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Chapter 10: The True Objective

A flock of around six Death Eaters swooped down on all of them; wands pointed straight at their victims. Harry backed up against the wall, as did the others. They were cornered, and there was no way to fight back.

"Disarm them!" called out Macnair's voice, and almost instantly their three wands flew out of their hands and fell far out of reach on the other side of the room.

"Stupefy!" Goyle stunned Yugi, to Harry's surprise. He walked over and examined the Millenium Puzzle around his neck. "This is the one. He's got the right Item."

"Perfect," Malfoy practically hissed with triumph. "After searching all this time-"

"What do you want with Yugi?" Harry demanded, confused. "I thought you were after us!"

"Silence, Potter," Mr. Malfoy ordered, "Unless you want to be reminded about who's in charge of the situation. You're not to be killed yet, but I heard no restrictions on your friends fates."

Harry shut his mouth. He didn't want Ron or Hermione to suffer from his mistake, but he was still clueless as to what they wanted with Yugi. Wouldn't they have killed him by now if they were only after him?

"Dumbledore will have noticed if he sends for us to come back, and we don't," Hermione piped up, her voice trembling in fear.

"Don't you worry about your little Headmaster," Malfoy turned to face her. "Once we're finished gathering forces, he won't stand a chance. But of course, you'll probably be dead before we even get to that. Goyle, pick up the boy for God's sake. We have to take him back at once."

"What do you mean, gather forces?!" Ron said vehemently. Lucius Malfoy nodded to the Death Eater nearest Ron, who nodded back.

"Crucio," he uttered. Ron's screams of pain soon filled the air, as he fell writhing to the floor.

"Ron!" both Hermione and Harry yelled. Harry tried to move forward to help him but his Death Eater shot a spell at him that only narrowly missed, warning him to stay back. The curse on Ron was lifted, and he stayed down, gasping for troubled breath.

"One more peep out of you, Weasley, and it'll be the Killing Curse for you." The Death Eaters all said the same spell, which seemed to shackle the three of them with invisible chains. "Bring them along, now. We'll take Potter and the boy to our Master after we've finished our work here."

Ron was forced to stand up as they trudged along with them, Harry's mind working furiously to find a way out of this. But he needed his wand, and they had already taken care of that chance.

They walked through alleyways, all of which were deserted by any signs of life and shielded from the people walking on the streets. Harry guessed that they had used Anti-Muggle charms on the alleys, so they could slip through the whole city without being noticed or using risky magic like apparation.

The Death Eaters led them to an old abandoned house, of which passing Muggles didn't seem to notice. They all went inside, where Goyle was waiting with a large cauldron, brewing a foul smelling potion.

"Set Potter and his friends over there," Malfoy motioned towards the other side of the room. "Leave their chains on, we'll deal with them later."

All three were roughly shoved over to their destination, falling in a sort of heap. Ron was still wincing from the Cruciatus curse earlier.

"Are you going to be alright, Ron?" Hermione whispered barely audible enough for anyone to hear.

"Yeah," Ron whispered back. "It just hurts a little."

"The pain will go away," Harry reassured him. "It was like that for me, too." Harry had been hit with the Cruciatus curse in his 4th year. He looked around and spotted the stunned form of Yugi lying limp on the floor beside the cauldron. Harry glanced at the steaming potion, its stench flooding the room and even nauseating the Death Eaters.

"Why in bloody Hell does that potion have to have such a wretched smell?" one of the Death Eaters muttered.

"Deal with it, Avery. It's our only way to the Shadow Realm," another retorted.

Ron glared at them. "Those gits got the potion from Fleur's mother. Probably got her out of Azkaban by now."

"But why?" Hermione wondered quietly. "What use do they have for Yugi? They killed everyone else, but why not him?" Harry thoughts were all summed up in that simple statement. He looked over at Yugi, and his eyes rested on his Millenium puzzle.

"Of course-" Harry stated. Ron and Hermione stared at him. "They're gathering forces. They meant that they were searching for people to recruit!"

"Where does Yugi fit into all this?" Ron queried.

"Yami – they're after Yami!" Hermione proclaimed, seeing what Harry meant. "They needed to find the one with the right Millenium Item, and that's why they killed Bakura and everyone else. If they didn't have the right item, they knew they had the wrong person!"

"But then why didn't they just modify their memories then?" Ron asked.

Harry suddenly became aware that the Death Eater named Nott had been listening in on their conversation while the others had been adding things to the potion.

"Weasley, I thought that would be obvious," he said, cutting into their discussion. "Just like when the so called 'soul-snatcher' found when he went to our world, we have restrictions on our magic here. Memory charms don't work here, and neither does apparation."

"But why Yami?" Harry asked accusingly. "How did you even know who he was if you weren't there in the 5th year? Unless Fleur's mother told you-"

"She wasn't able to tell us anything more than how to make the potion and that the person who defeated the soul-snatcher lived here. She told us that it was a person with two souls in one body, and that a gold pyramid was the source of its power. She had already gone half mad, and that was the only information she could pass on," Nott concluded, staring icily at Harry.

"Then how did you know about Yami?" Ron said.

Nott smirked and his eyes glinted with superiority. "Why, he was in your father's year at school, after all. How could we not know one of our classmates, even after a long time?"

Harry looked at him as if he had suddenly sprouted tentacles. Hermione and Ron looked just as confused. "What?"

"I think it would be best if you kept quiet now," Nott said, "After all, I have been lenient with you so far, but if one of the other Death Eaters should hear your chatter, they might go along with Lucius' earlier threat."

Anger boiled along with derangement inside Harry. There was nothing they could do to save Yugi or even themselves. And now he was trying to figure out what Nott meant by saying that Yami went to school with his father. That wasn't possible – Hogwarts was for wizards only, and Yami had lived in this world for his whole life, hadn't he? He didn't have normal wizarding powers, at least, not that Harry had seen.

"Enerverate," one of the Death Eaters chanted, reviving Yugi. His eyes opened in shock, and he looked around the foreign place he suddenly found himself in. He spotted Harry, Ron and Hermione bound magically and slouching uncomfortably against the wall.

"Wha – what happened? What's going on?" he squeaked. The Death Eaters around him laughed cruelly.

"Let out your Yami, boy," Lucius Malfoy ordered, his wand positioned threateningly at Yugi's head. "We need to speak with him. Now."

Yugi's eyes trailed over to Harry once again, who was shaking his head violently and mouthing the word "No!". Nott, unfortunately, had noticed.

"You stay out of this Potter," he spat, "Crucio!"

The pain he hadn't felt since his fourth year now struck him once again, and he cried out in agony. Ron and Hermione struggled against their bonds to help him, but their efforts were him vain. A look of horror was etched in Yugi's face.

"STOP!" Yugi yelled, "Stop it, you're hurting him!" Nott smiled cruelly and Lucius Malfoy laughed.

"Release your Yami, and Nott will stop torturing Potter," Malfoy bargained. Yugi nodded furiously, and put his hands around his Millenium Item.

Nott almost instantly ended the curse on Harry, who was then left in an attempt to catch his breath once again. Yugi closed his eyes and the Puzzle began to glow. White, pure light started to illuminate the room.

A streak of it hit Harry in the chest, and the oddest sensation came over him. He felt like he was being bloated with light, so much so that he felt like he would explode. His vision blurred rapidly, and his hearing started to fade. He could just make out the shrieks of the Death Eaters, just before they ended abruptly – or it could've been that he could no longer hear them. All he saw was the blinding white light, just before he passed out.

Reviewer's Response:

LHY: Thank you! I supposed he over reacted a little, but there was nothing else happening in that chapter, so he had to make a scene out of it. Otherwise, it would've only been 1 page long. Thanks for reviewing!

tefla: Yep, trouble, as you saw in this chapter. The next one will be the last one, and then I'm not going to upload anything until I'm completely finished writing it. That way I won't have to suffer with due dates and whatnot, and it leaves my schedule much freer, and I won't have more on my stress load. Maybe I'll do a prequel to this, but I'm not quite sure yet. I have tons of other stories I want to write. Thanks a lot!

Luna339: He's the only living member – except for Mai, but she's only alive because she didn't go with them to Harry's world. Thank you for reviewing!

lily22: You did? It was great, wasn't it? I think the acting actually improved a bit. In the first one, when they had to stutter, they sounded like they were constipated. Or that may be only my observation. Anyway, you got in trouble for it? That's too bad. At least it was worth it, right? I guess that would really suck. You come back home only to get killed. I was worried that he was OOC, and I've gotten varying feedback on that. Thank you!

OotashiElf: That's a relief! Besides, what kind of home life would lead you making viruses just to be sadistically cruel to people you don't know? It sounds rather pathetic to me. Thanks a million for all the reviews you gave me on Ten Souls and You're Free, I was so happy! Lots of people miss Seto, so I feel kind of bad…but it's all for the sake of this story! Keep that in mind! Thank you for the review!

Ariyah-Chan: Whoa, I'm glad my best friend doesn't say things like that! I'd probably wilt away…But she's really, really awesome, and she's a great friend when you need someone. It's only a difference in opinion, that's all. She just reads my fanfics when she doesn't understand half of what's going on. That will always puzzle me greatly. And besides, the story she wanted me to put up was a sort of fluff thing (a category I'd never written before, and had much difficulty in writing), and after I re-read it, I realized it wasn't all that good. At least the 2 reviews I got for it were positive! Thanks a bunch!

benign sadist: It was for the plot! I swear! You'll have already read this chapter, so your other comment/question was already answered in an indirect fashion. Thank you!

PIcaRDMPC: Really? That's great to know! I don't quite get what you mean by "more or less normal". Were you referring to his reaction? Sorry, I'm a twit outside of school, in which I normally get good marks. But otherwise, I'm a complete idiot. Thank you a lot!

Code: Refer to statement above. It's okay, almost everyone has given me a review like this one about one character or another. I can't say anything about you question, though. Please don't lose sleep! Thanks a bunch!

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Angel Reaper: Not exactly, as you witnessed in this chapter (Wow! I'm using a lot of different words in this chapter! I'm so proud of myself!) I loved it too! But they should've had the Death Day party! I was looking forward to that, and the whole Valentine's thing! That would've been hilarious, seeing all the teachers in pink, and the goblin singing "His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad!" Thanks!

YugiKitty and MalikKitsune: The big 5? Er – I never thought about them. We'll all pretend that they're on holiday in Maui, okay? Eh he he – yeah. Thank you for the review!

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Kiana: You can swear, just not at me. I'm veddy veddy sensitive. Very sensitive. J/K, I'm not that wimpy. I think. Where'd you get the heavy artillery? Yami Bakura would very much like to know. Just in case I decide to whisk him and the other cast of Yu-Gi-Oh back off to Fairytale-Land, like I did in that one story. It's okay that you didn't review before, and thanks for putting it on your favourites! I really appreciate it. Are you going to be okay after all that? Just don't start WWIII, okay? I'll see if I can boot your medical bills. Thanks a lot!