By Yohann DeSabrais
a.k.a. Technuma Saturn
Prologue...
Picking up the can resting on the table in front of it, the young
teenage man with long flowing silver hair was rather disapointed to
see it was empty. He crushed the aluminum can and tossed it in the
garbage can next to the sofa he sat on.
"Wish I had another soda right now..." he mumbled.
"You already had two. It`ll be a miracle if you make it through this
job without having to go a few times..." snapped a second young man,
whose dark black hair was tied in a similar ponytail to the first
one.
"He`s done it before, he`ll pull through. His bladder is larger than
his stomach, most likely." added the third young man who had a long
ponytail as well, but brown in color.
"Okay, so we`ve covered all aspects of my waste disposal system, can
we change the subject now?"
"Yes." said the brown haired young man. "As you all know, our mission
is of capital importance and we must take every step to ensure it`s
success. The first one is to find the princess, as she alone can
guide us to our objective on this planet. We know she`s in the Tokyo
general area somewhere, but she`s disguised... and so are we."
"Remember guys, our songs are the only tools we have of finding her.
Nothing else matters... NOTHING." said the black haired man. The
other two agreed.
Suddenly, loud cheers could be heard through the waiting room in
which they were seated. Over two thousand voices of young girls were
chanting "Seiya", "Yaten" and "Taiki".
"Time to go do our show. Hopefully she`ll hear us tonight." added
the young man, leading the way out for the other two who followed
him to a well light musical stage.
A loud speaker voice announced their arrival on stage, driving the
spectators even wilder:
"AND NOW, HERE IS THE HOTTEST NEW ACT IN JAPAN, HERE FOR YOUR
MUSICAL PLEASURE... THE THREE LIGHTS!!!"
* * *
CYCLES OF LIFE: EPISODE 34
STORM FRONT ON THE HORIZON
Inside the outer senshi`s house, all the senshi and their friends
were reunited for this most joyous event, the coming of the new year.
They were only a few seconds away now, and everyone counted to the
stroke of midnight.
"Three... two... one... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!" they all screamed, hugging
and kissing each other while toasting the beginning of a very good
year.
And a promising new year it was: their enemy aebonite had been
destroyed as well as his energy draining giant crystal after the
eleven soul powered senshi summoned the foretold messiah of legend...
who turned out to be their old friend Osaka Naru!!! Temperatures had
returned to their normal levels and beyond, as if nature wanted to
appologize for the harsh cold served since the month of october by
serving a cooler winter and preparing an early spring. A mere jacket
was now enough to endure the very tolerable cold.
In addition to this happy ending, Michiru had gotten her greatest
wish come true. She had been entrusted to raise the reborn silent
messiah Hotaru who was now a young baby girl. She had instantly
fallen in love with the baby, and loved her even more every day. It
had been barely a month, but Michiru had become the greatest mother
anyone could want. Haruka found her fiancee to be even more beautiful
in her new role, and was quickly adopting the role of father, with
Setsuna being an aunt and Robin a sister.
And Umino in all this? He was quite overwhelmed- finding out his
friends had super powers was difficult enough to swallow already,
now he had to digest the fact that his girlfriend, who had died and
resurrected just last summer, was also the messiah of legend.
Fortunately, the girls had started to rely on him more and more for
information searches, and his growing involvement with their senshi
business greatly helped him redefine his role towards the saviors of
humanity.
After living through unimaginable ordeals provoked by the dark
empire, Rei and Makoto were well on their way of healing their
emotional scars. Rei was still very much hurt, though she now smiled
and regained a thirst for life. She was praying for the soul of her
lost child every day now, finding solace in her renewed faith.
Makoto`s use of her Sailor Jupiter form had turned out to be a great
idea, as her spinal nerves seemed to be healing for it. She could now
walk, albeit very slowly and with crutches, although it was certain
that she would regain full use of her legs again.
"Won`t you give me a kiss, loverboy?" asked Laurella to Shingo,
hanging on his shoulders with a big smile on her lips.
"I`ll give you a kiss, my love..." he said. "And so much more
later..." he then whispered in her ear. Laurella had been floating on
a cloud ever since she had reclaimed her boyfriend from the dirty
clutches of Aebonite, breaking the mind conditionning Shingo had been
subjected to which had transformed him from the Emerald Knight into
the Malachite Warlord. He was all hers once again.
As these young people celebrated the new year, none of them
suspected that this year would bring them the most difficult ordeals
they could have possibly imagined.
* * *
"It`s been a month. He should be here." growled the hulking manwolf
as he stared out the window of the luxurious penthouse built on the
surface of the entire 50th floor in the main building of the newly
completed Poldzer Triangle.
Lights flashed everywhere in the starry night covering Tokyo, and
the entire population was happily celebrating the coming of the new
year.
"He`ll be there, don`t worry. Travelling between worlds has been
very difficult to achieve these past few months, so he might take a
while longer to arrive, that`s all." said a hushed voice coming from
the bedroom behind the manwolf Fenris Wolfang. He knew that
Crystallite was right, her great experience in magical matters
guiding her optimistic view in this particular instance.
"I`ll still be more comfortable once he gets here. As long as he`s
delaying his arrival, you'll be open and vulnerable." replied Fenris.
"I`ll never be vulnerable as long as you're here with me, my big
furry protector..." said the young woman. "Come to bed, now, I can`t
sleep without my furry wolf next to me."
Fenris turned away from the large bay windows and the magnificent
view of nighttime Tokyo, going to the richly decorated bedroom where
the young daughter of Queen Beryl was in bed. Her long red hair
cascading over her shoulders was barely covering her body which she
made no effort to conceal under the satin sheets.
"Come over here, my big lupine!" she urged him, patting the open spot
in the queen size bed. Fenris made his way to the bed, the floor
trembling under his every step. He sat down next to her and
proceeded to remove his clothes, under the wide-eyed looks of the
lovestruck Crystallite who just loved all this fur.
Taking place under the sheets, Crystallite cuddled to Fenris and
smiled contently. The manwolf dragged his clawed finger along her
bare chest, following the outlines of the horrible scars covering
her heart. The scars had the exact shape of the clawmarks left by
a furious blow given by the manwolf himself. Tears formed in the
eyes of Fenris.
"I`m so sorry..." he whispered, looking away from her in shame.
"Don`t be... if it wasn`t for that, we wouldn`t be together today,
would we?" asked Crystallite, placing her hand on his cheek and
turning his head around to face her. The manwolf silently agreed.
"My body be shattered... but you rescued my soul from loneliness.
I`ll be eternally grateful for that, my love..." she said, yawning
afterwards. The teenage girl curled in a foetal position and fell
asleep in her furry protector`s arms.
Long after she fell asleep, Fenris still remained fully awake,
standing guard for any threat that might come. He slowly closed his
eyes, his eyelids not shutting completely tight, but rather
fluttering in nervous twitches, ready to open in a flash. His ears
remained pointed up, the slightest noise having the potential to
awaken him into a frenzied rage to protect the woman he loved more
than his very life.
* * *
"You delayed this long enough, Ami, and it`s eating you up, I can
tell." said Usagi to her brainy friend whom she had invited over on
this new year's day.
"You're right, Usagi... and I'm happy that you were able to come here
on such short notice as well, Rei, I wanted you there to tell this."
said Ami, looking rather nervous.
Rei could tell that something was really strange about this whole
thing.
"What did you want to tell us that is so difficult? After all, we
were there when you declared openly your homosexuality, and helped
get over that mind rape from Psyche... there`s nothing we can`t
handle!" said Rei, smiling and putting her arm around her shoulder
to comfort her.
Usagi smiled and did the same. Ami felt a little better, and began
her strange tale.
"This all started when my mother was... well, a different person.
Back then, her name was Quartzite. She worked in Beryl`s army, and
was doing whatever it took to get ahead in rank."
"WHOA! She worked for... Beryl?!?" yelled Usagi, taken aback by that
shocker.
"So... that explains these strange vibes I got from her... not evil
per se, but dark somehow." said Rei, as though she wasn`t surprised
at all.
"To continue..." said Ami, wanting to get this out while she had the
ball rolling. "She used her charm to seduce her superior, knowing
this would lead to advancement. When she found herself pregnant with
me, she looked back upon her life and decided this was no world to
raise her child in. So she fled, and took a new life in Japan after
meeting the man she always told me was my dad." she explained. He`ll
always be my dad, she thought privately.
"That Quartzite who helped us fight Gingitsune, that was her then..."
mumbled Rei. It was all falling into place, she thought.
"There`s another thing, ami..." asked Usagi. This superior officer of
hers... your biological father... did she happen to mention his
name?"
Rei and Usagi feared the answer Ami would give them, more so when
they saw her fearful look.
Ami hesitated, opening her trembling lips from which no sound came.
"I called only the two of you for a reason..." she said, tears
forming in her eyes. "His name... my real father`s name... is
Jedite."
Ami couldn`t have muted her two friends faster if she had pulled a
gun and shot herself right there. They just stared at her, their
jaws dropping in a blank stupor.
"I`ll give some time to fully realize this before discussing it
further. I`ll... just go home for now. Mom isn`t home tonight, and
I need some time alone." said Ami who excused herself from Usagi`s
parents before leaving.
"Hum... I couldn`t help overhearing..." apologized Ikuko who joined
Usagi and Rei. "Who is this Jedite Ami spoke of?"
"It`s a long story, mom, a really sad one."
* * *
His place was a rather roomy one, although the decor was done mostly
in dark winter colors to further emphasize his dreadful nature. The
furniture was sparse and efficient, designed for mere functionality
instead of accomodating to mere comfort... much like the dread knight
himself was, to be blunt about it.
One of those efficient pieces of Mitchell Dreadborne, the lord of
darkness Ronmar, had been bought with such concerns in mind. It
wasn`t very soft, but it was certainly great for the back. Then
again, Mitchell was starting to have second thoughts regarding his
bed. It had served its purpose of providing a suitable resting place
well enough so far, but he was going to need it to be accomodating
for further use from now. He rolled to his side and placed his arms
around the waist of the sleeping Mizuno Akane.
What was it that appealed him so much in this woman? Was it her
devotion to others that made her so attractive to his darkened soul,
or her roots in the soils of the nether regions of the heart that
were so close to his?
She stirred and groaned a bit, returning to a deeper sleep state
afterwards. "I`ll buy a softer bed tomorrow, my darling, you deserve
every attention."
Mitchell was amazed how Akane had said nothing regarding the less
than comfortable bed she was sleeping in. She hadn`t said a word to
him about him after they made love, but he could tell of her
discomfort. He`d take care of that.
Suddenly, a loud and distant moan raged deep within his mind, like
a long forgotten yell from the past. Something he hadn`t heard in
centuries. Something he had all but forgotten. Something he had
hoped NEVER hear again.
"No... it`s not possible, he couldn`t be here... could he?" wondered
the dread knight. "No, he wouldn`t come to earth... what would Black
Baron do on this planet? There`s nothing for him which has any
interest..."
The middle aged woman rolled around in her sleep and cuddled herself
to Mitchell`s chest, her lips forming a large smile. He smiled back
at her, telling himself that it must have been a mere forgotten
memory resurfacing in a chaotic fashion, as it happened to everyone
once in a while.
He managed to go to sleep as well.
* * *
The air seemed to die for just a moment, the light litteraly sucked
out of a single point in space atop the second building of the
Poldzer Triangle aptly renamed "Gloom" by its new owner. Out of
this point flowed out the substance of night, the poison of minds,
the venom of souls. Floating around and absorbing all ambient light
and spewing forth vile blackness, the foglike dark substance took on
a form that was barely solid at all, humanoid in the slimest sense of
the term.
Ronamr was the most powerful knightmare in existence it was true, but
he was no more than a shadow, and any shadow could easily be snuffed
out by the pitch blackness of the grandmaster of the timeless arts
of darkness.
"Let there be dispair. Let there be fear. Let there be void, pure,
perfect, formless and beyond the holy power of the Word, preceeding
shape and description." whispered the vaguely human shroud of
darkness.
Black Baron had arrived into Tokyo.
To be continued...
* * *
Okay, this was a short one, so I`ll take this occasion to give a few
well deserved thanks to some people I respect and whom I am proud to
call friends.
Commander Galos, my number one fan, for long chats, good suggestions
and his uncanny knack for telling how I feel just by reading my words
on his screen.
Sonya-chan, for plenty of great ideas and constant support throughout
my long drought periods of writer`s block, as well as being a great
test reader for my new stuff.
Tiga Shadow, for hearing me complain when I felt down, as I do every
so often...
Sailor Mac, whose romantic fics inspired me to write my own.
And all those others who are out there, trying their best to make us
laugh, cry and cheer through the adventures of a certain klutzy blonde
girl we all love...
Thanks to you all.
a.k.a. Technuma Saturn
Prologue...
Picking up the can resting on the table in front of it, the young
teenage man with long flowing silver hair was rather disapointed to
see it was empty. He crushed the aluminum can and tossed it in the
garbage can next to the sofa he sat on.
"Wish I had another soda right now..." he mumbled.
"You already had two. It`ll be a miracle if you make it through this
job without having to go a few times..." snapped a second young man,
whose dark black hair was tied in a similar ponytail to the first
one.
"He`s done it before, he`ll pull through. His bladder is larger than
his stomach, most likely." added the third young man who had a long
ponytail as well, but brown in color.
"Okay, so we`ve covered all aspects of my waste disposal system, can
we change the subject now?"
"Yes." said the brown haired young man. "As you all know, our mission
is of capital importance and we must take every step to ensure it`s
success. The first one is to find the princess, as she alone can
guide us to our objective on this planet. We know she`s in the Tokyo
general area somewhere, but she`s disguised... and so are we."
"Remember guys, our songs are the only tools we have of finding her.
Nothing else matters... NOTHING." said the black haired man. The
other two agreed.
Suddenly, loud cheers could be heard through the waiting room in
which they were seated. Over two thousand voices of young girls were
chanting "Seiya", "Yaten" and "Taiki".
"Time to go do our show. Hopefully she`ll hear us tonight." added
the young man, leading the way out for the other two who followed
him to a well light musical stage.
A loud speaker voice announced their arrival on stage, driving the
spectators even wilder:
"AND NOW, HERE IS THE HOTTEST NEW ACT IN JAPAN, HERE FOR YOUR
MUSICAL PLEASURE... THE THREE LIGHTS!!!"
* * *
CYCLES OF LIFE: EPISODE 34
STORM FRONT ON THE HORIZON
Inside the outer senshi`s house, all the senshi and their friends
were reunited for this most joyous event, the coming of the new year.
They were only a few seconds away now, and everyone counted to the
stroke of midnight.
"Three... two... one... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!" they all screamed, hugging
and kissing each other while toasting the beginning of a very good
year.
And a promising new year it was: their enemy aebonite had been
destroyed as well as his energy draining giant crystal after the
eleven soul powered senshi summoned the foretold messiah of legend...
who turned out to be their old friend Osaka Naru!!! Temperatures had
returned to their normal levels and beyond, as if nature wanted to
appologize for the harsh cold served since the month of october by
serving a cooler winter and preparing an early spring. A mere jacket
was now enough to endure the very tolerable cold.
In addition to this happy ending, Michiru had gotten her greatest
wish come true. She had been entrusted to raise the reborn silent
messiah Hotaru who was now a young baby girl. She had instantly
fallen in love with the baby, and loved her even more every day. It
had been barely a month, but Michiru had become the greatest mother
anyone could want. Haruka found her fiancee to be even more beautiful
in her new role, and was quickly adopting the role of father, with
Setsuna being an aunt and Robin a sister.
And Umino in all this? He was quite overwhelmed- finding out his
friends had super powers was difficult enough to swallow already,
now he had to digest the fact that his girlfriend, who had died and
resurrected just last summer, was also the messiah of legend.
Fortunately, the girls had started to rely on him more and more for
information searches, and his growing involvement with their senshi
business greatly helped him redefine his role towards the saviors of
humanity.
After living through unimaginable ordeals provoked by the dark
empire, Rei and Makoto were well on their way of healing their
emotional scars. Rei was still very much hurt, though she now smiled
and regained a thirst for life. She was praying for the soul of her
lost child every day now, finding solace in her renewed faith.
Makoto`s use of her Sailor Jupiter form had turned out to be a great
idea, as her spinal nerves seemed to be healing for it. She could now
walk, albeit very slowly and with crutches, although it was certain
that she would regain full use of her legs again.
"Won`t you give me a kiss, loverboy?" asked Laurella to Shingo,
hanging on his shoulders with a big smile on her lips.
"I`ll give you a kiss, my love..." he said. "And so much more
later..." he then whispered in her ear. Laurella had been floating on
a cloud ever since she had reclaimed her boyfriend from the dirty
clutches of Aebonite, breaking the mind conditionning Shingo had been
subjected to which had transformed him from the Emerald Knight into
the Malachite Warlord. He was all hers once again.
As these young people celebrated the new year, none of them
suspected that this year would bring them the most difficult ordeals
they could have possibly imagined.
* * *
"It`s been a month. He should be here." growled the hulking manwolf
as he stared out the window of the luxurious penthouse built on the
surface of the entire 50th floor in the main building of the newly
completed Poldzer Triangle.
Lights flashed everywhere in the starry night covering Tokyo, and
the entire population was happily celebrating the coming of the new
year.
"He`ll be there, don`t worry. Travelling between worlds has been
very difficult to achieve these past few months, so he might take a
while longer to arrive, that`s all." said a hushed voice coming from
the bedroom behind the manwolf Fenris Wolfang. He knew that
Crystallite was right, her great experience in magical matters
guiding her optimistic view in this particular instance.
"I`ll still be more comfortable once he gets here. As long as he`s
delaying his arrival, you'll be open and vulnerable." replied Fenris.
"I`ll never be vulnerable as long as you're here with me, my big
furry protector..." said the young woman. "Come to bed, now, I can`t
sleep without my furry wolf next to me."
Fenris turned away from the large bay windows and the magnificent
view of nighttime Tokyo, going to the richly decorated bedroom where
the young daughter of Queen Beryl was in bed. Her long red hair
cascading over her shoulders was barely covering her body which she
made no effort to conceal under the satin sheets.
"Come over here, my big lupine!" she urged him, patting the open spot
in the queen size bed. Fenris made his way to the bed, the floor
trembling under his every step. He sat down next to her and
proceeded to remove his clothes, under the wide-eyed looks of the
lovestruck Crystallite who just loved all this fur.
Taking place under the sheets, Crystallite cuddled to Fenris and
smiled contently. The manwolf dragged his clawed finger along her
bare chest, following the outlines of the horrible scars covering
her heart. The scars had the exact shape of the clawmarks left by
a furious blow given by the manwolf himself. Tears formed in the
eyes of Fenris.
"I`m so sorry..." he whispered, looking away from her in shame.
"Don`t be... if it wasn`t for that, we wouldn`t be together today,
would we?" asked Crystallite, placing her hand on his cheek and
turning his head around to face her. The manwolf silently agreed.
"My body be shattered... but you rescued my soul from loneliness.
I`ll be eternally grateful for that, my love..." she said, yawning
afterwards. The teenage girl curled in a foetal position and fell
asleep in her furry protector`s arms.
Long after she fell asleep, Fenris still remained fully awake,
standing guard for any threat that might come. He slowly closed his
eyes, his eyelids not shutting completely tight, but rather
fluttering in nervous twitches, ready to open in a flash. His ears
remained pointed up, the slightest noise having the potential to
awaken him into a frenzied rage to protect the woman he loved more
than his very life.
* * *
"You delayed this long enough, Ami, and it`s eating you up, I can
tell." said Usagi to her brainy friend whom she had invited over on
this new year's day.
"You're right, Usagi... and I'm happy that you were able to come here
on such short notice as well, Rei, I wanted you there to tell this."
said Ami, looking rather nervous.
Rei could tell that something was really strange about this whole
thing.
"What did you want to tell us that is so difficult? After all, we
were there when you declared openly your homosexuality, and helped
get over that mind rape from Psyche... there`s nothing we can`t
handle!" said Rei, smiling and putting her arm around her shoulder
to comfort her.
Usagi smiled and did the same. Ami felt a little better, and began
her strange tale.
"This all started when my mother was... well, a different person.
Back then, her name was Quartzite. She worked in Beryl`s army, and
was doing whatever it took to get ahead in rank."
"WHOA! She worked for... Beryl?!?" yelled Usagi, taken aback by that
shocker.
"So... that explains these strange vibes I got from her... not evil
per se, but dark somehow." said Rei, as though she wasn`t surprised
at all.
"To continue..." said Ami, wanting to get this out while she had the
ball rolling. "She used her charm to seduce her superior, knowing
this would lead to advancement. When she found herself pregnant with
me, she looked back upon her life and decided this was no world to
raise her child in. So she fled, and took a new life in Japan after
meeting the man she always told me was my dad." she explained. He`ll
always be my dad, she thought privately.
"That Quartzite who helped us fight Gingitsune, that was her then..."
mumbled Rei. It was all falling into place, she thought.
"There`s another thing, ami..." asked Usagi. This superior officer of
hers... your biological father... did she happen to mention his
name?"
Rei and Usagi feared the answer Ami would give them, more so when
they saw her fearful look.
Ami hesitated, opening her trembling lips from which no sound came.
"I called only the two of you for a reason..." she said, tears
forming in her eyes. "His name... my real father`s name... is
Jedite."
Ami couldn`t have muted her two friends faster if she had pulled a
gun and shot herself right there. They just stared at her, their
jaws dropping in a blank stupor.
"I`ll give some time to fully realize this before discussing it
further. I`ll... just go home for now. Mom isn`t home tonight, and
I need some time alone." said Ami who excused herself from Usagi`s
parents before leaving.
"Hum... I couldn`t help overhearing..." apologized Ikuko who joined
Usagi and Rei. "Who is this Jedite Ami spoke of?"
"It`s a long story, mom, a really sad one."
* * *
His place was a rather roomy one, although the decor was done mostly
in dark winter colors to further emphasize his dreadful nature. The
furniture was sparse and efficient, designed for mere functionality
instead of accomodating to mere comfort... much like the dread knight
himself was, to be blunt about it.
One of those efficient pieces of Mitchell Dreadborne, the lord of
darkness Ronmar, had been bought with such concerns in mind. It
wasn`t very soft, but it was certainly great for the back. Then
again, Mitchell was starting to have second thoughts regarding his
bed. It had served its purpose of providing a suitable resting place
well enough so far, but he was going to need it to be accomodating
for further use from now. He rolled to his side and placed his arms
around the waist of the sleeping Mizuno Akane.
What was it that appealed him so much in this woman? Was it her
devotion to others that made her so attractive to his darkened soul,
or her roots in the soils of the nether regions of the heart that
were so close to his?
She stirred and groaned a bit, returning to a deeper sleep state
afterwards. "I`ll buy a softer bed tomorrow, my darling, you deserve
every attention."
Mitchell was amazed how Akane had said nothing regarding the less
than comfortable bed she was sleeping in. She hadn`t said a word to
him about him after they made love, but he could tell of her
discomfort. He`d take care of that.
Suddenly, a loud and distant moan raged deep within his mind, like
a long forgotten yell from the past. Something he hadn`t heard in
centuries. Something he had all but forgotten. Something he had
hoped NEVER hear again.
"No... it`s not possible, he couldn`t be here... could he?" wondered
the dread knight. "No, he wouldn`t come to earth... what would Black
Baron do on this planet? There`s nothing for him which has any
interest..."
The middle aged woman rolled around in her sleep and cuddled herself
to Mitchell`s chest, her lips forming a large smile. He smiled back
at her, telling himself that it must have been a mere forgotten
memory resurfacing in a chaotic fashion, as it happened to everyone
once in a while.
He managed to go to sleep as well.
* * *
The air seemed to die for just a moment, the light litteraly sucked
out of a single point in space atop the second building of the
Poldzer Triangle aptly renamed "Gloom" by its new owner. Out of
this point flowed out the substance of night, the poison of minds,
the venom of souls. Floating around and absorbing all ambient light
and spewing forth vile blackness, the foglike dark substance took on
a form that was barely solid at all, humanoid in the slimest sense of
the term.
Ronamr was the most powerful knightmare in existence it was true, but
he was no more than a shadow, and any shadow could easily be snuffed
out by the pitch blackness of the grandmaster of the timeless arts
of darkness.
"Let there be dispair. Let there be fear. Let there be void, pure,
perfect, formless and beyond the holy power of the Word, preceeding
shape and description." whispered the vaguely human shroud of
darkness.
Black Baron had arrived into Tokyo.
To be continued...
* * *
Okay, this was a short one, so I`ll take this occasion to give a few
well deserved thanks to some people I respect and whom I am proud to
call friends.
Commander Galos, my number one fan, for long chats, good suggestions
and his uncanny knack for telling how I feel just by reading my words
on his screen.
Sonya-chan, for plenty of great ideas and constant support throughout
my long drought periods of writer`s block, as well as being a great
test reader for my new stuff.
Tiga Shadow, for hearing me complain when I felt down, as I do every
so often...
Sailor Mac, whose romantic fics inspired me to write my own.
And all those others who are out there, trying their best to make us
laugh, cry and cheer through the adventures of a certain klutzy blonde
girl we all love...
Thanks to you all.