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 Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:07 pm
He could see them ahead of him; two Senshi and two civilians, a male and a female. Captain Alumo drew back his weapon as he directed his feet towards them. Civilians or not, they were still corresponding with the Senshi, and therefore must be eliminated. Killing them would be easy, especially since there was nowhere for them to hide.
… Where was that rumbling coming from…?
He barely had enough time to dodge out of the way, a spout of near boiling water suddenly shooting up from the path directly in front of him, singeing one of his legs. Alumo grimaced in pain as he backed away from the water as it rained down, not wanting to be burned any more than he already had been.
Geysers?? What the hell?? If it was the Guardian’s doing, oh, he was seriously going to have to make him pay for that.
By the time the water had been relieved from under the blackened crust, though, the four he’d spied just earlier had disappeared. Damnit… They couldn’t have gone far, though. Perhaps they’d just moved further onto the zone.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:08 pm
Ganymede jumped back with a very undignified yelp when the geyser shot up in front of them. Holy hell, what was wrong with this place? Why did they have to come somewhere dangerous? They could get burned -- or worse, be killed! Sorry, but he had no intention on losing his life for any of this crap.
He listened to Europa and the civilian talk as he followed behind them, trying to get his heart to still after the surprise and glancing around to make sure he wasn't overlooking something else that could potentially be very hazardous. He made sure to keep moving as Europa had instructed, though with his luck he'd end up getting burned anyway. He just wasn't built for this sort of thing. He could appreciate a bit of danger and something to get the adrenaline going, but this wasn't exactly his ideal form of danger.
"It'd be nice if there wasn't any fighting, but somehow I don't think it's going to be very inactive for very long," he grumbled in response to the civilian girl's question.
It sucked even worse this time. At least in the previous battle there weren't any innocent people to worry about. Now he was going to feel obligated to keep her a** safe instead of simply worrying about himself. And, glancing around the field and the area around it, it seemed as if she wasn't the only civilian who'd managed to make her way here. Wonderful.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:10 pm
Tony was more than surprised when boiling hot water came spilling from geysers nearby. His slippers were hardly enough to protect him from anything, and he certainly did not want to burn his feet off in an overenthusiastic sauna. He yelped and tried to climb up onto the nearest rock, hoping it would keep him safe.
His eyes darted around him, spotting senshi talking to one another, reacting to the same change in situation as he was, though probably a bit more gracefully.
The half naked man was not happy.
He spotted a senshi nearby him, waving his arms frantically. "Are you okay?" he called, seeing that Gomeisa looked fairly dazed, though he didn't see any burns or injuries on her. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw a senshi and a... much smaller senshi. How young was that girl? Was she safe? Hopefully Maia would be taking care of Hypnos, though Tony didn't know either of their names.
He also noticed that, at least, he wasn't the only one without all of their clothes on. He could take comfort in that. Kind of?
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:12 pm
All four paws back on the ground, Zirconia seemed to get her bearings, at least enough to look to Maia, return her nod, and keep enough of her wits to not lose track of her immediate surroundings again. She managed to jump from stone to another stone and then avoid a nearby geyser, with much less panic. And then another. Okay, she she wouldn't be scalded cat just yet.
Maia seemed to move towards a child senshi, which was... new. A senshi in training? Definitely not something that should be on the battlefield, she decided.
She followed Maia, not entirely, she was still several feet away from her and Hypnos, but she wanted to get close enough to feel less cowardly, and also to curiously inspect the travel sized senshi. However, another geyser sent her speeding around to avoid the water, and she found herself in a stance that looked near pounce ready. Darting in circles around Maia counted as doing something, right?
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:12 pm
Zone One
Sailor Leto shrieked rather loudly as she suddenly appeared in this land for the first time and geysers were spouting hot water around her. "Holy s**t!" she screeched and side-stepped the geysers until she was safely out of the way.
"Where the hell am I....?" she murmured to herself quietly. She took a quick look around, noticing other Senshi surrounding her along with jagged rocks and hot lava. Her jaw dropped as she starred dumbfounded, watching what she assumed were Negaverse agents approaching the group standing on... a volcano? She blinked a few times and pinched her arm to see if she wasn't imagining every second of this- she winced and sighed.
"Great....." she took a quick look around to see if she could find any other members of the Blood Moon Court- they were the only senshi she knew and she figured they may know more than she did at this point.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:14 pm
Alkaid felt the earth trembling beneath her feet, saw the first jets of boiling water shoot up into the air, and reached for her cloak to try and shield her face. It wasn't meant to cover her entire body, but maybe if she could just stop it from --
Before she could even get her hand around the hem she felt herself roughly pulled towards Z and the world around her was shrouded in darkness as the first hot waves fell. She could hear her heartbeat pounding roughly in her ears as she took a few deep breaths, shocked by the Captain's quick actions and surprised to find herself in such close proximity to him.
"I'm fine, thank you" she breathed, picking her head up from where it had been pressed into Zinkenite's shoulder in the scuffle. She curled her arms into herself to shield them better beneath the coat and tried to steady herself. If Zink had been one second slower, what would have happened to her? In that moment she knew the Negaverse to be more of a family than she had ever had amongst the Senshi. Would Nemesis have done that for her? Saiph? Castor? No, the Senshi knew nothing of family.
"We have to find a way to get out from under this and find a dry spot," she whispered, listening to the rain pelt down all around them. "We can't fight if we're hiding, we'll be open targets."
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:14 pm
She rubbernecked, looking everywhere around her to figure out who friend - or foe - would be, beyond the screeching, tantrum-throwing Guardian losing his s**t atop the volcano thing.
It was while she was looking that she got to see a really dorky looking male Senshi getting lifted several feet into the air; he flailed like a dying fish might and then - oh god, ew - he vomited. Way to go, Senshi. That just confirmed for her: the Senshi had no business trying to fight the Negaverse. They just weren't made of tough stuff, at all. Cocky, arrogant, stupid and utterly useless in a battle... "Huh?" Moonstone shook her head and lept back, one of the geysers having belated popped up directly infront of her again - the heated water distracted her from recalling the few Senshi she actually had gotten into a real fight with.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:15 pm
When Merlin smiled, albeit it with no hidden amount of anxiety, Gianfar gave him a thumb's up and smiled right back at him. Thatta boy! The cat was right too, they all needed to keep their guard up. They were on a volcano, even without the negaverse trying to crawl right up with them this was a dangerous place to be! Suddenly the ground started shaking and Gianfar nearly fell right on his a**, clinging to Merlin to catch his balance with an admittedly girly cry of surprise. Geysers?! What?! Why were they...s**t!
Another scream got his attention and he looked up to see what was happening, following the trail of scalding hot water to...
...Didn't that only happen in cartoons?!
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:17 pm
Maia smiled at Hynos moving back toward Zirconia, but frowned slightly at her question. She shook her head slightly, "I have not seen Quail, since, well since that night and the big kitty. I think that was him telling us to get out. I do not think he wants us here."
Maia looked around jumping as another geyser spotting up beside her, she stiffened slightly, but did not jump. She did not want to frighten the young senshi, she was use to enteracting with you children and while she was sure the young senshi was probably more mature than most, she was better safe than sorry.
"How do you know the big kitty," she asked , "um Leopard's Eye is what I think Quail called him." She wondered if Hypnos knowing the leopard was a good thing and if it was she wasn't opposed to making her way to him.
Reaching Zirconia again, she gave a quick introduction, to the darting kitty. "Zirconia this is Hypnos, and Hypnos this is Zirconia. I'm am Maia, if you do not remember."
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:18 pm
"No, definitely not an option," replied Europa, veering out of the way as a geyser went off dangerously close to her right side. It managed to catch her elbow as she moved, and the senshi cursed under her breath. "Not when the landscape is trying to kill us."
She raised her elbow and tried to blow on it, but the burn was on that weird part of her arm that she couldn't even see particularly well. God damn it, she didn't know how she'd gotten here, but she wanted to find the inevitable Negaversers, beat them up, and survive until morning.
Turning her attention back to Tate, she nodded. "I doubt they know any more about this place than we do," she guessed, squinting through the steam to try to get a sense of the unfamiliar landscape. "Just as soon as we find them... I'm sure we'll be fighting."
Then something struck her as odd. Although she didn't stop walking, as she would normally be accustomed to do when in the midst of an epiphany, Europa bit her lip for a moment while she studied Tate. "Wait, you know Taranis?" she asked.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:18 pm
The brunette yelped, jumpily and took steps away from nearby geysers. This magic s**t was worse than the crappy 2012 movie with John Cusack in it. For a moment she wished he were here, he was the luckiest damn man in the world, escaping absolutely everything in that movie.
Gomeisa looked up at Tony, startled; she was so wrapped in her own thoughts and condition that she did notice the half naked man. Blushing she tried to focus on a spot just past him so that she wasn't staring directly at him.
"I'm f-fine," she resisted the urge to yelp again and scurried over to the adult civillian. "I'm Sailor Gomeisa..you wouldn't happen to know what's going on?" She wasn't going to look down on the man for his lack of powers, but maybe just a little for his fashion sense. With the most recent odd happenings in dreams Gomeisa was sure she wasn't going to fall asleep in footy pajamas ever again.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:20 pm
Zink nodded in agreement with her assessment. "Here...can you help pull my goggles up." He requested, an extra set of hands while he tried to keep her covered. "I;ll try and get out of this coat, it's cooler for me and safer for you." He assured before she could protest. "I'm sorry I haven't a spare mask, it cuts back on the sulfur but its humid as hell." He said to make light of the situation as a line of sweat ran down from his temple, the roots of his hair had already darkened well past indigo into almost navy from sweat.
He carefully twisted trying not to dislodge her as she helped, but to at least work his arms free, after that they could just tug the coat free of his 'belt' chain and go from there.... actually he wondered if that was loose enough to come off over his head too, no time to play right now though, that would be for later if they needed it.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:20 pm
Azzo squeaked as he dodged a blast of hot water. "Holy crap." It was hot already but it was getting more and more like an oven. "Why is it that dreams always seem like they want to kill you?" He asked almost running into Ganymede, "Sorry." He apologized quickly noticing a captain seemed to have spotted them.
"I think we might have more trouble than getting boiled to death." He frowned, having not noticed that Europa hadn't answered his question.
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:26 pm
The small senshi frowned when Sailor Maia had told her that she hadn't seen mister birdy since... since that unforgettable night. Oh... she hoped he was okay. No, she shouldn't think like that. She had already decided he was okay. He had to be! The child nodded her head solemnly but then she mentioned Big Kitty and the child's face brightened up. She looked around frantically. He was here? Big Kitty? She didn't see him!
"He's here?" She asked, almost completely ignoring everything she had said after wards. Even the part about how she knew him. She was too excited to think he was here. She even ignored the party about him being the one to tell them to get out. She was just too happy he was okay and here! "Big Kitty is here?"
"BIG KITTY! BIG KITTY! Where are you Big Kitty?"
She looked down as if she expected to find Big Kitty down there.
"Oh..."
There was a little kitty.
"Hi little kitty. Zir... con... ya?" Was that it?
The poor cat looked rather... unhappy on the ground and the child opened her arms up. Maybe the kitty wanted a ride?
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Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:26 pm
There were people on the high ground. Ever blinked in that direction, distracted for a moment -- long enough to get splattered with more hot water, to leave him hissing and kicking into motion. High ground sounded like an amazing idea, now, and he scrabbled toward the people up on the hill, clutching at the waist of his pants in an attempt to keep them from pooling down around his ankles, instead.
"Hey! Up there!" As he approached, it became almost painfully obvious that most people around here were dressed better than him. No, not just better than him; they were dressed weirdly, like something out of a variety show. He recognized it vaguely from his one or two interactions with the terrorists...well. He raised a hand to wave in Tony's direction anyway.
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