Unfinished business
World: Sailor Moon
Time: After the series end.
Characters: Outers Senshi: Haruka, Michiru, Setsuna and Hotaru
Chapter 1
Haruka woke up in the middle of the night. She was worried, as if she dreamt some nightmare which evaporated from her memory entirely after waking up. The room of the girl was plunged in the darkness of the moonless night and normal objects seemed to be something unrealistic, magic for eyes of the blonde who was on the border between the dream and the real world. The girl worked out, that Michiru hadn't slept by her. Perhaps she went to the bathroom, thought Haruka, but quickly became convinced that it hadn't been a truth, as soon as she touched bedding and stated that it was completely cold. Nobody lay by her, at least for a dozen last minutes. The girl decided to get up and check, where her friend went in the very heart of the night. She went up to the second floor of her house, noticing that a light was beaming from under the closed door of Michiru's studio. Creative passion overcame her, Haruka thought smiling. She went down to the bedroom deciding not to disturb the girl creating her new painting.
Michiru was sitting in the room full of images, linen, brushes, paints and other painting accessories. The semi darkness prevailed there, lightened up only by the bedside lamp standing close by. The green haired girl looked at the work coming into existence before her, image held in dark colors, mainly in green, bronze and black dyes. Her moves were kind of automatic, taught, steered from the outside by some unseen force. Hands of the girl were dirty from a paint, dye was also on her face and hair. She seemed not to notice it, she was completely submerged in the world of her own ideas and dreams. After some time, Michiru had to rest, to gain strength and the willingness to create. A high tower was on linen, the black structure looked in the black forest in the background. Above the building, the black-brown clouds gathered. After a brief lapse of the break, the girl got down to completing her work.
Haruka was the first one in the kitchen, she was ready to prepare the breakfast. The girl guessed that her friend had painted the entire night and went to the bathroom at the crack of dawn. She didn't see her, neither she didn't come into her studio, because as it turned out, she it was locked. When Haruka sat down at the table, in order to get down to eating sandwiches prepared by her own hands, Michiru entered the room. She had the green robe on, her hair was wet, but entirely cleaned from remains of the paint with which she got dirty at night.
"Hello". said Haruka.
"Hi." Michiru replied yawning.
"I'm so sleepy." She added. Haruka laughed.
"You should have sleep but instead you decided to paint all night long. I'm well rested."
"Leave me alone, I was possessed..." Neptune announced sitting down next to the friend. In the same moment, Hotaru dressed in the black shirt and black trousers entered the kitchen. She had a locket in the shape of the Ankh symbol hung on the neck.
"Hi, what we eat today?" She asked.
"Only a sandwiches, none of us wanted to do something else."
"Tough luck, I'll take what you have." Hotaru answered sitting down to table.
"How's your studies Hotaru?" Michiru asked.
"Okay, but it's irritating when others aren't able to understand the simplest things. If 16 years old girl is able to understand Maxwell's equations in the curved space-time, how somebody who is twenty or so doesn't understand the Gauss' law?"
"But don't forget that the one 16 years old girl is cheating!" Haruka cut in on a conversation.
"It's not true!"
"It's true. The ordinary student isn't assisted by the ancient magic and Sources of the universal knowledge."
"It's an art to find the appropriate current in the Sources and it requires a lot of work and sacrifice." Hotaru protested.
"I know Hotaru, I simply wanted to tease with you." The Blonde smiled.
"Ah, I would forget completely. Setsuna asked us to meet in a back garden today. She said that it is very important and regards events which you witnessed recently. You know, Michiru possesed by the necklace, opening the doors to other worlds, this Hekate whom you talked about... Setsuna said that the it turned into terrible mess."
"Ok, we'll meet with her, ok Michiru?
"Yes, we must . But I would prefer to paint in a silence."
"You have nights for such things." Haruka made fun of the friend again.
Four woman-warriors sat on wooden benches in the cherry orchard put behind the house. To three girls and tall woman with dark skin and long, dark green hair. She looked solemnly at her friends.
"The event with the jewel which Haruka found on the beach turned out to be much more serious than we supposed. Defeating the witch controlling Michiru wasn't the end of that matter but scarcely one pebble which called the avalanche."
"What do you mean by that?" Haruka asked.
"The woman, using the magic of the tower which she built then as well as her abilities and Michiru's power opened the gate to other realities. I thought that I had arrived in time and closed it quickly enough, but I was wrong. Different beings managed to escape from the doorway. They all were able to hide in various places of the world before I was able to react. We'll have to go hunting."
"What kind of beings you're talking about?" Michiru asked.
"I don't know exactly, one thing that is certain, that don't belong to our universe."
"Where did they hide?" Hotaru was interested.
"In many places of the world. Practically every continent became a hideout of some of fugitives. Four beings are in Americas, five in Europe, three in Asia, three in Africa and one in Australia. I will be able to get more accurate data, when I reach Gates."
" Should we notify Usagi and the rest of girls?" Haruka wanted to know what chances she had to meet with the girl with golden hair.
"No, these are opponents from the outside our dimension so they are our problem. Settle your matters and pack your things, because you are facing a long and difficult journey." Setsuna finished the meeting.
"And I thought that I would listen to lectures on the quantum theory of gravity at the university." Hotaru announced. Setsuna turned to the blonde and green haired girl.
"I'm suspecting that Hekate whom you mentioned, can also become a threat."
"What do you mean?"
"She cannot be the one she told she was." The woman replied coldly.