Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Uncontrolled ❯ Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11 )
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By: SilentStar-009 
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.20.2006 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.6K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Sailor Moon Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 07.20.2006 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.6K | Visits: 1.1K | Status: Completed
Chapter 11
Lounging on the beach was wonderful. Serena thought as she stretched out on her beach towel. The sunlight's warm kisses made her skin feel all toasty.
"Lotion." Mina murmured and Ami handed her the bottle. Absently, she squeezed some out on her hand and began rubbing it on her bare stomach. Ami was buried in a new book. Lita was on her stomach and Raye was rubbing lotion on her back.
"That should be me." Nephrite hissed quietly to Jadeite, The guys were sitting under a big umbrella behind them. Darien was propped on a pillow looking at a book of his own totally oblivious to what his guards were going through. Zoicite nudged Kunzite in the side.
"Do you think that water is cold?" He asked dryly. Kunzite scowled at him.
"Do you want to find out?" He threatened sweetly. He was tired of hearing Zoicite's complaints and hormonal driven whines. Doesn't he know he was going through the same thing? Sure he hid it pretty well, but his control was holding on by a thin tread. Even now, he was ready to pounce on her.
Serena sat up and muttered something to the girls. They nodded eagerly and soon, started running to the water. The guards bit back tortured groans.
"They're getting wet!" Jadeite gasped, cursing Raye for making him squirm on the sand.
"Shut up!" Kunzite bit out and folded his arms moodily. Damn Mina, she can still make me feel like a green lad of fourteen.
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"What are you doing?" Pluto asked suspiciously. Queen Serenity smiled mischievously looking up from the image orb.
"Look at them!" She exclaimed gleefully pointing at the guards. Pluto had to sympathize with the poor men.
"What are you going to do?" She asked cautiously. The queen lifted her fingers and Pluto saw a strong waved begin to form. The Princess and her guards were in the water, laughing and playing. Horrified she looked at the queen grinning evilly.
"You wouldn't!" She gaped and Queen Serenity threw her head back and laughed.
"This is going to be so great!" She chuckled and snapped her fingers before Pluto could stop her.
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Serena tried to swim away from Raye's splashing, but Mina got her in the face and she was blinded for a moment. The current around her legs was getting strong. Frowning, she began swimming back to shore.
"Where are you going?" Lita called out to her and pulled her back into the water. She turned back to the open shore and her mouth dropped open. There was a huge wave about to crash down!
"Incoming!" Mina yelled. The wave hit them before they could swim back to shore. Serena was pulled down. Blindly, she clawed her way back up and resurfaced with a gasping breath. The water swirled around her and she noticed something very disturbing.
"My bathing suit!" Raye screamed.
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The guards looked warily at the water, wondering if the girls were alright. But when they resurfaced, they sat back down.
"Hey look!" Jadeite said and ran to the shore. The water lapped over colorful cloths. Frowning, he picked up a red one and held it out.
"That looks like Raye's top!" Zoicite said and picked up a blue bottom to a bikini. The looked at one another and grinned. Zoicite looked across the ocean and saw the girls in the distance talking animatedly to one another pointing back to them.
"What is it?" Kunzite's curiosity got the best of him and he went to see. Zoicite was holding out a yellow top. That was Mina's top he thought and saw Mina and the others wading in the water with fierce frowns on their faces. He had to smile. This day was looking up after all. Now he could punish her like he promised earlier, and would have fun doing it.
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"I can't believe you did that." Pluto groaned, but a small smile was tugging at her lips. Queen Serenity laughed and watched as realization dawn on the girls' faces. She saw her daughter look back to the shore at Darien who was waving her pink bathing suit top around, mocking her. The other girls were glaring at the guards.
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"Now what?" Lita asked, looking at Nephrite with her bathing suit in his hands.
"If they expect us to go get them naked, then they're sorely mistaken." Ami muttered, thinking back to the time when she skinny dipped with Zoicite.
"What are we going to do?" Mina moaned.
"We can't stay in the water all day!" Serena said. It wouldn't have been a problem if it was just Darien, but his guards as well? Raye looked around and then dove underwater.
"What is she doing?" Ami asked, glancing at the other girls. Raye soon resurfaced with seaweed in her hand.
"We have to make do girls." She almost growled and began wrapping the slimy green seaweed around her breasts.
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Darien knew what the girls were doing and he groaned.
"What?" Jadeite asked squinting over the sparkling water to try to see Raye.
"The found a way to improvise." He said and sat down on the sand bank. Soon the guards could see what he was talking about when, one by one, the girls emerged from the water draped in seaweed. There were disappointed groans.
Serena stalked up to Darien and snatched her swimsuit away from him and left back to the beach house, not before she slapped him in the shoulder.
"See if you get any tonight." She hissed at him and he paled.
"Raye--" Jadeite began but she cut him off with a hand.
"Hey! We didn't cause your bathing suits to fall off." Nephrite protested. But the girls just ignored them and left back to the house, trying desperately to clutch their wayward bathing suits together before they fell apart.
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"That has to be the most embarrassing moment of my life." Lita groaned while stirring the food on the stove.
"Tell me about it." Raye muttered helping Ami set the table. Serena ignored Darien's mind apologies and continued to polish the silverware.
"Can we just forget about it?" Ami asked, trying to hide her blush. She kept on remembering the night when she and Zoicite were in that lake doing........She stopped abruptly fighting off the images that were developing. This is not good at all. The more she remembered what had happened between them, the more she was beginning to be attracted to him. She didn't want her life to be ruled by her past, and she didn't want Zoicite to just like her because he did a long time ago. If it were like that, then she couldn't help but feel like it was all fake.
She changed a lot, and she wanted him to know that. It took her a long time to trust him and start a relationship and she doubted she ever would have if it weren't for that time when she saw him in a new light.
~*FLASHBACK*~
She had been on one of her solitary walks totally engrossed with a new book when a low hiss made her look down. A huge snake was posed his teeth venomous bared. Cursing, she searched frantically for her changing wand. She fumbled through the folds of her dress but came up empty handed. Her jerky movements made the snake move towards her, ready to strike. Desperately, knowing full well what would happen if it bit, she searched for something to defend herself with. The only thing she could grab that was close enough was a thin stick. She quickly picked it up and swung at it, all the while, taking slow steps back. But the snake pressed forward.
Ami frowned. A snake only attacked if it was threatened and she didn't do anything to provoke it! An unwilling whimper escaped her mouth. Never in her life was she so scared than this moment. She was a warrior and here she was, powerless to do anything. Suddenly, she felt her foot slip on slippery leaves and she fell backwards with a startled cry. Her head whipped up just in time to dodge an attack. Her arms shot out to protect herself and she felt the razor sharp of its teeth slice her arm. She kicked her legs, but missed. Dizzy with fear, she flailed her arms out wildly, but the snake had moved up quickly over her legs. She could feel the heavy mass pressed on her.
"No." She managed to say before it bit her on her right breast.
It bit me she thought numbly and her eyes drooped closed. She didn't see an arrow sailing off to her side and spear the snake, pinning it to the next tree. She felt cold. So very cold.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
Ami shivered remembering that experience and finished spooning the mashed potatoes into a serving bowel. The other girls moved around in the kitchen like robots, placing the steaming food in the middle of the table.
"Do you think we have enough?" Serena asked, surveying the heaps of food. "Those guys have quite a big appetite." She muttered and went to the counter.
"Why do you say that?" Mina asked, wiping a strand of hair out of her eyes. Serena picked up a small paper and gave it to her to look at. Mina's eyes widened.
"How can they eat so much?" She cried, aghast at the price.
"Let me see." Raye pushed passed Lita and snatched the receipt away from her." Who's going to pay this?" Raye asked. Serena snatched back the paper.
"Darien is of course. I wonder how he's going to react." She said evilly, knowing that Darien was sure pricky when it came to money. But then again, she though with a grimace, Darien was pricky about almost everything.
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Later that night, after they gave Darien the bill for the club, they all settled on the deck, bundled in blankets looking up at the stars.
"I see Orion's belt." Mina said, pointing to the sky. The other girls looked up and pictured the warrior that wore Orion's belt. Serena nestled her head in Lita's taunt stomach and sighed out loud.
"Do you always wonder how you would be like when you grow up?" She asked. The girls all hummed yes.
"I wonder if we're still going to be Scouts when we're like thirty with kids running around." Mina said with a giggle. They all laughed along with her. Ami's gazed wandered to the window. She could see the guys sitting at the coffee table, playing cards. She studied Zoicite's profile. Soon her mind wandered back to the time when she woke up after being bit by the snake.
"I remember that as well." Lita told her, reading her thoughts. The girls all nodded.
"I was so worried about you Ami." Serena said quietly, remembering the fear she felt all those many years ago.
"Zoicite wouldn't even let us into your sick room." Raye grumbled lightly. Ami remembered that as well. She remembered the feeling of security he offered.
"That's when you started falling for him." Mina said and turned to look at Ami. Ami met her gaze, suddenly feeling warm inside.
"Yeah. Something I tried to fight." She murmured.
~*FLASHBACK*~
&nb sp; Her eyes fluttered open barely. They felt so heavy, and it was an effort just to look through the little slits. But she was awake, feeling awful. Feebly, she lifted a heavy hand to brush her hair off her forehead. An unwilling little whimper escaped her mouth when she felt someone prodding her tender chest. She tired to slap away the intruder's hands, but she was so weak, it tired her to do so.
"Shhh, don't move." A recognizable voice told her. It was Lord Zoicite. She moaned again, trying to tell him that his hands were hurting her. "I know." He whispered and leaned down. She could feel the silky wisps of his hair tickling her arm. She knew that the poisonous venom was coursing through her body. Her tongue felt thick and she was breaking out into a cold sweat.
"Okay, I'm going to do something that I shouldn't do in normal circumstances, so don't get offended okay?" He asked, lifting her chin so she could see his face. She studied his worried green eyes, trying to find reassurance in them. Suddenly, he leaned down and put his mouth to her bite and began sucking. A gasp was caught in her throat, feeling the moisture of his lips on her bare chest. But it wasn't an erotic feeling, far from it. Her wound was screaming out in protest and all she could do was lay there. Warm tears rolled own her cheek and splashed on her hand. She tired to move away, but he held her still and continued to suck the poison out of her. He drew back and spit it into a handkerchief and then did it five more times. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he stuffed the soiled kerchief in his pocket and gathered her into him arms. Her head lolled back and then came to a rest against his chest. She could hear the soothing rhythm of his heartbeat through his warm shirt and fell asleep.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
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Zoicite looked out of the window at the girls lying in the deck. His eyes wandered to Ami, who was absently rubbing her chest. All of the sudden, he knew what she was thinking of. Even now, what had happened on the Moon Kingdom still bothered him. She had been so weak when he had taken her back to the palace. The bitter tasted of the venom still stung his tongue.
~*FLASHBACK*~
; The Princess and her guard all came running when he had burst through he palace doors, holding the Princess Ami's body in his arms. Her raspy intakes of breath were causing him to panic. He never treated anyone with a snake bite before, and the one that bit her was like none he ever seen before.
"What happened?" Princess Serenity cried, running up to him.
"A snake bit her." He said stiffly and wandered down the silver corridors of the palace. The shocked expression on her face made him pause.
"But we don't have snakes on the moon." She said in almost a whisper. He pushed passed her and started up the stairs. "Bring her in here." The Princess said and went ahead of him, leading him to her wing of the palace. When he entered the room, blue assaulted his seeing. Everything in the room was blue. The Princess pulled back the blankets and he laid Ami down as gently as possible, trying to hold back that knot in his throat. She looked so pale and lifeless.
"I'm going to get the palace healer." The Princess said, but he caught her arm and pulled her back.
"Let me handle this." He almost pleaded.
"But..... ." She began, looking at her friend on the bed. Tears gathered in her blue eyes and she looked back at him. "You'll do everything possible for her won't you Lord Zoicite?" She asked him in a shaky voice. "I can't lose her. She means so much to me." She went on, kneeling beside the bed and caressing her friend's cheek with shaky hands.
"She means a lot to me too." He confessed and helped her up. She nodded stiffly, and Princess Raye wrapped a protective arm around the small princess.
"We'll be here if you need us." Princess Lita said and left with the others.
For five days, he stayed in her sick room, keeping her bite clean and giving her medicine to keep her fever down, and bit by bit she was getting better. She no longer looked pale and sickly. She was gaining color and her appetite was coming back. Every day, her friends would come by and give her a bath, shooing him out when he protested. She was getting better, that's all that mattered to him. Food, sleep, nothing else mattered and for five days, he didn't leave the room.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
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Ami rolled over on her stomach. He had devoted so much time, making sure she had gotten better that his heath was wavering as well. One day, when her fever had broke, she sat up, feeling dizzy and there he was, on his knees with his head on her bed, sleeping away
~*FLASHBACK*~
&n bsp; Her lips were parched and her stomach rumbled for food. Lord Zoicite was sleeping soundly on her bed with his knees on the ground. He looked pale and she could see dark circle under his eyes. She tenderly touched his honey brown hair, feeling the strands on her fingertips.
"Lord Zoicite?" She whispered. She didn't want to wake him because he looked like he needed the rest, but she wanted him to lie on a bed properly so he didn't cramp. His eyes snapped open at her voice.
"Ami! You're awake!" He breathed and stood up fast.
"How long have I been out?" She asked with a frown, seeing how bad he needed a shave. He scratched his head.
"Five days." She frowned deeper. Five days? That long?
"Ami!" Some one yelled joyously and she saw Princess Serenity and her other friends run to her.
"You're awake!" Mina cried and hugged her gently. She hugged them back, feeling their relief. She didn't know why, but she missed them as well.
"Well, I'm going to get you something to eat." Zoicite said awkwardly and left the room.
"I'm glad you're awake. Lord Zoicite had been at your side from day one." Lita said and settled next to her.
"Yeah, sometimes he wouldn't even let us in to see you." Raye grumbled. She stared opened mouthed at them.
"The whole time?" She asked in an astonished voice. The nodded solemnly. She could tell they worried about him.
"Sometimes we had to force him to eat something or to sleep. He was really worried." Serenity said. Ami felt a little guilty about that. After all, he didn't have to. But he did.
"You could have called the palace healer." She said absently.
"He wouldn't have it. You're really important to him." Mina said gently, in a hinting tone. Ami licked her lips and fought a blush. Soon, Zoicite returned with a silver platter, heaped with food.
"Mmmm!" Serenity exclaimed and reached for a roll. Zoicite slapped her hand playfully.
"Not for you Princess. Ami needs to regain her strength." He said with a roll of his eyes and settled the platter on her side table. She laughed at Serenity's pout and gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
"I think I can share." She said and smiled softly. Zoicite shook his head and shrugged. He started to leave, but she called out to him. He turned around. "Thank you for everything." She told him after short pause. His eyes brightened.
"You'r e welcome." He said. He murmured something under his breath and then left the door.
"I wonder what he said." Raye said thoughtfully.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
Ami frowned. Yes, I wonder what he said too. The wind began to pick up and they decided to go inside. Ami was the last to go in, and when she locked the door and turned around, Zoicite was standing in front of her with a serious look on his face.
"Anything for you." Was all he said. She looked at him oddly.
"What?"
"That's what I said when I left. I would do anything for you." He said and went back to join the other guys. Her heart pitter pattered and she felt a smile tug her lips. She was really beginning to like him.
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"You shouldn't let them read their minds." Pluto said with a frown, looking at the image orb of the girls.
"It was just a little memory. Don't bee so strict Pluto." Queen Serenity said with a wave of her hand. She watched as her beloved daughter got ready for bed.
"She's not with Darien." She said, a bit relieved.
"You heard her earlier. After that little stunt you pulled, I'm thinking he's in for a dry spell." Pluto said with a chuckle. Queen Serenity laughed, but them something hit her and she became serious.
"The snake." She breathed, thinking back to Ami's memory.
"What about it?" Pluto asked.
"Serenity was right. We didn't have snakes on the moon." There was a silence.
"It seems that Beryl was trying to get rid of the scouts before the attack." Pluto said. Queen Serenity nodded and gazed longingly into the image orb.
"Soon. She'll come soon." She whispered.
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AN: Anyway, more to come, so REVIEW!
Lounging on the beach was wonderful. Serena thought as she stretched out on her beach towel. The sunlight's warm kisses made her skin feel all toasty.
"Lotion." Mina murmured and Ami handed her the bottle. Absently, she squeezed some out on her hand and began rubbing it on her bare stomach. Ami was buried in a new book. Lita was on her stomach and Raye was rubbing lotion on her back.
"That should be me." Nephrite hissed quietly to Jadeite, The guys were sitting under a big umbrella behind them. Darien was propped on a pillow looking at a book of his own totally oblivious to what his guards were going through. Zoicite nudged Kunzite in the side.
"Do you think that water is cold?" He asked dryly. Kunzite scowled at him.
"Do you want to find out?" He threatened sweetly. He was tired of hearing Zoicite's complaints and hormonal driven whines. Doesn't he know he was going through the same thing? Sure he hid it pretty well, but his control was holding on by a thin tread. Even now, he was ready to pounce on her.
Serena sat up and muttered something to the girls. They nodded eagerly and soon, started running to the water. The guards bit back tortured groans.
"They're getting wet!" Jadeite gasped, cursing Raye for making him squirm on the sand.
"Shut up!" Kunzite bit out and folded his arms moodily. Damn Mina, she can still make me feel like a green lad of fourteen.
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"What are you doing?" Pluto asked suspiciously. Queen Serenity smiled mischievously looking up from the image orb.
"Look at them!" She exclaimed gleefully pointing at the guards. Pluto had to sympathize with the poor men.
"What are you going to do?" She asked cautiously. The queen lifted her fingers and Pluto saw a strong waved begin to form. The Princess and her guards were in the water, laughing and playing. Horrified she looked at the queen grinning evilly.
"You wouldn't!" She gaped and Queen Serenity threw her head back and laughed.
"This is going to be so great!" She chuckled and snapped her fingers before Pluto could stop her.
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Serena tried to swim away from Raye's splashing, but Mina got her in the face and she was blinded for a moment. The current around her legs was getting strong. Frowning, she began swimming back to shore.
"Where are you going?" Lita called out to her and pulled her back into the water. She turned back to the open shore and her mouth dropped open. There was a huge wave about to crash down!
"Incoming!" Mina yelled. The wave hit them before they could swim back to shore. Serena was pulled down. Blindly, she clawed her way back up and resurfaced with a gasping breath. The water swirled around her and she noticed something very disturbing.
"My bathing suit!" Raye screamed.
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The guards looked warily at the water, wondering if the girls were alright. But when they resurfaced, they sat back down.
"Hey look!" Jadeite said and ran to the shore. The water lapped over colorful cloths. Frowning, he picked up a red one and held it out.
"That looks like Raye's top!" Zoicite said and picked up a blue bottom to a bikini. The looked at one another and grinned. Zoicite looked across the ocean and saw the girls in the distance talking animatedly to one another pointing back to them.
"What is it?" Kunzite's curiosity got the best of him and he went to see. Zoicite was holding out a yellow top. That was Mina's top he thought and saw Mina and the others wading in the water with fierce frowns on their faces. He had to smile. This day was looking up after all. Now he could punish her like he promised earlier, and would have fun doing it.
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"I can't believe you did that." Pluto groaned, but a small smile was tugging at her lips. Queen Serenity laughed and watched as realization dawn on the girls' faces. She saw her daughter look back to the shore at Darien who was waving her pink bathing suit top around, mocking her. The other girls were glaring at the guards.
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"Now what?" Lita asked, looking at Nephrite with her bathing suit in his hands.
"If they expect us to go get them naked, then they're sorely mistaken." Ami muttered, thinking back to the time when she skinny dipped with Zoicite.
"What are we going to do?" Mina moaned.
"We can't stay in the water all day!" Serena said. It wouldn't have been a problem if it was just Darien, but his guards as well? Raye looked around and then dove underwater.
"What is she doing?" Ami asked, glancing at the other girls. Raye soon resurfaced with seaweed in her hand.
"We have to make do girls." She almost growled and began wrapping the slimy green seaweed around her breasts.
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Darien knew what the girls were doing and he groaned.
"What?" Jadeite asked squinting over the sparkling water to try to see Raye.
"The found a way to improvise." He said and sat down on the sand bank. Soon the guards could see what he was talking about when, one by one, the girls emerged from the water draped in seaweed. There were disappointed groans.
Serena stalked up to Darien and snatched her swimsuit away from him and left back to the beach house, not before she slapped him in the shoulder.
"See if you get any tonight." She hissed at him and he paled.
"Raye--" Jadeite began but she cut him off with a hand.
"Hey! We didn't cause your bathing suits to fall off." Nephrite protested. But the girls just ignored them and left back to the house, trying desperately to clutch their wayward bathing suits together before they fell apart.
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"That has to be the most embarrassing moment of my life." Lita groaned while stirring the food on the stove.
"Tell me about it." Raye muttered helping Ami set the table. Serena ignored Darien's mind apologies and continued to polish the silverware.
"Can we just forget about it?" Ami asked, trying to hide her blush. She kept on remembering the night when she and Zoicite were in that lake doing........She stopped abruptly fighting off the images that were developing. This is not good at all. The more she remembered what had happened between them, the more she was beginning to be attracted to him. She didn't want her life to be ruled by her past, and she didn't want Zoicite to just like her because he did a long time ago. If it were like that, then she couldn't help but feel like it was all fake.
She changed a lot, and she wanted him to know that. It took her a long time to trust him and start a relationship and she doubted she ever would have if it weren't for that time when she saw him in a new light.
~*FLASHBACK*~
She had been on one of her solitary walks totally engrossed with a new book when a low hiss made her look down. A huge snake was posed his teeth venomous bared. Cursing, she searched frantically for her changing wand. She fumbled through the folds of her dress but came up empty handed. Her jerky movements made the snake move towards her, ready to strike. Desperately, knowing full well what would happen if it bit, she searched for something to defend herself with. The only thing she could grab that was close enough was a thin stick. She quickly picked it up and swung at it, all the while, taking slow steps back. But the snake pressed forward.
Ami frowned. A snake only attacked if it was threatened and she didn't do anything to provoke it! An unwilling whimper escaped her mouth. Never in her life was she so scared than this moment. She was a warrior and here she was, powerless to do anything. Suddenly, she felt her foot slip on slippery leaves and she fell backwards with a startled cry. Her head whipped up just in time to dodge an attack. Her arms shot out to protect herself and she felt the razor sharp of its teeth slice her arm. She kicked her legs, but missed. Dizzy with fear, she flailed her arms out wildly, but the snake had moved up quickly over her legs. She could feel the heavy mass pressed on her.
"No." She managed to say before it bit her on her right breast.
It bit me she thought numbly and her eyes drooped closed. She didn't see an arrow sailing off to her side and spear the snake, pinning it to the next tree. She felt cold. So very cold.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
Ami shivered remembering that experience and finished spooning the mashed potatoes into a serving bowel. The other girls moved around in the kitchen like robots, placing the steaming food in the middle of the table.
"Do you think we have enough?" Serena asked, surveying the heaps of food. "Those guys have quite a big appetite." She muttered and went to the counter.
"Why do you say that?" Mina asked, wiping a strand of hair out of her eyes. Serena picked up a small paper and gave it to her to look at. Mina's eyes widened.
"How can they eat so much?" She cried, aghast at the price.
"Let me see." Raye pushed passed Lita and snatched the receipt away from her." Who's going to pay this?" Raye asked. Serena snatched back the paper.
"Darien is of course. I wonder how he's going to react." She said evilly, knowing that Darien was sure pricky when it came to money. But then again, she though with a grimace, Darien was pricky about almost everything.
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Later that night, after they gave Darien the bill for the club, they all settled on the deck, bundled in blankets looking up at the stars.
"I see Orion's belt." Mina said, pointing to the sky. The other girls looked up and pictured the warrior that wore Orion's belt. Serena nestled her head in Lita's taunt stomach and sighed out loud.
"Do you always wonder how you would be like when you grow up?" She asked. The girls all hummed yes.
"I wonder if we're still going to be Scouts when we're like thirty with kids running around." Mina said with a giggle. They all laughed along with her. Ami's gazed wandered to the window. She could see the guys sitting at the coffee table, playing cards. She studied Zoicite's profile. Soon her mind wandered back to the time when she woke up after being bit by the snake.
"I remember that as well." Lita told her, reading her thoughts. The girls all nodded.
"I was so worried about you Ami." Serena said quietly, remembering the fear she felt all those many years ago.
"Zoicite wouldn't even let us into your sick room." Raye grumbled lightly. Ami remembered that as well. She remembered the feeling of security he offered.
"That's when you started falling for him." Mina said and turned to look at Ami. Ami met her gaze, suddenly feeling warm inside.
"Yeah. Something I tried to fight." She murmured.
~*FLASHBACK*~
&nb sp; Her eyes fluttered open barely. They felt so heavy, and it was an effort just to look through the little slits. But she was awake, feeling awful. Feebly, she lifted a heavy hand to brush her hair off her forehead. An unwilling little whimper escaped her mouth when she felt someone prodding her tender chest. She tired to slap away the intruder's hands, but she was so weak, it tired her to do so.
"Shhh, don't move." A recognizable voice told her. It was Lord Zoicite. She moaned again, trying to tell him that his hands were hurting her. "I know." He whispered and leaned down. She could feel the silky wisps of his hair tickling her arm. She knew that the poisonous venom was coursing through her body. Her tongue felt thick and she was breaking out into a cold sweat.
"Okay, I'm going to do something that I shouldn't do in normal circumstances, so don't get offended okay?" He asked, lifting her chin so she could see his face. She studied his worried green eyes, trying to find reassurance in them. Suddenly, he leaned down and put his mouth to her bite and began sucking. A gasp was caught in her throat, feeling the moisture of his lips on her bare chest. But it wasn't an erotic feeling, far from it. Her wound was screaming out in protest and all she could do was lay there. Warm tears rolled own her cheek and splashed on her hand. She tired to move away, but he held her still and continued to suck the poison out of her. He drew back and spit it into a handkerchief and then did it five more times. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he stuffed the soiled kerchief in his pocket and gathered her into him arms. Her head lolled back and then came to a rest against his chest. She could hear the soothing rhythm of his heartbeat through his warm shirt and fell asleep.
~*END FLASHBACK*~
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Zoicite looked out of the window at the girls lying in the deck. His eyes wandered to Ami, who was absently rubbing her chest. All of the sudden, he knew what she was thinking of. Even now, what had happened on the Moon Kingdom still bothered him. She had been so weak when he had taken her back to the palace. The bitter tasted of the venom still stung his tongue.
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; The Princess and her guard all came running when he had burst through he palace doors, holding the Princess Ami's body in his arms. Her raspy intakes of breath were causing him to panic. He never treated anyone with a snake bite before, and the one that bit her was like none he ever seen before.
"What happened?" Princess Serenity cried, running up to him.
"A snake bit her." He said stiffly and wandered down the silver corridors of the palace. The shocked expression on her face made him pause.
"But we don't have snakes on the moon." She said in almost a whisper. He pushed passed her and started up the stairs. "Bring her in here." The Princess said and went ahead of him, leading him to her wing of the palace. When he entered the room, blue assaulted his seeing. Everything in the room was blue. The Princess pulled back the blankets and he laid Ami down as gently as possible, trying to hold back that knot in his throat. She looked so pale and lifeless.
"I'm going to get the palace healer." The Princess said, but he caught her arm and pulled her back.
"Let me handle this." He almost pleaded.
"But..... ." She began, looking at her friend on the bed. Tears gathered in her blue eyes and she looked back at him. "You'll do everything possible for her won't you Lord Zoicite?" She asked him in a shaky voice. "I can't lose her. She means so much to me." She went on, kneeling beside the bed and caressing her friend's cheek with shaky hands.
"She means a lot to me too." He confessed and helped her up. She nodded stiffly, and Princess Raye wrapped a protective arm around the small princess.
"We'll be here if you need us." Princess Lita said and left with the others.
For five days, he stayed in her sick room, keeping her bite clean and giving her medicine to keep her fever down, and bit by bit she was getting better. She no longer looked pale and sickly. She was gaining color and her appetite was coming back. Every day, her friends would come by and give her a bath, shooing him out when he protested. She was getting better, that's all that mattered to him. Food, sleep, nothing else mattered and for five days, he didn't leave the room.
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Ami rolled over on her stomach. He had devoted so much time, making sure she had gotten better that his heath was wavering as well. One day, when her fever had broke, she sat up, feeling dizzy and there he was, on his knees with his head on her bed, sleeping away
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&n bsp; Her lips were parched and her stomach rumbled for food. Lord Zoicite was sleeping soundly on her bed with his knees on the ground. He looked pale and she could see dark circle under his eyes. She tenderly touched his honey brown hair, feeling the strands on her fingertips.
"Lord Zoicite?" She whispered. She didn't want to wake him because he looked like he needed the rest, but she wanted him to lie on a bed properly so he didn't cramp. His eyes snapped open at her voice.
"Ami! You're awake!" He breathed and stood up fast.
"How long have I been out?" She asked with a frown, seeing how bad he needed a shave. He scratched his head.
"Five days." She frowned deeper. Five days? That long?
"Ami!" Some one yelled joyously and she saw Princess Serenity and her other friends run to her.
"You're awake!" Mina cried and hugged her gently. She hugged them back, feeling their relief. She didn't know why, but she missed them as well.
"Well, I'm going to get you something to eat." Zoicite said awkwardly and left the room.
"I'm glad you're awake. Lord Zoicite had been at your side from day one." Lita said and settled next to her.
"Yeah, sometimes he wouldn't even let us in to see you." Raye grumbled. She stared opened mouthed at them.
"The whole time?" She asked in an astonished voice. The nodded solemnly. She could tell they worried about him.
"Sometimes we had to force him to eat something or to sleep. He was really worried." Serenity said. Ami felt a little guilty about that. After all, he didn't have to. But he did.
"You could have called the palace healer." She said absently.
"He wouldn't have it. You're really important to him." Mina said gently, in a hinting tone. Ami licked her lips and fought a blush. Soon, Zoicite returned with a silver platter, heaped with food.
"Mmmm!" Serenity exclaimed and reached for a roll. Zoicite slapped her hand playfully.
"Not for you Princess. Ami needs to regain her strength." He said with a roll of his eyes and settled the platter on her side table. She laughed at Serenity's pout and gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder.
"I think I can share." She said and smiled softly. Zoicite shook his head and shrugged. He started to leave, but she called out to him. He turned around. "Thank you for everything." She told him after short pause. His eyes brightened.
"You'r e welcome." He said. He murmured something under his breath and then left the door.
"I wonder what he said." Raye said thoughtfully.
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Ami frowned. Yes, I wonder what he said too. The wind began to pick up and they decided to go inside. Ami was the last to go in, and when she locked the door and turned around, Zoicite was standing in front of her with a serious look on his face.
"Anything for you." Was all he said. She looked at him oddly.
"What?"
"That's what I said when I left. I would do anything for you." He said and went back to join the other guys. Her heart pitter pattered and she felt a smile tug her lips. She was really beginning to like him.
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"You shouldn't let them read their minds." Pluto said with a frown, looking at the image orb of the girls.
"It was just a little memory. Don't bee so strict Pluto." Queen Serenity said with a wave of her hand. She watched as her beloved daughter got ready for bed.
"She's not with Darien." She said, a bit relieved.
"You heard her earlier. After that little stunt you pulled, I'm thinking he's in for a dry spell." Pluto said with a chuckle. Queen Serenity laughed, but them something hit her and she became serious.
"The snake." She breathed, thinking back to Ami's memory.
"What about it?" Pluto asked.
"Serenity was right. We didn't have snakes on the moon." There was a silence.
"It seems that Beryl was trying to get rid of the scouts before the attack." Pluto said. Queen Serenity nodded and gazed longingly into the image orb.
"Soon. She'll come soon." She whispered.
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AN: Anyway, more to come, so REVIEW!