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I'll ******** kill you. I will kill you all. Leto was shrieking, maddened and influenced by whatever craziness had gotten Anakeion, Acubens, Scylla herself; still, Scylla felt her face contort. "I should have let you die, years ago." As soon as the words were out some part of her regretted it; even knowing Leto might not remember in her madness didn't un-speak them. She exhaled, trying to calm her shaking, pushed her power against the screaming Princess. Hopefully, someone would come and assist soon- she couldn't do much for long against a Royal, even an injured, raving lunatic.

Luckily, the Dark Mirror seemed to know what needed to be done, after Acubens had tried to stab her in the head with a shard. Pretty Boy approached, and Scylla's lips quirked as he told Leto to shut up, leaning over to watch the madness drain from the Princess' eyes before she spoke. "Unless she's changed an awful lot, Leto shuts up when she's damn well ready." she stared into her former Courtmate's face, lips white and tense.

Destroy her. Break her neck. End this! Scylla could feel the whispers still battering at her mind, and her body gave an actual shudder, madness screaming at her, pulsing still through her veins. Her flesh was red and sore from the burning fog, and she forced herself past it, staring at the face of the woman who had been... her comrade. Her sister.

"So you and Ares made a fine mess of things. I'd ask how the Dark Side was working out for you, but I see your betrayal got you a promotion." she pushed off, letting her magic fade off of the Royal's body, and the Dark Mirror Senshi put his jacket on Leto. "Seems like a chunk of your Court doesn't realize they're metaphysically raping people via mirror wraith, and just like the Negaverse, they think that assaulting people who can't say no, and then stealing from them, is A-plus-okay."

Scylla clucked her tongue, because otherwise, she might have spit with fury. Or cried. "I think you have some housecleaning to do and some choices to make. Maybe some rules to lay down. then, when you're feeling less crazy, you owe me a chat, Leto." she was more nonchalant than she felt, faced with someone who had been a friend. Family. And who had betrayed everything they had stood for, and now-

No. Now was for what to do about the crazed Knight. "Anyone got any of those little ticky-shards left, or are we going to let the Knight rampage? I can't distract her much longer."

First the world felt like it was moving too quickly- now, as she drowned and choked on the black oil that consumed her, everything moved in slow motion. Leto, someone snapped at her. Was that her name? She couldn't remember who she was anymore. Or where she was. Or what she was doing.

All Leto saw was black, and pure, unadulterated rage.

A grip on her upper arm tightened, the touch making her scream at the blonde assailant. At that point she wasn't even making words anymore- it was just a garbled mess of shrieks and noises that didn't sound even remotely human. She probably would have thrashed and attacked the man if she wasn't bound by tentacles that were tight and scratching at her bare skin with their teeth. She would have had a lot to say if she could make words, but alas...

Please shut the ******** up. -- HOW DARE HE --

The Dark Mirror Eternal shattered his MirrorShard on her forehead jewel and as if she could breath for the first time, her back arched and she took in a breath- loud, long. Her eyelids fluttered and she continued to gasp for air, desperate for oxygen and eventually... Her breathing slowed. Her fists unclenched. Her eyes looked around, trying to figure out where she was. She said nothing as Damocles wrapped her in his jacket, and watched as he stood and mentioned Tantalus.

What was going on?

She saw him and Acubens bickering briefly, but it was Scylla that had her complete attention. Red eyes fixed on the dark haired Senshi, taking in every. single. biting. word. She stared up at her, the other girl leaning over to watch... What exactly? Leto felt trapped, and like an animal on display at the zoo. And as if Scylla was a child that kept knocking on the ******** glass to taunt her.

The tentacles unraveled from around her body and she pushed herself to her elbows, wincing at the pain that shot through her wings and her back. Every movement hurt, and every word that Scylla spat at her cut her deeply and hurt just as badly as her physical wounds. This woman was once her family, and she... Well, she hated her. But she wanted to chat, and that somehow gave Leto some hope. She said nothing in return, and simply nodded at her. She wasn't wrong in anything she said and maybe a chat (or a brawl) was exactly what the two of them needed.

When Scylla was finally done berating her, she finally glanced at the Squire, wincing as she screeched. "I have my shards," Leto croaked pathetically. While she wanted to get as far away from this entire situation as possible, she couldn't leave someone in the same state she was just in. Releasing the Squire from the madness that consumed her was the least that Leto could do. Crawling on her hands and knees, Leto moved towards Anakeion careful to avoid her thrashing. For a second time, the Princess straddled the other girl and grabbed both of her arms by the wrists. When she had them under control, she held both of Anakeion's arms down above her head and used her free hand to summon a Mirror Shard.

At this point she should've said something- some words of encouragement or comfort- but Leto ... A small part of her brain was still consumed with darkness and she was afraid that if she didn't act quickly, she would slip back into madness and get right back into the fight. So instead, she quickly shattered her shard against Anakeion's forehead and watched the madness slip out of her in silence. She needed to wait until she knew the other girl was okay before she made her exit and answered the call to MirrorSpace.

Lepus should have felt proud for her fellow chibi senshi for taking down the wraith, even if she didn't know the younger girl- she would have normally considered it a victory for chibis, that they were just as capable of handling things as adults were. However, she felt... jealous instead, like she did every time she noticed how well Onnie and Etoile got a long, and while the wraith was gone, the voices lingered, though not as bad as it may have been for others. Watching the scuffle that ensued between some of the other senshi, and watching the other chibi jump into the fray in an attempt at separating them, the voices grew more insistent.

Some kind of defender of justice you are, if a grade schooler can do what you can't?

Feeling betrayed by Anakeion turning on her, and with there being nothing she could really do (because what good would her magic do in this situation?), Lepus was tempted to leave, to slip away in the midst of the fighting and go back home, even though it meant having to explain her injuries to her mother.

That's right, run away, run home. Who will notice one less chibi senshi missing? Nobody, that's for certain.

But then...

The Dark Mirror Princess did something to Anakeion, something with a mirror shard- and the Castor knight... seemed to be calming down from her berserker rage- but could it be a trick? She couldn't hear what the squire was saying, but it seemed that she was looking for her and Etoile, and Lepus...

Lepus took a deep breath- promptly regretted it instantly because of the pain in her chest- and remained silent. She would wait, just to make certain.