I Still…Chapter 3
I still…don't own the sailor moon characters, but I do own the new characters, who'll be introduced in the story.
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Koneko-chan-Haruka's nickname for Usagi
'Thought'
"Speak"
Dreams/memories
A bright light…
Meeting Michiru for the first time…"Can't you hear the sound of wind rustling"
"Humans all live by sacrificing someone in the end…everyone lives by stepping on someone else" herself…
"The people doing the stepping might be fine with that, but what about the people who are getting stepped on!" Koneko-chan…
"Kazuki Hana"…
"Haruka…I like your hands" their hands intertwined…
Michiru…
"Uranus!"
Michiru…
"…Uranus…"
Michiru…
Michiru as Sailor Neptune, getting shot by bullets in the Marine Chapel…
Haruka was back on the street, ready to fight the horrific monster, only it wasn't Nara he had in his hands. It was Michiru. It bit down on her, Haruka was unable to move, Michiru screams as the poison races through her veins. Haruka was unable to move…
"No! Michiru! Argh! " Haruka jumps from a white bed, as she wakes up. Her injuries jolt her, and the white light burns her eyes. She whispers a name before she falls, immobilized from her wounds.
"Michiru…"
A dark room is illuminated by a single piercing white light. A form stands in the doorway, and speaks
"Your Highness, she is awake"
A tall slender form rises from a bed in the corner.
"How is she?"
"She had extensive wounds, Highness; all of her ribs, one ankle and one hand were broken, a fractured skull with a concussion, internal bleeding, and one of her lungs were punctured and many bruises. With your help, her recovery has been sped up, we stopped the bleeding and repaired her skull, lungs, and all but two ribs are healed. The bruises are still there, and her ankle and hand are still broken, however, if you allow it, we can repair them using the new metal shipped from-"
"No, Sailor Uranus, or rather Tennou Haruka, has benefited enough from our hospitality. Every time she tries to walk or fight, she will remember what happened. Leave, and continue to watch her."
"Yes, My Lady."
The figure bowed and walked out.
"May your youth last eternity, my queen, ruler of time and the third universe, the high Lady Chronos"
Hikawa Shrine.
The senshi gathered around the room of Hino Rei, resident miko and senshi of Mars.
"Rei-san, were you able to pick up anything at the attack site?" asked Michiru.
"No, I'm sorry Michiru-san, but there was nothing there. I should have been able to pick up any residual emotions, but it's like nothing had happened there."
"That's impossible, that entire street looked like a train wreck, and all that blood could not have come from just Haruka-san alone." Said Mizuno Ami, Japan's youngest and most accomplished doctor. She was Sailor Mercury, the genius of the senshi.
"We must keep looking for her" said Aino Minako, a famous pop-star and volleyball star, and leader of the inner senshi as Sailor Venus.
"Agreed, at least before she disappeared she was able to destroy that monster" said Kino Makoto, a five-star chef and owner of the sensational Sparkling Rose restaurant. She was also Sailor Jupiter.
They all shuddered; they had captured footage of the beast from a security camera attached to the building that Haruka had crashed in to. They had not seen how she had destroyed it, or where she disappeared to because the camera had been damaged. They knew the beast was dead, they saw it when they approached the street, but there was no sign of Sailor Uranus, and the victims knocked out.
"Ami-chan, how are the wounded?" asked Tsukino Usagi, the Legendary Sailor Moon, and future queen of Crystal Tokyo.
"The man we found died from the venom. The woman is quickly following him, her veins have already started turning from the purple that we found her with, to a murky green, just like the man. We have managed to slow down the virus to give us more time to develop a cure, but it is unlikely that we can heal her."
"And the child?" asked Hotaru, guardian of Saturn
"She is in a coma, and the venom has been found inside her. We have tried to purge it from her body but it resists and repels all medicine."
Throughout all of the speaking, Michiru had been silent.
"Setsuna went to the Gates last night. She said she was unable to open the timeline and discover what happened." She said.
They all dwelled on this information. As the appointed guardian of time, Meiou Setsuna had the ability to look into the future and the past, but cannot tell anyone of the future.
"Has this ever happened to her?" said Ami.
"Not that I know of" Michiru's response was flat and robotic.
She couldn't help it; she had been recording at the studio when she received Haruka's call. She could not leave, not without endangering her job, especially with her manager standing right outside the door. She foolishly continued her work, but at a faster pace than normal. By the time she arrived at the scene of the attack, only Sailor Moon was left to greet her and give her the news. She could not believe it; she refused to believe that her love had disappeared. However, Haruka had failed to return home that night, or the next night. Michiru and Hotaru had sat vigil at the window waiting for her return, but so much time had passed that Michiru had to drag Hotaru away from the window.
She denied that Haruka was dead, after all, she would have felt it in her heart, but why else would she be gone unless she was kidnapped.
'Why? Haruka, I should have been there, I could have helped you, I'm sorry! Wherever you are, come back to me! Please Haruka give me a sign that you are alive.'
A tear dropped down from her face. She knows that Haruka would never be gone for more than ten days, not without calling. However, time was not on her side.
Haruka has been missing for thirty days.