Episode
4
The
First Attack
Teacher: Good
morning class… (notices that many of the students are
kneeling down and groaning; hands on their heads. Noelle, Tsuta, and a few other nervous
students are still seated at their desks) (sighing) Noelle, is this going to be
a daily routine?
Noelle:
Hey, why are you looking at me?
It’s not like I didn’t warn them.
Tsuta:
(nervously) Yeah, Noelle, but I think you went a little overboard!
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(Noelle is leaving the
school and Tsuta is outside waiting for her)
Tsuta: So
how did detention go?
Noelle: Same
as always. Got most of my homework
done. It’s so pointless.
Tsuta:
Couldn’t you have one day where you don’t knock people down?
Noelle:
No, I can’t do that. Or they’ll
never learn not to mess with me. Hey,
let’s go to Yakke Gyousan. I want to buy
a new jacket.
Tsuta: Um…sure.
But…isn’t it a little warm for a jacket?
Noelle: (laughing)
That’s the good thing; all the jackets will be on
sale. Let’s go!
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(at
Yakke Gyousan)
Tsuta:
How about this one?
Noelle: No. Purple’s not my favorite color.
Tsuta: Come
on, Noelle! This is the 10 millionth
jacked we’ve looked at, and I found one for me right away! And I didn’t even want to buy a jacket!
Noelle: I
liked that blue one, but it was too expensive…
Tsuta: (sighing) Oh, Noelle.
Noelle:
(interrupting) Hey, look at that one over there!
Tsuta: Where?
Noelle: Over
there! I think that green and blue one
looks a lot better than the one you had before.
Tsuta: Oooooo!
That one does look nice. I’ll be
right back.
Noelle:
(thoughts) Whew! That was
close. Probably shouldn’t have asked
Tsuta to come with me for jacket shopping.
I know she thinks it’s odd, but I have to find something for my hideous princess
outfit! And if she saw me, Noelle,
buying it and then me, Nova, wearing it… (out loud)
well, that probably won’t happen!
Daraku: Well,
hello, Noelle! So you’re here, too I
see.
Noelle: (surprised)
Daraku? What are you doing here?
Daraku: Guess
that’s something for me to know and you to find out. (leaves, laughing
evilly)
Noelle: (thoughts)
Ut, oh. Something’s going to happen…better
get Tsuta out of here... (looks over at a jacket; eyes start to glitter) Oh, that’s it! That’s the jacket I want! (Noelle starts looking at it from different
angles when Tsuta comes up with a new jacket in hand)
Tsuta: Noelle,
that jacket was a lot better than the one I picked before… oh, did you finally
find a jacket? (looks
at it surprisingly) Why black?
Noelle: (happily)
This is just perfect!
It makes me look like I ride a motor bicycle, doesn’t it?
Tsuta: (nervous
drop) Well, if that’s the look you want…
Hey, Daraku is here! Wonder what
he’s looking at…
Noelle:
(looks up) Daraku…(angrily) Tsuta, he’s a
jerk! Come on and let’s go buy our
jackets and get out of here.
Tsuta: I
don’t see why you dislike him so much; and you won’t even tell me why. Well, I’m going to say hi whether you will or
not. Hey, Daraku!
Noelle:
(starts pulling Tsuta’s sleeve) Tsuta!
Come on! We really should get
going!
Daraku: Nice to see you two again. Sorry I can’t talk much, but I’m still jacket
searching.
Noelle:
Yeah, love to help you, but we’ve really got to get going…come on Tsuta!
Tsuta: (happily)
I can help you look!
Noelle: (thoughts)
Oh, come on Tsuta.
He’s going to do something if we don’t leave soon. (comes back to
reality) Huh? Where did everyone go? (Dark Star appears)
Dark Star: This is great! My plan worked out just as I had hoped! (sees Noelle) Huh?
What are you doing still standing?
Noelle:
(looking around confused; notices that everyone has fainted, even Tsuta)
Hmm, hmm….(pauses) what’s going on here??? (bends down to
Tsuta) Tsuta! Wake up! What did you do to her?
Dark Star: (smirks) Looks
like it’s just you and me now.
Noelle:
(gets up) Well then, guess it’s time for our
first battle. (puts
ring on finger) I don’t know what you
are up to, but I’m going to put a stop to it!
(puts on necklace and transforms to Nova)
Dark Star:
You and what army?
Nova: (Butterjewel
comes crashing through the door) Me and my jewel,
that’s what! Prepare to die, Dark Star!
Dark Star: (tear
drop on forehead) You really don’t get it, do
you? Do you honestly think you can
defeat me so easily? (snaps
fingers and three Firewidows appear) You
are too naive, Nova. And now you will
suffer the consequences.
Nova: That’s
what you think! Uh…um…
(to Butterjewel) how do I get you to attack
again? (Dark Star falls with one leg in
the air)
Dark Star:
(smiling) I never thought it was going to be this easy!
Nova:
Stardust, Attack Power! (Butterjewel
tries using it’s jewel which shoots a red ray and
strikes 5 feet above one of the Firewidow’s head) Ut oh.
Dark Star:
Is that really the best you can do?
Firewidows, finish them off!
Attack Power!!
Tsuki:
(enters) Nova, you need to attack together! Come on, Unijewel! (Nova watches helplessly; Unijewel uses its
Attack Power on all 3 Firewidows. As
they fall, they vanish in thin air)
Nova: I
can’t just stand here and watch you fight.
Sorry, Tsuki. (turns
around) Huh??? (some of the fainted
people have gotten up and are leaving silently and paralyzed as if under some
sort of spell. Dark Star puts his hand
on another fainted person. Some strange
power spreads over the person, he starts to arise, and then heads toward the
door along with the rest of the people.)
Dark Star! What’s going on? (gets on Butterjewel
and starts charging toward him)
Dark Star: (puts
hands in front of himself) Stay away! Don’t come any closer!
Nova:
Aim your unicorn……Attack Power!
Dark Star:
NOOOO! (he
disappears as the power hits several feet away from him. Nova’s Butterjewel continues its charge,
straight through where Dark Star was standing)
Nova: Aaah! Butterjewel,
STOP! (Stardust blindly runs into some
coats and stops after she and Nova slam into a wall)
Tsuki:
Nova! Are you ok?
Nova: (shaking)
Yeah. Just didn’t want to know the wall
that much. (slowly
slides from wall; groaning)
Tsuki: We need to go outside to stop those
people. They’re under some sort of
spell.
Nova:
(rubbing head) Dark Star was doing something to them…(turns
to Stardust) you ok, Stardust? Oh,
you’re bleeding! (takes
a coat from the rack and ties it over her unicorn) Just relax.
Tsuki: My
Unijewel can heal her after we take care of the people. Let’s go, Nova.
Nova:
(gets up) Right.
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(outside
the store)
Nova:
Look at them all! There’s so many
of them!
Tsuki: They’ve
all passed out again, but some of them have wandered pretty far.
Nova: Well,
what are we going to do? I think people
are going to get suspicious when they see several people sleeping in the middle
of the road.
Tsuki: Don’t worry. Me and my Unijewel
can handle this. Unijewel, Floating
Power! (all the
people float in the air and slowly head toward the Unijewel. They land safely on the sidewalk) Let’s go see how
your Butterjewel is doing.
Nova:
Ok. (goes
inside) Stardust, are you any better? (checks forehead) Well, the bleeding seems to have stopped.
Tsuki:
Good. She’s still weak, but she
can help. Let’s go. (Nova follows Tsuki outside) Unijewel, Healing Power!
Nova: Butterjewel,
Healing Power! (people
start groaning and standing up, hands on
heads and perplexed) Well, guess our job
here’s done. Hey, Tsuki? Why do you think Dark Star disappeared when
it was obvious that my Butterjewel wasn’t going to hit him? (no response) Tsuki? (Tsuki is gone. Nova quickly gets on her Butterjewel and starts
to exit until she notices the jacket she wanted on the floor. She puts it on. To her surprise, when she does this, her
jacket changes into a different style than before. Nova looks down at her jacket) Wow! It doesn’t look at all like the original
jacket! And it gives my lame outfit
better taste…(continues admiring jacket)
Manager of store: Hey you!
Get over here! (Nova looks up at
the destroyed store and an angry manager.
She quickly gallops off) Hey, wait! All I want to know is what happened to my
store. Was it an earthquake? An explosion of some kind?
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(Tsuta is outside of the
store when Noelle comes walking back to it)
Tsuta: Noelle? Where have you been? Why did you leave?
Noelle: Oh…well…I…I
thought I saw someone and when I want to see who it was, I heard this
explosion. I then ran to call the
police. Are you ok?
Tsuta: (surprised)
Yeah, I’m fine. Just a bit confused of
what happened. Did you see anything?
Noelle:
No, I didn’t.
Tsuta: Oh…well,
this had to be one of the weirdest days in my life! You’re really lucky you missed it. (notices Noelle is
holding the jacket) Hey, Noelle? Did you buy that jacket?
Noelle: No,
did you? (Tsuta looks at her coat
embarrassed)
Tsuta: Oops.
Noelle:
(laughing) Oh,
well. Guess it’s a free gift for that little
disaster.
Tsuta: You
mean you’re not going to go back and pay for it? Noelle, that’s stealing!
Noelle:
Hey, I called the police. I’ll
just consider this a reward. And what about you?
Were you going to pay?
Tsuta: (turning
red) Um…well…
Noelle: Let’s
go get some ice cream.
Tsuta: Shouldn’t
we see what happened? (both girls turn to see the manager of the store talking to a
news reporter)
Manager: There
was this strange girl riding some sort of flying horse! I saw it with my own eyes! She took off that way. I’m sure she’s up to this! (the police shake
their heads and handcuff the manager.)
I’m telling you the truth!
Police 1:
Yeah, sure.
Police 2:
You’re just very lucky no one is seriously injured when you tried
blowing up your own store.
Manager:
But I didn’t! I’m not
insane! (to
Noelle) You believe me, kid, right?
Noelle:
(shaking her head) Sorry, officer, but I have no idea what he is talking
about. Come on, Tsuta, and lets go get that ice cream.
(both girls start to walk away)
Manager: No,
wait! Come back! Hey, wait a minute. Did you pay for that? Come back!
(the police and manager take off along with the
reporters)
Noelle:
This sure has been a weird day.
Tsuta:
Yeah, it has. Noelle? Are you sure you don’t know what
happened? I just have this strange
feeling you do…
Noelle: Have
no idea. No sense worrying about it,
though. (winks
happily) Let’s go! (both girls take
off, with the police car not too far behind.
The manager is staring as his store from inside the car)
Manager:
You better come back, fairy girl.
I don’t want to go to jail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!