(Sigh) Here I am, being reduced to using parenthesis in order to put actions, and left desolate without my ability to create happy anime eyes on the computer, all because of stupid Quickedit.

Malik: (Nods) Tell me about it. It's SO hard to simply remember to put the parenthesis instead of the asterisks. (Rolls eyes)

Daricio: Tell me about it.

Malik: -.- I have GOT to teach you about sarcasm...

Daricio: OK! (happy anime face)

Malik: (sigh)

Roo: Is she always this annoying?

Malik: (Shakes head)

Roo: GOOD.

Malik: Sometimes she's worse.

Roo: (groan)

Daricio: (big happy anime face) Anyways, welcome to the next chapter of Where's Yugi!!! I mean Millennium Magic! I mean, whatever story this one is!!!

Bakura: (clap clap clap clap)

Roo: (With very forced I'm-being-bribed-to-do-this happy look) (clap clap clap clap)

Daricio: (cheesy grin) Let's go!

Malik: SO... do you have any notes for this chapter?

Daricio: (very annoying I-know-something-you-don't-know look) Nope! I'm going straight into the ficcie this time.

Malik: uh huh.... Any chance of telling me who the bad guy of the fic is?

Daricio: (same look) Nope!

Malik: Rats.

As Hermione walked swiftly down the stairs, she began to mumble under her breath. Harry and Ron glanced at each other, thinking this to be rather strange, but shrugged and continued to follow her.

Once they reached the bottom of the stairs, Hermione walked as quickly as was possible with all the people all over the floor to the front counter where Yugi's grandfather was standing.

"I'd like a few starter decks, please sir!" Hermione said sweetly.

Mr. Moto smiled. "Of course, young lady. All of our starter decks are $10.99. What kinds would you like?"

"Oh, there are different kinds?"

"Yes, there are different starter decks that you can get depending on what kind of deck you want to have. For example, there's a fire based deck, an earth based deck, a plant based deck, a water based deck, a spellcaster based deck, and a few others." Mr. Moto explained.

Hermione, Ron, and Harry grinned.

"Spellcaster sounds cool." Harry said. "What kind of cards are in it?"

"Mostly magician cards, spellcasters, stuff like that. There's a lot of really good magic cards in the Magician booster packs, too. I can get you some of those as well." Mr. Moto said, his eyes twinkling. "50% off, since you're Yugi's friends."

Hermione smiled. "You don't need to do that." She said. Mr. Moto insisted. Hermione just grinned. "Well, I'm pretty sure we all want spellcaster starter decks, and then we can each have a few booster packs as well! I think I'll also have an earth starter deck, so that I can pick and choose which ones I want."

Mr. Moto nodded. "That's a good strategy. One of the best ways to win is to surprise your opponent by having a double based deck, actually. Just make sure you don't get too random with the cards you put in, or you won't be able to have a clear strategy."

Harry grinned. "I think I'll do that too. Hermione, you have enough money to get me a Fire starter deck as well?"

"And me a Dark one?" Ron put in.

Hermione nodded. "I do." She turned back to Mr. Moto. "So add those in too, okay?" She asked politely.

Mr. Moto nodded and gave her a half bow. "Of course, little miss." He turned to get the requested cards.

Harry leaned over to whisper to Hermione. "Are you sure you have enough money? I can't even really convert Knuts and galleons into English pounds, much less convert pounds to American money, but I still get the feeling that 6 starter decks at 11 bucks each plus however much all those booster packs are is a LOT of money..."

Hermione grinned secretively. "I know. I have enough, don't worry."

Ron glanced over at her, raising an eyebrow at her confidence of this. "How many knuts ARE to a pound, anyway?"

Hermione laughed. She was about to tell him the exact amounts required to add up to a pound, but then Mr. Moto returned with the things.

"Is this all?" He asked.

Hermione nodded, then asked what the total was.

Mr. Moto gave a small smile. "Normally, $101.91 for six starter decks and 3 booster packs each for you, but since you're Yugi's friends..."

Hermionie shook her head. "No, that's ok; we can pay the full thing. I don't want to take advantage of being friends with Yugi."

Harry raised an eyebrow. He still wasn't entirely sure, but $100 still sounded like a lot of money to him. Where did Hermione get that much cash to throw around??

Hermione quickly pulled out a crisp $100 American bill along with a five and handed it to Mr. Moto before he could protest.

His eyes were open a little wider than usual as he counted out and handed Hermione her change. He gave her their items in a slightly large bag.

Hermione thanked him, and they walked away from the counter.

As soon as they sat down at a small table in the corner of the shop near the staircase, Hermione decided to explain her sudden wealth.

"It's a charm that the Ministry of Magic people often use." She said, "I read about it in one of their "unofficial information" books that a group of ex-members published. Basically, it makes it so that you can create any amount of muggle money of any type at will for a certain period of time until the charm wears off."

Ron grinned. "Neat trick, that."

Hermione nodded, grinning. Then she handed out everyone's packs to them. "I'll teach it to you sometime."

As they began to open the starter decks, Harry asked, "So exactly how much money WAS that, anyway? He seemed surprised at the amount."

Hermione nodded. "It was a little expensive... These Duel Monster cards definitely aren't cheap, that's for sure." She said. She made a quick calculation in her head, then said, "I think the price we paid today is equivalent to about... 57 pounds, since 1 US dollar equals about 0.56 pounds... And it's about 21 Galleons, 3 sickles..."

Ron and Harry looked from her, to the merchandise, then back to her again. "All that for just cards?" Harry asked.

Hermione nodded. "Yup. Like I said, expensive."

(A/n: That IS expensive! O.o I didn't realize it was that much until I did all the calculations with my calculator using the prices that the card shop near my house uses! And the starter decks are actually cheaper here in the story than in real life!!! And by the way, me like internet currency converters... Even found one for wizard money!)

As Harry opened the Starter Decks, he realized that each one came with a field and a rulebook as well as the cards. He flipped through the rulebook, getting the idea of the game, then he began looking at the cards and trying to decide which ones to keep in his deck. Ron and Hermione did the same.

Compared to most of the cards he could see being played in the duels all around him, most of the cards in both starter decks were pretty average, except for the main useful ones like Trap Hole and Waboku.

In the Spellcaster starter deck there was some pretty good cards such as Magician of Faith, Enchanted Javelin, and Neo the Magic Swordsman.

In the Fire starter deck that he had gotten, there was a Flame Swordsman, a Fire Princess, a Hinotama magic card, and a Fire Serpent.

In his booster packs was where all the really cool cards were, though. Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl, Magician of Black Chaos, Lava Golem, Wizaroyou, and quite a few others.

As he shuffled through the cards, he was strangely able to find some of them that resembled some of the magical creatures that existed only in the wizarding world. For example, the Fire Serpent looked like a Basilisk that was surrounded by flames. In one of his booster packs, he had found a card called Stamping of Dragons that featured a Norwegian Ridgeback. There was even a card called a Blast-Ended Skrewt!!

But the strangest one of all was one that was called "Winning Hope of the One." It was a magic card. The picture was all black except for a faint glow in the center. If you looked closely at the card, you could see two people standing, swords out, facing each other in a duel. Or at least that's how it seemed. Having seen the scene before from the point of view of one of those two duelists, Harry knew their weapons to be wands. And he knew his opponent to be Voldemort.

Harry breathlessly showed the card to Hermione and Ron. "Look at this... It's strange..."

"What's strange?"

Harry turned and grinned at Yugi who was now behind them smiling curiously.

"Hey Yugi, did you win?" Harry asked.

Yugi nodded, putting on his trademark kawaii grin. "Yup! You guys get some cards from Grandpa?"

"Sure did! Hey Yugi, have you ever seen this card?" Harry asked, showing him the Winning Hope of the One card.

Yugi took it and looked it over, then he nodded. "Yeah, I've seen it! It's an extremely rare, extremely cheap card." He said. "Really cool that you got it!"

"What's it do?" Harry asked, looking at it over Yugi's shoulder.

"If you have a spellcaster on the field that is being attacked, you can activate this card. It brings the opponent's monster's attack points down to zero, making your opponent take direct life point damage equal to the attack of your spellcaster. Then, it removes all monsters belonging to your opponent of the type of the opposing monster from play, including ones that are in his deck and the ones on the field." Yugi said. "This really sucks if you have a deck that has all of one type and your opponent uses it on you."

Harry grinned. "Cool. What's the picture of?"

Yugi shrugged. "I'm not sure, actually. Looks almost like two swordfighters dueling each other at midnight or something, really. If you look really really closely here in the corner here by the smaller duelist, you can see that he appears to be backed up by a small army of ghosts, while the other is backed up by a small army of normal people."

Harry looked, and indeed that is what he saw. It also further confirmed to him just what that scene was of.

Yugi grinned. "Hey, when you get your deck put together, you want to duel?"

Harry smiled. "Sure! That'll be fun!"

He continued shuffling the cards around, searching for the ones he wanted to keep in his deck. When he finally finished a few minutes later, he had 45 cards in his deck.

"Ok, let's duel!" Harry said, grinning. He pulled out one of the placemat- like fields from his starter decks and placed his deck on the correct spot. Yugi did the same with a field of his own. Both drew their hands.

Harry barely had time to even look at what cards he drew, however, before a group of people, all robed in brown cloaks, swished into the shop.

"It's the Ministry of Magic!" Hermione hissed. She, Harry, and Ron all stood at the same time, Harry dropping his cards, and scurried from the room, whispering a "be right back" to Yugi, who looked rather confused.

They raced up the stairs and locked themselves in the bathroom again. They all held their breaths as they listened to the sounds out the door, hoping that nobody in the Ministry had spotted them.

"Why are they here??" Ron asked in hushed tones, clearly out of breath.

Hermione rolled her eyes at him. "You expect us to know??"

Suddenly, Harry realized that the answer to that question was. "It was Hermione's spell."

Hermione and Ron stopped and stared at him.

"What do you mea-"

"Of Course!" Hermione groaned, slapping her forehead. "The Ministry of Magic has been over here tracking MAGIC, trying to find the source of it!"

Harry nodded. "Meaning that we just put Yugi on the Ministry's suspect list."

Ron shrugged. "So? He's already on OUR list, why not keep him under their eye as well?"

"Because they like to bungle things up, that's why." Harry returned.

Ron grinned.

The room fell into silence for a while as they continued listening for sounds besides their own breathing.

"What about our potion?" Ron asked suddenly. "Shouldn't they have tracked that as well? What if they've already been over there looking at the mess we probably left with it?!"

Hermione shook her head. "I don't think so. For one thing, potions don't really require magic to make, just the right magical ingredients. And if the Ministry went seeking out every tiny bit of magical ingredients around here, they'd never get anything done. For another, I cleaned up our 'mess'. But Harry, speaking of the potion, what did Tea, Bakura, and Tristan say?"

Harry shrugged. "Nothing, really. Bakura was quiet, but then he's always like that. And when I asked them if anything weird had been happening, all of them agreed that the strangest thing was that we had shown up here in Domino. That and the fact that Malik also showed up here. Apparently, he lives in Egypt normally. But anyway, I think that they're innocent, guys. All three of them."

Hermione and Ron nodded. "I agree." Hermione said. "So that's three cleared, now for the rest of them."

"Right... Just as soon as the Minist-"

There was a knock on the bathroom door. All of them froze, keeping quiet in case it was the Ministry.

"Guys?" It was Yugi. "You can come out now. Those weird robed guys are gone."

Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged uneasy glances, wondering how much Yugi had heard, before getting up and exiting the bathroom.

Yugi grinned at them. "So, who were those guys anyway? Why don't you want them to find you?"

"Let's just say that if they catch us here, we're in big doo doo." Ron said.

"Here as in my house?" Yugi asked.

"No, Domino in general." Ron said without thinking. Hermione kicked him.

Yugi thought about this for a moment, then shrugged and bounded down the stairs. "Come on, Harry, let's finish our duel!"

"Yeah!" Harry grinned.

As they followed the small energetic teen (who happened to actually be only a few puny inches shorter than the author -.-) Hermione hissed at Ron. (she does this a lot.) "He's still a suspect, don't be telling him stuff!"

Run just shrugged.

Harry and Yugi took their seats and Harry picked up his hand again. "Let's duel!"

Harry grinned. "Can I go first?" he asked.

Yugi nodded. "Sure!"

"Thanks." Harry looked over his hand. "Let's see... I'll play one card face down and another card in defense mode. Then I'll end my turn."

Yugi smiled and drew a card. "I'll play a card face down as well, and then I'll play the Celtic Guardian in attack mode! I'll have him attack your face down card!"

Harry hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should activate his face down, then decided against it and let the Celtic Guardian destroy his defense mode Sorcerer's Apprentice, forcing Yugi to reveal what his face down card was. It was just an equip card, and it was flipped back face down.

"Your move, Harry."

Harry nodded. "I'll..." he looked disappointed in the card he just drew and laid it face down. "I'll just play defense again. Your move."

Yugi smiled. "I'll sacrifice my Celtic Guardian for the Summoned Skull!" He considered for a moment. "I'll attack your defense monster."

Harry nodded and discarded his now-destroyed Mystical Elf. Yugi grinned again. "Your move."

"I draw." He looked at the card he drew. "I play the magic card Ookazi!" he announced, placing the card down. Yugi frowned.

"Ow. That took almost a quarter of my life points..." (they're playing with 4000 life points)

Harry grinned. "Yup! And now, I'll play the magic card Revolt! It allows me to summon one monster from my hand that is level 5 or higher without having to tribute for it. And I choose to summon the Dark Magician!"

Yugi looked surprised. "cool! That's my favorite card!" he said, grinning.

Harry smiled. "I'll lay another card face down and let the turn shift to you, then."

Yugi grinned wider. "Don't want to get rid of your Dark Magician by attacking my Summoned Skull and destroying them both, huh?" he asked. "Ok. I'll activate my face down equip card, Black Pendant! It raises the Summoned Skull's attack points by 500, making him a 3000 attack point monster!"

Harry blinked. "Oh boy..."

Yugi laughed a little. "Sorry, Harry. I hate destroying the Dark Magician, but here goes. Summoned Skull, attack!"

Harry flipped one of his face downs. "Enchanted Javelin!" Then he flipped the other one. "Magical Cylinder!"

Yugi's eyes widened. "Ow," was all he said. (LP: 200)

Hermione and Ron cheered for Harry. "Cool!"

Harry grinned. (LP: 7000)

Yugi grinned once again, laughing. "I underestimated you." He said. "Now, let's go. Your move."

Harry drew his card, then switched his Dark Magician to defense mode. Then he played a face down card and laid another card in defense mode. "All right, now I'm ready for your attacks! Your move!"

Yugi nodded. "Ok! Now, I summon Kuriboh, in attack mode! I'll attack your face down card with Summoned Skull!"

Harry flipped and discarded his face down Chameleo, a four star fire monster with 400 attack and 2000 defense.

Yugi smirked. "Your move, Harry."

Harry smiled. "All right." He drew his card and grinned. "I play the magic card Soul Exchange, along with this Ritual card! It allows me to summon Magician of Black Chaos in exchange for a sacrifice, a sacrifice which just happens to be your two monsters!"

Yugi laughed. "Now you're starting to sound like Yami with your card announcing..."

Harry smiled. "Is that an insult, or a compliment?"

"I think I'll choose not to answer that question." Yugi said, eyes sparkling. Harry could almost sense an aura of annoyance coming from within him that was obviously Yami.

Harry laughed, and continued placing his monster on the field. "Anyway, I now have two monsters on the field, but unfortunately, I can't attack due to Soul Exchange's secondary effect, so I'll end my turn."

Yugi nodded and drew his card. "I'll play one card face down, and one card in defensive mode. Then, I'll end my turn."

"Ok." Harry drew. "I'll play a monster in defense. Then, with Magician of Black Chaos, I'll attack your face down card."

"Not so fast. I activate Negate Attack!" Yugi exclaimed.

Harry nodded. "That ends my battle phase, doesn't it?"

Yugi nodded. "Sure does! My turn?"

"Yeah, I suppose."

"Ok. I'll place another monster in defense mode and another card face down. Go."

Harry smiled. "How come you keep just defending?"

Yugi shrugged. "Waiting for a card to hurry up and get into my hand. Stalling for time."

"Ah." Harry said. "I'll sacrifice face down card for Flame Champion in attack mode. Flame Champion, attack Yugi's face dow-"

"Waboku, activate!"

"... I see what you mean by stalling for time. You know how annoying it is to have three powerful monsters on the field and not be able to attack?" Harry said jokingly.

"That's how I feel when I play Chess..." Ron mumbled. "Harry always traps me..."

Yugi giggled. "Like I said, just trying to get a certain card into my hand. I get the feeling I'm going to draw it now."

Hermione raised an eyebrow. "And does your Millennium Item have anything to do with this 'feeling' that you have?"

Yugi grinned sheepishly. "Sort of... It only works like that because of the trust that I have in my deck, though. That's called the Heart of the Cards. I trust my monsters, and they trust me."

Ron looked confused. "That sounds..."

Hermione finished for him. "Somewhat like rubbish? Just a little... I mean, it's just a card game, right?"

Yugi shook his head. "Not really. The monsters used to be real, remember? And the souls of those monsters have stayed with their images on these cards. And 'cause Yami used to be Pharaoh, certain cards that used to be his guardians are now still very loyal to him, and to me in turn. Especially the Dark Magician."

Harry nodded in understanding. "Yeah, I see."

Hermione nodded as well. "OK, so it's not dumb. Sorry."

Yugi shrugged. "No, that's ok." He said. "On with the duel! It's my turn, I believe?"

Harry nodded. "It is."

Yugi drew his card and grinned, showing to Harry that he had drawn the Dark Magician. Harry grinned as well.

Yugi placed a magic card on the field. "Swords of Revealing Light!"

Harry groaned. "More delays?"

Yugi grinned innocently and played a card in defense mode along with his other two. "Your move."

Harry drew his card. "All right then, I'll play defense and wait. Your move."

Yugi drew. "Ok, I'll play the Feral Imp in attack mode, one card face down, and end my turn."

Harry raised an eyebrow. "In attack mode, Yugi?" Yugi nodded happily. Harry shrugged. "Fine, whatever... You're the game king..."

Yugi grinned impishly. "It's your move!" he chirped.

Harry nodded. "All right! I'll sacrifice my facedown card for Lady of Darkness. (ATK: 2400 DEF: 1450 Spellcaster type) and now, I'll activate this magic card: Mystical Space Typhoon! Wiping out your swords a turn early!"

Yugi looked surprised.

"Now, Magician of Black Chaos! Attack his Feral Imp and take out the rest of his life points!" Harry ordered. He grinned.

Yugi grinned too. "You fell right into my trap! One of my favorites: Mirror Force!"

Harry blanched. "What?? But... That destroys all of the monsters I have on the field!" he cried. "And I already summoned this turn, so there's nothing to guard my life points against attacks from you!"

Yugi looked heroic for a moment. "Exactly."

Harry looked down. "End turn."

Yugi drew. "Now, I sacrifice three of my four monsters on the field for my ultimate monster: Saint Dragon, God of Osirus! Normally, I can't play this card, since doing it blows out all of the holograph projectors, but when we're not playing a holo-duel, it's ok."

Harry stared at the card. "What is it??"

"One of the three Egyptian God Cards." Joey said, suddenly appearing beside them from the small crowd watching the duel. "Yugi, I thought you keep those cards for safekeeping, not walking around with them in your dueling deck..."

Yugi shrugged. "They feel bad if I don't let them out every now and then" Joey rolled his eyes.

"What does it do?" Harry asked.

"Each of the God Cards has a different ability. They're very basically unbeatable. With this particular God Card, its attack points change according to the amount of cards in the player's hand. 1000 per card. At the moment, I have 6 cards in my hand, so its attack is 6000." Yugi explained. "But now I activate my face down card. An equip card! Because its an Egyptian God Card, Magic cards only work on it for one turn, and Traps don't work at all. The equip card? Ax of Despair."

Harry smiled a little. "Bringing it up to 7000 attack points, huh?" he asked.

"Yup!" Yugi grinned. "I attack you directly with Osirus!"

Harry checked his face down cards, seeing if there was anything at all he could do, before he gathered up his cards and shook hands with Yugi. "Good duel."

Both grinned at each other. It had indeed been a good duel. (Especially since Yugi would have won even without his god Card...)
Once they were all back at the house that night, Hermione took out a--

DVD, GO AWAY. (DVD: Squeegee! (Makes weird mumbly noises))

Anyway, Hermione took out a piece of parchment and a quill. She then began to write down the names of all of the suspects, listing them off aloud as she did so. "Ok, we have Kaiba and/or his brother, Yugi and/or his yami, Joey, Malik, Tristan, Tea, and Bakura. The last three are the only ones who have been cleared, so that leaves us with 4 main suspects, 6 if you include Mokuba and Yami." She said.

Harry nodded. "That sounds about right."

Ron sighed. "This is going too slowly." He noted.

Hermione nodded. "Excruciatingly so." She agreed. "But there's not any more we can do tonight, so we might as well get to bed. Who's got which floor again?"

Ron immediately claimed the third floor.

Harry shrugged. "I'll take the second floor."

"Ok, I'll stay on the first floor tonight, then." Hermione said. They all three wearily went to their respective floors and settled down for the night.

As Harry began to drift off to sleep, he looked out the window, into Yugi's window across the alleyway. Yugi had the shades closed, but Harry could see images drift around the room as silhouettes.

He sighed, watching the shadows. It was strange to think that their next door neighbor for now was one of their suspects, even after he had been so nice to them.

Sort of like Bakura. Harry was glad that he, at least, was cleared of the deed. Now he could only hope that all the other friends he had made could have the same done for them. Especially Yugi.

The light in Yugi's room turned off, and Harry finally fell asleep.
Daricio: Done with that! Yay! (cheesy grin) I suck at writing duels...

Malik: -.- You still didn't reveal who the bad guy was.

Daricio: Duh, Malik. I've still got to do about 3 or 4 more chapters in this story, and you only get to know who did it in the last one.

Malik: -.- Meanie.

Daricio: (rolls eyes) Anyways, review! Who do you think did it now?