Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Dumbledore's Niece ❯ news ( Chapter 11 )

~News~

A high cackle was heard in the darkness. Three people saw the same visions, but none knew that two others also knew. Six girls in different color fukus and a man in a tuxedo could be seen. A tall person in a cloak appeared in front of them, their hands hidden inside the cloak. Suddenly, a hand appeared from the cloak and had a stick-like thing in its hand.

The girls took attacking stance as well as the man. They threw everything they had at him. The attacks were colored in different colors and were speeding towards the cloaked person. The person hidden behind the cloak gave another loud cackle and raised his hand with the stick.

A black translucent wall appeared in front of it and the scouts attacks surprisingly bounced off it. The senshis looked were shocked and took a step back as their own attacks came rushing back at them. Their screams were heard as it hit them and they were soon found on the floor. Their attacks had come back to them twice as powerful. The man in the tuxedo growled and came at the cloak person with a sword that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere into his hands.

He charged at the cloak figure with the sword high above his head ready to be brought down and cut into something. Another high cackle was heard and so was a yell. Something heavy fell on the floor with a thump. The cloaked person brought down their hood revealing red-like slit eyes and an evil smirk on their mouth. He brought his magic wand up and a cold voice was heard. The voice could give you chills up and down your spine and you would be able to tell that this particular person was eviler than anything you might have encountered.

"Crucio!" The scouts and man began to scream in total pain. They began to twitch on the ground, unable to do anything to reduce the pain. The man in the cloak glared at the people on the floor and grinned an evil grin. He cried out something else that made them stop screaming, but to just stand still. "Imperio!"

He laughed. "The moon princess and Harry Potter," he said in utter disgust, "will be next! Let Harry Potter die and the moon princess's power be mine!!"

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Uni gasped out loud as she sat up straight. It was a very bad idea since the blood came rushing at her head, giving her a bad headache. She shoved her face in her hands and fell back on the bed with a loud groan.

'Why does his voice seem so familiar?' asked Uni to herself, blinking slowly so she could get used to the light. She knew where she was, of course. She knew this school so well that she knew she was in the infirmary. 'Stupid dream. Stupid premonition.'

"Uni?" said a man's voice that interrupted her thoughts so suddenly.

"Hai," she replied dully.

"Are you all right?" asked Dumbledore, sitting in a chair next to her.

"I guess…" she said in an even duller tone. Then, she remembered something, "Is Harry all right?"

"Yes. He woke up about an hour ago and is now surrounded by his fellow friends, not getting one bit of sleep like he should," said the headmaster smiling. Then, he gave a slight frown, "The only person who hasn't awakened yet-…"

"Only person? Someone else got knocked out?" she questioned.

Dumbledore nodded. "Serenity. The Outers are with her right now. Hotaru is trying to heal her, but alas, I do not think it will make any difference."

Uni rubbed her temples with her fingers, trying to get rid of the headache. Madam Pompfrey came in with a huge block of chocolate and shoved it in Uni's hands. She then turned to leave the two family members alone and to go shoo out the visitors from Harry's room. Uni rolled her eyes as she left and broke the chocolate into pieces. She threw them in her mouth and soon her stomach was full of chocolate much to her displeasure.

"Uncle Albus?" she said.

"Hmm??"

"…I think the senshis are in trouble," she said and described the "dream" she had. Or vision, as some people would probably call it. The headmaster, by the end of her tale, still looked calm. He wasn't one of those people who would start panicking once he heard a story like that.

"We'll need to check on that, Uni. We can't afford to make any mistake," he said.

She nodded. "Right. I'll start contacting them right away." He nodded in agreement. Usually, he wouldn't let her get out of bed so soon, but she was strong and he knew. That made him reminds him of something. He was supposed to tell her another 'secret' he kept. Dumbledore turned to tell her, but found she had already disappeared. He sighed. He had absolute no idea how she did that.

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"Why won't she wake up!" shouted Haruka angrily. "What the hell is the problem!?"

"Chill, Haruka," said Uni, entering the scene. "She'll wake up herself. Right now, I need all your help. It might be a good idea to get Setsuna's help also."

"What is it?" asked Michiru.

Uni looked at all of them and replied, "I think the inners, Quasar, Darien, and StarLight are in trouble. Someone's got to them. But, Uncle Albus and I want to make sure. All of you are coming with me back to Japan."

"But what about moon-hime?" asked Hotaru.

Uni gave a slight frown and thought to herself. She knew they couldn't leave her alone even if she was in Hogwarts. "We'll ask Setsuna to try and explain her version to what happened to them. She'll stay here with Serena," she replied, "Now come on, let's go."

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Setsuna was in her office when she had heard about her moon-hime's fainting spell as well as Uni's and Harry's. Seconds before they had brought her the news, Setsuna had felt something but wasn't sure what.

Dumbledore had encouraged Setsuna to keep working on her plans for class. They would tell her if Serena awakened as soon as possible. The time guardian sighed and got up. Since she didn't sleep much, she inspected the halls for loose students that weren't allowed in the halls passed nine. She would occasionally catch one or two, but let them out with a warning if it was their first offense. She walked in the halls, her sense and eyes alert to anything moving.

That's when she heard the voices. She immediately could tell who was speaking. Stuttering Quirrell and snappy Snape. Setsuna listened carefully to their conversation.

"You had better be telling the truth, Quirrell," sneered Snape, "I am not one to mess with."

"O-o-of c-cou-course, S-s-snape," stuttered Quirrell.

"Until next time," smirked Snape. He released Quirrell and went on his way. Quirrell glared after him and went the opposite direction, muttering to himself. Setsuna looked after Quirrell in pity when she shivered. She felt something evil lurking somewhere around this school, but she didn't know what.

"Cold, Professor Meiou?" said a voice behind her slyly.

Setsuna twisted around, only to be face to face with Snape. "No, Severus," she said slowly, "Thank you for your concern."

Snape sneered at her and replied, "Who said it was concern, Meiou? It was simply a line to ask you why you were…eavesdropping."

"Very hard not to, Severus," replied Setsuna, ignoring the coldness in his voice, "Especially when you are speaking rather loudly and not to mention you are scaring the wits out of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. It isn't exactly a secret you want Professor Quirrell's job. Snape opened his mouth to argue. Not letting him speak, she continued, "And what I would like to know, Severus, is what you are doing, in what seems to be, threatening poor Quirrell?"

"None of your business, Meiou," scowled Snape.

"It is my business indeed!!" snapped Setsuna. "Anyone threatening any of my colleagues will be my business! How dare you-…"

"Setsuna!" said four voices, interrupting her in mid-sentence.

Snap and the Time Guardian turned towards the owners of the voices. Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru, and Uni appeared running to them. Setsuna placed her hands on her hips and glared at them as she went into stern teacher mode.

"What in the name of Cronos are you four doing in the hallway in the middle of the night?!" she snapped at them. Only Hotaru flinched at Setsuna's gaze and the others merely shrugged it off. "You should all be in bed!"

"Setsuna! Uni-hime says the inners and the others might be in trouble!" cried Michiru.

Setsuna dropped her teacher act and gave a slight 'Oh!'. Snape, not knowing what's going on, shouted, "What are you talking about? Inners? Others? What's the meaning of this?"

"None of your concern, Professor Snape," Uni said coldly and smirked at Snape's shocked and angered face. "Nani? Going to take points from me? Your own house?" Snape growled. Uni turned to Setsuna and said, 'I thought you could give us an insight from your perspective."

Setsuna nodded and almost laughed out loud when she saw Snape's face.

"Come, we'll go somewhere private."

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"Pluto Crystal Power!!"

"Uranus Crystal Power!!"

"Neptune Crystal Power!!"

"Saturn Crystal Power!!"

"Universe Crystal Power!!"

Different color lights lit throughout the room, not leaving one shadowed corner unlit. After they had disappeared, there stood five sailor scouts in different color outfits. Pluto raised her staff up and whispered softly. Mist engulf the five senshis and soon, they were no longer in the office, but at the time gates where Pluto would usually guard.

"Let us see what the time gates would like to reveal," Sailor Pluto said. She twirled her staff around a couple of times and then with the top end of her staff, she tapped the floor three times. It A small cloud-like screen appeared in front of her and revealed an image.

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A shadow loomed over Tokyo, where the scouts sent there stood ready. A large cloaked person appeared and cackled evilly before raising a hand with a wand in their hand. The senshis shouted something and bodies were everywhere. Some of those who were still alive were running everywhere and screaming in total panic.

The senshis suddenly threw attacks at the hidden person, only to be reflected back towards them. Minutes later, the scouts were down and so was Tuxedo Mask. The cloaked person cried a cursed word, leaving them in pain. Then, he stopped and said another curse word.

"You'll be next princess of the Moon! And you will finally die Harry Potter!" the cloaked person cried.

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"That's what I saw," said Universe, "And I sweat to Kami I know who that is. I just can't quite place it."

Uranus nodded. "So, does this mean the others were attacked?" she questioned.

"It seems so," said Pluto, "those spells…they were unforgivable curses, I believe. Only death eaters and…"

"Voldemort," seethed Saturn.

Pluto nodded. "And Voldemort, were and are the only known ones to use those."

She looked at them all before adding, "It seems to me, that the cloaked person is the one and only Voldemort.

"You mean, he's come back?" gaped Michiru.

"It seems that way," replied Pluto, "But it may not be him. After all, he had no body and only lives as who-knows-what."

"As far as we know," said Universe slowly as she thought to herself. "What if he did get his body back somehow and knew that we were here? No one knows what really happened to Voldemort on that day he lost his powers. What if somehow, he managed to get his body back, but is able to still be a spirit?"

"That's a lot of what ifs, hime," said Hotaru.

"Hai, it is, but we can't take any chances. I'm going to tell Uncle Albus," she said.

"Then, let us go back," said Pluto as she twirled her staff.

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Serena shifted in her bed, but only slightly. Four people came in, two looking alike in every aspect. One was a girl with bushy brown hair and the other had red-fiery hair like the twins. They entered, oh so, cautiously, into the room where Serena laid.

"Is she still sleeping?" whispered Ron.

"I think so," Hermione whispered back.

"Oh, I wish she would get up!" said Fred.

"Yeah! We want to know what happened," added George.

"Quiet down you three!" hissed Hermione.

"You're being loud too, you know!" Ron hissed back. Then, a shadow loomed over them. Shakily, they turned around only to be face to face with…Madam Pomfrey. Her hands were on her hips and she glared at them all, sternly.

They chuckled nervously and Madam Pomfrey pointed out the door with one finger. The students hung their heads and walked out, getting themselves ready for a lecture. She followed them out and closed behind her. She glared at them.

"What in heavens did you think you were doing!?" she bellowed. "Miss Tsukino is in a coma and needs her rest! If you needed to see her, ask me first! You-…"

"Can you stop yelling?" a sleepy voice asked behind her. "I'm so tired…"

Everyone looked behind them and noticed Serena, rubbing her eyes and yawning. Her hair was slightly ruffled and her meatballs were dropping. She was leaning on the frame of the door, looking like she was ready to sleep right there. Madam Pomfrey rushed to Serena and led her back to her bed. She took a chocolate bar from her pocket and placed it on her bedside table.

"Sleep now and when you wake up, eat this chocolate," informed Pomfrey.

"Hai, Pomfrey-san," mumbled Serena as she fell asleep.

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"I hope Serena is awake," said Harry loudly to himself. He was trying to catch up on his homework for his classes, especially Snape's, because Madam Pomfrey had made him stay in the infirmary for a week, not letting him out. So there he was, in the Gryffindor's Common Room doing homework, or at least trying to.

His mind was too much on Serena and how she was fairing. He had sent Hermione and Ron to check up on her and Fred and George decided to tag along. So far, Harry had heard no word from them and was getting impatient as well as annoyed.

"Ow! Stop pushing!" Hermione cried as all four of them tried to enter at the same time. He chuckled at the sight.

When they finally got through the portrait, they ran towards Harry as they babbled something he couldn't quite comprehend. Harry held his hand up for silence and they quiet down.

"Okay, then," started Harry, "What did you say?" All four of them started talking again, which caused Harry to fall. "One at a time!" he shouted. "Hermione!"

'Serena woke up!" shrieked Hermione, "But Madam Pomfrey kicked us out. Heh, heh…"

"yeah," added Ron, "If you want to see her, you'll have to do it later. She told us to pass that on to you."

Harry frowned. He wanted to see her right away, but it seemed impossible. Oh, well, he could always use the invisible cloak. Yes, he would visit her tonight. The Weasly twins went to pull a joke on someone. Ron started to work on his homework, which Hermione, who was urging him to finish, was forcing him to. Harry went off into his own world, trying to catch up.

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Uni started doodling on her parchment out of pure boredom. Not to mention the fact if getting on Snape's nerves, but heh. Snape was talking about something. She didn't know what nor did she care. She figured she'd managed later. It always did anyways. Somehow. Then, a shadow loomed over her and Uni looked up startled. Snape was glaring down at her, causing pansy to smirk, knowing she would get in trouble.

"Miss Shields," he seethed, "What happens when magical shrub and water that contains oil are mixed together?"

"Depends on what kind the shrub is or it'll blow in your face," she replied dully and yawned before adding, "And make your face ugly, much like yours Professor."

The Gryffindors snickered behind their books or whatever they were hiding behind. Snape growled angrily at her and snapped at the laughing Gryffindors, "Fifty points from Gryffindor! Keep laughing and I'll take off more!!"

They immediately stopped and Snape smirked at Uni. She smirked right back. "Do you honestly think I care? You've lost your touch, Professor," she said, "Now are you going to go on with the lesson or should I take over?"

"No need Shields," snapped the Potion Master. He was about to speak again when the walls shook. Though they were underground, they could still feel the trembles from above. Uni shot up from her seat and looked up at the ceiling, glaring at it as if to will it to show her who was doing this.

Dumbledore burst in the dungeon and looked around the room.

"Uni. We're being attacked. The others are already there," he said, breathlessly.

Immediately, she ran out, but not before shouting, "Minna in Great Hall."

The headmaster nodded and looked at Snape. "Bring everyone in the Great Hall. Alert everyone. Professors are to help outside. Madam Pomfrey, Professor Flitwick and Professor Trewalney are to stay in the Great Hall with the students," he instructed. Then, he left.

Snape glared at the students and snapped. "You heard him. Go!"

Everyone hurriedly gathered their belongings and raced upstairs to the Great Hall. What was happening outside? The question lingered in many people's minds.

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"Miss Tsukino! Tsukino!" shouted Pomfrey as she shook Serena awake.

"Huh?" she mumbled as she awoke.

"Please. Come with me to the Great Hall," said Pomfrey.

"Why?" asked Serena.

"Just come," said Pomfrey. She handed Serena a robe to put on her pajamas. Serena put it on and followed the nurse down. She noticed students going the same way she was what was going on? Then, the walls shook once again causing students to scream.

"Everyone to the Great Hall!!" shouted Pomfrey. "Now! Don't dawdle!"

Soon, they arrived in the Great Hall, which was full of students. Trewalney and Flitwick were also there, calming students down. None of the other teachers were in sight.

"Serena!" someone called out. She turned around to find none other than Harry! He ran to her and was followed by Ron and Hermione. "Are you all right?" he asked worriedly.

Serena gave him a smile and nodded, "Yep! Just need rest and I'll be fine." She looked around. "Where's Uni?"

"Um…We actually don't know," started Ron.

Hermione nodded. "She left and Dumbledore went after her. He said something about being attacked."

"Then, eh told Snape to get everyone in here," added Harry.

Serena gasped. "Oh, no! I can't let them do this alone. I have to go!" she went to run towards the door, but Harry held her back.

"Serena," he said. "No, you'll get hurt." Then before she could reply, the door burst open, revealing several youmas.

"That's right brat," sneered one who seemed to be the leader of them all. "You'll get hurt going out there."

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Yay! I finally finished. Sorry if it took so long. Heh, heh. But when school starts, I'll write more…I know it's usually the other way around, but I've actually got more time to write when school is here. ^_^'

I'll update as soon as I get at least 20 visits to this chapter or when I'm done, cause that's what I usually go by. But, I wouldn't mind reviews ^_^ I like reading them heh heh!