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here. “Hey! Sailor Jupiter! Awesome man, I love that show!” Generic Frat boy A passed Salior Jupiter a red solo cup of beer and smiled. “Your outfit is really good.” Jupiter smiled demurely as she let her gaze slide off the face of the young man in front of her to the dimly lit hazy room in front of her. The other girls had thought that she only wanted to be here for the contest, but in truth she was looking for something far more than that. She was looking for someONE more specifically. “So…did you make it? Or did you get it off e-bay?” Sailor Jupiter turned and looked at A again.
“Oh, um….I er…made it myself. Sorta.” Jupiter’s lie was the worst she had ever made.
“That’s awesome!” Frat boy A refused to take the hint. Jupiter nodded and moved in position to book it across the room. And she could get there pretty darn fast if she wanted to.
“Thanks! Well. See ya.” Spotting a flicker of shimmering blonde hair, Jupiter moved in the direction, hoping to corner Venus.
She turned a corner to see Venus sitting in the lap of a boy dressed as Woody from Toy Story. From the looks of it, he’d soon be living up to the name. Venus was unaware of how powerful her powers really were, and giggled as the boy took his hat off his head and placed it on hers. He seemed completely enraptured by her as he nuzzled her neck and slid his hands up her back.
“Jesus. What is this thing made out of? Kevlar?” he muttered. Venus giggled. “I was expecting it to be spandex.”
Venus stretched back on his lap. “Honey, you don’t get abs like this from spandex,” she said.
“OK! Time to go!” Jupiter pulled her off the man and plunked his Woody hat on his lap. Venus and the boy protested as Jupiter man handled her across the room so they ended up in the kitchen. “I need your help to find someone, and Mr. Cowboy out there isn’t going to help me.”
“Who are you looking for?” Venus took the red cup from her friend’s hand and took a long sip. “Mmm…they went all out for this little shindig. A keg of Magic Hat’s Witching Hour? Nice.”
“Really?” Jupiter took the cup back and took a sip. “Wow.” She took another sip and shook her head. “Okay. I got a voice mail in class the other day from an on campus number asking if I was going to be here. The message was from a Kody Maier…who I looked up in the directory. Now, I need to figure out who Kody Maier is.”
“You do realize, that even if you figure out who he is, he won’t recognize you, right?” Venus took the cup again and took another sip.
“Geeze! Get your own!” Jupiter didn’t bother taking the cup back from her. “And yes, I know that. I wanna know what this kid looks like anyway. I didn’t call him back or anything. Because I wanted to scout it out first.”
“Okay, I’ll ask around for you.” Venus winked and turned to head back to Woody.
“There you are! We have a problem.” Mercury skidded to a stop in front of the two girls. “Guess what? Mars can feel it.”
“What?” Venus felt her skin turn a little cold. “She can feel it? Where is she?” Venus passed off the solo cup to a random genie walking by.
“Well, that’s the thing. She found a pole.” By this time, Mercury was blushing into her hairline both from embarrassment and nervousness.
“Oh shit.” Jupiter said. “Let’s go.