Luna's Plight by Bill Heineman

Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and the characters therein are the property of
Naoko Takeuchi, Toei Animation, Cloverway, Bandai and Tokyopop.

I don't own these characters. Please don't sue me, kill me or make me sing
at your next party. I shatter windows with my screech.


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Luna sat in her soft prison bed, wondering if she would ever escape and find
the moon princess. She looked up from the basket to gaze at the clock on the
wall with ever mounting dread. The second hand, each tick mocking her, moved
with unyielding certainty to the hour of despair.

The moon cat sighed, looking downcast knowing what was expected of her in a
few minutes. She turned her head to glance at her empty food dish and water
bowl with fluid that had passed its expiration date. "Grr..." She uttered in
unison with her growling stomach.

Her owner, attempting to starve the feline as punishment for bad behavior,
was nowhere to be seen, which suited the cat fine. She stretched out and
yawned then proceeded to try and find any way out of the room she was locked
in. A check of the windows and doors found no method of exit this day, as it
had been for the weeks she had been living here.

Living, ha! Some living. Luna sat next to the large table like object in the
center of the room, hoping that the thing would just crumble into moon dust.
She gulped, as some rustling was heard in the room beyond the foreboding
locked door that blocked her freedom.

She had to escape. She had to be free. Ever since she had gotten out of that
stasis tube and ended up here, hardly a moment had passed that the black
furred moon cat didn't think about the task she was given by Queen Serenity.

Find the Princess, awaken the 4 Guardians and stop Queen Beryl from taking
over the Earth was her mission in life. Luna had no idea what hells she was
going to travel through to accomplish her mission, but she never in her
wildest dreams had expected this type of torture. It looked like she was
going to cross into yet another level of pain as the doorknob slowly turned
and the bane of her existence entered.


The woman was a slender middle aged gaijin woman in a nice dress, blond hair
and held in her arm several sheets of paper and a purse. She quickly shut
the door and locked it to keep the feline inside. "Why, hello there!" She
sweetly smiled at Luna. "Are you ready for today's session?"

Luna sat down and curled her tail around her body. The tip of the tail,
tapping the floor, betrayed her anxiousness. She unblinkingly watched the
woman cross the room and sat at the bench that was adjacent to the large
table like object she wished would just explode.

"What's the matter Luna? Cat got your tongue?" The woman giggled as she
reached for a tape recorder and inserted a blank tape. "Are you ready?"

Luna's silence was her answer.

"C'mon, you were a lot more talkative last week. Anything?"

Luna turned her head so wouldn't have to look at the woman.

"I've got tuna." The woman produced a can marked StarKist. "Isn't this
yummy?"

Luna was a cat and her instincts couldn't resist. She slowly faced her
tormentor, took a few steps closer and jumped onto the top of the piano that
heralded another session in utter embarrassment.

"Now, that's a good kitty. Mommy's got a new song for you today." She placed
the sheet music on the stand on the piano so that the cat could read the
lyrics. The woman patted a few ebony keys on the keyboard to get the base
pitch in her head. "Ready?"

The black moon cat readied herself for her absolute shame, but it was a
living. "Meow."

"Here goes." The woman pressed the record button on the tape player. She
played a jingle on the piano with Luna sitting in utter silence.

"Now Luna... You know what you have to do, right?"

The cat glared icily at the woman and ever so slightly, nodded her head in
agreement.

"Take two." She played the jingle again.

Luna thought in her head. "I've got to escape and find the princess. She's
got to be more intelligent than this woman."

The cat sang....

"Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow."

The woman sang...

"I want tuna, I want liver, Meow Mix, Meow Mix, please deliver."

Once the song ended, Luna looked at the woman dead in the eye. "You are
taking the credit for this travesty. Not me!"

The woman grinned. "Of course, that was our agreement." She pulled the tape
out of the recorder. "This is a perfect recording! I'm going to make a
mint."

The moon cat sighed and quietly plotted her revenge. "When I get out of
here, the first girl I find, I'm making her Sailor Moon and hiding out at
her place. I'm NOT getting dragged back."


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Author's Notes: Please review my story. It makes me feel oh so happy and
prevents me from switching your tuna with cat food.

Bill Heineman
October 24th, 2003
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