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                       FSC
           THE DEMON IN THE WITCH-HOUSE                  
   Part 1: The mysterious thing sleeping in the garret...              
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It was an apparently normal day in net.Tokyo.
Almost all the members of FSC were at school. Eudial and 
Silver were out for a date while the other witches had 
chosen that day to go shopping.
Eugeal instead was at home, forced to stay at bed by a bad 
cold.
She sighed, closed the huge book she was reading ("1001 
Cunning Planes to Take Over a Planet") and threw it out of 
the window.
She heard a scream and a crash and sweatdropped. After a 
few seconds a pretty battered Hiryu floated in the room 
from the window.
He landed on Eugeal's lap and looked at the witch.
"Hey, darling, why are you throwing huge books out of the 
window, right on poor neko-sayan's heads?"
She sighed. "I'm bored, bored, bored. No one is around, I 
read all the books at home and my Internet server is down!"
Hiryu smiled at her. "I'm here now!"
"But you shouldn't. I don't want you to get a cold too..."
The little alien hugged her. "Don't worry Eugy, I can't get 
a human cold. That's one of the advantages of being an 
alien! So, what are we going to do?"
Eugeal smiled and took a console.
"What about playing videogames?"
Hiryu happily nodded and grabbed a joypad. "Eheheh! Sorry, 
but I'll beat you!"
Eugeal grinned. "We'll see..."
As soon as they turned the TV on and began to play, the 
light went out.
Eugeal sweatdropped. "Oh no! What are we going to do now?!"
"What about playing Monopoly or Twister?" Hiryu suggested.
Eugeal shook her head. "I borrowed them to the witches and 
they still have to give them back to me..."
They both sighed.
Suddenly Eugeal giggled. Hiryu looked at her, his tail 
shaped like a question mark.
"Hiryu-chan!" she said "I have an idea! We could go and 
explore this house!"
"Uhu? To explore your own house? Don't you know it well 
already?"
"No, this is a very old house and the person who sold it to 
me said that it  had a very low price because a witch lived 
here in the past and people thought it was haunted. He said 
that there's a lot of old stuff in the garret...Maybe there 
are even a few secret passages!"
"Wow! Sounds funny!"

Later in the messy and dusty garret...
Eugeal sighed.
"We're covered in dust and the most interesting thing we 
found is that squid shaped wooden statue..."
Hiryu floated near it and looked at it.
"It's a few inches taller than me and it seems firmly 
attached to the wall..."
Eugeal tried to push and pull the statue but it didn't 
move.
"Too bad...it would have looked nice in the living room 
between that soul crystal and that demon vinyl model..."
Hiryu sat on the wooden statue.
"Oh well, at least we spent some timeEEEEEEEEEEEE!" His 
words turned into a scream when the squid statue moved 
under him, making him to crash into a large hole in the 
wall.
Eugeal looked into the hole, a little concerned. 
"Hiryu? Are you well?!"
"Yes, don't worry... Hey! There is something here! Come 
with a candle!"
Eugeal entered into the secret passage holding a candle.
It was a small room, with irregular walls and a little star 
shaped window on the ceiling. The glasses of the window 
were dark and they didn't let the daylight in. When Eugeal 
lift the candle, she noticed that there were strange and 
unnatural drawings on the window's glasses. 
Spider webs were hanging from the ceiling like curtains and 
trough the dust on the floor, Eugeal and Hiryu could see a 
mosaic made of strange, dark stones, placed as if they were 
following an alien symmetry unknown to mortal people.
Hiryu climbed on Eugeal's back.
"Hey, sure this place is spooky..." he said.
Eugeal nodded.
"What's that?!" she said and pointed to a strange crate 
which was laying into a corner of the room.
"Looks like an old crate..."
"I suggest to take it into my room and examine it there. I 
don't like much this room..."
The flame of the candle moved even if there wasn't wind at 
all.
Eugeal and Hiryu rushed to the crate, grabbed it and 
teleported downstairs.

Eugeal swept off the dust from the crate and they saw the 
alien figures engraved on the wood. They looked like marine 
creatures, but had a resemblance to human beings too.
"Ick! The owner of this crate had  twisted artistic tastes 
for sure..." Eugeal said.
Hiryu nodded. 
"Let's see what's inside it..."
They opened the crate. Inside there were many objects 
wrapped in leather.
Eugeal took one of them and opened it.
"Look Hiryu! A mummified sausage!"
"Isn't that a squid?" Hiryu asked.
Nor him nor Eugeal noticed the label attached to the object 
reading "Effigy of Cthulhu".
Eugeal opened the other bundles which were in the crate and 
put them on the floor.
There were weird stones, unknown objects and strange 
magical ingredients, each wrapped in a piece of leather 
with a symbol on it.
The last object in the crate was a large book covered in 
leather (awfully looking like human skin).
Eugeal opened it.
"Hmmm...It's called Necronomicon...Where did I already 
heard this name?!"
"Wasn't it a videogame?" Hiryu asked.
"Maybe...Oh! If it was a video game, this must be the old 
game they took inspiration from. You know, like the 
versions on CD-ROM  of Monopoly or Risk!"
Hiryu nodded  "And that book must be the manual of 
instructions! Let's play it!"
"OK! Hmmm. Let's see...it says: to draw a pentacle on the 
floor using innocent blood..."
Hiryu held a bottle with a bottle reading "Innocent Blood" 
and began to draw on the floor.
"It's a very realistic game...This stuff looks like real 
blood!" he said.
"Now we have to lit those candles and put them on the 
pentacle..."

After a while, the pentacle was ready and there weren't any 
other objects on the floor.
Hiryu looked at Eugeal. "What do we have to do now?"
Eugeal turned the page and looked miffed.
"Oh, there aren't any other instructions! Only a sort of 
little poem...."
"A poem?!"
"Yeah, something like: 'Ià! Shub Niggurat! Wake up, 
Cthulhu, Master of Darkness!' that's all..."
As soon as she stopped talking, a sort of dark mist began 
to form inside the pentacle.
Eugeal and Hiryu sweatdropped.
"Hey, darling..." Hiryu said "Are you sure it was a 
game..."
The ball of darkness kept growing (just like the sweatdrops 
on Hiryu and Eugeal's heads).
Eugeal face turned blue.
"Hiryu..."
"What?"
"I remembered a thing..."
"What?!"
"Necronomicon isn't a videogame... It's a book of black 
magic... And we just used the spell to call a demon..."
"WHAAAAAAT?!!!!"
A tentacle appeared from the darkness.
Both Eugeal and Hiryu turned very very blue.
"Darling?" Hiryu asked "The demon we called is going to 
obey us...right? RIGHT?!"
Eugeal shook her head. 
"I'm afraid it's going to eat us and destroy every trace of 
life on the planet..."
"What...what are we going to do?! We can't let it to take 
over the world before we do it!"
Another tentacle appeared.
Eugeal weakly smiled at Hiryu.
"I've an idea...."
"Yes! I understood! We're gonna transform in sailor scouts 
and blow out the demon from this planet! Right?!"
Eugeal shook her head and noticed that a third tentacle had 
appeared.
Hiryu looked at her in surprise. "No? What are we going to 
do then?!"
Eugeal grabbed him and ran out of the door. 
"WE ARE GOING TO RUN AWAY!!!!!!" 

Meanwhile in the room, the last tentacle went out of the 
darkness.
Cthulhu was in Net.Tokyo!

End of Part 1 

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SAILOR SAY
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Sailor Stella Nera: Today on FSC, we learned that the 
Necronomicon is not a videogame...

Sailor Nova:...and that is much better to leave spooky 
books alone if you don't know what are they...

Sailor Stella Nera: But don't be mad at us for setting 
Cthulhu free because if the electr