"AAAGH!" Serena cried out as she rolled out of her bed and landed on the hard floor with a thump. Feeling through her tangled hair for any sign of a lump she hauled herself up to get a good look at the time, the harsh glow of the alarm clock almost blinding her at first glance.
"1:30 AM?" She groaned. "How am I awake at this hour? And why was that dream so short? If I'd have had more time with Queen Serenity not only would I have gotten more answers but also some beauty sleep! It would have been win-win! And I really need to talk to the girls about this…"
Looking around the room and realizing that she was alone, Serena's cerulean eyes glinted in the light of the full moon at the prospect of finally checking in with her fellow sailors. As Stella seemed to have chosen to stay behind in one of the other dorm rooms to talk some more with her own clique the bedroom would be empty and she would not be disturbed.
Flexing her fingers determinedly the Moon Princess unzipped her pink laptop cover and pulled the smooth silver content out into the open. While the screen loaded the various desktop components she took to drumming her manicured fingers impatient little rhythm and started humming a catchy little tune that Raye had written for her as a birthday present and tribute to her Senshi self.
"Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight,
Never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon,"
However before she could open her facebook page a small screen swiftly slid out into view from the skype icon to reveal Mina flashing every one of her pearly whites.
"Mina chan?" She exclaimed delightedly.
"Hiya Usa-chaaan!" The blonde grinned back, waving one arm wildly in the air next to her. She appeared to be lying on her stomach on top of a bed in what Serena could only deduce was her hotel room.
"But how did you know I'd check in now?" Serena asked in mock amazement.
"Hmm, methinks we are the psychic ones in the team!" Mina stroked her invisible beard with a Dumbledore style expression. "But seriously I have some totally amazing good news that I've been just dying to tell you all evening! And I had to report back to our queen bee first didn't I?"
"Nice to see you know your orders," Serena smirked, moving her face closer to the screen. "So what've you got for me then? Did you get asked for any autographs yet?"
"Uggh no," The princess of Venus sighed before perking up again. "But you'll never guess who I ran into at the airport!"
Not waiting for an answer she shifted over slightly to make room for an extremely handsome boy with shoulder length blonde hair, who was wearing a large amount of gold jewelry. When he had finally got into a comfy position he peered closely into the webcam with a huge screen.
"Hi bunny!" He yelled, slightly distorting the volume control on the computer.
"Marik?" Serena gasped in surprise. "How come you're here?"
"I'm doing a tournament in LA this week," The Egyptian explained. "But then I am free to do whatever I want!"
"We're making a plan of everything we're gonna do!" Mina added excitedly. "Which means…" They looked at each other before exclaiming in unison,
"WE'RE GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!"
"Whaa? Without me?" Serena wailed with a quivering lip. "You guys are mean!"
"Aww cheer up, we were going to bring you back some Minnie mouse ears!" Marik remarked. "Although you probably don't need them because your hair's kinda the same shape as Minnie mouse's ears, seriously I know you got your nickname from your love of rabbits but I think Bakura's hair looks more like bunny ears than yours does."
"Speaking of which, where is Florence anyway?" Serena scrutinized the screen looking for signs of the spirit of the millennium ring in the background. "Doesn't he always come with you as your…erm… second in command?" (She had learned the hard way not to refer to him as a sidekick).
"Nah he insisted on staying in Japan on 'important business', I think he said something about a knife game, whatever it is it's probably something boring! And British!"
Domino city
Everywhere was in chaos. People were running around screaming wildly and waving their arms around in the air, desperately trying to escape from the inky black abyss that had appeared in the town centre and was seeping into the streets. A terrifying laughter echoed throughout the area as a terrifying dinosaur like creature stomped around the shadows, devouring anyone in its path.
Elsewhere Bakura was sitting at his desk, calmly uploading his video of the knife game onto his YouTube account.
"I'd like to see anyone beat that!" He smirked in satisfaction as he watched himself handle the knife at top speed without breaking a sweat. "Of course they'd all fail, but that just makes it all the more entertaining!" As he leaned back on his chair he threw an indifferent glance in the direction of the window, which was displaying the outside disaster. "Say, I wonder if Popo's used all the shadow magic alterations I made to his Halloween costume yet?"
Back to Alfea
"So anyway, now that the big news ("ME!" Marik exclaimed) is out of the way," Mina ushered on the conversation, "What's the fairy school like?"
"Fairy school?" Marik looked at her in disbelief. "You told me she was going to
"It's cool I guess, but apparently I need to get a fairy transformation like this," Serena explained, placing some teen fairy magazine pages in front of her to show her friends.
"Whoa! How big are those wings?" Mina exclaimed. "Seriously can they fit through doors?"
Marik was examining each of the outfits. "Eww I don't like that one! I don't care what they say, that is not a real tan! I like that she's showing her midriff though, that's very nice, not sure about the headdress though."
"I think you'd like it here." Serena told him. "Almost everyone's outfit shows their stomach!"
"Hmm I still don't think any of these girls have as good a midriff as I do, that one's only slightly coming close. I'd like to have a midriff-off with that girl." He pointed at one of the models.
"Aw I wish you guys were here! All the girls as well in fact, we could have so much fun and….AAAGH!"
"TA-DAHH!"
The moon princess had spotted an extraordinary sight in the corner of the room. A bright pink pony with an extremely crazy hairdo had bounded out from under the bed and was now standing in a superhero pose, which was quite similar to Serena's as Sailor Moon.
"Hiya! Are you Serena? I heard you're fun! I'm pinkie pie!" The pony exclaimed excitedly, holding out her hoof. When Serena tentatively took it, she shook it up and down wildly while bouncing up and down.
"Oh, hi Pinkie pie! Yes my name is Serena, erm… what are you doing here again?" Serena rubbed an eye with her non-shaken arm. After all it was nearly 2 in the morning, was she seeing things?
"I heard from some very good friends of mine you needed some cheering up!" Pinkie pie squealed, putting her hoof around the girl's shoulder. "And what better way to cheer up than to have a PARTY!"
Con los terroristas!
Abruptly without warning she jumped into the center of the room and started doing weird dance moves to some kind of remix that sounded really familiar. Serena just stood there in amazement for a few seconds…
Do the Harlem shake!
Suddenly the entire room had expanded to ten times its normal size, which was good because it was needed for the huge crowd of people who had appeared out of nowhere and had started doing weird dance moves to the jerky beat. To her surprise Serena found she recognized almost every single one in the room! The Inner Senshi and some other brightly colored ponies were party rocking next to a pony DJ with electric blue hair, The Outer Senshi and some of the Yugioh cast were doing the thriller, she was pretty sure the Host club at Ouran academy were break dancing, and was that Lelouch Vi Britannia doing the worm in a sleeping bag?
"So Serena how do you like this party?" The blonde gave a small jump as she found Mina and Marik on either side of her.
"Erm…" They leaned in closer as she stayed in silence, her eyes darting from one to the other in small swift movements. Eventually…
"I LOVE IT!" She exclaimed, hugging them both. "Alright! Let's get this party started!" Pinkie pie joined in the group hug.
And so there was much partying into the night or early morning or whatever the hell it was, hey too many people were too involved in strutting their funky stuff to care. Many famous dance beats were played from party rock anthem by LMFAO to everybody dance by chic. Serena herself was having the time of her life, especially when she got to do her specialist move- the moonwalk.
However after a while everyone seemed to blur into one huge mass and the whole room seemed to swirl around her. The guardian of the moon felt her legs give way, as she seemed to sink into the ground.
"Serena? Serena? Are you ok?" Pinkie grabbed her shoulders but somehow she couldn't feel it.
"Girls? Guys? Pinkie? Why'reyouallspinninround?" She gave an almost inaudible moan. Her eyelids were clearly drooping, how could such thin layers of skin be so heavy? And everything was getting dark…
"What happened to her?"
"I hope she's ok…"
"Serena can you hear me? SERENA? SERENA?"
"Huh?" She woke up with a start to find Stella shaking her shoulders with the rest of the winx hovering behind her.
"Are you ok?" Bloom walked over to her anxiously. "It's 10 am!"
"What's going on," Serena rubbed her eyes groggily before looking at them suspiciously. "And where's Pinkie Pie?"
"Huh? Who's Pinkie Pie?" Musa asked, bewildered.
"You must have been dreaming sweetie," Flora told her. "There's no one here but us!"
"Although you did seem to be muttering about a Pinkie Pie when we came in," Tecna remarked. "And something about a Harlem shake, whatever that is…"
"B-but they were all here!" Serena jumped up, looking around the room wildly. "I was talking to some of my friends on my laptop and…" She paused, noticing the firmly closed portable computer on the desk. "But I opened it last night!"
"Maybe that was a dream too!" Layla suggested.
"Come on, you don't want to miss your first mathmagic lesson do you?" Bloom half-led half-dragged the girl out of the vicinity while the others followed.
Somewhere in LA
Mina, Marik and Pinkie Pie were extremely busy packing some essentials for their very important day trip, including Chanel sunglasses, emergency eye shadow supplies and a set of chocolate chip cupcakes.
"Thanks for the help Pinkie!" Marik shot a grin at the pony, which was currently shoving her party cannon into a suitcase.
"No Problemo! I am the party meister after all!" She smiled. "But I hope Serena enjoyed it too!"
"Well we all know that was the very epitome of fun," Mina said. "But don't forget we all gotta stick to the pinkie promise!"
"Absolutely!" The two grinned. Then the three of them recited the pinkie swear.
"Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!"
"Fantabulous! Now onto Disney world!" Mina cried.
With that she and Marik hopped onto Pinkie's back and rode off into the sunset. But not before getting really close to the camera scene and announcing…
"THIS HAS BEEN A BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!"
