Luna and Harry spent the day quietly in each other’s pany. Despite the whispers and curious gnces from their cssmates, they found fort in being together, navigating their new reality as a married couple. Luna joined Harry for a few of his sed-year csses, her presence a curious but weled distra for many students, especially in the more b csses. Harry, in turn, apanied Luna to her first-year Transfiguration css, his advanced knowledge and skill allowed him to help her through the lessons. Not that she really .

  It was during Transfiguration that Professonagall asked them to stay behind after css. The other students filtered out, leaving Harry and Luna standing at the front of the room. Magall, seated at her desk, looked at them over the rims of her gsses, her expression as stern as ever.

  "I appud you two for remaining," Magall begaone firm but not unkind. "And while I have you here, you shall be going over Transfiguration with me for your punishment because you snuck out st night. I was very worried you know."

  Harry and Luna exged a g didn’t protest. They knew better than tue with Magall, and besides, they both respected her deeply.

  "You’ve both been through a lot," Magall tinued, her eyes softening slightly as she looked at them. "But that doesn’t mean you eglect your studies. If anything, you o be more diligent. Magic has bound you together if the rumors are to be believed. And that carries responsibilities."

  "Yes, Professor," Harry said, nodding in agreement. While in truth he felt calm around Luna, maybe if he slept with her tonight he wouldnt have those weird nightmares.

  "Of course, Professor," Luna echoed, her usual dreamy smile repced by a look of determination.

  “Good, so if you could please read the first chapter in this book,” Magall states as she flicks her wand and two books e flying out as books nd on the desk.

  Animato Animagus…

  “Uh what gave it arofessor?” Luna asks

  “I could smell the mandrake leaf while I was in my Animagus form,” Magall replied with a knowing smile.

  Luna blinked in surprise, then chuckled.

  “So did you know that my parents and the rest of the Muraders were as well?” Harry asks

  Magall’s expression softened, a hint of nostalgia creeping into her eyes. “Yes, I was aware,” she said, her voice gentle. “Your father, Harry, and his friends were quite talehough they were also quite reckless.

  “That is why you are both going to be studying, no mistakes,” Magall states.

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  Luna was expl the dream spa the castle the dream world was always vast, and as she walked deeper into the dream world, she saw a glowing blood red moon hanging low in the sky. The sole source of light casting an eerie light over everything it touched. while she was looking at the doors that lead to the dreams of all of the students teachers and beyond her smaller reach she could see pleanty of gates.

  Although oood out, it pyed music which was weird enough but even crazier was the style of said gate… It was a Doom Gate.

  The thing was even pying the song at DOOM’s GATE. The cssie too not the Mick Gordon one… actually it would teecially be modern wouldn’t it.

  “eh, just a peak shouldn’t hurt.” Luna mutters to herself as she heads inside.

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  Heading inside was a mistake, if one had pyed the game then it would be known that Ardent energy was soul magic… Much like dream walking, this was literally hell and not a dream.

  She had been expl the pce for what felt like days and unfortunately si was not really a dream she could not diapers the demons like she could nightmares. Luckily she still had her magid her new Revonant bat instincts were ing in well.

  Luna roared in anger as the demon with the bded arms lifted her into the air via her impaled stomad left shoulder.

  The demon of course roared in response only to catch a queen syer bde to its issue its head flying free as it bled like a guiser and the magic-rich demon blood tasted divio Luna.

  She smirked her wounds healed visibly fast. Her prestigious white prayer shawl was dyed in blood and it felt amazing…

  Rolling to the left she dodged a Maurders axe, to think they would seehings at her. The demon came at her again dashing straight at her, and Luna screamed in anger as she tore in half. pletely ign the shield. Suddenly the entire ground shook violently as the literal I of Sin lumberd past. A giant green bolt chasing behind it. Green Lightning ing off of it killing demons all around.

  “Syer!” Luna shouted, her voice eg in the desote ndscape. There was another human here, and if anyone had a way out, it was the Syer.

  With a quick Apparition, Luna moved toward the source of the magic she could feel pulsing through the air. It felt oddly familiar, almost like a distant memory trying to resurface. She o find the Syer—and fast—if she was to escape this nightmare.

  There, standing amidst the wreckage of tless demons, was Harry Potter. But he wasn’t the Harry she knew from Hogwarts. This Harry was heavy, rune-inscribed armor, his eyes glowing with an intense green light. He held a massive, bloodstained on—a cross between a sword and a gun—in one hand, and his face was a mask of unyieldiermination.

  “Harry?” Luna called out, her voice trembling slightly.

  Harry turoward her, the green glow in his eyes dimming for a moment as he reized her. “Luna? How are you in my dream?”

  Luna stepped closer, her eyes wide as she took in the sight of him. "This… this isn’t just a dream, Harry. I was expl the dreamscape, but this pce—it’s something else entirely. I could feel it drawing me in."

  Harry frowned, gng around at the desote, hellish ndscape. “You know that makes some sehe other day I actally dashed to you like how I move around in this dream.”

  Luna tilted her head, her expression thoughtful. "You mean that incredible burst of speed? I thought that was just a rea from your training. An the whole timelihing, But if it’s ected to this…"

  Harry nodded, his brow furrowed as he sidered the implications. “I’ve been ing here in my dreams for a about a tury or two now, fighting these… things,” he gestured to the demonic carcasses littered around them. “It’s like I ever so slightly stronger with eae I kill.”

  “Master of Death thing?” Luna asks already knowing the answer.

  “No, here I am called the Syer,” Harry respohe weight of the title evident in his voice.

  Luna’s eyes narrowed slightly in thought. “Do you have a way home?”

  Harry hesitated, his gaze drifting to the blood-soaked grouh his feet. The weight of tless battles, the endless cycle of violence, and the relentless pull of this hellish realm all pressed down on him. “It’s… plicated,” he began, but before he could eborate, the grouh them started to tremble violently.

  The demonidscape around them began to blur, the sharp edges of reality ing and twisting as if the very fabric of the world was being torn apart. Luna’s eyes widened in arm, her heart pounding as the oppressive heat of the ptensified. She reached out for Harry, but before she could touch him, everything shattered like gss.

  Luna shot up in bed, her breath ing in rapid gasps as she threw off her bs. The dim light of early m filtered through the curtains, casting long shadows across her dorm room. She g the clo her bedside table: 4:30 a.m.

  Her heart was still rag, her skin damp with sweat.

  THAT WAS NOT A DREAM.