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Huh. Sailor Nyx made no effort to hide the boggled look that flooded her face. She had seen one other youma that did not look like an animal or humanoid, but it decidedly did not look like that either. The Negaverse really was full of things.

How should they take it on? Nyx immediately began looking for a physical weakness. She trusted her powers in a pinch, when nothing else could possibly work. Space monsters for one example, or when she sparred with Eternal Maia. The madness senshi's words of encouragement on her sphere were too fresh to make it the first line of offense quite yet. Not when there were other tried and (mostly) true methods. She tightened her hands into fists.

"We hit it from behind. Hard." Time to show what she could do. Dodging the dangerous "puffs" coming out of the front end, Nyx came at her prey for the first strike.

Nyx's fists came down hard on the youma's lid for a momentary stun. A moment of bubbling pride for the senshi. Unfortunately, the box of a youma, in its simplicity, was at least a bit, if inadvertently, clever. A rattling of the lid was the only warning before it nearly exploded open, a fountain of caltrops flying everywhere. Nyx threw her guard upward against them, feeling the pricks on any patch of skin not protected by her fuku.

This was going spectacularly. If there was even a spare second, Nyx would have facepalmed at herself. As it was, she couldn't even worry about what scratches might be left behind on her arms afterwards, because this goofy looking thing was still on the rampage. From a barely open eye, she caught sight of the crimson and cyan eternal deliver a sweeping kick to its comparatively spindly legs. The attack sent it tumbling around the two senshi, ever more erratically as it tried to open its top in protest. A few moments later, it tired with nothing to show for all of its flailing -- belly up and legs nearly useless. Unfortunately, it only had a few scrapes and bumps, too.

But then it happened.

The small explosives started coming out of the other end! Weakly, but, nonetheless, continuing to pop out.

Sailor Nyx was pissed, to say the least. It just had to be this youma tonight. Where she would normally give her magical attack a quiet entrance, she found herself yelling it this time. "Timorous Shadow!" The shadowy creature joined with them, settling anxiousness and fear in the belly of the youma. Theoretically. What Nyx did see was that the youma had clammed up -- and little bulges were forming on the outside. Only occasionally would one escape in the direction of the magic-induced beast.

Nyx could only look to Kallichore with a quizzical shrug.

Nyx didn't feel so bad when her shrug was returned; if one of the most perplexing youma just had to pop up the night she ran into this eternal senshi, at least it was one for the record books all around. She felt a flutter of pride at the nod of approval for her power. However, there was the matter that the youma still wasn't quite... done. It bubbled and wobbled, yet remained quite solid from the looks of it.

When Kallichore called up her attack, Nyx watched for a visual effect of some sort -- partly out of curiosity and partly to defend herself if necessary. After all, this senshi's sphere was madness and she was not going to underestimate what that could entail, allies included. Nyx's first answer came in the form of radiating heat waves, distorting and blurring the air around them. Then, the popping of captive caltrops increased to a frantic pace. Whipping around to face the youma again, she was quickly assured that nothing would come of her fears, though she could not say the same for the youma. Whatever was going on inside it's chaos-fueled mind, it was not pleasant. VERY NOT PLEASANT. Spines were popping out of its sides, searching for an escape route that wasn't currently plugged up tight. It wasn't long until all that remained was a smokey puff of chaos-dust. There was a youma here. It's gone now.

"Yeah!" Nyx cheered as the dust quickly settled into nothingness. "Kallichore, that. Was. Awesome." Pain, melancholy, and even some of the weight of the war was lifted, if just for this moment; a moment of teamwork that didn't end with one of them mangled, no less. And maybe even Nyx's own power could grow to be that useful one day.