A/N: Sorry for the delay this time, but my Internet been messing up badly on me. This story will be ending soon, so I hope you enjoy the final chapters of it.
Thanks to the following for reviewing: Pleione, Silverscale, APS, jbfritz, and scatter
sakura13: Well thank you for not flaming since I ignore rude flames. As for the Blade Claven issue I have explained that many times and will not again. As for updating more quickly, well that all depends on how busy I get.
Prometheus: Sorry you couldn't read it, but I had to add the warning since I used a part that is known from HBP. If I wouldn't have then FFN would have kicked my story. I was merely trying to add some realism to my story.
Recap
'I guess whatever Blade did must have worked because I only felt that rush of magic when a block on my mind was released.' Harry thought as he quietly looked around at the darkness. Harry took off his glasses and lay back down beside Tonks and wondered if he would now be able to enter the dream realm, and if he could then how would he go about it.
Chapter Forty-One: Dream World Part Two
Dream
Harry found himself in a grassy meadow, but he found that he wasn't exactly alone in the meadow. He looked over and saw that Tonks was lying on a blanket beside someone, but he couldn't make out who it was. Harry felt a slight rage build up inside of him for some reason as he slowly made his way closer to them. As he got closer he could hear Tonks laughing.
"It is so peaceful here." Tonks said as she looked at the person beside her.
Harry looked on and for a moment couldn't make out whom she was with until she moved and then it was clear whom she was with. She was lying on a blanket and Harry was lying there beside her. 'Wait a minute! Why would I be having a dream about Tonks and I together when I am standing away from us watching it?' Harry thought as he looked on.
"Harry it is so perfect here I never want to leave." Tonks said as she kissed Harry as he lay on the blanket. Tonks quickly looked up and saw the top of something black crouch down in the meadow trying to hide. She jumped to her feet and had her wand in hand. "Who's there?"
Harry remained crouch wishing that he hadn't moved when he had for Tonks saw him.
Tonks walked over slowly with her wand aimed where she saw the darkness. As she walked over she paused and looked very confused as she looked down at Harry crouching on the ground.
Reality
Harry and Tonks both sat up and looked at each other for a moment. Tonks finally broke the silence. "Harry I just had the strangest dream."
Harry couldn't help but laugh. "Let me guess you were in a peaceful meadow with me, when another me showed up."
Tonks stared at him for a moment. "How did you know that?"
Harry continued to laugh as he looked at her. "Well I saw Blade and he did in fact know how to help and it seems that I am a Dream Walker now on top of everything else."
"What? You mean you can just enter my dreams now?"
"Umm I guess so, but Tonks I didn't do it on purpose. I would never invade your dreams like that on purpose."
Tonks laughed as she smacked Harry. "I know you wouldn't and I don't mind could be interesting with the real you there." She winked at him and then blushed slightly. "So will this new ability get you into the Dream Realm?"
"I honestly don't know. I think it will, but then again it might not work. I still don't know how to control it, so the problem is I don't know how to get to the Dream Realm."
"Well you didn't know how to enter my dream either, but you seemed to manage that one lover boy." Tonks said with a flirtatious smile on her face.
"Yeah I did manage that, but truly I have no idea how I did it at all." Harry said as he looked at Tonks and smiled.
"Well luv I am going back to sleep, and maybe I will be visited by you again." Tonks said with a wink as she rolled over to go back to sleep.
Harry smiled as he too relaxed back in his position beside Tonks and hoped that sleep would overtake him and aid him in his dilemma.
Dream
Harry found himself surrounded by darkness and had no idea where he was or if he was just having his own dream. Thunder clapped above him and a flash of lightning lit up the sky above to show that Harry was outside in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Harry looked around, but it was once again total darkness so he couldn't see where he was. Harry grabbed his wand and used lumos to give him some light, but it didn't seem to help him see any better.
"That wont help you young one." A familiar male voice said, but Harry couldn't see where the voice was coming from.
"Blade?"
"Yes young one it seems that you left before I could explain about your new abilities, and I feared this might happen." Blade said sounding closer than before.
"Where are we?"
"We are currently inside your mind as it would be."
"Why is it so dark and stormy?"
"Because you are lost and confused. This is how your mind worked it out to be, and so you are stuck in complete darkness and storm of confusion rages above you."
"How did you know I would be trapped here?"
"Like I said I figured it might happen since I didn't get to explain how dream walking worked, and you were so determined to get to the Dream Realm."
"So how does it work?" Harry asked as another loud boom of thunder was heard overhead.
"The first thing you must do is calm the raging storm and come out of the darkness, only then will your path be lit for you to continue."
"How the bloody hell am I suppose to do that?"
"Concentrate on knowing feel the rage mellow out, and think of your destination as if you know where you are going. All it takes is for you to believe in your ability and the ability will take it from there."
Harry tried to concentrate on the environment around him, but the more he did the less it seemed to work. "Why isn't this working?"
"Do not fear the unknown! Focus on your destination and your desire to free your double. Do not fear the darkness embrace it!"
'That's easy for him to say!' Harry thought as he once again tried to clear his mind to bring light to the situation, but still the darkness around him stayed. The storm started to grow in intensity as his rage and frustration increased. "This isn't working!"
"Try calming down Harry remember back to when you first started to learn to Apparate. Think about how it felt to focus on your destination and will yourself in the same way you would to Apparate. This ability is like Apparating in that it takes a clear mind, focus, and sheer willpower."
Harry took some calming breaths as he thought back to when he learned how to Apparate on the other world. He slowly started to calm down as he thought back to the weeks it took for him and Tonks to figure out how to Apparate correctly and as he calmed down, so did the raging storm. Harry continued to concentrate the same way he did when he learned to Apparate and slowly the darkness started to lift and soon he could clearly see Blade standing in front of him.
"It worked!" Harry shouted as he looked around at the now lit up space he was standing in.
"Yeah it did, and I knew you could get control of it. Now all you need to do is focus on where you want to go and your path will light up for you."
Harry stood thinking about his destination, which was of course the Dream Realm, but he wasn't sure how this was going to work. How could concentrating on his destination help him now? Then he thought about when he learned to Apparate again. Surely it worked something like that after all magic had a strange way of working, but since he only knew the name of his destination he couldn't figure out how it would help him.
He stood waiting and concentrating for about five minutes before a bright light appeared and below it there was a marble path that extended the length of the light and off into the distance well beyond the edge of his mind.
"Is that the path you spoke of Blade?"
"That it is young one, that it is. Follow that path and it will lead you right into the Dream Realm. Beware though young one as I have said before you are not powerful enough to confront the Dream Master on your own. You will need to find your double and free him before the Dream Master finds you." Blade said and then disappeared before Harry could get any more information.
"Bloody brilliant he leaves when I still have questions." Harry said as he made his way on to the marble pathway. "I will probably regret doing this, that is if I live long enough to regret it."
Harry starts walking down the marble path towards the unknown.
Dream Realm
When Harry reached the end of the path at the border of his mind he felt a slight tug as his was whisked away from his mind and into what he hoped was the Dream Realm. Harry looked around and saw that it was a bleak place without much of anything in it. It had a purple sky, which was kind of weird, but nothing else really stuck out that he could see.
"Where in the bloody hell could he be holding him?" Harry asked himself as he looked around at the bleakness that was the Dream realm.
Harry continued to walk along the marble path that continued on through the Dream Realm maybe it would lead him to where he needed to be. Though he thought it was only wishful thinking since he doubted it would work that way. As he continued to walk he came to a section in the dream realm that was different from the rest. This section was different because it looked normal. It had a blue sky and green grass that resembled something like the meadow he wondered into when he entered Tonks dream. Was he merely peering into someone's dream or was this where he needed to go?
Harry made his way into the meadow and soon found that it wasn't the peaceful meadow that the entrance had shown. Instead it grew darker the further that he walked into the meadow and looked more hostile than pleasant. The sky had turned a dark shade of gray and the grassy meadow was replaced by a rocky wasteland.
"What in the bloody hell is going on here?" Harry asked aloud though he was asking himself since he was alone.
"You are getting closer." Said the familiar voice, which could only belong to Blade.
"Blade where are you?"
"I am in your mind Harry, but I will guide you as best as I can from here."
Harry continued to walk through the baron wasteland and as he walked a storm started to rage above him as it did inside his mind.
"Do not fear the storm Harry it is here to scare people away."
Harry wasn't afraid of the storm, but he didn't like the idea of walking through a thunderstorm in the middle of a strange realm that anything could happen in. When Harry reached what he believed was the center of the land he found that there was a shed sitting in the middle of it.
"Go inside quickly Harry!"
Harry raced towards the shed, but as he neared it he could tell there was something strange about the shed.
"Blade there seems to be something with this shed."
"It is probably protected by an invisible shield. You will have to will the shield down in order to access the shed."
Harry stood concentrating on the shield and after a few minutes there was a pop as the shield fell. He then continued towards the shed and reached for the door and tried to open it, but it was locked.
Harry pulled out his wand and used an unlocking charm to get the door open and then made his way inside the shed. Once he entered he saw a large cage and found what appeared to be his double inside it.
"Harry Potter?" Harry asked feeling a bit weird about speaking to his double.
The double started to move slightly and looked up at Harry, but all he saw was the disguised form of Ludwig Arnold. "Who are you?" The Harry inside the cage asked in a weak voice.
"That isn't important I am here to free you." Harry said to his double as he looked over the cage that he was in.
"That is impossible, how did you even know I was here? The Dream Master took over my body, so no one should know I am not him."
"Let's just say I know you, and you wouldn't do half the things that the Dream Master is doing."
"How did you get here only Dream Walkers can access this plane, and the Dream Master said that I am the only Dream Walker on the planet other than Tonks, but I assume he captured her too."
"That is a long story, and if he does have Tonks here then we will have to find and rescue her too."
"I am sorry but I can not allow that!" Came a voice from behind Harry.
Harry turned to see a short bald headed man standing in the door way. "I guess you're the Dream Master?"
"Yes I am, and I don't know who you are or how you got in here, but I will not allow you to prevent me from acquiring all the souls of the world."
"What is it with you people? You get a little bit of power and you want to rule the world!" Harry said as he drew his wand and aimed it at the Dream Master.
The Dream Master laughed as he looked at Harry. "Do you really think that piece of wood is going to work here boy?" The Dream Master moves his hand and Harry's wand turns into a snake.
Harry quickly dropped the snake and told him to attack the Dream Master, but the Dream Master quickly made the snake vanish. "You are a gifted boy, but you will never be able to defeat me."
The Dream Master sent an energy ball at Harry, but he quickly dodged out of the way and the ball hit the cage that was holding his double.
"Keep it up Harry, if enough of those blasts hit the cage it will short out and your double will be able to escape." Blade said in Harry's head as he continued to dodge the balls sent at him.
"Is that the best you can do?" Harry said as he once again dodged out of the way and a ball of energy hit the cage.
The Harry inside the cage seemed to know what was happening, whether he took was talking to Blade was unknown. However what was clear was he was now in a position to escape when the cage fell.
"If I kill you here boy you will die where you sleep!" The Dream Master said as he sent an even more powerful ball of energy at Harry.
Harry dodged again and the ball hit the cage again. "You actually have to hit me to kill me!"
The Dream Master quit sending quick balls of energy and started to focus his energy into one big blast. Harry knew that it was now or never. If that ball hit him it would definitely kill him, but if it hit the cage then it should be enough to short it out.
"Come on old man I don't have all day!" Harry said trying to get the Dream Master even madder so that he would use even more power in this ball.
The Dream Master finally had enough energy and sent the blast at Harry's head, and Harry instantly went down laying flat on the floor. The blast streamed over top of him and nailed the door of the cage dead on and the amount of energy in the blast melted the door off the cage.
The Harry inside the cage ducked as the blast continued through towards him and waited until it ended. When it did end he quickly sprang out of the cage and sent an energy ball of his own at the Dream Master.
"No this is impossible!" The Dream Master said as he dodged the energy ball.
"You tricked me into this place, but I am leaving now!" Harry's double said as he sent a wide rage of energy balls at the Dream Master making him take a fully defensive approach to the battle.
Harry watched the battle between his double and the Dream Master and found himself helplessly lost as to what to do.
"Get out of here I will handle him!" Harry's double said to him as he kept sending balls of energy at the Dream Master.
"We need to find Tonks." Harry said determined to help his double.
"I will find her now save yourself!"
Harry however wasn't listening to his double as he willed himself to form a ball of energy like his double was. It took him a good bit, but after a minute he managed it and sent it flying at the Dream Master.
"Impossible how can both of you do that?"
"Because brainiac we are the same person!" Harry said as he got the hang of using mental energy and sent more balls at the Dream Master. What he didn't expect was his double to paused shocked at this notion, but the shock didn't last long before he returned to bombarding the Dream Master with energy balls.
"You're me? How is that possible?" Harry's double asked as he sent more balls of energy at the Dream Master.
"Not now!" Harry said as he too sent energy balls at the Dream Master.
"This isn't working you will never hit him that way. You both need to grab him and wake up!" Blade said into Harry's mind.
It was as if both Harrys got the message at the same time because they both stopped firing energy balls at the Dream Master at the same time. The Dream Master didn't know what to think as he stared at them and was even more shocked when they both rushed at him. They both tackled him at the same time driving him to the floor and each held on to a part of him as they forced themselves to wake up out of the Dream Realm.
Reality
When Harry woke up he found Tonks standing by the bed with a worried look on her face. Harry looked down to see that he still was holding the lower section of the Dream Master where he had grabbed him in the Dream Realm.
"Harry what happened!"
"We won, or at least I think we did."
Harry had no idea what had happened or how he had managed to pull part of the Dream Master into the real world, but he did. It was also clear that his other half wasn't there as blood and gore poured all over him and the bed. He quickly threw the remains to the floor and looked at Tonks.
"How long I been out?"
"Hours! I have been so bloody worried. I thought you were having some terrible nightmare the way you were flapping around."
"I need to know if this is done. I have to see if my double freed yours."
"Harry there's no time for that. You have been out for so long that I got worried and pulled the timer out. We have only about five minutes left here."
"What? I couldn't have slept that long."
"You have and now we really need to get ready to go! Ginny was here and she was worried about you too. She went to try and find some help for you, so we need to get out of here before she gets back!"
Harry didn't like the idea of leaving without making sure, but he knew that his double would be able to handle things alone. He was way more powerful and trained that Harry was currently. Harry jumped out of bed and grabbed his wand. He was glad that his real wand wasn't affected by what happened in the dream realm. He used it to vanish the remains of the Dream Master and then cleaned up the mess that was made by the remains. By time Harry finished all he had to do Tonks handed him the timer to go.
Harry was just about to hit the button when the door to the room flew open and Ginny was standing there with some people she found that she thought could help. Harry looked at her and then hit the button. The vortex opened and shimmered with hints of gold flowing within the blue.
"I am sorry Ginny, but it is time for us to leave this world. Go to Harry he needs you more now then ever before!" Harry said as he motioned for Tonks to go through the portal. Tonks went into the vortex and disappeared. "He is no longer possessed, so you have your old Harry back." Harry said to Ginny as he jumped into the vortex and vanished from the room.
