Gravel Kingdom ISBN4-592-12624-6 Hakusensha C9979 price: 390yen + tax first print: 05.25.93 collection: Heisei 4 HY 22, Heisei 5 HY 1~4

• gravel kingdom

Briefly summarized if you don't feel like reading the full translation above: There is a kingdom in the middle of the desert under the protection of the Water Goddess; all others like it had been overwhelmed by the sand people and sunken into the desert. Its king has a son - Prince Kirameki. When Kira was young, he wandered into an old ruin city in the desert and met another boy his age, they played together but the boy tried to attack him and was warded off by his bodyguard. Many years later, Kira is a grown young man who has no interest in the throne but only wants to become a master swordsman. His father was extremely angry with him, but soon afterwards, before they could work things out, the king was murdered one night by another young man, the grown up version of the one who played with Kira a long time ago. He turns out to be the king's other abandoned son.
Saga, the other son hates his father who abandoned him and his mother when he was young. His mother was one of the sand people and in order to protect his position, the king sent assassins after them and killed Saga's mother. Now Saga works for Sajura, the king of the sand people, who offers him a chance at revenge. The evil Sajura then disguise himself as the king and announces the next day to the country that he actually has another son, Saga, and the throne will be passed to him. Kira could not protest because it was he himself who gave up the position.
Kira has a girlfriend who has known him since childhood, but since she came from a poor family, her parents sold her to the Water Shrine to be a priestess in training there. She had unusual powers which appears at times and when the priestesses found out, they were certain that she was an incarnation of the Water Goddess Sherafita. She then was separated from Kira because she is going to be purified and become their virgin priestess.
Kira at the same time, was throne in jail, framed by Saga and the fake king. His bodyguard Kanai died to protect him. Kira was most determined in prison where he survived all the trials and successfully escaped. Saga meanwhile, also met a girl, who was a prostitute. She was the daughter of a prostitute and a sand demon; though she is able to live with the humans, being purified by the Water Shrine, she's always under discrimination and this is the only job she can do to earn a living. She reminded Saga of his mother and her gentleness easied his wounds.
Worry, or the incarnation of Sherafita, was imprisoned by Sajura so that she could attend the ceremonial day and accept Saga as the next ruler. On the day of the ceremony, Kira breaks in and makes a total mess. During the fight, the goddess helped Saga realize that the one who sent the assassin was really Sajura and not his father. Sajura was a king of desert a few hundred years ago who made a pact with the sand people and became immortal, though he was exiled by his people and became vengeful ever since. Saga helps Kira kill Sajura; but with Sajura dead, all the sand people would disappear and Saga dissolved away himself in Kira's hands.
The goddess left Worry's body and she ended up marrying Kira a few years later. At their wedding, a little boy came up to congradulate them, and then was quickly called back by his mother. He amazingly resembled Saga and his mother... well, she was the girl from back then, of course.

• stonehenge

There was a legend in Sharel's kingdom that the Stonehenge will bring your one true wish to life. It was there that she first met her mute cousin Vadius who was soon sent on a mission to the enemy kingdom and never returned. Before he left, she gave him a crystal which he wore as an earring and it was said to bring good luck. Time passed and finally a time came where her kingdom was under attack, the palace was broken into and her father was killed. To her horror, the one who lead the attack was Vadius; he could speak now and told her that his father, the last king, was murdered and betrayed by his own brother, he was the witness but it would've been too obvious if he was killed as well, so they poisoned his voice and then sent him on an impossible mission. All his men died but he was captured by the enemies, the king of Yesod was a dark magician who offered him a chance at revenge and returned his voice.
Sharel was horrified, she ran to the Stonehenge, on that night which had a full moon, and her wish was to go to a place where there was only peace and no war. The magic sent her to the modern world, New York, where she met a guy named Kevin. Soon she found out that Vadius had also come to this era, only they missed each other in the passage of time and he arrived five years earlier.
Vadius and his minions are now after her because they need the stone that she is carrying to reconstruct the Stonehenge and take them back to their world. Sharel refused to give it up and Vadius didn't seem too eager to send people after her, so one of his servants, assigned by the king of Yesod, decided to move on her own and kill Sharel. When Vadius appeared to stop her, she accused him of betraying Yesod and he admits it.
He said he couldn't bring himself to kill Sharel after all, and so the servant now turns on him and tried to get rid of him first. Without his magic powers, he tells Sharel to use the Stonehenge to escape while he holds off the servant. With Sharel gone, he's free of worries and coincidentally spotted a weakness in the servant. He grabbed the crystal earring which he still wore on him and stabbed its pointy edge into her fatal point and she died. The reconstructed Stonehenge collapsed, but he was glad now that everything was over and Sharel was back to their world again; but Sharel suddenly emerged from the ruins and that she could never find happiness in a world if the one she loved was not there... and it's a happy ending for the two... for once.