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Spei had nothing against the Dark Mirror Court, those Senshi that occupied the shadows between Order and Chaos. His encounters with them had been largely uneventful, even beneficial; he'd been essentially saved from an attack from something in the woods outside Destiny City by a Dark Mirror Senshi last year during Star Festival. The Dark Mirror didn't have to do that, but he'd chosen to, and that meant something to the Moon Squire. So when he felt the presence of a Dark Mirror Senshi in the same vicinity as that of a youma, he felt compelled to investigate – and maybe help out.

He slipped silently into the park, following the source of both the Dark Mirror aura and the youma. When he finally came upon the Senshi and the youma, he paused for a moment in mild shock. That monster was enormous, a great ravening beast with huge teeth in multiple mouths and claws that looked like they could cut someone in half. Despite the size of the creature, the Dark Mirror Senshi was trying to sneak up on it! He had to intervene.

Stepping out from his cover in the trees, he summoned his shield and edged into the field of vision of the Senshi. "Could you possibly use a hand with that thing?" he asked, one eyebrow raised. "I fear this might end up a rather lopsided battle otherwise."

"I'm Spei, of the Moon." Spei looked at the tripod the Dark Mirror Senshi was holding, then looked at the youma. "...I think," he said, lowering his voice as he knelt next to Hela in the undergrowth, "I think we're going to have to go after this thing with everything we've got. What I've got is parkour and this shield. Parkour means I can get up high enough to give it a good solid kick and get out quickly. As for the shield, there's some magic in it that I can use to attack, but I've never used it on a youma, so I don't know if it would work. But if it's going after people, we've got to do everything we can to stop it."

The one thing he wasn't sure of was the status of the youma. If it was a wild youma, unattached to a Negaverse agent, that was one thing; it would be a simple matter of dusting it in whatever way they could. But if it belonged to someone… that someone might well come after them, which was a whole different issue. Exhausted from a fight – if it put up a fight, if they weren't able to easily dust it – they would be vulnerable to attack from an enemy. And that would be dangerous.

But they had to do something. And fast, and hope the youma could be dispatched easily.

He nodded. "So. You attack low with the tripod, I'll attack high, and we'll see what happens. And if we have to use our magic, then that's what we'll have to do. How does that sound?"

"Understood," Spei nodded. "You won't get hit by mine either. Let's do this."

As he and Hela crept side by side toward the monstrous youma, the reassurance that she knew parkour made him feel much more confident that they could beat this beast. With its back to them (well, mostly; it seemed preoccupied with something), they should be able to sneak up on it and put their double-pronged attack into action. He'd taken out a few youma with a well-placed flying roundhouse boot to the head – he didn't see why it shouldn't be the case even with one this big.

They were several yards away when the youma grunted, turned and looked over its shoulder with one horrible-looking head. It must have sensed their approach! It roared, first with the one mouth and then the other two chimed in as it spotted the Dark Mirror Senshi and the Squire creeping through the undergrowth. Lumbering past a tree, it made right for them.

"Go!" Spei shouted, hoping against hope this worked. He straightened and leapt for the nearest tall tree, rappelling off the trunk toward what seemed to be the primary head, ready to deliver a booted kick to it. He hoped Hela was on the move as well.