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She didn't seem to respond to anyone in particular even as they questioned her, it was almost as if she couldn't hear the things they were saying. But that did not mean the ghostly image looked cold or as if it were purposely ignoring them. It was, in fact, quite the opposite. Her expression was warm, welcoming and open. The Queen's posture held tall with a grace and confidence that was incredibly regal. Despite all that had happened on this night and over the days, weeks, and years that had passed since the first senshi had reawakened, she seemed proud. Like a mother looking over her children with a fondness and love that was completely and utterly unconditional. Even those that did not want her or feel a connection to her, they did not need to, she would not ask it of her. But she would love them all, every being across the universe that protected and helped to spread the light. Eyes seemed to flick over each and every one of them, seeming to acknowledge each one for their own brief moment. Though she might be the only one to notice, they seemed to linger just the tinest bit longer over Chibimoon.



The image flicked and swayed a little as the figure moved to turn, walking slowly towards the castle behind her. Would they follow? Her voice was already rising again in it's beautiful, almost lyrical tones.



The voice was smooth and soothing, something that was clear for all to hear even as she turned her backs momentarily to them. Seeming no louder in the moment she turned back as if to check on them once more and beckon them along.

It was cruel what he was asking of her. Maybe it was logical.. or even the right thing. But that didn't make it not cruel. To ask her to have the strength to just.. give him up for everyone else. It wasn't fair. And it wasn't something she could immediately and thoughtlessly promise to.

Being careful, yes. Patrolling with others, fine. But the rest of it.. even with his attempts at being hopeful and optimistic.. it received a soft and sad frown from her. There was not acceptance, nor was there a fight about it, simply a silent acceptance that they'd talk about it later. Probably in great lengths. Probably on multiple occassions. As it was Polaris was planning a trip for her home star very soon, perhaps that would be one of the topics she would reflect upon.

Iris? The name seemed familiar.. but only vaguely so. A senshi she'd only seen occassionally here and there. She did think she might have recalled scolding the other about cursing around children at one point. Regardless to who she was, it was nice to have another princess in their midst. Sometime, eventually Polaris would have to hunt her down and make proper introductions.

The queen's words were a welcome distraction for Polaris, and her eyes lifted to watch the figure speak and move. The words were a comfort to her after the disaster that had just occurred. A mild saving grace against the nagging worries and guilt that ate away at her. She had no reason not to believe the words that were offered. It only made sense. There were so many senshi with so many skills and powers out there. If they would all just work together how could they NOT win?

“Can’t despair? That’s so easy for you to say. You’re dead,” Ganymede muttered.

The soft sound of her voice and the kindness in her eyes did nothing but make his bitterness grow. He barely knew who she was, had no idea what her life had been like before, and had only seen the barest glimpses of someone like her in his dreams during the Christmas season before last, when he’d first become acutely aware of the troubles that ravaged Destiny City. He had little respect for her, not for someone who couldn’t possibly understand what they were going through given that she wasn’t even alive to experience it, but he remained marginally quiet and argued no further. He was tired and upset, and he didn’t want to deal with anymore arguments that night.

He did what he could to calm himself, which was no easy feat by any means. He was still reeling from the attack, from the suddenness and the brutality of it. Maybe they were safe now, maybe they weren’t. He didn’t know how well he could trust that claim with the Surrounding still very fresh in his mind, and even though he never seen any evidence of infiltration on Ganymede... how was he to know for sure that the same could be said here?

Ganymede slowly wobbled to his feet, keeping an arm around Oberon and reaching out a hand for Valhalla as he glanced around for his teammates and friends. This assistance from some long-dead women, as beneficial as it may have proven, seemed to him to have come too little too late.

They’d already lost so much. What right did she have to tell them not to despair after what they’d seen? How could she expect that of them?

To Ganymede, despair had nothing to do with darkness; as far as he was concerned darkness didn’t despair. Despair had everything to do with love and life—it was a part of both. Belittling that, casting it off as something not to be felt when people had just died right in front of them, and their efforts had proven fruitless time and time again, seemed too flippant and uncaring for his liking.

But he glanced off to the side, took a breath and tried to ignore the fact that his eyes were wet again, and he kept his thoughts to himself.

Athene could still hear the sounds of sirens ringing in his ears. The Negaverse and dark senshi had left them there, while what seemed like an army of sirens had surrounded the building. So many sirens – so much so that to the dark-haired senshi’s ears the sounds had seemed to combine into one single loud buzzing shrill sound.

Athene hadn’t really been on the receiving end in having the forces of law and order break up his encounters with the forces of chaos, but you probably didn’t have to be a genius to know that that many sirens probably equated to many many police men and that equated to not-a-good-thing. Aka being royally screwed right about now.

As the sounds of splintering wood got ever closer and something started to pound against the main door into the meeting hall, Athene had resigned himself to the fact that they were not going to magically get out of this. In fact the dark-haired senshi had just started hoping that the police wouldn’t decide to just burst in shooting when a silvery light had suddenly appeared and whisked round him.

Although the light had had faded almost as quickly as it had appeared, Athene had thought that he’d heard someone saying the word ‘safe’. The new surroundings, however had distracted him – after all the ancient-looking courtyard was a complete opposite to the hall he’d been standing in with Nysa and the page that his team mate had introduced as Kailash before the light had whisked them away to wherever this was.

At least the two pages were safe too. It seemed the silvery light had whisked them all away together.

It was only when the word ‘safe’ was repeated that Athene first noticed the ghostly but regal-looking woman and started slightly in surprise. Was this the queen that Benitoite and Remarque had spoken so negatively off? Because she didn’t seem so horrible, in fact the look in her eyes when she had seemed to look briefly in his direction had been kind.

Athene had bitten his lip when the thought had occurred to him that if the ghostly woman was the queen that he’d heard talk off and this was her home, then that meant that he was currently standing on the Moon. It was the first time he’d been off-planet and the thought that the blue body he could see in the sky was the earth was unsettling.

Not that it stopped the dark-haired senshi from listening to Queen Serenity speak. Athene wanted to hear what she had to say. In fact he wanted to hear it enough, that he was personally inclined to follow after her as she turned and started to walk in the direction of the castle, although he waited to see what his two companions would do first.

((slight edit because Lit derped and forgot that Athene was with Nysa and Kailash when things went down))

Bimini was pretty damn mortified when he'd noticed and made out the sound of police sirens on their way. The Po-Po!! Well.. he'd never really had to deal with the police before, but he really didn't want to start. Being arrested was SUPER bad for business. And it cost a LOT of money to get bailed out. He wasn't even thinking about being killed, which was totally possible, too busy seeing a horrible story unfold in his head that ended up with him being labeled a terrorist to the public and his beloved arcade being close down. It was horrible, he almost wanted to cry. But luckily that was not to be.

The warmth filtered over him, carrying him off to someplace else that was much quieter. It looked very different then Bimini's wonder did. But then most of them probably did. His wonder WAS basically a huge day spa that was somehow also magically a 'fountain of youth' or something. It was pretty though, the Moon, and it was interesting to look at the earth from a far. I looked pretty much the same as it did in video games set in space.

Once again he was surrounded only by allies and people who.. he was hoping atleast, didn't want to hurt him. It helped convince him to start being his regular chatty self again, quickly resummoning his bowl and whatever water was still left in it. "Does anyone need a painkiller? I've still got a little magic left." He called out lightly as he walked from group to group, offering a mild wave in greeting as he went.

The sound and appearance of the ghostly lady drew a look of surprised interest from the squire of Cosmos, uncertain of who she was until someone else said it. Woahhhh a Queen. Or a hologram of one maybe? His video game senses were tingling again.

She was very pretty and there was something about her voice that was nice. The words she spoke were perhaps a bit deep for the often awkward squire, but he thought he liked them. It sounded mostly like harmony, and friendship and stuff.

Ohh! Oh!! It sounded like Friendship WAS magic. Bah dum Bah! He had to try hard not to laugh imagining all the many senshi and knights around as little ponies, his grin cracking into a wide smirk.

He was alright with a world of happy ponies. Better then the BS they had to deal with in Destiny City right now. And a safe place to go and hide? That sounded pretty awesome too.

Ambrosia didn't remember being transported. She arrived on the Moon just as she had left Earth: leaning forward, willing her attack to hit. This change in venue off balanced her, she fell forward onto her knees, throwing out her hands to catch herself before her face hit. She quickly stood back up, dusting herself off as if nothing had happened. It seemed that only the good guys were here, all staring at some sort of ghost that smiled welcomingly at her. She tilted her head in confusion. She wasn't sure who this pretty woman was. Her question was quickly answered by the excited whispering of others. Serenity? Well, now she had a name, but nothing else struck a chord with the Chibi senshi.

Esquiline was so happy to be out of the fight. Even if it meant being transported somewhere else, she was so happy that there weren't chaos agents anywhere near her. She shivered, holding her upper arms with her hands, rubbing the fabric quickly. The image before everyone else was talking about sanctuary. And Chaos. Her heart quickly fell when she said that Chaos was gaining huge footholds. Did she join the fight too late? Her despair was held before overwhelming her by the Queen's words. They held such a soothing quality....

All Concordia had wanted was to get the heck out of that death zone. Just sneak on out of the meeting, maybe find Chronos to sadly mope with, or maybe even just go sulk with some tiramisu. But that big scary man with the microphone was SO loud and had flung and hit her with it! She hadn't even tried to do anything. Thank goodness Celsus had come to her rescue. She could always rely on him. Well, she could rely on all of her teammates, but so far Celsus had proven on multiple occasions how great he was.

The teleportation received a moment of contemplation from the Chronos page, looking at her own hand skeptically, before extending her gaze to the place around her. Teleportation was something from science fiction.. something that.. up until she'd become a senshi she wouldn't really have believed in. But unfortunately this world was full of a lot of really strange and unexplainable things.

The woman talking was a strange enigma, and Concordia found herself more focused on what in the world she was then what she was actually saying. It was like a ghost or hologram. Like a message left in the past for someone to find. But at the same time.. it was talking about things that happened in the recent past. Was it sentient? It didn't seem to respond to people when they asked it things. But at the same time.. the way it looked at them.. and the words that seemed to relate too clearly to them then any randomly left message should be able to. It flabbergast her.

She felt the desire to creep forward and touch the queen, thinking maybe it would give a clue to exactly what it was. But there was no way she could do that! First of all everyone was looking up there and they'd see her. And then they might try to talk to her or ask her want she was doing or maybe even surround her! Or what if the ghost thingy responded to her?

Peeking through her hood and glasses with soft curiousity, Concordia continued to watch. It was all so strange. Oh but safe! She did like the words 'safe' that she kept hearing crop up.

Giving a soft nod in agreement to Niflhel, she pushed herself up lightly as the queen began to move. Settling on her boots she offered a hand down to help him up and along if he wanted it. "I'm not really sure.. maybe?"

"Nooo!"

Those were the first words to escape the princess' mouth the moment they had been teleported away from the battle. It might have seemed odd, but one had to consider what Iris had been doing just prior.

Sassolite had torn out the starseed of a fellow senshi (a super senshi in fact) and thrown the poor girl's body at the newly revealed princess. The starseed itself had still been in tact. There had been a chance to revive the Super senshi. There was a good chance she was going to succeed too, since she had just been ready to trip the General and pounce. The girl's body had still been awkwardly balanced in her arm, still faintly breathing as those who lost their starseeds did for a short while after such a gem was lost to them.

Certainly, she had heard the sirens, and then the Negaverse all teleported away. The red-headed General had vanished, starseed at hand. However, before she could get the utterance out, the senshi and knights had been teleported to this place.

The vast majority were safe now, but as her now unburdened arm reminded her, the blonde had failed to save the one. After what seemed like a random outburst on her part, the Princess stood herself up, buttoning up her lip and ignoring any potential looks she might have been receiving. Her pale wings fanned out for a moment behind her, trembling faintly from aggravation before she folded them behind her once more. She clenched both hands, one still holding onto that rainbow she had been attacking with before, though she briefly opened said hand to dismiss the power.

Those most familiar with the girl knew she could be quite rambunctious, rarely holding back her emotions or rage. So for her to be so quiet might have seemed odd, even out of place.

The blonde did not seem to even notice the surrounding until the voice of their savior revealed herself. Despite how shot her nerves were, Iris couldn't say she was ungrateful. The familiar form of the spirit had saved every single one of the Senshi and Knights that had still had their starseeds in tact. The spirit pleaded with those she had rescued to continue forward with all their strength, despite having suffered what could have been seen as an embarrassing defeat.

The spirit didn't have to plead to Princess Iris. Princess Iris already had the resolve, given to her just moments before.

In a soft tone, the girl uttered "...I will fight... for a future where the innocent aren't persecuted because of what their soul might have been in a previous life. We may all be senshi and knights... but we were also born of Earth in this lifetime. The past... is the past... but the future... it is what we make it." It wasn't so much she was trying to rally up any support, but rather, she was speaking aloud to herself, to assure herself that she knew what she wanted to do with her power.

With a nod, the blonde princess began to walk away, as if she was going to abandon the group.

"...Iris..." The voice of her guardian spoke in an equally mild tone from behind her. Upon the guardian's shoulders and back was Egeria, still recovering from her own injuries.

"...I will fight for what you believe in..."

The princess smiled, but remained facing away. "...thank you..." With that, she continued to move forward, casually reaching to the stub of an arrow stuck in her shoulder and pulling it out. Her dress was momentarily stained in darkening red, but to the Princess, that was not an issue.

She needed to go honor those who had passed on this evening.

Having said her two bits to the captain of the team, the guardian glanced to a face flopped over her shoulder. "Egeria, I assure you... nobody here is dead..."

Her green eyes flicked from Egeria's lavendar eyes to Hygiea's deep orange ones. "And that would be Queen Serenity, the Queen of the Silver Millenium." It might have been a bit old fashioned, but the guardian used one hand to mildly tug at her own skirt upon the opposite side of the one that Hygiea had been holding, then bent at the knees slightly for an awkwardly wobbly curtsy.