Chapter 6-The Search
As soon as I woke, I went and unlock the art studio. I started to paint in a frenzy. The need to get the premonition on the canvas was overwhelming. For a while now, I was lost in a fog. No purpose and no drive, I drifted through life like a ghost. As the premonition got stronger, I could feel the sailor senshi inside me reawakening. I saw hope through an apocalyptic premonition. Also, who was that beautiful stranger? When I gazed into her eyes, I had a strange sense of calm. I knew the battle ahead would be brutal, but somehow I knew it would be okay.
When I was done, I put down my paintbrush and stared at the canvas. Besides the ruin and the agony, the beautiful stranger was there, like an anchor in a stormy sea. I drew her face in detail, in fear of not seeing her again in the premonition. I wanted to remember her. I needed to find her. That would be my mission.
I decided to start searching for her by going through the school yearbooks at the local library. Since I had stopped going back to my school ever since that night, I had plenty of time to kill. Also, I didn't need to go back to my own school. If she was a student there, I would have known. There was no way I could forget someone like her. Also, I got a sense that she was on my team (not in the sailor senshi sense) and I could search for her at the local gay bars. How big could the gay community be anyway?
The premonition continued to torture me every night. Sometimes the beautiful stranger would show up. Sometimes I would see the five sailor soldiers burnt to ashes. I thought I would get used to the brutal images by now but it only increased my dread every night.
I managed to gather some information from all the premonitions. By painting the scenes over and over, I was able to figure out the mission. Little details were added each time and the paintings served as a guiding journal. This was what I had learned so far. The world was about to end unless we fought back, somehow. The tall girl with the staff forwarned that we must gather all the talisman and we had to find the messiah. She was the key to stopping the silence.
One night, fate intervene again and I met a girl named Elsa Gray. I was strolling down the streets of Shinjuku Ni-chome, the biggest gay district in Tokyo, when I heard a scream from one of the alleys. My senses picked up a massive amount of dark energy. I quickly duck behind one of the buildings and transformed.
As I approached the alley, I saw a giant monster towering over an unconscious girl. It was twice as tall as me, with a face of a wolf and the body of a gorilla. It wore an armor and it had a long wide sword by its side.
"Deep Submerge". I went straight into fight mode. I felt that same surge of power going through me and it felt good.
The monster waved its sword and easily deflected the attacked.
"What?" I stared in disbelief.
The monster howled as it lifted the heavy sword, swinging directly at me. I dodged to the right but the tip of the sword cut my left arm. Excruciating pain radiated through my body. Blood started gashing out from the wound.
The monster let out a throaty laugh. It seemed to have been pleased by the sight of my pain. I felt anger rising inside of me. Whoever was behind creating these monsters, they also turned Alex into one. It created a ripple effect, which led me to accidentally killing my parents. I grit my teeth and I stood up. I would not be defeated by this.
I called to the sea, asking for its divine protection. I recalled all my pain and fury, I let it fester and grow inside of me. "DEEP SUBMERGE" I yelled and put all my strength behind the attack. The monster tried to deflect again but it was useless. My sea answered my prayer and it disintegrated the monster.
I de-transformed and ran to the girl. She was started to wake up. Groggily, she stared at me in confusion. I quickly explained that I saw a big wild dog attacking her and I chased it away by throwing stuff at it.
"Thank you for saving my life. My name is Elsa Gray."
I walked her home, as she could barely stand. She saw my wound and insisted that I came in so that she could tend to my wound. Little did I know, saving Elsa Gray would lead me straight to the person I had been searching for so long. I learned that night that her name was Tenou Haruka.