Spirits of the Living
a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..
by Kellybug
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Chap. 18:
As the sun was burning and hanging like a cherry on the western horizon when Usagi, the Innersenshi, and their allies made it to Malfoy Manor.
"Ah! Our Guests have arrived! And, in remarkedly-fit shape, I see." Narcissa Malfoy smiled.
"Thank you for noticing!" Usagi smiled. "Found new transport! Hai. Does not torment mind and body like old transport!"
"Yes, we've heard about the mousehole!" Lucius grinned rather evilly, nodding to Amelia Katherina Seraphim and the leashes she held. "But? That is not what we meant."
"Hai!" Seako chirped, much like her daughter. "That is what Severu and me figured! Word travels fast at Hogwarts!"
"It does!" Bellatrix Lastrange smiled dangeously. "The spirits have nothing to do but chatter! We're gossips, every damned one of us! HA! So? How did Miss Aino and Miss Hino manage to get collared?"
"Minako is Minako!" Usagi answered. "Tried to play with my pet without permission. Hai. Troubled Ami-chan so much, I think, Slytherin came out in her!"
"About time!" Severus swirked. "It needed to, last night, when Dumbledor came to kill her!"
"Yes, Severus. We know. Draco told us." Narcissa tried to keep her rage in check. "Just another charge to level against the Demon-Headmaster!" She growled.
"If it wasn't for my Owner," Amelia Katherina Seraphim squeezed Usagi's hand, "and Salorsaturn, would have stayed dead! As Dumbadoro-Youkai would have hoped."
"Yes. We know about Dumbledor! Many times." Pettigrew snapped. "As Draco, heir of Malfoy, has told us of young Aino! But, your Highness? What is young Miss Hino's problem."
"Rei-chan becoming too much like Minako-chan." Usagi sighed.
"Puppy inprinting on wrong bitch?" Ami remarked.
"Could be true!" Pettigrew chuckled. "A.. friend.. had told us she had problems, in the past, whenever she has left the Jinja?"
"'Jinja'?" Rei looked up from where she sat, on the floor of the Manor, "'Friend'? Doko friend? Doko..?" Frantically scanning the front-room, she saw him. "Jiisan? JIISAN! Mina-chan! Jiisan is here!" She, then turned swiftly to Ami and fell to her knees:
"Ami-Sama! Must remove leash? Onegai? Want to be good girl. Must go to see Jiisan! Promise to come back! Hai!"
"Hino-chan may go!" Ami laughed. "Mina-chan, dano!"
The smiling bluenette then unlocked the leashes off both her charges.
"Cone! Mina-chan! Come come!" Rei squealed and ran as fast as her bare-feet could run. "Jiisan! Jiisan!"
"She is certainly excitable, Miss Snape?" Rodolfo Lastrange chuckled.
"Has right to be, Master Lastrange." Ami bowed. "Has not seen her grandfather, much, since coming to Hogwarts."
"She has not seen her father for longer than that, Amelia Katherina?" Bellatrix asked softly.
And, Amelia Katherina Seraphim snapped suspicious and worried eyes to the female Deatheater.
"We have our ways of finding-out - or? In this case? Verifying." Bellarix nodded. "The priest is very concerned about his granddaughter. And? Very - guarded - in his reactions to Rei's father. He's truthful in his words, but guarded. He does not wish to hurt her anymore than than that fool of a father has already hurt her by his absence!"
"Rei and her Ojiisan were all each other had! Until Usagi came." Ami bowed to the Lastranges.
"What of her father?" Bellatrix asked. "The politician?"
"Do not mention that bastard, Lady Lastrange," Ami growled, "unless you wish to see Rei in tears.. and, your head bitten off!"
"And, what of Miss Aino's parents?" Narcissa Malfoy asked Usagi.
"Minako-chan..", Usagi took a deep breath, "rarely sees her parents. Not her choice demo."
"Is the child cursed to be alone?" Lucius asked.
"If cursed?" Usagi pondered. "Cursed by perants, I think?"
"Cursed by her parents?!" Narcissa asked. "Are they magical?"
"Iyaa." Usagi responded, in a dejected-tone. "Just hungry for money. Want whatever Minako's fame can get them."
"By the gods!" Narcissa growled. "Two more damned Prewitts!"
"I wouldn't worry about the Ainos, overmuch, Miss Usagi." Tom Riddle, Jr., spoke. "Or? Miss Hino's idiot of a father! You are in among The Deatheaters, now! And? We watch over our own."
"Arigatounissai, Thomas-Sama!" Usagi smiled and bowed. "My guys will be glad to hear that! I hope, killing will not be involved? Rei and Minako still consider baka 'family'."
"We - know - how family can get, your Highness." Narcissa returned the bow. "My side, the Blacks, seem to have the most idiots on the family-tree. Mine and Bella's cousins, Sirius and Regulus, come to mind. And? Do not worry about any deaths! We have our spies looking-out for Senator Hino and the Ainos! They shall not die - at our hands."
Rei and Minako were knealing on the floor as close as that could to an old Shinto priest.
"I missed you, jiisan!" Rei whimpered. "Hogwarts in not home! Jinja is home! Friends are here demo! Must protect friends. Protect from Hogwarts. From Dumbadoro-Youkai. Want to kill Usagi-hime! Try to kill Ami-aneue! Scare me! Want to go home! See jiisan while you still live, hai!"
"That is what scares you most, musume?" The Priest asked Rei.
"Hai!" Rai meeped, then whispered as she buried her face in the old man's side as she shook. 'Afraid that, one day, I will need to talk to you! And.. and.. you will not be there?"
The old priest picked up his trembling granddaughter and held her against his chest. 'Hai. We all die. I will die, one day. As you will die, eventually, my granddaughter. But? I will always be with you. In here!" He pressed his fingertip against Rei's forehead. "And, here!" He pressed his palm between her breasts. "If you remember? I will never leave! Iyaa!"
Minako set her eyes on Rei, vowing to never leave her sister alone!
The old priest then petted Minako's face and hair:
"Will never leave family! Another member of family has come to see you! Hai."
Rei and Minako looked opposite from the Shinto priest:
"Yuuichirou!"
"Yuui-kun!"
And, Kumada Yuuichirou was hit by two young-ladies-turned-guided-missiles!
And, standing by her parents, Ryu, and Usagi, Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno chuckled lightly:
"Will have to teach Kumada-Sama about Control?"
"Oh! By the way, Miss Kino?" Lucius Malfoy said. "There is someone in the courtyard who says he wishes to talk to you?"
"'Talk to me'?" Makoto asked the elder Malfoy, then, she entered the courtyard. "Talk to me about..? SHINOZAKI!"
Makoto ran and jumped onto the young man as fast as the lightning she commanded: BOOM!
Kino Makoto-chan, then, cried as she wrapped herself around the young man:
"Shinozaki Kennichi-san! Ken-kun! What are you doing so far from home?"
"I am here to see if you could use my aide?" Shinozaki replied. "My tousan's last-wish was for me to make sure you were alright? Remember?"
"Hai." Makoto blushed. "I remember! Otousan was my parent's lawyer! How did you get here demo?"
Shinozaki Kennichi pointed to the other end of the courtyard:
"He brought us! Hai."
"Us?" Makoto asked.
The lawyer's son then pointed to the roof. A little pink-haired girl smiled and waved.
And, Makoto giggled and laughed:
"Usagi! Hihi. Usagi-hime! Come outside! Haha! Hai! You are wanted."
"Wanted?" Usagi called from inside the Manor. "I am coming! Who put up wanted-poster?"
Usagi then saw her knight at the other end of the courtyard:
"Mamo-san? MAMORU!"
Usagi wrappped herself as tightly as she could around her elegant man-in-black:
"Glad you are HERE! Hai. Been scared, been lonely. Why are you here demo?"
"Told it was time to come!" Mamoru, a.k.a. Tuxedo Kamen, replied with a smile and a kiss.
"'Time to come'?" Usagi asked as she broke the kiss. "Told by who? Setsuna-Sama?"
"Iie." Mamoru answered and grinned,and pointed to the roof. "She did!"
And Usagi looked up to the roof! Even in the darkening evening, she could still see the familiar odangoes:
"Chibiusa?"
"Have staff, will travel!" The Senshi-from-the-Future answered her future-mother.
And? Usagi almost doubled-over with squeals of laughter!
"Okay, 'Paladin'! Kukuku." Usagi chortled "Where do you roam? So far from home? And, what brings you here, this time?"
"We are here to witness Youkai-no-Hogwarts go to trail! Hai. Heard you speak of Spider-of-Hogwarts many times. Cautionary-tale. Of Thief who becomes 'Defender of Wizarding-World', while draining that world dry! We need to know what 'Defender' feels like, in case baka-tachi try to bring him back!"
Usagi asked, thrilled her future-daughter wasn't doing this on her own. "Who are 'we'?"
"We are 'we'!" Chibiusa giggled. "Posse is 'we'!"
As the posse stood upon the roof, Usagi started counting:
"One - two - three - Chibiusa - five - six - seven. Chiba Usagi-musume? Who is Posse?"
Chibiusa started introducing her posse:
"From my far-right, kaasan?" My I present to you my itoko, Tsukino Souichi? Next to him, dano?"
"HOLD!" Usagi held her palm out to her daughter, stopping the introductions. "'Tsukino'? 'Itoko'?"
"Hai!" Chibiusa chirped. "Souichi-kun is itoko!"
Mamoru chuckled lightly.
"Itoko?" Usagi looked at the posse. "Come down off the roof. Hai."
The posse - as one organism - jumped down to the ground.
"Good jump!" Usagi snapped out,then scanned the line from left to right. "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Hmm." She then walked to the last posse-member on her right. "I.. think? I should remember you?"
And, Chiba Usagi snickered.
"Hai, Hime-Sama!" The red-haired girl bowed. "You might, even after .. four years?"
"Hai! What is your family-name.. Beryl?" Usagi cocked an eye and smirked.
"You do remember, Usagi-Sama!" The young girl bowed respectfully, then hugged her tightly. "Watashi-wa Gurio Beryl-chan! Hai."
Then, giggling insanely, and excusing herself from the child's embrace, Usagi ran back to the door:
"Shin! Hotaru! Ami! Ryu-kun! Minako! Rei! Yuui-kun! Naru! Umino! Come out here! Someone, out here, you should meet! Hai!"
As soon as everyone was in the courtyard, Usagi turned to her future-daughter:
"Chibusa! Start roll-call, again! Hai!"
"Hai! Kaasan!" Chibiusa snapped out a quick salute. "Attention! The Posse of Tsukino will present themselves: Tsukino Souichi!"
"Here!" A snow-topped boy responded.
"'Tsukino'..?" Shingo asked.
"'Souichi'?" Hotaru peeped out.
"Musume says he is itoko!" Usagi smirked. "Can think of no other Tsukinos I am so closely-related to?"
"Uwada Zoisite!" Chibiusa called out.
"Present!" A strawberry-blonde ponytail snapped back!
"Our.. Ziosite?" Ami quivered.
"Our son!" Ryo grinned. "Causing trouble?"
"To those who deserve it," Zoisite faced his parents and bowed, smiling, "hai."
"Just wind him up," Chibiusa smirked, "and point in the proper-direction! Hai!"
"Ano.. step out of the way?" Zoisite nodded and grinned. "do not wish friends getting caught in friendly-fire. Iiede."
And Ami and Ryu collapsed in a fit of giggles!
"Next in-line, I have Kumada Jadeite-niisan.."
Chibiusa then turned to her left.
"Ano Kumada Kunzite-itouto!"
"Musuko!" Rei and Minako jumped and squealed, and clung tightly to Kumada Yuuichirou.
'Jadeite! Kunzite! Musuko! Musuko!"
And Kumada Yuuichiou smiled dangously and chuckled. Life was going to be interesting, in the years to come!
"Next, may I present Shinozaki Nephrite!"
"Komban-wa, tousan!" Nephrite bowed. "Komban-wa, kaasan!"
"Our musuko feels very cultured," Shinozaki Kennichi grinned, "dangerous ano!"
"How could musuko-no-Shinozaki not be both, Ken-kun?" Kino Makoto grinned and chuckled as she leaned into Shinozaki.
"Lastly dano?" Chibiusa continued. "May I introduce 'imouto' of Posse? Gurio Beryl!"
"'Beryl'?" The Innersenshi drew back in memories.
"'Gurio'?" Naru and Umino cautiously stepped forward to examine the girl and slowly paced around her.
"What is staff for?" Naru asked the child.
"Billards, hai!" Beryl aimed her staff like a cue-stick:
"Rack screwballs. CLICK! Pocket screwballs! Hai."
"Look like us." Umino smirked.
"Smell like us." Naru giggled.
"THINK LIKE US!" The boyfriend and girlfriend high-fived.
"So?" Lucius Malfoy chuckled. "You are here to mark the idiot, Dumbledore?"
"Just in case someone dumber than him decides to call him back through Veil-of-Time? Or? World-of-the-dead?" Chibiusa answered. "Hai!"
"And? Yes." Riddle of Valdemorte hissed. "There WOULD be MANY idiots who would do just that! As there are many who would STILL call upon the name of GRINDELWALD!"
"That is why the Deatheaters arose, friend Tom!" Bellatrix smiled dangerously. "To make sure that such idiots are taken from our world! Permenantly! Most practicioners of the Dark-Arts DO have our limits. Absolute-blackness scares us. The best of us, anyway."
"Just to satisfy our curiosities, children?" Nacissa Malfoy grinned over her goblet. "Most of us would like to see a demonstration of how well you handle your staves!"
"Is there a proper-target around here that you have picked out.. Lady Malfoy?" Zoisite asked with a grin.
"As it happens, Heir Uwada? there is!" Narcissa chuckled. "Lucius? Would you care to point out the offensive cursed-thing?"
"Gladly, my wife!" With a snear, Lucius pointed to a lone blackthorn shrub a fair distance from the front of Malfoy Manor. "That, dear children, is a relict from when my grandfather was a boy! Long before my marriage to Cissy that - finally - put an end to the Black-Malfoy feud! In fact? That damnedable shrub is the prison of one - Aldaberon Black! A distant-cousin of my grandfather's! Yes. Before he was imprisoned as a tree? He explained at his trial how it was his intention to CURSE the Malfoys to early-graves! As a reward for his troubles? Aldeberon was transformed by a wandering-bard into that blackthorn! Which we Malfoys were warned never to cut-down, lest the curse Aldeberon wished to befall us actually befall us! We Malfoys have had one BURNING wish, ever since: To see that tree dead and damned! Do not worry, young ones! My family had been assured the curse of felling the beast only effects those of Melfoy-Blood."
"Which includes most of the Deatheaters?" Usagi asked.
"Yes." Lucius and Narcissa unisonned a mournful tone.
"Black Civil-War dano?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim asked.
"Was PART of the Curse!" Narcissa sighed.
"Ja ne!" Chibiusa called out to her posse! "Tree is dead, now, seeps magic demo. Form arc!"
A quarter-circle was formed around the tree.
"Present staves!"
The staves were held out like rifles. Then? globes of mystic-energies formed at their tips.
"Saturn POWER!"
"Mercury POWER!"
"Mars POWER!"
"Moon POWER!"
"Venus POWER!"
"Jupiter POWER!"
"Earth POWER!"
"ATTACKU!"
Seven spheres of energy hit the tree, which promptly went up in a column of flame and a spiral of stars!
"That.. is truly amazing!" an elderly-witch' voice came from the doorways leading to the dungeouns!
"And terrifying." A younger woman's voice was heard to answer.
"I'm surprised I can still see after that." A boy commented. "The destruction of magic that black is known to blind those who witness it."
"Ara! Judge Longabottom! How are Frank and Alice?" Usagi and Amelia Katherina Seraphim asked. "What of James and Lilly dano?"
"We are well, you Highnesses!" James Potter answered. "Thank you for worrying about us!"
"Nani?" Usagi blinked. "You are parents of Nevi-kun ano Harry-kun!"
"Friends look-out for friends dano!" Ami chirped.
"Hai! We do!" A short-cropped blonde said as she exited the dungeouns.
"As we are learning?" A teal-haired woman responded.
"Finally." Usagi and Amelia Katherina Seraphim chorused.
"That.. is deserved", the blonde acknowledged, "hai."
"Better believe it is 'deserved'!" Usagi muttered. "Here to give itouto grief?"
"Iiede." The teal-haired women said. "Haruka and me have learned from our misdeeds."
"You have, Michiru?" Usagi looked suspiciously at the woman. "Who taught lesson?"
"We taught lesson, Usa-musume!" A blue-haired woman smiled and hugged Usagi. She was followed by a brown-haired gentleman.
The Innersenshi quickly pulled one-eighties at the voice of Tsukino Ikuko. Amelia Katherina and Makoto wore smiles,
while Rei and Minako wore masks of shock!
"Your.. Majesties?" Rei whispered.
"Not anymore, Rei-no-Mars." Ikuko smiled. "We are enjoying our retirement, as is your ojiisan."
"Usagi-musume is handling her position well!" Kenji said. "Neither we, nor Shin-musuko, see a need to replace her!"
And, Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno raised a goblet of water and shily smiled to Usagi:
"Well done, my Owner."
"Why did I not sense you?" Rei asked. "Alive?"
"None of us thought we needed to be awakened," Shin explained to the Miko, "yet."
"Okaasan?" Usagi smiled and curtsied. "Otousan? How have you been treated here?"
"Have been well-treated!" Tsukino Kenji answered. "Malfoys know how to treat guests!"
"What brings Magical Law Enforcement to Malfoy Manor, Bone Amelia-Sama?" Usagi bowed. "Amelia Katherina recognizes fuku.. ara.. uniform!"
"Arigatounissai, Usagi-Hime." Judge Longbottom smiled. "This, as you have noticed by the robes, Is Amelia Bones of the DMLE!"
"Hai!" Usagi smiled and took the Officer's hand. "Okaasan-no-Susan! I am glad to meet you! What may Lunarians do for DMLE?"
Amelia Bones smiled in return. "It is more along the lines of what the DMLE may do for you, your Highness! We have the case against Albus Dumbledore just about gift-wrapped for you! With the aide of the Goblin-Nation of Albion? We should be able to present the case to court, whenever the accused is brought before the bench! It seems, the Goblins have been watching the Headmaster for quite some time?"
"Goblins have quick-senses when it comes to judging enemies, hai!" Usagi nodded. "Probably, suspicious of Dumbadoro for long time?"
"Surprised bakayarou is not in stew-pot, already!" Makoto huffed.
And, Hermoine and Harry giggled.
"So? This is imouto!" Kennichi smiled and bowed to Hermoine and Harry. "Koibito ano!"
"Goblins, more than likely, do not want war?" Umino thought.
"Not at this time?" Naru added.
And, Beryl cackled.
"Goblins know war, now, would profit no one!" Amelia Katherina Seraphim thought out loud.
"Except Dumbledore." Severus and Saeko rumbled like a distant thunder.
"I would not worry about Albus Dumbledor, or Mollie Weasley!" Lucius smiled dangerously. "Our agents have captured our two fugitives in the Yorkshire Dales! And? they know better than to kill Dumbledore! They had to be dissueded from killing Mollie, however."
"Not dead?" Usagi said. "Good! Do not give 'Side-of-Light' martyrs they do not deserve! Iyaa! Potta-tachi! Longabottom-tachi!
Hope you can make trip to Scotia? Trial of Dumbledor starts in two weeks! Trail of 'Prewitt' starts in one!"
"Mollie's trial comes first, your Highness?" Bellatrix asked with a chuckle.
"Hai!" Usagi snapped-out. "Mollie Weasel only faces two charges, at most! Trial should not be hard to set-up! Trail-of-Dumbadoro? Take time to find accomplises! Hai. Those who profit from thief?" The Princess raised a goblet. "Go down with thief!"
"Here! Here!" Everyone, Deatheater and guest raised their goblet or mug. "So mote it be!"
"Come! Come!" Narcissa called out. "Less us eat!"