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MuCephei had been quiet till now, her hands demurely folded before her in the curves of her skirt...whatever Galaxia was, clearly it unerved N...Cosmos...or "Nearly Cosmos", who still registered as the friend of a friend, that fact alone made MuCephei want to like her, it was just the way of things for her.

"...We need to have faith in ourselves as well, not just the princess... I... I have offered my help to ChibiMoon." She glanced at Ares and then away again, she wanted her friend to know, even if Ares might never speak with her again for refusing the Blood Moon Court, so ironic that she was the senshi of 'blood'.

"But what everyone has said is true... many of us lack the organization that they clearly have. Their military...and we, we're chaotic. We have infighting and differences of opinion, and we need to put that aside if we -ever- hope to beat that. We must support each other as well as the civilians we are trying to protect, regardless of our means of protecting them. Without...some kind of ability to rely on each other our numbers don't mean anything. We all -do- have leaders...so long as we have a team If you don't have a team I suggest you start one...and soon."

She paused nervous to speak again and found her confidence.

"We can't wait forever... for the princess, we WILL find her but we can not let her absence be an excuse. The heads of the teams or a representative could meet if we must as well, that would keep us all from being in the same place at the same time but then we'd be able to share information WITH our teams... I don't mean to preach...It's just, I don't feel it's a good enough reason to be loosing."


//Nova... hadn't she had brown hair before? The girl with the cardigans and cute clothes, always volunteering. She'd never seen anyone's hair change color that way.//

Oh no she didn't.

No she freaking didn't.

Sailor Juno had been exploring the temple among the growing group of senshi fairly silently. She taken the cryptic words of the unembodied voice into consideration. It was the sort of information that the princess would likely make more sense out of then she could. So she'd simply been searching through the crowds for her pink haired princess.

Or Helios... Juno wouldn't have bet against Chibimoon hunting out her old friend before the rest of the group had.

But the trash talking had not gone unheard by the fledgling senshi of the canopy. She whirled around in position, eyes searching for the voice spitting hate, narrowing onto the super senshi clad in black. She'd heard just about enough of people bad talking her princess. The true princess.. daughter of the moon queen. Who were these naysayers? Had they really done any better themselves? Had they done even half of what Chibimoon had ever done for them, or were they just whiny little bitches pissing and moaning because everything didn't go perfectly as they expected?

Juno didn't apologize as she shoved one figure out of the way to get through.. and even bumped another. She stormed up to Ares in her self righteous 'tirade', pausing for only a moment before she lashed out stupidly, sending her fist at the other senshi's stomach with an accented growl. "Watch your mouth!!"

"Small Lady may have made some mistakes but we are all human people. Maybe you should prove yourself so great before insisting everyone else have to do so."

Right.. light and friendship and kindness. It was clear they had that in abundance.

((Feel free to lay some beat down Akina love ;D ))

"You say chibimoon hasn't done anything but I think your wrong." He finally did glare at Ares this time."True leading us here didn't end up how we wanted but it did gain us something."

He looked around at the others for a moment "The Negaverse knew of this place somehow. Had Chibimoon not brought is here we may never have had the chance to defend this place from them. The Negaverse could have slaughtered those here right under our noses. And youre okay with this because you don't believe in her? No, we are here for a reason and I for one am glad she brought me here. Thanks to her I have a chance to drive them out of this place."

He shook his head."I may not believe in whatever claim she has to being our princess but I at least believe she is trying her best. Something all of us should do every moment we get. She believes in something and is willing to fight for it. Is rather fight beside her than you any day."

-Polaris listened with pursed lips as the group fought back and forth. Debate wasn't necessarily a bad thing.. but when everyone just acted like children and nothing was accomplished because of it.. well then it was just unrefined and tacky.

Funny though, she couldn't help but think... wasn't it the black senshi brigade who had dragged everyone into that super amazingly fun coma incident? Polaris vaguely remembered information on that being discussed among the Bastards. A little bit of pot and kettle there wasn't it. But Polaris wasn't in this for a fight, and she really didn't care either way who was the princess of what. When she finally responded it was in more a bored sigh then anything.- "Perhaps we should focus less on who is or isn't in charge and more so on solutions like Castor said."

"If anyone has any good information on what exactly we need to do, or what happened in the past that might give us a clue of what to do, well that's far more worth our time to discuss."

"Any information really. The shadowy new enemy. The crystals. The new monsters popping up in Destiny city that seem to mirror what's going on here."

-Juno was saved from making anymore a fool of herself by Flora's grasp and then words. With the other members of the quartet fairly MIA she often felt responsible for the princess solely. And with as hard as Chibimoon was on herself, hearing others speak so poorly would have been crushing. Juno realized however she wasn't quite so alone as she thought as others spoke in defense of the princess.-

Themis' answer to Hypnos was a very simple one. "My partner." And it was so odd that a tiny 7 letters long word could have so many meanings.

But then the voice spoke again. Metallia ? ...What's a Metallia ? God damn it, why did none of this s**t come with a handbook ?!

And then, predictably, everyone started to argue, again. It was always like that, and if it hadn't have possibly sent the chibi senshi on his back tumbling down, he might have rubbed his temples.

"Maybe if they all stopped arguing for 5 minutes, we might get somewhere." Themis muttered.

A couple of people had backed her, MuCephei, Castor, even Juno. Juno did not remember her, then. Pros and cons to that situation, but Sidra was mostly relieved by that fact.

"I am not asking you to follow any Princess blindly, only to follow the beacons of light when they come. Any of you could be Princesses, any of you could carry a great crystal, as yet unawakened. But when those filled with light come, will you allow them to take your heart and lead you to victory? Or will you doubt her courage, her faith and her actions, because you feel that what you do is more necessary to win this war? Your actions will win no war, Ares. Absolutely none at all, not with the darkness that is in your heart. I cannot purify it for you, your actions are your own, and I caution you, for all the good it will do. The further you walk down this path, the further you will be from your Princess and what she could have been."

Standing a little straighter, Novos turned from Ares to address the other questions that had come her way. Questions, not demands.

"It's definitely not about hugging the Negaverse, though I applaud the idea. Just as darkness can enter our hearts, light can still enter theirs, and they can be brought to our side. We had Kunzite, for a time; she killed me, and for that I thank her, for it allowed me to come back to you and try my hand at standing here with you all again," moving closer to Castor, and further from Ares and her group, Sidra went on, "I've seen love turn people to the light, so it is not out of the question. It's a rare soul that can love with corruption on them, truly love someone over being who they are. Don't ever lose hope."

Turning to the rest of the room, Sidra squared her shoulders, and tried to speak to the crowd in a bellowing voice, but it wasn't all too loud, just a little louder and squeakier than usual.

"You all want to know how to defeat Metallia, Beryl, the Negaverse. You want the cheat codes to this game, and I can tell you right now, there aren't any cheat codes," Cosmos had tried that once, "what will defeat the Negaverse is what resides in your heart, your hope, your faith, your dreams. Not who has the bigger gun, or who can tactically out manoeuvre the others, though you can try those if you wish; if that is what brings you comfort, than all the power to you. We do have leaders, they are all around you, but we need to have faith in ourselves and what we are doing before we can truly lead. But take the leap of faith, find someone who brings you hope and comfort, and follow them in to the dark. We must be, as a whole, more organized, more willing to work together, more willing to trust one another."

Stopping for a moment to catch her breath, Sidra looked around to all the faces, and knew that a lot of what she was saying was not getting through, was being viewed with distaste and mistrust.

"I cannot tell you everything I know. This is sort of like Hercules, you know, the cartoon? No one could tell him how to be a true hero, only you can find it yourself. I once was a true hero, but that was long ago, and I have made more mistakes than all of you will ever make, but I still believe in you all, and I believe in your powers, your hopes, your dreams. Whether you want to deal with me or not is your own problem, but I will promise you all this. No matter who you are, no matter what may have happened, I will protect your souls till the end of time. You won't know it, you won't feel it and you may in fact not want me to, but I will protect you from any ill wishing to distinguish your light forever. I cannot offer you more than that."

And with that, Sidra crumpled in on herself, so very clear on what they must all do themselves without believing a word of it herself. The ultimate hypocrite, Sidra did not believe in herself, or have any dreams to speak of, just a world of sadness with tiny pinpricks of light that she clung on to desperately. She believed in a lot of them, believed that they were stronger than she was, that one day one of them would achieve lambda powers and she could cease to be the figure that she was.

It was lonely standing on the precipice.

Even from the new distance away from the main conversation, the yellow suited senshi could tell when someone insulted her. Especially when the offender looked at her and said "No offense." So with a flick of the wrist, she flipped Castor the bird. She hadn't really heard much of what he said, but you didn't say no offense at the end and get away with it.

After holding her hand up for about a quarter of a minute, Iris brought her hand back down and went back to her conversation. Everyone was getting all feisty over the subject of princesses. Iris had her own opinions (as everyone was entitled), but they remained bottled since for this eternal senshi, there were other problems that needed addressing with her small team.

Continuing with her low tone, she answered Metis' question. "Apparently she was able to sense Parthenope in the real world, but only found him in Elysion." After all of the time that ********* had referred to the group as her girls, it felt odd referring to another teammate as a male. "Apparently he was in a similar boat as us... awakened before meeting *********. However, he was not very cooperative..." There was a slight pause as a green haired senshi seemed to cause a bit of a commotion in the other conversation. If only Iris had been paying more attention, she could have rooted for Greenie like how high schoolers cheer on a random fight breaking out in the hallways.

"Parthenope killed someone right in front of ********* eyes. After she had begged him t'spare that person's life... he still went ahead and did it." There was a lengthy pause. The sort of pause where it was obvious that the speaker was trying to think of what to say in the right manner. It was a long enough pause for more of the Princess talk to touch both of their ears, but it was not their main focus at the moment. Eventually, the senshi of rainbow's voice coarsely told her teammate exactly how she saw the situation. "He's tryin' t'play a f*ckin' rogue senshi an' doin' whatever th'hell he pleases." For a moment, her hand planted itself upon her side. Hidden under the fuku was a decent sized bruise from when she had fought him in Elysion. He was a rogue senshi that knew how to fight. Straightening up her body so she was at her full height (no slouch), she finally resumed a less quiet voice. "********* is okay... but she has been in a mood lately..."

It was the sort of mood where eating and sulking was pretty much all she was doing.