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She really didn't know why she'd picked this park of all parks in Destiny City. Really, she probably should've gone for something a bit less, well, crowded. Every bench seemed to be occupied and no-one paid much mind to a lone senshi wandering the parkways, looking for trouble.

That was probably because everyone was sleeping. The occasional hobo gave her the stink eye (one even shook his fist at her), but that was about all the reaction she garnered here. And it was the perfect spot to look for bad guys, right? After all, much as she'd prefer patrolling some completely deserted spot, there really weren't all that many Negaversers looking to drain energy from wall fixtures and containers. Could you even drain energy from stuff that wasn't even human? Vanadis had no clue, but she was pretty sure not, otherwise that'd probably be Chaos' new preferred target given that, you know, inanimate objects tended not to fight back/run away/scream/generally make the job harder.

But then again, she was way behind on what was what in the current times and there'd even been talk that the Negaverse no longer took people's starseeds. Frankly, she had no idea what was even up these days, and most of the time she just kinda floated along and tried being a good senshi in-between whatever the hell was going on.

Which was she was here. In the park full of hobos. Staring at a girl with honey-coloured hair and two, um, feathers on her head? Yeah, okay, right - Vanadis could deal with that. What was slightly harder was that the girl was definitely, definitely a chaotic signature and, from the baby-doll style drape thing on her dress, pretty likely also from the Dark Mirror Court.

Which meant that she was the enemy and Vanadis had to do something about her. "Um, you!" She paused, floundering for a few seconds before drawing her shoulders tighter in determination, "You're with Chaos, r-right?"

Okay, so, Vanadis wasn't exactly an aggressive person. She really wasn't - attacking people, even those who were with Chaos, was something she rarely did. Usually other people landed the first blow, and Vanadis just tried to find as many reasons as possible not to fight someone. While feebly trying to defend herself.

But this girl... this girl was a total b***h! How could she say that about someone, another living, breathing human being? So, sure, the hobos were smelly - Vanadis could testify to that - but that wasn't any reason to go about treating them like dirt! Or even worse, in this girl's case.

And frankly, her words were just pissing the red-head off. There was a breaking point for everyone, and as it turned out, callous behaviour towards people who couldn't even defend themselves was Vanadis' breaking point.

Not even bothering to reply to the other girl, she leapt forward, charging in with her fist first which was, admittedly, a bad plan. She had horrible punches and she'd probably have been better off going in with a kick, but Vanadis wasn't even thinking at this point, she just needed to shut that horrible person up before she said anything even more horrible.

"Wha- tramp?!" Vanadis stared, aghast. "What's that even got to do with anything? You've got nothing to judge my trampiness on, so t-that's just uncalled for!" b***h she could live with - she had, after all, just totally attacked the other senshi with very little actual provocation, but tramp? Seriously, she'd only ever had one boyfriend in her entire life and they'd never even gotten farther than making out! That totally did not make her a tramp, OK!

Too distracted by the Dark Mirror senshi's taunting words, the red-head completely forgot to dodge the return attack and got a nice punch to her collarbone in return. Reeling back a bit, she stared at the other girl for a second, a bit stunned. And then her grimace of surprise turned to a (slightly underwhelming) snarl and she threw herself back at the other senshi, trying to land a kick on her somewhere. "You, you, you mean person!"

Vanadis roared, "I bet I'm older than you are, Barbie doll!" Her hands flailed about, trying to catch hold of the other senshi and make her let go of the red-head's hair. It didn't work though, and the blonde girl kept talking - and tugging.

Eventually she let go though, and Vanadis jumped back, angrily panting for breath and trying to make sure all her hair was still there. It was, but her scalp was hurting something awful. And she was pretty sure that if her power had been to murder people with her eyes, the other senshi would be dead by now. Or at least unconscious.

Unfortunately, she wasn't. "I, I'll have you know that the Dark Mirror Court invited me to join them too!" Her voice was triumphant, even though it was fudging the truth a bit. Honestly Remarque had just sort of vaguely hinted that she could join them, but whatever. "So I g-guess I'm not all that useless; then again, who knows h-how bad their standards are." She snarled again, putting as much venom into her words as meek little Vanadis could, "After all, they let you join."

Vanadis made a rather childish face at the blonde senshi. "As if! You're j-just a foot soldier like me, there's no way you have that much influence! You think just because you talk big people actually listen to you?" Anyway, it wasn't exactly like the Dark Mirror senshi had been nice to her before this even began - except for Remarque, but she was starting to learn that he was a rarity on both sides of the war - so it didn't really matter if the blonde went and told her faction to attack on sight because, uh, they were already doing that.


The smirk felt rather unfamiliar on her face, but now Vanadis was pretty sure she was winning this. Well. Maybe. Mostly she was just hoping because she wasn't quite sure what'd happen if she stopped talking and just plain fought with the other girl, but she was pretty sure it'd be even worse than what was currently going on. "Must've been s-some really slim pickings, then. Who did you manage to beat, an old lady and a kid in a coma?" Oh gods she was going straight to hell for this conversation, she was sure of it.

Hoping that her words had distracted the other girl long enough for her to get an attack in, Vanadis charged forward, raising her arm to give the other senshi a punch straight in the face. Only, well, that was a bit overboard even for her current mood, and the red-head ended up regretting her punch just before her hand collided - and the end result was that the punch accidentally became a slap. That actually connected.

Oh. Wow. Vanadis looked a bit stunned.

Vanadis reeled, staring at the other senshi with a shocked expression before falling back and landing neatly on her bum. Her left eye and the area around it was hurting like a b***h, and the red-head didn't even want to try opening it, because she was pretty darn sure that'd just make things worse. Instead she watched with one eye as the blonde Dark Mirror senshi looked just as shocked as she herself felt, left a few last words and quickly departed the scene.

Vanadis blinked. This was... not how she'd expected things to go. If she'd actually been thinking enough to expect anything of this fight, that was. Even though the other senshi had definitely been a horridly mean person, the red-head hadn't actually, well, expected her to fight seriously. After all, until then the fight had been more of a grappling thing, serious but not exactly 'doing-actual-and-lasting-damage-to-your-opponent'-serious.

But she was pretty sure that she was quickly developing a black eye here, and that was a bit more serious than hair-tugging. And also a lot harder to hide in her civilian form.

She probably ought to get up by now, Vanadis distantly thought. Get going. Yeah, that sounded like a good plan. Gotta keep moving before any other Chaos agents found her.