XXXVII – A Venquine At Peace25th of December 1995
Destiny Islands
Harry's POV
Time. Space. An entire new Universe. Even now, almost two months later, I still don't get how I got here as the last I remember of the horrifying fight between me, my beloved friends and Voldemort is Riku casting a Sleeping spell on me. Yet when I woke up, I wasn't at Hogwarts, Diagon Alley or even at Grimmauld Place.
I was at Neverland and Leon, Hayner and Jack were there with me along with my brother, Neville and Riku, Madam Pomfrey, Professors Dumbledore and McGonagall and finally Sirius, Lupin and Mr. Weasley. Yet while they had looked greatly worried for me, had it taken me only a single look around before I had asked:
"Where is Luxord?" And the way that everyone had turned from worried to sad and scared had made my heart skip a beat in utter dread and I ask: "What? Where is he? Please tell me?" I had needed the rest of the week after that to get over the horrible news Neville had given, that Luxord and Rustler had sacrificed themselves.
Yet after grieving had I discovered something amazing; the prophesy had fully come true and the Wizarding World – the entire magical world, including all the areas that have been hidden from Muggle sight – has been moved to the Universe my brother and I have grown up in and all parts have merged with several worlds.
Magical Africa has been divided between Agrabah, Deep Jungle and Pride Lands, Asia has joined Africa at Agrabah as well as the Land of Dragons and Magical Australia actually links Deep Jungle to Pride Lands. Magical America has merged with Daybreak Town, Radiant Garden, Traverse Town and Twilight Town.
Yet Magical Europe had been broken up the most as there are so many worlds in Sora's Universe that actually had something in common with countries of my home continent and so they merged with Beast's Castle, Castle of Dreams, Dwarf Woodlands, Enchanted Dominion, Atlantica, Neverland, Olympus Coliseum and Port Royal.
Yet while England had merged with Neverland, had I not really felt at home there and Sirius and several others had agreed with me and so Sora and Riku had helped us move to Destiny Islands before helping Dumbledore gather together the leaders of all Magical Countries, so the other countries could be informed of how this all happened.
Many of the leaders had been angry at something like this happening, yet once Magical Greece and China had discovered that they are now part of the worlds that represent their own ancient mythology and legends, they had quickly managed to make all of the other countries see just how brilliant and beneficial this all was.
And then Master Yen Sid had visited all of the worlds and told them the ultimate benefit of this transfer of magic to a new Universe: that Darkness like Voldemort and Grindlewald were things only of the other Universe and that there was a whole group of World traveling heroes keeping this Universe's Darkness at an all-time low.
Another benefit had been that, after I had moved from Neverland to Destiny Island, had a Necho Cat with the ability to actually change into an Aura Lion found me and while the little thing has been in its cat form to keep me company and comfort, am I still glad that it's a feline and not a hooved being like Rustler used to be.
Sora and the others had definitely been scared that my bond with the Electricorn being broken by the being's death would cause me harm, had it just left me with a horrifying form of emptiness, one the little Necho Cat had quickly helped me feel less, even if she herself didn't fill it up as that part of my heart belonged to Rustler.
Yet many other things had also happened and the craziest of them all being that Hogwarts had actually cut itself off of Magical England and had joined with Beast's Castle and while the Beast had been terrified of having so many people around, had their acceptance done him a lot of good and had he sworn to become both castle's protector.
Sure there had been idiots like Draco Malfoy who had thought they could take the beast down, yet after his horrible humiliating defeat at my hand on Sirius' birthday, had both his reputation and his reliability in the eyes of the others taken a severe beating and him shouting his father would hear of this had not done him much good.
Especially as Lucius Malfoy had been caught and arrested for being outed as a Death Eater and the man had been given a very deserving punishment; being taken to the Pride Lands where the world's magic had changed him into a peacock – one that had not been able to run or properly fight a trio of very, very hungry hyenas.
"Hey Harry, come on! Everyone's waiting for you at the beach!" Sora suddenly says as he peaks around my bedroom door at where I am leaning against the window frame with little Lilian purring in my lap and I smile at my brother as I move the feline over to curl around my shoulder and then put on my cloak and follow him.
Jack Skellington had actually gotten the help of the Christmas Elves to decorate the beaches of the Main Island in picture perfect Christmas decorations and while the beach has been sprinkled with glitters and sparkles to make it look more snow-like, had palm trees been changed into den trees complete with sprinkled snow all over.
And now the beach that looks out over the Play Island has a huge table set on it, filled with treats that friends of Sora had brought over from all over their own worlds and my friends, who have all earned their own Keyblades and who have all learned to create Keyholes, have all come over from the worlds in which they made their own homes.
The biggest problem with this had actually been the Weasleys as Bill had found his home in Agrabah, Charlie in the land of Dragons along with Ginny, Fred and George had found their home in Twilight Town and Ron had, amazingly enough, moved himself to the Pride Lands where he had changed into a small lion cub, adopted by Simba.
Percy had taken to Radiant Garden and he had been the only one of Mr. and Mrs. Weasleys kids who had gone to live in the same world, yet one of Sora's friends Lea had made sure that all of their homes had a Corridor of Darkness in a backroom and Sora had kept an eye on Simba and Ron to see when the boy felt homesick.
Hermione had stayed in Neverland, yet Neville had actually shocked a lot of our friends – including Riku and me – as he had moved to Deep Jungle with Luna and while I know that Lady Longbottom and Riku deeply miss their grandson and brother, are both of them definitely proud of how he made an amazing man out of himself.
Even the teachers had, outside of their jobs at Hogwarts, made their homes in various worlds and Lea had actually made a business out of keeping an eye on the Corridors of Darkness, where they could be placed and how those who got them in their homes treated them, removing those who were being abused by their owners.
All in all, I have no doubt that there are going to be a lot of problems that will probably come up and already there have been reports of Heartless and Nobodies popping up in some of the larger magical towns and cities, which I can only assume are the Darker witches and wizards giving into the Darkness in their hearts.
Yet as the countries got used to their new country's location, state of being and neighbors, had powerful Light wizards actually found themselves to be gifted with the power of either having a personified Heart's Weapon or even a Keyblade and that makes me know that things can still keep looking up for everyone.
Cause even with the increasing amount of Heartless and Nobodies reports coming up, there is also an even bigger increase in reports about the Heart's weapons and even the amount of Keyblade Wielders is growing in faster amount than any of Sora's friends had expected. And all of these new warriors take down the Darkness in their countries.
"It may have been Sora and Riku's duty to make Darkness and Light be of equal strength in this Universe and it may have been my, Neville and their duty to take down the greatest Darkness threat in our world, but we are no longer alone in keeping the balance. Both magic and this Universe have a new chance. A new chance at Twilight Peace."
And with that do I happily take my place between Remus and Sirius, with Auntie Andrea and Ambrose on Sirius' right and with Sora, Riku and Kairi on Ambrose's other side and while Sirius happily fills my plate with delicious food – cooked by Mrs. Weasley – and while Remus offers me some Butterbeer, do I just smile at them all.
I am a Venquine at Peace.
Now that is a worthy end!
Seriously, it may be nothing but a summarizing of everything that happened after the Final Battle, but I personally think it sounds brilliant. And who knows, I might one day take another look at this story and think: "Heh, I might be able to make a sequel for this – or write some more chapters." Or maybe I'll just leave it as it is.
Anyway, I just want to let you all know that I am very proud of the way that I have ended this tale. To be honest, when I started this tale, I didn't have much interest in it. It was just a passing fancy, so to say. I never, at first, intended for it to become something like this. Heck, I didn't take this thing seriously until chapter 24.
Well, that was that!
Venquine1990