Epilogue
Home
again,
Home
again,
Jiggity
Jig.
-I dunno. You tell me.
Usagi
walked excited with Harry, Ron and Hermione into the Great Hall. It looked as
wonderful as ever, with the candles floating above the tables, the ceiling
above showing a beautiful starry night. She sat at the Gryffindor table and
watched as the Sorting Hat was brought out. She smiled fondly as she remembered
her own sorting just last year, not hearing Ron's babble about how the Sorting
Hat must spend half the year thinking up the next year's song.
As the
students were brought in and the sorting began, she frowned. Yes, she was back
in Hogwarts but…it simply wasn't the same. There was no Ami to go to for advice,
no Mako-chan to sneak down to the kitchens and cook for her. No Minako to laugh
about boys with. There wasn't even a Rei to get into the occasional fight with.
She
whispered something to Hermione, who smiled. She patted Usagi on the arm and
whispered something back before whispering to Harry and Ron. The two of them
looked at Usagi and smiled, giving her a quick hug. After the sorting was over,
Usagi crept out of the Great Hall and up the stairs to the Gryffindor
dormitory.
Rubbeus
winced as Minako's voice erupted from her room, yelling for Makoto. He heard
Katzie's door slam as Katzie tried, in vain, to keep Sayo from waking. Minako
began yelling at Makoto for taping over her J-Pop tape with Destiny's Child. He
glanced at Rajura, who was reading a newspaper and looking for all the world as
if there were complete silence.
"You
actually get used to this?"
Rajura
grinned. "It's not too bad right now. Be glad that it wasn't Minako's 'Cats'
soundtrack."
He
glanced over at the fireplace, which had burst into emerald flames. Who was
coming? Had something happened to Usagi already?
He
gasped as the figure emerged from the fireplace, sooty yet looking happy.
Rubbeus actually dropped the cup he'd been holding, which shattered upon
hitting the floor. The sound of the cup breaking brought people streaming in
from all over the house. Had someone been hurt?
All of
them stopped in their tracks as they spied who had just come through the
fireplace.
Rei was
the first one to speak.
"Usagi-chan??"
Usagi
flushed, then launched into a hurried explanation.
"It was
fun there, it really was but it just wasn't the same without you all. And quite
frankly, we're all friends, right? I mean we've been through so much together
and it just wasn't right going there without you all there with me. I mean, who
was I going to talk to, I was the only one who knew Japanese. And you all know
how limited my English is and-"
She cut
herself off as Rei rushed forward and hugged her. She smiled and hugged her
back and in a moment she was at the bottom of a pile of laughing and crying
girls. Ami smiled.
"So does
this mean that we've got Sailormoon back?"
Usagi
grinned. "Tsukini Kawatte Oshiyoki yo!"
To Be
Continued…
A/N:
Okay, yes, that's it. I know it went kind of fast, but trust me, I still have
one more instalment of this series to go before I go into the next generation
of this series. The next and final fic of the Senshi/Troopers series as is here
will be called "The Final Battle". What's so final about it? Well, we've still
got Talpa and Wiseman to deal with Who
will win? Who will lose? Who will die? I'm not telling. The only way you'll
know is if you read the next fic. I hope you will!!
~*Hoshiko
Usagi*~