Vince: The polls are now closed people. The pairings have been decided, sorry if who you wanted didn't win. You can vote on Ami still, there seems to be a bit of a controversy, but I won't accept any Ami votes that aren't either Hermione or Wood.
Vale: And just to all the readers-- sorry for taking so long for this chapter. And also, Vince isn't going to be such a huge part of this anymore-- it won't be a 50/50 thing between us, more like an 80/20 since she's now married and probably trying to make babies.
Vince: Say that again and I'll kill you.
Vale: Won't she make a great mom? XD
Pairings =
Hotaru/Draco
Usagi/Harry
Ami/Hermione VOTE
or
Ami/Wood VOTE
Rei/Ron
Setsuna/Snape
Michiru/Haruka
MATTERS OF THE HEART
CHAPTER SIX
BY:
Vale, Vince (Saturn Angels)
Hotaru licked her lips, looking at the werewolf with a malicious look in her eyes, "Terry, Draco... go find Hagrid."
"But-- Hotaru--" Terry said, she was frightened for both Hotaru's safety and her own if they were to leave...
"It's all right, I'll be fine. I won't be bitten, go now or you might not have the chance to later. Oh, and .. take Fang with you." she said, never tearing her gaze away from the werewolf.
Terry gulped and nodded, immediately grabbing Fang by his collar, and tugging him along behind her calling for Draco to follow her.
Draco departed without a second glance back at Hotaru-- it was her decision if she wanted to sacrifice herself for the rest of the group.
As Terry and Draco ran the werewolf turned to them, and began running after them before Hotaru ran in front of the werewolf, stopping it in it's tracks.
It growled at her, howling.
"You're not going anywhere, I am your enemy. You cannot run from me." She said, keeping eye contact with her opponent which only seemed to anger it more.
She glared at it, swinging her glaive, "Come on."
The werewolf growled and lashed out at her, she twirled out of the way, facing the werewolf once more in a fighting stance.
She pointed the glaive at it, spinning it so the longer end was on the bottom, she continued taunting it in that way, causing it to run at her, growl, howl, while she simply avoided its attacks and shifted her weapon.
The truth was she didn't want to kill it, because it was a person. And she knew that if she got too close to it... it would bite her... and one day someone could be hunting her.
So she only hit the werewolf once with her weapon, and even then it was the blunt end of her weapon and she did that only to draw its attention back to her whenever it seemed ready to escape.
It charged at her and as she was moving out of the way a rock that had been uprooted earlier by her foot caused her to lose her balance and fall.
Fear gripped her immediately as the werewolf drew nearer at a fast pace but to her everything seemed to be happening in slow motion.
Her breath hitched and her fingers fumbled for her wand, which she had found out was a fast more effective way to cast her attacks.
Since she had accidentally caused her glaive to dematerialize somehow. She gasped for breath, her fingers gripping her wands as she struggled to pull it out of her pocket-- backing her body away with her feet as she managed to get it out and utter the words to save her life.
But her mind was completely blank at the moment, the fear in her was so strong, her adrenaline pumping and causing her to abandon all thought process.
The werewolf was practically on her now, it seemed cruel to see the werewolf taking its time stalking over to her because it knew it had won.
"Saturn... Saturn protection... ugh." Tears nearly sprang to her eyes as she wished desperately that someone, something, would save her.
The werewolf jumped at her just as she was cornered against a tree.
"SATURN SILENCE WALL!" she cried finally, shutting her eyes tightly against her attacker when she heard it whine and something heavy fall to the ground.
She never did find out for certain if it was Hagrid who saved her... or her own 'spell'.
Her breath came in hiccoughs, her chest rising and falling as she stared at the fallen body of the werewolf as it reverted to its human state.
Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief, both when he saw that Hotaru was all right and who the werewolf was. "She's not dead, just a tranquilizer dart..." Hagrid explained, motioning to the young girl on the floor. He had been worried that the werewolf was Lupin...
"Will she be all right?" Usagi asked, looking down at the young--naked--girl.
Immediately after seeing her, Rei covered Draco's eyes.
"Yes, she'll be all right so long as we take her to Madame Pomfrey, it's a fairly strong tranquilizer for such a little thing..."
Hotaru took off her Hogwarts robe, leaving her in her black leggings and black longsleeve fluffy sweater. She draped the robe over the girl and asked who was going to carry her back to the premises. The obvious people would be either Hagrid or Draco...
...though she wasn't sure she wanted Draco to carry a naked girl back to the castle. Not because she liked him or anything absurd like that... it was just, the girl might wake up and go ballistic on him or something.
...Even if she probably wasn't going to wake up for another couple of hours.
"Draco will have to carry her, the rest of you go on and get back to your common rooms and go to sleep. Detentions over-- Hotaru, good job."
As the rest of the group began walking off Hagrid stopped Hotaru by tapping on her shoulder, she looked up at him feeling as if she was looking up at the sky.
"She... didn't bite ya did she?" he asked.
Hotaru shook her head, "No, thanks to you Hagrid."
"Aye, that wasn't me... I wouldn't have gotten there in time. That was Malfoy." Hagrid said, "Yer very lucky... though it wasn't smart of ye to go and tell the rest of your teammates to just leave ya..."
Hotaru nodded, apologizing.
"Run along now, it's passed yer bedtime."
Hotaru nodded once more, bowing to him before running after the group.
She caught up with them, Draco blushing profusely.
So he had saved her? The blushing teenager?
She 'hmph'ed, not realizing that she'd done so out loud before Rei patted her back pretending to console her.
"It's a good thing you put your robe over her, hm?" Usagi whisped, laughing slightly. "I don't know if he could get any more red."
Rei thwapped Usagi over the head, flipping her raven-colored hair over her shoulder, "I'm just glad we got that over with."
"Hotaru!" Terry called, moving to the left of the senshi of silence. "You didn't get bitten did you?"
Hotaru shook her head, "No..."
"Wow! You're so cool! You held out for almost 15 minutes!" Terry said, clapping, "Most people wouldn't last more than 5. Though if we had gotten there any later ... I don't think things would have gone as well."
Hotaru remembered that she had used her Silence Wall attack just as they got there and she shrugged softly, "I'm not so sure about that..."
"Face it Tomoe, without our help you would've become like her." Draco said, motioning to the girl with a slight hint of a blush on his cheeks-- he had gained his composure as the girls were talking.
"You mean naked and in your arms?" Rei asked slyly, determined to get some spark between the two by the end of the semester.
Draco glared over at Rei, "I mean a werewolf."
"Don't women die if they're bitten?" Usagi asked, being intelligent for once, "I read that in one of our texts. Only men can become werewolves, women will die if they are bitten."
"Then how do you explain her?" Rei asked.
Ami looked over at the girl, "I too have been reading ahead in my texts, I didn't expect it of Usagi, so I thought I was the only one who found it odd..."
Everyone looked at Ami (except Draco who was too busy focusing on-- ... Hogwarts), waiting for her to continue.
"...but I was pondering it for a long time, ever since we left the Dark Forest in fact, and I came to a conclusion I think."
Terry nodded, "As did I." Both were Ravenclaws afterall. Though Terry always seemed to forget that Draco wasn't the only Slytherin there.
You'd think Ravenclaws would be smart enough to stay out of detention though...
"She must be an animagus. Though an animagus who lost the ability to keep control of her mind during the full moon state." Terry explained.
"There's something in a book about animagi that says ... the person does not choose there form. It's dangerous if one turns into a wolf-- or a werewolf as their form because then the form sets itself into their bloodstream and they can't help but to turn into their animal form during the full moon."
"So ... you're saying this girl can turn into a wolf at will-- but even if she doesn't want to during the full moon she will anyway?" Rei asked, making sure she heard everything right.
"Theoretically." Ami replied, "We'll have to wait until she wakes up to know for sure."
They made it back to Hogwarts, Draco heading to the hospital wing, Usagi heading back to Hufflepuff, Ami and Terry heading to the Ravenclaw Common Room, Hotaru heading to the Slytherin Common Room, and Rei following Draco once everyone was too far ahead to notice her absence.
She waited for him outside the hospital wing, it didn't take long for him to exit, Hotaru's robe in hand.
"Hey Malfoy." Rei called out, her eyes shifting around the hallway to make sure that no one saw her conversing with a Slytherin such as Malfoy...
Draco turned, "What do you want Hino?" he asked, his tone sounding impatient.
"What do you think of Hotaru?" Rei asked, "don't worry I won't tell her."
Draco looked at her calculatingly, "What does it matter?"
"These are matters of the heart I'm talking about." Rei said, looking side to side, "So come on, just tell me."
"I think..."
"Yes?"
"I think... that it isn't any of your business Hino, and I'd watch my back if I were you." he said before proceeding in walking away.
Rei blinked and watched him leave, "Cruel." she said shaking her head, she'd get it out of him one way or another... even if she had to beat it out of him. Or cast a spell or a charm or--
A grin formed on her face, that wasn't a bad idea at all...
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To be continued!!
Vale: Yes, I know, you waited a long time for this short chapter but I promise I'll start updating a lot more often so it'll be all better!
Vince: It's short but it's better than nothing right?
Thing that must be touched upon:
To G. Lo: The couples aren't up to us, so it's not us you should complain to-- we live by the polls, y'know? hehe. But I know-- I can't really see it happening either but we're not in the least homophobic so -shrug- oh well. and why were you speaking in a French accent when you were speaking Spanish? heehee
Now to the stupid people:
To optional: Vince here, just because Vale doesn't like being mean to people and such. This is fanfiction, even more so it's a crossover making it fairly AUish on it's own. You must lead a very very boring life to get so worked up over a simple fanfic. So simply put: it's called FANFICTION person, fanfiction. Meaning I have the creative license to change whatever the hell I want to.
To Guaridan of Mercury: Please don't use Japanese if you have no idea what you're saying. Stick to english, first of all it's not a yaoi fic if it's Hermione/Ami, it would be shoujo-ai or yuri-- definitely not hentai either.. -begin sarcasm- how smart of you -end sarcasm-
To kitty demon: -sighs- Vince here again, yaoi, not yaou. You think we care about flames? Of course not-- if we don't get a couple flames it's like people really aren't reading. So if you flame us, all you get is 5 college students laughing their asses off at you. And I'm not bringing in other anime, (not animes because that would be grammatically incorrect), and it would be Mirai nor Miari. Just letting you know.
To neko enchantress: Vince again, that's odd...you have the exact same spelling of yaoi as kitty demon. and the same threat, and neko means cat! -dramatic gasp- simply put, again, we don't give a monkey's ass about flames :) yet we reply to them just to let you know we read them. And take them into consideration every now and then. If they're written well... and yours isn't-- so we don't really care.
Vince: Ohohoho, and thanks to all the stupid people, muwahha, if Ami/Hermione does win we'll write ultra nasty things between them and send mail bombs to their accounts with it inside-- MUWAHAHA
Vale: -hits Vince- She's kidding. We wouldn't ever do that. .. ... but you know, if you do flame us, the only way to keep the flame up there if we want to delete us is to log in. And that's dangerous because then we'll have your e-mail address -grins innocently-
And thanks to everyone else who reviewed -huggles you all and hands you cookies- And sorry for taking so long on this!