Freai: I'm updating this first! ^^
DM: Yeah, she's been working on this like crazy lately.
Freai: On paper that is.
DM: Oh well, lets just skip disclaimers and go on to the fic!
Freai: Works for me! ^^ Enjoy everyone!
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"Wow," Ryou breathed. He stood in the archway for Daigon Alley, staring in awe at what was laid before him. Shops, of all sorts, selling things Ryou had only imagined of: Dragon liver, flying broomsticks, spell books, even creatures he had never seen before.
Professor Dumbeldore had sent every student's supply lists early because one: He thought Ryou would need to practice actually 'using' magic before he came to Hogwarts, and two: With all of this 'Voldemort' business, it would be hard for some families to get to Daigon Alley in the short time between when they get their letter and when the Hogwarts Express leaves on September 1st.
Something finally hit Ryou as he walked along the busy streets with the Weasley's, he didn't have any money. And he wasn't about to get some off of Harry.
"Um, Mrs. Weasley?" He asked in his soft, polite voice. "How am I supposed to pay for my school supplies? I don't have any money with me."
"Well, according to this letter Dumbeldore sent me," she said, holding up a folded piece of parchment. "Your mother and father have a banking account in Gringotts."
"But, how is that possible? My parents weren't wizards."
"According to this letter they are, I'm just reading what Dumbledore sent me dear." Ryou read the piece of parchment and sure enough, it said just as Mrs. Weasley said. But, his dad never told him he was a wizard, why?
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"His dad never told him he was a wizard?" Ron whispered.
"It is odd, but he must have had a good reason." Hermionie added.
Harry stayed silent as a thought just accrued to him, what if Ryou's father did have a good reason. What if it was for Ryou's own protection? Harry wasn't sure how, yet, but he had a feeling that was the case. There was something odd about his cousin, Ryou wasn't a normal kid.
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Ryou blinked in the bright sunlight after coming from the darkness of the underground caves inside Gringotts. He had never thought that he had so much money underground, Ryou could remember living off his father's $200 deposit a month back in Japan, but that was such a small amount compared to what was hidden in vault number 678.
"Why don't we get your wand first?" Hermionie suggested. So the group; now just Harry, Ron, Ryou, Hermionie, and Ginny, headed to Olivander's. They approached the small, wooden shop with peeling golden letters, and entered the dusty shop. A bell sounded somewhere in the shop, and a man with silver- gray hair and lamp-like eyes suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Ah, the transfer student," he said in a low, mysterious voice that really creeped Ryou out, he nodded curtly. "Well, step up boy! And hold out your wand arm." Ryou was left-handed, so he just held that up. And the shop- keeper, who must be Mr. Olivander, started to measure his arm with a very old tape measure.
"You're left-handed?" Harry asked from behind Ryou.
"Yeah, I broke my right wrist badly one time and had it in a cast for quite a while, so I had to start writing and stuff with my left hand, and I have ever since," Ryou replied, trying to sound like it was nothing big. But it had been Bakura who had broken his wrist, and he broke it repeatedly, still thinking Ryou was right-handed. Actually, Ryou could write with both hands, just in case Bakura decided to switch sides.
Coming back from his musing, Ryou noticed the tape-measure was moving on it's own, and was measuring between his nostrils. Failing to fight his urge, Ryou sneezed, and the tape measure snapped back in fright and fell to the floor, leaving Ryou blushing madly.
"Just leave it," Mr. Olivander said while examining a thin box. "I suspect that you will be a difficult customer, so try this: rosewood and Dragon heartstring. Seven inches. Does wonders with charm work." He handed it to Ryou. "Go ahead, give it a wave." Ryou gave the wand a quick wave, and the window shattered into pieces.
"Quite strong, aren't you?" Mr. Olivander asked, Ryou turning redder than he had been. And so began the 3 hour long process of giving Ryou a wand, and him breaking something. But as the pile of used wands climbed higher, Mr. Olivander's eyes filled more and more with excitement.
"You defiantly have a great deal of magic, we just have to find a wand that will be able to contain it." Mr. Olivander walked back far into his shop, and came back with a large, black chest. He opened it and pulled out a black leather box. "Now, these are from Egypt, I decided to use these from that necklace your wearing." Everyone then looked at Ryou's ring. "Some of these are double-cored, so we might try this, if we don't get it right, we may have an earthquake in the middle of Daigon Alley, so." He put the box back, and pulled out another black leather box, only this was lined in what looked like was gold! He opened it to reveal a sand-colored wand with a golden handle, and the eye of Horus engraved in it.
"Here, this is papyrus, nine inches, and two unicorn hairs. One is a regular white, but the other is black." The others behind Ryou looked shocked, was it not normal to have a black unicorn? Wait, of course it isn't, he read about this.
Ryou waved to wand, and sent blazing fireworks of different shades of blue all around the room.
"It think, we have your wand, but it may cost extra." So, after paying for his wand, which was twelve gold galleons, Ryou and everyone else left the shop. Everyone got all of their supplies, and were in Flourish and Blotts at the moment, when Ryou noticed a book that might interest him, 'Loop-hole spells to enchantments and curses.' Ryou had heard that all electronical devices won't work inside Hogwarts grounds, maybe he could find a 'loop- hole.'
He added the book to his purchases, and turned to notice a set of books written what looked like Ancient Egyptian. He picked the first volume up, and on the cover was the eye of Horus. But on the second volume was an engraved picture of the Millennium Rod! Ryou looked at each volume, the first one was an introduction, and the next seven where books about the seven Millennium Items, and the last two were what had to be 'instructions.' He had to get these before someone else did, it could be dangerous.
"Can you read those?" Asked a voice behind him. Ryou turned around to see the shop owner.
"Yes, I can read Ancient Egyptian."
"Well, then take them. No one else can read them anyway, so no one wants them. Go ahead, no charge." Ryou was astounded, that was easier than he thought.
"What did you get?" Ginny asked as Ryou finally joined the others outside the shop.
"Oh, just some books I was interested in," he said with a smile.
"Well, we all have our supplies," Hermionie said. "So why don't we help Ryou pick out a pet?"
"A pet?" Ryou asked.
"Yes, you're allowed to bring a pet to Hogwarts," Harry added. " You can think of it as a birthday present or something. You did say your birthday was on September 2nd, right?"
The group entered a small pet shop next to Flourish and Blotts, loud animal noises echoed through the shop. Ginny and Hermionie were looking at cats, Harry and Ron were looking at the owls, but Ryou was focused on something else. A few large, square cages were stacked, with a sign in front of them reading:
RAVENS JUST AS GOOD AS ANY OWL CAN CARRY HEAVIER LOADS NOT AS SUSPTIOUS TO MUGGLES 10 GALLEONS EACH
"A raven?" Harry asked, coming up behind his cousin.
"They're beautiful," Ryou said, admiring the blue gleam of the black feathers on the birds. He noticed one of the birds was smaller, and it's left eye was red instead of black . . .
**********Time Jump! Again!^^***************
Everyone met up at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor later that afternoon, all admiring Ryou's new raven, and just chatting. All they were waiting for now was Mrs. Weasley and Bill. Ryou was even starting to warm up to everyone, when some 'unwanted' faces came by.
"Well look, if it isn't Potter and his fan club," sneered a voice, followed by sniggers. There stood Draco Malfoy, and his goons Crabbe and Goyle.
"Shove off, Malfoy," Ron said through gritted teeth. But Malfoy ignored him as his eyes landed on Ryou.
"And who's the freak with the white hair?"
"Look who's talking," Fred shot back in Ryou's defense.
"He's my cousin, Malfoy." Harry told him in a low, dangerous voice. But Malfoy then saw Ryou's ring, and his eyes went wide.
"Where did you get that!" He exclaimed, pointing at the ring.
"M-My ring?" Ryou was very scared, how did this Malfoy person know about the ring? "My father gave it to me when I was seven."
"Who's you father?" Malfoy asked, still staring at the ring, then shifting his eyes to Ryou's face, "What's your last name?"
"B-Bakura." Malfoy's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates, as did Hermionie's and Ron's.
"You never told us that!" Ron exclaimed.
"Bakura? The archeologist?" Hermionie said in a astounded, but very hurried and excited voice. Ryou nodded and was about to reply when a sudden cold feeling come over him.
"What's that?" He asked quietly.
"What?" Harry said, while trying to get everyone else to shut up. Ryou stood up from the table and walked around, facing the west.
"That feeling, it just got so cold," he said. Ginny seemed to be very unstable at the moment. Ryou then spun around and grabbed his stuff. "We have to leave, now!"
"Why?" Asked George, getting up from the table.
"Something bad is coming," it was Ginny who answered this time, as she too got up from the table.
But they stalled to much, a sudden burst of cold swept through everyone, and they were all too aware of what it was.
"A dementor's coming!"
"Dementor?" Ryou hadn't gotten that far in his defense against the dark arts books.
"The creatures guarding Azkaban, the wizard prison. They're horrible creatures, all happiness is drained from you, leaving only your worst memories," Harry explained as quickly as he could. "When I first encountered a dementor, I fainted because my memories are so horrible, I'm over then now, but we still want to leave." Once again, they stalled too much, because a sudden wave hit them, and all of their worst memories flooded their minds. Flashes of Tom Riddle spread through poor Ginny's mind, Ron was having a replay of his experience with Aragog, who knows what Hermionie was thinking about, and pictures of Voldemort flashed in Harry's mind. But all were drained when a ear-piercing scream was heard, and Ryou sank to the ground. His hands pressed firmly against his head, he started to shake violently, and scream in what had to be a mixture of Japanese and English. His eyes were closed tightly, and he started to twist and turn on the ground.
"NO! NO! ONEGAI! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! GOMEN NASAI BAKURA!" His screaming increased as a tall, hooded black figure approached them. When it came within about a ten foot range with Ryou, his screams were no longer words, but just screams. His hands no longer pressed against his head, lay limply by them, he continued to shake violently and scream, his eyes shot open, but rolled into the back of his head.
"HARRY MAKE IT GO AWAY!" Ginny screamed at him. Harry took out his wand, but the Dementor didn't seem threatened by it, and continued towards then. Then, something horrible, and unexpected happened.
Ryou's screams ceased, something seemed to be clogging his throat, he still lay on the ground, shaking, then blood started to flow from his mouth. Hermionie screamed, Ron threw up, and George yelled, "OH MY GOD!" Ginny sank next to Ryou, and started to shake him, trying to make him snap out of whatever he was in, but Ryou was out cold.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Harry yelled, and a silver stag burst from Harry's wand, blasting into the Dementor, it went gliding in the opposite direction, to meet a few members of the Ministry of Magic.
"Ryou? Snap out of it, it's gone now. Ryou?" Ginny was trying to get Ryou to wake up. There was no more blood; but Ryou was still unconscious, and not moving at all, his eyes rolled into the back of his head facing the sky unblinkingly, and his mouth open because of the blood flow. Over all, he looked, dead.
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Freai: Yes, I feel evil today.
DM: Hope you really didn't kill him though.
Freai: I CAN'T DO THAT! What would my fic be about then?
DM: Please review!
Freai: AND NO FLAMES!
DM: Yeah, she's been working on this like crazy lately.
Freai: On paper that is.
DM: Oh well, lets just skip disclaimers and go on to the fic!
Freai: Works for me! ^^ Enjoy everyone!
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"Wow," Ryou breathed. He stood in the archway for Daigon Alley, staring in awe at what was laid before him. Shops, of all sorts, selling things Ryou had only imagined of: Dragon liver, flying broomsticks, spell books, even creatures he had never seen before.
Professor Dumbeldore had sent every student's supply lists early because one: He thought Ryou would need to practice actually 'using' magic before he came to Hogwarts, and two: With all of this 'Voldemort' business, it would be hard for some families to get to Daigon Alley in the short time between when they get their letter and when the Hogwarts Express leaves on September 1st.
Something finally hit Ryou as he walked along the busy streets with the Weasley's, he didn't have any money. And he wasn't about to get some off of Harry.
"Um, Mrs. Weasley?" He asked in his soft, polite voice. "How am I supposed to pay for my school supplies? I don't have any money with me."
"Well, according to this letter Dumbeldore sent me," she said, holding up a folded piece of parchment. "Your mother and father have a banking account in Gringotts."
"But, how is that possible? My parents weren't wizards."
"According to this letter they are, I'm just reading what Dumbledore sent me dear." Ryou read the piece of parchment and sure enough, it said just as Mrs. Weasley said. But, his dad never told him he was a wizard, why?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^Changing perspective, for now^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"His dad never told him he was a wizard?" Ron whispered.
"It is odd, but he must have had a good reason." Hermionie added.
Harry stayed silent as a thought just accrued to him, what if Ryou's father did have a good reason. What if it was for Ryou's own protection? Harry wasn't sure how, yet, but he had a feeling that was the case. There was something odd about his cousin, Ryou wasn't a normal kid.
*************Time jump! ^^******************
Ryou blinked in the bright sunlight after coming from the darkness of the underground caves inside Gringotts. He had never thought that he had so much money underground, Ryou could remember living off his father's $200 deposit a month back in Japan, but that was such a small amount compared to what was hidden in vault number 678.
"Why don't we get your wand first?" Hermionie suggested. So the group; now just Harry, Ron, Ryou, Hermionie, and Ginny, headed to Olivander's. They approached the small, wooden shop with peeling golden letters, and entered the dusty shop. A bell sounded somewhere in the shop, and a man with silver- gray hair and lamp-like eyes suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Ah, the transfer student," he said in a low, mysterious voice that really creeped Ryou out, he nodded curtly. "Well, step up boy! And hold out your wand arm." Ryou was left-handed, so he just held that up. And the shop- keeper, who must be Mr. Olivander, started to measure his arm with a very old tape measure.
"You're left-handed?" Harry asked from behind Ryou.
"Yeah, I broke my right wrist badly one time and had it in a cast for quite a while, so I had to start writing and stuff with my left hand, and I have ever since," Ryou replied, trying to sound like it was nothing big. But it had been Bakura who had broken his wrist, and he broke it repeatedly, still thinking Ryou was right-handed. Actually, Ryou could write with both hands, just in case Bakura decided to switch sides.
Coming back from his musing, Ryou noticed the tape-measure was moving on it's own, and was measuring between his nostrils. Failing to fight his urge, Ryou sneezed, and the tape measure snapped back in fright and fell to the floor, leaving Ryou blushing madly.
"Just leave it," Mr. Olivander said while examining a thin box. "I suspect that you will be a difficult customer, so try this: rosewood and Dragon heartstring. Seven inches. Does wonders with charm work." He handed it to Ryou. "Go ahead, give it a wave." Ryou gave the wand a quick wave, and the window shattered into pieces.
"Quite strong, aren't you?" Mr. Olivander asked, Ryou turning redder than he had been. And so began the 3 hour long process of giving Ryou a wand, and him breaking something. But as the pile of used wands climbed higher, Mr. Olivander's eyes filled more and more with excitement.
"You defiantly have a great deal of magic, we just have to find a wand that will be able to contain it." Mr. Olivander walked back far into his shop, and came back with a large, black chest. He opened it and pulled out a black leather box. "Now, these are from Egypt, I decided to use these from that necklace your wearing." Everyone then looked at Ryou's ring. "Some of these are double-cored, so we might try this, if we don't get it right, we may have an earthquake in the middle of Daigon Alley, so." He put the box back, and pulled out another black leather box, only this was lined in what looked like was gold! He opened it to reveal a sand-colored wand with a golden handle, and the eye of Horus engraved in it.
"Here, this is papyrus, nine inches, and two unicorn hairs. One is a regular white, but the other is black." The others behind Ryou looked shocked, was it not normal to have a black unicorn? Wait, of course it isn't, he read about this.
Ryou waved to wand, and sent blazing fireworks of different shades of blue all around the room.
"It think, we have your wand, but it may cost extra." So, after paying for his wand, which was twelve gold galleons, Ryou and everyone else left the shop. Everyone got all of their supplies, and were in Flourish and Blotts at the moment, when Ryou noticed a book that might interest him, 'Loop-hole spells to enchantments and curses.' Ryou had heard that all electronical devices won't work inside Hogwarts grounds, maybe he could find a 'loop- hole.'
He added the book to his purchases, and turned to notice a set of books written what looked like Ancient Egyptian. He picked the first volume up, and on the cover was the eye of Horus. But on the second volume was an engraved picture of the Millennium Rod! Ryou looked at each volume, the first one was an introduction, and the next seven where books about the seven Millennium Items, and the last two were what had to be 'instructions.' He had to get these before someone else did, it could be dangerous.
"Can you read those?" Asked a voice behind him. Ryou turned around to see the shop owner.
"Yes, I can read Ancient Egyptian."
"Well, then take them. No one else can read them anyway, so no one wants them. Go ahead, no charge." Ryou was astounded, that was easier than he thought.
"What did you get?" Ginny asked as Ryou finally joined the others outside the shop.
"Oh, just some books I was interested in," he said with a smile.
"Well, we all have our supplies," Hermionie said. "So why don't we help Ryou pick out a pet?"
"A pet?" Ryou asked.
"Yes, you're allowed to bring a pet to Hogwarts," Harry added. " You can think of it as a birthday present or something. You did say your birthday was on September 2nd, right?"
The group entered a small pet shop next to Flourish and Blotts, loud animal noises echoed through the shop. Ginny and Hermionie were looking at cats, Harry and Ron were looking at the owls, but Ryou was focused on something else. A few large, square cages were stacked, with a sign in front of them reading:
RAVENS JUST AS GOOD AS ANY OWL CAN CARRY HEAVIER LOADS NOT AS SUSPTIOUS TO MUGGLES 10 GALLEONS EACH
"A raven?" Harry asked, coming up behind his cousin.
"They're beautiful," Ryou said, admiring the blue gleam of the black feathers on the birds. He noticed one of the birds was smaller, and it's left eye was red instead of black . . .
**********Time Jump! Again!^^***************
Everyone met up at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor later that afternoon, all admiring Ryou's new raven, and just chatting. All they were waiting for now was Mrs. Weasley and Bill. Ryou was even starting to warm up to everyone, when some 'unwanted' faces came by.
"Well look, if it isn't Potter and his fan club," sneered a voice, followed by sniggers. There stood Draco Malfoy, and his goons Crabbe and Goyle.
"Shove off, Malfoy," Ron said through gritted teeth. But Malfoy ignored him as his eyes landed on Ryou.
"And who's the freak with the white hair?"
"Look who's talking," Fred shot back in Ryou's defense.
"He's my cousin, Malfoy." Harry told him in a low, dangerous voice. But Malfoy then saw Ryou's ring, and his eyes went wide.
"Where did you get that!" He exclaimed, pointing at the ring.
"M-My ring?" Ryou was very scared, how did this Malfoy person know about the ring? "My father gave it to me when I was seven."
"Who's you father?" Malfoy asked, still staring at the ring, then shifting his eyes to Ryou's face, "What's your last name?"
"B-Bakura." Malfoy's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates, as did Hermionie's and Ron's.
"You never told us that!" Ron exclaimed.
"Bakura? The archeologist?" Hermionie said in a astounded, but very hurried and excited voice. Ryou nodded and was about to reply when a sudden cold feeling come over him.
"What's that?" He asked quietly.
"What?" Harry said, while trying to get everyone else to shut up. Ryou stood up from the table and walked around, facing the west.
"That feeling, it just got so cold," he said. Ginny seemed to be very unstable at the moment. Ryou then spun around and grabbed his stuff. "We have to leave, now!"
"Why?" Asked George, getting up from the table.
"Something bad is coming," it was Ginny who answered this time, as she too got up from the table.
But they stalled to much, a sudden burst of cold swept through everyone, and they were all too aware of what it was.
"A dementor's coming!"
"Dementor?" Ryou hadn't gotten that far in his defense against the dark arts books.
"The creatures guarding Azkaban, the wizard prison. They're horrible creatures, all happiness is drained from you, leaving only your worst memories," Harry explained as quickly as he could. "When I first encountered a dementor, I fainted because my memories are so horrible, I'm over then now, but we still want to leave." Once again, they stalled too much, because a sudden wave hit them, and all of their worst memories flooded their minds. Flashes of Tom Riddle spread through poor Ginny's mind, Ron was having a replay of his experience with Aragog, who knows what Hermionie was thinking about, and pictures of Voldemort flashed in Harry's mind. But all were drained when a ear-piercing scream was heard, and Ryou sank to the ground. His hands pressed firmly against his head, he started to shake violently, and scream in what had to be a mixture of Japanese and English. His eyes were closed tightly, and he started to twist and turn on the ground.
"NO! NO! ONEGAI! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! GOMEN NASAI BAKURA!" His screaming increased as a tall, hooded black figure approached them. When it came within about a ten foot range with Ryou, his screams were no longer words, but just screams. His hands no longer pressed against his head, lay limply by them, he continued to shake violently and scream, his eyes shot open, but rolled into the back of his head.
"HARRY MAKE IT GO AWAY!" Ginny screamed at him. Harry took out his wand, but the Dementor didn't seem threatened by it, and continued towards then. Then, something horrible, and unexpected happened.
Ryou's screams ceased, something seemed to be clogging his throat, he still lay on the ground, shaking, then blood started to flow from his mouth. Hermionie screamed, Ron threw up, and George yelled, "OH MY GOD!" Ginny sank next to Ryou, and started to shake him, trying to make him snap out of whatever he was in, but Ryou was out cold.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" Harry yelled, and a silver stag burst from Harry's wand, blasting into the Dementor, it went gliding in the opposite direction, to meet a few members of the Ministry of Magic.
"Ryou? Snap out of it, it's gone now. Ryou?" Ginny was trying to get Ryou to wake up. There was no more blood; but Ryou was still unconscious, and not moving at all, his eyes rolled into the back of his head facing the sky unblinkingly, and his mouth open because of the blood flow. Over all, he looked, dead.
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Freai: Yes, I feel evil today.
DM: Hope you really didn't kill him though.
Freai: I CAN'T DO THAT! What would my fic be about then?
DM: Please review!
Freai: AND NO FLAMES!