Episode 17
Jealousy!
(Noelle
comes grumbling into class)
Tsuta: What’s wrong,
Noelle?
Noelle: It’s Mika. She won’t be in class again.
Tsuta: Shopping?
Noelle: Shoes this
time. (sighs) My Mother is always spending time with
her. I feel like she is starting to take
over my life!
Tsuta: I never really
liked her.
Noelle: (sarcastically) Well, that wasn’t
obvious. (Tsuta scowls)
Tsuta: She has an
attitude! That “oh poor me!” attitude!
Noelle: Tsuta, her family
dumped her with an insane woman.
Tsuta: (stands up) SO??????? (everyone in class
stares at Tsuta. Tsuta’s face glows
bright red) That’s
not what I mean! No no
no! What I meant was…she likes
attention and uses her past as an excuse…(everyone is
still staring at her. No one is buying
it) Ok,
ok. So I was wrong. (everyone turns
around and goes back into their conversations they were having before. Tsuta sits back down) I guess if I were her, I’d be acting
the same way. (Noelle nods her head)
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(shopping)
Mother: Do you like this
shirt, Mika? (holds
up a shirt with a heart on it and some stripes)
Mika: (holding shirt) I love it!
Mother: We should get one
for Noelle as well. That way you two can
be twins!
Mika: (her smile quickly fades) May I ask you a
question?
Mother: Sure! What is it, Mika?
Mika: Do you think Noelle
is mad at me?
Mother: Why would she be
mad?
Mika: Because while she
is stuck in school, I’m out with you.
Mother: Oh, don’t worry
about Noelle. I’m sure she’ll be fine.
Mika: Do you really think
so?
Mother: I can guarantee
it! Well, we’d better go pay for this
stuff. And then we can go out for lunch.
Mika: Ok!
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(at Noelle’s room door)
Mother: (knocking) Noelle? Can I talk to you for a second? (No response)
Noelle? Noelle, you better be in
there, because you are still grounded! (opens the door.
Noelle is sleeping by her computer.)
Oh, I didn’t realize you were asleep.
(quietly exits and closes the door) (quietly) I guess I’ll talk to Noelle later and let her
rest. (the
sleeping ‘Noelle’ is actually the dummy she had previously used for training)
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(at the cabin)
Noelle: (opening a bag
filled with fruit)
Here you guys go. (she starts gathering apples, oranges, and bananas from her
bag. Tsuta comes peeking through the
door)
Tsuta: Hey, Noelle.
Noelle: Oh, hi, Tsuta! Come inside quickly. I’m not suppose to
be out here since I’m still grounded. Tsuta: I understand. (Tsuta enters the cabin with Glory and closes
the door behind her)
Noelle: Yeah. I snuck out of the house before my Mother and
Mika came back home.
Tsuta: Are you still mad
at Mika?
Noelle: Well, I know it is
not her fault…I just wish she…she wouldn’t take over
my life…my Mother…
Tsuta: You should go talk
to her about it.
Noelle: (looks up at Tsuta,
surprised at her answer) (thoughts) She really wants me to make up with
Mika??? (out
loud) So you want me to talk to Mika…?
Tsuta: Yes. You won’t be happy until you discuss with
Mika what you are feeling. And, no
offence, but I like you better when you aren’t all depressed. So go talk to her.
Noelle: (thoughts) I knew Tsuta had
another reason why she wanted me to get along with Mika.
Tsuta: And it’ll do you
some good too.
Noelle: You’re right,
Tsuta. (getting
up) I’m going to talk to her right
now! (she
leaves the cabin)
Tsuta: (grumbles) You could at least
wait for me.
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(Noelle
runs up to Mika’s new room)
Noelle: Mika! (she opens the
door. Mika isn’t there) Where is she?
Zaisan: (from behind) She went back to
the city to go by someone something.
Noelle: (annoyed) For whom?
Zaisan: (walking away) I don’t know. Probably a thank-you gift
for Mother. Ciao.
Noelle: (glowing red) MIKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mother: (from the hallway) Noelle!
Noelle: (turns around,
embarrassed) Mother!
Mother: I see you have waken up. (embarrassed teardrop behind Noelle’s head)
Noelle: Oh, yes…
Mother: Good! Guess what we got you at the store? (holds up the
t-shirt) Isn’t it cute? And Mika has the same one! You two could be twins!
Noelle: (grumbles) I don’t want to be
twins.
Mother: What? What did you say, Noelle?
Noelle: I said I don’t want
to be twins! (Noelle’s Mother stands
there for a moment, the t-shirt in her hand.
Pause.)
Mother: Oh. Well, then why don’t you go into the city and
get yourself another t-shirt. (holds out t-shirt.
Noelle walks over to her, embarrassed for yelling. She takes the t-shirt)
Noelle: Sorry, Mother. (Mother doesn’t say a word. Noelle walks away. Her Mother stands there by the door, her eyes
closed)
Mother: (out loud, to her
self) I was
hoping this wouldn’t happen.
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(Noelle
is walking in the city, holding a different t-shirt, and trying to find Mika)
Noelle: (gripping t-shirt) When I find
Mika…she’ll have another thing coming!!!
(continues walking) GRRRRRRRR!
(she suddenly stops walking and peers into a
store, thinking she sees Mika) Nope,
that’s not Mika. (she
walks some more and sees another girl that looks like her for a sec.) NO, that’s not Mika either. (a bunch of zombies
jump in front of her) No, that’s not
Mika either. Geesh!!!! (she starts running
the other way as the zombies chase her)
This isn’t what I need right now!!!
(Mika comes out from a corner)
Mika: Noelle?
Spirey: (on Mika’s shoulder) Koochee?
Noelle: (runs past Mika) AAAAAAAAh! (the zombies run
past her as well) Mika! (Noelle turns around) Take that!!!!!! (she kicks the
zombies, knocking them into each other.
She continues fighting them and in a few seconds, she has knocked them
all down. Mika watches, eyes wide, as
Noelle stands in a pile of fallen zombies) I’m not in the mood today! (she takes off into
an alley and ducks behind a dumpster.
Noelle transforms)
And since I’m in the city, I’ll just use one Butterjewel. (she chooses her
yellow ring. Once all transformed, she
jumps over the dumpster and out onto the sidewalk. Sunstar comes running behind her) Where are you, Dark
Star?
Dark Star: (coming from the
sky on his Firewidow)
Persistent, aren’t we?
Nova: I’m not in the mood
for fighting today!
Dark Star: I can tell, but I
could care less. (a
crowd of people start surrounding the fight.)
Random People: Look, it’s a fight!
Wow!
Someone should call
the press! (Nova gives a disgusted look)
Dark Star: Crowds don’t bother
me. (holds out
an attack) I can still fight. (he aims his attack
at Nova who quickly pulls Sunstar away.
The attack hits the wall of a building behind her)
Nova: (rolling up her
sleeves) So you
want to play rough, do ya? (raises her hands)
ATTACK POWER! (the
attack heads to Dark Star who casually avoids hit. He smirks.
Nova, now on Sunstar starts charging at him. Dark Star, unsure of what she is planning to
do, looks at her curiously. Nova leaps
from Sunstar and her hands grab Dark Star’s neck. Dark Star manages to swing them off with a little
trouble. The two start wrestling;
Sunstar and the Firewidow watch from a distance. They eventually start glaring at each other
and begin having a battle of their own.
Meanwhile, the crowd of people is growing. Mika, knowing very well that attention was a
problem, tries to stop the crowd.)
Mika: Stay away. (nervously laughs) hahahahaha!
(it isn’t working. Mika pops up in a reporter outfit. She is holding a microphone) This is channel 12 news. We are here to broadcast…(Nova’s
foot kicks her. Mika drops her
microphone; she and Spirey both fall to the ground. A video camera from nowhere falls on her head.)
Nova: (bruised, has a cut
on her face; worn out)
I will kill you right here, Dark Star!
Dark Star: (also bruised and
worn out) No. It will be I who will kill you, Nova! (the two continue
fighting. Sunstar and Dark Star’s
Firewidow are also still battling.
Sunstar, annoyed, suddenly starts glowing a
bright yellow. A blinding light of
energy starts pouring into her shimmering star jewel. She finally lets out an explosion that
destroys the road, several nearby buildings, and the people around, and in, the
fight. The ‘zombies’ go flying in the
air. When the smoke is clear, Nova is
lying on the ground, next to Dark Star, both burnt to a crisp. From behind another alley, Tsuki looks at the
scene, disgusted.)
Tsuki: (grumbling) Ridiculous.
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(walking back to her house.
Noelle is worn from the battle.
Though her clothes are fine, (she is wearing her new t-shirt), her body
is covered in cuts; she is still bruised, weak, and tired.)
Noelle: I’m finally home. (Noelle opens the door. Mother is standing at the kitchen, staring at
her, as Noelle drags herself toward the kitchen)
Mother: Noelle! Where you near that battle as well? (Noelle sits in one of the kitchen chairs,
her head flops onto the table) Oh,
dear. Let me go get you a cloth,
too. (she
leaves)
Mika: (from the couch. Spirey is sleeping. He has a big band-aid on his forehead) I didn’t say
anything.
Noelle: Good, because you
shouldn’t.
Mika: Are you mad at me?
Noelle: (sarcastically) No, of coarse
not. I don’t mind you taking over my
life.
Mika: What are you
talking about?
Noelle: Don’t give me
that! You are always taking up Mother’s
time! YOU don’t have to come to school
while the rest of us do…do you know how that feels???
Mika: (annoyed and hurt) At least you have a
Mother, Noelle. (Noelle doesn’t say
anything. Mika falls back onto her
pillow. Both girls grow silent for a
long time)
Noelle: (breaking the
silence) It’s
just frustrating…I know it isn’t your fault, Mika. I’m sorry.
(Mika opens her eyes)
Mika: I can’t blame you, Noelle,
for being jealous.
Noelle: Jealous!?!?
Mika: Well…isn’t that
right, Noelle?
Noelle: (resting on the
table) I
guess. (another
period of silence)
Mika: So we’re still
friends?
Noelle: (sighing) No matter what,
Mika, we will always be friends. (both girls smile, and then fall back on their table/pillow)
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(Nova
is walking toward the cabin. She is
still bruised, but looks much better than she did before. Tsuki comes up, walking toward her. It is obvious she is angry)
Nova: Ut oh…
Tsuki: NOVA! WHAT IN THE WORLD WERE YOU THINKING?????
Nova: Um…
Tsuki: Do you have any
idea what YOU DID??? Nevertheless that
pitiful wrestling match with Dark Star, but you weren’t even paying attention
to your Butterjewel! You let it get out
of control! Jewels and humans are suppose to work together!
As stars! And don’t forget, Nova,
an attack like that may not hurt US much, but it can KILL people of the Sun
Star! People here do not have the powers
or capabilities to block attacks like that!
(Nova shakes her head shamefully.
Tsuki calms down)
Luckily, no one was killed.
Though there were many that were injured…do you understand, Nova?
Nova: (shaking her head
embarrassedly) Yes. I understand.
Tsuki: (calmly) I think we’ll
postpone practice for tonight. You’d
better go check Sunstar. My Unijewel can
help heal her. (They make their way in
the cabin. Sunstar’s foot is injured and
she is bruised and cut all over. Tsuki’s
Unijewel leans over her.) Healing Power!
(the tip of
Tsuki’s Unijewel’s horn starts glowing.
Sunstar doesn’t blink or budge during the Unijewel’s healing) Tell me…what
happened out there, Nova, to make you do something like that?
Nova: (embarrassedly) Well…(Tsuki looks
at her, curiously) I guess…I was just mad with Mika…
Tsuki: (outraged) THIS WAS BECAUSE OF
MIKA??? (this
startles both Jewels. Tsuki’s Unijewel
jerks causing Sunstar to grunt unpleasantly)
Nova: Well…well…
Tsuki: Well what? Didn’t I tell you from the beginning…Mika
should not know about us! Look at what
it’s doing to you, Nova! Look what she’s
doing! (Mika is eavesdropping from the
cabin door; Spirey is with her)
Nova: Look, Tsuki. It was my fault…
Tsuki: Of coarse it’s your
fault, Nova! You should not have told
Mika about us in the first place! (calming down again)
But…you are right. Mika…there is
something about her. She has to be from
a star…but why doesn’t she have her locket?
And how did she get here?
Nova: (shrugs) I wish I knew. And Mika…she doesn’t know anything either. I can tell it’s frustrating her.
Tsuki: It just doesn’t
make sense to me. (Tsuki’s Unijewel
starts healing Sunstar again, now that both have calmed down) It doesn’t add up. (Mika opens the door. She stands there for a moment. Nova and Tsuki immediately grow silent. Tsuki’s Unijewel once again jerks away from
Sunstar, who gives several extremely annoyed grunts.)
Nova: Mika…
Mika: (angrily) I do not know who I
am, and I never meant to be in the way.
Do you think I like this? Do you
think I enjoy leaving my home, my family, only to find out I am not who I
thought I was?
Spirey: (jumping angrily) Koochee, koochee!!!
Tsuki: (stepping down to
her) I don’t
know who I am either, Mika. So please
don’t give me that!
Mika: (confused) Hmmmm?
Spirey: Koo?
Tsuki: I don’t know who I
am when I’m untransformed! I don’t know
what happens when I’m not Tsuki!
Mika: (surprised) I am sorry,
Tsuki. I…didn’t know.
Spirey: (little tears
dripping down his face embarrassedly) Koochee.
Tsuki: (looking up at the
ceiling) I know
how frustrating it gets…not knowing what has happened...or what will happen
next. (Again, Tsuki’s Unijewel starts
the healing process) But one day, the
stars will tell us everything.
Nova: (nods her head) That’s right. (Mika smiles)
Tsuki: (turning to Mika) And Mika?
Mika: Hmmm?
Tsuki: It’s not nice to be
eavesdropping.
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(at school. Noelle is flopped
out onto her desk)
Noelle: (grumbling) I wish today wasn’t
a school day. (lets
out a sigh. Daraku comes into the room.)
Daraku: You know, Noelle,
you get very scary when you’re angry.
Noelle: Grrrrrrrrr!
Daraku: Well, it’s true. (he starts to make
his way to his desk. Noelle walks up to
him and kicks him hard in the face as Tsuta and Mika enter the classroom.) (groaning) Point taken. (Noelle stands over him, breathing
angrily. She then suddenly puts her hand
behind her neck and gives a big smile)
Noelle: That felt much
better!!!!
Mika: Noelle, sometimes
you really scare me.
Tsuta: (running over to
Daraku) Are you
ok? Daraku? (Mika and Noelle both close their eyes and
give a little giggle)