Hey everyone! I know this chapter is pretty short and boring and not good, but the following ones should be lots of fun!
Voldie was telling Usagi to kiss him to provoke her, etc, before he killed her. (we'll find out whether he did or not in the first paragraph)
Anneliese- I just like to torture people in general. I like long reviews! They make me all warm and fuzzy inside! Even though my house is freezing… read for questions answered.
TGWIOWHP- I was talking about The Princess and the Pauper… he's just evil.
Anonymous- Is it? That's good! I can START my fifth book, but I won't post until it's nearly finished, meaning I'll probably just switch to the real fifth book. I like being lucky!
Becky- ::plugs ears, then peers up:: Okay, no more screams… Don't stop, never give up, keep on goin' till you reach the top… it's a song. I won't! I like this fic too much… although these two are the more boring, can't be as funny chapters (the last one and this one). Here's more!
Goddess-of-light- It was, wasn't it? I really didn't want to write out the bad parts (IMO) so I made my parts! And they're fun fun fun!
Hyper Princess- NOOOO! NOT THE CHOCOLATE!!!! Here, here, read, please, just not the chocolate! My sugar intake needs to stay high! :-D
Sailorartemis2000- don't fall!
Jenny- Voldie is a pervie! Mwahahaha I just realized that that rhymes. The whole German thing is okey day. For that, I had to use one of the online translators, and they gave me that as the closest match. But sh, don't tell anyone!
Akiko- tankies!
Sailor Capricorn- No fair! I have either my stinky school library or the public one, and neither place has very good books. Luckily, most of the books I end up reading or wanting to read I can steal from my friends or are very inexpensive (around $5.50). I pronounce the 't' because it's there, even though it technically should be silent. I used to think Sirius was sir-I-us, 'cause it looks like that. Ew, school on Saturday? :;shudders;: I don't think I'd like being home schooled a super lot. It seems to have its perks and ickynesses. MugglePride is a cool site! I made you want to do math? Wowness. Yeah, I figured him to be in the 68 range, and then made Usa make a guess near there. It would be odd if she knew his exact age. Harry could be the heir of Gryffindor and Slytherin, being the one to cause peace between the houses… not likely. That was a response and a half…
Firefly-chan- glad you liked it! I know, lots of evil cliffies, but this one isn't so bad. Try NOT to die of laughter… although that would be a good way to die ;-) Maybe you should write your variations and show them to me… who knows, inspiration, credit, and laughter may strike!
Crazygurl70- blackness can be good and bad. Depends on how you're using it. thank you!
MarsMoonStar- you sho did.
Firefly The Dancing Author- Why wouldn't you expect Mrs. Figg?Lady sakura joy- no such thing as too much sugar! TAKE BACK THOSE EVIL WORDS! Thank you! :-)
Jupi- no problamo! You're twelcome, thank you, and I WILL! HEHEHEHEHHEE!
Roninchica- ::draws deep breath to prepare self:: I apologize for torturing you with a cliffie, but no more for a while yet, okay? Promise. You evil flu, keeping me from reviews! :-P No rush with the Lee thing… I need to get the second chapter out. I need to write the second chapter. I need to think of what to write for the second chapter… as for your questions, all will be revealed in good time, my child. All in good time.
Tenshi-chan- I try to tell myself that what I have Usa do is what I'd do, but one can never know until it happens.
Anonymous (2)- thanks for that!
Little One- Thank you! Poor Day dream, what people do to their cats… one of my friends calls her cats 'bitch' and the black one 'nigger.' Poor things!
SilverSickle17- yuppers, it was out there. What else can you expect from me? I'm a Disney person, for the hi ho spell. Thank you. I just don't WANNA fail classes, or get a detention (unless it's for pulling a good prank and my parents don't get mad, but it'd be funner not getting a detention. I feel bad for whoever is gunna end up rooming with me once we get to college…)
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Usagi slowly opened her eyes as sound bombarded her ears. The first thing she noticed was that her arms were wrapped around one of the multiple posts holding up a rail. The second thing that she noticed was the fact that she was very, very, very high. And, the third thing she noticed was the place her feet, legs and torso were. In the air. It registered to her shocked brain that she was hanging from the highest staircase over the vast expanse of the Entrance Hall where most of the student body was milling about.
She drew in a deep breath and let out an ear-piercing scream, squinting her eyes shut. The sound went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on, until everyone in the Entrance Hall had ceased moving and their chatter was stopped as they peered up at the screaming blond.
Lee acted first. "Kelly! Make a spell, quick!" he hissed to the petite brunet.
"Aye, aye, Captain Lee," Kelly replied humorously. Only her eyes showed how worried she truly was. "Let's see, let's see... SOMEONE GIVE ME A WORD THAT BEGINS WITH Q!" she bellowed suddenly.
"Qualmish," Ginny Weasley responded from a place at her elbow.
"That was it. Thank you. Qualmishnessify!" Kelly screamed, directing her wand at Usagi and pushing both power and meaning behind it.
If possible, Usagi began to scream even louder as her arms unlatched from the post, completely by force. But then she realized she was sitting on air, and grew silent. That only lasted a second. "Kelly! Get me down from here RIGHT NOW!"
"For someone who's life I just saved, she's sure acting grateful," Kelly muttered to no one in particular. "Erm, let's see, a word that begins with X!"
"Xenophobia?" someone suggested.
"Yes! Thank you, mysterious person who reminded me of the spell!" Kelly called into the crowd. "Now... xenophobiadillic!" Usagi slowly lowered down, down, down, down, down, until she landed on the just-cleared space in front of Kelly, standing up. For a moment it seemed as if she would be fine, but she collapsed onto Lee and Kelly after giving a weak smile.
"I don't feel so good," she murmured as she blacked out.
"Um, help?" Kelly and Lee said to the crowd in general. Several people rushed to them, lifted Usagi up between them, and marched off to the Hospital Wing with Lee, Kelly, Fred and George following them.
"Not good," Fred stated simply once the helping hands had left. He had just completed searching the Hospital Wing for Madame Pomfrey, but she wasn't there.
"Definitely not good," George agreed. "We don't even have the Marauder's Map anymore to find out where she is."
Lee pondered for a moment, then figured something out. "Lessee... when Kelly fainted from over using her..." he stopped for a moment, realizing he almost gave away some very secret information, then jumped ahead. "Dear old Poppy went to that cabinet and got out a... a... a purple vial, and put two drops of it in a glass of water and fed it to her."
Kelly ran to the cabinet and found the vial, then put the drops in a glass of water Fred provided. "How're we going to get this down?" she asked the boys. George simply held apart Usagi's mouth, and motioned for Kelly to start pouring. "Are you sure? We might drown her," she said with a worried glance.
"I'll do it, then," Fred said, grabbing the water from her.
"No! If anyone does it, I do," Kelly retorted, snatching the glass back.
"And Miss Are-you-sure-we-might-drown-her returns to life!" George announced.
"Stuff it," Lee ordered, then motioned for Kelly to carry on with the pouring.
After most of it was down, Usagi began coughing and sat up on the bed. "Where am I?" she asked, staring around blankly.
"Hospital," Lee replied.
"Right. How'd I get here?"
"Well, you appeared hanging off a staircase rail-" Fred began.
"No, no, no, I remember hitting the ground but that's it," Usagi cut off.
"Well, you fainted, and some people helped carry you in," Fred explained.
"Thank you." Suddenly, Usagi sank back down in bed and began to sob. "I-I was th-th-th-there. I s-saw Ce-Ced-Cedric... and V-Vol-Voldemort-" a spasm ran across the others' faces, but none of them had the heart to correct her "- and it w-was awful! I couldn't think of a spell, and he kept me there..." the rest of her words were lost to helpless sobbing.
The other four Mischief Makers looked at each other for a moment, and then Kelly sat on one side of her and Lee the other.
"Shush, it's okay now," Kelly whispered, rubbing Usagi's back in a maternal way. "Can you go get her mother?" she directed towards the twins. They were gone before the word 'mother' was finished.
"Usagi, come on... we need to plan a prank for the last day," Lee said, hoping that would work.
"No! It's all my fault. I let Harry take the cup, I let Cedric convince him. Who knows? If I'd've just kept on running down my path, I might've taken it and been the one to die. Cedric and Harry would still be all right, and Voldemort wouldn't be back in power."
"Let's take this a bit further," Lee solemnly said. "How about we make it You-Know-Who's fault. It is, and you know it. if he hadn't been so power hungry, wanted Harry, then the cup wouldn't have done anything."
A ghost of a smile flitted across Usagi's face. "Let's just think that," she agreed, curling into Lee as Kelly unobtrusively moved to the door.
When she opened it, a large crowd met her eyes. Automatically she swung it shut again, but Fred and George stopped it. {A/N: now this is gunna be no fun to write ::pouts:: but I have to. Summer follows all this, though! A few hints: an incident where Usa's dad asks her to put on the left blinker, and staying in America with the Mischief Makers, and rec camp. I think.}
"Well, have we found Miss-" Dumbledore began, but Usagi's mother rushed into the room and threw herself on her daughter, sobbing. "I guess we have."
"I was so worried, sweet... Harry said you had been there, but you weren't here when he came back." At this point, Mrs. Weasley gently removed the woman from the girl.
"Let's let the girl rest now," she suggested to the other mother, leading her to a chair to sit down.
The other people settled themselves at various places: Ron, Hermione, a big black dog, Bill and Mrs. Weasley next to Harry's bed, Fred, George, Lee, Kelly, Shingo and Mrs. Tsukino next to Usagi's bed {AN she has a bigger entourage hehe} and then Dumbledore and Snape before them all. Madame Pomfrey was bustling around, preparing concoctions for the two.
"Miss Tsukino, do you think you could tell us what happened?" Dumbledore asked of the blonde girl.
She nodded weakly, and related all the events from the Acromantula until she woke up in the Hospital Wing, the other MMs filling in where necessary. Usagi and Harry were both put into a deep sleep and woke up around the same time. Most of us should know what happened in this time. Sirius Black was revealed as the dog that entered the room, (which resulted in the Weasley twins putting two and two together and whispering, "Padfoot," as if he was a god. He was, in their eyes.) Snape was proved to be a reformed Death Eater, and Hagrid was sent off to chat with the giants. Fudge also renounced Dumbledore, and refused to believe the return of dear old Voldie.
The end of the year banquet was held within the Great Hall amongst colors of black, black, and more black. A solemn speech was made honoring Cedric Diggory, ended by a toast to him, Harry, and Usagi.
When the feast was ended, Usagi brought up a topic she'd been sitting on for a while. "Kelly, Lee, Fred, George, did you know that I was going to America this summer?" she asked.
"No, I only knew that you were going to America this summer," Lee responded, rolling his eyes.
"Isn't that the same thing?" Kelly queried, not quite catching the humor. The twins bopped her lightly on the head.
"Well," Usagi plowed on, "Mom said that I could have four- count 'em- FOUR guests stay with us, and you FOUR have been honorably selected to join me. We'll have a bit of time in a thing called Rec Camp, which is like a day camp, and then hang out."
"Which part of the States?" Fred asked.
"Maine," Usagi responded with a single shouldered shrug. {A/N: alliteration…}
"That sounds boring," George said, wrinkling his nose.
"It won't be with all of us there," Lee defended.
"Yeah, I say we all go to Maine!" Kelly screamed pumping her fist in the air. "What are you looking at?" she added menacingly to a knot of second year Hufflepuffs. They scampered away from the insane people. {A/N: yes, little children! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! RUN, RUN, RUNNNNN!!!}
"Mom said she already talked to all of your parents, so you'll be heading straight across the big blue sea with me!" Usagi shouted, managing to hug them all at the same time. They were starting to look scared. "Mischief Makers, to the train!" she cried, pointing them towards the horse-less carriages.
They stampeded down to the head one, preparing for a summer in America. Mainers, watch out!
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Gak, I hated writing the whole last part of the book… Blech! So now, this is going to be fun. Most of the occurances in Maine will come from real-life experiences (mostly mine) and will promise for a crazy story. Fun fun fun in the sun sun sun! Am I scaring any of you yet?
