All standard disclaimers apply. I want to thank Kevin Wibley.
Mail comments and flames to Ladyjupiter@sailorjupiter.com
For those of you who are a little slow, the first part is
part of Ken's dream. Yes I know everyone wrote about others
having dreams, but I wanna too!
JUPITER KNIGHT PART VII
>Where am I? Why is it so foggy?< Ken walked on to a hard rock
ground. He couldn't see what was in front of him. He walked on,
and noticed a dark shape in front. He walked closer, but the
shape seemed to be moving back. >What is that?< A crash of
purple thunder ripped across the dark grey sky, and right at him.
He couldn't move. He felt the electricity rush through him, burning
every part of his body. >NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!<
Ken jolted out of bed screaming. He was wet with perspiration,
and was panting. >It was just a dream< he told himself.
"Ken. Are you alright?" Marcus asked.
Ken looked at the bottom of the bunk bed him and his host for
the foreign exchange project shared. It was a good thing they both
knew English, communication would have been impossible.
"Yes. I just had a nightmare. Sorry I woke you." he said,
feeling exhausted. It was as if he really did run that long of a
distance.
"You were shouting something. You were shouting 'Lita'. What
is a Lita?" Marcus asked.
"Not what. Who. Lita is my girfriend back home." Ken sighed
at the memory of Lita. He had to depend on his memory for Lita now.
"Were you guys serious?" Marcus asked.
"Very. You have no idea." Ken said.
"Why don't you call her right now. Tell her you miss her." Marcus
suggested.
"I can't. Long distance is too expensive. You've already been
too kind. I can't let you waste anymore of your money." Ken said.
"Nonsense. On this trip, you get a total of five calls home. It's
been payed for." Marcus brought up a phone.
"What time will it be in Japan?" Ken asked.
"Since it is moring here, I think it should be around dinner time
there."
"Okay. I'll call." Ken picked up the phone. He didn't know
why his hands were shaking like that.
Lita was thrown out of bed by the sound of the phone. She clumsily
felt around for it on her dresser. When she finally found it, she
picked it up.
"H'Low? Who's calling this early?" Lita said sleepily into
the reciever.
There was static on the other line, but the voice came out loud
and clear. "Lita? This is Ken."
Lita was fully awake by that voice. That voice that she haven't
heard from in almost a week. "Ken! Is it really you?"
"Yes. What time is it?"
"Three in the morning!" Lita shouted happily.
On the other end of the line, Ken gave Marcus a look that said
he was wrong. Marcus just shrugged.
"I miss you Lita. I really do." Ken said into the phone.
"I do to. I can't wait til you come back." Lita said.
"Soon. I'll be back before you know it. I have to cut this
call short. My host is paying for it." Ken said sadly. "I'll write
you."
"Ken, I love you." Lita said sadly. She couldn't express how
much she loved him.
Ken blushed on the other end. "Me too. I love you too. Bye
Lita."
"Bye."
They both hung up at the same time. Lita couldn't go back
to sleep. She was too excited about the call.
"Oh man. You're blushing!" Marcus laughed.
Ken walked into the bathroom. He didn't need to be embarassed
anymore. At least he had told Lita how much he loved her. He didn't
think he told her enough.
Lita ran into the classroom. It was the second time she was late
this week. If she kept that schedule up, she'll be like Serena in no time.
She slid into her seat and tried to avoid Mina's angry look. Mina
had been waiting for her, but she never showed up.
The teacher cleared her throat, and looked sternly at both girls.
"I hope that being late will not be a habit." Mrs. Takuto said.
Lita felt her face flush. She hated when teachers put her on
the spot like that. It was bad enough that her uniform didn't fit in,
that was okay, but teachers loved to pick on her since she was always
in fights. Well, not recently. Just because she was expelled from
her last school didn't mean she was bad. Lita wished some people would
be a little more open minded. Like Ken. She started to day dream, when she
felt Mina jab her with a pencil.
"What?" Lita whispered.
"Look at the new guy." Mina indicated to a young man in the
front row.
Lita saw who Mina was pointing at. There was a young man with
wavy platinum blonde hair. He looked pretty tall, taller than most
guys.
"Who is he?" Lita asked.
"If you were here earlier, you would've heard." Mina said, slightly
annoyed.
"Sorry. Don't wait for me next time. So tell me already." Lita asked.
"Okay, his name is Don. No last name. He just moved here, and he's
fifteen. He's pretty cute. You should've seen when he first walked in.
All the girls almost fainted. He is way beyond cute."
Lita was sure that Mina was one of the girls who were swooning over
him, but she decided not to mention it. Lita continued to stare at him,
trying to get a look at his face. Mina was also looking. She wanted
to get another look at him.
Slowly, Don turned around and caught Lita and her friend staring at him.
>Good,< he thought, >she's taking the bait.< He flashed a smile over at
her, and saw blush.
Lita immediatly looked down. She knew she was blushing, but she hoped
no one was looking. She got up the courage to look up again. He wasn't
looking anymore. Mina jabbed her with her pencil again.
"Hey, that hurt. Why don't you use your finger?" Lita whispered.
"He smiled at you."
"I know." Lita felt herself starting to blush again.
"Before you start flirting, remeber Ken?" Mina asked.
A pang of guilt went through Lita. How could she think Don was cute?
She had Ken.
"I'm not going to flirt. I'm perfectly happy with Ken." Lita said.
"Then I can go after him?" Mina asked questingly.
"Be my guest."
"Lita Kino! Come sit at the front desk. I will not allow this kind
of destraction in my room." Mrs. Takuto shouted.
Everyone was looking at her. Lita held her head high, gathered her
things, and moved to the front desk. This was usually where the boys
who didn't listen sat. This was the first time she came up here. Lita
sat down, and looked up to the teacher.
"Are we ready?" the teacher asked sarcastically.
"Yes miss." Lita mumbled.
"Good." the teacher droned on and on about historical facts.
>Am I being watched?< Lita thought. She looked up, under the intense
gaze of Don. She self consciously crossed her legs. He kept on staring.
He seemed to be sending some sort of message with his eyes to her. Ken's
gorgeous brown eyes kept appearing in Lita's mind. She was wracked with
guilt. She didn't believe that she found Don attractive. >I already
have a boyfriend.< Lita reminded herself. >leave him for Mina!<
Thankfullly, the bell rang, and Lita gathered her things for
recess break. She was about to get up, books in one hand, when she dropped
them. She dropped them because of a hand. The hand was resting on the
table. She followed the hand up to the arm, the shoulder, and then the
face. Don helped her gather the fallen books, and waited for her to say
something.
"Hi, I'm Lita." Lita said, blushing.
"I'm Don." he said, looking deeply at her.
"Nice to meet you."
"Would you show me around school? I'm new and I don't know where
anything is." Don made a helpless face.
Lita thought for a while. It wouldn't hurt. She was just showing
a new guy around. "Okay."
Mina came up behind her, "Hi, Don. I'm Mina, nice to meet you."
Mina smiled up at him, and offered her hand.
Don just stared at it, and finally shook it. "Nice to meet you."
Lita looked at Mina, "Would you like to come and show Don around
the school with me?"
"Sure."
The three walked down the hall, pointing out the gym, lockers,
bathrooms, and anything else they knew. Lita kept on talking, but had
to avoid Don's intense gaze. She felt herself blush everytime she met
his eye. >Why am I feeling like this? I like Ken! Why is he having
that effect with me? I never feel like this unless I'm with Ken.< the
thoughts flashed through Lita's mind. Lucky for her, Mina was taking over,
doing all the talking so Lita could think for a while. Lita had been
so engrossed in her own thoughts that she failed to notice the
bump in the ground. Clumsily, she tripped, and flew forward. Her books
dropped in a clatter, and she fell on her butt.
"Are you okay?" Mina said, laughing.
"Yeah." Lita was really red now.
Don reached a hand out for Lita. "Let me help you out." As soon
as his hand touched hers, he got an unfamiliar feeling. >What am I feeling?
It feels so strange. I haven't felt like this for a long time.< Don
thought.
"Thanks." Lita took his hand, and he pulled her up. When she was
steady and standing, he was still holding her hand. He was holding it
for a pretty long time. Mina had gathered up the mess that Lita dropped, and
handed it to her. Lita had to pull away from Don's tight grasp in order to
get her things.
They continued to walk, this time Lita kept a sharp lookout for
anything she might trip over.
"You should have seen the way he looked at her!" Mina said jeolously
to the other girls.
All five girls were sitting in Lita's living room talking. Ami
didn't have to go to cram school since it was being remodeled, and Rei had
just came from her own school.
"Lita always gets the good ones!" Rei exclaimed. She had seen
Don walking to his apartment on her way to Lita's.
"I already have Ken." Lita said quietly.
"You better tell Don that you already have a boyfriend. He's getting
way too interested in you to just be classmates." Ami said.
"Any word from Ken?" Serena asked.
"Oh, I forgot to tell you guys. Ken called me this morning." Lita
suddenly remembered.
"How is he?" Luna spoke up.
"He said he's fine, and that he misses me." Lita beamed with
affection.
"How sweet!" Rei gushed.
"I know. I miss him so much." Lita said.
Mina tried to cheer her friend up, "You're coming to the volley ball
tryouts later right?"
Lita looked at the clock hanging by the wall. It was just three forty.
The tryouts wouldn't be until four thirty. "I guess. I'm not really
good though."
Serena started to laugh hysteriacally. Everyone stared at her until
she stopped laughing. "You don't have to be good. After all, Mina
made it!" She broke down laughing again.
"Hey!" Mina threw a pillow at Serena, but Lita caught it just in time
to keep it from hitting Serena's face.
"No pillow fights! I just cleaned the house yesterday." she said.
"Sorry." Mina apologized.
Lita went into the kitchen, and took out a dish with some cookies
on it. As soon as she set it down onto the coffee table, Serena grabbed
for them. She ate half of it before anyone else even finished their
first one.
"Serena! Leave some for Lita. She's the one who baked it you know!"
Rei scolded.
"It's okay, Seren can eat as much as she wants. I'm not that hungry.
Luna, why don't you eat some?" Lita offered one to the black cat.
Luna eagerly took one and ate it, "These are good. Very good!" Luna
mumbled with her mouth full.
No one was actually getting any work done, but that was fine with
everyone except Ami. "You guys! Let's try to do some work. We are
wasting valuable study time."
"You are absolutely right. Let's get down to business." Serena agreed,
which was pretty odd since she hated to study.
The girls got almost fifteen minutes of studying in when Serena had
to leave. She took Luna and more of Lita's cookies with her. Rei went
home with Ami. That left Mina and Lita in her house. Mina helped Lita
with the tea cups and dishes. After that was all put away, they walked
back to the school for volley ball practice. What they didn't know was
that there was a shadow following them to the school, and it didn't belong
to neither of them.
Lita went up to the coach with Mina, while she asked if Lita could
join on such short notice. The coach agreed, but first told Lita to show
them her abilities with the ball. Lita spiked, set, and served the ball
like a pro. Mina was astonished, since Lita never told her how good she
really was.
Back in the bleachers was a dark figure, hidden in the shadows. It
followed Lita in, and no one knew about it. >Time to reel her in.< Don
thought on the bleachers. He was still deep in thought and didn't even
see the ball heading for him.
"Watch out!" Mina shouted to the mysterious man on the bleachers.
Don looked up too late. The ball hit him and bounced off of his
head. He rubbed his head, but it didn't hurt too much.
"Don, are you okay? I'm sorry." Mina said, holding the ball
she picked up.
"Yeah."
"What are you doing here?" Lita asked, walking up to them.
"She hit me with the ball." Don said.
"Sorry to hear that." Lita said, and walked off.
Mina sat down and tried to flirt with Don, but he kept looking at
Lita. Mina saw that she had no hope off getting a date with him and
she walked off. In the locker room, Mina confronted Lita with the knew
knowledge she gained.
"Don really likes you." Mina told her.
Lita stooped over to tie her shoes. "No he doesn't."
"Yes he does." Mina insisted. "I hate to say it, but he really
does."
"Oh well. There's nothing I can do about it." Lita sighed as
she stuffed her gym clothes into the duffle bag.
"Ready to go?"
"Yeah."
Galdon was doing the homework they were assigned when his brother
came in.
"What are you doing?" demanded Calbrom.
"Home work."
"You idiot. We don't have to do homework! Use your stupid
powers." Calbrom insisted.
Galdon pointed to the sheet of paper and BOOM! The paper was filled
with answers.
"Have you collected some energy from Sailor Jupiter?" asked Calbrom
hungrily.
"Not exactly." Galdon said nervously.
"What do you mean?"
"I have to get to know here, then lure her in."
"Just suck her of the stupid energy! What is so hard about that?"
"Sorry."
Calbrom walked toward the front door. "I'm going to get some energy.
Since you didn't have the brains to get some yourselves, you better come
with me."
Obediently, Galdon followed. They reverted to their human clothes
when they reached the street.
>Why does this feel so familiar< Ken thought to himself as
he walked on the dry dark ground. A dark blurry figure stood on the
horizon. >What is that?< He had an urge to walk toward the horizon.
He walked on and on, feeling his muscles complain after the third mile.
Surprisingly, the figure was still far away. It didn't look any nearer.
Ken walked faster, almost running now. "Wait!" he called to the object
that seemed to be receeding. He ran as fast as he could, and stopped
dead when he felt nothing but air at his feet. In a split second,
he was falling into a dark hole. >Noooo!< he thought. >Not again!<
Ken fell off the bed, all the way to the floor. This was especially
painful since he was on top of a bunk bead.
"Are you okay?" Marcus asked sleepily.
"Yes. Just another nightmare." Ken groaned as he sat up.
"You've been having a lot lately. Are you sure you're okay. No
dark secrets hiding that are disturbing you?"
>Besides that I'm Prince of Jupiter, and responsible for the well
being of my girlfriend?< he thought. "No." Ken lied.
"Go back to sleep." Marcus turned away from him, and started drifting
off.
Ken didn't think he would be able to sleep that night, so he
started to open the bedroom door.
"Where are you going this late?" Marcus mumbled.
"For a walk. I need some fresh air."
Marcus was already snoring, do Ken just stepped out of the room
quietly. He walked out of the house, trying not to desturb Marcus' parents,
out into the cold night breeze. Ken jogged to the park in the corner, where
there was a perfect view of the Ifle Tower. Looking at that made him think
of Lita. He missed her like hell. There was never a second in his life
that he had not thought about her. He took out a pen and paper from
his pajama pocket, and started to write her a letter.
Lita was preparing dinner when her communicator went off. She dropped
whatever she was doing and picked it up. Luna's face went on in the
screen.
"Lita. Meet us at the carnival in the middle of Tokyo Park.
Something very strange is going on." Luna said in a hushed tone.
By what was in the backyard, Lita already knew that Luna and
Sailor Moon was probably already there. Lita turned off her stove
and rushed out of the house. Halfway through the park, she made sure
no one was looking, and transformed.
"Jupiter Star Makeup!" she shouted, feeling the magic burst
out of her and wrap around her.
As soon as she was Sailor Jupiter, she ran at hyper speed to the
carnival. The nearer she got, the more unconscious people there were.
"Mars Fire Ignite!" Sailor Mars jumped out with her fireballs
ready to fly.
Sailor Jupiter strained her eyes to see what they were suppose
to be shooting at. All she could see was a normal looking plastic
bear.
"Sailor Moon. What is the problem?" Sailor Jupiter shouted.
"Good you're here. See that large plastic bear, well I think
it's sucking everyone dry of energy. I think it might be from
the Dark Moon."
Sailor Jupiter stepped closer to the bear, touching it.
"Jupiter! No. Don't touch it." Sailor Mercury shouted from the
ground.
Sailor Jupiter's hands instantly drew back. It was too late. The
bear had drained some of her energy already. Sailor Mars let her fire
go, and watched in awe as the bear stood, not a dent.
"Have you tried the Moon Scepter?" Sailor Jupiter asked.
"Yes, that and all the other powers we had." Sailor Venus answered.
Luna jumped up. "I know. Combine your powers!"
"Are you sure Luna?" Sailor Moon asked doubtfully.
"Yes. Do it now!"
"Jupiter Thunder Clap!"
"Venus Love Me Chain!"
"Mars Celestial Fire!"
"Mercury Ice Bubbles!"
"Moon Scepter!"
At the same time, the scouts holding their powers said, "Combine!"
All the powers welded together, and started to fly to the bear
at lighting speed. Just before it reached them, a single red rose
fell in with it. This made it even more powerful.
A sound that could only be compared to shattered glass cut through
the air. What was left of the bear was only a small seed.
Up higher, hidden in the tree tops were the two brothers. They
had already taken enough energy to last them another week. Calbrom
was furious that the scouts had destroyed his only tool to collect energy.
Now, he had to do it by himself, which was much harder.
"Let's take them on right now!" he shouted with fury.
"Wait, brother. We don't know how powerful they are yet." Galdon
said rationally.
"Don't you mean how weak they are?" Calbrom started to the ground.
"Are you going to stay here and cower, or come with me?"
Galdon followed reluctantly. He had seen Sailor Jupiter. He
wasn't afraid of her, he just didn't really want to hurt her. He admitted
to himself that he liked her. He had an interest in her, but he didn't
dare mention that to his brother. Calbrom would skin him if he
knew that he liked a human, a mortal even. But he knew that his own
brother would not kill him. Not because they were kin, but because
the destruction of one would automatically be the destruction of
the other. If that wasn't so, Galdon would've been dead a long time
ago.
They drifted down inback of the group of scouts without any one
noticing them. Calbrom raised an iron wand he had, and aimed it for
the scout with the long black hair. He looked to Galdon to see what
he would do. Galdon did not aim at Sailor Jupiter, instead he aimed
at a short one with two meatballs on her head. Softly, they chanted
a word that wasn't to be said in this world or any other. Lightning
flew out at both their sticks, and struck the targets square in the
back.
The scouts didn't notice anything until Sailor Moon and Sailor
Mars fell back and lay unconscious. Tuxeedo Mask turned around, looking
for the culprit that did that to his beloved. What he saw where two
men dressed in dull brown suits and slacks smiling widly. He threw
a dozed of razor like roses at them. The two men just laughed and
twirled their iron sticks. The roses bounced off without a farm done.
The taller of the two mumbled something incoherent and threw what looked
like a large nail straight for him. Tuxeedo Mask raised his cloak,
sheilding himself from the pointed object. The nail penetrated the
cloak and into his arm. He grimaced as he felt something hot blend
into his blood. He doubled over and also lay unconscious.
The remaining scouts all saw this and was either angry or
scared. Sailor Venus started to draw her Love Me Chain out, but
wasn't fast enough. Another nail went sailing through the air and
struck her belly. She fell over unconscious. Sailor Mercury and
Sailor Jupiter ran behind a tree and tried to think of something to
do. Luna was sitting perched up on the tree right behind the two brothers.
As soon as Galdon raised his hand to throw a nail aimed for Mercury,
she lept down and scratched him on the arm. Galdon threw the small
cat across the ground where she hit the end of a ferris wheel.
Artemis lept to see if Luna was alright. Calbrom saw a tail
of blue satin coming out of a tree. It was Sailor Mercury's bow. He
aimed the end of the stick at her, and let the energy go. Black
energy shot into Mercury's bow, and into her body. Sailor Mercury
let go of Jupiter, and fell to the ground.
This really made Sailor Jupiter mad. She came out from
behind the tree and showed herself. "You're going to be sorry
for that!" she threatened.
She readied herself to throw a bolt of lightning or two.
"Jupiter Thunder..."
She stopped as she saw one of the men dissapear. She looked
at the other guy, ready to throw the lighting that was tingling
her fingers. Just then, strong arms held her hand back, making
her immoble. She kicked, but it was no use.
"I got her. Finish her off!" Calbrom, the one holding her
shouted.
Galdon raised a shaky wand to Sailor Jupiter. Sailor
Jupiter saw that Luna gave him a pretty deep cut on the hand with
her claws.
"Do it!" Calbrom shouted again.
Galdon looked at Sailor Jupiter. The look in her eyes looked
like a deer trapped in the head lights of an oncoming car. He couldn't
get himself to attack her. He just stood there looking at the
gorgeous eyes of hers. He had a sudden urge to kiss her. He wanted
to kiss ontop of her eyelids, the closest he would ever get to her
beautiful innocent eyes.
A moment of hesitation was all that she needed. Sailor Jupiter
charged herself up, and released her lighting in back of her.
"Ahhh! You twit!" Calbrom was cursing now, and he stepped back.
It was obvious he was hurt pretty bad. "Let's go!"
Galdon looked longingly at Sailor Jupiter. He and his brother
dissapeared in a mist of smoke. When Sailor Jupiter was sure they
were gone, she went over to her unconcious friends. Sailor Moon was
starting to stir. Sailor Jupiter slapped her softly and shouted
her name.
"Sailor Moon! You have to wake up!" Sailor Jupiter shouted
over and over again.
Sailor Moon finally woke up, and looked up at Sailor Jupiter. "What
happened?"
"I'll tell you later. We have to wake the others up too."
Sailor Jupiter had better luck waking Sailor Mars. Sailor Moon
screamed when she saw Tuxeedo Mask. He was laying in a heap on the
floor, with a large looking nail protruding from his arm. Sailor Jupiter
tried to calm Sailor Moon down, but it was useless. She kept on
screaming. Sailor Mars walked up to Tux and tried to pull the nail
from him. With the help of Mars and Jupiter, the nail came out stubbornly.
As soon as the nail came out, the wound healed. Tuxeedo Mask slowly
came to, and muttered something about a destruction. Sailor Moon
calmed down once she saw that Tux was going to be alright. She helped
Jupiter and Mars pull the nails out of the others. They all woke up
after a while.
Sailor Moon stooped to the floor by Tux. "I thought you were
going to die."
"I would never leave you." Tuxeedo Mask whispered.
They kissed each other while the other scouts looked away embarassed.
This made Sailor Jupiter miss Ken even more. She couldn't forget
the look that one of the men who attacked her had. It was a look of
longing and pain. She didn't think anyone could look so pitiful.
"Let's help Sailor Moon with the healing." Sailor Mars said.
"Moon Healing Activation!" Sailor Moon directed her wand upward.
Each of them placed a hand on Sailor Moon, letting the wand absorb their
energy. The people in the park slowly started to regain consciousness.
It looked like everything was going to be alright.
Well that was the seventh chapter. Actually, there is a secret
6 1/2 chapter, but I'm not releasing it yet. It's not quite ready
for te public eye. What was Ken dreaming about? What was the mysterious
dark object? What will happen between Lita and Don? What happened
to Luna? Stay tuned for my next chapter.
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