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She took her eyes off of Castor for one measly second. One whole second to try and see what the "big bad beastie" of the day was, only to get stomach tackled away. It was a surprise to say the least. A quick surprise followed by the slamming sound of something rather solid colliding with the concrete.

She landed harshly on her a**, though thankfully it was on the slush rather than the concrete. Last place she needed scrapes were on her a** cheeks. Pain while sitting would be quite a b*tch to deal with in school.

Rather than stay on the ground too long, she insistently stood herself up. Castor might have expected rage for the Senshi of Rainbows. He probably expected her to swing a punch in his direction. However, as she watched the gargoyle slowly pulls its fist away from the ground and focus on them once more, she uttered two words. "Thanks bro." He couldn't see her face, but she had a very neutral expression as she gazed away.

She cracked her knuckles and rolled her shoulders as she watched the Youma approach them. It certainly was a slow, clunky thing. And pretty sturdy too, based off the fact it could take an attack from Castor and not keel over from pain. Sailor Iris hadn't keeled over in pain, but that was far from the point at the moment. This time, it wasn't going to catch her off guard.

"I think yer gonna be seein' some new colors," she said as a grin creeped onto her face. She tightened her right hand fist. It began to glow, faintly at first, but growing exponentially brighter until it was as bright as she could make it.

If anything, that seemed to only help the Youma further, since now it could see this particular senshi very well. It swung its fist heavily at the girl once more, yet as Sailor Iris had noted, it was a powerful, but very slow swing. The girl had easily dodged it. This was about the time the large gargoyle-like creature noticed Castor. With another large, clumsy swing, it attempted to pay the male senshi back for the attack from earlier.

"Already on it, a*****e!" The girl didn't sound angry in the slightest, despite the way she addressed Castor. She whipped her arm to her side, and a rainbow that was composed of much more intense colors than earlier hit against the ground. Part of the rainbow trailed into the grass, and upon touch, began to shrivel up, drying under the intense heat.

"You aim fer it's head after I attack" she announced before using her full arm to fling the rainbow at the beast. She cried out "Iris Rainbow SLICER!!"

The Youma didn't have a chance anymore. It almost seemed completely confused, looking back between one senshi and the other. In its confusion, it began to flail its limbs around.

"Oh, no you don't!" she bellowed as she rather skillfully managed to somehow guide the rainbow around the Youma's neck. The rainbow itself only rounded the back of the neck one time and returned to her hand, making the arch of the rainbow press against the Youma's neck.

This wasn't like those jelly youma, or even the meaty fleshies. No, this Youma was made of solid stone. As best as she could, she began to tug onto one side of the rainbow with her right, then tugged on the left one, in an attempt to start up a sawing motion.

Seeming content with her accomplishment, she shouted out "Go for it, dumb a**!" Sailor Iris didn't sound upset still, but now rather forceful in her instructions.

His nicknames for her was very nerve grating. However, the one thing that was saving him from the Iris a** whooping was the fact she had something else she was tending to. Her body remained tense as she stood there strongly, and her arms continued to saw away at the Youma's neck fiercely.

Of course, the Youma continued to try to resist all that had been happening, but the moment its neck cracked, it almost seemed to go into a daze.

At Castor's signal, her lips curled into a rather mischievous smile. "F*ck yeah!!!!" she shouted as she literally swung herself at the gargoyle. She might not have been the most agile, but compared to this beast, she was an acrobat. Taking advantage of such, she swung under its large legs, using her full momentum to do as she had been told. She landed less than gracefully on her rump, but the blonde had managed to do as she had been told. After her own less-than-perfect landing, the beast's head fell heavily to the ground, the body shortly doing the same.

Her golden eyes looked back, with almost a fire in her eyes as she looked at the carnage. She had a big grin on her lips.

"That was f*ckin' AWESOME!!!"

As the tomboy gathered herself up and off the ground, she let her fist open up, turning the bright rainbow off instantly like it was a flashlight. She dusted herself off as she still seemed to chuckle over the awesome feeling of having defeated such a sturdy Youma. It was about that time she felt the tap to her shoulder.

She glanced around, finding Castor right there behind her with a face that looked as if he just found out somebody in his family died. In all honesty, his words did not really seem to have much of an impact on the blonde. She stood there, looking unimpressed by the words he was saying, and eventually she rolled her shoulders lazily for a shrug.

"Eh... we all gotta die at some point, right? And, I don't mean that in the 'sob-sob-I'm-emo' way. Jus' do what ya can and do it the best ya can."

She paused to laugh as she remembered something. It was something that seemed worth sharing apparently. "I almost died when I was just your average senshi. Slayed 3 Youma, but there were still 2 left, and I was basically done for. Stupid cat saved me an' made me this. Makes ya wonder why th'heck those cats do what they do."

Her golden eyes glanced up into the sky for a moment as she heaved in a deep sigh.

"Well f*ck! That was a good break from studyin'!" She glanced over to Castor, and simply clapped her hand on his shoulder.

"If you valued your testicles, you wouldn't do any of that. There's a reason my attack's called a 'slicer' if ya get my drift." She grinned as if everything in the world was alright. Yet, it was quite odd that she didn't make any mention of actually working together.

Hand to shoulder contact, she could handle.

She wasn't exactly gunning for any sort of partnership, so she had not really been treating his offer all that seriously to begin with. Yet when he turned it into a retarded attempt to hit on her again, she just simply rolled her eyes as he ran away like a coward.

Fortunate for Sailor Castor, the Senshi of Rainbows wasn't in the mood to chase after him. She had used up a pretty decent amount of energy, and if she wanted to make it home safely, she'd need to hoard it to herself.

Castor's nuts were safe for another day.

[FIN]