A/N Sorry I've been away so long I spontaneously moved to Oklahoma and spent a week in Nebraska visiting family on the drive down there. SO I had no internet for a long time. I hope to get more time to write but with me starting my job a few days ago I haven't been able to do so, so sorry if my updates are a little less regular then they used to be ; )
Chapter 21
Karaoke Transforming Troubles
(Tuesday)
The senshi's of love and fire arrived at the Crown a little late. Quickly they entered walking straight to the back were the karaoke entrance was located. Rei turned to Minako in her big glasses and hat and asked.
"Do you know who's name the room will be under??"
"No idea" She said as they arrived at the desk. Rei approached so Mina wouldn't have to worry about getting noticed.
"Hi, were meeting a group of friends for a karaoke party but were not sure which of them rented the room"
"Well I cant really just tell you the names of the people who are rented right now, I'm sorry. It all has to do with confidentiality or something, its kinda stupid who cares who came to sing karaoke right!" The man behind the counter asked politely with a sweet smile at Rei. Rei smiled back
"well I guess I could list off all of their last names, could you tell me if there in your computer"
"That I can do" he said with a wink. Rei decided to start with the starlight's last name since they had wanted the party.
"Kou" She started he shook his head negative. Rei continued "Tsukino, Mizuno, Kino" Rei continued more negatives. "McBain, Tomoe, Tenoh, Kaioh" More negatives. Mina spoke then.
"Maybe were the first ones here" She said as she placed her hand on Rei's arm.
"No way Ami and Michiru are never late" Rei started while looking at her watch. "and we are really late. Who else could it be under" Rei said while thinking. Suddenly Mina felt very stupid and said loudly.
"Chiba" the man smiled and nodded affirmative. Rei lightly smacked her head.
"Of course Mamoru is never late either, how could we have forgotten him." she said as the man told them to go to room nine on the right. One designed for large parties. He had said. As they walked down the hall towards the door with a nine on it. Mina said while smiling.
"Well him and Usagi are always together I just kinda see them as one person now, it's gonna be weird when Usagi's last name is Chiba" Reaching the door Minako knocked loudly having heard the loud music from inside. Usagi obviously didn't want to wait for them.
They were a little startled when a girl with long red hair, a blue ribbon holding some of it out of her face. It was a little shorter then their own, answered the door. Minako quickly recognized the girl having gone to high school with her. It took Rei a little longer for her memory to be jogged, having gone to a different high school then the rest she had very little interaction with Usagi's long time friend. Minako reached forward for a hug and smiled widely.
"Naru oh my gosh its been forever how are you"
"I'm good Minako, it's weird hanging out with you again I always told my ex that I was friends with you in school, he would never believe me." Naru said with a slightly sad smile. The red haired girl then turned to Rei and shook her hand, she remembered her from school times but didn't know her very well.
"Hi Rei how are you"
"I'm doing great" She said as they descended the steps into the outrageously happy room. Usagi's song had just ended when they took their seats. Rei and Mina waved to the group, all waved back a few voicing there hello's. John giving them a little wink.
"Hey Rei" Yaten said shyly as he walked towards the stage. Minako turned to Naru interested in finding out about her life after they graduated.
"So Naru what are you doing back in Tokyo? didn't you go off to college some were up north after graduation?" Naru smiled sadly again.
"Yeah I did, got my bachelors in Relationship Psychology, I'm a couples therapist, ironically. I was living in a small town up north with my fiancée but things with him didn't work out. Turns out he was an abusive bastard, thank god I found that out before we said 'I do'." Naru said jokingly.
"I'm sorry that sucks" Mina said.
"Yeah, It was actually thanks to Usagi that I finally came home and left the jerk. Actually she didn't really give me a choice once she found out he was hitting me. Her, Mamoru and your friend John came up and picked me up late last night. She's such a good friend" Naru ended.
"Yes she may be an air head and clumsy but her loyalty is unmatched" Minako said. Rei giggled a little.
"What? it is" Mina said while turning to Rei. Things got louder as the starlight's started singing.
"I know" Rei said with a smile and patted Mina's hand on the table. It lingered there a little before going back to her lap. Naru noticed this little exchange and smiled a little, quickly she leaned closer to Minako and Rei so they could hear her over the singing.
"So how long have you two been together? I'm guessing the relationship is new since your not comfortable with showing much affection in public"
"WHAT!!" both women said loudly making Naru jump. Minako continued in a much quieter voice. " Who told you we were together"
"No one" Naru said while waving her hands in front of her innocently. "I was just noticing your body language and interaction. I'm a couples therapist remember, its my job to see those things, and with you two I see a new relationship filled with love and uncertainty. I would guess you had a fight recently which is causing the uncertainty."
"That's kind of creepy" Mina said with a smile.
"Yeah" Rei agreed in a slight daze. "You must be really good at what you do, we've been talking for like five minutes and you pegged us perfectly. We actually had a bit of a misunderstanding earlier today" She continued.
"I knew it!" Naru said. "But I can tell your relationship isn't quite open yet so I wont tell anyone" Naru said while winking. Rei was just about to say that they weren't really keeping it a secret. They just hadn't really talked about it yet. When the song ended and Yaten ran up to Rei and grabbed her hand pulling her out of her seat.
"Your turn Rei"
"I don't know Yaten I just got here" Rei started.
"Come on" he pouted cutely. Rei smiled and continued.
"But I haven't sang in a really long time I'll probably suck."
"There is no way you could be that bad come on" he said as he kissed her hand. Rei blushed and consented.
"Fine I'll sing but I'm only singing alone once. I don't like karaoke much as it is, next time I better have one of you dweebs with me" She said as he walked towards the stage. Rei went to set up her usual song.
Minako glared at Yaten a little for flirting with Rei, then she noticed Rei's blush and looked down at her lap a little hurt. 'maybe she does like him' Mina thought. 'she always blushes when he's around'. Naru noticed Minako's hurt look before the blond girl's gaze went to her lap. Quickly Naru looked at Rei and analyzed the whole situation. Naru saw the dark haired girl standing with one of The Three Light, Yaten she remembered from school. Noticing Rei's blush and Yaten holding her hand Naru immediately realized why Minako looked so insecure at the moment. But Naru saw something only years of schooling and experience had taught her, something Minako wouldn't see. Rei's blush was one of embarrassment not attraction. Naru decided to put Minako's mind at ease.
"don't worry Minako" she started, the blonds head snapped up looking her in the eyes. "The attraction is totally one sided, Rei's not interested in him"
"Why do you think that? Rei always blushes when Yaten is around" Mina answered quietly. Naru answered in her most clinical tone.
"Well I cant be absolutely positive, but I'm almost sure Rei's blush is one of embarrassment, she feels uncomfortable and doesn't want to hurt his feelings"
"You think so" Mina said just before the music of Rei's song "Sakura Fubuki" started. Naru just nodded. Just before Rei's song fully started Naru looked at her watch and announced.
"I have to go, I have to meet my mom for dinner. I'll be back in about an hour" The group all said goodbye quickly since they would see her in an hour.
Rei began to sing and everyone's conversations stopped, and the group just listened. Mina was entranced, Rei's voice seemed to have only gotten better since she had last heard her sing. As the song continued Mina looked at Rei 'God she's so beautiful' Mina thought as she gazed at Rei's long legs, that the skirt didn't hide at all. 'gotta stop thinking like that' Mina said in her mind as she noticed herself becoming aroused, quickly she looked back at Rei's face again, but that didn't seem to make it any better especially when she pictured how those beautiful eyes look while she made love to her. 'oh boy' Mina thought as she looked down at her lap again.
When the song ended everyone clapped loudly. Quickly everyone called for an encore.
"No way I'm not singing alone again." Rei said.
"Mina will sing with you" Makoto volunteered the idol, grabbing her wrist and pulling her onto the stage.
"Sure" Mina said while taking the other mic, since she obviously wasn't getting a choice. Minako noticed Makoto frown and back up a little releasing her hand with incredible speed. Makoto just turned and walked back to the room sitting on a couch she then pulled Ami into her lap, 'that's weird' Minako thought as Rei started the song "All about us" by t.A.t.U. Mina smiled Rei knew she liked this song. Minako turned to Rei as the karaoke machine searched for the right cd.
"I'll sing Lena, you get Yulia, ok." Mina said as the music started.
"Sounds good." Rei answered with a wink. And the song started.
"They, say, don't, trust"
"You, me, we, us"
"But we'll fall, we must"
"cause its you, me"
"and its all about, its all about"
"its all about us, all about us, It's all about, all about us, all about us."
"There's a theme that they cant touch". Rei joined her when the two parts went together.
The girls sang the rest of the song without missing a single note when it ended the whole group clapped again some cheering. Yaten ran up.
"That was great" He said as he placed his hand on Mina's and Rei's shoulders. Suddenly Yaten did something no one expected. Turning to Rei he roughly pushed her against the wall and kissed her hard. Everyone was shocked. Most of all Rei, who was so stunned, she didn't react at first, her thoughts only on the pain shooting up her wounded back . Not until she heard Minako's outraged voice.
"What the Hell" quickly responding Rei pushed Yaten hard, away from her.
"Yaten, what the fuck was that" Rei asked as she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand showing no signs of pain. Yaten shook his head as if coming out of a daze. 'shit I hope the scratches don't start to bleed again' Rei thought 'That would totally ruin my shirt!'
"I don't know, it was like I couldn't help it, I couldn't control myself" He started "I'm so sorry Rei I don't know what's going on. One second I was telling you how good you guys had done the next I had an uncontrollable urge to" Yaten blushed and stopped that line of discussion. "never mind" he mumbled when he realized he almost told everyone he had an uncontrollable urge to screw Rei's brains out right there against the karaoke room wall.
Realization dawned on Rei since she herself had experienced the same thing. Rei turned to Minako with a big smile. One Mina didn't return not finding the situation funny at all, she was pissed! Suddenly they were all interrupted by a loud crashing sound all eyes turned to the back of the room were Makoto had Ami pinned to the couch kissing her aggressively, the crash having been Makoto knocking over a chair when she practically attacked the blue haired young women. Everyone looked at the pair with very confused expressions. Ami pushed Makoto off of her hard and blushed profusely at having been caught lying on a couch with Makoto over her kissing her deeply. Makoto leaned up a little confused.
"Holy Shit" she whispered as she shut her eyes and put her head in her hands.
"Mako what's wrong" Ami asked a little worried. Makoto had never acted like this before. The brunette knew how her girlfriend felt about certain public displays of affection and making out in the middle of a crowded room was a no no. Ami put her hand on Makoto's shoulder. Makoto jumped up and practically ran across the room away from Ami.
"What the hell is going on? Is everyone going sex crazy" Haruka asked just before Makoto bumped into her sending her and Michiru flying. Haruka landing on Minako, Michiru hitting the ground not far away. Suddenly Haruka was no longer complaining about weird public sexual activities she was engaging in them. Standing with the speed of the wind she pulled Michiru up and into her arms kissing her aggressively while her hands roamed in slightly inappropriate places.
"Ruka, stop" Michiru said as she pushed Haruka hard to get her to stop ravaging her. Haruka hit the ground again.
"Ow" she said as she rubbed her rear end. Usagi ran to help Minako stand grabbing her arm gently.
"Usagi don't touch.." Rei started to say but didn't finish in time. Suddenly Usagi turned around and walked across the room and forcefully pushed Mamoru onto a nearby couch speedily she straddled him and attempted a vigorous make out session. Mamoru was stunned. Chibiusa was slightly uncomfortable at having to watch her parents be so intimate. Mamoru was quickly able to subdue the lusty Usagi.
"What's going on here." He said while holding both of Usagi's arms behind her back. Rei quickly ran to Minako and pushed her back against the wall behind her, being careful not to touch her skin.
"This is all my fault" Minako whispered. Everyone in the room slowly turned to her except Rei who looked like she might attack anyone who came near the senshi of love.
"I'm sorry guys, its my senshi powers they have been going crazy, manifesting themselves as a sort of aphrodisiac aura" the group just continued to stare at her. "It only happens every once in a while and it seems you only get effected if you come into contact with me"
"So you make everyone excessively horny?" Tahiki asked with a slight grin.
"It would seem so, but only if you touch me" Mina asked.
"Ah man, how come Yaten got to experience this sex aura and not me, no fair" Seiya said jokingly.
"Hey its not very comfortable" Yaten said "It's like when your with someone and things are getting steaming then all of the sudden she's like I have to go and leaves you hanging except this is instantaneous." All the men in the group noticeably grimaced.
"Yaten don't say things like that" Michiru said thinking about Chibiusa and Hotaru's presence.
"Sorry" he mumbled when he realized what he had implied.
"So everyone will be ok if we just don't touch you right" Hotaru asked with a polite smile, she was glad neither her nor Chibiusa had been affected it would have been very hard to explain to their parents why they were making out.
"Yes, I believe so" Minako answered as she came from behind Rei's back. And went to sit in a chair in the far side of the room so no one would accidentally bump into her. Rei grabbed a chair and sat next to her being extremely careful not to touch her, the idea of ravaging Minako in front of everyone was not appealing. Minako noticed Rei sitting on the edge of her chair. 'weird I wonder why she is sitting so far forward.
Joking about all the sexual debacles began and it wasn't long until the party was back to normal with Chibiusa and Hotaru singing one of Minako's newer songs. Ami tried to get Makoto to sit with her on the couch again. The brunette shook her head.
"can't yet, give me a second" she told her blue haired girlfriend while trying really hard not to look the smaller girl in the eyes so she didn't lose control again.
"Dang Michi why did you have to push me so hard. My butt hurts from falling" Haruka said as she stood behind Michiru gently rubbing up and down the aquamarine haired girls arms.
Everyone's conversations and thoughts were cut a little short when the door to the karaoke room opened. In walked a worried looking Setsuna everyone turned to her, John walked up gave her a kiss, grabbed her hand and asked.
"What are you doing here I thought you were going to go to the time gates?" Setsuna answered in a troubled voice.
"I was but there is something really wrong! I cant change."
"What do you mean" John asked.
"I can't transform, I don't know why but I can't and if I can't transform then I can't use my powers to get to the time gates. And if I can't get to the time gates then I can't check the time line which means we are flying blind."
"What do we do then??" Usagi asked, thinking of the problem Setsuna had mentioned about the time line and the fact that is was still happening but Setsuna couldn't go to the gates to monitor its progress. Ami answered her.
"Well something like not being able to transform could be a preemptive attack by some unknown enemy we should see if any more of us are affected."
"You mean we have to transform?" Hotaru asked.
"Yes and not just the senshi, the starlight's and the princes should all try to, we need to know who we have and don't have if it comes to a fight"
"Wow this is going to be strange none of us have transformed in a really long time" Rei said.
"Who wants to go first" Seiya said.
"Lets start with the princesses since they have the ability to use the imperial silver crystal which is by far our greatest power" Michiru answered wisely. Usagi and Chibiusa nodded and said in unison.
"Moon Eternal, Make Up!" lights flashed and in moments the transformation was over and both girls stood there in their senshi fuku.
"Thank god" Setsuna exclaimed once the princesses had transformed.
"Ill go next since I'm the leader" Minako stated.
"Venus Crystal Power, Make Up!" a bright golden light and there stood Sailor Venus. Rei stepped forward and began her transformation.
"Mars Crystal Power, Make Up!" a vivid crimson light and she was Sailor Mars. Makoto was next with a dazzling green light.
"Jupiter Crystal Power, Make Up!" And there was Sailor Jupiter, and after a brilliant blue light.
"Mercury Crystal Power, Make Up!" and there stood Sailor Mercury.
"Well that's all the inner Senshi, you're up Haruka" Mamoru stated.
"Uranus Planet Power, Make Up!" a light gold light and Uranus was there.
"Neptune Planet Power, Make Up!" a dark blue light and there stood Neptune.
"Saturn Planet Power, Make Up!" a black light and Hotaru was now Sailor Saturn.
"Us next" Tahiki stated and stepped forward.
"Maker Star Power, Make Up!" and there stood Sailor Star Maker.
"Fighter Star Power, Make Up!" and Seiya was now Sailor Star Fighter.
"Healer Star Power, Make Up!" and Yaten turned to Sailor Star Healer.
"Dude why are you girls now, really hot dominatrix girls" John asked. Everyone giggled except a scowling Setsuna.
"I'll explain it later John, Guess were last" Mamoru said, and with no words or movement he suddenly was standing there in his prince armor/uniform, his normal long sword at his side.
"Yeah uhm how did you do that" John asked.
"Just think of the past and how you want to be able to fight with the rest to protect Serenity, well that's how I do it at least, Maybe you should think of Setsuna" Endymion said with a chuckle. John tried and nothing happened. Then he thought of protecting Serenity and still nothing.
"Its not working I tried it both ways." John said.
"Try thinking of both of them because as a Prince of the Silver Millennium it is your duty to help protect Serenity but your heart belongs to Setsuna so it is your desire to protect her" Mercury said in a wise voice. John thought of the past and of protecting Serenity and Setsuna.
"It worked" Fighter said. John opened his eyes and there he stood in an outfit identical to Endymion's in all but the color and sword, Endymion had his Long Sword, but on the other side of Solarus's body was strapped a sword similar to that of a scimitar but a little straighter.
"You must be left handed" Endymion said.
"Yeah I am, how did you know that?" Solarus asked.
"Your sword is on the other side of your body then mine and I'm right handed" the prince of Earth answered.
"Oh yeah" Solarus said.
"So its just me then" Setsuna worried.
"Try it and we will see what's happening" John asked.
"Ok"
"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up" she felt the power begin to change her, coming from her stomach then nothing it just disappeared. Mercury took out her hand held computer and a visor came over her eyes, as she typed away, and said.
"Try it again so I can get more data" once again Setsuna said.
"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up" the same feeling and then nothing again. Everyone looked to Mercury as she typed away after a few minutes she shrugged.
"I don't know, the data is inconclusive, your power starts then its like its just absorbed by something in your body, I don't know what to make of it"
"We need to ask someone with more knowledge of the senshi then any of us." Sailor Moon said.
"Good Idea" stated Sailor Chibi Moon. Everyone looked at the Princesses.
"Who would that be" Solarus asked. Everyone was also wondering. Sailor Moon looked at everyone like they were idiots.
"Duh, Luna and Artemis, they are our guardians"
A/N Hope you like the things I added to the chapter.