Chapter 5: Dealing With Angels

Mozzarella stared at the sheet of paper blankly. She didn't want to be doing this! She would rather be running around outside! Why did she agree to this!

"Come on," urged Parallax, "You said you wanted to do what I do for fun. Well, I often like to write spooky poems."

"I don't wanna do that!" huffed Mozzarella, slamming her pencil down and stomping out of Parallax's bedroom. Why isn't there anyone here who can play with me, she thought angrily. Seiya used to play with me, but now she's dating that Makoto Kino and she has no time for me. Although...maybe those other two Starlights will play with me, she thought hopefully. She found Taiki walking down the hallway and immediately hugged the tall alien's legs.

"Please please please play with me! No one wants to play outdoor games with me anymore!" Mozzarella whined. Taiki pried the overeager girl off of her and stared down at her coldly.

"No, I shall not play with you. I am going to write poetry," she said icily.

"ARGGGH! What IS it with everyone today and writing poetry and ignoring me!" Mozzarella ranted.

While Mozzarella was angry, the Love Angels were happy, because they had just received a new power from Aphrodite.

"Now you have the ability to give other people Love Angel powers and get them to join you in your crusade for the sake of pure love," Aphrodite said.

"All right! Let's go out on the street and grab someone to test it on!" Hinagiku exclaimed.

"No, I have a better idea. Are there any Sailor Senshi who might consider altering their own magic and becoming new Love Angels?" asked Yuri thoughtfully. Aphrodite smiled.

"Yes, there is. In the Crystal Palace, there are two Sailor Senshi who might be good targets. One of them is a girl who feels like no one wants to play with her, and the people she is angry at are all impure in some way. The other is an impure boy who might be easily persuaded if he was told that he could have his lifelong dream," she explained.

"What's that? To marry a beautiful woman? Is he just pretending to love men?" asked Momoko dreamily.

"No, no, his dream is to be fat," Aphrodite stated.

"What! That's insane! I would much prefer a thin husband; fat boys are rather ugly," sniffed Yuri.

"Whether or not YOU think it's attractive, he may be swayed to our side if given the prospect of fatness as a reward," Aphrodite continued.

"Let's all go! Then we can be sure to get both of them!" declared Hinagiku.

When the Love Angels arrived at the Crystal Palace, they split into two groups. First, Yuri and Scarlett went off to find Ahmed. Of course, they found him in the palace dining hall, eating donuts.

"I am your dream," announced Scarlett mysteriously. Yuri couldn't help but giggle, as the red-haired Angel was wearing a large bodysuit-type outfit that she had stuffed with pillows so that she would look fat.

"Really? I thought I was awake," Ahmed said blandly.

"You want to look like me, don't you? This is your dream, isn't it? To be fat?" purred Scarlett seductively.

"But you're not fat. Your face doesn't look that way. And some of your fat looks oddly lumpy, like pillows," he pointed out. What! That Momoko, that was her stupid idea! I should've waited and bought a real fat suit, Scarlett thought angrily. She grabbed Yuri's hand.

"Let's do it anyway. Wedding Excellent Flower!"

"Wedding Graceful Flower!" The two of them transformed into their magic wedding gowns in flashes of blue and purple light.

"Vanilla Power, Make Up!" called Ahmed, and he had his own magical transformation too. Angel Salvia and Angel Lily wasted no time in trying out the new spell that Aphrodite had given them.

"Powers of love, combine! Turn him into a Love Angel!" they shouted in unison. A blue-violet light shot out of their hands and engulfed Sailor Vanilla, but it was quickly repelled by his silvery aura. Angel Lily and Angel Salvia were thrown backwards by the force.

"Mystery..."

"Let's just get out of here and find the others," Scarlett said quickly as she detransformed and rushed Angel Lily out of the room before Sailor Vanilla even finished casting the spell that would create a dark fog.

Meanwhile, Momoko and Hinagiku were searching for Mozzarella. Coincidentially, her angry racing through the palace hallways took her straight into their path, and the three girls crashed in a shrieking heap of arms and legs.

"Out of my way! Everyone's being mean to me and won't play with me!" Mozzarella shouted as she tried to kick her way out of the entanglement. Before she knew quite what was happening, Momoko had grabbed her into a hug.

"Poor baby! You must be very lonely," the pink-haired girl said sweetly.

"Of course I am! Those mean Starlights don't like me, none of the other kids at the palace like me, Parallax USED to like me but now that she's got that stupid hyrax for a gloomy buddy she doesn't need me anymore!" ranted Mozzarella. Hinagiku jumped up into an eager fighting stance.

"Hey, I'll play with you. Do you like active games? Like to run around and get dirty playing sports?"

"Yeah! I love doing those kinds of things!" agreed Mozzarella eagerly.

"How sad it is that you have to be stuck in a boring palace where no one shares your interests. You know why that is?" Hinagiku said gently.

"Why? Isn't it because they're all with their lovers?" Mozzarella guessed, thinking of Seiya and Makoto.

"Of course it is. We can help you. We can make sure that those people don't neglect you for their evil, selfish romances," Momoko added.

"How? I need to know! I wanna beat those meanies and make 'em sorry they ever made me feel lonely!" Mozzarella shouted. Momoko opened her magic locket and showed it to Mozzarella. A beam of light shot out of it, surrounding the surprised girl.

"Powers of love, combine! Turn her into a Love Angel!" Hinagiku and Momoko recited in unison. This time, the spell went differently. Instead of repelling the light, Mozzarella embraced it, and her body glowed green as her clothing disappeared. When the transformation stopped, she was dressed in a typical Love Angel outfit, only her bodice was green.

"Congratulations. You are now Angel Ivy," Hinagiku proclaimed. The newly-named Angel Ivy looked down at herself and grinned.

"This is going to be so cool!" she exclaimed happily.

"Come on! Let's go home! You can meet Jama-P; he's the nicest little devil you'll ever meet," giggled Momoko.

In the middle of a transaction with a customer, Rei suddenly fell down, quivering in a trance.

"No...Setsuna...you must be warned...Sailor Marshmallow..." she babbled deliriously. Madoka stared at her curiously, looking up from her math workbook.

"Sailor Marshmallow? What's wrong with her?" she asked.

"Evil...an evil aura...inside her..." moaned Rei.

"Um, what's wrong with you? Are you having one of those famous psycho dances? I can do that too! WOOGA WOOGA WOO!" squealed the purple-haired girl who was there to buy a kimono.

Parallax, as well, could see it. She raced through the palace, calling out Mozzarella's name frantically. She asked all the servants, but the impish Italian girl was nowhere to be found.

"It's true then. She has been taken in by the enemy. And the scariest part is, she's not going to be the last," panted Parallax. In a flash of inspiration, she thought of something. Turning into an evil angel, that would sure make a good topic for a spooky poem, she mused.