Well, here is the long awaited 11th chapter. Enjoy
Yugi sat on the windowsill of his room. He gazed out the window thinking. The only light from the grounds was from a small hut that was barely visible through the dense fog that had settled in.
"Something on your mind Yugi?" Yugi turned around and saw Ryou peaking his head through the large wooden door. "I'm sorry for intruding, you've just been up here a while and I got worried." Ryou's lightly English accented voice cut through the silence of the room.
"Don't worry about it Ryou. I was just thinking, actually, I've been meaning to you… and Bakura."Yugi stretched his arms and walked over to a wooden dresser beside his bed. He rummaged through the contents of the top drawer while Ryou walked into the room.
"Oh? What about?" Ryou asked as the spirit of the Millennium necklace materialized next to him.
"And where's that pompous Pharaoh?" Bakura laughed leaning on the back of the small couch that was next to Ryou.
Yugi sighed and turned around holding a long wooden box. "As far as I know, he is sleeping. I haven't heard from him in a while, so I'm quite sure he dozed off. Anyways," Yugi walked over and handed the box to Ryou. "I was in this place Diagon Alley, and this man named Ollivander gave me this wand. He told me that I would the owner of it, and I think, it is meant for you too."
Ryou turned the box over in his hands and looked a Yugi. "A wand?" Bakura stated sarcastically.
" I know it sounds silly, but these wizards use wands like this to preform magic. It's sort of like a tool I suppose, kind of like how we use the Millennium items to channel Shadow magic. I haven't gotten to use mine yet. I haven't exactly been in the best condition since I arrived here, but I did want to give this to you two before everything got to hectic."
Ryou opened the box and looked at the intricately designed wand. The wood was white and seemed to bleed to red. Ryou glanced at the label on the side of the box. "Alder wood Pheonix feather… "
"Yup, now I'm not an expert on them, but I did look into that certain wand, and I think you would benefit from doing a little research." Yugi smiled, but soon frowned after a comment from Bakura.
"Look he is already trying to school us." Bakura gave an annoyed sigh and smirked.
"Well it's actually very interesting when you look into these kind of topics. I found a few books on a lot of different things that you might find interesting." Yugi reached over to a stack of books sitting on the couch. "See this one right here is about Defensive magic. Hermione lent it to me, and I was planning on using some of the material and incorporating it into my classes." Yugi continued to excitedly flip through the pages.
"Ryou I'm glad you aren't as happy-go-lucky as the Pharaoh's Hikari. I would get even more annoyed with you if you were." Bakura laughed and Ryou rolled his eyes.
"Don't listen to him Yugi, he doesn't mean it. Yugi?" Ryou had failed to notice the book that had fallen from Yugi's hands. Yugi's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, and then his facial expression changed to that of pure anger. Yami was enraged.
Ryou hesitated, and then spoke, "Yami? What's wrong?"
Harry jerked in his sleep.
He was only able to comprehend a few thoughts.
Power.
Shadows.
Spirit.
Mutou.
It was then that he scar began to burn, chaos irrupted from the thoughts and Harry bolted up out of his sleep.
Yami stared, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion and anger. Someone was trying to invade his mind and, though the attempt was futile, Yami was still able to catch wisps of thoughts radiating from the unknown invader.
Power.
Shadows.
Spirit.
Mutou.
"No!" Yami snapped out of his trance and backed up into the dresser, startling Ryou.
"Yami! What happened? Should I go and find Ishizu and Malik?" Ryou asked.
Yami snarled and glanced towards the door. "I need to speak with the Headmaster." He said, quickly retreating from the room.
"Well that was weird." Ryou stated, staring off in the direction Yami had gone.
"It isn't like the Pharaoh to get all worked up like that over nothing. It must have been something serious." Bakura replied. "Ryou give me the wand."
"I will if you ask nicely." Ryou retorted, grinning at the annoyed facial expression Bakura now held.
"Alright Ryou. Please. Give me the wand."
"That's better" Ryou plucked the wand out of the box and handed it over to Bakura."It's interesting isn't it? I don't know exactly what it is, but something about this wand just feels so familiar. Am I right?"
Bakura twirled the white and red wand in his hands and carefully studied it. "Interesting." He muttered under his breath. "Very interesting."
Yami stood behind the Headmaster's door. Fury radiating off of him, it took everything Yugi had just to try and keep him calm.
/Yami. You can't go in there like this. You have to keep calm and be rational./
/Yugi, everything we have been trying to keep hidden has been discovered by someone, someone we probably do not want knowing the details of our lives./
Yugi was silent and appeared beside Yami in spirit form. He didn't do anything, he just stood there, looking at Yami. Yami sighed and relaxed the hands he had been clenching.
/You're right Aibou. I shouldn't let my anger get the best of me. I will talk to Professor Dumbledore calmly and sincerely about this matter./
/Thank you Yami./
Yami smiled and finally knocked on the large, oak door.
"Yes?" Calm a soft reply from within the office.
"Professor Dumbledore. I have to speak with you. It is urgent." Yami barely finished his sentence when the door was yanked open by Professor McGonallgal. Yami peaked past the Professor and saw Harry sitting in the chair across from the Headmaster's desk.
"Ah. Professor Mutou. Come in."
Yami walked briskly into the office and stood in front of the Professor.
"Harry here was just telling me about a strange ordeal that has occurred tonight. In fact, you don't look like you are bearing good news either. Please, sit."
"Professor Dumbledore. I don't think this is something we should be discussing with an audience."
"I agree with you Professor Mutou, but unfortunately, Harry here already knows."
Yami glanced at Harry and turned his crimson eyes on Dumbledore. "How? You know that my trust is something not to be trifled with Professor."
Dumbledore raised a hand to calmly silence the seething spirit. "I can assure you Professor Mutou that young Harry here does not know the extent of your situation. He has come to know this from a vision."
Yami quickly glanced at Dumbledore and slowly sat down in the chair beside Harry.
"A vision I'm sure you are familiar with."
Professor Mutou's eyes slowly changed into their usual bright purple tint. "Power. Shadows. Spirit. Mutou."
Dumbledore nodded and Harry was surprised. "Professor… Are you saying that Professor Mutou has a connection to Voldemort too?"
"Not exactly Harry."
"We- Uh I felt an unknown presence trying to invade my thoughts. I was able to block the intruder, and caught wisps of the intruder's thoughts as I forced him out of my mind." Yugi nervously scratched the back of his head and looked at Professor Dumbledore.
"Lord Voldemort has always possessed a talent in that particular area of magic. But how he found you, that is the question we must answer."
"Excuse me Professor but I don't understand. What would Voldemort want with Professor Mutou? And what did he mean by 'Shadows' and a 'Spirit'?"
Yugi glanced towards the Headmaster and then back to Harry. He bit his lip slightly and turned away. "I haven't the slightest idea Harry. But for some reason I'm connected to all of this." Yugi looked towards the Headmaster for a moment then continued. "I am sure you will look into this, right Professor?"
Dumbledore nodded and glanced over to the silent, yet stern looking Professor McGonallgal. "Harry, Professor McGonallgal will escort you back to you dormitory. I will look into this matter in the morning."
"Goodnight Headmaster, Goodnight Professor Mutou." Harry followed Professor McGonagall out of the office.
"I supposed I should head back too." Yugi said, standing up and stretching. "I have a great class planned for tomorrow. You will let me know if you find out anything from what Harry told you right?"
"Of course." Dumbledore smiled and waved Yugi off.
"Thanks." Yugi said, leaving the office and closing the door behind him.
Yugi made his way back to his room slowly, taking his time to think about what had happened earlier.
"Yugi." Yami materialized next to the smaller tri coloured boy, walking at pace with his hands in his pockets.
"I don't like lying about things Yami…" Yugi looked out the windows that he was slowly walking by. The Great Lake glowed as the setting sun bounced a shimmer of light off the water's smooth surface.
"I know Yugi, but we can't share our deepest secrets with people we've just met. Harry doesn't need to know about me or Bakura right now. But if it becomes necessary, we can tell them." Yami stopped and looked at Yugi with a confused expression on his face. "Yugi, why are you shielding your thoughts?"
"Oh? You noticed did you?" Yuig grinned and stuck out his tongue. "I'm not telling. It's a secret. You can't know tomorrow's lesson because I plan to do it all on my own."
Yami raised an eyebrow and walked over to Yugi who was unlocking the door to their dormitory. "What are you planning Aibou?"
"I'm not telling! It's a surprise! I thought about it while I was sleeping actually. I guess it just came to me in a dream."
"It?" Yami questioned curiously.
"Stop asking questions Yami!" Yugi stomped his foot on the floor and smilied. "You'll ruin the surprise!"
"Fine, fine. If you say so." Yugi rolled his eyes and opened the door.
"Yugi. Where have you been? Ryou told us- oh, hey Yami!" Malik waved towards the door as the slightly transparent spirit.
"Malik, Ishizu." Yami replied.
"Oh great his royal highness is out and about." Bakura scoffed and was quickly nudged by Ryou.
"Bakura. Stop that."
"What happened?" Ishizu asked.
"Someone tried to invade our mind, but Yami took care of it." Yugi leaned on the table and crossed his arms. Letting his tri coloured locks droop in front of his eyes.
"But that wasn't the only problem."
Ishizu gave a questioning glance to the spirit.
"You see. Somehow Harry seems to be aware that there is something amiss with us. He was in Dumbledore's office when Yugi and I arrived there. He knew exactly what we were talking about-"
"Wait you mean he knows about you and Yugi, the spirits and the items?" Malik asked looking at the spirit.
"No. Not that Malik. He just kind of knew. It was like he saw the same thing we saw when our mind was intruded upon. It was weird." Yugi said, taking a bite of toast that one of the house elves had brought to him earlier when he was sleeping. "This is really good toast."
"Like Yugi said, it was very odd indeed, but I don't think it is anything we need to worry ourselves with tonight. Yugi and I have a class first thing in the morning so if anything it can wait until tomorrow." With that the spirit materialized back into the puzzle.
"Well the Pharaoh has spoken." Bakura remarked sarcastically and walked out of the room. Ryou rolled his eyes and quickly bowed to his friends in the room.
"Goodnight Yugi, Ishizu, Malik, and goodnight Yami." Then, he left the room too to head to bed.
Ishizu and Malik said their goodnights and walked to their rooms, leaving Yugi alone in the lounge of the dormitory they were staying in.
"Yami you can stop prodding at my thoughts, I'm still not going to tell you." Yugi's statement was answered with silence, after which Yugi laughed and stretched his arms, then headed to bed.
"Good morning class. " Yugi said cheerfully, glancing at the blurry-eyed students sitting in his classroom. "I have something very special planned for today's class. So let's get to it."
/Yami./ Yugi asked nicely.
/Yes Yugi?/
/Would you care to do me a favour?/
/That would depend on what it is you want./
/Can you carefully bring the class into the shadow realm?/ There was silence from the spirit for a few moments.
/What? Yugi I won't do that./
/Please Yami? I'd do it myself but you know I can't. Trust me. I'll be careful. And if anything happens you can dispel the shadows at any time./
Meanwhile, all of the students were staring at their professor who appeared to be staring off mindlessly into space.
/Fine. But one word Yugi and I'm dispelling the shadows./
/Agreed./ Yugi grinned and looked back to the class. "Now, you all know what magic is, and you all know that there are different kinds of magic, correct?" He received a nod from the students around the room. "You know the stories. The stories about different cultural magic; ancient magic; magic that we will focus on this term. I am going to teach you about the wonders of ancient magic, because, not everything in this world is black and white. Not everything in this world is wizards and non wizards." Yugi pulled out his wand and waited as the shadows slowly began to engulf the room. Yugi walked forwards to the center of the room and looked around at the students. "Like I stated yesterday, I am not a wizard, nor am I a muggle. You all need to understand that the world you know is small compared to what's really out there. There are so many types of magic that you have neglected to be taught. Lucky for you, you have a professor who will not only teach you about the dangers, the history, and the wonders of ancient magic, but one that will show you."
/A bit dramatic Aibou don't you think?/ Yami snickered and materialized next to Yugi and glanced at the students who could not see him.
/I learned from the best Yami./
"Now. I have a few things to say before we continue with the lesson. First, did you all read up on Ancient Egypt like I told you?" Surprisingly Yugi received many nods from the majority of the class, except for a few Slytherins. "Alright, then it is safe to assume that you all are aware of the basis on how the Egyptians used magic? Can anyone tell me what they called it?" Hermione's hand shot quickly into the air. "Yes Hermione." Yugi noticed Draco mocking the brown haired Gryffindor, but he motioned for her to continue.
"Professor I was able to read up on it a bit last night, and I believe it was called Shadow Magic. The textbook doesn't really describe it very well but I'm fairly certain that's what it was referred to."
"Excellent Hermione. That's exactly what it is, and no the textbook is quite lacking in description, but that's why I'm here. Now I have a few rules before we begin. First, under no circumstances are you leave your seats. You must stay where I can see you at all times. Understand?" Yugi waited for the collective nod from the class and continued. "Second, be calm and rational. What you will see today will test the boundaries of your imagination. I need you to understand that this is a delicate process and you must remain calm and silent unless absolutely necessary. Agreed?" The class nodded and Yugi smiled. "Then let's begin." Yugi reached into his pocket and pulled out his deck. He sifted through the cards and quickly pulled out a card.
/Yugi…What are you doing?/
"Now class. I'd like you to meet a very good friend of mine." Yugi looked intently at the card in front of him and softly whispered its name, "Kuriboh." Yugi closed his eyes and when he opened them again, the floating form of Kuriboh was hovering in front of him. He smiled and glanced around at the shocked faces of the students in the room.
/Yugi… You just summoned a Shadow creature without my help…/
"Professor…" Ron stated cautiously.
"Yes Ron?"
"What is that?"
"This class is Kuriboh. A Shadow creature from the Shadow realm, conjured by Shadow magic. I'm sure you are all acquainted with the card game Duel Monsters?"
There were a few nods in response from the shocked students.
"Well, you see; that game was actually based off of what the Egyptians referred to as Shadow creatures. These creatures can only be summoned by those who wield the power of the Shadows. They may look frightening but deep down, these creatures are kind and caring like everything else in this world." Yugi smiled as the little Kuriboh hovered over and nuzzled Nevelle's hair. "See, kind and caring, it's only when agitated or ordered that this creature is harmful."
"Professor it's hard to believe what I'm seeing." Hermione stated, cautiously watching the floating creature.
"Sometimes believing isn't seeing Hermione, but here. Kuriboh?"
"Kurr Kurr" came the reply from the creature.
"Will you please go to Hermione?" Yugi asked sweetly. Kuriboh nodded and bouncily floated over to Hermione's seat and stared at her.
"Um, Hello there." Hermione said cautiously reaching out her hand to touch Kuriboh.
Kuriboh nuzzled her palm and then floated back to Yugi's side. "So you see class. There are many different types of magic, magic that you didn't even believe existed. But it's nothing to fear, in fact, there are many good things that come out of understanding the differences in the world, and accepting them. Take Kuriboh here as an example, sure she may look scary, and sure what I've done may seem unbelievable, but did any harm come out of you learning and understanding something new?"
"Something new?" Draco sneered. He hopped off his desk and swiftly sauntered over to the floating creature who snarled at his advance. "You are trying to tell me that this stupid creature is something to be fearful of? Really, Dumbledore was daft to have hired you, this is all probably some cheap trick. You honestly think this fluff ball could cause any trouble for me?" Draco raised his wand and aimed it at the creature. "Let's see how fearsome you are you little puff ball."
"That's enough." Yugi's eyes flashed crimson and the shadows slowly dispersed. Kuriboh kurred behind him and Draco hesitated at the sight of the Professor's stare. Yugi shook his head and his eyes slowly changed back to purple. He sighed and looked up at Draco. "Draco. I will see you tonight, 7p.m. sharp for detention. Class you are dismissed."
"But Professor it's only-" Hermione started, but was then cut off.
"I said, you are dismissed." With that the class slowly collected their belongings and left the classroom, Draco included.
"Kurr Kurr." The small creature nuzzled Yugi's tri-coloured hair before disappearing. Yugi slumped on the floor, head rested against his desk and sighed.
"Yugi. What were you thinking?" The Pharaoh materialized in front of Yugi and kneeled down so that he was at eye level with Yugi. "You know that summoning a Shadow creature takes a lot of magic, which we have just realized you have. You can't be doing that for long periods of time. You should have asked me to help you." Yami placed a hand on Yugi's head and gave him a concerned glance. "Yugi, I will teach you how to use the Shadows, but you must be patient."
"I know Yami, I wasn't trying to go against you, I just wanted it to be my surprise for the students."
"Ssh. I understand. It was a great surprise Yugi. But not again. At least not for a little while. Come, you should go to the kitchens and get some food, you need to eat and rest a bit before you try anything to dramatic again." Yami smirked laughed at the blushing Yugi.
"Ha ha very funny, go on mock me." Yami helped Yugi up and laughed again.
"Come on, you should eat before we find out what chaos we've brought upon this school today."
Yami disappeared back into the puzzle and Yugi laughed, while walking down the hall towards the kitchens. /I can't wait to see the look on Umbridge's face when she finds out./
/I have to agree with you there Yugi./
The two of them wandered off to the kitchens, neither of them realizing how silent and focused Harry was during class, and neither of them realizing that Harry was getting closer and closer to figuring out what exactly the story is behind the new History of Magic Professor.
Well there you have it! I worked so hard last weekend but I simply could not finish it without neglecting to study for my midterms. But now that those are over and done with, I was able to complete an extra long chapter just for you. :)
So please, review, give me ideas, tell me what you think.
