By Lady Sandrock/Sandicomm
"But I don't wanna go!" Reepicheep whined.
"You have to, you've been very tired lately and not at your best."
"How do you know?"
"Well, I have eyes, too, ya know. I'm not that stupid."
"Yeah, I know, you're stupider. I'm tellin' you, I'm fine!"
"You're going and that's final!" Sandy picked Reepicheep up by the middle put her into the travel cage and went to the vet on her bicycle (Reepy was in the basket on the handlebars). Reepicheep and Sandy had been arguing for a week about this. Sandy had noticed that Reepicheep's eating patterns had changed (she was eating more than ever) and she looked extremely tired and the bathroom corner of the cage, well... You get the drift.
It was Thanksgiving and back in New York, she would have two days off, but here in Ohio there was only one, today. Sandy met Chrissy, Katrina and Ana at the vet.
"Nice to see you guys, again! What are you here for?" Sandy asked this above Reepicheep's squeaks of protest. She was probably cursing Sandy in gerbil language because Shadow was giving Reepy a dirty look.
"Oh, we're here because Shadow and Emily need their monthly check-ups."
Emily purred and Shadow nodded, licking her paw as not to attract attention.
"So, what are you here for, Ana ?" Sandy asked.
"I need to get some cat advice." Ana explained, looking up from a National Geographic magazine that had an article about white tigers.
"Comm!" the receptionest called.
"That's us!" Sandy winked and carried the cage into the office.
"Darnit," Reepicheep muttered."When we get home, Sandy, I'm gonna bite you good!"
***
Reepicheep and Sandy came out of the vet's office a few minutes later and Reepicheep was standing up on her hind legs with an I-told-you-so expression on her face.
"Geeze, you don't have to rub in." Sandy muttered.
"How did it go?" Chrissy asked, grabbing Emily's middle so she wouldn't run away.
"Fine. It turns out that Reepicheep is suffering from stress and that I shouldn't be playing with her that much! Hmmmmph! I haven't played with her in the longest time!"
"Whaddaya mean 'longest time'? More like three hours ago!" Reepy muttered.
"Shut." Sandy warned and that was the end of that.
***
"You could have TOLD me you were tired and didn't want to be played with! But nooooooo..."
"Sand-chan, it's not that! It's been all this traipsing around the city... It got me *yawn* tired..."
Sandy and Reepicheep were talking in Sandy's bedroom.
"OK, Little Love, I'll let you be. G'night."
"You mean good afternoon," Reepy yawned in gerbil fashion and curled up in her burrow and immediatly fell asleep. A moment later, Sandy's transmitter went off.
"What is it?" She asked looking into the screen of something that looked like a blush compact.
Ana 's head flickered into view. "Something's gone wrong in the zoo! Hurry!"
"I can't go! Reepy isn't up to it! She just fell asleep!" Sandy replied frantically.
"Go without her, she can miss a fight, can't she?" came Katrina's voice from the backround.
"Well, yeah, but she doesn't like to..."
"JUST GO!!!!" Katrina, Ana and Chrissy (who was also there) yelled.
Sandy raced to the zoo. When she got there, the others had transformed and Sandy did the same.
"Now, what is it?" Sailor Sandrock asked.
"The animals! Ugh, it's awful!" Snowy, Ana 's/ Sailor Icesis' guardian. She was a great white tiger. "They're all fighting each other and calling each other names and attacking each other and even trying to kill each other! The humans don't understand what's going on, but I sense a strong aura, they have been posessed!"
"Then we must heal them!" Sailor Dragonspaw said.
"Yes," said Sailor Icesis, who was greatly distressed from the news from her guardian. Emily and Shadow were there, too. Emily was looking at us like the Scouts were psychopaths or something.
"Where's Reepicheep?" Shadow asked.
"Sleeping," Sandrock replied, scanning the area with her pocket computer.
"Lazy good-for-nothing-" Shadow was muttering but was interrupted by an "I HEARD THAT!!!!!!" from Sailor Sandrock.
"Heheh, you can't hide, my pretties! I will destroy you!" A voice said.
"WHAT?!" the majority of the crowd said. Emily meowed nervously.
Suddenly a possessed zoo-keeper came out and threw animal food at the Scouts. Demons sprouted from the dropped food.
"Oh, great!" Sailor Starfire groaned. "This is just great! Use your powers, guys!
"STARDUST POW!!!!!"
The fire burned the majority of the demons but more were coming by the second!"
"Symphony Ice Tiger... DESTROY!!!!!!!!!" Sailor Icesis yelled. This froze the rest of the demons but there were STILL more coming!
"MOON LOVE CRYSTALS... FORM!!!!!" Sailor Sandrock yelled. Five crystals that were the colors gold, yellow, aqua, green and blue appeared. Then they came together and formed a completely white crystal.
"MOON LOVE CRYSTALS SEPARATE SPIRAL!!!!!!"
The crystal broke into pieces and went into the heart of every demon and made the demons dissapear. "Still more coming!!" Sailor Dragonspaw cried.
Sailor Dragonspaw gripped the bracelet on her arm and yelled, "DRASKIN GO!!!" A bird came out of the bracelet and started clawing at the zoo-keeper.
When the zoo-keeper had been clawed out of recognition, Draskin came back to Dragonspaw's bracelet, its work done. "Grr..." the zoo-keeper growled. He opened his palms out up towards heaven as if he were greeting the moon. All of a sudden, green vines came rushing out of his palms and latched themselves around the Sailor Scouts!
"Oh, ow!"
"Ouch!"
"Oh, this is so tight! *Gasp!* Get it off of me!"
"Meeeeeeowwwwww!!!!!!!"
***
A couple of blocks away, Reepicheep was awoken from her slumber by the sounds of the Sailor Scouts, echoing in her head.
I've got to help them! Reepicheep thought. But I'm so tired but I MUST help them!
Reepicheep climbed to the top of the wheel and pushed the cave top open, jumped out and raced to the zoo.
When she got there, she met several unconscious humans and a handful of cats and a tiger being squeezed by some ropes.
"Heheh, it's CHOMPIN' TIME!!!!!" Reepicheep squealled in delight and laughed crazily, the light glinting off of her blood red eyes.
She ran to the vines, a chewing frenzy had begun! When Reepicheep had done chomping she looked at the zoo-keeper angrily.
"You hurt my friends but that is because you are possessed! You will be pardoned. Let me help you." Reepicheep said.
She jumped to the zoo-keeper and bit and scratched his face. A demon came floating out, screaming in pain. "No, no! Not me!" It said.
"Yes, you!" Reepicheep cried and bit the demon very hard. It writhed in pain for a few moments and vanished, the zoo-keeper healed and the vines disappering and the Scouts regaining consciousness.
"Thanks, Ghengus." Sandrock said to Reepicheep. "You'll get a very special treat for that."
"I don't want a treat, I just want some sleep." Reepicheep yawned, falling asleep in Sandy's hand.
"See, she's good for something after all," Snowy said to Shadow.
"Yeah, sure, whatever. But I don't call biting a special ability, do you? She really is useless aside from the fact that she bites..."
Reepicheep jerked awake.
"I HEARD THAT!!!!!!" Sandrock and Reepicheep yelled.
~THE END~
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