Must read! Ok! I have people telling me that I'm going too fast in this storyline, and I completely understand that. The reason was to be given out at a later part in the story, (when the trio found out who Cosmos was) but due to some critique from a reliable source (my mother), I have decided to tell you now.
The reason so many things are happening to Cosmos at once, usually tied in with her dimension, is because time flows differently in both dimensions. In the SM dimension, time is faster, therefore a day in the HP dimension is like a week in the other. The fates are using her time, because if Cosmos were in her dimension, all of this would've happened in two weeks. Get it? I hope that cleared everybody up.
Enough about me! On with the story! I've made it longer!
The Day of Selene
After that saddened night, the months flew by as normal. Okay, as normal as they could get at Hogwarts, especially with Cosmos there. She continued not to use a wand, despite Dumbledore's constant requests. She said she was waiting for the right time.
During Christmas, Cosmos vanished completely. No one heard or saw from her until the term started again. Strange…she didn't take the Hogwart's Express home. Still, no one dared question her about it.
January passed quickly enough. Cosmos didn't electrocute Snape. Professor McGonagall made no move to inquire about her wand. In fact, both Professors seemed to have a deep respect for the silver-haired teen.
One day, near the end of the month, Cosmos sat in DADA class, watching her professor grade homework while they read. There was something off about him. His normal forest green aura was becoming darker. She had to get to the bottom of it.
Abruptly standing up, she made her way to the front of the class, the eyes of her fellow classmates following her. She looked closely at Professor Lupin, about three inches from his face.
"Can I help you, Miss Cosmos?" asked the Professor uncomfortably. She looked into his eyes, her own narrowing. Remus Lupin had the uncanny feeling she was peering into his soul.
Cosmos' expression was questioning. "Your normally pure aura has a disturbance. An evil is embedded in you…It will cut loose from you soon. When it does, you will no longer be safe." She glared at him. "You're not turning into a youma, are you?" she asked suspiciously.
"No, I'm afraid not… you see, I'm a werewolf. I turn into a monster at the light of the full moon. There is no cure." Her expression held disbelief.
"That's the evil that inside you? Why didn't someone tell me sooner?!"
The DADA Professor sighed, "I understand you're upset, but…"
"I am not upset! I'm relieved! After having my bad luck, I thought I had made a mistake about Chaos' host, but I was wrong!" Cosmos looked at the Professor mysteriously. "I fear you will have a very strange dream tonight," she said as the bell rang.
Remus Lupin sat in his quarters wondering about what the silver haired mystery had said in class today. How does she know I'm going to have a strange dream? he wondered.
Shaking his head and chuckling to himself, he sat down and started to read a book Professor Mantra had lent him. It was the more complete version of the students' books. It even included pictures. All this Moon Kingdom stuff isn't half bad, he realized. In fact, it's rather interesting.
He didn't know how long he was reading before he began to doze off. All he knew was that what happened next couldn't really happen…
His eyes fluttered open as he felt another presence in the room. It was a woman of about twenty-two with long silver hair done up in heart-shaped buns, with hair flowing from the bottom. She wore a strange white ensemble, with and eight-pointed star on her forehead, breast and pelvis. Her silver eyes were speckled with blue and held deep wisdom. Her shoes almost appeared to be made of glass, and each had a little wing on the heel. A silver cape was draped around her shoulders.
"Who are you?" asked Remus.
The woman smiled mysteriously. She held her palm outward towards the book that was now in his lap. An unfathomable wind picked up, fluttering the pages until it arrived at the page titled, Sailor Cosmos.
There on the page was the exact same woman, holding a staff with the same eight-pointed star. Next to her was a little girl of about three with red hair in the same style as the woman's, wearing a sailor-like outfit. The girl also held a staff, a heart-shaped one with a ring circling it.
"You're Sailor Cosmos?" asked Remus uncertainly. The woman smiled slightly and nodded her head. "Why are you here?"
"To help you get rid of your demon," she replied in a mystical voice.
Remus pondered that for a moment. Realization dawned on him. "You can cure…me being a werewolf?" he asked incredulously.
This earned a larger smile. "I would not do it for just anyone, but you are pure-hearted enough. The only thing to complete this process is for you to trust me. Can you do this?" He nodded his head. "Good. Now, I warn you before hand, it might hurt, but it will rid you of that wolf once and for all."
Sailor Cosmos neared him and pointed her index finger at his forehead, stopping an inch before it touched flesh. A white ball appeared at the end, touching the skin of his brow.
Pain shot through the man. A pain like nothing he had ever felt before. It felt as though his insides were being pulled out. He screamed out. Then, as unexpectedly had started, it stopped. He could no longer feel an ounce of pain… in fact, he couldn't feel the wolf part of him either.
"Thank you!" Remus whispered, tears of joy running down his face.
Sailor Cosmos' expression was that of a mother. "You deserved it. Anyways, they are coming now… I must leave. Good-bye Remus Lupin." She planted a kiss on his brow and vanished in a blinding light.
"Remus!" a voice called out.
Remus bolted awake. Around him were several of his colleagues: McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore.
"Are you alright?" asked Professor McGonagall.
"I'm fine," he said slowly. "Why are you all here?"
"Your screaming woke us all up!" snapped Snape.
"M-my screaming?"
"Yes, it could be heard throughout the castle," said Dumbledore. "Are you alright?"
Lupin frowned. "I had a dream… so real… she cured me." He shook his head. "Never mind, it was just a dre-." He cut off. He was searching himself, trying to find the wolf part of him. Realizing it wasn't there, he started laughing.
"And what may I ask is so funny?" growled Snape.
"It happened! It was real! I'm not a werewolf anymore! She cured me!" cried Lupin.
"Who did?" asked Dumbledore.
"Sailor Cosmos." The three teachers looked at one another.
"We'll have to see won't we?" smiled Dumbledore, but already knowing it was true. "If it is indeed, then it will be a miracle! Now I don't know about the rest of you, but I would like nothing more than to go back to bed." The other three nodded and went their separate ways.
The next day in DADA, the fifth-year Gryffindors were taking notes when the bureau started to shake.
Looking up, Professor Lupin smiled. "It looks like we have a boggart on our hands. I trust you all remember the spell, so let's have a practical lesson instead!" The class cheered.
The class assembled themselves as the professor threw open the bureau doors. Each student, except for Cosmos, got a turn before Lupin decided it was time to finish it off. "Here!" he yelled, trying to get the boggart's attention.
The boggart, however, had it sight's set on another: the silver-haired girl. The girl approached it, as if she were metal and the boggart, a magnet. The boggart changed. It became a dark haze. So dark, it was opaque. Is the thing I most fear, Chaos? she wondered.
He question was answered when a silver light erupted from the centre of the haze. Looking back, she gasped.
There, in the dark haze, was her. Sailor Cosmos. Okay, you couldn't distinguish the facial features, but she instantly recognized the fuku. "Oh kami…" she whispered as reality struck her. I am afraid of me, of what I've become, of the power I hold, of my responsibility.
Cosmos couldn't take it. Palm faced towards the boggart, she blasted it. After the luminosity had passed, the boggart was nowhere to be found.
"Class dismissed," said Professor Lupin hurriedly. "Except for you, Miss Cosmos. I'd like a word."
Letting out a sigh, Cosmos sat back down in her chair as her classmates pilled out, sneaking glances over her shoulder. Once all had exited, Professor Lupin squatted next to her.
"Do you know what the boggart changed into?" he asked.
Rolling her eyes, Cosmos replied, "It wouldn't have changed into that certain thing if I didn't know what it was! Besides, it I didn't, I'd have to be the stupidest person ever!"
"Why do you say that?"
"Because it's me!" snapped Cosmos. "And before you say it, yes, what went on last night really happened."
Lupin stared dumbfounded at Cosmos. "You are Sailor Cosmos?"
"Of course! You should feel honoured I told you! I could've simply erased everyone's memory, like I did the first night I came here. Everyone forgot the youma called me, 'your majesty'. You think it just slipped their mind? I don't think so! But back to the point, since I told you, you can't tell anyone. If you do you will find yourself in a heap of trouble. For more information, go see Dumbledore." She picked up her bag. "Now, if you don't mind, I have to start preparing! It's only a week away!"
She left leaving a very confused professor behind.
On February the 6th, Cosmos burst into the hall in the middle of dinner. She power walked straight up to the teacher's table, ignoring the curious glances she was getting. She stopped it front of Dumbledore.
"I am going to need to borrow the hall tomorrow evening, and though I'm still letting everyone in the school come, they have to show great respect. Anything less will prove disastrous for the trouble maker."
Dumbledore steepled his fingers. "May I ask why?"
Growing impatient, Cosmos replied, "Tomorrow is a holiday for me. Normally on that day, we would rejoice from six o'clock p.m. to three o'clock a.m., however, I realize I must change this, for students must be in their dormitories by eight-thirty p.m.."
"Very well. I cannot ask that you give up your customs," Dumbledore said after a moment. "And you say the school is invited?"
"Indeed."
"I see no problem then," smiled Dumbledore. The Grand Hall filled with whispers.
"He's letting her use the hall?" asked Ron disbelievingly.
"It appears so," answered Harry.
"Well, you can't really blame him. It's her traditions, after all. Besides, if he didn't he might end up like Snape," added Hermione.
Cosmos offered a small smile. "Thank you headmaster." She turned and left.
Cosmos had permission to skip her last two blocks in order to prepare. Instead of the house banners, she put flowing white and silver silk, draped along the ceiling. She placed myrtle incense around the hall, filling it with a delightful smell. On the tables, she arranged bouquets of white poppies, white roses and wallflowers. Each table had either a white or silver tablecloth.
She hid when the students started to arrive. They all gasped at the difference in their once constant hall. The girls were smelt the flowers, and putting them in their hair.
This got Cosmos angry. "DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!" boomed through the hall. The student jumped, and hastily took their seats. Cosmos smirked to herself. When all the students and staff were there, she teleported to the entrance. The doors closed. She snapped her fingers and her robes shimmered into the traditional wear.
It was a long flowing silver dress with a white lace robe over top. Her hair was done in traditional royal lunarian style. On her forehead, her gold crescent insignia glistened in the light. Cosmos smiled to herself.
The Queen willed the doors open and walked in. From the students' point of view, she looked like a mythical siren. Cosmos walked up to the front.
"Welcome, old and young, to the day which was declared holy by my ancestors. A day honouring the most important goddesses in my family's life; welcome to the Day of Selene! This is my family's version of Christmas."
Whatever the crowd had been expecting, it had not been this. A day honouring a fictional goddess?
"I know you're all wondering what the significance of this day is. Selene is a goddess of agriculture, domestic, long life, medicine, travels and visions, not to mention the personification of the moon itself. Praying to her is very useful if you're into divination.
This will be a quick ceremony, as I do no have the proper tools with me. The first thing I will do is sing the Hymn to Selene. Please do not clap, for it is disrespectful."
Cosmos readied herself. She was a bit nervous after not singing for so long. As she began to sing, she poured all her emotion into it.
"Muses, sweet-speaking daughters of Zeus Kronides
and mistresses of song, sing next of long-winged Moon!
From her immortal head a heaven-sent glow
envelops the earth and great beauty arises
under its radiance. From her golden crown the dim air
is made to glitter as her rays turn night to noon,
whenever bright Selene, having bathed her beautiful skin
in the Ocean, put on her shining rainment
and harnessed her proud-necked and glittering steeds,
swiftly drives them on as their manes play
with the evening, dividing the months. Her great orbit is full
and as she waxes a most brilliant light appears
in the sky. Thus to mortals she is a sign and a token."
"This evening, the evening celebrating the goddess Selene, the night of the full moon, I ask you to bow your heads while I honour the full moon," Cosmos continued. She raised her hands. "I have done this to honour you Selene, goddess of the moon, ~grandmother~ (A.N. she said that in lunarian). I ask that you heal our ales, give us long healthy lives, and continue to shine your light on us! ~I love you grandmother. Look after mother for me~." She bowed her head and there was silence for about a minute.
Finally looking up, she smiled, "Thank you all for being so respectful during this celebration. I know you're all hungry, so let's eat!" The plates filled with delicious looking food, all decorated by silver laurel leaves.
Cosmos walked over and sat at the Gryffindor table. She helped her self to all the traditional foods that she had practically had to beg the house elves to make. As she sat there eating, for the first time since she arrived, she felt truly content.
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A.N. Okay, the first thing I would like to say is that if this celebration offends anyone because it seems a little like an occult activity, I apologize. I didn't mean it to come out like that, I was simply scouring the Internet for stuff about Selene that I could use in my fanfics, and I found that her day was February 7th. I thought that people on the moon might not have celebrated Christmas, but most likely they would have celebrated the first lunarian. Does that make sense? Oh well, I hope you liked the chapter! Have a great weekend! ^^
