Watch Out Meatball Head !
Chapter Fifteen
(A.N. I'm backtracking up to where everything turned to absolute chaos - and telling you what happened through the others point of view. But I wont be backtracking this entire chapter, don't worry ! I promised that this chapter was gonna have some Serena / Darien action - so I'll try to stick with my promise ^_^) *********************************Lita******************************** 'Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep' I was in bed in the middle of a dream - of Pete's and my first date, when the communicator went off. I groaned, and turned over in my bed hoping that the communicator was a dream and not the date. I heaved myself up -and blinked open an eye and at the startling noise of the communicator as it continued its quest to waking me up. I quickly pressed the talk button and listened as Amy's urgent voice rang through it. "Everyone get to the mall, near Domino's pizza ! see you there !" her voice rang out through my otherwise quiet room. It quickly bought me back to reality, and I forgot about Pete and the dream and quickly grabbed my clothes changed into them, grabbed my communicator and tip toed across my room to the door. I wasn't worried of waking my parents up they had arrived home late - as usual, but today they seemed extra tired, so they had gone straight to bed. I lived in an old Victorians house, (A.N. Which isn't particularly true, cos I don't know what Lita's parents do for a living or what type of house she lives in - so being me, I made it up *_*) which was dark inside, despite how ever many windows it had. It made loads of creaks whenever you moved across the wooden floorboards, now that I think of it - the house was always settling. So I usually didn't have any problems slipping out of the house without making much noise. What I did worry about though, was the darkness. If I did switch on any lights my parents would notice, (Lita's P.O.V. my parents aren't that dead to the night world.) but without lights its VERY hard to find your way through the house. Which is how I ended up stumbling down the stairs and making a tremendous amount of noise. I slumped down at the foot of the stairs and waited for the creak of the door, and the click of the light, as my parents would come to investigate. Silence. I slowly moved my head up and risked a peek up the stairs, no one was there ! I sighed in relief, whispering a silent prayer thanking god that my parents hadn't woken up, I quickly dashed to the door before I had any more clumsy attacks that would get me caught. I slipped to a stop in front of the front door when I remembered that I had forgotten to grab my transformation pen. I groaned. I glanced at the stairs from where I was standing, I would have to climb all those steps to my room. It was either walking in the dark and stumbling, and this time getting caught - or risking it by switching on the light. I made my decision as I reached the end of the stairs, I reached over and switched the light on..
********************************Darien******************************* 'ok, I can do this' I thought as I eased over buildings without making any effort. To tell you the truth I felt like superman - this was way to easy for me. When I reached the mall I glanced at the blue board at the entrance, it directed me to the west wing, on the third floor - that was where 'Domino's Pizza' was. I hesitated at the entrance. I couldn't go in through the entrance it would be too obvious. For all I knew, the enemies were probably waiting for me right through this door. I glanced at the roof of the mall, it was pretty tall, but I guess I could be able to jump that high. I was still at the entrance though - which meant the north wing, so I had to head around to the right side, of the shopping mall. I swiftly moved towards the shadows and blended in, taking short and quick steps towards the west wing.
I approached it in a matter of seconds, I let my gaze travel through the length of the west wing wall, it didn't have an entrance, not that I would use the entrance anyway ! it had a few purposely-high-set windows - but I was positive I could make it, if I jumped. I was the super hero Tuxedo Mask after all, wasn't I ?
I bent down on my knees and used all my strength as force to push off from the ground, my eyes were locked on the high set window ledge, which I estimated was where the third floor would be. I watched as the ledge grew closer in distance, it was about a meter above me, when I started to slow down. I gasped startled, this was definitely not part of my plan, I tried to scramble up the last few feet - but as you might have already guessed, scrambling in the air - with absolutely nothing to support you - can have disastrous results.
'Damn Physics' I muttered, as Newton's found force of gravity caught up with me and I started to move down instead of up. Physics was one of the subjects I enjoyed - but this was one of the times, actually the ONLY time I wished that physics never existed.
Usually I didn't like people who dissed physics, or any other subject for that matter, just because they didn't understand it. But that was what I did, I swore to hell and back, right up until I felt the sole of my shoes hit the ground with force that knocked the wind out of me. I fell in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the building. (A.N. this is not the bit - where all the scouts come running in. (the end of the last chapter) 'cos he fell 'outside' the building - here ...and there he.. I am confusing you here aren't I ? I'll just leave you to figure it out, yourself !) I rubbed the back of my legs. Ok so maybe I had 'over estimated' my physical abilities. I got up carefully making sure that I didn't have any broken limbs - or an unattached arm. Ok, so maybe jumping up more than 10 feet in the air wasn't one of my greatest ideas, but hey, I tried ! I stepped back and bent my knees, I felt a jolt of pain spring through my knee caps. I winced. I took a step forward.
I started walking towards the opposite side facing the shopping Centre, each step I took the pain decreased, and finally it vanished completely. I glanced up to look where I was. I was a few hundred feet away from the building but fake tall trees that had twines wrapped up around them surrounded me. At the center of them was a large old willow tree. Onto one of the tree's there was a billboard hammered advertising a movie 'George of the jungle' (A.N. I think that IS what its called, it's really old but funny. I was gonna put Tarzan but changed my mind) My gaze swept from the bill board to the willow tree branches. You could almost see the light bulb go off at the side of my head. I had an idea.
***********************************Lita****************************** I waited. Nothing. The light was on but there was no sound of my parents getting up. I tip toed back upstairs. Their bedroom door was shut. Thanking my lucky stars that my parents were too tired to notice I grabbed my transformation pen and dashed back downstairs and out of the door, towards the mall. I could worry about my parents later. Amy needed us urgently. I was already late as it is. I started running towards the mall as fast as I could. It was a few blocks away from home, it wouldn't take me long if I ran, a maximum of ten minutes. I reached the mall soon, I was wearing trainers thank god, so my shoes weren't making much noise against the linoleum floor. Making sure I was creeping around under the shadows I made my way silently as possible towards Domino's Pizza. I'd been to 'Domino's Pizza' enough times to know that it was in the west wing on the third floor. I couldn't hear anything but I hoped that it wasn't because my friends were lying on the floor dead to the world. I was just around the corner to the pizza parlour when I remembered that I needed to transform. I glanced around and quickly slipped into the nearest rest room. instantly I was enveloped in darkness and them grabbed and pushed down roughly.
********************************Raye********************************* If grandpa hadn't gotten up at the sound of the communicator beeping I would have gotten to the mall faster. But it took time trying to convince him that It only beeped because the battery was low, and then he had wanted to know what exactly it was. I had mumbled some kind of explanation on a 'communications studies' I was doing in school and that I was doing a project on beepers, e mail, telephones and tv's and how they were used socially to communicate among teenagers. That had been the easy bit, getting him to go back to bed was the harder bit. Then he had caught me on my way out of my room all dressed up. (Raye's POV well not dressed up - but out of my night clothes, I couldn't exactly go to the mall in a kimono could I ?) (A.N. is that what its called ? the white thing with the red ribbon tied around her waist ?) I had to make an excuse on me going to the toilet. By then grandpa had been full of suspicion. I didn't have any choice, I had made a run for it out of the temple deciding that I could explain it to him when I got back. I was on my way to the third floor when I saw a slim figure taking steady steps on the staircase leading down towards the basement. My eyes narrowed, what could she be doing in the mall in the middle of the night -unless she was part of some evil plot. Creeping down behind her, I lunged on top of her, tripping her. She yelped, and I clasped my hand over her mouth to keep her from yelling out for help. Twisting her arm around her back I turned her around to face me. I didn't hang around grandpa's karate classes without picking up a few pointers that cam useful now and again. I found myself starring at a very familiar pair blue eyes. My grip loosened when I realized who she was. She took that instant to break free from my grasp. "Raye" she whined. "What do you think you're trying to do ? Get me killed ? We are suppose to be fighting evil TOGETHER and not fighting EACH OTHER!" Mina yelled at me. Her high pitch voice echoing through the quiet and empty basement parking lot. "Mina" I hissed. "shhhhh ! quiet !!! I didn't know it was you !" I said trying to get myself together and trying not to show my embarrassment at jumping at my own friend. "oh that's ok." She replied smiling and giving me a hug. "friends forever, girl power !" "Mina" I cried forgetting to stay quiet and twisting out of her grasp. "this isn't the time and place for this" I said. "what are you doing in the basement anyway ?" she pouted. "well I thought we were supposed to meet at domino's pizza." I looked at her confused. "we are. But what are you doing here ?" She looked at me impatiently. "I'm going to Domino's pizza, duhh !" "Uhh Mina, Domino's pizza is on the third floor and your in the basement ?" Mina's eyes widened with recognition. "Oops ! my bad." (A.N. at this point you'd see Raye sweat drop ^_^') "Come on, we are late as it is." I led her to the third floor and we slipped into a restroom so we could transform into our sailor forms. "Why don't they have lights in here ? are people suppose to check their make up in the dark ?" Mina demanded. "Mina, it's the middle of the night - do you think that the managers should switch the lights on so sailor soldiers fighting evil should be able to use the rest rooms ? Next thing you'll be asking for sailor soldier discount at shopping stores !" I exclaimed. Her eyes lit up. "What a great idea Raye ! think of all the stuff we could get !" I groaned. "Lets just get on with it and go and help Amy ok. We pulled out our transformation pens and were about to transform when someone pushed open the door and ran straight into us. I grabbed Mina to keep myself steady. But she only lost her own balance. It took a while to get ourselves together. "Lita ?" I asked incredulously. She peered at me surprised. "You guys are not dead !" She replied happily. CRASH breaking of glass Lita Paused. "If you guys are in here with me, and the evil is out there . . . . and mercury is out there .." "AMY !" we cried in unison. We transformed and rushed out at top speed, towards Domino's pizza. In time to see tuxedo mask lying on the floor in a pile and been kicked to death by a middle age balding man wearing glasses.
********************************Darien******************************* Ok so maybe my great idea wasn't as great as I thought it would be. I had climbed up one of those fake trees and using the branches of the willow tree swung up to the window. (A.N. you know like Tarzan does.) but I figured I would need a lot of force put into the swing I didn't want to end up like last time, walking in mid air. That had been ok, except I forgot that being Tuxedo Mask gave me extra strength making the force I exerted onto the swing intensify. That's how I swung straight through the window instead of stopping at the window ledge. And now I was lying on the floor being kicked to death by someone. My landing onto the third-floor floor hadn't been any smoother. I was causing a definite commotion, there were yells and thundering footsteps headed my way. Instinctively I held out my palm and a smooth black walking stick appeared. I quickly twisted my arm and used that to trip my attacker. I had no idea where the stick had appeared from but I thought it probably was some sort of Tuxedo Mask attack.
********************************Amy********************************* I was startled when someone broke through the window and landed not so smoothly in a pile at the feet of Donald McCoy, but with a destiny of being a sailor scout and protecting the world from evil I had learned to expect the unexpected but seeing TUXEDO MASK lying in a pile on the floor was a bit too much for me to handle. A little after that the rest of the scouts appeared and I snapped out of my alarmed trance and quickly slipped down from the floor above them to join the scouts. As I was doing that I heard a small gasp and shriek behind me but when I turned around to face whoever it was, they shrunk back into the shadows. Thinking that I'll check it out later I continued down to the third floor.
********************************Mina******************************** When the girls and I arrived to Domino's we saw Tuxedo mask at the feet of middle age quite unattractive man. He was kicking tuxedo mask and tuxedo mask was just ..lying there ?! A nervous giggle escaped my mouth. The others turned to look at me. I gave them a sceptical look. So I had a habit of laughing at the most inappropriate times what could I do about it ? Tuxedo Mask was struggling against the vigorous kicks that went flying all over him - but I wasn't really paying attention 'cos I was craning my neck looking for Sailor Mercury, there was no sign of her. If Sailor Mercury had got us up in the middle of the night to get a looksy at a battle between tuxedo mask and this guy - well then she was gonna be in BIG trouble. Sailor Mars and Jupiter were standing a few paces behind me, not knowing what to do. "Do you thin the old guy's a monster ?" Sailor Mars asked curiously. "Well if he is - he's not doing a good job of attacking. He's just ...kicking. Any normal person could do that -without powers" Jupiter said confused. "Do you think we should help Tuxedo Mask ?" I asked helpfully. "So that IS Tuxedo Mask. I uhh... had my doubts. Usually he'd be a bit more umm in control ?" Sailor Mars said in distaste. "I say we butt in." Jupiter said suddenly. Mars quickly agreed. I don't think she liked the 'weak' side of tuxedo mask very much. "JUPITER THUNDER-." "MARS FIRE-." They were both cut off by a yell behind us. "GUYS ! NO !!!! DON'T !!! STOP !!!!!!!!!!! HE'S HUMAN!" it was Sailor Mercury. We turned towards her our mouths open in surprise. Why was tuxedo mask wrestling a human ? "I'll tell you the whole story later, come on. We got to separate them." She said rushing forward. Now the tables had turned and tuxedo mask was standing with the other guy sprawled across the floor, taking the beating. Jupiter was the first to have what Mercury said sink in. she shot off after Mercury. They both grabbed Tuxedo Mask from behind and pulled him away from the other guy, who was cowering on the floor and begging for mercy. Mars finally snapped out of her trance and grabbed my arm. We both helped the guy up who was actually crying. I shot Mars a disgusted look but she only ignored me.
*******************************Darien******************************** I looked at the two girls, who had grabbed me from the guy who had started attacking me. "What do you think you're doing ?" I gasped, out of breath. Struggling unsuccessfully against their grip. "Tuxedo Mask, what do you think you ARE doing ?" the blue costumed girl starred at me in surprise. "You can't attack a human, like that." She said firmly, a look of disapproval plastered on her face. "And to think that he was loosing." The red costumed one, muttered. I glowered silently. I wasn't the one doing the attacking. Who did they thing they were ? s bunch of teenage girls in matching costumes of different colours, telling ME, a super hero, what to do. "Who do you think you are ?" I said finally tearing out of the green's grasp. They looked at me confused. The red costumed one, who had kept her distance amid her disgust, now approached me. "what do you mean ? don't you know who we are . . . . . . . . I knew it ! This isn't even Tuxedo Mask ! this is just some wannabe !" she said triumphantly. "Hey ! Of course I'm Tuxedo Mask . . . . I just don't remember you, that's all." I said mustering up all my dignity. "And I'm most definitely NOT a wannabe." The yellow costumed one rolled her eyes dramatically. "We are the sailor scouts Duhh ! We fight evil together, remember ?" she said. "oh yeah." I said weakly. "I remember." I muttered. They all locked their questioning gazes on me. I avoided them. "C-c-could-d I-I g-go n-now . . . p-p-l-l-leas-e." the guy stammered, interrupting. The scouts gazes darted from me to the guy. "I just remembered I've got to do . . . . something uhh - somewhere." I said quickly. Taking a step backward, away from them. They didn't say anything. I quickly turned and started walking away from them before they changed their minds. "hic" "WAIT ! tuxedo mask." I frowned. If they were sailor scouts, that meant they could attack me - hurt me. "hic" I paused mid-step. When I turned back towards the girls, they were shooting me weird glances. "hic hic" "What ?" I asked confused. "you might want to drink some water, before you leave." Red costume said dryly. "I would - if I WAS the one with the hiccups." I replied curtly. Then turned in my heel. And left before they could say any more.
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******************************Raye*********************************** Amy had pretty much filled us in about the freaky monster / lady character, and what had happened before Donald McCoy arrived at the parlour. Luna had arrived shortly after accompanied by Mina's guardian cat Artimus. We managed to take Donald back home and put him to bed. He had been pretty freaked throughout the whole incident. We were all together at the temple, discussing the events of the day before. "So what do you guys make of Tuxedo Mask ?" I asked, that had been stuck to my mind all morning. "he seems . . . . . . . weird. Not himself." Lita said absentmindedly. She had been like that since she arrived to the meeting. Something about a guy she met at the bus stop. She'd filled us in more or less on how everything went with Darien and according to her not so smoothly. "and the hiccups bit was funny . . . in a way." "I still don't get the joke." I replied sourly. "Maybe it wasn't him who was hiccuping." Mina said. I glanced at her, she was examining her nails. She may not understand what she means but sometimes her words make us realize stuff that are just right in front of our noses.. I had to admit it had never occurred to me that it could have NOT been Tuxedo Mask with the hiccups. "If it wasn't him - who could it have been ?" I asked slowly. Was someone spying on us ? that sent a shiver up my spine. "Well before you guys came - I thought I saw someone on the floor above me . . . . so it could have been someone else ?" Amy said helpfully. "It could have been the monster lady." Lita said interested. "it still doesn't explain Tuxedo Masks behaviour. We are already sailor moonless we need all the help we can get. And with Tuxedo Mask on our side it could've helped the situation but now . . . . . . I wish I knew why he was acting so weird." "Specially that bit where he didn't know who we were." Amy added. "Maybe he had a memory loss - you know an accident. Like Darien had !" Mina said, enthusiastically. We all turned to stare at her, even Lita seemed to snap out of her day dream.
******************************Serena********************************* "hic" not again . . . .I groaned as I pushed myself up into a sitting position on my bed. I grabbed the water bottle from under my bed and took a sip. Last night had been . . . . . interesting, to say the least. Kind of funny, if you had a sense of humour. But in my position I had almost blown my cover. Thank god - the scouts had thought that it was the guy in the black cape - tuxedo mask. And tuxedo mask had thought it was one of the scouts. But before anything else could happen I had quickly slipped out of the mall. I had seen more than I had wanted. I didn't understand much - if anything I was more confused than clear of the situation. And it looked like tuxedo mask was in the same position as me. We should sit down some time and talk I thought glumly. We could play the 'who are you' 'who am I' game. We both seem involuntary contestants of the game. My parents had gone out to visit my aunt, leaving Sammy and me home. I had taken up the offer gladly - wanting to lie in bed forever. 'ring ring' to answer the phone I'd have to get up . . . . . get out of bed . . . 'ring ring' 'ring ring' reluctantly I got up and picked up the phone, stretching lazily. "hello ?"
*~*~*~*~*~ sooooo sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up !!!! well now that its finally done I have to work on chapter 16 . . . . when does all this work ever end ::sigh:: well anyway I know I said that I'll have more Serena & Darien action in this one but I didn't know how to fit it in - so watch out for the next chapter . . . . are you wondering who the caller is ? all I'm saying is that it's a guy - I bet you think its Darien ! well you'll just have to wait and see !!!!! *C*Bunny*
(A.N. I'm backtracking up to where everything turned to absolute chaos - and telling you what happened through the others point of view. But I wont be backtracking this entire chapter, don't worry ! I promised that this chapter was gonna have some Serena / Darien action - so I'll try to stick with my promise ^_^) *********************************Lita******************************** 'Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep Beep' I was in bed in the middle of a dream - of Pete's and my first date, when the communicator went off. I groaned, and turned over in my bed hoping that the communicator was a dream and not the date. I heaved myself up -and blinked open an eye and at the startling noise of the communicator as it continued its quest to waking me up. I quickly pressed the talk button and listened as Amy's urgent voice rang through it. "Everyone get to the mall, near Domino's pizza ! see you there !" her voice rang out through my otherwise quiet room. It quickly bought me back to reality, and I forgot about Pete and the dream and quickly grabbed my clothes changed into them, grabbed my communicator and tip toed across my room to the door. I wasn't worried of waking my parents up they had arrived home late - as usual, but today they seemed extra tired, so they had gone straight to bed. I lived in an old Victorians house, (A.N. Which isn't particularly true, cos I don't know what Lita's parents do for a living or what type of house she lives in - so being me, I made it up *_*) which was dark inside, despite how ever many windows it had. It made loads of creaks whenever you moved across the wooden floorboards, now that I think of it - the house was always settling. So I usually didn't have any problems slipping out of the house without making much noise. What I did worry about though, was the darkness. If I did switch on any lights my parents would notice, (Lita's P.O.V. my parents aren't that dead to the night world.) but without lights its VERY hard to find your way through the house. Which is how I ended up stumbling down the stairs and making a tremendous amount of noise. I slumped down at the foot of the stairs and waited for the creak of the door, and the click of the light, as my parents would come to investigate. Silence. I slowly moved my head up and risked a peek up the stairs, no one was there ! I sighed in relief, whispering a silent prayer thanking god that my parents hadn't woken up, I quickly dashed to the door before I had any more clumsy attacks that would get me caught. I slipped to a stop in front of the front door when I remembered that I had forgotten to grab my transformation pen. I groaned. I glanced at the stairs from where I was standing, I would have to climb all those steps to my room. It was either walking in the dark and stumbling, and this time getting caught - or risking it by switching on the light. I made my decision as I reached the end of the stairs, I reached over and switched the light on..
********************************Darien******************************* 'ok, I can do this' I thought as I eased over buildings without making any effort. To tell you the truth I felt like superman - this was way to easy for me. When I reached the mall I glanced at the blue board at the entrance, it directed me to the west wing, on the third floor - that was where 'Domino's Pizza' was. I hesitated at the entrance. I couldn't go in through the entrance it would be too obvious. For all I knew, the enemies were probably waiting for me right through this door. I glanced at the roof of the mall, it was pretty tall, but I guess I could be able to jump that high. I was still at the entrance though - which meant the north wing, so I had to head around to the right side, of the shopping mall. I swiftly moved towards the shadows and blended in, taking short and quick steps towards the west wing.
I approached it in a matter of seconds, I let my gaze travel through the length of the west wing wall, it didn't have an entrance, not that I would use the entrance anyway ! it had a few purposely-high-set windows - but I was positive I could make it, if I jumped. I was the super hero Tuxedo Mask after all, wasn't I ?
I bent down on my knees and used all my strength as force to push off from the ground, my eyes were locked on the high set window ledge, which I estimated was where the third floor would be. I watched as the ledge grew closer in distance, it was about a meter above me, when I started to slow down. I gasped startled, this was definitely not part of my plan, I tried to scramble up the last few feet - but as you might have already guessed, scrambling in the air - with absolutely nothing to support you - can have disastrous results.
'Damn Physics' I muttered, as Newton's found force of gravity caught up with me and I started to move down instead of up. Physics was one of the subjects I enjoyed - but this was one of the times, actually the ONLY time I wished that physics never existed.
Usually I didn't like people who dissed physics, or any other subject for that matter, just because they didn't understand it. But that was what I did, I swore to hell and back, right up until I felt the sole of my shoes hit the ground with force that knocked the wind out of me. I fell in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the building. (A.N. this is not the bit - where all the scouts come running in. (the end of the last chapter) 'cos he fell 'outside' the building - here ...and there he.. I am confusing you here aren't I ? I'll just leave you to figure it out, yourself !) I rubbed the back of my legs. Ok so maybe I had 'over estimated' my physical abilities. I got up carefully making sure that I didn't have any broken limbs - or an unattached arm. Ok, so maybe jumping up more than 10 feet in the air wasn't one of my greatest ideas, but hey, I tried ! I stepped back and bent my knees, I felt a jolt of pain spring through my knee caps. I winced. I took a step forward.
I started walking towards the opposite side facing the shopping Centre, each step I took the pain decreased, and finally it vanished completely. I glanced up to look where I was. I was a few hundred feet away from the building but fake tall trees that had twines wrapped up around them surrounded me. At the center of them was a large old willow tree. Onto one of the tree's there was a billboard hammered advertising a movie 'George of the jungle' (A.N. I think that IS what its called, it's really old but funny. I was gonna put Tarzan but changed my mind) My gaze swept from the bill board to the willow tree branches. You could almost see the light bulb go off at the side of my head. I had an idea.
***********************************Lita****************************** I waited. Nothing. The light was on but there was no sound of my parents getting up. I tip toed back upstairs. Their bedroom door was shut. Thanking my lucky stars that my parents were too tired to notice I grabbed my transformation pen and dashed back downstairs and out of the door, towards the mall. I could worry about my parents later. Amy needed us urgently. I was already late as it is. I started running towards the mall as fast as I could. It was a few blocks away from home, it wouldn't take me long if I ran, a maximum of ten minutes. I reached the mall soon, I was wearing trainers thank god, so my shoes weren't making much noise against the linoleum floor. Making sure I was creeping around under the shadows I made my way silently as possible towards Domino's Pizza. I'd been to 'Domino's Pizza' enough times to know that it was in the west wing on the third floor. I couldn't hear anything but I hoped that it wasn't because my friends were lying on the floor dead to the world. I was just around the corner to the pizza parlour when I remembered that I needed to transform. I glanced around and quickly slipped into the nearest rest room. instantly I was enveloped in darkness and them grabbed and pushed down roughly.
********************************Raye********************************* If grandpa hadn't gotten up at the sound of the communicator beeping I would have gotten to the mall faster. But it took time trying to convince him that It only beeped because the battery was low, and then he had wanted to know what exactly it was. I had mumbled some kind of explanation on a 'communications studies' I was doing in school and that I was doing a project on beepers, e mail, telephones and tv's and how they were used socially to communicate among teenagers. That had been the easy bit, getting him to go back to bed was the harder bit. Then he had caught me on my way out of my room all dressed up. (Raye's POV well not dressed up - but out of my night clothes, I couldn't exactly go to the mall in a kimono could I ?) (A.N. is that what its called ? the white thing with the red ribbon tied around her waist ?) I had to make an excuse on me going to the toilet. By then grandpa had been full of suspicion. I didn't have any choice, I had made a run for it out of the temple deciding that I could explain it to him when I got back. I was on my way to the third floor when I saw a slim figure taking steady steps on the staircase leading down towards the basement. My eyes narrowed, what could she be doing in the mall in the middle of the night -unless she was part of some evil plot. Creeping down behind her, I lunged on top of her, tripping her. She yelped, and I clasped my hand over her mouth to keep her from yelling out for help. Twisting her arm around her back I turned her around to face me. I didn't hang around grandpa's karate classes without picking up a few pointers that cam useful now and again. I found myself starring at a very familiar pair blue eyes. My grip loosened when I realized who she was. She took that instant to break free from my grasp. "Raye" she whined. "What do you think you're trying to do ? Get me killed ? We are suppose to be fighting evil TOGETHER and not fighting EACH OTHER!" Mina yelled at me. Her high pitch voice echoing through the quiet and empty basement parking lot. "Mina" I hissed. "shhhhh ! quiet !!! I didn't know it was you !" I said trying to get myself together and trying not to show my embarrassment at jumping at my own friend. "oh that's ok." She replied smiling and giving me a hug. "friends forever, girl power !" "Mina" I cried forgetting to stay quiet and twisting out of her grasp. "this isn't the time and place for this" I said. "what are you doing in the basement anyway ?" she pouted. "well I thought we were supposed to meet at domino's pizza." I looked at her confused. "we are. But what are you doing here ?" She looked at me impatiently. "I'm going to Domino's pizza, duhh !" "Uhh Mina, Domino's pizza is on the third floor and your in the basement ?" Mina's eyes widened with recognition. "Oops ! my bad." (A.N. at this point you'd see Raye sweat drop ^_^') "Come on, we are late as it is." I led her to the third floor and we slipped into a restroom so we could transform into our sailor forms. "Why don't they have lights in here ? are people suppose to check their make up in the dark ?" Mina demanded. "Mina, it's the middle of the night - do you think that the managers should switch the lights on so sailor soldiers fighting evil should be able to use the rest rooms ? Next thing you'll be asking for sailor soldier discount at shopping stores !" I exclaimed. Her eyes lit up. "What a great idea Raye ! think of all the stuff we could get !" I groaned. "Lets just get on with it and go and help Amy ok. We pulled out our transformation pens and were about to transform when someone pushed open the door and ran straight into us. I grabbed Mina to keep myself steady. But she only lost her own balance. It took a while to get ourselves together. "Lita ?" I asked incredulously. She peered at me surprised. "You guys are not dead !" She replied happily. CRASH breaking of glass Lita Paused. "If you guys are in here with me, and the evil is out there . . . . and mercury is out there .." "AMY !" we cried in unison. We transformed and rushed out at top speed, towards Domino's pizza. In time to see tuxedo mask lying on the floor in a pile and been kicked to death by a middle age balding man wearing glasses.
********************************Darien******************************* Ok so maybe my great idea wasn't as great as I thought it would be. I had climbed up one of those fake trees and using the branches of the willow tree swung up to the window. (A.N. you know like Tarzan does.) but I figured I would need a lot of force put into the swing I didn't want to end up like last time, walking in mid air. That had been ok, except I forgot that being Tuxedo Mask gave me extra strength making the force I exerted onto the swing intensify. That's how I swung straight through the window instead of stopping at the window ledge. And now I was lying on the floor being kicked to death by someone. My landing onto the third-floor floor hadn't been any smoother. I was causing a definite commotion, there were yells and thundering footsteps headed my way. Instinctively I held out my palm and a smooth black walking stick appeared. I quickly twisted my arm and used that to trip my attacker. I had no idea where the stick had appeared from but I thought it probably was some sort of Tuxedo Mask attack.
********************************Amy********************************* I was startled when someone broke through the window and landed not so smoothly in a pile at the feet of Donald McCoy, but with a destiny of being a sailor scout and protecting the world from evil I had learned to expect the unexpected but seeing TUXEDO MASK lying in a pile on the floor was a bit too much for me to handle. A little after that the rest of the scouts appeared and I snapped out of my alarmed trance and quickly slipped down from the floor above them to join the scouts. As I was doing that I heard a small gasp and shriek behind me but when I turned around to face whoever it was, they shrunk back into the shadows. Thinking that I'll check it out later I continued down to the third floor.
********************************Mina******************************** When the girls and I arrived to Domino's we saw Tuxedo mask at the feet of middle age quite unattractive man. He was kicking tuxedo mask and tuxedo mask was just ..lying there ?! A nervous giggle escaped my mouth. The others turned to look at me. I gave them a sceptical look. So I had a habit of laughing at the most inappropriate times what could I do about it ? Tuxedo Mask was struggling against the vigorous kicks that went flying all over him - but I wasn't really paying attention 'cos I was craning my neck looking for Sailor Mercury, there was no sign of her. If Sailor Mercury had got us up in the middle of the night to get a looksy at a battle between tuxedo mask and this guy - well then she was gonna be in BIG trouble. Sailor Mars and Jupiter were standing a few paces behind me, not knowing what to do. "Do you thin the old guy's a monster ?" Sailor Mars asked curiously. "Well if he is - he's not doing a good job of attacking. He's just ...kicking. Any normal person could do that -without powers" Jupiter said confused. "Do you think we should help Tuxedo Mask ?" I asked helpfully. "So that IS Tuxedo Mask. I uhh... had my doubts. Usually he'd be a bit more umm in control ?" Sailor Mars said in distaste. "I say we butt in." Jupiter said suddenly. Mars quickly agreed. I don't think she liked the 'weak' side of tuxedo mask very much. "JUPITER THUNDER-." "MARS FIRE-." They were both cut off by a yell behind us. "GUYS ! NO !!!! DON'T !!! STOP !!!!!!!!!!! HE'S HUMAN!" it was Sailor Mercury. We turned towards her our mouths open in surprise. Why was tuxedo mask wrestling a human ? "I'll tell you the whole story later, come on. We got to separate them." She said rushing forward. Now the tables had turned and tuxedo mask was standing with the other guy sprawled across the floor, taking the beating. Jupiter was the first to have what Mercury said sink in. she shot off after Mercury. They both grabbed Tuxedo Mask from behind and pulled him away from the other guy, who was cowering on the floor and begging for mercy. Mars finally snapped out of her trance and grabbed my arm. We both helped the guy up who was actually crying. I shot Mars a disgusted look but she only ignored me.
*******************************Darien******************************** I looked at the two girls, who had grabbed me from the guy who had started attacking me. "What do you think you're doing ?" I gasped, out of breath. Struggling unsuccessfully against their grip. "Tuxedo Mask, what do you think you ARE doing ?" the blue costumed girl starred at me in surprise. "You can't attack a human, like that." She said firmly, a look of disapproval plastered on her face. "And to think that he was loosing." The red costumed one, muttered. I glowered silently. I wasn't the one doing the attacking. Who did they thing they were ? s bunch of teenage girls in matching costumes of different colours, telling ME, a super hero, what to do. "Who do you think you are ?" I said finally tearing out of the green's grasp. They looked at me confused. The red costumed one, who had kept her distance amid her disgust, now approached me. "what do you mean ? don't you know who we are . . . . . . . . I knew it ! This isn't even Tuxedo Mask ! this is just some wannabe !" she said triumphantly. "Hey ! Of course I'm Tuxedo Mask . . . . I just don't remember you, that's all." I said mustering up all my dignity. "And I'm most definitely NOT a wannabe." The yellow costumed one rolled her eyes dramatically. "We are the sailor scouts Duhh ! We fight evil together, remember ?" she said. "oh yeah." I said weakly. "I remember." I muttered. They all locked their questioning gazes on me. I avoided them. "C-c-could-d I-I g-go n-now . . . p-p-l-l-leas-e." the guy stammered, interrupting. The scouts gazes darted from me to the guy. "I just remembered I've got to do . . . . something uhh - somewhere." I said quickly. Taking a step backward, away from them. They didn't say anything. I quickly turned and started walking away from them before they changed their minds. "hic" "WAIT ! tuxedo mask." I frowned. If they were sailor scouts, that meant they could attack me - hurt me. "hic" I paused mid-step. When I turned back towards the girls, they were shooting me weird glances. "hic hic" "What ?" I asked confused. "you might want to drink some water, before you leave." Red costume said dryly. "I would - if I WAS the one with the hiccups." I replied curtly. Then turned in my heel. And left before they could say any more.
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******************************Raye*********************************** Amy had pretty much filled us in about the freaky monster / lady character, and what had happened before Donald McCoy arrived at the parlour. Luna had arrived shortly after accompanied by Mina's guardian cat Artimus. We managed to take Donald back home and put him to bed. He had been pretty freaked throughout the whole incident. We were all together at the temple, discussing the events of the day before. "So what do you guys make of Tuxedo Mask ?" I asked, that had been stuck to my mind all morning. "he seems . . . . . . . weird. Not himself." Lita said absentmindedly. She had been like that since she arrived to the meeting. Something about a guy she met at the bus stop. She'd filled us in more or less on how everything went with Darien and according to her not so smoothly. "and the hiccups bit was funny . . . in a way." "I still don't get the joke." I replied sourly. "Maybe it wasn't him who was hiccuping." Mina said. I glanced at her, she was examining her nails. She may not understand what she means but sometimes her words make us realize stuff that are just right in front of our noses.. I had to admit it had never occurred to me that it could have NOT been Tuxedo Mask with the hiccups. "If it wasn't him - who could it have been ?" I asked slowly. Was someone spying on us ? that sent a shiver up my spine. "Well before you guys came - I thought I saw someone on the floor above me . . . . so it could have been someone else ?" Amy said helpfully. "It could have been the monster lady." Lita said interested. "it still doesn't explain Tuxedo Masks behaviour. We are already sailor moonless we need all the help we can get. And with Tuxedo Mask on our side it could've helped the situation but now . . . . . . I wish I knew why he was acting so weird." "Specially that bit where he didn't know who we were." Amy added. "Maybe he had a memory loss - you know an accident. Like Darien had !" Mina said, enthusiastically. We all turned to stare at her, even Lita seemed to snap out of her day dream.
******************************Serena********************************* "hic" not again . . . .I groaned as I pushed myself up into a sitting position on my bed. I grabbed the water bottle from under my bed and took a sip. Last night had been . . . . . interesting, to say the least. Kind of funny, if you had a sense of humour. But in my position I had almost blown my cover. Thank god - the scouts had thought that it was the guy in the black cape - tuxedo mask. And tuxedo mask had thought it was one of the scouts. But before anything else could happen I had quickly slipped out of the mall. I had seen more than I had wanted. I didn't understand much - if anything I was more confused than clear of the situation. And it looked like tuxedo mask was in the same position as me. We should sit down some time and talk I thought glumly. We could play the 'who are you' 'who am I' game. We both seem involuntary contestants of the game. My parents had gone out to visit my aunt, leaving Sammy and me home. I had taken up the offer gladly - wanting to lie in bed forever. 'ring ring' to answer the phone I'd have to get up . . . . . get out of bed . . . 'ring ring' 'ring ring' reluctantly I got up and picked up the phone, stretching lazily. "hello ?"
*~*~*~*~*~ sooooo sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up !!!! well now that its finally done I have to work on chapter 16 . . . . when does all this work ever end ::sigh:: well anyway I know I said that I'll have more Serena & Darien action in this one but I didn't know how to fit it in - so watch out for the next chapter . . . . are you wondering who the caller is ? all I'm saying is that it's a guy - I bet you think its Darien ! well you'll just have to wait and see !!!!! *C*Bunny*
