I know I normally never update on Wednesdays but we had the day off so I finished this instead. I hope you enjoy.
It's been a while since I wrote a chapter this long :)

"I can't let you leave, not like this!" Raphael protested.

Things had turned out the way Rebecca had thought they would. Raphael and Atem had talked long and well before the funeral, something that neither Yugi nor Rebecca had interfered in, although Yugi later told Rebecca that the two men had told each other everything. Raphael now knew Atem's past and Atem knew Raphael's.

Yugi had joked and had told Rebecca that Raphael now probably knew more than Yugi did himself, but truth be told, Rebecca really did think that Atem had told Raphael more than he had ever told Yugi. Rebecca was convinced that the spirit of the ancient pharaoh protected Yugi as much as he could, even from the truth, but he didn't feel the need to protect Raphael like that and was thus able to tell him much more. Rebecca hadn't told Yugi her suspicions as it was something the two men had to settle themselves.

Yugi got along well with Raphael, but then again, Yugi got along with everyone if he set his mind to it. In many ways were Yugi and Raphael quite alike, they both had a hard time fitting in but the few people they had cared about had been everything to them.

Rebecca had attended the funeral as only relative, Raphael as only friend and Rebecca could tell Yugi didn't really know what he counted like. She was sure that her grandfather would have counted Yugi and the Pharaoh as friends but Yugi saw himself as less, an acquaintance perhaps. The rest of the people there were people who her grandpa had worked with before he retired and some people he vaguely knew from town. No one really had anything to say and Rebecca was quite sure that the four of them were the only ones really grieving.

There had been an oddly calm air over the entire event. Arthur had died in a heart attack and they hadn't been able to rescue him. An unexpected and sudden death, the way her grandpa had wanted to. She reminded herself of Atem's words on death and how it felt and they comforted her. At the same time they troubled her.

Rebecca wasn't the one to be engulfed by emotion and wasn't devastated enough not to have noticed the other side of what Atem had said.
"I've felt it and in that moment I didn't want anything else but to enter that place …"

Yeah, Rebecca had noticed what it meant to Atem. She also knew Yugi hadn't as he was more affected by emotion than she ever was. She used her head, he wass heart and that was why he often failed to see the suffering of the ancient spirit who did his very best to hide his pain from his lighter who he did not wish to burden.

That in addition to the death of her last family member, a world she was a stranger in, PTSD among the people she was close to and the threat of a war that would target her in the same way as the Jews had been target in the second world war left her with a feeling so heavy and dreadful that only by thinking rationally she was able to keep her head above water. She felt like she was drowning but she couldn't let anyone know, just like Atem couldn't let Yugi know, someone had to be the rock and she didn't want to put that upon Atem alone.

She had never before been more grateful for Raphael's presence. He was the only one that made her feel as if she could stop being the rock for a while and become the flower the rock protected. She had accepted the fact that she couldn't rely on Raphael longer than the Christmas Holidays but Raphael disagreed on that.

Christmas had passed by unnoticed and now a couple of days after New Year they were sitting at the kitchen table. Yugi was in control although he had told them that Atem was very present in this argument. In two days they would leave for Hogwarts but Raphael protested. In the time after the funeral Rebecca, Yugi and Atem had together told Raphael everything that was playing in the wizarding world. The tall man had listened without commenting and hadn't brought the subject up after he got all the information Yugi, Atem and Rebecca had gathered about the wizarding world.

They had also told him about the duel monsters that had shown up. That fact Raphael didn't like. "It's far too much alike the war in Atlantis. Duel monsters chose sides then too. If they choose against you the army of the enemy will be more troublesome than you can imagine. We both know that the magic these wizards know can't live up to the power of the shadows. We all know that Atem can end this war as soon as this dark lord shows his face."

Rebecca, Yugi and Atem were all quiet, considering Raphael's words.

"Not if the beasts take his side. It's not the same as with Atlantis though. The Dominion has stayed out of this and it probably will remain out of this fight", Atem said. "It are the beasts in the shadows that make me worried, they have a will of their own, luckily they are still dependent on the shadows which makes that I can control them even if they side against us. That will take a lot of strength though, far more than I can spare. I did wrong again."

"What exactly happened?" Raphael wondered.

Atem hesitatingly told him the entire story about the illusions he put the fifth year through, the illusions he hadn't been able to stop as he fell victim to them himself. Raphael was stunned, to say the least. After a long and heavy silence Raphael sighed. "How are they doing now, how are you doing now?"

"I'm grateful I can't dream", was all Atem said.

"I hear stories", Rebecca said, thinking Raphael had the right to know more, "The Slytherins had a class with the Ravenclaws afterward. They were in shock, each and every one of them. No one knew what had happened, not even the Slytherins themselves it seemed. They don't and do remember at the same time. Ginny, a Gryffindor in my year, told me the fifth years can wake up screaming and tell the most horrific stories as if they've actually lived them."

"You know", Raphael said and an odd, sad smile appeared on his face, "Once upon a time I was so mad at you because you destroyed your country. I learned it was never your fault and now … now I could be mad at you again, but I'm not. You are just human and humans screw up sometimes, the only difference is that when I screw up no one but me will notice but when you do the same thing everyone around you is affected. That doesn't make me angry, that makes me feel sorry for you."

Rebecca smiled sadly. She had come to the very same conclusion. It wasn't fair that so much responsibility was put on one persons shoulders.

Atem had given a short nod. "Thank you."

"Then there is a way to rid the world of the shadows", Raphael sighed, "I didn't hold that for possible anymore."

"In theory it should be possible, yes", Rebecca said. "But I don't know how to bring the beasts from the shadows to the Dominion."

"Or I wait another five thousand years", Atem suggested. "When you're all gone I'll be stuck in the puzzle again, will loose my memory again and will have to start the entire thing over again. Considering all the tomb-keepers are dead that could be hard."

"At least next time you won't have Bakura against you", Rebecca said and had patted Atem on the back. For some reason all three of them laughed at that, although I wasn't funny at all.

Rebecca focused back on the present argument.

"If there is a war coming I'm not going to let you walk straight into it, knowing you could both die, without being able to do anything myself!" Raphael said angrily. "I understand that you both feel the need to be part of this war as it targets you and the people you care about! But it targets the people I care about too!"

"I wouldn't try to stop you, Raphael", Yugi said and put his fingers on the edge of the table, "but it's not a possibility for you to enter the wizarding world. And even if you make it that far, you can't enter Hogwarts."

"At this point it isn't for Rebecca either!" Raphael said, something that made Rebecca snap up.

"Why not?"

"Don't you realize, Rebecca? You must have thought about it! I'm surprised they haven't showed up on the doorstep yet!" Raphael said and an odd tone of desperation entered his voice, a tone which made Rebecca shiver in fear.

"Oh no", Yugi said as he understood.

"What?" Rebecca demanded to know, "Tell me!"

In that exact moment someone knocked on the door. "That will be them", Raphael said darkly.

"Such great timing they have", Yugi said lowly and clenched his fists.

"What, Yugi? What?" Rebecca asked urgent and fought back the tears of fear in her eyes.

"Rebecca, the reason I ran away after the accident in the tomb was mostly out of anger and grief, but there was a second reason ..." Yugi fell silent as Raphael entered the room again with a skinny man with glasses at his heels.

"Yugi, Rebecca, this is Sean Daniels from social services", Raphael introduced them.

Rebecca felt as if the world around her came crashing down. Social services … she was used to being an orphan but she had always had her grandfather and had never felt like one. Now the lack of family she had was more clear than it had been ever before

"Really, Yugi Muto? Such a pleasure to meet you. And you too, of course, miss Hawkins", the man said and nervously played with his glasses.

Yugi nodded silently and stayed put, he became the person he was every time someone threatened anyone he cared about. A tougher person that had never been present before his years hunting a Death Eater. It was when Yugi was in that state of mind that he was more like Atem than ever before. Resolute Yugi put his feet on the fourth and last chair at the table as Raphael sat down without offering the man a seat. Yugi gave the man a devilish sweet smile and Rebecca bit back a laugh. She was him grateful.

Raphael sat straight and crossed his arms. Rebecca put her arms on the table and rested her head on them. All three of them, all four of them Rebecca was sure, gazed up at the man from the government.

"I can see … I can see that there is a hostile attitude towards me but I'm not here to..."

Rebecca interrupted him. "If you are going to say that you are not here to tear a family apart then you better keep quiet because that's the exact reason you're here!"

"Rebecca, that was not what I was going to say. You have no family left to tear apart anymore ..."

Someone could just as well have hit her in the face. Never had Rebecca's attitude towards a person shifted so quickly. First she had found the man pathetic, someone easy to make fun of, but now she despised him. Raphael stood up as if stung, placed both hands on the table and leaned forward. He opened his mouth to say something but Rebecca was faster. She had never had trouble finding the right words but this time she took inspiration from Yugi's classes.

"Isn't it funny?" she wondered.

The man looked confused. "What is?"

"When you entered the room you were introduced as Sean Daniels. Now, you expect me to call you mr Daniels, you can't deny that as it is a form of respect. I probably would call you that. You showed me respect by calling me miss Hawkins when you greeted me. Now, people often say 'please don't call me by my surname, use my first name' and until that point you are not supposed to use a persons first name. You didn't say that which made you come over distant, cold and uncaring. However you know that it will complicate your work if I don't like you, so you chose a substitute, a very unwise one, you used my first name to show that you actually knew who I was. But to me it just showed that you expect more respect from me than you have for me. Funny, isn't it? Older people can choose when to stop paying respect for the younger but not the other way around. And then they complain that today's kids have no manners."

Yugi laughed and did little to hide it. "Mr Daniels, I suggest you choose your words more carefully. There are few people in the world as good with them as Rebecca is. Oh, and before I forget, tell me your definition of family?"

"People who share the same DNA are family", he said full conviction.

"Let me guess", Raphael said and sat down again, "You have three brother and at least one sister. You have over fifty cousins, all four of your grandparents are dead and you just came back from a Christmas were they toasted for their souls, the house was overfilled, people annoyed each other and you were going insane. You hated the fact that you yet again had to go deal with another orphan girl that you would have to force out of the house she knows so well to an orphanage far away where she knows no one. Not that you care about her well-being, you just want to get this over with and thus you tell her she has no family left and nothing that attaches her to this house. Well, she might not have family left in your eyes but I've lived in this house for several years now and if I remember correctly the common law adoption should be considered to give me responsibility over Rebecca, which would mean that Rebecca's life doesn't have to change as drastic as you are suggesting."

Rebecca gawked and Yugi stared at Raphael in astonishment. Rebecca had considered Raphael a part of the family for quite a while now, but this she hadn't seen coming. Would Raphael be willing to do that for her? To her it seemed to be the best thing that could happen considering the circumstances, there was only one thing she didn't get: "What's common law adoption?"

Sean Daniels fingered at his tie nervously. "Common law adoption is an adoption which has not been recognized beforehand by the courts, but where a parent, without resort to any formal legal process, leaves his or her children with a friend or relative for an extended period of time. At the end of a designated term of voluntary co-habitation, as witnessed by the public, the adoption is then considered binding, in some courts of law, even though not initially sanctioned by the court. The particular terms of a common-law adoption are defined by each legal jurisdiction. The U.S. state of California recognizes common law relationships after co-habitation of 2 years. The practice is called "private fostering" in Britain."

"Can't a person receive a normal answer?" Rebecca retorted. It wasn't that she was not use to that kind of language, she had been in college and all and it was pretty much her primal language, but she just enjoyed complaining on Sean. The fact was that she was touched by Raphael's words.

"I'm sorry, sir, but the common law adoption isn't a possibility in this situation as Rebecca lived with her grandfather and he didn't leave her in your care in the way the common law adoption requires even if more than two years have passed."

"It's so easy for you, isn't it?" Yugi asked and stood up. No matter how short he was, he could be intimidating, a thing Raphael had never seen before, not from Yugi and Rebecca could tell how much it surprised him. "You have all your family. Do you even realize that each and every person in front of you now has lost all their family. I lived with my grandpa just like Rebecca, and when he died that was the last of my family, same thing for Rebecca. Raphael lost his family in an accident when he was just a young teenager. All three of us are loners but we have each other, I have known Rebecca since she was eight and Raphael has lived in the same house with her since she was twelve, now she's sixteen! Who in the world is better capable of taking care of her than him? Taking her away is the worst thing you could do!"

"Can't you just leave us be?" Rebecca said, suddenly feeling drained of all energy, though unusually peaceful at the same time. "I'm in good hands, even though I personally don't think I need to be taken care of, though every sixteen year old thinks so, so it doesn't count I guess. I'm not alone, there are people that need help far more than I do. Common law adoption doesn't sound like such a bad idea."

Daniels seemed to have lost his temper. "Fine then", he snapped. "The U.S state of California recognizes Raphael as Rebecca's common law relationship which makes him responsible for her. Who the hell cares anyway? Common law adoption has nothing to do with the law! There is no law, no court, or anything in it! Do however the hell you please!" With those words Sean Daniels stormed out of the house, praying he'd never have to visit those scary types ever again.

As he was blindly storming down the driveway he bumped into an even taller man with a long white beard who seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

"Sorry", Sean said, "Are you going in there? You'd better have something to say which they like to hear or they'll lynch you."

The man with the white beard chuckled. "Oh, I really wouldn't know what they are going to think."

/This is among the most extraordinary things I've seen in my life/ Atem said.

"What is", Yugi asked, unaware about the fact he was speaking out loud.

/That they try to remove a person from a family in which they thrive. Besides, Rebecca can look after herself even better than we can look after ourselves./

/There is so much in this world that doesn't make sense. Had it been a different person he'd have stopped at no lengths to take her with him too make sure she ends up in a safe place, even though she's fine here, while he at the same time could close his eyes when a five-year old is being raped by her neighbor and he knows it but just doesn't want to see it. Trust me, it happens/ Yugi said, leaving Atem stunned and deep in thoughts.

After a couple of minutes of silence the spirit said, plain and simple: /What?/

"Yeah, it happens, a lot even. But until recently people preferred to let it happen than to get involved, including the police and such alike. Nowadays it's better, there is more knowledge around it."

/What are you talking about?/ Atem said, both annoyed and worried.

"A pedophile, a grown up sexually attracted to children", Yugi said.

"Yugi, what in the world?" Rebecca wondered and Yugi noticed that the two blondes were staring at him with a mixture of worry, surprise and disgust on their faces.

Yugi went red and put a hand on his head. "That sounded wrong, didn't it?" he asked.

Rebecca and Raphael nodded simultaneously.

"I set an example which Atem didn't get and so I had to explain what a pedophile was", Yugi explained and turned even more red.

Rebecca opened her mouth to comment but Raphael stopped her. "The issue still stands. I don't want you to leave for Hogwarts headlong into a war while I'm supposed to sit around here waiting for the wizard to arrive that is going to tell me that you're both dead!"

"Raphael, you said it yourself, Atem can end this war as soon as Voldemort shows his face! What is it you're afraid of?" Rebecca wondered stubbornly.

"Raphael is right, Rebecca. Sure, no matter how strong the wizard I could easily take him down with the help of the creatures in the shadowrealm and more importantly the Egyptian Gods", Atem said, now in control, "But every hit they take will drain my energy and even with Voldemort dead there is a strong chance that people will attack the beasts in panic. Eventually I'll be completely drained and I will be unable to do anything, Yugi is left defenseless and you are not skilled enough in magic to protect us if someone tries anything. This war could be lethal to us just as much as to anyone else. I can't stand up to the force of a hundred Rebecca, not a hundred wizards. I can take down the one major threat, but from there we can't know."

Someone chose that moment to knock on the door, cutting the low-level fight short.

"The gods are against this argument", Raphael sighed and stood up to go open.

"If it's that Sean Daniels again ..." Rebecca whispered under her breath and balled her fists.

It wasn't Sean Daniels. Raphael was followed by a tall wizard with half-moon spectacles and a long beard.

"Hello, Professor Dumbledore", Rebecca said as Atem quickly relinquished control to Yugi.

"Hello Rebecca, Yugi, you have my condolences", he said. He turned his head to face Raphael and gave a small nod towards him. "You too."

"Thank you", Raphael said chilly but offered Dumbledore a place to sit.

"I'm here to talk to Yugi, I waited until the end of the holidays so you could mourn in peace but the reason I'm here is important and can't wait any longer", Dumbledore said, urging them to understand.

"The previous person who set food in this house uninvited tried to take Rebecca away", Yugi said calmly, "I can't really help that not one of us is keen on listening to another uninvited guest."

Dumbledore nodded. "I understand, about that, Raphael is now written down as Rebecca's guardian in the Hogwarts files and every other file in the Ministry of Magic. It gives him the ability to see the school and to enter the wizarding world whenever he has to go with Rebecca although I suggest he doesn't without her, preferably not at all, not in these days."

Raphael raised an eyebrow but didn't react stronger to Dumbledore's words. "Rebecca, perhaps we should let them speak in peace. I still owe you a game of chess, this time I'll beat you." With those words the two of them left the room.

When their footsteps had made their way up the stairs and out of reach for the ears of the two men Yugi spoke. "What's so important that it couldn't wait until our return to the school the day after tomorrow?" he wondered, then something shot Yugi to mind. "How come Rebecca is in the fourth year if she's sixteen?"

"Ah, an understandable question. The fifth years have to pass their OWLs and Rebecca couldn't just jump across those, they are important. At the same time it would be very hard for her to pass her OWLs with only one year worth of experience at the school so we placed her in the fourth year", Dumbledore explained.

"Okay, that's understandable, then I'll ask again: What is so important?"

"It regards Harry Potter", Dumbledore started, "You see, I fear he has a link."

"A link?" Yugi raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms.

"Yes, a link between his mind and that of the dark lord. I fear that Voldemort will use this link to possess Harry as soon as he becomes aware of its existence. With bad luck he already is aware and then all we can do is pray that he's too afraid to do anything with it", Dumbledore said, his tone low as if afraid someone would be listening in.

Yugi shook his head. "What do I have to do with that?"

"Something the spirit said, or actually did", Dumbledore explained, "He stated that he is a far better Occlumist than I am a Legilimist. When I tried to invade your mind I was brought to a place that was far from your mind, a place where he had the advantage. My plan was to have Severus teach Harry Occlumency but the dark lord is used to people trying to protect their mind like with Occlumency and much skill is required to keep him out. The spirit's method however is foreign to lord Voldemort and if Harry would be able to master it Voldemort won't know half as much as he could learn if he was able to control Harry's mind."

Atem didn't have to ask, before he could Yugi relinquished control to him.

"No wonder you fear possession so much", Atem said, "Everyone can possess anyone at all times. People can choose if they want to possess someone, how despicable. It's a dreadful state of living, the only reason me and Yugi are doing alright is through well-developed communication and patience. We must be unique to you, aren't we?"

Dumbledore nodded. "Your coexistence has often rocked everything I know about possession. I can't help but see it as a crime, a terrible disgrace."

"It is", Atem said, "and I'd do anything to give Yugi his life back, but unfortunately I can't. That possibility was taken from me. As for teaching Harry … I don't know. I don't think it's possible to teach anyone to redirect an invader to the soul-room in the first place, besides, most people would be even more exposed if they did so, if you have access to a persons soul you can change that person in the core. The reason I do is because I can trap them there forever if I feel the need, rending them powerless, often lifeless. I'll see what I can do, but don't count on anything."

Dumbledore did his best to hide a shiver but Atem noticed it nonetheless. "I don't know if I got a powerful allay or a powerful enemy when I contacted you. But I have no regrets, I couldn't let you be hunted down and killed like a deer by Lucius."

"I am the third side in this war and although the enemy of my enemy isn't necessary my friend I've got nothing against you. I might not always be fond of your methods but I understand you want what's best for the students and so do I. I've said this before and let's not take it again, your feelings of doubt are not my problem. What more is there to teaching Harry Potter, I take that there is still someone else who will attempt to learn him Occlumency the way you know it although you asked me?"

Dumbledore nodded. "Severus will."

"Those two in one and the same room? Is that such a good idea?" Atem asked and chuckled.

"Severus Snape is very good at both legillimens and Occlumency, he'll be a fine teacher", Dumbledore said full conviction but Atem held back a sigh. The headmaster wasn't telling the entire truth and the fact remained that Snape and Potter had a war going on, a war that only the two involved really understood.

"Okay, just tell me when and where. I don't mean to be rude, but I'm quite sure we all prefer to be alone at the moment and I'd like you to leave. I'm sorry I didn't offer you a drink", Atem said and gave a quick smile.

"Severus' office, starting Monday six o'clock. I trust I don't have to tell you that no one needs to know, especially not Dolores Umbridge?" Dumbledore added.

"Dumbledore, I often make mistakes", Atem said and a shadow crossed his face, "but I know when to keep my mouth shut."

When Missy had taken the white cloth with its unknown content she had been disgusted by it, despite it's appearance which showed that the young man who had given it to her had taken great care of it. She had had a hard time doing her best not to wipe her hands off, which she really had wanted to. Both from the reaction of her husband and her son Missy had known that the man was harmless, despite his appearance, but Cole attracted so much weird things that Missy had become slightly paranoid when it came to her son.

When she had come home she had put it on the kitchen table so careful that it could have been a bomb and to her it had felt no less dangerous. They had put everything they had bought in its place and it hadn't taken long until that little white package laid alone on the table that had suddenly felt very big.
Before Cole had the chance to ask about it his mother had put him to bed and wished him goodnight.

With dread in her heart she had walked down the stairs. She knew she had been overreacting but for some reason that lightweight little thing she had received from a complete stranger felt ominous and most of all she wanted to throw it in the trash without ever having to know what was in it.

"Mum", her older son said when she walked into the kitchen again, "Is it true you, dad and Cole walked into Yugi Muto on the streets of London or is dad joking?"

"Not only is your dad telling the truth, Theo, but your brother also received a gift from this person you all seem to know so well but I've never heard of before", Missy sighed and sat down as she pointed at the package wrapped in the soft cloth.

"Mum, had you shown more interest in what interested me you'd have known", Theo said, jokingly. "I learned a lot from that guy and so have many others, even though he probably doesn't know that. Yugi Muto is nothing short of a legend in the dueling world."

"I don't get your fascination for that game", Missy sighed and put her head in her hands, "For some reason I feel like that thing on the table is cursed."

"Can I open it?" Theo wondered, a mixture of curiosity and expectation in his eyes, "Because mum, I think you're wrong, I think this could be part of the cure that's needed to get Cole back on his feet."

"What do you mean?" Bud asked, alarmed.

"All these weird things that happen to Cole all the time are not natural, all the weird things that happened to Yugi Muto weren't natural either. Perhaps this is a gesture meant to help, that says: I know how it feels but you'll be fine. I know you don't believe in fate, mum, but I do and this feels like it is part of something we can't quite imagine."

"You watch too much TV", was all Missy bothered to say.

Theo shook his head and carefully lifted the small package and removed the white cloth. "My God", Theo whispered, "Dad, look at this!" Theo put a pile of cards on the table. "Dark Magician, Queen's Knight, Spellbinding Circle, Celtic Guardian, Swords of Revealing Light, Magical Cylinder, Mirror Force … The gift Yugi Muto gave Cole was his deck."

"Does that mean anything?" Theo's mum asked slightly annoyed, her bad mood was strengthened by the fact that she was exhausted.

"Mum, these cards are worth a fortune each!" Theo said, "if anyone knows that these were Cole's he could get into real trouble!"

"Than we don't give them to him and throw them away", Missy said, still convinced that it was the best idea but Theo viciously shook his head.

"Mum, you can't do that! If you really want them out of the house I'll track down Ryou Bakura, Kujaku Mai or someone who knows Yugi or perhaps even Yugi himself although he doesn't want to be found. But what did he say when he gave Cole the cards?" Theo asked as he kept looking through the cards with a great deal of respect in his eyes.

"He told Cole to create something more adapted to him out of it because he wasn't going to need them again anyway", Bud said, "I stayed to talk with him after everyone left. He's an extraordinary person, a person I personally would have liked to get to know better. He seems to have experience with life."

"The hearth of the cards", Theo said and smiled, "he used to say that every duelist carefully picked their forty cards out of a thousand and if a duelist would treat those cards with respect their hearts would connect and the deck would never let its duelist down. At the same time it means that you couldn't ever duel with a deck you didn't put together yourself because your heart couldn't be in it. So the main message is that Cole should use the cards from Yugi's deck and that from his own to create something he's completely in tune with." Theo spread the cards on the table. "This is more than one deck though, I'd guess on a seventy cards at least."

"That's not Yugi's, is it?" Bud wondered and pointed at a card with a great black dragon on it, "Isn't that … eh … I forgot his name."

"It's Katsuya Jonouchi's, he died when a tomb collapsed four years ago. He and Yugi were close friends. It's not surprising Yugi held the card after Jonouchi died."

"Poor guy. Hey, I recognize those!" Missy called out surprised and pointed at three cards with great white dragons on it, "There are statues of them outside those theme parks build all over the world."

Theo nodded. "Those were Seto Kaiba's. They were the cards he treasured most. There are only four of them in the world. Seto Kaiba died in the collapse too. His younger brother survived and he sold Kaiba Corporation to Schroeder Corporation under the condition that the Von Schroeder brothers would keep the existent Kaiba lands running under the same name without disturbing the plans Seto Kaiba had made for them. Until this day the Schroeder Corporation has kept its promise, not that they should feel the need to change the theme parks, they run with steady profit just as they are. Rumor is that Seto Kaiba had made a plan to build one in Scandinavia and that Zigfried Von Schroeder does his best to have it built according to Kaiba's plans sometime next year."

"If you were equally interested in history as in this weird game than you'd make me a very satisfied mother", Missy sighed.

The three of them eventually decided that Cole should decide what to do with the cards and they were surprised by Cole's reaction. "Mum", he had said, "I don't need them, I'm satisfied with my deck as it is."

Naturally Cole and Theo had some serious brother bonding time, spending all their spare time with the cards that the King of Games himself had given the younger. "Do you see this card?" Theo could say, "It was used by Yugi during the Duelist Kingdom against Pegasus."

"What does it say?" Cole often asked since the kanji on the cards were impossible for him to understand. The consequence was that Theo would use his computer to translate each and every card.

Theo would tell colorful stories about duels which Missy didn't understand in the least but fascinated Cole. Her two sons had always been very distant from each other, they used to treat each other like strangers more than brothers but this one gift had caused the two to spent more time with each other in just a couple of days time than they had ever before. She was grateful.

One day though Cole commented one of white dragons which his mum had recognized. "The blue eyes white dragon was Kaiba's, why doesn't his brother have it?"

Theo shrugged. "I don't know. After Kaiba died Yugi received the card and he has given it to you. Do you think his brother wants it?"

Cole pouted. "If he really loved his brother he might want it, as a reminder of him. You told me that a duelist heart is in his cards, so … Seto Kaiba's heart must be in those cards, right? I'm sure he'd wish they were with his brother rather than with me, a person he doesn't know."

"Let's check up on that", Theo said and smiled, he had a vague idea where this was going. He did a search on the Blue Eyes White Dragon but the only thing he found were fanpages. Instead he did a search on Mokuba Kaiba. He whistled softly at what he found. "Hey Cole, let's go swinging", Theo said distracted. "If you go put on your warm clothes then I'll tell mum and dad were going to the playground okay."

"But, what about your friends? Won't you be ashamed of me?" Cole asked surprised but Theo shook his head. "My friends can think whatever they want. I wanna go play with my little brother."

As 'thank you' Theo received a big hug and Cole ran up the stairs. Theo's mum, who had been in the kitchen herself looked at her oldest son proudly but asked: "Why go swinging so suddenly? It's getting late."

"Mum, have a look at this", Theo said and turned the screen towards her, "Mokuba Kaiba promises a reward of one million dollars to anyone who can find a single one of his brother's Blue Eyes. I don't think Yugi knew that. Cole said he thought that Seto Kaiba's cards should be with his little brother. I want him to make up his mind in peace."

That moment Cole entered the room: "Can we go swinging?"

Missy nodded. "You two have a good time. If you want you can take some hot chocolate along."

Theo quickly made some hot chocolate as Missy helped Cole find his gloves. When they were all set and ready Cole ran out the house singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer loudly while Theo walked behind him holding the can with the warm liquid and the cups.

When Cole was done singing Theo asked: "Hey, Cole, if Kaiba's little brother would want his brothers cards, would you give them to him?"

"Yes, of course", Cole said and sat down on one of the swings. Theo put down the can and the cups and gently pushed his brother.

"Just like that?" Theo wondered.

"Naturally", Cole said, "He's the one that they know."

"You wouldn't mind parting from some of the rarest cards in the game?" Theo wondered, curios how determined his brother was to do the right thing.

Cole shook his head. "I don't like dragon cards, they're not my preference."

Theo laughed. "Not your preference, where did you learn all that fancy language, Cole?"

Cole shrugged. "I don't know, I just know it. Why do you ask me all this?"

"Because I happen to know that Mokuba Kaiba is looking for his brothers cards", Theo said.

"Then I think we should give them to him", Cole said full conviction, clearly not aware that giving something to Mokuba Kaiba meant flying across the globe.

The rest of the evening the two spent swinging, talking and drinking hot chocolate until Cole started to yawn. Then they both made their way home silently. As soon as they set foot inside Missy chased her youngest son into bed while Theo went to talk to his dad. "Hey, dad, do you think there is a possibility for me and Cole to get a trip to Japan as Christmas gift?"

"Cole wants to give those three cards to the younger brother of their original owner, doesn't he?" Bud said and sighed, "That kid always has to do the right thing. Ah, well, I'll talk to your mother about it but if she has no objections I think the family combined can give you and Cole a trip to Japan as Christmas gift. You know, Theo, someone told me I should be more open minded when it comes to the supernatural, do you agree?"

"Dad", Theo said, "I hate to break it to you, but you live in the same house as Cole, at this point what you consider unnatural you should consider as quite natural."

I asked a friend: "How do you explain to a 5000 year old dead guy what a pedophile is?"
Answer: "No point, the person in question is dead."
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I have no idea how in the world this chapter was able to become so long. It took ages to get I started and then the words just flowed.
Imagine, a Kaiba Land in Scandinavia -sigh- what a dream.

So next chapter, a taste of Occlumency, or lack thereof, mass breakout from Azkaban and Umbridge's new move … Yugi really does better outside Hogwarts than in it. Ah well, from here the action will increase. It's been a whole lot of sitting by and listening, as Umbridge and everyone start to make their real moves so will Yugi. Man, I've been longing for this.

Please review, otherwise I'll make sure Sean Daniels shows up at your doorstep.