Vol. 16
Chapter 63
Selina Chase-Moon
Birth: June 30th
Age: 18
Colour(s): White
Metal: Silver
God/dess: Diana
Hermione Driscoll-Mercury
Birth: September 10th
Age: 18
Colour(s): Royal Blue/Yellow
Metal: Quicksilver
God/dess: Mercury
Marcella Guerra-Mars
Birth: April 17th
Age: 18
Colour(s): Red
Metal: Iron
God/dess: Mars
Jovana Meallan-Jupiter
Birth: December 5th
Age: 18
Colour(s): Orchid Purple
Metal: Tin
God/dess: Jupiter
In the depth of the night, Luna in her office working overtime on her laptop. For how much she was into her work, a howling wind coming through the window spook her in distraction. She received a call from her laptop. "Huh? Who can be bugging me at this hour?!" She clicked accept, and then a digital voice came through. NAME it said. "Luna Lupo?"
PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR SECURITY PURPOSES: IN THE JAPANESE FOLKTALES WHAT ANIMAL WAS TO BELIEVE TO BE LIVING ON THE MOON?
"What the Underworld is this?!"
ANSWER OR THIS CALL WILL BE TERMINATED!
"Fine, the animal was the rabbit."
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE FOOD THE RABBIT WAS EATING?
"You have got to be kidding me?!"
JOKING YOU DON'T NEED TO ANSWER THAT.
"Who is it that I'm speaking with?"
SOMEONE YOU'LL MEET EVENTUALLY, SO, HOW ARE YOU'RE GUARDIANS PROGRESSING?
"You must be someone from Mont Olympus. Fine, I'll play your game." Luna had in mind it was the God Mercury fooling around again. "Well, there's one who still has no sense of duty, but otherwise okay."
THE DAY FOR ALL FIVE GUARDIAN WARRIORS WILL MEET IS APPROACHING.
"What was that?! Really?!"
THEREFORE IT IS TIME TO TELL THEM ABOUT THE MATTER THAT YOU NEED TO DISCUSS WITH THEM.
"Are you sure it's okay?"
THE BATTLE WITH THE EVIL BOX GROUP IS INTENSIFYING. THERE IS NEED TO BUILD THE MORALE OF THE GUARDIAN WARRIORS.
"I understand. What a minute?! Who am I taking orders from?!" Before she could get an answer the call has ended. "Damn that bastard! I know it was him!" Luna sighed. So the time has come to reveal the truth to them. Luna took out her cellphone and called everyone. All four girls met up at St. Mark's church. Selina yawned in tiredness.
"What does Luna want us for at this time of the night?" Selina complained. Luna was watching them from the rooftop of the church. She hopped down and did a perfect landing in front of the girls and walked up to them slowly.
"I see that everyone is here."
"Has another enemy appeared?" Selina asked. Luna didn't replied but instead paced back and forth. All of a sudden...
"Don't be startled!" Luna said it with a surprise that made Selina stepped back in a jump.
"Ahh! You startled me!" She goes.
"Listen carefully to what I have to say." All four girls stared at Luna quietly. "It's been a secret until now, but I am really from the Heavens." Luna pointed up in the sky.
"What?" Hermione was amazed to hear that.
"From the Heavens?" Selina was confused.
"Come again?" Marcella couldn't believe it.
"No way!" the same with Jovana.
"Why did you come down to Land?" Asked Marcella.
"To find and awaken you girls." Replied Luna.
"This is hard to believe." Mentioned Jovana.
"But I believe it because of what we went through so far." Said Hermione.
"Right. The person we are looking for is a deity of the Moon Empire." Said Luna.
"The Moon Empire..." Marcella couldn't finish her sentence.
...has a deity?" Hermione finished it for her.
"There's an Empire in the sky? It sounds like a fairy tale." Jovana wondered.
"We must find this deity, and you have to protect this person. As soon as possible." Luna set the scene in silence, until Selina killed it.
"Say, Luna, is it true that there's a rabbit on the Moon making some yummies?" She asked as she looked up to the night sky, the other girls felt embarrassed by the question.
"From what I said just now, that's your question? Come on!" Luna sighed.
Within the dark realms, Admete and Midas were having a conversation. Midas was holding a box that displays the four Iris Gems that Admete manage to collect but also in the box was three empty slots for the remain gems. "Beautiful." He said. Admete gazed at the gems from Midas' shoulder.
"Truly beautiful." She agreed.
"But we must have all seven Iris Gems to witness their true beauty. Don't you think so?" He asked her. Admete cuddle by his side with puppy eyes.
"Lord Midas...I will find the remaining Iris Gems for you." She vowed.
"I will look forward to it. When we have all seven Iris Gems, we will gain possession of the legendary Moonstone. By obtaining the Moonstone as soon as possible, I'd like to make Lady Pandora happy." He said his reason.
"Oh!" Admete felt crushed. She bit her lip hard in anger. I'm starting to feel envious!
Back to the city, during lunchtime at the college, Manny and Ellie were sitting together side by side on a park bench enjoying their lunches. Ellie saw what he had and liked it. "Your shrimp tempura looks delicious. Would you trade for my grilled pepper?" She offered. Manny smiled.
"Ellie, if you like it, help yourself!" Manny placed a shrimp in Ellie's lunch and she placed a pepper in his.
"Thanks!" She said with enthusiasm. Popping out from behind them was Selina with a teasing smile.
"Getting along well, aren't you?" She winked at them. "Is it love? Is it love?" She continue to tease. Both Manny and Ellie felt uncomfortable with the subject.
"Do we look that way?" Manny was in heaven. Ellie turned to face Selina with a serious tone.
"No, we aren't!" She then smiled. "We're just friends. Friends!" Ellie explained. Manny felt like he just got shot.
"Just...friends?" He looked at her with a blank face, he got up and left. Selina just watched him go with a dark cloud following him.
"Just friends, eh?" She asked Ellie.
"Manny's okay. He's pretty smart, too, so he can help me study. But I just don't feel that way about him." Ellie admits. Selina had an idea. Later on before the class started, Selina took the opportunity to have a chat with gloomy Manny.
"Don't hesitate, just keep pushing!" Selina advise him.
"But what should I do?" Manny asked with no hope.
"Being so much more experienced in not being in love, I, Selina, only use common sense and knowledge to live day by day. You must transform into a cool guy." Manny gave her an ugly look.
"A cool guy? Such as?" He asked.
"Like a mysterious masked man."
"Sounds to me more like a criminal."
"Oh, Manny..." Selina was ready to give up.
"I see. If I become this mysterious person, I'll win Ellie's heart, right?"
"Umm, you're missing the point. Just take that image as an example and..."
"All right! I'll become Guardian Earth!"
"WHAT!?" Selina got stumped. Manny jumped on top of the desk and strike a pose.
"This is the birth of Guardian Manny!"
"Oh this is great." Selina sighed. After classes, Selina and Ellie were walking home together. Ellie for some reason felt uneasy of her surroundings.
"Hey, do you feel like somebody is following us?" Ellie asked Selina. The two turned around at the same time and saw nothing. Going the other direction, a small dog was taking a walk with it's owner. As they pass by the two girls, the dog began to bark out of control to the ladies. Coming out from the back of a parked truck nearby, a man in a green suit ran up to them.
"Nice girl, nice girl, stop it." Begged the owner. The man in the suit placed himself in front of Selina and Ellie and got face to face with the dog.
"Guardian Manny is here! Evil creature that bares your teeth at Ellie! In the name of justice, I'll punish you!" Manny took out an inflatable hammer and threaten the dog. The owner grabbed the inflatable toy from Manny's hands.
"What do you think you're doing?" The owner raised the hammer over his head and smacked Manny across the head. She dropped the hammer beside him and walked away. "How rude! Were you scared, my girl?" The two girls look down on him.
"What are you doing, Manny?" Ellie asked. Manny laughed.
"I'm not Manny. For love and justice, I am Guardian Manny! Farewell!" He ran off.
"What the hell is going?" Ellie asked Selina. Selina had on a duped face.
"I have no idea." Selina pretended to know nothing. As they continue to walk they stop by the Arcade Cafe.
"Hey, do you want to go in for awhile?" Asked Ellie.
"Sure." Said Selina. Before they went inside, Manny came out of the cafe and blocked the entrance.
"No! You shouldn't play on your way home. You'll also lose your savings here. If you REALLY have to go in, then walk over me, Guardian Manny." Manny lied down on his stomach on the ground. The two girls were embarrassed but then they smiled.
"Excuse us!" They both say. Ellie first walked on top of Manny and went inside the cafe. Then next was Selina. Manny was in such pain but still has spirit.
"Guardian Manny may die, but justice will not!" Manny got up with hidden strength. The two girls watch him do his thing from the inside of the cafe.
"Honestly, I think Manny has gone nuts." Said Ellie has she went to get a table.
"No kidding." Agreed Selina.
"Hello, Selina!" Greeted Wilbur cheerfully.
"Hello, Wilbur." Greeted back Selina.
"Oh yeah..." Wilbur took out something from his pocket. "Would you like some free tickets?"
"Free tickets? Really?" This guy better not be asking for a date. Going to the movies with this guy is asking for trouble...Then again! Thought Selina at the same time blushing. Wilbur walked up to the girls and hand over the tickets.
"I'm not really into this magic show at the amusement park." Wilbur mentioned. The two girls were interested.
"A magic show?" The two said.
"But I guess that you two are not that interested either." He said. Selina had a light bulb above her head.
"We'll take them." Said Selina strictly. Ellie was surprise.
"You're going?" Ellie asked.
"No, you and Manny are going." She explained. Out of nowhere, Manny popped out in front of them.
"I'll go along with it!" He agreed with nothing but smiles. Ellie thought about it.
"I still don't feel like it." She admitted.
"Manny's doing his best in his own way. You've got to give him credit for that." Selina whispered in Ellie's ear. Manny slump down on a seat and slurped on a frappacino in a depressing way.
"Never mind...a geek like me..." I think he was about to cry. Ellie felt bad about him and she sighed.
"Okay, okay, I get the point. I'll go. Good enough?" Ellie gave in.
"I did it! A victory for Guardian Manny!" Manny announced out loud in the cafe. Ellie felt like she just died.
Within the dark realms, Admete was up to something. "Come forth, new power." Admete was working on something with a boiling cauldron, with force the Sunstone floated out of the cauldron and glowed in a new light. "I have modified the Sunstone." The stone was placed in her hands. "With it, I can turn mortals into monsters." She laughed on. She lifted a picture frame of her and Midas. "Lord Midas, I will take the Iris Gem from the Guardians."
In the dead of the night, at the jewelry store that Ellie's family own, a stray cat freaked when it saw a anomaly going through the entrance an up to the apartment. The figure became the full body of Admete. In order to lure out Guardian Moon, I will turn her friend Helen Donnelly into a monster. Admete prepared the Sunstone for evil planned but was interrupted when she saw someone at the front door of the apartment. The doorbell rang.
"Who is it?" Called out the voice of Ellie. When the hallway lights went on, Admete saw who it was.
"Guardian Earth!" Admete panicked a bit and hid by the lobby door. The suppose Guardian Earth figure walked closer to Admete to get a closer look. So he anticipated my plan. Very clever. In view of this new insight, I will leave until later. Admete thought out and disappeared leaving behind a pile of flower petals. The Guardian was shaking his legs in fear and dropped to his knees in shock.
"What was that?!" Panicked Manny, but he brushed it off. "But I'm glad I came." Ellie opened the door and peeked out.
"Who's there?" She asked.
"It's Guardian Manny!" He said proudly. Ellie stepped out in annoyance.
"Look here, what time do you think it is?" Asked Ellie.
"Uhh...We didn't decide on what time to meet tomorrow..." Ellie went back inside not giving him a chance to finish his sentence even slamming the door shut. "Ellie!" Manny started to knock on the door. "What time should I be at the amusement park? Nine o'clock? Ten? Eleven? Noon? When?" Ellie listened to him from the other side of the door and was thinking.
"Make it noon." She said through the door, and shut the hallway lights.
"Ah, noon. Then we'll have lunch together. I, Guardian Manny, will bring lots of your favourite tempura shrimp!" Manny was excited for his date.