WHO: Usagi & Star. WHAT: Running into trouble in New Orleans. WHEN: Friday evening. WHERE: NOLA. WARNINGS: A bit of violence. Nothing major. STATUS: Closed/Started in gdocs, continuing in comments.
Usagi always liked exploring any new portals that have opened up. And while she was perfectly capable of handling herself it the situation called for it, she usually only went when it wasn't as dangerous. She had heard the portal was more safe during the day time. Since it was the weekend and she didn't want to do homework (probably something she'd regret later as always), she decided to head out to the portal.
She'd gone through and spent a few hours there. It wasn't so bad and most of the people there left her alone. But then it was suddenly starting to get dark out and she was surprised. Had she really been wandering around for that long? Part of her knew she should get back, but she also wanted to keep going. Pondering for a moment, she decided she could transform into Sailor Moon and she'd be fine.
She headed into an alleyway where she did just that, stepping out in her sailor outfit. Now she was ready to take on anything.
***
Star had of course gone through the portal to go explore and have fun. She had her wand and the confidence that she could take care of herself so unlike other people she was actually looking to run into something interesting. If it was fighting something or a weird challenge or just something new and cool to eat she was down!
Of course she wasn’t expecting to be going down the sidewalk and almost run into someone coming back out...or she was expecting something like that she just was expecting something more creepy and dangerous so part of her mind was disappointed...and she ended up jumping back and pointing her wand a them.
“Hah! Oh. Hi.”
*** Now that it was a bit dark out now and knowing that the more dangerous creatures would be coming out and roaming the streets, Usagi was starting to get a bit jumpy. Yes, she was Sailor Moon at the moment and was the most powerful Senshi, but that didn't mean she stopped being such a scaredy cat. At least she wasn't as much as when she first started.
And because she was a bit on high alert now, she immediately screamed when someone jumped in front of her, and she fell back and landed on her butt. "Owie," she muttered then glanced up and saw... "Star?" she blinked. "What are you doing here?"
***
She hadn’t expected to get screamed at and for Usagi to fall on her butt. Star had been hoping for more of the bad guy variety of thing but she was also happy to see a friend. “Well i mean it’s a portal right? They’re always fun although I still think I like the Amazon one the best. They were super fun!”
She leaned over and held a hand out to Usagi to offer to help her up if she wanted it. “Sorry if I scared you. I thought you were a creeper coming out of the alley.”
*** "I suppose you're right. I don't think I've went to the Amazon one, though." She couldn't remember why she didn't go either. It sounded interesting and all, but she just simply decided to stay home when that one was open. Maybe if there was another portal to it again, she'd make sure to go next time.
But that was for another time. This was a completely different portal and one that was fine during the daytime, but was starting to creep Usagi out a little bit now that it was dark. She took Star's hand, thanking her as she got up and dust herself off. "It's okay. I'm a little bit jumpy now. I feel like I'm being watched now. Is that weird? Or am I imagine things?"
Probably. She did have an overactive imagination sometimes. But other times, there actually was some sort of danger, and right now, she wasn't sure which one it was.
***
It also might have been because Usagi wouldn’t have wanted to practice fight bareback on horses and doing crazy stunts with the Amazons. I wasn’t everyone’s favorite thing to do even though Star thought it should be.
“Really?” Star looked around them interested to see if she could see anyone watching them but there wasn’t anything obvious. It did have a little of that ‘Forest of Certain Death’ atmosphere going on which was a little weird since it didn’t a few minutes ago. “Ew, what’s that smell?” It kind of smelled like Marco’s hoodie after it hadn’t been washed for a year.
***
"Yes," Usagi nodded and shuddered. She really hated the feeling of being watched. Especially when it was dark out like it was now. "I feel like there's a bunch of eyes on me and I hate it!" she whined a bit. Despite having grown up since she first became Sailor Moon, she was still quite a scaredy cat. Not as much as she'd been before, at least. She was much worse in the beginning.
"I don't know..." she trailed off, sniffing their air and making a face. "Ugh, it's smells horrible, though!" She started looking around for the source of the scent. When she looked back, she saw... something walking towards them and she shrieked. "What is that?!"