The three living naked child sized kemonomimi dolls all nodded at each other, clasped hands together, then turned on a dime and went in three opposing directions like spokes on a wheel. In their minds was the mental image of a heart topped with a bow with a 'to' tag with a picture of everyone the kemonomimi dolls had been knew on it.
"The pain will never fully go away will it?" Souichi Tomoe had asked Sailor Pluto after Sailor Galaxia's healing. "I can still feel him. Daemon. He's gone, I can't see the scars, but I can feel them."
"That is for you to decide." Sailor Pluto had said simply. Sailor Pluto was not a psychologist (not in this life time at least), but she did know there was no reason for Prof. Tomoe to feel any after affects from Daemon's infestation. Sailor Pluto had eventually come to the conclusion that Souichi was unconsciously punishing himself for his failure to be stronger than Daemon and playing a part in the near consuming of the world by what Nyx herself had called 'a gross mockery of myself.' Being the Sailor Scout chosen by Hades, Sensuta was one of the few who could get within a solar system's width of Nyx without leaving behind a perfectly healthy corpse a non-second later.
Sadly it wasn't like Prof. Tomoe could go to a psychologist for his problems. While the acceptance of Sailor Scouts and Youma had become a part of the district of Tokyo, Prof. Tomoe doubted there were any schools of psychology that dealt with possession, and he had had little lot with the gods so going to a priest was a minor option for him. So the man instead tortured himself from the inside out.
Hotaru of course hadn't mentioned her father was at the hospital that day for an examination... she had no desire to burden Diana on her birthday with such troubled news.
Now the kemonomimi cat girl doll that was once Hotaru happily skipped to the hospital, humming to herself the theme from Nuku Nuku Cultural Cat-Girl. Hotaru didn't understand of course why a hospital would have a guard house or a fence... And the kemonomimi didn't care.
Azabu-Juuban's acceptance for the strange was pushed to it's absolute limits when seeing girls in politically correct plastic naked cat girl doll costumes skipping about. A few called the police but the police were wondering it was a youma again and few officers had a desire to have the life force suck out of them again. The need for a magical girl division for the police had been screamed for for years...
The man in uniform at the front gate looked at purple ribbon wearing cat girl doll oddly. "Uh, you here to see one of the doctors?" He asked figuring this might be one of the patients who saw escaping as a hobby and let themselves be captured when they got bored.
The living doll who was no longer Hotaru shook its head.
A minute or so later the kemonomimi with the purple ribbon was walking towards the hospital past the gate house, while the new naked kemonomimi doll with blue/black ears and tail waved her good luck, wearing a whistle around her neck.
The purple kemonomimi walked into the hospital via the sliding doors, then stopped at the receptionist's desk. The kemonomimi rang the bell to get her attention, standing perfectly at attention smiling.
"Huh, oh, uh... what can I do for you?"
The kemonomimi used her fingers to make circles over her eyes, then assumed a no non-sense pose, then finally hugged herself.
The receptionist started when a mental image of Prof. Tomoe popped in her head. "Uh! What did, what did you, I.. what is... what is your business with Prof. Tomoe?" The kemonomimi showed her.
A minute later the purple kemonomimi was walking away from the reception desk, the new kemonomimi wearing a red hair clip waved back at her, now SITTING on the counter rather than behind it her legs hanging over the edge.
The kemonomimi followed the directions of the mental map in her head of where where the father of the person she once was currently dwelled.
The kemonomimi saw a doctor walk out of the room of the father of the person she once was was. And calmly walked behind him and walked into the roof after he had left.....
Three minutes later, two kemonomimi walked out of the room, one purple with a ribbon, the other white with round glasses. The two looked in opposite directions of the hall, then looked at each other. Holding hands, the purple kemonomimi leading, they skipped out of the ward in perfect sync with other, like ballerinas.
The cat girl doll who was once the reception waved them happily good by as they pasted her, and returned the wave. They walked out the front door and waved at the blue and black cat dollie. The white kemonomimi did not feel any pain at all, no pain at all! No doubts, no worries, no cares except to deliver the present that was the right of everyone to have.
The white kemonomimi then did a cart wheel ahead of the purple kemonomimi and giggled at her and began to run backwards, then forewords towards the place both of them KNEW they just HAD to visit next... A picture popped into the white and purple kemonomimi's heads of a faded black and white photo of a bunch of people in casual clothes grouped together smiling. Both kemonomimi mimed giggling.
While running the white kemonomimi ran past a woman moving her baby carriage, the glasses dropped a pearl into the baby's hands, in a flash of white the baby grew some, becoming living hollow plastic containing an incredibly simplified soul, sprouting cat ears and a tail with rainbow colored hair with each color of rainbow. The mother gasped just in time for what was once her child to touch her with a pearl which was absorbed into her in a flash of white light. In a moment two equally sized cat girl dolls grinned at each other, the rainbow colored one needing help standing up and the checker board hair, tail and eared one her same height more than eager to help her. They both waved as the purple kemonomimi ran past them trying to catch with the white one.
++++++++
"So dear, why did you want me here with you without Usagi? And without our child on her birthday?"
Sitting at a window, a white moon cat said to a black moon cat. "Luna, Diana's birthday got me thinking."
"How lovely for you dear." Luna said cheerfully.
"Yes well remember that church I was visiting before? The one where we met Diana?"
Luna sighed, "Yes yes and we had that misunderstanding that nearly ruined us I remember."
"Well I've thought about it, and I've decided. Luna... let's get married there!"
"ARTEMIS!" Luna exclaimed. "Are you crazy?!"
Artemis looked hurt, "I... I thought you'd be happy."
"No no no not that! Artemis that church is for humans, and I'm not even that religion!"
"..I am."
"Artemis you have to be joking."
"A lot happened while I was in England... And a lot has always been happening with us. We always think there's tomorrow but there's always another crisis. Well Luna I'm tired of it, and after seeing Diana all this time I know I'm tired of waiting wonder if I should or shouldn't yet! This is it Luna! No more! I know marrying is supposed to be a human thing but we've both spent more time among humans than our own kind. So please Luna... will you marry me?"
"Artemis... first tell me... how can we even GET married there?"
"The silver crystal made you human for one night right? It can do the same for both of us for one day..."
"Artemis you... you KNEW?"
"Diana told me, and apparently you told her and I just know after that, you're STILL here with me and that's enough proof for me. So Luna, WILL you marry me?"
"... Artemis, I-I-" Luna blushed, then nodded her head, "I accept."
Artemis instantly pounced on Luna, purring, Luna was startled for a moment then began to purr as well, nuzzling each other for several minutes. "Oh Luna, thank you, THANK YOU THANK YOU! I know it's cliche but you've made me the happiest cat on Earth!"
"I'll take your word for it dear." Luna purred.
They heard clapping the two cats turned her heads, and at the window was a light gray haired girl donning cat ears and tail with plastic skin. She smiled and waved with both hands at the two then held both hands over her heart. She looked positively delighted. She was also naked. Only Artemis reacted badly, Minako having taught him the lesson of pain for accidently seeing her uncovered. 'That's stupid anyway, I'm a cat, I'm not turned on by humans.' Atemis had always mentally protested but knew better than to debate with his charge on the subject.
"What in the-Diana is that you?!" Luna exclaimed seeing the moon mark more than she saw the cat features.
The kemonomimi cocked her head, her smile diminishing only marginally, then smiling fully again and nodding.
"Let me guess," Luna said in a 'here we go again' voice. "You played with Rini's silver crystal requesting it as a birthday gift... you tried to use it, and your wish misfired and you, Hotaru, and Rini couldn't figure out how to use it to fix your problem on your own, and you don't want anyone who doesn't have to know about your goof up, and now you want us to clean up your mess for you." Luna now spoke in a slightly authoritative voice, the same one her line had used for centuries to temper the various members of the Serenity line into competent and focused rulers.
Instead of answering, the living plastic kemonomimi leaned in closer from the window.
"Come on in before someone sees you. Maybe we can find a dress of Mina in her yesteryear for you to wear." Luna said.
"Luna I'm not sure Mina keeps any."
"Artemis no offense but given your charge's collection of stuff animals and merchandise from her own franchise I doubt she throws anything away."
"Point... maybe I can find something but I'm not hunting through her closet again."
"Seriously Artemis Mina is YOUR charge your are not her servant and not her pet no matter what appearances you have to maintain. You have to start taking authority with her,and if she won't listen you have to make her listen. She is supposed to be Usagi's second in command and understudy. You can't afford to fold into her it's your responsibility."
The kemonomimi that was once Diana looked this way and that between the two moon cats as they chatted among themselves. Finally she snapped her fingers and out of her palms appeared two collars with a pearl on them. She had a humming sound, then held them out to the parents of the person it used to be.
Artemis and Luna looked at each other.
"Diana, when did you learn that trick?" Artemis asked what was once his daughter the two moon cats feeling mysteriously drawn towards the pearls pretty light.
"Did you make these... for us? Did you know already... this is when Artemis would propose?" Luna asked as she and Artemis touched the collars at the same time.
The magic had learned from Diana, had used her as a the template in combination with the left overs of it's own magic, this time there was no delay between the moon cats touching the pearls and their resulting transformation.
Both cats glowed white together, their bodies expanding, changing, increasing in size in a matter of seconds, their bodies taking on more humanoid appearance.
'What's happening, I feel so :-) ! '
'?! <3 ! :-D '
The light faded, unlike Luna's previous transformation, this change didn't give her clothes. The two new naked plastic kemonomimi looked at each other, put one arm on the other shoulder of the other, and lifted each other up. The hair the kemonomimi who was Luna a moment was exactly in the style and color she had when she had been human for a brief time. The girl kemonomimi who had been Artemis now had the exact same style, making the three of them a matching set. On top of that, each other of them had a moon mark on their foreheads. Their hair and fur was the same as it had been before their formation, except now they were all showing off plastic skin that showed that were as genderless as any set of dolls.
The kemonomimi who were originally Artemis and Luna faced each other, and made the gesture of something flying out of her chests at each other. The two then hugged each other joined in quickly the light gray kemonomimi. The trio soon broke up the hug and holding each other's hands in a circle began to dance around the room smiling humming the tune 'Carousel.'
Unlike all the other cat girls the ones that had been Luna and Artemis bore the pearls still that had transformed them. Now they wrote them around their necks or wrists like friendship bracelets or necklaces depending on their whims. The two looked at the trinkets they both wore, and mimed giggling.
The kemonomimi who was once Artemis then mimed singing with a microphone. The two other cat girl dolls looked at each other and nodded. With cat like stealth they snuck into Minako's room, she was currently out shopping. The kemonomimi dolls who had been the senior cats took positions on either side of the door, with the living doll who had been Diana hiding on the top of the door frame. The hollow plastic that held modified souls waited with infinite patience for Mina to return home. It didn't matter how long they needed to wait, they knew Mina would return home eventually unless she was hurt. But that didn't seem to be an issue as they heard the front apartment door open and shut and the ruffle of bags.
"Artemis, you here? You home? ... Okay where are you? The cat door outside has it's latch still off so I know you're here..." Called out Mina's voice.
They heard her foot falls coming down the hallway, and the door to her room slowly opened, "I swear if I find you in my closet again I'm going to have you-AHH!" Minako yelped as the two former moon cats love tackled her from both sides grabbing her legs. And while she was reacting from -that- the kemonomimi who had been Diana leapt off the door frame, neatly placing a pearl collar around Mina's neck.
Mina nearly frozen in place as her clothes vanished into thin air, giving her the kemonomimi a view of her body they didn't care all that much about and perfect view of her transformation as her body became a white outline and her form shrunk and became petit and almost fae like. Next of course came the cat ears and tail. The light faded. Mina's shoulder length hair now went down her back almost. Her blond cat ears and tail looking good on her innocent figure. On her backside was a rather large ribbon, orange like the primary color of Minako's senshi uniform adorned her body.
The kemonomimi that was no longer Mina looked at her fellow living dolls and waved at them who waved back. She then grabbed the bad she had been holding revealing a stuffed toy and skipped over to Mina's massive collection and put it daintily in place. She skipped back and smiled in satisfaction and looked at her fellow dolls who nodded in approval of well. The four of them then dived into the pile of plush toys completely bringing chaos to Mina's perfect order of stuffed toys like Scourge McDuck diving into his pool of cold hard cash. Mina's order completely ruined, and the kemonomimi that had been Mina not remembering the last time she had felt so happy or carefree, sun spotted herself on the bed with one of the stuffed animals, and the other three quickly joined her with stuffed animals of their own.
For the next hour they all had what amounted to their own personal pretend tea party! The kemonomimi mimed chatting among themselves and with the stuffed animals and listened attentively to their answers and politely answered back. The tea party eventually came to an end as a mental image of the other senshi came flashing through the kemonomimi's minds. The kemonomimi who had been Mina looked at the others and shrugged, who nodded back and put down their tea and kindly bid the stuffed animals good bye and promised to be back as soon as they could be which delighted the stuffed animals of course that their owner now wished to honestly play with them rather than just display them.
Walking side by side in perfect sync with each other, the four kemonomimi cat girl walked out of Mina's house, remembering to lock it, and began to hop skip and jump happily to the place they all had pictured in their heads.
+++++++
The kemonomimi meanwhile, who had been once Serenity III 'Rini,' stood politely outside the house that Rini had stayed with along with her grandmother and future mother and other relatives from before the time of the great freeze and the rebirth of the world a thousand years later by Neo Queen Serenity's power and will.
The pink kemonomimi knocked on the door, then rang the door bell. She waited patiently, allowing her grandmother inside Ikuko, to do as she would and being able to reach a stopping point in preparing dinner for her family. She had gone through her life with no idea her daughter was the future queen of the world. Let alone that her memories of her 'niece' were taken away and put back again as it was convenient for Rini, and that for a time she had believed herself to have a second child in the form of ChibiChibi the star seed the good-side of Sailor Galaxia. The fact that it might be wrong to alter your family's memories had been completely ignored by the scouts in general.
The cat girl doll who had been Rini simply hummed to herself her tail swaying this way and that. Finally the door opened revealing a blue haired middle aged woman. "Hello? ... Oh my! What is-! Dear child what are you wearing?!"
The cat girl doll just smiled and nodded and willed forth Luna-P her shape shifting toy her, and shifted it into an umbrella, then spun it as she had before, and without hesitation or concern saw the eyes of Rini's grandmother turn dull.
"Hello dearie... how nice to see you... Usagi isn't home right now, but Sammy and Kenji are..... please... please come in dear..." The former Rini willed the umbrella and toy away.
And like the barbarians at the gates of Ancient Rome the former Rini walked in unopposed and unchallenged. She held out a pearl that Ikuko took without hesitation already having a vacant smile on her face. She glowed white shrunk and grew the cat features. Her blue hair now almost a cape, the modified eyes of the two cat dolls looking into each other and nodded and the former Ikuko did a 'after you gesture.' Unlike all the others the former Ikuko actually had some modesty somewhat by having a apron around her front side. Not that it mattered since they were all now technically genderless plastic. The pink kitten doll entered with the blue kitten doll who had been Ikuko following close behind.
Half an hour later Usagi was skipping home in her school uniform swimming her bag about glade the weekend was here. While she couldn't exactly get a day off because her 'cousin's' 'pet cat' had a birthday, she could still hang out in the evening with Rini and Diana. After all, birthdays meant cake candy and ice-cream!
"She will never turn her back on a friend! She is always there to defend! She is the one on whom we can depend!" Usagi half-hazardly sang her own theme tune. "Oh yeah baby! Sailor Moon is at the top of her game and here to stay!" Usagi declared to the world everyone around her figuring she was just a sailor moon otaku like Sailor V's fan club.
While Usagi had always been slightly overwhelmed whenever her future position as 'Queen of the Planet' was ever brought up Usagi was hardwired to believe that everything would turn out all right if you could just figure out how. However it was her compassion mercy and kindness that always been her greatest weapons in particular when they proved so powerful that Chaos had literally fled it's host in terror after tasting Usagi's emotions.
'Hmmm I totally wonder where Luna is heh, she's likely out with Diana, after all what mom would miss her future daughter's birthday?' Of course Usagi couldn't remember the last time she had attended a birthday of Rini's but then again she hopped to and from her own time so much that it was likely it had been skipped over. 'Like, I know mom would go nuts if I tried to explain we were gonna have a party for Diana, but I'm sure we can figure somethin' out!'
Usagi at her front door opened the door without knocking, kicked off her shoes in the foyer and entered the house proper determined to run up the stairs straight to her room and like, call all her fellow senshi on the up and up of Diana's birthday. Most of them like of course didn't know Diana as well as Rini did, but it was the thought that totally counted after all.
Usagi however stopped dead in her track when she saw right in her path four naked cat girls with shinny skin standing side by side in a line. All smiling all in the same causal pose and all looking at her.
"Like...no idea." Usagi stared.
Then the cat dolls changed poses. The pink one with the ribbon assumed Usagi's classic 'we shall punish you' pose. The blue haired one and black haired one in pig tails them stood back to back in a 'ta-da' posture. The last one, a brown haired one with an oddly looking hair style put a finger to her face as if thinking, then snapped her fingers, the twirling around, and assumed what could best be described as a 'gun girl' pose holding up an imaginary plasma rifle.
Usagi had no idea and no clue what was going on but she did begin to back away slowly, she should have backed away quickly. The kitten began humming... This wasn't a trick they all knew, only because each of who they used to be had a direct connection to Usagi, and one was senshi... did Usagi's eyes turn dull blue and she smiled a vacant smile.
She then kelt down, and held out her hand, and each of the kittens handed her a pearl.
Usagi's clothes went the way of the dinosaur then she glowed white and shrunk down to their size and body shape, her ears and tail formed out of her. And of course, there was the yellow ribbon she was wearing. Or was it white with blue and red highlights? When the transformation ended, the new kemonomimi doll put her hands behind her back and slightly put one foot above the other, smiling at the other four tilting her head.
The other four all mimed clapping. The new kemonomimi then took a bow, feel very happy and proud of herself. The five of them spent a while after that drawing on the walls happily the one who had been Ikuko making a particular mess of the walls.
Eventually however the pink and yellow cat girls looked at each other and nodded both making the 'will punish you pose' then holding up six fingers. They waved the three other cat girl dolls behind who stayed behind at the house. Meanwhile, walking like mirror images, the two cat girls dolls left the house, both with a perfect mental image of their next location in their empty heads.
Read the comments on this episode
See other episodes by Alex Warlorn
(Posted Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:04)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.