Warning: If you intend to use my "books" that I've given Usagi to read for your studying purposes, have fun failing your test/quiz/homework. Everything is FICTION. I MADE IT UP. The sun was not created the way I said it was, nor is any of this other stuff true. It's just more entertaining to hear about wars between good and evil than it is to read about a supernova and planetary debris.
blondebirdy11: Thanks. I plan on working some random UsaMamo fluff in. :)
inufan155687: Well, Mamoru has the other two, so I'll just let you imagine for now...
TropicalRemix: Thanks, and I do have fun imagining her torture reading those books. Haha.
Usagi slowly pulled herself out of bed the next morning and winced at the stack of eight books on her floor. "So, where are the others?" she dared to ask. "If this is only the inner part of our solar system, where is everything else?"
"At the palace," Luna explained. "I delivered the books last night to its library."
"So I'll get to go to the palace. Yay," Usagi mumbled sarcastically.
"Usagi-chan, I know you're worried about this, but you need to relax," Luna ordered. "This is going to happen, whether you want it to or not."
Usagi sighed nervously. "I know that, Luna," Usagi replied. "It's just... what if I'm a bad ruler? I've never held a position of power like this before. What if I screw up the world?"
"You won't," Luna assured her charge. "But you are going to get detention if you don't get to school in a hurry, and if you get detention, you'll be late for the meeting."
"No, wouldn't want that," Usagi stated, her voice dripping with sarcasm. She rushed around to get ready, picking up the Book of the Sun before preparing to leave the room. "Wait- will people be able to tell what this is?"
"No, it's enchanted," Luna replied. "Anyone who's not a senshi will only see a manga in your hands."
"Good," Usagi sighed before heading out to her school. On the way there, she crashed straight into Mamoru. "Seriously?" she asked, more to herself than Mamoru. "All that stuff last night, and now this?"
Mamoru's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "You okay, Odango?" Mamoru asked. "What happened last night?" In a bout of obsessiveness he did not know he had, he snapped, "Did someone hurt you? Who was it?"
Usagi pulled away and let out a small laugh. "No one, Mamoru-baka," she objected. She walked past him, muttering, "You're worse than my father..."
"Oh, no you don't," Mamoru scolded, grabbing Usagi and pulling her along with him. "You are not leaving my sight until I find out what hurt you."
"For the love of Pete, nothing hurt me!" Usagi rolled her eyes. "You know, this is kidnapping! I could send your ass to jail!" Hm, does the palace have a dungeon? I'll have to figure that out... Still, Mamoru pulled her along. Usagi had just opened her mouth to scream when Mamoru pulled her into an alleyway and placed a hand over her mouth. As a response, Usagi bit his hand. Hard.
Mamoru bit back a groan and pulled his hand away. He was going to find out who hurt his angel. Wait- his angel? When did he start thinking of her like that? "I'm not letting you away from me until I know you're safe."
Usagi let out a laugh. "Are you insane?" she demanded. "I'm in more danger with you than I am at school. This. Is. Kidnapping. Let me go, or I'll scream." When Mamoru made no move to release her, Usagi opened her mouth to scream. Before any sound could come out, however, Mamoru's hand was once again over her mouth. Even worse, his hand was covering her nose. She couldn't breathe. She tried to struggle, but to no avail. The vision around the edges began to blur, and everything went black.
Usagi groaned tiredly as she woke up. Where was she? What had happened?
Oh yeah. Mamoru-baka went nutso on her. That's what happened. What the hell had possessed him to kidnap her, she would never know, but she did know that she had to get out of there- fast.
She shot up out of the warm bed she was in and looked around. There was a window, and she wandered over to it. There was a balcony, but it seemed that she was in the penthouse apartment of wherever she was, and there was no where to jump to, even with her senshi powers. She retreated back into the room and checked the three doors located in the room. One led to a closet, the next to a bathroom, and the third to a living room of sorts. Sitting on the couch was Mamoru reading through the Solarian book. It was taking him a while to read one page before he flipped to the next one- much longer than it should have taken if the enchantment caused the person to see a manga.
"Good morning, Odango," Mamoru said, not looking up from the book. "Did you enjoy your nap?"
"No, you kidnapped me. Does that mean nothing to you?" Usagi demanded.
"I wasn't letting you out of my sight as long as you were in danger," Mamoru explained.
"Gee, I had no idea you cared so much," Usagi replied sarcastically. "Now if you don't mind, I need to get to school. Where are we, anyways."
"My apartment, of course," Mamoru replied. "And you're not going anywhere. Not as long as you're in danger."
"Where were you the last six months?" Usagi mumbled under her breath.
"What was that?" Mamoru asked, not catching Usagi's sentence.
"I'm not in danger," Usagi shot off. "Just give me my book and let me go to school."
"Book?" Mamoru asked, eyebrow raised. "Odango, that's over five thousand pages of gibberish."
Usagi paled, her eyes widening to the size of saucers. "Manga my ass," she grumbled so Mamoru couldn't hear. Louder, so Mamoru could hear, she said, "It's a long story, but I need that book back. Now. No one else is supposed to read it."
Mamoru laughed. "More like no one else is able to read it. I wouldn't be surprised if you used a special font for your handwriting and made up that book. Then again, that would require that you have a brain."
This was good. They were falling back into the roles of each other's tormentor. A bit more prodding, and he would kick her out. "You are such an arrogant jerk. I'll have you know that is one of DaVinci's journals. You're probably just to uptight to think creatively enough to understand it."
"Ge-" Mamoru cut himself off in the middle of throwing Usagi out. A smirk crept its way across his face. "Nice try, Odango. You almost had me there. I was close to kicking you out. But close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades. You're staying here. You can have something to eat if you want or watch the coverage of that... thing that appeared in the park last night. You do know about that, right? Then again, you're probably too socially unaware to know about it."
"I know about it," Usagi snapped. Heck, I pretty much created it... She snapped out of her self-induced trance and slowly walked over to the couch, sitting down next to Mamoru and pulling her book out of his lap. She flipped back to the front and started reading it, occassionally looking up to the flat screen TV, where Mamoru was playing news coverage of the Crystal Palace.
While the symbols on the book seemed foreign, Usagi was easily able to read them. She knew full-well that it was in no human language. She should not have been able to read it. And yet...
History of Solaria
Author Unknown
Chapter One Summary: The Rise to the House of Light
Solaria was not always the source of light and energy for the solar system of Seretica. Solaria was originally run by an unknown group from the Dark Kingdom. Some even think that they were the start of the Dark Kingdom. Solarian life was grueling and painful under the rule of King Polta. However, when Polta died due to a peasant uprising, a new dynasty began: the dynasty of Kitramane. King Devonsq Kitramane banished those following the Dark Kingdom and formed an army to fight the dark forces.
After a thousand years of war, King Devonsq III led his people to victory against the Dark Kingdom.
Usagi let out a sigh of relief. That was the first chapter summary, and that hardly took up half a page. The actualy chapter couldn't be that bad... right? Checking ahead, Usagi's smile quickly turned to a frown. There were about fifty pages in chapter one alone.
Usagi groaned and closed the book, putting it on the coffee table, causing Mamoru to smirk and raise an eyebrow.
"Tough read?" he challenged.
Completely forgetting her anger at him for a moment, she explained, "First chapter. Fifty pages. Two dynasties. Two wars. And that's just according to the summary."
Mamoru chuckled, but still felt sorry for the odangoed blonde. He recalled his days of reading seemingly endless pages of history. Now he was reading seemingly endless pages of medical text. At least it was something he wanted to read about. Usagi seemed to have very little interest in what she was reading.
"Maybe you should take a break and watch TV," Mamoru offered, gesturing to the news. Just as he did, there was a news report saying that all schools had been closed for the day due to the... development.
A look of realization slowly came across Usagi's face. "You jerk!" she exclaimed, gently hitting him on the chest. "You knew that entire time! You were never concerned about my safety at all!"
"Well, your parents are paying me to watch over you today..." Mamoru explained.
"My parents are paying you to watch over me?" Usagi demanded. "I don't need a babysitter!"
"No one said you did," Mamoru replied. "I work part time as a bodyguard. The whole crystal-thing really freaked your parents out apparently. Well, at least that's what the scientists say that thing in the park is made out of. No one can get in."
"Hm... interesting..." Usagi said, easily distracted from her anger... but only for a moment. "Wait- why would my parents hire me a bodyguard! I can take care of myself!"
"I'm sure they know that; they just wanted to make sure that you stayed safe," Mamoru replied. "Now, we can either stay here or go out. Your choice."
Usagi sighed. "Well... we might as well just stay here," she decided. "See how much people are freaking out about the palace."
Mamoru let out a small laugh. "You make it sound like you've been there before."
"Don't I wish," Usagi lied. "I mean, imagine what's on the inside. It could be something totally new and exciting. I just want to know what's going on."
"You and half the world, Odango," Mamoru agreed, turning to the TV screen.
"...no recent developments have come in, but scientists are working to bypass the security system. However, this is proving to be unsuccessful. One scientist says the technology is 'far beyond anything humans hoped to create in the next century'. So, does that mean aliens have landed in Tokyo? Your guess is as good as mine. Stay tuned for more info after these short messages."
"Don't you just love how they make it sound like it's nothing?" Usagi asked sarcastically. "For all we know, there could be life on Pluto, and they would make it sound like a man made sushi for the first time. Not even an important man. Just your average Joe."
Mamoru only chuckled at her musings. "Maybe you should get back to studying, Odango," he suggested. "Don't want another failed test landing on my head."
"Grr... Mamoru-baka," she grumbled, but still picked up her book and started to read.
Okay, now... please don't kill me for this. I just got seven new fic ideas, and more are forming in my head as we speak. I've become a Lunatic. Once again with the bad puns; I am sorry.
And what do you think of Mamoru's bodyguard status and his teasing of Usagi over it at first? How will Usagi get away from Mamoru to get to the Crystal Palace? And- gasp!- Mamoru can read the book!
As for a refrence point: the Book of Solaria is about five-thousand pages long. The length of an average textbook is about one-thousand pages long, give or take a hundred. Once again, we go into the whole deal of 'poor Usagi-chan'.
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