2755/The Blooming Point

The Blooming Point
Date of Scene:	31 August 2025
Location:	Pikarigaoaka Ward
Synopsis:	Lady Bat has caused a big mess between Pikarigaoka and Mitakihara. Luckliy, Coco, Madoka, Ami, Amy, Usagi and Mamoru are around to solve it.
Cast of Characters:	Coco Kiumi, Chibiusa Tsukino, Usagi Tsukino, Amanda Faust, Mamoru Chiba, Ami Mizuno

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Coco Kiumi has posed:
A new opportunity. Lady Bat wasn't really sure they'd appoint her, so soon after the duet with Glimmer didn't end positively, especially since Lanhua never really had a chance to prove herself (not that she was ever going to advocate for her). Could you blame her if she prefers this turn of events? All she needs to do now is find what to use it on.

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Some hours later, the vampire is pacing back and forth in front of Radiant Heart's gate, a scowl deeply impressed into her face, covered by petals all over, peeking out of her skirt, clinging to her arms like tattoos, even sticking out of her hair. Every so often she looks away, her eyes darting everywhere, not leaving any spot unchecked, then she resumes her pacing around.

Should she be really doing this? Her mission is going well so far! And Fuku is really cheerful every time she comes over to visit. But that is exactly why she has to rely on them, isn't it? She could just dispatch Seridae on her own if Fuku showed up even a bit less, and then give a false report. And Soptera is not helping either. She must do this, it's her only choice.

"Ow!", Lady Bat laments, her hand darting forward to strike at what stopped her path, and stopping at a circular white barrier. "What are you doing here, Lady Bat?", Coco's voice rings in the air, and the mermaid walks towards Michel's general, she too looking around at the spots the general examined. "It's a shame the Black Beauty Sisters passed away without teaching anyone how this worked", the vampire mutters, looking at the white sphere."

"I am only here to ask for help", Lady Bat scowls, crossing her arms. "I am sure you were going to notice anyway, I am only making your work easier. You shouldn't worry so much, it's really not good for you", the dark general remarks.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
@emit     Small Lady, who is totally not small anymore by the way, is walking by when she notices the barrier flare up. She turns towards the vampiress and the idol mermaid with a curious yet grumpy stare and intuits that maybe someone is being a jerk today.

    Well now that Chibiusa is a fully fledged Sailor Senshi, Sailor Moon (though she's calling herself Chibimoon for disambiguation because Sailor Moon is still taller than her (which totally doesn't make her lowkey jealous at all)), the short pink one turns to head towards the conversation with the intent to investigate.

    "Help? Do you need help finding the exit? Because you're already there," snarks the small child, because becoming a magical girl has done very little to dull her sharp tongue. She smirks at Lady Bat from behind the safety of the barrier. Chibiusa figures that anyone who'd make an enemy of Coco can't be that great of a person, and she's not shy about the judgement she's passing.

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
It's a warm August day, and the group of those gathered together had not exactly going out so much as just meandering in the last doleful days before school begins again. Usagi isn't not paying attention to Chibiusa, but ever since she got above hip height and started being basically a real person instead of Baby Child Precious Child, she's a lot less careful about paying attention to her every step.

The difference between having a kid the age of your sibling around, versus the kind of kid you'd expect to hire a babysitter for. In other words, when she hears Chibiusa being snarky, her first instinct is:

"Chibiusa-chan, are you being teasing people again?" And then, whispering to Mamoru, "I probably shouldn't encourage that, only it's kind of nice when it's not me?"

Only then does she take note of who's there and go -

"Oh never mind. Carry on, Chibiusa-chan!"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Well that's interesting. A youma, or perhaps dark general, that seems confused about the Crystal Heart's ward? Amy ducks out of sight, henshins but with a school uniform instead of her magical girl outfit, and walks out after Coco. "You want our help?" Amy raises an eyebrow.

    She looks at Chibiusa, and Usagi, then back to Bat. "Hey. If you're... asking us for help, that's probably a good sign. Dark energy's usually not big on that. Um... but what exactly do you want? No promises, but you've got me curious, at least."

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Whereas Mamoru's first instinct is to laugh, which doesn't always serve him well, but he does it anyway.

He shrugs good-naturedly at Usagi's 'it's nice when it's not me'-- granted-- and then when he sees Usagi's reaction to who Chibiusa's snarking at, he laughs again.

He's in Preppy Casual today, which probably means he had some kind of paperwork meeting with an adult of some variety who wasn't expecting him to wear a suit. There are plenty of those in his life, even though there are vastly fewer of them now that he's eighteen. His hair's fluffy and totally black again, and his glasses are clean.

"If you're asking for help, you shouldn't be so rude about it, Koumori-san..." he says mildly.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Ami wasn't often among the first to make their way out of the classes and off toward the town, but today she was just that. It didn't surprise her at all to see that there were others already on there way, and the who was even less surprising. Fortunately, it did mean that she was able to make her way toward Usagi before she noticed that one of the others was a little bit different.

The blue haired senshi pulls up quietly beside the twin-tailed blonde, gaze fixed on the vampire. After a short pause, she tilted her head very gently and said, "Oh, I don't think we typically do villain things. I think you've got the wrong building."

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Lady Bat gives Usagi a stare, but doesn't otherwise reply. Interesting that so many of them have shown up out of their henshins. All except the redhead warrior and the mermaid princess, though it is not much use to the latter. Lady Bat observes with interest the resulting collection of faces gather in front of her.

"You all wound me", Lady Bat brings a hand to her forehead, swooning against the white light of her hamster ball, and she adds with a look at Mamoru. "You are not far off, boy. The name is Lady Bat, the Wings of Love and Pleasure", she smirks standing back up.

"You really shouldn't tease people like that, princess", the dark general regards Chibiusa mockingly. "I am guessing you don't know the first thing about vampires if you make remarks like that", she bares her fangs towards the pinkette.

A paralysing jolt buzzes from the Live Stage to Lady Bat's body as Coco sings the first verse of Legend of Mermaid, staring sharply at the enemy. "You have a weird way of seeking help, Lady Bat. Keep making threats, and there is more where that came from", the mermaid says coldly.

The vampire grunts. "Fine. I don't actually intend to fight you all, not that I would want to enter the school grounds. This is the help I want. I formed a sea demon as part of a plan to gather energy, but I want him out of the picture. He is being a pain to me", she scowls, taking a petal out of her hair.

"Do you even know that he sends me piles of flowers every other hour? I don't even know how he is making them grow so fast. And the winged demon I made to help is only eating the bare minimum amount of flowers to motivate him to try even harder so as to get even more flowers to eat", she vents at the gathered group.

Regaining her composure, Lady Bat gives Amy a nod. ""I can't deal with him myself because Fuku is gloating and watching the results like a hawk instead of the parrot she is. So, you go deal with them for me, and you not only help save people like you usually do, but you get two of the orange princess' heart fragments", she finishes explaining.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"...if I have to call you Lady, you have to call me Prince," Mamoru says, crossing his arms, not... apparently... taking the bat-winged vampire particularly seriously. "And she wasn't teasing. That truly is the exit."

Then she gets to the point, and in the back of his head Mamoru's got a bubbling breathless sense of fear to conquer at the idea of a sea demon youma-- but he scoffs. "You'll have to pay us more than two of Seira's heart fragments to clean up your mess. Sounds like no one's actually suffering but *you*."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
So there's taunting villains from the safe side of the campus with the Crystal Heart protecting them, and there's listening to the spiel of a monster and handing over identities, so Usagi puts a hand on her hip, looks Lady Bat over and then says -

"You know, teasing a cosplayer is one thing, getting into someone's relationship drama is another. I think we should go."

And then she does go! With anyone who will come with her! ...of course, maybe three minutes later, at most, Sailor Moon returns! A totally different person, of course.

"Lady Bat! Are you causing trouble for any actually innocent people? Besides Seira, apparently?"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibiusa frowns and crosses her arms. A part of her wants to tell Lady Bat to handle her own problems, that they aren't her personal army. When Mamoru speaks, she feels somewhat vindicated by that. She turns to look behind her at the teen versions of her parents for a moment with a curious child stare, because she wants to see what they'll do.

    Becoming a Sailor Senshi didn't completely negate her need for role models, after all.

    When Usagi starts to leave, Chibiusa sticks out her tongue at Lady Bat and follows her away...

    ... only for Sailor Chibimoon to return shortly after. "Yeah, who's really being harmed here aside from the ones who caused the issue to begin with? Or is this just some infighting that you're trying to drag us into?"

Ami Mizuno has posed:
"Mamoru-kun's right. That's an awful lot of problems you've made for yourself." Ami shrugged sheepishly and then turned to follow off after Usagi.

Of course, once she was out of sight it wouldn't take long for Sailor Mercury to join her fellow Senshi. Hands at her hips and brows lifted high.

Sailor Mercury jut her chin a little.

Amanda Faust has posed:
The name is Lady Bat,
    Amy opens her mouth,

the Wings of Love and Pleasure.
    Amy closes her mouth. Looks over Lady Bat. "Hmm." She pulls her phone out of her little crossbody bag and starts looking up Japanese folklore on bats, perhaps forgetting that this is the servant of a rogue Angel who has more of a western Christian mythos thing going on.

    "You're a vampire?" Amy echoes back, with another brief look, not sounding particularly amazed but like 'ah, another piece of information.'

    She does not leave with Usagi, still tapping away at her phone. After things are explained, Amy eventually looks up from her phone again. "That's an interesting choice for a shirt..." She continues scrutinizing the dark general,

    "Well... if you're willing to deal with us instead of make us fight you, that's good, but... if you are the 'wings of love and pleasure', do you really have no powers that could turn the guy off you?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Lady Bat clicks her tongue at how difficult the crowd is being. She would have thought that the mere mention of draining energy would have been enough to get them to jump in wholesale. "Those two demons are not just draining energy, they are also having a slightly polarising effect on the people around them. Would you believe they are at each other's throat over flowers?", she smiles tauntingly.

"Prince of what kingdom, exactly?", Lady Bat lightly presses for information from Mamoru.

Coco doesn't bat an eye to the others leaving and returning privately, and she bites her lips at Lady Bat's offer. She can't really ignore the fact people are getting hurt in the middle of this exchange, or a chance to get more of Seira's heart fragments back.

"Are you offering two because you used them to create your demons?" She cannot imagine Lady Bat could just hand them over if Fuku is monitoring the situation.

Lady Bat doesn't regard her at first, instead scowling bitterly at Amy's suggestion. "He is not doing it out of love, red. He seems to think that's the way to show he is doing a good job, and I can't change his stubborn mind." Besides the fact her magic doesn't actually work that way, but that's not something she particularly wants to go over.

"Yes, those two fragments are all I can give you, so I guess that if you don't want to help, those people will continue to suffer", she remarks, and looks at Sailor Moon. "Is it a surprise? We are trying to reclaim our rights to a paradise. Humans started it", she adds unphased.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Sailor Chibimoon scowls at Lady Bat. She doesn't quite trust her, but there are people who need to be helped. Trying to think about this critically, she wonders if there's a reason why they're being lured away from the campus. At the same time, she can't really ignore the chance to defeat a couple of youma.

    Plus they can't really get anywhere unless they actually try to solve the problem.

    "Okay, fine. Where did you say they were again?" she asks. Her willingness to snark at the enemy can only last so long if there is an actual magical battle to fight.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Elysion," says Mamoru, because that's still true, at least, and so is, "and the Golden Kingdom of Earth, before it was destroyed around the end of the Pleistocene."

He realizes Usagi and Chibiusa ditched him and makes a little mou-face, then waves his hand around. "People fight over flowers all the time. Have you ever heard of the War of the Roses? Anyway I'm sure you'll be able to sort it out. I had to sort out the emu I accidentally let loose in Obsidian Tower that one time, you have to sort out your sea demon. Sorry."

He wanders off in the direction that Chibiusa and Usagi vanished into.

Like a minute later, immediately as Sailors Moon and Chibimoon arrive, Tuxedo Kamen arrives with them. With-ish. He materializes behind them and doesn't say anything.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
The look that Sailor Mercury offered to Mamoru was a slow one. Her fists didn't leave her hips nor did her brows descend their lofty precipice, but her mouth did open and close a couple of times.

The War of the Roses.

She shook her head gently and returned attention to Lady Bat.

"Because there's innocent people at risk we're going to have to intervene, aren't we?" Sailor Mercury's tone was a little bit scolding. "But, we're not going to be doing it for you. I hope that next time you'll think harder before making monsters to do your dirty work for you, otherwise you might find yourself dealing with them all alone."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy nods at Mamoru naming his kingdom. "And Elysion was here before the angels, so kind of rude saying its yours."

    At the claim they're refusing to help people being drained, Amy looks more serious. "You didn't mention the demon was draining people And there's---" She furrows her brow. "Wait. So... one demon drains energy to grow flowers faster, and the other... eats flowers? So that they'll work together to keep draining energy?"

    Amy sighs and holds a hand to her forehead. "Having now seen the timeline where none of this ever happened, I have to wonder... where did this conception that this is *your* paradise come from? As I understand it, the angels showed up like 10,000 years ago and then left. Why'd they leave then if this is their special paradise? And what, exactly, did humans supposedly do?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon sighs in exasperation. "That's about what I thought you were going to say," she grimaces. "Fine! But like Mercury-chan said, we are not doing this for you, we're doing it for all Seira and all those innocent people getting caught in the middle of your mistake."

She's ready to leave when she realizes she doesn't quite know where to go, so they better just follow Coco's lead, instead, and - "Philosophical debate over whose world it is later, monsters causing trouble now!"

This is said with firm looks at Lady Bat and Amy equally - no debates! There are monsters to fight and people to save!

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Elysion? Pleistocene? That's something she should bring up to Michel later, especially if it will be relevant to their situation.

"The water demon set up shop at Pikarigaoka Ward. The other one... That guy will likely show up to protect his food source if challenged", Lady Bat smiles at finally getting everyone's attention on the subject. "Do you want to move your Live Stage away finally?", she presses Coco impatiently.

Coco purses her lips: she could push it along and tell Lady Bat to guide them that way, but letting her free would make the process much faster, and she is not sure she is just not trying to break out of it on her own. Besides they are sorta on the same side for now.

"Show us where it is", the mermaid princess agrees, letting the white light fade away. The dark general doesn't let it be said twice, and she stretches her leathery wings to their full extent, and takes to the air with a flutter. Once free, the dark general seems about to contradict Amy, but Sailor Moon's intervention blocks the history lesson.

Crossing into Pikarigaoka, the group of mahoujin will be able to see that just about every single spot of green has been replaced by flowers and flowers with no end, giving the impression they just entered a floral paradise. A spread of all colours stretches jovially around them, a stark contrast to the tired or angry expressions of the people around them.

"This is your stop", Lady Bat points at a building with flowers in vases with labels resting on the windowsill and hanging from the door. "And this is where I take my leave. Do your best", she leaves right away with a light tone.

Entering the shop causes a silver-haired man with green eyes to turn around eagerly. "Welcom- Oh it's a mermaid princess, and you came with friends", he shakes his head, with an expression as if in mourning.

The clothes and apron he wears vanishes, replaced by a blue and silver getup with flowers that grow straight from the fabric. He doesn't give any more of a warning, and petals appear into the air, sharing their fragranxe with the air.

An abundance of those flies at the three Sailor Senshi, an abundance of obstruct their cause. More etals twist into long sharp needles, a group of roughly tree trick, six of them pointed at Coco, Puella Red and Tuxedo Kamen.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    Chibimoon may not know that much about ancient European wars from another dimension, but she knows Tuxedo Kamen well enough to know when he's trying to get away with lowkey trolling. The future princess does not, however, call him out. The corner of her mouth does not even twitch. Her face is every bit as straight as her parents are not.

    When they do eventually get moving, Chibimoon follows the yellow mermaid princess across town until they get to the amazing flower garden, which apparently exists because of the dark magics of their enemy. She takes a moment to admire the flowers, because it's all very pretty even if she knows they might be a threat.

    When she sees the silver-haired man and hears him call them out on being here for magical business, her Pink Rod appears in her hands. She barely has time to react before now there are petals as sharp as needles flying at her. The smallest senshi dives behind the nearest bench as cover, letting it take the brunt of the piercing petals which perforate it like a pincushion.

    "When a girl says she wants flowers this isn't quite what she means, you know!" she complains from behind her hiding place.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Sailor Mercury is quick on her feet today and the flurry of petals, driving toward herself and her fellow Senshi, are met with lifted arms. Well, not so much the arms as the sprawy of water that accompanies them. Without much warning, the spray turns solid to offer a physical ward against the assault. Icy barriers to catch the floral assault.

Perhaps she's learned a thing or two from watching Jadeite a few times now. Who knows? But, she wasn't about to let some overgrown flower-brain take pot-shots at her friends.

Fingers dipped to the blue stone in her ear, flowing in from the same arm-lifting motion she'd used to summon the Mercury Visor.

"Next to Sailor Jupiter and Zoisite," Mercury quipped. "Your flowers are just tacky!"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
In other circumstances, Sailor Moon would let Amy ask all the questions she has until Lady Bat has no choice but to fly away if she wants to end the conversation... but these are the usual circumstances of a run in with the enemy: a time crunch where people are in danger and need them to come help them.

So she's not especially regretful about the conversation ending and the lot of them having to follow Lady Bat to Pikarigaoka, though the sight of all the endless flowers makes he falter if only because there are so many that they can't even see the leaves and stems anymore, and then they find the shop, surrounded by angry people, and -

"Wah! You didn't even give us a chance to give our speeches!" Sailor Moon dives behind Sailor Mercury's frozen-misty cloud, eyes wide as she takes in the situation, and then she decides -

"There's too many people in danger here - let's change the field! "Moon Space Crystalize!""

Down she goes, hands to her chest, the Silver Crystal's light glowing, and the world changes as the words leave her mouth, the walls of the shop replaced by wooden versions, more akin to building blocks, the flooring soft and giving, and outside, the sky becomes an orange-red watercolor spread, the rest of the buildings in Pikarigaoka becoming plush toy version with floating windows in star and circle shapes.

But the flowers...all of the flowers are still there.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Take your leave? Lazy and a coward, and no curiosity at all," Tuxedo Mask says as Lady Bat leaves, shaking his head judgmentally-- and then the man in front of them ditches his disguise and takes his spot as a Met Gala runner-up, and throws PETAL NEEDLES at them, and he yells, "I was trying to work on getting over the sea phobia today, not the needle phobia!" as he jumps straight up in the air, dodging neatly out of the way. "Lady Bat sent us to kill you because she's just not that into you. Sorry."

He doesn't sound sorry. Instead, the well-dressed masked teenager throws a spray of magic roses at the youma, petals first, all of which explode into petals and glitter on impact with anything, and pack a pretty decent punch where they impact anyway. And then MOON SPACE and Mamoru sends a look of pure :D in Usagi's direction.

"Hey you guys the Earth is cake!" he can't help but share, pointing at the big bright planet hanging in the sky. No one tell him.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy was more interested in getting information than arguing, but she must agree that stopping demons is even more pressing, and nods.

    "Lead the way, miss Bat."

    And there are flowers everywhere. "Kind of reminds me of when whatsername turned everything into sweets, but instead the flowers have taken over..."

    he flowershop proprietor recognizes Coco? Is he the demon? "So, I hear you--Woah!" Amy starts to snark, but then he's launching petal-needles and she doesn't juke to the side fast enough, a petal cutting through her sleeve and nicking her arm with a shallow cut. She looks at her sleeve, a small drop of blood just starting to bead and drip under the cut, and then the wound closes before her usual mahou outfit sparkles into place.

    "So, I hear you have problems listening when a lady tells you she's not interested." A couple of grenades appear in her hand and she lobs them over the counter before tuning sideways to present a smaller profile, hands gripping her cloak in case she can use it as a defense. "I suggest against trying any pollen attacks. It'll just blow us all up, you know?"

    A bluff, since if she thinks it would she obviously wouldn't try to set off such an explosion...

    The world changes. "Oh, dang, nice!" She grabs one of the building blocks out of the wall and yanks it inside to use as cover.


    "Wait, really?" She does look up where Tuxedo Mask is pointing. "What flavor was it, again?"

Coco Kiumi has posed:
"Step out of this, and you can get as many of those flowers as you want", the sea demon replies to Chibiusa, not worried at all about her provocation. "I can even deliver them to you in person with a bow of your favourite colour", he adds earnestly.

"Don't you see how beautiful it was outside? Everyone should be happy about them", he insists to Chibimoon, continuing to assault the bench she is hiding behind with more needles.

Flowers start trying to wrap themselves around Mercury's spray shield and her figure. "I am sad you think so, but this is not a reason for wanting to kill my craft. Any chance you could be convinced to introduce me to them? I am always looking for ways to improve", the water demon asks.

"You have good taste", Seridae tells Moon. "It's a shame that less people can admire them now, but at least all of them are still here." Those same flowers start uprooting themselves and dance around Usagi, following a trance-inducing rhythm that might send the soldier of the moon into a daze.

"My deepest apologies, I will try polling more people instead", the water demon drily gives over the pun to Amy, in all response making a giant pile of flowers appear right above her. Express Delivery.

Taken by surprise by Tuxedo Kamen's attack, Seridae doesn't actually stop it, instead being sent flying to the back by the force of the impact. "What a beautiful attack", he commens with a deep coughing fit, his torn shirt showing grey flesh.

In a small corner of Moon Space, the barrier world starts becoming thinner, and all of a sudden a man with dragonfly wings breaks through a hole that very quickly repairs itself, to a loud groan of the sea demon. "Soptera, not the time. Go away", he says from his prone position.

"Why the cold shoulder, Seridae?", the new arrival chuckles. "I only want to save the warmth of your flowers." The other demon frowns. "I know what you do with them. Stop it."

My mind flies, a persuasive sparkle
that frees, frees me and goes!
Glowing joy, my heart ignites,
magically love will be!
I loosen my sails to the wind of my heart,
you are with me, with me!
Like a caress my thrill already rings.
If love it is, love it will be!

A wave of pain passes over the two demons at the marine melody of sung purification, immediately breaking off their discourse. "What a nasty music", Soptera mutters and holds his head tightly.

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Icy barrier flowed back into water again and Sailor Mercury dove forward. Arms extended as she tucked into a roll, splashing over the puddle of her former defences to rise quickly once more.

It wasn't often that you saw Sailor Mercury moving toward an enemy, she didn't tend to fare too well in closer quarters. However, the fact that Seridae had been similarly fighting from a distance hinted that he, too, was probably not so good up close--and he'd been reeled by Tuxedo Mask's attack already!

Both hands already bore spheres of water, swirling ominously in palms that whipped forward. With very little space between them now, Sailor Mercury unleashed both as a powerful jet of water aimed straight for the florist's chest.

"Shine Aqua Illusion!"

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"Thanks!" Tuxedo Mask calls back to Seridae for the compliment, cheerful. "You know what flowers grow in, though, when they're not growing in, uh, your clothes?" He starts kicking the dancing flowers away from Sailor Moon, then reaches for her, grinning. "Let's do that thing again, from when we blew up the Shed," he says, and gets down on one knee like he's going to propose to his wife all over again. His one hand goes to the soft, strange orange earth-moon-dust ground, digging in between flowers. Oh right Amy asked him--

He looks over, his other hand up offered to Sailor Moon, and he calls, "It's double chocomint cake!"

Oh he asked Seridae something. His attention's on Soptera now, though, especially since Ami's focusing on the guy he rattled. He knows they're having their office romance problems but he doesn't really have patience for them since they're going to kill them all anyway. "Dirt," he says doggedly to Serida still though, answering the question he asked. "You know what my charming wife calls me sometimes when I can only imagine I'm being annoying? Dirt boy."

He pulls energy up from the Earth hard and flings it, and his whole self, into building it into a Soptera-shaped-charge (dohoho) in the ground-- then calls out, ""Moon Spiral Heart Smoking Crater!"

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    "No thanks. I'll pass," calls out Chibimoon, hiding behind a bench that has turned into a plushie bear that looms over her. She looks up feeling somewhat concerned that she might have finally fallen into a Labyrinth only to realize that it's really more of a Momrinth. Honestly she should have expected that by now.

    The pinkette glances over to Moon and Mask for a moment, a bit concerned because maintaining this often leaves Moon vulnerable, but with Mask here to tank hits it's not as much of an issue. So instead, she decides to go on the offensive, especially after Coco's song knocks the enemies off balance.

    Suddenly there's a second enemy. The other youma that Lady Bat warned them about, maybe? Well, Chibs can only open fire at one of them, so she holds up her heart-tipped stick over her head and shouts, "Pink Sugar Heart Attack!"

    The heart beam is fired directly at the florist youma. Which should probably make it very clear that she's not at all grateful for his offer.

    In the meantime, Mamoru is being insufferable again. "Gawd if you love your wife so much why don't you marry her?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Double chocomint? "Really? Cool."

    Amy slumps her shoulders a bit when the demon tries to bribe Chibiusa with flowers. "This is one of those one-track-mind youma we can't reason with at all, huh... He's not even romantically pursuing miss Bat, is he, giving people flowers is just his only purpose."

    She's ready for an attack from the demon's direction, but instead a pile of flowers appears above Amy and she dives out of the way barely in time, some of the flowers still falling on her feet and probably trying to entangle her or something.

    "Oh no you don't!" A blast of burning powder at her feet, as she pulls herself away, then gets her feet under her and stands.

    "I'm sorry that you were created for a purpose your creator doesn't even like, and that drains people's energy."

    She lobs another grenade over the counter, this one shatters into powder and liquid that ignite.

    "We'll put you out of your misery quickly." But... when the songs starts and the Seridae doesn't get up, she instead holds a hand out towards the other one, her pistol appearing in it and rapid-firing homing rounds. "We've got a flier!" After PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW little more than a second, the pistol fades into sparkles and is replaced by her heavier two-handed version as she turns to face Soptera.

    CHUNK CHUNK CHUNK. It makes a very satisfying sound when fired, now, because she wants it to. "Don't listen to him. You were made to consume flowers to live. It's not your fault... but your frustration will be over soon. Let the princess's song be your final lullaby..."

    She keeps firing, hoping that being knocked around by the heavy homing bullets will prevent the newcomer from dodging... Moon Spiral Heart Smoking Crater, apparently!

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
"Look, your flowers are pretty, but you can't hurt people with lovely things! That's just called being toxic!"

Moon Space is still taxing to hold up, but it is no longer singularly draining, in such a way that Sailor Moon can do nothing but maintain it. The world is stable and steady and Sailor Moon climbs to her feet as Tuxedo Kamen knocks the flower shop youma off his own feet. There's something coming this way - she can feel it, as the world opens up to allow entrance to another being, and she calls out a warning: "Someone else is coming!"

The buzzing of wings underscores her words - before long the dragonfly-winged youma has joined the fight, though Coco's song has them briefly stunned, and well...

Why waste a well lined up shot?

She reaches out to Tuxedo Kamen, sliding in close. "Kamen-kun! Let's get him!"

Her power and his - the Moon Stick comes to her hand, growing out to it's scepter-length form, and light blazes in the crescent moon-shaped head. "Moon Spiral Heart Smoking Crater!"

Only after the attack is done does she snicker.

"I really did call you Dirt Boy before."

Coco Kiumi has posed:
The Yellow Mermaid Princess raises her right arm and calls out Aqua Regina's blessing, the bracelet on her wrist shining with white radiance as a halo of yellow light moves downwards from the mermaid princess's head and her clothes change again.

Her left glove now adheres to her arm with a pattern made up of water ripples, while on her left leg a stocking has shown up with the same water ripple pattern, and on her right hand and on her legs a yellow glove and boots with flowy extensions show up.

Bathed in a golden glow, rhythmic pulses of light that give a warm embrace to the pain, soothe all the fatigue and push away the darkness.

"Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Finale!", the mermaid princess smiles gently.

With a continuous melody of sea roar,
With overwhelming feelings,
Closing my eyes tightly...

I'll gather up the messages
Drawn with stardust
And engrave them in my heart
Believing is stronger than anything!

At the apex of the song, purifying hearts fly out in all directions, the reach of a big circle of love that won't end. "Fine Heart Pitch!", she concludes the performance with a serene smile, extremely strong purification burning the dark energy and the one that holds it.

Despite the painful purification of the mermaid princess's serene Melody, Seridae starts slowly rising to his feet when he sees the jet of water Sailor Mercury has readied for him travel fast in his direction. With an extertion of magical energy, petals come to his aid, a shield between him and the Shine Acqua Illusion.

There is a moment when it seems the shield will hold, but in a decisive second, the torrent of water sweeps through them, carrying the petals along back to his creator, forcing him down for good.

And leaving him completely open to the rapid succession of pink hearts by the Pink Sugar Heart Attack, each one of those forcing yelps of pain out of him.

Wherever the hearts touch, any last residue of strength fades away with zero chance to resist against the strength of Chibimoon's Attack, and eventually his weary form becomes thinner and starts fading away.

"I can't do that!", Soptera opposes himself to Amy. "We have created a perfect rhythm of creation and destruction, something that not even Lady Bat intended! I will not fall here!" With a movement of his wings, an invisible sphere of air is forcefully sent towards Puella Red's bullets, but its advance is never completed.

Each one of those bullets tears a hole into the invisible sphere, steadily stopping its path until eventually it collapses onto itself. When he tries to move away with a panicked expression, the last bullets cut off his path, piercing his wings and forcing him still.

The Heart of the Moon Spiral Heart Smoking Crater grows larger and larger the more it absorbs the energy Tuxedo Kamen and Sailor Moon give him, each increase coming with an actual heartbeat sound.

At its apex, the magical heart flies off towards Soptera, burning his dark energy on contact and crushing him so much into the ground it does create a crater, where the dragonfly youma's shape can be seen unmoving.

The two demons fade away in orange sparks, until all that is left of them is two small glowing orbs, that slowly float into the orange shell locket at Coco's neck. "That's two less", Coco smiles relieved, touching the warmer locket.

"Do you want to organise a second wedding for them?", Coco smiles when she hears Chibiusa's reaction.

Chibiusa Tsukino has posed:
    After a torrent of pink hearts, Chibimoon manages to defeat the youma. As she watches the orange light go into Coco's pendant, she pumps her tiny fist in the air while saying, "Yay! We did it!"

    Then to Coco's suggestion, Chibimoon gives her a wide eyed smile. "Yeah let's not give them any ideas. Besides, I think they were planning on doing something like that anyways."

    Small Lady runs up to Tuxedo Mask and tugs on the end of his cape excitedly. "I did it, papa! I beat him up! Look! Did you see?" She smiles up at him widely. Granted it's not as if she was the only one fighting, but she's a child and she's proud of herself so what do you want?

    She looks around for any sign of Lady Bat or anything else and asks, "So... was that all of them? Did we win?"

Ami Mizuno has posed:
Sailor Mercury stared after Seridae as he was washed and barraged with Chibimoon's sugary hearts. Only now did she reply to an earilier request.

Any chance you could be convinced to introduce me to them?

"Absolutely not." The blue-haired senshi asserted, making her way over to stand by Chibimoon with a smile. "You beat him like a dusty rug."

A pause, a deep breath, and she glanced around. "Cafe for drinks and snacks, then?"

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
The two youma go down in flurries of orange sparks that leave a few more pieces of Seira's heart in Coco's possession, all the closer to freeing the orange mermaid princess. That fact earns a bright smile from Sailor Moon, and the slow collapse of Moon Space, leaving them back in the flower shop that had been surrounded by citizens.

"Alright! We beat them, saved the day, got Seira's heart pieces back, and now we just need to persuade Lady Bat to not try that again!"

She doesn't really have hope for that, but it's still the thing they've got to try, isn't it?

"Do we think these people will be okay, or should we try and purify them some...? Coco-chan, your song would be perfect for that."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    "Huh, that was a cool trick." Amy admits, of the air-sphere.

    She smiles slightly as the purifying finishers do their work, and the soul fragments are released. "How many are left?" she wonders aloud to Coco.

    And then Chibiusa being so excited about the victory brings an infectious smile to her face. Awwww! "Good job!" she gives the smol pink a thumbs-up.

    "And thanks again Coco, your music always makes this easier."

    And then Amy wonders: "...Wait, was Lady Bat ever going to talk to us again? One of Michel's servants that would rather talk than fight would be a great chance to get some intel... Although I can't help but wonder if we're being tricked somehow. She made these demons... but what about her own powers? Are they not suited to fighting mahou in combat?"

    The possibility that 'Lady Bat' is a demon trying to get enemies to expect the wrong powerset by pretending the wings mean she's a bat -- much like they might not expect angel powers from a humanoid with bird wings if they seemed bird-themed -- has not escaped her notice.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
"I saw!!" Tuxedo Mask crows, reaching down to pick up and swinghug Sailor Chibimoon, laughing as he squeezes the little girl. "That was epic." While he's hugging Chibimoon he winks at Mercury.

Then he sets her down and laughs at the 'dusty rug' comment. "Sure! I mean -- I'm going home to the air conditioning and taking a shower, but I'll meet you at the cafe after," Mamoru says, brushing pollen off his tuxedo with a wrinkled nose. Then Mamoru dramatically hugs Sailor Moon. While he is hugging Sailor Moon he tells Amy, "Those are excellent questions for the cafe, I think," and he tells Coco, "I didn't know that the youma were actually the heart pieces! I feel much less weird about the interoffice romance problems Lady Bat was having. Everyone, thank you!"

For what? For putting up with the PDA, probably. There's a bright flash of light and Moon and Mask vanish in front of Godoka and everyone.

Coco Kiumi has posed:
Coco looks at the people Sailor Moon has pointed her to. Without the influence of the youmas, It should be gone soon, but it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on them too. "I will be sure to check both here and the other district over, but I think this will be fine!", she smiles.

Coco shakes her head at Amy's questions. "I doubt she would. She only asked us here because Seridae was so much a pain she wanted to get rid of him too. I am sure she will fight us again, just like she did together with Glimmer. She has singing powers too, and they can send you into a trance if you aren't careful."

She smiles at the Puella. "I don't know how many are left, but tou are welcome. Anytime you might need help with your Soul Gem, or with purification, just send a message."

"That sounds like a great idea, I will join you in a second", she replies to Mercury. "Just a quick check of the people who got consumed by them."