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CHAPTER TEN

Sinking in my stomach, ringing in my ears, gnawing in my brain… nausea, oh the nausea. Ami was sinking, fading, mentally plummeting into nothingness. Juno knew this would happen, she was fearless, disgustingly so.

Laughing, her laughing pushed Cupid into action. She always laughed; why couldn't Juno cry? She was such a selfish bitch why couldn't she cry?

Cupid grabbed Ami and shook her like the British Nanny. "Ami, Mercury, Senshi!"

Ami looked confused eyes welling up with tears, tears making imprints on her face, her face glowing. Her sigil sprung through the air of thick hate that clouded the room. Ademerplius passed out of fright as Ami prayed to the gods. "Mercury, Apollo, Minerva, Diana," she looked at Makoto frozen peacefully on the ground. "Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Please give me the power to defeat Juno."

It was actually somewhat funny, thought Ami, she always thought there was nothing more powerful than the silver crystal. To think that now she had power beyond belief, the power of every inner senshi and she didn't know what to do with it.

Juno still laughed and laughed. Laughter is blinding, it gives you a security you don't have. Juno can make mistakes, she has made many.

Ami's sigil grew and her aura was shown to everyone, well anyone who wasn't blinded by their own ignorance. Ami had a half an hour to complete her mission. The light and the aura faded as Juno stopped laughing abruptly. A light of purple formed in the middle of the agony and ecstasy. A man old and frail bowed to Ami. "I am Cronus, god of time and I have a gift from Saturn and Pluto." He smiled a crooked smile of forgetfulness. "Better late than never right?"

Ami felt like crying. "Sweet Mercury." Please, she thought, give me the power I once had.

Ami was still the same outwardly but inwardly she felt the change, as if a bright light shown in her gut. She touched her forehead and more white light shown. The symbols of all the planets and the moon shown like a beaker on her head. Making the room full of light.

She quietly touched the floor, a motion that meant noting to the gods but everything to her. The ground shook. She stood through it all. She circled Juno, sprinkling blood, her arrows on the ground; the effect was Juno feeling enlaced. Juno was so powerful, Hinds blood couldn't hurt her enough, at least, not the little that Ami had.

She shot at Juno. Juno fell in a rumple on the floor. Ami touched her temples and Ademerplius was lifted out of the building through her thoughts. Cupid was astounded by this show of power. Ami whispered to herself, "Dead Scream!" The silent whisper made the walls of the prison fall. Cupid morphed out in time to see the walls fall with Ami inside.