"Well tonight is the big night! I finally get
to do my part as Juliet!" Jennifer said her voice full of
excitement. "I can't wait! I just hope that I don't mess up!"
She said on a down note, as she hung her head.
"Come on Jennifer, that will never happen, you
almost go as far to say your lines in your sleep! I am sure that
you don't have to worry about messing up on it! You will play
the best Juliet there ever was!" Jessica said trying to make her
friend aware of her talent.
"Yeah you will do great! The only thing I
would be worried about would be the kissing scene that you and
Ryan have to do and the look on poor old Brittany’s face! That
could turn out bad, very bad!" Alissa said jokingly.
The four girls broke out in a little burst of
laughter. The Brooke spoke up. "So is there anything going to
happen between you and him? I have seen you two hanging out a
lot more!" She said quietly.
"Such a comment from you Brooke!" Jessica,
Alissa and Jennifer all said at once as they turned to look at
her now very red in the face friend. Brooke tried to hide her
face from her friends.
"Sorry Jennifer, I didn’t mean anything rude
by it, I just saw you two hanging out more and was wondering if
you were going to make anything of it?" She said as she looked
up shyly.
"I don’t know." Jennifer said as it was her
turn to blush now as she looked down at the floor then across
the Computer Classroom to see Ryan talking to a bunch of his
friends, and he too was blushing for some reason. "He is really
nice, and isn’t a jerk like the other guys that I have dated, so
that is good." She admitted.
"Jennifer and Ryan up a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
Alissa began to sing quietly as she looked from Jennifer to
Ryan. The brown haired girl got a look that could kill in her
eyes as she looked at Alissa, the blonde quickly stopped the
song and turned back to her computer screen and began to type.
"But seriously, I think you should ask him
before the play! That would be really neat, then the kiss that
you have could be really passionate and meaningful, instead of
fake!" Jessica suggested as she looked at her friend.
"I could do that, I really like him, but I
don’t know if he likes me." She said on a down note. As she
quickly turned to the television screen and typed a few commands
on the screen.
"Oh I think he does, if you haven’t noticed,
he and his friends will turn over here and look at you every now
and then, so I am pretty sure that he likes you by the nervous
look on his face, and how he try’s to change the subject!" She
laughed quietly as she heard Ryan going on about something that
had nothing to do with anything.
"Do you really think so? Do you think he likes
me?" Jennifer asked as she looked over at Ryan out of the corner
of her eye.
"Well you can look at it this way, if you
never ask, then you will never know!" Brooke said in a
matter-of-fact-tone. Jennifer nodded and turned to her computer
screen with the others as the teacher walked by looking down at
how they were doing on their task for the day.
* *
* * *
"Well fido what do you want from me today?"
Shi-ryuu asked as he turned towards the door, which the dog had
just entered as quietly as possible. Gritting his teeth at the
comment he walked into the room.
"You really have to stop calling me that, I am
not your average dog you know." The Beast said as he walked into
the room out of the darkness to show his sleek black fur in the
lights that shone down, his pure white teeth shone brightly.
"Oh really, you are a dog that can talk, that
doesn’t make you very original, there are two other talking dogs
that I know of, on the surface. And they aren’t anything out of
the ordinary." Shi-ryuu mocked.
"You think so, you just wait and you will see
my true power, along with my mistresses, when our plans comes
into place. And you to will have you time to show your true
powers which no one has seen in an era." The beast said as he
turned towards the door.
"Yes sure show powers, now that is all fun,
but when do we get to the destroying everything? I would really
like to get to that soon, because as you know I don’t have the
time for waiting around. Thank-you very much but I have done
that for many centuries now and I would rather not wait any
longer then I have to."
"No need to worry, you will not be waiting
much longer because your time will come soon enough, now Emperor
Valico would like a word with you and your brother, Kurai-ki is
already there." The beast spoke exiting the room.
"Oh great I get to put the blame on Kurai-ki
again, how fun. I really have to get to attacking Sailor Sun’s
family." Shi-ryuu said as he walked slowly to the door as his
tail swished behind him.
"Yes now after you make your brother look like
a complete idiot then meet me out in the hall and the mistress
wants to have a meeting with you. She has news to tell you about
the one Sailor Sun." The beast disappeared into the darkness and
Shi-ryuu turned and followed.
* *
* * *
"I am so nervous. I can’t believe that the
play is tonight!" Jennifer’s voice was shaky with the last bits
of stage fright.
"You have everything that you need right?"
Jessica asked as she gave her friend a comforting pat on her
back.
"Yeah but the majority of stuff that I will
need is already at the school back stage." Jennifer said as she
walked over and got into the car behind Kevin whom was driving.
"Why are you leaving so early? The play
doesn’t start for another hour!" Alissa asked as she pilled into
the car beside Jennifer. The brown head turned to her friend.
"Because it take me forever to get into my
costume, you should see how many parts there are to it, and the
hardest part will be my hair and makeup! Our makeup crew was so
happy that I had long hair so they didn’t have to try to style a
wig which is the hardest thing to do." Jennifer said with a
smile as she put a piece of her hair behind her shoulder.
"I can’t wait to see the play! We have front
row tickets right?" Brooke asked as she looked at Jennifer with
her small questioning eyes. Jennifer nodded as she and the
others slid on their seat belts and Kevin pulled out of the
driveway.
"Are you going to need any help?" Jessica
asked as she turned her head around so she was able to face
Jennifer, Alissa and Brooke.
"The only help that I will need is for you
four to keep Shi-ryuu and Kurai-ki from destroying this for me.
This is my night to shine for me, not as a secret identify."
Jennifer said as she nervously played with a strand of her long
wavy hair.
"Don’t worry we will keep those jerks from
destroying it! My jumping competition was destroyed and I know
how it feels. So this can be my pay back time for that day!"
Alissa said as she put up a clenched fist.
"Yeah we will make sure that those two demons
come nowhere near the building so you can prefer the play and
make everyone cry at the end!" Jessica said proudly. "We will
get Eclipse and Nova to patrol out around the building while the
play is going on, and they have communication devices that will
easily contact us."
"Thank-you!" Jennifer said as she turned to
look down at her script, which had battered edges and ripped
corners. Along with various stains from who knows what.
* *
* * *
"Well I am glad that is over!" Shi-ryuu walked
out into the dark hallway wit Kurai-ki close on his heals.
"Another great plan from the mastermind Kurai-ki! We get to go
and watch a play." The larger demon spoke sarcastically.
Kurai-ki rolled his eyes and walked off dawn
the hall; his footsteps soon became faint and hard to hear. Shi-ryuu
turned towards the "dead end" and there was the beast sitting on
the floor looking up at Shi-ryuu.
"Alright fido, lets get going then. We don’t
want to keep your mistress waiting. I have a quick question; do
you get to sleep at the foot of her bed? Because I must say she
is definitely a nice catch . . ."
"Enough." The beast interrupted. "I will not
have you talk about her in such a way. Now come along. You know
how she hates to be left waiting! And this will only be quick.
So don’t worry that big empty head of yours. You will be in and
out into to attack the Stellar Scouts once again!"
The beast walked through the wall, which went
into a wave; Shi-ryuu clenched his fists at his sides and
followed the beast through into the nothingness on the other
side.
* *
* * *
The music started up and everyone seated in
the auditorium became quiet as from out behind the curtain
stepped, a Jennifer and Ryan to recite the prologue together.
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In
fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break
to new mutiny. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From
forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd
lovers take their life; whole misadventured piteous overthrows.
Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful
passage of their death-mark'd love.
And the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their
children's end, nought could remove. Is now the two hours'
traffic of our stage; the which if you with patient ears attend.
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend."
The audience started clapping loudly as
whistles came from all around; Jennifer smiled at Jessica,
Kevin, Alissa and Brooke that sat in the front row with her
mother and her little sister.
* *
* * *
The scene before the Act 3, Scene 2 Capulet’s
Orchard. The nurse spoke, as she stood by Juliet. "Will you
speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?"
Now Juliet spoke. "Shall I speak ill of him
that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord,
what tongue shall smooth thy name. When I, thy
three-hours wife, have mangled it? But, wherefore, villain,
didst thou kill my cousin? That villain cousin would have kill'd
my husband. Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
your tributary drops belong to woe, Which you, mistaking, offer
up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have
slain; and Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband: all
this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? Some word there was,
worser than Tybalt's death, that murder'd me: I would forget it
fain; but, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds
to sinners' minds:
'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;' That 'banished,' that one
word 'banished,'
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there: Or, if
sour woe delights in fellowship and needly will be rank'd with
other griefs, why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'
thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both. Which modern
lamentations might have moved? But with a rear-ward following
Tybalt's death,
'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word, is father, mother,
Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, In that word's death;
no words can that woe sound. Where is my father, and my mother,
nurse?"
The nurse spoke. "Weeping and wailing over
Tybalt's corse: will you go to them? I will bring you thither."
"Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall
be spent, when theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment. Take up
those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled, both you and I; for
Romeo is exiled: he made you for a highway to my bed; but I, a
maid, die maiden-widowed. Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my
wedding-bed; And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"
"Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo to
comfort you: I wot well where he is. Hark ye, your Romeo will be
here at night: I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell."
"O, find him! Give this ring to my true
knight, and bid him come to take his last farewell." Juliet
spoke and the curtain began to close. An up roar of clapping
arose and people whistled.
It was now the intermission as people stood up
and were able to go out into the gym where food and drinks were
being served.
"Wow! Jennifer is doing such a good job at
playing Juliet! She really gets into it! I can’t wait to see the
rest of the play! And isn’t someone tapping it? I will have to
buy my own copy!" Jessica said excited.
"She is doing a very good job isn’t she?"
Jennifer’s mom asked as she walked over with Jennifer’s little
sisters hand in hers.
"Yes she is Miss. Allen, she really does have
a great talent for acting that is for sure! I heard that there
are some scouters in the audience that might take some of the
youth here tonight and offer them a acting contract!" Jessica
said excited.
"Well that is very exciting indeed!" Miss.
Allen said as she walked over towards a woman she knew. "Now if
you will excuse me I must go talk to one of Jennifer’s teachers.
Jessica, Kevin, Alissa and Brooke all nodded
as they walked over to the table to get some food. Suddenly
Jessica heard Eclipse’s voice faintly. Pretending to drop
something Jessica got down on her hands and knees and crawled
under the table.
"Alright what is it Eclipse?" Jessica
whispered into her transformation medallion.
"I think you and the other’s had better come
outside now, people are being attacked, and you had better do
something about it and now! They are in the parking lot. You
might want to stop them before they get to the building and
destroy Jennifer’s night."
The communication cut out, Jessica crawled out
from under the table and grabbed Kevin’s hand, Alissa and Brooke
followed. "Alright we had better find somewhere to transform, we
have trouble on the way!" She whispered.
"Right!" Alissa and Brooke said together as
they went down the hallway and into an empty classroom. No one
was around so they each held out their transformation
medallions, just before they were going to call out their
phrase’s Jennifer walked into the room.
"Hi guys, I saw you coming in here and my best
guess was that something was up!" She said as she pulled the
long dress she was wearing up just high enough so the front
wouldn’t be dragging on the floor and there would be a less
chance of her tripping.
"SOLARIS STAR . . . . ."
"DAYSTAR COSMIC . . . . . "
"POLLUX STAR . . . . ."
"CAPELLA STAR . . . . ."
"SHAULA STAR . . . . ."
Then all together they called out, "POWER!"
Jessica then closed her eyes. The Solaris
Medallion disappeared into many little orange and gold sparkles;
this caused her body to shimmer the colors of the sparkles as
they fell onto her body.
Then her silver tiara appeared with the red
jewel in the center. The jewel then emitted a blinding flash of
orange light that surrounded Jessica giving her the feeling of
the bright morning sun on her body.
Then a swirl of orange and gold sparkles
warped around her body moving upward as it spun around her body.
The body suit of her uniform then appeared. And the bows came
out of the heart in the center of her chest. Sparkling golden
rings then went around her feet forming boots. Then more
sparkling rings went around her arms forming her gloves. Soon
afterward the golden sparkles went around her waist forming her
skirt.
At that point there was a large burst of
golden sparkles that flew up into the air, when the sparkles
fell to the ground Sailor Sun was then revealed fully
transformed. She did her transformation pose. She stood there
with one hand across her forehead and the other across her
stomach with her legs together. Her long red hair then blew to
the side.
The mist wrapped around counter clockwise
around his body covering him from the eye. When the mist faded
away Kevin was only a shadow. Then was an explosion above his
head and small glittering yellow and maroon sparkles fell over
his shoulders and his long cape appeared around his shoulders.
Then with a bright flash of golden light his
armor appeared. Then he held his right arm to the sky and opened
his eyes. Once his eyes were open a large powerful silver sword
appeared in his hand, he then slid the saber into it's proper
spot on his belt.
Alissa shouted out the phrase as she held her
transformation item above her head. Alissa then closed her eyes
then her transformation wand disappeared.
Her hair was then lifted off of her shoulders.
I strong gust picked up and swirled around her. Then her silver
tiara appeared with the white jewel in the center. The jewel
them emitted a blinding flash of gray light that surrounded
Alissa giving her the feel of a warm spring breeze blowing
through her hair and across her face.
Then the swirling air divided into rings and
two rings went around her body moving upward as it spun around
her body. The body suit of her uniform then appeared. And the
bow came out of the heart in the center of her chest. Gray rings
of air went around her feet forming boots. Then more gray rings
went around her arms forming her gloves. Soon afterward the gray
air went around her waist forming her skirt.
At that point the wind picked up greatly, her
hair was blowing wildly. From above a tornado came down and
circled around Alissa blocking her from view. When the tornado
died down and her hair slowly dropped back resting on her
shoulders. Sailor Pollux was reveled fully transformed. She did
her transformation pose. Her pose was her standing with both of
her hands on her cheeks, looking very innocent and harmless. Her
head was tilted a little bit to the side. Her legs were apart,
one was a little ahead then the other.
Jennifer shouted out these words as she held
her transformation medallion above her head. She then closed her
eyes then her transformation medallion disappeared. Her hair was
then lifted off of her back.
Then her silver tiara appeared with the green
jewel in the center. The jewel them emitted a blinding flash of
green light that surrounded the girl giving her the feel of
leaves brushing across her face and around her body.
Then from the ground vines formed at the
bottom of her feet. The vines then slowly moved up her body. Her
legs were then covered from view. The vines continued to move up
her body, her waist was then hidden, the vines continued to move
up and they covered her upper body then they moved down her
arms.
Then there was a large burst of green light
and the vines started to move away from her body slowly moving
down. The vines revealed her gloves then her body suit was
formed. Next came her skirt and the vines completely disappeared
and her boots were reviled. The heart in the center of her chest
was reveled.
From the heart came more vines they formed her
bow. Then the bow in her back appeared with the vines.
At that point more vines appeared and they
grew upward. The vines keep growing up until they were above her
head. They then began to wrap around her body causing a wall of
vines around her. The vines tied into a point above Jennifer's
head. When the vines died down and the girl's hair slowly drops
back resting on her shoulders. And Sailor Capella was reveled
fully transformed. She did her transformation pose. Her pose was
her standing with her right arm stretched out in front of her.
Her left arm is resting on her hip. Her head was tilted slightly
forward. Her legs were together.
Brooke shouted out the words as she held her
transformation medallion above her head. Brooke then closed her
eyes then her transformation medallion disappeared. Then her
silver tiara appeared with the sea green jewel in the center.
The jewel them emitted a blinding flash of sea green light that
surrounded Brooke giving her the feel of her body being surround
by the cool summer water.
Then from behind her a wave formed and crashed
down on top of her, she didn't stir. Once the water resided,
Brooke stood in it. A small bit of water at her feet moved up
her knees forming boots, which were transparent. The water then
slowly moved up her body. Her waist was then hidden beneath
water, the form of her skirt could be seen the water continued
to move up and it covered her upper body then it moved down her
arms. Then rain began to fall from an unseen source, covering
her body.
As the water touched her arms it reveled her
gloves then her body suit. Next came her skirt and the rain
slowly tapered off, but not before her boots were reviled. The
heart in the center of her chest was reveled. From the heart
came more water it formed her bow. Then the bow in her back
appeared in the same fashion.
And Sailor Shaula was reveled fully
transformed. She did her transformation pose. Her pose was her
kneeling down on one knee, her elbows rest on that knee, her
head rested in her hands and she had a big smile which spread
across her face.
The four Stellar Scouts and the male
counterpart ran out of the classroom and down the hall towards
the nearest exit. Bursting out into the parking lot they were
greeted with the screams of students that went out side to have
some fresh air.
And there Kurai-ki and Shi-ryuu were in the
middle of all of the mayhem that was happening around them. Shi-ryuu
threw a lifeless body to the ground that one of the brave
bystanders broke her fall with his own body.
"Hey Kurai-ki! Shi-ryuu!" Get over here now
and leave the helpless alone, and fight some one that will be a
match to you!" sailor Capella yelled across the parking lot.
Almost all at once the screams stopped from
screams of pain and went to screams of joy. The people would
yell out "We are saved the Stellar Scouts have come!" And
variations of that.
Sailor Sun smiled as she walked up and looked
at the two demons that flew over the parking lot, whom had both
turned to face the four Sailor suited girls and the capped man.
The wind picked up and blew their hair, and
uniforms to the side. Stepped up with an angered look on her
face Sailor Sun fired out an attack.
"SUN FIRE BEAM . . . . . BURN!"
Sailor Sun stood with her legs together, then
she put her hands together as if she were going to pray. She
closed her eyes and slowly lifted her hands towards the sky.
During the whole time Sailor Sun's hair was blowing fiercely
around her. There was a bright flash of golden and orange light
which caused her body to shimmer, then a large golden fireball
spun around Sailor Sun then turned and headed towards Shi-ryuu
and Kurai-ki. When it reached them the fireball began to spin
around them.
Again being the usual coward Shi-ryuu used his
wings to protect his backside and Kurai-ki to protect his front
side. Kurai-ki groaned in pain as he fell to the ground, the
people below scattered from the falling green demon.
"SHAULA FLOOD OF TEARS . . . . . DOWNPOUR"
Tears welled up in Sailor Shaula's eyes as she
bent down and kneeled on her knees, she looked up at Kurai-ki
and Shi-ryuu. As the tears began to pour down her face at a
great speed, soon she had a puddle of tears that was growing in
size and it was soon up to her waist, raising higher and higher.
The tears were now at her neck and covered over her head. She
then tightly shut her eyes and the pile of water, which had
formed a column around her, went right towards Kurai-ki and Shi-ryuu.
It leapt up into the air and circled around them then dropped
onto them with such power it forced them to be pushed into the
parking lot.
Shi-ryuu was being to get very angered so he
shot out a whole swarm of the bat made of fire, they flew this
way and that diving down. Attacking the Stellar Scouts and the
helpless people that were running around the parking lot waving
their hands over their heads trying to get ride of the bats that
burned their hair and clothing.
"POLLUX STORM TORNADO . . . . . SPIN!"
Sailor Pollux stood with her legs apart. Her
hands were clasped across her chest. Her head was bowed and her
eyes were closed. Then her eyes snapped open as her neck
straightened. She put her hands above her head and a strong wind
picked up. Sailor Pollux's hair and uniform blew wildly in the
wind. She turned her wrist and a gray tornado came down from
above. It surrounded her then she put her hands directly in
front of her chest and the tornado spun out not towards Shi-ryuu
or Kurai-ki and the small bats of fire were caught up in the
tornado and thrown off and disappeared.
* *
* * *
Juliet’s and Romeo’s final scene was coming
up. Jessica, Kevin, Alissa and Broke all sat in the front row
waiting to see the saddest scene of the entire play.
Juliet spoke to Friar Laurence. "Go, get thee
hence, for I will not away." Friar Laurence exited. "Juliet
spoke again. "What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end: O churl! Drunk all,
and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy
lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them. To make die with
a restorative."
She kissed him and whispered words for only
Romeo’s ears. "Will you go out with me?" He winked at her to say
yes. "Thy lips are warm."
The First Watchman spoke. "Lead, boy: which
way?"
Juliet spoke again. "Yea, noise? Then I'll be
brief. O happy dagger!" Snatching Romeo's dagger. "This is thy
sheath;" stabbed herself. "There rust, and let me die." She fell
on Romeo's body, and died.
The rest of the play finished, and there
wasn’t a dry eye in the entire building. Everyone clapped as the
cast came out after the closing curtain to do the formal bow.
Romeo handed Juliet a bouquet of flowers and gave her a kiss on
the cheek. She returned the kiss.
Everyone was standing up and clapping very
loudly and whistling to show how much they loved the play.
People threw flowers up on the stage for the various cast
members.