A
Foreign Target
"Excuse me, but where's Unabara
Street?" A girl with long, wavy black
hair tied back in a ponytail asked the nearest person to her, in English. That person just happened to be Makoto.
"There are two different streets named
that. What address are you looking
for?" Makoto told her.
"I wish I had written this more
neatly." The girl muttered to
herself. "Number 27."
"Hey, that's where my cousin
lives." Makoto told her.
"Well, who's your cousin?" The girl asked.
"Her name is Ryokousha." Makoto informed her.
"Yup. That's the person I'm looking for."
"I'm going there right now. I take you there."
"O.K. Cool."
"That girl is just the right
target." Kaolinite thought to
herself. "So polite and calm. Just the right person for the Harmony Grail
to reside in. According to the files on
her, she is also very artistic. Yes,
that's the person I want to heart snatch." Kaolinite chuckled to herself.
"Ryo-chan! I've got something for you!" Makoto called into the open door.
"Oh, gee, I wonder what it is. Hmm, let me think, how about some more green
tea?" Ryokousha came out of the kitchen
scrapping the water off her hands to spray at Makoto for not knocking, again.
"Yeah, but I have somebody else to show
you…" When Makoto trailed off the girl stepped out from behind Makoto.
Ryokousha ran up to her squealing,
"Anne!" Ryokousha hugged Anne around
her chest and squeezed her, hard.
"Can't breathe…" Anne managed to choke
out before going actually chocking.
"Oops. Sorry, Anne-chan." This
conversation was entirely in English; accept for the "-chan" part, but that
Anne could understand anyway. Ryokousha
finally let go of Anne and invited her in. Makoto started boiling water for green tea and, since it was near lunch
and Anne was hungry anyway, Ryokousha started making sandwiches. Makoto, after making the green tea, opted to
stay for lunch and chat with Anne and Ryokousha. The conversation went a little like this:
"Anne, how did you figure out that I
didn't live in Paris with my parents anymore?" Ryokousha asked.
"Well, I like, called your parents to
see when you were going to take a trip back over to D.C., and they told my that
you were living here and, like, the gave me the street address and my mom
decided that I needed to visit Japan and bring her back more antiques."
"What a surprise. Your mom loves that stuff. I know of a couple good antique shops we
could visit."
"Whoa, cool."
"I think that the flea market is open
today, if you want to go." Makoto cut
in.
"You just want to go to see if those two
cute boys are there again." Ryokousha
teased her cousin. Anne started
laughing.
"So, they're going to the flea market,
hmm? Well, I think I'll just set up a
stall in an out-of-the-way and catch her then." Kaolinite thought.
"Well, your mom should be happy. You bought so much stuff I don't know how
you'll pack it all up." They had just
gone through the flea market and found everything that they possibly could
carry, plus a truckload more.
"I think that's the last stall." Ryokousha was positively blooming with all
of this shopping. Anne decided to go
around the corner to see if there were more stalls there.
"Whoa, cool." She commented as she disappeared around the corner. Makoto and Ryokousha rounded the corner
after her. The stall had been hidden
away so that no one could find it unless they looked. The stall keeper seemed to be out at the moment, and the stall
itself was filled with good-luck cats and charms. The stall had cats everywhere on it. It was a shrine to, well, for lack of a better word, catdom. This was exactly what Anne was looking
for. She absolutely loved items
featuring cats. Especially the little
waving ones.
"There's something fishy going on
here." Makoto murmured to Ryokousha.
"I know, but we can't say anything
now. She'll think that we're weird and
we don't want to assume anything about the new enemy we're facing." Ryokousha reminded her. Suddenly a scream erupted form Anne. A Daimon appeared saying its name was Neko
Charm. "Mako-chan, let's go behind that
tree and transform!"
"OK." Quickly, they dodged behind the nearby trees and shouted their henshin
phrases. Sailor Callisto appeared where
Ryokousha had once been standing. Makoto, though, seemed to be having some difficulties.
"Huh? Jupiter Crystal Power, Make UP!" Nothing happened. Sailor
Callisto knew why, though.
"Mako-chan, Pegasus isn't there to
supply the energy you need to transform into a Super Sailor Senshi. Use your Star power instead!"
"Alright, here goes nothing… Jupiter Star Power, Make UP!" Makoto's henshin pen, as she said this, went
back to looking like a stick with a star on top and this time the phrase
activated the transformation. Sailor
Jupiter stood there, looking primarily confused. "Now, I'm sure you have an explanation for this…" She was about
to say more but screaming interrupted her. "Now we'd better get a move on, or we'll be too late."
"Oh, meow-meow, I just want a look at
your Kukurrrrrrrin. Meow-meow." Neko Charm had Anne cornered against a
wall. Jupiter decided to attack with
Sparkling Wide Presser, but the two Sailor Senshi were still not quite the
match for the Daimon as they hoped they would be.
"Were are they?" Rei asked in a very annoyed
voice. "They said that they would be
here and they aren't."
"Maybe we should check the rest of the
flea market before assuming that they decided to do something else
instead." Ami told her. Minako, Usagi and Chibi-Usa were off
admiring all the antiques. They all
decided the come over to where Rei and Ami were standing when Ami said this.
"Yeah, Rei-chan. Don't you want to look at the rest of the
flea market?" Minako asked. Suddenly, they heard two very loud "AAAAAHHHHHHH"'s
from behind the corner of the last stall, where the street was supposed to end
in a dead end.
"That sounds like Mako-chan and
Ryo-chan." Chibi-Usa said with a
puzzled look on her face.
"Come on, let's look." Usagi whispered, and she and the rest peeked
around the corner.
"Meow-meow, Neko Charm, what other
charms do I have? Ooh, meow-meow,
Neko! Fire Charm!" A burst of fire shot itself at Sailors
Callisto and Jupiter. They scrambled to
get out of the way.
"Looks like they're in trouble!" Chibi-Usa cried.
"OK, everybody, let's transform!" Usagi commanded. They dashed behind the trees and shouted their henshin
phrases. None of them worked though.
"Hey, wait a minute, Sailor Jupiter
isn't a Super Sailor Senshi anymore!" Minako commented as she took another look at the Daimon. Sailor Callisto finally got her wall up, but
things kept on just barley being stopped. "Why don't we try using our Star power?"
"That might work." Rei stated. Ami, Minako and Rei each shouted the henshin phrase they had one year
before. They all managed to transform,
luckily. Chibi-Usa took her brooch and
yelled, "Moon Prism Power, Make UP!" And Sailor ChibiMoon turned to look at Usagi.
"Usagi-chan, why aren't you
transforming?" She asked.
"Well, here goes nothing." Usagi answered, "Moon Cosmic Power, Make
UP!" She cried, but again, nothing
happened. "I can't transform." Sailor
Callisto came crashing through the underbrush.
"Sailor Moon, use Crisis power. It will serve you best." She said through gritted teeth (are you
getting the feeling by this time she knows something the others don't?).
"OK," Usagi answered after a long pause,
"what have I got to loose? Crisis! Make UP!" Immediately, Usagi started to transform into Super Sailor Moon. "Let's go." She said. She and the
other Sailor Senshi made their dramatic entrance, as always. "Hey you there! You puss-in-boots! Had
enough fun toying with just one of us?"
At this point in time the Daimon had
Anne trapped against the wall and was extracting her kukurrin. It looked up at
the Senshi in surprise.
"I stand for love and justice. I'm Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon, and in the name of the Moon, I shall punish you!" Sailor Moon went on. Callisto stood to the side, out of sight, waiting for a chance to sneak in and attack unnoticed. She also was wondering why Sailor Moon even bothered giving these types of speeches. All they did was take up time.