AN: Hi. So… Since I've kinda been skating over most of Homestuck, I've realised I might actually finish this story! How's that for a shock?! If I do then I'll just make a sequel, maybe some omakes or an entirely new story.

"What are you?"

Harry opened his eyes with a groan, opening them to find a girl standing over him… But she looked strange… She had white eyes, with no iris or pupils, her skin was grey… And… Was that candy corn on her head and shaped like horns? He blinked a few times, the image he saw not changing.

"Excuse me? Can you hear me?" The girl asked, looking confused.

"Where… Where am I?" He asked, noting he was being sort of rude.

"Well that answers that… You're in the dream 8u88les, did you die or something? And what are you?" The girl asked him.

"Dream bubbles? I… I'm alive, I just… I'm alive… Yes, I'm alive…" He muttered, trying to think. "I… What do you mean by what am i?" He asked her, getting his head straight.

"You don't look like any species I've ever seen." She explained as he sat up slowly.

"I'm a human… What's a dream bubble anyway? And what are you?" He told her, asking questions he found important.

"Never heard of a human… I'm a troll, and a dream bubble is basically the afterlife. I'm guessing you played SGRUB?"

"SBURB, but yes… I've seen trolls, but they're dumb, massive brutes with clubs… And no horn thingies." He told her.

"Huh… Weird. Anyway, do you have a name?" She asked him, deciding she'd have to look around the bubbles a little more for some information.

"Y-Yeah… I'm Harry, Harry Potter." He introduced.

"Huh… How do you spell that? The first name I mean." The girl asked curiously.

"Uh… H, A, R, R, Y?" He said confused.

"Weird, it's only got five letters… I guess humans don't do that then… I'm Aranea Serket." She pondered, before remembering to introducing herself.

"Aranea? Like… Araneus? It means spider." He noted.

"Huh… Never thought of it like that… What's a spider?" She mused, then realised she didn't know what that was.

"It's like a…"

? Hours later

Harry wandered through the bubble with Aranea, talking about bits and pieces of whatever they felt like.

"Ah, Aranea, there you are. I've been l99king f9r y9u. I w9uld like t9 ask y9u a69ut the intricacies 9f cerulean privileges." A troll said, walking up to Aranea and not noticing Harry, interrupting their conversation.

"May8e later Kankri, I'm sort of talking to an entirely new species." Aranea apologised, trying to get out of the newly formed conversation.

"9h?" The troll finally noticed Harry. "H9w rude 9f me t9 n9t n9tice y9u. I am Kankri Vantas, that is my name and pers9nal identity, d9es y9ur race p9ssess pers9nal identities?" The troll, Kankri, apparently, introduced himself.

"Yessss…" Harry said, a little creeped out. "I'm Harry Potter. It's nice to meet you." He extended his hand for a handshake, deciding he needed to at least be polite, getting one back in return.

"I'll have t9 remem6er t9 give y9u s9me 9f my intr9duct9ry sheets at s9me p9int." Kankri decided. "Well it was nice to meet a new species 6ut I really must be 9ff. Perhaps Cr9nus w9uld 6e willing t9 explain m9re…" He said as he walked off.

"So… Is that, uh, normal?" Harry asked Aranea as Kankri walked out of sight.

"Yes, I've actually 8een gathering information on them all, if you want I could tell you it and explain the 8its you don't understand." She offered.

"Sure, it'd be nice to learn more about you and your friends." He decided.

"Alright then… The Seer of 8lood played quite a different role on our team from that of his successor, though his potential as a 8lood player went similarly unrealized. It was only when he grew up on Alternia did he 8egin to tap into his a8ilities, triggering recollection of our lives on 8eforus, and what we all went through. He remem8ered our more peaceful way of life, and his desire to unite people. As an adult he was a8le to do this much more effectively and maturely. Heroically, even. He learned how to inspire others, and 8e a true leader, even when the odds were stacked against him in his violent culture. It cost him his life, 8ut his message lived on. I 8elieve the Knight of 8lood now carries his 8urden, whether he has decided to accept it or not. Many of us on Alternia grew up to 8ecome secret followers of his teachings. Just as many of us now follow them, though I'd say with a 8it more detachment. 8ecause we're dead! Speaking personally, I'd refer to myself as more of a "fan" of his story, and what it represents. 8oth the hidden potential in our friend he never quite found, and the hidden potential in all our people. During our session, Kankri's trials as a leader were just as frustrating as those of his successor. He found it very hard to get others to take him seriously. While Meenah would often try to divide us with her trou8lemaking, and turn us against each other to make us stronger - unsuccessfully I might add - he would try to unite us through proselytizing and lecture, just as unsuccessfully." She told him, trying not to rant.

"Ok… But… Who's the knight of blood?" He asked confused.

"I… Huh… I actually don't know… I think I saw a version of him once? I don't really remem8er…" She muttered embarrassed.

"Ok then." He shrugged.

"I'll have to see if anyone knows…" Aranea muttered, lost in her thoughts…

Harry looked at his hands as he noticed they were turning see through. "Uh… Aranea?" He asked worried.

"Huh? I think you're waking up!" Aranea exclaimed, before he vanished from the bubbles… "I didn't even get to say good8ye…" She grumbled annoyed…

Land of Grass and Deception

Harry woke up, yawning as he did so… And then turned to see his own dead body… Wearing his alchemised clothes… And the glasses were showing he was being pestered… Carefully, he put them on…

{twinArmageddons [TA] began trolling secretSlytherin [SS]}

TA: hey
TA: you there?
TA: ii 2pent tiime on thii2 you know

SS: Who are you?
SS: And what do you want?

TA: fiinally…
TA: iim 2ollux

SS: Are the two's meant to represent a lisp or…?

TA: ye2

SS: Alright…
SS: Like a th sound, or like a hiss?

TA: liike a th 2ound
TA: why?

SS: Just wondered
SS: And why are you bugging me?

TA: heard you a2cended two god tiier
TA: we got the 2ame cla22pect a2 well

SS: Classpect?

TA: tiitle of a2pect

SS: Oh.
SS: So…
SS: What does that have to do with anything?

TA: ii diidn't a2cend
TA: wondered what your power2 would be

SS: So far I don't know.
SS: I'll try and tell you if I learn more

TA: not 2ure how thatll work but 2ure

[twinArmageddons [TA] ceased trolling secretSlytherin [SS]}

Harry threw away the glasses that had come with his new outfit, quickly putting his rubber I-specs on instead. "Right, first off… Tell someone about this." He decided, floating upwards, taking a few minutes to learn how to fly.

Few minutes later

Harry floated around his land, looking at the grass from above… Looking for anything interesting other than that bed… In his distraction he missed a small village, instead opting to return to the house…

Chetari, land

You can't land yet… There's still a long way to go… At least you have someone to talk to.

CA: wwhat do you think i should do

UW: Weeeell…
UW: Ok, just making sure I got this right.
UW: You have red feelings?
UW: For this girl.
UW: Red is romance right?

CA: yes to both

UW: Ok.
UW: But she doesn't feel that way for you
UW: But she does for one of the other players in your session?

CA: yes

UW: Ok…
UW: Why her?

CA: she
CA: uh
CA: i don't knoww

UW: Why don't you think on it for a bit?

CA: i wwill

UW: And then I'll tell you what I think you could do.

CA: alright