Welcome to Gaia! ::

It had started like any normal, ordinary day…Raven had gotten ready for her day, though she had noticed the bathroom mirror acting strangely. Glowing. Shimmering. It wasn’t normal. That much she was damn sure of. After a quick chat with Jett, the two decided that they would go and take a look to see what was going on with that ridiculous place now. Mirrorspace, that was. But. The only issue was Chloe, though that was an issue easily solved with a call to Jett’s mom and an excuse of needing to go out of town to go and get something for the Antique store…of course she had thought they were just going on a romantic getaway, not that Raven minded the excuse at all.

The two could have used a romantic getaway…but. A getaway to Mirrorspace was better than nothing at all. Most likely.

It wasn’t until a few hours after first noticing the mirror’s glow that Lesath stepped through, glancing around and frowning almost at once.

…This…wasn’t normal. Again, not that Mirrorspace was ever normal but…this wasn’t where they normally entered it…and that slightly concerned her. They had already experienced how dangerous going into unknown parts of this place could be…

She glanced behind her and looked at the mirror that they had entered from. It was very beautiful…but again. Not normal.

Honestly, she didn’t like this. It made her feel uncomfortable and she glanced to Remarque, reaching out and taking his hand. “I don’t know, Rem. This feels…off.”

They'd been out patrolling, like good little senshi.

Unlike good little senshi, however, Lovejoy and her best friend weren't collecting energy on their patrol, but instead trying to solve the mystery of the Really Cool Crystal and the Hunk of Junk that they'd obtained in Mirrorspace earlier in the month with Lesath.

Kibby had gotten the Really Cool Crystal while LJ had obtained the Hunk of Junk, as she had not-so-affectionately dubbed it. She'd picked the grey one because clearly the one most obviously useless would turn into the one most obviously useful... except it hadn't. It was a dull, heavy rock and that was it.


When the mirrors began to shimmer in the nearby department store window, Lovejoy was immediately intrigued. A busted door later and they were standing in front of the dressing room reflection, staring back at the silvery shimmer around the edges.

"Do you think it could be because of our rocks? We should probably check it out - it's our duties as senshi, right???"

Clutching the heavy Hunk of Junk, she didn't give her companion time to answer, choosing instead to yank the girl by the wrist as she dove her way through the reflective glass.

This was wrong. This was very very wrong. Rhona had been minding her own business, watering her plants and humming show tunes to herself when she had first noticed it. A ripple in the large mirror that she had hanging above her couch. At first she assumed it was a visitor, as the mirror was there expressly to allow easy entry of dark mirrored allies into her home should they need to visit her. So she set down her can and bustled to the kitchen to make some food and tea for her visitor. Except that no sounds of life came from the living room. Rhona poked her head around the corner to see if maybe they were just very quiet but... there was no one. And the mirror was still rippling... and glowing. Rhona set the tray with sandwiches and tea down on her coffee table and inspected her mirror. When she touched it, her hand came back clean, but the surface moved like water.

She had never powered up so fast in her life.

Acubens grabbed her bag with her jewel and her journal and leaped through the mirror above her couch. Upon entering mirrorspace, she began to understand why the mirror were signalling to the senshi. Hairline cracks spiderwebbed the room that they were in, like a mirror that had been dropped. Acubens shuddered from the pervasive chill and what the parallel might mean for them.

"Well if you haven't seen it then I guess we're all doomed, aren't we boss," Acubens quipped as she took her place beside Lesath, trying to lighten the mood even a little.

"What do you think, Kiuchi?" It was a small nudge towards independence, she felt, for Kiuchi to be voice his own opinions and assertions.

Glad to see Acubens, watching as the wild curly haired female entered mirrorspace, he was quick to shuffle on over and take hold of her fuku. His grip wasn't tight but he also wasn't going to be letting go anytime soon. In his other hand was the crystal he'd gotten while in mirrorspace with Remarque.

He'd had it on him, as he always did, when he powered up. He didn't want to leave it around Rhona's home, not that he didn't trust the other, and he couldn't leave it at Caleb's and risk anything happening to the other or questions being asked. From his pocket he'd pulled it out, right before powering up, and right before entering the mirror he'd taken it back into his hand. It was still there now as he turned his focus onto Acubens as she questioned him.

"Too dark...and cold....it's never this chill..." Why was it chilly in here? This wasn't normal....what was going on this time? Last time he'd gotten stabbed at with a mirror shard and the time before that had been very big, nasty, wraiths. He couldn't imagine what could be happening now. Were these all some sort of sign? Or were these events part of a bigger whole...something out to get them in their own home?

"Are those...cracks?" As he had been thinking, a bit more than he really should be, his dark eyes had been flitting about and had taken note of what looked like...cracks. More cracks? Hadn't there been cracks, though much bigger, last time?

Sinope had not been ready to come back to Mirrorspace after the last series of ordeals it had put its court through - not one bit. Unfortunately for him, Ptolemaeus hadn't given him a choice. Almost immediately after the redhead had powered up to go on patrol, the older sailor scout confronted him.

Without a word, he picked Sinope up, kicking, struggling, and protesting, before taking a step through the same alleyway mirror Remarque had first brought Kit through. The place they ended up in wasn't the same, though. In fact, it seemed completely unfamiliar to them both, from its appearance to its very atmosphere.

"What'd we miss?" Ptolemy asked of his fellow court members, promptly dumping his captive onto the ground.

Sinope was less eager to know. As soon as he'd gotten back on his feet, he streaked toward the one and only mirror present in the room - the one they had just seemed to enter through - only to find it unwilling to let him return the way he'd entered.

"You've got to be kidding me," he groaned, taking a step back to stare in disbelief at the enormous, intricately-framed piece of glass. "We're trapped here?!"

"Shut up and calm down a minute, Sin," the dark-eyed super senshi advised. "We'll figure this out together a little at a time."

"But I don't want to figure this out together," he hissed through his teeth, trusting that Ptolemy would understand where he was coming from.

And Ptolemy did indeed, though he thought Sinope was being silly about it. "Then go sit quietly in the corner until the rest of us understand what's going on." He then turned his fully attention to the others, homing in on Acubens, Kiuchi, and Sadalsuud. They seemed to have been talking about the colored crystals, so Ptolemaeus took his own out.

"That's a good theory, Acubens. But if Mirrorspace is 'pissed that we took these'," he said, "why would it have let us leave with them in the first place? That doesn't make much sense, does it? Especially knowing now that it could have trapped us here before if it'd wanted."

Diadem had to admit that when she first felt the summons from the mirror, she was more than a little... well... excited. In spite of the danger from last time, it was both unanswered questions (and those made her leap for them to begin with) and the vague, flattering idea that somehow she had become worthy of traveling mirrors on her own. Which... well... retrospectively she knew was stupid, but just for a hot minute it had been nice to feel like maybe she was somehow an exception.

The mirror-verse as a rule didn't believe in skipping grades though, and she would kick herself later for letting herself think it... and the shiver of chill that went through her when she emerged in the dark room helped quickly extinguish that little thought as well, as did the collection of faces, some confused, some frustrated, as she emerged in the space.

...And then there was the noise. Which was a rather awful reminder of having chunks of glass whistle past her as they climbed mirror frames like a climbing wall, and she looked around, wide eyed, searching to see Laverna was anywhere to be found. Zipping to Remarques side would look ridiculous, and needy, and she could spot at least two people who would waste no time dropping what they were doing to snigger at her for it, but Laverna, close to her own level, could not be singled out as making Diadem look like a swooning heroine rushing to the "far more capable" (barf) hero in a film.

"...OK so... I'm guessing no one has a nice umbrella or anything... not that I imagine that's going to do much if it decides to shower us with shards... again..." She wondered, backing slowly toward the group at large, still not seeing the face she'd prefer, but she could deal with that for now. Besides, she went to Crystal. She'd toss her favorite eye-shadow if she couldn't at least manage to keep a dignified face over some groaning glass. And maybe it would distract from what sounded like an argument about to start over the crystals that had been turning up.

She wondered if her own magic would be able to work if she pointed her hands up instead of forward... would she have to lie on her back? It would be nice to be sure without having to find out under... well... threat of impalement, or whatever else might be in store. It didn't help that she'd been watching old episodes of Mythbusters, including the one about dropping sheets of glass or driving through them.

There were only a few weeks of summer vacation left, which meant Jason was out enjoying himself before classes could start up again. He always took time off of work around this time of year to enjoy what was left of summer. There were plans to hang out with a group of friends at the mall that day, they hadn't been there for more than an hour before Jason noticed a strange light in a mirror by a sunglasses booth. At first, he didn't take much notice, surely it was just the trick of a light from somewhere behind him. The second time he saw it though, he knew something was wrong. No one else in his small group seemed to notice anything strange, it was like Mirrorspace was calling out to him. Was this some new form of communication between his court?

He made excuses to his friends, he was needed at his mother's store. He said his goodbyes and then found a sizeable mirror that he could pass through as Crocus without drawing attention to himself. He had only mean to Mirrorspace a handful of times, but even he could tell that something was off when he stepped through the mirror and out to the other side.

It felt like he was underwater, the waves above him holding him down. They weren't in the common room either and Crocus recalled Acubens telling him they always entered Mirrorspace into the common room. He had his blue crystal with him as well. Surely, whatever was going on it might just be needed. He liked to think Mirrorspace had given it to him because it would be useful at some point. Avior was the first Senshi he noticed, as it seemed like they hadn't stepped through too far apart from each other, and he was apart from the group just a bit.

"Does it feel like the Ocean to you? I almost feel like I'm under the waves, that and its colder than I remember it being in here." He gave the more experienced Senshi a little pat on the shoulder and glanced around to see who else was here. It was decently sized group already and he recognized many of them from their last adventure through Mirrorspace. His shoulder throbbed in a phantom spain as a reminder of what had happened last time. He really hoped he wouldn't get stabbed by a mirror this time around, how unpleasant.

Acubens and Kiuchi were easy to spot, along with the other friends they had made during their last visit. He gave the group a little wave, but at the moment he stayed next to Avior to give him some company. He was also of the mind that he didn't have much else to comment on the strange space they were in, he couldn't begin to guess why any of this was happening. The room was splintered all around them and he definitely felt uneasy, like the whole space they were in could shatter at any moment.