"Oh my god!" Raven exclaimed, her hand flew to her mouth, her face was pale white, her eyes wide. "That is absolutely horrendous." She exclaimed as she felt the hand of Jack slip over her hand squeezing her hand softly to comfort her. Jack's own face was stone faced as well while his gaze was stern and calculating, his eyes full of concern at the news that Dumbledore had just informed the non-wizards of the room.
"Wait a minute, you telling me this guy Voldemort" Joey said, catching Rons twitch at the sound of the name. " Was the most powerful dark wizard who murdered Muggles and non-pure bloods in the hundreds" Joey exclaimed, his own face was wide in shock and disgust. Dumbledore simply nodded his head, his fingertips pressed together in a triangle shape while sighing sadly.
"Yes, sadly it Is all true, the only reason you knew none of these terrible circumstances was due to the statue of secrecy binding all magical knowledge and hiding and concealing all deaths and strange events from the Muggles. It was to prevent them from finding out of our existence." Dumbledore said, his tone sounded frustrated at these words while his sparkling blue eyes seemed slightly dulled and sad.
"That bastard!" Jack declared his hand clenching tightly as he stood up abruptly, his eyes looked to Dumbledore. "Professor, was there any Order members by the name of McKinnon." Jack asked, his eyes blazing while Dumbledore's blue-eyes widened slightly in surprise.
"Yes, Marlene McKinnon and her whole family" Dumbledore stated shocked that this young man knew of one of his original members. Dumbledore said, his eyes narrowed slightly seeing Jack collapse in his chair, his hand reaching up to grip his hair in shock shuddering slightly.
"I knew her in my youth, I played with her child when my father brought us to London for a year for his work, " Jack started growling, his hand dropping as he looked up to the Head Master. "I may not be a wizard, and I may not have magic, but I have plenty of pent up rage and anger that can be used to my advantage! Now that I know that my friend and his parents were murdered by this psychopath" Jack yelled in anger, his eyes showing the pent up rage, pain, and sorry. Jacks deck glowed slightly to Dumbledore's surprise as he simply sighed. Raven stroked his arm, causing him to sit down.
"Does this ministry you told us about, understand and realize this evil guy is back, that he's causing all this chaos and mayhem?" Joey asked, while Dumbledore shook his head no.
"Some in the Ministry do, but they are also in the Order and are trying to slowly gain more recruits to help us to fight against Lord Voldemort, but with the Minister for Magic and his resources pressing down on the proverbial throat of the Daily Prophet. Our wizard newspaper that is to tell the wizarding world that all is well and Lord Voldemort isn't back. Simply that they are doing all they can to catch the escaped Death Eaters that broke out of Azkaban a few months ago. It is difficult to build more support with the Minister blustering around saying everything is alright." Dumbledore informed Joey, Kaiba snorted loudly rolling his eyes.
"I'm surprised he hasn't been chucked out of office because of his incompetence" Kaiba stated as Dubledore simply watched him.
"Well Mr. Kaiba, you must understand that during the first wizard war, there were chaos and mayhem, people were being killed simply for being a Muggle, all because of Voldemorts blood purity beliefs, people were afraid to trust their friends for fear that they may be under the Imperius Curse." Dumbledore stated seeing the confusion on Kaiba's face. "A spell that allowed a wizard to completely control the will of another person" Dumbledore informed them, as the group of duelists stared in shock.
"Wait, you're telling them that your people the wizards have a spell that can control a person's will to do anything they want?" Joey exclaimed in shock.
"Yes, but it's highly illegal in our world, the normal wizard populace would never think to perform that terrible curse for fear of a life long sentence in Azkaban." Dumbledore informed him, seeing Joey come to understand the punishment of such a spell.
"So this nut job is wielding the power of the Oricalcos under the faint thoughts of Immortality" Joey said, recalling that Yugi had mentioned to him that while Darts had used it to prolong his life by ten thousand years.
"Yes, Lord Voldemort became obsessed with becoming Immortal, due to his fear of death and has practiced and tampered with dark magic, beyond any mortal mans power to build his dream of Immortality." Dumbledore said, looking towards Joey as he saw the young man's teeth grinding in rage at the man.
"Well, Professor, you have me and my Cyber Dragon's, I will battle against any and all of his little cronies to help you" Jack stated firmly, his blue-green eyes flaring with determination as Raven nodded her head stiffly. "Mine as well, you have my Vampiric dark creatures they will help as well" Raven stated, her eyes teared up slightly in anger as she stood next to Jack.
Professor Dumbledore saw their resolve with a little smile upon his lips. "I thank you both for your bravery and valiant strength to stand with us to defeat this great evil" Dumbledore said, his sparkling blue-eyes looking to Ms Granger as she stood up. "Mrs. Granger I wish to talk with you," he said as Hermione piped up slightly surprised.
"Yes, of course, Professor" she stated as they both exited the room.
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"I can't believe you, did you think your incompetent little drones would be able to actually win" Malik said with a deep growl, his shadowy form had grown more pronounced as the days had gone by the power of the Shadows had been fleshed him more and more as the darkness of the Oricalcos has been slowly infesting the country causing dread and anger to fill the hearts of millions.
"You presume to speak so boldly" Lord Voldemort declared, his hand gripped his white yew wand pointing it towards the young crazed spiked hair young man. "You exceed your place, I could kill you with simplicity," Voldemort declared as Malik simply chuckled looking to the Dark Lord.
"If you could, you would have already. Your magic is nothing compared to the magic of the Shadow Realm" Malik insulted as Voldemort seethed towards him with a sneer.
"Considering you don't have your magical little trinket yet, then you will keep your snarky remarks to yourself" Voldemort stated while Malik growled in annoyance that he was right, he hadn't obtained his Millennium Rod yet.
"Yes, and that is where you will assist me, I require a couple of your human drones to grab Marik, I need the rod, plus I have a little vengeance I would like to put my once host through" Malik said, a sadistic smile forming upon his lips. "You have no idea, of the agony and suffering, that little shit put me through, and I am going to pay him back for it tenfold" Malik growled as he turned to leave the room.
"Yes, I know of your little trifles with Mr. Ishtar" Voldemort state, his hand rolling in an exasperated manner. "Your petty issues do not interest me," he stated, walking over and sitting down as Wormtail entered.
"M-my Lord," he quavered, approaching Lord Voldemorts knee and kneeling beside his Master. "How may I be of service to you" Wormtail stated, his silver magical hand was steady, while his other hand quivered softly.
"Yes Wormtail, I want you to send Yaxley and Rowle to fetch young Mr. Ishtar from the Muggle gathering our guest requires his presence" Voldemort said, in an almost lazily tone knowing these actions did nothing to further his plans of wizard dominance and immortality.
"Yes, my lord, at once" the modest man said, his articulation, stuttering slightly as he scuttled away out of the room the door closing softly behind him.
"See, was that so difficult?" Malik asked, his eyes watching the Dark Lord closely his brows rising slightly in exasperation.
Lord Voldemort looked to Malik with a sneer as Malik began to laugh gently. "You need to broaden your plans, you're simply throwing duelists at them over and over trying to get them or hope you get lucky and defeat them, the chances of that happening are slim to none" Malik stated shaking his head as he exited the dining room hearing Lord Voldemort hissing to his massive python Nagini. Malik simply rolled his eyes as he walked through Malfoy Manor, his eyes looking about the gaudy décor.
"Ghahh, what ghastly taste in art" Malik said with a gagging sound as he heard noises from a doorway down the hallway.
"But father, you know that Minister Fudge has them being followed, he sent a few of his Aurors to that stupid Muggle event to track them, apparently Professor Umbridge doesn't trust, the transfer students and wants them tailed with any luck, they will screw up and use Magic and get caught by the Ministry" Draco said his voice carrying from his Father's study as Malik stopped smirking deviously.
"Hmm, seems my oh so lovable Hikari isn't trusted at his new school," Malik thought as he walked past the door and faded into the shadows, his corporeal form was weakening due to the long period without the Millennium magic, he was without the rod, but once he had it he would be completely solid once again.
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"Joey, I have to say that was an amazing battle" Marik said, slapping the blonde duelist upon the back, causing him to lurch forward from the force smiling widely.
"Thanks Marik, I know it was a great duel," Joey said, smiling widely while Yugi approached his own smile mirroring his best friends.
"Yes, Joey, you did amazingly, your accomplishments and strategies have matured so much since the KC Grand Prix tournament. Plus with the help my grandfather gave you getting you all those extra Red-Eyes cards really boosted your deck's strength." Yugi stated, the sound of Yami chuckling behind him caused the little King of Games to look back seeing Yami leaning against the wall smirking. "Yes, even I have to admit, Joey has grown to be an amazing duelist with such fierce tenacity and passion" Yami said, in spirit form looking to Yugi.
"Please, Wheeler is nothing compared Yugi's skill, he was slated to be eliminated no matter what" Kaiba said, with a scoffing tone seeing Joey tense lunging towards Kaiba to be taken back by Tristan.
"Kaiba!" Joey hissed between his teeth.
"Chill out, Joey!" Tristan said, his arms holding him in a strangle hold preventing the Red-Eyes duelists from attacking Kaiba.
"Joey, calm down please, you know Kaiba could crush you with a thought." Ryou said while Joey simply growled looking to Ryou.
"Oh come now Mr. Wheeler, you did splendidly against Yugi-boy, you should feel proud, you nearly defeated the King of Games himself" Pegasus said, with a merry laugh.
"Yeah, you got closer, than I thought possible?" Jack exclaimed, smiling to Joey as he saw Joey sag slightly in disappointment. "I know, but I was so close though," he exclaimed in a slight childish tone.
"Well, the next round won't be for another few hours since the semi-finals and finals will be held tomorrow for a build up of the climax, so let's get some food and relax" Ryou stated, as the competitors, including Hermione, Ron, and Harry all headed back into the private box meant for VIP guests, to chat and discuss strategy.
"Gosh, they take this dueling stuff seriously," Ron said, looking to Harry with a look of surprise, causing the Boy-who-lived to laugh softly. His blazing green eyes looked to his best mate with a grin.
"Ron, are you kidding, we are way worse, when it comes to Quidditch, and house teams and points for the school cup" Harry informed Ron while Hermione only sighed with a shake of her head.
"Boys!" she exclaimed the word caught Tea's ears as she laughed.
"Yeah, I know just how you feel, I mean I can't tell you how many times I told Rebecca a friend of ours from the KC Grand Prix tournament, how many times I needed more female friends" Tea said, with a laugh as Hermione blushed slightly at her exclamation smiling as she nodded.
"I mean I love the boys, but they go mad with frenzy over our sport in the Wizarding World" Hermione informed Tea as they both began to speak about their friends and their antics.
"Yeah, yeah, I know we can get a bit heated" Joey said, smiling his wide grin made Harry and Ron smile, knowing they were the same as they continued to speak about the competitors and the different types of decks and strategies.
"Then are you much of a duelist?" Joey asked, looking to Ron seeing the ginger hair teen seeing his ears go pink with embarrassment.
"Yeah, but I haven't had much time to practice" Ron said, pulling his deck out revealing it to Joey, and Jack their eyes widened at the archetype.
"Arch-fiends? Interesting that deck is a bit ahead for a newcomer of the game" Joey said as they heard Pegasus approach.
"Did, I hear Archfiends, Joey-boy" Pegasus stated with an exuberant tone smiling as he spotted the deck. His eye widened. "Ahh, yes, that is a hard deck to Master" Pegasus said, as Harry spoke up.
"Well, Ron is an amazing strategist in our world, he is an expert chess player and loves all strategy type games, that's what got him interested in the game." Harry stated, his green eyes looking to the long white haired billionaire.
"Hmm, well, I've had new support cards created and updated for the chess style Archfiends so its not so reliant on the chess formations and more with the upbeat speed of the game" Pegasus informed the red haired teen smiled nodding his head. "I'll contact Croquet my right hand man and have him retrieve the newest releases," he informed Ron as they all continued to talk and eat the snacks that had been prepared in the viewing box.
"Bakura, I need to speak with you." Marik said as they both left the viewing box and began to head down the hallway into a quieter area.
"Look, I know this is going to sound weird, but in the last few weeks, I have felt as if I was being watched" Marik stated, his normally tanned face seemed slightly pale as he swallowed, his eyes looking up the hallway, then back to Ryou, his hand subconsciously rubbing his shoulder where the healed markings of his tomb keepers markings were carved into his flesh.
"Hey, I know you are worried, but we are going to stop this freak." Ryou stated as Bakura took over his hair spiking as his eyes narrowed, looking up the hallway as they heard a loud crack sound the sight of red light flying down the hallway before he could pull his wand. "Marik, Ru" Bakura stated never getting to finish the statement as the stunning spell struck Ryou in the chest as he collapsed. Marik reached for his own wand as his back turned to face the direction of the attack, hearing a rough voice yell out. "Petrificus Totalus" the rough sounding voice stated, while the spell struck him, his arms and legs snapped down and to his waist causing him to fall back striking his head upon the ground the sudden impact causing him to get knocked out.
"Yaxley, grab him" Rowle demanded as the two Death Eater's rushed down the hallways grabbing Marik while Rowle pointed his wand towards Ryou, his wand twisting slowly. "Obliviate" Rowle stated casting the memory charm, while they both grabbed the arms of Marik and suddenly disapparated from the hallway. The loud crack resonated down the hall as the Duelists stopped their conversation as Harry held his hand up, at the sound.
"Did you hear that?" Harry said, standing swiftly, his hand drawing his Holly wand his green eyes looking to Hermione as she nodded.
"Yeah, someone just disapparated" she said as the three wizards and the competitors rushed out of the room down the hall seeing Ryou on the ground stunned.
"What the hell is going on?" Jack declared seeing Hermione pull out her wand.
"Finite, Enervate" Hermione said as she flicked and pointed her wand towards Ryou as the stunning spell faded and woke him up.
"Son of Bitch" Bakura exclaimed, his hand reaching too his wand as he looked about. "That mother fucker tried to obliviate me, thankfully Ryou took over before he cast the charm." Bakura said looking to Hermione. "Can you remove the charm upon Ryou so he doesn't loose the memory either" Bakura said as he felt Ryou take over the harsh tone of his voice softened with a more British accent. "Hello, Hermione, why is everyone out here?" he demanded as his eyes widened seeing Hermione aimed her wand between his eyes and cast a Finite, the spell caused the blocked memory to flash back into his own computer storage.
"Oh my gosh, Yugi, Marik they took him," Ryou exclaimed, seeing Yugi, Kaiba and Joey's eyes widened slightly at the news. "A couple of Death Eaters came and took him" Ryou explained as Bakura took back over growling in rage. "Those fucking cowards, stunned me and didn't have the balls to even fight, stunned me when my back was to them" Bakura declared as Hermione and Harry looked to Ron then back to the Duelists.
"Why would they take Marik though?" Ron asked, confused Pegasus stepping up his eye looking between the many competitors seeing the commotion.
"I'll go and alert the tournament committee that Marik has dropped out, we don't want to have the police alerted of a possible kidnapping, would be hard to explain that a couple wizards took him. "Ignorance of the security of the magical world, that Ms. Granger explained to me and to Raven and Jack needs to be kept up" Pegasus stated walking away from the group down and past the hall entrance.
"Well, the million dollar question is why take him?" Jack stated as they all left the hall and returned to the viewing room closing the door behind them. Bakura growling in rage, his Millennium Ring glowing in anger and rage at the thought of his friend in the hands of those insane blood purist wizards.
"We need to help him." Yugi said as Yami appeared in spirit form nodding his head sternly towards Yugi.
"It's going to have to wait till the end of the tournament." Kaiba stated bluntly looking to Yugi, his blue-eyes sending sparks at the thought of the final battle. "Yugi, you know we can't just up and leave in the middle of the competition." Kaiba said as Yami usurped control looking to Kaiba with shock.
"You can't be serious, Kaiba, Marik was kidnapped we have to find him now!" Yami exclaimed seeing his rival simply roll his eyes.
"Must you be so over dramatic, I'll make a few calls to a few of my connections here in London and have them get a hold of Scotland Yard and start looking for any suspicious activity around the stadium," Kaiba stated grabbing his disk turning his back to the group. "But this tournament will continue" Kaiba demanded as he left the room.
"Just a ball of Joy isn't he" Jack said, staring at the door in surprise at the cold actions Kaiba took looking back to Yugi and Bakura his eyes widened in shock while Tea and Joey sighed.
"Yeah, unless it involves Kaiba directly he usually doesn't care" Tea stated while Raven growled standing up and gathering her things heading out slamming the door to the viewing box following behind Kaiba.
"SETO, WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!" Raven screamed as Kaiba stopped, his back going rigid at the sound of his first name. "Are you insane, why are you acting so cold, one of your friends has been kidnapped" Raven stated as she grabbed his shoulder tugging him to turn to face her.
"He is not my friend, I have no friends except Mokuba" Kaiba hissed, turning to face the female champion as she smacked him hard across the cheek the sound echoed across the stone walls of the long tunnel. Kaiba's blue-eyes were wide with shock and anger as he saw her hand rose to hit him again, his hand grabbing her wrist tightly. "Don't you dare strike me again, do you have any idea what I can do to you and your life!" Kaiba snarled seeing Raven looking just as venomous jerking her wrist away.
"Contrary to your, self obsessed ego and inflated mind, you are not a god, you're a seventeen year old businessman with a genius level IQ and an unending bank account!" Raven screamed into his face, Kaiba's face was slightly shocked no one had spoken to him like this since his childhood with Gozaboro.
Kaiba opened his mouth to speak as he heard the familiar roar of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon as his gaze lowered to see his deck holster glowing white, while Kaiba reached down, pulling his deck out the card on the top glowing brightly as he pulled it showing his Blue-Eyes White Dragon staring back at him powerful determined and dare he think it angry at him.
"Even your own dragon is angry with you for the cold attitude towards the people that care about you" Raven said while Kaiba looked from his dragon to Raven. "Regardless of what you think and what you were taught during your childhood, there are people who care about you, me Yugi, Tea, Mokuba," Raven stated with a growl like his dragon as his ears caught the sound of the Blue-Eyes roaring once more. "Seto, you don't have to do everything on your own, you may not consider us, your friends. But we consider you our friend and we care about you. Even Joey, who may not be able to stand your posturing, but even he knows that in a tight situation you wouldn't leave him behind he is one of the chosen duelists." Raven declared Kaiba looking to her fighting the stinging comment about Wheeler his face contorted slightly in anger.
"Please, I don't need to hear another of Yugi's little friendship speeches" Kaiba scoffed, as he exited the hall heading to his private viewing booth to make his calls.
"Ok, the tournament committee has been notified of Marik's dropping out" Pegasus said, as the group returned to the viewing room knowing the rest of the tournament would resume tomorrow, "Though the fans would be upset this is more problematic, than fans being upset by a missing round." Pegasus said, his brown-eye looking between the competitors and to the aged wizard he had come to know as Professor Dumbledore.
"I shall contact members in the Order to begin looking for Mr. Ishtar, as well as inform the Professor's that he is missing and to not punish his absence" Professor Dumbledore said, informing his students that would be returning to Hogwarts after the Winter break.
"Well, now that we have this situation, to add to our problems" Pegasus stated, his hand raised to rub his brow slightly in annoyance. "Can't we go one tournament without a psychopath trying to ruin it" Pegasus said, as he heard Joey begin to cough into his hand looking to the long haired billionaire. "Souls trapped in the cards" Joey coughed seeing Pegasus is looking up narrowing his brown-eye, to him.
"I know, just once, I would like to enter a tournament for the enjoyment of it," Yugi stated in rage, his fists clenched in anger. Yami appeared in spirit form clenching his jaw as he looked to his Hikari with determination.
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"My Lord, we have returned" Rowle said, his hand holding his wand up levitating Marik's unconscious body through the door, followed by Yaxley with his own wand out incase Marik came too. Lord Voldemort sat upon his throne like chair, his hand holding the bone white yew wand in hand flicked causing Marik to rise past Rowle and Yaxley rising above the table as his wand flicked dropping him hard upon the stone top table.
"Hmmm, I finally have one of you infernal duelists" Lord Voldemort declared flicking his wand once more, "Finite." Lord Voldemort said, as Marik awoke his eyes widened as his hand reached for his wand with one hand and his other hand reaching for the Millennium Rod lifting it as the eye of Wudjat appeared upon his brow the golden eye on the head of the rod glowed while Rowles and Yaxley's eyes glazed in control as he pointed his wand at Lord Voldemort seeing the hideously pale man with no nose sitting his wand held loosely in his hand.
"Well, I must say, I am impressed you are fast and skilled. The magic you wield with your rod is powerful, but nothing compared to my own. Now lower your wand, you are no match for me." Lord Voldemort stated, his voice was calm and collected seeing Marik's look hardening at the man that had been causing him and his friends nothing but problems.
"If you value the minds of your loyal followers, I suggest you let me go, now!" Marik demanded as the rod glowed brighter. "If you don't, I will literally destroy the minds of your two servants" Marik demanded as Lord Voldemort simply stared a small smile forming upon his thin lips as he began to cackle loudly.
"You think I care what you do with my servants." Voldemort said sitting straighter as he chuckled. "I care nothing to what happens to them, they are my loyal followers, nothing more" Voldemort stated as the door burst open blasted by shadow magic.
"You didn't alert me that you had brought him" Malik yelled as Marik turned, seeing his dark side standing in the door frame, black curling shadows licking the wood paneling as he stepped forward and slowly approached Marik a sadistic look upon his face. While Marik's eyes widened in fear turning the rod on Malik, Lord Voldemort simply flicked his wand a silent accio the spell jerking the rod and wand out of his hands leaving him defenseless. The Golden Rod and wand landing on Voldemort's hand suddenly the millennium magic glowed causing Voldemort to wince and drop them both upon the table with a loud metallic and wooden clatter.
"Ah!, what the hell" Voldemort demanded, looking at his burned white hand, seeing the long red flesh burned mark upon his palm.
"Well, unless you are a destined Millennium Item wielder it's going to burn you" Malik said, approaching the table his hand was shadowy slowly solidifying gripping the wand the Millennium Rods eye glowed as his form became more solid. "Yes, finally the power of the Millennium Rod is mine again!" Malik exclaimed, his tongue licking his lips as he stared at Marik. "You will stay out of this little Lord, he is mine and mine alone" Malik said laughing maniacally Voldemorts jaw clenched at the insult watching Malik point the rod at Rowle and Yaxley breaking the spell that bound their minds to the rod then aimed it back upon Marik.
"Are you done?" Voldemort asked, his red eyes flared as he saw his two Death Eaters lift their wands in defense of their Master, their eyes became narrowed while Voldemort aimed his wand slowly towards Malik.
"Yes I have everything I need" Malik stated, approaching his once Hikari reaching into his holster taking his deck from his belt his fingers fanning the deck while his violet eyes widened as he spotted a card that caught his attention. "The Pharoah gave you The Winged Dragon of Ra!" Malik stated his fingers pulled the legendary God monster from the deck, his eyes looking to Marik his grin flaring widely. "Hmm, it seems my original plans of claiming the three Egyptian gods can and will once again happen all over." Malik said, the Rod glowing brighter caused Marik's eyes to glaze over watching him slip from the table.
"Good then leave I need to speak with my Death Eaters." Voldemort stated, Malik looked towards his sneering face as they both left the large dining room he had made into a meeting chamber, the door closing behind them.
"Come, my little Hikari, we have alot to do, and little time to do it." Malik said, laughing as the regal hallway of the manor house echoed the sound of his maniacal laugh to the Death Eaters causing their blood to run cold, even Lord Voldemort's jaw tensed at the sound.
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"Is there anything we can do to try and track him down" Ryou asked Professor Dumbledore as the aged Wizard sighed, his head shook with a look of sadness.
"Sadly, there isn't much we can do since no one knows where Lord Voldemort is hiding right now. He is doing everything he can to keep himself out of the spotlight till the right moment when the wizarding world is at its weakest." Dumbledore stated seeing the shocked look of Ryou and Yugi, his aged face showing his sorrow at the loss of their missing friend.
"I don't understand, why doesn't your Minister understand that he is back and in hiding" Ryou demanded as Dumbledore shook his head, sighing deeply.
"Fudge isn't aware, that the harder he holds onto his post as Minister for Magic he is losing the people that matter, I tried to inform him of the rise of the Dark Lord, but he is blind with fear and denial" the head Master stated seeing Ryou change slightly rolling his eyes in anger.
"So because your Minister is a fucking moron and a coward he is the reason our friend was taken so easily, keeping your people blind and ignorant of the truth" Bakura demanded standing up and turning around yelling in rage. "That man deserves a punch in the face" Bakura exclaimed, growling loudly, the eye of the millennium Ring glowing brightly under his shirt as he stormed off from the group. Yugi and Jack watched him walk away.
"So are there any more of your people here at the competition?" Jack asked, while Yugi looked to Dumbledore with a hint of anger in his lilac and red eyes.
"Yes, the Minister has sent several Auror's to the competition undercover to keep an eye on the event since there are so many Muggles and wizards gathered in one place for their safety." Dumbledore informed them while Kaiba and Raven walked back in the wizards and Duelists all looked up to him.
"Any word Kaiba?" Yugi asked, stepping towards his rival seeing Kaiba's piercing Blue-eyes close slightly.
"Scotland Yard is on the case looking for Marik they have been given a recent photo, I also contacted Ishizu and Odion, they are heading to Kaiba Corp to get on my Private Jet to be brought here as quickly as they can." Kaiba stated, Yugi's face softening with relief at the news.
"Thank you, Kaiba," Yugi said with a sigh as Raven jumped up and down with a little excitement. "You see," she said, smacking Kaiba in the shoulder. "Was that so hard to be nice, " she stated, her eyes staring daggers at Kaiba as a sweat drop formed upon his temple as if it took every nerve to not make a biting comment.
"Well, with the next round canceled what do we do then. It's still too early to go to bed" Joey said as he looked between the four wizards and the fellow competitors as well, his shoulders shrugging as Kaiba rolled his eyes slightly.
"I have more important things to do than to hang out with you losers, the hotel has been given me a tab for the competitors get some food and relax in your rooms, then" Kaiba said, walking out of the booth, his coat billowing behind him as Raven turned watching with a scoff.
"Ass!. Always having to sound too cool to hang out with people he refuses to consider his friends" Raven exclaimed her face going red with anger at her friend as Yugi approach placing his hand on her shoulder chuckling softly as Yami usurped control.
"Don't worry Raven come and hang out with us, since Kaiba is bringing Ishizu and Odion here, there isn't much more we can do." Yami said as Dumbledore stood up turning to face them.
"I will make contact with Minister Fudge and inform him that one of my students has been abducted, with any luck, he will see reason." Dumbledore said as he turned and left the group to their thoughts.
The others watched while Yami saw Bakura usurp control as he left the room, his hands gripping his duel disk slipping it on, the ring glowing madly as he pulled out his deck fanning the cards slapping the monster upon the disk.
"Come to me Souls of the Forgotten!" Bakura declared as his ring shined the shadowy, like monster appeared with many faces in torturous torment. "Yes, my Master" the creature stated as Bakura approached his dark fiend monster. "Stick to the shadows, track the Millennium magic and find the Rod holder, do you understand, stay hidden from the wizards, find the location and bring it back to me!" Bakura snarled, the monster bowing the shadowy face suddenly melting into the purple fire of the shadow realm then vanishing from the room.
"Bakura!" Yami said, Jack, Raven and the wizards looked up as they watched him leave the group. His spine tingled as the sudden surge of Millennium magic approaching the King of Thieves, his own lilac and crimson eyes flashing anger and sadness as the Millennium Ringmaster turned to him, his face was showing rage, pain and loss all flashing across his face caused Yami to stop.
"No! Back off Pharoah, I'm doing this my way, if I come across any of those death eaters, I'm going to rip their pathetic souls from their bodies and send them straight to the Shadow Realm!" Bakura growled at the ancient Pharoah as he approached his once enemy placing his hand upon his shoulder feeling it shudder in rage. Yugi appears in spirit form, surprised that Yami was being comforting to the King of Thieves.
"We'll find him Bakura, no one threatens a Millennium Item wielder." Yami said, his gaze, catching the ring glow brightly his long white hair spiking upwards like devilish horns.
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"My Lord," the quavering voice of Wormtail spoke as he approached his Master sitting upon the throne like high backed chair, his fingers rolling his white yew wand with a sneer. "We have found and brought someone with us to assist your plans" Wormtail stated, his body shaking his head down looking at his Masters feet.
"Is he skilled?" Lord Voldemort stated, as the heavy boots of another entered the dining room as a massive man standing almost seven feet tall, his hands gloved in gauntlets with massive cuffs his head covered with a cap, eyes scarred with slash marks downward. His broad chest pressing tight to the black jacket a thick P and K imprinted on the fabric approached.
"I have heard rumors he is skilled my Lord," Wormtail whispered as the man approached, his eyes widened at the sight of the dark lords appearance.
"Hmm, well, I am a bit surprised to hear that there are wizards in the world, though when I faced that punk Yugi I sensed something was off." The man stated, while Voldemort simply stared at the immense figure of the man.
"Are you sure you are not part giant yourself," Voldemort said, a soft chuckle passed his thin lips, while sitting up in his chair, his red eyes looking at the man.
"I wouldn't know, my life is none of your concern, your only concern is who I duel against as long as you pay well enough." He said grinning widely, his massive hands clenching tightly as Wormtail sneered to the man hearing his disrespect towards his Master.
"Show some respect you pathetic Muggle, you stand before my Master, yet you ask for payment like a common panhandler" Wormtail stated, standing up, his silver hand reached to draw his wand as the heavy boot hit him hard in the face knocking the stout man hard to the ground.
"Show respect for your superior's little man, " he stated, approaching and putting his boot upon Wormtails throat, causing him to choke. While Lord Voldemort lifted his hand to stop him, seeing the freakish mans hand lift as his boot lifted from Wormtails throat. Hearing the fat, stout man wheeze and cough hard as he chuckled softly. "You are pathetic, you're a little worm cowering and weak, " he said, stepping back as he looked towards Lord Voldemort.
"I'll be sending you to the World Championships shortly, I want you to crush Ryou Bakura and claim his soul." Lord Voldemort stated, seeing his eyes widen slightly in surprise at the request.
"Not Yugi?" the man asked, slightly annoyed at the request. "Why Ryou Bakura, he's a nobody."
"Cause I don't think you can manage to defeat the King of Games, if Seto Kaiba hasn't beaten him yet, you certainly won't manage it." Lord Voldemort said, rather bluntly seeing the man clench his jaw in rage.
"You don't think I can beat that little runt." He growled at Lord Voldemort who simply laughed .
"No, not really, " he said, moving to leave the chair seeing Wormtail stand to follow his Master."Now go, Wormtail show him to the collection of cards we acquired and give him his seal card, understand, you must play it the moment you draw it, regardless of the situation." Voldemort stated waving his hand to dismiss him as the man growled in rage at the demeaning tone the pale no nosed man had paid him.
"My Lord, is this wise, you remember what Malik said about just sending duelists one after another and getting little results" Lucius stated as he stood before Lord Voldemort. The man looked ragged, his face was unshaven, he was far paler than he had been before. His long normally sleek, smooth hair, looked ragged and unwashed. Lord Voldemort had been running him ragged with the attempts of breaking into the Hall of Prophecies only to find out this week in fact that no one could remove the blasted sphere aside from Harry Potter and his Lord.
"You are truly pathetic Lucius, how can you cower and bend backwards so easily" Lord Voldemort said, Lucius stood shuddering slightly his tongue licking his now dry lips in fear looking to his Master. "Remember the plan I have for Potter, you will bring in several Death Eaters as well as Belatrix to retrieve the Prophecy when Potter finds it" Lord Voldemort stated, his red eyes staring intently towards one of his inner circle a look of disgust on his face.
"Leave me, I have things to plan" Voldemort stating, Lucius's head nodded, leaving the room his cane clacking softly upon the hard polished floor the door closing behind him. The large stone of Oricalcum he wore shined brightly against his chest. The small seal appeared on his pale brow between his hairless eyebrows shining bright while another seal appeared before him.
"We need more strong souls, more, get me the chosen duelists, and you will achieve what you have sought your entire life your true immortality" the voice whispered in his mind. Voldemort's head softly nodded as he spoke to no one in particular more to himself.
"Yes, I am so close just a few more" Voldemort whispered, his red eyes opening as a flash of green slowly filling his right eye, leaving him dichromatic laughing loudly the sound resonating within the large dining room.
"Take your pick build what you need" Wormtail said, sneering at the massive man as he began looking through the hundreds of different cards pulling out cards slipping them into a pile as he pulled his own deck comparing monster, spells, and traps switching out cards constructing a stronger deck.
"I must say for a group of people who hate my kind you certainly have quite a collection of cards." The man said, slipping the stack of cards into his pocket.
"Yes, well, even you Muggles have powerful weapons, " Wormtail said, breaking off, turning and leaving the man standing there. "Come we must get you to the competition" Wormtail said, in a non caring sounding tone as the man finished what he was doing gathering the cards he needed while he left the room, "Come on, " Wormtail stated pulling a long stick as he reached out taking the man's forearm with his strange silver hand. The sudden sensation behind his naval felt strangely as if he was being pulled through a hose wincing in pain as they appeared at the main entrance of the massive stadium smashing hard into the hard stone floor.
"Geez, could you have been a little gentler," he said, growling standing up, his hands, wiping the dust off of his coat, a look of anger at the balding stout man. "Yes, well have fun." Pettigrew said, waving his silver hand with a sickly smile as he vanished from the entrance with a loud crack.
"Creepy little fucker." The mountain of a man said as he walked into the entrance hall, passing many fans and fellow duelists. "Now where shall I start looking" the man said, stepping past the hundreds of duellists in the great hall trading dueling and chatting about the previous rounds.
"Did you see how Kaiba and Jack summoned those two massive dragons." One of the boys said, seeing the man approach his eyes widening at the sight of the massive man. "Dude, isn't that what's his face the eliminator from the Duelists Kingdom tournament" the young teen said, tapping his friend quickly as the man walked past them knocking his friend hard on his shoulder causing him to fall to the ground. "Man, what the hell is your problem" he yelled, reaching for his friend helping him up.
"Do you have a problem boy," he said facing the two his large hand clenching tightly in his gauntlet. His eyes narrowed at the two young men his sickening smile was wide. "Perhaps you would like to duel me and be shown true horrors and terror that will haunt your nightmares." He declared, stepping towards them seeing them step back as he approached. Lifting his left arm up his duel disk was massive to fit his immense forearm as the blade of his disk resembled a battle axe's blade.
"N-no way man, we know when to back down," the young man said, quickly pulling his friend away towards one of the dueling card stalls.
"Pathetic little worms." He said looking about the hundreds of people his eyes narrowed as he saw the familiar white spiked hair of Bakura rushing past several of the fans shrugging off a few fan girls as he stomped faster him shoving past several duelists.
"If the Pharoah won't do anything, then I'll hunt down each one of those pathetic Death Eaters bastards" Bakura snarled, pushing the door to the back of the convention hall open stepping out the door not making a locking sound as he stopped.
"Well, if it isn't the little white haired boy from Duelist Kingdom, Pegasus told me about you. He told me if I managed to defeat you and claim your shining gold trinket I would get a bonus" the man said, closing the door behind them as Bakura turned around already angry and ready to banish any to the shadow realm that angered him further.
"Look, I'm not going to stand for a fucking selfie" he said, stopping his eyes widened as the man stepped into the light of the small outdoor lamp that lit the exits door frame. "What?! You, but I thought the Pharoah sent you to the shadows." he said as the man began to laugh.
"Yes, I spent a long time in that dark burning hell you call the Shadow Realm, tortured, tormented shown the rage and pain. I was forced to watch the pain I caused so many other's. All it did was drive me to remain sane and whole." He said as he stepped towards Bakura seeing the teen shudder ever slightly at the sight of a person from their past.
"I can see the fear growing in your eyes Bakura. I can hear you quaking in your shoes. You're beginning to realize the nightmare that's stepped before you. I do believe you're beginning to Panic" he said laughing maniacally, his left arm cocking forward as his duel disk's blade pushed outwards glowing ready for its next battle.