Tokyo Rose & The Princess of Mercury
Chapter 10: Truth Be Told
Well, here's chapter ten, enjoy. I don't own SM.
Thanx to Jade and Kitty Kat and WaterSenshi (a.k.a.
Senshi-chan!)! Love you ALL!!!
Lacy and Ami drove to the Arcade for dinner. Ami was
glad to have her sister back. She had been so worried
about her, she was almost sick herself. But something
inside told her not to worry too much. Everything
would work out fine in the end.
When they arrived at the Arcade, Lita was also there.
The twins got out of the Kia and walked towards the
arcade in the gently falling snow. Lacy smiled. Andrew
was working tonight...
The girls walked in to see Lita talking to Andrew.
Lita seemed to be telling Andrew that Lacy was still
missing. Lacy smiled. She didn't mean to be such a
pain, but being secretive was a part of her
personality.
Smiling, Lacy ran, jumped the counter and hugged
Andrew from behind. Shocking the poor boy nearly to
death. It was the first time in her life that Lacy
giggled.
"Lacy?" Andrew asked. "We thought you were missing!"
Lita looked at Lacy as Ami came up and laced her
fingers with Lita's.
"Well," Ami said, smiling. "She had to home sometime
to eat." The small group laughed.
"Yeah," said Lacy, jumping up on the counter to sit on
it. "But since there was no food at home, we came
here!" The group laughed again...
After sharing a few good laughs, Andrew made the
girls' dinner: cheese burgers, fries, and chocolate
shakes. Every order was on the house.
As closing time neared, and the last customer left,
the girls also began to get ready to leave. But plans
for rides changed.
"Hey, Lacy?" Andrew whispered. "Do you mind if I take
you home? I wanna talk to you for a while." Andrew
seemed to say this with a little bit of hesitance.
Lacy smiled kindly (and finally blushed, even if it was
just a little) and told Ami.
"Andy is gonna give me a ride home. Lita? You staying
the night at our place? It's Friday!"
Lita smiled and looked at Ami. Ami smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, I am."
"Can you drive?" she asked.
"Yup! Just don't have a car," Lita answered. No sooner
had she said yes, than Lacy tossed her her car keys. "I don't mind a few scratches, Lita. But change the
radio station and you're a dead woman," Lacy joked.
Lita laughed. "You got it. Come on, Girl Genius." And
the couple headed out the front doors. Andrew walked
out from behind the counter to lock the front doors. When he turned around, Lacy was now off the counter
and was leaning against it with her arms over her
chest, looking at Andrew quizzically.
"What?" He asked looking down at himself. "Do I have
mustard stains on my shirt or something?"
Lacy smiled. "No. I was just trying to figure out why
you wanted to give me a ride home, that's all."
"Oh, that," Andrew said uneasily. Smirking, he walked
over to Lacy, took her face into his hands, and kissed
her full on the lips.
Lacy was shocked to say the least. She may be
18-years-old, but this was her first kiss. She never
paid any attention to guys before. They didn't seem to
have anything she wanted. Lacy soon got over her
shock. Sighing, she closed her eyes and wrapped her
arms around Andrew's neck, pulling him closer. When they separated, Lacy's face was beet red. Not
that Andrew's was much better off. Shaking the daze of
the kiss off, Lacy looked up and asked: "What was that
for?"
Andrew smiled. "Is this twice I've been able to get
you to blush for me?" He asked teasingly. "Is this the fifth time for you?" Lacy countered.
They're smiles grew.
"I thought you deserved it, s'all." Andrew let his
hands fall to Lacy's waist. He rested his head against
her's and looked into her bluish-green eyes. "You have
very pretty eyes, Lacy Anderson."
Lacy smiled. She remembered this conversation from a
few weeks back. "Your eyes are very cute, too." Andrew
blushed again. Than Lacy stopped flirting for a minute
and stared at Andrew. "I thought you had a girlfriend
already named Rita?"
Andrew's eyes went wide. He never told her about Rita.
"How did you know about Rita? I never told you."
"Ami told me once in one of her letters to me. Your
name popped up several times in our letters. Nothing
bad, I promise. Just telling me about a few of her
friends, that's all. Ami told me Rita went to Africa
once."
Andrew's face fell a little. "She never came back. We
broke up after her being there for three weeks. Her
and her boss fell in love. It broke my heart when she
left me."
Lacy felt bad for him. How could anyone hurt such a
sweet guy like Andrew? Lacy pecked his lips to get his
attention. "I promise to never leave you."
Andrew smiled. Lacy was a very sweet girl once you
could get her guard down. She seemed very protective
of her emotions. And of Ami, too, he could tell. Right
before she had disappeared, she beat a guy three times
her size because he had grabbed on Ami. Andrew almost
felt sorry for the guy. Almost...
"So," Lacy said. "Am I going home, or somewhere else?"
Andrew only smiled...
Andrew woke up at three-thirty in the morning because
of a sense of loss. looking at his side, Lacy wasn't
there. She had came to his apartment and called Ami so
she wouldn't worry. Then, she had fallen asleep on the
couch and he had brought her to his bed. But, Lacy
woke up and asked for Andrew to stay with her.
But, now, she was missing. And Andrew was very
worried...
Ami jolted out of the bed when her communicator went
off at three-twenty-five in the morning. It was
another attack in down town Tokyo. All of the attacks
seemed to be fought there. Ami couldn't figure out
why, and, right now, didn't have the time...
When Mercury and Jupiter arrived, the fight actually
seemed to be going well for them. No one was knocked
out. The youma, another 12-footer, was a honey bee. Of
course, you couldn't ignore this one and it go away...
"Sparkling wide PRESSURE!" Jupiter's attack shot
towards the bee, but missed. It had flown up into the
air, forming a black ball in its 'hands'. As it shot
it towards Jupiter, a blue ice rose came from
seemingly no where and made the ball self destruct.
Jupiter as well as the others looked up to see Tokyo
Rose standing on a blown light post. She seemed to
smirking.
"Well, I guess your master CAN'T do much better than
over sized house pests." Rose jumped from her perch as
a fire ball came in contact with it. Rose landed with
out much effort. "I am Tokyo Rose! Yadda, yadda,
yadda! And on behalf of both the Earth and Mercury, I
shall punish you!"
Mercury was stumped again. Why was Rose using this
speech? Then again, she didn't know much of Rose's
past life. She wasn't sure of all the secrets Rose
held in her heart. The bee was very irritated with this new comer to the
fight. Why was she being so cocky? Didn't she know
she's going to lose? Smirking, the bee shot a blast at
Rose again. But, this time, she didn't have time to
react.
The blast hit her, and she fell. And she didn't get
up. Mercury screamed and that brought the youma back to
face the scouts. He had finally figured out how to
kill the scouts. But, it wasn't sure if it would have
enough strength to pull it off again.
Since Mercury was the one who had screamed, the
monster figured her to be the closest to Rose. He shot
a blast at the other scouts so he could kill her with
out any one getting to her to stop him. As he began to
form another blast ball in his hands, Rose jumped and
twisted into the air so she could face the monster
when she landed.
She had landed about three inches from him, and formed
her own energy blast in her hands. She fired it right
at its stomach, so when it landed, it was already
moon dust.
Rose leaned on her knees as the other scouts ran back
over to Mercury. Rose was breathing heavily when she
heard Jupiter speak.
"Tokyo Rose, I want to thank you for saving not only
my life, but also Mercury's." Jupiter looked at
Mercury and held her hand. "She means alot to me."
"As she does to me, Lita." All the scouts and Tux
stared as Rose slowly stood. She slowly turned to face
the scouts. Her mask and top hat were gone, and her
face was half hidden in the shadows of the night. It
was Lacy...
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Heather "Lita" McCoy
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