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: 6/8
Status: Unfinished
Year Completed: N/A

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FRIGHT NIGHT

By Princess Destiny

Chapter Six

Luna was filled in quickly on their plan, and although the cat was rather disapproving of the whole thing, she couldn't really say much. This was to save lives, after all, and that was what the Senshi were created for. She did, however, have a few questions for them.

"Alright, so you are making your plan on the basis that the killer works in a video store?"

"Yes, that's right, Luna." Ami nodded, eyes curious. Had the cat thought of something they had not?

"Then why don't you just find out who works at the store you hired the video from?" The black cat aimed this next question at Shingi and Hikaru.

The two looked blank for a moment, then groaned. "Why didn't we think of that?" Shingi said, rolling his eyes.

"Because the person who hired us this movie last week was a woman?" Hikaru said slowly, tilting her head to the side.

"But that doesn't mean that there aren't male workers there." Mamoru pointed out, impressed by Usagi's cat despite himself.

Ami put up her hand. "I already checked into that one," she frowned at the two of them. "Why exactly did you use two stores? Wouldn't just one of the movies been fine?"

"Two stores?" The rest of them chorused, looking at Motoki's aunt and uncle.

"Oh...that's right, I couldn't get both movies at the one store and had to go to another one for the second movie." Shingi muttered sheepishly. "It was yesterday and really hard to find."

"And we were so close," Usagi moaned, biting on her lower lip. She saw Mamoru watching avidly and blushed. "So you're saying that it could have been any of the male employees in two stores?"

"Right," Luna nodded. "And after all, we're just speculating that this man does work in the store. For all we know, he could also have the hacking ability that Ami does. If their computers are hooked up to the internet-"

"They would be able to connect quite easily," The Senshi of Mercury sighed. "I'm glad you're thinking clearly, Luna. Maybe we're all too close to this to think rationally. This killer has really freaked us out."

"I'll be lucky to sleep at nights after this." Makoto nodded, shivering.

"He does obviously have some technical know-how." Shingo mused, reaching out to take his wife's hand absently. He raised it to his lips and kissed her fingers. "Well, I think between Ami and myself, we're more than his match."

"That's right." The blue-haired girl smiled at him.

"Okay, so back to the plan. Now that we've got that out of the way, we're back to square one. This guy could be an employee, a hacker, or even someone who just hung around the store and saw Shingi hire the movies." Rei said, ticking off the points on her fingers. She frowned. "I don't like having so many possible explanations."

"Neither do we, but we have to go with what we have." Usagi said, looking at Mamoru for reassurance.

"Right, Odango. We get Naru and her mother involved. We hide, so one sees the Senshi. And the rest of you can stake out the houses of the people who already hired." The upperclassman went on from Rei's planning.

"Right." Everyone nodded.

"But we don't all have communicators." Rei said, looking at Luna expectantly.

"I only had four!" Luna sniffed and leapt up onto the table, sitting delicately in one corner near Usagi.

"I have my devices?" Shingi offered.

Usagi's eyes brightened. "That's right!" she said eagerly. "The Senshi can use our Communicators and the rest can use the devices."

"And I'll have both, while I co-ordinate it all from my Mercury Computer." Ami put in, nodding in approval.

"I don't like the thought of being unarmed," Hikaru said, an uneasy look in her eyes. "Can we take a weapon?"

"I think that's a good idea," Shingi nodded at his wife. "Perhaps a knife, since he will also have one?"

"I don't like knives," Usagi shuddered. "I'll stick with my tiara. I don't think it will moon-dust a human."

"I'm sure no one will mind if we turn him over to the Police a little roughed-up." Makoto said viciously.

Shingi eyed her askance and then laughed. "You're an amazon, aren't you?"

"What was that?!" she snarled at him, fists clenching.

"It was a compliment!" he said, holding up his hands in a placating manner. "An amazon is a female warrior."

"Oh." The brunette said, deflating. She then smiled. "Okay then."

"Don't get on her bad side!" Motoki hissed at his uncle warningly.

"Something has been bugging me." Usagi said suddenly, frowning and biting her lip.

"Oh?" Ami said absently, still typing away at her computer.

"Yeah...if the lines were cut, how did Shingi try to call us? I mean, there's only the one line, right? And you can't call your own number from another phone on the same line."

Everyone gaped at her incredulously and Rei and Mamoru inched away from her slightly. "Scary!" They both commented, eyes wide.

"Hey!" Usagi growled, tapping her fingers on the table. She glared at Mamoru. "I thought you were getting nicer."

"I am being nicer," he muttered, looking embarrassed. He inched back till his leg touched hers and slung an arm about her shoulders. "Don't be so touchy, just because we aren't used to hearing you saying such intelligent things."

The blonde pinched his thigh and was surprised to see him both wince and a weird expression come into his eyes.

Mamoru quickly plucked her hand from his leg and thanked his lucky stars that the table was once again blocking all view of them below the chest. She's pinch him centimetres from there! Good god, was she that young that she didn't know where she shouldn't be touching a guy? He grabbed both her hands in his and kept them there tightly as if it were a romantic gesture.

Maybe when she was a few years older, she could touch him wherever she liked, but for now, everything had to be kept at a PG rating!

"You're being mean." Usagi said mildly, mollified by his holding her hands. He was really turning out to be a romantic guy! She smiled at him.

"No, he's right," Ami said, not looking up from the Mercury computer. "You're sounding much smarter, Usagi. Perhaps those leadership skills Luna despaired on you ever getting have come out."

"Please god!" Luna swore fervently from her cushion next to Ami. She peered at Mamoru and Usagi's joined hands again with a disapproving expression, then sighed and accepted it. Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon had always had a chemistry and if he ever hurt her for any reason, Luna could always do him bodily damage. The type that would prevent him from ever having children!

"You're all mean." Usagi wailed, feeling betrayed.

"It's an easy enough explanation," Shingo said hastily, staring at the blonde with raised eyebrows. Talk about rapidly-changing emotions! One minute an air-headed, wailing kid, the next an authoritative smart adult. Sailor Moon was an enigma. "Hikaru and I always keep a separate line in our bedrooms in case of emergency. If one line goes dead, hopefully the other would work. So, when the killer tapped into what he thought was the only phone lines, he actually got both." he frowned. "And ruined all my fun too, I might mention."

"So, you meant to call us from the separate line?" Mamoru said, impressed. Wow, now that was thinking ahead. "Your children would always be safe if someone got into the house and cut the other line." he nodded. "You're wonderful parents."

"Thank you!" Hikaru beamed at him.

"We also er...use it for the internet." Shingi went on in embarrassment.

Everyone gaped and then cracked up.

"I take it back." The upper-classman said, rolling his eyes.

Usagi tilted her head to the side consideringly. "So, you and Motoki were the voices and the killer was the phone?" she asked Shingi.

"Right," Motoki's uncle nodded. He looked curious. "Why?"

"I was just thinking...why did he only call from outside the house, if he knew you were there?" The blonde Senshi frowned. "He must have seen you!"

"Maybe he did, but only thought he then had a very young girl, two slightly-older guys and a man to deal with," Mamoru said, following her train of thought. "But then he must have seen the three girls and Hikaru also and decided to make a run for it."

"But you locked all the doors and windows. We were watching." Motoki said, shaking his head.

"Then how did he get into the house and behind us?" Usagi burst out, trying to figure it out.

"Well, I had a key," Shingi said. "Motoki snuck into the house when we saw you go into the kitchen and then when you headed for the stairs, I knocked on the door while he scared you by standing in the darkness in the living room."

"So..." Makoto said, laying back onto the floor, arms behind her head to cushion her. "While you two were scaring them, the killer got in and switched the phone and then hide somewhere?"

Hikaru and Shingi exchanged a look. 'The dinning room!" They both exclaimed simultaneously.

"Dinning room? Where?" Usagi said, trying to recall another room between the living room and the kitchen.

"No, it's on the other-side of the staircase," Hikaru said. "The lights were out when we left you."

"Ohhhh," Usagi and Mamoru said, nodding. They'd barely noticed the other room on the other-side of the staircase when they'd arrived.

"So, let me get this straight; the killer watched the house, came into the house sometime when you and the kids were out to familiarise himself and then on the night when he planned to kill you, he discovered someone else had supposedly the same idea and then followed us all around, looking for an opportunity to strike?" Ami said seriously. Her blue eyes closed for a moment. "So, he must have snuck in between the time that Mamoru and Usagi answered the kitchen phone and Shingi and Motoki scared them up the stairs."

Shingi's hands clenched and his wife paled. "He did seem rather familiar with the house." Motoki's uncle said through gritted teeth. He looked at the girls and Tuxedo Kamen. "I want this guy," he told them. "He was going to kill my children!"

"I agree," Hikaru said, eyes angry.

"So do we," Usagi said soothingly. She sighed. "I just can't believe we're going to use my friend and her mother as bait!"

"We could do it another way." Rei said gently.

"She's right, Usagi. There's another way," Luna thought for a moment, then her furry shoulders drooped. "But I just can't think of one right now."

"Right then," The blonde girl pulled her hands from Mamoru's and got to her feet. "I'll call Naru and get her and her mother over here."

Naru and her mother could do nothing but stare at Usagi and the other others with open mouths when the whole story came out.

"You're Sailor Moon?!" Naru screeched at Usagi. "This is what you've been hiding from me?!"

"I'm sooooorrrrrrry!" Usagi wailed, wringing her hands. "But after Nephlyte died, how could I possibly tell you?"

"Nephlyte," Naru said, her voice catching. Her first and only love.

"Who exactly is Nephlyte?" her mother demanded, her eyes narrowing.

"A Dark Kingdom General." Ami told her.

"A what?!"

"He commanded all the monsters attacking the city at one time...oh and draining energy." Makoto told her.

"And my daughter is in love with this man?" Naru's mother fairly shrieked.

Everyone winced.

"He's dead, mother." Naru said in a flat tone, eyes eternally sad.

"Oh, Naru." Immediately all-solicitous mother, Naru was pulled into a warm hug.

"Naru, please," Mamoru said gently. "I know that you're upset, but we have a killer loose and he's most-probably going to try again tonight with a new family."

Naru's tear-streaked face came up and she pulled back from her mother, wiping her shirt-sleeve across her eyes. "O-okay, I understand," Then she glared at Usagi. "But afterwards, we're going to have a long talk, Tsukino Usagi!"

Usagi gulped, then nodded. Oh dear, this wasn't going well.

"Let me get this straight," Naru's mother said, frowning. "Naru and myself are bait?"

"Ehehehehe." Everyone laughed nervously.

"I don't like it." she went on firmly.

"Mom! We have to help the Senshi!" Naru said, grabbing her mother's hand urgently. "Don't you remember they saved us that time?"

"I just knew I would be left out of the equation again." Mamoru muttered darkly.

"There, there," Usagi patted his hand lightly. "Maybe we can get some photo's taken with the Senshi and you when we catch this guy."

The dark-haired man's eyes brightened. "There is that." he agreed, smiling.

"Motoki, dear. Your friends are so funny." Hikaru giggled like a school-girl.

"They're certainly entertaining." Shingi agreed, chuckling.

"So, we're agreed?" Ami asked, looking about expectantly. She placed the Mercury computer flat on the table so they could all see a map of Juuban. "Here are the six locations of the video stores. What Naru and her mother need to do is go and hire all the remaining copies of the movies and take them back to their place. One of those stores should have the killer."

"And what about the stores that already have the movies booked out?" Naru's mother said, looking at the map closely.

"The Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen will be watching them and follow whoever leaves." Ami said, smiling. It was good to deal with adults, unlike her fellow Senshi and Mamoru-who unfortunately tended to act like Usagi sometimes, especially when they were fighting. With Naru's mother-who's name somehow hadn't been mentioned yet with all the explanations that had gone on and no one really knew what it was-and Shingi, Hikaru and herself as the brains and the others as the brawn, they were sure to catch the killer!

"How many have been hired and how many do we hire?" Naru asked, peering at the screen doubtfully. Her heart beat uncomfortably in her chest. This was much scarier than a Youma! This was a real-life killer. "Usagi?" she said fearfully. "You'll be there at my house, right?"

"Of course! Mamoru and I will both be there to guard you," The blonde said reassuringly, smiling sweetly at her friend. "I, Sailor Moon champion of justice shall kick some butt!"

"How reassuring for her." Mamoru muttered under his breath. Well, at least he'd be there with his steel-tipped roses!

"Jerk!" Usagi muttered back, elbowing him in the ribs. Just when she thought he was turning out to be an okay guy, he said something like that.

"I'm only kidding, Odango!" he groaned at her, touching his ribs lightly. The blonde was so much stronger than he'd realised, but then again, she was probably doing it a LITTLE harder than usual to get back at him for all his groping. He glared at her. How was he supposed to know what he was touching when he couldn't see?

"Let's see," Rei said, leaning over the table and resting her elbows on the hard surface. "There are nine copies out from three stores and another 3 copies in three different stores remaining. If Naru and her mother go hire those three, then we have four copies and only eight more locations to watch."

"Four copies?" Naru said, blinking at her. She picked up a lock of her red hair and nibbled on the end.

"You have one, remember," Makoto said, jerking upright from the floor and grinning at Naru. "Ami hacked in and found that out."

"So that's why you brought us into this!" Naru's mother said disapprovingly.

"Uh, yeah." The girls all said sheepishly.

"But also because you've been attacked by a Youma before and you're Usagi's friend and you also know about the Dark Kingdom," Mamoru said, leaning back on his arms. He looked thoughtful. "We couldn't have set this up without your mother either, Naru." The handsome man frowned suddenly and stared at the red-haired woman. "Excuse me for asking, but I don't think your name was mentioned?"

Naru's mother blinked. "Oh, I guess it wasn't," she paused. "It's Mizuho."

"Shingi, Hikaru, Mamoru, Motoki, Luna, Ami, Rei and Makoto," Usagi introduced everyone one by one.

"Luna?" Mizuho asked doubtfully, staring at the black cat sitting on a corner of the table. She had assumed that the cat belonged to Rei and couldn't understand why a cat was being introduced.

Luna's eyes opened briefly, before closing again. "Please to meet you." she mumbled, exhausted. She'd been up all night talking with the Command Centre computer at Motoki's Arcade, talking over strategies and...well, Luna couldn't sleep a wink. Especially after finding out what had happened to her charge when she was absent. The cat felt very upset over that fact.

Mizuho and Naru shrieked. "A talking cat!" They yelled, pointing at Luna as if she were a mass-murderer.

"So passe by now," Shingi said, smiling mischievously. He turned to the others, face serious. "Shall we get on with it? If these four are at Naru's house, then that leaves only 7 of us to watch eight houses."

"Eight of us!" Luna said indignantly, opening her eyes and sitting up.

"What is a cat going to do?!" Shingi, Hikaru, Motoki, Mizaho and Naru exclaimed.

"This cat is the Senshi's guardian! This cat is over a thousand years old and just as wise! This cat has some powers of her own! And this cat has a bloody communicator and can call the Senshi!" Luna yowled at them.

Mamoru turned to Usagi. "Why does your cat have a Communicator and I don't?!"

To Be Continued...

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