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As the whale's sound reached Raven's ears, she felt her head clear, and swallowed, pulling away from Carlolynn and Anandi. She seemed so embarassed, backing away and giving a little laugh. "Oh my god, I'm so so sorry! I don't know what came over me..."

Coming over her....what? She glanced down and let out a little gasp.

"My god I"m going crazy. Completely crazy..." She let out a little laugh as she stared at her purple skin. "But...but I'm beautiful! Wow!"

She looked around, laughing.

As the giant bats flew towards her, she grabbed one of them, hugging it. "Well! Aren't you just the cutest thing? I can't believe it! You are the cutest creature in the whole world!

The bat let out a horrible screech, grabbing her wrist with it's mouth, twisting until there was a pretty loud snapping sound.

Raven let out a cry of pain, tears welling up in her eyes, looking horrified, though bewildered, as the bat raked it's fangs down her arm, leaving two distinct gashes, pooling with violet blood.


Bat HP: 10

Raven: Fractured Wrist, deep arm gash

Kes had been confused to say the least. More and more of the zodiacs had arrived which she honestly didn't understand. Something about them belonging there? She had no idea. She tried to tell Virgo her name and that she had been about to go to the harris hawk's to take one flying but so many people were talking she stopped at her name, not being overly helpful.

She listened as others told of what they were doing and found it quite interesting that they really were all just random people. There seemed to be little in common with any of them. The thing that probably confused her the most was another person with ******** fairy wings who asked why they were here, as if they knew? Really it was such a stupid question to ask! Then that noise again... this time it came with something and the bridge got hit. She was flung around and the noise, god it hurt her head. It seemed to happen more then once and some seemed to be attacking something? She wasn't sure her head hurt too much. Then she heard that it had someone? Really... owww her head. Now what was worse she couldn't hear and the ringing in her ears was driving her insane. She couldn't deal with all of this!

She crouched down and held her hands over her ears trying to bury her head between her knees. The noise, oh it hurt.

When she eventually looked up and the ringing in her head seemed to have stopped she looked around at everyone. She saw the space whale and had to blink a few times to realise it was actually a whale in space and part of her now really wanted to believe it was a dream if only because you can't die in your own dreams! She was starting to get a little worried, okay a bit more then a little. This was turning into a nightmare and all she wanted to do was be at home. She could apologise to her parents for being such a bad teenager and oh she would do anything. She then started to look around at everyone, noticing that people were changing colour? She looked at them and then herself.

"I'M A SIMPSON!" She couldn't help but shout it out, the first thing that came to her head when she looked down and saw that she was turning various shades of yellow. She soon started to feel more relaxed though as if everything was actually okay. She even saw some rather large bats heading her way but they looked rather cool. She found herself sitting down, laying back and just watching, occasionally batting one of the bats away. No reason to worry, everything was cool man.

((ooc: I was at work all day, so I couldn't post for any of the earlier rolls. Hope it's okay to just jump in here! Rolls are for Gilbert first, Leo second.

Gilbert: 4, 9
Leo: 9, 10))

There was one whole hell of a lot going on at once. First they were just walking, and then there were noises again -- something slamming into the ground -- strange people appearing -- Gilbert wasn't sure at this point that he was ever going to get any closer to having any idea what was going on. He'd wanted to ask the terrorist kid what the hell was going on, but he hadn't been able to make his way to the front of the crowd before all hell had broken loose. While he hadn't imagined that chaos would descend in exactly this manner, the fact of the matter was, s**t had just gotten really, really real.

By the time his ears stopped ringing from the earlier assault, the world around him exploded in bright, sometimes horrifically clashing colors. He was startled enough to look down at his own hands and realize they were orange -- orange, like he'd put on some sort of terrible spray tan -- but that wasn't all. He barely had time to recover from this newest onslaught of completely ******** up experiences when enormous monster.. bat.. things poured out of the giant space whale's mouth and assaulted them.

He was unfortunately close enough to the source of the attacks that he barely had time to put himself in a defensive position before he was impacted, full-force, by one of the creatures. It barreled straight into his chest, hitting with impressive force and robbing him of his breath entirely. Gilbert had been in enough hand-to-hand confrontations to realize that the sickening, almost blindingly painful feeling exploding in his ribs could only mean one thing -- he'd ******** cracked his ribs.

Hitting the ground hard, he tucked up on his side, tears stinging the corners of his eyes when his side sang out in pain. Well, ********. All of the ********. ******** ******** ******** --

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Soldier Leo was late.

He didn't make a habit of it lately, but circumstances outside of his control prevented him from arriving on top. He'd been in the midst of a burning building, actually -- small arson -- and hadn't had access to his cell phone while he was heading in to put out the fire with the rest of the team. Thankfully there had been no civilians present; it was one of his first times on a real fire scene as a volunteer firefighter, and it was both exhilarating and awful at the same time. When he'd finally thrown himself back into his car and groped for his cell phone, he'd been surprised to see a text from Elke, had known the code instantly. Though he was tired, he had made a vow to himself that his senshi duties would run parallel to his civilian ones, and so he'd made for the Surrounding as soon as he could.



And he had descended into utter chaos. He'd landed near his own Outpost, as per usual, but in the distance he'd been able to hear the rumblings of a confrontation. That in and of itself was abnormal enough to cause his heart to stutter, had pushed him to immediately traverse the rainbow road until he arrived at the source of chaos and confusion. He came upon the edges of it, his run slowing to a walk as a wave of overwhelming sadness swept over him. His step faltered a moment, but he caught himself, hand balling into a fist at his side as he surveyed the battle scene and tried to discern exactly where to direct an attack amidst the chaos.

His reflexes were slowed by the mood of despair that had settled over him, but when a bat-like creature screeched and descended upon him, he was fast enough to fling his hand out and form a ball of light in his palm. In a moment, an impossibly bright beam of energy shot from his hand, streaking through the night's black sky and landing directly in the creature's chest. It managed to finish the final beat of its wings, the motion oddly disjointed as its midsection vaporized from Soldier Leo's attack, but in the next heartbeat its wings were falling to the ground, useless.

The beam of light from his palm had been so bright that he didn't worry about the other Zodiac wondering any longer where he was; the signature radiance of his attack would always herald his arrival.

((Gilbert!Bat HP: 10
Leo!Bat HP: 0))

She could usually calm any child; it had always seemed a gift. But now, confronted with Sheila's tears and sobs, Marienrode found herself quite at a loss. Perhaps it was simply the fact that she was so thrown off by realizing this place was no fantasy, or perhaps it was that Sheila stood so terrified, but she let the girl pull further away. Maybe that would soothe the child? "You didn't do anything that would be a contributing factor to this," she said hopelessly, "Sheila, please, you're not going to die--"

The whale began to sing, and Marienrode looked down at the road as the colors grew brighter…

Marienrode Color: 12--Violet



You know... she'd never quite noticed how attractive Gilbert Hennessy was before. Marienrode's hair had turned an attractive shade of lavender, her skin just a shade darker; the Hillworth-toned sweater she'd been wearing was a lovely conglomerate of plums and burgundies. And she was fairly certain her downstairs neighbor had never looked quite as... appealing... as he did right then!

Somewhere in her head, Marienrode knew this probably was not the best time to be ignoring something attacking her. The bat that swooped at her knocked her down quite neatly, the wrist she fell on cracking under the pressure. But that didn't matter! She felt like a million bucks, and one little broken wrist certainly was not going to stop her from grabbing hold of the back of Gilbert's head and pulling him down for a very passionate kiss.

Marienrode Bat: 10HP



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Virgo had since given up on anything but protecting the Princess, and she kept her shield up for exactly that purpose. It distracted her; but not enough that she missed the beam of light cutting through the sky. Leo! She looked over and smiled at her fellow Soldier, just for a moment as she turned away from Chronos. God but he was badass, she thought; was there any man as fine as hers?

No. Definitely not.

Virgo Color: Yellow



You know? Suddenly, Virgo was ninety-five percent sure everything was fine. Sure, some giant space whale monster was attacking a bunch of innocent civilians, but she couldn't really... muster anything in reaction to that other than a nonplussed dedication. When her bat swooped her way, she backhanded it away; it hit the surface of the Surrounding, several yards away, after being sent sprawling away with a loud eeeeeeee. No sir, that bat would not be coming back for a few minutes yet.

Whatever.

Virgo Bat: 2HP

First, she nearly fell off the bridge and had to be helped back, then they were all attacking giant multi eyed space whales who looked nothing like the paintings of whales and dolphins in space. Maybe it was angry because it’d been so grossly misrepresented for so long. All the same she didn’t think eating someone called ‘cancer’ was a good idea in the least. It just opened up WAY too many jokes. Not that it was a good time for jokes but when you’re hysterical the oddest things seem to fit into a situation, or so she thought.

“I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE SPACE WHALES! I DIDN’T MEAN TO PISS IT OFF!!” was about the sum of what she managed to actually get out of her mouth before people started turning into smurfs and snorks.

Violet was the color her skin turned, if anything it amplified the way she felt about things normally. It was amazing, it was outstanding life was full and rich and nothing could EVER top seeing a space whale up close and personal. Heck this was so much cooler than the whale watch trip she’d been on, it didn’t even spew snot it spewed bats, which didn’t smell nearly as bad!

Except they hurt like hell, sunshine and rainbows turned into a scream of pain when it broke her arm. She cradled it to her chest, folding over it with tears running down her face. At least she felt alive, pain meant she was alive even if it was a really –shitty- kind of alive. She vowed never ever to own a picture of a space whale as long as she lived and prayed that might appease the cancer-eating beast.

The irony that she had only just mentioned 'clapping for Tinkerbell' before a woman with big pink wings arrived on the scene was not lost on Holi... though she really didn't have a great deal of time to consider it.

Giant Space whales with luminescent markings and an intent to destroy the already fragile looking road they were on took a certain precedent over her apparent powers of prediction.

She was grateful enough certainly that her startled scream when the whale initially punched a hole in things was lost in it's own eerie scream, though her hands and knees ached from being thrown to the ground.

((Hallucinating YAY!)) ... and the fact that there seemed to be yet more fairies... the little sparkly kind the size of firefly's, wasn't really helping her concentration, or her head, and she batted them furiously as she struggled to regain her feet.

She felt rather... off... but she couldn't have put her finger on it. Anyway, that goddamn whale was pissing her off.

"******** YOU STUPID SPACE WHALE! I'M GONNA MAKE YOU ENDANGERED! YOU AND YOUR STUPID LITTLE FAIRY ******** FRIENDS!"

She hollered, grabbing what she thought might have been a section of road, though it could just as well have been one of her angry looking cat slippers, and threw it as hard as she could at the Space Whale.

"YOU DON'T EXIST!" She yelled at it. THAT would tell it for sure. Stupid Space Whale, pretending to be real.

It was sorta pretty in a migrane causing fairy-associating kind of way, but goddamn it, it didn't exist and it had no right pretending that it did.

((adding second post to account for colors and stuff))

Holi's day was hardly improved when the Imaginary Space whale attacked again, colors flashing everywhere like a strange trip out of an old Beatles Music Video. When they washed away, not only was the blue tint in her hair emphasized, her skin was blue too. Oh GOD she hated smurfs. She hated Smurfs SO MUCH she could just cry... and did. She couldn't explain why she suddenly felt so full of grief, though she definitely felt as though she was suffering here. She was one of the only ones who seemed to see that this was all painfully, painfully irrational, like singing Rudolf in July. Big, fat, blue tinged tears rolled down her cheeks in an river, and it wasn't helped by the swarm of wolf sized bat's that flooded the area.

She threw her hands up in self defense as they flooded the area, even more hideous than the noise of the alien, strangely lovely whale, and certainly no more pleasant than the tides of grief that seemed to be weighing her down.

One of them slammed into her, ((edited)) and she swatted it frantically. The impact was jarring, the way dropping from a height was, or slamming your arm into someone's bony parts, but the bat seemed to have taken the worst of it.

Holi's bat: 4 hp remaining