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Right after the senshi meeting, the lot began to disperse on Astraea, or rather, Luna's orders. Chronos' eyes however, were fixated on a particular strawberry-blonde's head, someone she had spotted in the crowd while trying to assess exactly how many Moon senshi were there. She had immediately known that she had found who she had been looking for, the one who had a link to her ever seeing Eon again. Without a word, the Princess tugged on Zue's hand and immediately started forward, threading through the crowd in hopes of reaching Helios before she left, Virgo following close behind.

What they didn't know was that other that Helios, they would too find something, or rather, someone else.

Flora's eyes too, had been fixated on someone, but that someone was Princess Chronos. She had felt a rush of relief and happiness upon seeing that the Princess Ume had spoken about was still alive and well. Alive and well, even though Chloe had mentioned that she had died before. It was peculiar, but at least the senshi had a Princess to protect now? Her attention had mostly been on the Zodiac's bench, and Flora wondered, wondered why she felt such a pull to them. Perhaps she wanted to be a part of their team...?

But that was ridiculous, she was already a part of a team.

"I was thinking Dream Team." She said to Pegasus, hoping that a conversation would alleviate this strange feeling she had. "For a team name, y'know? It fits perfectly, since you're our leader and all!"

Flora had barely glanced over at Kunzite when Astraea had mentioned that the cavalier's phone wouldn't work properly. Magic was exceedingly complicated it seemed. Especially magic to do with phones, which by the way, her own wasn't exactly working properly either. She had tried to scan some other senshi, and it took a while before it computed, but now trying to look through her phonebook was pretty hopeless as well. She was still attempting to get it to work before complaining to Astraea that she had a faulty cellphone, all while still talking.

"I guess so." She said, matter-of-factly. "I think the only one that would have a problem with it is Delphine though." Even if she had returned to her team, she still labelled the other as a b***h, though Flora of course, did not say anything about this label out loud. Who knew? Maybe the Senshi of Decay would turn out to be a good ally, and they needed all the help they could get. "I think it sounds simple and nice though."

A few more buttons were pressed and Flora held up the phone again in an attempt to scan her roommate. "It's not working." She said, her tone mixed with disgust and dismay. "It's like it doesn't like me or something. I need to contact Astraea, oh god--"

She was interrupted by a green-haired girl striding towards them with a Guardian Cat and another Zodiac in tow. "Helios?" For a moment, Flora stared at Princess Chronos and then repeated what the other had said. "Helios?"

Zue had walked into the meeting that day with an impressive scowl on his face. He'd been a man (cat, thing, whatever) on a mission, and that mission was to not ******** things up. He was there to look the part of the great and terrible Zue, make all the Moon Senshi feel properly inferior to his Zodiacs, and otherwise keep his mouth shut and not do anything that would give away just how much of an idiot he really was.

Walking out of the meeting, Zue was still wearing a scowl - but this was a more genuinely angry, disdainful one. He'd done his part, dammit! He'd stood there and kept his mouth shut and done absolutely nothing to warrant Astraea picking on him in front of every ******** Senshi in the city. Now his ears were a held a little lower than before, his tail slinking nearer the ground. And communicators? How the hell was he supposed to make communicators? He didn't even know that that was something Guardian Cats could do until now!

God. He hadn't said a word, and Miss Luna had still put him right in his place - the reject among Guardians, the only one that didn't know what he was doing. Didn't Zue just feel smashing now.

Following after his Princess with an overbearing aura of "do not ******** with me", Zue didn't seem to quite know how to turn off his pissy-cat face - even when meeting with the two unfamiliar senshi girls, even when one was identified as the Helios from Chronos's dream. "This is Helios?" he remarked, in a tone that made it clear that He Was Not Impressed. Staring, trying to work through a number of emotions, Zue finally settled on pointing out the obvious in the most vaguely insulting and condescending tone he could muster up: "You really are a girl now. Wow. Damn."

Zue might not be doing anything to make himself look more intelligent... but hey. If his ego was going to be deflated in front of the entire ******** senshi population, he could at least try taking someone down with him.

Or so he thought. As it turned out, though, there was an even better way for him to redeem himself - and it had nothing to do with Helios, but with the other senshi, easier to overlook, who Virgo had just confronted.

"... Hey. You do look familiar," Zue noted, abandoning Helios for the moment (the Princess would be plenty to keep her busy, assuredly!) There was something stirring here, most akin to those feelings he had gotten back in Barren Pines when Astraea had been showing him the awakening ropes - but this senshi was already awakened, so why should he feel this way?

The Guardian Cat crossed his arms, tail drifting around his feet, and considered the other girl carefully. "... You're Flora?" The name came to him unexpectedly - and a sense of kinship. "Aren't you one of ours?" Even as he said it, the words made no sense - they had all their Zodiacs, after all, how could Flora be among their number! But, the sense he was getting was unmistakable, and he almost felt a little glimmer from her on his Zodiac radar....

"I guess." Flora muttered, though didn't look very convinced, regarding both the Delphine matter (which wasn't really that serious anyway, since she was back with them) and the problem of the phone. The latter was rather aggravating and she had to admit that she had contemplated just stuffing it into a drawer in her dorm room and continue using her normal cellphone. What good was a magical phone if it hardly worked?

Luckily, or unluckily, depending on who you were in this situation, her attention was focused on the three others and the new matter of Pegasus being greeted by a different name. Helios was a name that gave her a bit of a deja vu feeling, though not as much as having these strangers right in front of her. It was a little funny to be staring at them, thinking how familiar they looked, and then being recognized, when she wasn't even sure she could return the favor.

One of ours?

NOT one of yours?

Who was right, Guardian Cat or Pegasus?

Chronos herself was pretty confused herself; what with Helios introducing himself, or rather, herself as Sailor Pegasus, and then with Virgo and Zue both recognizing the senshi that stood besides Helios. Slowly, cerise eyes met blue ones, and it was Chronos who remembered first, who registered that the blonde senshi was on her radar too, who moved first and strode towards Flora to wrap her arms around the taller girl's neck. "F-flora!"

Flora had stood there, looking a bit perplexed, although when the Princess had touched her, a voice inside her seemed to heave a sigh of relief. The Princess you have to protect is here. This is your Princess, Flora. She did not remember anything else, not what Chronos remembered, and when Chronos let go off her to look at her again, it was the Princess who began talking. "Flora... where's the other Seasons? Carpo... Naos... and..."

Flora still had that befuddled look on her face, but curtsied in front of her princess as a formality. "There are others?" She queried, an eyebrow raised. She hadn't heard of any other Seasons, and oh god, please say the senshi of hail did not qualify as the senshi of winter...

"I'm not being mean," Zue hissed back, "I'm just saying the obvious!" In an obviously mean way. But Zue didn't need to point out the obvious when it worked against him - that would just be overkill, after all.

And besides which, it was beside the point. Right now, the focus was Flora - Helios came second to this new discovery. Until now, he hadn't even remembered that the Princess had had handmaidens - but, if only by a glimmer, some old memories were coming to light. And he was beginning to feel a tightening of resolve, a certainty that this one - like Virgo, like the other Zodiacs - was one of his. To protect and serve, wasn't it?

It wasn't a feeling of relief to find her, though. Of course it wasn't; because it was a reawakening, however small, of responsibility. There were four Seasons, four Handmaidens. Why had this slipped past his memory? His job - maybe his only job right now - was to find and awaken the Zodiac Court. He'd thought that task completed after Barren Pines, but obviously - and he would point this one out, at least to himself - he hadn't finished the job yet.

"Flora. Do you remember now?" Zue asked, his tone gruff with unpleasant thought. Was it possible for him to awaken her memories, if not? There was no answer from the typically unresponsive presence in his mind; he could be helpless, or he could have all the power needed to make things right here, and he wouldn't know. God, this was frustrating....

Still. He had an easy outlet for such negativity.

The Guardian Cat's eyes went back to Pegasus; his arms crossed. "Still figure she's not ours?" As mildly as he tried to say it, with his bad mood, it still came off as taunting. It was like he couldn't help himself but to be an a**.

"Just a little bit, Zue." Flora said as Chronos beamed at her brightly. Yes, she remembered Zue's name, even Virgo's, and the Seasons both her Princess and the Senshi of Innocence named were familiar enough. They rang bells, but still, the bells weren't loud enough. They didn't tell her things she wanted to know. She didn't want to ask too many questions however, for now she was faced with another problem.

Virgo and Zue V.S. Pegasus, a.k.a. Helios. Whoever Helios was. She supposed it was supposed to be Rea, but Rea was already Sailor Pegasus. It was puzzling.

"I guess that explains why this doesn't like me, huh?" She quipped, holding up her pastel green and pink cellphone, hoping to break the ice between the others. Chronos too, had sensed the hostility and now turned her attention towards Helios and inclined her head towards the other.

"Thank you for taking care of her." Chronos put in gently. "I owe you much more gratitude, Helios." First Eon, and now Flora; Chronos was ready to owe Helios as many favors as it took to repay what Helios had done. It didn't exactly occur to her that Helios hadn't exactly known Flora had been a part of the Zodiac Court, and even so, it was good to know that she had been taking care of other senshi nevertheless.

"Will someone please," Flora blurted out, "explain to me who Helios is?" It seemed like she had answered Zue's question once again; she really did not remember much, only the basics. Even the basics were not complete, if she didn't know, or didn't remember who Helios was...

Argue? Who was arguing? It wasn't an argument if you'd already won it! Potshots aside, Zue felt like he'd come out fairly well. For once - every other conversation he had with someone seemed to end up with his verbal a** being handed to him and his slinking away in humiliation. This one time that he had the upper hand (or at least thought he did), Zue was going to enjoy it.

Until it came to this part. Where Virgo mindfully reminded him that they were supposed to be getting along with the Moonies, and the Princess inadvertently reminded him that Helios, of all people, was one that they were supposed to be playing nice with. This was Chronos's only connection to Eon, after all. If Zue ******** that up....

His perceived victory was suddenly much less satisfying.

"... Right. We do," Zue put in, rather reluctantly, his agreement to Virgo. The Moon Court were allies, and so was Elysion. It didn't mean there weren't assholes among them, of course, but... well, the Zodiacs had Gemini. They couldn't talk much. So he sucked it up for a few seconds, crossed his arms, and grouched out, "We depend on it." It wasn't quite like saying I'm sorry for acting like a jackass, or even let's bury the hatchet, Helios - but at least it was a grudging mark of respect. Maybe.

Once again, the mention of Elysion rang dim bells in her head. Very dim bells, although when Flora turned to look at Pegasus; she still didn't exactly get what was going on. Arghhh, people needed to explain more; and Rea would probably be bugged full-time when they got back to Crystal.

For now, there was her princess.

Chronos only bowed back in turn, smiling gratefully at Helios. Flora was her handmaiden, and of course the Zodiac Court would take care of her. Though to be honest, Flora and the others had been the ones taking care of her back then. The Princess' brow furrowed as Helios admitted why she had seemed so hostile, but it was Flora who spoke. "Bwuh?"

Things were happening too fast for her. Even as Flora stared after Pegasus' retreating back, it took a while to register what Pegasus had meant; was she being kicked out of the Dream Team just because she belonged to the Zodiac Court? She wanted to call after the other and demand to continue this conversation, but Pegasus was gone.

Did Rea think she could really escape from this when they were rooming together?

"But I do have an obligation to the team." She retorted quietly and a little resentfully. She was torn, not knowing what to do. On one side was her Princess and the Zodiac Court, and the other was her best friend and her teammates. She didn't feel like she could leave either one alone. "I'll talk to her later, Princess." Then turned worried eyes onto Chronos herself. "You don't mind, do you? She's being absolutely silly. Who said I was leaving the team just because I've found you?" And the Princess had many Zodiacs in her Court, didn't she? They could all take turns!

"It's good to remain in contact with her." Chronos nodded. Right now, a little selfish part of her saw Flora as her link to Helios; her Handmaiden seemed close enough to warrant such relations. There was also the issue of her Court working with the Moon Court, which she encouraged. "It's late though." She said, eyes settling on Flora first, then Zue and Virgo. "It seems like we found much more than we were looking for."