Rei was not Sailor Moon, though, and her powers didn’t really have any sort of moderation.  It was mostly destructive force and…more…destructive force, though she had been practicing with them for quite some time now.  Her finger darted out from behind cover, and a string of fireballs launched themselves at the Valkyrie.  None of them were very large, since the goal was to dissuade and rattle Meril and not kill her.  Some injury was unavoidable, with things like this…and she was willing to accept that.

Her aim wasn’t directly at her friend though, but rather at the ground around her feet.  The floorboards rippled and creaked with the impacts, and several of the tables upended all around her, flipping in her general direction and sending up glasses and plates in a clattering spray.  It was definitely meant to blunt the charge that the warrior woman was making towards Sailor Moon, but when Meril ducked into a slide and brought herself closer to the hits it very likely did more than anticipated.  And there was even a possibility that the ballroom tables might have fallen on her. 

Whoops?

The shower of fireballs abruptly ended when she realized where Meril had gone, and Rei’s hand retreated as she took a moment to reconsider the strategy, and let Venus do her thing.