A/N: Sorry about the long delay in update. This fic will get interesting soon I promise just bear with me for a little while. Sorry about the lack of things from other student's perspectives like rumors, or discussions about him being from another dimension. I really tried, but found I couldn't write scenes like that. I feel so crippled as an author.

Chapter 10

Harry was standing on an open plane. There were thick streams of smoke rising from several craters around the area. What is this place? Harry wondered to himself.

A soft boom drew Harry's attention to a small outcrop of rock. On it, seven or eight people where battling what appeared to be strange blue little creatures.

"Its so nice of you to help 16. But I plan on doing this my way." A frighteningly familiar voice said. Harry swung around to come face to face with Voldemort. "Hello Harry" He said in a dangerously soft voice.

"Harry! What are you doing here?" Harry looked past Voldemort to see Gohan, in his golden state. He was riddled with bruises but Harry still got the impression that he was extremely dangerous.

"Gohan! What are you doing in my dream?"

"I think you're in my dream."
"That's Voldemort. So this is obviously my nightmare."

"That" Gohan said, pointing at Voldemort "is Cell. So this is my nightmare."

"Wait."

"You don't think..."

"The psychic link!" They shouted in unison.

"Well as interesting as this is" Said Voldemort/Cell. "But I'm afraid I can't allow anymore of these interruptions to continue."

"Shut up!" They both shouted in unison. Harry had never had the strength to tell Voldemort to shut up before. Not even in his own nightmares. But somehow, having a friend with him, he suddenly found the situation a lot less scary. In fact he found it rather funny.

Cell/Voldemort, was immediately silenced. Gohan thought it odd. For two years he had been haunted by terrible nightmares. Nightmares that always began with the crushing of 16's head. But now that Harry was here, sharing his dream. It seemed odd to be having a conversation with his Harry, while his nightmare fought for his attention.

Suddenly both Harry and Gohan burst into laughter. It was a strange feeling, Harry thought. He'd almost forgotten what it was like to laugh. He hadn't laughed since before Sirius's death. But the more he laughed, the less he could stop. The pleasant sound seemed to wash away all the cares that had seemed so important before.

When Harry and Gohan finally stopped, both Cell and Voldemort were gone.

"So, now what?" Harry asked.

"Well I'm not sure. I've never had anyone else in my dreams before. What do you say we start your training?"

"Sure, but will it work in a dream?"
"There's one way to find out." A grin crept onto Harry's face.

"Okay, where do we begin?"

"The first thing you need to learn is how to sense ki."
"Oh, I thought we were going to start with those movements you did this morning."

"In due time. But first you need to be able to use your energy, and to do that you first need to sense it. And besides. I think its rather pointless to do physical exercises in a dream." Harry grinned sheepishly. He hadn't thought of that. But now that Gohan mentioned it, it would be rather pointless to train his body a dream, not to mention boring.

"So, sit down and we'll get started." Harry sat down on the rocky floor.

"Okay, I'm going to raise my energy until you can sense it. My ki feels kind of like a beach. You'll know it when you sense it."

"What do I do."
"Just close your eyes. You won't have to do anything this time."

Harry closed his eyes. He tried to imagine what a beach would feel like, but all he could sense was the cold wind whipping around his school robes. He silently wished he was waring something warmer.

Eventually on the edge of his mind, he noticed something that felt calm and cool, yet powerful at the same time. It was an odd feeling Harry decided. But it really did feel like a beach. If Harry had to describe the feeling he would say that it felt like an energy that was solid and unchanging, and yet in constant motion. As he concentrated on the beachy feeling, he noticed that the feeling kept growing stronger and stronger.

How could he have missed this energy? Now he was having difficultly concentrating on anything else! It felt like he was standing naked in front of a huge collection of people! The sheer size of the energy was impossible to ignore. He opened his eyes.

Harry was somewhat surprised to find that there was only Gohan standing there. Somehow he felt that an energy that monstrously huge should surely belong to a million living beings! Or else something 2 miles high.

It was the strangest feeling, he felt completely subdued simply by sensing something he couldn't see.

"You should be able to feel my energy now. Describe it to me." Harry tried to say something, but instead he turned an odd white color.

"Harry are you alright." As if in answer to his question, Harry turned and threw up on the floor.

"Oh?" Gohan smiled happily. "That's good. It means you're very sensitive to ki. As you get used to it, that feeling will vanish."

When Harry finished, Gohan continued. "Now I'm going to slowly lower my ki. I want you to keep concentrating on that feeling. I'm going to move around, and I want you to close your eyes and keep pointing at me. I want to see how far I can suppress my power before you lose the feeling."

Gohan slowly walked in random patterns, slowly lowering his ki. He had to admit that he was impressed. He doubted even he learned ki sensing this quickly. But then again, he was four, and he wasn't trying to make it as hard as Piccolo did.

"Okay, I can't sense you anymore."

"That's very impressive." Gohan said seriously. "I've almost had to completely hide my power before I lost you. I bet with time you could be even better than me at sensing ki!"

"Really?"

"Well, maybe. We'll just have to see. I'm not sure how your magic affects your ability to sense yet."

"Oh, okay. What's next."
"Now your going to try and sense your own ki. To help I'm going to give you a little bit of my energy. It should make your energy more visible."

He watched as Gohan stretched out his hand. And then he felt it.... Power! It was running through his veins! It was so addictive! He felt as though he could jump over Hogwarts with a hop.

"Harry. I need you to feel your own ki now. Can you describe it to me?"

But the last thing Harry wanted to do was feel his own energy. He wanted to test this power! He pulled his arm back looking for something to punch. His eyes flicked around the empty landscape, eventually settling on a large rock outcrop. Harry pulled his arm back to punch it. This was going to be so impressive!

Is it? A voice in the back of his head said. Is it really impressive to break something with someone else's power? Was it impressive when Bellatrix killed Sirius? Was it impressive when Voldemort killed your parents?

"No" Harry decided out loud. He wasn't going to be a fool. He wasn't going to go around thinking that the ability to destroy was an impressive gift. Instead he was going to control the power and do something that mattered. But what mattered? What could possibly matter compared to this kind of power?

Gohan watched as the struggle flickered back and forth over Gohan's face. He gave the boy a little more power than was necessary. But he had to know. Gohan lost his father because he couldn't control the rush of power. He had to make sure Harry could handle it.

Gohan had to admit he was impressed. The power increase he gave Harry was equivalent to a super saiyan transformation. A power increase of 100 times. And Harry had yet to give in to the urge of testing it. Finally Harry turned white at some internal realization.

He's probably realized now. Gohan thought. Gohan had to learn that lesson twice. Once with each transformation. Power must be controlled, otherwise it will turn you into a monster.
"Okay, well done. Now, listen to my voice. I'll describe your energy to you, just try to feel it."

"Okay. I'm ready." Harry said sitting back down and closing his eyes.

"Okay, your power is sort of like red lightning. Its most concentrated over your left shoulder right now branching off, not unlike a nervous system."

"Okay, I've got it. Now what."

"Its going to change now. Keep tracking it as it changes. Describe it to me"
"Okay, the lightning is fading, but it still feels sort of red. Now is starting to shrink a little."

"Yes, continue"

"Now its starting to rotate."
"Yes"

"Its still shrinking and rotating."

"Yes, now I want you to try and move a little bit of that energy to your dominant hand."

"How do I do that?"

"You concentrate on that feeling you get from your ki, and you slowly concentrate on it moving. It will move eventually."

Gohan watched over the next two hours as Harry tried to force a bit of energy to his hand. But every time he had a grip on his ki, it would change, and Harry would have to start over. Eventually Gohan felt a tiny trickle of ki, on Harry's fingertip.

"Okay, Harry now send that energy towards that rock. Just point your finger and let it fly."

The tiniest beam of magical energy escaped Harry's finger heading painfully slowly to wards the tiny rock. Gohan encouraged Harry to keep pushing the ki, and eventually it reached the the pebble. Gohan and Harry watched in anticipation as the tiny beam of energy hit the rock.

What happened next, not even Gohan anticipated.

The rock turned into an ant, the size of Harry's fist. And then split in two. And they split in two. And then the four ants became eight, which became sixteen.

Soon there was a small army of fist sized ants charging towards Harry and Gohan.

Gohan blinked. Harry blinked.

Quickly Gohan grabbed Harry's hand and took off into the sky.

"Well that was unexpected."

"What does that mean?"

"I think it means your ki really is magical."

"Does this change anything."
"Oh yeah."

"How?"
"I'm not sure yet. But until I figure it out, no more ki attacks."

"Oh... Okay... What do we do about the ants?"

Gohan grinned down at Harry.
"Let me demonstrate what a non-magical ki attack." Gohan took his other hand, that wasn't holding Harry, and held it in front of Harry's face.

Harry watched in awe as a glowing blue orb formed above Gohan's palm. He could feel the same beachy sort of energy coming from the orb. Gohan casually turned his hand over and the orb dropped on the sea of black ants.

The entire world vanished in a flash of white. When the smoke cleared the sea of black ants, was replaced with an enormous crater.

"Wow" Gohan grinned back cheekily.

***

Harry woke up surprisingly refreshed. He would have thought that all that concentrating during his dream would have been tiring. But he felt better than he'd been in a long time. Evidently his nightmares about Sirius's death was more draining than he'd thought.

He looked at his watch in the moonlight. It read 04:45. Don't forget out meeting. Gohan's thoughts ran through Harry's head. What meeting? He thought back. Remember when you asked me to teach you that dance? I said 'Be at the lake at five'.

Oh, I thought that you'd let me sleep, considering that we trained all night.

Well okay. I just thought you'd want to learn how to fly. Besides I'm in the mood for a good work out.

***

By the time that Harry made it to the lake he found Gohan was already there, waiting patiently for him.

"Am I late?"

"No, you're right on time. Okay, today were going to do something different. Now, can you still detect my energy?" Harry closed his eyes for a second before nodding.

"Excellent. Now I'm going to run through those katas I did the other day slowly. I just want you to sense my energy. Tell me what's happening."

Harry concentrated as Gohan slowly performed his 'dance' routine. Following the energy in his mind.

"Okay" Gohan said stopping. "What did I do?"

"Your energy kept moving around in your body. When ever you moved, your entire body's energy shifted."

"Yes. Exactly. Now you're going to do the same thing."

"I've made these for you." Gohan said holding up wrist and ankle weights.

"You're going to wear these. Put them on first. Then we'll talk."

Harry nervously put on the weights. They must have been thirty kilograms each!

"How am I supposed to move in these things?" Harry asked as he felt the weight pull at his arms and legs.

"We'll start simply. Try to lift your arm." Harry tried. His arm twitched a bit, but otherwise remained in exactly the same position.

"Now, what I want you to do, is move all your energy into your arm." Harry struggled for twenty minutes trying to get his ki to move into his arm, but he seemed to fair far better than yesterday.

"Excellent" Gohan complimented. "Now try to lift your arm."

To Harry's surprise the weight lifted easily.

"And that is the use of ki. Now move your ki to your other arm and lift that one." This time it took Harry fifteen minutes before he lifted the weight.

"Okay. Now your ready for the next step!" Gohan said enthusiastically. "I'm going to go through my katas very slowly. I want you to mimic me. Move your ki wherever you want to, just keep following my movements."

The next two hours Harry tried desperately trying to mimic Gohan's rigid movements. But his own movements were a far cry from Gohan's perfect stance. His limbs kept shaking from effort, and he spent a lot of energy trying to force his ki to go to where it was needed. But the problem was it, seemed to be needed everywhere. He just didn't have enough energy to keep lifting the heavy weights. Though, Harry thought, he might have done better if it wasn't for the large crowd that had showed up to watch them towards the end.

Their laughter and comments certainly didn't help his concentration.

After the two hours have passed, Gohan seemed satisfied, and with enormous pleasure Harry took of the torturous weights and joined Ron and Hermoine for breakfast. The crowd was even bigger this morning than yesterday. No doubt all hoping to see a repeat of Gohan's spectacular performance.

***

Gohan traveled deep into the Forbidden forest. According to Dumbledore, the centaurs should be somewhere around here. He heard a whistling behind him. He turned around just in time to see the arrow penetrate deep into the tree next to him.

"Another human. When will your kind learn that you are unwanted here." Gohan watched a single centaur step out into the clearing. But he could feel a hundred similar ki hiding in the branches just beyond his clearing. He had no doubt that they would try to spear him if he gave them even half a chance.

"I apologize wise centaur." Gohan said bowing low. "But I come seeking your help." Another centaur stepped out from amongst the trees. This one's chest was marked with battlescars, and Gohan could see that one of its eyes were patched.

"And what help could we possibly be to one such as yourself." The older centaur said.

"I require a pensieve." Both centaurs gasped, and he could feel all the other ki grow restless with anger.

"You ask a great service. The pensieve is one of our most trusted secrets. Why would we just give it to you?"

"I am willing to perform any service you deem worthy of such a prize" Gohan said humbly. And if that doesn't work, I'll trade you for it.

"And what makes you think that you have something we desire?"

"I come from a far off place. There are many things that I could trade."

"FOOL!" The younger centaur yelled as it pawed the ground. "You speak as a human. We have no wants. Our only desire is to study the stars. You think we can be bartered with like common hags?"

"Calm yourself Firenze. The boy meant no disrespect."
"He underestimates us. You can see it in his arrogant stance. He thinks us all pretty horses!"

"Forgive him. He is young." The older centaur said. But Gohan could tell this was going downhill fast. So, thinking quickly spoke.

"I know that you are a warrior people." Gohan said, hoping they thought like Vegeta. "I know another warrior. A man by the name of Vegeta. Watching him I have come to learn that pride is of the utmost importance to warriors. Without it they have nothing." Gohan said wincing at his own words.

"What you speak is true." Firenze said. "Continue"

"I cannot offer you pride. If you are mighty warriors as Dumbledore claims, you already have it. If you do not. Nothing I can give will save you from your pathetic existence." Gohan could feel the other centaur's anger at his statement. Eager to prove themselves mighty warriors.

"But what I can offer is my own humble service. I am very strong, and would be honored to serve such mighty warriors as yourselves. I only ask for the chance to prove myself."

The older centaur laughed.

"You speak well. There are no doubt few that can resist your words. Especially not coming from a cub such as yourself. But we are a people of action. We do not judge based on words. We judge based on actions. It so happens that we have a disagreement with the spiders that inhabit this forest. You shall act as our mediator, since they killed the last one. If you survive, we shall speak again of your pensieve."

"Baurus, are you sure?" A female centaur said as she walked into the clearing. "You are asking a single wizard child to walk into a nest of Acromantula. Surely this is too great a task for even a mighty centaur warrior. Do you wish the child's death?"
"He asks for a pensieve. That is what it will cost him. We do not give away our treasures lightly. But if he feels he is unable to complete the task, he may of course choose to return to his kind and never return."

"I will do as you ask." Gohan said confidently. "Where may I find these spiders."

"Head west. Three hours walk into the woods they will find you. Say you wish to speak with Arannia. She is their leader, they will take you to her."

***

Gohan was getting tired of walking. He wished he could just fly to these damn spiders, but no, they had to find him. He hopped over another fallen tree, when he felt it. Two very large ki walking directly towards him. He stopped.

"You can come out now. I know you're there." He called into the shadows.

"Ah, another human. Its been so long since we had human flesh." A clickty voice whispered.

"I come in peace. I wish to speak to Arannia. I come with a proposal from the centaurs."

"So they send another to do their bidding. They fear to engage with us face to face." The second spider breathed.

"Do not think them too cowardly" Gohan answered. "I asked them for this task. To prove myself worthy to them."

"So you would willingly walk to your death, while defending those who sent you there. You are a strange one." The first spider said, now towering over Gohan. "Very well we shall take you to her."

The spider lowered its enormous head towards Gohan and seized his ankle in its mandibles carrying him upside down. Gohan could have broken free easily enough, he just had to stop supporting his enormously heavy weights with his ki. But somehow Gohan didn't think that would do the negotiations any good.

After about a half an hour, Gohan found himself in the center of an enormous nest of the giant spiders.

The largest one spoke first.
"Alectus. What have you brought us today?"

"A human. He's serving as the new negotiator sent by the centaurs."
"So they are to cowardly to send one of their own. Figures."
"As I've told the other two spiders. Do not think them too cowardly, I came requesting a chance to prove myself."

"Silence! Do not speak unless spoken to!" Another voice hissed.

"Sorry. I didn't know." Gohan apologized.

"So, what offer has the centaurs made this time." Gohan opened the scroll the spiders gave him and read:

We, the centaurs, have agreed that in addition to the previous agreement you may also dwell in the land between the Forbidden and Sweet Thorn rivers. In addition we will end all hostilities towards Spiders staying in the Shadowrest area.

"That's an outrage!" The spider Gohan assumed to be Arianna screamed.

"They give us half of what we asked for and offer to stop hostilities towards spiders that have dwelt in Shadowrest. Our oldest brethren have lived there since the start of the forest. And they expect us to be grateful! Human now you will die! That will be our message to their 'agreement'.

"Wait just a second." Gohan said calmly, trying to re-establish control over the situation. "What exactly is the problem? Maybe I can help?" He offered helpfully.

"Don't worry your death will help enough." Suddenly a huge pair of mandibles descended out of the air and gripped Gohan's head in its vice-like grip.

Okay they want to play rough. I'll show them. He stopped supporting his weights and stiffened his body. He could feel the large mandibles try to break his neck. It was completely useless. They might as well have blinked at him for all the difference it made.

"What is taking so long." Arianna asked, getting bored.

"His neck won't break!" The spider hissed in annoyance. "It won't even budge."

"I'm not done speaking yet." Gohan said in a slightly annoyed tone. "If you value your life, grunt. You will let go of my head this instance."

There was a general clicking that sounded oddly like laughter. He hated doing this, but he could tell these creatures couldn't be reasoned with. He raised his hand.

There was a bang, and the spider that tried to kill him was suddenly splattered all over the trees as well as the other spiders.

"Now that I have your attention. Perhaps you can tell me what the problem is." Gohan asked in a friendly tone.

Arianna looked at him through her creepy eight eyes. Gohan wished he could read the inhuman emotion behind them.

"Perhaps you can help. Ever since the giant has moved into the forest, our territory has been shrinking slowly. If you can get rid of the giant, all our border disputes will be solved."

"I'll look into it. But I won't murder any innocents."

"Have it your way. Just get rid of him."

"Which way is the giant?"

"South. Keep going south and you won't miss him."

Gohan shot into the sky. There was no way he was going to waste even more time walking throught the forest. He still had three classes to prepare for tomorrow.

Within seconds he found the large ki. He descended quickly, landing with a soft thud behind the enormous creature. That was when he noticed the second ki. Hagrid was here.

"Hey Hagrid!" Gohan called out as he walked to meet Grawp fearlessly.

"Gohan! Watcha doin all de way ou' here?"

"Its a long story. But the short version is that all the centaurs and spiders are fighting over territory. I need to to get the giant out of the forest."

"But Grawpy's never hurt no one."

"He doesn't have to. The spiders and centaurs are too scared to get close to him. And the more he moves around the less territory they have to move around in. I'm afraid they're on the verge to breaking out in war."

Hagrid sighed.

"I was 'fraid it 'd come to dat."

***

Gohan was exhausted. He flopped down on his bed with his new pensieve. It took him another three round trips between the centaurs, spiders and Hagrid before he found a cave outside the forest that Hagrid found acceptable for 'Grawp'.

But it was worth it. He thought as he looked at the stone basin with a druid's runes carved into the side. A night without nightmares... Was that really possible. It seemed like such a long time since the last time that he had had an undisturbed night's sleep. Well, that wasn't entirely accurate. Last night didn't quite qualify for a nightmare. But still, he looked forward to a night's dreamless sleep.

The spiders thought him a coward for not just killing the giant, but at least he thought he'd won over the centaurs. But right now he was exhausted, and he still had Harry's training tomorrow morning. Not to mention that he still had to prepare for his classes.

He slowly forced his way up from the bed and trudged over to the safe, storing his weights safely inside. Before making his way back to his bed.

He sat down on the bed in a meditative position, and thought of everything that usually haunted his nightmares. He put the pensieve in his lap, slowly rotating it anti-clockwise. Slowly his thoughts began to blur into one another, until it all seemed to be a single smear of colour. Then that too began to fade, until he was left with nothing but his vision.

Gohan looked down at the pensieve. He saw his thoughts floating in the stone basin. Neither liquid nor gas, they drifted, floated and swirled inside the basin. He immediately knew it had worked. Without another thought be put the basin on his desk, climbed into bed and drifted off into a sweet dreamless sleep... Completely forgetting to prepare for his classes the following day.