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Another night, another moonless patrol, another chance to run into their doubles. Eternal Sailor Tsui was growing tired of this endeavor, but not necessarily for the same reason as her comrades' might have been. Ever since the Eclipse, everyone's been attached by their own shade, except for her own. Tsui had seen hide nor hair of her dark doppelganger, and while that should have been a relief in its own right, considering others were killed, she felt as though that perhaps she was unworthy of one. Or perhaps her doppleganger had mistakeningly attacked another and was killed before she had the chance to face it? Or maybe... she was thinking too much into it and should have been focusing on the bigger picture and not her own selfish desire to fight herself.

She kept this discouragement hidden from Ida, not wanting to dampen the mood or take away from the other senshi's accomplishments. Ida had fought her own at some point, and succeeded in surviving, and Tsui couldn't be anymore proud of her friend. "You think this eclipse is ever going to let up? I mean, the moon can't possibly hide forever, right?"

Tsui looked into the dark sky, narrowing her golden eyes as if to try and see what was going on up there beyond her line of sight. "That wouldn't be fair, considering I've only been up there once! I think once this whole shadow tag thing ends, I need to make a visit up there. Want to come with?"

Her senses tingled with a Order aura not too far away, and the shout she heard was a telltale sign that someone was in trouble. She looked to her friend, arching an eyebrow but otherwise appearing eager for action. "Wanna take bets on what kind of doppelganger we're about to go beat up? Loser pays for a milkshake!"

At some point Liryn had decided that batting defensively at his greyed-out double wasn't going to work, in part helped by the not-him doing swiping out at his nose.

Hey that was kind of unforgivable you know.

He'd let his claws slide out with an annoyed hiss, his fur puffing out as he swiped back at the not-him.

The only problem was that they were evenly matched, with the thing seeming to know what he was planning to do almost before he did it.

One of the not-him's swipes connected with his side, pain blossoming as it raked with a cheerful "Die" and Liryn yowled, the sound echoing down the street.

"I'll hold you to that." Ida said with a smile as she followed Tsui, coming up behind her to assess the situation.

"Its not an animal, its a shade!" The flower senshi called, trying to be encouraging when Tsui kicked the grey cat. As was typical with a lot of their fights, she let the tiger take point while she went for those who needed protecting, the ones who were injured... Dashing over to the guardian cat, she scooped him up into her arms and moved them back out of reach before she turned to watch the fight.

"Don't worry, I've got you." She said softly to the cat in her arms, finding herself curious about him. She'd never met this particular cat before. Poor little thing, clawed up like that. "We'll protect you, don't worry."

Never did she think she'd find herself striking an animal, and yet, there was very little guilt in her heart for doing so, not when Ida noticed the same thing she had. It seemed that these shade creatures were everywhere now, even infecting poor guardian cats. Or could it be any cat? There was little time for Tsui to consider it now, though, and to see it go flying almost made her cackle, but she barely refrained. She couldn't stop herself from throwing her arms in the air, though, as though she had just made a touchdown.

Unfortunately, any chance to really celebrate was ruined when the shade cat merely landed on its feet, and Tsui spat, slapping herself harmless on the forehead as she berated herself. "Right, always land on all four feet. Dummy..."

The star on its forehead began to glow, and while the Tiger senshi had no idea what that had meant, she knew exactly where the creature was aiming at and wasn't going to allow it. As fast as her feet could take her, she rushed at Ida and the injured cat, hoping to grab them by the shoulders and use the momentum to push them out of the way, slamming her eyes shut and hoping for the best. Even if she got hit protecting them, she wouldn't regret it! Once they survived this, if they survived, she'd have to ask the guardian cat a few questions in regards to this beam cannon they seemed to possess...

The Tiger senshi's actions was enough to prevent the beam from hitting him and the purple and white clad eternal dead on, although it would have left her pretty much in the path of the stinging beam.

A hiss from the purple and white clad eternal suggested that the beam, or at least part of it had still managed to leave its mark, although her actions had managed to save him from being hit.

And it left Liryn feeling angry at the not-him's actions, because although the Shade cat's earlier attempt to nose swipe him had been unforgivable, what the fake had just done was beyond unforgivable.

"How dare you" he hissed, as he puffed his fur up managing to look more than a puffed up fluff ball than a spitting mad cat, although it didn't stop him from trying to wriggle down from the purple and white clad eternal so that he could face the not-him properly. "How dare you hurt these senshi."

A guardian was not supposed to hurt senshi - their duty was supposed to be to protect and Liryn was fully intent to let the senshi hurting not-him have a taste of its own medicine once he was on the ground - in the form of his own kitty beam.

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This was the first time she had seem the forehead beam in action, though she had heard about it before. It certainly looked impressive, but thankfully the damage to her friend was minor. Their good luck, she supposed.

She didn't have long to dwell on it though because the guardian in her arms was squirming to be free, wriggling from her arms before she could stop him. This wasn't good... she had been trying to save him, not the other way around!

Falling to her knees, the eternal was forced to let her burden go and Ida swept an arm out as soon as the cat was clear.

"Heavenly Orchid Arrows!" She shouted as she grabbed up her bow and pulled back the invisible string. An arrow appeared, shining between her hands, and she let it go aimed straight for the shade. Let it deal with that, rather than her or her friends.

Not only did the Guardian cat's beam go whizzing over her head but so did Ida's eternal attack, and Tsui struggled to throw herself over to where she was facing the shade cat, not wanting to miss a single moment of this kind of retaliation. Part of her pride was bruised from the fact that she couldn't throw an attack towards the greyed-out cat, but on the other hand, it was nice to know that others had her back when she needed it.

Through Liryn's and Ida's combined efforts, the shade cat was undeniably dead, watching as it dissipated into dust with a yowl, and Tsui gave a triumphant shout, raising her arms even though they were still tingling to cheer on her team. "Awesome work, both of you! That'll teach it a lesson…"

By the time Tsui had enough feeling in her body, the Guardian cat had tumbled to the ground from his attack and Tsui tried to grab the cat, despite the pins and needles in her form. She missed horribly, but that didn't stop her from dragging herself towards him and scooping him up. "Hey, take it easy there… you won!"

Then she flashed Ida a smile, as she added, "We won. I'm sure he won't be hurting anyone else ever again!"