ALIENS! (June 3, 8 pm)

[Krutz Adalbern]

Krutz is just watching feel free to carry on.

[Princess Eirlys]

Sighing quietly, Eirlys was about to reply to Zoisite when he showed her something extraordinary, he had elemental powers?! Hazel gaze widened in shock as the young man burned a branch and she took a moment to process her thoughts. There were people like this on Earth? Interesting.

Her mind whirred a little and she fidgeted a little bit, wondering if she should show him or not. Eirlys had only henshined once so far, and she was eager to do it again, but was worried what would happen to this still developing friendship if she transformed.

"That was impressive." She smiled at him. "I've never seen anyone do that before."

Oh hell with it. She was going to do it. If Zoisite was comfortable enough with her to show her his abilities, then the only thing she could do was show him what she was capable of.

"Okay, um...don't freak out." She began nervously and stood. Taking out a crystalline heart with a cadeuceus on it, Eirlys closed her eyes, steeling herself for this.

"MERCURY PLANET POWER, MAKE...UP!!" She shouted and swept her hand over the pendant, and her body began to glow. Ribbons exploded from her in a sparkly mess, and a few moments later, a warrior stood beside Zoisite in a cerulean blue, ice blue, and black fuku with claret red accents. She held an ice sword in her left hand. She looked down at Zoisite, blushing slightly. "I'm um...the protector of Mercury." She said shyly, ducking her head. "You were open to me about your abilities so...I can't help but be open to you about my powers."

[Zoisite]

Princess Eirlys , Krutz Adalbern

Arwyn didn't answer as to whether she could get back to her planet the way she came. He had the feeling that she could, and that she could get to the moon the same way, but she was just holding out on him out of fear he couldn't take care of himself against this queen she insisted was dangerous. She seemed surprised when he displayed his abilities, and he worried for a few moments that she was going to react badly. But finally she smiled and said how she had never seen anyone do that before. Zoi smiled back proudly.

"So do you believe me now that I can fight if I need to?"

Oh gods, don't make me have to, he pleaded silently.

Her reply to that was, after telling him not to freak out, to stand up and start shouting something about makeup.

"Shh! You're gonna get us both in trouble," he said.

Then, somehow, she started to glow and her clothes abruptly shredded, at which point Zoi averted his eyes. Not only was it rude to look at naked ladies, but he wasn't even interested in such things! At any rate, he supposed she must be from a very liberal society if it was acceptable for women to remove their clothes outdoors, especially in front of others.

The next thing he knew, she was saying something about being a protector of Mercury, and when he cautiously glanced up to make sure she wasn't making that declaration naked, she was wearing completely different (although no less strange) clothing, and she was carrying a sword, although not in a menacing way. Hopefully that fact would prevent anyone who may have come out from attacking her on sight. Frantically, he took another look around to make sure nobody had heard her and come out, especially not guards... or Krutz. Krutz always seemed to be lurking somewhere, and he was very protective of his charge. If he cane out and saw a woman with a sword, Zoi doubted he would stop to ask any questions or hear explanations.

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[Krutz Adalbern]

The conversation had turned into such a dreary talk and to top it off she couldn’t take us to the moon?!? How is that even possible? How someone could get to Earth from space but couldn’t get back there?!? The whole thing was so infuriating. This girl obviously was more talented than they could even imagine. She had to get them to the moon. Just when he thought this conversation couldn’t get any worse Zoisite showed her his abilities. By Odin’s beard what is that boy thinking. His abilities are gift that must be kept secret until absolutely necessary! He doesn’t know who could be watching! Krutz muttered and cursed under his breath at the impulsiveness of his ward.

The tone changed yet again. The girl stood up said some words and was suddenly engulfed in light as her clothes were stripped away. Krutz was shocked. That certainly wasn’t the normal way these things happen and just like clockwork Zoisite was averting his eyes. He definitely knew that was coming but the whole situation became even stranger as peculiar garments appeared on the girl and an ice sword appeared in her hands. Now it’s normally in a moment like this that Krutz would be stunned however it was safe to say for once he had never seen anything like this.

Krutz drew his sword, stepping out of his spot, and slowly walking towards the Valkyrie and his stunned ward. Finally he stood next to his and looked the young girl up and down. Keeping an eye on her frost bitten blade Krutz sat down on a stone and rested his chin on the hilt of his blade. With an almost bewildered and awestruck tone he asked, “What are you?”

[Princess Eirlys]

"Honestly, if you need to fight, I'm sure you can if you absolutely need to." Eirlys reassured Zoisite, then smiled a little bit at him. "I'm sorry I shocked you like that." She apologized gently, hazel eyes soft and she sat down, seeming to be comfortable and she blinked as a rugged looking male came over and drew a sword. She stiffened a little, hoping he wouldn't attack her, all he did though much to her surprise, was sit down on a rock and rest his chin on his sword to look at her and ask her what she was.

Eirlys hesitated a moment and her fuku faded, shifting back to her normal clothes and she looked over at Krutz, looking the man over. She had a feeling this was the man Zoisite had been talking about, due to how quickly he'd come over and she couldn't help but feel a little uncertain. However, she detected no immediate threat, so she supposed she was safe for the time being. "I was blessed by the God named Hermes of the planet Mercury." She began.

"I was blessed with the power of my planet, and I have become its protector. I'm able to defeat monsters, or enemies, but my parents don't know my secret, and I intend to keep my powers a secret from them, and hopefully the Lunarian Queen. You two are the only ones at the moment that know, and I would ask you both to keep it a secret. I don't want it getting out that a person from another planet has the ability to fight with magical abilities. I'm also a princess of my planet, but not the heir. That's my eldest sister." She shrugged a little.

[Zoisite]

Princess Eirlys , Krutz Adalbern

Then Krutz was there, just as he always was, with his sword drawn as if he viewed Arwyn as a threat. Well, actually, if Zoi thought about it, he guessed she could have been a threat if she wanted to. Not only was she carrying a sword, but she seemed to have some kind of powers of her own. He was sure he hadn't seen the half of them yet. But fortunately, rather than attacking the strange girl, Krutz seated his bulky frame on a stone (with sword still out just in case) and asked Arwyn what she was.

The strange clothes she'd just changed into faded away, it seemed, replaced by what she had been wearing before. She quietly explained how she had been given powers as the protector of Mercury, but that the two of them were the only ones she had allowed to learn her secret as of yet. She was a princess of her planet, but not the first in line as royal heir. Zoi wondered whether she would become more important in the eyes of her family and people if she let them see what she could do. But then again, most people didn't know about his abilities, either. The more superstitious people might come after him with torches and pitchforks if they knew, or at least that was something he imagined happening. He wondered whether the same idea was going through her head as well.

"Arwyn, I know you're afraid of the Moon Queen, but you really would be doing us a great favor if you would take us to meet with her. There are two sides to every story, and I would like to hear hers. Maybe she can be reasoned with or bargained with. We won't know unless we try."

Zoi would very much prefer to reason with the Lunar Queen than try to fight her, with all the power she seemed to have. If she went to war with Earth, there seemed to be a very real possibility that even all the Earth Kings together wouldn't have a chance against her. Of course, there was also the likelihood that if there was a powered guardian of Mercury, there were similar guardians of the other planets as well. If the Lunar Queen was as bad as Arwyn said, he thought maybe they could try to sway some of the other planetary guardians to their cause, and with all the Earth Kings and Guardians together, they would at least have a fighting chance, even if the Moon Queen was as powerful as he had heard. A lot of people tended to underestimate Zoisite due to his age or his peaceful nature, but he wasn't nearly as naïve and defenseless as people thought; the wheels in his head were always turning, thinking how to turn the situation to their advantage.

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[Krutz Adalbern]

Krutz silently listened as the Valkyrie explained who she was. His expression never wavered as she told them such wondrous things. His eyes looked towards Zoisite as he pleaded with her to take them to the moon and to fight the good fight. It wasn't a bad speech but Krutz didn't think that Zoisite truly saw the whole picture just yet. Still he tried his best and the girl didn't appear to be turned away by that. Still she also certainly wasn't ready to head straight back to the moon. Tensions had risen and still Krutz said nothing. He sat there looking off in the distance with his chin on the hilt of his sword until finally he spoke, "Are there others like you? Does every planet or kingdom have a guardian? Why exactly would a person with such powers be afraid of the moon kingdom, nay why would a kingdom with such wonders be afraid of the moon?"

He slowly stood as he waited for her answer and asked one more thing, "Draw your weapon. I need to see something." Fully aware she was going to need a little more explanation then that he proceeded to lift his sword up and show her. 'Do you see this sword? It's name is vetrbíta. In your tongue it would be Winter's bite. It is very old and very strong. No sword on earth has ever been able to match it. Due to it was given to us by the all-Father, Odin. It is also inscribed with ancient runes that allow it to shatter the strongest of iron." He looked back up to her and said, "I need to see what happens when I strike your blade."

[Princess Eirlys]

Biting down on her lower lip, Eirlys swallowed heavily and looked down at the grass. She didn't know if she was brave enough to do this kind of thing-after all, it was the Queen of the entire galaxy save for Earth. Quietly, she fiddled with her transformation item and shook her head, trying to clear the doubts.
Could the Queen be dealt with? She didn't know. She didn't even know the queen for Hermes' sake! "I don't know her." She said quietly. "I've never met her in person, I only know what my parents have told me and she's apparently set on war against Earth." She sighed heavily, then balked as Krutz spoke, the teenager staring at the bearded man.

"I don't know if there are others like me." She admitted quietly. "I haven't met with anyone else from the other planets, I've only recently come across my powers after all and I'm still figuring them out, and it's because she's pulled everyone into her reign that I'm scared of her. My parents aren't but I see the Lunarian Queen as a threat to all of us, not just earth."

Frowning when she was asked to draw her sword, Eirlys shook her head. "I can't draw it out of my transformed state, and I'd rather not risk it breaking as I don't even know the extent of its abilities. I'm not transforming again. It's too draining right now to do it too much."

[Zoisite]

Arwyn insisted that she didn't know much about the Lunar Queen and had never even met her. All she knew was what her parents had told her (did they know her, then?), and that the Lunar Queen was set on starting a war with Earth.

Zoisite nodded along as Krutz asked some of the questions he'd just been thinking of, himself. But she didn't seem to have any of those answers, either. Arwyn didn't know whether there were other planetary guardians like herself out there, and had only just come into her own powers, herself. So, Zoi supposed, that made him the more experienced of the two of them, at least as far as powers went. That was an odd position to be in, at least for him. He was used to being thought of by pretty much everyone as just an inexperienced boy who knew almost nothing of combat. Then, when Krutz wanted to see how effective his mighty blade was against hers, Arwyn said she couldn't draw it outside of that other persona she had displayed. What good was having a sword if she couldn't have it on her all the time? She insisted she didn't even know how strong the weapon was.

"But if it comes from a world that can send people from one planet to another and change the color of your eyes, it must be strong. You just have to learn how to use it," he said. "Krutz can help you learn; he's been helping me."

Apparently the girl's parents weren't afraid of the Lunar Queen, but Arwyn saw her as a threat, and not only to Earth.

"What's given you reason to believe she's a threat to your own people, or those on the other planets?" Zoi asked. "You said you don't know her. But if she had a reputation for being dangerous, your own parents would fear her as much as you seem to. Is it just an intuition of yours, or has she given you reason to fear?"

Learning that Arwyn apparently wasn't as powerful and awesome as he thought made Zoisite's confidence wane a little. If these guardians weren't as powerful as he anticipated, and the Lunar Queen was as dangerous as Arwyn seemed to think, there could be no hope at all. But then again, just because she wasn't as powerful and experienced as he thought didn't mean none of the other guardians were. He would simply have to meet more of them and find out what they were like.