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"s**t!"

Eos dived head-first to her left to avoid the charging youma, managing to mould the improvised maneouver into a forward roll. In doing so she allowed herself to swing straight back up onto her feet again and take another few steps away, quickly pivoting around again so she was facing the monster.

She was slowly sinking back into the patrol schedule, but this was the first big challenge she'd come up against. Whilst patrolling the west wide of the city she'd found the youma stalking a young girl and been quick to engage it, although now she was regretting the choice to do so without calling for back-up first. It was a large youma, somewhat resembling an overgrown stag. It had four muscular legs and a long spiked tail, but her major concern was keeping away from it's head. Two long horns extended from just behind where she imagined its ears would be, ending in quite dangerous looking points that she didn't want to be on the wrong end of. Unfortunately, with the spiked tail there wasn't a right end to be.

Luckily, as of about 30 seconds ago the youma had no sense of hearing. Unluckily, it seemed to have compensated for this and was resuming its mad charge as if nothing had happened. Pawing at the ground with one foot, it gave a mad screech before it began to pick up speed again, lowering it's head and aiming straight for the blonde senshi. Ready for it this time, Eos waited until the last moment before she jumped to one side to avoid the horns, quickly following up with a powerful kick to the youma's side. It gave a cry of pain, and for a moment a flicker of joy crossed her mind.

That was until its tail came up and smacked into her chest, sending her flying a good 10 feet and leaving her winded and bruised.

Her head was spinning and she felt something wet on her arm. Glancing over to it, she spotted red, and groaned. How the hell was she going to explain that to Leon? A crazy tail was bad enough, but who's stupid idea had it been to give it spikes too?

Hearing a voice, Eos looked back in the direction of the youma, only found herself unable to see it due to someone standing in the way. Suddenly aware of the power signal, she spotted the buttwings (she'd been seeing a lot of them lately) and gave an inward sigh of relief. At least someone knew what they were doing. "I think so," she responded, forcing herself back onto her feet despite the roaring ache that signalled her legs' disapproval. Her arm hadn't been the only casualty - only upon standing did she notice that another spike had smacked into her stomach. This was just going swimmingly.

"Please do...I'm still getting used to this again." Did the eternal really think she'd refuse help? Sure, if Eos had a deathwish maybe, but she liked herself very much alive and kicking. The youma, meanwhile, had been preparing for another charge, and now with two targets in the same general direction intiated another attack with those razor-sharp horns.

Usually Eos wouldn't be one to take things lying down. She'd insist on helping wherever she could and, if possible, carrying the brunt of the responsibility. But this was one case where she was more than happen to do as she was told and take the back seat. Just this once.

Inspecting the damage that had been done, she found that it wasn't as bad as it looked. Whilst the horns were lethal, the tail spikes seemed to be more designed to pack a punch, and as such it was just a surface wound. The blood made it look worse than it was, and she got the feeling that there'd be some nasty bruising in the morning, but nothing requiring anything more than a couple of plasters and some rest.

Her fellow senshi let loose her attack, and Eos watched as what seemed like heat waves shot out towards the youma. From there everything happened pretty quickly - it suddenly started bucking and going wild, no longer intent on attacking the two girls. Instead it seemed to be...well, Eos wasn't sure. But whatever it was had to be a good thing, as it was giving them the opportunity to strike.

"Careful of the tail," she warned, hoping she didn't sound too obvious or pathetic. In all fairness, the tail was like a whip slicing through the air, and she'd now experienced first hand how it winded you.

Eos shuffled forwards as Kallichore moved, not wanting to just hang back and let her fellow senshi get harmed. She was fine, really - the adrenaline pumping through her system overrode any aches or pains she was feeling, and the injury on her arm didn't look that back anyway.

The youma seemed completely and utterly crazy, and whatever the dark-haired girls attack had done had only made it worse. She seemed to have distracted it somehow, perhaps with hallucinations? It was likely to have its hearing back by now, and the time delay in her attack wasn't that long, so it was unlikely to have been anything that Eos had done. Seeing an opening, the other senshi dived in and delivered a powerful kick to the youma's neck, causing it to screech in pain. Eos was about to cheer and do a fistpump, but then it's tail came lashing across and smacked into her saviour's back. Well, she'd been saying she didn't want to just take a back seat.

"Oi!" She was aware that it probably couldn't understand her (and even if it did it wouldn't care), but shouted anyway in order to draw its attention away from Kallichore. In perhaps a somewhat daring move, she took the opportunity of its head being raised and dashed forwards, launching the fist from her good arm straight into its eye. The head was up, having been checking what the shout was, and so those horns were out of the way. For now.

Her new friend (or at least, she hoped she was a friend) dived and grabbed the horns, and Eos let loose a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding. At least now, with any luck, they might stay out of the way and make everything a little bit safer. Hearing a shout, Eos turned and looked, eyebrows furrowing as she struggled a little to hear over the furious screams of the youma. She eventually got the message, however, and in one quick move she twisted herself out of the vulnerable neck region, vaulted over the stag's body's and grabbed a horn as she landed, using the momentum of gravity to try and give her that extra strength.

It worked. With a loud snapping sound the youma's head jolted downwards and it's eyes grew wide for a moment before it's body crumpled down onto the floor. Breathing heavily, Eos glanced to her arm again, winching at the amount of blood. She then looked up to her saviour, managing a weak smile. "Thank you."

A team effort it was, but none-the-less it was clear to Eos that had Kallichore not been nearby and kind enough to give her a hand, she'd have been youma-chow by now. She had to start being more careful.

"Sailor Eos, Senshi of Senses." She responded in kind with her own introduction, offering a grateful smile as she did so. Kallichore lifted an arm as she offered a bandage, but Eos shook her head and held up a palm, smiling a little more sheepishly. "Oh no no no, I'm fine. It's just a scratch - the blood makes it look worse than it is." She swiped a palm over the blood, smearing it out of the way to reveal the scratch underneath - it was a somewhat large wound, but clearly only superficial. Either way, it was going to be a pain to hide from Leon. "Thank you, though."

Now having the time to spare, Eos looked over her saviour a little more carefully. Her fuku was complicated, seeming to have numerous attachments and holes and dangly bits, but it suited her well. And then of course, there were the buttwings. "You're eternal then?"

"Likewise."

It was nice meeting new senshi - if she was back in this for the long haul (which was beginning to seem more and more likely) then she needed friends more than anything. Alliances. Eos was more independent now, and a little more savvy, but she wasn't foolish enough to think she could go it alone.

Whilst she could understand Kallichore thinking she might be new, Eos offered an somewhat embarrassed smile, "Uhm...well, no. Not really." It was an odd situation, that was for sure. "I awakened...I think it was about two years, two and a half years ago now? A few months after that I took a break, and I only started getting back into it all a couple of weeks ago." If there was a prize for the most confusing or just plain rubbish explanation on the planet, Eos was fairly sure she'd just won it. She didn't really want to go into detail, but she still felt that the use of the term 'break' was simplifying it just a little too much.

"I know a couple of other eternals," she continued, eager to move the conversation away from her hiatus incase questions were asked about the cause of it, "I quite like the buttwings. They're cute."