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Tenchi and Senshi- Chapter 1
The morning sun broke through the closed shades, pouring onto Tenchi's face. He squinted his eyes, hoping to sleep a little longer by blocking out the sun.
"Tenchi..." A sweet voice whispered into his ear. His eyes shot open and he stared into two golden eyes, that weren't bloodshot for once.
"R-Ryoko! What are you doing in my bed?!!!" Tenchi looked at the girl, who, as he said, was IN his bed.
"You looked lonely and I figured you'd want some company." Ryoko purred.
"Well, I'm fine..." Tenchi gulped.
"Tenchi-niichan!" Sasami yelled up the stairs. "Breakfast!!! And if you see Ryoko-neechan, tell her that breakfast is ready!"
"That demon better not be in Tenchi-sama's bedroom." Ayeka replied, ascending the stairs.
"Uh oh, Tenchi. It looks like we're gonna get caught in the act!" Ryoko grinned, latching onto Tenchi.
"Ryoko!" He protested as Ryoko flipped him over, on top of her. Ayeka slid the door open just in time to see Tenchi laying on Ryoko.
"Ryoko!!!!" Ayeka yelled furiously, walking over to them, she threw Tenchi off of Ryoko and into a wall.
"Oh, Princess, why'd you have to end our fun?" Ryoko asked.
"You stay away from Tenchi-sama!"
"Don't you think Tenchi wanted it? I mean, he WAS on top."
"I..." Ayeka blushed, looking over at Tenchi uncertainly. Tenchi sighed.
"I'm going to breakfast." Both women watched Tenchi walk out of the room, then they looked at each other. Ryoko phased out, appearing right behind the princess.
"You'd better get used to Tenchi and me being together." She smiled. "He never denied it, did he?" She pushed the princess who fell fell flat on her face, and then phased through the floor for breakfast.
***
"Usagi!!!" Ikuko yelled up the stairs at her daughter. She waited a few minutes, but when no response came, she started to climb the stairs. She opened the door to Usagi's bedroom, ready to yell at her, but no sound was heard except for a soft giggle. Usagi was hanging half-way off of the bed, head nearly touching the floor, with her blankets completely thrown off of the bed. Luna, her cat, lay on her pillow, her paw positioned behind Usagi's back, giving the impression of having pushed Usagi off.
"Usagi! Get up this instant! I won't allow my daughter to be a lazy good-for-nothing, and sleep her life away!" She commanded.
"Just five more minutes...Luna." Usagi grumbled sleepily, eyes still closed, obviously still asleep.
"Get out of bed NOW!!!" Her mother yelled and turned to leave, adding one more comment as she closed the door. "I'm ashamed of you, Luna. Usually you're up before Usagi, you're starting to turn into a lazy old kitty."
Luna growled as the door was shut.
"Maybe we should tell your mother that we were out late last night fighting youma." Luna grumbled to herself.
"Luna..." Usagi began.
"I know, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry." The feline apologized.
"It's not that." Usagi said, eyes still closed. "It's just that I can't get back to sleep with you talking to yourself." Luna fell off the bed.
"Would you get up, Usagi?!!!" She yelled, scratching the blonde on the cheek, just enough to draw a little blood.
"Ow, ow, ow...OW!!" Usagi screamed, starting to cry.
"Oh, shut up." Luna said.
"But you scratched me!" Usagi said.
"Did you forget that the senshi are meeting today?"
"Oh yeah! So, what time are we having it?" Usagi asked.
"TWENTY MINUTES AGO!!!!" Luna yelled. Usagi fell off her bed as the cat yelled at her.
"Usagi!!" Her mother yelled up the stairs.
"What?!" Usagi yelled back.
"You'd better stop yelling!"
"It's not me!" Usagi protested.
"Oh? I'm sure that it's Luna, am I right? Luna just loves to yell at you all the time!"
"Yeah..." Usagi sighed, and looked up to see Luna grinning. "One of these days, I'll get you, Luna." Usagi threatened, glaring at the cat.
***
"Breakfast was delicious, Sasami-chan!" Tenchi commented.
"Arigato!" Sasami blushed at the compliment.
"Yeah, if I could taste it, I'm sure it would be delicious." Ryoko added.
"Um...thank you, Ryoko...." Sasami said, not sure how to reply. Ayeka helped her sister clean up while Tenchi went to work on the fields. Ryoko decided that Tenchi shouldn't be alone while working, so she sneakily followed him. It was already warm out, and she was positive that Tenchi would work up a sweat in the fields today, so she had told Sasami to make some lemonade. (She's a bossy one, ne? ^_^) She floated silently behind Tenchi as he dragged all the equipment to the fields. Ryoko chuckled quietly as she heard him grumbling to himself about having to go do chores at the shrine after.
Meanwhile, Ayeka was still mad at Ryoko for pushing her earlier that morning. Since she wasn't the violent type (yeah, right!), she decided to take a more subtle approach. She sat in the onsen, towel wrapped around her as she sipped on some sake. She smiled and looked to her right, where, on a rock, was Ryoko's whole secret stash of it. Soon, there would be no more sake in the house, and then what would Ryoko do? Ayeka giggled, but burped suddenly. Making sure no one was around to hear it, she continued to giggle.
"You'll pay Ryoko!" She yelled to no one in particular. She continued to laugh, but choked on the sake she was drinking at the time, causing her to go into a coughing fit. After finally calming down, she decided that it was time to down the whole stash.
***
Usagi ran up the many stairs to her friend's shrine.
"Why...are...there...so...many...stairs?" She asked the feline beside her in between breaths.
"Many shrines outside of Tokyo have many more steps." Luna answered. Finally they reached the top, and looked into many pairs of eyes.
"You're late, Usagi!" Rei yelled at the odango atama who was trying to catch her breath.
"How could...you guys get...up so early...when you went...to bed...so late?" She asked, still panting.
"You see, some of us know that we have important things to do. So we act mature and responsible, and do things even when we don't want to." Minako answered.
"Um...Minako-chan?" Ami began, looking over to the other blonde.
"What is it, Ami-chan?" Minako asked.
"I think you fail to remember that you were asleep when I came to pick you up."
"I had to drag you out of the house with you yelling that you needed your 'beauty sleep'." Makoto added.
"Oh, yeah..." Mina sweat dropped. "I guess I forgot about that..."
"Yes, well, Usagi wouldn't get up this morning either." Luna said.
"Hey!" Usagi looked sternly at the feline. "You were asleep, too!" Luna blushed.
"Is this true, Luna?" Artemis asked as Luna looked down sheepishly. "I'm disappointed in you, Luna. I think Usagi is rubbing off on you."
"Artemis..." Ami began. Artemis looked at the blue haired girl nervously. "I believe you were still asleep when I went to pick Minako- chan up."
"Oh, was I? I think you misunderstood, you see, I was only thinking of the nights events, while resting my eyes."
"Let's get back to the reason I called this meeting." Rei interrupted.
"Why did you call this meeting?" Usagi asked, yawning.
"As you may or may not know, I am going to a shrine convention in two days. My grandfather is sick and can't go, so I have to go there to represent our shrine." Rei answered.
"You do?" Minako and Usagi asked.
"You're leaving us when we have this new enemy?" Minako continued.
"I'm sure we can handle them without Sailor Mars." Makoto assured. "As long as you have Sailor Jupiter, you're all set!" She flexed her muscles, laughing.
"What's a shrine convention?" Usagi asked.
"It's when people who own shrines all over Japan go to meet up and discuss things." Rei answered.
"Things?" Mina asked. "Like what?"
"Like important business information, tactics and all that." Rei answered.
"Boring business information?" Usagi asked. "Sounds....boring! I feel bad for you, Rei! Hehe! I hope you have fun!"
"Why I brought this up is that I read from the fire this morning that something is going to go wrong. I figured it might be a good idea to have all the senshi there to protect everyone. So I was wondering if you'd like to go."
"Oh, gee, Rei-chan...I have a doctors appointment that day." Usagi said.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that..." Rei began. "Looks like I'll have to keep Mamoru-san company all day." She grinned.
"Mamo-chan is going?!!" Usagi yelled. "I'll come!!!"
"Oh, Usagi! It's not good to miss a doctors appointment!" Ami protested.
"I don't have one! I was lying! But now that I know Mamo-chan is going, I'll go!"
"Oh, too bad." Rei said.
"What? What's too bad?" Usagi asked, looking at her black haired friend.
"I didn't ask him yet..."
"I'll ask him!" Usagi said, getting ready to leave.
"I didn't ask him because he told me in advance that he had an exam that day." Rei continued. "I guess he won't be able to come..."
"WHAT?!!!" Usagi yelled.
"Well, now that I know that you don't have any plans, why don't you come?" Rei asked.
"But...but...ooohhh...." She growled. "You make me so mad, Rei!"
***
"Tenchi!" Katsuhito's voice called.
"Jii-chan?" Tenchi turned around. "What is it?"
"I'm informing you that you are going to the Shrine Convention with me in two days." He replied. "And bring the girls if you'd like." He walked away.
"Shrine convention?" Tenchi thought out loud. "I wonder where it is this time." He continued to tend to the carrots, unaware of Ryoko, who watched him from a tree branch.
"Shrine convention?" She asked herself. "I wonder what that is."
***
Ryo-ohki had joined Ayeka in the onsen.
"Meow?" She looked at the princess who was red, giggling, and pretty much drunk. A cup of sake lay unattended behind her, Ryo-ohki approached it slowly. She sniffed it, and then looked toward Ayeka.
"Meow?" She said again, as if asking for permission. Ayeka paid no attention to the cabbit, who started to taste the alcohol. "Miya!!!" Ryo- ohki said as she tasted it. When Ayeka reached behind her for her cup, she found it empty.
"Oh, did I drink this already?" She asked.
"Meow." Ryo-ohki wobbled over to the princess, accidentally slipping into the water. She paddled over to Ayeka's lap.
"Oh, are you thirsty?" She asked, handing the cabbit a cup filled with sake. Ryo-ohki and Ayeka drank together for a while, eventually finishing off the third, and last, bottle of sake. Slowly they walked out of the onsen, if walking is what you call it. Ryo-ohki floated, banging into walls every few seconds. Ayeka held onto the walls for support, still clad in her towel. Finally, they reached the entrance to the house. Ayeka fell down in the hall, unable to get back up. Ryo-ohki banged into Sasami, who was knocked on her butt from the collision.
"Oh, Ryo-ohki! You don't look so good!" Sasami examined the cabbit.
"Mi-" *Hiccup* "-ya."
"Oh! Let me make you some hot tea!" Sasami held the cabbit as she rushed into the kitchen. "Don't worry, I'll take good care of you!"
"Uh...Sasami..." Ayeka addressed the young princess, who was long out of earshot now. "You forgot about me..." Ayeka still couldn't get up.
***
Tenchi sighed and stopped working for a moment.
"I need some sake."
Upon hearing this, Ryoko phased back to the house. She looked up in her rafters for some sake, but found none.
"That's weird." She thought aloud. She then checked her hiding place for her secret stash, but still found none. "All right!!!!!" She yelled. "Who took all my sake?!!!" Ayeka smiled from her spot on the floor.
"Messhon completed." She slurred. Ryoko found Ayeka, drunk on the floor.
"You little thief!" Ryoko growled, picking the princess up by the neck. She smiled as she saw that Ayeka was too drunk to fight back. Ryoko disappeared, and evil thought on her mind. A few seconds later, Ryoko reappeared, but not with Ayeka. She held Ayeka's towel, but there was no sign of the drunken princess.
"That ought to show her." Ryoko tossed the towel on the couch and phased back to the fields. "Let's go, Tenchi!" She said, grabbing onto the boy.
"Ryoko!" Tenchi yelled, startled. "Where are we going?"
"To buy some sake."
"I can get some from the house." Tenchi pointed out.
"No you can't." Ryoko shook her head. "Ayeka drank it all, so we're going to get more!"
"Ayeka?" Tenchi asked doubtfully.
"That's right, and then she went out partying."
"That doesn't sound like Ayeka to me..." Tenchi sighed.
"Ok, think what you want." Ryoko replied. "But we're going!" They disappeared.
***
Ayeka lay on a raft, floating in the middle of a lake with no land in sight. Being passed out before Ryoko had found her, she didn't realize that she had nothing on. She shivered as she lay on the bare raft, floating in the middle of nowhere.
***
Two days had gone by quicker than anyone expected. Usagi was still asleep, but Luna was nowhere to be found.
"Mamo-chan..." Usagi mumbled, turning over in her bed and laughing.
"USAGI!!!" Luna yelled, a pink ribbon tied around her neck in a nice bow. "We're going to the shrine convention!!" She yelled. "Everyone's waiting for you!"
After getting ready so fast that she could have set a new world record, Usagi raced downstairs.
"Bye, Mom!" She yelled as she slammed the door. The senshi were standing at the end of her driveway, waiting for her.
"It's about time." Rei commented, wearing her traditional red and white shrine robes. "Let's go now, before we miss the whole thing!"
The girls all walked to the bus stop. Once the bus came, they all boarded it, and were soon at the shrine convention. The reason they got there so fast was that it was being held in the center of Tokyo that year, which is close to where they all lived. As they walked around, all of the girls, except for Rei, felt left out because most of the people here were wearing shrine robes.
"I don't think I'm going to like it here." Usagi commented.
***
"Partying?" Sasami asked. "Ayeka doesn't do that kind of thing!"
"Well, she was drunk." Ryoko replied.
"Where could she possibly have gone partying for two days straight?" Washu asked.
"I'm worried..." Tenchi said. "Maybe I should stay here and wait for her."
"No, that's not necessary, Tenchi." Katsuhito interrupted. "I will wait for her, you should not miss out on this chance to learn of many different shrines. Besides, I've been going for the past couple of years, I'm sure nothing new will happen."
"Are you sure?" Tenchi asked.
"Hai, now go now, before you miss the bus. It's quite a long ride to Tokyo." Katsuhito commanded.
"Right." Tenchi took the girls and walked to the bus stop. Tenchi looked around the bus and saw that he was the only one wearing his grandfather's light blue and white shrine robes. When they arrived at the center of Tokyo, they entered the shrine convention. Tenchi was relieved to see that almost everyone there was wearing shrine robes.
"I fell left out." Ryoko whined, looking from all of the people with robes on, back to her clothing. Tenchi smiled, glad to know that he she shared the same feelings he had felt only a few moments earlier. As they walked around, they stopped stopped to look at a few charm shops that other temples and shrines were running.
"What's this one do?" Ryoko asked curiously,holding up a small charm.
"It helps your love life, it's intended especially for unrequited love." The girl behind the counter answered.
"I'll take it!" Ryoko looked over to Tenchi who was looking in a different booth. After paying, she put the charm necklace around her neck and walked happily over to Tenchi.
"Hi, Tenchi!" She smiled.
"Um...hi, Ryoko."
"So, do you have something to say to me?" She asked.
"Um....no.."
"Don't you want to tell me that yo love me?" She asked.
"Um...no. What are you talking about?"
"Argh!!!" Ryoko ripped her charm off and threw it behind her. "Stupid charm." She growled.
***
"Ouch." Rei said as something hit her on the head. She bent over and picked up a small charm. "Oh, it's a charm!" She stated.
"What is its purpose?" Ami asked.
"It's a love charm, for--" Minako grabbed it out of Rei's hand.
"Just what I need!" She smiled happily. Suddenly, Makoto grabbed it out of her hand.
"No, I need it!" Minako tugged on the tiny charm, trying to pry it out of Makoto's hand.
"Stop it!" Makoto tugged back, refusing to let go. After a minute or so of tugging and embarrassing their friends, they finally broke it. They both held up their half of the charm, staring at it as if it were the end of the world.
"You could have just bought one over there..." Rei pointed to a charm shop. Minako and Makoto sweat dropped, tossing their broken charm pieces aside. (I thought they were supposed to be saving the Earth, but now they're littering!)
"Let's go look for something to eat!" Usagi suggested. "I'm hungry!"
"When aren't you?" Rei remarked.
"That was mean, Rei!!" Usagi replied as they walked, looking for some kind of food court. They passed a group of four girls a guy in a light blue and white robe.
"I'm hungry..." A curly haired blonde whined.
"Sounds like Usagi..." Ami laughed.
***
Katsuhito waited in the house for Ayeka to return. He hadn't really expected her to, but there was always a small chance. He heard a car door open and close. He went over to the window and saw Ayeka with nothing on but an over-sized t-shirt. Katsuhito watched as she exchanged words with the driver and then walk toward the house.
"Ayeka, everyone's been worried about you, where have you been?"
"I um...I don't remember..." She blushed. "I had been drinking and I don't remember anything after that except for being rescued by that woman."
"Oh, so Ryoko was correct." Katsuhito said.
"About what?" Ayeka asked.
"She told us that you were drinking. She went with Tenchi two days ago to buy more sake. I figured they had gone to look for you also because they didn't come back until later that night. But, it turns out that they came home drunk and happy later that night."
"They were together for that long?!!" Ayeka asked. "ALONE???"
"Yes, it just so happened that they decided to have a nice day alone."
"A DATE?!!!!!" Ayeka gasped. "No, Tenchi-sama wouldn't want to spend the day with HER!"
"Anyway, go get changed, we have to go to the shrine convention."
"Wait, I want to stay here with Tenchi." She protested.
"He's at the convention." Before he could finish, Ayeka had already went upstairs to change. "Women..." He sighed.
***
"Yummy!!" Usagi said when she had finished all of her food, which she had spent all of her money on.
"That was almost six months' allowance!" Minako said, unbelievingly.
"And almost everything on the menu..." Makoto added.
"Not to mention the fat and calorie intake during this one snacking period." Ami continued.
"Can I borrow some money, Minako-chan?" Usagi asked, completely ignoring her friends' remarks. "I want to buy a crepe!"
"I'm fresh out of money." Minako lied.
"Oh, ok. I'll go and see if they'll give me one for free."
"Usagi!" Rei yelled. "You're not a child anymore! Stop acting like one!"
"Shut up, Rei!" Usagi stuck her tongue out and walked up to the counter behind the blonde from before.
"And then I'll have...and...and...and...and...and...and...and...and..." 'Oh no!' Usagi thought silently. 'She's gonna eat all the food!' "And then a crepe." The girl finished.
"That'll be...uh...$138.47, please." The girl behind the counter said, looking strangely at the blonde. The girl dug into the pockets of her tan khaki's, searching for money. She pulled some out, dropping a pen in the meantime. She didn't notice she'd dropped it, so Usagi bent down to get it. She was about to hand it back to her, but she accidentally pushed a button. A little pole extended from the pen, followed by a picture of the blonde, and some info. The girl had already walked away with her food.
"Galaxy Police?" Usagi asked, reading the info.
"Can I help you?" The girl behind the counter asked.
"Yeah, I'd like a crepe." Usagi said as she pushed the button, making the pole go down, giving everyone the illusion of a pen.
"Ok, that'll be $2.70."
"Oh no!" Usagi started to whine, reaching into her pockets, and dropping the pen in there. "I don't have my money with me!" She whined. "I guess I'll just starve..." She turned around and began to walk back to her seat. 'Stop me!' She yelled in her head. 'Give me the crepe for free!'
"Wait a second..." The girl handed Usagi the crepe. "It's on the house." Usagi's eyes lit up.
"Thank you!" She said, pretending to be surprised by the girls hospitality. She walked happily back to her table.
"It actually worked..." Makoto sweat dropped, as did everyone else at the table.
***
Mihoshi's eating had scared almost everyone out of the food court. The place was empty, excluding the staff and a big group of girls. Just so you know for later, the food court is the only place in the convention that wasn't out in the open. Meaning, it was like a McDonalds, surrounded in glass.
"It's a shame Sasami isn't here with us." Kiyone said.
"Yeah, I'm sure she would have packed us a lunch. We wouldn't have had to spend all that money!" Ryoko said, trying to get some food before Mihoshi devoured it all.
"But she wanted to go with my father." Tenchi said. "I think it's a good opportunity for her to learn about architecture."
"She probably packed Nobuyuki's lunch. Ryo-ohki must be happy with her, she's probably spoiled with carrots." Ryoko mumbled. "All that talent gone to waste...I could've actually eaten..."
"I paid for this, so I can eat as much as I want!" Mihoshi said in between mouthfuls of food. Ryoko had given up on trying to steal anymore food from the blonde, it was almost impossible.
***
After finishing her crepe, Usagi pulled the pen out of her pocket.
"Look what that blonde girl over there dropped." She said.
"You stole her pen?" Ami asked.
"Watch this." Usagi instructed, pushing the button. The badge came out again.
"Galaxy Police? What is that?" Minako asked. Ami typed into her mini computer.
"My computer reads that the Galaxy Police are policemen much like that on this planet, but they patrol the whole Galaxy."
"Oh..." Usagi thought for a moment. "I'll go give this back to her." She pushed the button to close it, and walked over to the table that the blonde sat in.
"Excuse me, Mihoshi?" Usagi asked. The blonde looked up from her food as did everyone else at the table.
"Yeah?" Mihoshi asked, food dangling from her mouth.
"You dropped your pen." She handed it over. Tenchi gulped. "I was just wondering if you've been to the moon." Tenchi coughed, taking a sip of Mihoshi's soda.
"No, why?" Mihoshi asked, pocketing her pen.
"Well, your pen says that you are from Galaxy Police..." Tenchi started to choke on the drink. Ryoko looked at him and started to pat him on the back.
"Mihoshi!!" Kiyone yelled. "How can you lose something so important?!"
"I don't know..." Mihoshi insisted.
"It's all right." Usagi began.
"No! It's not!" Kiyone replied. "No civilians on this planet should know about the Galaxy Police! We could get fired! There goes any chance for a promotion..." She muttered.
"I won't tell anyone! I promise." Usagi assured. "But my friends over there already know."
Tenchi, who had just gotten over his coughing fit and taken another sip of soda, started to choke again when her heard that. Ryoko smiled and started to pat him on the back again.
"I could always erase their memory." Washu suggested.
"Washu! That's a brilliant idea!" Kiyone said.
"I don't thing it's that big of a deal." Ryoko said, still patting Tenchi's back. "She said she wouldn't tell."
"That's not the point! Ryoko, don't you think she'd like to get famous by exposing us as aliens?"
"No." Ryoko answered.
"Thank you, Ryoko." Usagi said. "I'm already famous, people just don't know it's me!"
"Huh?" No one quite understood what she had said.
"Usagi is right, we won't tell anyone." The other four girls were now next to Usagi.
"We have a secret also, but we can't tell anyone." Minako explained.
"This guy is hot!!" Makoto whispered to Minako.
"No kidding!" Minako replied. Suddenly, Rei and Tenchi (who was better now) both turned around toward the same direction.
"I sense something evil here." Rei said.
"Me too." Tenchi agreed. Ryoko looked at them confused. Usually she sensed things before anyone else, but she didn't this time.
"That's weird." Ryoko thought aloud.
"What's wrong?" Tenchi asked.
"I didn't sense anything. I still don't feel anything evil." She explained. Washu brought up her holo-top computer and started typing.
"There is definitely something evil in here, but it can't be tracked." She informed them. "And Ryoko, your powers are gone." Everyone gasped.
"What do you mean 'gone'?!!" Ryoko yelled.
"You don't have them anymore, they've been absorbed by something." Washu answered. The five other girls went to the door, trying to get out so that they could transform.
"It's locked!" Rei yelled. Usagi started to whine.
"Stop whining, Usagi." Luna commanded.
"But I'm scared!" Usagi whimpered.
"We're trapped in here!" Makoto informed the Tenchi crew who had all gotten up.
"I should have brought Tenchi-ken!" Tenchi said, cursing.
"Dammit!" Ryoko yelled. "Why did my powers have to get absorbed now?!!" Mihoshi and Kiyone took out their GP blasters and pulled the triggers, guns pointed at the windows. Nothing happened.
"They're broken." Kiyone said.
"I didn't do it." Mihoshi insisted.
"All the staff have escaped, they went out the back exit, but when I went over there, it was locked!" Rei informed everyone.
"Great!" Ryoko said sarcastically. "We're trapped in here with something evil and we have no way to defend ourselves!"
"We have no choice..." Ami said to the other four girls.
"Right." They all nodded.
I didn't know that it would be this long, so I'm going to have to make it two chapters. Let me know what you think of it so far so I know if I should go on or not. All of the action is in the next chapter, the enemy shows himself (now you know it's a 'he'). Anyway, I'd like to know what you think! Thanks!
Tenchi and Senshi- Chapter 1
The morning sun broke through the closed shades, pouring onto Tenchi's face. He squinted his eyes, hoping to sleep a little longer by blocking out the sun.
"Tenchi..." A sweet voice whispered into his ear. His eyes shot open and he stared into two golden eyes, that weren't bloodshot for once.
"R-Ryoko! What are you doing in my bed?!!!" Tenchi looked at the girl, who, as he said, was IN his bed.
"You looked lonely and I figured you'd want some company." Ryoko purred.
"Well, I'm fine..." Tenchi gulped.
"Tenchi-niichan!" Sasami yelled up the stairs. "Breakfast!!! And if you see Ryoko-neechan, tell her that breakfast is ready!"
"That demon better not be in Tenchi-sama's bedroom." Ayeka replied, ascending the stairs.
"Uh oh, Tenchi. It looks like we're gonna get caught in the act!" Ryoko grinned, latching onto Tenchi.
"Ryoko!" He protested as Ryoko flipped him over, on top of her. Ayeka slid the door open just in time to see Tenchi laying on Ryoko.
"Ryoko!!!!" Ayeka yelled furiously, walking over to them, she threw Tenchi off of Ryoko and into a wall.
"Oh, Princess, why'd you have to end our fun?" Ryoko asked.
"You stay away from Tenchi-sama!"
"Don't you think Tenchi wanted it? I mean, he WAS on top."
"I..." Ayeka blushed, looking over at Tenchi uncertainly. Tenchi sighed.
"I'm going to breakfast." Both women watched Tenchi walk out of the room, then they looked at each other. Ryoko phased out, appearing right behind the princess.
"You'd better get used to Tenchi and me being together." She smiled. "He never denied it, did he?" She pushed the princess who fell fell flat on her face, and then phased through the floor for breakfast.
***
"Usagi!!!" Ikuko yelled up the stairs at her daughter. She waited a few minutes, but when no response came, she started to climb the stairs. She opened the door to Usagi's bedroom, ready to yell at her, but no sound was heard except for a soft giggle. Usagi was hanging half-way off of the bed, head nearly touching the floor, with her blankets completely thrown off of the bed. Luna, her cat, lay on her pillow, her paw positioned behind Usagi's back, giving the impression of having pushed Usagi off.
"Usagi! Get up this instant! I won't allow my daughter to be a lazy good-for-nothing, and sleep her life away!" She commanded.
"Just five more minutes...Luna." Usagi grumbled sleepily, eyes still closed, obviously still asleep.
"Get out of bed NOW!!!" Her mother yelled and turned to leave, adding one more comment as she closed the door. "I'm ashamed of you, Luna. Usually you're up before Usagi, you're starting to turn into a lazy old kitty."
Luna growled as the door was shut.
"Maybe we should tell your mother that we were out late last night fighting youma." Luna grumbled to herself.
"Luna..." Usagi began.
"I know, I shouldn't have said that, I'm sorry." The feline apologized.
"It's not that." Usagi said, eyes still closed. "It's just that I can't get back to sleep with you talking to yourself." Luna fell off the bed.
"Would you get up, Usagi?!!!" She yelled, scratching the blonde on the cheek, just enough to draw a little blood.
"Ow, ow, ow...OW!!" Usagi screamed, starting to cry.
"Oh, shut up." Luna said.
"But you scratched me!" Usagi said.
"Did you forget that the senshi are meeting today?"
"Oh yeah! So, what time are we having it?" Usagi asked.
"TWENTY MINUTES AGO!!!!" Luna yelled. Usagi fell off her bed as the cat yelled at her.
"Usagi!!" Her mother yelled up the stairs.
"What?!" Usagi yelled back.
"You'd better stop yelling!"
"It's not me!" Usagi protested.
"Oh? I'm sure that it's Luna, am I right? Luna just loves to yell at you all the time!"
"Yeah..." Usagi sighed, and looked up to see Luna grinning. "One of these days, I'll get you, Luna." Usagi threatened, glaring at the cat.
***
"Breakfast was delicious, Sasami-chan!" Tenchi commented.
"Arigato!" Sasami blushed at the compliment.
"Yeah, if I could taste it, I'm sure it would be delicious." Ryoko added.
"Um...thank you, Ryoko...." Sasami said, not sure how to reply. Ayeka helped her sister clean up while Tenchi went to work on the fields. Ryoko decided that Tenchi shouldn't be alone while working, so she sneakily followed him. It was already warm out, and she was positive that Tenchi would work up a sweat in the fields today, so she had told Sasami to make some lemonade. (She's a bossy one, ne? ^_^) She floated silently behind Tenchi as he dragged all the equipment to the fields. Ryoko chuckled quietly as she heard him grumbling to himself about having to go do chores at the shrine after.
Meanwhile, Ayeka was still mad at Ryoko for pushing her earlier that morning. Since she wasn't the violent type (yeah, right!), she decided to take a more subtle approach. She sat in the onsen, towel wrapped around her as she sipped on some sake. She smiled and looked to her right, where, on a rock, was Ryoko's whole secret stash of it. Soon, there would be no more sake in the house, and then what would Ryoko do? Ayeka giggled, but burped suddenly. Making sure no one was around to hear it, she continued to giggle.
"You'll pay Ryoko!" She yelled to no one in particular. She continued to laugh, but choked on the sake she was drinking at the time, causing her to go into a coughing fit. After finally calming down, she decided that it was time to down the whole stash.
***
Usagi ran up the many stairs to her friend's shrine.
"Why...are...there...so...many...stairs?" She asked the feline beside her in between breaths.
"Many shrines outside of Tokyo have many more steps." Luna answered. Finally they reached the top, and looked into many pairs of eyes.
"You're late, Usagi!" Rei yelled at the odango atama who was trying to catch her breath.
"How could...you guys get...up so early...when you went...to bed...so late?" She asked, still panting.
"You see, some of us know that we have important things to do. So we act mature and responsible, and do things even when we don't want to." Minako answered.
"Um...Minako-chan?" Ami began, looking over to the other blonde.
"What is it, Ami-chan?" Minako asked.
"I think you fail to remember that you were asleep when I came to pick you up."
"I had to drag you out of the house with you yelling that you needed your 'beauty sleep'." Makoto added.
"Oh, yeah..." Mina sweat dropped. "I guess I forgot about that..."
"Yes, well, Usagi wouldn't get up this morning either." Luna said.
"Hey!" Usagi looked sternly at the feline. "You were asleep, too!" Luna blushed.
"Is this true, Luna?" Artemis asked as Luna looked down sheepishly. "I'm disappointed in you, Luna. I think Usagi is rubbing off on you."
"Artemis..." Ami began. Artemis looked at the blue haired girl nervously. "I believe you were still asleep when I went to pick Minako- chan up."
"Oh, was I? I think you misunderstood, you see, I was only thinking of the nights events, while resting my eyes."
"Let's get back to the reason I called this meeting." Rei interrupted.
"Why did you call this meeting?" Usagi asked, yawning.
"As you may or may not know, I am going to a shrine convention in two days. My grandfather is sick and can't go, so I have to go there to represent our shrine." Rei answered.
"You do?" Minako and Usagi asked.
"You're leaving us when we have this new enemy?" Minako continued.
"I'm sure we can handle them without Sailor Mars." Makoto assured. "As long as you have Sailor Jupiter, you're all set!" She flexed her muscles, laughing.
"What's a shrine convention?" Usagi asked.
"It's when people who own shrines all over Japan go to meet up and discuss things." Rei answered.
"Things?" Mina asked. "Like what?"
"Like important business information, tactics and all that." Rei answered.
"Boring business information?" Usagi asked. "Sounds....boring! I feel bad for you, Rei! Hehe! I hope you have fun!"
"Why I brought this up is that I read from the fire this morning that something is going to go wrong. I figured it might be a good idea to have all the senshi there to protect everyone. So I was wondering if you'd like to go."
"Oh, gee, Rei-chan...I have a doctors appointment that day." Usagi said.
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that..." Rei began. "Looks like I'll have to keep Mamoru-san company all day." She grinned.
"Mamo-chan is going?!!" Usagi yelled. "I'll come!!!"
"Oh, Usagi! It's not good to miss a doctors appointment!" Ami protested.
"I don't have one! I was lying! But now that I know Mamo-chan is going, I'll go!"
"Oh, too bad." Rei said.
"What? What's too bad?" Usagi asked, looking at her black haired friend.
"I didn't ask him yet..."
"I'll ask him!" Usagi said, getting ready to leave.
"I didn't ask him because he told me in advance that he had an exam that day." Rei continued. "I guess he won't be able to come..."
"WHAT?!!!" Usagi yelled.
"Well, now that I know that you don't have any plans, why don't you come?" Rei asked.
"But...but...ooohhh...." She growled. "You make me so mad, Rei!"
***
"Tenchi!" Katsuhito's voice called.
"Jii-chan?" Tenchi turned around. "What is it?"
"I'm informing you that you are going to the Shrine Convention with me in two days." He replied. "And bring the girls if you'd like." He walked away.
"Shrine convention?" Tenchi thought out loud. "I wonder where it is this time." He continued to tend to the carrots, unaware of Ryoko, who watched him from a tree branch.
"Shrine convention?" She asked herself. "I wonder what that is."
***
Ryo-ohki had joined Ayeka in the onsen.
"Meow?" She looked at the princess who was red, giggling, and pretty much drunk. A cup of sake lay unattended behind her, Ryo-ohki approached it slowly. She sniffed it, and then looked toward Ayeka.
"Meow?" She said again, as if asking for permission. Ayeka paid no attention to the cabbit, who started to taste the alcohol. "Miya!!!" Ryo- ohki said as she tasted it. When Ayeka reached behind her for her cup, she found it empty.
"Oh, did I drink this already?" She asked.
"Meow." Ryo-ohki wobbled over to the princess, accidentally slipping into the water. She paddled over to Ayeka's lap.
"Oh, are you thirsty?" She asked, handing the cabbit a cup filled with sake. Ryo-ohki and Ayeka drank together for a while, eventually finishing off the third, and last, bottle of sake. Slowly they walked out of the onsen, if walking is what you call it. Ryo-ohki floated, banging into walls every few seconds. Ayeka held onto the walls for support, still clad in her towel. Finally, they reached the entrance to the house. Ayeka fell down in the hall, unable to get back up. Ryo-ohki banged into Sasami, who was knocked on her butt from the collision.
"Oh, Ryo-ohki! You don't look so good!" Sasami examined the cabbit.
"Mi-" *Hiccup* "-ya."
"Oh! Let me make you some hot tea!" Sasami held the cabbit as she rushed into the kitchen. "Don't worry, I'll take good care of you!"
"Uh...Sasami..." Ayeka addressed the young princess, who was long out of earshot now. "You forgot about me..." Ayeka still couldn't get up.
***
Tenchi sighed and stopped working for a moment.
"I need some sake."
Upon hearing this, Ryoko phased back to the house. She looked up in her rafters for some sake, but found none.
"That's weird." She thought aloud. She then checked her hiding place for her secret stash, but still found none. "All right!!!!!" She yelled. "Who took all my sake?!!!" Ayeka smiled from her spot on the floor.
"Messhon completed." She slurred. Ryoko found Ayeka, drunk on the floor.
"You little thief!" Ryoko growled, picking the princess up by the neck. She smiled as she saw that Ayeka was too drunk to fight back. Ryoko disappeared, and evil thought on her mind. A few seconds later, Ryoko reappeared, but not with Ayeka. She held Ayeka's towel, but there was no sign of the drunken princess.
"That ought to show her." Ryoko tossed the towel on the couch and phased back to the fields. "Let's go, Tenchi!" She said, grabbing onto the boy.
"Ryoko!" Tenchi yelled, startled. "Where are we going?"
"To buy some sake."
"I can get some from the house." Tenchi pointed out.
"No you can't." Ryoko shook her head. "Ayeka drank it all, so we're going to get more!"
"Ayeka?" Tenchi asked doubtfully.
"That's right, and then she went out partying."
"That doesn't sound like Ayeka to me..." Tenchi sighed.
"Ok, think what you want." Ryoko replied. "But we're going!" They disappeared.
***
Ayeka lay on a raft, floating in the middle of a lake with no land in sight. Being passed out before Ryoko had found her, she didn't realize that she had nothing on. She shivered as she lay on the bare raft, floating in the middle of nowhere.
***
Two days had gone by quicker than anyone expected. Usagi was still asleep, but Luna was nowhere to be found.
"Mamo-chan..." Usagi mumbled, turning over in her bed and laughing.
"USAGI!!!" Luna yelled, a pink ribbon tied around her neck in a nice bow. "We're going to the shrine convention!!" She yelled. "Everyone's waiting for you!"
After getting ready so fast that she could have set a new world record, Usagi raced downstairs.
"Bye, Mom!" She yelled as she slammed the door. The senshi were standing at the end of her driveway, waiting for her.
"It's about time." Rei commented, wearing her traditional red and white shrine robes. "Let's go now, before we miss the whole thing!"
The girls all walked to the bus stop. Once the bus came, they all boarded it, and were soon at the shrine convention. The reason they got there so fast was that it was being held in the center of Tokyo that year, which is close to where they all lived. As they walked around, all of the girls, except for Rei, felt left out because most of the people here were wearing shrine robes.
"I don't think I'm going to like it here." Usagi commented.
***
"Partying?" Sasami asked. "Ayeka doesn't do that kind of thing!"
"Well, she was drunk." Ryoko replied.
"Where could she possibly have gone partying for two days straight?" Washu asked.
"I'm worried..." Tenchi said. "Maybe I should stay here and wait for her."
"No, that's not necessary, Tenchi." Katsuhito interrupted. "I will wait for her, you should not miss out on this chance to learn of many different shrines. Besides, I've been going for the past couple of years, I'm sure nothing new will happen."
"Are you sure?" Tenchi asked.
"Hai, now go now, before you miss the bus. It's quite a long ride to Tokyo." Katsuhito commanded.
"Right." Tenchi took the girls and walked to the bus stop. Tenchi looked around the bus and saw that he was the only one wearing his grandfather's light blue and white shrine robes. When they arrived at the center of Tokyo, they entered the shrine convention. Tenchi was relieved to see that almost everyone there was wearing shrine robes.
"I fell left out." Ryoko whined, looking from all of the people with robes on, back to her clothing. Tenchi smiled, glad to know that he she shared the same feelings he had felt only a few moments earlier. As they walked around, they stopped stopped to look at a few charm shops that other temples and shrines were running.
"What's this one do?" Ryoko asked curiously,holding up a small charm.
"It helps your love life, it's intended especially for unrequited love." The girl behind the counter answered.
"I'll take it!" Ryoko looked over to Tenchi who was looking in a different booth. After paying, she put the charm necklace around her neck and walked happily over to Tenchi.
"Hi, Tenchi!" She smiled.
"Um...hi, Ryoko."
"So, do you have something to say to me?" She asked.
"Um....no.."
"Don't you want to tell me that yo love me?" She asked.
"Um...no. What are you talking about?"
"Argh!!!" Ryoko ripped her charm off and threw it behind her. "Stupid charm." She growled.
***
"Ouch." Rei said as something hit her on the head. She bent over and picked up a small charm. "Oh, it's a charm!" She stated.
"What is its purpose?" Ami asked.
"It's a love charm, for--" Minako grabbed it out of Rei's hand.
"Just what I need!" She smiled happily. Suddenly, Makoto grabbed it out of her hand.
"No, I need it!" Minako tugged on the tiny charm, trying to pry it out of Makoto's hand.
"Stop it!" Makoto tugged back, refusing to let go. After a minute or so of tugging and embarrassing their friends, they finally broke it. They both held up their half of the charm, staring at it as if it were the end of the world.
"You could have just bought one over there..." Rei pointed to a charm shop. Minako and Makoto sweat dropped, tossing their broken charm pieces aside. (I thought they were supposed to be saving the Earth, but now they're littering!)
"Let's go look for something to eat!" Usagi suggested. "I'm hungry!"
"When aren't you?" Rei remarked.
"That was mean, Rei!!" Usagi replied as they walked, looking for some kind of food court. They passed a group of four girls a guy in a light blue and white robe.
"I'm hungry..." A curly haired blonde whined.
"Sounds like Usagi..." Ami laughed.
***
Katsuhito waited in the house for Ayeka to return. He hadn't really expected her to, but there was always a small chance. He heard a car door open and close. He went over to the window and saw Ayeka with nothing on but an over-sized t-shirt. Katsuhito watched as she exchanged words with the driver and then walk toward the house.
"Ayeka, everyone's been worried about you, where have you been?"
"I um...I don't remember..." She blushed. "I had been drinking and I don't remember anything after that except for being rescued by that woman."
"Oh, so Ryoko was correct." Katsuhito said.
"About what?" Ayeka asked.
"She told us that you were drinking. She went with Tenchi two days ago to buy more sake. I figured they had gone to look for you also because they didn't come back until later that night. But, it turns out that they came home drunk and happy later that night."
"They were together for that long?!!" Ayeka asked. "ALONE???"
"Yes, it just so happened that they decided to have a nice day alone."
"A DATE?!!!!!" Ayeka gasped. "No, Tenchi-sama wouldn't want to spend the day with HER!"
"Anyway, go get changed, we have to go to the shrine convention."
"Wait, I want to stay here with Tenchi." She protested.
"He's at the convention." Before he could finish, Ayeka had already went upstairs to change. "Women..." He sighed.
***
"Yummy!!" Usagi said when she had finished all of her food, which she had spent all of her money on.
"That was almost six months' allowance!" Minako said, unbelievingly.
"And almost everything on the menu..." Makoto added.
"Not to mention the fat and calorie intake during this one snacking period." Ami continued.
"Can I borrow some money, Minako-chan?" Usagi asked, completely ignoring her friends' remarks. "I want to buy a crepe!"
"I'm fresh out of money." Minako lied.
"Oh, ok. I'll go and see if they'll give me one for free."
"Usagi!" Rei yelled. "You're not a child anymore! Stop acting like one!"
"Shut up, Rei!" Usagi stuck her tongue out and walked up to the counter behind the blonde from before.
"And then I'll have...and...and...and...and...and...and...and...and..." 'Oh no!' Usagi thought silently. 'She's gonna eat all the food!' "And then a crepe." The girl finished.
"That'll be...uh...$138.47, please." The girl behind the counter said, looking strangely at the blonde. The girl dug into the pockets of her tan khaki's, searching for money. She pulled some out, dropping a pen in the meantime. She didn't notice she'd dropped it, so Usagi bent down to get it. She was about to hand it back to her, but she accidentally pushed a button. A little pole extended from the pen, followed by a picture of the blonde, and some info. The girl had already walked away with her food.
"Galaxy Police?" Usagi asked, reading the info.
"Can I help you?" The girl behind the counter asked.
"Yeah, I'd like a crepe." Usagi said as she pushed the button, making the pole go down, giving everyone the illusion of a pen.
"Ok, that'll be $2.70."
"Oh no!" Usagi started to whine, reaching into her pockets, and dropping the pen in there. "I don't have my money with me!" She whined. "I guess I'll just starve..." She turned around and began to walk back to her seat. 'Stop me!' She yelled in her head. 'Give me the crepe for free!'
"Wait a second..." The girl handed Usagi the crepe. "It's on the house." Usagi's eyes lit up.
"Thank you!" She said, pretending to be surprised by the girls hospitality. She walked happily back to her table.
"It actually worked..." Makoto sweat dropped, as did everyone else at the table.
***
Mihoshi's eating had scared almost everyone out of the food court. The place was empty, excluding the staff and a big group of girls. Just so you know for later, the food court is the only place in the convention that wasn't out in the open. Meaning, it was like a McDonalds, surrounded in glass.
"It's a shame Sasami isn't here with us." Kiyone said.
"Yeah, I'm sure she would have packed us a lunch. We wouldn't have had to spend all that money!" Ryoko said, trying to get some food before Mihoshi devoured it all.
"But she wanted to go with my father." Tenchi said. "I think it's a good opportunity for her to learn about architecture."
"She probably packed Nobuyuki's lunch. Ryo-ohki must be happy with her, she's probably spoiled with carrots." Ryoko mumbled. "All that talent gone to waste...I could've actually eaten..."
"I paid for this, so I can eat as much as I want!" Mihoshi said in between mouthfuls of food. Ryoko had given up on trying to steal anymore food from the blonde, it was almost impossible.
***
After finishing her crepe, Usagi pulled the pen out of her pocket.
"Look what that blonde girl over there dropped." She said.
"You stole her pen?" Ami asked.
"Watch this." Usagi instructed, pushing the button. The badge came out again.
"Galaxy Police? What is that?" Minako asked. Ami typed into her mini computer.
"My computer reads that the Galaxy Police are policemen much like that on this planet, but they patrol the whole Galaxy."
"Oh..." Usagi thought for a moment. "I'll go give this back to her." She pushed the button to close it, and walked over to the table that the blonde sat in.
"Excuse me, Mihoshi?" Usagi asked. The blonde looked up from her food as did everyone else at the table.
"Yeah?" Mihoshi asked, food dangling from her mouth.
"You dropped your pen." She handed it over. Tenchi gulped. "I was just wondering if you've been to the moon." Tenchi coughed, taking a sip of Mihoshi's soda.
"No, why?" Mihoshi asked, pocketing her pen.
"Well, your pen says that you are from Galaxy Police..." Tenchi started to choke on the drink. Ryoko looked at him and started to pat him on the back.
"Mihoshi!!" Kiyone yelled. "How can you lose something so important?!"
"I don't know..." Mihoshi insisted.
"It's all right." Usagi began.
"No! It's not!" Kiyone replied. "No civilians on this planet should know about the Galaxy Police! We could get fired! There goes any chance for a promotion..." She muttered.
"I won't tell anyone! I promise." Usagi assured. "But my friends over there already know."
Tenchi, who had just gotten over his coughing fit and taken another sip of soda, started to choke again when her heard that. Ryoko smiled and started to pat him on the back again.
"I could always erase their memory." Washu suggested.
"Washu! That's a brilliant idea!" Kiyone said.
"I don't thing it's that big of a deal." Ryoko said, still patting Tenchi's back. "She said she wouldn't tell."
"That's not the point! Ryoko, don't you think she'd like to get famous by exposing us as aliens?"
"No." Ryoko answered.
"Thank you, Ryoko." Usagi said. "I'm already famous, people just don't know it's me!"
"Huh?" No one quite understood what she had said.
"Usagi is right, we won't tell anyone." The other four girls were now next to Usagi.
"We have a secret also, but we can't tell anyone." Minako explained.
"This guy is hot!!" Makoto whispered to Minako.
"No kidding!" Minako replied. Suddenly, Rei and Tenchi (who was better now) both turned around toward the same direction.
"I sense something evil here." Rei said.
"Me too." Tenchi agreed. Ryoko looked at them confused. Usually she sensed things before anyone else, but she didn't this time.
"That's weird." Ryoko thought aloud.
"What's wrong?" Tenchi asked.
"I didn't sense anything. I still don't feel anything evil." She explained. Washu brought up her holo-top computer and started typing.
"There is definitely something evil in here, but it can't be tracked." She informed them. "And Ryoko, your powers are gone." Everyone gasped.
"What do you mean 'gone'?!!" Ryoko yelled.
"You don't have them anymore, they've been absorbed by something." Washu answered. The five other girls went to the door, trying to get out so that they could transform.
"It's locked!" Rei yelled. Usagi started to whine.
"Stop whining, Usagi." Luna commanded.
"But I'm scared!" Usagi whimpered.
"We're trapped in here!" Makoto informed the Tenchi crew who had all gotten up.
"I should have brought Tenchi-ken!" Tenchi said, cursing.
"Dammit!" Ryoko yelled. "Why did my powers have to get absorbed now?!!" Mihoshi and Kiyone took out their GP blasters and pulled the triggers, guns pointed at the windows. Nothing happened.
"They're broken." Kiyone said.
"I didn't do it." Mihoshi insisted.
"All the staff have escaped, they went out the back exit, but when I went over there, it was locked!" Rei informed everyone.
"Great!" Ryoko said sarcastically. "We're trapped in here with something evil and we have no way to defend ourselves!"
"We have no choice..." Ami said to the other four girls.
"Right." They all nodded.
I didn't know that it would be this long, so I'm going to have to make it two chapters. Let me know what you think of it so far so I know if I should go on or not. All of the action is in the next chapter, the enemy shows himself (now you know it's a 'he'). Anyway, I'd like to know what you think! Thanks!