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Louisa was a normal girl in fact she was a normal boring girl who tended to keep very much to herself. For example today she had decided to go do some more photography, normally she would take the dogs with her but as she planned on taking photos of buildings she had left the two dogs at home. She hadn't planned on bumping in to anyone and so she had kept mostly to back alleys, taking photos of the older buildings.

Buildings however are only interesting for so long and she was getting bored. She didn't really want to head back in to town but the sudden rumble from her stomach changed her mind for her. She needed something to eat and town was closer then her house. She kept her camera around her neck as she headed towards the cafe that she seemed to live in when not at home or school. She had met Eve here, a nice girl from Crystal but then she had also met that other crystal girl and she hadn't been so nice.

She went in and got a bottle of coke and a bun which she took outside and sat on the curb of the path eating. She didn't feel like being inside today. It was a nice day.

Things were actually looking up, for once. During the entire time that Rea had been a senshi, things had never been as 'active' with the negaverse as they had been recently. Youma seemed to be popping up around Destiny City like ugly, mutated weeds, ten times more annoying and ten thousand times harder to kill. It seemed like every time she went out, no matter what for, there was always some disaster waiting for them, sitting there going "Oh look, there's Sailor Suchandsuch, trying to have a good time and live a relatively normal life, lets do something to screw it up."

To be fair, it wasn't every single time she went out, just the majority of times the Crystal girl tried to enjoy herself, the negaverse always went and botched it. And to be doubly fair, it was usually only when she was with Charys. Today, however, things had been going fairly normally. They had gone to see a movie, (she had been surprised at the offer, despite the many times she had gone 'out' with the bluenette,) and had had a relatively good time. In fact, she had had more than a relatively good time -- she had really enjoyed herself. Her companion had made what would have probably been a dull movie into a lively one, cracking jokes and laughing... although the other movie-goers probably didn't appreciate it, Rea had found that, for once, she had enjoyed listening to the quasi-whispers from the girl next to her.

So it was with a heart lighter than normal that the strawberry blonde girl walked next to 'date' and 'cat,' chatting idly as they headed down the street. It was also a greater disappointment when they noticed the youma wreaking havoc.

Well. That was the end of that good mood.

"They really should," she replied agreeably, still clinging to the remnants of the day. And it had been going so well too. Reaching out to touch her wrist, she ducked into an alley, preparing to henshin up. "C'mon."

Charys let out a long, involved bawwwwwwwwww, setting her bag down beside a trash can -- Astraea leapt out and ran off without either of them noticing, as the bluenette cracked her fingers and rolled her shoulders back. "I am going to throw up popcorn on this youma," she said. "Seriously. Popcorn barf -- hey, Marshall, do I get a kiss for luck?"

She puckered her mouth and leant out to Rea, but probably the talk of popcorn barf had not aroused her date to the point where she wanted to kiss her. If it aroused anything in her, it was not the kissing mood. "Wait, I should probably eat some tic-tacs first," she said, but noticed her date's expression -- "okay, okay, tic-tacs later. You talk about your childhood wishes, you can even eat the dishes. Dinotherms ready, let's go."

If a lot of light suddenly came from the alleyway, everybody was too focused on the youma to notice. When two sailor-suited (if not sailor-skirted) soldiers emerged, running out as the toddler kept screaming -- its mother was running full bore at the youma -- Nerissa held up her arm, even as the toddler's mother kept screaming and trying to push past. "Ma'am, let us," Nerissa told the sobbing, panicking woman, which was probably the most chivalrous thing she'd ever said.

Then she ruined it: "Hey, youma, come on! That toddler's like, half a star seed!"

This was a terrible challenge.

For Louisa, in the depths of prayer and photography, she had something else to contend with: a cat suddenly tugging on her pants leg, a pretty silver cat with a silver star on its forehead. "Are you really taking a photo of all this?" it demanded in the mayhem.

Louisa opened her eyes when she heard someone talk to her and as she saw no one around but a cat she looked somewhat confused. She did however see the senshi and took another photo. Oh this was good, so so good! She smiled before crouching down to pet the cat.

"Hey you, it's really not safe for a kitty around here." If she had known it was the cat that had spoken she would have probably decided she was in heaven and the thing had killed her already. Luckily for now she was more in awe watching the senshi, they really were something and they didn't look like they were doing anything wrong. Had the news people got it wrong?

"Come on kitty, lets get away from here, I don't want to see you get hurt!" Louisa was a sucker for animals and so she went to pick up the cat. While the senshi were here it meant she could get away or at least find somewhere safer to hide to take some more photos.

Ugh. Pegasus' face scrunched a little in disgust at the cackling of the youma, her gloved fingers slowly curling into fists. She hated it when garbage spoke. No matter what kind, be it cocky men or banana peels, it always said 'kick me to the curb, I smell,' and that was exactly what that huffhawing youma was telling her now. They would be more than happy to oblige, she was sure.

She hadn't even realized Astraea was missing.

"I won't aim at the baby," she responded, more serious than she should have been when she said that, her retort just as serious, "Don't forget to catch the baby." The tease was there, but they had their game-faces on now. Joke about youma guts all you want, but with a baby involved, at least for Pegasus, it was on. She might be handicapped in the emotions area, but other people weren't, and you don't ******** with stuff like that.

'Ready, daydream believer?'

She didn't even have time to reply before the countdown had begun, Nerissa taking off towards the place the child was supposidly going to land. If she could get straw-man to drop it. If she could land an attack. Sucking in a deep breath, she kicked off the ground not a second later, dashing parallel to the monster for a few feet before skidding to a halt, turning towards it, her arms already crossed, that sphere of iridescence already forming, ready for the attack.

"Dream Kinesis!"

"Too bad," said the cat. "Prepare to be especially unspecial." What did that even mean -- suddenly the cat was spitting out a PEN (was that resting in her esophagus????) in Louisa's arms. A green pen. A green-and-brown pen. A pen that was a little too thick to be a normal pen. "You're Sailor Sirius, senshi of canines -- I'm sorry in advance -- and if you could help out the senshi here instead of trying to take pictures of the entire ordeal..."

Sailor Nerissa had bolted forward to match Pegasus' attack -- it was a little quicker than her, and when it hit the stick youma it staggered backward. No, it didn't stagger; it got sheared directly in half. This didn't make it explode, though, the top half was propping itself up on its arms and looking disgusted. Nerissa had grabbed the toddler just before it fell back, shouted "Score!" and there was a yell from the -- crowd?

There was a crowd. There was also a police officer. The officer had her gun drawn, but she hadn't said anything, and wasn't yelling for them to freeze. She was watching Nerissa with the crying child in her arms -- and suddenly the youma barraged both Pegasus and Nerissa with sticks, which forced Nerissa down on the ground to shield the kid with her body. Sticks hurt when they were hurled with enough force, which they were being hurled with, and Pegasus had to duck for cover.

Now the police officer was shooting -- at the youma. The bullets hit the lower half and did not do a hell of a lot, other than chip it. The police officer got aimed in the barrage now, and rolled across the bonnet of the car to take her own shelter behind it.

Ewww.

Louisa had seen animals be sick, in fact she was use to it but none of them had done that and for some reason it grossed her out somewhat more then normal animal sick did. She took the pen though and looked at it, oh it was so pretty!

"Erm... so if I am Sailor Sirius, what do I do because I am pretty sure if I walk over there I will get eaten." She did want to go and help, the policeman shooting at it didn't seem to be doing much help and the two scouts were erm... not in the best position. Maybe she was dreaming. Maybe she would go out there and fight and win and then wake up later to find it was all nothing more then a dream.

"Okay... tell me what to do and I will do it." After all if this was a dream she would wake up before she died right?

There was little Pegasus could do from where she was crouched behind the mailbox, jerking back a few times as a stick came hurtling towards her, clipping her shoulders and legs, bruises already starting to form. She couldn't imagine how Nerissa was fairing, out in the open -- she must be covered in welts by now. Uncovering her head, blue-green eyes scanned the street, where the bluenette was starting to struggle to her feet, the child bouncing in her arms as she ran towards the crowd, basically at the mercy of the youma.

Christ.

This was it -- there would be no more after this. In fact, there was likely to be a lot of wooziness and perhaps a little fainting on her part. She didn't know the details of what happened, she'd only done it once. It had been an experience she hadn't wanted to repeat, to be honest, but there wasn't much that could be done in this circumstance. Nerissa had her hands full with the child. Maybe if she got the toddler to the parent, she'd be able to do her whirlpool.

This is why they made a team, dammit.

With not a moment's hesitation, the teal-skirted senshi bolted from her hiding spot, wincing as stray sticks pelted her sides, running perpendicular to Nerissa and her charge. She didn't have time to make it completely between them and the monster, but it was close enough -- Pegasus crossed her arms, gritting her teeth as she sphere sucked more energy from her.

"Dream Kinesis!"