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The month of December was always a very busy time in Destiny City. All sorts of holiday celebrations and events were going on pretty much every night in the city. With the various Christmas tree lightings, the carolers, and last minute holiday sales, the city was hustling and bustling each evening. Unfortunately, the increased activity did not go ignored by the Negaverse. It seemed like moths drawn to a flame, the youma were attracted to the increase in starseeds flooding the city each evening. It meant more energy to be drained and for a few greedy youma, more starseeds to claim as a snack.

This early evening there was a small concert in the park filled with all sorts of holiday music. Some was religious, some was classic, and some was even pretty modern. However, all were the sounds of Christmas, Hannukah, and any other holiday found in this time of the year. Families had set up on blankets in the field where everything was set up, snuggled up in warm clothing. The weather had been getting colder, but the snowfall hadn't been too consistent yet. Grass still peeked out under small patches of white.

It seemed that the music had attracted families, good times, and youma. Strong youma.

Towards the edge of the park, closer to the baseball fields, a cat and a senshi had been the first to notice the strong overwhelming feel of darkness. They could hear the echoes of the music towards the other side of the park, and knew where there was music, there would be innocent people. If someone didn't intervene, there would be a lot of victims by the end of the evening.

"...Cat... get their attention... I'll message th'rest of the team..." The blonde girl pulled away to the sidewalk and pulled out her phone.

"Roger that!" the guardian stated before trotting towards the pitcher's mound. She glanced left and right, making certain that there weren't others around. Once she had found her way to the mound, she shifted from the shape of a small round cat to the shape of a teenage girl wearing a top hat.

Merely doing something so simple would attract the attention of pretty much any youma on the street.

"Goodness... it's kinda cold out!" the cat-earred girl commented with a giggle as she stood there, wriggling her toes.

The eternal senshi shook her head slightly at the guardian on the field before texting a simple message out.

"Urgent! Need the full team to meet at the park towards the baseball field! Get here fast and be ready to fight youma!"

With the message sent, all the eternal senshi could do was make her way to the guardian and wait.

Egeria was rather excited by the text message. The WHOLE team! She hadn't met the whole team yet as well Egeria tended to never be where she should be at any given time, like now she should have been inside and doing whatever it was her mother had told her to do but instead she was in the park heading towards the baseball field. After all she had been in a battle already, she had shown that nega dude who was boss! He had bite marks to prove it!

Actually that was something Egeria wanted to say to Iris. Why was it the nega wouldn't hurt the chibis? She was happy to fight so why weren't they and if they didn't want to fight did that not mean the chibi's could beat them really easy? She chuckled to herself at the thought of the negaverse being defeated by her, Hygiea, Hug-bell, Hypnos and Ixion. That would be awesome.

She saw ********* and Iris and another senshi she hadn't seen before and walked straight over to the stranger.

"Hi I don't know you but I am Egeria." She then smiled at ********* and looked at Iris.

"Did you know that the negaverse apparently won't beat up children? Even when I attack them. How pathetic is that!" Yep the idea of fighting a youma was somewhere over there in that place you tend to forget about.

Feliks had been in his room playing one of his 'damned video games again'. He'd been talking to the team on vent while playing, some sort of war tactics game. He hadn't really expected anything to go on either. It'd been a little while since he had been woken.

Obviously, though his phone went off and he lofted a brow to see what it said. "Oh. Hey guys I gotta book it. Apparently my boss wants me there for an emergency Christmas rush meeting. I'll join back up later." He said hearing a few see you laters before he got logged off and was heading out the door past siblings and parents. "I'll catch you guys later." He had his skateboard in hand so no one seemed to want to question him.

It didn't take long for Victoria to take to the streets zipping by the occasional person on his skateboard. "Sorry folks!" He called as he kept going, god it was cold, he was wondering if he could get some of those socks that covered the rest of his legs. It took a few moments for him to reach, the baseball field skateboard in hand.

"Sup?" He asked as he stood near Eunomia.

There was still enough light out for Ridley to be outside in her backyard, easily being amused with how she was able to see her breathe in the crisp winter air. She was supposed to be making a wreath with the cut off branches from the Christmas tree, something she had insisted on doing after her art teacher had explained to her how... but obviously her attention had been diverted elsewhere from the pine branches, ribbons and hot glue.

Her orange eyes finally pulled from the open air to the small orange phone that vibrated in her pocket with an additional loud 'nyan' sound. Finally getting used to the fact that it was 'the other phone' she took a long hard glance at the text that had been sent and immediately broke into a huge grin.

The whole team, huh? She had met them in their civilian forms months ago, but now she was finally going to see what they looked like as Sailor Senshi! Well, some of them she had already met... but that wasn't the point.

In no time at all, Ridley was back into the house, pulling on a scarf - though, she didn't know why since it was going to disappear in a few minutes anyways - and quickly called out to her mom about her whereabouts (though, all Monica heard was something about Istas... and Lissy... and well, the door slamming. She'd text her later about it).

And a few beats later, and magical words and ribbons, Sailor Hygiea raced down the streets as fast as her little legs could carry her, holding her phone out to figure out exactly where the rest of them were. The little blips of her team finally pinged on the GPS, a few more than expected really and soon enough they were within eyesight.

"Aa!" Hygiea exclaimed excitedly upon reaching her assembled teammates. "Heya!" She then greeted with a shirt little wave, "Oh, hey! There's another boy on our team?" Well, that was rather cool, even though it confused her just as much as Parthenope did.

Sailor Iris stood there, arms crossed as she waited. It was the hardest thing to do. She would have rather run off ahead and started beating the youma down. However, aside from that was completely against the rules, it also would have been flat out stupid. The darkness that was coming this way was stronger than the typical youma.

"Keep frowning that way and your face will stay that way, Iris!" ********* obviously had noticed, but even such a simple observation didn't seem to change how the eternal senshi stood or looked. Oh well, she had tried!

As the senshi began to gather, the cat-earred girl waved to each in a rather pleasant manner. One of the first to arrive was Metis. With a well meaning chuckle, she replied "Well, I hope that I am not only attracting you over here, Metis!" There was a pause so she could pat the girl on the shoulder before she added "I have not seen them... but I can feel them getting closer... this was the easiest way to get them away from the concert on the other side of the park."

Next to arrive was Egeria, and though the child was familiar enough to her, she obviously wasn't familiar to everyone. At least the kid was polite enough to introduce herself to Metis while the group was still on the small side. However, Iris was soon enough asked a question she couldn't ignore. "It depends on who ya get in all honesty, Egeria. I had t'save Hug-bell's a** once because a Nega decided to attack her with everythin' that he had. Dunno why, but most do seem t'hesitate with fightin' against the chibi senshi... however, don't assume they'll all be that way. It could get ya into some trouble."

Iris had been too busy explaining things to Egeria by the time Eunomia and Victoria appeared, so ********* waved at them from her spot quietly, but with a friendly smile. However, when Parthenope showed up and spoke his mind about the situation, ********* was more than willing to explain things to him.

"I don't think you could warn anybody in advance to random youma attacks... only way we'd be able to know for certain that they were showing up would be to be on the Negaverse side and control them. A-a-and..." she said playfully, "...that's not happening!"

Eventually both Hygiea and a seemingly tired Irene showed up, but the younger of the two brought up a good point. Not everyone knew everyone else. So once everyone was present the circus-styled girl clapped her hands together to gain their attention. "Alright... everyone's here... there are youma on their way here... I'm going to try and make this fast, since not everyone is familiar with everyone else."

Darting to around the outside of the group, ********* stood near Sailor Iris first. Waving a hand, she then patted it on the bubble-like shoulder guard. "This is Sailor Iris... I am pretty sure everyone has met her at some point or another." She was the team captain, and it would be a bad sign if they hadn't met her yet. Then, circling around the group, she began to pat shoulders as she spewed out the names that corresponded with them.

"This is Sailor Egeria. And this is Sailor Parthenope, and this is Sailor Eunomia, and this is Sailor Victoria, and this is Sailor Irene, and this is Sailor Metis... and this is Sailor Hy---"

Rather suddenly, the silvery haired guardian lurched forward with an awkward jingle of her collar. Being close to Iris again after looping about, she manage to lash a hand out to gain a hold of the taller girl so she didn't flat out fall over and squish poor Hygiea.

"...Giea..." she finished her word before turning her head. Lodged in her back and cutting through the fabric of her outfit was a thin crescent moon shaped object. Already her outfit was starting to gain a reddish color about the offending spot. Rather than leave the strange and foreign object there, the guardian reached and pulled it out from where it was nested. However, such did not come without consequences. Even just holding onto the edges of it for just long enough to pull it out of her flesh, ********* had managed to get herself a new cut upon the palm of her hands.

"What is that, Cat?" the eternal senshi seemed to grunt out as the guardian tossed the object away to the ground. Even in the faint light, it seemed to glitter of many colors.

"...it's sharp..." she said vaguely before shrinking down to her typical form of a cat. She only uttered three more words as she seemed to lay down on the spot. "They are here."

(OOC Note: From this point forward, please treat this like an Open RP and be sure to bold whatever characters you are interacting with out of courtesy. Also, please wait for Kuro and Lithia to post before posting again! After they post, it is free-for-all! Thank you! )

The shadows seemed to stretch and elongate beneath the feet of the youma that stood near the end of the line, its body black and stretched, like a smattering of thick tar smeared across the very air. Despite its inky self, the shape of it was very definitely female, hair the length of its entire body slinking down its back and dragging on the ground, leaving behind bits of black globs with every step. Dark, soulless eyes fixed upon Parthenope, a maniacal grin stretching from one side of its face to the other.

"Fiiiirrrmmmaaaa," she crooned, swaying where she stood. A thick sort of laughter escaped her throat, black tar bubbling from formless lips. "Terrraaaa Firrrmaaaaa...."


Beside the tar, another youma stood - but this one was not nearly as feminine as the first, nor as "normal" looking. Thick, coarse hair covered the torso and down the front, trailing into hoofed legs. A tattered brown loincloth hung from furred hips, and its head was that of a bull, complete with curled lips and dark, cracked horns protruding from the sides of its head. The creature was utterly enormous, at least seven feet in height, perhaps more, and it made a grunting, snorting sound as it stomped a foot irritatedly on the ground, tossing its massive head.

Its lips pulled back, revealing razor sharp, yellowish teeth.

"Akeel," came the muffled, snorted noise. "Ah - k - k - eeeeel."

Its dark, glittering black eyes seemed to lock upon one particular member of the team that stood before them - Victoria, with his radiant hair and smile, and the creature made another stomping gesture.

"A......keel."


She was neither standing, nor walking - instead, she was hovering in midair, legs crossed into a sitting position as she held something glowing and bright within her hands - a white, shining crystal ball. Doused in layers of many colored clothing, perhaps, under normal circumstances, she almost could have been taken as a human - or perhaps not, considering the large, third eye set deep into the middle of her forehead. The bright blue iris zipped from side to side in a restless manner, shifting from one member of the team to the next, as though searching for something, for someone.

The youma's other two eyes were closed, the third wildly awake.

It stopped abruptly, however, coming to a halt when it reached the slender form of Sailor Metis, the creature's lips pulling upwards into what might have been a knowing smile.

Soft laughter, humming and hissed, fell from the youma's lips, the third eye no longer moving around rapidly. Instead, it seemed to stay focused only on Metis, the hands of the youma smoothing over the crystal ball held in her lap.


"Heee hee hee heeeeeee!"

An odd sort of giggling sound seemed to becoming from the last youma in this line. The smallest of the rest, she seemed to be roughly formed into the shape of a girl, her enormously poofy skirt childlike and playful. Three oversized balls were cradled in her arms as she danced from one foot to the other, eyes scanning the senshi until she reached the little Egeria.

"Hee hee heeeeeeee...Cherie Cherie!" giggled the youma, tossing one ball up and then catching it nimbly in her hands again. She threw the second up, juggling all three until they were back into her hands, dancing around as though she could not hold still.

"Cheerrrieeeeeeee," she purred again, grinning at Egeria. "Cherrriee~"

Victoria had been watching the others arrive they seemed a bit shocked at the fact there was another boy on the team. He tensed when something shot past and cut *********. "Ohshit." He let slip as he forgot there were kids.

Watching as the youma showed up each one seemed focused on a team member. Vick had a sinking feeling about this. That was when he saw Hygiea move towards *********. He was about to say something but he suddenly stopped when he noticed what was looking at him.

The biggest, meanest, ugliest one of them all had focused in on him. Vick's eyes widened as he stood there watching, suddenly taking a step to the left to see if it really was watching him.

As each of the youma seemed to step out into view, Sailor Iris couldn't help but focus in on one in particular. Chamela had managed to get her full attention the moment it recalled the strange crescent shaped object back to its tail. This youma had injured the cat, and now seemed to have its focus on both the cat and herself. Despite her usual confidence, the eternal senshi was still even feeling a sense of dread in dealing with the scaly creature in front of her. She couldn't quite place a finger on why these youma seemed different, but they were.

"God... stop makin' that face... yer already ugly enough as is!" With that, the yellow suited senshi spat towards the side before rushing forward at the youma. Perhaps it was just her informal way of measuring its strength, or perhaps it was just her reckless self deciding against thinking stuff through, but soon enough a balled up fist was trying to swing itself towards the youma's bizarre eyes.

The cat was easily scooped up into Hygiea's arms. She wasn't about to fuss over who was holding her. However, despite her pain, the manx was still able to keep an eye open and focused on what was going on around them. And so far it didn't look like it was anything good.

Youma had gathered, strange ones (as all youma were) that seemed to have enough focus to pay attention to an individual at a time. And where as Hygiea's attention was on the injured feline, something else had its attention on the chibi senshi. One of the strange plant-like youma (Kanna) had set its sights on the orange haired child.

Normally ********* didn't like to take drastic measures, but soon enough she dug her claws into the child's arm slightly. It was meant to almost serve as a pinch, as if to encourage the child to come back to reality. "Hygiea! Focus on your opponent before they get the upper hand!"