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A/N: Whenever Shadii and the Pharaoh are speaking when anyone else is present (ie Dumbledore or any other wizard) they will do so in ancient Egyptian. I am saying this so it's understood, that way I don't have to say it every time those two talk. 

Yami awoke with a horrible headache. At first he decided he didn't want to open his eyes, guessing that the bright light in the room would make his headache much worse. However, he noticed that his head was on a pillow, which was strange because he didn't remember going to bed. Finally curiosity got the better of him and he opened his eyes. He was in a large room filled with two rows of beds. There were several cabinets that were closed up. As well as some rather large windows which were letting in enough sunlight to increase his headache tenfold.

"You are awake my Pharaoh." Shadii said off to his left. He was seated in a chair their and looked exhausted, as though he had been awake all night.

"I'm awake Shadii, now where are we? And how long was I out?" The Pharaoh asked the least he could do was get some information about what in the world was going on.

"My Pharaoh, we are now in the Hospital Wing of Hogwarts. The old man with the beard and the blue eyes brought you here as soon as you passed out. I however, followed you in order to make sure that you were safe. I know that when you black out due to over exhaustion you are completely defenseless and it takes several hours for you to recover. There was one woman, called herself Madame Pomfrey who wanted to check on you, I wouldn't let her. She is another one of these crazy magicians who attacked you in the first place." Shadii said clearly annoyed by the whole situation. It seemed that Shadii disliked these strange sorcerers as much as Yami did.

"Thank you Shadii." The Pharaoh said with a smile, "but that's the strange thing, whatever those people in black tried to do to me, when the puzzle rebounded it, it continued to drain my Ba several hours afterwards. Because, believe or not, I hardly used ANY shadow magic last night, so blacking out due to overuse of my shadow powers makes no sense at all." The Pharaoh finished clearly confused by the whole thing.

"I don't have any idea why that would be my Pharaoh, but I don't like it." Shadii said darkly as he eyed the Hospital Wing suspiciously, it was as if Shadii was waiting for another attack.

Their conversation was interrupted by a woman with gray hair wearing a red and white dress and a white piece of cloth that covered most of her hair. She had a rather kindly looking face. She made a beeline for Yami and Shadii.

"Well I glad to see that you are wake Professor Moto, gave us all quite a fright. Oh, and I am Madame Pomfrey." She said as she extended her hand for him to shake. Yami shook her hand only because Yugi told him he couldn't be rude.

"How are you feeling Professor Moto?" Madame Pomfrey said rather quickly.

"I'm fine. Thank you." Yami said icily, his distrust of everyone around him was quite obvious in his tone of voice. Madame Pomfrey was quite taken aback by his tone.

"Well, that's good to hear Professor. You can leave then, if you feel up to it. Professor McGonagall will show to your office." Madame Pomfrey said as she got up and another woman, this one wearing a green dress with her hair in a tight bun and a dark pointed hat. Her facial expression clearly said that she was not a woman to be trifled with, not that Yami particularly cared.

"Well, you must be Professor Moto. I'm Professor Minerva McGonagall, the deputy headmistress, transfiguration professor and the head of Gryffindor House." Professor McGonagall said extending a hand for him to shake.

"It's Dr. Moto, not professor, Dr." Yami said as he shook Professor McGonagall's hand, again only because Yugi warned him not to be rude to the strange people.

"Very well then Dr. Moto, if you're ready then I'll show you to your office." Professor McGonagall said as she turned and headed towards the door. She unlike Madame Pomfrey didn't at all seem to mind the harsh way Yami spoke to her, nor the glares that would make most people cower in fear, that he had been giving her since she had entered the room.

The Pharaoh got out of bed and looked at Shadii. "Shadii, you can go now, but if you could please let the other item holders know where I am and also tell them that as soon as I get somewhere private I will be contacting them all so we can figure out this whole mess." The Pharaoh told Shadii who merely bowed before disappearing.

/Pharaoh, you seem to be in a really bad mood. Let me take it from here so you don't make all these strange people angry. / Yugi said as Shadii left.

//Alright Yugi but at the first sign of trouble I am taking control again, is that alright Aibou// Yami replied as he relinquished control to Yugi.

/That's fine Yami. / Yugi said as he followed Professor McGonagall out the door. The two walked along in silence. Yugi was awestruck by the movie portraits he saw, never before had he seen something like it. And if he thought that was strange he was even more surprised to see a moving staircase. Wonder how Kaiba could explain all this. Yugi thought as he followed Professor McGonagall up the moving staircase. Professor McGonagall soon came to a stop outside a door on the sixth floor.

"This is going to be your office, Dr. Moto. Your classroom you can access by walking through the other door in your office or by going thru this door here." Professor McGonagall said as she indicated to another door.

"I will come back in about an hour to show you where the Great Hall is." Professor McGonagall said as she turned to leave.

"Thank you for showing me to my office Professor." Yugi said with a smile as he opened the door that led to what would be his home for the next year. The room was like a small apartment. It was pretty empty except for a bed, a desk and a trunk which Yugi guessed held the remainder of his belongings from the dig site. After opening the trunk he saw that it indeed held the rest of his cloths, his duel disk and some pieces of gold jewelry that Ishizu had given the Pharaoh, on account of the fact that they actually used to be his, so she thought it would be better if they were with him then stuck in a museum.

/Well, Yami what do you think we should do first?/ Yugi asked as he continued to survey the room.

//Well, Aibou I think we should get in touch with the other item holders, since we have time.// Yami replied.

/Why do we need to get in touch with everyone else? We already had Shadii talk to everyone./ Yugi asked.

//Because there are some things that I would like to discuss with everyone, and it is so much easier if I talk to everyone instead of using Shadii as a messenger boy.// Yami replied.

/Alright, fine you can contact everyone, but don't overdo it or you'll end up back in the Hospital Wing./ Yugi said with a grin.

//For the last time Aibou, I'm just fine. I have more than recovered from last night and it takes almost next to no energy to contact everyone.// Yami answered somewhat annoyed.

Yami took control when Yugi did not reply to his comment. He then focused on contacting the other item holders. It didn't take to long before there were five other people facing him. Shadii, had returned but now he was accompanied by a woman with long black hair who wore the millennium necklace, Ishizu Ishtar, a blond young man who held the millennium eye in his pocket, Marik Ishtar, a brunet with cold blue eyes who held the millennium rod, Seto Kaiba and a boy with long white hair brown eyes who held the millennium ring, Ryou Bakura.

"What do you want now Pharaoh." Bakura said clearly annoyed that the Pharaoh had bothered to contact him.

"I wanted to tell you about some things that are going on that could help you to keep you host safe from harm Tomb Robber, but if you don't want to listen to me then let Ryou come out so I can talk to him." The Pharaoh snapped back, he hated dealing with the spirit of the millennium ring but he didn't really have much of a choice in the matter. Bakura merely scowled at him.

"My Pharaoh, have you discovered anything else out about this Voldemort that Shadii has told us about? Or these so called wizards?" Ishizu asked trying to distract the Pharaoh and Bakura; she knew that Bakura and the Pharaoh would have a long argument unless someone stepped in.

The Pharaoh glared at Bakura for a few more seconds before turning his gaze to Ishizu to answer her question. "No, I haven't heard anything new about this Voldemort, I just know that he is after the shadow power that we all wield. From what I have been able to gather these wizards fear this Voldemort and also he is a person who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. So, I am going to warn you to be on guard because he is very likely to come after you all. On the subject of these wizards I have learned nothing new about them, just that the one who calls himself Dumbledore has decided that I need to stay here and be a professor in order to insure my own safety." Yami said, though his tone turned quite bitter when he made the last statement. It was clear to everyone else present that the Pharaoh hated the idea of being cooped up anywhere for his own safety.

"So, let me get this straight, you called us all here to tell us all stuff that Shadii has already informed us about." Kaiba said, now clearly annoyed. He hated the fact that he wielded one of the millennium items; however he had to deal with it. He only would do something if the Pharaoh himself said to and he would do it very grudgingly then.

"I'm not finished yet Kaiba." The Pharaoh snapped. His patience was at an all time low, so he was in no mood for an attitude from anyone especially Kaiba and Bakura.

"Then hurry up already. Time is money and as you know I have a company to run." Kaiba responded rather icily.

"Fine. I wanted to tell Ishizu and Shadii that they should remove all scrolls and tablets that have any mention of the shadow games on them. If they attacked that one site in Egypt they will seek the other tablets, as well as the scriptures that describe the games." The Pharaoh continued.

"And where would you want us to store them, my Pharaoh?" Ishizu asked.

"I think that it would best, for the time being if they were here." The Pharaoh responded. "You see, I think it would best if I kept them in this office, that way they will be under my personal guard, and it wouldn't be suspicious to have that type of thing here because I have been made the ancient runes professor, so having things written in ancient Egyptian wouldn't draw anyone's attention." The Pharaoh finished.

"Very well, my Pharaoh Marik, Shadii and myself will see to it that all scriptures and tablets that mention the shadow games, or you will be moved here." Ishizu said with a bow.

"Oh, and Kaiba I want you to know that your brother might be targeted because of this mess so you should be particularly cautious about that. You see whatever those wizards did to me last night, it continued to drain my Ba for several hours afterwards as well as caused me a great deal of pain, I don't know what kind of magic they wield, but you should all be on your guard. Oh and one more thing I won't be able to duel against you anytime soon." The Pharaoh said.

"What do you mean you won't be dueling? Are you nuts?" Kaiba nearly shouted.

"I don't think it would be wise for me to leave this castle for a while and since it would be very annoying to have you come here every time we want a match, we'll have to wait until this whole mess is cleared up." The Pharaoh finished.

"Fine, but as soon as this is over you and I are going to duel." Kaiba responded. He also muttered something about the world champion being forced to miss the world championships and answering to the press about his disappearance, but no one seemed to notice his muttering.

The Pharaoh nodded, Kaiba and him were rivals and had been for 5000 years. "Oh and Bakura, just because I am not in Egypt or Domino does not mean that you are free to cause trouble. Keep a low profile, but I would like you to see if you can find out anything else about these Death Eaters. I will see what I can find out from these wizards, but no one is better than finding out someone's secrets than you are. So, if you don't think that it's too much of a challenge try and mark their movements for me." The Pharaoh said with a smirk, he knew that by suggesting that it might be too hard for the Great thief king Bakura to do he insured that the thief would do exactly what he had just requested.

"Fine Pharaoh, I'll keep tabs on the freaks in black that attacked the dig site who work for the guy who wants our power. But what's in it for me, Pharaoh?" Bakura said with a sneer.

"Nothing is in it for you Bakura. I just was wondering if you were up to the challenge. I could always have Shadii follow their movements or I could have Kaiba keep track of them if it's too difficult." The Pharaoh answered, he had a hard time restraining a laugh at the look of Bakura's face.

"Oh, I'll be able to keep track of them Pharaoh. This is going to be easier than robbing a modern day bank." The thief answered, he had complained many times about the lack of security challenges posed by the modern world.

"Alright, that's everything for now. You guys should leave now since a one of these Sorcerers who is called McGonagall is going to be showing up in a few minutes to show me where to eat lunch in this building." The Pharaoh said. Shadii, Ishizu and Marik bowed while Kaiba nodded and Bakura scowled before all disappearing.

After everyone left the Pharaoh relinquished control to Yugi who flopped down on the bed. Yugi and the Pharaoh had a rather lengthy conversation about how all of this was going to turn out and if everyone else was going to be alright. The Pharaoh merely assured him that everything was going to turn out fine, he just had to have faith. Yugi nodded and sat up, and then jumped in shock when he noticed Professor McGonagall standing in his doorway.

"Oh, hello there Professor McGonagall I didn't notice you come in." Yugi said with a rather nervous laugh. That's what I get for spacing out when Yami said that Professor McGonagall would be showing up any minute.

"I'm here to show you to the Great Hall, Dr. Moto." Professor McGonagall said putting a bit more emphasis on the word Dr. then was entirely necessary.

"Oh, that's very kind of you Professor McGonagall, but you don't have to call me Dr. Moto. Yugi is just fine, Dr. Moto is far too formal for me, though I am more used to being called Dr. Moto than Professor Moto, if you called me professor I probably wouldn't think that you were talking to me." Yugi said with a slight bow, he was Japanese after all and he wanted to show Professor McGonagall respect.

"Alright, Yugi follow me if you please." Professor McGonagall said as she walked briskly out the door.

"So, Professor McGonagall what can you tell me about Hogwarts. I mean if I'm going to be teaching here then I should learn something about this place. I mean this building looks pretty old to me, ( //well it doesn't to me// the pharaoh had to chime in) it has to have a pretty colorful history." Yugi asked, after all he was quite curious about his surroundings.

"Well, Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago, by the four greatest witches and wizards of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. These four founders sought out young aspiring witches and wizards and brought them to this school in order to be educated. Each of the founders had a house in which the students that best embodied the characters that each of the particular founders preferred were placed in. That tradition of sorting students is still carried on in this school today." Professor McGonagall explained as they made their way down the grand staircase and into the entrance hall. Soon they had passed through the large oak doors that marked the Great Hall.

/Whoa, hey Pharaoh you got to take a look at this place, its amazing./ Yugi said, clearly awestruck. Yugi may have seen a lot of strange things on his adventures with the Pharaoh, but never had he seen anything quite like the Great Hall. The ceiling mirrored the sky outside, which was bright blue with the sun shining brightly overhead, not a cloud in the sky. There were candles also, lit candles floating in midair. There were four long tables in the main portion of the Great Hall and then, on a platform at the front of the Great Hall was a fifth table, which Yugi guessed was for the faculty to sit at.

//What Yugi?// The Pharaoh asked somewhat confused.

/Did you get a look at this place?/ Yugi asked. The Pharaoh soon appeared beside him in spirit form and got a good look around.

// It's rather impressive, Yugi that I'll concede.// The Pharaoh said with a sigh before he retreated back into the millennium puzzle. Yugi wandered up to the staff table following Professor McGonagall and she indicated to a seat next to a woman with gray flyaway hair. Yugi nodded to Professor McGonagall and thanked her yet again for showing him the way.

"Oh, Professors before I forget allow me to introduce our newest staff member, Dr. Moto. He will be taking up the post as our new Ancient Runes Professor." Professor Dumbledore said as Yugi took his seat, smiling at everyone around him.

Yugi had barely sat down when the woman next to him addressed him, "Pleasure to meet you Dr. Moto I'm Madame Hooch. I teach the first year students how to fly broomsticks and I referee the Quidditch matches." Madame Hooch said as she held out her hand for him to shake.

"Pleasure to meet you Madame Hooch." Yugi said with yet another smile. /Pharaoh I don't know what your problem is everyone here seems to be so nice./

// They just want you to think that they are nice, so we let our guard down and then…//

/Oh, Pharaoh that is just ridiculous, not to mention paranoid believe it or not not everyone is trying to take over the world or trying to kill us. These people are trying to protect us Pharaoh, so just lighten up./ Yugi replied smartly before turning his attention to Madame Hooch.

"Nice to meet you Madame Hooch, I'm Dr. Yugi Moto. I have lived in Domino Japan for the majority of my life, but I've spent the last several years studying in Egypt." Yugi said as he shook Madame Hooch's hand.

"Studying in Egypt must have been quite fascinating." Madame Hooch responded politely.

"Yes it was and I quite enjoyed it." Yugi replied.

"So, I would guess that you studied quite a few foreign curses before you went to Egypt, I know that we require all of our students who go to study in Egypt to do that." Madame Hooch said.

At this the Pharaoh took over, which earned him a funny look from Madame Hooch, "Yes, I know all about Egyptian magic, I would almost go as far as to say that I know their magic better than some Egyptians do." The Pharaoh said with a laugh.

"What, what happened to your eyes Dr. Moto? They just changed color, and shape for that matter." Madame Hooch said shock clearly evident in her voice.

"Oh, that well, yes that can sometimes happen. It's nothing that you should be alarmed about." The Pharaoh said casually as though it was nothing he wasn't used to hearing. //we'll have to be careful Aibou these people are very observant. Not too many pick up on the change in eye color.//

"Well, if you know so much about foreign curses you probably would be a great help to the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Dr. Moto." Madame Hooch said as calmly as she could, trying to act as though hearing about eye color and shape changing was nothing new. She eventually decided that he was a Metamorphagus and decided to say no more on the subject.

"And who might that be, I don't believe I've had the pleasure of making their acquaintance." The Pharaoh said with his usual regal tone as he took a sip of pumpkin juice.

"Well, I don't believe the Headmaster has decided who will fill that post quite yet. However, we should know in the next day or so. We can't put off hiring someone for it much longer than that." Madame Hooch said casually.

"You see," she continued, "every year for the past several years we have had to replace our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor due to some unfortunate turn of events. Some people are convinced that the job is cursed, which is why finding someone who is willing to fill it is such a hard task." Madame Hooch explained, which caused the Pharaoh to raise an eyebrow rather suspiciously.

"Well, what sort of things happened to them?" The Pharaoh asked.

"Well, Professor Quirrell was possessed by Lord Voldemort's spirit and ended up getting severely burned and eventually died (and we thought Ryou had it bad, even the Tomb Robber isn't that bad), Professor Gilderoy Lockhart had his memory erased when a memory charm he was trying to cast backfired now the poor fool doesn't even remember who he is (I can relate to that, it stinks when you don't even know who you are). Professor Remus Lupin resigned at the end of term after it got out that he was a werewolf, seemed to think that the parents wouldn't want a werewolf teaching their kids (and I would agree with them). Professor Moody, well wasn't really Professor Moody, Barty Crouch Jr. had been impersonating him for an entire school year by drinking a polyjuice potion while keeping the real Professor Moody imprisoned in a trunk (and here I thought being trapped in the puzzle was bad, at least I could move around and get out every once and awhile), and last year the ministry sent us Professor Dolores Umbridge, and she ended up being carried off by some centaurs in the Forbidden Forest (So, Mystic Horseman carried off the last Professor, great. Yugi now I am really thrilled that we took a job here)." Madame Hooch said with a laugh after all, the look on Yami's face was priceless.

"Oh, is that all?" The Pharaoh said.

"Yeah, but you shouldn't have anything to worry about Dr. Moto." Madame Hooch said.

I'm willing to bet that those other professors didn't think that they had anything to worry about when they took the job either, and just look what happened to them. The Pharaoh thought to himself as he continued to eat. The food in the Great Hall was pretty good, though the food in my palace was much better, and everyone around him did seem like they were really nice, maybe Yugi is right and he was just being paranoid. Still he was going to be on guard, just to be safe. After all assassins try and look friendly in order to gain your trust while awaiting the best opportunity to strike, and a rose looks beautiful and harmless but you can't ignore its thorns.

Yugi finished eating his meal talking occasionally with Madame Hooch as well as another Professor who introduced herself as Professor Sprout. The two of them told him more about the History of Hogwarts that Professor McGonagall hadn't already told him. After awhile they suggested that he go to the library and check out a copy of Hogwarts a History in order to get the full story. Eventually the other professor's excused themselves and said they would see him in the morning for breakfast.

Yugi got up and decided that he would try and find his own way back to his office, seeing as he would have to be able to manage that eventually and the sink or swim method was believed to have a high success rate.

/It should be just up these stairs and around the next corner./ Yugi thought after he had been wandering around for 15 minutes.

//you said that the last time you saw a flight of stairs, and besides none of this looks familiar to me.// the pharaoh said.

After Yugi had rounded yet another corner and come up with nothing he began to panic, he was lost, hopelessly lost. It was then that he noticed a spectral figure floating up ahead, he appeared to be shoving a wad of bubblegum into the keyhole of a door.

"Excuse me, Mr. Ghost sir. Can you give me directions to the Ancient Runes office on the sixth floor." Yugi said giving the ghost a bow as well as a cute, innocent smile.

The ghost turned to face him, "ooh lost in the castle. Not an ickle firstie. Ohh… you're the new professor lost in the castle like and ickle firstie." The ghost (who we all know is the poltergeist better known as peeves) began to laugh and then blew a huge raspberry at Yugi, who was rather appalled by such behavior.

And if Yugi was appalled by Peeves actions then the Pharaoh could only be described as livid. No one, dead or alive, muggle or wizard, friend or foe got away with treating Yugi that way. Not when he had any say about it. The Pharaoh immediately took over and glared at Peeves. "I suggest you apologize for your rudeness and show us the way to the ancient runes office, or I assure you there will be dire consequences." The Pharaoh said icily.

Peeves just laughed at him and blew yet another raspberry, which was probably the biggest mistake in his entire existence. The Pharaoh's puzzle began to glow and the eye of Horus appeared on his forehead and the whole area around them began to get dark all of a sudden. The next thing Peeves knew he was experiencing pain like he hadn't known in as long he could remember.

"I-I-I'm s-s-sorry." Peeves stuttered, and as soon as he had apologized the pain vanished and light returned the corridor.

The Pharaoh glared at him for a moment before saying. "Well, what are you waiting for take me to the ancient runes office on the sixth floor."

Peeves looked at him then said, "Right this way Sir." Before leading them down a corridor up two flights of stairs and stopping in front of their office door. "Its right here Sir." Peeves said in the most respectful tone he could muster.

"Thank you." The Pharaoh said as he walked through the door that led to his office and closed it behind him. As soon as he had set foot in that office Peeves took off as fast as he could. He made a mental note not to under any circumstances mess with the new ancient runes professor.

A/N: Well, that's the end of this chapter. Next Chapter the school year begins and Yugi will meet Harry and the gang. As well as find out who the new defense against the dark arts teacher is.