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The feeling of a soft nose on her ankle was enough to get Cybele to snap back into reality. Another cat? She smiled at him in a very, very forced way. His vote of confidence made her feel the tiniest bit better, but not enough to help, really. He was right about the fire, though. There weren't many places left that were free from the flames, the heat was getting unbearable, and it was only a matter of time before the building's structure began to fail. Then, she would fall. The cats would fall too, apparently, and it would be her fault.

Jump or fall. Those were her options. And... there were lives depending on it. Lives that were trusting her.

"...Okay," she murmured, a bit shortly. Her fake smile had faded into almost a grimace. Her focus was the fire, and on not looking down, not on politeness. She quickly scooped up the cats, one in each arm, squeezed her eyes shut, took a deep breath... and jumped, before she could think about it too much.

The fall was horrible, the landing awkward, at best, with her arms full of cat and everything. Still, they were safe. This was probabally the part where she was supposed to laugh and realize that it hadn't been so bad, or to relish the victory at least. Instead, she was breathing pretty heavily and had given up even on fake smiling. It had been awful and she was never, ever, ever getting up on a roof again. Ever. Well, hopefully...

"Thank you..." she managed to whisper to Liryn as she set him down. Cora, however, she simply wrapped her arms around again, this time to comfort herself as much as the cat. She couldn't just sit there recovering for very long, though. The Negaversers had gone away, but they hadn't gone. She could feel their auras slipping away, and she wasn't just going to let that happen. She started after them, slowly at first and then faster as her head cleared. Hunting the darkness was sort of her specialty, after all.

[Exit Cybele]

"You're very welcome" Liryn said cheerfully to the mint-haired senshi (Cybele). "I should probably be the one to thank you though since you got us all off that roof." And he was really grateful that she had since it had been getting much to hot for any kind of comfort up there, kitty or otherwise.

Getting off that roof was just the beginning though after all even the Negaverse had left this particular area, the city was still abnormally dark and Liryn was certain that the Negaverse was somehow behind it.

He didn't immediately scamper off though, instead first turning to gently nose the senshi's leg his voice serious as he said "Please take care of Cora."

Then he turned and trotted into the city, doing his best to put his best kitty foot forward. That Cora was in good hands with that senshi, was something he was sure off, and that the Negaverse was out there and up to no good was something he was doubly sure off.

Lycuem gave the jupiter knight an indignant look at his orders. She was certain the still breathing girl was alive, but she nodded no the less, no time to such silly issues. Sarras words brought her out momentary stupor and she loosened her grip on the girl a bit. She gave the girl a sad look trying to push away, the confusion, the anger, the hurt? She wasn't even sure right now what to feel. Nothing about this night made sense and if anything seemed very counterproductive, for Buddy at least.

She missed Sarras checking the girl pulse, but did hear his words and looked to see if the girl would respond. Please wake up, she thought silently to herself.

She looked up alarmed at Sarras next words then extremely confused, "Home, home to where home? You need to take her to a doctor ..." She stopped hearing Jade cough.

"I think she's awake," she said not really paying much attention to her being thanked for her stupid bravery. She was shaking, not wanting to hand Jade over, but if the girl was waking up, she felt more comfortable about it. "A hospital, take her to a hospital or at the very least a doctor. I need to ..." She looked to the other's feeling. She needed to know what all this was about. "Take care of her and be careful. I will try to find you later, if I can. I'm Lyceum."

She took a shaky step back, clearly she was off kilter, running off to do what she didn't even know. She turned to follow the others.

Maia's frowned at not being able to grab hold of the lieutenant, but her whole face colored and her frown deepened at the words spewed at her. Vulgarity wasn't something even in all this that she was overly use to.

"What did you call me," she said her expression only able to be described as completely displeased.

She charged the girl fist balled, it looked like she would swing, but at the last moment she dropped swinging out her foot to kick the lieutenant's feet out from underneath her hoping she would hit the roof top hard. A call to retreat, reached her ears, so she didn't at all stay down, hopping up fluidly to her feet and turning to go after the captain. She stopped though noticing that most of the negaverse that was their had fled and many of order member were heading off as well.

"This is ridiculous ... what are we about to get ourselves into ...", she mumbled.

A smile flashed on Auriga's lips as Kerberos questioned whether or not she had bitten him. "Remember my name -- the Powerful Senshi of Pestilence, Sailor Auri--" Her words were, literally, knocked out of her.

The effort to attack had been jarring enough -- but nowhere near as jarring as the abrupt bite of Kerberos's elbows into her gut. She was totally unprotected and went flying backward, crashing against the ground. Her head clicked backward, and her vision began swimming. The wind had been knocked out of her.

As she lay on the ground, she watched a tiny ant crawl across the concrete by her head. Wheezing, choking breaths hissed out of her, but she dug her nails into the ground and tugged forward. The more distance between herself and Kerberos, the better. Bodies flit past, and Auriga took the cover of others as a temporary shield. She struggled to her feet and took off in the direction she watched several other senshi go.

Strength in numbers? Strength in numbers.

Besides, she wasn't sure facing Kerberos head on would feel any better than getting knocked in the gut had.

Ganymede was pretty impressed by Buddingtonite's ability to withstand the attack. She could tell he was in pain—and she knew just how much, having felt it herself last year, the victim of her eclipse doppelganger—but he didn't even scream. She'd expected a show similar to last time. Instead, she was left disappointed. Or relieved? Truly she didn't like to hear the screaming, however much someone might deserve it.

But Buddingtonite was a stubborn one. Or perhaps it was foolishness. Or pride. Ganymede couldn't pretend to know him well enough to determine which was the more likely. In any case, he was soon gone, taking the second General (the one whose clone Ganymede had fought when he'd been but a Captain) with him.

The rest scattered, leaving them with nothing more than a burning building.

Two nights of fire in the span of a month. This time it'd been caused by one of their own. Ganymede rolled her eyes and sighed heavily but began to move. She looked around to make sure none of her teammates were stuck in the blaze, and when it seemed to her as if they'd managed to get out of there safely enough, she went to join Valhalla with his captured lieutenant (Tsavolite). “You bringing him with you?” she asked.

Not that she had any idea what Val expected to do with him. Except see him to safety and set him free later.

“Bonsoir, mon ami,” she greeted the lieutenant with a small, teasing grin. She was fairly sure she'd heard him muttering in French just moments before. “Don't worry, personne ne te fera de mal. But it seems you're all up to no good, non? Let's investigate. Fancy coming with us?

“Come on,” she said, and motioned for Valhalla to follow. “Take him if you want, or let him go if you'd rather. A lieutenant's not going to do us any harm. But, you're right. Let's get out of here before this place collapses beneath us.”

With that she jumped from the building to begin making her way toward the large collection of energy signatures she felt in the distance.

[Ganymede Exit!]

As much as Varuna would have liked to get involved with the whole fighting thing going on, she wasn’t stupid enough to jump into a battle without figuring out what side was doing what. Obviously the Negaverse was doing something stupid again, and she would have loved to knock a few of them off their feet with a couple well placed snow slip attacks, but they all seemed to be busy up on the rooftops, dancing around fire and whatnot.

She wasn’t a fan of fire, and even seeing the attack had her shy away from joining in the fight. It was too unruly and dangerous. Not that avalanches weren’t dangerous, but it was a little more controlled than fire. Or perhaps she was just really biased on the subject. In reality, neither was very good and she knew it.

Varuna glanced over to the Dark Mirror Senshi that had helped her once before. She couldn’t remember his name, nor did she remember ever giving him hers — which was all fine and well since she rarely trusted these people anyway, much less Dark Mirror Senshi who would turn around and corrupt her or kill her for all she knew.

On the other hand, she had never seen a Dark Mirror Senshi actually try to kill someone, unlike how she’d seen the Negaverse do so. This one, though. He was loud and crude and obviously not very informed on the situation. Not that she was informed on what was going on, but seeing as though he was Chaos, it was kind of expected.

Even still, the fire was getting too out of control, and while she didn’t like the idea of trying to help someone on the other side, she did kind of owe him for helping her when that Shade Queen attacked the city. Reaching out, the senshi of Avalanches, took hold of the Dark Mirror Senshi’s sleeve, giving it a hard tug, obviously trying to coax him away from the now burning building. The others were all leaving and there wasn’t going to be a lot of time until the building started to crumble. As tempting as it was to try and help put out the fire with her magic, she doubted it would be enough to do any good.

She knew she hadn’t answered his question, but how was she supposed to say other than that she didn’t know. And even saying that would be pointless. Instead she just shook her head, hoping that the look of desperation on her face would be enough to convince him to move away from the scene. Hopefully that would be enough to at least settle a little of her debt.

Probably not, but she could at least try. Regardless of how horrible it looked, and how much she would have liked it to just be a movie set… it was very real, as well as the danger.