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Scheelite had been just about to throw himself back into the fray, making yet another attempt on the crystal.

-About- to have been. Being that Beryl's sudden appearance caused him to freeze up in his tracks like a deer in the headlights. He didn't, couldn't look away when his Queen's gaze caught him. He stared right back, disappointment evident but also something else. Determination.

He was tired of being the butt end of Negaverse jokes. Tired of not being respected, he -deserved- respect after all. He had been friends with Wiseman! Had helped take down a senshi when he was a lieutenant! He'd been doing this s**t longer than Zink, and his partner was usually the one that got praised.

It was time for some of his -own-.

"Yes, my Queen!"
The youmas were bigger, stronger now. The chaos continued on around him, but Scheelite's gaze roamed the area looking for only one thing. He would -not- let some mindless monster beat him to the prize. That'd just be a further embarrassment to his reputation.

Sailor Orion watched with wide eyes as the coffin basically exploded and the Crystal started to bounce around again. He stayed close to his partner, trying to keep the youma off and the Negaverse though in all the pandemonium it was hard to tell sometimes who was Negaverse and who was a Senshi. Hell there were even a couple Negaverse that looked like civilians. It was confusing and all Orion could do was hope that he was punching the right people.

He was distracted from his punching when he noticed the Crystal fly into Merope's hand. "You got it!" He gave his a friend a slap on the back with a little too much force because the Crystal went flying again. "Ah s**t, my bad" He had to remember to check his Senshi strength.

And then he felt two familiar power signatures enter the building. "Hey! They're here!" Grabbing the Senshi of Rogue Waves by the arm he dragged him over to the middle table and jumped onto it, not noticing the other Senshi trying to lift it. From his vantage point he searched the room finally spotting Atlas' head over the crowd of people. He waved his arm in the air like a mad man but wasn't sure that helped. Jumping off the table he turned to Merope, "They're by the door, but I don't think they can see us."

And suddenly that didn't matter anymore. The Queen of the Negaverse decided to crash the party. Orion could feel the power radiating out from her. "Oh s**t." His voice was low and his eyes were wide as he watched the youmas grow. He'd been at the Doom Tree, he knew what youma could do. His hand began to shake and he tightened it into a fist to try and control it. This wasn't good, this wan't good at all. He needed the rest of his team and he needed them now.

Well, there really wasn't all that much Rosalind could do-- she had been bombarded by dirty shoes and snowed on, followed by missing her crystalline target (she vomited everywhere, much to her chagrin)-- but the resolute Soldier of Wealth would not submit to the Negaverse. She'd be the first to admit that the terrifying sight of Queen Beryl was almost enough to send the brunette fleeing in horror, but she couldn't imagine what it would be like if she was to achieve the scarlet gem. If Beryl wanted it so badly, so did Rosalind!

Well, for the Moon Princess, not Rosalind. But you get the point.

The frill-adorned soldier looked around frantically for the crystal, but rather than finding it, all she saw was massive youma snarling and snapping people up. Well, if she could just stay out of their sight and out of Beryl's, she'd be fine! Rosalind got on her hands and knees (doubly to her chagrin; how low would she sink that night?!) and began groping around for anything that had any semblance of the crystal. She choked back another bout of vomit, continued her search, but was suddenly scooped up in a youma's fangs by her large bow.

It was times like this that she wished her fuku was not so gosh-darned fabulous!

Snapping her fingers and calling out "Sterling Silver Volley," Rosalind covered her face and waited for an onslaught of coins to rain down on the room. It was nothing compared to the more elaborate attacks she had seen on display, and her coins weren't enough to dust anything, but it would serve to weaken a few of the nasty abominations. A coin struck the bestial youma in the eye, to which it yelped and sent Rosalind flying across the dancehall.

She, of course, shrieked the entire way. This did not help in her trying to stay out of sight of the Negaversian Queen and the youma.

Luckily for the extravagant soldier, she made a safe landing on top of a rather pretty and tanned sailor soldier. Rosalind thought she was very exotic-looking and gorgeous, but it wasn't time for things like that. Coins were falling, things were flaming and snowing, and there was an evil queen out to do who knew what. She extended a gloved hand out, then added, "I beg your pardon! Are you alright?!"

If the soldier didn't react quick enough, Rosalind would have to leave her be and continue her search for the crystal.

All Sheldon really wanted to do was get the ******** out of dodge, but from his view from the bathroom that was going to be a really difficult feat. Staying in the bathroom was not an option he wanted to stick with; if the fire spread or the fighting erupted into something bigger, then he would be trapped inside. And that wouldn't be cool. He took a quick glance behind him, spying the single window in the bathroom and frowned realizing it was of course too small and too high to get through all by himself.

Looking back out, he glanced around at all the costumed peoples, trying to see if there was anyone of them he had encountered before. Nope. And from the variety of costumes, it was hard to tell who was on who's side and when they were fighting amongst those of themselves that even looked to be on the same team, that made it harder.

Sheldon bit his lip as he ventured a step outside the bathroom doors, only to fall on his a** instantly from the icy floors. "aa geez," he whined under his breathe as he pushed himself against the nearest wall to regroup. Maybe if he stayed near the walls, he could ninja his way out.

And stay low. And away from the freaky orange haired lady who had some how made more monsters come from her staff. [maybe he should have stayed in the bathroom after all].

Sailor Eskimo hadn't even wanted to come to the ball. It was her cousin's idea because he had his eye on a pretty girl who was going, but he couldn't ask because he didn't know her well enough. So instead of going by himself and picking her up he decided to convince Amelia to go with him. Having nothing else to do on Halloween except give out candy (and her other three roommates could do that) she decided she'd go to appease Justin.

And of course the ball would turn into hell, literally. It was snowing, the room was on fire, there were youma EVERYWHERE and then the ******** Queen of the Negaverse showed up. Or at least she assumed it was the Queen since everyone was calling her the Queen. Basically it was the time to get the hell out of dodge. Eskimo wanted to get the Crystal yes, but her snowballs wouldn't do much against the giant youma.

She was making her way to the fringes of the chaos when she noticed a lone civilian. Damn it She couldn't leave someone unprotected in this mess. Careful not to slip on the ice in her heels she hurried over to him sliding to a stop, a hand on the wall to brace herself. Grabbing the boy's arm she gave him a light shake. "What the hell are you doing here? If you're a senshi you better power up, if you're not we need to get you out of here!" She probably didn't look very authoritative in her fur covered bikini top and skirt, but she did her best to look like she knew what she was doing.

-Juno, being a volleyball player in her normal life would have thought she'd have an advantage as she finally spotted the crystal again, watching it fly back and forth. But that was not necessarily the case. The physics between the way the crystal bounced off of hands and floor was not the same as a soft ball.

Her elbow crashed hard into whoever was next to her, powering forward in an attempt to spike that crystal towards the ground. If it shattered... well.. she didn't really think about that. All she could think was that if she could get it towards the ground and pinned under people it wouldn't be bouncing through the air anymore so madly. She leapt as she had thousands of times, hand poised to attempt to hit the crystal, but it seemed someone else had the same idea. The crystal flew upwards at the cake and Juno simply stared at the events that followed that.

Cake... monster? All she knew was that the power radiating from it was terrifying.-