Mina lived with her mother in a two bedroom apartment in London, the best they could afford with only one salary. Like all parents who haven't seen their children for months, Mrs. Aino had a never-ending amount of questions for her daughter about her time in school, a curiosity made even more acute by the fact that Mina was in a strange new world that was literally magical. The Mina thought that she had disguised her frustration as typical annoyance with the parental bombardment of questions well enough.

It was a big help for Mina to have more time to herself. She'd taken to venting through playing a great amount of Wii Sports Boxing, a few hours of which left her arms very sore.

She was also able to take out the pictures she had drawn over the term and look he'at them at her leisure. She'd even labeled them. The girl in red and white Mina knew was called "Mars." She guessed that the one in blue and white was "Mercury," and that the one in green and white was "Earth." She'd labeled the picture of the evil woman "wicked witch of the west" and the pictures of the two men in grey uniforms "white haired guy" and "black haired guy." The girl in the dress she labeled "meatball head."

Mina was now able to organize them into what she thought were the good guys and the bad guys. The younger women were the good guys and the men and the evil woman were the bad guys.

That would have been as far as she'd have gotten, however, had she been alone with her mother the entire Christmas break. But the day after Christmas Mina received a strange visitor, one that would change her life forever.

Mina had been coming from a long, hot bath-bathtubs were a luxury the students at Hogwarts did not have, so Mina was going to enjoy the one at home al much as possible-when she found a white cat in her room. The cat, rather unusually for an animal, was staring at her drawings very intently.

Mina remembered how Professor McGonagall, when explaining how people transformed themselves into animals by becoming animagi, turned herself into a cat and cat again in front of the class. She self consciously held her towel tighter to make sure it stayed on and said "hey."

The cat turned to her and her eyes widened when she saw a golden bald spot on its forehead, in the shape of a crescent moon. Even more surprising was when it talked.

"How do you know about the others?" it asked in a male voice.

"How-how can you talk?" Not even animagi were capable of speech in their animal forms.

The cat laughed. "I'm sorry. How rude of me not to introduce myself first. My name is Artemis, and I'm-"

"Artemis? So you're a girl cat?"

"No." Artemis said, annoyed.

"Well Artemis is a girl's name."

"It's only been since that legend entered Earth mythology a few thousand years ago." he said quickly, trying to move past the subject.

"So cats on the moon live for thousands of years and talk?"

"No! Again, how do you know this already? This is uncanny!"

"I've been having visions and dreams. They're on the moon, and there's this big war going on."

Artemis looked towards the floor. "Yes. The last stand of the Silver Millennium. The great moon kingdom."

Mina was very interested. "What do you know about it?"

"Many thousands of years ago, much of the solar system was governed by an empire based on the moon, the Silver Millennium. All the worlds were ruled by the royal family, and the prosperity of the kingdom was defended by the four legendary warriors, Sailor Mars," he motioned towards the picture of the girl in red and white, 'Sailor Mercury," the girl in blue and white, "Sailor Jupiter," the girl in green and white Mina had called "Earth," "and their leader, Sailor Venus."

"Me."

"Yes. You are the reincarnation of the greatest soldier of the greatest empire in the history of this system."

Mina sat down on her bed. "I don't remember any greatness or prosperity. All I remember is a lot of fighting."

"A great evil arose on Earth. An evil that was formless, Metallia. It seduced a witch by the name of Beryl," he motioned toward the picture of the evil looking woman. "Beryl was granted great power, and she gathered the most powerful men on Earth, save one, and an army of dark creatures such as has never been seen before or since, and attacked the moon. Beryl and her forces were utterly destroyed in the battle, but at great cost. The princess," he identified the girl with the meatball head, "and all of the Sailor Soldiers were killed, except for Venus.

"And what none of us could have guessed," Artemis continued, "was that by fighting at all we had lost. For Metallia was only using Beryl as a pawn. All the energy expended during the battle fed Metallia and made it stronger. With our forces decimated we were helpless when the great evil attacked itself.

"In desperation the queen used the power of the silver emporium crystal, the holy jewel of the royal family, to defeat Metallia. The magic of the crystal would allow the dead princess and her protectors to be reborn at a later time. The spell was so powerful, however, that it cost the queen her own life."

"So I was born just to protect this person I've never met?" Mina asked, not liking the idea one bit.

"The hope was that you'd be able to live your lives without that burden or the one that comes with the memories of the old time."

"So why are you here telling me all this?"

"It appears that the queen's spell may have backfired somewhat. We have reason to believe that Beryl and part of her forces, maybe even Metallia itself, have been brought back as well. It became imperative to find the lost soldiers and teach them to use their powers to cambat this threat once again."

"You want me to go off and fight people that destroyed this moon kingdom?" Mina asked with a familiar horrible feeling in her stomach.

"Yes. But not quite yet. We may be completely wrong about Beryl being resurrected, and even if we are not, she will not be strong enough to reveal herself for a long time. Only then can we even find her."

"But it is better to be safe than sorry, so you want me to train to be ready."

"Yes. Since you know so much, have you discovered your power yet?""

Mina sighed and looked the other way. "Venus."

The bright orange light enveloped her again, and when it faded she was in the same outfit she had been in in the room of requirement.

"Hm." Artemis observed. "That is not what Sailor Venus looked like. It appears that you have awoken too early, before you were ready for your true power."

"So I can't fight the fights you want me to?"

"No. You will eventually be ready, and even in this form you have fantastic powers that it would be good for you to learn to control."

Mina thought about it. Fantastic powers…

"If you teach me to use this power, would I be able to fight dementors?"

Artemis' head jerked in shock. "There are still dementors in this world?"

"Yeah. They've been giving me these visions."

"That explains much. Dementors were among the foulest creatures under Beryl's control. The powers of Sailor Venus were uniquely well suited for combating them, but in your current form I don't know how you'd fare. One would be simple. Even a small group would probably be manageable, but a large group…probably not."

It already sounded more effective than Mina's patronus. And as she thought about the use of such power she remembered Sirius Black and his infiltration of Hogwarts to kill Harry Potter.

"I'll do it, Artemis."/

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Mina was always going to meet Artemis in this chapter. It just seemed like the right time.

As for her being in her Sailor V costume instead of the Sailor Venus one, she is, as Artemis stated, not ready yet. It'll be a while before she "graduates" to fully becoming Sailor Venus, assuming the story goes that far or she lives that long.

And a romance between her and Harry? Well, anything can happen with the senshi of love, maybe even the transformation of a certain blonde Slytherin.