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What It Means To Be Me
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Chapter Two: In The Thick Of It All
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Discordia and Jadeite were having a private moment in the forest, their special place. "Jadeite, tell me thou loves me again?" she moaned, leaning more into her lovers' hard body. "Un?" Jadeite was busily nibbling on Discordia's ear. He got a fistful of her full breast. "I love thou Discordia." he groaned as she rubbed his back sensually. Lowering the straps over her red dress, he kissed her creamy bosom. Discordia nearly melted right there on the spot. "Perhaps we had better go to thy room, before I take thou right here my princess..." Jadeite panted slightly. Discordia moved to straddle him. "Who needs a room?" she grinded her hips against his. Jadeite moaned in response and lowered her down to the ground and kissed her lips passionately.

Storm, Jubilee, and Wolverine looked at their surroundings. They were no longer in their night apparel but in their uniforms, and they were in a forest. "Where are we?" asked Jubilee, clinging a little to Wolverine. "We ain't in Kansas no more." Wolverine proceed to smell the area. Storm flew over head to get a better look. The forest didn't seem that deep and beyond that there was...a palace? "There is a palace a few miles that way." Storm lowered herself back to the ground and pointed to the west. "Then maybe we'll get some answers." growled Wolverine, not taking lightly to the fact he had been woken up in the middle of the night to be not in his bed.

In another part of the Moon Kingdom, Gambit, Jean, and Kitty were making the same conclusion. "The palace must have some answers." reasoned Kitty, a little frightened. "Right ma petite. De palace looks to Gambit to be da place to be." Gambit nodded. Jean was silent. "Jean?" Kitty looked up to the red headed woman. Jean seemed in deep thought. "Jean?" Kitty tried again, inching closer to her. "Huh? Oh Kitty. I was just trying to do a mental search for the others. They are here, but I don't know exactly where." Jean placed a hand on Kitty's shoulders. "Don't worry chere, Gambit sure dat dey will come to the same conclusion." Gambit gave his famous grin. They all started to walk to the palace.

The professor, Cyclops, Rogue, and Beast had wounded up in what looked like a dungeon. "Where in the heck...?" Cyclops looked to the professor for some answers. "I don't know Cyclops. I can't contact the others, I can only sense them." Professor X looked around at the mildew stained bricks. "Well whoever sent us here sure needs to brush up on their hospitality skills. Ah don't know 'bout ya'll, but Ah'm gettin' the heck out of here." Rogue started to walked towards the door, but was repelled by an invisible force field. "Ooff!" she cried as she was slammed into the back wall. "Rogue!" they all shouted, Beast getting to her first. "Are you all right my dear?" he asked, letting her use his arm as a support. "What ever that was sure packs a punch." she moaned, rubbing her bum. The door was suddenly thrown open and in pounded a few guards with armor. "Who art thou?!" shouted one of them, pointing a spear of some sort at them. Professor X rolled up to them. "I am Professor Charles Xavier and we have no idea where we are. We just appeared." he explained. "Well thou just transported thyselves into Her Majesty Queen Serenity IV's dungeon." another guard said. A few minutes later, a beautiful girl with long blonde hair and a short orange skirt appeared. "This had better be good. I do not appreciate being summoned for something as trivial as an apprentice transporting wrong." she scowled. The guards bowed low. "Forgive us Senshi Venus, but these strangers transported here and they looked suspicious to me." the leader said, getting up. Venus just brushed right past them and stared at the X-men. "How didst thou get here?" she asked coldly. "We just appeared. We were sleeping and then poof! We're suddenly here." Rogue inched her way closer to the girl. "Art thou from the Moon? Thou do not look Lunar." she inspected them. All of them proceeded to sputter. "We're on the Moon?! We're from Earth." Cyclops regained his calm tone. Venus sniffed and turned away. "In that case, I shall contact thy prince and let him deal with thou." she called over her shoulder. The guards threw them one last glare before following her, leaving them to sulk in the dungeon.

Serenity decided that taking a walk would help clear her head from all the madness going on in there. Her crescent moon flashed unconsciously as she thought about what her mother had told her. She had five months to find a husband or she would find one for her. They would have to be wed on Serenity's eighteenth birthday. When she first heard this, she immediately thought of Endymion, but, her difficult mother said absolutely not. Apparently, her majesty thought that he was too old for her. "Serenity! There thou art! I have been looking all over the palace for thou." Hera jogged up to her silver haired friend. "What ever is the matter with thou?" Serenity asked, giggling at her friends' flushed face. "Venus wishes to see thou and thy mother right away. Something about prisoners in the dungeon." Hera answered, not waiting for a reply as she grasped Serenity's pale upper arm and began to unceremoniously pull her towards the throne room. Serenity yelped finally managed to wrench her arm away from the Jupiter princess. "I know the way Hera." she said, exasperated. Hera's Jupiter sign flashed with slight embarrassment and promptly led the Moon princess to the awaiting throne room.

Discordia and Jadeite walked slowly, arm in arm, through the woods back to the palace. "That was fun. We must do that again sometime." Jade whispered down to his raven beauty. Discordia sniffed in mock distaste. "Rogue." she muttered before dissolving into a fit of giggles. Suddenly, she stopped dead in her tracks, her head cocked to one side. "What is it Discordia?" Jade asked her softly. "We are not alone." she murmured, looking at all her surroundings. A flash of silver caught her eye and she quickly followed it, unconsciously transforming into Senshi Mars. Jadeite followed her in a instant to protect her. Then, everything was very still. "Come out whoever thou art! Thou art trespassing on royal grounds!" Mars said loudly enough to be heard for about a mile. A bush and tree moved to her left. Mars sent a small fireball to it, burning it to a crisp. A squirrel came prancing out along with two of its friends. "Mars, it was only a squirrel. Let us get back to the throne room." Jadeite tapped her shoulder and she shrugged him off. "Squirrels are not silver Jadeite." Suddenly, a bolt of lightning cracked and hit a tree next to Mars, causing her to jump. "Jupiter? Is that thou?" she asked. The fog suddenly rolled in and the air grew very cold. "What magic is this? 'Tis Mercury's fog!" Jadeite wondered aloud. "I do not know, but we will soon find out. Look over there." Mars pointed over to there the air seemed to be circulating. A human figure began to rise up and float a foot above the ground. "A yoma!" Mars pushed Jadeite out the way and began to power up slightly, flames snaking around her body, obeying their mistress. "I am the legendary Sailor Senshi, Senshi Mars! I demand that thou come out and fight properly yoma!" she shouted, letting her hair float around her, due to all the power she was emitting. Suddenly, the figure flashed forward and showed herself. A dark woman with silver hair and a silver costume floated to them, with white glowing eyes. "I am Storm, mistress of the elements!" she said with a foreign accent, from where Jadeite nor Mars recognized.

Wolverine and Jubilee watched from behind a tree what was going on. They had heard talking and assumed that they would attack them. "Storm's really having a field day with this." Wolverine smirked as he heard the weather woman's little introduction. "I don't know about this Wolverine. That other chick has fire all around her." Jubilee clung like a wet towel to Wolverine. "Don't worry about it kid. Water always beats fire. I thought you went to school." he answered, turning his attention back to the fight. Storm faced off with the dark haired girl. "Mars Flame Sniper!" Mars shot a flame arrow at Storm, who was not able to dodge completely. The arrow pierced her upper right arm. Crying out, Storm decided to ascend into the cover of the trees. "Weather witch! Thy tricks and magic will not fool me! I can see right through this pathetic veil in which thou has spawned!" Mars snapped, using her heat to make the fog dissipate. "I am not a weather witch! I am a mutant." Storm landed in front of Mars as the senshi regarded her hostility. "What is this 'mutant' thou speak of? I have never heard of such a word in all of the galaxy." Mars asked curiously. Jadeite rushed up behind Mars and grabbed her shoulders protectively. "Come now Mars. 'Tis a mere trick. She is trying to confuse thou. We had best go back to the palace and speak with Queen Serenity and Venus." he suggested.

"Are you going to the palace?" Storm perked up. Mars glared belligerently at her. "What dost it matter to thou?" she spat. Wolverine and Jubilee came out and stood next to their teammate. "Mars, they have reinforcements! Come quickly to the palace to alert the others." Jadeite began to take off, but noticed that Mars hadn't followed. "No, Jadeite. I do not think they will attack. If that were so, they would have done it by now." she looked at her blonde aficionado. She turned her attention back to the matter at hand. "Now tell me. What is thy business at the palace?" she commanded in her princess voice. Jubilee was now officially freaking out. Not only had they been sent to this bizarre place, but they were speaking Shakespeare! "Look kid, we need to get to the palace and we need some answers. Like, where the flamin' hell are we?" Wolverine took over, getting pissed with this little girl who was giving them orders. "Silence commoner! Thou darest to speak to Princess Discordia III that way?! I shall teach thee a lesson in respect!" Jadeite raved, only to be stopped by Mars. "Jadeite, did thou not notice that he spoke of Hell? They must be here from Pluto." she said to him, confusing him. "Why would Persephone send these lowly creatures to Serenity? It seems suspicious to me." he said brusquely. "It is not our place to decide who or who should not be Plutarian messengers. Though, I was not aware of the fashion of Pluto. Dost thou have any objections to escorting them safely to the palace?" Mars looked back from the X-men to Jadeite. "I raise none." he mumbled. Smirking, Mars once again looked to the X-men. "Come messengers from Pluto, we shall escort thee to the palace." she said, not waiting for an answer as she walked away. Storm looked to Wolverine, who looked to Jubilee, who looked to Storm. "We don't want to lose her. Let's go." Wolverine said, picking up after her scent.
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