Time was moving very slowly... For the foxes, at least. While for the on-lookers, things moved in a fast-paced, high-stakes, octane-pumping blur... Things were different for the Divine One and the Dark One.

As Miyuki's palm struck Yumeko's shoulder, and sent the slightly smaller fox backwards, into a potential fall, the golden one braced and prepared for whatever she could to block and intercept whatever it was the menacingly grinning woman before her was about to do.

... But...

Nothing.

Miyuki did nothing.

She didn't follow up with her free hand to try and punch or grab the other fox. She didn't raise her knee or perform a sideways kick to send her opponent flying. It was as if, after she'd struck Yumeko's shoulder, something had... Clicked...

And it was nowhere more noticeable than in Miyuki's eyes and expression. An expression that, at this range and proximity, only Yumeko could see.

And what she was...

Gone was wild, grinning and sadistic smile. Gone were the eyes with an evil glint to them. Gone was also the stoic stone statue, or the eyes of lifeless, unfeeling metal. Instead, what the golden fox saw... Was a face of abject, irrefutable and absolute horror.

Miyuki's eyes had grown wide and alrge, her pupils had shrunk to pin-pricks, her mouth had gone froma  grin into an expression of stupified small o-shape. And the dakr one was... Not ... Moving... it was as if she'd frozen then and there, somehow cutting all that speed and movement off, defying the laws pf physics and nature, and just... Stopping. Freezing.

... Unfortunately for Miyuki though, YUmeko's arm was still moving. The one aglow with whatever energy she'd gathered from the ship. And that palm directly connected with the dark haired woman's torso. So, what would happen now? Would the energy release in a brilliant blast? Would it amplify the Goddess strength by ten-or-a-hundred-fold? Would it paralyze the other woman?

Miyuki did not know. She didn't look like she knew anything at this point. But she was about to [i]feel[/i] something.