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Energy gathering, it wasn't particularly exciting, but it was a necessary job each and every one of the senshi under the Dark mirror court had to part take in. It took a lot of energy for Ares to make the mirror wraiths and making it possible for them to convert their order aligned sisters and brothers. Navi understood this, so she did her duty without complaint, usually.

Tonight she had run across a middle aged fellow that seemed to think she was some sort of lady of the night. It eliminated the need to hunt, and she'd happily subdued the pervert and siphoned his energy into the dark little mirror shard she kept safely hidden away in her boot. She was still only a rookie senshi, her quota was small, and she'd managed to fill it early on in the night. It granted her a lot of free time, and she was currently trying to figure out what to do with it.

Her first thought had been to venture across town towards the familiar outline of the community center, but she wasn't sure if the person she was hoping to see was even there. Grant was also weighing on her mind, and sge very easily could have simply gone home and given him a call. Either plan was very appealing, it was only a matter of settling on one or the other.

She was pondering her options as she wandered down the dark length of the alley she'd dragged the old perv into after he'd approached her. Humming quietly along with a song that had been stuck in her head for a while now.

Much to her own surprise, Navi actually stopped at childish voice demanded it. Not out of obedience, goodness no, but out of sheer shock. That had sounded an awful lot like a child calling out to her, but there was just no way in hell the white moon was actually employing runts to fight for them. That would have been just barbaric.

Lips pursed, the dark senshi turned, glancing back towards the street, and ginger brows rose incredulously as pale eyes lowered to the little girl running after her.

She could feel the aura, she could see the fuku, but she still couldn't believe it. Thoughtfully she ran her tongue along her teeth behind the line of her lips, gaze narrowing down on the little hero. "Seriously? You've got to be kidding me." She had honestly thought Leto was exaggerating when she'd mentioned kids being on the side of order. Clearly the other senshi was not.

Darkly clad arms rose to curl beneath her breasts, and she rolled her weight to rest solely on one hip. "I'm not evil." Sure she fought for the side of chaos, but hadn't any of these order alined morons heard of Chaotic-neutral? Anti-heros? Apparently not.

"And just who are you supposed to be?"

Navi's expression grew rather blank before narrowing down to something incredulous. The kid was striking a pose. An honest to god pose. Once again the dark mirror senshi had to wonder if this was seriously happening.

"You," and she gestured at the young girl with one plum painted nail. "Are planning on kicking my butt?" The disbelief was thick in her voice, and if that didn't clue the tot in on Navi's Incredulous take on that scenario, the half amused expression on pale features certainly would.

"You're joking." She chuckled, uncrossing her arms so one hand could draw up to tuck ginger curls behind her ear. "You have to be. What are you, 6?" Obviously older, but the dark senshi couldn't help the subtle jab.

Shaking her head, Navi combed her fingers through her hair, pushing it back from her face, then let out a soft chuckle. "Whatever kid. I'm Sailor Navi, Dark Mirror Senshi of Tumble weeds, and if anyone is going to be taking it easy, it'll be me, on you."

Run away? As if.

"My bad, you just look so dainty." Dark clad arms folded, and she watched the younger girl with a level stare as she went on to preach about the powers of good triumphing over evil. "I hate to break it to you kid, but that's just Hollywood and fairy tales. In the real word bad wins all the time."

Murderers and theives got away with their crimes unpunished, people died of terrible illnesses, and houses burned down. That was just how the world worked. It wasn't all sunshine and daisies, it was cruel and random.

Hazel eyes narrowed further at the sith comment, then rolled. "This isn't Star Wars, and you're not a Jedi. You're just a little girl in a fuku pretending you've got the strength and guts to go head to head with something you know nothing about."

Fruit, really? Really?? "I'm not going anywhere. Clearly you need a reality check."

Navi was mature enough, not to mention self confident enough, not to react to the "ugly" comment beyond letting that smug smile wither away. Ugh, kids were such pains in the a**. "Jedi," she began, taking a step forward, tone firm and condescending. "Do not exist.". It was harsh, but it was true.

Excuse the fact that magical warriors were very real, and the lot of them were locked in an epic war for order and chaos. That was completely beside the point.

The dark senshi got no more then a step or two closer before the kid hurled that damned piece of fruit at her, apparently it was a weapon. Navi jerked back, arm raisin up defensively, and the rind collided with the bronze braced on her wrist with more force then she thought possible for a chunk of fruit. It actually made her arm hurt, fingertips numb.

Hazel eyes narrowed down at the little girl, and the corner of her lip twitched, almost curled. "Is that how you think you'll beat me? Hurling half eaten fruit at me?". The venom in her voice was almost deadly.

Alright, she was done playing with this kid. Darting forward, Navi made a grab for the young lady's arm, and if she managed to snag it she would twist it up and behind her back, forcing her to bend double, least she dislocate her own shoulder.

Admittedly, Navi did feel a little guilty for having to twist the kids arm, but hey, she had been attacking. At least she hadn't hit the chibi scout, or used her own attack, she wasn't that heartless. "Just hold still and it'll stop hurting so much!" She hissed it, tightening her grip on the girl's wrist but not putting anymore pressure on the angle of her arm. She really didn't want to hurt her, just subdue her.

The taunts were ridiculous, Navi ignored them, but they did distract away from the sudden jerk of Lenka's head, and he collided rather painfully against Navi's brow, causing the dark senshi to curse loudly and fumble her grip. Not let go completely, but as she jerked back that arm came untwisted so the little girl was held at arms length, straining like a dog on a leash.

"You sniveling little brat!" Was she an idiot? Couldn't she see Navi was trying to keep her from attacking? What was with the white moon?! Bunch of blood thirsty hypocrites!

Darkly painted nails dug into the girl's tender wrist, and she yanked her close again. "Listen here. I am going to let you go, and you're going to high tail it out of here, or I will hurt you. Do you understand me?" She was bigger, she was smarter, and that certainly counted for something, didn't it?

Navi snorted. "We're not "bad guys", but you wouldn't know that, would you? Not when you go and assume and then start throwing attacks. " It was an annoying habit of people, assuming things. She'd done it herself, and she regretted it.

After a second or two she let the girl go, fingers uncurling as she stepped back and away. It was clear by her posture she had no further intent to continue this confrontation, but it would be equally clear that she hadn't been kidding about the promise to hurt her if she didn't just run away and let this all go. She wouldn't enjoy it, but she would do it.

"Go home, leave this war to the grown ups." Her tone sounded a little off, not quite guilt, but close. She didn't like having inflicted any sort of pain on a child, it wasn't in her nature, but she couldn't deny the necessity of it. She'd needed to make her point.

A sigh followed the kids words, she had a point. Navi might not have liked it, but she couldn't deny the truth in her words. The kids were the future, but it was still barbaric to bring them into this war while they were so young. No other court, no faction, created soldiers from children. Navi couldn't condone it.

She watched Lenka run away, and her shoulders shagged with relief. As battles went that was something of a sorry excuse, but it had a hard one. How do you fight a child when they're prepared to give their life for a cause they believe in?

The dark senshi didn't have an answer for that. She'd gotten lucky tonight, and her threats had been enough to scare the kid away. Next time she doubted she'd be so lucky. For now though, she was going home, and she was either going to call Grant, or she was going to curl up with Quinn and watch a movie. She needed something normal.