Chapter 09 - You Don't Need to Say a Word
"If I can search out my tiny self so far below,
Then even getting hurt, or what will come tomorrow won't scare me..."
-= Megumi Hayashibara - Breeze =-
* Author's note: Even though the official language of this fanfic is English, the Sailor Senshi will be speaking in Japanese. Their speeches will be between {}. *
In the International Airport, five foreign girls and two boys looked at each other, trying to talk a bit while they waited to their friends to arrive. A hard task in everyone's opinion, because only two girls spoke fluent English and only one boy spoke fluent Japanese. They were all sitting by the main entrance, where they would still be warm and could also see if anybody got there to take them to the hotel they had booked for.
"William, you did NOT change a bit in these years", said one of the blond girls, with a red bow on her hair, speaking with a British accent. "How could you come to get us if you didn't even have a car or enough money to take us to our hotel?"
"Easy there, Minako", answered William, waving his hands in front of her face. "You didn't tell me that you were bringing FOUR friends with you, so I thought that only one cab would be enough. And you could choose another day to come too, because no Change Banks open during Mondays."
"Excuse me, William...", said a blue-haired girl, with a strong Japanese accent on her English. "I think we didn't introduce ourselves..."
"Don't worry about that", said William. "I think it's better to introduce everybody when the rest of the gang gets here."
"WHAT?!", exclaimed the blond one that William called 'Minako'. "You've called your friends to pick us up?"
"Err... I did", said Bradley, raising one of his fingers, shyly. "Did I do anything wrong?"
"Not at all", the blond giggled, while taking a white... yes, it still was a white cat, from a pet box.
"Ah, there they come", smiled William, trying to hide a relief sigh in his throat. "Hey! We're here!!!"
The small group quickly ran to the strange group of foreigners that stood on the middle of the arrival room, saying something like 'weren't them supposed to be Japanese?!' after looking at the strange hair colors they had. Five girls, two blond, one brown-haired, one BLUE-haired and a brunette stood near William and Bradley. It sure was time to review some of my Genetics books, thought Megan, scratching her head, but... wait-a-sec, Aindrea had blue hair himself. Go figure.
"Hi!", waved Kenneth, receiving a poke from Megan when she noticed that he was smiling way too much to the girls. "Hey, that hurts!"
"Welcome to the club", laughed Arthur, receiving a poke from Tieko. "Ouch! Did I already say that THIS", and he poked her on her belly "hurts?!"
"Yes, it hurts and it TICKLES!", she answered, poking him again.
"Err... could yae guys stop that? Yae're scaring our guests", said Catherin, with an odd smile on her face.
Tieko and Megan blushed and looked at each other before trying to say anything. The other members of the group couldn't help but look at the foreign group with sheepish smiles on their faces. A strange silence came into the airport, being broken only by the default announcements on the microphones.
"Sorry for all these problems we are causing you", finally said the blue-haired girl, carrying a black cat on her arms. "I am Ami Mizuno, nice to meet you", and she bowed down.
"I'm Minako Aino, William's cousin", said the blond girl with the red bow on her head. "And these are my friends, Usagi Tsukino", she pointed the other blond girl with the funny, round ponytails on her head. "Rei Hino", and the longhaired brunette bowed. "And Makoto Kino", the tall, brown-haired girl also bowed.
"Hm... nai... naici two miiti yuu...", the one called Usagi tried to say while bowing.
*God, we'll HAVE to do something very QUICK to handle this 'conversation' problem*, thought Megan, slapping her forehead. "I'm Megan Lightner, nice to meet you too."
"Are you all from Mornington?", asked Minako, whimpering when one of the white cat's sharp claws poke her. "Hey!"
"Not at all... I'm Kenneth Raiden, and I'm from Narita, Japan", he said, smiling in a 'not too cheerful' way, so that Megan wouldn't poke or punch him anymore. "I also speak Japanese, so I think I can help you a bit."
"That would be very nice... by the way, I'm Catherin McKinnion, from Scotland."
"Arthur Crossroads here. I was born nearby, so I can almost say that I'm from Mornington."
"I am Aindrea Terence, from France."
"I'm Daniel Luders, and my cousin and I are Brazilian."
"Would you QUIT skipping over my introduction?", asked Rick, giving an angry glare in Daniel's direction. "I'm Henrique Luders. Call me Rick, if you can't pronounce my name."
"I'm Tieko Aikawa", she said, being the last one to introduce herself. "I'm also Brazilian..."
She didn't know exactly why, but Tieko felt something funny when she looked into Ami Mizuno's eyes. It was something like... if they weren't total strangers by the time they met. As if they had been good friends or even more than that in another time.
Or in another life.
***
Thirty minutes later, three crowded cars left the airport, heading to Mornington Palace Hotel, the biggest one on town. Or should I say the only one that really could be called a hotel? Oh well... whatever. What really matters is that the town never saw such noisy cars as those two were.
In Aindrea's Scènic went Megan, Kenneth, Rick, Minako Aino and the white cat - whose name was Artemis -, so that Minako could go talking with Megan. In one of the two cabs, went Arthur, Tieko, Ami Mizuno and the black cat - whose name was Luna - and William and Makoto Kino, while in the last cab went the rest of the group, without one foreigner who spoke English, so that Daniel and Bradley had to suffer while Usagi Tsukino fought all the way along with Rei Hino. The only thought that made the two poor boys happy was that they were on the least crowded cab... but Daniel sure wished that the car had three front seats. Watching a girls' fight wasn't something he liked to do very often.
Some terrible twenty minutes later, the three cars stopped by Mornington Palace Hotel, one of them leaving a somehow tired group at the front door. Daniel looked like as he had been on Vietnam's War, while the two girls still had their hair well combed and done. Bradley had a funny smile on his face that quickly vanished when Daniel stepped on his foot accidentally... was it really an accident? Sheesh...
"OK, here we are", sighed Minako, looking at the sheepish grin at Usagi and Rei's face. "Mornington Palace Hotel. We booked for three rooms here... is it too far from where you're all staying?"
"Not at all", answered William. "But not all of us are staying at Fallen Institute."
"He's right", continued Megan. "I live with my parents at the Main Street, at an apartment on that white little building there", she pointed to a building that had the Game Center on its first floor. "Kenneth lives with his sister at the 4th Street, over there. As you can see, Mornington isn't a big town, so we can hardly get lost."
"People say that Mornington can be called a 'town' because of Fallen Institute, or it would be a village or worse, a part of Crossroads, the next town over there", smirked William. "But can we go inside? It's COLD out here!"
"Excellent idea", answered Tieko, already inside the hotel's hall, a funny smile on her face. "Why don't you continue chatting over here? It's nice and cozy."
"She sure is fast", said Kenneth.
***
In Pluto's Palace, the three tired Destiny Kishi and the furious Sailor Senshi still waited for an answer from Chronos, who kept still as if he was thinking of a good answer to give before he died by Lady Saphir's hands. *She used to be a calm and gentle woman*, thought Chronos, holding the Time Staff.
"So, what can you say about that, Guardian of Time?", asked Saphir, with her arms crossed in front of her chest.
Chronos took a deep breath before starting to talk. He would need any pinch of oxygen he could get to face a very angry princess. "Err... you don't have to worry, Lady Saphir", he began, while Moon Fox and Aleph noticed that his hands were more pale than the usual. "Kyn won't be harmed in that Timeline, even though it doesn't seem so at this moment. Of course I can see that there's a lot of youmas trying to get her, but... she'll be OK. She always did, don't you remember? And she promised you would never be alone..."
"Hottokenai yo", said Saphir. "But you still didn't answer my question and you're just trying to distract me."
"She's right, Chronos", agreed Moon Fox. "Or should I say 'Martin'? For Serenity's sake, don't tell me that you haven't merged 100% in all these decades!", and he shook his head in dispair.
"I can't believe it... sometimes I feel like we were back some years in time and that we still have to deal with Chronos/Martin's problems... I'm not totally merged with Aleph neither, but we agree in almost 99% of the decisions", said Daniel, remembering that his fusion with his old self hadn't finished yet. "I think that Chronos and I are the only Destiny Kishi that aren't really full-merged after all these years. After all, I'm still Daniel Graminho, not Aleph of Fihar."
"So why do you keep answering when people call you 'Aleph'?", teased Firebird, trying to make things less troubled.
"It's easier", he answered, heading for one of the doors. "I'll be in my room. I need to do some research on some things that aren't clear by now... call me when dinner is ready, 'kay?", he smirked.
"OK, he tried", said Seph, raising his shoulders. "But I don't think that was enough to make Lady Saphir forget her main target... hey, where did he go?!"
Everybody facefaulted when they saw that Chronos had managed to vanish from the entrance hall without anyone noticing that. Saphir felt as dumb as she had never before...
Sailor Mercury sighed sadly and started to walk in the rooms' direction. She wished to stay alone with her twin sister for some minutes. That would be the only thing she could do by that moment.
***
FOURTY minutes later, the group hadn't booked in yet. They were still discussing who would stay with who in which room and hadn't get to an agreement. Kenneth, Megan, Arthur, Aindrea, Cat, William and Bradley were almost sleeping on the soft couches of the main hall, while Tieko seemed to be amused, playing with Luna and talking to Ami. On the other hand, Minako was busy trying to make Rei and Usagi stop fighting for useless things.
{Why can't you two stop arguing?}, asked Minako, tired of watching the fight. {It's easy to settle this, all we have to do is decide who will stay with who and, if there's any problem, we can always change rooms!}
{I want to stay on the room that has the view to the main street}, cried Usagi, stepping hard on the floor. {That's unfair, Rei-chan!}
{What? I said that I would prefer to stay on that room because I like to see the sunset during dawn!}, replied Rei, with her arms crossed in front of her chest. {Why can't you stay on the room that's next to this one?}
"Why are they fighting so much?", asked Tieko to Ami, while patting Luna's head.
"Never mind... you said that you are Brazilian?"
"Yup. Oh... you're noticing that I'm not the exactly type of Brazilian girl you would expect to see, am I right?", said Tieko, having Ami nodding with her head as an affirmative answer. "That's because my grandparents are Japanese, from both sides, mother and father. So that there aren't any mixtures with people from other countries."
"I see... hm... I guess they will soon finish that fight."
"How do you know that?"
"Rei and Usagi started their 'tongue fight'", answered Ami, looking amused when Tieko almost dropped Luna on the floor. "Don't worry, they always do that, but they are good friends."
"If you say so..."
***
Ami wasn't wrong, though. Some seconds after the beginning of the 'tongue fight' between Rei and Usagi, they stop fighting for some reason nobody could understand, except the five Japanese girls and the two cats. Maybe the scratch that appeared on Usagi's ankle could explain better the end of the battle.
It didn't take long until they said 'goodbye' to their new friends and went to their rooms. Everybody seemed to be tired after the long trip and the long time waiting for everything to be settled down. Once they finished unpacking, all the girls and the cats went to Usagi's room to talk.
{Finally}, said Luna, stretching her body on the bed. {I thought that fight would never end... something wrong, Ami-chan?}
{Nani? Oh, nothing, Luna. I was just thinking about something...}
{You made friends very quickly here, didn't you, Ami-chan?}, asked Makoto, brushing her hair. {I thought you weren't a girl that made friends easily...}
{I'm not, Mako-chan}, answered Ami. {But there are some things that happens in your life that can't be explained, don't you agree?}
{Quite}, said Artemis. {The empathy is something that nobody could ever explain. Sometimes...}
{... you don't need to say a word}, said Rei, looking at the main street.
"If I can search out my tiny self so far below,
Then even getting hurt, or what will come tomorrow won't scare me..."
-= Megumi Hayashibara - Breeze =-
* Author's note: Even though the official language of this fanfic is English, the Sailor Senshi will be speaking in Japanese. Their speeches will be between {}. *
In the International Airport, five foreign girls and two boys looked at each other, trying to talk a bit while they waited to their friends to arrive. A hard task in everyone's opinion, because only two girls spoke fluent English and only one boy spoke fluent Japanese. They were all sitting by the main entrance, where they would still be warm and could also see if anybody got there to take them to the hotel they had booked for.
"William, you did NOT change a bit in these years", said one of the blond girls, with a red bow on her hair, speaking with a British accent. "How could you come to get us if you didn't even have a car or enough money to take us to our hotel?"
"Easy there, Minako", answered William, waving his hands in front of her face. "You didn't tell me that you were bringing FOUR friends with you, so I thought that only one cab would be enough. And you could choose another day to come too, because no Change Banks open during Mondays."
"Excuse me, William...", said a blue-haired girl, with a strong Japanese accent on her English. "I think we didn't introduce ourselves..."
"Don't worry about that", said William. "I think it's better to introduce everybody when the rest of the gang gets here."
"WHAT?!", exclaimed the blond one that William called 'Minako'. "You've called your friends to pick us up?"
"Err... I did", said Bradley, raising one of his fingers, shyly. "Did I do anything wrong?"
"Not at all", the blond giggled, while taking a white... yes, it still was a white cat, from a pet box.
"Ah, there they come", smiled William, trying to hide a relief sigh in his throat. "Hey! We're here!!!"
The small group quickly ran to the strange group of foreigners that stood on the middle of the arrival room, saying something like 'weren't them supposed to be Japanese?!' after looking at the strange hair colors they had. Five girls, two blond, one brown-haired, one BLUE-haired and a brunette stood near William and Bradley. It sure was time to review some of my Genetics books, thought Megan, scratching her head, but... wait-a-sec, Aindrea had blue hair himself. Go figure.
"Hi!", waved Kenneth, receiving a poke from Megan when she noticed that he was smiling way too much to the girls. "Hey, that hurts!"
"Welcome to the club", laughed Arthur, receiving a poke from Tieko. "Ouch! Did I already say that THIS", and he poked her on her belly "hurts?!"
"Yes, it hurts and it TICKLES!", she answered, poking him again.
"Err... could yae guys stop that? Yae're scaring our guests", said Catherin, with an odd smile on her face.
Tieko and Megan blushed and looked at each other before trying to say anything. The other members of the group couldn't help but look at the foreign group with sheepish smiles on their faces. A strange silence came into the airport, being broken only by the default announcements on the microphones.
"Sorry for all these problems we are causing you", finally said the blue-haired girl, carrying a black cat on her arms. "I am Ami Mizuno, nice to meet you", and she bowed down.
"I'm Minako Aino, William's cousin", said the blond girl with the red bow on her head. "And these are my friends, Usagi Tsukino", she pointed the other blond girl with the funny, round ponytails on her head. "Rei Hino", and the longhaired brunette bowed. "And Makoto Kino", the tall, brown-haired girl also bowed.
"Hm... nai... naici two miiti yuu...", the one called Usagi tried to say while bowing.
*God, we'll HAVE to do something very QUICK to handle this 'conversation' problem*, thought Megan, slapping her forehead. "I'm Megan Lightner, nice to meet you too."
"Are you all from Mornington?", asked Minako, whimpering when one of the white cat's sharp claws poke her. "Hey!"
"Not at all... I'm Kenneth Raiden, and I'm from Narita, Japan", he said, smiling in a 'not too cheerful' way, so that Megan wouldn't poke or punch him anymore. "I also speak Japanese, so I think I can help you a bit."
"That would be very nice... by the way, I'm Catherin McKinnion, from Scotland."
"Arthur Crossroads here. I was born nearby, so I can almost say that I'm from Mornington."
"I am Aindrea Terence, from France."
"I'm Daniel Luders, and my cousin and I are Brazilian."
"Would you QUIT skipping over my introduction?", asked Rick, giving an angry glare in Daniel's direction. "I'm Henrique Luders. Call me Rick, if you can't pronounce my name."
"I'm Tieko Aikawa", she said, being the last one to introduce herself. "I'm also Brazilian..."
She didn't know exactly why, but Tieko felt something funny when she looked into Ami Mizuno's eyes. It was something like... if they weren't total strangers by the time they met. As if they had been good friends or even more than that in another time.
Or in another life.
***
Thirty minutes later, three crowded cars left the airport, heading to Mornington Palace Hotel, the biggest one on town. Or should I say the only one that really could be called a hotel? Oh well... whatever. What really matters is that the town never saw such noisy cars as those two were.
In Aindrea's Scènic went Megan, Kenneth, Rick, Minako Aino and the white cat - whose name was Artemis -, so that Minako could go talking with Megan. In one of the two cabs, went Arthur, Tieko, Ami Mizuno and the black cat - whose name was Luna - and William and Makoto Kino, while in the last cab went the rest of the group, without one foreigner who spoke English, so that Daniel and Bradley had to suffer while Usagi Tsukino fought all the way along with Rei Hino. The only thought that made the two poor boys happy was that they were on the least crowded cab... but Daniel sure wished that the car had three front seats. Watching a girls' fight wasn't something he liked to do very often.
Some terrible twenty minutes later, the three cars stopped by Mornington Palace Hotel, one of them leaving a somehow tired group at the front door. Daniel looked like as he had been on Vietnam's War, while the two girls still had their hair well combed and done. Bradley had a funny smile on his face that quickly vanished when Daniel stepped on his foot accidentally... was it really an accident? Sheesh...
"OK, here we are", sighed Minako, looking at the sheepish grin at Usagi and Rei's face. "Mornington Palace Hotel. We booked for three rooms here... is it too far from where you're all staying?"
"Not at all", answered William. "But not all of us are staying at Fallen Institute."
"He's right", continued Megan. "I live with my parents at the Main Street, at an apartment on that white little building there", she pointed to a building that had the Game Center on its first floor. "Kenneth lives with his sister at the 4th Street, over there. As you can see, Mornington isn't a big town, so we can hardly get lost."
"People say that Mornington can be called a 'town' because of Fallen Institute, or it would be a village or worse, a part of Crossroads, the next town over there", smirked William. "But can we go inside? It's COLD out here!"
"Excellent idea", answered Tieko, already inside the hotel's hall, a funny smile on her face. "Why don't you continue chatting over here? It's nice and cozy."
"She sure is fast", said Kenneth.
***
In Pluto's Palace, the three tired Destiny Kishi and the furious Sailor Senshi still waited for an answer from Chronos, who kept still as if he was thinking of a good answer to give before he died by Lady Saphir's hands. *She used to be a calm and gentle woman*, thought Chronos, holding the Time Staff.
"So, what can you say about that, Guardian of Time?", asked Saphir, with her arms crossed in front of her chest.
Chronos took a deep breath before starting to talk. He would need any pinch of oxygen he could get to face a very angry princess. "Err... you don't have to worry, Lady Saphir", he began, while Moon Fox and Aleph noticed that his hands were more pale than the usual. "Kyn won't be harmed in that Timeline, even though it doesn't seem so at this moment. Of course I can see that there's a lot of youmas trying to get her, but... she'll be OK. She always did, don't you remember? And she promised you would never be alone..."
"Hottokenai yo", said Saphir. "But you still didn't answer my question and you're just trying to distract me."
"She's right, Chronos", agreed Moon Fox. "Or should I say 'Martin'? For Serenity's sake, don't tell me that you haven't merged 100% in all these decades!", and he shook his head in dispair.
"I can't believe it... sometimes I feel like we were back some years in time and that we still have to deal with Chronos/Martin's problems... I'm not totally merged with Aleph neither, but we agree in almost 99% of the decisions", said Daniel, remembering that his fusion with his old self hadn't finished yet. "I think that Chronos and I are the only Destiny Kishi that aren't really full-merged after all these years. After all, I'm still Daniel Graminho, not Aleph of Fihar."
"So why do you keep answering when people call you 'Aleph'?", teased Firebird, trying to make things less troubled.
"It's easier", he answered, heading for one of the doors. "I'll be in my room. I need to do some research on some things that aren't clear by now... call me when dinner is ready, 'kay?", he smirked.
"OK, he tried", said Seph, raising his shoulders. "But I don't think that was enough to make Lady Saphir forget her main target... hey, where did he go?!"
Everybody facefaulted when they saw that Chronos had managed to vanish from the entrance hall without anyone noticing that. Saphir felt as dumb as she had never before...
Sailor Mercury sighed sadly and started to walk in the rooms' direction. She wished to stay alone with her twin sister for some minutes. That would be the only thing she could do by that moment.
***
FOURTY minutes later, the group hadn't booked in yet. They were still discussing who would stay with who in which room and hadn't get to an agreement. Kenneth, Megan, Arthur, Aindrea, Cat, William and Bradley were almost sleeping on the soft couches of the main hall, while Tieko seemed to be amused, playing with Luna and talking to Ami. On the other hand, Minako was busy trying to make Rei and Usagi stop fighting for useless things.
{Why can't you two stop arguing?}, asked Minako, tired of watching the fight. {It's easy to settle this, all we have to do is decide who will stay with who and, if there's any problem, we can always change rooms!}
{I want to stay on the room that has the view to the main street}, cried Usagi, stepping hard on the floor. {That's unfair, Rei-chan!}
{What? I said that I would prefer to stay on that room because I like to see the sunset during dawn!}, replied Rei, with her arms crossed in front of her chest. {Why can't you stay on the room that's next to this one?}
"Why are they fighting so much?", asked Tieko to Ami, while patting Luna's head.
"Never mind... you said that you are Brazilian?"
"Yup. Oh... you're noticing that I'm not the exactly type of Brazilian girl you would expect to see, am I right?", said Tieko, having Ami nodding with her head as an affirmative answer. "That's because my grandparents are Japanese, from both sides, mother and father. So that there aren't any mixtures with people from other countries."
"I see... hm... I guess they will soon finish that fight."
"How do you know that?"
"Rei and Usagi started their 'tongue fight'", answered Ami, looking amused when Tieko almost dropped Luna on the floor. "Don't worry, they always do that, but they are good friends."
"If you say so..."
***
Ami wasn't wrong, though. Some seconds after the beginning of the 'tongue fight' between Rei and Usagi, they stop fighting for some reason nobody could understand, except the five Japanese girls and the two cats. Maybe the scratch that appeared on Usagi's ankle could explain better the end of the battle.
It didn't take long until they said 'goodbye' to their new friends and went to their rooms. Everybody seemed to be tired after the long trip and the long time waiting for everything to be settled down. Once they finished unpacking, all the girls and the cats went to Usagi's room to talk.
{Finally}, said Luna, stretching her body on the bed. {I thought that fight would never end... something wrong, Ami-chan?}
{Nani? Oh, nothing, Luna. I was just thinking about something...}
{You made friends very quickly here, didn't you, Ami-chan?}, asked Makoto, brushing her hair. {I thought you weren't a girl that made friends easily...}
{I'm not, Mako-chan}, answered Ami. {But there are some things that happens in your life that can't be explained, don't you agree?}
{Quite}, said Artemis. {The empathy is something that nobody could ever explain. Sometimes...}
{... you don't need to say a word}, said Rei, looking at the main street.