurried up to Ami's room, thinking about the fact that his future brother-in-law had brought Ami in. Mamoru felt a weird tingling in the back of his neck that meant he would soon remember something about his previous life. What exactly the memory was, he never found out, because when he walked into the door of Ami's hospital room, he found Shingo and Ami, both blushing hard enough to start a fire, kissing each other. So Mamoru did the only thing he felt he could. He cleared his throat.

 

The kissing pair broke apart and slowly looked at him, their faces going from pleasure, to recognition, to shock, and in Shingo's case, to horror.

 

“Mamoru-san?” Ami asked, recovering her voice first. “What are you doing here?”

 

“Eeeee…hu,” Shingo added, sounding a bit strangled.

 

“I'm not interrupting anything, am I?” Mamoru asked, breaking into a broad grin. His grin got wider as both Ami and Shingo turned a deeper shade of scarlet.

 

“I should go, Ami-chan,” Shingo mumbled. “Mamoru-san,” he said, bowing good-bye.

 

“Shin-chan, don't leave, please?”

 

Shingo looked from Mamoru to Ami, then shrugged and walked back over to the chair by Ami's bed and sat, taking Ami's hand in the process.

 

Shin-chan? So it's to that point, huh? “Ami, Usagi wants me to tell you that the skies point to…”

 

Ami waved her hand, giggling. “You don't need to use code around Shin-chan, Mamoru-san. Take a seat please,” she said, indicating the other chair in the room.

 

“What do you mean?”

 

Ami's eyes glinted mischievously and she winked at Shingo. Shingo smiled, a little weakly, but enjoyed the feeling of knowing something his brother-in-law didn't. “We'll show you ours, if you show me yours.”

 

Mamoru, unused to this new and, he'd admit it, interesting side of Ami, launched into his story. “Rei has gone missing. The dorm reports some monsters attacking; Sailor Mars and a strangely dressed man were fighting them, but both have disappeared. It was assumed Rei couldn't handle the stress and left University, but more disturbing is the fact that Yuuichriou has disappeared as…well…Shingo, what's the matter?” Mamoru asked, because Shingo just slapped himself on the head.

 

“I should have mentioned this earlier. Sorry, Ami-love. I saw Rei…rather, Sailor Mars and Yuuichriou earlier.”

 

“Where?” Mamoru snapped. “In Germany?”

 

“No…I don't really know where it's at.” Mamoru looked like he was starting to get furious, so Shingo held up his hands. “Let me explain my side of the story. Maybe it will make sense then.”

 

Mamoru nodded and Shingo stood up. He walked over and closed the door and pulled out his whip. He let the power over take him then coiled the whip around the special holder on his armor. He walked back over to Mamoru, bowed and looked up, grinning. “My Lord, Prince Endymion, let me introduce myself to you. I am Lord Merc of Mercury. Princess Meias…that's Ami….and I were engaged during the Silver Millennium. I am her Guardian.”

 

“Well that changes things,” Mamoru said, feeling like he couldn't have anymore shocks that day.

 

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Far into the future, the queen of Earth paced her throne room anxiously. She was waiting for news. Any news, form any one. “Serenity.” Her name being called form the shadows made the young queen turn quickly around as she pointed her scepter at the noise.

 

“It's just I, Serenity.” The youngest senshi stepped from the shadows, holding her Glaive in the crook of her arm. “Pluto set me to tell you a message. `The time has been disrupted again. I have gone to find her.' She asked me to take her place at the Time Gate until she gets back.”

 

Serenity nodded and turned her blue eyes on the young woman. “Anything new you can tell me, Saturn?”

 

Saturn sighed and said, “I was planning on tell you later, but now is as good as time as any. Do you remember everything about the Silver Millennium?”

 

“Yes”

 

“Then you remember that there were two princess of Venus.” At Serenity's nod, Saturn took a deep breath. She was about to admit to her sovereign that she went against one of he basic injunctions. “You won't remember, because it was kept secret, but Lady Venus' younger sister and I were lovers.”

 

Serenity smiled and looked over at the young woman. “My mother's rules no longer apply here, Saturn.”

 

“Thank you, Serenity.”

 

“Why are you bringing this up now?”

 

“I thought she was dead. Let me explain. Since Lady Venus was elder, she inherited the throne of Venus. Her younger sister, Tidia, who was an accident, was brought before the queen to have her fate decided. Everyone was expected Queen Serenity to kill her, as was law, but she changed the law on the spot and made Tidia a title, Princess mappai, and senshi powers. Tidia, as Sailor Aphrodite, had the power to sense and enhance feelings of people. All feelings, though she loved to feel people in love. She could also open up people's minds to the idea of love for short periods of time. Usually though, once the idea is set, people accept it.”

 

“Tidia and I met because she sensed my loneliness. Since I was the one who was feared the most by the people of the Silver Millennium, I didn't have many friends. Tidia sense how lonely I was and how much I wanted friends, so she befriended me. We became very close and eventually fell in love. Since I didn't know how she felt, I kept it secret how long I loved her. I didn't want it to turn out to be a horrible joke. When she told me, we became lovers, though we had to hide our feelings. We didn't know how our families, or your mother, would react.”

 

“Because of that, Tidia was sent to Minerva a few days before the fall. She was to meet an eligible Duke to see if an engagement between them could be formed. We vowed to tell everyone when she got back. But it never happened. The fall of the Silver Millennium occurred and when I remembered what had happened, I thought she had died. I've been hoping she had been reincarnated, but now I know that's not the case.”

 

“How is that, Saturn?”

 

“I've started to sense her recently. She's exactly the same. You see, when we were reincarnated, everything that happened during our new lifetime affected who we are. As a result I'm different than I was during the Silver Millennium. I'm not so lonely for one thing. Setsuna is the only one who hasn't changed because she was never reborn. Tidia is the same way. She hasn't changed because she never died, so she was never reborn.”

 

“How did that happen?”

 

“The only way is that Sailor Sun saved her. I will let you know if she contacts me, Your Highness.”

 

“Thank you, Saturn.” With barely a swish in the curtains, Sailor Saturn was gone.

 

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“You see, Mamoru. Shingo and I met and fell in love during the Silver Millennium. A few days before you and Usagi…Princess Serenity…got engaged, Shingo…Merc, proposed to me. I don't think it was intended for him to wake up to his true powers yet, but with the new enemies…” Ami's thoughts drifted off as she felt something about the new enemies tugging at the back of her mind.

 

“When the enemies came out of hiding, Sailor Sun went to work,” Merc added.

 

“Sailor Sun? I've never heard of Sailor Sun.”

 

“I think she survived the destruction of the Silver Millennium the same way Pluto did. She has her own pocket of space time that doesn't feel the effect of age. I have been there. When the enemy first attacked the University, both Ami and I went to help, but as I was heading out the door, I was pulled into another pocket and given my powers as Kamen no Mercury.” Merc stood still and let Mamoru look over him.

 

Mamoru, for his part, thought Shingo…Merc made an awesome sight. With his armor that looked like a blue version of Prince Endymion's armor and a whip so blue that it made Mamoru's teeth ache with cold. “Very nice, Merc.”

 

Shingo let go of his transformation and smiled. Ami also smiled up at Mamoru and asked, “Surprised, Mamoru-san?”

 

He smiled back, but turned to Shingo. “Where are Rei and Yuuichirou?”

 

“When I was given my powers, as I said, I was taken to another pocket of existence. There I met Sailor Sun and saw Sailor Mars lying on the table. When I asked Sailor Sun about it, she told me that Mars was recuperating. Yuuichirou had been given his powers too, as Ditio, lover of Princess Aren, Sailor Mars.”

 

“How do you know that Sailor Sun wasn't keeping Mars there by force and brainwashed Yuu…”

 

“It didn't' seem that way when I met her,” Ami interrupted. “I was given my Eternal power-up by her.”

 

“I don't trust this situation,” Mamoru said, concentrating on the floor tiles as he thought. “A senshi I don't know is keeping Mars and her Guardian from helping Tokyo…”

 

“You don't have to worry about Sailor Sun,” a voice said from the doorway. The group turned as a whole to see who was there now.