Hello again...I'm still alive...sorry this took so very long...I don't know what
I've been doing...but its kept me busy lol. For those who had to write exams
not that long ago...I hope they went well...mine did...haha my ancient history
one made me laugh! One question honest to Ra said "In 67 AD who was
responsible for removing the pirates from the Mediterranean? a) Pompey b)
Caesar c) Crassus d) Captain Jack Sparrow" rofl! I thought that was great!
Oh and for those who don't know the answer is a) Pompey...lol not d) Captain
Jack Sparrows...as much as I wanted to put that to give my TA a giggle. Ok ok
enough blabbering from me!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Yu Gi Oh sobs but I really wish I did!
And now a very important warning! Warning: when making cookies one cannot substitute milk for an egg...the egg is actually needed.
And now...on to chapter 16! (can you believe it 16 chapters already!!)
----------------- The first class after lunch was charms, and the slightly overwhelmed new students emerged with another 3 workbooks, which needed to be done before they started on any fifth year class work.
Nami looked at the front of the first workbook for Charms they had been given, "I think this has even more than transfiguration!" she groaned.
Yugi laughed, "I liked the class, Professor Flitwick made me feel tall."
"Now that's an accomplishment," snarled Malik. School was disagreeing with him greatly. School definitely made him grouchy. Malik decided this whole school idea was not cool.
Yugi stuck out his tongue, not really hurt by the remark. "What do we have next?"
Nami shrugged, "I don't know, I'm just following Neville," she laughed.
Neville smiled, "Care of Magical Creatures, with Hagrid."
"Isn't he the big guy," Malik questioned, "you know, the one who came to get us and couldn't speak a word of Japanese."
"Yup," Harry stated, coming up from behind Malik, "he's my favourite teacher, and the class is pretty good too!"
"Definitely better than Snape," Ron added, relieved that charms was over.
Once the Gryffindors reached Hagrid's cabin, they were greeted with loud barks from Fang, who woofed happily from in the hut, and an evil glare from Malfoy.
Malik smirked, his mood increasing at Malfoy's discomfort. "Anything wrong Malfie?" Malik laughed, knowing perfectly well what was wrong with Malfoy.
"I don't know how you did that, but there is something wrong with you and I intend to find out," Malfoy's eyes narrowed with determination.
"What did you do?" demanded Yami, who automatically took over upon hearing Malfoy's words, "It better not have been what I think it is!"
Bakura, upon seeing Yami out, decided that if Yami could come out then so could he, joined the scene. "Oh, please do share what you did," he sneered at Malfoy as he spoke to Malik, "I'd love to hear it."
/Bakura! Stop!/ Ryou demanded, /I'm in the middle of class! Remember,/ he pleaded, /class time is my time!/
Oh, relax, you're so uptight! Yami's out, why can't I be?Ryou only fought harder to regain control, Oh, fine! But you owe me again, and I'll be out and about tonight.
As Ryou regained control from his smirking yami, Hagrid came out of his hut.
"A'right, you lot, quit it. Malfoy, Malik, Ryou, stop now," Hagrid shook his head, "Firs' day an' already yer going at it. Knew this would happen!"
The students reached a mutual seize fire for the moment and turned their attention towards Hagrid as he walked to the front of the mass of students. Hagrid stood at the front of the class and appeared to be in deep thought.
"Well, let me see here, we got four new students ter the class. So why don't you come up 'ere and tell us 'bout yourselves," Hagrid mused, scratching his beard.
Yugi jumped up and bounced to the front of the class. "I'm Yugi Motou, I live in Japan, and I love games, especially duel monsters!" He smiled brightly and turned to Ryou.
Oh, and I share my body with the greatest Pharaoh of Egypt, the all mighty and powerful, bow before me,Yami added in his mind, I like the way that sounds.
/Yami!/
What? I was kidding!
Ryou, who had switched schools often, was quite used to this exercise, and didn't need to think about what he was going to say. "I'm Ryou Bakura, I am originally from England, but my father lives in Japan right now. I too enjoy games, and play duel monsters."
And I share my body with the single most evil person from ancient Egypt, be afraid, be very afraid!Bakura laughed insanely from his soul room.
Malik was next, "Malik Ishtar, I live in Egypt, that is all you need to know."
Someone's hand shot up in the rest of the class and Hagrid called on them, "Do you play duel monsters too? What is 'duel monsters'?"
Yugi answered, saving the poor unsuspecting student from the wrath of Malik, "Yes, he plays duel monsters, he's pretty good too. Duel monsters is a huge game in Japan right now."
"Good, good, welcome to Hogwarts," Hagrid started, "this is Care o' Magical Creatures. Don' worry I didn't make any booklets fer ya to finish. You'll just join the rest of the class. Now this year we're gonna cover a few great creatures, and I got this great shipment of a surprise fer ya. You'll love it!"
Hermione, Ron and Harry exchanged worried looks, "I'm terrified," Hermione whispered so that Hagrid couldn't hear her, "Absolutely terrified!"
By the time Care of Magical Creatures was over Nami, Ryou, Malik and Yugi learned why they should be terrified of Hagrid's 'surprises' and 'great' creatures through various stories that occurred over the last few years told to them by various students in the class while Hagrid wasn't listening, and they too now feared for their lives. However, death by some 'cute' or 'perfectly harmless' creature was pushed from their minds.
"Alright, you freak," snarled Malfoy as he came up behind the group of new students, "I know you did something, and if it was an Unforgivable then I'm going to tell Professor Dumbledore and you'll be in so much trouble you will wish you never met me!"
Malik just smirked, "Well, you go ahead, because I don't know what you're talking about, Malfie."
Malfoy, who was fuming, threw a piece of crumpled up paper at Malik and stormed away, sending his attempts at evil glares every which way, utterly confused and embarrassed.
"What is an unforgivable?" Malik pondered aloud, but his question was soon forgotten as Nami bent down and picked up the paper, as she read it she started to laugh out loud.
"Malik! This is what you did!"
"What does it say?" demanded Yami in his usual commanding tone.
Nami read the paper out loud, "'I, Draco Maflie, smell bad, very bad. I am nothing more then a snivelling worm. All hail Malik, the undisputed Pharaoh of the entire world. Malik is all-powerful, I bow before him, I am honoured to be in his all knowing presence and to serve under his all mighty reign. Malik is great and I am not. Malik is better than the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh is nothing, Malik is more important and powerful. Malik is better than the Pharaoh...' It just keeps going!" Nami laughed and turned to Malik, "How did you get him to write this? You sure seem to have an obsession with being better than this Pharaoh guy," Nami mused to herself. "Hey! Yugi, don't they call you the Pharaoh?" Yami nodded regally, "Oh, so Malik wants to be better than you? You guys are strange." Nami tucked all this information away to discuss later with Kaya.
"What do we have next?" questioned Ryou as he skipped up the grass to the main entrance of Hogwarts, drawing the attention away from Malik's antics.
Nami turned to Neville, who had just ran to catch up with Nami along with Dean, "Well, Neville old boy, what and where is it?"
Neville groaned, "History of Magic, this is terrible!"
"Why?" Ryou asked, curious as to how history could be terrible in anyway.
"Professor Binns is the single most boring ghost on the face of the planet," Dean put in from beside Neville.
"Ghost?" Yugi thought aloud.
"Yea, Professor Binns died awhile ago, but he still comes and teaches classes in an attempt to kill the rest of us by boring us to death. History is the single most boring class ever," Dean and Neville nodded their heads in agreement.
"History has always been my favourite subject, I don't think its possible to make history boring!" Nami nodded in agreement with Ryou.
"Wait till you meet Binns."
By the end of History of Magic all of the students were bored stiff and yawning, even Ryou and Nami. How one person could drone on in the same monotone voice for an hour, never once changing pace or pitch, never once cracking a joke or glancing up from the textbook astounded Nami. She spent the entire hour making small talk with Kaya about their other work, and thank goodness for Kaya, or else Nami might have actually died of boredom. How did these other people survive without another person in their head!?
As the Gryffindors returned to the common room, they all dove head first into their homework, in a futile attempt to finish it before dinner, this of course was a joke, especially for the new students. In the common room Nami, Ryou, Yugi and Malik grabbed a table and crowded around it, spreading out their textbooks and workbooks.
"Well, it'll help if we go through this together," suggested Yugi, staring hopelessly at the amount of work in front of him, "what should we do first?"
Nami pulled out her schedule, "Well, the work for Potions has to be done for tomorrow, we should do that first. We need to research the potion, make notes and figure out what all this stuff is. And then when we're done potions we can start on Transfiguration and Charms."
Ryou looked at his Potions text, "I have no idea what we're doing."
Nami sighed, "Neither do I, but maybe my partner knows," Nami laughed, "I'm going to go and work on this with Neville. I'll be back when we're done and see if I can help you."
Nami wandered off with her books, in search of her partner, she milled around the busy common room until she found him sitting with Ron, Harry and Hermione.
"Hey Neville," Nami greeted him, "I was wondering if you minded if we did our Potions stuff now, I know it seems a little geeky, but I'd feel better if it was done so I can do some other work."
Neville smiled, "I'm going to warn you again, I'm terrible at Potions, it's really my worst subject. Snape will probably fail you just because you're my partner."
"Well, then lets get to work and not give him a reason to fail us."
Neville and Nami slaved away over their textbooks, making notes on what each of the ingredients need was and its special notes and uses, and then making notes in the potion itself. By the time they were done and went over it a couple times until they were comfortable with the procedure it was almost dinner.
"I'm starved!" declared Nami as she patted her tummy.
"Me too," Neville smiled, "this is the best I've ever felt about anything involving Potions. I think we can do this."
"That's the ticket! Positive thinking. We can do this!" Nami cheered, a wide grin from ear to ear. "Ok, well, I want to start my Transfiguration before we go to dinner, so I'll talk to you later Neville." Nami smiled, gathered her books, and pranced over to the group of new students huddled over some Potions books.
"You guys not done yet?" Nami questioned.
Yugi and Ryou sighed collectively, "We had a bit of a problem," Yugi started, "some of us didn't want to work." It was true, between Malik and the ever appearing and disappearing Bakura, not much was getting done.
"Here, let me see if I can help," Nami bent down over the book and inspected the work they already had finished. "Well, for starters, you're missing the most important ingredient, the wolfsbane. Silly geese," Nami smiled and shook her head.
After another fifteen minutes of work under the guidance of Nami, Yugi, Malik and Ryou soon were finished as well. They gathered up their Potions work and ditched it in their rooms, so they wouldn't have to look at it.
Finally, after what felt like eons, the group collectively decided it was dinnertime and made their way down to the great hall, where dinner was almost ready to be served. Once in the great hall, which never failed to amaze Nami, the hungry crowd made their way to the Gryffindor table and plopped down, ready to tuck in. As the food magically appeared, hungry teenagers and pre-teens dug in and heaped the delicious smelling food onto their plates.
Once Nami sat down and loaded her plate, she turned to Ryou, who sat next to her, and began to chitchat as they ate. Yami, once making sure that no one would be paying particular attention to himself, switched with Yugi and turned to glare at Malik.
"That was not funny, Malik," Yami's red eyes narrowed.
"I thought it was, and I'd put money on Bakura still rolling on the floor of his soul room with laughter right now," Malik replied back, keeping his voice very low, so he wouldn't be heard over the buzz of the other students.
"That was stupid. Malfoy is now onto us, you have put us all in an awkward position."
Malik shrugged, "How is dear old Malfie going to prove it? He can't. What is he going to do? Say I used mind control on him, I made him do it without him knowing he was? He'd sound crazy. We have nothing to worry about."
Yami's eyes narrowed further, "You'd better hope so."
Yami returned to his soul room, attempting to think of a way that would make Malik understand how important keeping this a secret was, leaving Yugi to finish dinner, which passed without further incident. Well, except for the small exchange of flying food between the two Weasley twins.
After dinner the group went back upstairs and dove back into the mountain of homework that needed to be done. They finished up the Transfiguration and Charms work much faster than they expected, taking only about an hour and a half together. After putting the work back in their bags in their rooms, the group made their way back down to the common room.
Kaya stretched her arms, glad for the freedom after being trapped inside Nami all day. Having to watch all day wasn't near as fun as being out and about, poking things to see what they did, and asking a million and one questions that Nami refused to ask.
"So," started Kaya, "what do we do now?"
My turn! You owe me,Bakura smiled evilly as he gained control of his shared body.
Ryou merely groaned as Bakura instantly turned to Yugi, "Hey, Pharaoh's brat, I demand a rematch!"
"Do not refer to," Yami started, who was out in an instant and furious at the lack of respect directed towards Yugi from Bakura, but stopped before he gave himself away, "me as a brat, you may either call me Yugi or Pharaoh," Yami finished, the rage still burning in his eyes.
"Fine, but I demand a rematch!" Bakura drew out his deck from Ryou's pocket.
"I think not," put in Malik, as he too brought out his deck, "It's my turn. Besides, hasn't the Pharaoh kicked your sorry ass enough?"
"Please, pure blind luck, that's all the Pharaoh has going for him. I will duel him again, and I will win," Bakura turned back to Yami, expecting him to chose who he would duel.
Yami rolled his eyes, as he too pulled out his and Yugi's deck, "I will duel Malik first, since I was not able to at the inn. Then I will defeat Bakura, again."
Bakura frowned and began to send death glares to Malik, he wanted to defeat the Pharaoh and he wanted to do it now!
Malik rolled his eyes, "Fine, you go first Bakura, and then I'll kick Pharaoh's ass."
Bakura's frown turned into a creepy smile as he sat down at the table across from Yami, I'm gonna get him this time,he sang to himself merrily as he and Yami shuffled their deck and drew their cards.
At this point in time Kaya was a little lost as to what was happening. Firstly, what were they playing, she had never seen a game like this before, even though it seemed vaguely familiar, and secondly, Yugi and Ryou had both changed, they were different. Ryou was much colder and meaner, and Yugi seemed more commanding and his eyes were no longer big and innocent, they were narrower and much older.
"What are we doing?" Kaya asked Malik, as he sat down beside her.
"Playing duel monsters," explained Malik as he watched the duel begin.
"That game from Japan, right?"
"Yes, but it did not originate there," Malik added without thinking.
"Oh," Kaya thought for a moment, "it originated in Egypt right?" she asked without knowing why she thought that.
Malik snapped his head around to look at the girl beside him, "Yes, how did you know?" his eyes narrowed in concentration.
"I don't know, I just asked before I thought. I've never heard of it before." Kaya tilted her head to the side as she watched the two boys play their cards in different positions. "How do you play?"
The rest of the duel was spent with Malik telling Kaya the details of duel monsters, how certain cards worked and what some of the cards special abilities were. Bakura lost, again, but it was another close duel. He cursed himself as he packed up Ryou's deck so that Malik could have a go at the Pharaoh.
Ryou came back out and kept Kaya company as they watched the next duel. They had been quiet and avoided drawing a crowd, so it was just the four of them, Malik and Yami exchanging threats and Ryou continuing Malik's explanation of duel monsters. Kaya picked up quickly, and soon could follow the game easily, and even once suggested a good move.
By the time Malik's last life points disappeared Kaya was ready for bed, as was the rest of the group. Nearly everyone else had left the common room for their dorms, their comfy beds calling to them.
"Well, good night guys, see you tomorrow," Kaya smiled as she skipped off to bed.
Kaya left the boys sitting at the table, looking at their decks in deep thought.
"There's something about her that just doesn't fit," Ryou mumbled, "I can't put my finger on it though."
"She seems so very familiar, I know I've seen her somewhere before, I just don't know where," Malik added, still thinking hard.
"Yami says she seems vaguely familiar as well," Yugi relayed for his spirit half.
The three students stood and headed for their own beds, still thinking. Once they entered the dorm they shared with the other fifth year boys they changed into pyjamas, Malik thankful that everyone else was already asleep, and climbed into bed, still pondering over their new friend.
Nami and Kaya were lying in bed, nearly asleep, still discussing things from that day.
I liked Care of Magical Creatures, I can't wait to see what Hagrid brings in for us!exclaimed Kaya.
Nami groaned, /I think I could wait, but I would like to see some magical creatures, that would be exciting./ Nami turned and snuggled further into her blankets.
Watching duel monsters was fun,Kaya continued to talk as Nami began to nod off, but it seems so familiar, like I've played before, but I haven't since I've met you, and I don't remember anything but darkness until I met you. Strange.
R&R please and thank you
Serryn - snape comments to come...he was busy...important business to attend to...if i tell you more i would have to kill you...hmmm i haven't seen peanut butter for awhile...i should go visit her...well and my mommy too i suppose lol
Maruken - lol i know who the prof is but i'm not gonna tell just yet...well that's cos honestly i'm not positive...nope its not shadi...too used lol...Charlie is a good idea though...i'll keep that in mind!
EarthFaerie246 - i think i already answered this for you in an email...but i'll do it again...that was Ryou who said that...i know it seems a little out of character at first...but if you think about it he DOES have an occult deck...i thought it wasn't too far of a stretch...but if you think differently that alright lol
Katie - thanks, i'm glad you love the story...this is my first fanfic...hopefully not the last...i'm planning on writing a sixth year story as well...but we'll see how this one goes first lol...yay! its great!
Anime Lover - i love cookies! mmmmm! peanut butter chocolate chip! yummy!! lol...i know who the DADA teach will be...lol but i'm not telling just yet! its a surprise! hope you enjoyed this chappie! hug
Kaze - hey i think you're right! i haven't read one that happens in the girls dorms either! lol i'll work to put more in about that...i think'll i'll end up making the girls real air heads but whatever lol...so you found out what Malik made Malfoy write...hehe poor Malfoy...thinks he's losing his mind glomp
misuto - lol i don't think Hermione and Malik would ever get along...meh oh well...i thought dumbledore substitute teaching would be cool...so i made him the sub lol ermm...you coming to AN with us?
kanikameskhenet - i always hated homework too! thank ra i'm done school...for now lol hope you enjoyed this chappie as much as the last ones
Bakura's Pheonix - lol i'm gald its interesting...hope you like...thanks for reading
annonomis - yay! you think its awesome! yay! that makes my day!! hug
until next time....later days hino!
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Yu Gi Oh sobs but I really wish I did!
And now a very important warning! Warning: when making cookies one cannot substitute milk for an egg...the egg is actually needed.
And now...on to chapter 16! (can you believe it 16 chapters already!!)
----------------- The first class after lunch was charms, and the slightly overwhelmed new students emerged with another 3 workbooks, which needed to be done before they started on any fifth year class work.
Nami looked at the front of the first workbook for Charms they had been given, "I think this has even more than transfiguration!" she groaned.
Yugi laughed, "I liked the class, Professor Flitwick made me feel tall."
"Now that's an accomplishment," snarled Malik. School was disagreeing with him greatly. School definitely made him grouchy. Malik decided this whole school idea was not cool.
Yugi stuck out his tongue, not really hurt by the remark. "What do we have next?"
Nami shrugged, "I don't know, I'm just following Neville," she laughed.
Neville smiled, "Care of Magical Creatures, with Hagrid."
"Isn't he the big guy," Malik questioned, "you know, the one who came to get us and couldn't speak a word of Japanese."
"Yup," Harry stated, coming up from behind Malik, "he's my favourite teacher, and the class is pretty good too!"
"Definitely better than Snape," Ron added, relieved that charms was over.
Once the Gryffindors reached Hagrid's cabin, they were greeted with loud barks from Fang, who woofed happily from in the hut, and an evil glare from Malfoy.
Malik smirked, his mood increasing at Malfoy's discomfort. "Anything wrong Malfie?" Malik laughed, knowing perfectly well what was wrong with Malfoy.
"I don't know how you did that, but there is something wrong with you and I intend to find out," Malfoy's eyes narrowed with determination.
"What did you do?" demanded Yami, who automatically took over upon hearing Malfoy's words, "It better not have been what I think it is!"
Bakura, upon seeing Yami out, decided that if Yami could come out then so could he, joined the scene. "Oh, please do share what you did," he sneered at Malfoy as he spoke to Malik, "I'd love to hear it."
/Bakura! Stop!/ Ryou demanded, /I'm in the middle of class! Remember,/ he pleaded, /class time is my time!/
Oh, relax, you're so uptight! Yami's out, why can't I be?Ryou only fought harder to regain control, Oh, fine! But you owe me again, and I'll be out and about tonight.
As Ryou regained control from his smirking yami, Hagrid came out of his hut.
"A'right, you lot, quit it. Malfoy, Malik, Ryou, stop now," Hagrid shook his head, "Firs' day an' already yer going at it. Knew this would happen!"
The students reached a mutual seize fire for the moment and turned their attention towards Hagrid as he walked to the front of the mass of students. Hagrid stood at the front of the class and appeared to be in deep thought.
"Well, let me see here, we got four new students ter the class. So why don't you come up 'ere and tell us 'bout yourselves," Hagrid mused, scratching his beard.
Yugi jumped up and bounced to the front of the class. "I'm Yugi Motou, I live in Japan, and I love games, especially duel monsters!" He smiled brightly and turned to Ryou.
Oh, and I share my body with the greatest Pharaoh of Egypt, the all mighty and powerful, bow before me,Yami added in his mind, I like the way that sounds.
/Yami!/
What? I was kidding!
Ryou, who had switched schools often, was quite used to this exercise, and didn't need to think about what he was going to say. "I'm Ryou Bakura, I am originally from England, but my father lives in Japan right now. I too enjoy games, and play duel monsters."
And I share my body with the single most evil person from ancient Egypt, be afraid, be very afraid!Bakura laughed insanely from his soul room.
Malik was next, "Malik Ishtar, I live in Egypt, that is all you need to know."
Someone's hand shot up in the rest of the class and Hagrid called on them, "Do you play duel monsters too? What is 'duel monsters'?"
Yugi answered, saving the poor unsuspecting student from the wrath of Malik, "Yes, he plays duel monsters, he's pretty good too. Duel monsters is a huge game in Japan right now."
"Good, good, welcome to Hogwarts," Hagrid started, "this is Care o' Magical Creatures. Don' worry I didn't make any booklets fer ya to finish. You'll just join the rest of the class. Now this year we're gonna cover a few great creatures, and I got this great shipment of a surprise fer ya. You'll love it!"
Hermione, Ron and Harry exchanged worried looks, "I'm terrified," Hermione whispered so that Hagrid couldn't hear her, "Absolutely terrified!"
By the time Care of Magical Creatures was over Nami, Ryou, Malik and Yugi learned why they should be terrified of Hagrid's 'surprises' and 'great' creatures through various stories that occurred over the last few years told to them by various students in the class while Hagrid wasn't listening, and they too now feared for their lives. However, death by some 'cute' or 'perfectly harmless' creature was pushed from their minds.
"Alright, you freak," snarled Malfoy as he came up behind the group of new students, "I know you did something, and if it was an Unforgivable then I'm going to tell Professor Dumbledore and you'll be in so much trouble you will wish you never met me!"
Malik just smirked, "Well, you go ahead, because I don't know what you're talking about, Malfie."
Malfoy, who was fuming, threw a piece of crumpled up paper at Malik and stormed away, sending his attempts at evil glares every which way, utterly confused and embarrassed.
"What is an unforgivable?" Malik pondered aloud, but his question was soon forgotten as Nami bent down and picked up the paper, as she read it she started to laugh out loud.
"Malik! This is what you did!"
"What does it say?" demanded Yami in his usual commanding tone.
Nami read the paper out loud, "'I, Draco Maflie, smell bad, very bad. I am nothing more then a snivelling worm. All hail Malik, the undisputed Pharaoh of the entire world. Malik is all-powerful, I bow before him, I am honoured to be in his all knowing presence and to serve under his all mighty reign. Malik is great and I am not. Malik is better than the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh is nothing, Malik is more important and powerful. Malik is better than the Pharaoh...' It just keeps going!" Nami laughed and turned to Malik, "How did you get him to write this? You sure seem to have an obsession with being better than this Pharaoh guy," Nami mused to herself. "Hey! Yugi, don't they call you the Pharaoh?" Yami nodded regally, "Oh, so Malik wants to be better than you? You guys are strange." Nami tucked all this information away to discuss later with Kaya.
"What do we have next?" questioned Ryou as he skipped up the grass to the main entrance of Hogwarts, drawing the attention away from Malik's antics.
Nami turned to Neville, who had just ran to catch up with Nami along with Dean, "Well, Neville old boy, what and where is it?"
Neville groaned, "History of Magic, this is terrible!"
"Why?" Ryou asked, curious as to how history could be terrible in anyway.
"Professor Binns is the single most boring ghost on the face of the planet," Dean put in from beside Neville.
"Ghost?" Yugi thought aloud.
"Yea, Professor Binns died awhile ago, but he still comes and teaches classes in an attempt to kill the rest of us by boring us to death. History is the single most boring class ever," Dean and Neville nodded their heads in agreement.
"History has always been my favourite subject, I don't think its possible to make history boring!" Nami nodded in agreement with Ryou.
"Wait till you meet Binns."
By the end of History of Magic all of the students were bored stiff and yawning, even Ryou and Nami. How one person could drone on in the same monotone voice for an hour, never once changing pace or pitch, never once cracking a joke or glancing up from the textbook astounded Nami. She spent the entire hour making small talk with Kaya about their other work, and thank goodness for Kaya, or else Nami might have actually died of boredom. How did these other people survive without another person in their head!?
As the Gryffindors returned to the common room, they all dove head first into their homework, in a futile attempt to finish it before dinner, this of course was a joke, especially for the new students. In the common room Nami, Ryou, Yugi and Malik grabbed a table and crowded around it, spreading out their textbooks and workbooks.
"Well, it'll help if we go through this together," suggested Yugi, staring hopelessly at the amount of work in front of him, "what should we do first?"
Nami pulled out her schedule, "Well, the work for Potions has to be done for tomorrow, we should do that first. We need to research the potion, make notes and figure out what all this stuff is. And then when we're done potions we can start on Transfiguration and Charms."
Ryou looked at his Potions text, "I have no idea what we're doing."
Nami sighed, "Neither do I, but maybe my partner knows," Nami laughed, "I'm going to go and work on this with Neville. I'll be back when we're done and see if I can help you."
Nami wandered off with her books, in search of her partner, she milled around the busy common room until she found him sitting with Ron, Harry and Hermione.
"Hey Neville," Nami greeted him, "I was wondering if you minded if we did our Potions stuff now, I know it seems a little geeky, but I'd feel better if it was done so I can do some other work."
Neville smiled, "I'm going to warn you again, I'm terrible at Potions, it's really my worst subject. Snape will probably fail you just because you're my partner."
"Well, then lets get to work and not give him a reason to fail us."
Neville and Nami slaved away over their textbooks, making notes on what each of the ingredients need was and its special notes and uses, and then making notes in the potion itself. By the time they were done and went over it a couple times until they were comfortable with the procedure it was almost dinner.
"I'm starved!" declared Nami as she patted her tummy.
"Me too," Neville smiled, "this is the best I've ever felt about anything involving Potions. I think we can do this."
"That's the ticket! Positive thinking. We can do this!" Nami cheered, a wide grin from ear to ear. "Ok, well, I want to start my Transfiguration before we go to dinner, so I'll talk to you later Neville." Nami smiled, gathered her books, and pranced over to the group of new students huddled over some Potions books.
"You guys not done yet?" Nami questioned.
Yugi and Ryou sighed collectively, "We had a bit of a problem," Yugi started, "some of us didn't want to work." It was true, between Malik and the ever appearing and disappearing Bakura, not much was getting done.
"Here, let me see if I can help," Nami bent down over the book and inspected the work they already had finished. "Well, for starters, you're missing the most important ingredient, the wolfsbane. Silly geese," Nami smiled and shook her head.
After another fifteen minutes of work under the guidance of Nami, Yugi, Malik and Ryou soon were finished as well. They gathered up their Potions work and ditched it in their rooms, so they wouldn't have to look at it.
Finally, after what felt like eons, the group collectively decided it was dinnertime and made their way down to the great hall, where dinner was almost ready to be served. Once in the great hall, which never failed to amaze Nami, the hungry crowd made their way to the Gryffindor table and plopped down, ready to tuck in. As the food magically appeared, hungry teenagers and pre-teens dug in and heaped the delicious smelling food onto their plates.
Once Nami sat down and loaded her plate, she turned to Ryou, who sat next to her, and began to chitchat as they ate. Yami, once making sure that no one would be paying particular attention to himself, switched with Yugi and turned to glare at Malik.
"That was not funny, Malik," Yami's red eyes narrowed.
"I thought it was, and I'd put money on Bakura still rolling on the floor of his soul room with laughter right now," Malik replied back, keeping his voice very low, so he wouldn't be heard over the buzz of the other students.
"That was stupid. Malfoy is now onto us, you have put us all in an awkward position."
Malik shrugged, "How is dear old Malfie going to prove it? He can't. What is he going to do? Say I used mind control on him, I made him do it without him knowing he was? He'd sound crazy. We have nothing to worry about."
Yami's eyes narrowed further, "You'd better hope so."
Yami returned to his soul room, attempting to think of a way that would make Malik understand how important keeping this a secret was, leaving Yugi to finish dinner, which passed without further incident. Well, except for the small exchange of flying food between the two Weasley twins.
After dinner the group went back upstairs and dove back into the mountain of homework that needed to be done. They finished up the Transfiguration and Charms work much faster than they expected, taking only about an hour and a half together. After putting the work back in their bags in their rooms, the group made their way back down to the common room.
Kaya stretched her arms, glad for the freedom after being trapped inside Nami all day. Having to watch all day wasn't near as fun as being out and about, poking things to see what they did, and asking a million and one questions that Nami refused to ask.
"So," started Kaya, "what do we do now?"
My turn! You owe me,Bakura smiled evilly as he gained control of his shared body.
Ryou merely groaned as Bakura instantly turned to Yugi, "Hey, Pharaoh's brat, I demand a rematch!"
"Do not refer to," Yami started, who was out in an instant and furious at the lack of respect directed towards Yugi from Bakura, but stopped before he gave himself away, "me as a brat, you may either call me Yugi or Pharaoh," Yami finished, the rage still burning in his eyes.
"Fine, but I demand a rematch!" Bakura drew out his deck from Ryou's pocket.
"I think not," put in Malik, as he too brought out his deck, "It's my turn. Besides, hasn't the Pharaoh kicked your sorry ass enough?"
"Please, pure blind luck, that's all the Pharaoh has going for him. I will duel him again, and I will win," Bakura turned back to Yami, expecting him to chose who he would duel.
Yami rolled his eyes, as he too pulled out his and Yugi's deck, "I will duel Malik first, since I was not able to at the inn. Then I will defeat Bakura, again."
Bakura frowned and began to send death glares to Malik, he wanted to defeat the Pharaoh and he wanted to do it now!
Malik rolled his eyes, "Fine, you go first Bakura, and then I'll kick Pharaoh's ass."
Bakura's frown turned into a creepy smile as he sat down at the table across from Yami, I'm gonna get him this time,he sang to himself merrily as he and Yami shuffled their deck and drew their cards.
At this point in time Kaya was a little lost as to what was happening. Firstly, what were they playing, she had never seen a game like this before, even though it seemed vaguely familiar, and secondly, Yugi and Ryou had both changed, they were different. Ryou was much colder and meaner, and Yugi seemed more commanding and his eyes were no longer big and innocent, they were narrower and much older.
"What are we doing?" Kaya asked Malik, as he sat down beside her.
"Playing duel monsters," explained Malik as he watched the duel begin.
"That game from Japan, right?"
"Yes, but it did not originate there," Malik added without thinking.
"Oh," Kaya thought for a moment, "it originated in Egypt right?" she asked without knowing why she thought that.
Malik snapped his head around to look at the girl beside him, "Yes, how did you know?" his eyes narrowed in concentration.
"I don't know, I just asked before I thought. I've never heard of it before." Kaya tilted her head to the side as she watched the two boys play their cards in different positions. "How do you play?"
The rest of the duel was spent with Malik telling Kaya the details of duel monsters, how certain cards worked and what some of the cards special abilities were. Bakura lost, again, but it was another close duel. He cursed himself as he packed up Ryou's deck so that Malik could have a go at the Pharaoh.
Ryou came back out and kept Kaya company as they watched the next duel. They had been quiet and avoided drawing a crowd, so it was just the four of them, Malik and Yami exchanging threats and Ryou continuing Malik's explanation of duel monsters. Kaya picked up quickly, and soon could follow the game easily, and even once suggested a good move.
By the time Malik's last life points disappeared Kaya was ready for bed, as was the rest of the group. Nearly everyone else had left the common room for their dorms, their comfy beds calling to them.
"Well, good night guys, see you tomorrow," Kaya smiled as she skipped off to bed.
Kaya left the boys sitting at the table, looking at their decks in deep thought.
"There's something about her that just doesn't fit," Ryou mumbled, "I can't put my finger on it though."
"She seems so very familiar, I know I've seen her somewhere before, I just don't know where," Malik added, still thinking hard.
"Yami says she seems vaguely familiar as well," Yugi relayed for his spirit half.
The three students stood and headed for their own beds, still thinking. Once they entered the dorm they shared with the other fifth year boys they changed into pyjamas, Malik thankful that everyone else was already asleep, and climbed into bed, still pondering over their new friend.
Nami and Kaya were lying in bed, nearly asleep, still discussing things from that day.
I liked Care of Magical Creatures, I can't wait to see what Hagrid brings in for us!exclaimed Kaya.
Nami groaned, /I think I could wait, but I would like to see some magical creatures, that would be exciting./ Nami turned and snuggled further into her blankets.
Watching duel monsters was fun,Kaya continued to talk as Nami began to nod off, but it seems so familiar, like I've played before, but I haven't since I've met you, and I don't remember anything but darkness until I met you. Strange.
R&R please and thank you
Serryn - snape comments to come...he was busy...important business to attend to...if i tell you more i would have to kill you...hmmm i haven't seen peanut butter for awhile...i should go visit her...well and my mommy too i suppose lol
Maruken - lol i know who the prof is but i'm not gonna tell just yet...well that's cos honestly i'm not positive...nope its not shadi...too used lol...Charlie is a good idea though...i'll keep that in mind!
EarthFaerie246 - i think i already answered this for you in an email...but i'll do it again...that was Ryou who said that...i know it seems a little out of character at first...but if you think about it he DOES have an occult deck...i thought it wasn't too far of a stretch...but if you think differently that alright lol
Katie - thanks, i'm glad you love the story...this is my first fanfic...hopefully not the last...i'm planning on writing a sixth year story as well...but we'll see how this one goes first lol...yay! its great!
Anime Lover - i love cookies! mmmmm! peanut butter chocolate chip! yummy!! lol...i know who the DADA teach will be...lol but i'm not telling just yet! its a surprise! hope you enjoyed this chappie! hug
Kaze - hey i think you're right! i haven't read one that happens in the girls dorms either! lol i'll work to put more in about that...i think'll i'll end up making the girls real air heads but whatever lol...so you found out what Malik made Malfoy write...hehe poor Malfoy...thinks he's losing his mind glomp
misuto - lol i don't think Hermione and Malik would ever get along...meh oh well...i thought dumbledore substitute teaching would be cool...so i made him the sub lol ermm...you coming to AN with us?
kanikameskhenet - i always hated homework too! thank ra i'm done school...for now lol hope you enjoyed this chappie as much as the last ones
Bakura's Pheonix - lol i'm gald its interesting...hope you like...thanks for reading
annonomis - yay! you think its awesome! yay! that makes my day!! hug
until next time....later days hino!