[Thread] - (For) One day, what's lost can be found

[waterfell]

Characters: OU: Mercury, OU: Azula, OU: Usagi, OPEN~
Where: Loh-Tessera
When: after this entry
Summary: Mercury has reverted to her 'good' self. This is either worrisome, or an opportunity.
Warnings: Emo!good!Merc. Also, Azula will probably punt anyone she feels like.
Posting order: Azula --> Mercury --> whomever

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[berranyrmizzrym]

Lady of Lusts, this is all I need. Of course Mercury would revert just when things seemed to have stopped conspiring to make him wish he was back in the Abyss. Sailor Mercury didn't seem to remember anything that had happened since Mercury was brought to Econtra - and Pharaun didn't know whether to be pleased about this or not. I could almost believe she did things like this on purpose.

No matter; he had arrived at Loh-Tessera. He rapped on the door frame gently. "Mercu- I mean, Sailor Mercury?" He pronounced it as one word, the way he vaguely remembered that Mercury usually wrote it.

[lady_azula]

Azula raised her eyebrows. Oh great, HIM. Well, she figured he was bound to show up anyway, and she wasn't going to deny him entry if Mercury had wanted him to come. She opened the door, giving him an impassive look. Several bubbles floated freely out o the room, but of course Azula refused to act as if they had done anything different.

"She's over there," Azula said, indicating the blue haired girl popping the bubbles and giggling. ""Do not say anything to upset her, oh so help me I don't care how many bag of tricks you have, you're leaving."

Of course, this would have sounded more threatening if Azula hadn't paused to pop five bubbles over the drow's head.

[waterfell]

She'd paused in the bubble-popping just after the fire princess opened the door.

"Azula-sama, who is it?" The voice was higher, softer, gentler than Mercury's usual, with none of the velvet-concealing-steel either. Its owner soon stood just behind the taller woman. It was, of course, Mercury - still transformed, still at least looking very much like the girl who fought for the Dark Kingdom.

A glance took in the new arrival's appearance. White hair? Very dark skin. Pointed ears? An elf? Dark elf. Drow.

Why was a drow...?

In this place. At her room. Wanting to see her.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun shot Azula a venomous glare. "Aren't you wasting your time making threats?" he hissed, hoping that Mercury couldn't hear him. "If I upset her, it won't be intentional."

He schooled his face into an expression, if not of friendly concern, then at least not of outright malice. "It's Pharaun."

[waterfell]

"Mizzrym-san?" Mercury echoed the name she was more comfortable calling him by. She wasn't sure why he was here, but she was glad he had come - after a brief wave of embarrassment and uncertainty about how to greet him beyond that.

She was also confused by one other thing: Mizzrym-san was a drow?

"Come in, please," she invited politely nonetheless.

[lady_azula]

Azula returned the glare. "If you learned once and awhile, there would be no need for threats. Still, you've come to see her, so come in already. If you don't like steam and bubbles, too bad. It is to, er, Ami-chan's liking."

With the drow inside, Azula closed her eyes and huffed steam again. She wasn't very keen on inviting the cold in, and for the moment she was no reason not to indulge Mercury. To her surprise, it was hard to say no to her, even in THIS form.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun didn't bother making an observation about the heat. With Azula involved, it was more or less a given. The problem was that this left him with precious little to say - especially considering that he was sure Azula could and would carry out her threat if he inadvertently upset ... Ami.

He inclined his head politely. "It's nice to see you, ah... Mercury-san." He wasn't sure he wanted to risk anything else - although he had to smile at the fact that he was using "san" to someone a tenth his age.

[waterfell]

She could sense some sort of tension between these two immediately, though she wasn't sure why or what had caused it. Something she was forgetting, or something between them she hadn't known anyway? Mercury supposed it didn't matter.

She, too, couldn't keep from giggling at 'Mercury-san', however. She'd never, any time, been called that, that she knew of. She'd have expected Mizuno-san or, it was remotely conceivable (since he was older than her), Ami-chan. The giggle stopped after just a second, though; she covered her mouth with a hand.

Still, somehow the lure was too great: A bubble was impaled on her fingertip before another moment was out.

She was still wearing a blanket around her shoulders, held by her other hand. Her makeup still showed signs of running and streaking, but the face was dry now.

Ami was enjoying the heat. Even with her affinities, the Dark Kingdom, everything about the Dark Kingdom, had been so cold. She felt as though she were making up for all those months with the warmth of right now. Still, it

[lady_azula]

Azula looked a little surprised. Wasn't she supposed to be the senshi of water and all of that? She had supposed that there were things about this Ami that were surprising. What was more, she couldn't help but find the girl somewhat...interesting, pathetic ties to the sailor senshi aside.

"Ask the drow," Azula said, "You know this heat has little to no affect on me. I made the steam after all. Although if I might say so, you really do look like you're having fun. I shouldn't see why anyone would want to be cold now, what with the outside weather."

Azula tossed a look at Pharaun. She actually wondered, hate aside, what drow felt about the heat anyway. Weren't they supposed to live underground? What was the weather like anyway?

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I think I'll survive," Pharaun replied dryly. It was generally a little cooler than this in the Underdark, but considering how cold it was outside, he was rather enjoying the warmth. "Sorry. Um... is there something else you'd prefer I address you as?"

He frowned. Mercury looked like she'd been crying. He supposed, from what little he knew of this side of Mercury, that it wasn't surprising she'd react that way to suddenly finding herself here, but it was slightly jarring to be reminded of how young she actually was.

[waterfell]

"Thank you," Mercury included them both in the expression of gratitude. The heat was comforting.

"I don't know," she answered Pharaun honestly. Sailormercury or Mercury, that was really the same thing. She'd just never been used to the honorifics with it, no matter what. Ami-chan or Mizuno-san seemed odd, too, though if Mizzryn-san knew her in her senshi form.

"Um. Mercury is alright," she decided then.

[lady_azula]

Oh for the love- this conversation was about an intelligent as a rant from Kadaj. Who cared what Ami was called? Temporary annoyance was what Azula wanted to call her, but of course that would be rude. So Azula faked a smile and started to pop the bubbles absentmindedly.

That was fun. Still, Azula knew now that she could have a little fun of her own. Moving one foot to the other, Azula waved her arms back, then forward, starting to make big bubbles of her own.She had to admit, while it lacked the solidness in step and the cutthroat ability of her firebending, water bending was peaceful, calming. She could see why Mercury took such pride in the element.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun nodded. "Mercury it is, then." He tried - unsuccessfully - to hide his amusement at Azula forming bubbles. "I see you two have been enjoying yourselves."

[waterfell]

"Eh?!" Mercury glanced at Azula in surprise that changed quickly to wonder. Far from the Mercury who had always been a little wary - territorial? - towards Azula's water-bending, this one found it:

"Beautiful! Azula-hime, that's really good!"

She was a little jealous that this woman apparently commanded two elements like that - she'd never thought such a thing possible; it wasn't in her world - but that was easily pushed aside in favor of appreciating Azula's skill.

[lady_azula]

Azula noticed the drow's amusement and promptly ignored it. He had been a stuffed doll, after all, a few bubbles wasn't going to put her to shame. She looked over at Mercury-chan.

"Of course its good. I had you to help me, didn't I? I admit, knowing the water tribe girl's instruction helped, but in order to really get it I needed someone who was in tune with the element. That someone was you. Surely you don't think your talents have gone to waste, even being influenced by the dark Kingdom? Why, now that I think of it, I can recall several people that you've helped. You'd be surprised."

And if only to show off a little, Azula solidified a bubble and let it crash to the floor. She WAS getting much better at ice now.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun waved a hand and several small lights began moving through the clouds of steam and bubbles, casting strange patterns on the floor. He grinned; Azula wasn't the only one who could show off. And with any luck, neither of them would remember him saying that wizards didn't do cute.