Too Many Santas! pt 2

Naturally, everyone just gaped at the short-skirted heroine in blank amazement and awe.

Sailor Moon scowled around, blue eyes glinting with petulance. "Anyone? Mars?" she looked at the raven-haired girl expectantly.

"COFFEE?!" Sailor Mars bellowed at her leader, looking utterly flabbergasted at the blonde's behavior.

"YES! COOOOOOFFFFEEEEEE!" Sailor Moon bellowed back, drawing out the word as if she were talking to a small child. She crossed her arms and pouted her lower lip. ["It's not like I asked her to take on the entire Dark Kingdom or something! I asked her to coffee"] her blue eyes rolled skywards as she saw that no takers were coming forward. "Fine-but I'M getting some!" she stomped off into the crowd, who parted like a wave-giving her freedom to storm the food courts.

Hesitantly, a few people began to clap, looking after a retreating blonde heroine-who was making good headway towards her destination.

Jupiter kicked at the pile of dust that HAD been a fierce warrior of the Dark Kingdom a minute before. "Er-is it me guys...or has Sailor Moon lost it?" she inquired hesitantly.

Sailor Mars glared about at everyone fiercely, then waved her arms about her head like a mad woman. "She's totally LOST it! I knew that blonde hair would kick in some day! Coffee?! I mean really!" the priestess shouted, cheeks going red.

The crowd took one look at her and quickly moved away, scattering along the mall halls and into random shops in case another Senshi went nuts and started looking for someone ELSE to beat up!

"Well-I guess all of my work is done here" Tuxedo Kamen Santa said dryly, glaring up at his floppy red hat, with it's fuzzy white end. He looked swiftly the way that Sailor Moon had gone and began edging past the Senshi. "I'll be going now" he added, turning to leap heroically away and disappear into the night-er mall.

"Wait a darn second, Tuxedo Kamen!" Jupiter yelled at him, stepping into his path.Her deep green eyes swept over him from head to toe pointedly. "Just what exactly happened here? And WHY are you dressed half in a Santa costume? it's not Halloween you know"

Mamoru glowered at her. "I KNOW that! But I was in such a hurry to get to-Sailor Moon when I sensed her in danger that THIS happened!" he inhaled harshly, rapidly loosing patience. "Now if you don't mind-I'm going to stop sailor Moon before she drinks even MORE coffee and decides to storm the Dark Kingdom and kick Beryl's butt all on her own!" he stalked off muttering something under his breath.

The three Senshi stared at each other, then his retreating form and then at the curious crowd gathered at the windows and doors of the stores, but not daring to venture out. I mean, how often did you see the Sailor Senshi up close and personal?

Then Makoto blinked. "MORE coffee?" she exclaimed.

Mercury gasped, eyes wide. "Take on Beryl by herself?"

"OH MY GOD!" Sailor Mars finally shouted at them.

"Shhhhh!" Jupiter and Mercury clapped gloved hands over Mars' mouth until her face started to take on a purple hue.

"Mmmp tthp mmeopp!" Mars gasped around their hands, eyes boggling.

"What was that?" Jupiter said suspiciously, pulling her hand away.

"What if Tuxedo Kamen has figured out who the ditz really is!"

"Nah!" Jupiter flapped a gloved hand about negligently. She paused, looking sort of worried. "You think?"

Mars gritted her teeth, leaning in close to her friends and trying not to strangle them. "Didn't either of you notice that Tuxedo Kamen used a PAST TENSE when referring to Sailor Moon drinking coffee?"

It hit Jupiter and Mercury then with the weight of a semi trailer plummeting towards them from an airplane. As one, the three turned and bolted towards the food courts, hoping they were in time to stop imminent disaster.

"Coffee please! Hello?! COOOOOOOFFFEEEEEE!" Sailor Moon bellowed at the top of her lungs, peering around. The girl who had given her that yummy coffee earlier had mysteriously vanished. "HELLO?!" she shouted again, getting up onto her tippy-toes and staring over the counter top. Her eyes widened when she saw the shape of someone hiding behind the counter as if their life depended on it. "What are you DOING down there?" she demanded.

The girl from earlier peeked up, eyes widening when she saw Sailor Moon. "Oh my gosh! A Sailor Senshi!" she shrieked, leaping to her feet. She leaned conspiritally towards the blonde. "I'm sorry, I heard someone yelling for coffee and I thought that you were this weird blonde girl from earlier" the assistant didn't notice when her customers face turned red and then white, spluttering noises emerging from her mouth. "I TELL you, sailor Moon, I've never seen someone so pushy for coffee OR drink as much-eeeep!" her words ended in a shriek as Sailor Moon lost patience and reached into her sub space pocket for the crescent moon wand.

Sailor Moon leveled her gaze at the astonished girl and f\gave her the evil eye. She whipped the wand out at arms length, aiming it at the assistant. "Give me coffee NOW or I won't be responsible for the consequences!" she announced haughtily.

"C-coffee?" the girl faltered, swallowing.

"Yes coffee! Coffee, coffee, COFFEE! And make it snappy!" sailor Moon thought about it for a moment. "Gimme 7 cups!"

"Seven?!" the girl gaped for the second time that day in complete shock as a blonde girl demanded huge amounts of java.

Blue eyes glinted with annoyance, yet with an insane urge to bonk the girl over the head with the moon wand and get the coffee herself. "I SAID SEVEN! Do you have a problem with serving me seven cups of coffee?! I'M the Sailor suited soldier of justice and love! I conquer over evil and fight beside my friends and get rescued by a dashingly handsome guy in a tuxedo-I DESERVE coffee!" Sailor Moon's tirade let off and she looked inquiringly at the quaking girl.

"Right away!" the girl scrambled for the cups hastily.

And so, the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen came across a very hyped Sailor Moon, just polishing off her seventh cup of coffee. "HIIIIIII!" she wiggled her fingers at the Senshi. "Want some coffee? it's great!" she announced happily.

"Are you drunk, Sailor Moon?" Sailor Mars asked suspiciously, sniffing the air.

"No" Tuxedo Kamen groaned, slumping into a chair across the table from the blonde. "Just hyped to the eyeballs with java!"

Sailor Moon looked at him, expression lightening. "Hey! You're Tuxedo Kamen again! Not that weirdo half Santa gig"

If Tuxedo Kamen could have blushed, he would have. But being the manly guy he was, he settled for gritting his teeth. "Yeah"

Mercury sat down at the table, ignoring the gaping crowds about them. She picked up a coffee cup and sniffed at it delicately. "Yes, it's just coffee, Mars"

"Just HOW many cups have you had, Sailor Moon?" Jupiter demanded, sitting down next to Mars.

"Ummmmmmm-" the blonde looked skywards thoughtfully. "Lets see..." she mumbled for a moment, frowning darkly as she tried to recall. "Er-ah...lets see..." more mumbling ensued, while the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen waited impatiently.

"WELL?" they all shouted at her.

"12 or 13...maybe" Sailor Moon said, looking befuddled. She shrugged. "Can't quite remember"

"What do you MEAN, you can't remember?" Mars shrieked into her face. Then she flushed and looked around in a hunted manner, noting that everyone single pair of eyes in the food court were plastered with interest on the gathering of Senshi. Just SEEING them was usually enough to make a fan's eyes glaze over and mouth gape-but seeing ALL the Senshi AND Tuxedo Kamen and a VERY hyped-up Sailor Moon guzzling coffee like there was no tomorrow-!

"Just like I SAID!" Sailor Moon bellowed back, pouting angrily and wearing a disgruntled expression. ["Why does Rei have to be such-such a PARTY POOPER!?] "Yeah! Why ARE you such a party pooper, pyro?" she asked aloud, staring at her glaring friend with interest and confusion. Shouldn't everyone be as happy as her? Sailor Moon looked closer at her purple-eyed friend-who looked as if she were about to explode.

"YOU DITZ!" Sailor Mars exploded ungracefully, waving her arms about in the air like a maniac.

Everyone gaped at her-Senshi, Tuxedo Kamen AND gaping humans alike.

Sailor Moon flushed brightly, a hand going to her reddened cheek. "Ooops? Did I say that out loud?" she wondered to herself in a conversational tone. Then she frowned and giggled at the same time-sticking out her tongue at an enraged and embarrassed Sailor Mars. "Who cares! You ARE a drag Mars! And a party-pooper and-and-" her words were stopped hastily by a gloved hand as Sailor Jupiter clapped it over her leader's motor-mouth.

"She doesn't mean it, Mars" Jupiter said hastily as the raven-haired Senshi looked as if she were about to blow a fuse.

"Yes she DOES! Arrgggggh!" Sailor Mars flopped over the table top, bashing her head methodically on the cool surface.

Mercury and Tuxedo Kamen gaped, while Jupiter groaned in consternation at the scene they were all making and Sailor Moon just giggled insanely.

"OKAY!" Sailor Mars suddenly shouted, raising her head. Her purple eyes were determined as she looked from one Senshi to the other and then finally Tuxedo Kamen. "There's just NO dealing with her like this-" she turned her head and pinned the coffee girl with a purposeful gaze.

Before Mars even opened her mouth, the poor girl was reaching for the coffee maker, eyes resigned. "How many?" she asked wearily. Really, this was getting old news to her-girls addicted to java.

"How many did you say you had before, Moon?" Sailor Mars inquired, staring at the blonde.

"Umm! Before? With Mr. Santa?" Sailor Moon said bewildering everyone but Tuxedo Kamen.

Once more, he was left gaping at Sailor Moon. ["I KNOW Usagi called me that-but...it's impossible!"] he thought, paling and then flushing. He stared at the blonde hard, comparing her to Usagi the ditz. It WAS a close match...

"Mr. Santa?" Mercury said faintly, then waved Sailor Moon off when the blonde opened her mouth to explain. "Never mind, Sailor Moon" she groaned as she stared around at the excited audience surrounding them. They were dead quiet, catching every single word that the Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen had uttered. "I'm sure I'll read about it in the papers"

"Luna's going to KILL us!" Jupiter hissed, suddenly realizing the same thing as Sailor Mercury. "No-make that more than dead. Pulverized!"

"Luna? Usagi's cat?!" Tuxedo Kamen said in a low voice, eyes boggling as his suspicions were confirmed. The blonde ditz of Juuban was...He rolled his eyes...The blonde klutz of a superhero of Juuban! ["HOW could I not have seen this earlier?"] he wondered, letting his head thunk onto the table hard.

Sailor Moon giggled, reaching out to pat him on the head, dislodging his top hat. "There, there-Tuxedo Kamen!" she soothed, eyes brightening. "Umm-it was 6! I sure it was six...." her voice trailed off, then she nodded at Mars. "Yep! it was 6!"

Sailor mars turned a shade of white that made her look like she was going to pass out. "That will be 13 coffee's for me" she called out weakly to the girl waiting at the counter. She ignored the stunned gaping and concentrated on making her face go back to normal. Just the THOUGHT of drinking that much coffee made her want to heave!

"13?! Are you NUTS, Mars!" Sailor Mercury gasped at her, almost falling off of her chair. Her blue eyes flickered from Mars to Moon. "You ARE!" she groaned, finally getting what Mars was trying to do.

"What? What'd I miss?" Jupiter demanded, afire with curiosity.

"Sailor Mars is proposing to get as-HYPED as Sailor Moon so that she can reason with her er-mentally" Tuxedo Kamen said, blue eyes wide as he stared at the brave Senshi. Going into Usagi's world was VERY brave! He looked at her with admiration. His estimation of Sailor Mars had just skyrocketed.

"WHAAAAAAT?! Sailor Jupiter screeched, staring at the giggling Sailor Moon in horror. "You seriously want us to deal with TWO of you off your nuts on java?!"

Sailor Mars winced, then turned her head as the girl from the counter staggered over with a HUGE pot of coffee. Her purple eyes widened incredulously as the girl plunked it down right in front of her, sweating. Her stomach too appeared abnormally large-as if she'd had an instantaneous pregnancy. "Here you go-the biggest pot we have!" she gasped at the Senshi, reaching into her apron. She removed four mugs similar to that which Sailor Moon had used.

Sailor Moon squealed with delight when she saw them, beaming at the girl in approval. "You GO girl! You read my mind!"

"Yeah, yeah" the exhausted girl muttered, stumbling away with a hand to her head. "I quit!"

"Umm-no. We aren't ALL drinking-" Sailor Mercury began, flushing to the roots of her hair as she felt hundreds of eyes and heard dozens of gasps from the crowd watching them. It was huge too. Most of the Mall must be there!

Sailor Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen exchanged rueful glances, then simultaneously reached for a mug each. "Coffee please" the chorused to a shell-shocked Mercury.

"YEAAAAAAAH!" their blonde leader shrieked happiness. "Coffeeeeee! COOOOOOOOOOFFFFEEEE!" she sang loudly, bouncing about on her chair.

"You CAN'T be serious!" Sailor Mercury gasped at them. Her only answer was to have Mars grab the huge pot from in front of her and spill the hot liquid into the four cups. "OH NO! I am NOT-!" she began hotly, trying to back off.

"Drink Mercury! It's the ONLY WAY to get to her!" Jupiter said in a corny way.

"The daaaaaaark side! You don't know the power of the dark side L-" Sailor Moon began in a spooky tone. Once again, she was muffled By Jupiter. "Mmmmpth!"

"Quite, Moon!" Sailor Jupiter hissed, taking her hand away cautiously. When Sailor Moon only pouted, she sighed in relief, then chugged her coffee down.

"Eeeeew" Sailor Mercury said, grimacing. She lowered her empty cup and reluctantly reached for another.

Drawn closer in curiosity and stunned disbelief, the crowd almost crushed each other to get the best view.

"I don't believe this" someone whispered loudly, not wanting to interrupt the bizarre scene of the infamous Senshi having a coffee party in the middle of the Juuban Mall.

"Does anyone have a camera?!"

"I DO!"

*Snap*

*Snap*

Sailor Mercury almost spat out a mouthful of coffee as a camera went off right in her face.

The crowd held their breath-but she merely sniffed and went back to guzzling her coffee with the others.

"Ya know" Jupiter said, sinking back into her chair and smiling happily. "We really should do this more often"

"I KNOOOOOOW!" Sailor Mercury said exuberantly. She looked mildly horrified and clapped a hand over her face, then burst into helpless giggles. "I wonder if we could get Zoisite to loosen her panty hose and have coffee with us?" she mused aloud.

The other Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen burst into helpless giggles-both at the thought of the fierce Dark Kingdom warrior Zoisite sitting down with her enemies and having coffee-AND the inescapable vision of Zoisite's pantyhose slipping down her legs!

"Oh my god! That's hilarious!" Jupiter fell off her chair, hugging her middle in pain. "Oh that hurts, but I can't stop!" she groaned, laughing still. Tears ran from her eyes.

"Seee?" Sailor Moon said, flinging her arms out and snagging sailor Mars and Mercury. She yanked them close for a group hug, making Mercury drop her cup.

"Hey! That was MY coffee!" Sailor Mercury cried out indignantly. She crossed her arms and looked sternly at her leader. "I can't tolerate such actions form my leader!" she looked at everyone else. "I vote for a new leader! ME!"

"Hey! You can't dooooooo thaaaaaaat!" Sailor Moon wailed. Before anyone could stop her, the jewels in her tiara began to vibrate. The room shook and the crowd was knocked off their feet.

"You're cheating!" sailor Mercury announced, frowning heavily. She giggled evilly, clasping her hands together and pointing them at sailor Moon. "Mercury Bubbles Blast!"

The room was instantly filled with a thick mist, blinding everyone but a hysterically giggling Sailor Mercury.

"Now who's the blonde!" Sailor Mars yelled, squinting around blearily. "Mercury you ditz!"

"HEY!" Both sailor Moon and Mercury shouted.

Then Sailor Moon giggled sheepishly. "Ooops! Sorry Mars-I thought you meant ME for a minute. Just habit" she waved a hand about negligently and beaned someone square on the nose. "Ooops! Oh dear-Mercury?"

"No-it wasn't Mercury!" Tuxedo Kamen growled into her ear, sounding weird.

Sailor Moon moved close in the mist and glanced at him, almost tumbling into his lap with helpless giggles. He was clutching at his nose! "Hehehe! Mr. Santa, you look like an idiot!" she snickered at him, clinging to the jacket lapels to keep herself steady.

"Oh really Mrs. Santa?" He shot back without thinking.

Both he and Sailor Moon gaped in a moment of complete sobriety and horror.

"OH MY GOD! YOU KNOW!" Sailor Moon shrieked at him in horror, jumping back. She tumbled off her chair-unfortunately taking the poor Tuxedo Kamen with her, having forgotten her dead-grip on his jacket. Tuxedo Kamen ended up plastered along the length of sailor Moon, who was crushed to the floor under him.

Of course, the mist chose that very moment to clear.

"Tuxedo Kamen! What are you doing to Sailor Moon?!" Sailor Mars gasped at him, eyes boggling at the sight. A giggled escaped her as she saw Sailor Moon's ungraceful sprawl and Tuxedo Kamen right between her legs!

*Snap*

The Senshi and Tuxedo Kamen's head's shot up when they heard the camera go off. In an instant they were all on their feet-admittedly weaving as their heads spun with adrenaline.

"Hey! Get him!" Sailor Moon ordered, flinging herself at the crowd.

Everyone scrambled away in shock as the Senshi raced into the crowd like bulls in a ring, eyes fixed on the unfortunate photographer. "Umm-can we talk?" he offered to them, sweating heavily as they advanced on him.

"He's mine!" sailor Moon shouted to the others, diving.

"What do you mean yours? I'M the leader now!" sailor Mercury yelled, diving also.

"Oh please! I'm prettier than the both of you! I'M leader!" Sailor Mars announced haughtily. She threw dignity aside and dove into the fray, followed by Jupiter and Tuxedo Kamen.

"Eeeeeep?" the photographer managed before he was buried under a pile up of short skirts and flailing limbs.

"I got it!" Sailor Jupiter groaned, finally digging under everyone and snagging the photographer. She looked up to see the huge crowd gaping in disbelief. Before she could think, she stuck her tongue out at them and blew a raspberry. ["Who cares if they see us like this! it's fun!"] she thought rebelliously, thunking herself firmly onto Mercury's back and refusing to leave.

"Hey! Could you please get off? You weigh a ton!" Mercury yelped.

"Excuse me? Repeat that to my face?" Jupiter growled, jumping off of the pile, clinging to the camera.

"Someone please help! I'm being crushed!" the photographer groaned unheard from the bottom of the pile. "Anyone?" however, everyone was staring with rapt expressions at the feuding Senshi.

Mercury and Jupiter now faced each other, shaking fists in each other's faces and glaring.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah!"

"Oh yeah?"

"YEAH!"

This went on for a while until Sailor Mercury reached out and poked Jupiter in the stomach. "Hand the camera over porky!" she said, giggling.

Jupiter's face went red as a tomato and Mercury sort of 'eeeped' and then ran off with the brunette in pursuit.

"Get off of me, Moon!" Mars yelled from below.

"This is YOUR fault" sailor Moon announced to Tuxedo Kamen, staring him right in the face. Somehow, both had landed side by side on top of sailor Mars and the camera guy, but under Jupiter and Mercury.

"MY fault? Excuse me?" he narrowed his eyes at her, ready to let loose. He just didn't feel like holding it in anymore-now that he knew who she really was! "Who was the one who guzzled the coffee?!"

"Who was the one who played Santa!" she shot back.

"Who was the one who went NUTS over Santa's?" He shouted at her.

"Well there were too many of them!" she screeched into his face, centimeters apart.

"Get off of me!" Sailor Mars demanded from below.

Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen spared her back a glance. "Stay out of this!" they both yelled simultaneously.

"Fine, fine" Sailor Mars grunted, tapping her nails irritably on the floor. She ignored the groans from beneath her body, pouting. "Can't you two just kiss and make up?" she whined plaintively.

"NO!" she shouted answer almost blew her hair backwards, from the force.

"Like I'd WANT to kiss him!" Sailor Moon said, huffing.

"You already DID!" he huffed back.

"What?!" Sailor Mars gaped from below.

"Well...well, I didn't enjoy it!" Sailor Moon said insultingly.

"Yes you did!" Tuxedo Kamen said just as insultingly, flashing her a sexy grin.

"Ack! I did NOT!" she screamed at him, going red in the face and scrambling to her feet. She towered over him, hands on hips. "You-you kiss like a three year old! Slobbery and all yuck!"

"WHAT?" he roared at her, leaping to his feet. He smiled then, evilly. "That was what I was going to say about YOUR kisses!"

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!" she shrieked, looking homicidal. She reached up a hand for her tiara. "Eat tiara creep!"

Everyone screamed and scrambled away from the mad Senshi, who had once again emerged to beat the crap out of something-however that 'something' looked just as ready to beat the crap out of her!

"Oh yeah?" he yelled back, reaching into his tuxedo. "Eat rose, brat!"

"Take coooooooover! mad Senshi on the loooooooose!" someone wailed.

The food court was abruptly emptied, leaving the two to battle it out-and Mars still sprawled over an unconscious photographer. She frowned, watching as Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Kamen screeched at each other like fishwives and waved about their weapons threateningly. "I wonder if there's any coffee left?"