The Lure of the Dark Arts
Ryo, Malik, Yugi and the Yamis are invited to go to Hogwarts, but why are there Ghouls around? Dumbledore can't believe his eyes, and he thought the Weasley twins were bad enough.
Chapter 1) A Fated Encounter
Yugi Motou was a quiet unobtrusive boy, despite dressing like a punk, and with the most eyebrow raising hairstyle imaginable. He would have been completely insignificant if it wasn't for his extraordinary gaming skills which had lead to him been crowned the King of Games. Ryo Bakura was even quieter unobtrusive boy he kept himself to himself and only warranted interest with his unusually pure white hair, and the series of unfortunate events that dogged his life. Marik Ishtar on the other hand…no records of his existence existed before he appeared at the age of 15 as the leader of a worldwide criminal organization known as the Ghouls syndicate, wanted by the CIA, Interpol and the Domino City Police Department for questioning about a number of suspicious deaths, illegal entry of foreign countries and the rise in the duel monsters black market. Except for their shared interest in Ancient Egypt there didn't seem to be anything remarkable that connected the three other than the card game Duel monsters.
Well except for one thing, and it is so amazingly fantastical that no besides their closest friends and enemies would believe them and that is that they each own a Millennium Item, Ancient Egyptian artefacts of untold power. Yugi Motou is the chosen one destined to unlock all the magic. He is the reincarnation of the Nameless Pharaoh, the bearer of the Millennium Puzzle the most powerful of the seven Millennium items. Ryo Bakura is the cursed one destined to unleash chaos. He is the reincarnation of the King of thieves, the bearer of the Millennium Ring the most evil of the seven Millennium items. Marik Ishtar is the Challenger to the throne. He is not a Reincarnation but was once possessed by a darker evil and twisted alternate persona within his mind, the bearer of the Millennium Rod the most unpredictable of the seven Millennium items.
Only recently the three friends have found some new abilities that they never knew they had. Yugi had managed to make a marker pen fly out of a condescending teachers hand and up his left nostril. Ryo while been chased by a gang of bullies had somehow managed to get to the other side of a set of railings without climbing over them. Marik had managed to make a car vanish leaving the dazed driver sitting in the middle of the road clutching his steering wheel after he cut up him up while on his bike. They had met together at the local arcade to discuss the situation and as usual the Yamis insisted on coming out of the items to take part in the discussion. While Yugi and Ryo as Hikaris got on well together for the Yamis it was another story altogether and with Marik goading both the Pharaoh and the Tombrobber it only made things worse.
At present all Yami Yugi and Yami Bakura were arguing with Marik throwing in snide barbs every so often in between playing a game of pool against Ryo who was far better than he looked at the game while Yugi won a small fortune out the one armed bandits (and they say Joey is lucky.)
"This is your fault Pharaoh" Yami Bakura hisses. "Don't try and blame your screw up on me" Yami Yugi snarls angrily. "Your the one who's always encouraging us to experiment with shadow magic Pharaoh" Marik sneers. "Their Hikaris! Only we Yamis should wield the power of the shadows" Yami Bakura claims arrogantly "This is not my fault" Yami Yugi states firmly "it isn't even shadow magic" "Well what is it then?" Yami Bakura snaps. "How many more times do I have to tell you? I don't know!" Yami Yugi snaps back. "And that car certainly didn't end up in the shadow realm" Marik complained which was a pity if it had, the driver would probably have accompanied it.
As the argument continued Yugi joins Ryo and Marik by the pool table and sighs "are they still at it?" he asks. "What did you expect?" Ryo sighs exasperatedly "Marik has hardly been a settling influence" taking his turn and missing the ball by a small margin. Marik merely smirks back "Always happy to help" he comments mockingly meaning ready to aggravate things far past their boiling point.
Meanwhile an old man wearing a marvelous set of robes and sporting a long white beard enters the arcade. He was Albus Dumbledore the headmaster of Hogwarts Britain's fabled school of witchcraft and wizardry and was well known for his acceptance and tolerance despite the prejudice of the Wizarding world as a majority so when the Asian magic schools refused to accept the newly discovered late bloomers from Japan he immediately offered them a place at Hogwarts. Well not quite immediately it was unwise to blindly jump into such matters without having all the facts, first he had requested all the information the ministry had on them which was very little actually. The Language barrier, typical foreign secrecy and general mistrust meant he currently didn't even know all their names, the only one he had any concrete details on was a Ryo Bakura and that was only because he had been born in England before moving to Japan, even then it was out of date. Dumbledore remembered the boy's mother who had tragically died just before Ryo's muggle father decided to move to Japan she had attended Hogwarts herself but after graduation had chosen to remain in the muggle world with her husband an archaeologist It was truly a tragic loss, she had always excelled at charms, transfiguration and potion-making As Loyal as any Hufflepuff and as Courageous as any Gryffinder and capable of out-thinking most Ravenclaws. She could have gone on to become something more than a stay at home housewife cut down in an accident.
The descriptions given to the ministry had been disregarded as some kind of joke but Dumbledore had a more open mind and was thereby only slightly surprised when he spotted the group clustered by the snooker table in the middle of some kind of group debate. He was however rendered for the first time in three decades speechless, it was one thing to hear the descriptions it was quite another to see them for himself. There were two pairs of twins chatting, and arguing around a snooker table. The most flamboyant set of twins had tri-coloured star shaped hair – predominantly black but with scarlet tips and a golden spiky fringe. The older brother was taller and somehow seemed darker than the younger brother who resembled the picture of child-like innocence, they held themselves differently the young one leaned back against the snooker table at ease while the older one was standing poised emitting an aura of authority. The other pair had pure white hair although Dumbledore noted neither of them were true albinos. The younger brother's hair flopped into a mass of curls which leant him a femine appearance while his older brothers hair spiked out impressively granting him a more vicious air. Their voices were different as well the younger ones been as soft as silk while the older ones been harsh and rough. The last and only single boy present was just as striking as his companions although it should be noted he possessed the normalist hair out of the group been blond, the which fell down past his shoulders his voice had a nasal twang that put the Malfoy's to shame. His most striking feature was his tan brown complexion hinting of his Arabic descent, just how an Egyption came to living in a modern Japanese City Dumbledor couldn't figure out. The multi-coloured haired boys were wearing identical leather tops and jeans covered in as many belts and buckles as they could fit on with the same gold upside down pyramid hanging from a chain around each of their necks. The white haired boys were wearing striped shirts with a blue/green jacket thrown over them along with dark blue casual slacks. The blond haired boy was wearing a sleeveless shirt, and beige shorts while almost literally dripping in gold, armbands, ear-rings, a choker, necklaces, and even a short gold staff hooked into his belt at his waist, clearly he was unafraid of muggers.
Dumbledore hadn't been aware that he was dealing with twins, and had thought that Ryo was an only child, but then his mother had kept herself to herself after her family disowned her for marrying a muggle. But the Japanese ministry had been most uncooperative about just about everything. Steeling himself he approaches the five youths "Excuse me" he says the words coming out as Japanese so he could be understood, ah the wonders of a good language charm "I would like to take a moment of your time if I may" the boys looked at him with varying expressions of distrust, shock, confusion, and in one case outright horror, considering what they looked like Dumbledore couldn't help but feel mildly insulted.
Yami Bakura opened his mouth to tell the weirdo that if he didn't fuck of sharpish he'd find himself on a one way trip to the shadow realm when Marik kicks him in the shin before ducking behind Ryo for safety Yami Bakura glares daggers at his Hikari and Marik who merely shoots him an amused look in response.
"I am Albus Dumbledore" Dumbledore announces himself. "And I am not interested" comments Yami Bakura boredly. "Headmaster of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry" Dumbledore continues ignoring Yami Bakura's outburst. Yami Yugi burst out laughing he really couldn't help it. Yami Bakura looked like he wanted to kill the old man but was at least able to restrain himself. The Hikaris and Marik however were more then willing to listen to the crazy old coot (prolonged exposure to Yugi's Grampa gives you a resistance I suppose) "Each and every one of you are Wizards" declares Dumbledore and it was true while he could sense a greater potential in the two older brothers, all five of them had magic and properly trained could become great wizards.
That shut Yami Yugi up, Yami Bakura and Marik exchanged covert glances, and the Hikaris looked worried. "What makes you say that?" Yugi asks his eyes narrowed with distrust to many people had tried to take the Puzzle from him and take over the world for him to trust easily. "The Japanese Ministry of magic detected your magic recently but as your late bloomers, people whose magic potential doesn't manifest until later in life than normal no nearby school would agree to take you, but I with my school in Britain agreed to accept you as students, providing of course you accept my offer"
Yami Yugi considers the offer, if he was telling the truth it seemed he didn't know about Shadow Magic or the Millennium items and so long as they were careful there was no reason why this should change should find out about them "you say you are a wizard and that you can do magic prove it" he demands arrogantly. Dumbledore was painfully reminded of Tom Riddle, but there was no malice behind his tone, merely mistrust. "Yami that wasn't very nice" his t scolds him Yami Yugi looks abashed "I apologize" he says stiffly while Yami Bakura and Marik smirked, it wasn't often the stuck up Pharaoh got told off, and they enjoyed his humiliation very much Bakura enjoying it more than Marik. "This is a rather public place" muses Dumbledore who takes out his wand and taps the snooker table once the white ball zooms around the table on its own power knocking every ball into the correct pockets before it repositions itself back at the foot of the table and stops moving. Yami Bakura relaxes slightly if not entirely at least the old man was telling the truth not that that meant he wasn't a threat.
"Damn!" Marik scowls "now we'll have to declare the match a draw, and I was winning too" he sighs and drops his cue on the table. Yami Bakura scowls "and I had 5000 Yen riding on that match" he growled angrilly. Yami Yugi smirks "consider yourself lucky the match was abandoned" he chuckles "I know you haven't got 5000 Yen" "My Hikari…" Yami Bakura begins before been kicked in the leg this time by Yami Yugi who snaps "no swearing" at him to cover up for his slip 'was winning' he thinks moodily, getting fed up of been kicked all the time.
"I'm not sure were Wizards" comments Ryo lowly looking down at his feet 'the millennium items obviously don't count' he thinks. Dumbledore smiles warmly "oh really?" he asks amused "never had any…odd occurancies happen around you?" he asks. Odd? They were Millennium Item bearers the strange and bizarre were the norm for their lives, but that been said the pen, the railings, the vanishing car…and that time Ryo walked straight through the cafeteria from one end to the other and out the doors with his head stuck in a book oblivious to the outside world during a food fight and didn't get hit once. "I guess" Yugi admits.
"I'm afraid I don't have all your names it has been a nightmare trying to get accurate information out of the ministry" Dumbledore admits. "Yugi Motou" Yugi tells Dumbledore at once. "Yami" mutters Yami Yugi. "Ryo Bakura" Ryo says "and this is Yami Bakura." "But I prefer Bakura" adds Yami Bakura. "Marik Ishtar" Marik declares. Dumbledore frowns uncertainly at Ryo and Bakura "I knew your mother" he claims startling Ryo and putting Bakura on the defensive, after all he never knew his Hikaris mother Ryo only receiving the Ring after his Mother and Sister's death. "Not personally but she attended Hogwarts herself, I had heard she'd had a son and daughter but didn't know she had had twins" "Ah" Ryo thinks desperately before coming up with a brilliant excuse "Yami's…sort of the black sheep of the family and mother and father didn't like to talk about him" it was sort of the truth in a roundabout way, he was a black sheep but one from three thousand years ago.
So this Dumbledore believed they were twins, well it wasn't like they could correct him, and since they were the other half of each others soul it was kind of true from a certain point of view. Dumbledore accepted this and saw no reason to pry further but resolved to keep a close on the older brother he gave of an air of a troublemaker and a bully but time would tell if he was another Fred and George Weasely, a Draco Malfoy or even a Tom Riddle.
"I have with me a list of necessary equipment, spell books, robes and of course a wand, and more will be required if you choose to attend Hogwarts, and if any of you require financial aide to buy your supplies I can assist you with that as well" he explains handing out the lists. Yami Yugi accepts his stiffly, Marik looks calculating as he accepts his, Yami Bakura accepts his guardedly, Yugi accepts his with a smile, and Ryo accepts his with a joyful expression. "Very well" states Yami Yugi the default leader of the group. "Once you have informed your guardians and made your decision I will meet you at the little park a few streets from here opposite the clock tower tomorrow at 10AM" he bows and disappears with a crack.
"Well?" Ysmi Yugi asks. "I'd like to see it" Marik admits. "Me too" Ryo smiles brightly before frowning "he said my mother attended Hogwarts, does that mean she was a witch?" "Hikari Baka" Yami Bakura snaps "of course she was witch" Yugi glares at the Tomb Robber "leave Ryo alone, that's his family your talking about" he snaps hotly. "Since when did I care?" he asks darkly "keep out of it runt" "Talk to my Aibou like that again and be prepared for a fast trip to the shadow realm" Yami Yugi snarls protectively. Yami Bakura scoffs "oh please how many times have I been banished for all eternity and how many times has it actually worked, oh yeah never!" "Maybe this time we could make it a one way trip" suggests Marik "there has to be a way" he claims. "Here we go again" sighs Ryo.
From now on Yami Yugi will now be referred to as Yami and Yami Bakura will now be referred to as Bakura.
AN: I have reread this story and found it lacking as such I will be editing and reposting the chapters as quickly as I can before I start work on a new chapter for any of my other stories.
The Main Difference from the original version is the removal of Marik's Yami (Marik originally referred to as Malik) the reason I removed him was he seemed to me to be unnecessary and writing for several main characters is difficult. I ended up giving many of his lines to Yami Bakura which after reading it through actually made him feel more like Bakura's Yami than the OC version I originally portrayed him as. And as for Marik he's on neither side, he likes riling up the Pharaoh as much as he likes annoying the Tombrobber. I also added more stuff about Ryo's Mother than I did last time, because frankly I found it bizarre that if Dumbledore had taught her at Hogwarts that he didn't know she'd never had twins. If anyone can think of a good name for Ryo's mother I'd be appreciative as I'm currently drawing a blank, it shouldn't stand out in the magical community however since she comes from a pureblood background hint, hint and if you'd like to guess which House she was in at Hogwarts I'll reveal the house next chapter.