Amarissa didn't mean for the identity issue to really be brought up like this, and she sighed and pinched the bridge on her nose as Killian and Kish went a round. Surprise lit her features though when Sailor Venus revealed herself to be Sophia. Sweet, innocent Sophia. Hm. Actually, that made perfect sense giving Venus's obvious anguish when dealing with the youma. Shaking her head, she relaxes as Kishin apologizes but then does a mental facepalm when he insists on hiding and then uses her words as an excuse. "Ok guys, I don't really care about the identity thing. Really, that is your choice and as long as it doesn't affect our work as a team then no one should care," she stated, hoping that would close the issue.

A moment later a crash came from a nearby tree, though, and Amarissa jumped a little. Then burst out into laughter, not often heard, her voice ringing like soft bells in the empty park. "Welcome Valdis. You know, when Sophia called you, I didn't really expect you'd show up. Or quite so quickly. Looks like Nazo's playing games with you," she chuckled a bit. Then remembered the last conversation with Nazo. "Sophia is right. Nazo told us we have to look for the Silver Crystal. Once we find it, it's power should draw out the Silver Princess, the only person who can use. Apparently, it has the power to get rid of the Covenant, their power source, and restore the Earth to the way it was before." she explained a bit on the subject.

After the arguments and comments with the whole identify thing, Mars simply sighed. It had been a long day and she was too tired to get worked up over the issue.

”Look, I showed up this way because I still have doubts about this group. But if it makes you feel better…” Without making a big deal about it, Yuki de-transformed, reverting back into her normal clothes. She had come from her class at the gym along with what transpired after so she was wearing black sweatpants along with her red winter jacket and a black beanie hat. She then crossed her arms before looking at the group.

”I never asked for this. I don’t think any of us did. If any of us don’t want to fight, I don’t think they are obligated to,” she glanced briefly over towards Sophia. Sweet, cute Sophia…if there was anyone Yuki didn’t want to get caught up in this mess it was probably her. ”That being said, I think we’re all being way too serious. If we don’t relax a little bit, the tension in this group won’t go away, and we’ll never feel comfortable working with one another.” When it came to teams and working together, Yuki certainly knew what she was talking about. As if in response to this, Valdis then suddenly appeared in nothing but a pair of pants and a bra.

”Huh? Mortimer? How’d you get here….” Yuki said with a dumbfounded look on her face. She was definitely not expecting that.

Kail felt like a ass for what he said but he was human and was going to make mistakes. So yeah he was not the perfect hero or use to working with others a lot but he was trying. "Sorry, Nobody wrote a guideline for superheros. Or other things of that nature so I am gona make mistakes" he said as his face had a very apologetic look to it and was quite heartfelt. But none the less it broke the ice somehow although he would make it up to both Sophia and Yuki. But with Kishin though he knew that things were going to be rough between the two. He hears about the Silver Crystal and a Princess that cought his attention from Kail as the name of Nazo was mentioned and then Valdis showing up in sweatpants and a bra. Although Kishin handed over his jacket to her and was coming over to him. Well he was late to the party in some degree.

"Well what do we know so far, Did Nazo give any hints or any information to look for this crystal or princess" said Kail as he just wanted to push through his mistake and hopes that those around him could see past his mistakes. He waves over Valdis to sit down next to him with and get warm with his pet fox Aya. Kail was still thinking that he hoped that the others in the team would accept him. Since it felt like though that he would be working alone a lot for some reason.

Sophia smiles at Valdis, “Well, you certainly got here quick. But I am glad that you did. So do you have Nazo's phone number or a way to contact him? That would be useful..."

Yuki being Sailor Mars was a shock. Just how many of her friends were senshi and knights anyways? Artemis did mention that the senshi and knights would be drawn to each other. However, she guesses that means holding some kind of division between her personal and senshi life was really a meaningless task anyways. “Don’t worry about the identity thing. I really should have revealed earlier. And you are doing great at the superhero thing,” she tells Kail.

As Yuki glances to her about not being obligated, Sophia looks a little hurt. Was she really not wanted? Besides, she was obligated. They all were from the moment they accessed their powers. “While I believe that I need to be here, I also want to be here. Supposedly, we are necessary for fixing the world, and I wouldn’t want to let anyone down. And I do want to help.”

“Nope. Nazo didn’t have any details to aid in the search. Just sort of said that we had do it. I was wondering if anyone else had any suggestions as to where to start because I am stumped on that one.”

"Silver Crystal..." Luna says, wistfully thinking for a moment as she sits up and looks at Amarissa intently whens he said those words. There was something vaguely familiar about that term...something in the back of her mind that she couldn't just pull to the surface. Artemis had an equally puzzled expression on his face, and to anyone who was watching the pair of mau would know their gears were working trying to pull something out. Then a light of realization manifests in Luna's eyes as she bounds forth.

"Of course! The Silver Crystal! How could I forget about that...yes...Queen Selenity used it long ago to reverse the terrible damage that the Dark Kingdom had inflicted upon her kingdom...her kingdom was nearly destroyed when she used the Silver Crystal, her ultimate tool, to revive her fallen daughter and loved ones and send them to a different time where they could live happily..." Luna says, her voice dropping off a little at the end. At this point, the white cat spoke up a little.

"...Yeah...she'd be really disappointed in us...I'm still not sure what happened that caused us to go under, but we were supposed to reawaken the senshi long ago to fend off the Dark Kingdom...chances are they are one and the same with your Covenant...I suppose running unopposed for three decades would allow them to get this far..." Artemis says, suddenly going from a goofy, lovable mascot to a serious and slightly down animal.

Valdis couldn’t help but let out a whee as they dropped from the tree, she loved thrill rides. So there was just a large grin on her face when they landed. As she was put on her own two feet she shivered, it was freezing without her shirt and she was pretty sure her hair was forming icicles. She gladly borrowed the jacket and slipped it on; zippering it quickly. A sigh of relief escaping her lips;

”Thank you, your forgiven for leaving me out in the middle of the woods blind now”

She may not have been able to see what he looked like before but she recognized the voice. Valdis turned to the others raising an eyebrow when she spotted Ama….was her whole class full of freaking sailors. She turned back to the one who’s shirt she was wearing.

”Do I know you to? Ama, Little Mouse, Pushy Cat, Kail, and Lucky charms all are apart of this mess…speaking of Lucky why is she not with this lovely group? Someone should fetch her…NAZOOOooooo I nnneeeeeedddd YOooou again”

She looked a bit odd calling out to thin air but hey worked the first time.

”If he answers then that’s how you contact him, if he doesn’t well you should whap corners with blunt objects and see if you hit something….”

Seriously she was wondering if this was the purifying bath all over again. Valdis sauntered over to Kail when he waved her over gladly sitting next to him and cuddling up.

”Why hello my knight and flaming armor, why didn’t you invite me to this get together sooner? Although I did like the surprise call from Little mouse, Little mouse I applaud you for obtaining my number without my knowledge, you became a little more interesting”

Valdis remained quiet as they talked about some princess and crystal…she had no clue what they were talking about but then noticed the two cats.

”Oh look take out, but that’s beginning to fill in the pieces of the puzzle that I’m missing. As for the senshi you were suppose to awaken they are still around, one of them is running a shrine. But you really can’t remember what made you go under? Do you have any idea of how you two ended up at the military base?”

Her expression was serious; they had been held at the military base to the point where Nazo had to intervene to release them. Obviously something was wrong there.

”Honestly I think the first step for all of us is to find the connection that the military has to all of this. Along with milking Nazo for all the information he’s worth; he seems to know a lot and is only telling each pieces.

She curled her knees up to her chest, her bare feet resting on the bench.

”Don’t you find it strange? Chinese Dumplings over here were held by the military for years, japan remains relatively free of Youma for years while the rest of the world is swarmed by them, and there leaders start showing up casually. I wonder how the covenant plans on crushing us… they obviously have something up there sleeve considering the obelisk in sapparo is just a backup.”

Valdis just fully jumped into the conversation, making herself apart of the group without really an explanation to why she was there.

This was the first time Yuki had heard about this whole Silver Crystal thing. She almost couldn’t believe that something so powerful actually existed. Even if it was true, none of them seemed to have any idea on how to look for it. Yuki wasn’t exactly an idea kind of person in the first place.

Then Valdis started explaining how the cats were supposed to awaken other senshi but somehow went under and ended up in a military base.

”Wait what?” It took Yuki’s brain a moment to process that last bit of information.

”What does the military have to do with this?” She was confused for a moment, but after watching and listening to Valdis, Yuki couldn’t believe it.

”Ok now your just talking conspiracy theories. I mean yeah Japan has faired relatively well compared to the rest of the world, and I may not be all that smart when it comes to these sorts of things, but how exactly does that help the covenant? If they wanted to take Japan they would have done so already, but we’re more isolated and only have one far off obelisk. What proof do you have to support that anyway?”

They were fair questions. Valdis couldn’t expect to make such claims and expect others to believe them without actual evidence. Even if the talking cats had been found at a military base, they couldn’t jump to conclusions based on that fact alone.

When Killian apologizes Kishin simply smiles and shakes his head. "Nah don't worry about it, we've all got our own way." Then he makes a flowing motion with one hand that passes under his other arm. "Water under the bridge." Then he looks at Val with a quirked eyebrow and waves his hand. "If you want to try and use influence and stuff to get info from the military have at it, but I won't be any help. I'll keep an eye out for this crystal when I roam the city though. Who knows maybe it's hidden on top of a building or something."

Amarissa shakes her head at Kishin. "Nazo made it sound like it was hidden, not just laying out in the open. Likely it's disguised as something else even," she said as she was still thinking about what Valdis had said. It made so much sense, but Yuki had a point too. "Yuki's right Val. How do we know for sure that's all true? Aside from the abduction of the cats, which Nazo also confirmed. Still, it would explain a lot. Nazo said the Covenant is likely the same as the Dark Kingdom which caused the fall of the Kingdom on the moon so many years ago. If they knew about the senshi, have fought them in the past perhaps, and Nazo said they were drawn to the energy that senshi emit even when not awakened....Then it's entirely possible that they sensed us here and planned accordingly," Amarissa reasoned, looking around at every one. It was a crazy theory but if it were true, it would explain a lot of things, fill in a lot of missing pieces. "Kishin is right about one thing. We need more information. I'm not sure how much the military really knows about what's going on, but we need to find out," she finishes.

Finding the military connection… The idea of trying to get answers from the JSDF seemed impossible, and a little frightening to Sophia. “Well, if they were held here in Japan, the most likely base would be the one in Chuoku… However, I am going to tell you as someone who lives there, it is a highly secure area. Honestly, I can imagine getting in and out of it without teleportation or clearance. In addition, they could of also been held close to Sapporo. Never been there, but I imagine you probably couldn’t get within a few miles without being stopped. All that makes probing for answers a little difficult.”

She pauses for a few seconds with a thought, before verbalizing it to the group. “The JSDF isn’t the only military presence in this area as well. The US military is here as well. Which means that is another thing to investigate and explore.”

“Honestly, I don’t want to do anything that will bring me in to conflict with my parents. Father’s a colonel and mother’s a commander in the US military. And that isn’t immunity. Honestly, if we start looking suspicious, I’m probably the first to get detained… So unless you have a good plan for doing this, my plan is to play dumb for as long as I can.”

“While I rather not believe the military isn’t on the up and up, I trust Nazo not to lie to us. I don’t think that would serve him much of a purpose anyways.”

“However, I don’t think investigating how much the military knows about us or the cats will really get us to our end goal here. Unless they have the crystal, we should just avoid them all together. They’re dangerous either way really. Just because we have been killing youma, doesn’t mean we aren’t still super suspicious. We seem to know where every Covenant attack is, and are always on the scene way before the military arrives. I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t trying to hunt some of us down.”

Killian turned to Valdis and shrugged as it might have skipped his mind as he did not know if Val was a Senshi. But her regenerating abilities had shown to him and figured that she had some special power. It did raise a question if she was a senshi that was not awakend. But none the less he stayed silent until Valdis and Amarissa dropped bombs on top of him. Perhaps a bit too much information for him to digest into one sitting and Kail gets up and places Aya where he was orginaly sitting. He then starts passing back and forth going over the information like a plot that he was going over and writing. "The Military had the cats locked up? And there were other senshi that were ment to be awakend earlier then now? Or even what has happened in the past. These cats can't remember anything ...accept things that might recollect if we say the right words.....and we are dealing with something dealing with Lunarians? Ugh not enough clues..." he thought and was trying to make some sort of sense of everything.

But there main goal was to get knowlage from the military somehow and his sub idea was to do some research on lores. "Uh look I'll ask about a quick catch up on the info later. Since I have missed out on a lot here, Maybe we should perhaps find someone that might listen to our case within the military. And maybe make him or her our ally. It would have to be someone that we might have encountered and might have given there names. If we could make them our ally and maybe they could get the intel for us. Then we trying to get into a military base. Again this could backfire but its our best option at the moment" he said finaly facing the group as he was unsure of his idea but they had to start somewhere. He then turns to the cats and has a pondering look and was thinking of something. And goes with a massive hunch since a few things were adding up to him in some way. Artemis the white cat was named after the goddess for hunters and her symbol was the moon. Luna was latin for the female pronoun for the moon. Which latin was based off of greek language so he had to take a big guess.

"Luna and Artemis do these names sound familure to you? Endymion or Selene ring a bell for you " he asked and would have been a off the wall question for the two cats and the group. But his real mother told him a lot of greek myths and stories when he was a young child. So these things were something he would remember always in some way or another. If the cats remembered either of these two names then he would hit the jackpot.

It was kind of surprising for her that she was accepted into the conversation so easily. After all she was just poofed there, and as far as she knew her own abilities were kept on the down low…Even Kail only knew about her regenerating abilities, never mind the other ones. Valdis listed to Yuki patiently; the reaction was one she wasn’t surprised by.

”Conspiracy theory or not it’s a place to start looking when you had none is it not? If it proves unfruitful then we can at least take pride in being thorough. If we do find something then it’s a good thing we looked because the thought of any part of the military being in on it is a scary one. As for how it helps the covenant that would be something we need to find out; because it’s obvious without you guys popping up they could wipe the military out. You did how ever hit on something Pushy Cat, if the covenant wanted to take over Japan then they would have, but they haven’t and THAT is something that needs to be looked at… and most obvious place to start looking for answers is in the people who have been fighting them this whole time.”

Valdis was slightly disappointed when Mr Road Runner skipped over her question; she did wonder if she knew him or not. But she would have to ponder that later; conversation was a bit to serious for that. Valdis looked back over at Ama and shrugged.

”We don’t know it’s true, but it fits the puzzle a little too well to be ignored as a possibility. You guys were wondering where to start so I gave you one. The military seems to be a good starting point for finding much needed leads.”

Valdis paused taking in the information Ama just gave, dark kingdom? She would have to ask Ama more later on it.

”I’m not sure of what this Dark Kingdom is, but Nazo our dear little source of information told me that the senshi were never awakened in the first place hence you guys got the powers. He hinted that someone from the original timeline, the one where the senshi woke up thirty years ago, went back in time to prevent them from awakening….These cats seem to be the key to your awakenings; which didn’t start happening until they were freed from the military.”

Everything so far lead back to the damn military. Val was happy to see more then a few of them agreed with her. She knew what she was asking was risky as hell but the end results if they didn’t act was worse. Suddenly her source of heat and the prop she was leaning on jumped up. She flopped onto her side in a curled up fetal position blinking. He had been warm. Valdis pouted. She sat up once more and allowed Little Mouse to make her points. They were valid ones. Then Kail made his points as well.

”I understand there are risks; ones that we can’t take with out a plan. Which is why we’re going to have to come up with a good one…I agree with you little mouse to avoid conflict or looking suspicious with your parents… All of you should avoid asking about the military in your civilian forms, play dumb, its your best defense. If I may make a suggestion, you may take it or leave it but I think you should really only investigate while in your other forms. You have Nazo who can teleport and cloak himself so he’s invisible, trust me I know, You’ve got the amazing jumping bean here who’s as fast as the freaking flash. You got the flaming hero over here who could probably be used as a good way to distract or burn away any evidence if need be. Ama you’ve got an arrow that literally can BLIND people; the others I haven’t a clue what you guys can do but I’m sure you guys could make a formidable team if ever caught. But as Little Mouse said that route is best left alone.”

She paused.

”Jumping bean is right though, out of all of you it would make the most sense for me to dig around at this lead….that is if you trust me to do so. My father already knows I’ve been involved at some of the attacks…and the first one at the park where you popped up Ama wasn’t my first time. So it’s not that odd for me to be keeping track of it. At least if I’m subtle enough. Plus if either one of you are caught that is one less fighter. Most I can do in a battle is be Youma bait and a good distraction. So If I’m caught and detained you guys can pretty much carry on with so much as a pause.”

Obviously they trust her to some degree, after all they decided to include her in on this little meeting…although it was most likely due to Little Mouse’s part.

”Kail also has a good idea; if you did go about in your normal forms try befriending someone in the military. Its amazing what might turn into a lead from a side comment from a random conversation. The more connections the better. Another suggestion for those who don’t want to go poking around the big guns I suggest joining the Paranormal club. They investigate random paranormal sittings that every now and then turn up to be something.”

Really they didn’t have much to go on so any start was a start.

The two cats had been following along, Luna looking distressed at the mention of the military having kept them from doing their jobs. Her tail puffed up reflecting her annoyance as her eyes narrowed a little.

"...Who would have known though that we were meant to awaken the senshi in the past? There is no known record of the Moon Kingdom or the Dark Kingdom. Something feels very wrong..." Luna says, while Artemis nods in agreement.

"We're already late and the Dark Kingdom has the lead, we have to find the silver crystal as soon possible..." Artemis says, whom is then entranced for a moment when Killian mentions Selene and Endymion. The word Selene meant little, but Endymion...yes. The cat hangs his head low as the neurons start to fire up and reconnect, and he looks up.

"..Endymion, the prince of the Earth who was betrothed to the daughter of the Moon Kingdom's queen. The prince whom's closest generals and friends betrayed him...only to follow a jealous sorceress whom was envious of Endymion and the Princess' happiness. Ones who led a terrible horde of youma to destroy the Moon Kingdom, and nearly succeeded in killing everyone to plunge the world into darkness.." Artemis says calmly.

"...Only Queen Selenity and her use of the Silver Crystal saved humanity then." Luna starts, picking up where Artemis had left off."She brought to bear the full power of the Silver Crystal to drive back the Dark Kingdom, and reincarnate her loved ones and even her enemies in a different time, to give them a happier life. Yet somehow the sorceress regained her power, and started the process anew...and this time she's been bending the Earth itself to her will, without the Moon Kingdom to get in the way." Luna says, then walking to the middle of the group.

"I remember now...the Silver Crystal was fragmented then in order to seal seven powerful youma whom were the mightiest of the Sorceress' minions and the champions of her army...seven shards that reflect the colors of the rainbow. The Queen even gave them a chance to live a peaceful life, ever forgiving until the end and beyond..." she says, the crescent mark glows upon her head, causing a white sparkle and flash to manifest in the shape of a wand...hovering in a shell of magical power.

"This was an object of power that the Queen used to magnify the power of the Silver Crystal, it can also be used to locate the shards in the world.' Luna says, looking at the group patiently while Artemis watches, slightly envious of Luna's ability to pull items out of hammerspace.

“If you all think investigating a military is a good idea, I suppose I will go along with it…” Sophia says. “Occassionally, the base holds events for family and stuff. You can come along as guests if you like. And if someone stops you from poking around the base, you can say that you wanted to visit me. I live at…” She could try to help somewhat at least. And maybe questioning her own family would prove useful if she could figure out a way to do it.

She listens to Artemis and Kail talk about real life mythological figures. “I think I am as much surprised that you know those greek mythology figures as that the name Endymion actually meant something.”

She smiles as Luna says she can locate the crystal. “Great! How long will it take you to find the shards?”

Amarissa listens quietly to all of this. Everyone having good points, which made it difficult. Poking around too much in the military would draw unwanted attention and right now their identities were probably the only thing keeping them from being caged somewhere like the cats. "We can try exploring the military angle, but we need to be very careful. They're suspicious already. Our split identities are the only things that stand between us and a cage somewhere," she says, her tone quiet and serious.

Hearing the cats speak up, she turns to face them and surprise lit in her eyes at the mention of shards. "We have to find seven? Not just one? That makes sense though, I guess. If it was the only way to save her kingdom." she watches as Luna manifests a new wand. "This can help us find it? Interesting, but great!" she says as she reaches forward. "May I?" she asks.