~Tears of a Phoenix~
A Fushigi Yuugi/Harry Potter Crossover
DISCLAIMER: Rowling-sama owns Harry Potter and Watase-sama owns Fushigi Yuugi. Chibigreen only owns a homemade Chichiri plushie. *glomps plushie*
~Chapter 7~
*Tama's POV*
My tail waved happily as I walked a few feet into the large forest. Humans called it the 'Forbidden Forest,' and it was dangerous no matter what species you were. But we, the pets, were hardly going into it. We're not crazy, and we do not have a death wish. A few feet into the Forest would not endanger us because we are special.
I'm serious. We are.
By 'we,' I am talking about the pets of both the Seiryuu-Slytherins and the Suzaku-Gryffindors. There were also a few others that had one of us special pets. There was at least one of us in every house, so that it was balanced.
I looked at Shadow, who was pacing by my side. "Are they going to follow us?" I can't talk in human speech, but all animal species can understand each other.
"If they know where we are, they will," she replied. "Is that a problem?"
"I don't know. It might be," I said as I carefully jumped onto a fallen tree. I paused to clean my paw. "Is everyone here?"
Owls, cats, and some other foxes appeared from the forest. There were around twenty other pets in all, including Shadow. The owls took up perches in trees, while the cats and the foxes gathered around the log.
"That's good." I gave my paw one last lick before settling down on the log. "We all know why we're here, right?"
"No!" hooted Chibi the screech owl. It wasn't Chibigreen; it was Chibi Leelee Milo, the pet of Tetsuya, the Ravenclaw.
"We have no clue," agreed Fire Fairy, Keisuke's owl.
Skipsida, Kouran's cat, guessed, "It has something to do with some of our humans, right?"
I nodded. "Right! Eight of the people in Gryffin-dor and another eight in Sly-ther-in are very important." It was hard to pronounce the names in cat speech, which was known to some humans as Ailurin*.
The elf owl, Chibigreen, whistled playfully from her perch in a young sapling. "I know why! I know why! The beast-gods-guardians have chosen, chosen them!" As an afterthought, she added, "And us!
"The beast-gods?!" Shadow, as well as the other pets, looked almost stricken. "We were chosen by the beast-gods?"
Some took it more calmly than others. "This is quite a twist of fate," the Lynx Siamese named Silvara with only a slight movement of her ears. Her human was Shouka, a Ravenclaw. "Are all of our humans chosen?"
"No," I replied. "In Gryffindor, the seven stars of Suzaku are Taka, Saihitei, Ryuuen, Doukun, Houjun, Genrou, and Juan. The priestess is Miaka."
One owl, Yume, rustled her feathers. "I know who the stars of Seiryuu are. My Koutoku and Shunkaku are two, and the others are Kaen, Chuin, Karasu, Kiba, and Ayuru. The priestess is Yui."
"If that's the case, then why are there more than sixteen pets here?" asked Woden, the cat of Tomo. "I thought that the number of chosen pets was supposed to equal that of the warriors."
"Not necessarily," I said wisely. "You see, the chosen animal's purpose is to make the summoning easier for the priestesses. Unlike the stars, we are not forced onto one side or the other. We can join both, and bring about harmony between the gods." All of them were now paying attention to me. The other pets were Chachiri, Aisha, TA, Sansele, Akia, Athena, Merigold, Princess, Keinami, Keimei, Misao, and Kryssa.
TA, a snow fox who stayed with Hikou, said, "How exactly do we help summon the gods? I mean, they are all-powerful beings. Why do we even need to summon them? We're fine by ourselves."
I reminded myself that foxes were very independent. Almost more than we cats are, for foxes are used to making their own choices in the wild. When a fox becomes a pet, it is usually at its own choice.
Doukun's owl disagreed. "No, we're not!"
She was right, too. "The small one's right. We can't be on our own. Think of it this way: The four gods represent the four different main aspects of the world. They are not just aspects of the spiritual world, but of the physical and magical worlds as well."
I licked my lips before continuing, "Try not to think of them as gods. Instead, think of them as extremely powerful guardians. When something disturbs the balance of the world, their power is also disturbed. It doesn't matter which aspect of the world is disturbed; their power is unbalanced and they need to be summoned in order to make the yin equal the yang, so to speak. The summoning brings good luck to the chosen summoners, but it also sets the world right again.
"If we did not summon them, the whole world will be destroyed," I finished.
Sansele wondered, "What threw the out of balance in the first place? Why do we only have two sets of star-warriors?"
The mythology that all animals knew did say that most times, all four gods were summoned at once. Since I had been getting my information from Fawkes, a phoenix that roosted in Hogwarts, I knew why the case was different this time. "Around a hundred years ago, the Byakko seishi and the Genbu seishi summoned their gods.
"A terrible magical war, unnoticed by the non-magic humans, had destroyed the balance between those two gods especially. Also, the sudden modernization of Japan helped to unmake the balance. But the summoning was successful enough that their power survived through the wars that hit afterwards, both Muggle, with the Wars of the World, and magical, with the Dark Wizard Grindelwald and, more recently, Voldemort. The powers of Genbu and Byakko are still sufficiently strong enough that summoning the other two god-guardians, Suzaku and Seiryuu, will restore the balance once again. We need to help it for it to be completely successful."
A silence settled over us. The other pets now knew all about the summoning that I did, and we would need to make a choice.
The stillness was broken by Aisha, the white fox. "Uh-oh," she said, cocking her head. "I think that our humans are calling for us."
"They'd be really freaked out if they saw us gathered together," Keimei noted as her tail rose. "We should leave."
With various noises of agreement, we broke up the group. "Meet back here Halloween night!" I yowled over my shoulder. "Remember!"
I don't think that my human or the teachers will appreciate him having to chase after me. I was going to run for the school, but a sudden thought hit me and I froze in my paw prints. What if Juan ran into something bad while outside? I had sniffed or sensed many traps while on my way to the meeting. He didn't have as good of a nose as I did, and he could run into one!
Quickly, I turned around and began to streak towards where I smelt him. I needed to get to him before he got hurt or killed!
As I ran, I heard screams and yelling coming from near the lake. Was I already too late?
*Ailurin: In the stories by Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon and To Visit the Queen, cat 'speech' (part of it is based on physical movements) is called Ailurin. I decided to use that in my story, too. I am in no way associated with any of Diane Duane's stories.
Chibigreen's Notes: Sorry for the short chapter, but I haven't had much time to write non-school work lately. If you had a hard time keeping track of the pets, I kept a list here (http://chibigreenmagic.tripod.com/fushigiyuugi/pets.htm).
Fifteen reviews from one chapter! Wow! Thanks!!! I would have made more people into seishi pets, but… I'm kind of running out of room! Unless someone wants to volunteer to be Miboshi or Ashitare's pet? *crickets chirp* Well, because I'm running short on time today, I'm being brief for my replies. I figured that most people would rather see the story out faster with less replies than wait an extra day for a story with many replies.
Keimei – I'm not doing Tasuki/Chichiri because I just feel like Kouran/Chichiri and ReiRei/Tasuki are great couples, too!
Athena Masterson – I think that Mitsukake's going to be narrating the next chapter. ^___^
Skipsida – Mits will be next. ^___^ The Seiryuu will come eventually, too.
Sansele – Thanks for correcting me on the Marauder's Map thingy. It's fixed now. You see, I couldn't find my copies of the HP books. ^__^;; And Mits isn't good at Potions because…um…I want every character to have some type of problem. Though I don't know what Chiriko's problem is going to be.
Hotaru – Sorry, you can't be Tenkou's pet. He doesn't exist in this story… I think.
And I'd also like to thank SilvaraWilde, Saihitei no Miko a.k.a. Sanomi, Siryn13, Purple Mouse, shadow priestess, Kryssa, TA Maxwell, Chibi Leelee Milo, kuja, and Taichi's Girly for reviewing.
Today's recommendation: Risen and it's sequel, Fallen, by Ryuen.
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