It wasn't hard for Usagi to dehenshin and slip back into Blaise's
Place before her cousin and his friends did. In fact, it was a piece of
cake. As she had only used one attack, the only attack she knew, and had
shot it through a hologram at that, she doubted they would be suspicious of
her. However, she was wary, and rightly so.
The music soared around her, the pulsing throbbing beat, and clouded her head again. She shook it. Ugh, this was not her type of music. To her shock, dismay, and disgust, some guy she had never met before with brown hair and gray eyes grabbed her and began dancing with her. His hand stayed on her wrist, and would not let her go as she struggled to free herself. "Let me go!" she shrieked, knowing that her voice would not be heard over the music.
"Is there a problem here?" a low voice asked. Usagi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Mark.
"It doesn't like she wants to dance with you," Jordan said, raising an eyebrow.
"So unless you want to leave here," Nick said pointedly.
"You had better keep your hands off of her," Zack finished.
"And I think that is your cue to leave," Jihad said, with an armful of Marina by his side.
The boy dropped Usagi's wrist like a hot potato and faced the five menacing guys and one dancing girl (Marina). Slap! The boy whirled back around to see a furious Usagi.
She glared at him hard. Without saying a word, she punched him in the eye. "The next one is really going to hurt," she said, looking pointedly at his place-that-hurt-the-most. "Because if you do not leave in ten seconds, my knee will connect with your you-know-where, and trust, me, it will not be fun."
The boy panicked and ran for his life.
"You go, girl," Jihad smiled. "That, in case you didn't know, was Joshua. He would be a senior this year. He's on the varsity football team, and has a rather hazy reputation. Of course, he's no idiot (even if I think he might be drunk), and when faced with college guys and one mad girl, I'm not surprised he left. That was a good punch you threw."
"Perfect," Zach agreed. "I loved the bruise it left."
"I admired the slap," Nick remarked. "So . loud, and it left a red palm print. I know. I looked."
"Oh, I can just see the look on his face . shock . and fear!" Jordan began doubling up with laughter.
"Are you all right?" Mark asked carefully.
Usagi nodded. "Can we leave?" she asked. "I'm not sure this is my kind of place."
"Sure," Mark said. "That was a perfect threat, though ." He cracked a smile.
Usagi shrugged. "Minak- Mina taught me a couple of phrases to defend myself with."
"Minako?" Mark asked, pale.
"Iie," Usagi shook her head. "No. Mina, my friend from England. Mina . Lovejoy." She smiled at the name she had created.
"Like Elijah Lovejoy?" Zach asked.
"Elijah Lovejoy?" Usagi asked, confused.
"Never mind," Zach shook his head.
"Come on," Mark said. "Mom and Dad won't be home yet, but Buffy should be on."
"You watch Buffy?" Nick said, aghast.
"You watch Charmed," Jordan snorted.
"Nani?" Usagi asked, completely confused.
"Never mind," Zach said. "They're just weird. That's all."
"Hey! I resemble that!"
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Usagi held Luna in her arms, and the ginzuishou in her hand. Moonlight lit her path in a luminescent way. "So this will work?" she asked for what must have been the thousandth time.
Luna explained patiently. "Just ask the ginzuishou to take you the moon. It will do so. It's what you did back in the Silver Millennium, though then, you were trying to steal to Earth. It takes longer that way, but until we find the Spell Book, we cannot change your aura or do anything else. We should now be beyond range for them to sense, because they have gone on some holiday that you decided not to go on, so now is the time to go."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I asked if it would work, not how."
"Yes, it will work," Luna snapped irritably. "Unless you do it wrong!"
"What if you told me wrong?" Usagi countered.
Luna sighed. "Just . try it, and then we'll see, all right?"
Usagi closed her eyes tightly, and held the ginzuishou stiffly in front of her. She did not like using it, as it brought back memories she often did not wish to relive. "Umm. Ginzuishou, please take me to the moon," she finally said, out of lack of anything else to do. Drat that cat! How was she supposed to know how to do this? "Just ask the ginzuishou to take you to the moon." What kind of instructions were those?
The ginzuishou glimmered a little, and began shimmering rapidly, blinking on and off like a broken light. Finally, a flash of light blinded Usagi, who almost dropped the ginzuishou in her surprise, and did drop Luna. When her vision cleared, she found herself on the moon, with a temporary bubble of atmosphere around her to keep her breathing. She gulped as she realized that she had left Luna back on Earth. How was she going to get back?
Luna meanwhile was grumbling furiously about stupid teenagers who don't follow directions, and drop you on hard, rocky areas on the ground when they're not supposed to.
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Nick looked up suddenly. He watched the moon curiously. For a moment it had felt like some sort of power surge had come from there but . nah, it couldn't be. He went back to discussing Lila's current condition with his friends.
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Mamoru stopped taking notes and looked up. He had felt a tingling at the back of his head, which meant Usagi had transformed. Luna had assured him, however, that the new transformation did not involve direct use of the ginzuishou, so he would not black out in the middle of class or get a huge headache in the middle of talking with friends. She had also promised to notify him each time Usagi transformed via communicator, which they confirmed was in working order when Luna called during Usagi's earlier transformation. Mamoru was very proud of Usa-ko. She had destroyed the youma with only one simple blast.
Mamoru paused as his watch began vibrating. It was a dark black one, and covered so no one could see that it was in fact a Luna-only communicator (he had refused to take one of those pink calculator-beeper communicators the other senshi received, and his only connected to Luna. Mamoru knew that in a few moments, class would be over, and tried not to worry as he finished typing up his notes, and moved with the rest of the class outside, where he was immediately accosted by a swarm of swooning girls. He avoided them easily by slipping into the restroom and spoke to Luna. Minutes later, he emerged from the restroom after first sticking his head and out and making sure the coast was clear. It was nighttime; the class had gone on for a long time. He spent a few moments gazing at the moon. Good luck, Usako.
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Usagi shivered as a breeze of cold, dusty air shipped around her. Where was this magic book? Getting an idea, she cupped the ginzuishou in front of her. Ginzuishou, please show me where the magic books are. She opened her eyes hopefully and saw the ginzuishou glow. She waited for a few moments, but nothing happened. Apparently, all the ginzuishou did was glow.
Slumping, Usagi began trudge backwards from where she came in hopes that she might actually find it. Her eyes fell on the ginzuishou, and it was not glowing. She sighed and turned back towards the direction she had just turned from in time to glimpse Earth, magnificent in the air. She sighed and looked dejectedly at the ginzuishou . and it was glowing.
"Nani?" she asked, frustrated. "Why do you sometimes glow and sometimes not glow!" Suddenly, an idea dawned her. She put the ginzuishou in front of her and moved it back and forth until she saw where it glowed the brightest. She bravely went ahead in that direction, waving it back and forth every now and then to see if she was going in the right direction or if she had veered off the path. Happily she went onward, content with the fact that she almost had it.
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Luna gazed up at the moon. "I hope you find it quickly, Usagi."
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The Ginzuishou finally led her to a bare, nondescript plateau and stopped glowing, refusing to glow no matter how much Usagi shook it. Finally, she gazed around her? Was the magic book around her? Impossible. How could it be? Furious at the ginzuishou, she took her anger out on the ground less she be tempted to smash the ginzuishou, which would destroy her transportation home. One stomp, and the moon began rumbling.
Usagi froze. Oops. If she accidentally broke apart the moon, Luna would most definitely not be amused. She could just imagine the scene. The moon had broken up into tiny little pieces, and a mini Luna was yelling at a mini Usagi on one of them. "Do you realize what you have done to Earth's ecosystems? So many things depend on the moon, including the rising and falling of the tides of the ocean. The moon pulls it. You have just destroyed Earth!" A mini Usagi stamped a foot. "I didn't mean to," she wails, just as her stamps breaks apart the mini moon piece they are standing on, shattering it to dust. A mini Usagi and a mini Luna float through space, yelling at each other, with the mini Usagi kicking anything near it and turning it into dust.
Usagi was brought back to reality as she found herself shaking. Then, to her astonishment, part of the moon began cracking, and a small platform rose out of the ground.
To be continued .
The music soared around her, the pulsing throbbing beat, and clouded her head again. She shook it. Ugh, this was not her type of music. To her shock, dismay, and disgust, some guy she had never met before with brown hair and gray eyes grabbed her and began dancing with her. His hand stayed on her wrist, and would not let her go as she struggled to free herself. "Let me go!" she shrieked, knowing that her voice would not be heard over the music.
"Is there a problem here?" a low voice asked. Usagi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Mark.
"It doesn't like she wants to dance with you," Jordan said, raising an eyebrow.
"So unless you want to leave here," Nick said pointedly.
"You had better keep your hands off of her," Zack finished.
"And I think that is your cue to leave," Jihad said, with an armful of Marina by his side.
The boy dropped Usagi's wrist like a hot potato and faced the five menacing guys and one dancing girl (Marina). Slap! The boy whirled back around to see a furious Usagi.
She glared at him hard. Without saying a word, she punched him in the eye. "The next one is really going to hurt," she said, looking pointedly at his place-that-hurt-the-most. "Because if you do not leave in ten seconds, my knee will connect with your you-know-where, and trust, me, it will not be fun."
The boy panicked and ran for his life.
"You go, girl," Jihad smiled. "That, in case you didn't know, was Joshua. He would be a senior this year. He's on the varsity football team, and has a rather hazy reputation. Of course, he's no idiot (even if I think he might be drunk), and when faced with college guys and one mad girl, I'm not surprised he left. That was a good punch you threw."
"Perfect," Zach agreed. "I loved the bruise it left."
"I admired the slap," Nick remarked. "So . loud, and it left a red palm print. I know. I looked."
"Oh, I can just see the look on his face . shock . and fear!" Jordan began doubling up with laughter.
"Are you all right?" Mark asked carefully.
Usagi nodded. "Can we leave?" she asked. "I'm not sure this is my kind of place."
"Sure," Mark said. "That was a perfect threat, though ." He cracked a smile.
Usagi shrugged. "Minak- Mina taught me a couple of phrases to defend myself with."
"Minako?" Mark asked, pale.
"Iie," Usagi shook her head. "No. Mina, my friend from England. Mina . Lovejoy." She smiled at the name she had created.
"Like Elijah Lovejoy?" Zach asked.
"Elijah Lovejoy?" Usagi asked, confused.
"Never mind," Zach shook his head.
"Come on," Mark said. "Mom and Dad won't be home yet, but Buffy should be on."
"You watch Buffy?" Nick said, aghast.
"You watch Charmed," Jordan snorted.
"Nani?" Usagi asked, completely confused.
"Never mind," Zach said. "They're just weird. That's all."
"Hey! I resemble that!"
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Usagi held Luna in her arms, and the ginzuishou in her hand. Moonlight lit her path in a luminescent way. "So this will work?" she asked for what must have been the thousandth time.
Luna explained patiently. "Just ask the ginzuishou to take you the moon. It will do so. It's what you did back in the Silver Millennium, though then, you were trying to steal to Earth. It takes longer that way, but until we find the Spell Book, we cannot change your aura or do anything else. We should now be beyond range for them to sense, because they have gone on some holiday that you decided not to go on, so now is the time to go."
Usagi rolled her eyes. "I asked if it would work, not how."
"Yes, it will work," Luna snapped irritably. "Unless you do it wrong!"
"What if you told me wrong?" Usagi countered.
Luna sighed. "Just . try it, and then we'll see, all right?"
Usagi closed her eyes tightly, and held the ginzuishou stiffly in front of her. She did not like using it, as it brought back memories she often did not wish to relive. "Umm. Ginzuishou, please take me to the moon," she finally said, out of lack of anything else to do. Drat that cat! How was she supposed to know how to do this? "Just ask the ginzuishou to take you to the moon." What kind of instructions were those?
The ginzuishou glimmered a little, and began shimmering rapidly, blinking on and off like a broken light. Finally, a flash of light blinded Usagi, who almost dropped the ginzuishou in her surprise, and did drop Luna. When her vision cleared, she found herself on the moon, with a temporary bubble of atmosphere around her to keep her breathing. She gulped as she realized that she had left Luna back on Earth. How was she going to get back?
Luna meanwhile was grumbling furiously about stupid teenagers who don't follow directions, and drop you on hard, rocky areas on the ground when they're not supposed to.
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Nick looked up suddenly. He watched the moon curiously. For a moment it had felt like some sort of power surge had come from there but . nah, it couldn't be. He went back to discussing Lila's current condition with his friends.
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Mamoru stopped taking notes and looked up. He had felt a tingling at the back of his head, which meant Usagi had transformed. Luna had assured him, however, that the new transformation did not involve direct use of the ginzuishou, so he would not black out in the middle of class or get a huge headache in the middle of talking with friends. She had also promised to notify him each time Usagi transformed via communicator, which they confirmed was in working order when Luna called during Usagi's earlier transformation. Mamoru was very proud of Usa-ko. She had destroyed the youma with only one simple blast.
Mamoru paused as his watch began vibrating. It was a dark black one, and covered so no one could see that it was in fact a Luna-only communicator (he had refused to take one of those pink calculator-beeper communicators the other senshi received, and his only connected to Luna. Mamoru knew that in a few moments, class would be over, and tried not to worry as he finished typing up his notes, and moved with the rest of the class outside, where he was immediately accosted by a swarm of swooning girls. He avoided them easily by slipping into the restroom and spoke to Luna. Minutes later, he emerged from the restroom after first sticking his head and out and making sure the coast was clear. It was nighttime; the class had gone on for a long time. He spent a few moments gazing at the moon. Good luck, Usako.
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Usagi shivered as a breeze of cold, dusty air shipped around her. Where was this magic book? Getting an idea, she cupped the ginzuishou in front of her. Ginzuishou, please show me where the magic books are. She opened her eyes hopefully and saw the ginzuishou glow. She waited for a few moments, but nothing happened. Apparently, all the ginzuishou did was glow.
Slumping, Usagi began trudge backwards from where she came in hopes that she might actually find it. Her eyes fell on the ginzuishou, and it was not glowing. She sighed and turned back towards the direction she had just turned from in time to glimpse Earth, magnificent in the air. She sighed and looked dejectedly at the ginzuishou . and it was glowing.
"Nani?" she asked, frustrated. "Why do you sometimes glow and sometimes not glow!" Suddenly, an idea dawned her. She put the ginzuishou in front of her and moved it back and forth until she saw where it glowed the brightest. She bravely went ahead in that direction, waving it back and forth every now and then to see if she was going in the right direction or if she had veered off the path. Happily she went onward, content with the fact that she almost had it.
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Luna gazed up at the moon. "I hope you find it quickly, Usagi."
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The Ginzuishou finally led her to a bare, nondescript plateau and stopped glowing, refusing to glow no matter how much Usagi shook it. Finally, she gazed around her? Was the magic book around her? Impossible. How could it be? Furious at the ginzuishou, she took her anger out on the ground less she be tempted to smash the ginzuishou, which would destroy her transportation home. One stomp, and the moon began rumbling.
Usagi froze. Oops. If she accidentally broke apart the moon, Luna would most definitely not be amused. She could just imagine the scene. The moon had broken up into tiny little pieces, and a mini Luna was yelling at a mini Usagi on one of them. "Do you realize what you have done to Earth's ecosystems? So many things depend on the moon, including the rising and falling of the tides of the ocean. The moon pulls it. You have just destroyed Earth!" A mini Usagi stamped a foot. "I didn't mean to," she wails, just as her stamps breaks apart the mini moon piece they are standing on, shattering it to dust. A mini Usagi and a mini Luna float through space, yelling at each other, with the mini Usagi kicking anything near it and turning it into dust.
Usagi was brought back to reality as she found herself shaking. Then, to her astonishment, part of the moon began cracking, and a small platform rose out of the ground.
To be continued .