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There was a distinctly feline yowl, then, and a bright flash of light from the star in the center of Sacha's forehead as he summoned the one substantial weapon he had against youma. Not enough to dust it, unfortunately, but enough to stun it, to give the girl the ability to get her arm away from it. As the tendrils groped around, Sacha took a blind leap and sank his claws and teeth as deep as he could. He had the thought that he had not compared himself to the size of its mouth, but there was the hope that his own large size would benefit him, here. The taste, however, was repugnant, enough for him to gag. Worse, the tendril he had grabbed onto was flailing enough that he was losing his grip.

Rather than be flung off, Sacha chose to dismount on his own terms. At the same time as he threw himself into a backwards somersault, he reached for what he knew was waiting. He'd known it was waiting as soon as he'd sensed the girl's starseed nearly vibrating with untapped potential. She was a senshi, ready to awaken, and surely the youma had sensed that, too, drawn by the promise of an easy meal of a senshi unable to defend herself. Unable to prevent being eaten or her starseed coveted by a monstrous creature born of chaos.

Well, not if Sacha was able to do anything about it.

As his feet hit the pavement, so too did a pen clatter to the ground. "Grab that!" was his immediate command, skipping everything about explaining a talking, fighting cat with a laser beam. Taalia had told him that normal cats did not generally talk, fight, or have laser beams, which checked out with everything Sacha knew. Normal cats also did not typically sense a senshi nearby ready to awaken and insist on being let out onto the fire escape ladder, much to their own senshi's confusion and bemusement. True, he had almost gotten hit by a car in his hurry to rush to this girl, but that was neither here nor there.

All that mattered was that she picked up the pen that he'd summoned for her, and that she said the literal magic words that would unlock that potential he could feel fluttering like a caged bird.

"Hurry!"

If their luck held, this was a rogue youma. Some of them came with agents attached, according to what Sacha had read in the databases. He did not think his forehead beam was enough to do anything against an agent, and Taalia had not come with him. That was his fault; he had only said he needed to go to a senshi, not that the senshi was in danger. Though, to his credit, he had not known the senshi was in danger either until he had gotten closer and seen that his fear of her waking starseed catching attention had come to fruition. Taalia had told him this was how she had awoken - chased by a youma, rescued by "a random-a** cat and his grumpy b***h of a friend".

His own "grumpy b***h of a friend" had stayed home, working on her music to the best of his understanding, so hopefully he'd be enough to keep this one from getting killed--