Ice Cold Escapades
Chapter 3
I'd like to say that the creature standing in front of me was the ugliest thing I had ever seen, but it was far from it. Throughout the eight years since I found out I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Love and Justice, I have seen some of the most hideous, disgusting, and downright goofy looking things ever to be conjured up in the minds of the evil. This one actually seemed kind of tame and boring compared to some.
The thing stood at a little over seven feet tall. I guess in life's perspective, that's not extremely tall (for a monster), but I'm only five foot three. Over seven feet is... well... big. But the fact that the thing was freakishly tall was beside the point. Most people are freakishly tall when compared to me!
The thing was a pale blue color that makes you shiver and think of snowy afternoons as soon as you see it. If I had seen the color on anything but the skin of the creature, I'd have said it was pretty. Now all I can think of is cold. Other than the color, the only way I can think to describe the thing is that it looked almost exactly like the aliens on the movie "Signs", which in turn means it looked like my high school geometry teacher. Tikes!
As soon as I entered the courtyard of the convention center where they thing had appeared, it turned and pointed at me. I froze mid-step and stared at it. Literally. I froze. When the thing pointed at me it had used magic to pull the moisture out of the air and trap my boots in a thick block of ice.
"Oh, this is just great," I muttered at nobody in particular. "I've been here a whole five seconds and already I'm stuck."
I could feel the ice getting thicker around me and slowly working its way upward, trapping me up to my thighs. I felt the slight burning sensation you feel when bare skin touches ice for too long. The feeling of my cold ice cream settling in my stomach and the block of ice enveloping me started to slow my mind drastically. I glanced around and saw all of the other Sailor Scouts in similar situations, each struggling with her own climbing coffin of ice.
"That's it!" I screamed. "I'm so sick of you stupid things not having the balls to face is without some stupid trick up your sleeve! Moon Tiara Magic!!!" I tore the tiara from my forehead and flung it from myself with all my might. It spun around the courtyard, shattering the ice that held each of us captive and returning to my hand.
"V-v-verrry Resssourcceful, Ssssailor Brat!" The monster hissed as if it were shivering. "P-p-purhapsss I should havve f-frozen you frommm the t-top d-d-down. I won't mmmake the sssame mmissstake t-twice!!"
Before I could even blink or translate the stuttering creatures threat, the sky opened up and began to dump a week's worth of snow and hail in only a few moments. "Shit!" I cursed and shielded my face with my gloved hands. Sailor Mercury dove under the shelter of a nearby tree, knowing that her powers would be useless in this type of situation. I wondered briefly whether or not Mars, Venus, or Jupiter would take the opportunity to melt us out of this predicament, then I noticed the three of them were being frozen once more.
"What are you waiting for, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Jupiter called out. "Dust this thing and let's get inside where it's warm! These outfits aren't meant for blizzards!"
"I have to find it's weak point before we can hope to defeat it," Sailor Mercury called through the rising winds, her hair whipping about her face. "But my computer screen keeps frosting over! It will take me a little longer than normal."
"Have Meatball Head move closer to you," Mars volunteered through clenched teeth as she struggled with the ice. "She's full of enough hot air to melt all of this,"
"You're one to talk," I muttered, not wanting to rise to the bait in the middle of a battle. See? I've matured over the years! Don't ever let anybody tell you otherwise!
"Ouch!" Venus cried out. "My hair is frozen against my back and it's starting to pull. Hurry up before I'm bald!"
While I was distracted with all of the conversation, "the thing" took its chance to move behind me and trap my arms behind my back. It grabbed my pigtails and jerked my neck backwards at a sharp and painful angle. My eyed rolled into the back of my head as I fought to keep the pain from possessing my already foggy mind.
"C-c-cold yet-t-t??" It questioned. "Let mmeee help-p you."
I flurry of ice crystals burst around my body, coating my skin and numbing me to everything else. I fought to open my eyes, feeling some of my eyelashes breaking away from my eyelids as they froze to my cheeks. I took a great, gasping gulp of air and felt my lungs fill with the clinging crystals. My mouth... my nose... my throat... my whole body was coated with the biting ice and felt as if it was one big snow flake and any moment I could shatter.
"Sailor Moon!" Mercury's voice broke through my hazy thoughts, her voice dripping with the urgency I was just beginning to realize I should have been feeling. I was freezing to death! "Use your tiara to cut off its head! That's the only weakness I can find!"
"That'll do," I croaked out, hoping that they'd hear me and know I was still functioning. I lifted my hand, feeling as if I was moving through an over-boiled pudding. It seemed like it took hours to finally touch my frozen fingertips to my forehead and pull the cold tiara from it's perch. "Mmmoooonnn... t-t-tiarrra... mmmagic!"
The glowing disc sliced through the vile villain and continued on a path that freed the other Sailor Scouts from their icy prison before returning to it's home on my head. I slumped forward, shaking my head to clear away some of the fog that was trying to possess me. I looked up in time to see the ice monster shudder once then explode outward in a wave of energy. I screamed as I fell backward from the force of the explosion and found myself flattened in a snow bank. The city around us had gone dark and quiet.
"It knocked out the city's power," Sailor Mercury announced, her voice quiet. She stared down at the small computer clutched in her hands, her eyes flittering back and forth as she scanned the data being presented to her. "It's nothing extremely unnatural... the power companies should be able to repair it in a matter of hours. We need to get back to our homes and warm up as much as we can while we can. The heating should have kept things pretty normal. We'll be fine. Just go home as fast as you can."
Everybody nodded and began to stand on trembling legs. I stumbled forward a few steps, fighting every muscle in my body to remain standing. The other scouts must have seen my struggle because the all turned to me.
"Serena," Mars blurted, "I'm going to call Darien and tell him to meet you back at your apartment. You took the hits a little harder than we did. I'm worried about you getting warm."
"What's Darien going to do to help with tha—" Venus stopped mid- sentence her face flushing a deep scarlet as Jupiter snickered at her statement.
"I can think of a few things," the tall brunette joked.
"That's a good idea, Raye," Mercury agreed, ignoring the teasing remarks. "But do it while you walk. We need to get inside and out of these uniforms."
"D-don't I have a sssay in any of thisss?" I questioned, my teeth chattering and my body shivering so hard I felt like I was convulsing. "Darien just went to work a little while ago. He'll be grumpy if we call him out and he has to take some emergency sick leave. I'll be fine."
"He'll be even more grumpy of he comes home and finds you dead from hypothermia," Mars snapped. "Now go home and quit arguing."
"Hey, Mina?" I head Jupiter speak as I turned away from the group and began trudging away. "You know how you fight hypothermia?"
"No," the blonde returned stupidly. "Drink a lot of tea?"
"Nope," Raye giggled. "You're supposed to strip down completely and press yourself up against another person's warm, naked body."
Venus giggles. "Geez, no wonder she's walking so slowly. If I had Darien for a boyfriend I'd want hypothermia too!"
"I heard that!" I bellowed, my face turning crimson. "You and about a billion others," Mercury whispered in reply to Mina's comment. "Now quit standing around and go get warm! Go!"
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It took me about ten minutes to work my frozen body back to my apartment and another ten to work the energy up to get back to my balcony. As soon as I pulled my tired limbs over the railing I realized something very important. In my haste to get to the battle, I had left the balcony doors open. I groaned softly as I stepped into the apartment, hoping against hope that there was some room that was at least a little warm. Then I realized I had not yet turned the heating on for the day. I stumbled over my tired feet as my transformation melted away, my energy too drained to hold my super hero form any longer than needed. A choked and desperate sob escaped my frozen throat as I surveyed my hopeless situation.
I pushed the balcony door closed, forcing the snow that had drifted in to go back outside. The room seemed unnaturally dark as I stumbled about the room. My mind fought through the frozen fog that continued to try to possess my conscious.
"Raye called Darien almost half an hour ago," I murmured to myself, trying to calm my shaking nerves. "He'll be here any minute and he'll know exactly what to do..."
And now you, my dear readers, are up to date. I'm freezing. It is snowing whole snowmen outside, and my fabulous fiancé is nowhere to be found. Like I said before, there's nothing worse than being frozen.
@-}-- @-}-- @-}--
Only one part left you guys! And I'm going to post it tonight as soon as I finish typing it and editing it! These two chapters will be up back to back! Are you as excited for the ending as I am? I hope so!!
Sorry for the delay in getting these chapters out. This year doesn't seem to want to cooperate with me. School and work are killing me, and on top of that, I've decided to move back home with my mom to save some money. And on top of that, my dog died. My adorable dog! So I went through this period of complete depression and came up with this fantastic storyline. I'll tell you all about it at the end of next chapter!
If you have some spare time and some thoughts, please review. Don't forget to throw a few marshmallows in with the flames... and feel free to e-mail me. Let me know what you think and what you want! Thanks!!
~Fiara
I'd like to say that the creature standing in front of me was the ugliest thing I had ever seen, but it was far from it. Throughout the eight years since I found out I am Sailor Moon, Champion of Love and Justice, I have seen some of the most hideous, disgusting, and downright goofy looking things ever to be conjured up in the minds of the evil. This one actually seemed kind of tame and boring compared to some.
The thing stood at a little over seven feet tall. I guess in life's perspective, that's not extremely tall (for a monster), but I'm only five foot three. Over seven feet is... well... big. But the fact that the thing was freakishly tall was beside the point. Most people are freakishly tall when compared to me!
The thing was a pale blue color that makes you shiver and think of snowy afternoons as soon as you see it. If I had seen the color on anything but the skin of the creature, I'd have said it was pretty. Now all I can think of is cold. Other than the color, the only way I can think to describe the thing is that it looked almost exactly like the aliens on the movie "Signs", which in turn means it looked like my high school geometry teacher. Tikes!
As soon as I entered the courtyard of the convention center where they thing had appeared, it turned and pointed at me. I froze mid-step and stared at it. Literally. I froze. When the thing pointed at me it had used magic to pull the moisture out of the air and trap my boots in a thick block of ice.
"Oh, this is just great," I muttered at nobody in particular. "I've been here a whole five seconds and already I'm stuck."
I could feel the ice getting thicker around me and slowly working its way upward, trapping me up to my thighs. I felt the slight burning sensation you feel when bare skin touches ice for too long. The feeling of my cold ice cream settling in my stomach and the block of ice enveloping me started to slow my mind drastically. I glanced around and saw all of the other Sailor Scouts in similar situations, each struggling with her own climbing coffin of ice.
"That's it!" I screamed. "I'm so sick of you stupid things not having the balls to face is without some stupid trick up your sleeve! Moon Tiara Magic!!!" I tore the tiara from my forehead and flung it from myself with all my might. It spun around the courtyard, shattering the ice that held each of us captive and returning to my hand.
"V-v-verrry Resssourcceful, Ssssailor Brat!" The monster hissed as if it were shivering. "P-p-purhapsss I should havve f-frozen you frommm the t-top d-d-down. I won't mmmake the sssame mmissstake t-twice!!"
Before I could even blink or translate the stuttering creatures threat, the sky opened up and began to dump a week's worth of snow and hail in only a few moments. "Shit!" I cursed and shielded my face with my gloved hands. Sailor Mercury dove under the shelter of a nearby tree, knowing that her powers would be useless in this type of situation. I wondered briefly whether or not Mars, Venus, or Jupiter would take the opportunity to melt us out of this predicament, then I noticed the three of them were being frozen once more.
"What are you waiting for, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Jupiter called out. "Dust this thing and let's get inside where it's warm! These outfits aren't meant for blizzards!"
"I have to find it's weak point before we can hope to defeat it," Sailor Mercury called through the rising winds, her hair whipping about her face. "But my computer screen keeps frosting over! It will take me a little longer than normal."
"Have Meatball Head move closer to you," Mars volunteered through clenched teeth as she struggled with the ice. "She's full of enough hot air to melt all of this,"
"You're one to talk," I muttered, not wanting to rise to the bait in the middle of a battle. See? I've matured over the years! Don't ever let anybody tell you otherwise!
"Ouch!" Venus cried out. "My hair is frozen against my back and it's starting to pull. Hurry up before I'm bald!"
While I was distracted with all of the conversation, "the thing" took its chance to move behind me and trap my arms behind my back. It grabbed my pigtails and jerked my neck backwards at a sharp and painful angle. My eyed rolled into the back of my head as I fought to keep the pain from possessing my already foggy mind.
"C-c-cold yet-t-t??" It questioned. "Let mmeee help-p you."
I flurry of ice crystals burst around my body, coating my skin and numbing me to everything else. I fought to open my eyes, feeling some of my eyelashes breaking away from my eyelids as they froze to my cheeks. I took a great, gasping gulp of air and felt my lungs fill with the clinging crystals. My mouth... my nose... my throat... my whole body was coated with the biting ice and felt as if it was one big snow flake and any moment I could shatter.
"Sailor Moon!" Mercury's voice broke through my hazy thoughts, her voice dripping with the urgency I was just beginning to realize I should have been feeling. I was freezing to death! "Use your tiara to cut off its head! That's the only weakness I can find!"
"That'll do," I croaked out, hoping that they'd hear me and know I was still functioning. I lifted my hand, feeling as if I was moving through an over-boiled pudding. It seemed like it took hours to finally touch my frozen fingertips to my forehead and pull the cold tiara from it's perch. "Mmmoooonnn... t-t-tiarrra... mmmagic!"
The glowing disc sliced through the vile villain and continued on a path that freed the other Sailor Scouts from their icy prison before returning to it's home on my head. I slumped forward, shaking my head to clear away some of the fog that was trying to possess me. I looked up in time to see the ice monster shudder once then explode outward in a wave of energy. I screamed as I fell backward from the force of the explosion and found myself flattened in a snow bank. The city around us had gone dark and quiet.
"It knocked out the city's power," Sailor Mercury announced, her voice quiet. She stared down at the small computer clutched in her hands, her eyes flittering back and forth as she scanned the data being presented to her. "It's nothing extremely unnatural... the power companies should be able to repair it in a matter of hours. We need to get back to our homes and warm up as much as we can while we can. The heating should have kept things pretty normal. We'll be fine. Just go home as fast as you can."
Everybody nodded and began to stand on trembling legs. I stumbled forward a few steps, fighting every muscle in my body to remain standing. The other scouts must have seen my struggle because the all turned to me.
"Serena," Mars blurted, "I'm going to call Darien and tell him to meet you back at your apartment. You took the hits a little harder than we did. I'm worried about you getting warm."
"What's Darien going to do to help with tha—" Venus stopped mid- sentence her face flushing a deep scarlet as Jupiter snickered at her statement.
"I can think of a few things," the tall brunette joked.
"That's a good idea, Raye," Mercury agreed, ignoring the teasing remarks. "But do it while you walk. We need to get inside and out of these uniforms."
"D-don't I have a sssay in any of thisss?" I questioned, my teeth chattering and my body shivering so hard I felt like I was convulsing. "Darien just went to work a little while ago. He'll be grumpy if we call him out and he has to take some emergency sick leave. I'll be fine."
"He'll be even more grumpy of he comes home and finds you dead from hypothermia," Mars snapped. "Now go home and quit arguing."
"Hey, Mina?" I head Jupiter speak as I turned away from the group and began trudging away. "You know how you fight hypothermia?"
"No," the blonde returned stupidly. "Drink a lot of tea?"
"Nope," Raye giggled. "You're supposed to strip down completely and press yourself up against another person's warm, naked body."
Venus giggles. "Geez, no wonder she's walking so slowly. If I had Darien for a boyfriend I'd want hypothermia too!"
"I heard that!" I bellowed, my face turning crimson. "You and about a billion others," Mercury whispered in reply to Mina's comment. "Now quit standing around and go get warm! Go!"
@-}-- @-}-- @-}--
It took me about ten minutes to work my frozen body back to my apartment and another ten to work the energy up to get back to my balcony. As soon as I pulled my tired limbs over the railing I realized something very important. In my haste to get to the battle, I had left the balcony doors open. I groaned softly as I stepped into the apartment, hoping against hope that there was some room that was at least a little warm. Then I realized I had not yet turned the heating on for the day. I stumbled over my tired feet as my transformation melted away, my energy too drained to hold my super hero form any longer than needed. A choked and desperate sob escaped my frozen throat as I surveyed my hopeless situation.
I pushed the balcony door closed, forcing the snow that had drifted in to go back outside. The room seemed unnaturally dark as I stumbled about the room. My mind fought through the frozen fog that continued to try to possess my conscious.
"Raye called Darien almost half an hour ago," I murmured to myself, trying to calm my shaking nerves. "He'll be here any minute and he'll know exactly what to do..."
And now you, my dear readers, are up to date. I'm freezing. It is snowing whole snowmen outside, and my fabulous fiancé is nowhere to be found. Like I said before, there's nothing worse than being frozen.
@-}-- @-}-- @-}--
Only one part left you guys! And I'm going to post it tonight as soon as I finish typing it and editing it! These two chapters will be up back to back! Are you as excited for the ending as I am? I hope so!!
Sorry for the delay in getting these chapters out. This year doesn't seem to want to cooperate with me. School and work are killing me, and on top of that, I've decided to move back home with my mom to save some money. And on top of that, my dog died. My adorable dog! So I went through this period of complete depression and came up with this fantastic storyline. I'll tell you all about it at the end of next chapter!
If you have some spare time and some thoughts, please review. Don't forget to throw a few marshmallows in with the flames... and feel free to e-mail me. Let me know what you think and what you want! Thanks!!
~Fiara