Mei- it might be different, we'll see eventually… I ended it there because I wanted more time to think about this chapter, and thanks!
Firefly-chan- it might be Lee, we'll see… thanks, and I'll try.
Kawaii Tenshi- hehehee I live to anger… um, yeah. Do I WANT your love? Okay, just kidding a bit… we'll see, I mean, what about me? She and Mamoru need to be together for me to be born, ne?
Taiki- I'll hurry, hope you didn't wait too long, and thanks!
Jessica Black- don't die on me! PLEASE DON'T! hehehee I'll write now…
MarsMoonStar- I'm not that mean, am I? I agree, cliffies are awful, but oh twell, you get what you get! Here's more, and what's poopy?
Bunni V- It did say it was Usa-chan… after some *s and words and more *s hehe. Yep, I am!
Cheska- this whole fic is! Some of it isn't as frustrating, though… you'll be wondering for a while more, maybe!
Rominas- Here's more, and I'll think on it… I don't know if I want it to be Usa/Lee. What color is Terry Boots's hair? Hehee
Goddess Selene- Suggestions are welcome, but we'll see if I use it…
Yukiro***Child- You'll find out soon… he did, didn't he? But who could hate your daddykins?
Anonymous- kay!
Es- ::sniffles:: everyone is saying I'm mean ::sniffles:: and none of you know me! How do you know I'm mean? But then again… how do you know I'm not mean? Hm… thanks! I will.
Tenshi-chan- ::bows:: thank you!
SilverSickle17- fine, I can't pretend I'm not evil with you… AND YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND FIND OUT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THIS TIME! HA! Hehehe maybe I will tell you… but maybe not… heh heh heh… oh geez, I'm turning into you…
Roninchica- you're twelcome! Hehee… I might, I might not… maybe it is, maybe it isn't… we'll see, won't we? Nani? I didn't quite get that… oh! Ohohoh oh oh! I just wanted to keep it simpler, that's why. Too many people, and there's too many loose ends to wrap up. I don't like THAT many pairings! Hehe hehehe
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Completely confused and a hundred ten percent terrified, Usagi's feet seemed to take on the weight of the rest of her body on their own, and move her stiffly up to the door. Meanwhile, hundreds of thoughts seemed to be crowding her mind. How could I have been chosen as well?… I don't even know how I crossed the age line!… Oh, why does this stupid hall have to be so big?… The force is with you, young Skywalker… What? Where'd that come from?… Oh, everybody is looking at me!… Professor McGonagall looks like she's about to faint… I think I'M about to faint… and so on. At last she pushed her way into the room. She saw Harry standing uncomfortably before the four very tall original champions.
"What? Are you 'ere to say zat you are in ze tournament az well?" snapped the Veela girl from Beauxbatons.
"Actually…" Usagi began, knowing how terrible this would sound to the others, "I am."
"Zat iz it!" Fleur exploded, ignoring the incredulous looks that Mamoru, Cedric, and Harry were directing at Usagi. Victor Krum simply remained in the shadows, his expressions invisible. "You and you and you are all 'Ogwarts champions! Zis iz really too much! Madame Maxime!" she cried, running to the giant lady that had just entered the room.
"Vat is this, Professor Karkaroff? These three say they all are Hogwarts champions. That is not possible, is it?" Krum was staring accusingly at his headmaster, who seemed to be very uncomfortable under his student's gaze.
"Nani?" This was the first time Mamoru had spoken. "What is going on, professor?" Mamoru was speaking to his headmistress in Japanese, clearly unhappy.
Dumbledore, looking very grave indeed, called for silence. "I do not know how these two ended up in the tournament," he began.
Karkaroff, looking clearly murderous, coughed, and Maxime said, "We know zat one of zese children has entered zemselves!"
"But she entered as a Hogwarts student- it even said on the parchment," he said, handing her the paper, "And Harry could not have made the Goblet believe that there were five schools in the tournament. I hold nothing against these two. I do not believe they have it in their power to enter as two extra students."
"I vish to vithdraw my student, then. It is not fair for Hogvarts to have three champions, and the rest of us only vun," Karakaroff was seething with anger and look as if he would explode at any moment.
"I'm afraid that that is quite impossible," Dumbledore said calmly, "as once a student is entered, he or she cannot be withdrawn. You yourself may leave if you do not wish to support your champion." It seemed that he was also warning Maxime and Setsuna of this rule. "I assure you, if it were possible to withdraw a student, both Mister Potter and Miss Tsukino would be up in their dormitories instead of learning about the first task."
This was said with such fierceness that at first, no one dared to speak. "Well then!" Ludo Bagman said jovially, breaking the silence. "Here's you clue for the first task: nothing! This one is to see how well you can face fear. Now, scamper off to bed!"
Usagi was pounding out the door before he even finished the last sentence. Just before she turned down the hallway to Gryffindor tower, she changed her mind. There would be too many people celebrating. Not only had she and Harry been chosen, but here was also Mamoru…
She ended up in front of her secret room. "Kitty stalks by moonlight… and I should really change the password," she said, talking to herself.
"Well, you'll have to tell me what the new one is," said a male's voice behind her. "How about we go for something along the lines of 'I hate the Quad-wizard tournament'?"
"That sounds great, Harry!" Usagi said, turning around. "Or 'Slytherins stink' would work, too."
"I know! 'Down with Snape and Malfoy'!"
"No, no! 'Pranksters are the best'!"
"How about 'if you like Slytherins, go to bloody hell'?"
"But 'Que muera el queso' could work, too…"
"What does that mean?" Harry was puzzled.
"Death to the cheese, in Spanish," Usagi said, before bursting into fits of laughter. "That third year, Kelly, told me." {A/N: The funny thing is, my friend Kelly that gives me fun sayings in Spanish would be in her third year hehehe… and only certain people will get the hilarity in 'death to the cheese'.}
"I still think that 'down with Snape and Malfoy' would work," Harry grinned.
"But 'Lee is cute' would work best!" Usagi looked completely mortified. "Did I just say that out loud?" Harry nodded somberly, then burst out laughing. "Harry, you can't tell anyone! I'll die."
"Oh, I won't tell anyone… just Fred, George, some of the most talkative people I can find, Lee himself, all the people that I know like you, and a few dozen others," he said, ticking names off on his fingers.
"You will NOT!" Usagi shrieked, tackling him and causing them both to tumble down the stairs, banging off of walls. When they finally reached the bottom, Usagi stood up and shouted, "Yo soy la coneja diabla!" and took a sumo-wrestler's stance. Some how, she had managed to charm her 'odangos' to come out, and her hair was poking up in what looked suspiciously like bunny-ears. Two little red horns had also appeared.
"Hey! How'd you do that?" Harry said in awe.
"Yo soy coneja diabla," Usagi said, simply. "It's a small charm that Kelly and I invented. It means 'I am the devil-bunny.' Don't you like it? I'm sure we could make thousands of galleons off it…"
"Then, yo soy el mono popo," Harry said, using one of the phrases he had heard the third year throw at people. He wasn't quite sure what 'mono popo' was at the moment, but a second later it became clear. "Ew, what smells?" he queried, sniffing.
"You! Look at yourself!" Usagi said, then started screaming with laughter.
Harry dubiously turned towards a mirror, and almost began laughing himself. He looked a bit like a monkey, but he was covered in feces. "What did I say?"
"That you were a poop-monkey, basically," Usagi said, gasping to control herself. "Quick, say 'yo soy Harry Potter.'"
He repeated the words, and found himself facing… himself. Usagi had turned herself into him.
"Oops!" Usagi said, seeing herself reflected in his glasses. "Yo soy Usagi Tsukino." She promptly turned back into herself.
Harry was glaring at her, and then said, "Why couldn't you have made that up in second year? Ron, Hermione and I had to go to all the trouble of brewing a Polyjuice potion, and we could have just used that instead."
"You made a Polyjuice potion? Are you crazy?" Usagi was gazing at him open-mouthed. "Well, at any rate, you can't tell anyone else about the spell. Kelly would kill me. We will be the ones to tell people, and only at a great price."
"All right, then," Harry said. "Let's go back to the common room. It's late enough that no one should be up…" but he seemed a bit uncertain about that.
At any rate, Usagi wasn't as nervous about being in the tournament. She knew more spells than Harry did, at least, and had a very good way of coming up with more.
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As the portrait hole swung open, Usagi whispered, "Oh, no, I left the password as 'Lee is cute'!"
No one heard her, though, because a huge roar of noise greeted their arrival. Harry was swept inside, and Usagi was completely… ignored? But she had been chosen as well. Why wasn't anyone paying her any attention?
Shrugging, Usagi climbed inside the hole. There was no space at all to walk on on the floor, so she jumped lightly up onto the back of a couch and began walking on it, trying not to fall off. "Oi! Fred, George, Lee! Go over there!" she shouted above the din, pointing towards the boys' stairs. They nodded and began making their way over to the stairs, still on the floor. Usagi reached the end of the couch and jumped onto the back of a chair, and then onto a table, and then, with one huge leap, landed in front of the boys' staircase.
"That was impressive, Usa," Fred said with a small smile.
"Oh, so I'm Usa now, am I?" Usagi retorted.
Suddenly, they all broke into grins, and Usagi said, "Harry's trunk?"
No more discussion was needed. They raced off up the stairs to the fourth-year boys' room, and ripped open Harry's trunk.
"AHA!" Usagi exclaimed triumphantly. "This should be good. Should we make a flagpole in the Entrance Hall or the Great Hall?"
"Great Hall, definitely," Lee said, mischievously.
"And we'll make it come out of the teacher's table!" George added.
"Don't forget the charms that Kelly and I made up. Should I go get her so she can help?" Usagi said, clearly wanting her friend to be in on the fun.
"Sure," the other three said, shrugging.
They were all expecting Usagi to race down the stairs, but instead she said, "Sonorus!" and then shouted at the top of her lungs, "KELLY! GET UP HERE RIGHT NOW!"
There was a bit of quiet down in the common room, and then everyone burst into laughter. Moments later, a short, brunette girl appeared in the doorway. "So, are we going to do it?" she said, smiling.
"Yep," Usagi said. "Now, we need to finish that charm to stop people being able to take down the flag pole…"
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Sorry about this chapter, if it seems a bit out-there. Here, I'll do a bit of explaining. I take French in school, but my friend, Kelly, has been teaching me some funny sayings in Spanish (she takes Spanish). I've decided that I wanted to use some of those, so I invented Kelly, a third-year Gryffindor. There will most likely be some more whacko Spanish things, but the spelling will most certainly be a bit off.
Also, I am super-hyper. I woke up this morning at eight, and started jumping up and down on my bed screaming, "Snow day! Snow day! Snow day!" over and over. Actually, I was bouncing on my knees because I sleep on the top bunk of a bunk bed. At any rate, I woke up hyper, and that is never a good thing for me. Heheheheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
R&R!
