Chapter 6: Fatal Wish
"I wonder where he is hiding the ring." Roberta whispered to Michiru, raising her eyebrows while she spoke. Michiru just opened her mouth to give a reply when all of a sudden Haruka's voice came, making both women jump: "Thank the Gods that you came!" Michiru twirled around and glared at the wizard's ghostly image, before scolding her: "Haruka! Don't just pop up like that!" Haruka shrugged and moved closer to the two women, letting out a happy sigh. "Get the ring, so we can leave this horrid place." The blonde commanded, while Michiru and Roberta exchanged somehow annoyed looks. "Valieri's wishes are driving me crazy." Haruka now added, and both Roberta and Michiru let out a sigh. "Well, if we knew where the ring was, it'd be easier to find it." Michiru then spoke, causing Haruka to sigh. "Yes ... but I can't tell you. I like my life, you know." Both Haruka and Michiru let out a sigh before Roberta and the aqua-haired girl started their search. They rummaged through the whole house; Roberta even crawled under Valieri's bed to check if maybe he had hidden it there, but all she found was dust, spiders, dust, and even more dust. The old woman just came crawling out from under the bed again, when Michiru let out a yelp: "I found it!" Haruka and Roberta looked at each other, a slow grin slowly spreading over their faces, before they hurried over to where Michiru stood, triumphantly holding the ring up into the air. "Yes!" Haruka cried out, happiness in her voice. "Quick, let's go, before Valieri ..." "Before Valieri what?" The old magician's voice came from the door, causing all three women to flinch, which looked kinda strange in Haruka's case, considering the fact that she's a ghost. "Comes back home?" The old magician now finished the sentence, taking one step towards Michiru, who quickly put the ring on. "I want to make my second wish." The aqua-haired girl spoke, her eyes concentrating on Valieri. Next to her, Haruka grinned and nodded, but the expression on her face turned into pure horror when she heard what Michiru said next. "I wish that Valieri is sent ... to the other side of the world, and that he can never come back!" "No." Haruka whispered, feeling how her hands came up against her will. "No! Michiru! Take it back! Take the wish back!" She then yelled out, her voice full of desperation. "Eh ... ?" Michiru replied intelligently, not getting what Haruka meant. Then, blue fire shot out of the blonde's fingertips, encasing Valieri. A loud, FLUP like sound could be heard, and then the magician was gone, leaving nothing but thin air behind.
Haruka fell to her knees, staring at where Valieri had been standing one second before with horror in her eyes. "Haruka ... ?" Michiru spoke, slightly worried, while walking closer to the blonde. "Are you alright?" "No!" Haruka snapped at her, her voice full of unexpected anger. "How can I be alright after what you did?!" Michiru gasped, feeling how anger welled up inside her too. "What do you mean, after what I did?! I got rid of Valieri for us!" Haruka shot a death glare at the aqua-haired woman before she replied, her voice dangerously calm and low. "And Valieri was the only one who knew how to free me. Do you understand now?" Suddenly, all the colour drained from Michiru's face when realization dawned in her brain. "No." The aqua-haired woman whispered. "No ..." Haruka just turned her back on her, staying silent and not reacting to the apologies Michiru whispered out to her. "I'm sorry, Haruka ... I didn't know ... I'm so sorry ..." "Just shut up." Haruka replied, her voice hoarse. Slowly, the blonde turned around and looked at Michiru. "Allow me to become invisible again." She softly spoke. "I need some time alone now." Michiru slowly nodded, her eyes filling with tears. Haruka's ghostly image started to fade, and soon the blonde wasn't visible to the two women anymore. "Come on, Michiru." Roberta softly spoke, putting an arm around the now heavily crying aqua-haired woman, "let's go home."
Michiru sat in the comfiest chair of her house, staring off into the distance. She didn't know if Haruka now was in the same room with her watching, or if she was somewhere else in the house. "Haruka ..." She now softly spoke, hoping that the blonde was there and could hear her, "I'm so sorry for what I did ... and I understand if you hate me now. If you want me to move out, just tell me, and I'll do it. But ... I just want to let you know ... I really started to like you in the past days, and ... I just wish that you can forgive me someday for what I did. I ruined your life, and I'm sorry." For a few minutes, there was silence, and Michiru already feared that she had talked for nothing, when finally Haruka's voice came. "I don't hate you." The blonde's ghostly figure appeared next to Michiru, looking down on her with a semi-friendly expression. "I never could." Michiru looked up at her, tears shimmering in her eyes. "I'm sorry." She whispered, before she softly started to cry. "So sorry ..." Haruka just gave her a weak smile. "Stop crying ... we'll find a way." She then spoke, trying to give her voice a reassuring sound. "We'll find a way to get me out." Michiru nodded, still crying, and right at that moment, Haruka wanted nothing more than to hold and comfort her - and all the time knowing that this was nearly impossible.
