A large, blue... something was attacking students! Mamoru Quickly, he
gathered up his books and ran for the elevator. He hoped he could make
it over there in time. But where exactly was he going to change to
Tuxedo Mask? He arrived at the elevator and skidded to a halt, he saw
that the elavator was on the bottom floor. He then took off, running
toward the stairwell. He opened the door and leapt down the stairs
several steps at a time, pausing at the first landing to look around,
thentransform into Tuxedo Mask. He then continued downward... 

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| Tuxedo America                   | 
| Chapter 3: Higher Learning       | 
|                                  | 
| Started by ColdFury              | 
| This part by Zack Hibiki         | 
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The ten-foot tall, blue-furred, muscle-bound youma casually drained
another victim and then tossed the drained human over its shoulder. He
looked around and spied a young woman a few feet to his left trying to
crawl away, her ankle twisted at an odd angle. 

The youma started to chuckle as it turned and began to walk toward the
woman. He reached down for her throat. 

*hiiissttuu-TRAWP!* *durdruummm* 

The youma quickly retracted his hand and tried to pull the rose imbeded
in his hand out. A black blur descended, scooped up the woman and leapt
away. Tuxedo Mask landed a dozen feet away next to a group of students
that were gawking at the fight. He handed the woman over to one of them
and turned around. He started to walk toward extending his cane as he
went. The youma had meanwhile managed to rip the rose out with a yelp of
pain. The it looked around and walked over to a tree and grabed it. 

"Those who attack the students who are here has no place in this center
of learning! Tuxedo Ka- Mask will..." Tuxedo Mask stoped talking as he
dived and rolled away. 

A *thwack* sounded as a tree impacted the point where he was standing.
"...not forgive you!" Tuxedo Mask finished as he came up in a crouching
position with his cane drawn. He leaped from this position, dashing
forward, and slammed the cane into the Youma's gut. 

the yoma roared in pain and attempted to swat Tuxedo Mask off of him
with the tree trunk. Tuxedo Mask leapt away but not quick enough to
dodge... 

"SOLAR FLARE!" A ball of bright yellow flame swept forward and engulfed
the tree, knocking it away from Tuxedo Mask. 

The giant blue youma just stared at the burning hunk of wood until the
flames started to lap at his hand. A second later, he had let go with a
yelp. It grrr'd and leaped toward the woman in the orange jumpsuit who
had burnt his weapon, Only to be kicked in the head and slammed into the
ground by a man in a black Gi. The man leaped off the youma's head with
a back flip, landing next to the to the woman. Tuxedo Mask held his cane
in front of him. Focusing all his power, he closed his eyes. 

"Charging... cane... ATTACK!" He dashed forward toward the giant blue
youma, his cane charged with the power of the Earth. 

*begin bullet time* He leapt, sweaping his cane forward through the
youma's gut with a slashing sound (to those in normal time, this would
be a flash of light and a slashing sound). *resume normal time* 

Tuxedo Mask landed behind the yoma, with his cane in the post attack
position, next to his hip. He pushed it down slightly and heard it
click. A line of light appeared across the youma's midsection. It then
slid apart then crumbled to dust. Tuxedo Mask turned around to face his
saviors. "Now. Can I... not again..." he said with a sigh. The two of
them had already left... Tuxedo Mask heard the sirens in the distance
and runs off. He ducked behind a tree and detransformed. 

Mamoru headed off-campus. 

***** 

Sally sighed. She had found it. A book on magic. THE book on magic! She
could learn magic and help her hero! She sighed again. Ever since that
night in the park. That man. The one who she could not read at all, he
just gave her a headache, and she had heard rumors of him, that man in a
tuxedo, around Berkeley! The very same university that she had enrolled
in. She wasn't planing to head down there until next week when her
classes started. But now that HE was there... "*Sigh* HE WILL BE MINE!"
she yelled. 

"OUT! That is the third time you have broken the rules! Out!" the
librarian yelled at Sally. Sally blushed and walked out the door,
clutching THE book to her chest... 

***** 

Bloutite walked into HER office yet again, and immediately felt the
sting of a whip upon his arm. 

"WHY DID ONE OF THE STUDENTS GO ON A RAMAGE ON CAMPUS, BLOUTITE?" 

Bloutite grimaced. Not the black leather again. "Well, Your Hi.." 

"CALL ME QUEEN! *Whu-CRACK!*" 

Bloutite flinched as the whip gouged his arm. "Yes, my Queen." He looked
down at the bleeding wound. This was going to be a long and painful
night. Especially since he didn't know anything about this. Oh boy... 

***** 

Mamoru walked down the street toward the coffee shop where Kelly took
him and where Keith worked. He walked in and went to the counter. "Is
Keith in?" he asked. 

"Nope. Left all of a sudden with his girlfreind. Lucky guy." the guy
behind the counter said with a wink. 

"*chuckle* okay. one cup of coffee please." Mamoru asked. takeing his
cup of joe, he sat down at a teble and decided to wait. 

He sighed, relaxed, sipped his coffee and thought about his day,
especially the battle. 

***** 

"Hello class, I am afraid Bloutite is currently out, so for the next two
days, I will be subbing for him. Now-" The substitute was thrown back
into the wall by a roar of yells. The class was cheering... "Enough!"
The sub yelled with enough force to throw several of the youma in the
front row into the air. "Now, close your books. Because you were so
rude, I will hold a POP QUIZ!" 

Several of the youma yelled out in horror. One brave soul stood up and
confronted the substitute. "WHY should we listen to a puny little girl?"
The youma froze. "Okay. I retract that. Do I at least get to run?" The
substitute nodded. The young yoma leaped to the aisle and ran for the
door, and almost made it. But at the last moment he was engulfed in a
ball of red light. A moment later, he collapsed to the ground, smoking
and a twitching. 

"Now. Pass these out. They are due at the end of the day. "GOT IT?!" the
sub yelled to the class as she walked up the last aisle putting a stack
a papers on the desks. "The essay question is on the theory of how the
good guys get away with speeches in the middle of battles." 

***** Menawhile, at the cafe, Mamoru was asllep. ocasionaly twitching..
suddenly Mamoru bolt's up from his chair screeming "NOOOOOOO!!!" 

Then Mamoru opened his eyes, And looked around, THEN he blushed hard. He
sat down slowly. "Okay, I definitely need more sleep." he mumbled under
his breath as he sipped the last of his cold coffee then left the cafe
for his dorm. 

***** 

Sally looked down at the circle she had drawn in the middle of the
parking lot. "Circle, complete, hairs, check, magic runes, check, food
for new familiar, bound to be something there... incantation, got the
page. Time?" Sally looked at her watch. "Time to start!" 

"Spirits of light, head my call, Grant me a familiar, so I may fight for
the light. Give it a shape, and give it power! CALLING!" 

The circle lit up, and then exploded. Sally was flung a few feet away.
Her eyesight blurred. She groaned. Then she felt something licking her
face. She slowly sat up and looked at the small cocker spaniel sitting
next to her. "You're my familiar? You're normal! Oh Great, Now-" 

The little dog's third eye opened. "Now I wouldn't say that lassie." the
dog said, with a Scottish accent. Sally promptly fainted. "This will not
do at all, not at all!" the dog said huffily. 

***** 

NOTES: 

YAY! I did a sane work! at least. compared to my other works! 

reasons behind sally: she was introduce BY name in first episode. and I
liked her! so, I wrote her a bigger part! cool ne? any power she might
have or might gain, is up to future authors. I just hinted.. 

the sub: I have no Idea why I wrote that section. but. it looks good,
and I like it. 

oh. the title of this part was stolen from Fiss-samas HIGHER LEARNING
series. Great author. read his works: www.geocities.com/tokyo/9110/ 

thanks to: 

Coldfury: *hiiissttuu-TRAWP!* *durdruummm* {... Is that the rose
followed by music accompaniment?? ^_^} 

Phoebe: "Give it a shape, and give it power! CALLING!" {Nice spell ^_^} 

Kate: "CALL ME QUEEN! *Whu-CRACK!*" {I was wondering how long it would
take for somebody to get to this joke. ^_^} 

for pre-reading oh and on a personal note, I am the most sane I have
been in a long time.. poor me.. 

Zack Hibiki. Muse: washu