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Saving Bonds of Love
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Part 3: "Official Speeding Ticket Day"
-Mamoru's car-
"Er…Mamo-chan? Usagi?"
ChibiUsa's future parents turned around to look at her in inquirement.
"There's a police car at Haruka-san's car."
Two mouths dropped open in astonishment.
-Inner's car-
All the Inners had turned around in their seats. Hey, what else could you do when you weren't moving and in utter boredom?
"Geez, wonder what Haruka-san's done now," wondered Minako.
"Plenty of things I can think of," Rei responded.
-Outer's car-
"You do know, Tenoh-san, that screaming swears out a window is not tolerated…especially at a police car," the police man informed Haruka, studing her ID. Haruka gave a nervous laugh.
"Er…I didn't know that, officer," Haruka lied straight through her teeth.
"Well, I'm going to have to give you a ticket. This is your second time being pulled over, yes?"
"Regrettably," Haruka mumbled in a low growl. If only she could use her henshin rod in public... Besides, one ticket had been enough.
The policeman scribbled some info on a ticket and handed it to Haruka, who took it grudgingly. The officer waved an admonishing finger at Haruka.
"Now I don't want to see or hear, in that matter, anymore swears being yelled out your window. We keep our anger inside, yes we do," he said, almost genially. Haruka gave a strained smile, trying to bite back a retort. Gods, she hated happy-go-lucky people... even worse, happy-go-lucky police officers.
The officer pulled away just as the traffic thinned out and the Senshi were on their way again.
-Mamoru's car-
Usagi let out a deep breath in a sigh, eyes fluttering open as she yawned. She'd just spent maybe half an hour sleeping, and felt refreshed and invigorated, if not stiff from sitting so long. She stretched, looking down...
Where a little black spider perched on her chest.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MAMO-CHAN!!!!!!"
"Usako!?" Mamoru's head flew to her, and ChibiUsa, who'd been dozing too, woke up with a jolt.
"MAMO-CHAN, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF, GET IT OFF!!" Usagi was freaking out, eyes wide in terror and swatting insanely at her chest. The teeny spider began scuttling around, trying to avoid death by the panicking blonde's hand.
"Usako, honey, I can't! I've got to drive!"
"It's just a little spider, baka!" ChibiUsa shouted, awake enough to realize why Usagi was screaming her head off. She folded her arms obstinately and refused to help, mortified that her mother, the future Queen of Crystal Tokyo no less, was terrified of a spider.
"NO, IT'S SCARY!" Usagi screamed. "AHHH, IT'S MOVING UP TO MY FACE! MAMO-CHAN!!!!!!"
"Usako, I'm driving!" Mamoru yelled back at her again, face pained because her cries were losing his concentration.
The spider creeped higher and crawled onto Usagi's bare neck.
"MAMO-CHAN!" Usagi screamed, lunging at him and swatting crazily.
"Usako, no!"
Mamoru lost control of the car as he found his lap full of panicking Usagi, wailing and flicking at the obstinantly staying spider, who now moved back down to her chest since the blonde was smacking her neck. It was one smart insect.
"Usako, baby, I can't see!"
The car swerved back and forth, and Mamoru tried to look around the bunny of the moon's body. Somehow, in Usagi's freaking out and him trying to calm her, his foot hit the brake and the car stopped abruptly. Usagi flew back and hit the steering wheel, and Mamoru slammed into her. ChibiUsa just flew into Mamoru's seat, luckily unharmed. As for the other two, the airbag exploded open and Usagi was crushed into Mamoru's front.
"Oh damn," Mamoru groaned, and reaching around for anything sharp as Usagi wiggled against his more, ah, sensitive part, trying to get free. He fought to ignore the feeling that invoked in him, saying,
"Usako, stay still," in a sort of moan.
"Your cell phone's pushing against me," the blonde murmured, complying. Mamoru inwardly groaned again. Now why would he put his cell phone down the FRONT of his pants, huh?
His hands found a pen and he jammed it into the suffocating balloon. It deflated in a wheeze and Usagi pulled free of him to look at her shirt, wailing at the black stain that used to be a spider.
Well, that was one way to kill it.
"Ewwwww!" she cried, fingering and picking at the white shirt in revulsion. "My shirt is...ruined! Can things get any worse!?"
"Um, I think we have a bigger problem than your shirt, Usagi. Judging by the police car, yes, things can," ChibiUsa said weakly from the back, gesturing to the police car that pulled up beside the car. "Oh, he don't look too happy, either."
Mamoru would have hit his head against the steering wheel repeatedly, if it were not for the blonde still in his lap.
What a way for the officer to see them, eh?
-Inner's car-
"What the hell is Mamoru-san doing!?" Minako cried, as the girls watched the car swerve to each side.
"Is he trying to kill them?" Makoto voiced of all their thoughts.
"Holy hell!" Minako shouted, forced to screech the car to a halt abruptly as the one in front of them suddenly stopped dead in the middle of the road. "What's going on!?"
-Outer's car-
Those in Haruka's car were thinking the same thing. They too had to come to a complete halt, and everyone thanked the powers that be that there were no cars behind them, or there would have been a serious pile up.
"Think he's trying to get our attention?" Hotaru mused, watching the car in front of them and the Inner's swerve back and forth.
"No, I rather think that of the police car's," Setsuna murmured, and she was quite right.
A police car whizzed by them, siren wailing. Haruka just chuckled, but not without nervously stuffing her ticket into the space inbetween the seats.
"Rather them than me. It's an official speeding ticket day, eh?" She rubbed her hands together eagerly. "I'm on. Can't wait to see the Inners get their first ticket today too."
Michiru just smacked the sandy blonde upside the head.
"Baka."
-Mamoru's car-
The sour looking officer got out of his car and Mamoru rolled down the window, plastering on a look of innocence.
"Hello, officer," he greeted, in a hopefully polite tone.
"You were speeding, driving recklessly, and endangering the lives of the civilians and other cars around you," the man said bluntly, wasting no time in getting to the point. "You also are risking the life of the young lady in your lap... this type of provocative behavior is inexcusable on the road while driving!"
This left the couple blushing furiously, and ChibiUsa snickering in the back, as she murmured, "What civilians?" Indeed, the road was deserted, aside from the trio of cars.
"Uh..." Mamoru mumbled, not expecting such an angry officer. Someone didn't get their doughnut this morning. It seemed Haruka had gotten the happy-go-lucky officer and Mamoru the grumpy one.
The officer scribbled Mamoru up a ticket. "If I ever see that again..." He left the threat hanging in the air, and handed the ticket to Mamoru, who gazed at it dumbly, as if in shock.
"You won't, sir," Mamoru promised, all the while thinking that this would be a perfect time for Usako to get off his lap... unfortunately, the blonde seemed quite content.
"Good." The officer pulled away, leaving all three to let out a deep breath. It was then that Usagi noticed she was still in Mamoru's lap and with a faint blush and "Eep!", scrambled back into her seat. Inwardly, Mamoru was both glad and disappointed, but then he berated himself for even thinking such thoughts. Usagi was still only sixteen and a half! They weren't even engaged yet, or she out of high school!
-Outer's car-
The officer drove slowly by Haruka, giving her an evil look that clearly spoke, I know you're bad... you're all bad... one of these days...
Haruka chuckled nervously, unconsciously pushing her previous ticket even lower. Luckily, the officer pulled away, in search of more crime.
-Mamoru's car-
Mamoru hit his head repeatedly against the steering wheel, doing what he'd wanted to do throughout the whole interrogation. And having Usako on his lap the whole time the officer had been there had made everything worse.
"Aw, it's OK, Muffin. It's only a ticket," Usagi soothed, patting his shoulder in a would-be comforting way.
"My first ever ticket," Mamoru returned in a pained voice. "This'll go on my record, and I won't be able to get jobs and my whole life will be ruined!"
"Er, I think you're over-dramatisizing this thing a tad too much," ChibiUsa said from the back. "Think on the bright side, Haruka-san got a ticket too, so you're not the only one! And there's a first for everything."
"Since when do you chastise your parents!" Usagi exclaimed at her spore of an offspring.
"Since I decided I would!" ChibiUsa yelled.
"No... fighting..." Mamoru growled, shooting up from his head's place on the steering wheel, where he was forcing his sorrows onto it quite violently, a.k.a hitting his head against it over and over.
"Just remember what I said, Mamo-chan. Haruka-san got one too!" ChibiUsa tried to comfort.
Mamoru wailed again in self-pity, replying that that was Haruka, but his misery was soon forced into the back of his mind as he had to drive again, or they'd never reach the ocean before nightfall.
Gods, he'd die in embarassment when he'd have to face all the teasing Senshi!
The darkness engulfed everything, like a dark cloud, hard to breath in the evil of it all. A figure, lone at the end of a passageway, stood staring into an ancient mirror, attention entirely focused on it as if the mirror was about to reveal something important.
"Ssss-enkaew ts-eggib symene ym wo-hsss…" the figure hissed, words ancient and shrouded in mystery. It was a dead language the figure spoke.
The mirror image shifted, going from the reflection of the dark figure to one of a dank, dark void. Two people floated there, coming closer and more distinct. One was a man, the other a little girl. The man had ebony black hair and wore a prince's suit, complete with armor and a sword. The little girl had pink hair and wore a princess dress, the crescent moon glowing on her forehead, the symbol of the Moon Royalty; a descendant of the Serenity line.
"Etaf rieht wo-hsss," the figure spoke again, in the same mysterious tongue. The mirror image shifted once more, and a gory scene displayed itself. The man had his own sword sticking out of his back, face a mask of blood, eyes pained and barely conscious.
Next to him, the girl lay floating, unconscious. Her pure white dress was splattered with blood, gashes on her stomach and a slash on her arm that bled profusely. Her head fell back, and her sunken, sightless eye sockets looked blankly ahead- her eyeballs had been viciously ripped out. A trickle of blood ran out from her open mouth.
The figure smiled, eyes flashing red and gold.
Hysterical laughter filled the room.
"Not long, Serenity….."
A/N: Wow, what a fun chapter to write :-D Hope you all enjoyed that as much as I did!
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