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From a Negaverser intent on killing him to a civilian who didn't look any more pleased to see them. ********. Ganymede blinked at the young man standing his ground against Gianfar, wondering what the story was there but thinking he didn't really have the time to hear it.

"Put your fists down," he demanded, frowning at... Ever, was his name? Well, one of them was apparently Ever and the other was Tony, according to Gianfar's earlier hail. "We don't exactly have the time to be standing around with all this going on," he said, making a grand sweep with his arm to include everything around them. "We... er... Gianfar came over intending to help you, so do you want our help or not?" He hadn't really intended to help anyone himself, but he couldn't just leave civilians lying around this place. He had no where else to go and had lost track of everyone he'd started out with, so he supposed he'd stick around for a while and see what he could do. Who knew if he'd need Gianfar's help again?

Cora had struggled and focused all her energy of trying to have even some kind grip on the rocky surface that was slowly but surely betraying her. She didn't want to die. Not yet and not like this. Hypnos would be sad if she would die. She would cry and that was the last thing the guardian cat wanted.

But then she heard a crack and felt the rock splittering into pieces. She fell. This was the end!

She had expected to feel burning lava around her but instead there were warm, soft fingers of human kind. Surprised, Cora opened her eyes and found Sailor Leto who was holding her tightly but gently. She got pulled back to safety from the dangerous fissure.

"Ohthankyouthankyouthankyou," the cat mewed happily, pushing her cheek against Leto and letting out happy purr. She felt so relieved to be alive! It was wonderful feeling. It was like being high from catnip!

Then her expression turned more serious. "Excuse me," she said and hopped upwards, on top of a rock that was still and taller than usual. She wanted to be seen.

"Good job, Leopard's Eye! Good job!" she called up in the ear, her tone more or less sarcastic. "If you really wanted to break my will of being there, you have succeeded! If you really wanted to steal the dearest girl from me, you have succeeded! But let me tell you that if I see her hurt at morning, any morning I will come back and tear every single bit of fur out of you!! You better protect her well!"

She took a deep breath until she continued. "Just to let you know, I DID protect Quail's Eye in his field! It wasn't enough but I tried! And now, YOU tried to kill me! Nice way to thank me for trying to save his life!"

She turned her gaze away from the volcano. If someone was close enough, they could see tears coming from guardian cat's pink eyes. "I'm sick of this."

Dream mirror appeared behind her and with back-flip, she dove into it's depths, away from Leopard's Eye's territory.

Gianfar frowned, looking honestly hurt by how clearly Ever disliked him. Oh, Ever. If only you knew. All he'd been trying to do was help his friend! Ugh. He looked to Ganymede for a moment as he demanded Ever drop his fists, sighing and tugging unhappily at a piece of his own hair. "Ah, Ganymede...that won't hel--see?" He sighed and pressed the gloved heel of his hand against his forehead. Think, think, think. What was the best way to get Ever and Tony out of here? Or at least this general vicinity? Ugh.

He didn't get much time to think up much of anything as a geyser suddenly blew up behind Ever and his hand flew away from his face, eyes widening as he reached out to grab Ever and try to pull him close so he could spin around and block the rocks and lava from pelting his friend. He hoped Ganymede would do the same for Tony; Ever was closer, so he had been the easier of the two to grab. Sure, Ever hated Gianfar but Gianfar would get over it.

He was more than ungrateful: instead, Ever was furious. Gianfar grabbed him and drew him back against his chest and this was a familiar situation. One treated in the same way as last time: a wriggle, a frustrated sound, and an elbow coming up roughly toward Gianfar's face.

Last time, it had collided, leaving behind the bruise that still touched Ever's left eye. This time, however, he might be smart enough to jerk out of the way. Ever was distracted, too, glowering at Ganymede. "Leave him be!"

He hoped Ever would realize Gianfar was on his side. He hoped Ever would settle down and stop fighting him. He hoped that protecting him from bits of lava would get Ever to forgive him even a little.

Goes to show how well hoping works out sometimes.

Gianfar ducked down as Ever lifted the elbow to attack him, sighing in exasperation and reaching up to try and grab hold of both his wrists. "Would you quit that, Ever? I'm trying not to get you killed." He jumped a bit at Ganymede's snap toward him, frowning and giving where they were a good look. What were they supposed to do? They couldn't just leave these guys here. Leopard's Eye and the negaverse were attacking the civilians that were unlucky enough to be here. Why were even they here? First things first, they needed to find a somewhat safer place for the men they had right now. He couldn't fault Ganymede for being somewhat annoyed about this. This was all beginning to get incredibly annoying.

"He's right, you know. I'm not here to hurt you. This place isn't safe, we need to get you and Tony over there out of harm's way." Or as out of it as they could be, anyway. Was there any safe place on an active volcano? Probably not!

The ground was shaking, and more lava was spilling onto the field. Castille looked at the talking cat, bewildered at it's speaking ability. But as it bounced away, she realized that in this strange dream, a speaking feline was the most real thing she had seen all night. But as the monsters were replaced with falling rocks, she realized that this was probably not the best space to be in. When the girl did not rise, she shook her head, choosing to run to another part of the dream world

Castille is taking off to Zone 3

Shaking? Lava? Monsters? You would have thought that by now all the signals coming from the land of Elysion itself, never mind its guardian, would have sent both Senshi and Negaverse agent alike running for the softly sloping hills of Helios' Sanctuary. Certainly a pissed-off young priestess couldn't be any worse than what the land itself was doing!

The whole world took one sickening, awful lurch as the volcano finally erupted. Hypnos was thankfully with the most secure person and simply was thrown against him as others were not so very lucky. A hole opened beneath the left leg of Gianfar, threatening to crumble and send him careening into the lava that was now pouring into the earlier created fissure.

Smoke and ash belched into the sky and all but obscured the stars as Tony and Ever were suddenly forced to cling to each other as the ground separated beneath their feet as well. The whole world rolled, shook, and only Sailor Leto seemed to have any sort of footing whatsoever.

Lucky girl.

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The rules have changed.

I will randomly be rolling numbers without warning. You will then have half an hour to roll against it or you will be under the sway of the zone's effect. If you miss the roll you are automatically affected.

Have fun with my volcano!