Me: Hey Everyone! *grin* That's right, I'm baaaaack! *jumps up and down* Sleeping pills can't keep me still for long.
Violentdelight: Now as long as I had hoped for, but at least I got to read my alias fic.,.Vaughn is sooo hot *drool*
Me: I would have to agree *drool* But, I'd have to say, thank-you sooo much for reviewing!
Girl of darkness:
Me: I have to agree, Mako-chan is my fave scout ever! The other scouts are my faves too, but my personal fave is Makoto.
Violentdelight: Hm. They're all good.
Wingnut
Me: *sings* country dances are so much fun, bla bla blaaaaaaa
Violentdelight: shut up. Please. Really, My eardrums are hurting me. Wingnut, please don't inspire Dew to sing.
Me: Meanie! *sticks tongue out* I hope you-a like-a this-a chapter-a too-a. ^-^
Chibi-Cola:
Me: Did ya hear that V? We're interesting! Yay! Confusing! Yay! Mako-chan!
Violentdelight: *rolls eyes* The story is interesting Dew, not us. Sorry about the Raye and Rei thing, Dew is a bit scattered-brained sometimes.
Me: Not as much as you! MUAHAHAHA
Violentdelight: You keep tellin' yourself that.
Me: I checked the chapter this time, Raye is going to be Raye…I'm glad you like my story Cola! You're so nice. ^-^
Isis Aurora Tomoe:
Me: We're funny! Funny Funny Funny!
Violentdelight: Get over it.
Me: But later on, *faces turned sad* the story gets…depressing…*sigh*…what's the point…. there is no point….
Violentdelight: Nope, only lines. Dew, we have to write the disclaimer now.
Me: Oh, right! *grin * Ready?!?
Violentdelight: Just do it before everyone leaves from boredom. I'm going to leave from boredom if ya don't hurry up.
*cough* *clears throat* *cough*
Disclaimer: The only thing that's mine here is the plot and the original characters, and the idea, everything else…sadly…is not mine.
Violentdelight: There, that wasn't so hard was it? Dew? Umm…Deeeewwwiiieee?
Me: *sniff* I don't like disclaimers…go on, read the story, and let me wallow in my misery.
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Tuono Sanguinante*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 2: Nuovo Mondo*~*~*~*~*~*~*
A fly was tickling her nose.
A fly was ticking her nose.
A FLY WAS TICKING HER NOSE!
Makoto sprung up and whacked her nose before thinking.
'Opps.'
"Ouch. Bad move." Makoto winced as the pain in her nose began to registered in her brain. Her eyes glaring with intense hatred at the little dragonfly that had previously occupied her nose, flying away with its wings and life intact.
A headache and general ache all over her body began to register in her brain as well, making Makoto groan aloud. The dimension travel must have taken more out of her then she thought.
"This is not my idea of convenient travel." She groaned, slowly getting up off the ground, the pyjamas that she had been wearing before the Sensei meeting now slightly damp from the dew-earth, and had bits of dirt and grass sticking to it.
Taking a quick scan of the area where she was at she saw Raye, Mina, and Ami, all laying on the ground, all spread out and unconscious.
Surrounding them was a forest of dark green trees, all seeming to gloat at her as they blocked out as much sunlight as they could. Eerie shadows seemed to dance this way and that, though there was no breeze in the air.
Makoto closed her eyes briefly. She sensed…magic.
Quickly, Makoto opened her eyes and began sprinting (much to the protest of her muscles) to her friends, quickly she checked their pulses and breathing.
"Good, good, good. Good!" Makoto said to herself, as each of her friend's heartbeats was strong and normal, and their breaths even and deep.
"Ug, I never want to do that again."
Makoto looked over to Minako, who was beginning to wake.
"I have to agree with you." Makoto said with a smile as Minako slowly got off the ground, wincing as she went.
"Could you guys keep it down? Ug." Raye grumbled, her violent eyes opening wide as the pain began to register in her body.
"Sorry." Minako said absently, checking her hair and clothes to see if any stains had come onto them.
Makoto walked over to Ami, whom as still the only one unconscious.
"Ami...Hey Ami, wake up sleepy head." Makoto teased.
"I am up. I am communicating with the man I told you earlier about. He is quite powerful in this world.
He said he will find us a place and a school to go to, one he's in charge of." Ami said, opening her eyes and sitting up, quickly checking her body for any injuries.
Makoto absently brushed off a piece of grass that had clung on her shirt, before redoing her ponytail, brushing grass and dirt out of her light chestnut hair.
"Ami, next time you open a portal to another dimension, please remind me to just say no." Minako said, frowning furiously at a grass stain on her soft yellow skirt.
"Do you think this guy will be cute?" Makoto asked, her head imagining a handsome, dashing, and every other word in many languages she knew that could describe a really hot guy.
The rest of the guys fell anime style at the typical Makoto comment.
"Shhh!" Makoto ordered her sharp hearing had heard some rustling in the bushes nearby.
The girl's eyes narrowed as they prepared to face their intruder, henshin pens out as the noise grew louder and closer to their area.
'They're on the left.' Makoto thought, her eyes narrowing in on the bush that was beginning to move.
"Whose there?" Raye called out her violet eyes flashing with the fire beginning to burn in them.
"It's only me." A voice called back.
Makoto glanced over at Ami who was smiling serenely.
"It's alright. This was the man I was telling you about. Mr. Dumbledore." Ami said, as an old man with a extremely long bread, strange pointed hat, and huge dark blue robes came into the clearing.
Makoto sighed mentally.
'I am not that desperate.' She thought to herself as she eyed the old man,
her mental picture quickly fizzing away
"Hello there." He called out kindly; absently swiping stray leaves
and twigs off his otherwise clean cloak.
"Hello Dumbledore." Ami said, moving forward and extending her hand.
Dumbledore shook her hand.
"It's nice to finally meet you Ami. I hope your trip wasn't to stressful?" He asked kindly.
Ami's face twisted into a sly grin.
"Not too-stressful." She said.
Makoto stared at Dumbledore.
'Ok...this is the 'powerful' guy that she's talking about? Hmm…maybe he's a king or something, but that's either a weird crown or a wizard's hat. Maybe he's a wizard or something.' Makoto concluded finally, the odd pointed hat handing lop-sided on the one side.
"Mr. Dumbledore, these are my friends which I have told you about. Raye Hino, Minako Aino, and Makoto Kino. Raye, Minako, Makoto, this is Dumbledore." Ami said, as everyone came up and shook Dumbledore's hand.
"Pleasure." Dumbledore said, smiling sincerely to the girls.
Makoto watched in fascination as Dumbledore held out a long straight stick.
"Well, I have rooms available to all, would you like to use brooms or…?" Dumbledore asked.
All four girls stared back at him with blank faces.
"O-Kay...did you just ask if we would like to broom our way out of here?" Makoto asked incredulously.
"Yes, that or Floo Powder. Which do you prefer?" Dumbledore asked pleasantly while the girls simply stared at him with wide eyes.
"Um...how about the quickest way?" Minako suggested.
Dumbledore smiled.
"Certainly."
The girls watched as Dumbledore proceeded to take out his stick and mumble some words while waving it.
A flash of brilliant light flooded the small clearing; the girls all shielded their eyes from the onslaught, hesitantly looking back when the light faded away.
A long slender tree was in the middle of the clearing.
Dumbledore gave a smile as he muttered a few more words, and the tree burst into flames. His hand disappeared in his cloak, soon reappearing with a small container with a strange powder brilliantly coloured in many hues of the rainbow.
The girls watched as Dumbledore threw the powder on the flaming tree.
"Now all you have to do is think clearly of the place you which to go, Hogwarts, yell it out strongly, and then walk into the flames." Dumbledore told them.
Makoto watched disbelievingly at the now green flames engulfing the tree.
'Rrrriiiggghhhttt, we just walk into the flames, and not be burned. Give me a break. This has got to be some trick.' Makoto thought warily.
Seeing as no one went forward, Dumbledore stepped forward himself.
"It's alright, I'll show you." Promptly he stood in front of the tree.
"HOGWARTS!" He shouted out firmly and stepped into the tree, disappearing from sight.
Ami stared at her still disbelieving friends.
"Alright already, everybody stand behind me. When you reach the fire yell out Hogwarts and walk. Understand? Good. Now march!" Ami said in a stern voice.
One by one the girls disappearing in the green flaming tree.
Makoto stood in front of the flames, the small tree almost completely disappeared and the flame fading fast.
"If I die, I'm going to serious damage Ami in the next life." Makoto muttered before shouting out Hogwarts and walking into the fading green flames.
The tree completely consumed and turned to dust seconds after.
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Makoto groaned as her achy muscles protested her moving around.
"How do you feel?" A kindly voice asked.
Makoto struggled to open her eyes, her eyelids each feeling like they weighed a ton.
"I've been better." Her voice rasped.
A blurry person was in front of her, handing her something.
"Here drink this and you'll feel better in no time." The woman ordered handing Makoto the glass.
Meekly placing her lips on the edge of the glass, Makoto drink in the concoction that tasted...like nothing.
Taking the empty glass from Makoto's hands, the woman left, leaving Makoto wondering what that all was about. Telling herself not to worry about it, Makoto closed her heavy lids and thought about what had happened.
"Ami? Raye? Minako?" Makoto called out softy, her voice not raspy anymore.
Surprise Makoto's eyes opened wide.
Testing her new-found-strength, Makoto was surprised to note that her muscles didn't ache anymore, in fact she felt better then she had in a long while.
"Wonder what that woman put in that glass." Makoto wondered getting up from bed, also noting that her regular clothes were still on her.
Wandering past the bright white room her bed was in, Makoto pushed aside the curtain and walked into another room.
Minako was lying, sleeping peaceable in one of the 'rooms'. Raye was also sleeping in another.
Finally locating Ami's, Makoto saw that Ami was wide awake and, surprise surprise, was working on her Mercuy Computer.
"Hey Makoto." Ami said cheerfully, her fingers typing away on her computer.
"Hey Ami, where are we?" Makoto asked, stretching her achy muscles.
"We're in Hogwarts, a school for wizards and witches, in England. It's quite fascinating really, how these peoples have managed to bring together all the people with magical abilities and harness them." Ami said, her fingers still typing on her computer at a furious rate.
"The terms for this school will start in a month or so, in the meantime, we will be provided a room here and schooling to catch up a bit on the work here so that we may work with others our age." Ami continued.
Makoto's eyes drifted towards the window.
Walking towards it, she stared out the narrow stone opening and onto the ground below.
Everything was so green, and the sky, much bluer then in Japan. It was...incredible.
Gargoyles, stonewalls, a field, it all was before her, this gothic castle...and they would be living here.
"Nice, very nice." Makoto commented, turning away from the window.
"I'm glad you think so."
A lady standing in white robes and two-potion bottles in her hands commented, smiling slightly at Makoto before going to the 'rooms' where Minako and Raye were currently residing.
Soon after the lady left, Minako and Raye came over to Makoto and Ami, both stretching their muscles and fighting off yawns.
"That was weird." Minako said, her hands already combing through her hair, putting it in order.
"Will this is a school for magic, so when the nurse is attending to someone injured, she'll naturally use-"
"Magic" The rest finished off Ami's sentence.
"Exactly." Ami got out of her bed in one smooth motion, her Mercury computer already put back in it's place in the sub-zero space pocket.
"We better not wear our sailor uniforms, the short skirts might shock some people into kingdom come." Ami said with amusement in her voice, as she detransformed into her outfit, which she had been wearing before she transformed, a simple blue skirt that ended just above the knees, and a simple blue blouse.
Makoto glanced down at her own clothes, which was a dark, black/green pyjamas, which she had on before the call for the Senshi meeting.
Raye still had on her temple robes, and Minako had on a stylish-cut yellow pant with a turquoise blouse that dipped quite a bit at the front, but not enough to be immodest.
"Let's go." Ami said, walking gracefully to the door and opening it. A narrow hallway with the odd painting, metal soldier and pottery piece in it.
As a unit the four walked out and followed Ami to their next destination.
The Dining Room.
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