"Ruka!"

"ROO KKAAHH!"

Michiru shout whispered.

"What is Michi?" The blonde turned around to look at her aqua haired partner, who was standing in front of a portrait of a large ugly wizard.

"It's that creepy boy again." She widened her eyes, emphasising the fact that she was actually scared.

"Michi, if he comes near you, Slytherin will have a hurricane to deal with in the boys dormitory." She a gestured for Michiru to come closer, opening her clenched fist out. "Ruka." Gratefully Michiru slipped her hand into Haruka's.

Haruka couldn't help but to make the comparison of Malfoy to the hideous wizard's portrait, as he came nearer to Michiru.

"So you want to be an idol?"

"That's so cute!" exclaimed Lavender.

Minako smiled radiantly, partially dazzling Lavender, then flipped her long hair over her shoulder.

"Thanks! What do you want to do?"

"Hmmm, something to do with magic... maybe a unicorn breeder?" The girl looked up at Minako, who smiled back amiably.

However, as soon as Lavender had said unicorn, her thoughts flew to Helios, and Chibiusa. How she missed the candyfloss haired little squirt! She looked sympathetically at Setsuna, who was with Ami, Rei, Makoto and Hermione, in an odd procession. She'd never thought of how the time keeper had felt, she'd always just poured her emotions out to her.

The dungeons were dark and dank, far from the pleasant image Harry had hoped. But then, he'd been through worse, stuck in a shoe cupboard, or at Mrs Figg's house, with her foul cats. More to the point, he wasn't going to let the aesthetics of a dungeon ruin his fantastic day!

Ron's gaze flew around to Harry, in the middle of a sentence about the Chudley Cannons. Usagi squeaked like a mouse, and grabbed onto Makoto's arm.

"You may enter the dungeons."

The speaker was a man dressed in the garb of some kind of grim reaper, with lank greasy and endless black eyes.

"Can you be my partner?" asked Ami shyly.

"Sure!" beamed Hermione.

"Welcome to potions." The voice was far from welcoming, instead it had a slippery quality like a snake.

"Scary!" Usagi looked as though she was about to blub.

No wonder why. Lined around the walls were pickled animals in glass jars, eyes misty and glazed, musty books were stuck under these, in disarray. Yet there was something sterile, almost surgical, in the way their desks were arranged.

"Find your name and sit there please." Snape spoke in a patronising tone. It took little time though to find places, despite the endless rows of desks. Slytherin on the left, Gryffindor on the right.

"Potions is an art form. You can boil glory and discover truths you can..."

Harry furiously scribbled down these notes. Professor Sapworthy had been impressed by his analytical note taking.

"Oh. Our new school celebrity seems to know everything does he now?"

Harry jumped as this was said, making Malfoy laughed smugly.

"Tell me Mr potter, the qualities of a bezoar."

"I-I don't know sir."

"Doesn't know he says! Doesn't know! So much for our school celebrity."

Hermione's hand shot up. Ami looked up at her friend curiously. Meanwhile, Rei was seething. Her eyes burnt with inky flames.

Calm it

Michiru's voice was like a soothing ocean

But it was too late. Professor Snapes's cauldron burst into glittering red flames.

Ami aimed her wand at the cauldron.

"Augumenti." She whispered. Her wand glowed cyan, and a jet of invisible water streamed towards the cauldron. Michiru aimed her wand at a smoking pile of textbooks and did the same. Usagi gave Rei a glare.

"Has anybody got anything to say?" growled Snape.

"PEEVES?!" A suit of armour clattered to the floor, and the giggling poltergeist looked at Rei and zoomed off, cackling.

"Today you will brew a potion to cure boils. Please work in pairs."

A thick textbook flopped onto each table and flipped to a page.

"The best potion will get 10 points for their house."

"Neville Longbottom." The chubby boy almost fell as Usagi shook his hand vigorously.

"Usagi Tsukino! Nice to meet you Neville! Can I call you Nev?"

Without a reply she continued:

"Ok Nev, let's get to work!" With that the blonde began to crush the horned slugs, spraying powder everywhere.

Haruka and Michiru were split, Haruka was paired with Seamus and Michiru was paired happily with Makoto.

Minako rolled her eyes at Usagi throwing around ingredients and an increasingly nervous, and equally as jumpy as Usgagi, Neville.

Michiru's potion was good. Not just good, but perfect. Her and Makoto were chatting as they poured in their ingredients precisely. But then Minako had been overcome by the urge to put in another ingredient, like a huge wave this idea engulfed her. Whilst Snape was being brown nosed by Malfoy she took an extra snakes fang and and placed it in the bubbling depths. The effect was instantaneous.

"Neptune." Her eyes opened. So blue, bluer than the ocean around her, and bluer the flawless sky above her.

"Yes." A trident glowed on her forehead like a beacon.

"Awaken!" A serenade of sweet violin, a breath of cold air and the feel of a warm kiss. Memories coursed through her veins.

"Child borne of the oceans! Such a beautiful power! Such a beautiful child!" Mermaids surrounded her, singing in high voices like pure crystal.

Light, such light!

"Who are you?" She mustered.

"Princess Neptune, be guided by the oceans, the planet of crashing waves!"

"What are you?"

Michiru's calm demeanour was broken.

"Who are you? Haruka! Haruka!"

No answer. Then Michiru remembered Makoto, and the brunette's strange experience in Xylomancy. What was going on?

SNAP OUT OF IT MICHIRU!

"Awaken!"

Her eyes snapped open.

BANG! Usagi and Neville's potions exploded simultaneously.

"Usagi!" Rei gave Usagi a furious nudge, as her potion turned from green to an unattractive brown

"Mr Longbottom how clumsy." Malfoy sniggered "10 points from Gryffindor."

"Miss Tsukino, please try to follow instructions, the book says a gentle swish of the wand not a brandish! 15 points from Gryffindor! What a good start to the year, already the lowest house..."

"As for you miss Kaioh." Malfoy turned joyously, another Gryffindor grilling. But stopped when he saw who it was.

"Congratulations. Slytherin would've suited your adept potion making ability."

Malfoy blushed. She was cute, and could make potions too...

Hi! I'm sorry about the long time it took to update! I'm going to try to update more often. Don't worry these lessons won't carry on much longer! Soon we'll get to action, when they all find out about the philosophers stone. Maybe the senshi will almost get caught? Or maybe Malfoy will confess his love? You'll find out soon!