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The devil within 2 ch.3
Luna POV
This past bit of time has NOT been easy to work with. I've come to accept loss and the guilt that I didn't even realize that I was feeling. It was clouded by anger, resentment, nostalgia, stubbornness that rivaled Usagi's, but most of all, pride. One of the seven deadly sins got ahold of me and I let it guide me around. My stubbornness refused to let me see other perspectives, even that of my comrade and fellow advisor Artemis.
Now he was my 'Parole officer' of sorts. Or at least that was the running joke that Mamoru's generals had for him regarding me. I won't say that ALL of my feelings regarding these men has dissipated. It's hard to allow trust in when your gut tells you something else. Yet I see how Artemis is with them. They treat him as an equal and even look at him as if he's another guard like them.
As a Mau it's hard to earn that bit of respect from another person, yet his position and how he works with them has granted him to chance to watch over me while I use my powers to rebuild this Terrain kingdom. I sigh. The one that's taking me forever and a day to do. I've been working in the warehouse district at least five days a week. Two days to rest as per Usagi's request. I have a feeling Mamoru only agreed to it so he could ensure my powers wouldn't diminish to much and thus the build would get delayed.
Honestly, I didn't know WHY the building needed to happen this fast but it seemed that this punishment was light compared to what the generals wanted to do. I could see it clear as day that each of them held contempt towards me for what I did to Endymion. I have to admit I didn't handle that whole thing very well. Looking back on it, I cringe as I probably looked a bit unhinged and manic.
So when Mamoru put Artemis in charge of looking over me while he went back to college and his own work I did work here. My magic being put to the use of good. At one point Artemis made me realize that by doing this I was helping to give the Terrain kingdom a fighting chance once more. We hadn't known previously that the former kingdom was turned into the negaverse by Beryl.
She had somehow managed to make sure she'd be able to sit on the throne in the Terrian kingdom. Thankfully Endymion's parents don't know of this. They'd role over in their own graves if they knew of what she was able to do after the war of the silver millennium. Queen Serenity was friends with them both and I know she would have felt a great deal for them in knowing the jealous woman that started all of this still managed to get her way…even if it was a Millenia later she still did.
Now I was giving life to the kingdom once more, and on that front alone did I feel good about doing this work. Otherwise, I still held reservations about all that was transpiring. I wasn't allowed back near Usagi again, nor Mamoru, at least not without their permission and both were still notably upset with me. It can't be helped though. Looking at it now, it probably looks like I betrayed her, even if I did it FOR her, it didn't matter.
I acted on my own wants and desires and instead of taking in others thoughts, ideals or responses and frankly that's just not like me. I couldn't believe I was so blinded by what I felt was the right motion to make that I essentially made Rei take up the mantle of killing him. There were other options and yet I decided to take that one as the ONLY option when really there were plenty more to take and yeah…this was something I was coming to terms with.
It also didn't help that while I've been gone, I've begun to seriously miss my charge…my dear sweet Usagi. At first I was so upset with her that I needed the time and space as she did. It was something that we both needed and I didn't bother to even try to say a goodbye, figuring that she'd come crawling back to me eventually. That within a week's time at best she'd beg Mamoru to release me from my 'punishment'.
Yet not a word. She never said anything. She didn't even come to visit me here. At least not to talk to me. She'd walk by at times and we'd see each other when she spoke to Artemis but I could still see the hurt in her eyes. The anger may have gotten somewhat distilled BUT it was still there to. There wouldn't be much more diluting till we spoke once more and I'm not sure if were ready for that just yet.
I look up and see Malachite has come by to visit. He did so at least three times a week. He was the most vigilant of the generals. I saw why after the first week why he was the head of Endymion, now Mamoru's guards. He reminded me of Minako in that sense. Despite her easy-going nature she was vigilant when it came to being a senshi. Sadly I saw this far to late in the game and made in correct assumptions.
As I see Malachite walking towards me I give the magic a break so I can speak with him as he seems like he wants to talk, "Yes?" I ask, having a little sliver of hope that he brings news at least of Usagi or my time spent with my punishment. I knew it wasn't regarding where I spent as I had been staying over at Rei's since this all started. Grandpa Hino didn't mind my presence since whenever I was there I scared away unwanted wildlife in the area.
Mostly mice that tried to make their way into the temple but still, I made myself useful there so that he wouldn't mind me stay there. "I see you've made some progress." He comments as I breath for a moment, "Well I should hope so considering the amount of magic going into this place." I 've already gotten one of the bought-out warehouses nearly filled with a structured-up portion of the kingdom.
Soon enough I'm going to need to work in the next building before I build up to much. I see Malachite nods, "This is good. Your making decent progress." He then looks to me, "How's your 'therapy' going?" It's RARE for him to ask me this. Usually either Zoisite or Jadeite ask me this question. "I ahhh…It's going…" it's clearly caught me off guard. I've been working through talking things out with Rei but as we've discussed, NOTHING gets past our conversations so that I can come to terms with things without being judged.
"Well." I finally managed to get out, composing myself. "Rei has been helpful as an ear and her words of wisdom have been insightful." Which was true. She wasn't judging me for anything, she was letting me talk and offering advice where she could. Pointing things out just in general being a good friend. "That's good. Hopefully she's made you see how wrong you were." This was the only sad part when it came to him.
He was hardcore, blunt and a bit judgmental, especially around me. Not that I can blame him considering. He did what he did out of protection of his prince and our, my princess. With him around I truly felt like the fallen from grace guardian I was. It stung and hurt that he saw me with such distain as he did. "I've seen many things since she and I started to talk." I tell him, not wanting to go into detail. "Good." Was his only response to that.
As he leaves back out, he says, "Maybe once this 'punishment' is over with you can finally join your post again…granted with limits in place." I couldn't help but get snippy, "And why do you say punishment with quotes?" he turns around and looks to me, cold dead hard as he says, "Cause at the end of the day 'this'…" he gestures to everything around us, "Is the least amount of punishment that can be doled out."
I gulp as he takes a step forward, "If I had my way, after what you did to our prince…" I resist the urge to gulp again, "Let's just say that you're lucky to have such a forgiving princess as a princess, as your former ward." The former part stung as did his implied meaning. I had lost my place at the moment being so close to Usagi and he knew how I felt about that. I did still love Usagi very much.
Even though what I did was out of love, it didn't erase the damage it did and what damage it could have caused. "I will be back in my position very soon. And…I have confidence that my ''punishment' is fitting for what happened. I understand how YOU feel about it but you don't speak for EVERYONE or else your chosen punishment would have happened." He seems to concede this for a moment.
"You may have a small point but also notate this…" he looks me dead in the eyes, "It was not a personal choice to dole out the actual punishment that is befitting your crimes, but rather the one that was set out forth in our previous lives for your crimes." His face was no nonsensical as I felt the weight of how he felt towards them, not only personally but professionally as well. I hated the fact that I felt a morsel of respect towards him for his dedication.
He obviously cared for and held a deep profound respect for his job, his duty to his prince and now my princess. The few times I saw them talking together it was almost as if they were old friends talking rather than one time enemies that attacked each other without mercy while fighting for their lives and for what they both believe and believed in. There was no doubt in my mind's eye about how serious the man was being.
It many me respect him even as I hated him for the punishment and hated furthermore what the real punishment was supposed to be. Despite my attempts for it to be for the greater good as Usagi put it, 'some of the worst things in human history have been done for the greater good', and I had somehow slipped into that box of people. I wasn't a fan of that and didn't like it yet I had no choice till I was proved 'redeemable'.
"I believe in following the rules and ensuring that the punishment FIT the crime, not let the criminal get a so called 'free pass' to a lesser punishment due to what position they held or what they meant to the royals." I felt lower now. He was right, I had fallen into an area where my punishment didn't fit the crime I had committed. The memory of Mamoru's face when I plunged the sword in is ingrained into my memory.
Had someone tried to do that to Usagi, I would have moved mountains to eviscerate them, yet mercy was spared on me for doing it to the last Terrain royal due to who I was to Usagi, the girls and my previous and current, though that's up for current debate, position. "Your punishment didn't fit your crime. In fact many would argue that you got off easy rather than getting what you deserved for your assassination attempt of our prince in front of all of us, including your own charge who mind you, feels the most betrayed by your actions."
My heart was slamming into my chest now in shame at his words. He wasn't yelling at me he wasn't being cruel to me, just talking to me with the truth. Usagi had told me repeatedly that Endymion, now back to Mamoru, was on our side. That he found a way to use the evil to his advantage, but I didn't believe that was possible. "She trusted you." he gave the first real snip at me. I meekly defend with, "I know that." I look him dead in the eyes now as I try to hold my head up higher, "I know."
He responds, "Good, cause it really doesn't seem like you get it sometimes." I grunt, "I do. It's just taking me some time to accept certain things as they are." He doesn't say much to that only turns around again and walks away. Presumably to talk to Artemis. I turn back and use the slight anger in me now from that conversation to power through more of my magic for this evening as it's getting time to close up.
Next, it'll be time to go to where I'm staying at. The temple. Rei's sent up a portion of her room for me so I can live there till Usagi is ready to talk with me. Till we come to a point where we can jointly be on the same page again. Being so far from my charge has made me miss so much with her. Yet I know she needs the distance as I first did. Rei and I though, we talk here and there as I can HOPEFULLY work out more of my own anger and regret as I make more 'progress' on how this moves forward as I do want to see Usagi again.
I want to talk to her again, I miss her so much. She's always been there for me, been a good friend, been someone to laugh with. She gave me her trust, her loyalty, she's been so much for me and yet when she needed my ear and my trust, I didn't give it to her in the slightest. I still feel such guilt for it that it hurts my heart even further. Suddenly, feeling drained, I stop and see Artemis coming in.
"Time to go home." I wish he'd stop calling Rei's home but as I've been living there since the start of my punishment, I guess it's become a second home to me. I leave out, mulling over things in my head as I sulk. The people passing me by on the street care little about me walking among them and honestly, I'm glad. I don't feel like being petted, groped by random strangers, or picked up for any reason.
I make my way up the temple steps and into the temple where I find my little bed. I slump down on it and give in to crying as I've done several times before. Crying for the life I once had, for the charge that's a mere twenty-minute walk away and for the mistakes that I'm being punished for, even if I'm still hesitant on admitting wrong doing. I know Rei can hear me yet she leaves me alone during this and waits till I'm cried out before she comes in.
She sits down by the sliding doorway as she's been doing each time we have these little talks, giving me the option of coming to her or staying put. I can tell she's tempted as always to go to me for a hug but forces herself to stop as she knows that despite our past history and relationship that we had that I did do wrong and have even done her wrong. By convincing her to train for Mamoru's assignation attempt I put her not only in harm's way but also put her at odds with the other senshi to.
It was clear at times whenever they can over and I was here that things had become tense BUT it was getting better. I think that was only made better due to Rei's refusal to kill him when I gave that signal. She regained their loyalty in those moments and regained Minako's acceptance despite the rocky path that the final battle took on them all when she made it very clear to Minako who's side she was picking and what had happened.
"It's fine Rei...I understand." I tell her. I can tell Rei is struggling with the situation as I am just in a different way. She's trying not to feel guilty for ensuring that I serve out my punishment for what I did, yet she does. She knows what happened was deemed wrong and knows I'm wrong for it even if I struggle to accept my fault in it still. I felt so sure about his evil being a liability, that he was using my princess.
I felt so sure that he couldn't rise above the power of the negaverse, yet he did help to take out our enemies and without giving anyone a chance to catch a second wind I still...I sighed. It's what makes her and the rest of the girls so good, and yet I think the guys might see it as clouded judgement on their ends. Mostly due to their own loyalty towards Mamoru which is understandable even if it conflicts a bit with the girls loyalty towards me right now. Though no one has yet to try to really get me out of things.
The girls are still stunned and trying to wrap their heads around things with me, as of yet no one is talking to me as much as they used to. There's still a disappointment aimed at me in the air, something I never thought would be directed at myself. I see Rei and how she's once more waiting for me to talk. Something she always does to ensure that I know she's willing to be there for me, "I'm sorry." I tell her.
She looks to me. It's rare for me to apologize out of the blue so I continue with, "I made things difficult between you and the other girls." she sighs and responds, "Things are getting better." she assures me, "Please Rei..." I tell her, sounding a bit exhausted emotionally, "I know you try to talk with me so I have someone, but let's face it, I'm the cause of a lot of commotion..." I look off, "Even Malachite made sure I know how lucky I was."
She looks to me, "He is brutally honest." that was one thing they got along on. Malachite and Minako maybe 'meant' for each other or some such stuff but it was Malachite's stoic calm, brutally honest and rule abiding demeanor that caught onto Rei's similar personality traits. He ventured here a few times to talk war time strategies. Rei had a knack for it for obvious reasons and the two would talk about it and myself.
He did get protective over me but he knew it was only out of friendship and loyalty. Loyalty that got put to the test and has now become fragile. The two got along in those areas and even became friends over it. "How are you feeling?" she asks me once a small silent pauses takes over. Ah the beginning of our deeper talks, yet I can't help but be honest about how I'm feeling, "To be honest, I do miss Usagi terribly so. It's like this bright light is gone from my life and I didn't realize how much I'd come to depend on it or love it."
I see Rei smile knowing that she understands what I'm saying and where I'm coming from. It's taken THEM some time but they are finally at a point in their friendship where they've become more amicable. "How do you feel about your punishment?" she asks me next and my conflicting emotions come forth without complete intention as I'm still feeling in some ways that my gut was telling me to do so for a reason.
I know the girls see it was wrong but...Usagi goes off of her gut and it's right, why isn't mine? I mean how was my gut response so wrong...? I look to Rei and notice that she sees the truth of how I feel on my face, I confess during this particular chat what I've been holding back and feeling, "I know I'll get flack for this but deep down, deep, deep down I still feel I was justified, but..." I catch her as I notice she was looking to me in protest.
"Part of me now thinks there were other options I didn't consider...options that would have been better to use and now those I love are now strained from me because of the actions taken." Admitting is something I don't like to have to do especially being that it flies in the face of what the punishment is supposed to represent, but judging by the small smile on Rei's face this is an improvement that she sees...I do feel regret yes but I'm not entirely sure that it's all regret for what I did but maybe for how I went about it.
Usagi POV
It didn't used to be this way. I'd take a walk with Luna and we'd do a night patrol but now...now it's Artemis and me sometimes. It's nice don't get me wrong and we've both enjoyed the company BUT we both do miss her in our own ways. Me less so but still, I do miss her in some senses. I'm still upset at her actions, but she is the reason were all involved in this whole good versus evil fight to begin with.
She's the one who woke us up and gave us the one way that there is to fight the evil. It's hard NOT to want to have her back and yet, when the love of your life's head is in your lap, dying and it's because your guardian, mentor...the very person that brought you into that world is taking him away from you, it's hard to take in. I still am frustrated and mad yet knowing she's serving her own punishment feels somewhat comforting.
I look up to find Artemis a few feet ahead of me, "How's everything looking?" making sure of course to NOT talk to the talking cat with other people within ear shot. Had that happen once with Luna BEFORE we knew that Mamoru was Tuxedo Mask and he caught us. That felt very heart pounding and I didn't feel like going through a repeat. "Something is off in the city tonight." he tells me.
We continue to walk along the brushy path as he takes to walking on top of the seven-foot-tall brick wall that's lining up the properties on the other side from pedestrians in the area. I'm taking to the sidewalk since I can't easily walk up on that ledge without looking weird. At least he can get away with it. Plus he can see more than I can. I watch the streets he uses his feline senses and his own power senses to feel for any 'disturbances'.
Especially after the meteor that came down had some definitely bearing marks of possible life form on it or near it before we got there. We decided to up our game in increasing patrols so that we could catch anything out of the ordinary. "Let me guess it's near one of the parks?" I muttered as he responds, "Probably...Have you talked to Luna yet?" he asks as he continues to keep walking.
"Not really no..." I'm a little bit into my own head space on that one. I do love Luna I do but what she's done...it still plagues my mind. Sometimes I still have nightmares that she succeeded in killing Mamoru. My only reassurance is when I wake up next to him as he sleeps soundly next to me in bed. That and knowing the truth that my nightmares were a false darkness that plagued me, tried to torture me.
My mind is always avoiding that rabbit hole of despair as it likes to try to pull me in. I do want to see Luna to as I hear she's been working through her 'issues' thanks to Rei. Yet I feel like I'm sometimes being asked even by myself to release her from her punishment out of all the good she's done. I never voice how I really feel about it as it conflicts with my own views. Luna did wrong, simple as that and she's being punished.
Yet I'm so not used to her being the bad guy it hurts me to even think about it sometimes. So much so that when I hear something weird in the distance it takes a few moments to register till Artemis speaks up, "Did you just see that?" I look around and see nothing. "No but I thought I heard something." I tell him, "Lets go investigate." he leads me off to where there's a small annex parking area.
There's some trees around and even some bushes. "Where are we?" he mutters, "I think we're in the back parking lot of a building, look." I point to a dumpster. "Garbage day, we are in the back lot." we looked around and saw nothing in the area. "You sure it was from over here?" I ask as it's pretty quiet out. "We take a few more moments to survey the area as we don't hear anything other than some random animals in the trees.
Before it gets to chill out this evening I suggest, "There's nothing here. Lets head back home." he initially agrees till we both hear a blood curdling scream. Without a second thought I tell him, "Alert the girls I'll take care of it, hold it off till back up arrives." I go to run when he comes with, "Not till I make sure it's a monster and not some criminal." He says determinedly and while I appreciate his enthusiasm he needed to alert the others.
I needed him out of harm's way to do that. I look to him, "Youma aren't the only types of monsters." I dead pan tell him, "I'm aware of that but still if it's not youma related and just a crummy criminal you'll need help." I can't help but to look at him, "How's this then for you, I'm Sailor Moon. Nuff said." and take off towards the screaming once more leaving him behind as I take off and make sure I'm fully transformed by the time I get there.
That's when I see it. A nearly pretty yet ferocious looking lion that's attacking anything with a pulse for energy. There's no rhythm, rhyme or reason to the selection. When Beryl's youma's attacked it was for a purpose…usually. Either they have love energy, couple energies, those that had made plans or passions in life, they took advantage of everyone BUT they had a plan, they had a system.
This was somewhat chaotic and random. Not to mention the youma even appeared differently. I could feel it. For a moment I wondered if it was something somehow left over from Beryl's dark kingdom, despite it's demise, but then after using my own senses they told me this was something else. perhaps what was related to what was originally in the meteor that struck our city recently.
A few people run past me, not even seeing me in their haste to exit. I can't blame them as their getting either themselves or their significant others out. That's when I hear my communicator go off on the all call button, "Monster at the park! Come now there are innocent already unconscious!" I look around and see them off to the side and realize that that wasn't visible before so I turn around to see Artemis not to far behind me.
I go to tell him to stay back when I see the expression in his face. Pure determination. I realize that he's going to be helping whether I want him to or not and honestly, I trust his help more so over Luna's who frankly I still have trust issues on. That's when it hits me that perhaps I was pushing him away from the fray not solely out of concern over his safety but out of possible trust issues to.
Sighing and knowing I need to not let my issues with Luna extend to Artemis I nod as we work together to tag team the monster. We use team efforts to distract the monster and try to figure out it's weaknesses. Teleportation is apparently a strength of it's as I nearly get pinned a few times, "Gotta watch out for that trick." I mutter as once the Lion makes a move for me out of nowhere Tuxedo Mask comes in.
He barrels right into the large fur ball and pushes it far from me. "Bad kitty." I can't help but crack a smile, "Really that's your introduction?" he looks at me a bit sheepishly, "Yeah I was stuck for a metaphor." He admits as the lion shakes off the hit. We then play a game of duck and dodge as we make attacks against the lion but each time one of the attacks comes to close to it, it dips off into it's teleportation bit and reappears closer to one of us.
When it got close to Tuxedo Mask I knocked him out of the way and kicked the monster in the face knocking it back a bit. I could feel the reverberation hit my foot through my boot. That one was going to sting for a second. He used his cane when it tried to get closer to us and smashed it in the nose before Artemis in his shocked display of glory as he let out a loud battle cry, jumped on the monster and scratched mercilessly at his eyes as he dug his back claws in to the patches of fur to stay grounded.
I was both praising Artemis and finding him reckless for engaging the new enemy like this and yet I couldn't find it in me to tell him to stop. He reminded me of when Luna would do the same in her attempts to help me out. However, it usually resulted in her getting hurt since she could only do so much as a feline. It's why she typically jumped off at just the right time to avoid getting seriously injured.
The lion tried it's best to shake off Artemis at that point, pissed that the smaller feline was getting the better of him. It was jerking his head back and forth trying to maneuver him around, my guess to try to get him closer to his jaws. That's when he almost became a snack to the lion as it flung him around enough to near get it's jaw around Artemis's body. I gasped in response as Artemis, probably seeing this last minute, had the foresight to let go and using the momentum to evade the deadly jaws and land near a dumpster in the area.
He barely landed on his paws as I saw tiny droplets of blood near his mouth. He really drew blood from it and I had to admit he did good. Artemis and I rarely fought together like this even with another helper so this was a good twist. I needed to know how well he worked in a fight and I hadn't really had much of an opportunity to find out…till now. "Not a superhero landing but at least he's not food." Tuxedo Mask remarked.
I look up and see the lion trying to blink away the blood that Artemis managed to gain from his surprise attack on it, "Look, it's getting blinded." I note as we decide to take advantage. Tuxedo Mask tosses easily a few dozen roses at the creature, making sure that it scratches it's face up even further, distracting it even more so as it tries to bat the roses stuck in it out of its skin which as it's now partially blind is becoming ineffective.
I pull out my mood rod and use the usual words to activate its powers yet the monster is able to dodge the attack more effectively than previously thought even as its been partially blinded something that makes me curious. That's when we both see the weird spindle wheel that's glowing in the distance and spinning as if operating something. It's blueish green with tints of red as it's now glowing.
I watch the lion as it slowly begins to heal from the wounds created on it and see the glowing circle thing increase. "I got a feeling that it's running on that power source for it's disappearing act and perhaps on it's healing ability." I tell my beloved. "Sounds like we need to destroy it before it's full healed or tries any other little tricks again." I agree with his assessment, "Divide and conquer." I suggest.
"Got my vote." He then nods and gets the creatures attention long enough to get it to get it to come after him. He dodges it moments later as the creature then sees me. I challenge it by charging it, then using the nearby dumpster that Artemis is nearby to vault myself up and over it, yet the creature jumps with me. Just barely realizing this in time I flip around and catch it in the jaw with my boot once more.
It lands a few feet further from me. It lets out another roar of anger as it, in its presumed rage jumps me. I admittedly didn't get out of the way quick enough as it got me at the last second and was able to pin me down. It tried to take a swipe at my face, but I grabbed it paws with both my hands barely in time and held them away. It was using it's body weight to win and I needed to do something to get it off.
It did have about 20-30 plus pounds on me. Wedging my legs under it I pushed as hard and fast as I could and vaulted it up and over my head as I flipped back up to my feet and kicked out backwards when it tried to lash out at me again. I looked to where Tuxedo Mask was as he was repeatedly smashing it with his cane. Knowing I had to keep my eyes on this creature I didn't pay much visual attention to him, "Mind speeding it up a little?" I shout out as I pull out my moon rod again looking for an opening. I hear the smash as his cane goes right into it. I dodge the lion and flip and vault back behind it to avoid looking like a slashed tire as the creature is bloody quick.
Yes the claws were THAT close to me. This thing was fast. Once it connects with the tree I used to bounce back off and evade it's last minute swipe I use my mood rod again and this time I'm able to nail it. No more dodging. I was apparently right about that glowing circle thing being its source of healing and disappearing power. It cries out in pain before turning back…and this is where I drew the confusion from.
You're a …card? This was confusing. The last batch of youma's that we dealt with turned to dust, not cards. Well save for the shadow warriors but they were rainbow crystals in people this was something else all-together. It shocks all of us as I walk up to it. I pick it up and despite its heat, I watch it fade to black, like beyond midnight black, and then turn to dust in my hand preventing me from being able to give it to Ami for analysis.
However this new enemy will be told to the girls and guys once we got the chance to. There's obviously someone, a new enemy that's here. That's when I hear a disgruntled noise as the trees nearby us move. Tuxedo Mask moves to my side as Artemis takes a protect stance towards my right. There's two figures in the trees. I really don't recall seeing them there before so either they just joined the party or they have the ability to make themselves invisible.
I can't see it as my not seeing them beforehand, with all the training that I've been doing I'm confident that I would have at least sensed them even if I didn't see them. So in actuality I'd prefer it if they just joined the party. "So it seems that were not the only 'gifted ones' on this planet after all." The male voice says as if making a realization though not at all sounding scared by us in the slightest.
It's hard to see their faces as their using the night time to block and shield themselves from sight as not even the moonlight is helping in identifying them. I curse the angle more so as I wish I could see something more than a mere silhouette and their eyes. I speak up first, wanting to be diplomatic despite what just happened. Perhaps their just new here and don't know how to 'act' on a new planet.
Entirely plausible, "I don't know about gifted, we protect this planet from invaders that seek to harm the people of earth. We don't want trouble but that doesn't mean we won't fight to protect people either." I tell him making sure to make ourselves sound reasonable but not gullible. The male voice seems to want to come from the shadows now as he seemingly takes a step forward, I anticipate seeing more when the female halts him.
He looks to her for a moment before agreeing slightly and stopping. She then addresses us, "We take what we want when we want it and were not letting anyone get in our way so word to the wise, get out of our way and we won't have any problems." They leave out before any of us can respond. "Guess diplomatic flew out the proverbial window." I mutter, "You tried." Tuxedo Mask tells me.
"I know but sometimes it takes more than one warning." I surmise, "We need to tell the others about what happened here." Artemis says, "He's right." My beloved agrees. I nod knowing that we probably need to tell everyone, including Luna about this in case something happens near her, she has the right to know. Despite her punishment for what she's done if an attack happens near her she can alert us or know when to take cover.
"Looks like we have some new enemies...and looks like that tranquility is going to be gone till we handle them." I look over to see the mute agreement on Tuxedo Masks face as I hear Artemis call out on the communicator for the girls and guys to meet up at the temple. Even though we have nothing to give them as a way of knowing our enemy this interaction had greatly help in knowing what to expect.