Freezing Mall! (Ami and Haruka thread)

[Anastasia]

OOC - I hate to double post, but since Liddo needs to vanish for a few days, I'm going to slightly move up a planned plot event.

IC -

As the words leave Neptune's lips, they are chased savagely by the sound of ripping, moving ice! A large section of the icy floor rises up rapidly, with Artemis and Haruka on it! They barely have time to give a yelp off before they are rising straight up and away, pushing through the seal of ice above!

Viluy, who stepped forward to look into the abyss and was missed by inches, has her skirt pushed up by the skin close edge of ice! "Wha...? Haruka!" she calls as she whips around, confronted with the tail end of a moving ice block!

OOC -

I'll move Haruka and Artemis into a new thread. Ami, continue to use this one for now. I'll likely be merging them back into it sooner or later, as well as Natsume.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami whirls around at Viluy's exclaimation, her eyes widening as her reply to the initial question was lost, and she gasps. "Artemis!" she cries, whirling an moving to the ice, reaching out and trying to slow the ascent with her power over the element...

[Anastasia]

Thrusting your power forward as quickly as you can, you try to halt or arrest the jutting upward ice platform! Yet by the time you can reasonably react and begin to assert any control whatsoever, it's pretty much up there.

You do feel a slight response, but it's just too late to prevent the course, the ice zooming through a swiftly appearing gap in the fourth floor ice sheet.

"Haruka!" Viluy cries again, unable to affect the outcome herself, eyes stuck to where the hole is now sealed with the rising chunk of ice, Artemis and Haruka stuck above.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami quickly pulls out her communicator, setting it to contact Haruka and her wayward Mau. "Haruka? Artemis?" She asks the little device pleadingly.

[Anastasia]

Yanking out your trusty Senshi communicator, it beeps and fuzzes for several seconds.

"CANNOT TRANSMIT TO COMMUNICATOR. ERROR." is displayed on the fuzzy, snowy screen.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami looks to Viluy nervously. "I can't reach her...Can you?" she asks, eyeing the escalator briefly, before deciding the fate of their friends is more important.

[Anastasia]

Viluy simply shakes her head. "I'm afraid not," she says, looking upward still.  "Ami, we need to get to the fourth floor and get them back down here."

If she gets herself in trouble...

Glancing at the nearest up escalator(A bit away from your position), Viluy nods. "We should hurry, especially if there was a trap waiting for them up there."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami glances down at the hole into the first floor uneasily. "Viluy...I want to go after them, too...but...Can we afford to delay?" she asks, wincing at the sound of her own words. "They're most likely looking for us, and if we run up after them, we could miss each other..." She says apologetically.

[Anastasia]

"We can't just leave them up there, either," Viluy comments quickly, still keeping an eye upward. "And if Celcia is strong, we'll need the help. Being the Senshi of Water and your being the Senshi of Ice, we aren't cut out to battle her."

Turning her gaze to you, she smiles a bit. "And I just can't run off on Haruka in good concience. Can you leave Artemis behind, Ami?"

[Bean Bandit]

"No." Ami admits softly, hanging her head. Just the thought of heading in the other direction while her friend is in trouble makes her gut clench painfully.  

"You're right, but rushing off blindly after them might also complicate things. Uhm...Can you locate them with your mirror? If we could get an idea what they're doing, we could retrieve them more quickly..."

[Anastasia]

Nodding and pushing down her own worry, Viluy withdraws her Talisman from otherspace. Taking it and carefully gazing into it's mirror, her reflection seen a moment - the reflection of a aqua haired teenager, only the faintest trace of white left in her hair. One may even mistake it for a bit of premature gray and not her former luster if they were unaware.

Yet her eyes are focused as she gazes in...

...

"I...I think there's danger up there, but I'm not sure," she says finally, letting the Neptune Mirror drop to her side and changing her gaze to you. Worry is starting to show in those eyes.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami flinches. Not exactly helpful... her brain chastises, but she shakes her head. "Did you see anything that might help us locate them? Where they were? Are they moving?" she asks, shifting out her computer, and scanning for a layout of the mall, and looking for life signs as she did...

[Anastasia]

"No...I'm still learning how to fully use my Talisman," Neptune admits, frowning slightly. "I only felt a sense of danger and saw a murky view."
Ignoring the ball of tension her failure caused, Viluy waits on Ami.

Your computer scans the mall...while it will take a few moments to fully scan, as there is some interference now, it reports Sailor Uranus and Artemis are up on the fourth floor and quite alive.

[Bean Bandit]

"They're safe...for now." Ami replied briskly, but nodded to the escalator Viluy indicated earlier. "Let's go, before the interference gets too great to find them at all.." she said finally, a nervous flutter in her stomach.

[Anastasia]

"Agreed," Viluy says, coming along with you. A short walk takes to a slippery, ice encoated escalator that goes right up into the floor of ice, almost cut in twain by the frigid spread. Some ice manipulation looks to be in order.

Turning to you, "Could you, Ami? I can't affect water when it's ice like this."