Rei groaned and dragged herself up off the floor. She looked around through bleary, sleep weighted eyes and saw that Mamoru, Artemis and Luna were gone. She looked at her watch and saw that it was three o'clock, June 14. She felt like she had been hit by a train. Or maybe it was just that she had been asleep for three days in a heap of legs, arms and girls. Makoto was gone too, but what was that sound comeing from the kitchen? A knife on a cutting board...
Rei stood up and stumbled into the kitchen to see Lita in her green tank top and white shorts takeing a knife to three long carrots. "What is going on Mako-chan?"
"You have been asleep for three days and I am makeing some nice beef stew. Every one has to be simply famished! And what better for me to do than cook?!" Makoto grinned and then continued sliceing carrots before emptying them into a large crock pot plugged into the wall. "Go take a shower Rei, it might help the fact that you look like the liveing dead."
The dark haired girl picked up a carrot and dramaticly stabbed herself with it before falling to the floor giggling. "I know where the towels are Mako!" Rei reminded before her freind could tell her for the fiftieth time. The preistess went to the little bathroom and turned on the water untill it was hot and steamy. She liked useing Makoto's shower when she spent the night, it was nice and easy compaired to hauling wood and then building up a fire for the bath at her grandfather's shrine. Rei took off her clothing and wished she had sometihng clean to put on afterwards. Oh well. Not her fault, she could blame that one on Jadeite.
Makoto stood chopping up the last carrot when Minako came stumbling into the kitchen. "What are you doing Mako?" asked the blond sleepily.
"Cooking you some stew. Is Ami or Usagi up yet?" Makoto tossed the carrot heads into the trash and scraped the slices into the crock pot.
"They should wake up pretty soon." Minako mumbled. "Say, where is Artemis and Luna?"
"They weren't here when I got up." said Makoto, who was only just begineing to wonder for herself. "I assumed they were the responsible ones and went to the control room to figure what to do next."
"Could be." said Minako as she scavenged in the refrigerator for a cup of yogurt. "When is that stew going to be done?"
Makoto shrugged. "I'm just makeing this stew thing up. I don't have a recipie."
"It'll be even better then." laughed Minako.
The blond started walking down the hall to go take a shower. It wasn't untill Makoto heard the door openeing that she shouted, "Minako! Rei is-" But the cook was cut off by Rei screaming her head off.
Minako ran out of the bathroom and slammed the door behind her, her face was red and she was puffing her cheeks out. "I tried to warn you..." sighed Makoto, who had come to look at Minako's funny face.
All the commotion had woken up Ami and Usagi now. Usagi sat up and rubbed her face with a hand before yawning and looking around. "Where is Mamo-chan?" she demanded.
"He left a note saying he had gone to check himself into a hospital. He must have gotten hurt when he came to Jadeite's little place." said Makoto, who, haveing gotten up first, was allknowing in such matters.
"Where is the nearest hospital Mako-chan?" asked Usagi quickly.
"Cool your jets! He's in a hospital getting treated. Rei is in the shower." Minako frowned at this last one, "Makoto is makeing stew, and Luna and Artemis probably went to the control room."
"Probably? You must realize they are prime targets for Jadeite." said Ami quickly before Usagi could go hysterical.
"Good point." said Makoto. "Minako can go to the control room and check for them their, Usagi can call hospitals to see where Mamoru checked into, and Ami, did you get any data on Jadiete's tower of terror?"
"I did get some structural information so I might be able to make a rough map with my computer. I also got some power readings and details on the strength and material of the walls." said Ami after scratching her head.
"Good. If you could work out that map and work as home base in case Minako, Usagi, Luna or Artemis try to contact you. Rei is in the shower so she can help when she gets out. And I'll work on the stew so we will have something to eat." Makoto grinned and raised her ladel into the air as she paraded back to the kitchen to shread some beef.
Minako went out to head for the Crown Game Center and Usagi pulled the thick Tokyo phone book from underneath a shelf on a desk. Makoto rattled off the names of some hospitals in a five mile radius of her apartment and Usagi called each one, asking for a Chiba Mamoru-san. She finally found one at the third number she tried and prepared to set out and find how Mamouru was.
Rei got out of the shower and found that Makoto had left her a bathrobe so she put it on and went to the kitchen to ask what was up with the robe. Makoto told her it was so she could change into some of the tall girl's clothing that was a little too small. Rei went to Makoto's bedroom and tried a variaty of things on before she found some gray sweatpants that were a little too long on Rei and a blue tank top. She put them on and then went out to help Ami.
A pretty Japanese nurse in a trim white uniform examined some forms from one of the doctors on arm cancer patient Hooji Fuu. She looked up when a perky girl with blond hair done up in pigtails came and leaned on the front desk for a moment. "How may I help you mame?" the nurse asked politely, as she tucked a blue pen behind her ear.
"I called earlier to see if a Chiba Mamoru was checked into this hospital. I'm here to see him. What room is he in?"
"What is your name mame?" the nurse pulled a small pad of sticky notes from the temporary plastic shelves leaned against the high wall of the desk.
"Tsukino Usagi. Chiba-san is my boyfreind and I'd really like to-" Usagi stopped talking and just opened and closed her mouth a few times after the nurse got up and briskly marched over to one of the elevators and went up. Usagi leaned on the desk some more and patiently waited for the nurse to return.
It was five minutes before the nurse returned with the pad of sticky notes and was now carrying a fresh clipboard. "I've written Chiba Mamoru's room number and floor number on this note. Just use the elevator to your left. Doctor Apa is in with him now, would you please give him this chart?" the nurse handed Usagi the clipboard and then started typeing on a little keyboard.
Usagi got into the elevator next to a dowdy old woman with blue-gray hair who was wearing a purple polyester pants suit and was clutching a small silver crusifix that hung around her neck on a chain. There was also a woman with hair the color of a rose who was laughing with a young man, who was holding some flowers and a box of candy. Usagi suddenly felt silly, visiting her boyfreind in the hospital without even a card or some flowers. Not even a tube of lipstick to spruce herself up with after sleeping in a heap on the floor of Makoto's apartment. If only she could run home- get a change of clothing and maybe take a shower. Her stomach growled and she realized she must not have eaten in several days. By her calculations, she might have escaped from Jadeite three days ago. But that was a rough estimate made when she was a little out of it after she had woken up.
The girl's thoughts were interupted when the elevator doors opened to floor five. Usagi glanced at the sticky note and saw that Mamoru was in room 515. Looking first left and then right down the hall she wasn now in, Usagi saw that she was to turn right and walk a few doors down. "520, 519, 518...515" murmured Usagi as she tugged at her odango to make them a bit rounder. Her hair was probably frizzling around her temples. And the elastics were loose. And her clothing was wrinkled. And when Usagi opened the door to Mamoru's room, she forgot all about that. Because her beloved Mamo-chan with his right arm in a sling.
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hiya world! Ane Hoshi here. Sorry again it's taken so long to get this chapter up, but there was Greece and now I'm moveing, and ontop of the whole moveing and packing thing I've landed myself in summer school... hehehe...exams, fail them and that sucks. So math is keeping it's icy girp on my throat, draining the life from me. But that's okay, I can win against it! Except I jsut failed a quiz... but anyway I'm on a roll now with my writeing and I'm probably going to be able to start doing another story in addition to Luna, without too much sacrifice on either story's part. Anyway, off to write Luna's next chapter! ~Ane Hoshi
Rei stood up and stumbled into the kitchen to see Lita in her green tank top and white shorts takeing a knife to three long carrots. "What is going on Mako-chan?"
"You have been asleep for three days and I am makeing some nice beef stew. Every one has to be simply famished! And what better for me to do than cook?!" Makoto grinned and then continued sliceing carrots before emptying them into a large crock pot plugged into the wall. "Go take a shower Rei, it might help the fact that you look like the liveing dead."
The dark haired girl picked up a carrot and dramaticly stabbed herself with it before falling to the floor giggling. "I know where the towels are Mako!" Rei reminded before her freind could tell her for the fiftieth time. The preistess went to the little bathroom and turned on the water untill it was hot and steamy. She liked useing Makoto's shower when she spent the night, it was nice and easy compaired to hauling wood and then building up a fire for the bath at her grandfather's shrine. Rei took off her clothing and wished she had sometihng clean to put on afterwards. Oh well. Not her fault, she could blame that one on Jadeite.
Makoto stood chopping up the last carrot when Minako came stumbling into the kitchen. "What are you doing Mako?" asked the blond sleepily.
"Cooking you some stew. Is Ami or Usagi up yet?" Makoto tossed the carrot heads into the trash and scraped the slices into the crock pot.
"They should wake up pretty soon." Minako mumbled. "Say, where is Artemis and Luna?"
"They weren't here when I got up." said Makoto, who was only just begineing to wonder for herself. "I assumed they were the responsible ones and went to the control room to figure what to do next."
"Could be." said Minako as she scavenged in the refrigerator for a cup of yogurt. "When is that stew going to be done?"
Makoto shrugged. "I'm just makeing this stew thing up. I don't have a recipie."
"It'll be even better then." laughed Minako.
The blond started walking down the hall to go take a shower. It wasn't untill Makoto heard the door openeing that she shouted, "Minako! Rei is-" But the cook was cut off by Rei screaming her head off.
Minako ran out of the bathroom and slammed the door behind her, her face was red and she was puffing her cheeks out. "I tried to warn you..." sighed Makoto, who had come to look at Minako's funny face.
All the commotion had woken up Ami and Usagi now. Usagi sat up and rubbed her face with a hand before yawning and looking around. "Where is Mamo-chan?" she demanded.
"He left a note saying he had gone to check himself into a hospital. He must have gotten hurt when he came to Jadeite's little place." said Makoto, who, haveing gotten up first, was allknowing in such matters.
"Where is the nearest hospital Mako-chan?" asked Usagi quickly.
"Cool your jets! He's in a hospital getting treated. Rei is in the shower." Minako frowned at this last one, "Makoto is makeing stew, and Luna and Artemis probably went to the control room."
"Probably? You must realize they are prime targets for Jadeite." said Ami quickly before Usagi could go hysterical.
"Good point." said Makoto. "Minako can go to the control room and check for them their, Usagi can call hospitals to see where Mamoru checked into, and Ami, did you get any data on Jadiete's tower of terror?"
"I did get some structural information so I might be able to make a rough map with my computer. I also got some power readings and details on the strength and material of the walls." said Ami after scratching her head.
"Good. If you could work out that map and work as home base in case Minako, Usagi, Luna or Artemis try to contact you. Rei is in the shower so she can help when she gets out. And I'll work on the stew so we will have something to eat." Makoto grinned and raised her ladel into the air as she paraded back to the kitchen to shread some beef.
Minako went out to head for the Crown Game Center and Usagi pulled the thick Tokyo phone book from underneath a shelf on a desk. Makoto rattled off the names of some hospitals in a five mile radius of her apartment and Usagi called each one, asking for a Chiba Mamoru-san. She finally found one at the third number she tried and prepared to set out and find how Mamouru was.
Rei got out of the shower and found that Makoto had left her a bathrobe so she put it on and went to the kitchen to ask what was up with the robe. Makoto told her it was so she could change into some of the tall girl's clothing that was a little too small. Rei went to Makoto's bedroom and tried a variaty of things on before she found some gray sweatpants that were a little too long on Rei and a blue tank top. She put them on and then went out to help Ami.
A pretty Japanese nurse in a trim white uniform examined some forms from one of the doctors on arm cancer patient Hooji Fuu. She looked up when a perky girl with blond hair done up in pigtails came and leaned on the front desk for a moment. "How may I help you mame?" the nurse asked politely, as she tucked a blue pen behind her ear.
"I called earlier to see if a Chiba Mamoru was checked into this hospital. I'm here to see him. What room is he in?"
"What is your name mame?" the nurse pulled a small pad of sticky notes from the temporary plastic shelves leaned against the high wall of the desk.
"Tsukino Usagi. Chiba-san is my boyfreind and I'd really like to-" Usagi stopped talking and just opened and closed her mouth a few times after the nurse got up and briskly marched over to one of the elevators and went up. Usagi leaned on the desk some more and patiently waited for the nurse to return.
It was five minutes before the nurse returned with the pad of sticky notes and was now carrying a fresh clipboard. "I've written Chiba Mamoru's room number and floor number on this note. Just use the elevator to your left. Doctor Apa is in with him now, would you please give him this chart?" the nurse handed Usagi the clipboard and then started typeing on a little keyboard.
Usagi got into the elevator next to a dowdy old woman with blue-gray hair who was wearing a purple polyester pants suit and was clutching a small silver crusifix that hung around her neck on a chain. There was also a woman with hair the color of a rose who was laughing with a young man, who was holding some flowers and a box of candy. Usagi suddenly felt silly, visiting her boyfreind in the hospital without even a card or some flowers. Not even a tube of lipstick to spruce herself up with after sleeping in a heap on the floor of Makoto's apartment. If only she could run home- get a change of clothing and maybe take a shower. Her stomach growled and she realized she must not have eaten in several days. By her calculations, she might have escaped from Jadeite three days ago. But that was a rough estimate made when she was a little out of it after she had woken up.
The girl's thoughts were interupted when the elevator doors opened to floor five. Usagi glanced at the sticky note and saw that Mamoru was in room 515. Looking first left and then right down the hall she wasn now in, Usagi saw that she was to turn right and walk a few doors down. "520, 519, 518...515" murmured Usagi as she tugged at her odango to make them a bit rounder. Her hair was probably frizzling around her temples. And the elastics were loose. And her clothing was wrinkled. And when Usagi opened the door to Mamoru's room, she forgot all about that. Because her beloved Mamo-chan with his right arm in a sling.
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hiya world! Ane Hoshi here. Sorry again it's taken so long to get this chapter up, but there was Greece and now I'm moveing, and ontop of the whole moveing and packing thing I've landed myself in summer school... hehehe...exams, fail them and that sucks. So math is keeping it's icy girp on my throat, draining the life from me. But that's okay, I can win against it! Except I jsut failed a quiz... but anyway I'm on a roll now with my writeing and I'm probably going to be able to start doing another story in addition to Luna, without too much sacrifice on either story's part. Anyway, off to write Luna's next chapter! ~Ane Hoshi