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"God, finally!" That had taken forever! But finally ********* managed to pull the last of the glowing youma off of Egeria. The poor girl, Hygiea frowned, not even daring to look at the pile of pulled off bugs behind her. She also didn't want to even think of how many had even bitten her teal teammate.

"This isn't the best of places to sleep, Egeria." Hygiea frowned, holding her up by the shoulder. There were still swarms of youma about and apparently high ranking negaverse people... but she looked so tired; and if Ixion had looked as out of it with only so many on his face... man, it was surprising the other girl was still awake. The orange clad senshi dared to bit her bottom lip, not knowing if there was still purple goo remaining.

"*********, I'm going to go help the others..." It was the best thing she could think of doing. Like with the male chibi senshi, it was no use babysitting each other when the fight could go quicker with people fighting; it made the most sense to the senshi of herbs and all. Daring a sparing glance at her teammate, Hygiea got to her feet and joined the others.

It seemed like Zirconia had been found and rescued and the other two had regained some strength. As she got to Hugbell and Ixion, she kicked a rock as hard as she could towards a group of gathered Youma.

"What'd I miss?" The usual vigor in her voice wasn't there. These bugs were getting super annoying!

Egeria wasn't really awake enough to realise that ********* should be fighting in fact part of her knew that there were loads of fleas about but the fact she was about to fight or should be fighting was going over her head. Even Hygiea mentioning it being a bad place to sleep was translated to her that it was a good place to sleep and she fell against a beam, hugging ********* close to her, with her head feeling suddenly very heavy.

"Night *********..." She let the words out as her heavy eyes finally closed. This was one small senshi that wasn't about to wake up. She felt like she had been running several marathons and all she wanted to do was sleep. It seemed energy didn't return as quickly as it was lost.

It seemed what was taken could not be returned, and the toll of the youma had been a bit too much on the guardian cat, Zirconia, and small chibi, Egeria. Both were passed out, exhausted from the fleas that had latched on and drained them. These tiny creatures had only been working as solitary soldiers assigned to maybe one child at a time, twins if they were lucky. For many to attack one creature - well, the results were clear. It was only with luck and determination that the chibis and remaining guardian cat had saved their friends from being drained to the point of grave danger, though they certainly weren't out of the woods yet.

The youma were scattering about, dodging thrown rocks and feeble paw swats as they tried to get close again. They had tasted energy and wanted more. Now they were just trying to see how to go about it without getting smushed. They had heard the crunches of their fellow fleas being smashed under boots and hit with rocks and certainly wanted none of that. Just as one group was collecting together, discussing and getting ready to attack once again, a rock from Hygiea had hit them square in the center, throwing them about. A few fell on their backs, while a few others spun off into the dark and near some industrial pipes that curved out of the ground, ran a ways, and turned into a wall. The moment a few of those kicked fleas were forced near, they jerked and ran back frantically away. Despite the dust, a warning sign hanging from a few knobs cautioned that there was hot steam.

Well, the fleas had certainly not liked Ixion's coals.

The senshi of coal watched the little youma bugs scurry away across the floor. He was trying to see what small group of fleas would be easiest to attack. What the boy ended up noticing was their quick retreat from that pipe that was labeled caution. As they quickly ran away from the pipe, Ixion wondered why. Maybe it has to do with the heat. No one really liked to be burned. “I don’t think they like the heat.” Ixion grinned a bit, realizing they really didn’t like his powers much either. “Or me. Maybe if we can get to that pipe, we can fry these suckers!”

An idea started to form in the senshi’s head. What would happen if they turned the valve and released some steam? He had to try to make his way over there. While Hypnos had chosen to protect her comrades, Ixion would continue to fight offensively. “Ixion Ember Blitz!”

Calling upon his power once more, Ixion threw two hot coals towards a pile of youma. The coals acted a bit like a bowling ball against a set of pins. Ixion followed a path cleared by the coal, attempting to make his way to the pipe.

Hug-bell nodded and placed Zirconia beside Egeria before punching Barnaby. After that was done she followed after Hygiea and Ixion Barnaby held in her right hand he was bouncing along as she ran stepping on bugs or occasionally using Barnaby like Hypnos was using her bunny and swinging him to smack bugs away.

A lonely flea youma was missing from the swarm. It had heard the call from the mother den and was heading back home but there was an obstacle on it's way. An obstacle which had cream and light chestnut colored fur, pink curious eyes and beautiful white cloth with golden lace decorations. Any time the youma tried to round the obstacle, it seemed that youma's path was blocked.

Cora, an obstacle, was confused about the flea youma before her eyes. She recognized it as a youma but didn't seem to panic about it. Would youma this small be even dangerous? Maybe it was youma's baby? Did they have babies? Cora giggled of the thought and lightly pawed the youma as it moved. It was acting like a little mouse that she had confronted in the streets. she wanted to play hunt with this one.

Suddenly, the youma made a huge jumped over the guardian cat. It didn't want to play. "H-Hey!" Cora yelped and run after the youma, not suspecting the potential of danger when doing so.

The youma led Cora inside the abandoned factory where the fight between swarm of flea youmas and chibi senshis was taking a place. While the youma itself quickly blended in the swarm, the guardian cat just stood there for a moment and stared. What was happening here?

She quickly woke up from her confusing state when she saw a flea youma jumped towards Hypnos. Quickly she sprinted and jumped over Egeria and Zirconia and swatted the bug away. "What is going on?" the confused guardian cat asked and swung a paw towards a little youma that was attacking her after it had felt a new sourse of fresh energy. "Hypnos, shouldn't you be in bed?"

Hug-bell was staring at the pipes, and looking at the sign, this might not be the best idea in the world. However the super chibi senshi was looking for something to smack the handles with. "We're going to have to be careful, there's not tellings how hot this steam will be." She said looking at Hygiea and Ixion.

She paused glancing back at the others, before finally finding what she was looking for. It was slightly short but a long enough piece of angle-iron that she could pick up and heave at the pipe's gauges. "Watch out." She said as she swung at the pipes.