Terran Castle
By: Chocolate Star
Chapter 10
Rating: PG-13
Date Started: 09/30/02
Date Finished: 04/06/03
Hey readers. I'm sorry I haven't written in a really long time! Life is so very hectic and then I've been suffering a severe case of writers block. Not just that, I didn't think this chapter was good enough to finish before, but when I looked over it, I realized it was the perfect place to stop.. Too bad it's July and I stopped it in April! I just didn't have time to look it over, and the writer's block was getting to me. But here's the next chapter. Hope you like.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon or any of the characters. The ones in this story that do not appear in the show are all mine.
Chapter 10
.Usagi.Usagi. there were voiced all around here, one that stood out in particular. 'Usagi, come to me.' Usagi looked around herself, nothing, just fog, she could barely see anything. "Wh.where are you? Who.. Who are you? " She turned around in circles, looking for something, anything that would guide her to the voice. Then something caught her eye, something glistening, stepping forward towards the light she saw a faint outline of a figure. She called out once more, "Who's there???" Still, no reply, yet the whispering and calling continued around her. Taking a couple more steps through the thick fog she noticed she was walking on petals, rose petals. she reached down and picked up a few. As she let them fall from her hand down to the floor the area around her filled with a haunting melody. (AN: The locket tune). She looked up to see if the figure in the fog was still there, it had disappeared. Just the haunting melody continued to play. The voices had stopped, yet the fog was still thick around her, enveloping her.
"Usagi.Usagi.." The calling started again, all of a sudden everything started shaking.
"Usagi, Usagi! Wake up!" Minako was shaking her repeatedly.
"What is it? Minako?" Inquired Usagi slightly befuddled.
"Wake up! Breakfast is almost ready," replied Minako excitedly.
"5 more minutes," Usagi muttered incoherently, turning on her side and pulling the covers over her head.
"Usagi!!!" Whined Minako tugging at Usagi's cocooned form, "Come on, Troy's down there!"
"Ugh, Minako! Fine, leave me alone, I'll be down in a few."
"No way, I'm not going anywhere until you get up," said Minako stubbornly, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Ahh," Usagi threw the covers off her head and glared at Minako. Standing on her feet she threw up her hands, "I'm up, happy??" She questioned sarcastically.
"Yea!" Minako giggled, "Hurry up! I'll be waiting downstairs!"
Usagi made her way to the bathroom. *~* "Is Odongo still late to everything? You'd think she'd be a little better at this."
Rei giggled and twirled a lock of hair around her finger, "Always late, that's Usagi."
Motoki glared at Mamoru, "Will you back off? You're always so mean to her," under his breath he muttered, "I swear he takes the 3rd grade strategy to telling a girl he likes her!"
A couple of minutes later Minako and Usagi walked into the dining room.
"Wow, look who decided to finally grace us with their presence."
Minako stared at Rei, "Morning everyone! How's everyone doing this fine morning?"
They all smiled, "We're fine Minako, take a seat now," Motoki told her.
She smiled and walked over to the seat she had occupied the previous night.
Usagi took her usual seat in front of Mamoru.
"So Usagi, did you sleep well?" Questioned Troy.
"Just fine," she smiled at him.
"Well now that everyone's here we can start eating."
"So, what are we doing today?" Asked Makoto taking a sip of her orange juice.
"Usagi and I were hoping that you guys would want to go shopping, see the sites, then check out the slopes," replied Minako with a hopeful look on her face.
"That sounds fun, what do you think Rei?"
Ami turned to her friend.
"Sure, that works for me," Rei replied, distractedly. She was a little busy drooling over Mamoru.
Mako smiled, "We're going with Troy right?"
"Yes, of course I'm taking you. I'm your personal chauffeur girls." Troy remarked, laughter in his voice.
"Motoki-san, what do you guys have planned for today? Usagi asked turning to her friend.
"Mamoru wanted to go skiing."
"That sounds fun, maybe we'll see you on the slopes."
The meal progressed as usual, discussions varying across the table, and at awkward moments glares and silence followed.
"Okay, so you girls should go upstairs and get ready, I'll meet you all in the den in half an hour," Troy declared getting up from the table.
The girls nodded and followed him out of the dining room, walking up to their wing of the house they each slowly dispersed into their own rooms. Surprisingly enough Usagi was the first one ready to go. In her pink turtleneck sweater and blue jeans she looked adorable. Knocking on Makoto's door, she stepped in when Mako answered.
"Ready already Usagi?" Questioned Mako while putting on her earrings.
Usagi nodded, "Yup yup!"
"Give me one sec." Mako looked at herself in the mirror, she was wearing a green turtleneck and blue jeans. Hear hair was down for once as well.
"Okay I'm ready, lets go see how Minako's doing."
As they stepped out of Mako's room Ami walked out of hers.
"Hey Ami-chan, all set? You look great!"
Ami smiled, Thanks you guys, is everyone ready?"
"Just as Ami asked the question Rei and Minako walked out of Rei's room.
"I guess so Ami," replied Mako.
"Okay people, lets movie it! Troy's waiting!" Usagi urged the group forward.
Minako giggled, "Yea, can't keep Troy waiting."
Going down the stairs they saw Troy waiting at the foot of the steps.
"Looking nice ladies! I brought the car around, lets go!"
The girls filed out, holding their purses, wrapped in their jackets, scarves hats and gloves.
"Where we headed to first girls?"
"Shopping! A mall or something would be great!" Replied Usagi looking out of the window at the snow laden trees and the suns red rays reflected upon the snow covered ground.
"Okay, there's a mall not far from here, we'll head there."
Arriving at the mall the girls walked in with smiles on their faces. Minako looked back at Troy, who was getting back in to the limo.
"Hey Troy, where are you going?"
He glanced back, "I was just going to wait in the car for you guys."
"No way," Minako argued, grabbing his arm, "You're coming with us. We could always use a male opinion."
"Really, it's not a problem. I'll stay in the car." Troy tried to get out of it. He, unfortunately, knew how tiring it was to shop with a girl, there was no way he was going to go with a group of girls.
"Nope," Minako shook her head firmly and began dragging him to the door, "you're coming with me.
The girls watched the scene with amusement.
"Wow, she got him to come," commented Ami.
"I never had a doubt," replied Makoto laughing.
The girls shopped for clothes, matching bags, shoes, and accessories for a continuous four hours.. Dragging poor Troy with them to every store and getting his opinion on every outfit. Come lunch time, Troy was exhausted and the girls were showing signs of slowing down as well.
"Lets go grab a bite to eat," said Usagi exiting their current store.
"Leave it to Usagi to announce the lunch break," laughed Rei.
As they made their way to the food court Troy began to tell them about a ski resort Usagi's uncle owned up in Aberdeen.
"Aberdeen is a good area to visit, maybe we should go up there. Your uncle owns a ski and snowboarding resort up there and it would be fun. It's only about two hours away from here."
Troy looked at Usagi waiting for an answer.
"As long as it's okay with my uncle. It sounds like fun."
"Yea," the rest of the girls agreed.
"Great, I'll have his secretary call and check with him."
"Wonderful," Usagi replied, "Now lets eat!" She laughed and they continued on their way.
"Do you think it's okay to go skiing as we are Troy? Or should we go home and change?" Minako asked through the chauffeur window a few hours later.
"You guys should be fine as you are, but if you want to go change that's fine as well."
"Well it's already six, do we want to waste an hour of our time?" Asked Ami.
"Yea, Ami's right, we should be fine," Mako said.
"Okay great, we should arrive at the Snowflake Slopes in about 20 minutes."
"Cool.," said Rei.
The girls had rented their skis and were ready to go.
"Ohh, I hate heights," said Usagi as they boarded the ski lift.
"Don't worry Usagi, just don't look down. I'll sit with you," Troy offered as he helped her onto the lift.
"You guys better watch out, Mako here is one hell of a skier," Rei teased, "She'll run you over if you're not careful."
"Rei, I think this slope might be a little to difficult for you, I can take you down to the Bunny slope if you like," Makoto countered.
Rei stuck her tongue out at Mako.
"Wow, they're so mature," laughed Minako watching the two bite each other's heads off.
"Hey, lets race." Usagi suggested.
"Yes and we could always place a friendly wager on it as well," suggested Makoto getting into the spirit.
"Yea, anyone who doesn't come in first has to buy the winner a new article of clothing," Rei said.
"Sounds good to me," said Mako. The rest of the girls nodded.
Troy laughed, "And they say men turn everything into a competition?!"
"Okay, so here's the rules. Follow the path, no going off, first one down the slope wins," Ami stated the rules.
"Alright, that sounds fair," Mako said.
"I'll stay out of this one, I'll tell you guys when to start, I'll be waiting for you at the bottom." Troy skied half way down, "Okay," he yelled, "Ready, set, Go!"
And they're off. The girls were neck and neck starting off, and then Rei started falling behind. They came up to a jump and Ami faltered taking Minako with her. Troy saw this happen when he reached the bottom of the slope, he couldn't help but laugh.. It was funny! Rei stopped and helped them up.
"Jeez Ami! I didn't know you were so competitive! You really embrace the concept of - If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me."
Ami blushed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pull you out of the race, I kind of lost my balance."
"Ah, don't fret Ami. Lets go down and see who wins. Who would have thought Usagi would be up against Mako?" Rei urged the girls to start up again.
Mako and Usagi were still neck and neck, the other three girls were keeping an even pace with each other. Troy watched the race. A group of guys came up behind him.
"Hey Troy," Motoki greeted him.
Troy turned around, "Oh hey! How's your guys' day been?"
"Pretty good, I've been busy kicking these guys' butts," Motoki laughed teasingly.
"Yea, well I wasn't the one who knocked down a few skiers while I was rolling down a hill," Mamoru said, looking at Motoki who blushed and pretended like he didn't hear.
Troy laughed, "Anyway, watch the race you guys. Rei, Ami, and Minako are out. It's between Makoto and Usagi now."
The guys all turned their heads to watch Mako and Usagi reach the finish line.
"Wow, you'd never guess Meatball Head would be able to keep up with Makoto. But she's looking nice," Mamoru mused.
The two were closing in on the finish line. "Here they come, and it's.." Troy announced, "USAGI!"
Usagi pulled off her skis and jumped up and down. "OH yea! The pupil out does her teacher!"
"Wow Usagi! Great job! I've taught you well," Mako smiled giving her friend a hug.
"Great job you two, that was real close," Troy said.
"Oh hey, you guess, when did you show up?" Makoto asked noticing that Mamoru and the guys were there.
"We've been here for about three hours, but only found Troy like five minutes ago," answered Jedite.
Ami, Rei, and Minako joined the group.
"Who won?" Questioned Ami.
"Usagi did," Makoto replied.
"You're kidding right?" Said Rei her mouth open in disbelief.
"No she's not, I really did win!" Usagi grinned.
"Congrats Usagi," Minako turned to the guys, "Nice to see you guys joined us."
"We had so much fun, we went shopping too. Troy came with us," Usagi said.
The guys looked over at Troy who had a slightly pained look on his face.
"You have our sympathies," offered Nephrite. They all laughed.
"Anyway, are you guys ready to head home, or do you want to hang around here a longer?" Troy asked them all.
"Well I'm tired," Usagi said.
"Me too," was murmured throughout the group of girls. They were all in agreement.
"We will meet you guys at home okay? " Troy said to the guys.
"Sure, we were going to leave soon anyway," Motoki said for the group.
"Later!" The girls waved and went to return their skis.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Okay, that's the end of this chapter. I hope you guys liked it. More soon. I really REALLY appreciated all the emails you guys sent me, and all the reviews you left. I'm so happy you guys are enjoying this story. I REALLY appreciate it you guys, *hugs*. Keep it up hehe. Ja ne!
-Chocolate Star
Hey readers. I'm sorry I haven't written in a really long time! Life is so very hectic and then I've been suffering a severe case of writers block. Not just that, I didn't think this chapter was good enough to finish before, but when I looked over it, I realized it was the perfect place to stop.. Too bad it's July and I stopped it in April! I just didn't have time to look it over, and the writer's block was getting to me. But here's the next chapter. Hope you like.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailormoon or any of the characters. The ones in this story that do not appear in the show are all mine.
Chapter 10
.Usagi.Usagi. there were voiced all around here, one that stood out in particular. 'Usagi, come to me.' Usagi looked around herself, nothing, just fog, she could barely see anything. "Wh.where are you? Who.. Who are you? " She turned around in circles, looking for something, anything that would guide her to the voice. Then something caught her eye, something glistening, stepping forward towards the light she saw a faint outline of a figure. She called out once more, "Who's there???" Still, no reply, yet the whispering and calling continued around her. Taking a couple more steps through the thick fog she noticed she was walking on petals, rose petals. she reached down and picked up a few. As she let them fall from her hand down to the floor the area around her filled with a haunting melody. (AN: The locket tune). She looked up to see if the figure in the fog was still there, it had disappeared. Just the haunting melody continued to play. The voices had stopped, yet the fog was still thick around her, enveloping her.
"Usagi.Usagi.." The calling started again, all of a sudden everything started shaking.
"Usagi, Usagi! Wake up!" Minako was shaking her repeatedly.
"What is it? Minako?" Inquired Usagi slightly befuddled.
"Wake up! Breakfast is almost ready," replied Minako excitedly.
"5 more minutes," Usagi muttered incoherently, turning on her side and pulling the covers over her head.
"Usagi!!!" Whined Minako tugging at Usagi's cocooned form, "Come on, Troy's down there!"
"Ugh, Minako! Fine, leave me alone, I'll be down in a few."
"No way, I'm not going anywhere until you get up," said Minako stubbornly, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Ahh," Usagi threw the covers off her head and glared at Minako. Standing on her feet she threw up her hands, "I'm up, happy??" She questioned sarcastically.
"Yea!" Minako giggled, "Hurry up! I'll be waiting downstairs!"
Usagi made her way to the bathroom. *~* "Is Odongo still late to everything? You'd think she'd be a little better at this."
Rei giggled and twirled a lock of hair around her finger, "Always late, that's Usagi."
Motoki glared at Mamoru, "Will you back off? You're always so mean to her," under his breath he muttered, "I swear he takes the 3rd grade strategy to telling a girl he likes her!"
A couple of minutes later Minako and Usagi walked into the dining room.
"Wow, look who decided to finally grace us with their presence."
Minako stared at Rei, "Morning everyone! How's everyone doing this fine morning?"
They all smiled, "We're fine Minako, take a seat now," Motoki told her.
She smiled and walked over to the seat she had occupied the previous night.
Usagi took her usual seat in front of Mamoru.
"So Usagi, did you sleep well?" Questioned Troy.
"Just fine," she smiled at him.
"Well now that everyone's here we can start eating."
"So, what are we doing today?" Asked Makoto taking a sip of her orange juice.
"Usagi and I were hoping that you guys would want to go shopping, see the sites, then check out the slopes," replied Minako with a hopeful look on her face.
"That sounds fun, what do you think Rei?"
Ami turned to her friend.
"Sure, that works for me," Rei replied, distractedly. She was a little busy drooling over Mamoru.
Mako smiled, "We're going with Troy right?"
"Yes, of course I'm taking you. I'm your personal chauffeur girls." Troy remarked, laughter in his voice.
"Motoki-san, what do you guys have planned for today? Usagi asked turning to her friend.
"Mamoru wanted to go skiing."
"That sounds fun, maybe we'll see you on the slopes."
The meal progressed as usual, discussions varying across the table, and at awkward moments glares and silence followed.
"Okay, so you girls should go upstairs and get ready, I'll meet you all in the den in half an hour," Troy declared getting up from the table.
The girls nodded and followed him out of the dining room, walking up to their wing of the house they each slowly dispersed into their own rooms. Surprisingly enough Usagi was the first one ready to go. In her pink turtleneck sweater and blue jeans she looked adorable. Knocking on Makoto's door, she stepped in when Mako answered.
"Ready already Usagi?" Questioned Mako while putting on her earrings.
Usagi nodded, "Yup yup!"
"Give me one sec." Mako looked at herself in the mirror, she was wearing a green turtleneck and blue jeans. Hear hair was down for once as well.
"Okay I'm ready, lets go see how Minako's doing."
As they stepped out of Mako's room Ami walked out of hers.
"Hey Ami-chan, all set? You look great!"
Ami smiled, Thanks you guys, is everyone ready?"
"Just as Ami asked the question Rei and Minako walked out of Rei's room.
"I guess so Ami," replied Mako.
"Okay people, lets movie it! Troy's waiting!" Usagi urged the group forward.
Minako giggled, "Yea, can't keep Troy waiting."
Going down the stairs they saw Troy waiting at the foot of the steps.
"Looking nice ladies! I brought the car around, lets go!"
The girls filed out, holding their purses, wrapped in their jackets, scarves hats and gloves.
"Where we headed to first girls?"
"Shopping! A mall or something would be great!" Replied Usagi looking out of the window at the snow laden trees and the suns red rays reflected upon the snow covered ground.
"Okay, there's a mall not far from here, we'll head there."
Arriving at the mall the girls walked in with smiles on their faces. Minako looked back at Troy, who was getting back in to the limo.
"Hey Troy, where are you going?"
He glanced back, "I was just going to wait in the car for you guys."
"No way," Minako argued, grabbing his arm, "You're coming with us. We could always use a male opinion."
"Really, it's not a problem. I'll stay in the car." Troy tried to get out of it. He, unfortunately, knew how tiring it was to shop with a girl, there was no way he was going to go with a group of girls.
"Nope," Minako shook her head firmly and began dragging him to the door, "you're coming with me.
The girls watched the scene with amusement.
"Wow, she got him to come," commented Ami.
"I never had a doubt," replied Makoto laughing.
The girls shopped for clothes, matching bags, shoes, and accessories for a continuous four hours.. Dragging poor Troy with them to every store and getting his opinion on every outfit. Come lunch time, Troy was exhausted and the girls were showing signs of slowing down as well.
"Lets go grab a bite to eat," said Usagi exiting their current store.
"Leave it to Usagi to announce the lunch break," laughed Rei.
As they made their way to the food court Troy began to tell them about a ski resort Usagi's uncle owned up in Aberdeen.
"Aberdeen is a good area to visit, maybe we should go up there. Your uncle owns a ski and snowboarding resort up there and it would be fun. It's only about two hours away from here."
Troy looked at Usagi waiting for an answer.
"As long as it's okay with my uncle. It sounds like fun."
"Yea," the rest of the girls agreed.
"Great, I'll have his secretary call and check with him."
"Wonderful," Usagi replied, "Now lets eat!" She laughed and they continued on their way.
"Do you think it's okay to go skiing as we are Troy? Or should we go home and change?" Minako asked through the chauffeur window a few hours later.
"You guys should be fine as you are, but if you want to go change that's fine as well."
"Well it's already six, do we want to waste an hour of our time?" Asked Ami.
"Yea, Ami's right, we should be fine," Mako said.
"Okay great, we should arrive at the Snowflake Slopes in about 20 minutes."
"Cool.," said Rei.
The girls had rented their skis and were ready to go.
"Ohh, I hate heights," said Usagi as they boarded the ski lift.
"Don't worry Usagi, just don't look down. I'll sit with you," Troy offered as he helped her onto the lift.
"You guys better watch out, Mako here is one hell of a skier," Rei teased, "She'll run you over if you're not careful."
"Rei, I think this slope might be a little to difficult for you, I can take you down to the Bunny slope if you like," Makoto countered.
Rei stuck her tongue out at Mako.
"Wow, they're so mature," laughed Minako watching the two bite each other's heads off.
"Hey, lets race." Usagi suggested.
"Yes and we could always place a friendly wager on it as well," suggested Makoto getting into the spirit.
"Yea, anyone who doesn't come in first has to buy the winner a new article of clothing," Rei said.
"Sounds good to me," said Mako. The rest of the girls nodded.
Troy laughed, "And they say men turn everything into a competition?!"
"Okay, so here's the rules. Follow the path, no going off, first one down the slope wins," Ami stated the rules.
"Alright, that sounds fair," Mako said.
"I'll stay out of this one, I'll tell you guys when to start, I'll be waiting for you at the bottom." Troy skied half way down, "Okay," he yelled, "Ready, set, Go!"
And they're off. The girls were neck and neck starting off, and then Rei started falling behind. They came up to a jump and Ami faltered taking Minako with her. Troy saw this happen when he reached the bottom of the slope, he couldn't help but laugh.. It was funny! Rei stopped and helped them up.
"Jeez Ami! I didn't know you were so competitive! You really embrace the concept of - If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me."
Ami blushed, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to pull you out of the race, I kind of lost my balance."
"Ah, don't fret Ami. Lets go down and see who wins. Who would have thought Usagi would be up against Mako?" Rei urged the girls to start up again.
Mako and Usagi were still neck and neck, the other three girls were keeping an even pace with each other. Troy watched the race. A group of guys came up behind him.
"Hey Troy," Motoki greeted him.
Troy turned around, "Oh hey! How's your guys' day been?"
"Pretty good, I've been busy kicking these guys' butts," Motoki laughed teasingly.
"Yea, well I wasn't the one who knocked down a few skiers while I was rolling down a hill," Mamoru said, looking at Motoki who blushed and pretended like he didn't hear.
Troy laughed, "Anyway, watch the race you guys. Rei, Ami, and Minako are out. It's between Makoto and Usagi now."
The guys all turned their heads to watch Mako and Usagi reach the finish line.
"Wow, you'd never guess Meatball Head would be able to keep up with Makoto. But she's looking nice," Mamoru mused.
The two were closing in on the finish line. "Here they come, and it's.." Troy announced, "USAGI!"
Usagi pulled off her skis and jumped up and down. "OH yea! The pupil out does her teacher!"
"Wow Usagi! Great job! I've taught you well," Mako smiled giving her friend a hug.
"Great job you two, that was real close," Troy said.
"Oh hey, you guess, when did you show up?" Makoto asked noticing that Mamoru and the guys were there.
"We've been here for about three hours, but only found Troy like five minutes ago," answered Jedite.
Ami, Rei, and Minako joined the group.
"Who won?" Questioned Ami.
"Usagi did," Makoto replied.
"You're kidding right?" Said Rei her mouth open in disbelief.
"No she's not, I really did win!" Usagi grinned.
"Congrats Usagi," Minako turned to the guys, "Nice to see you guys joined us."
"We had so much fun, we went shopping too. Troy came with us," Usagi said.
The guys looked over at Troy who had a slightly pained look on his face.
"You have our sympathies," offered Nephrite. They all laughed.
"Anyway, are you guys ready to head home, or do you want to hang around here a longer?" Troy asked them all.
"Well I'm tired," Usagi said.
"Me too," was murmured throughout the group of girls. They were all in agreement.
"We will meet you guys at home okay? " Troy said to the guys.
"Sure, we were going to leave soon anyway," Motoki said for the group.
"Later!" The girls waved and went to return their skis.
*~*~*~*~*~*
Okay, that's the end of this chapter. I hope you guys liked it. More soon. I really REALLY appreciated all the emails you guys sent me, and all the reviews you left. I'm so happy you guys are enjoying this story. I REALLY appreciate it you guys, *hugs*. Keep it up hehe. Ja ne!
-Chocolate Star
