flameandpassion | 43 [Accidental Video]

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43 [Accidental Video]

[The PCD is thrown, tossed aside, and it catches the last moments of Hino Rei's transformation into Sailor Mars. The flames and fire fall away to reveal the senshi of passion and war, her gloved fingers curled into fists as she stares, trembling with unreleased fury, at a large boulder, far in the distance.

Fire engulfs her hand as she reaches up to pull back her bow.]

Mars Flame Sniper!

[The arrow rockets from her fingers and, in the distance, a burst of flame -- it has hit its mark.

Without hesitation, Mars goes again.]

Mars Flame Sniper!

[Again, the arrow hits, and again, fire spreads from Mars' fingertips.]

Mars Flame Sniper!

[The boulder is now no longer there -- demolished during the second round of attack -- but the senshi doesn't seem to care.

She's beginning to grow winded, but snarls out the command regardless, the bow forming brighter than before -- ]

Mars -- Flame -- Sniper!

[The arrow flies from her fingertips, but the aim is off -- it sinks into the ground, skidding along the snow, creating a near tidal-wave of steam and water as the flames melt the ice. She stumbles backwards, her legs quivering with the effort, before she sinks to her knees in the snow, her fingers digging into the ground as she, finally, allows herself to cry.]

ooc: Cloud lost his memories, which makes for a seriously upset Sailor Mars.

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[A snort. He'll have to disagree with you there, Hino. Some people just should not exist.]

Then what are you worried about?

[She snorts to herself with a smile, shaking her head a little. Someone has to be optimistic for you, Hitsu.]

I don't even know. Everything and nothing.

[She rubs her eyes with a gloved hand, only now embarrassed at the display.]

I'm afraid of this place and I hate it.

Then beat it.

[It's like something Kurosaki would say. Or dare he say it, Uzumaki. But sometimes a situation just calls for that ridiculous, blunt logic that can't be argued with no matter how much a person shoves common sense into its face.]

[She stares at him for a long moment because... well, quite frankly, that's her kind of logic. The devil-may-care 'I laugh in the face of danger' screw-this-it's-going-to-work kind of bravado that got her foot in the door when trying to figure out how to get inside the Inner City.

Her lips twitch for the barest second before she snorts into laughter.]

Right.

[Well, if she can still laugh like an idiot, then there's hope yet.]

Are you finished then, or do you need more time to reshape the landscape?

[There's always hope. You just need to search for it sometimes.

At least Usagi is here. If she weren't here, it would be so, so, so much worse.]

I don't know yet. Want to help me?

[A pause. Well, he doesn't have anything else too important planned today.]

It couldn't hurt.

Nothing but a few trees, anyway.

That's what they're there for.

[Spoken in all seriousness.]

I'm pretty sure things live in them, Toushirou, they're not there just to be blown up.

[A huff.]

You're still going to blow them up.

[Fire appears in her palm.]

One or two, maybe, but that isn't what they're there for.

Get on with it.

I'm waiting for you. Stop being so slow.

[But if you insist. Ladies first and all that. Mars looks a little irritated with the scorch mark on the ground -- her aim is normally flawless -- but that tree in the distance could be charcoal.

So she lets it fly with a soft exhale, after the barest moment of aim.

It isn't with the same desperation as before -- whatever anger that had been there is now gone with her outburst.]

[He is not slow! He is the opposite of slow! Shut up, Hino!

But despite his irritation, once she fires the arrow, he holds up his right hand, index finger pointing at another helpless tree.]

Hadou 4: Byakurai.

[You are totally slow. Look at how slow you are.

She steps backwards involuntarily at the display, blinking at the burst of energy.

Mars is now successfully distracted.]

-- that's only number four?

[He makes up for it in other areas. /huff

Her surprise doesn't faze him.]

The more powerful the caster, the more powerful the kidou. Of course a captain-level hadou would be that powerful.

[Must. Resist. Urge. To. Roll. Eyes.

... mission failed.]

Right, of course it would be.

Only those with enough power hold seats of authority.

I guess that's true enough.

It should be people with common sense instead.

[Another arrow, another tree.]

[He tenses slightly, brows furrowing in thought.]

You need both, but you never have both.

[No hadou spell this time. Let her release some of that frustration first.]

Not when you need them both.

[She has an ofuda this time, in her palm -- she hasn't let the phoenix out in awhile.]

Beryl -- was the most powerful woman in the universe, so she said.

[Flames form and slam into the ofuda, the phoenix taking shape as it rocketed forward with a screech.]

Smart, clever, powerful -- but let herself become overcome with Metalia because she wanted too much, like an idiot.

[How many times has he been hailed the child prodigy of the Gotei 13, only to have it backfire on him? He's powerful, he's intelligent, but it's never quite enough. Not for what he needs to do. And somehow, what little power he has always seems to do more harm than good.]

...How much is too much?

When you lose yourself in the process.

[Without hesitation and with complete and utter conviction. She has seen enemies transformed into monsters because of greed, power, ignorance, simply because they wanted more.]

All of the power in the world can't help you if you aren't yourself by the end of it.

[Another snort. What a simple yet complicated answer.]

Of course.

[He decides it's his turn now and fires an identical hadou as the last, the electrical blast powering through toward their targets.]

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