DISCLAIMER: Harry Potter belongs to J. K. Rowling and Scholastic, etc., while Sailor Moon belongs to Naoko Takeuchi.

WARNING: This fic is manga-based, so don't expect the Sailor parts to sound like the anime. It is also my very first try at a Harry Potter fanfic; this may get updated quite randomly. Those who've known me for some time now are aware that English is not my first language, and know better than to expect my stories to go always forward uninterrupted. I take my fanfiction seriously and I like to take my sweet time once in a while when needed, before I update. This means, however, you are allowed to give as much criticism as you want. *winks*

I dedicate this fanfic to my all time favorite hp/sm author, Heroine of the Valley: This is for you, you rock girl! :) You've been a source of inspiration for me.

Summary: After Tuxedo Kamen sacrifices himself to save Sailor Moon from the outcomes of the Stars saga, Usagi and the girls find out his discovery and previous arrangements to introduce them all to the world of Wizard Magic. Set after Voldemort.

PROLOGUE

June, 1997. United Kingdom.

End of Harry's Sixth Year.

"And you are certain they will be ready to join Hogwarts next year, as proper Seventh Year students?" the wizened old man said. "I'm afraid it looks like an overwhelming contest against time"

The young man couldn't fully repress a smile.

"I know it sounds presumptuous to expect them to learn seven years of Wizarding customs and teachings in fourteen months, but I have every faith in them. I know they can do it, and with the help of the Time Turners, and your teaching methods, I have no doubt on my mind that they will."

"Ah. Though I appreciate the suggested compliment, Mr Chiba, I must say the Scientia cum Somnus was an invention of the wizard Merlin, himself. It was not to encourage idleness and overconfidence among the youths, that it ceased to be practiced in our school"

"I understand, sir," the young brunet replied. "Though I must remind you to please just call me by my given name.'Mr Chiba'sounds unnecessary formal," he finished with a slight bow. Headmaster Albus Dumbledore had to laugh at his own expense.

"I admit to forgetting much too often. You will have to forgive an old man's failing memory, Mamoru"

"It's alright," the reincarnated Prince of Earth assented with warmth, vehemently. "I don't wish for you to be uncomfortable on my behalf" The two different men exchanged a conspiring smile at their mutual awkwardness in courtesy.

"I reckon you will be informing your allies and your intended soon?" Dumbledore suddenly inquired.

"Yes. Usagi and her friends are unaware of this as of yet. Out of the eight Sailor Soldiers, only three of the Outers know of my impromptu visit here in Britain"

"This means Sailor Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, if I'm correct?"

"That's right. They accidentally came upon the Wizarding World six months ago, while in their worldwide tour following the death of the Death Busters. When they were back in Tokyo and the queen of the Dead Moon was defeated, they were the ones to inform me of its existence"

"Yes, the Dementor incident. It was fortunate for both of us that Ms Bagshot's young nephew happened to be close by and inform one of our Aurors, Kingsley Shacklebot. Ms Bagshot was a long-time friend of Cassandra Vablatsky, a Seer, who had foretold the event for ten years. The two had argued about the significance of Ms Vlabatsky's vision for quite a while, which was the reason why Bathilda Bagshot sent the young man there, to the right place on the right date, to verify its accuracy.

Dumbledore decided not to dwell on the fact that Vlabatsky was dead shortly thereafter and that Bathilda reported her great nephew, one of Grindelwald's last living relatives, had recently gone missing. "It was quite shocking—," he continued after a while, "—to learn magical protectors such as you and your group existed"

"I'd had no idea there were people in the present who were capable of using the old Golden Kingdom's primal magic, let alone develop it into such advanced forms of complexity," Mamoru nodded. "There is also the fact my memories of those ancient days are still rather fuzzy"

"Naturally," the older man assented. "I see. Do you still plan to return in September?"

"I want to continue getting acquainted with the current Wizarding society. I don't like keeping secrets from my intended, but I need to see for myself if this Voldemort threat doesn't pose a risk to her safety, before I tell her everything"

"So you'll pretend pursuing your studies at that muggle university, when indeed you'll come here to prepare yourself, before risking the possibility of bringing her into a situation of potential danger. Of course, I understand your reasons. Those risks that have troubled you will be avoided if we play our cards wisely, however"

The two men went on with their conversation, unaware it would be the last time they'd ever see each other.

Chapter One.

Three months later. September, 1997.

Eternal Sailor Moon's gaze narrowed as she looked down at the abyss of Light below them. With one last look back at the domains of Sailor Galaxia, and an exchanged glance with ChibiChibi, she took a step forward and leaped inside.

As she was falling, she never noticed Chibi Chibi's form disappear from sight completely. Her entire attention was on the Cauldron right under her. Few words crossed her lips seconds before she reached it.

"Wait for me, everyone"

- - - - - - -

It was a white void made entirely of Light. However, that light wasn't blinding or hurting to the eyes, despite the indescribable brilliancy. The girl also known as Sailor Mars looked around her wearily, until she heard one of her friends' shout.

"REI-CHAN! REI!!!!" the form of the princess of Venus appeared in front of her.

"Minako...?!?"

"It really is you, it's so great you're here!" the blond quickly propelled forward to embrace her, her own demeanor anxious. "I thought I was the only one lost!"

"Not so," a third voice stated soothingly. "We're all here, apparently"

Minako and Rei turned in an instant. "H- Haruka-san?!??"

The tall female smiled as she approached with Michiru. Seeing the other two beside them, the two Inners cried. "Setsuna-san?! Hotaru!" But it was the ones that followed who made their mouths open wide. "Mako-chan! Ami-chan!"

"You guys are alright!" Mina exclaimed with joy.

"But how?" her brunette companion whispered with uncertainty, "You had been killed before our eyes..." Rei stared at Minako with dread. "I remember.... how Galaxia killed us."

Turning to the rest of their group, she didn't dare say the unspoken question aloud. No one said anything for a while. Makoto and Ami, appearing confused, watched how Haruka, Michiru and Setsuna looked at each other with silent understanding and then Michiru clasped Hotaru's hand. Ami gasped and the four Inners too looked at one another.

Soon enough, a silent message was passed between the eight of them through their eyes. Makoto was the first to brave her courage enough to speak. "Does this mean... we're all dead now?"

This gave way to another brief silence, as each of the Senshi got her mind around it.

"But Usagi isn't with us!" Minako cried almost immediately. "And what of the Starlights ...Artemis and Luna!? What about Mamoru?!"

"I heard Usagi calling for us," Rei murmured, her voice deep with repressed emotion. "I'm sure I felt Mamoru's presence nearby. He was close, somehow"

This received an assenting gesture from Michiru. "We have felt the same. We also felt Small Lady's life force, flickering in and out of existence"

"Wha-?!"

"...Chibiusa?!?"

Hotaru and Setsuna nodded with grim expressions. "She tried to come to help us from the future"

"Oh no-"

"Usagi, Usagi-chan...!!"

"-we have to do something," Michiru finished, downcast.

Haruka's hands fisted. "We must get out first," she deadpanned looking all around them. "Where is this place?!!"

The rest soon followed her example. Ami boxed her mouth and screamed. "Hello!! Is anybody here?!!" She tried again. "Is anybody out there, can anyone help us!!?" But no one seemed to be answering from within the endless whiteness.

"It seems like a realm between life and death," Setsuna commented. "I doubt we will be able to get out of here; not without help from an ultimate being"

"That can't be," Rei said with a passion. Minako fell to her knees, hugging herself tightly.

"Sailor Moon..."

A bright sphere of light appeared before them in that exact moment.

"So these are the ones so beloved to that Star"

Minako opened her eyes and got to her feet like a flash. Rei quickly came to stand beside her. They both looked down at the tiny fairy-like creature inside the glowing ball.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Guardian Cosmos," the fairy being said. "Guardian of the Galaxy Cauldron and of this Cosmos Seed and Star"

"The Galaxy Cauldron?" Rei and Minako blinked as the other six joined them. "Is that where we are right now?" they wondered outloud.

"Yes"

"We heard about it once," Setsuna said wistfully. "It's the place that gives birth to the galaxy's countless planets and stars"

"Not just birth only," Hotaru answered, her gaze gaining an an unfathomable light in it. "Resurrection and rebirth are also possible. To be reborn, this is the place where all souls of the dead come to die"

They saw the being give them an indulgent smile. "Soon, by the power of this Holy Cauldron, your Shine will resurrect its previous human body and return to your Mother Star. I am glad to have met you before that"

This made the Senshi all happy to hear it. They were going to be revived, with their previous bodies, and sent back to their planet? Both Inners and Outers took each others hands and grasped them tightly, unable to control their relief or desire to laugh in delight. Later on, Ami approached the small guardian in earnest.

"But, Guardian Cosmos, if you are the Cauldron's guardian, could you tell us where the rest of our friends are?"

Michiru bowed to the being solemnly. "Three of them appear to be missing," she informed, her respectful tone belying a pleading taint. "We don't know what could have happened to them." Guardian Cosmos assented.

"I have sensed your concern," she made a pause and closed her own eyelids. The eight Senshi surrounding her looked on grimly. "For those of a Twilight Shine, a Golden Shine, and a Silver Shine, respectively"

Small Lady-sama, ...Endymion-sama,... Serenity...

The fairy like being proceeded. "The one with the Twilight Shine has been sent to the infinite future; she and her protectors will be sheltered by the likes of Sailor Cosmos"

The senshi looked back in confusion. "Sailor... Cosmos?"

Guardian Cosmos pointed her staff at them, and the vision of a small little girl flashed in their minds. "Chibi Chibi!?!" The form of Chibi Chibi grew in their minds' eye until it became a full fledged, adult Sailor Senshi. A timeless Sailor Senshi who inhabited a world where Crystal Tokyo didn't exist anymore.

It should not have been Usagi's transmutation; but then again, it couldn't have been someone else entirely, either. That meant perhaps, someday, Chibiusa would be nurtured by the transubstantiated essence of Usagi's self.

"...Chibi Moon..." Hotaru tried to say more; but, once again, Guardian Cosmos continued.

"The one of planet Earth, owner of the Golden Shine, has been here in this Cauldron, and you will eventually be reunited," the girls began to turn to one another with relief showing on their faces, expecting to hear similar news next, about their Princess. When Guardian Cosmos said nothing, their relief disappeared.

They did not have to ask her, for Guardian Cosmos finished with a regretful sigh. "But the one with the Shine of Silver, carrier of the galaxy's strongest crystal, whose light was of compassion; she sacrificed her own soul for the power to resurrect her loved ones. She gave her star-seed to save this Cauldron, and as a result...

The senshi were unable to contain the chilling fear inside them.

"As a result... ...she gave her life"

---*---

It happened before anyone of them could react. Before even the Inners could give way to their sorrow, like in response to the words of Guardian Cosmos, the entire Galaxy Cauldron was violently shaken by a golden light strike.

"No. You can't be gone. Usako..." a grief stricken distant voice said. "...I will not allow it... "

Twelve Months Later.

September, 1998. Tokyo.

The voice broke through the thoughts of the one spying the front door of the Tsukino household. "You know staying here, watching her live her life day after day, is not going to make you feel any better"

"...Michiru-san?!"

"It's been a year, Minako-chan. You make us worry. You can't keep doing this to yourself"

"...I know," Minako looked down. "I just wish it were different"

"You are seriously upsetting Mako-chan. Until Rei and Ami awaken, you are the only other one of your group whose memory still remains"

"It's just, it's so unfair!" the blond said with new found helplessness. "It's pointless for them to wake up now, the way things are right now. None of this was supposed to happen"

Michiru smiled in bittersweet understanding. "After each of Luna's attempts failed, we all thought it best to let it rest. To just let it be, for a while"

Mina looked down again. "But I can't. Every time I think about it, I feel like I'm abandoning her. Especially now, with the way Mamoru-san is—," she could not end that sentence; none-the-less, the aqua haired girl nodded. "Michiru-san, she should be able to remember, she did it for us! I feel like I failed her"

The eyes of the violin-player hardened. "We all miss her, Minako, desperately so. However, it would not be right to force her into remembering. That would be selfish"

"I do know that right now we should do what's best for Usagi, but... I don't want to let it go. I don't want to lose her too," The blonde stared up at Michiru. "She should be able to remember us, at least, just us. So, why, why can't she?"

"Minako-chan"

Minako stared down at her hands. Her fringe obscured her eyes. "Do you think the reason she doesn't, is because she doesn't want to?"

"Oh Minako-chan..." the young woman whispered sadly as she took the now sobbing younger girl in her arms. "Don't cry, Minako-chan" Once more, the Venus princess stared up at the older girl in despair.

"I just don't understand why Mamoru did it!"

----*----

"How is Minako-chan?"

"Better, now that Makoto is beside her. It breaks my heart seeing them so heart-broken. Minako used to be the most lively of them all"

"If we could get at least Rei and Ami to remember, perhaps they wouldn't be taking it so hard," a third woman offered, looking out of a nearby window.

The Uranus princess glanced to her left at the princess of Pluto. "Yes, but that's for the same reason we have not attempted to awaken Hotaru yet," she reminded, frowning lightly. "Problematic. Unnecessary. Would only bring upon them unnecessary pain. We'd all agreed that we should wait" The other room occupants heard the question hidden.

"It's so difficult at times," Setsuna shook her head, her arms crossing. "This level of uncertainty... The threads of Time continue to be wavering"

"I didn't realize how much we had come to depend on Mamoru-san," the slim blonde asserted. "With him gone, we're left even more defenseless," she suppressed the need to slam her hand on the dinning room table. "I don't like the thought of those wizards roaming Tokyo, looking for our Princess"

"They call them Death Eaters," supplied the Time Guardian. "That Kingsley Shacklebot had assured us they don't really know who she truly is"

"Even so, we ought to stay focused," commented the aqua-haired girl.

"Just let Minako keep her watch over Usagi's house. She's been through a lot before and she's a tough Senshi; a little depression won't break her"

"Haruka," Michiru piped in somberly, bringing her attention back to herself. "Have you thought of what will become of the five of us if our princess never remembers?"

The sandy blonde opened her mouth to answer, but no words would come out. Running a hand through her hair, frustrated, she turned away.

"I don't like to think about things like that"

"Just as well, it is too a possibility," Setsuna admitted.

"What will that outcome have us do, then?" Michiru wondered. "Protect the Earth, without Sailor Moon?" All three of them dreaded the thought.

Haruka turned and walked a bit away from them. "Last time we tried, didn't turn out so good," she announced self-deprecatingly.

To Be Continued.

A/N: So I decided to stop dallying around the issue and try my hand at a HP/SM fic. Some of you may be aware of how much I love this fandom. As a HP beginner of sorts, I'll appreciate all the help I can get. Anyway, nothing else left to say. I hope you guys enjoyed this little piece. ^_^

Sends cheery wave to you all,

Jay FicLover