Ryou yawned and stretched as he walked in to his room. It had been pretty uneventful year so far, but there still was half of it left. During the last months in school he had started to learn the basic traits of the four houses and how to get them to do their homework without much fuss.

He had also gotten and sent letters to Yugi and the gang in Japan and Anzu who was in America in her dancing school. All of them wanted to know more of the boarding school job he had told them he had gotten. But only Yugi knew the details of it.

It was against the rules of the magical community to tell about it to muggles, but technically Yugi wasn't a muggle more like a squib. Ryou still didn't understand how he had managed to re acquire the millenium ring after it had fallen in to that seemingly bottomless pit. It had just appeared on his desk one day.

Although Yugi hadn't been as lucky with the puzzle. It was still lost underneath the Egyptian sands.

Ryou yawned again as he looked at the clock, only 7 pm. And he still had a huge pile of quizzes to grade on top of being dead tired, the woe's of being a teacher. He sighed and asked the house elves to send some coffee up on his desk as he sat to grade the papers.

Sighing he first picked up the Gryffindor papers dipping his quill in to his inkwell and starting to mark the wrong answers. /"You know that staying up so late won't be healthy, right?"/ Ryou nearly spilt the ink all over the paper he was grading when the spirit spoke to him inside his head.

"Sheesh.. Don't do that ever again. I nearly had a heart attack". The spirit appeared in his corporeal form in front of his desk and smirked playfully at him. /"You should know better than to just think that I'm not going to take advantage of a possible situation to scare you."/ It was an apology.

"Well, you should know better than to scare me like that. I know you don't like it when I give you the silent treatment". He was forgiven. The spirit just laughed at him. /"Why don't you go to bed Yadounshi, I'll wake you up early enough to finish those"/ He pointed at the papers.

Ryou sighed and shook his head as he took the coffee mug that had appeared on his table. "I'll be just fine, and stop worrying about me. It's not like you". Before he could take a sip of the coffee however, the spirit put a not so corporeal hand on top of the mug and gently made him lower it back on the table.

/"I mean it"/. The two people sharing the same body locked eyes. Both trying to stare the other down, trying to duel the other to submission. And neither was having any of it.

"Please just let me finish these". The spirit shook it's head and kept the soft glare locked in the other's eyes. /"You're begging.. it means you're tired. Just go to sleep already, you haven't slept well these past weeks"/.

The spirit was right and Ryou knew it. He hadn't been able to sleep well during the past week. There was something dark on the horizon, he kept seeing flashes of it in his private tarot readings, and the tea leaves. It troubled him even more when he knew that no one else was paying any mind to the warnings.

Ryou heard a chuckle from next to him and he opened his eyes. when had he closed them? The spirit was next to him now and was yet again wearing that weird expression of worry and mirth on his face. /"Just let go and go to sleep Ryou"/.

Those soft word were so surprising that Ryou didn't even really think about complaining and let the spirit take over his body as he fell asleep.

He couldn't have slept very long before he was shaken awake again, Ryou quickly snapped his eyes open and quickly looked over the scared faces next to his bed. Wait, Bed? The spirit must have walked him over. Luckily he hadn't bothered to chance in to pajama's.

Ryou got up from the bed and asked the scared kids what was wrong, the answer however wasn't what he had wanted to hear at all. "Deatheaters are attacking the castle!"

Ryo quickly ran over to his trunk and quickly grabbed a belt with his deck on it and another belt, but this one was filled with different daggers. He heard the kids gasp from behind him as he threw the belt at thin air "Wake up, there's trouble!"

And to further shock the kids the belt was couth in mid air by someone that quickly became fully visible to them. The person looked very much like their teacher but had much tanner skin and shorter hair, not to mention the scars on his face.

The spirit smirked in his old body and the kids tried to move further away from the crazy looking twin of their teacher. /"I am awake Yadounshi, let's go"/. The spirit tossed the belt over his shoulder and pulled an extra dagger out from under the bed's mattress before he ran out of the door cackling madly.

Ryou turned to look at the kids before rushing after the tomb robber and looked thoughtful before snatching a card from his deck "the Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams!" The shadows around the room squirmed to life and rushed towards Ryou's bed before hiding beneath the covers.

"You all get on the bed and don't come off it before the danger is gone. I made a spell that will keep you all safe if anyone will get in". He didn't stay to check if they did as he told before running off to find his counter part in the mazes of Hogwarts' corridors.