It just so happen that all four of the switched people arrived at the temple steps at the same time, go figure. It took a second for recognition of their own bodies to kick in, causing all parties involved to strop walking completely. Serena was the first to recover her shock and took off for the consolation of her boyfriends' embrace.
"Ooooo! Darien!" Serena yelled and ran as fast as she could toward Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome. She leapt into his arms and began nuzzling her head against his chin, reveling in his smell and warmth. Artemis was shocked at Luna's display of affection but because pleased and began to nuzzle her back. The same unpleasant thought hit the two of them at the same time.
'Wait! Why is Darien snuggling with Luna! He doesn't know its me yet."
'Hold on a second! Why would Luna be cozying up to Darien when my body is right in front of her.'
In her anger Serena leapt from his arms and stalked over to "Luna" to have a little talk about her rights to Darien and the fact that she had none. Before she got there though Artemis jumped in front of her to say hello and Serena realized that Artemis might want a kiss. She blanched at the thought and ran as fast as possible up to the temple. Luna was meanwhile advancing on Darien to get a little assistance in the whole body switching incident from the only rational person in sight, beside herself of course, and Artemis realized Serena probably wanted a kiss. He paled at the thought and followed "Luna" as quickly as his new body would take him. Darien and Luna were left staring strangely at each other before trudging up to follow their loved ones into the temple.
10 minutes later found the story of body switching told to the Sailor Scouts and a horrendously unnerved Amy working madly at her little computer figuring out the odds of this happening. Serena was fast asleep on Darien's tail and Artemis was "curled" up on Luna's lap, a sight that had Mina in tears over from laughing so hard.
"Alright, everybody I found it…" Amy declared, standing up quickly, but she was cut off by a flurry of questions.
"How to fix us?"
"Why this happened?"
"How do you switch us back Amy?
"Zzzzzzz"
"Er…no. I found that the probability of this happening is 833,563,573,673,957,836 to 1." the group sighed collectively at her display of geek and waited expectantly for her to finish the speech. "It seems that Darien, Serena, Luna, and Artemis switched bodies for the fun of it. I suppose it could be a nega-verse trick, but I can discern no evil aura around any of them. You will have to live as happily as possible in your new bodies ." she smiled politely and sat down again. Then all hell broke loose.
"You've got to be kidding me Amy!" a now awake Serena screamed. "How am I suppose to make out with Darien without LIPS!"
"Serena! Not so loudly, they'll think its all we do together." A scandalized Darien yelped. "We do other stuff I swear…"
"Like what Darien? Exactly how far have you to gone?" a curious Mina pondered aloud.
"That's not what I meant and That's none of your business! I meant we go on dates."
"And make out" Serena added in all seriousness.
"And we go dancing"
"And make out there too." She continued.
"Oh, and we also hang out at the park a lot and have picnics." he tried futilely
"Wow Darien, I never realized how much we do make out. And now we caaaaan't" she wailed,
her cat body shaking in tears. Darien placed a comforting paw on her shoulder and instinctively licked her head with affection.
"Awwwwww." was heard by the collective girls, causing Darien's whiskers to sag in embarrassment. A "How cute" soon followed and Darien's whole body sagged. Luna was happily finding her new body entertaining over in the corner and was picking things up and then setting the down again. Opposable thumbs were a very novel idea to her. Artemis, watching his beloved, soon picked up on the habit and the two of them began madly fascinated with carrying objects from one side of the temple room to the other.
Luna, in her over exuberance, tripped over a slightly droopy Darien, threw her cup in the air, and landed with a 'thwump' on top of the two cats. Mumbling was heard from under Luna, and as she was getting up, Serena's voice could be heard echoing throughout the temple.
"Ha! So it looks like Luna is just as clumsy as I am in a human body." she cried in delight, all sadness over her unable to suck Darien's face gone. She jumped up on the table to continue her rant of happiness. "You guys can't tease me anymore and I want an apol-" in her excitement, Serena just happened to walk right off the edge of the table and into Lita's lap. The shock girl jumped up, throwing Serena to the floor and leaving bruise on her tail end.
"Owwwwww! That's not fair, I thought I was cured of being a klutz." she whimpered.
Darien, feeling bad for his girlfriend, gave her another lick on the head and wrapped his tail possessively around her.
"It's part of your charm Meatball head and I wouldn't want you any other way, ok?" he lovingly consoled her.
"Awwwwww." was heard from the girls again, but this time Darien merely hissed and glared at them all.
"I guess we'd better be happy that they both changed." Raye joked. "I wouldn't want to see a cat and a human in love." the girls all giggled at this and Serena looked sullen. Luna, encouraged by all this talk of "Romance" got a few ideas of her own and looked smugly at Artemis' new shape. She never realized how attractive Darien's body was before and now it was all hers.
"I really could go for a pick me up ice cream guys." Serena begged.
"Now Serena, you are in a cats' body and the stomach can't handle anything foreign." a sympathetic Amy explained. "Maybe you should start snort getting used to giggle the taste of cat FOOD!" she burst out laughing and collapsed to the floor hooting. Serena became depressed and went off to the corner to sulk.
"Wait. Wait. Wait. Does this mean I can't drink coffee? What am I going to dooooooooo?" he wailed, almost exactly like Serena, and went off to join her in sulking. The two depressed cats was enough to set the group off again. Serena, looking for an ally, started searching fro Luna, only to find her lips locked onto a slowly suffocating Artemis'.
"Get off my boyfriend!" she shrieked in anger, forgetting her boyfriend was pouting beside her in his cat shape.
Luna recoiled from Artemis in shame and began to furiously apologize to her "owner".
Serena, after realizing that it wasn't Darien, relaxed and proceeded to fall fast asleep. She was really getting the hang of this cat thing.
"Hey now Artemis, I know you're in my body but I don't want you to do anything I wouldn't do in it. I don't want to come home to find something wrong, like a tattoo or a massive hickey." he proceeded to lecture and both Luna and Artemis flushed in embarrassment.
"No problem Prince. I solemnly swear I won't do anything you wouldn't do, given half the chance of course." he sniggered. Darien was ready to blow a gasket. "I mean if Serena ever said 'Hey Darien, lets go all the way', I doubt you would say no. Am I right man? Eh? Eh?" he tittered and nudged the cat version of Darien.
"I'll show you 'Go all the way'! You'll go all the way to the hospital buddy!" and that said, he launch himself at his old body. Artemis received a badly bruised ego, some scratches to the face, and a nasty gash on his left arm, before the "attack" was ended by Lita pulling the angry white cat off by his neck scruff.
"Oh Darien, that was so sweeeeeet. You protected my honor." the newly awakened Serena exclaimed and began to purr with happiness. "I still want ice cream though. Amy, how about vanilla? It's almost like milk, right?"
"I didn't think of that Serena." the now baffled genius said. Serena was getting smarter then her? No way. "I don't suppose it would hurt, but no chocolate sauce or sprinkles ok?"
"Wahoo!" she screamed and bolted out the door, presumably for Crown Parlor.
"Just wait until Andrew refuses to serve a cat." a highly amused Raye observed. The rest of the Sailors giggled a little before following their leader out the door, leaving Luna, Darien, and Artemis alone.
"Well, we need to rearrange living conditions until this problem can be fixed." a redeemed Luna began. I mean, Darien mostly. You can't live with Mina, since you are technique still a male."
"What! And I'm not a male?" the now indignant Artemis screeched. "Since when have I not been a male? I have the proof right here Luna!' he reached for his PJ pants to "prove" exactly how manly he was but Luna swatted him upside the head before any "manhood" could be seen. "Oh, sorry. I got a little carried away, As you were saying."
The mollified Luna glared at Artemis and started to talk again, "As I was saying,
Darien you should probably stay with Artemis in your apartment, we don't want a repeat of this morning's antics."
"Sorry Luna, but my building doesn't allow pets" he started cautiously, "but maybe I could stay with you and Serena. I mean, it's not like I have anywhere else I could go." he pouted. Luna glared daggers, but had to give up in the end. It was decided that Darien would stay in the Tsukino household but not in Serena's room. The three ended their meeting and decided to catch up to the gang at Crown. Artemis wanted to try flirting with a few girls in his new stud body and Luna had an extreme craving for a milkshake.
Unbeknownst to the happy couple, Darien snuck off halfway there to try roof hoping as a cat. Too bad Tuxedo Mask didn't have four legs to jump with.
'Wait. What are we going to do if a youma attacks? I hope Artemis won't bumble my image if he has to transform. I wonder if Luna could even do a somersault if attacked?'
You are all so lucky that I got tired of studying for mt test and decided to write instead.
I won't be able to post again until Friday night or Saturday due to school, so keep checking for new stuff. Thank you for all the great reviews and I'm glad I made people happy.