Chapter 210
"Rick, I really like to write slow songs from the heart, but ever since that battle..I've changed my mind. I need an outlet for my anger that doesn't involve hitting something or someone..I need to write rock," Raye said.
Rick was a bit surprised.
"You mean it?" Rick asked.
"Yes, I need to be able to scream," Raye said. "I need to let my emotions blast across whatever audience I have. If I'm ever going to be able to write about the good stuff again I first have to do this."
"Well..all right..I'll help."
"I figured you would," Raye said. "I know it may seem a little weird."
"Yeah, but not as weird as some things I've seen, but you've done this before."
"A few times, for the deep six concert. Still I'm no expert."
"Fortunately for you, I am," Rick said with a grin.
"How should I start this?" Mike asked himself. "I stood alone on a sunlight peak...or maybe a moonlit peak. No..no..that doesn't work. The peak has nothing to do with it either."
He stared at his computer screen with annoyance.
"Maybe I'm only creative when I tell stories, not when I write them. Still, if I told a story and then wrote it down, what would be the problem? That's what I've been trying to do? Maybe I'll try again."
He took in a breath.
"So there was this time we went down to the harbor, there was some strange things happening down there. So anyway, this guy comes up to us and asks us if we want some fish. We weren't interested, but we were polite and asked him what he had. Then he showed us. That was some ugly fish. One of them had four eyes. And the fourth one wasn't where it was supposed to be. I'll tell you that. So anyway...we moved on..."
Mike paused a second.
"That's not going to sell. It's not even a good story, it's just annoying. Come to think of it every story I tell is annoying. I'm just annoying."
He sighed.
"Still...if there was a market for books like that I could corner the market. I'll give it a shot!"
"What are you doing in here?" his father asked poking his head in the door. "Talking to yourself."
"No, I'm writing a novel," Mike said.
"A novel? Who would want to buy something you wrote?"
"I've wondered that myself, but I can't find out until I try can I?"
"True, but I doubt anyone would be stupid enough to pay money for it."
"See what I like about you dad is that you always encourage me to try hard in whatever I'm doing," Mike said.
"Ehh..." Mister Leslie said. "I'm just trying to look out for humanity. You should just give up and settle into a career in accounting."
"Accounting? You mock me sir!" Mike said.
"Sure do, maybe you're right accounting, but actually when I think about it. Just what use are you to anybody?" his father said with a grin.
"I know. I'll go into politics!" Mike said.
"Hmm...well..actually..." Mister Leslie said. "That may be your only hope, though I fear for the country."
"Give me the red button..heh heh heh.." Mike said.
"Mike..we don't have a button, Japan doesn't have any nuclear weapons."
"That's not what Patterson says, heh heh," Mike said.
"What?" Mister Leslie said.
"Nothing, nothing, I must continue my work..." Mike said and returned to staring at the computer screen.
His father sighed and walked away.
Later that day.
"So...Amy...tell us about Urawa..." the girls said surrounding Amy in the restaurant.
"Oh..tell us too..." Mike, Steve, and Rick said with sarcasm.
"This is love! Don't mock us!" Mina, Raye, Serena and Lita shouted back.
"O...kay.." The guys replied.
"Well?" the girls said turning to their gaze to Amy.
"Urawa..is...nice.." Amy said unsurely.
"And?" everyone asked.
"He's still not going to beat me on the aptitude tests," Amy said.
Everyone sighed.
"I can't let personal matters clash with business," Amy said.
"I thought that's what personal matters did on general principles," Mike said.
Steve and Rick nodded.
"You three have no concept for the true meaning of love.." the girls replied.
"Granted. So knowing the true meaning of love is so important?" The three replied.
The girls, even Amy nodded.
"Then why are, or have you in the past dated any one of us?" the three asked with grins.
"We...uh.." the girls stammered and all looked at each other.
"I didn't date any of you," Serena said.
"Yeah!" the others added.
The guys glanced at each other.
"Well...you girls sure told us," Mike said.
"What does that mean?" Mina growled.
"It means you girls have no concept of even what you defend so vigorously," Mike said and jumped up onto the table.
"Yes..am I right my fellow members of the male gender. They speak to us of love...but..oh..you better watch it because they don't even understand it do they?"
Several male patrons let out cries of agreement.
"That's right, oh of course we don't understand any of it, we're just men right..sure....we've hardly evolved from hitting women over the head with clubs and dragging them back to our caves, ey?"
"That was a viable romantic option?" Steve asked.
"No..no.." Rick said. "It sure isn't."
"So..I say enough is enough," Mike said.
"I say sit down," Mina said.
"Yeah," the girls in the restaurant said.
"Just try and stop me!" Mike said.
A barrage of ice cream cones flew at him. He flipped off the table to avoid them.
"Ah hah! So it is a challenge!" Mike said and grabbed his milkshake and flung it. The restaurant erupted into chaos once again.
"We better get out of here," Rick said and he and Steve ran for cover as a battle of the sexes broke out using whatever food implements could be found.
"Uh how does this solve anything?" Amy asked huddling under the table.
"We're far beyond solving anything," Mina said and picked up a gob of french fries.
"Fire in the hole!" She shouted and threw them across the restaurant.
"So we fight a battle on this hallowed ground yet again," Raye said her eyes narrowing. "I am ready."
"That's great Raye, but..you shouldn't get so serious about it," Serena said. "All this wonderful food is going to waste!"
"Maybe you should eat it before it's used as ammunition," Mina said.
"No..we need every roll we can spare," Lita said grabbing several and lobbing them through the air.
"Roll!" Mike said and dived on one before it hit the floor. Rick glanced at him.
"What are you doing?" he muttered.
Mike grinned and picked up the roll before flinging it back across the restaurant.
Waitress Lizzie Tillman had since ducked back into the kitchen.
"They're having another food fight again," She muttered.
"Oh..why?" One of the chefs asked.
"Uh..it seems that the girls are mad at the boys and vice versa," Lizzie said.
"Oh..so it's like that," The chefs said and tossed a pie at Lizzie's face.
"HEY! I'm not involved!" She shouted.
"You are now!" The chef shouted.
Lizzie let out a screech. Soon a barrage of pastry flew out from the kitchen at the girls who were all hiding behind booths and popping up to toss things.
"We're being flanked!" Lita shouted excitedly.
"Hah! Victory is ours!" Steve shouted. The girls chucked several ham sandwiches at him.
Steve ducked.
"That's a lot of ham," Rick muttered.
"Too much ham.." Mike added his eyes narrowing.
Rick glanced at him again.
Lizzie had since dashed from the kitchen ducked a barrage food and pulled a cart with a large barrel over to the girls.
"What's that?" Lita asked.
"Uh..it's lard..." Lizzie said. "I figured it could be of use."
"Well it's better to throw fat then eat it," Serena said.
"At least when you throw it, it doesn't show.." Raye said grinning.
Serena hit her in the face dead on with a large ball of lard.
"How..did..you..do that..so fast..." Raye muttered.
"Insult me again and find out!" Serena shouted.
"Uh..no.." Raye muttered and wiped the lard off quickly.
"Ready...aim...fire!" Mike shouted. The guys all popped up from behind booths with the containers of ketchup and squeezed. It flew across the room and the girls all jumped for cover.
"Hah!" Mike said.
A large ball of lard flew into the air right at him. He dived out of the way. It smashed against a table and exploded.
"I never thought I'd see something like that again," Steve said.
"Fire!" Raye shouted. A barrage of mustard went shooting across the restaurant.
"Hit the deck!" Steve shouted. The guys all dodged again replying with more
ketchup and mustard shots of their own.
Later at Darrien's apartment.
"Oh it was terrible Darrien, all that food flying back and forth...." Serena said as she wiped herself off with a towel.
"It must have been horrifying," Darrien said with a grin.
"It's no laughing matter."
"I'm not laughing."
"All that food going to waste while people are starving in Africa, and I'm out of money to buy anymore."
"Well..you can always get meals at home."
"Yes..but not good ones..too many greens."
"Vegetables are good for you."
"I cannot believe the ones I get are..they're...just wrong," Serena said.
"Oh? Why do you say that?" Darrien asked.
"Darrien, I can't even put it into words..it's just.."
"You mean the taste of them.."
"No..no..it's practically spiritual," Serena said.
"Oh.."
"So..anyway how about you buy me something?"
"I'd like to Serena, but I've got to work here. You're welcome to anything that's around."
"It'll do," Serena said and rushed to the fridge.
Darrien grinned.
"So how'd it start anyway?"
"Oh...who remembers how these kind of things start anyway," Serena said.
Darrien sighed.
"YAMS? What are yams?" Serena asked looking at a can.
"Yams..Serena, they're you know..vegetables."
"Yams...curious," Serena said and put them back. "Jeez..you're a real health food nut aren't ya?"
"No..I just keep normal healthy foods around. There's nothing wrong with that," Darrien said.
"Lima beans and kidney beans? How many different beans do you need anyway?"
"I don't know Serena, that's just the way it is."
"Okay..okay..I wanted some chocolate though," Serena said.
"Sorry, I've been all out of that since the last time you visited," Darrien said.
"Oh...I see..." Serena said. "It's too bad. Guess I'm out of luck. I'll let you work I'm sure it's important."
"It kinda is..but what do you say to coming around eightish..we can watch a movie or something."
"Sure.." Serena said. "I'll be there.."
She then headed out and was soon walking down the street.
"Gotta get food somewhere," She said to herself and headed away from the apartment.
She didn't notice the figure watching her.
"So...this is where he lives," her father said peering over the steering
wheel of his car. "I will remember that," he said and let out a sinister laugh.
Lizzie Tillman, covered with dough and various other cooking ingredients wandered into the apartment she shared with her brother and sighed.
"Why do they insist on doing that?" She muttered. "It's no fun for the people who have to clean up afterwards."
Andrew isn't home yet I bet, he's probably still at work. She thought. I have got to get cleaned up.
She headed into her room and was shocked to see a woman in a strange outfit sitting on her bed.
"Who..who are you?" Lizzie said.
"Typical response," the goddess said and blasted her with energy before she could react. She sank to the ground.
"They call me the goddess of food," She added after the fact. "And now I'm going to have some fun."
She brought her hands together and used her powers. On the floor appeared a large muffin at least four feet tall and equally as wide.
"Hmm..yes..this will do," she said and then with a shot of energy she shot both the muffin and Lizzie. The girl disappeared.
"You're life force and all your mind will create the first living muffin in existence. And with this..you will not only surprise Sailor Moon, but destroy her as well."
And the goddess then headed out the door.
"Follow me," She said. The muffin crawled after her.
Serena meanwhile was wandering down the street.
"I've been to seven grocery stores. None of them are giving out free samples. What's the deal?" she muttered to herself. "I don't want to ask my friends for food, it wouldn't look good. Not that I haven't asked them before..ahem.." She grinned slightly. "No..I must fend for myself."
There must be someone who wants to give me free food. She thought. There's always food to be found..somewhere....the problem is finding where. And that bothers me. Because if I don't get some food soon, I'm gonna collapse. Of course..then at that stage, I'll eat anything, and I can just go home and eat the slop they serve up. That is if I have the strength to get there.
Oh..well..I'd better start heading back now, while I still can. Of course if I was to collapse someone would find me and feed me, but it would be a little dishonest, and I don't like being dishonest unless it's absolutely necessary. And I guess this isn't.
So she headed on her way.
The muffin meanwhile was slowing moving down the sidewalk. Pedestrians moved out of it way, some causally, some others a bit worried. But no one suspected for a minute that this four foot by four foot living muffin was in the least bit malicious.
As it headed down one way. A somewhat bored Mike headed down the other way.
"Well..I gave up quickly.." he muttered. "Couldn't write, so here I go back out onto the street."
Of course I'm looking for inspiration, that's all.
He looked up and stared at the Giant Muffin moving towards him.
"Now that looks interesting," he said and stared at it. It moved closer and stopped in front of him. Mike bent down and stared at it.
"And what exactly are you?" he asked.
The muffin said nothing...because it was a muffin.
"Hmm...strange, but not strange enough. No..I need real inspiration," Mike said. "Not some mutant muffin!"
The muffin jumped at him. He ducked out of the way.
"Same to you pal," Mike said and walked down the street the other way. The muffin continued on it's way.
"Giant living muffins, what will those jokers think of next?" Mike muttered
and turned a corner.
Serena on her voyage came upon the muffin and stared at it.
"No..I can't be that hungry that I'm hallucinating," she said. The muffin moved closer to her.
"Impossible!" Serena said. "But..only if it was."
She rubbed her eyes.
"This is amazing..it's there..it must be there.." she said.
The muffin inched closer.
"But why is it moving? Too much yeast?" she asked herself.
It stopped in front of her.
"You're saying you want me to eat you?" Serena asked.
The muffin sat there. The goddess watched from the roof top.
I wait for her to try and bite it and then it'll tackle her. She thought.
"Sorry..muffin...but I wasn't born yesterday! Moon Crystal Power!"
She transformed then and there. The goddesses eyes widened.
"How did she!?" the goddess shouted.
Sailor Moon faced the muffin.
"So..we meet at last goddess of the muffins! Show your true form!" she shouted.
The goddess of food sent a blast flying down from the rooftop. Sailor Moon was hit and she fell to the ground. The goddess of food dropped to pavement.
"Kill!" she shouted to muffin. The muffin leapt at Sailor Moon who scurried out of the way.
"Oh..and just an added bonus Sailor Moon, you're friend Lizzie is in there. So you can't hurt it."
"Oh..no.." Sailor Moon said. She could be lying of course, but I don't have the choice to not believe her. She hurriedly called for help on her communicator and dodged another laser blast. The muffin leapt at her. She avoided it and brought on Venus' agility. She pulled off her tiara.
"Moon Tiara Magic!" she shouted and threw it quickly. The goddess blasted it down to the ground.
"Jeez..that's annoying," Sailor Moon said. "Moon Sword."
The muffin leapt at her. She jumped out of the way again and charged the goddess. The goddess stood there and at the last second unleashed an attack right into Sailor Moon as she swung her sword. Sailor Moon missed and was blasted back down the alley. The muffin leapt at her.
She rolled out of the way and looked for some options.
A rose flew through the air bounced off a wall and then landed in the alley upside down.
"Ehh so what!" Guardian Neptune said and leapt off the rooftop onto the goddess of food. He grabbed her and threw her down the alley.
"Neptune Golden Triton Impale!" he shouted. The goddess had time to get back up and avoid the attack but Neptune was quick. He drew his sword and fired quickly. The goddess scurried out of the way of the attacks.
"So now you've met your match, hah hah," Neptune said confidently.
"She must really stink at fighting," Sailor Moon muttered as she and the muffin faced off.
"I want to heal her, but can I do it without hurting her? Is healing her even possible?" she asked herself. The muffin jumped. Sailor Moon batted it off with her sceptre.
Neptune meanwhile was firing off some blasts at the goddess. She was returning fire and they were each managing to hold each other off.
"Moon Healing Activation!" Sailor Moon shouted. The muffin leapt at her. The white light hit it as it went, but it did no good, the muffin hit her dead on and pushed her into a wall. She tried to push it away but it put pressure on her.
"Neptune!" She shouted.
"Uh oh.." Neptune said narrowly avoiding another attack.
A rose smashed into the ground.
Tuxedo Mask jumped down and pushed the muffin off of Sailor Moon. He held it trying to keep it from getting any closer.
"I think you have to deal with the goddess before you can heal her," Tuxedo Mask said.
"All right then," Sailor Moon said.
The goddess tensed, the odds were not good. Neptune fired off another shot, the goddess dived out of the way of it. Sailor Moon jumped into the air and landed her patented kick. It hit the goddess and she fell back.
Neptune and Tuxedo Mask threw their attacks. It the goddess again. The muffin moved to fight them.
"Moon Spiral Hearts Attack!" Sailor Moon shouted. The goddess disintegrated, as did the muffin leaving Lizzie lying on the ground.
"Why is she covered in with food?" Tuxedo Mask asked.
"She was in the middle of the crossfire, didn't I mention that?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Well I know now..." Tuxedo Mask said. The three reverted back to their human forms.
"Mike..just how did you know to be here?" Serena asked.
"I had an encounter with the muffin. After meeting it I walked for a little while thought about it, and then realized that a large muffin that was alive, might be dangerous, at the very least suspicious, so I followed it to see what was going on," Mike said. "Then as you saw I used my newly honed fighting skill to fight off the goddess."
"Mike..these goddesses rely on sheer power, this muffin had more fighting skill," Serena said. "And what was the deal with the rose?"
"Just thought I'd throw a rose randomly.." Mike said. "I've done it before, it's really no big a deal."
"It is to me..you have committed sacrilege," Serena said.
"What?"
"You have dishonored the time honored tradition of Tuxedo Mask using the rose to symbolize his devotion and protection of me," Serena said.
"Serena, it's no big deal," Darrien said.
"Ah..but it is.." Serena said she said as she advanced.
"Wait Serena, I think I can convince you to forgive me," Mike said.
"Oh?" Serena said getting into his face.
"How would you like a chocolate frosted donut with chocolate inside of it?" Mike asked.
"I..uh...well..I uh..would love..one.." Serena said.
"Would you like to me to buy you one," Mike said.
"Sure..." Serena said happily.
"Serena, aren't you forgetting Lizzie?" Darrien asked.
"Oh..uh...take care of it Darrien, I'm hungry," Serena said and she and Mike walked off.
"Darrien?" Lizzie said in surprise looking at him.
"Oh..hey..Lizzie..how's it going?" Darrien asked.
"Does it look like it's going well!" Lizzie shouted back.
"Guess not," Darrien said.
"I was just a living muffin. Can you even comprehend what that can do to someone?"
"I have no idea.." Darrien said truthfully. "Is there anything I can do?"
"Well you can give me a ride home for one," Lizzie said. "Where'd Serena go?"
"Serena was here?"
"You know..how she's Sailor Moon..and she saved my life and all. Come on, you're Tuxedo Mask you know.."
"How..did you.." Darrien said in surprise.
"How didn't I? Can we go?"
"Uh..yeah...good idea," Darrien said. "Uh what was you first hint?"
"I don't want to go into it," Lizzie said.
"Okay..I was just curious."
"And so you shall remain," Lizzie said and began to cackle.
"Uh..why are you cackling?" Darrien said unsurely.
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