487/Frozen Fish Fry

Frozen Fish Fry
Date of Scene:	22 September 2023
Location:	Plot Room 1
Synopsis:	Sunbreaker and Maria work to take down one of the magical girls, Yellow Pearl Voice, with a trapped concert! Will Sailor Moon and Greta Legend be able to stop their dastardly plan or will the mermaids lose a second of their princesses yet again?
Cast of Characters:	Hinoiri Kirara, Greta Legend, Coco Kiumi, Usagi Tsukino
Tinyplot:	Usagi's Abyssal Nightmare

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Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
One might be mistaken for assuming that the tower set up on the beach front were part of some event. Especially with the speakers, the weird girl in fire, the weird shadowy snake, the stage on said small tower, the microphone...

Especially when the speakers started sending out music. Beautiful music. Legend of Mermaid? Oh, what a lovely song... Except... it was... disjointed. Cruel. Vicious. Lyrics were swapped slightly, whoever sang it had a nice enough voice, but there was just something... off about it.

And yet, people wanted more. More and more they were drawn to it.

The reason? It was radiating dark energy, in waves of corrupting influence, luring in more people as it began to slowly, cruelly, drain their energy. The twisted song making those drawn in slowly sink and lower themselves... all while Sunbreaker stood on top of the small tower, about 15 feet in the air, looking out over them. Yup. Just her today. All by herself. Look, she even had a weird obsidian cast over her right arm. How hard could she possibly be to defeat?

Greta Legend has posed:
Greta isn't usually a beach goer, and really it's because it involved being a social butterfly, something that she was very much not. She's not at the beach to have fun. She's at the beach because she has business with the fishmongers, trying to get some good quality salmon for her food experimenation and cooking, so really she's been closer to the pier than the beach proper this whole time.

However, she felt that unease that kicks in whenever there's dark magic afoot, and after consulting her device, she narrows her eyes at the confirmation that there was badness going on.

So Greta leaves the pier and makes her run down towards the beach, following the directions that are given to her by Dreiseelen, until she starts to see the tower set up, and skids to a halt when she sees civilians having fallen over and passed out not far.

"Legend of Mermaid...? That music..." She shakes her head, feeling the magic attempting to creep into her head, her status as a Mahou being the only thing keeping her resistant to it. "If Coco were here, she'd probably start singing some counter-song about how mermaids are great and not evil."

She blinks as the realized the thought intruded upon her about the girl, and shakes her head again. It was time to focus.

Greta whips out her device, and says, "Dreiseelen! It's time to work!"

<*KSH*Stand-by, Ready! Let's Go, Little Red!*ksh*>

One Henshin process later, Greta is wearing the mask of her Henshin and taking to the air to zip faster towards the tower, before spotting Sunbreaker up on top of the Tower, before gritting her teeth. "You again." She shoots up into the air and flies towards the tower, with her device in Axe Form. "You! Up top with the Sodding fire hair! I'm giving you ten seconds to cut the bullocks, because I'm having NONE of that!" Gesturing to the victims down below.

She had an anticipaction of how this might go after last time.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Breath in, breath out... Coco is doing some exercises to keep herself calm, what with two of the Dark Lovers having already shown themselves. And they are really going to be sparing nothing, coming as far as attacking her while she was helping someone who crashed into the sea. Not that they could expect that someone to have magical themselves, she smiles while she swims at speed in the ocean.

A familiar melody reaches her ears, except is odd. Warped. 'Isn't this Legend of Mermaid?' she frowns in realisation at the disregard someone could have for their beloved song. She quickly jumps up to the sea surface, breaking throught it as she spots Sunbreaker's tower in the distance. 'Do the Dark Lovers have it out for me again? But that makes no sense, they would stay as far away as possible from any of our songs.'

The mermaid princess starts swimming towards the beach as fast as she can, Sunbreaker's figure on top of the tower coming into focus as Coco approaches. 'Sunbreaker, go figure! I won't let her make a mockery of our song any longer!' "Yellow Pearl Voice!" she declares, the pearl in her shell locket responding to her will and starting to shine with a yellow light.

A kaleidoscope of colours covers Coco's figure as clothes materialise, the light changing into her yellow gloves and boots with flowy extensions, as well as a yellow blouse with a yellow skirt, while her pearl expands into her trusty E-Pitch microphone, its blue shape settling comfily into her hand, the jewel nestled safely in the head's center.

As soon as the Live Stage forms around her, she starts floating directly in front of the flaming girl while calling out to her. "What do you think you are going to achieve with this mockery, Sunbreaker? You will be able to scratch your itch of annoying me, and then what? I will let the people here listen to the true Legend of Mermaid! Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!"

The Mermaid Princess sings of the seven seas, creating a peaceful atmosphere that fights the environment's darkness, a balm formed out of an unbreakable bond that lives on as the song of the seven seas rings in everyone's heart, carrying the kind mother's wishes that everyone would journey on a miracle-filled adventure, chasing a fantasy of a night where stars fall for the shining future!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Can she go anywhere without trouble breaking out? It was just supposed to be a walk along the beach! Avoiding homework! Nothing wrong with that, right?

Usagi Tsukino had wanted to clear her mind, walk off so much of what was going on in her life, figure things out, you know? Just have a little fun before she had to run off back to school! The ocean offered a wonderful view, even if it was getting too cold to wade in.

She'd had no plans of getting into a fight.

But the music on the beach was familiar. Familiar and wrong. Insidious in a way she didn't expect, didn't understand at first - music that wasn't rejuvenating, but instead...

Sickening. Something wrong in the air, that made the music hum in her ears and the energy seep out of her.

And of course, that was without the rage pulsing in her bones. Her blood.

Because that girl on the stage, wreathed in flames, she knew her.

"Moon Prism Power, Make Up!"

Bright ribbons of light spin, swirl, and flash, and then - Sailor Moon is the one on the beach, her usual cheer vanquished, her usual smile a dark scowl. She doesn't wait for confirmation. She doesn't even pay attention to the other magical girls on site, all her attention focused on the flaming figure.

"Moon Tiara Action!"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker looked quite relaxed, all things considered. Greta was the first to arrive and... well... the threat. She looked mildly annoyed, tapping her foot. Where was she? The mermaid should have--

Annnnnd there she was. The girl of the hour. Yellow Pearl Voice herself. She snapped her fingers and sure enough, the speakers... stopped? Wait, she gave up? "What am I going to achieve? Actually... you know, Yellow Pearl Voice, I've been wondering that a while. Things in this world are so--" She yelped and held out her left hand, a barrier forming around her and catching the tiara against it! For a moment, there's a clash, but the tiara soon has no choice but to return. "Easy, easy ladies!" Sunbreaker said. "Just because I'm down an arm doesn't mean I won't slam you both into the ground. But for now, I just want to talk... well... more sing with Yellow Pearl Voice here. As for what I wanted? Well... to call you out. I do hope the mix caught your ear. I had an intern sing it. But honestly? I've been thinking a lot lately. You and I truly have so much in common!" she said, in a fake, cheerful voice.

"Both very special, both come from other worlds, I mean, sure, yours is still ON this backwards anti-magical rock, but it still might as well be somewhere else, am I right? Both magical, mythological creatures. Both absolutely love to sing and dance... Both left our homes behind to do what needed to be done. But... you know. I've been thinking. I really haven't given you the attention you *deserve*," Sunbreaker said, her eyes narrowing slightly.

She then held out her left hand and a guitar appeared in it, wreathed in flames. She paused, looked at her right hand and sighed. "You know, hands really are useless. I swear..." She then tossed it behind her head and her familiar flew through the air, flying into it... then a moment later, a drum set appeared, which began to glow. New music radiated out of the speakers now?

"But... despite everything we have in common, you know what really separates a unicorn from Kirakirafantastica and a mermaid from the bottom of the ocean?"

Then she snapped her fingers and small wisps of fire appeared in the air before the ocean behind her suddenly erupted, like waves crashing on the shore, sending sea form into the air.

"Other than skill, talent and expertise? Presentation."

And then she began to sing. Oh, and the 'dark legend of mermaid' song was a bit nauseating? This. This was agonizing. The dark energy in the air sapping their strength and the waves of the sound crashing down and against Coco's song. For those fighting in it... it would likely be a new experience. Coco's song normally so uplifting, but this one threatened to drive them to the ground. She sang of darkness, of suffering, of stealing their hope. A baroque of darkness...

Sailor Moon and Greta were about to learn that there was something ELSE in those waves that was going to require their attention even more than the dark unicorn.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Maria had been waiting for her turn, hidden in a secure spot behind the tower, away from any gazes of bothersome meddlers that could ruin her entrance. She has been surprised to hear Gaito has been branching out and requesting them to cooperate with others, but if that's how she can gain favour from him, that's what she shall do, even if she is a bit distrustful of that when she isn't the one actually dealing with the mermaid princess.

And there it is, her chance, when Sunbreaker loudly talks about the mermaid princess coming here, then making use of the song she borrowed from the Black Beauty Sisters. A bit of a waste, she thinks, when the Black Beauty Sisters themselves could have done the same or Yuri could have hauled her piano here. She wonders what it is that Gaito saw in this Sunbreaker.

Anyway, no time to dally, now. Space distorting around her, she appears to a side of the tower's stage, taking note of Sunbreaker's skillful reproduction of the Sisters' song, even more impressive since she couldn't have had much time to master it.'She isn't bad, at all', Maria muses surprised.

"Welcome, you two, buntails and axegirl. Would you like to leave the two of them alone for a bit?", she refocuses, addressing the two heroines. "My beloved lord asked me to show you our hospitality instead, I hope it is to your taste." She smiles complacently, raising her hands to eye levels, big ice shards occupying the space between her fingers. "Lover's Ice Darts!" she shouts, tossing three of them towards Sunshine Spark and 3 of them towards Sailor Moon.

Greta Legend has posed:
Greta initially blinks as she looks to the other girls, whilst Sunbreaker starts speaking, and raises a hand and asks, "Look, I realize you stopped singing when I told you to cut it out, but that wasn't permission to let you start telling your story."

Of course, if her interjection goes disregarded, she mutters, "Okay, I guessn we're just letting her talk then." She bitterly comments, while waiting with her device at the ready.

And theeeen Sunbreaker starts singing, and the agony of it LITERALLY starts to drive her towards the ground as the music starts amping up.

"GAAAH!! BUGGER!! THIS... IS WHY... WE DON'T LET HER MONOLOGUE!!"

The impact of it sends her eventually crashing to the ground from the strength of the magic, and she fights to push herself to her feet. "GGGhhh... Pearl...! A little -help-!"

Her eyes dart to the waves after a point, and then she spies Maria coming out of the cover, and attack. "Oh bugger!" Before she swings her axe and slashes at the ice spikes that fly at her, nailing two of them, but the third crashing into her side painfully, piecing her Barrier jacket as it shatters against her, and starts freezing against her side, covering her side with ice. "GGggnn! A little help!" Before flying and darting for Maria, zipping around her to swing form the side.

She was going to have to rely on Moon on the fly. Great!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Her tiara isn't enough to break through the shield Sunbreaker puts up, and Sailor Moon screams. Just outright screams in frustration and anger. She doesn't even care about the monologue. "You stay away from her! No one in the entire world needs or wants your special attention!"

She catches the tiara, ready to throw it again when Sunbreaker starts to sing, and her voice is -

Awful.

Not awful to listen to, not in the usual way. She's not a bad singer. But the force of it.

It doesn't send Sailor Moon to her knees. It takes every scrap of will to stay standing, but she does. Because she'll be damned if Sunbreaker, who isn't even sorry, gets her down!

And then another person appears. Ready to fight, on Sunbreaker's side -

"Guess you finally made a friend!" She shouts to Sunbreaker, even as she has to run, dodge spikes of ice that send ice scattering across the ground wherever they land. They're both a threat, but she's the one firing, so - if the Tiara wasn't enough, maybe something faster would be.

"Moon Twilight Flash!"

Light flashes, faster than a blink, a beam of white flying towards the new arrival - even if she dodged, it should make an opening for Greta.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Maria cheers at herself when she find her ice darts striking the side of girl with ringlets. Sure, two got intercepted by her axe, but at least Sunshine Spark has to contend with the uncomfortable bite of ice on her body. A pity buntails dodged all of them. No matter, she can just try...

And then Greta comes at her with her axe at the same time as Sailor Moon's Moon Twilight Flash, catching her out of her element. The panicking Dark Lover quickly brings up more of her Ice Darts, launching them all against the flash in reflex, the only way she has out of this predicament.

The quick maneuver is able to save her from the soldier of the moon's attack, but leaves her open to Sunshine Spark's incoming slash, which for some dose of retribution, slashes Maria in the side.

"Aghh", laments the Dark Lover, pressing an arm against the wound and glaring torbidly at Greta. "You little brute, what's the bright idea, hacking away at things with your axe? Your companion has at least the decency to actually show her mettle. Have a bit more taste of my Lover's Ice Darts!"

She says, using her free arm to send three close range shards towards Greta, then in a very telegraphed move, using the same arm to send three more Sailor Moon.



Meanwhile Coco had been singing her melody of lull and serenity while Sunbreaker breaks off the parody of Legend of Mermaid, giving levity to her heart now that corruption of her dear song is no longer resounding in the air. "Kirarafantasica? Did all the good names get taken already?" she scoffs, a fair bit irritated by the flaming girl having mistreated the song in such a way. "And presentation? Your last plan was disturbing the hornet's nest at Radiant Heart. Not a great presentation."

The trick Sunbreaker puts out next is something she couldn't have expected, the melody of darkness filling the air with the negative energy that is the counterpart of her own music. As soon as it reaches Coco's ears, the incoming pain saps all the confidence out of her, leaving her writhing in pain onto the Live Stage, trying to block out the nefarious melody with her hands, to no avail, as the dark notes reach deep within, unsettling her very core.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker got her entire monologue out! But, well, that made sense. IT was only polite. If you weren't going to let people get their speeches off, what was the point of even fighting? She usually let the hero's get THEIRS off, it was only fair she got to do hers.

And Sailor Moons calls to stay away from her? HA! As if that would annoy her. Everyone should want her special attention. SHE was amazing and she'd tell you why anytime!

And she definitely didn't feel at ALL bad about how things with Naru transpired. And if anyone ever said she did, they'd definitely be lying. Because she was amazing and Naru should have been grateful for her 'attempts' to help.

She had to give it to the dark sisters, though. While the song was nowhere near as good as something she herself would create, it... was passable. As things went. Not terrible. Okay. And she'd been struggling to come up with a proper counter song. This? Was perfect.

And beneath her, she could see Coco collapsing from the song, making her just push against it harder, singing faster, harder, louder. The music tearing off behind her as the speakers pounded in on the mermaid.

Unfortunately, she was so focused on defeating the girl, that she failed to notice her comrade's struggles and while her song was beating down on them and likely amplifying Maria... It was becoming quite apparent that it wasn't enough to turn the girl's struggle in a two vs one into a victory. Instead her focus was entirely on crushing the girl before her, showing her her true power and might, her song. The music of Kirakirafantastica!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon breathes a sigh of relief as the other magical girl connects - sure, her own attack was dodged, but the whole point had been that one of them would get a hit in, and one of them had! And then, Yellow Pearl Voice starts to sing again, and there's a battle of music, the draining effect of Sunbreaker's song lifting for a moment - and then it returns, slamming in hard, and Sailor Moon turns, horrified, looking for Yellow Pearl Voice, worried she's been attacked, and she sees her writhing on her stage just as the three darts strike.

Leg, foot, hip, Sailor Moon cries out in shock and pain as the three darts strike home; they don't tear through her boots or fuku, but ice spreads, punishingly cold and draining, and she fumbles back, off balance with one leg icing over.

It's a good thing she doesn't need her legs to fight, though, because -

The other girl might be the one fighting, but Sunbreaker is the real threat. Sunbreaker is the one torturing Yellow Pearl Voice, the way she'd tortured Naru. Sunbreaker is the problem.

Sailor Moon's been getting a lot of advice on solving problems, lately.

"MOON TWILIGHT FLASH!"

Sunbreaker's felt this one before. She can try to block it, but the power difference between her tiara and this beam is substantial.

Which is a good thing, because Sailor Moon is doing something dangerous - not even waiting to see if her beam connects with Sunbreaker before whipping her tiara off, to ram it against the ice, trying to chip herself free.

Greta Legend has posed:
"Oh Sod off, you'll live!" Greta snaps back at Maria in annoyance, whilst slashing the ice spkes in the air, this time catching an ice spike to her shoulder after cutting through two of them. She had learned not too long ago that her device could be set to not-lethal, so she did just that! Burns, bruises, pain! It's Magic, after all!

Still, she finds herself distracted by the action up above, and how it was changing the ebb and flow of the battle down below, feeling it ease off of herself, and by proxy probably also Sailor Moon. Time for a change up.

"Come Keep the pressure, Moony!" She then calls to her device, "Grosse Klingen!"

<*ksh*Grosse Klingen!*ksh*> The magic energy blades double in size, as she then returns her attention to the Maria.

"What's my deal? I have an axe and you're the villain, that's what!" Before proceeding the spin around in a whirlling swing, trying to keep the pressure on her.

She then calls upwards, "YELLOW PEARL VOICE! What are you bloody doing?! Don't listen to her music! Yours is so much better! Also she's rubbish, and obviously off key! You've got this!"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"My beloved lord is expecting results, and I don't intend on letting him down!" Maria shouts, taking out the enchanted book of ice spells she pulled an all-nighter to find from Gaito's library. The Dark Lover smiles haughtily as she invokes the magical energy contained within the book, Sunbreaker's dark song by now having done wonders for her reserves, feeling herself back to top form.

Combine that with the book's power, and she will literally freeze the whole beach if it needs be! A flurry of ice as huge as Greta's axe crashes against the giant device, while the sky responds to the power of the book, darkening quickly as if it were deep winter. "Bow in this cold, and freeze!" Maria exclaims, a tremendous snowstorm crashing down onto the general area.

Meanwhile Sailor Moon has succeeded in freeing herself of the prison of her ice darts, leaving Maria to scoff with gleeful scorn. "Enjoy your small victory, buntails, and do your best in this snowstorm!"

A mantle of snow is covering Coco in the meanwhile, still writhing under the atrocious effects of Sunbreaker's song. The mermaid princess is trying to withstand the pain from the sound that keeps hurting her. She is being encased by the wrathful snowstorm called down by Maria, blocking her both ways, not having the force to oppose either one.

Amidst the negative sounds, a hopeful one shines, the encouragement Greta has shouted towards her. As short-lived as it may have been, solace has reached the mermaid princess' heart, and she is able to rise above the heavy snow that threatens to bury her forever.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker's voice was, despite their objections, entirely on key. Heck, she really was... good at this. Losing herself in the music, it was almost like she was back home again. She couldn't remember the last time she'd actually sung like this. Even if it was someone else's song, she was making it her own. And best of all? She could feel the power emanating from her. She had Yellow Pearl Voice crushed beneath her foot. Her dark magic crushing the other girl's purifying magic. Ha, she could do this on her--

And then Sailor Moon launched a pitiful blast at her. Pathetic. She didn't even miss a beat. Her right hand flicked out and with a simple spell she batted the blast away, sending it right back AT Sailor Moon. That'd--

And it was as if, for a moment, reality *itself* did a record scratch. Everything went silent. As the awareness of what she just did with her *wounded and heavily bandaged hand* finally hit her brain. Her words stopped.

Followed by a scream that actually blew out one of the speakers. All of the music stopped and Sunbreaker CRUMBLED. "You yellow feathered hatchling of a griffon you--" And then followed a string of profanity and cursing that... ahem... while it certainly likely seemed very strange, some of it was the kind kind of stuff that would have likely made even Hannah pause. But the vitrol and raw *hate and pain* the words were said with? THAT spoke *volumes* all on its own.

Especially when eventually it stopped and Sunbreaker was just... collapsed on her knees on the stage, rocking back and forth. Cradling her wounded hand that had just been used to parry a Moon Twilight Flash... the only thing coming out of the speakers, now, was her broken, shattered sobs and occasional hiccups.

Yeah. Sunbreaker was, sufficiently, dispatched.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
The beam goes flying past. Sailor Moon drops flat, down into the sand to avoid it, and -

and then there's a rush of profanity, enough to turn her ears red, and there was raw hate and pain in those curses, in those foreign words she couldn't understand but could definitely tell meant that had hurt Sunbreaker far more than Sailor Moon had thought possible.

As the sobs start, the rocking back and forth, she actually feels - bad. Very, bad, because even with all her anger and resentment, the lingering trauma of Naru's abduction, she can't feel good about this. Sunbreaker is in too much pain, too much obvious agony, for her to even come close to feeling righteous about it. There's nothing to do but swallow hard and turn her attention to the other enemy. The one who was still standing, still fighting.

"I'm Sailor Moon," she says darkly, grabbing her tiara. "And you need to put a sock in it, lady."

The tiara glows, more powerfully than it had before. Sailor Moon's tired, and she wants this to be over. Sunbreaker's defeat has given her nothing good, and this new girl -

"Moon Tiara Action!"

Cool metal glows, transformed in an instant from inert object to cosmic energy, glowing in her hand. Sailor Moon shifts her stance, wobbles slightly on a leg still cold, and hurls the disc of energy for her enemy.

The problem with her attacks? Unlike a device, she can't set them for non-lethal. It won't kill her, she's not strong enough for that, but if it connects, it sure will hurt!

Greta Legend has posed:
"HIMMELSPALTEN!"

On cue, Gretta's axe gets raised into the air, and fires off a beam into the sky, forming into an axe in its energy, and the girl yells as she brings the blade down upon Maria. "NONE. OF. THAT!"

She has no idea what the massive energy axe would do, but if pattern held that it would be non-lethal magically, then she hoped it held.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco has a breather now that Sunbreaker's Baroque of Darkness isn't assaulting her ears anymore. Above her the dark sky is still sending the snowstorm at them, but the weather she can deal with in this form. She looks down at Sunbreaker's whimpering form, a sensation of transport towards her despite everything she has done.

"Sunbreaker, please think and consider starting to reflect on your actions", her tone somber rather than mocking. She doesn't have time for that though, there is still a certain sea demon to deal with, and one that is bringing out the worst she can do at them. The mermaid princess raises her arm, remembering the love of the mother of the seas that extends to everyone that asks for it her protection: the bracelet on her wrist starts shining with white light as a halo of yellow light moves downwards from the mermaid princess's head: her clothes become more elaborate as it does so, gaining a flowing bow on her back and parallel frills on her blouse.

"Maria, this is your warning: go to Gaito and tell him your assaults won't be tolerated, and we will block your offense again and again, until we reach his castle, save Noel, get Sara back and call Aqua Regina to us again. Heartbeat ~Perfect Harmony~: Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!"

The song of the mermaid princess resounds again, more shining than ever under the blessing of Aqua Regina, singing of love that in one's heart endures all storms, standing up again, no matter how many times, for the sake of that promise. Live Stages fill the sky everywhere the local snowstorm rages, forming a protective coat against the unexpected winter.

The Voice of the Yellow Pearl chants of a scorching light in which a spray of water flutters: right now is the to raise everyone's voice higher, higher, higher, even hotter, hotter, hotter than the sun.

Coco sings of an intense, speedy heartbeat that overflows with a melody of love in which there is only one truth: the conveyed heartbeat breaks out with the power of love and reflects in a cloudless mirror, the Live Stages denying the snow entry through them, protecting the town below from the assault of the storm. The song of this hot, perfect harmony in which the mermaid princess are born spreads its arms out, accept everything, of everyone.

At the same time, Greta's energy axe break through the flurry of ice Maria is using to protect herself, leaving her shocked that could happen. "But the book... It shouldn't..."

She doesn't have time to get out of her stupor when Sailor Moon reaches the Dark Lover that is now wide open and strikes her with the intensity of all of Sailor Moon's feelings. "Aaaaaahhhh", the Dark Lover cries out in both pain and shame, feeling the book turn to cinders in her hand. Battered as she is, Maria alternates her gaze towards Greta, Yellow Pearl Voice, Sailor Moon and finally that hand that should be holding the book. "My beloved lord won't let it end here, you can be sure of that!" She threatens, before teleporting away.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Sunbreaker was in a lot of pain. She was not moving. She was not going to attack anything right now. Numbly, she could almost hear them talking, but the song was then there. Stages, the music... her familiar flies to her. She lifts her gaze, trying to glare at Sailor Moon. But...

It was even worse. She couldn't even look mad. All she could do was look hurt and weak then. Pathetic. The tears flooding down her face. She croaked out something before... the tower under her began to be purified. The darkness in it faded away and...

And she disappeared in a flurry of dark fire. Appearing... back in her room. And just de-henshined and buried her head in her pillows. She. Wanted. All of. The. Ice cream. She was going to eat SO MUCH just as soon as she STOPPED CRYING and her hand STOPPED HURTING!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon looks back. Her expression might linger with Sumbreaker - because it's pitying and sad, rather than angry. As upset as she is, Sunbreaker's pain gives her no pleasure or satisfaction. The victory is just... hollow.

"Well... at least we made it? How are you feeling, Yellow-chan?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco waves at Greta and Usagi under the shine of the Live Stages above their head, keeping the block of snow there, letting just a few of it passing out at a time.

She looks at where Sunbreaker vanished, her whimpering form leaving a sour feeling in her mind. She shakes her head: she wouldn't have wished that on her. "You have been awesome." the mermaid princess addresses the other two magical girls.

"The way you so quickly worked together to dispose of Maria's defenses and repel her was incredible", she adds.

Around them, what would have been a long and fierce snowstorm has now become a gentle snowfall, snowflakes slowly lowering in the air around the trio, giving Tokyo's ground a candid blanket of soft whiteness.