Authors: Eris and E_Eevee
Genre: Humor
Category: Mega-crossover
Current world: Sailor Moon (and the fun begins, blackmail is good)
Disclaimer: We don't own Sailor Moon (not that we WANT to mind you). They belong to their rightful owners: Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha and Toei Animation and whoever the hell else. These characters are used without permission for the sole purpose of some sadistic humor, er, I mean entertainment. We DO however own Shadow, Raven, Kite, and Storm.
burakkichu: That was the first anime I ever watched back in like sixth grade ^^;; And Kite is in for much more. Please, don't try to picture it *rueful laugh* (unless you want to :))
Raven walked into the hotel, she half supported her friend, and carried their two bags. Kite should really take it easy on the sodas, Raven thought, and decided she'd tell her later if she remembered. For right now, the only thing she wanted was a room and a hot shower.
The clerk at the desk coughed nervously as they entered battered and covered with blood. He nearly fainted when he saw the large carnivores that followed the two girls.
Raven let Kite lean against the desk while she used her powers to freeze time and grab the best honeymoon suit. Nice and big, especially now with a panther and an oversized wolf to think about. Plus, Raven thought, it would have nice large relaxing tubs.
Raven didn't even bother to talk to the clerk, but grabbed the key and made her way down to the elevator. It seemed that Kite, Storm, and Shadow were not affected by the effects of Raven's new ability to stop time, which was a relief to Raven.
"Stupid machines," Raven muttered in annoyance. She had to unfreeze time to get the elevator to work. When she did and the elevator came down, the people screamed and ran at the sight of two beaten up women and their pets.
Once in the room, Raven placed Kite on the bed. "Are you feeling ok enough to take a bath?"
Kite didn't question Raven's decision to snatch the keys to the room. She was just grateful to sink down on the cushy bed. "Bath is good..." On second thought maybe a bath wouldn't be so good. She wouldn't want to fall asleep in the tub and drowned herself, "Shower."
"Shadow," Raven called to Kite's newly over-sized pet, "Help her to the bathroom and make sure she's fine." The Wolf gladly obliged wagging his tail.
"I don't need a chaperon." Kite protested and promptly tripped over her own feet. Shadow pressed up against her and she leaned on his sturdy frame gratefully. Why was the world spinning like that?
She limped into the bathroom and striped down feeling glad that the restricting clothes were off. Bruises were starting to spot her pale skin and her head hurt like there was no tomorrow. This was not a fun adventure so far. Especially when shock and fatigue were hitting her like a ton of bricks. She showed quickly and in a clean, fresh robe. She looked down sadly at what used to be her favourite outfit. Those would have to go. Definitely. She limped out of the bathroom feeling refreshed and much better. Raven was sprawled out on one of the double beds watching Fear.
"All yours." Kite huffed and fell down on the bed, "Thanks for letting me go first."
"Great I need a shower!" But first Raven helped tuck in her friend into the king size bed. "Go to sleep Kite, and when you wake up in the morning, you'll feel better."
She stroked her friend's hair. Hopefully, she thought grimly, not wanting to say that out loud. She walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Some time later, after using all the bottles of shampoo and conditioner, Raven emerged with only a towel to cover her. I can't wear these torn up clothes, and Kite stole the only robe. Well I have no other choice, Raven thought to herself. A girl has to do some things to stay clean. With that she froze time again and went on the hunt.
Raven walked down to the lobby, no one seeing her as they were stopped as if in pause mode on some VCR. She went to the clothing section of the hotel finding it with only a little trouble. Raven picked out some clothes for Kite and herself to wear later when they woke up. With all the clothes in tow she made her way back to the room, and put on a cute pajama set she had picked out. She promptly fell asleep on top of the covers next to her friend.
Kite woke up in the middle of the night with a jerk. She heard a distinctive thump as something large rolled off the bed and landed on the floor. That thump was followed closely by a yelp.
"So sorry!" Kite fumbled with the chain on the lamp and in frustration ripped the cord off. She fumed and stumbled over to the switch. She sincerely that wasn't Raven she had tipped off the side. The girl could be quite nasty about stuff like that.
Shadow looked up sheepishly from his position on the floor and Kite sighed in relief. Raven, still snoozing blissfully with Storm curled around her, mumbled digging herself deeper in the bed.
"Oh Shadow, I didn't mean to boot you off." Kite said caressing the canine's broad head then her expression changed, "Wait a minute, what were you doing up on the bed?"
Shadow's eyes flew wide and he said in mock innocence, Protecting you of course.
Kite's eyes narrowed, "I'll bet."
Suddenly the wolf stiffened and growled at the door. Kite heard a faint scuffling outside and the knob slowly turned. She stepped back unsurely accidentally waking Storm. The panther uncurled herself with blazing eyes. She snarled at the door and gracefully jumped to the floor. This woke Raven.
Raven looked at the snarling animals and bolted to her feet.
She heard voices outside the door. It was the hotel manager.
Silence. Raven scolded Storm and strained to hear. Shadow too quieted, but remained in his 'I'm going to kill you stance'. The manager was apologizing that he had no idea what happened to the room key, when the door opened.
"Get out of my room! Now!" Raven ordered. The manager, apparently very foolish, stepped inside.
"Miss, this is not your roo-" he saw the animals and pure fear came to his face. Raven very pissed off at having been woken up was in no mood for mind games, and blankly stated, "Get out or die."
The manager quickly shut the door behind him and let. Great, Raven thought, now we can't here, but hey morning isn't till a few more hours.
Keep guard Storm. she told the panther going back to bed.
Kite felt faint. This was killing her stress level. Now what was it the doctor said about stress...? She regretted her blatant cup holder that stated cheekily, 'Reality is the leading cause of stress'. She grumbled feeling her head and mentally told herself that the leading cause of stress started with an R all right. The poor guy probably shat himself in his fear.
She brushed aside a strand of hair as it fell in her eyes and she winced in pain. This sucked. She hadn't felt so bad since she conked her head jumping around on a bunk bed at age seven.
"Shadow, you stay here, okay?
The black wolf made a protest and she lightly tapped him on his long, slender muzzle. He settled back on his haunches glaring at her. She stumbled out the door and made her way down the hall.
Once in the lobby she tracked down the man. He was hiding in a closet. Pushing aside the mop and knocking down a bucket she dragged him out.
"I'm sorry, how much is the room?" She asked. The man stared at her as if she were some sort of demon trying to eat him. She sighed impatiently and tried again, "I can pay you in American dollars, or Canadian. Which would you prefer? I really don't have all night. My head hurts and I'm cranky."
"Free," He yelped and she noticed his baldhead with slick with sweat. She didn't think she was that scary, "It's all free. For however long you want."
She dropped him in disgust and ran her fingers through her short hair. It stuck up and she realized her hand was sticky with red blood. Definitely NOT something she wanted. Her stomach rebelled and she turned to the cowering man, "Where's the ice machine?"
He wailed and bolted past her. She looked puzzled after him. What was his problem anyway? All she did was ask where the ice machine was. Not a hard request. Feeling extremely faint and definitely puzzled she staggered down the hall in search of the elusive ice machine.
"Hey, it's you!"
Kite whirled at the voice, or tried to anyway. Instead of facing the person she found herself eating carpet. It was soft and plush, but the taste of shoe bottoms made her heave.
"Are you okay?" The voice seemed closer, almost in her ear. She pushed herself up finding herself face to face with Lita. The brunette grabbed her arm and hauled her up. She clung feeling really dizzy. Was she supposed to feel this dizzy? Didn't Sailor Mercury say she'd have a nice little headache? This was one hell of a headache.
"I just wanted to thank you and your friend for helping us out back there."
"Could you..." Kite trailed off, "Could you please get me some ice?"
Lita helped Kite to the ice machine, and filled up a bucket for her. "Now where is your room?" she asked supporting her.
"Top floor. Honeymoon..." Kite blanked out.
Raven was woken again by snarls. She opened the door to find Lita holding a passed out Kite. Raven grabbed her friend and hurried both of them into the room. She put Kite back on the bed, and took the ice from Lita and filled the compress bad in the bathroom. She put it on Kite's forehead.
She turned to Lita. "I thought Amy said she'd be fine," and gave her a dirty look and went to the bathroom to wash off the blood on Kite's head.
"Amy is never wrong about this kind of stuff, she will recover." Lita sighed not noticing the look.
Kite started to moan and Raven helped her up to swallow some aspirin. The girl coughed and choked before sinking back down. Raven felt her forehead and was happy to notice there was no fever. Her friend must be just dizzy and nauseous.
Look what these ungrateful wrenches have done to Kite, Storm she said to her pet. All the panther did was thrash her tail in agreement.
Raven led Lita to the sitting room where they could talk without waking up Kite.
"So you know who we are." Lita said it more of a statement than a question.
"Of course we both do. Neither one of us is from this world. All of this, to us, does not exist." So much for Raven getting any more beauty sleep. Raven needed a cup of coffee. It was almost dawn now and there was no point in going back to sleep, not with her powers; and not being in sailor moon. Her mind started to wander, when she realized that Lita was asking a question.
Raven snapped out of her daze.
"Sorry missed that." she said dully.
"How much do you know?" Lita questioned her.
Raven let out a soft yet bone-chilling laugh. "I know you love to cook, you are Sailor Jupiter and your power is that of thunder. You respect Serena because she was your only friend when you came here. I know everything." Seeing the horrified look in Lita's eyes was payment enough for sitting through many years of Sailor Moon torment.
"Are you from the Nega moon?" Lita asked horrified.
"If I was, then I would have let you die, right?" Raven threw back the question. "Lita, thank you for showing concern for my friend, and how about if I buy you a milk shake at the arcade after your school?"
Lita's eyes seemed brighter.
"Sure!" She smiled and quietly left unaware that Storm was growling the whole time at her.
Raven put on some of the clothes that she got from the lobby and went in search of a cup of coffee.
Kite woke up in bed feeling immensely better. Her headache had faded and she wasn't dizzy anymore. Shadow's large head was draped comfortably over her stomach. She wasn't sure how she managed to make it back in once piece. Then she remembered Lita and hoped Raven hadn't decided to do something to her. After all, she did apologize and thank them.
"Raven...?"
She went out with Lita. I think she wanted some coffee. She had that look about her. Shadow replied sleepily, You shouldn't have gone without me.
Kite ruffled his fur, "Sorry pooch, but you scare people now."
Why? I wouldn't hurt them. Not unless they hurt you.
Kite bit her lips gently and worried it between her teeth. This was a potential problem. How did one walk around with a giant wolf that scares the living daylights out of people? She knew Shadow wouldn't be left behind a second time.
She realized that there was a compress perched on her forehead and smiled. Raven, despite her mean streak and sadistic nature, really did care about her.
So alike yet so different.
She also realized that painkiller must have been forced down her throat because her head wasn't splitting open. She sat up and sighed unhappily. This was not going according to any plans she had.
Glancing over at the clock she realized it was already seven.
With a groan she slung her legs over the side and rummaged through the tempting pile of clothes set to the side. Choosing a modest maroon tank top and loose black cotton shorts she hastily brushed her fingers thru her hair. Straighten her shoulders she marched out the door leaning only slightly on shadow.
Coming into the lobby she spotted Raven immediately. There was a far away look to the other girl's blue eyes and a distant, yet slightly twisted, smile on her face. Kite plopped herself down and snagged a doughnut from Raven's plate
"Sorry." Kite began unsure how to word what she wanted to say, "I don't mean to be such a burden. Only I would have the bad luck to be bonked in the head and come out sillier. So what did you say to Lita?"
"You're not plagued with bad luck, you'd just been at the wrong place wrong time, that's all" Raven continued to sip on her coffee unimpressed by her friend's constant admission of being a bad luck charm. "As for Lita, she wanted to know if our intentions were of a good or bad nature. I'm not sure yet myself, so I just told her that I didn't come from the Nega moon. You know how much I hate liars."
With that she continued to sip her coffee. She looked up at Kite, "Oh and I invited Lita for a milkshake after her school. I knew that excuse would bring all the scouts at one place." The wicked gleamed returned to her blue eyes.
"Of course, you're not from the Nega Moon. You're from Canada! That's much worse." Kite confided. Raven choked.
"Do you want to come, or are you going to explore Tokyo on your own, if you need and money just ask." Raven threw about a thousand dollars on the table. "Buy something nice, I plan on going shopping. Hey, if I'm stuck in here, I'm going to be styling all the way!" She gave her friend a wink.
"Where'd you get the money?" Kite asked refusing to touch it. Good lord, her morals were kicking in overtime. She chided herself, it's just a bloody TV show. The people weren't even real.
"The money was a gift form Mr. Hotel Manager. A bribe to keep our pets from eating some guests. Remember, all of this is just pretend. We rule this place, and anything you want is yours. When we get back to our time, now that's another story, but for now live it up." Raven having the time of her life laughed, a full hearty laugh, not the evil kind, but one of good nature. It would be the last
Kite looked at her uncertainly then scooped up the money. She expected some smart comment about her greedy grab and she still growled when it came. Raven snickered, "Whoa, you grabbed that pretty fast considering you wouldn't touch it a second ago."
Kite sighed, well, things were back to normal now.
"What'd you say?" She growled with a pissed expression.
"Never mind," Raven sighed as she stared into space. "Now that we are here and have new pets, I think we should sport our own arsenal. I mean both of them can fight, but if one gets hurt..." her voice trailed off. Raven snapped back to reality, "So. What kind of weapons do you want? Just name them and I'll get them."
Raven already knew what she wanted, and it first started with a milkshake. Her smile grew eviler every time she thought about it.
"Weapons?" Kite groped around for her switchblade before realizing that she had no bleeping clue were it was. "Why...never mind. I can shop for myself you know."
Blushing she changed the subject, "When do we meet them?"
She didn't mean to snap.
"After school at 4 o'clock. Until then I saw we go shopping." She heard her friend's tone and disregarding it completely. "Don't worry. I ordered big juicy steaks for Shadow and Storm. They should be good for a while." Grabbing Kite's arm they set out among the streets and shops looking for a place to spend their money.
After three blissful hours of excessive shopping, something Kite usually loathed, they stopped off at a park to eat lunch. Shadow, having joined them, not to mention scaring the hell out of passers-by sported a bright, new Frisbee. He flipped it idly in his mouth then snatched what was left of Kite's ice cream cone.
"Where's Storm?" Raven asked aloud looking for a familiar black shape.
"Stop mutt, give that back!" Kite yelped knocking into Raven. Ignoring the dagger-laden glance she jumped the wolf trying to pry his jaws apart. He growled savagely and wrestled. At Raven's question they stopped, "Storm? I haven't seen her lately. That's odd."
Ask your pet here where Storm is please?" Raven asked her friend who was having way too much fun with the mutt.
Storm? Raven called out. No response.
Storm's in the tree above you. Shadow said calmly, Or she was. And I'm not a pet.
Kite told Raven that Storm was sleeping in the tree, but now she's gone. Great just freaking great! Raven thought. "I'll see you back at the hotel room before we go and meet Lita."
With that Raven left her friend and returned to the hotel room. She opened the door. There was Storm sleeping on the bed. Storm perked up her rounded ears, Have fun? What did you buy? Anything for me? Storm asked as poked her nose in the bags.
"Yes, stuff, and no" Was the reply. Raven pulled out a pair of 4 inch spiked boots that zipped all the way to her upper thigh, and asked, What do you think?
The cat looking at the boots said, Do you really expect to wear those? Then she continued to snoop through the bags.
"I've always wanted a pair of boots like this," Raven said and added assuming the cat's next comment, "And no I won't break my neck. I wear spikes all the time. Plus I think it would suit me sporting a new panther at my side."
She scratched behind the cat's ear. You purr loud Raven laughed.
Yeah, well you snore. the cat retorted smugly.
Raven jumped on the cat and started to scratch the cat even more and in turn encouraged the panther to purr louder.
Kite walked in and threw her bags on the floor, "That was so fun."
Raven stopped petting the cat and went back to unpacking the bags. "Well, we nave an hour left. I think we should get ready. I think I'm going to wear my new boots, and this," she pulled out a collar from one of the bags. Horrified Kite looked at her. "Get your mind out of the gutter, this is for Storm."
The panther perked up at the mention of her name. However she did not like the idea of wearing a collar.
Shadow, already sporting his thick, black leather collar, teased, Taming you down, pussycat.
Raven took out a cute short skirt and pulled out a hauler top out of the bag and went into the bathroom to change. She emerged a few minutes later looking like a youkai, wild and free, and with intent of evil.
Kite's mouth dropped open.
Raven took the brush out of the bag and started to brush her long waist length hair.
"You're not...wearing that...?" Kite stuttered her eyes wide as saucers and her empathises on 'that' and 'anything'. "There's like, nothing there! It doesn't cover anything important."
Raven laughed, "When in Rome," and turned back to brushing her hair. After that was done she took out some make up and expertly did her eyes in a pale blue to make her eyes look crystallize.
"We're in Tokyo." Kite pointed out.
"It's an expression dumbass." Raven remarked continued to do her make up.
"Dumbass yourself." Kite muttered sliding a bandanna over her forehead to keep her silver hair back.
Finishing her make up, Raven pulled out more things from their shopping spree and put them into the backpack. She looked at her friend.
"You smell go and take a shower if you want to come, and hurry." Raven laughed as she pushed Kite to the bathroom.
Kite dug her heels in and turned to look at Raven. There was a speculative gleam in those blue eyes she didn't like, "Okay, but wait for me. And don't do anything rash."
"I promise, I'll wait...I just don't know how long though." Raven said through the door that had Raven been turned around it would've been shut on her face. Good, now that she's in the bathroom, she had an idea. Storm, play with Shadow for a bit. Just keep him distracted. I want to pack a few things that Shadow and Kite would not like.
Having her instructions, the panther leapt on Shadow, I'm being tamed am I?
She started to play fight with him. Shadow, the innocent dunce he was, immediately pounced into the game.
Raven placed a few extra daggers in her boots and a gun or two in her bag. Insurance she thought.
"I'm coming." Came out muffled by the bathroom door. Kite busted the door open hopping wildly on one foot. The offending shoe suddenly slid of leaving her unbalanced. She slammed her hands into the wall and caught herself.
"Damn these shoes. Why did I buy them again?"
"You said they were cute." Raven grabbed her bad and reached for the collar. "Storm, come here."
Storm came over and willingly put on the collar, knowing that Raven had a plan would not want to be left out.
"Let's go then. And I never say 'cute'. That's a sickening word that makes me think of googley eyes and fluffy kittens. Shoes are not 'cute'."
Once outside Raven found loved the attention her outfit and Storm attracted. Some ran in fear others stood in horror and awe. Kite, on the other hand, groaned and held onto Shadow.
Reaching the arcade, Raven checked her watch. Good five minutes early. Raven walked in first and let Kite walk in second.
Andrew came running out, "You can't have these animals in here!"
Raven just looked at him in boredom, "Well I guess I could leave them outside and let them scare away potential customers, or " She made a false horrified gasp, "They might eat someone."
She didn't wait for his reply and found a table big enough for 10. She sat down and Storm lied down at her feet quietly waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
I wouldn't eat anyone. Shadow protested his innocence.
Raven looked at her watch it was quarter after four and no one had showed up. Raven was starting to get pissed off.
"Where is she?" She seethed. Kite could only give a helpless look. Out the window she saw all of the preppy sailor scout gang walk toward the arcade.
"Well, well, how do you like cat, Storm?" she asked the panther. Kite gave her a horrified and confused look. She turned around to see that Luna was on Serena's shoulders and Artemis was on Nina's.
"That's horrible!" Kite shrieked.
Rare, and fresh was Storm's velvet answer.
I like cats. Shadow chimed in not getting what they were saying in the slightest.
Kite sighed, "No one eats the cats. Well, maybe Diana- I mean, no eating of the cats!"
The Scouts, now in their normal form, came into the arcade. Nina rushed to Andrew and she threw herself on him. Raven snorted in disgust. She saw Lita and Amy approach the table.
"Sorry we are so late, but Serena had to stay late for detention again." Lita apologized.
"Typical." Kite muttered then clapped her hands over her mouth looking embarrassed
A few minutes later of making small talk that started to drive Raven insane, she shouted, "Nina stop hanging off Andrew so he can take my freaking order!" Angered and ashamed Nina made her way over to the table with Andrew not too far behind.
"What will you have?" he asked.
"We've all settled on milkshakes, and for our friends here," she looked down and he jumped back and she laughed, "they'll have big pieces of fish, or lots of little fish together, just as long as they are full." With that she petted Storm's head. Soon, my pet, soon
I like fish. Shadow panted and laid his head back down on Serena's feet. She bit back another scream tolerating the big animal's touch. For some reason the two cats had decided it might be just a bit safer from a distance. They disappeared quite hastily.
Author's note (Eevee): And next chapter the shit really hits the fan ^^
Genre: Humor
Category: Mega-crossover
Current world: Sailor Moon (and the fun begins, blackmail is good)
Disclaimer: We don't own Sailor Moon (not that we WANT to mind you). They belong to their rightful owners: Naoko Takeuchi/Kodansha and Toei Animation and whoever the hell else. These characters are used without permission for the sole purpose of some sadistic humor, er, I mean entertainment. We DO however own Shadow, Raven, Kite, and Storm.
burakkichu: That was the first anime I ever watched back in like sixth grade ^^;; And Kite is in for much more. Please, don't try to picture it *rueful laugh* (unless you want to :))
Raven walked into the hotel, she half supported her friend, and carried their two bags. Kite should really take it easy on the sodas, Raven thought, and decided she'd tell her later if she remembered. For right now, the only thing she wanted was a room and a hot shower.
The clerk at the desk coughed nervously as they entered battered and covered with blood. He nearly fainted when he saw the large carnivores that followed the two girls.
Raven let Kite lean against the desk while she used her powers to freeze time and grab the best honeymoon suit. Nice and big, especially now with a panther and an oversized wolf to think about. Plus, Raven thought, it would have nice large relaxing tubs.
Raven didn't even bother to talk to the clerk, but grabbed the key and made her way down to the elevator. It seemed that Kite, Storm, and Shadow were not affected by the effects of Raven's new ability to stop time, which was a relief to Raven.
"Stupid machines," Raven muttered in annoyance. She had to unfreeze time to get the elevator to work. When she did and the elevator came down, the people screamed and ran at the sight of two beaten up women and their pets.
Once in the room, Raven placed Kite on the bed. "Are you feeling ok enough to take a bath?"
Kite didn't question Raven's decision to snatch the keys to the room. She was just grateful to sink down on the cushy bed. "Bath is good..." On second thought maybe a bath wouldn't be so good. She wouldn't want to fall asleep in the tub and drowned herself, "Shower."
"Shadow," Raven called to Kite's newly over-sized pet, "Help her to the bathroom and make sure she's fine." The Wolf gladly obliged wagging his tail.
"I don't need a chaperon." Kite protested and promptly tripped over her own feet. Shadow pressed up against her and she leaned on his sturdy frame gratefully. Why was the world spinning like that?
She limped into the bathroom and striped down feeling glad that the restricting clothes were off. Bruises were starting to spot her pale skin and her head hurt like there was no tomorrow. This was not a fun adventure so far. Especially when shock and fatigue were hitting her like a ton of bricks. She showed quickly and in a clean, fresh robe. She looked down sadly at what used to be her favourite outfit. Those would have to go. Definitely. She limped out of the bathroom feeling refreshed and much better. Raven was sprawled out on one of the double beds watching Fear.
"All yours." Kite huffed and fell down on the bed, "Thanks for letting me go first."
"Great I need a shower!" But first Raven helped tuck in her friend into the king size bed. "Go to sleep Kite, and when you wake up in the morning, you'll feel better."
She stroked her friend's hair. Hopefully, she thought grimly, not wanting to say that out loud. She walked into the bathroom and shut the door. Some time later, after using all the bottles of shampoo and conditioner, Raven emerged with only a towel to cover her. I can't wear these torn up clothes, and Kite stole the only robe. Well I have no other choice, Raven thought to herself. A girl has to do some things to stay clean. With that she froze time again and went on the hunt.
Raven walked down to the lobby, no one seeing her as they were stopped as if in pause mode on some VCR. She went to the clothing section of the hotel finding it with only a little trouble. Raven picked out some clothes for Kite and herself to wear later when they woke up. With all the clothes in tow she made her way back to the room, and put on a cute pajama set she had picked out. She promptly fell asleep on top of the covers next to her friend.
Kite woke up in the middle of the night with a jerk. She heard a distinctive thump as something large rolled off the bed and landed on the floor. That thump was followed closely by a yelp.
"So sorry!" Kite fumbled with the chain on the lamp and in frustration ripped the cord off. She fumed and stumbled over to the switch. She sincerely that wasn't Raven she had tipped off the side. The girl could be quite nasty about stuff like that.
Shadow looked up sheepishly from his position on the floor and Kite sighed in relief. Raven, still snoozing blissfully with Storm curled around her, mumbled digging herself deeper in the bed.
"Oh Shadow, I didn't mean to boot you off." Kite said caressing the canine's broad head then her expression changed, "Wait a minute, what were you doing up on the bed?"
Shadow's eyes flew wide and he said in mock innocence, Protecting you of course.
Kite's eyes narrowed, "I'll bet."
Suddenly the wolf stiffened and growled at the door. Kite heard a faint scuffling outside and the knob slowly turned. She stepped back unsurely accidentally waking Storm. The panther uncurled herself with blazing eyes. She snarled at the door and gracefully jumped to the floor. This woke Raven.
Raven looked at the snarling animals and bolted to her feet.
She heard voices outside the door. It was the hotel manager.
Silence. Raven scolded Storm and strained to hear. Shadow too quieted, but remained in his 'I'm going to kill you stance'. The manager was apologizing that he had no idea what happened to the room key, when the door opened.
"Get out of my room! Now!" Raven ordered. The manager, apparently very foolish, stepped inside.
"Miss, this is not your roo-" he saw the animals and pure fear came to his face. Raven very pissed off at having been woken up was in no mood for mind games, and blankly stated, "Get out or die."
The manager quickly shut the door behind him and let. Great, Raven thought, now we can't here, but hey morning isn't till a few more hours.
Keep guard Storm. she told the panther going back to bed.
Kite felt faint. This was killing her stress level. Now what was it the doctor said about stress...? She regretted her blatant cup holder that stated cheekily, 'Reality is the leading cause of stress'. She grumbled feeling her head and mentally told herself that the leading cause of stress started with an R all right. The poor guy probably shat himself in his fear.
She brushed aside a strand of hair as it fell in her eyes and she winced in pain. This sucked. She hadn't felt so bad since she conked her head jumping around on a bunk bed at age seven.
"Shadow, you stay here, okay?
The black wolf made a protest and she lightly tapped him on his long, slender muzzle. He settled back on his haunches glaring at her. She stumbled out the door and made her way down the hall.
Once in the lobby she tracked down the man. He was hiding in a closet. Pushing aside the mop and knocking down a bucket she dragged him out.
"I'm sorry, how much is the room?" She asked. The man stared at her as if she were some sort of demon trying to eat him. She sighed impatiently and tried again, "I can pay you in American dollars, or Canadian. Which would you prefer? I really don't have all night. My head hurts and I'm cranky."
"Free," He yelped and she noticed his baldhead with slick with sweat. She didn't think she was that scary, "It's all free. For however long you want."
She dropped him in disgust and ran her fingers through her short hair. It stuck up and she realized her hand was sticky with red blood. Definitely NOT something she wanted. Her stomach rebelled and she turned to the cowering man, "Where's the ice machine?"
He wailed and bolted past her. She looked puzzled after him. What was his problem anyway? All she did was ask where the ice machine was. Not a hard request. Feeling extremely faint and definitely puzzled she staggered down the hall in search of the elusive ice machine.
"Hey, it's you!"
Kite whirled at the voice, or tried to anyway. Instead of facing the person she found herself eating carpet. It was soft and plush, but the taste of shoe bottoms made her heave.
"Are you okay?" The voice seemed closer, almost in her ear. She pushed herself up finding herself face to face with Lita. The brunette grabbed her arm and hauled her up. She clung feeling really dizzy. Was she supposed to feel this dizzy? Didn't Sailor Mercury say she'd have a nice little headache? This was one hell of a headache.
"I just wanted to thank you and your friend for helping us out back there."
"Could you..." Kite trailed off, "Could you please get me some ice?"
Lita helped Kite to the ice machine, and filled up a bucket for her. "Now where is your room?" she asked supporting her.
"Top floor. Honeymoon..." Kite blanked out.
Raven was woken again by snarls. She opened the door to find Lita holding a passed out Kite. Raven grabbed her friend and hurried both of them into the room. She put Kite back on the bed, and took the ice from Lita and filled the compress bad in the bathroom. She put it on Kite's forehead.
She turned to Lita. "I thought Amy said she'd be fine," and gave her a dirty look and went to the bathroom to wash off the blood on Kite's head.
"Amy is never wrong about this kind of stuff, she will recover." Lita sighed not noticing the look.
Kite started to moan and Raven helped her up to swallow some aspirin. The girl coughed and choked before sinking back down. Raven felt her forehead and was happy to notice there was no fever. Her friend must be just dizzy and nauseous.
Look what these ungrateful wrenches have done to Kite, Storm she said to her pet. All the panther did was thrash her tail in agreement.
Raven led Lita to the sitting room where they could talk without waking up Kite.
"So you know who we are." Lita said it more of a statement than a question.
"Of course we both do. Neither one of us is from this world. All of this, to us, does not exist." So much for Raven getting any more beauty sleep. Raven needed a cup of coffee. It was almost dawn now and there was no point in going back to sleep, not with her powers; and not being in sailor moon. Her mind started to wander, when she realized that Lita was asking a question.
Raven snapped out of her daze.
"Sorry missed that." she said dully.
"How much do you know?" Lita questioned her.
Raven let out a soft yet bone-chilling laugh. "I know you love to cook, you are Sailor Jupiter and your power is that of thunder. You respect Serena because she was your only friend when you came here. I know everything." Seeing the horrified look in Lita's eyes was payment enough for sitting through many years of Sailor Moon torment.
"Are you from the Nega moon?" Lita asked horrified.
"If I was, then I would have let you die, right?" Raven threw back the question. "Lita, thank you for showing concern for my friend, and how about if I buy you a milk shake at the arcade after your school?"
Lita's eyes seemed brighter.
"Sure!" She smiled and quietly left unaware that Storm was growling the whole time at her.
Raven put on some of the clothes that she got from the lobby and went in search of a cup of coffee.
Kite woke up in bed feeling immensely better. Her headache had faded and she wasn't dizzy anymore. Shadow's large head was draped comfortably over her stomach. She wasn't sure how she managed to make it back in once piece. Then she remembered Lita and hoped Raven hadn't decided to do something to her. After all, she did apologize and thank them.
"Raven...?"
She went out with Lita. I think she wanted some coffee. She had that look about her. Shadow replied sleepily, You shouldn't have gone without me.
Kite ruffled his fur, "Sorry pooch, but you scare people now."
Why? I wouldn't hurt them. Not unless they hurt you.
Kite bit her lips gently and worried it between her teeth. This was a potential problem. How did one walk around with a giant wolf that scares the living daylights out of people? She knew Shadow wouldn't be left behind a second time.
She realized that there was a compress perched on her forehead and smiled. Raven, despite her mean streak and sadistic nature, really did care about her.
So alike yet so different.
She also realized that painkiller must have been forced down her throat because her head wasn't splitting open. She sat up and sighed unhappily. This was not going according to any plans she had.
Glancing over at the clock she realized it was already seven.
With a groan she slung her legs over the side and rummaged through the tempting pile of clothes set to the side. Choosing a modest maroon tank top and loose black cotton shorts she hastily brushed her fingers thru her hair. Straighten her shoulders she marched out the door leaning only slightly on shadow.
Coming into the lobby she spotted Raven immediately. There was a far away look to the other girl's blue eyes and a distant, yet slightly twisted, smile on her face. Kite plopped herself down and snagged a doughnut from Raven's plate
"Sorry." Kite began unsure how to word what she wanted to say, "I don't mean to be such a burden. Only I would have the bad luck to be bonked in the head and come out sillier. So what did you say to Lita?"
"You're not plagued with bad luck, you'd just been at the wrong place wrong time, that's all" Raven continued to sip on her coffee unimpressed by her friend's constant admission of being a bad luck charm. "As for Lita, she wanted to know if our intentions were of a good or bad nature. I'm not sure yet myself, so I just told her that I didn't come from the Nega moon. You know how much I hate liars."
With that she continued to sip her coffee. She looked up at Kite, "Oh and I invited Lita for a milkshake after her school. I knew that excuse would bring all the scouts at one place." The wicked gleamed returned to her blue eyes.
"Of course, you're not from the Nega Moon. You're from Canada! That's much worse." Kite confided. Raven choked.
"Do you want to come, or are you going to explore Tokyo on your own, if you need and money just ask." Raven threw about a thousand dollars on the table. "Buy something nice, I plan on going shopping. Hey, if I'm stuck in here, I'm going to be styling all the way!" She gave her friend a wink.
"Where'd you get the money?" Kite asked refusing to touch it. Good lord, her morals were kicking in overtime. She chided herself, it's just a bloody TV show. The people weren't even real.
"The money was a gift form Mr. Hotel Manager. A bribe to keep our pets from eating some guests. Remember, all of this is just pretend. We rule this place, and anything you want is yours. When we get back to our time, now that's another story, but for now live it up." Raven having the time of her life laughed, a full hearty laugh, not the evil kind, but one of good nature. It would be the last
Kite looked at her uncertainly then scooped up the money. She expected some smart comment about her greedy grab and she still growled when it came. Raven snickered, "Whoa, you grabbed that pretty fast considering you wouldn't touch it a second ago."
Kite sighed, well, things were back to normal now.
"What'd you say?" She growled with a pissed expression.
"Never mind," Raven sighed as she stared into space. "Now that we are here and have new pets, I think we should sport our own arsenal. I mean both of them can fight, but if one gets hurt..." her voice trailed off. Raven snapped back to reality, "So. What kind of weapons do you want? Just name them and I'll get them."
Raven already knew what she wanted, and it first started with a milkshake. Her smile grew eviler every time she thought about it.
"Weapons?" Kite groped around for her switchblade before realizing that she had no bleeping clue were it was. "Why...never mind. I can shop for myself you know."
Blushing she changed the subject, "When do we meet them?"
She didn't mean to snap.
"After school at 4 o'clock. Until then I saw we go shopping." She heard her friend's tone and disregarding it completely. "Don't worry. I ordered big juicy steaks for Shadow and Storm. They should be good for a while." Grabbing Kite's arm they set out among the streets and shops looking for a place to spend their money.
After three blissful hours of excessive shopping, something Kite usually loathed, they stopped off at a park to eat lunch. Shadow, having joined them, not to mention scaring the hell out of passers-by sported a bright, new Frisbee. He flipped it idly in his mouth then snatched what was left of Kite's ice cream cone.
"Where's Storm?" Raven asked aloud looking for a familiar black shape.
"Stop mutt, give that back!" Kite yelped knocking into Raven. Ignoring the dagger-laden glance she jumped the wolf trying to pry his jaws apart. He growled savagely and wrestled. At Raven's question they stopped, "Storm? I haven't seen her lately. That's odd."
Ask your pet here where Storm is please?" Raven asked her friend who was having way too much fun with the mutt.
Storm? Raven called out. No response.
Storm's in the tree above you. Shadow said calmly, Or she was. And I'm not a pet.
Kite told Raven that Storm was sleeping in the tree, but now she's gone. Great just freaking great! Raven thought. "I'll see you back at the hotel room before we go and meet Lita."
With that Raven left her friend and returned to the hotel room. She opened the door. There was Storm sleeping on the bed. Storm perked up her rounded ears, Have fun? What did you buy? Anything for me? Storm asked as poked her nose in the bags.
"Yes, stuff, and no" Was the reply. Raven pulled out a pair of 4 inch spiked boots that zipped all the way to her upper thigh, and asked, What do you think?
The cat looking at the boots said, Do you really expect to wear those? Then she continued to snoop through the bags.
"I've always wanted a pair of boots like this," Raven said and added assuming the cat's next comment, "And no I won't break my neck. I wear spikes all the time. Plus I think it would suit me sporting a new panther at my side."
She scratched behind the cat's ear. You purr loud Raven laughed.
Yeah, well you snore. the cat retorted smugly.
Raven jumped on the cat and started to scratch the cat even more and in turn encouraged the panther to purr louder.
Kite walked in and threw her bags on the floor, "That was so fun."
Raven stopped petting the cat and went back to unpacking the bags. "Well, we nave an hour left. I think we should get ready. I think I'm going to wear my new boots, and this," she pulled out a collar from one of the bags. Horrified Kite looked at her. "Get your mind out of the gutter, this is for Storm."
The panther perked up at the mention of her name. However she did not like the idea of wearing a collar.
Shadow, already sporting his thick, black leather collar, teased, Taming you down, pussycat.
Raven took out a cute short skirt and pulled out a hauler top out of the bag and went into the bathroom to change. She emerged a few minutes later looking like a youkai, wild and free, and with intent of evil.
Kite's mouth dropped open.
Raven took the brush out of the bag and started to brush her long waist length hair.
"You're not...wearing that...?" Kite stuttered her eyes wide as saucers and her empathises on 'that' and 'anything'. "There's like, nothing there! It doesn't cover anything important."
Raven laughed, "When in Rome," and turned back to brushing her hair. After that was done she took out some make up and expertly did her eyes in a pale blue to make her eyes look crystallize.
"We're in Tokyo." Kite pointed out.
"It's an expression dumbass." Raven remarked continued to do her make up.
"Dumbass yourself." Kite muttered sliding a bandanna over her forehead to keep her silver hair back.
Finishing her make up, Raven pulled out more things from their shopping spree and put them into the backpack. She looked at her friend.
"You smell go and take a shower if you want to come, and hurry." Raven laughed as she pushed Kite to the bathroom.
Kite dug her heels in and turned to look at Raven. There was a speculative gleam in those blue eyes she didn't like, "Okay, but wait for me. And don't do anything rash."
"I promise, I'll wait...I just don't know how long though." Raven said through the door that had Raven been turned around it would've been shut on her face. Good, now that she's in the bathroom, she had an idea. Storm, play with Shadow for a bit. Just keep him distracted. I want to pack a few things that Shadow and Kite would not like.
Having her instructions, the panther leapt on Shadow, I'm being tamed am I?
She started to play fight with him. Shadow, the innocent dunce he was, immediately pounced into the game.
Raven placed a few extra daggers in her boots and a gun or two in her bag. Insurance she thought.
"I'm coming." Came out muffled by the bathroom door. Kite busted the door open hopping wildly on one foot. The offending shoe suddenly slid of leaving her unbalanced. She slammed her hands into the wall and caught herself.
"Damn these shoes. Why did I buy them again?"
"You said they were cute." Raven grabbed her bad and reached for the collar. "Storm, come here."
Storm came over and willingly put on the collar, knowing that Raven had a plan would not want to be left out.
"Let's go then. And I never say 'cute'. That's a sickening word that makes me think of googley eyes and fluffy kittens. Shoes are not 'cute'."
Once outside Raven found loved the attention her outfit and Storm attracted. Some ran in fear others stood in horror and awe. Kite, on the other hand, groaned and held onto Shadow.
Reaching the arcade, Raven checked her watch. Good five minutes early. Raven walked in first and let Kite walk in second.
Andrew came running out, "You can't have these animals in here!"
Raven just looked at him in boredom, "Well I guess I could leave them outside and let them scare away potential customers, or " She made a false horrified gasp, "They might eat someone."
She didn't wait for his reply and found a table big enough for 10. She sat down and Storm lied down at her feet quietly waiting for the shit to hit the fan.
I wouldn't eat anyone. Shadow protested his innocence.
Raven looked at her watch it was quarter after four and no one had showed up. Raven was starting to get pissed off.
"Where is she?" She seethed. Kite could only give a helpless look. Out the window she saw all of the preppy sailor scout gang walk toward the arcade.
"Well, well, how do you like cat, Storm?" she asked the panther. Kite gave her a horrified and confused look. She turned around to see that Luna was on Serena's shoulders and Artemis was on Nina's.
"That's horrible!" Kite shrieked.
Rare, and fresh was Storm's velvet answer.
I like cats. Shadow chimed in not getting what they were saying in the slightest.
Kite sighed, "No one eats the cats. Well, maybe Diana- I mean, no eating of the cats!"
The Scouts, now in their normal form, came into the arcade. Nina rushed to Andrew and she threw herself on him. Raven snorted in disgust. She saw Lita and Amy approach the table.
"Sorry we are so late, but Serena had to stay late for detention again." Lita apologized.
"Typical." Kite muttered then clapped her hands over her mouth looking embarrassed
A few minutes later of making small talk that started to drive Raven insane, she shouted, "Nina stop hanging off Andrew so he can take my freaking order!" Angered and ashamed Nina made her way over to the table with Andrew not too far behind.
"What will you have?" he asked.
"We've all settled on milkshakes, and for our friends here," she looked down and he jumped back and she laughed, "they'll have big pieces of fish, or lots of little fish together, just as long as they are full." With that she petted Storm's head. Soon, my pet, soon
I like fish. Shadow panted and laid his head back down on Serena's feet. She bit back another scream tolerating the big animal's touch. For some reason the two cats had decided it might be just a bit safer from a distance. They disappeared quite hastily.
Author's note (Eevee): And next chapter the shit really hits the fan ^^