Sailor Witches

Ch 7

Fun in Jolly Ol' England

Disclaimer: I just like everyone else here, don't own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter. Raise your hand if you wish you could. (Raises hand) I know I do!

The girls decided to sailor teleport to England rather than go floo powder or boat. The guardian cats were very upset that the girls went off and left them at home.

"This is outrageous!" Artemis cried. "I haven't seen England in a year! Mina will be going on all the rides and seeing all the sites without me!"

"I know," Luna said. "I thought by sure we'd be on holiday too."

"I always wanted to go on the London Eye," Lucky grumbled. "I hope they bring us something!"

"What on earth are we supposed to do when they are gone?" Artemis demanded.

"Well, I can show you around here," Lucky shrugged, trying to be positive. "I know a place where a guy gives us fresh fish."

"Yay," Artemis mumbled.

"Oh I'm sure the girls will take us to the Quidditch Tournament," Luna said.

"They'd better!" Artemis exclaimed, "Because this is the worse vacation I've ever been on!"

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The first place the girls went to was Stonehenge.

"Have you been here before Mina?" Serena asked as they stood in the queue.

"Oh yeah. Loads of times. It's so way cool. It is very ancient. It's such a mystery but they still know a lot about the myths and stuff."

They paid for their admission and went to pick up their hand held guides that talked through the tour. It looked somewhat like a mobile phone and they had to key in a three-digit number for the language they wanted. As they walked through the tunnel and walked by the mural, Serena stopped.

"Guys, there's something wrong with my guide," she said.

"What do you mean?" Lydia asked.

"I can't understand a thing the girl is saying," Serena answered.

"Let me listen," Serena picked it up and had a listen. She laughed. "Serena, do you want to have the tour in French?"

"I accidentally keyed in French?" Serena demanded with a chuckle. "Oops!"

"Serena, that is so typical of you to put in the wrong language!" Raye groaned. "Well, I'm not waiting for you."

"Here, you want it in English or Japanese?" Lydia asked.

"Japanese."

"Okay, I think it's 235." She keyed in the number and handed it back.

"Ah, merci!" Serena said in a mock French accent. She brought the guide to her ear. "Yup, it's Japanese! A language I can understand."

The girls walked around the stones, taking pictures. When the person on the recording told them to go to the next number indicated around the stones, they walked to them and tried to feel the spirit of the stones. There were many tourists there from all over the world. Mina looked around.
"That's funny," she said to herself as she went to the next number. "I've never seen so many people here before."

She turned around to go to the next number and nearly collided with a cute boy with blond hair and pale blue eyes. He was wearing a button up shirt that matched his eyes and a pair of jeans and a blue beret on his blond head.

"Oh, exa-scusa-me, mademoiselle," he said in a very suave French accent.

"Uh, no problem," she mumbled. "My fault. Sorry." She hurried to the next number, glancing back at the boy. 'He was cute…polite and…French…no, no boys! No boys!'

The girls finished the tour and Lita asked one of the workers to take a picture of them all together. They went to the souvenir shop and Serena looked all over the place.

"You think I should get something for Darien?" she asked Lydia.

"If yeh want to," Lydia said.

"I mean, I don't know if he's ever seen Stonehenge before," Serena muttered.

"But you've broken up with him," Lita reminded as she looked at the postcards. "Do you want him back, Serena?"

"No," Serena answered, "well, yeah, I mean. No. No I don't."

"You sure?"

"Yes." Serena said firmly. "Yes I'm sure. I'm not going to send him anything either. I'll just send something to my parents."

"I'm sure he won't think you want him back if you just send him a postcard, Serena," Lita said. "Not one of those expensive T-shirts or something."

"Hey look what I found guys," Mina called, "Stonehenge pendants!"

She held out a pendant of a stone lying horizontally onto of two standing up connected to a black string. "Pretty nice price. Just 3 quid."

AN: As I started writing about Mina's pendant, I remembered I bought one when I went to Stonehenge so I ran back to my room and I'm wearing it right now. But I can't remember how expensive it was. Maybe it was actually a pound and fifty pence, but everything is pretty expensive in England anyway. Just thought you might like that.

"They have lots of neat stuff here," Ami added, "books and movies and things. I think I'll get a book."

"Books? Ami, we're on holiday!" Serena shirked. "Don't get a book, get a post card, get a T-shirt or get a Stonehenge pencil. They even have Stonehenge socks! I'm getting Stonehenge socks."

Lita picked up one of the postcards and let out a chuckle. "Hey, check this one out!" she handed it to Lydia who laughed.

"That's hilarious!" Lydia said and passed the postcard around. It was a comic drawing of cavemen in hard hats with dinosaurs with the caption: HOW THEY BUILT STONEHENGE.

AN: Hey, MJ, isn't that the one I sent you?

"My parents will love that!" Serena giggled. "I'm getting that one for them!"

"So are you getting one for Darien?" Lita asked. "They're pretty cheap."

Serena paused, "oh, what the heck. Why not?" She studied the postcards. "I'll get…this one." She grabbed a postcard of the stones with a starry night scene.

After buying their souvenirs, they walked out where there was a display of two different stones.

"Hey," said Mina, "the blue stones are heat conductors. Come and feel for yourself."

The girls reached out and touched the blue stone and the other next to it. "Yeah, it is warmer," Ami said. "I wonder what makes the blue stone different. Must be something inside."

"It feels so nice," Serena sighed and she comically put her arms around the stone as if hugging it. The girls laughed and took pictures of it.

"Now where?" Lita asked Mina.

"Well there's the Hawk Conservatory Trust not too far from here," Mina replied. "They've got loads of different birds there from all over the world."

"Oh, all right," Serena said. "Sounds like fun."

The Hawk Conservatory Trust was in Hampshire, just about forty-five minutes away. Mina was right about the different birds. They weren't all from England. Some were from Africa and Asia and America. There was very elegant looking bird, tall like a flamingo but she had huge eyelashes. Lita leaned forward with her hands on knees, reading the plaque by the bird's cage.

"I wonder why it's called a Secretary Bird," she said, looking at the bird.

"I think it's the eyelashes," said Serena.

"Nah, it's the legs," Raye insisted. "So she can cross them when she types on the typewriter!"

The Secretary Bird looked at them warily as if she knew they were talking about her.

"No, it's the tufts of the feathers at the back of their necks," Ami stated, pointing at the bird's head, "it makes her look like those old-fashioned clerks the way they keep their quill pins behind their ears."

Raye, Mina, Lita and Serena stared and Ami and then at the bird. "Hmm," said Raye, "yeah, yeah I see."

"Lucky guess, Ami," Lydia said as they walked on to the next bird which was a huge vulture. "Wow!"

"Man, look at the wingspan," Lita said.

"He's so ugly looking," Serena muttered.

"Careful, Serena," Lydia said, "You'll hurt he's feelings! Wow, cool looking bird."

"Cool?" Serena demanded.

"I mean, just look at it," Lydia insisted. "Can you imagine having wings that big?"

The vulture decided to show off his wingspan, flew off his perch and landed with a loud thump.

"Don't give you enough runway in there, do they?" said Lita.

They looked at the vulture for a while and then left as a person started to feed it. Lydia tried to stay and watch it eat but Serena grabbed her arm and pulled her to look at the red kites.

As the girls were looking at the birds in cages, they overheard some kids say they wanted to go hold a bird a prey and walked over to the meadow.

"Hey, you guys want to go hold a bird?" Mina asked.

"As long as it's not a vulture," Serena replied.

"Yeah, he might take off with you, Serena," Raye laughed.

"No, it's usually owls and kestrels and stuff," Mina insisted. "I haven't held one in forever."

As the girls walked up, there were two different ques. One man was letting people hold a barn owl and another a kestrel. Mina looked up at the person now holding the owl and gasped.

"No way!" she said.

"What?" Raye asked.

Mina stared. The person holding the owl seemed to have a way with birds. He was all talking to it as if he worked there. The owl was making cute hooting noises and clicking its beak. Mina recognized the blue beret and blond hair. When the person was done holding the bird and speaking to it, the worker took the bird and leather glove. He turned around and Mina saw his face. It was the same French boy she bumped into at Stonehenge! Mina blinked and rubbed her eyes.

"Mina, are you okay?" Raye inquired.

"Uh, yeah," she lied. "I'm just…dandy."

"You want to hold the kestrel or barn owl?" Lita asked. "I'm holding the owl."

"Kestrel!" she said loudly.

As Mina was holding the kestrel, she looked around for the French boy see saw earlier. 'Must've went to the shop,' she thought and looked up at the worker. 'So, how fast does the kestrel fly?"

After getting to hold a bird of prey, the girls watched a flying display of the vultures and eagles. When the vultures flew over the audience, they had to duck pretty darn far to prevent from getting smacked in the head by a claw. One nearly got one of Serena's meatball's on hear head. It was very fun to watch the birds fly around. The workers would throw food at the birds and they would catch it and eat in midair. Mina glanced around for the boy in the beret again but didn't see him. She sighed and left with the girls to the shop.

After buying postcards, stuffed birds of prey and hats they decided to get a bite to eat at the coffee shop at the park.

"What do you think about this baseball cap?" Lita asked, pulling a green baseball cap with the National Hawk Trust logo on it.

"Pretty nice." Mina said.

"Isn't my owl just the cutest?" Serena asked.

"Yeah," said Lydia. "Not as cute as my eagle though!"

"Where to next guys?" Serena asked. "Let's go to a castle or something. Aren't there loads of castles?

"Yeah if you want to pay twelve pounds to get in," Mina answered.

"Oh," Serena mumbled.

"But I know one you can get in for free," Mina said.

"Really? Well, let's go!"

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"This wasn't the kind of castle I meant, Mina!" Serena spat as she stood in the keep of Odium castle.

There was only the keep left of Odium castle. Not even all of the four walls were there or the ceiling. It was nearly falling apart.

Mina laughed. "Yeah, sorry. But it's a nice place to visit though, to walk along the creek and have a picnic and stuff.

The girls walked around and took pictures and it was off to a more exciting place.

--

"London!" Mina cried as she jumped onto of a number twelve red double decker bus. It was open in the back making it easy for people to get on and off when the bus was stopped, even if it wasn't stopped at a real bus stop.

"Mina, wait for me!" Serena exclaimed, running along side the bus. She jumped for the bar and her legs were flailing. Serena let out a scream and the girls had to grab her to prevent her from hurting herself. The conductor looked at the girls quizzically and watched them run up the stairs to the upper deck.

AN: What nearly happened to Serena happened to me once. I tried to get off of a bus when it started to move. I forgot to let go of the bar and a post whacked me in the ribs. I finally let go and fell on the ground, resulting in scrapes and bruises on my knees and elbows. It wasn't very fun!

The girls sat in the back seat, pointing at the television in the front. "Hey, we're on TV!" Serena exclaimed.

They saw themselves in the television and waved at themselves. The television went on showing shots of both levels and in front and in the back of the bus. There were commercials and a program of wildlife. They had to read lips because there was no sound. Mina stared at a couple sitting in one of the seats. The boy had brown hair and the girl was blond. They were talking together, laughing and whispering sweet nothings and kissing. For a split second, she put herself in their place with her old boyfriend Alan. She let out a sigh, remembering how things used to be and if she could have that again with anyone, anyone at all.

'Could that curse really be true?' she thought. 'Am I doomed to have unsuccessful relationships for the rest of my life?'

"Man, this place is messy," Lita said. "Look at all that graffiti."

"I know, isn't it awful?" Raye asked. "Mina, was London always like this?"

Mina, still thinking about her love life, didn't hear her.

"Earth to Mina," Raye said.

"Huh?" Mina looked up.

"Are you okay, Mina?" Raye inquired.

"Oh, yeah, I'm fine," Mina lied again.

"You've been acting kinda, well, weird today," said Lita.

"I'm fine," Mina said. "Was there something you wanted to ask me?"

"Yeah," Raye said. "About all the graffiti and the litter and stuff." She pointed outside. "Was it like this before you left?"

Mina looked out the window. "Yeah. But that's because we're in Peckham. South London is dodgy. But it's all different when we cross the Thames."

"Oh, okay," Raye said, glancing back outside.

The bus topped and the couple Mina was watching got up, holding hands and left the bus. Mina glanced out the window and watched them walk off. She sighed again. 'Come on, Mina,' she told herself silently, 'You're a sailor scout. You've got no time for love—even if you're the scout of love and beauty.'

The girls got of at the border of the Thames. They gasped and looked all around them.

"Amazing, huh?" Mina asked. "You guys got ten pounds? You didn't' spend it all at those shops, did you?"

"Yeah, why?" Raye inquired.

"Three words," Mina answered, running donw the steps and pointing at a giant Ferris wheel, "THE LONDON EYE!"

"Man, that thing is huge!" Lita exclaimed.

"I know," Mina said. "It's so much fun. You can see everything. Everyone looks likes beetles."

"Uh, that's ants, Mina," said Raye.

"Oh, yeah, that sounds better, huh?"

The queue was very long but it moved quicker than the girls thought. Climbing into one of the boxes, the girls went to the windows and waited to be rotated. They talked excitedly about the view and as Mina looked down, she saw a boy walking around. He was blond with a blue beret. She gasped, pressing her face against the glass.

"Could it be him?" she asked herself.

Was this boy stalking her? Or maybe he had a twin brother. She pulled herself away from the window and sat down. Who was this boy and why did she keep seeing him?

After the ride on the London Eye, the girls went to Knightsbridge and did some shopping in Harrods, a very expensive store. Serena nearly got lost while going through the departments.

"Look at all this stuff!" she said happily. "All these treats and cookies and perfume! Wow!"

They tried on clothes and tasted very fine foods. Because they spent nearly twenty pounds already, they didn't buy much. Walking out with their purchases, talking aobut how posh everything was in there, they heard a shout.

The girls turned around quickly.

"Mina!" yelled a woman's voice.

"Katrina?" Mina asked.

A woman with brown hair walked up to Mina and hugged her. "It's so nice to see you. How are you?"

"I'm great," Mina mumbled. "You?"

"Lovely, thank you."

"And Alan?"

"Why don't you ask him?" she asked and a man walked up behind Katrina.

"Hello, Mina," he said gently.

"Doing well?" Mina questioned though she felt as if knife was cutting thorugh her heart.

"Yes."

"So, what's new?"

"Besides getting married last month," he said, as he smiled at Katarina, "not much."

"Oh, that's wonderful," Mina said, forcing a smile. "Congratulations. These are my friends."

"Oh, how do you do," said Katrina and Alan as they shook hands with the girls.

"What brings you to England?" Katarina asked excitedly.

"Uh, well," Mina stammered. "Site-seeing and--,"

"I won tickets to a football game," Lydia lied, putting her arms around Serena and Mina, "and invited my friends. But we're seeing the sites before we go to it."

"Oh, how nice." Alan said. "You like football then?"

"Oh yeah," Lydia said through a fake grin. She hated it!

"What's your favorite team?"

"Er, ah," Lydia mumbled. She tried to save Mina's neck and found it more difficult than she thought. "Ballycastle bats?" she said finally and cringed.

"Oh, never heard of them."

"Yeah—they're uh, new," Lydia said and looked at the others nervously, "say lassies, ya hungry? I'm in the mood for a kebab, how about you?"

"Kebab?" Serena said.

"You never had a kebab?" Mina inquired incredulously. "You've got to try one. Well, Alan, Katarina, it was so wonderful to see you again and once again, congratulations."

They walked nervously away to the park. "Thanks, Lydia," said Mina. "I owe you one."

"No problem," Lydia said, "I saw that yeh were dying back there. Who were they?"

"Well, the guy used to be my boyfriend," Mina answered. "And the girl was like my big sister."

"What?" Lita demanded.

"Yeah, crazy, huh?" Mina asked with a smile. "Katarina's an Interpol officer. We were pretty close. Found out I was Sailor V and we worked together on some cases. I introduced them but I didn't think they'd fall in love. I guess I brought this on myself."

"Oh Mina," said Ami, "I'm so sorry."

"That's the same Katarina that the Negaverse brainwashed?" Serena asked.

"Yeah," Mina nodded. "That's her."

"Are you going to be all right?" Lita asked.

"I think so," Mina answered.

"We can go back to Madame Indigo's if you want," Lydia suggested.

"No. I'm fine," Mina sniffed. "Really. There're tons of things you still got to see. Don't worry about me."

"All right."

The girls looked around well into the evening. Since Lydia mentioned it, they went and got themselves kebabs. They were meat in a pita with lettuce and tomatoes and a sauce. Mina, Lydia and Lita got donor (lamb—really yummy!) kebab and Serena, Ami and Raye got chicken. They walked off enjoying their food and Serena was chowing it down.

"This isn't half bad!" she said with a mouthful. "I think I'm going to like British food."

"Well, this isn't British," Mina stated. "It's Greek."

"Oh, Greek. It's still nice."

After eating their kebabs, they talked about going back. Then they heard a window break. Turning around, they saw two men in ski masks crawl into a jewelry store.

"I see that things haven't changed much in England," Mina muttered. "Come on, let's transform!"

"Right!" said Serena.

The girls headed for an alley to transform.

"MOON COSMIC POWER!"

"RAINBOW CRISIS GREEN POWER!"

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"

"MARS STAR POWER!"

"JUPITER STAR POWER!"

"VENUS STAR POWER!"

As the crooks picked up the drawers and empted the jewelry into their bags, the scouts crowded by the window. Sailor Venus whistled.

"Need a hand, gents?" she inquired in a Londoner action.

"Nah, we got it," said one over his shoulder. He gasped in surprise when he saw Sailor Venus. "Well, well, well, Sailor V. You're back."

"That's right," she hissed, "and this time I brought my mates with me!"

"Get them!" said the burglar and they crowded around the sailor scouts.

"Hey, it's Sailor Rainbow," said one of them. "Aren't you supposed to be in Ireland?"

"I'll go where I want, creep!" she snarled. "RAINBOW LINK CHAIN!"

A chain made up with red, orange and yellow links went around him, bringing his arms down to his sides. She jerked on the chain hard to bring him down on his face.

A man went to punch Sailor Jupiter and she picked him up and tossed him out the window. He tried to get up and she went after him.

"Where do you think you're going?"

After giving the crooks a couple bruises and bloody noses, Sailor Rainbow tied them up with her chains and left them for the police to take care of. After which, the girls went south of the Thames to take care of the dodgier side of London. They helped people from getting mugged and jumped the junkies in the street and when that was done, Sailor Venus came up with another idea.

"I'm sick of the way people deface things with graffiti," Sailor Venus said. "Let's paint the town red!"

"Uh, that's not what it means," Sailor Rainbow said. "It's when you go do everything in town and we already did that."

"Oh," Sailor Venus blushed. "Well, I mean, we should paint over the graffiti and stuff. Can you do that with your coins?"

"Sure I can!" Sailor Rainbow answered happily and then frowned. "I wished you asked me after I got all the coins though."

The girls picked up the rubbish and Sailor Moon helped Sailor Rainbow cover up the graffiti with the coins. The people of England would certainly be surprised the next morning to see that Sailor V has returned, with new friends.

To Be Continued

I hope you like this chapter. I didn't do much site seeing while I was in England so I just had the girls go to the same places I did. I think what I liked best was Stonehenge and the Hawk Trust. I held a kestrel. They're so cute! I did everything the girls did mostly except I didn't get to go on the London Eye. (sniff) It was too expensive and I never had the time. We did get tickets to go on it one night though but we were too late. But I came very, very close!

I hope you saw yourself there as the girls went around. If you ever go to England, get a kebab. There're kebab shops all around. They have the meat on a rotisserie kind of thing. It's an experience all in itself. (drools) Mmm, kebabs!