RPG: Homecoming Week Started By: Guardian 10/11/00 Players: Sailor Jurei-Jurei, Sailor Peace Keeper, Sailor Thundercrash, Sailor Venus, Illusionary Knight, Venus Knight, Elizabeth, Queen Beryl, Kunzite, Nephlite, Zoisite, and Guardian ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jeremy's single eye traced the movements of the cheerleaders below as they shouted to raise the students of Juuban High School into a frenzy. It was that time of year again, homecoming, his first in close to two decades. He had to admit the festivities were definetly well practiced and full of spirit. That also meant it was a prime place for the Dark Kingdom to strike. He ignored the assembled students around him standing and shouting the cheers as the cheerleaders dictated. Some of the students had even tried to get him to stand from his seat at the back of the bleachers, in the corner, but he had ignored them. Soon it would be time to announce those running for homecoming Queen and King and then the sparks would fly. Then the football players would be honored and then more nonsence. The halls would be filled with the voices of students eagerly talking about the upcoming game and their dates to the big dance. The big dance. That would be the best target for the Dark Kingdom and Jeremy knew he would have to go for that reason alone. Sweat beaded slightly down Jennifer's face, her and the rest of the cheerleaders has been moving at a furious pace since the pep rally had started and she was feeling it slightly. She loved it though and was glad she had barely managed to get on the squad, having transferred in to school late. That wasn't her concern though as the flyers fell, her concern was helping to catch them and then rush to their places along the wall while the class president continued the ceremony. Sandra crawled from beneath the bleachers and glanced at the naked, crumpled form underneath. He had been good and his energy had been superb for her along with the physical enjoyment he had provided. Casually she smoothed her skirt and lowered her shirt before any of the instructors noticed. Then she moved to the edge of the crowds as the class president announced the first nominee for homecoming queen, "Sandra Tenson." The evil teenage dark queen smiled as she walked out onto the gym floor and the teen boy announced the remaining canidates for king and queen. Michiru crossed her arms. "That slut as Homecoming Queen? She'd only get it if she slept with the entire football team." she muttered under her breath. "And from the Senior class, Michiru Kaiho!" the announcer called out. Michiru put on a large smile and ran out onto the floor cheering and getting the crowd pumped. She did a backflip to show off her bright green underwear, the main school color. Dunican sat there wondering who was going to be called next for the running of the Queen. He was hopeing Minako would be called as well. Dunican smiled as a thought came to him. What if he was in the running for Homecoming King and both he and Minako won. "That would be great," said Dunican softly. Elizabeth sat at the top of the stands. Her legs were crossed and her arms were folded over her chest. Her curly brown hair was in the way of her silver eyes as they watched the course of events going on. She sighed. Her first dance at her first real school and no one asked her yet. Sighing once more she got up and made her way down the stairs and then out the door. As she made her way out three large boys eyed her and then slowly followed. "WHAT?!" squeaked Jakurin, as she heard "Jakurin Kitsune, junior class." She hugged her long brown skirt over her polyester leggings, as Blake Ketsumi grinned crazily. "Guess there must be a ton of people out there who like your ass, Jaku-baka," he said, offering her his leather jacket. "Hush!" said Jakurin, clearly embarrassed, her hair billowing around her face as the wind picked up in the high bleachers. The juniors started cheering but a few glared at Blake. The freak putting the moves on the fool. "I'm running up against two school run-arounds... and one who's my ally," Jakurin continued, dropping her voice so only Blake could hear her as the crowd roared. "There's gotta be a mistake; who would vote for me?? Besides you, of course," she said, pinching his face. "Aww, shove off!" said Blake, rubbing his cheek in false annoyance. "I know I can't be the only guy around here. I was only allowed to nominate you once. I don't have a clue who seconded it." Zachary watched from his own special spot, which was on top of the announcer's booth. He lazily pulled Kitsune's extra large gray sweater around his frail white body, and looked at all the wastes of energy. Including the one with the bright green undergarments. What a waste of cotton. Giggling a bit, he hummed a bar or two of "Born Free" before his eyes settled on the old Cyclops protector. Now there was one guy who Zoi couldn't decide was a threat, a nuisance, or a good bedmate, or all three. The latter being left entirely up to imagination, Zoi wondered if he should find himself a date for homecoming. Unfortunately, the student-teacher relationship he was wouldn't allow him to bring his lover to the dance, and Kunzite probably already new that. <--Maybe I could convince him to change appearances... just once.--> Minako raised an eyebrow at Dunican's words, about to ask what he meant when her own name was announced by the announcer. With a great big confident smile on her face Minako made her way down with the rest of the nominees, waving to the crowd like a true beauty pagent queen. ((OCC: Mario made me do it =P)) Jeremy ignored the festivities when he watched one of the newer girls leave the gym followed by three men. Had he been willing to break his stanard, unemotional gaze he would have sighed but instead simply stood up and made his own way to the exit. In the back of his mind he remembered when she had thrown him in the chemistry lab, but the move hadn't been perfect, he had been thrown by better. Even if she could defend herself though it was better to make sure, especially considering Ithil had appeared again on the scene. That very thought was enough to make the goosebumps on Jeremy's arms rise as he remembered how close he had come to losing his secret identity. Elizabeth throw a quick glance behind her. She cursed to herself. *Why are they following me?* she thought. As she turned around a row of lockers. As she neared the end she found one of the large boys in front of her. As she turned around to head back they other two were blocking her path. "Where are you going sweet cheeks?" asked the boy with spikey hair and a tounge ring. Elizabeth looked at him and then they moved so she was forced to stand against the lockers. "I was going to my locker," she said. "Well how about you join our gang. We have been looking for someone as cute as you," he explained. The look on Elizabeth's face turned to a frown. "Leave me alone," she said and started to go between them but was forced back by one of the boys with a shaved head and nose ring. "No ever rufuses us," he said and took hold of her school shirt. Elizabeth looked at the offending hand. Slowly she reached up with her right hand and grabbed the offeners hand. Digging her thumb inbetween his index finger and thumb. The look on his face was a painful one. In one quick motion Elizabeth lifted leg and did a straight up kick. Her foot connected with the boys jaw, sending him back onto the floor. She then looked at the other two who were ever surprised. Both jumped back and took out a knife each. Slowly Elizabeth got into a tight fighting stance. The boys never got a chance to use thier knives before a gloved hand grabbed one's head and an ungloved hand grabbed the others, smashing them together. He let their them recover as he took a step back, still well within their reach and spoke in the monotone voice that had come to strike fear into gang member's hearts, "That is enough." Jakurin relunctantly made her way through her class down to the bleachers, and towards the group of girls beginning to form. "And now, annoucements for King position..." "WHAT?!" exclaimed two men at once, stopping them in their tracks. "Me?!" squeaked Zachary, as Blake cried, "A @&*#(*# fruit?! No way!!!" The two boys looked at the new comer in dear as they slowly started to back away. "Oh damn! Its Jeremy. Lets get out of here!" said the one that lead the other two. They helped there fallen member to his feet. Blood was running down his jaw and cloths. "We will get you cute stuff," said one of them as they took off down a hallway. Elizabeth watched as three gang members fled. Her silvery eyes then focused on her Jeremy. She slowly got out of her attack stance. "Thank you," she said to him. "But it looks like they will come after me now. Even after school," she said. Dunican sat in the same spot. They just started to announce the conidiates for the Homecoming King. "Our next conidiate is Dunican Kedakai." With a smile he stood up and fixed his hair a bit as he walked towards the stage. Alot of girls were trying to reach out but were unable to. As he made his way to the stage he looked at Minako and smiled to her with a wink. Michiru snaked her arm behind Zachary and pinched his butt. "Just think, if we are crowed we get a dance and a kiss all to ourselves." she said in a sexy voice. Nephrite watched the festvities. Pay back was a Bitch, and putting Zoisite's name for Homecoming King was perfect, now to just rig the votes so he would be crowned. But who to make the Queen??? Jeremy gaze remained unchanged as he glanced at Elizabeth, his voice ever neutral, "Do not worry about them, they will not bother you again. I will personally guarantee that after I have a talk with them." He meant it to, and it wouldn't be the first time. Generally when they made threats like that Jeremy would simply track them down after school and threaten their lives and it was enough to keep them afraid; after all no one in the school would swear that he wouldn't follow through and kill them. Zachary's pale skin flushed as he gently removed the prying girl's hands off his body. "Wouldn't that be a lovely fantasy," he murmured, making his way quietly between Aino Minako and Sandra Tenson. Better those girls than Michiru. Besides, Minako had a boyfriend, and Sandra only paid attention if you waved a wad of cash around. He sighed, longing for a dance with the ice king. Jakurin, however, was bouncing up and down, trying to keep warm. "Geez, Michiru, how can you not be cold?! It's like 50 degrees out here!!" Elizabeth nodded the looked at Jermey. "Is there anything I can do for you? I mean you saved my life twice already and I feel I have to do something for you in return," she said to him. Jeremy shook his head and turned walking away in his typical demeanor, "You owe me nothing. I can't simply watch others inflict their might on others, it is a matter of morals, nothing more, nothing less." He didn't add in the fact that her very name was identical to the name of the last woman he had loved. The one who had actually had his child and raised his child. A child he was proud of, but a child that would never know her father, she couldn't. Jeremy kept his breath even until he was out of Elizabeth's sight and then ducked into the nearest bathroom and stall as a couple tears dripped from his right eye. He had a family, but it was a family he would never know because he had a job, a destiny to fight the evil of the universe. Elizabeth watched Jeremy walked away. She wanted to say something to him but couldn't find the words to say them. When he disappeared around a corner she turned around and sighed. "Well I better be going home," she said softly to herself. *I'll probably be the only one without a date to the dance,* she thought and walked out of the doors of the school. The band began to play the music to Star Wars Episode One as their finale. Jakurin plugged her fingers in her ears and shouted over the din, "So, anybody got a clue as to what a Homecoming Queen is?" Blake began trudging to the track - his name wasn't called. No matter. Not a lot of people knew him, anyway. Not that he'd want to run against that fruit, Zachary. He shivered as the name danced through his head, and pushed through the students leaving the stands. Zachary curled a tendril of crimson blonde hair between his fingers thoughtfully, and he also shivered. It was cold for this time of year, and the sweet thought of going home to bed for the winter enticed him. Even better if he could spend it with the ice king. Zachary's face softened to a smile, as he let out an unintentional purr as Blake walked by. Blake jumped and backed up a few steps, steering clear of the dazed sakura. "What a freak," he mumbled, as he offered his hands to Michiru and Jakurin. "Need a hand off the platform, ladies?" ((OOC: Ice King to the rescue...)) "Zach," Kunzite murmured, coming up to the platform so suddenly it was almost like he appeared from thin air. The moment he heard Zoisite's human name being called, he had used a little energy to take on the form of the green-haired Yakuza gang leader Zachery hung out with, though without the usual hanger-one and leather. "You're late. What's taking you so long, I though you said something about pizza today.." michiru took Blake's hand and smiled and waved once again as she decended from teh platform. "No offence, Jarukin..but I'm really going to try and get this so I'm actually going to work for this crown. No hard feelings?" she asked. " Same for me," Minako butted in from the other side of Michiru, grinning over at the pair. " I don't know about you guys, but this has been one of my dreams since I was a little girl..." "Yare, yare!" joked Jakurin, taking Blake's shoulder and flipping herself end over end. Landing with a slight hop, she held up a peace sign. "S'o.k., Michiru, Minako. You girls can fight over this Queen thing as long as you want; I haven't a clue what it is! I'm surprised I got nominated at all." Blake replied, "Me too, because I want to know who the other guy was!!" They were interrupted by a slight squeak of happiness as Zachary let himself be cradled. In all the sakura's thinking, he had forgotten one of Kunzite's 'other forms'. "I missed you!" he whimpered, tugging him away from the others. "We've been so busy...no time for anything fun anymore." Dunican smiled. Walking over to Minako and wrapping an arm around her. "You will always be my Queen," he said with a grin. Elizabeth stopped and looked around. She remembered that the football game was that night. "Maybe I should head home and get my dress," she said to herself. " Yeah, I allready know that... so that's why I have to become Homecoming Queen, that way I'm the Queen of everybody," Minako declared, getting all starry eyed. She envisioned her crowning at the dance, with everyone cheering and applauding. Rikko came walking toward the entrance with his bag on his shoulder, his sword under his trenchcoat, a package under his arm, and a piece of paper in his hand with what appeared to be some rather disturbing news due to the fact that Rikko was almost dragging his feet on the floor. "I can't believe that Master Kane is making me do this. Not only do I have some stupid crystal that makes me a knight, now I have to go back to SCHOOL! I'm 18, I should be out of school!" he complained as he looked at the paper in his hand. "25/100. You can't even buy a Faygo with that. Just cause I can't read Japaneese! This SUCKS!" he whined again. He looked at the wall as he passed Elizabeth, not even noticing her. "Homecomming? Never figured that they had THOSE here! Geez, it's been too long since I've seen one of them. Wonder if it's too late to go? Oh well, where would I find a girl now? I'm sure they're all taken by now. First day and I'm already batting 0 for 5." he said in a depressed voice in English. Dunican smiled to Minako. "I know you can do it Minako," he said to her. Elizabeth ears perked up as she heard someone speaking english. *Weird that someone here would be speaking English,* she thought. She stopped and turned around and looked at the guy that passed her. "You know if you go into the school and ask around I bet you can find a girl to go with," said Elizabeth in english. Rikko freaked out as he heard someone speaking english, dropping the package and the paper. *SHIT!! I forgot that they teach English in the schools. Gotta be more carefull.* he thought as he looked at Elizabeth. "Well, that does sound like a good idea, but I just got here. Just got my papers and stuff done. Haven't even had a class yet. Don't even know anyone yet." he said as he realized that he had dropped his stuff. He bent down and picked up the package and paper. As he stood up he said in Japaneese, "The name is Saki Rikko. Nice to meet you." He put out his hand to shake with Elizabeth. Elizabeth studied Rikko for a moment. She expanded her own hand and shook Rikko. "Nice to met you. My name is Elizabeth Von Mond," she also said in Japanese. "Well I hope you find someone to go to the dance with. I best be going though. I have somethings to do before tonight," she said to him with a slight bow and started on her way.