Disclaimer: I don't own anything! *sob* Not the mouse, keyboard, computer, monitor…
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"Hey, wake up…" a soft voice called.
Link groggily opened one eye and saw a beaked face staring back at him. He sat up suddenly and tried to back away when he bumped into something feathery. A large bird towered over him and was grinning.
Link opened both eyes to get a better view of the bird. The creature's grin faded when it saw the pale eyes and silver bangs. "Uh…who are you?"
"I could ask you the same thing." Link said, eyeing the bird. There was something familiar about it…
"I think we've got the wrong person." The other bird whispered to the first.
"But how could we? How many pointy ear people are there here anyway?"
"Two. But my lord never confirmed their names…"
"Trust Rooro to leave out important details."
"Want to go back and ask him?"
"Fine, only this time, you're carrying the stuff."
"But-"
"What are you two whispering about?" Link demanded.
"LIIIIINNNKKKK!!!!"
"Huh? Oof!" Link tumbled to the ground as a third bird shot through the window and hit him full in the chest.
"Ow~" the bird sitting on his chest was holding its head and looked very dizzy, but it soon recovered and was bouncing happily around the room. "Link!" ^_^
"Lord Rooro! What are you doing here?" The first bird asked. "Aren't you supposed to be with the rest of the tribe?"
"Oh shut it, Guufo. I came because I wanted to see what was taking you so long." The bird said, waving a hand dismissively. The first bird folded his arms and glared.
"R-Rooro?"
Rooro was now looking at Link with a funny look on his face. "Who are you?!" He demanded.
"It's me, Link!"
"No you aren't! Where's Navi?"
Link sat up and rubbed his head. "I don't know…"
"Ha! That's because you don't even know who she is!"
"Of course I do! She guided me through half of my life! I practically depended on her for everything!"
Yugi was sitting up in bed, fascinated at the sight before him.
/Who are they?/
//How would I know? I woke up at the same time as you!//
Yugi could see Harry and Ron sitting up as well. Both were watching the unusual meeting.
"You've grown so much since the last time I saw you. I had just fished you out of the water…You used to keep picking on Navi and pulling pranks on the Lakeside Professor…And-How the heck did you even get in the window?"
Rooro had indeed grown a lot in a few years time. His wings had once been short and covered with fluffy feathers. His wings were now long, narrow and covered with sleek feathers. He had grown about three feet taller and head feathers had begun to resemble that of a lion's mane. Rooro glanced at the window, then shrugged, "Just press your wings tightly against your body and come in at an angle. "The young bird narrowed his eyes and glared suspiciously at Link. "Anyway, how do I know you didn't just hear about this from some other person? You could just be repeating information you got from somebody else."
Guufo puffed out his chest proudly, "Yep, I raised that kid well, always asking questions…I'm so proud of myself."
Link, Rooro, and the other bird stared at Guufo who instantly sat down in a corner and started mumbling to himself.
"You can go back to the tribe." Rooro said to Guufo's companion who gratefully flew out the window.
"Let's see…you used to enjoy picking on Navi, pecking me in the head, pulling my ears, destroying the professor's lab, pulling pranks on us…" Link said as he counted the things off on his fingers.
Rooro chuckled at the look of concentration on Link's face. "It's okay, you can stop now. No need to further embarrass yourself by repeating everything I did to you as a kid. I believe you." He looked curiously at Link' face again, "Normally I wouldn't be nosy and go butting in to other people's business, but what happened to you? You look…well…different…like, a lot." He looked Link up and down again. "What did you do to your hair?"
"…uh…"
"It's not something bad is it? It doesn't have anything to do with me right?" Rooro asked anxiously.
"No! Of course not!"
"Phew! That's good to know."
Rooro smoothed out his tail feathers and stretched his legs out.
"Lord Rooro." Came a whisper. Guufo was holding the bag they had brought earlier.
"Oh yes, the Professor wanted us to bring you some stuff." Rooro said.
"Oh no, he still wants me to pay off the damage you did to his lab a couple years back."
"I can help pay back for the damage!" Rooro said as he pulled out a small wallet and dumped a couple rupees into his hand. "See?"
"No, he wants me to test the effects of his medicines." Link said as he pulled a bottle out of the sack Guufo handed him.
"Navi was right about you being his guinea pig then."
"What?!?"
Harry and Ron couldn't contain themselves any longer and started snorting as they tried to muffle their laughter.
Link gave them both dirty looks, but they ignored it and continued to laugh.
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/Somehow, I can't imagine a kid picking on Link./
Yugi didn't say anything and just continued to brush his teeth.
/What do you think happened to make Link different from when Rooro knew him?/
//I'm clueless so don't ask me./
/Do you feel like Link's not telling us something?/
//Maybe.//
/*sigh*/
//Now what?//
/…Nothing./
Yugi sighed, //What's wrong, Yami?//
/Nothing!/
/Fine then!/
He began to pack up his books for that day's class and grabbed Yami's wand.
/You can put that back. I'm not going to come out today anyways/
//This is just in case you do.// Yugi replied patiently and he slung the bag over his shoulder before going down to breakfast.
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"Whoa…" Rooro said as he saw the ceiling overhead. "It's beautiful…It doesn't feel like I'm indoors at all, I feel as free as though I were soaring across the sky outside. Wow…"
Many of the students had their mouths hanging open at the sight of the half bird half human creatures. Rooro was too busy gazing at the ceiling to notice, but Guufo did.
He waved his arms madly and demanded, "What are you looking at! Stop staring at me! Would you like it if I stared at you? Huh?! Do you like it? I don't think so! Stop staring at me already!"
Link tapped the raging bird gently in the shoulder, "Guufo, you can stop it now. You're just attracting yourself more attention by yelling."
Guufo promptly stopped yelling and folded his arms again, "Hmph…I'm supposed to protect Lord Rooro, not let a bunch of round eared people stare at us like they would animals in one of their zoos." He continued to grumble as he followed Link over to the Gryffindor table.
Zelda, Hermoine, and Yugi were already at the table. Zelda and Hermoine seemed to be getting along very well and looked happy. Yugi was sitting off to the side and looked exhausted, his normally bright violet eyes were dull and even the tips of his red and black hair seemed to be drooping. His blond bangs were hanging almost lifelessly in front of his eyes.
"Didn't sleep too well last night did you?"
Yugi looked up and didn't look all that surprised to see Rooro looking back at him. "No…" Yugi mumbled.
"You know, you're probably the first person in this entire school who didn't stare when they saw me. Why is that?" Rooro asked curiously.
Yugi fumbled in his bag for something and pulled out a small deck of cards. He then handed them to a puzzled looking Rooro.
"Huh? Uh…what's this for?"
"Whatcha looking at there Rooro?" Guufo said as he rushed over Rooro's side.
"You're used to seeing weird looking things huh?" Rooro said as he looked up from a card.
"Ooh, cool cards." He said as he picked one up and inspected it carefully. "Hey!"
Malfoy had slunk over to the Gryffindor table to get a good look at the two birds and had seen them holding up cards. He held up the card he'd swiped out of Guufo's hand and held it up for Crabbe and Goyle to see. "So, is this a new game muggles play. It doesn't look very interesting does it?" He sneered.
"Give that back!" Yugi said.
"Hm…I don't think I want to give it back, at least, not until I've had some fun." Malfoy said, oblivious to Yugi's cries of protest. "In fact, I think I'll just keep this for myself…and maybe I take the rest of the cards too." He quickly snatched the rest of Yugi's deck from his hands and stuffed them into the pocket of his robes. Yugi tried desperately to get his cards back, but Crabbe and Goyle blocked his way. Malfoy stayed just out of Yugi's reach and smirked as he waved the cards tauntingly in front of Yugi.
"Hey whatever-your-name-is! Leave him alone! And give those cards back!" Rooro said. "Don't make me come and take them myself!"
Malfoy grinned, "Huh! I'd like to see you try you overgrown turkey!"
"What?! No one gets away with calling me a turkey!" Rooro launched himself at Malfoy, but was caught midair by Goyle.
Guufo attacked madly but in the end was knocked unconscious by a blow from Crabbe.
Rooro was hanging upside down and struggled to break free. "Let go of me you big bully! I'm son of the great leader of the Watarara Tribe! I could sic the whole tribe on you for calling me a turkey! You'd be beaten to a bloody pulp by now if they were here! Let go already!"
Yugi stood boldly in front of Malfoy. He looked pale, but determined. "Let my friends go! And give me back my cards!"
Malfoy smirked, "Why should I?" Crabbe grinned stupidly as Goyle advanced on Yugi, flexing his muscles threateningly.
"Malfoy!" A crowd had begun to form around the group. Zelda and Hermoine were watching anxiously from the side as Link advanced on Malfoy. A group of teachers could be seen hurrying over to the Gryffindor table.
"Oh…it's the pointy eared freak again." Malfoy said with casual smirk, though his pale face looked slightly paler than usual.
Link's cool attitude didn't change in the slightest. "So, are you going to leave him alone or not?"
"You coward!" Hermoine said. "You're always picking on new students and trying to get us all in trouble."
"That jerk…" Harry growled.
"Harry! When did you get here?" Zelda asked.
"Just now." Ron answered. "We saw the commotion and decided to investigate."
"Actually, we were coming down for breakfast." Harry corrected.
Malfoy suddenlt tensed up as Link reached over his shoulder the way he had on the train, only this time, Zelda didn't stop him. Link didn't draw whatever it was he holding under the cloak and seemed to only be trying intimidate Malfoy.
Yugi suddenly leapt forward and tried to snatch the deck from Malfoy's hand while he was distracted, but instead, Goyle's fist swung upwards and connected with Yugi's jaw. Yugi was thrown back and crashed several feet behind the group. There, Yugi lay, sobbing and gasping for breath.
"Yugi Motou! Are you all right?" Professor McGonagall asked as she hurried over to him. "The rest of you, stay out of this or you will be given a weeks worth of detentions!" She said when she saw several of the Sytherins pulling out their wands getting ready to back Malfoy up.
Yugi tried to get up, but shuddered and collapsed again, out cold.
"Somebody help me take Mr. Motou up to the--" But before anyone could help Professor McGonagall, Yugi's form had begun to shift. He became taller and blond bangs began to resemble bolts of lightning. His eyes lost their innocence and became narrower, giving him a mysterious look. He quickly got up from the floor and his crimson eyes were blazing in fury. The students who had been crowding around him quickly skittered out of the way.
"Prepare to die!" He yelled as he threw himself at Malfoy, the sennen eye glowing brilliantly on his forehead.
"Goofballs! Don't just stand there! Help me!" Malfoy cried. Crabbe and Goyle stood there blinking stupidly until they finally figured out what it was Malfoy wanted them to do. Crabbe dropped Rooro on the ground in a heap and shuffled off to try and pry Yami/Yugi from Malfoy's throat. Goyle accidently trod on Crabbe's robes causing him to trip and crash into a nearby table.
"It's only the first day of class and two new students are going to get into loads of trouble already." Seamus commented.
"Wahoo! Go Yugi!" The twins cheered and whooped. A glare from Professor Snape immediately shut them up.
"Draco Malfoy! Leave those students alone! And Link, don't even bother with him." Professor McGonagall barked.
Link looked slightly disappointed at being denied a chance of terrorizing Malfoy, but he obeyed. He turned around and disappeared into the crowd.
"Why does he keep doing that? He looks like he really wants to pull out whatever that thing was, but he knows he probably get in trouble. I think he did that on the train, too." Hermoine said. "Oof! Hey!"
Rooro was pushing and shoving to get back through the crowd. "Link! You can take him on easily! Don't leave! Link!"
"Of course Link can take him on easily, he's probably heck of a lot stronger." Ron snorted.
"Just because he's stronger, it doesn't mean he knows how to fight." Hermoine said.
"Ow! Hey! Watch where you're going!"
Rooro pushed his was through the crowd again, "What do you mean he doesn't know how to fight?! That's probably the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life! He's probably the best fighter in the world!"
Hermoine sniffed, "Well, that's in your opinion."
"No, it's a fact." Zelda said as she made her way towards them through the crowd.
"Yeah right. You're probably just making this up. There's no way for him to be best fighter in the world. That means he'd have to good at just about every weapon and martial arts and…well…every form of fighting." Seamus said. Several of the students nodded their heads in agreement.
"Well, he is the best and he can prove it to you! He wields the legendary master--" Rooro was interrupted as a cheer arose from the Slytherins.
Crabbe, Goyle, and a few of the teachers had finally pried Yami/Yugi off of Malfoy. Malfoy was very pale and was gasping for breath. Yami/Yugi was fuming in a corner, "Baka, baka, baka…" he muttered under his breath. He looked up suddenly and ran back to Malfoy who shrank back against the Gryffindor table. Yami snatched his deck from ground where Malfoy had dropped it earlier in their fight. "I'd forgotten why we got into the fight in the first place." He said and indicated that everyone should leave and go mind their own business.
The staff stared at the deck of cards Yami held in his hands. "You got the whole school into an uproar for that?!"
"Hmph…for your information, this deck is very special to me and my hikari--" Yami began.
"Oh, I can see that must be a very special deck indeed! So special that you are allowed to try and kill one of my students for it." Snape said sarcastically. He waited for the other teachers to back him up, but then realized with a start that they weren't even listening to him.
"Hikari? What's that?"
"Search me."
"Don't look at me! I don't know Japanese!"
"Is it even Japanese?"
Yami sighed impatiently and left the Great Hall, leaving the teachers to argue among themselves. He slipped inside a dimly lit and empty classroom classroom and shut the door quietly behind him.
/Yugi! Are you awake in there?/
//*silence*//
/Oh that's just great! That means I'm stuck going to class for you today. Somehow I feel like you're doing this to me on purpose./
//*more silence*//
/Come on Yugi, this isn't funny. You couldn't possibly be unconscious for that long from a single punch!/
"He's still out cold. You know very well that he's frail by nature." Link said as he stepped out from the shadows.
Yami looked very taken aback, "Wha-? How did you know what I was saying?"
Link grinned, "I have my ways."
"So…why are you here? Why did you follow me?"
"I know you're not really Yugi's brother like you claim to be. So who are you really?" Link asked as he leaned against the wall.
"You won't believe me."
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't. Maybe you won't believe me if I said I have as much experience as one who's lived for centuries…or one who's existed since the dawn of the creation of the universe."
"Have you?" Yami asked with a look of interest.
"Well…it depends on how you look at it." Link replied.
"…I was once a pharoh in ancient Egypt." Yami said finally. "This card game was once played in the Shadow Realm and were known as the shadow games. Unfortunately, the games erupted into a full-out war and threatened to destroy the world." He stroked his cards gently and emotion began to flicker in his hard eyes. "Yugi told you about the millennium items, but he never told you why they were created in the first place." He held up the puzzle that dangled from the string around his neck. "The millennium items contain the souls of the who helped seal the Shadow games away. My own soul has been sealed within this puzzle for five thousand years. I was finally freed a little while ago, when Yugi solved the puzzle my soul was sealed within. I've been sharing his body ever since. I'm better know as Yami Yugi since Yami means darkness and I am his dark side. Yugi is my hikari because he is my light side."
"So hikari means light? I thought Yami was an unusual name…" Link said after a moment of silence. He had sat down on the floor with his back to the wall and was listening carefully to what Yami had to say.
"My name is Yugioh, but you can just stick with Yami if you feel like it."
"I'm assuming I shouldn't tell anyone else, right?"
"You'd better not!"
"Come on! I'm kidding! I would never tell anyone!" Link laughed.
The bell suddenly rang signaling the end of breakfast.
Yami cursed silently in a language Link didn't understand, but he laughed anyways at the look pf pure horror on Yami's face. "I'm assuming you don't know where to go now, right?"
Yami nodded, he had a slightly desperate look in his eyes.
"Don't worry, Yugi and I have the same schedule. Just follow me. If we get lost…oh well…
Yami didn't look too happy about having to go to Yugi's classes, and reluctantly followed Link out onto the castle grounds.
"First stop, Care of Magical Creatures!"
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Go to this link to find out more about the Watarara Tribe
http://www.bsu.edu/web/agscherer/ocarina2_154.htm
Yugioh!
http://www.yugiohkingofgames.com/intro.html
I'm not going to be able to update much for a while because:
1) I'm moving at the end of this month
2) Too much homework
3) Too many after-school activities
4) My dad and I share a computer and since he's a computer software development manager…well…we don't exactly get along too well when it comes to the 'share' part
5) I'm only allowed to use the computer on weekends
The fic tends to lean more towards Zelda, but that's only because I know more about it than Yugioh or Harry Potter. Now that I think of it, the story should probably have taken place in Hyrule instead of Hogwarts.