The Party
The party was loud. I’ve never really been to a place like that before, but given it was ‘business’ there wasn’t really much of a time to enjoy the party.
I felt a little uncomfortable dressed as a cat-girl, but I could at least move in a gainly fashion than Tsukino-san who was in a giant teddy-bear suit. She was having such problems, that Luna and I went to investigate the crystal ‘back-stage’ and left her on the floor.
As I was wondering around I ran into Rei-san. After some hesitation on both our parts we agreed that we could sort of understand where each other was coming from and that we could work together for the investigating given that two heads was better than one if we came across a youma of some kind.
As it was we did. The lady who was looking after the crystal seemed to have been taken over, was able to get the box away from her so that we had the crystal and the enemy wouldn’t. When the youma appeared we henshined, and Rei-san/Mars told me to get the crystal away from there, she would handle the youma and call Tsukino-san. What we didn’t realize at that point was that there was more than one youma, and I wound up stuck on the roof with them after me, and unable to do anything for fear of losing the box with the crystal in it, until Luna could look at it and tell us whether it was the crystal we were looking for or not.
Thankfully, Tsukino-san and Rei-san were able to rescue me. But we had a problem in that whenever we attacked the youma they would regenerate each other…we realized that we had to all attack at once, but our timing was off and we got trapped behind a building.
Music was floating up from the party, Aino Minako’s new single, ‘C’est la vie,’ Tsukino-san started singing along, and we realized, much to Rei-san’s distress that if we sang along with the song we could keep ourselves in time, and attack in-sync.
It worked, but by then we had lost control of the crystal, and the enemy had it. Tuxedo Kamen managed to get it away from the enemy, but in doing so pitched it towards the edge of the roof. Tsukino-san leapt to catch it, but didn’t have balance and almost fell. Rei-san and I were too far away to help, but Tuxedo Kamen tried, pitching them both off the roof. I was too terrified to even breathe…but then the strangest thing happened. Tsukino-san’s wand/weapon started to glow and an orb of light encircled them and seemed to act like a parachute, lowering them to the ground at a safe velocity.
I thought I would pass out, but Rei-san picked me back up and we headed for the stairs, trying to speculate what could have happened.
Tsukino-san was fine, thankfully, and Rei-san agreed that she would work with us, and that it wasn’t so bad. Although I can anticipate that she and Tsukino-san are going to have problems given Rei-san apparently despises karoake with the same kind of passion that Tsukino-san tries to avoid math problems, and Tsukino-san is rather keen on music, specifically Aino Minako and spreading the good word about her to the masses.