Inside of Setsuna's castle, Crystal and Setsuna knelt around a Japanese style table drinking green tea as Setsuna taught Crys about the rules of a time gate protector. Crys could barely stay awake. Even if the tea had caffinee in it, Crys couldn't help herself but to fall face first into it.
"YEEEEEOUCH!!!" Crys screamed as she jolted up from the table. Meiou laughed hysterically as a sweatdrop appeared on Setsuna's head. Crys's face was as red as a boiled lobster, and twice as hot. Crys wiped some of the tea off her face as she knelt down again.
"As I was saying, The Protector can not disobey three rules: Do not travel back in time. Do not change history, and most of all, do not stop time. Do disobey them would bring death apon you. and remember that you will not be able to bring yourself back from the dead like Hotaru." Crystal's eyebrow twitched.
"Oh. That's juuuuuuuust great. One rule down. Two more to go until..." She pretended to slit her throat with her index finger. All Setsuna could do was smile. Crys had a way of exagerating things.
"No. All you did was put them in suspended animation. As one would be if they were frozen in Carbonite. When you cause time to slow down, you slow down the molecules of a certian target, and therefore causing the whole being to become more slugish. It's just the reverse when you speed someone up." Crys slumped down in disappointment.
"Awwww...You mean that I won't be able to break the rules anyway?!" Setsuna could never understand her. Crys would risk her own life to give in her more rebellious side.
"Once you become more responsible with your own powers, and stop freezing the attentents and taking their things away to confuse them...I will pass down my Time Staff to you. For now, your Quartz staff will suit you well..." Crys sighed.
"Yeah..."
"This is most serious, Lina-Chan. Time is not something to play around with...and Where do you think you're going?!" Crys was half way to the door when Setsuna cast her stern gaze at Crys.
"I'm....Um....I'm....I'm going to go kill time!!!" She joked and out the door with her guardian cabbit. Setsuna placed her hand on her forehead and groaned. If she was going to teach Crystal, then she would have to learn how to settle down and stop acting like a hyperactive spaz.
Meiou transformed into an impressive looking spacecruiser as Crys climbed abroad. They passed the outer limits of the Milky Way and headed into the final frontier as a black hole appeared before them.
"Shimatta!!!" Crystal cursed as the gravity pulled them into the vortex. Crys and Meiou woke up to find themselves among labratory experiments.
"Meoooooow!!!", Meiou cried. Crys sighed and picked Meiou up. Meiou was used to flying, but traveling through a black hole gave her motion sickness...Five sentinels walked up to them.
"You will follow us. Someone wishes to speak with you..." One of them boomed. Crys and Meiou nodded and followed Lurch and his friends: The jolly green giant, Titan, Frankenstien, and Garganuatan. They walked for some time untill a small figure approached them. If Crys didn't know better, she would have guessed that it was a twelve year old girl, but Crys did know better.
"Hey, Washuu-Chan!!! What're you doing with all of these goons?" Washuu just laughed and punched a few buttons on a console. The sentinels vanished as she turned back around and laughed some more. A bead of sweat appeared on Crys's and Meiou's head.
"Anyway, I want you to star as my lastest experiement!!", Crys backed away.
"Nooooo way, Miss Washuu!!", She said, shaking her head.
"I'll create 10000000 untracable, prefect credits for you....." Crys's eyes opened to reveal the Japanese and American signs for money.
"SOLD!!!", She said. Washuu bowed and made a sweaping gesture to a chamber. Crys shrugged and steped in. Meiou meowed again, but Washuu assured her that she wouldn't hurt Crys. Much.
"Alright, when this's all done, you'll feel like a new person, only faster!!" Washuu beamed as she pressed a few buttons. Sparks few as Washuu tried desprately to stop the process. When everything calmed down, Washuu and Meiou slowly turned their attention towards the chamber as a bolt of lightining sped out. The bolt bounced here and there, only to be stoped by a 100 inche think titianium (diamond fortified) wall. Embedded into the wall (about half way) was Crystal.
"Ouch." She said as Washuu and Meiou pulled her out.
"AUUUUUUUUGH!!! I can't believe something like this happened!!!" Washuu screamed as she ran around the room. A sweatdrop appeared on Crys and Meiou as they watched.
"Washuu, I fell fine. In fact..." Crys did a few flips off of a wall and laughed. "I feel great!!!" She shouted. Washuu stopped to check Crystal's stats out.
"Hmmmmm..." Crys's expression suddenly changed.
"That didn't sound good...." Washuu shook her head.
"Well, I have good news and bad news.... Good news is that you'll be able to eat anything that you want. Bad news is that you'll have to because your metabolism is sped up to the point where you'll have to consume large amounts of calories for just sitting around, or you'll have to suffer the same fate as your parents and steal energy to stay alive..." Washuu said solemly.
"Please. Don't speak about my parents....I don't want to be reminded..." Crys answered glumly. It was bad enough that she had a small bounty on her head for questioning the authory of a powerfull crime lord, but to be reminded of her real origin.... Washuu nodded as an image of Setsuna appeared above the console.
"Washuu-Chan, I need to talk to Lina-Chan..." The image shimmered as it spoke. Crystal walked up to the image.
"Yes, Setsuna-Sensei?" She said, bowing deeply. The image nodded at her.
"There is someone I want you to meet. Her name is Ayeka, the princess of Jurai." Washuu and Crys groaned. Washuu pushed Crys out of the way.
"Setsuna-Chan, are you out of your mind?!" Washuu shouted."Do you have any idea what Ayeka'll do to her?!" Setsuna nodded.
"She'll have to learn how to be more lady like if she wants to be a part of the Lunar court..." Washuu looked back at Crys, who nodded. Crys didn't partically like being prissy, but it would definelty be poetic justice if she rose higher then her tormentors... She motioned for Meiou to transform as the two left to return to Pluto. This would be an interesting experience.
Definelty....