Here's the second installment of my story. Now remember to read and review, read and review.
Her flats clicked clicked against the marble floor as a very pregnant Serenity walked to the throne room with her husband, where Pluto had called a meeting of all her Senshi and herself. Why do they always have to have meetings while I'm sleeping. She thought as she yawned loudly. It probably had to do with the large disturbance in the space of time that Pluto so closely guarded. Serenity pushed open the large ornate doors of the throne room and saw that everyone including the Outer Senshi were there. "It must be serious if Pluto called the Outers here." She thought to herself.
"About time you got here your highness!" scolded the fire Senshi Mars.
"YOU try to hurry when YOUR eight months pregnant Mars!" Serenity retorted.
"Now girls, lets act your age, wait, scratch that, never mind. The King responded as he thought what a 200 year old pregnant Serenity would be like, and then shuddered
The Royal couple took their seats on the thrones and motioned for Pluto to start.
"Well now that Serenity is here we can get started," began Pluto. Two hours ago I saw a rift in the space-time continuum. There are five people here that aren't supposed to be. She turned to Mars. Mars, do you feel anything that is threatening?
Mars thought for a moment, "When I did my fire reading last night I picked up on some negative energy that might be behind the disturbances on the outside of town, but other than that, nothing."
The Queen looked at them all. "I believe that it is best if someone go undercover and see if we can find these people before they find us. Who wants to go?"
"We will, Venus and I." answered Jupiter.
"Then it is settled, Sailor Jupiter and Venus will go and look for the intruders while the rest protects the castle. Use the disguise pen to look like normal people." Serenity told them.
"Yesss! I love going under cover!" exclaimed Venus. "Come on Jupiter, let's go!"
"Wait a minute," Jupiter yelled ahead, " I get to chose what we look like this time, we are not going as men again!"
"Were the hell are we, and what the HELL made you decide that the cats life was more important than ours?" demanded Ann who was taking off her now broken 4-inch heels. "My poor shoes..."
"Well," I started, "I didn't realize that the pole would be there when I swerved, and I didn't want to hit the cat but anyways, that's not important right now, what's important is figuring out where we are and how to get home."
Before I could go any further, a group of onlookers had gathered to inspect the car and foreigners that came with it.
"Come on you guys, we need to get out of this crowd, I say that we go to that bar across the street, what do you think?"
"Anything is better than where we are now. People keep staring at us. Theresa whispered.
"Maybe it has something to do with the way your dress is torn and how your flashing them." Laura told her as she took a pin out of her purse and tried to remedy the situation.
The group made their way to a large table in the back of the bar. Robots buzzed around filling drinks and taking orders. The place was poorly lit and filled with the sort of people you didn't want to meet even in a well-lit supermarket, nonetheless in a dark, smoky bar.
"Ummm, I'm not sure that this was the best place to go. All the men are staring at us now." whispered Theresa, still protectively clutching her torn collar.
A man walked up to us, the kind of guy that gives off this sleazy aura. "Excuse me, but what would it cost for the services of one of your ladies?" he directed at Alec.
I looked at the way we were dressed, not exactly what modest people would wear around here.
"WHAT? They think that we're hookers!" screamed Theresa.
"You think that I'm their pimp!" Cool!" then looked at me. " 'ey, 'ow you Doin'?" he asked trying to act the part.
"Alec!" yelled Ann.
"Sir, I'm sorry we gave you the wrong idea, but we are NOT prostitutes." I explained
"The 'ell ya aren't! With those clothes, of course ya are!" He yelled as he tried to grab Laura and take her away. "I don't think so!" Luckily for Laura, the man was quite drunk. So slugging him in the nose came very easily. "You picked the wrong woman to mess with buddy!"
That was when all hell broke loose. Thank God that some of the other customers had the decency to try to help us in our plight. Two in particular grabbed my hand and motioned us to follow them. When all of us were safely out of sight of the tavern, they stopped and we got a good look at the two. One was wearing a Bright green tank top, short skirt, and spiky high heals in the same color, possibly being another hooker or something. Her long brown hair was down and in a mass of curls, and wore lime green lipstick and eye shadow. The other wore a getup similar to the first but in yellow. Her blond hair was part way up in a large red bow and streaked with red.
"I'm guessing that from the way you are dressed, that you're not from around here are you?"
"How could you tell?" Alec asked sarcastically while rolling his eyes.
"Well aren't you grateful that I just saved your life! said the one in green.
"Yeah, maybe we should have just let you fend for yourselves in there?" added the other one.
"Sorry about him" I said "he gets cranky when he has no idea where we are. By the way, who are you guys?"
"I can't tell you at this moment, but all will come soon enough." Then as if by magic, the one in yellow pulled out a communicator and started to talk to another person. When she was done it disappeared again and she directed her attention back to us.
"Ok everyone, take each other's hands and form a circle." She instructed and took her friend's and my hands, completing the circle. They closed her eyes and before we knew it we were in what I guessed was the palace.
"Please follow us." The women said as they turned and walked down the long white hallway. After about 5 minuets of walking they stopped and opened a door. "This is where the ladies may freshen up and change into a more appropriate clothing," The green one said, looking us up and down, then went across the hall and opened up another door, "and the young man of your group may go here."
"Who are you calling 'young man' woman, we're like the same age!" Asked Alec
"Somehow I highly doubt that we are the same age." They told him and left back where we had came from, while we stood there confused.
When we walked into the room it was a large sitting room, where four handmaidens were there to help us get out of our clothes and wash. I could tell that we all felt that having someone help us take a bath was a bit embarrassing, but no one said anything.
After we were all clean and dry, the maidens showed us to a large walk-in closet where they proceeded to dress us also. In the end, we were all dressed very tastefully in a long gown in a different color. Theresa was in a light blue v-neck empire waist dress with pearls around the waist and neck. Along with a pair of high heeled thong sandals of the same color. Ann was wearing a red off the shoulder dress with long angel-wing sleeves and white embroidery around the waist and sleeves, with open toed red strappy sandals.
Laura wore a light green spaghetti-strap gown with a sheer overlay that sparkled in the light. For shoes she wore a pair of flat green sandals.
I wore a sparkling white, halter top, wrap-around dress that went to my knees and had yellow trim around the edges. For shoes I wore a pair of high-heeled sandals that wrapped around my legs up to my knees, which were also gold.
After we were all dressed, and in awe about how much these clothes would cost, one of the maidens came in with a velvet box that revealed four necklaces with a stone that matched our dresses. They put them on us and showed us out the door to wait in the hall for Alec. A few minuets later he came out, and man did he look good. He had on a black tux with a vest that matched my dress. His cufflinks were the same stone that was in my necklace. He still had his short black hair up in spikes. I am not ashamed to say that I stared until he came up to me. I looked into his eyes and got lost.
After a moment he said "you look Beautiful… just like a princess."
"You don't look so bad yourself." And for a moment I saw us closing in for a long passionate kiss, and him saying "I love you, where have you been all my life!..."
"If you are ready I can show you the way to the throne room?" asked a maiden snapping me out of my reverie. Dammit! We then walked to the throne room with the girls behind us.
We got to the throne room and there were many people there, most dressed in some kind of really short skirted uniform. I was surprised to see how young the king and queen looked, they couldn't have been much older than us. The Queen herself was more beautiful than anything I have ever seen, even with her expanded belly.
"I would like to be the first to welcome all of you to the Kingdom of the Moon. I am Neo-Queen Serenity the Sixth and this is my husband King Endymion the First. I would also like to introduce to you the Senshi of this solar system. I believe that you have already met Sailor Jupiter and Venus."
Instead of the hookers they wore before, they were in the Senshi form like the rest of girls, and had their hair with out the streaks, Jupiter's was up in a ponytail, and Venus's was halfway pulled up with a large red bow in the back.
"I'm sorry that we had to keep my identity a secret to you, but there might have been spies around." Jupiter explained.
"It's alright," I automatically said, "We understand completely."
"Now," continued the Queen," could you please tell us who you are and why you are here?"
"Well," I began, " I'm Kate, and these are my friends Theresa, Laura, Ann, and Alec, I want to assure you that we mean you no harm, we were just driving down the road when I swerved to miss an animal, then we hit this big flash and ended up in this world.
"You probably got caught in the space-time rift, what were you driving?" Pluto asked.
"Umm, a dark blue Mustang convertible?" I said.
Then it hit me; we had left my car out in the streets of Crystal Tokyo. Some person might have picked it up and decided to take my car for a spin, and considering that I'm more protective of my car than practically my own mother. So would you if you had spent two and half years saving for the one car of your dreams.
"Kate, what's wrong?"
I looked at Laura, who had noticed that I was staring off into space. "I left my car out there!" I whispered. She rolled her eyes as she remembered how protective I was of my car, and we had come here without it.
"You may stay here until we can find a way to get you home, the Senshi will show you around and to your rooms." Queen Serenity told them.
Once outside the Senshi took a liking to us. They all remembered when they were my age and, and wanted to know so much about our world. Like what our cars look are like and how it would be to drive one.
"Your world seems a lot like our past, when we were there to train with Sailor Moon. Though we grew up in a big city, not a small town like you guys did.
"What are you talking about 'Sailor Moon' what are you, super heroes?" Ann asked.
Of course we're super heroes! We're the only REAL super heroes, but we fight off the evil in the universe. That is the Senshi's job, to protect the royal couple, and I and fight against attacks from bad people. You don't have evil people?
"In our world, no one has powers like your Senshi. So we have to fight our own battles with weapons and wars." Theresa told the shocked Venus.
I stopped when I heard giggling behind me. I turned around and Mars had her arm entangled in Alec's, obviously charmed by him. When Alec saw me he gave a sympathetic look and went on telling her the time he tripped over the sidewalk in front of the whole school.
I turned back and started walking again. Part of me wanted to go back and bitch-slap her and take him out of her arms because he was mine! But I just kept on walking. Why I don't know, probably because I'm a wuss and technically he's not mine. We're not officially dating; he probably doesn't even know the feelings I have for him.
We went through the rest of the palace, but I wasn't really listening. All I could think about was how her arm was in his and the way she giggled at everything he said.
Finally we got to our rooms. We each had a suite, with a bedroom, bathroom, and greeting area with some chairs and a table.
"Since it's late and I don't think that you all have had anything to eat, the Queen had the servants bring up some goodies for you to snack on." Mercury told us, "Pluto wants to meet with you to see how we can get you home tomorrow morning. There will be a wake-up call and someone to show you the way if you have forgotten already. See you in the morning! They started to walk away. Come on Senshi, let's GO!" That Last part was obviously directed at Mars, who didn't want to let go of Alec. But she finally relented and left after a few seconds of staring by the rest of us.
After they left, we all went to our rooms because we were exhausted from everything that happened that day. The food on the table looked delicious, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to eat anything more than a piece of fruit. Even though there were many desserts and sandwiches that could feed all six of us put together.
I had taken a shower only a few hours earlier, but felt the need to be clean once again. So I undressed and just stood under the water for a while.
A knock came to the door of the Queens study. "Come in." She said, not lifting her eyes off the paper she was reading. The door opened and in came a short, balding, portly man, that sometimes made her think of a rat, the way his nose crinkled up when he smiled, but she was the one who decided to give him a chance as her Advisor of Security around the palace, beneath Sailor Mars of course. Since she was preoccupied now, he was to report to her.
"Your Majesty," He began, "the transmitters have all started working. We will know every move they make."
"What did you disguise them as, Rolf?"
"For the girls, they are necklaces, for the young man, a pair of cufflinks. And if they show any signs of negative energy, we will be alerted immediately, though I don't see why you are just letting them walk around freely, I don't trust them one bit. I would advise that you lock them up right away.
Serenity looked up with anger in her eyes.
"Rolf! You are not here to advise me of anything! You are here to report on the things that are happening around the palace. I expect you to show some compassion to these outsiders, we have no reason at all to suspect that they have anything to do with the attacks on the outside of the city, you know as well as I that this is a standard procedure for everyone that enters the palace.
Rolf cowered right in front of the door. "Yes of course your Majesty, how silly of me to forget my place so easily. I am very sorry that I did that, it will never happen again.
"That's Ok Rolf, you are forgiven, Damn hormones thank you, and you are excused."
As soon as he left, the baby in Serenity's stomach started to kick vigorously. "Hey, little one, what's the matter?" She said while rubbing her swollen belly. "I bet your hungry, aren't you? Well we can fix that with a visit to the kitchen for a midnight snack can't we?"
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