Sailor Moon Episode 144

Episode title: Heartfelt Melody

Original American Airdate: 10/27/2000

Original Canadian Airdate:

Amy was studying outside this day. She was lost in a dreamy trance, listening to the most beautiful music she'd ever heard in her life. It was fall, and the leaves were falling off the trees. One fell near Amy and she picked it up.

"Hi Amy!" Rini suddenly exclaimed from behind her. Amy was startled. She took off her headphones, and suddenly, she was surrounded by all her friends. They picked up the book she was writing in, and started reading it. Each girl started grabbing at the book and trying to look inside. Finally, Amy revealed that it was a letter for a boy she had met over a computer network. She presented the music to them, and the girls loved it.

"When I first heard the music, a lot of images seemed to appear in my head." Amy said. "So, I just started writing things that came into my mind, and that's what's in the book."

"So you're writing poetry?" Raye observed.

"So what exactly is the computer network about?" Serena asked. Raye sighed.

"Like, what planet have you been on lately, Serena?" Mina replied. "It's the in thing! I'll clear it up for you. Personal Computer Network is a network using personal computers!"

Well, with Mina's indepth explanation into the personal computer network, the cats elaborated, saying that it was more like a bulletin board for computers, where works can be accessed and distributed. Rini asked who composed the song, and Amy said that only the initials T.N. were available. Lita thought that the music was warm, and wondered if "he", the composer, was the same. Luna asked how they could be sure that the composer was male, and the girls just kept with their dream, hoping "he" was romantic and beautiful.

Meanwhile, at the Dead Moon Circus tent, the Amazon Quartet were chasing and torturing Zircon. The little eye creature tried its hardest to escape its pursuers, but it was hit by VesuVesu's whip, and was knocked into her hand. Zircon tried to escape, but to no avail. Finally, Zirconia sent down a blast which distracted the Quartet, and releasing Zircon. He yelled at the Quartet not to fool around, and Zircon created a picture. Zirconia gave the picture to the Quartet. The picture was messy and out of focus. With only that to go on, they had to find their target. After Zirconia blasted them for insolence, of course.

The Quartet retired to their spa, or resort, and were trying to figure out who the form in the picture was. ParaPara used her powers to attempt to figure it out. The only clue she got was that the figure was a musician. The Quartet all looked at the picture, and since VesuVesu had hit Zircon, it was her job to find the target.

That evening, Amy was at home, on her balcony. T.N.'s music was playing softly on her stereo, and she had finished writing a letter to her poetry-inspiring friend. She heard the doorbell ring, and went to answer it. She had been given a package, and went back to her room to open it. It was from her father. She opened it, and inside she found a beautiful picture of a mountain landscape. Even without a letter, Amy could feel what her dad was thinking, it seemed. She thought that since she could equate feelings with paintings, then perhaps she could do the same with music.

The next day, Amy presented her lyrics at the Crown Restaurant (which is called a fruit parlor). The girls thought it was wonderful. Raye told Serena to stop faking that she understood the poetry, and the two started fighting. The door opened, and in came Diana. She had something to show the girls. The girls followed her.

Diana led the girls to a quiet place, where a young man was playing piano inside. It was the same song that Amy had heard on her computer. Upon realizing that this young man was T.N., she felt her heart skip a beat. She looked at him with loving eyes as he played his melody. VesuVesu was sitting inside, and realized that it was the same music ParaPara had heard through her powers. She lined up her next target.

A few minutes later, the man known to the girls as "T.N." exited the building, and found the girls in a group. Amy struggled with the frog in her throat, and her blushing face. The girls all offered their support, and Lita pushed Amy forward.

Amy stumbled forward, and stammered as she spoke. "I heard the music you were just playing on the computer network." She said. "It's yours, right?"

"Yeah!" T.N. replied excitedly. "Do you like it?"

"Yes, it's wonderful, and very moving." Amy said. She glanced down at the lyric book she had written in. "I wrote some lyrics for that music." Amy said. "Would you like to hear them?"

The young man smiled. "Are you Amy by any chance?" He asked. Amy gasped and blushed even more. He walked up to her and grabbed her hands in his. "It's nice to meet you! I'm Toshiyuki Noshino!" He said.

"So you're the mysterious T.N.?"

"In the flesh!" Toshiyuki said excitedly. He was more excited that he was meeting Amy, than he was being T.N. though.

Toshiyuki finally said hello to Amy's friends when he noticed them. He invited them all to his studio. The girls all agreed. VesuVesu watched the entire happening quietly. When the girls arrived at the studio, a little girl and her teacher were concluding a lesson. The girl, Victoria, said good night to her instructor, Kyoko. Victoria said good night to Toshiyuki, and the girls said good night to Victoria. Toshiyuki introduced Kyoko as his songwriting partner.

"Oh, it looks like he has a girlfriend." Mina mumbled to Amy. She was quickly quieted.

"She's got an involuntary verbal condition." Lita said, keeping Mina quiet.

The girls sat with Toshiyuki and Kyoko. They learned that Toshiyuki also taught piano because performing for audiences just didn't bring in enough money. Their biggest dream was to become famous composers known all over the world. Amy noticed how Toshiyuki and Kyoko looked at each so affectionately.

What was I thinking? She thought to herself. I should never have thought I could write lyrics for the music he's dedicated his life to.

"Amy?"

"Huh?" Amy said, sitting up startled.

"Tell us what your dream is." Toshiyuki said. "Is it a poet or a songwriter?"

"Actually, Amy wants to be a doctor." Rini said. Serena told the couple that Amy was incredibly smart, and they were proud of her. Amy kept thinking over and over about her lyrics, and each time she did, the feeling in them seemed to mean less and less. Toshiyuki asked to see her lyrics, but Amy simply stood, and said she wanted to rewrite them. Without waiting, Amy ran off, and the girls went after her.

With the girls gone, it was the best time to strike. VesuVesu hit a dischordant chord on the piano. Toshiyuki and Kyoko turned and saw the young girl.

"Amy, why'd you run?" Serena asked, when the girls had caught up with her. "What's wrong with you?"

"I can't show my work." Amy replied.

"Why not?" Serena asked. "You worked really hard and did your best, Amy."

Amy sobbed softly. "But it was just a spur of the moment idea." She said. "Their whole lives have been dedicated to music. Who am I to think I'm worthy to write words to his passionate music?"

Lita stepped forward. "But Amy, his music touched your soul, didn't it?" She asked. "I'd say that's a good reason to write for it, wouldn't you?"

"But, I just can't!" Amy cried, running away again. This time, the girls only watched her go off into the night. The girls suddenly heard a scream coming from the studio.

Amy stopped running for a moment to collect herself. She remembered the girls recent words to her. Suddenly, Diana snapped her out of thought and warned her of the situation. Back at the studio, VesuVesu had pinned Kyoko to the wall with knives. Without so much as a word as to who she was, other than a music wannabe with a twist, she took out her pool ball as she had before, and shot it with her pool cue. The ball skimmed Toshiyuki's face, banked off walls and the ceiling and the floor, and hit Toshiyuki in the back. His Dream Mirror came out, but it wasn't the Golden Mirror VesuVesu was searching for.

"What do you think you're doing?" A voice shouted. VesuVesu looked at the doorway, and saw the Sailor Scouts, minus Sailor Mercury.

"How dare you disrupt his perfect harmony with your dischord!" Sailor Moon shouted. "We're the Sailor Scouts!"

"And we stand for Love and Justice!" Shouted Mini Moon.

"I'm Sailor Moon!"

"And I'm Sailor Mini Moon!"

Mars, Venus and Jupiter shouted, "And now, together, in the name of the Moon, and all our planets..."

"We shall punish you!"

VesuVesu told the Sailor Scouts that their outfits were ridiculous. Sailor Mini Moon retorted that it looked like VesuVesu forgot to make half of hers. VesuVesu called her monster, which looked like a tadpole. It flew at the Sailor Scouts, but Sailor Moon took out a boxing glove, and knocked the little monster away. It flew into the piano, where it took its real shape. It had a human body with a frog's arms, and a frog's face on its torso. Just then, Amy came in, wanting to talk with Toshiyuki. She saw that he was unconscious. VesuVesu attacked with her red pool ball, and the Sailor Scouts were suddenly hit with energy, and teleported to an odd void.

"Where are we?" Asked Sailor Moon.

"You're inside a computer!" VesuVesu said. Her face appeared in a large screen in front of the Sailor Scouts. They could see into the studio. VesuVesu shocked them with a blast of electricity. The Sailor Scouts and Amy could only watch as the monster swallowed Toshiyuki's Dream Mirror. From the pain, Amy fell unconscious.

In her dream, Amy knew that she had to acquire more power to defeat her foes. A voice called out to her gently. Amy saw before her, the image of Sailor Mercury.

"You have the power within you. It's up to you." Sailor Mercury said. "I'm you, Amy. Remember how you felt when you first heard Mr. Noshino's music? Remember your dream?"

"Yes, Amy."

"And how you feel and think whenever your father sends you a sketch?"

"Oh... I see! It's important to have a pure mind and heart." Amy said, reaching an epiphane. "I just need to find my courage and inner strength and power to save my friends!"

Suddenly, Amy felt a unity within herself. She and Sailor Mercury were one, and she suddenly had the power to free herself and her friends. To defend dreams, and of course, right wrongs and punish her enemies.

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"

Super Sailor Mercury bristled with power, ready to use her newest attack. With her new power and strength born within her, she used her most powerful attack.

"MERCURY AQUA RHAPSODY!"

Sailor Mercury's power smashed through VesuVesu's barrier, freeing her and all the Sailor Scouts. VesuVesu leapt out of the way to avoid the blast.

"Please Pegasus, Protector of Dreams!"

"CRYSTAL TWINKLE BELL!"

When Pegasus appeared, Sailor Moon was able to attack.

"MOON GORGEOUS MEDITATION!"

The monster was destroyed, and Toshiyuki's Dream Mirror was freed. VesuVesu retreated of course. Sailor Moon smiled and handed Sailor Mercury her lyric book.

When Toshiyuki and Kyoko had recovered and calmed down from their experience, Amy finally allowed them to see her lyrics. They both studied the words rather amorously.

"I'm speechless." Toshiyuki said.

"So, you don't like them." Rini concluded.

"I don't like them?" Toshiyuki repeated, surprised. "You don't know how deeply touched I was by the beauty of your lyrics!"

"Writing lyrics for Toshiyuki's music could only be achieved if you genuinely loved it." Kyoko said. The girls all smiled.

"Lyrics like these are a great inspiration." Added Toshiyuki. They thanked Amy for her inspiration, and Serena congratulated Serena.

That's a dream that came true for them. Amy thought. Now, I have to work hard to fulfil my dreams!

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