Chapter 11: Possession

"Pierre, don't you want to dress up more? If it were me, I would want to look nice for MY date. Won't Ahmed think you don't care enough?" Galaxy cooed to Pierre, who glared at her.

"I think it shows our love that we don't have to put on fake appearances for each other," he retorted.

"It's not FAKE to dress up! Fake is, well, plastic surgery or a wig or something. Looking nice is just making yourself better!" Galaxy declared.

"What are you two arguing about?" asked Hotaru, poking her head in Pierre's room.

"Galaxy wants me to dress up and I don't want to," pouted Pierre.

"He doesn't have to if he doesn't want to. It's his date, not yours," Hotaru scolded lightly. Galaxy rolled her eyes and stomped out of the room.

"Fine. Just don't come crying to me when Ahmed rejects you for being so sloppy," she snapped. Meanwhile, Ahmed was on his way to the house Pierre shared with the three other Senshi. He was riding on the bullet train when he noticed a girl's familiar pink hair. Was that Wedding Peach? A distraction came as a note fluttered into his lap.

"Don't judge a book by its cover. Pierre knows that. He hates you for only loving him for his looks," Ahmed whispered, reading the note aloud to himself. What was that about? Was Wedding Peach trying to break up his romance with Pierre, right when they were about to have a date? Although it was true that Pierre didn't seem to like it when people judged only by looks and nothing else, but Ahmed didn't JUST like Pierre's corpulence. There were other things too. Like...

"Evil boy! Evil boy! Evil boy has a boyfriend!" a feminine voice rang out, fading as the pink-haired girl got off the train. Ahmed looked up. That was his stop too! He stuck the note back in his pocket and stood up to leave as well. When he arrived at the target house, he was greeted by Galaxy.

"Hello, and welcome to our lovely mansion. I do hope you shall excuse Pierre, he has no taste in proper manners or fashion for a romantic evening," she said, striking an elegant pose. Ahmed stared at her. If she was a boy, she would be absolutely beautiful! Why, she was almost as wonderfully round as Pierre!

"I wouldn't expect him to dress up. It would be strange for him," Ahmed replied calmly. Galaxy rolled her eyes, mumbling to herself about how if it was HER date, she would require him to look nice or else, but she left to tell Pierre his guest had arrived. Nearby, the pink-haired girl from the bullet train, who was most definitely Momoko Hanasaki, hid in a tree. She sighed as she realized that her note trick hadn't worked and that she needed to use other tactics to break up that immoral male couple. She had a flash of inspiration as she remembered some of the techniques that her friends Yuri and Hinagiku had used to use to set her up with Yousuke over Kazuya Yanagiba, who she formerly had a crush on. Maybe it would be a good idea to lure one of those boys out and convince him to fall in love with her instead. She knew it would be unfaithful to Yousuke, but as long as it was just in this world, she thought it would be okay. Or else...

"Lady Peach! I thought you were supposed to be getting Sailor Popscicle's bracelet-P! Don't bother with those boys-P!" the squeaky voice of Jama-P chirped nearby as he floated over her head.

"Sailor Popscicle? Yeah, I got it! What if we get one of those boys to fall in love with her instead?" Momoko exclaimed happily, steadying herself so she didn't fall out of the tree in her excitement. She then noticed Setsuna coming home from the grocery store.

"Lady Peach, what about the bracelet-P?" Jama-P asked.

"Don't worry. You can still possess people, right?" Momoko whispered.

"I think so, but..."

"Then go possess her! And while you're in there, get her to play matchmaker between that pink-haired boy and Sailor Popscicle," hissed Momoko. Jama-P decided that would be okay, as it would be a blow in the name of true love, and so he flew down behind Setsuna and possessed her. Unfortunately, this caused her to faint.

"Setsuna! What happened to you! Did you buy fainting powder? Because in one of my stories, Blue gave some to Spectra to make her faint because she thought it would be funny if..." Rainbow's blabbering about her characters was interrupted by Setsuna, who suddenly sat up with a strange dark light in her garnet eyes.

"Galaxy. I need to see Galaxy and Ahmed," she said, with much determination and purpose.

"Um, okay. Is that because Galaxy was the first Senshi awakened and Ahmed was the last?" asked Rainbow.

"No, it is because they are in love with each other and they don't realize it," Setsuna replied, shoving Rainbow aside slightly as she marched through the door, forgetting her groceries.

"Hey! You forgot your...and I thought I was absent-minded," sighed Rainbow. Luckily, Michiru noticed the bags lying on the driveway and brought them into the house. Why is Setsuna acting so forgetful? And why does she think that Galaxy and Ahmed are in love? I thought Ahmed preferred boys, anyway, she thought to herself.

"Galaxy. Ahmed. You two are in love with each other," Setsuna stated.

"Huh? I thought he was in love with Pierre," Galaxy said, confused.

"You live here and you're just saying this NOW!" exclaimed Pierre in mock horror. Setsuna glared at him.

"You should be more concerned. You know he just loves you for your round shape. He could easily go after anyone else who's fat," she snapped.

"There's something wrong with her. I can't tell by myself, but my mirror can," Michiru said, and she took the Deep Aqua Mirror out of her pocket.

"How can you still use that? I thought you gave up your powers to Mortimer and Sakura," Haruka pointed out.

"My powers, yes. But I keep the talisman unless if one of them ends up needing it," Michiru answered and she faced Setsuna, gazing into the mirror. Setsuna suddenly snarled at her, lunging for the mirror.

"Stop that! You're definitely in trouble, Setsuna! This isn't like you!" shouted Haruka, grabbing her. Michiru gasped.

"I can see...a strange round yellow creature in her! She IS possessed!" Galaxy peeked over at the mirror.

"Oh, that's Jama-P. He's from the Wedding Peach anime. I saw it on the screen once when Serena was watching it," she noted. Michiru sighed.

"Then we need to find some way to get it out of her. Someone call Rei while we get her restrained, okay?" Galaxy nodded, and Ahmed ran off to call Rei. Galaxy, on the other hand, held up her bracelet to transform.

"Give me that! I need that bracelet for Aphrodite!" Setsuna shouted, squirming in Haruka's grasp.

"You don't need to use your powers, Galaxy, just go find a rope or something," Haruka barked. Galaxy cocked her head in confusion.

"I didn't know we had any rope. Couldn't we just stick her in the closet?" she asked. Haruka sighed in exasperation; she was right.

"Remind me to get some rope next time we go shopping then," she said as she dragged Setsuna to the closet. Momoko was still sitting in the tree outside.

"Jama-P. What are you doing? I wish I could see inside their house, or at least come down from this tree," she whimpered. Back inside, Haruka was trying stuff Setsuna in the closet, with little success since the former Time Guardian was kicking up a storm.

"Why don't we just knock her out? I'll go get a big heavy thing and..."

"No, Pierre, I can get her in, she just...OW!" Haruka shouted as Setsuna slammed past her and raced out the door. Momoko saw this and leaped out of the tree, landing with a crash on top of the crazed green-haired woman.

"What are you doing! I thought you were going to play matchmaker for Galaxy and Ahmed!" Momoko exclaimed.

"I have my own plans! I don't want Galaxy's stupid bracelet anyway! I'm going to get that uncouth muscle girl's bracelet!" Setsuna shouted, shoving Momoko away from her before dashing down the sidewalk. Momoko headed back for her house, dreading the moment that she had to tell the others that Jama-P ran off in one of the possessed bodies of the former Sailor Senshi.