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Minako takes a punch and goes down hard. She winces, and struggles to get up. Her foe closes in and kicks her right in her side; she slides another few inches across the ground. She gives him a grim, narrow-eyed look and painfully climbs her way to unsteady feet ( Read more... )

He really doesn't know how he ended up here. This is not the nexus' fault. Somehow Nephrite (not Nefukichi-kun!) is working at Crown Karaoke on the half-charity of some crazy human boy who doesn't seem to mind if Nephrite shouts or threatens him or breaks the dishes (again). It's like nothing he could do could make that guy really mad, and it's ( Read more... )

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It creeps insidiously on the air through the hallway. It sneaks into the adjacent rooms and infiltrates them. It hurries here and there with malicious flightiness, just in and out of reach, growing as it moves. Finally, the unmistakeable aroma of baking has taken over the entire palace wing ( Read more... )

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The room is enormous, a chamber large enough to house a planetarium. It's reminiscent of one, with its high domed roof and the abundance of computer equipment. Dark windows show the outside, but the view is like nothing from Earth. The wrong planets are closest and the pattern of the stars is off. All of it's empty except for the control panels ( Read more... )

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Serenity bit her lip as she poked her head out into the hallway, looking first one way, then the other. Only when she was absolutely sure that both sides were clear did the dainty princess dart from the door, small feet carrying her quickly down the corridor and closer and closer to her destination. Where that might be? Perhaps the bare skin on her ( Read more... )

Usagi practically dances down the main concourse of the mall, glued to window displays of jewelry, high fashion, and baked goods in rapid succession. She exclaims over some of them, and settles for staring at others with wide eyes. But by the time she wants to buy something, she's a sad Usagi shaking an empty wallet as if she can magic money into ( Read more... )