Chapter 3
Explanations, Confusion, and Ghosts From Zimbabwe
Disclaimer: KAYA'S MINE!!!! AND SO IS ARISTOLE LEORIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Sadly, however, that is all I own.
Mojobubbles: TSUKASA IS MINE!!!!!!!!!
Y. Mojobubbles: She has this new obsession with .hack//SIGN..............yeah.
Mojobubbles: Hate is bad. It screws up people.
Y. Mojobubbles: She rented Princess Mononoke.
Mojobubbles: Come to think of it, I have to go finish it. (goes off to finish watching Princess Mononoke)
Y. Mojobubbles: Uh..........she'll be back, she only has 20 minutes left........
Mojobubbles: Wow! That movie has a kick ass ending! When Ashitaka dove under the water hugging San I was like, "...........wow." And then I had a very San-y attitude toward Eboshi in the end. I was like, "She just had her arm bitten off, now why won't she fucking die?!" San is cool though. SHE KICKS ASS! Although my yami doesn't like San.......
Y. Mojobubbles: Yami Bakura left me for her! WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Mojobubbles: Aw............poor Yami.........*hugs her* *stops* Hey, I fixed it! Whenever I did this *blah* it made my text bold. Now it doesn't! I DON'T HAVE TO USE PARENTHESES ANYMORE! Ok, we'll stop our ramblings on Princess Mononoke; just go watch it! But it's violent, tho: Ashitaka often takes off random pplz body parts............like some heads and some arms............oh yeah, I changed Kaya's eye color from blue-green to purple. There has to be one similarity between her and Yami! Also, she can mentally communicate to Yami /and/ Yugi.
Y. Mojobubbles: Who else saw Malik take his shirt off on Saturday?
Mojobubbles: That was hysterical! He just reached around and yanked his cape off.
Y. Mojobubbles: Rishid was in it! He has a seriously fucked up dubbed name. It's, like, Odion or something.
Mojobubbles: I recognized the tattoo thingy on his face and I said to my sister, "Look, Laura, it's.........that guy!" Then when Malik said to Yugi, "I'm going to strip the pharaoh-" I went, "EEEWWWWW!" Then I said, "Hey, I'm the only one allowed to strip the pharaoh!" 'Course, then I realized Malik actually said, "I'm going to strip the pharaoh of his powers." ^_^; In other news.............DUKE DEVLIN IS ODD! But it was funny when he was flicking die at Joey. He's like, "flick flick flick" and Joey's like, "ow ow ow!" Then Yami popped out and he was like, "Grr you're mean I don't like you!" Then Duke flicked another dice at Joey and Yami reached out and caught it and he also had on that freaking awesome black gothic outfit and I was like, totally drooling over Yami.
Y. Mojobubbles: What else is new? -_-
Mojobubbles: Your name is new.
Y. Mojobubbles: Oh yeah. We were on www.20000-names.com and we were in the page with Egyptian female names and the name Kamilah really jumped out at me, and that's because that was my name in ancient Egypt!
Review Responses:
Teran: Wow! You reely reely reely reely reely(a few minutes later)reely *gasp* like it huh? ^_^ Oh, Bakura, go hug Teran!
Bakura: Ok! *hugs Teran* ^_^
Mojobubbles: Is that better?
Rosz: Ooh, lookie everyone! I have a loyal reviewer!
Everyone: *monotone* Yay.
Mojobubbles: I can't believe you like this story that much!!! *sniff* I'm honored.
Blue Mystic Moon Warrior: No fair. You were in it! Fine. *forks over a Malik plushie*
Yugi-Closet-fan: Hey lookies it's another loyal reviewer! But that was a confusing review. When did I say Joey has a M. Item?
Europa: Welcome, Europa! Glad you're enjoying it. Foreshadowing is cool! Yay, foreshadowing!!!!
Symbol thingies:
~blah~ Kaya to Yami or Yugi
++blah++ Yugi to Kaya
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
[blah] someone thinking to themselves
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Bakura rolled over in his sleep and mumbled something. He swatted at the hand poking him. (That didn't come out right....................you know what I meant!) Groaning, he opened his eyes.
A huge pair of violet eyes were inches from his face.
He yelped and sprang out of bed. The person who had been on top of him screamed too and fell off the bed, tangled in Bakura's sheets. The person pulled the covers of his/her head. "Bakura!" the person shouted.
"Kaya?!" Bakura shouted, helping her up.
Isis and Yugi were stirring. "What's going on?" Yugi asked, yawning.
"Kaya got right in my face and woke me up," Bakura said, folding his arms and looking at Kaya.
"What?!" she said, throwing up her hands. "I woke up with Yugi's grampa in my face!"
"Ooh, I feel your pain," Yugi said sympathetically.
Kaya grinned. "Anyway, he told me we were going somewhere, and that I should wake you guys up and he'd work on the others."
"Where are we going?" Isis asked, pulling a brush through her thick black hair.
"He didn't say," Kaya replied.
"You're worried about that man from the Shadow Realm, ne?" Yami Yugi asked Isis, emerging from the puzzle. She nodded.
"Where do you think he's from?" Kaya asked, as group from the other room came in. "I mean, he didn't look Japanese at all, but he spoke it perfectly."
"It's illogical, captain," Joey said solemnly.
Everyone stared at him.
"Lemme guess: it's American," Tristan said dryly. Joey nodded sheepishly.
Yugi's grampa stuck his head in the door. "Let's go!" he said. They all raced for the door.
They didn't know they weren't coming back.
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"Platform 9 ¾, 9 ¾............"
Joey leaned over to Yugi. "Yug," he muttered. "I think your grampa's lost it."
"I heard that!"
Yugi's grampa took out a letter and re-read it. "In between platforms 9 and 10............."
He walked up to the barrier separating platforms 9 and 10. "I just don't understand it......" he muttered to himself, leaning against the barrier in thought.
Big mistake.
"Grampa!" Yugi shouted as his grampa fell through the barrier.
"What the hell was /that/?!" Malik exclaimed. (*giggles* Malik said a bad word......I find that amusing.)
Yugi pushed his hand against the barrier. It vanished. Yugi wiggled his hand around. He felt nothing. Just then, something grabbed his hand and yanked him in.
The others looked at each other.
"Let's go," Bakura said simply, and they all went through the barrier.
They didn't know they had been seen.
"Where the hell did they go?" muttered Seto Kaiba, staring at the barrier.
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On the other side of the barrier, the group was reassembling themselves. There was a large, scarlet train in front of them.
"So that's how you do it," Yugi's grampa said to himself.
"What the heck is going on?! Where the heck are we?!" Malik shouted, waving his arms around. Isis whacked him up the side of his head. "Thank you, I needed that," he said, shaking his head.
Yugi's grampa looked around at them all. "I really don't know how to explain," he admitted. "You all have been invited to a boarding school somewhere here in England, and I was told to put you all on the train here."
"But, don't we need money for tickets?" Tea asked.
"The letter didn't say anything about-" Yugi's grampa was about to answer when he was cut off by a man who stepped over to them. He told them all to follow in perfect Japanese, although it was clear he was English. He showed them onto the train and told them all tickets were not needed and not to worry about a thing, that it would all be sorted out. Yugi said goodbye to his grampa, and the train was about to pull out of the station when Tristan's shout distracted them all.
"Is that Kaiba?!"
Everyone crowded up to the window.
"What de heck is Kaiba doin' here?" Joey asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Kaya shrugged. The man walked up to Kaiba and began to talk to him. The man led Kaiba onto a different compartment of the train, much to everyone's surprise.
"I'm officially completely confused," Bakura informed them all. The train suddenly lurched forward and everyone fell on top of each other.
"This is seriously undignified," came Yami's voice from the bottom of the pile.
"No, ya think?!" Malik said irritably.
"I wasn't talking to you!" Yami shot back, just as irritably.
"Owowowowowow Joey get OFF my hair!!" Kaya shouted.
"I'm gonna be crushed.........." Yugi whimpered.
"Tea will you please get off my dress?"
"Oh, sorry Isis."
"I sat on something spiny!"
"Tristan, that was my Millennium Ring!"
After a few more seconds of that, everyone got off the floor and retreated to their own seats.
~This is seriously weird.......................~
++Excellent observation, Ky.++
~I think my brother's starting to rub off on you, Yugi.~
~~I'm going to take that as a compliment.~~
~Suuuuuuuuuuuure.~
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The group stepped off the train, and the guy who had shown them on, Robert, told them all to follow him into the gigantic castle off in the distance.
Yami noticed Kaiba.
"Kaiba," he said, nodding curtly.
"Yami," Kaiba replied, just as curtly.
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"SHUT UP ALREADY!"
They all stared. They hadn't thought it was possible for such an outburst to come from little Yugi.
Robert blinked. Then reminded them that they had to go to the castle. Yugi, Kaiba, and Yami were embarrassed at how stupid they must have looked.
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Bakura stared around the hall in awe. This place was so freaking huge!! He followed the others to a stone gargoyle statue thing.
"Chocolate truffle," Robert said to the gargoyle. They all exchanged glances. They were amazed, however, when the gargoyle slowly got up and (ok just a sec, gotta find the part in CoS when Harry goes to Dumbledore's office) moved out of the way, revealing a staircase that was spiraling upward, just like an escalator. Except that escalators don't spiral, and are typically not concealed by a large gargoyle statue. Robert nodded to the group, who hesitantly stepped onto the staircase. Yami's eyes kept flicking (I love that word.......flicking flicking flicking flicking) toward both Yugi and Kaya, he didn't like to have either of them out of his sight for very long. The door was already open, so they silently filed into the room.
(Ra, that was a seriously boring paragraph................)
Dumbledore studied the teens as they came in. He was slightly surprised when he sensed that the slightly short one with the spiked hair and deep purple eyes wasn't human. He had an air of confidence surrounding him, and Dumbledore realized this must be Yugi Moto's protector.
"Well," Dumbledore began, "I suppose you are all wondering what you are doing here, and where you are."
They all gave him a look that clearly said, "Well, /duh/."
"To put it quite plainly," Dumbledore began, "you are at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
They all blinked.
"I don't have time for this," Kaiba said sharply. (He reacts just like he did when Isis was trying to show him all those tablet thingies. ^_^) "I have a company to run, and I'm going to be on the next train back to Japan by tonight." He got up and began to walk to the office door.
"I'm afraid, Mr. Kaiba, that this is something you must listen to," Dumbledore said, taking out his wand and shutting the door with a quick wave. Kaiba froze and turned back to Dumbledore, a look of shock on his face.
"How did you know my name-?"
"My name is Albus Dumbledore, I am headmaster of this school. You are here, quite simply, because you need protection."
"Protection?" Yami interjected sharply. "From who?"
"From a wizard called Lord Voldemort," Dumbledore replied. "He gathered followers, and the wizarding community lived in fear of being killed. Voldemort was at the height of his power about 14 years ago, and he set out to murder the Potters. He succeeded in killing Lily and James Potter, but when he attempted to perform the killing curse on their baby son, Harry, the curse rebounded, and Voldemort was in hiding until just last year, when he was rejoined by his most faithful servant, who performed a complex spell that enabled Voldemort to obtain, once more, a body of his own." He stopped and let the information soak in.
"But what does this Voldemort guy have to do with us?" Yugi asked.
"Voldemort is very interested in your Millennium Items," Dumbledore replied.
"Was it Voldemort that took us to the Shadow Realm?" Isis said, realization dawning on her.
"Yes, Miss Ishtar, that was Voldemort," Dumbledore replied.
"So, lemme get this straight: dis freaky evil wizard guy took us all to deh Shadow Realm 'cause he wants the Millennium Items, and you're a good wizard guy who runs a school 'o magic and we're gonna stay here to be protected from Voldemort and how the heck do you know our names already?!"
"Mr. Wheeler, please calm down."
"ARGH! Stop dat!"
"Joey, you're acting like a nutcase!" Tea told him.
"I can't blame him, though," Dumbledore said, a hint of amusement in his voice. "I understand that this has been a long day for you, so I think it would be best if you went to bed. Until term starts on September first, you will be staying in the guest area. Robert will show you the way. Your baggage has been brought here; there is nothing to worry about. He will also be performing a language spell so that you can speak, write, and understand English. I performed a similar spell for Japanese, and I am assuming Voldemort did the same thing."
The group got up and began to make their way to the door. "But-" Dumbledore began, and everyone turned around. "I need to have another few words with Miss Tanaka, Miss Ishtar, Mr. Ryou, Mr. Ishtar, Mr. Moto, and his yami." (Those all sound so gay...........Mr. Ishtar..............) The rest hesitated. "They will join the rest of you shortly," Dumbledore assured them. The rest left, glancing at the others.
The said people sat down in front of Dumbledore's desk. "Now," he said, eyeing them all, "I need to know about the Millennium Items. Anything you may want to mention................" He looked pointedly at Yami and Yugi.
Malik went first. "Well, uh, this is the Millennium Rod and it has to power to, uh, control................people."
"I can see into the past, and occasionally into the future with the Millennium Necklace."
"The Millennium Ring can remove souls from their bodies and can point in the direction of another Millennium Item."
"The Millennium Puzzle can send souls to the Shadow Realm." (I forgot the other powers of the M. Puzzle..........gomen nasai!)
No one else said anything. "Miss Tanaka?" Dumbledore nodded.
"Well, it's not really a Millennium Item, it's called the Tears of the Dolphin," Kaya said. "It can take its owner to different times and different dimensions."
"Interesting," Dumbledore said to himself, leaning back in his chair. (And falling out! Heh, just kidding. Hey, that would make a good blooper.................)
"Why do you want to know so much about the Millennium Items?" Yami inquired, a suspicious look gracing his features.
Dumbledore looked at him. "You are not human, correct?"
Yami was slightly surprised. "Yes," he said slowly, "although I once was. My soul was trapped in the Millennium Puzzle, when the magic of the Shadow Games was sealed away."
"And so was Isis, and me too," Malik added, then he corrected himself. "Well, not in the puzzle, but in our own Items."
Dumbledore watched Malik for a moment. He sensed a very strange aura around the teen. It was cold and foreboding, but at the same time warm and welcoming. He could also sense that Malik had a darker, more hostile half.
"What?" Malik asked.
"You have two sides, am I correct?"
Malik was taken aback. "Yeah," he said slowly. "But he's sort of been............subdued."
"Would it be possible for me to meet him?"
"No!" Malik said quickly. "I mean, no, sir, he wouldn't................appreciate it," he said finally.
Dumbledore nodded. Then turned to Bakura. "You have another half as well, am I correct?"
Bakura nodded. "I suppose you could meet him sometime, but not this evening. He's not in a good mood." Dumbledore was silent for a moment.
"Mr. Ishtar, Mr. Ryou, Miss Ishtar, that is all I will be needing from you tonight. If I could have another word with you three," he gestured to Yugi, Kaya, and Yami, "that will be all."
Isis, Malik, and Bakura all left. Dumbledore then turned to Kaya.
"I sense a connection to-" he couldn't think of what to call Yugi's yami. "- him," Dumbledore said, gesturing toward Yami.
"I'm Yami's younger sister," Kaya replied. "But I'm human."
Dumbledore looked interested. "Indeed?"
"See, Yami gave me my necklace here when the Shadow Games were getting to dangerous," Kaya began. "And I was sent forward in time to a new dimension. Then, I met up with Yugi and their friends, and started remembering that I was Yami's sister."
Dumbledore looked even more interested. He hadn't seen it at first, but the resemblance was there. Their eyes were the same purple/magenta-ish color, and they both seemed confident. "Indeed. May I ask why Mr. Ishtar was so apprehensive when his other half was mentioned?"
"Because Yami Malik is a murderer," Yugi said darkly.
"Yeah," Kaya added. "Yami Malik even killed Malik's father, although Malik didn't know it."
"And what of Mr. Ryou's, er, yami?"
"Bakura's yami isn't much better," Yami said. "He was a tomb robber, and he was pure evil, although he is much better."
"But I was one of his friends back in ancient Egypt, so he'll listen to me most of the time," Kaya jumped in. Dumbledore looked at them.
"I daresay you all are very tired, and I will not keep you any longer. Robert will be waiting for you outside," he told them.
"Uh, thanks," Yugi said, as he, Kaya, and Yami got up to leave.
~This is going to be one hell of a year, right guys?~
~~Definitely.~~
++You can say that again.++
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In the spare bedrooms the friends were supposed to use until term started at Hogwarts, everyone was quite excited.
Mainly because now they could all speak, write, and read English.
"I'm bilingual!" Kaya shouted happily.
"You already were bilingual, Ky," Malik replied, shaking his head.
"I was?" Kaya asked, confused.
"Egyptian and Japanese?" Malik offered.
"Well.................then now I'm, uh, what's the prefix that means three?"
"You mean tri?"
"Thanks, Yugi!" Kaya cleared her throat. "I'm trilingual now!"
The others sweatdropped.
That night, Kaya couldn't sleep. She got out of her bed, careful not to disturb anyone in the room.
Then she noticed that Bakura was missing. She looked out to the balcony and saw him standing there. Kaya tiptoed onto the balcony, and she realized that it wasn't Bakura, but his yami.
"Hey, Bakari," she greeted, remembering her talk with Bakura last night. (I read somewhere that Yami Bakura's actual name is Afifa, and then in the manga he refers to himself as Bakura but it's spelled weird, so I named him Bakari. Tis an Egyptian boy name that means "noble oath.")
He didn't say anything, just nodded. He turned to her. "You look like you've got something on your mind. Now, spill it," he said. She sighed.
"Stop hurting Bakura," she said. Bakari was surprised. That wasn't what he'd expected at all.
"Who died and made you Cleopatra?" he asked snidely. (Oh, wait, Cleopatra's roughly 3070 years after them, huh? Oh well. ^_^)
"Just leave him alone."
"Why?"
"Because Bakura's my friend."
"But he's pathetic!'
"Not really. That's just what everyone thinks."
Bakari snorted. "I'm serious!" Kaya said indignantly. "Bakura's had it rough, I know it. Just like Malik."
"Bakura and Malik aren't a thing alike, Kaya," Bakari said, shaking his head.
"They are, actually. Malik had a rough time, and was hell-bent on getting revenge, but Bakura had it rough, and got all introverted."
"So, basically, you're telling me they have really different idiosyncrasies, but both came from having a gloomy past," Bakari said dryly.
"That's exactly what I'm telling you," Kaya stated, and turned to go. "Look," she said, turning back around to face her friend, "I can't make you change, just think about it, ok?" She left, leaving Bakari with his confuddled thoughts. (Kamilah: Lemme guess: confuddled is another one of your words.
Lisa: *nods*)
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"Harry! Harry, over here!"
Harry Potter looked away from the scarlet train known as Hogwarts Express and jogged toward his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Before he had even said hello, he noticed they were holding hands.
"Did I miss something?" Harry asked.
(Mojobubbles: /You/ missed something if you didn't go read the prequel, "The Muggle Box Is Singing To Me!" like we told you to!
Kamilah: Don't hurt the readers, aibou!)
Ron and Hermione blushed. "Well," Hermione began, "I visited Ron over the summer, and, we, er, got together." Harry looked at them both.
"It's about time," he said simply. They grinned sheepishly and all three boarded the Hogwarts Express, laughing.
About an hour and a half into the journey, a familiar cold voice was heard in the compartment in front of them. The three friends recognized the voice as that of one of their worst enemies, Draco Malfoy. No doubt his two cronies Crabbe and Goyle were with him.
(Melissa: *is drooling* Draaaaaaccccccooooooooooo..............)
"Dumbledore's reached an all-time low!" Malfoy was saying. (By the by, did you know that Draco Malfoy translates to "dragon bad faith"? I read that in a fic called "Yugioh does Harry Potter".) Anyway, Malfoy was talking very loudly, and the three caught every word.
"Can you believe who he's invited to Hogwarts this year? And I thought he could sink no lower, what with scum like Granger running around in the castle," he said lazily.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione made a face at each other. They were quite used to Malfoy making fun of Hermione's Muggle parents, but it was still annoying. Then Malfoy left the compartment, and the other three were wondering who Dumbledore could possibly have invited to Hogwarts.
"I personally don't think it's anything to think twice about," Hermione said matter-of-factly. (She says everything matter-of-factly, huh?)
"Hermione's right," Harry said. "I mean, this is Malfoy we're talking about." Ron nodded in agreement. The rest of the ride passed quickly, and soon the train was pulling into Hogsmeade. Everyone was getting off the train when Hermione's cat, Crookshanks, leaped out of his carrier and ran off.
"Oh, honestly............" Hermione groaned. "It's alright, go on without me," she said to Harry and Ron. "I'll catch up."
They nodded, and set off for the horseless carriages that would take them to Hogwarts castle. Harry and Ron were greeted by Neville Longbottom, a friend of theirs.
"Hi Harry, hi Ron!" Neville said energetically. "Have you heard about the exchange students Dumbledore invited to Hogwarts this year?"
"Nope, I haven't. What country are they from?" Ron asked, as they walked up to a carriage and stood, waiting, for Hermione.
"I don't know for sure, but I heard they're from Hungary," Neville replied, "and I heard that they're half-werewolves."
"Half-werewolves?" Harry repeated skeptically.
Just then, Hermione joined them. "I've been hearing the most /ridiculous/ rumors about a group of exchange students that Dumbledore's invited to Hogwarts for the year."
"You mean the group of half-werewolves from Hungary?" Neville offered. Hermione looked at him.
"/I've/ heard that they're from South Korea, and they're half-vampires," she said, "although frankly I think these rumors are absolutely ridiculous."
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The rumors only got worse, as they got off the carriage and headed into the castle.
"Did you hear about the new students?"
"Yeah, they're from Brazil!"
"I heard that a couple of 'em have ghosts from Zimbabwe living in their jewelry!"
"No, they're from Greece, and they've got a couple Canadian spirits hanging around with them!"
Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Neville listened to the rumors with raised eyebrows.
The students filed into the great hall, and looked around expectantly, obviously trying to see the new students.
Professor McGonnagal knocked on her glass and the students quieted down.
Dumbledore looked around at them all, and said, "Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. Before we begin the Sorting, I would like to introduce a few new faces. First, is our new defense against the dark arts teacher, Professor Aristole Leorian." He gestured a sandy-haired man at the staff table. (Kirstie, recognize the first name? And are you ever gonna post that?!) The students applauded politely. Then a girl at the Hufflepuff table began to whisper to her fellow Hufflepuffs. Their whispered message drifted across the room.
"I see the exchange students!"
"Where?"
"See, there?"
"Look at that kid's hair!"
Dumbledore smiled at the students. "It is also my great pleasure to introduce a group of Muggles from Japan, who will be here at Hogwarts in light of the recent events involving Voldemort."
A few people flinched at the mention of the name, but others were too interested in the identity of the exchange students. Muggles? From Japan?
"I know you will do all you can to make them comfortable, and you will be hospitable." Dumbledore gestured to Yugi and his friends, and they came forward.
"I am pleased to introduce Yugi Moto, Joseph Wheeler, Bakura Ryou, Seto Kaiba, Kaya Tanaka, Tristan Taylor, Isis Ishtar, Tea Gardner, and Malik Ishtar."
Explanations, Confusion, and Ghosts From Zimbabwe
Disclaimer: KAYA'S MINE!!!! AND SO IS ARISTOLE LEORIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Sadly, however, that is all I own.
Mojobubbles: TSUKASA IS MINE!!!!!!!!!
Y. Mojobubbles: She has this new obsession with .hack//SIGN..............yeah.
Mojobubbles: Hate is bad. It screws up people.
Y. Mojobubbles: She rented Princess Mononoke.
Mojobubbles: Come to think of it, I have to go finish it. (goes off to finish watching Princess Mononoke)
Y. Mojobubbles: Uh..........she'll be back, she only has 20 minutes left........
Mojobubbles: Wow! That movie has a kick ass ending! When Ashitaka dove under the water hugging San I was like, "...........wow." And then I had a very San-y attitude toward Eboshi in the end. I was like, "She just had her arm bitten off, now why won't she fucking die?!" San is cool though. SHE KICKS ASS! Although my yami doesn't like San.......
Y. Mojobubbles: Yami Bakura left me for her! WWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Mojobubbles: Aw............poor Yami.........*hugs her* *stops* Hey, I fixed it! Whenever I did this *blah* it made my text bold. Now it doesn't! I DON'T HAVE TO USE PARENTHESES ANYMORE! Ok, we'll stop our ramblings on Princess Mononoke; just go watch it! But it's violent, tho: Ashitaka often takes off random pplz body parts............like some heads and some arms............oh yeah, I changed Kaya's eye color from blue-green to purple. There has to be one similarity between her and Yami! Also, she can mentally communicate to Yami /and/ Yugi.
Y. Mojobubbles: Who else saw Malik take his shirt off on Saturday?
Mojobubbles: That was hysterical! He just reached around and yanked his cape off.
Y. Mojobubbles: Rishid was in it! He has a seriously fucked up dubbed name. It's, like, Odion or something.
Mojobubbles: I recognized the tattoo thingy on his face and I said to my sister, "Look, Laura, it's.........that guy!" Then when Malik said to Yugi, "I'm going to strip the pharaoh-" I went, "EEEWWWWW!" Then I said, "Hey, I'm the only one allowed to strip the pharaoh!" 'Course, then I realized Malik actually said, "I'm going to strip the pharaoh of his powers." ^_^; In other news.............DUKE DEVLIN IS ODD! But it was funny when he was flicking die at Joey. He's like, "flick flick flick" and Joey's like, "ow ow ow!" Then Yami popped out and he was like, "Grr you're mean I don't like you!" Then Duke flicked another dice at Joey and Yami reached out and caught it and he also had on that freaking awesome black gothic outfit and I was like, totally drooling over Yami.
Y. Mojobubbles: What else is new? -_-
Mojobubbles: Your name is new.
Y. Mojobubbles: Oh yeah. We were on www.20000-names.com and we were in the page with Egyptian female names and the name Kamilah really jumped out at me, and that's because that was my name in ancient Egypt!
Review Responses:
Teran: Wow! You reely reely reely reely reely(a few minutes later)reely *gasp* like it huh? ^_^ Oh, Bakura, go hug Teran!
Bakura: Ok! *hugs Teran* ^_^
Mojobubbles: Is that better?
Rosz: Ooh, lookie everyone! I have a loyal reviewer!
Everyone: *monotone* Yay.
Mojobubbles: I can't believe you like this story that much!!! *sniff* I'm honored.
Blue Mystic Moon Warrior: No fair. You were in it! Fine. *forks over a Malik plushie*
Yugi-Closet-fan: Hey lookies it's another loyal reviewer! But that was a confusing review. When did I say Joey has a M. Item?
Europa: Welcome, Europa! Glad you're enjoying it. Foreshadowing is cool! Yay, foreshadowing!!!!
Symbol thingies:
~blah~ Kaya to Yami or Yugi
++blah++ Yugi to Kaya
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
[blah] someone thinking to themselves
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Bakura rolled over in his sleep and mumbled something. He swatted at the hand poking him. (That didn't come out right....................you know what I meant!) Groaning, he opened his eyes.
A huge pair of violet eyes were inches from his face.
He yelped and sprang out of bed. The person who had been on top of him screamed too and fell off the bed, tangled in Bakura's sheets. The person pulled the covers of his/her head. "Bakura!" the person shouted.
"Kaya?!" Bakura shouted, helping her up.
Isis and Yugi were stirring. "What's going on?" Yugi asked, yawning.
"Kaya got right in my face and woke me up," Bakura said, folding his arms and looking at Kaya.
"What?!" she said, throwing up her hands. "I woke up with Yugi's grampa in my face!"
"Ooh, I feel your pain," Yugi said sympathetically.
Kaya grinned. "Anyway, he told me we were going somewhere, and that I should wake you guys up and he'd work on the others."
"Where are we going?" Isis asked, pulling a brush through her thick black hair.
"He didn't say," Kaya replied.
"You're worried about that man from the Shadow Realm, ne?" Yami Yugi asked Isis, emerging from the puzzle. She nodded.
"Where do you think he's from?" Kaya asked, as group from the other room came in. "I mean, he didn't look Japanese at all, but he spoke it perfectly."
"It's illogical, captain," Joey said solemnly.
Everyone stared at him.
"Lemme guess: it's American," Tristan said dryly. Joey nodded sheepishly.
Yugi's grampa stuck his head in the door. "Let's go!" he said. They all raced for the door.
They didn't know they weren't coming back.
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"Platform 9 ¾, 9 ¾............"
Joey leaned over to Yugi. "Yug," he muttered. "I think your grampa's lost it."
"I heard that!"
Yugi's grampa took out a letter and re-read it. "In between platforms 9 and 10............."
He walked up to the barrier separating platforms 9 and 10. "I just don't understand it......" he muttered to himself, leaning against the barrier in thought.
Big mistake.
"Grampa!" Yugi shouted as his grampa fell through the barrier.
"What the hell was /that/?!" Malik exclaimed. (*giggles* Malik said a bad word......I find that amusing.)
Yugi pushed his hand against the barrier. It vanished. Yugi wiggled his hand around. He felt nothing. Just then, something grabbed his hand and yanked him in.
The others looked at each other.
"Let's go," Bakura said simply, and they all went through the barrier.
They didn't know they had been seen.
"Where the hell did they go?" muttered Seto Kaiba, staring at the barrier.
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On the other side of the barrier, the group was reassembling themselves. There was a large, scarlet train in front of them.
"So that's how you do it," Yugi's grampa said to himself.
"What the heck is going on?! Where the heck are we?!" Malik shouted, waving his arms around. Isis whacked him up the side of his head. "Thank you, I needed that," he said, shaking his head.
Yugi's grampa looked around at them all. "I really don't know how to explain," he admitted. "You all have been invited to a boarding school somewhere here in England, and I was told to put you all on the train here."
"But, don't we need money for tickets?" Tea asked.
"The letter didn't say anything about-" Yugi's grampa was about to answer when he was cut off by a man who stepped over to them. He told them all to follow in perfect Japanese, although it was clear he was English. He showed them onto the train and told them all tickets were not needed and not to worry about a thing, that it would all be sorted out. Yugi said goodbye to his grampa, and the train was about to pull out of the station when Tristan's shout distracted them all.
"Is that Kaiba?!"
Everyone crowded up to the window.
"What de heck is Kaiba doin' here?" Joey asked.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Kaya shrugged. The man walked up to Kaiba and began to talk to him. The man led Kaiba onto a different compartment of the train, much to everyone's surprise.
"I'm officially completely confused," Bakura informed them all. The train suddenly lurched forward and everyone fell on top of each other.
"This is seriously undignified," came Yami's voice from the bottom of the pile.
"No, ya think?!" Malik said irritably.
"I wasn't talking to you!" Yami shot back, just as irritably.
"Owowowowowow Joey get OFF my hair!!" Kaya shouted.
"I'm gonna be crushed.........." Yugi whimpered.
"Tea will you please get off my dress?"
"Oh, sorry Isis."
"I sat on something spiny!"
"Tristan, that was my Millennium Ring!"
After a few more seconds of that, everyone got off the floor and retreated to their own seats.
~This is seriously weird.......................~
++Excellent observation, Ky.++
~I think my brother's starting to rub off on you, Yugi.~
~~I'm going to take that as a compliment.~~
~Suuuuuuuuuuuure.~
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The group stepped off the train, and the guy who had shown them on, Robert, told them all to follow him into the gigantic castle off in the distance.
Yami noticed Kaiba.
"Kaiba," he said, nodding curtly.
"Yami," Kaiba replied, just as curtly.
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"Kaiba."
"Yami."
"SHUT UP ALREADY!"
They all stared. They hadn't thought it was possible for such an outburst to come from little Yugi.
Robert blinked. Then reminded them that they had to go to the castle. Yugi, Kaiba, and Yami were embarrassed at how stupid they must have looked.
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Bakura stared around the hall in awe. This place was so freaking huge!! He followed the others to a stone gargoyle statue thing.
"Chocolate truffle," Robert said to the gargoyle. They all exchanged glances. They were amazed, however, when the gargoyle slowly got up and (ok just a sec, gotta find the part in CoS when Harry goes to Dumbledore's office) moved out of the way, revealing a staircase that was spiraling upward, just like an escalator. Except that escalators don't spiral, and are typically not concealed by a large gargoyle statue. Robert nodded to the group, who hesitantly stepped onto the staircase. Yami's eyes kept flicking (I love that word.......flicking flicking flicking flicking) toward both Yugi and Kaya, he didn't like to have either of them out of his sight for very long. The door was already open, so they silently filed into the room.
(Ra, that was a seriously boring paragraph................)
Dumbledore studied the teens as they came in. He was slightly surprised when he sensed that the slightly short one with the spiked hair and deep purple eyes wasn't human. He had an air of confidence surrounding him, and Dumbledore realized this must be Yugi Moto's protector.
"Well," Dumbledore began, "I suppose you are all wondering what you are doing here, and where you are."
They all gave him a look that clearly said, "Well, /duh/."
"To put it quite plainly," Dumbledore began, "you are at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
They all blinked.
"I don't have time for this," Kaiba said sharply. (He reacts just like he did when Isis was trying to show him all those tablet thingies. ^_^) "I have a company to run, and I'm going to be on the next train back to Japan by tonight." He got up and began to walk to the office door.
"I'm afraid, Mr. Kaiba, that this is something you must listen to," Dumbledore said, taking out his wand and shutting the door with a quick wave. Kaiba froze and turned back to Dumbledore, a look of shock on his face.
"How did you know my name-?"
"My name is Albus Dumbledore, I am headmaster of this school. You are here, quite simply, because you need protection."
"Protection?" Yami interjected sharply. "From who?"
"From a wizard called Lord Voldemort," Dumbledore replied. "He gathered followers, and the wizarding community lived in fear of being killed. Voldemort was at the height of his power about 14 years ago, and he set out to murder the Potters. He succeeded in killing Lily and James Potter, but when he attempted to perform the killing curse on their baby son, Harry, the curse rebounded, and Voldemort was in hiding until just last year, when he was rejoined by his most faithful servant, who performed a complex spell that enabled Voldemort to obtain, once more, a body of his own." He stopped and let the information soak in.
"But what does this Voldemort guy have to do with us?" Yugi asked.
"Voldemort is very interested in your Millennium Items," Dumbledore replied.
"Was it Voldemort that took us to the Shadow Realm?" Isis said, realization dawning on her.
"Yes, Miss Ishtar, that was Voldemort," Dumbledore replied.
"So, lemme get this straight: dis freaky evil wizard guy took us all to deh Shadow Realm 'cause he wants the Millennium Items, and you're a good wizard guy who runs a school 'o magic and we're gonna stay here to be protected from Voldemort and how the heck do you know our names already?!"
"Mr. Wheeler, please calm down."
"ARGH! Stop dat!"
"Joey, you're acting like a nutcase!" Tea told him.
"I can't blame him, though," Dumbledore said, a hint of amusement in his voice. "I understand that this has been a long day for you, so I think it would be best if you went to bed. Until term starts on September first, you will be staying in the guest area. Robert will show you the way. Your baggage has been brought here; there is nothing to worry about. He will also be performing a language spell so that you can speak, write, and understand English. I performed a similar spell for Japanese, and I am assuming Voldemort did the same thing."
The group got up and began to make their way to the door. "But-" Dumbledore began, and everyone turned around. "I need to have another few words with Miss Tanaka, Miss Ishtar, Mr. Ryou, Mr. Ishtar, Mr. Moto, and his yami." (Those all sound so gay...........Mr. Ishtar..............) The rest hesitated. "They will join the rest of you shortly," Dumbledore assured them. The rest left, glancing at the others.
The said people sat down in front of Dumbledore's desk. "Now," he said, eyeing them all, "I need to know about the Millennium Items. Anything you may want to mention................" He looked pointedly at Yami and Yugi.
Malik went first. "Well, uh, this is the Millennium Rod and it has to power to, uh, control................people."
"I can see into the past, and occasionally into the future with the Millennium Necklace."
"The Millennium Ring can remove souls from their bodies and can point in the direction of another Millennium Item."
"The Millennium Puzzle can send souls to the Shadow Realm." (I forgot the other powers of the M. Puzzle..........gomen nasai!)
No one else said anything. "Miss Tanaka?" Dumbledore nodded.
"Well, it's not really a Millennium Item, it's called the Tears of the Dolphin," Kaya said. "It can take its owner to different times and different dimensions."
"Interesting," Dumbledore said to himself, leaning back in his chair. (And falling out! Heh, just kidding. Hey, that would make a good blooper.................)
"Why do you want to know so much about the Millennium Items?" Yami inquired, a suspicious look gracing his features.
Dumbledore looked at him. "You are not human, correct?"
Yami was slightly surprised. "Yes," he said slowly, "although I once was. My soul was trapped in the Millennium Puzzle, when the magic of the Shadow Games was sealed away."
"And so was Isis, and me too," Malik added, then he corrected himself. "Well, not in the puzzle, but in our own Items."
Dumbledore watched Malik for a moment. He sensed a very strange aura around the teen. It was cold and foreboding, but at the same time warm and welcoming. He could also sense that Malik had a darker, more hostile half.
"What?" Malik asked.
"You have two sides, am I correct?"
Malik was taken aback. "Yeah," he said slowly. "But he's sort of been............subdued."
"Would it be possible for me to meet him?"
"No!" Malik said quickly. "I mean, no, sir, he wouldn't................appreciate it," he said finally.
Dumbledore nodded. Then turned to Bakura. "You have another half as well, am I correct?"
Bakura nodded. "I suppose you could meet him sometime, but not this evening. He's not in a good mood." Dumbledore was silent for a moment.
"Mr. Ishtar, Mr. Ryou, Miss Ishtar, that is all I will be needing from you tonight. If I could have another word with you three," he gestured to Yugi, Kaya, and Yami, "that will be all."
Isis, Malik, and Bakura all left. Dumbledore then turned to Kaya.
"I sense a connection to-" he couldn't think of what to call Yugi's yami. "- him," Dumbledore said, gesturing toward Yami.
"I'm Yami's younger sister," Kaya replied. "But I'm human."
Dumbledore looked interested. "Indeed?"
"See, Yami gave me my necklace here when the Shadow Games were getting to dangerous," Kaya began. "And I was sent forward in time to a new dimension. Then, I met up with Yugi and their friends, and started remembering that I was Yami's sister."
Dumbledore looked even more interested. He hadn't seen it at first, but the resemblance was there. Their eyes were the same purple/magenta-ish color, and they both seemed confident. "Indeed. May I ask why Mr. Ishtar was so apprehensive when his other half was mentioned?"
"Because Yami Malik is a murderer," Yugi said darkly.
"Yeah," Kaya added. "Yami Malik even killed Malik's father, although Malik didn't know it."
"And what of Mr. Ryou's, er, yami?"
"Bakura's yami isn't much better," Yami said. "He was a tomb robber, and he was pure evil, although he is much better."
"But I was one of his friends back in ancient Egypt, so he'll listen to me most of the time," Kaya jumped in. Dumbledore looked at them.
"I daresay you all are very tired, and I will not keep you any longer. Robert will be waiting for you outside," he told them.
"Uh, thanks," Yugi said, as he, Kaya, and Yami got up to leave.
~This is going to be one hell of a year, right guys?~
~~Definitely.~~
++You can say that again.++
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In the spare bedrooms the friends were supposed to use until term started at Hogwarts, everyone was quite excited.
Mainly because now they could all speak, write, and read English.
"I'm bilingual!" Kaya shouted happily.
"You already were bilingual, Ky," Malik replied, shaking his head.
"I was?" Kaya asked, confused.
"Egyptian and Japanese?" Malik offered.
"Well.................then now I'm, uh, what's the prefix that means three?"
"You mean tri?"
"Thanks, Yugi!" Kaya cleared her throat. "I'm trilingual now!"
The others sweatdropped.
That night, Kaya couldn't sleep. She got out of her bed, careful not to disturb anyone in the room.
Then she noticed that Bakura was missing. She looked out to the balcony and saw him standing there. Kaya tiptoed onto the balcony, and she realized that it wasn't Bakura, but his yami.
"Hey, Bakari," she greeted, remembering her talk with Bakura last night. (I read somewhere that Yami Bakura's actual name is Afifa, and then in the manga he refers to himself as Bakura but it's spelled weird, so I named him Bakari. Tis an Egyptian boy name that means "noble oath.")
He didn't say anything, just nodded. He turned to her. "You look like you've got something on your mind. Now, spill it," he said. She sighed.
"Stop hurting Bakura," she said. Bakari was surprised. That wasn't what he'd expected at all.
"Who died and made you Cleopatra?" he asked snidely. (Oh, wait, Cleopatra's roughly 3070 years after them, huh? Oh well. ^_^)
"Just leave him alone."
"Why?"
"Because Bakura's my friend."
"But he's pathetic!'
"Not really. That's just what everyone thinks."
Bakari snorted. "I'm serious!" Kaya said indignantly. "Bakura's had it rough, I know it. Just like Malik."
"Bakura and Malik aren't a thing alike, Kaya," Bakari said, shaking his head.
"They are, actually. Malik had a rough time, and was hell-bent on getting revenge, but Bakura had it rough, and got all introverted."
"So, basically, you're telling me they have really different idiosyncrasies, but both came from having a gloomy past," Bakari said dryly.
"That's exactly what I'm telling you," Kaya stated, and turned to go. "Look," she said, turning back around to face her friend, "I can't make you change, just think about it, ok?" She left, leaving Bakari with his confuddled thoughts. (Kamilah: Lemme guess: confuddled is another one of your words.
Lisa: *nods*)
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"Harry! Harry, over here!"
Harry Potter looked away from the scarlet train known as Hogwarts Express and jogged toward his two best friends, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. Before he had even said hello, he noticed they were holding hands.
"Did I miss something?" Harry asked.
(Mojobubbles: /You/ missed something if you didn't go read the prequel, "The Muggle Box Is Singing To Me!" like we told you to!
Kamilah: Don't hurt the readers, aibou!)
Ron and Hermione blushed. "Well," Hermione began, "I visited Ron over the summer, and, we, er, got together." Harry looked at them both.
"It's about time," he said simply. They grinned sheepishly and all three boarded the Hogwarts Express, laughing.
About an hour and a half into the journey, a familiar cold voice was heard in the compartment in front of them. The three friends recognized the voice as that of one of their worst enemies, Draco Malfoy. No doubt his two cronies Crabbe and Goyle were with him.
(Melissa: *is drooling* Draaaaaaccccccooooooooooo..............)
"Dumbledore's reached an all-time low!" Malfoy was saying. (By the by, did you know that Draco Malfoy translates to "dragon bad faith"? I read that in a fic called "Yugioh does Harry Potter".) Anyway, Malfoy was talking very loudly, and the three caught every word.
"Can you believe who he's invited to Hogwarts this year? And I thought he could sink no lower, what with scum like Granger running around in the castle," he said lazily.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione made a face at each other. They were quite used to Malfoy making fun of Hermione's Muggle parents, but it was still annoying. Then Malfoy left the compartment, and the other three were wondering who Dumbledore could possibly have invited to Hogwarts.
"I personally don't think it's anything to think twice about," Hermione said matter-of-factly. (She says everything matter-of-factly, huh?)
"Hermione's right," Harry said. "I mean, this is Malfoy we're talking about." Ron nodded in agreement. The rest of the ride passed quickly, and soon the train was pulling into Hogsmeade. Everyone was getting off the train when Hermione's cat, Crookshanks, leaped out of his carrier and ran off.
"Oh, honestly............" Hermione groaned. "It's alright, go on without me," she said to Harry and Ron. "I'll catch up."
They nodded, and set off for the horseless carriages that would take them to Hogwarts castle. Harry and Ron were greeted by Neville Longbottom, a friend of theirs.
"Hi Harry, hi Ron!" Neville said energetically. "Have you heard about the exchange students Dumbledore invited to Hogwarts this year?"
"Nope, I haven't. What country are they from?" Ron asked, as they walked up to a carriage and stood, waiting, for Hermione.
"I don't know for sure, but I heard they're from Hungary," Neville replied, "and I heard that they're half-werewolves."
"Half-werewolves?" Harry repeated skeptically.
Just then, Hermione joined them. "I've been hearing the most /ridiculous/ rumors about a group of exchange students that Dumbledore's invited to Hogwarts for the year."
"You mean the group of half-werewolves from Hungary?" Neville offered. Hermione looked at him.
"/I've/ heard that they're from South Korea, and they're half-vampires," she said, "although frankly I think these rumors are absolutely ridiculous."
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The rumors only got worse, as they got off the carriage and headed into the castle.
"Did you hear about the new students?"
"Yeah, they're from Brazil!"
"I heard that a couple of 'em have ghosts from Zimbabwe living in their jewelry!"
"No, they're from Greece, and they've got a couple Canadian spirits hanging around with them!"
Hermione, Ron, Harry, and Neville listened to the rumors with raised eyebrows.
The students filed into the great hall, and looked around expectantly, obviously trying to see the new students.
Professor McGonnagal knocked on her glass and the students quieted down.
Dumbledore looked around at them all, and said, "Welcome, to another year at Hogwarts. Before we begin the Sorting, I would like to introduce a few new faces. First, is our new defense against the dark arts teacher, Professor Aristole Leorian." He gestured a sandy-haired man at the staff table. (Kirstie, recognize the first name? And are you ever gonna post that?!) The students applauded politely. Then a girl at the Hufflepuff table began to whisper to her fellow Hufflepuffs. Their whispered message drifted across the room.
"I see the exchange students!"
"Where?"
"See, there?"
"Look at that kid's hair!"
Dumbledore smiled at the students. "It is also my great pleasure to introduce a group of Muggles from Japan, who will be here at Hogwarts in light of the recent events involving Voldemort."
A few people flinched at the mention of the name, but others were too interested in the identity of the exchange students. Muggles? From Japan?
"I know you will do all you can to make them comfortable, and you will be hospitable." Dumbledore gestured to Yugi and his friends, and they came forward.
"I am pleased to introduce Yugi Moto, Joseph Wheeler, Bakura Ryou, Seto Kaiba, Kaya Tanaka, Tristan Taylor, Isis Ishtar, Tea Gardner, and Malik Ishtar."