Chapter 6
The blood-curdling screams of the switched.
Yep, no school today! Don't cha love it! Of course, my town might be the only with school out today, but, oh well!
Written on: February 4th, 2005. I'm waiting to go somewhere later, so I'll just finish this chapter!
By the way, 'Serena'-really Rei's mind in Serena's body, and vice versa. If I just type their names, it's the person's mind, but in the other's body, k?
Ok, where we left off last, Luna and Mina had just stolen Serena's soul, completing that part of the 'mission.' Now, they are in the bathroom, about to unleash the souls, to start the second part...
Mina and Luna stood in the foul-smelling bathroom, waiting.
"Um, Luna, what now?", Mina asked.
"Oh, right! To release their souls, I must press this button," Luna replied, indicating a button on the Exchanger. "They also won't remember anything that happened for about 5 minutes before their souls were stolen, so no blame should be put on us."
"Um, are you thinking of pressing the button while we're in here, with Serena? Because you know that temper Rei has got...she'll tear us to pieces!" Mina said, nearly hyperventilating.
Luna sweat dropped. "Aw, come on, Rei isn't that bad."
Then the memories came. She remembered Rei hitting Serena, stepping on Luna's tail, and the list went on and on and on.
"On second thought, I say we should change our plans. Let's run outside, press the button, then just run again! "
"Gotcha, Loony," Mina said, giving 'Looney' the thumbs up sign.
They ever-so-casually strutted out of the restroom, out of the restaurant, then around the back so they would be close to the bathroom, so they could "make sure it worked", according to Luna.
They stuck their ears up against the wall.
"Here it goes," Luna muttered. Gathering up her courage, Luna found the button on the Crystal Mind Exchanger, and pressed it. A high piercing buzzing noise filled the air for a second, then stopped.
"Oh, that means it worked! I just want to make sure Serena gets up okay. Oh, I mean REI! Remember, they don't know we know anything, so don't say anything until they tell us, capische?" Luna hurriedly said, with her ear still up against the wall.
Meanwhile, inside the bathroom at the Coffee Bean...
Rei sat up, noticing the stench, which told her where she was
"Wait a sec, why am I in the Coffee Bean bathroom? Wasn't I just walking through the park?"
She stood , wobbling a bit. 'Why am I in high heels? The only people I know who wear these are models and Serena.' Rei froze.
She had just caught her reflection in the cracked dusty mirror. She walked unsteadily over to the mirror, and wiped off some dust with her hands.
She looked in the mirror, and saw Serena Tsukino's reflection staring back at her. She screamed, then screamed louder when the reflection opened it's mouth in horror too.
Back out side again...
The scream nearly shattered their eardrums.
"Wow, Rei's attitude plus Serena's lungs equals to a super loud scream", Mina said a little too loudly, Luna flinched at it.
"Quiet, or she'll hear us! Plus, even that little comment hurt my ear drums!", Luna said. "Now, let's run!"
Luna and Mina took off into the night...actually, it was still daytime...
Inside the Coffee Bean bathroom...
A few concerned people came rushing in.
"Are you all right, Miss?", one of them, a large woman asked.
'Serena' said, "Um, oh, ah...I'm fine." She decided to have the scouts help her figure this out, because it was surely the doings of Queen Beryl or someone else evil. "I just almost slipped on the puddle of water, that's all..."
"I'll have that mopped up, soon" the woman, who was someone hired at the Coffee Bean to clean, said, leaving to find a mop.
The rest of the people filed out of the bathroom, except 'Serena'. She stood at the mirror, looking at 'her' reflection.
Rei's black, long, thick hair had been replaced by the long, blond meatball-head hair of Serena's. She looked at all the differences; the shorter face, the change in the eye color, everything.
'Oh, no, I've become Serena!", 'Serena' wailed.
The fat woman hustled back in, a mop in hand. She looked at Rei.
"Excuse me, Miss, I need to mop this up," the large woman said.
Rei nodded, and ran out of the bathroom and restaurant, realizing that if she was in Serena's body, Serena was in her's. She headed quickly for the park.
Meanwhile, in the park, our other scout wakes up...
Serena gained consciousness.
"Owie! These thorns hurt!", she complained, her arms and hair caught with thorns from the bushes she was in." Ok, ok, why am I here? I swear I was just in the Coffee Bean bathroom!", Serena said, freaking out.
She was pulling thorns out from her hair, when she noticed it wasn't her hair. It was black!
"Agh!", Serena screamed.
When she realized it wasn't her voice either, she screamed louder. "AH!".
She calmed down slightly, plopping down onto the ground, then said, "This is not happening! I have to still be me! Any other body and I'll be ugly, and no one will like me!", she wailed, being vain.
Serena ran over to the lake, and saw her reflection.
"Whoa, I switched bodies and am now REI? How horrible! Hideous! Did she get my pretty body?", Serena wondered out loud. "Great, she must have my tremendous body, and I'm stuck with her's," Serena pouted.
'Rei' headed towards the Coffee Bean, hoping to find help from her friends there.
A minuet later, at the entrance/exit to the park...
Two girls, both running, both not looking where they were going, crashed into each other.
The two girls were Serena and Rei.
Both of them, not really even seeing the other, shouted "Hey, moron, watch where you're going!".
'Huh?', they both thought, 'That's my voice!'
Serena and Rei looked at each other.
"Why are you in my body?" Rei asked to Serena, her famous temper erupting.
"Well, why are you in mine?" Serena asked, glaring at Rei.
"Obviously I didn't do this on purpose, Serena!", Rei said. "My own body's much prettier", she muttered.
"Well, how did this happen, then?" Serena asked, her anger disappearing, not having even heard the insult.
Rei shrugged and said, "I'm not sure. I woke up in the bathroom at the Coffee Bean, and had your body."
"I was there! In the bathroom! At the Coffee Bean! Then all of the sudden, I woke up in the bushes over there!", Serena exclaimed, pointing.
"Do you think this is the doing of Queen Beryl?", Rei asked.
"Maybe...let's go find the other scouts and see if they have any clue what is going on." Serena said.
"Good idea", Rei said, agreeing for once." Let's try the Coffee Bean."
"No, they aren't there. They never showed. Let's go to my house and see if Luna is there." Serena suggested.
"Well, maybe they showed up after you left! Or after I left, actually...", Rei said, confusing herself. "I think we should check there."
"I'm going to my house," said Serena.
"I'm going to the Coffee Bean," Rei said.
"Well, fine. Go ahead."
"Fine, I will."
"Hmphh!" They both turned and ran to their destinations.
Okay, hope this chapter didn't terribly confuse you. If I just put Rei, I really mean Rei in Serena's body, but it does get confusing...I kept confusing myself when I was writing this! Hope you readers understand it, though.
I'm going to try to make each chapter at least 6 pages long, and this one is 9 pages, so just subtract a little, and you'll see how long a normal chapter should be...
