AN: I now have a great respect for authors who use quite a few characters and keep them in character. It is difficult.
Disclaimer: I own the Senshi's children, except for Hotaru and Chibi-Usa.
Also, thanks to everybody who reviewed!
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Magick
Chapter 01
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"Chibi Usa! Chibi Usa, over here!" Hikaru Aino shouted. The pink haired girl turned around, looking for who was shouting her.
"Hikaru! Wow, I can't believe you're going to Hogwarts too!" She laughed, running towards the blond boy, being careful not to drop the grey kitten in her arms, Diana.
The two looked around, and saw Mamoru helping Usagi and Minako load the trunks onto the compartment. Chibi Usa suddenly felt a strange tug in her head. Clutching her temple, she turned to the gateway to Platform 9 ¾, and seeing two girls introducing themselves to each other. One had violet hair and eyes of the same colour, whilst the smaller girl had long, dark brown hair and indigo eyes. Strange, the tug had came from that direction...
Usagi walked over to her daughter, smiling. "Chibi Usa, you be good, okay? And have fun! Oh, and if there's any problems, don't hesitate to tell me-" She was stopped by Mamoru placing his hand on her arm gently.
"Usako, don't worry. She'll be fine. Won't you?" He said, directing his last sentence to Chibi Usa.
"Yeah, I'll be fine! I'm getting on the train, I'll see you soon!" The girl said, waving as she and Hikaru got on the scarlet engine, Hikaru having just bid his mother and sister farewell. The clock struck eleven, and the train began to move.
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Hikaru and Chibi Usa found a compartment at the back of the train and sat down, Chibi Usa bringing her wand out of her bag, yew and unicorn hair, eleven inches. She began polishing it, whilst Hikaru looked out the window at the passing scenery. It had only been a few minutes when there was a knock on the compartment door, and five people stood outside. Hikaru opened the door, noticing two twins and three girls, a blue haired girl, a brunette and a violet haired girl.
The brunette spoke first. "Hey, can we sit in here? It's just, there's no space anywhere else," she said, smiling nervously.
Hikaru nodded yes, and the four walked inside.
The brown haired girl sat down next to Chibi Usa, and introduced herself. The others did the same.
"I'm Chikako Hino." The brunette smiled.
"My name is Chibi Usa Chiba." Chibi Usa smiled in return.
"Hotaru Tomoe." The purple haired girl whispered.
"I'm Hikaru Aino, Chibi Usa's cousin!" Hikaru said, quite loudly.
"I'm Takeshi Kino, and this is my twin brother Katsuo." The ash blond with emerald eyes grinned, pointing at another boy with jet black hair and bright blue eyes, who was talking to the blue haired Izumi Mizuno.
The group of seven chattered to each other as if they had known each other all their lives. It was strange, when the five had walked through the compartment door to sit with them, it was as if an electric shock passed through each of them, not painful, but comforting.
But only one of them acknowledged that it had happened, only one of the seven knew of the connection pulling them together like a string being wound.
Eyes like shards of amethyst gazed upon the other six children. They would find out their true heritage soon enough...
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The train stopped at Hogsmeade Station at around 8:30pm, and the children got off.
"Firs' years this way!" A voice shouted, belonging to the half-giant gamekeeper, Hagrid. The group of seven huddled together in a pack, pushing through the crowds of older students who occasionally turned and gave them a strange glance.
The moon shone brightly overhead, clouds passing by every so often.
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The rest of the evening passed in a blur. Chibi Usa remembered crossing the lake to get to Hogwarts castle, which looked magnificent at night, all lit up.
She remembered Professor McGonagall telling them about the Sorting ceremony, and remembered the Sorting itself.
She and Hikaru had gone to Hufflepuff, Izumi joined Katsuo in Ravenclaw whilst Chikako and Takeshi were sorted into Gryffindor. Hotaru, however, had become a Slytherin. Nobody seemed to know why, not even Hotaru, it seemed. She was quiet, and seemed nice enough.
'Just because I'm a Hufflepuff and Hotaru's a Slytherin doesn't mean I'll stop being her friend!' She vowed, sitting on her four poster and looking out of the window. Surprisingly, nobody had commented on her hair or eyes yet.
'Maybe things will be better here...' She thought, before laying down to sleep.
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Hikaru put down his quill on his bedside table and screwed the cap onto his ink bottle, before closing his journal and placing it back in his trunk. All the food from the feast had made him drowsy.
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Katsuo and Takeshi could barely sleep that night. It was their first night of never sleeping in the same room, and without the comforting noises, like Takeshi's occasional random speeches and phrases, and the rustling of pages as Katsuo read whatever book he was reading at the time, both were finding it hard to close their eyes and drift off into a deep sleep.
Takeshi had even started counting sheep, but once he had reached 1071 and was still wide awake, he gave up.
Maybe it was the fact that they were nervous about this new place, maybe it was the fact that they had been separated for the first time in eleven years, either way, the twins wouldn't get any sleep that night.
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Chikako crept down to the common room after making sure that everyone was asleep. She looked around at the room, and how cosy it looked. Reaching for her Transfiguration book, she sat down near the crackling fire and read.
It wasn't long before she curled up on the chair and went to sleep.
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Izumi slept the sleep of the dead. Her glasses were placed on the table next to her bed, along with a couple of books she had brought for light reading before she went to sleep.
Like Chibi Usa, she was also amazed at the lack of hostility she had received. In fact, she was friends with Katsuo and there was a seventh year, Padma Patil, who had, over the course of the feast, become an older sister figure to Izumi. Strangely enough, it usually took Izumi a lot more time to warm up to somebody, but maybe she felt safe around these people because they were just like her.
Either way, she wasn't so worried any more.
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Hotaru was sat on the floor of her dorm room. She had had to make sure that all the girls in the dorm were sound asleep before starting the spell.
A bright ball of fire appeared in a black vacuum. Hotaru sped up her simulation of the Solar System, watching avidly for any small change (1).
The moon had dimmed. Maybe it was because the Senshi hadn't been awakened, and neither had Princess Serenity, or maybe it was because after the fight with Chaos, Luna, Artemis and Diana had still not regained their ability to speak (2), so they couldn't awake the dormant power inside each soldier.
The Inner Senshi and the guardian cats had travelled to this time, and were living happy, normal lives. The Outers, it seemed, were the only ones who kept their memories of the past. It was a good thing that the Outers remembered though, as the peace would soon be broken by a new darkness...
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The dark form began to take shape inside the dark cavern it lived in. Feasting on the fear and terror of the two unsuspecting explorers in the cave, the evil shape gained power and crushed the pair's bodies with ease. It started moving, heading for seven glowing powers in Scotland.
"Sailor Soldiers, make good use of the little time you have left on earth..." it hissed, as the land behind it lost colour and began to die.
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(1) Episode 168 of the anime, Sailor Moon SuperS Volume 3 of the manga.
(2) In the Sailor Moon Stars manga, I think it's volume three, the guardian cats are attacked and lose the ability to talk.
Next chapter should be up pretty soon.
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