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Stop and Save or Use or Lose Your Power
Written by Sailor Hapes
Argent giggled as she skipped out of the basement of the ancient, falling-apart building where she was living. Granted, there were always a lot of nasty little nests around, but she'd scared them away by turning into Sailor Hapes. Nobody died, but there sure was an awful lot of little puddles around. They smelled funny too, but she'd gotten that all cleaned up.
She closed her eyes once out on the street and spun in a circle. She usually determined the direction of the day's ramblings by that method and it usually worked - she'd get one direction, then another and visit them both in the same day. But not today. Suprisingly enough, she spun three seperate times and each time she had the same direction.
"Argent is being guided! So therefore Argent shall go!" The colourfully dressed girl began skipping and hopping down the streets. She was wearing a pair of six inch neon royal blue patent leather thigh high boots with a orange and green plaid nubbly fabric singlet and a giant belt made of three inch metal disks that flashed bright LED lights in headache-inducing patterns.
She climbed down ladders and across rooftops, ignoring the more expected way of travel: the road way. Argent Panic was never one to consider the general methods of the more commonplace people, since she wasn't commonplace. She was special. She was one of Those-Who-See.
The neighborhoods around her kept getting nastier, and more run down. In fact, she witnessed seventeen muggings, two murders and one reverse blackmail. That is, one man shown evidence of having giving over fourteen billion credits to help in the rebuilding of a recently burned orphanage. Argent was always amused to watch the ebb and flow of money on Coruscant. She'd once seen someone once make a computer program that tracked it and created an absolutely beautiful three diminsional represenation that changed as the money changed. Argent sat there for six hours before the processing power blew and the data was lost. While the computer tech cried over his computer, Argent wept over the loss of the beauty of the image.
"AAA!" She hadn't been paying attention to where she was going and stepped into a hole in a roof. "Ouch! Ouch! Argent promises to watch what she's going if only You will let my foot go!" Seconds later, her shiny booted foot was free and she climbed down from the roof, deciding to take to the roads. It was one thing to be different, but another completely to be crippled because of foolish pride.
Out of nowhere, a crashing feeling came to her stomach. Or she hoped it was her stomach, since she'd never found out where her stomach was in her body. It grew as she hobbled along, weaving on the six inch heels and massive cramps that were running through her abdomen. Through her long orange bangs, she could spot a gate and graffiti covered wall. Maybe she could sit there.
Argent threw her body against the rusty gates, but it wouldn't open. So, in the grand tradition of all colourfully dressed Hapans named Argent, she climbed it. She managed to not break her heels, but she did get sighted.
"Suri Rose?"
"Hiya, sweetie. What's going on, Neila?"
"You've got a fashion disaster climbing the gate."
Argent faced the tall, long legged modelsque-perfect woman with the long, gorgeous purple hair. "You will not prevent Argent Panic from finding Those-Who-See!"
Suri's eyebrow rose as her hands found her hips. "What are you doing climbing that gate? And in those clothes, really. Those boots are just so tacky."
Argent frowned. "Oh, and your orange high heels are not? Those are three seasons past and only fourteen percent of the population ever even liked them based on marketing strageties!"
Suri opened her mouth to retort, but before she could, her resident blue ghostie appeared. Suri? I think she's a senshi. You might want to be very careful of her, she's not scanning as all there.
Argent was turning a lovely shade of reddish silver. Suri opened her mouth. "You're senshi, aren't you?"
The silver skinned girl frowned. "I am one of Those-Who-See! And I can prove it!" She put her hands on her hips and held the coin at her throat. "Hapes Beauty of Money Magic!"
Large golden coins clunked against her, revealing her insanely coloured costume and practically braining Suri.
"I am Sailor Hapes, the protector of Weath and Prosperity, here to make sure that Wealth flows!"