Notes: This chapter was a song fiction, but since the rules have changed the two songs that were on here are deleted and the chapter was edited. Thank you for your time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or any other animes in this fiction. (Except for my own character that is.)
CHAPTER THREE: Ski Resort, Part One
The Sailor Scouts had gathered at the place in the park near the big water fountain. Ray looked at her watch impatiently.
"Where the hell IS he!" she complained. About that time, a large, white family van pulled up to the stop next to them. The window rolled down and out popped Goken's face with a smile.
"You complained?" he joked. This earned him a playful punch in the arm. He passed it off and stepped out of the large vehicle. He opened the sliding door and bowed down to them, "Your chariot awaits, my ladies."
They all laughed at his uncanny sense of humor and piled into the car with Lita sitting in the front passenger seat.
"Where are we headed Goken." asked Rinni. Goken shut the car door and sat in the driver seat. He held up tickets and a few packets. One showed off a huge log cabin on an alpine mountain surrounded by snow.
"Mount Fusaniagi Log Cabin Resort rentals. I planed to take us all to a little vacation in the mountains. Sledding, skiing, snowboarding, fun in the winter wonderland kind of stuff," he answered. He started the car and began driving towards the outskirts of Tokyo.
"It'll take about a day of driving to get there so I rented a van with a DVD player, a game cube system, and some fold down seats to make a little bed for you girls." They all gave a little cheer and settled down to some books and CD players. Lita stared at Goken with great admiration. She admired him for thinking so highly of them and making sure they were comfortable always. She loved that he cared for them all so much. She frowned slightly when she thought, "but he wouldn't single me out to act like that towards."
Goken noticed that the girl beside him had a sad expression on her features and gave a sideways glance to make sure he wasn't seeing things. The usually cheerful Lita had something heavy on her mind. Goken looked back at the road heading up into the mountains.
'I'll wait until the others are asleep to ask her.' He switched gears to compensate for the steeper incline on the road. 'She looks like she's bothered by something.'
He switched gears to compensate for the steeper incline on the road.The van sped on up the hill road towards the mountains. Meanwhile, a woman sat in the shadows on her throne of ice in the Fusaniagi Mountain range. She stared intently at the ice globe in front of her. A white van hugged the curving road towards the mountain. She put a hand out and crushed a frozen stalactite to dust.
"Those little children won't know what hit them," she said with a chuckle.
"They will join the beauty of ice and snow and become loyal servants to the Sanjiara Clan!" He chuckle turned to evil laughter as the van in the globe sped on through the night.
Goken checked the rear view mirror for the women in the car. They were all asleep with the seats folded down for a little bed. Serena, Ray, Rinni, Mina and Amy lie under a large quilt. The cats, Luna and Artimus, lie in a corner curled up together. Lita was the only one awake. She was staring out at the frozen snowflakes that hit the windshield before being wiped off by the windshield wipers.
'Okay,' Thought Goken, 'this is as good a time as any.' He took in a little air and began speaking.
Thought Goken, He took in a little air and began speaking."Hey, Lita?" he asked. The young woman responded by turning her head towards him.
"Yea?" she replied. He turned his eyes to her, then back to the road.
"What was wrong back there? You looked depressed and... Sad." he stated.
Lita looked over at him. "What do you mean Goken?" she asked.
He turned his eyes to her again. "I mean you just looked like you lost the love of your life or something like that." Lita quickly thought up a lie.
"Oh no, I was just a little tired from the previous fights. They are wearing me down a bit." she said. Goken nodded and returned his thoughts to driving not totally satisfied with the answer but decided not to press on in the matter.
A bit later, Lita too fell asleep which left Goken to himself. He kept checking on the girls and every now and then pulling a kicked off quilt back over them, Getting slightly tired of the quiet, he put in some Wheatus music. Although turned down, he could hear the sound clearly. He switched to Teenage Dirtbag and listened to the song. After several longs minutesGoken turned to another song that he liked on it, I Can Be Your Hero.
Minutes later.
Goken sighed and listened to the music beating steadily from the car stereos and gripped the car wheel and continued to drive on the snaking roads. Goken heard a slight moan from in back and Ray poked her head out front to see what was happening.
"What's up Goken? You need a driver switch?" she asked. He looked at her in the rear view mirror and answered.
"No, thank you though." Ray switched her gaze from the man driving to Lita, who was sound asleep. The woman noticed her friend had Goken's cape over her and she was snuggling up in it. A question appeared in Ray's head that she needed to ask.
"You like her... don't you." she said, keeping quiet. Goken once again sighed and looked at Lita from the corner of his eye.
"Yes I like her...a little." he answered. Ray pressed on a little.
"Are you sure it's just a little." she asked. The driver remained silent as if he never heard the question. Ray mentally kicked herself for doing that.
'He needs his privacy you cluts.' she told herself. She yawned and started receding back to the "bedroom".
"Well... Tell me if you need a break," she said before she fell asleep...