Author's Notes: Okay, I re-edited this chapter because I feel like the story's pace is way too fast. It was kind of hard to do a believable werewolf fight scene, I'm not used to that kind of thing. And the two silvers were … *drum roll* GABRIELLE AND THE FULL MOON! Thank you to all the people who participated. They are: sweetmac05, PIcaRDMPC, Rosz of the Angel, PrincessSaphire and Mighty Shade! Thanks! I was also quite surprised the morning after I posted the last chapter (12 pm!) when I checked my email and found nine review alerts in my inbox! I was very happy with them, but it really caught me off guard that I'd get so many reviews in such a short time. I also found an excellent website about writing fanfiction. It has a dictionary with a whole bunch of terms used in fanfiction (like 'Mimato' and 'Plot Bunny'), Tips on how to become better at it, and everything! It's so awesome! It's at www.writersu.s5.com. Now onto the chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters, ideas, or plots from Yu-Gi-Oh, neither from Harry Potter (Although I own a little budgie named Pigwidgeon, and she's just the sweetest little thing you've ever seen!)
Chapter 6: Werewolves and Resolutions
Other people on the bus were looking back at the now transforming Lupin, fear suddenly dawning on their pale faces. Harry drew his wand out, Ron and Hermione copying the motion, ready to battle Lupin's werewolf form. Gabrielle's eyes were livid with shock and panic, and Yami wasn't quite sure what to think.
"Bus Driver!" Harry yelled, and the old man's head jerked back so he could face him. "Get everyone off the bus right now! We'll try and hold him off!"
No sooner had he said this that the squeal of the brakes pierced his ears and everyone fairly jumped off the bus. Harry spotted one man outside the window dialing his cell phone to call the police.
"NO!" Harry yelled out to him. "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! DON'T BRING THE POLICE HE-" He was suddenly cut off by the fully transformed Lupin, of whom had succeeded in pinning him to the ground, knocking his wand away. Harry struggled to get away, but the werewolf kept him trapped.
"Get off him!" Harry heard Hermione shriek as she tried to push him off; her wand had slipped out of her hand as well. With a snarl and a swipe of his paw, the werewolf sent her flying back into Ron, causing them both to fall into the back fire exit, breaking the glass and falling onto the hard pavement.
He turned his attention back to Harry, and made an attempt of biting him in the face. Harry moved his head just in time. He managed to get one arm free and used it to grab onto its snout and hold his gnashing teeth shut for a while.
Gabrielle had started to pull on its tail, trying desperately to save Harry since she couldn't use a wand yet. The werewolf pulled himself free of Harry's clutches and turned his focus to the young Veela. Gabrielle's eyes widened, and she wisely let go of his tail. She started to run towards the exit, hoping to divert it from Harry, when in an instant the werewolf smashed into her and knocked her unconscious.
Harry, now that he was free, began looking for a wand. If he could just get one, he could stun the wolf instead of trying to attack it, the mistake everyone else was making. He saw one rolling to the end of the bus, so he desperately scrambled after it.
The werewolf crouched low, ready to pounce on Gabrielle. Harry was almost in reach of the wand when he felt something being shoved into his right hand. It was his wand. He looked up to see Yami, who yelled at him, "Use it! Quickly!"
Harry pointed it at the werewolf. "Stupefy!"
Almost instantly it fell onto its side, motionless and unconscious.
"Thanks," Harry said. "But how did you know which wand was mine?"
"I'm the King of Games," Yami said plainly, "So therefore, I could win a mere guessing game."
Harry stared at him. "That was a game to you?"
"Only for guessing which wand you needed."
A groan from outside attracted Harry's attention. "Ron! Hermione!"
Harry leaped from the bus and knelt down next to his friends. He helped Ron carefully lift a bleeding Hermione off of him.
"Are you two alright?" Harry asked cautiously as people surrounded them.
"I am, all I got was a nasty bruise on my back. Hermione's not too good; she was already cut from the werewolf. She got all the glass when we went down," Ron said anxiously, with a hint of panic in his voice. Hermione was still awake, but she was badly cut.
"Could someone call an ambulance?" Harry called out to the crowd, which now contained some reporters with cameramen, flashing lights of the camera's blinded Harry for a minute.
"One's on the way," he heard someone respond. Harry looked around, from the bus, to his friends, to the growing crowd and the Ambulance and Police cars in the distance. This is one big mess, he thought to himself.
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Hermione had to spend a couple nights in the hospital, but she was going to be fine. Lupin was still stunned in the form of a werewolf, and couldn't turn back into him until the full moon had disappeared. When they had finally convinced the police it was just their dog that had somehow gotten rabies without their knowing, they decided to keep him in Yugi's basement, and neither Harry nor Ron wanted to set him back alive again until he had turned human again.
Now they were faced with the task of taking the seemingly lifeless Gabrielle to Bakura's alone. Yami, for some absurd reason, was taken in for questioning by the police. Luckily for the two remaining people, they had a found a telephone booth, with a phone book in it, so Harry could be spared dragging the young girl all over town (he had to carry her). Ron, however, didn't seem too pleased.
"Harry, this one is completely different from a home fellytone. How are supposed to use it if it has a cord? And it's hanging from the wall, too!" Harry just rolled his eyes at Ron's ignorance, and began to agree with Hermione that he could really benefit from Muggle Studies. He tossed Ron the phone book.
"Look for Bakura's last name in there," Harry explained, while Ron gave him a quizzical look. He flipped through the pages and soon became frustrated with the task.
"How can you find anything in here? Why do Muggles make everything seem like Transfiguration Notes?" Ron complained. Harry showed him quickly how to find names in the telephone book and Ron's cheeks turned a bit red after seeing that it was quite easy. "It's just that all the colour-coding is confusing me… and all the numbers."
"It's alright, Ron," Harry reassured him.
"Here! I found it!" Ron pointed to a phone number, and dictated it to him.
"Not yet, I have to put in the money first." Harry dropped the foreign coins in and then dialed the number. It had just started ringing when…
"Harry? Is that you?" They both whirled around (Harry almost dropped Gabrielle) to see Bakura with a grocery bag, standing on the sidewalk. "And your wizard friend? What are you all doing here?"
"Bakura, we were going to fellytone you!" Ron said.
"Pardon?"
"It's telephone, Ron," Harry said, hanging up the phone.
"I would have never dreamed I'd see you two here. What about that girl, where is she? And who is that?" Bakura said in a confused voice, gesturing towards Gabrielle.
Harry and Ron sprung into a condensed explanation about the goings on while Bakura listened carefully.
"So – I have to take this girl with me, and pretend she's my sister?"
"Exactly," Harry said as he handed her over to Bakura.
"How am I supposed to carry her? I mean, won't it look suspicious if I walk back home with a knocked out stranger back home? What will father say?"
"Erm-" Neither of them had really thought about it. Then Ron suddenly had an idea.
"In the third year, we took those cars to the train station. Is there some kind of place you rent cars?"
"You mean a taxi?" Bakura said. Ron nodded. "I suppose I could call one using that pay phone. And I have a lot of left over money from grocery shopping to pay the driver with."
Bakura had called the Taxi Company and Ron and Harry waited till he was off and out of sight with Gabrielle in tow before they left. They took the bus back to Yugi's neighbourhood, and this time, there were no mishaps.
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"Poor Lupin," Ron said as he and Harry trudged up the stairs to visit Yugi. "I suppose we won't have lessons until he's human again."
"I guess not. He might've not known that it was the full moon already in this world, so he probably didn't know to take the potion," Harry reasoned.
Ron nodded his head in agreement and reached out to turn the doorknob, when the door opened all by itself.
Yugi stood there, looking up at them with sad yet determined eyes. His cheeks were stained with so much crying, and he hadn't changed out of his pajamas yet. His hair was a mess, and from behind him they could see his bed was too.
"Yami told me everything," Yugi said a bit faintly. "And I decided that I'll have time to… to cry afterwards. Right now I need to help you."
"If you're not feeling up to it-"
"You don't have to, Yugi, you have every right to be sad-"
"I'll be fine," Yugi cut them off. "I've got to help you. If I don't, they could either find you guys here, or kill someone else. I won't let that happen!" Yugi's eyes started to brim with tears, but he held them back.
Ron smiled at him and said, "That's the way to go."
"Where should we start, then? I mean, we have to find them," Harry said as they walked down the stairs towards the kitchen.
"Well, they'd have to be somewhere," Yugi added. "But Domino City is so huge. How on Earth are we going to find them?"
"They'd probably be somewhere close to all those people's houses," Ron reasoned. "It's be hard to apparate all the time without being seen-"
"What?" Harry explained to Yugi what apparating was, and he seemed rather interested in it. "So you could just think of somewhere, and pop! You'd be there?"
"Or someone," Harry told him. "You could think of being with someone, and then you'd go wherever they are."
"So they're probably not doing that, or they'd've found us already," Ron said. "Too risky for them, I bet."
"Well, what would we be able to do if we found them?" Yugi said. "It's not like we can ask for help."
That statement made something click in Harry's memory. "Yes we can! Yugi, you could use your puzzle thing to transport a letter to Dumbledore! He'll know what to do!"
Ron's face lit up. "Yeah! Maybe he'll send someone to help us or instructions on what to do!"
"Alright then," Yugi said, slightly cheerier than before. "You two send the letter. I'll call Joey to warn him about the Death Eaters."
Harry and Ron looked at each other and smiled. Perhaps they weren't hopeless after all.
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"See!" Lucius Malfoy slammed the latest issue of the newspaper on the table. "I told you they were here! Just look at the picture!"
All the other Death Eaters surrounded the table, peering at the photograph in front of them. In it there was a bus with the back fire exit smashed to bits, and two young boys helping an injured girl up, surrounded by people. Glass was scattered all over the ground, and another smaller picture below it showed an extremely large, limp wolf being held by an anonymous person.
"He sent the werewolf to look after them," Nott said gleefully. "Dumbledore made the wrong choice this time."
"Does it say who they're with?" Avery asked, his eyes skating across the page with realization.
"Not a bloody mention," Malfoy cursed, but then smiled. "At least, we can turn this to our benefit."
The other Death Eaters saw the same opportunity, and murmurs of agreement filled their mouths.
"Someone should inform Master at once," Malfoy said, looking at all the Death Eaters. "Crabbe! Take Wormtail's post at the Shadow Realm. He will return to our world and inform Master of our discovery. Make sure that any attempt to communicate with Dumbledore by Potter or anyone else is sent immediately to us. It may inform us of their location."
Crabbe bowed clumsily and went on his way.
Reviewer's Response:
Luna339: That's great! Thank you!
Yami: Yep, he is. It's been a while from reading the third book for me as well, so I have to check up on a couple things from time to time (like whether they called him Lupin or just plain Remus) for accuracy. Thanks!
Hikari Briefs: Mai isn't going to die, because she didn't go with them to the Harry Potter world, so the Death Eaters ruled her out as a victim. Joey probably isn't going to be so lucky, though. Don't pie me! Or flame me! Or make me read R rated Harry/Voldie fics! The horror! (I'm sorry if anyone here is a fan of that pairing, it's just the thought of it really creeps me out). Thank you for reviewing!
lily22: I can understand you forgetting about Yami, it was a rather long discussion. Fleur died, sadly (she's one of my favourite characters! Waaaahh!), but it had to be that way, though. Otherwise the whole her being innocent thing wouldn't seem to work out. Thanks for the review!
Gin Ryu-chan: Awe, thank you so much! *feels loved very much* Why wasn't the keyboard working? Technical problems? I'm probably being nosy, but I'm just curious. Thanks!
PrincessSaphire: Yep, Kaiba Bo-baiba will return to see his little brother, all dead and lifeless *sniff*, but he will not join the Death Eaters. He doesn't have any magic to begin with to be a Death Eater, and he's not that desperate. Besides, the Death Eaters won't see him as a possible ally…MWAHAHAHAHAHA! J/K about the laugh thing. Thanks a lot!
OoshatiElf: I've got to get your name right. I keep on calling you OotashiElf inside my head, and it's a bit confusing. Oh well, it's a good name! Everyone forgot about Gabrielle, but that's okay. She was only featured in 2 short parts of the book. Princess Hard-hat? That's alright, only three people actually knew who Morgan Le Fay was when I had to tell them what I was. Thank you for reviewing!
Mighty Shade: Yep, you got the spelling right. Thank you!
Nips: It's okay, I think I get it now. My next review? Don't you mean chapter? Lol (that's the first time I used that little chat thingie). Thanks for the review!
Zheryta: I will, don't worry! You used to be Zheryta, Guardian of Yami and Yugi, and something about a Sennen wolf, right? It's a long name, so I can't remember it all. Thanks!
Angel Reaper: I sort of agree with you about the Tortallian guys, most of them aren't all that likeable. George, Neal and Numair are good, though. I haven't read the Circle of Magic yet, so I'm not quite sure who Briar is. Kel's alright, I just don't like how she always has to hide her feelings. Protector of the Small is still good, though! Thank you!
tefla: Yep! Sirius is…hmmm, where is Sirius? I hadn't thought about that. Good question. I'll just pretend he's off searching for more of the 'old crowd' like Dumbledore told him to. I understand about Bakura being your favourite character, I was just puzzled. Boy, after the chapter I kill him off, I'll probably get tons of flames! *imagines scenario* I HATE YOU, B****! YOU KILLED OFF MY HONEY! I SWEAR, IF THEY EVER MAKE REAL HOWLERS! *scenario ends* I hope that doesn't happen. Oh well, lots of great authors get flamed, so I probably will one day. Thank you!
Rosz of the Angel: CHAOS! Don't you love it? It didn't get very chaotic, though. Maybe I'll work some mayhem into another chapter. J/K, I'm not that cruel. I'd like to be a silverhead, or maybe a redhead. Both sound rather nice, don't they? Okay now I'm off topic. Thanks a lot!
YugiKitty and MalikKitsune: I've been wondering…are you two separate people? Because it used to be just YugiKitty, and now there's two names. Just curious. You're right, though. Gabrielle has practically no family now. It'd be kind of ironic in a way if they made her live with the Dursleys, even a little bit funny. That way, at least Harry would have someone to talk to. Thanks!
PIcaRDMPC: I guess it could've been Hagrid, but it had to be Gabrielle. I'm glad some people feel sorry for Tea, Tristan and Mokuba. I know it's not fair, but it's probably going to be fair in the end. They have to die for the plot's sake. It's going to be a bit hard to write it, though. Seto's a very angsty (sp?) character. Thank you!
Goggle-Girl: Yes, he brought the potion. But he had only arrived there on the day the lessons were, and was unaware of whether it was a full moon or not. Besides, how is he supposed to read a Japanese calendar? I mean, unless he found one that's not in kanji, katakana, or hiragana, he's pretty much lost. Thanks!
Helteage and Co: What? Sake? 'Twill not do to have drunken reviews. o.O Anyways, thanks for the review!
sweetmac05: Yes, it's wolfie time for loony loopy Lupin! *sees what she just wrote and begins to realize she's cracked* Erm - maybe that weird Yu-Gi-Oh in Fairytale Land thing I wrote wasn't good for my health. Aw well. Life's no fun without Kraft Dinner and insanity. It'd be a drag. Thanks!
Darkfire75: Really? Me too! I love Harry Potter to bits! Thanks for not getting mad at me for Bakura's impending doom. Now I'll feel bad that I made you cry. Thanks a lot!