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Moon Cats

Chapter 5

The lights swirled around her, and soon she stood and stretched on two feet.... And realized her outfit was rather tight...and supportive.

"Oh please..." She muttered, closing her eyes. "Not a Fuku!"

Slowly, afraid of what she would find, Luna looked down at her outfit and gasped. She was wearing a tight, black bodysuit made out of a lycra like material, but unlike the girls bodysuit, this one had legs, hugging her legs down to and into the rather flattering boots covering her apparently human like feet. Her arms, like the girls, were bare revealing her silky black fur. The outfit was finished with a short skirt, resembling a mini-skirt and not pleated, though it was slit up both sides, all the way to her thighs. Luna felt it was a very dignified addition, since as tight as this outfit was, her rather sleek form was very apparent to the eye. Actually she thought she looked damn good in the outfit.

Screams from the scared children broke her out of her daze, and quickly she looked around, locating the fire escape for the building next to her. Gingerly she tried to hop up to it, and found herself propelled ten feet into the air, catching the ladder with her hands and feet.

"Right, Artemis did warn me about that." She muttered, even as she began to climb.

Quickly she was on top of the building, and peered across the chasm of the street ten stories below. Taking a deep breath, and several steps back, Luna ran forward and jumped as fast and hard as she could.

She landed halfway across the burning building's roof, and felt rather silly.

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Temiko Kanada stepped away from Sgt. Hibuki, letting her frustration flow out of her. "Would one comment have been that much to ask?"

"Temiko, we have only ten till station linkup." Her cameraman said, causing her to quickly adopt her "professional face".

"Okay, in five, four, three, two..."

"This is Temiko Kanada, live at the Juuban Apartment fire. It seems that..."

"Look up there, there's something on that roof!" Some one in the crowd of onlookers yelled, causing Temiko to look up, and gasp.

"Get the camera up there!" She yelled, afraid she was to late when it ducked back. The camera got around just in time to catch Luna's big leap. Then, caught her again as she reached the side, and started scaling down the side of the building.

"This is GREAT!" Temiko mouthed to her Cameraman who just nodded and grinned.

Sgt. Hibuki shook his head. "Smile Luna, you're on TV."

"Huh?" The rookie looked at his boss like he was nuts.

"Never mind!"

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"OH MY GOD!"

Mamoru's yell nearly knocked Artemis off of his perch on the table. "WHAT!"

"Turn on the news, Now!"

Artemis looked over to the girls, who were ignoring the monster movie on the screen. "Girls, hit the news for me, would ya?"

"Sure." Makoto replied, and she hit the switch, the newscasters talking about a large apartment fire. "Hey, doesn't that look like the White Tiger-man from earlier?"

"Yes...though that is definitely not a man. What do you think Artemis?" Minako turned to look at Artemis, and only caught the sight of his tail slipping out the window.

Ami frowned, also having seen this. "Perhaps this bears serious looking into."

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Luna was thrilled when she discovered that her claws would dig into the concrete by some miracle. This was doubly a lifesaver since the fire escape of the burning building had apparently been knocked down early during the fire, and the stair door was pouring out smoke.

With lithe grace Luna climbed down the side of the building, carefully, but smoothly maneuvering over the ledges of the different stories, soon reaching the broken window of the fifth floor, where the Cop and the children where calling from.

"Hand me the girl!" Luna yelled over the roars of the flames, and the cars beneath them. The cop looked up, and froze, mouth opening and closing at the sight of a black panther-woman hanging from the stone of the building. "Oh, we don't have time!" Luna hissed, and grabbed the girl in a firm but gentle grip, pulling her into the crook of her arm. "I'll be right back!"

She started scaling down the side of the building quickly, knowing she was going to have to make more then one trip. At least she wouldn't have to use the building next door next time.

She'll just climb the building like a tree!

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Artemis stretched out his legs as far as and as fast as he could, reaching for as much speed as he could generate, running for all he was worth. "Great..." He muttered to himself. "Running off to save the would be Heroine! I really AM stealing Mamoru's shtick!"

In a blur of white, he brushed past a pedestrian, not noticing as he almost knocked the man down, his mind set on the orange glow in the distant sky.

The man, steadying himself against a phone booth stared after Artemis for a few instants, before quickly picking up the phone, and dialing.

"Yeah, Emergency? I just almost got run down by a big cat!"

There was a pause, as the man listened to the person on the other side.

"No, not a big housecat!"

Another pause.
"I don't know...and albino cheetah I think!"

Pause.

"Only a couple... I am NOT drunk!"

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Luna returned to the window for the final time, only the cop remaining in it. "Okay, officer, I think you're going to have to get on my back and hold on. You are a bit larger then the children."
The officer, whom had quickly adapted to Luna's hybrid form (Funny how impending death can loosen up minds) nodded. "No problem, Lady!"

"Good!" Judiciously, carefully, and quickly (Can you do all three of those at once?) the cop climbed up onto her back, and Luna swung out over the abyss, starting to climb back to earth one last time.

Of course, this is when a propane tank, kept for grilling on a lower apartment's balcony, exploded. While it wasn't a large explosion, it was large enough, and Luna lost her grip in the wall.

"Oh dear..." Was all she could think to say, watching the ground rush up the five stories to meet her.

She closed her eyes.

AN: Hmm. Wonder if anyone's going to be annoyed with where I left this.

Naww.