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God damn his nuts hurts.

The first thing the newly born senshi of twilight had learned after his sudden return to the living - pages were vicious little ******** his body felt strangely heavy for one who had been lacking one for so long - fingers flexing as if he was trying to assure himself that yes, he now owned fingers again.

He'd sat on a pile of debris when the barrier had gone up, hoping to rest a bit, and trying to wrap his brain around what the hell was going on.

It wasn't working too well, obviously.

Then the barrier went down again, and Joshua's eyes narrowed.

Time to find that brown-haired b***h and claw out her ovaries. Or something.

Kestrel had listened to what Leto said and took it in, luckily while there was still time to.

"Leto, got it." She wasn't sure what she meant about cats and then Howlite (what kind of name was that?) came up and confused her even more. Howlite wasn't in the same kind of clothes as they were and so she wondered if she were one of the negaverse Leto had mentioned. There was another girl who walked up to them, another senshi? Oh this was so confusing!

Then the floor shook and the golden dome was breaking.

"Guessing this is the bit where we don't die right?" Kestrel was so confused and again a cat was mentioned. How odd. On the plus side she knew she was right now, Leto had confirmed it. Those senshi had brought them here to die, they were in the wrong. Kestrel had known it all along!

It was a good thing that Leo was standing beside Chronos when the barrier went down. The knights hadn't assembled yet, not close enough to be of real use to her, but he and Flora at least were present and they would have to be enough for just then. With Virgo's absence, they were lacking their perfect shield, but still could -- and would -- do everything in his power to make certain that his princess remained safe and protected.

His hand vised on hers and he tucked her behind him, voice level as he instructed, "Please stay behind me, Princess. If you must fight, fight to defend."

The fury from before, banked only in consideration of his Royal and the effort to put her needs above his, began again in the pit of his stomach. Virgo was lost to him, as were Sagittarius, Aries... but this would not be a replay of the past. Eerily, he could recall memories of a similar battle fought, the final moments before Chaos overtook them and claimed each and every one of them; the past, whispering to the future, of how it would be. Again and again and again.

But no. He would not allow that to happen this time. Not this time.

"Princess, Flora, close your eyes," he murmured.

"Chronos Knights!" He lifted both of his hands, summoning magic and flashing a bright, disorienting light across the battlefield. The only person who could see through it at the core of it was Leo, and that was fine; this was both protection and beacon, a signal for the Knights to gather to their Princess and protect, and a deterrent against enemy forces to attack.

After all, looking into his light was, at times, like looking directly into the sun. The biggest disadvantage was that his magic didn't discriminate against friend or foe; at least he was standing to the back. Hopefully, most of his allies hadn't been blinded, but... he considered protecting Chronos, and drawing her knights to her, more important than the temporary sunblinding effects that other senshi might suffer.

The light pulsed now, bright and blinding, and from the core of it, he shouted again. "Protect your Princess!"

With that, he canceled his magic, throwing the sphere around Chronos back into regular light, and hoped that it had been enough -- that the Knights who were meant to had seen the signal, and any enemies who had been looking were at least suffering a little.

Just in case, however, he remained in front of Chronos, battle-ready. He wasn't fool enough to think that his first-stage attack was enough to do real harm to the hordes of Chaos, and he wasn't going to venture from Chronos' side until she had adequate protection in his place.

Camelot of Earth was ready to defend his temporary home, and those that he loved that remained. He was still stinging from the loss of his companions so far, but it solidified into a grim resolve. A warrior's resolve. His mind had not turned everything over just yet: he was running on empty. He hadn't cleaned the blood that had dried to the side of his face and in his hair, dark against the armor of his shoulder and chest.

He didn't think about Virgo or Harmony, telling Kyndall her daughter had died despite all his promises to the both of them, all his determination to play the role his costume ordered, or the growing numbers of the enemy. He didn't think about revenge, either. His goal was still to protect and serve. He was a knight of this realm, in service of a Princess, and would use his life to that end.

He held his shield and himself upright proudly.


General Painite, for her part, was more than ready to charge the closest knight she could find as soon as she was able. She hoped her compatriots would fight their hardest, and had no doubt in the skills of those like Benitoite, Jarosite and Sugilite. They, and many others, hopefully all of them gathered, would make the Negaverse proud, and crumble the senshi that stood before them like bowling pins.

Now was their time to rise.

(I missed most of the last one so I'm not really in any of the RPs right now. If anyone wants to hang out with Painite or Camelot feel free to do so!)

Sailor Draconis had fled, if not after shouting some insults to the other side. When she had returned to the outpost to sleep, she had examined her body in horror. Never had she been so scratched up or bruised. Never. Her hair was an absolute mess, and she was pretty sure they didn't have product up in space.

She had fallen asleep at some point in one of the beds. Her dreams ... well no, they were nightmares weren't they? She had been plagued with nightmares of Sugilite's feral form, and Howlite's evil stare. It had been so deep, the chaos in their eyes. It wasn't something that came from the nega-beast, it was something far older, far more powerful.

It was the negaverse.

Nevermind that. Sailor Draconis stood guarding the outpost for sometime, just watching the barrier slowly deteriorate. She was thankful to the civilians for at least buying some time to sleep, but it was obvious they weren't going to last. Anxiously, Draconis tapped her heeled boot on the rough stone.

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Peklo was sore all over. ALL over. She wasn't unfit, she did swimming regularly after all. She just wasn't fit for all the adrenaline and excitement and sorrow and death ...

It would be a lie to say that her mind wasn't still on Felix and Callum. She had the chance to protect Felix. She had it. Peklo could've stood there and defended like a real knight would have. But she had been too scared. She ran off for the protection of Celsus, and because of it, Felix had died. And Callum...

The universe could only take so much.

Nevermind that though. It wasn't the time. She already did her moping. Eventually she had fallen asleep on one of the beds in the outpost, out of sheer exhaustion, but not before staying up for hours on end, thinking about her failure as a knight. Had Celsus been with her when she fell asleep? She couldn't remember. It wasn't the time. The barrier was growing thinner every second.

Protect your princess!

The words reverberated in her ears, and she knew the encouragement they were supposed to provide, but it never came. She was still nervous, biting her lip, and slowly tugging on the edges of her braids. She was still scared, anxious, afraid. In short? She was still Layton.

There hadn't been much else to do so -- Veer hunted down Cameron to growl out his frustration and then challenge him to a game of cards. Something luck-based, something mindless, because his luck was good and his mind was fried right about now. Some part of him thought maybe, just maybe, this was all a load of crap. He'd had too much soda before bedtime. Fallen asleep at his computer.

So it was war. Game after game, cards thrown down opposite each other, the pair of them tying endlessly and getting more agitated by the second. When the shield went down, Veer was more than ready to hit something, and it would probably be better if it wasn't his new ally.

Kestrel was more confused then ever. Eternal? She listened to everyone as they came over but nothing really made sense. What was going on? She did however turn when Ares appeared and suddenly another girl was standing there much like she had been. She also wasn't sure this was the best way to win a war, making new recruits then leaving them but she really had no idea what was going on.

Then the creature behind them made a noise, a rather large roar in fact. Wasn't she told to protect that? She looked around and made sure she knew what was going on. Protect the monster and stay alive. The rest of it, well hopefully she would be alive at the end to know what was going on.