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Super Sailor Aster arrived to the gymnasium ready for some more combat training. After the events of the carnival, she knew she needed to step up her game in the Senshi business. It wasn't just the attacks on the carnival that she had faced that night, but the deaths of two of her closest friends, Desiree and Michael, in the parking lot and the disappearance of another close friend Ricky. It was a tough night for her, and it only taught her she needed to toughen up to match the dark times ahead of her.

She wasn't sure what was planned for the night ahead of them, but she couldn't take an idle seat any further. As she crossed through the gym's doors, she spotted a Senshi who she had assumed to organize the event and gave a small wave followed by a quick flash of the peace sign.

"Super Sailor Aster, Senshi of Sunflowers," she introduced, unsure if she needed to check-in to the training session. "What's the plan for the night?"

Maia looked up with other's started to enter the gym and she stood up straightening out her fuku and making herself more presentable. Her brother was greeting people with quick hello's at the door and shuffling them towards Maia. She was the one running the session and she was the one with the plan for the evening. He just like everyone else was a participant.

"Sailor Maia, Senshi of Song. Thank you for coming. Here's a name badge and a sharpie. We found them very useful in the last session. I would like to wait for a few more other's to show up before I give the low down, but it will essential a group versus sparring session so to speak."

She smiled at the chibi coming in, though inwardly she was a little nervous of him. Chibi's weren't always widely excepted, but Maia had no problems with them. She'd rather know they were hearing, training, getting stronger and protected for the night than running around in the darkness with little to protect them. She knew they would learn and were often very eager something there side could do with a little more of, so she excepted them a long time ago and looked out for them as much as she could.

"Welcome," she said handing him a name badge and a sharpie, "right your name down and put it one your fuku please. I'm Sailor Maia, Senshi of Song. Feel free to mingle and explore a bit. We still have a bit of time to wait for the other's to arrive."

"Thank you ma'am." He resisted lapsing into Spanish and wrote on his nametag carefully, putting his name-tag on. His name barely fit, but, that was how children's handwriting was, just about. He studied the adults carefully, blinking.

"Hello." He nodded quietly. "Mi--" He stopped. "My name is Massalia. How do you do?"

He was leery-- he didn't understand much of this-- and this was his second time powering up. At the mention of fighting, he blinked, tilting his head.

"I fight with my idiot brother a lot." He offered helpfully. "Is that good?"

Sailor Sisyphus wasn't a chibi or a kid but -- well, he might as well have been, creeping in the door and looking around the vaguely-familiar gymnasium. The brim of his hat was tipped low, knees pale and scrawny beneath the hem of his shorts, fingers knotted together at his side, and generally, he looked terrified. It wasn't so much the training as it was the other senshi --

Or maybe it was the cat that stepped in at his heel, looking around the room with narrowed eyes, taking in the assortment of strangers around them. Laoise scratched absently at the beads and feathers around her neck, and then looked up at her charge, letting out a vaguely-rude noise.

"Well? Go talk to them."

With that, she head butted his legs, which should have been useless, except he stumbled forward a couple steps. Obedient. He started, slowly, for Maia and the table, fumbling to put a hand out.

"Um. Sailor Sisyphus..." He didn't offer his sphere. He never did.

Maia looked to Aster and shrugged a bit, "not a lot of people will, but try not to get angry if one attacks you. There was a pretty eager chibi here last time. She's a little firecracker."

She looked back to Massalia, "I'm just fine. Thank you for asking. I hope you are well." She gave a small laugh at his next words and nodded. "Yes, that's good. You'll get a little more practice here tonight and you can look to the other's to help figure out what to do."

Sheena grinned when Oberon came into view and came up to her. She shook her fluffy head at his question and gave a smile. "I'm fine haven't been hurt at all, busy with all my duties and such. I heard about what happened, but I wasn't there so no worries."

She grinned, "I'm hear tonight because Maia asked me to come and keep the negaverse from being able feel us. So no party crashing tonight. Other cats might show up to help." She gave the chibi a nuzzle, but nugded him toward the other's. "Go on, mingle and meet the other's. This whole thing is for your benefit."

Maia smiled when she heard Vahalla asked her how she was. "I'm just fine. I can't be kept down for long. Beside me brother," she said pointing to the red head greeting people by the door, "is a doctor. He's been checking up on me ... to much," she said a little exasperated, but still she smiled.

"How are you feeling," she asked grabbing two names tags and sharpies for Val and Gany.

Maia turned and looked to another new comer with a smile, "please to meet you. Thank you for coming." She gathered another name tag and sharpie to hand to the boy. "I'm Sailor Maia. Feel free to mingle, as we are still waiting for other's to arrive, so we won't be beginning just yet."

Sheena looked to the cat who had come in and bumped another senshi towards the group and Sheena figured he must have been the cats senshi. "Hello," she greeted, "nice to see another fluffy face around. There were three of us last time."

Shang gave a nod to Alfheim, "Hey, thanks for coming, although I guess that's Maia line as she was the one who's organizing all this." He noticed that the prior page's outfit had changed and he felt a little strong.

"Congratulations on your new outfit," he said with a bit of a laugh, "I think I will be in this one forever. Don't let Maia see you. You're all new now, she might embarrass you unintentionally."

Shang looked back to the door as the chibi girl from last time announced her presence and charged in, "three already," he said more aloud than anything else, "I swear I feel to old for this some times."

Maia looked to Columba with a grin, the very same firecracker she had been referring to moments before. "Hello Columba," she said with a grin very tempted to hug the girl, but refrained from doing so, "its good to see you. I'm happy your going to try again."

She gave a small laugh, "yes, please try not to bit anyone." She handed over a sharpie to the girl. "Mingle with the other's okay? We're not starting just yet."

Pompeii was once more becoming comfortable powering up and wandering the night looking for youma to fight or nega’s to stop… in theory at least. She was pleased to say that since she got the nerve to once more patrol she had not encountered anyone other than another knight. This was great for her mental happiness since the carnival really threw her for a loop, she knew that being a knight was a serious thing but she didn’t think she realized just how serious it was until she watched as people died, as energy was drained, and star seeds were ripped out. And yet somehow life goes on…

She wasn’t terribly surprised when she got a call from Maia at work to tell her about the training session that the younger lady had planned. She knew that Maia had recovered physically from her time at the carnival and was even out patrolling shortly after her stay at the hospital but Pompeii wondered what kind of mental impact having your star seed ripped out had on a person.

Curious as to the plan for the night Pompeii entered the gym and saw everything scattered around obstacle course style and she briefly wondered if that was what was going to happen. She watched as Maia greeted the other order members that had beaten Pompeii there and rather than interrupt she stopped by Shang and a guardian cat she had not yet met. “Hi Shang.” Pompeii waved shyly, unsure of what to really say to him. She nodded a greeting to the knight who was standing with him, (Alfheim)


((will go back to edit to add more aobut current people there... in a bit ^^'))

Shang nodded to Pompeii, "Hey. Good to see you out and about. I know it's been a bit rough for everyone after what happened to training important and I think Maia might have made a house call if you hadn't showed up."

He looked to Alfhiem, "This is Pompeii of Saturn, one of my sister's trainees and teammates so to speak."

He nodded to Lassell as he made his way and before motioning to him, "he'd be another."

Maia looked up and noticed Pompeii talking to Shangri-la, so she decided to let her be for the moment, but she was very happy the other had shown up. It was odd how good could come from bad, and the good of the carnival was her strengthened bond with Pompeii, Lassell and Shang.

She smiled when Lassell walked in himself and came up to her his expression worried. She was use to this expression as of late, he and her brother gave her the same expression a lot lately. She leaned forward and gave him a chaste kiss on the lips, not caring about professionalism at the moment. "I'm fine," she said before dropping her voice down a little, though anyone close enough would still hear her, "my starseed is right where it belongs and I'm not going anywhere. I promise."

She really hoped it was a promise she could keep. Smiling once more she handed Lassell a name tag and a sharpie, "go mingle, okay. That is a big part of these sessions. Get to know your allies, you never know when you might need a bit of help."