Chapter three

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A/N: Sorry for the delay. I will try to update every Sunday. Thank you for those that have started following this story, it means a lot!

As Harry let his eyes get used to the light, he looked around him. And he felt his jaw drop. He was looking at several mountains, all floating in the sky, and connected with some kind of vine of root. And as he looked, he realized that he must be standing on another of these floating mountains.

"This is incredible!" he exclaimed. And as he continued to look around, he felt his heart being filed with joy and excitement. As e result, he started running around, and jumping out of pure joy and happiness. It was in one of these jumps, he noticed how remarkable his balance had gotten. He had never had a bad balance, on the contrary, he had always had a good balance due to quidditch. But he seemed to have gotten even better not with this new body. Then he saw it. He had gotten a tail. With a sudden outburst of laughter, he realized that it was this that had startled him in the cave; his own tail!

Harry spent several hours running about on the floating mountain, partly looking for food and water, but also because he had not felt so free and happy in several decades. He got the feeling that if he had had a wand in his hand, that he would have produced the strongest Patronus he had ever created. This thought subdued him slightly. Because he did not feel the magic inside him anymore, though the joy of this new landscape and his new body overshadowed this thought for some hours. He had found some plants with huge leaves and covered himself up, because he had, after some time, noticed that he was completely naked.

He had found a stream not too far from the cave, where it was deep and calm enough for him to bathe. The water was refreshing and not too cold, but not exactly warm either. And just a few meters away, there were a bush with some kind of fruit or big berry, with purple colour and extremely juicy. And, as Harry lay there in the water, eating the big berries, he started to reflect on his situation. He had, at an age of almost 109 jumped off a cliff in England, only to wake up on another planet/moon five lightyears away from his home. But what's more, he had no idea how long ago that was. Did it happen immediately, or have there been some time passing between the 'fall' and the awakening? But that was not what troubled Harry the most. Would he still be able to use magic, even without a wand?

"Why not try? I have done wandless magic before" he had gotten into the habit of talking to himself, but as he was mostly alone that did not matter much. Deciding that he would try to do it. Concentrating on a berry laying just out of reach for his longer arms, he tried to access his magic. "Accio!" Nothing happened. As a wave of disappointment swelled over him, Harry remembered something that he had temporarily forgotten; he usually needed to be very angry or in danger for him to do magic without a wand. Like when he blew up Marge, after she had mad-mouthed his parents. As he thought of this, remembering how his anger and fear had driven him out of the house and into the streets of Surrey.

A sudden shriek jolted him out of his thoughts. Faster than he thought possible, he was up out of the water and into a crouch in the bushes, ready to defend himself. As he stayed in that position, he looked for the source of the noise, scouring the ground and the nearby trees for any sign of life. Nothing. As he continued to see nothing in the foliage and the surrounding landscape, he started to think that maybe there hadn't been any noise at all. Perhaps he had somehow fallen asleep, or in another way imagined the sound. Relaxing from his couch, Harry started to make his way back to the place he had left his primitive clothing, not really wanting to go around naked more than necessary. Just as he bent down to pick his berries up to go back to the cave, and perhaps make it a little more comfortable, when another shriek pierced the air. This time Harry looked to the skies, where the sound seemed to come from.

At first, he was sure that what he saw was a dragon. A real dragon? They had been extinct since 2039. The last one dying in Romania, after its mother had been killed by poachers. But as these thoughts passed through Harry's mind, the 'dragon' came closer. And he saw that it was not a dragon, but another flying beast, with a little resemblance to the dragons he had known. And due to this resemblance, Harry decided to run back to his cave. He could still remember quite clearly the Hungarian Horntail he had met in his fourth year at Hogwarts. He sprinted as fast as he could, seeing the flying beast coming closer every moment. And as he entered the cave once again, Harry turned, and saw the beast dive into the trees just a few hundred meters away. A few minutes later, he saw the same beast fly up again, carrying something in its claws and heading back towards one of the other mountains in the skies. Just as he sighed with relief, Harry noticed how heavy his body had become, as though unused to being in motion for a long time. Which, Harry reflected, might actually have something to it. He had never actually used the new, blue body he now had. Coming to this conclusion, he decided to turn in for the day. Finding the spot he had woken in several hours before, he found that he would have to get some grass or leaves for a bed tomorrow. And just as he thought of it, he drifted off to sleep.

Even as he looked around, he knew it was a dream. For one, he felt weightless, without any trace of magic in the air. And for another, he was see-though again. He was standing, once again, in a forest. But it seemed like another one, or perhaps a different part of the last one. Deciding that it really didn't matter, Harry started exploring the place. How long he wandered, he didn't know. It might have been five minutes, or it might have been days. But suddenly a presence entered his consciousness. Recognising it, Harry smiled. "Hello again, Eywa." he said, truly happy for the first time since he could remember. 'Hello, child' the voice answered, sounding both in the air around him and in his own head at the same time. "How?" he simply asked, not really knowing how to phrase the question. He meant, of course, how he could have a completely new body, with a tail and everything, as well as how the person could speak into his mind, and how he could understand her despite the fact that she used a language he had never before heard. He would probably have come up with more questions, if not for an answer from the presence. 'Your spirit travelled to me, leaving your body behind on Earth. I gave your spirit a new body in my fashion, as the body of my children, the Na'vi.' she said. Harry's head span. Made in the image of her children, these Na'vi. What did that mean? What kind of people were they? Apprehension grew inside him. 'They do not know of you, yet. And I will not tell them until it is time, do not worry child. But now, child. I must give you some advice, for I will not often visit you like this. Find your ikran, who will protect you from danger and be your company when you need it. You have seen him once before, now you need to find him. Now, child, it is time to wake up. Be safe …' Her voice sounded far away as Harry drifted up and away and woke up onside the cave once again.

Sighing, he sat up and wondered what an 'ikran' was, pondering what Eywa meant when she said that he had seen it the day before. The only thing he had seen was … Oh God! She meant the flying beast, so clearly a predator and very capable of ripping him to pieces. Groaning, he realized that he really had no choice. He would not disobey Eywa, as she had managed to create him a new body, and knew more of this place than he did.

Making up his mind, he stood up, and deciding that he would get some breakfast and then go on a hunt for the future companion he had been promised.

A/N: well, there you go. I hope you enjoyed the chapter. I will eventually introduce Harry to the Na'vi, just not sure when that will be.

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