Ch18
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Severus walked through the stone walled corridors as the students parted a way for him before continuing on to their classes. He looked on, amazed a how normal everyone has been acting, considering what had happened several days ago.
(where we left off last chapter)
"The future?" Endymion repeated. At first, he just stared in shock for a few minutes before closing his eyes, chuckling, "Nice try, Serenity, but I doubt that…"
"Doubt what, Mamo-chan," Venus sneered, "Doubt that what she said is right? Or doubt the fact that the supposedly stupid princess had anticipated your 'brilliant scheme' for ultimate power?" She just smirked as she watched the dark prince tremble in anger and in humiliation with a frustrated frown on his face. "Oh, sorry, did I hit a nerve?" She lifted up the hand lying on her bent knee and inspected her nails. "By the way, your 'love making' skills needs some work, even my husband did a much better job than you when he was a virgin."
Mercury's face turned red as she gasped, "Venus, really! Do you have to be so crude?" She shook her head and sighed, "Not everybody enjoys hearing about your sex life."
"If you two are from the future then that must mean the present Minako and Ami are there right now," Endymion said, "How…"
"One of the many perks of having the time guardian as a loyal soldier," Mercury said. The two blue-eyed soldiers got up and stood beside their princess. With each step that they took, the black areas of their uniforms turned back to their original white colors.
"Isn't it the time guardian's duty to not interfere with whatever is going on?" Endymion said. The other two soldiers stood behind him with their eyes blank and their faces devoid of emotions. He turned to his captive soldiers. "By doing so, she would be violating her rights and should be punished."
"Unless she was helping you is that what you mean?" Usagi said, "If you must know, Setsuna did not tell me anything, I knew it from the start." She turned her head to watch the outer senshis walked closer to her. "True, she is forbidden to interfere with what goes on in time, but, on the other hand, everyone has an exception once in a while, especially if it is for the greater good." Her eyes glanced over to her adulterous ex-fiancé. "I would watch out if I were you," she said, pointing at him.
"What?" Endymion turned around when he heard Mars and Jupiter scream in pain. The two females clutched their heads with their bodies bent forward as their voices were filled with anguish. "What's going on?" he demanded to know.
"It appears that we might've miscalculated the proportions a bit," a familiar voice said. He turned around to see another Mercury standing there with the visor over her eyes. She glanced behind at Venus. "What do you think?"
"How am I supposed to know?" Venus asked, "You're the genius of the group, not me."
(Future senshis will have the letter F in front of their names to prevent confusion and due to my laziness of typing out the full word future)
"You're late, Mercury, Venus," F-Venus said placing her hands on her hips, "And the rest of you were suppose to come in a few minutes ago."
"Sorry about that," F-Jupiter said as she stepped forward from what appeared to be out of thin air fro the residents of Hogwarts but out of the time gates for the senshis. "Venus wanted a more dramatic entrance."
Endymion watched in shock as the two brainwashed soldiers' uniforms turned back to their rightful colors. With a single glance, one could tell the difference between the present and future senshis' outfits. All in all, the senshis from the future appeared to be more powerful with a stronger aura than the present ones. Mars and Jupiter fell to their knees. They stared blankly at the floor as their screaming had ceased. No movement from them were detected with their arms laid lifelessly at their sides.
Usagi raised an eyebrow at her dead-like senshi. "What on earth did you put in that potion, Mercury?" she asked.
Mercury began listing a few ingredients, such as herbs and pollen from flowers gathered on the other planets. "I would mention what they do, but I'm afraid I'll just confuse you guys. The king helped me out with the making of it," the younger blue-haired senshi said, shrugging her shoulders. "Do you know that he's a master when it comes to brewing potions?"
Usagi shrugged her shoulders. "Don't know," she replied, "I never met him." She felt a huge blast of wave rush towards her and instinctively raised up the shields around her. When the attack hit and made contact with the force field, usagi looked towards the enraged prince. "That was rude," she said.
Endymion reached for his sword attached to his waist. He pulled it out of the sheath and growled angrily like a dog that feels threatened as he watched the moon princess and Venus princess talk about the mysterious king in the future. "Don't…ignore me!" he shouted. He swung the sword down with a black wave of energy hitting the force field once more.
Usagi just eyed him like he was a child throwing a tantrum and was waiting to be scolded. "Haven't anyone ever told you it is rude to interrupt a conversation?" she asked. She shook her head and sighed disappointedly. 'Even my first years have better mannerisms than you."
Enydmion snarled and was about to retort when he heard somebody moan. He turned to see the two released senshis shaking their heads and looking around all confused. "Shit," he muttered. Despite all the back draws he had predicted that might happen, switching the present soldiers with those from the future and having said warriors as allies were not one of them.
"Okay, can someone kindly explain to me what the hell just happened?" Jupiter asked. She stood up and glanced around. "Where the hell are we?"
"Jupiter, welcome back," Saturn said, running to give her a hug; she was ecstatic to see her back to normal.
"Thanks," the brunette said, rubbing her neck, smiling sheepishly. She then stopped for a second before asking, "Did I go somewhere?"
"Okay, why do I feel so disoriented," Mars demanded to know. "The last thing I remember is Mamoru-san desperately called a meeting, saying that there's some urgent news about Usagi and then nothing." She studied the surroundings and immediately froze. "Why are there doubles of us?"
"Greetings and welcome back to earth," came a voice from behind her. Mars turned around and screeched, jumping up. F-Mars stood right behind her with a blank look on her face. "It's so nice to finally see you," she joked with a grin, "I'm your twin sister."
Mars looked bemused. "I don't have a twin sister," she said seriously.
Endymion looked livid. His blue eyes were narrowed at the happy little reunion. Shadows on the floor rose up into the air, warping into shapes before dispersing and leaving more of the monsters they've seen before, each one as ugly as the one before it.
"Just what in the world are those things?" Ron asked Hermoine, who shook her head in shock.
Neville took a deep breath and swallowed. "I don't know, but I hope we never have to go against it," he whispered.
"I'm more curious as to what's going on," Ginny said, peeking from behind her brother. "Didn't you hear them call Professor Serenity 'queen'? and how in the world did the other professors and Hotaru do all those stuff?"
Finally snapping out of her stupor, Hermoine gasped and clapped her hands together. "Remember that story Professor Serenity and Hotaru told us about? You know, the one about the moon?"
"You mean the one where the moon's really made out of cheese and not rocks like the muggles said," one of the younger Gryffindors said,
Hermoine turned to him and looked at him with a 'what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about' expression as she said, "WHAT?" She shook her head and continued, "NO! Remember the one about the ancient kingdom with the soldiers sworn to protect the princess?"
"Isn't that what we're learning in DADA? You know, with the planetary powers and all?" a Ravenclaw nearby asked.
"But why would they teach us all these stuff. Oh my god! You don't really think we're gonna go to war, do you?" a Hufflepuff asked.
"If you ask me, the whole Potter family is crazy," a Slytherin said with a smug look on his face.
"Well nobody asked you," a Gryffindor shouted.
"San! Ni! Ichi!" After those words were shouted by the DADA professor, all the clatter stopped, the mouths were closed shut, and all eyes turned to her. The last time a class ignored the countdown warning Serenity was giving them, it resulted the whole class in charge of cleaning the entire castle floor (the hallway and classroom alike) by themselves with their hands and no magic. Expecting sympathy from their other professors, they were shocked to hear that in Japan, it was the student's job and responsibility to clean the schools everyday, not the caretakers. It was bad enough that they spent the whole night and day after cleaning, resulting in aching, tired, and sore bodies, but it was worse to find out that they were still responsible for all the work they had missed. Luckily, the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs never had any scuffle between them and considering they're always in the same class, it's not that hard, but for the 7th year Gryffindors and Slytherins, that was the worst experience ever. And let's just say that the punishment taught the raw and aching bodies a lesson the other professors had been trying to teach since the school's beginning.
Endymion, along with the rest of the inners, were shocked to see the obedience that was shown. The other professors were quite use to the scene and paid no mind to what was going on, only focused on the grotesque creatures' movements. The ones from the ministry were suspicious of the fact that the entire school student body had instantly done what one person had ordered them to do, probably trying to overthrow the ministry no doubt.
"How did you…" Endymion eyed the students' pale white faces for a second before shaking his head. "Never mind," he muttered, "It doesn't matter…'cause in the end, YOU'LL ALL DIE!" He gestured the youmas to attack, only to have sixteen different attacks, each from the senshis located on either side of Usagi. He staggered back with his teeth gnashed together and his fists, one still holding a sword, trembling at his sides.
"What's the matter, Endy? Senshi got your tongue?" F-Jupiter said. "I don't know what you're so surprised about. Who did you think won those battles in the past?"
"Well it certainly wasn't him," F-Uranus snorted. She placed her hands on her hips as she turned her head to face her past counter-part.
Uranus nodded her head in agreement. "We're the ones who practically did all the work. He just shows up with his pathetic rose and feeble speech," she said, "Out of all of us who needed to be rescued, it was mostly him."
"Wasn't he the one who keeps getting kidnapped and then brainwashed?" Saturn asked, tilting her head slightly to the side while tapping her pointer finger against her cheek.
"Pretty much," F-Mercury replied, "The students really enjoyed hearing those embarrassing stories of him. Majority of the time, they couldn't even believe he always wore that green jacket."
F-Venus made a face. "Tell me about it," she muttered, shivering in disgust. "What a fashion disaster? Can you believe he still wore that outfit right before taking me to bed? Talk about a major turn off."
The audience around them just stared blankly at the group socializing and talking as if they weren't in the middle of a battle. They were either too confident or too stupid, nobody knew. But what they do know is that their talking was making their enemy upset.
"Stop talking about me," Endymion growled.
F-Jupiter snorted and stared down at him. "Or you'll what? Throw a child's tantrum again?"
"Face it, Endy, without that cousin of yours helping you, you wouldn't even be able to do all this," F-Venus said, "All you're doing now is just proving how easily beaten you are."
His eyes flashed red with anger as his body trembled in frustration. Endymion grabbed the edge of his black cape and threw it over his shoulder. In a single movement, he disappeared.
"That…has got to be the most anticlimactic battle ever," Uranus said, staring at the place where the prince was standing last.
"Please tell me he didn't just did what I thought he did," Harry said in disbelief.
"He…ran away?" Hermoine said from her side of the room.
"Ran the bloody hell away," Ron added in with his eyes wide open.
"JUST WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE?" Cornelius shouted at the top of his lungs. He pointed at Serenity, who didn't look too surprised at the turn of events, and continued, "USING THE STUDENT BODY TO TAKE OVER THE MINISTRY, AREN'T YOU? WELL YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT IT! I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY, YOU'RE GOING DOWN, YOUNG LADY! CLAIMING TO BE A POTTER AND A PRINCESS, WHAT A HOAX!"
Serenity sighed. "Pluto," she said softly. Both present and future Pluto nodded their heads and raised their staff up.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" this time Dolores was the one shouting, "ARE YOU TRYING TO ATTACK THE MINISTER? THAT IS A STRAIGHT WAY TO GO TO AZKABAN, MISSY…"
"Somebody shut them up," Mars muttered as her future counterpart shook her head, muttering, "Thank god they're gone in the future."
With the two annoying parrots squawking about in the background, both Pluto's twirled their staff in the air before bringing it down. The whole room became enveloped in light with the female warriors being in the epicenter. When the light vanished, the force shield the present Saturn had placed around them was gone and the future senshis left within the Time Gates. And that wasn't the only thing that vanished, the two Pluto's had eradicated the fight from everyone's memories, other than selected professors and Harry.
(End Flashback)
"Oh that's right, Ms. Meioh erased the student body's memories of the fight," Severus thought to himself. He sighed as if trying to wonder why his life was so complicated. Between serving the dark lord and spying for the light and all this drama going on, it's bound to drive one up the walls.
"I can't believe that in a few days, my folks are gonna come to Hogwarts," a student exclaimed excitedly, "They're so gonna freak the minute they see the ghosts."
Severus turned his head to stare at the student, a muggle born, if he remembered from the records. He listened around as he heard several students complain about their parents coming while others were excited and the rest just didn't care. If anybody was wondering the students meant by their parents coming is that Serenity, the leader of everything changes, decided to hold a parents teachers conference to discuss their children's progress. Hogwarts' first official parents teachers conference, this was sure to make the papers, just like when the world found out that Potter brat has a sister.
Wait a minute…Severus thought about the past newspapers and magazines and not one of them had mentioned Serenity Potter, whether they believed it to be true or a lie. He figured it had something to do with that Setsuna character. All of a sudden, he has a impulsive urge to bang his head against the wall several times. How could a reappearance of a girl, once thought to be dead or never knew existed, change everything in the centuries old annual procedure? Not only had she and her guardians created two new classes, practically teaching the students how to fight and get past prejudices, which is still hard for the Slytherins and Gryffindors, due to their rivalry to each other and the earlier ones' bias towards muggle-borns, but she had allowed non-magical parents come and explore the castle like a hotel or tourist attraction. "Just what else is she going to change in my life?" he couldn't help but wonder.