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[OP--"Moonlight Densetsu"]
Usagi and Chibi-Usa stand in front of a building, looking at a poster advertising a ballet. They imagine themselves performing in the ballet.
[title screen]
All six girls are at the Crown Fruit Parlor, talking about the ballet. Usagi apparently mentions her wish to be _in_ a ballet, because the others picture her as a ballerina and react with skepticism to the idea.
As a nearby ballet school, Usagi and Chibi-Usa (who have signed up for lessons) put away their street clothes in the locker room. Usagi puts on her ballet slippers, finds a tack in one, and gets melodramatic about it, as if it were going to ruin her virtuoso performance. Chibi-Usa says something that brings her back down to earth.
Out in the practice room, the two girls try to balance on tiptoe. (Chibi-Usa notes that Usagi's outfit is bulging a little around the waist. :)) They see the young, male instructor working with a young woman who has short, auburn hair.
Meanwhile, in the back room, FishEye has put on a woman's ballet outfit. He joins Ami, Rei, Mako, and Minako, who are also there for the class, along with the auburn-haired girl and the two Usagis.
Everyone lines up along the walls and begins practicing various moves and positions. Mako loses her balance and falls on top of Minako, immediately apologizing. Rei, in trying to bring one leg out straight, accidentally kicks the instructor in the stomach.
FishEye appears on the scene; the girls comment on how good he looks in the ballet dress, while the instructor stares, transfixed. (Obviously, all of them are mistaking him for a woman--again.) The instructor says something to FishEye, who responds enthusiastically. The auburn-haired girl hears, as well, and comes over to protest. The instructor responds coldly, and she seems hurt, running out of the room. The instructor seems ashamed, but FishEye looks satisfied.
In the locker room, the girls talk for a few moments. Usagi and Chibi-Usa are the last to leave. As they walk down the street, they see the auburn-haired girl standing on a bridge, looking depressed, and stop to talk with her. All three sit down on a bench, and the girl explains her problem. (Unfortunately, as there are no pictures to go with it, I have no idea what she says.) The other two manage to cheer her up a little. Later, Chibi-Usa talks with the Pegasus (that is, her name--which I will not try to spell--is mentioned several times in their conversation).
[commercial break]
That night, the instructor helps FishEye practice at the school. They talk for a while. The instructor recalls the auburn-haired girl, and the conversation shifts to her. FishEye begins to ask some favor of the instructor--a big favor, judging by the latter's reaction--but is interrupted when Usagi and Chibi-Usa (who had been eavesdropping from outside) fall through the doorway.
Chibi-Usa starts to say something, but Usagi hisses "Baka!" and puts a hand over her mouth, then takes up the explanation herself. FishEye leaves, looking a little angry, but the instructor seems relieved. He says something to Usagi as the two girls are about to go (from what happens later, I'd say he's offering her a part in the ballet). She responds affirmatively, then adds "Yatta!" and pictures herself on stage in a ballerina's outfit.
The auburn-haired girl nervously talks to herself as she approaches the theater the next day. Inside, FishEye and the instructor practice some difficult moves on stage. Afterward, as they talk backstage, the instructor mentions the girl again, and FishEye gets upset. They argue.
The girl listens from nearby as the instructor talks about her, with FishEye becoming angrier and angrier. Finally, the girl steps into sight, thanking the instructor. They talk for a moment, then she rushes forward to hug him.
FishEye scowls and changes into his Amazon costume. A stream of water shoots from his hand and knocks the girl out of the way, and then he counts to three, strapping the instructor to the magical board that appears and extracting the latter's Dream Mirror. On the other side of the curtain, Usagi and Chibi-Usa hear the instructor's screams and transform.
FishEye looks into the instructor's Dream Mirror, causing pain so intense that his victim passes out. Sailors Moon and Chibi-Moon show up and recite their speech, and FishEye calls up a lemure that looks like a cross between a nutcracker and a marionette. FishEye leaps through his portal, and the instructor falls to the ground, unconscious.
The lemure, yelling for the attention of the two Senshi, uses its mechanical body to perform several complicated ballet-style moves, earning the girls' applause. It throws something at Sailor Moon; the projectile turns out to be a pink skirt, and she's startled, a second later, to find out that she's wearing it. (The lemure comments on the bulge around the waist, and Sailor Moon growls.)
The lemure, controlling Sailor Moon through the skirt, causes the Senshi to begins twirling on her toes like a ballerina. Chibi-Moon tries to stop her by grabbing onto the skirt, but the lemure just spins both of them around faster and faster until they're both too dizzy to fight. The skirt comes off, and both Senshi fall to the ground.
The lemure and the Senshi have a brief shouting match while the latter recover a bit, and then the lemure starts throwing exploding nuts at the two. It's stopped by a flying rose from Tuxedo Kamen, who, from above the stage, gives his intro. speech. (The lemure repeats the name, getting wrong, and Tuxedo Kamen angrily corrects him. :)) Chibi-Moon does the Twinkle Yell, and Sailor Moon destroys the lemure with Moon Gorgeous Meditation.
The instructor and the auburn-haired girl both revive, and they embrace again. Sailor Moon runs over to hug Tuxedo Kamen, who also comments on the bulge around her waist (which had contributed, it seems, to the pink skirt coming off during the fight). Chibi-Moon seems to agree, and she and Sailor Moon immediately begin fighting over it.
Later, at the performance of the ballet, the girls (minus Usagi, who does actually have a part in the ballet) sit in the front row, watching the instructor and the girl perform. Rei makes some comment--apparently wondering what Usagi's part will be--and the others start to wonder, as well. Chibi-Usa seems a little embarrassed as she explains. Everyone else gasps in shock at what she says. They all look up to the top of the stage set, where hangs a fake full moon--with Usagi's head sticking out of the center! [Um, maybe she's the "rabbit in the Moon"? :)]
[ED--"'Rashiku' Ikimasho"]
Emily
ethurston1@weber.edu
Copyright ©1998-2000 Stephen Congly
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