Staring at Muri's back in abject dismay as the very safe and reliable seeming Big Bro decided to run off and save China murder a crystal, Hybris fortunately did not have that much time to be mad about it, since soon enough there was lighting flashing down and then an even brighter light filled the area.
He could feel the ground shake underneath and hear the crash and collapse of ruins around them, but he couldn't see any of it. And when the ground gave way, he didn't have time to catch and grab any of the others, he was simply falling through a hole in the world, for what felt like much too long.
Was he the only one falling? Hybris flung an arm up and the other one out to reach for whatever was near, "Hello?! Could someone catch me? Please?"
It felt almost cartoonish, to be able to say that much, think this much, and still not hit the ground. And the part of his mind that was a constant, never ceasing log of observations in people's tones, mannerisms, expressions, appearance all for the purpose of later use, calmly stored this feeling too. A surreal landscape falling and falling to pieces and a body falling much too long within it. He hadn't played an Alice since he was was sixteen, and it'd be interesting to revisit.
Kore had heard the orders and just as she was heading towards those three girls surrounding the pretty boy. She ran as quickly as she could to provide the backup needed. That was until there was nothing to run on. The ruins around her were disappearing and ceasing to exist. Suddenly she felt the ground below her give way. She began to fall into a deep hole, one she hadn't seen before. She desperately tried to reach for something to grab onto, but it was too late. She was swallowed up by darkness. She truly didn't know what to do.
She wasn't sure what to do. So she just flung a ring of energy in the shape of a circlet in front of her to use as a light. Her senshi attack that was meant to attack someone she figured she'd use in another way. Sadly she still couldn't see much, but at least the light gave her a bit of comfort as she continued to fall. She wondered when her feet might touch the ground again.
Bélénos screamed as the floor ripped out from under her and everyone else, too. This was absolutely not what she expected from Mirrorspace getting some kind of Mirror-tick or something. Hybris flailed next to her, and while it wasn't exactly catching him to just hold him in the air as they all fell, it was better than nothing, right?
"Holy s**t holy s**t holy s**t," she chanted, holding tightly to Hybris's hand.
Meleph blinked at Volterra as ne took care of the entire problem for her. Well. Guess she didn't have to attack anything, if someone else was going to take care of the whole thing for her. Not that she was complaining. She didn't look hopeless, did she?
Well.
Maybe she wasn't hopeless at that point, but it sure felt pretty hopeless when things were exploding and there was suddenly no longer a floor. She yelped and tried to grab onto nothing but it obviously didn't work beside for getting her, well, a handful of nothing.
Maybe that did work.
"What do we do?!"
Besides die, she guessed-- wasn't that an ending. The world was spinning! This was going on too long to be a roller coaster! Didn't these transition to something else in the movies!
Everything changed from bad to worse as she saw the crystal break she didn’t even have time to process anything before the floor went out from beneath her. Just a quick scream as some of the shattered debris flew by and glanced her face. She could tell she was bleeding but that didn’t really matter, they were falling and she didn't want to find out what would happen if they hit the bottom of wherever this was.
“Hybris! Bélénos! Parysatis! We need to grab onto each other! It’s gonna be ok! Everything is going to be ok! We just have to stick together!” She reached out and grabbed onto Hybris’s wrist, making sure she had a tight enough grip without hurting him before reaching out for Parysatis. She had rope but no way to get it over to one of the mirrors. She kept running through options in her head but there wasn’t really anything she could think of and it scared her.
At least if they all chained together, it would slow their fall a bit and hopefully give them enough time to figure something out. She really hoped Remarque had something up his sleeve for this because this was totally not what she had signed up for. Yes to fighting shadows but not to her falling into an abyss.
Acubens wanted to be proud of Xihe, she really did. And she would be. Later. When everyone was safe and back home and had cuts and scraped tended to by people who loved them. But right now... she was afraid for her. And Avignon. She'd wanted to get them to at least super before Mirrorspace shat the bed. And while Remarque's answer of "mirrorspace" was as unhelpful as it was funny, Acubens didn't have time to crack a grin or retort. As soon as he spoke, something grabbed at her ankle and pulled her down, cracking her chin against the ground beneath her. She flipped herself onto her back and began to kick at the thing clawing its way up her leg, shattering it instantly into a shower of shimmering glass.
"I hate this part of mirrorspace," she growled at the prince, scrambling back to her feet in time to pull another shadow off of Tegmine's back while he wrestled with another at his front.
"If you’re fast or if you’ve got ranged magic, I think that’s our target.”
Acubens spared Tegmine exactly one half second of a glance before he nodded and turned his attention to the senshi Acubens had been watching. She turned to Xihe and Avignon in turn, clutching their hands and instructing, "Stay with Tegmine, Lacerta, and Ariadne. Two of them out rank you, and the other I'll castrate if anything happens to the two of you." She even went so far as to press kisses into the sides of their heads before she turned back to the crystal Remarque had revealed.
"Oh, baby," Acubens nearly cackled, shaking out her arms and shoulders. "Now you're speaking my language Remarque! Time for Momma to go to work!"
Her magic dripped from her lips like sweet honey just a second before the wind started whipping around her body. She hadn't used this magic in a while, finding either her eternal magic or her body to be weapon enough and... damn... she'd ******** missed this. She'd missed the speed and the way her heart throbbed in her throat as she rocketed forward, and she missed the thrum of the magic in her bones. She'd even missed the way it crackled and fizzed along her skin as he wore out, stopping her a few paces from the crystal itself. After a deep breath and a small break to catch her breath, Acubens did what she did best.
"Velociraptor Endow."
She hit stuff. She hit stuff hard, right along side other members of her court that saw fit to do the same. Between them, the members staying back to fight shades, and the one singular senshi holding the line outside, Acubens felt her heart swell with pride.
This was her home.
This was her family.
And no one and nothing touched them and lived.
Mirrorspace, however, had no care for her devotion nor her love, and quite literally crumbled beneath her feet. The sound of shattering glass made her ears ring and the weightlessness of falling made her stomach swoop and all she could think was that she promised her wife she'd be home.
Super Sailor Scout Attack: Velociraptor Agility Uses A power up of her first attack, Acubens now is able to get up to cheetah speed. Besides that, however, he is also a great deal more agile. She can now turn, for instance, and while it may not be on a dime, at least she can change direction. She can also stop sooner and without having to run into things. She can turn a little easier now as well, but it's still pretty sloppy and stopping is still an issue. She can use this attack 2 times per battle.
Eternal Sailor Attack: Velociraptor Endow Uses Acubens casts her magic and is surrounded by a red glow. For the next forty five seconds her speed is increased by 25% and she gains the ability to ‘slash’ at her opponents as if she were equipped with a raptor claw. This causes the sensation of pain but does not do any real damage unless the player wants to take on lasting damage; slashes can feel like either thin cuts or deep gashes. She must wait five second between slashes, however. She can use this attack once per battle.
So, it turned out that walking through an ominous frame into a dimension reliably purported to have an "army" of shadow creatures was... it wasn't the best choice. but Acubens had gone through, and Tegmine was not about to leave his sister. He also knew Ariadne and Lacerta would do the same, and he was not about to leave them either. Where is ladies went, Tegmine went too.
Shadows descended upon him immediately, pulled at his skin and fuku as soon as he stepped through the mirror. He knew Ariadne could take care of her herself. Of course he knew that. She out ranked him. But he couldn't help the way his arm curled protectively around her waist and pulled her closer to him. A shadow lurched to his side and his magic burst from his lips almost without his conscious thought.
"Tegmine Desert Preservation!"
Luckily, the shadow burst at the first impact of his magic. Unluckily, however, they just kept coming. Wave after wave after wave of shadows that cut like glass and Tegmine tried to keep his skin between Ariadne and the shadows, but there was only so much of him. He was dealing with one that charged him when he felt nails dig into his shoulders. Another impact of his magic to the shadow before him, but behind him... Tegmine would have to turn, putting Ariadne between himself and the attacker and that was... not an option.
Thank god for Acubens, forever having his back just like she always did. It was like the more time he got to know his sister's new face, the more she proved to him that she was the same woman she'd always been.
The second Remarque called for speed, he knew Acubens would answer. She didn't have a choice. And while calling herself "Momma" and talking about "going to work" was a bit much and he would absolutely bully her about it later, he was also... proud. He could remember how unsure she was as a White Moon senshi. How frightened and lost she was. And now, seeing her as a warrior, as a leader... how could he not be? She'd always looked up to him when they were kids, and now the tables had turned. And he didn't care. He looked up to her, and he told her as much, and he would even after he'd earned his own wings.
Lacerta had broken away, but Tegmine kept his eye on her. She was higher than him in rank, but he was still older. And he was still... himself. Acubens had made her their family and he'd be god damned if he left her on her own after that. Once he'd clocked where she was off to, he turned to the senshi under her care and nodded to them as well.
"We hold the line," he instructed. "Keep the shadows away for the senshi attacking the crystal. Nothing changes for us."
And it didn't. They kept fighting. Kept holding that line.
It didn't change.
Until it did, and they were all falling.
Sailor Scout Attack: Tegmine Desert Preservation Inspired by the mummies of paupers found in the deserts of Egypt. Tegmine calls out the name of his attack and holds out his hand and sand erupts from the palm of his hand. The sand, upon reaching the target, totally engulfs the target and begins the first stages of dehydrating them. Skin begins to feel tighter, joints grow stiff, and vocalization becomes difficult as the sand draws moisture from the body. The attack can reach five feet from him and can hit one target. The effects last for 25 seconds, and once the attack is done, the physical effects wear off. However, lingering thirst from dehydration may persist. May be used 2 times per battle.
One second Rana was trying to collect bandaids and the next a fist had collided with her cheek. Well... collided was a bit of an overstatement. It more like grazed it. The problem was that it had grazed the cut and smeared blood all over her cheek and the fist of the senshi she'd been trying to tend to. It hadn't even hurt, but that may have been because every thing was happening to fast. And Rana opened her mouth to say as much, to reassure the other senshi that it was okay, that she was okay, but then... he was off. Running after Remarque's call for attacks to the crystal.
Running off.
Always running off.
And then the other senshi ran off after him and Rana was left again. She tried to process what was happening and how fast it was happening around her, but that was, in the end, what did her in. A shadow caught her by surprise again, slicing at her belly as it ran by her, causing her to double over mostly in surprise. somewhere in the back of her mind, Rana knew that it was only superficial but... at that moment there was only fear. She was scared, so scared that she was surprised that her magic even worked, trembling from her lips as it did.
Still, the shadow that attacked her burst into shards of black glass and Rana took one moment, exactly one second, to feel proud of herself.
And then the floor gave out from under her and she was falling.
Sailor Scout Attack: Do You Think I’m Pretty? Sailor Rana asks this question and then points to an opponent. This person becomes the target of her attack. This person must answer the question with a “yes” or a “no”. Regardless of how the target answers, Rana attacks the target with spectral the scissors, creating the sensation of being stabbed, but creating no actual wound. Painful sensations last for 15 seconds. Attack cannot be thrown. She can use this attack three times per battle.
Quetzálcoatl had gotten the message on her compact from Remarque. She rarely had time to transform lately what with school, her family, her babysitting jobs, and all of her other normal life responsibilities but if the Prince himself was sending out a notice that there was something wrong in Mirrorspace and requesting help then it was probably something she needed to make time for. She doubted she'd be that much help given her inexperience and lack of power compared to many of her fellow court members but she still wanted to help where she could.
So at the appointed time she walked into her dressing mirror which rippled at her approach, it allowed her through and she headed to the Common Room. She didn't really know anyone there other than Remarque, something she made a mental note to fix at some point, and she also basically knew nothing about magical weirdness so she kept quiet and listened to what the others were all saying.
She followed the group and tried to wrap her head around it all, but a lot of Mirrorspace didn't make sense to her. The fluid nature of it all, maybe if she reached the rank of Eternal someday she'd have a full grasp on the concept. The mirror Remarque lead them to was definitely weird. She stared into the space like void where the mirror's backing should have been. It was pretty but unnerving. She could tell even for Mirrorspace, this was wrong this was not 'normal' even by magical standards.
She listened to Remarque recount what he knew, so there was an army of shadow creatures in there, that was not at all unnerving, though she supposed she did at least have experience fighting extradimensional monsters so that was something. Also if they were easy to beat like he said her magic might actually be useful she could probably knock a decent number out with her storrms. She decided she would leave the source, whatever it was to the Prince he was far better equipped to deal with something like that then she was.
She followed the group going into the mirror, glancing up at the blackish and purplish sky, the crumbling ruins, and the bright completely abnormal galaxy swirling in that darkened sky the young Senshi muttered "¡La concha de la lora!" to herself. This was definitely a broken place, she wondered what made this plane like this or was it always like this. She put those thoughts out of mind she could ask Remarque about the finer details some other time if she still had questions at the end of this, for now she needed to focus on the rapidly encroaching shadows. They seemed to appear out of the darkness, one took a swipe at her and she felt a sting as it sliced open her bicep a little. The cut wasn't too deep however and a single punch dissipated the creature. She called on her magic to strike at the shadows around her. "Howling Doom Storm!" She called as she held her hand up. A small but cataclysmic storm formed above her lashing out at the shadows with lightning and buffeting them with strong wind. She attacked the shadows around her with a combination of strikes and her magic do her small part to thin out the eldritch army before them as the court advanced to the source.
Remarque cleared a temporary path for them to the crystal source. Unfortunately her magic could only strike about 10 feet out from where she was standing, she couldn't move her storm away from herself and she doubted she had the speed necessary to cross the distance in time so instead she focused her efforts on defending the Senshi who could attack the crystal from the shadows. She called down her magic trying to blast as many of the seemingly endless creatures as she could.
The sound of cracking glass filled her ears as the crystal fell to the combined assault of the court, them lightning that was not her's struck without warning as a blindly light enveloped her vision. Even her aura sense was not spared as a sickening energy filled her senses and seemed to build and build around her. Until everything exploded, she felt debris tear through her skin as she was knocked off her feet by the shockwave, and then suddenly she was falling.
It was kind of ironic in a way, she was the Senshi of Cataclysms and here she was about to die in such a tumultuous mess. She felt like she had been in this exact situation before, falling to her death in void in Mirrorspace she thought bitterly but she didn't surrender to the feelings of an inevitable demise because she didn't give up 2 years ago and she knew she couldn't give up now, she had family and friends waiting for her back in the normal world. She reach out desperate to grab hold of anything to find any mirror she could escape out of. She scrambled and clawed trying to find a way out before she became intimately acquainted with whatever awaited them at the bottom of this place.
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Howling Doom Storm
Quetzálcoatl calls out the name of her attack as she holds her hand up in the sky a violent and cataclysmic but localized storms forms over her. Wind and lightening strikes at one of her opponent. If hit by the lightening her enemy feels the sensation of minor pain, including first degree burns, for the duration of the magic. Players can choose to take damage that persists after the magic ends if they prefer. Range: 10 ft Duration: 25 seconds Uses:3
The crystal was broken. Parysatis felt the destruction probably was overkill, but that was because she adored crystals of all sorts. Her eyes softened and grew wet before she felt the ground rumble below her feet. The sudden flashes of lightning in the strange realm in which they were in nearly blinded her and she blinked quickly to try and clear her field of vision. She even brought her hands up to rub at the corners, almost as if she were rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as one would do after waking up.
Even as she heard Hela shout out that they had to stay together, did Parysatis try connecting with the other senshi via reaching out with a hand, but the realm they were in had other ideas. The ground on which she stood shuddered again and Parysatis looked down at her feet and the surface upon which she was safely standing on before spider-fissures opened up, growing larger by the microsecond until nothing was left below her feet in order for her to stand on. And then she was falling.
Letting out a yelp of surprise, followed by the cliche scream of all falling victims the senshi of mosquitoes felt a piece of debris strike her in the side and it cut the scream short as she hunched inwards into a ball as small as possible. The good news with doing that is that she was a smaller target for the pieces of debris that still fell around the plummeting group; but the bad news was that she had less resistance against whatever passed for air currents in this place and she fell quicker.
I'm sensing a damned if I do, damned if I don't scenario here, was one thought that rocketed through her mind before she caught a glimpse of something that seemed to be within arms reach. Risking the closest limb to be bombarded again Parysatis caught a reflective flash of light in a surface that rippled welcoming at her outstretched hand and she grasped the edge of the mirror before pulling it in towards herself. The sight of the surface indeed rippling had Parysatis yelling out - to everyone who could hear.
"I'VE GOT A WORKING MIRROR IN MY GRASP!"
She wasn't sure if anyone would be able to get through if they could hear her and increase the rate of their fall or if they could pinpoint where she was ... but Parysatis also would need to get through this mirror too before things ended going kersplat once the falling ended ... if it ended.
---- [[ Parysatis: ooc singing ... I feel just like I'm "falling for the first time"
Also - she has a mirror if anyone needs/wants to have a way out ]]
For a moment, everything seemed to be turning in the Court’s favor. The senshi from before (Arawn) rushed in, carrying his [boy]friend[? maybe? probably not Reiki’s business] (Laon). Someone (Hydrus) sent some kind of beast toward the crystal. Acubens-oneesan came running in herself, and the fight felt winnable. For maybe the first time since they’d all gotten here, Reiki felt like it wasn’t all hopeless bullshit.
Then, came the lightning.
And then the shrapnel.
Reiki flinched away from the bright light. Curled in around himself as if that offered any meaningful protection. Threw his arms up to try and block the debris from getting at his face—which, in turn, left other places on Reiki’s body vulnerable. Something sharp sang across the flesh of one leg, then another something matched it on the other. Exactly Reiki’s luck that the shrapnel would manage to hit the little slip of skin between his thigh-highs and his petticoats. As he grit his teeth and told himself to just push through the pain like always, something heavier and far more solid whacked against Reiki’s torso, somewhere between his stomach and his ribs.
Ugh, he thought but kept firmly in his head, that b***h is gonna leave a bruise.
More of the sharp shrapnel flew his way as well, cutting ribbons all up and down his arms and chest……and then, it didn’t matter.
And then, Reiki felt his stomach drop. Felt his heart try to plummet right along with it. Clarity hit him for a split second as he realized, I’m about to fall and splatter on the ground like Looney Toons.
Somewhat unlike Looney Toons, though, Reiki doubted his own ability to simply squish into a slinky, then flip-flop away while making sad accordion noises.
Sighing softly, Reiki closed his eyes. Slipped back into the fall like slipping into a hot bath. As he accepted his fate, he allowed his body to go ragdoll limp, knowing that it wouldn’t save him, but if Mirrorspace had the decency to spit his corpse back out, at least it might not give the coroners as bad a mess as they’d end up with if Reiki were to spend his last moments of life panicking and fighting and swaggering around like he knew literally anything, the way he always chose to behave.
This wasn’t how he wanted to go out: having fought for a sentient magical realm that did not, as far as Reiki could tell, genuinely care about him or anybody else in this so-called Court, then left to dust like ******** garbage (because, again, he couldn’t see any aspect of Mirrorspace’s bullshit that meant it actually cared for any of them). Maybe Reiki hadn’t been the best senshi for it or given it any energy in over a year, but Acubens didn’t deserve this. Hybris didn’t deserve this. How could Mirrorspace make Remarque a literal Prince, and then decide that he deserved to go out like this?
But dwelling on that wouldn’t help anybody. If anything that Reiki had always known about souls and ghosts were true, thinking about the unfairness of it all would only let the imprint of him as a person stew in its own rage and become a curse. Nobody needed that to ******** happen.
Trying to pick out something worth being grateful for, Reiki hoped, At least my starseed might find its way to a better senshi, now. Somebody stronger. Somebody braver. Somebody our planet might actually want to have as a senshi, so maybe the Mauvians will find them before they’re twenty-six and a ******** idiot who’d sell their soul to Mirrorspace for a boy who doesn’t even like them……
……No, that wasn’t any better was it?
Reiki sighed again.
He thought about Faustite.
Would’ve been nice to see him one last time before going out like this, but……oh, well. At least thinking about Faustite wasn’t entirely an exercise in regret.
Whatever happened when Reiki hit the ground, at least it couldn’t possibly be worse than living another day as Mirrorspace’s Murikabushi.
Irenaea had no uncertainty that things were going on inside the realm that the rest of the dark mirror senshi that had answered Remarque's call had gone into and yet only having one creature escape the mirror meant that the court was probably doing fairly well with whatever task they needed to complete before they'd all be back out here regaling each other with their battle stories. As she sat with her hands folded in her lap and once more inspecting her spider silk compact did Irenaea swallow with a nervous hitch. She'd repelled one invader into Mirrorspace but how many more were her comrades taking out?
Even as her gaze flicked up to the mirror once again to make sure nothing else decided to come out to play "surprise" with her did she keep her gaze locked on the strange surface. Was it her imagination, or was the surface darkening? What did that mean? Also how was the mirror suddenly rattling in its frame? What was going on in that strange realm?
No, it wasn't her imagination that the surface was darkening. Irenaea stood up rather quickly. The worry for everyone else inside the mirror was palpable. What happened if the mirror went completely dark? Could she somehow delay the mirror from doing whatever it was doing? There was no way that she would be stepping through it now but could she do anything?
Calling an item out of subspace had been a useful trick that Remarque had shown to her just after he'd brought her into the court and now she concentrated on what she wanted to find before a flashlight popped into her open palm and she flicked the switch on before pointing it's brilliant light directly at the mirror's surface. The darkened patches ... lightened considerably for a moment but she was dismayed that it didn't seem to help much. Her gaze narrowed. What was the solution here? Would throwing anything into the mirror help?
Even as she stood there debating things did she realize the mirror had become more violent in it's rattling. Was it a death cry from the thing?
Well it seemed like luck was on their side as some of the others were able to reach the crystal, either physically or magically. Panacea was glad to see it since he wasn't much help against said crystal but Kiuchi, Fulu, and him were able to at least take out some of the shadows as support. It was even working it seemed as the amount of shadows was going down relatively fast. The short man tried to keep the other two close by and tried to at least visually check on them from time to time but even with the thinning of the shadows it didn't always work out due to the distance that had ended up between them, he wasn't even sure where Rana had ended up.
He had his attention focused mainly on the area around him but when the cracking started to happen and lightning started to strike down it pulled said attention to the crystal's area. He had to quickly cover his eyes with his hand to shield them from the bright light and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up from the feeling of the energy being released. He was still trying to blink the dark spots from his vision when he turned towards where he last saw his partners to check on them, spotting them several feet away but seemed to be unharmed.
And then the world decided to prove his earlier thought about luck was just asking for it as everything decided to shatter. The good news was the debris only ended up leaving shallow cuts on his upper arms as they were pretty much the only large area of him that his uniform left uncovered and he had covered his face to avoid any more cuts on it.
Panacea heard Kiuchi and Fulu call out to him as gravity decided it was time to assert itself and he started to fall. He stopped covering his face to instinctively reach out to his partners as everyone started to fall but they were too far away. "Mā de!" He cursed out, eyes wide with fear as at a quick glance, there didn't seem to be anything that could catch anyone. "Kiuchi! Fulu! Any ideas?!"
Having a hand grasped by Acubens before being passed off to another senshi's grip was confusing. Xihe had thought that they could stick together through thick and thin. Maybe it was too dangerous for her to follow Acubens, and that seemed to be how Acubens was thinking even as she was instructed to stay close to Tegmine, Lacerta and Ariadne. Xihe's eyes widened at the chaste kiss that was pressed to her forehead before she watched as the senshi that she had vowed to follow, ran off to attack whatever was creating the shadow creatures.
Even as she watched did a part of her body move to pull away from the protection that stronger senshi would be able to provide to her should things turn south. Her feet took one step closer to the path that had been cleared by their highest ranking leader before she faltered. Acubens had told her to stick close to her brother. But she was out there by herself, in potential danger. On one hand she understood the advice that had been given to her, but on the other she couldn't leave Acubens to fight on her own, could she?
Indecision wasn't something she succumbed to easily and Xihe found herself gritting her teeth before ripping her hand out of the senshi that Acubens had trusted her safety to before trying to run after the senshi of velociraptors: only to have the floor under her feet suddenly explode in a insane burst of pressure that destabilized everything around them.
The floor crumbled underneath her feet and soon she was falling, along with everyone else who'd come into this strange place. The fabric of her fuku caught in her line of vision and she tried to grasp the edges in order to slow her descent. The fabric that looked like wings certainly allowed air to pass underneath to slow things down, but flight was definitely not something that was bestowed upon the wearer.
Lacerta had continued to stay relatively close to those that she considered family in this strange realm. Technically everyone was family but only a few individuals shared a constructed familial relationship with her. She was Rhona & Misha's cousin. She had a duty to protect them. Even as Acubens rushed off down a cleared path that had been created did Lacerta merely shake her head before continuing her assault on the shadow figures that still continued to range among everyone else. The strikes she lashed out with seemed to leave her with various scrapes that would heal eventually.
The first shudder that occurred under her feet was completely missed. The second, more pronounced tremor, registered through the boots she wore and she glanced down in concern before slowly trying to reach for a senshi that broke from the group to try and run after Acubens. Her grip managed the barest snatches of fabric before the ground rumbled even stronger than before and she actually went down to her knees at the force of the upheaval.
"Oh s**t," was torn from her lips unbidden as lightning erupted from places unseen before the floor beneath everyone shattered completely. No, no, no, no. no ... not this again flashed through Lacerta's mind as she found herself plummeting down into the empty expanse that gave no glimpses as to what lay below everyone at that moment. Her gaze shifted to the forms of those other court members that fell alongside her and she recalled a similar moment from a few years ago where a large creature had been fought and then somehow in a moment of miracles ... things had happened that couldn't happen in Mirrorspace. Wishes had been granted, albeit momentarily, so that everyone ended up safe.
Would that work again? Was it worth a try? Before she lost the clarity of the thought did the senshi of bandages mentally wish as loud as she could that everyone either found a mirror to escape from or somehow they'd find their landing, if there was one, cushioned.
As a yell went up from below did Lacerta crane her body around to try and line herself up with the caller ... because at least someone had found a mirror and was holding onto it. Had her wish been granted or was it a strange coincidence?
