Sailor Moon: Fellowship of the Moon

Chapter 14: Slumber Party Frenzy; Operation: Kiss Aaron on the Lips Passionately
Day 3 Night

Arashi Mountain Hotel

"He said no?", Ami asked Lita. When they came back from their little snooping at the confession, Lita gave in full detail of what happened. Lita had just finished telling Ami how Aaron had rejected Mayura but left out the reasons why. Ami was in deep thought until Lita snapped her out of it, "Hey, Ami!" "Uh, what is it, Lita?" Lita shook her head, knowing sometimes she could be a little spacey at times like this. "So when are ya going to tell Aaron how you feel?"

Ami looked down in embarrassment and blushed, "Well, I...um. I'm not sure I should tell him so soon after he rejected Mayura." Lita pulled her hand over her face in frustration, "Listen, Ami. A chance like this only comes once in a lifetime, you know." Ami nodded, "I know, but I just don't want to rush into this. Besides, I want to wait for the right moment." Lita the pointed out, "Well no better time then Spring Break, on the last day the Festival in Kyoto will be coming up. During the Festival you could confess your feelings to him there."

Ami thought about that, 'Confess my feelings to him during the Festival?' She then answered, "I don't know, Lita." Their conversation was interrupted by Rei busting in the room with a pillow and blanket. "Alright, girls…the Sleepover has now commenced!", Rei was dressed in one of the Hotel's complementary yukatas as were the girls behind her. They had planned on a slumber party during Spring Break, and had planned to have it on the third night. Unfortunately, they also planned on having it in Ami and Hotaru's room.

Aaron and Frey's Room

Seeing as how Sarah got invited to the party, Aaron and the boys had the room all to themselves. Aaron and Jin were currently present in the room sitting at the table with Ceros. He was going on about the Nobodies. Ceros was sitting on a stack of books shifted into a desk explaining, "Okay, you guys know how a Heartless is created, right?" The two boys nodded in understanding seeing as how Aaron told them of his first encounter with them.

Ceros then went on, "A person, like you and Jin, if they're susceptible to giving into the Darkness by the Deadly Seven, then you can become a Heartless of high power. But if the victim not only has Darkness in their heart, but a strong mind and will, then the shell, or body, they leave behind acts on a will of its own. Thus, a Nobody is created. Unlike the Heartless who act solely on primal instinct, the Nobodies act on intelligence and emotion. Of course the emotions they use to often confuse and fool their prey."

Jin then thought about it for a moment and came to a conclusion, "So I take it that the Generals, the Deadly Seven they seem to call themselves; Lust, Envy, Gluttony, and Greed. They're Nobodies?" Ceros pondered on that, and was in deep thought until Aaron asked, "You okay, Ceros?" Ceros answered, "Yeah, they are. I think." Aaron nearly fell over from that, and asked, "What do you mean you think?" Ceros shrugged, "well, back in the Silver Millennium, when the Heartless/Nobody invasion began on Earth, the only human I saw was Ansem. So I'm guessing the time he spent in the Negaverse, he's been working on a Nobody that's of a higher level then the ones you guys fought against."

Aaron pondered on that and then said out loud, "Lust, Gluttony, Envy, and Greed…" Ceros looked puzzled, "Aaron?" "The four Generals, they're named after the Seven Deadly Sins of Dante's Inferno. Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, and Pride.", Aaron explained. Jin then guessed, "Like in the Bible; the four Generals seem to have a distinct personality or theme to their name that's been depicted of the Seven Sins." Aaron explained, "The first one Lust because of her sensual and tempting nature, Gluttony for his voracious appetite and bottomless pit for a stomach, Envy due to his shape shifting abilities for probably envying everything around him, and Greed…well, I guess cause he's just plain greedy." Ceros then replied, "And three we haven't met yet: Sloth, Wrath, and Pride."

Aaron was now in deeper thought than before, 'We've already met the first four, but the other three…what kind of persons are they like?'

Outside Room 303

Meanwhile, Frey and Ian were outside of room 303, cracking the door open for a quick peak. Frey whispered, 'Even though we promised Aaron we wouldn't peek…' '…We're gonna do it anyway.' Ian finished. Frey convinced Ian that this would be the perfect way to get over his girl phobia. Unfortunately they didn't consider the fact that Amara spotted them and slam the door in their faces pushing them back comically.

Amara smirked, dressed in one of the Hotel's yukatas, "Do you guys think we'd be wearing our lingere for the sleepover? You've got to be kidding me." Michelle stepped up along with Rei and Mina, all giving them glares. Ian was getting blue and nervous with so many girls around them that Frey came up with an idea. He got up and spoke out, "Okay, okay wait. Now I know what you're thinkin': Geez, these boys've just messed up our girl's night."

He then shrugged and pointed at them, "Well, have no fear! The game master has arrived to give you lovely ladies the chance of a lifetime." The girls shot him a look as Serena, not buying any of this, asked, "What exactly are you proposing? If it's something perverted we're not buying it." Mina asked, "What kind of game are you talking about?"

Frey made a sly smile as he spoke out, "I've named it 'Lip Scramble'. Or simply called, 'Operation: Kiss Aaron passionately on the Lips'."

The girls, including Sarah, looked a little dumbfounded as Frey explained the nature of the game, "See here's how the rules work: choose two teams from each girl. Avoid being caught by Ian here, and capture the lips of Aaron (Who is somewhere in this hotel.). The prize is the chance to steal a kiss from Aaron. But those who are caught will be stuck with the stiff, Ian here."

The girls looked at him credulous, and then to each other in a circle. Rei thought out loud with everyone, "This sounds interesting and hard to pass up." Michelle shrugged, "I'm not really interested in this." Amara then replied, "Sounds like fun in some sense. Fun to watch, that is." Mina walked up to Frey with a pissed off look. Frey asked nervously, "Uh, you okay, Mina?" She grabbed him firmly by the shoulders and looked up to him with a starry eyed look, "LET'S DO IT! I give you my authorization as the flirter of the group." Frey sweat dropped, "Uh, okay."

Sarah popped up, "On one condition: I play as Referee on this." Frey and her shook on it as Frey shouted, "Then it's settled; Let the games being." The girls, except for Serena and Trista, cheered on and began to prepare for this game of Kiss Scramble.

Meanwhile, Aaron shivered for a moment, as Ceros asked him, "You okay, Aaron?" Aaron gave him a grim expression, "I just felt a chill for a moment, almost as if someone was dancing on my grave for a minute."

Outside

Envy and Greed were sitting outside on a tree; they had heard the whole conversation about the Lip Scramble. Envy looked at this with a face of disgust, "Lip Scramble? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Greed smirked, "It does, but it sounds effective." Envy looked a little puzzled at his reply, but was even more surprised as he snapped his fingers, and out popped four strange creatures. They were gray and white, and had very thin but well built bodies. They had long pointed limbs with sharp ends on their feet and fingers, with belts tied around them. Heir heads almost looked like hoods with zipper mouths, and when they zipped open, there was a set of black, sharp teeth. On their heads was an upside-down heart shape with a cross on top.

Envy looked at them credulously, "Dusks? You're brought Dusks? Why?" Greed smirked, "We'll send them in to steal the Hearts of those pretty things, and get their Heartless and Nobodies, Envy." Envy looked a little dumbfounded as he pointed out, "Well, I hate to tell you…but they might find the Dusks a little disturbing to get near them." Greed raised his eyebrow, "Well I suppose that makes you the expert." Envy shot him a look while Greed snapped his fingers, and in a pillar of light, the four Dusks were bathed in it, and as the light faded, there stood three copies of Aaron and surprisingly one copy of Frey.

Envy stroked his chin in thought, "Okay, I see now." But then he pointed at the Frey clone, "But what's with him?" Greed shrugged, "I guess he must have gotten a misconception." He then ordered the clones, "Go get the girls…one at a time." With that said, the clones jumped from the tree they were in and were on their way to the hotel.

Back Inside

The girls all had spilt up into teams of two; the teams were as followed:

Rini and Hotaru

Ami and Lita

Rei and Mina

"Only three teams? Oh man, this stinks.", Serena said as they were watching on the TV. Somehow Frey had hotwired the TV to show the game at hand. So far Rini and Hotaru were searching up the staircase, Rei and Mina were checking the cafeteria, which was empty, and Ami and Lita were heading for Aaron's room.

Sarah was watching from Aaron's room on the TV that Frey had hooked up recently, and man was the suspense killing her on this one. Frey had told her that he'd make sure that Ami would get the kiss first, but first he had to find him. "I hope he hurries up; I cant wait any longer.", she said out loud. Little did she know, something had slithered into the room by the open window; four things to be exact.

Meanwhile Ami was talking to Lita about this contest, "Um, are you sure it was a good idea to enter this contest? I mean Aaron isn't the kind of boy who would kiss just any girl you know." Lita turned around with a half smile, "come on, Ami, you have feelings for him, and this is the one chance you have to do it." She gave her a thumbs up, "Besides, I'm here to help my friend 'til the end." Ami smiled at her friend's help, "Lita."

Rei and Mina were looking in the cafeteria to see if Aaron was in somewhere or to find his whereabouts. Rei was looking through the windows to see if he was outside or something. Mina on the other hand didn't' notice that she had left he room; she was just standing there with her hands over her chest, sighing, "Ahhh, a kiss from Aaron.' She had lost it big time and was straight on determined to get a kiss from Aaron.

Back with Ami and Lita

They had reached Aaron's room and found the door unlocked. Lita opened it and saw that Aaron was fast asleep. She winked to Ami, "Well, go on in there." Ami gulped, "Um, I'm just not sure if kissing him in his sleep is a good idea. It be unfair to…", but before she could finish, Lita shoved her in there anyway and closed the door. Ami was about to go back out but looked at Aaron's sleeping form. She slowly walked towards his sleeping form; he heart pounding in her chest.

She reached his still form and kneeled right next to him. She was about to kiss him, but then looked at his face. 'I didn't notice before, but when he's asleep and relaxed he looks more mature than before. Maybe when he grows up he'll look…', she stopped in thought as she blushed but shook it off. She looked down at Aaron and silently said to him as if he were awake, "A…Aaron…I'm sorry for coming to you this way…", she gulped a little as she leaned down towards his face. "But, but…I'm happy. Aaron please, let me kiss you."

She leaned down, with her lips almost close to his; she blushed the entire time as she was almost close to touch his lips. 'It's strange, but it feels like I've done this before.', she thought. But before she could kiss him, someone said, "A kiss?", she bolted right up and turned around to see who it was. Only she was surprised to see…that there were three Aarons standing right behind her.

"A Smooch?", the first one asked.

"I'll take one; I'm all for it.", the second one stated.

Outside, Lita was waiting for Ami to finish with the kiss, only to see Hotaru carrying a sleeping Rini. She waved to them as they came up, "Rini's asleep?" Hotaru nodded, "Yeah, I'm guessing that she didn't have any caffeine in her system and that she just…", but before she could finish, they heard Ami screaming in there.

Lita and Hotaru ran into the room to find a fainted Ami on the ground next to an empty bed. Lita picked up Ami, "Aaron must have surprised her and fled the scene." Hotaru set Rini down on the bed as Ami did the same on the other. "I'm gonna go find him. Keep an eye on these two, Okay?" Hotaru nodded and Lita ran out of there to find the missing boy.

Meanwhile

Aaron and Jin were in the hot springs, just trying to relax for a little bit. Just then, Frey came in wearing his clothes and shouted out proudly, "So that's where you've been!" Aaron looked up and asked, "What are you talking about?" Frey sighed and sat down near the dry area to tell Aaron and Jin as he spilled the beans.

Back In the Hotel

Mina was looking around to see if she could find Rei, but mostly Aaron. She scowled herself, "Darn it, Mina. You had to go into Daydream Land, all because you wanted to find Aaron and kiss him…on his lips.", she finished nearly feeling lightheaded about tasting his lips. Just then someone called out, "Mina?" She turned around to see who it was who called her name.

Meanwhile, in the first floor hallway, Rei was looking around a little fumed. "Sheesh, Mina. You had to get yourself lost again. Probably daydreaming about kissing Aaron weren't you?" "Rei?" She turned around to figure out who had called her name and turned around.

Lita was looking around near the relaxing room, when she bumped into Ian, "Oh, Ian. Have you seen Aaron anywhere nearby?" Ian, still feeling a little nervous around Lita, answered, "uh, no. Not exactly, but I think Frey was looking for him when he wasn't in his room a little while ago." Lita scratched her head, "That's weird; we just spotted him in his room." "Who's him, guys?" The two of them looked behind and saw who it was.

In Aaron's Room

Hotaru watched over the two girls for the moment, but then heard a knocking at the door. She got up from the bed that Rini was sleeping on, and went to see who was at the door. When she opened it, it was none other than Frey. "Frey?", she asked. Frey scratched the back of his head, "Oh, hi there, Hotaru." She invited him in and closed the door behind her. She asked him, "So any luck in finding Aaron?" he shook his head, "Sorry, but no such luck. But there is something I need to talk to you about." She looked a little puzzled, "uh, what is it?"

Frey looked at her, blushing a little bit but spoke out, "I've been doing a lot of thinking, and just as I already knew…" Hotaru looked a little puzzled at what he was trying to say. Then he finally said it, "the truth is…I'm in love with you, Hotaru." Her eyes went wide with shock and surprise, as her cheeks blushed a little. "May I…kiss you, Hotaru?"

With Mina, and now discovered as Aaron, Mina blushed as she shook with nervousness in her words, "A k…k…k…Kiss? Me?" Aaron nodded, "That's right." Rei, who was also with Aaron in the first floor hallway, was a little stunned at what he asked her, "May I give you a smooch, Rei?" Back with Lita and Ian, who were also with Aaron in the Lounge, were a little stunned at what Aaron asked Lita, "What…what I want is a kiss, Lita."

Meanwhile with Hotaru, she was shaking in nervousness and blushed a little bit at what Frey had asked and told her.

Back in the Girl's Room, Serena, Amara, Michelle and Trista were watching this. Michelle was a little confused at this, "There are three Aarons?" Amara was a little confused as to what was going on in Aaron's room, seeing is that it was so dark in there. But Trista asked, "So which is the real Aaron?" Serena scowled, "It's just like Asapin to do something like this to make it into some kind of Reality Show!" Amara then thought, 'This is kind of unusual, but kind of ominous.'

Back in Aaron's Room

Hotaru was walking backwards away from Frey, but fell flat on the bed that Rini was sleeping on. She was about to get up, but Frey got on top of her to prevent her from getting up. He looked at her with a kind of wanting in his eyes, which made Hotaru pretty nervous, "Wait a…Frey, wait a minute! Just stop…" he leaned in next to her face with a glimmer in his eyes and a smile, "I'm sorry but…I really want to kiss you, Hotaru." She blushed even brighter at this as she scooted up to try and get away, but he followed her until he pinned her down.

Meanwhile, Mina couldn't believe that Aaron wanted to kiss her, as they got close enough to seal the deed. Rei on the other hand, was pinching Aaron's cheeks like an aunt would to her nephew. She giggled, "You're too much, Aaron. You bad boy, you've got me all worked up. I can't help but feel a little giddy about this."

Meanwhile with Ian and Lita, Ian was sweat dropping as he saw Lita trying to make up her mind about this. "Now I know that I promised Ami I'd take you to her, but what you just said. When it comes to this moment, I'm a little embarrassed. Maybe I should hold off until Ami…"

Back at the Hot Springs

Aaron was fuming at this information, "LIP SCRAMBLE? KISSING ME PASSIONATELY ON THE LIPS? WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" Frey just shrugged, "I don't know; Ian and I were in a tough spot so I came up with something on a whim." Aaron got up with his towel around his waist and was about to throttle Frey, until Ceros popped up, "Hey did you guys hear something going on inside?" the three boys looked at each other and heard the girls squealing.

Aaron's Room

Hotaru tried to push Frey off of her, but to no avail as he got closer to her. Her thoughts ran inside her head during this situation, 'I can't believe this is happening. Frey…likes me?' Her heart was racing the moment she smelled his cologne and blushed even more, 'Wait a minute! There's something strange going on. It's all too sudden. I like Frey, but I haven't done anything that would attract him to me. I'm nowhere near as cute as Ami, nor as beautiful as Rei or Mina. And I'm so under-developed for a thirteen year old. I know I look like a fourteen year old but that's just my growth spurts.'

She shook her head after thinking about this, 'No, this isn't right! I don't want him to think of him and me like this! He's a pervert and a complete flirt, like Serena said. I can't do this! I…there's my feelings to consider.' She then felt his right hand go behind her head to bring her closer to him. She blushed now that they were closer; close enough to kiss. She saw the look in Frey's eyes that showed a lusting for her, and that caused a shiver to go down her spine. She thought as her thoughts were swimming, 'Ohhh, would a sixteen year old guy have that look in his eyes when he's about to kiss someone? There's something wrong here!'

She couldn't argue as she closed her eyes, as Frey's lips became close to hers. Her hands were on his chest when she tried to push him off, but they stayed there just holding him up. She thought, 'I…I…I cant…stop…' but before she could let it in, she opened her lone eye on the still on TV, and saw that near the Hot Springs, Frey was talking to Jin and Aaron. 'There are two Freys?', she screamed in her head. She immediately pushed 'Frey' off and shouted, "W-WHO ARE YOU?" But then she was a little surprised to see that Frey's hand was still holding onto Hotaru's back head, while his arm was stretched out. Frey's skin changed color to reveal a light gray, his eyes glowing yellow, and his teeth turning jagged sharp and black as he spoke, "Why I'm Frey, Hotaru. How about a little smooch?"

Hotaru was in terrified shock, but hear Ami waking up as she groaned, "That was strange…I thought I saw Three Aarons all at once." She then looked at the scene with Hotaru and the Frey Creature, now turning its attention to her. He drew his hand from Hotaru and pounced at Ami, who nearly screamed. The Creature said, "Give me some Sugar!" But just then, Sarah busted out of the closet to where she was kept in, and ran towards the Frey imposter, and smacked him hard with a suitcase.

The creature was sprawled on the ground, as the three girls looked at it. Ami asked "D-Did you kill it?" Sarah, looking a little peeved, responded, "Relax, it's just a fake. Just like the three Aarons that caught me off guard and locked me in the closet. It took me a while just to pick the lock from the inside." The creature then gave a V sign and stated, "Mission Failed: that's all for Frey, Folks." It then dissolved into gray mist and disappeared.

The girls looked a little confused, but didn't notice Hotaru slipping out.

Hot Springs

Hotaru had made her way there, and found Frey moping in the changing room, saying that he completely ruined their friendship. Hotaru, a little confused and nervous around him since his doppelganger was coming on to her. She explained everything to him, but left out the part of a doppelganger of him trying to have its way with her, and he immediately shot up shouting, "Oh that makes me so mad! Impersonating my buddy so that they could take us out one by one! That's unforgivable!"

He shot out his ring and shouted, "PERSIAN PRINCE ARMOR ACTIVATE!" he immediately was in his armor, but Hotaru asked, "Aren't you going to ask the others for help?" He turned to her and stated, "Not this time; I started this whole mess, and I've got to end it as quickly as I can." "SANDS OF TIME: MACH SPEED!", and with that said, Persian was out of there in the blink of an eye. Hotaru silently said, "Good luck."

With Mina and 'Aaron', she was about close enough to kiss him, when suddenly, he disappeared. She opened her eyes and found him gone. "Aaron?" with Rei the same thing happened, and with Lita and Ian still arguing on the fact of kissing him or taking him to Ami to be kissed.

Outside of the Entrance

Persian was outside with all the Aarons there were and faced them down. Aaron 1 said, "Hey, we were in the middle of smooching!" Aaron 2 said, "We were close enough to get their hearts too." Aaron 3 stated to 2, "Don't say that, he'll shred us!" As if on cue, "CHAIN DANCE!" Persian swirled around them with his chain and tied them up, and with one quick tug, shredded them as they dissolved into gray mist. He simply stated, "I would've done it anyway."

Back inside, Ami was looking around for the Real Aaron, and just by coincidence, she found him walking down her way, wearing one of the kimonos. She stood there a little nervous as he saw her, "Ami." She waved to him, "Um, hi Aaron." Hotaru was coming down that way, but was pulled back by Frey. She whispered, "Frey!" He made a shoosh sign and explained, "I think we should leave those two alone."

The two just stood there a little nervous, so Frey and Hotaru decided to walk away from it. As they got into a good distance away from them, Hotaru accidentally tripped. Frey saw this and caught her, but he too fell down as well. And as they fell flat on the ground, they saw that they had accidentally kissed one another. Serena came running down the halls after she saw Frey kissing Hotaru. She stopped as she shouted, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOURE…." But was cut off as she heard a slapping sound. She saw Hotaru as she shouted, "What did you think you were doing? You're just so depraved!" Frey was rubbing his check to where a throbbing slap mark was, "It was an accident; I didn't mean to kiss you."

She glared daggers at him, "What does that mean?" he was really getting nervous, but Serena watched on as this continued.

Later on

All the girls were back in their one room still having the sleepover. Amara had explained to Rei, Mina, and Lita that Aaron was with them…At the same time. The girls were a little shocked at this and asked what had happened. Hotaru was still fuming at that accidental kiss she and Frey had, but turned to Ami and asked, "So you were with the real Aaron I take it?" Ami nervously spoke out, "Uh, yeah." "So what did you guys do?", she asked her.

She shrugged, "We talked a little for over seven minutes." Hotaru looked a little confused as she asked, "Didn't you kiss him?" Ami mere shook her head, "Sorry but I thought it over, and I couldn't." by that time, all the girls heard their conversation, and shouted, "WHAT?", as they looked at her incredulously. Mina ran up to her and took her by the shoulders. "What do you mean that you didn't kiss him? Unlike the rest of us…YOU HAD THE CHANCE!", she shouted as she shook Ami uncontrollably.

Ami merely stated as she stopped shaking, "I just wasn't ready to tell him just yet.", Ami said trying to calm her friends down. They all sighed and muttered to Ami that she was completely clueless. Hotaru then focused her thoughts on that accidental kiss as she touched her lips and blushed slightly. She thought, 'It was just an accident. I don't have any feelings for him…do I?'

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