Candra started to push off. I can't take it anymore.
"Hey!
You in the tree!"
Candra grabbed the branch and pulled
herself back up. Who the. . . She looked down to see Usagi
wildly waving her arms in the air. "Come down so I can invite
you for ice cream!"
"Um, I'll be right down."
Candra, still in somewhat of a fog, climbed down the tree and was
greeted with eight more faces. Guess she made up with her
friends, she thought. Smiling, she said, "Let's see, you
are Ami-san, Minako-san, Makoto-san, Setsuna-san, Haruka-chan, and
Michiru. However, I don't know you two."
Usagi smiled.
"This is Rei and this Hotaru."
"Pleased to meet
you, Rei-san and Hotaru-san." Candra bowed.
Usagi grabbed
Candra's hand. "Come on, Candra-chan! Let's go!" Poor
Candra was pulled off her feet and flung behind Usagi like a rag
doll. All she could do was hang on for dear life.
"Poor
Candra-san," said Ami.
"We'd better get to the parlor
before she comes back and does that to the rest of us," Mako
added.
"Usagi-san. . .Are. . .we. . there. . .yet?"
asked Candra.
Usagi turned the corner and stopped. Candra's
momentum caused her face to hit Usagi square in the back, then
fall flat on hers. She grabbed her throbbing nose. "Owie."
Slowly, she opened her eyes just in time to see someone's shoe
heading towards her head. "IIE!!!! STOP!!!!!"
"Huh?"
The shoe's owner looked down. "Oh, gomen ne, ma'am." He
lowered his hand to help her up.
"S'all right,"
Candra groaned. She reached for his hand. As they clasped, a
shockwave shot through the both of them.
Prince Endymion
heard giggling and drew his sword. "Who is there?"
"You
would not hurt a lady, would you?" Princess Cynthia hung
upside down from a tree. "Of course that still doesn't help
me, does it?"
"I guess not." The Prince put his
sword back in its holder and smiled. "Should not a Princess
of the Moon Kingdom be wearing something a bit more . .
.presentable?"
Cynthia, who was wearing a black shirt and
dark jean overalls, put her hands on her hips. "Have you ever
tried to climb a tree with a dress on?"
"I cannot say
I have," admitted the Prince.
Cynthia flipped over and
landed in front of Endymion. "So, did you ask her yet?"
"Ask
who what?"
Cynthia sighed. "Serenity! THE question:
If she would marry you?"
Endymion blushed. "To be
honest with you, I have not even thought about asking."
Cynthia
slapped her forehead and Luna-P lowered itself closer to the
ground as if to say, "You idiot."
"Well, with
the threat of war and. . ."
"Who is there?"
called out a female voice.
Footsteps approached. "Quick! In
the tree!" hissed Cynthia. Prince Endymion leapt onto the branch
Cynthia has just been on and climbed higher into the
tree.
"Princess Cynthia!" said Sailor Jupiter.
Cynthia quickly spun around at the mention of her name. "For
a minute, I thought you were an Earth spy."
Cynthia
gulped, hoping that Jupiter hadn't seen him. "Well, I
thought I saw one and. . ."
Endymion held his breath. He
still wasn't sure he could trust her.
". . .I decided to
flush him out myself."
Endymion quietly let his breath
out.
"Well, Princess, you should leave that to me."
Jupiter sighed. As she led the Princess back to the palace, she
asked. "By the way, who were you talking to?"
Cynthia's
eyes grew big and she looked over at her friend. "What do you
mean?"
Jupiter looked over at the Princess with her
You-Know-What-I-Mean Look. "I know you like to talk to yourself
sometimes, but you have never sounded male before."
"Uh.
. .Oh! That was Luna-P. She does great voice impressions . .
.."
The honk of a car horn brought Candra and the
man back to the present world. Candra blushed. "Maybe I
should get up," she suggested.
The man laughed. "Maybe."
He helped her up, and started to brush the leaves off her back.
Candra gave a tiny gasp. This guy is soooooo dreamy and
handsome.
A big gust of yellow wind blew past her. She
snapped around and saw Usagi hold the man's arm. "Uh,
Usagi-san?"
"Candra-chan, this is my boyfriend, Chiba
Mamoru!"
"Oh. Hello, Chiba-san," said Candra
with a smile. Awww, man! she thought. He's already
taken! Dang it! Dang it! Dang. . .Wait. Since when have I been
interested in boys?
"Candra-chan? Are you okay?"
asked Usagi.
Candra quickly blinked away her blank stare. "Um,
yeah. Just having a little internal conflict." She put her
hand behind her head and laughed. "Ha ha! Ha ha! Ugh. . ."
A sweatdrop slid down her face.
After everyone got their ice
cream, Mako and Mamoru looked at each other mischievously. "We
got 'em. . ." started Mako.
". . .and no Ice Cream
Man is gonna stop us!" finished Mamoru and the two burst into
laughter.
Everyone stared at them. "Mako-chan? Mamo-chan?"
asked Usagi.
"Come on. Spill. What's so funny?" asked
Rei.
"It's just a joke Mamoru-san and I made up when he
and I were. . . ." Mako and Mamoru stopped smiling and looked
at each other with wide eyes.
Usagi leaned over Rei's lap. "You
were what?" she asked, looking into Mako's eyes.
"Um.
. .dating?" Mako answered in a nervous questioning
voice.
"You two dated?!?!?!?!" Usagi's face got a
little red.
"Well, we met one day and we felt a connection
and we thought it was love, but it wasn't, so went our separate
ways. We didn't see each other until two years later when we
fought the Dark Kingdom." Mako was sweating by this time and
Mamoru was looking for a quick exit.
"Usagi. . ."
said Rei, knowing that she was in the line of fire.
Everyone at
the table held their breath.
Usagi stared at Mako a little
longer, then smiled. "So. . .do you have any dirt on
him?"
"Huh?" asked Mako, still in
fight-or-flight mode.
"Any habits? Likes? Dislikes?"
Usagi giggled.
"USAGI!!! Get off of me!" said
Rei.
"But I wanna know!"
"Usagi-chan, settle
down," said Minako.
Someone started giggling and everyone
looked at Candra. She had her hand over her mouth and was giggling
very daintily. She looked up to see everyone looking at her and
quickly stopped. "Gomen ne."
"Candra-chan! I
have never heard you laugh before," said Michiru. "You
should laugh more often."
Candra blushed.
Usagi finally
sat back down and looked at Candra. "How did you know
Haruka-san and Michiru-san?"
"They lived in my
hometown for a few months and went to my school." She checked
her watch. "I really have to get home now. It's my turn to
cook dinner. Bye!"
"Well, I have to run, too. I have
a big exam to study for." Mamoru had enrolled in a local
college although never keeping his first choice out of the
picture.
As they walked off, Rei whispered, "We better get
ready."
"HELP!!!!!!"
"Gee, aren't you
good?" said Hotaru.
"You'd better believe it,"
said Rei.
"That's our girl," said Mako.
The
monster split her tail into five parts to grab each person. "My
master, Sir Grety, wants to get back to the Dark Kingdom and needs
your energy to get there," she said in a semi-sweet,
semi-evil voice.
"Too bad he won't get there!"
"Who's
there?"
"Agents of Love and Justice! Pretty Soldiers
in Sailor fuku. We are the Sailor Senshi! And on behalf of the
planets, we shall punish you!"
"More energy!"
The monster gave them a happy smile. She was made of bouncy balls
of various sizes and colors. "Please play with me!"
"Sorry.
Not interested," said Uranus. "World Shaking!"
"Deep
Submerge!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
Hey! That hurt!"
"Well, duh!" said Mars. "Mars
Flame Sniper!"
"That wasn't very nice! Bubble Ball
Attack!!!!"
The Senshi dodged it, but barely.
"Venus!
Get off me!" yelled Sailor Moon.
Mercury activated out her
visor. "Its weakness is in its head."
"That's a
small target," said Saturn. "She's smaller than
me."
"Well, then let's make it bigger!" The
smile became an evil smirk as the monster grew to eight feet tall.
"Ballie Girl!!!"
"Actually, she's eight feet,
two inches," said Mercury.
"Who cares?!?!?"
yelled Uranus. She gave Saturn a dirty look.
"Gomen,"
Saturn squeaked.
"Bubble Ball Attack!"
The girls
started running away. "Kami-sama! Those balls grew four times
their size!" yelled Jupiter.
"So did she!"
yelled Pluto.
Jupiter was grabbed by the monster's tail.
"Help!"
"Jupiter! NO!" yelled Moon.
Ballie
Girl squealed with delight. "Energy!" She zapped all of
Jupiter's energy, then dropped her.
"Mako-chan!"
yelled Moon.
Someone flew through the air, caught the
unconscious Senshi, and landed on the ground.
"Just who
are you?" asked Ballie Girl.
She draped Jupiter's arm
around her neck, then said, "I am the American Champion of
Justice! Princess in a Sailor Fuku! Sailor StarMoon! On behalf of
the Moon and the Stars in the Sky, I shall punish you!"
Ballie
Girl giggled. "Let me see what you have!"
While still
holding on to Jupiter, StarMoon pulled her StarWand out of her
brooch and yelled, "Moon Starlight Attack!"
"Owwwie!
That smarts!"
"Too bad you aren't!" StarMoon
looked at Sailor Moon. "Sailor Moon! Now!"
"Hai!
Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!"
"Beautiful!"
Unseen
by the girls, a figure watched the scene. "Too bad I didn't
get Jupiter's energy, but I got the others' and I am going to
use it! I will revive the Dark Kingdom! Serenity will bow before
me!!!" Sir Grety laughed evilly, then left.
Venus turned
to see Jupiter sitting up and rubbing her head. "Hey! Where's
that StarGirl?" she asked as she checked on Jupiter.
"She'll
be okay," said Neptune.
That surprised the Inner Senshi;
the Outers were usually the ones who suspected new Senshi as the
enemy.
"See you girls later," said Haruka.
"That
was werid," commented
Mars.
"You
know, I'm starting to have other flashbacks to the past,"
said Mako. "Ones that I never had before. The funny part is,
the Moon isn't at war. And none of you are in them."
"Really?"
asked Ami.
"It's just me and that Princess Cynthia
Usagi-chan mentioned. I just never hear our conversations."
"Maybe
you don't remember what was said but you remember what you were
doing at the time," suggested Minako.
"That's a
possibility," said Mako. "Has anyone else had one?"
The
girls shook their heads. "Remember at the beginning?"
asked Minako. "We would all have flashbacks at the same
time."
"But Luna always gave us those memories. It
seems as if somehow Mako-chan has been able to do it by herself,"
said Ami.
"Well, I'll let you know if I get anything else.
I just really needed to get that off my chest," said Mako.
Chapter Five: Usagi Finds Her! StarMoon's Identity is Shown!
