Sailor Witches 8

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Harry was excited that he was going to the Quidditch Cup and couldn't wait to go. Just as he sent his reply to the Weasley's he heard Dudley shout.

"They interrupted my program!" he exclaimed.

Curious, Harry walked down the stairs to see what was the matter. Dudley took his programs very highly and he wouldn't want them interrupted even if it the news was saying the world was going to end.

"Don't touch it, son," said Uncle Vernon, chuckling slightly. "It must be important."

"I don't care how important it is," Dudley muttered.

"We interrupt this program to bring you a special news bulletin," said the reporter. "Well we thought we've seen the last of her, but it seems last night Sailor V has returned."

"What?" Dudley moved in front of the television. Harry peeked around the corner. Did he just hear the television right? The Dursleys looked at the television in surprise while Dudley was sitting on his knees, hanging on the speaker's every word. Harry smirked. Dudley had a life-size poster of Sailor V in his room and his parents did know it, but he pretended to make out with it. Harry would sometimes play around with Dudley and gasp, saying, "Look Dudley, it is Sailor V!" and Dudley will always look around saying, "Where? Where?"

"This time Sailor V brought friends with her," said the reporter.

"How many?" Dudley shouted at the television. "How many?"

The reporter walked down a street that used to be littered and defaced in graffiti but now the graffiti had been colored over in yellow suns and roses and there were little blurbs that said, "the sailor scouts were here" with their names. The reporter squatted next to a painting of Sailor Moon's head, winking and giving the peace sign.

"Sailor Moon!" Dudley exclaimed.

Harry bit his tongue to keep himself from laughing. The reporter talked to a few eyewitnesses and they tried explaining what the girls did and what they looked like. The screen went to an artist's depiction of the sailor scouts. Dudley gasped and looked them over.

"Wow," he moaned. "They're so lovely…"

Vernon grumbled and changed the channel. Dudley reared around. "Dad, why'd you do that for?"

"It wasn't that important," he replied.

"But Dad," he exclaimed, "Sailor V is back in London—and—and she's brought friends!"

"I heard, Dudley," Vernon said. "I heard."

Harry couldn't keep the laughter in anymore. He hurried upstairs and laughed out loud once her got to his room. He gave Hedwig a fright and she squawked.

"S-sorry, Hedwig," he stammered.

Harry sat down on the edge of his bed as a memory returned to him. He met Sailor V once.

It was his last year in primary school when he was ten. Dudley decided to use him for a punching bag for again. Harry remembered how he ran away and he ended up in a tree.

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AN: This flashback is going to be so time-wrong but let's just say Mina was Sailor V longer than she really was. She became a Sailor Scout at ten instead of thirteen. So she had more practice!

"Get over here, Potter!" Piers shouted.

"We want to give you your present for finishing school!" exclaimed Malcolm.

"Cut it out!" shouted a girl with long blond hair.

"Mind your business, Mina," snorted Gordon.

"I'll let my cousin go with a small beating if you go out with me," blackmailed Dudley.

"You're sick, Dudley!" Mina hissed. "I wouldn't go out with you if you were the last person on Earth!" She gasped when she saw Harry leap into a tree. 'How'd he do that?'

Because Harry was up in a tree, Dudley and his gang decided to pick on the other small and weak kids. Mina went away.

"Ordinary girls my age would tell the teacher," she said to herself, "but I'm not an ordinary girl!"

She transformed into Sailor V and went to teach the kids a lesson in manners. She hit them in the backside multiple times with her crescent beam, forcing them to run off.

"Let that be a lesson to you not to pick on people!" she shouted at their backs. She walked turned to the people staring at her and waved. She heard a rustling in the tree she was standing under. Looking up, she spotted Harry.

"I guess it's safe to come down now," he said as he began to climb down.

"How did you get up there?" she asked.

"I jumped," he answered.

"Way up there?"

"Uh-huh."

"Well, I hope you don't have to jump up any more trees soon," and she ran off and he never saw her again.

After school let out, he was talking to Mina on the way out of school. "Hey Harry, I saw you jump up that tree. Where did you learn how to jump like that?"

"Nowhere," he answered, "I just, well, jumped."

"I guess when we're really scared," Mina said, "we make things happen we can't really explain."

"That's probably true," Harry said, "happens to me all the time."

"Is that why your aunt and uncle are well—mean?" she asked. "It's so wrong that you have to sleep in spider-infested cupboard!"

"I've become used to them," Harry said causally.

"Yeah." Mina nodded. "I hope that stupid fat cousin of yours doesn't give you any trouble during the summer holidays."

"Me too," Harry sighed. They reached the doors and took separate directions. "See you, then."

"Yeah, bye Harry."

--

Harry looked out he window, pondering. He hasn't seen Mina since he started going to Hogwarts. If was still going to school, he didn't know it.

"I wonder what Mina's up to now," he said.

--

Mina had been thinking about the same memory. "So Harry's a wizard." She said silently, "That explains how he was able to get up in that tree."

After they spent another day in England site seeing and crime fighting, they went back to Ireland. Serena was telling Luna and Artemis about their fun times.

"It was so much fun, Luna," she said, "It's been the best summer ever!"

"Wait until the Quidditch Game," Lydia said.

"Hey, I think I know why yer having such a hard time finding the blue coin, Lydia," Lucky said suddenly.

"Yeh do?" she asked. "What?"

"Remember yeh said that Fiore found the green coin for yeh?" he asked.

"I do."

"And you'd have to prove that yeh can use it?"

"Uh-huh," she said sadly, "does this mean I have to go and challenge the guardian of the green coin?"

"Exactly."

She paused and sighed for a moment. "Okay." She shrugged and got up. "Hey girls, want to come with me? I'm going to go pick a fight with a big tree."

The girls exchanged glances, "what?"

"The tree is the guardian of the green coin," she explained. "Maybe the reason why the blue coin hasn't shown itself to me is because I haven't proved myself worthy of the green one yet. I have to battle with the guardian of the green coin first."

"A fight with a giant tree?" Lita inquired. "This I got to see."

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They left the house and Lydia explained the valley to Ami as they were hiking out of civilization. "I know it won't be as green now," Lydia said, "but he said it was a big valley with a tree right in the middle of it."

Ami typed the information into her mini computer and the other girls looked around. "Well, it is really gorgeous out here," Raye said, taking in a deep breath. "It smells so…so…"

"Green?" Lita guessed.

"Well, you can't smell green," Raye said. "But it just smells lovely."

"I got it," said Ami, "It's that Rowan tree over there!"

"All right," said Lydia, "let's go."

"You sure this will work?" Mina inquired. "Will you able to find the blue coin then, like right after we do this?"

"Only one way to find out," Lydia sighed. "Besides, I will feel better with myself after I do this. I can't just let them give me the coins—I have to prove that I can protect them."

"But you're Sailor Rainbow," Lita reminded her, "Who would be better than you?"

"I don't know," Lydia answered.

"Don't worry, Lydia," said Lucky. "You are the best one to use the coins. You can use them to get to the roots of all your problems."

"Er, right," Lydia mumbled. "I guess.

"You'll see what I mean," he said.

"Let's transform," Ami said. "We're with you, Lydia."

"Thanks." Lydia said.

"MERCURY STAR POWER!"

"MARS STAR POWER!"

"JUPITER STAR POWER!"

"VENUS STAR POWER!"

"RAINBOW GREEN CRISIS POWER!"

"MOON COSMIC POWER!"

After transforming, Sailor Rainbow walked to the tree. It was ten to fifteen meters in height and slender. She sighed and opened her brooch. It had grayish-brown bark. The branches were pointing upward, ending in purplish buds, covered in gray hair. There was a large crack in the trunk from where the green coin was removed. "Here it goes," Rainbow sighed, stopping at the tree.

"Good luck, Rainbow," said Sailor Moon.

Super Sailor Rainbow removed the green coin and placed it inside the crack. The green stripes on her boots disappeared and her green choker became yellow with a green shamrock. Her bows shortened and she felt five times weaker now that she no longer was a Super Sailor Scout.

"Guardian of the Green Coin," Sailor Rainbow said in a firm voice. "I command yeh to awaken. I have returned the green coin to yeh to prove myself worthy of it as yeh had requested."

There was a groan within the tree and the opening sealed up. The tree grew ten meters taller, its branches swarming outward. The scouts backed up to give it room. Then the tree spoke and its voice boomed around them.

"I have waited for you, Sailor Rainbow," it said. "I see you are a woman of your word and your friend."

"I thank you for not destroying my friend, my love, Fiore." Sailor Rainbow nodded. "I really needed to become Super Sailor Rainbow at that time. But now, I cannot continue to get all the coins unless I prove to you that I am worthy to hold the green coin Sailor Rainbow told it. "So let's get to it. I've brought my friends here to referee." She shook her head over to the sailor scouts, who all had their game faces on.

"Very well," said the tree and the ground began to rumble. The scouts gasped in shock.

"What's going on?" Sailor Moon demanded.

"An earthquake!" Sailor Venus exclaimed.

Huge roots broke up the ground into deep ravines. The scouts jumped to avoid falling in.

"Fall back!" Sailor Rainbow called to them and the tree struck Sailor Rainbow down with a branch.

"Oh no!" Sailor Mercury cried. "Sailor Rainbow!

"I'm coming, Rainbow!" Mars jumped to her and helped her up before the tree whipped them again.

"We've got to get out of range," Rainbow groaned.

"I think this tree needs a little pruning," said Sailor Venus.

"Yeah," Sailor Jupiter agreed. "This is why you don't stand close to a tree in a thunder storm! JUPITER THUNDERCLAP ZAP!"

She aimed her attack right at the trunk of the tree, making a scratch but that was all.

"What?" Sailor Jupiter gasped in surprise. "That's it?"

"I am a wood protected against lightning, said the giant Rowan tree. "Like mahogany."

"Dang," Sailor Jupiter hissed, "we should've done our tree research before coming here!"

"VENUS CRESCENT BEAM SMASH!"

Sailor Venus shot off many branches with her attack and they fell to the ground.

"Good work, Venus!" Sailor Moon exclaimed.

"Not good enough, I'm afraid." The tree said as its branches began to grow again.

"No way!" Venus exclaimed.

"RAINBOW ORANGE COLOR BLEND!" Rainbow hit the tree with a stream of red and yellow blending into orange. The trunk with orange for a few seconds but nothing happened.

"My attacks don't work on it?" Sailor Rainbow gasped. "But—how?"

"It will have to take more than that," said the tree.

"VENUS LOVE CHAIN ENCIRCLE!"

"RAINBOW RED SLASH!"

Their attacks cut the roots and Venus and Rainbow grabbed the two scouts. They leapt out of the way before they were smacked with a tree branch.

"Sailor Mercury, search for it's weak spot!" Sailor Rainbow exclaimed, "and while you do that—we'll just attack it!"

"Yeah, got you covered!" said Sailor Mars. "MARS FIRE IGNITE!"

She sent her fire attack to the tree, burnings its leaves and branches off. Sailor Mercury did a scan of it.

"Tree of life," she said as she worked on her computer, "Healing purposes. Metal divining. Fires of this wood will summon spirits to take part in battles."

"Got anything yet, Mercury?" Sailor Moon demanded as her tiara came back to her, only being able to cut off a branch.

"Not yet," she answered. "I'm just getting information of the tree."

"What do we have to do?" Sailor Mars shouted incredulously. "Burn it from the roots?"

"The roots," Sailor Mercury breathed, scanning the roots with her VR visor. She noticed that the roots did not grow back so quickly when they were cut. The only way to get rid of the tree as any plant was to pull it up by the roots. "That's it! The roots!"

"That's what Lucky meant by getting to the roots of my problems!" Sailor Rainbow cried happily. "Mars, you and me, let's go!"

"Gotcha!" Mars exclaimed.

"MARS CELESTIAL FIRE SURROUND!"

"DRUID FIRE!"

They aimed their attacks to the roots and the tree laugh. "Excellent work, scouts."

The roots on fire, the tree lost its strength. The wood became lumps of burning coals and the tree reached toward Sailor Rainbow with its branches. The scouts readied to attack again.

"Stay away!" Sailor Moon exclaimed.

"No, it's okay!" Sailor Rainbow insisted. "Let it get me."

Thinking that Sailor Rainbow has gone crazy, they watched the branches pick up Sailor Rainbow.

"Now I am finally free," said the burning tree, "and the power of the green coin once again can be yours."

"I thank yeh," Sailor Moon said.

"You shall have a part of me to protect you," it continued, "from evil powers. You may summon spirits to aid you in battles."

"I know." She said lazily. "The coin."

"No. My wood."

"You want me to take away some of your bark?" she asked in surprise.

"A piece of my wood is already waiting for you someplace else," it insisted.

"Where?" she inquired. "Where will I find it?"

"You will see, Sailor Rainbow," the tree explained as it set her back down. "You will see, Lydia MacGreggor."

"Hey, how do you know my real name?" Sailor Rainbow demanded.

"Because the guardians have been waiting for you. We all know who you really are." said the tree as the fire reached up its trunk. "You must study the Irish legend of my wood and alder wood."

"Why alder wood?"

"Someone with a piece of alder waiting for you."

"Who?" Sailor Rainbow inquired. "I don't understand.

"You have already met him."

"Who? Who?" Sailor Rainbow demanded. "Who is this person?"

"Your pieces of wood will bond you together," its dying voice went on. "Study the legends of the alder and rowan wood. And you will see."

"H-how do you know all this stuff?"

"The green coin told me," it explained, "after it has been with you. Now take it and keep it safe from all evil." It's voice echoed as it died away. "From all evil…from all evil…from all evil."

"Sailor Rainbow, what was all that about?" Sailor Jupiter asked as she walked to her.

"I don't know," Sailor Rainbow replied breathlessly.

The green coin hovered in midair above the rowan tree's ashes. It flashed green and Sailor Rainbow reached over to grab it. The all of the greenness from the grass and trees started to glow and its energy swirled to Sailor Rainbow. She flashed green so brightly that the sailor scouts had to cover their eyes. Sailor Rainbow was lifted in the air and the green stripes were added back to her boots as were before. The upgrade was complete and she was set back on the ground as Super Sailor Rainbow, only stronger after the energy that the Rowan tree gave her.

The scouts hurried to her. "You're a super sailor scout again!" Sailor Moon exclaimed.

"So you think you can find the blue coin now?" Sailor Venus inquired.

"Yeah," Jupiter added, "I'm pumped up after that fight—let's go find all of the coins now!"

"I'll start the search," said Sailor Mercury, putting the data in her computer.

"Not now, lassies," Rainbow muttered. "I can find it later."

"Wow, what a change," Sailor Mars said. "You were so eager to find the blue coin just a few days ago and now that you can find it, you don't want to?"

"There's something else I want to find," Sailor Rainbow said. "What all that rubbish that overgrown tree told me was all about! I'll go more insane if I don't figure that out than not finding the blue coin! Come on, let's go study those legends!"

--

The scouts went back to their everyday selves and hiked back to the Shamrock Cabin.

"I was able to fight the guardian of the green coin," Lydia told Madame Indigo. "So I can become super sailor rainbow again."

"You don't sound too excited though," Madame Indigo asked. "What happened?"

"The coin was in a giant rowan tree," Ami said. "Before she destroyed it, it told us some strange things."

"Like what?"

"It wanted me to study about its wood," Lydia said as she walked by the bookshelves. "You do have something on trees, don't you?" She started looking at al the books with Ami.

"Why's that?" Madam Indigo asked.

"It said that there was a piece of her wood waiting for her somewhere," Ami said, setting down a spell book.

"Yeah," Serena said, turning to Madame Indigo. "It was really weird. It knew some things about Lydia—even knew her real name! Because the guardians of the coins have been waiting for Sailor Rainbow to come get them."

"Not to mention Sailor Rainbow had the coin with her for a while before giving it back to the tree," Ami said. "It was able to learn more about her."

"It said something about finding someone with a piece of Alder wood," Raye said. "But who?"

"Madame Indigo, where's your book of legends?" Lydia demanded.

"I already know the legend," said Madame Indigo, "you won't be needing a book. Come with me."

The girls shrugged and followed Madame Indigo outside. Madame Indigo led them to the river where alder trees stood. Their bark was gray and fissured but the branches slightly green. She walked up to one and took off one of the leaves having shallow irregular teeth and early circular. "The unique characteristic of alder trees are their leaves," she said, handing it to Lydia. Serene grabbed a branch and found it sticky.

"Hey, it's sticky!" she gasped, rubbing her hand on her jeans.

"So, what's the legend on the tree?" Lydia asked.

"There're a few legends of Alder wood. It is said that Deidre of the Sorrows eloped with Naoise, son of Usna, and they fled to the alder woods of Glen Etibh to escape from Dedre's betrothed, King Conchobhar mac Nessa. They hid and settled there so they wouldn't be found. Alder is also known as the Faerie tree."

"And the Rowan tree?" Lydia inquired.

"The Rowan tree is connected with Hebe the Greek goddess of youth, dispensed rejuvenating ambrosia to the gods from her magical chalice. She lost the cup to demons and the gods sent eagles to get the cup back. The feathers and drops of blood, which the eagle shed in the ensuing fight with the demons, fell to earth, where each of them turned into a rowan tree. This is how the rowan derived the shape of its leaves from the eagle's feathers and the appearance of its berries from the droplets of blood. Druids will burn rowan wood to summon sprits to take part in battles."

"I still don't understand what that has to do with finding the 'piece' that tree told me about," Lydia said, "and the person with alder wood."

"Yeah," Serena said. "What does it mean?"

"Maybe it's about the legend of the first woman being made from rowan and the first man from alder wood," Madame Indigo told her.

"What?" all the girls gasped.

"That doesn't make any sense," Raye mumbled, "Could that mean that Lydia was the first woman? If we find whatever piece of wood that stupid tree was talking about?"

"And whoever has a piece of alder wood is automatically the first man?" Mina inquired.

"Should I just change my name into Eve, then?" Lydia demanded. "Honestly, that is crazy!"

"It's just a legend, Lydia," Madame Indigo said. "Obviously if you were the Rainbow Princess a thousand years ago, you couldn't be the first woman on Earth. Or you would keep coming back to life as a different person. But if it's true—then it would explain what the Rowan tree was telling you to learn the legends of Alder and Rowan tree."

"Is there anything else?" Ami inquired.

"Yes," Madame Indigo answered, "Both trees have some things in common. They are called the tree of life and are also faerie trees."

Lydia smiled, "now that makes more sense than the other legends."

"Yeah," Serena nodded, "I mean, when Lydia upgrades to Eternal Sailor Rainbow, she looks kind of like a faerie."

"And whoever this guy is with an alder piece of wood might be a faerie too," Lita suggested.

"But how will we find him?" Mina inquired.

"Simple," Raye grinned, "you look for the guy wearing a fig leaf."

"That is so not funny!" Lydia hissed.

"Yeah, it would be an alder leaf instead," Lita chuckled.

Lydia groaned and shook her head.

"Madame Indigo," Ami said, "this piece of wood—what could it be?"

"Anything," she shrugged. "Pipes are usually made out of alder wood. Perhaps that's what this mysterious boy has."

"What about Rowan trees—what are they usually used for?"

"Stakes," Madam Indigo answered. "A stake made from Rowan wood drove into a corpse would immobilize the spirit."

"Where would I find one?" Lydia asked.

"That I do not know," Madame Indigo answered, shaking her head. "That was something the druids did centuries ago. I don't hear of them doing that anymore. Mostly what people use wood for—in the wizarding world anyway—is wands."

"Wands, that's it!" Ami said excitedly, "The rowan tree said that the 'piece' of her wood would keep Lydia safe from evil. It makes sense that it would be a wand and this guy must have a wand made out of alder."

"But where would we get it?" Lita asked.

"The best place for wands would be Ollivander's," Madame Indigo answered. "But we won't have to time to go there before the Quidditch Cup to get them."

"Oh yeah," Lydia exclaimed, "That's tomorrow!"

"Better go get ready!" the girls ran back to the house.

"Oh, I hope I brought enough film," Lita cried.

Madame Indigo glanced at the alder tree and followed the girls to the house. She couldn't wait to see how they would act at their first Quidditch game.

To Be Continued

Mae-E

You asked why the magical memory hat did not pick up on the girl's memories as sailor scouts. That's a different kind of 'magical memory' the hat was designed for. And Mr. Weasley probably would have fainted at all those memories. You asked that the planets protected those memories and let's just say they did because I didn't think of that.

Yes, they will fight as scouts a couple of times in the fanfic. Not everyone will know who they are and not all the scouts' identity will be revealed. Probably just Dumbledore will know who they really are because well, he knows almost everything. Just be patient! You will see. I'm planning on making sequels to this fic (dunno when though)

The sorting hat will not see everything about their 'scout days' but he will compare what he sees in their heads to the planets, which will be kind of freaky for them. But the sorting hat of course doesn't tell everyone.

I hope I didn't spoil everyone. Everyone except Mae-E, drink a forgetfulness potion!