Title: Spirit of the Wind
Chapter 11: Warriors Are Born
Author: Kitty Malfoy
A/N: Same Disclaimer as before. This might be the last chapter, and if it is NO COMPLAINING! Frankly, I think this story is crap and I'm tired of it. It bores me.
Note: If you haven't seen Sailor Moon, or even read a summary on it, you probably will be very confused but you can just kiss my butt, 'cuz I warned you that there'd be parts in here about SM, and that if you didn't understand that or are unable to consider it than DOOM ON YOU! (as the Dodos would say...heh heh heh)
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1 Week Later
"Why don't you take a water break?"
"Thanks Professor Halliwell..." The DADA teacher nodded at her, and took a seat on an overturned crate. Kiri took a sip from her water bottle and stretched her screaming muscles. Her 'special' class with Professor Halliwell had gotten extremely tougher ever since Halloween. She had learned how to use her magical powers and now she was exhausted. She had used almost all of her energy in this training session; giving it her all. Professor Halliwell must have noticed this as well because she walked over and placed a gentle hand on Kirone's shoulder. Kirone looked up at her.
She wasn't what you would call beautiful. Rather she had a sort of plain elegance about her. Dirty brown hair reached just past her ears in a choppy haphazard cut. Her eyes were a dull chocolate brown and rather small in size. The contours of her face were harsh and angular with a square jaw. Across her right cheek was a white, cross-shaped scar. It was rumored throughout the school that she had once been an Auror before Dumbledore had convinced her to accept a teaching position at the school a year ago.
"I think we can call it a day. Why don't you go take a rest..." Her voice, like her features was harsh and raspy. It was the voice of someone who had seen horrors unimaginable to most. She had seen the things that scare away the monsters of your worst nightmares.
A loud and imperative pounding on the classroom door cut off the rough voice. Professor Halliwell hadn't even made it to the door before it was flung open. A middle-aged man in vivid orange robes stumbled in. "Ashley!" he cried out breathlessly to the Professor, "He's coming!"
There was a sharp intake of breath above her and Kirone looked up to see Professor Halliwell turn deathly pale. A grim and somber expression settled on her aquiline features. "Are you sure Kyle?" she asked the man, her harsh voice taking on a sharp edge.
"Yes, Ashley, I'm sure...he and his army are on the move and heading straight for us." "How much time?"
"They will reach us in less than 8 hours..." his voice was faint but grave.
Kirone went into shock, and her body started to shake. Kirone got to her feet, leaning heavily on the cold stone wall. She brushed past them as she ran from the room and found herself immediately engulfed in stampede of students just recently dismissed from class. Katie, Angelina, and Hermione stopped talking as they saw her whiz past. "Something's wrong," Hermione told the other two over the roar of the crowd. They nodded and followed their retreating friend.
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Kirone rushed out the password 'Cassiopeia' and ran up to her room. She flung the lid of her trunk open and began flinging out objects. Finally she reached the very bottom and there lay four items. She skipped over the Luna Pen and Star Locket and grabbed the second to last item. It was a small compact. Flipping off the top of it a small screen and eleven buttons were revealed.
There was a pink one for Usagi, a red one for Rei, a blue for Ami, a green one for Makoto, a yellow one for Minako, a teal one for Michiru, a gold one for Haruka, a black one for Setsuna, a purple one for Hotaru, a white button that could be used to call on everyone, and a small silver button for Kirone herself.
She didn't even realize what she was doing as she pressed the small pink button. Her only thought was that she had to warn her friends. It kept beeping and beeping with no change. The deaths of her friends came washing over her again and she almost succumb to tears.
[Hello?]
Kirone sat up straight and stared at the screen. Instead of azure eyes looking back at her, she saw garnet ones. "Luna?" She asked, dumbfounded.
[Kiri?]
Kirone choked on her words as she looked at the cat in her screen. "I'm so glad you're alive Luna! I-" Her obsidian eyes watered and she broke down into tears.
[Kirone........we're all alive.......]
"What!?"
[Usagi-hime reincarnated all of the scouts and they came back to Earth at the same age they were when they...died. They have no memories of what happened.]
Kirone's tear-stained face broke out into a smile, but almost immediately the implications of what Luna had said sunk it and she became distraught once again. "Luna! We need Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi now!"
[But.....]
"He's found me!"
[.....] Luna's eyes widened in fear.
"Luna, there are people I love here. I have to save them. But I can't do it you all. Please..."
[How much time?]
"Less than 8 hours....."
[We'll teleport to you as soon as we can. I hope we'll be in time.]
As the feline's face faded from view Kirone's only thought was So do I
A soft knock brought her out of her stupor, and she smiled weakly as her friends poured in. They all sat at the edge of her bed and looked at her with worried faces. Kirone licked her dry, parched lips and smiled in a sardonic way. "He's coming......"
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The Great Hall doors were flung upon with such force that they slammed against the wall and ricocheted back closed behind the quartet of girls that had run in. The four girls were dressed in simple leather tunics in their own respective colors. Over the tunics they had donned silver armor. They wore iron boots that reached their knees and with edges encrusted with different gems. They each wore a silver breastplate and silver warrior skirts. {A/N: Think Galaxia except in silver}.
All four sported a thin silver circlet tiara with their own gem decorating it. On their chest was an identical golden brooch bordered on four sides by different colored gems. On the northern side was an amethyst (purple), on the western; a sapphire (blue), on the eastern; a ruby (red), and on the southern; a beryl (green).
"Who the hell are you?" Snape asked in a mocking and annoyed tone. Kirone would have laughed at his incompetence at not knowing his own students, but she checked herself. They needed to be taken seriously. She motioned the girl in green forward.
"I am Hermione Granger, the Earth Elemental." She placed her clenched fist over her heart and bowed. The others followed suit. "I am Angelina Johnson, the Fire Elemental." The girl in red stepped forward, placed a fist over her heart in salute and bowed as well. "I am Katie Bell, the Water Elemental." The girl in blue joined the previous and followed their example. Kirone, in purple stepped forward as well. "And I am Kirone Yaamahi, the Wind Elemental." She bowed as well. In unison they spoke out, "WE ARE THE KRYSTAL ELEMENTALS!"
Dumbledore was the first to speak, and his eyes twinkled in amusement behind half-moon spectacles, "I understand that you have exceptional powers Miss Yaamahi, but what about the others?"
"I personally vouch for them, Professor. As for their powers, they came from their Love, Loyalty, and Friendship. The good inside of them is very strong. They were destined to fight. I only helped their spirits to realize it."
"I see........so you have heard?"
"Yes sir. Reinforcements are on their way."
In a rare turn of events the old man seemed to be truly puzzled, "Reinforcements?" he repeated.
"Yes....the Sailor Senshi!"
As if on cue a prism of light exploded in the middle of the Hall sending the house tables skidding across the floor towards the walls. Benches were knocked over with students still sitting on them stunned. The huge prism of rainbow light split into nine different colors. Kirone watched the nine women appear with moist eyes. The nine stood facing Dumbledore each with one hand on their hips.
"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Sailor Senshi." Dumbledore said in greeting. Sailor Moon answered for the group, in perfect English. "Thank you Headmaster, and I wish our visit where under better circumstances."
"It's been a long time.........."
The scouts spun around to see Kirone and the Krystal Elementals execute a respectful bow as one. Even Hermione, Katie, and Angelina, who had never met the Senshi, recognized the power that emanated from them and were reverent. Kirone stepped forward and held her first and middle finger to her forehead in a salute. She smiled proudly. "It will be an honor to fight beside you again......"
Kirone's eyes were not the only ones dampened by tears. A flash of green caught those same moist eyes and she turned her head slightly. Warm garnet red eyes looked back at her from beneath an overhanging fringe of deep emerald hair. Kirone's hand dropped limply to her side, and she bit back a sob. Losing all poise and dignity she ran towards the woman. Her metal heels clicked softly as she moved swiftly across the cobblestone floor to embrace the Senshi of Time.
The normally cold and indifferent Sailor Pluto hugged her back with equal fierceness and love. "I missed you so much after you left, Setz- chan," she whispered so quietly only Pluto could hear her. "And I you, O'ne-chan......" {--Oh-knee, like the pronunciation of her full name: Kur- OH-knee}
Suddenly, the other Senshi who didn't want to be left out on the reunion embraced Kirone on all sides. After hugs all around Kirone stepped back and introduced her companions, once again. She introduced the scouts by name and then the Elementals. The peril that was soon to face them dropped away and Kirone busied herself pairing up both groups of her friends.
"Hermione, I think you'd like Ami {Mercury} a LOT. Umm......Katie I'd definitely put you with Minako, Rei, and Michiru {Venus, Mars, Neptune}. Angelina you'd go well with Haruka and Makoto {Uranus, Jupiter}." Pluto sighed and her lips formed a half-smile at her little O'ne-chan. It was just in her nature - like that of Usagi's - to help others make friends. But on the other hand, she could also be as cold and unfeeling as she herself, usually was.
Her dark obsidian orbs seemed to stare right through your soul, and could even unsettle Pluto at times. The other Senshi had immediately picked up on the similarities and resemblance between them and had taken to calling Kirone "Chibi-Setz". She had earned the nickname for at that moment her features became tight and drawn. Turning to Dumbledore she spoke through tight lips. "How much time?" The old man consulted the grandfather clock in the corner of the hall. "Six hours....."
"You heard the man......ok I want 4th through 7th years to meet with Pluto and Saturn. You will be in charge of protecting the school and the younger years. If you are afraid no one will think any less of you if you join the younger years. We don't need people breaking down in the middle of a battle." Kirone paused giving the students time to digest. "We don't think Voldemort will attack the school. He's after me and we believe that he will focus his energies on killing me. In addition we'd like to have a fraction of the Professors keep the students organized and assist in protecting Hogwarts. The Senshi and the Elementals will fight Voldemort head on, and the remaining teachers will watch our backs. I suggest that once you have your instructions that you write to your families, spend time with your boyfriend or girlfriend, or friends. Most of all get some rest - They don't need to."
Saturn stepped forward and added her own dark thoughts on the peril ahead. "We won't lie to you. If he storms the school at least one person in this school will die. Death is not scary or final. It is a crossing........between lives. All are reborn from death."
A fourth year Hufflepuff cried out, on the verge of tears. "And how would you know!?"
Kirone felt no contempt for the child; rather she smiled sympathetically. "Weren't you listening when Dumbledore explained my past? They sacrificed themselves for me.......they D-I-E-D. Sailor Moon reincarnated tem with the Silver Crystal, the source of her power. It's not the first time they have died either. They lived thousands of years ago and up till now they have died and been reincarnated over five times, I believe."
The girl, along with the rest of the hall, was shocked into silence.
Venus spoke quietly from behind Kirone getting back to business, "You need to show us every entrance. It is important that we ward every possible way that they could enter the school." Kirone thought for a second and then snapped her fingers as it hit her. "Come with me. Oi! Fred! George! We'll need your help too!" Kirone gave them a sly wink and they winked back, knowingly.
The twins, the Elementals, the cats, and the Senshi; minus Saturn and Pluto left the Great Hall quickly. The entire Hall was silent except for the abnormally loud creaking of the doors as they slowly shut.
A loud thud echoed through the hall - seeming unbearably loud. A clatter of plates followed and then a crash as plates and cups shattered and silverware fell to the floor. The sounds had come from the Gryffindor table. Lying stiffly on the ground - table cloth in hand - was a fifth year boy; deathly pale. Neville had fainted.
TBC - Maybe
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Korny ending I know, but it's just something Neville would typically do, so I poked it in. Anyz, the next chapter {if there is one} is gonna have everyone getting ready for the battle with lyrics. {a songfic chapter}
R & R!!!
Kitty Malfoy (^ ^)
Chapter 11: Warriors Are Born
Author: Kitty Malfoy
A/N: Same Disclaimer as before. This might be the last chapter, and if it is NO COMPLAINING! Frankly, I think this story is crap and I'm tired of it. It bores me.
Note: If you haven't seen Sailor Moon, or even read a summary on it, you probably will be very confused but you can just kiss my butt, 'cuz I warned you that there'd be parts in here about SM, and that if you didn't understand that or are unable to consider it than DOOM ON YOU! (as the Dodos would say...heh heh heh)
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1 Week Later
"Why don't you take a water break?"
"Thanks Professor Halliwell..." The DADA teacher nodded at her, and took a seat on an overturned crate. Kiri took a sip from her water bottle and stretched her screaming muscles. Her 'special' class with Professor Halliwell had gotten extremely tougher ever since Halloween. She had learned how to use her magical powers and now she was exhausted. She had used almost all of her energy in this training session; giving it her all. Professor Halliwell must have noticed this as well because she walked over and placed a gentle hand on Kirone's shoulder. Kirone looked up at her.
She wasn't what you would call beautiful. Rather she had a sort of plain elegance about her. Dirty brown hair reached just past her ears in a choppy haphazard cut. Her eyes were a dull chocolate brown and rather small in size. The contours of her face were harsh and angular with a square jaw. Across her right cheek was a white, cross-shaped scar. It was rumored throughout the school that she had once been an Auror before Dumbledore had convinced her to accept a teaching position at the school a year ago.
"I think we can call it a day. Why don't you go take a rest..." Her voice, like her features was harsh and raspy. It was the voice of someone who had seen horrors unimaginable to most. She had seen the things that scare away the monsters of your worst nightmares.
A loud and imperative pounding on the classroom door cut off the rough voice. Professor Halliwell hadn't even made it to the door before it was flung open. A middle-aged man in vivid orange robes stumbled in. "Ashley!" he cried out breathlessly to the Professor, "He's coming!"
There was a sharp intake of breath above her and Kirone looked up to see Professor Halliwell turn deathly pale. A grim and somber expression settled on her aquiline features. "Are you sure Kyle?" she asked the man, her harsh voice taking on a sharp edge.
"Yes, Ashley, I'm sure...he and his army are on the move and heading straight for us." "How much time?"
"They will reach us in less than 8 hours..." his voice was faint but grave.
Kirone went into shock, and her body started to shake. Kirone got to her feet, leaning heavily on the cold stone wall. She brushed past them as she ran from the room and found herself immediately engulfed in stampede of students just recently dismissed from class. Katie, Angelina, and Hermione stopped talking as they saw her whiz past. "Something's wrong," Hermione told the other two over the roar of the crowd. They nodded and followed their retreating friend.
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Kirone rushed out the password 'Cassiopeia' and ran up to her room. She flung the lid of her trunk open and began flinging out objects. Finally she reached the very bottom and there lay four items. She skipped over the Luna Pen and Star Locket and grabbed the second to last item. It was a small compact. Flipping off the top of it a small screen and eleven buttons were revealed.
There was a pink one for Usagi, a red one for Rei, a blue for Ami, a green one for Makoto, a yellow one for Minako, a teal one for Michiru, a gold one for Haruka, a black one for Setsuna, a purple one for Hotaru, a white button that could be used to call on everyone, and a small silver button for Kirone herself.
She didn't even realize what she was doing as she pressed the small pink button. Her only thought was that she had to warn her friends. It kept beeping and beeping with no change. The deaths of her friends came washing over her again and she almost succumb to tears.
[Hello?]
Kirone sat up straight and stared at the screen. Instead of azure eyes looking back at her, she saw garnet ones. "Luna?" She asked, dumbfounded.
[Kiri?]
Kirone choked on her words as she looked at the cat in her screen. "I'm so glad you're alive Luna! I-" Her obsidian eyes watered and she broke down into tears.
[Kirone........we're all alive.......]
"What!?"
[Usagi-hime reincarnated all of the scouts and they came back to Earth at the same age they were when they...died. They have no memories of what happened.]
Kirone's tear-stained face broke out into a smile, but almost immediately the implications of what Luna had said sunk it and she became distraught once again. "Luna! We need Sailor Moon and the Sailor Senshi now!"
[But.....]
"He's found me!"
[.....] Luna's eyes widened in fear.
"Luna, there are people I love here. I have to save them. But I can't do it you all. Please..."
[How much time?]
"Less than 8 hours....."
[We'll teleport to you as soon as we can. I hope we'll be in time.]
As the feline's face faded from view Kirone's only thought was So do I
A soft knock brought her out of her stupor, and she smiled weakly as her friends poured in. They all sat at the edge of her bed and looked at her with worried faces. Kirone licked her dry, parched lips and smiled in a sardonic way. "He's coming......"
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The Great Hall doors were flung upon with such force that they slammed against the wall and ricocheted back closed behind the quartet of girls that had run in. The four girls were dressed in simple leather tunics in their own respective colors. Over the tunics they had donned silver armor. They wore iron boots that reached their knees and with edges encrusted with different gems. They each wore a silver breastplate and silver warrior skirts. {A/N: Think Galaxia except in silver}.
All four sported a thin silver circlet tiara with their own gem decorating it. On their chest was an identical golden brooch bordered on four sides by different colored gems. On the northern side was an amethyst (purple), on the western; a sapphire (blue), on the eastern; a ruby (red), and on the southern; a beryl (green).
"Who the hell are you?" Snape asked in a mocking and annoyed tone. Kirone would have laughed at his incompetence at not knowing his own students, but she checked herself. They needed to be taken seriously. She motioned the girl in green forward.
"I am Hermione Granger, the Earth Elemental." She placed her clenched fist over her heart and bowed. The others followed suit. "I am Angelina Johnson, the Fire Elemental." The girl in red stepped forward, placed a fist over her heart in salute and bowed as well. "I am Katie Bell, the Water Elemental." The girl in blue joined the previous and followed their example. Kirone, in purple stepped forward as well. "And I am Kirone Yaamahi, the Wind Elemental." She bowed as well. In unison they spoke out, "WE ARE THE KRYSTAL ELEMENTALS!"
Dumbledore was the first to speak, and his eyes twinkled in amusement behind half-moon spectacles, "I understand that you have exceptional powers Miss Yaamahi, but what about the others?"
"I personally vouch for them, Professor. As for their powers, they came from their Love, Loyalty, and Friendship. The good inside of them is very strong. They were destined to fight. I only helped their spirits to realize it."
"I see........so you have heard?"
"Yes sir. Reinforcements are on their way."
In a rare turn of events the old man seemed to be truly puzzled, "Reinforcements?" he repeated.
"Yes....the Sailor Senshi!"
As if on cue a prism of light exploded in the middle of the Hall sending the house tables skidding across the floor towards the walls. Benches were knocked over with students still sitting on them stunned. The huge prism of rainbow light split into nine different colors. Kirone watched the nine women appear with moist eyes. The nine stood facing Dumbledore each with one hand on their hips.
"Welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Sailor Senshi." Dumbledore said in greeting. Sailor Moon answered for the group, in perfect English. "Thank you Headmaster, and I wish our visit where under better circumstances."
"It's been a long time.........."
The scouts spun around to see Kirone and the Krystal Elementals execute a respectful bow as one. Even Hermione, Katie, and Angelina, who had never met the Senshi, recognized the power that emanated from them and were reverent. Kirone stepped forward and held her first and middle finger to her forehead in a salute. She smiled proudly. "It will be an honor to fight beside you again......"
Kirone's eyes were not the only ones dampened by tears. A flash of green caught those same moist eyes and she turned her head slightly. Warm garnet red eyes looked back at her from beneath an overhanging fringe of deep emerald hair. Kirone's hand dropped limply to her side, and she bit back a sob. Losing all poise and dignity she ran towards the woman. Her metal heels clicked softly as she moved swiftly across the cobblestone floor to embrace the Senshi of Time.
The normally cold and indifferent Sailor Pluto hugged her back with equal fierceness and love. "I missed you so much after you left, Setz- chan," she whispered so quietly only Pluto could hear her. "And I you, O'ne-chan......" {--Oh-knee, like the pronunciation of her full name: Kur- OH-knee}
Suddenly, the other Senshi who didn't want to be left out on the reunion embraced Kirone on all sides. After hugs all around Kirone stepped back and introduced her companions, once again. She introduced the scouts by name and then the Elementals. The peril that was soon to face them dropped away and Kirone busied herself pairing up both groups of her friends.
"Hermione, I think you'd like Ami {Mercury} a LOT. Umm......Katie I'd definitely put you with Minako, Rei, and Michiru {Venus, Mars, Neptune}. Angelina you'd go well with Haruka and Makoto {Uranus, Jupiter}." Pluto sighed and her lips formed a half-smile at her little O'ne-chan. It was just in her nature - like that of Usagi's - to help others make friends. But on the other hand, she could also be as cold and unfeeling as she herself, usually was.
Her dark obsidian orbs seemed to stare right through your soul, and could even unsettle Pluto at times. The other Senshi had immediately picked up on the similarities and resemblance between them and had taken to calling Kirone "Chibi-Setz". She had earned the nickname for at that moment her features became tight and drawn. Turning to Dumbledore she spoke through tight lips. "How much time?" The old man consulted the grandfather clock in the corner of the hall. "Six hours....."
"You heard the man......ok I want 4th through 7th years to meet with Pluto and Saturn. You will be in charge of protecting the school and the younger years. If you are afraid no one will think any less of you if you join the younger years. We don't need people breaking down in the middle of a battle." Kirone paused giving the students time to digest. "We don't think Voldemort will attack the school. He's after me and we believe that he will focus his energies on killing me. In addition we'd like to have a fraction of the Professors keep the students organized and assist in protecting Hogwarts. The Senshi and the Elementals will fight Voldemort head on, and the remaining teachers will watch our backs. I suggest that once you have your instructions that you write to your families, spend time with your boyfriend or girlfriend, or friends. Most of all get some rest - They don't need to."
Saturn stepped forward and added her own dark thoughts on the peril ahead. "We won't lie to you. If he storms the school at least one person in this school will die. Death is not scary or final. It is a crossing........between lives. All are reborn from death."
A fourth year Hufflepuff cried out, on the verge of tears. "And how would you know!?"
Kirone felt no contempt for the child; rather she smiled sympathetically. "Weren't you listening when Dumbledore explained my past? They sacrificed themselves for me.......they D-I-E-D. Sailor Moon reincarnated tem with the Silver Crystal, the source of her power. It's not the first time they have died either. They lived thousands of years ago and up till now they have died and been reincarnated over five times, I believe."
The girl, along with the rest of the hall, was shocked into silence.
Venus spoke quietly from behind Kirone getting back to business, "You need to show us every entrance. It is important that we ward every possible way that they could enter the school." Kirone thought for a second and then snapped her fingers as it hit her. "Come with me. Oi! Fred! George! We'll need your help too!" Kirone gave them a sly wink and they winked back, knowingly.
The twins, the Elementals, the cats, and the Senshi; minus Saturn and Pluto left the Great Hall quickly. The entire Hall was silent except for the abnormally loud creaking of the doors as they slowly shut.
A loud thud echoed through the hall - seeming unbearably loud. A clatter of plates followed and then a crash as plates and cups shattered and silverware fell to the floor. The sounds had come from the Gryffindor table. Lying stiffly on the ground - table cloth in hand - was a fifth year boy; deathly pale. Neville had fainted.
TBC - Maybe
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Korny ending I know, but it's just something Neville would typically do, so I poked it in. Anyz, the next chapter {if there is one} is gonna have everyone getting ready for the battle with lyrics. {a songfic chapter}
R & R!!!
Kitty Malfoy (^ ^)