Ner words in this chapter: 4,819
"Talking Japanese"
[Talking English]
'Thinking'
{Talking on the phone/fireplace/two-way-mirror}
{Text message}
–Parseltongue–
Thinking in 3rd person POV/Dream/Memory/Flashback/Others
Letter/Journal/Book/Newspaper
Time change/Date of time
Change of POV
Chapter XXIX
–Surgery–
Thursday, 7 September 1995
TU's POV
Princess Serenity arrived outside the gates of a big Manor and Jadeite-san forced the gates open, before he picked up Onmyōji-kun bridal-style from her hold and carried him inside the massive grounds. She hurried to follow, only for Wizards to show up.
[Dark Lord.] Princess Serenity pleaded. [Please.] "Potter Harry-kun."
One of the Wizards, a late-thirties brunet, immediately paled when he realized who Onmyōji-kun was and took a wand to his own forearm where a strange tattoo was that flashed up going darker, only for the others to snarl at him. The big house's doors opened and Lord Marvolo-sama came out ready to snap and Princess Serenity realized that the tattoo was a specie of magical summon ritual and the other was mad for being called outside like that, only for Marvolo-sama to see what was going on.
[How long ago?] He demanded slowly enough for her even though it was obvious it was hard on him to speak slow because of what was going on.
[5… 7 minutes?] She asked uncertain.
[Inside. Rabastan, guide Moon Princess and her Knight to my quarters before one of my living Horcruxes die. Jeremy, get Antonin here immediately. I don't care if he is healing the Minister himself: I want him now!]
Princess Serenity signalled at Jadeite-san to follow the one who had called Lord Marvolo-sama and they entered the Manor. Lord Marvolo-sama was fast to follow them.
[Thank you, Lord Marvolo-sama.] She bowed her head at him.
[How was he hurt?]
"Jadeite-san, can you explain to me how it happened for me to try to translate?" Princess Serenity pleaded.
Jadeite-san looked back and, after finally setting down Onmyōji-kun, offered one hand to the Dark Lord. Unsurely, Lord Marvolo-sama took it, only for his eyes to turn glassy for a couple of seconds and, when they released hands, the red eyes were dark in fury.
"Tell him that" [Queen] "Beryl-sama ordered a Yōma to strike Onmyōji-sama from behind because he is the strongest of us all." Jadeite-san told her and she hurried to translate to the best of her abilities. "It wasn't Kunzite-aniki. He was facing us at the moment and he is not like that, even if he is strong enough to fight me, Nephrite-senpai, Zoisite-kun and Onmyōji-sama at the same time."
Princess Serenity went to translate when she heard Tuxedo Mask translating for her. She turned to see him being guided inside the room and his Tuxedo Mask's clothes shifted into Prince Endymion-chan.
[You were awoken then.]
[Yesterday.] Prince Endymion-chan agreed and approached, putting a hand on Onmyōji-kun's chest and then his clothes shifted back to his school attire. [Should me and Serenity-chan return to our human-selves?]
Lord Marvolo-sama shook his head as a Doctor run inside and immediately started working around Harry-kun, taking off his top clothes to show his massive wound. If you could even call it wound… how was Harry-kun still alive?
[So long as you stay like this my own Knights will stay respectful, Earth Prince.]
Prince Endymion-chan nodded and approached Princess Serenity.
"Stay as Jadeite and as Princess. They won't hurt us, but only as long as they see us as our past-life's royalty."
Lord Marvolo-sama quickly explained the magical Doctor how Harry-kun was hurt as the other worked around Harry-kun's naked chest. A massive hole through it coming from the back.
[Will my brother make it?] Princess Serenity asked.
[Yes, now it's best for you three to leave the room. Lots of Dark Magic is going to be used to manage the fit.] Lord Marvolo-sama argued and Prince Endymion-chan quickly translated, realizing that not even Princess Serenity could understand that many words and being told that fast. [Wait. Before you leave, where's Junior?]
[Malfoy-kun and Malfoy-sama.] Prince Endymion-chan answered and Lord Marvolo-sama nodded, signalling them out.
The three left and Nephrite-san raised an eyebrow as the three left the room.
"He is going to use powerful magic to save Harry-kun. Which I believe can be harmful to us that don't have magic of our own." Prince Endymion-chan explained. "Stay as Nephrite, it's only way to guarantee that Magic Yakuza don't see us as…"
"Muggles." Princess Serenity offered. "Harry-kun told me that Magic Yakuza sees non-magic people (Muggles) as bugs."
The Knights nodded and staid beside each of them, only for a white-haired Wizard – who Princess Serenity believed to be Jeremy-san – to approach and bow his head.
[Do you speak English?]
[Moon Princess Serenity speaks some words, if you speak slow and are direct she can understand you.] Prince Endymion-chan supplied. [My Knights do not.]
[Lord Potter is in good hands, Moon Princess.] Jeremy-san offered to Princess Serenity, who nodded. [I've the drawing room set up with calming tea.]
[Can we have your name?] Prince Endymion-chan asked.
[Lord Jeremiah Lestrange.]
[Lestrange Bellatrix-san?] Princess Serenity asked.
The man's face distorted in disgust, before he quickly told something to Prince Endymion-chan.
"Bellatrix-san was married to Lestrange-sama's oldest son. His youngest son was the one who backed you up when you arrived." Prince Endymion-sama explained and Lestrange-sama said something quickly. "Arranged wedding which Lestrange-sama regrets having agreed to."
[I'm sorry.] Princess Serenity hurried to apology and the Wizard nodded, before guiding them to a living room where a brunet man that looked too much like Rabastan-san but older was waiting. [Pleasure. My name is Princess Serenity, the Moon Princess.] She hurried to bow her head to the other, who literally bowed to his waist. [And this is my boyfriend Prince Endymion, the Earth Prince, and his Knights Jadeite and Nephrite.]
[Rodolphus Lestrange. I'm Bellatrix's widow, Princess.]
[«Widow»?] Princess Serenity asked Prince Endymion-chan, who translated. "Oh…" [You don't hurt us and no bad feelings.]
Rodolphus-san nodded and signalled the couches. Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion-chan sat on one, only for a House-elf to pop in and serve them both tea. Jadeite-san and Nephrite-san staying with their hands on the swords behind the two, for just in case.
Eventually Snape-hakase was guided inside alongside Zoisite-san.
"Where's Harry?" He asked them.
"With Marvolo-sama and a magical doctor." Prince Endymion-chan replied. [Dark Lord] "said" [Dark Magic] "and that we had to leave the room."
Snape-hakase nodded.
"Pure Magic can be harmful to no-magic people. Dark Magic can be harmful even to Wizards." He quickly explained and they all nodded. [Lord Lestrange, can you guide me towards where our Lord has a Healer healing Harry?]
Lestrange-sama nodded and walked out with Snape-hakase. Zoisite-san approached and joined the other two at the defensive position. Princess Serenity didn't blame the Knights. After what happened to Harry-kun if they didn't raise the protection it would be odd.
"The girls?"
"Went to the Malfoys' house. Sailor Mercury said that if until dinnertime we didn't return that she'd find an excuse for your parents. Like you and Potter-sama going house-sighting with Snape-hakase or something." Zoisite-san offered.
"Tommy-kun?" Prince Endymion-chan asked.
"Potter-kun somehow felt that something was wrong with Potter-sama and all the Brits were doing their best at calming his wailing form when we arrived. They had called Snape-hakase for back-up and that's why I came with him."
Princess Serenity nodded and accepted the handkerchief from Prince Endymion-chan, cleaning her tears since her own was bathed in Harry-kun's blood. She couldn't take Harry-kun's open chest out of her head. He had a literal hole that went through and through in his chest!
Princess Serenity was crying on Prince Endymion-chan's arms when Snape-hakase finally returned.
"The hole is closed and his inner organs were rebuilt. He'll need to stay under observation, but he is out of danger."
Princess Serenity stood at once.
"I have to see him."
"It's not a good idea."
"I can't take his hole out of my head, Hakase!"
Snape-hakase sneered, before he nodded.
"You'll enter. You'll see him. You leave. No interaction." He warned and Princess Serenity nodded.
Prince Endymion-chan stood and walked besides her to the room, the Knights walking as their shadow. When they arrived the room, Prince Endymion-chan signalled at the trio to stay before he and Princess Serenity entered alone. Harry-kun was still chest-naked but like promised his chest was closed, even if a massive scar where it had once been still remained. The Wizard working around Harry-kun looked up at the two, before he returned to his work. Lord Marvolo-sama by Harry-kun's head, keeping his head between both his hands and obviously controlling his magic for some reason.
Prince Endymion-chan held Princess Serenity's hand and walked with her closer to Harry-kun so she could fully-see his healed-self.
"Calmer?" He whispered back and Princess Serenity nodded. "Let's go then. Tommy-kun needs you to go calm him down."
[Is there something wrong with Junior?] Lord Marvolo-sama asked, not stopping what he was doing.
[He felt something wrong with Harry-kun.] Prince Endymion-chan agreed.
[Go back and tell Junior that my Harry is out of danger. That tomorrow he'll be back to his silly-self.]
[Thank you.] Princess Serenity hurried to bow her head.
[I didn't do it for you, Princess.] The Wizard argued. [Now go deal with your nephew.]
Prince Endymion-chan signalled at Princess Serenity that it was really time to leave and she sighed and nodded. The two left and the Knights took them back to Japan and to the Malfoy Manor. Their clothes finally shifting back. As soon as he saw Usagi, Tommy-kun levitated in Usagi's direction a meter from the ground, whining like mad. Usagi caught him, only to see the entire group immobilized.
"How did you do that, Tommy-kun?" She argued and looked at Mamo-chan, who approached and set a hand on the boy's forehead. Immediately the boy's magic started being pulled inside and the others started moving again. "What if Muggles had somehow come in and seen this?"
"Papa."
"Marvolo-sama healed him." Usagi argued, to which Tommy-kun whimpered and leaned against Usagi's neck, to hide his tears. Only for Usagi's mobile phone to ring. She looked at it to see it was her home phone number calling her. She groaned. {I'm sorry. I know we're late.}
{Did something happen?} Papa asked.
Usagi looked down at Tommy-kun in her arm and then at the others before she sighed, knowing she couldn't hide that something had happened.
{I accidentally stepped before a car while running to grab Tommy-kun's plushie and Harry-kun had to jump in and throw me out the way. He just left surgery. Hospital is sending us home.}
{Were you hurt?} Papa asked worried.
{No.} Usagi argued as she struggled not to start crying again. {Taitō-san is going to drive me and Tommy-kun home.}
{I'll warn Mama.} Papa agreed. {And favourite plushie or not, you should look before you run after it!} He added. {Where that one come from, there's plenty more. Understood?}
Usagi hiccupped and Tommy-kun started wailing against her chest, which made Papa sigh on the other side.
{I know, Papa. Harry-kun was hurt because I wasn't careful.}
{Calm down Tommy-kun and come home. Tomorrow we'll talk over this.}
Usagi agreed and Papa hung-up, she looked up at the Wizards, but Malfoy-kun had already translated to Malfoy-sama who was grabbing a two-way-mirror and warning someone in English of the fake story. The Shitennō teleported them all to the Shrine, before Taitō-san and Mamo-chan walked Usagi to the car and the blond drove the three of them to Minato-ku. Papa and Mama were by the doors when they arrived and Mama run to them, hugging the crying Usagi and pulling her inside. Papa looked at the blood on Taitō-san's clothes and sighed.
"Come in. There's no way any of us is going to sleep tonight. At the least until we get official hospital news that Harry-san is good enough to wake up." Papa put in and the two bowed their heads, before entering. "Shingo-kun, go set up some of Snape-hakase's clothes for Taitō-sama." Shingo-kun nodded and Taitō-san followed Usagi's brother upstairs. "Did you warn Snape-hakase?"
"We did, he was traveling back a day earlier last time we had contact." Mamo-chan agreed. "We were allowed to see Harry-kun when he left surgery. Usagi-chan made quite the scene in the waiting room that the doctors had to let her in and consequently me to keep her in control. He was asleep from the sleeping drugs, but seemed fully healed."
Papa breathed relieved and nodded thankfully.
"That's great news." Mama agreed as Tommy-kun finally stopped crying, but still refused to leave Usagi's arms. "Want Obāsan to make you something to eat, Tommy-kun?"
Tommy-kun babbled in agreement and Mama patted his head.
"Mama…" Usagi started, only for her own belly to growl. "They only gave us tea." She added embarrassed.
"I'll set up something simple that won't weight on your stomach. Too much and you can get sick because of the worry." Mama explained and Mamo-chan bowed his head thankfully.
Mama left the living room and not long later Taitō-san descended the stairs in Snape-hakase's clothes, Shingo-kun besides him. The boy approached and picked the snake-plushie on the way and offered Tommy, who accepted it and hugged it tight. They all camped around the living room, Mamo-chan not siting besides her, but still in an angle that she could see him. Harry-kun in the hospital was not the best time to introduce a boyfriend to family.
–O&SM–
Usagi hurried to the door, only for Snape-hakase to show on the other side. The Wizard nodded back and then walked inside, stepping out of his own shoes.
"Harry has finally woken up." The man offered to the worried group. "His first reaction was to shout your name, Tsukino-chan." He added towards Usagi, making her choke back a sob. "Took me quite a while to persuade him that you were all right for him to calm down enough to let the Senseis do their job." The Wizard added.
"Harry-san thought Usagi-chan was the one hurt?" Papa asked and Snape-hakase nodded. "He needs to learn to worry over himself."
"I keep telling him that." Snape-hakase agreed. "He'll be moved into Kusama-sensei's clinic from the public hospital by morning. For now we should all try to sleep."
Usagi nodded and picked Tommy-kun while Shingo-kun signalled at Mamo-chan to climb with him.
"You can sleep in my room, Chiba-oniisan." The boy offered. "Snape-hakase and Taitō-sama will most likely sleep in Aniki's room."
Mamo-chan traded a look with Usagi before he followed her baby brother upstairs. Usagi had just finished setting down on her bed as Tommy-kun laid on his playpen cot when her door opened. She looked up to see Mama enter the room and approach Usagi's wardrobe and pick the spare futon from it.
"Good dreams, Usagi-chan, Tommy-kun."
Usagi nodded and Mama left the room.
"Do try to sleep and not think that your boyfriend is sleeping on a futon on the floor of your Otōto's room." Luna-chan argued.
Usagi immediately scoffed.
"Telling me what not to think of is not helping." Usagi reminded and if a cat could blush then Luna-chan did a good job at it. "Sleep, Tommy-kun." She added when the boy huffed.
"Papa." The boy whined.
"The plushie must be by the bottom of the playpen cot." She argued and heard the boy move as he looked for it, only for him to call her in a whimper-like voice.
Usagi was almost standing to go look for it, when Luna-chan got up and left the room instead. She sat up and pulled Tommy-kun from his playpen cot beside her bed onto her arms as he hiccupped. Finally, Luna-chan returned with one of the two snake-plushies he had being carried on her mouth. Don't tell her… that they had actually lost the chibionmyōji-plushie?
Tommy-kun whined, only for Luna-chan to release the plushie and hurry downstairs to go fetch another. Usagi stood, started to walk back and forth and Luna-chan arrived with chibisailor moon-plushie, but Tommy-kun only whined louder. Then her parents and Mamo-chan showed by the bedroom's door as Luna-chan run to go fetch another.
"I'm sorry. Tommy-kun wants his plushie, but I don't have it." Usagi argued at the trio and the boy whined even louder.
"His favourite one?" Mama asked.
"In the middle of the confusion picking the plushie was the last thing on my mind. I just worried over getting an ambulance to rescue Harry-kun." She argued as she remembered leaving the Shrine with Taitō-san and Mamo-chan while the boy held the plushie, only for it to fall in the middle of the confusion. She could even remember it flying away.
Mamo-chan entered the room and stole the crying Tommy-kun, picking him up into his own arms.
"Do you want your Papa's basketball until morning where we'll go to Motoki-oniisan's arcade and buy you another?" Mamo-chan offered as he left the bedroom and moved into Harry-kun's room.
Usagi passed a hand through her face, holding back her tears. Mama approached and passed an arm over her shoulders.
"Hush. It's not your fault. Getting Harry-kun into the hospital was more important than to pick the flying away plushie."
"Tommy-kun…"
"Will calm down when he smells Harry-san's deodorant in Harry-san's room." Papa offered. "You should have seen how you were when Mama was with Shingo-kun at the hospital. You were happy for your new baby brother, but still wanted your Mama."
Usagi hiccupped and leaned into Mama's arms. Mamo-chan returned with a calmer Tommy-kun, while holding Harry-kun's painted-green once-orange basketball ball that the teenager set on the playpen cot, before he set the boy inside and pulled the blanket over him. Tommy-kun pulled the massive ball close and closed his eyes, finally letting sleep take over.
"We should do the same." Mamo-chan offered and Mama and Papa nodded. "Can I use your mobile phone to send a text to Motoki-kun? For he to meet us at the Game Centre Crown before school starts."
Usagi groaned at remembering that it was still weekday. She picked her mobile phone and gave her boyfriend, who bowed his head before he walked into Shingo-kun's room. Mama helped Usagi to her bed, before tucking her in and then Tommy-kun. Then Mama and Papa left the room, closing the lights.
–O&SM–
SK's POV
Kuntsuaito grabbed the flying plushie in his direction. Onmyōji-san's chibi plushie-version. With the difference that someone had grabbed a pen and had painted round-glasses over the eyes and then a lightning scar on the forehead.
Kuntsuaito looked up at the moon high in the sky. Onmyōji-san had been defeated by one of Queen Beryl-sama's favourite Yōmas. Long before Kuntsuaito could even try to call him into a duel. If Onmyōji-san was as powerful as Queen Beryl-sama claimed, Kuntsuaito would have liked to have been given the chance to have defeated him himself. But not like this.
Kuntsuaito went to open his hand to free the plushie but found himself unable to do so. The plushie looked like it was looking right back and he realized that not only the glasses had been added in, someone had painted the eyes green as well.
It was obvious this plushie was loved. Whoever the owner was he/she would want it back.
With a huff he cursed it and the plushie started to grow until a 1,87 meters tall Yōma in Onmyōji-san's attire, tattooed round glasses, forehead lightning scar and green eyes to show up in it's place. Somehow Kuntsuaito had the feeling that this plushie was taller than the actual Onmyōji-san himself.
"Kunzite-sama." The Yōma agreed, bowing to a knee with its head bowed down and in it's hand instead of a stick like the real Onmyōji-san it was a staff like it had been in the chibi-plushie version.
Its voice sounded strange.
"Do you remember who your owner was?" Kuntsuaito asked and the Yōma nodded. "The child must be missing you."
The Yōma raised its head and a smirk that looked really wrong on it's face showed up, before it walked away in a direction of Tokyo. Kuntsuaito looked again towards the sky. There. He had returned the child their plushie.
He had heard so much about the Onmyōji-san from his fellow Shitennō that he had looked forward to the ability of duelling him himself. Yet… Queen Beryl-sama had sent a Yōma and taken that chance from him.
Kuntsuaito went to walk away when he found himself face-to-face with Nefuraito-kun and Zoisaito-kun. The two side-by-side with a sword in hand. As if ready for battle. Did they really believe they could defeat him on his element? Swords were Kuntsuaito's style not theirs… Just how much had Onmyōji-san put them under his spell?
"Onmyōji-san is not alive any longer to have you under his mind-control." Kuntsuaito argued at them.
"He wasn't the one who put us under a mind-control. He was the one to break it, Aniki." Zoisaito-kun argued.
Kuntsuaito stepped forward to teach them both better, when he felt Queen Beryl-sama's calling him. He teleported to the cavern at D-Point in the North Pole and kneeled on one knee before his Queen.
[Queen] "Beryl-sama, I had both Zoisite-kun and Nephrite-kun within my grasps."
"We have more important things to worry about than your pity revenge against the Sailor Senshis. Princess Serenity has the Silver Crystal. You have to find who she is and take it from her for our great ruler."
Kuntsuaito closed his hands with strength, before he bowed his head.
"As you wish," [Queen] "Beryl-sama."
–O&SM–
Friday, 8 September 1995
TU's POV
Motoki-oniisan opened the arcade for them as they hurried out the house early morning before class-time.
"You are lucky, there was a new one that arrived yesterday." Motoki-oniisan offered as they arrived his side.
Mamo-chan nodded, took out a coin and approached the game, quickly doing his best to catch the new Onmyōji-plushie. Ami-chan and Mako-chan each picked a coin when they realized that the plushie was under other plushies. Mamo-chan sighed when he caught a bunny instead. Ami-chan took his place to try to free the exact plushie from the others enough to be caught by Mako-chan. Mamo-chan picked the bunny-plushie and approached Tommy-kun in Mama's arms apologetically. Tommy-kun picked it.
"Obachan." He called and Usagi approached, only for the boy to give her the plushie.
Usagi smiled thankfully and took it.
"Thank you, Tommy-kun."
Ami-chan ended up catching a teddy-bear that had a half-moon pillow on it's arms. She approached Usagi and gave her as Mako-chan quickly started trying to catch the chibionmyōji-plushie.
"Caught it!" Mako-chan suddenly claimed eagerly as she took the plushie into the hole.
Mama approached the machine with Tommy-kun and let the boy be the one catching his new plushie.
"Obāsan." The boy whined at seeing the plushie's face.
Mama accepted the plushie and then nodded at Tommy-kun.
"I have the cloth-pens at home, we'll paint it's face when we arrive from the visit to the clinic." Mama agreed.
Tommy-kun looked at his new plushie's head before he nodded and let the woman pick him up.
"Thank you, Everyone." Usagi hurried to add and the others nodded back as Motoki-oniisan picked a plastic bag and set Usagi's new plushies inside. "Mama, if Harry-kun is awake…"
"I'll pass the well wishes from all of you." Mama agreed, accepting the bag. "You have to get to school. You can visit him after classes, so try not to get into detention."
Usagi blushed and they all left.
"Thank you, Motoki-kun." Mamo-chan put in as Mama walked the other way with Tommy-kun, Sanjōin-san as her shadow. "With everything that happened to Harry-sama, Tommy-kun losing his plushie was just the tip of the iceberg."
"Don't worry. Boss won't argue over me opening the door earlier and the electricity for you to try at catching three plushies. I'll explain to him what happened when I arrive later and he'll understand. Knowing him he'll put a warning on the entrance how this is the only place who has the most authentic plush-versions of the Sailor Senshis in the whole Tokyo."
Mamo-chan smiled back and after a kiss on Usagi's forehead at the entrance of her school, making Motoki-oniisan whistle teasingly, the two left to their own school.
"Be quiet, will you?"
"Doesn't she have a boyfriend?" Motoki-oniisan argued back at Mamo-chan as they walked away. "As in Harry-sama himself?"
"They were faking it. He only sees the Tsukinos as family." Mamo-chan retorted. "And yes, I had Harry-sama's permission before we started dating."
Motoki-oniisan started laughing as they turned down the corner of the road. Usagi entered with Ami-chan and Mako-chan, the three walking into the main entrance where luckily was Karasuma-kōchi as well as Haruna-sensei.
"Haruna-sensei, Karasuma-kōchi." Usagi bowed her head and the two nodded back. "There was an accident last night. Harry-kun went to the hospital in urgency, Snape-hakase went to take care of his transference into the private clinic an hour ago."
The two Senseis nodded.
"Can you call Snape-hakase to pass here as soon as he can spare?" Haruna-sensei asked and Usagi nodded.
"What was it this time?" Karasuma-kōchi demanded to know.
"Tommy-kun's favourite plushie was flown away into the road and I run after it because the boy started whining, only for Harry-kun to get me out of the way and be hit himself by the car." Haruna-sensei sighed and nodded, Usagi left with Ami-chan and Mako-chan. They stopped by the girl's WC and as the girls kept a look out, Usagi took out her new necklace and looked at the mirror inside. {Snape-hakase.}
The wizard showed on the other side.
{Harry is in the clinic and safe, Tsukino-chan.} The Wizard reprimanded.
{School wants you to pass by after transferring Harry-kun.} Usagi retorted.
Snape-hakase looked behind himself at something and then back.
{Very well, Tsukino-chan. Kusama-sensei is making me a document for me to bring to the school. Where are you calling me from?}
{The girls' lavatory.} Usagi put in, moving the mirror around so the man could see it. {Mako-chan and Ami-chan are keeping any unwanted attention away.}
The wizard nodded approvingly, before he hung-up. Usagi put on the necklace again and the three hurried to their classes.
"We need to find an old mobile phone where we can put that mirror on top so people think you are making phone calls instead." Ami-chan put in. "I'll talk with Luna-chan over it, something like my compact computer."
Usagi nodded and they arrived their respective classrooms. Today would be a long day and Usagi was beyond tired.
(TBC)
Next chapter: Plushie Yōma & Shin
~Isys