Spirits of the Living

a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..

by Kellybug

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Chapter 03

As the students gathered for the Spring-Semester Sorting Ceremony, The Senshi sat bolt-upright and stiff.

Or, rather, three of them did. Kino Makoto was as relaxed as she could be, seated at the Gryffendor table.

While she was known to make friends outside of her house (including Slytherins, raising the gossip-level

concerning her character), she seemed more at ease with the Gryffendors. And, then, there was Tsukino Usagi.

Usagi, even by Slytherin-standards, was acting strangely. Slytherins were proverbial for holding onto secrets.

But? Tsukino Usagi seemed to be taking that proverb to new depths and hieghts! She acted comfortably-enough

around her fellow-Slytherins, even though she did not attack the Gryffendors, if she could help it. Still,

she kept wary eyes on her fellow-Senshi. And, she kept darting those eyes to the new-students as they filed in.

And, she kept shuffling and re-shuffling a deck of playing cards!

And, whenever a fellow-Slytherin enquired into her actions, Usagi would just smile enigmatically, catch the

enquirer with her eyes, ask how they were, and turned her eyes away!

"Now, that we have despenced with the warnings and schedulings," The Headmaster stated, "allow me to introduce the

latest-member to our staff! Assistant-Medi-witch Mizuno-Snape Saeko! Poppie has assured me that, with Madame Snape's

help? The Nurse' Office will be in good hands!"

"In the best of hands," Professor Snape drawled, "since Poppie now has someone to worry over her as much as over

the students!"

Soon (and, maybe, too soon?) The actual sorting into the Houses-of-Hogwarts had begun:

The beaten-up-looking Sorting Hat (or? As known to the Mizunos? "Dumbledor's Old Drinking-Buddy") was placed

ceremoniously of a stool by McGonigall.

And, creases in the hat seemed to become a mouth, and eyes, and the hat began to sing:

"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,

But don't judge on what you see,

I'll eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats sleek and tall,

For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat

And I can cap them all.

There's nothing hidden in your head

The Sorting hat can't see,

So try me on and I will tell you

Where you ought to be.

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

Their daring, nerve and chivalry

Set Gryffindors apart;

You might belong in Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true

And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

If you've a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find there kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin

You'll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means

To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don't be afraid!

And don't get in a flap!

You're in safe hands (though I have none)

For I'm a Thinking Cap!

The whole hall burst into applause as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables and then became quite still again.

Then, after the obligatory-warnings about the Forbidden-Forest, Professor McConigall placed the Talking-Hat onto the first of the new

Spring-Semester students.

And? As each of their doppelgangers stepped forward to be placed under the hat, the Senshi - in their turns - became hyper!

"Lina Inverse?" McGonigall called out. "Come forward, please?"

Lina steeped forward, sweeping her eyes along the tables as if spotting for enemies. 'She looks like Filia-San,' She thought as her

eyes rested on a blonde in odangos and streamers. 'Could belong to Filia and Xellos, somehow?' Then her gaze landed on Rei. 'Not at same

table! Why not at table? Feel blonde reaching for her. Why?'

Then she felt the hat being placed on her head.

"SLYTHERIN!" The hat thundered from atop Lina's brow.

And Hei Hino, as she was known in Britian, Froze as her violet eyes seemed to enlarge!

"Redaheado! Why here? Why now? What do I do? What have I done?"

"What is wrong, Miss Hino?" Harry Potter and Hermoine Granger asked the visibly-shaken Gryffendor.

"I am dead... I am dead..." Rei fearfully whispered. "She will kill me."

Slowly, Lina walked to the Slytherin-table as she seriously-assayed the odangoed-blonde. Then, she studied Rei hard at the Slytherin-table!

Blazing red eyes pierced the miko:

"We.. shall.. talk.. Gaurdian!" Lina hissed.

"I am dead..", Hino Rei whimpered. "I am dead..."

"Maybe - Gaurdian - until then, however?" Lina smirked. "I shall be gaurding what you treasure, most! Or? Who you treasure most! Or,

should?"

Lina then walked calmly to the Slytherin table, leaving Hino Rei quaking as as aspen:

"I am cursed! I am cursed! I have cursed myself."

"What was that about, Miss Hino?" Neville Longbottom asked the visibly-shaken Gryffendor.

"Seaence." The miko shuddered.

After a few more students were sorted into Hogwarts', Xellos was called up to be sorted. He scanned the hall and grinned - much like

a cat anticipating a fine-meal - as his lidded-eyes fell upon Tsukino Usagi.

'She is here! Good! She shall be safe! Now, whether or not her 'sisters' remain safe? Kukuku! Is entirely up to them! As least, Filia

need not worry. Although? She will. Filia is Filia! Silly dragon. Why I love her.'

"SLYTHERIN!" The Hat cried out as soon is it touched the brow of The Trickster-Prince.

'Of course! Hat-baka!' Xellos's grin grew into a smirk. 'I am home.'

'Hmm..' The hat pondered inside Xellos' head. 'I am an idiot, am I?'

'Allied to Headmaster-baka?' Xellos chuckled darkly. 'Hat is baka! Do not stay on head too long, dano! Mind is too small to be wandering

around lost in so vast a world.'

As soon as a maniacally-giggling hat was removed from his head, Xellos headed to the Slytherin-table as if he owned the hall, and politely

(for a Mizuko) sat beside Usagi:

"Leave room, children!" He grinned. "Filia shall be joining us, shortly!"

After a few more students were sorted into their respective houses, Amelia stood up and walked to the stool. The Sorting Hat was then

placed on her head.

'A polite child we have, here!' The Hat chuckled warmly. 'But? What else should we expect from an heiress of Seilune, even at their most-

rebellious? Yes, I see you are friends, already with Miss Inverse and the Mizuko. Friendship and trust like that speaks greatly for you beng in

Slytherin - or? In Gryffendor! Yes, Griffendors NEED to know that ANY house is to be trusted. That ability to reach all with that friendship

makes you a perfect Hufflepuff. But? It is your quest for knowledge and the learning of secrets that makes you ideal for...'

"GRYFFENDOR!" The Hat thundered out.

After the Hat was removed from her head, Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun scanned the tables, allowing her eyes to land on a certain blue-haired

Gryffendor!

And? Ami flinched! Just a little.

Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun then softly asked to take the chair next to Amelia Snape-Mizuno then wrote a short missive and passed it to

Snape-Mizuno:

"We must talk, Ami-imouto. Soon."

And, Ami's heartbeat raced a little, and her breath quickened, and her face grew pink. Then, she turned to look to her mother, and then her

father, and - lastly - turned to glance at Usagi:

'Help me? Onegai?'

Soon, the last of the new-students was called to be placed under the hat by Minerva McGonigall:

"Filia Ul Copt"

'Hm..', the Hat pondered from inside Filia's head, 'at first touch, young.. dragoness? If would seem that yoou would be a perfect fit for

Gryffendor!'

Filia frowned, then smiled. 'I, too, thought of that, Old Hat! But?' A portrait came to her mind. 'That was a couple of lifetimes ago!

Heehee! Hm.'

'Truly.. Priestess..', The Hat grinned, 'But? Your mind holds so many stories, and secrets! You have walked in the light, and in the twilight

and starlight! And? You crave friendships, but, not over-many! And, you are a careful guard over those friendships you have. Afraid of losing

them? Do not worry, Ul Copt! You will find - and keep - your treasures in...'

"SLYTHERIN!"

Soon, to the applause of her house, Filia Ul Copt made it to the Slytherin tables. But? Not before shooting a death-glare at Aino Minako!

'Aino-chan? Baka who make friends of spoiled-children who deride Tsukino Usagi-chan? Who deride House-TSUKINO?! Worse than Baka!'

Filia than politely waded through the cheering Slytherins towards Xellos and who, she felt confidently, was Tsukino Usagi.

'Am feeling powers of Doragon ano Mizuko! Hai. As in Kenji ano Shin. Maybe.. maybe.."

Then, following Xellos' silent, barely-perceptible nods as leads, Filia took note of the Gryffendor table:

'Hino - Kino - Mizuno ano. Mizuno colored like assistent-nurse. Nurse look like nurse at Tokyo-General we talk to! Could be interesting!

Could be trouble?'

"You noticed Mizuno, my dearest Filia?" Xellos grinned. "Noticed Nurse Mizuno dano? Mizuno just brought in as assistant-nurse! I wonder why?

Heard Headmaster was against it! Again? Wonder why?"

"Dumbledor-Headmaster sounds like Golden-Dragon Head-Priest! Act like High-Priest." Filia growled. "Hate him, already!"

"Come, Filia!" Xellos grinned. "Just because Head-Priest was against our marriage? YOU were against our marriage!"

"Hai. At beginning." Filia conceded. "Did not know, then, what I know, now!"

Xellos chuckled. "Kukuku! Neither one of us knew what we know, now! Think only one to know was Madam Beastmaster! Dragons were scared of

what came from marrige! Enough of old carcasses demo."

"Why were doragon-techi scared of what came from marriage?" Usagi asked. "Of children?"

"Of OUR child, Tsukino-chan!" Xellos smiled, relishing the taste of the joke played on the Dragons. "Son was born human! Not dragon, not

mizuko! Dragon are scared of humanity, tries to keep them subservient! Mizuko are intrigued by them, hai! Mistress Beastmaster most-intrigued!

Hai. One who ordered Filia and me to be together."

"'Ordered' marriage?" Usagi gaped. "Arranged?"

"Hai." Filia smiled in memory. "In her way. As her way!"

"Get along with Mother-in-Law?" Usagi queried, Her eyes wandering - for some reason - to the Assistant Nurse. Then, she - as quickly and

unnoticeably as she could - looked away from the Assistant Nurse.

"Hai!" Filia smiled and giggled.

'Why did I look to Mizuno-Sensei when I thought of 'Mopther-in-Law'?' Usagi thought to herself. Then she glanced to Ami.

And, Usagi fidgeted a little, and lightly chewed her bottom lip.

'Ami-chan is FRIEND.. is IMOUTO.. is.. is..."

Then, Usagi closed her eyes, and remembered - that Ami was her first Senshi, on Earth and on the Moon, and her oldest friend outside

her family! Besides Naru! In BOTH lifetimes?!

Usagi slowly slidd her fingers down and up her lap..

Then, slowly, Usagi opened her thighs.. then, shut them, tighly!

'Ara..', the odango reasoned as she could. 'Mamo-kun is orphaned. No mother-in-law, there. How would Mizuno-Sensei feel having

daughter-in-law? What of My Ami's father? Hold on.. MY Ami? She is Sailorsenshi, hai, but... Is she mine? Would she be mine?"

'She is yours..' Usagi heard a seductive whisper inside the back of her mind. 'Always been yours... Will always be yours... Shy...

Frightened of love... But? Yours..."

Those words kept playing in Usagi's mind: 'She is yours... always been yours...'

Again, Usagi opened up her thighs, then she closed them - not as quickly or tightly as before, however.

Her fingers slid ovr her crotch.

Stealing another peek at her Ami-chan, Usagi slowly slid under the table, like a setting sun!

"Sit up, Miss Usagi!" Filia advised with a warm smile and a whisper. "Food is here."

"Eep!" Usagi answered.

"Usagi no Chuu!" Xellos teased playfully.

By this time, Dumbledor was - again - warning the new-students of the dangers of the surrounding magical-forest, at which point Xellos

harrumphed, and then guffawed. "That forest?! Not as dangerous as me!"

"Or, me, my Xellos!" Filia spoke low and threatening as she kept a piercing eye on Minako. "As a certain - GRIEF - endor will soon find out!"

"What is problem, Miss Filia?" Usagi asked.

"ONE Senshi," Filia growled, "forgets where her DUTY lies! Hai. Will be reminded! Soon."

Usagi followed Filia's gaze. And sighed.

"Minako.. is Minako."

The rest of the reception-feast went by without a problem, at least for Usagi and her new-friends and -protectors! As the night wore on,

the trio of Usagi, Filia, and Xellos seemed to grow closer. And? Every now and then, Usagi would look to check on the Senshi.

Especially, Usagi quietly reminded herself and smiled a little, Snape-Mizuno Ami!

And, soon, a suddenly super-shy Ami was looking for her oldest-friend, outside of her family, and feeling a slightly-raised heart-beat!

Then, at the Slytherin-table, in-between two seemingly- and oddly-protective Slytherins, she thought she saw Usagi, peeking over the table at

her and happily nibbling - something - and waving at her! She reminded the small blunette of nothing more than a cute French Lop! And, even

though they were not in the same House ('Damn that hat!'), Ami did not feel so alone, anymore! She had her Bunny!

Wait a minute! 'HER bunny'? Where did THAT come from?

It was, now, Ami's time to "Eep!" And, try to hide just under the table. She then tossed a worried-look to her parents:

"What do I do?'

Severus put of his BEST stone-face, the one his wore to face his students.

Saeko tried her best to hide a smirk - and, almost succeeded!

Then, with a wave and smile, the blunette dropped out of sight like an American prairie dog into its burrow!

And, when Ami ducked under the table, Usagi would duck! Then, Usagi and Ami would lift up their heads, and the game would start all over,

again!

Much to the amusement, once she caught sight of it, of one Kino Makoto, who always had a maternal "soft-spot" for her Tsukino Usagi, her Princess!

After a few rounds of "I Spy", Ami's antics, although she tried to hide them, caught the unwanted-attention of a fellow-Gryffendor.

"What in the World are you doing, Miss Mizuno?!" Ginny Weasley enquired.

"SNAPE-Mizuno!" Ami hissed out, defencively. "Am hiding! Do not wish anyone else to see dano!"

"See what?" Ginerva Weasley asked. "And, who are you hiding from?"

"Quiet!" Ami hissed as she peered over the table to catch a peek of Usagi. "Hiding from Usagi! Kukuku!" Ami chortled at their game.

"USAGI?!" Weasley yelped. "You mean that DEMON of a Slytherin has ENSORCELLED you, already, this year?"

"Usagi-ane is not demon, Weasel-baka!" A suddenly-furious Ami hissed out with all the venom she could muster. "Usagi is too kind to be

demomn! Besides? Usagi is my best-friend! Hai. If ensorcelled? Ensorcelled long ago! Hai. Before Weasels even thoght of."

Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno - alias "Mizuno Ami" - then blew a small raspberry to a suddenly-offensive, and clueless, Gryffendor!

"So?" Ginerva yelped. "That witch HAS ensorcelled you at some time? probably cursed! I should get someone from Gringotts' to break the

curse! Probably from You-Know-Who, or another Deatheater! Don't worry, Mizuno! I'll get you help! Poor girl."

By this time, the outburst had caught the ears of Assistent-Nurse Mizuno-Snape, Potions'-Teacher Severus Snape, Gryffendor Kino Makoto,

and Slytherin Tsukino Usagi.

'That is IT! Gryffendor-trash!' Usagi glared at the offending student. 'Stay away from my AMI-CHAN!'

Meanwhile, Saeko and Severus were glaring daggers of their own at Weasley. THEIR daughter was FAR too-intelligent to let a mere demon

ensorcel her!

"Name is SNAPE-MIZUNO, witchling!" Ami growled from where she crouched. "If I am cursed dano? Let me STAY cursed! If you call in curse-breakers?

I will break you. Without curse! Hai! If I cannot break you? Will find someone who can! Hai hai!"

And, Makoto smiled evilly, picturing a stuffed and baked Weasle:

'Wonder what goes with weasel?'

"You are acting more and more like Slytherin every day, Mizuno-demon!" Weasley pouted. "You're not a Gryffendor, at all!"

"The Weasel finally figured that out." Severus and Saeko said in low, bored tones from the High Table.

"Wot was that, Snape?" Hagrid asked.

"Nevermind." The man and his wife responded in the same bored tones, then - suddenly - flashed the wickedest of grins.

"VERY perceptive, Weasel Ginnie-chan!" Ami unfolded herself from her crouch like a cat, and, stretched and smiled like a cat. "Maybe there is

hope for Family Weasleley, after all? Who knows? Maybe? Maybe not? Iyaa. Probably not. As for not being Gryffendor? Dumbledor's Drinking Buddy made

mistake! Should be in Slytherin, studying under Otousan! Hai! Not with J.V.s of Hogwarts! Hat said I needed friendship? Already HAVE friend! Tsukino

Usagi! Usagi-Hime is NO demon dano! Remember that, Weasel-baka! Maybe, actually, learn something important, at school! Need to go to dorm-room, onegai?

McGonigall-Sensei?"

"You may go, Miss Snape!" Minerva nodded and smiled. "Madame Snape, you may see to your daughter! You know the password?"

Makoto was stunned! Ami - or? Amelia - had just said more in one minute in the Great Hall than she had remembered her saying in the previous

year at Hogwarts!

Maybe, even, all her years as Senshi of Knowledge?

Meanwhile, Severus Snape swallowed a chuckle. His dear wife had just saved some fool from a very slow, very chilly, death!

Meanwhile, at the other end of the Gryffendor table from Makoto and closer to the commotion between Ami Snape-Mizuno and Ginnie Weasley, one

Amelie Wil Tesla Seyruun, slightly-neive Champion of Justice, was raptly taking in the enfolding-melodrama:

"Tsukino-Sama is DEMON? Could she be who drew us here? Can Granger-Sama sense demons? Would be helpful! Hai. What are 'Deatheaters'? And what

is a "You-Know-Who'? I do now know 'You-Know-Who'! Who is brunette with ponytail demo. Why did she seem so interested in Mizuno-chan? Maybe, I ask

Mizuno-chan after I play detective? Hai! I do that!"