# 30: Shopping
He had it, the perfect plan at the mere tip of his tongue. His Queen, Lady Beryl, would see that she made the correct decision in choosing him to lead the first great campaign in restoring the Dark Kingdom to its former state of grandeur. Jadeite smirked as he worked it out in his mind. He needed to do his homework – and he had all of the youma in the Dark Kingdom at his command.
He had already spied on a blonde warrior in the jewelry store touting mantras of love and justice. Her control of her power and quick work of his trusted youma caught his attention and certainly demanded acknowledgement. He would be up against someone worthy of inevitable defeat, and he liked it that way. This school girl would most likely give his youma some exercise and himself a minor workout before being destroyed.
Where was the glory of victory if you didn't have to put a little backbone in it?
Yes, he liked this mysterious annoyance very much. Now, he had to lure her and her friends into the Dark Kingdom. Finding a masterful plan to do this, would be his greatest happiness. These girls played the part of the hero, this much he knew. He could disguise his youma as innocent people to save, and when they arrived, the youma could take the school girls? A thought, but people walking by might try to interfere on behalf of the young heroes. But he could plant more youma there to capture those people as well? It was a thought.
Yet, he wanted something more of a trap. He could send a mass of youma to ambush the girls- no corner them and then ambush them. They met at a temple, where he could easily surround that. Before the attack, his youma could take possession of the human souls praying there. The possessed could help corner the girls. But there seemed to be too many holes in that plan.
What he really wanted to do was capture the girls in a place where they would be ambushed, and there would be no escape. Yes! He could kidnap them and bring them to the Dark Kingdom, from where they would be more than outnumbered and there would be no escape. He could just grab them- but no, they might wiggle their way out of that and take youma with them. He would have to lure them somewhere else. He could take the temple to the Dark Kingdom with the girls inside. Hmmm…but that would expend too much energy. Plus, he respected the heroic nature of the girls and wanted that to be their eventual downfall.
A car? He could trap them in a car and bring that here. It was much smaller. A bus? A bus! The bus that stops outside the temple! The very thing! He would take busloads of girls back to the Dark Kingdom to use as hostages. The Dark Kingdom could use them as bait. The heroes would want to come to the rescue and all would work according to plan. He knew these heroes were youthful girls and he would have to lure the right age group to the bus to capture one of their friends to rescue, or one of them!
Nothing would go wrong with this plan!
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