They're just some Americans

Chapter Two: The Slumber and The Dream

(Word Count: 1829)

As thoughts clouded her head she started feeling her eyes droop, and finally close, as she entered the dream realm.

Now for (Y/N), her dreams were sometimes weird and wacky places, astonishing, beautiful places, or possible signs. Now this wasn't a common dream. In most dreams, she was able to move and say things she wanted, basically a lucid dream. In that dream it was the forest that had a large lake and waterfall. (Y/N) found this place when Wilbur and her were exploring in the summer. It was like an enchanted forest, with magical and non-magical creatures. All the trees there were Pine trees, Oak trees, Spruce, Birch, any tree that you would see in different parts of Europe. Besides the point, (Y/N) always got her broom and flew with lightning's speed near the fall or would gracefully fall down on her broom free falling you could say. She would let out laughs as her hair wisp behind her. It was honestly her favorite places, especially to read.

This time though she was in a darker forest and was running, and she could hear the trees breaking behind her and loud stomping. The stomping could be described as earthquakes, shaking the ground violently underneath the poor girl. As she scrambled to get back on her two feet from the stomping, she jumped over a log, and shouted out "Lumos" as her enemy drawled near her. Now a person would think she had gone mad, being in a chase in the forbidden forest and especially past midnight, you would want to have at least some source of light instead of tripping and falling. As the girl made a sharp right, she said a quite "nox" and her light source was taken away. As she put her hand above her mouth so no breaths could escape,she heard the creature stomp past her in the opposite direction.

When the stomping starting going out of hearing range, and the stomping was gone, she went back the original path she was running opposite to. As she looked up she could hear the leaves crunch under her feet, and the galaxy sky shining above. As she went further into the forest or neared the exit, she saw a few towers in the distance. As she drawn closer to the towers, she could make out that one of them was the Astronomy Tower. When she saw this her face lit up with relief. As she continued to walk to the castle she tripped over a rock. As she felt gravity pulling her down to earth, she extended her hands out, and let out an "oof" once she hit the floor, falling on her face. After wiping her dirty face with her scarf, she stood up and decided to walk the rest of the way. As she walked on the path to the castle, she admire the perfect evening. It was quite and calm, and she could hear the small waves hitting the shore of the dark, Black Lake, that first years would take boats across, and then join the other students at the opening ceremony. As she continued to walk back to the castle, she felt a strange feeling. The feeling of when someone's eyes were on you. As she continued walking, she heard a person running towards her and stop.

Before the girl could turn to see who this anonymous person that had followed her, she heard the one curse she never wanted to hear. It was the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio. Crucio was one of the three unforgivable curses for the dark arts. (Y/N) learned this in her year prior when she was in her fourth year. (Y/N) knew about this before any of her other peers did because she had seen it happen to her father. Her father had brought (Y/N) to work one day with him, because she was curious on what job he had. When news came out that some retired deatheater came in, after being put into a mental hospital, it attack the Auror Offices where her father was. He told her to hide underneath the table, which she did successfully before the wizard entered. The color of her face was wiped off, when she felt a thud on the floor, and her father screaming with agony. As she looked through a small crack, she saw her father visibly shaking.

As the girl tried dodging the curse, she had no success. As she tumbled to the ground she screamed in agony. (Y/N)'s mind was clouded with thoughts, and felt like she was being ripped from limp to limp. As she looked through the corner of her eye, she saw a man similar in age as Wilbur was. As he approached her, she took in his features. He had brown hair, pale skin, and had some stubble near his cheekbones down to his chin, and a very small outline of mustache. By height wise, she could tell he was at least 6 feet and maybe a few inches taller. As she took in his outfit, he was wearing a collared black shirt, topping it with a sweatshirt over, and joggers. For shoes he wore converse. When she looked at his hair she couldn't really see it, being covered with a hat. As he walked closer he stopped the curse, leaving the girl to whimper in pain and fear.

As she gathered up her thoughts, and then realized, her wand went missing during her stumble. As she frantically looked for her wand in the dark atmosphere, she felt it and tried grabbing it but was able to with no success before the young male kicked it away from her.

"What in bloody hell do you think your doing! First putting one of the three forbidden curses on me, then kicking my wands, what else do you want from me!" She explained using a nearby rock to get her balance to stand. As she stared at the young male he started to form a small smirk, and then to a laughter. As the girl watched him laugh like a hyena, she stared at him like he had gone mental. Out of all nights like these why would someone start laughing after putting on a dangerous act like he did. After the male composed himself, he spoke.

"I'm sorry, I just thought you were some animal that I wanted to torture, but you turned out to be a girl, that I am assuming goes to this school. Let me introduce myself." he began with a short bow, "My name is JSchlatt, but call me Schlatt." He said looking smugly at the girl in front of him, holding a hand out. As the girl squinted her eyes at him she nodded her head slightly.

"Right, well I'm (Y/N). Now what is fancying you this evening being in this forest, past curfew, if you even are at this school?" She asked

"I should ask the same to you but, I might as well say what I'm doing. Like I said before I'm looking for an animal to torture, and by the sight of it there aren't many around, surprisingly for a forest that has rodents and all those animals." he replied gagging at the last part. "But I guess not all of them are that bad, especially lizards, snakes, goats, you could say I'm picky with what animals I like." He said jokingly, laughing at his statement, making the girl laugh as well. "Now what is fancying you this fine evening (Y/N)?"

"Oh, well there isn't much fancying for me after being chased by some creature, or something. It was quite loud, and knocked a few trees down. Oh yeah, and you can't forget the stomping that was like earthquakes." She replied still thinking of the moment.

Before she could continue he conversation with him, she heard the loud stomping. "Schlatt, run!" She exclaimed turning to see Schlatt but to no avail, she didn't see him. It was like he disappeared. As she looked behind, she could see the creature. It was a Hungarian Horntail. As she was now face to face with it she grabbed her wand off the floor and ran. The more and more she ran, she could hear its loud interruptions with the forest. Soon she started hearing them. The voices. Only few were recognizable, some were foreign. As she continued running the voices grew louder. "Stop it, stop it!" She cried and put her hands to her ears. The voices were still growing louder by the minute and so was the stomping. She eventually found her self on all fours as she was pulled down to gravity with the stomping approaching her. As she cried and cried for the silence, it didn't come. As she was giving up, she went on her knees, and held on to her head. Expecting to be in the same forest from before with the voices, the dragon, and the stomping, she wasn't. Instead she was in her original forest next to her home.

As she looked around she didn't see anyone or creatures. As she took her hands off her ears, she heard leaves crunching nearby. When she looked over, it was a young male. At first she though it was Schlatt but it was a different person. He seemed taller than Schlatt.

At first they both stared into each other's eyes. Before she could say a word, the person walked up to her and said "Value those who are your friends, and enemies. Once you know who the enemy is you are on your own for the journey. My name is not important for now. Think before you determine the enemy." he finished. As he was about to leave he looked at her. Before she could process what happened, he ran and hugged her tight, and went into the darkness.

"We are all counting on you (Y/N)."

The last part of the sentence lingered, until the ground below her fell. As she screamed out she saw different faces flash before her eyes, and memories. As she tried not seeing them, but they wouldn't stop. As they continued, she descended back down to solid ground.

As she touched the ground she was now in the real world, no more dream world, or nightmarish world she was in. As she took sharp inhales of air like she was drowning, she felt cold sweat on her. Whoever the person was in the dream must have been some form of representation in her actual life. As (Y/N) wobbled out of her bed, she put on her slippers, and robe, over her night clothes, she grabbed a rubber band and quickly combed out her hair. As she pulled her hair up she walked towards her windows. Looking out the window covered with thick curtains she opened them and expected there to be some darkness with the day starting and feeling like it was the early hours.