Thanks to everyone that reviewed. ^_^

Standard disclaimer applies. And I apologize now for "happy" Snape. He's just…um…well, he's actually happy that someone is so good at potions. It's not going to turn into a big Makoto/Snape thing…if anything, Snape would want her as an apprentice.

Note: This chapter has very little Harry and Co. until the end. It is focusing mainly on an Independent Study Potions class, and the horror that comes from making Makoto mad and being around a lot of volatile chemicals and ingredients.

Chapter 6

Makoto walked quietly down to the dungeons. She enjoyed her first class, because it was usually only her being taught by Snape. He was never as cold when he was alone with her. It was almost as if he was looking at a potential apprentice, and now that Makoto couldn't go back to school, she might take him up on the offer if he ever asked. She walked in, yawning. She had gotten very little sleep that night, with having the meeting with Dumbledore and Setsuna, and then the interrogation by the Gryffindor trio about her knowledge into the situation at hand. She was looking forward to relaxing with a bit of cooking, or brewing. Though, when she walked in, she stopped dead in her tracks. Draco Malfoy sat at his usual table; cauldron out and book open to a potion.

"Hello Kino. You look like crap." Draco laughed.

Makoto ignored him and set up her own supplies at a front table. She went back and knocked on the office door.

"Yes, hold on." Said a gruff voice. Snape opened the door and spotted Makoto, then looked and saw Draco not far from where she stood. "Mr. Malfoy, I hope you have a very good reason to be here so early."

Draco smiled. "Professor, since I don't have any classes this period, I was hoping that I could get private tutoring like Kino here."

Snape closed his eyes and ran a hand through his hair. "Mr. Malfoy, I hope you are aware that Miss Kino is at a higher level in potions then you are."

Draco snorted softly. "I'm the top potions student in this school, Professor. I can accomplish any task you set before me."

Snape looked to Makoto who just shrugged. "It's your class Professor Snape. I just came in to see if you had any potions that you needed me to work on."

Snape smirked. "Well, this is convenient then. Dumbledore asked me to come up with a protection potion that had certain qualities to it. You both can help me with them." He waved them off, winking quickly at Makoto.

Makoto laughed. Snape really wasn't that bad. He just had a one-track mind. He loved nothing but potions. If you were good with them, he liked you, if you weren't, well lets just say that Harry Potter was proof of how he acted if you weren't.

Makoto looked over to Draco, who seemed to be glaring a hole through her.

Snape walked up and put a large pile of items on his desk. "The two of you will work separately to come up with a potion with these qualifications. It must have a mild protection element. It must be liquid in form. It must have immunity or protection against the elements, and it must have protection against illusions. You both have two hours to complete the basic assignment. I can refine what ever you create into something manageable. Now begin." Snape walked back into his office and shut the door.

Draco and Makoto both started for the desk. Draco picked up a bunch of random bags and a large pile of fennel and nettle. Makoto hoped that nothing she needed was in his pile. She knew he only took all of the nettle and fennel because of its protection properties, but at the moment she wasn't thinking about only herbs. She looked through and picked up: common rue a plant of protection, powered copper which also helped with protection, a small piece of Zircon for protection, a small piece of Quartz to see through illusions, a laurel leaf for protection against lightning, a small fire opal to protect against fire, a small piece of Malachite for influence over water, a very small flake of sapphire for influence over air, sodium to help bind the metals, and the last thing she wanted wasn't on the table. She put her items on her table and walked into the back. This is something she knew Snape wouldn't have normally put out on the table. When adding animal parts to a potion it was classified as a dark art, but only if used to strengthen your powers. She knocked on Snape's office door and started wringing her hands until it opened.

"What is it Miss Kino?" He said gruffly.

"Professor, I need something that isn't on the table." Makoto said quietly.

"What is it Miss Kino, I'm busy?" Snape said looking back at the fireplace in his office.

"I need Gnome's blood, sir." Makoto said sheepishly.

Snape looked at the girl in front of him. He looked back to the fireplace and then nodded. "I'll be right out with it." He then went back in his office and shut the door.

"You know, Kino. That has got to be the sorriest looking pile of ingredients I've seen in a long time. Most of them won't even combine correctly together." Draco said mixing whatever was in his cauldron.

"They will Malfoy. I don't have the last ingredient I need." Makoto said sitting and separating the powders and crystals. She made sure not to directly touch the sodium.

Draco walked over and took the glass beaker that held the sodium. "What's this, Kino?"

Makoto smiled. "You know Malfoy, there are some good things about Muggle schools. You learn all about different metals and elements. That is sodium, I'm using it to help combine the other metals."

Draco looked at the beaker, then at his cauldron, then poured some in.

Snape heard a loud explosion and cursed to himself as he thought about all the things on the table that could have done that. He walked in to the room to see Makoto under a table and Draco knocked against the wall. Makoto stood up and shook her head taking a beaker and putting it back on her table.

"Miss Kino, explain." Snape said looking between her and Draco.

Makoto smiled while sitting down once more. "Malfoy has just learned that Sodium and water don't mix."

Snape looked to the boy. He was slowly starting to turn purple. "I guess whatever he mixed together didn't agree with the sodium then." He walked to the door and opened it. "You two, come here and take Mr. Malfoy to the hospital wing." He spoke to two 7th year Slytherins just standing around.

The two walked in and grabbed Malfoy. They glared at Makoto and walked out.

"Miss Kino, I do hope I won't have to send YOU to the hospital wing." He scowled.

Makoto smiled. "No sir, that's why I wanted the Gnome's Blood. It'll add protection from earth, as well as counteract the sodium."

"Very well." He handed her a small container filled with a blue green liquid. "What have you gathered together?"

So Makoto explained to him, that besides a normal protection potion base, she added immunities to fire, lighting, and earth. She told him that it wouldn't be good to be immune to every element, because then you couldn't use certain ones in spells, so the user was able to control water and air for a short amount of time. Long enough to use a spell to put out a fire, or a spell to levitate something, as that required air. The final piece of the complex potion puzzle would make people aware of illusions, but wouldn't prevent them, as illusions sometimes gave clues to how a person was feeling, what a person was seeing, or indications or what a person could be thinking. Snape stayed quiet for a long time after the explanation.

"Miss Kino, how do you know all of this? I can understand being able to measure properly, and mix ingredients, but this falls under very complex potion making. Most of these elements that you plan on using can't be found in the schools books. Hell, some of the elements like the Gnome's Blood and the reaction it has with sodium isn't even in the restricted section of the library. How do you know all of this?" Snape asked sternly.

Makoto looked down. "I'm…I'm not sure. It's like when I cook, I'm able to take random ingredients and create a meal. I know exactly what it will smell and taste like. As soon as I walked into this potions room, I felt that again. I knew that if I added Daffodil and basil together I would have a weak poison cure. It's been like that since I've been here. All these ingredients that I don't even know where I would have heard of them have just seems to pop up in my mind."

A voice made them look up. "That's because you're an ecomancer."

Snape nodded to Dumbledore. Makoto stood and bowed politely before sitting down again.

"Makoto, to explain, you are getting messages from the plants used in potions. Though they may be dead and dried, the information they hold is still there, inside of them, and you are subconsciously picking up on it. The plants and herbs have known this information for generations, so even potions that don't involve all plant life, like the one you've created, are implanted in a plants "memory" in order to remember what was in a potion, and how much to use. I'm guessing it works with the grains and vegetables you use to cook with. Many ecomancers work with potions just for this reason. It's not something they can control. The potion you made up, really isn't a new potion. I was talking to Professor Snape when you asked for the Gnome's Blood, and knowing what you were using it for, I looked back in a few books of my own. The potion was first made in the year 1274, by a witch named Kara Meteora. After her death, no one was able to recreate this potion, at least, no one until now."

Makoto blushed. "If that's the case, then would it be easier not to take potions anymore. I have a slight advantage."

Snape turned to her. "Do you realize what you can do for the wizarding world? So many potions have been lost over time. You can recreate them. That's a wonderful gift."

Makoto blushed more.

"Makoto, I want you to be my apprentice." Snape said calmly.

Makoto smiled. "If I agree, I still get to leave during the summer correct?"

Dumbledore smiled. "Oh course you will. Harry needs to learn about the muggle world."

Makoto grumbled. "You would know what I talked to my Uncle about."

Snape smirked. "I'll tell you what. I'll agree to letting you off the hook during the summer, but you have to do something about Potter's potions grade."

Makoto smiled and nodded. She was speechless. It took her going into a world that she had only been told about by her mother to find a place that she was in a sense, normal. Granted she wasn't a witch, and never would be one, but she was a Squib, a Squib that happened to help save the world more times then any of these people knew about.

Draco sat in a hospital bed. Madam Pomfrey had just given him another potion to clean his skin. Basically all it did was make skin cells grow faster, meaning the bright purple he had been when he first entered, was now a pale lilac. He tried not to scratch his dry skin, because that only made it worse. When he got out of here, his first stop was a very hot bath with tons of bath oil, and then he would get his revenge on a certain brunet named Makoto Kino.

Makoto was finishing up for the day. Her first week was over, and everything was still somewhat peaceful at the castle. Now all she had left to do was sit through a class with Setsuna, and then a class with Hagrid, and she would be free for two and a half days. The morning spent talking to Snape and Dumbledore about how Ecomancy could be used in potions was educational to say the least. She headed up to the second floor, and the new room that History of Magic was in, at least for this year. She hoped that Setsuna was a good teacher, but she knew she would be. Setsuna had seen it all, from the downfall of the Moon Kingdom, until she would be relieved of her duties after Crystal Tokyo was well under way. Makoto walked in and took a seat next to Hermione, who was too busy arguing with Ron to notice she had arrived.

Harry looked over and spotted Makoto. "Hello Makoto." He said with a smile.

"Hi Harry. How was your morning?" Makoto said smiling back.

Ron stopped arguing with Hermione. "Oh it was great. We heard from some of the Slytherins that Malfoy was sent to the hospital wing because he turned himself purple. I would really love to see that."

Makoto laughed. "Did they happen to mention that it happened because he started adding things to a potion that he didn't know what they were?"

Hermione turned to look at her. "Malfoy didn't know something about a potion?"

Makoto blushed slightly. "Well, you see, I was making a complex potion, and Malfoy thought he could make one as well."

Ron's eyes grew wide. "You were there?! Tell me everything."

Makoto fidgeted and luckily was interrupted when Setsuna walked in.

"Hello class. I've finally had a chance to go over the lessons that Professor Binns was going to teach this year, and I have decided to throw out his lesson plan. You all need to know more then Goblin revolts, so in just two semesters, I will teach you as much as I can about the origin of magic." Setsuna said sitting on top of her desk, instead of standing or sitting in the chair.

Makoto's eyes went wide. She was going to teach them all about the Silver Millennium. She hadn't even told the senshi anything to remind them of it. Makoto was about to learn about her past, about everyone's past, and she would be the only one. Setsuna looked at her and nodded before opening up a book.

"You will want to take notes. I know that you all will be entranced by the story I'm about to tell, but this is all information that will be on your O.W.L.s." Setsuna waited as everyone but Makoto pulled out parchment and ink. "Now, long ago, almost 4 millenniums, a vast empire was built on the surface of the moon to honor the Goddesses Artemis and Diana. Later the people learned that these two were one and the same, but that came much later. Anyway, because of this temple on the moon, the other gods grew jealous and wanted temples over the planets they ruled. Thus the Gold Millennium was created. The people at these temples were given the ability to live on these other planets, as well as to create civilization there. Now, over a thousand years go by, and the people of earth start to forget all about the mighty gods. They start to believe in other deities causing their powers to diminish. It was decided to make the temples in space, kingdoms. Each God and Goddess would have a child, to pass all of their remaining power to. The child would be immortal, but wouldn't have the full power of a God. Kronos had a child with Persephone, Hades wife, a child that would watch over time itself. This child would become queen of the planet Pluto. Artemis, who was still pure at that time, and wanted to remain that way, created a woman out of clay. The woman was pregnant. The woman became Queen of the Moon and was able to wield Artemis' power until the child she bore became of age. Hermes had a child with the Muse of Knowledge; the child was made Princess of Mercury, of knowledge and of ice. Ares had a child with Athena; the child was made princess of Mars, of fire, and of visions. Aphrodite had a child with Hephaistos, her husband; the child was made princess of Venus, of love, and of metal. Zeus had a child with Demeter; the child was made princess of Jupiter, of storms, protection, and nature. Kronos had another child, this time with Rheia; the child became the princess of Saturn, of Death, Destruction, Rebirth, and Healing. Poseidon had a child with the sea nymph, Thoosa; the child was made princess of Neptune, of oceans, and water. Gaia and one of the brothers of Wind had a child; the child was made princess of Uranus, of earth, and wind. I will tell you, that none of these couples were together, in anyway. The gods created a child, and embedded them with their powers. These children were raised by those in the temples. When time came for them to defend the new system, they called on the powers within themselves to transform into warriors with great power. When the Moon's princess was of age, a ball was held, unfortunately, the Gods of earth that I mentioned were not the only ones to pass on their powers. The Gods that didn't have kingdoms in space became bitter and envious. They pooled all their powers together creating two beings, the being Queen Metalia, and the being known as Chaos. Chaos choose to stay on earth, and its evil was contained inside of people, where it would live until a time in which it thought it could control and conquer. Metalia however, started attacking the Moon Kingdom and all its inhabitants. With the help of the first evil witch, a sorceress by the name of Beryl, Metalia disrupted the powers of the solar system enough to cause the Moon's Queen to use what was left of her power, and a crystal that enhanced it, to send all those present into the future that you all know now as the present. The senshi you have heard Professor Dumbledore speak of, are these warriors." Setsuna finished and sat back waiting for questions. Hermione raised her hand. "Yes, Miss Granger?"

"What does that have to do with the origin of magic?" Hermione said still writing down notes.

Setsuna smiled. "The powers granted to the worshipers of the temples were passed down from generation to generation, refined, and reworked. In the present time, most of the power you all draw from gets amplified by your wands, in the form of charms, hexes and so on. Potions are different because even Muggles have been known to make home remedy potions, though they don't have most ingredients readily available, as Professor Snape says, it's a skill. It's not something the everyone can do." Setsuna said. Ron actually raised his hand. "Yes, Mr. Weasley?"

Ron looked a little disbelieving. "You mean to tell me, that my ancestors lived on other planets?"

Setsuna nodded. "Though all people originated from earth, many of your ancestors probably grew up never knowing their home planet. There is a potion, though its very old, that would be able to tell you what planet's temple you're ancestors worshipped at. I'm sure Professor Snape's new apprentice would be happy to make up a batch of the potion for the class.

"Since when did Snape get an apprentice?" Asked someone from the back.

Setsuna smiled. "Since about two hours ago, I believe. Isn't that right Makoto?"

Makoto sunk down in her chair. Everyone was looking at her with mixed reactions.

"So what do you say Makoto? Will you make the potion for everyone? I'm sure you'd like to know about your class mates as much as they would like to know about themselves." Setsuna said.

Makoto just nodded, trying to crouch further into her seat. Hermione was looking back and forth between Makoto and Setsuna. 'The way she worded that,' Hermione thought. 'That makes it seem as if Makoto wouldn't want to know about herself, only about the others in class. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, though Makoto has been keeping secrets.'

"Well class, our time is up. I will see you all next class, and Mako-chan will have that potion for you all."

Hermione started packing up her books. 'Setsuna just said something again. She acts as if she knows what she is already. Well, perhaps she does, she knows about the potion, so she's probably already taken it.'

"Come on Hermione, we'll be late." Makoto said smiling.

While walking out to Hagrid's hut, Ron kept looking around. He put his hand into his robes and pulled it back out quickly. The orb was warm to the touch. Pulling it out he saw that it was a blinding white. "Makoto…" He said nervously. He held up the orb.

Makoto's eyes widened and she yelled to the crowd pushing outside. "EVERYONE! INSIDE! THERE'S A DEMON OUT HERE!"

Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Please review!

I want to apologize for any grammar and spelling, as its 230 in the morning, I'm tired, but I want to get this posted so I have the poll results. I hope I didn't confuse any of you with how I did the origin of how the senshi got their powers. I do want to say that I did not necessarily mean that those particular gods had sex with each other, as most of them are family members…but that never really stopped the gods before. Hehehe… Anyway, if you need to me clarify anything, just let me know and I'll e-mail you information. Other then that, the next chapter will have our first youma battle, Makoto's secret, well one of them will be revealed, but will that change how her three new friends treat her? I'll also have another meeting with the centaur, and some possible Draco revenge. It'll depend on how long it seems to be getting. Also…I hope you all noticed that I made Setsuna and Hotaru sisters. To tell you the truth, I wasn't planning on it, but from the information I found on Gods…it just happened that way.

Ok…for all you happy reviewers…here's the contest.

I hate making up names for enemies…so…the three winners of the contest will be able to create themselves as a youma. You have creative license of this, meaning you choose what you look like, and everything. The only thing you don't choose will be your name…because I'm going to use your Pen Name, or whatever name you sign your reviews with. So here are the questions:

1. From the first Harry Potter BOOK, what are ALL of the safety precautions used to protect the stone, and who supplied them?

2. In the Sailor Moon episode titled Jupiter Comes Thundering In, what does Makoto order from the "waitress"?

So…the first three to answer both questions correctly will be the winners. If after a week I don't have three people, I will take whoever has the most correct information… This means that for those of you that don't sign in to review, please leave your e-mail address so I can contact you if you win.

And for the polls:

Poll 1. Besides Usagi, Mamoru, Rei, and Minako, what TWO senshi should go to the school to help Makoto and Setsuna battle? (Note: they will NOT be staying at the school, they will only be going back and forth to help fight.)

Poll 2. Should I have Voldi die at the end of the story, or should I keep him alive for the planned sequel?

Poll 3. Should I make Draco a Death Eater?

Poll 4. I don't want to make Makoto seem Mary-Sueish…so I'm leaving it up to all of you…Should Makoto be the outer senshi princess, should she be the mysterious senshi from the center planet, or should she just be a normal senshi?

(Plot twists will develop depending on your answers.)