Chapter five: Dont tell a soul, spirit, any magical creature or human. What ever you do!
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"This is boring." Sagira whined. "I mean, I cant read your cards, you cant read my cards, whats the attraction to non electrical Duel Monsters?" she asked. "I'd rather be in the Shadow World."
"Shadow Realm." Bakura corrected.
"Whatever! World, Realm, same difference." Sagira said tossing her hair over her shoulder. Before the game Bakura gave her training on transforming, consequently, the training on how to turn back to Tiny Jones, was not done yet. Now Tiny had back length brownish amberish hair and cool amber eyes.
"Tiny- I mean Sagira." Yami panted reaching the room. "Okay, I think I might have done one-no two things that you will definitely be mad about!" he said.
"What?" Tiny asked putting down a card in Ruski.
"First, well I asked Harry where you were right?"
"Thats supposed to make me mad?" Sagira asked.
"And when I was leaving, cause he told me you were upstairs with the CRADLE ROBBER!" he glared pointedly at Bakura. "And he grabbed my arm." Yami pointed to a hand shaped bruise on his upper arm.
"Whoa, Ringu." Bakura said. [1]
"And, no normal person does this trying to restrain someone, not even most police bruise people while trying to stop someone!" Yami said. "He looked like Ryou when he's talking to you." he said to Bakura. "Like he was getting visions, and I got them too!" he said.
"What were they?" Bakura asked suddenly serious.
"Dont worry, your innocent, but our little one right here causes scorpians to overthrow my mothers summer palace?" Yami accused. Sagira frowned.
"You do not know any of it Pharaoh." she grumbled in Egyptian.
"Look, I can't remember a thing, its a wonder, but I know that you left, I know that something happened at the palace to make you run to him! And I know something made you come back." Yami said.
"Maybe I should leave, I get kinda teary during these heartfelt confessions, you know?" Bakura said leaping to his feet. Sagira held out her hand.
"Stay." she said. "We haven't finished the game." she grumbled. "Yami, you are intruding on an official game," she paused. "No matter how un-electricized an area we are in." she made feeble shooing gestures with the hand that she wasnt holding cards in. "Go on now Pharaoh, don't start talking about things you dont know anything about." she said.
"Stupid Ratri." he muttered.
"Oh, by the way, what was the second thing you said would make me mad?" she asked.
"Um, you wouldn't care."
"Tell me Pharaoh." she ordered firmly.
"It's really, it's..it's nothing." he said.
"I can already read your mind, I know what happened. It'd be best just to confess." she said.
"Um, well. Harry asked what I was to you...and I really wanted to get away so...I said you were my girlfriend!" Sagira shuddered, then retained her calmness. Bakura saw the flick between amber and silver in her eyes, then back to amber.
"Well, I'm still playing, I'll get you later." she said. Yami nodded and bolted out of the door, somewhere.
"You can't really read minds can you?" Bakura asked.
"But playing on people's emotions is one of my best talents," she said checking her nails. "I suppose I've got a few more good plays on that before any one actually finds out, now I'm playing Alotte'd de Martine." Sagira said.
"What does that do?" Bakura asked as Sagira put a French card in the monster zone.
* * *
"Great Amon this place is crowded." Zaliki said. She walked through the alley, usually she would use her Millenium Item (which was a figurine of the goddess Hathor) to stop time, but today she didn't feel like it. But what was that thing in the sky?
"Ahh, Zaliki." Mutankagara appeared next to her. "I'm afraid I've forgotten how ugly you really are, dressed up like this, did five chickens have to die to make this outfit? Hm?" she asked in Egyptian.
"Mutankagara, what happened to you hikari, I thought as she had a bit of control over you?" Zaliki spat. Mutankagara was an older Egyptian when she was sealed, she was at least 29, and that was old in those times. She was beautiful, there was no doubt, but not like Sagira or Zaliki were, she covered her face with creams and powders to make her seam younger than she was, being Nara for about 19 years had its toll on her, she wasn't the dark, enigmatic beauty that she once was, more pale and her brown eyes were now blue, her dark hair was now lighter too.
"Nara Weslin." Mutankagara said. "Is supposed to be in The Leaky Cauldron in exactly one hour to have the teachers initiation to be Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts." Mutankagara said. "I guess you'll be seeing alot of me?"
"Since when were you a witch?" Zaliki asked.
"Since Nara was 11 and accepted to San Marino School for Young Magical Beings." Mutankagara said checking her claw like nails. Mutankagara used to hang around Bakura's house alot, either getting tips for stealing or buying the stuff he and Sagira stole, Sagira had picked up most of her habits from Mutankagara.
"San Marino, very small country."
"San Marino, very small stamp country." Mutankagara said. "Nara's specialties were DADA and Divinination, but they've already got a teacher for that! Two! Imagine the confusion!" she said, half laughing. Okay, now Zaliki was officially unsettled. The Mutankagara she knew was more...dark, not the happy bright spirit in the Dutch lady's body.
"So, Dumblydore told me that you, Sagira and Bakura are here." she said.
"Did he mention that the Sennin Rod and the Puzzle is here too?" Zaliki asked.
"Sennin Rod, Sennin Rod, Kai-bek?" she asked.
"No, not Kai-bek." Zaliki said. "Seems the Rod switched owners."
"And the Puzzle...You mean the Pharaoh's here?!" she asked, to be truthful she sounded a bit scared.
"Don't be scared, Pharaoh doesn't remember a thing from his past, he probably won't even remember who you are!" Zaliki said twirling her hair on her finger. The two girls chatted for a while before Mutankagara finally had to go over to the Leaky Cauldron. "BY THE WAY!" Zaliki yelled after Mutankagara. "WHERE'S NARA?!" she yelled.
"NARA?" Mutankagara yelled. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR? NARA'S DEAD!"
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First card.
Name: Nara Weslin
Yami: Mutankagara
Age: Nara was 40
Age of Yami: 29 forever.
Yami's powers: Powers of astral projection, real projection, teleportation.
Description of Hikari: honey brown hair, clear blue eyes, pale white skin, red lips.
Description of Yami: dark brown hair, tanned skin, dark brown eyes, red lips.
Location: England via Germany/San Marino
Blood type: AB
Birthday: April 5
Favorite food: Hikari: Sourkraut. Yami: Any thing spicy
Least favorite food: Hikari: Anything spicy. Yami: Anything sour.
Favorite color: Hikari: Light blue. Yami: Red.
Weaknesses: Hikari: The entire English language. Yami: Honesty.
* * *
An hour later, Sagira and Bakura were still struggling to play duel monsters in different languages. While Bakura's cards were all in Japanese, Sagira's cards were in a couple languages, a few were Russian, French, Creole, Spanish, Chinese, and Esperanto. She had also aquired some of the most powerful cards in the game, but she didn't play that much she insisted. Soon Zaliki ran up the stairs out of breath, she had a few bags on her arms.
"Mutankagara's here!" she said squeezing her eyes shut and sinking to the floor. "She's apparently our new teacher."
"Nara's a witch?!" Bakura and Sagira asked at the same time. Zaliki nodded solemnly.
"And a mighty good one to land a job like that." she said. "Have you even *read* any of these books?" she asked. Both of the teens shook their heads. "Well, I've been studying, apparently there are tons of studies we have to learn, of course we can drop some courses but..." she trailed off. "Still... its alot compared to regular school stuff." she said.
"This is boring!" Sagira said. "Nothing like the tronic thing, wait." she got up and looked through one of the books piled on Bakura's bed. "It's here." she said. She showed the book to Bakura and he nodded and grabbed his new wand. They each grabbed their cards and made them into a deck again.
Bakura pointed to his deck and cleared his throat. "Enchantus...enchantus..." Sagira and Zaliki looked at the word after "Enchantus".
"Boy that looks hard to read." Zaliki said.
"It's all faded. Here," Sagira said grabbing the wand and pointing at the cards. "Zhu jiankang ru ren Ryou Bakura." she said pointing at his deck with the wand.
"Where'd you get that spell?" Bakura asked.
"I made it up. Um, Zhu Wansui jiankang ru ren Lestin Jones." she said. "Um, Ming Yingyu?" she said pointing to her cards, she picked on up and nodded. She pointed to Bakura's cards. "Ming Yingyu?"
Bakura picked up a card. "It's all in English." he said.
"Handy, aren't I?" Sagira said. "Free Chinese classes at the center really pay off." she said. "I guess anything you say as a spell works." Bakura frowned and grabbed his wand back.
"Gratis pornograficos." he said, pointing at the ground. Nothing happened. "Well it was worth a try." he said pocketing the wand.
"Pervy weirdo..." Sagira muttered.
"What?" Bakura asked.
"I called you a 'Pervy weirdo'. Problem?"
"I thought so." Bakura said. "Now, shall we play?"
* * *
After the game, Sagira went back to the room that she and Tiny shared with Ginny. Sagira and Tiny, well they both loved to sleep. So when Sagira walked into the room, she crashed on the bed and grabbed some of the covers to pull over her.
[Get up!] Tiny yelled. [I want my body back!] she said.
[Can't we just rest for a moment even?] Sagira asked. She vacated the body and appeared in an half apparation next to Tiny.
"Duel Monsters is not exactly the most extreme of exersizes." Tiny said.
"It's not all that." Sagira said.
"What is it then?" Tiny asked.
"A magical overload, there are too many Millenium items at one place at one time, it's giving me a cronking headache." she said.
"Cronking?" Tiny asked.
"My new word of the week, it can mean anything from crazy to big." Sagira answered. Tiny nodded. "But, the Stars are here, the Rod, the Puzzle, the Millenium Ring, the Dagger, the Hathor, and the Urn." she said.
"The Stars and the Urn?" Tiny asked. "Who are they?" she asked.
"Can't speak, the powers that be have sealed until Hogwarts." she said. "But, what matters is that I need a sleep, a cronking one." she said. Tiny nodded and the door creaked. Sagira and Tiny both turned to see Ginny standing in the doorway, wide eyed in terror.
* * *
"BAKURA-SENSEI!!!" Sagira screamed, reaching the soprano level, her nails digging into Ginny's arm.
"Whaaaat?" Bakura asked cleaning his ears out as he opened the door. "No need to yell." he said. Sagira had taken over Tiny's body, blocking Tiny from all thoughts and shoved Ginny into Bakura's room. She scowled and all of her features darkened even more than usual. "What's wrong?" he asked. Ginny was sitting on the bed whimpering from the new bruise on the arm. Bakura saw it and chuckled darkly. "Ringu times two." he said.
"She knows, she saw me and Tiny, talking in that Amon-damned apparation thing you taught me!" she yelled.
"What's going on?" Ginny asked weakly.
"You didn't sap any energy from her did you?" Bakura asked.
"Well, what do you think?" Sagira asked.
"Well, I think that you should take some Tylenol for that ramming headache that you're sending out to all of us," he said, meaning all of the Millenium item holders. "And tell me what's going on." he said slowly. Sagira calmed down a bit more and her features lightened, she took a deep breath and sat on the bed.
"Ginny saw me talking to Sagira- FIGHTING!!!-" it was obvious that Tiny now had Sagira under control and Sagira was fighting for the body. "And Sagira blew up at her." Tiny said, she flinched and her face went red.
"Well, lets talk this out rationally." Bakura said. "We're going to have to tell her the truth." he said. Tiny's face shook up and she went absolutely red.
"Stop." Tiny said sharply. "I agree." she said to Bakura.
"Okay, Ginny, um. Well, we all have to hide something." Bakura started. He turned to Tiny. "Lets get Yugi up here, he's better at all this confrontation stuff." About thirty minutes later, they had successfully tracked down all of the Sennen Item holders and had them in Tiny and Ginny's room.
"Well, lets get started from the beginning." Yami Yugi said. "About 3000 to 5000 years ago-"
Zaliki cut in. "At no specific time."
"There lived fourteen people, they were all connected in some way. A pharaoh, Yamasis, his assistant-"
"Advisor!" Sagira interupted.
"Advisor, Ratri," Yami said. "His adopted daughter, Zaliki, a grave robber, Bakura," Yami turned to Bakura.
"A priest, Kai-bek." Zaliki said. "Two twins, Kakra and Zesibo, a medium, Isinso, a prostitute-"
"Mutankagara, a princess, Sharifa, a servant girl, Neema, a diviner, Pegat, and a few others." Sagira finished. "We were all connected." she said.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked. "We?"
Sagira looked at Bakura. "Take this...there." she said. Zaliki yelled something in Egyptian and Ginny's new wristwatch stopped. Bakura's features darkened more, subtly, his hair spikier, his face, more sharp. The room darkened too, the walls disappeared to reveal black, the ceiling disappeared, the floor was gone until nothing was there but the bed she was sitting on. "Welcome," Sagira said. "Welcome to the Shadow World." she said.
Bakura sighed. "Shadow Realm, Sagira." he said.
"Same difference." Sagira said waving it away. "Anyways, here it should be easier to explain, the people in Ancient Egypt, well some of them, were stuck in items..." She grabbed Zaliki's Hathor. "And stowed away, until someone was to find them. Two stars, a Hathor, a Mirror, a Puzzle, a Rod, an Urn, a Dagger, a Ring, a Necklace or Tauk, an Eye, and..." she thought. "Some other stuff." she said.
"They all had magical powers." Zaliki said. "The Channeling, the Time Stop, the Reflect, the Strategist, the Mind Control, the Teleporter, the Fire, the Senser, the Medium, and the Mindreader, plus, others." she said.
"And..." a silky smooth voice came from the doorway. "Their reincarnations were supposed to find them." said the voice. Everyone turned to the door to see Mutankagara standing there. "I saw the twins in the hall, didn't call them out." she said. She turned to Ginny. "Hi, I'm Mutankagara, your new DADA teacher." she said. "Also a card carrying Sennen Item holder, its nice to meet you."
"Hi." Ginny said. It was true, though not as good as her old self, Nara was beautiful, she had the perfect skin and long dark hair with a perfect body. The Sennen Item holders were used to her though, and actually, some of them thought her quite plain.
"So, how was the job initiation?" Zaliki asked.
"I got it." Mutankagara said.
"How'd you get in here?" Bakura asked. "And how did that door get here, isn't this the Shadow World." he immediately hit himself on the head.
"Shadow REEEEAAAALMM!" Sagira said, stretching Realm to no eternity.
"Teleportation dufus." Mutankagara said.
"Does anybody even say that anymore?" Zaliki asked.
"Nara's old Zaliki, I'm sure you can accept my apologies for this outdate slang." she said.
"Sure." Zaliki said. "So lets keep informing the minor." she said.
"Well," Mutankagara said. "This is the Ring's power, well, one of them." she said. "A world where souls dwell, like, hmm... is that one guard dude still here?" she asked. Bakura shrugged.
"I think his soul wore out a long time ago." he said.
"Okay, so there are no souls that I know here." Mutankagara said. "But, my item's power, the Teleporter, well," she chuckled. "You saw what that does already, and Sagira's powers, the Fire and the Rise, right?" she turned to Sagira.
"I'm able to call things to do -whatever- I want them to." Sagira said smirking. "And Zaliki can stop time, Yami's just got good brains, the twins can channel spirits, Bakura can summon the Shadow Realm, Mutankagara can teleport and create bodies for lost spirits, Malik can control people's minds, Isis can see the future, and Bakura also has the Sennen Eye, which can see into peoples minds." Sagira said. A tapping startled everyone in the room but Ginny.
"You've got an owl." she whispered. Bakura returned them to the room and his eyes widened at the fact that a nocturnal creature was at their window in broad daylight! (They had all gotten their letters at night)
"Ugh! Koukous!!" Sagira yelled, she frowned.
"I suppose Sagira has a problem with owls," Mutankagara said. Bakura nodded.
"Simply, she has a problem with things that fly with feathers, she screams at birds." He said. Yami opened the window and the owl flew in (ignoring Sagira's frightened screams), dropped a letter and left. Yami opened the letter.
"It's from Isis." he said.
"Isis?" Malik grabbed the letter and opened it. He snorted and threw it to Bakura. "It's Ryou's," he pouted. "My own sister won't even write to me?" he mumbled. Bakura read the letter and crumbled it up, he threw it to Zaliki, whom upon reading it, burst out laughing and threw it to Sagira, who twitched as she read it and threw it to Mutankagara, who seemed appalled at the contents.
"What does it say?" Ginny asked.
"Isis doesn't trust me." Bakura said.
"Or me." Sagira said.
"She had quite a few things to say about me too!" Mutankagara said throwing the letter in the trash.
"How do you people even know Isis?" Malik asked.
"Kaiba." Zaliki, Sagira and Mutankagara said simultaniously(sp?).
"Kaiba?" Yami asked. "Seto Kaiba?" A pause, then all three burst out laughing.
"Mokuba!" Sagira said. "You baka think we'd actually fraternize with that flying ignorami?" she asked.
"Mokuba?" Bakura, Yami and Malik asked.
"Mokuba helped me get the eight inch and six inch DVD player, he runs all the Loo'siana stations, he gets tidbits of the newest technological stuff to pass to me, he left Batno [2] Rouge about a week before I got the letter. Too bad too, I liked staying in the mansion." Sagira said.
"He started on the German translations of Duel Monsters way back," Mutankagara said. "He was about ten I think, and since Nara was working for Kaiba Corp. for about six months before Herr Kaiba senior dismissed her, Seto's such a-"
"No cussin' infron' of the minor." Sagira said.
"Anyways, Kaiba small helped Nara out when her husband divorced her, he financed her condo, and when he left, she was very, very well off." Mutankagara said.
"Kaiba, the little, went along with my dads expedition to Egypt, actually, I think he's still there, he came about a week before the letter did." Zaliki said.
"And he knew about the second set of Sennen items?" Bakura asked. All three of the girls nodded.
"He visited the twins in Hawaii too!" Zaliki said. "And he told us about you guys, where you were, how well off you were..." she trailed off.
"And of course, we all knew how well of we were by internet." Sagira said.
"We had a chatroom." Mutankagara finished. "Second Sennen, we kept tabs on eachother."
"What?" Yami asked. "Okay, this is getting a little too electronic." he said.
"We like the internet, so sue us!" Zaliki said.
"Okay, Ginny, you can go." Bakura said. "Because, obviously this conversation isn't getting anywhere from here, but don't tell anyone!" he snapped.
"No-one-" Sagira sneered.
"Not a spirit!" Zaliki said.
Mutankagara smirked. "Or a soul."
"Not even a human?" said a familiar voice from the door. The twins.
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[1] Ringu is the japanese version of the Ring, I think.
[2] Tiny has trouble pronouncing some words, Baton Rouge is one of them, she says Batno instead.
Disclaimer: I only own the characters you dont recognize.
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"This is boring." Sagira whined. "I mean, I cant read your cards, you cant read my cards, whats the attraction to non electrical Duel Monsters?" she asked. "I'd rather be in the Shadow World."
"Shadow Realm." Bakura corrected.
"Whatever! World, Realm, same difference." Sagira said tossing her hair over her shoulder. Before the game Bakura gave her training on transforming, consequently, the training on how to turn back to Tiny Jones, was not done yet. Now Tiny had back length brownish amberish hair and cool amber eyes.
"Tiny- I mean Sagira." Yami panted reaching the room. "Okay, I think I might have done one-no two things that you will definitely be mad about!" he said.
"What?" Tiny asked putting down a card in Ruski.
"First, well I asked Harry where you were right?"
"Thats supposed to make me mad?" Sagira asked.
"And when I was leaving, cause he told me you were upstairs with the CRADLE ROBBER!" he glared pointedly at Bakura. "And he grabbed my arm." Yami pointed to a hand shaped bruise on his upper arm.
"Whoa, Ringu." Bakura said. [1]
"And, no normal person does this trying to restrain someone, not even most police bruise people while trying to stop someone!" Yami said. "He looked like Ryou when he's talking to you." he said to Bakura. "Like he was getting visions, and I got them too!" he said.
"What were they?" Bakura asked suddenly serious.
"Dont worry, your innocent, but our little one right here causes scorpians to overthrow my mothers summer palace?" Yami accused. Sagira frowned.
"You do not know any of it Pharaoh." she grumbled in Egyptian.
"Look, I can't remember a thing, its a wonder, but I know that you left, I know that something happened at the palace to make you run to him! And I know something made you come back." Yami said.
"Maybe I should leave, I get kinda teary during these heartfelt confessions, you know?" Bakura said leaping to his feet. Sagira held out her hand.
"Stay." she said. "We haven't finished the game." she grumbled. "Yami, you are intruding on an official game," she paused. "No matter how un-electricized an area we are in." she made feeble shooing gestures with the hand that she wasnt holding cards in. "Go on now Pharaoh, don't start talking about things you dont know anything about." she said.
"Stupid Ratri." he muttered.
"Oh, by the way, what was the second thing you said would make me mad?" she asked.
"Um, you wouldn't care."
"Tell me Pharaoh." she ordered firmly.
"It's really, it's..it's nothing." he said.
"I can already read your mind, I know what happened. It'd be best just to confess." she said.
"Um, well. Harry asked what I was to you...and I really wanted to get away so...I said you were my girlfriend!" Sagira shuddered, then retained her calmness. Bakura saw the flick between amber and silver in her eyes, then back to amber.
"Well, I'm still playing, I'll get you later." she said. Yami nodded and bolted out of the door, somewhere.
"You can't really read minds can you?" Bakura asked.
"But playing on people's emotions is one of my best talents," she said checking her nails. "I suppose I've got a few more good plays on that before any one actually finds out, now I'm playing Alotte'd de Martine." Sagira said.
"What does that do?" Bakura asked as Sagira put a French card in the monster zone.
* * *
"Great Amon this place is crowded." Zaliki said. She walked through the alley, usually she would use her Millenium Item (which was a figurine of the goddess Hathor) to stop time, but today she didn't feel like it. But what was that thing in the sky?
"Ahh, Zaliki." Mutankagara appeared next to her. "I'm afraid I've forgotten how ugly you really are, dressed up like this, did five chickens have to die to make this outfit? Hm?" she asked in Egyptian.
"Mutankagara, what happened to you hikari, I thought as she had a bit of control over you?" Zaliki spat. Mutankagara was an older Egyptian when she was sealed, she was at least 29, and that was old in those times. She was beautiful, there was no doubt, but not like Sagira or Zaliki were, she covered her face with creams and powders to make her seam younger than she was, being Nara for about 19 years had its toll on her, she wasn't the dark, enigmatic beauty that she once was, more pale and her brown eyes were now blue, her dark hair was now lighter too.
"Nara Weslin." Mutankagara said. "Is supposed to be in The Leaky Cauldron in exactly one hour to have the teachers initiation to be Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts." Mutankagara said. "I guess you'll be seeing alot of me?"
"Since when were you a witch?" Zaliki asked.
"Since Nara was 11 and accepted to San Marino School for Young Magical Beings." Mutankagara said checking her claw like nails. Mutankagara used to hang around Bakura's house alot, either getting tips for stealing or buying the stuff he and Sagira stole, Sagira had picked up most of her habits from Mutankagara.
"San Marino, very small country."
"San Marino, very small stamp country." Mutankagara said. "Nara's specialties were DADA and Divinination, but they've already got a teacher for that! Two! Imagine the confusion!" she said, half laughing. Okay, now Zaliki was officially unsettled. The Mutankagara she knew was more...dark, not the happy bright spirit in the Dutch lady's body.
"So, Dumblydore told me that you, Sagira and Bakura are here." she said.
"Did he mention that the Sennin Rod and the Puzzle is here too?" Zaliki asked.
"Sennin Rod, Sennin Rod, Kai-bek?" she asked.
"No, not Kai-bek." Zaliki said. "Seems the Rod switched owners."
"And the Puzzle...You mean the Pharaoh's here?!" she asked, to be truthful she sounded a bit scared.
"Don't be scared, Pharaoh doesn't remember a thing from his past, he probably won't even remember who you are!" Zaliki said twirling her hair on her finger. The two girls chatted for a while before Mutankagara finally had to go over to the Leaky Cauldron. "BY THE WAY!" Zaliki yelled after Mutankagara. "WHERE'S NARA?!" she yelled.
"NARA?" Mutankagara yelled. "DIDN'T YOU HEAR? NARA'S DEAD!"
* * *
First card.
Name: Nara Weslin
Yami: Mutankagara
Age: Nara was 40
Age of Yami: 29 forever.
Yami's powers: Powers of astral projection, real projection, teleportation.
Description of Hikari: honey brown hair, clear blue eyes, pale white skin, red lips.
Description of Yami: dark brown hair, tanned skin, dark brown eyes, red lips.
Location: England via Germany/San Marino
Blood type: AB
Birthday: April 5
Favorite food: Hikari: Sourkraut. Yami: Any thing spicy
Least favorite food: Hikari: Anything spicy. Yami: Anything sour.
Favorite color: Hikari: Light blue. Yami: Red.
Weaknesses: Hikari: The entire English language. Yami: Honesty.
* * *
An hour later, Sagira and Bakura were still struggling to play duel monsters in different languages. While Bakura's cards were all in Japanese, Sagira's cards were in a couple languages, a few were Russian, French, Creole, Spanish, Chinese, and Esperanto. She had also aquired some of the most powerful cards in the game, but she didn't play that much she insisted. Soon Zaliki ran up the stairs out of breath, she had a few bags on her arms.
"Mutankagara's here!" she said squeezing her eyes shut and sinking to the floor. "She's apparently our new teacher."
"Nara's a witch?!" Bakura and Sagira asked at the same time. Zaliki nodded solemnly.
"And a mighty good one to land a job like that." she said. "Have you even *read* any of these books?" she asked. Both of the teens shook their heads. "Well, I've been studying, apparently there are tons of studies we have to learn, of course we can drop some courses but..." she trailed off. "Still... its alot compared to regular school stuff." she said.
"This is boring!" Sagira said. "Nothing like the tronic thing, wait." she got up and looked through one of the books piled on Bakura's bed. "It's here." she said. She showed the book to Bakura and he nodded and grabbed his new wand. They each grabbed their cards and made them into a deck again.
Bakura pointed to his deck and cleared his throat. "Enchantus...enchantus..." Sagira and Zaliki looked at the word after "Enchantus".
"Boy that looks hard to read." Zaliki said.
"It's all faded. Here," Sagira said grabbing the wand and pointing at the cards. "Zhu jiankang ru ren Ryou Bakura." she said pointing at his deck with the wand.
"Where'd you get that spell?" Bakura asked.
"I made it up. Um, Zhu Wansui jiankang ru ren Lestin Jones." she said. "Um, Ming Yingyu?" she said pointing to her cards, she picked on up and nodded. She pointed to Bakura's cards. "Ming Yingyu?"
Bakura picked up a card. "It's all in English." he said.
"Handy, aren't I?" Sagira said. "Free Chinese classes at the center really pay off." she said. "I guess anything you say as a spell works." Bakura frowned and grabbed his wand back.
"Gratis pornograficos." he said, pointing at the ground. Nothing happened. "Well it was worth a try." he said pocketing the wand.
"Pervy weirdo..." Sagira muttered.
"What?" Bakura asked.
"I called you a 'Pervy weirdo'. Problem?"
"I thought so." Bakura said. "Now, shall we play?"
* * *
After the game, Sagira went back to the room that she and Tiny shared with Ginny. Sagira and Tiny, well they both loved to sleep. So when Sagira walked into the room, she crashed on the bed and grabbed some of the covers to pull over her.
[Get up!] Tiny yelled. [I want my body back!] she said.
[Can't we just rest for a moment even?] Sagira asked. She vacated the body and appeared in an half apparation next to Tiny.
"Duel Monsters is not exactly the most extreme of exersizes." Tiny said.
"It's not all that." Sagira said.
"What is it then?" Tiny asked.
"A magical overload, there are too many Millenium items at one place at one time, it's giving me a cronking headache." she said.
"Cronking?" Tiny asked.
"My new word of the week, it can mean anything from crazy to big." Sagira answered. Tiny nodded. "But, the Stars are here, the Rod, the Puzzle, the Millenium Ring, the Dagger, the Hathor, and the Urn." she said.
"The Stars and the Urn?" Tiny asked. "Who are they?" she asked.
"Can't speak, the powers that be have sealed until Hogwarts." she said. "But, what matters is that I need a sleep, a cronking one." she said. Tiny nodded and the door creaked. Sagira and Tiny both turned to see Ginny standing in the doorway, wide eyed in terror.
* * *
"BAKURA-SENSEI!!!" Sagira screamed, reaching the soprano level, her nails digging into Ginny's arm.
"Whaaaat?" Bakura asked cleaning his ears out as he opened the door. "No need to yell." he said. Sagira had taken over Tiny's body, blocking Tiny from all thoughts and shoved Ginny into Bakura's room. She scowled and all of her features darkened even more than usual. "What's wrong?" he asked. Ginny was sitting on the bed whimpering from the new bruise on the arm. Bakura saw it and chuckled darkly. "Ringu times two." he said.
"She knows, she saw me and Tiny, talking in that Amon-damned apparation thing you taught me!" she yelled.
"What's going on?" Ginny asked weakly.
"You didn't sap any energy from her did you?" Bakura asked.
"Well, what do you think?" Sagira asked.
"Well, I think that you should take some Tylenol for that ramming headache that you're sending out to all of us," he said, meaning all of the Millenium item holders. "And tell me what's going on." he said slowly. Sagira calmed down a bit more and her features lightened, she took a deep breath and sat on the bed.
"Ginny saw me talking to Sagira- FIGHTING!!!-" it was obvious that Tiny now had Sagira under control and Sagira was fighting for the body. "And Sagira blew up at her." Tiny said, she flinched and her face went red.
"Well, lets talk this out rationally." Bakura said. "We're going to have to tell her the truth." he said. Tiny's face shook up and she went absolutely red.
"Stop." Tiny said sharply. "I agree." she said to Bakura.
"Okay, Ginny, um. Well, we all have to hide something." Bakura started. He turned to Tiny. "Lets get Yugi up here, he's better at all this confrontation stuff." About thirty minutes later, they had successfully tracked down all of the Sennen Item holders and had them in Tiny and Ginny's room.
"Well, lets get started from the beginning." Yami Yugi said. "About 3000 to 5000 years ago-"
Zaliki cut in. "At no specific time."
"There lived fourteen people, they were all connected in some way. A pharaoh, Yamasis, his assistant-"
"Advisor!" Sagira interupted.
"Advisor, Ratri," Yami said. "His adopted daughter, Zaliki, a grave robber, Bakura," Yami turned to Bakura.
"A priest, Kai-bek." Zaliki said. "Two twins, Kakra and Zesibo, a medium, Isinso, a prostitute-"
"Mutankagara, a princess, Sharifa, a servant girl, Neema, a diviner, Pegat, and a few others." Sagira finished. "We were all connected." she said.
"What do you mean?" Ginny asked. "We?"
Sagira looked at Bakura. "Take this...there." she said. Zaliki yelled something in Egyptian and Ginny's new wristwatch stopped. Bakura's features darkened more, subtly, his hair spikier, his face, more sharp. The room darkened too, the walls disappeared to reveal black, the ceiling disappeared, the floor was gone until nothing was there but the bed she was sitting on. "Welcome," Sagira said. "Welcome to the Shadow World." she said.
Bakura sighed. "Shadow Realm, Sagira." he said.
"Same difference." Sagira said waving it away. "Anyways, here it should be easier to explain, the people in Ancient Egypt, well some of them, were stuck in items..." She grabbed Zaliki's Hathor. "And stowed away, until someone was to find them. Two stars, a Hathor, a Mirror, a Puzzle, a Rod, an Urn, a Dagger, a Ring, a Necklace or Tauk, an Eye, and..." she thought. "Some other stuff." she said.
"They all had magical powers." Zaliki said. "The Channeling, the Time Stop, the Reflect, the Strategist, the Mind Control, the Teleporter, the Fire, the Senser, the Medium, and the Mindreader, plus, others." she said.
"And..." a silky smooth voice came from the doorway. "Their reincarnations were supposed to find them." said the voice. Everyone turned to the door to see Mutankagara standing there. "I saw the twins in the hall, didn't call them out." she said. She turned to Ginny. "Hi, I'm Mutankagara, your new DADA teacher." she said. "Also a card carrying Sennen Item holder, its nice to meet you."
"Hi." Ginny said. It was true, though not as good as her old self, Nara was beautiful, she had the perfect skin and long dark hair with a perfect body. The Sennen Item holders were used to her though, and actually, some of them thought her quite plain.
"So, how was the job initiation?" Zaliki asked.
"I got it." Mutankagara said.
"How'd you get in here?" Bakura asked. "And how did that door get here, isn't this the Shadow World." he immediately hit himself on the head.
"Shadow REEEEAAAALMM!" Sagira said, stretching Realm to no eternity.
"Teleportation dufus." Mutankagara said.
"Does anybody even say that anymore?" Zaliki asked.
"Nara's old Zaliki, I'm sure you can accept my apologies for this outdate slang." she said.
"Sure." Zaliki said. "So lets keep informing the minor." she said.
"Well," Mutankagara said. "This is the Ring's power, well, one of them." she said. "A world where souls dwell, like, hmm... is that one guard dude still here?" she asked. Bakura shrugged.
"I think his soul wore out a long time ago." he said.
"Okay, so there are no souls that I know here." Mutankagara said. "But, my item's power, the Teleporter, well," she chuckled. "You saw what that does already, and Sagira's powers, the Fire and the Rise, right?" she turned to Sagira.
"I'm able to call things to do -whatever- I want them to." Sagira said smirking. "And Zaliki can stop time, Yami's just got good brains, the twins can channel spirits, Bakura can summon the Shadow Realm, Mutankagara can teleport and create bodies for lost spirits, Malik can control people's minds, Isis can see the future, and Bakura also has the Sennen Eye, which can see into peoples minds." Sagira said. A tapping startled everyone in the room but Ginny.
"You've got an owl." she whispered. Bakura returned them to the room and his eyes widened at the fact that a nocturnal creature was at their window in broad daylight! (They had all gotten their letters at night)
"Ugh! Koukous!!" Sagira yelled, she frowned.
"I suppose Sagira has a problem with owls," Mutankagara said. Bakura nodded.
"Simply, she has a problem with things that fly with feathers, she screams at birds." He said. Yami opened the window and the owl flew in (ignoring Sagira's frightened screams), dropped a letter and left. Yami opened the letter.
"It's from Isis." he said.
"Isis?" Malik grabbed the letter and opened it. He snorted and threw it to Bakura. "It's Ryou's," he pouted. "My own sister won't even write to me?" he mumbled. Bakura read the letter and crumbled it up, he threw it to Zaliki, whom upon reading it, burst out laughing and threw it to Sagira, who twitched as she read it and threw it to Mutankagara, who seemed appalled at the contents.
"What does it say?" Ginny asked.
"Isis doesn't trust me." Bakura said.
"Or me." Sagira said.
"She had quite a few things to say about me too!" Mutankagara said throwing the letter in the trash.
"How do you people even know Isis?" Malik asked.
"Kaiba." Zaliki, Sagira and Mutankagara said simultaniously(sp?).
"Kaiba?" Yami asked. "Seto Kaiba?" A pause, then all three burst out laughing.
"Mokuba!" Sagira said. "You baka think we'd actually fraternize with that flying ignorami?" she asked.
"Mokuba?" Bakura, Yami and Malik asked.
"Mokuba helped me get the eight inch and six inch DVD player, he runs all the Loo'siana stations, he gets tidbits of the newest technological stuff to pass to me, he left Batno [2] Rouge about a week before I got the letter. Too bad too, I liked staying in the mansion." Sagira said.
"He started on the German translations of Duel Monsters way back," Mutankagara said. "He was about ten I think, and since Nara was working for Kaiba Corp. for about six months before Herr Kaiba senior dismissed her, Seto's such a-"
"No cussin' infron' of the minor." Sagira said.
"Anyways, Kaiba small helped Nara out when her husband divorced her, he financed her condo, and when he left, she was very, very well off." Mutankagara said.
"Kaiba, the little, went along with my dads expedition to Egypt, actually, I think he's still there, he came about a week before the letter did." Zaliki said.
"And he knew about the second set of Sennen items?" Bakura asked. All three of the girls nodded.
"He visited the twins in Hawaii too!" Zaliki said. "And he told us about you guys, where you were, how well off you were..." she trailed off.
"And of course, we all knew how well of we were by internet." Sagira said.
"We had a chatroom." Mutankagara finished. "Second Sennen, we kept tabs on eachother."
"What?" Yami asked. "Okay, this is getting a little too electronic." he said.
"We like the internet, so sue us!" Zaliki said.
"Okay, Ginny, you can go." Bakura said. "Because, obviously this conversation isn't getting anywhere from here, but don't tell anyone!" he snapped.
"No-one-" Sagira sneered.
"Not a spirit!" Zaliki said.
Mutankagara smirked. "Or a soul."
"Not even a human?" said a familiar voice from the door. The twins.
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[1] Ringu is the japanese version of the Ring, I think.
[2] Tiny has trouble pronouncing some words, Baton Rouge is one of them, she says Batno instead.