“Leave before it’s too late!  Beryl’s power is taking over the rest of us!”
 “There is a way!  The light from the Moon… the Silver Crystal is—“
“—You must leave, Princess.”
“I can’t… I-I… can’t leave you to go to the Beryl’s storm….”

 
This was the first time she did not believe her psyche telling her that he is still alive.  She saw the awesome power of the ginzuishou strike a glaring pillar that reached to the sky and its strength was added on to by Prince Endymion’s Golden Crystal.  It would only seem logical that no enemy of the senshi would ever survive it, so this time this is what she believed.  However, his sudden appearance very much resembled the figure she saw in her visions.  It was the same way he looked at her and the same kind of stance and bearing… and right here in front of her!  Imagine that!  She knew she was getting weaker from all that feeling of relief since… her knees were shaking!
“Ohayoo, Rei-san….” he greeted once again.  It was all the more difficult for him, too.  To see her and know who she was in his life … what a strange thing!  This was the same kind of reaction he received when he saw her in Queen Serenity’s veranda.  Jadeite remembered it very well.
“Ohayoo…” Rei repeated softly, still staring at Jadeite blankly.  Why is here?  What has happened to her that she had forgotten who he is?  Maybe he is here to harm Princess Serenity again and it is her duty to protect her!  Now her mind is clearer.  She immediately rushed up the steps to walk past him.  What did he say?  “Ohayoo?” she repeated again sarcastically.  “It is already afternoon, Jadeite-san!”
Afternoon?  Jadeite looked up to the orange sky.  Why, it is already afternoon!  But why did it matter that much to her?  He scratched his head in wonder at her annoyance as she walked up the stairs past him.  At least, she didn’t transform and attack him immediately.  It was like her to be impulsive at times, especially when the times seemed critical.  Wasn’t his first meeting with her during the Silver Millenium at Mars greeted with an attack of fire?
It seems his mission is done here.  After receiving his past, he and his other comrades have gone back to the surface world to look back at what they have missed from the Silver Crystal’s retrieval of their memories.  And he had of course, gone to Hikawa Jinja.  Jadeite beat his chest in order to teleport….
“Matte!”
Jadeite halted at her request.
The blue-green gem in her hand sparkled magnificently.  Just a little while ago, Rei saw the image of a silver orb surrounded by glittering stars encased inside in the gem.  Shining crystal pillars stood on its surface.  The castle on the Moon… How was this sight locked in this one gem?  “Here,” Rei said as she gave the gem to him.  “I-I found this and maybe it belongs to you.”
Jadeite walked a step closer to her and took the gem from her hand.  He examined the blue-green jewel with the golden clasp.  “It is Zoisite’s,” he told her.  “It is merely the jewel clasp in his cape.  Arigato, Rei-san.”
“Oh,” she sighed.  Not his?  Her eyes shifted to the jewel clasp on his cape.  It was a deeper shade of green as that of true jade.  She should’ve known.

“What is this jewel on your cape?  Does it denote a rank of some sort?”  she asked.
“No,” he told her.  “Just that I hold the Far East region of the Earth and this is just one of the symbols to distinguish me from my comrades.”
“Oh,” she sighed. “What is this?  The edges of your glove… are … burnt!”
He smiled at her.  “That is just a souvenir of our first meeting.”
 

The figure in the storm… and in the pillars… and in the flames…  Why all these small visions and memories?  They’re all the same.  All familiar, but each vision was becoming more and more vivid each day.  Rei saw him surround himself with a distinct splash of light.  Gone again in a few moments.  She felt her heart beat faster.  How can this be… that the light of his aura is the same as….?
“Matte, Jadeite-san!” Rei cried out and ran closer towards Jadeite’s place.
The surge of power around him stopped abruptly, even instinctively to her command.  Jadeite had sensed the urgency in her voice and it will give him enough time to linger.  He watched her ran towards him in the same stride of grace and anxiousness the day that he had last set foot on the Moon Kingdom.
“Rei…san….” He almost forgot to mention the last word and be polite.
There it was… in his eyes, too.  The planets circling peacefully around the sun and then they were slowly taken over by a dark mist.  An angry blur of dark clouds and the storm.  There was that woman’s auburn tresses floating in the tempest and her piercing eyes had been evil.  But there was that lone sparkle she saw in his eyes, slowly becoming powerful and getting ready to overtake the master of the darkness.  Had he seen all this, too?
Maybe there is a way to know!  She had received the first images when he had first met him at the grounds of Hikawa Jinja!  That same kind of action could provoke this—
“Rei-san?” he asked.  She was blankly staring at him, not that he minded of course, but he wanted to know how she entered this trance.
“Jadeite…” she finally spoke.  “I-I just want to make sure.  If it is you then--”
“Make sure of what, Hino-san?”
“It is a favor.  Please stay in this position for awhile … and close your eyes.”
“Nani, Rei-san? I—“
“--Onegai…Jadeite.”  She whispered softly.
Just a little soon after he had heeded her request, Jadeite felt the weight of her arms on his shoulders and soon after, he felt her breath closer to his.  As her lips touched his, he opened his eyes slowly, partly in a surprised reaction to what she had just done and so that he could lean down and move her closer to him.

The soldier has fallen.  She immediately rushed to his side to see if he was still alive.  After that blast of light that had befallen him, it might be difficult to recover.
“Daijobu?” she asked the fallen.  “Are you alright?”
The soldier smiled at her weakly.  “Yes, princess.”
When she had finished dressing his wounds with the cloth of her gown, she rushed to the scene immediately.  She had seen a surge of dark energy in the horizon similar to the aura of someone she knew, and found him commanding his powers to strike at another group of guards.
“Yamete!!!” she shouted.
He stopped at her command and halted his powers easily.  Instinctively.  When she had stopped running, he looked closely at the strands of her hair being blown by the wind.  The tempest was a bit calmer then.  He was trying to remember who this woman is, standing before him, her knees exposed since she shred parts of her gown.  She was surely someone he knew for he could not forget a remarkable loveliness like that.  “Enyalis Rei….” He whispered softly.
“Jadeite… “ she called and walked closer to him.  “What is happening?”
Suddenly, the surroundings had been a bit unfamiliar.  He then stared and found blood staining his hands.  What had he done?  The voice inside him told him to kill that soldier and he had said No!  Had he succumbed to the voice?  Why was he listening to something so evil?
“Jadeite-chan!” she smiled and approached him.
“Enyalis Rei, you must leave!” Jadeite told her sternly.
“Jadeite, what happened?  You are not the same.”
“You better leave this place and return to the castle!”  He was holding his head.  Something painful?  She rushed immediately to help him.
“Nani?”
  “The people of the Silver Millenium are plotting against us!”
 “What are you saying, Jadeite?”
 “Leave!  You are in great danger!”
“I can’t….”  Why should she?  He seems to be in great pain!
 “You don’t understand!  We never thought that the power Beryl gave us would actually cause us to follow her and do these things.  Just now, I almost killed one of the guards of the Princess Serenity!”
 Her eyes widened in surprise.  Beryl?  Was that the sinister woman’s name?  “Beryl?  It is not too late.  The storm has not started.  You mustn’t return to her!”
 “Leave before it’s too late!  Beryl’s power is taking over the rest of us!”
 “There is a way!  The light from the Moon… the Silver Crystal is—“
 “—You must leave, Princess.”
“I can’t… I-I… can’t leave you to go to the Beryl’s storm….”
He held on to his head in pain again then he stared at her.  His blue eyes were full of confusion… what could he be thinking?  It seems the shadow has taken over most of the sparkle in his eyes… would the darkness in him come soon?
Slowly, he touched her cheeks and felt her warm tears on his bare hands.  But she wouldn’t know that he was thinking of what must be done, when he then put his hands around her neck.
“Ugh!”  Enyalis Rei struggled against his grasp.  She put her hands over his and tried to free herself.  “Doshite, Jadeite?” she asked him.  “Why?”
Jadeite looked at her closely until their cheeks could touch.  She uttered in pain as he tightened his grasp on her neck, as though he wanted to hear her scream clearly.  “Beryl… she has the power,” he whispered.  “The Silver Millenium shall never … take over the Earth!”
“Jadeite…” she cried softly.  “Of course not…! … the Earth… and Mars!”
Who is this girl? he wondered.  Up until the very end, she looked straight at his eyes as proud and powerful as she always was.
Enyalis Rei felt him loose his hands on her neck and noticed the sparkle that has returned to his eyes.  His person in there would never be the same again.  But when he drew closer and began to hold her cheeks, she gasped in fear, that maybe he would somehow hurt her again.
“Gomen nasai, Enyalis Rei,” this was the intruder’s goodbye.  He lifted her chin and kissed her for the last time.
 

 “It is you,” she told him. Maybe he’s still not the same even if now is a different time. But why can a simple kiss provoke such memories?  She rushed back immediately without any polite pretenses atop the stairs of Hikawa Jinja, never looking back because he might see... that she cried a little.
 

“Mizuno Ami.”
“Hmmm?”
“Can you still predict when all the planets would align?”
She remained speechless with surprise.  But then again, if he were only an illusion, she still would not be afraid of him.
“Ne, Ami-san?”
“There are many computations, Zoisite-san.  I can’t do it alone!  It’s impossible! Their revolution around the sun has a certain order and they—“
“—I thought you always knew, Ami-san.”
“These things… are very complicated to just get in my stock knowledge,” she smiled.
He smiled, too.  “Ja, Ami-san!”
She was surprised at this reaction.  Where had this illusion gone?  It’s like one of those little mirages she adored—they fleet away again.
He had noticed her response when he left.  One thing about being trained as a general, he sure knew how to hide in the bushes!  “Her name is Mizuno Ami,” Zoisite whispered.  “IQ of 300, 16 years old, Juuban High School.”  She wasn’t the one who killed him, but one of her comrades who showered him with enough crescents.  That was enough to vow revenge on his enemy—the sailor senshi.

“Her name is Ami, Princess of Mercury, Metallia-sama.  And no… you can’t have her!”
“Zoisite-kun… what are you murmuring about?”
She always had a very sweet smile.  “Uhh—nothing, Ami-chan… nothing!”
“Were you studying about the stars again?  Trying to chart on your calendar when the planets would align?”  she laughed soon after.
“I only do that when I’m bored and I never get bored when I’m here,” he smiled.
“When would the planets align, Zoisite-kun?  I thought you always knew.”  Her eyes gazed in wonder when she looked at the stars. As peaceful as the waters on Earth, if he could just choose to drown in them, before the storm rages again in his mind and tried to conquer him!
“Ami-chan… it might take a while… after I go back to Earth.  There is something that my colleagues and I have discussed.”
“A long time, Zoisite-kun?”
He nodded.
“A long time… I need you… to take care, then!”

Memories of a long forgotten past of his enemy?  Why has Beryl done this?  This was enough to make him come back over and over again to return to her!  But she was walking away.  He had to run over and catch up to her.
The sound of footsteps only made Ami suspicious.  She would not be surprised by some immediate attack by an enemy again!  When she had seen that the place was clear, she called on her henshin phrase and Sailormercury stood on the pavement.
Her monitor only allowed her to witness a dark shadow with enough power to drive her down!  It is going this way.  North-north-east of her!
“She is near,” Zoisite murmured.  “Princess of Mercury….”
Nearer and nearer.
And closer.
The threat is near.  There is nothing else to do.  “Mercury Aqua Rhapsody!”
The enemy had collapsed when she uttered her strongest attack, uttering a strangely familiar and painful scream.  The shadow on her monitor seemed to have become clearer just now.  When she had removed her glasses, however, she only found another mirage on her feet, only this time, he was a little weak and exhausted and why else would he seem that if he weren’t... real?
What has she done?  “Zoisite-kun?” she called to him, crying on her mistake.  “Mako-chan was right… you are alive!”
The blow would make him unconscious for quite a time but when he wakes up from his dream, he’ll find himself staring back in the calm blue eyes of the Princess of Mercury and find himself happily drowning in them.