SPIN THE BOTTLE 2 By Princess Destiny [ princessdestiny@hotmail.com ] Chapter Four The pen tingled in Minako's hand, making her nervous. Seline flashed her a toothless smile from Ikuko's chest. "Don't worry Venus-now that you have started to become your past self more, the Luna Pen recognizes you as Serenity's protector" Minako's eyes widened. "Umm-you mean that it would have HURT me if I wasn't recognized?" she said nervously, eyeing the pen askance. "Yeah" Rei said sourly. "It zapped me but good before this all started" Makoto grinned widely. "Boy did it! I thought Rei's hair would actually start smoking" "You AREN'T making me feel better guys!" Minako seethed, eyes flashing. "I'm on your side-remember" she whined, rolling her eyes towards Queen Serenity. "Right?" "Of course you are, Venus" Usagi said warmly, stepping towards the blonde. She winced as the bond began to be felt, sensing pain tingling vaguely along her nerve ends. ["This is difficult"] she groaned at Rei and Mamoru. ["A PAIN, more like"] Rei grumbled good-naturally. "Anyhow, Minako transform into sailor Moon-we have to get to the battle...whether Zoisite has waited or not" "Yes, do" Motoki said nervously, blinking. "I wonder if my arcade is okay!" "Why do you ask?" Makoto asked curiously, green eyes staring at him. "Well come on!" Motoki said in exasperation. He looked at Mamoru. "YOU tell them, buddy. My Arcade is ALWAYS attacked!" "He's right, you know" Mamoru said lightly, an arm snaking about Usagi waist and bringing her back into contact with him. He nuzzled his face into her soft locks absently, inhaling her flowery scent. She felt so soft beneath his hands and involuntarily his hands began to wander from her waist to her outer thigh. "HEY!" Makoto yelped at them. "Battle, remember? No touchy-feely!" Mamoru narrowed his eyes at her, eyebrows lowering. "Should I call you Kenji, Makoto?" he mocked her lightly, still stroking a hand over Usagi's outer thigh. ["Endymion. That is QUITE enough"] Seline said to him firmly, voice clear in all of their minds. ["I know that you are stronger than this and can fight the bond for now"] "Are you sure of that?" Mamoru said, voice strained. He released his love and stepped back a pace reluctantly. Yet how could he refuse Queen Serenity? ["I certainly don't recommend it!"] Rei said warningly into Mamoru's mind, crossing her arms. "Can we go now?" she said aloud, looking at Minako. "Say 'Luna Pen, transform me into Sailor Moon', Minako" Usagi directed. Minako grinned at her and then Mamoru and held the pen aloft. "Luna pen, transform me into Sailor Moon-so that I can kick Zoisite's butt!" she added mischievously. Golden light surrounded her for a moment and when it faded, Sailor Moon stood there. Albeit different. The hair was shorter for one. "Hmm-how do I look?" Minako said, twirling about gracefully for the all to see her form. "Good. I don't think Zoisite will see the difference," Mamoru said approvingly. He reached into thin air and a perfect red rose appeared into his hand. He transformed silently, without any speeches and stood there in his tuxedo. He felt Usagi's eyes on him and turned to see a mixed look of love, concern and wistfulness that made his breath catch. ["I wish that I could come with you"] Usagi said slowly, her deep blue eyes filling with helplessness and silent anger. ["I should be with you. By the side of my family!"] Everyone watched with silent confusion-but for Seline-as both Sailor Mars and Tuxedo Kamen abruptly stepped up to the silver-haired girl and enveloped her into a tight hug. ["Don't worry about us, Usagi. Serenity"] Sailor Mars said teasingly, reaching up to ruffled her Princess' hair as if she were a small child. Or a loved sister...which was exactly what she was. ["I'll take care of Mamoru for you"] she shot a naughty look at Tuxedo Kamen, elbowing him in the ribs in a playful way. She expected the usual screams of outrage from Usagi about touching her guy-but she was surprised when a gentle smile spread over her friend's lips. ["I know you will Mars. My sister"] Serenity murmured, lifting a hand to stroke Sailor Mars' soft skin and staring into her amazed eyes. ["Serenity...."] Sailor Mars said uncertainly, feeling a wonderful warmth envelope her as her best friend called her sister for the first time. She blinked back tearful purple eyes, flinging back her long hair defiantly as everyone looked at her in bafflement. "What? Never seen a girl happy before?" she demanded of them, scowling through her tears. She then began muttering under her breath, rolling her eyes. "Oooookay" Sailor Jupiter said slowly, curious what the others had said mentally to make Rei look so happy but also as if she were about to burst into tears. Jealousy surged through her at the realization that she would not have that same bond with her Princess as Mamoru and Rei shared-until she died. A sobering thought, nevertheless. "Okay! Let's get this show on the road before Zoisite decides we've died and the world is fair game!" she announced in a more cheerful voice. She was startled to see an understand and sad look in Venus and Mercury's eyes upon turning to face them. It made Jupiter feel better to know that they too felt the lose. "Right!" Venus-er Sailor Moon chirped, then she pulled a face, staring up at the odango's. "How the heck do you get used to these things, Usagi?!" she demanded in exasperation, reaching up a gloved hand to yank at one long blonde ponytail. "Doesn't you hair, you know-hit you in the face?" she pouted, worried about possible black eyes. "Ditz!" Artemis groaned, stalking back into the room. He sniffed at Luna and turned his furry back on her. She growled lightly, fur going up at the insult. "Why-that FURBALL!" she seethed quietly to Ikuko. "Never mind Luna" Ikuko said in a low voice, hiding a grin at the cats' obvious attraction with each other. How could no one else have seen it? ["You're a mother, as am I"] Seline's voice caressed Ikuko's mind in a private thought. ["We were born to look out for this sort of thing"] she sighed mentally, a smile curving her small lips. ["This is the second time I have seen this happen. The fur truly flew back a thousand years ago, to coin a phrase"] the baby frowned lightly, eyes far away. ["Of course, that was only a metaphor. Luna and Artemis weren't always cats..."] "They WEREN'T?!" Ikuko gasped out loud, too shocked to be prudent. Immediately, every eye in the room was centered on her questionably. "Never mind! Just thinking aloud" she giggled nervously, blushing. Her arms tightened about her baby, as she aimed a superfluous look at Seline. "We're going to have a LONG talk later, Seline" she murmured firmly. ["Of course"] the baby gave a gurgle of laughter, startling everyone again. it was hard to associate this laughing baby with a thousand year old Queen reborn. ["Oh dear"] she thought then, remembering the Guardian of Time. Pluto was NOT going to be pleased with her for this interference in the timeline! Her small silver eyes went to her daughter. ["Serenity-it's time"] ["Right, mother"] Usagi murmured. She turned to Tuxedo Kamen and went up on her tippy-toes to give him a burning kiss. Warmth spread down her body, making her tremble with a desire to touch him everywhere and battle be damned! But she fought it and pulled away, gasping. ["Good- BYE my Prince!"] she shot at him mentally, dancing out of range of his hands as he made a grab at her. ["Later, you two!"] Sailor Mars groaned, latching onto Tuxedo Kamen's arm. ["And YOU, keep close! I don't want to end up dead because you couldn't control your hormones, Chiba Mamoru!"] she poked at his chest and glared up into his dark blue eyes. Tuxedo Kamen grinned openly at her. ["We'll talk again when you get your own love, Rei and YOUR hormones are going nuts!"] Sailor Mars and Usagi blushed brightly, then giggled. ["Yeah right! Like that will happen around here"] Mars rolled her eyes and looked away, inwardly sad at the thought that she would never have a soul mate like her Princess did. Usagi and Tuxedo Kamen exchanged a significant glance, reading each other's minds. Neither was fooled for a moment by mars' words. "All right-lets go" he ordered, wrapping an arm about Sailor Mars shoulders and leading her to the window. "Good luck buddy!" Motoki called out, arm about Reika. "I will" Tuxedo Kamen promised. Usagi followed them as far as the bed, then sank weakly into the covers. Her love was only a foot away, opening the window, but she could not touch him for fear that they would be overcome with passion and he would never leave! ["That is a very mature thought, daughter"] Seline's thoughts broke into Usagi's startling the girl. ["Come here to the bed. You must summon the crystal and concentrate before Endymion and Mars can safely leave"] she instructed. The Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen gathered by the window and waited, their eyes on the silver haired girl sitting there with her head bowed. ["I can do this"] she whispered mentally to herself, taking a deep breath. As she summoned the silver crystal and the beautiful object fell into her slender hands, she felt her bond with Mamoru and Rei recede. "Be careful" she told them aloud, before staring down deep into the crystal's depths. ["Be Serenity. Be true self. Be powerful"] she chanted to herself and the crystal. A strange emotion washed over her, powerful and warm and loving-before Serenity looked up, eyes clear and silver. "I am ready, Endymion. Mother" she told them calmly. She turned her eyes back to her love and her lids narrowed at him as she concentrated. Reaching deep into his soul, she found Endymion there. ["Be careful my love"] Tuxedo Kamen stiffened as he felt Serenity enter his mind and was shocked to hear her voice in his mind. But he had thought that the Princess could only talk mentally through her bond with the Prince! ["You ARE my Prince"] her voice caressed his mind lovingly before withdrawing. Tuxedo Kamen shuddered and then took a deep breath. He smiled at his Princess, then gathered Sailor Mars into his arms and leapt out the window. The other Senshi followed swiftly, leaving the others to stare blankly at the spot that they had been standing in moments before. "Will they be okay?" Reika voiced her concerns and broke the strained silence. ["They will be fine, Reika"] Seline told her in a convincing tone. ["They have fought these battles many times before-and now that their past memories are beginning to emerge, they will become even more powerful and beautiful warriors"] Ikuko gave her daughter a curious look. "You sound so certain, Seline. How can you be sure?" "Do not worry, mom" Princess Serenity said, turning her face towards her mothers and gently smiling. "I-remember the past in flashes and-" she frowned delicately. "I do remember them looking different and being more powerful" ["They were and soon it will be time"] Seline murmured, looking rather distracted. She turned her eyes to her daughter. ["The time has come for you to help me, daughter. Touch the silver crystal to my forehead and concentrate"] Princess Serenity looked bewildered, but did as the baby said, laying the beautiful silver crystal over the golden crescent moon. Immediately they both felt a surge and an echo of a million voices chorusing through their minds. She cast a look at her Mother uncertainly as warmth spread up from arms from the silver crystal and into her body with a dazzling display of silver and rainbow lights surrounding her. It soon surrounded Seline and SHE looked just as surprised, silver eyes opening as wide as her mouth as they were both consumed. Ikuko was forced to remove her hands swiftly from the baby as she became to hot to hold, and she and the other two shielded their eyes. ["This is-unexpected"] Seline exclaimed mentally, before she was cut off totally from her daughter and the crystal. She opened her eyes as the glow faded from her and Serenity's bodies-revealing a TOTALLY different form! The Silver Crystal rolled from her forehead and into Serenity's lap unnoticed. "Oh my god!" Ikuko half-shrieked, almost smothered under the weight of two full-grown girls. Seline's eyes were wide and startled as she stared into Ikuko's from a few centimeters away, long legs and arms splayed ungracefully over the bed covers, Ikuko and Serenity. "MOTHER!?" Serenity shrieked also as her eyes cleared and she got a look at her mother. Seline was no longer a baby, but a tall beautiful girl about Serenity's age of 16! In fact-they looked like identical twins! "Oh dear" Seline murmured in dismay, eyes meeting those of her daughter's. "This-is unexpected" she said again, this time aloud. "What did you EXPECT!?" Motoki yelped, eyes boggling at the sight of TWO Usagi's-er Serenity's. Apart from the age clearly seen in Seline's eyes, they BOTH could have been the same age. He flapped a hand at his face, feeling faint. ["Boy is Mamoru going to faint when he sees THIS!"] he thought to himself. He flushed and stared ruefully at Seline, who had turned to look at him with a frown. "Did you just think something?" she demanded of him, scrambling to her knees. It was then that she and everyone else realized that the Queen was NAKED as the day she was bon-with only her hair to cover her modestly. She uttered a startled scream that sounded very much like the one Serenity also gave and dived under the covers next to Ikuko. "Oh I am SO mortified!" Seline moaned, holding the covers up to her chin desperately, flushing as brightly as Motoki and Serenity were. Reika slapped a hand over Motoki's eyes as he gasped, as if struck blind and his mouth gaped like a fish. "I didn't see a THING!" he yelled out, flushing brightly. "Not a THING!" "Neither did I, my Queen!" a forgotten Artemis swore as he valiantly keep his back to the bed, furry cheeks turning pink. "Artemis!" Luna growled at him, red eyes flashing wrath. Seline moaned again from under the covers and Ikuko and Serenity exchanged bewildered looks. "Mother?" Princess Serenity asked, gently peering over the sheets to see her Mother's near identical face staring back. "Oh dear, Serenity! The Crystal DID something to me" Seline wailed- reminding all present of Usagi. "It was supposed to AGE me, not turn be back into 16!" Luna gave a yelp, spinning to look at her Queen. "TURNED you back?! Serenity preserve us all!" she and Artemis gave similar groans of dismay and outrage, then covered their faces with their paws. "What does that mean?" asked a bewildered Ikuko. Princess Serenity looked similarly startled as she stared at the once calm and graceful Queen. Luna raised her head and gazed at Ikuko helplessly. "You remember how Usagi usually acts? The klutziness? The wailing and crying? Hating classes?" "Yes?" Ikuko admitted cluelessly. "Queen Serenity was JUST like that as she was growing up!" Artemis broke in, rolling over onto his back and groaning some more. "You mean...?!" Motoki said, paling as he looked from Seline to Serenity. "Yes. Now we have TWO Usagi's to deal with!" Luna moaned. She slapped a furry paw to her forehead-and then her red eyes were drawn from her Queen to the Princess. Princess Serenity gasped and looked down as the Silver Crystal began to glow and became warm in her hands. "What?" she began-but then the silver crystal's power spread up her arms and into her body, consuming her with it's light. "Serenity!" Seline cried out, scrambling up from the bed, a sheet clutched about her slender body. Her silver eyes were wide and afraid as she saw her daughter consumed by the powerful crystal. But-she had not WILLED it to do anything! "Seline. What's happening?" Ikuko screamed, trying to touch her daughter, but the force of the power surrounding her pushed her violently back into the pillows. "I don't know!" Seline screamed back, panicking. "The Silver Crystal isn't sentient! It only responds to commands! This shouldn't be happening!" she reached up to grip her long loose silver hair in frustration and fear, not knowing what to do. Instinctively she knew that the Silver Crystal would not even let Her touch it at this moment- making her even more afraid for her daughter. As a last resort, the Queen called out the name of the one person in all the universe that could help her. "PLUTO!" Ikuko, Motoki, Reika and the two cats all looked at the desperate Seline-but there was no answer. "Pluto?" Seline whispered, a hand going up to her smooth cheek in horror. She bit her lip. ["Could it be that, sailor Pluto no longer knows me?"] she thought, silver eyes going wide and blank. It was true that she was no longer the Queen she once was-in fact, she was now mortal. Her head bowed. "Of course she wouldn't answer me. I am nothing to her now..." Serenity had been utterly startled to emerge from the Crystal warm cocoon of power to see that her Mother had aged and looked almost identical to her! And then, without warning she had again been snared by the Crystal. ["What is happening?"] she cried out mentally as she was consumed. The power filled her mind and her veins with silver power and visions began to fly past her minds-eye dizzyingly. She could hardly follow their progress. And then one came very sharply to her mind. It was a city. A beautiful city made entirely of crystal and in the center was a large palace. Serenity's mind flew towards the palace and she went THROUGH the walls into a throne room. She ignored the crowd there and focused on someone sitting on the throne. A beautiful woman with long silver hair flowing from two buns onto the floor. The woman abruptly looked up and their eyes met- "Stop!" someone commanded sharply. A woman's commanding voice, sounding strangely echoing. As if she were standing in a great cavernous room. The silver-haired woman and the throne room vanished, along with everything else and then Serenity was consumed with power again. Before she could gasp, she felt herself falling fast. "Arrggggggh! she shrieked in an undignified way, both from the falling sensation and from the way that her shirt was flying up above her waist, revealing her bare breasts and a view of her lacy panties. The darkness about her cleared and she fell into a light, then smacked into a hard body from above, flattening the person. "Oh dear" Princess Serenity gasped, eyes wide and stunned. She was barely clad decently and-she looked up-she screamed again as she saw three men staring down at her with shock. "Get off of me!" someone grunted from below her. Serenity shrieked again as the person surged underneath her, making her tumble to the ground ungracefully. She glanced around nervously as she hurriedly scrambled to her knees and huddled there hiding her long bare legs. ["Oh WHY didn't I get Endymion to buy me some clothes?"] she wailed silently, a huge blush on her cheeks. "Good lord!" one of the men breathed. The one that had practically thrown her off. Serenity looked up hesitantly into his blue eyes and then she focused on his face and hair. "Good lord!" she breathed back, horrified. Fear spirally through her at the familiar face. Where WAS she?! Wasn't he DEAD? "Princess Serenity!" the man gasped out, paling as his eyes swept over her appearance. She paled and then flushed under their gaze. ["He knows who I really am!"] she thought, shrinking back. But-he had died and no one but she and her extended family knew... "Stay away from me!" she commanded, trying to calm her trembling tone. She got up and backed off, forgetting her undressed state. They averted their eyes from her, making her remember. She then noticed that something was clutched in her hand and looked down quickly to see that it was the Silver Crystal. As if responding to her fear and bewilderment, the Crystal once more flared into brilliant light and she was sucked into a swirling vortex. Kenji and Marie came running into the room then, both looking red-faces and concerned. Their startled eyes went from the form of the Princess glowing like a small sun, to the naked shoulders of a strange girl who looked EXACTLY like his daughter, to a poleaxed Ikuko, two stunned cats and a gaping Motoki and Reika. "Usagi?" he queried, looking first at Seline. When she shook her head, his eyes became a trifle wild and he looked back at the glowing twin. "Usagi?!" "It's her, Kenji" Ikuko said worried, biting her lip. She felt so helpless against such power as the Silver Crystal was exhibiting. And not for the first time either, over all. She'd had no control over anything since all of this had begun. "Umm-what did we miss?" Kenji uttered faintly, looking back at his daughter. She was glowing so brightly that he could barely see her form. But he could see that her beautiful silver eyes were wide and staring. Blank. "What's wrong with her?!" he demanded, almost running to her side. "Kenji-no!" Seline cried out, the golden crescent moon on her forehead glowing briefly. Kenji fell to a stop mid-stride and froze where he was a foot from the bed and hand still out-stretched. "I can't move" he groaned through stiff lips, eyes rolling wildly from side to side. Seline gasped and released him, falling back into Ikuko with the sheet clutched at her chest for modesty's sake. She shuddered when the blue- haired woman wrapped a comforting arm about her shoulders. "It's so hard now. MY powers are so weak," she said weakly, passing a slender hand over her shadowed eyes. "What happened-" Marie began curiously, eyes never leaving the Princess' form. "We aren't sure, Marie-but don't touch her. The Crystal packs quite a punch," Ikuko said ruefully. "Uh-sure" Kenji said uncertainly, settling back a few feet from his daughter. He wrung his hands together nervously. "Is she okay in there and-" he looked about. "Where is Mamoru and the girls? I thought that Rei and he couldn't separate from Usagi because of the bond!" he looked accusingly at Seline. "And WHO are you? And-and-" he noticed something else, eyes going wild. "WHERE is the baby?" "Here?" Seline waved an arm at him, giving Kenji a tentative smile. "I'm Seline-the baby...who was Queen Serenity. And why am I babbling? Oh dear!" she covered her mouth, blushing becomingly. "There, there, dear. You ARE only sixteen now" Ikuko soothed, eyes going back to her other daughter. "YOU'RE THE BABY?!" both Kenji and Marie gasped, eyes boggling. "Yes" Seline muttered from beneath her hand, utterly bewildered and shocked from the circumstances. Her daughter was trapped inside the Crystals power, Pluto hadn't answered her, the Senshi and Endymion were off in battle without the crescent moon wand and-SHE had aged and actually turned back into a sixteen year old. "This is such a mess!" she cried out, frustrated. "It IS" Luna sighed heavily, padding forwards on the carpet until she was at the base of the bed and then she leapt up. Her red eyes studied the Princess encased inside the Crystal's unimaginable power. "I believe that she is unharmed" she said finally. "The Silver Crystal appears to be-I don't know...almost it looks like communicating" she sounded puzzled. "The Silver Crystal isn't sentient, Luna. That is NOT possible," Seline said, removing the hand from her face swiftly. Her eyes tried to penetrate the glow of power about her daughter, but even she was unable to sense anything. "My powers are not at their fullest, I am afraid" she murmured, resting her head back against Ikuko's chest, the silver hair spilling over both of them and the sheet like a silken waterfall. She looked so like Princess Serenity that it was uncanny. "Are you SURE, my Queen? Artemis asked, breaking his silent musing. "I mean, what do we really know about the Silver Crystal? Do we even know where it CAME from?" Seline frowned, delicate lines forming between her silver brows. "I-I- that is strange" she murmured, perplexed. "I cannot remember where the Crystal came from either" "You WHAT?!" Luna and Artemis chorused in horror and disbelief. HOW could Queen Serenity NOT know?! The young girl suddenly looked her age as her silver eyes became frightened and bewildered. "I do not know! My memories aren't all there. Oh, Luna!" she cried out, sounding so like a scared Usagi that Luna responded automatically. Luna forgot that this was her Queen of over a thousand years and only saw a beautiful frightened girl who was under her care currently. She leapt up the bedclothes and curled up onto Seline's chest above the sheets and began to purr loudly. "It will be all right" she soothed, reaching up to pat the girl's cheek with a soft paw. Artemis' eyes softened also as he looked first at Seline and then the purring Luna. Something familiar nagged at his mind, but it slipped away before he could grasp it. Only a flash of something stayed-a beautiful woman with long curly purple hair, smiling at him with love. He blinked, then frowned darkly. He too had been having problems with missing memories. "I'd really like to know what's going on around here- and what is going on with Princess Serenity!" he snapped out, frustrated to the point that his white fur was standing on end on the back of his neck. "So would I!" Kenji announced, crossing his arms and frowning just as darkly. "I bet that boy has something to do with this!" he muttered. Ikuko and Motoki heard and glared at him. "I thought we already had a talk about this and agreed that none of this was Mamoru's fault, Kenji!" she snapped at him irritably. He groaned and unfurled his hands to touch a finger to his throbbing temple. "Yes, yes. I know we did. And I know it's not-but who else can I blame?!" he finished in a demanding tone. "When we find out, we'll be sure to tell you first" Artemis said dryly. "And we can do without that attitude if yours young man!" Kenji whirled and pointed one trembling digit at the astonished cat. Artemis' fur bristled in indignation, then he smiled slyly. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news-NOT-but I'm WAY older than you YOUNG man" he said smugly to the now-fuming Kenji. "Give or take a thousand years" "Oh, yeah!" Motoki said, eyes lighting up. "That's right! All of you are over a thousand years old" his eyes went wide, face paling. "Even Mamoru! Wow" "Wow is right" Reika murmured. She quirked an amused eyebrow at her boyfriend. "I suppose now that he's far too old to attend collage. Ancient in fact" Artemis growled at Reika, then stuck his tongue out at the startled woman. "Lady, do I look ancient to you?" he asked her pointedly. "Do you see any gray fur? And does Mamoru or Usagi or Minako look wrinkled and cane-bound to you? Heeeeello!" Reika blushed at him, then frowned back. "You know-you sounded very like, Minako just then" she, Marie and Ikuko turned big grins on the cat as he spluttered. "MEEEE? Like that blonde ditz! Ha! Never happen" he shouted indignantly. He purposefully turned his furry back on them all and began to sulk and mutter under his breath about women in general. Seline giggled, then sobered as the room went quiet again and all eyes went to Serenity. "I hope she's okay-" she began, but was cut off by a bright flash right in front of her face. The glowing form of the Princess vanished into thin air before anyone could gasp. "Serenity!" Seline screamed, scrambling up onto her knees and just remembering her sheet at the last moment. Her hands frantically dug at the covers where her daughter had been, even though it was evident that she was gone. "Serenity!" she wailed. "Usagi!" Kenji and Ikuko shouted together, devastated. Luna looked about wildly, having been tossed ungracefully from Seline's chest as the girl scrambled up. "Usagi! Serenity!" she too began pawing at the covers as if the Princess was hidden there. "Where is she?" As her frantic words died down in the panicked yelling of everyone in the room, another bright flash-larger this time-came into being right above the beds. As everyone gaped, there came a startled shriek and Princess Serenity came hurtling down from above. "Arrrgggggh!" she fell directly onto the poleaxed Luna, who couldn't move in time and was flattened. As she frantically scrambled out from under the light-weight girl to see if she was all right, she was shocked to hear four more startled shouts from-this time sounding definitely masculine. "Abandon bed!" Motoki shouted out, blue eyes wide as he eyeballed the glowing light hovering over Ikuko, Serenity, Seline and Luna. The girls all looked up and then scrambled ungracefully from the bed as one person as four shapes came hurtling out of the air and onto the bed. They hit with such force that the figures tumbled off the other side of the bed and thudded into a pile of flailing legs and arms at Seline's delicate feet. Then cursing filled the air. "Ouch, damn it!" "What in Terra's name just happened? I just hit my bloody head on the floor!" "Never mind that-where the hell ARE we! And where is Princess Serenity?" The last lot of swearing was muttered, but highly uncomplimentary, from a figure crushed under the others. Serenity eyed the pile of limbs and royal blue uniforms with a slightly perplexed look. "Mother-I er seem to have brought back with me....from somewhere" she stepped back towards Ikuko nervously, still wary of the men. Especially the two that ought to be dead! "A FEW someone's, Serenity!" Luna growled, rubbing herself against her Princess' bare leg and glaring. They were MEN! ["And they saw my Princess dressed in only a shirt!"] her eyes began to glow red with outrage. Her claws popped out, ready to rip into the interlopers. Then her eyes widened as she finally caught the last part of Serenity's stammered words. "SOMEWHERE?!" she yowled, leaping up into the air in shock. Serenity caught her automatically in her arms, then blinked at her face reflexes. "And where was THAT exactly?!" she demanded, recognizing two of the men belatedly. ["Great, Serenity! She's brought back the dead!"] Luna started to panic at the implications of that thought. Seline moved forward, after making sure that she had securely wrapped herself up in the sheet toga-style. She placed a hand about her daughter's waist in a silent comforting way and then stared down at the uniformed men with a startled, then utterly horrified look as the four finally raised their heads and scrambled onto their knees to face their audience. "Oh, NO!" she gasped out in horror.