Chapter eight: Oh no!
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A/n: Okay, you likey? Well, if you don't, oh well, here's another chapter!
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'Dear Sarmadee,' Sagira wrote out, as soon as she had the room to herself. It had taken about a week to get enough alone time to write out this letter and this is how far she had gotten; worse yet, she could feel most of her old language slipping from her mind as the days passed. 'How are you? I'm pretty fine here, no gaming though. But Bakura is trying to fix up a Duel Disk. I got an owl! (you can probably tell from the way I'm sending this letter). How's Loisiana[1]? Maybe I can go there on Winter Break? My new owls name is Ozzie, yes another Prince of Darkness. I don't know what kind it is, could you look it up? Please? Well, I gotta go. "Owl" me back!' she finished as the doorknob jiggled.
"TINY! YOU CAN'T KEEP ME LOCKED OUT HERE FOREVER!" it was Ginny. "COME ON!!"
"WAIT!!" Sagira tied the letter to Ozzie's foot. "To Batno Rouge, Sarmadee Lee Thomas, understand?" The owl nodded and flew off. Sagira walked over to the door and let Ginny in. "What?" she asked.
"Your demon cousin bit me!" Ginny said, showing a bloated thumb to the spirit.
"Where is she?" Sagira asked.
"I set her on Malik." Ginny said.
"Malik'll kill her!" Sagira said. She sighed and walked down to the pub, she immediately saw the table that Malik and Hamai were sitting at, mostly because of the fact that Malik was yelling, his face red, and Hamai was sitting there.
"Hi, Sagira." Malik said when she was near the table.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"A debate." Malik said. "She says the Firebolt is better at curves than it is fast, I say the opposite." he said.
"Maybe it's good at both." Sagira said.
"No, curves." Hamai said.
"Agility."
"Curves."
"Agility."
"Curves." Malik and Hamai kept fighting about this for a while before Sagira gave up. She grabbed the Sennen Rod from Maliks pocket and the Sennen Item from Hamai's pocket.
"Okay, fight all you want now, I'm putting these in a safe place." she said. They didn't acknowledge her as she went back up the stairs. She went back into Tiny's room and put the items in the closet when Ginny burst out of the bathroom, only a towel on.
"Somethings going on in the street!" she said excitedly. "Muggles are surrounding it and an ambulence is on its way!" she said, smiling.
"What's going on?" Sagira asked.
"I don't know, but I'm putting off the shower and going down to see!" Ginny said rushing back into the bathroom and shutting the door. Sagira sat on the bed and waited for Ginny, deciding to go to the street with her. A few minutes later, both of them were squeezing past people to see what was going on, Tiny, who had been given control of the body, got close enough to the center of attention to see that a bird was being put into a black bag.
"What's going on?" she asked a person.
"An owl's been hit!" the man said. "Big black one too! Impossible it is that it would go out in daytime!" he said.
"Black one?" Tiny said to herself. "Oz." she rushed over to the black bag.
"Whoa! Whoa! Little girl, get away from that, it could be infected with some kind of disease!" a vet said, arriving at the scene.
"But it's my owl! It's Ozzie!" Tiny opened the bag and almost cried at what she saw.
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About an hour later, Tiny was holed up in her room, not letting anyone in. And a whole crowd was at her door, it wasn't normal that Ozzie would just swoop down in the street. Not normal, she thought.
"TINY!" someone yelled from outside. Finally the door was charmed open by Zesibo and everyone outside flooded in.
"Get out!" she yelled. "OUT!!" she ordered, she pointed to the door with her free hand, the other cradling the letter that was tied to Ozzie's leg, spattered with his blood. Most of the Sennen item holders were there, Ryou, Yugi, Mutankagara, the twins, and even a few others, Harry, Ron and Hermione, along with Ginny. Ryou managed to shove Harry and Hermione out but Ron still wanted to know what happened. "Okay, everyone but Mutankagara out!" she said, her eyes flashing dangerously. Ron managed to slink into the shadows behind the bathroom door as the rest filed out.
"What happened?" Mutankagara asked. "You only had the thing for two days! How can you be so sad about something that didn't even have a sentimental connection to you?" she asked.
"These aren't my feelings." Tiny said. "They're Sagira's, something happened to her that made her react strongly like this, so strongly that it's affecting me." Mutankagara sat on the bed. "I wish we had something to figure this out." Tiny said. "You knew her! Was there anything that might have made her react like this?" she asked. Mutankagara's face shadowed.
"My memories are very fuzzy, not clear like some others." she said. "But I do remember something. Sagira was very connected to animals, she was able to make them come to her bidding, you know that. She had a bird, hawk I think. His name was Ozamantis, very beautiful bird, black with purple eyes, she loved him more than..." the woman trailed off. "Oz, he was shot. Sagira was sending him out to hunt, this was dangerous times, Pharaoh was loosing his mind, Kai-bek was taking control of the kingdom. Sagira was on her own, after the big earthquake, Oz was hunting for her most of the time, she was very sick.
"Now, I'm sure you know about the raids, Kai-bek managed to persuade the Pharaoh into thinking that Sagira was the reason for his problems, so there were raids. Soldiers would march into towns, looking for Sagira, they were sent after Oz, wherever he was, she was.
"So they found him, I wasn't involved politically during this time, though. Just a citizen. But, burned into Oz's skin was a mark, Sagira just found him that way, they..." she paused and looked around, then looked back at Tiny. "They cut off the skin that the mark was on, picking the feathers and down carefully, as to make it show as much as possible. And they found an old house, very close to where she lived, they didn't know this, and they put the severed head, eyes gone, and and mark on top of the head, onto a pike. Later they put the eyes on display in the temples, to show that they were on their way to finding her. And after the beautiful eyes were rotted, they placed them back into the head. After this, she went to Bakura, having no place to go. And, then is when the trouble started." Mutankagara looked around. "It's not safe to tell you." she said looking at the bathroom door, she rose and walked out of the room.
"Get her another pet, she'll be happier than this. And you won't be affected much anymore." Mutankagara said, as she left. But the part of the story that disturbed Tiny the most, was that the eyes from Ozzie's head, the pretty hazel eyes, were missing.
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Tiny followed Mutankagara's advice, and an hour later, she trudged down the stairs, ignoring the questions from her friends, and went to the pet shop.
"Back already?" the woman at the register asked. Tiny raised the black velvet money bag and shoke it so the coins would ring like bells.
"Don't question this." she said. Tiny didn't exactly know what to get, since Sagira had such picky taste and was currently in an emotional slump, and refusing to talk.
"Getting a new pet?" a voice asked from behind her. Tiny turned around to see Ron there, looking at some pet medicine.
"What're you doing here?" Tiny asked.
"Pig, my owl, has a cold." he said. "I need some medication for him, or her, what is Pig again?" he said. Tiny smiled, more out of pity than anything. The boy couldn't even remember the gender of his owl, how is he in one of the most prestigious magic schools (or so she heard from Kai's gloating) in the world?
"Ozzie got run over." Tiny said. She wasn't as sad anymore, since Sagira had basically blocked off all emotions in her deep blue funk.
"Ah," he said. "My old pet rat turned out to be evil, welcome to the pet loss club." he said extending his hand. Tiny ignored him as she looked at the cats. "Well maybe you should consider plushie pets if your pets die such horrible deaths." he said. Tiny looked at him, confused.
"I've never had any other pets, other than Ozzie." Tiny said.
"Oh." Ron said. "Well, cats are good." he said.
"I'm allergic." Tiny said, Ron noticed that she was standing a good distance away from the cats. "Sagira said that cats were good too." she blurted.
"Who's Sagira?" Ron asked. Tiny looked at him, just realizing what she had said.
"Uh...uh...my sister!" she said. "Yeah, um, seven years old." she said, using Hamai's age.
"Toupiti!" Hamai's voice wafted into the shop. Tiny turned around to see Hamai peering into the store window, talk about small miracles. Hamai was apparently wandering around while Malik was staring at the Firebolt. She ran into the store and gave Tiny a bone crushing hug.
"Who's watching you?" Tiny asked.
"Mr. Ghoul Marrrrrik." Hamai said, badly pronouncing Malik's name.
"Where is he?"
"Firrrrebolt." she said. "He tells me to come back here and choose a pet! He has t'ings to do." Hamai said.
"He must be at the Broom store." Ron said.
"Okay, Hamai, do you want a pet?" Tiny asked.
"'Kay!" Hamai said. She looked around the store like a rabid two-year-old and finally picked out a small Barn owl. "Do you wan' a pet?" she asked.
"Sure." Tiny said. Tiny then remembered the Ron was still standing there. "Oh!" she said. "Um, Ron this is Hamako, my friend from Banton, Batno, Baitin, Botan, B-Baton Rouge." she said. "He's starting for first year." she said. "Hammi?" she said. Hamai immediately turned around, though she was not used to being called by that name. "This is Ron." she said.
"Hi Ron!" Hamai said, before going off to pick a pet for Tiny. "How about this?!" she asked, pointing to a black owl.
"Had enough of owls!" Tiny said.
"This?" she asked, pointing to a rat.
"Rats, had enough of those in Batno!" Tiny sighed.
"This?" Hamai asked pointing to a bat.
"Batno." Tiny said.
"This?" she pointed to a turtle.
"Too slow!"
"This?" Hamai pointed to a large blue bird in a cage.
"What is it?" Tiny asked.
"A bird." Hamai said happily.
"What kind of bird?" Tiny asked.
"A blue one!" Hamai said. "Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!" she repeated.
"Fine." Tiny said, she let Hamai pay for both of the pets and gave her the whole amount that would be charged.
"Persuasive." Ron said. Hamai brought Tiny's new pet and stood by her side, staring icily at Ron.
"Well, I have to go." Tiny said. "See ya!" she said as they were leaving.
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"So, what took you so long?" Harry asked. "Doesn't take that long to buy pet medicine." he said.
"I was talking to Tiny." Ron said. "Her pet owl just got run over." he said.
"So that's what was wrong with her!" Harry said.
"Yep," Ron put the drops of medicine into the owls feed bowl and gave it to Pig. "She brought a new bird." he said.
"What kind of bird?"
"A peacock, but I don't think she knows that." Ron said.
"That'll be a surprise then." Harry said, at the moment he was polishing off his Firebolt.
"Where's Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Shopping, she's got to get new books, still."
"She's already got all of her school books!" Ron said.
"Light reading." Harry said, referring to how Hermione would choose large, heavy books for fun; then she would spew out facts like an encyclopedia. Speaking of SPEW, well Hermione hadn't, but she didn't speak about it usually until school came around, then she started knitting, and knitting, and knitting, shapeless clothes for the house elves to pick up and take to be set free. Well, the only house elf that dared go near the Gryffindor common room now was Dobby, who took all of the clothes that he could and piled them on.
"Harry!" Harry went and opened the door for whoever was outside. It was Hermione, with a pile of books higher than her head. Ginny was right behind her, with a pile just as high.
"She would not stop buying!" Ginny said, throwing the books on Yugi's bed. "So, what's new?" she asked.
"Well, I had to have enough books to keep me entertained for the school year!" Hermione said putting down some books on Harry's bed, and the rest on Ron's bed. Someone knocked on the door, Ron opened it to see Yugi, Ryou, Tiny, Amoush, and three older women, one in her late forties and the other two in their late twenties.
"We need this room." Tiny said, she was holding a cage in her hand.
"Malik's taken over my room, he managed to-" Amoush was cut off by Ryou putting his hand over her mouth.
"Hamako's chasing her bird around my room." Tiny said.
"Well, we were talking." Hermione said.
"Yeah, we don't care." One of the twins said. Both of the twins had long dark, wavy hair and almond shaped brown eyes, Ginny was probably the only one who knew who they were.
"You don't clear out, we can make sure you get in big trouble in the future." she said.
"Huge trouble." the first one said. "Right, Gin?" she said, winking as the gum in her mouth popped.
"We'd better get out." Ginny said, standing up and stretching.
"Why?" Hermione asked.
"Because, we just should." Ginny said. "No one ever listens to me!" she said. "Kai, I'm clearing out, I'll take my chances with Hamako and her bird." she said, grabbing some of the books and walking out to the hall.
"Smart." the oldest woman said. "And the rest of you?" This woman was pretty too, lighter than the other two with blue eyes and brown hair. Her voice was very German and she looked strict.
"Who are you to tell us this?" Hermione asked.
"Fine then, be that way." she said. "You're getting a D anyways." the lady muttered.
"What?" they asked.
"D." the twin girls said. ""O is for Oustanding, E is for Exceeds Expectations, A is for Acceptable, P is for Poor, D is Dreadful, and there's T."" they said.
"What's T mean?" Ron asked.
One of the twins smiled. "Truthfully Troubleful Trollish Tantrum Toothache Terrible!" she said.
"Ts to all!" the other said.
"And to all Ts!" they both said.
"You can't do that!" Hermione said.
"Yes we can." said one of the twins.
"Professor Weslin, and my assistants, Professors Molanii." said the older woman. Apparently she pronounced the two girls names wrongly because they corrected her.
"Mol-a-ani-i!" they said.
"What?"
"That's how you pronounce it..." the girl looked at Hermione. "Professor."
"You can't be professors!" Hermione said.
"Took the oath about a two days ago."
"San Marino School for Magical Beings." Professor Weslin said.
One of the Professors Molanii said something in her native language. The other translated. "Also known as the Magical Peoples Star of the Sea School of Magic." she said.
"Hogwarts: A History," said the first Professor Molanii. "Every graduate students nightmare!"
"Tests! Exams go on and on and on and on..." the other joined in. "And on and on and on and on!"
Tiny smiled. "Don't forget and on and on!" she said.
"Perhaps we should go." Ron said.
"I don't believe them." Hermione said. "You're on my side, right Harry?"
"Well, actually Hermione."
"Come on Harry! They can't possibly be teachers! They're too young!" she said. "And I've never heard of those schools." she said.
"You don't have to have heard of them." Weslin said.
"But they're there." the twins said.
"Yeah, maybe in Dreamworld!" Hermione said. The twins gasped.
"Thats it!" Tiny said. "I can't deal with them! I'm getting Malik!"
"Be dangerous!" Ryou yelled. "Get Hamai...ko." he finished.
"No, cause then you'll have to go in, and fish 'em out." Amoush said. "GET MALIK!"
"About to!" Tiny yelled from down the hall. But when the door opened, Malik started yelling at her to get out, and Tiny started yelling back, this went on for about five minutes before Tiny had Malik trudging back down the hall. The whole shouting match had been in Egyptian so no one could understand what was going on. "GET 'EM OUT!" Tiny yelled, with more force than expected. Harry noticed that her face had changed, she was older now it seemed and her voice was different too.
"Come on guys!" he said. "Can't you continue this conversation downstairs?" he pleaded.
"Well, I'm already leaving." Ron said, walking towards the door. "I'm not taking any chances in case-whoa!" he tried to catch his breath as Ryou held up his new pet Spike, a tarantula as big as a dinner plate.
"You like him? He's Spike, just got him yesterday!" Ryou said with a huge grin on his face. "D'you think he's allowed though? I don't know, it said cats, owls, and toads but no mention of tarantulas, or peacocks."
"What, is Hogwarts the newly established zoo now?" Harry asked. "Peacock, tarantula-"
"And my Fifi!" Amoush said.
"A Fifi?" Harry asked.
"And a cat." Yugi said, holding up a cat, two times the normal size and about one fourth of Yugi's own height.
"That's the only normal pet among you." Hermione said.
"Okay, we might as well get to Malik's room, since these guys aren't going anywhere." Tiny said, sullenly.
"NO!" Malik yelled. "I mean, why?"
"Because, these guys arent getting out." Tiny said through clenched teeth.
"But I got some...merchandise in there." Malik said, looking at the ground.
"What he means is-" Amoush was cut off by Malik's hand over her mouth.
"But Malik!" Tiny whined. "Let us into your room or I'll personally blast the tail of your shiny, new-" Malik used his hand to cover her mouth.
"My room it is, seems some people are a little too chatty around others." Malik said. "I just have to...get some stuff out of there, you know, clean it up." he said, walking back out of the room, he lifted Tiny over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walked back down the hall, Tiny's muffled yells clearly heard.
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"Sagira! What were you thinking?!" Malik asked in a harsh whisper, putting the girl down after they were out of sight of Harry and Ron's doorway.
"I want them out." Sagira said.
"We got that, but, spilling the beans about the..." Malik looked around. "The thing."
"What's all this mysteriousness about?"
"There may be hidden cameras or hidden people by the way these people are going, around here!" Malik said. "Here, come in." He opened the door to the room, the new Firebolt broom stood in all its glory on his bed, shined to perfection.
"Is it supposed to be that shiny?" Sagira asked.
"Well, it was all polished up for display-"
"YOU!" Sagira lowered her voice to a whisper. "You stole the display broom?" she asked.
"Don't worry," Malik pulled out an old purple robe from his closet. "I was disguised." he said.
Sagira contemplated this. "You stole one of the most elite brooms on the market, dressed as a Ghoul, and your friends in Japan are probably going to be blamed for this."
"If they track them down." Malik said. "And they aren't my friends, faithful minions, yes, friends, no."
"Oh, big difference. I mean, you've gotta have some kind of connection with the people you enslave." Sagira said looking at the new Firebolt. "Hey, any chance I can try this out?" she asked.
"Go ahead, you can go right through the window right now, wear the purple robes though." Malik said. Then it all came rushing back to Sagira what had happened in to Tiny in the broomstore.
"Malik." she said, her eyes still fixed on the broom.
"What?" he asked. Sagira looked up at him.
"I think Ron might know something." she said.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, when I was in my deep blue funk about, oh, two hours ago. Tiny decided to help me out of it, so she went to the pet shop. Ron was there, he said something about me, no asked, about me. Then Tiny said that I was her sister, but, he looked serious about something. Then Hamai ran in and said something about Mr. Ghoul Marrrrrik was going to see business about a certain Firrrrbolt."
Malik gulped. "Well, I didn't tell her I was going to steal a display broom!" he said.
"Yeah, but you did bring her with you, she's smarter than she looks Malik, she'll know when someone's about to take something. But that's it, we can't let Hamai release any info about the Sennen items, she may look and be as intelligent as an eleven-year-old but she still thinks like a seven-year-old. You know what I'm talking about, right?" she asked.
"Well, she may say some things that could be questionable." Malik said.
"But she know not to say anything about me, it's just you guys, she releases petty threats alot if something she doesn't like is going on, she might slip..." Sagira said. She took her eyes off the broom and stuck it in the closet, then picked up a pile of clothes on the bed and shoved it into the closet too. "Okay, they can come in now." she said.
"Why are you mistreating my broom?" Malik asked fishing the Firebolt out of the closet. He gently put it under the bed. "Now, the room is ready." he said, even though it still looked like a time bomb had hit it.
"HEY GUYS! YOU CAN COME IN NOW!" Sagira yelled out the door. Zaliki came back into the room muttering curses in every language she knew. Yugi (the only hikari in the room now) explained what had happened.
"When you guys came in here, then Hermione choose that time to start up a little thing about Midwest American people. If I do remember, her exact words were..."Stupid people from the midwest, not all there I suppose, especially Oklahomans and Minnasotans...yeah dumb, right Harry?" and Zaliki and Amoush weren't all that happy about that. Being Oklahomans, you know." he said. Bakura got out his pet spider and let it out to run around for daily walk, then he got out the Duel Disk he had been working on.
"You know, if there weren't so much magic running around here, this thing would probably work." he said, taking out the wand, he began to mutter spells under his breath.
"No duh!" Zaliki said.
"Ryou had a chance to catch up on the current curriculum for sixth years I suppose?" Sagira said. "Tiny did too, Malik? Yugi? You guys all caught up?" she asked.
"Yup, and a bit ahead too!" Yugi said happily. "So what's this business about something of yours that was in here Malik?" he asked.
"Nothing." Malik said softly.
"Are you sure?" Zaliki pressed on. "I'm sure I heard something about a broom being stolen earlier..." she said, just about everyone in the whole room looked up from whatever they were doing to look at Malik.
"Hmph." Bakura said. "Sound's more like me."
"What's that got to do with anything?" Malik asked, everyone still looked at him suspiciously. "So a broom got stolen!" he said. "That's got nothing to do with me." Everyone looked back down.
"S'just something I heard." Zaliki said.
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~*10:45 a.m. King's Cross*~
"Nine and Three Quarters?" Hamai asked, Kai had taken it upon herself to tweak Hamai's already squeaky voice to that more of an eleven year old boy.
"Yes dear." Mrs. Weasley said. "Exactly nine and three quarters." she said.
"Exactly?" Hamai asked.
"Exactly." Mrs. Weasley said.
"Really?" Hamai asked looking up at the woman.
"Really." Mrs. Weasley said back.
"But there's no such thing Mrs. Wheezy." Hamai said.
"I take the kid's side." Bakura said. "Or is this another Leaky Cauldron thing?" the whole group was trouping to the Hogwarts train, they were a bit late already so Mrs. Weasley was rushing them ahead.
"Well, you'll see." Mrs. Weasley answered. They reached the column where the signs said on one side "9" and on the other "10".
"Well, what now?" Bakura asked, Ron took it upon himself to demonstrate, he ran at the wall and disappeared into it. Bakura's eyes widened.
"Well, go on." Mrs. Weasley said, pushing Hamai forward. Hamai looked up at Tiny with wide, scared eyes.
"Toupiti." she said.
"I'll go first." Tiny whispered to her in French. She got up her courage and ran at the wall, when she opened her eyes back up, it seemed that she was in an old fashioned train station, a huge red train getting ready to leave and teens everywhere.
"Hamai?" she asked. Hamai came through the barrier about a second later, arms clinging to the cart. She was quickly followed by Yugi, Bakura, Zaliki, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny. The three new "professors" had decided to apparate, whatever that meant. Harry and Hermione showed them where to load their bags and they boarded the train quickly afterwards.
"Do we get snacks?" Zaliki asked.
"The snack trolley comes around about mid ride." Hermione said.
"Do they have the smooth, refreshing tasting cold beverage of Vanilla Coke?" Zaliki asked. "Wild Cherry Pepsi? The energizing Red Bull? It gives you wings!" she joked. Hermione retained her cold personality.
"I don't believe so, but you may ask." she said. Zaliki turned around making a face to see Harry right behind her.
"Sorry." she said quickly and turned around, muttering curses in Egyptian under her breath, and walked away to follow Bakura to their compartment, personally picked out by Yugi, whom she really didn't trust in contrast to Yami.
"A little friction between you and Herms there, Zal." Bakura said as Zaliki walked into the compartment. "Jealous?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Zaliki asked.
"I mean, I'm sure many guys go for the girls who look good in the bikinis, I certainly do, but some go for the smarter girls. Perhaps you're not feeling so adequate compared to her?" Bakura asked.
"Of course I do!" Zaliki said. "I mean, she's ugly." she turned to Yugi. "Right?" Yugi shrugged.
"I haven't grown into puberty yet." was his short answer. Zaliki turned to Sagira.
"You have my support." Sagira said. "Malik, where's the...thing?" she asked.
"Baggage." he said.
"Okay, making sure you didn't leave it behind." she said, as Harry, Hermione and Ron opened the door to the compartment.
"Can we sit here?" Harry asked. "Seems we got here a bit late."
"No, really?" Zaliki said in a sarcastic whisper in Malik's direction.
"Sure!" Yugi said.
"It's no fair." Tiny whispered, resurfacing for a second. "You're always in control, and he does nothing about it. While the rest of us are trapped." Sagira regained control. "Shutup." she whispered, harshly.
"You know, I never thought about it, but she is right." Yugi said.
"Who is?" Hermione asked settling in the seat next to Yugi, squashing Sagira up against the wall.
"Um," Yugi thought for a moment. "Hey, when's the snack cart coming by?" he asked.
"Mid trip." Hermione said. "So what were you guys talking about?" she asked.
"Uh..." Yugi started. "We were talking about-"
"RPGs!" Sagira interupted. "Yeah, RPGs."
"What kind of RPGs?" Hermione asked.
"The ONLINE kind." Sagira said.
"What're RPGs?" Ron asked.
"Roleplaying games." Zaliki quickly answered. "Its a normal thing." she said.
"Online?" Ron asked.
"World Wide Web." Zaliki answered.
"You mean there's a web that covers the entire world?" Ron asked. Zaliki sighed and put her head in her hands.
"Lay off, okay?!" she said. After that, the ride was pretty much uneventful up until when the snack cart arrived, Sagira almost cleaning out the cart and handing the woman way too many galleons. A few minutes after that happened (Hamai and Sagira contently chewing on chocolate frogs, of which Hamai had swallowed whole and still moving) a pointed blonde face appeared at the door, followed by its full body of Draco Malfoy.
"Oh, I see Potter has some more followers this year." he sneered. "Got a slogan yet?"
"Yeah, it's called: Malfoy, get lost!" Harry said. Sagira turned to Yugi.
"Snappy." she muttered sarcastically.
"I see one of your friends isn't so dependent on you for a living." Malfoy said. Sagira turned around and glared at him, she knew who he was, even if he couldn't exactly see through her new looks. Bakura had helped her on finally getting to full transformation, how to change back was still pending. She now looked exactly how she had when she was in Egypt, even if her hair was a bit lighter, but really, who could tell?
"Sagira." Zaliki mouthed out, she shook her head. Sagira bluntly ignored her.
"And who are you to say who I am dependent on?" she asked blandly. Malfoy raised an eyebrow.
"Draco Malfoy." he held out a hand and she shook it. "Perhaps we should discuss matters in a more private area?" he asked. Bakura's foot reached across and grounded into her toe, Sagira flinched for a minute.
"Sure." she said, getting up (making sure to leave a decent sized sprain in Bakura's toe) and leaving the compartment.
"Bakura!" Zaliki yelled when the door had slid to a close. "How could you let her leave, its gonna be another" she said this word slowly to reach its full effect. "Situation."
"Since when has anything been a situation?" Bakura asked, his eyes flickering towards the three who didn't know what they were talking about. Zaliki really didn't care who was listening, but she still guarded her words.
"Since" she said the rest in Egyptian. "Sagira gets mad and burns people to a crisp, sprinkles them with lemon juice and uses their body parts to fish, and since Malik learns that it was you who stole his golden chain." Zaliki shifted and Bakura caught sight of a gold chain in her pocket, she quickly stuffed it back in. "Sagira doesn't make good choices Bakura, you of all people should know that." she said in Egyptian.
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"What language is that?" Harry asked, genuinely perplexed.
Amoush glared at him for ruining her threats. "Urdu." she said, thinking up the first thing that popped to mind. They didn't see Tiny again until the train made its stop at Hogwarts, Tiny had waited for the rest of them to get off before actually wondering where to go.
"You go to where Hagrid is, over there." Ron said. Harry's eyes looked over to the carriages to where many large black thestrals were all hooked up and ready to leave.
"What are those?" Tiny asked, her eyes looking directly at the thestrals. Hamako, Ryou, Yugi, and Amoush looked over at the area that Tiny was looking at.
"To the best of my sight, I'd say cross breed bat horse mutant things." Ryou said.
"Y-you can see them?" Harry asked.
"Well I have no idea what you guys are talking about." Amoush said. "Where do we go?" she asked.
"Why can only some people see them?" Hamako asked. "Why can only we see them?"
"Those," Hermione started. "Are thestrals, only people who have seen death can see them. We'll probably be working more on those this year, right Harry?" Harry's eyes were concentrating on Tiny, who's head was bowed a bit to right, when Tiny looked back she was different some how. "Right Harry?" Hermione asked again.
"Uh, yeah, right Hermione." he said. Ryou also seemed to look at the ground a moment, but they stayed there. "Ryou?" he tapped the white-haired boy on the shoulder.
~"You betrayed me!" the girl yelled, she had blonde hair that hung to her shoulders, a young girl was kneeling before her. "You stole him from me!"
"Please My Lady! I did no such thing!" the girl cried.
"You have no right to speak!" the blonde girl said. "First woman philosepher. Not anymore! TAKE HER TO THE DUNGEON!" she yelled.
"NOOOOO!" the girl screamed, there was one brief look at her face before a guard knocked her out.~
"What Harry?" suddenly the visions cleared from his mind, like a passed dream.
"Um, you have to go over there. To where Hagrid is standing." Harry said.
"Thanks." Ryou said. The girl from the dream's yell haunted him throughout the whole ride to Hogwarts. The blonde ones no-mercy voice, the younger girl's higher, younger voice. He tried to recall how the palace looked, mosaics on the walls, armed guards all around, and the girls were dressed regally as if they were in a roman palace. He concentrated on who the smaller, crying girl was. Indeed, it was Hermione.
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A/n: FINALLY! The end of that one! Already started on the next chapter so leave a review.
Muses: Peez!
Toldya it was gonna be an allnighta! Sorry if its really long.
Disclaimer: I don't own HP or YGO.
A/n: Okay, you likey? Well, if you don't, oh well, here's another chapter!
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'Dear Sarmadee,' Sagira wrote out, as soon as she had the room to herself. It had taken about a week to get enough alone time to write out this letter and this is how far she had gotten; worse yet, she could feel most of her old language slipping from her mind as the days passed. 'How are you? I'm pretty fine here, no gaming though. But Bakura is trying to fix up a Duel Disk. I got an owl! (you can probably tell from the way I'm sending this letter). How's Loisiana[1]? Maybe I can go there on Winter Break? My new owls name is Ozzie, yes another Prince of Darkness. I don't know what kind it is, could you look it up? Please? Well, I gotta go. "Owl" me back!' she finished as the doorknob jiggled.
"TINY! YOU CAN'T KEEP ME LOCKED OUT HERE FOREVER!" it was Ginny. "COME ON!!"
"WAIT!!" Sagira tied the letter to Ozzie's foot. "To Batno Rouge, Sarmadee Lee Thomas, understand?" The owl nodded and flew off. Sagira walked over to the door and let Ginny in. "What?" she asked.
"Your demon cousin bit me!" Ginny said, showing a bloated thumb to the spirit.
"Where is she?" Sagira asked.
"I set her on Malik." Ginny said.
"Malik'll kill her!" Sagira said. She sighed and walked down to the pub, she immediately saw the table that Malik and Hamai were sitting at, mostly because of the fact that Malik was yelling, his face red, and Hamai was sitting there.
"Hi, Sagira." Malik said when she was near the table.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"A debate." Malik said. "She says the Firebolt is better at curves than it is fast, I say the opposite." he said.
"Maybe it's good at both." Sagira said.
"No, curves." Hamai said.
"Agility."
"Curves."
"Agility."
"Curves." Malik and Hamai kept fighting about this for a while before Sagira gave up. She grabbed the Sennen Rod from Maliks pocket and the Sennen Item from Hamai's pocket.
"Okay, fight all you want now, I'm putting these in a safe place." she said. They didn't acknowledge her as she went back up the stairs. She went back into Tiny's room and put the items in the closet when Ginny burst out of the bathroom, only a towel on.
"Somethings going on in the street!" she said excitedly. "Muggles are surrounding it and an ambulence is on its way!" she said, smiling.
"What's going on?" Sagira asked.
"I don't know, but I'm putting off the shower and going down to see!" Ginny said rushing back into the bathroom and shutting the door. Sagira sat on the bed and waited for Ginny, deciding to go to the street with her. A few minutes later, both of them were squeezing past people to see what was going on, Tiny, who had been given control of the body, got close enough to the center of attention to see that a bird was being put into a black bag.
"What's going on?" she asked a person.
"An owl's been hit!" the man said. "Big black one too! Impossible it is that it would go out in daytime!" he said.
"Black one?" Tiny said to herself. "Oz." she rushed over to the black bag.
"Whoa! Whoa! Little girl, get away from that, it could be infected with some kind of disease!" a vet said, arriving at the scene.
"But it's my owl! It's Ozzie!" Tiny opened the bag and almost cried at what she saw.
* * *
About an hour later, Tiny was holed up in her room, not letting anyone in. And a whole crowd was at her door, it wasn't normal that Ozzie would just swoop down in the street. Not normal, she thought.
"TINY!" someone yelled from outside. Finally the door was charmed open by Zesibo and everyone outside flooded in.
"Get out!" she yelled. "OUT!!" she ordered, she pointed to the door with her free hand, the other cradling the letter that was tied to Ozzie's leg, spattered with his blood. Most of the Sennen item holders were there, Ryou, Yugi, Mutankagara, the twins, and even a few others, Harry, Ron and Hermione, along with Ginny. Ryou managed to shove Harry and Hermione out but Ron still wanted to know what happened. "Okay, everyone but Mutankagara out!" she said, her eyes flashing dangerously. Ron managed to slink into the shadows behind the bathroom door as the rest filed out.
"What happened?" Mutankagara asked. "You only had the thing for two days! How can you be so sad about something that didn't even have a sentimental connection to you?" she asked.
"These aren't my feelings." Tiny said. "They're Sagira's, something happened to her that made her react strongly like this, so strongly that it's affecting me." Mutankagara sat on the bed. "I wish we had something to figure this out." Tiny said. "You knew her! Was there anything that might have made her react like this?" she asked. Mutankagara's face shadowed.
"My memories are very fuzzy, not clear like some others." she said. "But I do remember something. Sagira was very connected to animals, she was able to make them come to her bidding, you know that. She had a bird, hawk I think. His name was Ozamantis, very beautiful bird, black with purple eyes, she loved him more than..." the woman trailed off. "Oz, he was shot. Sagira was sending him out to hunt, this was dangerous times, Pharaoh was loosing his mind, Kai-bek was taking control of the kingdom. Sagira was on her own, after the big earthquake, Oz was hunting for her most of the time, she was very sick.
"Now, I'm sure you know about the raids, Kai-bek managed to persuade the Pharaoh into thinking that Sagira was the reason for his problems, so there were raids. Soldiers would march into towns, looking for Sagira, they were sent after Oz, wherever he was, she was.
"So they found him, I wasn't involved politically during this time, though. Just a citizen. But, burned into Oz's skin was a mark, Sagira just found him that way, they..." she paused and looked around, then looked back at Tiny. "They cut off the skin that the mark was on, picking the feathers and down carefully, as to make it show as much as possible. And they found an old house, very close to where she lived, they didn't know this, and they put the severed head, eyes gone, and and mark on top of the head, onto a pike. Later they put the eyes on display in the temples, to show that they were on their way to finding her. And after the beautiful eyes were rotted, they placed them back into the head. After this, she went to Bakura, having no place to go. And, then is when the trouble started." Mutankagara looked around. "It's not safe to tell you." she said looking at the bathroom door, she rose and walked out of the room.
"Get her another pet, she'll be happier than this. And you won't be affected much anymore." Mutankagara said, as she left. But the part of the story that disturbed Tiny the most, was that the eyes from Ozzie's head, the pretty hazel eyes, were missing.
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Tiny followed Mutankagara's advice, and an hour later, she trudged down the stairs, ignoring the questions from her friends, and went to the pet shop.
"Back already?" the woman at the register asked. Tiny raised the black velvet money bag and shoke it so the coins would ring like bells.
"Don't question this." she said. Tiny didn't exactly know what to get, since Sagira had such picky taste and was currently in an emotional slump, and refusing to talk.
"Getting a new pet?" a voice asked from behind her. Tiny turned around to see Ron there, looking at some pet medicine.
"What're you doing here?" Tiny asked.
"Pig, my owl, has a cold." he said. "I need some medication for him, or her, what is Pig again?" he said. Tiny smiled, more out of pity than anything. The boy couldn't even remember the gender of his owl, how is he in one of the most prestigious magic schools (or so she heard from Kai's gloating) in the world?
"Ozzie got run over." Tiny said. She wasn't as sad anymore, since Sagira had basically blocked off all emotions in her deep blue funk.
"Ah," he said. "My old pet rat turned out to be evil, welcome to the pet loss club." he said extending his hand. Tiny ignored him as she looked at the cats. "Well maybe you should consider plushie pets if your pets die such horrible deaths." he said. Tiny looked at him, confused.
"I've never had any other pets, other than Ozzie." Tiny said.
"Oh." Ron said. "Well, cats are good." he said.
"I'm allergic." Tiny said, Ron noticed that she was standing a good distance away from the cats. "Sagira said that cats were good too." she blurted.
"Who's Sagira?" Ron asked. Tiny looked at him, just realizing what she had said.
"Uh...uh...my sister!" she said. "Yeah, um, seven years old." she said, using Hamai's age.
"Toupiti!" Hamai's voice wafted into the shop. Tiny turned around to see Hamai peering into the store window, talk about small miracles. Hamai was apparently wandering around while Malik was staring at the Firebolt. She ran into the store and gave Tiny a bone crushing hug.
"Who's watching you?" Tiny asked.
"Mr. Ghoul Marrrrrik." Hamai said, badly pronouncing Malik's name.
"Where is he?"
"Firrrrebolt." she said. "He tells me to come back here and choose a pet! He has t'ings to do." Hamai said.
"He must be at the Broom store." Ron said.
"Okay, Hamai, do you want a pet?" Tiny asked.
"'Kay!" Hamai said. She looked around the store like a rabid two-year-old and finally picked out a small Barn owl. "Do you wan' a pet?" she asked.
"Sure." Tiny said. Tiny then remembered the Ron was still standing there. "Oh!" she said. "Um, Ron this is Hamako, my friend from Banton, Batno, Baitin, Botan, B-Baton Rouge." she said. "He's starting for first year." she said. "Hammi?" she said. Hamai immediately turned around, though she was not used to being called by that name. "This is Ron." she said.
"Hi Ron!" Hamai said, before going off to pick a pet for Tiny. "How about this?!" she asked, pointing to a black owl.
"Had enough of owls!" Tiny said.
"This?" she asked, pointing to a rat.
"Rats, had enough of those in Batno!" Tiny sighed.
"This?" Hamai asked pointing to a bat.
"Batno." Tiny said.
"This?" she pointed to a turtle.
"Too slow!"
"This?" Hamai pointed to a large blue bird in a cage.
"What is it?" Tiny asked.
"A bird." Hamai said happily.
"What kind of bird?" Tiny asked.
"A blue one!" Hamai said. "Buy it! Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!" she repeated.
"Fine." Tiny said, she let Hamai pay for both of the pets and gave her the whole amount that would be charged.
"Persuasive." Ron said. Hamai brought Tiny's new pet and stood by her side, staring icily at Ron.
"Well, I have to go." Tiny said. "See ya!" she said as they were leaving.
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"So, what took you so long?" Harry asked. "Doesn't take that long to buy pet medicine." he said.
"I was talking to Tiny." Ron said. "Her pet owl just got run over." he said.
"So that's what was wrong with her!" Harry said.
"Yep," Ron put the drops of medicine into the owls feed bowl and gave it to Pig. "She brought a new bird." he said.
"What kind of bird?"
"A peacock, but I don't think she knows that." Ron said.
"That'll be a surprise then." Harry said, at the moment he was polishing off his Firebolt.
"Where's Hermione?" Ron asked.
"Shopping, she's got to get new books, still."
"She's already got all of her school books!" Ron said.
"Light reading." Harry said, referring to how Hermione would choose large, heavy books for fun; then she would spew out facts like an encyclopedia. Speaking of SPEW, well Hermione hadn't, but she didn't speak about it usually until school came around, then she started knitting, and knitting, and knitting, shapeless clothes for the house elves to pick up and take to be set free. Well, the only house elf that dared go near the Gryffindor common room now was Dobby, who took all of the clothes that he could and piled them on.
"Harry!" Harry went and opened the door for whoever was outside. It was Hermione, with a pile of books higher than her head. Ginny was right behind her, with a pile just as high.
"She would not stop buying!" Ginny said, throwing the books on Yugi's bed. "So, what's new?" she asked.
"Well, I had to have enough books to keep me entertained for the school year!" Hermione said putting down some books on Harry's bed, and the rest on Ron's bed. Someone knocked on the door, Ron opened it to see Yugi, Ryou, Tiny, Amoush, and three older women, one in her late forties and the other two in their late twenties.
"We need this room." Tiny said, she was holding a cage in her hand.
"Malik's taken over my room, he managed to-" Amoush was cut off by Ryou putting his hand over her mouth.
"Hamako's chasing her bird around my room." Tiny said.
"Well, we were talking." Hermione said.
"Yeah, we don't care." One of the twins said. Both of the twins had long dark, wavy hair and almond shaped brown eyes, Ginny was probably the only one who knew who they were.
"You don't clear out, we can make sure you get in big trouble in the future." she said.
"Huge trouble." the first one said. "Right, Gin?" she said, winking as the gum in her mouth popped.
"We'd better get out." Ginny said, standing up and stretching.
"Why?" Hermione asked.
"Because, we just should." Ginny said. "No one ever listens to me!" she said. "Kai, I'm clearing out, I'll take my chances with Hamako and her bird." she said, grabbing some of the books and walking out to the hall.
"Smart." the oldest woman said. "And the rest of you?" This woman was pretty too, lighter than the other two with blue eyes and brown hair. Her voice was very German and she looked strict.
"Who are you to tell us this?" Hermione asked.
"Fine then, be that way." she said. "You're getting a D anyways." the lady muttered.
"What?" they asked.
"D." the twin girls said. ""O is for Oustanding, E is for Exceeds Expectations, A is for Acceptable, P is for Poor, D is Dreadful, and there's T."" they said.
"What's T mean?" Ron asked.
One of the twins smiled. "Truthfully Troubleful Trollish Tantrum Toothache Terrible!" she said.
"Ts to all!" the other said.
"And to all Ts!" they both said.
"You can't do that!" Hermione said.
"Yes we can." said one of the twins.
"Professor Weslin, and my assistants, Professors Molanii." said the older woman. Apparently she pronounced the two girls names wrongly because they corrected her.
"Mol-a-ani-i!" they said.
"What?"
"That's how you pronounce it..." the girl looked at Hermione. "Professor."
"You can't be professors!" Hermione said.
"Took the oath about a two days ago."
"San Marino School for Magical Beings." Professor Weslin said.
One of the Professors Molanii said something in her native language. The other translated. "Also known as the Magical Peoples Star of the Sea School of Magic." she said.
"Hogwarts: A History," said the first Professor Molanii. "Every graduate students nightmare!"
"Tests! Exams go on and on and on and on..." the other joined in. "And on and on and on and on!"
Tiny smiled. "Don't forget and on and on!" she said.
"Perhaps we should go." Ron said.
"I don't believe them." Hermione said. "You're on my side, right Harry?"
"Well, actually Hermione."
"Come on Harry! They can't possibly be teachers! They're too young!" she said. "And I've never heard of those schools." she said.
"You don't have to have heard of them." Weslin said.
"But they're there." the twins said.
"Yeah, maybe in Dreamworld!" Hermione said. The twins gasped.
"Thats it!" Tiny said. "I can't deal with them! I'm getting Malik!"
"Be dangerous!" Ryou yelled. "Get Hamai...ko." he finished.
"No, cause then you'll have to go in, and fish 'em out." Amoush said. "GET MALIK!"
"About to!" Tiny yelled from down the hall. But when the door opened, Malik started yelling at her to get out, and Tiny started yelling back, this went on for about five minutes before Tiny had Malik trudging back down the hall. The whole shouting match had been in Egyptian so no one could understand what was going on. "GET 'EM OUT!" Tiny yelled, with more force than expected. Harry noticed that her face had changed, she was older now it seemed and her voice was different too.
"Come on guys!" he said. "Can't you continue this conversation downstairs?" he pleaded.
"Well, I'm already leaving." Ron said, walking towards the door. "I'm not taking any chances in case-whoa!" he tried to catch his breath as Ryou held up his new pet Spike, a tarantula as big as a dinner plate.
"You like him? He's Spike, just got him yesterday!" Ryou said with a huge grin on his face. "D'you think he's allowed though? I don't know, it said cats, owls, and toads but no mention of tarantulas, or peacocks."
"What, is Hogwarts the newly established zoo now?" Harry asked. "Peacock, tarantula-"
"And my Fifi!" Amoush said.
"A Fifi?" Harry asked.
"And a cat." Yugi said, holding up a cat, two times the normal size and about one fourth of Yugi's own height.
"That's the only normal pet among you." Hermione said.
"Okay, we might as well get to Malik's room, since these guys aren't going anywhere." Tiny said, sullenly.
"NO!" Malik yelled. "I mean, why?"
"Because, these guys arent getting out." Tiny said through clenched teeth.
"But I got some...merchandise in there." Malik said, looking at the ground.
"What he means is-" Amoush was cut off by Malik's hand over her mouth.
"But Malik!" Tiny whined. "Let us into your room or I'll personally blast the tail of your shiny, new-" Malik used his hand to cover her mouth.
"My room it is, seems some people are a little too chatty around others." Malik said. "I just have to...get some stuff out of there, you know, clean it up." he said, walking back out of the room, he lifted Tiny over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and walked back down the hall, Tiny's muffled yells clearly heard.
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"Sagira! What were you thinking?!" Malik asked in a harsh whisper, putting the girl down after they were out of sight of Harry and Ron's doorway.
"I want them out." Sagira said.
"We got that, but, spilling the beans about the..." Malik looked around. "The thing."
"What's all this mysteriousness about?"
"There may be hidden cameras or hidden people by the way these people are going, around here!" Malik said. "Here, come in." He opened the door to the room, the new Firebolt broom stood in all its glory on his bed, shined to perfection.
"Is it supposed to be that shiny?" Sagira asked.
"Well, it was all polished up for display-"
"YOU!" Sagira lowered her voice to a whisper. "You stole the display broom?" she asked.
"Don't worry," Malik pulled out an old purple robe from his closet. "I was disguised." he said.
Sagira contemplated this. "You stole one of the most elite brooms on the market, dressed as a Ghoul, and your friends in Japan are probably going to be blamed for this."
"If they track them down." Malik said. "And they aren't my friends, faithful minions, yes, friends, no."
"Oh, big difference. I mean, you've gotta have some kind of connection with the people you enslave." Sagira said looking at the new Firebolt. "Hey, any chance I can try this out?" she asked.
"Go ahead, you can go right through the window right now, wear the purple robes though." Malik said. Then it all came rushing back to Sagira what had happened in to Tiny in the broomstore.
"Malik." she said, her eyes still fixed on the broom.
"What?" he asked. Sagira looked up at him.
"I think Ron might know something." she said.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"Well, when I was in my deep blue funk about, oh, two hours ago. Tiny decided to help me out of it, so she went to the pet shop. Ron was there, he said something about me, no asked, about me. Then Tiny said that I was her sister, but, he looked serious about something. Then Hamai ran in and said something about Mr. Ghoul Marrrrrik was going to see business about a certain Firrrrbolt."
Malik gulped. "Well, I didn't tell her I was going to steal a display broom!" he said.
"Yeah, but you did bring her with you, she's smarter than she looks Malik, she'll know when someone's about to take something. But that's it, we can't let Hamai release any info about the Sennen items, she may look and be as intelligent as an eleven-year-old but she still thinks like a seven-year-old. You know what I'm talking about, right?" she asked.
"Well, she may say some things that could be questionable." Malik said.
"But she know not to say anything about me, it's just you guys, she releases petty threats alot if something she doesn't like is going on, she might slip..." Sagira said. She took her eyes off the broom and stuck it in the closet, then picked up a pile of clothes on the bed and shoved it into the closet too. "Okay, they can come in now." she said.
"Why are you mistreating my broom?" Malik asked fishing the Firebolt out of the closet. He gently put it under the bed. "Now, the room is ready." he said, even though it still looked like a time bomb had hit it.
"HEY GUYS! YOU CAN COME IN NOW!" Sagira yelled out the door. Zaliki came back into the room muttering curses in every language she knew. Yugi (the only hikari in the room now) explained what had happened.
"When you guys came in here, then Hermione choose that time to start up a little thing about Midwest American people. If I do remember, her exact words were..."Stupid people from the midwest, not all there I suppose, especially Oklahomans and Minnasotans...yeah dumb, right Harry?" and Zaliki and Amoush weren't all that happy about that. Being Oklahomans, you know." he said. Bakura got out his pet spider and let it out to run around for daily walk, then he got out the Duel Disk he had been working on.
"You know, if there weren't so much magic running around here, this thing would probably work." he said, taking out the wand, he began to mutter spells under his breath.
"No duh!" Zaliki said.
"Ryou had a chance to catch up on the current curriculum for sixth years I suppose?" Sagira said. "Tiny did too, Malik? Yugi? You guys all caught up?" she asked.
"Yup, and a bit ahead too!" Yugi said happily. "So what's this business about something of yours that was in here Malik?" he asked.
"Nothing." Malik said softly.
"Are you sure?" Zaliki pressed on. "I'm sure I heard something about a broom being stolen earlier..." she said, just about everyone in the whole room looked up from whatever they were doing to look at Malik.
"Hmph." Bakura said. "Sound's more like me."
"What's that got to do with anything?" Malik asked, everyone still looked at him suspiciously. "So a broom got stolen!" he said. "That's got nothing to do with me." Everyone looked back down.
"S'just something I heard." Zaliki said.
* * *
~*10:45 a.m. King's Cross*~
"Nine and Three Quarters?" Hamai asked, Kai had taken it upon herself to tweak Hamai's already squeaky voice to that more of an eleven year old boy.
"Yes dear." Mrs. Weasley said. "Exactly nine and three quarters." she said.
"Exactly?" Hamai asked.
"Exactly." Mrs. Weasley said.
"Really?" Hamai asked looking up at the woman.
"Really." Mrs. Weasley said back.
"But there's no such thing Mrs. Wheezy." Hamai said.
"I take the kid's side." Bakura said. "Or is this another Leaky Cauldron thing?" the whole group was trouping to the Hogwarts train, they were a bit late already so Mrs. Weasley was rushing them ahead.
"Well, you'll see." Mrs. Weasley answered. They reached the column where the signs said on one side "9" and on the other "10".
"Well, what now?" Bakura asked, Ron took it upon himself to demonstrate, he ran at the wall and disappeared into it. Bakura's eyes widened.
"Well, go on." Mrs. Weasley said, pushing Hamai forward. Hamai looked up at Tiny with wide, scared eyes.
"Toupiti." she said.
"I'll go first." Tiny whispered to her in French. She got up her courage and ran at the wall, when she opened her eyes back up, it seemed that she was in an old fashioned train station, a huge red train getting ready to leave and teens everywhere.
"Hamai?" she asked. Hamai came through the barrier about a second later, arms clinging to the cart. She was quickly followed by Yugi, Bakura, Zaliki, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny. The three new "professors" had decided to apparate, whatever that meant. Harry and Hermione showed them where to load their bags and they boarded the train quickly afterwards.
"Do we get snacks?" Zaliki asked.
"The snack trolley comes around about mid ride." Hermione said.
"Do they have the smooth, refreshing tasting cold beverage of Vanilla Coke?" Zaliki asked. "Wild Cherry Pepsi? The energizing Red Bull? It gives you wings!" she joked. Hermione retained her cold personality.
"I don't believe so, but you may ask." she said. Zaliki turned around making a face to see Harry right behind her.
"Sorry." she said quickly and turned around, muttering curses in Egyptian under her breath, and walked away to follow Bakura to their compartment, personally picked out by Yugi, whom she really didn't trust in contrast to Yami.
"A little friction between you and Herms there, Zal." Bakura said as Zaliki walked into the compartment. "Jealous?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" Zaliki asked.
"I mean, I'm sure many guys go for the girls who look good in the bikinis, I certainly do, but some go for the smarter girls. Perhaps you're not feeling so adequate compared to her?" Bakura asked.
"Of course I do!" Zaliki said. "I mean, she's ugly." she turned to Yugi. "Right?" Yugi shrugged.
"I haven't grown into puberty yet." was his short answer. Zaliki turned to Sagira.
"You have my support." Sagira said. "Malik, where's the...thing?" she asked.
"Baggage." he said.
"Okay, making sure you didn't leave it behind." she said, as Harry, Hermione and Ron opened the door to the compartment.
"Can we sit here?" Harry asked. "Seems we got here a bit late."
"No, really?" Zaliki said in a sarcastic whisper in Malik's direction.
"Sure!" Yugi said.
"It's no fair." Tiny whispered, resurfacing for a second. "You're always in control, and he does nothing about it. While the rest of us are trapped." Sagira regained control. "Shutup." she whispered, harshly.
"You know, I never thought about it, but she is right." Yugi said.
"Who is?" Hermione asked settling in the seat next to Yugi, squashing Sagira up against the wall.
"Um," Yugi thought for a moment. "Hey, when's the snack cart coming by?" he asked.
"Mid trip." Hermione said. "So what were you guys talking about?" she asked.
"Uh..." Yugi started. "We were talking about-"
"RPGs!" Sagira interupted. "Yeah, RPGs."
"What kind of RPGs?" Hermione asked.
"The ONLINE kind." Sagira said.
"What're RPGs?" Ron asked.
"Roleplaying games." Zaliki quickly answered. "Its a normal thing." she said.
"Online?" Ron asked.
"World Wide Web." Zaliki answered.
"You mean there's a web that covers the entire world?" Ron asked. Zaliki sighed and put her head in her hands.
"Lay off, okay?!" she said. After that, the ride was pretty much uneventful up until when the snack cart arrived, Sagira almost cleaning out the cart and handing the woman way too many galleons. A few minutes after that happened (Hamai and Sagira contently chewing on chocolate frogs, of which Hamai had swallowed whole and still moving) a pointed blonde face appeared at the door, followed by its full body of Draco Malfoy.
"Oh, I see Potter has some more followers this year." he sneered. "Got a slogan yet?"
"Yeah, it's called: Malfoy, get lost!" Harry said. Sagira turned to Yugi.
"Snappy." she muttered sarcastically.
"I see one of your friends isn't so dependent on you for a living." Malfoy said. Sagira turned around and glared at him, she knew who he was, even if he couldn't exactly see through her new looks. Bakura had helped her on finally getting to full transformation, how to change back was still pending. She now looked exactly how she had when she was in Egypt, even if her hair was a bit lighter, but really, who could tell?
"Sagira." Zaliki mouthed out, she shook her head. Sagira bluntly ignored her.
"And who are you to say who I am dependent on?" she asked blandly. Malfoy raised an eyebrow.
"Draco Malfoy." he held out a hand and she shook it. "Perhaps we should discuss matters in a more private area?" he asked. Bakura's foot reached across and grounded into her toe, Sagira flinched for a minute.
"Sure." she said, getting up (making sure to leave a decent sized sprain in Bakura's toe) and leaving the compartment.
"Bakura!" Zaliki yelled when the door had slid to a close. "How could you let her leave, its gonna be another" she said this word slowly to reach its full effect. "Situation."
"Since when has anything been a situation?" Bakura asked, his eyes flickering towards the three who didn't know what they were talking about. Zaliki really didn't care who was listening, but she still guarded her words.
"Since" she said the rest in Egyptian. "Sagira gets mad and burns people to a crisp, sprinkles them with lemon juice and uses their body parts to fish, and since Malik learns that it was you who stole his golden chain." Zaliki shifted and Bakura caught sight of a gold chain in her pocket, she quickly stuffed it back in. "Sagira doesn't make good choices Bakura, you of all people should know that." she said in Egyptian.
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"What language is that?" Harry asked, genuinely perplexed.
Amoush glared at him for ruining her threats. "Urdu." she said, thinking up the first thing that popped to mind. They didn't see Tiny again until the train made its stop at Hogwarts, Tiny had waited for the rest of them to get off before actually wondering where to go.
"You go to where Hagrid is, over there." Ron said. Harry's eyes looked over to the carriages to where many large black thestrals were all hooked up and ready to leave.
"What are those?" Tiny asked, her eyes looking directly at the thestrals. Hamako, Ryou, Yugi, and Amoush looked over at the area that Tiny was looking at.
"To the best of my sight, I'd say cross breed bat horse mutant things." Ryou said.
"Y-you can see them?" Harry asked.
"Well I have no idea what you guys are talking about." Amoush said. "Where do we go?" she asked.
"Why can only some people see them?" Hamako asked. "Why can only we see them?"
"Those," Hermione started. "Are thestrals, only people who have seen death can see them. We'll probably be working more on those this year, right Harry?" Harry's eyes were concentrating on Tiny, who's head was bowed a bit to right, when Tiny looked back she was different some how. "Right Harry?" Hermione asked again.
"Uh, yeah, right Hermione." he said. Ryou also seemed to look at the ground a moment, but they stayed there. "Ryou?" he tapped the white-haired boy on the shoulder.
~"You betrayed me!" the girl yelled, she had blonde hair that hung to her shoulders, a young girl was kneeling before her. "You stole him from me!"
"Please My Lady! I did no such thing!" the girl cried.
"You have no right to speak!" the blonde girl said. "First woman philosepher. Not anymore! TAKE HER TO THE DUNGEON!" she yelled.
"NOOOOO!" the girl screamed, there was one brief look at her face before a guard knocked her out.~
"What Harry?" suddenly the visions cleared from his mind, like a passed dream.
"Um, you have to go over there. To where Hagrid is standing." Harry said.
"Thanks." Ryou said. The girl from the dream's yell haunted him throughout the whole ride to Hogwarts. The blonde ones no-mercy voice, the younger girl's higher, younger voice. He tried to recall how the palace looked, mosaics on the walls, armed guards all around, and the girls were dressed regally as if they were in a roman palace. He concentrated on who the smaller, crying girl was. Indeed, it was Hermione.
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A/n: FINALLY! The end of that one! Already started on the next chapter so leave a review.
Muses: Peez!
Toldya it was gonna be an allnighta! Sorry if its really long.