I think that my writing's gotten better these days. Yay! Anyway, here's Chapter 3.
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Chapter 3: Possessing Mois
4:47 PM
Keroro's Room
"I am sorely disappointed at your behavior around Keroro Junior," Keroro clucked, "and demand that you apologize at once!"
"What?!" Giroro shouted. "Why would we apologize to a stupid egg?"
"Keroro Junior's not a stupid egg! See!" Keroro pointed towards the egg in his right hand. The egg now had a golden sticker in the shape of a star on it. "I put a sticker on him, so you don't mistake him for some regular egg."
"Keroro-san, you're scaring me," Kilili responded. "Maybe you're getting a little too attached to this egg. It's probably just a regular Pokopenian chicken egg that got into your bed somehow."
"That's not true! Keroro Junior is my own flesh and blood, I can feel it!" Keroro argued.
"Keroro-kun, this is unhealthy," Dororo interjected. "You're getting too fond of it, and you're not . . . a woman . . ."
"Sergeant-san, please stop before you get hurt," Tamama suggested.
"No!" Keroro yelled.
"Keep it down, stupid frog!" came Natsumi's muffled voice. "If I hear one more sound, I'll come down there and crack your stupid egg!"
"Gero!" Keroro squealed. "Not Keroro Junior!"
Mois watched, a frown twitching at the corner of her usually-smiling mouth. 'Uncle's getting really close to that egg,' she thought, a trace of jealousy seeping into her thoughts. 'If this goes on, he might not care about me anymore.'
After everyone left the meeting, Keroro tucked the egg into a cradle beside his bed. "I'll be away for just a moment," he cooed to it. "Don't worry, Mommy'll be back!"
Keroro left the room, humming, "Kero, Kero, Kero . . ."
When the door closed, a blond head with a shooting star hair clip peeked out of the mini-fridge. Mois jumped out of the fridge and walked to stand beside the crib. She peeped over the edge, looking down at the star egg. A feeling of uncertainty came over her. 'Uncle loves this egg so much . . .,' she thought, 'should I really . . .'
Shaking her head, Mois stood up. She glowed with a bright light, removing her façade. Her Angolian clothes popped onto her body, and Mois took her cell phone out, inputting commands into it. Her phone lengthened into a golden staff, a golden meteor appearing on one end and a moon emerging on the other end. All traces of the phone vanished as she gripped the spear tightly in her hands. Mois faced the crib, jumping up and lifting the Lucifer Spear. "Hellmargeddon! One-trillionth!"
Just before her spear impacted with the egg, it started glowing with a purple light. She stopped her spear, toppling onto the ground. Looking up at the violet luminance shining from the crib, Mois froze. Slowly, the egg, a purple orb, floated up and out of the crib. It blazed with a purple fire, then picked Mois up with a purple light. Frightened, her eyes widened as the egg shone brighter than before.
"KYAAAAAAAA!!" she shrieked.
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5:21 PM
Hinata Household
A shadow passed through the hall and into the living room, where Keroro was reading the new Shounen Alpha on the couch. Mois stopped behind him, her face pointing downwards. "Uncle . . .," she started in an oddly empty voice.
"Hm? Oh, Mois-dono!" Keroro exclaimed, turning around. "Is something wrong?"
She lifted her head, revealing her blank brown eyes. "It is nothing. What are you doing, Uncle?"
"I'm reading the new Shounen Alpha," Keroro replied, flipping a page. "Fuyuki-dono bought it for me when he came back."
"That is good, Uncle," she commented, walking around the couch. Mois sat down beside him, fixing her eyes on the star on his belly. "Uncle, the Keron Star is pretty."
"Eh? Oh, it is shiny, isn't it?" Keroro looked fondly at the Keron Star. "It's one of my most prized possessions."
"Keron . . . Star . . .," Mois breathed, gazing at the star sticker.
Keroro looked at her with concern for a moment before turning back to his manga. "You're kind of creeping me out, Mois-dono," he admitted. "Anyway, could you go and check on Keroro Junior for me?"
"Keroro Junior is fine," she nodded, still gazing at the Keron Star. "Uncle, do you think that I could borrow the Keron Star?"
"W-Why?" Keroro asked. However, Mois was already reaching towards it. "M-M-Mois-dono! Please stop!"
She clasped one end of the Keron Star and started to pry it off. Keroro grabbed her hand and pushed it off, patting the sticker back into place. "Mois-dono! That was very rude . . . and unlike you," Keroro blinked at Mois, squinting. "You seem different today . . . unless . . . you're not Mois-dono!"
He jumped up on the couch, wrapping his arms around his belly. "Whoever you are, you're not getting the Keron Star!"
Keroro ran out of the living room. Mois floated up, supported by a purple light. She flew after him, the Lucifer Spear materializing in her hands. Lifting the spear up, she brought it down on the spot where Keroro was. Keroro rolled out of the way, and her spear penetrated the floorboards. Mois pried the spear out of the floor and chased Keroro up the stairs, slamming her spear down every five feet. "Fuyuki-dono!" Keroro called, darting into Fuyuki's room and locking the door behind him.
Fuyuki looked up from the book that he'd been reading. "Sergeant? What's wrong?"
At that moment, the Lucifer Spear crashed through the top of the door, sending wooden splinters everywhere. Fuyuki shielded himself with his book, peeking over the top of the page when the wood stopped flying. "Mois-san?" he questioned, looking at Mois. Mois turned to him briefly before glancing at Keroro. She lifted her spear, flying towards Fuyuki. Mois grabbed Fuyuki, pointing the meteor end of the Lucifer Spear towards him. "Give me the Keron Star, or the Pokopenian dies," she said gravely.
"M-Mois-san? What are you doing?" Fuyuki asked, panicking.
"Please let Fuyuki-dono go!" Keroro pleaded.
"Then give me the Keron Star," Mois repeated.
Keroro froze. 'If I give her the Keron Star, then I'll no longer be Sergeant Keroro . . .,' he thought, '. . . but if I don't . . .' Keroro turned to Fuyuki. 'Fuyuki-dono will die . . .'
"Sergeant!" Fuyuki called desperately, struggling in Mois's neck hold.
"I . . . I . . .," Keroro stuttered, looking down at the Keron Star.
The window shattered, and shards of glass flew everywhere. Mois deflected every piece of glass with her spear while maintaining her neck lock on Fuyuki. In flew Alisa Southern Cross, enormous bat wings stretching from her cat ears. She alighted in front of Mois, narrowing her eyes. "I sensed that you were in trouble, Fuyuki," Alisa said.
Mois grit her teeth. "Dark nebulans!" she growled.
Nebula, in his form as Alisa's cat ears, examined Mois. "This one seems to be possessed by a malevolent entity," he observed. "A very powerful entity."
"She has Fuyuki, Daddy," Alisa replied. "We have to take her down."
"Very well, then." Alisa's right arm morphed into a huge, inky black hammer that swung toward Mois. Mois ducked, then leaped out of the window. She gripped Fuyuki by the neck, twirling the Lucifer Spear in her other hand. Turning around, Mois was knocked back by Alisa's hammer. She dropped Fuyuki as she spun back. However, Mois quickly regained her balance and blasted forward, trailing purple flame. Mois lifted her spear, shouting, "Hellmargeddon! One-half!"
The meteor head hit Alisa's hammer, causing it to fall apart. Alisa's arm hung there limply for a moment before transforming into a huge claw. Her claw stretched down and grabbed Fuyuki, bringing him back up. She set him down on the Hinata house's roof, saying, "Stay here."
Alisa flew off, her bat wings stretching on the updraft. Her claw elongated into a scimitar as she swiped at Mois. Mois quickly dodged, slamming the moon head of her spear onto Alisa's scimitar-arm. Her arm dissolved into its normal form, and she sent tentacles out of her other arm towards Mois. Mois flew, spinning and twisting, to avoid the tentacles, but one wrapped around her ankle anyway. As the other vines wrapped around her body, she muttered, "Damn!"
Mois's mouth opened wide, and a purple light flooded out of her mouth and her eyes, dissipating into the air. She slumped, closing her eyes as Alisa drew her closer. When Mois dangled in front of them, the Lucifer Spear a cell phone in her pocket again, Nebula declared, "She does not seem to be possessed anymore. It is a good thing that no one was seriously injured."
Mois tumbled onto the roof beside Fuyuki, who recoiled in alarm. Alisa started flying away. "Wait, Alisa-chan!" he called.
She stopped, turning around. "What is it?"
"What was wrong with Mois-san?" Fuyuki inquired.
Nebula was the one that replied. "She was possessed by a very powerful and evil spirit. That was not her acting just now."
"Thank goodness," he sighed. Fuyuki turned to Mois, a relieved look in his eyes. "It wasn't Mois-san. Thanks, Alisa . . ." He turned back around to face Alisa, but she was gone. ". . . chan . . ."
Keroro pulled himself onto the roof with a grunt, flopping down onto it and gasping, "Fuyuki-dono! Are you all right?"
"You missed all the action, Sergeant!" Fuyuki informed.
"What was with Mois-dono?!" Keroro raged. "She tried to take my Keron Star, and then she threatened you!"
"Alisa-chan told me that Mois-san was possessed by some spirit just now," Fuyuki said excitedly, "so that wasn't Mois-san acting just now!"
Keroro wiped the sweat off of his brow. "Phew! I was worried that Mois-dono went crazy there for a moment," he sighed, then froze. "Did you say spirit?"
Stars were in Fuyuki's eyes as he gushed, "I can't believe it! A possessing spirit in our house! I have to write an occult report on it for the occult club!"
Fuyuki carefully lowered himself onto the balcony, dashing into his room. A second later, the sound of a pencil scratching on paper came from his room. "Fuyuki-dono!" Keroro wailed. "You can't leave me to carry Mois-dono all by myself!"
"Sorry, Sergeant!" Fuyuki responded.
Huffing, Keroro heaped Mois onto his shoulders. He leaped down onto the balcony, barely preventing her head from smacking the rail. "Gero . . . Mois-dono . . . sure is heavy . . .," Keroro gasped.
Mois stirred on his back, mumbling, "Uncle . . ."
Keroro staggered out of Fuyuki's room. Mois's weight caused him to totter left, then right down the stairs. At the fifth stair, his foot caught on the step, and Keroro bounced down the rest of the stairs. Mois flew out of his grip, rolling down the steps and stopping at the base. Keroro landed beside her, slowly getting up. "Oww . . .," he moaned. "Mois-dono, are you all right?"
"Uncle!" Mois exclaimed, sitting bolt upright. "Huh? What am I doing here? You could say, no memory at all?"
"Mois-dono!" Keroro shouted. "You're all right!"
"What happened?" Mois asked. "Are you hurt?"
"Why did you attack me and Fuyuki-dono?!" Keroro fumed, waving his arms around angrily.
"I attacked you and Fuyuki-sama?" Mois pondered, her finger on her chin. "You could say, very sorry?"
Keroro sighed. "It's okay, Mois-dono. You were just possessed by an evil spirit."
"An evil spirit?" Mois gasped, jumping to her feet. The Lucifer Spear appeared in her right hand. "I won't let them hurt my Uncle!"
As she stood, ready to fight in front of Keroro, Natsumi came in. Natsumi blinked, stuttering, "M-Mois-chan?"
"Oh, Natsumi-chan!" Mois noticed. She glanced at the Lucifer Spear, hiding it behind her back. "N-Nothing strange going on here! It's just me and Uncle! You could say, a party of two?"
"Well, call me if you need anything," Natsumi replied, taking her shoes off and putting them beside the door. She started to go up the stairs, then stopped. "Mois-chan? What's that behind you?"
"O-Oh, this?" Mois held out her cell phone. "It's just my cell phone."
"Odd . . . I thought that you were holding your Lucifer Spear for a moment," Natsumi shrugged. "It must have been a trick of my eye. Oh, stupid frog. Everything looks good so far. You really did your chores this time. Good job. Go and . . . play with your Gunpla or whatever. I'll do the dishes tonight."
'A 'good job' from Natsumi-dono?' Keroro reveled in his mind. 'It's like all my fatigue has melted away, all my worry is gone, and I'm a new Keronian!'
Keroro hummed as he skipped away, prepared to continue reading his Shounen Alpha when suddenly, he realized something. Turning around slowly, Keroro's eyes widened. "Natsumi-dono is going upstairs," he gasped. "NOOOOOO!! NATSUMI-DONO!! DON'T GO UP—"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, STUPID FROG?!" roared Natsumi. "Were you playing with some of your lasers again?! I thought I told you to keep the house clean, not wreck it!"
Fuyuki peeked out of his splintered door. "Shh, sis," he shushed. "I'm trying to work on my occult report."
"Fuyuki! What happened here?!" Natsumi screeched.
"Well, it seems like a malevolent spirit possessed Mois-san," Fuyuki started. "She started wrecking the floors and the walls with her spear, and the possessed Mois-san even held me captive for a while. Alisa-chan saved me, though. That's basically what happened, and now I'm trying to figure out why a spirit would possess Mois-san and do all that damage. So, could you keep it down, sis?"
"You won't hear anything out of us," Natsumi vowed, adding to herself, 'not even the screams of the stupid frog. This is probably all his fault!'
Fuyuki ducked back into his room, and the pencil scratching resumed. Natsumi stormed back downstairs, facing Keroro and Mois with guilty looks on their faces. "It wasn't your fault, Mois-chan," Natsumi assured. "You couldn't do anything about it. You're free to go."
"Yay! You could say, a lucky break?" Mois cheered, darting into the basement. Natsumi cracked her knuckles, looking at Keroro menacingly.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" she asked.
"I-I-It wasn't m-my fault!" Keroro stammered. "I-I didn't d-do a-a-anything!"
"Everything around here is usually your fault, stupid frog," Natsumi growled. "Why should I believe you?"
Fuyuki strolled out of his room, peering over the railing. "Hey, sis! Go easy on him," he called.
"Why should I?" Natsumi muttered.
"Sergeant's telling the truth. It really isn't his fault," Fuyuki responded. "Mois-san was possessed by a spirit, and that can't possibly be because of Sergeant. I'm actually still trying to figure out the identity of the spirit that possessed Mois-san."
Natsumi lowered her fists, a look of realization coming over her face. Fuyuki's eyes widened as the siblings stared at each other.
"You don't think—"
"Ghost-chan?!"
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6:02 PM
Keroro's Room
"Huh? Me? What did I do?" the ghost that lived in Keroro's room queried, looking puzzled.
"You possessed Mois-chan!" Natsumi accused.
"Why would you think that?" Ghost-chan asked.
"Who else in this house is a spirit?" Natsumi retorted. "You're the only one we could think of."
"You must be mistaken," Ghost-chan insisted. "I would never possess any one of you. I was in this room the whole time."
Natsumi still looked skeptical, but Fuyuki replied, "I believe you. Sis, she probably wasn't the one that controlled Mois-san. Alisa-chan said that the entity that was possessing her was malevolent and evil. I don't think Ghost-chan is evil."
His older sister sighed. "Well, then, who else is there? Unless Kururu made some weird invention . . ." Natsumi's eyes popped. "That's it! This is all Kururu's fault!"
"Now, sis, don't be so quick to assume something," Fuyuki chided.
"This is just the kind of thing that he would do, just to pass the time," Natsumi snarled. "But did he have to hurt Mois-chan?"
Mois had an expression of utter confusion on her face. Sighing, she said, "Why are we talking about Kururu-sama? You could say, very confused?"
"Because Kururu is the one that possessed you," Natsumi explained. "And I'm going to go give him a piece of my mind!"
As she whirled around and stomped towards the mini-fridge, Ghost-chan called, "Wait! I might have seen something that could help you."
Natsumi halted, spinning around to face her. "What do you know?"
"Well, while I was in here, I felt the presence of a malicious spirit somewhere in the room. I also saw it entering Mois-sama. Unfortunately, I couldn't identify from where in this room it came from. I'm sorry," Ghost-chan told them.
"That's fine, Ghost-chan," Fuyuki assured. "You've already given us a lot of information. Thanks."
The ghost nodded, vanishing. She reappeared as the image of a person on Keroro's wall as Natsumi huffed, "Well, we just have to search this room for anything trace of a malicious spirit."
"That's easier to say than to do," Fuyuki replied. "We're going to need some instrument to detect paranormal waves. Where are we going to get that?"
"Kururu!" Natsumi exclaimed.
"I know that you don't like Kururu, but we know that he didn't do it now," Fuyuki said.
"No, I mean that Kururu can make something that detects . . . what you said."
"But he's never going to do that. Kururu never helps people unless it's for his own personal gain."
"Pay him, then! He'll make whatever we want if we pay him!"
"No way," Kururu's voice said flatly. "Ku, ku!"
"Oh, come on, Kururu!" Natsumi groaned. "We'll pay you!"
"Even if you say that, I won't do it . . . ku, ku . . . I never help people, remember?"
"What do you want, then?" Natsumi inquired.
"Hmm . . . give me some curry rice! I'll make your paranormal wave sensor then . . . ku, ku . . ." His voice faded.
"Do we have curry rice?" Fuyuki asked.
"I'll go make it right now," Natsumi declared, rushing out of Keroro's room.
"I guess that we can get started, Sergeant. Sergeant?"
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Tee-hee! Cliffhanger! The next chapter's coming tomorrow! Please review.