Two women ran down a street at night. "Hurry! Hurry!" encourages one.
"Wait for me!" pleads the other.
Down the same street there is a line that almost goes around the corner. At the end of this line is a man with a small fortunetelling booth. "This place is really good," a woman toward the end of the line tells her friend.
"I know, it's been on TV a few times," her friend agrees.
"Wow, look at the line," says the woman who was running with her friend as they caught up to it.
Ferdinand, who was standing near the end of the line, smirks and steps out of the line. "Foolish humans," he mutters to himself.
In some unknown part of the world Lady Tremain sits on her throne and addresses the darkness. "What? You still haven't found the legendary epcot crystal?"
"No," the darkness replied.
"Hurry. Our great ruler is waiting for a lot of energy."
"Leave it to us," echoed the darkness.
Prince Ferdinand stepped out of the shadows. "Is that you, Ferdinand?" asked Lady Tremain.
"Yes."
"As you heard, we still have not found the legendary epcot crystal. So I want human energy instead."
Ferdinand smiled. "Lady Tremain, it has already been taken care of."
An alarm was sounding next to some crumpled sheets where in a teenage girl slept. A kitten walked up to the bed and hissed at it, but there was no movement. The kitten then jumped on top of the bed and laid herself where the teenager's nose and mouth would be.
The girl pushed the cat away from her. "I can't breathe."
Presently, the kitten meowed at Rose, who grabbed the alarm and looked at it. "Look at the time!" Rose's face grew pale. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier?" she scolded at the kitten as she ran out.
At school, an elderly man read the role sheet. "John Rolfe."
"Here," replied John. The back classroom door slowly and silently opened.
"Um. Kenji Oota," the teacher continued. Rose crawled into the classroom.
"Here," answered Kenji. The back classroom door slowly and silently closed.
"Takayuki Kamikawa," called the teacher. Rose crawled towards her seat, hoping she could make it there before her teacher called her name.
"Here," relpied Takayuki. Getting closer.
"Yuuji Kimura," continued the teacher. One of her classmates saw her and Rose put her finger to her mouth.
"Here," answered Yuuji. Almost there.
"Good morning, Rose!" shouted John. Busted.
"Go to the principal's office," demanded her teacher.
Rose sat in a chair outside of the office, and so did John. "Why are you out here with me?" Rose asked him.
John began to blush. "That's… Well… It's hard to explain…"
"Weirdo," Rose declared.
"Yes," agreed John
During the lunch break Pocahontas ran toward a tree that John was leaning on. "What did you want to talk to me about?"
John began to blush once more. "I want to go on a date with Rose. And trade diaries and even talk to her parents about the future."
Pocahontas looked at her friend and began to laugh. "That'll never happen." John slumped against the tree defeated. "I'm sorry, I don't think it'll work if you come straight out and ask."
John cocked an eyebrow at her. "So I should attack her from behind?"
Pocahontas shook her head. "No, no. Go to a fortuneteller and ask her what you should do."
"I already know the answer then." Pocahontas was shocked at his preparedness. John took out a strange handheld device. "This fortuneteller game was made according to my ideas. According to this, Rose and I are supposed to get married." He clutched the game close to him and looked so proud. "Thank you."
Pocahontas was silent for a moment. "I don't mean that. I mean a real fortuneteller," she tried to explain.
"I see," said John looking a bit embarrassed.
"There's a fortuneteller house that opened in Burbank. I heard that they are pretty good, so why don't you try them?"
"Okay." John smiled
Rose began her run home after school and passed the fortuneteller. She stopped and backtracked. Something was missing. "Huh? What happened? There is usually a long line here."
The fortuneteller laughed. "I guess it's because there is competition now. Look." He pointed across the street.
Rose turned to see a large fancy neon sign advertising the new House of Fortune. "It's awfully gaudy. What is that?"
"The beauty from Burbank," explained the fortuneteller.
Rose turned back to him. "What? Is it the same kind of fortune telling that you do?"
"Yeah," the fortuneteller said sadly. "Everyone likes new things."
Rose held out her left hand. "Read me."
The fortuneteller looked up at her. "Okay, thank you." He began to examine her hand. "There's a man that likes you right now," he informed her. "And it's someone you see all the time."
Rose walked away contemplating what the man had said. "Someone I always see… Maybe it's…" And she began running gleefully toward the arcade. She did not enter however, and only looked through the glass doors. "Looks like he's not here yet," she said sadly.
"Hey Rose," said a voice beside her. She turned to see a built man with blonde hair, a gold goatee, and blue eyes. "Perfect timing. I'm about to start working."
"Hello, Phoebus," Rose said excitedly.
"Rose, the Sailor B Game just came in. You haven't played it yet, right?" he asked as he entered the arcade.
"Not yet," said Rose. Phoebus went to begin his shift and Rose went off to a machine, placed a quarter in, and began to play. "C'mon! C'mon! There, there! C'mon! C'mon!" she said to the screen as she hit buttons furiously. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon!" she yelled, but the machine let out a descending chord. "Oh, game over!"
Phoebus laughed as he rejoined her. He was now dressed in a gold army suit with a blue cape, a gold helmet, and brown leather gloves. "It's pretty hard, isn't it?"
Rose straightened up. "Uh… yes."
He sat next to her. "I'll show you how to do it." He placed a quarter in the machine.
Rose tried to stop him. "Oh I'll…"
"My treat," he assured her. "Here Rose, watch carefully." Rose began to blush. "See, at this point, you have to get this item." Rose's heart began to beat quickly. "See, and you kill it."
Makes me nervous but I'm so happy, Rose thought to herself.
"See? You understand now? The rest you just keep shooting," he demonstrated.
For a moment Rose was lost in her own world, but then she felt herself being watched. She looked over and saw a kitten on the game next to them. "Dinah, what are you doing here?"
"Oh, is this kitten's name Dinah?" asked Phoebus.
"Huh? Yeah."
"It's been around here lately. I wonder if it's a stray?"
Before Rose could respond Dinah began pulling on Rose's sleeve. "What are you doing? Stop it. Okay, I'm going! I'm going!" Dinah let go and Rose stood up. "Well, bye!" she said to Phoebus.
"Oh but, we're still in the middle of the game," he said sounding disappointed.
"I'll come again," she assured him.
"I'll be waiting. I feel good every time I see your face."
Rose ran out of the arcade before he could see her face turn red. As soon as they were out of sight of the arcade Rose turned on Dinah. "We were having a good time!"
Dinah meowed at her. "Well, it's not a good thing," Rose tried to explain.
Rose ran off with Dinah meowing after her. "I'm going to have the old man tell me more about Phoebus," Rose said more to herself. She turned the corner to see that he had already gone home for the night. "I was too late." Rose turned to see the House of Fortune across the street was still opened. "I should probably wait and ask the old man from Burbank. But I want to know right now."
Dinah meowed at Rose. "Never mind, never mind. Oh, I know. I'll tell my own fortune on which one I should go to." She took out a quarter. "If it's heads, I'll ask the old man. If it's tails, I'll go to the House of Fortune." She flipped the coin a little too hard for it flipped right over her shoulder.
"Ow!" said a voice behind her.
"Oops." Rose seemed to have a talent recently for throwing things over her shoulder and them hitting random passers by. She turned and discovered it wasn't any random passer by, but the same one as it had been the day before. "It's that smug guy again."
"That hurts, Noodle Head."
"Is that all you can say?" She was not fond of her nickname.
"You'll never have a boyfriend if you don't act more ladylike," he informed her.
She held out her hand and he dropped the quarter into it and then turned and walked away. "Well, thank you so much!" she shouted sarcastically after him. She stuck her tongue out and turned around toward her home. "My good mood's all gone." She stomped off. "How irritating."
But back in the House of Fortune, the fortuneteller was laying tarot cards down in front of John. She blew onto them and they stood on end for a second before turning over. "Amazing…" gasped John.
"Look at my eyes." John did so. "You are a wonderful servant of evil. You can do whatever you desire."
"I will do whatever I desire," John repeated. One of the tarot cards slipped into his over shirt.
"I will soon be able to collect the energy," said the fortuneteller.
Rose continued past the grocery store on her way home when she heard a voice behind her. "Hey! Rose!"
Rose turned to see a short moderately stout woman with pale skin. Her eyes were dark and her hair was grey and covered by a light green veil. Her apron was of the same color. Her skirt was green and her shirt was a darker shade. The bodice she wore was brown in color. "Oh, Aunt Fauna. Shopping?"
"Yeah, I got home early for a change and your aunt got me."
"Aunt Flora, you're so sweet."
"I leave all the housework to your aunt. This is the least I can do."
I bet Phoebus will be like Aunt Fauna, Rose thought to herself.
"By the way Rose…"
Rose was snapped out of her train of thought. "Huh?"
"What were you doing out until now? It's not good to be hanging out after school."
"I'm sorry." Rose expected this scolding, but it was always nicer to hear it from Fauna than from Flora.
They began walking home together when… "Rose, what is with the kitten?" Rose turned to see Dinah at their heels. "It seems like it's following us."
"Oh, it's my friend," said Rose realizing she had not yet told her aunts about Dinah.
"You have some strange friends."
The next morning at school Pocahontas spoke to Rose. "Did John say anything to you?"
"About what?"
"I think John likes you," she whispered.
"What?" exclaimed Rose.
Pocahontas giggled. "But he's innocent so he's too shy to say anything."
"Rose, let's go on a date!" They turned to see John dressed in white leggings a gold shirt and a gold medal as well as a red brimmed hat with a gold feather.
"What's wrong?" asked Rose.
"It's not a good idea to come to school dressed like that," said Pocahontas for gaudy clothes and hats were against the dress code.
"Who cares?" said John. "Rose, let's go on a date today."
"You know…" Rose tried to explain.
"He's gotten brave all of the sudden," Pocahontas intervened.
"John, what is that outfit?" It was their teacher. "John! What are you thinking?"
"Thinking this!" said John and he flipped his teacher's robes revealing pink boxers. He walked away laughing.
"No one will marry me now!" cried their teacher. Rose and Pocahontas stared at him shocked at his sudden declaration.
Later that morning in class, John was reading a comic and laughing loudly while the teacher tried to write something on the board. "That is enough!" he exclaimed and began his way toward John. But on the way he was tripped. "What are you doing, Yuuji?" he asked the student that tripped him.
"Mr. Merlin, you are supposed to walk quietly in the classroom," explained Yuuji rather snootily.
"What did you say?"
"What? John went to the House of Fortune?" Rose asked Pocahontas as they talked during the morning break.
"Yeah. I told him about it. I think Yuuji went too,"
Just then they heard a crash and a voice shouting "Hey! What do you think you're doing?"
Rose and Pocahontas ran around the corner to see the teacher's office window broken and Yuuji and John standing in front of it. "You don't have much of a brain. So stop acting like you're better than us!" John was preaching.
"Yeah! Yeah!" agreed Yuuji.
They began picking up rocks and throwing them at the window. "Take that! And that and that!"
Outside the school the fortuneteller held up a tarot card as their energy flowed into it. "Keep on making trouble," she demanded.
In an unknown cavern Prince Ferdinand watched as the energy of John and Yuuji swirled in his palm. "The rebellious energy of the young."
Back at the school Rose and Pocahontas ran up to John and Yuuji. "What are you doing?" demanded Rose.
"What is this?" Pocahontas similarly asked.
"Hey, Rose!" said John seeing her.
"What's wrong with you?" she again asked.
"Wanna kiss?" he asked and drew her close for one.
"I don't like you when you're like this!" cried Rose. "I hate you! Hate you! Hate you!"
"Let's get out of here," John told Yuuji and they retreated.
Dinah watched them from the bushes.
Pocahontas put her hand on her friend's shoulder. "Rose, it's okay now."
Rose instantly stopped crying and smiled at her friend. "Oh, I feel better." Pocahontas put her face in her palm.
"John and Yuuji just left. What was he thinking?" Rose said as she walked home. Dinah meowed at her.
"So, John and Yuuji…" Dinah meowed again.
"The House of Fortune is suspicious. The guys have been weird since they went to the House of Fortune." Dinah meowed impressively.
"Give me a new power as a reward." Dinah hissed.
"What? Fight again? I'm kind of scared."
When Rose and Dinah had made it to the House of Fortune Dinah meowed at Rose.
"Do I have to?" Dinah hissed.
Rose took out the pen Dinah had given her and raised it in the air. "Let's see. I forgot what I'm supposed to say." Dinah hissed again.
"Oh, that's it! Enchanted Dominion Power Makeup!"
"You did very well," the fortuneteller was saying to John and Yuuji in the House of Fortune. "Now, I'll have you wreak havoc in town."
"Yes!" said John.
"Sounds like fun!" said Yuuji.
"What's worse than old men being envious of youth and popularity, are those that think nothing of peoples' feelings," echoed a voice.
"Who's there?" asked the fortuneteller.
The doors of the House of Fortune burst open. "Sailor warrior of love and justice. Sailor Enchanted Dominion!" And so it was.
"Sailor Enchanted Dominion?" repeated the fortuneteller.
"In the name of Enchanted Dominion, I will punish you," declared Sailor Enchanted Dominion. The fortuneteller threw cards at her and she dodged them just enough to see that they were razor sharp. "Hey, watch it!" Dinah meowed at Sailor Enchanted Dominion.
"Oh, yeah," said Sailor Enchanted Dominion and poised for an attack.
"Get her!" ordered the fortuneteller and John and Yuuji advanced on Sailor Enchanted Dominion.
She didn't know why, but she had not counted on this. "Stop this!" she pleaded with her friends. "No! If you get any closer, you're going to get hurt." But it was she who was backed into a corner, for she could not hurt her friends.
Just than the fortuneteller got a rose in the face. "Another intruder?" she asked frustrated. "Who's there?"
"Prince Charming!" exclaimed Sailor Enchanted Dominion.
And indeed Prince Charming was standing by the door. "Don't ever give up no matter how hard it is."
"Okay," agreed Sailor Enchanted Dominion.
"Good-bye! We'll meet again." And he was gone as quickly as he came.
"Thank you, Prince Charming," she called after him. The fortuneteller took this chance to lunge at Sailor Enchanted Dominion. She dodged just in time and the fortuneteller's claws made a whole just where she had been standing a second ago. "That would have hurt." Dinah hissed at Sailor Enchanted Dominion.
"Oh yeah." Sailor Enchanted Dominion threw her tiara saying "Enchanted Dominion Tiara Action," and watched as her enemy turned once more to dust.
Prince Ferdinand scowled as the energy disappeared. "Bam, you failed."
"Yay!" Sailor Enchanted Dominion celebrated in her victory. Just then the cards in John and Yuuji's pockets vanished and they came to their senses. "Take care!" called Sailor Enchanted Dominion and left.
"What? I flipped Merlin's robe?" John was shocked as Pocahontas explained the happenings of the previous day as they walked toward school the next morning.
"And you tried to kiss Rose. Then you broke the window of the teacher's office… Hey, where are you going?"
John was walking away from the school with his head hung low. "All that's left for me is misery."
"Good morning!" Rose had cut off his processional walk.
"Rose. Uh.. about yesterday…" he stammered.
Rose smiled at him. "Don't worry about it!"
John's mood suddenly and drastically changed. "You're right! I shouldn't worry about it. You're okay when you get bad grades on your tests after all. I need to be more like you." And he marched off confidently back to school.
"Sheesh! He doesn't even know the trouble I go through." Just then the bell rang. "Oh no."