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Training wasn't somethign Lieutenant Xenotime strictly needed, but it was something she was passionate about. So when Painite presented her with a chance to come along with her and another captain for the evening she eagerly jumped at the chance. Power level aside, the teen was a damn good fighter, but that was at all surprising when one took a look at her hobbies outside of her Negaverse uniform. She was a fighter, through and through, cocky for a lieutenant, but for good reason.

So it was excitement that coursed through the punkish teen when their little training party was crashed by an Eternal senshi.

He too was cocky, and in the end that proved to be detrimental for him. One on one, it was a fair bet he could have taken any one of them, but all three at once, with Painite keeping out of reach? He didn't have a chance.

She was grinning as she watched blood flow free between his fingers where they clutched at his side. The rain quickly washed it away, but Xenotime saw it, she knew the general's spear had struck true, and with him now injured it was only a matter of time before She and the captain with them could finish him off. He might have been an eternal, but even they had their limits.

"Finish him off."

The words were like music to the girl's ears. "With pleasure." She passed a silent glance to the captain beside her to urge him to stay put, then, when he nodded his understanding, she darted in, pretty little fist already cocked back and her torso twisting.

She was aiming for the stubble lined stretch of his jaw. Her grey eyes ablaze, voice raising into the stormy night around them in cold, gleeful laughter.

Not far across town another agent of chaos was moving about in the torrential rain despite her better judgement, but it wasn't the challenge for Super Sailor Navi. She'd happily stayed at home within the safety of her apartment, probably watching a movie with her room mate, but something had been nagging at her for the better part of an hour now. An uneasy feeling of dread that ate at her relentlessly until finally she'd powered up and stepped through her bedroom mirror.

Her first stop had been the community center, sure the steadily growing knot in her stomach had something to do with Chaoins, but he'd been nowhere to be found.

Unwilling to go home without finding him, she'd left the dry safety of the run down building and gone searching.

This guy was no amateur. There was an second of shock as Xenotime's fist disappeared within Chaonis' hand, but she didn't have time to marvel at his speed. He jerked her forward and she had two options. She could either let his shoulder slam into her, or she could drop into a crouch. As the latter would allow her to avoid the hit that's the one she decided on. She avoided the impact of his shoulder, but it wasn't pretty. The momentum from being yanked had her crashing to her knees with only one hand left to catch herself with. "Not bad," she admitted, begrudgingly, shaking her head to clear purple bangs from her eyes as she looked up at him.

She didn't stay down long, she couldn't afford it. The rain, along with a very hard jerk, let her tear her hand out of his grip, and she smacked that palm into the roof, one slender leg sweeping around to take out the Eternal Senshi's feet.

Inpatients had the Captain moving forward as if he meant to assist the lieutenant, but when he saw she'd managed to free herself he shifted his priority into backing her up. When she swept at his legs he'd take a swing at his face with the notion that he could only block one of them.

Navi had finally picked up the aura of Chaonis, but his power signature wasn't what had her sprinting across the roof tops towards him. On their own three Negaverse Agents wouldn't give the Dark Mirror Senshi any concern, but it felt as though they were not only right on top of each other, but closing in on Chaonis. The feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach increased tenfold. Something was definitely wrong.

Chaonis wasn't a fragile person. He was strong, determined, and tenacious. Navi didn't often worry about him holding his own against anything Chaos might throw at him, but she also hadn't imagined they'd throw themselves at him in groups. He might be an eternal, but even he had his limits.

Rushing blindly into the fray wasn't really a great idea, she knew that. The agents attacking Chaonis were supposed to be her allies, she couldn't just jump in attack.. Could she? Her Queen had set her sights on the Senshi of Danger, but Navi wasn't sure she wanted him to know that just yet.

Indecision or not, she didn't slow down.

Xenotime voices back to her feet as Chaonis rocked forward and caught himself after she'd kicked his legs out from under him. It wasn't pretty, but the way he managed to turn his fall into a charge was reminder yet again that they were dealing with someone not only powerful, but more then a little skilled. Absently, the lieutenant found herself wishing they were powered down and on equal footing. She'd have loved to face him in the ring.

But this wasn't that sort of fight. Painite's voice floated down to the punk, and with grin the young woman jumped into action.

She made it as far as the window before the senshi was calling out what she had to assume was an attack, and the entire building began to shake around them. "What the ********?"

A bit of plaster fell beside the two on the floor, and that was hint enough for Xenotime to get the hell out of dodge. She lept back from the window ledge, scanning backwards and away. "General, he's going to bring the whole ******** building down around him!" A.k.a run like hell.

Navi slid to a stop along the roof of the building on the other side of the one Chaonis destroying, the vibrations damn near taking her of her feet. She saw the retreating lieutenant and the general, but the last of the three negaverse auras was inside the crumbling building. "Oh my God." She could see the roof beginning to cave in. "He going to bring it down on top of the booth of them."

She didn't know captain, so her concern for him was non-existent, but her Fiyero was inside as well, and she had no way of knowing if this attack had an escape plan for the weilder, or if Chaonis had just decided that if he was going down, he would try to bring as many of his attackers down with him as he could.

"********. ********. ********!" One moment sprinting away from a collapsing building and the now falling rubble, the next Xenotime felt an arm go around her waist before the rainy scene around her vanished completely. Painite had saved her, teleported her away to safety. If she didn't already adore the other woman, that certainly would have earned her about a bazillion brownie points.

Meanwhile Navi was staring horrified at the quickly crumbling building in front of her, staggering herself to keep from falling over as everything around her shook. It was like a ******** localized earthquake, and Chaonis was at the epicenter!

"Fiyero!" She screamed it, voice high and shrill. All pretense of caution flew out the window as the DMC spotted the bit of white and orange escaping the window he'd crashed into with the captain moment before. Had she any mind for reasoning in that moment she'd have known the other chaotic auras were gone, but her little world had narrowed down to one thing, and that was Chaonis.

The Senshi was already running for him when he collapsed, leaping down from where she'd been standing and scrambling over rubble into she reached his side and all but threw herself down beside her so she could lean over him and shield his body from anything that might have fallen on him. Her knees screamed at her, protesting the abuse she'd just put them through, and the hard knock of chunks of building falling on her were sure to leave bruises, but the frantic worry for the Senshi beneath her sort of drowned that all out.

Dust was swirling around them, but the torrent of rain that was falling on them kept the both of them unnaturally clean of dirt, or in his case, blood.

When everything stilled, after what felt like an enternity, the girl finally fell back on her knees, delicate fingers seeking out a pulse in Chaonis' neck. Anything, a breath, a cough, something to let him know he was alive. If she wasn't afraid the captain had hurt him worse then she'd seen, she would have hastened to flip him over, but she didn't dare, not before she knew what all was wrong with him.

"Fiyero, come on. It's me, It's your Elphy. Come on! Wake up!" As she spoke, pleading with him to wake up, her voice rose in panic. "Please! Chaonis!" She was patting his cheeks, nudging at him. "Open your eyes!

That first rough groan brought a rush of relief to the girl that would have made her knees weak enough to drop her had she been on her feet. The second leading up to it had felt like that's dragged on through an eternity, and now they sped on again at their normal pace. He was alive, and time could carry on once again undisturbed.

He coughed, then her name floated up between them, his tone puzzled. It had her catching up his hand, squeezing it tightly as he assured her that he was fine, despite the blood seeping between the fingers curled around his side.

"You're not," she argued, but despite her words a hesitant smile was blooming on pouted lips. Watching the trail of the fight, the building coming down around him, she'd honestly thought she was going to lose him. Now that he was safe, it was as if the girl couldn't find words to express her relief. Instead she knelt beside him, one hand holding his tightly, the other moving to brush dust soiled water from his cheek, for what good it would do.

The storm had settled in in earnest. Great turrets of rain was falling now, soaking the pair of them to the bone. Lightning cutting through the sky some distance away, its accompanying thunder following seconds behind.

Navi's curls were plastered to cheeks, and though she couldn't hide all the signs of her overwhelming relief, the rain at least hid the tears.

She starred down at him, features battling between worry and confusion as he made mention of just how wet she was getting. "I don't care." Why should she care? What was a little water in the face of such heart stopping worry and overwhelming relief? It struck her as odd that he felt the need to mention it, but he could very well be in shock for all she knew. And that was a worrying thought all on its own.

With a frown the Senshi lay her hand against his forehead, feeling for a chill or clamminess. Any indicator that could confirm or lay rest to her worry.

When he shivered and shifted closer her response was automatic. Avoiding his injury, ever so carefully, the girl helped him move until his head and shoulders were resting in her lap, her palms smoothing along his cheeks and through the wet mess of his hair as she bent over him, shielding him from the rain. Well, at least the brunt of it.

Now that everything had more or less settled the dmc couldn't help but slide her gaze along to the ruin of the building beside them. There was nothing left of it but a few stay hints of the original frame and an enormous pile of rubble. And somewhere in there, among the debris, was the remains of one very unfortunate negaverse agent.

Of course there was no way to be sure of that, but Navi hadn't felt that particular aura flicker away before everything collapsed. Not like the other two had done.

She shivered, turning away to look back down at the Senshi in her lap, her thumb stroking his cheek. "Something pulled me here, to you," she admitted softly, knowing full well how peculiar that might sound. "Watching that building... I don't think I've ever been more scared of losing someone." And considering what she'd witnessed in the Surrounding, that was saying something.

The grin he offered up to her helped to ease a bit of her worry. Not a lot, but some. "You're not allowed to go anywhere," she corrected, voice both soft and somehow firm. As if she wouldn't allow him to disappear, as foolish as that might have been. Her powers made her stronger, but not even she could cheat death. This was a war, casualties happened..

She didn't want to think about that though, so when he urged her to leave she grasped at the subject change and clung to it. "If they come back and I'm not here, then what happens to you?" She wasn't leaving his side, not until she knew he was safe.

Besides, she knew the Negaverse wouldn't do anything to her, and if she made it clear her Queen had taken an interest in Chaonis then they'd have little choice but to back off or face Ares' fury. It wasn't something she'd be very willing to admit, but she would if it would save him. he didn't need to know it was truth.

"You're bruised and bleeding, and you're worried about me?" A broken chuckle followed, and she bent so she could lay her lips against his chin and the line of his throat. he was cool to the touch, and with the rain leaching away what little warmth they both had it wasn't going to be long before his situation worsened. "I need to get you out of here. Do you think you can walk if I help you?"

Getting him to a mirror and using that to get him to a hospital or somewhere safe would have been her preferred method, but she wasn't going to risk taking Chaonis though mirror space. Hell, she didn't even know if she could take him through. They'd have to walk, and she had no idea where to take him, just that they couldn't stay here.