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"You can count on me," she assured him with a firm nod of her head. Despite her past failures against various negaverse soldiers Denebola still had faith in herself, she was determined to help rid the once peaceful Elysion of the Negaverse, and whatever the being the voice had just said. When he said that it would let him keep an eye on her she turned towards him, placed her hands on her hips and frowned at him.

"Come on, I'll be the one keeping you out of trouble," she teased her frown fading into a smile quickly. She had a hard time keeping her serious face on, at least around friendly company. "Good," she stated about his leg. "Don't worry, I won't let anyone kick it," she promised dropping one hand from her waist.

It wasn't until Sidra, or Cosmos as she called herself (though Fee had no idea who Cosmos was), that she really paid attention to what was going on around them. "If Metallia has been defeated before then can we not defeat her now? Surely we are greater in number than in the past?" She only pretended to know but it felt like the number of senshi were growing every day.

Cryptic was not what Ares wanted. It was never what she wanted. The senshi were stocked to the brim with ******** riddles. She just wanted -- no, needed -- answers. If this tiny white-haired thing could answer them, then perhaps she was worth far more consideration than a passing sneer.

Sailor Cosmos. Why was that name familiar? God, it would be a great time to have Nehelenia here again. Or the Senshi of the Future. Both of them had a knack for answering the questions that Ares always failed to figure out herself. But they were gone, either dead or through the mirror. These were pieces that Ares would have to put together herself.

Well, almost.

Sailor Gaia came up beside Maia, and Ares was pleased instantly to be by another parallel. She loved the Blood Moon Court, she did, but there was nothing like her old faction, a fact that she struggled at times to hide. Like Gaia, though, she showed no sign of it. "Do you mean...?" A shadow crossed her gray eyes. "Oh." Sometimes being from a parallel existence could be confusing. They had many of the same things that the White Moon did, just... different. Always different.

For example, despite not having Negas in the Black Moon Kingdom, they did have evil. They had their own blackness, their own powers of darkness. Her voice was low, speaking to Gaia only, "It would make sense, if he and she are one in the same just... through the mirror." Ares matched Gaia's casual easiness with her own permanent-stick-up-the-a** rigidity.

Gray eyes flashed back to Sidrovaosmos. Denebola had asked her a question, and Ares branched off it with a few of her own. "This is the first I've seen of you," she said. "Why now? Why show up to tell us about your Metallia now?" The irate senshi shifted her weight, popped out on hip to the side. "I hope that you are about to bestow us all with crystals and lead us to great victory in a battle against her. I would hope that you mention all of this because you are here to tell us all the key to taking down this great, black new evil." She paused. "Or will we be playing cryptic logic jumbles all night?"

The squabble between Gaia and Maia went ignored.

Possibly for the first time ever, Sidra wished Astraea was here. Or she knew where Chibimoon was hiding-- she just needed someone to back up her credentials. Hard to do so with these newly forged senshi; harder when such senshi were not even from the same dimension.

"I've always been here, longer than you have. I do not have the cure all to our struggles, nor do I have magic crystals of great victory. I cannot lead you to battle, and I don't know what our battles will be. What I can say is this: Something shall happen, something is happening, and I am here. To watch or to contribute, I don't know," Sidra's voice slowed, and she sounded uncertain once more, "I died. About a year ago. And then I came back-- not a luxury bestowed on most of us, so don't try it. It... did a lot to my confidence, and I just didn't know what the right course of action to take. I was weak, I was scared, I was a coward. But then I met the Princess, and a lot of my memories came back, and I remembered. So I'm sorry if my timeline seems off, but I was in no position to lead or to instruct. I'm still not, but I can at least try."

Pause.

"Right?" Sidra sounded oh so uncertain in the face of those who felt so very certain.

The green clad senshi wasn't surprised when someone took her question and quickly added to it. She had come to the conclusion that with so many other senshi around, undoubtedly with many of their own questions, that it was inevitable. But what the girl hadn't expected was the sudden bubble of anger she felt at the response Sidra, Nova, or cosmos whatever gave them.

"You can't lead us to battle but you go around throwing titles, saying things that are supposed to lead us to believe that you're some great force, a gift we have been given by god, or whatever but you don't have any answers?" Her words were spoken in a calm tone laced with anger following the words of the parallel senshi who seemed even less pleased than Denebola was.

"We keep hearing about these 'princesses', yet they have done nothing for us," she paused pushing her hair from her face so she could focus more clearly on Cosmos. "They can do nothing for us but tell us of their titles, they have no more answers than you but we're supposed to look up to them, hope that they can save us?" Her anger was becoming more prominent. "We're here fighting for our lives, for the lives of people who cannot defend themselves and yet you're here giving us riddles rather than something useful. You say you have defeated Metallia, or whatever it is, before but you have no advice on how to do it again, why bother telling us when you have no information that can help us?"

She was growing weary of the whole, 'I'll tell you something without really telling you anything at all.' She folded her arms across her chest. "Sorry if I'm not stumbling over myself in gratitude." She was weary, tired from the constant fighting in both her physical and her dream life, she wasn't alone in this feeling.

It was probably a good thing she didn't see that small smile, or Metis would be a bit too curious why it vanished when she caught Iris' attention. Instead, she gave her teammate a small smile of her own, one that flickered a tad brighter at the idea that there was anything the guardian would gobble down faster than pastries. But, information was probably a good second.

She only picked up bits and pieces of the conversation from where she was, though the bits she did catch had her rather confused. Dead and back again? Galaxia? Lead? Lead them? "Lead us how? If she has a plan, I'd certainly like to hear it if it means winning further battles against the Negaverse - and this Metallia," she commented more to the blonde beside her, curious as she turned her mind's eye towards the girl speaking with the rather assertive senshi. Not that she expected them to hear her, she didn't exactly shout the words out. It wasn't her place to intrude, though she did feel a little bad for the girl. That other senshi didn't exactly seem too difficult to get on the bad side of.

Her attention refocused on Iris when her elbow nudged her, eyes turning to her general direction with a patiently waiting expression. She'd been about to ask Is everything alright? when she first heard her, but quickly switched to, "What happened?" Iris' voice wouldn't be taking that tone if everything was alright. No, it was time to take the direct approach to find out what troubled her.

She was heavily tempted to point out ********* could be - secretly - cross if they didn't find out everything the could to fill her in later. Heavily so. But her trap kept shut beyond a simple sigh as she was lead off, offering no further sign of protest beyond a quick upward glance of her eyes. It would be wonderful if that voice from before would simply fill them all in once a decision was made from the brewing argument going on between the more outspoken senshi and the girl. Especially since she was sure not everyone could hear what they were saying thus far.

And wasn't this topic something everyone - well, mostly everyone - would want to hear?

When they came to a stop, the sudden hushed tone had her serious and keen to paying attention to whatever it was Iris was going to say. Though she was rather startled by the news. In multiple ways. This should be a good thing, right? Of course the name was familiar, she'd be daft for it not to. So why wasn't Iris happy about it? Why did the way she present the news make her stiffen and face harden? "And when she did? What happened then?" she asked again, voice low as well. Her stomach twisted into a knot. Where was *********? Was she all right? Metis felt her pulse quicken slightly. She wanted nothing more than for the manx to there right then. Not that Iris couldn't relay events, she simply just wanted to make sure ********* was safe.

He was thankful for having Elysion. It was distracting. Here they could fight, he could do it a ******** long time and no one would stop him. War was the reality here and war was what he felt. His world had been slowly building up and up and now- It had come crashing down around him. The person he loved wasn't with him and it ate away at his core. She might never be with him again. He had no idea who had done it. Nega, senshi, youma, or just some thug. Bad luck was even a possibility. But the end result was the same. Audrey was in a coma, and in the land of dreams, of sleep, he still wouldn't be able to find her. What did it mean? She was well and truely gone? He had no clue. But for all the power that he had, human or eternal senshi, Elzo and Castor felt powerless. And out of all the things that made him who he was feeling powerless had never sat well with him.

Now in the temple, the echo of being powerless in the face of the negaverse seemed real. Combined with the voice and the visuals...his own pessimistic thoughts were not helping. Then- "Shut up" It angered him. Did it? Really? Slightly. But he was also just a tense bundle of emotions. The idea that the princesses had done nothing annoyed him. Mostly, as he liked The one Virgo had shown him. Sweet and innocent Chronos, which a heart far to big. "Chronos wants to help us, she is helping us. She's sending out the zodiacs to fight along side us. She doesn't have to, but she does. She could easily order them to fight us and really? I think they love her enough to do it. Sure that one a while back had the dumb prince who sent half the city into a coma and crap but really? She wasn't our princess. She wasn't even from our world. But really." Castor looked the green clad senshi in the eye. "Don't diss the princesses. For all we know Serenity could be right under our noses."

Then he looked at the girl from the past meeting. Meetings. She'd changed. Then again, many of the senshi from so long ago had. "Yo, Novos." Castor felt the need to nick name her at least. That much of him no sadness could put a damper on it seemed. "I'm trying not to be sailor douche but smoking hotness," he nodded to Ares, " and little miss sunshine have a point, if a bitchy one. We lack a leader. The best we've got are a couple of us eternals but I don't think any of us are leader material."
He looked at Iris. "No offense"
"And then the cats, who like to never show up until the last freaking second, or Chronos, who apparently we aren't supposed to be answering to?" He made it a question. "And Chibi moon, who isn't from our time line or world but is the future time warp love child of our princess and earth prince. She's our best bet but I have a feeling not everyone sees her as a good candidate being the whole future love child alternate reality thing she's got going on." He shrugged, nodding to Sirius. He liked chibi moon well enough, but the other senshi had a point. Even if to him moon princess love child was better then no moon princess. "Anyway, the negas have generals now, who pretty much can ******** us up as bad as we eternals can ******** them up. Also they have Beryl and those other, more powerful, general c**k suckers. It's like we're playing a game of risk and all we have is Australia. You know how hard it is to play and win when you start with JUST Australia?" He groaned. "******** Impossible is what it is."

"Even if we don't focus on leaders, on Chaos or heavy metal," Even evil got nick names, "The negaverse is here and so are we. Chibimoon lead us here in hopes of providing a haven, but it's not. Helios wants us out and I'm cool with that, it's her thing. We did pull the d**k move of arriving out of the blue. But ******** it's still a part of the earth, and frankly, I can't imagine letting the negaverse running around in it being a good thing."

Castor was talking a lot. Another sign of his tense state perhaps. "How do we fight them now? You said love can drive them back but from experience, loving someone in the negaverse doesn't stop them. It just leads to pain, lots of it." ******** him. Him and his stupid memories of the other love of his life, gone forever. "Just..." He was at a loss. He wanted a leader. "I can fight. It's all I've done. Right now it's all I want to do. Tell me who to fight and I will fight them. Chibi moon took us here because she thought it was safe from them but it's not. This is a part of earth, and while Helios might want us out, I can't imagine she wants them here either. Who do we need to fight to get rid of them? How do we fight them? How do we win?"

He wasn't sure. "How can we use what love and friendship and-" He paused and smirked, "Purity WE have, to drive them out?"