Ami/Miroku: Personality Clash!

[Carthrat]

Sailor Moon blinked. "Right!"

Waving around her sceptre and making funny motions with her hands, the heroine yelled, "Moon Spiral Heart Attack!"

A gigantic pink heart flew from her fingertips and slammed straight into the disembodied blade. The result was spectacular.

The arm and sword itself disintergrated. But within the heart, there was a strange purple glow...

...which promptly expanded, showering the area with a lumiscent purple haze. The haze had a few effects.

Firstly, all the senshi were instantaneously transformed back into their normal selves.

Secondly, said senshin collapsed, gasping for breath, while Miroku was left strangely unaffected...

...until his air-void started to throb, even beneath the protective jewlery.

At the same time, the amulet within Ami's pocket began glowing.

A jolt of agony shot through Miroku, and he felt his Air Void *unleashing* itself. He heard noises... long forgotten noises of dead youkai. They seemed to be coming from the Bone Eaters Well...

Then everything went black.

***

Miroku came too... in the middle of a rice paddy. Miroku couldn't see Ami anywhere, nor could he make out much further than a few metres in front of him.

Muffled shouts came from one direction..

[Kwokinator]

Kwok looked around after he woke up, and didn't see anyone near him.

Where's Ryder...?

He spun around as muffled shouts reached his ears.

He looked at his hand which was painfully pulsating just earlier.  He was reluctant to run in in case it was a trap.

But I have to find Ryder... and Usagi and Jupiter...

He half-ran off at the direction of the muffled shouts, his mind on full alert of possible danger.

[Carthrat]

Miroku's senses cleared as he approached the voices, which seemed to be arguing about something...

"...she was asleep in the middle of my paddie! And wearing such strange clothes! I demand that you take her in immediatly!"

The response: "No."

The first man continued on yabbering, as Miroku got a good look at the two...

The first man was clearly a farmer. Wearing a conical hat, a short, tunic-like kimono, and with a scythe in one hand, he was short, fat and ugly, and currently quite upset.

The second man looked a little different. He wore blue pants, polished black shoes, and a thick, full blue jacket. A katana rested by his hip, and a ciggarette hung out his mouth. Three loose strands of hair dangled over his eyes, and his face had a somewhat predatory expression.

And between them lay the comatose body of Ami Mizuno..

[Kwokinator]

Kwok quickly ran up to the two arguing men.

Look down at Ami's unconscious body, he quickly checked to see if she was at least visibly alright.

"What's this about, people?" he addressed the two men.

[Carthrat]

The man with the katana said nothing, eyeing Miroku with a critical eye.

The fat farmer, however, started talking very quickly. Miroku couldn't understand individual words, but a picture began to form..

Apparently, he had come out of his hut to begin the days work when he found this girl just lying in the middle of his crop field, with a substantial portion of his crop ruined beyond repair.

The girl wouldn't wake up, and the farmer refused to move her. He'd called this cop over to deal with it-

-"Because the citizen was incapable of dealing with it himself," the man said snidely. "Tell me, young man, do you have any relation with the woman?"

[Kwokinator]

"Yeah," Kwok nodded. "She's a friend of mine.  I just wanna make sure she's alright."

He looked down at Ryder/Ami again.

"She's been out for a while, hasn't she?" he asked, looking at the farmer and the cop. "I wanna take her to someone to get her looked at."

[Carthrat]

The cop looked like he was about to speak, but the farmer spoke first.

"Look! I don't care what you do with her, but I want compensation! There aren't any hospitals around here anyway, and-"

The cop raised his hand in front of the farmers mouth.

"Unfortunately, there are no hospitals or doctors within this area. However, she appears to be in fine condition. She merely needs proper rest, I belive.

I'm sure this farmer will quite happily let you borrow his house," he finished, with a steely gaze towards the farmer.

"Ye.. yes. Fine. This way," replied the farmer, somewhat cowed.

The cop walked off, and the farmer bustled inside...

<->

[RyderHakubi]

Falling...

Through the darkness of the mind Ryder fell, his body creating small waves in the pools of black around him...

Just fade away... Leave behind your past and follow me...  

Images of palaces, royalty, and a group of 9 women floated through his mind...

Fight on... Continue to stay true to yourself and never give up...

A different group of girls, his parents, and his home appeared before him, but they were darker, less defined, as if they were fading away...

In the darkness, a light shattered through... the world around him split in twain... One side red, the other blue...

The voices, the voices chanted in his head, tearing him apart with the worlds, until floating there, were two.

One, the present... A girl, with short hair and a regal dress...

The other, the past... A guy, with jeans and a t-shirt...

Eyes opened, and the worlds gleamed... The two caught sight of each other, and angry they became...

Why have you come?

The girl was angry and demanding...

Her counterpart was more confused, and desperate...

Why have *I* come!?  You're the one that's destroying ME!

Expressionless her face remained...

I only wish to regain what is mine.

By destroying me in the process?

Coldly, she continued...

If that is what is necessary, then so be it...  I have been here for milennia, and nobody will take what is mine by birthright...

As the two argued, light beamed into the darkness, and time froze...

Ryder felt himself lifted towards the light, the past and present forgotten, as he looked into the light... to his future...

Choose your own destiny...

***

Light flickered into Ryder's eyes as she awoke with a yawn...

"Where am I?" she muttered, and then sighed, "Still a girl... just great."

That's when she caught sight of red sheets... Now, that really wouldn't be a problem... if the sheets weren't supposed to be white.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Kwokinator]

Kwok heard Ami's rather ear-piercing scream and rushed into her room.

"What?" he asked, looking around the room. "What's up?"

Then he caught sight of the red sheets.

"Umm... did what I think happen just happened?"

[RyderHakubi]

Unfortunatly for Miroku, Ryder was too busy hyperventilating to reply...

OOC: Sorry so short... but honestly, would you respond if you were in this situation?

[Kwokinator]

Kwok was tempted to slap some sense back into the hyperventilating Ryder, but he didn't feel comfortable slapping a girl even though he knew she was really a guy.

Instead, he settled for yelling REALLY loudly in her ear.

"EARTH TO AMI!  COME BACK TO US!"

[RyderHakubi]

"AHH!!!" Ryder screamed, and slapped Kwok... hard... without thinking.

Realizing her mistake, she said, "Sorry Kwok... What do you want?"

[Kwokinator]

Kwok just glared flatly at Ryder.

"You ARE turning into a girl," he stated. "I was just getting your attention because you were hyperventilating."

[RyderHakubi]

"I had good reason to be upset you jackass..." Ryder replied with the patented Female PMS look.

Continuing, she added, "How would you react if you woke up and had your first period?"

[Kwokinator]

Kwok shrugged. "I'd probably shrug it off then swear bloody vengeance on whoever turned me into a girl."

"So how're you feeling?" he grinned.