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Cora had felt the signal. She had felt dark energy signatures of youmas and captains. She had felt light, sparkly energies from chibi senshis and super sailor Polaris. She had run as fast she could with her tiny kitty feet. She hoped it wasn't too late.

When she finally arrived at the school's playground, terrifying sight met her eyes. Screaming children were running away from the school building and there was few tiny bodies lying on the ground. How could they? How could they attack children? Children were innocent. Children were pure. Childen should not be attacked like this. Of course she ignored the fact that she had awoken one of them but it had been an emergency back then so to her, it justified her act.

Memory of that, her first awakening, brought the mental image of the girl she had awakened back then. Hypnos. Innocent, pure Hypnos. Her senshi. Suddenly, it hit her. It was just a merely a thought but the thought was so strong that it was like a heart sinking somewhere deep inside her. Hypnos was in danger! She knew she was, even without knowing the full situation. The school was in chaos and Hypnos was inside the school building. Cora could only feel few senshi energies and it was hard to locate those. It was hard when the panic and worry filled her mind.

Cora knew what she had to do. She needed to go inside the building and find Hypnos and help her. So, she ran towards the main door that leaded inside the building. She tried to get inside without getting stomped by many anxious little feet of terrified children and somehow, like a miracle, she managed to that. It was hard to move in the hallway though when those kids kept coming towards her like a raging river. She was forced to go back, behind a trash can. What now? She didn't want to get stomped, it hurt. She didn't want to stay here either, not when her Hypnos was needing her. She couldn't think of any other way to get her than...

A blazing energy signature was so strong that anyone in powered form could feel it. She was like a shining beacon, giving a signal to who knows how far that there was a guardian cat in the school building. A guardian cat in her human form. Cora wasn't fond of this form, remembering well of what happened when she was in this form on Earth last time. Right now though it seemed to be the only way to move forward. The cat form was simply too small.

She moved in the side of the hall way, finding it the fastest way to move around. Eventually, she spotted Sassolite, Hygiea and Hypnos. Oh, how she had wished that she would been wrong when having the feeling of Hypnos being in danger.

"Don't hurt her!" she called out to Sassolite when hurrying her steps towards them.

Sassolite was in her own way enjoying herself. She was stood behind two youmas that were hungry and had small children in front of them. She did have to wonder why they were sent on such a stupid mission but she wasn't bothered, at least she would have enough energy to take back.

Then a teacher arrived.

"You are kidding right? These are my pets... and they are hungry. Also I really hate children. Maybe you should look outside and just see what my lovely pets think about your beloved children." The bodies were scattered over the playground but Sass didn't care. There was a teacher out there as well, she still her the starseed in case either she or the youma needed a boost of energy. She decided the teacher was too dumb for her liking and let loose an arrow at her.

Then a cat arrived. It wasn't *********. Damn, she would have loved to have killed that little thing as well. Oh well a different cat could die she wouldn't care.

"You cats are just so stupid. Protecting children... or are you the cat making children into senshi? Well you can watch them die and it would be all your fault. After all they never needed to be part of a battle." She smirked a little and let an arrow loose at the cat as well. Her two youma charging forwards, the one after Hygeia and the other one heading towards well anyone who was in it's way.

Alexis heard the commotion, she didn't get the desk to the door. She got it far enough that it'd stop the door from opening completely. The problem was, the shouting and screaming coming from the hallways was starting to get her worried. All the kids were watching her too, Alexis looked from them to the door and back.

She paused, glancing outside... oh she couldn't send her kids out the windows.... She frowned seeing the mess. Oh this was a catastrophe, "Oh... how does anyone live here sanely?" She asked before gripping the broom tighter. "Children, I'm going to tell you something very, very, unusual to do..."

She pointed to the cabinets, "All of you grab paint, or glue, or whatever you can find. If anyone comes in here trying to hurt you; until this mess is over.... Use it. Blind them, I don't care as long as you don't get hurt." She said she put the broom over her shoulder.

"I'm going to try to help. The Desk will give you guys a bit of time to figure out if the person's okay or not." With that Alexis poked her head out the door of the classroom before squeezing out watching the chaos of a dog chasing a little senshi. Oh how she wished she paid more attention to the terrorist attacks and what they did. The last one she saw was around Christmas time... she frowned again.

Energy snatching? That was a new trick that the inexperienced Ixion had never seen before. Why on earth would they want to steal energy? Ixion watched as the faces of his peers grew tired, looking frail and the color leaving their cheeks. But Hug-Bell had intervened, and the focus of the Nega captain was now on this other chibi senshi.

Following Polaris’s orders, Ixion attempted to move to join Hug-Bell in defense of the kids. There was just one little problem. The Ukenite’s youma was lunging at them, snarling and ready to bite.

The boy ran around to the side of Polaris as she dove to fend off the youma. Ixion was running parallel beside her. Polaris would be able to take care of herself, she was big girl after all. Hug-Bell on the other hand… Ixion was just as skeptical of her abilities as a chibi senshi as other older senshi had been of him. The yellow , teddy bear hugging senshi was a fair bit smaller than he was. It was hypocritical, but Ixion couldn’t help but think that although brave, there was no way Hug-Bell could fend off a Captain by herself.

When Polaris’s shoulder collided with the youma, Ixion used it as his chance to get to Hug-Bell and the Captain. He leapt over the tail-end of the youma and made a dash to meet Hug-Bell; taking one long stride Ixion jumped on top of one of the newly moved desks, feeling that added height would give him an advantage.

“This isn’t like taking candy from a baby! Kids can fight back!” Ixion shouted at the nega. Thinking back, Ixion tried to recall what Super Sailor Themis had told him. Always try to disable an enemy if you can’t beat them right away. Ukenite definitely needed to be taken down a peg or two before either himself or Hug-Bell attempted to attack him head-on again.

“Bad guys only get coal, you know! Ixion Coal Rush!” A hefty fist sized piece of black coal appeared in Ixion’s hands and was immediately thrown at Ukenite’s face. Always go for the face, Ixion knew that much.

The coal hit Ukenite in the chin and exploded into a surprising cloud of soot, covering the captain’s neck and mouth in fowl tasting debris. Not the result the boy was hoping for, but good enough.

Ixion winked at Hug-Bell. Then he waved his hand, gesturing that they should check on their schoolmates.

As the arrow dug into her elbow, Cora let out a little wince. It hurt, so so much! It hadn't even got deep even! Still, it hurt! However, what Sassolite had said to her helped to ignore the pain.

"Better a child senshi who can protect herself and her dear friends than a dead child," she growled. She didn't deny the fact she was a guardian cat that had awakened a chibi but she didn't really confirmed that either. The cat girl straightened her stance and pulled the arrow out of her body, making a wince again as it hurt. She rose her pink eyes to stare right straight at negaverse captain's own ones and a flash of anger could be seen in her gaze. "I won't see them die because you have to take me down before going that far!!"

Without a warning, a star sign on her forehead flashed brightly and a laser beam was sent from there at Sassolite's way. It was fueled by all her anger and fury. The beam came out stronger than she intended, actually it's strength surprised even Cora herself. Her lips formed silently a word 'wow' when she watched Sassolite and the effect the beam had caused to her. Well, that would make her busy for a moment.

She quickly glanced around with her surroundings. The situation made her worried. There were way too enemies compared to their strength and even worse, they were all more or less in panic. They needed a back-up.

Energy signatures of Ixion, Hug-Bell and Polaris were sending a pulsing signal to her brains, reminding of their presence. That's it! There their back-up were!

The cat girl turned on her heels and kneeled down in front of Hypnos, her pink eyes now on her eye level. She gave her a reassuring smile. "Hey. It's okay to be scared." Tone of her voice was very warm, almost motherly. Her delicate fingers took one of Hypnos' bangs and moved it behind her ear. "But you need to be strong? Be strong for me, okay?"

She looked behind her at somewhere where Sassolite should be. Turning a back to the enemy was potentially a stupid move but she trusted her attack to give her enough time to have this talk with Hypnos.

"Listen," Cora said after turning around to face Hypnos again. Her voice turned to a little worried and hasty. "We don't have much time so I'll make it quick.... I sense energy of other senshi." She waved at her hand towards the direction wherearound Polaris and others were. "From over there, I think. So... I think we should go over there.... We can work better as one big team than as few small teams. We can protect everyone better." She gulped a little. Time was running out. "Will you be a good girl and help me to lead others safe?"

One last reassuring smile she gave to the small senshi before patting gently at her shoulder.

"I trust in you, Hypnos."

There was no dog ramming itself into the wall like she had hoped. Instead, its head - more specifically its mouth - and attention was now on an adult instead. One that had tried to protect her for some reason. Hygiea's eyes went wide and a pained noise came out of her mouth, unable to really put what she was seeing into words. It was a little disturbing for a nine year old to see, sure she watched movies that were graphic but this was well, real.

"I was doing fine!" She cried out to Ms. Lily, in a defiant way and an ease on herself. Why did the lady do that? Didn't she know that she had super powers or anything? Tears began to well into her eyes as she tried to go after the dog youma, to make it let go of the woman who stupidly tried to help her. Little fists went in, ready to punch at the thing but before a swing could connect the thing yowled with pain. Hygiea's gaze turned to see the other senshi rush to her side and grab her hand.

"Others?" Hygiea asked, her eyes still misty and cheeks a little stained with tears as she near blindly followed Hypnos and let her lead the way. Her own hand tightened around the one that was pulling her along, even though she desperately wanted to go back and beat the crap out of those creatures. They were still following them, which well... could be a good sign she would still be able to but, "shouldn't we beat those things before we lead them to others?" Wouldn't that make the fight worse?

Before she got her answer, the little group nearly fell into the room where an even larger battle seemed to be going on. Hygiea's eyes went wide as one arm rubbed at them to clear them, "why did we let those things follow us if this looks worse?!" She demanded out of Hypnos, her hands shooting out to pull at Hypnos' collar forcefully.