AN: Just wanted to inform that from here till close to the end the chapters are going to alternate back and forth between what happening with Serena and what is happening with the other scouts and the charmed ones. Also even though this takes place in the 6th year for harry potter; in might not follow the events of the 6th book exactly. Some thing might be different, but I'll try to not stray too far. Just for where it fits the story. With that said on with the story.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything so don't bug me!

Semi-Isolation

(ByMae-E)

Chapter: 3

All was normal just like any other night. The room atop the tallest tower of the school was as dark as the night sky outside. And for the time of night it was completely vacant. All of a sudden a Blinding flash of white light flooded the small room, followed by the sound of a soft thud. Shortly afterward the light that had illuminated the room died out returning it to its original darkness, but now the room was no longer vacant.

A soft groan could be heard from the floor. As she looked around from her place on the floor All she could see where the stars in the night sky through the various windows.

"What happened?" Serena asked herself while pulling herself up into a sitting position.

The last thing she could remember was pushing someone out of the way. After a minute or two it slowly started to come back to her. They had been fighting someone or something in that club, when she had to pushPaige out of the way. As soon as she realized that she had been fighting it hit her, she looked down and could tell that even in the darkened room that she was no longer transformed, but wearing the baby blue peasant top and long, flowing white skirt she had put on this morning. As she started to make her way to her feet, glad to know she still had on her white tennis shoes. She could make out a small tabby cat enter the room.

"Hi there." Serena said to the cat in a very warm and friendly voice.

"What are you doing here?" Serena asked the cat in the same warm tone.

The cat just looked up at her curiously. Not too far away Serena suddenly heard the sounds of footsteps and of someone calling the cat. The voice did not sound very pleasant. Being in a strange environment and with who knows what approaching Serena figured it be in her best interest to transform. She went to reach for her brooch, so she could call for her powers. But she stopped when her hand reached the spot on her shirt where her brooch had been and felt nothing but material instead. Instantly looking down She could see that her brooch was not there. She immediately dropped back down to the floor to look for it in case it had fallen off. She groped around the floor almost blindly and found nothing but air and dust. Fear and panic started to coarse through her, She didn't have her brooch. Without it she couldn't use the crystal's magic to transform. Whatever was headed her way she was going to have to face on her own.

Soon a light started to creep around the corner as the footsteps drew closer. The small beam of light that had found its way around the corner lit up enough of the room to show Serena that there was no place in the room to hide just 4 bare walls and quite a few windows, most of them with telescopes sitting in them. Serena realized quite quickly that she was trapped. Whatever or whoever came through that door in front of her in a few minutes would have her cornered. The whole time the cat never took its eyes off Serena, as if it was trying to look through her.

Then suddenly the person appeared in the door. He was a grimy, lanky older looking guy. His filthy appearance enough to scare anyone. Serena backed up to the far wall of the room. And watched silently as the man swept his lantern from one corner of the room to another. Then the beam of light stopped on her for a minute, cause Serena to take in a sharp breath. The man looked around silently. Then down at the cat and said, "there is nothing here." then turned and left. The cat stayed there and continued to stare at Serena till the man called for it and it slowly left the room.

Serena let out a deep breath of relief as she slid down the wall into a sitting position. She was grateful that she didn't have to defend herself from the creepy looking guy, but at the same time puzzled as to why he didn't see her, especially when he had his light shining right on her at one moment. Serena was confused to say the least.

Confusion was a feeling Serena became very familiar with over the next few days. At first she thought that everyone she tried to talk to was ignoring her. But that was until she tried standing right in front of a young girl and her friends in an attempt to make them stop and talk to her by blocking their path, and they just walked straight through her. Leaving Serena with a massive case of cold chills through out her body. That wasn't the only discovery she had made in that time, but the beginnings of a rather long list.

Serena found that though she could still pick up inanimate objects, and was still solid enough to were she still had to use doors and stuff like that. She found that she just couldn't seem to communicate or contact anybody around her. It was like she was on the outside looking in. For someone who was as used to being surrounded by people as Serena was, isolation was something of a new experience for her. One that she was not particularly enjoying.

Her lack of visibility did have some advantages though; it allowed her to wander the building unprohibited by any of its occupants. Serena found this most helpful while trying to gather information on where she was along with other things. She found that one of the best ways to find out what was going on was to just listen to some of the conversations going on around her, the second being the library. But it seemed that for every answer she found it seemed to generate at least 2 more questions in its place.

Serena discovered that she was in what could be called a boarding school. It was named Hogwarts. And that she was in another country altogether. She was amazed to find it was a school devoted purely to the use of magic. Serena couldn't help but think how useful that could have been way back when she first became Sailor Moon. Not that Luna wasn't a good guide and teacher, but there was so much they had to learn on their own and that made it so much harder. Serena was distracted form that train of thought when someone walked right through her. A wave of cold chills shot through her body. She found that whenever someone past through her it made her feel very cold for a brief period of time. Which was to say the least extremely unnerving.

As Serena rubbed her arms in effort to warm up she walked closer to the wall so that she would out of the flow of traffic. This particular day had not been going very well. Not that any of them had been really great since she had gotten there, but this one had really been lousy. Serena had slept late that morning and missed her chance to get something to eat. Not only that but while in the library she accidentally knocked some kid's bottle of ink of the edge of the table near by and send it shattering to the floor. In the process half of the bottle's contents ended up spilling onto her shoe. So now not only was top half of her left shoe now dyed the navy blue color of the ink, but she had an ink stain on her foot were the ink had soaked through both her shoe and sock.

As Serena looked around at all the different kids that were filtering through the hallway at that moment, watching them talk to their friends, compare homework, laughing together, amongst other things; she was suddenly hit with a massive swell of homesickness. How she missed her friends and her husband. Serena slumped down against the wall into a sitting position. She hugged her legs while setting her head against her knees. She started to think about what her friends might possibly be doing now. How she love to be able to talk to them right now. She would even to be glad to hear Raye remarking to her about klutzing out with that bottle of ink. The more she thought about her friends and her home and everything, the more depressed she became. Before long all those emotions she was holding inside bubbled their way to the surface, and she broke down into tears.

She didn't know how long she hand been sitting there while she continued to cry, but she was suddenly interrupted by a voice asking her if she was ok. Serena's head suddenly shot up from its place to see, through tear blurred eyes, a boy about 16 years old. He had green eyes, and unruly jet-black hair. He wore glasses and had a scar on his head in the shape of a lighting bolt.

In almost a state of shock she asked him hesitantly, "You can see me?"

The boy looked confused for a moment and then asked her, "Yeah…Why wouldn't I be able to?"

Serena looked at him for a minute then when she realized that he had answered her. Then before she could stop herself she asked him, "You can hear me too?"

The boy looked even more confused then asked, "Yeah…Why wouldn't I be able to?"

Serena smiled for the first time since she got there. After thinking of her answer for a few minutes she finally said, "I'm not sure how or why, but you have been the first person who been able to."