Notes: Okay, from now on, all my chapters are going to be nice and long. Once Yugi and the others survive past Halloween (and there is gonna be some action on Halloween), the main action will start. So I'm just concentrating on getting there, because I wanna write the action!!! And since I NEED action in this story (okay, I'm hyper right now), there's a little thing in here where Voldemort figures out how to summon duel monsters from the Shadow Realm and summons some to the train. Oh, and one thing, since I like Yami more than Yugi, Yami's going to be taking over Yugi's body the whole of this chapter, and that's why he's not saying anything or being mentioned. To clear up any other problems, let's just say Yami and Bakura can take solid form when they want, but otherwise they live in the items.

Thanks to my reviewers, Yami's Girl 3000, Anya, Arian Starswing, Yana, Alaena Flame Dragonstar, Phantom, Silver Angel, and Blue-eyes White Dragone!

Disclaimer:

I don't own. You don't sue. It's as simple as that.

Key:

/(words)/ = Yugi talking mentally to Yami

//(words)// = Yami talking mentally to Yugi

~(words)~ = Ryou talking mentally to Bakura

~~(words)~~ = Bakura talking mentally to Ryou

"(words)" = speech (if you didn't know that…go take some grammar classes or something)

New Author's Notes: Fixed the fight scene, yes. Yami still loses, but Bakura has more of a part, but it's still kind of awkward. I don't like writing fight scenes where the main character either has problems winning or loses.

Chapter 6

Journey to Hogwarts

Ryou had rushed through the barrier into a crowd of robe-wearing wizards and witches.

~See? You just have to trust people sometimes.~

Bakura wouldn't answer, but Ryou could hear him grumbling in his soul room.

Ryou looked around at all of the witches and wizards. Most of the kids were pushing around trolleys, either empty or loaded up, or climbing onto the train. The adults were mostly there to send them off. Not quite knowing what to do, Ryou hung around near where he had come out originally, waiting for Harry and the Weasleys to come in and tell him what to do. Soon afterwards, Harry and Ron came charging in from the fancy wrought iron sign that read "Platform Nine and Three-Quarters".

"Ryou, get on the train!" Ron hollered. "It's gonna leave without us!"

Ryou quickly obliged, but when he had finished fighting the crowd and had gotten to the train he realized with a groan that he still had to get his horribly heavy trunk onto it before he could get on himself.

"Ryou!"

Ryou turned around and saw Yami and Joey heading towards him. "Hey, need a hand?" Joey asked.

Ryou nodded gratefully. "This thing is way too heavy. I didn't know all those spellbooks could weigh so much."

Joey and Yami chortled and helped him shove the trunk aboard. Then Ryou clambered aboard himself and followed Joey and Yami with the trunk to the back compartment, which they had managed to snag before anyone else.

"Trunks go up there," Yugi said, waving at the compartments that lined the roof of the car. Yami chuckled at the expression on Ryou's face. He was staring open-mouthed at the compartments, then at his trunk, and back again.

"Don't worry, we'll help," Joey grinned and winked, and the three of them shoved Ryou's monster of a trunk into a compartment that only had one of Kaiba's bags in it.

They took a seat and started chatting excitedly about their summer vacation.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Have you found nothing yet?" The voice was very impatient.

"I am looking, my Lord, but so far I have not found anything." This was the high-pitched squeak of Wormtail.

The man who had first spoken got up and paced around the room. "If you do not find anything within the next day, then I will have to join the search also. And if I must, then you will pay."

"Yes, my Lord." There was some rather frantic scrabbling through the bookcases until Wormtail squealed, "My Lord! I have found something that may be of interest to you!"

The shadowy figure quickly swept across the floor to where Wormtail was waving about an ancient-looking, dusty old book in the air rather energetically.

"Let me see it."

Wormtail quickly handed over the book to him and waited for his opinion on the matter.

"You have done well, Wormtail," the figure said, grinning rather evilly. "This will more than get rid of that annoying Harry Potter…and this year he is weaker than ever, without his mother's protection." Nothing more was said between the two as the shadow swept out of the room to prepare the spell, and Wormtail collapsed in relief.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The train started to move when Harry, Ron, and Hermione came into the compartment. "Can we sit here?" Harry asked. "Everywhere else is full."

Ryou nodded. "Of course."

The train had hardly started moving, but Joey was practically screaming. "DOES THIS TRAIN SERVE ANY FOOD?" he yelled. "I'm hungry!"

Everyone but Kaiba, who was snickering something about how the only thing ever on the puppy's brain was food, tried to get him to quiet down before he got them all in trouble.

"You just ate," Yami sighed. "Nearly spent the last of our Muggle money too while you were at it." He glared. "So you'd better quiet down."

"Eh, whoops…sorry." Joey then began mumbling incoherent things. They were probably about the food shortage on the train, but as long as he wasn't screaming, they all let him complain as much as he liked.

Yugi extracted a pack of cards from his pocket and suggested that they play a game with them. Everyone agreed except Harry, Ron, and Hermione, who went into one of the corners and started talking about something in low whispers. Yami kept winning, being the King of Games, except soon after all the cards exploded simultaneously with a rather loud BANG.

Everyone shrieked. Joey dove under the seat thinking the compartment had exploded, but Kaiba dragged him out by his ear, smirking, which was enough for him to stop shaking.

"Ryou, read the box," Yami ordered, after he realized that the cards were pretty much unharmed, but they had just exploded.

He read it. "Exploding cards?" he questioned. "Interesting…oh, you're supposed to play a game called Exploding Snap with them…" He read the instructions. "Anyone up for a game?" he asked.

Ron tried to stifle a snicker at Joey and the others but failed.

After everyone had memorized the rules, they started to play, Yami winning most of the time. Everyone could see that Kaiba was about to threaten Yami to stop playing because he was winning so much.

No wonder. Kaiba had always been a sore loser. Well, most of the time, anyway.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

He was almost done with the spell that would allow him to call upon the Shadow Realm and any monsters willing to do his bidding. He quickly finished and called forth the Shadow Realm. The air crackled with excess energy and a void opened in the room, shadows spilling into the room. (A/N: Um…I don't know what happens when they call the Shadow Realm, so just bear with me here…) A strange-looking, silent creature slipped out of the void. "Who has awoken the Shadow Realm?" it asked.

"It is I, Voldemort," he said simply. The monster paused and nodded slowly.

"So, Voldemort, what do you want with the duel monsters that reside within the Shadow Realm?"

An evil grin spread over Voldemort's face. "I would like you to call the strongest team of evil duel monsters to hunt down the boy named Harry Potter, and kill him. Preferably before he reaches his destination, the school called Hogwarts."

An equally evil smile appeared on the duel monster's face. "As you wish, Voldemort." And with that it was gone. Minutes later, the room was normal again, all traces of the summoning vanished.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The train ride remained uneventful. Around noon, a plump witch pushing a cart laden with different foods came into their compartment. "Anything off the cart, dears?"

Kaiba was starting to tell off the witch for calling him a 'dear', but instead he gave a loud yelp as Joey flung himself past everyone else and said, "Ooh, I'll have some!"

Everyone sweatdropped. Joey turned around and said, "What? A guy has a right to be hungry, you know!"

"Well, don't waste too much of your money," Ryou cautioned. "We don't know what we might need to use it for at school."

Joey probably hadn't even heard him, he was picking through the stuff and exclaiming things in a loud voice.

After everybody had paid for their snacks, they sat down and unwrapped them.

"Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans? Are they jellybeans or something like that?" Joey asked, peering at the package that Kaiba held in his hand.

"You'll want to be careful with those," Ron said.

"When they say every flavor, they really mean every flavor," Harry said. "There are the normal ones like chocolate and peppermint, but then they have spinach and grass too. Dumbledore got an ear-wax flavored one before."

"Umm…I think I'll pass on that," Kaiba said, tossing the bag aside.

Joey snatched it up. "I'll have 'em!" He ripped open the bag and popped a jellybean into his mouth. He promptly spit it out. "Ew! Onion!"

Everyone snickered.

"Well, you can't say we didn't warn you," Ron snickered.

Yugi unwrapped a Chocolate Frog and picked up the card. "What's this?" he asked, holding it up.

"It's one of the Chocolate Frog trading cards. See what it is, I'll trade you one if it's one of the ones I don't have yet," Ron said.

"Albus Dumbledore," Yugi read. "Hey, isn't that the headmaster of Hogwarts?"

Harry nodded. "It was the first one I got too."

~~What kind of food do these people eat anyway??~~ Bakura demanded.

Ryou shrugged mentally. ~I don't know.~

After everyone had finished their snacks, they started up another game of Exploding Snap.

After about half an hour, Yami suddenly stopped putting down cards. Everyone stared at him. "Hey, Yami, your turn's not over yet," Joey said, tapping him on the shoulder. (A/N: I don't know how Exploding Snap goes. J.K. Rowling didn't explain it in detail.)

Yami didn't answer.

"Yo, Yami!" Joey said, louder.

"I sense a darkness approaching," he said, his eyes narrowing. "It feels like the Shadow Realm."

"Um…" Everyone exchanged glances and looked at Ryou for input from his yami.

~~Yes, I sense it too. The Pharaoh's not just interpreting information wrong this time. Like he usually does.~~

"Bakura senses it as well," Ryou said, ignoring the last part.

"Darkness?" Joey questioned.

But there was no time for either Yami or Ryou to answer, for right at that moment a Curse of Dragon came swooping down on the train. They heard people screaming in the other compartments.

"Is that a Curse of Dragon?" Kaiba asked, mystified. "How did it get out of the Shadow Realm?"

Yami frowned. "I'm not sure…someone must have opened it again. And apparently, it's something evil," Yami added, ducking as the Curse of Dragon landed on the top of their compartment and making a circular dent on the roof.

Harry poked his head in from the compartment in front of them. "Um, you know what that is?" he asked, pointing at a swordsman.

Kaiba and Yami answered at the same time. "Neo the Magic Swordsman." Then they both glared at each other.

"Harry, you, Ron, and Hermione are all welcome to come in here," Ryou offered. "It'd be safer than just being alone."

Yami shot a death look at Ryou at the mention of Hermione's name, but he didn't really complain.

"The train's being taken over by duel monsters!" Kaiba exclaimed.

"What are duel monsters?" Hermione asked, intrigued.

"That," Yami said, pointing at the swordsman. "And that." He pointed at the dent in the ceiling.

A Dark Elf came into the compartment. "I have strict orders to…" She trailed off as soon as she saw Yami, who was glaring with such ferocity that everyone else felt like cowering into a corner. Then she turned and ran right out of the room.

Yami sighed. "I was afraid this was going to happen…"

"What, the train being taken over by duel monsters?" Joey asked. "I mean, you're not psychic. That's Shadi's job."

Yami groaned. "I will resist the urge to whack you," he muttered. "I was talking about them finding me, anyway. SO WILL YOU SHUT UP AND LET ME THINK?"

"Ok, man, you yell loud when you panic…" Joey muttered.

"But why are they even here in the first place? Is it another plot so someone can get all seven Millennium Items?"

Yami shrugged. So did Ryou.

"So, why are you worried about them finding you?" Kaiba asked.

Yami growled. "Some duel monsters aren't exactly on the pharaoh's side…maybe you should all get out of here."

"Let's not," Ryou said. "Bakura may be of some help, and we'll all be weaker if we just all go stampeding off to who-knows-where on this train."

Yami shrugged. "Fine with me," he said, glaring at the Ring. "Just make sure he doesn't try to steal my Puzzle in all this mess."

~~Does he really think I'm so stupid as to take my attention off an opponent just to get his Puzzle?~~

~It's what you acted like before, Bakura. Don't take it so hard.~

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The Dark Elf scurried down the compartments, trying to find the leader of the attack, Ansatsu. She found him strolling down the compartments, observing his monsters.

"Sir, we have a bit of a problem in the last compartment…"

He growled. "What is it, Dark Elf?"

"There's a person in there that I'd like you to tell me how to defeat."

"Who?" he asked.

"The Pharaoh."

"The WHO???"

"The Pharaoh. I don't think our forces will be able to defeat him."

"Is there anyone else I need to worry about?"

"No, no one. Unless the tomb robber has also awoken inside the Millennium Ring, which I saw around a white-haired youth's neck."

"The pharaoh is our main worry. Go with four others to subdue him. We don't want him dead. Remember, Voldemort may want him for his plan."

The Dark Elf curtsied and ran down the compartments, knocking over some other duel monsters and motioning a couple to follow her.

Outside the compartment, the Dark Elf signaled to the others to stay hidden until further notice. Then she marched in.

"Pharaoh," she acknowledged.

"What do you want?" he snarled and raised his hands, which began to glow a faint purple. The purple got deeper and brighter.

The Dark Elf sighed. "If you had heard me out, maybe this wouldn't have happened," she said lightly, and motioned for the other four to come out. They did, and attacked the former pharaoh with great force.

"Yami!" Ryou called. "Do you want Bakura to help?"

Yami shook his head. "Leave him out of this, I can handle it." Whirling, he caught the swordsman's right arm with his glowing hands. With a yell, he disintegrated back into the Shadow Realm. He then repeated the process with all four other monsters. He sighed in exhaustion. "Well, that took care of them…"

All of a sudden he felt something sharp strike his side, and he toppled over and hit a wall. The Dark Elf was satisfied, and she turned to Ryou. "You see? If the pharaoh couldn't defeat them, then the spirit that lives within your Millennium Ring will be unable to as well. Don't try anything." And she turned around. Everyone was glaring at her.

That was easy, she smirked. Too easy.

All of a sudden, she felt fireballs strike her on the back. She whirled around. The Pharaoh was leaning against a wall, glaring at her. "I don't know how all of you came back after I banished them to the Shadow Realm, but let me tell you, I don't give up that easily. Now if you want me to spare your life, you're going to get out of here." He narrowed his eyes. "Now."

"Yami…" Ryou hissed. "You might want to rethink this…leave it to Bakura maybe…"

Yami shook his head.

"Suit yourself," the Dark Elf said. Soon, Yami was busy trying to banish all five monsters to the Shadow Realm, but it was hard when they somehow kept reappearing and there was also the fact that he was already injured.

The Dark Elf yawned. "You know, this isn't even interesting," she said lazily. "I should just finish you off right now."

Yami gave her a venomous glare, but didn't have any time to say anything because Neo the Magic Swordsman had just taken a swipe at him with his sword. (A/N: Neo the Magic Swordsman is cool! But I didn't know what else to put there!)

Harry, Ron, and Hermione were just staring at who they thought was Yugi. "You know, it doesn't look like any kind of spell that we've seen before…" Hermione said, frantically flipping through one of her large spellbooks.

A loud snickering noise attracted everyone's attention.

The Dark Elf was standing next to Yami, who was unconscious on the floor, for some reason.

"Ya-er, Yugi?" Ryou asked. There was no response. However, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were staring at him.

"What were you about to say?" Harry asked.

"What? Nothing!" Ryou said.

"You said 'Ya-' something, and then you changed it to Yugi. Fill us in, will you? Were you about to say Yugi's brother's name?"

"I didn't say anything," Ryou insisted. Meanwhile, the Dark Elf was turning to leave with the others, satisfied that nobody else could stand up to them.

~~THAT'S IT!~~ Bakura shrieked. ~~I WON'T STAND FOR PEOPLE UNDERESTIMATING ME LIKE THAT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT!!!~~

Ryou sighed, there was no getting around his yami when he was in this kind of mood. He let Bakura take over, silently begging him not to do anything too bad…

"All right, elf," he said, as the Dark Elf prepared to leave with the rest. "You're not going anywhere. You still have one more person to face. Me."

"You? Tomb robber, you're not even worth my time!" the Dark Elf protested.

Bakura narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Unless you're too scared to fight me?" he taunted. "That's it! You must be a chicken. You must be scared of me. Is that right?"

The Dark Elf got mad at this. "No one calls me a chicken!" she shrieked, and started to blast powerful balls of energy at him, which Bakura dodged with ease, smirking.

~~How the hell did the Pharaoh lose to this wimp? He must be really out of shape.~~

All of a sudden, an adult wearing shimmering teal robes Apparated into the compartment.

"Professor McGonagall!" Hermione cried in relief.

"Professor, something happened, we were attacked, and-" Ron was babbling.

"Weasley! Make sense!" Professor McGonagall demanded. "What happened?"

The Dark Elf had vanished, along with the other monsters, and Bakura had gone back to the Ring when Professor McGonagall had come in, but Yami, being unconscious, had no way of switching with Yugi.

"Ask them!" Ron shrieked, completely confused. He pointed at Kaiba, Ryou, and the others. "They can explain it much better than we can!"

"No we can't!" Kaiba protested, but Professor McGonagall swooped down on them and demanded an explanation.

"Explain!" she said severely.

"Um, Professor…" Kaiba trailed off, Joey was open-mouthed in surprise, and Ryou was just standing there. Tea was hovering over Yami, looking worried.

"Allow me," Ryou said, cutting Kaiba off. Professor McGonagall looked at him.

"Yes?"

"Um, it was a, er, somewhat normal train ride up until halfway through, and then some duel monsters from the card game came out of the Shadow Realm and started attacking the train."

"Duel monsters? Card game? Shadow Realm?"

Ryou sighed and picked up Yami's deck, which had tumbled out from his pocket as he fell. "These," he said, showing the professor the cards. "This is the card game. And these are the duel monsters," he said, pointing at the pictures. "The Shadow Realm is pretty much…unexplainable…"

"And?"

"The Dark Elf came out of one of the cards, with four of her companions, and started attacking us. Since he has shadow magic," Ryou said, pointing at Yami, "they went after him." He didn't know how to explain the fact that Yami had been a pharaoh 5000 years ago, or about the tomb robber in his own Ring, so he skipped that. "And he wasn't strong enough to beat them." This was somewhat a lame explanation but she accepted it, basically not knowing what was going on anyway.

Professor McGonagall stooped to look at Yami. She prodded him gently with a finger, inspecting the gash in his side caused by Neo the Magic Swordsman's sword. "Hospital wing for him, definitely. And bed rest for the lot of you!" she said, sweeping her eye over the whole room. "And as for him…" Professor McGonagall studied the form of Yami carefully, "I think I'll have to have a chat with him about this magic of his. Shadow magic is not to be taken lightly. Does he study the dark arts?"

Everyone looked uneasily at each other and shrugged. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were looking lost, and Ryou knew they would be very busy answering questions after this whole thing was over.

"Is there anyone else here that has shadow magic?" Professor McGonagall demanded.

"Professor," Ryou said. "I have shadow magic too…to some extent…"

Professor McGonagall eyed him curiously, then nodded. "Madam Pomfrey will tend to him," she said, gesturing to Yami. The rest of you- out of this compartment!"

Not wanting to be left alone with the steely-eyed Professor McGonagall, they all rushed out of the car.

Madam Pomfrey bustled in with a whole bunch of bottles, bandages, and beakers. "My, my, he took quite a beating." She prodded and poked Yami's body, and started to apply all sorts of herbs and salves. "There," she said finally, giving her wand one last wave. "I think he'll be all right now."

"You think?"

"There's something about him…and that Ryou kid, that doesn't quite add up."

"Really?" Professor McGonagall frowned. She'd have to have a talk with them…

Yami started to stir. He stood up and opened his eyes.

"What's your name?" Professor McGonagall asked him.

Yami jumped. "Um…"

/Say my name! Say my name! Don't say your name! Don't say your name!/

"Yugi Motou," he said.

"Right. How are you feeling, Yugi?" she asked, frowning at him.

Yami winced. "I'm fine."

"You're not supposed to be standing up!" Madam Pomfrey scolded. "You need a good night's sleep, maybe more. We have to get you up to the castle, but since this train's broken down from the attack, we're going to have to transport this whole thing over to the arrival gate…"

Yami was completely lost. He had no clue what they were talking about. "What about the monsters?" he demanded.

"Monsters? What? Oh yes," Professor McGonagall said. "They're gone."

To her surprise, Yami scowled deeply and started mumbling something about how the tomb robber always had to go and steal the show.

"Excuse me?" she asked.

"Nothing," Yami said quickly.

"Well, if you're sure you're all right, then I guess you can go join your friends," Madam Pomfrey said, pointing disapprovingly at the other compartment. "Are you sure?"

"I'm FINE!" Yami yelled, and exited the compartment.

"He's certainly a feisty one," Madam Pomfrey said, shaking her head as they watched him leave.

Ok…that was not such a good chapter…I sort of lost it halfway through. I tried to make it a little funny but I guess I didn't do such a good job. Since I was really hyper when I wrote this, and I was too lazy to go back and edit it, it might not make sense, and it might not be as good as the other chapters. But hey, at least there's a chapter!

New Author's Notes: Chapter still sucks. -_- Oh well. I did the best I could.