Chapter 7: Warrior Princess, Sailor Moon
The first three days at the Academy were fairly uneventful, if you overlooked that on Monday Serena put pink dye in Amy's shampoo, and on Tuesday Koaru lost his temper on a Math problem and somehow caused the wall behind him to explode. So far, Wednesday had no incident...that was soon to change.
On Monday, Serena and Darien had had a fight about his brother. It soon turned into an insult match which included the following: "Meatball Head!" "Prince Idiot!" "Pampered Crybaby!" "Warrior Wannabe!" Soon after the incident, Raye took a strong liking to Darien, which Serena hadn't noticed. That was the problem.
Their school for the day was over, so Koaru, Amy, Serena and Lita were relaxing by the dorm's pool. Koaru was reading a Tai Jutsu manual he had borrowed from the library, and was learning some new attacks. Amy was reading her History book, learning of the circumstances that caused the powerful Senshi Kingdom to break contact with the Inner and Outer Planets. Lita was swimming in the water, and Serena was asleep in her chair, which was located under the balcony that led up to the dorm rooms. So she didn't notice Raye and Darien dump the gallon of paint on her from the balcony.
"What the hell?" Serena shouted as the paint slashed on her, turning her blue. Koaru looked up and laughed, while Amy simply smiled and sighed. Lita paused and laughed, causing her to sink under the water. She resurfaced, coughing and gasping, but still laughing. Mina came running out of the change room wearing her swim suit, and slipped in the paint, and into the pool. Darin and Raye were laughing the hardest, needing to hold onto the balcony's rail in order to remain standing. Serena had gotten to her feet, grabbed her chair, and attempted to throw it up at them. It fell about four feet short, and crashed back onto the floor. Raye and Darien weren't done yet, though.
"This will piss her off even more." Darien said as he and Raye grabbed some of the water balloons they had brought along, and started to throw them down at Serena. Some went wild, and headed for the others. Lita and Mina dove under the water, but Amy didn't notice the one heading for her. Koaru grabbed the coaster from under his drink and threw it at the balloon, knocking it away. It landed three feet away, popped, and it's contents went into Mina's face, who had surfaced at the wrong place at the wrong time. Koaru have time to stop the one that hit him directly in the face. It burst, and he was soaked from the collar down. Amy looked up at him and burst out laughing. Koaru got his feet, ready to help Serena with a little payback.
Raye was the only one except Serena who laughed when Koaru was hit. "Darien," she said, "we had better run now." Darien looked at her like she was crazy. "Are you nuts? He's down there, 15 feet down. He isn't getting up here anytime soon. They both turned to watch Koaru run forward, slip slightly in the paint, then disappear in a small fountain of blue goop. Darien cursed, "Shit, where did he go?" He then heard Raye scream., and looked over at her. She was free falling toward the pool, and, with a big splash, hit the water. She resurfaced a few seconds later, and swan to the edge. Darien looked up at Koaru, ready to fight. Koaru wasn't in the mood.
On the floor, the girls were watching. Serena had finally calmed down, and was waiting to see what Koaru would do. She liked what happened more then candy...and she really loved her candy.
Koaru zipped past Darien like he was a statue, grabbed two of the remaining water balloons, and threw one of them at Darien's lower torso. It hit, burst, and Darien doubled over from the force and the cold water. Koaru then skillfully threw the second balloon, and it slipped into the small gap between Darien's waist and his belt, straight into his groin!
"HOLY FUCING SHIT!" Darien shouted as the second balloon hit his...'area'...burst, and released it's ice cold contents in his underwear. On the ground, all five girls erupted into hysterics, rolling on the floor, banging it, or just falling down. "What the hell is going on?" Everyone stopped as Nicholas rushed into the room, looking thoroughly pissed off. He hurried over to Serena, and led her to her room. "You all need to change, we all have Combat Training next." The girls whispered amongst each other as they went to change, curious as to what the class would be like.
Meanwhile, back on the Moon, Queen Serenity and Luna were wondering how the children were doing. "They are probably having a blast." Luna said, trying to cheer up the Queen. Serenity looked at Luna, then asked, "What did they choose for the girls combat uniforms?" Luan fell silent, not wanting the Queen to hear that they chose...those... uniforms.
Amy raised her hand, then other placed in front of her lower body. Artemis, who was their instructor in this class, asked her, "What is it, Princess Amy?" Amy, who was blushing furiously, said in a shaky voice, "I still think that these skirts are too short." In the past, the girls had always worn skirts that reached their knees at least, but these ones just covered a quarter of the way down to their knees. Not much coverage to an eleven and four twelve year old girls. The others murmured in agreement, and even Koaru agreed. "They are supposed to be warriors, not hookers." A red high heeled shoe struck him square in the back of the head. Raye held her other shoe, ready to toss it as well. "Shut up Koaru! No one asked your opinion!" Their other instructor, the younger of the two who had greeted them earlier that week, stepped forward. "For today, you are only to get comfortable in the uniforms. Next week is when you will learn to fight."
Serena raised her hand. Koaru, who was helping instruct the class, addressed her. "Yes Serena?" he asked. Serena looked at the three instructors. "What are we called?" Artemis, the old man, and Koaru huddled. After a few minutes, they decided that since the uniforms looked a lot like sailor uniforms, they decided on the name. Koaru faced the girls. "You are to be known from this day forward, as the Sailor Senshi." Serena blinked. "What?" Artemis stepped forward. "Just say the Sailor Scouts." The five girls smiled, then cheered. Koaru sighed, "I did not order this life."
