Chapter 26 The Nightmares Continue! Harry Suspects Molly?
"What's this?" Jack asked as he lied in the mud next to his hurt brother.
He noticed that he was back in Liverpool and then saw Grayback cackling.
"Grayback! I thought you were dead!"
"Oh really now, your brother's dead, he knew he wouldn't be able to fight me in a fair fight! I already overpower him and that means you have to die too!" Grayback exclaimed and went over and grabbed Jack in weapon form and broke him.
Jack screamed.
"JACK!"
Jack woke up and noticed that he was in the sub-basement apartment in his room. He saw Blair on his bed in her cat form.
"Blair, what are you doing here?"
"I came to see Thomas again of course! I found you sweating, did you have a bad dream?" Blair asked.
"More like a nightmare." He answered.
The sun finished rising as he made breakfast and Inari and Thomas came in to find him drinking his coffee black and on the third cup.
"What's with you?" Inari asked.
"Had a nightmare and my body wants to go back to sleep but my brain doesn't." he answered.
This is like Ox and Ryo yesterday. Thomas thought to himself.
Harry and Molly got up and found the Wraithe siblings eating while Blair was in Thomas; lap.
Mouse growled at her and she changed into her human form and said, "Not today doggie!"
Thomas had his arms around her despite having a fork filled with sausage. She took a bite and said, "See you in the morning again you hot man you!"
They watched her go.
"Still odd as ever." Inari said.
"Yeah, never thought she would still stalk Thomas despite her almost being killed in her sleeping spell from my Godmother." Harry said as he grabbed the coffee pot and tried pouring but none came out. "Jack!? Where did the java go?"
Jack was on the last bit of it.
"You son of a bitch!" Harry said with a glare.
"Now hold on, I will go and make more!" Jack said and went and grabbed the spice powder by mistake.
"Jack! Don't cook that!" Molly exclaimed.
"Huh?" he asked.
Thomas grabbed the right container and said, "Man, you're off today."
"Even if you drank the entire pot of coffee." Inari said.
"Normally the Brits prefer their tea, what is going on?" Harry said.
Jack told them about the dream he had and how Blair came in to wake him up from it.
"No wonder you're having it." Harry said and turned to Molly. "Are you using your Forbidden Magic again? You know you're not-"
"No way! How could I when I have been in here all this time?" Molly asked.
"She has a point, even though she is getting stronger as a wizard and a meister, she would be asleep like you were after the Toymaker business here." Jack said.
Harry sighed and said, "Very well, I better not find you doing anymore of it if you were using it because today will be a special teaching in class."
"Huh?" Molly asked.
"Something about nightmares of course." Harry snswered.
In Crescent Moon's room, both of the Thompson sisters were asleep as Dr. Stein was lecturing.
"Girls…." Kids started.
Both girls snored.
He noticed Maka was also asleep at her desk and Ox awas also asleep again.
What is going on? He thought to himself.
Dr. Stein saw it and slammed his heaviest book onto the desk and Maka, the Thompsons, and Ox woke right up.
"I'm awake!" they all yelled.
"It sounds like most of you were staying up a little late for exams, which don't start for another month, that's good." He said.
"Not exactly." Ox said.
"Huh?" Dr. Stein asked.
"We've been having pretty bad dreams last night." Liz told him as her sister yawned.
"Dreams? Maybe you guys had bad food or something, that is pretty normal around here." Stein said.
"Normal? What do you call being chased by Kid's asymmetrical stripes in a dream normal?" Liz asked.
"I'm garbage!" Kid exclaimed.
"It seems to me that you guys have something going on, maybe our wizard friends should know about this." Stein said as he turned the bolt in his head and got into his chair and rolled out. "Class dismissed!"
"Finally, I can get some rest." Maka said.
"What's with you, it seems like you went through the worst of it." Soul asked as they left the room.
"You don't know the half of it, I didn't want to go back to sleep so I read my textbooks until sunrise." She said.
"Man, she is tired." Black Star said.
"Yeah." Tsubaki said.
"Well, you better be awake when we have to go after our new assignment! We should have the Ishida Brothers with us to help out if something goes on." Soul said.
"Good idea, I will go and find them." Maka said and took a step and almost fell over.
Soul caught her.
"Is she sure she should be going out tonight?" Black Star asked.
"Black Star…" Tsubaki said.
"You should take her to Knigess." Kid told him.
Soul nodded and carried Maka off to the nurse's office.
In Blood Fang's class, Loki and Thor were introduced to the class like any new student. Ms. Guard made sure that they were taken care of by enrolling them into the school with Harry's class. As Harry taught the class about nightmares, despite the Samamuras and Baki not being present anymore.
As Harry droned on, Molly caught a nap on her desk since she already knew how they work and how she was able to use them to help her friends out in Chicago before she became Harry's apprentice.
As she slept she went into a dream where she stood in a familiar room.
"What is this?" she asked.
She saw two figures twitching in front of her. One of them grabbing her belly while the other his head.
"Nelson? Rosy?" She asked.
"Molly?" the one named Rosy asked.
"What is it?" Molly asked.
"You saved us! You saved us from the needles." Rosy told her.
"Really? That's good!" Molly said.
Wake up!
"But the thing is we reported you." Nelson said.
"Huh?" Molly asked.
The door opened and people from the White Council appeared. A man with a sword went after her and swung at her head.
"No!"
"WAKE UP!" Jack yelled.
"J-jack?" she asked and saw him holding her at the shoulders.
"I am guessing you're suffering from the same thing that some of Stein's class is?" Luccio asked as she walked in.
"Wait, you mean this nightmare thing is spreading?" Jiro asked.
"You got it." She said.
"Who is coming under it since you went by there." Harry said.
"Maka Albarn, the Thompson sisters, and that Ox Ford boy is getting worse this morning." Luccio answered.
"Hell's bells, something is attacking them!" Harry said and looked over at Molly.
"Hey don't look at me! I've been on school grounds ever since I got back from the UK!" she yelled.
"And in the apartment, are you sure you haven't been practicing Black Magic?" he asked.
"I haven't been using it boss!" she answered.
"Oh really, mouse? Do you mind?" Harry asked his dog.
Mouse came from his spot near the desk and went over to Molly and sniffed at her and looked at Harry and shook his head.
"Very well, I guess I have to use the Sight." Harry said.
"You can't!" Molly yelled.
"I have to make sure or the White Council will have to get here from Edenborough again and I don't want to have a Reaper Chop for blood splatter on campus!" Harry told her.
She sighed.
Harry went over to her.
"Are you sure about this Dresden? What if she is innocent?" Luccio asked.
"It won't hurt ito find out myself." Harry answered and closed his eyes and concentrated and then opened them again and saw the inside of Molly.
He noticed her head having a grey patch near the temples and a little withering on her soul and then looked over to her hands and saw they don't have a spot of Black Magic use. Then he saw Jack right next to her and noticed that his soul was withering and his head dark and then blinked the Sight away to end it.
"Holy shit! You are innocent!" he exclaimed.
"Told you…" Molly started.
"So, it's someone else." Luccio said.
"Yeah, I better see the others about being infected, where are they?" Harry asked.
"Maka and Soul went to find the Ishida brothers for help on an assignment while the Thompsons and Ox went back to their rooms for sleep." Luccio answered.
"You go and find the Thompsons and have Ramirez go see Ox, I will go and find Maka and Ryo, since he might be falling under the same attack." Harry said.
"What about us?" Inari asked.
"Class dismissed!" Harry told them and left the room.
Inari and Thomas followed.
"Anyone up for coffee?" Jiro asked.
"You know it." Kana said.
They left the room.
"Coffee?" Loki asked.
"Let's go and see." Thor said and the both of them followed.
Harry managed to find Ryo and Maka heading towards the exit of Death City for Maka's and Soul's assignment.
"What?" Ryonosuke asked.
"You want to take a look inside of us?" Maka asked.
"yeah, I think something's attacking everyone and I don't know what." He said.
"Very well." Ryo said.
Harry got the Sight again and looked into Maka and Ryonosuke and noticed that Ryo got worse and saw some of the Black Blood surging while Maka was starting to get black splotches around her temples. Then he checked Soul to find him untouched and then Kyo and saw a little withering and trying to keep the Black Blood back in a panicked mode and took the Sight off.
"No way…it's worse in Ryo while Maka, you're going to get worse." He told them.
"What about us?" Soul asked.
"Kyo, have you experienced any nightmares lately?" Harry asked.
"Only one…last night." Kyosuke answered.
"Great, no wonder I saw some withering going on and Soul you might be next." Harry said.
"What?" Soul asked.
"What should we do if Soul might be next? We have an assignment coming up tonight." Maka said.
"I have a new assignment for you." He said.
"Huh?" they all asked.
"You need to find the one doing this, I think the Kishin that they may hold in order to fuel these dreams or more like nightmares can help Soul out." Harry told them.
Eddie was watching through his crystal mirror and said, "Oh really? I guess I have to pump the nightmare fuel even more!"
He waved his hands and yelled, "Well Wizard you have done well! I thought you would kill your apprentice!"
Harry heard the voice throughout the school. Ryo, Maka, and Kyo screamed in pain since they were suffering the nightmares that were placed on them.
"Hey! Let them go!" Soul yelled at the voice.
The Thompsons also screamed in their beds after Luccio's Sight faded.
"What is going on?" she asked.
"Liz! Patti!" Kid yelled.
Ox also screamed and Ramirez tried holding him down as he thrashed in his bed.
"Hold on man!" Ramirez exclaimed.
"I can't take it anymore! Come out you coward!" Ox yelled.
"I need a boom voice!" Harry said.
"My wish is my command Godchildd." Leigha said as she appeared and snapped her fingers.
Harry felt the power and yelled in a very loud voice, "Who are you?"
"Wizard, if you want to save your precious White Courts and their companions then you have to come and find me before the next sunrise! If you don't, everyone that came under my spell will die!"
"No…" Soul said.
Jack and Molly even heard the voice as they and the Asgard Brothers, Kana, and Jiro were heading to Deathbucks.
"What is going on?" Kana asked.
"Great, this is not good, I am starting to smell the pain from these two." Jiro said.
"Wait, you fought it off!" Kana said.
"You don't get it Kana, this is a new pain and it is from someone that is using magic in order to invoke it and it wants me to feed on it!" Jiro answered.
"Does that mean you're under the spell?" Thor asked.
"Not sure, I did have a bad dream last night." He answered.
"Damn it." Kana said.
"So Wizard, what is it going to be?"
"I will find you! You hear me? I will find you and make sure you won't survive another day and torment anyone else again!"
"Very well, you have until the next sunrise and if you succeed I will let go of everyone." The voice said and had one last cackle and it faded.
"Harry?" Ryonosuke asked after a moment of silent.
"Come on, we're finding this guy!" Harry said as he started walking.
They followed him to the sub-basement apartment to start their new assignment.