The Princess of Love and Parties
(Written by Japananimegirl minor editing by myself)
After agreeing to Ariel's decision, Gracie decided to pass her time by doing her favorite activity: Writing! Gracie's light green eyes trailed along the text as she proof-read the story she'd just written, until Rei walked in.
"Hey, Gracie?" Although, with they're powers, Emily and Trisha has assured Rei Christen wasn't dead, she still sounded a bit depressed.
"Yeah, Mrs. Hino?" Gracie turned slowly around in the computer chair smiling politely. She knew Rei had not changed her last name despite that she was now married to Yuuichirou.
It was a pride and Sailor Senshi legacy thing for none of the other Sailor Senshi had taken their partner's last name either; all of them retained their maiden names. As for the Queen? She was just referred to by her title and her daughter's official last name had been that of her mother's and not her father's anyway.
Furthering the fact Senshi and those descending them remained at least in name and spirit pure and untainted by men. Showing that they're strong women and that they're both princesses and warriors and could protect the world even better than men ever could! Which was the main reason they Senshi kept their names and didn't take on their husband names.
"Sorry to interrupt your reading, my dear. However, if it's not too much trouble the King and Queen desire your help in exterminating some particularly large spiders." Rei transformed into Sailor Mars as they used fire to exterminate the bugs.
"That's OK, I can proof-read later. Alright!" Grinning brightly Gracie took out a tangerine lighter she kept on hand for her other favorite activity: Setting big bad bugs on fire.
Mars and Gracie spent the afternoon shooting fire at spiders, as big as your hands, which had totally infested the garage! Gracie was used to this as it was often spiders got this big. Mainly due to the food sources around plus they needed high shelter. On the other hand an infestation wasn't harmless at all; particularly with a great deal of animals and people who called the Crystal Palace their home. Who knew what diseases these undesirable pest would bring to the palace and its inhabitants? Ugh! Gave her the shivers just thinking about it!
Why couldn't it be a puppy or kitten infestation? They wouldn't have to go kill them and most people would've probably take them in so nobody be homeless! Animal abandonment was another that made Gracie blood boil! But you can't find homes for bugs and spiders like you can cute and fluffy puppies and kitties!
Thankfully after completing that "mission" her Minako dragged Gracie on another one she enjoyed even more: Shopping! None of the other girls were much of shopaholics and couldn't keep up with Minako and Gracie anyway; though that never deterred they're passion for fashion!
Even Neo-Queen Serenity found that amusing and she often kindly watched as Gracie gazed from one store window to another. Gracie purchased dozens of sunhats, sunglasses, dresses, and sandals for herself as that was her signature style.
Then after that whatever she and Minako could find the money for for their friends. Bounding home, loaded down with more shopping bags then they could possibly carry, Gracie couldn't wait to show her friends the fabulous and stylish new outfits she had picked out!
"Everyone! Look! Look! I just bought the cutest outfit ever!" the redhead cried out excitedly as she came Bursting into the bedroom they all shared. She then proceeded to dump a huge pile of clothes out of several large white shopping bags onto her bed. Then proceeded to start organizing all the outfits until she found the one she wanted to show off.
It is a large, brown, wide-brimmed hat with a scrunch purple ribbon tied around the base over her vibrant scarlet locks, a white, spaghetti-strap dress, and pink sandals with red heart-shaped markings. Her vivid emerald eyes glowed in anticipation of her friend's responses as she puts the outfit on in front of them.
"Cute!" Chibiusa confirmed in a gushing voice full of enamor as she was admiring the sandals the most. They were so darling and very cute indeed! They look even better if they all went out and got mani-pedis for the first time she realized!
Gracie noticed Chibiusa looking at them longingly and grinning she squealed, "You can borrow them sometime." Chibiusa cheered in happiness and started to think about nail polish choices for everyone and how to best ask everyone about going to a nail salon to do it!
"Nice." Crystal replied sweetly as she was stroking the cats. She then looked up and smiled as she was never really into fashion, on the other hand the clothes did look nice. Besides she was taught manners and her mom said to always give a compliment to someone.
Ariel, who was standing near a body-length sun-lit window to read peeked over the top of the book and nodded in agreement, as she felt if she opened her mouth she'd scold Gracie for being so happy at a time when Christen should be they're main concern.
However Gracie was just being herself and she deserved a little fun from time-to-time, since they'd no idea how to get Christen back yet at this time at any rate.
"That outfit suits you perfectly, Gracie." Holly remarked approvingly who was with Alexis by her side were sewing an outfit of their own. Given Holly's dream of becoming a fashion designer herself her little sister was often her assistant and model in this ambition.
Alexis and Trisha also nodded in agreement. Alexis always agreed with Holly and Trisha never talked much as she preferred to watch and learn, instead of pointless chatter.
"I'm not into fashion, but it looks like it'll be cool for the spring, summer, and fall." Emily replied in a uninterested tone as she laid gangly on her bed.
"Thanks, girls!" their friend replied in her jubilant attitude undimmed way they all knew and loved. She then hung up her new clothes. "I'm not sure if they match my pendant though, but we should've a party when we rescue Christen!" she replied softly as she touched the orange-colored gem in a gold frame with tiny, yellow pearls making up the chain.
Shopping and parties were two thing the young girl shared in common with mother Minako.
"We will." Ariel replied in a stiff and cold tone from where she sat in the room. However it only made the room fill with more tension and coldness stealing away any warmth and light that the redhead had tried to fill it with.
"Ariel, don't say it like that. It's not your fault Christen ran away nor is it any of our faults. She always does silly things like this. We'll find her and everything will work out, you'll see." Chibiusa tried comforting the karate girl, nevertheless Ariel shrugged her off and walked off to calm down.
Gracie liked to spend equal amounts of time with both the Neo-Sailor Senshi and Minako. Her passions were she loved to animate and to take beautiful photographs. Some of her favorite subjects of her photos were of her mom or other inhabitants of the Crystal Palace in various outfits as well as landscaping, in small areas of course.
Due to that Crystal Palace had a garden with two sections: One section grew all kinds of plants and the other grew fruits and vegetables. She wasn't much of a gardener, but it was very rewarding when she could make bouquets or healthy snacks with what she grew. However, she'd planned how the sections for the areas should be mapped out this was her best landscaping trait.
One day she was waiting for some pictures to be developed of her classmates new trends and she was shocked when one came back that looked like it had been taken with Vaseline rubbed on the lens of just the background and there was a strange shadow outlined under the girl too!
She looked through the other photos one by one which were normal and figured out the photo that was blurry was supposed to be of Demetria the girl they'd befriended on the first day of school.
This was alarming to the young girl as she knew perfectly well she hadn't shaken or did anything different to the camera before taking the pictures that day. However it did convince beyond a shadow of a doubt there as something wrong with the odd girl.
Not knowing why other than a strong overwhelming feeling she should gather as much proof as possible she made a quick decision. She had the photo copied to make sure it was the same then getting Alexis to use her artistic trait she took a piece of paper, a pencil, and watched the young Princess of Neptune sketch the outline of the shadow under Demetria. As more and more of the sketch came into perspective, Alexis dropped the pencil in shock and ran to cry into Holly's skirt in fright: The sketch looked just like the form of a Succubus from Christen's book!
Up until now Gracie had thought the idea of a Succubus was still far-fetched and it was probably some kind of other monster with no legend behind it, who had been attacking, but she realized, Ariel was right about everything!