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Gwendolyn was only fifteen years old, and the thought of death never once crossed her mind. No, she knew that no one was immortal and that meant that someday she'd be joining the heavenly choir, but she was hoping that she'd join them about eighty, maybe a hundred years from now! She never imagined her life would be cut short by a strange, fuzzy, bouncing monster that sparkled more than a damn S. Meyer vampire, but she wasn't going to go down without a fight.

The Youma struck out and Gwen challenged it with a swing from her booksack, hitting it dead on and forcing it back a few feet. There was still no chance to run past it, and her shouts were loud and crystal clear, giving away her position to anyone who was nearby, as the monster merely bounced and charged at her again. "Help! Help! Police, fire department, anyone!"

Gwendolyn reared back for another swing, hoping that someone, anyone, would hear her cries and help, her ego and pride be damned!

His aim was dead on, smacking the creature in the back of its head (?) and knocking it right off course, bouncing past Gwen, hitting the wall and recovering only after it wobbled on the floor for a moment. It turned its flaming red eyes to the one that dared attack him, and its flurry tendrils crackled and sparkled with rage. A senshi!

Gwen hated to admit that she closed her eyes, not seeing how her swing missed and Sailor Athene until he had shouted, and she looked at him with surprise. She was hardly the type to keep her thoughts to herself, and now, given all that had just happened, it was impossible to put that filter in now. "What... who are you? Are you here to help me?"

The youma began to bounce again, charging at Sailor Athene and extending its sparking tendrils. It wasn't on fire yet and sought only to latch on to its victim before setting itself on fire. This senshi would have plenty of energy to cipher if it could connect!

"Are you alright?"

And there was another one! Gwen took her eyes off of Sailor Athene and the Youma to get a good look at the one that had seemed to appear out of nowhere, and she couldn't help but be drawn to the butterfly patterns and the brilliant white of her attire. She didn't mean to snap, and her frustration was in no way, shape or form, directed towards the senshi, but she was so wiled up that she couldn't hold back her thoughts.

"Who are you? Or what are you...?" She looked at Minkowski and back to Athene, then back to Minkowski. "Are you Power Rangers?"

The spitfire Youma hissed and crackled, an emotion that could only be described as an angered one present, and it continued to spark, setting itself on fire once again. It was so enraged that there were two Senshi present now that it did not care if it was exhausting its resources and this was obvious of one looked at the very tips of his furry tendrils, as the flames there were a deep red in color as opposed to their once brilliant yellow.

It bounced with rage, sparks shooting off in every which direction, and it had not chosen its target yet. The black-and-white haired girl and the petite Senshi seemed to be the easier choice, but the dark-haired Senshi was the one that fueled its rage right now.

Gwen gave a shout, looking for something else she could use as a shield and grabbing a trash can lid, holding it up and trying to block out the sparks flying about. "Any ideas on how to take care of that thing before it sets fire to the entire alleyway? I'm no scientist!"

At that moment, she regretted falling asleep during her science class, and she saw no water in the general area to douse its flames. How would one take out a fire without water?!

Athene had managed to dodge out of the youma’s path as the thing charged at him, eying the thing warily as its sparks shot off in every which direction. “I can’t do anything about the sparks, but I think I can stop that thing from bouncing around” he said at last, before adding. “Well at least for a little bit that is.”

Clenching his right fist, the dark-haired senshi tried to concentrate, raising his left hand as he called out the words of his upgraded attack “Blue beads of Nazar – intenstated!” Hoping as he did so that the youma wouldn’t get it into its head to charge at him – at least not yet. Time seemed to pass slowly before a glowing ball made up of what on closer look would appear to be a set of insubstantial-looking beads formed and floated above his upraised hand – too slowly for the senshi staring anxiously at the youma from behind black framed glasses – but eventually from the ball did.

Pointing at the bouncing youma, with a called out “There!” Athene watched as his attack moved towards the monster.

[ooc note – Athene can use his super senshi attack twice, but has to post 6 times between attack attempts (re-charge period). If it hits the target will be trapped for about 30 secs/ 2 posts by a barrier of beads.]

"A trash can...?"

Wanting to be of help, Minkowski began to look around, searching for said trash can. As she was still very much new to the life of a senshi, strategy was something she was still working on, and certainly, as she was a healer, it didn't do a whole lot of good solo.

But enough about that- as the youma started to shoot off more sparks, Minkowski grew concerned, knowing that the angrier the youma got, the more it would probably continue to attack. This concern was further multiplied when Gwen was hit on the arm.

"Are you alright?" she asked, frowning, "Are you hurt? I can try to heal..."

Gwen gripped her wounded arm, biting back the pain and trying to be useful despite of it. She didn't ignore Minkowski's question, though she did have other pressing matters on her mind, namely the spark-spouting monster that was coming awfully close to breaking out of the beads.

She looked to the metal garbage can that was just a few feet away and she ran towards it, despite her injury. She called to Minkowski to follow her, as she kicked it over and grabbed one of the ends with her good hand. "Let's see if we can get it inside of this- maybe it'll snuff out its flames if we're lucky!"

Gwen was able to pull it upright, though she knew she wouldn't be able to carry it all by herself, not with the injury. Athene said they needed something heavy. Well, Gwen certainly found it! "Help me with this!"

Athene’s head had turned in the direction of the two girls at Gwendolyn’s request to be helped with something – it appeared that Anming’s friend had found a bin – something that would probably be much more useful than the rubble.

The other senshi was helping her with it and it looked heavy enough that it might do the trick.

A glow caught his attention, Athene’s attention heading back towards the youma just in time to see the ‘beads’ forming the barrier keeping the thing trapped shatter – looked like their time was up.

Biting his lip, he picked up a piece of the rubble and lobbed it the now free and probably even more angry youma. Maybe he could take the thing’s attention off the other two – give them a chance to do whatever they were planning with the bin.