Chapter two of Zi-chan's late night fantasies!
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"Darien's Day as a Cat"
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CHAPTER TWO
Darien stared in shock. He was kneeling in front of himself and when he
spoke... oh man... it was a woman. A woman's voice came out of *his* body.
"Uhh..." Darien couldn't speak. But it was enough. Luna heard the male
voice coming out of her body and snapped.
Suddenly, Darien was being gripped by the neck by his own body and
shaken back and forth. "Did you do anything? If you so much as touched Serena
I'll kill you!" the woman's voice in his body yelled as he was shaken back and
forth. Darien tried to answer, but he could hardly think straight.
"Luna, put him down. He's been here all morning." the woman on the bench
said.
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Luna turned to the woman on the bench and abruptly stopped shaking
Darien. "Do I know you?"
"Yes, Luna. I'm Setsuna."
"Sailor Pluto!" Luna gasped softly. Darien almost missed the words but
his quick brain filed them away to think about later.
Luna's grip slackened and then she dropped him. Darien hit the ground
and moaned. "Whatever happened to cats landing on their feet?" he said as he
struggled to a standing position.
"Practice." Luna shot at him without looking away from Setsuna.
"Well that makes sense." Darien muttered as he staggered over to the
bench. Luna stood there a moment, then collapsed next to Setsuna.
"What's going on?" she demanded.
"I'm not allowed to tell you specifics..."
"You never are." Luna cut in.
"...but the gist is I had Mercury switch your bodies so Darien here
could spend time with Serena but he decided instead to go run around in the
park." Setsuna continued as if Luna hadn't spoken.
"Why would Darien need to spend time with Serena? And how am I supposed
to be her guardian if I'm not there to guard her?!" Luna yelled, obviously
outraged.
"I can't say." Setsuna told her simply as she picked Darien up off the
ground and put him on the bench between them.
"Well, how do we switch back?" Luna asked aggravated.
"I can't say that either. All I can tell you is that it's up to Darien."
"I decide when we switch back? Well that makes sense. I mean, when I
wake up I'll be back in my own body." Darien said.
"What do you mean when you wake up?" Luna asked.
"Well, this is obviously a dream. A strange dream, but a dream none the
less. I'm just wondering why I'm dreaming this and not about the princess."
Luna reached over and pinched him. OOC: Yes, you can pinch a cat.
Darien howled, jumped off the bench, and turned to face her, hissing.
"What was that for?!"
"To prove this is not a dream. It hurt didn't it?" Luna asked calmly.
"Yeah... so? This has to be a dream!" Darien denied.
Luna shook her head. "You're really stupid." she muttered.
"But... but... this has to be a dream... it just has to be!" Darien
yelled as he suddenly sat down in shock. "It has to be..."
"No, it doesn't have to be. This is real and apparently only you can
solve this problem. But I'm still going to tell the Scouts. That's where I was
headed." She told Setsuna.
Setsuna only nodded. "I can't ask you not to. But I warn you they can't
help. And it's better not to tell Serena. I want her to be completely herself
around Darien so she must think he's you."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head."
"Why do they need to hang out together anyway?" Luna asked.
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head."
"It's vital to the future that they stop hating each other. I can't tell
you any more than that."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head." Darien was getting
annoyed. He hated being ignored.
"I wish you wouldn't be so cryptic, Setsuna."
"You can't have everything."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head!!!!" Darien yelled.
Setsuna rounded on him, picked him up and yelled back, "Yes! You are!"
Darien's eyes shot wide open and he cringed. "Okay, okay... you don't
have to yell."
Setsuna smiled and put him back on the ground. "You and Luna go to
Serena's house, but don't tell her you've switched bodies." Setsuna cautioned as
she stood up. "Good luck." She said... then she walked away.
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Darien looked up at himself and attempted to shrug. "Okay... let's go
before she comes back and yells some more."
"Setsuna's a nice woman. She has a lot to take care of, that's all."
Luna said as she stood up and grabbed Darien. "It's faster if I carry you." She
said and she started off down the path again.
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"Luna! Luna!" They heard Serena's call about a block away from the house
and Luna slowed down as they approached. She cleared her throat and attempted a
male voice.
"Hello, Serena." It didn't sound anything like she wanted it to, but it
would have to do. Darien rolled his eyes.
They came up to the house and saw Serena sitting on the porch step. She
looked up, saw Darien and Luna and ran down the path to them.
"Oh, Darien! You found Luna! Thank you!" She grabbed Darien from Luna's
arms and hugged him. "Don't run off like that, Luna. You always get mad at me-"
she stopped abruptly and looked up at Luna. "That is... she seems to be angry.
You know, hiss, scratch, and that kind of thing... she doesn't really get mad,
or at least I wouldn't know..." She trailed off and looked down, embarrassed.
"It's okay... Meatball Head." Luna threw in the last for good measure
and looked away when Serena suddenly fixed her with a piercing glare.
"Are you okay, Darien? You don't sound so good."
"I have a soar throat..." Luna said, attempting to deepen her voice.
"Whatever, I gotta go. Thanks for finding Luna!" She said as she took
off down the street.
Luna stared after her and sighed. Knowing Serena she was about to be
fashionably late to the scout meeting meaning Luna couldn't go looking for any
of the other girls. She had nothing to do for at least two hours. She sighed,
then grinned when her breath caught in her dry throat.
"Well, I do need a drink..." she whirled around and headed back to the
arcade.
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"Sorry I'm late guys! I couldn't find Luna this morning. She just took
off. What do you have to say for yourself, Luna?" Serena addressed the last to
Darien as she sat down abruptly on the temple steps panting from her one-mile
dash.
Darien just looked at her. Was she really expecting an answer? Did she
normally talk to her cat?
"Well?" Serena demanded.
"Oh, forget about it, Serena. We have stuff to do anyway." Lita cut in
as she came out of the kitchen with muffins.
"Oh yeah!" Serena grabbed one and closed her eyes in pleasure as she
chewed. "Blueberry, wonderful!"
The other girls came in and sat down randomly wherever they were
comfortable. Darien looked around and noticed the other cat in the room sitting
in Mina's lap. He'd seen that cat hanging around outside the arcade with Luna.
"Okay, let's get started. Luna?" Raye said as she turned to Darien. His
eyes bugged for a minute when he realized all the girl's attention was on him.
What where they expecting? They were all looking at him like he should give a
speech.
At a loss he attempted to be cat-like. "Meow."
Everyone's eyes widened and then narrowed as they suddenly converged
around him. "Did she just meow?" Raye asked in disbelief.
"I... I think so." Serena said as she peered at Luna. "Come on, aren't
you supposed to be lecturing us on the evil things flooding into the city?"
Darien looked from one to the other and cowered to the ground. They
didn't really expect him to speak, did they? And what was this evil?
The other cat stepped forward and leaned down to look into Darien's
eyes. Suddenly he backed away, his own eyes wide. "That's not Luna." he said
softly.
Darien's jaw dropped. The cat had just talked and everyone seemed
shocked by what he said, not the fact that he could say anything.
"What do you mean? Of course that's Luna! How many black cats do you see
with crescent moons on their foreheads?" Mina demanded.
"It's not. Those aren't her eyes!"
Serena picked Darien up and held him close to her face. Her eyes widened.
"He's right... Luna's eyes are red. These are blue... they almost look like...
Darien's..." She said softly.
Darien suddenly decided that if the other cat could talk he darn well
could too. "Good guess, Meatball Head."
Serena screamed and threw him away from her. This time he managed to
land on his feet as she dived behind the cat. "That was Darien's voice!" She
said as she peeked over the top of the couch.
"You're quick." Darien muttered as he shook himself. "Not just my voice
and my eyes, it's me. I'm in your cat's body." He stated. Setsuna be damned.
Everyone looked to Amy for an explanation.
She shrugged. "I don't know. The only thing I can think of is sorcery,
but that's not even plausible. Witchcraft doesn't exist."
"I beg to differ." A voice said from the doorway.
Everyone turned and Setsuna stepped into the room.
"Excuse me miss. Are you lost?" Raye asked suddenly becoming the
priestess.
"No, Mars, I'm not." Setsuna said as she sat on the couch Serena was
hiding behind. "Come out, Serena. Darien won't bite, will you?"
Darien shook his head and muttered under his breath as he stalked over
to Setsuna. "Change me back."
"I told you I can't. The only one who can reverse the change is Mercury
or yourself."
"I can't do anything." Amy cut in. She wasn't half as shocked as the
rest of the people. Something about this woman just seemed so familiar.
"Oh not you, your future self." Setsuna said airily.
"Wait!" Lita yelled suddenly. "I'm confused. Let's recap. Darien is in
Luna's body and the only people who can get him out are the Mercury of the
future or himself? Just what is going on here?"
"Essentially, that is correct, Jupiter." Setsuna said as she picked up
Darien. "Darien can also cause the change, although I'm not allowed to tell him
how."
Suddenly Darien realized that Setsuna was calling the girls by the names
of planets. The same planets that the Sailor Scouts were named by. "Wait. You
guys are the scouts?"
Serena came out from behind the couch and sat on it instead. "Yes." she
said as she pouted in the corner.
"Oh man..."
"Wait. If Darien's in Luna's body... is Luna in his?" Raye asked.
"Yes." Setsuna said simply.
"That's why!" Serena said suddenly. "I saw Darien... or rather Luna...
this morning and he... or I guess she... sounded really strange. He... I mean
she... claimed it was just a soar throat! Oh man that was hard to say."
"So where is she?! She's human now. She could get into trouble."
"She's been human before. She'll adjust. Right now I'm mad at Darien."
Setsuna said. "I already told you that you weren't to tell Serena who you were."
"They started asking me questions... I panicked..." Darien muttered in
his defense.
"Well this whole plan is shot now."
"If it has no merit anymore, why can't you just tell us how to change
them back?" Amy asked logically.
"You won't like it. I'll tell Darien, alone though. It's safer that way.
And if both Serena and Darien know the solution, it may not happen." Setsuna
stood up then and carried Darien out into the hallway. Immediately the girls
gathered at the door, but Raye pushed Serena away.
"You heard her. Do you want to make Darien be stuck in Luna's body the
rest of his life?" Serena pouted but moved away from the door.
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"Well?" Darien asked once they were outside.
"The only way to effect the change is if you fall in love with Serena."
"WHAT?!" Darien yelled as he jumped to all fours. "No way! Never!"
"Calm down, Darien. It's going to happen sooner or later, believe me, I
know."
"I'd never fall in love with Meatball Head."
"You already have." Setsuna said softly as she looked down at him.
"You're crazy." Darien said as he turned and stalked back into the room.
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"Darien's Day as a Cat"
Recorded by Ziska Ames
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CHAPTER TWO
Darien stared in shock. He was kneeling in front of himself and when he
spoke... oh man... it was a woman. A woman's voice came out of *his* body.
"Uhh..." Darien couldn't speak. But it was enough. Luna heard the male
voice coming out of her body and snapped.
Suddenly, Darien was being gripped by the neck by his own body and
shaken back and forth. "Did you do anything? If you so much as touched Serena
I'll kill you!" the woman's voice in his body yelled as he was shaken back and
forth. Darien tried to answer, but he could hardly think straight.
"Luna, put him down. He's been here all morning." the woman on the bench
said.
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Luna turned to the woman on the bench and abruptly stopped shaking
Darien. "Do I know you?"
"Yes, Luna. I'm Setsuna."
"Sailor Pluto!" Luna gasped softly. Darien almost missed the words but
his quick brain filed them away to think about later.
Luna's grip slackened and then she dropped him. Darien hit the ground
and moaned. "Whatever happened to cats landing on their feet?" he said as he
struggled to a standing position.
"Practice." Luna shot at him without looking away from Setsuna.
"Well that makes sense." Darien muttered as he staggered over to the
bench. Luna stood there a moment, then collapsed next to Setsuna.
"What's going on?" she demanded.
"I'm not allowed to tell you specifics..."
"You never are." Luna cut in.
"...but the gist is I had Mercury switch your bodies so Darien here
could spend time with Serena but he decided instead to go run around in the
park." Setsuna continued as if Luna hadn't spoken.
"Why would Darien need to spend time with Serena? And how am I supposed
to be her guardian if I'm not there to guard her?!" Luna yelled, obviously
outraged.
"I can't say." Setsuna told her simply as she picked Darien up off the
ground and put him on the bench between them.
"Well, how do we switch back?" Luna asked aggravated.
"I can't say that either. All I can tell you is that it's up to Darien."
"I decide when we switch back? Well that makes sense. I mean, when I
wake up I'll be back in my own body." Darien said.
"What do you mean when you wake up?" Luna asked.
"Well, this is obviously a dream. A strange dream, but a dream none the
less. I'm just wondering why I'm dreaming this and not about the princess."
Luna reached over and pinched him. OOC: Yes, you can pinch a cat.
Darien howled, jumped off the bench, and turned to face her, hissing.
"What was that for?!"
"To prove this is not a dream. It hurt didn't it?" Luna asked calmly.
"Yeah... so? This has to be a dream!" Darien denied.
Luna shook her head. "You're really stupid." she muttered.
"But... but... this has to be a dream... it just has to be!" Darien
yelled as he suddenly sat down in shock. "It has to be..."
"No, it doesn't have to be. This is real and apparently only you can
solve this problem. But I'm still going to tell the Scouts. That's where I was
headed." She told Setsuna.
Setsuna only nodded. "I can't ask you not to. But I warn you they can't
help. And it's better not to tell Serena. I want her to be completely herself
around Darien so she must think he's you."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head."
"Why do they need to hang out together anyway?" Luna asked.
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head."
"It's vital to the future that they stop hating each other. I can't tell
you any more than that."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head." Darien was getting
annoyed. He hated being ignored.
"I wish you wouldn't be so cryptic, Setsuna."
"You can't have everything."
"I'm not going to hang out with Meatball Head!!!!" Darien yelled.
Setsuna rounded on him, picked him up and yelled back, "Yes! You are!"
Darien's eyes shot wide open and he cringed. "Okay, okay... you don't
have to yell."
Setsuna smiled and put him back on the ground. "You and Luna go to
Serena's house, but don't tell her you've switched bodies." Setsuna cautioned as
she stood up. "Good luck." She said... then she walked away.
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Darien looked up at himself and attempted to shrug. "Okay... let's go
before she comes back and yells some more."
"Setsuna's a nice woman. She has a lot to take care of, that's all."
Luna said as she stood up and grabbed Darien. "It's faster if I carry you." She
said and she started off down the path again.
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"Luna! Luna!" They heard Serena's call about a block away from the house
and Luna slowed down as they approached. She cleared her throat and attempted a
male voice.
"Hello, Serena." It didn't sound anything like she wanted it to, but it
would have to do. Darien rolled his eyes.
They came up to the house and saw Serena sitting on the porch step. She
looked up, saw Darien and Luna and ran down the path to them.
"Oh, Darien! You found Luna! Thank you!" She grabbed Darien from Luna's
arms and hugged him. "Don't run off like that, Luna. You always get mad at me-"
she stopped abruptly and looked up at Luna. "That is... she seems to be angry.
You know, hiss, scratch, and that kind of thing... she doesn't really get mad,
or at least I wouldn't know..." She trailed off and looked down, embarrassed.
"It's okay... Meatball Head." Luna threw in the last for good measure
and looked away when Serena suddenly fixed her with a piercing glare.
"Are you okay, Darien? You don't sound so good."
"I have a soar throat..." Luna said, attempting to deepen her voice.
"Whatever, I gotta go. Thanks for finding Luna!" She said as she took
off down the street.
Luna stared after her and sighed. Knowing Serena she was about to be
fashionably late to the scout meeting meaning Luna couldn't go looking for any
of the other girls. She had nothing to do for at least two hours. She sighed,
then grinned when her breath caught in her dry throat.
"Well, I do need a drink..." she whirled around and headed back to the
arcade.
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"Sorry I'm late guys! I couldn't find Luna this morning. She just took
off. What do you have to say for yourself, Luna?" Serena addressed the last to
Darien as she sat down abruptly on the temple steps panting from her one-mile
dash.
Darien just looked at her. Was she really expecting an answer? Did she
normally talk to her cat?
"Well?" Serena demanded.
"Oh, forget about it, Serena. We have stuff to do anyway." Lita cut in
as she came out of the kitchen with muffins.
"Oh yeah!" Serena grabbed one and closed her eyes in pleasure as she
chewed. "Blueberry, wonderful!"
The other girls came in and sat down randomly wherever they were
comfortable. Darien looked around and noticed the other cat in the room sitting
in Mina's lap. He'd seen that cat hanging around outside the arcade with Luna.
"Okay, let's get started. Luna?" Raye said as she turned to Darien. His
eyes bugged for a minute when he realized all the girl's attention was on him.
What where they expecting? They were all looking at him like he should give a
speech.
At a loss he attempted to be cat-like. "Meow."
Everyone's eyes widened and then narrowed as they suddenly converged
around him. "Did she just meow?" Raye asked in disbelief.
"I... I think so." Serena said as she peered at Luna. "Come on, aren't
you supposed to be lecturing us on the evil things flooding into the city?"
Darien looked from one to the other and cowered to the ground. They
didn't really expect him to speak, did they? And what was this evil?
The other cat stepped forward and leaned down to look into Darien's
eyes. Suddenly he backed away, his own eyes wide. "That's not Luna." he said
softly.
Darien's jaw dropped. The cat had just talked and everyone seemed
shocked by what he said, not the fact that he could say anything.
"What do you mean? Of course that's Luna! How many black cats do you see
with crescent moons on their foreheads?" Mina demanded.
"It's not. Those aren't her eyes!"
Serena picked Darien up and held him close to her face. Her eyes widened.
"He's right... Luna's eyes are red. These are blue... they almost look like...
Darien's..." She said softly.
Darien suddenly decided that if the other cat could talk he darn well
could too. "Good guess, Meatball Head."
Serena screamed and threw him away from her. This time he managed to
land on his feet as she dived behind the cat. "That was Darien's voice!" She
said as she peeked over the top of the couch.
"You're quick." Darien muttered as he shook himself. "Not just my voice
and my eyes, it's me. I'm in your cat's body." He stated. Setsuna be damned.
Everyone looked to Amy for an explanation.
She shrugged. "I don't know. The only thing I can think of is sorcery,
but that's not even plausible. Witchcraft doesn't exist."
"I beg to differ." A voice said from the doorway.
Everyone turned and Setsuna stepped into the room.
"Excuse me miss. Are you lost?" Raye asked suddenly becoming the
priestess.
"No, Mars, I'm not." Setsuna said as she sat on the couch Serena was
hiding behind. "Come out, Serena. Darien won't bite, will you?"
Darien shook his head and muttered under his breath as he stalked over
to Setsuna. "Change me back."
"I told you I can't. The only one who can reverse the change is Mercury
or yourself."
"I can't do anything." Amy cut in. She wasn't half as shocked as the
rest of the people. Something about this woman just seemed so familiar.
"Oh not you, your future self." Setsuna said airily.
"Wait!" Lita yelled suddenly. "I'm confused. Let's recap. Darien is in
Luna's body and the only people who can get him out are the Mercury of the
future or himself? Just what is going on here?"
"Essentially, that is correct, Jupiter." Setsuna said as she picked up
Darien. "Darien can also cause the change, although I'm not allowed to tell him
how."
Suddenly Darien realized that Setsuna was calling the girls by the names
of planets. The same planets that the Sailor Scouts were named by. "Wait. You
guys are the scouts?"
Serena came out from behind the couch and sat on it instead. "Yes." she
said as she pouted in the corner.
"Oh man..."
"Wait. If Darien's in Luna's body... is Luna in his?" Raye asked.
"Yes." Setsuna said simply.
"That's why!" Serena said suddenly. "I saw Darien... or rather Luna...
this morning and he... or I guess she... sounded really strange. He... I mean
she... claimed it was just a soar throat! Oh man that was hard to say."
"So where is she?! She's human now. She could get into trouble."
"She's been human before. She'll adjust. Right now I'm mad at Darien."
Setsuna said. "I already told you that you weren't to tell Serena who you were."
"They started asking me questions... I panicked..." Darien muttered in
his defense.
"Well this whole plan is shot now."
"If it has no merit anymore, why can't you just tell us how to change
them back?" Amy asked logically.
"You won't like it. I'll tell Darien, alone though. It's safer that way.
And if both Serena and Darien know the solution, it may not happen." Setsuna
stood up then and carried Darien out into the hallway. Immediately the girls
gathered at the door, but Raye pushed Serena away.
"You heard her. Do you want to make Darien be stuck in Luna's body the
rest of his life?" Serena pouted but moved away from the door.
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"Well?" Darien asked once they were outside.
"The only way to effect the change is if you fall in love with Serena."
"WHAT?!" Darien yelled as he jumped to all fours. "No way! Never!"
"Calm down, Darien. It's going to happen sooner or later, believe me, I
know."
"I'd never fall in love with Meatball Head."
"You already have." Setsuna said softly as she looked down at him.
"You're crazy." Darien said as he turned and stalked back into the room.
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