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Navi was feeling restless. She'd powered up early, probably earlier then was wise, seeing as the sun was still painting the horizon in pinks and oranges. Something had driven her out of the apartment though, and she wasn't prone to ignoring such things.

Something similar had pulled her out into one of the biggest storms of the year, and it had been then that she'd found Chaonis in dire need of assistance.

This wasn't the same sense of urgency as that night though, this was something different. It felt as though the Dark Mirror Senshi had brushed a live wire, and was buzzing with energy she had no way of diffusing. No amount of aimless wondering helped, nor running and bounding along the rooftops of the city. It felt like she had gone for miles, the sun had sunk beneath the ridge of buildings, and the sky was quite dark now, but still that tingling over abundance of restless energy remained.

She had just returned to the sidewalk, turning to make her way back towards the park near her apartment, when something odd caught her attention. A cat, vividly red, with it's head hidden within a plastic bag.

What's more, there came the slight sense of power that she'd encountered twice before. Not a senshi or another magical warrior, but something different.

With a slight frown she turned, moving slowly down the alley and towards the cat. "Hello there?"

The cat turned, and Navi's head tilted to one side as the little bits of discolored flotsam clung to that little red face. Hazel eyes narrowing as she tried to identify the mystery bits before the cat began to sprint towards her. She barely had time to register, in fact, that the odd clumps might be something completely unsavory. "Wait.." No good, she was still coming. "Wait. Wait!"

Nothing doing. She had barely twitched a foot to move backward when the cat had all but rammed her head into her ankle. Purring like a Harley.

At least she'd been right in her assumptions. This was a magical cat, and by her enthusiasm it was safe to assume that she was chaos aligned. And, unless she was interpreting the odd string of multi-leveled ramblings wrong, she'd helped Remarque gain a higher level.

"Were you the one that brought him to his eternal power?" Was that the sickly sweet, and unmistakable scent of vomit on the air? Navi's nose wrinkled.

It wasn't so much the bouncing around that began to steal the smile from Navi's lips. After all, it was a cat she was dealing with, and her experiences with the mauvians was quite limited. For all she knew they all acted for all the world like actual cats. No, what called the frown upon the pink buds of her lips was the erratic, nonsensical ramblings that seemed to come without end. She starred down at the brightly colored kitten at her feet, and she struggled to settle on an adequate emotional range for this encounter.

On the one hand, here was a guardian cat, and they were the bringers of power. Ever ambitious, Navi did crave the elevation of grandeur she knew still awaited her.

Then again.. She was beginning to have misgivings about the sanity of the cat rolling about the ground. Only a handful of words made ant sense at all, and it was a tempting thing to retreat a few steps from the persistent smell of vomit.

And then she said something interesting, and whatever doubts the senshi had a moment ago was washed away. It wasn't much, just the mere mention of feathers, but it was enough. The dark senshi dropped to her knees to bring herself down to the cat's level. "Power, my sweet friend, the power to protect the ones I care for. That is my wish."

Pygmy shrews? Ok, if there had been any doubt in the senshi's head regarding the mental health of the guardian before it, it was eradicated by the warbling song she had begun to...

Well you couldn't exactly call that singing.

There was a thoughtful, concerned frown on Navi's lips as she stared down at the cat. Wondering if the cat before her knew what she was doing. If She'd even risen enough in power to reach the ranks of the eternals. Maybe the cat was mistaken? Maybe she was just bat s**t nuts, and had no idea what was going on?

But then she spoke again, and the voice that came from that special little body was startlingly calm. Faith was beginning to reform in the cat, and the fron faded, until Lyssa began to dry heave, and Navi was very tempted to pluck the cat up and thump her on her sides to help clear her wind pipe.

That was unneeded though. Seconds later an orb had been thrown up to float between the two of them. Bright, vivid orange, and so terribly familiar. In that moment it didn't matter that this power had literally been thrown up, She reached for the glowing ball even as Lyssa asked if she would accept it. Of course she would, this was her power. It belonged to her and her alone.

The heat from the orb when she touched was almost blistering, but no pain reached her fingertips. Only a tingling thrill of energy before that ball began to raise. There was no control now, her hand seemed fixed upon that glowing sphere of power, and it rose towards her without any help from the girl herself. She did't fight it though. Through the heat and buzz of electric fire she felt the familiarity that radiated from that glow, and she wanted everything it had to offer her.

It touched her chest, and the sudden rush of power was near overwhelming. She had to set her teeth, jaw clenching, to keep a scream from bursting past her lips. It was filling her up, and no matter how right, she felt for just a moment as if she would simply burst. The moment passed though, and she fell forward on her knees, barely catching herself as the last linger glow faded and left the alley to darkness once again.

Outwardly there was no difference in the senshi as she struggled to remember how to breath, but she could feel that burning potential inside her, all she had to do now was unlock it, and for that she would need a mirror.

Staring down at the cat, Navi offered a strained smile, thin chest still raising and falling as if she'd been sprinting for miles. "Thank you," she breathed out, pushing herself back to upright and holding her hands out for the ruby furred guardian. They needed to reach a mirror. They, because Lyssa had been the bearer of such gifts, and she deserved to witness the fruits of her labors.

Besides, after this gift, Navi felt the cat deserved something in return. "Let us find a mirror, and see what you work has awoken."

Navi chuckled, a high, joyous sound, as Lyssa moved forward, rambling on about slenderman. There would be no creatures of nightmares tonight, but there would certainly be magic.Scooping the cat up, the dark senshi turned and headed back out of the alley the way she'd come. There was a planted on a fence behind some bushes just before the residential distract, so that was where she was headed.

On the way she regarded the guardian in her arms, trying hard not to think about what that hard crusty bit clingy to her fur might be. Navi didn't have very much experience with cats. Grendal, for the most part, was the only one she had any contact with, and he came and went as he pleased. However, she had to assume the majority were more like him, and less like the one she was currently carrying. This little bundle of magic seemed to be 100% certifiably nuts.

"You're unique, you know that?" Another chuckle followed, and she turned down a side street before heading towards a wall of shrubbery. "Ready to see your handy work?"

The wall of shrubs Navi was striding towards looked like any other tall spread of greenery within the city. A thicket of green stuff in front of what was probably an ugly wall. That was exactly what it was, but Navi was moving quickly towards it as if she expected the damn thing to simply part for her to walk through it. Of course no such thing happened. Instead, as they moved swiftly through the rough brush of branches and leaves, Navi stepped up and into a mirror, taking the both of them into mirror space.

She didn't linger though, and instead headed for another wall of reflective glass across from them, features mirrored back at her as she grew closer. An excited grin was stretched along pale, pink lips.

It was as she was stepping through the second mirror that she felt the real change. Instantaneous and large, the very power she felt when the heel of her boot met the concrete hit her with a heady rush and she let out wavering, giddy giggle as she emerged from the mirror completely, Cat in hand.



Eternal Sailor Navi stood in the barren alley on the complete opposite side of town. She turned, Staring at herself in the mirror she'd just walked out of, lips half parted as she took in the edge of thrones that graced her brow and the seep of feathers that arched from her hips. It was a stunning transformation. So very similar, but so different.

The cat in her arms was given an almost absent squeeze, "Thank you."