Heading out the door of her apartment building, Ami sighed for a moment before reaching into her blouse, pulling out a necklace adorned with a silver cresent moon, the symbol of the infamous Yagami clan. (A/N: Thanks to RedPriest17 and his fic Ranma: the Tenth Hakkeshu for the idea) At first, she was horrified to find out that her father was the Insane Orochi Warrior and by association she had the blood of a fallen god in her veins. Yet from what her mother told her, Iori was much different that the comentators on the King of Fighters tournaments and Kyo Kusanagi portrayed him as. In truth, despite his rough demeanor, Iori did had a strong moral sense and could be downright sociable, just as long as you didn't piss him off.
Returning the necklace back to its original place and shouldering her pack into place Ami started walking as she remembered how she leared the truth of her heritage. First was manfesting the purple flames of Magmata no Orochi just shortly after entering middle school during a panic attack from studying, torching a science textbook. Since then and...the big incident...she managed to gain a bit more control over the spirit flames and could call them with little concentration, but she still lacked the training to do her father's techniques. Ami paused for a moment to chuckle slightly at the delicious irony that her, the Senshi of Ice, could throw fire that hurt a hell of a lot more than anything Rei could dish out. Then there was a silght one when she felt a bit of hatered watching Kyo Kusanagi fight in the Mark of the Millennum tournament, but it wasn't because of the blood feud. Turns out that Makoto and Rei also considered the KOF champ to be a glory hogging shmuck. Then was the big one.
The Riot of Blood.
*Flashback*
Slammed back aginst the stone floor, Ami wobbled back onto her feet after spitting out a large glob of blood in defiance to the massed Youma. She had been throwing everything in her spell arsinal at them, but in her weakened state they had been mear pin-pricks as the demons practially toyed with her, testing her limits of pain and were now closing in for the kill. Ami, her head hanging low, knew she only had two options. One was to simply give in and die, hoping the others took out Beryl with out her, and the other was one she dared not to consider.
In her minds eye, the purple flame glowed even brighter, begging her to use it, to crush these demon rejects and burn them to ashes. But the part of her that was Sailor Mercury held off, knowing just what seizing that power would mean. However, Ami relized that if she just gave up, her friends would be slaughtred. So without any hesitation, she reached out and grabbed the flame as everything went purple.
To the youma, they thought they finally had one of the Sailor Senshi out for the count as she started to cough up a stream of blood, staining her blue boots crimson as it pooled at her feet. But their smuggness changed to confusion as the blood soon became replaced with steam that reaked of death and dried blood while Mercury's normally blue/black hair became twinged with violet. But the real kicker was when she looked at them not with her ice blue eyes but with completely soulless yellow eyes with no pupils.
"Graugh! GRAAAAAAGH!!!" Blood Riot Ami roared as she dived at the youma, her hands bared as claws which tore through them like tissue paper, soon covering her in blood. But she wasn't finished as the beserker stared to lash out with her Magmata no Orochi, causing explosions of uncontrolled purple fire to decimate them.
"I... will... teeeeeear... you... aparrrrrt......" she hissed before diving back into the bloodbath.
*END FLASHBACK*
Ami shuddered at the memory, remembering not just how it took a concentated effort to take her down but flashes of how she reveled in the slaughter, the sweet feeling of blood being spilt and those who made her suffer dying in droves. She still had nightmares from that day whenever she closed her eyes. Now, the Orochi fire was even easer to call upon, with the Blood Riot always encroching on the horizion. Yesterday had nearly been the breaking point when Ugsagi had broken the Mercury Computer again. That, and the rest of the day had pushed her to the point that she had lept for her throat and it took a dogpile of the others and a great deal of self-controll with her family's powers to keep her from barbequing her ass on the spot.
After that, she knew that her only hope of controling her gift and curse was to find her father and have him teach her how to use the Magmata no Orochi.
Provided nobody else, Iori included, tried to kill her first.
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