Ho-hum. Sorry it is late. I have had a lot going on lately and I haven't been sleeping well.
Here is the third installment. I'll be working hard to get the fourth part out soon. :]
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Cosmos walked out of the meeting room grumbling to herself. It was quite past noon, almost two in the afternoon, in fact. She was supposed to help. What the hell was she supposed to do? The lady of the stars mumbled a few words and a beautiful golden mirror with the sign of Neptune on the back appeared before her. The mirror had elegant swirls on the front along with what appeared to be a woman. She grasped the handle and peered into it. "Show me," she whispered.
A barrage of images assaulted her from within the mirror. Cosmos closed her eyes and vanished the mirror with a deft hand movement.
"Fuck," she said. Might as well get this over with.
After a flash of silver light, swirling feathers, and what seemed to be shooting stars, in stead of the twenty-something looking woman-child, was a girl who looked to be about sixteen wearing black robes. She turned around to see Dumbledore coming out of the room behind her.
"I may be going through this as a student, but I want to teach astronomy. And I want to chose the classes I take," she stated.
"Of course Majesty," Dumbledore said as he gave a little bow. "I would expect nothing less from you. However, will it not be a bit difficult for you to go to classes and teach at the same time? And the astronomy position is already filled. However if you would like to be an assistant teacher, I am sure that would be fine. No one would question that. Much."
"That is acceptable. Until this week is over, I will be roaming the castle grounds, getting used to them, meeting the students, and sitting in on some classes trying to figure out which I would like to take. Now," she said motioning towards the empty head table, "may I please have a schedule of all the teachers' classes?"
"Of course," he said, and with a flick of his wand a piece of parchment appeared in his hands. He handed it over to her. "Which year shall I say you are in?"
"Sixth I suppose. You can tell them that I going to be the assistant teacher in astronomy if you wish. They will find out sooner or later. I don't care what else you tell them." Serenity gave a mocking bow and with a smirk said "If you don't mind, I think I would like some fresh air before I become a student again. I shall see you when supper begins. Not before." And with that Serenity was gone in a flurry of robes.
I do hope you will be wise with what you tell the students at the speech you give before dinner. An unmistakable voice in Albus's head said.
"This is going to be a strange year" Dumbledore mumbled as he rubbed his eyes behind his half-moon glasses and walked towards his office to call Minerva to explain the situation to her, hoping that she would pass word on to the other teachers as warning.
The late afternoon found Serenity sitting under a regular weeping willow braiding feathers, ribbons, beads, bells, and just random shiny things she had found over the years into her long silvery hair. It was something she loved to do whenever she got some peaceful time to herself. She was leaning against the tree humming to herself. Students on their way to and from Care Of Magical Creatures stared at the strange girl and whispered to one another behind hands wondering if this was the same person that had stormed into the Great Hall disturbing their lunch.
It was during this time while she was switching from humming the song from the long ago star locket to her favorite Moonlight Sonata, which some students who were heading towards the castle decided to disturb her peace and introduce them selves.
"Who are you?" a deep male voice asked. Cosmos looked up to find a group of four teenagers around her. One of them being the strange black-haired youth who had caught her eye before.
"Hmmm. I could ask you the same thing," she half murmured half sang in time with her humming, which she had never stopped.
"Well, I'm Ron Weasley, that is Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom, and Harry Potter," a gangly red headed male said as he pointed to himself and the others in the group.
"Interesting," Cosmos said as she went back to braiding her hair.
"Well, aren't you going to introduce yourself?" the female of their group Hermione, Cosmos remembered, asked.
"Sure I guess. I have many names, but the one you may call me is Cosmos. Now if you don't mind," she said as she stood up and brushed off her robes, "I have some business I need to attend to. Good day." With that she walked off towards the forbidden forest.
"Hey! You can't go in there!" Hermione yelled after her.
"What the hell?" Harry said. The group of friends stared at where the strange girl had been sitting.
"Oh no! We are going to be late for class!" yelped Hermione and started to run towards the school the others following her with thoughts of Cosmos plaguing them all.
Cosmos stared after the students for a second before continuing on in the forest. There was something...pure in there. Something familiar, yet not.
It didn't take long for her to find the animals. Two different breeds from two different planets. Black leathery wings on the back of skeleton like horses, thestrals, was the first to approach her. The second, shyer animal was pure white with a beautiful silver horn on its forehead.
"Beasts from Saturn and from the Moon. How in the world did you get here?" she asked as the unicorn shyly nudged her hand, begging attention.
"Curiouser and Curiouser," the silver haired maiden said. She shook her head which let out a tinkling sound as the ornaments in her hair moved and she followed the animals deeper into the forest to their dens.
Sometime later around sunset she decided to leave the forest and head up towards the castle to have dinner and face the students who were to be her peers for however long it took to find the one whom she was chasing.
As Cosmos was walking towards the castle through the forest for the third time in so many days she thought about the full moon tonight. It had been a while since she had celebrated the moon on a blue planet. Never mind that this wasn't her Terra per say, but rather Earth, and that this moon wasn't her silver moon, but just a regular moon. She smiled softly to herself as she reached the castle lawn. As she was walking up towards the castle proper she thought of the gown she would wear and the dance she would do. She also wondered if any of the students or faculty here would perform the moon-dance as well.
Cosmos walked into the Entrance Hall and turned towards the Great Hall. She heard Dumbledore introducing her through the doors.
"-nity, or Cosmos. She is a transfer student. She was privately tutored up until this year. She is going to be the assistant Astronomy teacher, as well as taking classes with the rest of the sixth years." He clapped his hands together once and she chose that moment to open the doors and walk in.
"Lets get her sorted, then we shall start dinner! Come on up Serenity!" The old headmaster gestured for her to come up and sit on a stool in front of the head table. Serenity walked towards the stool hearing whispers once again as she passed. She caught some, but ignored them. When she got to the stool, she took a seat. The last thing she saw before a raggedy old hat covered her head, was a girl sitting at the blue table wearing what appeared to be radish earrings.
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I'll save the sorting for the next chapter. I have it mostly all planned out in my head, I just don't want to type it right now haha.
Luna! She is freaking awesome. :D We'll see more of her later.
Who wants to guess what house Cosmos will be in!
