Chapter 5
Show And Tell
Disclaimer: I own Aneko, Kaya, Lindsey, Adara, Leorian, Kaya and Isis' yamis, and the plot. Nothing else. Well.......actually I have some Pop Rocks, and 2 Inu-Yasha mangas, and some crappy anime drawings, and an English - Japanese dictionary......
Mojobubbles: Malik met Y. Bakura!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kamilah: And he rode his motorcycle!!!!!!!!!
Malik: Would you two get over the fact that I have a motorcycle?!?!
Kamilah and Mojobubbles: No.
Kamilah: I wonder if the part where Y. Bakura cuts himself was completely edited it out, or if they're gonna find some way to sort of show it.
Mojobubbles: Evil stupid 4 Kids dubbers........And you know what else? They're butchering all this anime just to make money, which is kinda weird cuz when you push Shift + 4 on your keyboard it makes a $ sign.
Kamilah: Well, if it weren't for 4 Kids, we wouldn't have any version of Yu- Gi-Oh!
Yami: That's true. At least the dub is better than no version at all.
Mojobubbles: Yeah.......AND I'M GOING TO THE MALL LATER WITH MY FRIEND GINA!!!!!!!!!!!! *sings the fish head song* Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads! Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!
Inuyasha: NOT THE FISH HEAD SONG!!!!!!
Yami: Ow. You didn't need to scream so loud, Kitty.
Inuyasha: I'M NOT A KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *tries to beat up Yami*
Mojobubbles: INU STOP IT!!!! *tries to break them up*
Kaya: Hey, Malik, Bakari, wanna do the review responses? *grins evilly*
Review responses:
BMMW - Kaya: Wow......never let your history teacher hear her say that, Kirstie.
Bakari: Hey runt, I'll tell you what snogging means!! *pulls C. Kura off in the corner*
Kaya: Off the chibi! *grabs C. Kura*
Europa - Malik: A FELLOW PYRO!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
All: o_O
Lady Yami - Bakari: You like the seriousness? 'Cause there's not a whole lot of it in this story.
ANYA - Malik: Please don't die.
Kaya: Mojobubbles would not be happy if she killed anyone with her writing.
Daricio - Kaya: Guys, I think she needs to see this review.
Bakari and Malik: *drag Mojobubbles over*
Mojobubbles: F-friend? *eyes get all shiny* Aw, thanks, Daricio!!!!!!! I've got glassies too, 'cept mine are sorta navy blue/indigo-ish. And I've had 'em since fourth grade. I get my Japanese mainly from my English- Japanese dictionary that I got at Barnes & Noble's. Ya might wanna pop in your local one or poke around on their webpage. Also, my dad once bought a book called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese" and I use that when I try to form sentences. Here are some webpages that I get some stuff from: Ok, I sort of get what you mean about the idea......I think I could use part of that in the story..... I already have them telling the Harry ppl about the yami thing........except......ooh, MALFOY WILL OVERHEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! Coolness.....inspiration......dontcha just love it?
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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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(Special thank ya to Daricio for in a very odd way giving me inspiration for this chappy, and to Kirstie for the lyrics from the fish head song!!)
The next day started out perfectly, but it didn't end that way.
At breakfast, Malik apologized to Ron for yelling at him, and Ron apologized for prying.
Everyone was back to being friends (Kirstie thought it said "back to bleeding friends"......Ra/Kami/God, my handwriting's not that bad!), and things were perfect. Then they heard the announcement. It was during Transfiguration, their last class of the day, and McGonagall told them to pack up a few minutes before the bell. Then she told them that this concerned the exchange students as well. And then she dropped the bomb. (No not that kind of bomb!) "There is going to be a Halloween ball this year."
Some reacted by clapping, others by groaning.
"This is a ball in which the young men ask the young ladies to, er, accompany them," McGonagall continued, unfazed by the mixed reactions. Many of the girls giggled at this announcement, while most of the boys looked less than happy. Malik, Bakura, Yugi, Tristan, and Joey exchanged terrified glances. Just then, the bell rang, and McGonagall asked to speak with the exchange students. Tea waved Harry, Ron, and Hermione along, and they promised to meet up in the common room.
"This is so cool!" Kaya exclaimed when they left the classroom a few minutes later. "I mean, we get to wear whatever we want!"
"You sure it's just us, though?" Tristan asked thoughtfully.
"Well, yeah, she did tell us to keep it a secret," Yugi pointed out.
"I bet Moneybags over there'll break out one of his swishy coats," Joey laughed, and Kaiba just rolled his eyes and walked ahead of them.
Then it happened - again. The M. Item holders when to the Shadow Realm.
"Oh not this /again........../" Yami Malik sneered, emerging from the M. Rod. "This is getting old, Voldemort!" he called out.
"Shut it, Psycho," Bakari retorted, as he and the other yamis emerged from their respective items and standing in front of their lights. Even Kaya's yami came out, who gave her a reassuring smile.
Since this had happened once before, the group was not as badly affected by the Shadow Realm as last time.
"W-who's that?" Bakura asked, pointing to a figure coming out of the haze.
"Malik?" the person called. "Is that you?"
"Oi, Isis, we're over here!" Malik replied, waving as Isis came closer.
"So.......now what?" Bakari asked, tapping his foot impatiently. "Dunno about you all, but I find this really /boring/......."
"Well I could kill one of you to make it a little more interesting, eh, tomb robber?" came the same chilling voice as before.
Bakari shut up. Voldemort knew he had been a tomb robber? Creepy.
"You can't scare us, ya know," Kaya said, feeling bold in the presence of her yami, her brother, and her friends.
"We know what your plan is," Yugi added, nodding.
"I only wanted to give you a warning!" Voldemort replied, fake-pouting. "I will get your Millennium Items, whether you hand them over or I have to kill you to get them."
With that, they were back in the hallways of Hogwarts.
"Don't tell me - you guys went to the Shadow Realm again, right?" Tristan said grimly. They nodded.
"I think maybe we ought to tell Harry and his friends about the items, and the yamis," Tea said thoughtfully.
"But how would we get them ta believe us?" Joey asked, puzzled.
"Simple," Bakura said in a tone so much like his yami it sent chills down their spines. "We give them a demonstration, tomorrow, during free period."
(No, that was not really Bakari talking; it just meant Bakura sounded like him.)
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"So, what'd you want to show us?" Harry asked, as the huge group went into an empty classroom the next day. Isis had joined them, too. Yugi looked around.
"Really, I don't know where to start," he said. So they just began talking. Yugi told them about the items, the Shadow Games, and that the items were what Voldemort wanted and that he had taken them to the Shadow Realm twice. He was just about to explain the Shadow Realm when Hermione jumped in.
"/The Shadow Realm?/" she gasped. "I didn't think it existed......"
"What, you read about it?" Ron asked. Hermione gave him a look. Harry ignored them and turned back to the others.
"Vol- I mean, You-Know-Who, wants the Items 'cause of their powers, right?" he asked.
"Well........yeah, but there's something else......" Kaya said, shrugging.
That got Ron and Hermione's attention. "Like what, Kaya?"
"The yamis," Yugi said simply.
"It means 'dark'," Bakura explained. "Yamis are the spirits that live inside the Millennium Items."
"How'd they get in there?" Ron asked skeptically.
"Well, some of them, like the ones in the Ring and Puzzle, were sealed inside them," Yugi explained.
"As a punishment?" Hermione asked.
"Nope, by accident," Joey said. "Er, I think it was by accident....."
"But who sealed them there?" Harry asked.
"My older brother, the pharaoh," Kaya replied. "The spirit of the Puzzle."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione stared at her. "D'you mean to say that you're 5000 years old too?!" Ron asked.
Kaya shook her head. "No, my sort-of Item was used to send me across time so that I would be safe from the Shadow Games."
"What about the other yamis? How did they get in there?" Hermione asked.
"Those yamis are a reflection of the lighter half's feelings and situations they've been in," Malik said quietly.
"Do you have a yami like that, Malik?" Hermione asked, correctly interpreting his tone. Malik sighed and nodded.
"He's the worst of them all," Malik said, "and he's a murderer. He's killed innocent people, just for the hell of it, and he killed my father." Ignoring the horrified expressions on Harry, Ron, and Hermione's faces, he continued. "While he was controlling me. But I thought it was the pharaoh - sorry, I mean the spirit of the Puzzle, and Kaya's brother - who killed my father. So basically I was all hell-bent on getting revenge but my sister Isis over here came in and helped me see what a fricking idiot I was being and that's about it." He smiled at the expressions on Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "And then to make things even more complicated, I'm Kaya's best friend, and we all lived in ancient Egypt."
(Well, actually, Malik lived underground in the 20th century.......the reason he blamed Yami is that his family was guarding the tomb for the pharaoh's return.....so when Shadi told him it was the pharaoh's will, and that the pharaoh was awakening, and Malik needed to find the pharaoh, Malik blamed the only pharaoh that might be awakening any time soon - Yami. And why won't this FRIGGIN' ant get off my FRIGGIN' keyboard?!)
"And you two have yamis like that too?" Harry asked, nodding toward Isis and Kaya, who nodded in reply.
"Just tell me, how do you expect us to believe that you've got a whole bunch of spirits living in your jewelry?" Ron asked impatiently. Although as soon as he said it, he did remember the rumors about the group.
*~*Flashback*~*
"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!"
*~*End flashback*~*
(GET OFF MY KEYBOARD, DAMN ANT!!!!)
"Foolish mortals. I should've expected this," Bakari scoffed, taking control of Bakura's body.
/Just don't scare them, ok, Yami?/
//Fool, I know what I'm doing.//
"Tomb robber, what are you doing?" Yami Yugi asked sternly, taking control of Yugi's body.
"YAMIII!" Kaya squealed happily then running over and hugging him.
"Ky, you're acting like you haven't seen me in months," he said, attempting to pry her off of him.
"Well yeah, you haven't been out in so long!"
"That's perfectly normal," Isis assured Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Just then, Yugi and Bakura materialized next to their yamis. But the really startling thing was that they were transparent.
"Whoa!"
"That's normal too," Malik assured, but he was trying not to laugh at Harry, Ron, and Hermione's reaction. "See, it takes a lot of power from the Items when the yami and hikari separate-"
"So, Yugi and Ryou are just tapping into enough power to become transparent?" Hermione asked.
"You catch on fast," Yami said, sounding impressed. Hermione, having never been addressed by the spirit of a pharaoh before, didn't know what to say.
Yugi looked around at Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "Um, don't tell anyone about this. I don't know what they'd say....."
"So, that's our story," Joey said. "What's yours?"
No one noticed the pale face that had been peering at them the whole time, his cold grey eyes glittering maliciously.
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(Here we go with the spoilers for more Harry Potter books.)
"So, Sirius Black was actually innocent?" Bakura asked, trying to make sense of the story.
They were sitting in the common room, in a corner so no one would overhear them. (Ok, so now we know they're all really good friends, becuz now they're all sharing their stories and being all in the back and stuff.....yeah.....those of ya that have read the books will know what I mean. *cough* Kirstie *cough*)
Harry nodded. "It was actually Peter Pettigew, who-"
"-was disguised as my pet rat for years," Ron jumped in.
"Remember that letter I got the other day?" Harry asked. "That was from Sirius, and he's in hiding."
"Wow......what a weird day......" Tristan said, stretching in his seat.
"But we did get 3 new friends along the way!" Tea said brightly. (Heh......the friendship queen!!!)
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It was the following Saturday when the subject of the ball came up.
George Weasley had told Harry that Quidditch practice would be that morning on Friday at breakfast.
"Who's the captain?" he asked, his fork held in midair. Then he noticed George wasn't paying attention. "George? Hello?"
"Ah, Cleopatra........." he said to Isis, bowing. She blushed bright red. Malik and Kaya had to pinch themselves to keep from laughing out loud.
"Oh, sorry Harry, did you say something?" George said, grinning lopsidedly and turning back to Harry.
"I said, who's the captain?" Harry sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Moi!" George said happily. Then he thought. "Or I guess I could've said 'me' in Egyptian or Arabic or whatever they speak in Egypt-" He stopped when Malik jumped up, looking furious.
"Malik, stop!" Isis hissed, grabbing his arm and yanking him back down.
"Sorry," George said, waving his hands. "Didn't mean anything by it!"
"George just likes to joke around, that's all," Ron added.
"Sorry 'bout that," Malik mumbled.
"So.......what's Quidditch?" Tea asked, trying to lighten the mood. (Why is Malik all defensive? *shrugs* I really don't know. He just is.)
("FAMILY PORTRAIT" IS ON DIGITAL DOBBY!!!! I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!)
"Only the best sport ever!" Ron said enthusiastically. Then he launched into an explanation, which just confused the crap out of them all.
"Uh, you'll see tomorrow," Harry jumped in.
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"That was so cool!" Joey and Tristan exclaimed as the boys left the Quidditch field that Saturday.
"Amazing," Yugi grinned.
"Awesome," Malik agreed.
"Definitely neat," Bakura chimed in.
The group was settling in to Hogwarts life. Snape hated them of course, as did the Slytherins and Adara Mina, but it was quite a relief to have the Gryffindors on their side.
"So anyway, who are you all taking to that ball thing on Halloween?" Ron asked, watching the girls, who were further ahead.
"You're so lucky, Ron!" Yugi groaned.
"Why?" Ron asked.
"It's not like you really have to /ask/ Hermione......you both know you're going with each other....." Yugi sighed. Ron grinned in an I'm-so-superior- to-you kind of way.
"So, Yug, who you asking?" Joey asked. Yugi shrugged.
"No one, at the moment. What about you, Joey?"
Joey shrugged too. "Might just come by myself," he admitted.
"I know who'd I like to ask........" Tristan said dreamily.
"Tristan and Serenity, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G......." Malik and Yugi sang.
"It's not like that at all!" Tristan yelled defensively.
"Hey, Malik, who're you taking?" Harry asked.
"Well........." Malik looked at the girls ahead of them. "There's one girl I'd kind of like to take......but someone'd kill me if I tried to ask her."
"You want to take Kaya?" Bakura said, guessing correctly.
"Shhh!" Malik said quickly, clamping his hand over Bakura's mouth. "Yugi's yami'd kill me!!"
"But I thought you and Kaya were just friends," Ron said, scratching his head.
"WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!"
"Alright, alright!" Ron said, holding up his hands in surrender. "You don't have to get all defensive! Who're you taking, Harry?"
Harry suddenly looked uncomfortable. "WellmaybeImightaskGinny," he said quickly. Everyone blinked.
"So, um, do you think Kaiba's gonna take anyone?" Yugi asked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Kaiba's the anti-social one, right?" Harry asked. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Malik, and Bakura nodded fervently.
"I personally dun think he's gonna take anyone," Joey said, shaking his head. "Hey, whatta about you, Bakura? You takin' anyone?"
Bakura blushed. "Well........there's one girl I sort of like, and I would like to ask her......but my yami wouldn't appreciate it." With that, he walked quickly ahead of them.
"That's not fair!" Ron said loudly. "He can't ask his crush because of a 5000 year old dead tomb robber living in his necklace?!" When it was put that way, it sounded pretty stupid.
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The girls were discussing the ball as well.
"What are you going to do if you get asked?" Isis asked.
"What, you don't think anyone's gonna ask you?" Isis' friend Holly said, raising her eyebrows. Isis shrugged gracefully. "I think George Weasley really likes you," Holly continued. Isis blushed. Then she glared at Tea and Kaya.
"Don't say anything," she said dangerously.
"Hey, we didn't say anything!" Kaya said, holding up her hands in defense.
"But what would you do if you got asked by someone you don't like?" Tea pondered.
"I'd probably tell them that I was already going with someone, or if it was someone I really hated then I'd tell them the truth," Kaya grinned.
"Who do you think you'll be asked by?" Hermione asked.
The others didn't know what to say.
"I really don't know," Kaya said, voicing what the rest of the girls were thinking. "But I guess we'll just have to wait and see, right?"
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Mojobubbles: Next chapter: "Will You Be My Date?"
Kamilah: The poor boys have to ask the girls!
Boys: \_/
Girls: :P
Show And Tell
Disclaimer: I own Aneko, Kaya, Lindsey, Adara, Leorian, Kaya and Isis' yamis, and the plot. Nothing else. Well.......actually I have some Pop Rocks, and 2 Inu-Yasha mangas, and some crappy anime drawings, and an English - Japanese dictionary......
Mojobubbles: Malik met Y. Bakura!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kamilah: And he rode his motorcycle!!!!!!!!!
Malik: Would you two get over the fact that I have a motorcycle?!?!
Kamilah and Mojobubbles: No.
Kamilah: I wonder if the part where Y. Bakura cuts himself was completely edited it out, or if they're gonna find some way to sort of show it.
Mojobubbles: Evil stupid 4 Kids dubbers........And you know what else? They're butchering all this anime just to make money, which is kinda weird cuz when you push Shift + 4 on your keyboard it makes a $ sign.
Kamilah: Well, if it weren't for 4 Kids, we wouldn't have any version of Yu- Gi-Oh!
Yami: That's true. At least the dub is better than no version at all.
Mojobubbles: Yeah.......AND I'M GOING TO THE MALL LATER WITH MY FRIEND GINA!!!!!!!!!!!! *sings the fish head song* Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads! Fish heads, fish heads, eat them up yum!
Inuyasha: NOT THE FISH HEAD SONG!!!!!!
Yami: Ow. You didn't need to scream so loud, Kitty.
Inuyasha: I'M NOT A KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *tries to beat up Yami*
Mojobubbles: INU STOP IT!!!! *tries to break them up*
Kaya: Hey, Malik, Bakari, wanna do the review responses? *grins evilly*
Review responses:
BMMW - Kaya: Wow......never let your history teacher hear her say that, Kirstie.
Bakari: Hey runt, I'll tell you what snogging means!! *pulls C. Kura off in the corner*
Kaya: Off the chibi! *grabs C. Kura*
Europa - Malik: A FELLOW PYRO!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
All: o_O
Lady Yami - Bakari: You like the seriousness? 'Cause there's not a whole lot of it in this story.
ANYA - Malik: Please don't die.
Kaya: Mojobubbles would not be happy if she killed anyone with her writing.
Daricio - Kaya: Guys, I think she needs to see this review.
Bakari and Malik: *drag Mojobubbles over*
Mojobubbles: F-friend? *eyes get all shiny* Aw, thanks, Daricio!!!!!!! I've got glassies too, 'cept mine are sorta navy blue/indigo-ish. And I've had 'em since fourth grade. I get my Japanese mainly from my English- Japanese dictionary that I got at Barnes & Noble's. Ya might wanna pop in your local one or poke around on their webpage. Also, my dad once bought a book called "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Japanese" and I use that when I try to form sentences. Here are some webpages that I get some stuff from: Ok, I sort of get what you mean about the idea......I think I could use part of that in the story..... I already have them telling the Harry ppl about the yami thing........except......ooh, MALFOY WILL OVERHEAR!!!!!!!!!!!! Coolness.....inspiration......dontcha just love it?
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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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(Special thank ya to Daricio for in a very odd way giving me inspiration for this chappy, and to Kirstie for the lyrics from the fish head song!!)
The next day started out perfectly, but it didn't end that way.
At breakfast, Malik apologized to Ron for yelling at him, and Ron apologized for prying.
Everyone was back to being friends (Kirstie thought it said "back to bleeding friends"......Ra/Kami/God, my handwriting's not that bad!), and things were perfect. Then they heard the announcement. It was during Transfiguration, their last class of the day, and McGonagall told them to pack up a few minutes before the bell. Then she told them that this concerned the exchange students as well. And then she dropped the bomb. (No not that kind of bomb!) "There is going to be a Halloween ball this year."
Some reacted by clapping, others by groaning.
"This is a ball in which the young men ask the young ladies to, er, accompany them," McGonagall continued, unfazed by the mixed reactions. Many of the girls giggled at this announcement, while most of the boys looked less than happy. Malik, Bakura, Yugi, Tristan, and Joey exchanged terrified glances. Just then, the bell rang, and McGonagall asked to speak with the exchange students. Tea waved Harry, Ron, and Hermione along, and they promised to meet up in the common room.
"This is so cool!" Kaya exclaimed when they left the classroom a few minutes later. "I mean, we get to wear whatever we want!"
"You sure it's just us, though?" Tristan asked thoughtfully.
"Well, yeah, she did tell us to keep it a secret," Yugi pointed out.
"I bet Moneybags over there'll break out one of his swishy coats," Joey laughed, and Kaiba just rolled his eyes and walked ahead of them.
Then it happened - again. The M. Item holders when to the Shadow Realm.
"Oh not this /again........../" Yami Malik sneered, emerging from the M. Rod. "This is getting old, Voldemort!" he called out.
"Shut it, Psycho," Bakari retorted, as he and the other yamis emerged from their respective items and standing in front of their lights. Even Kaya's yami came out, who gave her a reassuring smile.
Since this had happened once before, the group was not as badly affected by the Shadow Realm as last time.
"W-who's that?" Bakura asked, pointing to a figure coming out of the haze.
"Malik?" the person called. "Is that you?"
"Oi, Isis, we're over here!" Malik replied, waving as Isis came closer.
"So.......now what?" Bakari asked, tapping his foot impatiently. "Dunno about you all, but I find this really /boring/......."
"Well I could kill one of you to make it a little more interesting, eh, tomb robber?" came the same chilling voice as before.
Bakari shut up. Voldemort knew he had been a tomb robber? Creepy.
"You can't scare us, ya know," Kaya said, feeling bold in the presence of her yami, her brother, and her friends.
"We know what your plan is," Yugi added, nodding.
"I only wanted to give you a warning!" Voldemort replied, fake-pouting. "I will get your Millennium Items, whether you hand them over or I have to kill you to get them."
With that, they were back in the hallways of Hogwarts.
"Don't tell me - you guys went to the Shadow Realm again, right?" Tristan said grimly. They nodded.
"I think maybe we ought to tell Harry and his friends about the items, and the yamis," Tea said thoughtfully.
"But how would we get them ta believe us?" Joey asked, puzzled.
"Simple," Bakura said in a tone so much like his yami it sent chills down their spines. "We give them a demonstration, tomorrow, during free period."
(No, that was not really Bakari talking; it just meant Bakura sounded like him.)
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"So, what'd you want to show us?" Harry asked, as the huge group went into an empty classroom the next day. Isis had joined them, too. Yugi looked around.
"Really, I don't know where to start," he said. So they just began talking. Yugi told them about the items, the Shadow Games, and that the items were what Voldemort wanted and that he had taken them to the Shadow Realm twice. He was just about to explain the Shadow Realm when Hermione jumped in.
"/The Shadow Realm?/" she gasped. "I didn't think it existed......"
"What, you read about it?" Ron asked. Hermione gave him a look. Harry ignored them and turned back to the others.
"Vol- I mean, You-Know-Who, wants the Items 'cause of their powers, right?" he asked.
"Well........yeah, but there's something else......" Kaya said, shrugging.
That got Ron and Hermione's attention. "Like what, Kaya?"
"The yamis," Yugi said simply.
"It means 'dark'," Bakura explained. "Yamis are the spirits that live inside the Millennium Items."
"How'd they get in there?" Ron asked skeptically.
"Well, some of them, like the ones in the Ring and Puzzle, were sealed inside them," Yugi explained.
"As a punishment?" Hermione asked.
"Nope, by accident," Joey said. "Er, I think it was by accident....."
"But who sealed them there?" Harry asked.
"My older brother, the pharaoh," Kaya replied. "The spirit of the Puzzle."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione stared at her. "D'you mean to say that you're 5000 years old too?!" Ron asked.
Kaya shook her head. "No, my sort-of Item was used to send me across time so that I would be safe from the Shadow Games."
"What about the other yamis? How did they get in there?" Hermione asked.
"Those yamis are a reflection of the lighter half's feelings and situations they've been in," Malik said quietly.
"Do you have a yami like that, Malik?" Hermione asked, correctly interpreting his tone. Malik sighed and nodded.
"He's the worst of them all," Malik said, "and he's a murderer. He's killed innocent people, just for the hell of it, and he killed my father." Ignoring the horrified expressions on Harry, Ron, and Hermione's faces, he continued. "While he was controlling me. But I thought it was the pharaoh - sorry, I mean the spirit of the Puzzle, and Kaya's brother - who killed my father. So basically I was all hell-bent on getting revenge but my sister Isis over here came in and helped me see what a fricking idiot I was being and that's about it." He smiled at the expressions on Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "And then to make things even more complicated, I'm Kaya's best friend, and we all lived in ancient Egypt."
(Well, actually, Malik lived underground in the 20th century.......the reason he blamed Yami is that his family was guarding the tomb for the pharaoh's return.....so when Shadi told him it was the pharaoh's will, and that the pharaoh was awakening, and Malik needed to find the pharaoh, Malik blamed the only pharaoh that might be awakening any time soon - Yami. And why won't this FRIGGIN' ant get off my FRIGGIN' keyboard?!)
"And you two have yamis like that too?" Harry asked, nodding toward Isis and Kaya, who nodded in reply.
"Just tell me, how do you expect us to believe that you've got a whole bunch of spirits living in your jewelry?" Ron asked impatiently. Although as soon as he said it, he did remember the rumors about the group.
*~*Flashback*~*
"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!"
*~*End flashback*~*
(GET OFF MY KEYBOARD, DAMN ANT!!!!)
"Foolish mortals. I should've expected this," Bakari scoffed, taking control of Bakura's body.
/Just don't scare them, ok, Yami?/
//Fool, I know what I'm doing.//
"Tomb robber, what are you doing?" Yami Yugi asked sternly, taking control of Yugi's body.
"YAMIII!" Kaya squealed happily then running over and hugging him.
"Ky, you're acting like you haven't seen me in months," he said, attempting to pry her off of him.
"Well yeah, you haven't been out in so long!"
"That's perfectly normal," Isis assured Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Just then, Yugi and Bakura materialized next to their yamis. But the really startling thing was that they were transparent.
"Whoa!"
"That's normal too," Malik assured, but he was trying not to laugh at Harry, Ron, and Hermione's reaction. "See, it takes a lot of power from the Items when the yami and hikari separate-"
"So, Yugi and Ryou are just tapping into enough power to become transparent?" Hermione asked.
"You catch on fast," Yami said, sounding impressed. Hermione, having never been addressed by the spirit of a pharaoh before, didn't know what to say.
Yugi looked around at Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "Um, don't tell anyone about this. I don't know what they'd say....."
"So, that's our story," Joey said. "What's yours?"
No one noticed the pale face that had been peering at them the whole time, his cold grey eyes glittering maliciously.
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(Here we go with the spoilers for more Harry Potter books.)
"So, Sirius Black was actually innocent?" Bakura asked, trying to make sense of the story.
They were sitting in the common room, in a corner so no one would overhear them. (Ok, so now we know they're all really good friends, becuz now they're all sharing their stories and being all in the back and stuff.....yeah.....those of ya that have read the books will know what I mean. *cough* Kirstie *cough*)
Harry nodded. "It was actually Peter Pettigew, who-"
"-was disguised as my pet rat for years," Ron jumped in.
"Remember that letter I got the other day?" Harry asked. "That was from Sirius, and he's in hiding."
"Wow......what a weird day......" Tristan said, stretching in his seat.
"But we did get 3 new friends along the way!" Tea said brightly. (Heh......the friendship queen!!!)
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It was the following Saturday when the subject of the ball came up.
George Weasley had told Harry that Quidditch practice would be that morning on Friday at breakfast.
"Who's the captain?" he asked, his fork held in midair. Then he noticed George wasn't paying attention. "George? Hello?"
"Ah, Cleopatra........." he said to Isis, bowing. She blushed bright red. Malik and Kaya had to pinch themselves to keep from laughing out loud.
"Oh, sorry Harry, did you say something?" George said, grinning lopsidedly and turning back to Harry.
"I said, who's the captain?" Harry sighed, rolling his eyes.
"Moi!" George said happily. Then he thought. "Or I guess I could've said 'me' in Egyptian or Arabic or whatever they speak in Egypt-" He stopped when Malik jumped up, looking furious.
"Malik, stop!" Isis hissed, grabbing his arm and yanking him back down.
"Sorry," George said, waving his hands. "Didn't mean anything by it!"
"George just likes to joke around, that's all," Ron added.
"Sorry 'bout that," Malik mumbled.
"So.......what's Quidditch?" Tea asked, trying to lighten the mood. (Why is Malik all defensive? *shrugs* I really don't know. He just is.)
("FAMILY PORTRAIT" IS ON DIGITAL DOBBY!!!! I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!)
"Only the best sport ever!" Ron said enthusiastically. Then he launched into an explanation, which just confused the crap out of them all.
"Uh, you'll see tomorrow," Harry jumped in.
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"That was so cool!" Joey and Tristan exclaimed as the boys left the Quidditch field that Saturday.
"Amazing," Yugi grinned.
"Awesome," Malik agreed.
"Definitely neat," Bakura chimed in.
The group was settling in to Hogwarts life. Snape hated them of course, as did the Slytherins and Adara Mina, but it was quite a relief to have the Gryffindors on their side.
"So anyway, who are you all taking to that ball thing on Halloween?" Ron asked, watching the girls, who were further ahead.
"You're so lucky, Ron!" Yugi groaned.
"Why?" Ron asked.
"It's not like you really have to /ask/ Hermione......you both know you're going with each other....." Yugi sighed. Ron grinned in an I'm-so-superior- to-you kind of way.
"So, Yug, who you asking?" Joey asked. Yugi shrugged.
"No one, at the moment. What about you, Joey?"
Joey shrugged too. "Might just come by myself," he admitted.
"I know who'd I like to ask........" Tristan said dreamily.
"Tristan and Serenity, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G......." Malik and Yugi sang.
"It's not like that at all!" Tristan yelled defensively.
"Hey, Malik, who're you taking?" Harry asked.
"Well........." Malik looked at the girls ahead of them. "There's one girl I'd kind of like to take......but someone'd kill me if I tried to ask her."
"You want to take Kaya?" Bakura said, guessing correctly.
"Shhh!" Malik said quickly, clamping his hand over Bakura's mouth. "Yugi's yami'd kill me!!"
"But I thought you and Kaya were just friends," Ron said, scratching his head.
"WE ARE JUST FRIENDS!"
"Alright, alright!" Ron said, holding up his hands in surrender. "You don't have to get all defensive! Who're you taking, Harry?"
Harry suddenly looked uncomfortable. "WellmaybeImightaskGinny," he said quickly. Everyone blinked.
"So, um, do you think Kaiba's gonna take anyone?" Yugi asked, trying to lighten the mood.
"Kaiba's the anti-social one, right?" Harry asked. Yugi, Joey, Tristan, Malik, and Bakura nodded fervently.
"I personally dun think he's gonna take anyone," Joey said, shaking his head. "Hey, whatta about you, Bakura? You takin' anyone?"
Bakura blushed. "Well........there's one girl I sort of like, and I would like to ask her......but my yami wouldn't appreciate it." With that, he walked quickly ahead of them.
"That's not fair!" Ron said loudly. "He can't ask his crush because of a 5000 year old dead tomb robber living in his necklace?!" When it was put that way, it sounded pretty stupid.
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The girls were discussing the ball as well.
"What are you going to do if you get asked?" Isis asked.
"What, you don't think anyone's gonna ask you?" Isis' friend Holly said, raising her eyebrows. Isis shrugged gracefully. "I think George Weasley really likes you," Holly continued. Isis blushed. Then she glared at Tea and Kaya.
"Don't say anything," she said dangerously.
"Hey, we didn't say anything!" Kaya said, holding up her hands in defense.
"But what would you do if you got asked by someone you don't like?" Tea pondered.
"I'd probably tell them that I was already going with someone, or if it was someone I really hated then I'd tell them the truth," Kaya grinned.
"Who do you think you'll be asked by?" Hermione asked.
The others didn't know what to say.
"I really don't know," Kaya said, voicing what the rest of the girls were thinking. "But I guess we'll just have to wait and see, right?"
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Mojobubbles: Next chapter: "Will You Be My Date?"
Kamilah: The poor boys have to ask the girls!
Boys: \_/
Girls: :P