Author's Notes: This is the eeeeeeeeeeennnnnnddddddd of it allllllllllllllllllllllllllll…. Remind me never to sing for a living. Well, it is the end, and I hope you all like it. After this I won't put anything up at all until I've completely written it. So I'll probably disappear for a few months at a time, but all the time I'm missing is when I'll be faithfully writing more stories. I'll just have completed them before I post them. Enjoy this chappie!
Disclaimer: I want to own everything, but I wouldn't have anywhere to put it. So therefore, I can't have Harry Potter and Yu-Gi-Oh as well. Life sucks.
Chapter 11: Questions and Answers
Harry opened his eyes to a blur of subtle colours. He pondered this strange phenomenon for a little while until he realized he didn't have his glasses on. He groped on the bedside table for them, and he soon grasped them and slid them onto his face.
He was in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. Harry didn't think much of this at first, but when his eyes trailed over to the bed astride him and he saw Yugi, flashes of the past few days flew back to him.
"What – what's going on?" he choked. Ron and Hermione were groggily waking up on beds opposite him. From the looks on their faces when they looked around, they didn't know anymore than he did. Yugi was still sound asleep.
Madame Pomfrey bustled over and put her hand to each of their foreheads in turn. "Relax, now," she said, "You've had a troubling ordeal, and you need rest."
"But how –" Ron started, but she had to leeway him.
"Never mind that. Professor Dumbledore will explain everything in a moment, he'll be here," Madame Pomfrey said softly, and left the room to attend to other business. The three of them that were awake immediately began to converse.
"What are we doing here?"
"Where are the Death Eaters?"
"Did some one take us back here?"
"Did they get Yami after all?"
Dumbledore stepped silently into the area, causing all the questions to cease bouncing around the room. "I suppose you are all confused as to why you're here." They nodded their heads furiously. Dumbledore sighed and sat down on an empty bed.
"We felt that something must have gone wrong after you had left. Before hand, there had been an increased amount of Death Eater attacks, but mysteriously, after we had sent you three into the Muto's care, they stopped. We became suspicious, and thought that they had followed you somehow. I contacted Fudge, to see if I could get Aurors to find you, but he declined. He didn't to remove them just in case the Death Eaters were hiding somewhere, and partly because he didn't want anyone to make some scandal out of it and use it against him.
"I therefore decided that I should go myself, but I needed help. I most certainly couldn't have taken on the job of defeating an army of Death Eaters by myself. Professors Snape and McGonagall volunteered right away, and so did Sirius."
"Sirius is here?" Harry asked.
"Yes, but you will see him later. It took him a month before he could come, and then we set off. We arrived at Mr. Muto's house to find it empty, all except for a stunned Professor Lupin in werewolf form." Dumbledore's eyes glinted. "We brought him back, of course, and he instantly transformed back into a human, seeing as how it was broad daylight. He told us all that he knew had happened before he was stunned, and we knew that we had to find you."
"We exited the house, and had noticed that a Muggle was approaching an alley way. As soon as she came close to it, she suddenly gasped aloud and ran off, scolding herself for forgetting to do the chores. We instantly recognized a Muggle repelling charm. We followed the alleyway until we came to a large house that seemed to have a blinding white light emitting from it. Fearing the worst, we rushed in as the light died down, revealing you, Mr. Muto and all the missing Death Eaters, all unconscious. We used their potion to transport us all back to the Shadow Realm, and brought you back here. The Death Eaters were taken to Azkaban instantly, with a trial. That was hardly necessary, since there was so much evidence against them already." Dumbledore looked around at the three of them. "I believe there is part of the story I still need to hear."
Harry, Ron and Hermione set off into a detailed explanation of what all had happened. Dumbledore sat in silence, and listened to every word that sailed out of their mouths. After they had finished Dumbledore nodded. "I wonder why I didn't see it before."
"See what before?" Ron questioned.
"I'm surprised that I didn't recognize Mr. Muto's Yami as one of my old pupils. His name used to be Leroy Axel, and he was indeed, in your father's year at school. He was a Ravenclaw, I believe."
"But that doesn't make sense," Harry defied.
"How not?"
"Professor," Hermione cut in, "It isn't possible. Yami lived thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt before he was in the Millenium Puzzle. Harry's father was in school around 20 years ago. The time in Yugi's world moves slower than it does here. A year goes by here while only a week passes there. If Yami had lived here then went to Ancient Egypt, he would've had to be here before the Earth was made!" Dumbledore nodded. Harry thought he saw Yugi stir a little.
"Yes, I had wondered that myself. But, if I am correct, the time relation between worlds is in control of the Shadow Realm. And I do believe that it is not entirely stable. Therefore, time rates may get shifted. For a while, time may have been moving extraordinarily fast in Yugi's world when Leroy was sent there. It must have slowed down, or else ours sped up to get to the rate it is now."
"But how did he get there?" Harry asked.
"That, unfortunately, is a mystery to all. He simply didn't come back to school after summer, and his family sent us an owl saying that he had gone missing. I suspected that, since the area he lived in was suspected to be an illegal zone for trade with other worlds, that he might've gotten caught with them, and traveled to somewhere else. One of my Professors at the time went to find him. He came back not a few short hours later, saying that he had found him. Unfortunately, he reported that he did not recall anything about his life prior, and was now so powerful with his magic he could bend the Shadow Realm to his will. It was then that we knew we had lost him."
"So that's why he can't remember," Yugi's voice said, causing all of them but Dumbldore to jump in surprise. He had awoken to hear Dumbledore talking to them. "Yami said that there was so much he couldn't remember about his past. He must've got amnesia, or eventually believed it was all a dream."
"Correct, Mr. Muto. I trust that you feel considerably better?" Dumbledore asked him.
"Yes." Yugi clutched his head. "But I feel so tired. Does this have to do with why everything went all white before?"
"Most certainly. Your Yami did something quite unexpected at the last minute, of which only those with a direct link to the Shadow Realm can do."
"What was it?" Hermione queried.
"He transferred his power to you three," Dumbledore said gravely. Ron's face fell in shock, as did Hermione's and Harry's. Before they could talk, he continued. "Because every world came into existence from the Shadow Realm, all that is in them is related to it. Since Yami is one of the few people left that have a close link to it, he could give up or attain other powers as he wished. He gave up his wizarding powers to you three. Yami told me so when he came out of the Millenium Puzzle earlier this morning and spoke to me about what he knew had happened. It is a dangerous process. The transfer gathers energy from all of its surroundings, thus explaining why you all had fainted. I trust that with this extra magic, you should find your practical studies much easier."
"Excellent!" Ron cheered. Hermione clapped her hands together happily. Harry smiled and wondered to himself about what kind of useful spells he could use now that he had a third more magic.
"Which you should find in handy, since you have now, at least a half a year's schoolwork to catch up in." Ron and Harry groaned. Hermione seemed a little disappointed too.
"Does that mean that Yami don't have any power at all anymore?" Yugi asked.
"He still had his powers that he attained himself, all of which are the ones you've seen him use, but he has lost his ability to do our magic."
Yugi seemed happy with this. "Good. I don't think he'd be very happy if he couldn't use the Millenium item anymore."
Something suddenly surfaced at the back of Harry's mind. The strange man on the street – the one who looked like his father.
"Professor," he blurted out, "There was something that I wanted to ask you about." He told him about the man, and Ron looked at Harry strangely.
"Harry, what's that got to do with anything?" Ron asked skeptically.
Dumbledore turned to face Ron. "A great deal, now that I think of it. It could be the very thing that will save Yugi's friends." Yugi's eyes widened with interest, and his face filled with hope.
"Avada Kedavra is an unnatural way of killing. It was, as history reveals, drawn from the power of the Shadow Realm. When someone is killed by it, their soul is instantly sent to another dimension, and a body is created for it. It is an exact replica of their former body on the day they were killed, age and all. They have no memory of their life, but quickly adapt to the culture of where ever they end up." Harry took all this in slowly.
"So – I was really talking to my father? My real father?" he half gasped.
"Yes, in a physical sense." Yugi seemed thrilled at this news.
"We can find my friends! We'll just go find them and somehow bring their memories back-"
"A simple memory restoration charm should do the trick," Dumbledore said softly, his eyes twinkling. "We could send some one with you to do that, perhaps Mr. Black would consent."
"I'm coming with them," Harry resolved suddenly. Everyone stared at him.
"And why is that, Harry?"
Harry just smiled at Dumbldore. "How else am I going to get my parents back?"
After Note: If you are wondering how come I chose the name Leroy Axel, it's because (according to my name book) it means the king of divine success. If you put the two meanings together, I mean. I just thought that that suited Yami perfectly.
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