A/N: SO PLEASE READ THIS, OR YOU MIGHT GET CONFUSED.

Firstly, I just want you all to know that this is a DREAM SEQUENCE, so if it DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND.

YOU WILL FIND OUT THE REASON FOR THIS NIGHTMARE NEXT CHAPPIE!!! :DDDDDDD

Okee? :DD

(actually, if u must really know the true story, I was just feeling hyper so then I wrote the first few pages in a CRAZY style of writing, and then I decided to make it into a nightmare...which would make more sense)

NOW ON TO CRAZY RANTS:

Felicity: THX FOR REVIEWING!!! :DDDDD u ROCK!! Ok, onto ze question: ahem...yep, Draco and Hermione are both rellwings...heehee...

willowfairy: happy secular holidays!! HOPE U HAD FUN!!!! Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! :DDD yup, many questions will be answered in da next chappie!! Most of this is just a product of...er...TOO much boxing day shopping? *opens mouth* MERHA!! I shall EAT those TOMAHTOES! Heehee.lols

Chrissy: HEEHEE...that is impossible!!! I SHALL BE HYPER 4EVA!!!! (at least, for as long as I am NOT unHYPEr...heehee.) yes! Thx for ze compleeemeenttt!!!!

Draco Lover: heya DL!!!! ERR.don't WORRY!! IT"LL aLL become clear in ze NEXT chappie...I have MANY embarrassing things PLANNED for my FAVORITE hero, DRACO!!!! Heeheee :DDDDDD

Goosefeathers: heehee.yah, I wuz thinking da same thing, wonderin' if what draco was thinking was sane...and no, even if he may SEEM like it most of the time, DRACO (yum) is 100% not schizophrenic, but 100% min-er...I mean...er...NOT mine...hehe lols

Natalie Garner: ben affleck...yum...hehe lols...well, draco and hermione's wings are huge...if u ever watched escaflowne, they're like van's wings...IF NOT, just picture Ben Affleck to your delight!! *he was in 'Voyage of da Mimi', roight? * THX for reviewing!!!!!

Hermione18: YAYYY!!!!! U ARE ZE BEST!!! EcStatic that you like the story!!! Pansy is evilll!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Hehee.I shall NEVA cease being hyper!! HYPER!!!!!! :DDDDD

LCA: *drumroll...* presenting...

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!! Heeheee!!! YAY!!!! Well, this chappier one whole LOT more confusing that ANY of ze other chappies, due to my RESIDENT HYPERNESS!!! :DDDD anyways, thanx for reviewing!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Or in this case, HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE EVE!!!!!!

ZE ZAGA CONTINUOOOESSS..

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Light of Darkness

"Hey, there she is!" Harry elbowed Ron in the gut to get his attention. Ron and Harry looked concerned for a moment, until Harry remembered what he had been talking about in the first place.

"No, Ron, HerMiOnE is there!" This time it was Ginny who suddenly burst into uncontrollable laughter, until her face was slightly red. Harry looked slightly miffed that he was somehow the butt of the joke, but shrugged, and decided to stuff his mouth with some delicious looking pancake that had been steaming on his plate.

"OH! I see her now! Bloody hell, she looks terrible!" Seamus (since I haven't mentioned him yet in the story) decided to do something worth writing about and rolled his eyes at Ron's unfailing ability to state the extremely obvious.

Now the whole table was standing up and attracting attention, trying to catch a glimpse of their sick-looking resident brainiac who got them house points, which Harry would promptly (and right on schedule) lose. There was a chorus of comments from the Gryffindors while the Ravenclaws rolled their eyes knowledgeably, the Hufflepuffs tripped over Trevor (Neville's toad, not the clumsy, clumsy Hufflepuff) and the Slytherins didn't do anything particularly nasty because Draco wasn't there to order them around.

Hermione DID look unwell, and she was clumsily slurring her way down the Great Hall, not looking very Hermione-like.

THUS BEGAN ANOTHER DAY IN WHICH GRYFFINDORS WOKE UP IN A SLEEPY DAZE AND MADE FOOLS OF THEMSELVES TO EVERYONE ELSE CUZ THEY ARE JUST...SO...BRAVE

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Chaos ensued until Dumbledore stood up and tapped his glass. Then everybody stopped talking, walking, stalking, squawking, mocking, balking, docking, and dancing around.

"YES???" They chorused as a group.

"Well, before we parTAY, I have a special message for HERMIONE and DRACO. HERMIONE and DRACO. HERMIONE and DRACO. HERMIO-"

"Alright!! WE get the point!" Snape put a finger on the side of his nose. Suddenly Snape disappeared, and the other Hogwartians around him faded until everything seemed to be underwater, except Dumbledore.

The old wizard turned his lopsided gaze onto Hermione and Draco. Almost as if a light had been blown out his eyes went flat and stopped twinkling merrily.

"I have a message for you, Hermione and Draco. Snape disappeared. He is gone. Taken by Voldemort." Suddenly Dumbledore's gaze flittered around the room in consternation. "I don't have much time...the lockets are the key...seek help where you least expect it...you've been drugged, Draco...forgive...rellwin-

The scene blacked out, until Draco and Hermione were standing a void. A horrible snickering was heard enveloping the whole room. Fear was prominent in the dark black air.

"Ten minutes, my kiddies." A voice growled, echoing around the silent abyss. "Ten minutes before the beautiful sun comes out." A chill ran up Hermione's spine, and she unconsciously moved back to back with Draco. There was evil here. Powerful, dark, evil. The darkness around them started to take on a form, until it was darker than it's background. Red eyes stared eerily at them, and Hermione and Draco were frozen to the spot.

The newly formed shadow suddenly dove at the two of them, too quick to avoid, and Hermione and Draco screamed in pain as the darkness suffused them both. They watched in silent horror as their bodies started...darkening.

They were slowly disappearing, melting into the black abyss around them...

"You will NOT destroy my plans, you two," the leering voice continued, now from the shadow. It had no mouth, but it's red eyes were animalistic, insane with a wild rage. There was nothing they could do. Hermione closed her eyes as the darkness encroached on her legs until they were gone. Draco watched at the darkness suffused his limbs, clenching his teeth as pain racked his body. Eyesight blurring, they both doubled over.

They were dying, they both knew that much.

The breath was slowly getting squeezed out of their lungs, and the air around them became suffocatingly hot, nauseating. Draco and Hermione closed their eyes, accepting their fate. It was too hard to keep on fighting, so much more easier to surrender to this darkness, this calm, encroaching black void...

"No." Hermione and Draco's eyes shot open as they heard the defiant voice. Both their pendants were glowing brightly, incandescently, and they squinted their eyes painfully at the light. The silence was deafening and suffocating, until a ground shaking beat was heard. It was a heartbeat...no...it was two...beating in perfect harmony. A thick beam of palpable light shot out from both of their silver pendants, and crashed into each other when they met.

The light itself started to form into a small figure. It was a little boy, and he held out his hands to the two teens beside him, all the while facing the black shadow defiantly. Hermione and Draco's bodies started to reappear, starting from their hands, which were held in the boy's. Now the boy stepped forward, hands out, palms outwards. The shadow shrank back, almost scared, almost frightened.

An eternity was spent watching the two face off. Both were still and silent, neither moved. Hermione and Draco held their breath, and their hands unconsciously twined together.

Suddenly a louder beat of a war drum. The shadow moved forwards, red eyes hungry, watching Hermione, watching Draco.

"It is almost time." It grinned. "The sun has almost risen from the eastern horizon. You can do nothing." He glared at the boy. "YOU HEAR ME? YOU CAN DO NOTHING!!"

"Yes I can." Calmly spoken. The boy flipped his palms downwards, until they were facing the ground.

"AGHHHHH!!!!" An inhuman cry rent the silence. Bright white vines intertwined in the shadow's body, seeming to reach out of his stomach to hold him back. Then the vines stiffened, and jabbed themselves into the darkness around them. "NOOOOO! AGHH!" the shadow's cries penetrated and echoed through the abyss, as he was forced to his knees by the vines. "NO! You can't KEEP me here! YOU CAN"T KEEP ME HERE!!!!!"

His cries echoed endlessly within the vaults of their minds. The abyss churned, and began lightening, until it was a light black. The shadow's screaming continued. The changing of the abyss caused it pain.

The little boy turned to both of them. The outline was fuzzy, but they could just see a little boy with light brown hair within the light. He started speaking, his voice calming them, healing their wounds, washing away their pain.

"It'll hold for a few days. You two must be ready when the time comes. You two are destined to save us. Find out about your heritage, find out about the pendants...I can only help you so much." With a slight smile that was the epitome of innocence, the little boy nodded. The little boy bowed courteously, stepped back, and started fading, more rapidly as each second passed. Hermione found her voice, that had been jarred in the back of her larynx for the past while.

"Wait...what...what is your name." She asked, voice cracking slightly. The little boy grinned, his rosy lips budding into a smile.

"My name? It is not important." He grinned boyishly. "But it is Tommy." The shadow behind the boy started screaming louder. The boy glanced behind him and shook his head sadly. He was almost gone, now. "Prepare..." he breathed quietly by way of parting.

~*~

Draco and Hermione sat bolt upright, breath rasping past their lungs. Sweat dripped past their brows and both simultaneously put a hand to their heads. Almost drawn by instinct, they headed for their separated porch doors.

For the first time ever since several arduous weeks ago, the two teens watched the sunrise-in perfect peace.

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that is all, and in case you didn't catch it, this was a dream. Lols...gotta love those dreams...in one dream I got chased by a bee and I STOpped it w/ some extra-strength liquid detergent!! *people are heard yawning loudly* heehee, anyways, happy new year!

-dkc!