I realize last chapter wasn't as long as I thought it would be. It looks longer on my writer than it does on FF.

Wow. This story provided most of the hits for the month of October. It's only been five days.

We're getting on the train and heading to Hogwarts!*pulls train whistle* ALL ABOARD!

Chapter 3

"Well, the ticket says platform 9 ¾. So...it has to be somewhere between platforms 9 and 10. So why can I only see a brick pillar?" Hotaru asked.

"Here, let me show you," Haruka said, smiling, right before she pushed Hotaru through. She motioned for Chibi-Usa, who's left eye had started twitching, to follow. They walked through the barrier to find Hotaru with her arms crossed and huffing madly.

"Haruka-papaaaa," she started to complain.

"Now, Hotaru. Haruka was playing with you," Michiru said gently.

"We should move to make way for other students," Setsuna said. The others nodded and they pushed their carts containing their supplies, and, on Chibi-Usa's cart, a gray crescent-mooned kitten in a carrier, towards the entrance to the train.

"Now you remember what we told you?" Setsuna began.

"Try to get in the same house, find someplace where we can transform and train, and keep an eye out for Sirius Black," Chibi-Usa answered.

"And?"

"Keep our grades up..."

"Good. Just because you're going to this school for other reasons doesn't give you an excuse for failing in your classes."

"I know..."

"It's 10:30. The train pulls out in half an hour. You two will probably want to find a compartment and load your stuff into it soon," Haruka told them, looking at her watch.

"Yes, Haruka-papa," Hotaru answered. The three older Senshi each hugged the girls before the two loaded onto the train.

"Wait, before you go! I almost forgot! Here's your lunch. From what I understand, the trolley on the train is rather heavy on sugar. And I thought you might want to have Japanese food before you're at Hogwarts," Michiru said, handing each girl a sack with their name on it in Japanese. They thanked her and got on the train. Once they found an empty compartment, they loaded their luggage and ran to the window, where they could see the Haruka, Michiru, and Setsuna waving to them. The girls opened the window and waved back until the train started to move. Even then they kept waving. They waved until their car was out of the station and they could no longer see the other Outer Senshi.

They settled down in the compartment and Chibi-Usa opened the carrier to let Diana out.

"Don't worry, Diana. You can speak. Just not too loudly and if you hear anyone coming you shut it," she told the kitten.

"Thank you. It's so hard staying silent," Diana answered.

"I know, Diana. But you have to play mindless cat around other people. Even in the wizard world, cats don't talk. So, Hotaru. We have all day till we get to Hogwarts. What'cha wanna do?"

Hotaru smiled before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a pack of cards. They sat down on the floor and started playing card games. Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Old Maid, you name it, they played it. After a while they ate their lunches and settled down on the benches. Hotaru was beginning to nod off when the train stopped. They immediately stood up. Hotaru pulled out the Saturn Lip Rod, while Chibi-Usa unclasped her Prism Heart Compact. Both stood in stances to transform if necessary, when the door opened to reveal the most horrifying thing either girl had ever seen. It floated off the ground, with no visible feet. It wore a ragged cloak with the hood up and the only part of it's body visible, it's hands, were comprised of rotting flesh. When the girls saw it, the temperature in the room dropped and the girls started having flashes of horrible times for them. Hotaru saw her time fighting herself as Mistress 9, and fighting Pharoah 90 from the inside. Chibi-Usa flashed back to when she was taken over by the power of the Evil Black Crystal and made into Black Lady. Hotaru grabbed the edge of a bench to keep from collapsing, while Chibi-Usa sank to her knees. The creature came closer to her, while she was filled with desperation. She started seeing black at the edge of her vision, so she did the only thing she could think of.

"Moon...prism...power...make..." she faltered. She was lying on the floor now and about to faint, as Hotaru already had, and she barely got out the last word. "...up..." There was a flash of pink light, then she found herself stronger, transformed into Sailor Chibi Moon. She materialized her Pink Moon Stick into her hand.

"Pink Sugar Heart Attack," she said, hoarsely. She shot a spray of hearts at the monster, which seemed to mildly annoy it. At least enough to make the thing turn around and leave. She then blacked out.

Scene break...

Chibi-Usa awoke to find herself staring at her own hand. Her own gloveless hand, meaning she must have lost her transformation. She then realized she was lying on one of the benches, with a shaky Hotaru sitting next to her head. The last difference she noticed was a chain across the compartment door.

"Oh, Small Lady, you're awake. Thank goodness," she heard a small, squeaky, and all together familiar voice say. She stared upwards to find Diana staring down at her from the luggage rack. "I was worried about you. You've been out for an hour."

"An hour!" Chibi-Usa shot up from her seat, staring at Diana.

"At least that's what Hotaru's watch says."

"We think that the effects of that creature, combined with you using your power, resulted in you being unconscious longer than myself," Hotaru said. She was rummaging through her lunch sack until she pulled something out. "Here it is," she said pulling it out.

"What the heck is that? A chocolate bar?" Chibi-Usa asked, staring at it.

"Yes. I found it in my sack and decided I would keep it a secret and that we could split it later. I'm guessing now is the time to split it."

"Why are you talking about sharing chocolate when we just attacked by some hideous creature of the dark borne from who-knows-what that sucked all our-"

"Shut up and eat your half."

"Okay." Chibi-Usa had no idea why her friend thought this was the time to be eating chocolate, but she took her share anyway. She was soon glad she did, for when she ate it, a warm feeling spread through her and she longer felt despair. As soon as she swallowed the last bite, she looked to her friend as if to question how she knew that would work.

"I didn't know it would work. I just knew that when I eat chocolate, I feel better."

"That's because chocolate is scientifically proven to aid in the release of endorphins, or happy hormones," Diana said from above. They looked up at the kitten. "I read Usagi's science textbook."

"Why?"

"That doesn't matter. What matters is you two get dressed in your uniforms."

"Sheesh, Diana. You sound like your mother," Chibi-Usa said. The girls pulled out their uniforms and threw them on over their clothes. They then retrieved the Lip Rod and Heart Compact from where they had fallen under the benches and put them in their pockets. They unlocked the door, which Diana confessed to having locked after they fainted to avoid people coming in and asking questions. When questioned as to how she locked it, she replied that involved several jumps and hanging on the chain by her teeth.

"So, Chibi-Usa, Diana tells me you fought the thing off with your powers," Hotaru said as they waited for the train to stop.

"Yes and no. I drove it away, but it was sort of like 'I don't suppose this pink-haired spore is going to give up trying to assault me with little hearts anytime soon, so I guess I'll leave.'"

"So, more of you mildly annoyed the thing?"

"Yes. Exactly like that."

"Hm. Well, let's not speak of this to anyone, please?"

"Agreed."

Scene break...

The girls walked off the train, wondering where to go, when they heard a shout for first-years. They followed to find a rather large man who introduced himself as Rubeus Hagrid, the new groundskeeper and the new Care of Magical Creatures professor. Hotaru wanted to say something about his size, but decided that would be rude. After all the first-years gathered, the were guided to a lake and instructed to climb into the boats. They sailed across the lake and to a giant castle, which Chibi-Usa identified from her books as Hogwarts. After hiking into the castle, they congregated in a room where a stern-looking teacher spoke to them. She told them about Houses, rules, and being Sorted and blah blah blah blah BLAH. Or at least that's what Chibi-Usa heard.

The doors to the Great Hall opened and the new students filed in. Professor McGonagall put down a stool with a hat on it. When the hat burst into song, Chibi-Usa fell backwards. After the song, McGonagall started calling for students in alphabetical order. When she got to the Ts one of the first names called was 'Tomoe, Hotaru'. Nervously, Hotaru sat on the stool and the professor placed the hat on her head.

"Hm...You seem like you would make a good Slytherin..." the hat told her.

Hotaru, remembering what the hat had said about Slytherin in it's song replied, Oh, no, please! ANYTHING, but Slytherin!

"Are you sure?"

YES! My life, and the life I had before it, have had enough of cunning, ambitious, and dark people to last me a third lifetime!

"Hm...Very well, then." The hat answered before shouting "GRYFFINDOR!"

Thankful, Hotaru jumped up from her seat and placed the hat down, before running to the Gryffindor table. When Chibi-Usa sat down, she didn't even have to mentally fight the thing before it shouted Gryffindor. She ran over and sat down by Hotaru to watch the rest of the Sorting. After the list was finished, Dumbledore stood up and started speaking. Apparently, the creature-borne-from-darkness was called a dementor. And was supposed to be checking for Sirius Black, the escaped convict. So of course the two Senshi were wondering why it attacked two little girls. Hotaru made a mental note to look up dementors when they got the chance. After the speech, food somehow ended up on the table and the feast began.

"So why do you have pink hair and such a strange hairstyle?" one of the older kids asked Chibi-Usa.

"Pink hair is genetics from my maternal grandmother. The hairstyle is an altered form of my mother's. Her hair has little balls instead tri-corns. And before you ask, the red eyes are from somewhere down my father's line. Not sure when from, though. Now please stop asking me questions," she answered, while piling food on her plate. The other students stared as the little slip of a girl started inhaling food as though she hadn't eaten in days. Hotaru noticed their stares and told them that a large appetite was in her genetics.

After the meal was over and Chibi-Usa had consumed enough food for someone three times her size, the feast ended and the people left for their dorms. The girls, along with the other Gryffindor first-years, were guided to the common room by the prefects. They decided to sit in the common room before heading to bed. They noted one of the students who fit the description of the famous Harry Potter, who also happened to be Sirius Black's target. To make sure, Hotaru approached another student and asked them. After a while, the girls decided to head to bed, in preparation for their first day of classes the next day.

Chapter End

C'mon. Don't tell me you didn't at least suspect the dementor encounter. They feed on pain and suffering and I believe the experiences these two went through would be delicious to those horrid monsters. I several ways for that to play out, but ultimately I decided on the one here. Don't worry. The girls will learn Patronus, most likely through the DA in two years, and it WILL be more effective. But I can imagine a dementor leaving because it finds the girl shooting him with pink hearts annoying. I did this one because I had no idea how the girls would get Sorted otherwise.