Title: Falling deeper - Awakening part II
Author: Ree
Theme: Favorite Character - Beryl- starve
Genre: General
Version: Anime/ Manga - Fates/Tainted Gifts storyline- preseries (Mia)
Rating: G

Most of these characters belong to Takeuchi Naoko. I just borrowed my daughters paper dolls again.

Falling deeper

AN: Mia is to Beryl as Usagi is to Sailor Moon.

Slated to play the villain - Awakening part I

Mia returned from shopping for lose stones. Dumping her newest prizes onto the table, she took a moment to enjoy their glittering surfaces. Running her finger over them, she test each to see how they would respond. A dark green, almost black, stone warmed quickly to her touch. 'Magic. Who among my friends would believe that it is real?' The faces of her friends floated through her mind, each one wearing an identical shocked expression. 'But, it is real. And I can use a little of it. A little Earth magic. Rocks, stones, and plants answer to my touch, bend to my will.' Her eyes narrowed in satisfaction as she scooped the rock off the table top. 'Of course, what other element would you expect from someone who's family line can be traced back to druidic and shinto priests. The power of the Earth is literally in my blood.' That was one of the reasons she had decided to become a geologist.

Peering at the stone, Mia took a moment to identify it. 'Beryl. How appropriate. The stone that compliments me the most has the same name the Endymion calls me in my dreams.' Rolling the stone between her fingers, she contemplated her dreams from the last couple of weeks. 'Endymion is in each of them. I can see how much he loves me. But in each one...' The Moon-girl's face flashed into her mind.

The Moon-girl always took Endymion away from her. Every dream now showed Endymion being drawn away, her striving to get him back, and then the Moon-girl killing him. At least that is what it looked like to Mia. The Moon-girl was there, she was there, and Endymion was there. Endymion always ended up dead, and Mia knew she would never kill her love. She was starving for his attention, his touch. She desperately wanted him to be here with her. But she knew what happened, what would continue to happen unless she took a stand, unless she fought for what she needed. The bones of the Earth had told her. The voice that always counseled her, the one that started as soon as she had awakened to her Earth magic, told her what was happening, that there was a chance to win him back. That he was the one meant for her. 'I can't believe I used to run from that voice. I should have realized earlier that it was an Earth spirit, that is where the voice always came from. It echoed up out of the ground, and vibrated off the rocks.'

Scanning her eyes across the small pile of stones, she smiled. 'I'll be ready this time. This time I will store my powers in my rocks, my crystals. I know the matrix of each of these. I know the chemistry that composes each one, the atom's bond arrangement, the hardness, the places they were created. I know what they can withstand physically and I am learning what they can handle metaphysically.' Grinning savagely, she continued to channel her power into the beryl. Soon it would be full.