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Sirius was having a hard time, she was helping with the guarding of a captain but she wasn't due on rotation for a while and so she had gone out to get some air. This whole thing was huge, so much bigger then she had expected and it had gone so well. She hadn't really been part of the fighting as she had come in with the tranquilizers which lets face it was the easy part of the job.

She was enjoying the spring air, it helped perk her up a little knowing that soon it would be summer and she could be a kid again out with the dogs instead of in school and she would be graduating. Maybe not so much of a kid anymore. She let out a sigh and walked through the streets keeping to the shadows like some common criminal. It irritated her how she had to hide so much even though it came so naturally to her.

The night was quiet, she hadn't seen anyone from the negaverse not even a youma, no cries for help nothing. It was eerie and odd. Surely they would be out looking for the ones kept captive? She really had no idea how the negaverse worked, it was all so confusing to her. Instead she decided to be the common criminal she was acting like and broke into a near by shop - a butchers in fact. She could at least do some good and collect some food for their hard working cat!

He watched her from a good distance, good enough to know she couldn't feel his aura, and he couldn't feel hers, but her uniform told him everything he needed to know.
Worth the risk? Yes, he rather thought it was, using the crimson crystal he transformed into a senshi - this time, one of the more innocent and -preachy- ones in his opinion, all the better to play on any doubts and gossip. 'Sailor MuCephei'... or rather Z!uCephei was ready to go... and as a plus he felt at least marginally less exposed in her longer backed skirt.
True she'd be able to feel that a Nega was 'in the area', but not being able to see one might lead them on a merry chase.

He made his way down and headed towards where he had last seen her putting on a suspicious look and glancing around at all times as though he...rather 'she' were looking for the nega-presense he was in fact giving off.

Sirius grabbed some meat from the butchers and legged it, straight into a senshi she vaguely recognised from all those meetings and whatnot.

"Oh hi... I didn't know anyone else was about." She did look slightly guilty as she had been caught stealing. Senshi probably weren't suppose to steal but hey everyone hated them anyway why not let them hate them some more. She did of course automatically hide the bag of meat she had stolen behind her back.

"Seen anything odd tonight or anything?" Yeah because Sirius knew how to strike up a non-awkward conversation!

"Oh! Sorry!" exclaimed the other Senshi who'd been looking the other way when they collided 'accidentally'
"Ah... Seen no but I keep 'feeling' someone, they haven't shown though so... I don't know maybe I'm just imagining things." She shook her head and sighed. "What about you?"

"Oh you have?" Sirius looked around suddenly, she was also now aware that she really hadn't been paying as much attention as she should have been.

"It's just been so quiet since the BMC got those negas." Sirius wasn't sure if all senshi knew about it so she kept it on the low at least to begin with, once she found out who the senshi was and everything she would probably relax.

"Anyway I am Sirius, I don't think we have ever properly met." Introductions were always a good start. She really was all over the place today. Goodness knows how she was going to get through a night. Maybe it would have been best if she had just stayed with all the others.

"MuCephei!" She said with a cheerful tone, "Senshi of...well...Blood." She sounded more appologetic when she said that though.

"Are you alright? Did you want to patrol together a while? You look sort of...stressed, and you can tell me about the BMC? I've only heard a few whispers, but I really... I have no idea what happened."

"Besides... maybe the wacko I've been feeling will behave himself if we both have back up." She smiled.

Sirius nodded, "Nice to meet you!" She then listened and nodded again. It made sense to stick together.

"Sure! What do you know about the BMC?" She was still aware of the meat she was carrying, she would have to leave it somewhere cool and collect it later. She could look for somewhere while they were walking about.

"I can't say I know everything about the BMC though, I am just a cadet and well there are plenty above me that know more of what is going on." She didn't sound annoyed by this though, actually she was rather happy to just be a cadet, she didn't do too well with responsibility.

MuCephei waved her hand vaguely and looked thoughtful, a rather hard eyed thoughtful but only those who knew her well might have found it odd given the circumstances. "Ah... rather big organization, Sailor Ares... Sailor Nemisis...I think Sailor Scylla in it...and um... Sailor Lyra!... Or at the least they have started spending quite a lot of time together." She sounded thoughtful.
"And... Apparently drugged and Dragged a number of Nega's? But... I can't imagine -why." she said sounding honestly baffled.

Sirius looked slightly surprised at the Senshi's knowledge and that she seemed confused as to why they had drugged the nega's in the first place.

"You know a lot more then you let on. I didn't know it was already common knowledge that we had drugged them and taken them prisoner. I bet you don't know where we are keeping them though. That's top secret and no one will find them." She smiled at that acting a little like one of those girls on the school field who seems to know everything and so be that much better then you. It seemed the BMC was changing Sirius and not necessarily in a good way.

"What else have you heard?" She was curious now as to what gossip got around the senshi's and when and why and all that. It wasn't something she generally kept up with. In all honesty she was much better at sneaking around collecting information then well anything else. She wasn't generally social in the slightest.

The girl paused looking more surprised. "Ac...tually, I thought it was just gossip. I couldn't imagine it actually happening." she sounded like it was a dreadful confession that she had listened to said gossip at all. "All I could think of was... students raiding the chem labs and stealing the chloroform for the frogs but that seems a little impractical." She shook her head looking impressed.

"I can't believe you really -did- it." She sounded honestly impressed at the thought, hero worship perhaps, it did an ego good.
"What are you doing with them?" She whispered like she was hoping to be let in on some of the juiciest gossip in the school. "Hostages? Are you trying to take back those... those... corrupted Senshi? I keep hoping we can save them but, but I don't know how! It's so strange to see the hole's in their chest." She shuddered.

Sirius was slightly surprised by the fact that she thought it was just gossip. She thought the BMC had a reputation already but then maybe she was wrong? Well they had shown themselves now and they had the generals and captains!

"Senshi? No, We have a couple of generals, captains and a few lieutenants. Don't know how many we have left though... they don't seem to like the questioning too much. To be honest I find it disturbing." Sirius looked slightly awkward talking about the 'questioning' after all it was... well... a bit sickening to say the least. Some of them before they died and the screams...

"I keep away from the hard core questioning. The screams keep me away." Sirius dropped the 'hard' act pretty quick. The torture really did get to her. She was sure the negaverse were human at least in part as well and maybe talking would have been enough but then she always was the soft one.

"Screaming?" MuCephei looked a bit pale in turn... "Is it...that bad?" She said anxiously. "Their... torturing them?" She shuddered and looked away, 'she' had to to smother the anger in her eyes, she rubbed at her arms as though to brush away a chill of horror.

"I hate this 'war' sometimes, it feels like you never know what boundary of humanity will be crossed next." She said letting the vehemence sink into those words instead of any others.

"If...their screaming, how on EARTH are you keeping them hidden though?" She asked suddenly wide eyed. "Surely someone must have heard, and the civilian police... I still see snipers how can you possibly..." She let it trail off, let Sirus fill in the blanks on how they were keeping this all hidden. There must be an answer.

"Yep and I know what you mean. I spoke to Tanzanite, one of the generals we have. She seemed human enough, maybe in need of a mental asylum but human. I don't know Ares is intent on getting anything and everything out of them. They won't ever get out, not alive anyway." She shrugged at that, in a way she was indifferent to it. Maybe when they killed them it would be a little different but the senshi had heard that they were going to die so many times that it was just one of those things you got use to.

"How no one found them? Well I don't know how she manages to hide the screaming but we have Zirconia and she is just amazing." Sirius didn't expect to explain who Zirconia was, after all it wouldn't take a senshi much to guess that it was a cat, or maybe they had heard of her or maybe they hadn't. Sirius saw the purple cat so often she didn't really think of her as anything but the cat so never thought that others wouldn't know her.

"Basically it's impossible to find them! Zirconia is dampening all the auras so that we can't be found. It was a well planned and executed attack that was for sure." Sirius let out a sigh. "Getting them was the easy part though. It makes me sick looking at some of them now, they have been beaten so much. Not the only one either and Ares is well... I dunno. I doubt they will live much longer not with the problems we are having. I guess it's like what you said about the boundary of humanity... it seems everyone has a different boundary and some will cross lines that others won't dream of." It was possible for her to go on even more, she could go into detail about the 'questioning' but it made her sick to think about it. She was one of those who thought Ares had gone too far. The plan had been amazing but she had heard the screaming when Ares and was it Nemesis had been in with Tanzanite.

"I will have to head back soon, it will be my turn to watch one of the captains. They are never left alone, I guess it's in case they come around enough to teleport or something. Not that I could do much if one did suddenly come round. I shall be armed with tranquilizers!" She laughed a little then, what a stupid image she had in her head of fighting Wolframite with some needles...

"I had no idea that could even be done!" 'MuCephei' replied sounding amazed... if disgusted. "Hey... good luck ok! Maybe I'll see you again some time soon!"

She offered a wide genuine smile, dark red eyes like the color of blood couldn't have been comfortable on the best days, let alone days when you had to return to torture chambers and screaming, but maybe there was just something extra unsettling this time. Hard to say... because with a 'friendly' wave... MuCephei was heading her own way.

Sirius nodded and then smiled as the senshi waved her goodbye, it was slightly unsettling with how cheery the other senshi was but that maybe was just her way? Who knew.

"Bye!" She called and ran off, she went an odd way back to the hide out mostly to make sure she wasn't being tailed. It had all been part of the training. If she had been tailed she would be in more trouble then she wanted to imagine, then again she had leaked how much to a negaverse without realising?

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