Spirits of the Living
a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..
by Kellybug
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Chapter 12:
In the middle of breakfast the following Monday, Tsukino Usagi was busy with correspondence with the High Table.
"A missive, Usagi-Sama," Ami bowed, "From Gryffendor!"
"From McGoniga, Hai?" Usagi asked Ami as she received the note.
"Iyaa!" Her pet answered. "McGoniga received missive hai, from Gryffenda-house demo!"
"From Gryffenda?" Usagi noted. "Howler maybe?"
"If Howler?" Ami answered her Mistress with a smile and giggle. "Gryffenda go deaf."
Usagi read-through the missive. "Gryffenda want to talk, discuss allience. Ask when to talk?"
"When will you speak, my Owner?" Ami asked.
"Full Moon is one week?" Usagi thought. "Astrology-class, tonight? Meet tomorrow night!"
"Prewitt-inouye be there, I am sure," Ami warned, "with allies."
"Inouye have allies?" Usagi answered. "I have Senshi! Almost feel sorry for Prewitt-inouye? Almost?"
"Usagi-Hime?" Minako bowed. "Ami-Hime? Missive from Mistress Potato-Head!"
"'Mrs. Potato-Head'?" Makoto asked, "Professor Sprout? Teacher who has love-affair with her plants?"
"Makoto-imouto? Minako-imouto?" Ami hissed. "I agree Professor Sprout is strange, hai. 'Mrs. Potato-Head' demo?"
"Gardener who uses carrot for dildo?" Makoto deadpanned. "pointy end?"
"Sparouta is strange! Hai!" Minako noted. "Moreso than me! Hai. Needs to be stewed!"
"'Mrs. Potato-Head'?" Hino Rei asked Minako. "Potato is already stewed. hai."
"'How dry I am.'" Minako giggled as she sang. "'How dry I am'."
"'Nobody knows,'" Rei sang the next notes with a smile, "'Or, gives a damn'."
"Wondered what happens to half of harvests?" Ami pondered. "Gardens are large!"
"Professa Sperout? Is Professa Sperout." Usagi noted. "What does Huffapuffa want?"
Ami took the letter from Minako and handed it to Usagi. "Thought of fumigating epistle! Will disinfect My Liege' hands, later."
"Huffapuffa wishes to talk peace?" Usagi said quizzically. "Moon has not even declared war, yet!"
"Stranger than Gryffenda!" Makoto said. "I think?"
"Huffapuffa stranger then Greiffendoro!" Ami hissed. "I know!"
"Will talk with Huffapuffa night after we talk with Gryffenda!" Usagi said. "Make sure I do not forget, My Ami-chan!"
"Noted, My Goddess!" Ami smiled. "Written down!"
"Tsukino-Hime?" Draco Malfoy bent down to whisper to Usagi. "Professor McGonigal and Professor Sprout are meeting Professor Snape! And? It seems Professor McGonigal is walking towards us!"
"Arigatou for looking out, Malfoy-Sama!" Usagi smiled to Draco. "We will see what McGoniga-Sensei has to say?"
Minerva curtsied to Usagi at the Slytherin-Table:
"Your Highness? Would you and your Court.. come.. and sit at the.. Gryffendor-table? For this morning? Your presence is.. requested.. ", Minerva pointed at the High-Table, "for a conference?"
"Conference? Hai. We will come!" Usagi nodded, then beckoned to her Senshi:
"Ami? Minako-chan? Rei-chan? Makoto? We have been called to sit with Gryffenda! Join conference at High-Table! Hai. Come."
"So mote it be, Your Highness!" The Sailorsenshi arose and bowed.
"Me and Ami will be back here for lunch, Doraco-kun!" Usagi reassured her fellow-Slytherin. "Filia? Xellos? Watch over Slytherin! Watch out for Dumbadoro dano!"
"We shall, Usagi-chan!" The dragoness and monster unisonned.
The Moon-Court moved down to the Gryffendor-Table and sat down, Makoto and Ami sitting to Usagi's right, and Rei and Minako sitting to Usagi's left.
And Hermoine and Harry sat protectively-close by.
"Tsukino-Sama?" Minerva McGonigal smiled at the Sailorsenshi. "Arigatou, Your Highnesses, for gracing the Gryffendor-Table this morning!"
'We have much to discuss' Minerva telepathically told the five Senshi.
'And much to cuss?' Amelia Katherina Seraphim smiled and telephathically-giggled.
'Only if a certain Scarecrow is mentioned, My daughter.' Snape smiled dangerously.
'Ara.. 'Party-line'?' Amelia Katherina Seraphim giggled, again.
'To keep scarecrows away!' Snape grinned.
'Spoiler-alert!' Minako managed - somehow - to swallow her laugh. 'Grey-bearded bakayarou mentioned. Cussing to follow!'
Rei managed to swallow her own laugh, then took a breath and swallowed some tea.
'Baka was only referenced, Aino-chan!' Snape grinned.
'Party has started!' Usagi concentrated. 'Who is on line?'
'Severus, Pomona,' Minerva counted-off, 'Filius, Poppie, Saeko, and me!'
'Hai.' Usagi smiled. 'Good. What is Conference about? About talks with Gryffendoro ano Puffapuffa? Will by talking with houses tomorrow night ano night after.'
'That is part of the reason, Your Highness!' Filius Flitwick's voice came floating through everyone's minds.
'What is rest of reason?' Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno asked in inquisition-mode.
Usagi lightly giggled. Her pet was so much like her father. It could be scary!
'The rest of the reason involves our - guests - my daughter.' Snape smiled. 'We, along with Saeko and Poppie, feel that - since your friends, and Seyruun-Sama's, are still - legally - school-aged, they should be in classes.'
'They should be,' Usagi agreed, 'have never been in magical-schools demo! At least, not Naru, Umino, ano Ryu! Not in this lifetime. That I know.'
'We understand that, your Highness!' Snape smiled and nodded. 'Fortunately? Some of us have been raised, in our younger-years - with muuggles, and, even remember attending muggle schools. For a time. I am sure that, with a some additional books, we can teach your compatriots! As long as they are here!'
'Arigatou, Snape-Sensei!' Usagi smiled. 'Calculate price for books and supplies! Hai. Costs will come from Vaults of Tsukino! Where will friends stay?'
'We have considered that, Usagi-Hime!' Minerva thought a bit more. 'Usually? Those considered new or weak in magic are placed in Gryffendor.'
'new or weak?' Ami fumed. 'Translation? Muggle-born or Squib! Hai.'
'Gomennissai, Amelia Katherina!" Saeko apologized "This is in accordence with the Ministry of Magic demo.'
'Ministers should be burned!' Rei let her thought slip.
'Some of us quite agree, young Hino.' Flitwick agreed with Rei's stray thought.
Hino Rei didn't even "eep!".
'But?' Minerva smiled, 'We Heads of Houses have agreed to privately interview and examine your friends, to see which House will best suite them! Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. To keep a certain HAT from involving a certain HEADMASTER."
'No Gryffendor?' Usagi breathed slowly. 'Let. Me. Guess. Why. Keep friends from doing bodily-harm to one or two Gryffendors?'
"Professor McGonigall?!" Ginerva Weasley screamed out, "WHAT is THAT DEMONESS doing polluting the Gryffendor-Table with her PACK of the POSSESSED?!"
"Speak of Devil," Amelia Katherina Seraphim growled, "and, she appears."
"Invited to Gryffendor-Table, Lady Ginerva!" Usagi smiled, "What is your excuse?"
"INVITED here? By WHO?! I don't care! Tsukino? You and your pack are POISONING the good-reputation of Gryffendor by just BEING here!"
Harry and Hermoine slowly turned their heads to the Screaming Ginnie, throwing a gale-force temper-tantrem, and stared at the spoiled brat:
"Oh? Really?"
"As long as THEY are here?" Typhoon Ginnie continued to gain wind. "I DEMAND to be seated somehere ELSE!"
"As you wish, Miss Granger!" Minerva replied. "May I suggest.. the Slytherin-Table?"
Severus and Saeko burst out laughing!
"Slytherin?!" Weasley started to sputter. "But.. but.. but...But.. but.. but..."
"Putt.. Putt.. Putt.." Minako mocked. "Purr.. Putt.. Putt.. Putt.."
"Motorboat! Motorboat!" Rei chanted, her voilet eyes wide and bright. "Motorboat! Motorboat!"
"Gaki has done improbable, kukuku!" Usagi chortled. "Turned two of my Senshi into joji! Kukuku!"
"But.. But.. But.. I can't set with THEM!" Ginverva cried. "They're SLYTHERINS! I'll be CURSED!"
"Gaki has already cursed herslf!" Ami whispered, musically, through grinning teeth.
"No worse than you've cursed youself,'Prewitt'." Severus and Saeko replied, in low voices.
"Ah! Come here! Yes, my little cursed duckling!" Filia chortled as she beckoned Ginnie.
"We will tell you about Usagi-musume!" Xellos grinned. "Consider it last story you hear. Hai."
That evening, after supper but before Astrology Class, Usagi visited Hagrid's shack to tell Naru and Umino of the Schooling-Proposition:
"Naru? I think it would be good to write your Okaasan to tell her of this! Hai. May be in Scotland as long as me? Let kaasan know! Umino? Kaasan may need to come to Scotland to fully understand all this! At least? Talk with my Kaasan ano Tousan! Hai! Do not have to worry about tuition demo! I will handle that! Hai. What Aneue does!"
"What of Dumbadoro demo?" Umino asked.
"Don't worry about Dumbledore," Rubeus grinned. "My wife and I wondered about little Naru ever since her birth, what with me being a half-giant, and the other half witchy! So, if the time ever showed itself right? We'd have her magical-abilities tested! I was never around when it happened, but? With Naru telling me what happened with her the first three years of Usagi being Senshi of the Moon, and Moon-Princess, and, Usagi explaining who Naru was, and is, is seems to me high-time she was tested! Same goes for you, Umino! You've been through a bit, yourself! Not everyone can understand ghost-talk!"
"Talk to ghost?" Usagi turned to Umino and checked him over like he was feverish. "Who? When?"
"Who?" Umino answered Usagi. "First one was Jadeite-Sama! Hai! Interested in you and Naru, and Rei-chan! Second was Nephrite-Sama! Again? Interested in you and Naru! Ano? Makoto-Sama. Hai! Third was Zoisite-Sama! Interested in you, Amelia Katherina, annd Naru! Fourth was Kunzite-Sama! Also? Interested in you and Naru! Interested in Mina-chan, dano!"
"'Interested', Umino-Butler?" Usagi asked. "How 'interested'? 'Interested', as in..?"
"Iyaa, Usagi-Hime!" Unimo tried to soothe the mind Usagi semed to be racing with. "Not interested as in girlfriend! Iyaa. Not like I worry about Hagrid Naru-chan! It is more like..? How I worry about Kaasan?"
"Kaasan..", Usagi started to worry, and she paced the floor of the hut. Then, she hit the floor in a burst of giggles!
"Kukuku kukuku! My Senshi, my joji, will be.. will be.. kukukukuku.. KAASAN! Chibiusa will have ITOKO!"
"Will be okaasan, twice, I think?"
Usagi looked up and blinked at Umino:
"Twice?"
Usagi rolled over to her hands and knees:
"Who did you talk to? How twice?"
"Ara.. strange girls from Blackmoon that vanished! Hai!" Umino nodded sharply. "Ask of Senshi, again! Ask as if about kaasan?"
Usagi squealed in giggles!
And, Naru and Umino smiled for their friend.
Later that day, after classes, Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno and Uwada Ryu were having a talk cuddled in a corner of Snape's living-quarters.
"You have let your parents know about school in Scotland?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim asked between kisses, "My Ryu?"
"Hai." Ryu managed to breathe out as he held Ami close . "Decided that mom and dad.. needed to know.. what I was..getting into?" Ryu grinned.
"And WHO.. my Doragon gets into?" Amelia smiled and purred. "In-laws.. know of me, yet?"
"Have been told!" Ryo responded. "My mom and dad want to meet your mom and dad! Hai."
"Maybe." Ami caressed Ryu's face and chest and kissed him. "Must know of Usagi dano!"
"Already know about Usagi-Hime!" Ryu grinned. "Kaasan wishes to know how Usagi-Sama puts up with sisters?"
Amelia Katherina Seraphim slowly wrapped her arms and legs securely around Ryu. "My mom and dad wish to know how Usagi puts up with my sisters." She then kissed Ryu and purred as she slowly ground into her Dragon. "I wish to know how Usagi puts up with my sisters."
Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno and Uwada Ryu then collapsed into each other, and started to giggle.
The next day's morning, the family Hagrid and Gurio Umino appeared at Gringott's before the head-goblin:
"And, what may Gringott's do for thee, Friend-Rubeus?" The Goblin asked the half-Giant.
"Griphook?" Hagrid explained, "I know this is short-notice, none of us had the time to write, but? My daughter will be spending the year at Hogwarts. At least. As will her koibito. And? I - think - they should each have their magical-abilities anylized!"
"Very wise decision, Half-Giant Hagrid!" Griphook grinned. "In fact? Hagrid Kana-Sama was able to write and requested a test for her daughter and her daughter's future-mate! Yes. She even wrote she would pay for the services of the Goblins."
"You did, Kana-koi?" Hagrid asked.
"Hai!" Kana answered her husband with a kiss, then turned back to Griphook, and emptied a silken-bag onto the teller's window:
"Jade and Pearls! Hai. Best in store! In family for many years! Should pay for tests?"
"And, then some." The Goblins measured out the jewels. "What would the Lady Kana like done with the remainder?"
"Add to Vault of Hagrid." Kana smiled. "Family back together? Will stay together!"
"Yes." Griphook grinned a toothy-grin. "Young Hagrid! Young Gurio! Step, this way."
A bit later, after Naru and Umino had gone into the office of the Head-Goblin, the Family Snape walked into Gringotts with Uwada Ryu.
"Saw.. portkey.. in vision!" Ryu spoke a bit wobbly. "Felt it in vision! Never prepared me for actual use!"
"Nothing prepares for portkey!" Amelia Katherina Seraphim groused. "Better than floo demo! Still not used to discorporation over long-period of time!"
"It's only a few seconds, my tenshi!" Severus tried to soothe his daughter's remaining nerves.
"Still too long." Ami groused.
"You don't know just how much I agree with you, my tenshi!" Her father wearily whispered.
Saeko looked at Ryu with a worried gaze. Everybody would be needing soup and herbal-tea when they got back home.
"Ah! Severus Snape! With your mate and cub! How may the Goblins of Gringotts ... serve thee?"
Later, after supper, Tsukino Usagi was allowed into Gryffendor Tower by the Innersenshi.
"Are you ready to enter 'Lions' Den', My Lady?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim asked, then giggled.
"Am ready," Usagi smiled, "to face firing-squad? Hai!"
"Do not worry, Usagi-Sama!" Ami chortled."We have 'firing-squad' of our own?":
"MERCCURY STAR POWER.."
"VENUS STAR POWER.."
"MARS STAR POWER.."
"JUPITER STAR POWER.."
"MAKE-UP!"
Usagi's smile grew into a smirk:
"NOW! Almost ready to go! Hide Seifuku under robes! Hai. Do not want Gryffendoro anymore scared then they are, already?"
With those words spoken, and the Senshi changing into their robes, again, (and hiding - as best they could - their shoes and opera-gloves) Usagi lead her Senshi into the Gryffendor's Common-Room.
"Arigatou, McGoniga-Sensei", Usagi courtsied to Gryffender's House-Mistress, "for allowing me to speak to House! Gladdens me to see full-house! First? I must Introduce myself. Hai."
Usagi then turned to her audience, smiled grimly, then produced her Moon-Scepter:
"MOON.. PRISM.. POWER!"
Suddenly, Usagi's Hogwarts' robes were gone, as Usagi performed her calesthenics and pulled on her Seifuku:
"I.. am.. SAILORMOON! And, in place of the Moon..?"
Usagi stepped squarely on the floor:
"I am here to halt a war!"
"We are under ATTACK! I knew it! And, that Moon-witch is STARTING IT!" Ginnie Weasley shouted defiantly.
"Probably leading the Creatures-of-the-Night, right now!" Ronald Weasley followed his sister. "For Gryfendor! For Hogwarts! For the Noble House of WEASLEY!"
And? A squad of Gryffendors unfurled their wands!
"Gin-chan? Ron-kun?" Harry sighed.
"You magnificient BAKA!" Hermoine cackled.
And, Sailorvenus reacted to the Weasley's actions:
"Venus ... Love-me ... WHIP!"
Two lengths of gold-chains shot forth from Minako's palms, and proceded to break three or four wands into kindling, like twigs!
Sailormars followed suit:
"Mars ... Flame ... SNIPER!"
A bow and an arrow of mystic-fire appeared as Rei knealt and prepared to fire:
"Alright! Who wants their stick to become first TORCH?!"
"Shine ... Aqua ... ILLUSION!"
The Murcury Harp appeared in Amelia Katherne Seraphim's hands, ready to strike it first notes.
"Jupiter ... Thuder ... DRAGON!"
A sudden crackle of lightning swirled around Motoko's head, awaiting it's Mistress' command to strike!
And, Hermoine's knees went weak, as her eyes filled with tears of affection for her Mistress.
"As I said," Usagi raised her voice a little, "I am here to STOP a war! Not start one! Was I not LOUD ENOUGH for some bakayarou to HEAR?!"
Minarva McGonigall's smile grew into a smirk:
'I DO SO hope Dumbledor's allowance to the Weasley children includes burial-insurence? Another barrage from my Usagi-hime like that may well give the Weasleys a brain-hemohrrage?'
After Usagi had to raise her voice, Sailormoon became Princess Serenity!
And she stepped over to the "leaders" of the group, Ginerva and Ronald Weasley:
"I, Serenity the 7th, Princess of the Lunari, do not want war! Never wanted war! Okaasan never wanted war! To borrow saying from Goblins? 'War profits no one'! Hai. Except grave-diggers! Did not want war? Do not want war! Know war is coming! Hai. Felt war coming since last Semester. Learn this Semester Senshi pulled into war! Split up, to be ineffective at stopping war! Here, in Gryffenda, to save families! Families who owe allegience to Moon! Children of families. So, children will not be sacrificed to give power to those who do not DESERVE power!"
"YOU LIE! YOU LIE!" Ginerva Weasley shouted in Usagi's face. "You LIE! You MUST LIE! Professor DUMBLEDOR would NEVER SACRIFICE us! He's the Greatest Wizard since MERLIN! And.. He's greater than your QUEEN!" She then turned and raced to the girls' dorms, grabbing a hold of her brother's wrist as she ran! "Come with me, Ronald!"
And, Usagi cried, as the Weasleys ran from her.
After the youngest Weasley-children left the Common-Room, an elderly woman arose from the audience:
"Usagi-Sama? Serenity-Hime? Your Highness? I am Judge Augusta Longbottom! My.. husband's.. line never pledged support to the Moon, but? Mine did, if our storytellers tell correctly? And, as you infer, it will be our children - our grandchildren - who will suffer in these wars. Howsoever my grandson chooses? I shall follow!"
"Thank you," Usagi smiled, as she sniffed-back a tear, "Longabottom-Sensei."
That evening, at dinner in her father's apartment, Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno was still fuming from the antics in Gryffendor:
"It is WORSE than when I was just 'Mizuno Ami'!" The bluenette said crisply as Ryu massauged her shoulders while Saeko massauged her feet. "In Nippon? Would have just run away, or run to Usagi! Always have way to ease sad girl! Frightened Girl! Hai. Now? Sailormercury wants to KILL Weasel! Hai! Freeze her to death! No one makes my Usagi cry! NO ONE!"
With that last thought, that last uttered word, Amalia Katherina Sarephim let her own tears fall.
And, Uwada Ryu wrapped his arms protectively around his blue-angel. As Ami turned around slowly, that wrap-around became a hug.
As Ryu was comforting their daughter, Saeko whispered to Severus:
"Do not kill Weasels, Severu-koi! Onegai? Remember, Weasels have five - now, six? - roommates who are Usagi's friends! Retribution will come to those who hurt daughter. And? Hurt foster-daughter. Do not get tossed into Abkazan! Wife and daughter need you!"
The nest evening, Usagi and four VERY-protective Sailorsenshi met with Hufflepuff-House, in Hufflepuff's Common-Room.
As each class the girls were in seemed to buzz with the news of the Sailorsenshi being in Gryffendor Tower, and, ready to fight, if needs be, when the Princesses went into Hufflepuff-Common-Room, they went into the meeting in full Senshi-regalia and with all their weaponry!
"Komban-wa, Huffapuffa-tachi. I am Tsukino Usagi-chan!" Usagi introduced herself. "One-thousand years ago? I was called Princess Usagi, daughter of Queen Serenity the 6th of the Lunarian Kingdom, center of the Silver Millenium Empire! A few years ago? In Nippon? I was called Sailor Moon! These are my friends and sisters! More Importantly? They are the Sailorsenshi, who I fought beside! Were Court of Silver Millenium a thousand years ago dano. Most importantly? We are here to end a war that Senshi were dragged into!
"We were brought to Hogwarts, by puppetteers unknown, as of now!" The Princess continued. "We have clues and suspicions, but? So far? That is all we have! What we know is we were split up! I was placed into Slytherin-House. My Senshi - Mizuno Ami, also known as Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno, also known as Sailor Mercury, Aino Minako, also known as Sailor Venus, Hino Rei, also known as Sailor Mars, and Kino Makoto, also known as Sailor Jupiter - were placed into Gryffendor-House! Placed by Hat!
"If we had stayed just in where we were placed? We would have not been able to help each other when War came for us! And, it comes! Hai. Make no mistake. Fortunately? We made allies! Friends! Hai. Friends we were never to be aware of! In fact? We thought they were enemies! Baka. Did not stay baka demo!
"We are still here! Hai. Allies still here! Here to stop war! We do what puppetteers not think we can do! We save families from war, save children of families pledged to Moon Kingdom! Flyers in halls portraits were reading are lists of ancestors who pledged fialty to Lunar Queen! If families honor pledge to Moon? I remember pledge to Earth's wizards! Mother's pledge, then, is my pledge, now! Those who wish safety? Will gain safety! Those who wish to be on their own? Will be on their own when war comes."
"Pardon me, your Highness?" A dark-haired, stocky young man stood up, "I am called Cedric Diggory, your Highness, from..."
"Call me 'Usagi', onegai?" Usagi quickly asked. "Not trying to start rule, iiede, just try to make and save friends?"
"But, Aren't you declaring war on us?" A young woman asked.
Each of the Innersenshi started giggling.
"Rumor is untrue! Would like to know who started rumor demo! Born on earth, live on earth! Why take over world I already call 'home'?"
This got the whole of Hufflepuff laughing!
"Well," the woman said, "I'm not sure who started that rumor, Usagi, is it? I'm Susan Bones, by the way."
"Thank you for introduction, Sue-chan!" Usagi smiled. "Can we be friends? Would like to be? Why would anyone start rumor of someone they've never met?"
"I can think of a few reasons." Another young woman spoke. "Jealousy's the first reason! Oh! I am Hanna Abbott, Tsukino-chan!"
"Jealousy, Abbott-chan?" Usagi asked. "Who would be jealous?"
"Can think of one person," Amelia Katherine Seraphim whined like a puppy, "hai! Damn her to whatever hell awaits her!"
"Should have been torch last night in Gryffendor!" Hino Rei and Aino Minako groused.
Kino Makoto just nodded sharply, green eyes smoldering.
"Speaking so, behind someone's back, is not fair play," Cedric Diggory said, "and is not Hufflepuff!"
"Enough about vain bonfires, for now!" Professor Sprout smiled. "Alright, Hufflepuff! We have heard from Princess Usagi, herself! Now? For your decision! Do we stand with House-Tsukino? Or not?"
The answer came as all of Hufflepuff answered as one person:
"WE STAND WITH TSUKINO!"
"May I propose a toast, then?" Professor Sprout asked as she produced six crystal goblets of a liquor. "To the friendship between House-Hufflepuff.. and House Tsukino!"
Six goblets for clinked:
"To FRIENDSHIP!"
Five young women later exited Hufflepuff a bit wobbly:
"What was in liquid?" Usagi asked weakly. "Looked .. strange? Think I may get sick."
"Two-hundred proof, I think." Amelia Katherina slurred. "Iso.. Isopro.. I-so-pro.. what Kaasan cleans house and hospital with."
"Whatever it is?" Makoto moaned. "Shit is wicked."
"Kicks plum-ass in wine." Rei meeped. "Hai."
"If still in Louisiana? As lawman?" Amelia Katherina let out a drunken-chuckle. "Tousan would have arrested Hooch for making this sprout! I mean - heehee - arrested Sprout for making this hooch! Haha!"
"How dry I am.. How dry I am.." Minako and Rei tried to harmonize. "Nobody knows..."
"All houses will know if you sing it, baka!" Makoto hissed.
"Who left basilisk in Great Hall?" Minako asked.
"Was me." Makoto clipped out.
"YOU left bad-ass-kilisk in Great-Hall?" Rei asked Makoto.
"Iyaa." Makoto answered Rei. "Mine was hiss! Ara. Hiss was mine. Hai."
"Speaking of snake?" Usagi looked around. "Where is Slytherin hallway?"
"Hope drink leaves us with sense-of-direction?" Minako asked.
"Would settle for Sense-of-Balance, hai." Usagi breathed out. "Still climb to have.. to get to dorm-room."
"Why I am here!" Naru chirped, barefoot and in her pajamas, as Usagi and company entered Slytherin's Common-Room. "Thought you may have trouble! Everyone hold hands! What happened?"
"Found out rumors about Sprout are not rumors." Usagi groaned. "Hopefully? Will not feel so sick in the morning! Hopefully."
Soon, with Naru playing guide-dog, Usagi and four Gryffendors were safely within the walls of Usagi's dorm-room.
"Bed is big? Not big enough for everyone demo!" Naru observed. "Umino-kun? Help make floor into bed! Hai! Guys half-drunk? Look half-dead! Need each others' body-heat to stay warm! Hai."
"'Half.. drunk'?" Mokoto moped. "Full-drunk! Will agree with idea of body-heat! Come on, minna, strip! Goes for chambermaid ano butler, dano! Doko Hermione? Doko Harry? Doko reporter?"
"Can my doragon come?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim meeped. "Ara. Come over?"
Within the hour, a wiggly eleven-person puppy-pile was giggling, quite-naked, and keeping each other warm in the middle of Usagi's floor.