Hello, this is chapter two. (In case none of you notice the big title down there) In less than a day, I got 2 reviews, and neither were flames! Just for reviewing, random idiot person, you get a cookie. You too Knight25. Well, this chapter will have the yugioh cast. I will use Japanese names. (i.e. Malik, Isis, Rishid, and Anzu.) So, continue on for more hilarity.
Disclaimer: Still don't own yugioh or harry potter.
"Speaking to your hikari/yami"
Chapter 2: Attack of the Owls
Seto Kaiba was a stressed out person. He runs an entire company all at the age of 17. So Seto really appreciated it whenever he had a calm, peaceful morning. This was not one of those mornings.
"Mokuba!"
Said pre-teen was used to his big brother waking him up, he just wasn't used to it being that loud.
"Wha!" was all Mokuba could say before he plummeted off the bed
"Ouch. What is it Seto?"
"Mokuba, do you know why there is an owl tapping on the window?" Seto hated things he couldn't understand, and an owl randomly tapping on his window wasn't something he was used to.
"Hey, I think it's trying to tell us something. Is that a letter stuck to its leg?"
"I swear if this is the mutt's doing, I'll personally see to it that he never enters another tournament again!" Sadly, Seto always linked things he couldn't understand to his rival, and his rival's group of friends.
"How would he train an owl? Just let the poor thing in." Mokuba noticed the bird had been hovering for the entire conversation.
"Fine, but I'm throwing it back out as soon as you grab the letter."
"Seto! Ever hear of 'don't shoot the messenger'?"
An irritated growl was Seto's response, as he flung open the windows, nearly hitting the owl with the glass.
"Hoo!" At this point the owl was pissed. This guy watched him exhaust himself, threatened to throw him (The owls from hp clearly understand human languages), and then he nearly kills him with the window! The second the owl was inside, he started attacking Seto. Seto however, had taken many self-defense lessons and quickly grabbed the enraged owl by the neck.
"Get the letter before I chuck this outside, minus the feathers, and see how well it flies." Seto wasn't an animal person to begin with, so having one attack (Before he had his coffee too!) him was pushing him into homicidal urges.
"Okay! I got it, so let the poor thing go!" Mokuba understood that his brother started it, and didn't want the owl to get hurt while it was just doing its job.
Seto, true to his word, proceeded to stick his arm out the window, and simply drop the bird.
"This had better be worth the rabid animal!" Seto said as he grabbed the letters from his brother.
After reading the title of the first letter, he threw the letters on to his desk, and promised himself to make a phone call in a hour or two. (He's a CEO, I assume he wakes up at 5-6 everyday)
Kaiba wasn't the only one hoping for a peaceful morning today. Though it had already been a few weeks since battle city, poor Yugi was still edgy, as though the world would be thrown into chaos again (But what were the chances of that? Judging from the anime time frame 99%. Well, I won't have the world destroyed while Yugi's off at Hogwarts, so none of that arc.)
"Good morning Yugi." Yami said as he felt his hikari gain consciousness.
"Good morning Yami" Yugi said as he got out of bed and began putting on his complicated wardrobe of leather and belts. After somehow dressing in seconds (Anime thing), Yugi went over to the window to let some fresh air in. This proved to a big mistake.
"It's a giant pigeon Yugi! Run!" People might recall Yami's only experience with birds was being attacked by a flock of pigeons during his 'date' with Anzu.
"It's an owl Yami, and I think its wants something" Yugi said/thought (I don't even know anymore) as the owl landed.
"Get it out!" (I suppose if pigeons swarmed YOU for no reason, you would hate them too)
"See? It has a letter for us."
"What kind of sick individual uses a huge bird for deliveries? Couldn't they use that internet thing?"
"I don't know if wizards use the internet."
"Wait, who?"
"It says it's from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry"
While an conversation ensured about whether witches and wizards were real or not, the phone rang.
"Yugi! It's for you. I think it's that Kaiba fellow" Solomon Muto called from downstairs. (Cause he totally forgave Kaiba for kidnapping him, sending him to the hospital, and ripping up one of his most prized possessions. Again, anime thing.)
"Hello? Kaiba?"
"Yugi this had better not be your idea of a prank!" Kaiba shouted through the connection.
Yami, being much better at 'mean' took over. (No seriously, Yami has set a guy on fire) "Listen Kaiba, I don't have time for this, I was just attacked by a freaking bird!"
"...You too huh?" Seto was sure this would all end with yelling at Yugi or the Mutt, but his rival got a letter too?
"Wait, you meant someone sent a trained owl to the CEO of one of the most powerful businesses on the planet? This might not be a joke."
"OF COURSE IT'S A JOKE! How many times do I have to tell you magic isn't real!"
"Kaiba, you've been a trading card before. Can you honestly say that wasn't magic."
"That wasn't magic Pegasus just sent us into comas using some drug, then waved a card around saying it had our souls in it." Seto had a logical explanation for every magical thing that happened around him, no matter how stupid it made him sound to magical people.
"Do you think this has anything to do with battle city?" Yami said as he recalled the constant use of shadow magic.
"Just be at the plaza at noon, so we can prove this farce fake as soon as possible." Kaiba demanded right before hanging up.
After finishing the letter, Yami knew that some man named Dumbledore would be meeting them at noon to explain the school better.
"If this really is because of the shadow magic, do you think Bakura will get involved too?" Yugi, always thinking of others, realized that no matter how many shadow games were played, only 4 people with Shadow magic were involved with Battle City. Seto refused to believe he had magic. But Yugi figured out his friend Bakura used a lot of magic too. (Well, the spirit did)
I think we can all agree that if anyone in Domino City needed rest and relaxation, it would be Ryou. The poor guy was sent to a hospital 3 times during a card game tournament. A CARD GAME TOURNAMENT! Anyway, Ryou was rather enjoying the peace and quiet of the last few days. (Notice how nobody ever seems to go to school in this anime, and even when they go, do they even do any schoolwork? How can I get into that school?) His yami had stopped terrorizing Ryou after they both got back from the shadow realm, and Ryou would never forget how his Yami protected him from Osiris's attack. Granted, the spirit said that he needed the body, not Ryou, but it still felt good having his Yami PREVENT him from getting hurt.
"Are you suggesting I'm nice!"
Ryou winced at the sudden shout. He sighed, one of the many disadvantages to having a psycho in your head is that none of your thoughts are private.
"That's right, I'm a psycho, and proud of it!"
Ryou nearly laughed at that. There was once a time were his Yami wouldn't bother arguing with him, and just shut him in his soul room if he annoyed his Yami in any way.
"Is that an invitation? I could use some fun right about now. Wait, what IS that on your windowsill?"
"I think that's an owl Yami. There were always a ton of them flying around Britain. Wonder what this one is doing up at this hour?" Ryou still wasn't used to communicating with his Yami so well, but it was nice.
"I sense strange magic coming from its leg."
"Why do you have such good senses about magic anyway?"
"I was the king of thieves! You had to have incredible intuition about curses and traps."
It didn't surprise Ryou that his Yami was once a master thief "Still am!" ,but it did surprise him that his Yami was so willingly talking about his past.
"I happen to be proud of that title. Why wouldn't I want everybody to know my greatness host?"
"Police, security, anyone who doesn't like thieves." After all, in today's society, being quick on your feet, and completely silent are only a part of a successful heist.
"Let's investigate this strange magic already!" The tomb robber demanded before expertly opening the window, plucking the letters off the bird, and closing the window again.
"Is it shadow magic?" Ryou asked nervously. He did just have a traumatizing experience with the stuff.
"No, I sense a weaker, but more versatile magic coming from the seal."
"A new magic! Read it!" Ryou, no matter how shy he came across to other people, was actually really into magic, and other occult stuff. (He and his Yami happen to agree on almost every card in their deck)
"Hogwarts eh...I suppose we'll just have to wait until noon to find out."
Yugi told his grandfather he was going out to meet someone from the magic school (Which most human beings would not believe, BTW), he headed out for the plaza.
Kaiba told all of his employees not to screw up while he was gone.
Bakura left. (His father isn't even IN this fic!)
Kiaba arrived first, wearing his trademark white trench coat. (Will someone please explain how it manages to billow dramatically without wind!) With Yugi arriving shortly after. It took seconds for people to realize that the 2 greatest duelist in the world (I consider Kaiba second-best because he had a perfect record before losing to the future King of Games) were in the same general area. Needless to say, they both silently cursed Dumbledore as the fangirls, autograph hounds, and general admirers swarmed the plaza. (They're like zombies. 1 finds you, then an army appears out of nowhere.)
Tomb Robber of course, just hung back when he arrived, making no attempt to save poor Yugi. (At least Kaiba is taller than most of his fans)
Albus Dumbledore was on his way to meet with 3 people he wanted to enroll in Hogwarts when he began hearing what sounded almost like an angry mob. He had hoped this meeting to be discreet, which is why he put a muggle-repelling charm on himself so that he and anyone near him would not be noticed by the non-magical population. He knew that if he walked into the mob, they would slowly disperse, but he didn't want to interrupt something such a large group was interested in. He decided there was no help for it, and started walking towards the crowd. The 'muggles' made way for him, and began leaving the area entirely when he increased the perimeter of the charm.
When he finally arrived at the center and the last of the mob left, he saw 2 teenagers with some of the strangest fashion sense he had ever seen. (And this was coming from someone in a robe and pointy hat!) He first noticed the tall one, glaring at him with intense dislike even though he had never seen Dumbledore before, with a oddly colored trench coat that never seemed to stop moving. Then, his gaze drifted to the small one. This one was by far the stranger of the 2. First, even though he was told all 3 were either 16 or 17 years old, this one could have fit in the regular first years. The apparent child wore a large amount of leather, decorated with several belts, chains, and a peculiar golden pendant in the shape of an upside-down pyramid. But the hair was the oddest part. Its main color was black, but it stuck out in 5 different directions, framed by golden bangs, and red in the center of each spike. Dumbledore wouldn't have been surprised if it took all mourning for the boy to get his hair like that. He knew from the magic readings and their ages that they would be different, but he didn't think it would be so obvious.
Yugi sighed with relief as the fans slowly left, though he was silently curious as to what was more interesting than the king of games. The clock struck noon almost at the exact same moment the strangest individual he had ever seen walked through the last of the fans. The plaza was now completely empty except for them and this strange wizard. He couldn't have possibly made it more obvious that he was a wizard. He wore long robes that were less than an inch away from dragging on the ground, and a long, pointed hat exactly like the ones you'd expect a clichéd wizard to wear. Apparently, he found them interesting too, as his eyes widened with surprise when he finally noticed Yugi.
"I take you're this Dumbledore person?" Kaiba asked, not wanting to waste any more time than he had to.
"Yes, are you misters Kaiba and Muto?"
"Yes sir." Yugi wanted to believe in this magic, and thus treated this professor with respect.
"Where is Mister Bakura?"
Bakura took this as his cue to come out from the alley (His host had his share of fangirls, and he wisely avoided them) "That would be me."
After seeing Yugi, Dumbledore wasn't as surprised as he might have been. This teen was wearing rather normal clothes, and the exceptional things about him were his long white hair (Whiter than his, in fact) and the most Slytherin glare Dumbledore had seen in years.
"Good to see you could make it"
"Good to see you aren't a total fraud. Thanks for the crowd control." Magical sensibilities at work.
Yami (Who took over while Dumbledore was distracted) was surprised by this. He assumed the crowd disappeared because of the wizard, but he didn't FEEL any magic.
"You have high sensibilities to magic, to be able to notice a charm I made nearly an hour ago." Dumbledore corrected himself, this boy also had extreme cunning, along with peculiar hair.
"Just great. You invited him too. Now, I'm not about to take that loser's word about his. I demand to see proof you're really who you say you are." Kaiba, though he hated the mutt, disliked Bakura the most out of Yugi's cheerleaders. The multiple personalities and so called 'magic' during his duel with Yugi made Bakura the hardest to understand. And we all know how Kaiba reacts to things he doesn't understand.
"Well, since I repel muggles at the moment, I suppose I can be a bit of a show-off today. A low-level charm should prove it to you." Dumbledore easily ignored Kaiba's scowl.
The 3 duelist didn't catch what the wizard said under his breath, but 3/5 of them were pleasantly surprised (Tomb Robber wasn't surprised, and Kaiba is well, Kaiba.) when the nearest benches started floating into the air and flying around, following the movements of the old man's 'wand'. After seeing their expressions, Dumbledore knew he had convinced them, and set the benches down where he found them.
Kaiba remained frozen for a minute or two while Yugi and Ryou (Who both took control at the same moment to say how cool that was) said how cool that was.
"So all this is real!" Ryou was embarrassing his yami by acting like a giddy schoolgirl in the face of real magic.
Yugi was slightly more rational at the moment "This is great, but what about our ages? Aren't we several years behind?" At this, Ryou visibly deflated, confusing Dumbledore who's first impression of him was cold and ruthless.
"We have potions capable of altering ages for extended periods of time, you can all enter the first year as 11 year olds."
Kaiba was jolted out of his coma-like stance at the thought of his company. "I happen to be a very important person, I just can't leave for an entire school year!"
"Isn't there something muggles use to talk to each other over vast distances?"
"You've used that word before. What does it mean?" Ryou, having been insured that he could enter Hogwarts, wanted to know everything about the magical community first.
"It's just something we call those without magic, and no knowledge of the magical world. And don't you have something named Com Peter?" (Is it wrong to make Dumbledore look stupid? Nope.)
"It is a device called a COMPUTER that can indeed send and receive messages from the other side of the planet if necessary, further advanced into the laptop, which is portable and not much larger than a schoolbook." Kaiba relished the techno speak.
"Hmm, after we complete some work on it, it may do."
"Work? I assure you my technology won't need work." (And there's the famous ego)
"It's not that, it's that electrical devices don't work at Hogwarts."
"What else can be used as a power supply?"
"Magic, of course."
"Of course..." Poor Kaiba really doesn't know how to deal with this.
" With that taken care of, I suppose I must arrange a flight for you 3."
"I can make it." Kaiba and Bakura (From now on, I'll call Tomb Robber Bakura. Headaches.) said at the same time.
"You can?" Yugi stared at Bakura.
"You can too, I'll tell you later. I'll need an place to go." Bakura said as his attention shifted back to the wizard.
"Of course, to get your supplies and a place to stay, go to the Leaky Cauldron on Charing Cross Road, in London." Dumbledore didn't know how they planned to get there, but as long as they do...
"Thank you, we'll see you at school." Ryou took over after Bakura finished sneering at the pharaoh.
"Now, about your parent's permission."
"I have no parents." (Emotions...nowhere to be found.)
"My father is currently in Egypt."
"My parents are off traveling the world, and Grandpa already agreed."
"Oh." Dumbledore expected to be spending the next few hours talking to the boys' parents. (Awkward) "Well, goodbye then."
After Dumbledore and Kaiba left (Seto did all this during company lunch break...figures) Yugi and Ryou went back to the game shop.
"What do you mean, I can get to Britain?" Yami demanded from about 3 feet off the ground.
"Exactly what it sounds like!" Bakura was also in spirit form.
"Wanna duel while they sort this out?" Yugi, ever the compromiser.
"Sure, but better make it best 2 out of 3. This might take a while." Ryou smiled. His Yami was in a argument and nobody was in danger of being sent to the hospital!
After many Egyptian swear words and 2 duels (All arguments stopped when Ryou actually WON the second duel. At least Yugi isn't the real king of games.) Yami actually figured out what Bakura meant. Through the powers of the shadow realm, the 2 shadow mages could transport directly to the pub/inn.
"Isn't that illegally crossing a border?" Yugi asks.
"We AREN'T crossing a border. We'll just go from here to there." Bakura only knew 2 things about the laws of today. 1, people still hate it when you steal their stuff, and 2, people care much more about murder now. (Please don't ask me how he knows the second one.)
Yugi sighed. This was going to be an interesting year.
A/N: It's done! Don't expect all chapters to be like this okay? I have other things to do (Got Dragon Quest 9). From now on, whenever someone speaks a language that isn't the normal one for that region (i.e. Japanese in Britain) I'll bold it. Also, I need Harry, Ron, and Hermione's first year schedules. (Can't find it online, and reading the book would cut into my time to write.) Last, I share this computer with my older sister, so I don't have all day to type away for you guys/gals. (Though I'd love to)
And finally, the disturbing fact for this chapter: Dolphins will kill their young (Dolphins too?) and porpoises so that they call play underwater volleyball with the corpses. Seriously, dolphins kill for fun, then they go a step further than us, and play with the corpses. And when the ball starts rotting (i.e. becomes less bouncy), they let it go, and find a new one. If the discarded balls (Corpses) aren't eaten by merciful predators, they wash up on shore. (This is how scientist found out.) Think about that, one of the single most loved animals on this planet, are a bunch of heartless murderers.
