Chapter Four! Updated as of 6/30/09. I actually won a contest today. I wish all of you luck, as well. Please enjoy!

Serenity slowly opened her eyes the next morning. She was still hidden under her thin sheets, which now let in the day's first light. Let's hope that today will be a better day, Serenity thought to herself. She slowly removed her covers and looked at her surroundings. It seemed like everyone had forgotten her, for aside from Hermione who was stuffing books into her bag and the two cats sleeping on Mina's bed, she was alone in the room. The princess slipped out of bed, the frilled hem of her old fashioned nightdress slipping down to her ankles with a floof. Hermione, who hadn't realized Serenity was awake, jumped at the gentle noise.

"Oh...G-Good morning." Hermione slowly said. Serenity cocked her head slightly, hadn't Hermione been quite loquacious with the others last night? Was it because she was hiding the whole night?

"Good morning!" Serenity chirped, regardless of the other girl's odd behavior. "Um, Hermione, do you think less of me because of what happened last night? I'm just, really..." Serenity didn't quite know what to say, nor was she sure why she was so honest with her emotions – something a princess should never do.

"I don't, no!" Hermione quickly exclaimed. "I'm sorry, I've had something on my mind lately, I don't know what to do about it." She nodded her head earnestly. "But just ignore those other people. Honestly, talk to Harry, he's been through all of this and more."

"Thank you!" Serenity smiled happily. "People are much more...open in the future, aren't they?"

"I suppose so." Hermione shrugged. "I haven't thought about it. I guess a lot of the things we do nowadays are really different then your time."

"Yeah...it's a bit overwhelming, really." Serenity gave a wry smile. "So, what classes do we have today?"

"Defense Against the Dark Arts with the new professor, Transfiguration with McGonagall and a double Potions with Snape. Ugh." She recalled as she slung her book bag over her shoulder. "Well, I need to hurry off to the Great Hall for breakfast, so I'll see you there!" Hermione gave a short wave before leaving. Serenity smiled, she felt much better.

"Serenity, you might want to be prepared for questions today." Luna said. She and Artemis had woken up (or maybe they were pretending to sleep) and had hopped onto the princess's unkempt bed.

"Did something else happen?" Serenity sighed. "Did the sequel to the Moon Kingdom book come out? The Princesse of the Moon Kingdom and How to Hurt Them?"

"Not yet." Artemis said.

"Haha." Serenity said, getting her robes and other clothes out of her trunk. "Hopefully Lavender and the others will talk better about us. So why should I be prepared?"

"It probably has to do with this." Said a voice from the stairs.

"Rei?" Serenity asked, turning around quickly to see the raven-haired girl in the doorway. Raye sat on Serenity's bed and handed her a newspaper, The Daily Prophet, that had been sent out the day before. Raye pointed at the headline that read:

QUEEN SERENITY THE FOURTH'S DAUGHTER TO ATTEND HOGWARTS

"So?" Serenity asked.

"Keep reading." Raye said.

It has been confirmed by our independent sources that Princess Serenity the fifth, daughter of Queen Serenity the Fourth, is to attend Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this school year with some of her closest guardians for reasons unknown. No information is known about this very historic journey except that she most certainly comes from 1000 years in the past.

"Your point?" Serenity asked.

"Go on..."

Cornelius Fudge, Minister of Magic, advises people not to say anything about what has been believed to have happened one thousand years ago, as it has not really happened to the princesses in their own time. "One thousand years ago, Serenity the fifth was known to sneak down to Earth and do horrible things when she was mad or upset." says the Japanese Head of Magical Affairs and contact of our own Minister of Magic, Masuharu Inoue. It has been proven true, that after a very hard day, Serenity was denied to go down to Earth to see her lover. She snuck off anyway. The day after, twenty muggles and wizards were found dead. "Serenity took no precaution of the attacks on the solar system that were happening at the time and did as she pleased." said the late Matthew Liao in an old diary entry published in Legends of the Moon Kingdom. "She and the rest of the Silver Millennium used to be allies, especially in the magical world, though our powers may be different. Perhaps if it were not for the princesses foolish desires and only caring for herself ad her paramour, we would still be allies." This reporter wants to know, why was she sent to Earth, for she certainly could not have made the decision herself? To harm more of us? To side with the Dark Lord? Or truly for their "studies," as Headmaster Dumbledore is so keen on saying. No one may never know, and those who find out may never get the chance to tell.

At the bottom of the article was a box, which looked to have been pasted another article.

EXTRA! Right as we were about send our paper to the presses, word reached our ears that Hogwarts had been the subject of a small attack by six of He Who Must Not Be Named's followers, the Death Eaters. The whole reason they were able to get into the heavily guarded castle was because the princess and her guards were too careless with their elemental magic. It seems like the princess and her guardians sat and watched right until the point when a student almost died. Though they did render the Death Eaters temporarily immobile, they did nothing to protect the students. They even brought even more of the warriors of the past into the fray, for no reason other then to scare the students. What comes as the greatest shock – or perhaps not - was that the Death Eaters were looking for the princess. It seems that only minor injuries resulted from this and that five of the six Death Eaters have been captured and transferred to Azkaban. We will bring you new updates as they arrive.

"Who wrote this?!" Luna exclaimed.

"There's no name." Raye said. Artemis made a couple of noises as if he was going to speak.

"How could they be so ignorant?" he finally said. "Those people died because of those attacks in the past!"

"And we didn't just "sit there!" Raye exclaimed, her temper coming out as well.

"I-It's alright." Serenity said. "Please don't get upset."

"Serenity?" Raye asked.

"I have you. And the others. And anyone who's smart enough to realize that this is all fake. Really, I'm fine, we'll be fine."

Serenity sat in the back of her first class. The garnet-haired time guardian sat next to her. The other senshi were scattered across the room, but were in the general vicinity of the princess.

Breakfast was not a nightmare, but it wasn't a huge turnover from last night. There were no Death Eaters attacking, which was a huge plus. A few people seemed to be more amicable then the previous night, but the article in the Prophet had shaken a few people, though others had seemed to realize that parts of it were fake. At least many of Harry's friends, aside from Fred and George who had apologized to her when she walked in, seemed to be talking to them and asking question about the Moon Kingdom and the past.

"I wonder what our professor is like...we walked out before she came in." Mina said as she fiddled with her textbook, opening ad closing it, letting the pages fall slowly.

"I met her yesterday. She seemed real nice, though..." Serenity said. Maybe she wouldn't have been so nice if she knew who she was. The young professor walked in at that moment, her hair less frazzled and her robes of dark purple more professional.

"I hope you are having a good morning as I am not. As most of you know, my name is Professor Mynci, for those few who were not present or were too busy stuffing their faces to notice me trip and fall last night." She said with a smile. Professor Mynci was certainly unlike any teacher they had met before, though she did remind the princesses of someone they knew in the past. When she called the role, she did not do as so many others did and stop momentarily at Harry's name, nor did she stop at the princesses' names, like many professors soon would do.

Professor Mynci read aloud from their books and gave them some light work to do in class. It was very quiet in the room (with the exception of Neville constantly dropping his things to the floor) until a small owl fluttered into the room and perched itself on top of the advanced text Mynci was reading. She unwrapped the letter around it's leg and read it with a tint in her cheeks and a glint in her eyes. From his desk, Harry couldn't quite make out what sort of expression she had on, but Hermione, who was sitting next to him, seemed to understand.

Right before class was set to end, the door to the classroom opened to Harry's least favorite teacher, Professor Severus Snape.

"Aisha," he said. Professor Mynci looked up, almost looking embarrassed. "The headmaster needs to see you. Now." Mynci gave him a look that Serenity could easily identify as 'what did I do?'

"Can it wait until after this class is over, Professor?" She asked him politely, almost as if she was still a student and not a colleague of his. "It's just, things have been quiet now, and I wouldn't want any House rivalries to start when I leave..."

There were a few noises in the room as most everyone knew she was talking about Malfoy. The blonde boy, who was sitting with his two cronies Crabbe and Goyle, quickly looked at the other students before returning to his work, a slight redness creeping over his face. How dare she! However, The young professor glances at her watch and announced that it was, in fact, time for class to end.

"Remember that this assignment plus the next chapter's reading is due by next class." She slowly stood up and followed the sallow-skinned professor from the room as the other students began filing out.

Interesting... Mina thought. For when Snape entered the room, Mina felt vibes in her area of expertise, love. This professor who seemed so dark and cold was feeling love.

But it wasn't directed towards Professor Mynci.

It was directed towards one of the students.

"You felt what?!" Serenity exclaimed at lunch. "With Snape? The Death Eater? He really didn't seem like the type to be in a relationship with someone younger than him..."

"He didn't seem the type to be in any relationship." Mina said. "But I am the princess of love, and felt very clear vibes." She said, smiling.

"It's you, Mina!" Lita joked.

"No, no, it's Serenity!" Mina said.

"He's a Death Eater, right?" Serenity asked. "So he has other powers besides...well, this stuff? So maybe he knows Trista's really however old you are."

"It's not me." Trista said calmly. "And I thought we had concluded that he was a spy."

"You know?!" Raye said."Tell us!"

"Quidditch tryouts are tonight." Amy said very randomly. Al eyes were suddenly on her. "N-not that I was wanting to try out or anything..."

"Not that they would let any of us play, you mean..." Serenity murmured. At that moment, a letter flew from a passing owl's claws into Trista's hands. She opened it carefully, seeing the crescent moon seal of the Silver Alliance. She slowly read over the letter. As her eyes went lower down the page, the girls saw her look more and more alarmed.

"That's not right, that couldn't have happened, it's against the time stream..." She muttered to herself.

"What's it say?" Lita asked.

"It's..." Trista looked up and stared at the inner court. She closed her eyes briefly before openin them again. No longer did she look alarm, but unnaturally calm. Empathetic. "It's Prince Endymion's generals...they...they've been...killed."

The inner senshi let out a collective gasp before turning as still as stone. Serenity was the only one besides Trista who seemed capable of feeling at the moment. Serenity knew the generals quite well as they were her lover's best friends, but...the generals were also her soldier's lovers. It was almost like destiny that they had all found a love from Earth. They served Endymion with all they had.

"Who...who did it?" Mina asked softly after many minutes.

"They don't know. But they suspect it was Mettalia." Trista said. There was a minute more of silence as the tears began to appear in the four girls' eyes. Then,

"I'm going up for the funeral." Raye said. There was a collected murmur and some nods. "I...have to see him one more time."

"We can't." Trista said finally.

"Trista, they loved them!" Serenity said.

"Please understand," Trista held out the letter, "First of all, their bodies...there aren't bodies."

"So...so they might not be dead?" Amy asked, looking up from her lap.

"The Queen called them to her room and when they didn't come she tracked their bodies and..."

The silence returned.

"Trista, you said "first..." Is there anther reason we can't go?" Serenity asked. Trista looked up at her as if to say, I have to tell them this, too?

"It's...not that we can't." Trista said. "But, after what happened last night, it's advised that we stay here. And I have to agree, if something like that happens again and we're blamed..." She didn't continue, but they all understood.

Before the double block of Potions, they had a one hour free period. Trista, along with Hermione, stayed in the dorm with Mina, comforting her. Serenity, Ginny, Harry, and Ron took care of Lita in the common room, trying to talk about other things to get her mind off of it, if only for a moment. Amy had gone off to the library, somewhere she felt very safe and comforted. Raye just needed to walk. She slowly made her way down the floors of the castle, stopping by almost every window to look out at the sunny day. If she looked down on the grounds, she could see other students laughing and playing. How could they be so happy when her world was so sad?

"I feel your pain." said a voice from behind her. Raye quickly turned to see Malfoy, alone for once. Though she had heard every horror story about him Harry had after he had left their compartment on the Hogwarts Express, she had a hard time believing it now. His hands were in his pockets and his face bore no smirk, smile, or jeer. Still, Raye wasn't quite ready to trust him so easily.

"I'm not really in the mood." She said, returning to her slow walk along the wall. Draco followed a few steps behind her.

"Come on, cut the house rivalry stuff, you're not really a Gryffindor anyways." He muttered. Raye turned around yet again.

"Excuse me?" She asked, her fiery temper starting to rise.

"Father's already told me that you're here to stop someone even more powerful then the Dark Lord." Draco said, leaning against the wall. "Very noble."

"Thanks a lot." Raye glared at him. His father knew?

"I won't tell anyone. I don't care if you kill the Dark Lord, too." He shrugged.

"Look, I'm really not in the mood." Raye said.

"I said I feel your pain." Draco muttered. "I do. I'm here. You know. If you need any comforting or whatever it is girls did back then."

Raye raised an eyebrow, considered yelling considered breaking down, but finally opted to storm off.