"You there! You're the young man who works at that arcade aren't you?" bellowed Mrs. Tsukino.
"Yes mam'e." said Motiki with surpriseing strength of voice.
"Does Kino Makoto live here or not?" asked Ms. Mizuno quickly.
"Yes. I'm here to ask her out for a date." said Motiki, trying to remember the brilliant scheme he had thought up seconds ago.
"How nice. Now if you don't mind get on with it so we can talk to Kino-chan." barked Mrs. Tsukino.
Motiki blinked and then the words he had planned came to his lips. "I don't mean to be rude my dear ladies, but Kino Makoto is a fantastic woman and I belive she deserves a suffix of more status and respect than 'chan'." He realized that he was saying all of this very loudly and distinctly.
"That may be but we need to talk to her. Now please excuse us." Minako's mother reached around Motiki and opened the door, shoveing him into Makoto's apartment.
Inside was quite and interesting scene. Makoto was lain out on a massage table. The smoke from a great deal of incense was clouding the air and chokeing it with perfume. Candles were lit all around. Minako, disguised as an astrologer, was holding some charts up to the light. The mystic/match maker Rei was sitting in a lotus position on the floor reciteing Budhist prayer chants and spinning a prayer wheel. Ami, the botonist, and Usagi, the buisness woman, were in a corner looking at a strange blossom and some charts on Ami's little computer. An heriess (really Luna) was looking bored on the couch. Mamoru was preforming a tea ceremony next to the chanting Rei and Artemis was standing at the head of the massage table.
"What is going on in here?!" cried Mrs. Aino as the door swung open. The three mothers stood like angry bulls in the door way.
"If you don't mind we are trying to combine the supernatural arts formed within religion, science and folklore over hundreds and thousands of years to exorsize a demon from this young lady." said Artemis stiffly, he pulled on the stiff sleeves of his uniform. What they hell am I saying? thought Artemis despreatly.
"I don't care what you are doing. WE WANT OUR DAUGHTERS BACK!" screeched Ikuko Tsukino. She pulled a large broom from where it leaned against the wall and held it in both hands like a quater staff.
Luna struted over to the three angry mothers. "I'm as wacked out as you three. I can't belive I'm funding this with my grandfather's riches!"
"Oh?" asked Ms. Mizuno, who as part of the wealthy circle wanted to know what rich man had died. Luna took this as a cue to try and distract at least one woman with a long, and tragic tale from the top of her head about her wonderful grandfather.
"Aren't possesed people supposed to moan and writhe and speak in hoarse voices like in that American movie?" asked a skeptical Mrs. Aino.
"YHEA! Why isn't her head spinning?!" demanded Ikuko.
"I thought that movie was for the younger set..." mumbled Mamoru innocently as he whisked the green tea with his little broom.
Ikuko swung her broom down onto Mamoru's head with a loud, "WHY YOU INSOLENT TEA MAN!
"HER HEAD isn't spinning becasue she has been sedated with the scent of this incense." Interupted Minako, looking down dramaticly through silver framed glasses. "It doesn't affect you because it is merely calming the demon, not her soul." the girl elaborated quickly.
"If you don't mind I think you are interupting the mystic's prayer." said Motiki loudly.
"SHUT UP!" said all three mothers at once.
Suddenly Ami cried out, "EUREKA!" she stood triumphantly in her lab coat with her blue poneytail flowing out behind her, the potted plant lifted high above her head. Every one turned their heads to her.
"The plant that this incense is derived from DOES infact have sedative powers to demons and certain varieties of small yippie dogs, such as the common dauchsund (aka moterized sausage)." she bubbled. Ami was not esspecialy good with improvisation, so she blushed at her lame continueation of this strange drama.
"And as the head of a large and powerful corporation, I will back more inspection of this plant's medical and religious uses in a labrotory in France!" said business woman Usagi, suddenly inspired.
"Well if you are backing the experiments, I will back double!" said Luna, rushing up to Usagi and shakeing her finger in the 'buisness woman's' face.
"I say triple!" retorted Usagi.
"Quadrupal!" snarled the faux heriess.
"It isn't Monopoly money you two!" said the astrologer Minako. "Besides, these charts fortell bad investments in your future. Back the incense experiments now and you will be on the streets in three weeks."
"Bad investments?!" sobbed Luna. "My grandfather invested poorly, lost millions and had a stroke! I can't take more bad investments!" the heriess swooned on the couch.
"Tea is ready!" said Mamoru suddenly. Motiki dived for the tea and gulped it down, ignoring the bitter flavor
"I want some jam and a pickle." he remarked.
"I want my daughter back!" said Mrs. Aino again. She was begining to despair in the crusade to find the girls, Ms. Mizuno had gone over to look at the botonist and the business woman's charts and plans and bugets.
"EVERY ONE QUIET! IT IS TIME TO PREFORM THE EXORSIZM!" announced the massage therapist. Artemis thumped his hands along Makoto's back and she started to twitch violently. She let out a terrible scream and continued flailing wildly like a fish on a dock. Mamoru the tea master brought a cup of tea and Artemis rolled Makoto over. Mamoru forced the tea down Makoto's throat (in actuallity she was glad for the drink). Rei started chanting louder and Usagi, the botonist Ami, and Luna crowded around. The mothers stood looking from affar with raised eyebrows.
Makoto, who had been listening the conversation, and to Artemis's secret desciptions of what action had been going on, had known Mamoru was going to give her some tea. She swallowed about half of the cupfull, and it was a large cup. The rest she had kept in unpuffed cheeks, waiting for the spectacular finalle to their desperate improv.
After faliling wildly for a few more seconds (an accidently socking Minako in the jaw), Makoto lay still for a moment and then spit the green tea straight up into the air in a fantastic fountain like splurt.
"The demon spirit has been liquified! Better than expected!" exulted the mystic.
"And is Makoto now recovered?" asked the Usagi with intrest and concern.
"She should be once I slap her." said Minako gleefully. The 'astrologer' happily got her pay back for the slug on the jaw and then Makoto winced and sat up.
"What's with the voodoo cerimony?" she asked, her face a mask of innocence.
"You were infested with a demon spirit." explained Luna.
"We were exorcizing you." said Usagi eagerly.
"And why are you three in here? Usagi, Ami and Minako aren't here..." said Makoto, turning to the three mothers.
"Oh." the three mothers said dejectedly.
"Look in the Arcade." suggested Makoto. With that the mothers stampeeded away.
Luna followed Artemis to the kitchen. It was too soon to take off the Luna Pen's disguises, so Artemis still had short hair and a gotee. "Artemis?" asked Luna nervously. The former massuse turned from the window to see who had said his name. "I like your hair long better." Luna let a watery smile come through.
"I like you with your hair not in that huge pile on your head." said Artemis, in refrence to the mass of straight black hair towering over Luna's head, held in place with two elastics and a few chopsticks. ^ala//ran.jn^
"I'm sorry we got into that fight. I was being a coward. I feel so silly, fighting battles where I could loose my life, but running from love." Luna took a step foward and looked at her toes.
Artemis took a minute to speak. So many words ran through his mind. He wanted to apologize to, but her couldn't. The danger was past, Jadeite was gone forever. Was Luna going to run again next time the Senshi were called onto fight? Finally he decided what to say. He turned back to face the window. "Jadeite is dead Luna. What say we call it a draw, and let fate take it's course."
"You think I'm not sincere, that I'm speaking up only because the enemy is gone?" Luna's eyes were filled with anger now and her voice was cold and venemous.
Artemis was about to speak, but Rei came in. "Come on you two! We gotta get down the fire escape now, Mrs. Tsukino and company are comeing back and boy do they look pissed."
Everyone clambered down the fire escape and got onto a bus to go to Mamoru's apartment. The last person, Makoto herself, was down just as the apartment door was being found locked by Mrs. Tsukino, Mrs. Aino and Ms. Mizuno.
**
Sniff sniff. Hi. Ane Hoshi here. It's the...third to last chapter. Only two more and then there 20. My longest fic yet. How did this happen? It all started along time ago in a galaxy far far away... well not really but it's enough to make me a little sad. Oh well. This was a funny chapter. ^_^ off to help my mom and study for my summer school semester exam on mon. lucky me... @_@ ~ane
"Yes mam'e." said Motiki with surpriseing strength of voice.
"Does Kino Makoto live here or not?" asked Ms. Mizuno quickly.
"Yes. I'm here to ask her out for a date." said Motiki, trying to remember the brilliant scheme he had thought up seconds ago.
"How nice. Now if you don't mind get on with it so we can talk to Kino-chan." barked Mrs. Tsukino.
Motiki blinked and then the words he had planned came to his lips. "I don't mean to be rude my dear ladies, but Kino Makoto is a fantastic woman and I belive she deserves a suffix of more status and respect than 'chan'." He realized that he was saying all of this very loudly and distinctly.
"That may be but we need to talk to her. Now please excuse us." Minako's mother reached around Motiki and opened the door, shoveing him into Makoto's apartment.
Inside was quite and interesting scene. Makoto was lain out on a massage table. The smoke from a great deal of incense was clouding the air and chokeing it with perfume. Candles were lit all around. Minako, disguised as an astrologer, was holding some charts up to the light. The mystic/match maker Rei was sitting in a lotus position on the floor reciteing Budhist prayer chants and spinning a prayer wheel. Ami, the botonist, and Usagi, the buisness woman, were in a corner looking at a strange blossom and some charts on Ami's little computer. An heriess (really Luna) was looking bored on the couch. Mamoru was preforming a tea ceremony next to the chanting Rei and Artemis was standing at the head of the massage table.
"What is going on in here?!" cried Mrs. Aino as the door swung open. The three mothers stood like angry bulls in the door way.
"If you don't mind we are trying to combine the supernatural arts formed within religion, science and folklore over hundreds and thousands of years to exorsize a demon from this young lady." said Artemis stiffly, he pulled on the stiff sleeves of his uniform. What they hell am I saying? thought Artemis despreatly.
"I don't care what you are doing. WE WANT OUR DAUGHTERS BACK!" screeched Ikuko Tsukino. She pulled a large broom from where it leaned against the wall and held it in both hands like a quater staff.
Luna struted over to the three angry mothers. "I'm as wacked out as you three. I can't belive I'm funding this with my grandfather's riches!"
"Oh?" asked Ms. Mizuno, who as part of the wealthy circle wanted to know what rich man had died. Luna took this as a cue to try and distract at least one woman with a long, and tragic tale from the top of her head about her wonderful grandfather.
"Aren't possesed people supposed to moan and writhe and speak in hoarse voices like in that American movie?" asked a skeptical Mrs. Aino.
"YHEA! Why isn't her head spinning?!" demanded Ikuko.
"I thought that movie was for the younger set..." mumbled Mamoru innocently as he whisked the green tea with his little broom.
Ikuko swung her broom down onto Mamoru's head with a loud, "WHY YOU INSOLENT TEA MAN!
"HER HEAD isn't spinning becasue she has been sedated with the scent of this incense." Interupted Minako, looking down dramaticly through silver framed glasses. "It doesn't affect you because it is merely calming the demon, not her soul." the girl elaborated quickly.
"If you don't mind I think you are interupting the mystic's prayer." said Motiki loudly.
"SHUT UP!" said all three mothers at once.
Suddenly Ami cried out, "EUREKA!" she stood triumphantly in her lab coat with her blue poneytail flowing out behind her, the potted plant lifted high above her head. Every one turned their heads to her.
"The plant that this incense is derived from DOES infact have sedative powers to demons and certain varieties of small yippie dogs, such as the common dauchsund (aka moterized sausage)." she bubbled. Ami was not esspecialy good with improvisation, so she blushed at her lame continueation of this strange drama.
"And as the head of a large and powerful corporation, I will back more inspection of this plant's medical and religious uses in a labrotory in France!" said business woman Usagi, suddenly inspired.
"Well if you are backing the experiments, I will back double!" said Luna, rushing up to Usagi and shakeing her finger in the 'buisness woman's' face.
"I say triple!" retorted Usagi.
"Quadrupal!" snarled the faux heriess.
"It isn't Monopoly money you two!" said the astrologer Minako. "Besides, these charts fortell bad investments in your future. Back the incense experiments now and you will be on the streets in three weeks."
"Bad investments?!" sobbed Luna. "My grandfather invested poorly, lost millions and had a stroke! I can't take more bad investments!" the heriess swooned on the couch.
"Tea is ready!" said Mamoru suddenly. Motiki dived for the tea and gulped it down, ignoring the bitter flavor
"I want some jam and a pickle." he remarked.
"I want my daughter back!" said Mrs. Aino again. She was begining to despair in the crusade to find the girls, Ms. Mizuno had gone over to look at the botonist and the business woman's charts and plans and bugets.
"EVERY ONE QUIET! IT IS TIME TO PREFORM THE EXORSIZM!" announced the massage therapist. Artemis thumped his hands along Makoto's back and she started to twitch violently. She let out a terrible scream and continued flailing wildly like a fish on a dock. Mamoru the tea master brought a cup of tea and Artemis rolled Makoto over. Mamoru forced the tea down Makoto's throat (in actuallity she was glad for the drink). Rei started chanting louder and Usagi, the botonist Ami, and Luna crowded around. The mothers stood looking from affar with raised eyebrows.
Makoto, who had been listening the conversation, and to Artemis's secret desciptions of what action had been going on, had known Mamoru was going to give her some tea. She swallowed about half of the cupfull, and it was a large cup. The rest she had kept in unpuffed cheeks, waiting for the spectacular finalle to their desperate improv.
After faliling wildly for a few more seconds (an accidently socking Minako in the jaw), Makoto lay still for a moment and then spit the green tea straight up into the air in a fantastic fountain like splurt.
"The demon spirit has been liquified! Better than expected!" exulted the mystic.
"And is Makoto now recovered?" asked the Usagi with intrest and concern.
"She should be once I slap her." said Minako gleefully. The 'astrologer' happily got her pay back for the slug on the jaw and then Makoto winced and sat up.
"What's with the voodoo cerimony?" she asked, her face a mask of innocence.
"You were infested with a demon spirit." explained Luna.
"We were exorcizing you." said Usagi eagerly.
"And why are you three in here? Usagi, Ami and Minako aren't here..." said Makoto, turning to the three mothers.
"Oh." the three mothers said dejectedly.
"Look in the Arcade." suggested Makoto. With that the mothers stampeeded away.
Luna followed Artemis to the kitchen. It was too soon to take off the Luna Pen's disguises, so Artemis still had short hair and a gotee. "Artemis?" asked Luna nervously. The former massuse turned from the window to see who had said his name. "I like your hair long better." Luna let a watery smile come through.
"I like you with your hair not in that huge pile on your head." said Artemis, in refrence to the mass of straight black hair towering over Luna's head, held in place with two elastics and a few chopsticks. ^ala//ran.jn^
"I'm sorry we got into that fight. I was being a coward. I feel so silly, fighting battles where I could loose my life, but running from love." Luna took a step foward and looked at her toes.
Artemis took a minute to speak. So many words ran through his mind. He wanted to apologize to, but her couldn't. The danger was past, Jadeite was gone forever. Was Luna going to run again next time the Senshi were called onto fight? Finally he decided what to say. He turned back to face the window. "Jadeite is dead Luna. What say we call it a draw, and let fate take it's course."
"You think I'm not sincere, that I'm speaking up only because the enemy is gone?" Luna's eyes were filled with anger now and her voice was cold and venemous.
Artemis was about to speak, but Rei came in. "Come on you two! We gotta get down the fire escape now, Mrs. Tsukino and company are comeing back and boy do they look pissed."
Everyone clambered down the fire escape and got onto a bus to go to Mamoru's apartment. The last person, Makoto herself, was down just as the apartment door was being found locked by Mrs. Tsukino, Mrs. Aino and Ms. Mizuno.
**
Sniff sniff. Hi. Ane Hoshi here. It's the...third to last chapter. Only two more and then there 20. My longest fic yet. How did this happen? It all started along time ago in a galaxy far far away... well not really but it's enough to make me a little sad. Oh well. This was a funny chapter. ^_^ off to help my mom and study for my summer school semester exam on mon. lucky me... @_@ ~ane