"bold" - Japanese


"…a horrible death."

Michiru quirked an eyebrow at the end of Dumbledore's speech. A horrible death, on a school full of children? Crazy didn't suit him; insanely mad was more like it. At least Mugen had a separate place to contain whatever Professor Tomoe was doing, but 3rd floor? With no security whatsoever from keeping out children that were lost on their way?

"Suspicious." Michiru muttered to Ami, who tilted her head in confusion. Setsuna, Rei, Mamoru, and Haruka shared her thought as they stared at the Headmaster in the same suspicious look.

However, they didn't dwell on it any longer as delicious dishes appeared magically on the tables. Ravenous students started to dig in, stuffing their mouth full with food. Few less-ravenous ones took moderate bite, taking most of their time eating for sharing stories or opinion with their housemates.

Harry took pleasure on listening to Rei's stories about a group of magical heroines on her hometown. She told them she had been saved by them plenty of times, by the one named Sailor Moon. Haruka suddenly laughed, prompting Rei to change Sailor Moon to Sailor Mars. Rei probably forgot Haruka entered the same House as her. Nevertheless, the first years were curious and interested about the heroines that they prompted her to tell stories of them. Harry stayed quiet when Fred (or George?) Weasley asked her more about The Sailors, whatever they are. Though he was indeed interested, he could see Rei was getting more and more uncomfortable as the questions turned more into an open interrogation.

Fortunately, a scream from Hufflepuff table stopped the Twins from questioning Rei about something she was uncomfortable answering. Of course, the scream came from Usagi. It turned out when she was about to insert a spoonful of dessert, it disappeared. No one knows if she screamed because she was surprised or she was disappointed her delicious cake disappeared so suddenly.

But they knew the entire hall laughed because of her. Except the Senshi plus Mamoru, whom facepalmed.

It was so typical of Usagi that it wasn't funny anymore.

Before the prefect had any chance to herd the new students to their respective Houses, the Senshi alongside with Mamoru met up just near the Great Hall's large doors. Usagi had to refrain from clinging to her most favorite Slytherins (she'd just declared it during meal) just when the Slytherin prefect tapped Mamoru's shoulder, asking him to follow her.

"Oh my princess Usagi-chan," Minako giggled, switching to Japanese as she enveloped their princess in a bear hug, that Usagi happily complied to. Not just they had magically become children, they now had the vast knowledge of English as well, due to their Crystal and English lessons from their guardians. That and Latin, to Setsuna and Ami.

"Tomorrow, break time we will meet again!" She declared, glaring at sighing at Haruka and Michiru as she said so.

"Objection, Leader Venus," Makoto cut off with perfect, exaggerated English. Now that she was confident in her English, she was quite a show-off. "Haruka and Michiru prefers to snog!"

"Prefer without s, Mako-chan." Ami corrected under her breath. Rei being the only one who heard it quirked up an eyebrow. Not that they cared anyway.

"Grammar nazi."

"What was that, Rei-chan?" Ami gave a murderous-sweet look to Rei, who at the moment decided the ceiling was too beautiful to ignore.

Setsuna gave a look of sympathy toward her two blushing formerly housemates. Now that they were in body of twelve years old, snogging was clearly way to inappropriate for the couple, nevertheless they were practically married to each other.

"Aino! Chiba!"

Minako quickly released her hug from Usagi and skipped over to Malfoy's side, giving him a small smile before focusing on being as Slytherin as possible. Mamoru didn't miss a beat behind her after giving a short loving hug to his fiancé and coolly ran to the herd, as Makoto called them.

Grinning evilly at the disappearing figures Makoto rubbed her hands together excitedly. "Yes run along, for now. Usagi-chan is mine."

Switching to English, Setsuna gave a scandalized look to the formerly or future tall Sailor of Jupiter. "What was that, Makoto?"

Makoto ignored the question and secured her arm around Usagi's neck then proceeded to drag her to Hufflepuff's herd. Setsuna watched them warily before joining Ravenclaw group and bidding farewell to Haruka and Rei. Not forgetting to drag Ami and Michiru by the arms.

"Don't worry," Ami suddenly said to Setsuna, smiling ear-to-ear just as the group nearly reached the first set of stairs. It was quite unsettling to see the calm and reasonable Mizuno became like this. "Mako-chan is happy she got to spoil Usagi-chan now that Minako-chan and Rei-chan aren't really around her," She explained to a surprised Setsuna. "Why are you surprised, Setsuna-san? Are you having negative thought about them?"

"No..." Was all Setsuna could say. Michiru beside her laughed softly.

"Of course." Setsuna conceded, sulking as they climbed the stairs. "It's the first time I can't watch over Hime-chan 24/7."

"Setsuna, I don't know you're a creep."

"I have the all-seeing eye, get over it."

"ILLUMINATI." Ami joked with a mysterious voice, causing Setsuna to scowl at her.

"Quit it, brat."

"Hey! You're a kid too!"


The first week gone on without a hitch. That if you didn't call Professor Snape a hitch. Because for the first time, he picked on his own Snakes – Minako.

It had happened on Double Potions – Gryffindor and Slytherin. It was all because she accused Snape being a bully after removing a point from Harry from being 'cheeky'. She earned a detention with Longbottom.

But the biggest news was about Usagi.

Usagi, to everyone's shock, finally showed a learning spirit after Professor McGonagall transfigured something on the Transfiguration class. She had asked if she could transfigure anything to something edible, preferably sweets, which Professor McGonagall confirmed but told her conjuring was probably better. Usagi then begged, begged the Professor to teach her conjuration, but McGonagall – though a bit irritated – promised to teach her later if she got at least an Exceed Expectation on Transfiguration.

Rei and Michiru expressed their disappointment and concern (mostly the former) after a class of Divination. According to Rei, Trelawney was a fraud and didn't have any gift to see the future. Setsuna, who took the class as well, agreed after the insulting accusing.

"She told you, that you don't have any gift on Seeing?" Mamoru clapped during their gathering near the Great Lake, after the classes of the week had already ended. During their private group meeting, none of them bothered to use English.

Mamoru took a bite on his pie before commenting further. "I must say she was brave, very brave. But you've lost your power like us too, right?"

"Well it's true that I can't access the gate." She looked dejected. "I mean, I know we didn't have any access to our power ever since we arrived here…" She continued, rubbing her fingers along a heart-shaped garnet crystal on her necklace. It was her Sailor Crystal, now functioning as her jewelry.

"Exactly."

"…But that doesn't mean I completely can't see the future!"

"Maybe it's because you're losing your touch, Sets-chan." Minako soothingly said, plopping a candy to her mouth as she rubbed her own Sailor Crystal, also a necklace. "You know, because you're getting young. Get it? Get it?"

Rei pinched the bridge of her nose as she groaned. "Would you please shut up, Minako…"

Minako decided it was for the best to ignore Rei, and moved beside Setsuna.

Makoto rubbed her chin thoughtfully as she looked at the sky. "But it's kind of true, right? I mean, we traveled here illegally by Sailor Teleport and got thrown back in time, became a child like we were supposed to be on this time and lost our power because they shouldn't awaken yet?"

"Seems familiar." Mamoru wondered out-loud, blushed when all of the attention shifted to him. "Forget what I said!"

Ignoring Mamoru, Haruka continued the topic. "It's called karma everyone, thought you ought to know." Said Haruka while rubbing Michiru's hand.

"Now that you think about it, ever since then, we couldn't transform back because we couldn't find our henshin sticks, or in Usagi's case – a compact…"

Mamoru looked away. He was the only one who didn't need any objects to henshin, but that didn't mean he hadn't lost his ability to henshin to Tuxedo Kamen either.

All eyes were set on the green haired teen, searching for answer.

"Time is most probably the case," She said. "I assume our henshin sticks are supposed to be with us when we are ready to take on the duty as a Soldier, sworn to protect Serenity."

Usagi's cheeks warmed up by this. Minako smiled cheekily and nudged the younger blonde. "Get used to it, Serenity."

"Except me, of course," She sighed loudly this time. "I was younger than fourteen when I guarded the Gate for the first time. So I'm supposed to have the power anytime by now."

Haruka quirked an eyebrow at the audible sigh Setsuna was giving. "Setsuna, you rarely sigh."

"I miss my Garnet Staff, you now. We've been together for thousands of years." She replied sadly, wiping a bead of tears that formed on the corner of her eyes with her finger. "Oh bloody hell, I forgot what a crybaby I was back then."

Michiru reached for Setsuna's shoulder, patting it in sympathy. "I miss my mirror too." Haruka nodded her head as she sulkily sipped her pumpkin juice.

"And I to my sword, but not that I often use it..."

The group then talked about the plans on upcoming Halloween, how they planned to investigate the suspicious room further. Rei had told them about her experience with Ron and Harry when they were looking for a certain class, and accidentally almost unlocked the Room had Flinch didn't stop Rei from performing the unlocking charm.

But before they could concoct a full-plan, Penelope Clearwater, the Ravenclaw prefect approached them.

"Meioh, the Headmaster wants to see you. The password is Marshmallow." She looked at the rest of them before adding, "You all should come too."

None of them noticed that Penelope looked lost after relaying the message.


"Did any of you notice that Artemis and Luna didn't come with us?"

Everyone looked at Haruka in disbelief.

"Next time, do speak for yourself."