Wow...sorry I dropped off the face of the Earth. I've been thinking about a lot of stuff I want to put in my new fics. Also, I'm sorry about the shield, but I just like having characters with a power that freaks people out okay? Also, I've been reviewing myself and...plot holes. Oh well, it's my first fic. Here's the chapter!
Disclaimer: I only own parts of the plot, and the Diomes family. Also, you need new ninjas.
Chapter 10: Shadow+Hogwarts=Chaos
"No."
"OH COME ON!" The brothers shouted. SOMEONE had to teach them not to engulf the entire planet in shadow!
"What is going on up here?" Harry asked as he entered the room.
"Bloody hell! What ARE those?" Ron was staring at pile of rubble.
"Crap! We've been spotted!" Malik...totally not suspicious.
Jack applied diplomacy. "GET OUT!" Did I mention diplomacy now involves throwing large rocks?
Luckily, the wizards ducked in time to avoid instant-death. They ran.
"I TOLD you they were a bunch of psychos!" Ron had even more proof the duelists were really insane. He wasn't far off...but hey, wizards don't even KNOW shadow exists.
"..." Harry honestly had trouble NOT believing Ron at this point. He knew the duelists liked him, so they weren't evil (Half evil and evil are two totally different things), but insanity WOULD explain a lot.
Back with the alleged psychos.
"You realize your being incredibly irresponsible not teaching us right?" Ah Jack, you and your logic.
Bakura proceeded to laugh manically, which I'm sure the people in the common room could hear. "Responsibility? You want ME to be responsible? No way, wait for the stupid pharaoh to get back."
"But Yugi won't come back until after Jack's left!" Leo protested.
"I honestly don't see why you're worried. There clearly isn't a spirit trapped in this, and if the gods REALLY want you to make of a fool of yourselves, they wouldn't let you die five minutes in." I love how Bakura dismisses shadow magic and the gods with...magical logic?
"I could teach you." Malik offered.
"Will this involve saw-blades, bombs, or drowning attempts?" Oddly enough, Leo was fine with trusting his sanity and soul to BAKURA, but not Malik.
"Only if you want." There he goes again, setting a horrible example for an eleven-year old.
"...are you sure Bakura?" Jack turned to...nothing. "Ra damn it, I didn't even hear the door."
Down with the wizards.
"They must be the craziest people to ever step foot in Hogwarts!" Ron was saying as a stealthy flash of white passed by him. "Was that Ryou?"
"If what you say is true, you're so dead." Harry couldn't help but smile at the look on Ron's face at that.
Back upstairs.
"Fine, you'll teach us. So, how do you summon?" Leo was eager to say the least.
"Whoa! It takes MONTHS of practice to use the right amount of magic to summon!" Malik said, and the brothers visibly deflated.
"Odd, all of YOU were doing magic your first day of item ownership." Jack pointed out.
"WE didn't know, but the things possessing us did. Plus, my sister trained." That makes...an odd amount of sense.
"This would be Isis, who CHEATED in every duel she participated in, and lost when cheating didn't work?" Jack disliked Isis, and had fair reason to.
"Hey! Well...yes." He would have defended her if it wasn't true.
"Alright. Now we all know there's one, so just tell us already." Leo spoke up.
"One...what?" Malik was confused.
"Shortcut, duh." The brothers said in unison.
Malik stuttered a little before yelling (Yet another thing the people downstairs would likely hear) "Stop acting like you know everything about a lost, sacred art!"
To his surprise, he got a rather bored look from Jack, and a small glare from Leo. "But there totally is, isn't there?" Leo was REALLY hoping there was a quick and very likely painful way to get powers.
"Ye-You don't get the shortcut!" Malik was extremely frustrated that they were correctly guessing so much about the ultimate 'hidden' magic.
"To be fair, I've watched a lot of anime, and shadow magic seems to follow the format." Leo said matter-of-factly.
Malik desperately wanted to stab them at this point, if only to get them off his cause. "Gods, what did I do to deserve this? Oh wait, I nearly killed the pharaoh. Never mind."
"And since you are reaching towards your knife, I feel the need to remind that we both can beat you one-on-one. Oh, and we have knives too." With that, Leo drew out his wicked hunting knife (He's never killed an animal, hunting knives are just good knives.), while Jack was twirling a smaller, but much sharper-looking dagger in his left hand.
Malik was slightly surprised to see the older brother with a weapon. "Why do you carry that around?"
"One thing Seto doesn't tell people is that the competition tries very hard to get rid of the heirs, hoping someone NOT trained since birth would mess up when they take over." And Jack left it at that.
Meanwhile, a small army was in the common room, listening to several yells all indicating that three people as evil as You-Know-Who were about to do something involving an evil ritual. (They really should sound-proof those rooms.)
"-and then he nearly took my head off with a rock!" Ron was explaining to about a dozen Gryffindors.
"Shh! Ron, things have gotten quiet!" Hermione (Who everyone convinced not to run off and get a teacher) was casting an amplifier spell in an attempt to hear what was happening.
"..." Nothing from upstairs.
"Now, we get Dumbledore!" Harry yelled, afraid of what his 'friends' had done to themselves.
Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape (Because potions are the most important thing when curing anything OTHER than psychical injuries) rushed into the room, followed by as many Gryffindors as the stairs would allow. "What has happened here!" McGonagall demanded when seeing Malik standing over the unconscious Diomes brothers.
"First of all, I think you need a better catchphrase. Second, I may have taught them how to send themselves into a possibly permanent hell, but that was because they were threatening my life." Obviously, this made it hard to determine who was evil.
"Ah..." Dumbledore thought back to when he was talking with Malik's elder siblings, who both recommended knocking their little brother out cold if things ever got...unexplainable.
"What?" McGongall was stuck on the words 'hell' and 'threatening'.
Snape didn't speak but silently had to convince himself that him working at Hogwarts was still worth it, no matter WHAT the students do.
"I'm not repeating myself. There are minors here!" Malik, pretending to care about the psyche of others.
Now, Dumbledore knew Malik wasn't a kid, but he still had no idea what was happening. "Well then, the students will just have to leave."
Some students ran like their lives depended on it, while others (Namely the HP major characters, like the twins.) groaned at a kid treating them like kids. "Cloak?" Ron asked.
"Cloak." Harry confirmed. Hermione looked like she was going to say something, but her curiosity got the better of her...again.
Malik, though he was giving off the aura of someone who knew what he was doing, was REALLY hoping he had the rod to do some damage control. After all, the politician could've fixed this but was currently occupied being tormented. "Right, now leave."
Snape was failing to convince himself his job was worth it anymore. Dumbledore expected this. McGonagall was tired of her authority being questioned EVERY time Malik, Bakura, or Leo were involved. "And why do you think we would?" Snape was looking for ANYTHING that might lead to him being able to hex Malik.
When in doubt, confuse the hell out of people (It always buys enough time to escape...not that I would know). "Since you walked in on a ceremony, which they used to execute people for, you are technically involved. Seeing as though you know nothing while I know all about it, I out-rank you for however long it takes for them to wake up."
Dumbledore was amused by the idea of following orders giving by a teenager disguised as a child. "Didn't you say this might be permanent?" Once again, a look of outrage from the only person who cares. (Don't you just love how McGonagall is one of the only positive role models kids are exposed to for three-fourths of seven years?)
"Yes...so for now, I'm untouchable. As are the two almost-corpses." He said motioning to the brothers.
McGonagall was beginning to wonder about the merits of her job now too. Dumbledore however, seemed ready to chuckle.
Malik turned serious for about 3 seconds. "You DO know they're fighting impossible odds for their immortal soul right?"
And so we rewind to our not-so-heroes' decision to bet their immortal souls on something related to a children's' card game.
"There will be blood." Leo cracked a smile at the line, put his point was made.
"Maybe this will stop you gutting me: You'd have to fight my dark side." Malik was determined to NOT sick his once-yami on anyone.
This may have actually stopped them...if this wasn't a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain unspeakable powers they would very likely abuse at some point ('Cause abusing MONEY is so overrated). "Do we get the powers DURING said fight?" Jack knew master-martial arts and a knife weren't going to do much against the craziest person he had ever even heard of, but magical powers...semi-equal footing.
Malik was slowly getting tempted to agree to let them to it. "Yes, you get the powers during, and your soul isn't in danger of being destroyed by a failed summon."
"Am I to assume the psychotic Yami instead is the threat to our souls?" Leo asked. He didn't need an answer.
"No offense, but without Ra, my dragons could very easily eat him." Jack boasted. He however, immediately noticed the look of guilt on Malik's face. "Oh gods no."
"Sadly, the ritual uses the teacher's dark side at its strongest for the fight. That means rod, and god." Malik ruined the dramatic effect by rhyming.
"I don't have a card for that." Leo was looking through his deck, even though he had memorized every card.
"Now Leo, remember, this is all a cliché! Chances are that we'll discover some unknown power and dominate after being beaten to a bloody pulp." (Damn it Jack!)
Malik just couldn't take it anymore. "FINE! Go to hell! Say hi to Marik for me while he's killing YOU!"
"Just tell us what to do." Leo said.
"Die." Was Malik's response.
"Thank the gods we didn't get in a huge fight, get 'killed' and come back stronger. I'd say the ancient Egyptians had no creativity, but they more than likely STARTED that." Jack was trying to imagine how the trend went to the other side of the world when the shadow magic was sealed away in the first place during the birth of anime.
"No, a shadow user has to kill you."
"So, we could've just let you stab us?" Leo asked.
Leo reward for his insight was a knife to the heart.
Jack would have protested, but a second knife was currently impeded in his brain.
(The knives were taken out after the brothers fell, and there weren't any actual injuries, but I still feel weird killing them off.)
Jack and Leo awoke surrounded by the black and purple of the shadow realm.
"He could have at least had the decency to tell us when he was attacking, I might have counter-attacked on ins-" *Jack would've finished his sentence, but Revival Jam just slammed into him.*
"Holy!" Was all Leo could shout before having to dodge Gil Garth's sword.
"Wait, these are level four monsters...that must mean the rules still apply even though this isn't a duel! We have to stop him from summoning a third!" Jack thought as he pulled a card from his deck. "I summon Dragon Lancer! (Dragon with a lance. 1600 atk, your opponent can't activate quick-play spells during your turn.) Attack his stupid slime!"
The shadows faded a small amount after that, but Jack didn't notice.
"Have to stop Ra, have to stop Ra, STOP RA!" Leo pulled a card from his deck. "I summon the Bloodthirsty Beast! (A very crazy-looking lion. 1600 atk, gains a level and 300 atk when it destroys a monster) and equip it with Killing Aura! (all of your opponent's face up monster lose 300 atk.) Attack Gil Garth!"
They actually thought they were doing pretty well. That is, until their monsters disappeared, replaced with Lava Golem with Leo in the cage and a shadow thread leading to Jack (Shared ownership). Then Viser Des attached itself to the golem.
Jack had about a second to think before he was subjected to horrible torture. This is what thought for that second: "RA DAMN YOU PEGASUS!"
The human body has many self-defense strategies, and the mind will often shut down when it overloads on pain. At this moment, Jack was flash-backing to his last day on Pegasus's island.
"Well, thanks a lot, but it's a little weird you watch as much anime as Leo." Jack said, looking up at the creator of Duel Monsters.
"Life is meant to be entertaining, there's no reason to be a stick in the mud like a certain someone." Pegasus replied with his little sing-song tune.
"You DO realize you may have gone insane, right?"
"But Jackie-"
"We agreed you wouldn't call me that if I won the duel." (No, Pegasus did NOT use the eye in any way during that duel. Jack's good, but he isn't main character good yet.)
"Fine, anyway, insanity can be fun!"
"I'm once again questioning why I was allowed to visit you without bodyguards."
"Oh pooh, you still have a more than a decade until your father retires, act your age!"
"I AM acting my age, which is why I want to know why you gave me these cards." Jack said as he pulled out what would be his deck from then on.
Pegasus shrugged. "I don't know, it just seemed fun at the time."
"People don't give away 'one of a kind' cards because it seems fun."
"How do you know? I'm an adult and you're a child."
"Though those rolls could easily be switched."
"Just take the cards already! Besides, I had to give them to SOMEONE, and you can spread Duel Monsters to a whole different country!"
"So could Leo, especially after you gave HIM one of a kind cards too. I'm beginning to think you make one of a kind cards in your spare time or something."
"Will you take the cards if I tell you the catch?"
"Sounds like a deal."
Pegasus got the mischievous look usually reserved for six year olds. "I took out one of the most important cards from each deck."
"So? How much?"
"Stop trying to cheat! You get these cards when you actually need them."
"Fine, when I want to challenge Seto, I'll be back for the missing card." (Kaiba was still #1 back then)
"Bye, bye!"
"There goes the single most confusing man I have ever met."
Then, the pain stopped, and Jack woke.
"Why would he-CRAP!" Yes, Marik had sacrificed Viser Des for Ra.
Seeing Leo was still in the cage, and was looking severely weakened, Jack automatically searched until he found the right card. "I activate Knighting the Monster!" (Let's you trade out a monster on the field for one in your hand that's a level high or below)
Since they both controlled Lava Golem, Leo was saved from a 30 foot drop by The Divine Hunter. Jack, however, had brought out HIS favorite monster. It was a magnificent golden dragon, more humanoid than Blue-eyes or Red-eyes, wearing pure scarlet armor. Its tail loyally extending to let Jack on. It was the Royal Tempest Dragon. (3300, when this monster is tribute summoned successfully, destroy up to two spell/trap cards on the field.)
Marik found the two giant monsters entertaining. "WHAHAHA! You think those pathetic creatures can beat the GODS!"
Leo, still slightly crispy, was not amused. "SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY! I activate Hunting Partner, letting me bring out Divine Protector!"
Jack realized that Leo had not only been awake for his torture, but had to listen to Marik's laughter for the entire time. That would tick off ANYBODY! "I summon Dragon's Crown, and I equip it to Tempest, boosting his attack to 3800 and increasing his level by 2!"
Sadly Marik was NOT impressed by a giant lion, a giant snake, and the true king of dragons. "Destroy them!"
"Someone remind me WHY Pegasus couldn't just rip up a few pieces of cardboard? Would've made this MUCH easier." Jack was once again cursing Pegasus with all his might.
"The plot device should happen any time now. Just have to avoid a fiery death." Leo was glad his monsters were extremely agile.
"Tut, tut. Jackie, little Leo, I distinctly remember warning you to avoid fighting a god card." Understandably, the brothers were NOT happy to hear from Pegasus.
"Wonderful. Pegasus is in my head. Is the fiery death still an option?" Leo wondered.
"I'm just a figment of your imagination, you know." Pegasus explained.
"Huh, Ron was right. We really ARE messed up then." Jack thought.
"I blame that nasty Bakura fellow. You two were MUCH nicer last time." Pegasus pouted.
"A lot of people would have worse ways to describe someone that nearly killed them." Leo wondered when the last time he had even SAID 'nasty' was.
"I AM going to save your lives. So here, take these. Also, ussssse the fooooorce. Oh, I always wanted a chance to say that!"
"Pegasus?"
"Yes Jackie?"
"GET THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF MY HEAD!
Jack and Leo snapped out of their chat with not-Pegasus, and their monsters were visibly relieved, as the boys hadn't moved in the last minute of dodging Ra's attacks. Each of them was holding a card they had never seen before.
"Forgotten Sage of Nature?" Leo wondered as he looked at the illustration of a wise-looking giant raven. "I think I just found the last piece to the REAL master of the wild."
"Keeper of the Royal Power? What the bloody hell is a tuner?" Jack shouted to no one in particular. The idea of the small, angelic dragon having any real power was unbelievable as it was, but its only effect was that its level changed from 8 to 1 whenever Tempest was on the field! "Tuning...and if he has the 'royal power' then I guess he powers Tempest up in SOME way. Might as well try."
Both began searching through their decks for the cards they needed.
"Yes! I activate Aerial Reinforcements! I special summon the Forgotten Sage of Nature!" Leo was just one step away...
"I activate Draconic Bodyguard, letting me bring out Keeper of the Royal Power!" Jack was also ready for his deck's ultimate card.
"I activate Forgotten Polymerization!"
"I tune my Royal Tempest Dragon!"
In a bright flash of light, which I'm SURE the brothers also thought was 'stereotypical', emerged two creatures so awesome looking, I can only attempt to describe them.
Jack's monster was similar to Tempest (Seeing as though this is Tempest's 'ultimate' form), but instead of armor, ancient runes covered it's body, blood red against shining gold. (I'd like to remind people I thought of this deck WAY before I decided on using the millennium shield for anything.) Also, a great crown seemed fused to its head, and it was overall equal to Ra in height.
Leo's also had a vaguely humanoid shape. Its limbs and body were coated with silver scales, but its hands and feet were covered in silver fur with powerful claws. It also had the head of a lion, but that was, you guessed it, completely silver. It wore armor of deep green, a symbol of wildlife. And it's wings were pure black, a powerful contrast to the silver that is most of the beast.
(If anyone's wondering at this point, no, I honestly came up with these designs before having any plans to include HP.)
"You fools! What have you done?" Marik demanded.
"Well, according to this card, I just summoned the Draconic God of War." Jack replied.
"And I brought of The Wild God of War." Leo responded.
"Impossible! There are only THREE god cards!"
"Correction. There are only three EGYPTIAN god cards." Jack was looking forward to killing Marik.
"These are the gods of a land long forgotten. The god of civilization is Jacks. And the god of nature is mine!" Leo and Jack knew about the lore of the forgotten continent, but they had no idea a way to summon the lost gods was in the decks.
"NO! THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE! I CONTROL THE STRONGEST CARD EVER MADE!" Marik was having the usual villain breakdown at this.
"True, but the point is, it's TWO on ONE!" With that, both gods FIRED THA LASERS!
A/N: Man that was a pain to type. I made fun of my own lack of creativity because...there honestly wasn't any other way for them to get their powers otherwise. Nobody wants to read a fic that involves years of training. Also, I really wanted Pegasus to have a chance to annoy somebody. The sad part is Jack has to leave soon, and well...that sucks. Also, the ONLY reason it was possible for them to even summon their level 9 monsters was because they were IN the shadow realm. Don't expect the god cards to make an appearance for years. *Insert witty way to end A.N.*