Lunar Boot Camp

[Ebiris]

"You're seeming awfully chipper, old woman," Rei remarks snidely. "So what unpleasantness have you got prepared for us, now?"

[Corwin]

"You wound me," she says, an insufferable smirk on her face. "And here I made reservations at the best training facility the Moon has to offer." She taps her chin thoughtfully, ignoring her charge altogether. "Perhaps I should've gone with the co-ed barracks after all...."

[Ebiris]

Rei shudders at the thought of sleeping in a room filled with men. "Ugh, no thanks... Still, I take it this 'best training facility' is not the one used by the common soldiery?" she asks, recalling how worthless the guards outside the library had been.

[Brian]

Makoto claps her hands together excitedly. "Training?" she asks. "Like, martial arts training, Genkai-san? I've always wanted to learn martial arts, but on Callisto they always said it wasn't--" Realizing that she's saying too much, Makoto ducks her head and giggles. "Sorry," she apologizes. "But... if I might ask, what kind of training is it for? And will we be doing any?"

[Corwin]

The lift arrives, and Genkai steps inside, beconing the three princesses to follow. Once the elevator's doors close behind them, and the lift begins its descent to the lowest level, Genkai shakes her head, a genuine smile appearing on her face. "No, it isn't."

The lift lurches suddenly, an orange warning light lighting on the panel indicating the floors, the message 'Malfunction' appearing, flashing. A keycard appears in Genkai's right hand with a flick of her fingers, and she slides it against what seems to be a small crack in the lift's interior. A moment later, the warning light disappears, and the elevator resumes its descent, the floors no longer being indicated on the panel.

A short time later, it finally comes to a halt, and the four exit the lift into an old-fashioned gym, three doors leading out of the room, each in a different color.

"That's where all the utilities are," Genkai announces, pointing to the rightmost door, colored blue. She points at the door opposite the first one next, saying, "You'll be sleeping there, along with Venus, when she finally arrives."

Genkai snaps her fingers, and once more things appear out of thin air in her hands. She distributes the three fingerless gloves inset with a large jewel -- red for Rei, green for Makoto and blue for Ami -- that she materialized, telling the girls, "Put these on, once you're done with preparations."

[Ebiris]

"Well, I need to get changed first," Rei says, accepting the glove, "Is all my luggage in that room?" she indicates the one Genkai said they would be sleeping in.

[Corwin]

Genkai smiles again, this time in just the right way to annoy Rei. "Not exactly, no." She reaches out and taps the red jewel on Rei's glove. The jewel glows suddenly, and there's a red flash that causes the three girls to close their eyes instinctively. Once they look again, they see that Rei's luggage has appeared all around the raven-haired girl, littering the floor.

"You two might want to do this in your sleeping quarters," she tells Ami and Makoto, indicating the green-colored door once more.

[Halbarad]

Ami has spent most of the trip deep in thought. The feelings of reassurance from the Queen have dissipated in the time since leaving her, leaving her with a mountain of worries. Not only does she still not know what to do about the information left to her by the future Sailor Mercury, now she has the added problems of being stuck on the Moon-and of being a senshi.

Why me? For god's sake, I'm a 7-year old child! As much as I hate that fact, it is still true. Now I'm stuck here, several million miles from home, part of a team with two other princesses who I've barely just met, and I'm expected to train to be a warrior for god only knows how long. If there really IS a higher power out there, what have I done to make them upset?

Ami accepts the blue-jeweled glove from Genkai without a word, staring vacantly ahead. This has NOT been one of her better days.

[Ebiris]

Rei sighs, blowing away a few strands of hair that had fallen over her face. "Thanks," she says dryly, handing the Metallia book over to Makoto before grabbing up about half of her suitcases and taking them into the room before returning for the rest. "I'm going to get changed and cleaned up now. I'll be done soon," she tells the others before closing the door and starting to look through her luggage.

[Corwin]

As Rei sorts through her luggage, she can't help but notice that the room only has two beds, and neither is large enough for two teenage girls to sleep in together.

[Ebiris]

Rei opens one of her suitcases and pulls out a nice big fluffy towel, along with several of her favourite soaps and shampoos. That done, she exits the room and heads straight into the rightmost door, in search of a bath, or at least a shower.

[Corwin]

After going through the blue door, to her left, Rei finds a small kitchen, a sliding door leading to it half-open. To her right are a pair of doors she thinks are toilets, one bearing the label 'Senshi' while the other 'Rika', of all names. Straight ahead is a set of double doors, steam escaping slowly through a small crack between them and the ground.

[Ebiris]

Rei mutters something nasty under her breath. Genkai had had way too much fun over the whole 'Rika' business, and she was really starting to regret what had seemed like such a good idea at the time...

Letting it drop, she heads into the double doors.

[Corwin]

A spacious, marble-laden bathing area taking most of the room greets Rei's eyes, the waters already hot judging from the steam rising from them. Off to the side, right next to a wall, is a series of stalls just large enough for a person to bath in, standing up. Though their doors are designed to preserve the occupants' modesty by distorting light going to and from the stalls, Rei notices that all of them are vacant, as expected.

Sweeping the room with her eyes once more, she notices a curious device next to the shower stalls, the purpose of which she can't divine from afar.

[Ebiris]

"Not bad," Rei muses approvingly. In truth, it wasn't as fancy as she had expected for the Moon, but a whole lot better than she would expect from anything Genkai had been involved in providing.

Quickly removing her dress and what remains of her underwear, the Princess leaves her clothes and towel by the door, carrying her bath things as she moves over to the stalls, giving a curious look towards the strange device.