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Having to spend more time powered was a b***h.

Aue was not happy about this, but he'd made his decision as a man and he would keep to it; so he waited for contact and - as a result of having been powered up more often (even if he kept to sparsely populated locations as much as humanly possible) he'd been far more active and run into more of those dust monsters.

The senshi was sitting on a rooftop (they were so useful) and drinking a bottle of water when he felt a chaos signature approaching. With a sigh he capped his water and stood, eyes narrowed to try and catch a glimpse of what was coming for him - he just forgot to look at the sky. So the youma was right up on him before he noticed it. Avian!? There are flying ones? That's bullshit!

It had six wings and landed near him, beak clacking open and closed, open and closed. He would have cast on it immediately but a word came through the air just before he summoned his magic. "Lemons."

The word - and the fact that it wasn't trying to attack him straight off - made him drop his fists. "That's me." It turned, offering him it's leg but keeping eyes glowing with hate focused on him the whole time. Aue could tell it wanted very badly to attack, to tear and rend, but it was on a mission. From Labyrinthite. The General's summons. Warily the white moon senshi took the paper and fixative from the monster, hissing as it couldn't help but peck at his hands.

"Your restraint is notable, monster. I'll remember it."

The avian watched curiously as Aue read the note, flapping it's wings as the senshi tucked the paper into his sas. It remained even as he collected his water bottle and bounced on off to the location written on it. Finally. The waiting was hard, it was good that Labyrinthite had contacted him. And while he'd been a distance from the meeting place given, Aue would come within twenty minutes..only slightly winded from the journey.

Like a ******** gargoyle, but he sure knows how to make an entrance. Kind of like a mid-boss in an RPG or MMO, really. Aue caught his breath and watched the General come close to offer a phone and an explanation as to why it was being offered to him.

"Sorry, we can't teleport like you guys can." The senshi inspected the phone, opening it and thumbing it on to check what had been pre-loaded, number wise. Just one thing, the General's contact number. I'm supposed to carry this all the time, then? The Negaverse requires a lot more work than I'd hoped, but it's too late now. "Makes sense. I'll keep it on me."

The pup. Blue eyes narrowed slightly and the big brunette shifted on his feet, the whiskey-eyed General's closeness crowding him into unrest. He means the Wolfe. Wisely Aue remained quiet until Labyrinthite made a demand of him that required answering. "I don't know much, I was there for only one meeting...there was a second, but I didn't attend."

Aue tucked the burner phone into that weird side-wise-but-not space that his senshi phone and magical disco stick usually stayed in before he continued. "Said his name was Caedus and that he'd been imprisoned by Beryl some millenia ago. That he needed energy from us to go home - wherever the ******** that was, he didn't say. Wanted us to all take some stupid crystal things and hold them bare-handed to feed energy into them." With clipped syllables but care to speak clearly, Aue gave Labyrinthite what he wanted to know about the mysterious cloaked figure, then the royals.

"One was a blond princess with a small rack. She was dressed like some ballet reject, only in heels. Came off like a bitchy air-head. There was a guy with her though, I think they must have been together -- he was a Knight, I think. All in greens. Didn't catch their names, but I assume the chick was that Ganymede person you mentioned last time. The guy whipped out his ******** crystal or something and pointed it at Caedus at one point - to help, but the walking corpse didn't like that. He was as blustery as the woman. Mousy brown hair. Couldn't get the color of his eyes from where I was. Dressed in blues, wore some sort of toga-looking thing and armor..like some MMO paladin almost. His wings were dark, not sure if that means anything."

Aue paused a moment, clearing his throat, "I believe that's Castor."

So fresh recruits couldn't teleport? That was an interesting bit of information for Aue to assimilate; he'd had no idea that the lieutenants were unable to pop around the way that Captains and Generals did. Labyrinthite's comment about considering this a test of endurance was met with a short nod - and some silent, mental cursing.

Being part of the Negaverse was definitely more labor intensive than he'd thought it would be...he was going to have to do something about his laziness. Like...work out?. It didn't please him, but it was what it was. Aue had committed himself to this road, he'd see it through.

"I--" Don't know. Maybe there are no more, maybe they're all tapped out or broken from being used. But that's not what he'll want to hear. I'm going to have to try to find one, somehow. "Will do my best to acquire one for you, General."

One way or another.

"Iris? I do not know of a royal called 'Iris'." s**t, he'd forgotten the Knight. "My apologies, I did not catch his name and he looked...less overblown than the senshi." Aue cleared his throat, wishing for something wet to soothe his throat after the run and all the talking, "The Knight was there, with his shield. The senshi seemed inclined to ignore him and his counsel." Of course, Castor and Ganymede and seemed inclined to ignore everyone's counsel, so that wasn't really surprising in the slightest.

"It was a shitshow, to be blunt. Much arguing, bitching, d**k-wagging. There were voices of reason in the group, but they were ignored in favor of watching the royals going back and forth. I believe that some found private audience with the stranger, after the meeting adjourned." Aue had not caught the names - and sometimes not even the faces - of the voices trying to put reason forth, which was unfortunate but he'd held back to the outskirts of the gathering. That I am sure will not do in the future. Labyrinthite will want better intel, I will have to be in the thick of things.

He could make a further observation, "During the meeting there were several smaller groups, I am not sure if they are actual teams or were simply collections of those that were familiar, but much of what was rational came from one of the groups. I didn't get a very good look,but it seemed that others gathered around a tall blond eternal covered in plants."

In time, the white-and-yellow clad senshi would learn of his follies, discover just how unlucky (with regards to his wont to be lazy and do as little work as possible) he'd been in catching Wolfeite's eye so much that he'd been introduced to American McGee's General. For the moment, he was still mostly in the 'honeymoon' phase - where the additional requests (demands, really) didn't feel onerous, but more as something necessary to prove that he really was worth Labyrinthite's time and energy.

As opposed to being worth only his starseed.

The description of Iris, brief as it were, only served to make Aue shake his head; he'd met no one that fit the whole of Labyrinthite's description and said as much. Aue did make note, however, that the General was interested in this "Iris" person and that he should keep an eye out for her - or her team. If I could net him such a wanted person, no doubt that would secure my space within his guard and prove that I have uses beyond a monster's snack. Not that he was kidding himself, to snare a Princess - supposedly the epitome of senshi power - was far, far beyond him...but it was a nice thought.

"I will do my best. I believe it highly likely Caedus would take a meeting with me as I am now." As for the eternal, well...that would be trickier...but there had been quite a group with him - and no doubt but that he was unique amongst the crowd, what with his green-growing ornamentation - if he could not meet the senshi himself, perhaps one of his comrades? "It may take some time, but I will find the information you seek."

Aue merely nodded at Labyrinthite's orders, taking to heart what he said regarding information gathering on Caedus and his crystals. How he would find the mysterious NPC and get him to talk was another thing entirely - a possible problem that Aue wasn't about to place on the General's shoulders lest the man decide he was more effort than he was worth.

"Yes, General." He was being dismissed, obviously, but there was something about the way that the pink-haired officer was grinning that sent a chill coursing down the brunet's spine. That is not the sort of expression one wants to see...what are you thinking, Labyrinthite? It can't bode well for me. "Test." Well, it wasn't as though Aue could exactly say no - if he didn't agree, the man would just do it, likely something worse than initially planned.

"I'm at your disposal." A smart salute and the yellow-and-white clad senshi backed away from Labyrinthite five steps before turning to leave. He would not be taking a direct route home...especially not after the look that had crossed the shorter man's face.