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Cynthia had tried to take a good picture of some of the landscaping, but it had just been too crowded that day to take one and she had soon felt overwhelmed to the point where she had moved closer to a vacant street as she tried to get away from all of the foot traffic. As much as she liked being outside, she didn't like it when it was this hot! And with the crowd it made it just that much worse.

She sighed in relief however when she found a vacant street with no one in it. At least, that was her first look. Looking around again she saw a cat, and could have sworn it was meowing or something. She couldn't help but go to it and was about to coo at it a bit, when she finally heard it say 'hello'. She almost jumped back in surprise, but managed to keep herself from doing so.

"Oh my gosh I was not expecting that. You scared me!" She said, walking up to the guardian cat. "You're a guardian cat right? What's your name?"

Cynthia couldn't help but giggle at how cute the cat was and picked him up, cuddling him. "I'm Cynthia. Since you're a guardian cat though, you should know my powered name is Larissa. It's nice to meet you Arthur." She replied, stroking his fur a bit.

Why did guardian cats have to be so cute?! "Why were you looking for me though? You need help from a senshi?"

"Really? Wow that's... surprising." She wasn't sure what to say. What did he mean by "past what you are"? Did that mean she was ready for the next senshi level? She hoped so! Though she didn't mind being a basic either. She hadn't run into too many problems while being one. But more powerful was always good!

She moved them over to a more secluded, tree-covered area near the vacant street. "I hope this is secluded enough..." She muttered to herself as she walked a bit deeper into it, still holding Arthur in her arms. "You think this is okay? Or do you think I should move farther?"

Cynthia was about to say that she hadn't felt like she had worked that hard or that she had grown at all, but it seemed Arthur was confident in what he sensed needed to happen, and she figured that perhaps she was just underestimating herself.

The purring helped though.

She nodded and grabbed her pen, powering up into her basic form. She looked at the cat, slightly feeling the air around them to see if she could detect any unwanted auras, and could find none. "All right, what do you want me to do now?"

Cynthia wondered what the kitty was up to, but did as she was told. She assumed that he was doing to do some acrobatics maneuver or some such like Julienne when Cynthia was awakened as a senshi. "All right, I think I got it. Ready when you are!" She eagerly awaited to see what the kitty might do. "Don't push yourself too hard though. If you don't have a very good back, then I don't want you hurting it somehow!" She was a bit concerned that the cat seemed to want to do such a stunt with a not-the-best back and she didn't want to have to worry about a hurt kitty.

Cynthia could only watch in amazement as Arthur made the leap and somersault in the air. She grinned when he was done with the little gymnastics maneuver. "Awesome! I haven't seen a cat leap like that before. And for someone who has a not-so-good back, you did great!" She said. She bent down to take the new henshin pen and when she got back up, she nodded to Arthur and then held the pen up high. "Larissa Moon Power, Make-up!"

She felt the familiar feeling of transforming into Larissa, and soon enough it was done, just like all of her other transformations. Once it was she opened her eyes and gave herself a quick look over. "Hmm... not too much has changed, but it's still changed and I do feel a bit different." She smiled at Arthur, bending down so that she could extend her hand to him for a high-five/paw. "Thank you so much! This is amazing!"

Larissa giggled when Arthur decided to rub his head up against her hand instead. Oh well. But it was a very cat-like response! "Thank you so much for the upgrade. I hope I can be of some use to others. And maybe help some basic senshi too!"

She stood up and powered down again. She didn't want to be seen in this for too long during the middle of the day. "Yes I do! Would you like to come and see my house?"