Jupiter's Secret
Featuring Lita as Sailor Jupiter/Princess Makoto, Ken as himself, Celeste as herself (a villain), Serena as Sailor Moon, Amy as Mercury, Raye as Mars, Mina as Venus, Luna and Artemis as themselves, and a brief appearance by Darien!
Part One
Ken awoke, an uneasy feeling bursting in his chest, and forcing his heart rate to rise. He rubbed a hand over his face. He'd been feeling the little anxiety attacks for over a month now, and every time, it went away within a half hour. The half hour it was there was hell, though.
He staggered out into the hall, paused for a moment, then sighed and walked back into his room. It was the fourth hour of morning, and there was nothing he could do to distract his mind from the pain without awakening his mother or father.
Why was he constantly being attacked by these apprehensive feelings? He mentally checked off what he was supposed to accomplish today. He had done everything he needed to, so why was his breathing rapid and his heart about ready to burst?
He threw on some jeans and a shirt. He needed to talk to someone about this. Now.
There was a knock at the door. Oh, no, not now, Lita thought desperately. Because she was no longer Lita, but Sailor Jupiter, a defender of the innocent. Who could it be at this hour in the morning?! Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the doorknob turning. Why hadn't she locked it?!
She flipped over the youma she was fighting easily, and blocked the thin wooden door with a chair. That was too close. Much too close.
"Lita? Are you up?" an innocent voice called from the hall.
Ken, Lita realized instantly. But what's he doing here?
"Just a minute," she muttered through the door, trying to sound as if she hadn't been up and full of adrenaline for the past half-hour. Just then, the youma shot some kind of webbing at her, which she easily dodged.
The youma was horrific looking, a huge spider with covered in thin wiry hair, with the head of a beautiful blond woman. The head, although beautiful, was destroying this fact with poison and blood dripping down it's chin and hair completely covered in some kind of gunk.
It had come for no apparent reason to Lita's apartment in the middle of the night. It was a good thing Lita had already been up and roaming, or she might have been dead already.
"Lita? What's going on?" Ken's voice rose. All he could hear was heavy breathing and the occasional thump.
"Just a minute," Jupiter repeated, in harsher tones this time. Please, don't let Ken see this, she prayed. The doorknob rattled.
"Are you okay?" a concerned voice called.
Just then, Jupiter sensed an attack and used her strongest power, supreme thunder, to stop it even before it came. The spider thing was okay, but obviously injured. "I'll be back," it rasped, and just as quickly disappeared.
Jupiter sighed in relief, and morphed into her pajamas. She grabbed a robe and threw it on.
She opened the door stepped back easily. "Lita? Are you okay? What happened?" Ken asked worriedly. The pains were getting worse now. Sweat covered his face, and he knew without a mirror that he looked horrible.
"Nothing happened, just banged into the coffee table," Lita lied wanly. "What's wrong with you? You're was pale as a ghost."
"Oh, yeah." He stood there awkwardly a moment, before clearing his throat and asking tentivly, "May I come in?"
"Oh, sorry, come in." Lita ushered him to the couch, and sat on a nearby chair. "What's up?"
"Well, I.um, see, the thing is.I kind of." he trailed off.
"Come on, tell me!" she insisted gently. "What are best friends for, right?"
Ken winced before admitting, "Well, I do kind of need some help. See, for about a month now I been having these...well, I guess you could call them attacks-"
"Attacks? From who?" Lita asked worriedly, hoping that a youma hadn't escaped and attacked him.
"No, nothing like that, it's just the sudden pains, and I don't know what they're from. I was thinking of going to the doctor, but once they're gone, nothing hurts or is sore or anything. I was having them just before I sat down here, and now it's gone."
"Oh." Lita didn't know much about health and medical mumbo jumbo, so she did what she knew best. "Would you like a brownie?"
"Lita!" he cried in disbelief. "It's like 4:30 in the morning! But yeah," he admitted, "I could go for a brownie."
Lita walked to the kitchen. Sudden pains? That didn't sound good. She'd have to ask Amy about that. Could this be the Negaverse? Lita, she chided herself, not everything has to be caused by those evil beings.
She walked back into the living room with a plate of brownies and two glasses of milk. She studied Ken while he ate, somewhat ravenously.
"Ken?" she asked when he was finished.
"Yeah?"
"Are you under a lot of stress lately?"
He laughed at her. "Who are you, Doctor Lita??"
She laughed with him. "Well, just call me or come over if you have another one," she said as he got up to leave. "Even if it is 4:00am," she teased.
He reddened slightly. "Sorry about that."
"Nah, don't worry about it."
"Bye."
"See ya."
***
The next day at Cross Roads Junior High, Lita had one mission: track down Amy and find out what was wrong with Ken. But she didn't get a chancr, until the scout meeting later at the Shinto shrine, Raye's house.
"Amy," she asked casually when the gossip had slowed up some. "If someone is having sudden pain attacks, for no reason-.well, is there a reason?" she asked, somewhat confused trying to sort out her thoughts.
The rest of the senshi looked at her with puzzled looks, accompanied by sweat-drops from Serena and Mina.
"Do you have health problems, Lita?" Luna asked cautiously.
To everyone's relief, Lita laughed and shook her head. "Come on, you guys know I'm the invincible Jupiter!" she kidded. "It's a friend who I'm talking about."
"Oh."
In response to Lita's first question, Amy said, "Honestly, I don't know. It could be many things, but they're all related to stress and depression. Could those be a factor?"
Lita slowly shook her head. "No, I don't think so. He's pretty calm, and,"
"HE?!" the whole group minus Luna shouted.
"I mean." Lita blushed. "Never mind."
Abruptly, Lita remembered the surprise youma attack at her apartment. She frowned and said, "I do have another problem though."
"What?" Serena leaned forward, anxious for any gossip.
Lita explained what had happened early that morning before the sun had risen; a surprise youma attack, from a blond spider.
When she finished the tale, the scouts looked at her oddly. "Are you sure it wasn't a dream?" Artemis implied.
"No, definitely not. And it said that it would be back," Lita replied.
"Well, this is a problem. Amy," Luna said, directing the girls' attention to the quiet girl in the corner. "Could you check out any possible enemy locations where strange vibes are being given off?"
"Sure," Amy said cheerfully, now that she had something to do. She took out her mini- computer and starting typing away like a mad scientist. After a few more minutes of typing and rapidly appearing sweat-drops, Amy looked up and sighed, "I found nothing, not a trace."
Luna's eyes widened slightly. Amy could always find something, no matter what!
Artemis sighed. "Well, we can't do anything until it appears again."
"This enemy will be one of the toughest we've fought yet," Raye commented with resentment in her eyes.
After that and a few minutes of strategizing and gossiping, they split up, heading home for the night. There wasn't much they could do right now, as Artemis had said.
***
Ken winced, then quickly masked his face again before anyone noticed. Just as quickly, the pain was gone again. He frowned to himself. What was that? This time, the stomach pain had only lasted a millisecond.
"I'm sorry if my class is disturbing you, Mr. Miyake," the teacher at the front intoned sternly.
"No, Mr. Sakke-sensei," Ken answered politely. He managed to keep his mind on school for the rest of the day, but as soon as the bell rang, his mind became engulfed in puzzlement once more. Deep in thought, he slowly wandered home. He glanced up once when he bumped into someone and mumbled an apology. That was when he saw a bundle of newspapers with a picture of the Sailor Senshi on the front page. He rushed over and paid for one, without quite knowing the reason why.
He sat down for a moment on a nearby park bench. His parents wouldn't be expecting him home for another fifteen minutes. He again glanced down at the black and white photo of the pretty soldiers of love, wondering idly why he had bought it. His eye caught on the brunette, Sailor Jupiter, and his stomach clenched.
What's happening to me? he thought desperately.
***
Lita quickly slipped into her favourite pair of pink pajamas before sliding under the covers. Outside, she showed only a slight trace of nervousness, but inside her mind was whirling. What if the spider attacked again tonight?
She sighed, turning over. It was no use working her self into a frenzy. Just sleep, she told herself, let your self sleep.
***
She flew out of bed. What was that? Lita was sure she had heard something. She glanced at her bedside alarm clock. The red, glowing numbers informed her it was ten minutes past the bewitching hour, midnight.
She heard the sound again. It was.a knock at the door?! Yes, it was.
Lita stumbled out the door, still wiping the sleep from her eyes. She opened the front door.
"Ken! What are you doing here?" she said, a bit irritated at being disturbed again. The irritation soon turned to shock as she saw him double over in pain, clawing at his stomach and with sweat pouring down his face. He looked up with fear in his eyes.
"What happened, Ken?" she asked in a panic.
He opened his mouth, closed it again, and widened his eyes before screaming, "Lita!! Behind you!!"
She spun around just in time to see the spider thing materialize out of thin air.
"I've got you now." It's voice ground into her ears like sandpaper. What could she do? She couldn't transform in front of Ken, could she?
"Lita! Move!" he cried from behind her, and shoved her out of the way. He paused slightly, feeling the pain in his stomach disappear for the time being.
"Ken, no!" Lita cried as the spider spewed liquid poison at him. He dodged in just enough time, but the edge still lightly sprayed his arm. He yelped in pain. It was burning through his arm!
Lita ran and did a hard roundhouse kick to the monsters face, and then flipped over it and grabbed a sharp knife from the kitchen. Before it had time to turn around completely, she slashed into the thick hide covering it's back. It didn't have much of an effect, however. The thing just grinned a horrific grimace, turned back around, and attacked Ken.
"Damn it! What, are you scared to fight me alone! Leave him out of this!" Lita screamed furiously. The thing knew her weakness, Ken. There was nothing else she could do except.
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
A swirl of lightning and flower petals surrounded her body, giving her the strength to transform into Sailor Jupiter!
"JUPITER THUNDER CLAP SOUND!" she cried, aiming it at the spider's retreating back. It burned almost all the hair off it's back, and definitely caught it's attention. It turned with a snarl.
"Sailor FOOL!!" it spat angrily.
"The name's Jupiter, and I will not let you harm innocent bystanders! On behalf of the planet Jupiter, I will punish you!"
"Stop spewing your sailor garbage and fight!" the thing snarled. "No one defeats Nacore, queen of all darkness and spiders everywhere!"
Jupiter snorted. "Lame. Trust me, I've had a year to practice!" With that last jab, Jupiter powered up her attack. "Supreme Thunder.CRASH!"
A lightning rod was drawn out of her emerald-studded tiara. Lightning gathered above her, and when its power was at it's maximum, she lashed out at Nacore.
"EEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" the furry spider shrieked before collapsing in pain. "You.will not.escape us." With that, she faded out, slowly dissolving to dust.
Jupiter stared at the spot where Nacore had been just a moment ago. She heard a soft gasp, and spun around.
"Ken! Are you alright?" she cried.
"My arm.it was burnt.now." he stuttered it shock, holding it up for Jupiter to see. It was back in its original condition, perfect.
Jupiter slowly morphed back into Lita, her powers drained.
Ken was still in shock. "Lita.you're Sailor Jupiter? I thought she was just a myth? Are you okay?" he said in a blur.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Lita said tiredly. She was stunned Ken would still put her first, when he had been the helpless and hurt one. "You better go home and get some rest, okay?" she said gently.
"Yeah, okay. See you tomorrow." He was still kind of in a daze. One thought kept running through his baffled mind: Who was Lita??
Featuring Lita as Sailor Jupiter/Princess Makoto, Ken as himself, Celeste as herself (a villain), Serena as Sailor Moon, Amy as Mercury, Raye as Mars, Mina as Venus, Luna and Artemis as themselves, and a brief appearance by Darien!
Part One
Ken awoke, an uneasy feeling bursting in his chest, and forcing his heart rate to rise. He rubbed a hand over his face. He'd been feeling the little anxiety attacks for over a month now, and every time, it went away within a half hour. The half hour it was there was hell, though.
He staggered out into the hall, paused for a moment, then sighed and walked back into his room. It was the fourth hour of morning, and there was nothing he could do to distract his mind from the pain without awakening his mother or father.
Why was he constantly being attacked by these apprehensive feelings? He mentally checked off what he was supposed to accomplish today. He had done everything he needed to, so why was his breathing rapid and his heart about ready to burst?
He threw on some jeans and a shirt. He needed to talk to someone about this. Now.
There was a knock at the door. Oh, no, not now, Lita thought desperately. Because she was no longer Lita, but Sailor Jupiter, a defender of the innocent. Who could it be at this hour in the morning?! Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the doorknob turning. Why hadn't she locked it?!
She flipped over the youma she was fighting easily, and blocked the thin wooden door with a chair. That was too close. Much too close.
"Lita? Are you up?" an innocent voice called from the hall.
Ken, Lita realized instantly. But what's he doing here?
"Just a minute," she muttered through the door, trying to sound as if she hadn't been up and full of adrenaline for the past half-hour. Just then, the youma shot some kind of webbing at her, which she easily dodged.
The youma was horrific looking, a huge spider with covered in thin wiry hair, with the head of a beautiful blond woman. The head, although beautiful, was destroying this fact with poison and blood dripping down it's chin and hair completely covered in some kind of gunk.
It had come for no apparent reason to Lita's apartment in the middle of the night. It was a good thing Lita had already been up and roaming, or she might have been dead already.
"Lita? What's going on?" Ken's voice rose. All he could hear was heavy breathing and the occasional thump.
"Just a minute," Jupiter repeated, in harsher tones this time. Please, don't let Ken see this, she prayed. The doorknob rattled.
"Are you okay?" a concerned voice called.
Just then, Jupiter sensed an attack and used her strongest power, supreme thunder, to stop it even before it came. The spider thing was okay, but obviously injured. "I'll be back," it rasped, and just as quickly disappeared.
Jupiter sighed in relief, and morphed into her pajamas. She grabbed a robe and threw it on.
She opened the door stepped back easily. "Lita? Are you okay? What happened?" Ken asked worriedly. The pains were getting worse now. Sweat covered his face, and he knew without a mirror that he looked horrible.
"Nothing happened, just banged into the coffee table," Lita lied wanly. "What's wrong with you? You're was pale as a ghost."
"Oh, yeah." He stood there awkwardly a moment, before clearing his throat and asking tentivly, "May I come in?"
"Oh, sorry, come in." Lita ushered him to the couch, and sat on a nearby chair. "What's up?"
"Well, I.um, see, the thing is.I kind of." he trailed off.
"Come on, tell me!" she insisted gently. "What are best friends for, right?"
Ken winced before admitting, "Well, I do kind of need some help. See, for about a month now I been having these...well, I guess you could call them attacks-"
"Attacks? From who?" Lita asked worriedly, hoping that a youma hadn't escaped and attacked him.
"No, nothing like that, it's just the sudden pains, and I don't know what they're from. I was thinking of going to the doctor, but once they're gone, nothing hurts or is sore or anything. I was having them just before I sat down here, and now it's gone."
"Oh." Lita didn't know much about health and medical mumbo jumbo, so she did what she knew best. "Would you like a brownie?"
"Lita!" he cried in disbelief. "It's like 4:30 in the morning! But yeah," he admitted, "I could go for a brownie."
Lita walked to the kitchen. Sudden pains? That didn't sound good. She'd have to ask Amy about that. Could this be the Negaverse? Lita, she chided herself, not everything has to be caused by those evil beings.
She walked back into the living room with a plate of brownies and two glasses of milk. She studied Ken while he ate, somewhat ravenously.
"Ken?" she asked when he was finished.
"Yeah?"
"Are you under a lot of stress lately?"
He laughed at her. "Who are you, Doctor Lita??"
She laughed with him. "Well, just call me or come over if you have another one," she said as he got up to leave. "Even if it is 4:00am," she teased.
He reddened slightly. "Sorry about that."
"Nah, don't worry about it."
"Bye."
"See ya."
***
The next day at Cross Roads Junior High, Lita had one mission: track down Amy and find out what was wrong with Ken. But she didn't get a chancr, until the scout meeting later at the Shinto shrine, Raye's house.
"Amy," she asked casually when the gossip had slowed up some. "If someone is having sudden pain attacks, for no reason-.well, is there a reason?" she asked, somewhat confused trying to sort out her thoughts.
The rest of the senshi looked at her with puzzled looks, accompanied by sweat-drops from Serena and Mina.
"Do you have health problems, Lita?" Luna asked cautiously.
To everyone's relief, Lita laughed and shook her head. "Come on, you guys know I'm the invincible Jupiter!" she kidded. "It's a friend who I'm talking about."
"Oh."
In response to Lita's first question, Amy said, "Honestly, I don't know. It could be many things, but they're all related to stress and depression. Could those be a factor?"
Lita slowly shook her head. "No, I don't think so. He's pretty calm, and,"
"HE?!" the whole group minus Luna shouted.
"I mean." Lita blushed. "Never mind."
Abruptly, Lita remembered the surprise youma attack at her apartment. She frowned and said, "I do have another problem though."
"What?" Serena leaned forward, anxious for any gossip.
Lita explained what had happened early that morning before the sun had risen; a surprise youma attack, from a blond spider.
When she finished the tale, the scouts looked at her oddly. "Are you sure it wasn't a dream?" Artemis implied.
"No, definitely not. And it said that it would be back," Lita replied.
"Well, this is a problem. Amy," Luna said, directing the girls' attention to the quiet girl in the corner. "Could you check out any possible enemy locations where strange vibes are being given off?"
"Sure," Amy said cheerfully, now that she had something to do. She took out her mini- computer and starting typing away like a mad scientist. After a few more minutes of typing and rapidly appearing sweat-drops, Amy looked up and sighed, "I found nothing, not a trace."
Luna's eyes widened slightly. Amy could always find something, no matter what!
Artemis sighed. "Well, we can't do anything until it appears again."
"This enemy will be one of the toughest we've fought yet," Raye commented with resentment in her eyes.
After that and a few minutes of strategizing and gossiping, they split up, heading home for the night. There wasn't much they could do right now, as Artemis had said.
***
Ken winced, then quickly masked his face again before anyone noticed. Just as quickly, the pain was gone again. He frowned to himself. What was that? This time, the stomach pain had only lasted a millisecond.
"I'm sorry if my class is disturbing you, Mr. Miyake," the teacher at the front intoned sternly.
"No, Mr. Sakke-sensei," Ken answered politely. He managed to keep his mind on school for the rest of the day, but as soon as the bell rang, his mind became engulfed in puzzlement once more. Deep in thought, he slowly wandered home. He glanced up once when he bumped into someone and mumbled an apology. That was when he saw a bundle of newspapers with a picture of the Sailor Senshi on the front page. He rushed over and paid for one, without quite knowing the reason why.
He sat down for a moment on a nearby park bench. His parents wouldn't be expecting him home for another fifteen minutes. He again glanced down at the black and white photo of the pretty soldiers of love, wondering idly why he had bought it. His eye caught on the brunette, Sailor Jupiter, and his stomach clenched.
What's happening to me? he thought desperately.
***
Lita quickly slipped into her favourite pair of pink pajamas before sliding under the covers. Outside, she showed only a slight trace of nervousness, but inside her mind was whirling. What if the spider attacked again tonight?
She sighed, turning over. It was no use working her self into a frenzy. Just sleep, she told herself, let your self sleep.
***
She flew out of bed. What was that? Lita was sure she had heard something. She glanced at her bedside alarm clock. The red, glowing numbers informed her it was ten minutes past the bewitching hour, midnight.
She heard the sound again. It was.a knock at the door?! Yes, it was.
Lita stumbled out the door, still wiping the sleep from her eyes. She opened the front door.
"Ken! What are you doing here?" she said, a bit irritated at being disturbed again. The irritation soon turned to shock as she saw him double over in pain, clawing at his stomach and with sweat pouring down his face. He looked up with fear in his eyes.
"What happened, Ken?" she asked in a panic.
He opened his mouth, closed it again, and widened his eyes before screaming, "Lita!! Behind you!!"
She spun around just in time to see the spider thing materialize out of thin air.
"I've got you now." It's voice ground into her ears like sandpaper. What could she do? She couldn't transform in front of Ken, could she?
"Lita! Move!" he cried from behind her, and shoved her out of the way. He paused slightly, feeling the pain in his stomach disappear for the time being.
"Ken, no!" Lita cried as the spider spewed liquid poison at him. He dodged in just enough time, but the edge still lightly sprayed his arm. He yelped in pain. It was burning through his arm!
Lita ran and did a hard roundhouse kick to the monsters face, and then flipped over it and grabbed a sharp knife from the kitchen. Before it had time to turn around completely, she slashed into the thick hide covering it's back. It didn't have much of an effect, however. The thing just grinned a horrific grimace, turned back around, and attacked Ken.
"Damn it! What, are you scared to fight me alone! Leave him out of this!" Lita screamed furiously. The thing knew her weakness, Ken. There was nothing else she could do except.
"JUPITER STAR POWER!"
A swirl of lightning and flower petals surrounded her body, giving her the strength to transform into Sailor Jupiter!
"JUPITER THUNDER CLAP SOUND!" she cried, aiming it at the spider's retreating back. It burned almost all the hair off it's back, and definitely caught it's attention. It turned with a snarl.
"Sailor FOOL!!" it spat angrily.
"The name's Jupiter, and I will not let you harm innocent bystanders! On behalf of the planet Jupiter, I will punish you!"
"Stop spewing your sailor garbage and fight!" the thing snarled. "No one defeats Nacore, queen of all darkness and spiders everywhere!"
Jupiter snorted. "Lame. Trust me, I've had a year to practice!" With that last jab, Jupiter powered up her attack. "Supreme Thunder.CRASH!"
A lightning rod was drawn out of her emerald-studded tiara. Lightning gathered above her, and when its power was at it's maximum, she lashed out at Nacore.
"EEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" the furry spider shrieked before collapsing in pain. "You.will not.escape us." With that, she faded out, slowly dissolving to dust.
Jupiter stared at the spot where Nacore had been just a moment ago. She heard a soft gasp, and spun around.
"Ken! Are you alright?" she cried.
"My arm.it was burnt.now." he stuttered it shock, holding it up for Jupiter to see. It was back in its original condition, perfect.
Jupiter slowly morphed back into Lita, her powers drained.
Ken was still in shock. "Lita.you're Sailor Jupiter? I thought she was just a myth? Are you okay?" he said in a blur.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Lita said tiredly. She was stunned Ken would still put her first, when he had been the helpless and hurt one. "You better go home and get some rest, okay?" she said gently.
"Yeah, okay. See you tomorrow." He was still kind of in a daze. One thought kept running through his baffled mind: Who was Lita??