Sailor Witches 16

Ride through the Rain

I don't own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter.

Raye waked down the train looking for an empty compartment. She opened a compartment door, peeked in and saw a skinny, white blond haired boy with two big boys. She looked at their robes. They looked familiar. They were the same robes she saw the people wearing in her dream. The boy did too. She recognized him as the Malfoy's son she saw at the Quidditch World Cup.

The boys stopped talking and looked at her.

"Sorry," Raye said, "I didn't know there was someone in here."

"There is room," he said, nodding across from them. But she closed the door hastily and turned to her friends.

"Not this one," she said and they walked on and found an empty compartment.

Raye looked out the window and Serena stretched out on the seat.

"Oh, I couldn't' sleep," she said, "I was so excited!"

"Me neither," agreed Mina.

"You ought to be able to sleep," said Lydia, "the school is in Scotland. It's a six hour ride or something."

"Do you guys have any idea what is up with Moody?" Lita asked as she shut the compartment door.

"Well, Madame Indigo did say he was paranoid of people coming after him," Ami said.

"I guess she's right about all that 'constant vigilance stuff," Raye said. "You really have to be on the alert all the time."

"I wonder if this has anything to do with what happened the Quidditch World Cup," Ami stated.

"What do you mean?" Raye asked.

"You don't think the person who conjured the Dark Mark is the same guy who attacked Moody, do you?" Serena inquired.

"Well, it is kind of weird," Ami, said, cupping her chin in her hand. "These strange events that are happen."

"I bet you they'll get even stranger once we get to school," Mina said, checking her watch. "The train will be leaving soon."

"How's your dream, Raye?" Lydia inquired. "Did you see anything new in it?"

"Oh yeah," Raye nodded. "The snakes turned to people. I tried becoming Sailor Mars but it didn't work."

"Did they hurt you?" Serena asked.

"No," she responded, "which was weird. They wanted me to follow them."

"Why?"

"Join them, I suppose." She shrugged.

"Did you?"

"Not yet," she replied.

"What do you mean, not yet?" Mina demanded. "You're not thinking about it, are you?"

"Well, Serena woke me up before I got to that part!" Raye yelled, getting to her feet. "And I don't know if I will or not."

"Any idea who these snake people are?" Ami asked.

"Yeah," Raye said, nodding out the window. The girls went to the window and stared out of it, searching for anyone that possibly had scaled skin.

"I don't see any snake people," Serena mumbled.

"Some of them are even on this train," Raye said. "The first compartment door I opened had some."

"Really?" Serena stepped out and looked down the walkway. She opened the compartment door Raye said and looked in, just to find three boys.

"What?" the blond haired boy demanded.

Serena stepped in, looking curiously. Then she started prodding him in the shoulder.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"Serena, get over here!" Raye came up, grabbed her Meatball Headed friend by the back of her robes, muttered a rushed apology to the boys and pulled her back into their compartment.

"They seem like real people to me, Raye," Serena said.

"I know that!" Raye groaned. "They're students of that—that snake house Madame Indigo told us about!"

"Slytherin?" Ami asked.

"Yeah, Slytherin!" Raye said. "At first they were snakes, but they changed into Slytherin students in front of me. I recognized their robes when we came onboard."

"Well, looks like you've found out what your dream means," Lydia said. "It's about the Slytherins and they want you to join—wait—they want you to join them?"

"Yeah, it seems that way," Raye breathed as she sat down.

"That doesn't make any sense," Lita said, "Why would they want you to join them?"

"They said it was the best," Raye said, "that'd I'd be the greatest."

"You're not going to join them, are you?" Mina asked. "Remember Madame Indigo told us about that house? They all go bad!"

"Only we're sorted into the house by some hat," Ami said, taking out Hogwarts, A History. "It puts you in which house fits you best by your personality and everything. I don't think you have a choice which house you go into."

"But if that was the case," Raye said, "they would've forced the robes on me right on the spot. I think they're trying to get me to make up my mind before the sorting."

"Raye, you want to be in Slytherin House?" Serena questioned.

"I don't know," Raye ran her hand through her hair, "Maybe I am destined for that house."

"No way!" Serena shook her head. "How can you even consider it, Raye? People go evil in there and if you were bad, you wouldn't be a sailor scout!"

"It's for people with lots of ambition," Raye said. "And I do have ambition."

"So do I but I don't want to go there," Lydia huffed, putting her thumb into her chest.

"But if I was actually destined for another house," Raye stroked her chin, "I would've dreamed of something else other than snakes. Like lions for Gryffindor or Eagles for Ravenclaw. What about you guys? Have you had been having any weird dreams about Hogwarts lately?"

"I've been dreaming of eating in the Great Hall Madame Indigo told us about," Serena said innocently.

"And dancing with some cute guy at the ball," said Lita wistfully. "He was really cute---like my old boyfriend—actually he looked even better!"

"But your houses," Raye urged, "anything on your houses?"

The girls shook their heads. Raye leaned against the wall. "How come I'm the only one with these kinds of dreams?"

"Because you're a psychic," Serena told her, "Duh."

"Thanks, Serena," Raye mumbled.

The whistle blew eleven o'clock and the train began moving. Serena hooted excitedly. "Here we go!"

--

Madame Indigo and Arthur Weasley arrived at Moody's place. She used a charm to keep the dustbins from shooting rubbish at them.

"Hey, Al!" Madame Indigo called. "You all right?" She knocked on the door a couple of times and there was a pause of thirty minutes before he answered it. Moody gave a jerk as if he were about to attack her.

"Alastor, relax, it's me," she said softly.

"Amos told me about what happened," said Arthur. "I came to sort out the dustbins and your muggle neighbors."

Moody cleared his throat. "Oh, yes…"

"He said they called the please-men."

"Policemen, Arthur," Madame Indigo corrected.

"Yeah," said Moody, "made a hell of a noise. Woke me up."

"Can we come in?" Madame Indigo asked.

"No," his magical eye rolled around and his real eye didn't even look at her. "But I've got to get ready to go to Hogwarts. Haven't gotten everything packed."

"What do you expect the students, Alastor?" Madame Indigo questioned with a playful grin. "Honestly, I thought you'd just show up there with your wand and the robes on your back and tell them two things: 'Constant Vigilance!'"

Mad Eye didn't answer. He spoke to Arthur.

"I'll move the dust bins around and put them away. Put memory charms on the muggles if you need to, Arthur."

"Who were the intruders, Al?" Madame Indigo asked.

He paused and he glanced at her. "Not sure—probably damn teenagers." He growled. "I didn't have my eye in when I heard the noise."

"They'll know not to try to vandalize this house again," said Madame Indigo.

"Yeah." Moody growled.

--

After moving the dustbins and sorting out muggles, Madame Indigo and Arthur stopped in for a bite in a muggle fast food restaurant and explain what happened. Madame Indigo was thinking about Moody's strange behavior. Why didn't he look at her?"

"I thought it was probably nothing big," said Arthur as he bit into his sandwich. "Mmm, you know—I wonder how muggles can make such good food so fast without magic!"
"Yeah," Madame Indigo mumbled. "Me too."

"You all right, Maura?" Arthur asked. "You haven't said anything since we left Mad Eye's."

She sighed and tapped her salad. "Arthur?"

"Yes?"

"Did Alastor seem strange to you?"

"I don't know," he shrugged. "Never really knew him that well. You're the one who knew him best."

"Yeah," she said. "I know. I just have this odd feeling that he's not quite himself."

"How do you mean?" Arthur inquired, wiping his lip.

"It took him so long to open the door," she said, "and to answer our questions. Not to mention he hardly even looked at me."

"Probably just the shock of intruders, Maura," said Arthur. "I wouldn't worry."

"You're right," she sighed and made a smile. "And I haven't seen him in years. He was probably just surprised to see me."

She was about to eat when she gasped. "Oh, no!"

"What's wrong?"

"I forgot to tell the girls how to get on the platform!" she exclaimed. "They're probably standing there…poor dears."

"Don't worry, I'm sure someone would've told them how to get to the platform," he said calmly. "Molly was there when Harry didn't know how to get on."

"I can't believe I forgot," Maura mumbled. "I should send them an owl."

--

The witch with the food cart stopped at the girl's compartment. "Anything off the trolly, dearies?"

"Oh, wow!" Serena jumped up.

"Sure," said Ami and the girls looked at the goodies.

"What's an acid pop? Doesn't sound too nice."

"Chocolate Frogs? Eww!"

After the witch explained what the sweets were, they bought a load and sat down. Ami opening a chocolate Frog.

"Ami, I'm surprised you actually bought those," Serena said in disbelief.

"Oh, it's just a spell," Ami said. "I wanted to get card. Each has a famous witch or wizard and I bet it will come in handy for a History of Magic exam."

The chocolate frog jumped away but she let it go. She read her card. "Hmm, 'Eladora Ketteridge. 1659-1729. Witch who discovered the use of gillyweed when she nearly suffocated after eating it and recovered only when she stuck her head into a bucket of water.' I assume this stuff makes you breath under water." She looked closely at a witch with long black hair and holding a bucket of water and a ball of what looked like slimy rat-tails.
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

"Looks disgusting," muttered Mina.

"I bet it is," said Ami as she continued opening her other cards.

I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools

They heard thunder outside and Lydia peeked out of the window. "Looks like rain," she said softly as she stroked Lucky.

"Darn it, my umbrella's in my trunk!" Mina muttered.

"Maybe it will let up by the time we get to school," Lita said optimistically.
But it didn't let up. The rain came down harder and harder as the ride went on. The girls wanted to remain on the train when it stopped. They slowly emerged from the train and put their hoods up. Within five seconds their robes were soaked through.

"Now where do we go?" Serena asked the others, looking around in the rain.

"I don't know," answered Ami.

"Firs' years, firs' years over here!" yelled a loud, deep voice.

"Well, we're not first years," said Lita.

"And new students!" said the voice again, "transfer students. Mina Aino, Raye Hino--,"

"That's us," Raye muttered, looking up and to see a big man calling their names and waving first years over.

The girls walked to them. "We're the new students," said Serena, "but we're supposed to be fourth years."

"Yes, but since yeh lot have to be sorted it'll be easier this way," the big man answered. "To the boats, come on."

"Boats?" Mina gasped.

"Yup."

The girls looked like they wanted to die as they followed the big man to the boats and clambered in.

"I can't believe this," Serena muttered, "I am soaked!"

"Better paddle like the wind," Lita grunted as she grabbed an oar and started paddling. "Before the boat fills up with rain water!"

Lita and Lydia started paddling across the lake. When they were halfway across the lake, they heard a splash behind them and people shouting.

"That boy fell in the lake!" Mina shouted.

"I'll get 'im!" Lydia shouted, letting go of the oar, removing her Hogwarts robes and jumping in the water. "I'm comin' laddie!"

"Lydia, come back!" Ami exclaimed.

But as she approached him, he was pushed in the back into the boat from something underneath the water surface. The big man took off his coat and put it around the boy.

"Oh, of all the rotten luck," Lydia muttered, splashing around.

Without warning, Lydia felt something wrap around her body. She squealed in shock. "Something's got me!" she shouted. "Something's got me!"

"Lydia!" Lita exclaimed, raising the oar like a spear. "Hold on!"

She was brought back to the boat and she was lifted in the air. Serena nearly fainted when she saw a huge and wet tentacle wrapped around her best friend.

"There's a monster in the lake!" she yelled.

Lydia was dropped into the boat and the tentacle sank back into the water. "You all right?" Lucky asked.

"Except for being wet—just fine." She answered.

"I wonder what that thing was," said Lita as she continued paddling. "Probably a giant squid or something."

"But what would a giant squid be doing in a lake?" Mina asked. "I thought they lived in the ocean."

"This place is weird and we haven't even been inside yet," Raye muttered.

They were so happy to finally across the lake and inside the castle. They came up the stairs and started shaking the water of them. Raye had just taken off her hood when she felt something wet and cold splash on her head.

"What the?" she looked around and saw a little man with bright clothes and silly hat laughing his head off. "A poltergeist! You won't get away with that!"

"I just did!" the poltergeist laughed.

Raye reached into her robes and took out an ofuda scroll. When the poltergeist saw it he gasped, if he could breath in any air. He tried floating away but Raye chased him.

"Come back here you evil spirit! I'll show you for making me wetter than I already am! DISPERSE!" she tossed the scroll at the poltergeist.

"I'll be baaaaaccck!" he cried as he disappeared.

Raye let out a shriek that frightened all the first years and she stampled back to the group. The first years, including her friends, were staring at her.

"What?" she demanded. "That stupid poltergeist dropped a water bomb on me!"

"Just be happy it wasn't a dung bomb," said Lydia.

"Oh, how disgusting!" Raye growled. "I didn't know there was a poltergeist at this school—did you guys know?"

"I knew there were ghosts," said Ami. "There's one for each house."

"My brother told me that the Bloody Baron is the only one that can keep that guy in line," whispered a first year behind then.

"Which house is he for?" Raye inquired.

"Slytherin."

"Really?" she asked, a smile appearing on her lips. "Hmmm."

"Raye, come on, you're not going to really ask the Sorting Hat to put you in Slytherin, are you?" Lita asked in a whisper.

"Maybe," said Raye and a witch in a bun approached them.

"Welcome to Hogwarts. I am Professor McGonagall. You will be sorted to your houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin." She looked down at the six girls. "You must be the transfer students."

"Yes," said Serena.

"You will be sorted first," said McGonagall. "Follow me please."

The first years behind them, the girls followed McGonagall through the Great Hall. They could hear a few sniggers and some moans from the tables.

"I'm glad we got to use the carriages," said a student as they got to the front.

Professor McGonagall set a shabby wizarding hat on a stool. The girls watched it and after a moments silence, it began to sing.

The girls listened to the song as it sang about the founders and the sort of people they wanted in their houses. Raye recognized a few lines from her dream. The girls were all wondering which house they wanted to be in the most. Then the song was over and Professor McGonagall picked up a small rolled up parchment.

"We have six new fourth year students," she began, "I expect you all make them feel welcome to your house and Hogwarts." She unrolled the parchment and started reading the names.

"Aino Mina."

"Good luck, Mina," whispered Lydia and she flashed her friends the V sign as she approached the stool, sat down and the hat was placed on her head.

For a moment, there was nothing. She wasn't quite sure what was going to happen. She remembered when the Magical Memory Hat was placed on her head earlier in the summer. Then she heard the hat speaking in her ear.

"How interesting, your thoughts and deeds remind me of someone," said the Hat.

"Who?" she whispered and she saw her friends raise an eyebrow. She wasn't sure if they could hear the hat or not.

"I see you hold a lot of feelings in and cover them up with a smile."

'Something wrong with that?' she asked the hat mentally.

'It is a good quality, sometimes. You don't forget how to smile. One of the great founders was like that. Oh yes, cheery and kind and she knew her stuff. That was Helga…

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

Mina remembered the portrait of Helga Hufflepuff and how she thought was pretty. She grinned when she realized the Sorting Hat said she was like her! She set the hat down. A cute and tall boy with light brown hair stood up and gestured her over. She sat down.

"Welcome to Hufflepuff," he said softly. "I'm Cedric Diggory."

"Thank you!" she exclaimed in a whisper.

The media sells it and you live the role
Mental wounds still screaming

"Hino, Raye!"

Sighing, Raye went to the stool. Professor McGonagall picked it up for her to sit down and when she sat, the hat was placed on her head. She glanced over at the Slytherin Table and saw that the Malfoy boy was staring at her with a smirk on his pale face. Raye clenched her hands around the stool nervously. She felt the same vibes from the table she did from Knocturn Alley. What if the hat put her in a house she didn't want? But Raye wasn't exactly sure which house she wanted.

'How interesting,' she heard the hat within her head. 'Hmm, this one shall be difficult. So many qualities--so many attributes. Strong-willed. Yes, and courageous. Not afraid to go after you want, are you?'

'I guess so,' thought Raye.

'Guess so?'

'Not enough wisdom for Ravenclaw,' the hat said.

'Don't think I want to go there anyway,' Raye told the hat.

'Ah. Do you know where you want to go?'

'Not sure,' she replied. 'I think I'm supposed to go to Slytherin but I hear people that go in there come out bad.'

'What makes you think you'll go bad?'

'I don't know.'

'Do you want to be the best you can be?'

'Well, sure I do.'

'I see you'll do anything to get what you want.'

'If I have to, maybe. What about the other houses?'

'I think enough courage for Gryffindor, yes,' said the hat. 'If you seek adventure, that's the place for you.'

'But it's not lions I'm dreaming about all the time,' Raye told it. 'I'm dreaming about snakes.'

She looked at the Slytherin Table. What the heck? Why not just join them? The potions master will be her head of house. She won't have to do any homework in that class if she's sorted into Slytherin. That way she can work more in Runes and Divination and try to find out the meaning to her dream. The ghost of Slytherin House could keep the stupid poltergeist in line. She didn't have time to mess with any more evil sprits. As she continued looking at the table, the more and more she wanted to sit there. She could probably try and stop them from all becoming Death Eaters—that it was okay to be ambitious, but wrong to be evil. They could do something else. She could change them by being an example. Maybe it will be kind of hard at first. Some of them looked kind of creepy and she thought

'Yeah, put me in Slytherin,' she thought excitedly. 'I'm strong-willed. I'm cunning. And I wanna be in—'

'Quit your dreamin' whispered the hat. "SLYTHERIN!"

"Raye, no!" Serena breathed.

The girls looked shocked. They were shaking their heads in disbelief. But Raye looked pleased with the hat's decision. The hat taken off her head, she stood up, shrugged at her friends and sauntered to the Slytherin Table. The Malfoy boy pushed his big friends out of the way to make room for Raye. Raye shook her long wet hair, getting some rainwater on Goyle and sat next to Draco.

"I'm Draco Malfoy," he said, "Welcome to Slytherin. It's--,"

"The best house?" she asked. "I know."

The girls didn't have time to talk about this for the sorting went on.

"Kino, Lita!"

Hoping she wouldn't be placed in Slytherin, Lita sat down on the stool and crossed her fingers behind her back. Within a few seconds, she heard the hat speaking in her ear.

'I see you are very protective of your friends.'

'Yes I am,' she replied.

"And a little stubborn."

"You can see that?"

"Oh yes. Strong-willed."

"Hey, don't you put me in Slytherin like my friend Raye!" Lita muttered under her breath.

'Oh no, no, no,' said the hat in her ear. 'Not you at all. You're not fot Ravenclaw. That leaves Gryffindor and Hufflepuff.'

'Either will do me,' Lita thought with a grin. She then saw the boy Mina was sitting next to and her eyes nearly popped out of her head. 'Hey, how about Hufflepuff?'

"You're sweet but tough and that's good enough for…HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Yeah!" Lita exclaimed, taking off the hat and running over to the Hufflepuff table and sitting on the other side of the cute boy.

"Lita, this is Cedric Diggory!" Mina said.

"Welcome to Hufflepuff, Lita," he said. "I'm sorry you got wet."

"I'll be all right," she mumbled. 'Where have you been all my life?' she thought as she studied his gorgeous face.

"MacGreggor, Lydia!"

Ami and Serena patted Lydia on the back and she sat on the stool. Lydia grinned as she looked out to the different tables. There were many scowls from the Slytherin Table and she scowled right back. Raye however, gave her the thumbs up when no other Slytherins were looking. Lydia winked at Raye and scanned the tables. She wasn't exactly sure which one she wanted. She saw Seamus Finnigan, Harry Potter and the Weasleys at the Gryffindor Table.

'I see you have much courage,' the hat whispered. 'Not afraid about anything, are you?'

'Just about,' thought Lydia.

'And an adventurous spirit, I see.'

"You're wise, but not wise enough for Ravenclaw."

'That's okay,' Lydia thought back. 'That leaves Hufflepuff and Gryffindor then.' She glanced at the Hufflepuff table and smiled at Mina and Lita. Hufflepuff looked like a nice house and then she looked at the Gryffindor table. There was a nice vibe coming from the Gryffindor table. Then she remembered the mascot for it—a lion—Leo the Lion was her sign. She was about to tell the hat this when it began speaking.

'The other houses you may find a bore,' the hat sang, 'So I'll put you in…'

"GRFFINDOR!"

Lydia laughed and set down the hat and ran down to the Gryffindor table. They were applauding loudly and welcoming her to Gryffindor House. She sat near the trio and Seamus.

"Hello," she said to the Gryffindor students around her.

"Mizuno, Ami!"

Ami sat on the stool and almost instantly the hat was talking about her cleverness and wisdom.

"Ah, amazing,' it said, 'Your wisdom has no flaw—so therefore…'

"RAVENCLAW!"

Ami blinked at how quickly it placed her that she sat therefore a moment. Professor McGonagall took the hat off and she scratched her head, smiled shyly at Serena and her friends and approached the Ravenclaw table. She sat next to a pretty girl with a braid.

"Tsukino, Serena!"

'Right,' Serena thought as she approached the stool and sat down. The hat covered her meatball shaped buns. She patted her knees. 'Whatever you do, don't put me in Slytherin.'

'I already see that house is not for you,' said the hat in her ear. 'Nor Ravenclaw. This shall be tricky. You are full of life and dreams and love. You are a lover of justice.'

'That's true,' Serena thought as if she never thought of it before.

'And you have much courage, deep down inside. You are not afraid to sacrifice for those you love. And that is just perfect for…'

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Serena took of the hat, jumped up and ran over to the Gryffindor Table. She sat next to Lydia.

"What luck," Lydia whispered. "We're in the same house!"

"When do we eat?" Serena inquired. "I'm starving!"

"After they're sorted," Ron said gloomily, pointing to the first years.

"Oh no!" Serena muttered, laying her head on the table. "Wake me when it's over!"

To Be Continued

I think the houses I chose for the girls fit them great. I was about to put all six of them in Gryffindor but figured it may be kind of crowded. Ravenclaw was really no contest for Ami. I almost put Mina in Slytherin when I read she could be overly ambitious at times. However, she kinda reminds me of Helga Hufflepuff. As Lita thinks every cute boy reminds her old boyfriend and Cedric's really handsome I chose Hufflepuff for her. But she thinks he looks even better than her old boyfriend (so her old boyfriend must've been a real hunk then). As Serena's Sailor Moon and Lydia's a Leo, I chose Gryffindor for them. Raye is in Slytherin to find out more abut her dream and the vibes she from them. And I think if any of the senshi (besides Saturn) can handle being in Slytherin, she can. I also read in a site that in the manga she has a snake fire attack.