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Someone kicked her. Mica wasn’t sure who – there were people fighting everywhere, though no one that looked like a potential interloper – but someone had kicked her. It hurt too. Mica stumbled slightly, clutching her side, eyes darting around as she tried in vain to identify her attacker. Was there a Senshi of Invisibility? Mica wouldn’t be surprised.

“ No, they just sacrifice distant cousins.” She shot back. Mica wasn’t actually sure if Endymion and Chronos were related, but she figured it was a safe bet.

Raising an arm to ward off possible invisible Senshi, Mica whipped her cane at her opponent.

Somewhere, in the midst of battle, Serandite had tackled Cora to the ground, engaging in a physical fight of limbs and kciking. Her bunny had returned to the subspace, unable to stand on the crowded battlefield without one senshi stabbing it or another.

In her fight, she caught sight of Chibimoon and Tanzanite. She paused, eyes widening-- Serandite had far too much friendly interactions with senshi to count.Sure, it might have only been one or two, but already that was far too much for any member of the negaverse, Chibimoon being one of them. D-Did .. If Tanz killed her, it'd be one less problem on their side. She told herself that over and over. One less problem.

The guardian cat was another matter.

“Will you cry for him?” Tanzanite hissed to the pink-haired girl, pulling her so close that her lips brushed the child's ear. In her hand's, Tanzanite held a Serenity, and yet her mind was not on killing the girl. She was close enough to tear out that sparkling starseed and end the young Serenity's life, but her thoughts were elsewhere. After all, it was not the princess who had betrayed them all, and she was no good to them dead.

“Will you cry when you realize that daddy is a coward? Let me tell you, little princess.” Tanzanite's grin was cruel, “The numbers I've killed? The lives this supposed monster has taken? They pale in comparison to his death total.” She straightened, looking out at the combatants with narrowed eyes. Her wet hair stuck to her forehead, purple streaks that ran down her pal skin alongside the black blood that dripped from the corner of her mouth.

“Look at them, princess,” Tanzanite gazed out at the battlefield, where teenagers fought for their lives, “What difference do you see between our people? What makes my men any more evil than yours? That they fight with conviction? That they would never betray their allies? They do not stand behind protector's and watch as their soldiers die, as you would. Look at those bodies and remember their faces, Chibimoon, and know that this is your legacy.”

Tanzanite's grasp tightened briefly, and she pulled the girl in close.

“The only Earth you will ever rule will be a kingdom of corpses."

Birhan had no time to celebrate that her strike against Tanzanite had been a success. She had heard Ares calling out to back her up, and had swelled with pride that there was teamwork and loyalty somewhere in this battle, at least.

Of course, then the tiny blue General had to prove that his side had it in spades, releasing a cloud of burning gas. Birhan backed up after she inhaled a lungful, wheezing and coughing. By the time her tears caused by the gas cleared out her blurry vision, Tanzanite had moved away. To the tiny, pink princess.

With her vision having been out, Birhan had missed some very important developments. Luckily for her, Ares and Tanzanite were both shocked enough to keep up a running commentary. There was nothing wrong with Birhan's ears, after all. For all that she couldn't believe what she'd been hearing. Endymion had tried to sacrifice one of their Princesses? To Tanzanite? To save his own worthless hide? Birhan saw red. He was everything that Ares and Tanzanite were calling him - and who would have ever thought that Birhan would agree with an enemy General on something?

The only thing that stopped her from switching to Endymion as her target was the knowledge that Ares would be disappointed in Birhan. Not because she cared about the prince, but because it set a bad example. Infighting was something to be done when the enemy couldn't see you.

So she forbore punching Endymion - as much as she dearly wanted to - and instead focused her attention back on Tanzanite. The General was preoccupied with taunting the father-and-daughter combo, and using Chibimoon as a shield. Birhan darted around behind the General, hoping that the distance Tanz had between them, combined with her attention on the royals, would mean Birhan could get in a nice strike to Tanzanite's back.


(( Tanz or any other Nega can interfere / prevent the hit. ))

-A new string of cries escaped Juno at Sassolite's assault. One accompanied the yanking of her hair and the few green strands that remained tangled about the archer's hand when she'd stopped. Another came as a blow to the stomach gave her more than a little scare. Perhaps she was thinking more clearly, with the blood flowing and adreneline pumping... but her new arrow/shish kabob accessory was highly dangerous. She was expecting the girl to try and grab it and twist.. or to just try and drive it through.

Her body bucked back, shoving Sassolite as hard as she possibly could with her arms as she propelled herself backwards.

It was only be accident that she saw Chibimoon, trapped in the grasps of Tanzanite. What had she done?

Wrong choice.. wrong choice. She should have just taken the arrows.

She was too weak to make the distance to her princesses side with any real grace or possibility to help. But it didn't stop her. Fingers lacing protectively over the sharpened tip protruding from her stomach, she stumbled as quickly as she could through the crowd, calling out.- "SMALL LADY!!!"

-Even if this was goodbye.. let it be her that fell today. Not her candy haired princess.-

...Did he just...

Had he just used Chronos as a shield ?

Okay, that was bullshit. And it made Themis pretty angry. This man was supposed to be important ?

Well, not to him,

Chronos seemed to be assisted by her own court quickly enough, and even Chibimoon had aid coming her way.

Well, he'd help that. He knew he couldn't take a General on his own, but maybe...

"Themis Noise Storm !"

Maybe this, along with Chibimoon's hit, would be enough for the general to drop her.

((Pretty much what the attack does is create a aoe circle with Themis as center than amplify noise within it. It has a slight nagging effect on senshi but confusion + pain on corrupted being.))

Chibimoon's tiny elbow was enough to knock the wind out of Tanzanite's, but only just barely. Even though she was a senshi, Chibimoon did not possess the strength to do much more than aggravate the already enraged General, and her claws closed ever tighter around the girl's throat. Birhan's kick met it's mark, but it served only to push Tanzanite forward into the small princess. Her neck craned to look at the agitating senshi, as her hand slipped into the young princess' chest.

Her starseed blazed like a star, but Tanzanite resisted the desire to tear it from the girl's chest. She wrapped her finger's tightly around it, holding the Princess hostage. It might have lead to something, had Themis attack not caused the General to stumble back, hands clasped to her ears. She dropped the young princess and stumbled back until the ringing stopped, until she was staring wide-eyed at the attacking senshi.

"You would defend them?!" She roared in anger, flinging an accusing hand at the Prince, "He just offered your Princess up on a silver platter, and still you would take my life over his? Still you would think him righteous and just? I see now how blinded you really are."

Tanzanite looked like a cornered animal as she eyed those closest to her, certain they would swoop in to finish her off at any moment.

“Nothing remains in this place for us,” her voice seemed pained as she focused her gaze once again on Endymion, slowly switching off to observe the rest of the Negaverse's soldiers, “We've been fighting for the sanctuary of an Earth that was built by traitors, and this temple...” She looked around, and there was a sadness in Tanzanite's features that had not been there before, “It belongs to the damned.”

“You can have this forsaken place,” the General seemed suddenly drained of her outrage, a cold understanding washing over her. There had never been a sanctuary. There had never been some sacred place where the true Earth remained. There was only the world they knew.

There were only the filthy streets and broken homes of Destiny City.

Whatever remained of Tanzanite's heart had been utterly crushed as the realization took hold. As she looked at the faces of senshi and Negaverse alike, Tanzanite realized that their sacrifices had all been for nothing.

Elysion really had been a dream all along.

“Take your Temple of Lies and your Prince of Traitors, senshi. Our fight is on Earth,” her gaze once again focused upon Endymion, “Or what is left of it.”

And with that, Tanzanite willed herself awake, vanishing from Elysion for the very last time.