Raypoint (Ami thread)

[Anastasia]

You fumble at it weakly, fingers barely moving. As you touch the bracelet, you shudder! Your fingers on the other hand begin to turn rapidly, as if the touch of the on firmly and not moving bracelet is infecting the other arm.

"Let go, Ami. You've lost your body, but I'll at least take good care of you, and it," Natsume promises, coming over and taking your hands. You...AGH!" Natsume's image flickers and what looks to be a can of salmon plunks you on the forehead. It causes you no pain as your head is numb, but does knock you back.

"Ami!" Artemis cries, his human form wide eyed. "What is that...light by you," he asks quickly, as Natsume turns to her. You feel your body seeming to shut down, as if the cold is reaching deeper in...

[Bean Bandit]

Ami swallows, her vision beginning to dim as consciousness fades. "Tal...isman...off..." she begs Artemis weakly, her last thoughts grim. I'm going to lose...I didn't pay enough attention...and now everyone else will pay...Usagi...mother...Artemis...I'm sorry...

[Anastasia]

You feel yourself slipping away. Your body is gone to your feeling, yet you see through your eyes dimly. You advance as light from the Talisman fills your vision. Artemis braces, as you feel a tug downward, as if lulling you away.

"Ami...Ami....Ami..." voices echo. "Come on, Ami-chan!" Usagi calls, Natsume mimicking. "Come on and play!"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami struggles against the voices. No! I'm not ready to give up without a fight! she screams inwardly, trying to focus on the rapidly dimming physical sensations. I want to live, no matter how bad things get!

[Anastasia]

* Hatbot --> "Mistress_Ami rolls 2d6+2 burning 40 EP for, like, not 12ing and stuff. and gets 13."

You struggle and sqiurm, yet your ability to resist is sealed away in the soothing cold. Ooooh...falling...

Is it over?

"Ami-chan..." A chorus of these voices echo, as you float in a pitch blackness. Around you, Natsume, Usagi, Artemis, Makoto and all thoseyou care about deeply float around you, as if boxing you in and comforting you. "Let's take a nap, Ami-chan," Usagi prods, her unclad and slightly blurry to your eyes body giving off waves of sleepy cold.

"Time to go to bed," Makoto agrees, hugging onto you from behind. "You don't need your body any more, so your spirit can rest withus...we'll be so happy here..."

[Bean Bandit]

These are not my friends....Celcia again. Ami thinks, with no small amount of bitterness. Achingly tired, Ami pulls away. "I'm sorry. I'm not ready to go to sleep." Ordinarily, she'd be blushing at the unclothed state of her friends, but sheer desperation has pushed the smaller concerns from her mind...but not entirely.

How do I get out? Ami thinks with despairing weariness as she tries to concentrate with her 'friends' nearby...

[Anastasia]

All around you is bleak darkness, no exit or entrance seen. "Ami-chan," Artemis insists, hugging you. "I...don't leave us. We want you here. We'll do anything to prove it," he says, the crowd bunching around you. "We'll make you want to stay here, Ami..."

[Bean Bandit]

Oh god....I already do.

"If you were really my friends, you wouldn't want to keep me here." Ami tells them all and a flat tone, though fear for the real Artemis is beginning to crack through, and tears of frustration begin. "Celcia is going to hurt people unless she's stopped...My mother, Usagi's mother....Mako-chan..."

Ami glares at the people crowded around her. "I love the people who's forms you wear. They're all very important to me. But they wouldn't hold me back when something needed to be done! They support me, no matter what, and it's WHY I love them!" Ami snaps with suprising fierceness, despite the by now bone aching weariness.

[Anastasia]

The figures shimmer and recoil, as if your words are a powerful ward of will against them. Yet they remain despite this, all smiling. "Oh, Ami," Usagi smiles, reaching to you. "You're so confused! Even if all that was true...

We want you to stay here with us," Makoto finishes. "We want you, more than they do. We'll keep you happy," the brunette whispers, drifting in extremely close to you. "Don't you want me?" she asks plainly, her body on display. "You can have all of us here...forever." The darkness shimmers, changing into your bedroom minus doors of windows. All around you are those you have crushes on...

"Let's go to bed, Ami. Forget about them and anything but here..." Makoto promises.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami almost chokes as Makoto takes the lead in persuasion, and closes her eyes. "No." Ami replies softly struggling to open them again. What I felt for you was so much more than a crush, Mako-chan...I could never even tell you...I broke my own heart by waiting until you found Alan, but I survived...kept it all to myself, too, until that other Mako-chan came along.

Ami opens her eyes with a struggle and looks at 'Makoto' with a smile. "You look and sound so much like her...but you know nothing about her. Mako-chan is beautiful...heartstoppingly so, but that's not why I loved her." Ami smiles a little wider, the memory of the frighteningly intense feelings for the Senshi of Jupiter making her wistfully happy, and a little sad, as well.

"She has a beautiful soul...she brings out the best in everyone. She's kind, gentle, playful...and fierce, when she has to be. You look like her, but you're selfish where she's selfless, and harmful where she's nurturing. You're nothing like my first love."

She turns to the others, smiling thinly. "Usagi and Tellu...I have deep feelings for them, because they reached out to me when I was lonely...made me feel a little less alone. It may be a bit misguided, but yes, I had a crush on Usagi. Tellu...I hope to become closer friends with her. She's a warm person, and we're alike in many ways. I'd be proud to call her my best friend. But you two....you reached out to me as well, didn't you? But it was different. Less emotional. You said the words, but they meant nothing, they were just a tool to usurp my emotions, weren't they?"

"Artemis...Natsume...They both are with me now, and you have them all wrong. I should have seen it before, but there it is."

"You look like them, but at the core, you have the same, selfish hearts that Celcia has, and you will never NEVER make me want to stay with people who would value one person over the lives of the MANY Celcia will hurt!" Ami shudders, a cold rage keeping her weariness at bay for the moment.

[Anastasia]

AGain, the images recoil, blinking as the room does. They seem insubstantial for several seconds, until they slowly reform. This time, Makoto's expression is a hateful grimace. "Foolish girl...you can have everything here! All the pleasure your body craves for nothing!" Celcia's voice comes from her mouth, coldly angry. "I suppose if you want it that way, they'll just have to force you to appreciate your base needs until you understand your place here..."

With that, all four advance towards you, even as a little image appears appears above them. "Ami..." Artemis looks bruised and chilly, but alive. The moon on his forehead shines brightly, illuminating your faux room. "I know you're in there! You stopped! Come on, Ami, fight her!"

Even as this goes, the other Artemis advanes menacingly! "Heh...guess I'll take Ami first," the spectre growls. "She'll learn to like it here..."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami blushes, but far from her usual shyness at the subject, the flush is an angry one. "I don't want to hear how repressed I am from you!" she snaps, weariness pushing aside her usual shy speech, her emotions beginning to fray badly. "I. don't. want. you." She hisses. "Haven't you raped me enough, Celcia?"

Bitter, hot anger and humilation flood upwards as Ami remembers Usagi, and Tellu....

[Anastasia]

Artemis advances, another part of him advancing further even more. "Oh, I'm not done with you yet," Celcia says, before Usagi and the other two turn up to the still speaking image.

"Ami! Put the knife down! Come on, I don't want to lose you! You're really important to me, and to all of us," the image goes on, even as it starts to flicker, as the other three girls in the room seem to focus on it.

[Bean Bandit]

"Leave me alone, Celcia!" Ami cries, struggling away from the group and beginning to try to get to the image. "If I wanted what you think I need, I would have locked myself in my bedroom with mother's vibrator!" she rages. "I've not come this far in my life to throw it all away on pale imitation of my dearest friends! Even if I NEVER find someone to share my life and myself with, I'd rather spend my life celibate than leave my friends to you and let these pathetic fakes rape me over and over!"

[Anastasia]

"Urgh," Artemis growls, advancing! The images besides Artemis seem to flicker, the human Mau tinting blue as the room fades away! "No more, Ami...if you won't take my heaven, I'll give you oblivion instead!"

* Hatbot --> "Ana-chan rolls 2d6 and gets 6."

* Hatbot --> "Mistress_Ami rolls 2d6 for Hatbot evil! and gets 8."

He grabs onto you, cruel smile in place. "You'll finally at least get a man," Artemis smirks darkly, pressing onto you - but not past that terrible point yet, at least.  But if you don't do something soon...

"Ami, that's it," Artemis's voice calls. "Stop! That's it..." the image shows again, flickering as Artemis seems to lunge forward as it fades, the world rocking.