Held By the Wings of an Angel
The Cherry Project-Part Six
By Bonnie-Chan
Email: hunniebunny@aol.com
Web page: http://www.geocities.com/sailor_moon_rose/
Today is February 14, 2002
Welcome back! Here's part eight...the scene is now set for the rest of our tale!
A reward for sticking with me-this chapter deals almost solely with Usagi! Whoo-hoo!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CANADIANS! They received their gold medal!! I am sooooooooo happy, and all is right with the world!! ^_^
I'd like to congratulate the winners of the Men's Figure Skating Competition! Alexei Yagudin of Russia-you skated an amazing, flawless performance and deserved that sparkly gold! Silver Medalist Eygeni Plushenko of Russia-a job well done! To bronze medalist Timothy Goebel of the United States-congratulations! I love watching you skate, and I'm so glad you medaled!
Todd Eldredge-you may not have medaled, but you gave a strong program last night! You're an amazing skater, a true gold medalist where it counts!
Welcome to Day Eight of the 2002 Winter Olympics! I've always loved the Olympics, haven't you? Anyways, to memorialize this historic event, I am releasing a chapter of this story every single day for the next 9 days. By the Closing Ceremonies on February 24th, this story will be ending as well.
Watch the Olympics…you never know when the tides will turn and what you thought would happen can change in the blink of an eye!
Sailor Eeyore-you're a wonderful beta reader, thanks so much!! ^_^
Well, on with the story!
_____________________________
Held By the Wings of an Angel
The Cherry Project: Part Six
By Bonnie-Chan
_____________________________
"It's such a beautiful night!" Usagi sighed dreamily, her cheek resting lazily on the palm of her hand as she stared out the window into the evening sky. "I love nights like these…you can see every star in the sky! Not to mention how pretty the full moon is tonight!"
A moment later her dreamy expression faded as an image of a blond-haired man appeared in the air, chuckling evilly.
"Sailor Senshi! The dawn of the final showdown is near! Come to New Tokyo International Airport tomorrow at midnight, or else your precious city will burn to the ground!" He smirked and waved his hand, creating the illusion of a burning Tokyo. "That, of course, was just an illusion of what is to come. See you tomorrow, Sailor Brats!"
With that he vanished from sight, leaving a trembling girl clutching the edge of her windowsill to shrivel up against the wall.
"Oh, Luna! What are we going to do? It's obviously a trap…"
"You know what must be done, Usagi. We have to go fight!"
"But I don't wanna fight!"
"I'm afraid you have no choice. Now call the girls on your communicator, we need to get together and talk this out!"
***********************
"Did you hear? The Sailor Senshi have been challenged to a showdown!"
"We have to check this out! Let's leave an hour early, so we can get good seats!"
"This is gonna be so cool!"
"It was probably just a joke, some kind of cheap publicity stunt."
"No, they're probably filming a new hit movie and were doing the special effects!"
"Whatever they were doing, the airport is gonna be closed down tonight! No one's allowed near it!"
Usagi closed her eyes wearily and turned away from the cluster of students at the front of the classroom. It was going to be a long day.
After school she headed to arcade, where she talked with Motoki about various oddities before heading home. Once outside, she tripped and fell, sending her shoe flying off her foot.
"Ow, that hurt!"
"Oh, I'm so sorr-oh, it's you! Well, that's okay then!"
"When will you remember that my head is not a garbage can?"
"When you switch to recycling?"
"I bet you were inside bugging Motoki again, weren't you?"
"No! I was just talking to him about what happened in school today…I wasn't bugging him!"
"Do you always feel the need to talk about such silly trivialities, Odango?"
"It's not trivial, it's life!"
"Your life must be very shallow then."
"Not as shallow as yours!"
"How do you figure?"
"Well, I mean, come on! You have to be the vainest guy alive! You must practice that overly-sarcastic look in the mirror every night! How much more pathetic can you be?"
"If you want to see pathetic, you really should look at yourself when you say such things."
"I'm fine just the way I am, thank you very much! I'm me!"
"And I'm sure that's what people find most endearing about you."
"Nothing you say can help me, you pompous jerk! Just because you don't care doesn't mean others don't. There's this one guy…he likes me exactly the way I am, I don't have to change at all!"
"He must be really dumb to like you…or maybe he's just blind?"
"You can't make such false accusations! You're so mean! I hate you!" She stared at him, her face turning a deep plum. "Now give me back my shoe!" She tore it out of his hand, shoved it back on her feet, and stormed angrily off to Rei's Shrine.
***********************
"I'm scared…this doesn't look right!"
"Of course it doesn't look right you Odango! It's a trap carefully laid out by the enemy! How could it be right?"
"I dunno…"
"Duck!"
"What?" Her eyes widened as she looked overhead, seeing a large plane zoom overhead. She quickly fell to the ground, letting it whiz over her head.
"Not bad, Sailor Twerp…but can you manage two planes?" The blond-haired man chuckled and clapped his hands together, causing another plane to spring to life.
"Aiieee! Run!"
"Shabon Spray!" A foggy mist encompassed the terminal, blinding Jadeite.
"Fire Soul!" He shrieked angrily, forcing the planes to accelerate and chase Usagi.
"Ready, Sailor Moon? Use your tiara now!"
"Right! Moon Tiara…action!" Usagi's tiara flew towards Jadeite, holding him captive and causing the two planes to meet in the center, causing an explosion in the spot he was held captive. Shrieking in agony, he withered around as he exploded into tiny bits and pieces.
"Ouch, that had to hurt!"
"I'm sure it did!"
"Well, he deserved it!"
Usagi yawned tiredly and whined, "Can we go home now? I'm tired…"
"Will it shut you up?"
"Mm-hmm!"
"Then by all means, let's go home."
***********************
"Nothing happened last night! What a rip-off!"
"They closed the airports for nothing!"
"And I wanted to see a good show, too!"
Usagi straggled into the classroom, weaving through where her classmates stood and heading tiredly towards her desk, bumping into Tsuzuki on her way.
"Oops, sorry, Tsuzuki. Didn't mean to bump into you…"
"No problem." He looked down at the bleak girl beside him. "You okay?"
"Yeah…"
"Are you catching Chieri's cold?"
"Chieri has a cold?"
"Yeah, that's what Yuni told me…"
"Oh, that. That's just a cover for Haruna-sensei. Her badge test is today. Coach Mori wants her to take all six tests at once!"
"Seriously?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Then we should go see her!"
"But-"
"Come on, Usagi, you're telling me you don't wanna ditch school?"
"I do, it's just-"
"Then let's go! Quick! Before Haruda gets here!"
"Okay…" She giggled as he grabbed hold of her hand and ran out of the room, waving to Kouichi to follow.
***********************
"Look, there's a sign on the door! She's going for it after all!" Tsuzuki slowly pushed open the metal door and walked into the arena, flanked by his friends.
"Okay, Asuka-san! Are you ready to go to the fifth level, or shall we break for lunch?"
"No, let me finish! I can do one more level!"
"Very well."
Tsuzuki followed her every move, watching her land a high triple.
"She's a quick learner."
Tsuzuki turned to look at his former coach and nodded in agreement. "That she is."
"She does have talent, but I wonder if it's because somebody instilled her with the foundation? This kind of technique normally takes years to learn, not weeks."
"She was in a hurry."
"Still, she did ten years worth of work so fast! I'm coaching her because you asked me to, but stop overworking her now…otherwise she'll be crushed."
"Nah, she's strong. She won't break yet."
"What are you saying?"
"Tsuzuki! You didn't tell me that Coach Mori is training Cherry! So you haven't given up on her, eh?"
"I got her into this. It's my job to follow through and help her out." He watched Chieri leave the ice and remove her skates, breaking for lunch. She looked up, noticing them for the first time and hurrying across the rink. "What are you guys doing with my coach?"
"She used to be my coach, too."
"How did you know I'd be here?"
Usagi raised her hand sheepishly. "I kind of let it slip out…I figured he'd want to know. You don't mind, do you?"
"No…"
"I have something for you, Chieri."
"You do!?"
"It's the key to my old rink locker. It still works, if you want it…"
"Really!?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Wow…thanks!"
"Good luck on this final level, Cherry." He gazed at her tenderly, briefly touching her face before turning and walking over to the bleachers, leaving her to stare after him, stunned.
"Good luck, Chieri!"
"Yeah, break a-I mean, good luck!" Kouichi raised a hand to his head nervously. "The last time I said that, someone really close to me really did break something!"
Usagi stared at him and shook her head. "No, Kouichi, it wasn't your fault! It was an accident. Accidents happen."
"Yeah, but I've always felt guilty that-"
"Well, don't."
"Okay…"
"Come on, let's go argue somewhere else. It's time for Cherry to skate again."
"Bye Chieri!"
"Bye!" She waved to her friends and walked back across the ice to put her skates back on and finish her test.
***********************
The end…until tomorrow, that is! Look for the ninth part of this epic tale tomorrow, and don't forget to watch the Olympics on NBC! Every day that you see events taking place, there's going to be a new chapter of this story! We've only just begun, there are still 9 Chapters to go! Usagi and Tsuzuki's stories are far from over!
Give me the next 9 days to tell you the rest of their story…I promise it'll be worth the ride! ^_^
~Bonnie-Chan~
February 15 2002
Day 8 of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
DISCLAIMER: Both Sailor Moon AND The Cherry Project belong to Naoko Takeuchi…man, she's one lucky lady! What I wouldn't give to own the rights to two of my favorite manga! In case you were wondering, TCP was Naoko's first epic story ^_^ ….wait until you see what character shows up in part three-one that is in the original manga for TCP, and a character you know quite well from SM, as well!
Translations for The Cherry Project came from Alex Glover's wonderful webpage. If you want to read TCP-or any other manga by Naoko-hime, it's the place to go! The web address is:
http://www.nwlink.com/~kurozuki/manga.htm
A few lines were taken directly from the translated text by Alex Glover, but for the most part they remain uniquely my own! Please don't copy anything without emailing me first and asking!
Questions, comments? Email me here: hunniebunny@aol.com…and whether you liked it or hated it, could you pretty please send me feedback? I'm majoring in writing, and any type of feedback helps! Constructive criticism, a note telling me it was good, or even bad…whatever! I'd really appreciate it!
Oh, and if you want to get this story-and others-delivered to your mailbox, just go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sailor_Moon_Rose
You won't have to worry about when the next update is to see what happens next!
( Y )
( , ,*)
(")(¨`v´¨)(")
`·.·´
LoveAlways,
*Bonnie-Chan*
The Cherry Project-Part Six
By Bonnie-Chan
Email: hunniebunny@aol.com
Web page: http://www.geocities.com/sailor_moon_rose/
Today is February 14, 2002
Welcome back! Here's part eight...the scene is now set for the rest of our tale!
A reward for sticking with me-this chapter deals almost solely with Usagi! Whoo-hoo!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CANADIANS! They received their gold medal!! I am sooooooooo happy, and all is right with the world!! ^_^
I'd like to congratulate the winners of the Men's Figure Skating Competition! Alexei Yagudin of Russia-you skated an amazing, flawless performance and deserved that sparkly gold! Silver Medalist Eygeni Plushenko of Russia-a job well done! To bronze medalist Timothy Goebel of the United States-congratulations! I love watching you skate, and I'm so glad you medaled!
Todd Eldredge-you may not have medaled, but you gave a strong program last night! You're an amazing skater, a true gold medalist where it counts!
Welcome to Day Eight of the 2002 Winter Olympics! I've always loved the Olympics, haven't you? Anyways, to memorialize this historic event, I am releasing a chapter of this story every single day for the next 9 days. By the Closing Ceremonies on February 24th, this story will be ending as well.
Watch the Olympics…you never know when the tides will turn and what you thought would happen can change in the blink of an eye!
Sailor Eeyore-you're a wonderful beta reader, thanks so much!! ^_^
Well, on with the story!
_____________________________
Held By the Wings of an Angel
The Cherry Project: Part Six
By Bonnie-Chan
_____________________________
"It's such a beautiful night!" Usagi sighed dreamily, her cheek resting lazily on the palm of her hand as she stared out the window into the evening sky. "I love nights like these…you can see every star in the sky! Not to mention how pretty the full moon is tonight!"
A moment later her dreamy expression faded as an image of a blond-haired man appeared in the air, chuckling evilly.
"Sailor Senshi! The dawn of the final showdown is near! Come to New Tokyo International Airport tomorrow at midnight, or else your precious city will burn to the ground!" He smirked and waved his hand, creating the illusion of a burning Tokyo. "That, of course, was just an illusion of what is to come. See you tomorrow, Sailor Brats!"
With that he vanished from sight, leaving a trembling girl clutching the edge of her windowsill to shrivel up against the wall.
"Oh, Luna! What are we going to do? It's obviously a trap…"
"You know what must be done, Usagi. We have to go fight!"
"But I don't wanna fight!"
"I'm afraid you have no choice. Now call the girls on your communicator, we need to get together and talk this out!"
***********************
"Did you hear? The Sailor Senshi have been challenged to a showdown!"
"We have to check this out! Let's leave an hour early, so we can get good seats!"
"This is gonna be so cool!"
"It was probably just a joke, some kind of cheap publicity stunt."
"No, they're probably filming a new hit movie and were doing the special effects!"
"Whatever they were doing, the airport is gonna be closed down tonight! No one's allowed near it!"
Usagi closed her eyes wearily and turned away from the cluster of students at the front of the classroom. It was going to be a long day.
After school she headed to arcade, where she talked with Motoki about various oddities before heading home. Once outside, she tripped and fell, sending her shoe flying off her foot.
"Ow, that hurt!"
"Oh, I'm so sorr-oh, it's you! Well, that's okay then!"
"When will you remember that my head is not a garbage can?"
"When you switch to recycling?"
"I bet you were inside bugging Motoki again, weren't you?"
"No! I was just talking to him about what happened in school today…I wasn't bugging him!"
"Do you always feel the need to talk about such silly trivialities, Odango?"
"It's not trivial, it's life!"
"Your life must be very shallow then."
"Not as shallow as yours!"
"How do you figure?"
"Well, I mean, come on! You have to be the vainest guy alive! You must practice that overly-sarcastic look in the mirror every night! How much more pathetic can you be?"
"If you want to see pathetic, you really should look at yourself when you say such things."
"I'm fine just the way I am, thank you very much! I'm me!"
"And I'm sure that's what people find most endearing about you."
"Nothing you say can help me, you pompous jerk! Just because you don't care doesn't mean others don't. There's this one guy…he likes me exactly the way I am, I don't have to change at all!"
"He must be really dumb to like you…or maybe he's just blind?"
"You can't make such false accusations! You're so mean! I hate you!" She stared at him, her face turning a deep plum. "Now give me back my shoe!" She tore it out of his hand, shoved it back on her feet, and stormed angrily off to Rei's Shrine.
***********************
"I'm scared…this doesn't look right!"
"Of course it doesn't look right you Odango! It's a trap carefully laid out by the enemy! How could it be right?"
"I dunno…"
"Duck!"
"What?" Her eyes widened as she looked overhead, seeing a large plane zoom overhead. She quickly fell to the ground, letting it whiz over her head.
"Not bad, Sailor Twerp…but can you manage two planes?" The blond-haired man chuckled and clapped his hands together, causing another plane to spring to life.
"Aiieee! Run!"
"Shabon Spray!" A foggy mist encompassed the terminal, blinding Jadeite.
"Fire Soul!" He shrieked angrily, forcing the planes to accelerate and chase Usagi.
"Ready, Sailor Moon? Use your tiara now!"
"Right! Moon Tiara…action!" Usagi's tiara flew towards Jadeite, holding him captive and causing the two planes to meet in the center, causing an explosion in the spot he was held captive. Shrieking in agony, he withered around as he exploded into tiny bits and pieces.
"Ouch, that had to hurt!"
"I'm sure it did!"
"Well, he deserved it!"
Usagi yawned tiredly and whined, "Can we go home now? I'm tired…"
"Will it shut you up?"
"Mm-hmm!"
"Then by all means, let's go home."
***********************
"Nothing happened last night! What a rip-off!"
"They closed the airports for nothing!"
"And I wanted to see a good show, too!"
Usagi straggled into the classroom, weaving through where her classmates stood and heading tiredly towards her desk, bumping into Tsuzuki on her way.
"Oops, sorry, Tsuzuki. Didn't mean to bump into you…"
"No problem." He looked down at the bleak girl beside him. "You okay?"
"Yeah…"
"Are you catching Chieri's cold?"
"Chieri has a cold?"
"Yeah, that's what Yuni told me…"
"Oh, that. That's just a cover for Haruna-sensei. Her badge test is today. Coach Mori wants her to take all six tests at once!"
"Seriously?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Then we should go see her!"
"But-"
"Come on, Usagi, you're telling me you don't wanna ditch school?"
"I do, it's just-"
"Then let's go! Quick! Before Haruda gets here!"
"Okay…" She giggled as he grabbed hold of her hand and ran out of the room, waving to Kouichi to follow.
***********************
"Look, there's a sign on the door! She's going for it after all!" Tsuzuki slowly pushed open the metal door and walked into the arena, flanked by his friends.
"Okay, Asuka-san! Are you ready to go to the fifth level, or shall we break for lunch?"
"No, let me finish! I can do one more level!"
"Very well."
Tsuzuki followed her every move, watching her land a high triple.
"She's a quick learner."
Tsuzuki turned to look at his former coach and nodded in agreement. "That she is."
"She does have talent, but I wonder if it's because somebody instilled her with the foundation? This kind of technique normally takes years to learn, not weeks."
"She was in a hurry."
"Still, she did ten years worth of work so fast! I'm coaching her because you asked me to, but stop overworking her now…otherwise she'll be crushed."
"Nah, she's strong. She won't break yet."
"What are you saying?"
"Tsuzuki! You didn't tell me that Coach Mori is training Cherry! So you haven't given up on her, eh?"
"I got her into this. It's my job to follow through and help her out." He watched Chieri leave the ice and remove her skates, breaking for lunch. She looked up, noticing them for the first time and hurrying across the rink. "What are you guys doing with my coach?"
"She used to be my coach, too."
"How did you know I'd be here?"
Usagi raised her hand sheepishly. "I kind of let it slip out…I figured he'd want to know. You don't mind, do you?"
"No…"
"I have something for you, Chieri."
"You do!?"
"It's the key to my old rink locker. It still works, if you want it…"
"Really!?"
"Mm-hmm."
"Wow…thanks!"
"Good luck on this final level, Cherry." He gazed at her tenderly, briefly touching her face before turning and walking over to the bleachers, leaving her to stare after him, stunned.
"Good luck, Chieri!"
"Yeah, break a-I mean, good luck!" Kouichi raised a hand to his head nervously. "The last time I said that, someone really close to me really did break something!"
Usagi stared at him and shook her head. "No, Kouichi, it wasn't your fault! It was an accident. Accidents happen."
"Yeah, but I've always felt guilty that-"
"Well, don't."
"Okay…"
"Come on, let's go argue somewhere else. It's time for Cherry to skate again."
"Bye Chieri!"
"Bye!" She waved to her friends and walked back across the ice to put her skates back on and finish her test.
***********************
The end…until tomorrow, that is! Look for the ninth part of this epic tale tomorrow, and don't forget to watch the Olympics on NBC! Every day that you see events taking place, there's going to be a new chapter of this story! We've only just begun, there are still 9 Chapters to go! Usagi and Tsuzuki's stories are far from over!
Give me the next 9 days to tell you the rest of their story…I promise it'll be worth the ride! ^_^
~Bonnie-Chan~
February 15 2002
Day 8 of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
DISCLAIMER: Both Sailor Moon AND The Cherry Project belong to Naoko Takeuchi…man, she's one lucky lady! What I wouldn't give to own the rights to two of my favorite manga! In case you were wondering, TCP was Naoko's first epic story ^_^ ….wait until you see what character shows up in part three-one that is in the original manga for TCP, and a character you know quite well from SM, as well!
Translations for The Cherry Project came from Alex Glover's wonderful webpage. If you want to read TCP-or any other manga by Naoko-hime, it's the place to go! The web address is:
http://www.nwlink.com/~kurozuki/manga.htm
A few lines were taken directly from the translated text by Alex Glover, but for the most part they remain uniquely my own! Please don't copy anything without emailing me first and asking!
Questions, comments? Email me here: hunniebunny@aol.com…and whether you liked it or hated it, could you pretty please send me feedback? I'm majoring in writing, and any type of feedback helps! Constructive criticism, a note telling me it was good, or even bad…whatever! I'd really appreciate it!
Oh, and if you want to get this story-and others-delivered to your mailbox, just go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sailor_Moon_Rose
You won't have to worry about when the next update is to see what happens next!
( Y )
( , ,*)
(")(¨`v´¨)(")
`·.·´
LoveAlways,
*Bonnie-Chan*