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Athene had been doing a lot of thinking since that horrible city council meeting. About senshi, about the Negaverse. Before that night, his only encounter with the other side had been with that Lieutenant – Lieutenant Benitoite. Athene had thought the other boy crazy, but he hadn’t been completely convinced of the dangerousness of the other side.

The meeting had changed things for him – people had died at that meeting and his cousin was currently in hospital with a broken leg. That had brought it home to him. It had also brought home another home truth – as a senshi Athene was pretty pathetic. Which is why the senshi of beads had spent the time traipsing 45 minutes across town in answer to a message that had appeared on his senshi-phone.

Only the last 5 minutes or so had been in powered form though, Athene had thought it over some and then figured it better to power up closer to the location – however now he was in senshi form the dark-haired senshi found himself sensing a strong aura. “Um Athene here, Senshi training?”

If there was anything Sailor Ate could take from her time with Chaonis was that she needed training. Bad. Like, if anything she was almost aiding the enemy with her lack of skill and power. Sure she can pack a punch and took a while to go down but when she was down she stayed there. She didnt have the stamina to outlast a fight, the semi-fight with Chaonis showed that too her. They hadn't even got started and she had been sweating like a pig 5 minutes into the whole thing. She needed help. She needed training. She needed those donuts.

She walked towards Castor, Pomona and Athene and gave an over exaggerated wave, her hips swinging to a silent song as she made her way to them. If she could see their aura she expected the warehouse roof to aflame with light yet the power coming of them was overwhelming. Oh this was going to be fun!

"Hey there, am Sailor Ate, Senshi of Pollution. Here to be taught some lessons" She gave a wink over to Castor as she smiled widely. "I am up for naughty lesson too of course!"

Castor was pleased by the new faces that arrived. the first one to arrive was short and..somewhat familiar. Was he from- "Town hall right?" He asked, looking at the various details of the fuku. Offensive type maybe? The second to arrive, Pomona, earned a smile from the eternal, as well as a wave. "Sup spicy?" She was now inducted into the likes of others. Nicknames of affection. He didn't think good or bad of her, but was rather glad she showed up. After all, the more practice they could get the better.

The final one to arrive, he hadn't even seen before. But what she said- Oh. he liked her. "As much as I loved to give naughty lessons, my wife would hate me forever if I did so now and I really do love her. But regular lessons?" He winked right on back. "That I have no issue with. Now-"

He was going to assume they were going to be relatively even on the field, Pomona the only one with a bit of an advantage. "Well, to start off, I'm Castor, Prince senshi of hail and regular asskicker. I'm an offensive based senshi. Each senshi has a different ability, and I'm here to help you guys figure out how to use that power not only to your best advantage, but-" he pointed at each one of them. "With your allies. Sometimes we have teams and we train with them, but often we're on our own, or coming to the aid or getting aid from a complete stranger. As a force, we senshi need to know how to work with each other in fast, often dangerous situations. That is why I am here."

There was no wind tonight, but the night chill was still present. "How this is going to run down is simple, I've got a youma locked up ready to kill whatever it finds next. It's not super powerful, but I bet it's going to be a challenge. You guys are going to have to quickly work together to bring it down. " She smiled, as if pleased. "I'll be nearby in case anything goes wrong. As I'm getting ready, tell each other your strengths and weaknesses, your powers." he started moving away to a pair of closed doors.

"The coffee and doughnuts comes after."

((The 24 hour rules is on~ If you need an extension just swing me and the others a PM. ))

It was hard for Ate not to notice the wandering eyes of her fellow senshi and tried to stem the sudden need to cover up. She didn't choose the outfit god-damit! She must have pissed off someone high above and long ago to end up in this get up. And it was cold. She could only imagine her world being hot for this outfit to pass as acceptable but either way her sudden shyness passed with a smile. Venice after all wasn't one to hide away from the line-light. She grinned deeply at Castor remark, pouting slightly in jest as he mentioned his wife.

"Who says she can't join us! I fear she'll have more to teach me than you if she can keep you under control!" and a prince to boot! Ate wanted to meet his misses, joking or not she had a feeling his wife was just as awe-inspiring and powerful as he was. Her mind snapped back to the situation at hand at the word of youma was thrown up. Ahh fun times to be had then and was only more upset at the thought of the doughnuts coming after. Now that just wasn't fair. She waited for Sailor Pomona to finish before stepping forward her big smile gesturing to everyone this she found this more as a meet & greet than a serious event.

"Depending on where I am, so like knee deep in sewage, garbage dump or as i like to call it - my bedroom! Hahaha - ha - uhh...ahem, yes well anyway, my power gathers all the pollution available from that area such as air gasses and rubbish and makes it into a ball. Flimsy, unstable, but god does it stink to high-heaven if you get it on your clothes!" Her laugh was loud and bellowing but she continued as if they were just having a casul conversation, nothing strange about discussing powers or destroying monsters.

"Unlike Spicy over here -" Oh no, the nickname was catching! " I don't have a good throwing arm, I have to get pretty close to my target but where i fail in that I've heard i can pack a mean punch so i try and not use my powers until i have too. So if you need a meat shield, am you man...woman." She pointed at herself and smiled bearing all her purely whites. It was difficult to see if Ate will be a help or a hindrance in this battle.

Castor smiled as they senshi exchanged info. Stage one complete. Now one the much more volitile stage 2. Youma time. "Alright you guys." Standing by the door, there was loud crash from behind the locked entry. "I hope you guys keep each other in mind because- Just like a real battel," pulling on a rope, the lock, fly off, and doors burst open. "You don't have time to make a strategy!" Jumping up to his safe ares, Castor smirked as the youma crawled out from it's confines. A large pig like youma, only fast. It quickly began dashing around to and fro. It was the size of a large dog, but that didn't make it any less dangerous.

"Just a hint-" He waved at them, "work as a team~"

He might have been teasing them, just slightly.





((Edit: I realize this is still the 48 hour time, consider the youma watching right now, not attacking. If you want to start fighting that is up to you~))

Work as a team huh? Well Sailor Ate was nothing if not working in a team! If playing roller derby taught her anything it was that you were only as good as the person protecting your back. Without them, well, it wasn't even worth tying the laces. Pushing the sudden need for a bacon sandwich out of her mind she listened to Athene suggestion and nodded encouragingly.

"I think your on to something there, maybe if you can trap it before it charges at us, me and Sailor Pomona, um...i mean me and Spicy can double team it with our abilities, you know. Fight it from both sides with a double whamy of power? Oh...wait..." She looked the male senshi up and down, trying to remember something he had just said and tapped a gloved finger on to her chin. Hardly the place to be taking time in thinking over things with a giant pig monster on the edge of seeing them.

"You said your powers don't work all the time? s**t...well...can't you just, really force it out!?" Sailor Ate had yet to figure out the quantum mechanics of a sailor power, you say it, it happens. Plain and simple.

Athene hunched his shoulders slightly at Ate’s question “I don’t know why some times it works and other times it doesn’t. It just does I guess.” It felt unfair, like he’d drawn some sort of cosmic short straw with his ability.

At Pomona’s question he glanced over at the red-haired senshi. “I can use it more than once – at least twice – I’ve tried using it that much. I can’t use it again immediately though.” He looked at the youma. “I’m willing to try trapping the thing with my senshi ability, maybe this will be one of the times it actually works.” Looking back at Pomona and Ate he added “I guess we’ll need a ‘plan B’ if it doesn’t though.”

[ooc note – Athene can use his senshi attack 3 times, but has to post 3 times between attack attempts (re-charge period). If it hits the target will be trapped for 15 secs. The target has to be going after Athene specifically for it to work otherwise it auto-fails (he hasn’t figured that part out yet)]