Subject: [FFML] Re: [fic][SM/YST]Ronin Summer: Convergence 6
From: "The Eternal Lost Lurker" <lurkerdrome@sbcglobal.net>
Date: 4/2/2006, 2:26 PM
To: "Morgan Hudson" <dataraven_659@hotmail.com>, "FFML" <ffml@anifics.com>

Okay, take two, this time using cut and paste. Wonder where that
attachment
went?

Where all attachments should go: down the hoooooooooooooooole.

It had been constructed at the wishes of the Tomoe family, a much larger
and wealthier group in those older days, to stand as a symbol of the new
Japan rising from the ashes of the old. They had built the house in record
time - some said too quickly. From its first days, rumours had abounded
that the mansion was built improperly. Workers claimed that there were
bodies buried under the foundations, corpses from the quake that the Tomoe
family had been in too much of a hurry to properly locate or care for.
Experts agreed that the feng shui of the mansion was horribly wrong,
letting only sorrow and misery gather within. The Tomoe clan had not taken
the time to discuss with astrologists and other experts before starting
to build, and the house had been constructed in an inauspicious way on an
inauspicious day.

And on the thirteenth lot of the fourth street, to boot. ^_^

of fresh paint and new chrome. On clear nights, when the moon was full and
bright, it was not uncommon to see a swarm of bats streaming out of its
chimneys and circling the vast lawns that surrounded the estate in search
of prey.

...okay, THAT is just pushing it.

*snip* Interesting twist on Hotaru's backstory there.


"The princess of Venus most certainly did not have any boyfriends
*or* paramours!" Luna replied indignantly. "Why, the very idea would have
been scandalous! None of the Senshi had *anything* like that! Their focus
was entirely on their duties, as was only fitting for such powerful and
highly trained warriors."

Besides, they were too busy sleeping with *each other*.

"Well, that's good," Minako decided after a moment's thought. "I
guess I'd better swing by the pharmacy and pick up some more eardrops on
our way to the temple today." There was nothing wrong with Artemis' ears,
but Minako was firmly of the opinion that eardrops could cure anything.

Can they cure her blondeness?

never shared his love with anybody. Such feelings were sacred, and had to
be guarded closely. He had asked his father about her, though, and he had
learned that she was known only as Sailor V, an enigmatic girl who fought
for love and justice.

O_O;;

Closing his eyes, Seiji leaned his head back against the cushioned
chair and sighed softly. He knew it was pointless, and silly, and even a
little bit immature of him to still be carrying a torch for some girl he
had barely even bumped into over three years ago. That was one of the
other reasons he did not mention it. Maybe his friends were right, and he
needed to choose a girlfriend - if just to reduce his number of admirers
to one.

*SNORT* As if THAT ever works.

He was such a dork. If the rest of the guys found out, they would
probably laugh him straight out of the Samurai Troopers. God help him if
he ever did manage to run into Sailor V; he'd probably come across like
just another giddy fanboy. She probably had so many people wanting to be
her boyfriend that she had a different guy for every day of the week. Who
wouldn't want a chance to be the boyfriend of a perfect girl like that?

Anyone who got to know her?

"Oh, no," Minako moaned, leaping to her feet and grabbing Mamoru
by the shoulders. "Don't do it, Mamoru! Don't let that old lech's evil
schemes corrupt your noble soul! You've got to stay good and pure, for
Usagi's sake! Even if the ticket sales for the kissing booth *would*
skyrocket with two babes like you and Motoki there -and I would probably
have to buy a couple of rolls myself- I can't bear to think of you that
way! Please, Mamoru, tell me you have not been seduced by the promise of
easy money and beautiful women!"

Man, she jumps to conclusions and flies off on weird tangents at the drop of
a hat... XD

"Nope," Mamoru said cheerfully as he lifted up the bamboo and
began walking back towards the temple. "Usagi just said I had to promise I
wouldn't make fun of *her* any more. She never said anything about the
rest of you."

Heh.

"Stupid Usagi," Minako grumbled, and followed after Mamoru as he
walked down the garden path. Well, that explained all the construction,
at least. If she had been paying a little more attention to anything other
than her sick cat for the past few days, she might have known what was
going on here and saved herself some embarassment. She felt like such a
dork.

Awww...it's okay, Mina-chan, we still love you. :)

Seiji grinned. That was okay: if past performance was anything to
judge by, steps two through eight tended to involve *regretting* that they
had messed with the Samurai Troopers.

Heh.



As strange as it was to admit, Rei's grandfather seemed to be legitimately
trying to put on a decent showing for the O-Bon festival.

IT'S A TRAP!

"The whole thing just makes me more suspicious," Luna whispered
into the girl's ear as they casually inspected the work and tried to stay
out of the men's way. Minako had carefully draped the small black cat over
her shoulder specifically so that they could talk without drawing
attention to each other: being the owner of Artemis for so many years had
taught her a number of useful tricks.

And how! *suggestive wink*

"Lions?" Luna merely looked up at the smugly grinning girl, and
felt her head start to spin. Was this what it had been like for Artemis,
having to work with Sailor Venus for so many years? "You're... really not
much like Usagi at all, are you, Minako?"

"Nah," Minako replied, grinning even wider. "Our similarities are
totally different."

And THIS is why Minako will never have a boyfriend for more than a week at a
time. X_X

...unless the guy is willing to (and patient enough to) put up with A LOT
for the sex...


Maya looked up and smiled politely in return. "I think I remember
you from the coffee shop," she replied. "Still stalking people?"

"Every chance I get!"

Yeah, Mina-chan is an odd one...

"Wait a minute," Minako interjected, "what was that about a Flirt
King? Go back to the part about the Flirt King."

Leave it to Minako to cotton onto the IMPORTANT bits...

"Wow, that's pretty shallow," Minako commented. "I could never see
myself chasing after some guy and acting all desperate like that."

*SNORT*

"Is your cat okay?" Maya asked, suddenly concerned. "I think it
might be choking."

Heheheheheh.

"Where is the Archer?" Fei Lian yelled over the howling of the
wind. He rose from the ground, a pair of massive wings with razor-edged
steel feathers sprouting from his back and curling around him to form a
gleaming coat of scale mail that stretched down to his ankles. A gleaming
rack of golden antlers flashed into existence on his head, coiling and
writhing around themselves to form a studded conical helmet with a long
tassel of horsehair fluttering from the spike at its peak, and a pair of
spears appeared in his hands. "Ready, I am! Concealed, he cannot hope to
be! Before me, you shall bring him!"

"Haste, make! Talking, I shall continue! Insane, will I drive you!"

The blonde girl and her feline darted to the left, disappearing
into the trees, and Fei Lian snorted as he swooped past. Let the other
girl save herself, if she thought she could. She was no interest to him,
anyway - it was the Sailor Senshi he wanted. Gripping his spear eagerly,
he veered to the right and flew after the running brunette. She did look
a bit different, but he was all too familiar with magical disguises. No
magic in the world could conceal those long legs and that statuesque
figure; there was no doubt that she had to be Sailor Jupiter.

This guy is such a complete idiot.

"The natural desire of any man to protect and shelter a girl in
danger should never be so callously ignored," he said warningly, as he
rose to his full height and flicked his cape back over one shoulder. "I
am the champion of that desire, the friend of all girls in their hour of
need! One more step, monster, and you will have to face Tuxedo Kamen!"

NICE entrance.

Some days it really sucked to be a hero. As far as Mamoru Chiba
could tell, this day was rapidly becoming one of them. Whoever this
Fei Lian guy was, he did not seem to be willing to give up and die quite
as quickly as most of the youma that Mamoru normally fought.

Yeah, you'd think he needed Sailor Moon around to finish the youma off after
he throws a couple roses and makes a corny speech...

"One time," she intoned, her voice ringing out across the open
area as she reached up to touch the mask she wore, "I concealed my lovely
features behind a veil of mystery, but true beauty and justice can never
be hidden for long! I am the soldier of love, the pretty sailor-suited
warrior Salor Venus! The divine archer Shen Yi and his lover Chang O may
forgive you for what you have done here, but I won't!" With a flourish,
Sailor Venus tore the mask from her face and leapt from her lofty perch.
She landed directly in the centre of the large black mark she had
blasted in the ground, and tossed her mask aside with a flourish as the
light on her changed colour to become an angry crimson. "Dark and
cannister man, have at thee!"

*GROAN* Minako and her bizarre speeches...

Reaching his knees, he stretched his hand towards the two heroes and a
breeze stirred weakly around them, fluttering Mamoru's cape and ruffling
Sailor Venus' skirt. The light in Fei Lian's eyes died, and he collapsed
back onto his face, lying motionless in the dirt.

Woohoo!

"That's really none of my business," Xiang Yao replied lazily, as
she took a long drag from her cigarette and released a cloud of smoke into
the air. "Fei Lian is always flying off the handle about some thing or
another. Me? I'm more of a professional. I wouldn't have interfered, but
I thought I should introduce myself. I'm going to be the person who
murders you in your sleep, Sailor Venus. You, and all the rest of your
little Sailor Senshi friends. It's my job, you see."

Now THAT is a THREAT.

"Because I'm going to take my partner over there and walk out of
here," Xiang Yao answered, with another drag of her cigarette, "and you,
good sir, will be far too busy to stop me, what with all the choking and
dying that you'll be doing." She smiled, and her fingernails grew into
foot-long talons of bilous green crystal. With a flick of her wrist, she
sent all five nails soaring towards Sailor Venus. Realising her intent,
Tuxedo Kamen leapt in the way and cried out as all five blades sunk into
his chest. He fell to his knees, gasping for breath, as Sailor Venus ran
over to check on him.

Talk about low and underhanded...

"Why not? Having no reason to kill somebody is no reason not to
kill somebody. Besides, he was starting to get annoying." Xiang Yao
hefted the fallen youma over her shoulder and smiled cheerfully as she
began to fade out of existence. "Ta-ta for now, dearie! Sweet dreams!"

I like her. She's sick. And scary.

"Hello, Miss Usagi Tsukino," he whispered to the top folder as he
gently caressed the photograph with his fingertips and paged through the
contents. There was no doubt who he was really looking at: he would have
recognised that stupid hairstyle anywhere. This was his darling Rei's
little blonde friend from the airport - Sailor Moon.

"Let's see," Jadeite muttered, scanning over the first few pages.
"Age sixteen, five feet, four inches tall... born July 30

**JUNE** 30. :P

of his presence. The last thing he wanted this early in the game was for
any of the Senshi to know he was coming. Especially not when he had all
of their friends and loved ones held so close to his heart.

Killing people was easy. Hurting them? That was an art.

How evil.

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