Hey again.
Sorry it took so long for another update. I've been busy with other things. In fact, I should still be doing those other things, but I decided to do this instead.
Anyhow, disclaimer time.
Disclaimer:
As I have discovered, no matter how many kickboxing kangaroos I employ, I still do not own Yugioh or Harry Potter or even one of the characters.
Notes:
Well, it seems no one wants to know where Pharaoh Yami's palace used to be. Except for Tuulikki that is. Since you've been such a wonderful reviewer I'll let you know Tuulikki.
If you look at manga pics of the palace, both from the front and from above, you'll notice that it looks amazingly like the temple at Karnak in Egypt. The aerial view of the palace matches in shape and layout the map- as seen from above- of the Karnak temple. Also, during one scene in chapter 295 when Priest Seto goes into the village to hunt kas with Priest Shadi/Shada we see the road up to the palace gates is lined with sphinx statues that have ram's heads. Karnak also had a road leading up to it lined with ram-headed sphinxes, most have been removed for safe storage these days but some are still there. There is another temple, the Luxor Temple, that is only a mile away from the Karnak temple that has the seated statues in front of it that we see in front of the gates of Yami's palace. Also, the shape of the wall where the front gates are in the manga is the same as the shape of the Karnak temple walls that we can see from the aerial view of Karnak. Also, the back gate picture of Karnak shows the top of a building that is very much like the top of the Temple of Tablets. From the aerial views of the palace that we see in chapter 320 you can see how closely the palace resembles the layout of the Temple at Karnak. Also, the Karnak temple is situated in the correct geographic location to be the palace. Directly across the Nile from it is the Valley of the Kings where all the tombs are. It's situated next to the modern city of Luxor, which was once Ancient Thebes. Here's a link that'll show you some of the pictures I found. Remove the spaces.
ht tp:/ /members.a ol.co m/egypttour/karnak.ht ml
Wild huh? =D
Anyway, back to the story at hand. Sorry this chapter is so short. Next chapter looks to be a monster in the making. Yugi-tachi get ready to leave, travel by plane, and arrive in Egypt and learn a little more about what's going on. After that its back to Harry for more info on what's up with him.
Oh, I lied again. There will be OC's. Well technically they're not OCs because they do exist in the manga/anime, they just don't have much personality to them. So I give them more personality and make up a few for plot purposes. Though, I guess they're not too integral to the plot, at least not the ones we first learn about, but...um...yeah. Okay. Don't hate me for them. Please. ^_^;
Anyway, um anyone know how old Malik was during Battle City? Isis? Rishid?
Still looking for help with the duel scenes. If you can write them well and help me out, I'll make your penname, or if you want, real name, as one of the duelists during the tournaments. Check chapter 4 for more specifics on this. Thanks.
Ooh plot advancement! We're getting somewhere now.
On with the show!
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Harry Potter and The Advent of Darkness
Chapter 6: One Man's Trash Is Another's Treasure
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Surrey, England, Number 4, Private Drive, July 18th, 2:07 pm
Magical Mystery Causes Muggle Tragedy
On the evening of July 12th, Aurors and Ministry Officials were
summoned to the site of the small muggle village of Beckinwaithe in
Northern England due to an unusual magical disturbance. Upon arrival,
merely fifteen minutes after the magical effects of this disturbance
were felt, the members of the British Ministry of Magic discovered
that the village of Beckinwaithe no longer existed.
Where once there had been a small but thriving community of over 75
muggles, there was now nothing except smoking ruins, enormous craters
and the ghastly image of the dreaded Dark Mark hovering above the ill-
fated village ruins. Only a handful of survivors were discovered
hiding in the rugged, hilly countryside by the thorough searching of
the Aurors. These ten surviving muggles all fled the scene of the
attack upon discovering the danger of the situation. They were taken
to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies to undergo treatment of
wounds as well as questioning and eventual memory charms.
According to our sources, the survivor's claims and eyewitness
accounts are highly unusual and disturbing. There have been at least
five separate claims from these individuals regarding the alleged
cause of the destruction. Three of these claims involve mention of at
least fifteen heavily black-robed individuals wearing white skull
masks who remained unharmed during the attacks and seemed to direct
and orchestrate the entire incident. All five claims, so far, involve
mention of creatures or monsters of some sort. Two of the survivors
claim to have seen similar, if not identical, creatures. However; the
other three claims differ as to what creatures they saw attacking the
village and its inhabitants.
Efforts are underway to identify what, if any, actual magical entities
were involved in this. There are two claims of at least three
creatures that the survivors could only describe as being dragon-like.
However, the control and distribution of dragons is strictly
controlled by the British Ministry as well as all other Ministries
worldwide. Also, the descriptions of these dragon-like creatures do
not match the known profiles for any dragon species currently living.
Research is underway to ascertain the possibility of a previously
thought-to-be-extinct species of dragon, or an illegal crossbreed
being involved.
The only traces of magic at the site involved what can only be
described as an unusual and undocumented form of a portkey. This
magical trail, similar but distinctly different from the signature of
any registered portkey type documented by the Ministry, has thus far
proved untraceable.
It seems the only thing the Ministry knows for certain is that this
was undeniably the work of Death Eaters, those unsavory followers of
the Dreaded Dark Lord, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. One can only wonder
what purpose He and his followers had in destroying an isolated and
relatively unknown village consisting only of muggles.
Harry Potter scowled as he tossed the daily newspaper across his room to scatter across the floor between his bed and the door. It had to be Voldemort's doing, but why? Why attack a village of only muggles? Had someone there inadvertently pissed the snake-faced bastard off? Or was it something else? Had it been a test of some kind? Maybe of this strange new power his followers had to be able to utterly destroy an entire village? Or was this simply a case of muggle-terrorism?
"Damn him!" Harry snarled as he rolled to a sitting position on his bed and slammed his fist into the pillow beside him. "So many people..." Harry whispered as he dropped his gaze to his lap.
How had Voldemort and the Death Eaters gotten so much stronger so quickly? Aside from the incident at the Museum in Cairo there had been little to no word on the activities of the Death Eaters all summer. Whatever curse or curses had been used in Beckinwaithe had to have been far stronger than the one Wormtail, a.k.a. Peter Pettigrew, had used to escape Sirius and fool the Aurors in order to do so much damage to the village. Harry had certainly never heard of a curse so powerful it could level an entire village. And what about those 'creatures' the eyewitnesses had been talking about? Had Voldemort finally fully convinced the giants to join him? Had they been Dementors? Or maybe Vampires and Hags had joined him as well? But dragons?
Harry found that last hard to believe. But...it could be possible. After all, Voldemort, as Quirrel, had managed to get a hold of a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon egg to trick Hagrid into spilling the secret to get past Fluffy. Surely he could have stolen more dragon eggs from somewhere. But could his Death Eaters really control them if they were fully-grown? Considering how much damage Norbert had managed to cause in the short time he had been in Hagrid's house, and just hatched at that, Harry could well imagine how much damage several full grown dragons, working together could cause to a village of humans. Not to mention how dangerous the dragons he and the other Triwizard Champions had faced had been. But could they really control dragons? Wasn't that why raising dragons had been banned? Dragons were highly magic resistant creatures and could shrug off most spells cast on them by a single wizard or even several. They were also very dangerous and highly uncontrollable except by concerted effort on the part of many wizards working together. Even then, the most they can do is stun it or make it sleep.
The Triwizard dragons had taken about six handlers apiece and even then, they had had a lot of trouble controlling them enough just to keep them from breaking loose and running amok. Could Death Eaters have simply set dragons loose on the village? But the eyewitnesses had said that the robed people had not been harmed or attacked, could they have found a way to control dragons to the extent of being able to choose an attack target? Harry shook his head and slumped his shoulders. He had no way of knowing what the truth was. So far, his dreams had revealed nothing about Voldemort's plans, not since the strange vision of that cemetery.
Speaking of which, he was still waiting for a reply from Remus about that dream. Harry had already decided to let Ron and Hermione know about it. So far he had heard back from Hermione.
Typically, Hermione had suggested research into the symbols and ritual he had seen. She had also sent him a thick volume on magical runes and ritualistic symbols she wanted him to go through and find anything that matched what he had seen. So far, he had gone through three chapters before falling asleep in his chair. He'd try again later.
Harry sighed and slumped sideways onto his mattress, staring blankly at the wall beside his door. He didn't really want to look at the paper again, it would probably only have more bad news. He was debating whether or not to head downstairs and risk trying to watch television for anything that might help the Order when he heard a quiet rustle of wings and a rush of cool air washed over his back and ruffled his unruly black hair into his eyes. Rolling over Harry saw that Hedwig had returned from her mission to deliver his letter to Ron.
Hedwig perched on the headboard of his bed, an envelope tied to her left leg as she extended her wings for balance and hooted softly at him. Harry smiled as he straightened up again and stretched out his arm for her to perch on. With a satisfied hoot, Hedwig transferred from the headboard to his forearm and extended her leg with its paper passenger.
"Welcome back, girl. I hope Pig didn't bother you too much." Harry smiled as Hedwig ruffled her feathers up and rotated her head to look at him sideways before hooting at him. Harry took the letter from her and opened it up as she flapped over to her open cage and took a drink from her water dish.
Harry scanned the contents of the letter from his best friend and nodded to himself before frowning.
Hey Harry,
Ron here, but you know that already. Sorry it took so long to get
back to you. Things have been really crazy here the past few weeks.
Hey, did you know Bill is in England right now? He's staying at the
Order with the rest of us, except Percy. He's still being a royal
pain in the ass. Admitted to being a stupid git about you, but he's
still being Fudge's lapdog. Mum and dad didn't want him to get
involved with the Order, because then he'd just leak information to
Fudge. And that would be just like putting out an advertisement in
the Daily Prophet inviting Death Eaters to the Order's meetings.
Anyway, back to Bill. He's staying at the Order you know. He's got
all kinds of awesome stories about Egypt and all the tombs he's been
in to de-curse the stuff before muggles get into it. Mum doesn't like
him telling Ginny about it though, but she listens in anyway. Some of
its just wild, you know. Anyway, he's not just here to visit you
know. Did you hear about that museum attack in Cairo by Death Eaters?
Bill was in the area when it happened, he's fine though, don't worry.
He thought the Order should know that those slimy gits stole this book
he was checking out for the Egyptian Ministry of Magic. It was some
spell book about Ancient Egyptian curses or something. It was for
sale in some dead guy's estate auction, to muggles! Can you believe
that? Those muggles probably thought it was just some fairy tale
junk, Bill says. But the Ministry wanted him to get it before some
muggle did, or get rid of all the real spells and curses that are in
it and on it too if a muggle won it in the auction. Don't want any
modern muggles growing a couple more arms and another head, after all.
Anyway, before he got a chance to de-spell the thing, a bunch of
Death Eaters showed up and stole it right out of the museum. Killed a
bunch of muggles to get at it too.
Anymore dream visions that might say why He wants a moldy old spell
book? No idea what that one you told me about means. Maybe he was
trying out one of those spells and it backfired. Hope it blew his
wand-hand off. You should ask Hermione, she'll know. She probably
already has the research done for it, in her spare time, you know.
Bet she'll know, soon as you ask her.
Anyway, mum and dad are trying to get Dumbledore to agree to bring you
to the Order soon as we can. Snape keeps arguing with them about
which is safer for you to be at. Didn't know that slimy jerk cared so
much. Probably just wants to make sure you survive till Hogwarts
starts up so he can torment you again. I'm sure he'd miss his
favorite target if you died over summer. Anyway, I'm hoping they
agree to bring you here soon. Then Bill can tell you some of his cool
stories about Egypt. Maybe he knows a few curses he can teach us.
Bet an extra head growing out of his stomach will shut Malfoy up next
time he tries something. Anyway, I'll send you another message later
on. I gotta get going. Fred just set off his newest extra strength
version of a dungbomb down the hall. I gotta find somewhere safe from
the fumes and spatters.
See you,
Ron Weasely
So, the news about the Cairo Museum had been about Death Eaters. Figures. Still doesn't explain what Voldemort could be up to. None of it made any sense. None of the incidents this summer seemed to be connected in any way. First a robbery of an Egyptian spell book from a museum in Cairo, then that strange dream vision of a ritual in a cemetary that blows up shortly afterward and sends the Death Eaters flying, then an entire village of muggles leveled by, apparently, dragons.
What the hell was going on?
Harry lay back down, after setting the letter on his bedside table, and stared at the ceiling. It only seemed to be getting more and more confusing as time went on. Surely Voldemort had a plan...didn't he?
Harry snorted. The great and powerful Dark Lord couldn't be 'winging it' could he? No that wasn't like him. It wasn't like the Tom Riddle Harry had gotten to know from Voldemort's diary, and it certainly wasn't like the real Voldemort himself to just go with things as they came to him. He was cunning and conniving, not fickle and random. That meant there had to be a connection. But for the life of him, Harry had no idea what it could be.
Just as Harry was debating whether he should look over the rest of the newspaper, his aunt's voice shrilled up at him from the staircase.
"Boy! Get down here, you lazy boy! I told you to take out the garbage hours ago! If you don't get off your lazy bum and take those bags to the curb the trash collector will leave them until next week!"
Harry growled under his breath as he sat up. Figures. Aunt Petunia had not asked him to take the garbage out hours ago. In fact, she had specifically asked Dudley to take out the trash because she couldn't find Harry, who had been hiding under the hydrangea bush at the time. And the garbage man wasn't to come until tomorrow morning.
"Hurry up you lazy child! I'll not have garbage collecting in this house for two weeks! If you expect to live here under this roof and eat from our table, then you'll have to do your share of the chores!" Aunt Petunia's voice shrilled from the staircase again.
Harry sighed and got up. If for no other reason, he did not want to have to deal with his relatives being constantly angry at him. Even if they couldn't toss him out because of Petunia's promise, they could still make him miserable without bringing down the wrath of the friendly neighborhood self-appointed 'Harry Potter Protection Committee' of the Order. Otherwise dubbed the 'Happy Committee' by Hermione and Ron. As in, HaP-P Committee. Oh well, it was better than SPEW.
"I'm coming." Harry called down the stairs as he headed out into the rest of the house. Uncle Vernon was out at work for the day and Dudley had gone out early to play with Piers and his gang with the most recent gadget his parents had bought him. It was some sort of dueling thing, Harry didn't really care that much about some weird card game. He was sure Exploding Snap was much more fun.
Just as he came down into the kitchen, the front door slammed open behind him in the front hall.
"Damn this thing!" Dudley snarled under his breath as he thundered past Harry into the kitchen. Harry followed silently in his wake.
"Mother this Duel Disk is broken! How could you have purchased a faulty Disk for me!" Dudley cried, his face turning red as fake tears welled up in his eyes.
"Oh Duddikins! Whatever do you mean? I had no idea it was faulty! What is wrong with it to make my darling Dudders cry!" She gasped as she rushed over to her enormous son and threw her arms around his girth. "Don't cry Duddies! I'm sure the company that sold it will replace it, you've only had it for a day now. I'm certain there's a warranty for these things."
"This rotten thing refuses to read any of my cards! How am I supposed to win a Duel against Piers, or anyone, if it won't read my cards!" Dudley cried as he brandished the strange wrist contraption around the room.
"Oh my poor Dudders! How terrible for you! Show mummie what you mean my dear."
"Look!" Dudley cried as he held out his pudgy arm and pushed a button on the underside of the wrist band. The loose wrist band contracted and tightened around his arm, leaving bulges of pasty white flesh to be squished out from either end of the wrist band that was obviously designed to be worn by normal sized humans, instead of whales masquerading as people. The two slotted fin halves rotated around and clicked together to form a single plate on the outer side of his arm before lighting up and making a soft beeping and quiet humming. There was a soft hiss as two small projectiles were launched from either side of his wrist; at least, they tried to launch. The unprecedented size of Dudley's arm and the bulges of flesh got in the way of the devices and they sort of dropped off of the disk to plop onto the ground a couple feet apart on either side of Dudley. Then they lit up and hummed along with the disk itself. Then Dudley drew a card out of the deck holder that sat above the back of his hand and flipped it over and put it into one of the slots on the fin pan. There was a series of tones from the device before a grainy, distorted, fuzzy image of a person in armor appeared in the kitchen. Only it was about three feet tall and skinny as a reed while somehow its torso was doing a loop-de-loop while one leg was shorter than the other. "You see! It's all messed up!" Dudley cried as he gestured at the distorted figure.
"Oh dear, that is dreadful. Is this what its supposed to look like? I daresay this duel pan thing is not worth what we paid for it." Aunt Petunia scowled at the distorted image.
"No this is not what is should look like! Piers's works just fine. And it reads all of his cards correctly too! This one won't read half of my cards correctly! The other half it ruins the holograms of them!"
"Oh dear, I'll be sure to have Vernon take this up with the store manager. I'm certain we can get our money back, or get a replacement that works. Don't fret Duddikins, we'll get this terrible mess sorted out right away." Aunt Petunia cooed as she hugged her large son to her bony frame.
"I need new cards as well, mother. These ones just won't cut it against Piers's deck. I haven't been able to win a single duel against him with these sorry excuses for monster cards." Dudley reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of the odd playing cards.
"What's the use of this monster card anyway? I can't see how anyone can use its ability and still have enough life points to win the duel." Dudley sneered down at the card on the top of his handful. "These others are just garbage cards anyway." Dudley turned away from his mother and tossed the handful into the open garbage bag that waited in the corner for Harry to drag to the curb. "You need to stop buying me such weak and stupid cards, mother. If I'm going to win that tournament next month I'll have to have the strongest monster cards and the best magic and trap cards I can get. Not junk like those ones."
Harry's ears perked up. Did he just hear the 'm' word? He did, and it didn't set off a maelstrom of fear and anger?
"Of course Dudley dearest. You just tell your father and I which cards you want and we'll get them for you. Don't you worry. You're going to make your father and I so proud of you at that important tournament!" Aunt Petunia's eyes filled with tears as she squeezed her son to her chest again. "And when you win, I'm certain that that talented young CEO of Kaiba Corporations will take to you at once. How could he not like my dear Duddikins! Then you can invite your new friend to dinner and Vernon will certainly charm him into agreeing to sponsor Grunnings." Aunt Petunia cried as her eyes lit up at the thought of her Dudders becoming friends with such an important person as the young Kaiba Corp. CEO.
"Good. I'll show Piers who the best duelist is when I take the title at the Kaiba Corp. English Nationals Tournament." Dudley grinned as he took off the duel disk and put it on the table. "Be sure dad gets one that works correctly this time, I'd hate for him to waste his money on another faulty machine." Dudley frowned at the duel disk before taking his deck of cards out of it and slipping it into his pocket.
"Of course dear. Why don't you go watch the television for a bit. I think your favorite show is starting soon." Aunt Petunia smiled at Dudley. Dudley nodded and got a chocolate diet shake out of the refrigerator before heading past Harry into the living room.
"Now you! Don't just stand there gawking! Get that garbage out of here!" Aunt Petunia snapped at Harry who had ducked out of Dudley's way.
Harry nodded and trudged over to the garbage can. Lifting out the black trash bag he slung it over his shoulder and headed back through the house and out the front door. Once at the garbage cans that sat in front of the driveway Harry had to set the bag down to take the lid off the metal can. As he dropped the bag to the ground, it fell over onto its side and some of the garbage on top spilled out onto the driveway.
Harry scowled. "Just great." He muttered under his breath as he set the lid onto the ground and knelt down to stuff the trash back into the bag.
As Harry picked up a handful of paper towels he found one of the Dudley's cards lying face up on the ground under it. He blinked, surprised. He picked up the card and looked more closely at it. It was not at all what he had expected.
The title of the card read 'Retrained Celtic Guardian.'* On the card face was the image of a blond warrior with a large broadsword, wearing deep green and brown armor, chased with silver.** The most striking features, however, were the large pointed ears that protruded out from under either side of the warrior elf's helmet and the brown eyes with slit pupils. This was not the sort of card Harry had ever expected Dudley, of all people, to have.
The text of the card had a type and two values listed. There were four stars inside little circles along the top of the picture. A special effect was written in a text box on the bottom. The card read:***
Retrained Celtic Guardian
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Warrior
Attack: 1400
Defense: 1200
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has an attack strength of 1900 or higher. (Damage is still done.)
To say Harry was surprised would be an understatement. His cousin, who hated anything magical or supernatural of any kind, playing a card game with an elf as a card. Although, Dudley did throw this card away, maybe because it was an elf, and therefore, bad.
Curious now, Harry began to search through the spilled garbage and through the top layers of the bag looking for the other cards. Eventually, he decided he must have found them all when he had picked up the 19th card, and had reached the bottom of the bag.
There was definitely a theme of magic running through these cards. A few of them were even labeled 'magic card'. To think that Dudley could even get Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia to buy cards with pictures and titles like these was enough to make Harry's head spin. What sort of card game was this anyway?
As Harry rifled through the small stack of cards he admired the artwork on them. They looked like they had been drawn by a master artist. As he paused to read more closely a card with a pink-winged angel nurse carrying a large syringe filled with green fluid,**** Harry heard the front door open. Quickly he stuffed the cards into his pocket and scooped the last of the trash back into the bag before straightening up and stuffing it into the trash can. As he turned back to the house he saw Dudley stumping down the front steps, counting out his pocket change.
Dudley completely ignored Harry as he continued on down the street towards the park where the rest of his gang was sure to be. Harry scowled at his back before heading back into the house.
Once back in his room, Harry took the odd playing cards out of his pocket and began looking them over again. The artwork was really nice. The only cards he'd seen like them were the famous wizard trading cards that came with chocolate frogs. Granted, these weren't magical or anything, and they didn't move, but it seemed a shame to just throw them away. Dudley tossed them, so he wouldn't miss them. Harry grinned to himself.
"I think I'll keep them."
TBC
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Harry's Cards:
Retrained Celtic Guardian
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Warrior
Level 4
Attack: 1400
Defense: 1200
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has an attack strength of 1900 or higher. (Damage is still done.)
Injection Angel Lily
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Magic User
Level 3
Attack: 400
Defense: 1500
Effect: Can only be activated during your or your opponent's Damage Step. Pay 2000 Life Points to increase this card's attack strength by 3000 for the Damage Step.
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I already know which 19 cards Harry has. I'll fill you in on them later as they come up in the story and add their stats and such at the bottom of each chapter they show up in.
Yes, Dudley threw them away. Now, say it with me everyone:
"Dudley is a moron that sucks at Duel Monsters and couldn't get the Heart of the Cards to work for him if his life depended on it."
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* I don't like the fact that the English translation of this card is 'Obnoxious Celtic Guardian'. I just can't see CG as obnoxious. Mischievous, maybe, but not obnoxious. The Japanese name is 'Retrained Elven Swordsman'. I figure a lot of people won't know what card I'm talking about if I call it Elven Swordsman, so I mixed the two. Please don't hate me for it. ^_^;
** To distinguish between Yugi's Celtic Guardian and this one, I made it an English [as in from England] edition card. In my fiction universe the English editions tend to use slightly darker color tints for the card images than the Japanese version do. So while Yugi's CG has leaf green armor, this one has a darker green armor color.
*** All the card information is from the actual cards in the real life card game. I hope it doesn't differ too much from the effect of the anime/manga cards. This card information [except my altered names for them (if I alter the names)] was obtained from Edo's Yugioh! Page! He says his translations are not for use with any ebay or auctions of any kind. I hope he doesn't mind my using them here. Edo, if you see this and disapprove please let me know and I'll stop doing anything like this. Thank you. Here's his url, it's an excellent site about the card game. It has manga summaries too. Take out the spaces.
ht tp:/ /w w w.storm pages.co m/edhrzic/Yugioh.ht m
**** Drat those American dub censors!! They changed Injection Angel Lily's syringe into a giant red and pink rocket. Explain to me how a weapon of mass destruction [no matter how pink it is] is better for kids to see than a syringe held by someone dressed as a nurse??
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Well, there we go. More plot advancement, sort of. Harry is introduced to Duel Monsters. We get to laugh at Dudley and his attempts to duel, plus his ambitions for his tournament career.
Harry has a total of nineteen cards that he rescued from the garbage collector. So far, I've let you guys know about two of them. I know which ones he has already. As more of the story passes, you'll get to see more of which cards Dudley threw away, and begin to be able to fathom his depth of Dueling stupidity while we're at it.
These cards are all from the real card game [Japanese version]. I got the names/effects/stats from Edo's Yugioh! Page!. The url for it is up above in the *** section of endnotes for the story.
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Just for fun I found these cards also on Edo's page. All of them have connections to the manga or the anime in some fashion.
DARK MASTER - ZORK
Type: Ritual Monster
Dark/Demon
Level 8
Attack: 2700
Defense: 1500
Summoned by a [Pact With The Dark Master]. You must sacrifice 8 levels or more worth of cards from the Field and/or your hand. Once during your turn, you may roll 1 six-sided die. If the roll is a 1 or 2, destroy all of your opponent's Monsters on the Field. If the roll is 3, 4 or 5, destroy 1 of your opponent's Monsters on the Field. If the roll is a 6, destroy all of your Monsters on the Field.
[This card with its dice effects is a lot like the monster Yami Bakura used against Yami and Yugi and friends in the very early anime series [not shown in USA] in the Monster World RPG game that Ryou likes to play. Its also the name of the God of Evil Zork Necrophidious from the Ancient Egyptian Arc.]
CRUEL VIOLATOR - CHOPMAN
Dark/Undead
Level 3
Attack: 1100
Defense: 500
When this card is Reverse Summoned, you can Equip 1 Equipment Magic card from your Cemetery on this card.
[The Chopman was a serial killer that Kaiba hired/coerced into joining his Death-T game against Yugi and his friends in the manga. Jounouchi had to face him in a death match where the Chopman used a chainsaw and Jou had to fight for his life. They were chained together and the chain ran through a metal ring set into a stone in the center of the circular room. Jounouchi escaped by using the sharp point of a candlestick holder to pick the lock from the chain. Then he tied the chain to the window bars of the door and used the Chopman's brute strength to rip the door off its hinges. The candle fell into oil that covered the floor of the room and the Chopman burned to death while Jou got out of the room.]
DARK HERO: ZOMBIRE
Dark/Warrior
Level 4
Attack: 2100
Defense: 500
This card cannot attack a player. Reduce this Monster's attack strength by 200 for each monster that this Monster destroys during Battle.
[In the manga, one of the often bullied kids that Yugi is sort of friends with has an obsession with an American comic superhero called Zombire who is sorta like Spawn in appearance. The kid gets into trouble when he dresses up as Zombire and his father pays some bullies to pretend that he defeated them to give him confidence. The bullies then decide to force money from the dad or else they'll really beat up the kid, when the kid thinks that he can defeat the bullies because he's a superhero like Zombire. Yugi comes to rescue the kid and Yami takes over. He uses spray paint to draw a maze on the ground while avoiding the attacks and punches of the bullies and then flicks a match onto it, setting the flammable paint on fire and singeing/scaring the bullies into running away.]
WILLPOWER OF NORMALCY [Bonkotsu no Iji]
Permanent Magic
If you draw a Normal Monster during your Draw Phase, you can show that card to your opponent and draw 1 more card.
[Can also be translated as Spirit of the Mediocre One. Poor Jou, he even gets a card named after Kaiba's nickname for him. Kaiba calls Jounouchi Bonkotsu a lot. It basically means Mediocre One or normal person. Yugi/Yami uses this card in the most recent episode fresh from Japan. It comes after the Doom arc and is one of the first episodes of the Kaiba Grand Prix story arc. Basically, Yami uses the card in a duel against a computer and Jounouchi asks the others why would Yugi have a Bonkotsu card in his deck, and everyone laughs at him (except Yugi/Yami who's busy dueling). After the duel Jou puts Yami on the spot by asking why he had that card. Yami thinks for a sec, then says 'hold on just a sec' and winks, then switches with Yugi (who was in spirit form in the background grinning at Yami's discomfort at being put on the spot by Jou). Yugi spazzes out and yells at Yami that that's not fair. Yami, in spirit form in the background, just looks off into the distance with this 'don't look at me, I didn't do anything' expression on his face. Jou then grabs Yugi around the shoulders and demands to know if Yugi thinks Jou is a bonkotsu like Kaiba does. Yugi admits that it did remind him of Jounouchi and Honda cracks a joke at Jou who gets mad and lets Yugi go.]
ACROBAT MONKEY
Earth/Machine
Level 3
Attack: 1000
Defense: 1800
[I haven't seen a picture of this card, but it got me thinking. Maybe this is the card of the body that Honda was stuck in during the Noa Arc after his own body was stolen by one of the Big Five. It is a machine type after all.]
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Er. Anyway. Hope I haven't offended anyone by giving Harry duel monster cards.
Oh about why Dudley's Duel Disk won't work. Well for one thing, its a mark one model imported from America, which means it only reads American and Japanese cards properly. It can read some English [British] cards but not all, and some will have mistakes on the holograms. For another, Dudley's arm girth is interfering with the proper function of the hologram projection rocket things. This means that they can't fire properly and so end up falling to the floor too early. This causes the holograms to be shrunken and distorted instead of their proper impressiveness.
Oh and Dudley is really bad at duel monsters. He thinks that more powerful cards = better deck. He basically gives no thought to strategy. Plus, the Heart of the Cards hates him. ^_^ That's why he threw away such potentially useful cards.
Oh, I made up Beckinwaithe. If you should by some bizarre coincidence of fate, happen to live in a village in Northern England named Beckinwaithe, I apologize for blowing up your town. I'll have the Aurors use a time-turner to set things right for you. ^_^
Bye Bye for now!
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Injection Angel Lily says:
Please be good readers and push the purple button and leave a review. If you don't, I may be forced to use my special effect on you. And no one likes getting stuck with a giant syringe full of questionable, bubbly, green fluid. ^_^
Sorry it took so long for another update. I've been busy with other things. In fact, I should still be doing those other things, but I decided to do this instead.
Anyhow, disclaimer time.
Disclaimer:
As I have discovered, no matter how many kickboxing kangaroos I employ, I still do not own Yugioh or Harry Potter or even one of the characters.
Notes:
Well, it seems no one wants to know where Pharaoh Yami's palace used to be. Except for Tuulikki that is. Since you've been such a wonderful reviewer I'll let you know Tuulikki.
If you look at manga pics of the palace, both from the front and from above, you'll notice that it looks amazingly like the temple at Karnak in Egypt. The aerial view of the palace matches in shape and layout the map- as seen from above- of the Karnak temple. Also, during one scene in chapter 295 when Priest Seto goes into the village to hunt kas with Priest Shadi/Shada we see the road up to the palace gates is lined with sphinx statues that have ram's heads. Karnak also had a road leading up to it lined with ram-headed sphinxes, most have been removed for safe storage these days but some are still there. There is another temple, the Luxor Temple, that is only a mile away from the Karnak temple that has the seated statues in front of it that we see in front of the gates of Yami's palace. Also, the shape of the wall where the front gates are in the manga is the same as the shape of the Karnak temple walls that we can see from the aerial view of Karnak. Also, the back gate picture of Karnak shows the top of a building that is very much like the top of the Temple of Tablets. From the aerial views of the palace that we see in chapter 320 you can see how closely the palace resembles the layout of the Temple at Karnak. Also, the Karnak temple is situated in the correct geographic location to be the palace. Directly across the Nile from it is the Valley of the Kings where all the tombs are. It's situated next to the modern city of Luxor, which was once Ancient Thebes. Here's a link that'll show you some of the pictures I found. Remove the spaces.
ht tp:/ /members.a ol.co m/egypttour/karnak.ht ml
Wild huh? =D
Anyway, back to the story at hand. Sorry this chapter is so short. Next chapter looks to be a monster in the making. Yugi-tachi get ready to leave, travel by plane, and arrive in Egypt and learn a little more about what's going on. After that its back to Harry for more info on what's up with him.
Oh, I lied again. There will be OC's. Well technically they're not OCs because they do exist in the manga/anime, they just don't have much personality to them. So I give them more personality and make up a few for plot purposes. Though, I guess they're not too integral to the plot, at least not the ones we first learn about, but...um...yeah. Okay. Don't hate me for them. Please. ^_^;
Anyway, um anyone know how old Malik was during Battle City? Isis? Rishid?
Still looking for help with the duel scenes. If you can write them well and help me out, I'll make your penname, or if you want, real name, as one of the duelists during the tournaments. Check chapter 4 for more specifics on this. Thanks.
Ooh plot advancement! We're getting somewhere now.
On with the show!
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Harry Potter and The Advent of Darkness
Chapter 6: One Man's Trash Is Another's Treasure
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Surrey, England, Number 4, Private Drive, July 18th, 2:07 pm
Magical Mystery Causes Muggle Tragedy
On the evening of July 12th, Aurors and Ministry Officials were
summoned to the site of the small muggle village of Beckinwaithe in
Northern England due to an unusual magical disturbance. Upon arrival,
merely fifteen minutes after the magical effects of this disturbance
were felt, the members of the British Ministry of Magic discovered
that the village of Beckinwaithe no longer existed.
Where once there had been a small but thriving community of over 75
muggles, there was now nothing except smoking ruins, enormous craters
and the ghastly image of the dreaded Dark Mark hovering above the ill-
fated village ruins. Only a handful of survivors were discovered
hiding in the rugged, hilly countryside by the thorough searching of
the Aurors. These ten surviving muggles all fled the scene of the
attack upon discovering the danger of the situation. They were taken
to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies to undergo treatment of
wounds as well as questioning and eventual memory charms.
According to our sources, the survivor's claims and eyewitness
accounts are highly unusual and disturbing. There have been at least
five separate claims from these individuals regarding the alleged
cause of the destruction. Three of these claims involve mention of at
least fifteen heavily black-robed individuals wearing white skull
masks who remained unharmed during the attacks and seemed to direct
and orchestrate the entire incident. All five claims, so far, involve
mention of creatures or monsters of some sort. Two of the survivors
claim to have seen similar, if not identical, creatures. However; the
other three claims differ as to what creatures they saw attacking the
village and its inhabitants.
Efforts are underway to identify what, if any, actual magical entities
were involved in this. There are two claims of at least three
creatures that the survivors could only describe as being dragon-like.
However, the control and distribution of dragons is strictly
controlled by the British Ministry as well as all other Ministries
worldwide. Also, the descriptions of these dragon-like creatures do
not match the known profiles for any dragon species currently living.
Research is underway to ascertain the possibility of a previously
thought-to-be-extinct species of dragon, or an illegal crossbreed
being involved.
The only traces of magic at the site involved what can only be
described as an unusual and undocumented form of a portkey. This
magical trail, similar but distinctly different from the signature of
any registered portkey type documented by the Ministry, has thus far
proved untraceable.
It seems the only thing the Ministry knows for certain is that this
was undeniably the work of Death Eaters, those unsavory followers of
the Dreaded Dark Lord, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. One can only wonder
what purpose He and his followers had in destroying an isolated and
relatively unknown village consisting only of muggles.
Harry Potter scowled as he tossed the daily newspaper across his room to scatter across the floor between his bed and the door. It had to be Voldemort's doing, but why? Why attack a village of only muggles? Had someone there inadvertently pissed the snake-faced bastard off? Or was it something else? Had it been a test of some kind? Maybe of this strange new power his followers had to be able to utterly destroy an entire village? Or was this simply a case of muggle-terrorism?
"Damn him!" Harry snarled as he rolled to a sitting position on his bed and slammed his fist into the pillow beside him. "So many people..." Harry whispered as he dropped his gaze to his lap.
How had Voldemort and the Death Eaters gotten so much stronger so quickly? Aside from the incident at the Museum in Cairo there had been little to no word on the activities of the Death Eaters all summer. Whatever curse or curses had been used in Beckinwaithe had to have been far stronger than the one Wormtail, a.k.a. Peter Pettigrew, had used to escape Sirius and fool the Aurors in order to do so much damage to the village. Harry had certainly never heard of a curse so powerful it could level an entire village. And what about those 'creatures' the eyewitnesses had been talking about? Had Voldemort finally fully convinced the giants to join him? Had they been Dementors? Or maybe Vampires and Hags had joined him as well? But dragons?
Harry found that last hard to believe. But...it could be possible. After all, Voldemort, as Quirrel, had managed to get a hold of a Norwegian Ridgeback dragon egg to trick Hagrid into spilling the secret to get past Fluffy. Surely he could have stolen more dragon eggs from somewhere. But could his Death Eaters really control them if they were fully-grown? Considering how much damage Norbert had managed to cause in the short time he had been in Hagrid's house, and just hatched at that, Harry could well imagine how much damage several full grown dragons, working together could cause to a village of humans. Not to mention how dangerous the dragons he and the other Triwizard Champions had faced had been. But could they really control dragons? Wasn't that why raising dragons had been banned? Dragons were highly magic resistant creatures and could shrug off most spells cast on them by a single wizard or even several. They were also very dangerous and highly uncontrollable except by concerted effort on the part of many wizards working together. Even then, the most they can do is stun it or make it sleep.
The Triwizard dragons had taken about six handlers apiece and even then, they had had a lot of trouble controlling them enough just to keep them from breaking loose and running amok. Could Death Eaters have simply set dragons loose on the village? But the eyewitnesses had said that the robed people had not been harmed or attacked, could they have found a way to control dragons to the extent of being able to choose an attack target? Harry shook his head and slumped his shoulders. He had no way of knowing what the truth was. So far, his dreams had revealed nothing about Voldemort's plans, not since the strange vision of that cemetery.
Speaking of which, he was still waiting for a reply from Remus about that dream. Harry had already decided to let Ron and Hermione know about it. So far he had heard back from Hermione.
Typically, Hermione had suggested research into the symbols and ritual he had seen. She had also sent him a thick volume on magical runes and ritualistic symbols she wanted him to go through and find anything that matched what he had seen. So far, he had gone through three chapters before falling asleep in his chair. He'd try again later.
Harry sighed and slumped sideways onto his mattress, staring blankly at the wall beside his door. He didn't really want to look at the paper again, it would probably only have more bad news. He was debating whether or not to head downstairs and risk trying to watch television for anything that might help the Order when he heard a quiet rustle of wings and a rush of cool air washed over his back and ruffled his unruly black hair into his eyes. Rolling over Harry saw that Hedwig had returned from her mission to deliver his letter to Ron.
Hedwig perched on the headboard of his bed, an envelope tied to her left leg as she extended her wings for balance and hooted softly at him. Harry smiled as he straightened up again and stretched out his arm for her to perch on. With a satisfied hoot, Hedwig transferred from the headboard to his forearm and extended her leg with its paper passenger.
"Welcome back, girl. I hope Pig didn't bother you too much." Harry smiled as Hedwig ruffled her feathers up and rotated her head to look at him sideways before hooting at him. Harry took the letter from her and opened it up as she flapped over to her open cage and took a drink from her water dish.
Harry scanned the contents of the letter from his best friend and nodded to himself before frowning.
Hey Harry,
Ron here, but you know that already. Sorry it took so long to get
back to you. Things have been really crazy here the past few weeks.
Hey, did you know Bill is in England right now? He's staying at the
Order with the rest of us, except Percy. He's still being a royal
pain in the ass. Admitted to being a stupid git about you, but he's
still being Fudge's lapdog. Mum and dad didn't want him to get
involved with the Order, because then he'd just leak information to
Fudge. And that would be just like putting out an advertisement in
the Daily Prophet inviting Death Eaters to the Order's meetings.
Anyway, back to Bill. He's staying at the Order you know. He's got
all kinds of awesome stories about Egypt and all the tombs he's been
in to de-curse the stuff before muggles get into it. Mum doesn't like
him telling Ginny about it though, but she listens in anyway. Some of
its just wild, you know. Anyway, he's not just here to visit you
know. Did you hear about that museum attack in Cairo by Death Eaters?
Bill was in the area when it happened, he's fine though, don't worry.
He thought the Order should know that those slimy gits stole this book
he was checking out for the Egyptian Ministry of Magic. It was some
spell book about Ancient Egyptian curses or something. It was for
sale in some dead guy's estate auction, to muggles! Can you believe
that? Those muggles probably thought it was just some fairy tale
junk, Bill says. But the Ministry wanted him to get it before some
muggle did, or get rid of all the real spells and curses that are in
it and on it too if a muggle won it in the auction. Don't want any
modern muggles growing a couple more arms and another head, after all.
Anyway, before he got a chance to de-spell the thing, a bunch of
Death Eaters showed up and stole it right out of the museum. Killed a
bunch of muggles to get at it too.
Anymore dream visions that might say why He wants a moldy old spell
book? No idea what that one you told me about means. Maybe he was
trying out one of those spells and it backfired. Hope it blew his
wand-hand off. You should ask Hermione, she'll know. She probably
already has the research done for it, in her spare time, you know.
Bet she'll know, soon as you ask her.
Anyway, mum and dad are trying to get Dumbledore to agree to bring you
to the Order soon as we can. Snape keeps arguing with them about
which is safer for you to be at. Didn't know that slimy jerk cared so
much. Probably just wants to make sure you survive till Hogwarts
starts up so he can torment you again. I'm sure he'd miss his
favorite target if you died over summer. Anyway, I'm hoping they
agree to bring you here soon. Then Bill can tell you some of his cool
stories about Egypt. Maybe he knows a few curses he can teach us.
Bet an extra head growing out of his stomach will shut Malfoy up next
time he tries something. Anyway, I'll send you another message later
on. I gotta get going. Fred just set off his newest extra strength
version of a dungbomb down the hall. I gotta find somewhere safe from
the fumes and spatters.
See you,
Ron Weasely
So, the news about the Cairo Museum had been about Death Eaters. Figures. Still doesn't explain what Voldemort could be up to. None of it made any sense. None of the incidents this summer seemed to be connected in any way. First a robbery of an Egyptian spell book from a museum in Cairo, then that strange dream vision of a ritual in a cemetary that blows up shortly afterward and sends the Death Eaters flying, then an entire village of muggles leveled by, apparently, dragons.
What the hell was going on?
Harry lay back down, after setting the letter on his bedside table, and stared at the ceiling. It only seemed to be getting more and more confusing as time went on. Surely Voldemort had a plan...didn't he?
Harry snorted. The great and powerful Dark Lord couldn't be 'winging it' could he? No that wasn't like him. It wasn't like the Tom Riddle Harry had gotten to know from Voldemort's diary, and it certainly wasn't like the real Voldemort himself to just go with things as they came to him. He was cunning and conniving, not fickle and random. That meant there had to be a connection. But for the life of him, Harry had no idea what it could be.
Just as Harry was debating whether he should look over the rest of the newspaper, his aunt's voice shrilled up at him from the staircase.
"Boy! Get down here, you lazy boy! I told you to take out the garbage hours ago! If you don't get off your lazy bum and take those bags to the curb the trash collector will leave them until next week!"
Harry growled under his breath as he sat up. Figures. Aunt Petunia had not asked him to take the garbage out hours ago. In fact, she had specifically asked Dudley to take out the trash because she couldn't find Harry, who had been hiding under the hydrangea bush at the time. And the garbage man wasn't to come until tomorrow morning.
"Hurry up you lazy child! I'll not have garbage collecting in this house for two weeks! If you expect to live here under this roof and eat from our table, then you'll have to do your share of the chores!" Aunt Petunia's voice shrilled from the staircase again.
Harry sighed and got up. If for no other reason, he did not want to have to deal with his relatives being constantly angry at him. Even if they couldn't toss him out because of Petunia's promise, they could still make him miserable without bringing down the wrath of the friendly neighborhood self-appointed 'Harry Potter Protection Committee' of the Order. Otherwise dubbed the 'Happy Committee' by Hermione and Ron. As in, HaP-P Committee. Oh well, it was better than SPEW.
"I'm coming." Harry called down the stairs as he headed out into the rest of the house. Uncle Vernon was out at work for the day and Dudley had gone out early to play with Piers and his gang with the most recent gadget his parents had bought him. It was some sort of dueling thing, Harry didn't really care that much about some weird card game. He was sure Exploding Snap was much more fun.
Just as he came down into the kitchen, the front door slammed open behind him in the front hall.
"Damn this thing!" Dudley snarled under his breath as he thundered past Harry into the kitchen. Harry followed silently in his wake.
"Mother this Duel Disk is broken! How could you have purchased a faulty Disk for me!" Dudley cried, his face turning red as fake tears welled up in his eyes.
"Oh Duddikins! Whatever do you mean? I had no idea it was faulty! What is wrong with it to make my darling Dudders cry!" She gasped as she rushed over to her enormous son and threw her arms around his girth. "Don't cry Duddies! I'm sure the company that sold it will replace it, you've only had it for a day now. I'm certain there's a warranty for these things."
"This rotten thing refuses to read any of my cards! How am I supposed to win a Duel against Piers, or anyone, if it won't read my cards!" Dudley cried as he brandished the strange wrist contraption around the room.
"Oh my poor Dudders! How terrible for you! Show mummie what you mean my dear."
"Look!" Dudley cried as he held out his pudgy arm and pushed a button on the underside of the wrist band. The loose wrist band contracted and tightened around his arm, leaving bulges of pasty white flesh to be squished out from either end of the wrist band that was obviously designed to be worn by normal sized humans, instead of whales masquerading as people. The two slotted fin halves rotated around and clicked together to form a single plate on the outer side of his arm before lighting up and making a soft beeping and quiet humming. There was a soft hiss as two small projectiles were launched from either side of his wrist; at least, they tried to launch. The unprecedented size of Dudley's arm and the bulges of flesh got in the way of the devices and they sort of dropped off of the disk to plop onto the ground a couple feet apart on either side of Dudley. Then they lit up and hummed along with the disk itself. Then Dudley drew a card out of the deck holder that sat above the back of his hand and flipped it over and put it into one of the slots on the fin pan. There was a series of tones from the device before a grainy, distorted, fuzzy image of a person in armor appeared in the kitchen. Only it was about three feet tall and skinny as a reed while somehow its torso was doing a loop-de-loop while one leg was shorter than the other. "You see! It's all messed up!" Dudley cried as he gestured at the distorted figure.
"Oh dear, that is dreadful. Is this what its supposed to look like? I daresay this duel pan thing is not worth what we paid for it." Aunt Petunia scowled at the distorted image.
"No this is not what is should look like! Piers's works just fine. And it reads all of his cards correctly too! This one won't read half of my cards correctly! The other half it ruins the holograms of them!"
"Oh dear, I'll be sure to have Vernon take this up with the store manager. I'm certain we can get our money back, or get a replacement that works. Don't fret Duddikins, we'll get this terrible mess sorted out right away." Aunt Petunia cooed as she hugged her large son to her bony frame.
"I need new cards as well, mother. These ones just won't cut it against Piers's deck. I haven't been able to win a single duel against him with these sorry excuses for monster cards." Dudley reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of the odd playing cards.
"What's the use of this monster card anyway? I can't see how anyone can use its ability and still have enough life points to win the duel." Dudley sneered down at the card on the top of his handful. "These others are just garbage cards anyway." Dudley turned away from his mother and tossed the handful into the open garbage bag that waited in the corner for Harry to drag to the curb. "You need to stop buying me such weak and stupid cards, mother. If I'm going to win that tournament next month I'll have to have the strongest monster cards and the best magic and trap cards I can get. Not junk like those ones."
Harry's ears perked up. Did he just hear the 'm' word? He did, and it didn't set off a maelstrom of fear and anger?
"Of course Dudley dearest. You just tell your father and I which cards you want and we'll get them for you. Don't you worry. You're going to make your father and I so proud of you at that important tournament!" Aunt Petunia's eyes filled with tears as she squeezed her son to her chest again. "And when you win, I'm certain that that talented young CEO of Kaiba Corporations will take to you at once. How could he not like my dear Duddikins! Then you can invite your new friend to dinner and Vernon will certainly charm him into agreeing to sponsor Grunnings." Aunt Petunia cried as her eyes lit up at the thought of her Dudders becoming friends with such an important person as the young Kaiba Corp. CEO.
"Good. I'll show Piers who the best duelist is when I take the title at the Kaiba Corp. English Nationals Tournament." Dudley grinned as he took off the duel disk and put it on the table. "Be sure dad gets one that works correctly this time, I'd hate for him to waste his money on another faulty machine." Dudley frowned at the duel disk before taking his deck of cards out of it and slipping it into his pocket.
"Of course dear. Why don't you go watch the television for a bit. I think your favorite show is starting soon." Aunt Petunia smiled at Dudley. Dudley nodded and got a chocolate diet shake out of the refrigerator before heading past Harry into the living room.
"Now you! Don't just stand there gawking! Get that garbage out of here!" Aunt Petunia snapped at Harry who had ducked out of Dudley's way.
Harry nodded and trudged over to the garbage can. Lifting out the black trash bag he slung it over his shoulder and headed back through the house and out the front door. Once at the garbage cans that sat in front of the driveway Harry had to set the bag down to take the lid off the metal can. As he dropped the bag to the ground, it fell over onto its side and some of the garbage on top spilled out onto the driveway.
Harry scowled. "Just great." He muttered under his breath as he set the lid onto the ground and knelt down to stuff the trash back into the bag.
As Harry picked up a handful of paper towels he found one of the Dudley's cards lying face up on the ground under it. He blinked, surprised. He picked up the card and looked more closely at it. It was not at all what he had expected.
The title of the card read 'Retrained Celtic Guardian.'* On the card face was the image of a blond warrior with a large broadsword, wearing deep green and brown armor, chased with silver.** The most striking features, however, were the large pointed ears that protruded out from under either side of the warrior elf's helmet and the brown eyes with slit pupils. This was not the sort of card Harry had ever expected Dudley, of all people, to have.
The text of the card had a type and two values listed. There were four stars inside little circles along the top of the picture. A special effect was written in a text box on the bottom. The card read:***
Retrained Celtic Guardian
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Warrior
Attack: 1400
Defense: 1200
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has an attack strength of 1900 or higher. (Damage is still done.)
To say Harry was surprised would be an understatement. His cousin, who hated anything magical or supernatural of any kind, playing a card game with an elf as a card. Although, Dudley did throw this card away, maybe because it was an elf, and therefore, bad.
Curious now, Harry began to search through the spilled garbage and through the top layers of the bag looking for the other cards. Eventually, he decided he must have found them all when he had picked up the 19th card, and had reached the bottom of the bag.
There was definitely a theme of magic running through these cards. A few of them were even labeled 'magic card'. To think that Dudley could even get Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia to buy cards with pictures and titles like these was enough to make Harry's head spin. What sort of card game was this anyway?
As Harry rifled through the small stack of cards he admired the artwork on them. They looked like they had been drawn by a master artist. As he paused to read more closely a card with a pink-winged angel nurse carrying a large syringe filled with green fluid,**** Harry heard the front door open. Quickly he stuffed the cards into his pocket and scooped the last of the trash back into the bag before straightening up and stuffing it into the trash can. As he turned back to the house he saw Dudley stumping down the front steps, counting out his pocket change.
Dudley completely ignored Harry as he continued on down the street towards the park where the rest of his gang was sure to be. Harry scowled at his back before heading back into the house.
Once back in his room, Harry took the odd playing cards out of his pocket and began looking them over again. The artwork was really nice. The only cards he'd seen like them were the famous wizard trading cards that came with chocolate frogs. Granted, these weren't magical or anything, and they didn't move, but it seemed a shame to just throw them away. Dudley tossed them, so he wouldn't miss them. Harry grinned to himself.
"I think I'll keep them."
TBC
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Harry's Cards:
Retrained Celtic Guardian
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Warrior
Level 4
Attack: 1400
Defense: 1200
Effect: This card cannot be destroyed in battle with a monster that has an attack strength of 1900 or higher. (Damage is still done.)
Injection Angel Lily
Type: Effect Monster
Earth/Magic User
Level 3
Attack: 400
Defense: 1500
Effect: Can only be activated during your or your opponent's Damage Step. Pay 2000 Life Points to increase this card's attack strength by 3000 for the Damage Step.
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I already know which 19 cards Harry has. I'll fill you in on them later as they come up in the story and add their stats and such at the bottom of each chapter they show up in.
Yes, Dudley threw them away. Now, say it with me everyone:
"Dudley is a moron that sucks at Duel Monsters and couldn't get the Heart of the Cards to work for him if his life depended on it."
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* I don't like the fact that the English translation of this card is 'Obnoxious Celtic Guardian'. I just can't see CG as obnoxious. Mischievous, maybe, but not obnoxious. The Japanese name is 'Retrained Elven Swordsman'. I figure a lot of people won't know what card I'm talking about if I call it Elven Swordsman, so I mixed the two. Please don't hate me for it. ^_^;
** To distinguish between Yugi's Celtic Guardian and this one, I made it an English [as in from England] edition card. In my fiction universe the English editions tend to use slightly darker color tints for the card images than the Japanese version do. So while Yugi's CG has leaf green armor, this one has a darker green armor color.
*** All the card information is from the actual cards in the real life card game. I hope it doesn't differ too much from the effect of the anime/manga cards. This card information [except my altered names for them (if I alter the names)] was obtained from Edo's Yugioh! Page! He says his translations are not for use with any ebay or auctions of any kind. I hope he doesn't mind my using them here. Edo, if you see this and disapprove please let me know and I'll stop doing anything like this. Thank you. Here's his url, it's an excellent site about the card game. It has manga summaries too. Take out the spaces.
ht tp:/ /w w w.storm pages.co m/edhrzic/Yugioh.ht m
**** Drat those American dub censors!! They changed Injection Angel Lily's syringe into a giant red and pink rocket. Explain to me how a weapon of mass destruction [no matter how pink it is] is better for kids to see than a syringe held by someone dressed as a nurse??
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Well, there we go. More plot advancement, sort of. Harry is introduced to Duel Monsters. We get to laugh at Dudley and his attempts to duel, plus his ambitions for his tournament career.
Harry has a total of nineteen cards that he rescued from the garbage collector. So far, I've let you guys know about two of them. I know which ones he has already. As more of the story passes, you'll get to see more of which cards Dudley threw away, and begin to be able to fathom his depth of Dueling stupidity while we're at it.
These cards are all from the real card game [Japanese version]. I got the names/effects/stats from Edo's Yugioh! Page!. The url for it is up above in the *** section of endnotes for the story.
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Just for fun I found these cards also on Edo's page. All of them have connections to the manga or the anime in some fashion.
DARK MASTER - ZORK
Type: Ritual Monster
Dark/Demon
Level 8
Attack: 2700
Defense: 1500
Summoned by a [Pact With The Dark Master]. You must sacrifice 8 levels or more worth of cards from the Field and/or your hand. Once during your turn, you may roll 1 six-sided die. If the roll is a 1 or 2, destroy all of your opponent's Monsters on the Field. If the roll is 3, 4 or 5, destroy 1 of your opponent's Monsters on the Field. If the roll is a 6, destroy all of your Monsters on the Field.
[This card with its dice effects is a lot like the monster Yami Bakura used against Yami and Yugi and friends in the very early anime series [not shown in USA] in the Monster World RPG game that Ryou likes to play. Its also the name of the God of Evil Zork Necrophidious from the Ancient Egyptian Arc.]
CRUEL VIOLATOR - CHOPMAN
Dark/Undead
Level 3
Attack: 1100
Defense: 500
When this card is Reverse Summoned, you can Equip 1 Equipment Magic card from your Cemetery on this card.
[The Chopman was a serial killer that Kaiba hired/coerced into joining his Death-T game against Yugi and his friends in the manga. Jounouchi had to face him in a death match where the Chopman used a chainsaw and Jou had to fight for his life. They were chained together and the chain ran through a metal ring set into a stone in the center of the circular room. Jounouchi escaped by using the sharp point of a candlestick holder to pick the lock from the chain. Then he tied the chain to the window bars of the door and used the Chopman's brute strength to rip the door off its hinges. The candle fell into oil that covered the floor of the room and the Chopman burned to death while Jou got out of the room.]
DARK HERO: ZOMBIRE
Dark/Warrior
Level 4
Attack: 2100
Defense: 500
This card cannot attack a player. Reduce this Monster's attack strength by 200 for each monster that this Monster destroys during Battle.
[In the manga, one of the often bullied kids that Yugi is sort of friends with has an obsession with an American comic superhero called Zombire who is sorta like Spawn in appearance. The kid gets into trouble when he dresses up as Zombire and his father pays some bullies to pretend that he defeated them to give him confidence. The bullies then decide to force money from the dad or else they'll really beat up the kid, when the kid thinks that he can defeat the bullies because he's a superhero like Zombire. Yugi comes to rescue the kid and Yami takes over. He uses spray paint to draw a maze on the ground while avoiding the attacks and punches of the bullies and then flicks a match onto it, setting the flammable paint on fire and singeing/scaring the bullies into running away.]
WILLPOWER OF NORMALCY [Bonkotsu no Iji]
Permanent Magic
If you draw a Normal Monster during your Draw Phase, you can show that card to your opponent and draw 1 more card.
[Can also be translated as Spirit of the Mediocre One. Poor Jou, he even gets a card named after Kaiba's nickname for him. Kaiba calls Jounouchi Bonkotsu a lot. It basically means Mediocre One or normal person. Yugi/Yami uses this card in the most recent episode fresh from Japan. It comes after the Doom arc and is one of the first episodes of the Kaiba Grand Prix story arc. Basically, Yami uses the card in a duel against a computer and Jounouchi asks the others why would Yugi have a Bonkotsu card in his deck, and everyone laughs at him (except Yugi/Yami who's busy dueling). After the duel Jou puts Yami on the spot by asking why he had that card. Yami thinks for a sec, then says 'hold on just a sec' and winks, then switches with Yugi (who was in spirit form in the background grinning at Yami's discomfort at being put on the spot by Jou). Yugi spazzes out and yells at Yami that that's not fair. Yami, in spirit form in the background, just looks off into the distance with this 'don't look at me, I didn't do anything' expression on his face. Jou then grabs Yugi around the shoulders and demands to know if Yugi thinks Jou is a bonkotsu like Kaiba does. Yugi admits that it did remind him of Jounouchi and Honda cracks a joke at Jou who gets mad and lets Yugi go.]
ACROBAT MONKEY
Earth/Machine
Level 3
Attack: 1000
Defense: 1800
[I haven't seen a picture of this card, but it got me thinking. Maybe this is the card of the body that Honda was stuck in during the Noa Arc after his own body was stolen by one of the Big Five. It is a machine type after all.]
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Er. Anyway. Hope I haven't offended anyone by giving Harry duel monster cards.
Oh about why Dudley's Duel Disk won't work. Well for one thing, its a mark one model imported from America, which means it only reads American and Japanese cards properly. It can read some English [British] cards but not all, and some will have mistakes on the holograms. For another, Dudley's arm girth is interfering with the proper function of the hologram projection rocket things. This means that they can't fire properly and so end up falling to the floor too early. This causes the holograms to be shrunken and distorted instead of their proper impressiveness.
Oh and Dudley is really bad at duel monsters. He thinks that more powerful cards = better deck. He basically gives no thought to strategy. Plus, the Heart of the Cards hates him. ^_^ That's why he threw away such potentially useful cards.
Oh, I made up Beckinwaithe. If you should by some bizarre coincidence of fate, happen to live in a village in Northern England named Beckinwaithe, I apologize for blowing up your town. I'll have the Aurors use a time-turner to set things right for you. ^_^
Bye Bye for now!
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