Vol.1

Chapter 3

I'm Selina Chase, 18 years old, My birth metal is silver. I'm in the first year of college under the Managing Program, hoping to manage a hotel or a apartment building. I'm just a little clumsy and a bit of a complainer. That's about it. One day, a strange woman in black named Luna Lupo showed up and made me a Guardian of the Moon. But she wants me to fight bad guys. That makes me really nervous. Oh well, I guess everything will be okay. Hopefully.

In the night of New York City, on the downtown street of Manhattan, young citizens of NYC line up to get their fortune read by one of the city's most reliable psychics. "Hurry! Hurry!" one of the girls said. "Wait for me!" another goes. The psychic prepares himself for the overwhelming crowd that is continuously growing. As he read a fortune for a group of teenage girls, the girls stare in awe. The psychic smiled to them making it good news of some sort, the girls agreed, they paid the man and walked on. At the end of the line, Jason in a black trench coat and shades waits patiently as he observes the commotion. "This place is really good." one girl said. "I know, it's been on TV a few times." another said. Two more girls came, "Wow, look at the line!" Jason continue to stand in the line seemingly approving of what he observed. Foolish humans. Then he walked away from the line went to the opposite direction.

In the cave of dark shadows, Lady Pandora sits on her throne not looking very pleased. "What? You still haven't found the legendary silver crystal?"

"No." goes the crowd of demons.

"Hurry. I'm still waiting for my orbs of energy."

"Leave it to us." A light flash in front of her than formed a figure.

"Is that you, Jason?"

"Yes." Jason responds.

"As you heard, we still have not found the legendary silver crystal. So I want human energy instead."

"Lady Pandora, it has already been taken care of."

Back at the Crystal Tokyo Apartments, Selina's alarm goes off. Of coarse, she does not respond. Trying to ignore the sound, Luna using the master key enters Selina's apartment and into her room. "Wake up!" she yelled. Selina covers herself trying to block out the noise. "Come on!" Luna jumps on top of the bed disturbing Selina's slumber. "There." Luna acknowledge the planned worked since Selina is trying to free herself from Luna's weight.

"I can't breathe."

"You won't be able to succeed in our mission like that." While Luna is giving her the talk, Selina freaks out about the time. "Good!" said Luna as Selina gets up.

"Look at the time! Why didn't you wake me up earlier?"She rush out to the door leaving Luna all alone in her room sighing to herself in disappointment.

At the college, Mrs. Haruna Lenz was doing roll call. "Manny Volk." "Here." As she calls out the names, Selina sneaks into the class trying not to get any attention, she squeeze through the door and crawled on the floor heading to her desk. One of her classmates saw her sneaking in, Selina put a finger on her lips and hushed.

"Good morning, Selina!" greeted Manny. Selina got made badly.

"Go stand in the hallway!" demanded Mrs. Lenz. Standing outside in the hall with Selina is Manny, standing very close to her.

"Why are you out here with me?" she asked.

"That's ...well...It's hard to explain..."

"Weirdo."

"Yes, that I am"

Later on, Ellie runs in a hurry to see what's going on with Manny. "What's the purpose of this meeting, Manny?" she asked.

"I want to go on a date with Selina. I want to know her secrets and even talk to her parents about the future." he confessed, Ellie just stared at him then laughed at him.

"That's never going to happen."she said. Manny got embarrassed. "I'm sorry, I don't think it'll work if you come straight out and ask."

"Are you saying I should attack her from behind?"

"No, I;m saying go to a psychic and ask her what you should do."

"I already know the answer to that. There is this website made by a group of psychics to help others out with their fortune. The website is designed according to your ideas. According to the site, Selina and I are supposed to get married." Ellie smacked him on the arm.

"I don't mean that. I mean a real psychic."

"Oh, I see."

"There's a psychic house that just opened in Manhattan. I heard that it's pretty good, so why don't you try them out?"

"Alright, I don't think it would hurt to try."

After school, Selina runs to get home until she passed by a psychic. "Huh?" She realized that the man is alone, waiting for a customer. "What happened? There is usually a long line here." the man smiled.

"I guess it's because there's competition now. Look." He pointed across the street directing Selina of where to look. She turned around and saw a huge sign written 'House of Fortune'.

"It's awfully gaudy. What is that?"

"The one from the land of dreams, that's what they said."

"What? Is it the same kind of fortune telling that you do?"

"Yeah. Everyone likes new things." Selina gave her hand to the man, he was surprised.

"How about you read me."

"OK, thank you." He took her hand and looked at her palm. "There's a man that likes you right now. And it's someone you see all the time." As the man reads her fortune, across the street was Manny entering the 'House of Fortune'. Selina thanked the man and paid him his service.

"Someone I always see...I can't think of anybody who can possibly have a thing for me." Selina wondered as she walked on to the Arcade Cafe. A place where students and younger teens come to chill out during after school hours. Selina looked through the window to see if her friend is there. "Looks like he's not here yet." She turned around ready to continue on, but...

"Hey, Selina. Perfect timing. I'm about to start my shift."a man of her age with a natural blonde short hair.

"Hello, Wilbur Jager." she greeted.

"A new issue of Danica's magazine came out. You haven't read it yet, have you?" Wilbur walked in the cafe.

"Not yet." she followed him inside getting seated by the counter of the cafe reading the new issue. "Interesting. Fashion is the only thing I can't keep up with. Why does she always have to be this provocative?"

"From a man's point of view, I think is to keep the business interesting, don't you think?" Wilbur showed up again with an apron with the cafe's logo on it and sat down beside her.

"A man's point of view? Yeah and among other things like, oh I don't know, how she's always in her lacy underwear perhaps?"

"You're always so offensive when we're on this topic. Here, try out this new iced coffee that the cafe is trying out." He gave her a cup of the new beverage.

"Are you trying to poison me now?"

"No, but maybe to sweeten you up can be a possibility."

She took a sip. "How much?"

"It's on me."

"Oh no, you don't have to do that." Selina took out her coin purse and tried to open it. But Wilbur stop her from taking out any change by holding her hand and giving her the drink.

"No, I insist. Now drink that coffee before it becomes water." Selina took the iced coffee and drank it trying to keep her face from turning red and her heart from racing out of her chest. "The drink is suppose to have a mix of vanilla and toffee topped with whip cream and caramel crumbs." he explains, but she feels nervous just being with him yet she likes the feeling. Unfortunately the feeling went right out the window when Luna walked into the cafe and sat right down beside Selina. She turned to the other side where Luna was sitting.

"Luna, what are you doing here?"

"Who?" Wilbur asked.

"Oh, Luna is my new landlord. Luna, this is my friend Wilbur Jager."

"Hi, nice to meet you." Wilbur brought out his hand for a hand shake and Luna accepts.

"It's nice to meet you Wilbur. You know, you remind me of somebody, do you know the story of Meleager?" Luna asked.

"Not that I recall."

"That's too bad! You should look it up one day, it may shock you."

"What are you doing?" Selina asked.

"We have some business to take care of."

"Okay, I'm going, I'm going." Selina picks up her school bag and gets ready to set off. "Well, I'll see you later then."

"Oh but, you didn't finish your drink." mentioned Wilbur.

"I'll try it again another time but I'm paying."

"Alright, I'll be waiting. It feels good every time I see your face." Selina's face turned red as a cherry as she walked out of the cafe with Luna.

"We were having a good time!" lashed out Selina.

"Is it okay for you to stop somewhere on your way home?" said Luna.

"What are you my mother?"

"As long as you understand that there are way more important things than flirting with a boar hunter."

"A what?"

"Never mind, I'll explain it to you later. Anyway, like I told you this morning, Selina, you have a mission." As Luna was giving her a talk, Selina turned around ignoring what Luna had to say and run to the opposite direction of her home. "Where are you going?" shouted Luna.

"I'm going to have the man who read my fortune to tell me more about Wilbur." As she reached to her destination nobody was there. "I'm too late." She turned and looked across the street where the 'House of Fortune' stands thinking to try it out. I should probably wait and ask the man when he comes back. But I want to know right now.

"Selina, what are you doing?" Luna finally caught up with Selina.

"Never mind what I'm doing. I know. I'll tell my own fortune on which one I should go to." Selina took out a coin. "If it's heads, I'll ask the man. If it's tails, I'll go to the 'House of Fortune'." She flicked the coin so high that it went past the two and landed on a man's head.

"Ouch!" he yelp.

"Oh, shoot!" The man took the coin turned around and walked towards Selina. "It's that smug guy again."

"That hurts, you tomboy." said the man, the same man who she encounter outside the jewelry store the other day. Selina is embarrassed.

"Is that all you can say?"

"You'll never have a boyfriend if you don't act more like a lady." Selina got upset, grabbed her coin from his hands, the man turned around and walked away.

"Well, Thank you so very much!" He continue to walk on. "My good mood is all gone. How irritating." Selina walked in the opposite direction, Luna followed along.

Inside the 'House of Fortune', a crowd of young people waits to have a turn to have there fortune read. Manny sits inside in a room closed with drapes and curtains with the fortune teller named Lytir. He wore a purple robe in silk with black glistening semi-long hair with white powder makeup and an exaggerated use of black eyeliner applied onto his face giving an appearance of a ghost or a creepy clown. He laid out a deck of tarot cards in a circle formation on the table and placed a card in the middle. He folded his hands in a prayer and blow on to the cards making them stand on their edge.

"That's pretty amazing..." said Manny of how amaze at what he saw.

"Look into my eyes." said Lytir. Manny looked into his eyes carefully, the card in the middle started to glow and float in front of Manny who has no reaction of the card. "You are a wonderful servant of evil. You can do whatever you desire."

"I will do whatever I desire." Manny repeated what Lytir said in a monotone voice. The card floated towards his chest slipping into his jacket on his left side and stay there.

"I will soon be able to collect the energy."