Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or anyone else in his world. I also don't own the rights to Final Fantasy, although I do own a copy of the game.

A/N: This was just a random idea that I had, and it's taken over. I don't even know why. Dumbledore casts a spell which puts the witches and wizards into a Muggle game, but will they be able to return? And who are they playing? But obviously, Draco is Tidus and Harry will be Yuna. The similarities are too close.

And the Al Bhed translations will be at the end of the sentences.

Dreaming

By: Whyteroze28

Chapter 2

Draco slowly came to his senses. He was in the water yet again. He hated it. Draco had been dunked in the lake once, in third year, by Terry Boot. Ever since then, he'd avoided large bodies of water. Then he remembered what had happened.

Sin, the destruction of that grand city, and… what's-his-name… Auron.

"Anybody there?" he shouted. "Auron! Heeey!"

He began swimming through the water, finally reaching some ancient ruins. He stumbled ashore, and began to explore. It seemed deserted, but Draco couldn't understand. Hadn't Auron come through with him?

Suddenly, a section of the ground broke away, and he fell back onto the water. 'Damn, this is getting redundant,' he thought.

He saw some fishy-looking creatures, and thanked whatever gods he could think of that he still had the sword. He began to fight, but before he had defeated them all another monster arrived. It was huge. There was no way he could defeat that thing. So he began to look for a way to escape.

Suddenly he spied a hole in the wall of the ruins. He swam for it, barely making it through before the monster slammed into the wall.

"I had made it out of the frying pan... and into the freezer," Tidus' voice stated, and Draco agreed. The inside of this place was like an icebox. "I thought I was going to die in this place."

Draco set out to explore, and hopefully find a way to get warm. He saw an abandoned campfire in the center of the room, and wished he had his wand. A well placed Incendio would get that started in no time.

"Cold... Need... fire." But he'd have to try the Muggle way.

He searched, and finally found flint, and some withered flowers which let him start a fire. Then he lay back, reflecting on the strange things that had happened to him. But before long Tidus' thoughts were taking over again.

"I need food!"

Then, there was a dream. Tidus was outside of the arena again. And Auron was there.

"What do you want?" Tidus asked, harshly.

"It was a bad call," Auron replied. "Your team lost because of you."

"You came to say THAT?"

"It's been... ten years. I thought you'd be crying." 'Again with the crying thing?' Draco wondered. 'Is this guy a serious wimp, or what?'

"Who, me?"

Then the strange child was there again. "You cried."

The dream ended, and Draco noticed that the fire was going out. 'Oh, shit. What am I gonna do now?' he wondered. "Hey, wait! Wait! Don't go out on me! Just hold on. I'll get more wood!"

But before he could try, another monster jumped down from the balcony above. 'What is it with this world?' Draco was confused. Monsters didn't attack for no reason, at least not in his world. Even Dragons seldom attacked unless you were threatening them.

The door behind him blew, and a strange group of people walked in. Draco was almost certain that the girl in front was one of the ones he'd seen at the beginning of his dream… the perky one. But for the moment he was just glad that she was helping him.

So was the other half of his new personality. "You on my side? Cool!"

After they defeated the beast, the girl removed her goggles and Draco recognized the eyes with the swirls. 'I thought it was her,' he thought triumphantly. But before he could say anything, her comrades grabbed him, and began arguing in some strange language.

Draco, who was fluent in at least five languages didn't recognize it.

The one who had grabbed him snarled, "Fryd ec drec?" (What is this?)

Another glared at him. "Y fiend! Eh risyh teckieca! Oac! Ed ec cu!" (A fiend! In human disguise! Yes! It is so!)

A third held a knife up to his throat, and he gasped. "Fa gemm ed?" (We kill it?)

The girl held up a hand. Amazingly enough she spoke this strange language as well. "Fyed? Fryd ev ed ec risyh?" (Wait? What if it is human?)

The third guy barely glanced at her. "Drao yna dra cysa eh taydr." (They are the same in death.)

She shook her head. She was obviously the leader of this little group. "E vunpet ed! Fa pnehk ed fedr ic." Then she walked close, and leaned in, whispering in Draco's ear. "Cunno." Then she punched him in the gut. He was vaguely reminded of Granger slapping him, and then the world went black. (I forbid it! We bring it with us. Sorry.)

He awoke on a ship, in the middle of an ocean. The second guy from earlier was shoving him down, against the railings. "Ced, lybdeja!" (Sit, captive!)

"Hey, that hurts!" Draco protested.

A fourth guy spoke up. "Hu sujehk, rayn?" (No moving, hear?)

"Whoa... Okay." Whatever they were saying, their meaning was clear. He either behaved, or he'd get thrown overboard… or shot.

Then the hatch opened and the girl appeared with yet another strange guy. This one wasn't wearing the heavy uniform though. He had a pair of pants and suspenders… no shirt. And he was covered in tatoos.

He shouted an order to the others. "Caynlr res!" (Search him!)

Draco groaned. "Right. Whatever."

The new guy glared at him. "Tu oui hud cbayg?" (Do you not speak?)

Then he held out a pair of goggles like the girl was wearing.

"I said I don't understand!" Draco growled.

The second guy snarled. "Ehcumahla!" (Insolence!)

The girl stopped them, and moved to stand behind Draco. "Fyed!" Then she began speaking English. " He said you can stay if you make yourself useful." (Wait!)

"You... You understand me?" Draco had hoped that someone would be able to, but it had almost seemed unlikely.

One of the guys struck him, and he rubbed his head. "All right, I'll work!"

The girl smiled, and began to speak again. "We found some ancient ruins right beneath us. It's not active now, but there should be some power left. We're gonna go down there and activate it... and then we should be able to salvage the big prize! Okay! Let's get to work!"

Draco knew he would have to try if only to protect his life. "Roger!"

They swam underwater, and Draco realized that he didn't have to worry about holding his breath. Apparently this Tidus was used to doing it for long periods of time. He helped the girl work something that looked like a Muggle mechanical device, and they fought another monster. Then, they swam back out, and he saw something huge on the ocean floor.

They came back up, and he heard the strangers talking.

"Fa vuiht dra airship!" (We found the airship!)

"Dra naluntc fana nekrd." (The records were right.)

"Huf, ruf du tnyk ed ib?" (Now, how to drag it up?)

He tried to follow them through the hatch, but they stopped him.

"Oui, uidceta!" (You, outside!)

Draco was indignant. "Hey. I helped out, didn't I?"

After a while he sat down on deck, his earlier hunger now returning with a vengeance. "Uhh... hungry."

The girl came out with a plate, and kicked him, to get his attention.

"Whoa! Right on!" Draco attacked the food, but he wasn't used to eating so fast, or so much, and he began to choke. The girl handed him a canteen.

"It's 'cause you eat too fast!" she exclaimed, smiling.

Draco stood up, stretching. Then he peered intently at the girl.

"Hey!" she said, backing up a bit.

"Hello there," Draco said, hoping that her earlier comments hadn't been the extent of her knowledge of his language. "What is your name?"

"Rikku."

He grinned, and grabbed both of her hands, shaking them giddily. "Whoa! You really do understand!"

Then he laughed. "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"I didn't get a chance to!" she stated. "Everyone thought oui were a fiend."

"Uh... "we"?"

"Oh, "oui" means "you." She replied, and Draco stared at her.

'If you say so,' he thought. Then he asked, "Who are you guys, anyway?"

Rikku stared at him this time. "We're Al Bhed. Can't you tell?" Then she got a scared look on her face. "Wait. You're not an Al Bhed-hater, are you?"

"I don't even know what an Al Bhed is," Draco stated honestly.

"Where are you from?" she asked, taking in his appearance. Draco had already examined Tidus' looks, and couldn't blame her. The boy certainly dressed strangely. Then again, everyone here did in his opinion.

"Zanarkand. I'm a blitzball player. Star player of the Zanarkand Abes!" 'Okay, more information that I didn't know,' Draco thought, as Tidus introduced himself.

Rikku was still watching him strangely. "Did you hit your head or something?"

"Um, you guys hit me."

"Oh, right..." she seemed embarrassed. "Do you remember anything before that?"

Then the outer voice, which Draco was beginning to get used to began again. "So I told her everything there was to tell about Zanarkand... About life there, blitzball, and Sin's attack... and about how Auron and I were engulfed in this light. I just said things as they came to mind. But then I started to wonder."

After the conversation was done, Draco turned to look at Rikku. She really was beginning to remind him of Weasley's sister, and it was strange, but she actually seemed nice. But that wasn't what was bothering him. "Did I say something funny?"

"You were near Sin." She said it like id didn't need explaining.

"Mmm-hmm." No comment, maybe she'd elaborate.

And she did. "Don't worry, you'll be better in no time. They say your head gets funny when Sin is near. Maybe you just had some kind of dream?"

This wasn't sounding too good. "You mean I'm sick?" Draco blanched. 'Not good. Maybe I'll never wake up!"

"Because of Sin's toxin, yeah."

"You sure?" he asked.

"Yeah, there is no Zanarkand anymore. Sin destroyed it a thousand years ago," she said. Then she giggled. "So... no one plays blitzball there."

Draco was aghast. He'd been there, fought there. "Huh? What you do mean a thousand years ago? But I saw Sin attack Zanarkand! You're saying that happened a thousand years ago? No way!"

Then she spoke again. "You said... You play blitzball?"

"Uh-huh."

"You know, you should go to Luca." She seemed to find the whole idea funny somehow. "Someone might know who you are, or you might find someone you recognize."

"Luca?" Another strange place, in Draco's mind.

"Okay, leave it to me! I'll get you to Luca, promise!" Rikku saw his apprehensive expression, and smirked. "You'd rather stay here? Okay, I'll go tell the others. Wait here." Then she turned back to him. "Oh, and one thing. Don't tell anyone you're from Zanarkand, okay? Yevon says it's a holy place. You might upset someone."

"My Zanarkand, some kind of holy place? Yeah right, I thought. Since when? Yevon? Sin? Luca? I thought Sin just took me to a far away place, that I could go back in a day or two. But a thousand years into the future? No way!" Draco was beginning to see why the boy was considered a crier. He whined way too much.

He kicked at the cargo on deck, but stopped as a huge vibration shook the ship.

Two of the guys ran out of the hold, and began yelling.

"Sin!"

"Sin ec lusa!" (Sin is come!)

"Ihtan ic! Ihtan ic!" (Under us! Under us!)

Draco was stunned. Sin, again. It seemed that he couldn't get a break. Just when he'd made a… friend, everything started to fall apart again. That was his last thought as he fell overboard, and got swept under.