Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Saga of Mercury ❯ Do You Remember When? ( Chapter 10 )

The Saga of Mercury

Chapter 10

"Do You Remember When?"

Written by Jose I. Ramos

Portions based on "Mercury Knight stories" by Ryuuen No Miko

"Sailor Moon" and all related characters are copyrighted by Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha, TOEI Animation and other agencies.

Storyline © 2002 Jose I. Ramos

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As usual, "Sailor Moon" and all related characters are copyrighted by Naoko Takeuchi, Kodansha, TOEI Animation and other agencies.

The Saga of Mercury story is copyrighted by me, however content in some chapters is based on the Mercury Knight Stories as described in the Chapter 1 Introduction.

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Chapter 10 - Do You Remember When?

"I almost failed you, my queen," Morphonia pleaded to Queen Sorinya.

"It is my fault, Morphonia," Sorinya replied. "I was too busy planning something for Sailor Mercury and the other scouts, I didn't realize that they had those other knights with them… You have done well so far, Morphonia, now I want you to find a perfect moment when Amy and Greg are isolated. Take care of Greg first to get him out of the way, and then take Amy out!"

Morphonia looked down at her Negamoon necklace that was nearly shattered from the last attack. Then she looked at Sorinya. "Yes, my queen."

Meanwhile…

All eleven members of the sailor team finally found something they could eat at the Crown. Especially Serena…

"Yummy, yummy, yummy! Three servings of Ice Cream in one day! This is so good! Mm-mm," Serena yelled as she dogged down on her banana split sundae. She stuffed a whole banana into her mouth. "MANT MOME MARIEN?"

Darien, with sweatdrops on his head, gently shook his head.

Rini and the others were just staring at Serena, waiting to finish.

This was her second sundae of the night… and she had a chocolate soda float in between.

When it was all over, Serena wiped her mouth with a napkin and yelled, "YAY! DELICIOUS… BURP!!!"

Everyone had sweatdrops on their head now. Greg was holding his head in disbelief.

When Serena finally finished, everyone went downstairs to say goodbye.

Serena, Darien, Rini, Raye, Chad and Luna left in one direction, while Lita, Ken, Mina, Jamie and Artemis went in another direction.

That left just Amy and Greg together.

Amy blushed and smiled at her handsome knight. "Greg… can…" She almost looked away. "Can you walk me home?"

Greg replied, "NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!"

Amy's eyes bulged.

"Just kidding!!!" Greg laughed.

"Whew!" was Amy's response. "For a second, you scared me!"

"But first," said Greg, "I was wondering if you have just a LITTLE bit of extra time on you tonight. I've got time before the last bullet train leaves. I want to take you somewhere."

"Really?" said Amy. "I wonder where someone with beautiful chocolate eyes like you would take a blue-haired freak like me?"

"Blue-haired freak? On the contrary," said Greg, "you look like…"

Greg stopped to study Amy for a moment. Amy was wearing a ruffling, ruby red skirt that went down below her knees, a ruby red pullover sweater, a blue vest which was open, white knee-high socks and red Taryn Rose shoes. Amy's eyes were seeking a response from Greg.

"You look like… a beautiful, gorgeous, blue-haired… genius."

Amy covered her head with her hands, blushing like crazy. Greg removed her hands from her face, and said, "Get use to that, because I want you to keep your eyes closed and covered until we get to where I want to take you…"

"Okay," Amy said, "but first…"

Amy was looking at Greg's evening attire. Greg was wearing nice blue denim jeans with a brown belt, a long-sleeved yellow dress shirt, shiny black dress shoes and a very expensive Bulova watch.

"You look like… uh… you… you look like… oh, Greg, why can't I find the right words for you tonight?"

"Come on, you can," said a smiling Greg, "just think a bit more."

"Okay… you… you really look like… a knight in shining armor."

Greg laughed. "Works for me! Okay, you cover your eyes and I'll lead you toward the surprise."

Amy followed suit. When her eyes were closed, Greg put his arm around her and started leaning forward. Amy took his indication, and started walking. Greg then turned her in the right direction and led Amy down the block.

As the two of them got close to the area, Amy started to hear calliope music and started smelling the salty, buttery aroma of fresh popcorn.

"Is this the circus?" asked Amy, eyes still closed.

"Well, no, but you're close," said Greg.

Greg stopped Amy and turned her to face the entrance.

"Ready, Ames?"

Amy nodded her head in excitement.

"OPEN!"

Amy opened her eyes, and then gasped in amazement.

"An amusement park!" Amy said in delight.

"Not just any park…" said Greg, "10-Ban Land. Do you remember this place? This was where…" Greg stopped when Amy turned her head to face him.

"Yes," Amy said softly to him with a smile, "this is where we revealed our true feelings for each other and had our first date."

"That's right! It was also the time that Tuxedo Mask almost swallowed me up in a black crystal for good… but I don't want to remember that…"

Amy grabbed Greg's hand tightly. "Shall we, sir?" she asked.

"I was about to ask you that!" Greg responded.

The two of them walked into the Amusement Park. It was 9 PM, and they really knocked themselves out, riding on every single ride.

When it was close to midnight, when the park was scheduled to close, Greg and Amy made it onto one final ride… the Ferris wheel.

"This is the best part!" Amy said to Greg as the Ferris wheel started to rotate.

A clear night sky with many stars could be seen easily from inside the cab. Greg and Amy were holding each other close now, and staring at each other intensely. Greg then looked out another window… for another spectacular view of the sky. Greg then looked at the time on his Bulova watch, looked back outside, and said to Amy, "Yep, right time. Amy, look behind… oh, okay, wait until we get high enough again…"

The cab rotated all the way down, passed, and then went back up again. The Ferris wheel stopped while Amy and Greg's cab was at the very top, to let out riders from another cab below.

"Okay, now Amy, look at the sky over there. Notice anything? About 25 or 30 degrees from the horizon, and slightly right of center?"

Amy looked in the area that Greg was looking at. Clusters of stars were twinkling brightly out there… but there was one very bright spot that wasn't twinkling at all.

Amy said, "That over there… that's not a star… that's a planet…" Amy gasped. "No, it couldn't be! Is that…"

"Yes," Greg responded, "that's Mercury. You know… it's funny to think that we're here right now, and yet a long time ago, we were out there," he said, pointing to the planet. "The news from this morning said that Mercury would be the brightest in about 75 years…"

"It's beautiful," Amy said, almost shedding a tear.

"You know, there's something else that's very bright and very beautiful…" Greg said, as he turned Amy's head towards his. "It's you. I'm not the one to hide my feelings anymore… I care about you very much, and I just want to let you know that I would not do anything to harm you, not like I did a while ago when I almost killed you. You, Amy Mizuno, are the brightest star in my life."

"Greg…" Amy said as she brought her head closer to Greg's… "Please… kiss me."

Greg nodded his head, then closed his eyes and leaned forward.

Piercing screams from the outside shattered their peace.

Amy and Greg snapped out of their "trance" and looked out the window.

"What are those people running from?" said Greg.

"Do you see a dark shadow slithering on the ground?" said Amy.

"Yes… but why is everyone running away? There are many people, why don't they just stomp on it or something?"

The shadow slithered further underneath until it went out of view from the cab high above.

Greg started, "Now what do you suppose that thing…"

Suddenly, the glass in front of them shattered… and in slithered Morphonia. Morphonia wasted no time, driving the sharp nails from her other good hand straight into Greg's chest.

"UHHH!" went Greg, who collapsed out of the chair and onto the floor of the cab.

Amy gasped in horror.

Morphonia then turned to Amy. "Amy Mizuno… now that you're all alone, and your sweetheart is out of the picture, you're mine for the taking!"

Amy went into her pocket and pulled out her transformation pen. But Morphonia swatted it away with her fin. The pen went flying over Amy's head and landed behind her seat. When Amy tried to reach back for hit, Morphonia started to clutch both of her hands on Amy's throat.

Morphonia started to squeeze the life out of Amy.

Amy was struggling to breathe and starting to turn blue. She looked at Greg, who was starting to turn pale from the nails that were driven into him. Then she looked at Morphonia.

Amy was starting to pass out… until she thought, I must do this for him… and then, in a quick attempt, lifted up her left leg and kicked Morphonia straight in the chest. The kick shattered the Negamoon jewel on Morphonia's necklace.

Suddenly, tremendous amounts of energy started to surge through Morphonia. Morphonia screamed and wailed in agony.

When it was all over, Morphonia was moon dust.

Amy took big breaths… deep breaths… and thought to herself, that simple?

Then she turned to Greg.

"GREG!" Amy yelled. "Don't do this to me again!"

Greg was violently shaking in shock, his skin a pure white.

"You're bleeding internally!" yelled Amy.

Greg then clutched Amy's shoulder and struggled to speak.

"Sha… Sha…"

"What is it, Greg!!"

"Sha… Shabon… Wand… use… use it…"

Amy thought, and then realized that the Shabon Wand would heal Greg. She reached back and grabbed her transformation pen, yelled "MERCURY STAR POWER!" and, immediately after she transformed into Sailor Mercury, put the pen over Greg and said "SHABON HEALING ACTIVATION!" The transformation pen changed itself into the Shabon Wand, and showered stars and bubbles onto Greg. The nails that were stuck in Greg's body disappeared, and Greg's skin tone started to return to normal.

Greg regained his composure, then smiled and said, "You… almost lost me again!"

Sailor Mercury de-transformed and helped Greg back to his seat in the Ferris wheel cab. By this point, the Ferris wheel was starting up again, and stopped when their cab reached the bottom.

"My heart is aching," Greg said, clutching his chest with both hands.

"Oh, no," Amy replied. "I'd better get you to a doctor."

"But I thought YOU were the doctor!"

"Greg, this is no time to play!"

The attendant opened the door. Immediately after all of the moon dust spilled out onto the ground, Greg handed the attendant yen… lots of yen! "Keep going until I tell you to stop," Greg said to the attendant. The attendant stared at the yen, which was more yen than he made in a week, and then nodded his head, smiling joyfully. He shut the door and restarted the Ferris wheel.

"GREG! Several more times?! How could you do that when your heart is aching?"

"Amy…" Greg said, removing his hands from his chest and wrapping his arms around Amy.

Amy started to get the message.

"My heart is aching, all right…" Greg said. "It's aching… for you… I love you Amy, you're everything to me."

"Oh Greg," Amy said, staring at Greg's face. "I… I love you."

Then Amy held Greg tightly and whispered, "Then… now… and forever…"

They closed their eyes and leaned forward.

They kissed softly and passionately as their Ferris wheel cab went around and around under the twinkling stars of the night sky… and the brightness emanating from their home planet.

End of Chapter 10

In the next chapter, Greg will face up to his fears... of swimming.

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