Always Late

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Note: This is a one-shot written for the Mentor thing that is going on at Usa-chan Sailor Ronin's site http / smcrossover. mysticallegends .com. I've wanted to write a Sailor Moon/Harry Potter story for a while now but I didn't want to start anything until I finish off some of my other stories. Naturally, it's perfect to write a one-shot instead, ne? I don't know if this is cliché because I haven't read many SM/HP fics so don't complain to me that it's cliché at any point, all right? Anyway, please R&R or email me at pokahydee mysticallegends dot com. That's all I really want to say, I hope you enjoy the story, ja ne!

For some reason when I uploaded this chapter for the first time, it underlined like the whole chapter, but I don't know why -.-

Chapter 3 - Lessons and Monsters

Usagi's next class went by in a blur and she was again sitting at the long house table for dinner. She had told Daphne the little 'warning' she had received from Professor Umbridge as well as the scare she had received from Malfoy when she went to History of Magic earlier that day. Daphne seemed quite adamant about Usagi going to see Professor Sprout 6 and reporting the threat she had received from Umbridge.

"I don't think I should…" Usagi said slowly as she glanced in the direction of the toad-like teacher at the head table. "I mean… she seems to have a lot of power over the other teachers here…"

"Professor Sprout would want to know, though." Daphne said as she took a bite of treacle tart. "Besides, maybe they'll get rid of Umbridge and get a real teacher for Defense Against the Dark Arts." Daphne continued as a small smile played across her lips.

"No, this is a battle between Umbridge and I." Usagi said firmly as she took another bite of apple pie. "I will deal with this on my own."

"Miss Tsukino, a word please." Usagi nearly jumped at the new voice and looked up to see Professor McGonagall standing beside her table.

"All right, Professor." Usagi said as she rose from her seat and followed the professor from the dinner table. They stopped beside the Gryffindor table and picked up Hermione before they left the Great Hall and entered the maze of stairwells and corridors. Usagi was starting to get a feel for the castle, so this time she wasn't nearly as confused as she had been the previous night. She didn't really know where they were going, but at least she wasn't surprised that the stairways moved every now and then.

They entered an office that obviously belonged to the head of Gryffindor House. There was a trophy in the corner of the room that said something about Quidditch; at least that's what Usagi thought the trophy said. She, indeed, had no idea what Quidditch was even though she had heard Ron and Harry talking about it on the train.

"Now, as I explained to you after class, Miss Granger. I would like you to help Miss Tsukino with her English letters. She seemed to have a little bit of trouble in class with cursive writing." Professor McGonagall said after the two girls sat down. Usagi blushed slightly at the accusations, but didn't say anything in response.

"Of course, Professor." Hermione said as she turned and smiled at Usagi. Usagi managed a weak smile back, but she still felt perfectly miserable. After all of her hard work, it wasn't as easy to stop speaking, reading, and writing Japanese cold turkey like she had been forced to do upon coming to Hogwarts.

"Let's see, the two of you should get together at least three times a week to work on this." Professor McGonagall explained as she pulled a copy of both Hermione and Usagi's schedule in front of her. "Let's see, you both have a free period on Tuesdays, you can get together after classes on Thursday, and there is always the weekend when you have no class."

"Of course, Professor McGonagall." Hermione said with a smile. She looked at Usagi and winked with another smile.

"I don't think it's a bad idea for you to tutor her in magic as well, Professor Dumbledore wants to try and catch her up with the rest of her peers." Professor McGonagall explained as she placed the two schedules back on her desk with the tutoring periods written in the correct places. "Now you had best head back to your dormitories before you are passed curfew." Usagi and Hermione both nodded and rose from their seats. Usagi was still slightly embarrassed because she had had so much trouble with cursive letters. She was so used to seeing Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna's writing that it was tough for her to read anyone else's.

"Do you know how to get back to your dormitory from here?" Hermione asked as they exited Professor McGonagall's office. Usagi blushed slightly.

"Umm… actually… I don't…" Usagi said slowly as a sweatdrop slid down her face. "I might be able to find my way if I were in the entrance way, though." She explained as she thought to herself.

"All right, I'll take you down to the entrance hall, there may even be a Hufflepuff down there that you can follow." Hermione said as she began to wend her way through the hallways with Usagi following close behind. "How are your classes so far, Usagi?" Hermione asked as they headed down a flight of stairs.

"They are all right," Usagi said slowly as she thought back to her Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes. "I don't like that Professor Umbridge woman, and the Potions teacher makes my insides squirm." Usagi said as a chill ran down her spine.

"I agree, that Umbridge woman isn't a very good teacher. I have a feeling the ministry placed her in the school so she could spy on Professor Dumbledore…" Hermione said as her eyes narrowed slightly. "Ah! Forget I said that! I'm a prefect, I should know better than to insult teachers." Hermione said as she blushed slightly.

"But Professor Umbridge is bad news… She… she threatened me today. She said she was going to do everything she could to get me out of Hogwarts." Usagi said as a wave of anger mixed with humiliation washed over her.

"Did she really? You should report that to your head of house!" Hermione said as a look of shock crossed the face of the bushy haired girl.

"That's all right. I don't want to stir up any trouble. Besides, she'd just deny it anyway." Usagi said with a shrug. "I'm just going to have to prove her wrong, ne?" Usagi said as she winked at Hermione. They spent the next few moments in silence and reached the entrance hall after they went down a few more flights of stairs.

"All right, I'll see you later, Usagi." Hermione said with a wave as she headed back up the stairs.

Usagi smiled and waved at Hermione before she headed down the staircase toward her dormitory. It looked as if everyone had already returned to their dormitories because the entrance hall was completely devoid of people. She jumped in surprise when she felt something land lightly on her shoulder. "Iie! Spider, bug, eww!" She cried as she began trying to push the big lump off of her shoulder, only to find that sharp claws were digging in through her robes.

"Knock it off, Usagi-chan!" An agitated voice said close to her ear. "It's just me!"

"Luna, don't do that!" Usagi cried as she finally realized it was just a cat sitting on her shoulder. "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?" Usagi asked as she took deep steadying breaths to calm her pounding heart.

"You were late and I heard that Daphne girl say that one of the teachers had you go to their office. Have you gotten detention at this school already?" Luna asked with a harsh glare.

"No, I haven't gotten detention." Usagi said in annoyance. "Professor McGonagall asked me to come up to her office to give me a tutor in English cursive letters and in magic. They want to try to catch me up with people my age."

"Hmm… well that's understandable, it's going to be very hard for you so you had better not be falling asleep in classes again, Usagi-chan." Luna said sternly into her ear.

"Don't worry, Luna, I didn't fall asleep in any of my classes… well, except for History of Magic, but that class is so boring it's hard to stay awake," Usagi said as a sweatdrop slowly slid down the side of her face. "So, Luna, do you know how to get back to the dormitory? I'm still not used to the castle, it's different every time I try to find my way somewhere." Luna sighed in exasperation.

"Hai hai, go down that staircase there." Luna said as she pointed a paw toward a staircase off to Usagi's right. Usagi followed the cat's instructions and went down stairs and then walked down darkened hallways, then went down a few more flights of stairs and around more corners. She was again as lost as ever and thankful that she had Luna's help to find her way around. Tomorrow she would have Daphne's help to get to her classes so she was pretty much in the clear for the time being.

"How much further is the dormitory, Luna?" Usagi whined as she turned another corner. Right after she turned the corner, she ran into something dark and hard and fell backward onto her backside. Luna tumbled off her shoulder and landed beside her. "Mou, Luna, I thought you said this was a turn, you didn't tell me there was a wall there." Usagi whined as she rubbed her sore nose.

"What are you doing out here so late, Mudblood?" A cold voice broke into Usagi's mutterings.

"Eh?" Usagi said as she looked up into a pair of ice blue eyes. "Eto… I had a meeting with Professor McGonagall." Usagi said tentatively as she stood up and brushed off the back of her robes. It was Draco Malfoy again. How many times could she run into him in one day?

"You're just asking to be put in detention, aren't you?" Draco said with a smirk. "And who were you talking to? I don't see anyone with you."

"I was, uh, talking to myself." Usagi said quickly as she blushed scarlet. It had been a while since she'd nearly been caught talking to Luna by someone who didn't know she could talk.

"And you're able to answer yourself too, then?" Draco said as he peered at her suspiciously.

"Well, of course not." Usagi said as she plucked a ball of lint from the front of her robes nervously.

"She was talking to me, of course." A male voice said behind her. Usagi turned around at the voice to see a tall boy with white-blond hair and golden eyes.

"Elios-san…" Usagi said as her eye widened in surprise. Sure enough, Elios stood behind her wearing Hogwarts robes with the Hufflepuff logo on the front of them.

"I was giving her directions back to her common room." Elios explained slowly as he took a few steps forward to stand in front of Usagi.

"Funny, I've never seen you around before. What year are you?" Draco asked eyeing Elios suspiciously.

"I'm in seventh year and a Prefect." Elios said as he pointed to a badge on his chest with a capital P on it. "She had a meeting with Professor McGonagall and I was asked to escort her back to our common room." Elios stated as he looked straight into Draco's eyes.

"I didn't hear a male voice…" Draco said slowly as he watched the blond girl bend down to pick up the black cat at her feet with the strange marking on it's forehead. The cat had an intelligent look in it's eye and stared straight back at Draco almost with a glare. Draco shook his head at the thought, it was only a cat and cats can't glare. "Whatever, you need to watch your back, First Year." Draco said for only Usagi to hear as he glared down at her for another few seconds, then turned and stalked off down the hallway.

"That was close…" Usagi said as she let out the breath she didn't realize she'd been holding and glanced over at Elios. "Thank you, Elios-san, you've saved me again. Why are you dressed like that?"

"It looked like you could use a hand." Elios said as he turned to face her. "You're going to have to be more careful, Usagi-san. That boy is suspicious of you, you're going to have to be more careful when you speak with Luna."

"Hai." Usagi said as she picked up the black cat and held her in her arms.

"I won't be able to come and save you again, it takes a lot of strength to cross the border between this world and Elysian," Elios explained as he started to walk down the long hallway with Usagi walking beside him. "When you sleep, though, I'm going to bring you to Elysian and either tutor you myself or have someone tutor you so you can catch up to your classmates."

"Why are you helping me, Elios-san?" Usagi asked as she glanced over at him while walking slowly down the hallway. "It can't just be because I'm going to be ChibiUsa's mother some day. Tell me the truth, please?" Elios looked at her for a second, then sighed quietly.

"Something big is coming, something very big…" Elios said slowly as he turned his face back forward. "You need to be prepared, your powers as Sailor Moon aren't going to be enough to save you, so I'm here to prepare you for that."

"…." Usagi didn't speak for a few moments. "I see… Well then, I guess I'll have to try my best now won't I?"

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Usagi awoke early the next morning to hear a rushing sound in her ears. When she opened her eyes, she glanced over and saw that Luna was sleeping next to her head and her soft breath was echoing in Usagi's ears. She lay there for a moment just staring up at the top of the canopy bed remembering the dream from the night before. In her dream, Elios had been having her practice the few charms and spells she had learned the previous day in class. She had finally managed to turn her toothpick into a perfect needle. Today her first class was called 'Charms' and then she had a class that was different from Daphne's. Daphne had stated the night before that it was a class that Third Years and above took called Care of Magical Creatures. The even stranger part was that she wasn't entering the class with the Third Years, but with the Fifth Years.

"I know all about Magical Creatures, though," Usagi explained to Daphne as they walked to their first class together. "Michiru-san and Setsuna-san taught me all about them. They actually took me to look at dragons once last year." Usagi said as a sweatdrop slid slowly down her face. The dragons had been a bit scary, but she loved when they'd gone to see the unicorns. Not only that, she had a friend who was a pegasus so she had even gotten to see a winged horse. She didn't mention Elios, though. It would be a bit tough to explain a talking pegasus who turned into a person with a golden horn on the top of his head.

"I wish I could take some of the more advances classes too." Daphne pouted as Usagi proceeded to tell Daphne about the fire newts and browtruckles that Michiru had found for Usagi to observe and hold. The two of them talked together as they walked to class together about all of the neat magical creatures there were and about all of the neat things they might learn in their next class.

Several minutes later, the pair of them walked into a brightly-lit classroom and found seats toward the middle of the room. The dull chatter of the students ceased when a very short man entered the room. He walked to the front of the classroom and climbed up onto some boxes behind a pedestal.

"Quiet class is about to begin," The short professor said from his boxes. "I am Professor Flitwick, you're Charms teacher. You will learn an assortment of charms in this class that may help you with some every day activities. Please, partner up, I will pass a feather to share between two people. We are going to learn the levitation charm today. Levitation means, to make objects float or fly." With a flick of Professor Flitwick's wand, a feather appeared between each pair of students. "Now, the words for this charm are 'Wingardium Leviosa'. There is a specific wand movement, sort of a swish and flick." Flitwick explained as he demonstrated the wand movement. "Off you go, now. I will be wandering among you to correct incorrect wand movement and pronunciation."

"Okay, it's Wingardium Leviosa…" Daphne said to herself as she practiced the wand movement. Usagi watched the feather… it didn't move. "Hmm… what did I do wrong?"

"Your movement is wrong," Usagi explained as she demonstrated the wand movement for Daphne to see. "You need to flick a little more." Usagi explained. The levitation charm had actually been something that Elios had taught her the night before in her dreams. "Wingardium Leviosa." Usagi said as she did the motion again. The feather did a bit of a flutter and lifted a few inches off the table. She drew her wand up and it floated upward toward the ceiling.

"Oh wonderful! She's done it. What is your name, young lady?" Professor Flitwick said as he came up to stand next to Usagi's table.

"Usagi Tsukino." Usagi said as he blushed slightly. She hadn't known that anyone besides Daphne had been watching her.

"10 point to Hufflepuff for your levitation charm, very good." Professor Flitwick said excitedly. Usagi's cheeks turned even more pink as all eyes turned toward her.

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"I really enjoyed that class," Daphne said as the two of them walked down the hallway away from the Charms classroom. "You did really well, did you already know how to do that charm? It really seemed like you did. Your accent didn't even get in the way."

"Well… Michiru-san, Haruka-san, and Setsuna-san had to teach me a bit of Latin so I could pronounce the spells properly. I've been in training for a while now not only with learning English. They taught me a lot this past year. I'm really grateful or I would have already gotten really behind," Usagi told Daphne as they walked down the hallway together. "I should get going. I have to go out onto the grounds for my next class."

"I'll walk down to the entrance hall with you. I have a free period right now and it's on the way to the common room. I want to get started on that Potions essay Professor Snape assigned us." Daphne said as they found the stairway they needed and headed down toward the entrance hall of the school.

"I'll see you at lunch, Daphne." Usagi said as she waved at her small friend and walked out the double doors and out onto the grounds. She headed for the small cabin on the grounds that looked like a little gingerbread house and saw a familiar white-blond head bobbing along ahead of her. Her heart sunk down into her stomach as she realized that she must be going to the Care of Magical Creatures class with Draco Malfoy surrounded by a gang of Slytherins that were all laughing at something he had said. Usagi looked up at the clouds that hovered above them and felt a rain drop land right on the end of her nose. She sighed and pulled her cloak tighter around her shoulders. She tried to make herself as small as possible so she wouldn't be noticed by the blond Slytherin boy. He seemed to have it in for her, though she wasn't quite sure why. Maybe he was like that with everyone.

As Usagi drew nearer to the small cabin, she saw a long table set up covered in a variety of twigs and leaves. Beside the table stood, Harry, Hermione, and Ron from the train. She let out a sigh of relief at the sight of them. At least she wouldn't be as isolated with them in the class. They had been very friendly on the train ride to Hogwarts.

"Usagi?" Hermione questioned as she approached the gathering group of students. "What are you doing here? This is a fifth year class." Usagi quickly jogged over to meet the group of Gryffindors to avoid the dark glare she knew Draco Malfoy would be throwing her since he hadn't even known she was behind him.

"This is where my schedule told me to go," Usagi explained as she held out the paper for Hermoine to look at. "Haruka-san and Michiru-san taught me about some magical creatures during the summer and last year. They tried to teach me about the subjects that didn't require using actual magic and I think Professor Dumbledore wants to catch me up with people my age."

"Oh, I see. Yeah, Care of Magical Creatures, second period," Hermione said to herself as she scanned the schedule. "If I were you, I'd stick to the Gryffindor side." Hermione said quietly as she smiled warmly at the blond.

"Oy, what's the ickle first year doing here?" A haughty voice broke into their conversation. "Does she think she's big enough to play with the real wizards of this school?"

"Shut up, Malfoy." Harry said coldly as he looked up from his conversation with Ron to glare at the blond boy.

"How sweet, Potty has to stand up for you. He always did have a soft spot for little Mudbloods." Malfoy said as an arrogant smirk spread across his face. A dark haired girl next to him laughed, which turned into a shriek after a moment.

"Everyone here?" A voice cut across the conversation. The professor stood behind the table and spoke briskly as if she were in a big hurry. "Let's crack on then, who can tell me what these are called?" She asked as she motioned to the table laden with small pixie-like creatures that scampered across the table. Hermione's hand shot into the air excited. Usagi raised hers with less enthusiasm, but rose it nonetheless.

"Oooooh!" Two girls beside Usagi said as they watched the creatures on the table. They seemed to be very excited, like they'd never been shown anything of the like before in their Care of Magical Creatures class.

"Kindly keep your voices down, girls!" Professor Grubbly-Plank said in her sharp tone. She scattered a handful of something that looked like brown rice onto the table. The stick-creatures immediately ran to the food. "So, anyone know the names of these creatures? Yes, you, the blond in the front. Your name please?"

"I'm Usagi Tsukino," She said slowly as she watched the creatures chomping on the 'rice'. "They're called bowtruckles."

"Excellent, five points to Miss Tsukino," Professor Grubbly-Plank said. "And does anyone know where these creatures live? Miss Granger?" She asked seeing as how Hermione's hand had shot into the air immediately.

"They're tree-guardians and tend to live in wand-trees. That is, trees whose wood is of wand quality." Hermione explained intelligently. Usagi couldn't help but be impressed; Hermione sounded like a textbook.

"Very good, Miss Granger. Five points for you, now, can anyone tell me what they eat?" Professor Grubbly-Plank asked the class once more.

"They eat wood lice, Professor," Hermione explained as if she were the only one in the class. "But they'll eat fairy eggs if they can get them." Usagi looked more closely at the rice and saw that it was wiggling all over the table. She felt her stomach turn as she watched the bowtruckles eating the wood lice as fast as they could get their little two-fingered hands on it.

"Good girl, take another five points. So whenever you need leaves of wood from a tree that has bowtruckle lodges, it is wise to have an offering of wood lice to distract or placate it. They may not look dangerous, but if angered they will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not all desirable near the eyeballs. So if you'd like to gather closer, take a few wood lice and a bowtruckle - I have enough here for one between four - you can study them more closely, I want a sketch from each of you with all the body parts labeled by the end of the lesson."

"You come with us, Usagi." Hermione said as she grabbed Usagi's sleeve lightly and pulled her closer to the table to get a bowtruckle. Usagi watched as Harry walked behind the back of the table while everyone else seemed distracted to talk with Professor Grubbly-Plank. Hermione pulled Usagi over toward an empty spot on the grass with Ron trailing behind. They squatted down on the ground to pull out parchment and quills to make their sketch of the bowtruckle. "Dumbledore would know if something had happened to Hagrid," said Hermione as Harry came back into their group. Usagi didn't know who this 'Hagrid' was, but it seemed that the dark-haired boy was really worried. "It's just playing into Malfoy's hands to look worried, it tells him we don't know exactly what's going on. We've got to ignore him, Harry. Here hold the bowtruckle for a moment, just so I can draw its face…" Usagi already have the bowtruckle drawn out on the paper, though it didn't look anything like it. As long as the shape was somewhat the same, it wouldn't matter.

"Yes," Malfoy's familiar drawl sounded from nearby. "Father was talking to the Minister a few days ago, you know, and it sounds as though the Ministry's really determined to crack down on substandard teaching in this place. So even if that overgrown moron does show up again, he'll probably be sent packing straight away." Usagi had been about ready to warn Harry not to hold the bowtruckle as tightly as he had been.

"OUCH!" The bowtruckle had almost snapped in half in Harry's hand and took a great swing with its sharp fingers and left two deep gashes on Harry's hand. Harry had immediately dropped the bowtruckle and it went running off into the woods.

"Here, let me help." Usagi said as she reached into her pocket for a handkerchief. Usagi ignored the laughter from the Slytherin group as she tightly bound his cut hand with the cloth. It wasn't bleeding very bad, but it kept his picture of the bowtruckle from being too blood stained. Usagi hadn't really known what they were talking about, but it seemed there were a lot of politics within Hogwarts. As everyone was starting to pack their things away, Usagi heard a snap of a twig from the woods behind her. She felt something foreboding in the air.

"What's wrong, Usagi?" Hermioned asked as the blond girl spun around to face the woods.

"I… Something's wrong…" She said slowly as her eyes scanned the tree line. There wasn't anything out of the ordinary, but she sensed something was not right.

"Is the ickle first year afraid of the big bad forest?" Malfoy questioned as he made a mock pouty face in Usagi's direction. She simply ignored him as she tried to make her eyes penetrate further into the forest.

"I don't remember you being so brave when we were in the Forbidden Forest in our first year, Malfoy." Harry said calmly as he glared at the blond boy. The arrogant smirk faded from Malfoy's face and was replaced by a dark glare. He was about to retaliate when a female voice broke through the air.

"Get out of here! Run!" Usagi yelled at the top of her lungs. Everyone looked at her like she was crazy, but she was already gone. She had taken off into the forest and disappeared.

"A youma? Here?" Usagi asked herself in terror as she disappeared behind a tree. She could hear Professor Grubbly-Plank and Hermione calling for her to come back, but she had something she needed to take care of before someone got hurt. "Moon Eternal Make-UP!" She called as she pulled the familiar broach from her pocket. She had taken it because it was a comfortable feeling, she felt safer having it with her. She didn't expect to have to use it, especially since it had been quiet for so long. She heard the roar of the youma as the warmth of her transformation surrounded her body and clothed her in the familiar fuku. "Stop right there!" Usagi cried as she leapt into a tree above the youma. It was very strange indeed. It was immeasurably larger than most youma an appeared to be a giant scorpion. She could tell by the aura given off by it that it was a youma and not just some creature from the magical world. "I won't let you hurt anyone here! In the name of the moon!" Eternal Sailor Moon cried as she struck the familiar pose.

The scorpion turned toward her and struck at her with its poison-tipped tail. She jumped into the air and landed behind it. She called her Eternal Tier to her, but wasn't able to use it as the tail came crashing down a foot in front of her.

"Ahhh!" She screamed as she went flying backward into a nearby tree. The Tier fell from her hand and skidded several feet away. "Uh oh…" She said to herself as the scorpion advanced on her. She jumped to her feet and dove to the side as the pincer on the front snapped at her and cut the tree trunk cleanly in half. The tree fell forward onto the scorpion, which distracted it enough so Eternal Sailor Moon could grab the fallen Eternal Tier and run several paces away back toward the castle. She didn't want to draw the creature toward the castle, but she didn't want anyone to be hurt if she used any attacks while she was pointed toward the castle.

"Miss Tsukino!" The voice of Professor Grubbly-Plank was very near. Eternal Sailor Moon turned toward the voice and saw the stern teacher walking toward her. The scorpion was hidden by the trees as it attempted to get the tree that had fallen on its head off. "Of all the nerve, running off into the Forbidden Forest! There is a reason it is forbidden!" Grubbly-Plank grabbed Eternal Sailor Moon by the arm and began to drag her back toward the entrance of the forest.

"Let go! There's a youma out there! You'll bring it to the castle!" Eternal Sailor Moon said as she tried to pull her arm out of the vice-like grip of the professor.

"I have no clue what you are talking about, but I saw 20 points from Hufflepuff will make you think it over." Grubbly-Plank said as they reached the edge of the forest. The Care of Magical Creatures class was still assembled on the tree line as Professor Grubbly-Plank pulled Eternal Sailor Moon from the forest. "Of all the nerve…" She muttered.

"Ummm… Professor?" Hermione said tentatively as she pointed to the girl Professor Grubbly-Plank had pulled from the forest. "That's not Usagi."

"What? Of course it… isn't…" She said as she turned to look at the strangely clad girl with large white wings on her back. She let go of Eternal Sailor Moon's arm just as the trees behind them parted to reveal a huge black and red scorpion.

"Kuso…" Eternal Sailor Moon muttered as the youma threw the trees aside like they were toys. "Everyone get out of here!" She yelled as the class watched in shock at the large creature that was fast approaching them.

"Where's Usagi?" Hermione asked as most of the class scattered. They took off for the school building. "We can't leave Usagi!"

"She's fine! Just go!" Eternal Sailor Moon yelled as she held the Tier out in front of her. "Silver Moon Crystal Power KISS!" She called as she did some spinning as lights surrounded her while the power gathered. The attack shot out from the top of the Eternal Tier and a bright golden light lit up the entire area. The attack flew toward the scorpion and hit it with such force it was thrown back several feet. As the golden energy surrounded the scorpion, its body slowly began to shrink and deform. As the light died down, a man wearing red robes stood in place of the scorpion and slowly sunk down and fell facedown on the ground. Eternal Sailor Moon let out a sigh and took off into the woods once more. They would know for sure that she was Sailor Moon if she didn't hurry. She ran into the woods and hid behind a tree, she detransformed before anyone could follow her and then turned and began to walk back out of the trees.

"Miss Tsukino!" A voice called as Usagi came out of the forest, a bit worse for the wear. Her hair was mussed full of twigs and leaves and she had a good-sized gash across her cheek. Many of her injuries were masked as she was in her Senshi form so she never knew the damage from a battle until it was over. Usagi wiped the blood from her cheek as she approached the frantic-looking teacher. "You gave us all quite a fright! Did you see that strange girl! Are you injured!"

"I'm fine professor…" Usagi said calmly as a sweatdrop slid down her forehead. "That girl saved me. I'm sorry I ran off, I just knew something was there. I was only trying to keep someone from getting hurt." All of the students had already gone into the castle and there were several professors sprinting across the grounds toward the small cabin on the edge of the woods, Professor Dumbledore in the lead.

"That was a very foolish thing to do, Miss Tsukino!" Professor Grubbly-Plank said sternly as she gripped Usagi's shoulders. "You should be thankful that you weren't hurt! That thing could have killed someone!"

"Gomen nasai…" Usagi said as she slipped back into her native tongue.

"What is going on?" Dumbledore questioned as he approached the damaged area. Professor McGonagall had approached the fallen man on the ground.

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"Do you see Usagi anywhere?" Hermione asked as she craned her neck over at the Hufflepuff table to look for the blond girl. Her normal spot by Hannah Abbott and a few first years was empty. "I really hope she's all right."

"Why are you so worried about her? I mean, that girl in the mini-skirt said she was fine." Ron said as he stuffed a bite of potato into his mouth. Hermione wrinkled her nose at his lack of manners and resumed her scan of the Hufflepuff table for the blond girl. To her relief, she saw the blond girl walking into the Great Hall with Professor Dumbledore with a white bandage across one cheek. Harry narrowed his eyes on the aging Headmaster and turned his attention back to his steak and kidney pie. If Dumbledore was going to ignore his existence, he would do the same thing right back. Hermione, on the other hand, got up from her seat and went running over to Usagi.

"Are you all right?" Hermione asked as she reached the blond girl. "We didn't know where you went, I was so worried!"

"I'm fine," Usagi said with a weak smile. She had gotten into quite a bit of trouble for running off like she had. She had tried to explain that she was just trying to draw the creature's attention elsewhere so the rest of the class didn't get hurt and she wasn't trying to fight it or anything. She wasn't so sure that Dumbledore or Professor Snape believed her, though. The way Snape looked at her was almost like he could read her thoughts or something. And the look on Dumbledore's face suggested that he knew more than she said to him. She felt uneasy around them, though more uneasy around Snape than the Headmaster. "Sailor Moon saved me from that thing."

"Sailor Moon?" Hermione questioned as she remembered the conversation they'd had on the train. "You mean the Sailor Moon you and Luna Lovegood talked about on the train?"

"Yeah, she got rid of that monster." Usagi explained carefully.

"I thought she was a Japanese super-heroine, why would she come to England?" Hermione questioned as she put her hand up to her chin in a puzzled expression.

"I don't know, maybe she just goes wherever there's trouble," Usagi tried to cover as a sweatdrop slid down her forehead. "I mean, there was rumor that she was fighting something in the frozen north at one point."

"Well either way, I'm glad to see you are safe. You gave us all quite a fright." Hermione said as she and Usagi began to walk back toward the Hufflepuff table together. "Madam Pomfrey couldn't heal the wound on your cheek?" Hermione asked tentatively as they walked toward Hannah Abbott and a small First Year who had turned to look at them.

"Huh? Oh yeah, the wound wouldn't close by any of her spells for some reason," Usagi explained as she touched her cheek lightly. It didn't hurt and it wouldn't scar either, though Madam Pomfrey informed her that she thought it would. Usagi knew better, in all of her battles, after all of her injuries, not one scar had been left behind. She assumed it had something to do with the Ginzuishou's healing powers. "She tried a bunch of different stuff but had to resort to just bandaging it to let it heal on it's own."

"Oh, I see… what I want to know is what was that creature. I mean, I overheard people saying that once Sailor Moon attacked, maybe healed is a better term?" Hermione said as if speaking her thoughts out loud. "That monster turned into a wizard that had gone missing a while back. It was really strange."

"It's a youma." Usagi blurted out without thinking and a look of horror crossed her face almost instantly. "At least, umm, that's what I read in my manga. They called them youma in the manga." Usagi covered quickly.

"Hmmm…" Hermione mused to herself as she waved to Usagi and headed to her own table to finish her dinner.

"Are you all right, Usagi?" Daphne asked the second Usagi plopped down at the table beside her. Usagi immediately filled her plate, hoping to get some of the good food before it was replaced by dessert. "We heard rumors that your Care of Magical Creatures class was attacked by some sort of monster!"

"Umm… yeah, it was, but I'm fine." Usagi said as a sweatdrop appeared on the back of her head. She really didn't want to talk about what had happened at that moment. She had had enough trouble trying to cover up her identity and intentions when she had run into the forest earlier that day.

"What was it like? Was it scary?" Daphne asked as Usagi stuffed a roll into her mouth. Usagi used the roll as an excuse not to answer right away. She was really surprised at how fast word had spread around the school about her eventful second day. She had only been there for two days and already rumors were flying.

"Yeah, it was a giant scorpion, of course it was scary!" Usagi said after she swallowed her roll and took a sip from her pumpkin juice in the goblet in front of her.

"I heard someone talking about a girl calling herself Sailor Moon or something. Is that what stopped the monster?" Hannah asked as she seemed intrigued by the story as well.

"Yeah…" Usagi said slowly as she turned her attention back to her plate. "She called herself 'Eternal Sailor Moon', she's actually really popular back in Japan…" Usagi said slowly as she took a bite of the roast chicken on her plate. "There's a manga and everything, most people around here think it's just a publicity stunt, but I'm not so sure."

"That's so strange…" Hannah said as if thinking to herself. "You're from Japan and all of a sudden there's a girl fighting monsters around here…" Usagi felt her throat go dry as she swallowed the bite in her mouth and her eyes grew large. Had Hannah figured out that she was Sailor Moon. "Have you met her? You're the only exchange student from Japan I've ever heard about here at Hogwarts, maybe she's just a witch making sure that you're taken care of and she ran into that monster in the woods." Hannah said with a strange look of triumph on her face as if she'd just solved a great riddle.

"Is that so…" Usagi said as another sweatdrop slid down the back of her head. She let out a small sigh of relief and turned her attention back to her food just in time for the desserts to fill the dishes laid out in front of her. Things were going to become much more difficult around the school if more youma decided to show up. Usagi sighed and finished her dessert before trudging after Daphne and Hannah to the Hufflepuff common room. She really needed to talk to Luna, there was little chance of that happening when she got back, though. What she needed was some sort of secret area that she and Luna could meet to speak about the things that were going on around Hogwarts.

:Fin:

6 Professor Sprout is the head of Hufflepuff House isn't she? Correct me if I'm wrong, ne?

All right, I made Usagi take an upper class with the fifth years simply because I wanted her to have more exposure to the trio and Draco and whatnot; If it seems a bit off, I'm really sorry, but the way the story was going, she would have little to no interaction with any of the main characters of the HP books;. Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter, sorry for the wait, the story is picking up a bit. I left you off without a huge cliffhanger 'mouth drops open' Shocking, ne? Please review and tell me how I'm doing

Sozoku: Hehe I can't stand Umbridge either XD I hope you liked this chapter too
Usagi Asia Maxwell: Wow! o.O I didn't know you were still around XD Yeah, the 5th and 6th book are A LOT darker than the rest, it starts getting dark in the third, though. I mean, that one didn't end 'happily ever after' like the first two 'shrugs' I didn't like Harry in the 5th one 'grr' He was like, PMSing all through it -.-
Nercia Genisis: Also, I don't know if I'm being original or not because I don't really read Sailor Moon/Harry Potter stories;
Fiona X. Fyre: Honestly, I haven't decided on a pairing just yet XD I adore Draco, but I don't know if I'll fix her up with him (I have a handful of Eliteist author friends that would murder me XD). I haven't really mentioned the Senshi yet in this story, they may make an appearance, they may not. I'm really not sure yet, I don't plan my stories out in advance;
Mini-MoonStar: Sorry it's so boring, it's off to a bit of a slow start because originally it was supposed to be a one-shot, but Usa-chan Sailor Ronin conned me into making it a chaptered story XD I hadn't really planned anything for it, I hope I spiced it up a bit for ya, though;.
Angel-Goddess: To be honest? This story isn't really planned out at all XD It is a little bit, but I found that if I plan a story out too far, I get bored writing it; I'm too darn long-winded XD It's only been like 4 days (counting the wand search) and the story is already 40 pages long;. Uragirimono is the same way, like 130 pages and only 3 or 4 days have gone by XD. Mmmm…. I love Elios XD He's definitely Bishie 'drools' Lol, Usa-chan is pushing for a Usa/Elios pairing too XD I'm honestly not sure, though;. I honestly ADORE Draco, but I doubt I'll do that pairing, I'll get tackled by a few certain author's;
Nixinox: 'nods' Yup, Usagi is DEFINITELY a Hufflepuff Her loyalty puts her there. Some people will argue that she's brave when she fights as Sailor Moon, but her bravery isn't unwavering, you know what I mean? She'll cry one minute, then be brave when the people she cares about are in trouble.
Angelic-Flame-05: Sorry XD Here's the next chapter for ya; I'm slow when I update, but at least I give long chapters
miz: I can't stand Umbridge XD She's such a wonderfully nasty character that you can really hate, I love it XD
Tenshi no Nozomi: You had good advice, imouto-chan XD Besides, I adore when people reply to my reviews in the following chapter and it's fun to reply Even if doesn't like that -.-
Jenbunny: Hmmm… that is a good point o.O But either way, Usagi's other characteristics would place her in Hufflepuff regardless 'shrugs' I mean, she's DIED for her friends so I'd say her loyalty is her greatest quality I didn't really want this story to be focused on the Senshi because it's too hard to write the Senshi as well as the HP characters and whatnot. I'm not a Mamoru fan so lately in my writing, I tend to gloss him over because I don't want to make him a bad guy or have a 'betrayal' whatever going on so if it comes up when I need him, I'll write in what happened with him. I'm just really not sure what to do with Mamoru at the moment XD