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The first one was so negative, I thought people would hate, but like I care. I'm glad people like it though.
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Chapter 4
(Last Time)
"Mood swings? I thought they were all boys" Ron said. Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Stop being so sexist, Ron. Boys can have mood swings too" she snapped. Everyone sighed and turned back to their meal. Hermione and Ron would always fight about everything.
(This Time)
The next day, Yugi and Ryou walked back to the clock tower to meet Professor Dumbledore. So are you going to accept Yugi?" Ryou asked.
"Yeah, Grandpa seems to think it's a good idea. He feels we would be better protected with others who can use magic" Yugi answered. "Are you accepting?" Yugi continued.
"May as well, nothing else to do really. My father says he may be away until next August, so I'm going to be on my own if I stay" Ryou said. Yugi looked sadly at Ryou. Ryou always seemed to be alone. Although the spirit in his Millennium Ring had calmed down, he still did enough damage to make the others avoid him, and his father was always in another country. Ryou smiled suddenly and said "It should be interesting meeting others with magic". Yugi just nodded his agreement.
They stopped in front of the clock and waited. From the direction of Kaiba Corp, they saw Seto and Mokuba walking up… well Mokuba started running as soon as he saw them. When Seto caught up to his brother, he glared at Yugi and Ryou in his way greeting. "Hi guys, are you going to this weird school too? I managed to convince Seto into going" Mokuba said, a smirk forming on his lips as he explained bout Seto. Seto gave out a long suffering sigh. In their soul rooms, the two Yami's were laughing their heads off, which was rather distracting for Yugi and Ryou, who were outwardly frowning. "What's wrong" Mokuba asked.
"Huh? ... Oh, Bakura is a little… hyper right now" Ryou said nervously, looking at Seto.
"Let me guess. About me, right?" Seto said sarcastically. Ryou looked nervously at Seto again while Mokuba sweat dropped.
Seeeetoooo, you promised to be nice" Mokuba whined. Seto cringed at his promise. Mokuba had not stopped nagging him about it since yesterday.
"I said I would be civil to them, I never said anything about psychotic Yami's" Seto retorted. This time Yugi and Ryou sweat dropped. Their time at Hogwarts was going be… interesting. Hey Yami, Kaiba thinks you're psychotic. How do you feel about that? Yugi teased. Yami pouted across the link. You're mean! Yami retorted childishly. He then left the puzzle in his spiritual. "Hi Yami" Ryou said then noticed the pout on Yami's face. "Yugi teasing you about…" he started, then looked in Seto's direction. "Is he teasing you about that again?" he finished lamely.
"Yes, but I'll get him back. I always do" Yami said, his pout turning to a smirk. Yugi eeped, and ran behind Ryou. Seto rolled his eyes and muttered something that sounded like 'idiots' under his breath. Bakura decided that he was going to join in. "So, the shrimp is getting the better of the almighty Pharaoh again. I never thought the great Pharaoh would let the midget tease him about his love life" he sneered. Yami glared at him. "Oops, my mistake. You don't have a love life, do you? What with your love being a mortal". Yami was seething, and about ready to attack Bakura. Bakura noticing this, and not having a second death wish, transported himself back to the Millennium Ring.
"What are you talking about?" Mokuba asked innocently. Even though he couldn't see the Yami's he still knew when they were there, and they were usually very close to either Ryou or Yugi. Yami blushed. After all, he was in love with the younger Kaiba's brother.
"Um… nothing, just the tomb robber being the tomb robber" Yami stuttered. Mokuba frowned, not totally believing Yami.
"If that's right, why is Yugi teasing you too?" Mokuba asked slyly. 'Ha. Got him. People think kids are naïve, but I'll show them' Mokuba thought in victory. He had noticed Yami's and Seto's love for each other, and was getting frustrated that they wouldn't tell one another. Yami blushed a brighter red and tried to retreat back into the puzzle, but Yugi stopped him. "Oh no you don't. Go on, tell him" Yugi said with a smirk. Yami looked pleadingly at Yugi, but Yugi did not sway from his decision. The only way to get these two to confess was to force them.
A loud crack from behind them saved Yami from answering. He sighed in relief, and looked thankfully at Dumbledore. "Hello. Have you made your decisions?" Dumbledore said, the usual twinkle present in his eyes.
"Yes, we're all going" Yugi said.
"Reluctantly" Seto muttered. Dumbledore smiled.
"I take it this is the younger Kaiba. Now what exactly did you have to do in order to get your brother here? He asked. Mokuba smirked and said
"Weeeell, I had to do some minor black-mailing. My brother is…." He began, but was cut off by a hand over his mouth. He glared up at his big brother, who mock-glared back. Dumbledore's grin widened.
"Well then, I guess we'd better get going…" he began, but Seto cut him off.
"What about my brother? I will not leave him here alone"
"He may come with us, and can stay at the orders head quarters" Dumbledore said. Seto nodded. "Well, touch this and we'll be off" Dumbledore said, pulling an ordinary clock out of his pocket. Everyone looked at Dumbledore as though he gone nuts. "Oh, this is a port key. It will transport us to the Leaky Cauldron in London" he explained noticing the looks. They all touched the clock. They were a bit alarmed when they felt the swirling sensation in their stomachs, but didn't let go. When the swirling had stopped, they found themselves inside an old looking pub. As they looked around, they instantly knew this wasn't a normal pub. A voice popped them back to reality. "Ah, Dumbledore. The other two are here, as well as Harry Potter and his friends".
"Thank you Tom. As soon as Hagrid gets here, I will be on my way" Dumbledore said. He ushered them to a table in the corner and they all waited patiently for Hagrid to arrive. A loud set of footsteps told Dumbledore Hagrid had arrived. He stood up to greet him. "Hello Professor Dumbledore sir. These the other transfers?" He looked curiously at them, mostly at Yugi with his tri-coloured hair.
"It's natural" Yugi said briefly, knowing what the large man was looking at. He couldn't complain about the staring though, as he had been doing it himself. If he had thought Seto had towered him, this guy was a mountain. He must have been a couple of feet taller than Seto, and Seto was considered tall. Even Seto had had a brief look of surprise on his face, before replacing it with his usual icy mask. "Who's this little one?" Hagrid asked, pointing at Mokuba.
"That's Mokuba Kaiba, the younger brother of Seto Kaiba. Young Seto was adamant that his brother not be left behind" Dumbledore explained. "Well, I'd better be going. Lots to do at Hogwarts" and with crack he disappeared again.
"We'd better get the Ishtars…" Hagrid started.
"The Ishtars? That damn woman is here?" Seto suddenly said. He couldn't stand Ishizu's fate speeches.
"Yes. Both Marik and Ishizu Ishtar are here, though only Marik is going to Hogwarts" Hagrid said.
"So why did she have to come?" Seto asked bitterly.
"She has some connection with some items. She's been brought here for her own safety" Hagrid explained.
"Let me guess. Another crackpot is after the Millennium items, right?" Seto said sounding bored already. Someone trying to steal the Millennium items no longer surprised him.
"Hey, about time you lot showed up. Ishizu has been boring me with all her lectures 'don't lose control of your anger' 'don't use the Millennium Rod except in emergencies' and don't get me started on the fate stuff" came a relieved voice from behind them. They turned and saw Marik, looking the same as ever with all his jewellery and strange clothing. Ishizu appeared behind him dressed in her usual Egyptian attire.
"Now we're all here, let's get going" Hagrid said. He led them out the back of the pub and began tapping bricks, much to the bemusement of everyone else. They all stared when the bricks began moving themselves, to reveal to a long street with a big white building at the end of it. Hagrid began walking down the street saying "Welcome to Diagon Alley. First we go to Gringott's, the wizard bank, to exchange your money and then we get your supplies". No one answered as they followed him, looking at all the strange shops. As they walked past the first set of doors, Yugi could hear Yami snickering in his soul room Look at what that door says. Bakura will want to rob to prove them wrong. Yugi rolled his eyes and continued walking; now ignoring his Yami's laughing. He noticed a silence in his mind when he saw the bank workers. They were shorter than he was! "Those are goblins" Hagrid explained when he caught Yugi's stare. Yugi blinked.
"You mean you have all these strange creatures in your world?" Mokuba asked.
"Yeah, we have vampires, hags, banshees, werewolves, unicorns and a whole lot more than what you muggles can think of" said Hagrid.
"Muggles?" Mokuba asked.
"Non-magic people" Hagrid explained simply. They walked up to a large desk with yet another goblin sat behind it. "We have come to exchange money for the exchange students" Hagrid said to him. The goblin looked at the exchange students and then back to Hagrid. The students all handed their money to the goblin, who counted it and then dumped a load of bronze, silver and gold coins on the counter and began counting them. "The bronze ones are knuts, the silver ones are sickles and the gold ones are galleons. 29 knuts to a sickle and 17 sickles to a galleon" Hagrid explained. The goblin handed the money to them and they put money in their small bags and left to buy supplies.
((I'm no good at shopping… sorry))
They finally arrived at the wand shop. This was the one Bakura and Marik had been looking forward to, they could cause some destruction with a magic wand. They couldn't use their Millennium Items because they didn't know who worked for Voldemort and who didn't so they had to keep them hidden. When they entered the shop, they saw shelf upon shelf of thin, long boxes, all stacked messily. They were surprised that the owner could find anything in there.
"Ah, you must be the new transfers Professor Dumbledore told me about" came a creepy voice from the shadows. A man walked from among the shelves and moved towards them. "Well then, which one first?" Ollivander asked. Yugi and Ryou looked nervously at the strange man, and Marik rolled his eyes and said "I'll go first" and stepped towards Ollivander. Ollivander flicked his own wand towards the desk and a tape measure floated into his hand.
"Now, which is your wand arm?" Ollivander asked.
"Um… I'm left handed" Marik said, not understanding what he meant.
"Hold out your arm" Ollivander said. Marik did as he was told, and he and the others gasped in surprise when the tape measure started measuring Marik on its own. They were even more surprised when the tape measure started measuring other parts of his body. Marik was soon becoming annoyed with the tape measure and slapped it to the other side of the shop when it started measuring his head. He glared at Ollivander, who paid no attention and began looking for a wand. He brought back box after box, but with every wand something else got smashed. Ollivander finally brought back an old looking box with hieroglyphs on it. "Here, this wand was made using Egyptian wood. The core is entirely Egyptian too. This wand hasn't been compatible with anyone since it was a thousand years ago" Ollivander said as he handed the wand to Marik. As Marik grasped the wand, gold and violet sparks flew from the wand. "About time" Marik grumbled.
The rest of the wand trying went the same (although Ryou and Yugi didn't end up getting violent with the tape measure), with each of them ending up with a wand from Egypt. They all paid and headed back to the Leaky Cauldron with all their new supplies.
"Well that was an interesting shopping trip" Ryou said with a smile.
"Yeah, the wizarding world is really cool" Yugi said. Marik joined them at the table.
"This place is weird" he said, looking around at all the people in the room.
"Well, I bet we seem weird to them. Besides, we've seen weird things before right?" Yugi said.
"Yeah but I've grown up around that weird stuff. This is all new" Marik shot back. Yugi laughed at Marik, while Marik mock pouted.
The door of the pub opened and a large group of people walked in. There were a lot of red heads, a blond, a boy with jet black hair, a girl with bushy hair and the last one was a girl with long black hair. The bushy haired looked over to the three item holders curiously, and some recognition came over her face, especially when Seto sat with them. Her mouth dropped open and she walked towards them. "A… are you the exchange students from Egypt and Japan?" she asked nervously. They four teenagers looked at her (well Seto glared at her).
"Yes, I'm Yugi Moto, this is Ryou Bakura, Marik Ishtar and Seto Kaiba" Yugi answered pointing to the others as he introduced them.
"I knew it!" Hermione squealed. "You're the number one duellist in the world, and Seto Kaiba owns one of the most advanced companies in the world, and I think I know the other two, but I'm not entirely sure. I've definitely heard the name Marik Ishtar before though" Hermione said quickly. Seto had raised an eyebrow at her comment about him. 'ONE of the most advanced companies in the world? I've invented things most people can only dream of making!' he thought indignantly.
"That's because I'm the psycho at Battle City" Marik said. Hermione blinked.
"Psycho? Um… OK. My name is Hermione Granger and these…" Hermione said pointing at her friends "are my friends"
"Harry Potter" Harry said.
"I'm Ron Weasley"
"Ginny Weasley"
"Fred and George Weasley" the twins said in unison. The exchange students blinked. Hey Yami, how do you think they did that? Yugi sent down the mental link. I don't know, there is only this new magic around them Yami sent back. Hermione and the others looked curiously at him. When he came back to reality, he noticed their stares. "Heh, sorry I tend to space out a lot" Yugi said nervously. Hagrid walked up to them.
"Hello, didn' expect to see you today" he said beaming at Harry and his friends.
"Hello Hagrid, we've just met the exchange students" Harry said.
"Yeah well, we're going to be stayin' here tonight, as it's so late. We'll head off for the order early tomorrow morning, so you'd best be gettin' to bed" Hagrid said. With that he left.
Soon afterwards, everyone had gone upstairs and were fast asleep after talking about the events of that day.
Yami Pandora: I'm sorry it took so long to update! Stupid thing wouldn't let me sign in and kept telling me to 'try again later'. I hope you liked it, and if you didn't… well tough! Please review.