SailorStar9: With Chapter 79 out, this is Chapter 80 of this fic. Remember boys and girls, reviews are an author's subsistence. Really, is it so difficult for you guys to review instead of just putting this fic up in your favorites and alerts?

Pairings: Tieria/Ami, Mamoru/Usagi and quite possible Setsuna/Hotaru.

Standard BS Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon, Gundam 00 or the pairings. If I did, the other Senshi would be as powerful as Sailor Moon and kicking MOTD ass more often and VEDA would have least an anti-hacker program installed. The only thing I do own is the plot.

Chapter 80: Art is an Explosion of Love! Chibi-Usa's First Love


Time passes...

"Now, everyone, eat up." Usagi beamed, bringing in a freshly baked apple pie to the study group.

"Where did you get that apple pie?" Luna asked.

"It was in the oven." Usagi replied. "I think Mom baked it and left it for us." she proceeded to eat up the pie.

"Guys, do you know what happened to the apple pie that was in the oven..." Chibi-Usa entered the room and saw the Inner Senshi eating the pie she had left in the oven. "The apple pie that I took the effort to make!" she exclaimed. "How are you going to take responsibility for this?" she glared. "I wanted Masanori to eat this." she whined.

"Who's Masanori?" Usagi cast a suspicious look at the blushing Chibi-Usa.

"That doesn't matter, does it" Chibi-Usa muttered. "I have to get going now." she hurriedly left the house.

"Where did Chibi-Usa go?" Ami asked, the girls looking down to see Chibi-Usa leave the house.

"I don't know, but lately she has been taking art classes, saying that she's going to study sculpturing." Usagi replied.


In the Juuban Art School...

Chibi-Usa turned the corner and saw Masanori present Michiru a bouquet of roses. "Impossible!" the heartbroken girl wailed.

"You were here too, Chibi-Usa?" Michiru then spotted Chibi-Usa, hearing the falling drink can. "Masanori and Chibi-Usa, let's hurry." she ushered the two children into the building. "The class will begin soon."


In the arts classroom...

"It's not going all that well." Chibi-Usa sighed, the clay sculpture she was working on was not forming the way she wanted it.

"Tsukino, what is this?" Masanori wondered. "An urn?"

"It's a Holy Grail." Chibi-Usa replied. "I saw a replica of it in my godmother's room. Just once, though. It had a lot of gems on it."

"Then, it would be better to do this here." Masanori added a lump of clay to the cup's side. "About the gems, he remodeled the cup. "If you stick on beads, buttons and the like, it'd look more like a Holy Grail."

"You're as amazing as a imagined, Masanori." Chibi-Usa gushed.

"Masanori," Michiru approached the two youngsters after she took her painting utensils to wash. "You shouldn't be helping Chibi-Usa too much with her artwork. Do your best." she returned to her classroom.


In Professor Tomoe's laboratory...

"Eudial." Professor Tomoe placed his call. "I ask you to do your best. By the way, have you found our next target?"

"I will send the reference materials to you now." Eudial sent over one of Masanori's past works. "It is rather unbelievable that a 10-year-old boy created this piece. Tsuzuki Masanori, a prodigious artist of a boy. His refined intuition and his pure heart which keep creating more pieces, I believe, must be holding a Talisman."

"This might finally become the first step for us to get everything in our hands." Professor Tomoe crowed. "I shall now create a Daimon for you that's best suited for this purpose." he inserted a box of sculpting chisels into the Daimon generation box and embedded a Daimon Egg into it.

Eudial then loaded the box into her car and drove off to locate the target.


Later that day...

"Everyone, please calm down." Eudial announced over the loudspeaker after she crashed through the classroom window. "There's no reason to be alarmed. Captured." she aimed her Capture Gun at Masanori and extracted his Heart Crystal with the energy blast.


In the next room...

"Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!"

"Neptune Planet Power, Make Up!"

The two Outer Senshi transformed.


In Masanori's classroom...

"You two again?" Eudial frowned, seeing the two Outer Senshi posed at the destroyed window. "I won't let you get in my way. Appear, Daimon." she summoned Chokokkar.

Chibi-Usa ran out from the pile of tables she and Usagi were buried under and dashed towards Eudial, biting her wrist and forcing the Witch to drop the Heart Crystal. "I won't let anyone have the heart of my precious Masanori. Give back Masanori's Heart Crystal!" she wailed after Sailor Uranus snatched the crystal from her.

"This one isn't a Talisman, either." Sailor Uranus confirmed and tossed the Heart Crystal back to Chibi-Usa.

"I'm backing out." Eudial retreated after Chibi-Usa returned Masanori's Heart Crystal.

"Fighting here is a disadvantage to us." Sailor Uranus told her partner, Chokokkar cornering them with her tossed chisels.

"It seems that way." Sailor Neptune agreed and the two Outer Senshi leapt over the Daimon, luring her outside.

"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"

"Moon Cosmic Power, Make Up!"

Running outside, the two Rabbits transformed.


In the nearby park...

"Such a powerless enemy." Sailor Uranus sighed, kicking Chokokkar into the slide of a sandbox.

Chokokkar then sculptured a sand sculpture using the sand and inserted a small piece of herself into the half-made sculpture, turning it into a full-sized monster and sent it charging towards Sailor Uranus. The second sand sculpture was then sent towards Sailor Neptune.

"Stomping upon the divine heart of art with your magic evil hands." Sailor Moon declared.

"And on top of that, putting my dear Masanori in danger." Sailor Chibi-Moon added. "We can't forgive you."

"I am the Sailor Senshi of Love and Justice, Sailor Moon!" Sailor Moon posed. "In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"

"Double Sailor Moon Kick!" the two Moon Senshi leapt down, feet poised to kick the Daimon.

Chokokkar then tossed a band in front of herself, pinning the two Moon Senshi down with a sandstorm.

Elsewhere, Sailor Neptune hopped onto a tree, allowing the sand sculpture chasing her to fall into the canal below. "So, that's how it is." the Ocean Senshi found the sculpture's weakness. "Uranus, that piece's weakness is water." she informed her partner who was still struggling with her opponent.

In response, Sailor Uranus kicked the sand sculpture into the water. "Now, you should prepare yourself." the Sky Senshi turned back to the Daimon.

"Deep Submerge!" Sailor Neptune blasted the Daimon with her attack.

"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!" the freed, but still fuming Sailor Chibi-Moon fired her energy beam at the half-dissolved Daimon, hitting her directly under the chin.

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!" Sailor Moon took out the distracted Daimon.


SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.