59/One Night at Miss White's

One Night at Miss White's
Date of Scene:	11 June 2015
Location:	Mitakihara - Downtown
Synopsis:	Miss White seeks a magical artifact, but youma and senshi alike arrive on the scene! Who will win in this clash of darkness and light!?
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Junpei Matsuo, Gaofele Doiru, Rurako Doji, Ami Mizuno, Usagi Tsukino

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
The Tokyo Museum of Natural History is a large, squat little building only a handful of years old. It's just after closing time, and the last few attendees are finally shuffled out of the building by leaving employees, security guards on a shoestring budget soon half paying attention to monitors or pacing the more valuable section of the museum.

Atop the roof, 'Miss White perches, crouching as she waits until the civilians have piled out. A grin sits on her face, excitement and fear and desperation playing across her visage as she mentally pumps herself up.

Three magical signatures can be felt aside from her own: two dark, and one relatively small beacon of power shining somewhere in the museum. She smirks, and holds up Raging Tempest.

Magic bursts through the area, a barrier forming around the museum. Those few security guards on duty instantly go unconscious, the barrier protecting the 'real world' from too much harm. But it's a risk: it lets anyone magical or with magic potential in. Getting /out/ might be a bit harder.

Inside, the sudden burst of power confuses the two youma that had snuck in. In the Egyptian portion of the museum, a shadow rises from the coffin of a mummy, forming into the shape of a cat, with shadowy limbs and burning eyes. It begins to pace, seeking the source of magic.

In the japanese section, a tall, green-skinned Oni rises, it's head tipped with a long horn. Wearing white japanese armor and wielding a massive two-handed axe, it stalks the halls as well in search.

The confluence of power here would be trivial for other magical persons to find. In fact, Hannah Sharpe is counting on it.

"Area search!" Comes her device as lines of magic search the building slowly. If nothing else, it'll be her eyes and ears while she awaits to see if anyone will show.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei had just exited along with the closing crowd walking with Roadie. The kid's name was immaterial. He was just a guy that Junpei had been trying to help steer to a better path. Granted the kid thought the museum was boring but hey he went and that's a positive, right?

Trouble is he forgot his bag. Somethign Junpei hated carrying and having left it with the front desk was a thing because his coat had gotten shredded and he just wasn't used to lugging a bag around. So when Miss White's barrier went up. Well. Junpei was unlucky enough to be stuck inside.

There he heard... Things. Tried to leave but there was panic when he realized Things were going on. Bad Things. He tried calling out but.... well cell service tended to stop at the openings of pocket dimensions. Plus roaming charges for leaving the mundane metaplane of earth probably would have been more than a little noteworthy on the bill, so just as well.

This is Matsuo Junpei. This is Matsuo Junpei running to try finding a place where these horror movie rejects weren't. This is also Matsuo Junpei taking pictures franticly with his phone. Click Click Click Click.

This is Matsuo Junpei realizing the artificial shutter sound from his phone would be one of the loudest noises in the empty hall and that he was stuck in the opening to a horror movie. He was glad to be wearing running shoes. /VERY/ glad.

Rurako Doji has posed:
Rurako Doji was at the museum, because her father worked there when he wasn't out of the country on business. She was in his office, and at first noticed that the wifi on his computer went out. "Odd." She says softly, and then the feel of Youma's caught her attention. "Really... in a museum?" She says as she frowns and stands up.

"Well, a Blade's job is never done I guess." She says and walks infront of the desk and changes, raising her left hand to draw the symbol of kanji in the air, and then changing into a Silver haired, silver clad, samurai-ko, with a silver sword and mask... she has become... Lady Silver.

Making her way through the Library, she decided to go to the japanese exibit first, because that's her favorite place in the whole museum.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Evening is an excellent time to scout around the city, or at least it is for Gao. He's still getting used to how bright it is in Mitakihara at night, but at least it makes it easier to look around.

But some things are more felt than seen. The surge of magic nearby catches his attention, and some quick exploring brings him within sight of the museum. "A barrier?" he murmurs, eyes narrowing. "Reminds me of..."

He pulls out his cellphone and sends a quick text to Hinote and Runealy: Magic barrier at museum. Investigating; will contact within 20 minutes. He doesn't want to worry them at this hour... but he also doesn't want to not have backup in case something goes wrong.

Pulling a bracer out from inside his shirt, he slides it onto his left arm as he intones his Oath:

    "To protect the lands, I am Guardian Gao!"

There is a flash of green, and the cloak-clad forester Knight enters the barrier, bow in hand as he jogs towards a likely entrance.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Two of the patrons being shuffled out are middle-school girls. They are assuredly hardworking and studious, furthering their education and personal enrichment at this hour! If only all students could follow their shining example.

"I didn't mean to fall asleep!"

Usagi Tsukino walks a little too far in the wrong direction before realizing the exit is a right turn from here and not left. She slides dangerously on the glossy floor in her sock-clad feet. She is carrying her shoes. "This is why arcades are better, all the noises keep you awake! See, I planned my hobbies very smartly."

There is a cat on her shoulder. Her name is Luna. None of the guards they pass seem to mind. The cat's tail flicks back and forth.

"It wasn't you dozing off that put us behind, Usagi," says the cat. The guards don't notice that, either.

Usagi puffs her cheeks up in petite and momentary consternation. "I didn't mean to lose my shoes either! It's because you can't hop around while you're looking at museum things, your feet get tired. This is why arcades--"

"None of the gems here are the Silver Crystal," says Luna to the other girl with them, Ami Mizuno, who really is studious. Someone has to be. "We should--wait."

The guard nearest the exit collapses. Usagi gets a little further into her passionate defense of arcade/restaurant combos before Luna pinches her shoulder with her claws to get her to notice, well, dangerous things. Usagi's shoes clatter to the ground as she goes (more) pale.

"I-is it, um, the Enemy?!" she hisses, whispering so loud that it's not a whisper.

Luna's tail twitches hard. She turns her head, her golden eyes looking over to Ami for confirmation.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Ami had been with Usagi during the tour, even with Usagi leaning against her back the entire time asleep. Man can that girl sleep walk. Arcades or not, She's pretty sure Usagi would have slept through it. However, Once the tour was over, Ami started typing down her notes into her data pad when it beeps loudly. She's reading it as fast as she can and trusted Usagi to guide them out.

Bad move Ami. >.>

Instead, Ami runs square into Usagi's back when she stops and drops the computer. She fumbles it a couple of times, then manages to grab it JUST before it hits the ground.....and hits the SCAN button. By freak accident, Ami's computer beeps and confirms Luna's suspicion. "We have a lot of dark energy in the museum, Usagi-Chan. Luna-chan. It's definitely the enemy." Ami is....not exactly whispering either.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Matsuo Junpei is a smarter man than many give him credit for: case in point, he takes pictures then runs the hell away. Hannah Sharpe laughs atop the roof, utterly amused.

"...Matsuo-kun, you are going to get yourself killed. Idiot." She mutters to herself. There's the sound of a collar wobbling, and Boris arrives next to her.

"That pup gonna live?" Comes the gruff voice of the husky.

Hannah sighs. "Mmm, I would give him better than seventy percent odds. Still, the fact that he is able to move in the barrier? Heh. He is not normal no matter how you look at it. Add him to our 'persons of interest' list, Boris."

There's an affirmative woof!

~~Egyptian Area ~~

Conveniently, as the Shadow Youma stalks the exhibit, Junpei manages to find a spot to hide! The downside? It's an egyptian burial coffin. An empty one, thank goodness, but it's a chance! There's also a large chariot he might could hide in. His choice! Thankfully the Shadow only notices something is up belatedly! It begins to search, sniffing the air,it's black limbs wobbling in and out in the darkness.

~~Japanese Exhibit~~

The Oni might be big, burly, well armored, and armed, but it is still an Oni. There's a number of bottles already scattered about it: some sake, vodka, bourbon, scotch, and a dozen other brands it's scrounged up while initially walking the museum. Someone should really talk to the employees about an AA meeting.

But that magical burst of energy distracts the Oni, and it's soon stalking the museum again in a wobbly way!

"WHO'S OUT THERE!?" It yells, swinging it's axe and bisecting a priceless bit of japanese art. Along with much of a wall.

~Egyptian Area~

Amidst its search, the voice of Ami finally gives the Shadow youma something to latch onto. Junpei is saved by proxy! For now. It starts heading towards the scent of magic in the air, and Ami and perhaps Usagi would feel the creature coming closer. The tall, shadowy cat-like being soon materializes in the doorway to the Egyptian exhibit, shadow-hands forming long claws that drip shadowy fluids. FRom the sizzling along the ground, it's not healthy to be hit by those.

"Whoooooo dares defile the tombs of the Pharoahs!?" It wails in hatred.

~Rooftop~

Thankfully for Ami and Usagi, Hannah's Area Search has passed that area long ago, seeking deeper in the museum for her prize. Nothing yet, but she spares some magic to continue to watch both exhibits.

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver hears the commotion of the Oni and frowns, wincing when she hears one of the peices being destroyed. She dashes twoards the sound of the Oni, her speed quick in this form as she leaps off the wall and attempts to perform an Iaijutsu strike at the Oni, while in mid air. "Allow me to introduce myself...

...I'm lady Silver...
Purity Blade of Protection...
And wreaker of you night!"

She lands after attempting the cut and sliding her sword back into her sheathe. "You... are too stupid, and to magicaly weak to be here on your own... who sent you?" She asks as she stands up and takes a stance.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei saw shadows moving. Literally shadows. Moving. Chariot looked safer. Sure technically the coffin offered more physical protection, but he saw that episode of Dr. Who. Surrounding yourself with darkness when your opponent could hide in shadows wasn't very smart, even if theoretically he would go un-noticed. Plus his backpack wouldn't fit. As he crouched, tucking the backpack so it was a marginal thing to hide behind on one side and the chariot on the other he took stock of things. Then checked his phone again.

No Signal. Figures.

Then he heard the Youma wail. Had it spotted him? No. Wait he wasn't the only person here? He pulled a flashlight from his backpack, a hefty high powered number that could actually double asa baton to hit people with as he cautiously followed. Just in time to see the youma confronting two girls.

"You're a long way from Egypt. Leave them be." He flicked the flashlight on and aimed it at the Youma hoping to either blind it or, hope beyond hope, have the shadows come apart with light. Small hope, but draw attention to him. He could run. These girls looked like they'd be first ones out in a horror movie. "We are not your prey Old One. Go back to sleep." His voice trembled slightly, but he stood out in the open, hoping to draw it's attention. "Your time has long passed."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Good thinking on Gao's part, as once he enters? There's no cell signal. With opponents taking up both the Oni's and Shadow's attention, he could easily feel both sources of magic. As well as a mysterious third deeper on in the museum! Where will he go!?

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Usagi clamps her hands over her mouth at Ami's revelation. There is a tiny scream behind it, but you'd have to lean in to hear it.

Luna's gaze hardens. "Even if there's no Silver Crystal here... we can't pass up a chance to diminish the enemy's strength. It reduces their ability to search for the princess."

Usagi isn't here for this conversation. She is having a sketchy black-and-white flashback of the last few times she fought horrific demon monsters. It's not pretty. She decides to stare at a part of the room that doesn't have any unconscious guards in her line of sight, like toward the Egyptian exhibit.

Yes. This is calming.

The shadows move.

Usagi shrieks, spins, and runs in the exact opposite direction. It takes her a few seconds to get traction, and she goes sliding around a distant corner. Luna makes horrific cat hissy-rowly noises the entirely way. There's no time to see Matsuo's dramatic confrontation with the shadowbeast. At least that poor girl is safe! She looked frail.

But--why is the moonlight suddenly so bright?! The exit doors burst open!

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"

A white-clad figure leaps through, briefly silhouetted in the shadows. Her sailor collar flutters behind her, her hair twirling prettily as she spins to a stop and strikes a fierce pose at the cat demon.

"How dare you insult ancient Egyptians by rising from the dead! They built amazing resting places to send people to the afterlife. I won't forgive anyone who abuses the craftsmanship of ancient societies!"

The blonde girl, eyes wide, gestures accusingly at the cat demon with an outstretched finger.

"I'm the sailor-suited pretty soldier of love and justice, Sailor Moon! And, in the name of the moon, I WILL PUNISH YOU!"

(Offscreen, Luna flexes her paw. It stings from the slapping she had to commit to remind Usagi about justice.)

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao makes his way to an open half of a double door, and cautiously looks in. Nobody seems to be behind the other door, so he does a diving roll, coming to his feet with an arrow nocked. Still nothing within sight.

The wailing of the shadow youma catches his attention, followed by a flickering of light from a nearby hallway. He narrows his eyes, then strides towards the source of the noise, swiftly and quietly.

Gao arrives within sight of the shadow youma about the same time as Matsuo steps out. "Isn't that...?" he stares, recognizing the drumstick-thrower from the other night.

No time to wonder about things like that; there's a youma to deal with! The forester Knight draws his bow, a simple arrow of light aimed at the shadowy form. He trusts his aim, but focuses for an extra moment to make sure that the arrow will strike the youma -- and in the event of a miss, that it /won't/ hit Matsuo!

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Ami whirls around to see the shadows move and she can only stare at it for a few seconds before Usagi zips right by her. This breaks Ami out of her stunned silence and makes her run too. Thankfully Matsuo gets the egyptian shadow's attention long enough for Ami to bail and run around the corner.

Then Sailor Moon makes her appearance and Sailor Mercury is standing right next to her.

and I am the Pretty Guardian of Justice and Knowledge, Sailor Mercury!

the second voice will be VERY familiar to Matsuo. Which also will set off his 'I am so screwed' alarm.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
~Egypt Exhibit~ LIGHT! The creature gets light-strobed a bit. It doesn't break up in the light as one might hope, instead, it's shadowy self seems to sizzle a little bit. It vaguely smells of bacon.

Slowly, it starts to turn away towards the young man! It lets out a horrid snarl!

"MY ANGER SHALL DEVOUR YOU MORTA...Arrrrrghhhh!"

The light of the moon then fades upon it, and that white-clad figure steps through. The shadows visibly /burn/ from the touch of that light. It wobbles in place, only for shadows to draw up around it, shielding and healing it from the damage already done! Those claws only drip more poisonously as it glares at Mercury and Sailor Moon.

"These things rightfully belong to me! Who are you to dare tell me what I am to do with them! My spirit shall..."

The creature is mid-leap for Usagi when a magical arrow is let loose by a stealthy magical forester. It realizes the danger it's in at the last second, swinging down it's claws in a splatter of darkness acid to impact with the arrow. It's knocked away, but the creature's advance is halted for the moment! Sailor Mercury and Sailor Moon have a perfect opportunity!

~Japanese Exhibit~

The Oni /squints/ as Lady Silver dashes in! The blade comes up, quick as you please for the creature...and then teeth clamp down, catching the blade in its mouth. It grins around the metal, before spitting out the weapon and wielder alike.

"HAH! Like I'd tell you! I'll wreak anything and everything I want! STARTING WITH YOU!"

It certainly isn't smart, but it sure has brawn! The creature starts to spin in place, swinging it's axe around as it spins, a whirling dance of death aimed right at Silver! Can her speed keep her safe?

~Rooftop~ Hannah finally sighs, and stands up.

"Well, the youma are under control. What odd girls, those pair. And that boy...interesting. Boris? Maintain the barrier please. I need to get that artifact."

Holding up Raging Tempest, Hannah teleports into the museum. She's not too far from the Egyptian Exhibit, and so those nearby may be able to sense the burst of wind magic as she appears...only to walk right past with a grin towards that last source of magic.

"I wonder if they can actually defeat that creature?" She mutters to herself, the tiniest bit of worry slipping into her words.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei goes wide eyed at SUDDEN MOON SOLDIER OF JUSTICE!

"Oookay good. Great that's awesome. There's a barrier up, probably over the whole Museum, kinda why I'm still here." He picked a direction and ran for it. "LOVETOTALKDON'TWANNAGETINTHEWAYBYEBYENAO!" No stupid escort bait getting in the line of fire this time, plus where'd that girl run of to? He needed to find her. Sure she looked about as much of a boat anchor to him as he would be to the Powers that Be, but still. Principle of the thing.

Still, he didn't know about the Oni just yet. So his plan was simple. Stay away from where noisey things were. Stay out of the shadows. Keep Moving. Moving fast. Somewhere else. Away from the fighting the mortal runs. Why? Because believe it or not he has some sense of self preservation@

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver leaps out of the way of the spinning axe and growls. "Hey, stupid, why not try and grab my blade again... I bet you can't because your stupid!" She says in an attempt to goad the rather dense Oni as she holds her sheathed blade closed, and leaps off the wall once more.

Only this time she doesn't do what one would expect, she tries and slam him with the sword still in the sheathe, because reguardless if he catches it, or it hits him, she will THEN pull the sword out after the first hit, already charged for her special attack as she spins. "Let me show you how a spin really works!" She says and as a bright silver light fills the exibit, she unleashes her attack.

Silver, Sonic, Slice!"

She says as she performs her spin to attempt to bring her now purity powered charged Katana against the Youma, having gripped the blade with both hands to try and bring more power into the swing, mostly because she feels the build up of magic, and can;t toy with this retarded lump of demon flesh for too long.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Guardian Gao has given Sailor Mercury plenty of time to press her earring and extend her visor. She then starts tapping buttons to scan the Shadow pharoah QUITE aggressively. Thakfully, the distraction of Lady Silver delays the Youma's reaction to the Sailor Senshi as Mercury scans the youma.

Finally, the computer beeps and Mercury looks up. "There, Sailor Moon! Aim your boomerang for the Shadow's forehead!" She calls out pointing quite dramatically!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon's hand falters and drops when the monster glares at her. And weird stuff dripping from its claws?! Extensive RPG knowledge informs Usagi that claws + drippy = poison, and she doesn't have any antidotes.

She always forgets to buy antidotes.

"Well, I, um--"

Sailor Moon cringes back instinctively as the creature leaps--and she remains cringing when she isn't pounced open and clawed up and turned purple by poison effects. Or maybe green. She doesn't want to find out how that goes in real life.

But, nothing. Sailor Moon opens one eye, peeking over her arms raised in defense. There are other people here?! Ami's voice gets her to focus on something. Ami always knows what to do.

"You mean, go right for the--ah, okay! I'll try, Mercury-chan! Moooon--"

Sailor Moon strikes a wide stance, tracing her finger in a huge crescent shape over her head. She cuts her hand inward to frame the gem in her tiara with her thumb and forefinger.

"--Tiara--"

The gem flashes ominously, and then her tiara disappears in a flash, flowing into Sailor Moon's hand like quicksilver. The pretty soldier spins with unearthly grace, deceptively slowly at first, and then snapping into place as she plants her foot for power and thrusts her arm forward.

"ACTION!"

The light that was her crown goes surging forward, casting the room in bright whiteness and deep shadows as it becomes a kaleidoscopic meteor of silvers and blues. The impact is thunderous.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
"Yet /another/ Senshi?" Guardian Gao says, staring rather incredulously for a moment. Well, at least it's another ally against the youma!

He nods a"Nettle barrage!"</span> he yells, unleashing a swarm of narrow shafts to force the youma to choose between chasing the soft target and avoiding damage.

As his movement happens to bring him closer to where Sailor Mercury is, he nods to the Senshi of water. "We meet again," he nods noncommittally, most of his attention still on the youma.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
~Hannah~

Miss White can feel victory in her grasp. The others are occupied, and she's clear to find her magical artifact. And find it she does! Pausing in the Ancient Mesopotamian exhibition, she peers at a gold-plated dagger supposedly belonging to Gilgamesh. Peering at the glass-casing, she easily smashes it open. Picking up the artefact, she's tucking it into her Barrier Jacket before Matsuo Junpei slams into her back, and she wobbles a little bit from the impact.

Turning about, she scowls, hands on her hips.

"...Are you trying to die, or something?" Comes 'Miss White', voice furious and at once a little concerned.

Can this man truly be this dense? Or is there something more going on here. She considers teleporting out, but with an unknown artifact in her grasp, she can't risk the magical ependiture on that level.

~~Japanese Exhibit~~

The initial blow slams into the body of the axe from Lady Silver's blow, causing the spin to stop! Undeterred, the creature raises the axe to the heavens, determined to slice the girl in half!

She wins by a narrow margin, axe crashing down just a milimeter too slow. The floor of the exhibit is ruined utterly, before Lady Silver's steel cuts right through the youma. It fades away. One less source of power to deal with.

~~Egyptian Exhibit~~

Mercury's scan notes the dense pack of power in the creature's forehead, the condensation of it's power! Claws flex, glaring at Mercury, as it soon turns on her! Rushing forward, it seeks to take the Senshi's head!

At least until Gao focus fires on the being. The creature's form goes incoherent as it /stretches/ to absorb the many blasts, but it's forehead is now shining gold in the darkness! Arrows stick from its form, shuttering to remain in one piece, and then Usagi steps up.

The slow toss only speeds up as Usagi's foot hits the ground. Light utterly saturates the room as the creature is smacked right in the head, sent flying into a wall! A crater forms from the power of the impact, Sailor Moon's magic a perfect counter to such darkness! Screaming and cursing the Senshi's name, it fades into non-existance.

~~Hannah~~

With a mental budge from Boris, Hannah frowns.

"I do not have time to deal with you. Get out of my way." Then she'll start to jog away from Junpei. She's slow as far as magical girls go without aide of spell, but still fast as far as a mortal. The man can still catch her if he's crazy enough to do so!

There's still the barrier, and now converged feelings of power to deal with. But this isn't a youma!

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver sheathes her sword as the Oni dies, and she tosses her hair back. "That... was a close one." She says before dashing off... there was one more magical presence, a familiar one at that. She turns and makes her way through the Janitorial halls, and ends up in the mesepotanian exibit and leaps over Matsuo as she slides to a stop. "White! Halt right there!" She says as she gives chase, this has to be -her- doing, and the Lady in Silver will not let her escape this time. "Turn around and face me coward!"

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
HOOGASAKKAHOOGASAKKAHOOGASAKAAAAA OHCRAPOHCRAPOHCRAAAAAAAAP!

Junpei shoulder rammed into somebody. Worse. It was Miss White. Worse still. She had some kind of gaudy golden thinggie and he'd annoyed her. Well she wasn't the only one annoyed!

"My question is why the hell?" He started swearing, In english, loudly as he started running after. "I'm getting sick of both getting locked in with all this crap, and then capped off with you yelling at me because you decided 'Oh hey locking somebody in here with your freak show horrors is totally cool.'" He growled, letting his anger and frustration boil over as he ran.

"And I'm not the only one stuck in here. I can at least think on my feet. Those two girls? Look if it wasn't for /actual/ people that can fight your pet freaks they'd be chewtoys in a reject horror movie by now!" All while he was screaming one hand raised to snap pictures while the other cocked back with his hefty flashlight to throw at Hannah's head. Magic girl's skull. He has hit targets that small before. This was more substantial than a wooden drumstick.

The problem is right now Miss White was runing. If he attacked her there literally was nobody to save him.

YOLO! Straight arm throw, back heavy end of the flashlight flung straight at the back of Miss White's noggen.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon's eyes narrow. She doesn't think about why she can see so well when it's so bright. She doesn't think about why she knows where the tiara is going, or why she believes so much in it flying true. These are things she feels. They're a part of her.

The combined assault guided by Mercury's wisdom brings the terror to an end. This isn't so unfamiliar to her anymore. It feels like--it feels like there's something after the fear that she can trust. Like there's a place for her to land when she starts falling.

"HA HA HA HA," bellows Sailor Moon, hands on her hips. See how hearty she is?! You should totally forget about the cringing. She holds this pose for a moment before her shoulders slump, then she drops her hands and glances sheepishly over to Mercury. Maybe that's not the best win pose.

"Oh, wait," the pretty soldier murmurs. She almost forgot the best part. She holds up her hand and waits. The tiara comes flying back into her grasp. She points to it and smiles hugely at Mercury.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao lowers his bow slightly. The youma is gone, yes, but the barrier is still up -- and Gao isn't the best at sensing non-surge levels of magic. He should probably go and check on Matsuo--

Lady Silver's shouting catches his attention. Gao dashes towards the main hall, spotting Miss White and Lady Silver... as well as Matsuo and the flashlight he just threw!

"What's going on?" the forester Knight asks loudly, a mild look of frustration crossing his face. His bow has vanished, and now he has his viney quarterstaff in hand, albeit still in its shrunken hand-length size. He's not looking forward to a fight, but he /is/ willing to break one up.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
"That we do, Guardian." Sailor Mercury says just before Guardian Gao takes off. She taps a couple of buttons before she looks up. "Don't gloat yet, Sailor Moon." She says running after Guardian Gao. "Come on!" She says with her visor still up and her computer still in her hand.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
% Hannah pauses, and scowls again! She actually stops running. "The reasons are my own! And it is your own fault that you are still awake! Everyone else is down for the count! Stop being so stubborn! And /those/ youma scum are not mine! It was a simple confluence of interest. Frankly, I am glad those knaves are dead." Huff!

Then she gets a maglight right in the face! Raging Tempest must have one heck of a sense of humor, because there's not even a barrier! Ow. She's actually bleeding down her right eye.

"...Still annoying spirited I see."

Then Gao shows up, and Hannah frowns.

"...Care to save an idiot?" It's about then that Hannah once more flares with magic. Her feet glow green as wind magic has her leaping suddenly at Junpei, only to toss him right for the forester. Thankfully, it's a light toss! Utterly catchable by a magical boy.

And then Lady Silver shows up, and Hannah /grins/.

"....As much as I would like to stay and play, Silver-san, I have other engagements. Please do not get cross~. We will test our steel truly eventually. Byyyyeee~."

Then her legs glow all the more.

Raging Tempest speaks up, "WIND RIDER!" Air billows beneath her feet, and with a thrust of her strong legs, she rides a burst of wind away from Silver and the others!

Her fists are held up defensively, and at this range, Mercury and Sailor Moon could perhaps sense the magical artifact on this particular thief.

She smirks as she relies on the better part of valor.

"Not bad, dealing with that youma! Catch me if you can~." She taunts to the duo!

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei flaaaaaaailohcrap!

Wait. Rewind that about a second and a half. Junpei again had a weird sense of recognition. And then it was gone due to colliding with Gao. Almost immediately he tried to hit the floor, "Don't worry about me. Go!" This was getting embarassing. Literally took no effort on the girl's part.

Waiiiiiit hold it! Move back again! "Not yours this time? Crap it's that dark kingdom nut then." However much got out while he flailed and tried to not tangle with whoever Miss White threw him at.

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver frowns. "Now so fast!" She says as she runs,m as quick as she can, to a pillar, before running up the pillar, her strong leg muscles push off the pillar as she aims her diagonal style leap right at Miss white. "Evil has no place in this world, and you, dear Miss white, are evil, my motto, slay evil immediately!"

Her Katana is not tucked into her Obi, so when she goes to swing the blade at Miss White, it comes from it's sheathe, the woooden silver item falling to the floor as her shining silver blade comes at her foe, and again she attempts to perform a two handed slice right at hiss white. Silver, Sonic, Slice!" If nothing else, even if the woman can dodge the attack, given her wind powered speed, possible, Lady silver will use that as a minor distraction to try and get the stolen artifact back.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon deflates when Mercury attends to more business. "What? Mercury-chan, didn't you see--I mean, I caught it! Like, woosh!"

Still, she trots after the other pretty soldier, fussing with fitting her tiara back onto her head the mundane way. It's a little bit of a crisis considering her hair.

"Anyway, we beat the boss--"

A weird girl flies by on wind or something like that and she's taunting. Sailor Moon freezes, her shocked gaze following Hannah as she goes wooshing past. Hannah, notably, does not fly into Sailor Moon's hand.

"M...miniboss?!"

Without further context, Sailor Moon locks onto the general feeling of the room (chase the taunty lady) and breaks into a sprint. Her twintails stream behind her.

"HOLD IT RIGHT THERrrraaaugh, what's even going on?! I don't know what to yell at you about!"

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao yelps as he suddenly gets a triple armful of Matsuo. "Well, if you're okay," the forester Knight shrugs as Matsuo encourages him on. He doubts that his plant-boosted jumping could match wind-flight in terms of maneuverability, so that leaves one option!

Summoning his bow once again, Gao aims an arrow at the fleeing Miss White. "Bramble Grasp!" he calls out as he releases the bowstring, and the arrow peels midflight into eight vines snaking out from a central point. While the vines might have small thorns on them, their main purpose is to entangle (and possibly capture) Miss White.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Mercury runs into the room, but....well...she's not much of a runner. That's Venus' thing. Mercury is more of a analyzing and tactical mind.....

Speaking of tactical minds....Sailor Mercury holds her hands forward and cups them against each other.

Shabou Spray!!

A point of light forms in between her hands. She then spins around and crosses her arms behind that growing point of light.

Freeze!!

She sweeps both arms into the point of light, which sends bubbles flying towards Miss White, and if it doesn't hit her directly, it'll hit the ground in front of her, and make the cold around her just as bad, but in a larger area.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
There's a certain amount of pure insanity that any recruit for Eclipse has to have. Hannah shows that utter recklessness in spades.

Her objective isn't to beat the strong women and the amazingly brave boys before her, but to keep her prize safe. It shows, as Lady Silver flicks her barrier jacket away from the woman's grasp, and up comes her hand as that blade falls.

She ducks down, presses her own leg down, and concrete floor shatters beneath at the power of their impact. Skidding along as the two-handed blow comes down, Hannah summons up a barrier at the last minute.

It keeps her from losing her hand, but barely more. Blood splatters as the wind-barrier slices and pounds on Silver's katana, only to end in pure physical force holding her back. Hannah bleeds, gasping as her hand is deeply cut into. Then she shifts to the side, tossing Silver's arm to the side, and aims a powerful hammer-blow of a right hook to her jaw.

"I WILL NOT DIE TO ANY OF YOU! Not yet! Not until my dreams are realized! Fools! IT IS FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYONE!" She screams, passion, fury, and desperation alike in her voice. It's as much statement of purpose as a cry for help. Her wounded hand clenches, her bloodied eye bleeds, but her reactions aren't slowed down one bit.

Then she's running again, gasping and trailing blood. Sailor Moon makes chase! She scowls, furious, to the woman!

"Oh do not even put me in that category! I am the frustrating end-boss after the fake boss you fight! Get your terminology right! ...Who are you anyway?" Pause. She huffs, mid-flee.

A bloody, cut up hand is waved.

"Please call me Miss White. A...perhaps not a pleasure, but it is good to make your acquaintance. Could you all consider backing off? Seriously, I do not need any more interruptio..."

Cue Gao's vines wrapping about her legs, wind barriers keeping her ankles from harm, but slowing her movement. Hannah gasps, and grits her teeth. She struggles, by now half way through the museum with magical folk tight on her heels.

"NO! I will not fail again!" Taking a deep breath, she slams her fist towards the ground. Cutting winds slash at those vines, but cut up her own legs as well. A cry of pain, but she keeps moving, adrenaline and desperation fueling her.

Then she leaps into the air, aiming a duo of kicks at her pursuers!

Slashing winds fill the hallway she runs down, like machetes each offered with the force of a jackhammer. There's no subtlety here, just pure force before she lands.

The bubbles themselves do not seem to hinder Hannah's movements. Indeed, between the blood down her eye, and the lack of hindrance from the initial Shabou Spray? Hannah's condition should be obvious to one such as Mercury. She even smirks back to the girl.

"...Cute trick. But USELESS...What!?"

Her legs are caught up in the freeze, and for a fatal second, she's caught. Hannah has been a magical girl for some time by now, and the experience shows. Rather than fight it, she pauses. The pure force of her legs bending down shatters the freezing, but she's still shivering. It hurts, and all that's on her mind in saving herself and offering her power to her opponents. Ice on her legs shatters from pure magic-enhanced bodily strength, but she's slowed down to meet the other magical warriors.

The pure amount of magic gathering on her fists in response to the group might be a little horrifying as Raging Tempest and her own magical efforts gather. She /smiles/ to the group.

"Let us...END THIS!"

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei managed to get up and sprint after just in time for Hannah to scream her assertions that she was doing this /FOR/ them. "YES! END THIS!" He shouted. "STAND DOWN!" He stood his ground in spite of the mind breaking kind of magic going on. "You want to prove we're not enemies. Sit. Talk. Please. I'm tired of getting pitched around. I'm tired of the youma. I'm tired of all the crazy. You can speak. you can reason. So please for the love of all that is holy STOP!"

Chances of this working when everyone else is busy trying to chop Miss White in half.... Nil. Still, he has to try. He's the weak link here so any chance to stop the fighting is something he's going to cling to because if things go danmaku here.... game over and he has no extra lives.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon is immediately and obviously taken aback when Miss White gestures at her with a bloody hand. Not even the quip gets a reaction out of her. She loses speed, coming to an awkward halt.

The others do their best to stop Miss White. Sailor Moon stands, fists clenched, eyes wide, her posture telegraphing how unsure she is. White plants herself and gathers fury into her hands. Sailor Moon takes a step backward, moving from unsure to uncomfortable.

"You're, um, you're hurt."

Sailor Moon searches for something else to add to that thought. Her mouth opens but only air comes out. She looks helplessly to Mercury for guidance.

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver gets hit, not just any hit, but a hit with force behind it, and she can feel her battle form waver just abit... she isnt used to people being able to couter that quickly after her attack. Sliding across the floor she raises up and frowns. Eather persure Miss white or... stop that baka from getting himself killed... innocent people take priority. She makes a made dash for him and dives at his back, attemtping to pin him to the ground and hold both hands behind his back. "You are an idiot! Diplomacy doesnt work on the insane, and you have no power to fight here, why... do you wish for death? You are a fool and you need to stay down!" She says in a commanding tone. She holds up her katana and looks on, blood comming from her lip at the punch she received. "Sailor Senshi... guardian Gao, stop her, she has a VERY expensive artifact... and will probably use it to control the world... please stop her." She says, since she is the only one willing to hold down Junpei from doing somthing absolutely stupid.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
"That won't happen." Sailor Mercury says before pointing towards Miss White. "Sailor Moon! Knock that thing out of her hand!" She says this very dramatically. not like her normal self at all. Of course, during this delay, she's scanning Miss White.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao's eyes widen. He might not recognize magical signatures and the like, but he /can/ recognize the fury of a cornered animal. "Fall back!" he yells, swa"FOREST WALL!"</span>

A wall of plants starts filling the hallway, leaving space for the Lady Silver and the Senshi to retreat around to safety--

--/and then Matuso walks around it/.

Gao can't move while he's maintaining the strength of his barrier. "Matsuo, get back here!" the Knight yells. "I can't protect you while you're out there! And even /I/ wouldn't want to take a direct hit from that!"

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
At Junpei's words, there's a bitter laugh.

"...Who ever said we were not enemies!? Come on! Even if any of you knew my reasons, you would not accept it! I am not a saint, you know? I am a selfish, stubborn girl! If you want to break my dreams, fine! Only the weak get their dreams broken, and if I am not to that level to survive against powers lik eyou all yet? Then so be it! My every actions were WORTHLESS!" She screams, body shuddering.

A deep breath, and she simply leaves Matsuo alone. This strange woman is no killer, for all her faults yet.

A glance to Sailor Moon, and there's almost something sad for a moment in her sightless eyes. Then she hardens. "...And? I admire your kindness to care for an enemy. But I am a thief. So consider that, and do whta you will." She offers to the girl, her tone almost sisterly. A breif smile, and it fades just as quickly.

Lady Silver deals with Junpei, and Hannah continues to retreat. Rather than shatter her 'foes', she turns about and deals with the wall before her. A thrusting fist-drill of wind shatters the wall of vines before her, but at a severe cost. She used her wounded arm, and there's the sound of a bone shattering. Hannah screams, then bites down, and clears past it. She gasps aloud, running on pure adrenaline towards the exit to the museum.

The barrier dies, and an alarm finally sounds.

One arm useless, pain screaming through her body alongside an utter desire to make up for her failure, she's heading for the exit.

Boris leaps off the building, landing, and prepares to get the two out of there. Mercury is more right than she knows, the various magical warriors have one more chance, even as Hannah visibly turns about to offer her body before the dagger held in her good hand. It's beneath a barrier jacket and the rest of her. What will those gathered do!?

Ami Mizuno has posed:
"Sailor Moon! Hit her with your boomerang! Gao! When Sailor Moon knocks the artifact out of her hand, See if you can knock the dagger otu of her hand. Uhm....Lady....can you grab the artifact when it drops please.....and get Mister Junpei out of there?" Sailor Mercury calls out orders like she knows what she's doing. In the meantime...still scanning.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei looked to Lady Silver and spoke with a surprising degree of calmness, "Ma'am. I mean no disrespect for your words, or asessment, but if she follows through with this, or the dark kingdom treats humanity like a snack bar... or that plant rock guy does whatever I'm dead anyway." He breathed slowly as he stood tall, very obviously a target. "Miss White. Please put the knife down. Let your power go. We do not have to be enemies." Even as he said this he hefted a bulky thing he had gotten from his backpack. Looked like a mallet.

"Listen to me. We can still walk away from this."

As he readied a hammer throw to knock the thing out of Miss White's hands he realized the following.        1. Other people are trying to get thing out of crazy girl's hand.

2. Gao had given him a thing to dive behind.

Take both those facts together and Junpei's self preservation yanked him back behind the plant magic barrier thing as he covered his head with his backpack. Lot of mundane stuff there. Maybe Miss White would go down and they could talk after tying her up and treating her wounds. Sure he wasn't an EMT, but he did have basic first aid training, and kept up to date on that knowledge since being able to patch people up in case of a stage oopsie was a handy skill.

He risked peeking out. Then looking. Then RUNNING. Then he threw his mallet back at Miss White's head. The DFagger was too small a target, and if he could down Miss White they could get it back.

"I'm sorry this has to happen." Life is a stage. On the stage you cannot let regret, fear, doubt... None of it can get in the way if you wanted to succeed. Maybe there would be time later, but now he had to act decisivly with what little power he had. Hence hammer throw to his enemy's skull.

Rurako Doji has posed:
Lady Silver frowns and looks up at the break in the glass. "You all are amateurs! leave this to me!" She says as she leaps up and onto the roof, though, once out of sight, her powers begin to loosen on her, that hit, plus an over exertion is causing her Purity Blade abilities to fluxiate, but that doesnt stop her from attempting to hold off the woman. leaping from the roof, only to realize her henshin broke, granted, no one saw it break, so perhaps she can hide this fact. "Give back Otosans Dagger!" Rurako yells and she comes down with her Kendo stick now in hand, rather then a silver sword, screw saftey and whatever else, she will defend her father's work, and the people she swore to protect!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
This seems to be beyond Sailor Moon. She is fixating. The arguing and the philosophizing is occurring on a different plane. When Miss White speaks to her, Sailor Moon's gaze keeps flicking from the other girl's face down to her wounded hand.

I am a thief.

"You're a person," she blurts out, weirdly in observation rather than protest.

A wall of vines. The wind flares up. Sailor Moon shrinks back, covering her face with her arms again. She's recovered before the alarm sounds, rising back up again to stare after the retreating girl. She dashes after to follow, not knowing what she's planning on doing next.

White leaps. Moon watches, aghast. Mercury calls out. Usagi looks over her shoulder, then down to her hand. Her tiara is already there. She stares at it in mute shock. All around her, people move for the attack. Her knuckles go white beneath her gloves. She can feel the pinpricks where she squeezed the feeling out of her hand.

"She isn't a monster!" she calls back to Mercury, her voice raised not in argument but with emotion.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao dives out of the way as Miss White drills through the wall of plants, having completely misjudged which direction she had been fleeing. He winces at the sight of her injuries -- someone willing to subject themselves to that much pain to accomplish their goals?

He tries not to think about what type of emotional pain he and the other Waldians will have to go through in pursuit of their own goals.

Instead, he stands back up and nods to Mercury. "Grab the dagger, got it," he murmurs, swapping back to his bow. Another arrow nocked, and as he draws it back it starts splitting into eight vines. This time, however, four of the vines curl back to wrap around his arm--

"Bramble Grapple!"

--and the other four are loosed towards the dagger.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Luckily for Lady Silver, Hannah is far too entrenched in survival and victory to seek the little things. A kendo stick rushes down, and slams into her already ruined arm. The agony that transpires is enough for Hannah to throw herself down to the floor, skittering from the impact long enough for Raging Tempest to revive her with pure magic. She gasps aloud as she comes up, her partner offering just enough for her to not fall just yet.

Hannah stands up, and peers at Matsuo.

"Let it go? LET IT GO!?"

Seems she's latched to Matsuo's words to Silver's here.

"...No. I will have power! ENOUGH TO SEE MY DREAMS THROUGH!" Comes the girl, before she turns her gaze to Mercury. A swift, desperate duck has Junpei's hammer missing her cheek by a small margin.

That dagger rightly appears in Hannah's hand as she ducks out from the group, swiftly fleeing from the exit. But there's another presence there, one that bursts in magic and transforms. As Boris transforms, there's suddenly a well-suited, bald, mustachiod old man near Hannah. She grins, even as Gao's vines seek her.

The knife is tossed at the last minute, and that bloody, pained arm is tossed towards Gao in a purely desperate move. Vines catch, and the other presence is gone in an instance even as Hannah screams, nearly blacking out from pure pain before her arm falls useless at her side finally.

A glance to Sailor Moon. Hannah's arm falls, and there's something like sympathy to her look.

"...I am. You are utterly right. And that is what should scare you, my friend." A deep, deep sigh as she lays there, utterly bloody and hurt for a moment.

A shake of the head, as magic flow around her, her Intelligent Device's last gasp. Both seem utterly exhausted, pushed to the brink before these people.

There's respect in her voice. "...You have potential, Sailor Moon. But there are far worse than some desperate girl like me out there. Can you really face that? Will you risk your life against people like me? I ask that of you as a person, not an enemy. Truly. I just...do what you have to. All of you. But do it with /conviction/! We cannot...cannot do good for this little rock with live in otherwise!?" Utters 'Miss White', falling unconscious before teleporting away. The barrier falls, blood and pain left behind.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei just.... watches. Hannah's sanity crack. All that scream and noise. A desperate shrill note and he's left watching. Wondering what terrible event caused her to think setting the world on fire and hurt people she claims to want to help. All he can manage is to ask, "What terrible wrong did the world do her to make her think this is the way that things must go?"

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao lets the vines vanish after Miss White vanishes. Whatever else she might have said, one thing is true: goals must be wholeheartedly pursued if you want to accomplish good.

Even if things go wrong in the meantime.

"Is everyone else okay?" he finally asks. The fighting had been somewhat hectic, and he knows there were parts that he had missed. "And... shouldn't we get out of here, if those alarms mean what I think they mean?"

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Sailor Mercury watches as Hannah passes out, then looks to Sailor Moon. "I actually wanted you aim for the dagger, Sailor Moon. it looked like she was about to kill herself with it." She says tapping her computer while walking over towards the dagger. "Also, Sailor Moon, I agree with you. She is a person, and that is why I wanted you to knock the dagger out of her hand. She seemed like an enemy, but she wasn't a major threat. She had plenty of opportunities to kill us....and didn't. The question is, why?" She says looking to Sailor Moon. "What could have twisted her views so far that she thought she had to resort to theivery?" She then looks to Matsuo. "You.....need to stop putting yourself in danger to try and 'Call a time out' in the middle of a fight, or learn how to defend yourself. I would suggest the latter, since you seem to be a magnet for trouble." She then looks to Gao and nods. "I think we do, Guardian. Perhaps we can meet up later and talk about this." She then trots over to Sailor Moon. "Come on, Sailor Moon. We need to talk about the data I've gathered."

Rurako Doji has posed:
Rurako Doji stands up and winces as she watched miss white leave... "Damnit... I need to get stronger..." She says as she limps away from the building to her motorcycle, and revs the engine and takes off, forget about the others, they will be fine she thinks, that and she needs to figure out why her battle form destablized like that...

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon tears her gaze away from Sailor Mercury to watch Miss White again. She can't look away. She is held fast by her growing horror, transfixed by the desperation before her.

It hurts. There's blood. Sailor Moon grabs her stomach and squeezes tight, tighter than on her tiara, her fingers digging into the material of her suit and through it her flesh. It hurts.

She doesn't know what to say. She only listens because she can't stop. The words don't entirely make sense now. She will hear them again later, when she's alone in the dark.

Miss White teleports away. Sailor Moon snaps out of her reverie, glancing about her surroundings as if she had only just now appeared. Her attention goes to Mercury, but her daze doesn't entirely clear.

"Um. I, um, I'm sorry." She glances down, then to the side. She's saved from having to answer for not trusting Mercury by someone else needing chastising.

"You're right, we--we should go,"she says, backing away. With a furtive look toward the other people in the room, she takes another step, and then turns and dashes off.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei rounded on Mercury. Something in her words just... stepped on his last nerve. That something was probably the fact she honestly was quite right. After all he was way in over his head. Still. Even as his attention focused on Mercury he scowled, "Look. She's not some kind of mindless beast. She's not that dark kingdom nut that flat out wants to Murder us. She's someone that's got a head full of bad wires. I ask because nobody else seems to think to try." That and it's honestly about the only thing he can do.

"Now." he looked the magical quartet over and in spite of the horns and sirens and such turned back towards the museum proper, "There are people still in there and I know they saw the youma. I am going to go back in since the barrier /JUST/ went down." He walked far less steady than before. Now that the immediate stress was gone so was his nerve. He was trying to fight how jello like his body was, and failing. Miraculously he wasn't hurt. He was just coming down from an insanely stressful and crazy situation. Fourth or so in a month's time.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Mercury just kinda....stares at Matsuo as he speaks. "You....didn't hear a word I said, did you? Learn to defend yourself, Mister Junpei." She then watches him start to hobble away.....and tries a minor remedy.....placing a finger on the back of his head.....and lightly pushes him over....and we mean LIGHTLY.

She then turns around and sighs. 'Come on, Sailor Moon. We have data to look at." She guides Sailor Moon out of the Museum and actually has them run out of sight before the police show up, or anyone else.

Once they DE-henshin, however, Ami gives Usagi a hug and shares a cry with her. She knew exactly how she felt.

Gaofele Doiru has posed:
Guardian Gao nods to Mercury as the Senshi dash off. Now's a good time to leave!

He claps a hand to Matuso's shoulder. "Take care, and /try/ to stay safe!" the Knight chuckles. Gao might have doubts that Matsuo can stay out of trouble, but it's the thought that counts, right?

Turning away, Gao uses plantsprings to speed away from the museum. Once a few blocks away, he drops his henshin and pulls out his cellphone, then sends a text to Hinote and Runealy: I'm okay. Situation resolved. Will explain later.

Junpei Matsuo has posed:
Matsuo Junpei did not hear Mercury. Didn't hear Moon. Didn't really acknowledge anybody until Mercury tapped him. He just kinda sagged to the ground right until he heard his phone buzzing.