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BISHOUJO SENSHI SAILORMOON
RECOGNISABLE FANTASIES
by nIGHT rIDER (Assistance by DDFA)

Disclaimer - all characters pertaining to the series Bishoujo Senshi
Sailormoon are owned by Takeuchi Naoko and Kodansya.  All other characters 
were thought up by me.  Well, its true, isn't it?

Chapter 1b
Armour of Gawd....

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	Jupiter smiled nervously.  "I think we better get out of here,
pretty fast.  I mean, you never know when the sky is going to fall
on our heads."  And to illustrate the point, she put out her arms,
just in time for the figure of a man, carrying a backpack and a
sword, to fall through the trees and into them.  The man stared at
her as she stared at him, then, when she finally found voice, she
looked over at the others and said....  "Hey guys....  Look what I
just caught."

	"Ah, thankyou very much."  The man smiled at her, then
wriggled out of her arms as she lowered him to the ground.  "I
needed a little bit of assistance there."  He paused, then pointed
at Jupiter.  "Didn't we meet at a shrine in Laos?"  Jupiter shook
her head, voicelessly.  He sighed and shrugged.  "Ah well.  It was
just a thought.  I don't often bump into young women in short skirts
in the middle of the boonies like this."

	"We have a tendency not to bump into strange men carrying
swords in the middle of the boonies, either."  Eternal Sailormoon
stepped up to him, trying to rise to some expectation of authority.
In the sheer absurdity of the situation, however, she appeared just
a little lost.

	"You can call me the Asian Hawk."  The man smiled, giving her
a short wave.  "And if you all stand there for much longer, it is
likely you will end up as shishkebabs for a pack of angry natives."
He pointed upwards, then took a flying leap off the edge of the
decline, sliding down the slope on his backpack.  Jupiter turned to
him.

	"Wait....  What do you mean by...."  Without thinking, she
followed him, and soon found herself on her rump, following him down
at the same speed.  Before the other four could react, spears slid
through the canopy, striking the ground only inches from each of
them.  Venus did a small dance across the ground, chased by spear
after spear, making little yelps and odd poses as she did so, before
knocking herself, Mars and Mercury over the edge.  Eternal
Sailormoon didn't know whether to laugh or be concerned as Venus and
Mercury used Mars as a toboggan, the unfortunate fire senshi flat on
her face, shouting at the other two between cries of pain and
distress to get the hell off of her.  Within seconds, dozens of
figures were flying from the top of the canopy, landing on small
straw and grass mats, sliding after them.

	She heard a sound behind her, and spun to find six or seven of
the natives climbing through the canopy, armed with rather vicious,
heavy stone clubs, wide-eyed with surprise at the sight of a woman
in a costume such as hers.  As they ranged on her, she gave them a
nervous smile and held up a hand.  "Greetings."  They looked at each
other, nonplussed.  She continued on....  "Please don't be
frightened or angry.  I'm a friend.  You know, friend."  She tried
to smile sweetly as the natives rolled the word off their tongues."

	"Fur....rend."  The word was not said with as much
friendliness as she'd hoped.  Desperately trying to search for
something with which to distract them, one of the natives managed to
step up beside her, taking hold of part of her costume.  She jerked
aside shaking her finger at him, just as her costume's wings sprang
out, almost as if on signal.  She looked back at the wings,
wondering how they had managed to fold back and hide earlier, then
realised how quiet the natives were.

	They were on the ground, bowing to her, looking suitably
impressed.  Sweatdropping, she started to giggle nervously, putting
a hand behind her head.  "Well... uh....  Thanks guys.  I know
they're pretty impressive.  But...."  She swallowed.  "I've got to
get going now.  I have some people to catch up with."  And with
that, she leapt into the air, taking off like an angel, sparkles of
energy glittering around her.  The natives watched her go, their
mouths open with awe.


	Eternal Sailormoon rose over the top of the decline, a hand
over her brow, searching desperately for any sight of Asian Hawk and
the Senshi.  Near the base of the decline, where there was a small
outcrop of bushes, there was a huge rolling ball of arms and legs in
the distinct colours of red, blue and yellow, trailing dust, which
could only have been Mars, Mercury and Venus arriving at their
destination.  With a flourish of the wings, she shot off in their
direction.


	Jupiter stood, rubbing her sore rear as she watched Asian
Hawk, having leapt from his backpack and throwing it over his
shoulder, run over to one of the nearby small bushes, reaching to
grab one of them, for whatever reason he had in his mind.  He
struggled, but was clearly moving the bush, having some trouble as
something was catching on the ground, making it difficult for him.
Ignoring her three friends, who had crashed into a dazed heap at the
base of the slope, she ran to him.  "What in hell are you doing?"
He glanced up at her, then at the angry natives who were rapidly
approaching.

	"What does it look like I'm doing?"

	"Gardening?"  She shrugged her shoulders.  He facefaulted.

	"My dear, we have several hundred angry natives bearing down
upon us because I dared to take a holy relic from them."  He
gestured to the sword, still clinging to the strap of his backpack.
She looked at the sword with a deadpan expression.

	"Well, that was extremely silly of you, wasn't it?"  She
crossed her arms.  "So what about the natives?"

	"So WHAT about the NATIVES?"  He looked at her, incredulously.
"Girlie, unless you want a spear through your sternum, or be
sacrificed to their God, I'd start running like heck."  He started
to yank the branches of the bush again, managing to move it a few
more inches.  "What the hell is this thing caught on?"

	"What is it?"  Jupiter reached down and picked up the bush
with the minimum of effort.  "Hey, waitaminute....  This isn't a
bush."

	"No."  Asian Hawk gave her an odd look.  "You don't say."
She pulled away the brush to reveal what could only have been the
wing of an ultralite aircraft.  Looking at the two nearby bushes, it
dawned on her what he was doing.

	"You're going to fly yourself out of here?"

	"Well duh."  He ran over to the other side of what was the
middle bush, grabbing the one next to it.  With a great deal of
ease, he managed to lock it into its assigned place with the middle
one.  "Would you mind attaching that wing?  Then I suggest you and
your four friends get the hell outta here."  He looked around,
noticing that the natives had reached the base of the slope, and
were surrounding the still-dazed figures of Mars, Mercury and Venus.
"Well, at the very least, save yourself."

	"What do you think I am?"  Jupiter slammed the wing into the
side of the middle bush, feeling it click into its slot.  She stood,
putting her hands on her hips.  "I'm not just going to run off and
leave them."

	Asian Hawk looked at her, then back at the girls, gritting his
teeth.  "Oh damn.  Why did you have to be here, now....  Everything
was going so well....  Well, as good as could be expected."  Coming
to a decision, he whipped off the strap from his backpack, allowing
the pack to fall to the ground, and started to spin the sword
around.  "I'll try and take some of them out, but you're going to
have to get the gun in the canopy of my plane."

	"Why would I want to use a gun?"  Jupiter blinked at him.  He
gave her a pained expression.

	"WHY WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO USE A GUN?"  He shouted.  "If you
want to save your friends."

	"Oh no...."  She smiled at him.  "If I want to save my
friends, I'd do something like....  SPARKLING WIDE PRESSURE!"  To
his amazement, crackles of lightning surrounded her as she let off
a large ball of energy from one of her hands, tossing it like a
discus into the gathering group of natives.  As if hit by a high
tension lead, those directly hit flew back about fifty feet, those
surrounding them dancing around like puppets and falling to the
ground.  Unfortunately, part of the energy also struck the three
Senshi, who jumped to their feet immediately and started hopping
across the ground to where Asian Hawk was standing.  Mars, her face
caked in dirt and grass, leaped around, screaming at the top of her
voice.

	"CAN'T YOU, JUST FOR ONCE, LEARN TO TARGET YOUR BLOODY ATTACKS
WITH A BIT MORE ACCURACY?!?!?!?"  She ranged up on jupiter, dirt
falling from the front of her fuku.  Jupiter crossed her arms,
giving Mars an imperious look.

	"After the number of times you've scorched poor Sailormoon
with your attacks?  Don't make me laugh."

	"Sailormoon?"  Asian Hawk scratched his head.  "Isn't
Sailormoon a tv cartoon, or something?"  The Senshi looked at him.
Shrugging, he looked backat the decline, where more natives were
approaching, some stopping to examine their unfortunate colleagues.
"We don't have time for that.  Gotta be going.  See you girls
later....  Wait a minute....  Didn't you have another friend?"

	Venus, banging dirt from out of her ears, paused.  "Eternal
Sailormoon....  Oh bugger, we left her up at the fortress."


	With a screaming sound, the remaining natives leapt from their
toboggans and started charging the party with weapons drawn.
Jupiter punched a fist in her palm.  "Doesn't look like we're going
to have the opportunity to worry about that right now."

	"But I'm not ready for a fight."  Mars whined.  "I can't look
cool, doing my attacks, when I look like this."  She held out her
hands, looking down at her front."

	"Well, at least you have that 'rugged' look about you."
Mercury chuckled darkly, opening out one of her hands as gentle
droplets of Shabon Spray started to rise from her fingers.  Asian
Hawk looked from one to the other, dumbfounded.

	"How can you girls talk like that at a time like this?"  He
scratched his head, remembering the ball of energy that Jupiter had
thrown.  "Maybe you can.  I dunno."

	At the front of the group of natives, one particularly large
warrior had raised his club and was charging with a piercing battle
cry, making for Asian Hawk whom he could see holding the sword.
After about a dozen running steps, he found himself rising off the
ground, and looked at his feet with stunned surprise.  He then
looked up at the raised club to see an angel with a smiling face.
"I'm sorry."  The angel said.  "I can't allow you to do that."
Suffice to say, he let go of the club and allowed himself to fall to
his knees, bowing and praying loudly.

	"Eternal Sailormoon."  The Senshi shouted as she landed in
front of the now-submissive native.  "You're a little late."
Jupiter smiled, crossing her arms.

	"I was distracted."  She chuckled, holding the club aloft and
trying to make her wings as wide as possible.  The other natives
came to a dead stop, their eyes white with fear and terror before
falling in with their colleague.  Eternal Sailormoon allowed some of
her energy to enter the club, making it glow like a holy relic.  The
natives oohed and ahhed with sufficient awe to satisfy her.  "Well."
She looked aside.  "Are you going to take your leave, Mister 'Asian
Hawk'?"  She rolled her eyes as she saw him bowing and scraping like
the natives.  "Oh, for God's sake....  Will you just get in that
plane of yours and go."

	"Umm...."  Asian Hawk looked at the girls, then stood, picking
up his backpack as he slung the sword over his shoulder.  Jupiter
threw the branches away from the canopy of the plane, opening up the
cockpit and gesturing to the seat with a cute smile.  Asian Hawk
growled and grumbled as he placed everything into the back of the
cockpit and jumped in, putting on a set of goggles before closing
the canopy and starting the engines.  The Senshi stepped back as he
glided the plane into a reasonable take-off area.  Everyone watched
as he glided the plane from the ground, flying up over the nearby
forest.

	Eternal Sailormoon then turned back to the natives and shouted
at them, waving the club about.  The natives turned from staring at
the plane and started bowing and scraping at her feet.

	"Well...."  Mars huffed.  "How does it feel to be a Goddess?"
She nudged Eternal Sailormoon in the side.

	"At least I can present myself as one."  Eternal Sailormoon
smirked at her.  Mars growled and stomped away, sulking.

	At that point, the High Priest came charging down the decline,
shouting out at the natives, trying to rouse his followers to
continue their attack.  Everyone stared at him as he strode up to
Eternal Sailormoon, stopping within metres, babbling on in an
accusatory manner, pointing a spear at her.  Jupiter and Venus made
to move either side of her, but she stopped them with a look as the
High Priest started to dance on the ground in anger.  "Will you
please be quiet.  I can't hear myself think."  She said to the
Priest, softly, and pitched the club at him, knocking him one in the
forehead.

	The Priest toppled backwards like a felled tree, Eternal
Sailormoon only just resisting the temptation to shout out 'TIMBER'
as he did so.  Within seconds of hitting the ground, the natives
started up their chanting once more.  "I could get used to this."
Eternal Sailormoon put a hand over her mouth to hide her smile.


	Asian Hawk surveyed the scene from his plane as he turned and
flew back over the girls and their now-submissive followers.  The
girls gave hima friendly wave, and he waved back, a little sadly.
It wasn't often his adventures involved girls with the ability to
belt the living buggery out of his opponents.

	Continuing on his way, he looked down at the small ignition
key, and stared at the keyring attached to it.  It was a SD figure
of a young girl, dressed in a sailorfuku, like the leader of the
group of girls.  In fact, her hair was in the same bun-like
ponytails.  He glanced back, then at the keyring.  "It can't be..."
He muttered to himself.  "They're just cartoon characters...."
Swallowing, he resigned himself to the fact that there was a warm
hotel bed and lots of alcohol waiting for him at his destination....


	As the Senshi gathered together to discuss their situation,
Mercury remarked....  "I've seen that guy before, somewhere....
Wasn't he once an action movie star?"

	"Dunno."  Jupiter shrugged.  "I thought he was kinda cute, in
an odd kinda way.  He reminded me of my old sempai."  Everyone
facefaulted.  Within seconds, they vanished from the scene into thin
air, leaving the natives bowing and chanting with awe.


END OF PART 1

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Next Chapter.... "Blakes Heaven"


It is interesting, I think, how quickly a story idea can come to
fruition.  It was whilst eating lunch at a local restaurant (Hungry
Jacks, to be precise), and talking over a certain tv show that is
currently playing on the Australian ABC network with Mark (DDFA)
that the idea popped into my head.  Within an hour of arriving back
at his house, the entire opening stanza of this chapter was written.
And I still haven't finished chapter 12 of "Not a God".  Are the
rights to glacial-speed writing taken yet?  That story will probably
be finished this time next century.  ^_^;;

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.  Shall be fun putting them
together.

James T Woolford "nIGHT rIDER" ikari@wantree.net.au


Member of the AJAS Fanfic Circle


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