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(I could not get my tenth reviewer because the site is overloaded at tis point in time)
*I do not believe in disclaimers
Chapter 14: The Crystal in Action
Duo looked around the corner and into the room that held his five friends. He walked towards Usagi and the nurse followed at his heel. He sat next to Usagi and the nurse looked at her.
"Thank you Usagi. I mean-" She eyed Duo's pants trying to emphasize her meaning.
"Oh! No problem Hodoi!" She gave a small smile with red on her cheeks.
"Now." Hiiro demanded, "Tell me." A look on his face told her not to joke around and that this was no time to fool.
"Okay...I'll begin from where I ran into my cat, Luna-" She began to go into thousands of stories of sailor moon, of her losses and her gains. Her friends and enemies, Sailor Chaos and Sailor Galaxia. She began to cry at some points and then laugh at others. It was four hours later before she was able to finish.
"So," Trowa said, "You're relation with the Tokyo Police force is actually being Sailor Moon and you have no way to prove this to us because you're amulet is at your home on your dresser collecting dust."
"I have this doohickey thingamabob." Duo said grabbing the misty rock from his pocket and shoving it in her hand. She studied it carefully as if this might be a playfull trick. "I got it from your body when I was inside you. Or my hand anyways," He added cautiously giving a glance at Hiiro.
"You did?!" She asked in amazement. She stood up with it and began to pace, mumbling to her self, "Could it be...no, no, no...maybe...nah...I don't get it!" she strained in frustration. She walked on minutes on end trying to decide on a hypothesis that was possible.
"That little thing is what caused the evil inside of you." Wu fei said, rubbing his neck and eyeing the thing. "When I look at it, my neck and hands burn where I touched it."
"Yes, whole body gets the feeling it had when I was dieing, but of a much lesser volume." Quatre added in.
Trowa began to study them with no concerned look on his face, not a glimmer in his eye, but the air carried his worry through the room. "My stomach throbs where the spike entered my body, I guess no where else because I was already dieing at that point."
Hiiro put his leg on his chair and pushed his hand through his mess of brown hair. He rested his head on his knee and gritted his teeth.
"What's wrong Hiiro?" Duo asked in a concerned look that hardly ever crossed his face. "I'll get you some Tylenol real quick-"
"No!" Hiiro ordered.
Usagi looked at him in a sorrowful glance. "I'm sorry Hiiro, did I do something wrong?"
"No," he said, "I feel it too."
"Feel what?" Duo asked in confusion, "You didn't die. You were there with me."
"I did. It was right after you announced it was time to get serious. You were aggravated. I tried to call for assistance... but it got me through the throat. I couldn't vocalize." He looked to the floor, "It was worse than getting shot... worse than breaking my arms or legs. Worse than any pain I have experienced. I was slowly burning away, but all I could think about was Usagi."
She smiled as she looked at the clock. But then a question crossed her mind. "Hiiro," She demanded, "when were you shot? When did you break your bones?"
"I can't answer that," he simply stated.
"Why not?!" She shouted in an annoyed and exasperated tone.
"Because then, I will have to kill you." He left it at that.
~*~Later~*~
It was, luckily, a beautiful Sunday again. Because of religions, the boot camps could not make them work or train. The pool's thermometer was up to a warm temperature, for it was nearing winter and the pool stayed one temperature because of the heater.
The water of the pool shined brilliantly in the sun and the trees began to change their blankets to brown and red. It was the most beautiful thing Usagi had seen. The city had very few trees. And to witness this was a new experience.
But she witnessed this through the barbed-wire fence that held the prisoners in; the laboring and training prisoners that would go and join the army when they left this god-forsaken place. She would return home and forget the army and military forces. She would be happy to get a break from the consistent working, moving, racing, training, and punishment.
Speaking of punishment... Duo was undergoing a very rigorous one. He had to stand on top of a pole and hold both arms out at shoulder level. And for three hours straight, if he moved, five minutes would be added. She was astonished at what he got this chastisement for. Nobody would have guessed.
Taking fudge from the general's office. Whoopee. What an offense. Usagi didn't understand the concept of three hours for one chocolate. But there was nothing she could do.
But, after claiming temporary insanity the general stated that he didn't remember kicking or assaulting her. That was just fine; he went easier on her now. But she guessed it wouldn't be long before he buckled down more.
She was on her toes more and she held her guard for more than anything conspicuous. She calmed down a bit after a while. She got less jumpy, and she kept the conversations and meetings between Hiiro and herself down to a lower volume. She was happy through this now. She had everything she wanted.
But, after two weeks, Duo began to study the object more closely since nobody but Usagi and himself could get near it. He began to form guesses that were strictly scientific and to his training. But one would guess Duo would be the kind of person to say things of aliens.
"I was thinking Usagi-" Duo began, but Wu fei interrupted.
"You were actually thinking for once?!" Wu fei stated in fake amazement, all meant through sarcasm.
They were sitting in the cafeteria for the last meal of the day and it was Usagi, Duo, Wu fei, and Hiiro who sat at the table. Hiiro was mindlessly typing on his laptop. The cafeteria was loud and deafening. But the table in which they occupied was empty in every seat except for the four they sat in.
There were blue stools that crooked to one side to allow legroom. They were latched under the table to where they would not budge. And the tables, once white, were now a beige color.
"I was wondering," Duo began again, shooting a side ways glance at the Chinese man who sat across from him, "Do you think you could transform with this? I mean... it was evil, but maybe it's not any more."
"I'll try in the room tonight. I'm certainly not going to try in the middle of the lunch room." She stated the obvious teasingly.
"That's what I meant." But he swiftly remembered something from the back of his mind. "Did you hear? I was talking to Hodoi and she says they're building the construction site up to 20 stories! They are planning to become a major criminal facility for the kids who plan to attend the military. They're really expanding."
"I don't like that place. It gives me goose bumps. And it has a strange aura." She stated with chills creeping up her back and into her spine
"Well. After showers tonight, are you going to transform?" He confirmed. He didn't ant anticipation to build inside him until he got confirmation.
"I won't let you down!" she said with an innocent smile.
"Are you going to be in a mini-skirt like those other girls we saw?" Hiiro asked with an uncharacteristic gleam in his eye. It sounded pleasurable. and the leader always has the best uniform.
~*~Later~*~
She held the misty-white crystal above her head and screamed to the air, "Moon Crystal Make Up!"
Nothing happened. She stood there and Duo held a corny smile while Quatre was fighting back his own giggles trying to stay serious. Hiiro eyed her and began to look for something different. She was the same, zero difference.
"Maybe you have to scream something else at us." Trowa suggested. He did not understand that she wasn't screaming at them.
"I'm not screaming at you." She said in a raised tone of annoyance, "I'm simply calling to the moon to transform me."
"That makes a lot more sense." Wu fei muttered. He did not see the point in this... Onnas parading around in mini-skirts trying to save the world wasn't exactly the easiest thing to believe.
"I heard you-" Hiiro began but paused and commence to start his sentence over, "I heard the person controlling you call the blackness 'Shinu.' Maybe you should ask forgiveness and assistance."
"Yeah!" Duo agreed, "Pray to the thingy!"
"But this is so embarrassing! I mean, if nothing happens you'll all laugh at me!" She whined, "And you probably don't believe me anyways." She eyed the thin carpeting of the beige floor. Then the blue chair behind the door where Hiiro sat.
"I believe you." Quatre tuned in immediately. "If I actually witnessed the hellish miracle I saw," His voice bred a grim tone at remembrance, "then I believe you are Sailor Moon."
"I agree." They all tuned in at the same moment coordinating their voices.
The blanket of tension was lifted from the room. It was replaced with comfort. Wu fei did not show smiles or sadness, belief or doubt. He was pulling through all the possibilities in his mind. This was possible, there was no doubt.
She opened her mouth and closed her eyes. She began to pray, begging for forgiveness. Her words began to get louder and louder. She was almost screaming now. She stopped breathing. Then her words disappeared from her throat and her mouth began to play pretend. It was moving with no sound.
She felt a small tingle rise up her spine as she clutched the crystal to her chest. She opened her eyes and began to study her backdrop. She was standing in her room. Dust clung to her lungs as she inhaled for the first time in what must have been five minutes. The sun shone through her window.
She walked up to the door which led to her patio. Her plants were dieing. Leaves occupied the wood of her two-story-high deck. She slid the glass door shut and walked to her bed. It looked grimy and unused, dingy and bleached. It was covered in the dust also. She looked at her dresser and spotted her broach. She smiled and reached for it.
Another hand was there first. She watched the hand, not the owner, cleanse the film off of her locket. Then held it out with a motion for her to take it.
"I was hoping you would come soon." Said a male voice. She looked at him. He wore black-leather pants and coat with a black-cotton t-shirt. His hands were pale, but his face was tan. His red hair at shoulder-length framed his slender face; a face that had a sneaky look to it. His eyes were blue and timid though. She could see his strong build through his shirt and she gauged him to be about 16.
He interrupted her thoughts, "Are you going to take it?"
"Oh!" She fumbled over millions of words in her mind before she took it from his hand.
"I heard you think." He said with a mischievous and quick speaking tongue.
"What... What do you mean?" She stammered in confusion.
"I am." His voice was calm and slick.
"Am what?"
"I'm Shinu."
Okay people! I know I haven't updated in a while... I have no excuse. But all I can say is get me ten reviews and I'll update faster. I hope ya'll liked my chapter. And I'll try really, REALLY hard to post faster this time. I love all of ya'll!!!!!!!!! (EXCEPT for the stupid person who reviewed me a flame! Stick rotator...)
(I could not get my tenth reviewer because the site is overloaded at tis point in time)
*I do not believe in disclaimers
Chapter 14: The Crystal in Action
Duo looked around the corner and into the room that held his five friends. He walked towards Usagi and the nurse followed at his heel. He sat next to Usagi and the nurse looked at her.
"Thank you Usagi. I mean-" She eyed Duo's pants trying to emphasize her meaning.
"Oh! No problem Hodoi!" She gave a small smile with red on her cheeks.
"Now." Hiiro demanded, "Tell me." A look on his face told her not to joke around and that this was no time to fool.
"Okay...I'll begin from where I ran into my cat, Luna-" She began to go into thousands of stories of sailor moon, of her losses and her gains. Her friends and enemies, Sailor Chaos and Sailor Galaxia. She began to cry at some points and then laugh at others. It was four hours later before she was able to finish.
"So," Trowa said, "You're relation with the Tokyo Police force is actually being Sailor Moon and you have no way to prove this to us because you're amulet is at your home on your dresser collecting dust."
"I have this doohickey thingamabob." Duo said grabbing the misty rock from his pocket and shoving it in her hand. She studied it carefully as if this might be a playfull trick. "I got it from your body when I was inside you. Or my hand anyways," He added cautiously giving a glance at Hiiro.
"You did?!" She asked in amazement. She stood up with it and began to pace, mumbling to her self, "Could it be...no, no, no...maybe...nah...I don't get it!" she strained in frustration. She walked on minutes on end trying to decide on a hypothesis that was possible.
"That little thing is what caused the evil inside of you." Wu fei said, rubbing his neck and eyeing the thing. "When I look at it, my neck and hands burn where I touched it."
"Yes, whole body gets the feeling it had when I was dieing, but of a much lesser volume." Quatre added in.
Trowa began to study them with no concerned look on his face, not a glimmer in his eye, but the air carried his worry through the room. "My stomach throbs where the spike entered my body, I guess no where else because I was already dieing at that point."
Hiiro put his leg on his chair and pushed his hand through his mess of brown hair. He rested his head on his knee and gritted his teeth.
"What's wrong Hiiro?" Duo asked in a concerned look that hardly ever crossed his face. "I'll get you some Tylenol real quick-"
"No!" Hiiro ordered.
Usagi looked at him in a sorrowful glance. "I'm sorry Hiiro, did I do something wrong?"
"No," he said, "I feel it too."
"Feel what?" Duo asked in confusion, "You didn't die. You were there with me."
"I did. It was right after you announced it was time to get serious. You were aggravated. I tried to call for assistance... but it got me through the throat. I couldn't vocalize." He looked to the floor, "It was worse than getting shot... worse than breaking my arms or legs. Worse than any pain I have experienced. I was slowly burning away, but all I could think about was Usagi."
She smiled as she looked at the clock. But then a question crossed her mind. "Hiiro," She demanded, "when were you shot? When did you break your bones?"
"I can't answer that," he simply stated.
"Why not?!" She shouted in an annoyed and exasperated tone.
"Because then, I will have to kill you." He left it at that.
~*~Later~*~
It was, luckily, a beautiful Sunday again. Because of religions, the boot camps could not make them work or train. The pool's thermometer was up to a warm temperature, for it was nearing winter and the pool stayed one temperature because of the heater.
The water of the pool shined brilliantly in the sun and the trees began to change their blankets to brown and red. It was the most beautiful thing Usagi had seen. The city had very few trees. And to witness this was a new experience.
But she witnessed this through the barbed-wire fence that held the prisoners in; the laboring and training prisoners that would go and join the army when they left this god-forsaken place. She would return home and forget the army and military forces. She would be happy to get a break from the consistent working, moving, racing, training, and punishment.
Speaking of punishment... Duo was undergoing a very rigorous one. He had to stand on top of a pole and hold both arms out at shoulder level. And for three hours straight, if he moved, five minutes would be added. She was astonished at what he got this chastisement for. Nobody would have guessed.
Taking fudge from the general's office. Whoopee. What an offense. Usagi didn't understand the concept of three hours for one chocolate. But there was nothing she could do.
But, after claiming temporary insanity the general stated that he didn't remember kicking or assaulting her. That was just fine; he went easier on her now. But she guessed it wouldn't be long before he buckled down more.
She was on her toes more and she held her guard for more than anything conspicuous. She calmed down a bit after a while. She got less jumpy, and she kept the conversations and meetings between Hiiro and herself down to a lower volume. She was happy through this now. She had everything she wanted.
But, after two weeks, Duo began to study the object more closely since nobody but Usagi and himself could get near it. He began to form guesses that were strictly scientific and to his training. But one would guess Duo would be the kind of person to say things of aliens.
"I was thinking Usagi-" Duo began, but Wu fei interrupted.
"You were actually thinking for once?!" Wu fei stated in fake amazement, all meant through sarcasm.
They were sitting in the cafeteria for the last meal of the day and it was Usagi, Duo, Wu fei, and Hiiro who sat at the table. Hiiro was mindlessly typing on his laptop. The cafeteria was loud and deafening. But the table in which they occupied was empty in every seat except for the four they sat in.
There were blue stools that crooked to one side to allow legroom. They were latched under the table to where they would not budge. And the tables, once white, were now a beige color.
"I was wondering," Duo began again, shooting a side ways glance at the Chinese man who sat across from him, "Do you think you could transform with this? I mean... it was evil, but maybe it's not any more."
"I'll try in the room tonight. I'm certainly not going to try in the middle of the lunch room." She stated the obvious teasingly.
"That's what I meant." But he swiftly remembered something from the back of his mind. "Did you hear? I was talking to Hodoi and she says they're building the construction site up to 20 stories! They are planning to become a major criminal facility for the kids who plan to attend the military. They're really expanding."
"I don't like that place. It gives me goose bumps. And it has a strange aura." She stated with chills creeping up her back and into her spine
"Well. After showers tonight, are you going to transform?" He confirmed. He didn't ant anticipation to build inside him until he got confirmation.
"I won't let you down!" she said with an innocent smile.
"Are you going to be in a mini-skirt like those other girls we saw?" Hiiro asked with an uncharacteristic gleam in his eye. It sounded pleasurable. and the leader always has the best uniform.
~*~Later~*~
She held the misty-white crystal above her head and screamed to the air, "Moon Crystal Make Up!"
Nothing happened. She stood there and Duo held a corny smile while Quatre was fighting back his own giggles trying to stay serious. Hiiro eyed her and began to look for something different. She was the same, zero difference.
"Maybe you have to scream something else at us." Trowa suggested. He did not understand that she wasn't screaming at them.
"I'm not screaming at you." She said in a raised tone of annoyance, "I'm simply calling to the moon to transform me."
"That makes a lot more sense." Wu fei muttered. He did not see the point in this... Onnas parading around in mini-skirts trying to save the world wasn't exactly the easiest thing to believe.
"I heard you-" Hiiro began but paused and commence to start his sentence over, "I heard the person controlling you call the blackness 'Shinu.' Maybe you should ask forgiveness and assistance."
"Yeah!" Duo agreed, "Pray to the thingy!"
"But this is so embarrassing! I mean, if nothing happens you'll all laugh at me!" She whined, "And you probably don't believe me anyways." She eyed the thin carpeting of the beige floor. Then the blue chair behind the door where Hiiro sat.
"I believe you." Quatre tuned in immediately. "If I actually witnessed the hellish miracle I saw," His voice bred a grim tone at remembrance, "then I believe you are Sailor Moon."
"I agree." They all tuned in at the same moment coordinating their voices.
The blanket of tension was lifted from the room. It was replaced with comfort. Wu fei did not show smiles or sadness, belief or doubt. He was pulling through all the possibilities in his mind. This was possible, there was no doubt.
She opened her mouth and closed her eyes. She began to pray, begging for forgiveness. Her words began to get louder and louder. She was almost screaming now. She stopped breathing. Then her words disappeared from her throat and her mouth began to play pretend. It was moving with no sound.
She felt a small tingle rise up her spine as she clutched the crystal to her chest. She opened her eyes and began to study her backdrop. She was standing in her room. Dust clung to her lungs as she inhaled for the first time in what must have been five minutes. The sun shone through her window.
She walked up to the door which led to her patio. Her plants were dieing. Leaves occupied the wood of her two-story-high deck. She slid the glass door shut and walked to her bed. It looked grimy and unused, dingy and bleached. It was covered in the dust also. She looked at her dresser and spotted her broach. She smiled and reached for it.
Another hand was there first. She watched the hand, not the owner, cleanse the film off of her locket. Then held it out with a motion for her to take it.
"I was hoping you would come soon." Said a male voice. She looked at him. He wore black-leather pants and coat with a black-cotton t-shirt. His hands were pale, but his face was tan. His red hair at shoulder-length framed his slender face; a face that had a sneaky look to it. His eyes were blue and timid though. She could see his strong build through his shirt and she gauged him to be about 16.
He interrupted her thoughts, "Are you going to take it?"
"Oh!" She fumbled over millions of words in her mind before she took it from his hand.
"I heard you think." He said with a mischievous and quick speaking tongue.
"What... What do you mean?" She stammered in confusion.
"I am." His voice was calm and slick.
"Am what?"
"I'm Shinu."
Okay people! I know I haven't updated in a while... I have no excuse. But all I can say is get me ten reviews and I'll update faster. I hope ya'll liked my chapter. And I'll try really, REALLY hard to post faster this time. I love all of ya'll!!!!!!!!! (EXCEPT for the stupid person who reviewed me a flame! Stick rotator...)