SM and HP
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
"How did an artifact that was supposed to summon the missing Potter end up summoning the Queen of Pluto?" Minerva McGonagall demanded as she glared at her boss suspiciously. She would not put it past him to try and summon another useful 'weapon' since it had been revealed in public by Pettigrew last year that it had actually been Harlene to defeat the Dark Lord when they were babies not Harry. Voldemort himself had revealed it to Harry who told his parents and Dumbledore and herself back in first year when he stopped the shade from returning.
"No matter if it were the Goblet, a different artifact, an attempt by the phoenix Fawkes, or any other method of summoning…any attempts to summon Harlene Potter would have only summoned me." Setsuna said her voice powerful but a bit softer as she watched the teachers react to what was going on, noticing how some actually looked upset that they wouldn't find Harlene. At least as far as they knew. She couldn't wait to see the looks on their faces when they learned that she was the one they had been searching for and that their summoning attempt hadn't gotten the wrong woman.
"Why is that your highness?" Flitwick asked narrowing his eyes slightly, why would an attempt to summon Harlene Potter instead summon the goddess of Time? Something didn't make sense here.
"I leave that up to you all to discover. Now. I believe I was summoned here for a reason? The…tournament is it?" Setsuna asked raising an eyebrow at them and making one man who had the aura of a coward sneer at her although his knees were trembling.
"Shouldn't the all mighty Goddess of Time know?" Kakaroff sneered at Setsuna who merely raised her other eyebrow at him imperiously.
"I am a Goddess, Queen, Warrior, Advisor, and mother. Do you really think I care about what happens in one too insular for its own good community of magic users?" Setsuna asked giving him a look that had him blushing a bit at how stupid the question was when she put it like that.
"Mother? So you have children?" Dumbledore asked looking far too interested than he had any right to be in her children which had Setsuna's eyes narrowing dangerously.
"Two. One not yet supposed to be born. Another being raised by me and two of my soulmates. One shall be the queen of the Moon Kingdom in the far far future, the other is a reborn Warrior in her own right and Princess of her own planet. If any wish them harm…well…one can get lost in the sands of time quite easily." Setsuna said the last bit with a dark chuckle that scared people and had several whispering about her being a Dark Lady.
"My soulmates will be coming to find me eventually. Until that time I believe that I have to deal with this children's game?" Setsuna asked raising an eyebrow and making more than a few people puff up annoyed and agitated by her calling it a children's game.
"People have died in this tournament! How can you call it a game?!" Hermione Granger shouted at Setsuna from the Gryffindor table making Setsuna raise an eyebrow at her as she quickly looked through the Time Gates to the past.
"Children. Under the age of twenty years old, they all died just for your entertainment. Let me give you all a little history lesson." Setsuna said deciding to make sure they understood even more than ever that she was not one to mess with. If they were scared of her then they wouldn't go after her little girls.
"Over ten thousand years ago was when the first of the Warriors or 'Senshi' as they were called then appeared. They appeared all nine of the originals to fight off a dark threat that was going to destroy everything in its path." Setsuna said her eyes far away as she knew about this, having been told that by her own predecessors back before their deaths.
"Each of the warriors had powers derived from their home world, the world named after a certain god or goddess that granted them those very powers. Now this was over ten thousand years ago when this all started. Tell me do any of you wish to guess how long I have been a Warrior in service to my queen?" Setsuna asked making everyone look confused or look at each other.
"You're not much older than me it seems. Maybe ten years, fifteen at the most?" Charity Burbage, the youngest of the professors, asked looking at the woman who gave out a chuckle at this.
"That is quite the compliment but entirely incorrect. I am much older than I look." Setsuna said her eyes twinkling mischievously as she grinned a bit, inwardly though she was debating whether or not Haruka had rubbed off on her too much.
"Over a thousand years." McGonagall said her voice soft and a bit awed but sure. A few people scoffed, especially the greasy haired man that Setsuna knew was named Snape.
"How can that be the woman can't be any older than thirty!" Snape said sneering at Setsuna who merely raised her eyebrows again.
"So it seems that one of you listened when I told you that I am the Goddess of Time and Guardian of the Time Gates?" Setsuna asked looking amused with the whole thing as she held her Garnet Rod, the Staff of Time close but leaned on it a bit.
"Of those ten thousand years since the Warriors had started…I have been the Warrior and Queen of my planet for around five thousand years give or take a few here or there. Hard to keep track of all of the years after the first thousand or so. I am the longest living Warrior, the one who has outlived all others multiple times. I have served as the Gate Keeper and Goddess for five thousand years!" Setsuna said letting her power leak out a bit again so that they reminded that she was not one to mess with. She had seen glimpses of what happens whenever they catch her, if she didn't reinforce the lesson over and over then they would never learn not to piss her off.
"I have fought countless battles, slain any that wished harm to my queen or princesses, slain those that tried to take the Gate of Time. I have single handedly slain entire armies that number in the thousands without suffering more than light wounds or exhaustion if even that!" Setsuna said as her rod glowed a little again, only this time everyone could see the slight point at the top and despite the fact that it was in the shape of a heart…it looked incredibly dangerous.
"Do you really think some children's game, a blood sport for the masses of your communities would bother me?" Setsuna asked sneering a bit herself and doing a much better job of it than Snape had.
Setsuna gave a dark chuckle and everyone realized right then just how dangerous this tournament got for the other four contenders.
"The only times I've ever 'died' was when I sacrificed myself for my loved ones and always I am brought back…however…I do not love a single person here so there is no way for me to die in this game."
