Chapter 9: Haruka loses her name, The Secrets of the Spirit Bath House.
"Uranus Crystal Power, Make Up!" Haruka held out her transformation stick to transform, but nothing happened. She laid the pig-tailed girl on the grass before she ran towards Abdula who was now running among the buildings in the abandoned theme park.
"Get back here you two-faced mongrel!"
Abdula ran really fast for a short guy. They went about chasing each other for hours amongst the abandoned buildigns when they were interupted by the smell of a fired up grill.
"hmmmm that smells really good" Abdula was in a trance.
"What was that?" Haruka wondered as she heard phantom whispers materialize around her.
"Get out of here!" one whisper yelled.
"before the sun sets!" another cried.
Haruka ran towards her arabian nemesis who was now pigging on a plate of barbecued ribs on a small kiosk.
"Where have you taken us you..." Haruka was shocked to see what she was talking to "pig?" Abdula has turned into a pig, curled tail and everything.
Haruka didn't have a choice, the world was strange and shadows were beggining to materialize around her with no apparent source. She ran towards the field in whihc she left the pig-tailed girl.
As Haruka ran, the buildings began to lit up as the sun began to set in front of her. More and more shadows began to take shape, seemingly alive.
As she reached the area where the field was supposed to be, it was gone. And in its place was a vast river which looked as if it was alive.
"Uranus Crystal Power! Make Up!" Haruka cried, hoping to gain the sense of strength and confidence she had whenever she was Sailor Uranus yet still, nothing happened.
She stared at her transformation stick, still high in the air. why? She thought. where is this world? she thought even more as the whispers around her turned into a numbing silence as what seemed to be an abandoned amusement park came to life as a bustling town of the shadows filled with strange beings.
As Haruka stared at her stick, she noticed something strange, her hand was beggining to become transparent... She was fading again. Abdula! she thought, thinking that the evil sorcerer has tricked her into being trapped in a dimension where she shouldn't be.
She felt herself fall to the ground, starting to lose consciousness. She couldn't believe that after all these years of being a powerful warrior, she was going to die alone and powerless.
Just as her eyes began to close a young boy came up to her wearing a white and blue traditional japanese garb.
"Eat this" the boy said as he placed a small round ball on her mouth.
HAruka had no choice and she swallowed the little pellet.
The boy then knelt down and whispered to her ear. "When you wake up, run to the bridge of the mansion at the edge of the road, the pig tailed girl will be there, do not breathe when you cross the bridge and look for Yubaba and ask for a job"
"Yubaba...a job.. breathe..." Haruka fell unconscious. Her adventure was about to take a daring twist.
