Act 9

Melody, who begins by explaining that an enemy who called himself one of the four generals, Adam(Beast), got a direct hit on Sailor Moon. "The enemy is getting stronger! But whatever happens I won't let the Princess and the Maboroshi no Ginzuisho fall into their hands!" She looks back at Ariel, asleep in her bed. "Ariel-chan, this isn't the time to be mooning over Tuxedo Kamen!" Ariel turns over in her sleep.

Intro:

Inside the lobby of a fancy hotel, a little boy is looking at a jewel inside a glass case. Suddenly the lights go off. When they come on again, the jewel is Kamen runs through the night, clutching the jewel in his hands.

At the Tsukino house the next morning, Ikuko-mama is washing dishes. Ariel comes in in her pajamas, hair down and Luna in her arms. "Mama, I'll have two fried eggs." She says.

"Sorry, morning service has ended!" Ikuko-mama tells her. "Just how long did you plan to sleep?"

"Aww, it doesn't matter, it's the weekend!" Ariel complains, as she sits down and turns on the tv. Who should be on TV but Aurora, who is in London, talking about how great it is to work with artists from all over the world.

"The recording for my new single in London is going great!" She says with a smile. "Please look forward to it!" She waves, and the program fades up.

"Aurora has a new single!" Ariel says happily. "I can't wait! I wonder what it will be like? I'm definitely gonna buy it!" She has turned back to the table, but suddenly she hears the newscaster say "Tuxedo Kamen".

Ariel turns back to the TV quickly. "Lately there has been an increase in the number of thefts by Tuxedo Kamen, but he has recently released a statement to the press. He says that there is a mysterious jewel called that Maboroshi no Ginzuisho in Japan, and this is what he is searching for." On the street, crowds of people are watching the new broadcast on the huge screen on the wall of a building. The caster announced that the MnG is rumoured to be worth billions of yen.

"Billions of yen?" Echoes Ikuko-mama, who has stopped cleaning to listen. "Where's that jewel that grandma left us!? I have to go look for it!" She runs off.

"Melody…" Ariel whispers.

"This is bad!" Luna says.

The Crown Karaoke Center. The four girls sit in the secret karaoke room, watching the news. The newscaster is explaining that according to the statement of the thief Tuxedo Kamen, the MnG gives off light, and glitters with all the colors of the rainbow. She shows conceptual drawing that the staff as created. Luna turns off the TV. "I can't believe he talked about the MnG to the media!"

"I saw a lot of people going crazy over it on my way here." Jasmine admits. "Everyone wants to find it now."

"Isn't that what he wants?" Mulan asks. "With so many people looking for it, the volume of information he gathers is so much greater."

"It will just make people steal form each other." Melody says. "And it might effect the Princess as well!"

"Maybe this is what Sailor V meant when she said Tuxedo Kamen was our enemy." Belle says. "He certainly seems like bad news."

"And he's a thief." Jasmine agrees.

"But he's saved me so many times!" Ariel protests.

"Right, probably to trick you." Belle says.

"That's mean!" Ariel cries, jumping up. "That's not why he does it!"

"How do you know?" Belle asks.

"I…I just do…" Ariel sits down, pouting.

"Ariel…are you…do you like Tuxedo Kamen?" Jasmine asks, peering at her. The other two look at her and gasp as Ariel looks down, remembering giving Tuxedo Kamen her handkerchief and how he smiled at her.

Ariel grabs the mic, and yells. "I'll confess it! I…like Tuxedo Kamen!" But everyone has already left. Ariel puts the mic back and sighs. "There no way I can say the way things are now." She says as she walks up the stairs. "But Tuxedo Kamen has to have some reason, I know it!"

"Please…find the MnG….Please…" Begs the shadowy figure of a girl. Eric wakes up. He gazes at the top hat on his desk. "No matter what I have to do…I'll find the MnG…" He mutters darkly. He picks up his tuxedo, and Ariel's handkerchief falls out of it. He stares at it, remembering when she gave it to him.

The Dark Kingdom. In her throne room, Ursula is using her powers to levitate Beast, who lies unconscious. "Beast…always failing so foolishly. But we commend you on your heart, which longs to serve us so faithfully." Purple-black light flows out of her hands onto Beast, who shrinks, changing into a gemstone. "Store your power for the time being, for our sake…" She smiles, blowing on the gemstone, which turns black. As she turns away, Shang is in the shadows, watching her jealously.

"Why does her Majesty shower those such as Beast and Philip with love!?" Shang pauses in the stone hallway to pound his fist into the wall. "I must find the MnG!" His eyes widen. "Certainly that man called Tuxedo Kamen has started something strange. It might work to have him find it, and then steal it from him!"

In the bookstores, all the magazines and newspaper have headlines on the MnG. Huge crowds throng the jewelry stores clamming to know whether or not their jewels are the MnG.

At the Tsukino House, Ariel and her mother are watching TV, on which Professor Aoi, a man 'knowlegeble about the MnG' tells viewers that it could be somewhere you wouldn't expect, and that if anyone has an information they should call the phone number on the screen. Ikuko-mama rushes to write the number down. Ariel just watches her. The announcer on TV warns that there has been a rise in thefts in the past few days, and that there seems to be many Tuxedo Kamens. Ariel imagines a parade of strange fake Tuxedo Kamens. The announcer warns listeners to keep their jewels in a safe place, and Ikuko-mama rushes around to hide her grandmother's necklace.

A older man smoking a cigar rushes over to Belle as she walks home from school. "Hino Belle-Sensei!" He gushes, bowing. "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Narita, president of the Narita company." He hands he his business card. "Please use your powers to protect my MnG!" He bows deeply, and Belle looks at him like he's insane.

"Wait a minute…" She protests.

At Juban Middle School, the kids are fooling around as they clean the classroom. Ariel stares out the window. 'This has become such a big deal…' She thinks. "I hope Tuxedo Kamen is okay….' Ariel starts as Naru pops up in front of her.

"What are you spacing out for?" She asks. "Thinking about a guy you like?" Ariel turns to her, looking down. Naru pulls her down to into a seat. "So you do have someone you like!"

"Do you?" Ariel asks.

"I'll tell if you do." Naru teases.

"That's not fair!" Ariel protests.

"Who is it?" Naru asks.

"You don't know him." Ariel tells her. She stands up. "Actually, I don't really know him either…." She admits.

"What's that mean?" Naru asks.

"He just appears out of nowhere, and then disappears into nowhere." Ariel tells her.

"What kind of a guy is he?" Naru asks, confused.

"That's the thing, I don't know." Ariel says. "Oh well just ask! Next time he appears out of nowhere." Naru tells her.

"But it kind of complicated…" Ariel protests.

"If you like someone, you have to be forward!" Naru tells her. "You'll regret it if you don't."

"Huh?" Ariel turns to look at her, surprised. Then her magic cell phone rings.

"Ariel, when you're done, we're all meeting at the Crown." Melody tells her.

"I've heard of this company before." Jasmine says, looking at the card.

"It's one of the top class companies in the country." Mulan says.

"So the President says the MnG is at his house, huh?" Melody asks.

"It hasn't been appraised yet, but he's worried that Tuxedo Kamen will steal it." Belle says.

"So that's why he wants you to come?" Jasmine asks.

"As if I could get rid of burglars." Belle sighs. "This is the one time I wish people wouldn't take stock in my powers." Mulan watches as Bell grips her skirt tight in her hands under the table.

"Still, the possibility that this is the real thing is high." Melody says. "I think you should go."

"I'll go." Mulan volunteers, standing up.

"You, Mulan-chan?" Jasmine asks, surprised.

"All I have to do is look the part, I can't just say I'm Belle's apprentice." Mulan says with a smile. "I want to try." Belle looks at her, eyes wide. Mulan smiles.

"Let's do that then." Jasmine says.

"I'll go too. Tuxedo Kamen might come after it." Ariel looks up at that. "Oh! I'll come too!" She says, standing with a grin.

"Don't forget that Tuxedo Kamen is the enemy!" Melody says with a stern face.

"Right…" Ariel agrees, looking down.

The Narita yard is filled with policemen, at the doors and stationed all around. Mulan arrives in a black car, wearing a miko outfit and her glasses. She steps out of the cars, smiling and adjusting her glasses. Narita welcomes her enthusiastically. "I feel so much safer with Hino Belle-sensei's most promising apprentice!" Mulan sits down on the couch. "The consultant, Mr. Aoi will be here shortly." Narita informs Mulan. She smiles, and adjusts her glasses. Jasmine and Ariel peek around the corner into the yard. They look at each other. "Let's go." Jasmine says. They pull out their magic cell phones. Jasmine transforms into a cop, and walks through the policement towards the houses. Ariel, transformed into a tree cutter, watches from the trees. "There's so many policemen…" She murmurs. "If Tuxedo Kamen comes, he'll be caught for sure! Please don't come…" A man in a tuxedo walks through the brush.

Mr. Aoi is led in, and Narita thanks him for coming. He looks at Mulan. "She's the apprentice of a psychic; she's come to project the MnG." Aoi looks at her creepily. "

But of course. And where is the MnG?"

"I've got it safe right here." Narita pulls it out of his jacket. The gem glitters in the light. Mulan and Aoi stare at it.

"How pretty…" Mulan says. Aoi looks at her and she looks away quickly, adjusting her glasses.

Outside, Ariel is still watching from her tree. "I can't see inside. What's going on? Is it the real thing?" She wonders. Then she hears some noise in the bushes and looks down to see Tuxedo Kamen. "Tuxedo Kamen! They'll find him!" She presses her mouth together, worried. Melody pops up in her head, telling her not to forget he's the enemy. On the other side Naru pops up, telling her she has to be forward. Ariel pauses, unsure, and Naru pops up again yelling that she will regret it. Ariel nods.

Inside, Aoi tells Narita that the jewel has the features of the MnG. Mulan stares at it. Just then, someone yells "It's Tuxedo Kamen!"

Narita and Mulan race to the window, to see a suspiciously familiar (and feminine) Tuxedo Kamen waving her arms and yelling "Here I am!" The police, including Jasmine, rush forward. Jasmine stops.

"Ariel?" She says. Tuxedo Ariel laughs and runs off. The police run after her. She slips into the bushes and pulls Tuxedo Kamen away with her.

Mulan and Narita are still looking out the window. Aoi picks up the jewel. "Wait!" Mulan cries. "I knew you were suspicious!" Aoi runs out of the house with the jewel, and Mulan runs after him. Aoi hands the jewel to Shang, who is waiting outside.

"Nice work." He says, snapping his fingers. Aoi collapses to the ground. Shang smiles.

"Hold it!" Jasmine yells.

"Give back the Ginzuisho!" Mulan yells.

"Why you…" Shang growls. He leaps over the stone wall. Jamsine and Mulan transform. They flip into front of Shang, cutting off his path.

"I'm the soldier of water and knowledge, Sailor Mercury!"

"The soldier of the wind and courage, Sailor Jupiter!"

"In the name of Mercury…."

"In the name of Jupiter…"

"We'll punish you!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Shang yells, blasting them.

Ariel and Tuxedo Kamen press themselves against a wall as the police run by. "Thank goodness!" Ariel says. Tuxedo Kamen looks at her.

"Um…" He says, in a deep voice. Ariel blanches. It's not Tuxedo Kamen's voice. Sure enough, He rips off his mask, and it is not the real Tuxedo Kamen. "Why did you do that? Wait…you're a woman?!" He pulls of his gloves and strokes her hand, a lecherous smile on his face. Ariel screams and kicks him. The police come running, and grab him. Then they catch sight of Ariel.

"There's another one!" They run after her. Ariel finds herself at a dead end. The policemen are getting closer.

"Sailor Moon! Transform!" Yells Tuxedo Kamen's voice

"Oh, right!" Ariel rips off her top hat and mask, and transforms. The police find nothing there but her hat and mask.

Meanwhile, Shang and the senshi are still fighting. He blasts them again, and starts to run away, but they flip and cartwheel in front of him. "You can't run." Mercury tells him, shaking her finger at him. "Shining Aqua Illusion!"

"Flower Hurricane!"

Shang yells, his fists clenches and a ball of energy forms around him, protecting him from the attacks and blasting the girls. The 'MnG' falls to the ground and shatters. "It wasn't the real thing!" He cries, and sweeps off.

Night has fallen. Sailor Moon and the real Tuxedo Kamen are hiding behind a truck at the harbor. "It seems you saved a fake." He remarks.

"I thought it was you." Sailor moon explains. "It was stupid of me." He smiles at her. She looks up and smiles back for a moment before her face grows serious again. "Why did you tell them about the MnG?" She asks.

"Because I don't have power like you guys. But…I wanted the MnG no matter what."

"Why?"

"In order to figure out who I am." He explains, turning away.

"What do you mean?" She asks. He looks out onto the glowing water and remembers his dream of the girl begging him for the MnG. A police siren sounds, and he starts to run. "Wait!" Sailor Moon calls. "You've saved me so many times, but I don't know your name, or your face! So, I…"

He turns slightly. "It's better that you don't. Probably." He runs off, leaving Sailor Moon staring after him.

"Tuxedo Kamen…"

"I see…so, it wasn't the MnG." Belle says.

"Right. So there really wasn't any need for you to go." Mulan tells her, smiling. Belle watches her.

"Thank you…" She says. Mulan shakes her head, still smiling.

"Ariel!" Jasmine says loudly. "Tuxedo Kamen is our enemy!"

"No! Tuxedo Kamen has reasons of his own, so…"

"What has he put into your head now?" Belle asks.

"Sheesh." Jasmine says. "From now on, you're forbidden to get near him."

"Why won't you believe me!" Ariel stamps.

"You can't trust thieves." Ariel sits down, dejectly, and Mulan comes over and puts a hand on her shoulder.

"Mulan-chan!" Ariel throws her arms around her.

"And it seems like the craze over the MnG will end as just a fad." Melody says.

"But…even with all of this, for the real one not to appear…" Mulan says.

"The Princess might have it." Melody says.

"Huh!?" Ariel looks away, worried.

Meanwhile, Philip's composing music. "The title is….yes…'Requiem for the Princess"…