Disclaimer: Sailor Moon doesn't belong to me. Big suprise, ne?
Please be gentle, this is our first Sailor Moon Fic.
I blame Selene Seta Terra, a wonerful writer for this,
the idea sprung from a tale called "Being Overtired Can Do Odd
Things". Well here is one of the odd things
3 o'clock Youma
by Auer House
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Usagi allowed herself to fall back knowing a pair of stong arms
would be there to catch her. Those same arms she dreamt of
came round to encircle her, drawing her closer. She smelled
the sweet scent of dew-dusted roses and sighed deeply, this was
such a pleasent place to rest. Tomorrow she would have to face
another Youma, and the day after that, and onward forever, but
here in this little piece of heaven she was able to forget about
being Sailor Moon; forget Luna's doubts about Tuxedo Karmen;
forget the worry she had about what Luna would do when she found
out that Usagi had known about Tuxedo Karmen's identity, and he
her's. She could also forget about the mystical Princess they,
the Sailor Senshi (and Mamoru) were trying to find. "Usagi?"
His soft voice whispered in her ear drawing her back to the
present.
"Hai." She answered, finally turning to face him. Her face
lifted, she caught her breath as her lips moved forward,
"Mamo-chan....."
----
BLAP BLAP BLAP BLAP
"Alright already I'm coming." Usagi yelled, as she flung
the silent alarm clock across the room; where it shattered
against the wall with a satisfying 'scrunch'. She barely
noted that she had missed Luna by a whisker, grabbed the
offending communicator and jumped out the window. She
staggered quickly through the dark Tokyo streets; sounds
of Chaos and the occasional lightning flash guiding her
towards the battle. 'Three weeks! I am _so_ tired of
this', she thought darkly, 'I need my sleep. Hell I
wanted to finish that dream.' A rather satisfying scene
of Zoicite forced to have a blind date with Ms Haruna
skimmed across her mind.
*** Flashback ***
----
Kunzite looked out over the darkened Tokyo, "Foolish humans.
They hide from the glorious dark." He whispered into Zocyte's
ear as the two lounged atop Tokyo tower.
"To sleep, perchance to dream, said one of their poets."
Zoicyte commented as he leant back into Kunzite's embrace.
Moments of peace were rare that they could simply enjoy each
other's presence. The need to find the 'Silver Imperium
Crystal' (AN: I can't spell it either) as much to them as
it drove the Sailor Senshi and Tuxedo Karmen.
"Sleep! Zoicyte, my love, that is the answer." Kunzite sat
up abruptly.
"Huh?" Not exactly happy to have been disturbed from his
rather comfortable seat.
"Lack of sleep apparently does some very strange things to
humans."
"So?"
"How about we make sure those damn Senshi are _so_ tired
that they are unable to interfere with our goals. Who
knows...."
----
"Ami, could I please see you after class?" Miss Haruna
asked a surprisingly worried look on her face.
"Hai." Ami yawned before letting her head drop back to
the book it had been resting on. If anyone had been able
to hear over the Usagi's rather loud snoring they might
have had some inkling as to why Miss Haruna looked worried,
since Ami was also quietly snoring.
----
"Ami?" Miss Haruna said as she shook the still sleeping
girl, the class had ended and everyone had left except the
teacher and a small group of sleeping students. "Ami, wake up."
"Hai, Hai, the answer is the Unified field Theory...err."
Ami said as she fumbled for a pair of noexistent glasses.
"Oh," she exclaimed as she realised where she was,
"Miss Haruna."
"Ami, are you in any kind of trouble?"
"No, Miss Haruna, why do you ask?" Ami replied glancing
around the class room and noticing her sleeping friends for
the first time. She swallowed, and looked rather guiltily
back at Miss Haruna.
"Well, Usagi sleeping through class is nothing new and her
marks have continued at their usual level, _you_, however,
have just submitted an assignment that I was hard pressed
to grade as a B. That is _not_ the sort of mark I would
expect from you. So are you in any kind of trouble? Has
Usagi dragged you into something?"
"Miss Haruna, it's nothing like that!"
"Nothing like what? I would suggest that you examine what
is happening in you life at the moment, something is
definitely not right." Miss Haruna said with a surprising
amount of caring in her voice. "I can be here to listen
if the need arises."
Ami felt rather awful having to brush off her teacher's
offer of help. "I'm ok. I just haven't been sleeping
particularly well lately. Talking to Usagi when I can't
sleep helps." Ami temporised, it was that or laugh at the
rather silly image of Miss Haruna threatening a Youma with
detention.
Ami got up quickly, dragging the almost comatose Makato
and Usagi with her before Miss Haruna could stop her.
'A "B"! A goddamn "B"' She snarled to herself, 'the next
Youma I see is gonna choke on a bubble bath the size of Tokyo!'.
*** End Flashback ***
It wasn't the usual sense of transformation that woke Mamoru
at 3am rather it was a very dark sense of Anger. 'Sailor
Moon must be pissed', he thought. Looking at the clock he
had to agree she probably had cause. These 3 o'clock wake
up calls were getting a bit beyond a joke. Having to explain
to Dr. Mizano why he'd suggested a 'pregnancy test' as the
appropriate preliminary investigative test for a 56 year
old male patient with hemarroids was not an experience
Mamoru wanted to repeat anytime in the near future, or
far future for that matter.
Following his own unique compass Mamoru arrived to see...
----
Usagi raced into the clearing to an Ami pumping out bubbles
like there was no tomorrow. "Drown Youma, drown!!!!" 'Uh-oh
Mercury's lost it!' She thought as she targeted the dripping
Youma. The youma's eyes widened as Usagi strode over, waded
through the bubbles and stood toe-to-toe with it. Then the
tired, stressed, Usagi let loose with a text book upper-cut.
The Youma was lifted high into the air before crashing noisily
to the ground. Usagi raced up to it, and striking a pose
she cried "How dare you interrupt the dreams of innocent girls.
For the interruption of essential beauty sleep, and a REALLY
nice dream, in the name of the Moon I shall punish you! Scratch
that, you are _so_ dusted, youma!" Usagi then leaped onto its
chest and began to jump up and down......
Further back, so that their presence would not be detected by
Sailor Mercury and her bag of tricks, Kunzite and Zoicyte could
only look on as a small, pyjama'd teen came racing into the
clearing. She stormed upto the bubble-coated Youma and with
the apparent skill of a world champion boxer, she lifted the
Youma into the air with a beautifully placed uppercut. Shocked
that a simple human could even consider hurting one of the
Negaverse, Kunzite and Zoicyte watched in utter fascination
as the girl suddenly struck a pose, yelled loudly, though not
enough to carry to their hiding place, then began to jump
maniacally up and down on the now defenceless Youma; Zoicyte
noted absently that the Sailor Senshi wore expressions not to
dissimiliar to the one currently gracing Kunzite's fine features.
Meanwhile, the sailors, and Tuxedo Karmen, looked on with the
same type of facinated horror as people watching a house burning
down as Usagi repeatedly stomped on the helpless, mewling youma.
"I was dreaming, you rotten sod! I was sleeping, you rotten
sod! I was doing anything but having to fight another
expleted-deleted-with-a-twist-Youma. But, noooo, you just had
to come along and want to play!" Usagi yelled and she
punctuated every phrase with a particularly heavy heel
slam to a point on the Youma that had it been human male
would have rendered it incapable of _ever_ fathering the
next generation. Three watchers, particularly the two from
the Negaverse, winced every time she landed. Maybe Youma
weren't built all that differently from humans after all.
After throughly abusing the poor Youma she finally swung
her arms in the chacteristic 'Moon Healing Escalation' manner
as she cried out "Moon Healing Component Atomize, and yes
I _know_ what that means Ami, Escalation!" The Youma thanked
whatever Gods it looked upon as it was finally freed from
those tormenting bunny slippers and rendered itself into
its component atoms.
As seven sets of jaws literally hit the ground, Usagi turned
on her heels and stalked off towards home. A soft call of
"Bye Rei-chan, Ami-chan, Mina-chan, Makoto-chan," followed
her from the park. As she passed under the tree in which Tuxedo
Karmen stood she called up "Bye, Mamo-chan." This was loud
enough to be heard by the Senshi, causing them to shift there
gazes momentarily from the still pyjama'd leader to the
graceful face-plant of Tuxedo Karmen as he fell from the tree
in which he had stood. 'Mamo-chan," thought four girls,
as they converged on him.
Too dazed to follow the storm cloud presently leaving the park,
Kunzite and Zoicyte just floated at the edge of the park in
shock. A _child_ had just rendered one Youma into component
atoms, no Henshin wands, no Crystal wands, no Sailor Moon.
What had just happened? Whoever she was, she was
extremely powerful.
----
Usagi slept the sleep of the just, the un-just and the totally
exhausted. The events of last night a blur.
"Usagi. USAGI!!!! USAGI TSUKINO get out of bed and down
here at once!" Her mother's voice invaded her dreams.
"I'm sorry, she's always difficult to get up in the mornings,"
she apologised to the two handsome men waiting on the door
step. "Would you like to come in and wait for her, Mr....?"
"Thank-you, Ms Tsukino." Kunzite said as he handed over
his business card.
----
To Be Continued...