Sailor Moon 1, Act 5: Lita a.k.a. Sailor Jupiter

(Bunny is dreaming.) Where am I...? she wonders, and looks down at her hands. I think I’m Bunny...aren’t I? Someone’s calling me...but this fog...I can’t see... Through the fog, she sees a male figure, but she can’t make out who it is. Who is it...?
Suddenly, she wakes up to see Luna with her alarm clock, telling her she’ll be late. Bunny yawns, and says something about having weird dreams lately. As they are walking to school, Luna tells her she should wake up earlier and act responsible like a true Soldier. Luna remembers Tuxedo Mask saying “So we may be enemies” and kissing Bunny, and she says that since they know nothing about him, Bunny should avoid him. She blushes and says that he just shows up. All of a sudden, Bunny’s body feels warm as she thinks about Tuxedo Mask. She thinks to herself that just hearing his name makes her heart pound, and his warm hands and embrace feel so natural, as if she’s known him forever. She is still daydreaming as she crosses the street, and suddenly Luna yells at her to watch out because there is a car coming right towards her. Just then the girl with the wavy hair in a ponytail runs across and carries her to the other side of the street. She tells Bunny she better pay attention, and as Bunny says she will, she notices the girl’s sweet-smelling rose earrings. The girl watches Bunny leave.
At school, Bunny is chatting with her friends and looking at a picture of Molly dressed up as a bride. Molly explains that since her cousin’s getting married, the bridal shop let her try the dress on. As the girls (Bunny and Yumi) ask for more details about the wedding, Molly reveals that the groom is missing and no one knows what happened. Just as the girls are swooning over brides and weddings, someone bumps into Bunny. It’s the girl with wavy hair in a ponytail (only she isn’t wearing a Crossroads Junior High uniform), and she tells Bunny to watch out. Molly asks who that was, Bunny thinks that it’s that girl from before, and Yumi notices how tall she is. Suddenly the principal comes out and begins yelling at the girl for still wearing her old school’s uniform. She tells him that the new uniform was too small, and he yells that they don’t allow perms here. She tells him that her hair is natural. Just then, Melvin pops up and tells the girls that she’s the new transfer student, and rumor has it she was kicked out of her last school for fighting.
Later that day, Molly and Bunny go to eat lunch outside and Bunny notices the new girl sitting by herself. Bunny peeks around the tree and sees that the new girl’s lunch looks really good. Just then a baseball comes flying towards Bunny, and the girl quickly hits it back before it hits her. The girl says “It’s you again...” and tells her she needs to wake up. The girl catches Bunny looking at her lunch and asks her if she wants some. Bunny says she doesn’t eat much, but then goes right ahead and chows down on the girl’s lunch. The girl explains that for some reason, everyone’s been scared to talk to her. She asks if Bunny knows of a cool arcade, and Bunny stops eating to say that she knows an awesome arcade.
At Crown Arcade, Bunny is showing the new girl how to play the Sailor V game. Just then, Amy arrives with Luna, Andrew behind her. Amy sees the girl playing the Sailor V game and thinks to herself that she’s really good. Andrew asks who the new girl is. She replies that she just transferred to Crossroads and that her name is Lita. Andrew says she can just call him Andy. Amy says that she just heard a strange rumor about the bridal shop outside the mall.
In front of the bridal shop, they see a mannequin hanging out of a window. Lita says it’s a beautiful wedding dress, and adds dreamily that someday she’ll wear one, but turns red when Bunny looks at her for saying that. They find out that the ghost of a dead bride haunts the bridal shop. They say that the mannequin floats around after midnight, and if there’s a guy around she’ll seduce him and if a woman buys her dress there, the ghost will possess her and her marriage will be doomed. Lita says to forget buying her wedding dress there.
They go to Raye’s temple, where she is feeding her crows. Raye’s grandpa asks the “pretty young girls” if they want a job at his temple, and Raye is about to yell at him (Bunny and Amy laugh politely) when she notices Lita. They tell Raye about the haunted bridal shop, and Raye says it sounds suspicious. Amy says that Molly’s cousin’s fiancé may have been seduced, but Raye says ghost or no ghost, if he gave into temptation it’s his fault. Bunny tells Raye to lighten up, but Raye says she doesn’t trust guys. Lita says she has to go and leaves. Raye watches her go and tells Luna she thinks they may have found their next soldier.
The next day at school, Bunny and Luna hear two guys talking about the ghost that haunts the bridal shop. Luna says they should go check it out.
Inside the haunted bridal shop, the mannequin comes alive and floats down to the ground. Elsewhere, a guy is saying goodbye to Andy. After he leaves, the bride appears in the doorway and Andy notices her. She tells him to look into her eyes, he’s become hers...
Somewhere else, Lita is getting a soda out of a machine. Suddenly she sees Andy (with a possessed look in his eyes) who says he’s been waiting. “For...me?!” she says. He tells her to look into his eyes...
Darien is walking down the street when he notices Andrew with Lita. He takes off his glasses...
Bunny is asleep in her bed when suddenly a noise wakes her up. She sees Tuxedo Mask on her windowsill and wonders if this is a dream. Luna wakes up to see Bunny, outside in her pajamas running after Tuxedo Mask. Luna grabs the remote phone and contacts Amy and Raye to tell them that Tuxedo Mask just took Bunny away.
Bunny is running after Tuxedo Mask, panting. She asks where they’re going, but just then she turns a corner and sees Andy and Lita, with a strange light coming from them. Just then, Amy, Raye and Luna come up behind her. They ask if that is the bride’s ghost and Bunny tells Luna it’s the enemy and they have to save them. She pulls out her Moon Pen.
The bride laughs evilly and tells them to give her all their energy, and their body will be stuffed into a mannequin and they will become slaves. Suddenly, a man in a groom’s tuxedo (it’s Bunny, disguised) appears behind the ghost bride and tells her that their wedding is waiting in hell. Just as the bride whirls around angrily and asks who he is, the groom transforms into Sailor Moon, with Sailors Mercury and Mars behind her. She says she won’t let her dress up like a virgin bride and tempt men. They all say that she won’t let the bride use or take advantage of people. Lita realizes she’s been tricked and as she gets angrier, the symbol of Jupiter glows on her forehead. She picks up the ghost bride and slams her down. Luna gives Lita a transformation pen and it turns her into a Sailor Soldier. The bride disappears and Nephrite appears on top of a nearby building. Sailor Jupiter shouts “Flower Hurricane!” and attacks Nephrite. Then she calls up a storm with her tiara and sends thunder and lightning showering down, and it destroys Nephrite.
Watching from his crystal ball, Zoisite gasps. Another general behind him, this one with straight medium-length hair, tells Zoisite it’s his own fault for not using his head, and he’s an embarrassment. “Kunzite!” Zoisite says angrily.
Watching from her crystal ball, Queen Beryl says angrily that Sailor Moon has done it again, and if they had the Silver Imperium Crystal it would be simple—she needs the crystal now.
Lita falls to the ground after her attack, and Bunny cries out her name. Luna notices Tuxedo Mask behind Sailor Moon, and realizes that he may have brought Bunny there to save Lita. As he dashes off, she remembers what he said last time (“So we may be enemies”) and wonders who he is.
Andrew wakes up sleepily and asks where he is. Sailor Jupiter says she’s so dumb, this guy who went to her old school broke her heart. But she changed schools because she felt something inside—that something important was waiting for her here, something much more important than lost love. Sailor Mars says that’s right, there’s no time to cry over boys. Luna tells her that she’s now one of them, she’s Sailor Jupiter. Lita says that that must be what she felt inside. Suddenly Sailor Moon turns around and sees Luna with something. It is a wand with a crescent moon on it, and she drops it on the ground. She tells Sailor Moon that they have found four soldiers, and she must be their leader and protect the princess and the Silver Imperium Crystal.

END OF SAILOR MOON BOOK 1

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