Yay! New chapter! Sorry to anyone who liked it before I changed it.
Clash
Chapter Five
"I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't recognize you," Minako said in her most polite tone.
"Helena Ravenclaw, daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw. She told me so much about the sacrifices you made for our home."
"Where was she from?"
"Tethys."
"Oh... I'm horribly sorry about what happened there. We tried to evacuate, but we could only save those who had already evacuated to Enceladus."
"Did you know my mother?"
Minako's brow furrowed in an attempt to remember. In a muttered aside to Ami, she asked, "Was Ravenclaw the one that came in and told us all the time what a miserable job we were doing protecting the moon, or was she the one that lazed around and did nothing, while constantly asking us what the chances of survival were?"
"Neither; Gryffindor was the one with the security problem, and Slytherin was the lazy one. Ravenclaw was the one who continuously told me that I wasn't doing anything right and that she could do it better."
"Ah, I remember that now. Thank you, Ami-chan." Clearing her throat a little, she smile charmingly at the ghost. "I'm afraid I remember little of your mother--it was a dreadfully long time ago, over a millenium now, and I do have this lifetime's memories as well--but my friend remembers much more of her than I do."
Ami sent Minako a small glare.
Helena eagerly moved over to where Ami was standing, and peered at her. "Lady Mercury?"
"Yes, that was my title. How may I be of service to you?"
"I find it hard to see why Mother admired you. Your hair is entirely too short for a proper lady, much less royalty, and your attire is inapropriate for any woman."
"And you inherited your mother's lack of tact and know-nothing attitude."
"My mother was the wisest, most intelligent woman to ever exist!"
"Maybe on Terra, but I assure you, she wasn't all that brilliant, not to mention she had an absolutely dreadful habit of telling people that she could do their job better, even when she knew next to nothing about said duties."
"Lies!"
Ami shrugged. "I can't force you to believe the truth."
Voldemort watched the interaction with suspicious and greedy eyes, and, after carefully weighing the outcomes, decided to cut in.
"Excuse me, but the Founders lived almost a millenium ago. How do you know Rowena Ravenclaw?"
Minako raised her eyebrow in one smooth, aristocratic move. "Has it occured to you that we may have been alive a millenium ago?"
Thankfully, Voldemort didn't have to reveal his ignorance, for, at that moment, some one choose to reveal theirs.
"How can you be a thousand years old? You barely look twenty!" came an astonished voice from behind them.
A short girl with straight red hair slapped her hand to her forehead. "Ernie..." she groaned.
After noticing the Death Eaters that had started staring, she started backing up and grabbed the blond boy's arm, obviously intent on running.
"Not so fast, Weasley, Macmillan..."
And before either could move, Bellatrix whipped out her wand at the same time that Alecto and Amycus did.
"Crucio!"
"Sectumsempra!"
"Crucio!"
The two students, with Ginny now supporting a large gash on her cheek, curled up on the floor in pain.
The breif flash of color in their peripheral vision was all the warning they got before they were flying in the air and slamming into the cold stone walls of the Great Hall. Standing directly where the others used to be was the blond-haired man and the woman with the long black hair, both glowing brightly other colors above the glow they already had.
The woman's brilliant, red energy was rolling, even attempting to lash out at times. She looked up at the group of Death Eaters, and stared defiantly at them with glowing, solid red eyes.
The Death Eaters around him fumbled for their wands, hoping they had a spell for the two people in front of them that were exuding pure magic. One particularly brave one, Yaxley, decided to go with a more permanent solution.
"Avada Kedavra!"
The light golden glow that had temporarily taken back seat to the cerulean blue aura that the man now possessed flared up in a sudden, blinding movement, swallowing the jet of green light.
Someone else attempted to curse the other people there, but the same thing happened. This would have been a topic for discussion, had a portal not opened up in the corner of the room and a woman and a cat not come out of the portal.
The cat jumped off of the woman's shoulder and crossed the room to where Minako was standing. "I'm sorry. We tried to keep them for as long as we could, but when the hits kept coming..."
Minako sighed. "Yeah, I know. Thanks for trying."
Nephrite had come up behind her. "Minako-chan, we should really check on the people Rei and Jadeite threw," he said reluctantly.
Minako looked at Artemis. "Artemis darling, would you be a dear and just go--"
"No."
Ernie Macmillan, who was doing much better after Amycus was thrown into the wall, stared, dumbfounded. "It's a cat," he said in a funny tone of voice.
"Yes, it is, Ernie," Ginny sighed, wondering if it'd be worth it to stay any longer.
"It's talking."
"Yes, it is, Ernie."
"Why?"
"I don't know, Ernie."
Artemis had heard this exchange, and wandered aimlessly over to where the two students were tiredly laying on the floor, Ginny's cheek still bleeding, sometime during the journey morphing into a large, white panther.
"Why do I talk, or why can I talk?"
"Both."
"I do talk because someone needs to know something or I wish to make my opinion heard. I can talk because I was born that way. Any more questions?"
"How can you be a house cat and a panther?"
"I can be human, too." He changed again, until he was no longer sitting, but crouching in front of Ernie, sweeping his long white hair over his shoulder.
"How?"
"I was born a human, you know. I'm from the planet Mau. We have all sorts of nifty genetic advantages."
Ernie continued to stare.
Artemis sighed and stood up. His attention was drawn to the other side of the room, where Rei was trying to convince Jadeite that it was his responsibility to check on the people they threw because it was more his fault than it was hers, and he was responsible for two-thirds of the attack.
He looked to where the people were laying and wasn't surprised to find that Setsuna was already checking on them, though he did notice that when one of them started to stir, she knocked her out again with her staff.
Good old Setsuna.
The doors blew open with a loud bang, announcing the arrival of the first of Usagi's and Mamoru's entourage.
"A storm is blowing in, and with it comes our esteemed king and queen!"
Makoto smiled up at the senshi now riding winds of her own fashioning. "And would you happen to have anything to do with this storm?"
"I might've changed the direction a little," Haruka admitted.
"So, how are they?" Minako asked.
"Pissed. Really, really pissed. But you don't need to take my word for it. They'll be here in about five minutes, tops."
"Joy," Rei deadpanned.
Another woman flew through the doors, which hadn't been closed after Haruka's spectacular entrance, this time headed directly for the girl and the boy at the end of the hall, near Artemis.
"Let me see your cheek," she instructed Ginny. She complied, and Hotaru ran a glowing, purple hand across the cut on her cheek. "Do you have any other wounds on your body?"
Ginny shook her head no, still too shocked to say anything.
"What about him?"
"I don't know."
Hotaru moved over to Ernie and kneeled beside him. "Do you have any injuries, old or new?"
He pulled up his pants leg to reveal a long gash that might've been up to half a month old, but it was obviously infected. She ran her hand across it, and Ernie watched, fascinated, and the infection disappeared and the wound knit itself back together, leaving not even a scar.
"Any others?"
As it turned out, there was a cut on his chest, and some wounds in his back caused by falling onto broken glass. She healed those all.
"Better?"
"Yes. Thank you."
However, Hotaru's attention was already elsewhere. Standing in the still open doorway, dripping water, was yet another woman. Behind her was a tall man, with black hair plastered down on his head due to the deluge outside. His dragon-like wings were folded against his back, and though Voldemort and Co. could clearly see that they were a pure gold. His armor, like his hair, was black.
The instant he strode into the room, the gold aura around the men flared again, and when it went down again, they were clothed similarily, though their armor was of a slightly lighter hue and their capes were all lined differently. Closer examination also proved that the golden aura had left them.
From all across the room, the senshi moved toward the doorway, as though in preparation for something. Voldemort found out rather quickly, when a woman with silver hair and equally silver eyes appeared in the doorway. Instantly, the silver auras flared up again, and in place of the short skirts, tight fitting bodices, and knee-high boots the women wore dresses, none of them sharing the same style.
In addition to the change in clothing, some of them now had talismans. The woman that had come through the portal hadn't lost her staff, though less than half of them actually had something weapon-like. Besides the staff, there was a sword, a glaive, and a bow that appeared to be on fire. Something else peculiar that he noticed was that, while the tiaras had disappeared, in their place were shining symbols that Voldemort recognized from his Astronomy classes at Hogwarts as the symbols of the planets.
He would've given this more attention, but seeing the murderous expressions on the man and woman that just came in, he shifted his focus to survival tactics.
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