Jewel of the Sea
World: Sailor Moon
Time: After the end of the series
Characters: Haruka and Michiru
Chapter 1
The Sun was disappearing slowly behind the horizon coloring the sea with a reddish hue. Waves were hitting against the rocky coast making a racket deafening all local sounds, even a singing of cicadas which were exceptionally noisy that year. A young woman with short, blonde hair was walking between sharp rocks sticking out of the ground of the coast. The wind was blowing at her face. The girl was squeezing small pebble in her hand. She stared at a little cruiser sailing slowly in the distance. She had arrived there on her motorbike few hours ago in order to think about herself, about her mission, about everyone who she got to know and about Michiru - the girl with hair of the color of the sea waves. It was because of her she had come to the sea. Feeling of the approaching threat made her uneasy but she didn't want to worry her girlfriend. After a few hours of fighting with her own thoughts she got on to the motorcycle and dashed off ahead because she wanted the wind to blow off all doubts from her mind and show her that it was only her imagination that she had sensed threat from Michiru. Haruka had stayed on the beach for a long time. Air became very cold, so she decided to come back. She was comforted, although feel of the anxiety could not leave her alone. She looked at the sea for the last time to say goodbye to it and then she came back to the bike. She felt that she had touched something cold with her leg. She squatted and looked between stones near the line of the water noticing strange, golden, rectangular object and picked it up. As it turned out it was some kind of necklace, golden rectangle attached to small chain inside which jewel sparkling in the setting sun light was placed. The warmth which was beating from it had a soothing effect on Haruka. The girl put it inside her pocket. She got back home not knowing that the locket was glowing with bright, emerald brilliance. Haruka reached home when there was already a very late evening. The crescent moon was glowing on the sky coloring everything in the surroundings with a pale glow. The girl looked at the nearby building. In the flat in which she lived with Michiru the light were still turned on. Neighborhood was quiet, the night yielded only in a few places where old lamp posts were standing. There were no cars nearby and sounds from the city centre were nothing more than just a distant noise fading into nothingness. The blonde went into her flat.
"Michiru is waiting for me." She thought and smiled taking the locket found on the beach out of her pocket. Her girl was sitting on the sofa. She was looking at the moon listening to the music from her CD player.
"Hi. You were out for so long; I thought that you had escaped." Michiru joked turning in the direction of her friend. She asked Haruka to sit down by her.
"You know, I found a jewel today" The blonde informed.
"The jewel was given me by the sea, so I thought that it belongs to you. It was born in your kingdom." Haruka sat down beside Michiru. She opened her palm and put a necklace inside it. The girl goggled. "You spent half a day, who knows where only to buy a present for me?"
"I'm telling you that the sea gave it to me. I bought nothing." Girls argued with each other. Michiru hanged the locket on her neck; she stood up and came up to the opened window. Haruka turned the lights off. Now only the Moon lightened the figure of the long-haired girl. A green, cold light sparked inside the locked. Haruka didn't even know when she had gone to the bed. She was in the dark room and was looking at the dark ceiling listening closely to beating of her own heart. She felt that dream started to embrace her slowly.
She is in a huge room. Enormous pipe organ is standing in its center. Red haired witch Eudial is sitting by it. She is her old enemy. "Only one narrow corridor is separating me from her, the bridge" - thinks Haruka and her hands are clenching in order to cast the most powerful spell she knows at the red witch. Michiru dressed in her uniform appears suddenly before her. She is gripping her hand and destroying the spell. Later the bridge is crushing into small pieces and she is falling into the abyss dragging Michiru along with her. She is trying to scream but she is falling deeper and deeper. Deep. Depths. Ocean. Deep Submerge. Water everywhere, above the head, under the feet, around the body. Water in the emerald color, in the color of her hair. Strangling and felling, enslaving, fatal? Haruka is rising in it completely nude. Defenseless, dependent only on the ocean, only on Her. After a moment she is opening her eyes. She can see that she is staying on some building. Lightings are raging on the sky, the city is on the fire and it is tumbling down. She knows what she is supposed to do. She is raising her hands up. Golden bracelets with precious jewels are flashing on them. She is shooting from them, she is shooting at her, she is shooting at the woman in the golden armor. To defeat her it is now the most important thing, to defeat her, to rescue the World and free the Galaxy. She is taking the sword made of a light and with its help she wants to get rid of the woman once and for all. She is jumping on her, woman is knocked over. The golden armor is jingling; the golden helmet is falling off the roof straight to the city being on fire. The storm of emerald hair is spreading around. Haruka is shocked. She is opening her eyes from amazement.
"You cannot hurt me, I knew it." Michiru dressed in the golden armor is standing up and then she is pouring the wall of water over the blonde girl. Golden armor. Golden bracelets. Golden control, golden darkness.
Haruka woke up. She looked around the room, got up and went to the window.
"There is still the night". She thought. She looked at the bed in which Michiru slept and stopped worrying. She lay down. The locket on a bedside table was shinning with green, cold light again.