Chapter 19: Seiya’s Decision!  Rainbows or Death?
    The phone rang that evening, and Hotaru picked it up.  It was 
Seiya!  “Hotaru, I’d like to have a double date with you and 
Pikachu-chan tomorrow at my house.  Maybe you could bring your family 
over,” she said.  “That’s fine.  Why do you want to have Pikachu over 
too?” Hotaru asked.  “I think I might be liking her more than you, but 
I’m not sure.  I want to have you both to decide,” said Seiya, being 
almost inappropriately honest.  “Well...okay...um...goodbye.”  Hotaru 
hung up the phone and sighed.  Seiya could be so overly, but innocently, 
blunt sometimes.  Of course, given her lack of natural intelligence, 
that was excusable, sort of.  But still...

    “Hotaru-chan, what’s wrong?” Michiru asked, coming into the 
livingroom.  “Seiya asked me to come over to her house tomorrow.  She 
wanted me to bring you along too.  But...” Hotaru explained, then 
stopped.  “But what?  That doesn’t sound like something that would 
depress you,” said Michiru gently, sitting down next to her surrogate 
daughter.  “But she said that she wanted to have Miller-sempai over 
too,” said Hotaru finally.  “Who’s that?  I wouldn’t mind if Seiya had 
another person at her house too,” said Michiru, still confused.  “She’s, 
well, someone Seiya said she might like more than me,” Hotaru finally 
got her full explanation out.  “We’ll make sure to convince Seiya to 
choose you.  It’s okay, Hotaru-chan,” Michiru said comfortingly.

    “Ah.  A love problem?  FOR OUR FORMER MESSIAH?!?!  How DARE she get 
in with that dominatrix-looking, mullet-haired idiot!” shouted Eudial, 
grabbing a nearby cup and aiming it at Mystina’s mirror.  “Stop, 
Eudial.  We can still trap her and make her one of us again.  If 
Hotaru’s thinking about Seiya, she won’t notice an attack,” said 
Sapphire wisely.  “You know about her?” Eudial asked, suprised. “From 
what I’ve heard, yes.  And that Pikachu girl.  She’s a powerful one, so 
watch out for her,” Sapphire warned.  “Right.  She defeated Lead Crow 
and Malachite all on her own.  For precaution, we should go with more as 
well,” said Eudial wisely.  Finally they decided that Cyprine and Tin 
Kitty should come along to attack Hotaru as well.

    “Nyah-ah-ah!  I’ll kill this girl, and there’s nothing you can do 
about it, Sailor V!”  “How about this?  Sailor V Kick!”  “What’s going 
on in here?” Seiya asked, confused.  Fireball and Yaten dropped their 
copies of Sailor V manga, startled.  “We were just reading aloud from 
the Sailor V manga.  I’m being the villains and Fireball-sama is Sailor 
V,” explained Yaten.  “Good.  I thought Sailor Venus was fighting a 
monster in here, and that we had to transform,” said Seiya, relieved.  
“Did you need anything, Seiya-chan?” Fireball asked.  “Do you mind if 
Pikachu-chan comes over as well as Hotaru?” Seiya asked.  “That’s okay.  
I’m glad you’re an extrovert, unlike Taiki-chan,” said Fireball.  
“What’s that supposed to mean?!  Taiki-chan can act any way she wants!” 
shouted Seiya.  Just then, Pikachu, Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru, and Setsuna 
arrived, almost at the same exact time.  “Seiya, your guests are here!” 
Yaten called from near the front door.  “Oh!  Hi, furrowed brows!” Seiya 
called.  “What did you say?!” Haruka snickered.  Michiru, Setsuna, and 
Hotaru giggled too, and Pikachu gushed “Did you say that for me?  That’s 
so sweet!”  Seiya was confused.  “What did I say?” she asked.  “You 
said ‘Hi, furrowed brows,’” Michiru answered helpfully.  “D’oh!  I meant 
to say ‘everyone!’  I mess up my words daytimes,” explained, giving a 
demonstration as well.  “And nighttimes too, probably,” added Pikachu 
jokingly.

    “Does anyone have any activity ideas?” Haruka asked.  “I do.  It’s 
a game we play in my old country.  I brought it along,” said Pikachu, 
and she held up a Twister box.  “What’s that?  An ice cream maker?” 
Seiya asked.  “No, silly!  It’s a game!  I’ll teach you how,” giggled 
Pikachu, and she pulled out the game sheet and the spinner.  “Um, 
Pika-chan?  Does this game come with any other pieces?  What do you use 
to play?” Fireball asked, searching the empty box.  “You use yourself.  
One person uses the spinner, and I’ll do that.  I’ll call out a color 
and a body part, and if it’s your turn you put that body part on a dot 
of that color.  And until, for example, you’re told to move your left 
hand, you have to stay like that for the rest of the game.  If you fall, 
you lose,” explained Pikachu.  “We don’t have to use any naughty body 
parts, right?” Yaten asked, blushing.  “Do you think hands and feet are 
naughty?” Hotaru giggled, looking at the spinner.  “No...”

    So Seiya, Yaten, Fireball, Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru, and Setsuna 
were the players in the game.  First, Seiya went out, as she seemed 
rather distracted.  Then Hotaru went out.  Michiru took both her and 
Setsuna out when she fell on the dignified Time Guardian.  At the end of 
the game, Yaten, oddly enough, was the winner!  Suddenly, as she was 
enjoying her victory, Sapphire, Cyprine, Eudial, and Tin Kitty crashed 
through the window.  “Hey!  Don’t wreck our house!” Fireball shouted.  
“We create chaos!  Take this!” shouted Eudial, shooting a blast from her 
fire gun at the 7 of them.  Suddenly, they heard “Star Gentle Uterus!” 
coming from the hallway, and a purple energy ball shot out, 
disintegrating all 4 villains!  “Taiki-san!  You saved us!” Michiru 
exclaimed.  Star Maker was standing in the hallway, looking a bit 
shocked.  “I didn’t mean it to be that powerful,” she said, blushing.

    Seiya had made her decision, hard as it was.  “I have an 
announcement to make,” she said.  “What is it, Seiya-chan?” Fireball 
asked, a bit confused.  “After a lot of brow furrowing, I have made a 
choice.  Pikachu, I choose you,” Seiya said, looking a little frightened 
as she finished.