Hotaru held hands with Rokk, leaning into him as the fountain colors played and the different patterns sprayed, the nearby flora giving off intoxicating night scents.
Pixies tittered at the sight of the couple, made a few ribald comments, but otherwise left them alone.
Venus had found a fairly nice Elven Lord, third in line for his throne, who happened to be an expert on abjuration magic. Finding an attentive and pretty young human fascinated with the subject, he went into great detail.
Venus, of course, didn't understand a word but was entirely focussed on how cute the nice elf was. And single? Single! No prospects? Oh poor dear... Venus flashed a victory sign back at the other Senshi before returning her focus to the nice elf.
Jupiter wondered if there were any tall handsome guys like her sempai around. At least Minako seemed to have found someone...
"Excuse me, Miss? Would you care to dance?"
"I don't know, I..." Jupiter blinked. Someone had asked her to dance? She turned, looking down as most of the elves were just barely over five feet in height. Hmmm. Was that a belt buckle? What was that shoe size - a 20?!
"I'm up here, Miss."
Sailor Jupiter's gaze slowly tracked up, past a very muscular chest, past a thick muscular neck, past the square jaw, to where a pair of gentle brown eyes looked back at her with some amusement.
"Miss? Are you okay?"
Sailor Jupiter's mouth hung open and swung lightly as if in a breeze. She was 5'11", and her eyes were even with this guy's collarbone. "gah?!" Ruggedly handsome compared to bishonen. He kind of looked like Arnold Schwarzzenager combined with Harrison Ford. "Ah?! Eee. Ohhh." (Tilt!)
"Miss, are you all right?"
Sailor Jupiter was aware that she'd been ready to fall over when he had reached out and grabbed her waist to hold her upright. BIG hands, felt very strong and very warm too. "I... that is... uhmm. Ahhh."
The powerfully built giant shrugged and walked off. "Sorry to bother you, miss."
"Ahh? Eeehh. I-i-i-," fidgeted Sailor Jupiter.
"You haven't self-destructed THAT badly since that party with the foreign students," cooly assessed Mars.
Jupiter whimpered.
"Well, Miss, how about you? The dance isn't as complicated as it looks, I could show you?"
Jupiter and Mars watched as Mercury was led out to the dance floor.
"Is there something around here to drink?" Jupiter inquired. Her eye fell on a congregation of dwarves soon thereafter and she stalked over to find out what they were drinking.
Mars sighed and wondered if this was actually a good idea. Neptune was spying on Saturn's First Date (where she'd gotten a camcorder from - Mars wasn't even going to guess), Mercury had been invited to dance, Venus was attempting to get an elven boyfriend, and Jupiter was getting drunk. Sailor Moon was...
uh oh.
Sailor Moon had changed into Usagi Tsukino and was apparently drunker than she'd been at the aforementioned party they'd attended with those foreign students.
This could be trouble.
"So," said Setsuna Meiou as this was quite obviously not the usual "dark brooding lair with faceless minions and the Dark Queen in charge of doing evil deeds" or sort of thing that was more normally encountered by sentai teams - and therefore not worth the effort of maintaining her Sailor Pluto guise. Besides, she rather fancied the long flowing court dresses. "Let me see if I have the basics down.
Setsuna looked out over the mainly happy scene. (Well, Rei and Makoto both looked unhappy - and for distinctly different reasons.) Usagi was a happy drunk, who'd have guessed? "I see. In that case, I don't see where it's any of our business:"
"Ah, son-in-law," said Cologne, pointedly ignoring the way that Akane had been pounded into the ground. "I think I've found a way to follow where Kasumi was taken."
"Perverts must be pounded," said Ranma in a distracted manner.
"Been talking to Miss Tendo?" Cologne shook her head. "The only way you can get away from such things would be to join a pious monastery like the one up in Lake Biwa where they practice aesthetism and martial arts to the exclusion of practically everything else."
Ranma blinked.
(Posted Sat, 03 May 2003 17:34)
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