Chapter 6: PTA: Parents Turned into Animals
It was around midnight and Spectro was brooding on a rooftop. "How can I find Serenity's heir before the end of the week?"
"Maybe I can help?" said a creature in green clothes and bat wings.
"This doesn't concern you Puck."
"Oh, I just want to have a little fun."
"That's your problem, you never take anything seriously!"
"But you still need my help in your plan, using that monster will just make your targets run away."
"Unfortunately your right, how can I keep them from running?"
"Leave that to me." at that Puck left.
"He never tells us anything. I despise that trickster!"
The next afternoon, the girls were in cooking class. "Now this is important." said Michelle. "These cookies are for the PTA meeting tonight."
"Does that mean I can't eat them?" said Karen.
"Always thinking with your stomach, huh Karen?" said Lisa.
"Not always."
"Just when you're breathing." said Marie.
"Ok, knock it off!" said Michelle. "No you can't eat them and the rest of you no teasing!"
"Yes Mrs. Kaioh…" Everyone said.
The bell then rang. "I'll take care of these, wait for me to come to homeroom to dismiss you."
"Hey guys." said Karen. "Remember that you're staying at my house while our parents are at the meeting."
"Of course we will." said Alice. "Your sister's gonna baby-sit us and she's cool."
"Unlike you!" said Rachel.
"Please be nice to me!" said Karen.
No one noticed that Puck sprinkled a strange powder on the cookies they just baked.
"Now the emergency numbers are on the fridge." said Serena. "You have our cell phone numbers…"
"Mom, I've babysat before; I know the drill." said Serenity.
"Now remember." said Darien. "The pizza money is by the door, if the meeting runs late the girls are to be in bed by nine, no scary movies and they can have one healthy snack."
"Ok, ok."
The after their parents left Serenity turned to the girls. "Now let's get some things straight. First the pizza's a deluxe so if there's something on it you don't like just pick it off. Second, don't bother me if I'm on the phone unless it's an emergency. Now if you don't mind I have homework to do and I suggest you do the same."
"Our Mom's made us finish at home." said Alice.
"I still have to do mine." said Karen.
"Why I'm not surprised?" said Serenity.
Back at the elementary school the parents came into the gymnasium. "Hey look cookies!" said Serena.
"Don't hog them all!" said Mina.
"She's right honey." said Darien. "There should be enough for everyone."
"Um, pardon us." said Amara.
"We would like to talk to you all before the meeting starts, so does the principal."
They went over to a private room. "Thank you for coming." said Trista as they sat down.
"So is this about our children?" asked Ken.
"Yes." she turned to Darien and Serena. "As you know Karen doesn't get the best marks, especially in math."
"We tried to set a good example." said Darien.
"I know; she's just one of those students that have trouble with studying."
"Is there anything else?"
"We noticed that she tends to be late all the time, she's clumsy, cries easily and often and she snacks almost constantly…"
Serena heard her friends snickering. "That is embarrassing." said Amy.
"I never thought it possible." said Raye. "Someone who can out-Serena Serena."
"She must now know how hard it was for her mom." said Lita.
"I feel sorry for her." said Mina.
"Don't you think you're being a little blunt about our daughter?" said Serena.
"We're only going over these because it's important." said Amara.
"It could be because of these things that she's being picked on so much." said Michelle.
"Picked on?!" said Darien. "She never told us anything like that was happening!"
"I'm not surprised." said Trista. "She doesn't want to get anyone into trouble; even they're causing her to suffer." She then turned to the others. "And we know who's doing this to her."
Raye got up. "Are you accusing our daughters of something?!"
"We wanted to be sure before we told you, although your daughters take after their mothers in their interests and are doing well in school, they don't treat others well and have no respect for authority."
"That's not true!" said Jamie.
"Mr. Aino, I know that any parent doesn't want to believe that their child is capable of doing wrong, but we looked into this. For one thing they often skip classes; as we already discussed, they're rude to their classmates and they have said some mean things about adults behind their backs. Where Karen is concerned they always try to ditch, pick on or, forgive me for saying this, emotionally torture her."
The parents of the four girls were asking themselves How could this have happened? How did they become such unholy terrors?
"I'm concerned that they're setting a bad example for Karen, she wants their approval and she may stoop to acting like them to get it. I fear that unless you all take action soon they'll make some very bad choices later in life."
"We'll make sure to talk to Karen." said Serena.
"And the rest of them are beyond grounded!" said Lita.
"Be tactful with them." said Michiru. "They all need your love now more than ever before."
"It's almost time for the meeting." said Trista. "Be sure to remember what we talked about."
Back at the Tuskino home, Rachel became dizzy. "Is something wrong?" asked Alice.
"I'm not sure but I think something evil is at school."
"Think we should check it out?" asked Lisa.
"Our mom's and dad's are there, yes we should!" said Marie.
"But my sister won't let us out." said Karen. "And we can't tell her the truth.
Lisa looked to Rachel and Marie. "Leave that to us, all you need to do is tell us her cell phone number."
Marie got to the phone and dialed the number. Although Serenity was faster, Rachel knew the call was coming so she got to the phone first. "Hello? Oh, Helios!"
"Give me that!" said Serenity. Rachel just ran with it and then threw it into a large closet. "It better not be broken!" When she went into the closet Lisa closed the door and put a chair under the handle so Serenity couldn't open it. "Open this door right now!"
"Come on, let's go!" said Marie.
As they left they heard Serenity yelling. "You shouldn't have left me with a phone, now I can call Mom and Dad! And as soon as they let me out I'm gonna kill you little spores!"
Back at the school everyone was discussing what to do for a future fundraiser. "I have car wash and bake sale." said Trista. "All in favor of…"
But she never got to finish as a woman screamed. She was looking at her hands which looked like they were becoming paws. Soon Serena felt her own body begin to shift, change and shrink. She had heard other screams that became yowls. She now found herself swimming in her own clothes. She peeked out of the collar and saw that everyone, including herself had turned into a cat. Serena wanted to say "what happened" but all she could say was "Meow". Her phone was ringing but there was no way to answer it in her current state.
It was at that moment that Spectro appeared. "Puck has defiantly made this easy." He then brought out a large magnifying glass "Now to find Serenity's heir." He went from on cat to another "No, no, not you, no…" he continued this until he came to Serena. "Now what do we have here?"
As he took a closer look at her the kids were outside looking through a window. "He's working with the witches!" said Karen.
"I doubt it." said Alice. "Let's transform!"
"Right!' the others said.
"MERCURY PRISM POWER!"
"MARS PRISM POWER!"
"JUPITER PRISM POWER!
"VENUS PRISM POWER!"
"MOON PRISM POWER!"
Spectro took a close look at the cat Serena. "Close but not quite, guess I'll have to destroy all these cats now."
"Don't lay a hand of them weirdo!" said Sailor Moon as her magical music filled the air.
"You all keep calling me weirdo; it's not nice to call people names!"
"Oh, we're so scared." said the other scouts.
"You will be." Spectro said as he threw a ball on the ground. His magnifying glass became a water gun. "Just add water and…" He fired the gun at ball which let out red, blue and green smoke. The smoke cleared to show a cat-like monster that dressed like an ancient Egyptian. "Meet Bastcon!"
Bastcon yowled.
"We can take it right?!" said Sailor Mercury.
It was then that they noticed that Sailor Moon was cowering in a corner. "Why did it have to be a cat?" she whispered to herself. "Anything but a cat…"
"She's useless as usual." said Sailor Jupiter. "We can beat this Cleopatra wannabe!"
"JUPITER ELECTRIC CYCLONE!"
Bastcon dodged the attack. "Let me handle this!" said Sailor Venus.
"VENUS LOVELY SWORD!"
Bastcon sliced the sword in half with her claws.
"It's my turn now!" said Sailor Mars.
"Wait, I now know its weak point!" said Sailor Mercury after scanning Bastcon.
"MARS FIRE VIPER!"
"MERCURY ICY SNOW!"
Bastcon jumped so that the two attacks would pass where she was standing and hit the other scout who attacked.
"Hey! What's the big idea?!" said Sailor Mars.
"I knew its weak point; you should have let me attack it!"
Meanwhile Sailor Moon was shaking in a corner. "Please disappear, please disappear…"
'What's going on here?' thought Serena. 'They're not working as a team at all; it's just like when we first started out. Well I may be a cat right now, but a cat has teeth and claws!'
Serena leapt at Bastcon and bit into her shoulder.
"Yooowl!"
Sailor Moon heard the roar and turned around as Serena was thrown to the ground. Bastcon then rushed her and she attacked in panic.
"MOON AURA SLAM!"
The attack hit Bastcon's shoulder and it was vaporized.
"I was so close this time!" said Spectro as he vanished.
The scouts left as everyone started to turn back to normal.
"Aaaah!"
"If everyone would put their clothes on then we can forget that this ever happened!" said Trista.
After everyone was dressed and started leave Serena heard something behind a corner and took a look. She saw the five scouts revert to normal. "No way…"
"Karen that was the last straw!" said Lisa.
"Hey, I stopped the monster." said Karen.
"Only when it tried to attack you." said Alice. "You just got lucky that you hit its weak point."
"It's about time that we made a few changes around here!" said Marie.
"What?"
"If you still want to fight them you can do it yourself, we don't want to have anything more to do with you!" said Rachel.
"Right!" the rest of them said.
"But…" said Karen.
"We'll head back to your house for now, but if you want to hang out with us again you better toughen up!" said Rachel.
As they changed back so they could get home in time Karen said. "Maybe they're right…"
Serena went back to the car she decided to talk to Karen alone when she got home.
The girls made it back to Karen's house. "They won't suspect a thing." said Marie.
"But we'll still get in trouble." said Karen.
"You brats are in for it now!" said Serenity. "I got through to mom and when she gets here you're all toast!"
"Better let her out." said Alice.
"Yeah, we might not get punished as much." said Lisa.
Serena came through the door with the other parents. "Hi Mommy, hi Daddy!" they said.
"Don't hi us!" said Amy. "We heard from Serenity what you did!"
"And we heard a lot from your teachers too!" said Ken. "You're all in big trouble!"
The mothers took each of their children and started spanking them. After they were done Karen was crying but the others held back their tears.
"I hope you learned your lesson Karen." said Serena.
"But for the rest of you, you're grounded for a week." said Chad. "Home, school, that's it."
As the others were gone home Darien tried to cool Serenity down and Karen went straight to her room. "Honey can I come in?"
"Uh-huh." Karen sniffled.
"Karen, I only punish you because I love you and I want you to grow up right."
"Ok."
"Also, I think I know why you trapped Serenity in the closet, it's because you had to save me; right Sailor Moon?"
End of chapter 6