Spirits of the Living
a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..
by Kellybug
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Chapter 5:
To everyone who saw her at Hogwarts, and especially in Gryffendor House, Aino Minako was the best of the "Social Butterflies"!
Everyone, teacher and student, wanted to be with her! And? Everybody, man and woman, wanted to be IN her! She was the most-
popular of witchlings! And, Aino Minako? She couldn't have cared more - or less! The popularity-quest was just a game to her!
A big, boring game! But? One she had to play. Like a good little puppet. And? As the Leader of the Innersenshi? Aino Minako was
very good at infiltration and spycraft! Well, that is what everyone said in the Silver Millenium! But? That was over a thousand
years ago! But? She still stayed in the game. To protect her Princess. And? If that meant staying and playing in the enemy-camp?
So be it!
It worried the blonde to death and back - literally - that she was seperated from her Princess! Knowing how many Gryffendors
felt about Slytherins did not help. And knowing than an idiot HAT, of all things, was responsible from placing HER Usagi out
of the Senshi's - out of HER - protection had driven the Venutian past the point of insanity! Then? There was the dragon and
her accomplices.
In hindsight, Minako had to admit that joking about being killed-in-action so many times, and always getting resurrected, during
the Seaence WAS probably tempting Fate too much! Ever for a Magical-Girl. But? In her defence, Minako and the Senshi were dealing
with what was - it turned out - an open-secret in the World-of-Witches! One akin to "The Boy-Who-Lived"!
Damn that "Daily Prophet" Newspaper! And their snoop of a reporter, Rita Skeeter!
"As small as misquito," Minako hissed, "should be swatted like misquito! Hai."
As bad as popperrazzi! And as ugly as a slug!
Probably, as venomous as some slugs, too? Kuso!
Minako had to hide and laugh, whenever she remembered the Legand of "The-Boy-Who-Lived'! Harry Potter hated that title as much
as the Senshi hated the notariety they had to deal with! It secretly bothered Minako that she seemed to have a love-struck fan
in Hermione Granger! Why Hermoine?
'Why can't Hermoine be as cute as Ami?' Minako thought as she suddenly remembered the way the blunette blushed as she hid from
their Princess at the Sorting. 'So kawaii! Even when she argue with Weasel-baka! Makes me want to hug and squeeze her! Hai!
MUCH cuter than Granger-chuu!'
It didn't help matters at all that Hino Rei did not like Granger, for some reason. "For some reason"? HA! For a BIG reason!
Granger was friend and defender of Ginnie Weasley, and The Weasel had put Tsukino Usagi on her personal Watch-List (Hit-List?)!
And what was her Princess' capitol-crime? Being a Slytherin. Worse, yet? little Ginnie Weasel had managed to - somehow - alert
half of Gryffendor to "that Great Demoness", Tsukino Usagi!
Her Princess? Her Goddess? A Demon?!
Well? The baka had managed to place herself in the four corners of a trap with the comparison!
Ginnie-Baka now had FOUR Senshi, ready to kill her at any moment! All living in the same House as her!
The only being saving the littlest Weasel was Usagi. Minako had to laugh, once more!
Usagi always tried to be the Peacemaker!
'Hai! Rather make friends with Enemy than kill them!'
But? With some baka, Minako fumed, like Weasels? 'Next to impossible!' Allies of weasels? 'Almost impossible!' But? Minako,
ever being the Diplomat, as well as Soldier, had to try to make friends!
But? All this meant that Aino Minako had to play the part of the brainless-tart, again, and keep gathering intelligence on
the Rowdies of Gryffendor and their Protector - one Albus Dumbledore!
'How does that manipulative Bastard stay on as Headmeaster?' Minako kept asking herself.
And, besides that, there was this "Filia Ul Copt", this Dragon! She had not seen her as a dragon, yet! But? Minako was sure she was
the dragon! How could she NOT BE the dragon! She was with the other two terrors, Lina Inverse and that - that - Amelia Wil Tesla
Seyruun! And... damn it:
Filia was drop-dead GORGEOUS! Also as good as Usagi! And Amelia looked as cute as Ami! 'Damnit, why does the enemy always look so
damned hot?!'
Even their guy-friend, Xellos, that boy-toy, was cute! Kowaii, but cute!
And? She wanted him to play with! Just once.
'That smile of his would give my nightmares!' Minako shivered at the thought. 'Why do they hate me demo? What did I ever do to them?'
"Maybe... Aino 'the Screw-loose' will find out, today?" An authoritative-voice spoke from up a corridor from Minako.
Aino Minako broke her concentration, looked up, and gasped! There, thirty paces away from her, stood Filia Ul Copt.
And? To make matter worse? Filia was carrying a mace!
'Where'd she get that mace from?' Minako thought. 'How can she carry it? Is she Amazon?'
"DIE, VENUTIAN FLY-TRAP!" Filia roared.
Students much quicker in wit than Minako quickly exited the hall.
'Think of comeback? Call for Venus' rescue? Run?' Minako thought. Then, she spied an exit to the outside just behind her, and ducked
just in time to miss Filia's mace:
"Screw it.. RUN!" Minako answered her own thought. "Decoration better part of Value!"
Soon, Minako was sprinting out of Hogwarts', trying to make it to the Quidditch field.
'Hope Madam Hooch did not put a locking-spell on training-brooms?' Minako panted as she thought, 'Fly, now? Pay, later!'
"AINO! BAKA!" Filia roared. "Arigatou! For going OUTSIDE! Giving me room to manuever!" She then grew and transformed into a golden
dragon, shredding her clothes in the process, of course.
Minako just stood, and stared, at the trandforming Dragon-Noviciate-Priestess:
"Ara.. Kamisama!" Minako felt her heart race. "Forget what's-his-name, I.. want.. HER!"
"Aino-BAKA! Trashgirl! Gaishou!" Filia roared. "I will get you! You will die, horribly!"
"Why do I have to die?!" Minako cried out.
"You will die!" Thhe dagon roared. "You FORGET YOUR JOB! You party with ENEMY! Like Gaishou! You fail magomusume! And.. You make
me get NAKED!"
"MY JOB!" Minako screamed defiantly at the Dragon, forgeting to turn and run like a sensible witch. "What do you know about MY JOB?!
I do what I do to infiltrate BAKA-TACHI! Rei-chan ano Mako-chan would just go after first one to threaten Usagi-hime! Me? I want one
in shadows who makes this happen! Besides?" Minako lowered her voice, seductively, "You decided to get naked all on your own.
Arigatounissai for view, by the way! I could really use that body!" Minako then flashed a V-for-Victory-Sign to The dragoness
and winked at her.
"First, you make me get naked, then you mock me, Gaishou?" Filia roared. "DIE, ba-londie!"
Filia then rose in the air, and circled over Minako!
"I.. may have said something wrong?" Minako asked. "What did I say? Nevermind! Feet, feet, feet? RUN - RUN - RUN!"
Soon, Aino-chan was sprinting to the Quidditch-Field:
"HOOCH-SENSEI!" Minako screamed. "Need to barrow broom! Matter of my life or death! Fly, now! Pay, later!"
Not waiting for Madam Hooch to answer her, Minako put a strangle-hold on the nearest broom, harshly-whispered an incantation,
and rose as fast as she could into the clouds!
The next three hours resembled, to anyone living who might have remembered them, Dogfights of the Muggle-Wars.
"Come HERE!" Filia would scream like a jet! "Come HERE! Take you PUNISHMENT, TRASH-GIRL! Playing with ENEMY! Put magomusume in
DANGER! Laughing all the time you play spy! Die, gaishou!"
"Mago..musume?" Minako panted in fright as she did her best to dodge and angry Dragoness! "Who.. is.. Magomusume?"
The angry dragoness, now as close to tears as Minako, just had a one-word answer: "DIE!"
Than, as Filia was gaining on a tiring Minako? The witchling suddenly dropped to ground-level:
"Die? Die? Die?" Minako panted with a racing-heart. "Dive! Dive! Dive! You stupid stick!"
And, a broomstick dove - right into the ground!
"Itai!" A scraped-and-bruised Minako hissed. "What did I say?"
Slowly, The blonde Senshi of Venus limped from the crash-site.
"Itai! I will be in hospital-bed for a WEEK!" Minkako grimaced. "If I live that long? Going against Dark Kingdom did not hurt as much!"
Suddenly, Mina-chan heard a familiar war-cry:
"Die! Die! DIE! Trash-girl!"
"'Trash-Girl'?" Minako balked. "My heritage is royal-Venutian! How DARE you compare me to 'Trash'?!"
"Venus?" The dragoness snorted. "Explains much. Good to know! Hai. Now know where to send ashes!"
"'Ashes?", asked an injured Aino Minako, who then - as suddenly as she could - sprinted into the relative-safety of Hogwarts' Great-Hall!
"Rei-chan! Rei-chan?!" A wild-eyed, panicky Venusian frantically scanned the Hall at lunch-time. "HINO REI-CHAN! HELP ME!"
Suddenly, Hino Rei sprinted from the Gryffendor's table:
"Mina-chan! What happened to you?!"
"'What happened to Me'? What happened to me?!" Minako hyperventillated before she screamed point-blank at Hino Rei. "RYU HAPPENED TO ME!
DORAGON HAPPENED TO ME!"
Then Minako broke-down on the floor of the Great-Hall:
"Just like I see in Seaence! I am dead! I am damned! I am dead! I am damned! I am DORAGON-CHOW! All because of seaence! Doragon is mad
at me! For harming magomusume. Who is magomusume? Do not see Doragons at school?"
Rei grabbed onto Minako before she totally hit the floor, and picked her up, caressing and kissing her. "Hush, hush, Mina. Will be alright.
Make you some tea when we get back to dorm-room! To calm you. Hai."
"Do not see other dragons at school!", Minako cried as quietly as she could, shaking against Rei. "Where are doragons? Do you see doragons,
Rei-koi?"
Rei slowly looked around the Hall as she cradled Minako lovingly. "Do not know, koi. May have clue, however? May not like clue demo?"
Rei scanned the Slytherin-table until her eyes fell upon a returned-Filia Ul Copt and Xellos Mizuko, protectively-butressing Tsukino Usagi!
"I think I will be ill." Rei whispered. "Why did I not see?"
Minako then focused her eyes to where Rei' eyes were fixated. "Iyaa. Can not.. be.. can it?"
"We are fucked." Rei whispered.
"We are so fucked." Minako agreed.
"They are so fucked." Makoto whispered, grinning into her drink, and nodded to Ami.
Amelia Katherina Seraphim smiled slightly - noticing the wicked Weasley moving toward Minako and Rei- and proceded to pull her hat rim over
her eyes as she bowed her head:
"Let Weasel-baka get what she deserves. Kukuku."
"Miss Aino!" Hermoine came sprinting up, followed by Ginnie Weasley. "What happened?"
"Slytherin happened!" Weasley said, "I know it!"
"Hai. Slytherin happened." Minako breathed out, quickly calming herself in front of her, now, highly-offensive housemates. "Misunderstanding demo."
"Should not happen, again." Rei replied, her arms protectively around Minako, realizing what the blonde Senshi was talking about.
"'Misundestanding'?" Granger gulped.
"'Not happen, again'?" Weasley questioned.
"Why?" Both Gryffendors asked at the same time.
"Guilty-by-association." Rei and Minako answered as one, arms wrapped around each other, with eyes partially-lidded.
"Guilt.. by association?" Hermoine asked.
"Association with who?" Weasley asked, suspiciously.
"Association with Gryffendoro!" Minako chirped through sudden-giggles.
"GRYFFENDOR?!" Granger practically shouted. "You're crazy, Aino! You're INSANE! You're..."
"Only protecting who I took blood-oath to protect long ago!" Minako answered the rant of Hermoine. "Even Ga-ranjah understand friendship?"
"To think you were my heroine, Aino Minako!" Granger growled. "I worshipped you."
"Like Granger-baka worship Dumbadoro?" Rei shot back, defending her partner. "Greatest troublemaker since spider?"
"You.. you.. take that back!" Hermoine snapped back.
"Doragon attacked me to protect her granddaughter!" Minako smiled. "Thaught I would harm her granddaughter! Granddaughter is FRIEND!
Could NEVER hurt friend! Know who WOULD hurt my friend, however!" Minako looked straight at Ginnie, eyes unblinking:
"Maybe... give Doragon granddaughter's true-tormentor for play-toy? After I find out who allow this to happen?"
Minako then glared daggers at a certain Headmaster.
"WILL find out 'who'!" Minako whispered lowly and slowly, "and, why! Yes yes."