6. Lions, Roses and Elevators …Oh My
What was this guy thinking? Did he really think he could pull off a Tuxedo Mask, he was not nearly as dreamy looking, and Molly? No way Molly would be his choice…or at least she hoped not. One quick transform later and she should have this Nega Scum out of here.
"Agh!" Sailor Moon cried as Nephrite's lion lunged towards her. What was she thinking about it being a quick transform?
Suddenly a rose stopped it in its path. Tuxedo Mask.
He looked at the female super-hero, so he had gotten there just in time. This time it was his battle, he'd show this nega-trash what he's got.
Man was he wrong, he thought as the pair ran towards the elevator. He was even more wrong when he realized they'd played right into his trap. Now he was stuck in the elevator until Nephrite decided otherwise. He looked over at Sailor Moon, who was being awfully silent.
She couldn't believe it! Her one and only Tuxedo Mask stuck in an elevator with her. Up close he was pretty tall; she wondered who was under that mask. Someone handsome or at least she hoped. What was she thinking? This was not exactly what she had planned for the night but she wasn't complaining what so ever. Maybe if she was lucky she'd get a kiss!
"There's got to be a way out of this place…" He said breaking the silence. He didn't exactly want to leave. There was something about the Sailor Moon girl that he liked; the fact that she had just saved him from that lion helped, but she was pretty. He gave her credit for going after Nephrite on his own. If it could go his way, he wouldn't be rushing out of this situation but they needed to get out before the elevator dropped.
Sailor Moon reluctantly followed him up the elevator ceiling door, but knew it was for the best. If only she had a way to remember that tonight actually happened; she was stuck in an elevator with her handsome rescuer Tuxedo Mask.
She couldn't get last night out of her mind. Sure, her date with Tuxedo Mask hadn't gone as planned but being stuck in an elevator with him made Raye so steamed. It just sucked that Molly was the victim. She wasn't herself today at school either. Still she couldn't help but keep that grin from being with her masked hero off her face.
"Well you seem happy Serena?" Andrew asked the beaming blonde.
"I guess." She said with a small all knowing shrug.
"Common Serena spill?" Andrew said. "You're gleaming from ear to ear."
"Didn't fail another test? Wow that make that two in a row, is that a record for you Meatball brain!" Darien said as he smirked at her.
"No, I just had a really good night last night…for the most part." She said.
"Oh did you go to that thing with Tuxedo Mask last night?" Andrew asked. "I heard most of the girls were steamed that he didn't show up."
"Well I got to see him." She couldn't help but brag, she'd held it in all day at school. Plus it wasn't like Andrew was Tuxedo Mask anyway…now wouldn't that be a nice surprise! And it definitely wasn't downer Darien.
"What how?" Andrew asked. Darien couldn't help but fall off his seat a bit.
"Went early. Only Raye and Ami know." She shrugged.
"It was a hoax. There's no way Tuxedo Mask would show up to a fan club of girls." Darien said trying to play it cool.
"Whatever you say dweeb, but I met the real Tuxedo Mask. No phony." She smiled at him, with confidence.
"Prove it!" He challenged. Serena must have seen the fake Tuxedo Mask Nephrite…but if that was true she would have been zapped clean like her friend Molly. Either way he did not see Serena there last night. He had almost verified his growing suspicion that he was Tuxedo Mask, but he'd always lacked any evidence the next day to prove it to himself.
"Fine." She said as she bent over to look in her purse, and pulled something out.
"Serena that's just a rose, what does that prove?" Andrew asked.
A rose? Darien looked over wide eyed. He looked at it. It wasn't just any rose, it was full in bloom and the tip was sharp but blunted from being thrown at the lion from last night. He couldn't tell how but he had sensed the power from it, and new it was Tuxedo Mask's.
"Like Andrew said it doesn't prove anything…" Darien said.
"Humph, well it proves enough to me." She said, as she slipped off the chair.
She put the rose back in her bag leaving Darien slightly dumbfounded as to how Serena Tsukino acquired the rose, but let it slip to the back of his mind, as he rubbed his sore arm, tired from a strenuous night of holding up both him and Sailor Moon from an elevator catastrophe.