Okay…I hope that this chapter is not going to dissatisfy any of you readers! I am trying to keep it going with things that REAL girls do. Yes, my friends and I do sit down and check out guy's butts as they walk by. (Read the chapter!) Things like that GIRLS do. *And some guys*
Anyway…thank you for all thirteen of my reviews. Thirteen in two chapters. *Wipes tears* Makes me feel all gooey inside! But some good news. My academic team finished fifth in state. Which means I have more free time on my hands. Which means more writing!
Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor moon. I do, however, claim a spot in the club that wishes she did!
Jason slowly brought the popcorn into his hand. His eyes were wide with shock and disbelief. The expression on his face would have been the perfect Kodak moment. If the other persons in the room had not identical expressions on their faces.
"Champions of Justice?" Zach spluttered sending popcorn pieces across the carpet. His vocal cords were pitched several octaves higher than normal.
Just at that moment Sailor Moon decided to burst into tears, magnifying the hysterical scene. Jason, Zach, and Nathan violently choked on the popcorn.
Keaton sipped his tea; his own grey eyes lit up in laughter, and reached over to pound on Zach.
"I needed to dislodge the popcorn," Zach rasped," Not my lungs."
Just as they thought the cartoon they were watching, such perfect replica's of there Senshi, but such HORRIBLE imitation of there skill, Sailor Mars called her meatball head and tried to fry her. To add worse to worse, Jupiter and Venus were jumping around like chickens with their heads cut off. But it was the Raspberry fight that sent them over edge.
"That was...hehe…ridiculous…." Zach gasped holding his lungs, laughing, or choking, on the popcorn he had just inhaled.
"Oh my GOD!" Nathan crowed.
"That was insane." Keaton mused remembering Venus chasing him with death on her face, sword in hand, and chain around hip.
"We are trying to find little babies." Jason cackled.
A pillow landed squarely in his face.
"You had better pray, and I mean get on your knees, that Mars never hears you say that." Keaton deadpanned. "Not only will she skin you alive, she will roast you on a spit slowly."
"So they are in Japan." Zach mused. His expression was comical.
"HUH?" Jason and Nathan chorused.
"Well that was an Anime. All Anime comes from Japan. So they are somewhere in Japan. So…" He raised a single brow. "Do we have a house there?"
~*~
One Month Later
~*~
Rei walked down the street easily avoiding the press of bodies. It was fairly easy to do, just step here, and dodge here. She was supposed to be meeting the girls for lunch. They were eating at there favorite spot. A small café that was cheap but provided an excellent view of the walking males.
It was there lookout spot. The best foods while you look and see fine male flesh. Rei grinned just thinking about it. And on this hot day, it had reached HOT; some would even be in tank tops or shirtless. Rei licked her lips in anticipation.
Minako waved as she watched her friend approach. She and Makoto were the only ones there so far, since Usagi normally had to drag Ami, and they both had large grins on there faces.
"I ordered everyone's normal. It should be here by the time they arrive." Minako told her without taking her eyes off the boardwalk. A tall dark haired man with muscles to kill was taking his time.
"Nice ass." Minako breathed. "I give him an 8."
"An 8?" Makoto gasped. "More like a 9.5!"
Rei frowned. Truth be told she really like blondes. Maybe it had something to do with Mamoru being black haired.
"7 at most." Rei said scornfully.
Minako and Makoto looked her with identical raised brows. Their eyes were wide in disbelief. "Liar." They both said. Minako got an evil look on her face before she landed a solid punch on Makoto's arm.
"Jinx! No talking for you!" Minako practically shouted. Makoto growled but held her tongue. Minako had a nasty right hook. And if you spoke after jinx was called, until someone called your name, you got nailed.
"MINAKO!" Usagi yelled running across the boardwalk. Minako jumped up in alarm. Either form haste to keep her from saying Makoto's name or to keep Usagi from falling, Rei never knew.
Usagi's eyes widened as her foot caught in a board and she faced dived off the platform. She crashed into a banner and into the man who was innocently walking down the street.
Usagi looked into the face of the person who had caught and grinned widely. "Thank you Mamoru!"
~*~
"Do you think she has a magnet attached to her? A possible, fall-because-Mamoru-is-going-to-catch-me, type of radar here?" Rei muttered watching Usagi inhale the ice cream she had bought Mamoru for accidentally crashing landing on him.
"I have no idea, but whatever it is, it works." Minako muttered. Makoto just sat there in frustration, because, as luck would have it, she still could not talk.
"Makoto," Ami said absently, missing Minako's death glare," Are we still on for Thursday night?"
"YES!" Makoto yelled part in answer, part in mocking Minako.
Rei ignored all the noise around her and kept her eyes locked on the vision in front of her. Golden hair that fell into eyes that were indecipherable from the distance that separated them.
A pale blue shirt covered his tall well-built frame. His walk was firm with out any of the hesitance of a smaller man. He cut through the path a quickly as he cut into her brain.
"10." Rei breathed.
All conversation stopped as the girls climbed over the table with a clatter, sending the table and those, to the floor to see what would cause Rei to breathe that forbidden word.
~*~
Of course Jason ignored the clatter behind him as his thoughts were lost on a different part of the country. Had Rei walked here recently? Had she stopped to admire many of the things that lined the street? Did she like a certain necklace?
"Get out of la la land and join the real world. Jeez you did not even notice the table of girls that fell back there." Zach muttered turning his head ever so slightly to see the blushing women.
He froze for a few moments as he caught a flash of blue. A petite form turned and…"Oh my god. It's Ami." Zach growled. He took off into a dead sprint.
Jason rolled his eyes as his friend tripped over a discarded chair and sighed. Running forward he watched his friend lock eyes with one of the young girls. But it was not the small woman that caused him to turn, it was Rei.
Her dark hair danced around her like night. Her violet eyes were practically smoking as she tried to wipe the coke of her red shirt. Her jeans also had remains of ice cream on them.
"Rei." Jason said, louder than he intended. And his eyes locked with hers.
~*~
"Jadeite." Rei mummered, recognizing his face. Blindly reaching for anything she grabbed a chair and threw it with bone crunching accuracy. Hitting him she grabbed Usagi and Ami and took off. Minako and Makoto threw some money down and took off after her.
What had Rei's panties in a wad?
"REIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!" Usagi whined as she was yanked into an alley in a form that could only be called ruff. Minako, Makoto, and Mamoru all came rushing in a few seconds later. Rei held up her hand for total silence at after what seemed like forever she hissed.
"Generals."
It was amazing what that single phrase did to the people standing in the alley like chickens with there heads cut off.
Minako's face turned to breathing rock. Her facial expressions shifted to human marble. Her eyes were jaded stone.
Makoto looked like she had swallowed a goldfish whole. Her mouth dropped open and her eyes bugged out. If the situation had not been so comical it would have been funny.
Ami looked sheer and foremost scared. The Generals had killed her, they had killed her friends, and they had almost killed Greg. The word Death was so closely linked with that one word it caused severe spasms.
Mamoru and Usagi had completely different reactions. Something very akin to hope flared into there eyes. Usagi looked at Mamoru and Mamoru looked at her. They said nothing.
"What?" Makoto finally gasped once she got over her fish out of water expression.
"You heard me. Those damn Generals are back on the street. I believe it was Zoicite who was almost in your lap Ami." Rei ruthlessly told her. Ami, for a moment, looked as if she was going to faint.
"We killed them once." Minako reminded them. Her tone was flint. "We can damn well do it again."
"Well, whatever we do, we had better plan it back at the shrine." Rei growled. "Talking about it here is not a good idea. You guys can come over tomorrow. Chad and Grandpa have a bunch of guests over."
"Rei, we need to talk about this tonight." Minako said holding her hand to her forehead in the sign that a headache was coming on.
"It won't matter. Whatever they are planning I think it can wait discussion for one night, Minako." Ami softly said. Her voice shook slightly and she was gripping her transformation stick like a lifeline.
Minako offered to stay with Usagi, but Mamoru told her he would walk her home. Minako nodded and told her to take her time since she planned on using all the hot water up away. They had moved in together two weeks earlier.
Mamoru and Usagi looked at each other and nodded once again. Both turned and began the track back to Mamoru's apartment.
~*~
" Mamo-chan do you think it can be real? It could be true?" Usagi demanded cradled in his arms as they over looked the night from his couch.
" I don't know. A part of me wants to say yes. A part of me wants to say no. I know far better than you do the character of my Generals. They were my best friends. My Senshi." Mamoru told her, his tone distant and thoughtful.
" Oh, I think you should call them." Usagi said her eyes lighting up.
" Usa, I don't think I can just call them. That takes a phone number!" Mamoru said in a highly exasperated tone.
" No silly. Since you now have the Golden Crystal you can call them!" Usagi said jumping up and down.
Mamoru just raised his eyebrows in shock. " WHAT?"
" Remember when we got the crystal?" Usagi demanded.
Mamoru shot her the, like-I-could-I-forget, look. It had been right after they fought Galaxa. The enemy they fought had been an echo of both Chaos and Metillica. They had lost the Senshi that time. But this time it had taken both the newly found Golden Crystal and the Silver to bring them back.
Usagi had to convert to Neo. They had not seen hide or hair of the future of Tokyo since.
"Well I was thinking. What if whatever happened had shifted the time line? Pluto seemed pretty upset about the whole thing, you getting the crystal that is, and that could have changed the time line. If that happened it could be what brought the others back!" Usagi said jumping up and down and even clapping her hands.
Mamoru put his hand to her forehead. "Are you running a fever? Some of what you said made sense." Mamoru teased.
Usagi stuck her tongue out and sighed. Her expression was uncannily serious. " When I talked to Neo-Queen Serenity when I had to changed to save the Senshi, I think a small part of her stayed. I also think its that small part that is holding Crystal Tokyo back." Usagi shrugged. " Don't ask me how."
Mamoru searched her feature and still saw a little of the child he had fallen in love with. But this child had grown into wonderful women. "So how am I going to talk to my Generals?"
Usagi pulled the Silver Crystal from wherever she kept it. 'Probably the same place I keep mine.' Mamoru thought.
"Just concentrate on the Generals. And when you think you can feel them, just, call them." Usagi shrugged. " It's the best way I am explain it."
Mamoru thought about all the childhood thoughts of youth and the happiness he shared with his best friends. Thought of there faces, their names. And he felt something, almost like a power source, and he pulled.
~*~
Jason glared at Zach and it was only the restraining hands of Nate and Keaton that kept him from killing him. Hard and fast.
" YOU IDTIOT! If we had waited FOUR SECONDS we could have taken the time to see WHERE THEY WERE GOING! I would know where they are staying! I would know where my firebrand was sleeping at night!" Jason thundered.
Keaton and Nate exchanged looks and tightened their holds. It was like holding a caged tiger.
" CALM DOWN!" Keaton bellowed, raising his voice in a rare show of temper. " I know you are upset, I understand, but you can not kill Zach. We…" His sentence was cut off as he felt it. The calling that he had never thought he would ever feel again came thundering through his veins.
Looking at the other three he knew they felt it as well. Reaching for his alter ego he changed forms quickly. Nodding when the others did the same concentrated on that call.
And when he opened his eyes he was starring at Endymion. And next to him sat Princess Serenity.
" Hello." Endymion said softly.
Serenity offered a smile as brilliant as moonlight. "Hello and welcome back!"