Hello, people..
(And to those readers who aren't people, hello to you too...)
Why did I just say that? *shrugs* oh well...
Anyway, welcome to the latest chappie of Millennium Magic.
Special thanks to those of you who reviewed on my last chappie. You all have interesting ideas!
(Speaking of which, I keep on not putting in Harry creating a deck for himself... hmmmm... I'll have to do this in this chappie.. or next chappie... or... gah! -_- *thinks for a moment* actually, I'm not sure that Harry getting a deck will fit into this storyline... hmm.. I may or may not put it in, you'll just have to read and see if I do...
Oh, and... Mojobubbles? Harry-tachi meeting Yami is next chappie. ^_^ )
For those of you who have read the last chappie of my Where's Yugi story, this is a review, but for those who haven't let me run this by you.
I've been thinking of discontinueing this story... I mean, I haven't really been receiving very many reviews on the updates that I do on it, and I keep getting writers block on who I should clear and how to clear them and all that...
(I'm going to post up this chappie and then stop writing until I get more responses on this thing. Millennium Item Girl may still update, as it is both me and my little sister's ficcie and she may still want to write it.)
Plus there's that little fact that you people keep guessing correctly as to who did it!!! V_V
That's not fair...
Still not saying WHO got it write, just that a lot of you have...
Ah well, I'll just fill this chappie with confusing things that will throw you off track once again, then, shall I?
Oh, and speaking of including things in this chappie, I must thank Master of Dimensions for giving me ideas for this and other chappies. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! ^_^ I had major writer's block on this, and you came along and listened patiently to everything I had to say about it, endured whilst I disproved almost all your theories and things, until we finally came upon a few really good ideas. ^_^ Arigato a million times!
And thanks to Mojobubbles for helping me find a site that had some of the ingredients for a Truth Serum on it so that I didn't make my brain hurt too much trying to come up with my own. And for helping me with the correct spelling for the word serum. ^_^U
Another thing, I'm going to quit calling Seto Kaiba "Kaiba."... It sounds weird... Makes him sound like a teacher... maybe I should start calling him Professer Kaiba... *blink* Cept he can't do magic.. ^_^U I'm going to call him Seto for this though, to make him sound more like a normal student instead of a teacher... Unless you'd like for me to call him "Squibby." Vote after the chappie!
Well, let's get into this chappie! ^_^ *eats marshmallows* ^_^
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"I have a question." Ron said, raising his hand as the three of them walked towards school the next morning.
"What, Ron?" Harry asked.
Ron put his hand down, looking thoughtful. "How exactly are we going to know that these people did or didn't do it?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you see... We can't exactly just walk up to these people and ask them, "Say, have you been making any big magical buildings disappear lately?" and expect to not get in huge trouble with the Ministry of Magic. And even if we wouldn't get into trouble for it, can you really expect them to answer truthfully?"
The three of them thought about this for a moment.
"That's it! Truth!" Hermione spoke up suddenly.
"What?"
"We can make Truth Serums! Remember the syrum that Dumbledore gave to Crouch that made him admit what he had been doing? If we can get the right ingredients, we can make one of those as well!" Hermione said excitedly.
"And what are we going to ask them?" Harry asked. "Like Ron said, if we ask them about Hogwarts, we'll be endangering the Wizarding World and we'll get in humungous trouble."
"Hey! What about Memory charms? We can ask them and do a memory charm!" Ron said.
"One problem. Do you know how to do a memory charm?" Harry asked.
"Well, no... But Hermione's brought all her books and things, I'm sure memory charm is in there somewhere, right?"
"Actually, no. It's not. Memory charms can be very dangerous, so you don't learn them until you're a 6th year, and even then not until you've completed your apperation testing to show that you're responsible. That's next year for us, not this year." Hermione pointed out.
"And besides that, I'm pretty sure that the Ministry is going to be scanning the area, searching for any and all magic used around here and checking it out. That's how I'd find magic if I were a Ministry worker." Harry said slowly.
"Oh... darn." Ron said, thinking again. "So what are we going to do? And how are we going to get everything we'd need for a Truth Serum, anyhow?"
Hermione shrugged. "Maybe Seto will have some of the ingredients we need. Our potions books have the truth syrum in it, we were going to learn to do that this year, but obivously that didn't work... and as for what we'll ask people, we just need to ask something simple such as, 'Have you been doing anything bad recently?'"
Ron and Harry thought about this for a moment.
"Well," Ron spoke up. "That could work, but-"
"Hey, Harry! Hermione! Ron!" Yugi called from behind them. "Wait up!"
The three stopped and waited, knowing that their planning would have to wait until after school now.
Tea and Yugi quickly caught up, and they began walking together.
Yugi seemed more open today, talking with them about this and that like any normal person... It made it kind of hard to explain his other recent, more closed behavior... Maybe he had been told he was acting weird and was now trying to act cheerful to cover it up...
Who knows?
Tea looked pleased that Yugi was back to normal, and talked mostly with him about things instead of with Harry, Hermione, and Ron...
Before they got to the school building, Joey, Tristan, and Bakura caught up and attached themselves to the group, so they all walked in together.
Seto had already been in the hall, just about to go into the office for some reason or another, and when he spotted harry in the group, he gave him a look that was half knowing and half wondering why he was hanging out with these people, before slipping inside.
Joey noticed the look and glanced at Harry. "He doesn't like us much." he explained. "Never has... Not since Yugi beat him at Duel Monsters..."
Harry looked up. "So everything around here rides on this game, Duel Monsters?"
Joey shook his head. "Not quite everything, but a huge amount of it, definitely. For one thing, we'd have never met Malik without Duel Monsters, or his sister, Isis. Yugi wouldn't have that Puzzle, I'd have never gotten to go to Duelist Kingdom and won second place in the tournament, and Kaiba wouldn't hate us quite so much..."
Harry nodded. "I see... Why wouldn't Yugi have the Puzzle, though?"
Joey shrugged and began speaking slowly. "I don't quite get it all myself, but... It's very much tied into the game......... You see... there's a-"
Joey didn't get to finish telling Harry what he was talking about because the bell suddenly rang for them to go to class.
Joey took off for his class, calling to Harry over his shoulder. "Come to the Duel Monsters match we're having tonight at Yugi's place! We'll tell ya then, ok?"
Harry nodded quickly and then Joey was out of sight, lost in the crowd. He himself had to go to the exact same class as Joey, so he wasn't sure why they couldn't continue their conversation then, but...
He supposed that Joey didn't feel comfortable telling Harry something that was Yugi's to tell, and that was it...
He began jogging to class, Hermione and Ron beside him. They hadn't really heard his conversastion, as they had each been having their own with different people of the group.
"Tristan says that they went to this Duelist Kingdom thing once..." Ron said as they ran. "Interesting, huh?"
"Yeah," Harry confirmed. "Joey said that too."
"Tea was talking to me about her dancing. The two of us really don't have all that much in common... I'd rather study than dance, but she'd like to study dance......" Hermione mused.
"Joey was saying something about Yugi's Millennium Item being connected with the game of Duel Monsters... I think we need to ask Seto for more information about those items if you ask me..." Harry said.
"Right." Hermione acknowledged. They reached the classroom and filed in with the rest of the class.
Somehow, in the crowd of people that had accumulated when the bell had rung, Seto had managed to get to his seat before the other two had. As they sat down, he leaned over slightly to talk to them.
"Did you figure anything out since we talked yesterday? Any new leads?" he asked, seeming eager to know that he had somebody he could ask about this without people thinking he was nuts.
Harry opened his mouth to tell him their Truth Serum idea, and how they were going to go to Yugi's after school to learn more, but Hermione cut him off.
"No, actually, we haven't found anything... maybe we'll find more after school today, right Harry?" she said quickly, giving Harry a look that said, "go with me here, I know what I'm doing."
He nodded in agreement, although his mind was racing. What did Hermione think she was doing? Did she not trust Kaiba? They already knew that he hadn't sent Hogwarts to the Shadow Realm!... didn't they?
Class started and the teacher began talking again. They all began paying attention to what she was saying.
Hermione leaned over to Harry and whispered so quietly that he almost didn't catch what she was saying, "I'll explain after class."
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After class, during which a group of students were playing Duel Monsters entirely unnoticed by the teacher once again, Hermione led the other two over to a mostly secluded area.
"We only have five minutes passing time, but I have to tell you guys this."
Harry and Ron nodded. "What was with the whole not telling Seto what was going on thing back there, Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Yeah! Don't tell me you still think he did it!" Ron said exasperately.
"Actually, yes. I do."
Ron sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Just hear me out. Ok, Ron?" Hermione said. Ron nodded slowly, so she went on. "Seto's brother, Mokuba, was going to Hogwarts, and it's obvious that he's very fond of him, so the fact that the school got sent to the Shadow Realm BEFORE the term actually started and the students actually got there adds into that. Also, Seto's a squib. According to what he said while we were there, he believes that the Ministry of Magic is made up of egotistical idiots. This means he has plenty of reason to do something to get the Ministry's attention. And he certainly has enough money and power here to influence anybody to help him to do things."
Ron stared in disbelief. "Hey, you're right!"
Harry frowned. "But if he's the one that did all this, why is he helping us out and giving us leads?"
Hermione shrugged. "Maybe he wants to give us false information in order to mislead us. The whole thing about the Millennium Items? It could just be to make Yugi and Malik seem as if they were the ones who did it. Or maybe it is true that they have power, but maybe he himself has one, or maybe the people that have them aren't using them for anything bad..."
"There may be another aspect of the Millennium Items that we don't get yet... Joey was trying to tell me something before school today, and I think we'll find out a whole lot more when we go to that match after school today." Harry said.
Hermione agreed. "Plus, we'll make up a truth serum before the match, if we have time, and we'll have a little talk with some of the people there..."
Ron nodded. "Alright." he looked down at his watch. "Aiiie! We've got thirty seconds to get to our next class, guys, let's go!"
They all jumped up and ran to their next class.
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The after school hours finally arrived.
While they were walking home, Harry asked about the match and Yugi replied that it wasn't going to be for about two hours, as he had come chores and homework to get done up, and he wanted to be sure he wouldn't get interupted in the middle of any duels.
Becuase of this, Hermione concluded that they had plenty of time to make up a syrum. IF Seto had the ingredients they needed...
When they got inside the house, Ron came up with another question.
"If we're not going to tell Seto about any of our leads or anything we're doing, how are we going to get him to give us the stuff we need for a Truth Serum?"
Hermione, Harry, and Ron all thought about this for a moment.
Finally, Hermione came up with something. "Well, it seems to me that the person Seto most wants us to think did it is Yugi."
Harry nodded. "Yeah, Joey mentioned something about Yugi and them never getting along with Seto, becuase of that Duel Monsters game. I think they're arch rivals. So it makes sense for Seto to want us to think Yugi did it."
"But what does that have to do with-"
"Because we can tell him we're making a serum, and that we're going to use it to ask Yugi if he's done anything. Seto will probably instantly agree, because of the whole arch rival thing." Hermione spoke up.
"But if he is, like you said, the one who did it, he'll be instantly NOT wanting to give you stuff for a truth serum because then we'd be able to find out that Yugi didn't do it!" Ron said.
"But we don't know that Yugi DIDN'T do it! Has everyone forgotten that Seto isn't the only person we need to worry about here? There's still Yugi, Malik, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, Tea, and a whole slew of other people at that school that could have potentially done it!" Harry pointed out.
Hermione nodded. "True. How about we ask Seto if he has any of the ingredients we need, and then we tell him what we're using them for, and hope he'll give them to us."
Ron nodded. "Good idea. Let's head to Seto's. If he doesn't have the stuff, there's no way we'll be able to make up the serum before Yugi's match thing he's doing. Or even make it at all!"
"I've got a few ingredients here already." Hermione said. "Some of the stuff we were told to bring for potions class this year."
Ron gave her a strange look. "You brought all your potions stuff?"
Hermione nodded slowly. "You never know when it'll help. And in this case, it did. Now let's get to Seto's place and ask him."
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"What in the world could you possibly need all this for?" Seto asked, looking down at the list that Hermione had set in front of him.
They were back in the top office of KaibaCorp once again.
"Let's just say we're on to something, and if we don't have those ingredients, we can't make the potion that will help us." Hermione said, not realy telling him anything at all.
Seto looked up at her suspiciously. "Potion?" he asked. "Ok, I may not be able to do any magic or make any working potions myself, but I have studied some of the school books, and I do know that there are no potions in the first through fourth years that have the ingredient 'Jobberknoll Feathers" in it."
Hermione shifted from one foot to the other.
"As far as I know, the only things that this ingredient is good for are memory potions and truth serums, am I correct?" Seto asked.
Hermione nodded. "Yeah.. we were going to make a truth serum to try on Yugi..." she mumbled.
Seto thought about this for a moment. Finally, he nodded. "Sounds reasonable. When'd you come up with that?"
"This, er... Afternoon." Ron said.
Seto rasied an eyebrow. "Sounds like somebody in this room needs a Truth Serum."
Ron blushed. "This morning."
Seto turned and strode over to a wall. Pressing a hidden button, a hole in the wall appeared, showing itself to be a door!
Harry stared. "Guess you don't need magic to do werid things..." he mumbled to himself.
Seto either didn't hear this, or decided to ignore it, becuase he went inside the room and began digging around on different shelves, occationally referring back to Hermione's list. After a while, he came out again carrying a box full of ingredients and handed it to Hermione.
"There." he said. "That should cover everything you need for this serum."
Ron, Harry, and Hermione exchanged glances. "Thanks."
They left KaibaCorp, feeling more confused than they had before they came.
Halfway home, Hermione sighed. "Ok, well maybe I was wrong about Seto. Maybe he is just a nice normal person who wants to help us..."
Ron shrugged. "Actually, he could very well still be a suspect."
"For now, let's just focus on getting this serum made up so we can get to the match." Harry said.
Hermione and Ron agreed.
When tehy got into the house, suddenly, Hermione took control. Ron and Harry were ordered to run around and set things up, bring her certain items, and stir occationally.
She obviously knew what she was doing, though, and so neither Harry nor Ron complained abut it.
Within half an hour, Hermione had made up a small bit of the potion.
"It's VERY apparent that he's never made potion himself before, because he didn't give us enough ingredients to make more than one vial of it, enough to make one person answer completely truthfully! But if we split it up into parts, we can get up to three people to answer our questions at least mostly truthfully..." Hermione commented.
Ron looked at his watch. "Just in time too." he said. "It's time for the match to start."
Harry looked out the window, and saw quite a few people gathered outside Yugi's game shop. "Yup, looks like everybody's there. Let's go!"
And so they went.
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-_- I was going to make that chappie have more in it, such as actually clearing another person, but... Apperently all I've done is annoy people by adding Seto back into the list of suspects...
Which, by the way, is as follows:
Seto, Yugi, Yami, Malik, Bakura, Y.Bakura, Tea, Tristan, Joey, and.. that's it.
So, anyway.. I must ask the question that is becoming the trademark of this ficcie.
NOW who do you think it is?
--Daricio
(And to those readers who aren't people, hello to you too...)
Why did I just say that? *shrugs* oh well...
Anyway, welcome to the latest chappie of Millennium Magic.
Special thanks to those of you who reviewed on my last chappie. You all have interesting ideas!
(Speaking of which, I keep on not putting in Harry creating a deck for himself... hmmmm... I'll have to do this in this chappie.. or next chappie... or... gah! -_- *thinks for a moment* actually, I'm not sure that Harry getting a deck will fit into this storyline... hmm.. I may or may not put it in, you'll just have to read and see if I do...
Oh, and... Mojobubbles? Harry-tachi meeting Yami is next chappie. ^_^ )
For those of you who have read the last chappie of my Where's Yugi story, this is a review, but for those who haven't let me run this by you.
I've been thinking of discontinueing this story... I mean, I haven't really been receiving very many reviews on the updates that I do on it, and I keep getting writers block on who I should clear and how to clear them and all that...
(I'm going to post up this chappie and then stop writing until I get more responses on this thing. Millennium Item Girl may still update, as it is both me and my little sister's ficcie and she may still want to write it.)
Plus there's that little fact that you people keep guessing correctly as to who did it!!! V_V
That's not fair...
Still not saying WHO got it write, just that a lot of you have...
Ah well, I'll just fill this chappie with confusing things that will throw you off track once again, then, shall I?
Oh, and speaking of including things in this chappie, I must thank Master of Dimensions for giving me ideas for this and other chappies. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! ^_^ I had major writer's block on this, and you came along and listened patiently to everything I had to say about it, endured whilst I disproved almost all your theories and things, until we finally came upon a few really good ideas. ^_^ Arigato a million times!
And thanks to Mojobubbles for helping me find a site that had some of the ingredients for a Truth Serum on it so that I didn't make my brain hurt too much trying to come up with my own. And for helping me with the correct spelling for the word serum. ^_^U
Another thing, I'm going to quit calling Seto Kaiba "Kaiba."... It sounds weird... Makes him sound like a teacher... maybe I should start calling him Professer Kaiba... *blink* Cept he can't do magic.. ^_^U I'm going to call him Seto for this though, to make him sound more like a normal student instead of a teacher... Unless you'd like for me to call him "Squibby." Vote after the chappie!
Well, let's get into this chappie! ^_^ *eats marshmallows* ^_^
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"I have a question." Ron said, raising his hand as the three of them walked towards school the next morning.
"What, Ron?" Harry asked.
Ron put his hand down, looking thoughtful. "How exactly are we going to know that these people did or didn't do it?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you see... We can't exactly just walk up to these people and ask them, "Say, have you been making any big magical buildings disappear lately?" and expect to not get in huge trouble with the Ministry of Magic. And even if we wouldn't get into trouble for it, can you really expect them to answer truthfully?"
The three of them thought about this for a moment.
"That's it! Truth!" Hermione spoke up suddenly.
"What?"
"We can make Truth Serums! Remember the syrum that Dumbledore gave to Crouch that made him admit what he had been doing? If we can get the right ingredients, we can make one of those as well!" Hermione said excitedly.
"And what are we going to ask them?" Harry asked. "Like Ron said, if we ask them about Hogwarts, we'll be endangering the Wizarding World and we'll get in humungous trouble."
"Hey! What about Memory charms? We can ask them and do a memory charm!" Ron said.
"One problem. Do you know how to do a memory charm?" Harry asked.
"Well, no... But Hermione's brought all her books and things, I'm sure memory charm is in there somewhere, right?"
"Actually, no. It's not. Memory charms can be very dangerous, so you don't learn them until you're a 6th year, and even then not until you've completed your apperation testing to show that you're responsible. That's next year for us, not this year." Hermione pointed out.
"And besides that, I'm pretty sure that the Ministry is going to be scanning the area, searching for any and all magic used around here and checking it out. That's how I'd find magic if I were a Ministry worker." Harry said slowly.
"Oh... darn." Ron said, thinking again. "So what are we going to do? And how are we going to get everything we'd need for a Truth Serum, anyhow?"
Hermione shrugged. "Maybe Seto will have some of the ingredients we need. Our potions books have the truth syrum in it, we were going to learn to do that this year, but obivously that didn't work... and as for what we'll ask people, we just need to ask something simple such as, 'Have you been doing anything bad recently?'"
Ron and Harry thought about this for a moment.
"Well," Ron spoke up. "That could work, but-"
"Hey, Harry! Hermione! Ron!" Yugi called from behind them. "Wait up!"
The three stopped and waited, knowing that their planning would have to wait until after school now.
Tea and Yugi quickly caught up, and they began walking together.
Yugi seemed more open today, talking with them about this and that like any normal person... It made it kind of hard to explain his other recent, more closed behavior... Maybe he had been told he was acting weird and was now trying to act cheerful to cover it up...
Who knows?
Tea looked pleased that Yugi was back to normal, and talked mostly with him about things instead of with Harry, Hermione, and Ron...
Before they got to the school building, Joey, Tristan, and Bakura caught up and attached themselves to the group, so they all walked in together.
Seto had already been in the hall, just about to go into the office for some reason or another, and when he spotted harry in the group, he gave him a look that was half knowing and half wondering why he was hanging out with these people, before slipping inside.
Joey noticed the look and glanced at Harry. "He doesn't like us much." he explained. "Never has... Not since Yugi beat him at Duel Monsters..."
Harry looked up. "So everything around here rides on this game, Duel Monsters?"
Joey shook his head. "Not quite everything, but a huge amount of it, definitely. For one thing, we'd have never met Malik without Duel Monsters, or his sister, Isis. Yugi wouldn't have that Puzzle, I'd have never gotten to go to Duelist Kingdom and won second place in the tournament, and Kaiba wouldn't hate us quite so much..."
Harry nodded. "I see... Why wouldn't Yugi have the Puzzle, though?"
Joey shrugged and began speaking slowly. "I don't quite get it all myself, but... It's very much tied into the game......... You see... there's a-"
Joey didn't get to finish telling Harry what he was talking about because the bell suddenly rang for them to go to class.
Joey took off for his class, calling to Harry over his shoulder. "Come to the Duel Monsters match we're having tonight at Yugi's place! We'll tell ya then, ok?"
Harry nodded quickly and then Joey was out of sight, lost in the crowd. He himself had to go to the exact same class as Joey, so he wasn't sure why they couldn't continue their conversation then, but...
He supposed that Joey didn't feel comfortable telling Harry something that was Yugi's to tell, and that was it...
He began jogging to class, Hermione and Ron beside him. They hadn't really heard his conversastion, as they had each been having their own with different people of the group.
"Tristan says that they went to this Duelist Kingdom thing once..." Ron said as they ran. "Interesting, huh?"
"Yeah," Harry confirmed. "Joey said that too."
"Tea was talking to me about her dancing. The two of us really don't have all that much in common... I'd rather study than dance, but she'd like to study dance......" Hermione mused.
"Joey was saying something about Yugi's Millennium Item being connected with the game of Duel Monsters... I think we need to ask Seto for more information about those items if you ask me..." Harry said.
"Right." Hermione acknowledged. They reached the classroom and filed in with the rest of the class.
Somehow, in the crowd of people that had accumulated when the bell had rung, Seto had managed to get to his seat before the other two had. As they sat down, he leaned over slightly to talk to them.
"Did you figure anything out since we talked yesterday? Any new leads?" he asked, seeming eager to know that he had somebody he could ask about this without people thinking he was nuts.
Harry opened his mouth to tell him their Truth Serum idea, and how they were going to go to Yugi's after school to learn more, but Hermione cut him off.
"No, actually, we haven't found anything... maybe we'll find more after school today, right Harry?" she said quickly, giving Harry a look that said, "go with me here, I know what I'm doing."
He nodded in agreement, although his mind was racing. What did Hermione think she was doing? Did she not trust Kaiba? They already knew that he hadn't sent Hogwarts to the Shadow Realm!... didn't they?
Class started and the teacher began talking again. They all began paying attention to what she was saying.
Hermione leaned over to Harry and whispered so quietly that he almost didn't catch what she was saying, "I'll explain after class."
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After class, during which a group of students were playing Duel Monsters entirely unnoticed by the teacher once again, Hermione led the other two over to a mostly secluded area.
"We only have five minutes passing time, but I have to tell you guys this."
Harry and Ron nodded. "What was with the whole not telling Seto what was going on thing back there, Hermione?" Harry asked.
"Yeah! Don't tell me you still think he did it!" Ron said exasperately.
"Actually, yes. I do."
Ron sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Just hear me out. Ok, Ron?" Hermione said. Ron nodded slowly, so she went on. "Seto's brother, Mokuba, was going to Hogwarts, and it's obvious that he's very fond of him, so the fact that the school got sent to the Shadow Realm BEFORE the term actually started and the students actually got there adds into that. Also, Seto's a squib. According to what he said while we were there, he believes that the Ministry of Magic is made up of egotistical idiots. This means he has plenty of reason to do something to get the Ministry's attention. And he certainly has enough money and power here to influence anybody to help him to do things."
Ron stared in disbelief. "Hey, you're right!"
Harry frowned. "But if he's the one that did all this, why is he helping us out and giving us leads?"
Hermione shrugged. "Maybe he wants to give us false information in order to mislead us. The whole thing about the Millennium Items? It could just be to make Yugi and Malik seem as if they were the ones who did it. Or maybe it is true that they have power, but maybe he himself has one, or maybe the people that have them aren't using them for anything bad..."
"There may be another aspect of the Millennium Items that we don't get yet... Joey was trying to tell me something before school today, and I think we'll find out a whole lot more when we go to that match after school today." Harry said.
Hermione agreed. "Plus, we'll make up a truth serum before the match, if we have time, and we'll have a little talk with some of the people there..."
Ron nodded. "Alright." he looked down at his watch. "Aiiie! We've got thirty seconds to get to our next class, guys, let's go!"
They all jumped up and ran to their next class.
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The after school hours finally arrived.
While they were walking home, Harry asked about the match and Yugi replied that it wasn't going to be for about two hours, as he had come chores and homework to get done up, and he wanted to be sure he wouldn't get interupted in the middle of any duels.
Becuase of this, Hermione concluded that they had plenty of time to make up a syrum. IF Seto had the ingredients they needed...
When they got inside the house, Ron came up with another question.
"If we're not going to tell Seto about any of our leads or anything we're doing, how are we going to get him to give us the stuff we need for a Truth Serum?"
Hermione, Harry, and Ron all thought about this for a moment.
Finally, Hermione came up with something. "Well, it seems to me that the person Seto most wants us to think did it is Yugi."
Harry nodded. "Yeah, Joey mentioned something about Yugi and them never getting along with Seto, becuase of that Duel Monsters game. I think they're arch rivals. So it makes sense for Seto to want us to think Yugi did it."
"But what does that have to do with-"
"Because we can tell him we're making a serum, and that we're going to use it to ask Yugi if he's done anything. Seto will probably instantly agree, because of the whole arch rival thing." Hermione spoke up.
"But if he is, like you said, the one who did it, he'll be instantly NOT wanting to give you stuff for a truth serum because then we'd be able to find out that Yugi didn't do it!" Ron said.
"But we don't know that Yugi DIDN'T do it! Has everyone forgotten that Seto isn't the only person we need to worry about here? There's still Yugi, Malik, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, Tea, and a whole slew of other people at that school that could have potentially done it!" Harry pointed out.
Hermione nodded. "True. How about we ask Seto if he has any of the ingredients we need, and then we tell him what we're using them for, and hope he'll give them to us."
Ron nodded. "Good idea. Let's head to Seto's. If he doesn't have the stuff, there's no way we'll be able to make up the serum before Yugi's match thing he's doing. Or even make it at all!"
"I've got a few ingredients here already." Hermione said. "Some of the stuff we were told to bring for potions class this year."
Ron gave her a strange look. "You brought all your potions stuff?"
Hermione nodded slowly. "You never know when it'll help. And in this case, it did. Now let's get to Seto's place and ask him."
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"What in the world could you possibly need all this for?" Seto asked, looking down at the list that Hermione had set in front of him.
They were back in the top office of KaibaCorp once again.
"Let's just say we're on to something, and if we don't have those ingredients, we can't make the potion that will help us." Hermione said, not realy telling him anything at all.
Seto looked up at her suspiciously. "Potion?" he asked. "Ok, I may not be able to do any magic or make any working potions myself, but I have studied some of the school books, and I do know that there are no potions in the first through fourth years that have the ingredient 'Jobberknoll Feathers" in it."
Hermione shifted from one foot to the other.
"As far as I know, the only things that this ingredient is good for are memory potions and truth serums, am I correct?" Seto asked.
Hermione nodded. "Yeah.. we were going to make a truth serum to try on Yugi..." she mumbled.
Seto thought about this for a moment. Finally, he nodded. "Sounds reasonable. When'd you come up with that?"
"This, er... Afternoon." Ron said.
Seto rasied an eyebrow. "Sounds like somebody in this room needs a Truth Serum."
Ron blushed. "This morning."
Seto turned and strode over to a wall. Pressing a hidden button, a hole in the wall appeared, showing itself to be a door!
Harry stared. "Guess you don't need magic to do werid things..." he mumbled to himself.
Seto either didn't hear this, or decided to ignore it, becuase he went inside the room and began digging around on different shelves, occationally referring back to Hermione's list. After a while, he came out again carrying a box full of ingredients and handed it to Hermione.
"There." he said. "That should cover everything you need for this serum."
Ron, Harry, and Hermione exchanged glances. "Thanks."
They left KaibaCorp, feeling more confused than they had before they came.
Halfway home, Hermione sighed. "Ok, well maybe I was wrong about Seto. Maybe he is just a nice normal person who wants to help us..."
Ron shrugged. "Actually, he could very well still be a suspect."
"For now, let's just focus on getting this serum made up so we can get to the match." Harry said.
Hermione and Ron agreed.
When tehy got into the house, suddenly, Hermione took control. Ron and Harry were ordered to run around and set things up, bring her certain items, and stir occationally.
She obviously knew what she was doing, though, and so neither Harry nor Ron complained abut it.
Within half an hour, Hermione had made up a small bit of the potion.
"It's VERY apparent that he's never made potion himself before, because he didn't give us enough ingredients to make more than one vial of it, enough to make one person answer completely truthfully! But if we split it up into parts, we can get up to three people to answer our questions at least mostly truthfully..." Hermione commented.
Ron looked at his watch. "Just in time too." he said. "It's time for the match to start."
Harry looked out the window, and saw quite a few people gathered outside Yugi's game shop. "Yup, looks like everybody's there. Let's go!"
And so they went.
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-_- I was going to make that chappie have more in it, such as actually clearing another person, but... Apperently all I've done is annoy people by adding Seto back into the list of suspects...
Which, by the way, is as follows:
Seto, Yugi, Yami, Malik, Bakura, Y.Bakura, Tea, Tristan, Joey, and.. that's it.
So, anyway.. I must ask the question that is becoming the trademark of this ficcie.
NOW who do you think it is?
--Daricio