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Alright, heya guys! My friend, Nicola, and I have finally gotten together to write our fic we were planning on writing together. This story shall centre on Usagi. This is a crossover with Harry Potter obviously. This story we are starting from the third year HP time. All the Sailor Moon stuff has happened, you'll just have to see what we plan on doing to make the times fit. The two of us will be working together and alternating between chapters. So I, Glitter-Flutterby Eily, shall write the first, then Sparkle-Flutterby Nicola will write the second. Now that we got all that cleared up, on with the story!!

Lost without you

Authors: Glitter-Flutterby, and Sparkle-Flutterby.

Chapter fourteen: The shrieking shack

"Speaking" *Thinking* Reading/writing setting change POV [A/N]

Written by: Sparkle-Flutterby -Nicola                                                                                  

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Usagi's POV

I'm telling you there is no tricking Takara. The second we got back to our dormitory that night she had demanded, yet still in a seemingly innocent voice, that I teach her how to use a sub-space pocket. I was astounded at how fast she caught onto the sub-space pocket. It took me barely twenty minutes to teach her, and I though we would be going at it for at least a week. But no, Takara manages to surprise me. You could almost say she was a natural. Of course after she had learnt how to use it, she wouldn't leave it alone. At one point she had put everything she owned inside it and then pulled it all back out again with amazement. She even went to show it off with Malfoy who seemed interested, but not enough that he'd ask me to teach him to use one too.

I was so anxious to get father down into the shrieking shack I went up to the Gryffindor common room the next night to retrieve the cloak with Takara by my side. The knight with the chubby pony remembered me from last time and wasn't so easily fooled. He actually refused to let me in this time without a password which seemed almost impossible to guess. "You cowardly scallywags, you shall not enter the chambers within until you fight me like a man! Or give me the secret password."

"We'll see who the coward is when I blast you into a thousand pieces!" Takara yelled back very frustrated with him.

I would rather take a guess at the password than actually duel this guy. It wasn't that I was afraid of him, it was just I couldn't be bothered. There had to be a way of guessing the password…didn't there? "Oddsbodikins!" I shouted suddenly, "The password is Oddsbodikins!" Both Takara and the knight had stopped and stared at me in mid sentence. I blinked a couple of times in surprise, 'Oddsbodikins'? Did I just yell that out? Where in the world did I pull that from?!

The knight stared at me in disbelief before swinging open to let us in. Takara couldn't take her eyes off me the whole time, where as I, trying to pretend like nothing out of the ordinary had happened walked slowly into the common room. Ron must had seen me because he nudged Harry in the side and pointed over to me. Harry mouthed 'one minute' and went upstairs to his dormitory. Takara managed to pull me back outside the common room saying that Harry would bring the cloak out to us.

Sure enough he did and told us to give it back to him the next morning. With that, we were well on our way to getting father out of the forbidden forest.

Back to normal POV

The two girls were on their way, under the cloak just for the fun of it, down to the edge of the forbidden forest. The feeling of being invisible to everyone else made Usagi feel strange. She had never been invisible before, and she never thought that you could do so. It gave her a creepy feeling when they ran into Mr. Flich and he looked straight through them. But that was the beauty of being invisible.

The two made it all the way to the edge of the forest unnoticed, and waited for any sign of the giant black dog that knew he was supposed to meet them now. "Reckon we should take the cloak off?" Takara whispered as a few minutes had pasted.

"Yeah," Usagi nodded, "We're going to have to take it off anyway when he comes. I don't think the three of will fit under the cloak."

The girls threw it off themselves and Takara held it up, "Are you sure? Look how big it is though…" she pointed out handing Usagi the cloak to examine herself.

"I'm sure…a really large dog and two girls…I don't think it's quite that big." She smiled folding the cloak back up.

"What if the really large dog was in human form?" A voice asked them from behind.

Usagi and Takara both jumped, and let out a small yelp of surprise as Sirius had spoken from behind them, "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Usagi hissed when she saw whom the spoken voice had belonged to, "Quick, put it on before someone sees you!"

Takara was frowning, showing her mild surprise at how stupid he had been in showing his true form while Usagi had thrown the cloak over his head. "We can fit under that…" Takara assured Usagi, staring at the stop Sirius had disappeared from still with her frown.

Usagi shook her head, "No…look, you can see his shoes. He's too tall for it as it is already. You're going to have to crouch. Well…I think there his shoes."

"Okay, fine. You win. Let's go then." Takara sighed in a defeated tone.

The group made their way towards the whomping willow that according to both Sirius and Takara was the entrance to the shrieking shack. Usagi had actually thought it was inside Hogwarts, but then Sirius explained that that was the entrance to Honeydukes. "You really knew you way around, didn't you?" Takara whispered to the invisible Sirius.

"I was a marauder. Of course I knew my way around." He said hastily, "Okay, now all you have to do- grab that stick right there and prod that knot on the trunk of the tree. Just be careful." Sirius explained as they came to the whomping willow.

Usagi grabbed the stick he must have been talking about, which in itself was over a meter long. She carefully prodded the knot as instructed after dodging a branch that had come swishing violently close to her. The tree became silently still and made way for them to go down the hidden tunnel. The tunnel itself was dark and required the two girls to light their wands. Only when they were at least two minutes into the tunnel did they let Sirius take the cloak off.

"You too are so careful…cautious." Sirius observed in a whisper, "Don't you ever talk risks in life?"

Usagi who was in front of him gave a toss of her hair, "I take risks. But not ones where I am gambling the freedom of someone's life." Takara nodded from in front of her in agreement.

Sirius founding himself unable to comeback with anything just muttered to himself, "What fun is live if there are no risks?"

They finally came to the shrieking shack's living room. It was a terrible state, and they were more shocked when they came to the bedroom were Sirius would be spending his nights. The room's wallpaper- well what wallpaper? There were threads of it barely visible on the walls, clearly having been ripped off by someone or something. The walls were all stained with blood that looked years old. The floor was dusty, and the bed had bite marks all over it with the faded colour of the wood being chipped. Left to right there were cobwebs hanging above their heads, with no doubt spiders not too far away.

"Brings back memories…" Sirius sighed as if he didn't notice all the things in this room that made it look out of order. Usagi shuddered, and what was worse it was night time and she was in the most haunted house in all of England.

"If I didn't know any better, I would say this place really was haunted, but with things far worse than ghosts…look at the teeth markings on the bed." Takara could also be seen shuddering at the atmosphere of the old house.

Usagi shook her head violently as though to clear her thoughts, "No, you're not hanging around here. The house is in far worse condition than I first thought out, there must be dementors down there, and you never know if someone would come up here."

Sirius gave a small laugh, "No one in their right mind would come up here. I don't even think a dementor would." He smiled slyly looking out the window through the planks of wood that had been boarded around it. "It's perfect…"

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Usagi and Takara had spent almost an hour and a half trying to convince Sirius that that house wasn't liveable and that he was better off in the forest for winter was passing. Sirius had to have been one of the stubbornest people she had even met- almost as bad as Rei herself. Before leaving that night, Takara showed off her new found ability to use a sub-space pocket and handed Sirius some of the food they had nicked from the Slytherin table at dinner that night.

Takara had a qudditch match to play two days later against Ravenclaw. This left Usagi alone in the Slytherin stands to watch the game, not even with Malfoy for he was play as well. Usagi had to admit that Takara was a fantastic beater, she had almost knocked a Ravenclaw chaser of their broom, and Usagi was sure she saw Takara fire the beater at Malfoy for some reason that wasn't known to anyone but her. Slytherin had won, but only just. Takara puts it that the only reason they won was because Draco had a better broom than the Ravenclaw girl did. "Only thing we need to do now is attach a hand to his broomstick and we should be in for the qudditch cup."

The anti-dementor lessons with Harry and Professor Lupin didn't seem to be improving at all. Usagi had been able to muster up enough energy to form a rather tall, no shaped transparent cloud of gassy mist up, but it was no where near strong enough to chase off a dementor. But she in herself was improving. She was almost positive she had the shield thing worked out and was able to bring it up at will a couple of times when she needed it.

Harry was also improving having being at the same level as Usagi was with the patronus charm. His transparent cloud of mist wasn't as tall as Usagi's. Professor Lupin took it upon himself to explain that they were getting better and they were beginning to take on a shape, even if it was just height.

Professor Lupin had put a stop to his badgering of Usagi about Sirius now that the mass murder's activity seemed to be quiet. Usagi herself had been up to the shrieking shack at least once every two days, with and sometimes without Takara by her side. Sirius had admitted that he lived his life out as a dog in the house.

It had been another day filled with Qudditch, this time Gryffindor verse Ravenclaw. Much to Usagi's delight Takara was there to watch the match with her. "Reckon you can beat that, Malfoy?" Takara said with a smirk to Malfoy at the end of the match when Harry had caught the snitch on his new firebolt.

"If you don't swing another bludger at me I think I may actually have a chance." He retorted with a glare.

Takara just smiled innocently towards him, "I was aiming for the Ravenclaw seeker, if you don't mind."

"Mhmm…who just happened to be on the other side of the pitch." Malfoy muttered in annoyance before he left the two girls in peace.

Usagi let out a tired yawn as she climbed into bed that night, with Takara doing the same on the other side of the room. They had spent most of their day up in the library catching up on homework with a lack of nothing else to do. "Night Usa" Takara yawned and pulled the covers over her.

"Night." Usagi answered.

As tired as she really was, she was finding it challenging to get to sleep. She had tossed and turned for ten minutes before throwing the covers off her from the heat. She soon got cold again and regretted throwing them away. She pulled them back up and continued to toss and turn.  Now when she closed her eyes for about the millionth time that night, she opened them again suddenly. Light? Pink light was coming into the room that was completely dark except for the moon's rays pouring through their window. She was also feeling warm again, and put two and two together.

She fumbled through her pyjamas until her hand rapped around the outline of her crescent moon necklace. As she had thought correctly, it was the source of the pink light and also why she was so warm. "Oh no," she muttered as the light grew brighter.

Not even trying to keep the noise down for her sleeping friend she threw herself out of her bed only to land on the floor with a loud thump with the sheets wrapped around her.

"Usa, what're ya doin?" Takara's sleepy voice mumbled from across the room.

Usagi didn't answer though, she found her feet, forced them into her pink fluffy slippers and a dressing gown before wrenching the door open. Takara was now sitting up in bed and only had enough time to see the blonde run from the room. She quickly got up and followed her down the stairs.

Usagi didn't know exactly where she was going, but she didn't need to know. Her necklace was doing all the work for her and all she had to do was be sure the light got brighter rather than duller. But she had a pretty basic idea of where to go, and by the time she did get there it would probably be too late to do anything. Her thoughts were racing a mile as she ran along quickly with them. She was going to be too late to do anything. She knew she was. If only she could get up to the Gryffindor common room now.

With that single thought, she felt her body dissolve from where she had been running fast from as the light grew brighter. She felt like she was speeding through time and when she finally did appear again, she was on the seventh floor with the knight guarding the entrance to Gryffindor tower. Usagi skidded to a sudden stop. She had no idea what had just happened, or what she had just done, but right now it didn't matter.

"Ah, look who it is, the cowardly scallywag!" Exclaimed the knight as Usagi approached him, "Finally come to pay me with my duel! On your feet good lady and fight me like a man!"

"Get over yourself; I'm not here to fight you!" Usagi snapped back.

The knight smiled, "Well I know what you want! You want to enter the chamber within! And I don't think you'll be so lucky with the password!"

Usagi glared him off and let a small growl escape her lips, "Did you let a man in? Just then?" She demanded.

"Certainly did, dear lassie! He, unlike you had the passwords! Read them off a tiny piece of paper!" The knight replied, still with his smile of pride.

Usagi's eyes grew wide, "You let him in?!" she repeated in a yell.

Usagi looked startled for a second when a scream that belonged to a boy was heard from inside the room. She brought back the glare and said in a very dangerous and threatening tone, "Let me in."

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*Is beaming round at readers* Cliffhanger!! Ok…sort of…not a really bad one though, is it? Not as bad as the one Glitter left, that I so kindly updated quickly for…did I update it quickly? I can't remember…oh well. Never you mind!! It's not that bad a cliff-hanger!! I've read worse…much worse!!...I have noticed, and I bet you have too, the chapters are getting longer. Actually this chapter could have been longer…had Glitter not already claimed that she wanted to write the rest of this scene with her own ideas. *is glaring at glitter* Always taking the better half of the story!! *sigh* O well…I get her next time!!^__^.  Any how…let us all hope and prey she won't leave you in suspence for too long…but with her we can never tell. Heh…she's writing to many fics at once! I don't know how she doses it…

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