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Disclaimer: Sailor Moon (aka Tsukino Usagi), Tsukino Ikuko, Tsukino Kenji, Tsukino Shingo, Sailor Mercury (aka Mizuno Ami), Dr. Mizuno, Sailor Mars (aka Hiro Rei), Sailor Jupiter ( Kino Makoto), Sailor Saturn ( aka Tomoe Hotaru ), Sailor Uranus (aka Tenou Haruka ), Sailor Neptune ( Kaiou Michiru), Sailor Pluto (Meiou Setsuna), Tuxedo Kamen (Chiba Mamoru), Oosaka Naru, Uwara Ryo, Kenichi, Kumada Yuuichirou, Umino Gurio, Palla-Palla/ Sailor Pallas, Pharaoh 90, and Mistress 9: and the Hikawa Shrine/ Cherry Hill Temple (Americanized) and Juuban Junior High School are the copyrighted Property of Takeuchi Naoko, Toie, and DiC. They are not mine.
NOTE: The singing continues. The lyrics Kelly sings are from "Everybody Loves Somebody", by Dean Martin.
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As soon as the plane parked at the terminal, Dr. Mizuno, Mrs. Graham, Ami, Kelly, and Fu entered Tokyo International Airport.
"Have arrangements been made to pick us up ?" Mrs. Graham asked.
"That doesn't .. seem .. to be neccesary, Billie-san !" Dr. Mizuno answered.
A young man was holding up a placard: "Welcome, Mizuno-tachi and Graham-
tachi".
"Let me guess-" Kelly mused. "Uwada Ryu-san ?"
"Ryu-san !" Ami called out. "Arigato ! You've met my mother, and this is my
bother, Kelly Graham, and his mother !"
"Konnichi-wa, Kelly-san ! Konnichi-wa, Graham-sama !" Ryu bowed. "I've been
waiting to meet you !"
"Ah !" Kelly smiled. "You are Uwada Ryu-san ! Ami has spoken of you.." Kelly
bowed, "very highly !" Ryu's shade of pink was matched only by Ami's. "May we
go for our bags ?"
The Mizuno apartment in Juuban was, Kelly and his mom both thought, a bit snug.
But, Dr. Mizuno assured boths Grahams that they would not be a bother.
"There is room enough." Dr. Mizuno said as bags were unpacked. "Just.. what is
it Americans say ?.. 'Stake your claim' ?"
As soon as the Grahams were settled in the Mizuno apartment, Ami, Kelly, Fu, and
Ryu made their way to the Hikawa shrine. "I haven't climbed this high a hill,"
Kelly told Ami, "since I went to college !"
"Are you tiring ?" Ami asked. "We CAN slow down if you need to rest."
"Hardly !" Kelly reassured his sister. "I've have rarely felt this alive ! Or
free !" Kelly hugged his sister. Then he hugged Ryu.
Soon a race ensued between brother and sister up the hill, ending at the steps
of the shrine. Ryu smiled and looked to Fu as he watched the two racers. "We
should slow down a bit", Kelly said, finally a bit out of breath.
"I.. was going..", puffed Ami, "to.. suggest that !" They stood there long
enough to regain their breaths. As Ryu and Fu jogged up to meet them, the four
friends walked up the steps to the shrine.
When they entered the compound, the assembled Senshi introduced themselves to
the tall Texan. They introduced themselves in order : Usagi and Chibi-Usa, Rei,
Makoto, Minako, Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna.
"And, this," Kelly said, "is my friend and advisor, Shih-tzu Fu." Fu bowed to
the Senshi.
"Ah !" Came a voice from ground-level. "I seem to remember you, Shih-tzu Fu ! A
more loyal official of the Court of Mercury could not be found !"
"Thank you for the kindness, Luna !" Fu bowed once more. "Hello, Artimis ! It
is good to see you both again."
"As it is good to see you, too, Shih-Tzu Fu !" Artimis said.
The introductions went well.. until Setsuna was introduced. "Greetings, Palu-san!"
Pluto said coolly. "I trust your journey has been a good one ?"
"Until now, Sailor Senshi," Kelly returned the icy reception, "it has."
You could cut the tension in the air with a knife.
"Kelly- san," Usagi asked worriedly, "what is wrong ?"
Kelly shook himself back to today. "Sorry, Your Highness. It is just an old..
disagreement.. between the Houses of Mercury and Pluto." He bowed to Usagi, and
then to Setsuna. "I shall try to remember myself. I am a guest here."
He then turned to face Naru. "This, I believe," he said taking out the pendant,
"is yours, my Princess ?" For the second time in over 1000 years, the pendant
was placed around Naru's neck. Kelly was very careful about putting the pendant
around Naru's neck. "I offer this pendant as a token of my love. May the Dragon
of Mercury watch over you !" He bowed to the young Lunar princess.
"Oh, Palu !" Naru sobbed. "I thought that I had lost you !"
Kelly, once Palu, cupped his hands under Naru's chin and looked gently into her
eyes. "Naru. What is to be will be.. no matter the road taken." Kelly spoke just
loud enough to attract (or disturb ?) the Senshi of Time. "That has always
been.. and shall always be. Would you like to go for a walk ?"
"I would like that," Naru softly smiled, "very much." They left the shrine.
"What is the matter between your brother and Setsuma-sama ?" Usagi asked Ami in
a whisper.
"Over a thousand years of unanswered questions, Usagi-chan." Ami quietly
lamented. "Questions that almost forced my brother to forego his reunion with
Naru-chan." Her eyes turned to ice along with her voice. "Those same questions
will probably come to haunt us."
Ryu touched Ami's shoulder reassuringly as his earlier warning replayed itself
in her mind. "I hope Kelly will be alright !" Ami whispered as a tear escaped
her.
"I'm sorry that had to happen in front of your sister." Kelly apologized to Naru
as they walked amongst the trees and hills. "I figure this has hurt her. And I
remember how upset you used to get when Usagi used to get hurt, my princess."
Naru softly kissed Kelly. "I still do," she said, "but I could see this coming.
I even warned Usagi about it ! I told her that some unfinished business might
demand our attention, although I did not say what exactly it could be. I
remember the war, too," Her soft eyes looked into Kelly's. "You were always
worried that things weren't done that could have been ! And you worried about
our families. I guess that was what drew me to you. You cared, so much." She
wrapped herself around the tall redhead. "What made you care for me ?"
Kelly held Naru close. "You, Naru, were- are- too much like me, I guess. You
care about others, and you feel too much like an outsider. Even during the
Millenium." He smiled. "Someone was definitely watching over us when we were
brought together !" He and Naru walked on to a quiet grove, where Kelly gently
scooped up Naru and rocked her to a slow song. Naru felt her lids grow heavy as
she snuggled into Kelly's embrace to an old American pop song:
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"Everybody loves somebody sometime, everybody falls in love somehow. Something in you kiss just told me my 'sometime' is now ! "Everybody loves somebody someplace, there's no telling where love may appear. Something in your eyes keeps saying my 'someplace' is here!"
"Everybody somebody needs somebody, someplace,
There's no telling where love may appear!
"Something in your kiss keps saying
My someplace is here."
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Kelly took Naru in his arms, and - shamelessly, in front of half of the District of Juuban - started to dance Naru somewhere between a waltze and a tango:
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"If I had it in me power,
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms.
Then every minute, every hour,
Every boy would find what I found in your arms!"
"Everybody loves somebody sometime,
and although my dream was overdue,
your kiss made it all worth waiting
for someone like you"
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Sometime during the dance, Naru swore that Tokyo seemed to vanish-
to be replaced by the skating-areas of the Lunarian Kingdom!
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"If I had it in me power,
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms.
Then every minute, every hour,
Every boy would find what I found in your arms!"
"Everybody loves somebody sometime,
and although my dream was overdue,
your kiss made it all worth waiting
for someone like you"
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"Kelly ?" Naru smiled, "I'm drifting off to sleep!"
"I'll wake you when we leave." Kelly smiled to his lady. "It is just that I haven't been able to hold you like this in over a thousand years. And the last time was too frightening to bring pleasant memories."
"But you are here. Now." Naru whispered through her smile.
"Hai." Kelly held her close. "I am here. Although I do not know how long I will be here for you now." Kelly held Naru tighter. "But, I do know this! I will always be around whenever you need me !" Kelly and Naru sat there, enjoying the sun as it descended in the afternoon sky. Then they walked back through the park and back to the Hikawa Shrine, stopping to buy some street-vendor's food and to admire the setting sun. They walked in silence.
Then they entered the Jinja:
"I do not care how you perceive him," Usagi said to Setsuma, "Ami's brother is NOT evil !"
"I agree weith Usagi !" Rei echoed. "If I had sensed evil, I would have said so, and loudly!"
"Rei-chan ! Usagi-chan !" Sailor Pluto said. "I did not say he was 'evil'! I just said Kelly- sama is dangerous ! And that we need to keep a watch on him while he's here !"
"I say we should find out if he is a threat to the Princess," Sailor Uranus said, "and if he is.. we deal with him as such ! We can ill-afford a threat from within !"
"So." Usagi's voice turned to ice. "You have already decided Kelly is a threat ? Without hearing him ?"
"Usagi," Setsuma said condescendingly, "it seems harsh, I know, but I can tell you this is for the best !"
"'For the best'?" Usagi looked straight into the eyes of the Senshi of Revolution, "Just like it was 'for the best' when you allowed Haruka and Michiru to hunt down Hotaru for execution ? Even when, without Saturn's help, Pharoah 90 and Mistress 9 would have destroyed all ? Hai ! It was all 'For the best', Meiou-sama." Usagi's blue eyes never waivered from Meiou Setsuma-san. And the Senshi or Pluto suddenly felt strangely ill.
"Usagi-chan !" Sailor Uranus interjected. "We only did what was needed ! And everything was put streight in the end !"
"Haruka-san.." Ami started to slowly answer Sailor Uranus, but then stopped in mid-sentence.
"Oh," Kelly tried to say without sounding too offended or sarcastic. "did we interrupt something ?" Naru tried not to laugh- or even grin.
"Konnichi-wa.. Graham-Sama !" Rei said a bit nervously.
"Konnichi-wa-Rei-chan! I did not know the Japanese were so into talking about Black Sheep", Kelly commented.
"Ara.." asked Makoto, " 'Black.. Sheep' ?"
"'Black Sheep'", said Kelly, ponting to himself, "are those members of the family that other family-members", he pointed to the Senshi, "love to talk about- until the subject-of-conversation enters the room." Most of the Senshi facefaulted after Ami translated what her brother had said. The only exception was Ami. Almost all of the facefaulting Senshi were crimson, save for Usagi. Usagi facefaulted to try to hide her smile.
"Ami," Kelly said, "I think I better get back to the house," adding in a lower tone, "before I start World War 3."
"Maaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaake sure you are baaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaack at the house before our mothers get worried, Ami-imouto!" Kelly grinned.
"I will, Niisan!" Ami chirped and bowed.
"Sayonara, Usagi!" Naru smiled, a bit wickedly. "Baaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa."
"Do not laugh, Usagi?" Ami muttered low. "Onegai?"
"Hai." Usagi hissed through her teeth. "Senshi lose enough face at one meeting."
With that, Kelly and Naru left the shrine.
"Arigato, Kelly-san," Naru blushed, "for coming here."
"You are most welcome, Naru !" Kelly bowed. "I only wish.. my presence here did not raise such an alarm. I guess.. old questions- old hurts- die a hard, slow death." He looked toward the setting sun. "Much has changed.. and much remains the same."
"As my love for you, Kelly-san." Naru softly said. "As for Setsuna.."
"She may have a right to be concerned, Naru-chan !" Kelly told Naru. "I have an uneasiness. Someone is out there. Their's are black dreams and white schemes. And, I fear, they plan to use me in those schemes."
"And ?" Asked Naru. "What of you ?"
"I am here," Kelly said, "for you.. and Usagi !"
"Arigato, Kelly-san !" Naru hugged Kelly lightly. Then she added with a smile. "Usagi expects you, your mother, Ami, Dr. Mizuno, and my family for dinner tonight !"
"Our itinerary is already planned, is it ?" Kelly smiled.
"Hai !" Naru laughed.
"Hello, young Master !" Fu said as he appears with the couple.
"Why did you not stay at the shrine, Fu ?" Kelly asked. "My sister may have needed the backup."
"She is the one who sent me here !" Fu replied. "Although, I will admit, I was going to leave. I begin to fear this place."
"Come, Fu ! All the Senshi are not as bad as Pluto ! Although," Kelly thought aloud, "Haruka and Michiru DO come close."
"You noticed ?" Naru asked.
"Who wouldn't !" Kelly sighed. "They have a martial aire to them! 'Patton'-Sama and 'Rommel'- Sama they are!"
Naru giggled. "They CAN be overzealous !"
"Who are you talking about ?"
Kelly, Naru, and Fu turned around to see who spoke.. and found themselves facing a young woman in metallic-blue with short-crooped blue hair, balancing on a large ball on the slope of the hill.
"Who are you ?" Kelly asked the Balancing lady.
"Iie ... answer my question first !" The acrobat said.
"We were talking about the Senshi." Kelly said casually.
"Oh. Which ones ?" The acrobat continued.
"Does it really matter ?" Fu asked.
"Hai! Because I asked !" The blue-haired balancer said.
"Well, then !" Kelly bowed. "It is the Senshi of Uranus and Neptune ! They remind me of two old warriors of the last war in Europe. To them, war was the ONLY thing in life !"
"Ah ! Well.. Can I ask another question, then ?" The balancer asked as she came down the hill.
"You can." Kelly answered, stepping protectively in front of Naru. "I may even answer it."
"Kelly- be careful !" Naru warned. "That is Sailor Pallas."
"Hai !" The balancer bowed. "Palla-Palla is honored to meet you, houshi! And how is Miko of Earth?"
"I am well, Pallas." Naru replied evenly.
"Palla-Palla, now !" Palla-Palla pouted, then smiled. "Palla-Palla, always !"
Palla-Palla then turned back to Kelly. "Have dreams been important to Priest and Priestess ?"
"I can't answer for Naru," Kelly said, "but some have been important to me. Why do you ask?"
"Palla-Palla been told to hunt for beautiful dreamers. Just thought Palla-Palla ask if dreams that important to people. Now... to find Golden Mirror !" A flick of a cape- and three balls started floating in front of Pall-Palla. Palla-Palla then took a cue ball and a pool cue, and struck the three balls.
"FALL DOWN !" Naru cried out to Kelly and Fu. They dropped to the ground a half-second before the balls would have shot through them.
"Fu !" Kelly ordered. "Transform and get the Senshi out here !"
"Why did you do that ?" Palla-Palla pouted. "Make Palla-Palla miss !"
"THAT'S the reason we did it, Palla-Palla !" Naru said a bit loudly.
"Just make Palla-Palla start all over again." Palla-Palla giggled. "Actually, Palla-Palla have FUN this time !"
"Glad you're enjoying this, Palla-Palla." Kelly smiled.. then chanted. "I call upon the power of Mercury !" Kelly transformed into his blue-and-khaki uniform. "I hope you can keep your balance on that ball, Palla-Palla." Kelly smiled, "Mercury Sandstorm BLAST !" The sands of Mercury's priest blasted Palla-Palla's ball up the hill, causing it's rider to wildly adjust to the bouncing and veering.
"Mercury Outcrop THRUST !" The balancing ball was thrust into the air by a sharp outcropping of rock, causing the Senshi of Pallas to totally loose a tedious balance and fall off the ball. She landed on the ground with an almost-feline grace.
"TA-DA ! Palla-Palla lands on feet again ! Palla-Palla go now , play.."
"Playtime's over, Palla-Palla !" Sailor Mercury called out.
"How DARE you interupt a life that has only now been set right !" Sailor Moon said.
"And play puppet-master with hearts learning to love again !" Sailor Chibimoon said.
"In the name of the Moon.. WE WILL PUNISH YOU !"
"PallaPalla in trouble, now?" PallaPalla giggled. "Game not over, houshi!
PallaPalla be back !" With this, Palla-Palla tossed her balancing ball up into
the air, jumped straight up.. and disappeared.
"Oh.. boy!" Kelly slowly said to Naru. "I think.. I have just met trouble. Well, I will deal with it when it comes."
"WE'll deal with it !" Naru said. "You will NOT go through this ALONE !" Naru's face grew dark. "The Senshi be damned, if it comes to a fight !"
"You do not know how closely you speak the truth, Naru-chan." Kelly whispered. "To save your sister future-grief, the Senshi MAY have to be fought.. now."
"At least, the Outer Senshi." Mercury said softly as she came up to Kelly and Naru. "That is a regrettable given !"
"I hope I haven't started a civil war among the Senshi." Mercury's Priest sighed.
"It's been brewing." Mercury's Senshi assured him. "You've seen Uranus and Neptune ? How they act ?"
"I commented on their militancy", the Preist said, "already to Naru.. and Palla-Palla."
"Well," sighed the Senshi of Water, "this was one of their quieter days."
The Warrior and Priest de-transformed.
Ami, Kelly, Naru, and Fu started back home.
"Don't forget !" Naru said as they parted ways. "Dinner is at Usagi's !"
"We won't forget !" Ami replied.
In their best clothes (Mrs. Graham's insistance), the families Graham and Mizuno
met for dinner with the families Tsukino and Oosaka. Kelly remembered to be on
his best behavior for the sake of his mom. Fortunately the Tsukino-household
wasn't the most-formal in Juuban.
"Arigato, Ikuko-sama !" Kelly and his mother said. "Dinner was supurb !"
"You are welcome !" Ikuko blushed. "But, in truth, it is Usagi who must recieve the thanks ! She was much help to me."
"I only made the curry !" Usagi said in protest.
"So ?" Kenji-san asked. "This is Ami-chan's brother ? A gentleman !"
"Just a humble rogue am I !" Kelly apologized. "If there is any polish on this
stone, it is my mother's doing, not mine!" Mrs. Graham blushed a bit.
"So !" Kenji-san said. "You are Naru-chan's beloved, hai ?" Naru blushed.
"A thousand years back I was, hai." Kelly bowed. "Much can happen in a thousand years ! Much to seperate ! Our relationship must start afresh, I think." Kelly sighed a bit at that last thought.
"It seemed to get a good start-off earlier, Ami-chan !" Usagi whispered.
"Usagi-chan !" Ami chided Usagi, before giggling lightly, in spite of herself. Naru blushed at the whispered words. This caused Kelly to blush, which made Naru redden much more.
"I think we have a blushing contest here !" Shingo laughed. At this, both Naru and Kelly looked for places to hide.
"Usagi-chan ?" Naru bleated.
"Come on," Usagi smiled, "I think we've tormented them enough for one night !"
The dinner-guests moved to the Living-Area, where the evening was taken up with stories and songs - and games, including a no-holds-barred poker game for the parents. The children moved off to board and video games. And more tales about America from Kelly.
After a few minutes, Kelly and Usagi, goaded by Ami and Naru and Shingo, were deep in a "SAilor V" game. "YIIIAAAAAAHH ! Take THAT, Creepy !" Kelly cried out. "I like spiders, but NOT when they're that big ! 'And another bites the dust'... Gotcha !"
"You sure are good at this, Kelly !" Usagi said, smiling.
"OUCH ! Not really." Kelly laughed as he died. "I'm not that good. This is more like a test of my motor-coordination ! My hands and fingers don't really work that well."
"Well," Shingo said, "you're still good at it !"
"How about coordinating your mind ?" Ami asked, getting a boardgame down.
"What ?" Kelly asked. "AH ! A round of Go ! Perfect !"
"You have played before ?" Ami asked.
"Learning about it", Kelly said.
The next two hours was taken up by a game of stategy. Even Usagi, Naru, and Shingo were drawn into it. The stomes seemed to form waves as, like the tides of Tokyo Bay, the battle ebbed and flowed. Directions were changed; reversals became encirclements; lures begat traps.
"I thought you said you were just learning this game, Kelly ?" Ami commented.
"Well.." Kelly drawled. "I.. guess.. we played it a bit during the Silver Millenium."
"Actually," Naru smiled, "you were quite good at it, Kelly! It would frustrate the Princesses of Uranus and Neptune that they could never beat you on their trips to Mercury and the Moon !"
"Well," Kelly said, "You cannot win with superior numbers if you cannot use those superior numbers!"
As she and Kelly continued to play, Ami thought 'Is this a preview of my brother's war with the Senshi ?'
After The families Oosaka, Mizuno, and Graham bid the Tsukino-house a good night, Kelly looked to Ami. "You seemed a bit.. nervous.. as we played Go, Ami."
"I.. I did ?" Ami almost jumped as she responded.
"Hai." Kelly smiled. "Do not worry ! I have no wish to harm Usagi-chan !"
In the front seats, Dr. Mizuno and Mrs. Graham were strangely silent. It was as if each tried to gauge their children's reactions.
"Hai. I know." Ami said. "Gomen. It is just, as we were playing Go, I could not help but think you were contemplating fighting the Senshi."
"I was." Kelly sadly smiled. "I do not wish a fight. But Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto may force one. If that happens," Kelly dropped his voice down, "I may need Senshi to bait.. a rabbit-trap !"
Ami froze for a second as what her brother said hit her.
"Would Usagi willingly go through this test ?" was all Kelly asked.
The chilled feeling Ami felt tightened it's grip on her.
"Best that you stay as close to the Inner Senshi the next couple of days as you can !" Kelly advised his sister. "There's is no reason they should over-react."
"Overreact ?" Ami blurted out.
"I know, when Palla-Palla comes for me.. the Outer Senshi will be the first to react, because I threaten Pluto's timeline. If Pluto feels threatened, then Uranus and Neptune will react. AND !" Kelly said this slowly. "This- is a test Usagi must pass- or fail- om her own ! No help will be tolerated !" As he spoke, Kelly wrote a note out. He then handed the note to his mother.
"Mom ?" Kelly asked. "Don't open and read that until Palla-Pallas catches me.. Fu will tell you when you can read it."
After a restless night, Ami nervously went on to school and Kelly spent the next few hours looking out over Tokyo Bay and wandering the cliffs and beaches. About lunchtime Fu Shih-Tsu found his Master and tried to calm him a little with sound lunch and words of encuoragement.
"This shall all come out as if should, Master ! The lady Usagi shall be stronger for it. You will see !"
"You're sounding too damned much like Setsuna, Fu !" Kelly growled. "If there is one thing I rail against now, it is 'Fate' ! It hangs over us like a millstone."
"I am sorry, Master." Fu bowed humbly. "The Senshi of Pluto has managed to upset you ?"
"As she always had before." Kelly answered. "She follows fate to the same end as before ! The die is already cast. The Crystal Millenium shall follow in the shadow of the Silver Millenium. To the end. The script has been written."
"But, it CAN be rewritten !" Fu reassured the Priest of Murcury.
"If Usagi has the strength to pass the test !" Kelly interjected. "And... if I have the strength to test her !"
"Naru-chan waits to have lunch with you, Master !" Fu changed the subject.
"Ah !" Kelly brightened. "And how has Earth's Miko managed to get me onto the schoolgrounds ?"
"I haven't !" Naru called out. "We're eating at a teahouse not far from here !
It has a beatiful view of the ocean." Naru's smile managed to somehow drive the
dark-mood Kelly was in away.
The luncheoun was light but wonderful, and the tea-ceremony seemed to calm Kelly
all the more. And Naru's smile and soft laughter helped fight down his rising
fears. The soft music of the stringed instruments blended beautifully with the
distant waves.
"I needed this !" Kelly sighed upon leaving the teahouse as the wondered the garden.
"I know," Naru whispered, "it is written in your face."
"Nothing stays hid from you, Naru-sama !" Kelly laughed.
"Iie.." Naru smiled. "Not much !" then she looked straight into Kelly's eyes. "Usagi will be all right."
"Will she ?" Kelly asked. "As soon as I saw Pallas I knew what would happen. I had a feeling before then, but I hoped.."
"USAGI will be all right !" Naru interupted. "I know me sister." Naru's smile again pushed down Kelly's fears. "And so will me and Ami !"
"What of the other Senshi- As much Usagi's sisters as Ami- and just a little less than you ? And what of Chibiusa ?"
"It is because of us.. for us.. that Usagi will triumph." Naru said slowly. "As long as she sees what lies ahead !"
"Hai !" Kelly said with confidence. "But getting there will be tough." Kelly said cautiously.
"Is Para-Para interrupting anything ?" Para-Para asked from atop her ball.
"Not at all, Para-Para !" Kelly said cheerfully. "You're right on time !"
Waltzing Naru out of harm's way, Kelly yelled to Fu. "Get Naru to safety !"
"Don't worry about Priestess, Priest !" Para-Para smiled as she lined up the cueball. "Para-Para not after her."
Kelly's crystal-mirror popped out of his body. Kelly sank to the ground.. to rise in a shriveled form with pointed ears and sandy skin.
"Oops ! Para-Para do bad thing !" Then Para-Para clapped her hands. "Para-Para having fun ! But no Golden Mirror."
"Will see who has fun !" The thing that had been Kelly said. "Time for test ! Para-Para go now !" The Priest raised his hand. "In the name of Murcury, I summon the rockthrust !" Para-Para and her ball were bounced a second time. "Now !" Said the Priest of Mercury, "to remove Senshi from test !"
To be continued in.
Chapter 5