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Eternal Sailor Acubens

Character HP: 68/70
Madness Meter: 20/50
BOSS: 27/70
Madness: 35/110

Mintaka screamed as Acubens kicked out a mirror and her eyes widened. So that was it? Kick out the mirrors and save Mintaka? It seemed so simple, especially compared to how much ******** effort it took to get here... how much madness they had dealt with in the park before. Could it really have been just like that? They didn't even have to touch Mintaka. Didn't have to hurt her any more than they already had. She glanced at Remarque and whispered, "the mirrors," before darting out from behind him to the next nearest one. When she finally found her voice, she screamed at the top of her lungs, "everyone, find a mirror and kick it the ******** out," following suit herself. The mirror smashed beneath her heel again, falling into a broken pile of glass.

As she danced out of the way of the darkness that spilled out of the mirror, her eyes drifted over to a fallen senshi, her eyes lifeless. Acubens' heart leaped into her throat at the sight and she dashed, ignoring the pain in her abdomen, for the fallen senshi. Was it too late for a mirror shard to save her? Acubens looked at the three in her hands and then at the pitch black shard in Juliet's hands.

"God damn, girl, what did you do?"

Look at you... hunting for glory once again. Why not just let her die? Then she can never try and challenge you for your spotlight?

It was getting harder to ignore the voices that rung out as clearly as if they were truly spoken. Acubens shook her head violently as though shaking the vicious thoughts from her own head because that's all they were. Whispers from her own mind, twisted by whatever was coming out of that ******** box in Mintaka's hands. Acubens was going to crush that ******** thing the first chance she ******** got.

Sailor Hydrus

He couldn't bear it, he couldn't bear to see her like this. He clutched the mirror shard in his hand and winced as she screamed. Hydrus held out the shard and willed it to consume as much blackness from her as it could.

He could do this, he could do this he couldn't do this why was he doing this/ What was his goal, why do this if it didn't further a goal? He loved her, he didn't love her, she was like a sister! He didn't want her to just be a sister, she'd never be more than a sister. He hated her, he hated Aurostibite, he hated himself more than anything. Rage surged through him then despair then chaos then agony and on, and on, and on and on and on and--

She will never care for you like you care for her. The thought, the words shot like an arrow through his chest. Hydrus saw her walking away, saw her bloody, saw her lifeless, yellow eyes wide yet unseeing. The blackness consumed him, crawling further up his arms and staining his fuku. The tall senshi swayed and collapsed on the floor, terror in his eyes.

Gone gone gone he failed he failed he failed he failed gone gone gone gone

Guardian Haymitch

It seemed to be working! Except, the senshi he'd avoided stepping on had gone all wrong and one of the others was trying to snap her out of it. Haymitch bounded over and nuzzled Juliet's foot, mewling in concern.

"Is she... okay? Acuby is she okay?" he asked the Eternal Senshi, ears pressed against his skull and tail low. He wanted to help, he wanted to do something, anything but he wasn't like the senshi. He couldn't command wraiths, or drain energy or... be of any use.

Useless little kitty, can't even find senshi to awaken or protect these ones... He whimpered again, flinching at the voices. He was a good kitty, he was a happy kitty! He could do his job, he could be a good guardian!

Then why haven't you protected them yet

"Shut up, shut up, shut up...." he growled at the voices whispering in his ears, eyes squeezing shut.

The onslaught of attacks, both to the labyrinth and to Mintaka herself made the whole of mirrorspace shake, and just as mirrors broke at Acubens hands, so did the labyrinth, Walls crumbling from the outside in, cracks in the ceiling of the room as pieces fell down.

Each drain of her madness brought her back to normal, or as normal as could be. The black stains on her skin repressed and faded back to the jeweled box she held and ever so slowly, the box shrunk in size.

It's vessel, once purified of its extra chaos sent out one powerful shockwave from Mintaka, A shrill scream escaping her body as it shook and collapsed on the ground. The box clattered to the side.

They didn't have much time now though, as the shockwave had increased the speed of Pandora's labyrinth to crumbles. They needed to escape. Any mirrors that were not broken flashed with various exits.

Mintaka laid lifeless in the middle of the floor.

OOC

Pandora's Labyrinth has come to an end! The labyrinth itself is collapsing at an alarming rate on itself, now that their is no vessel to hold it together. Exits can be made through any of the mirrors. IF your character has 30+ Madness though, (and if you choose) they will be chaos sickened for at least a week. (Think like the negaverse and too much consumption of starseeds) If you took a full 50 madness (Looking at you Juliet), Chaos madness has infected you a bit more strongly. This can be played any way (nightmares, A tinge of behavior change? Just enough to make it noticable.
It can fade after time though!)

The labyrinth will not be able to be found after this event! As it has currently destroyed itself. Think of it falling away in mirrorspace. If you do not want to make an exit post, then Mirrorspace will automatically eject you.

Sailor Sadalsuud

Sadalsuud had wanted to follow after Miss Kitten as she ran towards the white haired senshi - truly she had wanted to - but she had felt so weak that it felt like it was taking all her energy just to stand.

The whispers intermingled with the sounds of shattering glass, to the point where she wanted to clap her hands over her ears - but raising her hands would have taken more effort than she felt capable off even as a voice amongst the group yelled out for people to break the mirrors, but it seemed that other stronger people were following the request - or maybe it was just the one person - was the voice who had called out from before–

But whether it was one or many, Sadalsuud could hear the crashing tinkling of glass breaking - and as the glass continued to shatter so did the walls until the labyrinth started to crumble as pieces shattered and fell from what appeared to pass as ceiling...

There was a scream from the senshi with the white-hair, the darkness that had tainted her skin fading as she crumpled to the ground, the jewelled box in her hands clattering to the ground even as everything continued to shake around them–

And Sadalsuud wasn't sure how she managed to stumble towards one of the remaining mirrors but somehow she did so - or maybe it was mirrorspace pushing her out as it had done so once before when she had come to this space - but whether it was one, both or neither she was no longer in the labyrinth but instead close to where she had started by the mirror that she and Miss Kitten had initially gone through.

[Sadalsuud exit]