Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, YuGiOh or the concept of the wildfolk (although I made a lot about them up)
Spoilers: PS/SS, CoS, PoA, GoF and OotP. (Written before book 6).
The cards I use are from my little brothers pack of YuGiOh cards. In this story, Yuugi is 16, the same age as Harry. I'm not very good with the name of story arcs and stuff, but it's after Yami Marik has been banished to the shadow realm. Bakura is...sort of a good guy, but he's still him.
/blah/ Yami to Yuugi
/blah/ Yuugi to Yami
:blah: Bakura to Ryou
:blah: Ryou to Bakura
For some reason, it wont let me use punctuation with mind links, so just imagine exclamation and question marks when necessary.
On with the story!
Chapter 3 – The New Student
8 weeks later (ish).
/Aibou, wake up, you're going to be late for school/
/Five more minutes/
/Aibou a huge birds just stolen your deck/
/WHAT/Yuugi jumped up and started panicking. Then… /YAMI! That was an awful way to wake me up/
/What are you talking about? It's the truth, look/ Indeed, a huge snowy owl had just flown out the window with it.
"Nooo! Come back with that deck!" Yuugi yelled. The owl ignored him and flew into the open window of the new next door neighbours.
"I'll never get it back now." he despaired.
/Don't give up hope Yuugi, it flew into that house, maybe it's a pet. /
/Either that or it's a deck stealer and wants theirs too/
/Don't be ridiculous aibou, if you hurry, you'll have time to ring the bell before school. /
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Ten minutes later, Yuugi was waiting impatiently for someone to answer. A young woman, with black hair and bright green eyes opened the door.
"Can I help you?"
"Um, this is going to sound odd, but a huge white owl stole my deck. Does it belong to you 'cause it flew to this house."
"Not again. Harry!" she called "Has Hedwig brought anything back again?"
"Hold on a second! I'll just check!" came a voice back.
"Why don't you come in dear, I'm sorry for the trouble, Hedwig doesn't seem to able to find any mice here, so she looks for different things to bring back to make Harry proud of her. Oh, I'm being impolite. I'm Polina Evans, but you can call me Pol."
Pleased to meet you, Pol-san (A.N. is this the right word? I don't know much Japanese). My name is Mouto Yuugi."
A thudding was heard as someone came down the stairs.
"I've got it. Sorry about that." The boy apologised.
It's okay, as long as I've got it back. Um, I'm sorry for being rude but you look too old to be Pol's son."
"It's alright, Harry is my nephew. Speaking of, it's his first day at Domino High today, I don't suppose you'd mind showing him they way? If you go there that is."
"No that's fine, I really should be going now anyway. Are you ready?"
"Yep, just need to put my coat on…ok lets go."
As they were walking to school, Harry asked "So what were those cards anyway? They're like nothing I've ever seen before."
"You've never seen Duel Monsters cards before?"
"Duel Monsters?"
"You've never even heard of it?" gasped Yuugi.
I've just moved from a pretty remote village in Scotland. Things take a long time to reach there."
"Oh. Why did you move then, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Pol's able to look after me now, and she had a job in Domino lined up. Something to do with a museum."
"That sounds interesting. Ok we're here, you'll have to go to the principals office. Will you be able to find it? I'm going to be late."
"Not a problem. I'll see you in class maybe."
"Yeah, bye."
After reaching class and greeting his friends, he sat down and began unpacking his bag.
/Yami are you all right? You've been awfully quiet. /
/I'm fine aibou. I sensed…something familiar in the presence of the boy. I'm trying to think what it might be. /
/Well it's not a millennium item, unless Shaadi's given the scales away. /
"All right class, settle down please" the teacher began, "we have two new students starting today, I want you to welcome them, and help them out if they get lost. Okay you two, why don't you introduce yourselves."
The first boy stepped out from the shadows. He had long blonde hair, lavender eyes and a confident expression.
/Malik/
/What is the Petty Thief doing here/
"I'm Malik Ishtar and I'm staying in Domino for a year as my sister is running the Egyptian exhibition at Domino Museum."
"Okay, why don't you sit there next to Sakura."
The other boy stepped forward then. Gone was his self-assured attitude, he looked a little shy.
/Somehow, I get the feeling that he's only pretending. /
"Hi, I'm Harry Potter, I'm here because of the museum as well, my aunt is running the exhibition on the ancient Aztecs."
/Notice he didn't say anything about his past/
/Neither did Malik. /
/Exactly. You know why he didn't. /
"I'd heard they were just opening a new exhibition on that. Why don't you sit beside Ryou."
Ryou started a little bit at his name, he was so used to sitting on his own he'd forgotten that the new teacher didn't know about the 'curse' (anyone who upset Bakura got their soul stuck inside a doll or something). He only hoped that the new kid was polite.
"Hi." Harry sat down.
"Hi, I hope you don't mind but your accent…"
"I'm from Britain. I'm just thankful I'm decent at languages, I've only had 8 weeks to learn Japanese."
"Alright class, lets begin!" the teacher interrupted.
There's something…odd about this boy Bakura thought. Maybe if I use my ring and focus on him, I'll find out what. As he was doing that, he noticed Harry rubbing that strange scar of his.
:Ryou, ask him why he's doing that:
"Hey, are you alright?" he whispered, "You keep rubbing your head."
"Hmm? Oh I'm fine, it's just my scar keeps tingling. It's weird though, it hasn't done that for ages."
Hearing that, Bakura focused on the scar and felt a sudden surge of power, similar yet different to that of the millennium items.
:Ryou I want you to befriend him. There's power here, the like of which I've never felt before:
:O-okay Bakura-sama:
After school, Ryou was just about to ask Harry if he wanted to hang out, when they were interrupted by Yuugi, his friends and Malik.
"Hi Ryou, Harry."
"Hi."
"Harry, this is Jou, Anzu and Honda. Harry's my next door neighbour."
"Cool."
"So Harry, I was wondering. Since you don't know anything about Duel Monsters, do you want to come round? My grandpa owns a game shop. You could watch a couple of us duel, or build your own deck."
"That sounds good, I'd need to check with Pol first though."
"Well there go my plans for the afternoon. I was going to offer to show Harry round Domino" Ryou sighed.
"Why don't you all come round in an hour or so? You can all help me explain then."
"Great idea Yuge. Seeya then." Jou ran off.
"Yeah bye."
Everybody split up and went on their way.
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"Pol!" Harry called, "Can I go round to Yuugi's?"
"Sure, as long as you're back by 8 so you can go to school."
After Harry finished changing he asked "What can you tell me about Duel monsters?"
"It's a card game based on the shadow duels of ancient Egypt. Various types of cards, mainly monsters, magic and traps. Why?"
Yuugi said something about me making a deck. I was wondering if there was a deck specially out there for me."
When you're asked to choose, slip into invisible meditation. You should feel a strange sensation, a feeling of belonging almost. Some call this the heart of the cards. It will help you find the cards that are destined to be yours."
"Cool, thanks, bye."
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At the shop, Harry explained that Pol had told him a little about the game, and that he was going to build a deck.
"Great! Okay, first of all you need one of these starter packs. There's various types. Which one do you want?"
Harry meanwhile had slipped into a light trance. He felt one starter pack calling to him, so he got that one.
"Okay, that's a spellcaster/effects pack. That's pretty similar to what I started out with. The booster packs are over here."
Harry picked up every pack that he felt calling to him.
"Whoa that's a lot of packs! What was that about anyway? You took packs from all over rather than just the nearest ones."
"I took the packs that called to me, that's what Pol suggested I do. Why?"
"Just wondering." /Yami, was he using the heart of the cards already? I thought you had to bond with your cards for that to happen. /
/It is not necessary when the cards are destined for you. Don't forget you were able to call upon the cards the first time you used your grandfathers' deck. /
"Okay then, why don't you open the packs and see what cards you've got Harry?" asked Ryou.
"That…is the oddest deck I've ever seen" Yuugi announced 10 minutes later. "Spellcasters, effects, water and occult type monsters? I don't think anyone's ever had that combination before."
Indeed, with cards such as Succubus Knight (1650/1300), Reflection of the Underworld (1100/1400), Lady of the Faith (1100/800), Spike Seadra (1600/1300), Dead King of the Abyss (1200/800), Armoured Starfish (850/1400), Retrained Celtic Guardian (1400/1200) and Nemuriko (800/700) it was an odd deck, yet already the yamis could see that it was strong and would mesh together well.
"I can explain some of the special uses of the occult cards to you if you like, then you can watch a couple of us duel." Ryou offered.
"I'd like that thanks."
At 7:30, Harry made his excuses then left. Five minutes later saw him meditating in the middle of a strange design. He opened his eyes.
"Hi guys, ready for your first day of school?"
TBC