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So....Hi! Alirghty, how's everybody? Finally I am updating this fic! Whoa, I can't believe that I updated all my fics! That's new! Hehehe! ^_^ (I'm a bit hyper) ^_^; anyway, I know...my grammar sucks..Gomen..I really didn't know that ^_^ Thanks for pointing that one out! (Hyper, hyper, hyper ^_^) I hope you guys will like this chapter, this time Harry and the gang find out more about the senshi! I really didn't expect that I would get this far with any of my fics..^_^. (HYPER) Argh..anyway..please review I really need reviews for this story! I got great plans with this story! (There will be a sequel for this story!) So please review so that I can finish this story and get to the fun stuff! (AND I MEAN SUPER-DUPER GREAT PLANS!)
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any related characters of it. I do not own Sailor Moon or the related characters. I do own all the guests of the Magic Room, the Magic Room inn, and the cook, Mrs. Hadley, Wizzy Fastflash and the Minister Kurosawa. I also own any character that you have never heard of.
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"Talking"
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Chapter 8
"The Truth about the Sailor Senshi"
Usagi woke up with a jolt as her magical alarm clock buzzed loudly. She groaned loudly with her right arm she reached out and grabbed the buzzing alarm clock, with blurry eyes she read 8:30 ("Time to get up!" yelled the clock). She threw the alarm clock across the room barely missing the mirror, in an instant the alarm shut up (it gave a little yelp of pain as it hit the wall.). Usagi winced, her left arm still hurt like hell and she still was tired. She still hasn't recovered from last nights attack. Her body felt like it weighed a ton and that all her joints were rusty.
Grudgingly she rose from her bed suppressing a huge groan. She sat on her bed for a moment, to try to get used to the feeling of pain in her arm. After a few more minutes she stood up and headed to her shower and took a long hot shower. She still felt a bit dizzy as she walked towards the shower, but it all soon fanished when she took a nice hot relaxing shower. As she stepped out of the shower, 30 minutes have already passed. Her left arm was still very painful as she rapped it up in a fresh bandage. Usagi sighed, how was she going to explain this to her Uncle? She quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a long blue sweater, so that she could hide the bandage. She quickly dried her long blond hair and tied it up in a French braid. She turned around and was about to leave when she noticed Luna and Artemis were already gone. 'Where are they?' wondered Usagi while stepping out of her room.
Usagi could hear the noisy morning chatter of guest coming from the dinning area as she climbed down the staircase. At the foot of the steps she looked around the hall, everyone seems very excited as almost everyone talked avidly in the morning and holding 'The Daily Mystic' in their hands. Usagi frowned, 'what the?' she got an inking feeling in the pit of her stomach, and she didn't like it one bit. Deciding that she was just hungry she headed towards the dinning area to get some food in her, the attack last night took much of her strength and she needed food to get all her strengths back.
As Usagi entered the dinning hall she was surprise to see everybody talking and chattering away fervently. Usually the dining hall was quiet in the morning, even Mrs. Hadley wasn't throwing a fit in the morning but instead talking away with Mr. Tilley, the wizard who usually got stuck in fireplaces. She wondered what the commotion was about. Sighing, she headed to the table where the Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, Shingo and her Uncle sat and eating breakfast. She prayed that none of them would ask her any questions on her whereabouts last night. Her prayers were unanswered.
"Morning," she mumbled lightly to everybody.
"YOUNG LADY, where have you been last night?!" exclaimed Uncle Sam loudly, making all the dishes rattle, glaring at Usagi as she took the empty seat next to Harry. He stood up and towered over Usagi's small form, glaring daggers down at her, drawing the attention of everybody by their table.
Usagi sighed, she slid down in her seat even deeper, trying hard to avoid the many stares she was receiving from practically everybody. 'Damn,' she cursed. She looked at her side and saw Harry starring at her with much surprise. She offered him a small smile before looking up at her Uncle, who in her opinion looked like a dragon inhaling and exhaling deeply. Usagi giggled nervously sweat dropping. "Good morning? He, he, he," she mumbled.
"Don't good morning me young lady! We have been worried sick about you!" he exclaimed angrily again making the dishes rattle; Ron had to hold his teacup from keeping it to spill over.
Usagi sighed loudly, "Sorry," she muttered. She sat in her seat and placed her head in her right hand and sighed again. She looked up at her Uncle as he sat down at the end of the table giving her a stern look, "I meet up with er, some, er, friends. Yes, friends! And we, er, talked. Talked and I kinda, lost rack of time," she said trying futilely to find a good explanation on why she was late, she would tell him the real reason later. She glanced at her brother for some support but her gave her a stern look, she noticed that he is holding The Daily Mystic in his right hand. She looked back at her Uncle, and sighed in relief when he went back in eating his breakfast. She too then started on her breakfast.
"We were really worried about you," commented Hermione after a while. Her brown eyes starring at Usagi with a worried expression.
"We stayed up really late, waiting for you to return," added Ron after shoving some eggs into his mouth.
"Yeah, and then when it was already too late, Shingo went up to your room only to find you already there and sleeping! We didn't notice you coming in," said Ginny staring at Usagi with a confused look, "How did you come in?"
"Come in?" squeaked Usagi after swallowing her toast. 'Oh boy,' she smiled at her friends all the while trying to formulate a quick answer. "I..uh..went...through the back! Yeah the backdoor! I still had to get, er, something from the kitchen so I went through the back!" she lied. She smiled at her friends hoping that they would buy that excuse, she sighed in relief when they nodded their head in understanding and quickly went back to their breakfast.
"You look tired," said Harry in a low voice after a few minutes. His eyes showed much concern and worry as he starred at Usagi.
Usagi turned to him and gave him a smile and shrug, "I went to bed late," she answered.
He nodded, still staring at her with worry, "You know, I was really worried," he said that only she could hear. "But I'm glad you're alright," he added smiling at her.
Usagi blushed but smiled at him, she couldn't help but like Harry even more. The light feeling in her stomach returned and she felt like she would float away. 'Kami, I'm in love in Harry and know that he'll just get hurt,' she thought. She felt Harry's hand under the table and move towards her left hand. She winced lightly when it brushed up against the wound, but soon it clasped itself with her own hand. She hoped no one had seen her wince as she blushed at the thought that they were holding hands under that table.
"You know dear," said Mrs.Weasley breaking into her thoughts, "You gave us quite a fright,"
Usagi looked up and gave her a questioning look, "Huh?"
"Didn't you know?" she asked her brow knit shock.
"Know what?" she asked giving them all a blank look. Everyone starred at her as if she had grown an extra head.
"The attack," informed Harry.
"Attack?!" squeaked Usagi in an unusual high-pitched voice. Shock was written all over her face. 'How could they find out? How did the news travel so fast?!' she thought her mind going crazy. She suddenly felt really dizzy as she absorbed the facts.
"Yes an attack," spoke Shingo for the first time this morning, giving his sister an icy look.
"An attack at Tengu Alley, last night! And the best part is one of the senshi was sighted, Sailor Moon helped the people there!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley in delight, thinking that Sailor Moon being seen again after such a long time is a break through discovery.
"Attack at Tengu alley?! Sailor Moon sighted?" squeaked Usagi in an even higher pitch voice. 'Oh boy, damn those nosy reporters,' things were getting out of hand here. "How did you..." she stared at Shingo for some answers.
"Here, read this. You'll be surprised on what you'll find," he said trusting her the newspaper.
Usagi caught it with her right hand, her left was still 'preoccupied' at the moment. For sure, there in black and white was a huge picture of Sailor Moon standing on the rooftop trying frantically to hide from view from all the witches and wizards standing below and pointing up to her. 'At least I am trying to hide myself,' she thought dryly. The headline read, "Sailor Moon has returned, back to fight crime!"
"Oh my," she whispered. These people really get to a conclusion fast that's for sure.
(AN: Here's the article, ^_^)
"SAILOR MOON HAS RETURNED, BACK TO FIGHT CRIME" -An article by Wizzy Fastflash
"It seems like that our favorite heroine is back into the business. Just last night one of the world famous Sailor senshi has been sighted at Tengu Alley last night after saving the people from an evil youma. The Sailor senshi, none other that the leader Sailor Moon was seen jumping up the rooftop after fighting the gruesome youma. The attack that happened last night wasn't like any ordinary attack ever done, during the attack a certain spell was cast all over the Alley making people stay in their stores and not come out of them unless they were broken and leave the area where the fight progressed.
"We've been mindin' our own business 'ere, me an' Clara 'ere. An' den' suddenly, dis' magical feelin' sweeps over us! We've could tell dat' it was magic, 'cause of da' presence of magic! An' den' suddenly, our minds went blank! Blank as paper! An' den' suddenly, we've remember, dat' we must go to the shop again and get somethin'! An' den' after a long time, puff! We are back! Da' magic, gone! An' den, we go outside we see Sailor Moon!" stated one of the victims who was under spell last night like all the other people from Tengu Alley.
"The spell that was being used was for sure a Change of mind charm," stated the Minister of Magic later that night when we got a chance to have a little chat with him. The Change of Mind charm makes the victim preoccupied or orders the victim to stay away a certain area and do something else instead.
"This is quite something new," stated the Minister Kurosawa. "It's been months since the senshi have disappeared and now their leader Sailor Moon has reappeared and saved the people yet again." Added the minister happily in our interview.
Its has been a long time since there has been an attack, wizards and witches all over the country are wondering who is behind the attacks this time. Yet some of the ministry doubt that this time it may be the handy work of you-know-who, who is rising to power fast. But still it seems impossible to reason that you-know-who is behind due to the lack of evidence.
"This is really amazing," stated Mr. Arthur Weasley, a ministry wizard of the Ministry of magic of England. "We came here to do a full research about these Sailor senshi and report them to the main of Ministry back at the Ministry of Magic in England. This is quite news we received, that just a few hours ago Sailor Moon was sighted." Added Mr. Weasley in awe. "The minister promised us that he shall be meeting with me again to discuss further about the Senshi," said Mr. Weasley. (Usagi's eyes grew wide as she read this part,)
Sailor Moon is back, that is for sure but for how long no one knows. There is so little information about the senshi. Rumors have it that Sailor Moon is in contact with our minister but when we asked the man himself he denied all rumors. One thing is for sure, these Sailor senshi are magical beings, yet they are unregistered at the ministry. We just hope that Sailor Moon is here to stay and help the people again in times of need."
Usagi suppressed a groan, she hated reporters they somehow always got the news in no time at all. She placed the newspaper down and heaved a heavy sigh. She felt a headache coming along, it seems that this time reports about the senshi are more demanding and more in-depth. 'Damn that Fastflash,' cursed Usagi thinking about that nosy reporter.
"That's why we were so worried, we thought you were attacked or something," said Hermione breaking into Usagi's thoughts.
"Like I said I was with, er, friends," stated Usagi giving Hermione a reassuring smile. 'Friends, friends of the enemy,' she thought dryly.
"You didn't see anything? Anything at all? Like that iyauma?" asked Ron.
"Youma," corrected Ginny giggling lightly.
"Same difference," shrugged Ron.
"No, me and my friends were far away from the fight, so naturally I had no idea what was going on," answered Usagi shrugging. She the turned to Mr. Weasley, who looked rather ecstatic "The minister will meet with you?" she asked tentatively. She didn't like the idea that Kurosawa-san will meet with Mr. Weasley; she didn't like it at all.
"Oh yes, we arranged a meeting today! He will be arriving around later on, he quite didn't agree with our meeting but after a long while of, er, begging he finally gave in.," exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily.
"So what will you be talking about?" asked Uncle Sam starring at Usagi, who looked like she got run over a truck right now.
"Oh, I asked him about the real truth about the senshi! You know how hard it is to find some good information about those senshi, and well after a long time of, well, begging, he agreed though he didn't seems much pleased about it." added Mr. Weasley looking a bit doubtful.
'You're telling me,' thought Usagi angrily slumping deeper into her seat. She didn't feel hungry anymore at all, instead she felt light crawling under a rock and let everything go by.
"He seemed actually very eager to come and meet us here, thought we thought we would just discuss it back at the ministry." Added Mrs. Weasley looking thoughtful. "I believe he doesn't like those reporters always lurking around every corner,"
'You said it,' thought Usagi wryly. She sat back up and stared at her brother, "Well, umm excuse us for a minute, we still have to, uh, feed the cats!" she said before letting go of Harry's hand and standing up. She looked down at a confused Harry and gave him a small apologetic smile before walking away and grabbing her brother by his shirt and dragging him away.
"Well, that was odd," mumbled Ron staring where Usagi and Shingo sat just moments ago.
Harry nodded in agreement; he stared to where Usagi and Shingo had disappeared to. He felt that there was something that those two weren't telling them, and he knew because that is always the way he would act when he was hiding something from somebody.
"Well kids, we still have to get ready when Mr. Kurosawa will come, so if you will excuse us," stated Mr. Weasley proudly, before he and Mrs. Weasley walked away back to their rooms.
"So you kids are going to stay here and meet out Minister?" asked Uncle Sam trying to break the uncomfortable silence of confusion.
"Yeah, maybe will get to listen to their meeting!" said Ron grinning.
"It will be very nice to meet Japan's Minster of Magic and even better to hear the true story about the Sailor senshi." Added Hermione thoughtfully.
"I see," mumbled Uncle Sam, "Well excuse me but I think I have to check up on Usagi and Shingo. Now you kids have a wonderful day," he added hastily standing up and walking away to find Usagi and Shingo.
"You know I think something is up," said Harry thoughtfully after Uncle Sam had left.
"What do you mean?" asked Ron looking confused.
"Usagi, she looked like she didn't take the news about Sailor Moon very lightly," supplied Harry.
"Yeah, actually she looked very anxious," added Hermione frowning.
"She did get home very late, maybe she knows something," believed Ginny looking a bit worried about Usagi.
"She did fidget a lot, and was quite restless while she read the article." Said Harry looking thoughtful.
"How would you know? Did you feel her fidget? Your seat are rather apart," asked Ron with a slight grin staring at Harry suspiciously.
"I..I...never mind," mumbled Harry blushing crimson.
"You know I do believe that Usagi knows something that we all don't know, looks like she's hiding something," stated Hermione finally.
Harry nodded in agreement, he was actually very worried about Usagi. She hasn't been herself lately at all. And now that his feelings for her are clearer that ever, she is keeping her distance from him. Harry frowned, 'What re you hiding?'
~In the staff Room~
Usagi quickly closed the door behind her and made sure that no one was in the room before turning to her brother, who is rubbing his arm painfully.
"When did you find out about the attack?!" exclaimed Usagi angrily in a hushed voice.
Shingo narrowed his eyes at his sister, "Hey don't get angry with me! I just found out this morning!" he retorted hotly before sitting down on a plush chair.
Usagi sighed, "I'm sorry, it's just that last nights attack took a lot out of me," she muttered taking a seat in one of the plush chairs across her brother.
Just then Luna and Artemis came bounding into the room looking very anxious. "We heard," said Luna out of breath jumping on Usagi's lap.
"I cant believe that these reporters can get so much information in such a little amount of time," muttered Artemis shaking his head in disbelieve. He jumped onto Shingo's lap and stared at Usagi and Luna.
"The reporters of the Daily Mystic are even worse that those muggles," muttered Luna.
Just then Uncle Sam stepped through the door and looked rather surprised to all of them together. He sat down next to Usagi and starred at her with gloomy eyes, "So tell us, what really happened last night,"
Usagi nodded and began to tell them again what she told Luna and Artemis last night about the sudden attack at Tengu Alley. After she finished retelling her story, there was again the heavy silence that filled the room.
"Your arm, does it hurt?" whispered Uncle Sam, starring down at Usagi's left arm with concerned eyes.
Usagi nodded, "Fine," she mumbled. She felt tried again; she placed her head against her Uncle's shoulder. Trying to find just a bit comfort, everything was happening so fast again, and now she really didn't know what to do anymore without the senshi to help her. She felt her uncle's arm hug her and suddenly she felt like crying again. It's been a long time since she was being hugged by a grown up since her parents died.
"I don't know anymore," whispered Usagi slowly. Tears started to brim her eyes, and she began to cry again. She felt herself being pulled into a hug by her Uncle. "I don't know any more what to do, I am so alone," she whispered between cries.
Luna jumped off Usagi's lap and transferred onto Shingo's instead. She starred at her crying Moon princess and felt her heart break in pain. Usagi has been through a lot this year, and now again her life and the lives of all the people around the world are on her shoulders once again. "You're not alone," stated Luna sadly.
"Luna's right Usa, you're not alone. You got me, Shingo, Luna and Artemis," stated Uncle Sam, still hugging a crying Usagi, in a soothing voice.
"What can I do? I am just alone, I have no senshi with me anymore, the inners are gone and the outers are back at their posts at their home planets, who knows when they decide to come again to help." Came a muffled reply. More cries and sniffles followed that.
"You know that the Outers will come back if they sense danger, they still have a duty to protect you," stated Artemis assuring the crying Moon girl.
"And besides you still got friends! Harry is there, he's always there," said Shingo trying to calm Usagi down.
"Yeah Harry...Harry?!" said Uncle Sam giving Shingo a confused looked and then stared down at Usagi. 'Could it be? She found someone new?' he wondered. A smile crept up his lips.
"I don't want them to be pulled into my fights, they'll be defenseless. Especially Harry, you know about him and Voldemort," said Usagi finally, pulling herself away her Uncle and wiping her tears away.
"Don't worry, you still got us. Nothing will happen as long we are around," assured Luna.
Usagi nodded, she felt much better now. Like the heavy feeling that weighed her shoulders is gone now. She smiled at her Uncle, and hugged him again tightly, "Thank you, I needed that," she mumbled against his shoulder before pulling away again. Usagi sniffled and wiped her face with a tissue.
"Anytime," he said grinning down at his niece. He kissed her forehead affectionately.
"Are you worried about what Kurosawa-san will be discussing with Mr. Weasley?" asked Shingo frowning lightly at his sister.
Usagi shrugged, "I don't know yet, but I am worried what the others are thinking," she cast a troubled look towards the doors.
"Isn't Kurosawa-san, the Magical Adviser of your, er, former mother? Right? I am still quite confused," said Uncle Sam sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.
Usagi giggled at her Uncle, "Hai, he is,"
Uncle Sam sighed, "I still can't believe who you really are Usa. You really surprise me all the time," he grinned at his niece.
"It's hard to believe that the meatball head that we used to know has matured! And top it all off, that she is a princess! Of the Moon!" added Shingo chuckling.
"Hey! No one dares to make fun of me!" glared Usagi at her brother, yet her eyes were dancing playfully.
Uncle Sam chuckled and stood up, "I better go, I think I should prepare the conference room. That's the best place to discuss those matters." He said before leaving the room.
Usagi sighed and leaned back in her seat. "Where were you two?" she asked Luna and Artemis.
"We read the newspaper," said Artemis flatly.
Shingo blinked, "You read the newspaper? Whoa, cool." He exclaimed.
Luan sweatdropped, "How else did we find out about the article? We smell it?" she said sarcastically.
"Maybe we should get back to the others," suggested Usagi starring at the doors. "They might get worried,"
Shingo nodded and stood up, taking with him Artemis. He waited for Usagi to stand and join him.
"Well," he asked raising an eyebrow.
"Do you think they might get suspicious?" asked Usagi slowly standing up with Luna on her shoulder.
Shingo shrugged his shoulders, "Don't know, but I guess not. Who would think that you are Sailor Moon? Out of all people," he said laughing.
"HEY! Watch it buddy!" glared Usagi before storming out of the room.
"Hey, wait up!" shouted Shingo following his sister out.
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Harry sighed, it's been over an hour since Usagi and Shingo have disappeared and it was getting very boring. He, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were sitting together doing particularly nothing. He watched Mrs. Hadley's cat, Angel, scamper across the lounge followed closely by a young woman who had already several scratch marks. His mind kept wandering to Usagi, he knew she was keeping something but what was a huge mystery to him.
"What to you reckon the Minister will tell us?" asked Ron suddenly.
Harry shrugged, "About the senshi I guess,"
Ron rolled his eyes, "Of course he'll tell us something about those senshi! I knew that, gees...being away from your girlfriend does give you funny side effects or something?" he asked teasingly, his face had a huge smirk plastered on.
Harry blushed, "..."
"Cat got your tongue?" asked a teasing voice from behind.
Harry looked and found Usagi grinning down at him. "Er," he muttered. He moved to the side a little so that she could take seat next to him, which of course she did.
"What?" asked Usagi when Harry wouldn't stop staring at her. She cocked her head to the side, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," he mumbled. "Glad to have you back though," he said happily.
"Ah now ain't that sweet," cooed Hermione staring at the two.
"He always says we are bad 'Mione, now look at those two!" exclaimed Ron sitting next to Hermione grinning. (AN: Yes, Hermione and Ron are together! ^_^)
Usagi blushed lightly, "Ha, ha, very funny Ron," she said. Usagi then placed her head against Harry's shoulder, trying to get a bit more comfortable. She still is tired from the battle, sleep didn't help much because of the pain from her wound she was up most of the night. She grinned when she saw Shingo and Ginny get a bit closer themselves, as well as Hermione and Ron. She frowned lightly when she realized one thing, the thing has been on her mind for the past few days, and Harry would be leaving soon meaning that she would be alone again. But her worriers disappeared when she felt Harry shift a little and then place his head on top of her. She giggled lightly when she felt his arm shyly creep around her waist pulling her closer to him. Usagi sighed; falling in love was the best thing to distract her mind right now.
Harry grinned when he felt Usagi snuggle closer to him. It amazed him how well she fit into his embrace. He loved her warmth that radiated from her. It felt good to actually love someone who is still alive, and be loved in return. His worries about Usagi, that she was hiding something slowly dissolved. He adjusted himself a little, so that Usagi would be a little bit more comfortable. He then reached out and interlaced his left hand with hers, in the process brushing up against her forearm. Big mistake.
Usagi give a little yelp of pain when Harry's hand brushed up against her forearm. She immediately with drew from him and held her left arm in pain. The wound didn't heal fast over night since she still lacked energy to actually heal herself and recuperate. Because of her yelp everyone was starring at her with worried eyes.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry immediately after Usagi pulled away from him. He knew something was wrong with her forearm. "You're hurt!" he exclaimed suddenly. He tried to touch her arm but she moved away from him.
"Nothing," Usagi mumbled lightly still holding her pained arm.
"Usagi," said Shingo in concern.
"Blimey," muttered Ron.
"What happened to your arm?" asked Ginny in concern in a timid voice.
"Let me see," said Harry finally pulling Usagi back close to him. Usagi looked away when he slowly pulled away the fabric of her sweater, revealing a white-bandaged forearm. Harry stared at the arm with shock, wondering where she got this wound. Her arm was still very red, and the bandage was already turning red.
Usagi pulled her arm away from Harry and lowered the sleeve. "It's nothing really, no big deal," muttered Usagi averting her yes away from Harry.
"Where did you get that cut?" asked Hermione, who grew slightly pale after seeing her arm.
"Where?! I uh, got it when..." Usagi stammered, trying to think up an excuse. "Last night! When I arrived, I went to the kitchen! I got something to, uh, eat! Yeah, and because it was dark, I cut myself with a knife! You know how clumsy I can get," lied Usagi. She mentally sighed when they all looked convinced. She turned to Harry, who is still staring at her arm.
"I'm alright you know," she said slowly not daring to look into his eyes, she felt guilty of lying to him for so many times already.
"I was worried, I thought you got that from last night's attack," mumbled Harry looking away.
Usagi smiled a little, 'He cares so much,' she thought. "Ah, you worry to much!" she exclaimed suddenly. She quickly kissed him on the cheek, trying to make him feel better.
Immediately Harry turned crimson. Everyone exploded into a fit of giggles. Completely forgetting Usagi's wound. After the laughter died down, and Harry finally stopped blushing Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Uncle Sam came through the large wooden doors.
"Ah, I believe that the Minister will be arriving any minute," exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily starring at the fireplace with expectant eyes.
"Now you kids behave yourselves understand?" chided Mrs. Weasley gently giving each of them a threatening stare, meaning 'cross-the-line-and-you'll- never-see-daylight-again'
"It's been a long time since I've seen the Minister," said Uncle Sam thoughtfully.
"What's the Minister like dad?" asked Ron curiously.
"Hmmm, well..he's really friendly. Almost like Professor Dumbledore actually. But he's got this sense of mystery. And he can get quite confusing." Said Mr. Weasley skeptically.
'Tell me about it,' thought Usagi dryly.
"But, he's a great man! Unlike from the minister we got back home," said Mr. Weasley darkly.
"Arthur!" exclaimed Mrs. Weasley angrily glaring at her husband furiously.
"Er, oh, look that must be him right now," said Mr. Weasley suddenly, sighing happily to be able to avoid his wife's fury.
The fire in the fireplace rose suddenly. Changing into a light green color and getting as tall as the size of a normal person. There was a silhouette of a person that could be clearly seen through the flames. Soon the flames died down and out stepped a rather elderly man. There was a rather striking resemblance of the wizard with Professor Dumbledore indeed. The Minister wore scarlet robes with golden trimmings. There were silver and gold crescent moons and stars embroidered into his robes. He had a long silvery white beard that stopped just below his stomach. He wore a scarlet pointed wizard hat, it had gold trimmings, with the gold and silver moons and stars embroidered also. Around his neck dangled a silver chain, the chain held a silver crescent Moon. In the center of the Moon holds a small crystal inside.
"Minister! What a pleasure to see you again!" exclaimed Uncle Sam happily shaking the hand of the Minister.
"Ah, yes. Sam, good to see you again." Replied Kurosawa smiling brightly at Uncle Sam.
"Good morning Minister!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley brightly shaking Kurosawa's hand furiously. He looked like he's about to hug him.
Kurosawa chuckled lightly at Mr. Weasley's enthusiasm. "I see you are looking forward to this meeting?" he chuckled. His eyes wandered to the teens that were sitting next to them. "Which of these wonderful children are yours Arthur?" he asked.
"The redheads, this is my son Ron and his sister Ginny. The others are left at home, work." Said Mr. Weasley proudly.
"Where are your manners you two? Go on, greet the Minister!" clucked Mrs. Weasley.
"Er, hi! Nice to meet you," mumbled Ron in awe, standing up and shacking his hand, still staring at the necklace around the wizard's neck.
"Hello," said Ginny shyly shaking the Minister's hand.
Kurosawa chuckled, "My, my, what wonderful children," he said.
"And this, are Ron's friends, Hermione" stated Mr. Weasley pointing to Hermione, who stood up and shook the Minister's hand. "And this here," added Mr. Weasley pulling Harry away from Usagi and grabbing him firmly by the shoulder. "Is Harry Potter!" he finished smiling brightly at the Minster.
Kurosawa's eyes twinkled when he saw Harry, "Ah, yes. The boy...very nice to meet you at last. Never thought I would actually," added the Minster chuckling at his own words.
Harry starred at the Minister with awe, it was amazing that he looked almost the same like Dumbledore. He took immediate liking of him, not like the minister they got back home. Harry smiled lightly at the minister shaking his hand before taking back his seat. After shaking the ministers hand, he felt a certain feeling wash over him. Harry looked back up and saw the minister's eyes twinkle down at him.
"I don't believe you have meet my nephew and niece," stated Uncle Sam finally. "This is Shingo," he said.
"Hello," said Shingo, while shaking the Minster's hand.
"And this is.."but Uncle Sam was cut off by the Minster himself.
"Usagi," said Kurosawa looking straight at the blond girl with his eye twinkling merrily.
Usagi stood up and smiled, "Minister," she nodded her head in greeting. As their eyes meet they had a silent mutual agreement, Usagi nodded her head once again.
"If you would excuse us for a while Sam, Arthur, Molly. I believe your niece and I still have something to discuss. I hope that you understand Arthur that our meeting will be a little delayed," said Kurosawa starring at the confused adults.
Soon after Usagi and the minister left leaving everybody behind who were all rather confused.
"I didn't know your niece knew the Minister in person," muttered Mr. Weasley rather baffled scratching is head, shooting a confused look to where the minister and Usagi just disappeared to.
"There are things about Usagi I don't even know," said Uncle Sam shrugging his shoulders and looking were they had left.
"I wonder what they are talking about?" wondered Hermione aloud.
"It's kinda weird isn't it?" muttered Ron after a while.
Harry starred confused to where Usagi and the Minister Kurosawa had disappeared. He wondered what those two were talking about. Was it that important? It seemed like those two were already friends, there was a certain bond between them that was for sure. He wondered what that tingly feeling he felt earlier when he shook the hand of the minister.
~Back in the Staff Room~
Usagi let out s great sigh of relief after closing the door behind them. She turned to the minister and let out a little squeal of delight before engulfing the wizard in big bear hug.
"It's great to see you again! Kaito-san!" she squealed loudly.
Kaito chuckled and released the bubbly Moon girl. "It's good to see you again too, Serenity," he chuckled.
"Hey! I though we talked about not calling me Serenity, it's Usagi and not Serenity." Scolded Usagi lightly, pointing her nose up in the air.
"It's just that you are a spitting image of your mother, child. I can see that you will become a wonderful Queen someday." Praised Kaito staring at Usagi with a twinkle in his eyes. "Just your 'Odangos' are missing," chuckled the minister heartily. "I recall all the people call them odangos," muttered Kaito thoughtfully.
Usagi pouted, "Hey, I just happen to like the way my hair is right now," glaring at the elderly wizard. "And besides," sighed Usagi heavily her mood changing completely. "If I wear my odangos, people might identify me as Sailor Moon. They are really dead ringers!"
"Ah yes, Sailor Moon," sighed Kaito. "She did make quite a scene last night, didn't she?" said Kaito starring at Usagi before sitting down.
Usagi heaved a heavy sigh and sat down across Kaito, "I didn't know that there were reporters around," she mumbled.
Kaito nodded in understanding, "Of course dear, I completely understand. Now child, could you please tell me what really happened last night."
Usagi nodded and began to tell the minister about the attack. Telling him every detail about the fight. After telling Kaito what happened there was a heavy silence between the two.
"It's very obvious that the Dark Lords is searching for you," began the minister breaking the silence. "Artemis is probably right about his theory, Voldemort needed your blood to gain the power that is within it. It's just enough for him to actually be strong enough to create a more powerful attack until he will get hands on you and the crystal." Said Kaito with a sad note in his voice.
"I feared that this might happen," mumbled Usagi. "But I shall take what ever comes my way, with or without the senshi," she added finally, giving the minister a determined look.
Kaito smiled, "Your mother is very proud of you child," he said. "You will be a great Queen,"
Usagi smiled, 'The problem is, IF I can actually survive and even BECOME queen,' she thought dryly. Just then Luna and Artemis came scrambling through the door.
"Kaito-san!" exclaimed Luna happily jumping onto the wizards lap happily.
"Kaito-san, great to see you old friend!" said Artemis happily also jumping onto his lap.
Kaito chuckled, "I'm very happy to see too old friends. It's been such a long time already."
"We heard about you and Mr. Weasley, that you will be telling them about the senshi," said Luna.
Kaito sighed, "Ah, yes,"
"Do you think it is wise to tell them?" asked Artemis apprehensively.
"Don't you think, they already know enough?" asked Usagi with a frown.
Kaito smiled, "I do believe that they all know enough," he said. "But, I do believe that this might be the time to actually tell something more about the senshi. I know that Mr. Weasley will try everything to actually find something new out about the senshi. His quite persistent of finding at least some new details about them. I do believe that someday the truth of the senshi will be out and that it might be quite shocking to everybody. I now think that this might the right time to tell the truth about the senshi before more rumors are spread about the senshi. One way or another, Mr. Weasley or his children might find out the truth about the senshi, so it might be best if we just tell them the easy way and spare them all the shock and surprise." He said finally.
"I do respect your decision Kaito-san, but do you really think it is wise?" asked Usagi in a more aristocratic tone. "They might find out WHO the senshi really are, they might find who I am," she added.
"I believe that it is wise, I think it is time the people should deserve to know," stated the minister. "In regards about the identities, as long as you don't say something about the senshi and don't be so obvious, I believe that everything will be fine." Added the minister smiling at the princess.
Usagi nodded, "I think we should get back, they might all get suspicious," she picked up Luna and stood up.
Kaito followed the Moon princess out the door, carrying Artemis on his shoulder.
~Back in the Lounge~
"I wonder where Usagi and the minister have gone to?" wondered Hermione.
"It's the second time this day that she mysteriously disappeared," added Ron.
Harry sighed, 'What is she hiding?' he thought. It's been already over 30 minutes since the two have disappeared. He looked up when he heard Usagi's voice break through the silence.
"Ummm, sorry about the little delay. The minister is waiting in the conference room." she informed the group.
"Finally!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily jumping up from his seat and practically sprinting towards the conference room. Everyone followed him quickly eager to find out what the minister might have to say about the mysterious senshis.
"What was that all about?" asked Harry after Usagi joined them.
"What?" asked Usagi confused.
"The whole minister disappearing thing!" asked Ginny eagerly.
"Oh that," breathed Usagi. "Nothing, nothing important." She said trying hard to make the matter sound uninteresting.
Harry and the others knew that she was hiding something but they didn't press the matter. Harry watched Usagi from the corner of his eye; she seemed to be deep in thought. He felt a little pang of pain, it was probably because she was hiding something from him and wouldn't trust him. 'What's wrong Usagi?' he thought sadly before entering the conference room.
~Conference Room~
The conference room looked like any other conference room, except the fact that the pictures that hung on the wall were moving, and that there was a little house-elf holding a tray of refreshments and perhaps the candles that are floating in mid air. The walls were painted a rich red color. There was a long oak table in the center of the room around the table were many oak chairs with red cushions. At the head of the table sat Minister Kurosawa.
"Sit down, I know that you are all eager to hear what I have to say," he said rather happily.
Usagi sat down next to the minister, looking rather not so pleased about all this but still tried her best to hide it. Next to her sat of course Harry who still had an uncertain look on his face. Mr. Weasley claimed the seat next to the minister's right so that he won t miss a thing. Mrs. Weasley sat next to him. At the end of the table sat Uncle Sam. Next to Harry sat Ron and Hermione and next to Mrs. Weasley sat Ginny and Shingo. Everyone was looking at the minister expectantly.
Usagi coughed lightly trying to hide her frustrations. She winced when Luna dug her claws into her right arm and glaring up at her. She gave Usagi the 'one-more-cough-and-you'll-be-shredded look. Usagi shrugged down at the cat before turning back to the minister.
"I hope its alirght that the children are here," said Mr. Weasley staring at the minister with eager eyes.
"Of course its alright!" Kaito exclaimed happily.
"This is so exciting!" whispered Hermione to Ron, excitement glimmered in her eyes.
"Yeah, finally we'll learn something interesting," answered Ron in an equally excited voice.
"The Sailor senshi," began the minister thoughtfully. "As you may all know are the defenders of this place. Heroines that protect the people from dark forces coming to attack the earth and its inhabitants. Not many know it but the Sailor senshi do not just protect the people living in Japan, but they protect everyone, the whole planet earth.
"10 senshis, nine of which are named after their respective planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The tenth senshi is the Moon. Earth didn't have a senshi, since it wasn't a part of the silver alliance in the past. Mercury, Venus. Mars, and Jupiter were called the inner senshi while Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were called the Outer Senshis.
"Now lets get to the part in which only few have knowledge about," said the minister.
Mr. Weasley sat up straighter and listened intently what the minister had to say next.
Usagi gulped, now this is the part, which she really didn't like to talk about. Her past.
"There are only 9 original senshi, the ones from their respective planets. But the senshi of the Moon was never meant to be a senshi. It all happened a thousand years ago, when peace reigned in all kingdoms of this universe, where the whole Solar System was under the rule of Queen Serenity of the White Moon, she by the way, was the most powerful witch. Each planet, except earth, had their senshi. The senshi were the princesses of the planet. You see before, there were still kingdoms and life on each planet but all the kingdoms were destroyed by an evil force. Anyway, the princesses of each planet were the Senshi or royal guards for the daughter of Queen Serenity. Princess Serenity of the White Moon, she was named after her mother. The inner senshi served as her personal senshi, they would stay with the princess always and stay at the Moon Palace to protect her from harm. The outers on the other hand, stayed on their respective planets and watched over the Solar System by protecting it from any invading forces that enter the system.
"Princess Serenity is the most purest being alive. Her beauty and power caught the attention of many men, may it be lunarian or human. Yet all the kingdoms knew that she was betrothed, betrothed by birth to the prince of earth himself, Prince Endymon. Their engagement was to be announced on the Princesses sixteenth birthday. All the kingdoms celebrated, celebrating that Earth will soon become a part of the Silver Alliance. Everyone was looking forward to the grand ball that will be held and the announcement about their engagement. Everyone except the princess herself, she didn't look forward to it at all. The engagement was just arranged in order for the Earth to be a part of the Silver Alliance and to ensure that it wont attack any of the planets of the Solar System.
"At the night of the grand ball, the unexpected happened. At the time that the Queen was about to announce the engagement an attack occurred that changed everything. Queen Beryl, an evil Queen from the underworlds of earth became jealous of Princess Serenity. Beryl wanted the prince for herself and didn't wish to see the Princess and Prince be engaged or yet get married. Blinded by her jealousy, she attacked the Moon Palace, with strong evil forces destroying the whole palace with ease. The Sailor senshi fought in order to save the princess, but alas in the end one by one the senshi fell. Beryl was about to kill the Princess but Endymon jumped forward and took the hit and died. Angered that the prince died in order to save the Moon Princess, Beryl tried to attack the Serenity but failed when the Moon queen using the Ginzushou killed her. Princess Serenity, being devastated to see all her senshi dead and her whole kingdom destroyed took the sword of Prince Endymon and took her own life. Queen Serenity starred in horror, to see her daughter and her court all dead used her last amount of energy to send her daughter, her court, the prince and the two royal advisers into the future were they shall be reborn and be awakened if the time were right. After which the queen died, and the whole kingdoms vanished without a trace." Finished the Minister with a sad expression.
There was a heavy silence in the room as everyone tried to absorb the whole tragic story. Usagi bit her lip, trying hard not to burst into tears. Everything was so vivid in her mind as she remembered it as it were yesterday. The dead bodies, blood and the crumbling palace.
Harry was a bit shocked to hear such tragic story. He was brought out of his reverie when he heard a sniffle coming from next to him. He turned and was surprised to see Usagi sniffle again. Her head was bowed and her shoulders shock a little. He gave her a concerned look and placed his hand on hers, causing her to look up. He was even more surprised to see a tear slide down her cheek. Yet what shock him was, when he starred into her eyes he saw turmoil, fear, pain and sadness in them.
"What's wrong?" he asked in a hushed voice. He quickly wiped the tear away and looked at her concerned.
Usagi sighed, and smiled lightly. 'Stupid me, why should I cry over the past?' she scolded herself. "Nothing, I guess it's just a sad story," she mumbled before looking away.
Harry nodded but still felt that there was something wrong with her. That she was still in great pain, he could feel it.
"Anyway, the princess and her senshi, as well as the prince, the two royal advisers and the magical adviser of the queen were sent into the future. Their powers and memories would come back to them at a certain time. And now for almost three years, the Sailor Senshi are with us. Sailor Moon is of course the Moon princess, she was trained for battle during this lifetime and does her best to defend the people of earth." said the Minister finally.
"But why did they disappear?" asked Mr. Weasley frowning at the minister.
"Ahh, yes. The great controversy, where did the senshi go? The last time the senshi were together was during the last and final battle. A great battle between good and evil. During this attack, many lives of muggles, witches and wizards were taken. It was a very horrid time. After the attack, the senshi were together one final time, before disappearing completely. The appearance of Sailor Moon last night, was actually the first time since their disappearance." He said lastly heaving a great big sigh.
"This is brilliant," muttered Mr. Weasley under his breath.
"So are you saying that these Sailor senshi are actually princesses over a thousand years old?" asked Ron confused.
"Actually," said Usagi getting the attention of everybody. She felt Luna's claws dig into her skin softly but she ignored her. "They were reborn, so meaning they aren't a thousand years old. They did die in the past, but with the help of mot.er..*cough*..Queen Serenity, the princess and her senshi and the others were reborn in this time." She added. She mentally cursed as she almost said 'mother' instead of Queen Serenity. If she said that she would really blow everything off.
Mr. Weasley was about to ask another question, when a loud noise came from the other side of the door.
"I said let us in!" said an angry voice, a female.
"Please its very important!" added another voice, also a female.
"We really need to see somebody," came another voice, this time sounding like a girl.
"Please ladies, there is an important meeting going one, you cant just come in here and walk right into the meeting," came a very anxious voice, no doubt belonging to one of the personnel watching over the door. "Now if you would just wait..." she added but was cut off by a rather rough voice.
"I will not 'just wait'!" exclaimed a female voice loudly. "We all came a really long way to see somebody in there! This is very important business, damn it! To hell if you wont let us through! I really don't give a damn about that! We are all really tired because of our long trip and you know what?! You are really pissing me off! Now listen up, either you let us through or I'll just have to push your freaking a** aside!?"
There was a little squeak of fear from behind the doors before they burst open revealing three women (one looked like a guy) and a little girl. Facing the very shocked occupants in the room.
"What?!" said the woman at the side raising an eyebrow obviously being very annoyed. She was certainly the one who spoke up earlier.
Usagi stared with wide eyes at the people standing by the door. A huge grin replaced her stunned face as she recognized them she let out a squeal of delight before standing up.
"Haruka! Michiru! Setsuna! Hotaru!"
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Chapter 8
"The Truth about the Sailor Senshi"
Usagi woke up with a jolt as her magical alarm clock buzzed loudly. She groaned loudly with her right arm she reached out and grabbed the buzzing alarm clock, with blurry eyes she read 8:30 ("Time to get up!" yelled the clock). She threw the alarm clock across the room barely missing the mirror, in an instant the alarm shut up (it gave a little yelp of pain as it hit the wall.). Usagi winced, her left arm still hurt like hell and she still was tired. She still hasn't recovered from last nights attack. Her body felt like it weighed a ton and that all her joints were rusty.
Grudgingly she rose from her bed suppressing a huge groan. She sat on her bed for a moment, to try to get used to the feeling of pain in her arm. After a few more minutes she stood up and headed to her shower and took a long hot shower. She still felt a bit dizzy as she walked towards the shower, but it all soon fanished when she took a nice hot relaxing shower. As she stepped out of the shower, 30 minutes have already passed. Her left arm was still very painful as she rapped it up in a fresh bandage. Usagi sighed, how was she going to explain this to her Uncle? She quickly changed into a pair of jeans and a long blue sweater, so that she could hide the bandage. She quickly dried her long blond hair and tied it up in a French braid. She turned around and was about to leave when she noticed Luna and Artemis were already gone. 'Where are they?' wondered Usagi while stepping out of her room.
Usagi could hear the noisy morning chatter of guest coming from the dinning area as she climbed down the staircase. At the foot of the steps she looked around the hall, everyone seems very excited as almost everyone talked avidly in the morning and holding 'The Daily Mystic' in their hands. Usagi frowned, 'what the?' she got an inking feeling in the pit of her stomach, and she didn't like it one bit. Deciding that she was just hungry she headed towards the dinning area to get some food in her, the attack last night took much of her strength and she needed food to get all her strengths back.
As Usagi entered the dinning hall she was surprise to see everybody talking and chattering away fervently. Usually the dining hall was quiet in the morning, even Mrs. Hadley wasn't throwing a fit in the morning but instead talking away with Mr. Tilley, the wizard who usually got stuck in fireplaces. She wondered what the commotion was about. Sighing, she headed to the table where the Weasleys, Harry, Hermione, Shingo and her Uncle sat and eating breakfast. She prayed that none of them would ask her any questions on her whereabouts last night. Her prayers were unanswered.
"Morning," she mumbled lightly to everybody.
"YOUNG LADY, where have you been last night?!" exclaimed Uncle Sam loudly, making all the dishes rattle, glaring at Usagi as she took the empty seat next to Harry. He stood up and towered over Usagi's small form, glaring daggers down at her, drawing the attention of everybody by their table.
Usagi sighed, she slid down in her seat even deeper, trying hard to avoid the many stares she was receiving from practically everybody. 'Damn,' she cursed. She looked at her side and saw Harry starring at her with much surprise. She offered him a small smile before looking up at her Uncle, who in her opinion looked like a dragon inhaling and exhaling deeply. Usagi giggled nervously sweat dropping. "Good morning? He, he, he," she mumbled.
"Don't good morning me young lady! We have been worried sick about you!" he exclaimed angrily again making the dishes rattle; Ron had to hold his teacup from keeping it to spill over.
Usagi sighed loudly, "Sorry," she muttered. She sat in her seat and placed her head in her right hand and sighed again. She looked up at her Uncle as he sat down at the end of the table giving her a stern look, "I meet up with er, some, er, friends. Yes, friends! And we, er, talked. Talked and I kinda, lost rack of time," she said trying futilely to find a good explanation on why she was late, she would tell him the real reason later. She glanced at her brother for some support but her gave her a stern look, she noticed that he is holding The Daily Mystic in his right hand. She looked back at her Uncle, and sighed in relief when he went back in eating his breakfast. She too then started on her breakfast.
"We were really worried about you," commented Hermione after a while. Her brown eyes starring at Usagi with a worried expression.
"We stayed up really late, waiting for you to return," added Ron after shoving some eggs into his mouth.
"Yeah, and then when it was already too late, Shingo went up to your room only to find you already there and sleeping! We didn't notice you coming in," said Ginny staring at Usagi with a confused look, "How did you come in?"
"Come in?" squeaked Usagi after swallowing her toast. 'Oh boy,' she smiled at her friends all the while trying to formulate a quick answer. "I..uh..went...through the back! Yeah the backdoor! I still had to get, er, something from the kitchen so I went through the back!" she lied. She smiled at her friends hoping that they would buy that excuse, she sighed in relief when they nodded their head in understanding and quickly went back to their breakfast.
"You look tired," said Harry in a low voice after a few minutes. His eyes showed much concern and worry as he starred at Usagi.
Usagi turned to him and gave him a smile and shrug, "I went to bed late," she answered.
He nodded, still staring at her with worry, "You know, I was really worried," he said that only she could hear. "But I'm glad you're alright," he added smiling at her.
Usagi blushed but smiled at him, she couldn't help but like Harry even more. The light feeling in her stomach returned and she felt like she would float away. 'Kami, I'm in love in Harry and know that he'll just get hurt,' she thought. She felt Harry's hand under the table and move towards her left hand. She winced lightly when it brushed up against the wound, but soon it clasped itself with her own hand. She hoped no one had seen her wince as she blushed at the thought that they were holding hands under that table.
"You know dear," said Mrs.Weasley breaking into her thoughts, "You gave us quite a fright,"
Usagi looked up and gave her a questioning look, "Huh?"
"Didn't you know?" she asked her brow knit shock.
"Know what?" she asked giving them all a blank look. Everyone starred at her as if she had grown an extra head.
"The attack," informed Harry.
"Attack?!" squeaked Usagi in an unusual high-pitched voice. Shock was written all over her face. 'How could they find out? How did the news travel so fast?!' she thought her mind going crazy. She suddenly felt really dizzy as she absorbed the facts.
"Yes an attack," spoke Shingo for the first time this morning, giving his sister an icy look.
"An attack at Tengu Alley, last night! And the best part is one of the senshi was sighted, Sailor Moon helped the people there!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley in delight, thinking that Sailor Moon being seen again after such a long time is a break through discovery.
"Attack at Tengu alley?! Sailor Moon sighted?" squeaked Usagi in an even higher pitch voice. 'Oh boy, damn those nosy reporters,' things were getting out of hand here. "How did you..." she stared at Shingo for some answers.
"Here, read this. You'll be surprised on what you'll find," he said trusting her the newspaper.
Usagi caught it with her right hand, her left was still 'preoccupied' at the moment. For sure, there in black and white was a huge picture of Sailor Moon standing on the rooftop trying frantically to hide from view from all the witches and wizards standing below and pointing up to her. 'At least I am trying to hide myself,' she thought dryly. The headline read, "Sailor Moon has returned, back to fight crime!"
"Oh my," she whispered. These people really get to a conclusion fast that's for sure.
(AN: Here's the article, ^_^)
"SAILOR MOON HAS RETURNED, BACK TO FIGHT CRIME" -An article by Wizzy Fastflash
"It seems like that our favorite heroine is back into the business. Just last night one of the world famous Sailor senshi has been sighted at Tengu Alley last night after saving the people from an evil youma. The Sailor senshi, none other that the leader Sailor Moon was seen jumping up the rooftop after fighting the gruesome youma. The attack that happened last night wasn't like any ordinary attack ever done, during the attack a certain spell was cast all over the Alley making people stay in their stores and not come out of them unless they were broken and leave the area where the fight progressed.
"We've been mindin' our own business 'ere, me an' Clara 'ere. An' den' suddenly, dis' magical feelin' sweeps over us! We've could tell dat' it was magic, 'cause of da' presence of magic! An' den' suddenly, our minds went blank! Blank as paper! An' den' suddenly, we've remember, dat' we must go to the shop again and get somethin'! An' den' after a long time, puff! We are back! Da' magic, gone! An' den, we go outside we see Sailor Moon!" stated one of the victims who was under spell last night like all the other people from Tengu Alley.
"The spell that was being used was for sure a Change of mind charm," stated the Minister of Magic later that night when we got a chance to have a little chat with him. The Change of Mind charm makes the victim preoccupied or orders the victim to stay away a certain area and do something else instead.
"This is quite something new," stated the Minister Kurosawa. "It's been months since the senshi have disappeared and now their leader Sailor Moon has reappeared and saved the people yet again." Added the minister happily in our interview.
Its has been a long time since there has been an attack, wizards and witches all over the country are wondering who is behind the attacks this time. Yet some of the ministry doubt that this time it may be the handy work of you-know-who, who is rising to power fast. But still it seems impossible to reason that you-know-who is behind due to the lack of evidence.
"This is really amazing," stated Mr. Arthur Weasley, a ministry wizard of the Ministry of magic of England. "We came here to do a full research about these Sailor senshi and report them to the main of Ministry back at the Ministry of Magic in England. This is quite news we received, that just a few hours ago Sailor Moon was sighted." Added Mr. Weasley in awe. "The minister promised us that he shall be meeting with me again to discuss further about the Senshi," said Mr. Weasley. (Usagi's eyes grew wide as she read this part,)
Sailor Moon is back, that is for sure but for how long no one knows. There is so little information about the senshi. Rumors have it that Sailor Moon is in contact with our minister but when we asked the man himself he denied all rumors. One thing is for sure, these Sailor senshi are magical beings, yet they are unregistered at the ministry. We just hope that Sailor Moon is here to stay and help the people again in times of need."
Usagi suppressed a groan, she hated reporters they somehow always got the news in no time at all. She placed the newspaper down and heaved a heavy sigh. She felt a headache coming along, it seems that this time reports about the senshi are more demanding and more in-depth. 'Damn that Fastflash,' cursed Usagi thinking about that nosy reporter.
"That's why we were so worried, we thought you were attacked or something," said Hermione breaking into Usagi's thoughts.
"Like I said I was with, er, friends," stated Usagi giving Hermione a reassuring smile. 'Friends, friends of the enemy,' she thought dryly.
"You didn't see anything? Anything at all? Like that iyauma?" asked Ron.
"Youma," corrected Ginny giggling lightly.
"Same difference," shrugged Ron.
"No, me and my friends were far away from the fight, so naturally I had no idea what was going on," answered Usagi shrugging. She the turned to Mr. Weasley, who looked rather ecstatic "The minister will meet with you?" she asked tentatively. She didn't like the idea that Kurosawa-san will meet with Mr. Weasley; she didn't like it at all.
"Oh yes, we arranged a meeting today! He will be arriving around later on, he quite didn't agree with our meeting but after a long while of, er, begging he finally gave in.," exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily.
"So what will you be talking about?" asked Uncle Sam starring at Usagi, who looked like she got run over a truck right now.
"Oh, I asked him about the real truth about the senshi! You know how hard it is to find some good information about those senshi, and well after a long time of, well, begging, he agreed though he didn't seems much pleased about it." added Mr. Weasley looking a bit doubtful.
'You're telling me,' thought Usagi angrily slumping deeper into her seat. She didn't feel hungry anymore at all, instead she felt light crawling under a rock and let everything go by.
"He seemed actually very eager to come and meet us here, thought we thought we would just discuss it back at the ministry." Added Mrs. Weasley looking thoughtful. "I believe he doesn't like those reporters always lurking around every corner,"
'You said it,' thought Usagi wryly. She sat back up and stared at her brother, "Well, umm excuse us for a minute, we still have to, uh, feed the cats!" she said before letting go of Harry's hand and standing up. She looked down at a confused Harry and gave him a small apologetic smile before walking away and grabbing her brother by his shirt and dragging him away.
"Well, that was odd," mumbled Ron staring where Usagi and Shingo sat just moments ago.
Harry nodded in agreement; he stared to where Usagi and Shingo had disappeared to. He felt that there was something that those two weren't telling them, and he knew because that is always the way he would act when he was hiding something from somebody.
"Well kids, we still have to get ready when Mr. Kurosawa will come, so if you will excuse us," stated Mr. Weasley proudly, before he and Mrs. Weasley walked away back to their rooms.
"So you kids are going to stay here and meet out Minister?" asked Uncle Sam trying to break the uncomfortable silence of confusion.
"Yeah, maybe will get to listen to their meeting!" said Ron grinning.
"It will be very nice to meet Japan's Minster of Magic and even better to hear the true story about the Sailor senshi." Added Hermione thoughtfully.
"I see," mumbled Uncle Sam, "Well excuse me but I think I have to check up on Usagi and Shingo. Now you kids have a wonderful day," he added hastily standing up and walking away to find Usagi and Shingo.
"You know I think something is up," said Harry thoughtfully after Uncle Sam had left.
"What do you mean?" asked Ron looking confused.
"Usagi, she looked like she didn't take the news about Sailor Moon very lightly," supplied Harry.
"Yeah, actually she looked very anxious," added Hermione frowning.
"She did get home very late, maybe she knows something," believed Ginny looking a bit worried about Usagi.
"She did fidget a lot, and was quite restless while she read the article." Said Harry looking thoughtful.
"How would you know? Did you feel her fidget? Your seat are rather apart," asked Ron with a slight grin staring at Harry suspiciously.
"I..I...never mind," mumbled Harry blushing crimson.
"You know I do believe that Usagi knows something that we all don't know, looks like she's hiding something," stated Hermione finally.
Harry nodded in agreement, he was actually very worried about Usagi. She hasn't been herself lately at all. And now that his feelings for her are clearer that ever, she is keeping her distance from him. Harry frowned, 'What re you hiding?'
~In the staff Room~
Usagi quickly closed the door behind her and made sure that no one was in the room before turning to her brother, who is rubbing his arm painfully.
"When did you find out about the attack?!" exclaimed Usagi angrily in a hushed voice.
Shingo narrowed his eyes at his sister, "Hey don't get angry with me! I just found out this morning!" he retorted hotly before sitting down on a plush chair.
Usagi sighed, "I'm sorry, it's just that last nights attack took a lot out of me," she muttered taking a seat in one of the plush chairs across her brother.
Just then Luna and Artemis came bounding into the room looking very anxious. "We heard," said Luna out of breath jumping on Usagi's lap.
"I cant believe that these reporters can get so much information in such a little amount of time," muttered Artemis shaking his head in disbelieve. He jumped onto Shingo's lap and stared at Usagi and Luna.
"The reporters of the Daily Mystic are even worse that those muggles," muttered Luna.
Just then Uncle Sam stepped through the door and looked rather surprised to all of them together. He sat down next to Usagi and starred at her with gloomy eyes, "So tell us, what really happened last night,"
Usagi nodded and began to tell them again what she told Luna and Artemis last night about the sudden attack at Tengu Alley. After she finished retelling her story, there was again the heavy silence that filled the room.
"Your arm, does it hurt?" whispered Uncle Sam, starring down at Usagi's left arm with concerned eyes.
Usagi nodded, "Fine," she mumbled. She felt tried again; she placed her head against her Uncle's shoulder. Trying to find just a bit comfort, everything was happening so fast again, and now she really didn't know what to do anymore without the senshi to help her. She felt her uncle's arm hug her and suddenly she felt like crying again. It's been a long time since she was being hugged by a grown up since her parents died.
"I don't know anymore," whispered Usagi slowly. Tears started to brim her eyes, and she began to cry again. She felt herself being pulled into a hug by her Uncle. "I don't know any more what to do, I am so alone," she whispered between cries.
Luna jumped off Usagi's lap and transferred onto Shingo's instead. She starred at her crying Moon princess and felt her heart break in pain. Usagi has been through a lot this year, and now again her life and the lives of all the people around the world are on her shoulders once again. "You're not alone," stated Luna sadly.
"Luna's right Usa, you're not alone. You got me, Shingo, Luna and Artemis," stated Uncle Sam, still hugging a crying Usagi, in a soothing voice.
"What can I do? I am just alone, I have no senshi with me anymore, the inners are gone and the outers are back at their posts at their home planets, who knows when they decide to come again to help." Came a muffled reply. More cries and sniffles followed that.
"You know that the Outers will come back if they sense danger, they still have a duty to protect you," stated Artemis assuring the crying Moon girl.
"And besides you still got friends! Harry is there, he's always there," said Shingo trying to calm Usagi down.
"Yeah Harry...Harry?!" said Uncle Sam giving Shingo a confused looked and then stared down at Usagi. 'Could it be? She found someone new?' he wondered. A smile crept up his lips.
"I don't want them to be pulled into my fights, they'll be defenseless. Especially Harry, you know about him and Voldemort," said Usagi finally, pulling herself away her Uncle and wiping her tears away.
"Don't worry, you still got us. Nothing will happen as long we are around," assured Luna.
Usagi nodded, she felt much better now. Like the heavy feeling that weighed her shoulders is gone now. She smiled at her Uncle, and hugged him again tightly, "Thank you, I needed that," she mumbled against his shoulder before pulling away again. Usagi sniffled and wiped her face with a tissue.
"Anytime," he said grinning down at his niece. He kissed her forehead affectionately.
"Are you worried about what Kurosawa-san will be discussing with Mr. Weasley?" asked Shingo frowning lightly at his sister.
Usagi shrugged, "I don't know yet, but I am worried what the others are thinking," she cast a troubled look towards the doors.
"Isn't Kurosawa-san, the Magical Adviser of your, er, former mother? Right? I am still quite confused," said Uncle Sam sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck.
Usagi giggled at her Uncle, "Hai, he is,"
Uncle Sam sighed, "I still can't believe who you really are Usa. You really surprise me all the time," he grinned at his niece.
"It's hard to believe that the meatball head that we used to know has matured! And top it all off, that she is a princess! Of the Moon!" added Shingo chuckling.
"Hey! No one dares to make fun of me!" glared Usagi at her brother, yet her eyes were dancing playfully.
Uncle Sam chuckled and stood up, "I better go, I think I should prepare the conference room. That's the best place to discuss those matters." He said before leaving the room.
Usagi sighed and leaned back in her seat. "Where were you two?" she asked Luna and Artemis.
"We read the newspaper," said Artemis flatly.
Shingo blinked, "You read the newspaper? Whoa, cool." He exclaimed.
Luan sweatdropped, "How else did we find out about the article? We smell it?" she said sarcastically.
"Maybe we should get back to the others," suggested Usagi starring at the doors. "They might get worried,"
Shingo nodded and stood up, taking with him Artemis. He waited for Usagi to stand and join him.
"Well," he asked raising an eyebrow.
"Do you think they might get suspicious?" asked Usagi slowly standing up with Luna on her shoulder.
Shingo shrugged his shoulders, "Don't know, but I guess not. Who would think that you are Sailor Moon? Out of all people," he said laughing.
"HEY! Watch it buddy!" glared Usagi before storming out of the room.
"Hey, wait up!" shouted Shingo following his sister out.
~*~*~*~
Harry sighed, it's been over an hour since Usagi and Shingo have disappeared and it was getting very boring. He, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were sitting together doing particularly nothing. He watched Mrs. Hadley's cat, Angel, scamper across the lounge followed closely by a young woman who had already several scratch marks. His mind kept wandering to Usagi, he knew she was keeping something but what was a huge mystery to him.
"What to you reckon the Minister will tell us?" asked Ron suddenly.
Harry shrugged, "About the senshi I guess,"
Ron rolled his eyes, "Of course he'll tell us something about those senshi! I knew that, gees...being away from your girlfriend does give you funny side effects or something?" he asked teasingly, his face had a huge smirk plastered on.
Harry blushed, "..."
"Cat got your tongue?" asked a teasing voice from behind.
Harry looked and found Usagi grinning down at him. "Er," he muttered. He moved to the side a little so that she could take seat next to him, which of course she did.
"What?" asked Usagi when Harry wouldn't stop staring at her. She cocked her head to the side, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," he mumbled. "Glad to have you back though," he said happily.
"Ah now ain't that sweet," cooed Hermione staring at the two.
"He always says we are bad 'Mione, now look at those two!" exclaimed Ron sitting next to Hermione grinning. (AN: Yes, Hermione and Ron are together! ^_^)
Usagi blushed lightly, "Ha, ha, very funny Ron," she said. Usagi then placed her head against Harry's shoulder, trying to get a bit more comfortable. She still is tired from the battle, sleep didn't help much because of the pain from her wound she was up most of the night. She grinned when she saw Shingo and Ginny get a bit closer themselves, as well as Hermione and Ron. She frowned lightly when she realized one thing, the thing has been on her mind for the past few days, and Harry would be leaving soon meaning that she would be alone again. But her worriers disappeared when she felt Harry shift a little and then place his head on top of her. She giggled lightly when she felt his arm shyly creep around her waist pulling her closer to him. Usagi sighed; falling in love was the best thing to distract her mind right now.
Harry grinned when he felt Usagi snuggle closer to him. It amazed him how well she fit into his embrace. He loved her warmth that radiated from her. It felt good to actually love someone who is still alive, and be loved in return. His worries about Usagi, that she was hiding something slowly dissolved. He adjusted himself a little, so that Usagi would be a little bit more comfortable. He then reached out and interlaced his left hand with hers, in the process brushing up against her forearm. Big mistake.
Usagi give a little yelp of pain when Harry's hand brushed up against her forearm. She immediately with drew from him and held her left arm in pain. The wound didn't heal fast over night since she still lacked energy to actually heal herself and recuperate. Because of her yelp everyone was starring at her with worried eyes.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry immediately after Usagi pulled away from him. He knew something was wrong with her forearm. "You're hurt!" he exclaimed suddenly. He tried to touch her arm but she moved away from him.
"Nothing," Usagi mumbled lightly still holding her pained arm.
"Usagi," said Shingo in concern.
"Blimey," muttered Ron.
"What happened to your arm?" asked Ginny in concern in a timid voice.
"Let me see," said Harry finally pulling Usagi back close to him. Usagi looked away when he slowly pulled away the fabric of her sweater, revealing a white-bandaged forearm. Harry stared at the arm with shock, wondering where she got this wound. Her arm was still very red, and the bandage was already turning red.
Usagi pulled her arm away from Harry and lowered the sleeve. "It's nothing really, no big deal," muttered Usagi averting her yes away from Harry.
"Where did you get that cut?" asked Hermione, who grew slightly pale after seeing her arm.
"Where?! I uh, got it when..." Usagi stammered, trying to think up an excuse. "Last night! When I arrived, I went to the kitchen! I got something to, uh, eat! Yeah, and because it was dark, I cut myself with a knife! You know how clumsy I can get," lied Usagi. She mentally sighed when they all looked convinced. She turned to Harry, who is still staring at her arm.
"I'm alright you know," she said slowly not daring to look into his eyes, she felt guilty of lying to him for so many times already.
"I was worried, I thought you got that from last night's attack," mumbled Harry looking away.
Usagi smiled a little, 'He cares so much,' she thought. "Ah, you worry to much!" she exclaimed suddenly. She quickly kissed him on the cheek, trying to make him feel better.
Immediately Harry turned crimson. Everyone exploded into a fit of giggles. Completely forgetting Usagi's wound. After the laughter died down, and Harry finally stopped blushing Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and Uncle Sam came through the large wooden doors.
"Ah, I believe that the Minister will be arriving any minute," exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily starring at the fireplace with expectant eyes.
"Now you kids behave yourselves understand?" chided Mrs. Weasley gently giving each of them a threatening stare, meaning 'cross-the-line-and-you'll- never-see-daylight-again'
"It's been a long time since I've seen the Minister," said Uncle Sam thoughtfully.
"What's the Minister like dad?" asked Ron curiously.
"Hmmm, well..he's really friendly. Almost like Professor Dumbledore actually. But he's got this sense of mystery. And he can get quite confusing." Said Mr. Weasley skeptically.
'Tell me about it,' thought Usagi dryly.
"But, he's a great man! Unlike from the minister we got back home," said Mr. Weasley darkly.
"Arthur!" exclaimed Mrs. Weasley angrily glaring at her husband furiously.
"Er, oh, look that must be him right now," said Mr. Weasley suddenly, sighing happily to be able to avoid his wife's fury.
The fire in the fireplace rose suddenly. Changing into a light green color and getting as tall as the size of a normal person. There was a silhouette of a person that could be clearly seen through the flames. Soon the flames died down and out stepped a rather elderly man. There was a rather striking resemblance of the wizard with Professor Dumbledore indeed. The Minister wore scarlet robes with golden trimmings. There were silver and gold crescent moons and stars embroidered into his robes. He had a long silvery white beard that stopped just below his stomach. He wore a scarlet pointed wizard hat, it had gold trimmings, with the gold and silver moons and stars embroidered also. Around his neck dangled a silver chain, the chain held a silver crescent Moon. In the center of the Moon holds a small crystal inside.
"Minister! What a pleasure to see you again!" exclaimed Uncle Sam happily shaking the hand of the Minister.
"Ah, yes. Sam, good to see you again." Replied Kurosawa smiling brightly at Uncle Sam.
"Good morning Minister!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley brightly shaking Kurosawa's hand furiously. He looked like he's about to hug him.
Kurosawa chuckled lightly at Mr. Weasley's enthusiasm. "I see you are looking forward to this meeting?" he chuckled. His eyes wandered to the teens that were sitting next to them. "Which of these wonderful children are yours Arthur?" he asked.
"The redheads, this is my son Ron and his sister Ginny. The others are left at home, work." Said Mr. Weasley proudly.
"Where are your manners you two? Go on, greet the Minister!" clucked Mrs. Weasley.
"Er, hi! Nice to meet you," mumbled Ron in awe, standing up and shacking his hand, still staring at the necklace around the wizard's neck.
"Hello," said Ginny shyly shaking the Minister's hand.
Kurosawa chuckled, "My, my, what wonderful children," he said.
"And this, are Ron's friends, Hermione" stated Mr. Weasley pointing to Hermione, who stood up and shook the Minister's hand. "And this here," added Mr. Weasley pulling Harry away from Usagi and grabbing him firmly by the shoulder. "Is Harry Potter!" he finished smiling brightly at the Minster.
Kurosawa's eyes twinkled when he saw Harry, "Ah, yes. The boy...very nice to meet you at last. Never thought I would actually," added the Minster chuckling at his own words.
Harry starred at the Minister with awe, it was amazing that he looked almost the same like Dumbledore. He took immediate liking of him, not like the minister they got back home. Harry smiled lightly at the minister shaking his hand before taking back his seat. After shaking the ministers hand, he felt a certain feeling wash over him. Harry looked back up and saw the minister's eyes twinkle down at him.
"I don't believe you have meet my nephew and niece," stated Uncle Sam finally. "This is Shingo," he said.
"Hello," said Shingo, while shaking the Minster's hand.
"And this is.."but Uncle Sam was cut off by the Minster himself.
"Usagi," said Kurosawa looking straight at the blond girl with his eye twinkling merrily.
Usagi stood up and smiled, "Minister," she nodded her head in greeting. As their eyes meet they had a silent mutual agreement, Usagi nodded her head once again.
"If you would excuse us for a while Sam, Arthur, Molly. I believe your niece and I still have something to discuss. I hope that you understand Arthur that our meeting will be a little delayed," said Kurosawa starring at the confused adults.
Soon after Usagi and the minister left leaving everybody behind who were all rather confused.
"I didn't know your niece knew the Minister in person," muttered Mr. Weasley rather baffled scratching is head, shooting a confused look to where the minister and Usagi just disappeared to.
"There are things about Usagi I don't even know," said Uncle Sam shrugging his shoulders and looking were they had left.
"I wonder what they are talking about?" wondered Hermione aloud.
"It's kinda weird isn't it?" muttered Ron after a while.
Harry starred confused to where Usagi and the Minister Kurosawa had disappeared. He wondered what those two were talking about. Was it that important? It seemed like those two were already friends, there was a certain bond between them that was for sure. He wondered what that tingly feeling he felt earlier when he shook the hand of the minister.
~Back in the Staff Room~
Usagi let out s great sigh of relief after closing the door behind them. She turned to the minister and let out a little squeal of delight before engulfing the wizard in big bear hug.
"It's great to see you again! Kaito-san!" she squealed loudly.
Kaito chuckled and released the bubbly Moon girl. "It's good to see you again too, Serenity," he chuckled.
"Hey! I though we talked about not calling me Serenity, it's Usagi and not Serenity." Scolded Usagi lightly, pointing her nose up in the air.
"It's just that you are a spitting image of your mother, child. I can see that you will become a wonderful Queen someday." Praised Kaito staring at Usagi with a twinkle in his eyes. "Just your 'Odangos' are missing," chuckled the minister heartily. "I recall all the people call them odangos," muttered Kaito thoughtfully.
Usagi pouted, "Hey, I just happen to like the way my hair is right now," glaring at the elderly wizard. "And besides," sighed Usagi heavily her mood changing completely. "If I wear my odangos, people might identify me as Sailor Moon. They are really dead ringers!"
"Ah yes, Sailor Moon," sighed Kaito. "She did make quite a scene last night, didn't she?" said Kaito starring at Usagi before sitting down.
Usagi heaved a heavy sigh and sat down across Kaito, "I didn't know that there were reporters around," she mumbled.
Kaito nodded in understanding, "Of course dear, I completely understand. Now child, could you please tell me what really happened last night."
Usagi nodded and began to tell the minister about the attack. Telling him every detail about the fight. After telling Kaito what happened there was a heavy silence between the two.
"It's very obvious that the Dark Lords is searching for you," began the minister breaking the silence. "Artemis is probably right about his theory, Voldemort needed your blood to gain the power that is within it. It's just enough for him to actually be strong enough to create a more powerful attack until he will get hands on you and the crystal." Said Kaito with a sad note in his voice.
"I feared that this might happen," mumbled Usagi. "But I shall take what ever comes my way, with or without the senshi," she added finally, giving the minister a determined look.
Kaito smiled, "Your mother is very proud of you child," he said. "You will be a great Queen,"
Usagi smiled, 'The problem is, IF I can actually survive and even BECOME queen,' she thought dryly. Just then Luna and Artemis came scrambling through the door.
"Kaito-san!" exclaimed Luna happily jumping onto the wizards lap happily.
"Kaito-san, great to see you old friend!" said Artemis happily also jumping onto his lap.
Kaito chuckled, "I'm very happy to see too old friends. It's been such a long time already."
"We heard about you and Mr. Weasley, that you will be telling them about the senshi," said Luna.
Kaito sighed, "Ah, yes,"
"Do you think it is wise to tell them?" asked Artemis apprehensively.
"Don't you think, they already know enough?" asked Usagi with a frown.
Kaito smiled, "I do believe that they all know enough," he said. "But, I do believe that this might be the time to actually tell something more about the senshi. I know that Mr. Weasley will try everything to actually find something new out about the senshi. His quite persistent of finding at least some new details about them. I do believe that someday the truth of the senshi will be out and that it might be quite shocking to everybody. I now think that this might the right time to tell the truth about the senshi before more rumors are spread about the senshi. One way or another, Mr. Weasley or his children might find out the truth about the senshi, so it might be best if we just tell them the easy way and spare them all the shock and surprise." He said finally.
"I do respect your decision Kaito-san, but do you really think it is wise?" asked Usagi in a more aristocratic tone. "They might find out WHO the senshi really are, they might find who I am," she added.
"I believe that it is wise, I think it is time the people should deserve to know," stated the minister. "In regards about the identities, as long as you don't say something about the senshi and don't be so obvious, I believe that everything will be fine." Added the minister smiling at the princess.
Usagi nodded, "I think we should get back, they might all get suspicious," she picked up Luna and stood up.
Kaito followed the Moon princess out the door, carrying Artemis on his shoulder.
~Back in the Lounge~
"I wonder where Usagi and the minister have gone to?" wondered Hermione.
"It's the second time this day that she mysteriously disappeared," added Ron.
Harry sighed, 'What is she hiding?' he thought. It's been already over 30 minutes since the two have disappeared. He looked up when he heard Usagi's voice break through the silence.
"Ummm, sorry about the little delay. The minister is waiting in the conference room." she informed the group.
"Finally!" exclaimed Mr. Weasley happily jumping up from his seat and practically sprinting towards the conference room. Everyone followed him quickly eager to find out what the minister might have to say about the mysterious senshis.
"What was that all about?" asked Harry after Usagi joined them.
"What?" asked Usagi confused.
"The whole minister disappearing thing!" asked Ginny eagerly.
"Oh that," breathed Usagi. "Nothing, nothing important." She said trying hard to make the matter sound uninteresting.
Harry and the others knew that she was hiding something but they didn't press the matter. Harry watched Usagi from the corner of his eye; she seemed to be deep in thought. He felt a little pang of pain, it was probably because she was hiding something from him and wouldn't trust him. 'What's wrong Usagi?' he thought sadly before entering the conference room.
~Conference Room~
The conference room looked like any other conference room, except the fact that the pictures that hung on the wall were moving, and that there was a little house-elf holding a tray of refreshments and perhaps the candles that are floating in mid air. The walls were painted a rich red color. There was a long oak table in the center of the room around the table were many oak chairs with red cushions. At the head of the table sat Minister Kurosawa.
"Sit down, I know that you are all eager to hear what I have to say," he said rather happily.
Usagi sat down next to the minister, looking rather not so pleased about all this but still tried her best to hide it. Next to her sat of course Harry who still had an uncertain look on his face. Mr. Weasley claimed the seat next to the minister's right so that he won t miss a thing. Mrs. Weasley sat next to him. At the end of the table sat Uncle Sam. Next to Harry sat Ron and Hermione and next to Mrs. Weasley sat Ginny and Shingo. Everyone was looking at the minister expectantly.
Usagi coughed lightly trying to hide her frustrations. She winced when Luna dug her claws into her right arm and glaring up at her. She gave Usagi the 'one-more-cough-and-you'll-be-shredded look. Usagi shrugged down at the cat before turning back to the minister.
"I hope its alirght that the children are here," said Mr. Weasley staring at the minister with eager eyes.
"Of course its alright!" Kaito exclaimed happily.
"This is so exciting!" whispered Hermione to Ron, excitement glimmered in her eyes.
"Yeah, finally we'll learn something interesting," answered Ron in an equally excited voice.
"The Sailor senshi," began the minister thoughtfully. "As you may all know are the defenders of this place. Heroines that protect the people from dark forces coming to attack the earth and its inhabitants. Not many know it but the Sailor senshi do not just protect the people living in Japan, but they protect everyone, the whole planet earth.
"10 senshis, nine of which are named after their respective planets. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The tenth senshi is the Moon. Earth didn't have a senshi, since it wasn't a part of the silver alliance in the past. Mercury, Venus. Mars, and Jupiter were called the inner senshi while Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were called the Outer Senshis.
"Now lets get to the part in which only few have knowledge about," said the minister.
Mr. Weasley sat up straighter and listened intently what the minister had to say next.
Usagi gulped, now this is the part, which she really didn't like to talk about. Her past.
"There are only 9 original senshi, the ones from their respective planets. But the senshi of the Moon was never meant to be a senshi. It all happened a thousand years ago, when peace reigned in all kingdoms of this universe, where the whole Solar System was under the rule of Queen Serenity of the White Moon, she by the way, was the most powerful witch. Each planet, except earth, had their senshi. The senshi were the princesses of the planet. You see before, there were still kingdoms and life on each planet but all the kingdoms were destroyed by an evil force. Anyway, the princesses of each planet were the Senshi or royal guards for the daughter of Queen Serenity. Princess Serenity of the White Moon, she was named after her mother. The inner senshi served as her personal senshi, they would stay with the princess always and stay at the Moon Palace to protect her from harm. The outers on the other hand, stayed on their respective planets and watched over the Solar System by protecting it from any invading forces that enter the system.
"Princess Serenity is the most purest being alive. Her beauty and power caught the attention of many men, may it be lunarian or human. Yet all the kingdoms knew that she was betrothed, betrothed by birth to the prince of earth himself, Prince Endymon. Their engagement was to be announced on the Princesses sixteenth birthday. All the kingdoms celebrated, celebrating that Earth will soon become a part of the Silver Alliance. Everyone was looking forward to the grand ball that will be held and the announcement about their engagement. Everyone except the princess herself, she didn't look forward to it at all. The engagement was just arranged in order for the Earth to be a part of the Silver Alliance and to ensure that it wont attack any of the planets of the Solar System.
"At the night of the grand ball, the unexpected happened. At the time that the Queen was about to announce the engagement an attack occurred that changed everything. Queen Beryl, an evil Queen from the underworlds of earth became jealous of Princess Serenity. Beryl wanted the prince for herself and didn't wish to see the Princess and Prince be engaged or yet get married. Blinded by her jealousy, she attacked the Moon Palace, with strong evil forces destroying the whole palace with ease. The Sailor senshi fought in order to save the princess, but alas in the end one by one the senshi fell. Beryl was about to kill the Princess but Endymon jumped forward and took the hit and died. Angered that the prince died in order to save the Moon Princess, Beryl tried to attack the Serenity but failed when the Moon queen using the Ginzushou killed her. Princess Serenity, being devastated to see all her senshi dead and her whole kingdom destroyed took the sword of Prince Endymon and took her own life. Queen Serenity starred in horror, to see her daughter and her court all dead used her last amount of energy to send her daughter, her court, the prince and the two royal advisers into the future were they shall be reborn and be awakened if the time were right. After which the queen died, and the whole kingdoms vanished without a trace." Finished the Minister with a sad expression.
There was a heavy silence in the room as everyone tried to absorb the whole tragic story. Usagi bit her lip, trying hard not to burst into tears. Everything was so vivid in her mind as she remembered it as it were yesterday. The dead bodies, blood and the crumbling palace.
Harry was a bit shocked to hear such tragic story. He was brought out of his reverie when he heard a sniffle coming from next to him. He turned and was surprised to see Usagi sniffle again. Her head was bowed and her shoulders shock a little. He gave her a concerned look and placed his hand on hers, causing her to look up. He was even more surprised to see a tear slide down her cheek. Yet what shock him was, when he starred into her eyes he saw turmoil, fear, pain and sadness in them.
"What's wrong?" he asked in a hushed voice. He quickly wiped the tear away and looked at her concerned.
Usagi sighed, and smiled lightly. 'Stupid me, why should I cry over the past?' she scolded herself. "Nothing, I guess it's just a sad story," she mumbled before looking away.
Harry nodded but still felt that there was something wrong with her. That she was still in great pain, he could feel it.
"Anyway, the princess and her senshi, as well as the prince, the two royal advisers and the magical adviser of the queen were sent into the future. Their powers and memories would come back to them at a certain time. And now for almost three years, the Sailor Senshi are with us. Sailor Moon is of course the Moon princess, she was trained for battle during this lifetime and does her best to defend the people of earth." said the Minister finally.
"But why did they disappear?" asked Mr. Weasley frowning at the minister.
"Ahh, yes. The great controversy, where did the senshi go? The last time the senshi were together was during the last and final battle. A great battle between good and evil. During this attack, many lives of muggles, witches and wizards were taken. It was a very horrid time. After the attack, the senshi were together one final time, before disappearing completely. The appearance of Sailor Moon last night, was actually the first time since their disappearance." He said lastly heaving a great big sigh.
"This is brilliant," muttered Mr. Weasley under his breath.
"So are you saying that these Sailor senshi are actually princesses over a thousand years old?" asked Ron confused.
"Actually," said Usagi getting the attention of everybody. She felt Luna's claws dig into her skin softly but she ignored her. "They were reborn, so meaning they aren't a thousand years old. They did die in the past, but with the help of mot.er..*cough*..Queen Serenity, the princess and her senshi and the others were reborn in this time." She added. She mentally cursed as she almost said 'mother' instead of Queen Serenity. If she said that she would really blow everything off.
Mr. Weasley was about to ask another question, when a loud noise came from the other side of the door.
"I said let us in!" said an angry voice, a female.
"Please its very important!" added another voice, also a female.
"We really need to see somebody," came another voice, this time sounding like a girl.
"Please ladies, there is an important meeting going one, you cant just come in here and walk right into the meeting," came a very anxious voice, no doubt belonging to one of the personnel watching over the door. "Now if you would just wait..." she added but was cut off by a rather rough voice.
"I will not 'just wait'!" exclaimed a female voice loudly. "We all came a really long way to see somebody in there! This is very important business, damn it! To hell if you wont let us through! I really don't give a damn about that! We are all really tired because of our long trip and you know what?! You are really pissing me off! Now listen up, either you let us through or I'll just have to push your freaking a** aside!?"
There was a little squeak of fear from behind the doors before they burst open revealing three women (one looked like a guy) and a little girl. Facing the very shocked occupants in the room.
"What?!" said the woman at the side raising an eyebrow obviously being very annoyed. She was certainly the one who spoke up earlier.
Usagi stared with wide eyes at the people standing by the door. A huge grin replaced her stunned face as she recognized them she let out a squeal of delight before standing up.
"Haruka! Michiru! Setsuna! Hotaru!"
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Bwahahaha! Ain't I just a great gal or what?! *LOL* anyway, I hope you guys all like this chapter..it took a really long time to finish ^_^;;;; (I was rather busy) I hope you liked it anyway.
Please tell me if there is anything wrong with all my history thing about Serenity and the Silver Millennium. Tell me! I need to know!
^_^ anyway, I got to tell you guys something, updates will probably be slow once again. *Sighs* because we got this huge problem at school, regarding our grades and its very important to me. we might be having a play and I'll be very busy doing all the props and stuff. *Sighs* Gomen mina, hope you all will understand. I promise however, that during December updates will happen more often! ^_^
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