'"Mama, Mama, don't let him get me!" a three year old with
hair the color of rich soil, with only three white blonde streaks
shooting from her hair line, squealed as she ran behind her
mother's skirts to hide from an unknown villain.
"Don't let who get you?" the woman asked as she lifted
the little girl to her hip.
"Darien said he was going to put a fuzzy kittypillar down my
back," she pouted, letting her big blue eyes work their magic.
Just then an eight-year old boy charged into the room. As
soon as he saw his mother he put the incriminating hairy worm behind
his back, trying to look innocent.
"Darien, what did I tell you about picking on her," she
scolded, trying to cover her smile.
"But she was in my room," he tried to defend.
"I don't want to hear it. Now go flush that bug down the
toilet and finish packing. We have to leave soon."
The three-year-old in her arms looked in horror at her
mother. "No Mama. The kittypillar didn't do bad. Darien
did bad, let's flush him." She shot her most accusing glare at her
big brother, which had little affect, accept to make Mrs. Chiba laugh
outright.
"Angel Girl, I think he's a bit big for that." She
kissed her on the forehead and placed her on the floor next to her
brother. "Someday, you two are going to appreciate having each
other around." The children looked at each other doubtfully.
The speech they were about to receive was cut short when
their father entered the room saying, "Hurry up. The weather
looks bad and we have to drive through the mountains tonight." He
hoisted an excited little boy onto his shoulders and headed for the car, the
three-year-old attaching herself to her father's leg, the
conversation with their mother long forgotten with the promise of a
camping trip.'
Darien and Deme snapped awake at the same time, having dreamt
the same thing. 'What are these strange dreams I'm having all of
a sudden? What brought them on?' Darien thought to himself as he lay
staring at the ceiling.
'It has to be him,' Deme thought. She looked at the digital
clock next to her bed. '3 o'clock, time to get up. I have to be
at the beach in two hours.'
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A drowsy Darien picked a very sleepy Serena, Reenie, and Mina
up at Serena's house. None of them were used to getting up before
sunrise. Chad was going to take Rei and the other girls in the car
he had recently purchased after selling his band equipment.
It was 7:15am when they got to the beach. All the girls had
perked up considerably after Darien had bought breakfast at Burger
Palace.
Serena jumped out of the car followed by the rest of the
girls, all running down the beach toward the photography equipment.
Darien straggled behind with Chad, who was also feeling dejected for
being dragged out there so early in the morning.
"Deme, we're here!" called Lita as they approached the set.
Deme looked up from her book and smiled brightly when she saw
them coming. Putting her book down, she got up to meet them. Reenie
ran straight into her arms, and was lifted onto her hip, to
everyone's but Reenie's surprise.
"I'm so glad you could make it. You have no idea how boring
it would be if you didn't show up." A cat jumped off the
nearby trailer in front of Darien and immediately began sniffing and rubbing
on his leg. "This is my cat, Persephone. She's a little
ornery at times, but a good judge of character."
Deme smiled, I knew it, he's the one, "I think she likes
you. Hi, I'm Deme, we really didn't get the chance to meet
yesterday." Deme stuck out her hand and they shook. All
feelings of apprehension dissipated as their hands touched and he smiled at her.
He still thought there was something up with her, he just knew it
wasn't evil. Rei would have smacked her in the head with one of
her little pieces of paper by now.
"DEME! We're waiting for you to. . ." a young man with
a camera around his neck, blonde frosted hair and big brown eyes about
Darien and Chad's age walked around the corner of a trailer
shouted before seeing the crowd, and in particular, Lita. "I'm
sorry, I didn't know you had company. Hi, Lita." He smiled at her
and all the girls sighed silently.
"You keep that up and you'll be the one on magazine covers
Phil. Then what am I going to do?" Deme teased when she saw the
reactions of Lita's friends.
"Marry me," he teased back. They had been teasing each other back
and forth ever since she had become a model when she was 13
years old.
"I may have to, to protect you from the hordes of lovesick
girls if nothing else," she answered eyeing the swooning girls
playfully.
"Well if it isn't for love," he sneered sarcastically.
"Lita do you want to introduce me to your friends?" The introductions
were made, and then he slipped Lita's hand through his arm and led
everyone to where they would shoot the next set of pictures.
They spent the morning running around the beach, building
sandcastles, and watching Deme model the latest in swimwear for an
expensive fashion magazine.
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At lunch the scouts, Deme, and Phil sat down to one of Lita's
famous picnic lunches. Serena looked up the beach to see three tall
familiar figures setting up their beach umbrellas and towels.
"Amara, Michelle, Trista!" she squealed loudly, drawing the
attention of many sunbathers. The women looked and smiled when they
spotted the large group of people, and came to join them.
"Hey, Moon Face, how's it going?" Amara asked, using her
favorite nickname for the ever-energetic teen.
Trista looked around at the group. She made eye contact
with Deme and they immediately recognized each other.
"Deme, its good to see you again. It's been a long
time," Trista said as she sat down.
"Yes it has. When was the last time? In the hospital
right?" Deme asked.
"I believe so," she answered. It wasn't exactly a lie.
Technically she was in the hospital when they met, though she had
been transformed at the time, but the fact that she recognized her
through the mental distortion created when they were transformed
bothered her though. That meant she probably knew who all the scouts
were. Not that it was bad thing, she needed to know these kinds of
things in her line of work, but still.
"You two know each other?" Darien asked with interest.
Trista wasn't friends with many people, and when she was there
was usually more to it than just companionship. She preferred to be
alone, and as the Keeper of Time she had plenty of practice.
"Sort of," Deme answered, trying to cover their slip.
"We met briefly when I was in the hospital awhile back. Not a big
deal."
This seemed to satisfy his curiosity for the moment and both
Deme and Trista breathed a sigh of relief.
The group enjoyed a peaceful lunch together after that and
Deme invited the girls to model in a few shots with her.
About half way through the second roll of film something
strange began to happen. A black cloud began to form over the ocean
in the distance, giving the appearance of a massive storm.
"I sense a disturbance. The sea is churning," Michelle said
as she watched.
"What do you think it is. A new enemy?" Amara asked
quietly. Michelle shrugged, not having any idea what to tell her
cousin.
"The weatherman said that it would be clear all day today,"
Serena whined. Everyone else felt the same way she sounded. They
had really enjoyed playing supermodel. Deme watched the
storm build with a feeling of foreboding.
Lightening struck near the beach, sending scared children
behind their mothers, who were quickly gathering up towels and
umbrellas and running for their cars. The photography crew was doing
the same thing with the sets, cameras, cables and anything else they
had brought out there with them and loading them into trailers. The
rolling thunder sounded like evil laughter, making everyone's
hair stand on end and goose bumps pop up all over their bodies.
"I sense an evil presence here," Rei stated as she watched
the cloud inch closer to land.
"No, really, you think," Mina replied sarcastically. It
didn't take a mystic to figure out that whatever was heading
their way was bad news.
The next bolt of lightening released a blue monster that
sprayed painful, driving rain at everyone who had not taken shelter,
including Darien, the scouts, Deme and Chad. Its physical body
seemed to also be made of water, shifting and changing shapes.
"Run everybody! Deme, get inside the trailer," Darien
shouted, wanting to transform, but not in front of the non-scouts.
Everyone scattered in different directions, and in a matter of
seconds the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask were standing before the
creature ready to do battle.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
In response a wall of water hit her head on, sending her
flying back into the side of a trailer.
"Titan has sent me for the Power Of Earth," the creature hissed.
"MARS FIRE ENCIRCLE!" Sailor Mars shouted. The monster
easily dodged the attack laughing hysterically at the failed attempt
on its life.
All of the scouts attempted an attack on the enemy, and all
were repelled, dodged, or just went straight through the creature
leaving it unharmed. Even Tuxedo Mask's rose went through the
monster and lodged into the sand on the other side.
"I think we have a PROBLEM," Sailor Moon cried when her own
attack failed to destroy the strange being.
"EARTH MAGMA ENCASE!"
hair the color of rich soil, with only three white blonde streaks
shooting from her hair line, squealed as she ran behind her
mother's skirts to hide from an unknown villain.
"Don't let who get you?" the woman asked as she lifted
the little girl to her hip.
"Darien said he was going to put a fuzzy kittypillar down my
back," she pouted, letting her big blue eyes work their magic.
Just then an eight-year old boy charged into the room. As
soon as he saw his mother he put the incriminating hairy worm behind
his back, trying to look innocent.
"Darien, what did I tell you about picking on her," she
scolded, trying to cover her smile.
"But she was in my room," he tried to defend.
"I don't want to hear it. Now go flush that bug down the
toilet and finish packing. We have to leave soon."
The three-year-old in her arms looked in horror at her
mother. "No Mama. The kittypillar didn't do bad. Darien
did bad, let's flush him." She shot her most accusing glare at her
big brother, which had little affect, accept to make Mrs. Chiba laugh
outright.
"Angel Girl, I think he's a bit big for that." She
kissed her on the forehead and placed her on the floor next to her
brother. "Someday, you two are going to appreciate having each
other around." The children looked at each other doubtfully.
The speech they were about to receive was cut short when
their father entered the room saying, "Hurry up. The weather
looks bad and we have to drive through the mountains tonight." He
hoisted an excited little boy onto his shoulders and headed for the car, the
three-year-old attaching herself to her father's leg, the
conversation with their mother long forgotten with the promise of a
camping trip.'
Darien and Deme snapped awake at the same time, having dreamt
the same thing. 'What are these strange dreams I'm having all of
a sudden? What brought them on?' Darien thought to himself as he lay
staring at the ceiling.
'It has to be him,' Deme thought. She looked at the digital
clock next to her bed. '3 o'clock, time to get up. I have to be
at the beach in two hours.'
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A drowsy Darien picked a very sleepy Serena, Reenie, and Mina
up at Serena's house. None of them were used to getting up before
sunrise. Chad was going to take Rei and the other girls in the car
he had recently purchased after selling his band equipment.
It was 7:15am when they got to the beach. All the girls had
perked up considerably after Darien had bought breakfast at Burger
Palace.
Serena jumped out of the car followed by the rest of the
girls, all running down the beach toward the photography equipment.
Darien straggled behind with Chad, who was also feeling dejected for
being dragged out there so early in the morning.
"Deme, we're here!" called Lita as they approached the set.
Deme looked up from her book and smiled brightly when she saw
them coming. Putting her book down, she got up to meet them. Reenie
ran straight into her arms, and was lifted onto her hip, to
everyone's but Reenie's surprise.
"I'm so glad you could make it. You have no idea how boring
it would be if you didn't show up." A cat jumped off the
nearby trailer in front of Darien and immediately began sniffing and rubbing
on his leg. "This is my cat, Persephone. She's a little
ornery at times, but a good judge of character."
Deme smiled, I knew it, he's the one, "I think she likes
you. Hi, I'm Deme, we really didn't get the chance to meet
yesterday." Deme stuck out her hand and they shook. All
feelings of apprehension dissipated as their hands touched and he smiled at her.
He still thought there was something up with her, he just knew it
wasn't evil. Rei would have smacked her in the head with one of
her little pieces of paper by now.
"DEME! We're waiting for you to. . ." a young man with
a camera around his neck, blonde frosted hair and big brown eyes about
Darien and Chad's age walked around the corner of a trailer
shouted before seeing the crowd, and in particular, Lita. "I'm
sorry, I didn't know you had company. Hi, Lita." He smiled at her
and all the girls sighed silently.
"You keep that up and you'll be the one on magazine covers
Phil. Then what am I going to do?" Deme teased when she saw the
reactions of Lita's friends.
"Marry me," he teased back. They had been teasing each other back
and forth ever since she had become a model when she was 13
years old.
"I may have to, to protect you from the hordes of lovesick
girls if nothing else," she answered eyeing the swooning girls
playfully.
"Well if it isn't for love," he sneered sarcastically.
"Lita do you want to introduce me to your friends?" The introductions
were made, and then he slipped Lita's hand through his arm and led
everyone to where they would shoot the next set of pictures.
They spent the morning running around the beach, building
sandcastles, and watching Deme model the latest in swimwear for an
expensive fashion magazine.
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At lunch the scouts, Deme, and Phil sat down to one of Lita's
famous picnic lunches. Serena looked up the beach to see three tall
familiar figures setting up their beach umbrellas and towels.
"Amara, Michelle, Trista!" she squealed loudly, drawing the
attention of many sunbathers. The women looked and smiled when they
spotted the large group of people, and came to join them.
"Hey, Moon Face, how's it going?" Amara asked, using her
favorite nickname for the ever-energetic teen.
Trista looked around at the group. She made eye contact
with Deme and they immediately recognized each other.
"Deme, its good to see you again. It's been a long
time," Trista said as she sat down.
"Yes it has. When was the last time? In the hospital
right?" Deme asked.
"I believe so," she answered. It wasn't exactly a lie.
Technically she was in the hospital when they met, though she had
been transformed at the time, but the fact that she recognized her
through the mental distortion created when they were transformed
bothered her though. That meant she probably knew who all the scouts
were. Not that it was bad thing, she needed to know these kinds of
things in her line of work, but still.
"You two know each other?" Darien asked with interest.
Trista wasn't friends with many people, and when she was there
was usually more to it than just companionship. She preferred to be
alone, and as the Keeper of Time she had plenty of practice.
"Sort of," Deme answered, trying to cover their slip.
"We met briefly when I was in the hospital awhile back. Not a big
deal."
This seemed to satisfy his curiosity for the moment and both
Deme and Trista breathed a sigh of relief.
The group enjoyed a peaceful lunch together after that and
Deme invited the girls to model in a few shots with her.
About half way through the second roll of film something
strange began to happen. A black cloud began to form over the ocean
in the distance, giving the appearance of a massive storm.
"I sense a disturbance. The sea is churning," Michelle said
as she watched.
"What do you think it is. A new enemy?" Amara asked
quietly. Michelle shrugged, not having any idea what to tell her
cousin.
"The weatherman said that it would be clear all day today,"
Serena whined. Everyone else felt the same way she sounded. They
had really enjoyed playing supermodel. Deme watched the
storm build with a feeling of foreboding.
Lightening struck near the beach, sending scared children
behind their mothers, who were quickly gathering up towels and
umbrellas and running for their cars. The photography crew was doing
the same thing with the sets, cameras, cables and anything else they
had brought out there with them and loading them into trailers. The
rolling thunder sounded like evil laughter, making everyone's
hair stand on end and goose bumps pop up all over their bodies.
"I sense an evil presence here," Rei stated as she watched
the cloud inch closer to land.
"No, really, you think," Mina replied sarcastically. It
didn't take a mystic to figure out that whatever was heading
their way was bad news.
The next bolt of lightening released a blue monster that
sprayed painful, driving rain at everyone who had not taken shelter,
including Darien, the scouts, Deme and Chad. Its physical body
seemed to also be made of water, shifting and changing shapes.
"Run everybody! Deme, get inside the trailer," Darien
shouted, wanting to transform, but not in front of the non-scouts.
Everyone scattered in different directions, and in a matter of
seconds the Sailor Scouts and Tuxedo Mask were standing before the
creature ready to do battle.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Sailor Jupiter demanded.
In response a wall of water hit her head on, sending her
flying back into the side of a trailer.
"Titan has sent me for the Power Of Earth," the creature hissed.
"MARS FIRE ENCIRCLE!" Sailor Mars shouted. The monster
easily dodged the attack laughing hysterically at the failed attempt
on its life.
All of the scouts attempted an attack on the enemy, and all
were repelled, dodged, or just went straight through the creature
leaving it unharmed. Even Tuxedo Mask's rose went through the
monster and lodged into the sand on the other side.
"I think we have a PROBLEM," Sailor Moon cried when her own
attack failed to destroy the strange being.
"EARTH MAGMA ENCASE!"