THE GAME SHOP_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
"Grandpa!I'm back!" Yugi called as they entered the shop.
"Ah, Yugi! Who are your friends?" An elderly gentleman with a greying beard walked through almost as short as Yugi.
"This is Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. They're from a different branch of magic."
The three teenagers expected grandpa Moutou to not believe his grandson but he instead appraised them. "Oh. What type?"
"It's fairly weak compared to shadow magic but it's useful." Yugi commented as they walked behind the counter and saw another teenager, fourteen with black hair.
"Mokuba? Your brother is actually letting you work here?" The black haired boy nodded
"Only part time. Seto's supposed to be here any moment to take me to the beach."
Cackling came from both Malik and Ryou while Yugi laughed deeply.
"Kaiba.....AT THE BEACH!...hahahahahah! this is too rich!"
The three wizards looked confused. "What are you talking about?" Harry shouted. Hermione concentrated. "umm, i think someone's relative is going to the beach."
"Care to explain?!" Harry shouted again, getting quite annoyed at being ignored but they just kept laughing until the tinkle of the bell announced someone.
"What are you three dimwits doing now?" Came the cold quip of our favourite CEO.
Silence poured in as they looked at him until the beach image came again and they started laughing again. Hermione by this time had put a spell on Harry, Ron and Herself so they could understand Japanese.
"Nii-san!"
The wizards looked astounded as the black haired teen hugged the midriff of an unsmiling tall figure.
"Hello Mokuba. Are you ready?"
Ron stepped forward. "Ron. Ron Weasley."
The tall brunette glared at the boy until his hand was lowered. The tinkle of the bell announced another person.
"Seto! What is taking so long?"
They all turned to see a tall blonde enter. The cold teenager sighed.
"Jou, do you really have to be so impatient? I was just getting Mokuba."
The blonde shrugged then turned to Yugi. "Hey Yug! I haven't seen you in ages. Another plot for world domination? Who is it this time? Dartz? Pegeasus?Malik?"
Malik gaped. "ONE TIME! I don't see Bakura getting the same treatment."
Jou pondered this. "I don't know, well Bakura has Ryou now so it'll keep him in line but you." He pointed to the blond. "You were your own person most of the time and you're still insane and you are a criminal mastermind with twice the evil. Bakura has his hikari to balance them out, you, you are a hikari."
Malik took this well. "Oh, i get it. Well, have fun at the beach...hehah..Kaiba...HAHAH!"
All three of them burst out laughing again. Mokuba shook his head but you could still see him grinning and Jou was just standing there smirking at the pissed off Seto Kaiba he saw. Saving his friends he stepped in between them and took the unsmiling businessmen's hand.
"C'mon Seto! Me, you, Mokuba, the beach! NOW!"
Harry was quite unsettled by the brunette. No one had that much emotionlessness. But that changed when he saw the brunette smile at Jou.
"Fine. Go to the car puppy i'll be one second."
Jou nodded and rushed out the door.
"You too Mokuba."
The black haired boy nodded and the CEO looked at Yugi.
"I really don't want to know what crackpot scheme some madman has now but unless it concerns either Mokuba, Jou or Kaiba corp. leave me out of it. I have a company to run." And taking Mokuba's hand he strode out the game shop with a swish of his trench coat.
"Yugi?" Harry asked the tearing teen. "Who was that?"
Yugi sobered up enough to explain." That was Seto Kaiba one of our friends. He runs Kaiba corp. the worlds biggest gaming industry and that was his brother Mokuba and our friend and his boyfriend Jounouchi Katsuya. He's had some adventures with us but he doesn't care about anything except the corporation and Mokuba. He's a lot warmer to people now though."
Ron gaped thinking of his indifferent face and the coldness of his words. Yugi rushed upstairs to pack some things and then trudged downstairs with a giant suitcase.
They then transported to a spacious loft with which they met Malik's family.
"Brother! Where have you been? I was about to send Rishid out for you!"
They met a young woman with black hair and a thick gold necklace in a plain white robe. She embraced her brother warmly then started chatting away in Arabic. He explained what was going on. He then switched to English motioning for his sister to do the same. She smiled and then stared intently at Harry then smiled again gesturing for them to sit down.
"Rishid." she called and a tall man with a bald head except for a ponytail at the back walked in. He had hieroglyphs over the top right fourth of his face, and he looked impassive. That was until he saw Malik. He broke into a smile and embraced the sandy haired boy.
"Master is good to see you home." he cried in Egyptian and Malik responded in kind.
"Wow, who knew Malik was such a linguist." she whispered to the boys. Ron flushed.
"I could be a linguist too you know!"" he whisper shouted, thankfully not managing to attract the attention of anyone else. Hermione just gave him a bemused look before returning to the conversation which now all took place in English.
"Why must you leave master Malik? What if something happens? I will not be able to protect you!"
the young boy sighed. "Rishid, i'll be fine i have the pharoah and Bakura."
Rishid frowned at the albino. "I trust the host, he is pure but i do not trust the spirit of the ring."
"He's my partner in crime!"
"Is?" Ishizu asked, raising an eyebrow. Malik gulped. " Ummm, was sister, was."
"Good because i don't want to be trying to convince you not to enslave humanity again."
AGAIN? Ron and Harry thought. So he really did almost take over the world. They would have to keep an eye on him.
"ONE TIME!"
"And Bakura, don't rob the bank there. I really don't want to have to restrain Malik and you."
"Yes MOM." came the sarcastic reply. "Good. Now Malik go pack."
Malik stood up and walked with Rishid to his room. Hermione turned to Ishizu. "Miss Ishtar, why does your brother call Malik master?"
"Rishid was our servant in Egypt but he was like our brother and is devoted to Malik." She smiled. "You have noticed the carvings on Rishids face?"
They nodded nervously.
"Rishid carved them himself to prove to Malik that he was not the only one."
"Only one what?" Ron thought of the flash of something Ron had seen but shook the thought off.
"Nothing."
Malik entered the room with a catlike grace. He turned to his sister.
She narrowed her eyes then sighed. "You dumped all yours and Bakura's stuff in an antechamber in the shadow realm, didn't you?"
"Technically....Yes." she laughed softly and embraced her brother once more. Bakura was grinning. "Good plan tomb keeper. for once."
He glared at the whitenette."Shut up thief."
Ishizu rolled her blue eyes and turned to Yugi. "You know what to do."
Yugi laughed." Yeah, don't let them near weapons shops, fireworks shops or anywhere and make sure Malik and Bakura keep their knives hidden."
"Shouldn't we confiscate them?" Harry asked Malik worriedly as he twirled a knife expertly.
Yugi shook his head. "Uh uh. Tried to do it once, got sent to the sh- almost got beat up." he shuddered. They all back away from the blonde and the whitenette only to be pushed back together and sent to grimmauld place.
THE GUEST BEDROOM----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Oh good, you're back. Help Yugi take his suitcase upstairs, call down the others and have some dinner."
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"Are you sure we shouldn't tell them? They are our friends after all."
Malik paused on opening Yugi's suitcase and turned around slowly thinking about it, furrowing his brow. He shook his head.
"There is no way i'm telling them about Marik. He's too overprotective, if they make any move against us they'll be a bloodbath."
Yugi sighed. "Then should we tell Dumbledore. I'm sure he'd believe us."
malik paused again but this time nodded.
"But we all decide when. I need to see if this guy is trustworthy. But i think he might be."
" why are we speaking in Egyptian in that case?"
"Because we don't know who else might be listening. Did you bring your duel disk Yugi, Ryou?"
"Yeah, wanna duel after dinner?"
"You know it!" Yugi grinned and ran out the door. "C'mon guys we need to get the others."
Malik strolled out of the door and Ryou followed.
After dinner everyone was excited to see a real duel for the first time and everyone exited to see Yugi and Ryou's duel. The Weasleys stood slightly off to the right giving Harry the perfect view. Ryou and Yugi were opposite each other with strange contraptions strapped to one arm.
"Duel disks. Kaiba invented them."
Harry nodded still staring at the field. Standing there were the same monsters Yugi had showed him yesterday. It had been brought to life. And the same on Ryou's side, though his monsters looked slightly darker for such a pure person. Then again, he does act very evil sometimes. Like for now, he and Yugi didn't act like they did at dinner, they seemed darker somehow, different people.
"I summon Obelisk the tormentor!" Bakura shouted, recieving a narrowing of the eyes from Atem and a hiss of approval from Malik.
Harry gasped as the sky actually darkened and lightning came down as a gigantic blue behemoth appeared. It looked extremely powerful but Bakura looked at it like it was an old friend.
Atem grinned at his hand. "So it shall be a battle of the gods then tomb robber. Very well...."
He threw a card down and smirked. "I summon slifer the sky dragon!"
Another lightning bolt crashed, illuminating a coiling red dragon with a dark underbelly. His eyes were bright yellow and he had a large mouth with rows of sharp narrow teeth but above that was a smaller mouth with equally sharp rows of teeth.
(I'm not going to even attempt to create a duel. Too confusing. I'll massacer it and everyone will hate me for killing duel monsters.;))
"You may win this time Pharoah but i will win one day. One ra damned day!" Bakura muttered as he reshuffled his cards. Atem smirked. "You haven't beaten me in three thousands years, what makes this year so special?"
"Hmph."
"What did you say Yugi?"
Atem turned. "Oh, just that he wouldn't beat me in three thousand years. I was feeling generous." he said smiling wickedly. Bakura glared until Malik whispered to him. " It's a wonder his crown fits he's so bigheaded."
They started taunting him quietly. They went back inside and all went to their rooms. As Hermione was about to enter her's Harry grabbed her and dragged her into his and Ron's bedroom.
"What?"
"I think their hiding something. You known they call each other different names when they go all evil. I want to find out what's up."
"Hmm, i've suspected something as well."
They scrunched under the invisibility cloak. Padding down the hallway they knocked on the door and stood back. Yugi answered the door and to their disappointment closed it immediately. They ran back to the boys room.
"Well that didn't work." Ron huffed flopping on the sagging bed. Hermione shook her head.
"I suggest that we just keep an eye on them."
And she tiptoed into her room to sleep.
Over the holidays the yamis didn't possess their hosts and the golden trio forgot their suspicions. They finally made the trip to diagon alley which was uneventful except for when they went to get their wands.
MEMORY:
They entered the dusty shop and looked curiously round. A knarled hand placed itself onto Malik'sshoulder and he whirled around a gleaming dagger balanced in his left palm. Grey owlish eyes blinked.
"It is not wise to attack an opponent without knowing who he is sir."
Malik narrowed his eyes but pocketed the blade in a blink. Ron stared.
"Where did you get that?"
He looked at Maliks pockets but saw no blade shaped bulge and just shrugged. Ollivander pointed to Yugi.
"You are to go first? Wand arm?"
Yugi had been explained to by Harry that his wand arm was his writing arm.
"Right."
A floating tape measure measured every inch of him while Ollivander kept handing him wands. They had got to no. 45 when Ollivander gasped.
"You need older wands. I have three but their very old. Ancient egyptian...." He muttered as he rushed to the back of the shop. Yugi heard and grinned.
"Atem? Egypt, sounds like our kind of wand."
Atem grinned next to him in spirit form. Ollivandercame back with a wide gold case.
"Which one..which...which" He opened the lid to reveal three dark looking wands with gold filligrie inlaid into the handle. Ollivander was obviously excited.
"Here, sakura with twin core of pheonix feather and sphinx hair. Twelve inches. Flexible."
Yugi grasped it and his millenium puzzle glowed accepting the wands magic. Ollivander stared but then pointed at Malik.
"You, the suspicious one. I think this is the one for you."
He held out another wand. "Egyptian papyrus reed with twin core of jackel heartstring and egyptian cobra fang. Thirteen inches, unyielding."
Malik felt his millenium rod glow and a vision of Marik flashed across his eyes. His vision blurred but he controlled himelf, stepping back without anyone noticing. That is of course Marik did. He felt the wrongness inside his light and panicked ran to the pharoah in his spirit form.
"Atem, Hikari is not well, his vision is blurring and he can't concentrate."
Atem glanced worriedly at Malik who had leant against a darkend corner to recouperate.
"Take over and let him rest."
Marik would've rolled his eyes at such a simple suggestion but all he could think about was that his light was in pain. He quickly took control of the body, insisting that malik return to his room to rest. Ryou had been given his wand and looked very pleased with it, as did a spirit tomb robber who was probably thinking of all the chaos he could cause with the little stick.
They had left to buy their pets and then back to grimmauld place....
Ryou+Bakura had bought a black cat called Sanguine with a bad temper to Yugi much to Ryou's dismay and Bakura's delight.
"He obviously hates anything to do with the pharoah." He exclaimed while petting the small mammal. Malik shook his head. "No, he just hates the pharoah. I mean he likes me and i'm definitly connected to the pharoah."
Bakura nodded. "well, at least he hates the very image of the pharoah."
Malik grinned."Remind me never to get changed with him in the room."
Yugi came in carefully avoiding Sanguine and sat on the bed.
"Are you guys packed yet? We have to leave tomorrow."
The holidays had finished and they were off to Hogwarts for a year. Ryou nodded while Malik shrugged. "I'm just need to send my stuff to the shadow realm and i'll get it when i can."
Yugi scrunched up his nose. "Are you sure you're going to be able to access the shadow realm? Apparently they have the best protection."
Malik scoffed then paused. "No i can open it. The shadow realm is everywhere and this branch of magic is weaker than our own."
Yugi shrugged. "Don't blame me if you can't open it and are stuck wearing the same outfit every day."
Malik paled slightly then chuckled nervously. " I'll think i'll pack half of my stuff." and he dashed out the room. Yugi hadn't wanted a pet but Malik felt drawn to a pheonix that cost a fortune if Malik had paid for it. Technically he didn't steal it. After he left the bird escaped and wouldn't leave him. Malik decided to call him Sedjet, the egyptian word for fire.
"Malik have you seen our.. what the hell?!" Fred and George stopped dumbstruck from barging into the egyptian boys room and gaped. On Malik's bed making out furiously with animalistic growls was Malik and...Malik. They continued on obliviously. The taller broke their lip locking and attached himself to the more tanned ones neck. The smaller arched his neck.
"Marik...ahh. mnfph-"
The taller one cut off by attacking his lips again.
Fred and George looked at each other then took a deep breath...
"MALIK!"
They finally noticed. The smallers eyes widened then he slumped groaning.
"By ra!.." He started grumbling in some weird language while his double helped him off the bed. Malik closed his eyes briefly and when he opened them said in a sheepish voice.
"Ryou and Yugi are on their way up."
Fred nodded dumbly while george went over and poked the Maliklook-a-like and poked his cheek.
"Did you clone yourself to make out... with..yourself." george frowned in distaste. Malik sighed.
"No."
Yugi and Ryou came in at that point and glared slightly at Malik.
"One night. ONE. Your perverted Yami couldn't keep his hands off you until you were at Hogwarts!"
Malikshrugged. "What difference does it make? There are more people at Hogwarts anywayto find out."
Ryou glanced at the twins who were looking confused.
"What shall we tell them?" Ryou asked Yugi. Fred heard this and stared at Ryou.
"Everything."
George nodded emphasising the point. Ryou nodded and gestured for them to sit on the bed. A golden glow flashed from the ring and the puzzle and then there were two Ryou's and two Yugi's. The twins gaped.
Yugi stepped forward.
"This is very hard to explain." He held up the weird pyramid shaped necklace he always wore.
"This is the millenium puzzle."
The twins gasped. "We heard about them in ancient runes." George exclaimed.
"Their supposed to have spirits trapped inside."
"Evil spirits." Fred added looking furtively at Bakurawho smirked nastily.
Yugi shook his head.
"In the millenium puzzle there was the spirit of the nameless pharoah. He saved Egypt from the King of the shadow realm but to do that he had to seal his soul away into the millenium puzzle, wiping his memory leaving no trace."
Malik glared at Yugi until his look alike wrapped his arms around Malik and nuzzled his head into the tanned boys neck.
"I'm the re-incarnation of this Pharoah and was destined to have the puzzle and release the spirit. This." He pointed to his look alike who inclined his head regally." Is Pharoah Atem."
George frowned. "If you're a spirit then how come you're corpreal?"
Atem stepped forward taking over from Yugi. He was slightly taller and had more tanned skin than the Japanese boy with red eyes instead of purple.
"When i saved the world from destruction in this time period i was given a choice. Go to paradise with my father or stay with Yugi. I chose my aibou."
"Your what now?"
"Aibou. It means partner in Japanese."
"Oh. Okay."
"So your a spirit." George turned to Bakura who was leaning against the wall. "Are you one too?"
Bakura nodded. ""I'm the spirit of the millenium ring, Akefia Bakura, King of thieves and expert tomb robber mortals, fear me or perish."
Fred blinked and George raised an eyebrow but their faces dropped when Bakura gave them his death glare.
Fred then pointed at Marik. "Is he another spirit?"
Malik looked uncomfortable. "Notreally."
Ryousighed. "Marik is not an ancient spirit but he is a spirit of sorts."
Malik sighed and held Mariks hand tightly. "He is a spirit of my hatred and pain when i was a child."
Fred and George looked at Malik. " What was your problem when you were a kid?"
Malik closed his eyes. "I'll tell you some other time. But what is most important is that we will tell you both everything if you don't say anything. Agreed?"
The twins looked at each other then grinned sticking their hands out. "Deal. But you tell us everything."
The three yamis grasped their hands and shook.
"I'll start." Bakura stepped forward.
"I was born three thousand years ago in a village called El Kulna. It was full of thieves but we were a community, everyone knew everyone. One night when i was thirteen i heard shouts and my mother screaming for me to run into the undergrowth. I did but i creeped back to see if i could help. What i saw was horrifying. All of my village was being lined up and dropped into a boiling cauldron. This was being done by the pharoah's soldiers ot make the sennen items or millenium items. But even after the tiems were made my village had no peace. They came back as vengeful spirits that tormented me to give them peace. I wanted revenge for what the pharoah had done. I became a king of thieves stealing from the pharoah and robbing his tombs. I collected one by one the millenium items. But i found out that the pharoah never carried out that order, it was his Uncle. You know what happened next and i got sealed inside the millenium ring and was awakened by Ryou."
"O.k. Your past is very depressing and no wonder you're a homocidal maniac." George said blankly. Bakurashrugged. "I try."
"So we know his-Bakura's- story and through that umm, Atem's. But what about yours?" Fred said pointing at Yugi and Ryou. They both blushed simaulteaniously then Yugi stepped forward.
"Well my parents died in a car crash when i was little and i've lived with my Grandpa over a duel mosters shop which he owns. He's an archeologist and that's how i got the millenium puzzle. Then i've been on dueling tornaments and adventures."
Ryou spoke up then." My mother and sister died when i was younger and my dad was an Egyptologist and wasn't there most of the time though he sometimes sent me objects from the digs and that's how i got the millenium ring."
Fred grasped both their shoulders.
"Are you all orphans?" They nodded.
"Technically i never had parents but yeah."
Everyone glared at Marik for ruining the moments and Malik smacked his ear.
"Now that's everyone except you Malik, so tell away."
And the twins sat back onto the bed.
"Okay."
"My family was ordered to guard the millenium items- the rod and necklace- and to preserve the pharoahs memory. We lived deep underground and i had never been up to the surface all my life. My mother had died in childbirth with me. My sister Ishizu had to lay her to rest. I was cared for by my adopted brother Rishid, he was supposed to be a servant but he was always my brother. All i did was train for attackers and learn ancient scrolls. But my twisted childhood." He lookedat the twins," Came on my tenth birthday when i was to go through the initiation. I had to have the pharoah's memories carved with a heated blade onto my back."
"Dude, you mean carved like.." George made a stabbing motion and Malik nodded turning Fred's face a minty green colour.
"After my initiation to prove his loyalty Rishid carved a declaration of faith to me onto his face. When i was Fourteen i desperately wanted to see the outside world but our law forbade it. I persuaded my sister to go out for one hour and while i was there i caught my first glimpse of t.v. and a picture of a motorbike. I never saw one and i instantly wanted one." Malik smiled fondly remembering.
"But then my hour up top was over. But as we went down i noticed there was something attached to the trap door. It was an alarm. Our brother was in danger for covering for us. When we got to the holding room our father was whipping Rishid. I was so angry, there was a pounding in my head and i blacked out after Rishid collapsed. I woke to find my father stabbed and Rishid clutching me. Shadi, keeper of the millenium key saying it was the pharoah's will."
The twins looked suspiciously at Atem. "Why do people keep thinking you're doing evil stuff?"
Atenshrugged. "I don't really know now listen this is hard for Malik to tell, he's very suspicious of people and this is a great trust he's putting in you."
The twins looked at Malik.
"You have our faith!"
Malik smiled before continuing.
"I was consumed by revenge and plotted with Rishid, using the millenium rod to kill the pharoah for destroying my family. But my evil side tricked me and took over my body sending one of Yugi's friends to the shadow realm and hurting lot's of people. But Yugi banished my dark half to the shadow realm and i was free."
"Then how come Mr. phsyco is here?!"
"He's apart of me. He's my other half. Yugi and Ryoucould theoretically live without their Yami's as they did before but he's phycickly conected to me, to my soul. When he was sent to the shadow realm i was lost and incomplete but he came back. We have mental connection and he harnessed shadow magic to follow that. Along the way he gained some more magical knowledge."
"How come he's not taking over the world now."
Marik pouted. "I'm not allowed."
Malik stroked his cheek. "You look too cute like that."
George sniggered but found that Marik's glare was more deadly and terrifying than Bakura's.
Malik sighed, leaning back into his yamis chest. "When he came out he was protecting me from being whipped by my father. But he was made of darkness and it tainted his mind, warping it. After he was sent to the shadow realm the shadows cleared his mind. He's still insane but i can.. not control him but persuade him from taking over the world. Apart from that i go along with it." He had a dreamy look on his face. "I love chaos, especially tortuing the minds of innocent bystanders. Pranking is my speciality."
Fred and george nodded seriously at that.
"Boys! Bedtime, you have to catch the train early tomorrow!"
Mrs. weasleys voice startled them, causing George to fall off the bed. Malik and Bakura sniggered while Ryou helped him up. The twins went to the door but were stopped by Atem and Marik.
"We're not threatening you as we think we can trust you guys but we will do anything to protect our Hikaris."
The twins nodded. "You trusted us and we'll help you. But.."
"Just as a bonus, doesn't affect anything." Fred interjected quickly at their suspicious faces.
"Could Malik help us with our Joke shop? We're in good business but his help and pranking genius would be awesome."
"Whatever you need. Marik will help as well."
The twins nodded smiling ten miles wide and then went to their shared room. Yugi looked to Atem.
"We can trust them, right?" He asked Atem naively. Atem smiled reassuringly. "Of course, their minds are good and they will keep our secret."
"If not we'll just kill them." Marik said shrugging nonchalontly. Malik sighed and sat down on the bed snuggling into his Yami to sleep.
"Malik." Atem called.
"Whaaat?" Malik whined, clutching a drowsy Marik.
"We can't have anyone else finding out about our others."
Malik pouted but Marik disappeared non the light went out and they all slipped into sleep.....