"I can't believe I found you," the tall, dark haired guy said, 
kissing the top of the head of the person sitting next to him. 
    "I know," the other person said in a masculine voice with a slight 
feminine tone to it.  "This is like a dream.  Only better.  You can't 
hug a dream." 
    *Dream...* the dark haired guy thought.  *I think this happened in 
a dream before.  Only, in that dream, we were destroyed while sitting 
together.  It was like a previous life... 
    *I promise, if I did know you in a previous life, that I will never 
let you go...*  With a deep, heavy sigh, he kissed the head of the 
other person again.  Meanwhile, an owl with bright green eyes hooted. 

                             TMTK, Chapter 3: 
                           Jupiterknight Dream

    Misae sighed and put in a pair of small gold hoops where her onyx 
earrings normally would have been.  *I can't believe that it's been 
nearly a month since the earrings were stolen.  And, unfortunately, I'm 
no closer to finding them as I was when I found out the one was 
missing.* 
    "You wanna remind me again why I'm dressing up?" she asked, looking 
over her shoulder at her older brother. 
    Mike ducked under her arm and straightened his dark blue tie.  "I 
wanted to take you to meet a friend of mine, and Jean wanted to take 
you out to dinner."  He brushed some of his dark blonde, almost 
feminine looking hair off his forehead.  "Since we've moved here, 
you've either had a game or been studying over at that coffee house off 
of Main; or we've had a game or been on a road trip, and I think he 
misses being with you. 
    "Besides," he said in his slightly feminine, yet masculine voice, 
"Jean's been whining for the past month to see you in that black 
cocktail dress you're wearing.  How long has it been since the two of 
you have had sex?" 
    Misae sighed, swatting Mike in the back of the head.  "None of your 
business, Mike!"
    "So, that means two days?" 
    Misae sighed as she narrowed her eyes and growled, turning red.  
"Oh, like you've had anything NEAR sex since we moved back from 
Juuban!" Misae said.  "And, no, frenching your teddy bear does not 
count." 
    Mike chuckled.  "Actually, yes I have." 
    Misae's mouth dropped open in embarassment and in astonishment.  
That was the last thing she had planned to hear from her older 
brother's mouth.  
    "What's her name?" Misae asked.
    Mike smiled to himself.  "You'll find out." 

    The owl smiled as she spotted a young, dark haired man sitting 
outside a fancy restaurant in Duluth.  He sat, nervously playing with a 
gold ring with a dark green stone in it. 
    *So,* she thought, *this is the young man with thunder and 
lightning flowing thru his veins.*  She sighed.  *Still as handsome as 
the day he was destoryed by Aphrodite and me...* 
    The owl floated to the ground.  As it's feet touched the ground, it 
turned into a young woman with collar length, brunette hair.  The woman 
then walked up to the man pacing nervously. 
    "Richard?" she asked. 
    The dark haired man looked at her with suprise in his dark hazel 
eyes.  "Anna?  What are you doing here?" 
    She laughed.  "Why would I not want to see my best friend?  So, 
whacha doing?" 
    "I'm waiting for a friend of mine to show up with his sister and 
her boyfriend."  He nervously bit the nail on his left pinkie.  "I 
don't think he's told her about me yet." 
    "And what's so bad about you?" she said with a laugh. 
    "Uh, Anna, don't you remember?"  he said in a whispered voice. 
    "No," she said. 
    Just then, he heard someone call out his name.  "Hey, I'll talk to 
you later, okay Anna?  They're here."  He kissed her on the cheek. 
    She smiled nervously.  "Sure..." 
    She saw the tall, dark haired young man run towards the group of 
people who called him.  One person in particular caught her eye: a young, 
rather tall dark skinned woman with wavy red hair. 
    *Damnit,* she thought.  Walking back towards the trees, she turned 
into an owl and flew off. 

    "Richard, this is my sister, Misae, and you already know Jean.  
Misae, this is Richard.  He joined the team a couple of weeks ago as
a nutritionalist intern." 
    Misae smiled at the guy Mike introduced to her.  "So...are you 
related to the girl Mike's been banging?" 
    Jean suddenly started staring at his feet while he turned a rather 
attractive shade of dark red.  "Misa, I don't think that's the best 
way to introduce yourself," he whispered. 
    "Not exactly," Richard replied with a chuckle. 
    "Uh," Mike said, nervously tugging at his tie, "Why don't we go 
see if our table's ready?" 
    Misae mentally noted how nervous Mike was suddenly acting, like 
he was trying to hide something.  *It's almost as if he's hiding that 
he's bi,* she thought.  *but he can't be.  Why wouldn't he have told 
me earlier?  The ONLY secret I'm hiding from him is that I'm a chick 
who runs around in a short ass skirt saving the world from evil 
creatures.* 

    "So, Athena, did you find out anything about the newest knight 
Hermes found?" Zeus asked, staring out of one of the windows of the 
golden castle they had re-claimed. 
    "Nothing that he hadn't already told me," she said, tossing her 
long brunette hair over her shoulder. 
    Zeus chuckled.  "Besides the fact that you want to screw him like 
crazy." 
    Athena stared at her leader with her intense bright green eyes.  
"The past has nothing to do with what I have found out about him." 
    Zeus sarcastically nodded his head in agreement.  "Sure, Athena." 
    "Besides," she said, holding herself elegantly, "if this is 
anything like the past, he'll be too busy trying to get into 
Venusknight's pants to even notice me."  *At least as more than just a 
friend,* she thought. 
    "Good.  So, you should have no problem destroying him." 
    "Exactly, Sir."  She bowed to him, the look on her face showing a 
tinge of regret and sorrow, as if she didn't want to do what Zeus said. 

    "So, Mike," Misae said, "when am I going to meet this chick 
you've been bonking?" 
    It was after dinner.  While waiting for their desserts, they 
decided to talk about their love lives. 
    "Uh..." Mike bit his lip nervously and looked over at Richard.  
Richard looked over at Mike and slowly nodded.  "Actually, that's why
I brought you up to Duluth. 
    "Misa, I don't know how to say this, but... 
    "I'm bi." 
    Misae looked at Mike and laughed.  "Meeka, you gotta be kidding!  
You're the straightest guy I know!" 
    Richard sighed and looked at her.  "Misa, he's not kidding."  He 
reached over and touched her hand.  "I'm the chick he's been sleeping 
with.  Well, not really, since I am a guy, but you know what I 
mean..." 
    Misae pushed Richard's hand off of hers and glared at Mike.  "You 
mean to tell me that all this while you've been a switch hitter?" she 
yelled. 
    "Uh...." Mike said, his face slowly turning red. 
    "Oh, so that's why you didn't care if Jean moved in with us or not 
in Japan...you didn't wanna get your cock stuck in some virgin gook 
ass, right?  Oh, or maybe you wanted to know what a Frog's ass felt 
like?" 
    "Misae," Jean said, slightly tugging at her arm, "settle down.  
You're making a scene." 
    She glared evily at Jean.  "You're not even denying it, are you?"  
With tears streaming down her face, she picked up her glass of fruit 
juice and threw it in Jean's face.  "Well fuck you too, asshole.  We're 
over."  She slid a small, skinny gold band off her finger in anger and
slammed it down onto the table.  "And next time, Michael Cupidus, don't 
be nice to me when you intend on ruining my entire god damned life."  
She stormed out of the restaurant. 
    Richard and Jean both arched their eyebrow in suprise.  "Cupidius?"
    "Drama queen," Mike grumbled, quickly turning the subject away from
his middle name.  Then, he got up and went to go after her.  "I'm gonna 
chew her ass out so bad..." 
    Richard grabbed Mike's arm.  "Let me talk to her." 
    "Are you kidding?" Mike said.  "She's probably gonna rip your balls 
off, and that's if she doesn't see you as the end of her life.  I know 
how to deal with her hissy fits..." 
    Richard shook his head in disagreement.  "Mike, do you have any
experience coming out?" he whispered into Mike's ear.
    "Well, no.  You're ususally the one in control."
    Richard sighed and rolled his eyes.  "Not like THAT, sillie.  I 
mean as in out of the closet."
    Mike shook his head in disagreement.
    "Mike, just trust me on this.  The last person she needs to talk to 
is you.  My best friend, Anna, acted the same way that she did when I 
told her.  Well, without the racist comments; and she didn't accuse me 
of screwing her boyfriend, either.  
    "I know how to handle this, okay?  Just sit here and pray that 
there's no homophobics in here."  Kissing Mike on the top of the head, 
he got up and went to the exit. 

    Athena stood in front of the restaurant, in disguise as Richard's 
best friend.  *The princess came out...now he should be coming out, 
soon.  Well, I'm assuming he already CAME out, but...* 
    As she predicted, Richard came out of the restaurant, looking for 
the red haired sister of his lover.  He didn't even notice "Anna" 
standing in front of him until he ran into her. 
    "Anna...what are you doing here?" 
    "Waiting for you, dear."  She pushed Richard against a nearby tree 
and kissed him passionately, sliding her hands down his body. 
    "What the hell?  Anna, you know I'm gay!" 
    "Figures," a greenish mist surrounded her.  When it disappeared, 
she turned into her true form.  Tossing her long, wavy brunette hair 
over her shoulder, she said, "You were a fucking fairy in our past 
lives..why would things be any different now?"
    "Huh?" Richard asked, trying to scurry away from her.  "What are 
you talking about?" 
    "It doesn't matter.  However, I have not come here to make your 
life a misery.  I have come here to offer you knowledge.  Knowledge of 
right and wrong.  Knowledge of everything.  Knowledge that will get 
your family back. 
    "When you first noticed that you were attracted to members of your 
same sex, it scared you.  When you came out, you didn't know how to 
explain it to your highly homophobic family except that you were 
attracted to men instead of women.  It scared your family, because of 
their religious beliefs, and as a result, they kicked you out of the 
family. 
    "Join me, dear, and the falseness of the past four years will 
disappear like a bad dream, and your true self will show."
    "You've got to be KIDDING!"  Richard stared back at her, his hazel 
eyes flashing like lightning across a dark sky.  "Trust me, I miss my 
family a hell of a lot.  Hell, half the reason I became interested in 
Michael was because he had a little sister who would be about the same 
age as my little sister.
   "However, I've learned more in the past four years having to deal 
with living by myself than I would have ever learned in college."  He 
stared at Athena defiantly.  "More than you can give me." 
    "Fine then.  As you wish."  Within a blink of an eye, Richard was 
bolted to the ground, his hands and feet bound by electric binds.  
"Before I kill you, though," she said, unbuttoning his shirt and
reaching for the zipper of his pants, "I think I'm gonna have a little 
fun." 

    Misae was standing behind a tree, hiding and crying.  *How could 
Mike have done that?  How could he have lied to me for what, seventeen 
years?  How?  And why the fuck did he have to tell me now, when it 
feels as if my life's falling apart?* 
    "No!  Stop it!  Don't, don't... please!" a guy's voice yelled. 
    *Jesus christ, that sounded like that..guy..Mike's dating...if 
homosexuals date.*  She peered around the tree to see Richard bolted to 
the ground.  Not only that, but a woman with hip length brown hair and
wearing some sort of toga was straddling him, removing his clothing as 
she started to molest him.
    "What the hell?" Before she realized it, Misae charged out from 
behind the tree, aiming to deliver a rather nasty elbow to the side of 
the woman's head. 
    Athena glanced over her shoulder to see Misae charging at her.  She 
then chuckled evily. 
    "Well, if it isn't the powerless princess?" she sneered.  "You're 
just in time to see me rape and kill this young man."  She ran her 
hands up and down Richard's bare chest.  "Do you want to help me?  
Maybe your brother will stop lusting after men if he sees the result." 
    "Let him go."  Misae spoke the words calmly and unemotionally.  
"Let him go now." 
    "Why?" Athena asked.  She smiled and started kissing down Richard's 
chest.  "You like to watch, don't you?" 
    Misae nodded her head in disagreement. 
    "Oh, well, I'll solve that problem." 
    Without another word, Athena got up, and wrapped her hands around 
Misae's throat.  Then, she started to choke the life out of Misae. 
    Misae started struggling, kicking at Athena.  
    "Oh, you think you can get out of this, do you?  Well, I guess I
have to prove you wrong.  This is my special death grip.  No living 
being has ever escaped from it.
    "You should remember it, Princess.  Your mother taught it to me.  
Too bad she never bothered to show it to you."
    Athena's hands clenched tighter around Misae's throat.  "It'll be a 
pleasure to kill you, Pest. "
    Misae felt her heart rate slow down as her breathing became more 
labored.  *No...I can't die like this...not..withou...* Before she 
could finish her thought, her mind was swallowed by blackness.

    Richard stared at Athena as she finished choking Misae.  Suddenly, 
the vision changed to Athena strangling a young woman about Misae's age 
with collar length, dark black hair and dark hazel eyes like his.
    *Raquel...I can't let that woman kill her.....* 
    "JUPITER KNIGHT POWER, TRANSFORM!" 
    A bolt of lightning came from the sky, striking in front of him, 
causing a bright light.  When the light dissipated, there stood
the knight of thunder in his dark green and sugar pink uniform.  
He looked down at his new clothing. 
    "Pink?  I HATE PINK!  Just because I'm homosexual does NOT 
MEAN I LIKE WEARING PINK!!!" 

    "He should be back by now," Mike said. 
    Jean nodded slowly.  Suddenly, a flash of alarm swept across his 
face as he saw a tall, amazon-esque, brown haired woman 
strangling Misae. 
    "I gotta go use the bathroom.  I'll be right back." 
    Jean got up and left the restaurant.  Almost instinctively, he 
started running towards the area where Misae lay, near death. 

    Athena turned for a second from the face of the young woman she was 
strangling.  "H-how did you break out of those bonds?" she said, 
dropping her. 
    "It doesn't matter.  You hurt my only sibling, you obsessed 
bitch."  He stared at her. 
    "Born of lightning, with the power of the mighty oaks flowing thru 
my veins, I am the male protector of the planet of faith, 
JupiterKnight!  Prepare to meet your doom. 
    "JUPITER...EAGLE...STRIKE!" 
    He lifted the sword by his left hip up in the air.  A bolt of 
lightning hit it, turning the sword into an eagle made of lightning,
which flew at the brown haired amazon, striking and killing her. 
    After Athena was dead, Jupiterknight ran to the red-haired girl 
that she had been strangling.  However, in his eyes, it was still his
sister. 
    "Raquel, are you alright?" He held her to his chest.  "Don't 
die, Rach..please." 
    
    Jean arrived on the scene shortly after Athena's death.  He 
immediately ran over to the young man wearing green and pink.  
First words out of Jean's mouth were, "Give her to me." 
    "No, Jean.  She's my sister!"
    Jean sighed and closed his eyes.  *Not enough time for an 
explanation.*  With that, he took Misae's hand in his and held it to 
his face.  
    "Come on, Misa," Jean whispered, playing with a stray piece of her 
hair.  "Don't do this to me."
    Misae moaned, moved slightly, and opened her eyes to see both Jean and
 Richard staring at her.  
    "Where is she?" she asked, trying to stand up.  However, she fell 
shortly after she stood up.  
    Jupiterknight caught her.  "Whoa, watch it there.  It's bad enough 
I'm wearing pink.  I don't need to be squished by you!"
    "Richard?  Why are you dressed like..."
    Jean chuckled.  "Looks like it's gonna be a long night.  Or, longer 
than it has been." 

    Zeus slammed his fist into the table again, breaking it in yet 
another spot.  "God damn it..I thought Athena had him for sure!" 
    Hermes quietly snook into Zeus' office.  "Uh, sir?" he said. 
    "What do you want, you disgusting sneak?" Zeus snarled. 
    "The reason Athena almost had him was because she fed on his fear; 
fear of losing anything representing a family.  The only thing that 
stopped her from killing him was the fact that she wanted revenge for 
his scorning of her sexual advanced while at Versailles. 
    "Venusknight has also had his awakening dream.  However, he is very 
vulnerable, due to the fact that he is questioning not only his 
sexuality but his relationship with his sister as well.  
    "I believe Aphrodite knows a thing or two about how his mind works.  
Especially considering who it is, I think she'd enjoy the job.  If 
there's anyone here who can get into anyone else's pants and mind, 
it's Aphy." 
    "Aphrodite would love this job.  You're right.  Hermes, what would 
I do without you?" 
    "You'd probably have to do your work yourself, Sir." 
    Zeus growled and zapped him across the room. 

    "When I told my family that I was gay, they disowned me and forbid 
me from seeing my little sister again."  Richard sat at one of the 
tables of The Imperial Garden, sipping at a herbal tea Tony had made 
for them.  "That's why I ran after you when you flipped.  First off,
Jean is not gay.  Anyway, if he was bi, which he's NOT, it's plainly 
obvious that he's crazy about you, so I wouldn't go after him.  It was 
the first thing I picked up from him when I saw him with you. Besides, 
I'm gay, not a whore.  
    "Second, no matter what, Mike still loves you.  He's still the same 
guy.  He's just a little bit different." 
    Misae glanced over at Tony and stared a little bit at Joe, who was at the 
Garden studying for a test of his. 
    "You like him, don't you?"  Misae's face fell and she glared at Richard, 
her eyes starting to glow with anger.  "He is rather attractive, considering 
he wears glasses and all." 
    "Are you SURE you're not some sort of psychology major?"  Misae 
asked. 
    "No.  To continue our previous conversation before you went off 
into la-la land, it's not like Mike woke up one day and said, 'hey, 
guess what?  I think I'm going to be a part of a minority that is 
shunned and hated.' 
    "Finally, this is as difficult of a time for him as it is for you, 
even if you weren't having the whole missing jewelry thing.  He doesn't 
need you turning into a drama queen and getting us kicked out of the 
nicest restaurant in Duluth.  Again.  Okay?" 
    Misae sighed, sipping at her cup of tea.  "It's just weird." 
    "I understand, Misae.  Just don't fly off the handle 
again...please?" 
    Misae chuckled.  "Once I get past that whole 'you're dating my 
brother' thing, you're not that bad of a guy, Richie. 
    "How old is Raquel, anyway?" 
    "She'd be about your age." Richard said, staring sadly out of the window.
    "Tony told me that there's a new girl who transferred into Oakdale 
High named Raquel Thorsson who looks like you." Misae said.  "And she 
said that something drew her here after leaving her family when they 
told her why she never saw her brother anymore." 
    The door to the shop opened.  A young girl with dark black hair pulled 
into a bun walked to the herbs section, where Hioka was working. The girl waved 
at Tony and asked Hioka, "What do you recommend for a spell to find a lost loved one?" 
    Richard nervously got up and walked up to her.  "Rach?"  he asked, 
nervously looking at his hands. 
    The girl looked at him.  "Who the hell are you?"  She proceded in 
punching him quite painfully in the gut. 
    "Owch." Tony said to Misae. 
    "That'll leave a mark," Misae added.