Spirits of the Living
a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..
by Kellybug
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Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno was nervous. She wasn't "scared", but, she was jumpy.
As she stood outside the home of Tobias Snape, on the Isle of Jersey, and within sight of the French coast, Ami Kat wondered at how she would react to her grandfather. And how her grandfather would react to her! Her Mother had said old Tobias had met her, long ago. But? That was when she was a baby, and the Snapes were still living in America!
And now? Here she was, part of a wedding-party, in the Jersey village of Grouville, along with her mother and father and about twenty-five wedding-guests, give or take a witch or two.
Amanda Katherina had to giggle as she held to Usagi's and Ryu's hands: Who knew her dad had so many friends?
Severus politely knocked on the door of his father's house. He was thinking of knocking once more when the door opened.
"Hello?" The old policeman answered the door. "Who is..? Well! Hello, Severus! And, Hello, Saeko-chan! I take it you're here for a wedding?" Then Tobias looked in the crowd of well-wishers. And, he chuckled.
"She's grown some, but? I can still recognize my granddaughter! Hello, Amelia Katherina!"
"Ojiisan?" Ami Kat looked at the smiling old copper, and - from somewhere distant - dredged up a memory. And, sprinted to that memory! "OJIISAN!"
WHUMP!
As old Tobias managed to regain his footing, he laughed heartily and wrapped his arms around his granddaughter.
"I'd hoped to do this for years!" The old man smiled. "How are you, my Amelia?"
"I am good, ojiisan!" Amelia Katherina Seraphim answered. "I think?"
"You 'think'?" Tobias chuckled low. "You're sounding like you mother! Is that the reason you're wearing a collar?"
"Part of the reason, ojiisan!" Ami Kat found herself chuckling. "Always felt special? different? with Usagi-Hime! Never knew why? Until banker at Gringott's Read Usagi-Hime's ancestral-
chart! Hai. Found out Usagi-Sama not only housed spirit of Hime-no-Tsuki? Usagi IS Hime-no-Tsuki! Senshi-no-Mercury was hime's first Sailorsenshi! She was more dano".
Amelia Katherina Seraphim stared out over the western waters of Jersey for a long time, as if trying to see the French coast. "Usagi was not always heir-to-Luna! Iie. Had niisan. Crown-
Prince of Luna! I was brought to Lunarian-Court to be link with Mercurians! Demo. Crown-Prince Shinobi of Luna died. Then..?"
"The Crown-Price of Mercury died." Tobias guessed, wrapping his arms protectively around his granddaughter. "And? You became the sisters you each needed!"
"Hai! Hihihi!" Amelia Katherina Seraphim giggled in her grandfather's arms.
"Anyway!" Ami continued her short "confession" to her grandfather, "When we went to Gringott's to have Usagi's ancestry traced? We learned that her father was an Earthan dragon, who appeared on The Moon as a young boy, and became the queen's playmate and protector. And, later? The Moon's King! This Blue Collar, which has been in the Vaults-of-Tsukino, is symbol of AUTHORITY of and in the Armies of the Goblins."
"So? What I was able to get out of our son and daughter-in-law IS true!" An elegant-looking woman said as she came through the waves. "Our granddaughter HAS become a women-of-much-
importance! It also explains the story I was able to hear from the Princesses of Mars, Venus, and Jupiter of a gift that was presented to the Wizengamot! Hello, my Tobie!"
"Hello, my beautiful Eileen!" Tobias returned the passionate kiss.
"Obasan!" Ami hugged her grandmother tightly.
"And, what should be so interesting about Goblins' Records?" Tobias asked, with much the same look in his eyes that his granddaughter had learned to associate with hunting-hounds and police-dogs.
"Its the kind of 'gift', my Tobias," Eileen smiled hungrily, "that sends a Wizengamot-member to Azkaban for a rather long-time. And? Could help build a stew-fire for a certain old-goat?"
"So? My Amelia? You came to help your mum and dad get remarried?" Eileen Snape asked her granddaughter.
"Hai!" Amelia chirped, slippinng back into Japanese-mode, "Obasan? Dare desu ka 'Amelia'? Dare desu ka 'Katherina'? Dare desu ka 'Seraphim'? Okaasan said that you were the one you suggested my name. Why was I not given yours?"
Eileen let fall a tear as she remembered:
"Amelia and Katherine were MY aneue, my Amelia! They died.. when I was still young, a thin slip of a teenager. My family, the 'Princes'," Eileen spat out the name as if it were a bitter poison, "took them away from me. But? I always felt them with me! I still do. I felt them protecting me as I ran away from home, and felt them guide me to Old Tobie, here! They were always my guardian-angels, my Seraphim!" Eileen then looked straight at her granddaughter - and smiled:
"Now, our little mermaid, since I've managed to answer your three questions, can you answer three of mine?"
"I.. will try?" Amelia blushed.
"Good! Very good." Eileen smiled. "These three children that you have tied yourself to? Who are they? Usagi? Ryu? and Naru? Our son had owled us of Usagi, and I can feel the moon radiate from her! But? Who are the other two? Ryu-kun smells dragon-whelped, and Naru feels like an ancient-wolf? This old witch isn't wrong about that many things, my granddaughter!"
"Ryu is dragon! Hai!" Amelia chirped. "Was victim, we first thought, of first-enemies we Senshi faced. Born with one of the Crystals of the Seven Shadows in him!"
"A dragon? A victim of someone else's treachery?" Tobie laughed heartily. "From the stories you grandmum has told me over the years? That's highly unlikely!"
"Hihihi!" Amelia giggled. "Am learning that, too! From what we learned, recently? Would not surprise me if my Ryu-kun was always part of Serenity's plan!"
"Alright! Two are answered." Eileen grinned "Now? For question three: Who is this 'Naru'?"
"Usagi's friend since kindergarten, I think?" Amelie pondered "Usagi-Hime's chambermaid in Silver-Millenium, and descendent of the Werewolves from somewhere on earth. One of Usagi's, and Serenity's, most-trusted servants and friends!" The Bluenette smiled.
"And, what of you, Amelia Katherina?" Eileen asked, sympathy in her eyes. "Is she your friend, too?"
"Hai!" Amelia chirped. "We are friends! Good friends. Not like Usagi and me. Neither one of us wishes to hurt Usagi?"
Amelia then pondered something:
"Grandmama? Grandpapa? You BOTH saw the wedding-guests? Hai? Who was in it?"
"The Deatheaters, you mean?" Eileen responded to her granddaughter.
"Part of what I mean!" Amelia noted as she walked back to shore between her grandparents. "Not all! But? It is a place to start! How do you - feel - about Mom and Dad being back with Deatheaters? Really?"
"Really?" Eileen Snape chuckled. "I was hoping that would happen ever since the Idiot of Gryffender brought our family back together! I had my worries as to how it happened ever since Severus wrote Tobias that you had started at Hogwarts. And? Your mother has always been a daughter to me! And? Has managed to write me. She seemed to know that I wasn't as dead as people always claimed I was! But? She had the descency to never let it slip that I was alive. And? She always worried about you, and your Usagi! She always worried about what the Idiot's plans were for you? Especially, once she heard you and Usagi had been split apart! I'm glad you kept communications open between The Lady Saeko and yourself. I was so relieved a couple of weeks ago when I heard that she was back in the protective-arms of not only of our son, but, also, of Narcissa and Bellatrix! Yes! You and Ryu, and Usagi, and Naru reminds my of Saeko, Severus, and Narcissa and Bellatrix when they were your age!"
And, Amelia Katherina Seraphim shivered slightly at her grandmother's words. If she, Ryu, Usagi, and Naru equalled her mother and father and Narcissa and Bellatrix Black, then who did Oosaka Naru equal to?
Then, Eileen laughed. "But? There was something else you wanted to ask, wasn't there, our Lady Amelia?" Eileen turned to her granddaughter and grinned:
"'Tis about the Potters, I'm guessing? How well they shall be treated, here? Young Harry and His parents?"
"Well?" Amelia giggled as she stepped out of the surf. "It had crossed our minds - Usagi, Makoto, and me! Hihi!"
"Well?" Eileen struck a Solomonic-pose. "Let me think! Let me think. Jammes Potter WAS part of the team that lured your father out to the Whomping Willow! But? Your father always said he thought young Potter was trying to create a way out of that fish-trap young Black Sirius had put together to trap him in! Plus? That was just the kind of 'Practical Joke' that the Black Sirius was known to worship. By the gods! He was a ruffian! Oh, my poor boy. Your father never harbored any ill-will, at all, to young Ramus Lupin. 'Don't blame him, mom! Wolves are just born scared!' And? Little to young Potter! No! No no! Severus saved all his venom for whom he thought deserved it most. The Black's playboy! The Potters are safe from me."
Soon, the elder Snapes were back inside their house with a very calm granddaughter, who was worrying almost everyone she knew with that cat-like grin of hers!
"Alright, 'Cheshire'!" Makoto chuckled into her drink. "Out with it! Whose canary did you swallow?"
"Did not swallow canary!" Amelia pouted playfully, then smiled mischieviously. "My voice is my own! Hai. And? Grandmama assured me Harry's parents are safe, here! 'Potta Jim' was not who lead my tousan to Whomping-Willow trap! Tousan does not blame Jimmy Potter for trap? Obasan does not blame Jimmy Potter for trap!"
"How does Obasan view Deatheaters?" Usagi asked Ami Kat.
"Thinks Deatheaters are best thing to happen to my parents, hai!" Amelia chirped. "Better people than Dumbadoro and cronies! Ara.." Amelia Katherina developed that cat-grin of her face, again, and courtsied and purred to Usagi. "'Narci-chan'? Where is our 'Bella-chan'?"
"'Narci-chan'?" Makoto meeped out, wide-eyed, after she swallowed her drink. "Bella-chan'?"
"Hai!" Ami Kat meeped out. "Obasan explained to me that she thought that me ano Ryu-kun and Usagi ano Naru reminded her of Kaasan ano tousan ano Narcissa-ane ano Bellatrix-imouto!"
Overhearing the conversation, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, and Hermoine Granger grinned and nodded.
"I figured-out quickly who mom and dad were." Ami chirped.
"Obvious." Makoto commented after another sip of her drink.
And Draco, Harry, and Hermoine giggled as lightly as they could.
"That left Usagi and Naru-chan as Narcissa and Bellatrix!" Ami continued. "Easy to see Owner as Narcissa-aneue! Less-easy, at first, to see who Bellatrix-imouto is."
"Only if you're blind and deaf?" Draco whispered through an infamous Malfoy-smile. And Harry and Hermoine snickered and nodded.
"Haven't been noticing, my pet?" Usagi grinned like another Cheshire cat.
"Not at first, my Owner! My fault! Not observant. Until we meet.. Chibiusa's posse?" Ami Kat smiled. "Then, today? Started putting clues together! Hai. Picture started forming."
And Harry, Hermoine, and Draco starting laughing!
"So? Narci-chan? I ask, again?" Amelia Katherina asked. "Where is our Bella-chan?"
"Conversing with Bellatrix-the-Elder, I think?" Usagi answered with a small smile, as she laid her head against Chiba Mamoru's chest.
"Conversing?" Makoto smirked. "Or, conspiring?"
"Bella-to-Bella?" Draco chuckled as quietly as he could. "'Conspiring', probably?"
And, Harry and Hermoine just nodded from where they sat, to keep from falling on their hands and knees!
"As I have come to know chambermaid?" Usagi moved her head from right-to-left, and back again, "Either-or? Could be conversing? Could be conspiring? Who knows?"
"I vote for 'Conspiring'!" Amelia Katherina answered as she laid her head against Ryu's chest and giggled.
"'Conspiring'?" Makoto mused. "I agree.. demo.. Naru-chan has never seemed that dangerous?!"
"Chambermaiden has always helped friends!" Usagi and Amelia Katherina unisonned.
"Alright, everyone!" Officer Snape announced. "Time to head down to the beach! The wedding will take place in one hour! We will need to shepherd the ushers, the best-men, the maids-of-honor.."
"Are there any?" Bellatrix Lastrange smirked at her sister.
"The good policeman is talking about us, Bella." Narcissa Malfoy replied.
"Oh, gods," Bella gave a mock-sigh, "our Saeko's in trouble!"
Andromeda Tonks, Saeko's third maid-of-honor, doubled-over from listening to her sisters. And, Amelia Katherina giggled.
"That is why we are serving the alcohol AFTER the wedding!" Saeko announced with a grin.
"Not by-half as Severus is in trouble!" Ramus Lupin announced. "He went searching for Best-Men? All he could find were Potter, Pettigrew, and I!"
"You three were my best men when Saeko and I first-married in the States!" Severus retorted, and Amelie Katherina giggled a bit louder.
"I'd still would love to know just how you did that, my son!" Tobias laughed.
"I had to vouch for their behavior, dad!" Severus giggled. "And put up my first-year's policeman's pay as surety for that behavior!"
"You had it easy, my Severu!" Saeko replied. "You never had to use were-bitch to keep track of her sisters! Iyee."
"HEY!" Bellatrix tried to sound as indignant and she could pull-off, while Narcissa tried to keep her laughter as quiet as possible. "Sissy and I only got lost... twice? Or, was it thrice?"
"Four times, Bella!" Andromeda grinned. "The last time.. you and Narci made it over the State-line.. twice! From South Carolina, to North Carolina, and into Georgia!"
"Anyhow!" Tobias tried to regain order. "We still need the ushers, best-men, maids-of-honor, flower-girls and ring-bearers down on the beach in 40 minutes for a run-
through! We will have a lunch after that, and the wedding after lunch!"
"I just have one question, Officer Snape!" Usagi raised her hand tentatively. "When.. alcohol.. is finally served? Will.. any of it be.. be.. from Hogarts'?"
"No, Tsukino-Hime," The old man bowed and smiled. "I can gladly say that, thanks to the warning of my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, all alcohol has been screened! I am proud to say that nothing from the Chataeu-de-Sprout shall be served tonight."
"I cannot believe Sprout actually gave you ladies some of her toxin!" Peter Pettigrew growled low.
"I cannot believe she still brews the stuff!" Ramus swore as the Best-Men and Maids-of-Honor gathered protectively around the Senshi and their friends.
"Believe it, my boys!" Severus said, "If I were still a lawman in The States? Sprout would be resting in a jail-cell for making that shit! Or? She'd be pickling in her own juice. Saeko was on watch all the next day for signs of alcohol-poisoning!"
After the re-marriage ceremony, including the release of a flight of doves and toasts to the happy couple - and their daughter - the bouquet was tossed into the air!
And? While in-flight, a gust of air from the French mainland split the bouquet perfectly in two! And two lovely ladies each caught a bouquet:
"Eep!" Ami Kat sqeaked as she felt a half-bouquet of roses landing in her hands.
Simultaniously, a half-bouquest landed in the arms of Tsukino Usagi:
"Eep!"
They then turned to each other, and then then to Ryu and Mamoru:
"Eep!?"
The rest of the afternoon was spent dancing in the surf.
As the evening wound up, James and Lily Potter were congratulating Severus and Saeko on renewing their vows, and thanking Usagi and Makoto for protecting their son, And asking the Moon's Princess for one small favor:
"I realize he's a large pain-in-the-ass," James said, pleadingly, "but? Idiot, or not? Sirius Black is my cousin, and my best friend.."
"Well?" Usagi giggled as she looked at Minako and Rei, "I know about cousins and idiots."
"Thank you, your highness! I think?" James shrugged. Then, he glanced to where Usagi was looking. "Which one is your's?"
"Aino Minako-chan no itoko." Usagi sighed. "So is Hino Rei-chan!"
"Well?" Lily said. "Sirius WAS an Auror when he accepted the responsibility of watching Harry, James, and I from Dumbledor when this mess started."
"Even more reason to look into case of Sirius Black!" Ami Kat chirped. "May be guilty of just trusting Dummadoro too much! Be placed in wrong place at right time! Perfect patsy!"
"I'm sure it's much more than that, Miss Snape!" James Potter looked straight at Ami Kat. "Sirius and I were doing our own investigating into rumours of cursed-objects being in the possesion of the Headmaster that had never been cleansed of their evil. That was before the mess started with a prediction from Sybil Trelawney. A prediction that Trelawney neither affirmed nor denied!"
"Cursed-items, besides Elder Wand?" Naru groused before her next drink.
"Believe me, Oosaka-Sama!" James growled. "That bleeding wand was just the tip of Dumbledor's iceburg!"
"Who reported prediction?" Minako asked.
"Rita Skeeter," Bellatrix Lastrange answered, overhearing the conversation. "I remember her signature at the bottom of the story!"
"Skeeter was, even then, Dumbledor's pet-reporter!" Narcissa harrumphed. "Always ready to dig up dirt on the Headmasters's 'enemies'! And? You can quote me on that, if you wish to!"
"It is decided, then!" Usagi raised her glass. "Hemorrhoid or not? We will talk to Sirius Black! His case will, probably, aide us in dealing with Dummadoro Albus-baka! Need to investigate Mosquito and Trelawney dano."