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Virgo held out her hands to Pisces, glad that the youma was already going down--from the mysterious dark-haired lady's attack and, of course, the Princess's--and doubly glad she was not going to end up injured. The split mass of the youma was... frightening, but she kept her green eyes riveted on Pisces and her blue ones. She would be all right.

She was a little shocked at Sue, though. How could he be so mean to poor Pisces? Poor Pisces was stuck in an alleyway opening. Virgo tugged again on the redhead's hands, leaning straight back.

Gosh, if Pisces came out, Virgo was going to end up bowled over.

"Sue!" Pisces looked up at Sue with a pout on her face, even as Virgo started to help with pulling her. "You know it didn't happen like that! I was just trying to help you when you were cornered by that youma."

Pisces wasn't normally one to call out others' troubles, but the way Sue had spoken about her hurt, and she was cranky because of getting stuck. So, she had to point out the whole story. It wasn't like they were just skipping along in the alleyways when they got stuck.

"Virgo!!" Pisces winced, then looked around when Chronos made her suggestion. The hobo was luckily nowhere to be found, he probably ran when he saw the youma.

"Okay, I'm going to de-power. One, two..." she breathed, waiting for Virgo to pull again. When she felt the pull on her arms, she let her fuku melt away into civilian clothes in a dusting of glitter, much less flamboyant than her transformation.

Of course, this caused Pierrette to go flying forward, along with poor Virgo. They both landed on the ground with an inelegant 'thud!'

Princess? She finally took the time to look them over. She'd never seen fuku like this even on Nessara and Castor, and they were super sailors, and certainly nothing quite like the princess.

She did a deep curtsy. "I hope you're all alright, It was rude of me to drop in unannounced. But I thought you could use a hand?"

Did the civilian know them all? He called her princess to.
"I'm Sailor MuCephi, I'm pleased to meet you."

Pierrette nodded at Virgo before hugging her back. She didn't feel the brunt of the pain from the whole endeavor thanks to Virgo, but her knees hurt from the fall.

"Why is Sue so grumpy?" she whispered in Virgo's ear with a huff. Then she looked up at MuCephi and her eyes widened. She had thought that it was safe to de-power with only sailors around, but... could this girl be trusted? She wasn't a Zodiac. Still, she was so polite!

"Wow, you're so polite!"

Well, she wasn't one for keeping compliments bundled up inside.

"And I love your fuku, it's so elegant! I'm Pi..sces... Sailor Pisces, the Senshi of Imagination."

Even in civilian form, Pierrette was still trying to go by Pisces? Sue appreciated the observance of the whole don't give away your true identity bit, but wasn't that pretty well blown already?... For that matter, what was he going to say now about himself? Damn it, see, this was just the sort of thing he'd been hoping to remember, somehow; Sue still didn't have the damnedest idea of what he was doing or how he ought to act!

Not that MuCephei needed to know that. Certainly not that the princess needed to think that her Guardian wasn't up to speed. "I'm Zue," he decided to introduce himself, but added no suffix explaining what a Zue was or why MuCephei should care. If she thought that was just a name for a civilian, well then, Sue wasn't bothered by that; it might as well be true, anyway....

While the group was getting all chatty and friendly, the rear half of the youma gave a shiver. The tongue, previous lolled out of the head's disgusting face, sucked back in. The claws - the angle at which the creature had been cut had divided them to three on either side - gleamed in a soft, unnatural light, as though energy were drawing through them, then went dull.

It had to be dead by now though, didn't it?... Right?

"It's always good to be working in a team though." Chronos said, although she was not exactly relieved by MuCephi's words. If she was working in a team, why was she patrolling alone? "It's dangerous to patrol alone though." She said, and this was directed towards Pisces as well. "It's always good to have backup. The Negaverse is not to be underestimated." A harsh lesson they had learnt, from the time they had died.

"Before you go," the Princess said, taking a step forward, "could you fill me in about what's happened in Destiny City? What's the situation of the battle between the senshi and the Negaverse? I'm afraid I only have gotten news from Astraea."

That was a good thing to note. Perhaps the senshi that were awakened weren't as stupid as Astraea had deemed them to be? Perhaps it was that Astraea were stricter with them, just like how Zue... at this thought, she glanced sideways at the boy. He may not have looked like a guardian cat, but it didn't change the fact that he was.

At the name Charonite, Chronos inexplicably shuddered, taking a step backwards. Her fists slowly clenched; even as she did not remember much, the very mention of him brought fear, for she knew he had killed them. "Charonite." She said slowly. "Is the head of the Negaverse. And now he has Queen Beryl." Perhaps the Zodiacs, or even the moon senshi would feel terror at this name as she had. It was a foreboding name, even more foreboding than that of General King Charonite. "He has around twenty agents now, more than we had in the past."

Her gaze had been oddly blank, but now she shook it away to smile at MuCephi. "We, the Zodiacs were awakened in Destiny City a year ago." With the exception of Pisces, although she chose not to mention that. "We've only just gotten back from... a terrible incident that stopped us all." She did not know how to properly word this, and looked slightly awkward. "Astraea has mentioned that she is arranging a senshi meeting. It's best to organize now that there are more senshi being awakened."

Sue would have liked to give more input to this matter. Really; truly, he would have. But really, he wasn't sure that he ought to just now. Now that he was being mindful of hiding identities, it occurred to him that his best possible action now could be to just keep his damn mouth shut and not call attention to himself.

But if, you know, they needed to organize the senshi of the city... Sue thought he might have a way. He would just have to talk to Chronos about it later, in better privac--

CRACK.

That was a very misplaced noise - it hadn't come from him, or any of the senshi, or even the homeless guy down the little alleyway. And in no time at all, Sue was on full alert; eyes scoping the area, feet edging him a little bit closer to the princess. Just, you know, in case she needed him.

CRACK, it sounded again. It was the second claw of the youma's front half, placing itself. CRACK signaled the third claw positioning itself on the ground - and, with a grunt that bubbled a bit of blood from between its lips, the creature began to rise.

"Oh god-danged mother ********-- NO WAY IN HELL is it DOING THAT," was Sue's very apt exclamation of horror. Deny it all he wanted, though, the broken thing wasn't bending to his will. The draw of three senshi starseeds nearby was stronger than Sue's earnest insistence on the physical limitations of a youma cut in half. Capturing and consuming such a starseed may, after all, be its last chance at survival....

Either that, or the thing was just too stupid to keel over like it was supposed to. That was a possibility as well.

On three claws, the bleeding of its body slowing, the creature began to advance. No where near as quick as it had been - and certainly no where near as menacing - but terrifying in its own right.