Eh voila, c'est magnifique!
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"Where are you taking me Darien?" Harry asked as the grumpy black haired boy pulled him along by the wrist.
"The Battle Dome," Darien replied.
"The-the B-battle Dome?" Harry repeated shakily, he didn't like the sound of that, "why are we going there?"
"To get rid of you for the day," Darien replied, he smirked at the horrified look no Harry's face when he said these words.
"You're joking right?" Harry pleaded desperately.
"No," Darien laughed.
"You know, I think I left something in my room, could we turn around?" Harry inquired tentatively.
"What and spend longer with a pathetic mortal like you," Darien looked him up and down sceptically, "I don't think so," he sneered and Harry's shoulders slumped.
"Well here we are," Darien announced on arrival, Harry looked back, the castle stood proud and erect behind him and in front, a great stone dome punctuated by a towering archway which Darien proceeded to lead him through.
"Wait here," Darien commanded and stalked off.
"Brat," Harry muttered while looking around at the lavishly carved stone workings of the 'Battle Dome'.
"What did you call me?" Darien demanded wheeling round on his heel to glare, fists raised, at Harry.
"Nothing," Harry replied, trying not to anger his, although obnoxious, host.
"Yeh you did, you called me a brat!" Darien shouted stomping up to Harry, "you are so going to pay for that weakling," Darien then, without warning, punched Harry in the stomach.
The black haired boy double over, clutching his stomach, he'd had a Bludger there before but it was never as hard as that, there was no way Darien could be human. "There, you not so tough, what do those mortals see in you anyway," Darien brought his knee up and it connected with Harry's lowered jaw making the boy do an, involuntary, back flip and landed unceremoniously on his back.
Darien leapt at him, body slamming him and Harry groaned but brought his knee between Darien's legs, the other boy groaned at the contact and not in an excited way either. Harry made to push the prince off him but Darien brought his elbow down on Harry's bruising stomach, Harry choked, his head swam and – "That's enough form you."
Darien felt him grabbed by the back of his neck and hoisted upwards; his feet dangled either side of Harry's chest, suspended from a hand, attached to an arm, attached to…Hikage?
"Hikage, is that you?" Harry spluttered, tentatively rubbing his stomach with shaking hands as he wearily got to his feet, careful to avoid the screaming Darien.
"Get out of here kid," she then proceeded to chuck Darien off to the side like some dirty article of clothing.
"Why you, I'll tell my mum about you," he growled and turned to leave, tugging at his cape.
"Will you now," he smirked pompously at her and she smirked confidently back, "then I'll just tell her you were trying to kill the only hope Earth has of keeping its fragmented free-will."
Darien paled, "You wouldn't dare!"
"Wouldn't I?" his eyes widened, " run," and he did, very fast and very far, or at least as far as he could get without falling off one of the many rims off the plane Harry was currently situated on.
"It's been a long time since I've been here," she looked around wistfully, "last time was about," she looked thoughtful for a moment, her lips curling into a sneer, "sixteen years ago."
"So why are you here now?" he growled.
"Why do you think, for you of course," he looked shocked, "did you really think you'd sent the last of me?"
"This was your plan all along, you meant for me to come here," she smirked, definite 'duh', "so what happened to everyone else," she looked away and didn't answer, he grabbed the front of her uniform, "what happened?" he snarled.
"Darien is no match for me, you are no match for Darien," Harry hurtled backwards as Hikage fired an uncharted energy blast directly into his stomach, he groaned and sat up, "hands off the uniform Potter."
She leaned her head form side to side, her neck clicking loudly and making Harry wince, Seamus used to do that, site there making his neck click, bending his back the wrong way just to hear it, pulling at his fingers, bending his knuckles, flexing his toes. A chill ran down Harry's spine, it wasn't a nice thing to watch and made it hard for him to go to sleep at night.
"What's the matter? Bad memories?" she smiled coldly and he glared at her, she walked up to him, he was still sitting on the ground when she reached him, leaning down on one knee in front of him she took his chin in her hand and lifted his face up so their eyes met.
"You want to listen to me or not?" she raised an eyebrow and he jerked back out of her hand, she drew back and collapsed, sitting cross legged before him, "or would you prefer to ask?"
"Do you promise to answer?"
"Yes," she replied smirking, first test, loop holes.
"No answering in riddles or questions, just straight, to the point, fact filled answers, got it?" he demanded.
"You're in no position to be executing orders but still, yes Potter I promise to give you straight answers," she smirked.
"And you have to tell the truth," they both grinned.
"Deal," she crossed her arms, "so what do you want to know Mr Potter?"
"Who are you?" he asked.
"Hikage Tsukiyamino," she replied.
"Why did you come to Hogwarts?" he enquired.
"To deliver Usagi and therefore manipulate you to ultimately bring you here and send Voldemort and Tom Riddle to Saturn," she answered.
"Saturn?" she nodded. "What's on Saturn? In fact, what's the Silver Alliance?"
"Ahh," she sighed, "I thought you might ask that, to tell you the whole truth Harry I'm not entirely sure, the gist is that all the planets, except Earth, signed a Peace Treaty to the moon and allegiance to Queen Selene. That's where the Princess' come in and the Sailor Senshi," Harry began to look very confused at this point. "Close your eyes Harry and hold still," he looked angry, "do it Harry!"
He grumbled but reluctantly shut his eyes, then he felt cold finger tips at his temples and imaged began to flow into his head, sound and colour too. When the flood of what appeared to be memories faded his eyes felt heavy and it took a lot to get them open, "Anything else you want to know Potter?" she asked.
"Where are Usagi and Voldemort exactly?"
"The raw form of 'Lord Voldemort' is currently locked in a cell and buried in the bowels of the planet Saturn to await the day when you return to Earth fully trained to fight the battles that will befall Earth. Darien may be strong but due to his father's deceased state he has no one to fall back on, that's what you're for."
"Tom Riddle, back in his twenty year old form when he was taken over by Voldemort is currently being restored on Saturn and looked after by Princess Hotaru. As for Usagi, she was has been re-instated as her birth role, Princess of the moon and heir to the throne, the Moon is throwing a home-coming party next week, but I think it's more than that."
"What do you mean more than that?" Harry demanded, suddenly looking a little bit alarmed.
"To be perfectly frank I think Selene I going to marry her off," Hikage winced at the horror struck look on Harry's paling face.
"Marrying?" he gulped, "but then I-" he trailed off, "I have to be at that party," he announced grabbing her hands, "you have to take me."
"You can't go," she replied calmly.
"Why not?" he snarled, he was getting angry now.
"You not royalty by any standards," he made to interrupt, "you may be Earth's only chance of survival but that means nothing," Harry slumped backwards looking defeated.
"Are you going?" she nodded, "how come? I thought that Aurora lady was your Queen?"
"Aurora is dead and my brother, you remember the one you saw in the Ministry of Magic with me?" Harry nodded, "That's Argon, our new ruler, because of that I am Princess and officially royal."
"Can I go with you?" he asked, his eyes brightening to their usual sparkling emerald colour. "As like a brother, husband, kid, anything?"
"Harry you are by no means a shadow, if you were married to me you wouldn't stand a chance at getting within a 10 metre range of Serenity, or Usagi as you call her and I am too young to be your mother," she finished in a tone that said 'that is final'.
However, being the ever resourceful boy we know and love he came up with another plan, "Adopt me."
"What?" he spluttered, she hadn't expected him to say that.
"Adopt me," he said again.
"Harry, I am terribly sorry to disappoint you but there is no such thing as adoption up here, if you said the word to a Lunarian that has never been the Earth or knows something of their culture they would replied 'what?'" she shook her head, "It's impossible."
"Are you allowed to bring attendants?" she nodded, "what's their status?"
"Well if you're a right hand man then you can marry royalty," he smirked, "but you have to have been in service for a year at least and you're going to need a lot of money and a big present for both Queen and daughter."
Harry looked beat, he sighed, "You're right, it is impossible."
She tilted his chin up again, "How bad do you want this?"
"I don't anymore," he winced when she slapped him, hard.
"Truth Harry, I want the truth."
"I just want to see her again," he whimpered.
"Okay then, let's get started," he looked up at her, puzzled, "well you're going to have the fight better than you did with Darien so get up."
Harry stood up and then began to ransack his pockets; "Looking for something?" he looked up to see Hikage twirling his wand between his fingers, "no using this up here."
She tossed it to him, "You got a weapon Harry?"
Harry's mind instantly turned to the Gryffindor sword from his second year, but that was a million miles away, in Hogwarts, where Ron and Hermione where. He shook his head, "No," he mumbled.
"Are you sure about that? Try concentrating," she instructed, his mind focused on an image of the sword, the faint red glow that had sparked around it when he had rammed it into the roof of the basilisks mouth, right though the skull to come out the top. A sudden scream of his name brought him back to reality, he held the sword, but the frightening thing was that the tip was pointed to the rood of his mouth.
"Do not let your mind wander, who knows what your body will do," Hikage warned summoning her own, opal handled, sword.
"One on one?" the bother smirked at Harry's suggestion.
"You're on Potter," he launched at her, bringing his sword down to make a harsh cling when it met hers inches from her face.
She threw him off, and made a swing at his side, this was a second nature to him, it's like he'd been taught all his life, his sword blocked hers, he made a swing at her arm and she dodged him completely. He charged making for her face, her sword came up and they both missed, his sword was currently suspended above her left shoulder, having just missed her ear, her sword was the same, one his left shoulder.
There faces an inch apart, both smirking, both panting, both sweat rolling down their foreheads, "Nice work Potter."
"Thanks," they stepped away from each other.
"I think its safe t say that you lack physical and mental ability but your mastery of the sword is impressive."
"Again?" he asked.
"No, you can go, I'll be back tomorrow, we'll talk more then, now get," he grinned, thanked her again and ran off with strange thoughts running through his head.
It was only after he was gone that she collapsed to the floor, "He's no match for you really, is he?" a voice asked, it Argon, she turned to look at him.
"No, he's not, but I wasn't holding back just then," she replied.
"I know," she turned away from him, an ashamed look on her face.
"It was Zabini wasn't it," she looked at him with watery eyes.
"How did you guess?" he knelt down beside her and pulled her into a hug.
"Ssh, what are you going to do?" he enquired, rocking her back and forth.
"Get rid of it," she replied.
"You sure you want to do that?" he questioned, she nodded, "Don't you want to talk to him about it first, I mean," one of his hands slipped to her stomach which felt warmer than usual; "I think it's a great idea, he's a king after all."
"It was an accident," she murmured.
"I don't think you believe that," he smirked at her, "I think you've gone soft," he bit her ear gently; "I think we both have."
"Who have you got your eyes on then?" she asked looking at him.
"I think you know," he replied smirking and so did she, she knew alright.
"Hotaru-chan?"
"Hai," they both laughed and stood up, "Home?" she nodded.
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Hikage was once again in her room looking at herself in a full length mirror when a pair of arms wrapped themselves around her waist and a head rested on her shoulder, "Did you really think you could hide something like this from me?" he asked his hand on her stomach.
"I'm getting rid of it Zabini and that's final," she growled running a hand through her hair.
"Don't," he growled, she looked at him with a raised eyebrow, "you can trust me?" she turned to face him.
"No I can't," she replied.
"Why not?" he asked.
"I don't know."
---Lunar Kingdom, the Moon---
"Mother I refuse, I will not be married off to whom ever you deem fit, I love Harry," Serenity, or Usagi, protested, her mother was stern faced and resolute.
"Harry is not of noble birth, nor does he serve a member of the Planetary Union, you cannot marry him, you will probably never see him again unless you marry Darien," Selene confirm, Serenity's eyes watered.
"No," she fled the room, Selene sighed tiredly.
"I am sorry, dearest daughter," and with that she turned and headed for the throne room to finalise the party.
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Who can guess what's wrong with Hikage? :-)
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Next chapter : Harry recieves another training session, Blaise makes the final move, Draco finds out he's more than just a Malfoy, we have a Tom scene, then we have a Hotaru / Ginny scene, then we flip to Selene and maybe more. :-)
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Can anyone guess what Hotaru is going to say to Ginny?
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Pairings are :-
Harry x Usagi
Darien x Usagi (One sided, he's going to go nuts at the party)
Blaise x Hikage
Argon x Hotaru
Tom x Ginny
Draco x ???
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Who should Draco be paired with?
Ami
Rei
Makato
Minako
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Who should I put Snape with?
Michiru
Haruka
Setsuna
(Snape is going to be Hotaru's father! This was Tabz idea!)
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Who should Remus go for?
Michiru
Haruka
(Remus was Draco's right hand man!)