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Animals the lot of them and each side convinced they were right. He -knew- he was right though. The Negaverse kept saying that they wanted to drive out invaders but who was the real invader? He'd been born here damn it!

He'd been on his way to doing something else stupid when he heard his name."Corvus.... I can't...." he recognized his cousins voice more than he recognized the figure through his blurred vision. His ribcage blazed in pain and his lungs still felt like they were full of pepper spray. "Cant breath"

The general had done a number on him and he was Damn lucky his cousin had seen him.

"I-i dont know." She confessed to the other senshi, talking into the girls shoulder as she held on to Flora. She hugged the girl back, clinging probably being a better term for it. She balled her fists in the back of the girls fuku, trying her best not to cry. "I know it has to be done... i save people by doing this.."

"But."

She paused, trying to catch her breath... not panicking not panicking not panicking oh hell she was so close to the edge... "I know they would not feel the same for me, would kill and think nothing of it. But.. Flora.. what if i killed a classmate. What if it was my neighbor, what about their families? I jsut severed a huge tie to someone of this world!" Did she really have a right to do such a thing, did ANY of them?

Breathing... just breathing. Taking one final deep breath Lyra grabbed Floras shoulders and pushed her away. Looking into her friends eyes, a single tear rolled out of Lyras. "We dont have time for this though." She really appreciated the comfort, it was why she never would truly leave her team even if she was loyal to the BMC. She loved them too much.

"The others need our help, and it would be selfish of me to not do my duty or prevent you from yours." She was so eating those words, locking away deep inside how she REALLY felt. If she wanted to? She would have cried her eyes out... not now. She would curl up in her room later, clinging to her rabbit plush... and cry then.

Sirius had nothing to do with Chronos but she was a senshi as well as a princess and this dude who the nega general was trying to kill was now trying to kill her? That wasn't right.

She ran to Ares if nothing more then to inform her of what was going on. She fought a few negas on the way but she didn't hang about. She wanted Ares to know what was going on because she knew that Ares knew lots and this might be something she wanted to know now rather then later.

As she reached her leader she pulled on her shoulder and moved back quickly in case she would react thinking that Sirius was an enemy.

"Ares... the guy who appeared is trying to get Chronos killed. I thought you should know." She wasn't sure if it was important but it seemed like he wanted to get that princess killed and even if they didn't follow her, that was wrong right?

Tanzanite was trying to pull herself to her feet when Birhan's foot came into contact with her ribcage. It was enough to knock the wind out of the General and send her sliding a couple of feet back, leaving that same bloody trail behind her. She didn't have time to gather her wits before Arsinoe lunged, attempting to shove the disoriented General's head beneath the bloody water. A black blue interrupted him, but Tanzanite did not seem to notice. A scream tore from her throat as the arrow was plunged through the half of the arm still clamped around Endymion's throat, as though Tanzanite could still feel the pain from the dismembered limb.

Chronos' fingers were enough to pry the wounded thing loose, and it fell into the water with a series of horrifying screeches.

Zinkenite's shadow fell over the General as she struggled to push herself up from the water. The blood still flowed freely from the wounded stump, and it showed in the way Tanzanite swayed as she slowly stood.

“How...pathetic,” she rasped as she took the cloth from Zinkenite's hand and held it over her mouth. The blackened hand was pulling itself up on it's claws, running along like Thing from The Addams' Family. Tanzanite's grey eyes narrowed as she took one swaying, lurching step away from Zineknite, then another and another, until she emerged from the smoke. The black hand crawled through the water, screeching angrily as it ran blindly about. It ran blindly into Corvus' ankle, screeching as it bounced off and ran back toward's it's owner.

“This girl,” Tanzanite's eyes focused on Chronos', loathing evident in the way her brows drew down. This was the Zodiac Princess. The target Linarite had been assigned to kill, which Tanzanite took on their Captain. This was one of their last remaining beacons of power, the holder of one of the few known Great Crystals. Tanzanite had thought of killing her many times, and yet the Negaverse General only looked down at her with an appraising gaze. “She fought for you. She would put herself in my way... for you.”

The black hand was at her ankle now, drumming it's claws against her boots. She bent to retrieve it, and held the squirming thing to the stump of her arm. Long, thick tendrils reached out from the open wounds, intertwining and pulling together. All the while, her gaze never left the Zodiac Princess, even as she snapped the shaft of the arrow still sticking out of her forearms. Her fingers flexed once, curling and uncurling into a fist that soon fell limply to her side.

“You call us animals, but at least we would defend our own. At least we do not betray those who fight beside us. And the first time I see true loyalty,” Tanzanite bent her frame just slightly to Chronos – could it have been a bow? “It comes for a man not worth saving. Is there nothing you won't betray, Prince of Earth?”

Then, she was gone, and a high-pitched scream rang through the hall. Though she swayed with the effort of an injured teleportation, Tanzanite stood behind Chibimoon, black claws wrapped around the child's throat. She did not squeeze, but simply held her there. All it would take was a thought, one brief moment, to bring those teeth down on her slender neck.

“What about her, Prince of Earth? If we are such animals... would you feed her to the dogs?”

Human fingers combed through that long, pink hair, one sharp nail leaving a bright red scratch across the girl's cheek. ”Sssssshhhhhh,” she whispered, “Don't cry, Princess, daddy will save you.”

"Stupid ******** lamp." She muttered beneath her breath, trying her best to continuously support her cousin and fellow senshi while looking for his blasted lamp, Her fingers had almost found the hitch; had almost gotten it loose from where he kept it when something, some thing ran into her ankle.

Corvus shrieked as it screeched, nearly dropping Arsinoe as she tried to stomp on the disembodied hand only to miss several times over as it skittered away. If she had been paying more attention she might have tried a different sort of counter attack, but as it was it was clear that she'd had other things in mind.

"Damn it." She cursed again, something she could clearly pull off like a sailor (an actual one, not just a scout) when struck by the right mood, it seemed. Fingers snatched Arsinoe's lamp, pulling it up to hold out for him. "Make this attack count, Arsinoe... And then I'll find her. I'll find her and the others.. But you're going to get out of here. Just make this attack count."

The frilly boy hadn’t responded to the taunt, which was somewhat disappointing. Instead, the boy Senshi seemed the most concerned about his hat of all things. Good to know what this Senshi’s priorities were; didn’t mean that Mica was going to drop the Prince subject though.

Speaking of, Tanzanite had gotten a hold of the Moon brat. Good for her.

“ Think your Prince at least has the balls to save her?” Taunted Mica with exaggerated sweetness, nodding her head in Chibimoon and Tanznite’s direction before aiming a kick at Gianfar.

It wasn't that his priorities were out of whack; Gianfar truly was forcing himself to worry about the hat so he wouldn't go crazy trying to figure out what the prince was thinking offering the zodiac princess as a sacrifice to the general. At the shrieking scream Gianfar winced and covered his ears, completely forgetting that he was being attacked. "I don't think any man, no matter how foolish, would just let his flesh and blood be taken." Gianfar muttered to her, turning around in time to be hit with a side-sweeping kick to his side. He was smart though, he didn't retaliate. For now he merely grunted and stumbled through the water, trying damn hard not to fall to the ground. Damn, she had quite the kick!