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Now that Aquila had gotten some sort of actual fighting lesson and helped beat up a monster, she was kind of in the mood to hunt down another one. She was sure she could take it on by herself now, and was eager to prove herself right. So one afternoon she powered up and headed out to go youma hunting.

Problem is...she didn't know where she could find one. As far as she'd heard, they could be just about anywhere. She she was reduced to wandering around the city, trying to keep an eye out - er, sense out? However this recognizing power signatures thing worked - for any nearby youma. And hoping she didn't run into a Negaverse person first, because she wasn't quite sure what she wanted to do about them yet.

Eventually she felt some kind of Chaos aura not too far away, so she jumped onto a low building to try and pinpoint it. After looking around a bit, it seemed to be coming from a construction site a couple of blocks away. Wanting to make sure it was a youma and not something else, she hopped a couple buildings closer, scanning the half-built building as she went.

...There! Something that looked like a giant bug had just skittered behind a pile of bricks. Satisfied, Aquila jumped down to the street and headed into the construction site, crossing over the fence in one satisfyingly easy jump.

Aquila had just started to circle around the building, trying to spot the youma again, when she heard a voice speak up behind her. Startled, she whirled around...to find another senshi standing in the yard. And now that she knew he was there, she realized she could feel his energy signature, too. She frowned, annoyed at herself for not paying attention and letting him get close without her noticing. She would have to work on that.

She crossed her arms and replied curtly, "I got it covered." The idea that he was trying to butt in on her fight was almost as irritating as being snuck up on. She'd found this thing on her own and she could damn well beat it up on her own. How hard could squashing a bug monster be, anyway?

Aquila rolled her eyes at his offer of backup and opened her mouth to tell him to stay out of her way. However, she ended up closing it without saying anything. She could handle this on her own, she was sure of it...but having someone nearby just in case was a better idea than she wanted to admit. She hadn't done this before, after all.

So rather than telling him to leave, or giving him explicit permission to stay, she instead just said, "I know where it is." And she did, more or less. She knew where she last saw it anyway, and decided she'd better go after it before it got away.

She turned her back on the other senshi to jog over to the pile of bricks where she'd last seen the youma. Figuring a higher vantage point would be good, she jumped up on top of the pile. It turned out not to be a very steady perch, since the loose bricks slid under her feet, and she had to windmill her arms around to keep her balance. Thankfully, she managed to keep from falling over (that would have been too embarrassing with that guy watching), and pretended nothing had happened as she looked around.

There were a lot of shadows under the half-built building, so she didn't see anything at first. She was eager to more, just to show the other senshi she knew what she was doing. So as soon as she spotted movement under the building, she jumped down from her pile and ran for it. She thought the movement was in the same area that her sense of the youma's energy was pointing, so she was going in the right direction. Even if she didn't quite know exactly where it was, she was getting there!