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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