Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Dumbledore's Niece ❯ Planning Strategy ( Chapter 17 )

~*Planning Strategy *~

"The Dark Lord, Voldemort, has them Potter. He has the scouts and they're under his control now," said Snape.

There was silence all around the room. No one knew what to say. To say that the inners and the other scouts sent back to Japan had been caught was a shock wouldn't be the word. They were more than shock.

"So that's what I saw…" murmured Harry.

"What did you see?" demanded to know Uni.

Harry looked up in surprised. He didn't know he had said it out loud. "Err…well…see…when I passed out during Valentine's, I saw Voldemort doing something to them.," he replied.

"One of the forbidden curses," muttered Uni. She got up from the bed and started pacing back and forth through the room. "We need to break that spell! Who knows what he'll do to them!"

"He might try and use them to attack us," said Michiru.

"Then we'll fight back!" declared Haruka.

"NO!!" yelled Serena, "You can't hurt them! It's not their fault…not their fault…." Harry hugged her as she cried trying to calm her down, because she was crying. Haruka glared at him, but Michiru lightly hit her and glared.

"We know it isn't their fault," Uni said, "But if they attack we'll have to hold them off somehow. But we'll find a way to counter that spell. Don't worry, Serena."

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Serena, Harry, Michiru, Setsuna, Hotaru, Haruka, Uni, Ron, and Hermione were in the Slytherin Common Room. All of them were sitting on the black couch in the room, discussing on how to attack and get their friends back. So far, they hadn't come up with good ideas and Voldemort was bound to appear any time soon. Haruka was coming up with very violent ideas, seeing how she was and Hotaru, surprisingly, was also getting violent ideas. Everyone else was sweatdropping at this because soon, Haruka and Hotaru were putting their heads together.

"We can just attack them and when their tired, we'll get them to remember!" said Haruka.

"And if they can't I'll stick my glaive-" Hotaru was cut off by Setsuna before she could finish her sentence.

"Hotaru! We are not trying to kill them!" said Setsuna sternly. "Do not come up with plans to do so, young lady." Hotaru grinned sheepishly, but nodded and agreed nonetheless. "Good." Setsuna nodded and then turned back to the others. "Though I cannot see the future anymore, I know you will find a way to get our friends back. Meanwhile, I will teach my students how to defend themselves if the time comes to fight."

"It's a great idea, Setsuna-chan," said Michiru, "My mirror tells me that the training will be needed. We cannot defend the students and fight at the same time."
"So that means we'll be taught attacking spells!?" Ron cried excitedly. "Oh, bloody hell! That's so cool!"

Setsuna shook her head with disagreement. "I'm afraid not Mr. Weasly. I'll be teaching defensive spells only, used only for defense. I'm afraid that the headmaster will not be very happy with me if I did that," she responded.

Meanwhile, Uni had been nodding on and off, not really paying attention to the conversation. She had been thinking. Why had she been born with dark and light powers? She had always wondered that and she had finally found out. But she didn't like it one bit. Something still bugged her. She heard Setsuna's plan for the students and got herself out of thoughts.

"Iie, Setsuna-chan, no. Teach them attack spells too. Uncle Albus won't mind. We need to get this school ready for an attack. I'm sure he'll attack here, I'm positive," she said.

Harry nodded, agreeing. "I think he will too. I can feel his anger even now, but it doesn't hurt as much," he said, "But, what about the Slytherin's? Should they be taught?"

"Yeah," said Ron, "Their parents are deatheaters!"

"Not all of them are, Ron," said Hermione, "Have you ever thought of that huh?" Ron scowled and was about to retort, but Serena cut in to avoid a fight between the two.

"Even so, their still students here!" she argued. "You'll teach them, won't you, Setsuna?"
Setsuna looked at her princess and nodded. Serena squealed and hugged Setsuna, causing her to crack a smile. Now, the senshi of time hardly smiled or had fun. She was kind of disappointed that the time gates were locked for it was her duty, but she couldn't help but be happy to be free of it. She had never been able to laugh, to feel free and just be…human…normal. Joining the senshis once again and even protecting them from afar gave her the greatest joy.

"So, we've got that covered," said Haruka, "But what about the senshis? If they decide to protect Voldemort, then we might have a problem."

'Hai, yes," agreed Michiru, "Us outers will have no problem for you know how we work to get things done. But the question is, how will you, the rest fair in a situation like so?"

Hermione, Ron, and Harry looked confused. They didn't know what they were talking about, since they had never see the outers scouts in action. They had not been there during the time of Pharaoh 90 and Mistress 9. They had been here in Hogwarts learning their magic, like normal. Well, as normal as a wizard/witch could be of course.

Hotaru saw their confused face and giggled. "Mina, Rei, Amy, and Lita are known as the outer scouts. Me, Haruka, Michiru, and Sets-mama are the outers," she explained, then took somewhat strict and serious look on her face, "As the outer protectors, we will sacrifice anything and do anything that will get us to complete our missions."

The three looked startled when Hotaru said that. "When you say anything," started Harry.

"Anything." Four monotone voices replied sternly. Ron and Hermione shuddered in fright. Never did they know that they could be so frightful. If Uni could chuckle, she would have, but she wasn't one to laugh. Even if she did, everyone would look at her weird and she didn't want that.

"Don't worry!" Serena said laughing and hugged Harry. "Nothing bad will happen! We won't have to take things that far! We'll stop him before we need to take extreme measures." Harry, Ron, and Hermione chuckled nervously and muttered a 'yea'. Serena looked at Harry with a tint of shining in her eyes. "We've always got hope. And it's always come through with me."

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Thunder stroked and a blue light shone for a mere second before darkness took over once again. A yelp was heard and a short chuckle along with it. Serena trembled in Harry's arms every time the thunder roared outside of Hogwarts. Of course, Harry didn't mind a bit. It seemed Serena was scared of the lightning and he didn't mind being her protector.

It was showering outside, of course, not surprising in April. There was one last Quidditch Match in this school year and he hope they didn't have to play in the rain. The Quidditch match would be in 2 weeks and once again the team against each other would be Slytherin vs. Gryffindor. And this time, they hoped nothing happened like last time.

Serena had finally fallen asleep, despite the thunder and the rest of the students had already gone upstairs to bed, leaving the couple alone in silence. Harry mindlessly brushed Serena's hair with his fingers; looking out the window and watching the rain drop onto the windowpane. The thunder would light up from time to time, but would be silent as if someone had shut off its sound and made it go mute.

Then, out of nowhere, Harry felt a surging pain. He bit his lip to keep from screaming out and waking Serena. He didn't want to disturb her. She looked so peaceful. His scare burned with pain and he could hear the evil laughter of his enemy In hi hand. He cackled, and cackled, and cackled as if he was in the room with them then. His grip on Serena tightened, waking her up.

"Harry, what's wrong?" she cried. All she got was for a reply was the moaning of pain. By now he was clutching his scare with both hands. "Someone! Help! Harry!"

As the students began pouring in the common room all in pajamas to see what the shouting was about, Professor McGonagall and Setsuna barged in the rooms. Setsuna looked calm as usual, but had an alert look on her face. McGonagall, on the other hand, had not only an alert on her face; she had a scared one too. After all, with the entire Voldemort thing going on, who wouldn't? Well, except for Dumbledore, the scouts, Harry, etc.

"What's going on?" she immediately asked.

"It's Harry, Professor," Setsuna replied calmly, "He and the Dark Lord have connected tonight.

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w00t! Done! After who knows how long of not updating! Sowy!! Short (three pages) but hey! It works! I was busy trying to think of something cause I had writers block. If anyone has any ideas, please tell me and it'd help me out a lot ^_^ of course, I'll give credit to you otherwise it wouldn't be right heh heh.