Vol.2
Chapter 7
I'm Selina Chase, 18 years old, My birth metal is silver. I'm in the first year of college under the Managing Program, hoping to manage a hotel or a apartment building. I'm just a little clumsy and a bit of a complainer. That's about it. One day, a strange woman in black named Luna Lupo showed up and made me a Guardian of the Moon. But she wants me to fight bad guys. That makes me really nervous. Oh well, I guess everything will be okay. Hopefully.
Selina steps out of her bath tub carefully to avoid any slips, she wraps herself in a towel and checks out in the full size mirror that's on her bathroom door. She went over to the balance and weigh herself, she wasn't sure how much she would weigh. Luna was at her office reading a book and having a relaxing tea until she heard screaming from one of the upstairs apartments. She ran up the stairs to see what might of happen and hoping everything is alright. As she used her master key to get into Selina's apartment, she called out to her to see where she was. She eventually found her in the bathroom sitting on the toilet.
"What happen? Are you alright?" Luna got worried. Selina pointed at the balance as if it was cursed.
"That stupid thing says that I've gain weight. How can I be gaining weight when all this time I've been doing is fighting bad guys all the time? I don't get it!"
"Oh, is that all!"
"That's all! You do realize that a girl's body figure is her self-esteem also!"
"Okay, but you didn't gain FAT, instead you've gain MUSCLES or build them is the appropriate term from the exercises and battling your enemies."
"Are you sure about this?"
"I'm a woman myself ain't I? So I know these things. But you do eat a lot of junk food, you need to change that habit of yours by eating healthier foods. Better to be safe than be sorry."
"You don't have to say it that much. Jeez!" Selina walked out of the bathroom and enter her room closing the door with a slam behind her. Luna stayed behind in the living room. Selina got dressed in her comfort clothes and sat in her bed staring out the window.
"Staying in your room doesn't help anything! You just need to eat properly from now on and continue with your exercises." yelled Luna from the other side of the door. Selina opened the door letting Luna in.
"I guess I can keep in shape to fight better." Selina admitted
"It wouldn't hurt to try out one of those dieting plans." Luna teased.
"Luna, you are the nastiest person when it comes to reassurance."
"Why, your welcome!"
The next day in college, during lunch hour Selina watches Ellie eat her lunch while trying to eat her fruit salad.
"What it is, Selina." asked Ellie.
"Oh, nothing."
"Selina, if you already finished your lunch, you can have this too. It's really good!" Said Manny, showing her a giant bag of all dressed potato chips.
"Well, um...you see I'm kind of on a diet."
"Really, what for?" asked Ellie.
"Luna said that I should eat 'healthier foods' according to her. Hence my fruit salad that she made for me."
"I totally get it. I'm having a hard time also!" mentioned Manny. The two looked at him as if he got something on his face.
"No shit you're having a hard time! You just bought a giant bag of chips Manny! Why do you even care about your weight anyways?" said Selina
"I'm a guy who's trying to look good for his ladies, OK?"
"So you're dieting, but aren't you working out in the gym every second day of the week?" asked Ellie
"Yeah, but my major issue is my eating habits. It seems that I am attracted to junk food all the time." replied Selina.
"Well at lest you're off to a good start with that salad. Lets hope it can last you until dinner." said Ellie.
"I doubt that." said Selina looking slum.
"If that doesn't work, you can always try to keep your mind off of food by doing some hobbies."
"Like what?"
"Like collecting something or do something artistic."
"I thought going to the gym is a hobby."
"I think that's more of a routine kind of thing. My hobby is collecting rare comics." said Manny.
"And mine is to write in my journal." said Ellie
"What do you write in your journal?" Manny asked.
"Personal stuff that I will never tell you."
"Well, I can't help it if I'm born to be a junk food monster. I'll probably die of high cholesterol." said Selina.
"Now you're being dramatic. Speaking of diets, did you realise how thin Mrs. Lenz got. As if she lost the weight in an instant."
"Really? How did she do that?"
"I have no clue." The three were conversing away when Mrs. Lenz pass by them.
"Hello everyone." greeted Mrs. Lenz. The three stared at her if they see any difference in her body shape.
"She doesn't look that much thinner." said Selina.
"You can't tell because she's wearing clothes." Manny brought out two pictures of Mrs. Lenz in workout clothes. "Look at these." He showed one, "This is the before..." then the next one. "...and this is the after. See?" Selina took the photos and compared.
"Wow! She was amazed.
"And that's only in two days."
"Manny, how did you get these photos?" asked Ellie.
"Oh well, that my friend is top secret." Ellie went closer to Manny trying to intimidate him.
"You didn't!"
"Did what?"
"How did you take these pictures? Say it!"
"This is starting to look creepy, Manny." said Selina. Manny backed up and turned around to run away. "Hey, wait! Manny, come back here!" The two went after him. Manny hid in the side wall of the college hoping he won't be seen. Ellie past by him not noticing him, he calmed down a bit.
I shouldn't have said anything. He said to himself. As he just relaxed, Selina sneaked up behind him.
"Tell me where you took these photos?" she asked, Manny jumped out of his socks.
"HOLY CRAP! You scared me to death!"
"The next time wouldn't be so pretty, now tell me!"
"Alright, I followed Mrs. Lenz and secretly took those pictures with my camera."
"Um, that's down right creepy, Manny. But where did you took it?"
"Huh? It's in downtown Manhattan. You can't miss it."
The two girls went to the popular gym downtown to see what it's like, the gym was called 'Magic Fit'. "This is it. This is the gym that Mrs. Lenz goes to." said Ellie.
"But isn't it expensive to join a gym?" wondered Selina.
"Well, we can always ask for a tryout to see if we like the environment or not. Plus, it looks like famous people have been here already. Talk about popular."
"The advertisement here says, 'Two pounds a day, ten pounds in two days. If you go for three days, you too will be beautiful.' It sounds impossible to accomplish."
"Look here, the sign here says that they're having a free introductory memberships."
"Why don't we give it a try? Nothing is cheaper than free. Let's go in." the two went inside the building. When they did, someone seems to be watching them from the window.
Here comes more stupid prey. Nothing costs more than something that's free. The two girls changed into their workout outfits getting ready to face the challenges.
"It was a good thing we brought our sweat clothes." mentioned Selina
"What are we waiting for, let's go get'em!"said Ellie. Before they went anywhere a blonde man in sweats came forward and welcome them.
"Welcome to 'Magic Fit'." The two were overwhelm by how he looks, especially Ellie.
"Wow, he's gorgeous." said Ellie.
"I'm the instructor here. The name is Jae Mondadori." he said.
"Um, we're new here." said Selina
"Please come this way." Jae lead them to the main gym. Ellie started working on the high bar and Selina worked on the rowing machine, but stopped for a moment. The trainer beside her encouraged her to do it one more time. Next Ellie worked on the treadmill, the trainer told her to go ten percent faster and she's already exhausted.
"What?" exclaimed Ellie.
"One sweat for four pounds, two sweats for ten pounds. Three sweats and you too will be beautiful. Now try harder." Jae applauded to the girls for their hard work. Ellie moved on to the bicycle, she noticed that Selina wasn't there anymore.
"Hey where did she go?" Jae saw Ellie stopped working out, he went over to her and encourage her to continue.
"You over there. If you stop, you won't get beautiful. That's too bad, you're off to a good start."
"Right! Beautiful. I will be beautiful!" Ellie said to herself as she rode on the bike with such strength. After awhile Jae ended the session.
"Okay, that's it for today!" he announced. Everyone in the gym including Ellie were extremely exhausted. "You did well, everyone. Finally, we'll have you all showered by our Shape Sauna."
"Shape Sauna?" Ellie wondered. Meanwhile in the Bubble Bath Room, Selina relaxes in a jacuzzi at full blast.
"Oh, I'm exhausted! It's hard to lose weight. Now I'm hungry and it's not even dinner time. Useless fruit salad!"
In the lower part of the building, Jae brought his customers to a room fill with body-size capsules. "You'll get inside these capsules." Everyone looked uneasy, Ellie didn't like the idea of going inside them.
"They don't look very 'comfortable'." she said.
"If you were exposed to the Shape Sauna for five minutes, a chubby person can lose twenty pounds. Even if you were thin can lose seven pounds right away." he explained.
"Now I get it. So this is how Mrs. Lenz got so thin in one day. I'm going in!" Ellie is convinced and the same with everyone else. When they stepped into the capsules, the orb attached to it started to react. The cables in between has lights that travels from the capsule to the orb.
With the energy of these young ladies...
In the cave of dark shadows, Lady Pandora sits in her throne calling for her servant.
"Jason." A hologram of him appeared in front of her
"Lady Pandora, I am here."
"How are the preparations?"
"Do not worry. The energy of the young woman is steadily being collected."
"Good, proceed as planned."
Yes, these stupid women will do anything to lose weight. This plan will definitely succeed."
Back at the gym, the customers finally came out of the capsules this time looking really thin, including Ellie. "I'm really...tired." Ellie couldn't walk for how week she is. Jae encouraged them by commenting of their appearances.
"Everyone, you have grown unbelievably more beautiful." The ladies expressions went from dopey to excited.
"Really? That's great!" said Ellie as the other customers agreed.
"If you want to become really beautiful, come again tomorrow." Jae advised enough to them to have another return. The ladies agreed and walked slowly towards the door going to the change room. Jae or Jason went beyond the shadows to see how much energy he collected. "With the energy of these women who would sacrifice their lives to lose weight...Lady Pandora will be pleased!"
