Shinsei Unmei: Path of Light and Darkness Chapter Twelve: Old Items, New Hosts, a yu-gi-oh fanfic

Shinsei Unmei: Path of Light and Darkness

Chapter Twelve: Old Items, New Hosts

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After Christmas day, the group returned to their studies, every one of their professors having given out homework.

"Argh!" Marik cried after finishing his Herbology essay, 100 uses for the common dandelion, and threw his quill aside.

"This is boring! Why don't we take a break and give Harry a chance to show us his 'mad dueling skills'?" the Egyptian laughed, pulling his own deck out of his pocket.

"You're on. But I don't think you of all people need to worry about my quote 'mad dueling skills' Marik. After all, you did finish in the top 2 at Battle City in Japan." Harry replied, fishing his deck out of his robes.

"Duel!" the two exclaimed, a few of the remaining Gryffindors crowding around to watch.

Harry Potter: 4000/ Marik Ishtar: 4000

"You can have first turn Harry." Marik sneered, drawing his starting five cards.

Harry drew and frowned as he looked through his dueling hand, not one of his better cards. 'I guess I'll have to make do with this one.' He thought to himself, selecting one and pulling it away. "I set one monster in defensive position and cover one trap card. End turn."

"Harry, you do realize you aren't supposed to tell Marik what type of card you lay face down right? That's part of the suspense." Yugi frowned, standing behind the English boy to look through his hand.

Marik smirked and drew his start of turn card, smirking even more when he looked through his six-card hand. "I set one monster, sign of defense and add two cards face down. End turn." Marik said coolly, hoping Yugi wouldn't figure out his plan until it was too late to help Harry out of it.

Harry drew and smiled, 'Yes! A spell card!' he exclaimed mentally, not bothering to hide his glee upon drawing the card. "I play the spell card Harpies Feather Duster, to wipe out your two face down cards." Harry said smoothly, watching Marik frown as his plan went under.

"I remove my Slime Breeding Machine and my Jam Defender from the field."

"Now, I summon Black Magician Girl (2000), offensive mode." Harry added as tossed his face down Mystical Elf into his graveyard as a tribute. "Now, I attack your face down monster card with her."

Harry Potter: 4000/ Marik Ishtar: 4000

"My turn." Marik muttered as his Revival Slime returned to the field, but his plan was useless without his spell and trap Harry destroyed last turn. 'Or not...' the Egyptian boy thought with a smile, this card could just help him out.

"Restoration of Mystics!" Marik cried, playing his spell on the field. "This spell allows me to return all non-monster cards sent to the graveyard in the previous turn to their owners hand." He smiled, picking up his Jam Defender and Slime Breeding Machine.

"But, at the price of five hundred life points apiece, I can choose any cards I wish to be untouched by this card's affect. And I choose your Harpies Feather Duster!" he added, setting both of his newly resurrected cards onto the field.

Harry Potter: 4000/ Marik Ishtar: 3500

"I finish by activating Slime Breeding Machine." Marik sighed, leaning back in his wooden chair.

'Yugi, Marik's planning to bring out Ra... I can feel it. You need to help Harry so he doesn't lose his interest in dueling.' Yami no Yugi thought to his other half, not daring to appear behind his hikari.

"Harry. Marik's planning to bring out his strongest monster, God of Sun, Dragon Ra. You need to get rid of his slime tokens, but his covered card is Jam Defender, which lets his Revival Slime take all the attacks you throw." Yugi whispered, hoping Harry would be able to pull a card that could stop Marik.

"Alright" Harry replied, drawing a card from his deck.

'Heart of the Cards... Help him!' both Yugis thought together, all of their will pouring into Harry's deck.

"Marik... Your scheme is finished! I play the spell card Cross-Ritual!" Harry exclaimed, his face showing triumph. "We switch hands, fields, and we have our life points." Harry smirked, proud of his rarest card.

Harry Potter: 2000/ Marik Ishtar: 1750

Grumbling, Marik swapped his cards for Harry's, picking up his covered trap to see what it was.

"Ha! Now, I cover one card and end my turn."

Surprised by the power of his foe's spell card, Marik grumbled. Without Ra, this was going to be a long duel. But, the card Marik drew next changed that.

"I draw and summon Vorse Raider (1900), sign of offense. I attack, with both monsters, finishing your life points!" Marik exclaimed, leaning back triumphantly.

"Counter! Jam Defender!" Harry cried in response, flipping up Marik's trap.

"Chain! Seven Tools of the Bandit!" Marik laughed, activating Harry's previous trap.

"YOU HAD THAT ON THE FIELD?!" Yugi, Seto, and Ryou cried in unison, rolling on the floor clutching their stomachs, well, okay. Maybe Seto wasn't rolling, but he did laugh once.

"Yeah... It was the first card I played. I don't know how to use it yet though. Was that a mistake?" Harry asked dumbfounded, looking over the field.

"I pay one thousand life points and your trap is negated! So much for your plan." Marik sneered, picking up the cards on the field and shuffling his own into his deck.

Harry Potter: 0000/ Marik Ishtar: 0700

"Good duel Harry." Yugi added from behind him, putting his hand on his friend's shoulder.

Harry and Yugi left the common room to walk down to the grounds, all thoughts of their homework abandoned.

They were walking across the second floor when Seto came out of a tapestry nearby, scaring the crap out of Yugi.

"Seto! Why are you going to the library?" the shorter boy called after him, receiving a grunt from Seto in return.

"Well, isn't he just Mr. Japan?" Yugi scoffed, losing Harry completely in his thoughts.

"Er... I know what he's doing." Harry muttered, getting Yugi to turn around and face him.

"What?"

"Well... After you were caught in the forbidden third floor corridor, Hermione, Ron, and I went down to Hagrid's to ask him if he knew about the dog. Its name is Fluffy and Hagrid loaned it to Dumbledore to protect something. Hermione got Hagrid to let a name slip, Nicolas Flamel. Since then, Hermione and Seto have been searching the library for information on him." Harry replied softly, a Hufflepuff sixth year passing them.

'She's got him whipped.' Yami no Yugi chuckled lightly, causing his other self to sweatdrop in reality.

The day before Hermione and the rest of the school came back, Seto and Ryou moved back into Ravenclaw, leaving Yugi, Marik, Harry, and Ron alone in their dormitory.

After everyone else had drifted to sleep, Yugi slipped out of the dormitory door, creeping noiselessly down the stairs to the common room.

Looking around once for anyone still in the dark common room, Yugi crept across and pushed open the portrait of the fat lady, allowing a lone figure entrance.

"Yami no Bakura?" Yugi whispered, noting the spiky white hair and the flashes of gold from beneath his cloak.

"Yes pharaoh. Now, what the bloody hell did you want at eleven o clock? Even spirits need their sleep." The thief grumbled, shaking his head to clear his thoughts.

"I need you to use the Sennen ring and let me know whether or not Harry is supposed to be the host of the Sennen ankh. He keeps turning up with it, but he can never remember it when I ask him." Yugi whispered, leading Yami no Bakura up the dark staircase and into the first year dormitory.

Yami no Bakura stood in the doorway and closed his eyes, focusing on the power of darkness inside the Sennen ring. Instantly, one of the golden spikes on the ring pointed to the Sennen puzzle on Yugi's bedside table, another pointed to Yugi's trunk, and a third pointed to Harry.

"Thanks, you can go now." Yugi yawned, returning to his own bed and hoping the tomb robber wasn't going to be caught in the common room.

The next morning, Yugi woke early, the light from the open window stirring him awake much earlier than he had planned.

"Harry?" Yugi whispered as he rubbed his eyes, blinking and seeing Harry still sitting on the windowsill.

The English boy sighed and turned back to the window, staring out across the lake to the mountains beyond.

"Harry. We need to talk now. Before everyone gets up." Yami no Yugi said sternly as Yugi picked up the Sennen puzzle and he switched places with his light half.

"Yugi?" Harry replied, confused by the sudden change in his friend.

"I am not Yugi as you believe. I am Yami no Yugi. Or the Yugi of Darkness if you prefer. My real name is Atem (u), but if you call me that you might blow my light's cover." Yami no Yugi replied, standing up to his full height.

Waiting a moment for this to sink in, Yami no Yugi realized he should clarify what he meant before Harry called professor McGonagall telling her Yugi was being possessed.

"I am the spirit inside the Sennen puzzle. Yugi's other half. I am the dark to his light. Just like the spirit of the Sennen ankh is your dark. In reality, I'm not really dark at all. Just Yugi's other half."

Yami no Yugi kicked open his trunk and fished out a golden ankh the size of Harry's forearm (PERVERTS). "Here." He added as he tossed the ankh to Harry, who caught it in reflex, "It's yours after all."

Harry looked from the ankh to Yami no Yugi dumbfounded, the ankh glowing lightly in his hand.

Harry's eyes suddenly glazed over and Yami no Yugi smiled, realizing the spirit of the ankh was revealing himself to his host.

Harry returned a moment later with a look of awkward shock on his face. He tossed the ankh onto his bed and pulled on a new set of clothes, clasping his robes together last.

Cautiously, but with the skill of practice, Harry pulled the ankh down over his head, putting it at rest just above his heart, where it flashed brightly once and returned to its dormant state.

"Oh, and don't tell anyone you don't trust with your life about the Sennen items. You may just lose it." Yami no Yugi warned, walking down the dormitory stairs.

Harry stood confused for a moment before a voice in his mind reassured him. 'With me by your side, there's nothing you can't do.'

Harry turned around and jumped back, there was a man standing behind him! "Who the hell are you?" Harry exclaimed, waking most of the dormitory.

The man sighed and disappeared, leaving Harry with an empty feeling in his soul.

Marik shook his head as he sat up in bed, pushing himself up with his hands. Reaching into a drawer in his bedside table, he meant to grab his wand. However, instead, he picked up a spherical object. An object that sent chills down his spine. The Sennen eye.

Marik was instantly awake, fumbling to get dressed as fast as possible. A few minutes later, he picked up his backpack and bolted out of the room, leaving the other boys clueless.

"Yugi!" he called out after leaving the House common room, hoping the boy wasn't too far away. In fact, Yugi poked his head out from the next corner, a curious look on his face.

Marik hurried over and looked over his shoulder, making sure no one would see what he was about to pull out of his backpack.

Marik stuck his hand inside and pulled out the Sennen eye, showing it Yugi.

Yami no Bakura walked out of a shadow behind the two as soon as the eye was revealed, a frown on his face.

"Marik. Give that back to me." The thief said simply, a look of malice on his face.

Marik handed back the Sennen item shakily, a feeling of regret flowing through him from it.

Yami no Bakura snatched back the eye in a hurry, quickly shoving it into his robes. "Don't steal from me again Marik. It will be the last time you would. I assure you."

With that, Yami no Bakura released control to Ryou, who rubbed the back of his neck embarrassed. "Sorry bout that Marik. He gets a little temperamental when he loses things."

The day classes resumed came soon, being the next Monday after the students returned. Transfiguration was doubly as hard, professor McGonagall deciding to "prepare them early for their upcoming exams".

That night, Yugi was walking past Harry in the common room when he heard excited whispers and decided to stop and eavesdrop.

"Harry! I found who Nicolas Flamel is! He worked with Dumbledore on the Philosophers Stone!" Hermione exclaimed hurriedly as soft as she could, pointing to a reference in a book filled with small text.

"Oh! Hey Yugi!" she added, seeing the tips of Yugi's hair pointing over the top of Harry's high-backed chair.

"You finally found Flamel?" Yugi replied, coming around the chair and reading over Harry's shoulder.

"How-d"

"Harry told me." Yugi interjected, the Sennen puzzle flashing in the light of the nearby fire.

Hermione gasped and her eyes glazed over, a golden necklace shining brightly around her neck...

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