Two updates in a week? Haha, I'm doing good!
Again, not surprised about the lack of reviews.
Anyway, about POH (yes, I know, wrong story ;) I've begun updating it and I'm going to replace chapters so stuff makes sense….I'll probably do the same here, but only with minor updates (as in taking out the mysterious appearance of Chiral and Achiral in chapter 5or was it seven? and then having them nowhere else…) But anyway, on with the story!
Professor Dumbledore, Professor Snape, Chibiusa, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Cho, and Cosmos sat in the Great Hall. They were waiting for the moon to be completely overhead of them. It would only take a few minutes, according to Cosmos. To the Senshi-Knights, however, it seemed like hours.
"Um…" Chibiusa said. "Seeing as we all might not return from this, I have a confession to make."
"Me too." Ginny said. The other four spoke up reluctantly.
"Okay, Draco, what's yours?" The pink-haired girl asked.
"I'm bi." He announced proudly.
"What!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Ginny, it's perfectly all right…" Hermione started.
"No, it's just…" Ginny said. "Well, um, me and Draco have kinda been…sort of going out together…and…"
Chibiusa let out a soft laugh
"Does Ron know?" Harry asked.
"No! He'd kill me! Literally!" The redhead exclaimed.
"Your turn." Cho said to Chibiusa.
"Ah, okay. One day I got lost and I didn't know where the Transfiguration classroom or Hotaru or anything or anyone was, and I accidentally found a wine cellar and I've…kinda been back there once or twice…"
"The one in the dungeons or on the fifth floor?" Draco asked.
"There's two!" The odango exclaimed.
Harry looked over at Snape, who looked like he was trying his hardest not to listen. Or maybe he was lost in thought. If that was possible for Snape.
"Okay, me next!" Cho said. "Last year, I was having a really hard time in Transfiguration and Arithmacy and I thought it was going to kill me if I stayed any longer and I seriously considered just leaving and going to some muggle city to be a prostitute!"
"That would have been…interesting." Chibiusa said. "Now - Harry and Hermione - Confess!"
"Okay." Hermione said. They told each other and it wasn't like it was anything bad. "Me and Ron have been going out with each other for a while."
"And I've been going out with someone else, too." Harry said.
"How sweet." The pink haired girl joked. Harry couldn't help but laugh. He was sure Chibiusa had suggested sharing of each other's secrets to cheer them up.
And then his scar throbbed. Hard. He remembered the dream he had - that girl…
"I did it because I love you…"
He felt arms catch him to stop him from falling onto the hard floor. He looked up to see Cosmos' face but those were not her eyes…
"It's time to go." She said. The scar became dormant again. The six teens and Snape rose from their seats.
"Good luck." Dumbledore said.
"Join hands." Cosmos instructed. The eight did so. A light surrounded them. Cosmos winced. "I'm all right." She said to ease the looks on the worried faces. "Just had a glance into the future. One of us is going to die."
"Besides Harry or Hermione?" Ginny asked.
"Oh - not one of the Star." She said, glancing at Snape. "One of us."
"Do you know which one?" He asked.
"The one closest to the boy marked with lightning." She said.
Before Harry could realize the boy marked with lightning was him, they left.
They arrived minutes later, dizzy from the transfer. They were on the moon, in the center of the ruined prayer room. The sword was sticking out of the stone. Snape wandered off somewhere, and Cosmos instructed the six youths to get into another circle.
"Mother Serenity," Cosmos began. As she recited the ancient spell, her wand appeared in hand. "A child born, a child anew, a child anew again. Thus gathered, the children anew have their gifts in tact. For an instance one, bring this gift to the point of no return. Ahoris paran unito activar mantran!"
Light shone. It was working.
Cosmos knew the moment was coming. Yet she didn't interfere. If they were to die, so be it.
Just then, she fell over. Neco was trying to break free.
"No!" Cosmos shouted. "Let it happen!"
The light died down except fir the one between Harry and Hermione.
Neco gasped as she took control. The body changed to match the soul. She picked up the wand Cosmos had dropped and ran towards them. She's take them into her own body, or rather, Cosmos'.
"Trias Alma Henasha!" She said jumping in between the two. Neco guided their souls inside of her. The mannequins that were once their bodies lay limp and broken.
"No!" Cosmos yelled inside of her head. "Your soul can't handle magic this strong!"
"Gener anais…" Neco said falling to her knees. The bodies were renewed. "Alma Expeliarmus…."The souls were now in their proper bodies. Neco fell face foreword into the ground.
"Neco!" Harry exclaimed. He ran over to her and sat her upright.
"But she was Cosmos…just a second ago!" Cho said.
"Why did you-" Harry started. There was a shake and then a large bang and Neco fell on top of Harry.
"I did it because I love you…"
She stared a t him for a second. Her eyes changed color, her hair got longer and her body grew longer and sharper. Cosmos got off of Harry and opened her hand. Small broken lights flew from her palm up into the air until they vanished into the darkness.
"We'll meet again, child of mine." Cosmos said. She looked back to the Star. Harry and Hermione were at their full forms. "Do not worry. I can always bring her back. And I will."
"But how did…" Cho started.
"When the third tremor occurs, we must leave. But there is time. There is someone you must meet, thought, to fully understand…" She stopped. She opened her hand again and another wisp of light, another soul, came forth from it and left. "Well there was someone you should have met, but it seems she has gone looking for Neco.
"Anyway, all departed souls, or Starseeds rather, must go to the Cauldron. And I am its guardian. One day, one stopped not to beg for life as so many of them do, but to simply say hello. I had met her before, many times in fact. I asked her how she had dies, and she said she was killed by one of the supporters of Voldemort while she was undercover at a place of sanctuary. It was then I remembered that she had a shape shifting ability of sorts. At the moment that was something I could use, so I took the soul of Nymphadora Tonks inside my body." Cosmos paused. No one spoke. The second tremor occurred. "A series of…events happened. After them, I was left feeling insecure…lonely…confused…And then a voice, not mine nor Tonks, spoke inside of me. It asked if it could be let go of. When I asked who it was, she said she was me. What I wanted if I were not chained to the duty of a senshi. I named her Neco. And I didn't need to control her in any way; she was a separate soul from mine, an individual.
"Then I was at Hogwarts. Neco and Tonks would watch from the inside as I guided you, the Five-Point Star. As long as they didn't converse with anyone within, it was fine. I would let them come out from time to time in Hogsmede." Behind Cosmos, Snape reappeared and easily took the sword from the stone. "But having little contact with other humans, Neco grew lonely. She told me this; several times in fact. Hogsmede wasn't enough. Somehow…she trained herself in Occlumency and-"
"Talked to me." Harry finished. "She said she was lonely and wanted to start over…and that I was just like her."
"Yes." Cosmos said. "And I didn't know about it until later. I thought it would be okay. It was only once. I didn't know she had done it again. And then the day before the winter ball, she asked to come back out. I said no, it was too dangerous. But when I woke up the next day, I was inside myself. She discovered how to make it so her soul controlled the body. I only tried to come back out once - before I realized that she was dancing with Harry. That was when she collapsed, by the way. But…I decided to let her continue watching. And…that's that part of my life."
The third tremor occurred.
"Now, let us go."
The spell was recited and the eight were gone from the moon of the present and were on their way to the moon of the past
Short chapter, yes, but an update all the same. So do you think I'll finish before HPB? Let's hope so…XD
Mae - Forget? Me? Nope….it was nagging me in the back of mind. I was just lazy.
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