ShadiStar13: Finally we get to the detention and Umbridge gets her just deserts.
Shadowkyra: Well not quite, Pegasus is there because he's scared, he never expected that his old foe's would turn up there, and as for the extra studies lessons who ever said they were to help them? As for Voldermort learning of the items in the first chapter it states that he's looking for something and Wormtail tells him that the items exist, Voldermort has explored the deepest reaches of the magic world in order to find more and more powerful dark magic to covert, the millennium items a legend according to Pegasus must look pretty attractive (he couldn't know of the Yami's or the true power of the shadow realm, and in a later scene although apparently no closer to recovering the items he has found Dartz and taken the power of Orichalcos for himself.
SRRH: I've read the other fan fic where Pegasus is a teacher and the reading there minds thing was far to inconvenient for them, and it did reference the show, Pegasus was unaware of Yami Bakura although he'd clearly been back for a while (casual comment made by him seems to suggest this) so Yami B. can block both his thoughts and his presence from him, and presumably can block Ryo's mind as well otherwise when Pegasus read his mind he'd have known that he was once possessed by a dark force and wouldn't have been so surprised by Yami B.'s appearance. I'm guessing Marik's Rod effecting minds would cancel out the Eye's power but several times during battle city the Rod activated on its own to protect and influence Kaiba so it could give him the same protection Marik has providing their near each other (not sure of the proximity, Yami was able to resist against Pegasus mind probing before and so by becoming more powerful is able to resist it more this time.
SilverDragon-Purity: Detentions with Umbridge, Kaiba scored one first, then Marik and Bakura and finally Yugi (Yami really) for trying to stick up for the others.
Ahilty: You like Pegasus?!
Chapter 33) Trouble and strife
Professor Sprout had not been pleases when they turned up late even though they had an excuse, bud she made do assigning Yugi and Marik, Kaiba and Bakura as partners for the lesson. They apparently had to prune some magical plants which would want a short back and sides but needed a lot taking of the top.
The resentful blooms proceeded to figit and whip about with their branches badly scratching everyone, Neville working with a pompous Hufflepuff called Ernie proved to be good at this which irked Kaiba, then again he hadn't expected a gardening lesson so he mainly let it to Bakura, Marik was sloppy and had the plant whack him in the Eye for giving it a buzz cut. Having Harry and his friends keep sending them suspicious glances didn't help.
Kaiba left the greenhouses his shoulders shaking slightly with suppressed rage, Marik was massaging a newly forming black eye and had enjoyed the lesson about as much as Kaiba had, Yugi wasn't exactly keen on going near Dragon dung either and Bakura although apparently giving his plant a satisfactory pruning had felt ridicules, half expecting the teacher to tell them their next task was to give them a hot wax and perm.
They barely had enough time to grab a bite before there detention, during which they heard some girl argue with harry about Queedit trials, that broom sport they remembered hearing apart, after the argument Harry seemed even more down, not that the Duellists cared, after all he and his assembly where spying on them.
"Don't forget after this we have a lot of home work to do" Kaiba stated calmly. Marik snorts "So? You have all night to do it, after all you never sleep" Kaiba regards him with desertion "In case you forgot I have a company to run, it's hard enough juggling high school and work at the best of times, but now I have to run Kaiba Corp over the internet it's ten times trickery.
At five to five Harry got up to leave, Kaiba and Yugi also got up to follow him. "What's the rush?" complained Marik grumpily, but gets up anyway nudging Ryo who sighs and joins them leaving his half eaten meal, he wasn't that hungry.
Harry knocked on the door to Umbridge's office on the third floor, receiving a command to enter he turns the door knob and opens the door, with the air of someone at a funeral (there own) they enter.
Kaiba couldn't believe his own eyes, Mariks mouth drops open in shock, Yugi's eyes boggle out of his head, and Bakura almost fainted on the spot, Harry looked around the room his features split between astonishment and repulsion.
The room was pink! Hideously pink, Pink and decorated, Pink! Now I'm not saying the entire room was pink, thank God no it wasn't, the furniture for example was the usual brown colour just covered with pink shawls, still the decorations for the most part weren't entirely pink, that did not change the fact that it was a pink office.
The walls were covered in decorative plates with pictures of cats and kittens and like with the paintings Struan around the school the cats were moving about hissing, spitting and meowing.
At first they couldn't see Umbridge until she spoke revealing her position behind her desk, her robes blending in perfectly with the pink curtains behind her and he pink table cloth covering her desk. "Good evening" she says pleasantly with a false smile. "Good evening Professor" replied Harry in a stiff voice and Yugi in a low voice, Kaiba grunted, Marik ignored her greeting and Ryo remained silent.
"Well sit down" she said pointing at a series of desks in the corner, each had a small chair beside it and a blank piece of parchment on top for writing on.
Harry tried to reason with her first a lesson in futility, apparently he needed Friday of to go attend the broomstick game try outs, if Bakura ever got over it, he Marik and Yami might be interested in the game, Kaiba probably knew all about it but his feelings on the matter were unclear.
After calling him an attention seeking prat, and completely failing to hide her glee that she was stopping him from doing something fun, she told him that it would enforce the lesson she was trying to teach them. Kaiba understood the lesson all too well, keep your head down and humour her, challenges and complaints would serve no purpose other than to antagonise her, he should have known that, Marik and Bakura were troublemakers and were looking to get a detention, he should have remained impartial to the whole affair, Yugi should have as well, instead of sticking up for them, it was a foolish sentiment, but one Kaiba couldn't forget.
After she congratulated Harry on keeping his temper she handed over several Quills saying "You're going to be using these rather special Quills of mine" Yugi pricked his thumb against the sharp Quill pint absently, he'd seen other students use them but he hadn't thought they were as sharp as that.
"I want you to write 'I must not tell lies' Umbridge tells Harry. "and you can write 'I will not insult my teacher' she tells Marik "I want you to write 'I must not spread false accusations' she tells Kaiba, before turning to Ryo "You will write 'I will not be insolent in future' her eyes turn to Yugi "and finally you write 'I must not believe in wicked rumours and evil lies' when asked how many times they had to write down the lines she replied cryptically "until the message sinks in"
Harry however still seemed perplexed "You haven't given us any ink" he tells her. "Oh you won't need any ink" claims Umbridge a suggestive laugh present in her voice.
Marik shrugs, writing lines how basic, surely a magical school could come up with something better than that? Or so he'd assumed. They each started writing there lines harry and Ryo gasped as words appeared on the parchment in shiny blood red ink, and then gasped again as they wrote the words appeared cut into the back of their writing hands.
Yugi couldn't help but flinch from the unexpected pain before his Yami takes over taking the pain for him. Kaiba had suffered with more pain than you could comprehend this was nothing to him. Marik had hissed at the pain but now kept on writing refusing to give in, compared to been branded with the rites of the tomb keeper clan with a hot knife this was Childs play. Ryo cradled his sore hand unsure how he could continue to write, it hurt so much. Harry looked up at Umbridge his disgust, pain and hatred evident in his gaze.
Yami was livid, he had cut of his Aibou, sealing him within his soul room, so he felt none of the pain currently been inflicted upon the body, Yugi would be upset at him after this but he could not allow him to suffer this way.
It was taking all of Marik's strength to keep Ishtar under control, he was furious and wanted to banish the horrible old hag, no wait not just her, everyone! The nosy potter kid, Pretty little Ryo chan, the Pharaohs sweet innocent vessel and everyone! Pain was his friend it nurtured him and fed his madness if he had not been weakened during his resurrection Marik may not have been able to stop him from ending everything right then.
Ryo was having the worst of it he had a low pain threshold something his Yami had taken full advantage of back when using Ryo had just been a means to an end. Ryo kept on shakily writing but it was all too much, he wasn't as strong as the others he froze for a second entering the corridor separating his and his Yami's mind.
Pounding on the door to Bakura's room he breaks down crying with panic and pain. "Please Yami, help me!" He begged "I can't take it, please it hurts, it hurts my hand, please just make it stop, just make the pain go away!" tears fell down his face as he collapsed sobbing against the door which finally opened reviling Bakura who's glare diminishes and comment dies immediately.
"Hikari! What…?" he embraces his vessel and slips into his short term memory discovering what had transpired in his absence, flying into a terrible and uncontrollable rage as he discovers what has happened to his vessel "How dare she!"
A second later a severely pissed of Tomb Robber stopped writing in mid sentence and flexed his sore hand burning with pain, he almost snapped the Quill he was holding in the process, Yami felt the resurfacing of the Tomb Robber and quickly tells him through the mind link :Bakura! Don't!:
/She hurt my Hikari/ Bakura all but screamed at him as the shadow energy around him built itself up.
:I was forgetting: Yami replies :only you are aloud to do that:
A sombre pause and then /would you like to repeat that Royalty?/
Ishtar cackles :I'd shut up Pharaoh unless you want to join her/ he both advises and mocks Yami.
Harry and Kaiba look up realising something was wrong the room seemed darker and full of despair and anguish, Umbridge was oblivious to subtle change in the atmosphere and wasn't even looking at them "not again" murmurs Kaiba feeling the dread wash over him.
Bakura rose to his feet and strode over to Umbridge who looks up and scowls at him "what do you think…" she's cut of as Bakura seizes her soul sealing it within the Quill he held savagely slamming her soul into it, her body fell back against her chair limp and lifeless.
Harry leapt to his feet at once snatching out his wand he had no idea what had just happened and probably didn't want to know. His instincts told him he had to reach Professor Dumbledore, he had to get away fast. But Yugi now barred the way out.
"Move out of the way" Harry demanded as he brandished his wand "Don't make me…" he collapses unconscious to the floor with a groan, Ishtar behind him tosses the Millennium rod up and down while smirking sadistically.
"Couldn't you have incapacitated him with the Rod?" Kaiba asks him mildly interested.
Ishtar gives him 'the' look "I did" he replied as though it should be obvious.
"Hitting him over the head with it hardly counts" Yami snaps at him before approaching Bakura cautiously.
Ishtar shrugs and Marik takes over looking around he takes in the situation, Kaiba was standing to the side trying to figure out whether Harry was still breathing without actually having to get down and check. Yami was about to launch into an argument with Bakura who looked like he was about to snap the Quill currently holding the Hag Umbridge's soul in half.
"Not good, not good at all" says Marik summing up the situation.