A/N Here is the next chapter. So for the wait on it. I hadn't really been in the mood to write for a few days and instead spent my time drawing some of the scenes. Then when I felt like writing again I spent the time planning out the whole story, though I am having a little trouble with the last couple of parts of the story but I will ask for everyones opinion a bit later when we actually get close to the end!
THe good news is that now I have a rough set out of where the story will go which will hopefully make it easier to write. Therefore making me update more often (I hope!)
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The next morning Ami woke Minako up bright and early. Minako had groaned and barely pulled herself out of bed. The two got into their uniforms and did their hair. Minako had he hair down and left slightly wavy, placing her red ribbon around her head like a headband leaving her fringe out of it. She turned to Ami to see Ami had just left her hair natural.
The two headed downstairs to the Great Hall for breakfast grabbing a seat next to Ron, Hermione and Harry, the three of them were busy discussing their classes for the day.
"Hey you two, how did you sleep?" Ron asked smiling at the girls.
"Wonderfully, thank you Ron. Do we have all the same classes?" Minako asked leaning over Harry's shoulder to glance at his schedule. He blushed slightly and Ron laughed at Harry.
"Let me see your classes and I will let you know."
Ami and Mina handed over the schedules and Ron studied them nodding occasionally. Finally he looked back up at the girls.
"Mina you have all the same classes as me and Harry. Ami you have the majority of the same classes but instead of Divination you have Arithmancy with Hermione."
Mina smiled widely, "That is fantastic! What do we have today?"
"We have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, Care of Magical Creatures... damn we are still with the Slytherins and then we have Magical Mythology and finally Divination."
Harry groaned. "Divination... that sucks!"
Mina smiled at Harry, "I am actually looking forward to it. Why do you hate it Harry?"
"I hate it because Professor Trelawney keeps predicting my death."
Minako gasped slightly and looked at Ami who also looked shocked. "Well that is bad but really she hasn't been right yet so you don't have anything to worry about."
There was a sudden rustling noise above them and a hundred owls came soaring through the open windows, carrying the morning mail. Harry instinctively looked for Hedwig but was unable to see her. He felt saddened hoping that nothing bad has happened to Sirius or Hedwig.
His depression lasted through their walk to greenhouse number three, where they were to meet Professor Sprout. Before they could enter Mina pulled Harry aside.
"Harry is everything okay? I noticed that when the owls came you looked hopeful then really disappointed and sad. Is there anything you want to talk about?"
Harry looked down into her glittering blue eyes and saw her genuine concern for him. He marvelled at how concerned she could be about somebody she had just met. He found himself smiling slightly over how much she cared.
"I am fine thanks Mina."
"Are you sure?"
He nodded and gently gave her hug causing both of them to turn slightly red.
"Ah, we better go inside don't you think. We don't want Professor Sprout thinking we are late." Mina managed to say as she tried to keep her blush down.
Harry nodded and gently guided her inside, his hand resting very lightly on her back.
Their Herbology lesson passed quickly. They spent the lesson learning about Bubotubers and squeezing pus out of them. Harry watched Mina out of the corner of his eyes. He laughed softly when he saw her face scrunch up after the pus started to come out of the plant. The look made he look adorable and he found himself staring at her throughout most of the lesson barely paying attention to what he should have been doing.
Mina never noticed Harry staring at her, she was too grossed out by the pus they had to collect. The class didn't pass by quick enough for but after what seemed like eternity the class was over. After the bell rang Professor Sprout cheerful informed them that the pus was used to cure acne.
As they excited the greenhouse Mina started up a conversation.
"Ugh that was disgusting! How could squeezing plants for pus possibly be educational! I really hope that this next class is less disgusting."
Harry smiled and laughed softly. "I don't know Mina, Hagrid tends to have some weird creatures so I wouldn't get my hopes up."
Mina just groaned in response as they had just arrived at Hagrid's small wooden cabin, which stood on the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
Hagrid was standing outside of his hut, gripping the collar of his giant dog Fang. There were several open woodened crates on the ground at his feet. As they got closer to the crates they could hear an odd rattling noise, punctuated by what sounded like minor explosions.
Hagrid grinned at the students after the Slytherins made their way down from the castle.
"Mornin'! Today we have blast-Ended Skrewts.
Lavender Brown a girl in Gryffindor walked up to the crate and screamed as she jumped back.
The others slowly went up to the crate and looked at the disgusting creatures. They looked like slightly deformed shell-less lobsters, horribly pale and slimy-looking. Legs were sticking out in very odd places and they seemed to have no visible head.
There were about a hundred of them in each crate; each about six inches long, crawling over each other.
They were also giving off a very foul smell of rotting fish. Every now and then sparks would fly out of the end of one causing it to be propelled forward several inches.
"Only jus' hatched, so yeh'll be able ter raise 'em yerselves. Thought we'd make a bit of a project out of it." Hagrid exclaimed looking proudly down at the Skrewts.
"And why would we want to raise them? I mean what do they do?" A cold voice asked from the back of the pack of students.
Mina and Ami whirled around to see none other but the cold Draco Malfoy standing there glaring at Hagrid.
Hagrid opened his mouth and thought before he answered. "Tha's next lesson Malfoy. Yer jus' feeding 'em today. Now yeh'll wan' ter try 'em on a few diff'rent things. I've never had 'em before. I got ant eggs an' frog livers an' a bit o' grass snake, jus' try 'em out with a bit of each."
None of the students moved, each staring from the crate full of disgusting creatures to the gross food they were meant to feed to them.
Though Minako didn't really want to deal with any more disgusting things today she was the first to act. She rolled her eyes slightly and went to the gross food. She grabbed a hand full of the frog liver and dropped it into the crate, barely containing her shudder.
She noticed no one else was following her lead so she turned around smiling sweetly at the boys. "Come on guys, you are all meant to be big strong men. You aren't afraid of a few little blast-ended Skrewts are you? Or is it you are afraid of the scary livers?"
Hagrid let out a booming laugh when the boys from Gryffindor and a few from Slytherin, walked up to the selection of food and started to feed the Skrewts. He hit her gently on the shoulder, making her stumble slightly.
"You got 'em ter do tha' so easily. Nice work. Miss Aino righ'?"
Minako nodded and smiled at the gentle giant. "Yup, that is right. What can I say professor? Sometimes feminine charm is all it takes."
Harry watched the conversation staring at Mina. His attention as soon taken away from the blonde beauty when Dean Thomas yelled, "It got me!"
Hagrid walked over quickly, "its end just exploded, that can happen when they blast off."
Ami who was feeding the Skrewts with Ron noticed some had stings. She excused herself from talking to Ron and walked over to Hagrid. "Excuse me Professor, but why do some have stingers?"
"Good eye Miss Mizuno. Some of 'em have got stings. I reckon they're the males. The females've got sorta sucker things on their bellies... I think they might be ter suck blood."
Malfoy who had stayed at the back trying to ignore the commotion and the beautiful blonde that had yelled at him yesterday, spoke up. "Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting and bite all at once?"
"Just because they're not very pretty, it doesn't mean they're not useful." Hermione snapped.
Malfoy sneered at her, "You would know all about that wouldn't you mudblood. You aren't much to look at."
Hermione seethed about to reply when Minako calmly stepped in front of her. "That really wasn't very nice. I believe you can find beauty in even some of the ugliest things. It is about looking below the surface and I believe that Hermione is quite beautiful.
She may not have the dazzling in your face beauty but she has a subtle beauty, one that is pleasant and not over the top. She is also extremely intelligent. Beauty on the outside can cover the most disgusting ugliness and those who fail to see inside are ultimately worse off."
Malfoy just stared at her in amazement; she was so different than other girls. He knew he shouldn't like her she was in Gryffindor and he had heard she was a muggle born but there was something about her. The way she yelled at him yesterday but how she could be so calm today, the way her eyes begged him to try to understand, to try and see things from a different point of view.
She was still staring at him with wide beautiful blue eyes and he noticed the rest of the students were waiting for his reaction. He simply put on his mask of cool indifference as he spoke to her.
"Like you would know about ugliness, you are beautiful and I am sure you don't know what you're talking about."
Just then the bell rang and most of the students headed back up to the castle. She stayed still and he almost missed her whispered reply even though they were still looking into each other's eyes. "I know about the ugliness of the world and just try to make it better. That is ultimately all we can do."
He nodded slightly and turned to leave but was stopped by a soft hand grabbing onto his arm. He whirled around in confusion and saw her smiling shyly at him.
"I also wanted to apologise for the way I talked to you yesterday on the train. Ami is one of my best friends and I would protect her with my life but I still apologise. I was told by a very wise woman not to judge people by their covers and I know that though you may appear cold, I can see that deep inside you have a good heart. Good bye Draco, I will see you around."
She shot him a brilliant smile and ran back up to her friends. He watched captivated as her blonde hair flowed behind her like a waterfall. He was very confused, she was being nice to him after he was a jerk to her and her friends but yet she was willing to give him a chance and ask for forgiveness. He also felt his lips pulling into a small smile thinking of how she called him Draco, not many did that and he liked that she was one that did.
He saw her grab onto Potter and her friend Mizuno's arm as she dragged the two inside. That snapped him out of his thoughts. He couldn't be friends with her or feel anything for her, she was Potter's friend and a mudblood. He sighed slowly walking back inside and shook his head.
"She will be the end of me!"
Harry watched Mina talk quietly with Malfoy and could feel a small twinge of jealousy. That soon disappeared when she came running up to them and threaded her arm through his.
"Come on guys I am starving!"
When they reached the Great Hall they sat down at a table and helped themselves to the lamb chops and potatoes. Hermione began to eat so fast that everyone even Ami and Mina stared at her. That was saying a lot considering they has seen how fast Usagi could eat.
Ron was the one that chose to ask what they were all thinking. "Er – is this the new stand on elf rights? You're going to make yourself puke instead?"
Hermione with her mouth full answered, "No I just want to get to the library."
"We haven't even gotten any homework yet." Ron gaped as Hermione stood up and headed for the door.
"See you at dinner!"
The smaller group finished eating and the bell rang to signify the beginning of afternoon classes. Minako got up and almost tripped over from excitement. Harry quickly caught her causing her to beam at him.
"Thanks Harry! I am just really looking forward to Magical Mythology. I have a feeling it is going to be my favourite class!"
Harry shook his head as his blush slowly started to fade. "Why would you say that?"
"Oh well because I liv..." Ami quickly covered Minako's mouth to stop her flow of words. Both of the girls flushed and Minako apologised under her breath as Ami covered her mistake.
"It is because we had a similar class in Japan and she loved learning about Gods and Goddesses from different cultures. Though she doesn't realise that the Silver Millennium is actual about a different legend."
Minako nodded slightly, "Yup that is exactly what I was going to say. I think I will still like it though. I also think Professor Meioh will be a great teacher."
Ron and Harry looked at the girls with suspicion before nodding and heading to Magical Mythology.
They walked into the rooms and Ami chose their desks making them sit near the front. Minako rolled her eyes but sat next to her friend anyway.
When everyone filed into the room the door suddenly shut and the room turned black before lights appeared at the front of the room. There were 9 coloured lights that formed symbols in the air. Ami and Minako instantly recognised what was happening.
There was a light blue light that formed the symbol of Mercury, next to that was a vibrant orange light in the shape of Venus, the symbol of Mars was next and glowed crimson red, a green light portrayed the symbol of Jupiter. They were all circling around the silver crescent moon in the middle representing the moon.
A second circle of symbols circled the first. They were a purple symbol of Saturn, the next was a dark blue symbol of Uranus, a glowing aqua was depicting the sign of Neptune and finally a glowing black light was used to portray the symbol of Pluto.
A mysterious voice spoke from somewhere in the room.
"As you all know in our solar system there are 9 planets; Mercury the planet of ice and intelligence, Venus the planet of love and beauty, Earth the only planet that still sustains life, Mars planet of fire and passion, Jupiter the planet of protection and lightning, Saturn the planet of death and rebirth, Uranus the planet of air and strength, Neptune planet of water and grace and finally Pluto planet of time and space.
Over a millennia ago there were civilizations on all the planets including the moon. Though the moon was small it was the most powerful of the planets because the moon royalty had the mythical Silver Crystal.
The planets aligned alongside the moon and formed what was known as the Silver Alliance. All the planets but earth agreed to protect the moon and the royalty of the planet. The era was called the Silver Millennium because of that alliance and the mythical crystal."
At that point the lights turned back on and Professor Meioh was standing in front of the class. Her hair was again professionally tied up in to a bun and she was clad in a red outfit that resembled that of Professor McGonagall.
Everybody in the room was already captivated by the story. Setsuna smiled at the students sending a sly smile to Ami and Minako who were in front of her.
"That was just the quick start of the story and each week we will learn a different aspect from the myth. Today we are covering the basics. I will give brief descriptions on each of the planets, the royalty of each of the planets, the defenders of the moon royalty, the fall of the Silver Millennium and what supposedly happened to those from that era.
Each week we will study a different planet and those from that planet. Then when all the planets are finished we will study each of the main characters in the myth, then each of the love affairs, minor characters that were still of importance, the fall of the Silver Millennium and finally the future of the myth.
Now what do you know about the Silver Millennium?"
Minako and Ami were both tempted to answer the question but could see Setsuna give them a look telling them not to say anything. Nobody knew much about the Silver Millennium and in a way Setsuna was glad.
"Okay well it seems that you do not know anything about the Silver Millennium.
First off I will explain why the earth wasn't included in the alliance. It was because they were a young planet still developing. The Silver Alliance was actually supposed to watch over the earth to make sure that nothing negative came from there. Clearly that failed but I will get to that eventually.
Now the planets were each ruled by their own set of royalty. In the time of the Silver Millennium the royalty of all planets had one daughter. They were the planetary princesses.
The outer princesses were from the planets of Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. They were the oldest of the princesses. Their names are unknown now..."
Minako laughed slightly at this but covered it with a cough as both Ami and Setsuna looked at her. She mouthed an apology to Setsuna and Setsuna nodded and continued on.
"The inner princesses were from the other planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. I am aware that Jupiter is seen as an outer planet but back in those times it was considered an inner plannet because there was no asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter that divides the planets now.
The group of the inner princesses were the same age as the moon princess and because of this became closer to her than the outers.
There was something special about all these princesses. They were also destined to be the famous Sailor Senshi."
A few gasps were heard around the room and Hermione spoke up. "Do you mean like those that are said to live in Japan and even here in England at one stage. If I am not mistaken there was a young girl called Sailor V and she defeated supposed monsters. It was made out to be more of a myth though wasn't it?"
Mina smiled slightly because she was famous and was happy that she was still known. Setsuna sat down on her desk and nodded at Hermione. "That is correct Miss Granger. Though I would like to get to that later on, if you don't mind?"
Hermione blushed and nodded as Setsuna started to talk again.
"The people of the Silver Alliance were shocked to find that their princesses would also be the ones left to protect the moon princess and the solar system. The Sailor Senshi all started their training when they were 13 years of age apart from Sailor Venus or Princess Venus who started training when she was only 9 years old.
This was because the mythical Moon Sword came to her. This sword was made of the same material as the Silver Crystal and revealed who would be the leader of the Sailor Senshi.
Some were shocked that the sword went to Venus as the people of Venus were not known for their fighting but Sailor Venus shocked all of them by proving to be a skilled in the art of combat.
The inner senshi were of course Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Their main concern was protecting the moon princess. The outer senshi, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were to focus on stopping evil from entering our solar system.
We will focus mainly on the inners in this subject purely because the outers where very rarely involved in the story apart from the ending.
With the basics covered I will quickly go over what caused the Silver Millennium to fall.
During that time it was forbidden for anyone from the moon to venture to earth. For the other planets it wasn't forbidden persay but frowned upon.
Anyway, Princess Serenity was a very curious young girl and decided she wanted to see the earth. She snuck down to earth and when there she met the Prince of Earth, Endymion. After their initial meeting she instantly feel for him and constantly sneak down to earth to see him.
She would sneak down to earth as much as she could without being caught. The inner senshi were not stupid though and knew she was going to earth. So each time she would sneak down to see him, one of the inner senshi would be elected to go down to earth and drag her back to the moon. this happened so often that they soon made a schedule of when each of the senshi would go to fetch her.
They tried to stop her from going but Venus especially knew it would be no use. Their princess and Endymion had fallen in love and they knew that they wouldn't be able to keep them apart.
Though as always, the course of true love never did run smooth...
A noblewoman on earth loved Endymion and grew jealous of the loved the two shared. Jealousy soon consumed her and an evil being took advantage of her. It used the jealousy she had to convince her to do his bidding. She willingly did as she was told be cause the being promised her Endymion would love her. She did not realise but slowly the being took over her body and used her influence over the people of earth to rise up against the moon and the alliance.
The attack was swift and caused the death of each of the planets and those that inhabited them. The senshi fought valiantly but eventually they were all killed, as were the prince and princess.
There is of course more to the story including the love between the inner senshi and Endymion's shitennou, which were his body guards. They were also an important part of the myth but that will be explained more during later lessons.
Now, I am sure you wonder what each of the senshi or princesses looked like."
Many people nodded and some even called out yes. Setsuna smiled softly and gave Minako and Ami a look, asking if it would be alright to reveal what they looked like. Both nodded slightly and Setsuna turned back towards the class.
"Well as suspected the girls were all extremely beautiful.
Serenity had silver blonde hair held up in the royal style. Which was the hair parted down the centre and tied up into buns on either side of the head with hair hanging down from each. She also had blue eyes and a crescent moon on her forehead. She was quite petite not having too many curves.
Mercury was said to have blue hair and matching blue eyes. She had the same body type as the princess, small and petite.
Venus was said to be the most beautiful of all being a descendent of the Goddess Aphrodite. She had golden blonde hair and beautiful cornflower blue eyes. She matured quite young having a thin but curvy figure. She was the epitome of feminism.
Mars had midnight black hair and beautiful purple eyes. She was said to have a similar body shape to Venus but less curves.
Jupiter the tallest of the inners had curly auburn hair and emerald eyes. Her body shape was quite curvy and muscular.
Saturn was the shortest of all the princesses and appeared to be quite frail. She too had black hair and purple eyes but her hair was cut to her shoulders.
Uranus was quite masculine compared to the others. She had short dirty blonde hair and dark blue eyes. She was the tallest of all the scouts and very muscular with little curves.
Neptune had wavy aqua hair and matching eyes; she was very feminine and had a similar body type to Venus.
Finally Pluto was the mysterious one of the group. People rarely saw her due to what her duties where, though it is said that she had long dark green hair and crimson eyes. "
"Wow I would love to see what those girls looked like!" Ron exclaimed a bit too loudly making many girls roll their eyes and for some of the boys to nod in agreement.
Setsuna chuckled at Ron, "There are paintings that depict what the princesses look like. I may show them to you during the year. Class dismissed. Goodbye students."
Minako and Ami said goodbye to Setsuna and turned to Ron, Hermione and Harry. "What do you guys think of the myth?"
"I am not sure whether we should be wasting our time on learning about myths but I am intrigued to learn more." Hermione replied.
"I look forward to learning more it seems very interesting, especially about the Sailor V in our time part. I want to see how Professor Meioh explains that." Harry responded.
"Beautiful princesses and fighting is my idea of a good subject" answered Ron.
Ami and Hermione realised that they had to get to the next class and left Ron, Harry and Minako to go to Divination.
Short A/N here as well for the descriptions of the silver alliance and what the princesses looked like and all that. It is just what I have gathered from the manga, anime and other various things. So please do not go around and be like that didn't happen blah blah. It is a fanfiction.
I am also aware that some say that Rei had crimson hair in the silver millennium, Mako had green hair and Mina had gold eyes. I don't real;y know which one is right but I am just saying they look the same as they did back then.
Finally the pairings of the senshi/shittennou (the generals for those of you who don't know, Kunzite, Jadeite, Zoicite and Nephrite.) There really wasn't a lot of evidence for them only really for Kunzite and Minako and very small amount for Jadeite and Rei and even though I think it is incredibly unlikely that it would happen so perfectly that all five of them would fall in love, the romantic side of me likes to believe that and I think it makes the story of the Silver Millennium a little more romantic.
Okay well hope you enjoyed the chapter and REVIEW PLEASE!