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/Yami talking to Yugi/
//Yugi talking to Yami//
"everyone else talking"
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Link sighed and closed his eyes. It has been two days since they discovered Ganon had successfully escaped the Sacred Realm from Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Someone of great power must have managed to break through the seal, or at least, weaken it considerably. Dumbledore had requested that Link and Zelda come the Hogwarts to be educated in magic with the other students of the school. Dumbledore had included a list of supplies they would have to get for their classes. He would explain more about Ganon's return once they got to the school. The sages had combined their powers to transport the two to Diagon alley to start with getting their supplies. After a bit of confusion at King's Cross, they managed to find platform 9¾ and were finally on the Hogwarts express.
Link cast a sideways glance at the other students in the compartment. There were four other students sitting together looking about fifteen years of age, all of them were giving him wary looks. He looked again. He had seen these people when they were getting money from the bank. The first was a tall boy with flaming red hair and lots of freckles and a tiny owl on his lap. Sitting next to him, was a girl with extremely bushy, brown hair, she was holding a large, tiger-like, cat with a slightly squashed looking face. The last, was a boy with messy, black hair and a lightning shaped scar on his forehead; he too was holding an owl, a snowy white one. The girl looked slightly nervous at Link's presence and continued to try and see under the hood of Link's cloak. The last was a short boy with spiky red and black hair with long blond bangs. His eyes were a soft violet color. He was wearing a golden, upside-down pyramid with an eye design on it. It hung from a string around his neck.
Finally, the boy with the lightning shaped scar spoke up, "Hi, my name's Harry Potter…er…what's yours?"
Zelda, was also wearing a cloak, just that it didn't cover her entire face. She smiled and answered, " My name is Zelda, and this is…um…my friend." Link shook his head to silence her.
Harry nodded in acknowledgement and pointed to the boy with the freckles, " This is my friend Ron Weasley, and this-" he said, indicating the girl next to him, "-is Hermione Granger."
"How about you?" Ron asked the spiky haired boy.
"Yugi Motou."
"Are you new here? Are you first years? I don't think I've ever seen you around here before." Ron observed.
"Use your eyes Ron. Do they look like first years to you?" snapped Hermione, "…Okay, maybe one of them do. Anyways, two of them look older than us…How old are you two anyways?"
"We're both fifteen."
"Same with me." Yugi said.
"No way! You two look a lot more like eighteen to me!" Ron said suddenly. "And you look like you're ten!" Yugi's face turned red at the remark.
/Who are you calling 10?!?/
Zelda smiled, "I guess we do, don't we."
"How come your friend isn't saying anything?" Harry asked Zelda, unwrapping a chocolate frog. "Hm…I got Dumbledore again." He said, turning over the card.
Zelda fidgeted a little before replying, "I guess he just wants to be left alone right now…"
"A guy? Oh! Is he you boyfriend?" Ron asked, grinning broadly.
"Who's got a boyfriend?" a cold, drawling voice asked. Draco Malfoy stood in the compartment door, behind him were his two 'bodyguards' Crabbe and Goyle.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione instantly stiffened up and were glaring at him with a look of pure hate in their eyes.
"Malfoy." The three said in unison.
"Why can't you ever leave us alone?"
"Is it you, Granger?" Malfoy asked, ignoring them. "What am I talking about? How could anyone like a Mudblood like you?" he sneered. Crabbe and Goyle sniggered stupidly.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione leapt to their feet and were about to attack when someone grabbed them. The three twisted their heads back to see Zelda and her cloaked friend each holding on to the back of their clothes.
"So, has Potty gotten new friends?" Malfoy asked, looking slightly surprised, "Probably more Mudbloods like beaver-face here." He said, indicating Hermione who was struggling against the cloaked figure's grip. She growled in frustration as his grip only tightened.
"Leave us alone, Malfoy." Link demanded in a low and threatening voice.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Yugi gasped. This was the first thing they had heard the cloaked figure say since they got on the train several hours ago.
"Just get out and leave us."
"And what if I don't?" Malfoy sneered as Crabbe and Goyle flexed their enormous muscles.
Link released Hermione and reached his left hand over his shoulder and grabbed something in his cloak
"Don't you dare!" Zelda said sharply.
The cloaked figure glanced her way, then sighed and let go of whatever he had been holding much to Zelda's relief.
"Just get out of here Malfoy!" Hermione said from behind Link who was now rummaging in his bag for something.
"No, I don't think I will." Malfoy said.
"Then I'll make you!" Ron said reaching in his robes. He pulled out his wand and was about to hex Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle. But before he could, the cloaked figure had thrown something hard on the ground at Malfoy's feet which then exploded in a bright light. Harry and the others covered their eyes, shielding them from the light. When they opened their eyes again, their mouths dropped open in surprise. Malfoy, Crabb, and Goyle were all frozen in place and unmoving, though shuddering slightly. The cloaked figure walked over to the frozen figure and kicked them out of the compartment before slamming the door shut.
"Couldn't wait for them to leave themselves?" Zelda asked, smiling at her friend.
The cloaked figure nodded before seating himself. He suddenly yelped in surprise and leapt up again as he pulled the tiny owl out from under him.
"Pig!" Ron said taking the tiny ball of feathers from Link. The owl hooted wildly and started zooming around the compartment. The snowy owl appeared to glare at Pig and sit up as though showing him what a real owl should act like.
"What did you do to Malfoy? You didn't hurt him did you?" Hermione asked anxiously.
"Who cares about what happened to them? As long as they aren't here anymore, I'm happy…okay, maybe not." Ron said, snatching the minute owl out of the air.
"They're stunned." Zelda answered.
"Ah…that's good. They shouldn't bother us any time soon." Harry said, unwrapping another chocolate frog. "No…I got another Merlin…"
/Who are the two in the cloak again? I don't think I got their names./
//The girl is Zelda, I don't know who her friend is though.//
/I can sense great power from both of them, but it's not like the power I sense from the others. You might want to watch out for Zelda's friend. There is something about him, a dark-/
//You have dark powers too.// Yugi interrupted.
/Yugi?/
//Hm?//
/You are aware that Ron is trying to get your attention right?/
Yugi suddenly noticed that Ron was waving his hand in Yugi's face and everyone was staring at him.
"Hello? Earth to Yugi! Anyone in there? Want a chocolate frog?"
Yugi politely declined the offer. Ron shrugged his shoulders and picked up another package. "Want a pumpkin pastry?" He asked, offering Link one. Link shook his head and sat down (after checking to make sure nothing was in his seat).
Hermione checked her watch. "You might want to change into your robes, we're almost there."
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Harry and Ron came back a few minutes later in their school robes as well as two identical boys. They both had flaming red hair and a lot of freckles like Ron.
"These are my brothers, Fred and George." Ron said.
"Nice to meet you…uh…"
"Zelda and Yugi." Harry said.
"Nice to meet you Zelda!" the twins said in unison.
"Who's that?" Fred asked, pointing at Link who appeared to be sulking in the corner.
"Oh, just a friend of mine." Zelda said quickly. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to a box of jellybeans, changing the subject. Fred and George immediately began to talk excitedly about the strangest flavors they'd ever eaten and other sweets they recommended. The rest of the trip was in silence (with the exception of the twins who were still listing their favorite sweets).
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It was getting dark by the time the train finally stopped. Students were climbing into the horseless carriages, which then headed up the path to the school. Link and Zelda followed Harry and the others onto a carriage. Everyone was quiet (except Fred and George who are still talking about their favorite sweets) as the carriages started moving up the path with the others. It was a clear and starry night and the moon illuminated an enormous castle by a lake surrounded by trees. There was a small fleet of boats on the calm surface of the lake, drifting towards the castle.
"This year's first years are lucky, it's so beautiful tonight!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Yeah, I hope the sorting won't be too long. I can't wait to get to the feast…I'm famished!" Ron said.
"Ron! You were eating the whole time on the train except for the times you had to catch your owl." Hermione retorted.
"She's got a point there." Harry said.
"You were eating the whole time, too!" Ron protested.
Yugi went through a small bag of his things and brought out a small photo. He looked kind of sad as he looked at the smiling figures in the picture.
"Are those your friends?" Harry asked.
"Huh? Oh, yeah. This is Joey," Yugi said, pointing to the blond haired boy, "Tristan," he said, indicating the boy with pointy brown hair, "Bakura," he said pointing to the pale boy with long white hair, "and Tea." he said, pointing to the girl with short brown hair.
"What that thing around Bakura's neck? It kind looks like that pyramid thing you have. You know, the eye thing." Hermione said. "Are they real gold?"
"They're millennium items. Yeah, they are real gold, pretty heavy too. Mine is the millennium puzzle, Bakura has the millennium ring." Yugi said.
"Millennium items? What's so special about them?" Ron asked.
"There are only seven of them in the world. And-"
/Dumbledore said not to mention anything about me!/
"They're also supposed to contain dark powers."
"That's bad then right?" Zelda said.
"Not really…some of them are kind of bad, but not mine."
"What's not bad?"
//Whoops…//
/Whoops is right./
Link ignored the rest of the group and stared out the window. Ganondorf is out there somewhere…most likely biding his time…regaining his powers. But how did he manage to escape in the first place? Did he have help from some of his old supporters? He couldn't have though…his supporters aren't strong enough… "Ow!"
Pig had been flying around wildly again and had flown into the side of Link's head followed by Crookshanks who landed on his shoulder before leaping after the owl pulling down the hood a little in the process. Fred and George instantly started cracking up as the cat continued to run into everyone as it strove to catch the tiny owl.
"Crookshanks!" Hermione said as she grabbed the cat before it landed on Yugi's head. Ron had snatched the owl and stuffed it in his pocket (you could still hear its excited hooting). "Are you okay?" She asked, turning back to Link who was frantically trying to pull the hood back on. Unfortunately, everyone in the compartment had caught a glimpse of a long strand of silvery-white hair in the darkness.
The twins had stopped laughing and were looking slightly surprised, "Er…how old did you say you were again?"
Zelda was glaring at Link who was looking kind of uncomfortable and kept fidgeting, "Huh? Oh, fifteen."
"…"
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The group walked up the stairs and entered the castle with many other students. As they entered the Great Hall, Zelda could not help but gasp at the sight. Candles floated overhead and large banners were hung on the wall. The ceiling was an exact replica of the sky outside, cloudless and starry. At the head table were the teachers, an enormous banner depicting each of the animals from the other banners was hanging on the wall behind them. The animals were all surrounding a large letter 'H'. Dumbledore saw the two cloaked figures and indicated for them to come up to the head table. All heads turned in their direction as they walked up to the table, everyone started whispering suggestions as to who those two may be.
"Maybe they're the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers." Whispered some of the students.
"But why two people?" Neville wondered aloud.
"Backup in case one of them dies?"
"That's not funny…"
"Who's the spiky haired kid?"
"How would I know?"
"Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts!" Dumbledore said. He continued to address the students, but the words fell upon deaf ears. All the students were staring intently at the three figures standing by Dumbledore. "This year, we will be hosting a rematch of last year's Triwizard Tournament!" Cheers erupted from all the tables except for the Hufflepuffs.
"We're holding it again? With the same people?" Ron asked excitedly. "Great! I can get Victor Krum's autograph again!"
"Last year's contestants have been demanding a rematch ever since they lost last year."
"They're just sore losers…" Hermione muttered.
"The same champions from last year will represent their school again. Fleur and Victor will represent their schools for a second chance at the thousand galleon prize. I am also pleased to announce the fact that we have four new students joining us this year. Two from Japan, and two of them from the Hyrule."
"Hyrule?" Hermione said with a blank look on her face.
"Yes! Finally something she doesn't know about!" Ron said happily.
"Like you know?" she snapped at him.
"…No. So, Yugi's from Japan. That's cool."
"Dumbledore said two are from Japan though. There are only three people though, where's the fourth one?"
"Stop talking!" Harry hissed, "I'm trying to hear what he's saying."
"As you know, Voldemort has returned. He is constantly regaining his former power and has become as dangerous as he was fifteen years ago before his downfall."
Some of the students gave dry sobs, remembering how Voldemort had murdered the seventh year, Cedric Diggory, the previous year during the Triwizard tournament.
"I've requested help from eight of the people from Hyrule who will aid us, but only two of them will be here to learn magic with you. Theses four will join the fifth years of whichever house they are sorted into. Now, let the sorting begin!"
Link didn't stir when the rip on the old hat opened up and began to sing, Zelda on the other hand, had nearly fallen over in surprise. Yugi looked kind of dazed and didn't seem to be paying attention to the rest of the world around him. Link ignored both, and watched the sorting in silence. Professor McGonagall would call out the names of the students in alphabetical order and they would go up to the stool and try on the hat. The hat would then call out the name of one of the four houses it had mentioned in its song and the student would sit at that table.
"Motou, Yugi! Motou, Yami!" Proffessor McGonagall called.
Yugi wasn't surprised when a voice from the hat said, "So, there's two of you, eh? No matter, even if you were separate people, you'd still go to the same house." After a moment's pause, the hat cried, "Gryffindor!"Link was starting to drift off when he heard Zelda's name being called. Zelda walked up to the hat, and hesitated before pulling off the hood. Many of the students stared at her in surprise, the rest in awe. She had long blond hair fell down her back and her dark, blue eyes. Her tiara was gold and with a crimson jewel in the center of it and her earrings were three triangles connecting to form one larger one. Her ears were unlike any other persons' Harry had ever seen. They were long and pointed at the very tips. She had barely sat down on the stool and put on the sorting hat when it yelled, "Gryffindor!"
"Link!" Professor McGonagall called.
The cloaked figure stirred slightly and took a step towards the hat, then stopped. Zelda sighed and started dragging him over.
"Link? What kind of name is that?" Malfoy asked in a loud and drawling voice. Many of the Slytherins laughed loudly at the comment. Link growled softly under the hood but silenced at Zelda's glare. She then grabbed his arm and tried to pull him over to the hat, but Link braced himself and refused to budge.
"Oh, hurry up…I'm starving!" Ron moaned, rubbing his stomach.
"Guess he's the stubborn type." Harry observed.
"Very stubborn." Yugi commented.
"She's practically dragging him." Hermione answered. "What's the matter? So they've both got pointed ears, what is so wrong with that?"
Zelda had successfully dragged Link over to the hat and stood back, grinning. Link sighed in defeat and finally sat down, and pulled off his hood. Gasps could be heard all around the Great Hall as the hood fell back to reveal the long, silvery-white bangs that hid the base of Link's long pointed ears which were also pierced. There was a large blue and gold marking on his forehead and crimson ones under his eyes. He wore a long hat that was white in color. His eyes were blank and devoid of any emotion but were slightly narrowed as he put on the hat. Despite the white hair, Harry thought Link looked very young.
/I did say I sensed dark power from him./ Yami said.
"Hmmm…" the hat said, "You've shown plenty of courage and wisdom throughout your life. You have great power and don't give up easily either…a little of everything. Ooh, this'll be a tough one to decide.
Link had closed his eyes as Zelda stood behind him waiting patiently.
"His eyes…they're…really creepy." Hermione whispered. She looked up at the head table, "I think some of the teachers think so, too."
Ron whispered back, "Is he blind?"
"I don't think so…" Harry muttered, "Never seen anyone with eyes like that before in my life though. They look almost…evil."
//Sounds like she's talking about you.// Yugi said with a little chuckle.
/She's never even seen me./ Yami retorted.
"There are more presences in your mind, four other souls…This will be tough for sure…"
"He looks really young, but why does he have silvery hair?" Fred wondered.
"Albino?" George offered.
"They have white hair, not silvery-white!" Fred said.
"Like Bakura?"
"I think so…"
"But wouldn't they have pale eyes? Bakura's are dark brown."
"Ravencl-" the hat had stopped himself halfway, much to some of the teachers' surprise. "Slytheri-" it began before it stopped again.
"Make up your mind." Ron moaned.
Finally the hat yelled, "GRYFFINDOR!"
Link got to his feet and Zelda instantly dragged him over to the Gryffindor table and sat down.
Dumbledore smiled and said two words, "Tuck in."
Food instantly appeared on the plates in front of them. Ron was happily wolfing down the food as quickly as possible, only pausing now and then to breathe. Fred and George were cleaning out huge plates of food just as fast as their brother. Harry grinned and looked around at the other students. Most of the other students were tackling the food like the Weasley brothers (Yugi included). Zelda was whispering something to Link who nodded slowly and closed his eyes and muttered something.
What are they doing? Harry wondered.
"It's a charm." Hermione muttered when she saw what Harry was looking at.
"What kind of-" Yugi began.
When Link opened his eyes again, they had become a deep, crimson color.
//They kind of look like your eyes.// Yugi commented.
/That's nice to know./
Zelda sighed, "That's the only color I know of. Impa only showed me that one so I could use it for my Sheik disguise."
Now that Link's eyes were no longer all white, Harry could see that he was looking kind of depressed.
"Too bad it couldn't have been blue." Link said, sighing as well and turning his attention to the food.
"Red pupils match you." Ron blurted out.
The two Hylians turned to look at Ron who promptly turned red around the ears.
"Sorry, I couldn't help eavesdropping a little…"
"Can you actually see?" Hermione questioned.
Link snorted. "Can I see? Of course I can see."
"But your eyes…"
Harry noticed that Link's voice wasn't as deep as most would have expected it to be. It was deep but still had a slight boyish tone, it wasn't at all dark and evil, as one would have expected because of his looks.
"I see fine." Link said firmly.
Zelda had started eating and was ignoring Hermione who kept asking if Link could really see anything by waving her fingers in his face. Fred, George, and their friend, Lee Jordan, were cracking up nearby. Link was beginning to get very agitated and finally decided to just ignore her.
"Smart move." Ron whispered. "She can get very annoying at times. Last year, she kept going on about how house elves should be freed and paid, stuff like that."
"They like being enslaved." Harry said.
Yugi swallowed his food, "I've never heard of anything that liked being enslaved before."
/Slaves are usually begging to be freed./
//Bet you would love having a house elf.//
/There's no point in having one now, it's always clean in here and I don't have to eat anyways./
"Of course, there's still Dobby. He's gone nutty over being freed and is driving all the other house elves crazy." Ron said.
"Hermione, do you mind?!" Link said, finally losing his patience.
"Hermione, I really don't think you should keep waving your hand in his face. He's trying to eat you know." George said.
"But…oh fine."
Link looked considerably happier after that.
/So…how's the food?/ Yami said after a while.
//Great!//
"Hey Yugi, how come you have purple eyes?" Ron asked.
"That's just the way they are." Yugi answered.
"…okaaay."
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I know it sounds really stupid right now, but hey, every fan fiction has to start somewhere.