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A/N: I want to thank Spock Lover, M. C, JilseponieAngel, Falan, and JudgeDP for reviewing this story. I really appreciate it. This chapter is long but it should hopefully be good. It's decided: Sailor Moon's first season. I shall stick to that! (It's like that because I've seen the most and it's just a good season to do it in--less complicated. And Ponie suggested it.) Enjoy this chapter!

Chapter Three--The Rules of the Game

Hogwarts

A dark figure walked carefully down the hall. Every few moments it would stop and listen and look around for any signs of someone following them.

'Silly, if the Andalite bandits were following me I wouldn't see or hear them. But it's better to be safe than sorry." Sub-Visser Twenty quietly said to her-self.

Silently Sub-Visser Twenty started walking again. A few moments she reached an unused broom closet in the deepest of dungeons. She reached out a hand and did something, which caused a tunnel to appear out of the wall and with a final glance over her shoulder to double-check that no one was there she stepped into the tunnel and vanished from sight, the entrance silently closing behind her.

* * * * *

Rachel silently cursed and followed her in, knowing--with a sinking felling in her fly stomach--where it went.

She most sincerely wished that she had some back up--even if it was just Marco. She still followed her--after all she was the only known controller in the school and she wouldn't have another chance for three more days.

'Oh well, we'll soon know a few more.' She thought grimly.

She followed her deeper and deeper underground. Soon Rachel started to worry about how much time they had. After all they (the Animorphs) only had two hours in which they could remain in a morph without being trapped in that form forever. To be safe Rachel decided that she'd demorph and remorph the moment she got down there.

At last they finally reached the end of the staircase and Rachel confirmed the suspicion of it being a Yeerk pool. The pool was smaller than the one back in California, but the chamber was about the same size, and they weren't doing any construction on it. Rachel then identified the person whom she had followed, she had been following the person not knowing who it was, it was Ami Anderson. Ami headed towards the pool while Rachel went up to the ceiling where there was a ledge where she could safely de-morph and morph something more useful than a fly. After demorphing she morphed an owl to get the most out of the gloom, and if anyone saw her they might believe she was just a mail owl.

She now saw that the room was indeed the same size as the one in California, but there was a big rock pile that was unnoticed by the controllers with a hole to let a fairly thin person through.

Curious she flew through when no one was looking.

Once through the hole she could see quite a long distance, she saw two giant stone pillars with snakes on it, the faces quite lifelike, a gate between the two pillars.

She hovered there at the entrance wondering what could be behind it until she heard voices. They seemed to be arguing about something.

"You will open that gate or you will regret not doing that!" One voice said angrily.

"I'm not helping you Malfoy." Another voice said.

Rachel recognized the second person's voice and the first's name. The second was Harry Potter, he was in her house, and the other was Malfoy, she'd heard Harry complaining about him.

They rapidly approached where she was, so she hid quickly to avoid being caught. She flew behind a big bolder and hid there listing to their conversation.

After a few moments of listing she learned that Malfoy was a controller and Harry wasn't yet and the rest of the controllers didn't know about Malfoy having Harry down here and his plans to make him a controller.

She suddenly thought up a reckless plan to save Harry, highly risky for most people just starting out but she knew some good spells to use.

Rachel demorphed hoping that the boys wouldn't hear, they didn't luckily. She then waited till they were almost on top of her to jump out and stun Malfoy.

She gripped her wand watching them approach through the gloom. When they were in range she jumped out from behind the rock and yelled, "stupefy!" Knocking them both unconscious.

She put a memory charm on Malfoy, hoping it would reach the Yeerk, and revived Harry.

"Where am I?" he asked groggily not fully remembering what had happened before, he'd hit his head on the way down.

"Miles beneath the school in enemy territory." Rachel responded looking around to make sure they were safe.

Harry stared at Rachel for a moment then looked around at their soundings.

"Hey we're in the Chamber of Secrets!" He said noticing the pillars.

Rachel was about to ask what was the Chamber of Secrets when they heard approaching footsteps. Harry noticed Rachel's reaction to it, her body tensing up, and grabbed her hand and pulled her to the entranceway.

He turned his head slightly to make the snakes more lifelike and spoke in parsletoung to open the gates. The door opened and they rushed in and it closed with a bang behind them.

They jumped. Not only had the noise surprised them but it was pitch black.

Harry pulled out his wand and muttered "lumos". Rachel doing likewise.

She soon discovered that they were in another huge underground chamber.

"What's that?" She asked pointing to a huge object just out of the circle of light.

Harry looked over there and saw what remained of the Basilisk. "It's a Basilisk." Harry said, "I killed it in my second year so we don't need to worry about it."

Rachel nodded.

They stayed in there for a few hours, enough time to let the controllers find Malfoy's body and clear the area.

During that time Harry asked, "what was Malfoy talking about, Controllers and stuff?"

Rachel was silent for a few moments, then; "I'd have to talk to Jake before telling you. But I can tell you this: you're lucky that Malfoy didn't tell anyone about what he was going to do."

"Why?"

"They'd be after you if Malfoy had told someone."

"Oh."

They fell silent for awhile. When Rachel judged that the controllers were gone she asked Harry if there were any ways out besides the stairs that she'd found.

Harry didn't remember the stairs so they decided to go up the passage that Harry used in his second year. "But I don't know how we're going to get up since we don't have a phoenix to help."

Rachel thought about it. "How big is the pipe, and what dose it look like?" She asked.

Harry told her. She thought about it for a few more minutes and then decided that she needed to trust Harry with her secret, it was the only way.

"Well I do have an idea but you'll need to keep what I'm about to tell you a secret. No one must know." She then explained her plan and a quick background of it.

"OK, I guess that would work." Harry said.

"OK, I'll morph grisly in here and you open the gates from my back and we'll make a brake for the tunnel."

Harry wasn't quite sure what Rachel just said; not fully understanding American, but it sounded good, so he agreed.

Rachel morphed bear and Harry thought it was one of the grosser things he'd seen in his life and told Rachel that.

Well, you never should watch me turn into elephant then. It's the grossest thing you'll ever see, I can almost guarantee that. Rachel said.

Harry jumped slightly. Rachel had explained what thought-speak was but he wasn't ready for it. He jumped on her back and opened the gates and they were off!

Unfortunately there was one controller left.

"Hey you!" He called, "Stop immediately!"

Harry kept his head ducked so the person wouldn't recognize him.

The man whipped out his wand and yelled, 'stupefy' in Rachel's way. It didn't effect Rachel but Harry was knocked unconscious. The man seeing that that didn't work he pulled out his Dracon Beam and fired at Rachel who had almost reached the hole in the wall. The beam hit her left shoulder and head and made her mad. She turned around and swiped at the man knocking him unconscious.

Rachel quickly turned back to the hole and rushed up it before the other controllers could get there. All along the way she could feel consciousness slipping away from her. She came into the bathroom. It was one of the few times that Moaning Myrtle wasn't there. So she demorphed and dragged Harry outside along with herself, before loosing consciousness.

* * * * *

Jake looked at his watch anxiously. 'Rachel was suppose to be here by now.' He thought anxiously to himself. It had been hours since he had sent her out.

He considered going out and searching for her but he had no way of knowing where she was and Prefect Hermione wouldn't let him get out of the portrait hole. He sighed and looked around anxiously for Rachel, desperately hoping she'd appear.

He didn't quite know when he fell asleep, but all of a sudden a hand grabbed his shoulder and shook him back into consciousness.

"Jake, wake up!" A voice quietly hissed in his ear.

Jake sat bolt upright, looking around for the source of the voice. He saw it.

"Marco! What are you doing here? How did you get in? You don't know the password."

Marco laughed. "A fly on the wall can learn much. I made sure I knew every password to all the houses and even Professor Dumbledor's office--once I figured out where all of them where."

"Why are you here?" Jake asked rubbing sleep out of his eyes.

"You know my friend Ami?"

"The girl with the blue hair?"

"Yea."

"Why dose she have blue hair anyways, do you know?"

"She died it that color. Why, I don't know. Anyways, Rachel found out, how I don't know, that she's a controller. She evidently followed her, to see if she had to go to the pool and something happened and she and Harry Potter are in the hospital wing getting treated for severe burns."

"What?" Jake asked in shock.

"Yea, it's surprising and I don't know how this happened. I was out and about a few hours ago--" Marco began.

"--Which is against school rules--" Jake interjected.

"Yea, I know. I was in bat form exploring--when I saw Professor Snape come by carrying Rachel and Harry on stretchers. I followed and they went to the hospital wing and Snape said that he had found them on the first floor, towards where the out of order girl's bathroom. They both were unconscious."

"How did they get into such a predicament?" Jake asked more to himself more than anyone else.

"I don't know how all I know is that they are in the hospital wing right now being treated for their burns." Marco said solemnly.

"Well I think we should, if you already haven't done otherwise, tell Cassie about this in the morning." Jake said stifling a yawn.

"Don't worry I'll tell her, at breakfast tomorrow."

"Go get some sleep Marco it's far too late to do anything else tonight."

"Sounds good to me." Marco said and morphed into a bat and slipped out quietly after Jake had opened the portrait hole. Jake then went upstairs and collapsed into bed, hoping in some vague corner of his mind that their cover hadn't been blown tonight.

* * * * *

Rachel drifted in and out of wakefulness.

She had no idea where she was now or before she got to where she was. She lay there for a while in a half-dreamlike stage, thinking. She realized that she didn't remember her own name. She heard voices and tried to figure out if she could remember whom they belonged to. Try as she might she didn't have a clue to who they belonged to. But before she could do anything else she slipped back into oblivion.

* * * * *

Raye walked down the hall silently. She was searching with her new computer/scanner for signs of The NegaVerse. She didn't see any and there were no signs of any activity at any point of time. She didn't get it. How could Ami be so confident that there was any here? And this is where it was happening. Always they had come to Tokyo because of all the people that were there. But here there were just some students and teachers.

An idea began to slowly creep into Raye's mind. What if this was a diversion? And Ami was the real villain. What was the phrase? A wolf in sheep's clothing? Well if Raye's instincts were right they were in trouble because they had figured out who they were and managed to capture one of them. And very convincingly portray that person. She'd consult the fire later that night, when all were asleep in her house.

Raye finished her rounds and headed back to the Slytherin common room.

"Parslemouth," Raye said to the supposedly blank wall. She entered and pulling out her computer checked that all were asleep. All were.

She approached the fire and kneeled before it. Invoking her powers to see in the fire she asked it about Ami.

She got a stronger and better response than usual. It seemed to speak with a real voice instead of being just inside her head.

'What is up with Ami? She has been acting so weird. Is there any activity here? And is anything happening at home?' Raye asked.

'There is no activity going on in Tokyo. There is some unnatural activity here that under normal circumstances you never would have been involved in. Ami has unintentionally drawn into it--on the wrong side though. She has taken you all here so the thing, which controls her body, can help give its brothers bodies like what he has. If you go talk to Jake Berenson and tell him all that you know about this situation and ask for his help in understanding then in destroying this threat you'll get some answers. Just keep the knowledge of what you're doing in this mater away from Ami you will have all the better chance of freeing her.'

Raye was still confused about one topic and so she voiced it. 'So Ami just has no control over her body, but is still there?'

'That is correct.'

'But how is that possible? Previous experience says that that's impossible!'

'Just talk to Jake Berenson he will explain all, if one of his friends that came here with him followed it is all right. Previous experience will help only a little bit here Raye Hino. Talk to Jake Berenson he will help you.' With that the fire fell silent and Raye was left to puzzle over what it had told her. Who is Jake Berenson anyways? And what house is he in? Raye thought as she went to her dormitory to get some sleep.

* * * * *

The next day she asked all her friends except Ami who he was. Lita was able to provide any good information.

"He's in my house. Why do you need him?" Lita asked Raye curiously.

"Oh I just need to ask him a quick question."

"Well he just left for the Hospital Wing. His cousin Rachel was found unconscious early this morning. She still hasn't woken. Did you find anything last night that could explain anything?" Lita asked lowering her voice.

"No I didn't but I think I might be able to explain it." Raye said in a hushed voice also, grabbing some bacon. "But you need to keep that between the two of us until I can double check something. Don't tell anyone. Not even Serena."

Serena walked in then having just gotten lost and eventually finding her way to the great hall she promptly went to where Lita and Raye were sitting and said, "why did you leave me Lita? You know that I get lost easily!"

"Sorry Serena. I thought you said you would find a way yourself today." Lita said looking slightly guilty.

Serena sighed; it was an honest mistake she supposed so she let it go. She sat down on the other side of the table and started digging in.

"Well I'll go back to my table now." Raye said curtly and left to get some food inside of her.

* * * * *

Jake sat by Rachel's side looking at her paled face. He sighed. If only she didn't take chances like that, Jake thought, she might be hanging out with me in the Great Hall eating breakfast. Jake glanced at his watch and noticed that he had only ten minutes to get to Double Transfiguration with the Slytherins. He picked up his bag and headed out of the door.

* * * * *

They were learning how to change desks into other things; for this it would be a pig.

Professor McGonagall showed them how to do it then they got onto it. Raye had been purposely sitting near Jake so they were paired together.

"Jake can I ask you something?" Raye said trying to change the desk in fount of them into the pig, she half did it--it developed ears.

"Sure," he said watching her attempt to change it back.

"Well¼," she said "I don't know how to phrase this but I was wondering if we could--later--get together and talk? I have a question that I believe only you can answer, but I don't want to ask it here in fount of everyone." Raye said lamely.

"Would it be all right if Marco tagged along?" Jake asked in return.

"Is he one of the people that you came with?" Jake nodded. "Then I think it will be all right." Raye said thinking of the fire's message.

"When and where?"

"Today's Wednesday, so 7 o'clock in the Charm's room?"

"How bout Friday at 3 there? We'd have more time to talk." Jake pointed out to Raye.

"Sounds good."

"I'll see you there then." Jake said and turned the desk into a pig--earning Professor McGonagall's instant praise for being the first one to do it.

* * * * *

Over the next three days Jake and the rest of the Animorphs watched Raye constantly. Tobias did it outside in Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. He also did some inside work but only when the Slytherins were in class alone and the common room, Ax also helped in the watching.

You know I really wish that one of you could've been in Slytherin so then it would've been so much easier. Classes and Common room would be monitored with out people having to morph. Tobias complained to Jake and Marco met for their meeting with Raye.

"Sorry none of us are that evil. And who knows you or Ax could've been in Slytherin and us not know." Marco said to Tobias, who was perched on the seal of the open window.

True but you have footsteps approaching. I'll see you later! With that he flew off.

Raye walked in right when Marco was closing the window. "Hi guys. Sorry I'm late bratty little Serena got lost so I had to put her into the right spot." She said looking a little mad. "But," she said closing the door quietly but firmly behind her, "well I need to tell you something then I have to ask a question about some stuff I've been told that you can answer." With that Raye launched into an account of all that had happened to her including the part with the fire that Jake and Marco only half understood scene she had explained her ability to do it. She trusted it so she told them about being a Sailor Scout. Then she asked, "I was told you could explain Ami's weird actions so that's what I want you to do."

Jake and Marco looked at each other for a moment then Jake took a deep breath and filled in the gaps about Ami's strange movements.

"It fits now. Why she would come here in the first place and convince us that the NegaVerse was up here, so far from Tokyo. And how she can be so convincing yet weird. But I have one more question. If we were to join forces would this job go by quicker and easier if it were only one of us? You know how the Yeerks work and we know how Ami's mind and attacks work."

"We could, but we'd need to make sure that you're people are all trustworthy." Jake said seriously.

"And this time it will be easier. They all are in our houses. It was you that were the problem." Marco said brightly.

"How do you make sure that someone is trustworthy?" Raye asked curious.

"Well we follow them for three days and make sure that they don't go to the Yeerk Pool during that time." Marco explained.

"Oh." Raye said understanding now why Jake had moved the talk back three days. "Who all are Animorphs?" Raye asked after a second's pause.

"Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and I are the only ones here in Hogwarts the other two are Ax and Tobias who are in the forest because they can't really attend Hogwarts how they are." Jake said.

Ray was about to ask why when a Red Tailed Hawk flew into the room. Raye jumped.

"Raye meet Tobias; Tobias meet Raye." Marco said in introduction.

How do you do, Raye? Tobias asked.

"Good." She said automatically then it hit her that a bird was talking to her and it had spoken inside her head. "What?" Raye jumped up and pulled out her "Evil spirits disperse" talisman before she caught herself. "That bird talked how did it do that?" She said prepared for anything.

Its called thought-speech. Its like regular speech, only you hear it in your head. Don't worried we all were freaked when we first heard it too. Tobias said in thought-speech.

Raye cautiously sat down putting back the paper.

"What was the paper for?" Marco asked curiously.

"To banish evil spirits." Raye said still watching Tobias.

I guess we can't introduce Ax to you yet; you might go berserk. Tobias said noticing Raye watching him.

"Well if there's nothing else we have some more tailing to do." Jake said standing up and stretching. Tobias moaned. "Don't worry, no more Slytherin tailings. We can handle this without morphing a lot." Jake said reassuringly. "In three days when we deem those trustworthy who are trustworthy well meet back after telling you so you can tell them and we can have fun explaining everything all over again." With that they all departed back to their separate common rooms.

* * * * *

They couldn't get together until the Friday after the one that Raye, Jake, and Marco had gotten together. All the Scouts checked out fine except Ami. So they all had to keep this secret until they freed her. Rachel was still unconscious so they had to go on without her. Tobias and Ax were there in human form.

"Well here we are. I suppose you ladies, Ax, and Tobias are wondering why we are here today." Marco said braking the silence that had fallen since they had said 'hello' when they entered.

"Yes we are." Lita said.

"Well we need to know who everyone is first so I'll go first." Marco said. "I am Marco."

"Jake."

"Raye."

"Cassie."

"Mina."

"Lita."

"Serena."

"Tobias."

"My name is Aximil--Axami--Axa--I now know why you guys insist on calling me Ax. A-x. A--"

"Ax you can be quiet now." Jake said testily.

"Yes Prince Jake."

"Don't call me Prince."

"Yes, Prince Jake."

Jake sighed. "Now that that's done we can continue with why were here. Raye?"

Raye explained it all again so Cassie, Ax, and Tobias, who weren't there before, could hear the full tale.

Then Jake explained the reasoning behind the story. And Marco told them their plans. Silence followed.

Lita spoke up first. "So your saying that Ami has been taken over by a slug from outer space. And they are planning to control all of us?"

"Yep" Marco said.

"And these people are like the human superheroes that I've read about in books?" Ax asked also.

"That would be correct." Raye said.

"What do we do now?" Lita said, on her ever-continuing search for adventure and excitement.

Jake got his half smile at that comment. She sounds so much like Rachel, he thought, I wonder how they'd get along together? In the common room he and Rachel had avoided all others because they didn't feel comfortable around them.

"I think that that'll have to wait until Rachel regains consciousness and tells us what she saw and did down there. Until then we should just lie low and pretend to be normal." Jake said.

"Okay!" Serena said with enthusiasm at the idea of waiting for battle.

"Meet here same time next week?" Jake asked everyone.

"Why next week?" Mina asked Jake, confused.

"So we can report anything that we find." Jake said a bit lamely.

"Okay." Mina said nodding.

"Okay, dismissed."

Everyone stood up and Ax and Tobias losing their minds for a second and forgetting the scouts didn't know that: A.) Tobias really was a bird and, B.) Ax was an alien that when you first see it's a bit creepy; and they demorphed to go bird form to go back to the forest. When they were done Raye who had been transfixed by the process suddenly came to her scenes and pulled out her "Evil spirits disperse" talisman and plastered one onto each of their foreheads and cried, "Evil spirits disperse!"

Cassie grabbed Raye's arm and said calmly, "Raye chill. This is how they are suppose to look. They're not evil."

"What?" Raye asked in confusion.

"Ax is an Andalite. We described them to you and now you can see what they look like. And Tobias is a Red Tailed Hawk with the ability to change his form. How you saw him a second ago is how he looked before. He was trapped in the body that you see him in and has gotten his ability to change his form, he also got his human form back to change into but his hawk form is how he now looks." Cassie calmly explained.

"Oh. Sorry." Raye said apologetically.

It is okay. I am getting use to humans acting in unpredictable ways. Ax said matter-of-factly.

All the other scouts jumped when they heard his voice in their heads.

"What was that?" Serena asked.

"That's how all Andalites speak scene they don't have mouths. We all use that ability to communicate when we are in our animal forms. Tobias even speaks using that method." Cassie calmly explained.

"Okay," Serena said a bit calmer.

"Now if we're all done," Marco interjected, "I'd like to go back to the common room now."

"Yes," Jake agreed. And they all left for their respective common rooms.

* * * * *

Saturday morning dawned clean and pure. The sun was shining brightly and the birds were making their usual racket and the hospital wing was buzzing. Rachel had regained consciousness! Jake had been notified as the family of Rachel and he was down there while Professor Dumbledor was questioning her about what had happened that night. She didn't know. Dumbledor called Madam Pomfery over to perform a test to see if Rachel had any memories and it came up negative.

Jake was stumped, for the second time in Rachel's life she had amnesia! They let Jake tell her who she was and where she was along with some other basic things.

He had sat between Harry and Rachel's bed so he was right there when he woke up.

Harry moaned and sat up. Jake quickly hissed, "do you remember anything from the night you and Rachel were attacked?"

Harry softly said, "yes. We were in the Chamber of Secrets and Rachel told me why Malfoy was rambling on about something called controllers and Yeerks--"

"Don't say anything about what happened that night. Pretend that you and Rachel were talking and you were stunned from behind so you don't know anything. You need to keep that between me, Rachel and others I say you can trust with that information."

"Why?" Harry asked but Jake called out at the same instant, "Madam Pomfery! Harry's awake!"

She and Dumbledor came out and questioned Harry about what had happened that night. Harry feigned innocence on what he knew and stuck with the story that Jake had told him to tell. But all the time he wondered; why dose he want me to lie? And what secret is he trying to protect?

A/N: I need a big collective name for the Animorphs, Sailor Scouts, and The Harry Potter gang. Whoever comes up with the best name gets credit for it and it goes into the story. (It'd work better with more than two people reading it. Glares threateningly at the people who's reading this) So REVIEW!!!

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