Vol. 06

Chapter 21

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 turned me into 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.

I'm Hermione Driscoll, 18 years old. My birth metal is quicksilver. I'm in the first year of college under the Managing Program, hoping to become 'the business' of New York City. I'm intelligent (Understatement) and also a trickster. One day, a werewolf named Luna Lupo transformed me into Guardian Mercury. Now I have to fight along side with her and Guardian Moon. I guess that makes me the brains in this team.

I'm Marcella Guerra, 18 years old. My birth metal is iron. I'm in the first year of college under the Physical Education Program, hoping to become a fitness trainer. I'm hot headed and temperamental. One day, a girl in white revealed to me that I was Guardian Mars. Now I can really burst out my anger to those I despise, makes me the muscles in this team.

On a nice clear day at the St. Mark Church, the four, Luna, Selina, Hermione and Marcella were having a group meeting in Marcella's living room. "When the three of you get together like this, it's so heartening. But, we shouldn't get over confident.Our battle is still ahead of us." Luna announced to the girls with such pride. At the same time Selina was busy looking through Marcella's comic book collection.

"Hey! A new edition of Sailor Moon comic book!" Marcella snatched it away from Selina's hands.

"No! I haven't finished it yet either!"

"I was just looking! Cheapskate!" Hermione not paying any attention to anyone was looking through Marcella's study books.

"Marcy, you have a nice encyclopedia. I must borrow it one day if you don't mind." Luna was trying to get their attention.

"In other words..." The three were still in La-La Land. Selina and Marcella were arguing over the comic book, Hermione minding her own business. Luna tried again. "So what I'm trying to say is...THAT'S ENOUGH!" Luna yelled to the point that the three thought they heard a growl in the room, making them drop what ever they were doing and look up in fright to Luna. The room was dead calm. Luna sighed. "Having the three of you is meaningless, if you're always like this. Be more aware of yourselves as warriors."

"We're sorry." Hermione apologized in behalf of the group.

"Easy for you to say."Selina responded to Luna.

"So, what do you want us to do?"Marcella asked. Luna got up from her seat.

"Like I've been saying, you girls need to work together to find the Moonstone!"

"How?" Selina responded

"It must have a sign sticking out of it saying what it is." Marcella was being heavily sarcastic. Luna's reaction to their response was like someone slapped her in the face.

"Oh, okay!" Selina tagged along.

"Come on, you two..." Luna was losing faith.

"Seriously Luna, how?" Selina reasoned.

"Unbelievable! Then there's no way we can find it." Marcella crushed Luna's hopes.

"Then let's do something else until Luna gets information on the stone." Hermione mentioned.

"Something else?" Selina responded.

"We'll protect everyone from eerie enemies that threaten the peace!" Hermione explained. Luna looked at her suspiciously.

"You're awfully nice to me all of a sudden."

"Who says I'm being nice to you? I'm saying this for my own sake! I don't want to see that depressing face on you all day." Luna was stunned this time as if being shot in the heart. Talk about being cruel. Hermione took out the latest local newspaper and lay it on the coffee table. "Look at this." Hermione pointed out the headline reading 'ANOTHER DISAPPEARANCE ?!'

"Oh, this is Fantasy Land!" Selina exclaimed.

"Fantasy Land?" Luna had no clue what they're talking about.

"Remember? It's a new amusement park." Selina explained to Luna.

"They say something mysterious is going on in Fantasy Land." Hermione reflected off from the newspaper.

"Something mysterious?" Marcella responded

"Of the people who went to Fantasy Land in the last week, fifty have gone missing."

In the dark cool cave, Lady Pandora sits upon her throne looking at a hologram of the three Guardians. "Hmmm, to think you allowed a third Guardian to join them...Jason!" Jason was standing in front of Pandora with his damaged Golden Fleece wrap and his head hung low, a sweating bead form from the nervousness.

"Yes, my Lady!"

"You do not have many opportunities left to redeem yourself."

"I'm already working on a plan to steal a large amount of energy."

"Oh, really?"

"I will also kill those three warriors, without fail!"

"Do not forget what you have just said! Remember, I can always replace you!" Pandora warned him, making him very nervous.

"I understand."

In the same day, people were enjoying themselves on the rides and games in the Fantasy Land amusement park. At the Fantasy Land Management Office, a press conference was going on due to the popular disappearances that has been happening around the park. "So, I do not think these incidents have anything to do with Fantasy Land." A man in uniform responded to the press.

"But the fact is, fifty of your customers have gone missing!" a reporter informed.

"The number of people who came in and who came out of here has been the same everyday. It is not as if those people disappeared here." the man explained. The press was shocked by his answer. Outside of the office's doors, the three warriors and their guidance were waiting to see if anything weird comes up. "Now, any more of this will be considered obstructing our business. Please leave!" As soon as they heard the rejection line, the four hid in the bushes. The press were pushed out of the office doors and down the steps. The man then closed the doors shut. A reporter got up from the tumble crash and protested. "How rude!" The man in uniform stood by the doors laughing away, revealing himself as the one and only Jason.

"Stupid mortals..."

At the amusement park where the roller coasters ride in circles, the girls walked around the park looking for any clues. "If the number matches, did those people disappear on their way home from Fantasy Land?" Marcella wondered with Hermione agreeing somewhat.

"But it's strange that only people who came here disappear." Luna mentioned.

"That's true." Marcella agreed. Hermione looked about and noticed Selina wasn't with them.

"Hold it, where did Selina go?"

"I'm sure she's goofing off somewhere again." Marcella didn't care much and Luna was not getting any happier.

"Not again!" Hermione felt the same way. The three spotted Selina at a tent playing a shooting game, She paid the man and took the rifle and aim at the target, a square paper with a red star smack in the middle. Selina shot the star cleanly, creating a hole on the paper leaving no trace of the star. The man's jaw was on the floor.

"That was my first try. That means I get the first prize!" Selina was excited and proud. The man gave her a giant stuff bunny. "Thank you!" Selina took the prize and walked back to her group. She saw their unhappy faces not knowing their issue. "What's with the faces?" The next thing you know, the group were sitting on the bench having a serious conversation.

"I can't believe you! Just what were you thinking, Selina?" Luna tried to maintain her temper.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong. I just couldn't help myself of playing just one game." Selina hugged her bunny tightly.

"Be more responsible! And you call yourself a Guardian?!" Marcella smacked Selina on the back causing her to fall off the bench and land on her knees.

"Don't be so bossy! I do a good job when I have to!" After her complaining, Selina felt some presence in front and she was very nervous to face it, but then she did it anyway very slowly. In front of her she saw a huge lion growling at her. Selina got up very quickly and ran behind the bench leaving Hermione, Luna and Marcella in front of the lion. Hermione tried get back even further on the bench scared out of her knickers.

"That's a bloody LION!" The lion than bowed and spoke in a lower octave voice. "Hello."

"It...It spoke!" said Marcella in shock. A man in white hair and a white like navy uniform with a cape, holding on his hand a crystal ball, he came beside the lion laughing at the girls.

"Don't worry, he's a mechanical lion." He explained. Hermione, Luna and Marcella calm down a bit but still keeping their guard up.

"You're the Fantasy Prince! I always wanted to see you!" Selina flew out from the back of the bench and ran right beside the Prince. "You look better in person!" Hermione stood up slowly still shaken by the lion.

"You said it's mechanical?"

"Yes. It's controlled by a remote control." He demonstrated by waving his hand over the crystal ball and it glowed purple. At the same time, more animals came out from the bushes and trees.

"It's amazing!" Selina exclaimed, Hermione was amazed by the technology that's being use. Marcella was getting suspicious.

"Something's wrong."

"What?" Hermione reacted. A mechanical bear flipped Selina from behind and landed on top of the bear.

"Whoa! That was wicked! Now I'm riding a bear!" Selina looked like a five year old. Marcella walked up to Selina with concern.

"Selina! Get off!" She pulled her right off the bear and dropping her to the ground. The Prince watched the commotion.

"What are you doing?!" Selina grew upset. Marcella knelt down to Selina's eye level and close to her ear.

"I have a bad feeling about this Fantasy Prince." Marcella whispered. Selina looked back at the Prince in wondered, the Prince looked away.

"That can't be..."

"You just don't get it because you're so dense!"

"Hey! Is that anyway to treat your colleague?!" As Marcella and Selina quarrel like an old couple, Hermione and Luna watched in embarrassment.

"I have a show at the candy castle in an hour. Please come and see me." The Prince interrupted the two hot headed girls.

"Of course! Anything for sweets!" Selina acknowledge his invitation.

"The candy castle?" Hermione wondered, she look to the direction of the castle as the same with Luna. Selina went googly eyes on the brightly coloured castle.

"That must be the candy castle! Imagine all the candy in there!" Marcella just stared at Selina in disappointment.

The doors of the castle opened, revealing a dark entrance. Inside stands Jason collecting the energy into an orb at the palm of his hand. "Come, Guardians. I will suck out all of your energy until nothing is left. Once someone gets in here, they can never get out." Behind him are the missing fifty people all being unconscious due to their energy being completely sucked out. Jason laughed away being confident on his plan.

The girls continue to look around the park, but see nothing suspicious. "I see nothing wrong." said Selina.

"Okay, let's split into two groups and look! Hermione will come with me. Selina, go with Marcy!" Luna ordered. Hermione was is shock.

"What?!"

"If you don't want to, that's fine! But I am not responsible of any of your heist if hear anything like it!"

"Will you stop accusing me of steeling? I wasn't even planning on it!"

"Then, we'll see you later." Marcella and Selina walked in the opposite direction the other two. "Let's go this way!" Marcella demanded.

"Don't be so bossy!" Selina yelled out. At a opening, looking like a mini park, the little children were playing with the mechanical animals and the Fantasy Prince. Selina and Marcella were watching them from afar, sitting on a bench. "Are you suspecting the Fantasy Prince?" Selina asked.

"My hunch is usually right." Marcella answered.

"He doesn't look like a bad person."

"You just don't understand."

"Look! Even the animals are adorable!" Selina picked up a mechanical rabbit and showed it to Marcella.

"Your acting as dumb as these robots."

"What the heck did I do to deserve this?" Selina wasn't expecting an answer but Marcella ran to the children in worry.

"Oh no! No! Don't get on that animal!" Marcella yelled at the boy who was riding on the bear assisting by the Prince.

"Why? It's mechanical, but it's safe, you know." the Prince explained.

"I don't care, just get him off!"

"Okay, then. Let's do it again later." The Prince lifted the boy off the bear.

"No! You should ride it now!" said a mature woman picking up the boy and putting him back on the bear, Marcella got dumbstruck. Selina just sat at the bench and watch Marcella do her thing.

"Hey!" Marcella walked up to the woman.

"I'm the one paying for his enjoyment, I don't think it's a big deal!" the woman responded.

"Oh, you're so spoiled, why not spoil the kid too!" Marcella took the boy off the bear. The woman immediately put him back.

"Missy, you're just too paranoid! Relax!" Marcella blew her lid off, The two started to argue and even having a tug of war with the boy. If I were in that boy's shoes I would start praying. The woman finally won by taking the boy into her arms and calling out to her husband. The man walked over to Marcella looking very authoritative.

"What the hell do you think you're doing to my boy?!" the man asked. Marcella's colour from her face drained out making her skin paper white as she just realized the woman was the boy's mother.

Oh shit! "I was only concern for your son's safety!" Marcella trying to recover what's already damaged. The family instead walked away and went to another part of the park. Marcella walked back to Selina with the tail between her legs. Selina was about to say something but rather not. "don't say another word!" Marcella warned her.

"My mouth is sealed." Selina respected her request. The two walked over to the train ride where it travels all over the amusement park. Marcella felt a little awkward about riding the train. Selina got on board and sat down leaving a seat empty beside her. "Come and sit beside me?"

"No thanks, I'll sit behind you to keep a look out. Doesn't it seem like we're just playing?"

"This is the best way to patrol."

"ALL A BOARD!" Yelled out the conductor. A few people rushed in to their seats and a man dropped right beside Selina. Selina turned to see who the guy was and couldn't believe her eyes. The train started to go and around. The man turned to see was sitting beside him.

"I'm sorry for the bump, I don't want to miss this ride...Oh no, not you again!" Eddie Aarden is in a pickle.

"Oh man...Why me?" Selina begged.

"Anyway, what do you have on those shoulders, football shoulder pads? I might end up with a bruise on my arm! Even your body reacts like a tomboy!" Eddie rubbed his upper arm as Selina sat there in disbelief.

"Tomboy, that doesn't even cover it." Marcella butt in.

"Don't get involve!" Selina warn Marcella.

"Why not? This is a free country, she can join in when ever she wants!" Eddie back fire.

"Thank you for your support." Marcella patted on Eddie's shoulder in acknowledgment.

"That's enough, both of you!" Selina burst out in anger. "Anyway, what's a guy doing on a toy train all by himself?! Could it be you're actually a really big loser?! You make me laugh! Hahaha! It's so funny, my stomach hurts!" I'm very impress on Selina of coming up with a quick insult like that.

"I've got my reasons for being here!" The train stopped causing a big push on the passengers, Selina hit her head on the seat in front of her. "She just had to touch a sore spot." He said under his breathe. The train started again.

"Hey, Mr. Conductor, don't keep doing this stop and go!" Selina yelled out. "I'm going to end up with a concussion." Selina held her head.

"A SHOW WILL BE STARTING AT THE CANDY CASTLE." The announcement repeated the message numerous times.

"Mr. Conductor, stop! Stop!" Selina demanded.

"I cannot just stop and go anytime." responded the conductor.

"Talk about inflexible!" Selina complained.

"Hey, hey! The guy sitting beside you, doesn't he sort of look like Guardian Earth?" Marcella whispered in Selina's ear from behind doing the best that she could to avoid Eddie from overhearing. Selina thought about what Marcella said but quickly rejects it.

"No, he does not! He looks nothing like him!"