Cast:
Chibi-Mars as Luna / DM
Universe as Malise / Sailor Mirari
Beth as Beth
Twilight as Adrien / Sailor Irosis
Kitsune as Yaten / Sailor Star Healer
Carissa as Setsuna / Pluto
Mirandi as Sailor Moon
Jupiterose as Sailor Saturn
Star as Tresea / Sailor Star Silver
Merry as Jafter
Alisha as Victor / Sunlight
Seiana as Iimesu

The Sailor Senshi are challenged to a battle at a strange location- inside the mind of a visitor from the 30th century!
*Note: Image 1 is from X TV. I drew Images 2 and 3. Image 4 is from Fantasia. Image 7 is from Gundam X. The rest I found on the internet.




To Luna, Hotaru, Malise, Tresea, Usagi/Serena, Setsuna, Yaten, and Adrien: All of you are crammed into a monorail-car heading South on the Tokyo Metro. Luckily, there are plenty of seats for everyone, since rush hour just ended. You observe a few business men who must've gotten out late. There are also a handful of junior high students who look like they're just beginning their night on the town. In short, no one seems to pay particular attention to the group of you . You look out of the railway car's large windows, and you see that it's a lovely, sunny afternoon. It will probably be a nice and quiet night. It seems like it'll be another hour before sunset. Luna gets up from Usagi's shoulder and speaks to everyone. "All right, quick update, folks..." "We're getting off at the next stop, Shibuya Station. Somewhere around there, we're supposed to meet our contact. I'm not sure who this person is, but Central Control said that we will find a special person from the 30th century... And this person will tell us everything we need to know about the evil Empire we're fighting, and the plans for their next attack on our own century." Luna pulls out a small photograph and holds it in her mouth. "I didn't bring this out earlier because I didn't want to lose it... anyway, this is what he looks like..." To JAFTER: You wake up. The first thing you notice is that you have pain in your joints, as if you hadn't slept well at all. In fact, you don't really know if you had meant to fall asleep in the first place or if someone knocked you out. At any rate, you wake up. You look around and discover that you are lying on a bench in the middle of a city park. It's a warm and sunny afternoon . At a small distance from you is a calm lake. Right in front of you is a sidewalk which forms the path around the lake. The path, in both directions, is decorated with small rose gardens . You've been in this park before, so you're not completely lost. The only thing strange you notice is that there are no pedestrians walking around. There's usually a bunch of people, but right now, there isn't for some reason.

Beth is sitting in a corner of the monorail car, watching everyone vaguely, when she notices a cat get off someone's shoulder snd start talking. Normally, she wouldn't be surprised; the only thing that startles her is that everyone else hears the cat talking too. *That's odd. They aren't wizards, least I don't think so. And they said something about the 30th century and an evil empire. Maybe I'll just listen in.* Almost unnoticeably, she moves to a seat next to the group. Out of the corner of her eyes, Beth looks carefully at the picture Luna's holding.

Yaten looks out the window for a minute watching the scenery passing by. He turns to Usagi. "I hope our contact can help us out. We're going to need it." Yaten crosses his legs and his arms and sighs. He looks over to see Beth. 'She's looking at us as if we're crazy.. Could she be able to understand Luna too?' He thought to himself.

"He looks strange." Usagi says while she's looking at the photograph. When she's finished looking at it she looks out of the window. Usagi looks out of the window and watches the landscaping pass by for a minute, then she looks at her watch and turns to the others. "maybe we should eat something, I've brought some bread." She grabs her bag and puls out a big lunch box. "Who wants to eat?"

Adrien leans back in her seat. she closes her eyes as she listens to Luna. "Hmm, interesting. Kitsa mentioned this didn't she." She murmers as if to herself. Her eyes open momentarily to look at the picture. "Help huh." she snorts and turns back to the window. But not befor looking at the passengers. She grins up at one student. "Hey," he turns and looks at her and moves to the back of the cart. "Oh, I scared him away." she sighs carlessly. "He might have made a good match. Not that I should start a fight. 'You're here on sailor buisness', she mimicked." She's always telling me that."

For those of you who looked at the snapshot: You see a lean and pale gentleman. His long jewel-blue hair falls to his shoulders, and his eyes are the colour of tangerines. ^_^.

Beth nods slowly. *Hmmm...May as well keep an eye out for him. And while I'm at it, I think I can find out who these people are.* She quietly pulls an old, thick red-bound book and leafs through it. She whispers, "I want a readout on any and all magical groups or individuals operating in the Tokyo area whose names or titles contain the word 'sailor'." She waits for a minute, then a listing appears. "Sailor V..no. Sailor Senshi-bingo! Now let me see. Looks like we have Sailor Moon, Sailor Pluto, Sailor Saturn, Sailor Star Healer, Sailor Twilight, and some people who don't appear on the list. I'll wait and see." Beth buries herself in the information on the Senshi, while at the same time watching and listening carefully to everything around her.

A wave of white hair grazed the sleek, plastic-like outer fabric of a silver windbreaker, blue tips blurring together. Malise turned her head from the gaze of the window, as she sat adjacent to it in a single seat; her eyes, shaded from the tedium of sunlight by that of dark, slateblue tinted sunglasses, resting idly on Luna as she spoke of 'sailor business'. Scanning the picture of which Luna held in her mouth, Malise brought her right hand up to the silver frame of the shades. Lowering them on her nose just enough so that the crimson rim of her eyes were revealed, as so that the coloring of the man of who's picture was held features were visible clearly. The tangerine eyes of the pale man stuck out immediately, with the veil of the shades and without even as much as a word, the shades returned to obscure her eyes, hand falling back down. Surely, Luna would explain what relevance the picture, the man in it, has to what they were doing, if it was important - so Malise saw no reason to inquiry and simple abode.

Tresea looked at the picture, as she stroked Mekos ears. "wow...hes ugly..." she blinks realising she said that outloud. she sighs an leans back in her seat an looks around. Meko takes a closer look at the picture then sits beside Tresea. "Can you please try an at least act a little serius?" "hmmm...Nah. Id rather just goof off." Reachs into her back pack an pulls out a candy bar. unwraps it takes a bite out of it, chewing it slowley. Meko sighed an shook his head. "Why couldnt you be like your mother? You just had to take after your father didnt you?" "of course" Runs her fingers through her jet black hair thats nearly identical to seiyas. infact she looked almost exactly like Sailor Star Fighter, except for the fact her eyes were red like Kakyuus. Looks out the window, wondering when they would get there.

Yaten looked at the photograph, memorizing the face of man on it. 'Tangerine eyes, Jewel blue hair.. gotta remember that.' He stares hard at the photo. He then looks back at Usagi. "I'll eat something. I'm kind of hungry." *Yaten's stomache growls*

"Hmm..he's a strange looking one isn't he?" Setsuna says,"I'm sure he sticks out in a crowd." *Those tangerine eyes....so so strange...*

"What in the Seven Moons...?" Jafter puts a hand to his aching head, speaking in his fractured English. He stands, stretching, trying to work out kinks in muscles that probably shouldn't be as sore as they are. Brushing a strand of blue hair from his eyes, he walks toward the rose garden, remarking to a nearby bee "The roses are beautiful this time of year, no? Is he supposed to be...meeting people? He thinks so...perhaps they are near the gate?" Leaving the bee to its nectar gathering, he walks toward the entrance to the garden/park.

"Alright here's some bread Yaten." Usagi says while grabs a plastic bag with bread out of the lunch box. She gives it to Yaten. Then she looks at Tresea who's eating a candy bar. "Do you have another one, I'd like to eat a candy bar too!" she says when she looks at the candy bar. "By the way, Luna how long is it to Shibuya Station?" .......

Hotaru reaches into her breast-pocket and takes out a soft triple-ply tissue. She brushes the dust off her nose, folds the tissue back neatly and puts it back in her pocket. She stares out the large windows and sees her face reflected in the window. She then turns to Setsuna. "Setsuna?", Hotaru sighs. "When will", she pauses....."When will we ever have peace in this world?", she askes Setsuna and breaks down sobbing.

"I'm not sure if we ever will Hotaru...I've seen many wars in my life time and there will probably be many more to come,but hopefully we,as the Sailor Senshi, will be able to defeat anything that comes our way." *I wish that it could be true Hotaru-chan..I really do* Setsuna thinks to herself.

When Usagi asks how long it is to get there, Luna doesn't really have time to say anything, before the loudspeaker comes on over your heads. Attention passengers. The next stop is Shibuya Station, a bell-like female voice drifts out of the speakers. Luna smiles at Usagi and starts to get up. She puts the curious looking snapshot in Usagi's shirt. The monorail comes to a pause at the station. Luna hops out and takes a look around. Shibuya actually looks to be a very interesting place. It has large white sidewalks capable of accommodating a large number of travellers. On the left side is the entrance to a local city park, above a small flight of stairs. On the right, you see the arcade which you've heard is a big attraction spot for junior high school students. Straight ahead, the road leads into downtown Shibuya, and you can start to see the long line of night clubs and karaoke bars. Normally you would expect this avenue to be thronged with people- but right now there is no one here. You wonder if there's even anyone inside the commercial buildings. You notice that the person whom Luna seemed to be talking about is standing right there, at the entrance to the city park.

Victor listens to Luna, smiling softly as he writes some last words into his journal. 'It's such a nice day,' he tells himself, being sure to put that in his entry, still thinking of everything he is writing in his head as he writes it. 'There has been no need to become Sunlight for quite some time. I'm happy it has been so safe. I miss my friends, but I like being here too. It beats having my girlfriend breathing down my neck. I love her a lot, though, so I don't mind...' After a few more words, he closes it and follows out, the journal vanishing. He notices the guy in the picture standing at the entrance to the park, turning away to study his surroundings. "This is gonna be a great day," he says aloud. "No matter how much business will be envloved."

Beth slips out after the group, careful to stay near them without being part of the group. *Interesting. I wonder why nobody's around.*She quietly walks away from the group towards the strange man. Instead of speaking to him, she heads past him into the park.

" It's kinda creepy here, there's no people out and about. How wierd." It sent shivers up Yaten's spine. " Strange, our contact seems to just be here at the right time.' A puzzled look spread across Yaten's face. "Well, what should we do now Luna?" Yaten asks.

Luna hops onto Yaten's shoulder so she could be heard better. "Ok yaten, i'll tell you the entire story. the 30th century is those guys who's been bugging us incessantly since the defeat of chaos, kidnapping young girls and the like. So far it's been a pretty intense struggle. Anyhow, Central Control and some other contacts from the silver millenium thought it would be best if we could gain as much information as we can about the enemy. It's a rather important priority to us, since we still don't know where a portal might be located, and therefore we can't stop any new attacks of theirs.... So this person should be able to help us out, at least a little, and maybe even tell us where the portal is:)" Luna curls into a little fuzzball.

" I get it now. Thanks Luna." ^_^ *Pets luna on her head.* "Well, should we approach him now?"

He tilts his head, listening. Hearing some words he doesn't recognize, he asks his broken translator Query: What is 'contact'? Reply: Contact-communication Guessing from the definition, unclear as it was, these are the people he is supposed to meet. He waves stiffly, looking severely out of place in a lime green sports-jacket and blue jeans.

Hotaru steps off the monorail and follows the group. She studies the area and to her conclusion, Shibuya is a very peaceful place....Alittle too peaceful is what she was really thinking...Hotaru walks with the group until everyone suddenly stopped. Curiosly, she tip-toes to get a better look of the front. '"Guahh", Hotaru gasped. Its the man from Luna's photograph. He was more eerie looking in person then he looked in the picture. Hotaru holds on Setsuna's hand.

Tresea an Meko jump off. Tresea stretchs her arms up in the air as if shes reaching for somthing jus beyond her grasp, bending her back as she does it. she yawns an looks around. Meko stretchs an trots beside her.

Adrien stands up and walks out. She blinks against the sunlight and looks around. "Hm, strange." she murmers softly. 'That girl," she look in Beths direction,"she mentioned Twilight-sama earlier. I should keep an eye on her." Se looks at the rather emty place. "I though it was supposed to be a very popular place. How come no ones here?" She gasps softly at the man standing infront of them. "He's... he's the one from the photograph. Rather strange looking." She listens carfuly to Luna. "Silver Millinium? Didn't Negumai say something about that. I really should start paying attention." She reaches into her pocket and brings out a red braclet. "Seeing as we're here, I might as well keep this on hand." She says whle slipping it on.

Luna purrs as Yaten pets her. "I think you should go," Luna responds to Yaten. "But I don't think I'm the best one to approach him... I don't know if they have talking cats in the future, and I might freak him out and then he might shoot me with a laser gun or something^_^..." Luna shrugs.

Tresea bent down to pick Meko. Just then she noticed the guy. She gave a sigh an set Meko on her shoulder. She stratiend her school uniform an walked over to him. she smiled brightly at him, holding her hand out. "Konnichiwa! Are you the guy were supposed to meet?" Waves a hand at the other sailor senshi around her.

Setsuna looks around. *Hmmm... this is strange...very strange.* She notices Hotaru then looks. *Oh My God! There he is!* "Yaten do you want me to go with you?"

" Alright! I'll go. Sure Setsuna. I'm going to need your help." ^_^; 'I can do this, I can do this...' Yaten repeats to himself as he aprroches the man with Setsuna. Yaten approches him. "Hello, I'm Yaten Kau. You're the contact me and my friends here are supposed to meet." Yaten's shaking nervously. He tries to smile and not show that he's afraid. ^_^;

"And I'm Setsuna Meiou." Setsuna says. "Calm down Yaten...your shaking like nuts!" she whispers into Yaten's ear.

"Gomen Setsuna, I can't help it. This guys scares me!" Yaten Whisper's back. "So, Can you help us sir?" Yaten stops shaking.

Setsuna sweat drops at Yaten. "Its ok Yaten...he is a little creepy.." She whispers back. "Please?" She says to the guy.

Tresea tear drops when they walk over too. guess they must think im to brain dead to do this on my own...never mind the fact that im next in line for the thrown of Kinkomu. she thinks to herself an sighs.

"I'm glad you came over Tresea. We need your help." Yaten whispers. He smiles and sweatdrops.

Smiles. "No prob Uncle Yaten!" Since she was Seiyas child, she called Yaten an Taiki "Uncle" She blinked when she saw that he was sweating, she wasnt used to seeing him nervus. he was ussally calm an in control. "Are you ok Uncle Yaten?" She asked him. "You seem...different..."

"I'm fine, just a little nervous. That's all." Yaten smiled. 'Geez that guy still hasn't said a word... Figures.' "Sir, do you think you can help us out? Please?"

Victor watches everyone go up, arguing to himself back and forth whether to join them or not. "Well..." He brings out his journal once more, writing another passage. 'We're meeting our contact right now,' he wrote. 'I should go up there and hear what he has to say.' Quickly jotting down a rather long poem about how he loves life, he joins the others. "I don't think you need to be nervous," Victor whispers to Yaten, his hands in his coat pockets. "What's the worse that could happen? Actually, don't answer that. Then you might make me nervous."

Jafter folds his hands politely in front of them, looking rather bemused at the large sweatdrops that appear to spring from their heads. Once they have finished muttering to each other and greeting him--graciously, despite their fear, he thinks approvingly--he speaks, his clear voice with a hint of an untraceable accent deeply apologetic. "He can't remember...what he is supposed to say. He knows that he is supposed to contact a group of...senshi? You are they? But he doesn't know what he is supposed to tell them." He pauses, scuffing ill-fitting sneakers in the dirt. "He doesn't know where the people are either. He is very, very sorry to be of no help." He blushes slightly, hoping they won't make fun of his limited grasp of their language.

Usagi just stands there looking at the creepy guy of the photograph. *yikes, he's very creepy, much creepier then on the photograph.* she thinks. When teh others are finished wite greeting the guy she steps forward to shake his hand. "Hi," she starts to speek in confident,"I'm Usagi Tsukino." When she has finished she steps afterwards. ........

'Thanks Victor. I'll be fine now.' ^_^ Yaten whispers back."We are the senshi he's supposed to meet." Yaten answers. "What do you mean he can't remeber? Did something happen to him?" Yaten asks in a kind tone. 'Maybe our enemies got to him first, not only that maybe they got to the people too!' Yaten thinks while tapping his foot.

To BETH: You wander towards the park. Sadly, you don't observe anything of note here. It seems like a perfectly good uninhabited city park- the lake is calm and still. You hear the crinkle of dried leaves sweeping across the sidewalk at your feet. You might have been able to sense the traces of supernatural activity here, but you're smart enough to know that at this point, you probably wouldn't pick up on anything apart from the strange group of people behind you, next to the train station. To EVERYONE ELSE: Luna frowns when she hears Jafter's words. "What do you mean you don't know anything...?" And even though it seemed to be the extent of exactly what the foreigner said, Luna looks so curious as to be skeptical at first. She settles down on Yaten's shoulder and wags her tail as if realizing something. "In that event, we're at an impasse. We're not getting very far like this, are we....?^_^" Suddenly, at that very moment, an abrupt change seems to overcome Jafter. The sheen of his eyes changes colors, or something to that effect happens- you can't tell exactly. He seems to be taken over by a different being against his will- The fact that his toes start to float a couple inches off the ground, as if he was held by a large invisible hand, being your first clue. "Soldiers of the Silver Millenium," Jafter says, and although it's in the guise of his voice, it has a different flow and texture, as if it arose from a female speaker. "I see that got your attention," the voice continues. "My name is Crystal Piranha..."

Beth gives up and returns to the group just in time to hear Jafter start talking. She sits on the top of the stairs and listens quietly. *I may as well just listen until I know what's happening.*

Yaten jumped when he heard the female voice. 'Crystal Piranha.. hmm... this is getting interesting. Wait, he's floating. I don't like this...' "Well Luna, I think things just got really interesting. Should we ask them what we need to know?"

Slowly, he clenches his teeth, trying to fight off the unfamiliar voice. He seems to be succeeding, and sinks an inch or so toward the ground, every muscle taut with the effort. However, the stranger isn't giving up so easily...

Malise arose slowly from her seat on the monorail as the voice upon the speakers announced the arrival to Shibuya, the party's destination. Egressing from the monorail, the zipper of the silver windbreaker resting on her frame created soft clanks as it skimmed the other belonging to the baggy, crimson cargo pants. Black sneakers hidden behind the crimson legs emitted small thumps with the white sidewalk as various metal objects jumbled in the unnecessarily large pockets. Divergent to the others in the group, Malise lingered and simply stood, almost as a spectator. The discernible tangerine colored eyes of the man, indentical to that of the picture Luna held - even without him speaking broken English there was no doubt that he was the very one in the picture. Now, how Luna attained the picture was definately in Malise's random thoughts, but it wasn't significant, therefore, no reason to concentrate directly on such. Although not evident to one who merely glanced at her, Malise's senses were attentive to the man. A quick, swift look to Luna almost caused the teen to sigh, almost, but nonetheless was filled with anticipation. The abrupt change of the tangerine eyed man brought a very faint feeling of foreboding, though she probably shouldn't have thought that the man looked 'harmless enough'. Despite the slight feeling, Malise's figure remained the same, shoulders slumped lethargically. The feminine voice came as a surprise, as one would think. Although, when Jafter sunk a few inches to the ground, the red eyes behind shades flickered slightly with a feel of ampathy in them. Both arms came to her torso, crossing and gripping lightly on the other arm, the sound of plastic rubbing together generating as well. Malise stood where she was, an aloof, dry, impatient air about her.

Miyuki stands there. Her blood red eyes pierced everything they saw. She looked around seemingly unphased by everything. Her black pants blew in the wind. Her crimson shirt merely fit her eyes. She looked around and saw nothing to her liking.

The voice pauses a moment, as it hesitates and attempts to regain complete control over Jafter. "Sailor Soldiers-" his voice utters brokenly- "I've come to issue you a challenge to battle. If you defeat me-... then you will find the portal to our headquarters. " "However-" "it will take place here. On my grounds..." You notice that the voice seems suprisingly sophisticated and mature, and not at all like the previous Crystal Senshi (who were all crazy^_^).

"Ok your on!" Setsuna says not quite thinking. *Oh crap..maybe I should have waited to see if any of the other senshi are going to take the challenge..I don't want to be alone..what am I saying.. I've been alone before...protecting the time gate..Hopefully the other Sailor Senshi will join me.*

Victor takes a step back when Jafter goes up, a real confused look on his face. "Wha...?" was muttered from him, as he listened to a female voice come out. "Challenge?" he echoes to himself. 'So much for the peace... I should had seen it coming.' Victor relaxes, waiting to see what the others wanted to do.

"Bring it on!" Yaten's microphone appears on his ear. "Healer Star Power... Make-up!" Yaten transformed into Sailor Star Healer. ^_- "A wandering shooting star piercing through the darkness-- Sailor Star Healer, on stage!!"

Laughs. "buddy you dont know what you just got yourself into!" holds up the star hanging from her neck. "Silver Star Power...Make up!" Like everyone else when they transform, her skin becomes a million colors. two stars appeared on her body. one on her chest and one on her stomach. the one on her stomach lit up an a circle appeared around her. it lowered its self down to her toes. where it passed, a band around her stomach, tight short black skirt, an long black boots appeared. the one on her chest glowed now and formed ribbons around her, creating a black top over her chest. she raised her hands above her head an long black gloves appeared. a final star appeared on her forhead. it shined brightly, blinding all who can see her. when the light cleared you can see a crown like tiara, star earrings and a cat like collar. she smiled an open her eyes. she stuck her hand out an glaive appeared in her hands. she spun it then stopped in a pose with the glaive behind her. Meko jumped off her shoulder and flipped in the air. when he landed he turned into a black tiger with silver stripes. "Through the evil of darkness there comes a shooting star! Sailor Star Silver! Stage on!"

"Well, if we're fighting..." Victor says slowly, closing his eyes. 'Sun Power,' he recites in his mind, a flash of orange light. Once it cleared, he was now Sunlight. Dark mustardish suit, brown hair, and deep orange eyes. Obviously one of the cuter ones in his family ^_^ "Thank God!" Sunlight gasped, taking a deep breath. "If I had to listen to Victor another moment I was going to shoot myself! Let's get this over with." He gets ready to fight.

"Wow! Star Silver, you never told me 'bout Meko Turning into a tiger.." Healer was in awe. Healer shakes her head and focuses on her target. "Taking over someone's body against their will isn't very nice! Why don't you show your true self so me and my friends here can beat you!" Healer yelled in a harsh tone.

Trapped within his own mind, Jafter begins to panic, struggling wildly against the Crystal Senshi, thinking if I don't do something, if I can't regain control...they'll kill me!. His next thought is directed angrily at the force posessing his body. Let go, or you'll hurt. LET GO! Jafter's body convulses and cries out against the pain of being forced to comply with the twisted Senshi's demands.

Malise stared at Jafter, eyelids half lowered; although not visible through the tint of the lenses. The challenge emerging from the sophisticated voice rang into her ears, her eyebrows arched in an almost arrogant fashion. Once again deviating from the rest, her transformation was delayed... accepting a challenge from some random psycho didn't always seem like the best thing to do - yet the senshi muchly did. A wry grin almost twisted her lips at the situation - inevitable for her. Even though her eyes were nearly riveted upon Jafter, nearly because it wasn't intelligent to keep one's attention on one thing in matters of these, no emotion changed on her facial expression with seeing him in pain. With her eyebrows returned to the normal manner, her arms fell out of eachother; right hand coming up with a simple, quick motion of her wrist, flipping bleached hair behind her shoulder before returning limply to her sides as the other. Malise closed her redviolet eyes, concealed behind shades, commencing her transformation with ease which comes through experience. The fiery gleam of agate reflected from the spiraling dragon at her feet as she rose in the air a quarter of a meter. It curved around her, traveling from it's starting point to well above her head, leaving a shimmering, reflecting, liquid silver substance in the shape of a pod around her. Putting her right foot down as if the air between it and solid ground was solid matter, she spun on the ball of her foot, heel in the air. The silver substance washed over her, cascading away to nonexistance. Feet once again meeting with the surface, white sidewalk, eyes fluttered open revealing the once obscured enigmatic gaze. As if Malise, now Mirari, wasn't enough of a deviant, the crimson, black, and silver fuku resting on her figure was certainly not the norm with single legged pants, and a top with interesting sleeves. It wasn't completely out there to receive eyebrows raised in the peculiarality from the others with the fuku, and Mirari didn't care either. Standing there again, full stature, the look in her eyes seemed to say 'Now what? Hurry it up already, eh?' yet there was a substantial glaze over the shades of red. Half expecting some odd looking entity to spring out of the tangerine eyed man, Jafter, the thought that expectations never get you anywhere tugged at her mind. It seemed quite cowardly though, to challenge one through another channel that is possessing another -- and to fight in the body of the other seemed hardly formidable at all, afterall with all of the retaliation the man showed it wouldn't be full of ease to fight through him anyway. One, or at least Mirari would hope that this Crystal Piranha would be worth the time to stray from that path. Perhaps it was an arrogant thought, but it was in the Senshi's mind nonethless.

Moon crystal power, make up!!! Usagi is transforming too. When she's finished she yells: "I won't let my friends fight alone, I'm the sailor suited beauty Sailormoon!!" Sailormoon looks at Star Healer, Star Silver, Sunlight and the others.

The enemy seems to show no response to the successive flashes of light from several transformations. Ow, The intruder thinks when Jafter psychically smacks her. All right, I'll make this short- Jafter's eyes rest on Sailor Star Healer and Sailor Star Silver. "I'm not coming out. The invitation is for you to come in," he says almost under his breath. "I'm waiting for you inside his memory of the 30th century. You can get here using Sailor Teleport- And please don't dilly-dally, ne?-... I'd hate to have to do something drastic." With that, the evil force lets go of you(Jafter). It's a relief not to have that person around, but at the same time you feel quite fatigued.

Gravity comes back to him, and his feet connect heavily with the ground, nearly causing him to topple over. Reeling with surprise, he clings to the gatepost for support, looking nervously around at all the Senshi. "But...he doesn't remember the 30th century..." He says quietly, looking at his feet. He looks at the others again, searching their faces for any sign of disgust or hatred.

Healer walks over to Jafter. "You okay there? Do you need any help?" Yaten asks, reaching out a helping hand.^_^

Setsuna quikly transforms,"Pluto Planet Power, Make Up!" She yells and there stands Sailor Pluto. "Should we teleport now?"

Beth hurries over to Jafter, worried. She smiles reassuringly and steadies him with one hand. "It's all right," she says, using the wizardly Speech for convenience, "You'll be fine. You don't remember anything? Not even who that person was?" She looks off into space, and smiles coldly. "Now I know what I was assigned here for," she whispers, "and why it had to be me. I get the feeling...there's something here only I can put right." She comes back to herself with a jolt. "I'm sorry, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Beth Goldstein. It's nice to meet you." She is still addressing only Jafter, seemingly oblivious to everyone else's prescence, although she watches them all out of the corner of her eyes.

Sunlight looks to Beth confused, remembering catching a glimpse of her on the train. Listening silently, trying to make out any of it, he comes closer, looking Jafter over himself. "They're gonna pay for doing that," he said calmly. "Good thing I can teleport with all of you. I was taught to do it!"

Jafter waves Healer's hand away, shaking his head, and draws slightly away from Beth, surprised when he hears her speaking his language. He has to supress a laugh, for, even when magically translated, his language is a difficult one to speak...he manages to catch her meaning, though. "No. He remembers his name, Jafter. That is all. He has no memory of her." He frowns deeply, trying to think...what had happened to him? Giving up for the moment, he shakes his head. "It is fortunate to teleport now while he is still weakened."

"Where are we waiting for?" Sailormoon asks. "I mean we could better go as soon as possible." *I'll be glad if this is over.* She thinks. then she walks to Jafter. "everything alright?" ......

Healer nods. "We should go. Time is of the essence." Healer says, confidently.

Adrien's eyes flicker curiously at Jafters strange actions. "Crystal Pirahna ne? I'm sure it's nothing we can't deal with. Irosis Star Makeup!" There is a blinding flash of flames as a column raises up and surrounds her. She lands without a pose and brushes her hair from her eyes. "You know, I'v never understood why you guys waste time doing needless poses." She looks at Beth. "How do you know about Twilight-sama?" She asks in rather a demanding voice. "And what or how, I should say, do we teleport? I've never heard of it, so it's a bit new to me."

Luna hops over to stand next to Sailor Irosis. You have to look all the way down to see her. "To use Sailor Teleport, all of the Sailor Senshi have to say 'Sailor Teleport' at one time. And I know it's possible to take two or three people along with us." "But I also remember about two years ago- Arty and me, and the other Inner Senshi went inside ChibiUsa's mind to save her from the dream monster... That time Sailor Pluto just transported us there..." Luna sits down and shrugs.

"We have to figure out a way in... anybody got any Ideas?" Yaten turns to the other senshi.

Silver scratches her back an sits on Meko the tiger. "Maybe we can be transported...I mean...last time I checked...the Star Lights cant use sailor teleport" sighs "we can turn into shooting stars but cant you sailor teleport.." Meko looked over his shoulder at her. "We dont know that for sure..No star lights tried to use sailor teleport.."

"It never kills to try, Right?" Healer asks. "Luna, Do you think it's worth giving it a shot?" Healer looks down towards Luna.

Luna thinks a little. "...It seems to me like ALL Sailor Soldiers should have the power to teleport. You've probably just never tried it before." She smiles reassuringly. "Still, I think you should all try to do it together though, just in case." Luna says to Healer resolutely.

A layer of wax paper appeared to be plastered to the conjunctiva of Mirari's eyes, resulting in a glazed appearance. Her right arm came limply from beside her side, brushing a few blue-tipped forelocks over the headband, moving them away from her face. 'Sailor teleport?' Haven't tried that before...' her mind wondered, as she really wasn't one of those 'team-ish' people, though, upon hearing what Luna said - she wasn't one to be dependent on others for anything, not even a transportation. Not like she had a choice, sailor teleport seemed to be the only way to enter the memory of the man who didn't know of it. Red-violet eyes became partially ensconced by Mirari's eyelids, the tips of Mirari's eyelashes meeting slightly. The fabric of the black biker-style gloves stretched on her hands loosened and tightened on the figure of them as fists clenched and unclenched in anticipation. 'Why is it that this Crystal Piranha is such cowardice as to wish us to challenge her in the memory of this... man who has no knowledge of such a memory. Is it not possible to get lost in the walls of memory in the tangerine-eyed man, if he himself cannot find it?' She waived the thoughts off, it would do her no good at the moment. Such inquisitive wonderings were hardly ever answered with a satisfactory answer atleast anyway. Willing the short ruminations to another dark crevice of her mind, Mirari's gaze wandered, biding 'till the group deciding something amoungst themselves as they seemed to do most of the time; when it was time to embark into another blind adventure.

Irosis hunches down to about eye level with Luna. "So basicly, we stand here, and shout Sailor Teleportation at the top of our lungs?" She looks around. "Well there is one good thing, no ones around to see us and think we're a bunch of wierdo's. I guesse I could give it a try. Though I do wish Negumai would mention these things to us. All she ever tells us it that 'we'll figure it out as we go along' No explanation or a discription to these things...." she stands there and talks to herself quitley, rambling on about Negumai. "I mean honestly, like that one time......."

sighs. "well ill give it a try.." looks at meko an stands up. "you better change back..." Meko looked at her an changed back in to his adorable kitty form. jumps an jumps up onto her shoulder. looks at luna. "isnt there more to it then just shouting? from tales I heard about Sailor Planet Power, is that it requires you to use your senshi energy as well.."

Luna turns her head to Star Silver. "Yeah, as far as I can tell, you say it, but then the energy comes to you... Like the first time you used your henshin sequence. Even if you don't know what's going on at first, it'll come to you by the time you finish the phrase. I should know- I had to teach four out of the five Inner Senshi how to henshin. But of course, Sailor Teleport was always a weird little thing..." Luna sweatdrops because Irosis is right there looking at her. "Anyway, the worse thing that could happen is that it doesn't work... If you're all ready, I think a count to three would be appropriate."

"Let's just go," Sunlight said tiredly. "The faster we get in there, the faster we can end this and get going. I guess I'll have to be one of the people you bring along. I can't think straight with my head aching." He sighs, rubbing his temples from a newly formed headache. "Besides, the cat's got a point. The worse that could happen is that it doesn't work, and with so many Sailor's, how could it?"

Beth looks around, slightly bewildered. "I'll just assume you do know what you're talking about. But shouldn't this require more finesse than just going for it? I've never tried to use a direct teleport into someone's mind before. Luna-san, are you sure there's no possibility of harming his mind?" She opens her book to a chapter titled "Traveling:Internal and External". She reads for a bit, then nods. "Ohhhh...I see, now. Let's go!" *I better be ready to look for the kernel once we get in,* Beth adds to herself. *Better safe than sorry.*

"When are we going?" Sailormoon asks. "I'd rather be back quickly." She adds quick after a few seconds. She looks around waiting for an aswer.

"All right," Luna teardrops. "It looks like everyone's ready, so I'll count." Why do I always have to do these things? Can't they see I'm a little cat?^_^;;. However, Luna also feel very used to it, especially after taking care of Usagi for such a long time... She takes a deep breath. "Okay... On three, everyone say, Sailor Teleport, or your teleportation phrase. One... Two.... "

Mirari stepped forward a foot or two, nothing more to do than to do this 'sailor teleport'. In another, mostly ignored portion of her conscious thought, she was hoping that the others here wouldn't mess anything up. 'One...' Her lips pressed together, tiny cracks forming as Luna began counting. Eyelids flickering, pushing eachother away so as the crimson outward ring was almost fully visible, tossing aside the loose look of boredom. 'Two...' A pink tongue ran lightly over Mirari's lips, resaturating the short fissures in them. Eyes became concealed again as Mirari closed them, awaiting the count of 'three'. Barely above a mutter to be audible, "Sailor Teleport..."

Irosis straightens and jumps back quickly, realizing tht she's obviously a bit distractive right there in front of Luna. "Sorry. It's just, we've never had to travel to another time. Much less into someone's memory." She grins. "It won't hurt to try. And by the way it sounds, it'll be pretty easy." She stands with the others, snapping her eyes shut, and waiting for three.

Sighs taking a deep breath. She closed her eyes and said the words: "Sailor Teleport!" She was bright red, because at that moment she felt like a moron.

"Okay." One... Two... "Sailor Teleport!"

Beth mutters under her breath in the Speech, casting her spell. "Activate on...me, standard air displacement, coordinates to track signal of Sailor Moon, activation with movement of signal. Apply."

Sailormoon listens to Luna. One... Sailormoon looked arround and closed her eyes. Two... Sailormoon prepared to say the two words. (three...)As one all the senshi (including sailormoon) said: "Sailor Teleport!" ......

To Beth and the Sailor Team: "Sailor Teleport!!" Those of you who are unfamiliar with the command feel a rush of powerful energy suddenly rush through you. You feel a sense of weightlessness. Then you start to feel yourself transported to the image of the place you have in your mind. Halfway through, though, you feel something awkward, as if you're not so much being transported by your own power, but by something or someone else. You get sucked in the rest of the way. To Sunlight, Miyuki, and Jafter: If you have any psychic perception at all, you can feel the incredible energy summoned up by the Sailor Soldiers. But you are not brought in by their power- you are brought in by something else, whether you wanted to go there ot not. It happens too quickly for you to tell exactly what's going on. You sense something like a rocky landing- but it only lasts for a split second, and the next thing you know, you are on your feet in a new area. * * * To EVERYONE: You open your eyes look around at your new surroundings. The first thing that's apparent to you is that you are surrounded by a thick fog. It obscures everything that's a couple yards ahead of you with pale gray. Even some of your party members, who are at a greater distance, become hard to delineate, and are tinted white, like ghosts. You don't see any trees, or any buildings or anything else. There's just nothing. You almost feel a sense of vertigo from not being able to distinguish one direction from another. Somehow you don't feel like you're in the middle of nowhere though. You suspect that if you were to wander in one direction for a while, you would eventually come across a wall. Upon looking down, you notice something curious. You are standing on dark-brown soil that's slightly moist. The ground has puddles of water in several places, as if it has rained recently. All of the puddles are perfectly circular, and so smooth that they reflect the sky like round mirrors. You can't tell how deep the puddles might be, nor can you tell what is lying beneath their surface. It's cold out. To Jafter: You do not recognize anything. The coldness seems a bit familiar to you, but it could really be any type of nostalgia. To Beth: You sense yourself signalled to one particular direction. It's very faint, and seems like two or three miles away.

Beth looks around for a moment, confused. Then she smiles cheerfully. "Is everyone here?" She calls out. "I think I know where we should go!"

"Now what? I'm here, without Zolt, ack. We don't know what could have possibly happened here! I could need Zolt's help! And...YEOW!" A dark-skinned boy looked at his finger. A slight bit of blood flowed out of it. Looking sickened, the man attempted to wipe the blood off on a leaf. He then turned his head, feeling an odd burst of power from somewhere nearby. The man blinked, while squeezing his bleeding finger with his other hand, that was also holding a staff. "What the-?" Dark, mostly black hair waved as the rather slim man walked towards where he felt the power surge. His white chin-length pieces of hair, that remained in front of his ears, also blew around, but not as much. The man's dark eyes glinted because of the slight bit of light that he saw. A black jewel at the bottom of the black staff he was holding also sparkled a little. He peaked his head around the bushes, just in time to see the odd teleportation sequence take place. His eyes widened, and his hand fell from his bleeding finger. Of course, the bleeding was starting to calm down. "Great...Zolt just had to oversleep...Now I think I need him around. What's going on here? Those people just vanished! It's like some teleporting act." He regained his composure and walked out of the bushes. It wasn't like anyone was there to notice him, anyway. The man looked around, trying not to become nervous. Something weird was going on, but he expected that, right? "Think Iimesu...What would you do if people teleported? Try to track them down? Wait until it happens to you because you're standing in the same place?" The man, Iimesu, tried to think of something reasonable to do next.

Sunlight looks around slowly, trying to decipher exactly what happened. 'That didn't feel like their power by the end,' he decided, then just tried to shake it off. 'Naw, it had to be... Who else is there?' The cold air caused him to shiver for a moment before he could get his own warmth back in control. After planting his feet on the moist soil the way he wanted, he looked towards the direction he heard Beth, hoping she did know where she was going, because he sure didn't. 'This is so strange,' Sunlight told himself, beginning to head Beth's direction, or at least what he thought was her direction.

Healer starts to shiver. "It's kinda a little too cold for my senshi suit." She looks around. "This fog is so strange... if we would be attacked now, we'd be pretty much screwed. Maybe that's why that witch made us come here." She looks down at the strange puddles. 'that's weird. puddles aren't normally this circular... This is getting very weird very fast.'

Jafter looks around, apparently bothered by his surroundings, but not by the cold, for he is not shivering at all. Glancing at the puddles, he thinks so this is the inside of my head...hn...pretty weird place He clasps his hands together, chewing fitfully at his lower lip, not seeming to notice when a tiny trickle of blood drips down his chin. His tangerine eyes have darkened to a nervous brick colour-he is obviously disturbed by the fact that he recognizes absolutely nothing.

"Yup...the star light uniform is not made for this weather." sighs. "Well at least theres no snow...." looks around, fidgeting with her glavie. Meko jumped off Silvers shoulder an transformed into a tiger. Unlike his owner he had no problem with the weather around them

"If it was snowing, I'd go crazy." Healer remembers the challenge. "Well where is she? Come on out Crystal Piranha.. I'm waiting!" Healer stopped shivering and got into her fighting pose.

Irosis hugged herself and looks around miserably. " I h-hate the cold!!" Indeed, she does look rather peeved about it. "Why couldn't it be a nice warm sunshiny place? And what's with the puddles?" She bends over to inspect one. "Eh? There perfect circles. What if we fell in one, and never stopped falling?" She looks around. "If I poked my finger in it..." she pauses. "Wait, her name's Crystal PIRAHNA. Pirahna's a type of fish. What if these puddles have flesh eating fish in them?!" She jumps away and stares at it almost as if expecting something to jump out and grab her.

The surface of the puddle in front of Sailor Irosis starts to ripple. You hear the sound of waters shifting. A second later, a form levitates out of the puddle- an entire female form. For a moment, it's almost impossible to figure out what she is- a film of water clings to her skin as it drips down slowly. Once she is entirely visible, you see what looks like a Sailor Soldier, but her uniform is much different than those you were familiar with. You are struck by her intense beauty- a cold beauty, created from the clash of marble-pale skin against deep, violet eyes. Her fuku is light gray, with darker colored splotches. Her hair, falling over her left eye, looks just like Sailor Neptune's, but it is about half as long. Her hair is also gray. Her outfit has a unique collar that normally covers her chin, and it covers her mouth when she looks down. You immediately observe that her weapon is a scythe. Even though it's strapped to her back, you can't miss it because it's about as large as she is. As soon as she rises from the water, several more reflecting disks appears, but not on the ground- they are floating in midair. Strangely, they appear like the surface of water when on the ground, but look more like mirrors when they're floating. You don't know what the heck they are, and right now you don't really have the time to look at them closely. You worry that it might be difficult to run around with both puddles on the floor and mirrors in the air in random places. "I'm so glad you've decided to accomodate me," she says. Her real voice is rich and subdued, like the swelling of a typhoon. "You should admire the conditions I've set up. Now that you're in this imprint of the 30th century, you can probably find the gateway between our two worlds very easily." "On the other hand, this man's memories of his homeland, I have crafted into my favor. This is a water-territory, which happens to be my element." (You assume, of course, that she's talking about Jafter.) "...But enough. Let's make this quick." Crystal Piranha folds her arms, and turns with a suspicious gaze towards the hyperactive Sailor Star Healer.

'Wait.. she wnats me to attack, with those mirrors.. She could send it right bakc at me! That.. that oooo. I hate her!' Healer points her finger at CP. "Don't think i'm that stupid! I know your plan! You were going to shoot my attack back at me were'nt you?" Healer sound really mad, not only that an very angry look spread upon her face, showing her true emotion. 'There has to be another way.. ' Healer is in deep thought.

Beth looks around, more than a little unnerved. She heads towards the others, snagging Sunlight on her way. She whispers to him, "Listen. I don't know who you are, and I don't have time to find out. There's a source of energy a mile or two that way. At best, if I reach it I can manipulate this place. At worst, it's still something important. Any suggestions?" She stops just out of range of Crystal Piranha's scythe. "Um, you...Star Healer, right? Be a bit careful, okay? A scythe that size can slice you in half. And look out for the mirrors, for the gods' sakes!"

Sailormoon looks to the mirrors. *they are very strange.* She thinks. Then she looks at CP. a cold feeling comes over her. Sailormoon listens to the ohers and looks at Star Healer. Sailormoon stands ready to fight if something would happen.

Crystal Piranha watches patiently as Sailor Star Healer almost attacks her, and then changes her mind at the last second. "...I don't need to reflect your stupid crappy attacks," CP replies coldly. She levitates a few paces backwards, and places her feet on the ground. She unhooks the giant sickle from her back and gestures with it. At her command, you see three forms rise up out of the intermittently placed puddles. These creatures are shaped like men, but their heads are shaped like those of swordfish- their long nose tapering to a needle point. Their arms reach all the way to their feet, and their hands are a host to vicious claws instead of fingers. You can't tell what they are made out of, but your closest guess is that they're made out of water. When CP commands them, they begin a mad dash towards you! To SAILOR STAR HEALER: One of the fish-men is running straight at you. Even though its arms are spread out to claw you, its scissor-sharp nose will get to you first. You have only seconds to react before getting impaled on it.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Healer Jumps out of the way. "I''ll get you for that! Here I go... Star Sensitive.. Inferno! " Healer points the attack at the creature. Healer turns towards CP "You called my attack crappy?!?! I wouldn't underestimate me if I were you!"

To BETH and SUNLIGHT: The second beast heads in your direction, scrambling so quickly that its feet are splashing through one other. Even before it reaches, it swipes the air horizontally with its claws. Apparently it has no bone structure, or anything of that nature- as the creature starts to rotate its arms like a windmill around its neck. Then it leans forward and makes to rip you to pieces with its whirlwind.

Beth stands her ground coldly. "Is that all?" She says, then reaches to her bracelet and taps one charm three times. "Initiate," she says in the Speech, "Manual activation." A small rod appears in her hand, like a laser pointer. She points it directly at the creature and says, "Fire." A stream of flame bursts from the tip and heads for the creature.

Sunlight was about to answer Beth when suddenly he found himself trying to not be killed. "Gah!" He took a step back, wondering if Beth's defense would be enough. 'Just go for it,' he ordered himself, taking a step back forward. "Sun Break!" He grunts, trying to hold the power long enough for it to do something. Sunlight goes back to Beth, speaking rushed. "The best I have is that you get to it, and see what happens. Test a couple ways that might be safer for this guy's mind, and see if it works without you needing to do anything too major. This battle should keep everyone preoccupied long enough to get there, however, I don't know about time to do anything. Really, I know nothing of a person's memory or mind."

To SAILOR MOON: The third fish-man comes at you. However, just before closing in, it leaps into the air! You look up and see the swordfish-man about to descend on you, and you don't suppose that it's for an overzealous hug. Meanwhile, CP steps back towards the perimeter of the fog. While waiting, she spins her sickle in circles with one hand, by the chain that's attached to it.

Jafter looks flustered indeed, quite at a loss for anything to do. Glancing rapidly about, he leaps from the ground, hovering there and looking for anything he cand do to help. Seeing Sailor Moon in trouble, he heads in that direction, applying energy to keep his feet off the ground, and consequently out of the puddles, which seem to possess some sort of demonic power. Seeing the monster attacking SM, and realizing that he is entirely weaponless, an idea strikes him. Dipping to the ground, he scoops a handful of water from one of the puddles, intending to lob it at the monster's head. If it doesn't have any incredibly detrimental effects, anyway.

Iimesu looked around, slightly clueless about what was going on. Maybe it would have been better just to keep his distance in this case, but it was too late now. Now he was stuck with these people in a weird place. Hey, at least he got his answer--he was to be teleported with everyone else if he stood near them. He looked around and tried to take in his new, crazy surroundings. And then, he looked forward. Who was that girl in that silver stuff?! Why was she attacking those girls and guys who just were teleported here? This only got more confusing by the minute. Iimesu came to the conclusion that he needed to find someone that wasn't pre-occupied by this girl here. When looking around, he found no one, though. "Hmmm...Now what? Attack the girl?" Iimesu wasn't a follower. Rather, he was someone who stood up for the weaker ones, the ones that were discriminated, too. There didn't seem to be any side that was any of that here. That idea didn't work too well, did it? The only way to find out what was going on was to wait for one of the people to notice him, for him to go up to one of them, or to be attacked. Iimesu decided to lean on his little staff and wait for something relevant to happen.

Tear drops an takes a step back. "Ew...their ugly!!!" shakes her head an takes another step back. Looks at his mistress an tear drops. "Silver please...FOUCUS!!!" Glares at her then at the creatures. hes raver sharp claws unsceathed themselves from his paws that were about the size of a frying pan. Shakes her head. "Right!" She spun her glavie an points it forward. looks at the monters carfully, picking her target

Sailor Saturn stands there, watching as the battle violently rages on. She sees the fish men running, attacking her teamates. With one hand on her gaive, she flexes her body into an attack stance. She turns to Pluto and nods, signalling her decision. "Hyahhhhhh!!!"

Sailormoon looks at the fish-men in horror. Swiftly, she leaped backwards to avoid his large claws. the long nails of the devil had struck the earth just there where she had been standing seconds ago. yet again his claws struck towards sailormoon, but yet again she managed to dodge his blows. slowly moving backwards, sailormoon tried to increase the distance between her and her opponent, to get out of reach of his large talons. suddently, the deamon stepped forward and attacked. His large fists slammed ito the ground where sailormoon had been standing. Only a fast sideroll had saved her. the devil did not wait and immediately took his chance to heave his hands above his head for a final, all destroying attack...

A stream of fire surges from Beth's wand. It smashes right into the approaching monster. There's an explosion of steam-- the creature halts its onslaught at having at large part of it suddenly vaporized. Around this time, Sunlight's "Sun Break!" pummels into it. The water-demon splashes into pieces. Its droplets rain down to a layer of water on the floor. To BETH: While you were watching all this, a floating mirror appears behind you. Two giant, aquatic arms reach out from it and suddenly grab you. One reaches around you and grabs your shoulder, while the other one clasps your chin. Before you even know what's happening, you hear an ominous cracking sound- like ice breaking- and the aquatic arms turn into solid GLASS. It's thick glass. Immediately, the arms retract, and try to pull you into the mirror, which now seems more like a pool of water.

Beth screams as the glass appendages draw her toward the mirror. *Stop that! You sound like a stupid fairy-tale princess.* She gets a grip on herself and goes suddenly limp, sliding herself down out of the deadly grasp, no particularly caring whether she breaks a few of the glass fingers in the process. Simultaneously, she aims the laser at each of the arms. "Fire."

To SUNLIGHT: You didn't even notice that you were standing so close to one of those puddles of water. Or perhaps, it appeared there just now. At any rate, a freaky aquatic arm reaches out of it and yanks your ankle, with such abruptness that the rest of you nearly turns upside down. It's grip is cold and squishy. ...But that's not nearly as alarming as the fact that the fish-man you disintegrated earlier is reforming very quickly. It's a mere couple of feet away from you. By now, its upper half has already regenerated. It starts coming for you by clawing its way over the ground.

"No! Don't!" Sunlight looks at everyone fighting from a half upside down view, beginning to feel a little sick. "Put me down!" His attention is suddenly drawn away when he hears Iimesu. He looks at him confused, not sure who he was or where he came from. 'I hope he can get some of the heat off us...' At last he remembers what position he was in, cringing at the feel of the arm around him. Slowly looking up, after hearing small scratching sounds on the ground, Sunlight sees the fish man he just defeated now coming back without half its body revived. "Oh lord!" he shouted alarmed, eyes wide. 'How can I save myself? Heat! Maybe I can boil it away with extreme heat? Better kill two birds with one stone then.' Sunlight quickly returns to Victor, Victor closing his eyes and muttering, "Violet Raze," under his breath. A large bubble appears around him, forcing the arm off. Victor falls to the ground, stumbling away backwards with the bubble still around. At once he returns to Sunlight, the bubble, at this point, fading. Sunlight coughs, aiming at the fish-man and puddle with aquatic arm. "Heat Explosion!"

To SAILOR STAR HEALER: The fish-man doesn't swerve from its path. You launch a "Star Sensitive... Inferno!" at that bad boy and nail him right in the face! His head splashes into a million little droplets. The rest of his body collapses all over your feet. To your right, you see another mer-man with its sights set on you. You're not really sure where this one came from. It begins stalking towards you... Then you find, to your horror, that your feet are encased in solid glass! You can't even turn around to completely face this beast.

Healer looks down and panicks. Healer looks at the monster and panicks. 'It'll impale me if I don't do something!' Healer starts punching the glass as hard as she can. But it looks like she's going to need help...

To SAILOR STAR SILVER: Crystal Piranha notices you and the white tiger. Still spinning the sickle in her hand, she comments idly, "Well, you look like fun... It's been a while since I've hooked something." And then, before she even finishes saying this, she throws her large hook at Meko. Her weapon is attached to her hand by a chain which extends when she throws it. To SAILOR SATURN: You were in your attack stance, and ready for anything, when a fish-man leaps out of a mirror next to you! He lands right on you, pushing you into the ground! A moment later, you find yourself with a fish-man on top of you. The enemy is unable to claw you since he is holding you down. However, you hear a light cracking sound, as the bluish mutant starts to slowly coalesce into glass.

It took a second for Mirari to realize what was going on after the transport, an odd sensation it was to do that. Being enveloped in the fog, she stood as a spectator to the action, attacking the other senshi. Wheee. Eyes going over Crystal Piranha and her swift movements, as well as the fish-men. How...unique, fish-men that reformed after being hit. The mirrors intruiged her, having a power base of mirrors, though this was not the time. Even though she probably couldn't care less about these people, some that she didn't even know - she wasn't going to let them have all the fun, now could she? A slender, partially gloved finger groped around her belt loosely, searching for the pouch of goodies, fingering the explosives with index finger and thumb.You would think that some of the explosives would detonate as she touched them without care for being delicate, but with exeriance she's learned not to do something stupid to do so. 'If one of my solid attacks hit the fish men, it would be just as effective as the others' - however glass could probably break glass...' Although the lust for battle tugged at her, it wouldn't do any good at all to just dive right in impulsively, as much as Mirari felt to. True, she could most probably help out the others, her apparent teammates but didn't seem immediately needed. They could get themselves out of their problems. It wasn't that she was cruel at all, it was simply stoic nature. Coming to a rather quick decision; 'Glass,' the single word was emitted from her mouth, usually accompanied with 'peripheries' - that word did not come. A sheet glass appeared directly infront of her, left arm moving forward to push it down, resting horizontally. Without removing her flat palm from the shimmering mirror, she lifted her entity on the glass, feet landing in a crouched position before straitening to attain full stature. Being levitated a meter or so from the ground wouldn't save her from the fish men if one were to come to her, but it could possibly buy her some time; hopefully. Not shortly after mounting the glass, Mirari's right hand swooped into the sleek black pouch, withdrawing around eight spherical explosives. In the same motion, she released the devices towards Crystal Piranha who was 'grappling', if that's what you'll call it, towards the white tiger.

Meko snarls an leaps backwards, dodging the hook. he sinks his nails into the ground as he lands, leaving long deep claw marks in the ground. He charged forward, ducking under her weapon then leaped up at her. at the last second he moved to the side... ....an Silver stood where he had been. she brought her glavie up over her head as she leaped into the air, then brought it slashing down, aiming directly at her head

Irosis watches as the wierd fish men attack the Sailors. "They regenerate! That's not good. And having fire attacks to fight against water well, not much hope there. Still, I suppose I could always try something." She glances around. "Attacks don't bother them much, but would physicle strength do any good? I suppose an attack would be a better thing to do, because then, well i'll never know if I don't try. Irosis Flaming Pheonix!!" Two columns of fire swirl around her and there's a lound shreiking noise as they take the form of a pheonix and head in the direction of the nearest monster.

Iimesu just watched the odd monster-looking things attack the senshi. They looked quite ugly and nasty! "Ewww...Razor-sharp blade noses!? EEP!" Then Iimesu shook his head, to try and shake the thought out of his head, and then went into a fighting stance, even though he knew it was useless. Someone could come over and just brake his pathetically easy-to-brake bones even if he was ready for them. Iimesu just got out of that pathetic, useless position. It wasn't like someone was going to attack him, anyway, right? If anything, Iimesu wanted some answers. No one seemed to notice him quite yet--maybe he'd have to make himself noticed. Shouting would be a foolish thing to do. Those weird water-mer-men might come towards him if he did. Eek! With a sigh, he stepped closer to the crowd. It wasn't like he had anything better to do anyway. Maybe someone would notice him. Iimesu idlely waved his staff, the Nightmare Staff, around, but didn't make a sound himself. He observed the monsters marching towards the senshi, the either on-guard or off-guard senshi. Then Iimesu looked down at the ground and noticed how people were being pulled into puddles, or were just stuck in mirrors. Maybe it would be a good idea to shout... "HEY!! BIG UGLY MUSHY THINGYS!! OVER HERE!!!" Iimesu cupped his free-hand around his mouth, making a half-circle around it, as he yelled as loud as he could muster.

To STAR SILVER: Your coordinated attack with Meko was a pretty fancy move- Crystal Piranha wasn't expecting the tiger to be smart enough to pull off something like that. But as she snaps her wrist, the chain instantly retracts back into her cuff, and returns the scythe to her hand with lightning speed. Your glaive slices cleanly through the air, but comes to a jarring halt as it clashes with her own weapon. Blue sparks fly everywhere. You end up in a sword-lock with Crystal Piranha. You see her face up close, and it's really scary looking. Her thick eyelashes are sharpened into talons. And she has fangs, which you otherwise might have thought were cute, but are currently clenched together in savage bloodlust. "Still... too... slow..." she says quietly to you, her lips curling into a slight smile^_^. Out of the corner of your eye, you see one of the puddles/mirrors moving on the ground towards her. It comes to a stop under her feet-- in a flash, CP sinks down into it, and is gone. You look up just in time to see the spherical explosives, which Mirari had previously thrown in that direction, hurtling towards you.

Not given time to give a cry, throws herself to the side, dodging the attack heading her way. despite the rush, she places one hand on the ground, doing a back flip, an landing perfectly back on her feet. she glares at the spot CP had been. "Coward..." Meko brought his fangs up into a snarl an looked around. He was mad that their attack hadn't worked, especially since it ussally did

To MIRARI: You observe CP disappear just before the explosives reach her. A moment later, the sound of evil female laughter drifts through the air around you. You can't discern where it's coming from; it just seems to be there. Suddenly, you stumble as the mirror you are standing on turns into a surface of water. You are fast enough to prevent your completely falling through the interdimensional surface. However, the second your foot enters the wet, invisible space beyond the two-dimensional plane, something on the other side chomps your ankle and doesn't let go. Something big. You feel yourself tugged towards the pool, not so much because the creature wants to pull you in, as much as it's having a good time sinking its teeth into you.

A disgruntled grumble almost escaped Mirari's mouth upon seeing Crystal Piranha disappear into one of the circular puddles; foolish it was though, to expect a few explosives to be able to get her in the beginning. It was cut short by the mirror she stood on dissolving into water, her mind was looking about, taken a bit off focus by the almost disturbing laughter at the moment. After falling, even from a relatively meager height, it's expected that one would like to be able to regain composure on a solid surface - too bad her leg went through the plane. A wince came to the surface of Mirari's face, however hard the attemption was to restrain it when whatever creature or thing it was griped her ankle. The combat boot of her free leg dug into the deep, almost russet colored soil forming the ground, trying to hold herself from being pulled down. Both arms went down a bit behind her sides, palms pushing onto the soil, fingers burrowing to get a grip on it. The blades hanging at her waist seemed to call to the stiff hands in the ground, but even if the intentions of the entity which seized her leg wasn't to drag her in, she wasn't going to if she could help it. Clearing her mind, Mirari closed her eyes once again. "Glass peripheries..."

To STAR HEALER and IROSIS: The Fish-Faced Blueboy of Doom comes closer and closer to Sailor Star Healer, its bony knuckles dragging along the ground. As it approaches Healer, it rears its twisted claws to sink into its intended victim. And then, it's suddenly fried to a toasty crisp! Sailor Irosis's Flaming Phoenix takes a bite out of crime and suffocates the monster completely, with an eruption of steam and smoke like feathers from a pillow bomb. (Okay... I messed that paragraph up >.<) Unfortunately, yet another fish-man has arisen from another direction with evil intentions. This slippery fellow jumps into the air at Irosis, spinning with such incredible speed that it becomes like a wheel of water. As it descends, its wavy tendrils crystallize into glass-- and while it's unclear whether the creature's intent is to run her over or spike her to death, it's definitely barreling at her. And poor Star Healer is still rooted to the spot in a chunk of glass with a crack in it!

"Thankies Irosis.. I owe you one." ^.^ "Star... Sensitive Inferno!" Healer points the attack at the monster that is attacking Irosis.

Irosis hopped into the air and twirled around, landing neatly in some sort of victorious thing."Ha! I gottcha! Aaagh!" she shrieked and covered her head as Healer's attack went soaring over, "Don't mention it." she calls to Healer. She took a few steps back, just in case Healer's attack missed or failed to do something.

To JAFTER and SAILOR MOON: Jafter lobs a thing of water at the fish-man attacking Sailor Moon. It doesn't hurt him- He's made out of water after all, and part of the splash even absorbs into its head- but it did attract the thing's attention. The scary-ass, mutant Needle-Nose ignores Sailor Moon and rushes towards Jafter. Without bothering for introductions, the fish-man raises its colossal arm into the sky, and swipes its hand down at Jafter, its claws fully extended in order to take off his head.

Sailormoon took her change when the devil looked at Jafter. the very second the devil jumped to Jafter to attack him, she jumped on her feet, meanwhile drawing her cutie moon rod. "moon princess helation!!!"

To IIMESU: "HEY!! BIG UGLY MUSHY THINGYS!! OVER HERE!!!" Your voice is so loud it echoes through the entire canyon, which you just recently deduced was a canyon from the echo. It also attracts the notice of all the enemies who weren't otherwise occupied. You see fish-men emerge from the puddles next to you. Within seconds, you are surrounded by not one or two, but five angry swordfish-heads, who appear as feisty and restless as if you had just woken them up from sleeping. They brandish their long, sharp noses like swords- but only for a moment before they all begin running at you, leaning forward and with their noses extended! Their goal of course, is to make a penta-shish-kabob out of you...

Iimesu's eyes widened. "YIKES!!! ...I knew that wasn't too smart!" Now this wasn't the time to panic, that would be foolish. At least he knew it was a canyon. Well, it wasn't like he could throw the things or anything though--he wasn't really that strong. Putting up a physical fight wouldn't be a good choice, and that was what these things seemed to want. Thus, he held the Nightmare Staff up behind him, as if to hit the things away, and started to run as fast as he could...which was not very fast. Iimesu turned around and breathed hard after he ran less then twenty steps. Weakly, he put his hands back over his head, with the Nightmare Staff in them, and pointed the Nightmare Staff, blade-side, at the five swordfish-ugly-heads. "Ummm...Now what..." First, he shifted his aim to the middle one and the two off to the right. He just needed to see how strong these things actually were. A faint glow emitted from the jewel on the Nightmare Staff, and then it shifted over to the blade-side. Iimesu looked down, and said in a rather whispery voice, "Fragile Nightmare." Then he looked up, with a weird glint in his eye. Before seeing if it even captured the weird things, he turned to the two remaining. "Nice weird-looking things...YIKES!!!" The worn-out Iimesu started running again, this time, to the right. At least it bought him more time. Now he could think a little bit more. If Fragile Nightmare would only injure them, then what could he use? Virtual Invasion, that was it. Well, he got some more energy back, literally, his breath, he could at least do something. Iimesu, with a bold look on his face, put his left hand up. It looked like he was about to snap his fingers, but then he made a flicking motion with them. He did this twice. "Ticklish?" Two black sparks came out of his fingers and towards the things. Then he ran again, going towards the original three he attacked.

To BETH and SUNLIGHT: Beth slips out of the ill-fated hold of the glass arms. Now grasping the empty air, the frozen arms fall rigidly to the ground. Beth's fire surrounds the glass remains, but doesn't do much damage, besides causing splits in the glass. The mirror from which the arms protuded fades away. Sunlight's "Heat Explosion" roasts what was left of the oncoming attacker, finally leaving only a bubbling mess. The aquatic arm coming from the ground is also scorched. It retreats back into the shiny puddle. There's a short pause in the action. You hear a whooshing sound as Crystal Piranha levitates out of a nearby puddle/mirror. She seems to be in a good mood. "A good warm-up, isn't it...?" She asks you (Sunlight and Beth) in a tone at once mocking and derisive. She sets her feet on the ground again, while tossing the strands of hair hanging over her right eye. She takes the sickle in her hand and starts idly spinning it again.

Sunlight, now breathing hard, watches as everything attacking him was now over. A sigh of relief was let out, him also realizing Beth was free of disturbances as well. "Gah!" Sunlight jumps back startled as CP comes out, him settling down once he saw it was "only her". All these mirror and puddle tricks were beginning to not only confuse him like they already had, but irritate him. He was wondering if that was the only way this dimension could attack him. "I'll say," Sunlight mutters under his breath after hearing CP comment on it being a good warm-up. Then he watches her spin her sickle around. Sort of hypnotized by it, he remains silent, just watching it go 'round and 'round. At last, he shakes his head, holding it; now, his head, a little light headed. 'What exactly is her game?' Sunlight asked himself. 'And why would I let something as simple as spinning that thing around make me dizzy?' He waits for Beth to answer first.

Beth smiles derisively. "Why yes, I agree. I would have felt ever so disappointed if that was all. Mirrors. How...traditional." She males it sound like something silly. "Of course, traditionally witches hate to be caught between mirrors, don't they? Tell me, are the mirrors a piece of the future, or are the part of the seeing magic?" She memorizes the pace of CP's scythe, ready to dodge should it swing at her. She jostles Sunlight and whispers, "Don't let it mesmerize you. Get ready."

Sunlight sweat drops embarrassed, giving a small nod. "I don't know where my head went," he whispered back quickly, then prepared himself for any attacks. Yet, Sunlight still couldn't help but think about what Beth had said. He didn't realize mirrors could have so many different purposes. It was intriguing, but he kept it back for now, wanting to be ready for anything from CP.

To Iimesu. The three fish-men to your right don't give up their pursuit on you. However, when you cast your spell, a wooden crate labelled 'Fragile' falls from the sky onto each one of their heads, trapping them inside:). You hear roaring and other horrible sounds as they futilely try to escape, and force the boxes from side to side in their terror. Finally, you hear a dying gurgle-- the crates settle down, and you see water drip out from between the wooden slats into the ground. There are still two more after you. You cast "Flick" on them. The enemies show a slight reaction, but aren't largely affected , being either too watery or too stupid to be affected by the sensation. They run after you, and catch up very quickly. The first one runs ahead of you, and suddenly crytallizes itself into a glass wall, which you run into. The remaining fish-man decides to go kamikaze: leaping into the air, it breaks apart into several fragments- like ice splinters, but uncountably numerous as large as umbrella spokes- and they start dropping towards you, pummeling into the ground and unsettling the earth around you.!!!

"OWWWW!!!" Iimesu screamed, after he smashed into the wall. He looked at his left hand, where yet another part of his skin had torn open. Iimesu sighed, knowing that it was hopeless to try to stop the slight bleeding right at this moment. "Owww..." He stepped forward, just incase the glass wall was going to sprout hands or something. Iimesu pointed the blade-side of the staff at the gerenal area in front of him, then realizing that there was nearly no way to wipe out everything coming at him. Well, actually, there was. He just didn't want to use attacks that would wear him out right now. Iimesu gulped. How was he going to solve this problem? He dodged the fragments of the old fish-man, but that would only last so long. Iimesu knew he was eventually going to slip. Plus, he needed to stop to take care of his hand. Why did he have to be so weak? The man closed his eyes and crossed his hands over his chest. Then he breathed in and thrusted them forward, the left hand gripping onto the Nightmare Staff tightly, so now both hands were hanging onto it. A little red spot appeared on the black Nightmare Staff, but then not much appeared afterwards. Iimesu looked briefly relieved. The bleeding was calming down pretty quick. Iimesu then breathed in. Why couldn't he just do what he nearly always did--stand away from the fight and only step in if he was needed? Well, it was his fault the monsters noticed him anyway. Iimesu was going to solve this problem. After taking one last deep breath, Iimesu charged at the things as they plummetted down to the ground and started to hit them with his Nightmare Staff as hard as he possibly could. Good thing he knew how to handle the Nightmare Staff.

To Sailor Star Healer and Sailor Irosis. "Star... Sensitive Inferno!" A rocket of energy shoots towards the oncoming enemy. There's a blinding light, for a moment, as Star Healer's attack is reflected in the countless facets of the glass monster- and then there's a brilliant explosion as it cracks into pieces. Dust and small fragments of glass rain down on you. Afterwards, you are able to catch your breath since you don't see anymore fish-men in the immediate vicinity. . Even though you don't recall getting separated from the others, and you know they're closeby, there's so much fog that you cannot see them. To Mirari. Upon whispering your attack phrase, a layer of glass shows up above your head, breaks up, and then flies towards your opponent like a blizzard of razor-edged shards. You hear splash upon successive splash as they enter the puddle and stab their target. The loosening of its teeth against your leg is enough to ensure you of the success of your attack. As you are let free, the puddle itself starts to turn light red. To Sunlight, Beth, Sailor Star Silver, and Mirari. The whirring of CP's spinning sickle causes a slight breeze in her direction. "That's the question, isn't it," she responds slowly to Beth, although you can't tell whether she agrees with you or is simply taunting you. "The purpose of a mirror is to blur the line between what is real and what is not..." She grins slyly, and then suddenly seems to come to a decision about something. "I'll kill you one by one, that will be the best," she concludes, "and I'll have my swordfish play with you, in the meantime." Once again, she attacks at the same time while she's talking(that's really annoying), and throws her hook, but not towards any of you. "Void... Net... Entrap!!" She screams. The huge blade disappears beyond the surface of a mirror, with the chain following it- and it reappears, emerging from a different one- only to disappear into the next one, and so on. It dashes in every direction, and you can't keep your eyes on it. Soon, diagonal chains are criss-crossing the entire area. Furthermore, there are so many chains, that you become entangled in it. Before you know it, there are chains wrapped around your neck, and your wrists. It just happened so fast-- a much shorter time than it took to read all of that. More swordfish men rise up from the ground and approach you. You wonder how many of them there are-- no seriously, at first it looked like there was one for every puddle, but now you start to wonder if they are actually beings, or if Crystal Piranha is generating them out of her will. This new set of fishmen aren't as beserk as the previous ones. However, having their prey all tied up in front of them contributes in large part to their air of satisfaction. Meanwhile, Crystal Piranha takes her hook -a second one, perhaps- and searches for her victim. She sees Sailor Saturn, who's lying face-up on the ground, and trapped underneath a crystalline tower that once was a swordfish-monster. Crystal Piranha licks her lips restlessly, as she holds the blade over Sailor Saturn's face. Don't do it! a female voice speaks to her. I can see what you're doing, and I'll never forgive you if you kill her-- "I'll do just that," Crystal Piranha replies emotionlessly.

'Uh oh! Looks like everyone's in trouble!' Healer looks down at her glass encased feet. 'what can i do? I'm stuck here untill somebody gets me out.' Healer shakes her head and Looks at CP. "You Leave her alone! It's me you'll want to deal with!" Healer glared at CP and boy was she mad! 'Dang it! I wish I had another attack... The Star Sensitive Inferno is really taking it out of me.' Healer, altough thinking, kept her Glaring eyes on CP.

Gives a yell an struggles against the chains. she manged to hold her glavie up an point it. "Star...Constellation...Magic!" a silver light came from the crystal in her glavie. It grew brighter then shot out in many beams of light. To those resiving it the light looked like they were forming a constellation. The one it formed this time was Leo the lion

Beth gasps in shock. *Oh, great. Just absolutely brilliant. What I wouldn't give for some noon-forged steel...Oh, duh!* She manages to reach her bracelet and taps the charm in the shape of a running shoe. She whispers a set of coordinates, and activates the teleport. She appears(in theory) next to Crystal Piranha. Beth grabs the haft of CP's scythe. "I don't think so." she says.

"Wha...?" Sunlight looks at the chains around him, struggling to get free. He gives a small glance next to him to see Beth was gone already and just let out a sigh, stopping his movement. *Victor,* he said annoyed. *I need a little help here.* Though he was speaking to him, Victor didn't have the power to speak back; so Sunlight had no idea if he heard him. He had to wait to see if he was given permission to use his power. Once he could feel that extra boost, he would know his request was granted. Suddenly, a surge of energy ran up him, causing him to smile relieved and close his eyes. "Violet Raze," he whispered, hoping the shield would force the chains off and keep the swordfish men back in the meantime.

Luna runs up to Sailor Star Healer. "Hurry up and get yourself outta there, Yaten... please...." she says worriedly. After that she starts bashing the little crack in the ice with her... head. ^.^

To STAR HEALER: After a short length of time, Luna's efforts pay off. You hear the glass start to crumble under its own weight, and before long, you are able to move your feet again. Luna's head is very sore. "...Go get 'em... Yaten..." she says, right before falling down. ^.^ To SAILOR MOON: When you scream, "Moon Princess Halation!!" a bubble of light forms at the tip of your rod which expands to cover you, Jafter, and the monster in the light. The evil monster is disintegrated by moon power before even having the time to cry out! After attacking you feel invigorated and full of energy instead of weakened. Perhaps you had forgotten how nifty and powerful that attack really was. To IIMESU: You bash at the remnants of the fish-man that had tried to spike you to death. The fragments and bits of glass that had fallen turn into smaller fragments and bits. But, since it transformed into glass, it doesn't appear to be coming back to life anytime. Before long, (hopefully) you realize that it's stupid to keep hitting the glass, which is motionless. You seem to have eluded the danger. You look around and everything is quiet. To STAR and SUNLIGHT: "Star...Constellation...Magic!" "...violet raze..." Twin eruptions of light are triggered from inside the net of chains- A bubble forms around Sunlight, which separates the chains from his limbs, just enough so that he could slip out of there. The nearby fish-men are taken aback by this curious power, but are not harmed. Perhaps they even welcome this unexpected phenomenon, because it means their predatory sport can continue... Star Silver's Constellation attack also gets the job done, but in a much more violent way. As the constellation shoots its rays, the chains burn up and snap. You find yourself re-endowed with the power of mobility. However, the pieces of the (quite heavy) chains remain draped over your shoulders and arms. To EVERYONE: Crystal Piranha hovers over Sailor Saturn's prostrate form, her crooked blade forming an ominous shadow over the small girl. CP pauses just for a moment, but you can't tell whether it's from hesitation, or a desire to savor the act of wickedness that she meditates. "Stop it, Piranha, I swear to God...!" Beth comes out of nowhere and holds the scythe in place. CP looks at her, surprised that she had escaped so quickly. Then her face turns to rage. Instantly, Crystal Piranha kicks Beth, with such swift and violent reflex, it catches both of them off guard. CP wrestles the weapon away from her, and hisses- "You insolent Sailor Senshi--!" With that, and probably without even thinking about it, Crystal Piranha raises her blade, and swings it down over Sailor Saturn. It plunges straight through Hotaru's chest! You think you hear, maybe, a small cry issue from her throat- but it is silenced all too quickly. CP's shoes are splattered with blood. She turns to Beth, a sadistic still illuminating her features. "The next dish on the menu is-- you-" she says with such cold ferocity that it chills your bones. And then she stops suddenly. "No!! I won't forgive you, Piranha! I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you! I won't forgive you!!!" "Nani?" Crystal Piranha asks as the the floating mirrors throught the vicinity start to vanish. The remaining swordfish-men around the arena start to break apart, turning into harmless puddles of water. As fog fades away, you discover that you are inside a sprawling canyon. Crystal Piranha looks around, and her subdued rage seems to increase (if that's at all possible.) Her eyes, narrowed into slits, come to rest on Jafter.

Iimesu's left hand let go of the Nightmare Staff, as he let it rest at his side. He then looked around, slightly disturbed by the sudden slience, but yet relieved at the same time. He took a quick look at his left hand, before seeing the cut that appeared on his index finger. Iimesu was relieved to see that there was no more bleeding all-together. Noticing the other people that were there, he decided to walk over there. It obviously wasn't a good time to actually distract them and ask what was going on, though. So, he decided to keep a little bit of a distance from the core of the action. Iimesu stood near Star Healer, but he didn't say anything to her or the cat that was nearby. "Odd..." Iimesu looked at Crystal Piranha closely. When his eyes fell on her shoes, he looked like he was going to gag. There was blood all over them. "...And freaky. And scary." He whispered, with a slightly nervous tone to his voice. At least one good thing happened. Every single one of the swordfish-monsters were now gone, or at least, they were puddles of water. If only that had happened before his problems with the stupid things had started! Iimesu kept his eyes on Crystal Piranha's face, so he didn't have to see her bloody shoes. Where did that blood come from, anyway? That's when Iimesu took his eyes away from Crystal Piranha's face, and actually looked around. His eyes scanned just about everything, that was, until he froze. What had happened to that poor girl? Iimesu stiffled a scream. "Shoot...This is more serious then I thought, isn't it? And I already thought this would be a problem..."

Before Mirari had a chance to smile slightly, bleakly, at the color of water changing she was seized by the chains of Crystal Piranha. Seeing the fish-men crumbling into mere puddles as they emerged from, she obviously didn't have to worry about them, now only to get the chains off. Not too long after both Sunlight and Star Silver burst out of their bindings, the white haired girl's body fell limp in hers. Before commencing attack, the redviolet eyes reflect another red color, the blood of Sailor Saturn's chest. It didn't, it doesn't, matter if she wasn't close with them, nor if she didn't care if they got hurt - but the senshi of destruction's blood splattered on Crystal Piranha's shoes brought an almost sullen rage to Mirari. Whatever brought it on, it was of no significance at this time. Her mind went to the links bound together, twisting themselves, pinching her flesh; as well as Crystal Piranha. 'Mirari Smite'

Beth stares up at Crystal Piranha in shock. "Who..are you?" she whispers. Pulling herself together, she scrambles to her feet. *Got to find the kernel, got to find it, got to!* She turns to Sunlight, as the only person she really recognizes, and grabs his arm. In a desperate whisper, she says, "We have to get to that energy source, do you understand? She's keeping us here! This is only a memory, a dream. It's not real, it doesn't have to be real! We have to fix the dream, then wake up. Can you help me?" She casts around in her mind for the direction the energy source is now.

Jafter looks around himself amazedly, eyes going back to their original vibrant hue. He turns in a circle-still floating-and examines the sphere of light that surrounded he and Sailor Moon. Coming full circle, he senses CP's eyes on him, and meets her gaze squarely. His expression is a mixture of sorrow and anger.

"SATURN!!! NOOOOOOO!" Yaten's hands are in tight fists, her eyes full of tears. "I'll never forgive you for killing her! Omae wo Korsu, Baka teki!" Healer yelled at the top of her lungs. "Star Sensitive Inferno!" Healer launched her only attack at CP, but this time it was even stronger and bigger.

Sunlight gasps the minute he saw Saturn on the ground, her poor innocent blood shed. He looks up to CP shoes alarmed seeing them splattered with the same liquid. "Saturn..." he whispers sadly, coming closer. He looks as if he is going to be sick, or at least had been cooped up inside his room crying for the past month. Though he hardly ever had the chance to completely know Saturn, she was always there, and it was hard for him to realize it. He never thought about a day, or chance, where she wouldn't be. In one swift second her life seemed to have came to an end. That is, if, by some weird chance, she still had any life there. He heard so many stories repeated to him about her, every response he gave being an irritated, "leave me alone". "Whoa!" Sunlight looks at Beth, some of his "cool" coming back to him. He looks from her back to Saturn, speaking confused. "You mean Saturn... isn't... that way?" New hope comes to his eyes. "Calm down a little. I'll help you. Just tell me what to do."

Beth takes a few deep breaths and calms down. "Okay. I need you to help me get there. Once we find it, I can take it from there. I don't think she-Saturn?-is really dead. Remember, we're inside someone's mind. The only danger is if she leaves the dream dead, she stays dead. We can't let whoever we're inside wake up. Are there any teleport spells you can do to get us to the energy itself, or something to destract that...person...long enough?"

To Sailor Mirari: You command a rain of cold glass shards-- Pelting the small area around you, it doesn't take long for the shards to pierce through the links of the chains that are binding you. You pull yourself free from them, as they start to fall into pieces around you. To Everyone: Crystal Piranha whirls around to see Sailor Mirari's attack, a flurry of glass shards, descending on her. A few of them scrape the skin on her face and legs- Immediately, CP hoists herself up using her sickle as a vault- she dodges out of the way, and continues dodging with such effortless dexterity, that you wouldn't believed that it was possible to move in such a way if you hadn't seen it right in front of you. At the first available opportunity, she extends her palm towards the falling shards, and focuses her psychic energy. The remaining glass spikes become water and spray on her head without effect. CP's eyes shift nervously from Jafter, to Beth, to Sailor Mirari. It seems as though a counterattack is inevitable-- And then Sailor Star Healer's attack- one of her biggest, and deadliest ever!- soars through the air at CP. Crystal Piranha, however, is ready for it. She sweeps the blade of her hook across the ground, and a wall of water springs up vertically in front of her. It looks as though Healer's attack would hit the water- but at the last moment, the wall suddenly vanishes. "Damn it!!" CP yells just before she gets hit by it. The attack slams into her and sends her skinny frame flying backwards. It hurts her, as much as it would hurt anyone, however, she seems to have a superhuman endurance. When she gets back on her feet, she looks more irritated than anything else. "Hold on, Sailor Soldiers. There's something I have to do. I'll come back for you later," she promises. Before you can do anything else, CP dives into one of the puddles, and disappears. ....... You are standing inside a canyon. In fact, it's like a ridge-- two large cliffsides rise up on either side of you. You observe that there is a path to the right, and a path to the left that you can follow. Even though CP's supernatural fog has disappeared, there is a decent amount of natural fog that obstructs your view of the tops of the surrounding mountains, and also, whatever lies further ahead on the path. There are still puddles of water here and there, but much fewer than when you were battling Crystal Piranha. Now that she's gone, the puddles are no longer supernaturally-powered. You can see that they contain crystal-clear water, and are only a few inches deep.

Iimesu glanced around. That was definitely a little odd, but it was nothing too weird. He looked over to Star Healer, whom he was standing near, and then to everyone else. Iimesu wanted to ask what was going on, but he never knew if they would think he was the enemy in disguise or something. He just sighed. It looked like he didn't have much of a choice. To make himself noticed, Iimesu walked over to the cat that had fallen over, bent down and poked it. Iimesu scratched his forehead a little, and then shrugged. "Hmmm..." He then stood up and took a look around. He felt like poking someone so badly, but he didn't. Iimesu knew that it would be a little annoying, and he obviously didn't want to annoy these people. Instead, he looked over to Star Healer, to see if she noticed him. Then he just looked around. Maybe someone would say something to him, and maybe no one would. Oh well. Iimesu was just glad that he could have a little bit of a break. He leaned on his Nightmare Staff and breathed in a sigh of relief. Of course, he really wasn't feeling that relieved. Another thought just invaded his head. That poor girl! What was her name? They seemed to call her Saturn. Well, what if that same thing happened to one of the other ones there, or maybe even him! Iimesu shivered. Or, what if this Crystal Piranha girl went into their memories and picked out every single person in there...To kill them in the same brutal way? This wasn't the time to be thinking that way. Right now he just needed to keep his mind on the new settings and what these people wanted to do next. Right.

Silver looked around. She looked up the walls surronding them an then at the paths. "so...umm...which way now?" Meko looked around. "I dont know.."

"Good question." Beth steps into the middle of the group. "We don't have much time, so I'll be quick. This is a memory. We're inside somebody's head. Nothing that happens in here is real until we leave, got that? If Sailor Saturn is still dead when we do, I'm afraid she'll stay that way. So what we have to do is make sure that doesn't happen. I've been picking up a magical signal from what is quite possibly the only thing that can help us. It's over that way. She'll be back soon, so let's go." Beth turns and heads off in the direction of the signal. Before doing so, she reaches into a pocket and pulls out a wand that could never have fit into it. It's greenish wood, glowing softly.

"His head!" Jafter says indignantly, pointing at himself. "His memory. Do not speak as if he is not even there." He drops back to the ground, with a slight splash, directly into one of the puddles. He looks worn out and frustrated, partially from floating for so long, and also because it is quite stressful to be inside one's own memory and still not remember anything. Shaking his head slightly-and trying to fight off the urge to cry-he stalks after Beth, figuring that following her is as good a plan as any.

Beth smiles apologetically to Jafter. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to talk about you as if you weren't there. I'm just not entirely sure if we're inside your memory at all."

Healer glances over her shoulder at Iimesu. 'how'd they get there?' "'Scuse me? But may I ask who you are?" Healer pics up poor Luna and looks at the Nightmare Staff. "oooo! Cool Staff!" ^.^ Healer smiles, "My name is Sailor Star Healer and this poor cat is Luna." ^_^;

Luna turns her sore head towards Sailor Star Healer and Iimesu. "Well, I'm just glad I've helped," she says smiling gently. "And anything for you, Star Healer... Who's this?" she asks curiously at Iimesu. Meanwhile, Beth and Jafter venture ahead into the next area. The canyon widens out a bit to create a large clearing. And in this clearing, you find the remains of a rustic town. At some point it was populated with wooden houses and clearings, but now all of them are broken, and smashed apart. Now, they're just large piles of scrap. You can tell it once was a town, though, because of certain outlying structures- like strange totem-poles, and machines for collecting and distributing water. The other clue are the thin trails of smoke drifting from the destroyed homes, implying that a fire once burned on the hearth just moments before. The path you're on goes through the small town and continues past it. The signal that Beth is getting is also coming from much past the town.

Beth looks around worriedly. "I don't suppose you remember what this is doing here, do you?" she asks. She reaches out for Jafter and grabs his arm. "C'mon. We don't want to get separated." Beth continues through the town.

Iimesu laughed lightly as he showed Star Healer the Nightmare Staff. "Oh, the Nightmare Staff? It is pretty nifty. Thanks." He gave a little smile and a little wave as well. "I'm Iimesu! Nice to meet 'cha." It felt nice to know who one of these people actually was, and, well, the cat too. Iimesu petted Luna's head a little, right in-between the ears, neck, and upper back. Iimesu didn't mind animals, it was just when they gave him pain. "Hey Luna." "I would like to ask what's going on here." Iimesu looked down and gave off what sounded like an exasperated sigh. He must have sounded pretty pathetic--coming there and not even knowing what was going on. Iimesu decided to explain the reason why. "My best friend, Zoltan, and I were supposed to be exploring that," he mumbled, motioning to the distance as if referring to somewhere else, "place together. I don't know, I guess something Zoltan found fishy was going on...But he overslept, and I didn't want to bother him, especially since he was sleeping peacefully for once," he turned a little red for some reason, "so I came myself." He breathed in a few times to help his blush disappear, and then continued to talk. Iimesu sounded a little more relaxed. "Turns out that I got sucked in with the people that were teleporting somewhere--apparently into someone's head. So now I'm here. If I'm right, that Crystal Piranha is no good..." He then turned to Saturn's body and flinched, before turning back to Star Healer and Luna. Iimesu really didn't want to look at the horrible sight; it would probably make him gag after a while, anyway. He fiddled around with his Nightmare Staff as he glanced around at his new settings. Then he looked back at Star Healer and Luna, not wanting them to get the impression that he was rude because he didn't look at them. Iimesu started to pet Luna again, liking the feell of her fur. Besides, it distracted him from the thought of Saturn. An answer to his question might also help out.

Jafter, who had stopped at sight of the ravaged town, started suddenly when Beth grabbed his arm. "Sorry. Yes, you are right." He looked a little dazed, perhaps even in pain. His headache had come back, and with it an irritating feeling, as if the memories that he had lost were just behind what he could see. He bit his lip, glad to feel Beth's hand on his arm-it kept him from feeling so disconnected.

"well... It's a long story... Luna better tell you." Healer smiles and sweatdrops. ^.^; "Nightmare staff.... Sounds like a powerful weapon." Healer smiles. 'it's nice to talk to somebody new.'

Luna sighs. "I think that when we teleported, we accidentally teleported everyone who happened to be closeby at the time." "It is sort of a long story, and it's Sailor business, but I think you have a right to know... We were zapped inside of Jafter's mind to try to find the portal to the enemy headquarters. And as a challenge from Crystal Piranha, that horrible woman you saw." She shudders and tries not to think about Sailor Saturn. "I guess it's good that you're here, because it looks like you can defend yourself, and we'll need all the help we can get. If I had known this was going to happen, I would have ensured that more Sailor Senshi were on the mission. As it is, things aren't looking good right now." Luna looks distraught and meows happily when Iimesu pets her She looks back at Sailor Star Healer and nods in the direction that Jafter and Beth went off to. "You'd better not lose them..."

Sunlight was about to quickly follow Beth, when suddenly he turned to go scope out Saturn. He knelt down beside her, this not being the first time he saw someone this hurt, and sighed. Taking off his jacket, he wrapped it around Saturn, wanting to keep her warm, and to hide her injury that seemed to be making everyone sick; though knowing she was dead at the moment. "I wonder if I should leave her here..." he asked himself. After listening to the others behind him, he smiled lightly. "Iimesu," he said outloud to himself. "Remember that." Sunlight got to his feet, quickly chasing after Beth and Jafter. Once he was caught up, he panted, out of breath, and went to Beth's side. "How are we supposed to bring Saturn back to life before we leave?" he asked concerned, then noticed the town. He walked around in a circle in awe. "Whoa... What is this place?" he muttered to himself.

Mirari looked a bit disappointed for some odd reason, whatever it was - it didn't matter, as many things didn't. Her eyes looking over Saturn for a moment before Sunlight covered her in his jacket - The blood, the wound, the fact that she was dead, it didn't bother her really, it was just odd. Almost seeming as if she was doing it absentmindedly while looking about the environment now that some of the fog lifted, she brushed the bits of dirt on her partially gloved hands from holding onto the ground. While listening, quietly, to what everyone was saying with slight focus, she took note of the darkly-skinned guy's name. 'Iimesu' Although she didn't care for being told what to do, or following another's word; there didn't seem much else to do but to follow Beth, as reluctant as she was. The thought of disinclination wasn't because she was scared, not at all, merely the fact that it wasn't in her to just do that. Mirari trudged along, after Jafter, Beth and whoever else was going in that direction, to the right. Her boots dragging along the ground caused some of the dirt to rise up and form brief clouds. She made no effort to dodge the puddles, so any dirt that lay idle on the top of her boots got washed off as water splattered to the sides of them. When entering the town, her eyes swept over the worn down, diminished architecture, if you could even call it that anymore of the rustic town. Her hand ran over the arm bands on her right arm, looking about. Crystal Piranha had wanted to battle them right? Well, didn't they win a battle? She really didn't see much more of a point of staying here, other than the fact that they had now clue how to get out of this memory, which was apparently pretty bleak. Maybe Jafter, the tangerine-eyed man who didn't appear to know anything more than them, forced amnesia on himself for this memory, it wasn't the most pleasant thing after all, or it didn't seem so.

Iimesu didn't want to sound like a show-off, so he tried to find a nice way to word what he wanted to say to Star Healer. "You'd certainly think it was if it was the main source of your power," Iimesu explained, trying to say that it was one of the only ways he could get his powers to actually work. "Plus, no one else can grab it without it blowing up, so I'm lucky." He gave Star Healer a little grin before looking to Luna and nodding as she was explaining what was going on. "So that's what's happening..." Iimesu whispered, to himself, making a mental note of what Luna just explained. So apparently Crystal Piranha was from a group of these infamous enemies, all similar to her. Hah. They were definitely enemies on his list, that was for sure. Iimesu grinned at the fact that Luna liked him petting her, and thus, continued. "Thanks." He smiled at Luna. "As long as they don't try to get in a physical fight with me," he just laughed nervously at that, "I should be fine..." Iimesu turned to the direction everyone was going, and decided that he should follow, once Star Healer started walking that way. He'd feel better walking next to someone he actually knew in this odd place.

To BETH and JAFTER: As you approach what should be the middle of the town, you are confronted by a large statue lying in the path. It's two stories tall and made out of cobalt-blue marble. It seems very out of place here, and doesn't share any characteristics with the totem poles you noticed earlier. It looks like a bunch of fish heads all pushed together. Before you can contemplate it any further, the statue shoots two bursts of energy and zaps both of you! The next thing you know, you're laid out on the ground. You feel as though your energy has been drained. You look up to see the eyes of the statue glowing slightly. To Everyone else: There's a flash of light. Then you see Beth and Jafter get attacked by a large and weird statue in the middle of the town.

Silver blinks, watching them get attacked by a statue. She looked at Meko. "Should I help them?" "I dont know.."

"What in the World???" Healer runs towards Beth and Jafter. Healer looks at the statue. "You have got to be kidding me..."

Iimesu found himself grabbing Luna out of Healer's grasp just before she ran off, so he could continue to pet her. He had Luna so she could be laying down on her stomach, or get comfortable in any other position. Of course, Iimesu was careful to flip his Nightmare Staff around, much lower then Luna, so there was no risk of her being hit with the blade-side of the staff. "Who are they?" Iimesu mumbled to himself, watching as he saw what was happening. Instead of running after Star Healer, he just took a casual pace. Besides, running would wear him out much too easily, and this enemy seemed pretty darn powerful. He didn't want to surprise Luna or get her mad, either. A mad cat could mean a scratched face, and a surprised cat might mean a scratched arm. Neither sounded pretty. "Kidding what?" Iimesu asked, as he walked next to Star Healer. He looked up at the statue, with a chuckle. "It seems very possible that that could be alive, or something's controlling it to make it seem alive." Iimesu let his eyes wander to Beth and Jafter. They didn't seem okay. Hopefully this wasn't another...it that would kill a person.

Beth groans silently. *Owww. I should have been expecting that. Now what?* She tries to move, and finds she doesn't have the energy. *Hey...waitaminute. Psionic communication should work really well here.* ^Hey, everyone!^ she shouts mentally. ^Get a piece of the buildings between you and the statue, okay? Take it from me, this is highly un-fun.^ *Hmmmm, I'm going to have to drain one of my spells for the energy. Which one, though?* She feels the cool weight of her lucid-dream necklace on her throat, and smiles. *Bingo.* She mutters a phrase, and the necklace comes undone and flows into her hand. Suddenly, she feels revitalised. Rolling to her feet, she grabs Jafter under the arms and starts dragging him away backwards. ^Jafter, can you try something? If this is your memory, can you try to take you energy from it? It might work...^ Beth keeps Jafter between herself and the statue, not being entirely stupid.

As soon as Sailor Star Healer and Iimesu step within a certain radius of it, the statue acts up again. It glows blue for a second. You see a gleam of lightning shoot out of it, and it starts to swing towards Star Healer and Iimesu- carving a gash through the ground as it approaches them. The bolt looks significantly more deadly than the previous two energy blasts...

Iimesu's eyes widened. He didn't want to be the dead meat! "I may be used to the lightning, since the climate where I come from consists of a lot of thunderstorms, but that statue seems pretty dangerous!" Iimesu backed up a little bit, hoping that the thing wouldn't continue to advance towards him. Looking alarmed, he jerked his head in Healer's direction. "Healer, back up!!" The boy glanced around. There had to be something to protect him, beside his Nightmare Staff, which would be stupid to lift up anyway because he was holding Luna, whom he really didn't feel like hitting. Iimesu glanced around. This did look like a town, maybe there was a building to hide behind. That was it! Iimesu backed off towards one of the buildings, so he had a pretty decent place to go run in if the thing continued towards him. Iimesu wondered what about them going closer to the statue made it react. Maybe it had somewhat of a mechanic brain that told it when something was coming a certain distance from it. Either that or, someone was controlling it, and can only see so far in front of themselves with their cameras. The former idea seemed a little bit more likely. "So..." He walked over to the side of the building and gently set Luna down, so he could get a better grip on his Nightmare Staff. Iimesu stood in front of Luna, just incase it was going to continue towards him, but he was also ready to interfere if Star Healer didn't move. Iimesu didn't know why, he just felt very protective over them all of the sudden. Maybe it was just his personality, or maybe he had a feeling that this was the weaker side here. Iimesu was trying to figure out exactly why he had the protective feeling in the first place, but he was also keeping his eyes on that statue. "Healer, move..." Iimesu whispered to himself.

Sunlight stopped from walking a moment to study the town. After watching Jafter and Beth attacked, he was relieve he had. He did gasp anyway in surprise, beginning to run forwards, but not before giving everything one last look. Healer and Iimesu made it there before him as he ran a short distance behind them. He stopped solidly watching the statue go up again. Sunlight covered his eyes from the light a second, his mouth open slightly from confusion. Looking up as Beth was speaking to everyone, he brought his eyes behind him quickly. "Hmm..." He moves back further from the statue, not wanting to be attacked himself and just waited for more to happen, hoping the more didn't include him. 'I wonder if they're all right,' he told himself. 'I want to go closer but that statue will get me.'

When she heared Beth's voice inside her head she looked around. *What's going on* she ran to one of the buildings and hid herself. Another flash of light.

Healer runs behind a building to safety. ' I wonder what is up with that statue?'

After there's no one else in the vicinity, the statue calms down a bit. There's a final flare in its eyes, and then the spark dies down. It's not completely gone, but subdued. The statue assumes its former tranquillity, resting tall and still against the gray sky like a monolith. Since Beth and Jafter backed up, you have a pretty good idea of its range.

Iimesu blinked. He let his hands drop to his side, thus having the Nightmare Staff's blade pointing back towards the ground. "That was it?" Now when he thought about it, he found that a little pathetic. Apparently they needed to find some way to get around it. "Okay, so it hurts you if you go near it..." He mumbled to himself, scratching his neck because it itched. Iimesu looked at everyone else, before turning around and picking Luna back up. "So we need to find some way around it, right?" With a slight sigh, Iimesu walked back towards everyone else. A goofy grin formed on his face. "So we need to make some plan to get around it without it noticing us, right?" Then he paused and looked around at everyone. Would they even listen to him? This wasn't like his home--They probably had their own set of leaders and people that they listened to. It was doubtful that they would actually listen to someone they barely even knew. Iimesu sighed. "Or you could destroy it..." His voice dragged off, as he looked at all the people. Maybe he should shut up. Thus, he did. Iimesu just stood there, not putting Luna down for whatever reason why. Again, he started to pet her.

Beth relaxes. "Phew. That was close. Now we know not to get any closer to it than I am right now. But I think...yeah. Iimesu, was it? We're going to want to get around it. If we assume that there's a sphere of territory around it that causes the statue to attack, we have to find a way to avoid going into that sphere. Does anyone have any ideas?" She looks around, and fiddles with one fo the charms on her bracelet. *It could work..*

"Can any of you fly?" Jafter inquires from the ground in front of Beth. Getting sick of looking up cross-eyed at them all, he turns over onto his stomach to get a better view...and very nearly passes out. He is both disgusted and frightened by the sudden weakness caused by the statue. "What did it do to him?" He wonders aloud.

"I don't have any," Sunlight said disappointed, coming back to rejoin his group. "But I'll do anything to stop all this nonsense." After listening to Jafter, he looks at everyone interested. "Can any of you fly?" he asks.

Healer thinks for a minute. "Once when I was with Kakyuu-Hime and the rest of the Starlights and Eternal Sailor Moon, I did sprout wings..." Healer stared at the ground. "If only I could do it again..."

Iimesu grinned at the fact that Beth noticed him, restated his idea in a different fashion, and asked if anyone had any ideas to get around the statue. That must have met she thought his idea was a good one, and that made him get an even wider grin. At least he was noticed here--something he found very welcoming. When Sunlight asked if anyone could fly, Iimesu paused and looked thoughtful. "Well, I don't know..." Iimesu glanced at his Nightmare Staff for a second. A light bulb seemed to flick on in his head. "I might be able to fly. My Nightmare Staff might be able to give me a boost." He gave a little grin before looking down at Luna. Cats can't fly, and he was sure that some people there couldn't even try to fly. Iimesu looked around, "Well, what about the people that can't fly?" He motioned his head to Sunlight. "Him for example." Iimesu looked around and waited to see if anyone had an idea to solve that problem. There was always the picking up thing, and then putting the person down on the other side of the statue, but that would take way too long. They needed a quicker idea.

Luna wagged her tail, still huddled in Iimesu's arms. "That solution seems way too intricate," she says when the idea of flying comes up. "I don't think we need to waste so much power on a stupid statue....Not to mention I hate flying..." Luna carefully surveys the distance to the statue, which is about a hundred feet, and lifts an eyebrow.

Iimesu nodded when Luna was talking. She did have a point--flying could take a lot of power out of the senshi. For example, Star Healer said that she only did it once before. Did that mean that it was a powerful, draining attack? He laughed a little when hearing Luna mumble. Since he wasn't that far from her at all, since he was holding her, he heard her mumbling about hating flying. "Well, if Luna thinks it is too much, it probably is..." Iimesu dragged off. It seemed like Luna had a position of authority here, so he thought that most of what Luna said was probably correct. He looked up at the statue, observing it closely. There had to be some way to get around it...Somehow. Attacking it wouldn't be good. Grant it, it might move towards the attacks, but it would also be moving towards them. If the attacks didn't destroy them, the whole group wouldn't have much time to move at all! So attacking it was out of the question in his mind. They could just walk around it, but there was always the risk of getting to close to it and having it run after them. That wasn't good, either. Then he got an idea. Iimesu looked at the buildings. "Well, maybe there could be something in those buildings that can help us, or at least, help us get around this thing." Iimesu pointed out, wondering if anyone agreed with him.

Sailormoon looked at the statue from behind the building where she sat. The others sat after an other building not so far away, but she had to run over an open place to get there. she should get close to the statue. Much closer than she wanted.

Beth looks around and laughs. "You know, I think we've all spent much too much time using magic. You're right, it takes too much power. Oh, I'm so stupid!" She reaches down, grabs both of Jafter's hands, and drags him to a standing position. "We haven't seen the simplest answer. Why can't we just walk around it? We should be okay if we run."

Sunlight laughs lightly, looking towards the statue. "That might be crazy enough to work," he said with a smile. "I wonder... How much around we will have to go? You know, to keep out of the boundaries." He sighs, turning to look at the group. "Let's just go and see what happens."

You hear a rasping sound coming from behind you. It immediately awakens your attention. You look aside and notice a person crawling towards Beth and Jafter. You most likely hadn't noticed him because he was lying as still as a log up until just now. It's