Chapter 14-The Messiah
"Michiru, I think I found her." A grim Haruka walked in. Judging by her expression, she must have meant the Messiah of Silence and not the Messiah of Light.
"What happened?"
Haruka flopped, face down, on the bed. She let out an angry scream as she slammed her fist on the bed. I sat down beside her, worried. "This must be bad," I thought.
"What happened?" I asked again.
"After the whole talismans deal, I was hopeful that maybe we wouldn't have to kill anybody innocent. I was hoping that the Messiah of Silence would pick the worst, evilest person to reside in. Looks like the nightmare is far from over."
Haruka retold the event.
She was cruising around town in her car when she sensed massive negative energy coming from the hospital. She pulled up and saw Chibiusa, Sailor Chibi Moon, walking with a friend. Haruka offered to give them a ride.
Chibiusa's new friend was Tomoe Hotaru. She was the daughter of Professor Tomoe, the founder of Mugen Academy. She looked like a sweet, innocent girl. Yet Haruka continued to sense evil radiating from her.
On the drive back, they ran into a Daimon. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Chibimoon took off to fight the monster, leaving Hotaru in the car. The Daimon managed to escape and ran straight at Hotaru.
"I saw the Daimon took off, running toward my car. I chased after it, worried that it would attack Hotaru. I wasn't sure if she was the Messiah yet and I couldn't bear to see a little girl getting hurt. It was then when I saw Hotaru released her dark power. Her red glowing eyes looked right at me. Her power was strong enough to paralyze a Daimon." Haruka sighed.
I pulled Haruka into my arms. "So we need to find out more about her,"I reasoned.
My calm exterior was a contrast to my stormy emotions. If this little girl turned out to be the host for Messiah of Silence, then we would have to stop her before the Messiah re-awakens. I wasn't sure if I could get myself to kill again.
"Kill one, save billions. This is war. War requires sacrifices. The little girl would die so that the world could be saved." I said to myself over and over again, trying to convince myself. At the same time, I kept picturing Sailor Moon's face, and her voice saying "I will save the world without sacrificing anyone". Conflicted as I was, I knew what I had to do. I couldn't jeopardize the world just so that I could save my conscience.
I called Setsuna right away. Together, we decided to take turns trailing Hotaru. If the host body was in danger, the dark power within should be triggered to protect the body. "We just have to wait till she is attacked again," Setsuna said calmly.
For the next few nights, the premonition dream continued to get stronger and stronger. Neither of us could get any proper sleep. Sometimes we would give up on sleep altogether and go out for a drive instead. We patrolled the streets of Tokyo and quashed any Daimons that popped up. We tried to keep our minds busy, just so that we wouldn't have to think about how to murder a little girl.
As the premonition got stronger, I was able to see the Messiah of Silence more clearly. In the dream, she was holding a long weapon, smiling evilly as she witnessed the ruins of the world. I realized at that point, that it was the Silence Glave. The legendary weapon of the soldier of ruin, Sailor Saturn. Could it be? Messiah of Silence residing inside the most powerful Sailor soldier? I woke up with a jolt, as I felt fear coursing through my body. "If Sailor Saturn reawakens with such dark power inside of her, then it is the end of the world for sure," I thought.
One day, our darkest fear came true. We were tailing Hotaru when we saw Chibiusa dragging her to go to the brand new planetarium. The scouts went with them as well. A Daimon appeared in the middle of the show and the scouts came forth to fight it. We stood back. It was the perfect opportunity for us to determine if Hotaru was the one.
As the fight escalated, the threat toward Hotaru increased. As predicted, a blast of energy radiated out of the little girl and the symbol of Saturn appeared on her forehead. Everyone was shocked to have discovered another Sailor soldier.
"She is the one. She is Sailor Saturn. She is also the Messiah of Silence." Setsuna, Haruka and I knew what we had to do.
"World Shaking!" "Deep Submerge!" "Dead Scream!" We each called out our attacks and threw them straight at Hotaru. We weren't sure if combining our attacks would be strong enough to kill the Soldier of Ruin, but we had to try. We could end the apocalypse right now.
Sailor Moon jumped in at the last second and lifted Hotaru out of the harm's way.
"You can't just kill a little girl," Chibi-usa yelled.
But there was no other way. We tried to explain to the scouts that we needed to kill the girl before Saturn reawaken. Reawakening could only mean one thing-the end of the world.
Before we could convince the scouts, before we could try attacking again, Hotaru's body disappeared into thin air. My heart stopped. That was our perfect chance and we just lost it. What would happen to the world now?