Fighter Star Power…
Maker Star Power…
Healer Star Power….
Chapter 2: And not knowing why, I feel attached to this world…
June 28, 2001
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Disclaimers: Seiya Kou, Taiki Kou and Yaten Kou are a part of the Sailormoon Universe and were created by Naoko Takeuchi. I only hope that the three Lights in this continuing story are in character with the ones in Sailormoon. Arigato gozaimasu for reading this, please enjoy.
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"Wait!" Taiki pulled his arms behind him to stop his friends. He faced them, and his violet eyes grew serious, "The darkness won't hide our true characters forever and more people will be out on the streets in the daylight. We need a disguise." He dug around in the folds of his tent body wrap-around and pulled out a very mysterious object. Its plastic surface glittered in the moonlight.
"What is that?" Seiya and Yaten's eyes grew wide as Taiki inspected the object meticulously, flipping it over in his hands.
"I found it on the ground. It has some sort of human wearing a hat, with a broom on his head. Do you suppose that people use this as identification? Or maybe it's an autographed picture of someone famous?"
"I hope there aren't any more Earth men who look like that, or we'd really be in trouble!" Yaten looked at Seiya, and Seiya started back at the plastic face on the card, and an idea slowly began taking shape in his head. He snatched the card out of Taiki's hand and grinned.
"Say, maybe we should ask someone if they know this guy. If he really is famous, maybe he can help us." Taiki's eyes light up in surprise at the suggestion. He pat his friend affectionately on the back, "Seiya, sometimes you amaze even me." He laughed softly and Seiya replied by cupping his ear with his hand and saying, "What's that you say, Taiki? I think one of those girls stuck a banana in my ear, can you speak a little louder?" Their laughter echoed in the starry sky above as they made their slow descent into the dark, moon-streaked city.
The edges of streets were dirty with floating garbage, the streetlights burned like miniature suns, and the boys were careful not to make direct eye contact with anyone. Seiya straightened his back and pulled up his chin; he walked with a look of defiant purpose. Taiki scanned the crowd with a wary eye, but kept his ears open to take in the voices of the people around him. Slowly, he began to construct his own sentences by mimicking their sounds.
"Hey, what…. are.….you…looking---at?" Taiki practiced his English on Yaten, who was looking in the passing shop windows at the time. Yaten grabbed on to Seiya and Taiki's hands, as though they were wasting his precious time, and hurried into the nearest clothing store: The Gap. They tried to squeeze their surprisingly muscular torsos through the tiny doorway all at once, but only Yaten had managed to slip through unscathed. He left Taiki and Seiya crawling in his wake as he made a zealous beeline towards the display of "acid-washed jeans." He was fascinated by it. He felt a little tap on his bare shoulder, followed by a small cough.
"Excuse me, sir," demanded the voice. Yaten turned around and looked at the sales clerk with bright green-eyed innocence. He was a young man, mid-twenties, with dark curly hair and a pierced lip. "Can I help you?"
Yaten twitched his eye, and ran a finger across his own mouth, "How can you be so violent to your lips?" Unlike Taiki, Yaten didn't care about learning English or any other Earth language; he just wanted something to wear. And eat. He was proud of his planet Kinmokusei. The sales clerk just stared at Yaten, but then he smiled widely.
"Oh…Namaste." He slapped his hands together and nodded his head. Yaten saw Seiya and Taiki creep over and stand next to him, and Yaten breathed an annoyed sigh of relief. Humans could be so difficult.
"Hi." Taiki beamed, as he pulled out the wonderful golden power card they had been ogling over before, causing the man to grin even wider.
"Oh yes," the sales clerk gave a sly smile and slowly backed away, "I think you guys know what you're doing. If you need me, I'll just be at… at the front!" Seiya was puzzled, the man seemed so eager to help Yaten before, but now he seemed eager to get away from them. Seiya shrugged his shoulders, 'oh well'. He sauntered around the store, inspecting every item of clothing with rapt attention. Before long, they had littered the back dressing rooms with their strewn clothes, creating some major stress to the other late-night shoppers. But the boys knew what they liked: dark pants with matching dress shirts and ties, thick socks, boxers and classy sassy Colonial type shoes with shiny buckles. Then they discovered that the checkout clerk did know who the man on the golden card was, and they were happy to know that their clothes had been charged to him, "American Express." He had been a good benefactor to them so far, and they walked out of the Gap smiling and dressed to kill, or at least stop traffic. Suddenly, women started giving them 'the eye', the same 'eye' (they couldn't help but notice) that some of the girls at the campsite had briefly given them.
"I think it's working!" Seiya said with a pleased smile.
"Yes, we can get them to notice us without drawing attention to them, thus saving them from potential danger." Taiki felt happy, almost like laughing, but he kept his mind focused on the noises around him.
"Seiya, why are you looking at them? Have you forgotten why we're here?" Yaten fumed. There was only one mission and one reason to be on Earth, but it seemed like his friends were quickly becoming attached to this materialistic world of beauty and sorrow. He bit his lip… he sure was hungry though!
"Ah, Yaten, I haven't forgotten. But you never know if she's taken another form, like we have." Seiya grinned a little.
"You sound like you like your new form, Seiya." Yaten growled as loudly as his hungry stomach.
"It's different…" Seiya felt himself blush as more women brushed by him, smiling up at him. He couldn't remember when he had gotten this much attention before, and he felt a little shy. He caught the smell of cooked meat and cheese and felt his own stomach murmur loudly. They made their way over to the source of the smell: a corner shop pizza place called Galaxy Pizza.
"Galaxia!" Seiya gasped…then grit his teeth in anger!
"Seiya, you can read that?" Yaten looked up at the neon-lit sign: it read GALAXY PIZZA and it was covered in multicolored stars. It looked pretty safe to Yaten.
"Eh, no, I just thought…that I felt her presence here." Seiya looked around nervously, "I guess I haven't been feeling completely like myself lately." They knew what Seiya meant, and they looked upward at the sky, through the skyscrapers and towards the stars. It was just a memory now…
"Can we go inside now? I'm about to keel over!" Yaten clutched his stomach in mock agony; Taiki pushed open the glass door reluctantly and stepped inside, a little less than eager to try American food.
