Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ The Dangers of Truth or Dare ❯ The Dare ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
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THE DANGERS OF TRUTH OR DARE
~oO?Oo~
by Dolphin-chick

~oO Part 1: The Dare Oo~

The dining hall of the Moon Kingdom Palace was unusually silent; none of the usual din, not even a dull roar. Sailor Libra stared at her marshmallow-less Lucky Charms with utter contempt. The Queen insisted the girls be awake by 8:30 am and in Senshi morph in order to "properly protect our world". Right. Libra guessed the dear queen had forgotten that most teenagers are nocturnal.

Princess Lima Bean ("princess" was much easier to say than her full given title of "Neo Queen Lady Mistress Serenity") walked into the room wearing her pajamas which, strangely enough, were dark green with large, light green lima beans printed all over it. Her hair was down; she had been wearing it down for over month saying the usual buns were "too girly" and also to protest the fact that her parents had forced her to wear a pink, fluffy, lacey dress to a recent banquet. Lima yawned and sat down to a bowl of Cocoa Puffs. All the Zodiac Senshi were sitting, half-asleep, in the immense dining hall with nothing to do.

Gemini was the first to break the silence. "Why are we up so early?"

Lima sighed. "Because Mom and Dad say we should be on the lookout for new enemies. When Ma was a Senshi, they had a new enemy every other week," she said sarcastically.

"I know...," Leo said happily. This usually meant she had some oddball idea. "Let's play Truth or Dare!"

"Yeah!" everyone chorused.

"OK, who goes first!" Gemini asked.

"Me, me, ME!" Pisces cried.

"Truth or Dare?"

"Umm... Dare!"

"OK, I dare you to... run around the palace with a pair of underwear on your head, cawing like one of Sailor Mars' crows!"

Pisces went to her room and came running back through the dining hall a few minutes later with said pair of underwear gracing her cranium, as the call of "CAW! CAW! CAW!" echoed down the halls.

After covering the majority of the first floor of the palace, Pisces returned. "Alright Leo," she said, "Truth or Dare?"

"Is that really hard to figure out? Dare."

"Do you know what Mexican bobsledding is?"

~oO Oo~

The girls reassembled in the palace garden. Leo was seated atop a plastic child's sled wearing a colorful poncho and an equally decorative sombrero. A rope attached the sled to Lima Bean's green go-kart. Lima started the go-kart and the duo sped through the garden, tore around the hallways and ripped through the gates, which had been left open, onto the streets below. It took the Senshi half an hour to talk their fellow Senshi and the young queen from further terrorizing the town and they met again in the dining hall.

"OK, my turn. Antares, Truth or Dare?"

"Why is it that no one picks 'Truth'?" Capricorn mused.

"Dare," answered Antares.

"I dare you to do something cool with the space-time continuum!"

"I can't." Antares said simply.

"Why not?"

"It's one of my taboos. I'm not allowed to do it."

"What are your taboos?" Sagittarius asked curiously.

Antares began to rattle off a small list. "One: Don't stop time. Two: Don't destroy the galaxy. Three: Don't mess with the space-time continuum. There's more, I think, but I don't remember."

"You can do all that?" Cancer asked incredulously.

"I have the power to, but I'm not allowed to." Antares corrected.

"Please? Just a little bit? Pluto stopped time once," Leo whined.

"How do you know?" Antares asked.

"She told me when I asked her what her powers were," Leo said.

"Besides, it's in all the history books," Libra added.

"Please Antares?" Leo asked again.

"..."

"Pleeeeeease?"

"..."

"As a member of the Royal Family of the Moon Kingdom and Crystal Tokyo, I give you my express permission to break the taboo presented upon you, Sailor Antares," Lima Bean said with an authoritative voice. All the Senshi stared at her. "What?" she asked. "I wanna see what happens too!"

Antares sighed. "Alright, let's go."

~oO Oo~

The Zodiac Senshi congregated again in front of the Time-Space Gates. The Gates consisted of large double doors, similar in size and shape to the Gates of Time. The doors themselves were engraved in detailed charts of stars and solar systems. These gates were located on the opposite end of the palace as the Time Gates. Antares took a deep breath. "OK, here goes."

Antares opened the door and stepped inside; the rest of the Senshi followed her in. The doors appeared to lead into space itself. Millions of galaxies, stars and planets revolved around them.

"Where are we?" Chibi Scorpio asked.

"Somewhere in the Universe," Antares said.

"So now what?" Virgo asked.

"Now..." Antares trailed off. She raised her ever-present scepter and cried out, "Constellations, hear my call! Planets answer me! Space and Time, heed my command! Take us..."

Leo interrupted Antares again. "Someplace cool!" she finished for her. Antares shrugged and slammed her scepter on the 'floor'. A bright light filled their vision as they all disappeared.

As suddenly as they had gone, the girls began to reappear miscellaneously in various places of the very alien 'someplace cool'.