Theme 11: Spider
Title: Omen
Genre: General/Humor
Version: Manga/Anime
Rated: PG
When Minako reached for her tea cup during a study session, it cracked just as she touched the rim. "Yay!" the blonde cried out in surprise, throwing her arms back theatrically as Makoto looked up in surprise.
"What a bad omen," the brunette commented with a frown as she stood to go into the kitchen, the dripping cup in her hand.
Ami tried to soothe the panicked Minako who insisted on buying Makoto a new cup. The blue-haired girl looked over imploringly at Rei, but found the priestess silently frowning at the wet ring left by the dripping cup. "Minako, it's alright," Makoto said as she came back with a rag. "I have other cups."
"I'm still a bit unsettled," Ami admitted with her brows drawn down. "Could this mean a new enemy? Oh, if only Luna and Artemis were here!"
"Did you find any in your monthly scans?" Makoto asked as she wiped the spot with her towel.
"No," Ami shook her head. "I haven't checked since two weeks ago," she quickly added as she reached for her computer. "I wasn't planning to do another one for another two weeks. It's been so quiet the whole last two years."
"The beginning of every month, huh?" Makoto asked, impressed by her friend's diligence. "Even the cats got lazy," she pointed out.
"Well, it's not like our enemies were ever really considerate about timing," Minako said with a huff. "It's a really bad sign, isn't it?" the blonde lamented. "I haven't even lost my virginity yet! I can't die before that!"
"Too much information, Minako-chan," Makoto said waving her hands at her friend pleadingly while giving out a nervous laugh.
Ami became slightly pink but turned back to her computer, hoping not to encourage her friend from continuing with her silence. "I-I'm sure you won't die a v-virgin Mina-P," she added with some embarrassed stuttering. Her gaze went over to Rei, almost expecting the other to make a sarcastic remark, but the miko was gathering up her books. "Are you leaving, Rei-chan?"
"I need to go home," Rei answered with a nod of her head. "I need to consult the sacred fire."
"Aren't you going to stick around for Ami's readings?" Makoto asked with a tilt of her head.
"It won't be done for another two hours if she doesn't know what she's looking for, but you can call me on the communicator if she finds anything earlier." Rei replied matter-of-factly.
Makoto looked to Ami in surprise but the other girl only nodded helplessly in apologetic consent. "It's the only way to be sure," she explained. "It's easier if we knew what we are looking for but each enemy we've faced are a little different and sometimes it takes awhile for the program to pin-point, especially in the beginning." Rei looked satisfied with the explanation and sat at the entrance way to put on her shoes.
"Well, alright then!" Minako announced with gusto. "But if you don't help out, I'll come back and haunt you, Rei-chan!" Minako threatened, giving Rei a rather strange expression as she hung off of the other's shoulders. "I'll keep you up at night, going 'Rei-chan, Rei-chan! How dare you leave me to the scary youma?' until you get wrinkles and tanuki eyes so no man would sleep with you either! And then you'll join me in hell as a dead virgin!"
"Let me see your hand," Rei interrupted as she grabbed Minako's appendage and gave the blonde's palm a cursory look. "I see," Rei said sagely. "You'll die a virgin," the miko stated with a blank expression.
Minako blinked at Rei's profile, her arms weakly giving way as the other got up to go. "Amazing," Makoto whispered to Ami. "Usually it takes at least fifteen minutes for anyone to escape Minako's grip of death and her ghost threats." The blue-haired girl nodded in agreement with this, having once had to experience it when Minako wanted help with homework.
"No Mamo-chan!" Usagi's squeal interrupted them as four pairs of eyes turned to her and four hands clutched at henshin pens. "Don't do that... tha-that's nau-naughty--!" Usagi slurred, settling down once more with a loud giggle and a thump from her place on the floor. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" the odango-blonde muttered as she sat up again, having hit her head on the floor when she plopped down.
"Usagi-chan's not a virgin," Rei suddenly declared pointedly. Everyone froze at the miko's declaration as Minako slowly turned her wide-eyed gaze from Rei back to the princess.
"Who's a virgin?" the princess grumbled, rubbing the back of her head grumpily as she was finally awakened by physical pain.
Makoto felt her expression vaguely turn into a nervous, awkward smile. "Th-that's not something to declare out loud, Rei...-chan?" she trailed off as she looked at the empty entry way before looking down at the table in defeat. "Just as I thought, I wasn't heard," she said to herself sadly as the sound of the closing door was her only answer. Ami patted the brunette on the shoulder sympathetically, her face slightly pink again.
Minako, on the other hand, had stomped over to her princess and was currently molesting her poor friend with watery eyes and shaking hands. "How could you, Usagi-chan?" she said as she gazed at the other imploringly, jerking Usagi's shoulders with emphasis. "I thought you truly believed in love, and waiting till after the marriage ceremony to share your special something with Mamoru-san on a marriage bed. How could you let your lust blind you of the ways of true love? How could you take the first step without waiting for your friends who are not as lucky? How could you? How could you? How dare you!" At this moment, the odango-haired blonde was being shaken so hard she could not answer even one of the barrage of questions aimed at her. Suddenly, Minako stopped as she leaned in close to the dazed Usagi. The long-haired blonde's expression was no longer menacing but dreamy, a look Makoto recognized immediately to mean nothing good for anyone such a gaze was directed towards. "Usagi-chan, now you must tell me what it's like! In fact, why don't you show me what it's like, Usagi-chan!"
"Mina-P! S-stop! I'm not like Michiru-san and Haruka-san!" Usagi wailed, snapping out of her dizzy stupor as the two struggled. Makoto leapt in to separate the them, which really was her trying to restrain Minako from doing something dramatic and utterly inappropriate on her living room floor. Yet nothing was helping, Minako ending up being surprisingly strong, and Usagi still being slightly dazed from having her neck snapped about.
"No, Mina-P! Y-you have to stop--!!"
---
Rei frowned at the shape that greeted her in the fire. "A spider?" she pondered out loud as she clutched her fingers into fists before reaching into her robe and retrieving her communicator. "Ami-chan," she called out as the girl's face came up. "It's a spider. Our enemy looks like a giant spider."
"Did she say spider?" Minako could be heard wailing in the background. "I hate spiders! Why do the gods hate me? I don't even have a boyfriend yet! Isn't that cruel enough?"
Ami smiled a strained smile but ignored the commotion behind her. "I'll narrow my search then," the blue-haired girl said with carefully cultivated calm. "Thank you, Rei-chan. Are you coming back to Mako-chan's apartment now?"
Rei turned to look back at the fire. "I think I should also keep searching. Maybe I will find out about the enemy's weakness while you try to locate it in the city."
"Rei-chan, did you really find it?" Usagi's face suddenly showed up as she snatched the communicator from Ami. "Is it really a spider?" the blonde asked, sticking her tongue out in distaste.
"It has eight legs and an insect's body. I could be wrong, it could have been a centipede." Rei replied with a shrug, the disdainful look she shot her princess was to make up for the fact that Ami was probably too nice to show she minded.
"Ew! I hate centipedes!" Usagi exclaimed, completely misinterpreting the hostile glance and the sarcastic comments shot at her.
"Why are you wet?" Rei asked instead, not bothering to explain how widely Usagi missed her meaning. Her face was impassive though there was a very small hint of a smirk on her lips, though whether it be annoyance or amusement was something that Usagi wouldn't have been able to tell.
"Ah... Ami-chan dumped water on us." Usagi told her with a sheepish smile while running a hand through her wet bangs and messing it up further. Rei raised an eyebrow at this but could hear Ami's apologies in the background. "It's alright, Ami-chan! You saved me from being molested by Mina-P! I know you didn't mean to."
"Minako tried to molest you?" Rei asked, quirking her brow further.
"Uh... Don't punish her, Rei-chan! She wasn't acting like herself. She thought she was going to die a virgin--"
"It's all your fault, Rei-chan!" Minako snatched the communicator from her princess and pointed an accusing finger at the miko. "You told me by reading my palm and then spilling the skittles on Usagi-chan."
"What? What skittles?" Usagi asked excitedly. "You have candy, Mako-chan? Didn't you leave me any?" the princess asked with a pout when she didn't see any close at hand.
"Beans," Ami could be heard muttering in the background. "Spilling beans," she corrected without being heard by the person who mattered.
"I wanted to break you hand, that's why I was looking at it," Rei answered calmly. "I refrained but you are rather likely to die not yet completely a woman, considering that it was your cup that broke and you're probably not going to have time to lose it."
"Meanie! You lied to me?" Minako accused Rei as she bit down on her trembling lower lip. "Did you lie about Usagi-chan too? To turn her against me?"
"I didn't turn her against you, you decided that yourself." Rei replied with a slight tic at her temple. "Well, she's obviously done it last summer, anyway. You saw Mamoru-san. He looked like a man who got laid."
"Rei-chan!" Usagi's embarrassed exclaimation was ignored by both parties on the communicator.
"I think Rei's been influenced by Mina-chan's vulgar talk," Makoto told Ami in the background. "She used to be so polite, even if she's still equally blunt."
"The part about you dying a virgin would become the truth if you get yourself killed today by an insect," Rei added, not bothering to respond to Makoto's comments either.
"Meanie! Meanie! Meanie!" Minako wailed, flailing the communicator so that she was no longer even visible on the screen. "I thought you were my friend."
"I thought you hated liars," Rei retorted.
"That doesn't mean you have to be so mean about it," Minako sputtered.
"Don't be an idiot. If I wasn't your friend, I wouldn't even speak to you," Rei said and no one could deny that to be the truth.
---
"Don't be an idiot, huh?" Sailor Venus blinked, fighting the sleepiness that threatened to take her under. Her arms were restrained by sticky strands of cobwebs. Mars hadn't been lying when she said their enemy would be a giant spider - a giant, alien spider, that is. It was still bigger than any spider Venus tried to squish before with her spare shoes but smaller than the giant spider she imagined dwarfing the Tokyo Tower.
Sailor Venus hated spiders.
The spider had finally been tracked down to a warehouse and it had already claimed a few victims. They got separated on the way through. Jupiter had fallen through the weakened floor boards and Mercury, having caught the brunette's hand had fallen with her, down into a dark space that they didn't have a light to penetrate. She and Sailormoon were trying to find a way down when Mars called on their communicator. She had been waylaid by another enemy and would be late. "I'll be there soon," the dark-haired warrior had promised. "Don't do anything stupid until I get there," she had given Venus a rather pointed stare when she said this but all she got was a raspberry blown at her. Needless to say, Mars was far from amused by this.
She was suddenly taken from Sailormoon's side when that call had ended and now, she woke to find herself here. She had looked around, blinking hard against the drag of her own eye-lids, but didn't see any of her friends. She had felt this before, a few times, when an enemy tried to drain her of all her life energy. It was just never this bad...
"You were right, Rei-chan," she muttered to herself as a shadow fell over her. "I'm really going to die a virgin."
---
Minako was walking through a field of flowers when she saw black hair flying against the golden grass. "Who are you?" she asked.
"You know who I am," the woman who turned to her had on an exasperated expression. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" she asked in return. "Swearing's not nice," she said pointedly.
"Why are you little?" the woman asked her, surprise erasing the angry lines. Minako tilted her head to look at the other, and thought that this was one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen, though she couldn't remember very well what other women looked like.
"You're pretty when you're not angry," Minako answered instead.
There was suddenly a softening of features and the woman looked even prettier. Then a gloved hand touched the top of her head. "You'll never lose your virginity being a cute child, Mina-P." Her eyes widened as she looked up from under that hand on her head. "Do you really want to die like this?"
---
Sailor Venus' eyes snapped open. She felt even weaker than the last time she could remember waking but for some reason she was more awake. She found she was being embraced and Sailor Mars, who was slumped over her. She narrowed her eyes at the web clinging to both of them and the black beast with red eyes staring at her from beyond.
"What you did is unforgivable!" Sailor Venus said with her mouth grimly set. "How dare you rob a young girl's dream and pressure her to rush her most important moment in life and love! I'll punish you!" With that she let out a war cry and felt her powers surging, weak but burning throughout her body.
With a fierce glare set at her opponent, she unleashed her attack overhead to rain over them all...
---
"In the end, you almost died," Usagi pondered this thoughtfully. "So that cracked cup was a warning after all."
"That's nothing to be amazed about," Minako declared proudly. "After all, Rei-chan was wrong! I'm not going to die a virgin and she's going to have to own up to telling such a blatant lie!"
"All thanks to me!" Usagi declared proudly, as she was the one who killed the giant insect in the end. Once she finally found her friends, that is. She got so lost in the factory on her own that she was still crying when she stumbled upon Venus fighting for her life against the spider, while Mars remained unconscious from trying to protect her friend earlier.
"So, how did you escape from that thing anyway?" Makoto asked as she rubbed her leg from her place amongst the dozens of pillows her friends forced her to sit in. They had finally found her and Ami under the broken floors. They were both relatively fine but immobilized by the debris that landed on them. Makoto got a sprained ankle and some bruised ribs and back. Ami was pretty beat-up herself, and her shoulder was strained, but other than that, both girls were not grievously injured.
"Uh-ha ha," Minako laughed a bit nervously at the question. Makoto raised a brow and even Ami looked interested.
"She can be very motivated when she wants to be," Rei answered for Minako with a cryptic smile. "Her determination is part of her charm. But don't worry Mina-P, you're still a virgin. So there's still plenty of time for my palm reading to come true."
Minako blinked. "B-but you said you didn't even read my palm!" she sputtered when the words sunk in, horror filling her face.
"I said I contemplated breaking your hand, I didn't say I didn't see your love-line," Rei answered innocently. "Idiot," she added as an after-thought, causing Minako to splutter.
Outside Makoto's apartment window, a spider scuttled back into the shadows.
end?
I ran out of time... but uh... hope it wasn't too shabby.........
In an slightly OOC way....
right.
Genre: General/Humor
Version: Manga/Anime
Rated: PG
When Minako reached for her tea cup during a study session, it cracked just as she touched the rim. "Yay!" the blonde cried out in surprise, throwing her arms back theatrically as Makoto looked up in surprise.
"What a bad omen," the brunette commented with a frown as she stood to go into the kitchen, the dripping cup in her hand.
Ami tried to soothe the panicked Minako who insisted on buying Makoto a new cup. The blue-haired girl looked over imploringly at Rei, but found the priestess silently frowning at the wet ring left by the dripping cup. "Minako, it's alright," Makoto said as she came back with a rag. "I have other cups."
"I'm still a bit unsettled," Ami admitted with her brows drawn down. "Could this mean a new enemy? Oh, if only Luna and Artemis were here!"
"Did you find any in your monthly scans?" Makoto asked as she wiped the spot with her towel.
"No," Ami shook her head. "I haven't checked since two weeks ago," she quickly added as she reached for her computer. "I wasn't planning to do another one for another two weeks. It's been so quiet the whole last two years."
"The beginning of every month, huh?" Makoto asked, impressed by her friend's diligence. "Even the cats got lazy," she pointed out.
"Well, it's not like our enemies were ever really considerate about timing," Minako said with a huff. "It's a really bad sign, isn't it?" the blonde lamented. "I haven't even lost my virginity yet! I can't die before that!"
"Too much information, Minako-chan," Makoto said waving her hands at her friend pleadingly while giving out a nervous laugh.
Ami became slightly pink but turned back to her computer, hoping not to encourage her friend from continuing with her silence. "I-I'm sure you won't die a v-virgin Mina-P," she added with some embarrassed stuttering. Her gaze went over to Rei, almost expecting the other to make a sarcastic remark, but the miko was gathering up her books. "Are you leaving, Rei-chan?"
"I need to go home," Rei answered with a nod of her head. "I need to consult the sacred fire."
"Aren't you going to stick around for Ami's readings?" Makoto asked with a tilt of her head.
"It won't be done for another two hours if she doesn't know what she's looking for, but you can call me on the communicator if she finds anything earlier." Rei replied matter-of-factly.
Makoto looked to Ami in surprise but the other girl only nodded helplessly in apologetic consent. "It's the only way to be sure," she explained. "It's easier if we knew what we are looking for but each enemy we've faced are a little different and sometimes it takes awhile for the program to pin-point, especially in the beginning." Rei looked satisfied with the explanation and sat at the entrance way to put on her shoes.
"Well, alright then!" Minako announced with gusto. "But if you don't help out, I'll come back and haunt you, Rei-chan!" Minako threatened, giving Rei a rather strange expression as she hung off of the other's shoulders. "I'll keep you up at night, going 'Rei-chan, Rei-chan! How dare you leave me to the scary youma?' until you get wrinkles and tanuki eyes so no man would sleep with you either! And then you'll join me in hell as a dead virgin!"
"Let me see your hand," Rei interrupted as she grabbed Minako's appendage and gave the blonde's palm a cursory look. "I see," Rei said sagely. "You'll die a virgin," the miko stated with a blank expression.
Minako blinked at Rei's profile, her arms weakly giving way as the other got up to go. "Amazing," Makoto whispered to Ami. "Usually it takes at least fifteen minutes for anyone to escape Minako's grip of death and her ghost threats." The blue-haired girl nodded in agreement with this, having once had to experience it when Minako wanted help with homework.
"No Mamo-chan!" Usagi's squeal interrupted them as four pairs of eyes turned to her and four hands clutched at henshin pens. "Don't do that... tha-that's nau-naughty--!" Usagi slurred, settling down once more with a loud giggle and a thump from her place on the floor. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" the odango-blonde muttered as she sat up again, having hit her head on the floor when she plopped down.
"Usagi-chan's not a virgin," Rei suddenly declared pointedly. Everyone froze at the miko's declaration as Minako slowly turned her wide-eyed gaze from Rei back to the princess.
"Who's a virgin?" the princess grumbled, rubbing the back of her head grumpily as she was finally awakened by physical pain.
Makoto felt her expression vaguely turn into a nervous, awkward smile. "Th-that's not something to declare out loud, Rei...-chan?" she trailed off as she looked at the empty entry way before looking down at the table in defeat. "Just as I thought, I wasn't heard," she said to herself sadly as the sound of the closing door was her only answer. Ami patted the brunette on the shoulder sympathetically, her face slightly pink again.
Minako, on the other hand, had stomped over to her princess and was currently molesting her poor friend with watery eyes and shaking hands. "How could you, Usagi-chan?" she said as she gazed at the other imploringly, jerking Usagi's shoulders with emphasis. "I thought you truly believed in love, and waiting till after the marriage ceremony to share your special something with Mamoru-san on a marriage bed. How could you let your lust blind you of the ways of true love? How could you take the first step without waiting for your friends who are not as lucky? How could you? How could you? How dare you!" At this moment, the odango-haired blonde was being shaken so hard she could not answer even one of the barrage of questions aimed at her. Suddenly, Minako stopped as she leaned in close to the dazed Usagi. The long-haired blonde's expression was no longer menacing but dreamy, a look Makoto recognized immediately to mean nothing good for anyone such a gaze was directed towards. "Usagi-chan, now you must tell me what it's like! In fact, why don't you show me what it's like, Usagi-chan!"
"Mina-P! S-stop! I'm not like Michiru-san and Haruka-san!" Usagi wailed, snapping out of her dizzy stupor as the two struggled. Makoto leapt in to separate the them, which really was her trying to restrain Minako from doing something dramatic and utterly inappropriate on her living room floor. Yet nothing was helping, Minako ending up being surprisingly strong, and Usagi still being slightly dazed from having her neck snapped about.
"No, Mina-P! Y-you have to stop--!!"
---
Rei frowned at the shape that greeted her in the fire. "A spider?" she pondered out loud as she clutched her fingers into fists before reaching into her robe and retrieving her communicator. "Ami-chan," she called out as the girl's face came up. "It's a spider. Our enemy looks like a giant spider."
"Did she say spider?" Minako could be heard wailing in the background. "I hate spiders! Why do the gods hate me? I don't even have a boyfriend yet! Isn't that cruel enough?"
Ami smiled a strained smile but ignored the commotion behind her. "I'll narrow my search then," the blue-haired girl said with carefully cultivated calm. "Thank you, Rei-chan. Are you coming back to Mako-chan's apartment now?"
Rei turned to look back at the fire. "I think I should also keep searching. Maybe I will find out about the enemy's weakness while you try to locate it in the city."
"Rei-chan, did you really find it?" Usagi's face suddenly showed up as she snatched the communicator from Ami. "Is it really a spider?" the blonde asked, sticking her tongue out in distaste.
"It has eight legs and an insect's body. I could be wrong, it could have been a centipede." Rei replied with a shrug, the disdainful look she shot her princess was to make up for the fact that Ami was probably too nice to show she minded.
"Ew! I hate centipedes!" Usagi exclaimed, completely misinterpreting the hostile glance and the sarcastic comments shot at her.
"Why are you wet?" Rei asked instead, not bothering to explain how widely Usagi missed her meaning. Her face was impassive though there was a very small hint of a smirk on her lips, though whether it be annoyance or amusement was something that Usagi wouldn't have been able to tell.
"Ah... Ami-chan dumped water on us." Usagi told her with a sheepish smile while running a hand through her wet bangs and messing it up further. Rei raised an eyebrow at this but could hear Ami's apologies in the background. "It's alright, Ami-chan! You saved me from being molested by Mina-P! I know you didn't mean to."
"Minako tried to molest you?" Rei asked, quirking her brow further.
"Uh... Don't punish her, Rei-chan! She wasn't acting like herself. She thought she was going to die a virgin--"
"It's all your fault, Rei-chan!" Minako snatched the communicator from her princess and pointed an accusing finger at the miko. "You told me by reading my palm and then spilling the skittles on Usagi-chan."
"What? What skittles?" Usagi asked excitedly. "You have candy, Mako-chan? Didn't you leave me any?" the princess asked with a pout when she didn't see any close at hand.
"Beans," Ami could be heard muttering in the background. "Spilling beans," she corrected without being heard by the person who mattered.
"I wanted to break you hand, that's why I was looking at it," Rei answered calmly. "I refrained but you are rather likely to die not yet completely a woman, considering that it was your cup that broke and you're probably not going to have time to lose it."
"Meanie! You lied to me?" Minako accused Rei as she bit down on her trembling lower lip. "Did you lie about Usagi-chan too? To turn her against me?"
"I didn't turn her against you, you decided that yourself." Rei replied with a slight tic at her temple. "Well, she's obviously done it last summer, anyway. You saw Mamoru-san. He looked like a man who got laid."
"Rei-chan!" Usagi's embarrassed exclaimation was ignored by both parties on the communicator.
"I think Rei's been influenced by Mina-chan's vulgar talk," Makoto told Ami in the background. "She used to be so polite, even if she's still equally blunt."
"The part about you dying a virgin would become the truth if you get yourself killed today by an insect," Rei added, not bothering to respond to Makoto's comments either.
"Meanie! Meanie! Meanie!" Minako wailed, flailing the communicator so that she was no longer even visible on the screen. "I thought you were my friend."
"I thought you hated liars," Rei retorted.
"That doesn't mean you have to be so mean about it," Minako sputtered.
"Don't be an idiot. If I wasn't your friend, I wouldn't even speak to you," Rei said and no one could deny that to be the truth.
---
"Don't be an idiot, huh?" Sailor Venus blinked, fighting the sleepiness that threatened to take her under. Her arms were restrained by sticky strands of cobwebs. Mars hadn't been lying when she said their enemy would be a giant spider - a giant, alien spider, that is. It was still bigger than any spider Venus tried to squish before with her spare shoes but smaller than the giant spider she imagined dwarfing the Tokyo Tower.
Sailor Venus hated spiders.
The spider had finally been tracked down to a warehouse and it had already claimed a few victims. They got separated on the way through. Jupiter had fallen through the weakened floor boards and Mercury, having caught the brunette's hand had fallen with her, down into a dark space that they didn't have a light to penetrate. She and Sailormoon were trying to find a way down when Mars called on their communicator. She had been waylaid by another enemy and would be late. "I'll be there soon," the dark-haired warrior had promised. "Don't do anything stupid until I get there," she had given Venus a rather pointed stare when she said this but all she got was a raspberry blown at her. Needless to say, Mars was far from amused by this.
She was suddenly taken from Sailormoon's side when that call had ended and now, she woke to find herself here. She had looked around, blinking hard against the drag of her own eye-lids, but didn't see any of her friends. She had felt this before, a few times, when an enemy tried to drain her of all her life energy. It was just never this bad...
"You were right, Rei-chan," she muttered to herself as a shadow fell over her. "I'm really going to die a virgin."
---
Minako was walking through a field of flowers when she saw black hair flying against the golden grass. "Who are you?" she asked.
"You know who I am," the woman who turned to her had on an exasperated expression. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here?" she asked in return. "Swearing's not nice," she said pointedly.
"Why are you little?" the woman asked her, surprise erasing the angry lines. Minako tilted her head to look at the other, and thought that this was one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen, though she couldn't remember very well what other women looked like.
"You're pretty when you're not angry," Minako answered instead.
There was suddenly a softening of features and the woman looked even prettier. Then a gloved hand touched the top of her head. "You'll never lose your virginity being a cute child, Mina-P." Her eyes widened as she looked up from under that hand on her head. "Do you really want to die like this?"
---
Sailor Venus' eyes snapped open. She felt even weaker than the last time she could remember waking but for some reason she was more awake. She found she was being embraced and Sailor Mars, who was slumped over her. She narrowed her eyes at the web clinging to both of them and the black beast with red eyes staring at her from beyond.
"What you did is unforgivable!" Sailor Venus said with her mouth grimly set. "How dare you rob a young girl's dream and pressure her to rush her most important moment in life and love! I'll punish you!" With that she let out a war cry and felt her powers surging, weak but burning throughout her body.
With a fierce glare set at her opponent, she unleashed her attack overhead to rain over them all...
---
"In the end, you almost died," Usagi pondered this thoughtfully. "So that cracked cup was a warning after all."
"That's nothing to be amazed about," Minako declared proudly. "After all, Rei-chan was wrong! I'm not going to die a virgin and she's going to have to own up to telling such a blatant lie!"
"All thanks to me!" Usagi declared proudly, as she was the one who killed the giant insect in the end. Once she finally found her friends, that is. She got so lost in the factory on her own that she was still crying when she stumbled upon Venus fighting for her life against the spider, while Mars remained unconscious from trying to protect her friend earlier.
"So, how did you escape from that thing anyway?" Makoto asked as she rubbed her leg from her place amongst the dozens of pillows her friends forced her to sit in. They had finally found her and Ami under the broken floors. They were both relatively fine but immobilized by the debris that landed on them. Makoto got a sprained ankle and some bruised ribs and back. Ami was pretty beat-up herself, and her shoulder was strained, but other than that, both girls were not grievously injured.
"Uh-ha ha," Minako laughed a bit nervously at the question. Makoto raised a brow and even Ami looked interested.
"She can be very motivated when she wants to be," Rei answered for Minako with a cryptic smile. "Her determination is part of her charm. But don't worry Mina-P, you're still a virgin. So there's still plenty of time for my palm reading to come true."
Minako blinked. "B-but you said you didn't even read my palm!" she sputtered when the words sunk in, horror filling her face.
"I said I contemplated breaking your hand, I didn't say I didn't see your love-line," Rei answered innocently. "Idiot," she added as an after-thought, causing Minako to splutter.
Outside Makoto's apartment window, a spider scuttled back into the shadows.
end?
I ran out of time... but uh... hope it wasn't too shabby.........
In an slightly OOC way....
right.