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"It's surprising, really, how you noticed me. Slow on the uptake-- Are you here to throw your heels of gold back at me?" Serandite's expression was skeptical, leaping down from a low branch in front of Rosalind. She had been feeling quite restless, her last battle placed before Tartaros started.

But it wasn't like she was looking for a battle. Neither was she one to avoid them.

She had been surprised really. Who could avoid that horridly bright green excuse of a fuku, even when they did try to ignore it? Although Serandite supposed she could place it back to victorian times-- Perhaps their dresses really were that puffy?

"Have you gained any experience? Otherwise, it's going to take more than some hair-pulling or a heel to get away this time." Serandite's tone was laced with condescending amusement, her hand reached out to pull her weapon from the subspace. Serandite referenced back in a reminder to their last distasteful battle, one that she wouldn't have liked to remember. Serandite was sure she had grown in experience since then-- enough not to let Rosalind go.

"Your comebacks are improving. Unfortunately, it's minimal." Serandite chuckled, brown eyes took a surveying gaze of Rosalind's appearance. Still looked the same. Apparently, she hadn't gotten a level-up, as Serandite had seen increasingly over the senshi she had battled. (Sheesh. Why were senshi level-ups always making them prettier? Serandite didn't agree with this-- perhaps being a senshi had something to do with beauty? Something that Rosalind didn't have. She might, if that outfit was more form-fitting)

If she played it out right, Serandite reflected that a captain should be able to take out a mere level one scout easily.

"Only experience? That's a shame." She tsked, running a hand through her curled pink hair. Good move. The senshi should be on the defensive. The battle started that moment without any further words. Loppy, the enlarged bunny, now came charging at Rosalind with a furious dash, it's eyes still closed in a display of a "creepy sleeping bunny chasing you down until the ends of the earth" impression.

Serandite was being pelted.. with coins? It was a surprisingly pathetic yet painful attack. (REALLY. COINS. This is what the senshi of wealth had to offer? What a .. ridiculous sphere! Serandite, if she had time to contemplate it, would have been seriously baffled!) Her bunny leaped to her defense, blocking the brunt of the attack. But that wasn't until after Serandite had been hit with it.

Her large bunny now bore several rips and stuffing leaking from several parts but otherwise it didn't hinder the large stuffed animal's defenses. However, the negaverse agent wasn't behind the bunny anymore--

-- the only sound of Serandite that could be heard was the slight rustle behind Rosalind. The teleportation distance was only a small amount of meters, taking only a minimal amount of energy from Serandite. She instantly teleported behind Rosalind, her bunny disappeared from it's position to Serandite's position, intending to inflict a painful paw attack on Rosalind.

.. Just Serandite's luck that the stupid scout would run into the forest. Normally, Serandite would have sent her bloodhound youma into the area to find her but the tangle of trees and who knows what else laid in that forrest.. Even Belphegor would be hard-pressed to search in there.

Her bunny disappeared back into the subspace since a large bunny running in the forest would have been entirely too conspicuous. Not to mention how much it would give Serandite away.

Instead, Serandite chased Rosalind alone, leaping through the trees. Faster than the ground-- even if she did get hit by branches. A lot. She winced as a branch scratched her cheek, drawing blood. Bothersome scenery-- she had to give the other credit for using her surroundings to her advantage. But Serandite had the power advantage against a single senshi-- she wasn't going to lose to one scout who only threw coins.

.. The sooner she found Rosalind, the better.

It was nerve wracking, standing alone in the middle of the night and waiting for someone. It was even more nerve wracking when you knew they were doing something that could go horribly, horribly wrong in countless ways, and that there was nothing you could do to plan for or compensate for these situations. Nevertheless, Perseus stood there in the clearing as still as she could possibly manage, looking a bit like a very colorful statue. Her ears hurt by the time she had managed to hear anything significant because of the strain placed upon them.

The sound was pretty much irrefutable in her mind. A lite crashing through the forest, like someone who was trying hard to be quiet and finding it impossible. This was followed by more openly loud sounds, like a giggle that just barely reached her from where she stood. It seemed like their hastily concocted plan had worked, at least.

A burst of relief waved over her when she saw Rosalind run in, unscathed and clearly well enough to deliver her usual tag line (regardless of how right it seemed to say it, Perseus had been trying to keep her own tag line at bay recently and had failed for the most part). As soon as her partner stopped moving, the tag team began. The sailor charged forward with pent up energy, hoping to catch the officer off their guard. It wasn't long before she was directly in Serandite's path, heading for a direct collision.

Perseus lunged forward when she was close enough to warrant it, aiming for the other girls face. A huge part of the plan was in the works, and she hoped it worked.

Sailor Rosalind was incredulous-- Serandite, who was once a nasty bully, was now a clumsy little twit. A sadistic part of the Soldier of Wealth felt satisfied watching her collide into Perseus and onto mound of dirt. Filth was only fitting of such a rotten child.

"Maybe we wouldn't have to gang up on you if you weren't so awful," Rosalind spat, "and if you weren't always out to murder innocent people!!" She sounded like a professional superheroine!

"I trust you can take it from here, Sailor Perseus?"

.. oh god. For once in her life, Serandite finally felt like she understood Sassolite. She hadn't really been listening when the lieutenant told her she had gotten kissed by a cat and a senshi-- The only word that could come into this situation was a swear term that a girl of Serandite's small frame wasn't often found ******** had kissed her. She had reacted badly enough when Variscite had leaned in and almost done the deed-- but the deed was actually done. (By a senshi-- Serandite would have preferred it be Variscite insteeeaaaad. But that was a frightening prospect too.) She had actually kissed her. Did Serandite run into one of those scouts? If you considered the ration of female scouts to males .. ....Her expression was of utter disgust as she stared ahead at Perseus, the back of her hand frantically trying to rub the sensation away.

"Goddamnit, two of them. Tag team, Loppy!" Both the giant bunny and Serandite darted forth from seperate points to attack Perseus. Unfortunately, her perception was messed up-- the bunny and Serandite collided at a certain point, similar to a "V" position. "Owowow-- How the heck did we collide?"