Title: Fright Night
Author: Princess Destiny
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Couple: Usagi And Mamoru
Rating: M 15+
Summary: 'One Hour Challenges' #27, 71, 169, 238, 244, 250, 319, 333, 425 and 532 Combined: Response Fanfic. Mamoru and Usagi are tricked into babysitting Motoki's cousin on Halloween night, which impresses the two enemies little! To pass the time, they watch a horror movie, but then the lights go out and Usagi and Mamoru start to freak out. To make things worse, someone keeps calling, but says nothing and someone keeps ringing the bell and asking to use the phone, sounding eerily like the Movies they'd just watched!
Chapters: 4/8
Status: Unfinished
Year Completed: N/A

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FRIGHT NIGHT

By Princess Destiny

Chapter Four

Mamoru swore and dashed towards the window as a shape appeared outside. He never paused as the window slid up and someone's leg came inside. All he saw was dark clothing as he swiftly bent and put his hand under the person's shoe, then yanked up as hard as he could. There was a startled shriek of a woman or girl as they were catapulted out the window and then fell down fast, followed by a metallic crash.

"Shit! A woman?!" The upper-classman said in disbelief as he stuck his head out the window and looked down. It was almost too dark to see in the back yard, even with the moon above, because of all the shrubs and trees casting shadows, but he vaguely made out a darker shape lying on the ground, next to a fallen ladder. "Oh my god." he said, a hand going to his mouth. He'd just killed someone! A woman too! Closing his eyes, he tried to keep calm. Okay, it had been self-defence! She was going to kill him, like that guy outside the door. Mamoru had read about wives helping their husbands to kill, out of love for them.

His fist crashed down onto the windowsill and his eyes opened, blazing with fury and anguish. "I just killed someone and I'm Tuxedo Kamen!" he whispered harshly. Then he saw movement below and a groan. To his astonishment, the woman got to her feet and then ran off. "What the fuck?!" he screamed into the night. That was impossible. She should be dead!

"Mamoru?!" Usagi's voice came to him from a few windows down from him. He stuck his head out and saw her white face in the moonlight from above. He couldn't see her expression, but he knew it was her from the long blonde pigtail that was dangling outside the window.

"Usagi, get back inside!" he ordered her curtly.

"What was that noise? And I thought I heard a scream?" she said anxiously.

"There's a woman too. There's two of them. Wait in your room with the door jammed until I come and get you, okay?" Mamoru told her, trying to convey calm and confidence. "And lock the damn window behind you!" he added hastily.

"Okay." she said in a small voice, then her head disappeared back inside and the window was slammed shut.

Mamoru pulled his head back inside and slammed his own window, making sure to lock it this time. "Alright, that's it," he whirled and stalked towards the door. "You want to mess with me?" Mamoru shouted through the door. "Then you can mess with all of me." And saying so, he reached into his sub-space and-

Before he could even summon his rose, that familiar feeling of pleasure/pain came over him that signalled Sailor Moon was in trouble and had transformed! "No!" he said in complete horror. It couldn't happen now! Before he could even touch his rose, he automatically transformed into Tuxedo Kamen to match her own transformation. "No, no, no!" he yelled in disbelief. He couldn't leave Usagi and the children with two murderers in the house!

Roaring in anger, the dark-haired man lifted up the heavy dresser that had been blocking the door, as if it weighed nothing, and hurled it to the side. Then he flung open the door, ready to attack the killer...but there was no one there. He peered cautiously left and then right, but saw no one. And damn, he'd dropped his torch too! Cursing, the hero made his way slowly down the hall. First, he would rescue Usagi and the children and then...wait a minute...Sailor Moon's pull was close. Very close.

Eyes widening further in disbelief, he realised that she was in the house!

It was then that he saw a figure coming towards him, a darker shape against the shadows. The killer! Or at least, one of them. Or...was it a Youma?! Somehow the Dark Kingdom had found them and now his night of hell was truly made. Anger filled him and he began his trademark speech, not sure who he was making it too, but knowing either way, it was the enemy.

Usagi made sure to lock the window and backed away from it uncertainly. She'd been cowering in the dark like a little kid when she'd heard a woman or girl scream and then a huge crash. She'd raced to the window and tried to unlock it, but the catch was stuck. By the time she'd opened it, she couldn't see anything outside that would have been a person. But it had been dark. And then Mamoru had screamed "What the fuck?!" and she'd leant out the window to speak to him, delight filling her that he was okay.

"But then he told me there were two killers." she whispered, standing before the door and biting on a fingernail. Two killers. "I can't handle this." she whimpered, eyes pooling with tears. But Mamoru was okay...so she...she had to protect them both. Even if it meant revealing her secret identity.

"Right!" she said, voice filling with confidence. Those killers wanted to mess with her? Then they could mess with Sailor Moon! She took off her broach and held it over her head. "Moon Prism Power, Makeup!" As the power filled her, along with the feeling of indescribable joy, she knew that everything would be okay as long as she could trust in her abilities. She'd never faced a killer before, but this was no time to chicken out now...

Transformation completed, she hesitated a moment, then un-wedged the chair from under the handle, remembering to bend over and pick up her discarded flashlight. It would be no good if she beat the crap out of Mamoru instead of the bad guys! She cracked open the door, the torch shaking in her hand. Sailor Moon switched it on briefly and shone it wildly around the hall in both directions. Nothing. The murderer wasn't there!

Sighing with relief, the superhero stepped out into the hall and switched off the light. No sense in letting the two killers know that she wasn't locked in the room anymore. Creeping along the hall towards where she'd seen Mamoru dash into a room, she abruptly saw a darker shadow making way towards her. Freezing in fear for a second, she felt her mouth go dry-but then she remembered that she was transformed now and no damned killer was going to mess with her! With that comforting thought, she threw herself into her speech.

"For scaring young girls and breaking into this house, I will punish you in the name of the Moon-!" Sailor Moon started to say.

"How dare you break into this peaceful house and terrorise innocent people, I will not forgive you-!" Tuxedo Kamen began.

Both their speeches stopped dead as they recognized the voice shouting at them.

Sailor Moon swiftly raised her flashlight and switched it on, revealing the tuxedoed form of her protector. "Tuxedo Kamen?!" Sailor Moon gaped at him in disbelief. Where the hell had he come from? Oh. Her blue eyes widened in happiness. She wasn't alone any more! Tuxedo Kamen would protect her and Mamoru.

"Sailor Moon!" Tuxedo Kamen hurried towards her and took a hold of her shoulders, tilting the torchlight up so both their faces were visible to each other. "Where's the Youma?" he demanded. What the hell was she doing there?!

"Youma?" Sailor Moon gasped out in fear. Now there was a Youma there as well as a murderer?! She felt faint. "There's a Youma here?"

"You haven't seen one?" Tuxedo Kamen said uncertainly. "But I felt you transform! And I transformed because of it."

"You what?" she said, blinking. "Do you mean that you transform every time I do?"

"That's right-so there's no Youma?" he sighed in relief. Okay, that just left two killers in the house then. Then something occurred to him. "If there's no Youma, just what are you doing here, Sailor Moon?" he demanded of her, face moving closer.

Her eyes widened. "I could ask you the same question," she said defensively, not wanting to answer. "Do you live that close?"

"No," Tuxedo Kamen said reluctantly. He stared at her. "Why are you here? It's dangerous; there's something going on here you don't know about."

Had Tuxedo Kamen seen the killer? Sailor Moon hesitated, then glared, made to feel like she was breaking and entering or something. "I'm baby-sitting!" she told him.

Tuxedo Kamen's eyes went huge and his hands tightened on her shoulders. "Odango?" he said incredulously, hardly believing it. It had to be!

Sailor Moon's eyes popped wide when she heard the hate name. She peered upwards, trying to see behind the white half-mask. "Jerk?" she said in the same tone.

Then they both pointed at each other accusingly. "It's you!" They shouted.

"You're Sailor Moon?" Tuxedo Kamen said, voice faint. Oh god, as if his night hadn't been bad already, he now knew the girl he had deep feelings for was his worse enemy. The klutz of Juuban!

"You're Tuxedo Kamen?" she whined at him, seriously letdown. The guy she had a major crush on was the annoying creep?

Someone suddenly bolted up the staircase and along the hall towards them, a metallic object flashing in the torchlight. Tuxedo Kamen swept Sailor Moon into his arms just in time, as a wicked-looking butcher's knife took a vicious swipe at her. Then the person was crashing through a closed door to their far right. The two heroes heard a lot of swearing, then clanging noises.

And then there was silence.

"Did that sound like a ladder to you?" Sailor Moon whispered, shaking in Tuxedo Kamen's arms.

"Yeah, it did." he whispered back, arms still tight about her. They could talk about their secret identities later. Right now, they had to find the children!

"We're terrible baby-sitters. I'm never doing this again if they're...dead." Sailor Moon choked on her words, almost bursting into tears.

"Later, Usagi," Tuxedo Kamen told her, putting a gloved hand under her chin and tilting her head up. He leant forward and kissed her gently. Their first kiss. "Let's go see if the kids are okay." he said soothingly when he pulled back.

"Mamoru, why didn't they come down when they heard me screaming during the movie?" she asked him fearfully.

That had also been praying on his mind, but Tuxedo Kamen didn't want to think of the worst. If the killers were following the Movie exactly, then the kids had already been dead for hours. "Let's find their room." he murmured, taking her hand. He pointed to the door that the killer had run through. "He seemed familiar with that one and the ladder was there too"

"That one?" she said weakly, clinging to his hand. Oh god, she hoped the children were okay. They just had to be! Legs trembling, she was helped along the hall into the room, where they shone the flashlight about. It was the children's rooms alright! Toys scattered everywhere and two small beds on either side of the room. They shone the light over the beds and gasped. Both had dark red spattered all over them.

"Mamoru!" Usagi screamed in horror, her hand wrenching from his. "Oh god, they're dead!" she flung herself at him, hiding her face in his chest.

Then the bed moved as someone bolted upright, covers falling down to reveal someone in black, wearing a hideous mask. "Trick or treat!" A man's voice said evilly.

"Trick or treat!" The person on the other bed also said evilly, clearly a woman's voice.

Tuxedo Kamen shone the light that way and saw another hideous mask. Oh god, it was the too killers, lying in the bloody beds of the slaughtered children! Sailor Moon was clinging to him so hard, he thought his ribs were going to burst. "You killed them!" he snarled at them.

There was movement at the window suddenly and a dark shape leapt in nimbly. "Happy Halloween-" Rei started to say, but was cut off when Sailor Moon whirled, her hand going to her tiara.

"Moon Tiara action," Sailor Moon cried out, then she noticed her dark-haired friend there, as Tuxedo Kamen shone the torch at the window. "No!" she screamed.

Rei saw the tiara coming at her and didn't have the room to move. She made a split-second decision and summoned her Wand. "Mars Power, Makeup!" she shouted, diving backwards out of the window.

"Rei!" The blonde screamed in horror, racing to the window.

"I've got her!" Makoto's voice called up, sounding strained. "That was sure close."

"I don't believe it! That's twice I've fallen out a window tonight! And the first one really hurt." The Priestess-in-training shouted wrathfully. "That's it! Next Halloween, I get tricked, okay?!"

Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen turned away from the window, feeling numb. It was a prank? Absently, he shone the torch at the woman in the bloody bed in time to see her take off her mask. It was the children's mother, Hikaru. "I really want to kill someone for this, but I'm too tired." he gritted through his teeth.

"Ditto." Sailor Moon muttered, slumping against Tuxedo Kamen in exhaustion. Once she had her strength back, someone was going to get strangled!

Twenty-five minutes later, the power was back on and they were all slumped around the lounge room in various chairs and couches. Usagi and Mamoru were de-transformed and were squashed together on the couch between Rei and Ami. Yep, even quite Ami had been in on it. But at least she looked guilty. The others didn't. And so Mamoru and Usagi were sitting there, baleful looks on their faces.

It had been Motoki's plan, but the girls were in it the whole way and even the aunt and uncle had played big parts. The Senshi had know if they'd left horror Movies there, Usagi wouldn't have been able to resist watching them. They'd apparently used some high-tech equipment, comprising of earpieces and a pin on their collars that allowed them to talk to each other. Motoki's uncle had bought all the equipment and he and Motoki had been able to perfectly choreograph the door scenes. Motoki talked outside the door, disguising his voice with another cleaver device, while the uncle snuck in through the window, using a similar voice and making it sound as if the killer was throwing his voice. Mamoru and Usagi got angrier by the second. The children hadn't even been home! Hikaru explained that they would have been too scared by the screaming.

"My uncle is a professional voice actor. I heard his act through the earpiece. Chilling I tell you!" Motoki said proudly, clapping Shingi on the shoulder. "You've probably heard him do the voice of the bad guys in some Anime."

"No kidding?" Usagi said, eyes wide. "I love Anime! What were you in?" she demanded eagerly.

"Not now, Odango. We were angry, remember?" Mamoru admonished gently.

To everyone's surprise, she didn't tell at him for his use of her hated pet name.

Usagi smiled and then turned a baleful eye on everyone again. "Right," she said, crossing her arms. "Who wants to explain why you went to all this trouble in scaring us?"

Not surprisingly, no one had the guts to tell her.

Mamoru and Usagi sighed.

"It was just a prank!" Rei said, frowning.

"A freaky bloody prank that went too far!" The upper-classman thundered, making them all jump. He grinned. "See how it feels?"

"I didn't need that." Usagi moaned, leaning wearily against his chest, under his arm.

Mamoru automatically hugged her to his side, glaring when everyone stared, then cheered loudly.

"So, it worked?" Ami gasped, a smile crossing her lips.

"What did?" Mamoru said suspiciously.

"It was a plot to get you two kids together." Hikaru said, misty-eyed.

"What?!" Usagi and Mamoru growled.

"By the way, we won't tell anyone you're the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen." Shingi added suddenly.

"Same here-since Mamoru already told me about him being Tuxedo Kamen months ago" Motoki added, grinning at his friend.

The girls all swallowed, but Mamoru actually smiled. "Finally! Someone who knows me," he said dramatically to Shingi. "Thank you."

"What am I?" Motoki said indignantly, crossing his arms. "Chopped liver?"

"He has issues with the news not mentioning him" Usagi stage-whispered.

Mamoru reached behind them and pinched her butt. She squealed and he grinned.

"Did you just pinch my butt?" The blonde girl screeched in outrage.

"I did." he nodded.

"Hardly romantic." Ami moaned, rolling her eyes.

"For those two it is!" Makoto said, rolling her eyes also.

"No pain, no gain." Rei snickered behind her hand.

"Rei!" The blonde shouted at her in disbelief.

"I have to ask-why didn't you check on the kids earlier?" Hikaru asked curiously.

"We didn't have the time to!" Usagi retorted, sniffing.

"There was way too much going on," Mamoru added, eyes narrowed on them all with displeasure. He sighed. "But I do have to admit that Odango and I make bad baby-sitters. We should have ignored the scary things happening and checked on them."

"Yeah," Usagi said morosely. "Some super-heroes we turned out to be!"

Shingi and Hikaru grinned. "You'll excuse us, I'm sure, if we never ask you to baby-sit for us?" she said mischievously.

"Never happen!" The two enemies chorused fervently.

Everyone laughed at them.

"You really had us going." Mamoru said wryly, still glaring at them all again. If they thought this issue was just going to be dropped, they had another thing coming!

"Yeah, all those spooky phone calls!" Usagi was also glaring, her arm about Mamoru's waist. His arm was again about her shoulders and she was happy. Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon finally had a chance to be together.

Everyone stared blankly at the two. "What phone calls?" They all asked, throwing each other bewildered looks.

"We tried that angle, to go with the Movie, but the phone-lines were down," Motoki said, frowning at them. "You got calls?"

Mamoru and Usagi stared at them, and then their hearts leapt into their throats. Those...phone calls hadn't come from their friends?

"If you're lying, I'll beat you into a bloody pulp." The handsome upperclassman threatened Motoki, his voice strained.

His best friend held up has hands placatingly. "Honestly, buddy! We couldn't make one call!" he groaned. "Uncle Shingi showed me yesterday what wires to cut for the power and I freaked when I thought I'd cut the phone lines too!"

"But of course, the phone lines were in another place, so we all thought the whole neighbourhood had gone." Shingi said, smiling at his nephew.

"What?" Usagi whispered in fear. "Someone was making scary calls to us all evening, telling us to check on the children or saying nothing at all."

"No way!" Rei said, glaring. "Stop lying, Odango Atama."

"She's not lying," Mamoru said seriously. "Someone was calling us."

"If it wasn't us, then who?" Ami said nervously, staring about the room in apprehension. Neither Usagi nor Mamoru looked like they were lying.

"Are you seriously telling me someone else was mimicking the movie?" Shingi demanded, crossing his arms. He remembered something and turned to glare at his nephew. "Speaking of-you nearly killed me with that butchers knife!"

"What are you talking about?" Motoki said, eyes widening. "I was never in the house!"

"Oh yes you were," Hikaru said chastisingly. "We were both playing dead and you ran right through the room and out the window. Your uncle was almost skewered with the knife when you threw it away."

"Oh!" Rei said, frowning. "That must have been when he came rushing down the ladder and almost brained me."

"That was you that slashed at Usagi?" Mamoru growled, his eyes darkening. "You're lucky I know that thing was fake now, or I'd-"

Motoki interrupted him. "Brained you? Ladder? Slashed at Usagi?" he said in bewilderment. "I never climbed down any ladders! Or stabbed at Usagi! Guys...I was never in the house. My station was outside the front door, remember?" Motoki said earnest. He blinked and looked from one to the other. "You're serious, aren't you?" he demanded.

"Well, it wasn't a girl." Shingi said, frowning heavily.

"And none of us made a phone call." Makoto said weakly.

They all stared at each other in sudden fear.

"There was a strange guy in the house with a knife?" Usagi moaned, pupils dilating. This couldn't be happening!

"I think we should call the police." Mamoru suggested, arm tightening about his new love.

No one objected.

To Be Continued...

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