by Katie Davidson (Virtue)
A/N: This is the first Chapter of the SEQUEL to 'In Other Worlds'. I'm calling it: 'Dreamscape'. I'd like progress it with ideas from you guys. So leave ideas in your reviews, I'll think about them and maybe, just maybe, you'll see your idea in the next few chapters. ~.^
Chapter 1 is Rated PG because of the attitude Elora gives Snape and Dumbledore. I recommend any younger readers do not talk back to their parents and/or teachers, it just gets you in trouble... ^_^ And you don't want that. Also, because of the incident in November with two children jumping off balconies in Ankara (Turkey) thinking they had super-human powers (thus Pokemon was banned from Turkey), I also want to say that you do not have the same powers I have given my characters. So don't try. What I write is imagination, not experience. I do not experience fire coming from my hands (although it would be cool) or a sword appearing at my side (that would also be cool). It's just wishful thinking and it's NOT possible in our world. They may say 'dreams come true', but not these kinds of dreams.
You have the freedom to choose who you are in this world; whether it be a pilot, a nurse/doctor/veterinarian, a poet, singer, or even a writer (like I want to be). Those dreams are the true dreams that can come true, with hard work, talent, and training. Don't give up on those dreams. They can be all you have sometimes.
Also, remember that my FanFics are like crosses between Harry Potter and Anime. My perspective of the character's of JKR might be different from that of hers. I try my best to keep their personality's together. I'm sure you've already ready many DISCLAIMERS before, so I won't go through the whole 'these characters are what's its and who's its' junk... ENJOY!
Elora was in Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class in the middle of her first year at Hogwarts. She still remembered the time at the beginning of her year, when she found that she was the Fire Guardian, then something more than that. She held within her the most powerful of elemental guardians, the Moon Guardian. She smiled at the thought. She had met him once, in the Ravenclaw Common Room when she was alone, he came to her in the fire.
It was awesome to think that she was even more powerful that she had thought. At first all she wanted to do was find the Unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, but she got to see more than that. First she met Harry Potter, a Gryffindor guy older than she was, and then she met the shadow of her power, a Dragon. Fantastic, she thought. She had only seen it once before, but that she though had been only a dream. Professor Dumbledore told her before that 'dreams tell the most interesting stories of ones self'.
Elora had been through a lot for her first week at Hogwarts. She was quickly top in all her classes, but not as good as Hermione Granger, who ranked top in the whole school. She really didn't care as much as Hermione did about her schoolwork. She did the best she could, while still hanging with Harry, Ron and Hermione, and Ron's brother Fred and George. She sometimes helped Ron's sister Ginny (who was in a higher year than she was) study for a few things in her classes.
Elora was 16 years old; she would turn 17 in November of the next year. Harry would turn 17 before his next year of Hogwarts; he was slowly reaching his last year at Hogwarts while Elora would just be chipping the block. She feared she would never see Harry again if they parted.
"That will never happen Elora." Harry would always comfort her when the topic came up.
"I know," Elora would always reply, exchanging hugs with Harry.
In the middle of Elora's attempt to change a brick into a cake, the room started to shake. Professor McGonagall nearly flew off her chair. Some of the girls' in the class begun to scream, the guys murmured 'cool!' Elora stood still and concentrated on the room. The room shook again. Then panic struck, the whole class headed to the door.
"Everyone stay at your desks!" McGonagall barked, "I'll see what's going on." Elora, being an impulsive leader, followed McGonagall as she rushed out the door. She stopped at the doorframe when she saw McGonagall talking with Professor Snape and Professor Lupin in the hall. "Did you feel it too?" Elora heard McGonagall ask the two teachers.
"Of course!" the harsh voice of Snape was heard, "It almost broke the specimen's I had captured in jars for my next class."
Professor Lupin, the Dark Arts teacher, caught eye of Elora. Elora quickly hid herself. "We should find Dumbledore. See what's going on. Hogwarts has never had an Earthquake before." Lupin suggested.
"An Earthquake?" Elora said to no one in particular.
"What? An Earthquake?" Lizzie said, who had overheard Elora. The news was quickly spread throughout the class. Elora moaned. Just then Professor McGonagall shot back into the room.
"Dumbledore has requested all students into the Great Hall as quickly as possible. Let's go people!"
As quickly as one can say 'Abra Kadabra', the Great Hall was filled with students sitting at their respective House tables. Dumbledore stood above them all at the teacher's table, his voice clear to the point, a twinkle in his eyes, he started his speach:
"As everyone has probably already heard; yes, we did experience an earthquake. The tremors seem to have subsided so we think that may have been the end of it. I've called you all here to tell you not to panic if another tremor were to emerge."
Just as he said that another tremor hit, this one even greater, and longer, than the other two. The hall was filled with screams as the tables shook, and banners fell from the walls. Glass broke and soon the floor of the hall cracked in the middle.
"Everyone! Get to your Common Rooms!" shouted Dumbledore over the noisy crowd. The students were way ahead of Dumbledore and started to jam the doors to the Great Hall, but when Snape walked up to them all they split let him through.
"Dumbledore told you not to panic!" Snape growled, "Quickly but silently, no pushing, return to your Common Rooms. Now go!"
The students listened and quickly, with no noise what so ever, they headed to their respective Common Rooms. Elora stayed at her table. She sat on it, wondering what it could have been. She knew Cecil; the Forest Guardian (respective Element equal to that of Earth) would not have intensively set off an Earthquake for no reason... unless he was trying to contact her. Fear suddenly struck her. What could have happened to create this commotion?
She asked no more questions and jumped onto her feet. Professor Lupin who smiled at her stopped her in her spot. "I thought I recognized you." He said slighly, "Minerva told me all about you. I know who you are, Elora. Do you know what's going on?"
McGonagall came up behind him, "Of course she doesn't, and if she did, she'd tell Dumbledore as soon as she could. Right Elora?"
Elora nodded, "Of course Professor McGonagall. When I do find out, I'll be sure to tell Professor Dumbledore. Cross my heart; I promise!"
"All right Elora. I trust you, now please return to whatever it was you were going to do." Lupin said while stepping out of her way.
Elora rushed to the door where she met up with Harry. "Something wrong? Why didn't you leave with the rest of your house?"
Elora looked at Harry, she knew she could trust him since he had experience everything she had (basically). "I have to contact Cecil. He might be doing this in order to contact me. If anything's wrong, Harry, I have to help. You know it's my sworn duty!" she shouted.
"It's my sworn duty to protect you. Now, where we off to?" Harry said. "We?" Elora repeated, "Harry, I can't ask you to..."
"Yes you can, Elora." Harry broke in. "Now, I'll ask again, where we off to?"
Elora growled slightly. She didn't want to get Harry in trouble, but she knew it would be one of the only safe places where she could contact Cecil and the others to find out what was going on. "The girl's bathroom." She suggested.
Harry moaned, "All right. Lead on."
Elora led Harry to the nearest Girls' Bathroom where, once they knew they were alone, Elora held out her the moon guard she wore on her wand (right) hand and chanted "Cellus Revelis!"
Then, the moon embedded on the center of the guard, revolved faster than it would normally. A beam of light shot up about 3 inches and in the light the figure of trim man with long hair braided down his back stood wearing a brown and green trimmed cloak. "Elora? What's wrong?"
"I thought you could tell me that, Cecil. Hogwarts has experienced its first three Earthquakes in the last 10 minutes. Is there anything wrong over there?"
"No." Cecil replied, "Everything's fine and dandy here Elora. Earthquakes you say? That's intriguing. I haven't set off any Earthquakes in the past few days; I've been working on some new trinkets with Velicity. Would you like to see?"
"Not now Cecil." Harry broke in, "If you didn't set them off, then you did?"
Suddenly another tremor erupted, Elora broke contact with Cecil at the same moment. The toilets in the washroom exploded and the floor started to flood with water. Harry and Elora quickly burst out of the washroom when they both met face-to-face with Professor Snape. His eyes glared at the both of them, "You, Miss Danen, should be in your Common Room! It's the same with you, Potter. Five points from Gryffindor AND Ravenclaw for not following orders, another five from Gryffindor for being in the girls' washroom, and another to..."
"Oh shove it, Snape!" Elora sneered, "Harry and I have to get to Dumbledore, now! It's very important and if you get in my way again, I swear you WILL regret it!"
Snape growled at Elora, "TEN POINTS from Ravenclaw for talking back rudely to a Professor."
"FIFTY POINTS from Snape's account for interfering with two very important students with very important information." A soft voice chuckled from a distance. It was Dumbledore.
"Sir, I uh..." Snape muttered.
"Say nothing of it Severus." Dumbledore said, "Now please leave me alone with these two individuals. I'll speak with you later."
"Yes, headmaster." Snape intimately said while walking down the hall, mumbling to himself.
Dumbledore turned to Elora, "What is it you urgently needed to tell me?"
Elora sighed, got her information together, and bursted "The Earthquakes, sir. Cecil knows nothing about what caused them, he..."
"Isn't the one who made them? I know that already. These 'quakes are unnatural. He wouldn't know anything about them. Come up to my office, we'll see what we can make of them."
"Me too, sir?" Harry asked.
"Yes, Harry." Dumbledore smiled, "You too."
Elora, Harry, and Dumbledore set off up the stairs to Dumbledore's office. Where in the corner of the room a small Pheonix burned brightly, and sang with a sweet song. Elora and Harry sat down. Harry stared at the bird; it reminded him of the Lightning Pheonix that he met for a short moment in the Maze. He hasn't had the need to summon it since then, he hoped nothing would have to come to that.
"Now." Dumbledore started, pulling out a long piece of paper from his desk and laying it out gentle, "This is a blue print of Hogwarts."
The diagram rippled as another tremor hit, it was shorter and not as rough as the last one they had felt. The waves on the paper seemed to start in a distinct area of the map, and expand like waves.
"This is where the tremors start. If it were a natural quake it would be spread throughout the whole area." Dumbledore said, "But another thing is, the enchantment around Hogwarts should keep Earthquakes away from it."
"Unless someone is trying to break it." Harry suggested, "But who would do a thing like that?"
"I don't know," Elora said, "I've run out of ideas. It couldn't be Voldemort... or would he? He knows I'm here and that he doesn't stand a chance against all of us. Would he be that stupid?"
Dumbledore grinned. "Who knows, Elora. He just might. Tom's quite a character. All the mysteries of this world and others are still so vast that no one can simply understand them all."
"I'm gonna have a chat with Cecil and the others. See if they'd know anything, anything at all, about what's happening, or if they have any ideas." Elora suggested.
"Great! I'll come with you. Cecil told me before that we'd duel the next time we met. I'm up for it!" Harry shouted.
"No," Elora stopped Harry. She smiled, "Harry. Someone has to stay here to protect the school while I'm away. I'll stay in contact with you. Please Harry."
Harry sighed, "Then you should stay. I can talk to Cecil. If everything's happening here then it's best if you stay Elora."
"Harry's right." Dumbledore said. Elora's gaze shot to Dumbledore, she didn't understand.
"Let Harry go? Is it because I'm a girl?" Elora sneered.
"Never!" Harry shouted, "Elora. You're the Moon Guardian. You're sworn to protect not only the Maze but also this world, and many others. It's this world that's being attacked. If Cecil said nothing's happening in the Maze, then it should be safe."
Elora sighed and finally gave up, "Fine. Go. Stay in contact at ALL times. I want to know if ANYTHING goes wrong, all right?"
Harry nodded, "Of course I will." Harry then tapped the Lightning Guard, a ring he wore on his wand hand, three times and in a flash of lightning he disappeared.
"He will be all right, right Professor?" Elora sighed.
Dumbledore smiled, "Of course Elora. He's as strong as you in both heart and in mind."
Continued: Chapter 2 - Cavernous Fall