For a few seconds Kousuke is surprised at what he sees and he makes no attempt to stop Yuki from breaking away from him. Though he quickly regains his senses, well there had been two reasons for coming up here so he looks through the hole in the ceiling.

Kousuke was surprised at what he sees, but the situation itself wasn’t as terrible as it could be after all wasn’t a hero attack flying from off screen to help out plenty dramatic? “Well ace, do you think you can kick that fireball from up here and catch that monster by surprise? It looks like talking isn’t working and if your skills with a ball measure up to those with that fireball you’ve got my complete confidence.” Kousuke says to Yuki as he returns his attention to the two figures locked in combat.

“In the meantime…” Kousuke begins as he unzips his hoody and takes it off with an excited smile. “Let’s get this party started!” A light golden aura surrounds him and he runs his hands through his hair, slicking it back slightly with sweat and snow.

Kousuke’s unnaturally sure footing on the snowy roof allowed him to spring forward with surprising speed and attempts to lay a finger on Scopio. If he succeeds he shouts “Meteor Smash!” to begin creating a stone casing around the man.

Like-wise, Yuki found herself staring at the scene in front of them. She of course recognized the masked man fighting, but had no clue who his opponent was though he was clearly covenant. When Kishin suggested she attack the ice youma from up here, Yuki looked back down into the theater from the hole in the roof. It would be a mostly vertical shot from here…difficult, but she could do it.

It was strange how this person still acted like he knew her. Yuki supposed he could be some creepy stalker…or maybe he was someone who actually knew her and she was just unable to recognize him. It was an interesting thought, but now was not the time to dwell on such things.

Looking back over at Kishin, it was pretty obvious what he was intending on doing.

”Try not to get in over your head…those two seem like they are in a league of their own,” she warned but made to action to try and stop him. Instead she turned away to face the battle in the theater happening below.

”Just make sure to watch my back,” she spoke, forming a fireball at her feet, but holding back for the moment. She needed to carefully aim and time this attack and would most likely only get one shot at this.

Amarissa's face screwed up in disgust as the sand fell on the youma and its true form was revealed. It was horribly ugly, and quite obviously not human. If there was any doubt before, after seeing the swirling souls, according to the cats which she heard, and the gaping, fanged mouth, there was doubt no longer. Now she understood how it worked. That fanged mouth seemed to be what was causing the storm, and what gave it energy. If the cats were right, the youma ingested souls. Did that mean that if they defeated it those souls, those people, would be saved?

Shaking her head, she realized she didn't have time for all this speculation. She began darting about, trying to keep moving as she realized that they now were being affected. Venus got stuck to the floor, and even after seeing the monster's true form, was still pleading with it to stop. Amarissa didn't get the hint because she was still acting too much like she wanted to protect it.

She dodged the spike from the youma just in time, then quickly moved behind the youma. She needed a plan. Amarissa thought if she could just get an arrow in that mouth it might help, but the youma wasn't distracted enough. Amarissa began inching backwards, into the shadows at the back of the stage where she hoped the youma couldn't see her.

Coming to a place where she could see it, but was almost sure it couldn't see her, half hidden behind the curtain and in the darkest corner of the stage, Amarissa again raised her bow. She whispered her power words and aimed at the mouth belly button.

Kail was pissed off that the youma could teleport. As it seemed like they only had that cheap trick to get out of the way. He stop's his attack after it missed and jumped back a bit to be in front of Sailor Moon. As he was trying to plan out his next attack he sees a massive amount of sand fall on to the ice woman. Watching it as it stripped the youma of his human form. The creature was totally and utterly disgusting.

Then it shot up in power as the storm intensified and frost was slowly appearing on him. This went from bad to worse and he had to think of something. As he was though saw Venus get stuck within the ice. Since it locked her legs in and Kail was about to move until Artemis desided to take one for the team in a way. Silently was thankful for that situation as it would wake Sailor Venus up to reality of things.

Kail gets away and jumps back several times and then side steps to the left getting out of the blast range. He sees Sailor Moon hiding away in a position to snipe the enemy with her attack. Turning back to the creature he sees the weak point of the youma as the belly mouth had something swirling around it. His eyes take another quick scan and watches Venus get some sand into her hands.

Then watches her performance on trying to get the youma distracted. He keeps a poker face on as he charges up his sword with flames and was going to combine his attack with Sailor Moon's. He would launch his attack when Sailor Moon fires off her bow attack.

The youma could feel the strain building up. The storm was going out of control and she needed to do something quickly or she was going to run out of power. While Killian was on the other side of the room and Moon was repositioning, she noticed Sophia desperately holding some kind of hope out for redemption. She was defenseless.

She would do.

Approaching her, she began to kneel towards her and opened her mouth to try to seduce the Venus Senshi, but the youma abruptly found herself with a face full of sand, and an arrow in the gullet from Sailor Venus.

"...You little b..." the youma starts, raising a hand to strike her, but finds herself struck by an arrow from Sailor Moon in the neck and a sword blow from Killian she spins around utterly stunned by the barrage of attacks...moving about twenty feet away in a stagger, but the heat begins to rise as a fireball ends up launching at her, accelerated by gravity causing an explosion from above, engulfing the youma in flames.

When the dust settles, the youma lay on the ground, seriously wounded. The attacks hitting it all at once caused her to lose all capacity to fight, the youma can barely even move. Meanwhile the singing stopped...however the blur of souls in her body still existed, not returning to their owners yet. The storm however subsides...as the violent snowstorm begins to fade from the air.

On the roof, Scorpio looks up as the storm begins to fade...a moment's distraction allowing Kishin to make physical contact as stone tries to encase around him. He glares at Kishin and releases a bolt of energy at him point blank which would likely blow him back several years. The stone magic struggles to take hold against the dark aura of energy,..however the stone distracted him enough that the masked man was able to sidestep and use a strong, overhead attack which forced Scorpio to leap away.

The attack only clips Scorpio, landing on his lower back and slashing down to his upper right leg, staggering to land from his disengage, near where Kishin landed after being knocked away, but facing away from the Earth Knight, looking at the one that Scorpio considered more dangerous.

As the storm stops and distracts the man Kishin realizes that this is his chance. He plants his foot and launches forward beginning the Earth magic. However, he isn’t fast enough to avoid the energy attack and Scorpio is successful in blowing him back a ways.

“Shit, that hurt.” He curses under his breath as he starts to force his way to his feet. And seeing the creature flailing to land in his general directions he softly says “Meteor Smash.” When he does a sharp stone spear appears in his hand, and as the enemy gets up to deal with the other masked man, turning its back on Kishin. He thrusts forward with all of his might aiming to spear it through the heart.

Sophia smiles as her plan works. She is somewhat impressed by the other senshi and knights and their abilities. They seemed so much more capable than her at this. She wiggles herself free of the ice and scoops up Artemis. “Sailor Moon, think you can do your purification ability on her?” she asks her teammate as she pets her animal companion. “After we finish up here, we should probably join the rest of them on the roof.”

She looks back at her injured friend. “I am sorry. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt…” she says to him. Almost like second nature, she says the words “Heart to heart, restoring embrace” as she hugs the creature. Sending feelings of warmth and companionship, she transfers some of her own energy to heal the cat’s wound. However, the whole thing feels leaves her feeling a little more tired and in somewhat in need of a nap at some point.

Amarissa was surprised, happy, and impressed with Venus's sneak attack. She watched as all their attacks hit the youma one after another. The timing was perfect and left the youma motionless on the floor. Smiling, she lowered her bow and walked over to stand above the youma. "I think that could be arranged," she said in answer to the other senshi's request. "Let's see what you're really made of." she said to the youma.

Amarissa kneeled down, placing one hand on the youma's head and one on her chest. "Pure Soul!" she intoned. A bright, silver white light shown from her hands, seeming to shine and seep into the youma. Her next plan was to find a way onto the roof to see about helping Kishin but that would wait until after she watched whatever reaction the youma had to her purification.

As soon as Yuki saw the other attacks hit and the youma stagger back she knew she had her moment. After she launched her fireball, it appeared as though the attack landed and the youma laid defeated. The blizzard even begins to subside much to her relief. Sailor Mars now turned to the next pressing battle currently happening on the roof. Kishin had just gotten knocked back and it appeared as though he was getting up for more.

Even for Yuki this seemed somewhat reckless. Unfortunately she wasn’t sure how much damage she herself could do without getting Kishin or possibly the other masked man caught in a fiery explosion. She had some hand to hand combat experience, having taken a few judo classes when she was younger, but somehow Yuki felt like that might not be enough to help out in this situation. It seemed as though she was the only senshi/guardian who didn’t wield some magic weapon. For now she would once again wait for an opening, taking a ready stance in case the enemy tried to go for her.

"Whoever you are, you're outnumbered!" Mars thought to say, hoping that this might distract and dissuade the enemy from further attacking Kishin.

Kail was grinning from ear to ear as there attacks landed the youma. Even though deception was, it was a win for there team. He sheath's his sword and walks towards the youma. The thing that got him was that his senshi counterpart had gotten into the mix. Looking down, Kail sees that the monster was down and defeated. "I have no issues with you trying to do a purification on her. She has been defeated " he said and was fine with that as they defeated the creature in combat.

He then turns to Sailor Moon and Venus "If you will excuse me, battle awaits me above" Kail said and then takes a quick look and spots the stairs. "Unless you want me to stay here until your ready to go above" he said but was worried about the knight and Sailor Mars above them. Since they were fighting something really strong above them on the roof.

As Moon's purification power locks on, the youma begins to write and scream in agony, but a moment later, an overbearing sense of peace. She fades away into nothingness, mouthing something that vaguely resembled 'thank you' at the end of it. The youma ceased to be in any sense of form, and what was left of the storm faded away into nothingness, actually letting the sun shine a little behind the clouds.

Artemis meanwhile, healed, kinda falls over momentarily, then stands up and blinks, looking up and folding his ears back.

"...Something worse is up there." he remarks.

Upstairs, Kishin would feel an incredibly disorienting pressure around his body and his body feeling a 'rubberband' effect as his strike against Scorpio happened not once, but three times within the exact same instant, the wounds inflicted appear slightly off. The first one centered, and the following two slightly more vertical. At the end of it, Scorpio begins to bleed a profoundly acidic blood that was purple, howling and screaming in pain.

Nazo was meanwhile standing with his hand a green glow, staring not at Scorpio, but Kishin behind the mask. Scorpio's blood causes the stone weapon to dissolve, and he stumbles away, coughing and hacking.

"...You...damn...CHILDREN! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" he shouts, as an extremely powerful purple energy begins to radiate around him, pushing Kishin back ten feet as the wound starts to close, but just as suddenly, he disappears, leaving an eerie calm on the battlefield.

Feeling his arm snap back and forth several times, stabbing the strange man several times Kishin recoils a bit. “What the hell was that?” He wondered aloud as he gets to his feet. Then when the youma back up he throws the remains of his fading spear at it. However the spear only hit empty air as the enemy’s form vanishes.

"I should have made a bigger spear." Kishin grumbles as he turns towards Mars and smiles “Thanks for helping to distract him Ace.” He says and then walks over and grabs both the masked man and Mar’s arms as he hops back down through the hole, absorbing the impact from landing for all three of them.

“Alright everyone! Gather up!” He shouts, keeping his grip Mars and the man. “I think we should all introduce ourselves, then we can at least get some inkling as to what’s going on. I assume you are the other knights and senshi?”

The youma’s piercing scream seems to bother Sophia, but any doubt leaves her mind as the youma mouths the word Thank you. The return to bitter cold as opposed to apocalyptic cold relieves Sophia as this was end of that battle. She pets Artemis a few times before saying, “Alright, let’s join the others on the roof.” But the others jump down as soon as she says that.

Everyone seemed accounted for with a senshi, the masked knight, and the creepy-looking masked guy from earlier. The masked knight seemed to have been roughed up a little. “Yeah. Sailor Venus.
The youma downhere has been defeated. But what was going on up here? Is it over? Are you hurt?” she asks the masked knight. She was already a little tired from healing Artemis, but she had enough energy to heal some moderate wounds. She looks at the creepy looking masked guy, “I am guessing you were one of the people fighting up here before any of us got here, so thank you for helping. But if you don’t mind me asking, who are you?”

As Kousuke made the move to grab the man, he had disappeared an implosion, appearing on the bottom level, sitting on a rafter as his ferret returns to him, crawling up and onto his shoulder. The ferret makes slight happy sounds, but the masked man just faces the ground boredly.

"Damn...I was hoping we would have taken him out when he wasn't as serious...oh well, I guess I was being too optimistic to think we could wipe out Scorpio in a quick battle.." he says with a dark chuckle.

"Earth, to respond to your first question, I multiplied your attack on Scorpio for lack of a better term. To use that technique on myself is difficult in a combat situation, but I saw an opportunity when you made your move...don't ask me to explain how it works. It's complicated. As far as your inquiry goes Venus, I am the one who does what must be done...nothing more, nothing less."

Amarissa falls from her kneeling position to sit flat on the floor, sighing. Her blue eyes looked tired and she was cold, visibly shivering a bit, but a satisfied smile rested on her face. She gives Kishin a slight questioning look, tilting her head a bit to her right "Do you mean introduce ourselves like this, or as our normal selves?" she asked.

"Thank you everyone for helping with this evil. It's not the first, and it won't be last. Any questions or doubts about what we're up against need to be settled now. Another battle like this, with everyone on opposing moral ground and not co-operating just might get us injured or worse," Amarissa says, her voice quiet but strong as she looked around at all the others.