***A.N. Major plot lines were taken from the anime but some details were changed. I wanted to focus on Michiru and Haruka's battle, so I cut down on Sailor moon's involvement in this chapter.***
Chapter 15-The Silence Part I
The Silence had arrived.
"The wind is crying," Haruka said. We stood on top of our apartment and we watched as darkness enveloped Tokyo.
When we got to the Mugen Academy, things had started in motion. We watched as all the students from Mugen Academy marched into the dark building, possessed, straight to their demise. "Surrender your hearts," the final witch waved her hand and thousands of pure hearts ascended toward the dark heaven. The students all collapsed, piled on top of each other, dead.
"Upstairs," I said to Haruka as I started racing up the back stairs. I could sense the rift in space and it was coming from the top floor. We ran in silence all the way up. There were no words we could say to each other now. Our footsteps echoed through the empty staircase.
Right in front of the principal's office, there was a black hole, shimmering with dark energy. Haruka halted, as she felt the evil radiating from within. She grabbed my hand and said, "let's go and have breakfast after this."
I raised her hand and kissed it. "If the world doesn't end, I will buy you ten pancakes."
Haruka smiled and teased, "twenty. At least twenty." She raised her transformation pen and yelled "Uranus Planet Power Makeup." The fun moment was over. I raised my pen and yelled "Neptune Planet Power Makeup".
We entered the black hole and step foot into another dimension. When our eyes adjusted to the darkness, we saw rows and rows of scientific equipment and a lot of pink test tubes. Up ahead, dark energy crackled and evil laughs rang through the hallway.
We raced straight ahead, toward the source. Professor Tomoe was bending over a small figure on a slab. Hotaru was slumped over on a throne.
"Sailor Chibi moon!" Uranus gasped. The little girl was lying on top of the slab like a sacrificial lamb. Uranus ran straight toward her, hand raised, ready to throw the attack at the professor. Zap! An invisible barrier sent Uranus flying. She landed with a thud on the ground, several feet from me.
"Deep Submerge!" I threw the attack at the barrier. Nothing. The attack was absorbed in an instant, causing the barrier to expand.
Professor Tomoe laughed. "Welcome, my superior students. You are just in time to witness the awakening of the Messiah."
A red glowing hand clawed out of Hotaru's body and extended all the way to Chibi moon, then it dug sharply into her. Chibi moon let out a piercing scream as her heart was ripped out of her chest. The bright energy of her pure heart illuminated the room briefly before it was swallowed by Hotaru. The Messiah of Silence woke, transforming the little girl's body into a grown woman. Hotaru was gone, erased from existence by the evil within her.
Fully expecting to see the soldier of ruin, we saw someone else instead. The Messiah of silence was not Sailor Saturn. She called herself Mistress Nine.
She raised her hands and sent her attack toward us. We were sent flying toward the walls. She then sent another shock through the building. Strong shakes rippled through the building, as the walls started to crumble around us.
The sailor scouts arrived just in time to see stones falling around Chibi moon's lifeless body. "The dimension is disappearing. We have to go now." I yelled at Sailor Moon. She was standing over Chibi moon's body, too shocked to move. Uranus grabbed Chibi moon while Sailor Mars dragged Sailor Moon away, seconds before the pillars descended on the spot she was standing at.
All of us made it out of the building just in time. The top half of the building exploded while the rest lay in ruin.
Sailor Pluto and Tuxedo mask were there as well. They had been busy evacuating the students out of the building. I was glad to hear that all the hearts they surrendered were returned when the witches were defeated by the scouts.
"We must retreat now. Let's regroup," Sailor Pluto suggested.
Haruka and I went home while Setsuna went with the scouts. We spent the last hour of our lives kissing, making love and bandaging each other's combat wounds. We would meet up with Setsuna in an hour.
"Setsuna must be telling the scouts our plan now," Haruka said. We had decided that if we were unable to stop the Messiah from waking, plan B would be for the three of us to go in as the first line of defense. We had to kill the Messiah in order to save Chibi moon and stop the enemy. If we failed, then the Sailor Scouts would be Earth's last hope.
One hour went by too quickly. Setsuna arrived and we went over our plans again. Haruka suggested that we took the helicopter and we could attack from the top.
In the helicopter, we all stayed silent. Uranus gripped the control tightly. I could sense her trepidation and I put one hand on hers. I felt her relax a bit. I couldn't help but stare at her beautiful face. I wanted to remember every single detail of her.
"What was that?" Haruka sounded terrified. I looked toward where she was pointing. The Mugen building was surrounded by a big red dome. A barrier of some sort. At the top of the dome, a giant opening in the shape of a star was visible. I subconsciously gripped my seat belt.
As we approached closer, we realized that the dome was not just an energy barrier. It was made up of millions of un-matured Daimons. Without form, they melted together into a dome. Sensing our approach, the Daimons looked up from below and opened their mouths into wide creepy grins.
The creatures separated, melted like liquid, then flew straight toward our helicopter. They wrapped themselves around the cockpit and squeezed. Both rotors stopped spinning and the control panel started to crack. Electricity course through the cockpit, as we all screamed in pain. Any minute now. Death was imminent.
The cockpit exploded, reduced to pieces and fragments. Surprisingly, Uranus and I were unharmed, suspended within a bubble. Sailor Pluto had her Garnet orb raised. In order to save us, she had stopped time. She had talked about what would happen to her if she ever stopped time, which was one of the biggest taboo for a time guardian.
"Sailor Pluto," I cried, knowing what would happen now.
"Go save the world," Sailor Pluto's last words before she teleported us out of the exploding cockpit. We landed on the top exposed floor of Mugen. We looked up just in time to see the helicopter explode, claiming Sailor Pluto's mortal body. That was the price for stopping time. She would be banished to Pluto and never to return.
I sunk to my knees. The first line of defense, one down, two left.