Bittersweet Revenge

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter or Sailor Moon... I am merely using the ideas to try and create an entertaining story...

Chapter 3 - A New School, Encounters, Fires, And One Hell of A Head Ache

When the girls arrived at the Hogsmead, they were immediately taken aback. It looked like a village from the middle ages, but the people that were there, certainly appeared lively enough.

"Follow me girls. The school is not in this village, though it is the only, full wizarding one there is in England. This way." and with that, Dumbledore lead the three girls down the road until they reached Hogwarts' grounds.

As they made their way up to the castle a HUGE man with an extremely bushy beard came up to them,

" 'ello Professor Dumbledore sir. An' who might you be?" he asked the three girls whom were slightly afraid of him.

"Hagrid these are the three exchange students Fudge was talking about." Dumbledore smiled at the giant of a man.

"Oh! 'Ello. M' names 'Agrid. I'm the game keeper and teacher of Care of Magical Creatures."

"M-Mina."

"Rei."

"H-Hotaru." stammered Hotaru bending her neck to look up at him.

"No need to be 'fraid of me." Hagrid laughed, " I wouldn' hur' a fly."

At this the three girls giggled. Rei was the first to speak up, "We aren't scared of you."

"We've seen much scarier things in our life-time," laughed Mina and as if an after thought, she sighed "Like Youmas."

"We were just surprised."

"Didn't think there were giant's at Hogwarts." Mina smiled. At her statement Hagrid's face turned confused.

"You don' care that I'm 'alf giant?"

"Not at all!"

"Y're no' like most wizards 'en." he sighed

"No we're not, and we pride ourselves on that much." smiled Hotaru

"Wizards aren't that bad are they?" asked Dumbledore, a little confused.

"Long story..." -Mina-

"Very long..." -Rei-

"And we aren't aloud to say..." -Hotaru-

"Yeah we'd be breaking a law if we told anyone..." -Rei-

"I see," Dumbledore said suspiciously.

"Well I gotta go Professor. Nice meeting ye' girls."

"You too Hagrid. Hope we run into you again!" smiled Hotaru happily.

"O' you will!" he began to walk off waving, "Bye!"

"Bye." they all said at once, before continuing with Professor Dumbledore, towards the school.

When they reached the school, another two teachers, whom were on their way to the great hall for lunch, greeted them.

"Ahh, Minerva, Serverus. These are the three students Fudge was speaking of. Girls, these are Professor Snape, head of Slytherin house, and our resident potions master. And this is Professor McGonagall. Head of Gryffindor house and the transfiguration teacher." smiled Dumbledore.

"Pleasure to meet you professors." smiled Hotaru bowing to show respect.

"Yes." the other two smiled bowing as well.

"Such manners." smiled McGonagall

"My name is Rei, and these two are Mina and Hotaru."

"It does an old heart good to see there is hope for the future in our younger generation..." sighed Dumbledore. At this all three girls blushed slightly.

"Yes..." Snape said eyeing the three girls with no trust. They were just... too nice and well mannered to be trusted...

They happened to notice his un-trusting gazed and Mina's smile faltered. "Ah, is something the matter professor?" asked Rei, once she had followed Mina's gaze.

"Ah... no. No. It's nothing," he said quickly If they are put in Slytherin house, then I'll know for sure that this is an act

"Well we have to do a few things before lunch so we will see you at afterwards." smiled Professor Dumbledore. After a few goodbyes, they continued down the hall, climbing staircase after staircase. Mina, Rei and Hotaru purposely fell behind a little, to talk out of ear shot.

"Do you think we can trust him with our secret?"

"Hota! We aren't aloud to tell anyone!"

"But Rei! Someone NEEDS to know!"

"Mina we can't! It would be breaking the law! Queen Selenity's Law!"

"But Rei-"

"No buts. Unless we absolutely HAVE to... We aren't going to tell a soul."

"Ok, ok." but unbeknownst to them, Dumbledore had heard them. Now he was confused. And to say this about Dumbledore was very rare indeed.

"Ok girls! Here we are..." he pause and turned to a gargoyle statue, "Chocolate Frogs." suddenly, the gargoyle sprang to life, and hopped aside, revealing a set of stairs. At the very top, Dumbledore opened the door and let them into his office. They took a seat and Dumbledore turned a serious gaze on the three... "Ok now before we do anything else, is there anything about yourselves that you would like to share with me?"

Mina and Hotaru both looked over to Rei as she looked both nervous and scared...

"Ahh...I. I. Ah..." she stammered looking at her friends for back up but they gave her, the 'You-decide-what-to-say' look. She already knew they wanted to tell him but she wasn't so sure... What if he went and told everyone? Then our cover would be blown entirely...

'But you Know he wouldn't do that!' came an annoying voice in the back of her head.

But he might...

'He wont! Just tell him.'

OK! I will...

'Good-'

-But not yet... "Ahhh professor..."

"Yes Ms Hino?"

"We sorta do have something to say..." she looked over at Mina and Hotaru, whom happened to have surprised looks plastered on their faces.

"Yes? What is it?" asked Dumbledore; surprised she was actually saying something.

"Well I'm not really aloud to tell you at the moment sir..."

"I see..."

"But. I promise you will know soon..."

"Rei give him a hint..." whined Hotaru.

"Yeah Rei. He deserves to know! Hogwarts is taking us under its wing. Professor Dumbledore deserves at least a hint! It's not technically telling him."

"Rules were meant to be broken... Or at least bent!" Hotaru said with a pleading look on her face

"I will not force you to tell me anything. Only when and if you come to trust me enough, should you tell me. You now know the password and place of my office. When you believe you can share it with me... Please feel free..." he smiled, eyes shimmering over his half moon spectacles.

"Thank you professor. I'm sorry but we can't tell you yet... For one it would be against the law, and two, no one here is supposed to know. At least, not yet." seeing the quizzical look Dumbledore just gave her, Rei quickly continued, "We are not an enemy... In fact we could probably better handle an enemy than anyone else at this school... I promise to tell you when the time is right... just... not yet." she said, the floor suddenly becoming very interesting indeed.

"It is quite alright Ms Hino. As I said before... no telling me until you are ready."

"Thank you so much sir." Rei said looking up and giving him a small smile.

"Not a problem... Now next we need to find out which house you shall be put in." he got up and walked over to a cabinet, opening it, and taking out an old hat... "Ok Ms. Hino I think we will have you try it on first." he gave her a mysterious smile before dropping the hat on her head.

#Well hello Rei Hino! I'm surprised to see you here, SAILOR MARS...#

>WHAT! HOW DO YOU (whatever you are) KNOW WHO I AM?>

#Well it's quite simple. I am the sorting hat. I decide which house you end up in... And nothing in your mind is hidden from me...#

>Whatever. But tell anyone and I'll rip you apart...Thread by thread.> She threatened.

#Yes I'll take that into consideration. She felt the hat smile Now let's see... You have a good heart loyal and trustworthy, and you are certainly happy the way you are... That crosses off Slytherin... There is no way you'd be fit for Hufflepuff... And you're not exceptionally bright-#

>HEY! That's not very nice!>

#You are smart but I believe your bravery outdoes the rest. I think you'd be best fit for...#

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Rei promptly took off the hat smiling, "If that hat spills a thing, I'm sorry professor but you will have to find a new one or a really good repair person cause it wont be in good enough shape to house a flea." she said in an angry voice, but then she giggled and passed the hat to Mina. She slipped it on and the hat spoke again

#Hello Mina Aino...Or is it, Sailor Venus?#

>What! How do you know?>

#Simple... There's not a corner in your mind that I can't see... I know everything you know...#

>Please don't tell anyone!>

#I would never...Very well, let's see now...hmmmm... I think I'll put you into...# "Gryffindor!"

She promptly took off the hat with a smile and passed it to Hotaru...

#Well hello Hotaru Tomoe. And again, another Sailor Scout. Hello Sailor Saturn...#

>What in Cosmo's name... Oh please you can't tell anyone! It's against the law! Nobody on this planet can know who we are before we transform! It will put us in a lot of danger!>

#Calm down... I'm not going to tell anyone.#

>Thank you...>

#It's quite all-right little one-#

>Little one? Have you seen how small you are?> She mused making the hat laugh

#Quite a joker. Also extremely brave. You are definitely not fit for Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, because your bravery and cunning are by far, stronger than your mind... But then there is the matter of Mistress 9... Poor child, if I could, I would pity you for your misfortune of having her dormant within you.#

>Please...Don't remind me! And please don't judge me because of...IT... She and I are completely different souls.>

#I know child that's why I am going to put you with your friends.. Even though you could have done splendidly in Slytherin...# "Gryffindor!"

Hotaru took off the hat smiling... "Well I guess we are all together!" she giggled and passed the hat back to a beaming Dumbledore.

"Ok. Since you are now officially all Gryffindors... I shall escort you to the common room and Dormitories..." he got up and motioned for them to follow him...

They walked down many corridors and up and down many staircases until finally they rounded a corner and saw the portrait of a fat lady, in a pink dress, smiling. When she saw Dumbledore, she bowed and swung the portrait open, revealing the entrance to Gryffindor Common room. "Now girls at the moment, the password to get in is Quidditch... And please do not write it down..."

"Don't worry we have exceptional memories."

"Be warned every once in a while, she changes it." he smiled pointing back to the portrait hole.

"Ok!" all three said brightly he smiled and led them up to the sixth year's dormitory and then left them to unpack.

Once he was out of the room the each pulled out their trunks and set about unpacking things into their dressing tables and the chest of drawers beside each of their beds. (A/N: Come on you know what I'm talking about... Stuff like make up no girl does not have even the smallest bit of it and some shirts and things...) they also laid out their uniforms on the chairs in the room smiling... "Ok Time to explore!" grinned Hotaru.

"You guys go ahead... You know I wont need too..."

"Oh yeah... I forgot about your sorta sixth sense for where stuff is." giggled Hotaru

"OK if your sure Rei... then we are gonna go look around... BYE!" Mina smiled as she and Hotaru bolted for the door...

Rei lay back on her bed and sighed... life was just too weird right now... She needed some fresh air...she needed to take a walk... RIGHT NOW." so getting up off her bed, she went over to her trunk pulling out a nice Red sleeveless dress, and a matching sash, and changed into them.

Pulling her hair up into a high ponytail and holding it in place with a red ribbon, she slipped on a pretty gold necklace with her birthmark as the charm. She also put on a pair of ruby studded earrings before using a spell she had read of, to apply her make up... even if she was on her own... she didn't want to look like crap... Rei Hino ALWAYS looked her best... no matter what...

With the other Girls.

"Ooooo... is this the library!" gasped Mina looking at all the books and room in there.

"Wow it would take a whole century to read all these!"

"Yeah! Oh my gosh! And they are all wizarding books too!" laughed Mina looking along all the isles.

"Wow... how cool! We are coming back here afterwards!" giggled Hotaru as they both left for the exit.

As they rounded the corner, chatting animatedly, Hotaru ran into someone and lost her balance, but before she could hit the floor a strong pair of arms helped her steady. She looked up and gasped at whom she saw... "Oh my gosh I'm sorry Draco. I really should be more careful, are you ok?" she asked hurriedly

Draco just held up a hand and shook his head in cuckling lightly, "You must have a habit of running into people... or is it just me? I'm fine, you ok though?"

"Yeah, thanks by the way."

"That's alright..."

"So what are you doing here?"

"Father had something important to talk with Dumbledore about... I came with him... sooo what are YOU doing here?"

"Exploring." she stated simply

"Ok... Want a tour you two?" he asked looking at Mina who was giggling uncontrollably behind her hand.

Hotaru shot Mina a small glare before nodding, "Just give me a sec." she walked up to Mina and smiled evilly, "Stop giggling like a maniac or I'm gonna tell everyone just how big a crush you had on Amara." at this Mina stopped abruptly and gave her a 'You-wouldn't-be-that-cruel' look

"Oh believe me... I would..."

Mina sighed and nodded before saying loud enough for Draco to hear, "But you too look so cute together!" she whined and had to fight hard against laughing as she saw Draco's cheeks tinge a slight colour of pink, as did Hotaru's.

"Mina... last warning... lose the boy crazy attitude NOW." she said. For some reason, Draco noticed her voice was commanding authority even though she was obviously younger than her friend...Mina... was it?

Mina just laughed and saluted, "Yes mummy." Hotaru rolled her eyes as she let a raspberry slip before turning with a smile to Draco...

"Ok let's go..."

With Rei.

Rei made her way through the entrance hall and out onto Hogwarts grounds not really noticing where she was going, just letting her senses guide her.

Soon she found herself walking through a deep, dark forest, feet moving, one after the other, as she was deep in thought. So deep that she never noticed she being watched by a pair of eyes...

She let out a long sigh as she settled down on a log by a miniature lake. She fixed her small dress, pulling it down a little seeing as the skirt part of it only reached about 15 centimetres above her knee. She sat there for a long time just staring at the water until she heard a voice from behind her making her jolt to her feet into a battle stance

"You should not be wandering around the dark forest alone little one..." she spun around looking for the voice but gave up, closed her eyes and let her senses find him. When she opened her eyes again she looked right at a dark shadowy part near a rather large tree.

"Who are you and why are you following me?" she demanded eyes never leaving the shadowy place.

"I'm not an enemy of yours..."

"Then show yourself." at her words she heard movement and then saw a centaur step out, into the light.

"Is this enough to get you out of the battle stance?" he asked with a kind smile.

"Not really." she stated nonchalantly

"Very well... my name Frieze." the centaur did an unmistakable bow, his golden blond hair, falling over his face until he stood straight and flicked it back again,

"Rei... Rei Hino." she sighed getting sick of the of standing their like an idiot so she relaxed and sat back down on the log.

"Why are you walking around in this forest? It is an extremely dangerous place," he asked moving next to the log.

"I'm not afraid. Not like any of it could hurt me."

"A foolish thought."

"True thought. You have no idea who or what I am..."

"Then would you care to tell me?"

"I'd like to... but I'd rather not break a law so early in my life." she said sarcastically

"Pardon? I may be wrong but I don't think there is a law stopping anyone from saying who they are."

" Not on this planet-" she clamped a hand over her mouth mentally bashing herself to a pulp.

"You may as well go on... I swear to keep it a secret..."

Rei looked up into his aqua blue eyes, seeing nothing but truth so she sighed and looked back at the waters contemplating how to tell a centaur that you are basically a Martian from Mars. "Where to start..." she trailed off with another sigh, Frieze caught her sad mood and placed a hand on her shoulder in a comforting gesture.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah..." she paused and thought again. "I guess the best way to tell you is to show you..." and she stood up, as the centaur moved back to give her some room.

She lifted her hand above her hair as she called out, "MARS CRYSTAL POWER!" her nails glowed a bright red as her transformation wand appeared in her hand. Fire from the wand shot out and encircled her and soon the transformation was completed, and there stood Sailor Mars.

Frieze looked on in surprise, "My goodness child... of all the things possible I never expected you to be the senshi of the planet of Fire, ."

Rei shrugged again and sat down on the log, still as Sailor Mars, "Yeah... too bad the Queen, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus are dead." she sighed, fighting to hold back tears.

"What of Venus, Saturn and Pluto?" he asked cautiously, noticing her deep depression, so again he placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Venus, and Saturn are here at Hogwarts as well... and Pluto... is probably guarding the time gates. Next time I see her I'm going to demand an explanation as to why she aloud them all to die... physically." her voice cracked at her last sentence.

"Child. It is all right to cry... It is alright to fear."

"It's not fear." she practically screamed angrily, "Like hell it's fear... The next time I see that demon Voldemort he is going to know why everyone says don't mess with a highly pissed off SCOUT!" she said this while jolting to her feet... She couldn't take much more. She needed to blow off some steam... The Mars blood that ran through her veins was boiling to an extent that she thought she might burst.

"Please keep away... I don't want to let my anger out but I have to. Stay back..." her tears falling and anger shooting through her whole body, making itself very visible as she began to glow red. Whilst she clenched her fist, fire began with in it, she aloud all her anger to flow into the ball of fire... All her sorrow, frustration, hatred, self-pity, self-control, anything within her and the fireball only increased in size at each new input. Finally she let out a hate filled cry and shot it up into the sky. Then it exploded rather largely as she collapsed to her knees weeping uncontrollably.

Frieze was very much frightened as he saw the amount of destruction that one blast from the senshi could have caused, but the sight of the insecure, weeping girl on the floor drove it all away as he trotted up to her and lifted her up onto her feet. Then he gave her a loose, comforting hug, which she only returned, sobbing hard.

"Child, calm down... is it really worth having all this anger within you? Just let it out," he sighed as her shoulders continued to shake with the flow of tears. He really wasn't sure whether he should fear her, befriend her, or keep away from her... It was all very confusing, but all she really was, was and angry and sad child, in need of comfort from the world... so he settled for befriending her, "Shhh, it is alright."

He continued soothing her until her tears slowed to quiet sniffles and finally to a stop. She moved back a little and gave him a shaky smile, "I'm really sorry... that was just bottled up inside me. Thank you."

"It is quite alright... But it is not good to bottle up emotions...little outbursts like this may happen more often if you do." he smiled kindly.

Rei officially felt extremely tired, "Thank you for putting up with that." he smiled at her as he settled down next to the log.

"Not every day you run into one hell of a pissed off Senshi." he joked bringing a true smile to her face, "There you see? Smiles suit you much better."

She let a small giggle slip and the sky lightened considerably, Frieze of course noticed it and smiled as well, "Thank you for cheering me up." she smiled a full, true smile.

"You needed it... I suggest you wash your face, you look awful," he laughed pointing to the lake.

She gave him a mock/glare and walked over to the lake, looking at her reflection, "Your right!" she concluded, "I do look awful!" and with that, she scooped up a handful of water and splashed it onto her face. After a few minuets she finished, and moved to pull a towel out of her subspace packet, drying her face. When she returned it and swivelled and saw a surprised Frieze, "Subspace pocket," she shrugged giggling at the fact he pulled on a knowing face,

"I knew that."

"Sure you did." she giggled, "You aren't like most of the centaurs I've met... They were all so damn serious all the time!"

"Well I am still considered a young one..."

"How old are you?"

"117 years to be exact,"

"Yikes! Damn-it, your old enough to be a grandpa! Come to think of it, you're older than my grandpa!" she exclaimed giggling

"Well if you were to convert to a human life span then I'd probably be around... say 16..."

"16! Sheesh that is so weird!"

"I know... But I think I can live with that." he smiled looking up at the sky as the sun began to set, "You might want to get back to the castle before the sun sets, so you can make it to dinner..."

Rei looked up and nearly screamed, "Whoa! You're right! Damn-it! Wanna walk with me?" she asked looking back at him,

"Why don't I give you a ride? It will be much faster." but Rei just shook her head,

"If one of your elders saw you he'd probably chuck a fit, I know how they think giving a human a ride, is very... how should we say." she took a stiff back pose and a fake serious face, "Undignified, degrading and humiliating." she dropped the act straight away making Frieze laugh...

"Hmmm. Very well... let's go." and they began their way back through the forest to the castle, their laughter and their voices (Mainly Rei's) rang out throughout the forest. As they reached the edge, they ran into the giant Rei knew as Hagrid, "Hello old friend." Frieze smiled, bowing slightly

"Frieze... what are ya doin' with a student?"

Frieze shot a glance to Rei who shook her head, giving him the he-doesn't-know-the-truth look.

"Talking." he stated simply, making Rei giggle

"I was taking a walk and ran into Frieze. He was just showing me back out of the forest."

"You're no' aloud t' go int' that there forest. Against th' school rules plus it's very dangerous..."

"That's what he said," she giggled pointing her thumb to Frieze who just shrugged innocently

Hagrid shook his head, amused, as he motioned for Rei to go up to the castle. Rei smiled turned, and hugged Frieze saying a quick goodbye, before jogging up to the castle. (A/N: Dunno how she pulled it off in heels though... Sigh)

"Well that's a side of ya I ain't never seen before'" laughed Hagrid. Frieze just shrugged, bowed while saying goodbye again, and left a confused Hagrid.

With the other girls + Draco.

"And that's basically all you need to know for the classes..." Draco said, smiling at Hotaru and Mina.

"Thanks Draco, Your the best!" Hotaru and Mina chimed, but Hotaru also hugged him. His cheeks tinged a light shade of pink and so did Hotaru's as she realized what she had done. She let go and gave him a bright smile to cover up her embarrassment.

"I think we should head down to the great hall for lunch..." Mina giggled clasping both hands under her chin and sighing dreamily, "You too really DO look cute together." She giggled and bolted down the stairs to avoid getting attacked.

"Should we kill her?" asked Hotaru looking off in the direction Mina had run off in...

"Nah... it's actually amusing." Chuckled Draco, taking Hotaru's hand and leading her towards the staircase...

"Ok but if she keeps it up... then I'll kill her." Giggled Hotaru as Draco flashed a boyish smile, which made him look so adorable to Hota. She smiled warmly back as somehow, their hands found themselves intertwined, but HEY! She wasn't complaining!

Later that night.

"Bye Draco! See you day after tomorrow!" she smiled, and hugged him again. Lucius looked on rather amused at how easily this girl managed to capture his son... And about time he fell for someone to! And the better thing was, it was someone he found to be O.K... Not annoying.

"Yeah by Hota." Draco smiled returning the hug. They let go and waved as Hotaru ran back up to the castle and Draco turned to his father expecting to be berated but he got the shock of a lifetime when all Lucius did was smile and usher him out of the school grounds.

Inside the castle.

"Well someone seems to like a certain blonde guy more than a just friend." Laughed Mina as she and Rei stood in the entrance hall, leaned up against a wall.

"Oh shut up Mina!" hissed Hotaru moving to go up the stairs but stopped and turned to look at Mina again, "Oh and careful. I may just go and drop my glaive just to get you for that one." She laughed light heartedly at their ghostly pale faces, even though it was really a serious matter.

"Hota don't joke about things like that!" scolded Rei, all three oblivious to the person watching from the dungeon entrance.

"It's only a joke Rei! You know I would never do that!"

"Hope not!" sighed Mina,

"Come on... Bed. NOW!" laughed Rei pushing both girls up the stairs.

Next Morning.

It was a sunny day outside, as all three girls awoke with bad headaches for some reason. Moaning and groaning as the sun rose, they got up and walked into the bathroom. None of them really felt like training so they ended up having a shower and getting dressed, still in a groggy mood.

"Owwww! My head is killing me!" whined Mina as she plopped back down on the bed.

"Mine too but you don't see me complaining." Sighed Rei

"I have a head ache too... oh and Rei you did complain... just then." Smiled Hotaru

"Shut up Hota!" groaned Rei, and a peaceful silence fell across the room. But all too soon it was shattered by the scream of the now, well know Professor McGonagall.

"What in the name of Mars is going on!" exclaimed Rei getting up and rushing to the window. "Oh no! Youma!" she groaned transforming into sailor Mars as the other two caught on and transformed into Sailor Venus and Sailor Saturn (She hasn't pulled out her glaive at the moment.) Rei pulled open the window and saw the very high drop, but it never scared her. "Come on scouts it's starting all over again." Sighed Mars jumping out of the window as wings appeared from her back and she glided down. The other two did the same, using the sun to hide their descent until the castle hid it from view.

"Hey you! Stop right there!" they screamed at the same time as they landed, wings still spread like eagles. Only now did they notice professor Snape and Dumbledore running across the field to help McGonagall. Slowly their wings vanished in a rush of magic

"And just who might you be?" asked the monster stopping it's advance on McGonagall. The poor professor rubbed her eyes a few times to make sure she wasn't seeing things but surely, their stood three teenage girls challenging the beast that was apparently immune to wizards magic.

"I am Sailor Mars!"

"I am Sailor Venus."

"And I... am Sailor Saturn! And your worst nightmare." She glared angrily at the damn beast, "Ok now we are gonna cut the crap and put it plain and simple."

"Scat or splat. You pick." Growled Mina

"You couldn't have come at a worse time." Hissed Rei angrily.

"And who's gonna make me leave? You! HAHA I'd love to see you try!" laughed the weird creature. It had bright blue skin and looked exactly like a clown, except for the sword-like hands and the razor sharp hair

"Girls you must run! Get out of here!" Screamed McGonagall

"Not a chance, ma'am I've had it to Pluto and back with these god damn Youmas coming one after the other!" growled Rei as she turned her attention back to the monster, "And Fine I'd love to make you, gives me some stress relief for the day. Girls step back... He's MINE!" Drawing power to her hand, the symbol of Mars glowed as she called out, "MARS FLAME SNIPER!" and by the end of these words, she had a fiery bow and arrow, aimed and ready at the Youma. She shot it dead in the heart and it turned to ashes in a matter of seconds.

"Go Mars."

"Something's definitely pissing her off." -Venus-

"Mhm." -Saturn-

"And that's why they say, DON'T MESS WITH A PISSED OFF SCOUT!" Mars Yelled at the dust glaring heavily.

"Um ok Mars cool it, the Youma is gone." Saturn said walking up to her friend, missing the completely stunned looks on the three professors' faces.

Mars took a few deep breaths and calmed down enough to give a small smile.

"Guys we should go..." said Venus noticing the looks of gratitude and bewilderment flowing across their teachers' faces.

"Thank you." McGonagall smiled at the girls, "Thank you for saving my life. I am in your debt."

"Hey no need!" Grinned Mina flashing her famous V for victory sign. "Just glad to get rid of yet another Youma." She sighed Looking back at the girls, all three nodded, taking a step back from each other they concentrated on their wings, and they appeared, further shocking the viewers. Then all three girls took flight but not before giving their trademark smiles and waves, vanishing into the sun.

"Were they angels?" asked McGonagall

"No... They were Sailor Scouts..."

"But Albus... That is just a myth..." Snape said still staring out at the sky...

"Apparently...not anymore it's not..." he said,

Up on the astronomy tower.

All three girls landed and detransformed, wings vanishing as well

"So much for no training this morning." Sighed Mina holding her head with a groan.

"Let's go down to the hospital wing before my head explodes." whined Hotaru getting a small nod from each of the girls. It hurt so they immediately stopped.

The walk down to the hospital wing was a silent one, and upon entering they saw Dumbledore, sitting and talking to McGonagall, who was being checked over by Madam Pomfrei.

"Professor are you alright?" asked Hota, slowly walking up to Professor McGonagall, making sure not to move too fast in fear of causing her head more pain.

"Girls are you feeling ok, you're as pale as Sir Nicholas." (you know, the ghost)

"Not really... Madame Pomfrei, do you have some sort of cure for really bad head aches?" asked Rei

"But of course dear... ummm... all three of you?"

"Yeah..." Mina groaned, sitting on the bed. With that, Madame Pomfrei bustled off into her office.

"Professor, you look really battered up... what happened?" Rei asked following suit, sitting beside Mina

"It's nothing child. Don't worry." she gave them one of her rare smiles and lay back down on the bed with a sigh.

Oh yeah. She has NO idea was what Mina, Rei and Hotaru thought as Madam Pomfrei came back into the room with three goblets.

"Drink up girls... The effects are instant." she smiled handing them one each. Mina and Rei drank it without a second thought, but Hotaru eyed it cautiously, somethings reacted badly with her body as it did Mina's and Rei's STOP! she scramed telepathically at the two. they instantly looked at her strangely. We have no idea what's in this. You know senshi bodies react strangely to some potions. immediately both girls stopped drinking.

"A Madame, what is this?" asked Hotaru cautiously.

"A simple headache remedy..." and she began listing off the ingredients. As she went on, Hotaru relaxed, nothing in this potion 'should' react weirdly. So she took a small sip, and felt her headache leaving slowly, she drank the rest down in a few gulps. Rei and Mina did the same.

"Thank you. It's just we have er... some alergies to some potion ingredients..." Mina covered up, seeing a questioning look on the matron's face.

"Oh that is a very rare, and very fatal thing a witch or wizard could have." sighed professor Snape, not really showing concern, but actually showing interest in the matter.

"Uh...yeah..." Mina sighed sadly making Hotaru and Rei giggle, "Hey it could have happened to you too." she said with a glare.

"What could have happened?" asked Profssor Dumbledore, knowing he was going to get a strange story

"Well once, Mina drank down an anti flu potion..." -Rei-

"And she blew up like a balloon for the whole day! We didn't know the cure!" Laughed Hotaru

"And when she says balloon, she means balloon." -Rei-

"Yep, the rubbery shiney-ness, and the whole round and floating in the air thing was going on for I think about 3 hours after she took it." Hotura said giggling like a mad man.

"Too bad we diddn't have a camera at the time! It would have been hilarious!" Rei joined in laughing,

"No. More like thank god you didn't have a camera." huffed Mina, crossing her arms across her chest as Dumbledores eyes glittered and he smiled. "OK we're going now." Mina continued dragging her friends out the door.

And the fun and laughter continued on for the rest of the day, they even conned McGonagall into playing a few rounds of wizards chess with them.

Next morning came swiftly, along with another headache, for the girls so again, they got ready, and headed down to the hospital wing, for the head ache potion. Needless to say, Madame Pomfrei was a little surprised to see them again, but quickly wipped up another batch of the potion, and gave some to each of the girls.

"It's very srange how you three keep waking up with severe head aches..." wondered the matron as they gulped down the potion.

"Ah... yeah strange..."

Outside, next to the lake.

Lunch would be starting in about an hour so the three girls were just lazing out along randomly placed rocks, contemplating different things in silence, mainly why they were getting these annoying head aches every time they woke up.

"Guys... I think I got a theory..." the other two girls' perked up looking at her with high intrest

"What is it Hota?"

"Well maybe all the witch and wizard magic that is Hogwarts, is interfering with our planetary magic, and the head aches are the result..."

"That is a very good theory Hota... I was thinking along the same lines..." sighed Rei

"Yeah it makes sense. Lunarian and earth magic never did mix well." Grinned Mina,

"And that is how Rini was made." giggled Hotaru

Lunch.

"So girls Madame Pomfrei informed me that again, you three awoke with headaches..." Professor Dumbledore said, concern in his eyes.

"Ah yeah..." Mina nervously smiled "But it's all gone now!"

Dumbledore looked thoughtful for a moment before giving them a questioning look. "That is good to hear..." but he didn't speak his mind after that

"Ah Professor..."

"Yes Ms Hino..."

"Is there any ceremonial fires here? Ones to do readings from?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Oh ah... Just curious that's all!"

"Ok, well actually we do... but it is outside, and rather hard to light, even with magic..."

"Where abouts?"

"Near the lake... The rocks you three were on earlier, are just in front of it."

"Oh ok! Are we aloud to use it?"

"Not without propper training no."

"Would WE be able to use it?" she laid a heavy accent on the 'we', "You see I've had preiestess training back in Japan... My grandfather owned a temple, and well we used to do fire readings all the time there..."

"sigh... Very well... But Be extremely careful..."

"Thank you sir-"

"And you'll need to have a teacher with you, to see whether or not you really do know what you're doing..."

"SURE!" Said a smiling Rei, polishing off her plate, signalling for the other girls to hurry up, "Can we go now?"

"Very well, Professor McGonagal, since you are finished, can you escort the girls and observe them?"

"Very well Albus." and the four of them left quickly

At the ceremonial fire.

Professor McGonagall was standing to the side as Rei lit the fires, though she didn't actually see how. Mina and Hotary settled themselves behind her, and Rei knelt down in front of the large blazing fire. She began to chant, fingers shifting to the symbol of each element and as she continued, the fire only got stronger and stronger. She had to take a step back, because the heat was unbearable, but Rei was no more than three feet away and she seemed unfazed by it.

Suddenly, without warning, the flames went into an upraor as she said her next command, "Fires of mars, hear my plee..." she paused as the flames quieted down a little but were still going crazy, scaring the poor professor. "Show us the face of the murderer... Reveal to us his power and allies..." and with that images began to appear in the flame. A man looking more like a snake, with is ruby red, evil eyes and slits, for his nose, standing as the events of the night the senshi were killed, played like a tv in the fire... Then they saw something that made their blood run cold, A man, with short blond hair and evil blue eyes, was standing beside him, "Jedite!" whispered Mina, in shock,

"I thought Beryl destroyed him when he couldn't defeat us..." Rei continued in a low whisper so the professor couldn't hear...

But that was not all they saw... There was one other man with him... he had long, shoulder length silverish-white hair, standing tall and proud on the other side of the hideous creature. Slowly Jedite and Malechite Vanished, and then they saw themselves run over as the scouts, Rei flinging the Mars Fire bird, to attack them as they rushed to their friends... Then it faded as Rei began shaking her head in denile, "That's not possible... Those two are dead! Beryl destroyed Jedite and Serena killed Malechite."

"Rei, it has to be true if the fires showed it to you. Come on lets put it out. We might have some better ideas in the morning... Who knows, maybe we'll have some solutions too." Hotaru sighed, hugging Rei, as Mina used a charm, to suck out water from the lake to put it out.


Sorry about the wierd bit near the end... But all of those things you need to know, and they will come in handy in explaining things later on... So... spill your ideas to me! R+R, and give me some suggestions! I will accept constructive critisism but I DON'T want any FLAMES! Please be gentle... This is my first cross over fic and to be honest, Even I don't know where it is heading. Thanks for Reading! Oh and I'm proud, this officially my longest ever chapter... 17 and a half pages long!

CHERRY