Mamoru entered
the temple. "You need to transform! There's a youma at the
community center!"
"Kami-sama!" said Candra.
"Today's 'Make Your Own Candy Day'! There are a bunch of
little kids there!"
"Then there's no time to lose.
Venus Crystal Power Make Up!"
"Mercury Crystal Power
Make Up!"
"Mars Crystal Power Make Up!"
"Jupiter
Crystal Power Make Up!"
"Saturn Crystal Power Make
Up!"
"Neptune Crystal Power Make Up!"
"Uranus
Crystal Power Make Up!"
"Pluto Crystal Power Make
Up!"
"Moon Eternal Make Up!"
"Moon
Starlight Power Make Up!"
"Earth Star Power Make Up!"
(Like I said in my first
story, he had to say something
sometime!)
"Candyheart!!!"
"Mommy!"
"Hey!
You put my daughter down! That's a $300 dress she's wearing!"
Sir
Grety looked on from a distance. "I can't believe my little
black magic did this. It's like taking candy from a bunch of
children and turning it against them!"
"Candyheart!"
Candyheart sucked the energy out of the mother and her child, then
dropped them. Another little girl came up and kicked the youma in
the shin. "Leave them alone!" she yelled. She quickly
jumped out of the way when Candyheart attacked her.
The girl
quickly turned her attention to helping the two workers protect
the other children as the youma inched closer. "Candyheart!"
"Hold
it right there!"
"Candyheart?" Candyheart looked
over to find the Sailor Senshi, arms crossed and ready for action.
Sailor Moon began, "An agent of love and justice, Pretty . .
."
"Candyheart!" A sticky substance flew from
Candyheart's hands and got Mars, Venus, Saturn, and Tuxedo Kamen
stuck to the trunk of a tree.
"Sailor Moon! From now on,
forget the speech!" yelled Venus.
"World Shaking!"
Candyheart started to melt.
Sir Grety just laughed. "Just
'cause you can melt it, don't mean you can stop it!"
The
little girl cupped her hands around her mouth and yelled, "Try
attacking, Sailor Neptune and Mercury!"
"Good idea!"
Sailor Neptune gave the girl a thumbs up. "Deep. .
."
"Mercury Agua. .
."
"SUBMEGRE!!!!!"
"RHASPADY!!!!"
Candyheart
froze up. Grety had steam pouring out of his ears. "Candyheart!
Get them!" he ordered, his voice filled with rage.
"Candy.
. .HEART!!!!" It broke out of its ice prison and attacked
Uranus, Neptune, and Mercury, sticking them to the ground.
"Dead
Scream."
Candyheart dodged that attack and went for Sailor
Pluto. Saturn ran in front of her. "Silent Wall!" The
wall didn't go up in time, though, and both girls were stuck to
the ground as well.
Mercury looked at Saturn. "Nice to see
you again."
Saturn smiled. "I'd shake your hand, but
mine are all sticky right now."
The little girl snuck
away. Time to change into something more fitting.
Jupiter
looked at Moon and StarMoon. "Things aren't looking too good
for me, are they?" she asked.
The girls shook their
heads.
Jupiter shrugged. "Oh, well. Jupiter Oak. .
."
"Candyheart!"
"Evolution?"
Jupiter finished as found herself in the same predicament as the
rest of the Senshi. "I knew it," she sighed and rolled
her eyes.
Sir Grety laughed. "This is turning out to be
even better than I planned!" He pointed at StarMoon and
ordered, "Candyheart! Take Sailor Moon's energy, then get the
Princess!" He disappeared.
It formed a sweatdrop on its
head. "Candyheart?"
"Of course he's gonna leave
at a crucal moment," StarMoon said to no one in partcular.
She pulled her StarWand out of her brooch. "Moon Starlight
Attack!"
Candyheart dodged the attack and went straight
for Sailor Moon. "Candyheart!"
"Uh, oh."
Both girls screamed.
"Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"
Candyheart
looked up to see Sailor ChibiMoon with her Cutie Bell. The youma
covered its head to protect itself from those oh-so-dangerous pink
of hearts of the pink-haired soldier. ChibiMoon landed on the
youma's shoulders. "Sailor Moon!"
"Hai!
Starlight Honeymoon Therapy Kiss!"
ChibiMoon smiled,
thankful that she had done something right. Then she realized she
had better get off.
"ChibiMoon! Get off!" yelled
Sailor Moon.
"I can't!" yelled ChibiMoon.
"Why
not!"
"Because I'm stuck!"
"NANI?!?!?!?"
"Beautiful!"
yelled Candyheart.
Sailor Moon covered her mouth with her hands
in disbelief. "Kami-sama. . .ChibiMoon!"
The others,
now freed, ran up behind Sailor Moon. "ChibiUsa-chan!"
cried Saturn.
"Kami-sama! Where's Candra-chan?" asked
Jupiter.
"I didn't even see her leave," commented
Mercury.
"There she is!" Neptune pointed to a figure
laying on the ground a few meters in front of them. As she got up,
there was someone under her. "Are you okay?" StarMoon
asked.
"You bet!" ChibiMoon sat up and hugged StarMoon.
"Arigato, Auntie Cynthia!" She quickly covered her mouth.
"Oops!"
StarMoon twisted her face.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?"
"ChibiMoon!"
"Sailor
Moon!" ChibiMoon ran over to Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon got
down on her knees and the two hugged. "Don't scare me like
that again, okay?"
"Hey! I'm a kid! There are no
guarantees!"
"Well," said the lady in charge of
the Make Your Own Candy Day, "let us go inside to finish the
day with finger-painting!" The kids cheered with delight.
"Would you like to stay and paint with them?" she asked
the Senshi.
The girls and Tuxie looked at each other and
shurgged. "Sure!"
As the group walked in, Sailor Moon
leaned over. "So what are you doing here?" she asked
ChibiMoon.
"Well, I was going to come over to your house,
but then I saw the sign. . ."
"That's not what I
meant!"
"Because I felt like it. Tee hee!"
StarMoon
looked at Kamen. "You and Serenity are going to have to
explain to me why that little girl just called me 'Auntie' because
I am very confused right
now."
Sir
Grety placed the energy into the machine to see how much he had.
"Well, the good news is I doubled my energy. Kids have so
much it. The bad news is I still have not reached my goal of
reviving the Dark Kingdom." He sighed as he had the machine
drain half of his own energy. He had done this every day since he
had awakened, and while it had helped, it left him with a pain
that shot through him.
He crawled into bed. He knew that he
couldn't keep doing that; he didn't know if this had any long-term
side-effects. The only problem was a little bit of energy
disappeared everyday. If he didn't do this, he would fall behind.
The only thing to do now was rest to regain his energy for the
next day.
"I guess I could stop for a few days. After all,
I have been doing this for over four years. It can't all disappear
in one night. Now, I must think of how to get the princess to love
me once I get her. .
."
"I'm
sorry." Candra took her calm, folded hands out of her lap and
slammed them on the table. "She's your WHAT?!?!?!?" she
yelled.
"Daughter," Usagi repeated, who was just as
red faced as her boyfriend.
"You mean to tell me that I
have been friends with you for three months and you failed to tell
this big piece of information?!?!?" Candra screamed.
"I'm
from the future. Usagi doesn't become a mommy until she's, like,
twenty-two, and then she becomes a crappy one at that,"
answered ChibiUsa.
Usagi's face became its regular color. "I
will not be!"
"Yes, you will!" There was a group
sweatdrop as another of the show's infamous tongue-wars ensued.
"I
have a headache now. I'm going home," said Mamoru.
"I'm
staying at your place, Mamo-chan!" replied ChibiUsa with a
big goofy grin on her face. She grabbed his arm.
"Stop
calling him that!" yelled Usagi.
"You can't tell me
what to do. You're not my mother!"
"Yes, I
am!"
"Right now you aren't!"
"Yes, I
am!"
"Technically, ChibiUsa is right. You aren't her
mother, Serenity," said Candra. "ChibiUsa hasn't been
born yet. Which means in this time period, she has no parents."
ChibiUsa stuck her tongue out. "However, that doesn't mean
she shouldn't at least listen to what Serenity has to say,"
finished Candra.
Usagi grabbed ChibiUsa's tongue and giggled,
to which the little girl bit her
finger.
Candra
once again turned down Mako's invitation to come over for dinner
and headed home. On way, she noticed a little gray kitten laying
on an envelope. I wonder what this little kitty is doing out
here all alone. Maybe this note will explain.
The kitten
felt the movement the envelope, opened her eyes, and scratched
Candra on the cheek. "OWW!!! That hurt! Dumb cat!"
Candra yelled without even thinking.
The kitten's eyes got real
big. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty! I thought you were trying to
steal this note from the Queen! Oops! Forgot! You don't know me
yet!" said the kitten.
Candra blinked a few times, then
shook her head. "You scared me there for a minute when you
started to talk, but I missed the crescent moon on your head. Who
are you?"
"I'm Diana, Luna and Artemis's daughter,
and Small Lady's guardian."
"Who's Small Lady?"
asked Candra.
"Everyone here calls her 'ChibiUsa.'"
"That
little squirt's with you? Tell you what. You come with me. I'll
take you to Serenity's tomorrow."
"Sure, Your
Majesty!" Diana hopped up on Candra's shoulder.
"You
know, I'm not really has important as Serenity."
"But
the Queen said to address you formally even if you didn't like
it," replied Diana.
"Yea, well just for the record, I
don't."
Chapter Eight: A Senshi is Kidnapped! Mamoru's Guilt
