[SM/TK][HE]One Hour Challenge #1,2,3
Title: Girls Night Out
Author: Aisuru
Email: aisuru_chan@yahoo.com
Rating: PG
Summary: Challenge Response Fanfic #1, #2, and #3 all rolled in one! The senshi are studying vocabulary. Usagi is bored. A game of truth or dare is about to get interesting! Written in one hour (okay, I added the definitions as I typed it up afterwards, but everything else done in one hour).
Tuxedo Kamen was terrified. Even through his mask the senshi could see the fear in his usually mysterious eyes. He took another step back, pressing himself flat against the wall behind him as if he wished he could dissolve into the bricks making up the wall of the abandoned factory. He swallowed shakily. "Why did you say you wanted me to take my top off again?" he finally managed to ask.
2 hours before
It was a dark and boring night. A night you could throw tantrums on and steal cookies. Usagi was alternately doing both. "I am so bored!" she whined as she snitched another cookie from the platter on the table. "I don't want to study any more!" She crammed the cookie into her mouth, gave it a few hurried chews, and swallowed before she continued, knocking over the chair as she stood. "It's a Friday night!"
"What perception!" Rei mused, her eyes still on the test preparatory book. "Perception: awareness; insight."
"She is enlightening," Ami added with a grin. "Enlightening: informative; contributing to one's awareness."
Usagi scowled before continuing. "It is a Friday night, and we should be having fun!"
Makoto looked up from her book. "She is dogmatic about this conviction," she said. "Dogmatic: stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs. Conviction: a fixed or strong belief."
Ami nodded. "But is Usagi's desire to play instead of study acquired (developed or learned; not naturally occurring) or innate?"
"Huh?" Usagi asked.
Rei rolled her eyes. "Really, Usagi, you should subdue your desires and study. Subdue: to restrain; to hold back. The more you study, the easier it will be to assimilate (to absorb) said knowledge."
Ami nodded. "Don't consider your education to be inconsequential (unimportant). It really isn't trivial (of little importance or significance). Be more assiduous (hard-working), be more diligent (marked by painstaking effort; hard-working). Don't be indifferent (not caring one way or the other) about your future!"
"That was poignant," Rei commented. "Poignant: profoundly moving; touching."
"Thank you," Ami responded.
"Huh?" Usagi repeated.
Makoto laughed. "Our indolent Usagi. Indolent: lazy. If you weren't so dilatory (habitually late), you would not feel so alienated (removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland). Do not worry, Usagi. We are just being ostentatious. Ostentatious: describing a showy or pretentious display. We're practicing using vocabulary words from the test prep books."
"Some of the words are quite ponderous," Rei added with a smile. "Ponderous: extremely dull."
"Such candor!" Ami replied. "Candor: sincerity; openness. But it is futile (having no useful purpose; pointless) to continue for now. Usagi's desire for fun will impede (to slow the progress of) our work."
"Don't be so condescending!" Rei scolded. "Condescending: treating people as weak or inferior. One might think you were contemptuous (feeling hatred; scornful) of Usagi. Ami has been despotic (tyrannical) at this study session, and it is plausible (seemingly valid or acceptable; credible) that I too am feeling listless (lacking energy)." She put her book down and looked at Usagi. "It is Friday night," she agreed with the girl's statement from minutes before. "Let's do something superfluous! Superfluous: unnecessary."
"I would be amenable to some camaraderie!" Makoto quipped. "Amenable: responsive; agreeable. Camaraderie: goodwill between friends."
"What?" Usagi mumbled.
"We're going to play," Ami finally translated.
Thus the search for something fun to do began. After sitting and studying for so long, the girls were not content to sit around with comics or rental movies. Instead they crept out of the Cherry Hill Temple, the location of their slumber-study party, and took to the streets. The streets were deserted, the night swelteringly hot. "This is a dark and boring night," Makoto said.
"And the arcade is now closed," Usagi moaned.
As they walked, the conversation shifted to boys, which of course led to a game of truth or dare.
"Truth or dare, Makoto," asked Rei.
"Um, truth," she answered.
"Where did you get your first kiss?"
Makoto blushed. "I was at a party with my senpai. We were playing spin-the-bottle. I spun the bottle, and it didn't end up on my senpai."
"Your first kiss was to a stranger at a party?" Usagi gasped.
"Worse than that. I spun the bottle, and it ended up pointing to this girl. The two of us were locked in a closet together for five minutes."
The girls just stared at her.
'This is fun,' Makoto thought, stifling a laugh. She continued her tall-tale. "It was really awkward at first, I mean, I really do like guys, so we started out just talking. She was really nice, and she'd told me she'd done this before -- kissed another girl, I mean - so she, well, you know."
"She kissed you?" Usagi gasped in disbelief.
"And what a kiss!" Makoto exclaimed, laughter in her eyes. "We managed to knock over this box of bathroom supplies that had been stored on a shelf in the closet, and we spent the rest of the kiss trying not to trip on a rubber ducky and those little hotel bottles of shampoo."
The girls just stared at her. "Really?" Rei finally managed to ask.
"No! I'm totally lying!" Makoto exclaimed, a little surprised they really believed her. Then she added, "I haven't been kissed yet."
The other girls groaned. "Well, its your turn to ask, Makoto," Ami said.
"Okay. Usagi, do you want truth or dare?" Makoto asked.
Usagi didn't want to answer a truth after the story Makoto had just told, so she chose dare.
"Okay, Usagi. When you're Sailor Moon, you have some sort of connection with Tuxedo Kamen, right?" Makoto asked.
"I thought this was a dare!" Usagi complained.
"Oh, don't worry, it is. I dare you to summon Tuxedo Kamen and ask him to do a strip tease for us!"
The girls were silent for a moment, the possible outcomes of this request flashing before their minds' eyes. Then Ami spoke. "Wouldn't that be a misuse of our senshi powers?"
"No!" Rei exclaimed, then blushed. "I mean, I totally want to see this!"
"Me, too," Usagi admitted, "but I'm not doing a dare of that magnitude alone. Fellow senshi, lets transform!"
When four senshi were standing where the four girls had been just moments before, all eyes turned to Sailor Moon. "What?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Summon him," the girls answered in unison.
Sailor Moon gulped at the intensity of their combined looks, and closed her eyes. She focused her thoughts on Tuxedo Kamen, trying to feel a connection to him. She could feel it, just barely, but she wasn't sure how to go about this. When she needed him, he just seemed to come to her aid. She had never summoned him on purpose.
At that moment, Mercury's computer started sounding an alarm. "Youma at the abandoned factory," she said, and they all took off running in that direction. The youma was easy to defeat as it hadn't had the opportunity to drain any energy yet, but the battle was enough to summon Tuxedo Kamen's presence.
"Tuxedo Kamen, don't run off just yet!" Sailor Moon called out when the battle was done. She couldn't see him, but she knew he was there. "I need you to do us a favor. Its very important."
The other senshi snickered in embarrassed anticipation as the masked hero appeared out of a dark shadow, his cape swirling about him as he turned back to face Sailor Moon. "What do you want me to do?" he asked.
Title: Girls Night Out
Author: Aisuru
Email: aisuru_chan@yahoo.com
Rating: PG
Summary: Challenge Response Fanfic #1, #2, and #3 all rolled in one! The senshi are studying vocabulary. Usagi is bored. A game of truth or dare is about to get interesting! Written in one hour (okay, I added the definitions as I typed it up afterwards, but everything else done in one hour).
Tuxedo Kamen was terrified. Even through his mask the senshi could see the fear in his usually mysterious eyes. He took another step back, pressing himself flat against the wall behind him as if he wished he could dissolve into the bricks making up the wall of the abandoned factory. He swallowed shakily. "Why did you say you wanted me to take my top off again?" he finally managed to ask.
2 hours before
It was a dark and boring night. A night you could throw tantrums on and steal cookies. Usagi was alternately doing both. "I am so bored!" she whined as she snitched another cookie from the platter on the table. "I don't want to study any more!" She crammed the cookie into her mouth, gave it a few hurried chews, and swallowed before she continued, knocking over the chair as she stood. "It's a Friday night!"
"What perception!" Rei mused, her eyes still on the test preparatory book. "Perception: awareness; insight."
"She is enlightening," Ami added with a grin. "Enlightening: informative; contributing to one's awareness."
Usagi scowled before continuing. "It is a Friday night, and we should be having fun!"
Makoto looked up from her book. "She is dogmatic about this conviction," she said. "Dogmatic: stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs. Conviction: a fixed or strong belief."
Ami nodded. "But is Usagi's desire to play instead of study acquired (developed or learned; not naturally occurring) or innate?"
"Huh?" Usagi asked.
Rei rolled her eyes. "Really, Usagi, you should subdue your desires and study. Subdue: to restrain; to hold back. The more you study, the easier it will be to assimilate (to absorb) said knowledge."
Ami nodded. "Don't consider your education to be inconsequential (unimportant). It really isn't trivial (of little importance or significance). Be more assiduous (hard-working), be more diligent (marked by painstaking effort; hard-working). Don't be indifferent (not caring one way or the other) about your future!"
"That was poignant," Rei commented. "Poignant: profoundly moving; touching."
"Thank you," Ami responded.
"Huh?" Usagi repeated.
Makoto laughed. "Our indolent Usagi. Indolent: lazy. If you weren't so dilatory (habitually late), you would not feel so alienated (removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland). Do not worry, Usagi. We are just being ostentatious. Ostentatious: describing a showy or pretentious display. We're practicing using vocabulary words from the test prep books."
"Some of the words are quite ponderous," Rei added with a smile. "Ponderous: extremely dull."
"Such candor!" Ami replied. "Candor: sincerity; openness. But it is futile (having no useful purpose; pointless) to continue for now. Usagi's desire for fun will impede (to slow the progress of) our work."
"Don't be so condescending!" Rei scolded. "Condescending: treating people as weak or inferior. One might think you were contemptuous (feeling hatred; scornful) of Usagi. Ami has been despotic (tyrannical) at this study session, and it is plausible (seemingly valid or acceptable; credible) that I too am feeling listless (lacking energy)." She put her book down and looked at Usagi. "It is Friday night," she agreed with the girl's statement from minutes before. "Let's do something superfluous! Superfluous: unnecessary."
"I would be amenable to some camaraderie!" Makoto quipped. "Amenable: responsive; agreeable. Camaraderie: goodwill between friends."
"What?" Usagi mumbled.
"We're going to play," Ami finally translated.
Thus the search for something fun to do began. After sitting and studying for so long, the girls were not content to sit around with comics or rental movies. Instead they crept out of the Cherry Hill Temple, the location of their slumber-study party, and took to the streets. The streets were deserted, the night swelteringly hot. "This is a dark and boring night," Makoto said.
"And the arcade is now closed," Usagi moaned.
As they walked, the conversation shifted to boys, which of course led to a game of truth or dare.
"Truth or dare, Makoto," asked Rei.
"Um, truth," she answered.
"Where did you get your first kiss?"
Makoto blushed. "I was at a party with my senpai. We were playing spin-the-bottle. I spun the bottle, and it didn't end up on my senpai."
"Your first kiss was to a stranger at a party?" Usagi gasped.
"Worse than that. I spun the bottle, and it ended up pointing to this girl. The two of us were locked in a closet together for five minutes."
The girls just stared at her.
'This is fun,' Makoto thought, stifling a laugh. She continued her tall-tale. "It was really awkward at first, I mean, I really do like guys, so we started out just talking. She was really nice, and she'd told me she'd done this before -- kissed another girl, I mean - so she, well, you know."
"She kissed you?" Usagi gasped in disbelief.
"And what a kiss!" Makoto exclaimed, laughter in her eyes. "We managed to knock over this box of bathroom supplies that had been stored on a shelf in the closet, and we spent the rest of the kiss trying not to trip on a rubber ducky and those little hotel bottles of shampoo."
The girls just stared at her. "Really?" Rei finally managed to ask.
"No! I'm totally lying!" Makoto exclaimed, a little surprised they really believed her. Then she added, "I haven't been kissed yet."
The other girls groaned. "Well, its your turn to ask, Makoto," Ami said.
"Okay. Usagi, do you want truth or dare?" Makoto asked.
Usagi didn't want to answer a truth after the story Makoto had just told, so she chose dare.
"Okay, Usagi. When you're Sailor Moon, you have some sort of connection with Tuxedo Kamen, right?" Makoto asked.
"I thought this was a dare!" Usagi complained.
"Oh, don't worry, it is. I dare you to summon Tuxedo Kamen and ask him to do a strip tease for us!"
The girls were silent for a moment, the possible outcomes of this request flashing before their minds' eyes. Then Ami spoke. "Wouldn't that be a misuse of our senshi powers?"
"No!" Rei exclaimed, then blushed. "I mean, I totally want to see this!"
"Me, too," Usagi admitted, "but I'm not doing a dare of that magnitude alone. Fellow senshi, lets transform!"
When four senshi were standing where the four girls had been just moments before, all eyes turned to Sailor Moon. "What?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Summon him," the girls answered in unison.
Sailor Moon gulped at the intensity of their combined looks, and closed her eyes. She focused her thoughts on Tuxedo Kamen, trying to feel a connection to him. She could feel it, just barely, but she wasn't sure how to go about this. When she needed him, he just seemed to come to her aid. She had never summoned him on purpose.
At that moment, Mercury's computer started sounding an alarm. "Youma at the abandoned factory," she said, and they all took off running in that direction. The youma was easy to defeat as it hadn't had the opportunity to drain any energy yet, but the battle was enough to summon Tuxedo Kamen's presence.
"Tuxedo Kamen, don't run off just yet!" Sailor Moon called out when the battle was done. She couldn't see him, but she knew he was there. "I need you to do us a favor. Its very important."
The other senshi snickered in embarrassed anticipation as the masked hero appeared out of a dark shadow, his cape swirling about him as he turned back to face Sailor Moon. "What do you want me to do?" he asked.