Ch6
Disclaimer: No, I don't own Sailor Moon and nor do I own Harry Potter.
The Gryffindors and Slytherins in six-years were all anxious to have DADA on Monday as they each wondered what kind of teacher Harry Potter's sister was. Hotaru entered the classroom; her purple eyes immediately spotted Harry and his friends and sat down beside them. The three Gryffindors looked at her in shock as she just smiled at them.
"I hope that we'll be good friends," Hotaru said, "You'll like Usagi-mama. She's really nice and is able to get a lot of people to like her."
"Why do you call her 'Usagi-mama'?" Ron asked, scratching the side of his head, "I thought her name is Serenity."
"Usagi was the name she went under back in Japan," Hotaru replied, "And she's like a mom to me because she raised me since I was an infant."
"But she's only five years older than you," Hermoine said.
"I aged pretty quickly," the shy girl said softly, turning her attention to the front of the room, "I grew from an infant to a twelve-year-old overnight three years ago."
The doors opened and Usagi walked into the room with Artemis and Luna by her side. She wore a dark blue robe that almost an overflowing dress. Her hair was still up in her usual style.
Usagi glanced around the classroom. He blue eyes landed on Hotaru and she smiled as the fifteen-year-old waved at her. "Hello everyone, as you all may recall, my name is Serenity Potter. You may call me 'Serenity' or 'Usagi', both names are fine," she said. Usagi reached into her pocket and pulled out a silvery wand.
Hotaru smiled as she remembered how Usagi came across that wand. The Silver Imperium Crystal transformed itself into a wand so it would be easier for her to access her powers without scaring everyone around her with her wandless magic. And just in case, those traitors come, they wouldn't be able to get the crystal since they didn't know its hidden form.
Usagi gave a gentle wave with her wand and in front of everyone was a plastic cup of water and a silver pill-like object. Usagi looked at her students and watched them as they stared at the pill in front of them.
"This lesson would be a bit different than anything you had done in the past," Usagi addressed, "But first things first, everyone must swallow that pill before we do our lessons."
"What? Is she nuts? Why should we swallow this?" the students all thought,
Draco glanced around to see that Hotaru didn't have the cup or the pill. "Hey, why doesn't Tomeo have to do this?" he shouted, "How do we not know if you're trying to poison us?"
"Don't be silly, Malfoy," Usagi said, "What do I have to gain by poisoning everyone in this school?"
"And I don't have to take this pill," Hotaru argued, defending her adopted mother, "Because…"
"How do we know that you're not lying to us?" another Slytherin asked.
Hotaru glared at him before standing up. "Usagi-mama, may I take the pill?" Usagi waved her wand to bring up the tablet and cup of water on top of Hotaru's desk. Hotaru swallowed the capsule and downed the water to get rid of the sweet but bitter taste.
Usagi smiled and said quickly, "Five points to Slytherin." When everyone else looked at her with confusion as to why she just gave out points for no apparent reason, the moon princess just replied, "Anyone who takes the pill brings five points each to their house."
With that news, everybody made a movement to take the tablet, but then they stopped. What if she knew that they would do that? After all, why would she be willing to give away free points so easily?
Harry glanced around to see his classmate still looking suspiciously at Usagi and Hotaru. He turned o see his two best friends slowly picking up he silver pill. All three friends nodded their heads and swallowed the tablet at the same time.
"Fifteen points to Gryffindor," Usagi spoke up as Hotaru grinned to see that they had begun trusting her adopted mother.
The other Gryffindors then watched as nothing happened to their hero. Hesitantly, they slowly took the pill with points being added to each person who took it. After seeing nothing happening to the Gryffindors, the Slytherins soon followed Hotaru's example.
Usagi's blue eyes glanced around the room, pleased to see that each and every one of her students had taken the medicine. "Congratulations, everyone," she said, "For completing your first class work in this class with me as your professor."
"Now, can anyone tell me what was that you had just consumed?" Usagi asked. Nobody answered her question. The twenty-year-old smiled. "Can anyone describe the taste or what occurred when you swallowed the pill?"
"It immediately melted the minute it touched my tongue," Hermonie said, "Almost like its cotton candy."
"It tasted a bit bitter, but a bit sweet as well," Ron added in.
"My body felt as though all my senses increased and I could do a lot more magic," Draco muttered.
Harry kept silent. There was something familiar about the taste of the capsule. It brought about an uneasy feeling, but at the same time, holds a sense of importance to one's life. He bit down on his bottom lip while he was thinking and winced at the slight pain. Harry's tongue went to his lip and flinched at the taste of his blood. "The pill kinda taste like blood,' he muttered.
"And you are absolutely correct, Harry-kun," Usagi said, "The pill everyone had just taken is blood, to be more precise, my blood."
Sounds of people gagging filled the air as Hotaru rolled her eyes. "Talk about over-exaggeration," she muttered, "They're treating it as if Usagi-mama's blood is poisonous when, in fact, it is one of the purest substance in the universe."
"If that was your blood, then why is it silver?" Hermoine asked.
"If everyone will just settle down," she began, eyeing the students as they froze in their seats. Usagi took a deep breath before beginning. "The magic I'm about to teach you will be a whole other level that you cannot reach without my help. It's almost like a video game, a secret level only obtainable with a special key. That key just happens to be me. And the reason why the pill is silver…" Everybody leaned closer to hear. "…I will tell you the reason later." They all fell facedown on their desks.
"Without Usagi-mama's blood within us, we wouldn't be able to use the magic she's going to teach us," Hotaru said.
"Also by taking that pill, I'm able to prevent anyone who'll use it for the wrong purpose or to harm others," Usagi said, completely ignoring the hard glares some of the students gave her. "With a single word from my lips, I'm able to erase any knowledge of your lessons." Usagi looked down at her watch, which miraculously still works. "Since class is almost over, your homework assignment is to do research on any Japanese myths or legends. The length of your homework could be any size, as long as it's longer than three inches. Class dismissed."
Everybody left the classroom, talking about Usagi's strange lesson. Hermoine appeared impressed with the teacher's strategy. "It's actually quite genius, I must say, she's able to do something that amazing," she said.
"How is that impressive? What if she did that when we just happen to be fighting against the Deatheaters?" Ron asked.
Hotaru heard what he said and told him, "She won't do that. Usagi-mama will only do that if you're planning on doing something evil with what she's going to teach you."
"I'm actually quite surprise to see that you still took the capsule even though you knew that it was her blood, Tomeo," Harry said.
Hotaru smiled at Harry and said, "You can call me 'Hotaru'." She glanced forward as she walked with her new friends. "Usagi-mama's blood is actually a whole lot purer than Malfoy-baka's blood," she added with a smirk.
"What does 'baka'?" Ron asked.
"Idiot," the Japanese teen replied, causing laughter from the three Gryffindors.
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"I'm pretty sure that from what you heard in koneko-chan's class, that you will be taught a different form of magic, correct?" Haruka asked. She stood in front of a vast empty classroom in a loose dark yellow t-shirt and navy blue shorts. When she saw everyone's blank faces, she was about to hit them all to see if they're truly awake.
"Usagi-mama told them, but she didn't get to teach them anything yet," Hotaru spoke up, "It took them a long time to take the medicine, Haruka-papa. And then when Usagi-mama told them that it was her blood, everyone just started gagging almost as if they just swallowed poison."
Haruka laughed and shook her head. "Well, you can't blame these people, firefly, they don't know how pure koneko-chan is," she said. She turned her attention to the class, all form of playfulness vanished but the very same game face she puts on when she's going to race. "I'll be known as Professor Ten'oh by you people," she said strictly, "In this class, I'll be teaching you how to fight with martial arts and with a sword."
"We already have a wand," Draco said, "Why should we have to learn how to fight?"
Haruka's dark blue eyes glared at Draco, immediately hating him for his disrespect and his attitude towards his precious firefly and princess. "Oh, so when an enemy breaks your wand in half, you'll have a spare up your sleeves?" she asked, with a slight mocking tone, causing the Gryffindors to laugh silently and the Slytherins, other than Hotaru, to glare at her. "Also, what Usagi said about the pill taking away any knowledge of her lessons applies for mine as well," she said, deciding to use his princess's name so she won't confuse the students.
Taking out a wand Usagi had created to increase their powers, Haurka created uniforms. The boys' uniforms consisted of dark blue t-shirts and black shorts while the girls' uniforms consisted of dark red t-shirts and black shorts. "You will be wearing those clothes come to class. You will have ten minutes to get changed in the beginning of class and at the end of class. (AN: Reminds of the physical education classes I have in school. Changing the clothes is a major pain.) Anyone who is late to class won't have any points taken off, instead will be forced to run around the room five times, and as you can see, this room isn't very small, and still have to learn whatever was taught that day. And if you have to stay behind in detention to learn it, so be it."
Hearing everyone groaning caused a smirk to creep up on her face. Haruka was pleased to see that the minute she told them to shut up, they all stood up with their backs straight and their mouths clamped shut. "And don't think that there aren't any rules you have to follow. Anyone who breaks the rules will result in detention of cleaning this room with no magic for a week. First rule you have to follow is that everyone participates in the lessons. Second rule is no attacking anyone just because you hate the person unless I tell you to. Third rule is never insult anyone's abilities and capabilities; whoever breaks that one will have to fight me and I'll give you a fair warning, I'm no weak pushover. And the last rule is added to the previous one, NEVER insult my family because they can kill you with a wave of the hand. Any questions?"
Everyone was too scared to move as they all stood stiffly in their spots. Hotaru just rolled her eyes at them. She raised her hand and began "Haruka-papa, instead of fighting with a sword…"
Haruka nodded her head, understanding what she was about to say. "You'll be practicing with your weapon, firefly. Everyone will be doing swords," she interrupted. She turned to everyone else and grinned with mirth at their stiffness. "Since this is first class, I'll give you a free time. But tomorrow, everyone must be changed and get ready to learn." She turned around to hear sighs of relief and immediately rolled her eyes. "Is that clear everyone?" she asked harshly, causing everyone to stiffen again and reply, "Yes sir."
Hotaru bit her bottom lip as she tried to help in her laughter. It appears that wizards and witches are as gullible as regular people. Without even knowing it, they all confused Haruka to be a man, not that she helped, calling her 'Haruka-papa'. She shook her head and skipped over to Haruka with a wide smile on her face. "Ne, Haruka-papa, when do you think they'll figure out that you're a girl?" she asked silently.
"Probably never," the tomboyish girl replied, "I probably scared these guys so much that they'll act like pieces of wood whenever they see me in the hallway."
Hotaru giggled as she thought about the ocean loving senshi. "Michiru-mama's going to be annoyed with you if you keep this up," she said. She shook her head and walked over to her new friends, who were crowding near the wall.
"That man sure has an attitude problem," Ron whispered, giving a back glance at Haruka who was taking out a sword with a golden handle.
"I think he's just overprotective over his family," Hermoine said, "Remember when Malfoy was calling Hotaru and Serenity a mudblood? He looked like he was about to kill that poor guy."
"Poor guy?" Ron repeated, "I'll give good money to see that happen."
Harry just shook his head at the two friends arguing when his green eyes caught sight of Hotaru walking towards them. "It seems like you have a real loving father," Harry said with a smile.
Hotaru smiled nervously. "Yeah, but sometimes Haruka-papa can act like an overprotective mother hen at times. Michiru-mama once commented on Haruka-papa acting like a mother hen whose paranoid about her chicks getting hurt," she said, causing the boy who lived to laugh at the analogy.
Hermoine and Ron stopped quarreling and watched as the two conversed with each other. Their eyes made contact as they smiled knowingly at each other. It appears that the once very shy boy is actually talking to a girl without their help. However, they weren't the only ones who caught the two talking.
Draco watched in complete disgust at the Slytherin and Gryffindor talking as if they were good friends. That was just plain wrong. Potter talking to the beautiful new girl. It appears that this girl is very close to the new teachers and proves to be very powerful as well, considering with all these talk about new magic and weapon use. A girl as gorgeous and powerful as her shouldn't be communicating with the muggle loving golden boy. He'll take her away from Potter if it would be last thing he'll do.
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Michiru sat behind a desk, reading a book, only looking up when sounds of feet scuffling into the room. She glanced up for a second before putting a bookmark in the place she was at and stood up. She smiled kindly at everyone standing in front of her as she greeted them, "Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Michiru Kaioh; you may call me Proffesor Michiru or Proffesor Kaioh. Back where I'm from, I was a well-known violinist and a painter. In the previous class, I know Usagi is teaching you magic and Haruka is teaching you how to fight without magic; in this class, we will be focusing on your defensive movements."
"With all these new classes on fighting and defending, you think we're going to be attacked," Ron whispered to Harry.
"Is there something you'll like to share with the class, Mr. Weasley?" Michiru asked with an amused look on her face. Ron blushed when he heard the Slytherins snicker at him and shook his head. "Now then, you all may wonder why you're taking these classes and the answer is simple, to prepare you in case of an attack, whether it is a simple assault or a war."
"As a fair warning, what warning that was handed down to you by Haruka and Usagi apply for this class along with any rule that was passed on. I'm going to give everyone a fair warning…I will not tolerate any disrespect towards me, the other teachers and students. Anyone who breaks that rule will have to deal with Haruka's idea of a punishment, and I'm advising you to not tick Haruka off because the punishments may prove to be a bit too harsh for everyone," she said in a foreign strict tone.
Eyes moved from left to right as the sixth years wondered if all the new teachers were obsessed with the idea of fighting and war. Heads slowly turned to Hotaru, who just looked bored at the whole introduction that was being given. Minds started thinking and wondering if Hotaru has the same mind frame as her three guardians.
"Are there any questions?" Michiru asked, after talking about what was expected in the class.
Hermoine raised her hand. When the teal-haired senshi called on her, the bushy haired teen asked, "Why aren't there any chairs and desks in this classroom?"
Hotaru raised her hand for this question. Michiru nodded her head and allowed the teen to answer. "Because we're going to focus more in demonstrating in this class rather than taking notes," she replied, "Kinda like in Haruka-papa's class. Pretty much what we're going to learn in Haruka-papa's class will work with what we learn in this class and vise versa."
"Correct, Hotaru-chan," Michiru said with a smile. She clapped her hands together and held it in a prayer-like stance. "Why don't we have a small demonstration?" she suggested, "Hotaru-chan."
"Hai," Hotaru said as she walked to the front. Different colored eyes watched the two presenters' movements. "My usual technique, Michiru-mama?" Hotaru asked. Her guardian nodded her head and pulled out a light blue mirror. Hotaru held both arms straight up into the air, causing her curved-bladed glaive to appear in her hands.
Everybody's eyes widened at the sight of the deadly scythe. They watched in complete silence as Michiru leaped backwards and raised the mirror up with the looking glass facing Hotaru and shouted, "Neptune Submarine Reflection." A teal colored light surrounded the mirror and a huge wave blast shot out from the mirror and was aiming towards Hotaru. The dark haired girl held out her glaive with the blade pointed at one of her mothers and shouted, "Silent Wall," and a force field enclosed around her, shoving the blast away from her. Gray cloud of dusts filled the area, blocking everyone's views and causing to cover their mouths and noses so they won't choke on the smoke. As the smoke cleared off, everybody was completely shocked to see that there was no scratch or bruise on Hotaru and Michiru.
Michiru smiled at Hotaru and gave her a hug. "Good job, Hotaru-chan," she complimented. She turned to the students and noted how wide their jaws could drop. "You will learn something along that line. Of course, you'll focus more on those attacks in Usagi-chan's class. Since this is our first class, why don't you each do research on different kinds of defensive skills for homework? You don't have to write it down, unless you'll end up forgetting until our next class. Class, dismiss."
Hotaru stepped down to her classmates to see their baffled expressions. She laughed at the looks on their faces. "What? You don't think that spending my entire life with Usagi-mama, Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, and Setsuna-mama leaves me completely defenseless," Hotaru said with a playful smile.
AN: This chapter is finished. Sorry it took so long. But anyway what do you guys think of Usagi, Haruka, and Michiru's classes? Tell me in your reviews.