Hiya minna!! Sorry this took so long! I say that a lot...and for that I am
sorry Maybe next chapter will be quicker...maybe not I don't make
promises...but I'm excited to get to Halloween....both sides of target zero
gave me the idea...yay! ok, so now on with the chapter!
Don't own Harry Potter or Yu Gi Oh, I'd like to, but I don't. So here is chapter 18 -
On a corner of a deserted street, in an urban area of a city in Egypt, sat a rather large black dog. This dog yawned widely and flopped down in the shade, scratching his ear with brutal force. He had picked up some flews during his stay on this particular corner, and they seemed to think he was a regular egg salad sandwich.
The dog had been sitting on this corner watching the comings and goings of the street for just an over a week. He had been sent to observe the street, but more specifically a house on the street. Nothing of consequence had happened so far, nothing at all. The dog would have left by now, not because he was bored and nothing was happening, but merely because he was starving, but a kind man on the street left him breakfast and dinner everyday, which the dog appreciated very much.
The fleas had migrated from the dog's ears to his back and were having a feast when the dog rolled over and used a bush as a back scratcher when someone very familiar swooped into view.
'Hedwig?' thought the dog, 'What are you doing here?'
Hedwig, however, did not swoop down to the dog, as it had thought he thought the owl would, and was quite surprised when it swooped into the house of the man who left the food. But before he could ponder the reason further another familiar person entered the street. The dog growled and shifted further into the shadows.
'Malfoy,' he sneered in his head and growled lowly.
The dog waiting until Malfoy slipped into a house across the street before he slipped around the corner and broke out into a run. He only glanced over his shoulder once to see Hedwig sitting in the window in the house across the street from the one Malfoy had slipped into.
........
Yugi emerged from double transfiguration holding his head in his hands, nursing his hurting brain.
"That was unimaginably long!" he exclaimed to whoever would listen.
"And hard!" added Nami. "I have Muggle Studies next, what about you, Yugi?"
Yugi looked at the schedule Ryou was holding in his hand before answering, "Divination, with Ryou, and Harry and Ron, I think."
Ron groaned, "Terrible class! Dreadful, I'd rather take Muggle Studies."
Harry and Hermione nodded their agreement before splitting ways and heading to their classes.
"I can show you the way," Hermione offered the remaining Nami and Malik, "Muggle Studies is right by Ancient Ruins, which is so much more fascinating than Divination. Divination is a load of old tosh, nothing but made up stories and foggy predictions at its best." Malik rolled his eyes behind Hermione's back before following.
Wanna make a deal?asked Kaya excitedly from her soulroom, before getting an answer she continued, How about I do all of the Muggle Studies work, all of it! You wont have to worry about a single thing. I'll sit in the class, and I'll do the readings and all the homework.
/Why?/ demanded Nami, trying to see why Kaya would want this, what she could possibly get out of it.
Oh, you know,Kaya said nonchalantly, I could learn something, you know me, I'm all about learning.Nami snorted. Fine! I want to spend some time with Malik, get to know him better!Kaya threw her hands up in the air.
While Nami and Kaya debated Hermione had led the way to the Muggle Studies classroom and had left, leaving Malik staring at the distant Nami, who stood looking at the wall in front of where Hermione had left them.
"Hey, Nami, earth to Nami?" Malik gave her a funny look. /It's almost as if she had a yami, spacing out like Ryou and Yugi all the time./
"Oh, sorry! Got lost in thought," smiled Kaya, having won the battle. Malik just shrugged.
Once they stepped inside the classroom a small but young woman approached them.
"Hello! Welcome to Muggle Studies! This is the class," she gestured to the other six people in the room. "Yes, well not a very big department, not much interest in muggles," she explained at Malik and Kaya's disbelieving stare. "I am Professor Eviana Nolton, but just Eviana is good, have a seat and we'll get started." Malik and Kaya grabbed a table to themselves, pulling out their textbooks.
"First order of business," started Eviana, "field trip! I have arranged with Professor Dumbledore for a field trip outside of the Hogwarts grounds so we can use some muggle appliances and some muggle games that use electricity. Just a day trip this time. We'll be heading out at 8 am a six days, a Tuesday, and I'll arrange with your other professors to let you out of class."
The six students smiled and cheered, the one closest to Malik and Kaya turned to them and whispered, "Eviana loves going to class trips, whenever she gets a new toy and wants to play with it we get to come. Last year we went camping completely muggle style, I think we're going to go again come June!"
"This year," Eviana continued, "part of our focus is muggle history, which is great fun as well. So open your texts to page 193 and we'll get this show on the road!"
......
Across the castle, up one of the towers, in the Divination classroom sat Yugi and Ryou, next to Harry and Ron. Yugi yawned widely as he sat down, the classroom's heavy incense made him sleepy.
"This class is a joke, don't worry, just make up a bunch of terrible things and Trelawny will lap it up," Ron whispered, not wanting Lavender to hear him from the next table.
As Ron finished talking the bug-eyed professor glided into the room in her usual dress, a scarf around her next, along with some cheap, clunky beads, which had matching bracelets.
"Welcome back to another year of the wonderful art of Divination. I am glad to see you all well, but I knew you all would be." Ron snorted and Harry rolled his eyes. Professor Trelawny turned to Harry, "Ah, yes Harry Potter, you are still with us," suddenly her eyes went wide with fright, "but I am afraid that if you are not careful it will not be for long. Death continues it's hunt for you, and it will not be satisfied until it holds you within its clutches."
Harry raised an eyebrow before replying, "Thanks, I'll keep that in mind."
Once Trelawny had moved onto her next victim Ryou turned to Harry, "That sounds pretty serious."
"She has predicted my death each year and I am still standing, I have absolutely no faith in Trelawny's predictions, except for when they're real."
"But you wouldn't know the difference until it is too late," Yugi added, failing to see the logic behind Harry's philosophy.
"I'll explain after dinner, we should probably pay attention to her preferred method of torture this year." As Harry finished his sentence in a hushed whisper he got his answer.
"Dream analysis!"
......
After suffering through their afternoon classes, all the students filtered down into the Great Hall for dinnertime. The students organized themselves at their respective tables as the food magically appeared before them. Harry, Ron and Hermione distanced themselves from the rest of the table, intending to have a private conversation when an unsuspecting Yugi foiled their plans.
"Dinner looks great, ne," he smiled politely before sitting down. "I was hoping you could explain what you meant by 'real' predictions now."
Harry looked up from his dinner and gave Yugi a once over, as if sizing him up. "Well, after class during our third year Trelawny predicted that Voldemort would power again," Yugi noticed how Ron and Hermione flinched at the sound of Voldemort's name, "and she was right, because that night a man named Peter Petigrew rejoined Voldemort and has since helped nurse him to health."
This Voldemort must be a frightening man for them to keep flinching like that,commented Yami.
"But almost all of Trelawny's predictions are garbage," Ron added, "every year she predicts Harry's death, I mean its not very hard to come up with a prediction like that, third year Sirius was after you, fourth year You Know Who was back. I mean really, with You Know Who on the loose and out to get you anyone could predict your death and make it sound reasonable!"
"Actually, no, I don't know who," Yugi said seriously.
Harry laughed, "Oh, You Know Who is another name for Voldemort, most people are afraid to say his name," Harry rolled his eyes are Ron and Hermione, "but its not big deal, its just his name. By not using it you are only increasing your fear of it."
Yugi looked surprise, "But why is Voldemort after you Harry?"
Harry looked slightly uncomfortable, "Well, about 14 years ago Voldemort fell, and I kinda was responsible for that. He tried to kill me and the spell backfired and hit him instead. Now that he is back, I'm an obstacle that must be removed. But you know, it happens," Harry said, trying to brush it off as nothing. Yugi let it go.
"Oh, Yugi, I found you!" Ryou exclaimed as he plopped down. "I didn't see you way up here."
Yugi smiled, "Just brushing up on some history."
There was a bit of an awkward silence before Ryou broke it. "Are you sending a letter to Honda, Anzu and Jonouchi any time soon?"
Yugi smiled at his friend's names, "I think I should, I do miss them."
"Did you tell them you were going to a boarding school?"
"Yes, why?"
"How are you sending them mail? We can't have owls popping in and out of their houses all the time," Ryou pointed out.
"Thought of that, sending mail via Ji-san."
"Good idea, but I don't know how I'm going to get mail to them."
"Send with mine of course! We'll write letters after dinner and send them to Ji-san tomorrow after breakfast! Yay!" Yugi beamed.
"Speaking of letters," Harry whispered, "I should get in touch of Snuffles." Harry shot a look at Ryou and Yugi, making sure that they didn't hear him.
Malik looked up the table where he could see Ryou and Yugi talking animatedly while Harry and his friends listened. After cleaning up the rest of his dessert he stood and turned, ready to head back up to the common room and finish some more work.
/This school stuff sure is a lot of work, makes living underground for my youth seem pleasant, at least I did what I wanted for most of the day./
Malik was so lost in memories from his childhood, both good and bad, that he didn't see the two huge lumps of flesh in front of him.
"Urmph," he grunted as he walked right into Crabbe and Goyle, who in turn ran into Malfoy.
"Watch where you're going you blundering idiots!" Malfoy snapped.
"But he hit us!" protested Crabbe, jerking his thumb towards Malik.
"Oh, so, you want to fight?" threatened Malfoy, trying to glare icicles at Malik.
"Well, maybe I do."
"Fine, tonight, duel, I'll make you wish you were never born," Malfoy smirked.
"You're on, Malfie, just tell me where and I'll be there to show you why no one messed with any Ishtars."
"Trophy room, at midnight."
"I'll be there!" And with that Malik stormed out of the Great Hall.
........
Later that evening the new students sat hard at work, trying to keep the mountain of work at bay. Malik threw his textbook down into his bag before declaring he had enough and was going upstairs when two girls approached the table.
"Hello Ryou," he giggled together, "do you need help, we could help you."
Ryou looked around for help, but Malik just stormed away and Yugi smiled.
"Oh, thank you, that is very kind," Ryou started and then looked down at his Divination work.
"Divination is my best subject," one of the girls offered, "I could really help you understand the complicated art form of unfogging the future."
"oh, no, really that's alright, I'm fine."
"Non-sense, we'll help you," cried the other girl as she sat down in Malik's chair.
Nami looked at them, one was the colour girl, whatever her name was, Lavender.Kaya supplied helpfully, and the other slept in the bed beside Nami's. "He said he didn't need any help," Nami said coolly, still looking at her textbook.
Lavender just smiled, though it looked forced, "I'm sure he needs help, and I will help him." Lavender smiled sweetly to Ryou, and then shoved Nami off her chair, taking her seat on the other side of Ryou.
Yugi and Nami quickly were pushed from the table as the swarms of girls came to Ryou's aid, all giggling wildly.
"Poor guy," Yugi sighed, "happened when he transferred to our class as well."
Across the room Harry, Hermione and Ron sat huddled in a corner, whispering amongst themselves. Behind them there was a tap at the window.
"Hedwig!" Harry smiled as he opened the window. Hedwig nipped lightly at Harry, but swooped across the room to Nami, dropping one of the two letters held in her tight grasp before she settled on Harry shoulder, offering him the parchment.
Harry tore it open. "From Snuffles," he explained, "wants to talk tonight, in the fire, just after midnight," he scanned the letter twice, making sure he caught everything. "Good, I haven't talked to him for awhile."
"I wonder what's up," Hermione mused.
Ron shrugged, "Maybe he's coming back into England and will hang out in Hogsmead again. It'd be great to see him when we visit."
"Well, I'll find out tonight."
......
Nami patted her stomach. /I'm hungry, I want cake!/
Kaya rolled her eyes, You're always hungry and you always want cake!
/I bet we could find the kitchen, there'd probably be something sweet to eat in there!/
Nami stood and made her way to the portrait and slid out unnoticed by all the laughing students in the common room. But once outside the portrait she ran straight into two teens with red hair.
"Oh hello Nami!" said the one.
"What are you doing out?" asked the other.
"Evening, Fred, George. I was just out, thought I'd look for the kitchen. I'm a little hungry."
"Well," Fred smiled, "students are really supposed to be in the kitchen."
"But that never stopped us," George's smile grew wicked. "If you go down this corridor here, and then turn left, and go down the stairs, on a normal day, when they don't move, you'll find a picture of a bowl of fruit, tickle the pear and the door to the kitchen will appear."
"The house elves will help you from there, they love to get visitors," Fred winked before he and his twin disappeared into the portrait.
"Thanks," Nami called after them before heading off down the corridor.
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It was nearing midnight and the only students left in the common room were Harry and Malik. As the hour of Snuffles' visit drew closer Harry got more and more nervous that Malik wouldn't leave at all.
"Not tired?" questioned Harry.
"No, I'm waiting to meet Malfie, I'm going to make him regret ever looking at me."
"If you're caught you'll get in big trouble," Harry warned.
"I wont get caught. No one can catch me."
Harry raised an eyebrow at Malik's bold statement, "But, you do realize that Malfoy will tell someone that you plan on being out of bed, and knowing Malfoy it will be Snape. You'll get caught and get in huge trouble."
A voice from the stairwell answered for Malik, "He won't get caught. But just to make sure I'll go with him. No one can catch me."
"You seem awfully sure of yourself, Ryou."
"No one can catch Bakura," Malik insisted.
Harry shook his head, "Well still, I would like to see Malfoy get a good beating, and I think you might be able to do it Malik, but it is likely that he's trying to get you caught out of bed." Bakura opened his mouth, but Harry answered before the crazed yami could say anything, "I know you wont get caught, but you have to be careful. Here," Harry reached into his bag, which was at his feet, "take this." He handed over a piece of folded up parchment. "But I want it back, so you'd better not get caught!"
Bakura grabbed the parchment, "How will this help?"
Harry smiled and tapped the paper with his wand, "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." Ink lines began to appear on the paper until Harry was looking at a map of Hogwarts. "It shows you were everyone is, and where they are moving. Now you can see if Malfoy is alone and if any teachers are coming. And it's never wrong, it can't be broken."
Harry looked at the map fondly, but his smile faded slightly. In the Gryffindor common room on the map stood four people, Malik Ishtar, Harry Potter, Ryou Bakura and Bakura Ryou. Harry did a double take, two Ryous! It didn't make any sense. Harry looked up quickly, but saw only one Ryou standing in front of him, but the Maurders Map clearly stated there were two in front of him.
Bakura grabbed the map and stalked off towards Malik, "Let's go, and I can't believe that you were going to go alone and leave me behind!"
Malik laughed as they headed for the portrait hole, but first checking on the map if anyone was there. "Let's go, little Malfie has quite a surprise in store for him!"
The two cackled evilly as they exited the common room, leaving a muddled and confused Harry alone, still waiting for Snuffles.
Down in the kitchen Nami smiled contently, and thanked the House Elves, who had kept her company and fed he for the last few hours. She walked out of the door way and it closed up behind her, leaving her alone in the hallway. Or so she thought, Nami heard two voices coming towards her, which she quickly recognized as Malik and Ryou.
"What are you two doing out and about so late?" Nami inquired, causing the uncatchable Bakura and Malik to jump and squeak.
Thanks to the following for reviewing the last chapter:
DarkMagicianPrincess – I'm still writing, I'm not planning on stopping any time soon!
Shinigami – DADA teacher is not a ministry idiot! Nor a death eater...you'll see who he is soon!
Serryn – I too like Malfoy the Ballerina...frightening, but funny!!
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Kanika Meskhenet – lol three books isn't that much...I like to read! Which books? Thanks for the review
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1324 – lol I still burst out laughing at random moments myself...good old Bakura
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Thanks for reading! Catch ya on the flip side! hino
Don't own Harry Potter or Yu Gi Oh, I'd like to, but I don't. So here is chapter 18 -
On a corner of a deserted street, in an urban area of a city in Egypt, sat a rather large black dog. This dog yawned widely and flopped down in the shade, scratching his ear with brutal force. He had picked up some flews during his stay on this particular corner, and they seemed to think he was a regular egg salad sandwich.
The dog had been sitting on this corner watching the comings and goings of the street for just an over a week. He had been sent to observe the street, but more specifically a house on the street. Nothing of consequence had happened so far, nothing at all. The dog would have left by now, not because he was bored and nothing was happening, but merely because he was starving, but a kind man on the street left him breakfast and dinner everyday, which the dog appreciated very much.
The fleas had migrated from the dog's ears to his back and were having a feast when the dog rolled over and used a bush as a back scratcher when someone very familiar swooped into view.
'Hedwig?' thought the dog, 'What are you doing here?'
Hedwig, however, did not swoop down to the dog, as it had thought he thought the owl would, and was quite surprised when it swooped into the house of the man who left the food. But before he could ponder the reason further another familiar person entered the street. The dog growled and shifted further into the shadows.
'Malfoy,' he sneered in his head and growled lowly.
The dog waiting until Malfoy slipped into a house across the street before he slipped around the corner and broke out into a run. He only glanced over his shoulder once to see Hedwig sitting in the window in the house across the street from the one Malfoy had slipped into.
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Yugi emerged from double transfiguration holding his head in his hands, nursing his hurting brain.
"That was unimaginably long!" he exclaimed to whoever would listen.
"And hard!" added Nami. "I have Muggle Studies next, what about you, Yugi?"
Yugi looked at the schedule Ryou was holding in his hand before answering, "Divination, with Ryou, and Harry and Ron, I think."
Ron groaned, "Terrible class! Dreadful, I'd rather take Muggle Studies."
Harry and Hermione nodded their agreement before splitting ways and heading to their classes.
"I can show you the way," Hermione offered the remaining Nami and Malik, "Muggle Studies is right by Ancient Ruins, which is so much more fascinating than Divination. Divination is a load of old tosh, nothing but made up stories and foggy predictions at its best." Malik rolled his eyes behind Hermione's back before following.
Wanna make a deal?asked Kaya excitedly from her soulroom, before getting an answer she continued, How about I do all of the Muggle Studies work, all of it! You wont have to worry about a single thing. I'll sit in the class, and I'll do the readings and all the homework.
/Why?/ demanded Nami, trying to see why Kaya would want this, what she could possibly get out of it.
Oh, you know,Kaya said nonchalantly, I could learn something, you know me, I'm all about learning.Nami snorted. Fine! I want to spend some time with Malik, get to know him better!Kaya threw her hands up in the air.
While Nami and Kaya debated Hermione had led the way to the Muggle Studies classroom and had left, leaving Malik staring at the distant Nami, who stood looking at the wall in front of where Hermione had left them.
"Hey, Nami, earth to Nami?" Malik gave her a funny look. /It's almost as if she had a yami, spacing out like Ryou and Yugi all the time./
"Oh, sorry! Got lost in thought," smiled Kaya, having won the battle. Malik just shrugged.
Once they stepped inside the classroom a small but young woman approached them.
"Hello! Welcome to Muggle Studies! This is the class," she gestured to the other six people in the room. "Yes, well not a very big department, not much interest in muggles," she explained at Malik and Kaya's disbelieving stare. "I am Professor Eviana Nolton, but just Eviana is good, have a seat and we'll get started." Malik and Kaya grabbed a table to themselves, pulling out their textbooks.
"First order of business," started Eviana, "field trip! I have arranged with Professor Dumbledore for a field trip outside of the Hogwarts grounds so we can use some muggle appliances and some muggle games that use electricity. Just a day trip this time. We'll be heading out at 8 am a six days, a Tuesday, and I'll arrange with your other professors to let you out of class."
The six students smiled and cheered, the one closest to Malik and Kaya turned to them and whispered, "Eviana loves going to class trips, whenever she gets a new toy and wants to play with it we get to come. Last year we went camping completely muggle style, I think we're going to go again come June!"
"This year," Eviana continued, "part of our focus is muggle history, which is great fun as well. So open your texts to page 193 and we'll get this show on the road!"
......
Across the castle, up one of the towers, in the Divination classroom sat Yugi and Ryou, next to Harry and Ron. Yugi yawned widely as he sat down, the classroom's heavy incense made him sleepy.
"This class is a joke, don't worry, just make up a bunch of terrible things and Trelawny will lap it up," Ron whispered, not wanting Lavender to hear him from the next table.
As Ron finished talking the bug-eyed professor glided into the room in her usual dress, a scarf around her next, along with some cheap, clunky beads, which had matching bracelets.
"Welcome back to another year of the wonderful art of Divination. I am glad to see you all well, but I knew you all would be." Ron snorted and Harry rolled his eyes. Professor Trelawny turned to Harry, "Ah, yes Harry Potter, you are still with us," suddenly her eyes went wide with fright, "but I am afraid that if you are not careful it will not be for long. Death continues it's hunt for you, and it will not be satisfied until it holds you within its clutches."
Harry raised an eyebrow before replying, "Thanks, I'll keep that in mind."
Once Trelawny had moved onto her next victim Ryou turned to Harry, "That sounds pretty serious."
"She has predicted my death each year and I am still standing, I have absolutely no faith in Trelawny's predictions, except for when they're real."
"But you wouldn't know the difference until it is too late," Yugi added, failing to see the logic behind Harry's philosophy.
"I'll explain after dinner, we should probably pay attention to her preferred method of torture this year." As Harry finished his sentence in a hushed whisper he got his answer.
"Dream analysis!"
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After suffering through their afternoon classes, all the students filtered down into the Great Hall for dinnertime. The students organized themselves at their respective tables as the food magically appeared before them. Harry, Ron and Hermione distanced themselves from the rest of the table, intending to have a private conversation when an unsuspecting Yugi foiled their plans.
"Dinner looks great, ne," he smiled politely before sitting down. "I was hoping you could explain what you meant by 'real' predictions now."
Harry looked up from his dinner and gave Yugi a once over, as if sizing him up. "Well, after class during our third year Trelawny predicted that Voldemort would power again," Yugi noticed how Ron and Hermione flinched at the sound of Voldemort's name, "and she was right, because that night a man named Peter Petigrew rejoined Voldemort and has since helped nurse him to health."
This Voldemort must be a frightening man for them to keep flinching like that,commented Yami.
"But almost all of Trelawny's predictions are garbage," Ron added, "every year she predicts Harry's death, I mean its not very hard to come up with a prediction like that, third year Sirius was after you, fourth year You Know Who was back. I mean really, with You Know Who on the loose and out to get you anyone could predict your death and make it sound reasonable!"
"Actually, no, I don't know who," Yugi said seriously.
Harry laughed, "Oh, You Know Who is another name for Voldemort, most people are afraid to say his name," Harry rolled his eyes are Ron and Hermione, "but its not big deal, its just his name. By not using it you are only increasing your fear of it."
Yugi looked surprise, "But why is Voldemort after you Harry?"
Harry looked slightly uncomfortable, "Well, about 14 years ago Voldemort fell, and I kinda was responsible for that. He tried to kill me and the spell backfired and hit him instead. Now that he is back, I'm an obstacle that must be removed. But you know, it happens," Harry said, trying to brush it off as nothing. Yugi let it go.
"Oh, Yugi, I found you!" Ryou exclaimed as he plopped down. "I didn't see you way up here."
Yugi smiled, "Just brushing up on some history."
There was a bit of an awkward silence before Ryou broke it. "Are you sending a letter to Honda, Anzu and Jonouchi any time soon?"
Yugi smiled at his friend's names, "I think I should, I do miss them."
"Did you tell them you were going to a boarding school?"
"Yes, why?"
"How are you sending them mail? We can't have owls popping in and out of their houses all the time," Ryou pointed out.
"Thought of that, sending mail via Ji-san."
"Good idea, but I don't know how I'm going to get mail to them."
"Send with mine of course! We'll write letters after dinner and send them to Ji-san tomorrow after breakfast! Yay!" Yugi beamed.
"Speaking of letters," Harry whispered, "I should get in touch of Snuffles." Harry shot a look at Ryou and Yugi, making sure that they didn't hear him.
Malik looked up the table where he could see Ryou and Yugi talking animatedly while Harry and his friends listened. After cleaning up the rest of his dessert he stood and turned, ready to head back up to the common room and finish some more work.
/This school stuff sure is a lot of work, makes living underground for my youth seem pleasant, at least I did what I wanted for most of the day./
Malik was so lost in memories from his childhood, both good and bad, that he didn't see the two huge lumps of flesh in front of him.
"Urmph," he grunted as he walked right into Crabbe and Goyle, who in turn ran into Malfoy.
"Watch where you're going you blundering idiots!" Malfoy snapped.
"But he hit us!" protested Crabbe, jerking his thumb towards Malik.
"Oh, so, you want to fight?" threatened Malfoy, trying to glare icicles at Malik.
"Well, maybe I do."
"Fine, tonight, duel, I'll make you wish you were never born," Malfoy smirked.
"You're on, Malfie, just tell me where and I'll be there to show you why no one messed with any Ishtars."
"Trophy room, at midnight."
"I'll be there!" And with that Malik stormed out of the Great Hall.
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Later that evening the new students sat hard at work, trying to keep the mountain of work at bay. Malik threw his textbook down into his bag before declaring he had enough and was going upstairs when two girls approached the table.
"Hello Ryou," he giggled together, "do you need help, we could help you."
Ryou looked around for help, but Malik just stormed away and Yugi smiled.
"Oh, thank you, that is very kind," Ryou started and then looked down at his Divination work.
"Divination is my best subject," one of the girls offered, "I could really help you understand the complicated art form of unfogging the future."
"oh, no, really that's alright, I'm fine."
"Non-sense, we'll help you," cried the other girl as she sat down in Malik's chair.
Nami looked at them, one was the colour girl, whatever her name was, Lavender.Kaya supplied helpfully, and the other slept in the bed beside Nami's. "He said he didn't need any help," Nami said coolly, still looking at her textbook.
Lavender just smiled, though it looked forced, "I'm sure he needs help, and I will help him." Lavender smiled sweetly to Ryou, and then shoved Nami off her chair, taking her seat on the other side of Ryou.
Yugi and Nami quickly were pushed from the table as the swarms of girls came to Ryou's aid, all giggling wildly.
"Poor guy," Yugi sighed, "happened when he transferred to our class as well."
Across the room Harry, Hermione and Ron sat huddled in a corner, whispering amongst themselves. Behind them there was a tap at the window.
"Hedwig!" Harry smiled as he opened the window. Hedwig nipped lightly at Harry, but swooped across the room to Nami, dropping one of the two letters held in her tight grasp before she settled on Harry shoulder, offering him the parchment.
Harry tore it open. "From Snuffles," he explained, "wants to talk tonight, in the fire, just after midnight," he scanned the letter twice, making sure he caught everything. "Good, I haven't talked to him for awhile."
"I wonder what's up," Hermione mused.
Ron shrugged, "Maybe he's coming back into England and will hang out in Hogsmead again. It'd be great to see him when we visit."
"Well, I'll find out tonight."
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Nami patted her stomach. /I'm hungry, I want cake!/
Kaya rolled her eyes, You're always hungry and you always want cake!
/I bet we could find the kitchen, there'd probably be something sweet to eat in there!/
Nami stood and made her way to the portrait and slid out unnoticed by all the laughing students in the common room. But once outside the portrait she ran straight into two teens with red hair.
"Oh hello Nami!" said the one.
"What are you doing out?" asked the other.
"Evening, Fred, George. I was just out, thought I'd look for the kitchen. I'm a little hungry."
"Well," Fred smiled, "students are really supposed to be in the kitchen."
"But that never stopped us," George's smile grew wicked. "If you go down this corridor here, and then turn left, and go down the stairs, on a normal day, when they don't move, you'll find a picture of a bowl of fruit, tickle the pear and the door to the kitchen will appear."
"The house elves will help you from there, they love to get visitors," Fred winked before he and his twin disappeared into the portrait.
"Thanks," Nami called after them before heading off down the corridor.
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It was nearing midnight and the only students left in the common room were Harry and Malik. As the hour of Snuffles' visit drew closer Harry got more and more nervous that Malik wouldn't leave at all.
"Not tired?" questioned Harry.
"No, I'm waiting to meet Malfie, I'm going to make him regret ever looking at me."
"If you're caught you'll get in big trouble," Harry warned.
"I wont get caught. No one can catch me."
Harry raised an eyebrow at Malik's bold statement, "But, you do realize that Malfoy will tell someone that you plan on being out of bed, and knowing Malfoy it will be Snape. You'll get caught and get in huge trouble."
A voice from the stairwell answered for Malik, "He won't get caught. But just to make sure I'll go with him. No one can catch me."
"You seem awfully sure of yourself, Ryou."
"No one can catch Bakura," Malik insisted.
Harry shook his head, "Well still, I would like to see Malfoy get a good beating, and I think you might be able to do it Malik, but it is likely that he's trying to get you caught out of bed." Bakura opened his mouth, but Harry answered before the crazed yami could say anything, "I know you wont get caught, but you have to be careful. Here," Harry reached into his bag, which was at his feet, "take this." He handed over a piece of folded up parchment. "But I want it back, so you'd better not get caught!"
Bakura grabbed the parchment, "How will this help?"
Harry smiled and tapped the paper with his wand, "I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." Ink lines began to appear on the paper until Harry was looking at a map of Hogwarts. "It shows you were everyone is, and where they are moving. Now you can see if Malfoy is alone and if any teachers are coming. And it's never wrong, it can't be broken."
Harry looked at the map fondly, but his smile faded slightly. In the Gryffindor common room on the map stood four people, Malik Ishtar, Harry Potter, Ryou Bakura and Bakura Ryou. Harry did a double take, two Ryous! It didn't make any sense. Harry looked up quickly, but saw only one Ryou standing in front of him, but the Maurders Map clearly stated there were two in front of him.
Bakura grabbed the map and stalked off towards Malik, "Let's go, and I can't believe that you were going to go alone and leave me behind!"
Malik laughed as they headed for the portrait hole, but first checking on the map if anyone was there. "Let's go, little Malfie has quite a surprise in store for him!"
The two cackled evilly as they exited the common room, leaving a muddled and confused Harry alone, still waiting for Snuffles.
Down in the kitchen Nami smiled contently, and thanked the House Elves, who had kept her company and fed he for the last few hours. She walked out of the door way and it closed up behind her, leaving her alone in the hallway. Or so she thought, Nami heard two voices coming towards her, which she quickly recognized as Malik and Ryou.
"What are you two doing out and about so late?" Nami inquired, causing the uncatchable Bakura and Malik to jump and squeak.
Thanks to the following for reviewing the last chapter:
DarkMagicianPrincess – I'm still writing, I'm not planning on stopping any time soon!
Shinigami – DADA teacher is not a ministry idiot! Nor a death eater...you'll see who he is soon!
Serryn – I too like Malfoy the Ballerina...frightening, but funny!!
Anime Lover – wow! I just went through almost all my reviews and you have reviewed almost every chapter! Thank you so much! :hug: yay!
Kanika Meskhenet – lol three books isn't that much...I like to read! Which books? Thanks for the review
Malik Ishtar: Master of the Gods – lol I'll continue if you keep reading and leaving reviews!
1324 – lol I still burst out laughing at random moments myself...good old Bakura
Evil Gerbil D – thanks! Was pretty funny ne
Brendan – thanks! I'll see ya in a bit
Misuto – HI! Long time no see eh? I'll forgive you for not reviewing chapter 16...but only because you brought my computer in from the trailer
Thanks for reading! Catch ya on the flip side! hino