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((This RP is for all remaining awakened Senshi, Cavaliers, and Guardian Cats that are not in Tartaros. Regardless if you post or not, you may (unless you wish otherwise) assume your character is present for the meeting if they are not currently comatose thanks to the Pyrite Crystal. Helios will be opening the floor of this meeting for discussion, so please wait to PM me with post-requests until Rea/Pegasus/Helios has posted. If you wish to post, please PM me and I will tag you accordingly! Thank you!))

((The lead-in RP is here, in case there's any confusion!))



Two and a half blocks away from Destiny City Memorial Hospital, there was an underground parking garage that Cora's father had been trying to sell for the past two months. It was clean, as parking facilities went, and currently untenanted. It didn't have any particular grandeur, and with its low ceilings, it wasn't, on whole, designed to be conducive to large meetings with public speakers, but it was available, and it was empty. It was serviceable, and that was good enough.

Corinna, Madison, and Johnny had agreed that they'd all be present at the meeting, despite their concerns about leaving their teammates unguarded. It was after visiting hours, which already meant there was less chance of any harm befalling them while they slept -- but more than that, it was important to present a unified front.

For many of the sailor soldiers and guardian cats, and the lone cavalier all filing in to fill the space, they hadn't met the cavaliers or soldiers from across the mirror. It was important to make a well-ordered impression, given the current chaos in the city.

The guardian cats present were using their magic to mask the combined energy signatures of so many magical auras gathered in one place -- but with any luck, their enemies were few at the moment. With any luck, they were all trapped in Tartaros by the Prince's hand.

Facing the assembled sailor soldiers and guardian cats were people that many of them knew: Kunzite, Chronos, Aries, Taurus, Zue, Helios, Chloe, Flora, Mu Cephei. Standing in the middle of those that they largely did not know was a stern and commanding-looking figure in a black dress and antique lace -- Queen Nehelenia.



She had long sweeps of indigo hair, running clear to the floor as Princess Chronos's did, and the appearance of bright flames in her blue eyes. She watched them carefully, taking the measure of the crowd as they filed in. Held aloft in one hand, she had a long, golden staff, crowned at its top with a jet-black crescent. In the bowl of the crescent moon head of the staff was a small golden setting, barely noticeable, where it looked as though something ought to be placed -- but there were other things better worth paying attention to, and she hoped no one would take much notice of it at the moment. In nearby Destiny City Memorial Hospital, every person present had a friend, or a family member, or a classmate trapped in a coma -- it took precedence.

The queen said nothing, but nodded first to Princess Chronos and then to Dream Priestess Helios.

To say Rea was petrified would not have been accurate. Standing amongst her team, Chloe just to her right, she felt more at ease than if she had been out at the movies with some date, even with the long white robe that marked her as the Priestess of Elysion, the teal tie and white silk brushing along the dusty cement. The strawberry blonde was not afraid of standing in front of crowds, and certainly not afraid of public speaking -- she had passed the speech class at Crystal Academy with little trouble.

This however... this was different. She had never wanted to be a leader, in any sense. The Dream Team could attest to that. Now... now she couldn't help but wonder what went wrong.

Helios' gold eyes met with Nehelenia's, lingering on them but not returning the nod, gaze slipping to Chronos' form and finally to the the group gathered, settling somewhere in the middle. "Alright," She started, raising her voice over the shatter of the other senshi. It wasn't hard to get their attention -- although the voices echoed harshly in the parking garage, things were much more grim than they had been the last time they had met, their conversations lowered to hushed undertones, where there were any. The sounds quickly died, until there was complete silence in the cement building, attention focused on the group in the center.

"As you know, a few days ago a large section of Destiny City went silent as everyone within a certain radius collapsed without warning. Old or young, inside or out on the street, it didn't matter. Destiny City Memorial is filled with the bodies of the victims, and I'm sure all of you have someone you know who succumbed to it. The police and media have been calling it a number of different things, an experiment gone wrong, a mad sleeping disease, a terrorist attack and even the trial testing of a gas issued by our own government."

Speeches had never been part of Helios' training. His job had been a guardian, a priest, a protector -- never had he had more than a few Maenads within his shrine, assisting him. He had never had to demand order, nor rally support, nor motivate, and standing there, it was painfully apparent to herself. The wings at her waist shifted slightly, the slightest show of distress before she continued, her voice resonating lower than Rea's normal range.

"This is not the case. There is no virus, no terrorist attack, no anthrax or poison gas. And it is not the negaverse. It was with no malice that this accident befell Destiny City. As a few of you may know, there has been a new threat which has been stealing the crystals of any royals they may find. For what reason, we don't know -- all we know is that monarch crystals contain great power, power that is worrysome in any hands but their rightful owners. As Queen Nehelenia has explained it to me, her Prince, Alexandros, was accosted by the thief, and an attempt was made to steal the crystal. In order to prevent its power from the wrong hands, the prince activated its energy. The comas are the result of the Pyrite Crystal."

A small burst of conversation arose as she said this, a wave of turned heads from the crowd as the senshi turned to their friends beside them. Helios waited until they had calmed again, glancing through the crowd, amber eyes lingering on the senshi she recognized, as if taking a count, making a mental note.

"The National Guard has been patrolling the streets, watching for any delinquents who might try to take advantage of the chaos. We're trying our best to reverse these effects as quickly as possible, and return your friends and family unharmed. Until then, we're asking please, keep yourselves safe, if not for your sake, then for ours and everyone still awake. Already we can see the decline in our numbers, and we don't know the state the negaverse is in."

She left the rest unsaid, taking a slow breath, her mind racing a little as she tried to remember anything she had forgotten. If she had, she was sure either Nehelenia or Chronos would be there, ready to be of support. It was Chloe, however, who was of help first as one of the guardian cats looked to her, and Chloe leaned forward to whisper the name against her ear.

"Abel?"

The Cavalier next to the Dream Priestess raised her hand. She was a familiar sight by now, the dour white knight who'd served as most of the sailor soldiers' introduction to the existence of Cavaliers at all. Kunzite didn't smile when she looked to Helios for permission to speak -- did she ever, at meetings? -- but she waited for Helios's nod before she bowed her head and stepped forward. "By your leave, Your Majesty," she said without looking at Nehelenia.

She looked down at the cat in front of her for a moment or two, then lifted her chin to address the meeting at large.

"This is Her Majesty Queen Nehelenia, the monarch of a different, faraway Moon Kingdom. She's come here with her ally, Prince Alexandros of a different Earth, to retrieve her kingdom's Great Crystal -- it was stolen by a wizard accompanied by the corrupted heir to our Earth Kingdom. I realize this is a lot of kingdoms for those of you who don't have any memories of any of this." She pinched the bridge of her nose with two gloved fingers. "The point being, she's a ruler from another time and place -- she's not your Queen. She's not my King, either. I've never met her. His Holiness the Dream Priest informs me she was once corrupted by Chaos. This is no longer the case, but frankly, everything to do with the Great Crystals and the Moon Princess and the wizard rests on her word: we have little to go on."

Kunzite crossed her arms. Heaven's Mandate was still at her side, heftier and heavier than the slim rapier sheathed at Laocoon's.

"I'm not inclined to trust strangers," she said, about as surprising as she was diplomatic, apparently. "I know nothing about this other moon, or, frankly, anyone's intentions. But I do know this much -- they're not Chaos, they oppose Chaos, and we're splintered and in need of allies. We were shattered enough as it was. Now that we've lost so many of our number --" Her voice tightened a little. "We could use allies. We'd be fools to turn them down."

A strange and desperate petition indeed, from the prideful and stubborn captain of Endymion's Cavaliers.

"They say their enemy is powerful, evil and ambitious," she said. "I don't know. I've never faced him. But he attacked Princess Chronos also, and if he is, that's one more threat that we never needed -- this is no time for fractiousness."

She glanced at Nehelenia and the woman glanced back at her. There was no love lost in that glance, or even, really, mutual respect. But there was a certain degree of resignation and acceptance.

"I would not advise," said Cavalier Kunzite, "that anyone take this as an opportunity to cause unrest. Not if we want to save our fallen friends."

She looked down in the ensuing silence.

"By your leave," she finished, awkwardly.

Helios' eyes lifted to Kunzite as the cavalier began to explain, making no movement during the entire time he spoke. She was, as he had always been, a leader and one that never said anything she didn't believe. Here, it was the same. Miriam's voice was clear and level, and although perhaps (for diplomacy's sake) some of it could have been left out, the dream priest did not disagree with what she had to say. Nehelenia's speech also brought the amber eyes towards the next speaker, her expression losing a little expression as she listened.

After all was said and done, Helios chose not to say anything -- really, what was there to say that hadn't been already? -- and instead looked onward towards the expanse of senshi that had collected before them, looking on towards them with curiosity and bewilderment.

"Perseus?"

Helios listened quietly, her eyes set unwaveringly on the senshi who had stood up. The information that the negaverse, too, had been met with hardship did not go uncelebrated, if only silently and to herself. The worse off the enemy was, the better. She did not wish the unending nightmares on anyone, but with so many senshi down (and it was obvious, just in those she recognized should have been there, that there were quite a few missing,) anything that hindered the enemy as well couldn't be taken for granted. She waited, however, for Perseus' questions before she spoke, her eyebrows furrowed.

"At the moment, we're not sure how much we can do. Tartaros, as I understand it, is a realm of nightmares. It has a priestess, as our dreamworld Elysion has myself as it's priestess (she paused a little before adding the 'ess) but Queen Nehelenia has been unable to locate her as of yet. So far, we thought it best to inform you all of the situation first. Then... we'll see if we can find a way in through Elysion."

Helios' expression tightened a little more, the wings at her waist also clenching a little closer to her body. So far, their gameplan hadn't exactly been a strong one, and it bothered her immensely, enough that the Dream Priestess glanced over at Nehelenia, giving her a long look before returning to the questions.

"As for how long... I'm not sure. Nor am I sure if there'll be lasting effects. I'm sorry, unfortunately we'll have to take those as they come, after we rescue those asleep."

And there'd be no question that they would be rescued.

"Sailor Regulus?"