Oh, man, I could've had this up days ago, but in the past week, every time
I sat down to the computer, someone called and I left. Sorry, because I
know I have _so_ many _adoring_ fans out there.(sarcasm, slightly
overdone.)
I already put this in someone's review, but I was reminded of this song when I watched the Yu-Gi-Oh repeat yesterday:
"Cause we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play, but you never want to lose." -----'Aerials', System of a Down
Applies to the anime, don't it?
DC: I don't own YuGiOh or Harry Potter.
~*~*~*~
"S-so, I can put this in Defense mode?" Ron asked Yugi apprehensively.
"Yeah, sure, go ahead. It's a good defense card." Yugi smiled as Ron laid down his Mystical Elf. Everyone in the school had heard about the Duel Monsters game that Yugi and Jou had by now, and everyone wanted to learn how to play. Problem was, they only had so many decks to go around.
Ron was going against Hermione with Yugi's deck. Hermione had Anzu's and the girl's coaching, too. Ryou had offered to lend her his deck, but the first card that she'd looked at had a picture so gruesome she refused. Ryou just shrugged, inwardly bickering with his yami.
/Do you know how many people we've scared away with this deck of yours?!/
The duel was short, lasting only a little while longer, with Hermione pulling off an amazing comeback, and completely destroying Ron with Fairy King Oberon. (This is a real card, one of my favorites. I don't think Anzu has one, but it's the kind of card she would.)
Harry stepped in through the portrait hole with his broom, walking over to the duel and leaning over his two best friends.
"So, she beat you again, huh?" Ron stuck his tongue out at Harry, who ignored him and congratulated Hermione.
Yugi looked up at Harry. "Do you want to try?"
"How about tomorrow? I'm beat from Quidditch practice."
Yugi shrugged. "Okay." He and Anzu collected up their decks, and Ryou came back in from the portrait hole, somewhat sweaty and disheveled.
He ran over to them, ducking behind Anzu and collapsing on the couch. "Urgh." He grunted.
"What happened, Ryou?" Anzu asked, worriedly.
"I was attacked." He gasped out, panting a little.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately perked their ears up. Being attacked these days was no joke. Voldemort could've been up to something.
Harry asked seriously. "By who? What happened?"
Ryou looked up. "I was walking down to the Great Hall to get lunch, when they saw me."
"Who?" Ron and Hermione chanted.
"These Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff girls," He said, horrified. "They all came out to meet me in the Entrance hall, like they were waiting for me. They were holding pieces of toast, and plates of bacon and sausage." He shook his head, trying to get rid of the image. "They all asked to sit at their tables, to join them." He shuddered. "I had to run all the way back up here. And they _chased_ me."
Chuckling, Harry patted his back. "I feel for you; really, I do."
Just barely holding back his laugh, Yugi asked sarcastically, "How did you ever get away?"
Ryou smiled. "Actually, it was your Yami. He was coming out of Dumbledore's office, and he said he'd hold them off for me. I wonder if he's still alive.they're probably dragging him off to the Great hall right now."
Hermione shook her head. "Some of the girls here have no self- control. Last year, they _stalked_ my boy-er, um, a visiting student."
Yugi, Anzu, and Ryou just nodded, but Harry and Ron started to chuckle again. Yugi asked Ryou, "Wait, Yami was down there again?"
"Yeah." Ryou said, but continued. "He's probably working with him on that _thing_. You know."
"Ohhh." Yugi nodded. Hermione was confused though.
"Wait, I thought your yamis didn't take classes." She tilted her head.
Anzu shrugged. "They don't, but I guess Yami's working with Dumbledore on the plan."
"What plan?" Harry was extremely curious.
Yugi looked at Anzu and Ryou. "Well, he never said we couldn't tell you, but just to be on the safe side, maybe everyone's better off not knowing."
With that, Yugi, Anzu, and Ryou got up and went up to the boys' rooms, to wake up Honda and Jou. The two had detention the night before, provided by Snape. They'd found straws somewhere and shot spitballs on the chalkboard. But parchment spitballs, as Jou said, ".don't taste good."
Harry turned to Hermione and Ron. "Time to do our detective work again."
Hermione nodded. "What's this plan? And why are muggles involved?"
Ron tapped his chin. "It all has to do with that Yami, but why only one of them? What abut the other one?"
Just then, Bakura, with a look of evil glee on his face, came shooting down the stairs, clutching something in his hands, pursued by an angry Jou and an exhausted Honda.
"GIVE US BACKS OUR UNDERWEAR!!!!" Unfortunately, Jou'd forgotten to switch to Japanese, so everyone was laughing as Bakura flew out the portrait hole, with Jou in hot pursuit. Honda just shook his head and went back up the stairs.
"It's not like they're our only pairs." he mumbled.
~*~*~*~
Yami nodded again at Dumbledore's ideas. They'd been discussing the subject of this Voldemort character every weekend since they'd gotten to Hogwarts, but still had a lot to do.
"I like the game that you suggested," Yami said, leaning back in his chair, "but it and everything else are completely useless without stakes. What does he really want? What would he bet his immortal soul against?"
Dumbledore looked sullen. Yami stared hard at the old man. Dumbledore was a source of extreme power, and Yami had a great respect for him, but he had a feeling Dumbledore was hiding something.
Yami suddenly looked up. "It's the soul of another, isn't it?"
Dumbledore sighed. "The only thing that could possibly tempt Voldemort into a game of this sort is...revenge.
Yami leaned in. "Revenge on whom?"
Sighing again, Dumbledore stood up, and turned his back to Yami. "On the one person who he has never been able to conquer." Dumbledore turned to face Yami again.
"Your light, however, has made good friends with this soul, this person."
Yami looked down. Dumbledore continued. "I realize that it will be very hard to betray the trust of the very person that defined trust for you. But it is also hard for us, for myself, for the Ministry, for the entire Magical World, to betray the trust of the boy who is said to have saved us all."
Dumbledore turned to look out the window again. "It will be the hardest decision for anyone to make, to risk the life of Harry Potter."
~*~*~*~
Yugi tapped his pencil on his forehead. He had one now because Hermione had wanted to practice her Multiplication Spell on something, and Seto had volunteered his pencil.
He and his friends were all in some empty classroom with Dumbledore. He was teaching them math, but Yugi was having a problem with logarithms. Anzu kept pointing out the right equation to use but the only thing that Yugi could even remotely understand was, 'So many numbers...'
Surprisingly, Jou was doing great, but Honda was having just as much trouble as Yugi. (Not surprising...logarithms are painful algebra...)
Dumbledore finally stopped in front of Yugi. Smiling, he pointed at the diagram on the blackboard. "Now, if you just..."
By the end of the class, Yugi and Honda had completely finished all of their class work. Yugi turned to Anzu. "I can't believe I thought that was hard."
Dumbledore smiled as the bell rang. "Class dismissed. Oh, yes, this weekend is the Hogsmeade trip. Yugi's grandfather has already given you all permission, so I suggest you gather your money. There is a post office there where you can exchange your yen for galleons and so forth...just follow Harry and his friends."
Yugi nodded and followed his friends out. They headed down to the Great Hall, Jou bickering with Seto about the importance of classroom disruptions.
"We have to, or else the teachers will all get bored."
They slid into their bench seats next to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Ron looked up, mouth half-full of sandwich. "Haw war crass?"
"Really good, Dumbledore is a great teacher!" Yugi beamed.
Harry smiled. "Y'know, I don't think he actually taught as headmaster before you guys got here. He just ran the school."
They ate their lunches, joking and laughing, with the occasional teenage girl stalking past, eyeing Ryou, or glaring at Yugi, as if trying to force Yami out. Yami did eventually come out. He appeared next to Yugi and grabbed a roll, nibbling on it as he eyed Harry, who didn't see Yami's gaze.
'I have to risk the life of a boy who - wait a minute, what am I talking about? I'm going to win, of course...aren't I?
~*~*~*~
The week passed fairly quickly, and the weekend arrived, bringing with it the happy spirits of the students who were excited about going into town. It also brought in a chill, so Yugi and the others pulled out their jackets, while everyone else brought out their cloaks.
Yugi and Ryou separated from their yamis, much to Bakura's annoyance, because he had been sleeping. Their first stop was the Post Office to change their money. They liked the fact that the main currencies were huge gold coins.
When they were done, they just took a walk outside. It was a nice town, with lots of stores and homes. At the moment, though, most of the buildings and streets were filled with students milling around. The same group of girls that were stalking Yami and Ryou were casually circling them like vultures.
Jou and Honda were 'magically' drawn to one store, that, when they went inside, they saw to be a joke shop, but a really cool one. They blew most of their money on magic stuff to use on Otogi and Malik when they got back, already laughing at the expression Malik would get when he was bitten on the butt by a seat cushion. (Heh heh, that's my own invention...)
They stepped into some pub after two guys from Gryffindor had pointed it out as a great spot to get drinks. They noticed that the (fan) girls suddenly got thirsty, too.
Yugi spotted a familiar trio, heads bent low discussing something. He, Jou, and Honda decided to sneak up on them. But as they neared, the jokers heard their new friends discussing them. The three stopped dead, the rest of their friends joining them.
"They're Muggles, so why would Dumbledore even want them around, especially now? I mean, tensions are running high, and as you know, not everyone's as comfortable with muggles as we are."
"Damn right, Weasel." Yugi looked up to see who's butted in.
Anzu gasped in anger. "That's Malfoy!" Jou looked at her.
"That's him?" Jou was already rolling up his sleeves.
Anzu nodded. Jou walked right up to the bleach-blonde, who was leaning over Harry's table with two other guys smirking in the background. Jou tapped him on the shoulder. "So, I hear you've been picking on my friend."
Malfoy looked him up and down, before turning his back on him again. "Leave me alone, muggle; you're dumb enough as it is. I wouldn't want to 'accidentally' implode your pea-brain."
Jou was on him in a flash. He had him by the collar and lifted to his face. The two huge guys behind Malfoy tried to get Malfoy down, but Jou was taller than they both were and somehow, stronger.
Ron cheered him on. "Pound his face in, Jou!"
Hermione looked a little torn between watching and stopping the fight, but in the end told Jou, "At least, let's take this outside; it wouldn't be fair to trash the pub."
Jou nodded without taking his eyes off Malfoy and dragged the smaller boy through the doors. When they got outside, Jou threw Malfoy to the ground and bent his face closer.
"You watch it." Jou said dangerously. "Nobody, and that means, NOBODY, messes with my friends."
Yugi stepped forward. "Come on, Jou. He's spoiled our day enough." He touched Jou's shoulder. "He's not worth it."
Jou nodded and backed off, leaving Malfoy on the ground. But Malfoy and his Slytherin friends just smirked.
Malfoy cried out to them. "WATCH OUT MUGGLES! YOU'RE FIRST!"
To Harry it sounded really bad. "What do you mean Malfoy?" he demanded.
Malfoy's eyes glittered in excitement. "I mean, look up in the sky."
Harry's stomach churned as he looked up. His scar had been starting to twinge ever since they'd gone outside. Cautiously, slowly, he turned his head. There was a huge black swirling mass edging towards Hogsmeade. It looked like a very low, hovering cloud.
Everyone's jaws dropped. They couldn't tell what it was, but Harry had a very bad feeling. So did Yami in fact.
"Yugi! Let take you over; you'll be safer!" he hissed.
Yugi complied. He trusted his Yami. Once he was inside his soul room, he asked, /What's going on? Yami?/
//It's time.//
And next to them, Harry didn't even notice Yami's takeover, although Ron noticed Bakura's.
"Hey, you're changing! But, what.why? Something bad is going to happen, isn't it?" Ron was really confused, nervous, and like everyone else, scared.
Nobody answered. Harry squinted at the sky, and as he was finally able to make out a little figure standing on the distant cloud, his forehead burst into pain. He fell to his knees, with Ron and Hermione swooping down on him.
"Harry! Harry! Are you alright!"
Harry tried to ignore it. "He's here!"
~*~*~*~
Okay, not sure if Hogsmeade can be invaded like that, or if any of this is possible, but I'm trying, okay? This is going to be another chapter or two, but I'll try to update faster than I did this one.
I already put this in someone's review, but I was reminded of this song when I watched the Yu-Gi-Oh repeat yesterday:
"Cause we are the ones that want to choose Always want to play, but you never want to lose." -----'Aerials', System of a Down
Applies to the anime, don't it?
DC: I don't own YuGiOh or Harry Potter.
~*~*~*~
"S-so, I can put this in Defense mode?" Ron asked Yugi apprehensively.
"Yeah, sure, go ahead. It's a good defense card." Yugi smiled as Ron laid down his Mystical Elf. Everyone in the school had heard about the Duel Monsters game that Yugi and Jou had by now, and everyone wanted to learn how to play. Problem was, they only had so many decks to go around.
Ron was going against Hermione with Yugi's deck. Hermione had Anzu's and the girl's coaching, too. Ryou had offered to lend her his deck, but the first card that she'd looked at had a picture so gruesome she refused. Ryou just shrugged, inwardly bickering with his yami.
/Do you know how many people we've scared away with this deck of yours?!/
The duel was short, lasting only a little while longer, with Hermione pulling off an amazing comeback, and completely destroying Ron with Fairy King Oberon. (This is a real card, one of my favorites. I don't think Anzu has one, but it's the kind of card she would.)
Harry stepped in through the portrait hole with his broom, walking over to the duel and leaning over his two best friends.
"So, she beat you again, huh?" Ron stuck his tongue out at Harry, who ignored him and congratulated Hermione.
Yugi looked up at Harry. "Do you want to try?"
"How about tomorrow? I'm beat from Quidditch practice."
Yugi shrugged. "Okay." He and Anzu collected up their decks, and Ryou came back in from the portrait hole, somewhat sweaty and disheveled.
He ran over to them, ducking behind Anzu and collapsing on the couch. "Urgh." He grunted.
"What happened, Ryou?" Anzu asked, worriedly.
"I was attacked." He gasped out, panting a little.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione immediately perked their ears up. Being attacked these days was no joke. Voldemort could've been up to something.
Harry asked seriously. "By who? What happened?"
Ryou looked up. "I was walking down to the Great Hall to get lunch, when they saw me."
"Who?" Ron and Hermione chanted.
"These Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff girls," He said, horrified. "They all came out to meet me in the Entrance hall, like they were waiting for me. They were holding pieces of toast, and plates of bacon and sausage." He shook his head, trying to get rid of the image. "They all asked to sit at their tables, to join them." He shuddered. "I had to run all the way back up here. And they _chased_ me."
Chuckling, Harry patted his back. "I feel for you; really, I do."
Just barely holding back his laugh, Yugi asked sarcastically, "How did you ever get away?"
Ryou smiled. "Actually, it was your Yami. He was coming out of Dumbledore's office, and he said he'd hold them off for me. I wonder if he's still alive.they're probably dragging him off to the Great hall right now."
Hermione shook her head. "Some of the girls here have no self- control. Last year, they _stalked_ my boy-er, um, a visiting student."
Yugi, Anzu, and Ryou just nodded, but Harry and Ron started to chuckle again. Yugi asked Ryou, "Wait, Yami was down there again?"
"Yeah." Ryou said, but continued. "He's probably working with him on that _thing_. You know."
"Ohhh." Yugi nodded. Hermione was confused though.
"Wait, I thought your yamis didn't take classes." She tilted her head.
Anzu shrugged. "They don't, but I guess Yami's working with Dumbledore on the plan."
"What plan?" Harry was extremely curious.
Yugi looked at Anzu and Ryou. "Well, he never said we couldn't tell you, but just to be on the safe side, maybe everyone's better off not knowing."
With that, Yugi, Anzu, and Ryou got up and went up to the boys' rooms, to wake up Honda and Jou. The two had detention the night before, provided by Snape. They'd found straws somewhere and shot spitballs on the chalkboard. But parchment spitballs, as Jou said, ".don't taste good."
Harry turned to Hermione and Ron. "Time to do our detective work again."
Hermione nodded. "What's this plan? And why are muggles involved?"
Ron tapped his chin. "It all has to do with that Yami, but why only one of them? What abut the other one?"
Just then, Bakura, with a look of evil glee on his face, came shooting down the stairs, clutching something in his hands, pursued by an angry Jou and an exhausted Honda.
"GIVE US BACKS OUR UNDERWEAR!!!!" Unfortunately, Jou'd forgotten to switch to Japanese, so everyone was laughing as Bakura flew out the portrait hole, with Jou in hot pursuit. Honda just shook his head and went back up the stairs.
"It's not like they're our only pairs." he mumbled.
~*~*~*~
Yami nodded again at Dumbledore's ideas. They'd been discussing the subject of this Voldemort character every weekend since they'd gotten to Hogwarts, but still had a lot to do.
"I like the game that you suggested," Yami said, leaning back in his chair, "but it and everything else are completely useless without stakes. What does he really want? What would he bet his immortal soul against?"
Dumbledore looked sullen. Yami stared hard at the old man. Dumbledore was a source of extreme power, and Yami had a great respect for him, but he had a feeling Dumbledore was hiding something.
Yami suddenly looked up. "It's the soul of another, isn't it?"
Dumbledore sighed. "The only thing that could possibly tempt Voldemort into a game of this sort is...revenge.
Yami leaned in. "Revenge on whom?"
Sighing again, Dumbledore stood up, and turned his back to Yami. "On the one person who he has never been able to conquer." Dumbledore turned to face Yami again.
"Your light, however, has made good friends with this soul, this person."
Yami looked down. Dumbledore continued. "I realize that it will be very hard to betray the trust of the very person that defined trust for you. But it is also hard for us, for myself, for the Ministry, for the entire Magical World, to betray the trust of the boy who is said to have saved us all."
Dumbledore turned to look out the window again. "It will be the hardest decision for anyone to make, to risk the life of Harry Potter."
~*~*~*~
Yugi tapped his pencil on his forehead. He had one now because Hermione had wanted to practice her Multiplication Spell on something, and Seto had volunteered his pencil.
He and his friends were all in some empty classroom with Dumbledore. He was teaching them math, but Yugi was having a problem with logarithms. Anzu kept pointing out the right equation to use but the only thing that Yugi could even remotely understand was, 'So many numbers...'
Surprisingly, Jou was doing great, but Honda was having just as much trouble as Yugi. (Not surprising...logarithms are painful algebra...)
Dumbledore finally stopped in front of Yugi. Smiling, he pointed at the diagram on the blackboard. "Now, if you just..."
By the end of the class, Yugi and Honda had completely finished all of their class work. Yugi turned to Anzu. "I can't believe I thought that was hard."
Dumbledore smiled as the bell rang. "Class dismissed. Oh, yes, this weekend is the Hogsmeade trip. Yugi's grandfather has already given you all permission, so I suggest you gather your money. There is a post office there where you can exchange your yen for galleons and so forth...just follow Harry and his friends."
Yugi nodded and followed his friends out. They headed down to the Great Hall, Jou bickering with Seto about the importance of classroom disruptions.
"We have to, or else the teachers will all get bored."
They slid into their bench seats next to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Ron looked up, mouth half-full of sandwich. "Haw war crass?"
"Really good, Dumbledore is a great teacher!" Yugi beamed.
Harry smiled. "Y'know, I don't think he actually taught as headmaster before you guys got here. He just ran the school."
They ate their lunches, joking and laughing, with the occasional teenage girl stalking past, eyeing Ryou, or glaring at Yugi, as if trying to force Yami out. Yami did eventually come out. He appeared next to Yugi and grabbed a roll, nibbling on it as he eyed Harry, who didn't see Yami's gaze.
'I have to risk the life of a boy who - wait a minute, what am I talking about? I'm going to win, of course...aren't I?
~*~*~*~
The week passed fairly quickly, and the weekend arrived, bringing with it the happy spirits of the students who were excited about going into town. It also brought in a chill, so Yugi and the others pulled out their jackets, while everyone else brought out their cloaks.
Yugi and Ryou separated from their yamis, much to Bakura's annoyance, because he had been sleeping. Their first stop was the Post Office to change their money. They liked the fact that the main currencies were huge gold coins.
When they were done, they just took a walk outside. It was a nice town, with lots of stores and homes. At the moment, though, most of the buildings and streets were filled with students milling around. The same group of girls that were stalking Yami and Ryou were casually circling them like vultures.
Jou and Honda were 'magically' drawn to one store, that, when they went inside, they saw to be a joke shop, but a really cool one. They blew most of their money on magic stuff to use on Otogi and Malik when they got back, already laughing at the expression Malik would get when he was bitten on the butt by a seat cushion. (Heh heh, that's my own invention...)
They stepped into some pub after two guys from Gryffindor had pointed it out as a great spot to get drinks. They noticed that the (fan) girls suddenly got thirsty, too.
Yugi spotted a familiar trio, heads bent low discussing something. He, Jou, and Honda decided to sneak up on them. But as they neared, the jokers heard their new friends discussing them. The three stopped dead, the rest of their friends joining them.
"They're Muggles, so why would Dumbledore even want them around, especially now? I mean, tensions are running high, and as you know, not everyone's as comfortable with muggles as we are."
"Damn right, Weasel." Yugi looked up to see who's butted in.
Anzu gasped in anger. "That's Malfoy!" Jou looked at her.
"That's him?" Jou was already rolling up his sleeves.
Anzu nodded. Jou walked right up to the bleach-blonde, who was leaning over Harry's table with two other guys smirking in the background. Jou tapped him on the shoulder. "So, I hear you've been picking on my friend."
Malfoy looked him up and down, before turning his back on him again. "Leave me alone, muggle; you're dumb enough as it is. I wouldn't want to 'accidentally' implode your pea-brain."
Jou was on him in a flash. He had him by the collar and lifted to his face. The two huge guys behind Malfoy tried to get Malfoy down, but Jou was taller than they both were and somehow, stronger.
Ron cheered him on. "Pound his face in, Jou!"
Hermione looked a little torn between watching and stopping the fight, but in the end told Jou, "At least, let's take this outside; it wouldn't be fair to trash the pub."
Jou nodded without taking his eyes off Malfoy and dragged the smaller boy through the doors. When they got outside, Jou threw Malfoy to the ground and bent his face closer.
"You watch it." Jou said dangerously. "Nobody, and that means, NOBODY, messes with my friends."
Yugi stepped forward. "Come on, Jou. He's spoiled our day enough." He touched Jou's shoulder. "He's not worth it."
Jou nodded and backed off, leaving Malfoy on the ground. But Malfoy and his Slytherin friends just smirked.
Malfoy cried out to them. "WATCH OUT MUGGLES! YOU'RE FIRST!"
To Harry it sounded really bad. "What do you mean Malfoy?" he demanded.
Malfoy's eyes glittered in excitement. "I mean, look up in the sky."
Harry's stomach churned as he looked up. His scar had been starting to twinge ever since they'd gone outside. Cautiously, slowly, he turned his head. There was a huge black swirling mass edging towards Hogsmeade. It looked like a very low, hovering cloud.
Everyone's jaws dropped. They couldn't tell what it was, but Harry had a very bad feeling. So did Yami in fact.
"Yugi! Let take you over; you'll be safer!" he hissed.
Yugi complied. He trusted his Yami. Once he was inside his soul room, he asked, /What's going on? Yami?/
//It's time.//
And next to them, Harry didn't even notice Yami's takeover, although Ron noticed Bakura's.
"Hey, you're changing! But, what.why? Something bad is going to happen, isn't it?" Ron was really confused, nervous, and like everyone else, scared.
Nobody answered. Harry squinted at the sky, and as he was finally able to make out a little figure standing on the distant cloud, his forehead burst into pain. He fell to his knees, with Ron and Hermione swooping down on him.
"Harry! Harry! Are you alright!"
Harry tried to ignore it. "He's here!"
~*~*~*~
Okay, not sure if Hogsmeade can be invaded like that, or if any of this is possible, but I'm trying, okay? This is going to be another chapter or two, but I'll try to update faster than I did this one.