2863/This Hurricane That Tasted Good

This Hurricane That Tasted Good
Date of Scene:	05 December 2025
Location:	Riverside Path
Synopsis:	On a rare peaceful afternoon, the Senshi and Ace gather Jupiter's flowers.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Usagi Tsukino, Makoto Kino, Minako Aino, 222, Rei Hino, Chibiusa Tsukino

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Mamoru Chiba has posed:
So it's after school but before dinner in the cafeteria plaza; Mamoru dragged Makoto and everyone else who was magical and handy allll to the park by the river, henshining in corners and alleys along the way, or not henshining as the case may be, but Mamoru's definitely Tuxedo Mask.

Tuxedo Mask is definitely going to help Sailor Jupiter, who has to be in henshin to launch her attack, not be in henshin alone in the park without a monster. "We're not gonna get attacked if there's so many of us in one spot, and we're not doing anything that would hurt anyone, and we need these petals to make sweets out of," he says as he hands out pillowcases.

The park's mostly deserted, it's cold and the trees are bare.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon is also in henshin, but unlike her husband she's not so optimistic about their chances of not being attacked by a youma. Her reasoning is simple and straightforward: they're about to do something fun, and worse, something fun with magic and that all but guarantees they'll be attacked.

She's keeping her head high and her arms up, though, clutching a pillowcase carefully in both hands, prepared to leap about and jump for the petals that will soon be spiraling about.

"The fewer petals we get, the fewer treats we can make! No one wants to be the reason we can't have magic lassi!"

Makoto Kino has posed:
Sailor Jupiter, for her part, is presently up a tree. She's found herself a perch on a sturdy branch halfway up a winter-bare oak, possibly with the idea that the higher up off the ground she fires off her attacks, the better everyone else's chances of actually catching petals before they hit the ground.

"On the bright side," she offers, "at least if I hit anyone, it'll probably just be annoying. I think." She does not sound altogether sure on this point.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus takes one of the offered pillowcases with a serious expression as she examines it. It's swung back and forth in front of herself with quick swishing motions to catch air.

"I guess this will do but the range isn't great. If I'd had more notice I could have gotten us some of the Lacrosse sticks. I mean," another swing of the pillowcase is given. "Without the net. I'm sure something could be done."

The thought is shrugged off as she instead looks up toward the tree where Jupiter is with a grin. "Well at least we know why Kunzite isn't here! I'm ready whenever you are, Jupiter!"

And as a sly aside she adds, "I bet I can catch more than Mars."

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
"I must say, this is something quite novel you've all come up with," Kaitou Ace remarks, dressed in his white leathers and ballroom mask, and tapping a finger along his cheek as he muses on it. Of course once he heard a certain someone was participating he immediately volunteered to help out, and his own pillowcase is tucked under his arm.

"I have to admit, I'm a little jealous I didn't think of it myself. Stealing from the power of thunder to create delightful sweets? I could have made a full episode out of it! Of course, my character would have offered to steal a kiss along with it as well," he adds idly -- to himself? -- throwing a sidelong glance towards the tree. "All the more sweeter, after all. But we wouldn't want to do anything that could fluster someone enough to spoil their aim, would we? We can just leave that part out~"

Facing the shadows in his heart and his memories has come with a more carefree manner when that mask is on, it seems.

Rei Hino has posed:
    Rei takes one of the pillowcases with a look that is... kind of hard to read, in a sense. What it actually is, deep down, is a mix of 'why am I doing this' tied with 'I'm glad I have friends I can do this with' which culminates in a sort of vaguely annoyed look, but really isn't.

    It's when Minako turns this into a challenge that she shoots her a different sort of look, almost... smug. "You think so?" she asks. Mars knows of the two of them the one that can play volleyball to an ace level and has been generally more athletic than the shrine maiden is probably has a better chance, but she has something up her sleeve.

    Well, actually, it's in a tree, and it's not Sailor Jupiter in any way.

    She also casts a look towards Ace, who she doesn't remember meeting - but given that nobody else seems to be chasing him off, she surmises it's probably alright for him to be here.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Hit me, I can take it!" Tuxedo Mask calls stoutly, holding his bag open in a rectangle with his hands, ready to catch petals. ('I can take it' he says.) He glances-- "Oh, hey Ace. We've also got another kind of candy already-- here, we haven't figured out everything it does yet, but it's made from roses~"

He produces a hard candy in a wrapper with some sleight of hand and tosses it Ace's way. It's rose-and-ginger flavored! And gives +5 DMG/ACC/DEX. "And you know everyone here, right? No wait, why would you? Everyone this is Phantom Ace, he's an ally these days-- like me." Then he whirls on a heel and re-fits his pillowcase to his hands and calls out, "Ready when you are!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon is here, in henshin, with Luna-P in the form of a butterfly net. When handed the pillowcase, she takes a look at it, tries fitting it over the net, and it manages to be fastened somehow because Luna-P can shapeshift and also it's magic.

    She stands behind Tuxedo Mask and off to the side, net raised up to catch some of whatever he misses. "I'm ready, too!" she calls out.

    Yeah she's not doing this out of henshin, either.

Makoto Kino has posed:
A strange expression crosses Sailor Jupiter's face for a second. What it is may not really be possible to tell from the ground, and in any case it's gone a second later. "Hey, Venus!" she calls out instead, just a shade too energetically, bringing up her hands. "Catch! FLOWER HURRICANE!"

Yeah, about the part where she wasn't going to be aiming at anyone. This first salvo, not so much. A blast of windblown rose petals whips up around Jupiter and her tree, bearing down fully onto Sailor Venus.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus narrows her eyes just a bit at Ace's remark as she lifts a hand to wag a finger in his direction. "No stealing kisses, Ace! We're past that." She might have said more, but...

That awkward little silence where Jupiter glares at her causes the hairs on the back of Venus' neck to rise. Maybe that wasn't the best remark to make at this particular point in time. Or ever. But especially now, right when Jupiter was about to-- Do that.

"ACK!"

The sudden flurry of petals causes her to leap into action though as she does, indeed, try to catch a literal hurricane in a pillow case. You can almost hear the Sailor V jumping noise as she springs into the air again, and again, arms straight up over her head to let the pillow case try to billow into the wind while her eyes scrunch shut against the flurry of flower petals.

*pfftpfftpffttt*

Rei Hino has posed:
    Rei grips the pillowcase in preparation for the Flower Hurricane Catching Adventure. Even if she might have played it off cooly, when Minako challenged her it did trigger something in her to want to win. She does have a competitive streak, even if she usually keeps it buried.

    But that proves to be... a bit unneccessary as something she did or said seems to have caught Makoto's ire - or maybe the Senshi of Wood and Lightning was just feeling cheeky today - and she makes the distinctly unique sound of trying to get flower petals out of her mouth.

    Rei takes exactly one step towards Minako with a fixated competitive look on her face... and by step two she's laughing, first a giggle and then a bit more. She just moves behind Minako to try to fill the case with what isn't hitting Minako in the face.

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
The Phantom Thief of Hearts is certainly more well-known to some of this crowd than others -- whether personally or by anyone who happens to watch international television -- but Ace takes it all in stride as he sweeps a courtly bow to those assembled. "A pleasure to meet you all!" Friends of his treasured princess are friends of his, after all.

A white-gloved hand neatly snaps the candy out of the air as it's tossed to him, "walking" the wrapped treat along his fingers for a moment. "Rose and ginger, you say? No need to ask who *this* was 'stolen' from~. Though apologies, I didn't quite catch the rest of that." Minako was good enough to introduce him to the world of candy -- the world of gaming may be the next to discover.

He clucks his tongue though as Minako scolds him. "Now now! One is *never* past catching a thrill where -- " Oop, tabling that thought, as instead Sailor Venus looks to catch something else entirely. Namely a mouthful of flower petals.

Kaitou Ace can't help but tense for just a moment, old reflexes coming into play as the eyes behind the white mask take on a hard glint, with Venus coming under "attack" -- but no, they're among friends here, aren't they? And one moment that is lost to old steel, amusement returning with the next one as he watches Minako flail.

"Of course, if *you* would like some help clearing your mouth out later, I think I could be convinced to lend my aid," he offers helpfully.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon stares at Sailor Venus in horror, in the same moment that Sailor Jupiter has that strange look, but Ace has arrived, the perfect distraction, and Sailor Moon cheers as Sailor Venus receives a flower shower of wind as retaliation for her gauche comment, leaping into action with pillow in hand.

"Come on, Vee! We can't eat them if they all get in your mouth!"

Cheerfully blaming her friend as she dives for petals, flapping her bag around, wind occasionally causing it to balloon.

"These are rose petals too, right?"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru starts laughing, too, jogging over into the wind, cape billowing and flapping frantically behind him, hair wild-- catching a bunch of petals in the pillowcase. "Chibimoon!" he calls, "your net was probably a better idea than the pillowcases..."

There's something that unclenches in his chest with this, with what they're doing, with their playing with magic-- and he thinks-- "We should do more things like this. And we should tell Siddig-sensei about doing things like this, too, so she knows it's not all fighting!"

Oh then Tuxedo Kamen gets clever; he holds the pillowcase in his teeth for a second as he takes off his cape and spreads it on the yellowing winter grass like a picnic blanket, then dumps the petals from the pillowcase onto his cape.

They don't vanish! Mamoru looks delighted, and scoops them back into the pillowcase, then-- eyes Ace, and glances toward Venus, frowning a little. He makes the frown go away and calls cheerfully, flirtily, "Would you help me clear my mouth out later, Ace-san?" Wink.

Makoto Kino has posed:
Sailot Jupiter grins down at her friends from her lofty vantage, satisfied with the small chaos she's created with her surprise attack. Their primary mission for today may not have been achieved yet, but she's nailed a bonus objective. So to speak.

"They are!" she confirms in answer to Sailor Moon. "I don't think they have to be, though... I'm pretty sure there's been different kinds of petals, I'm just not entirely sure what does it. Mostly I'm not really thinking about that while we're fighting, you know? There's plenty other kinds of edible flowers, though."

She shifts her weight on her branch perch, looking thoughtfully upward. Picturing flowers in her head, and thinking about their scent.

"Flower... Hurricane...!"

Another wild gust of wind, this time mostly over everyone's heads, showers the immediate vicinity with a hail of little purple floral spearheads and the sweet-sharp fragrance of lavender. It's a good thing she didn't aim that one into anyone's face.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    The petals are launched! ... At Venus?

    If there's context here, Chibimoon has missed it, and by the time she has time to think about it she'll likely have forgotten the moment entirely. Which is for the best, really.

    Chibimoon's tiny legs have a hard time keeping up with everyone else, at least until she remembers she's magic and can just jump around. She swings her net, trying to catch as many petals as she can.

    At Tuxedo Mask's compliment, she just gives him a wry smile. "I mean... it works for butterflies, right?"

    She decides not to mention just how much trouble she actually has catching butterflies. At least she can run around and catch petals. It's easier for her when they aren't aimed at anyone's mouth.

Minako Aino has posed:
Normally there would be a quick and witty remark. Though to be fair it wasn't always *smart* when she did. For the moment Venus had her mouth full of petals and she currently was working to spit them out.

A quick shakey shake of the pillow case comes before realizing it was already darn near full. The force of the winds, and with so much aimed right at her, it happened rather quickly.

"I'm okay!" she calls out perhaps unnecessarily. Turning to the side she spots Rei RIGHT BEHIND HER with a gasp. "*Cheater*," she teases in good nature. It's the pile of petals on Tux's cape that catches her attention though. A brilliant idea!

Fighting against the wind she makes her way to add to the pile before the second attack comes with purple flowers. A few spear into her hair with a little 'ow ow ow' as they were a bit more like mini aerodynamic floral arrows.

But! She was going to beat Rei!

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
Oh-hooo? "I think more than one person might object to that sort of help, Tuxedo-san," Kaitou Ace calls back cheerily, casting a sly glance in Sailor Moon's direction. "Although I suppose we could let them supervise, if it'll set them at ease?" Though perhaps it'll have quite the opposite effect. Who's to say? The topic hasn't come up before now, after all.

"Ah, but I should go ahead and get to work, shouldn't I?" That thought will have to get tabled as well, alas. Kaitou Ace has no cape, but he catches up the pillowcase with a flair, whirling to billow it open before leaping up to try and catch up some petals with a broad sweep, leaving Venus to her "rivalry.".

Though he's already giving an envious look to Chibimoon's improvised "net" -- smart girl! He might end up having to get creative himself, if he doesn't want to get shown up.

Rei Hino has posed:
    Rei snickers. "Yeah, you have to wait for us to make them into candy before you can eat them." she adds to Usagi's remark. "And we really should - do more things like this, I mean." she says to Mamoru.#-1 ARGUMENT OUT OF RANGE
    Rei's not in henshin and you might think that would put her at a disadvantage, but she has her own way of making up for that. The lavender flowers billow towards them and Rei puts out a call, a simple whistle, before she tries to work with her pillowcase a bit - and then from a nearby but different tree come two black crows, carrying a large grocery bag in their talons. And flying. And being pretty aerodynamic for two crows with a shoping bag they're filling with petals.

    And if anyone looks at her about the presence of Phobos and Deimos, they'll only get a smug grin from her.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Oh, oh lavender!" Sailor Moon cheers a little and spins, throwing herself up, up, to swoop down and try to gather petals on the way. She's having fun in spite of her fears, the afternoon not yet ruined. She calls to her husband, "If we make it through the whole day without a monster attack, I'll even agree with you!"

Fun and games with magic. She hasn't really played with magic in ages, not since she and Naru tried to see if henshin let her breathe underwater. She might have continued on that train of thought but for the flirting. Ace's sly glance seals their fates.

"You might be a pretty boy, Ace, but do you think that's all it takes to turn his head? You've got to grow your hair out, at least, maybe pull it up high~!"

She's teasing. Teasing both of them!

"Don't you agree, Rei-chan? He's just not pre- ARE YOU USING THE CROWS?! CHEATER!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Oh the-- okay, the pillowcases are FFFTHETBPTH PEH Mako-chan noooopptptphffth," says Tuxedo Mask as he gets lavender in his mouth, then valiantly starts spitting it out, squinting, holding the pillowcase out to catch more out of the air. When the wind and the flowers die down, he looks over at Ace and his eyebrows raise. He turns to grin at Usagi at the same time as she speaks up. And then he calls out, "I don't think Kunzite would mind for the same reason I know you wouldn't. Would you like to supervise?"

He starts walking toward Ace, past Minako and Makoto, past Chibimoon (who gets a twintail lightly ruffled)-- past Rei, who OH Usagi is yelling at her now, okay-- anyway he's approaching Ace, wiping his mouth off with the back of his hand, and he calls back, "Someone have a camera?"

Makoto Kino has posed:
"Should you guys really be fooling around while I'm up here in perfect sniper position?" Sailor Jupiter calls down, laughing. "I can still target you, you know."

She stretches out a hand in the general direction of where Tuxedo Kamen is heading for Ace, wiggling her fingers as though in warning.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus swings her arms wildly back and forth to keep the pillowcase open allowing it to take as many flowers as she can! She really is putting her all into this enough so that she's had to pause in her banter to catch her breath.

Moon's cry of the ravens causes her to pause though as she tips her head back with an obvious pout. "Oh she is cheating!" Indignantly she sticks her tongue out toward Rei with one hand on her hip and a partially full pillowcase held in the other.

The floral attack starts to die down though and she finally tunes into the other conversation. The one between Mask and Ace.

As Tux starts to head for Ace she half-turns to watch forgetting the playful rivalry entirely to just watch with a momentarily conflicted expression.

Well. She *did* warn Ace in a way.

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
Tch. A flurry of black motion at the corner of Kaitou Ace's eye draws his attention to Phobos and Deimos getting in on the act, giving a wry look upwards as he drops down from his leap. "I wouldn't have been one to say this sort of task if for the birds, but it looks like it'll be so either way." And as he glances down into his pillowcase, it looks like he *is* going to have to get creative if he wants to keep up. If nothing else, it'll be a good chance to practice the new trick --

But that's when he hears Moon's comment, and sees Mamoru making his way towards him with a purpose. And oh dear, what was that about a camera? What sort of picture-perfect moment is about to occur?

"Shouldn't you try to be catching something other than my eye, Tuxedo-san?" the figure in the white mask and leathers calls out, nodding a genial agreement to Jupiter as he swings his the pillowcase over one shoulder for a moment. His other hand braced on his hip, watching Tuxedo Kamen approach with amused expression behind his mask.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon is kind of ignoring the conversation and the flirting, because she's a child and you have no power here, cupid! She's absolutely not ignoring the petals, because they are pretty and spinny and she gets to chase and catch them and maybe have candy later! Literally any one of those things would be reason enough for her to smile.

    So focused is she that she doesn't notice Mamochan's approach until he ruffles her, at which point she giggles and looks at where he's headed. Only then do certain parts of the convo she was ignoring start to register and she calls out, "Jokes on you, he's into that!"

    Then again it may turn out that Ace is also into that. Huh. Well. She knows how her dad is. Some things never change.

    After a while she looks into her butterfly net/pillowcase and marvels at all the pretty flower petals she has. "So many!"

Rei Hino has posed:
    Rei yells back to Usagi. "TYHEY HAVE NAMES YOU KNOW." she says. Then she adds. "But if you want to involve Luna and Artemis feel free! I just thought you know, we were all about team work."

    Phobos caws. Deimos does not.

    When it comes to two boys kissing, Rei is distinctly disinterested except for in the way of it being amusing given the audience. But if Minako's going to pay attention to them, she's going to lose this petal-collecting party even harder. Though Chibimoon might be her challenger still. Both in ignoring boysmooches and actually collecting petals.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Ah! I thought it was time to start flirting, since you were interrupting V-chan's petal-catching with it, my mistake," Mamoru says easily, stopping short and smiling wryly. "Don't worry, you're not actually my type. It's like ~my beautiful wife~ said: maybe grow your hair out longer, for a start. Having a sword helps, too."

He wiggles his fingers back at Makoto. "No worries~!"

And he finally turns back to Chibiusa and just... what can he even say to that though? He turns a little red.

Makoto Kino has posed:
Sailor Jupiter grins back at Tuxedo Mask's wave and nods, then lifts her head and brings her hand up to salute the crows. "I'll try not to hit them," she promises Rei.

"So what do we think... should I try another flower, or stick with lavender? Or roses, but I think maybe we're pretty good for roses either way."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Well, maybe if you brought them around more I'd remember them!" She pauses. "That's a lie, I already remembered them, I was just a jerk. I'm sorry Phobos and Deimos! But you have wings, and it's totally cheating!"

And so saying, she leaps into the air and shifts her grip so her pillow case bulges like a pitiful parachute. It doesn't keep her in the air, but it does gather more petals, like a smaller, less plush version of Mamoru's cape.

The flirting has been called off, dismissed in a moment that has her husband needling at Ace just a little, and Usagi would be more worried about Minako if she didn't seem half-okay with it and half-ignoring it.

"Besides, Artemis and Luna would be napping in the sun and we all know that. Diana's the only one who would help, and she's on our Small Lady's side!"

At Makoto's question, she eagerly calls, "More lavender! I had some really yummy lavender macarons, if we get a lot, maybe we can try to make some!" A disaster like her will not succeed in macarons any time soon.

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
"Ah, rejected!" Kaitou Ace remarks mournfully, pressing a hand over his heart. "Of course it's *always* time to start flirting, but I suppose it's fair enough to be turned away -- it *would* take a 'prince-type' to catch another prince's eye, after all. And I am as far from a prince as one can get. No flowing locks, and no swords -- "

And he moves the pillowcase from his shoulder as he turns to face the tree now, his grin turning decidedly wolfish as he holds his other arm out to the side. " -- but that's not to say I don't have my own way of doing things~." Fanning out the cards that suddenly appears in his outstretched hand, holding it at the ready as he waits on Jupiter's next wave...

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    "I actually don't think it's always time to start flirting," says Chibimoon, while packing down the petals into her net to make more room. She's not looking up, which means she doesn't actually notice her alt-dad's reaction to her comment yet. She does hear her alt-mom's words though and says, "Oh! I totally should have brought Diana. She would have loved this."

    Cue a mental image of tiny mooncat chasing magic petals around. Ahh, what could have been. Well, at least we can imagine it.

    Eventually she does look up at Mamochan and comment, "Hey, you know you talk in rainbow sometimes, right? I can't be the only one who notices? Whenever you talk about mom?"

Minako Aino has posed:
When the threat of boys kissing doesn't happen, it's a bit of a relief. Venus wasn't sure how she would feel about that and somehow she gets the impression she'd get hit by Usagi about it. Somehow.

With a sigh she turns her attention back to the others as she just regains her balance mentally, and flashes an apologetic smile around. "Ace is no prince, for sure, but he does know how to steal a thing or two and swoop in to the rescue at times."

"Ace, just because you're from Venus doesn't mean you have to flirt all the time you know!" Says Venus. Beneath her breath she mumbles, "This must be how Kunzite feels with the Shittenou."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Ace answers, and Mamoru frowns, then rolls his eyes like the teenager he is and turns back to Makoto. "Well your rose petals are pink, I'm sure they taste different even aside from I'm sure they have a different effect," he calls up, "but yeah! We have a bunch of rose, we have a bunch of lavender-- hibiscus? Passionflower? Oh, more lavender? Okay," he says, turning to Usagi-- then blinking down at Chibiusa. "It makes sense, she's full of rainbow energy. But I hadn't noticed. Maybe I'm colorblind."

That's not how colorblindness works, Mamoru.

Makoto Kino has posed:
"Ooh, that does sound good!" Jupiter brightens at Sailor Moon's talk of lavender macarons. We absolutely have to try it. More lavender it is!"

Despite lavender spears not exactly being the most convenient for this purpose, she rolls her shoulders and flings out her hands, preparing another salvo. "Hibiscus also sounds pretty awesome!" she calls back to Mamoru. "We've got a lot of experimenting to do, I think. Lavender Hurricane!"

Another blast of wind - mindful of the crows' current flight path - fills the air with more falling clusters of lavender. "This would probably really sting if I blew it into someone's face," Makoto reflects.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"It's because he's in love-love with me," Sailor Moon explains proudly! "I can do it too, but since I barf rainbows its not as special."

Usagi, why remind them? Oh, to outweigh the sheer sugary sweetness of the thought of Diana romping in petals.

"I want to make flowers too! Or fruits or something, you can't eat my hearts and stars."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Mamoru starts working on stuffing what's on his cape into pillowcases, trying mostly to keep the lavender separate from the rose petals-- and he glances at Sailor Moon, and his eyes twinkle behind his mask. "Everything you do is special."

Producing his top hat from nowhere, Mamoru pulls another couple of pillowcases out, mashing lavender spears in; the scent is incredible, between the rose and the lavender it smells very clean in this park at this time.

"What about the cake in Moon Space?" he asks, looking up again. "Eating cake definitely gave me a buff."

Ace Saijou (222) has posed:
Kaitou Ace flicks an eye aside as Venus gives another scolding --

-- but this time he says nothing. His smile getting just a touch more as he gives a slight nod in return. Hunh,

But then Jupiter calls out her next wave, and he quickly turns his attention forward again. And the arm he had been holding out to the side sweeps forward, releasing the fan of cards he was holding --

"PHANTOM SHUFFLE!"

-- as they become a storm all their own, a sudden swirling twister of cards that obscures him briefly from sight before falling away --

-- to reveal three figures standing now, where there was only one before. All three of them dressed in the same masks and leathers, the same silvery hair. A new technique he had discovered after his resurrection -- or perhaps, a gift.

"One for all -- " one of them remarks.

" -- and all for me!" another finishes cheerily.

And with that said, all three Kaitous Ace springs into action, leaping up in different directions to scoop their air with their pillowcases.

Rei Hino has posed:
    "Well, competition aside I'm here to help and every petal the two of them catch is one of Makoto's that doesn't go to waste." Rei notes.

    She tilts her head at talk of speaking in Rainbows, but she can sort of see it - the way the two of them talk is one of the few things that sometimes makes Rei a smidge jealous. Not so much of either individual, but because of what they shar- "pftfgt" and there's a petal in her mouth for not watching.

    "Yeah don't get that in your face." Rei calls. "I wonder if it's only flower petals, like... maybe point in the other direction if you're going to try Chilipepper Hurricane though." she notes.

    "It's absolutely not always time for flirting." Rei can't help but say. She's been polite, but when that form of discussion comes around, she is more snappy than she likely intends. Hopefully everyone's focusing on the concept of Chilipepper Hurricane. OR then the sudden swarm of Aces. "See? I didn't bring another two of me." she says petulantly.

Minako Aino has posed:
Sailor Venus takes a deep breath as she steadies herself with a quick mental note to talk to Ace and figure out if he is going to be under her 'command' in some way, or if she would be able to be a leader to him like the senshi.

Later though. They were all correct in the fact that this was playtime in a way, and it was nice to get to do this with friends. Not fighting but still using powers was a treat!

"Yes, more flowers," she agrees as she hoists up her newly emptied pillow case in preparation for more catching.

At Ace's cry she jerks her head to the side tos tare with mouth slightly agape. THREE ACES? The breifest sound of something cracking comes just in time for the hurricane force flowers to *smack* into her sending her toppling over with legs kicked into the air as she tumble-weeds to the ground.

Makoto Kino has posed:
Rei's suggestion has Jupiter making a very thoughtful face. "You know," she says, "I actually don't know? I mean... my power extends to plants in general, not just flowers, so, in theory? Wow."

She sits with it for a moment, considering the possibilities. "That might have to be an experiment for another time. If I can actually come up with things other than flower petals... there's all kinds of things I could do with that."

A beat, and a little wince. "Um. Sorry, Venus!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
For a half-second, Tuxedo Mask's eyeing Ace like he's not sure what-- he's-- doing--

NOT what he expected!

"Oh cool!" the black-haired prince enthuses, dumping another full sack into the pile on the cape. And then he starts folding up the cape into a big bundle. "Okay that's definitely enough to process now. Can leave the bags in my living room; that's where I'm headed! Come on, Jupiter-chan, let's get the sorting tables set up ahead of everyone--"

'Come on' he says and then teleports because he is a jerk.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Mamoru teleports away after talking about a cake he'd been the only one fortunate enough to eat and suggesting they get sorting tables out and Sailor Moom huffs and stomps her foot. "All that fun and Ace got closer to a kiss than me... well, at least we did have fun."

She's still pouting.

"Come on! Last one to his place is a rotten egg!"