Title: Lunar , NYC
By: Blue Clad Fangirl Cerridwen
Chapter 3, Kamenbutokai (Masquarade)
Rated PG-13

Disclaimer: I know I said I was going to have Mars enter in this chapter, but
I just couldn't fit her in this one. Sorry Mars fans :-(. You all know that I
didn't write Sailor Moon, Noako Takeuchi (an absolute geneous) did. I also
have a song in here which I didn't write. It's a song by Letters to Cleo
called "I've Got Time". Enjoy, minna!

"Habby New Yean, achoo!!!!" Bah. I got for Christmas $175, 3 CDs (Letters
to Cleo, my fave!), a new discman (metalic blue, extra thin^_^), 2 gift
certificates, a nearly-broken promise for Dreamcast and (achhoooo!!!!) a
cold. I'm spending New Years with my freinds any how. I've been in 5 battles
with the enemy, and we still haven't found and new senshi or Tuxedo Kamen.

"Sere, are you sure it's OK for you to go to Wired when you're sick?" Kiy
asked my woridly from the other side of the Japanese screens I changed behind.

"Don't fret, Kiy. I took 4 doses of tussin and 3 cups of Thera-flu, all
disgusting, and I bore through it. I'm positive I can go, and it's just a
cold, not a plague."

"OK, but don't you start suffocating on me with that cough of yours, it
scares the shit out everyone."

"It's residing. I wonn't die on you. Remember, we're the only two Sailor
Senshi, and I won't go without finding the rest of the senshi, or my Tuxedo
Kamen." I steped out from behind the screen. I wore a grey translucent skirt
that went to my caves with a backless turquoise tank with beaded faseners in
the back. Around my neck was a black and silver beaded necklace with three
small peacock feathers, that matched perfectly with my peacock feathered
mask. I love New Years Masques at my favorite club. I picked up the black,
crocheted nylon tote bag that we were bringing Luna in.

"Aren't you forgetting something, Serena?" Luna's mufuled voice checked
on me from inside my SACtm. I grabed my broch from my dresser and pinned it
to the bow in the back of my skirt.

Kay waited for us out side of my room. We walked out of my house and got
into the cab. We would be at the Wired pretty soon, and chances were, the
Wired was the next target for energy by the enemy.

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******************* "I love this song!" I shouted to my friends on the
dance floor."You take the wieght the weight of a heavier notion, I'll take
the wave from coast to ocean, that's why the ride is light, it's alright,
it's alright...."

"This aluvial fan, it represents my life. I've got the strengeth to move,
but...why should I?

"You take the weight of a heavier notion, and I'lll thake the wave from
cost to ocean, it's.."

"Alright, it's alright," a deep, masculine voice sang before me. It
wasn't Kay's, but it was a beautiful, familiar sound. I couldn't put my foot
upon who's it was.

"Hey, you wanna dance?" the boy who the voice belonged to asked. He
seemed familiarly handsome, by I couldn't really see is face due to the fact
this was a masquarde. I nodded to the voice that made me feel like I was
melting. I could smell....roses. Could he be my Tuxedo Kamen?

We danced closely for over an hour. I loved every breath taking minute.
But there was something familliar about thet rose sent. Then I remembered....

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******************* "Someone's got her panties in a twist," Tam muttered as
he backed off.

*Strange, I tought I smelled...nahh...*As I entered the arcade, the rose
scented thought left my mind....
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******************* I was dancing with Tammian Bouletta this whole time. And
this whole time I was in love with this other side of him I've never known. I
was in love with the ver boy I thought I absolutely thought I hated.

"Do I know you?" Tam asked me.

"Prehaps you do. But this is a Masque. You're not to tell others who you
are unless you think you're in love," I replied in words that seemed to
belong in a mysteriously romantic fairy story.

Tam pulled we out of the dance crowd in to a corner. "Then it's only
appropriate."
I felt my heart pounding. He pulled off his mask, proving to me that he was
difinately Tammian Bouletta, the boy I thought I lothed. I turned way to cry
a little through my mask. "Now I know I cannot reveal my self. For I too am
in love, but I a forbidden to be so with you." I started to walk away.

"Wait, maybe I started wrongly. Hello, I Tammian Bouletta. And you
are..?" he said, standing in front of me, preventing me from walking away.

"You can call me....Cerridwen," I lied, using the name of a moon goddess
in a Celtic fairy tale. "Cerridwen Hime,... who may not look upon your face."
I began to walk away at a faster pace, nearly sobbing. But his voice stoped
me once more.

"Cerridwen. It's beautiful. That broach on your bow, I've seen it before.
I know a girl at school who has one like it. She's a very strange girl, but
she beautiful, not the less. Arguing with me is a hobby she seems to most
like.."

Now I ran. "Fool!"

Fool. I donn't know if I was talking about him or myself. I took off the
mask and stopped before my friends. "Want to go, right...."

There was a crash. Something had knocked th D.J. unconsious. The youman
rose from one of the speakers on the other side of the the dance floor. "Y2K
is here! Welcome the Bug!" She looked like a cross of a spider and a PC (we
knew Bill Gates was up to something).

Luna jumped out of the tote. "You two transform and Kay and I will get as
many people out of here!"

"Right!" Kiyone and I ran behind the D.J.'s booth.

"Moon Comic Power, Make Up!"

"Murcury Star Power, Make Up!"

"Hey Bug! You intend on cutting off the electricity of this city and
taking all of its (the city's) energy! I Will not allow it, for I am the
teen-age, sailor-suited, pretty soldier Sailor Moon, champion of love and
justice. In the name of the Moon, I will punish you!"

"And I am the the sailor suited, pretty soldier Sailor Mercury, champion
of justic and wisdom! I, too cannot forgive you."

A crash of rang out and sparks flew toward us. Mercury and I jumped off
the speakers. There were people still running out and amoung them I spottd
Tam. He was in some serious pain. "Mercury, is it OK if you take over? I have
to make sure someone gets out safely!"

"OK Sailor Moon. Mercurious Venom Bubble Storm! Go while the fog holds!"

I ran to Tam, still aware of the dancing and everything that made my head
swim. "Tam you have to get out of here." he just groaned in pain. " If that
witch hurt you, I swear I will make her pay, but you have to be strong." I
brought him into the alley and called for Luna. "Luna watch over him while I
fight!" I instructed her as I ran back to the battle. I heard Tam call out
the allias I gave him, and I felt my heart nearly shater, but I moved on.

The fog began to clear. The Bug was weaked, but not alot. She grab a
couple of computerchips from behind her a threw them at us, when a dagger
with a rose emblem on the hilt nocked them out of the way. Murcury and I
looked up. There stood a very diferent Tuxedo Kamen. "The Light of the Moon
will forever shine, and as the yaers change, it shall grow stronger, even on
this much feared New Years Eve. Remember that, Sailor Moon."

"Lunar Disk, Magic Attack!" The attack cut off her head and dust fell
upon the floor. I heard a shout out side, "Happy New Year!" and I was aware
of the time. Luna rushed in. "I'm sorry Serena, but when I turned back, that
boy in the alley disappeared!"

I looked up to see Texedo Kamen prepare to leave. I jumped up to where he
stood and plucked a feather off the mask I wore and handed it to him. "You
are in my heart." He leaned in for a kiss. "And you in mine." And he took
off.

"Tammian......" I wispered softly. "Happy New Year."

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Next up (yes it will stay this way): Say a Little Prayer