Yami Pandora: I am getting sooo nervous about my exams next week shivers and hides.
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Chapter 5
(Last Time)
"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.
(This Time)
Yugi awoke to the sun shining through the window. He sat up and rubbed his eyes. He heard a knocking on his door, and then a voice. "Hey, Yugi, get up already Professor Dumbledore and Hagrid are here" he heard Ryou say. Yugi shot up out of bed, saying
"Kay, I'll be down in a minute" while scrambling around trying hurriedly to get dressed. Yami was floating around the room, laughing at Yugi's attempts to be quick. "Shut up" Yugi snapped. The attempt at being scary just made Yami laugh harder. Yugi muttered some curse words under his breath as he got himself ready.
When he finally made it downstairs, he was greeted by all the same people as yesterday. "Now that Mr Moto has finally joined us, we can be going" Dumbledore said, that usual twinkle of amusement in his eyes. He held out a teapot this time and told everyone to touch it. The same feeling came in his stomach as the port key took them to their destination. They found themselves on an empty street. Seto's eyes narrowed. 'This doesn't look like a place wizards would be in' he thought, but then his perceptive gaze fell on two particular houses. Their numbers were 11 and 13, but there was no number 12 between them. "I'm willing to bet that we're staying at number 12 Grimmauld Place, right?" he asked sarcastically. Most of the others jumped in surprise.
"How did you know that?" Harry asked amazed.
"Quite simple really" Seto sneered. "There is a street sign over there, and house number 12 is missing". The wizards were amazed at the boys' perceptiveness.
"Well, read this piece of paper and imagine this address clearly in your mind" Dumbledore said. They did so, and to their amazement numbers 11 and 13 seemed to move away from each other and another house appeared in between them, number 12.
Once they were all inside, Ron walked up to Seto and said "How on earth are you so observant? Not even Hermione could figure it out when we first came here, and she's the smartest witch in the school!" Seto raised an eyebrow but didn't comment. Instead he led his brother and carried his bags into the living room. Everyone heard a loud crash, then a loud shrieking voice. "Oh no, not again! Tonks, you really need to be more careful" Mrs Weasley said exasperated.
"I'm sorry, but it's in the way" a young woman with bright green hair said.
"Just be more careful, now I have to go shut that portrait up again" Mrs Weasley said. The exchange students blinked. Talking paintings? Seeing the look of confusion on their faces Dumbledore explained to them that in the magical world it was possible for paintings to move and talk. Seto rolled his eyes and took his laptop out. "Seto, you promised you weren't going to do any work for the remainder of the summer holidays" Mokuba whined.
"I'm not working, I'm checking on Kaiba Corp. There's a difference you know" Seto retorted coolly.
"Whatever, no checking either then" Mokuba said.
"Let me think about that… OK, thought about it… No" Seto said mockingly.
You know, technology doesn't work in areas where there is a lot of magical activity" Hermione said. Mokuba smirked in triumph at his older brother, while he cursed under his breath. He put his laptop away and walked out of the room.
"He takes his work too seriously" Mokuba said.
"I can tell, seems like he's got a stick up his arse" Ron said.
"Hey, don't talk about my nii-sama like that" Mokuba said fiercely.
"Nii-sama? What's that?" Ron said dumbstruck.
"Ha, someone younger than you knows two languages, baka" Mokuba said jokingly. Ron growled and his ears turned red. The others laughed at the once again hyper child.
"Harry, Ron, Hermione, can you show them to their rooms? Everyone else in the order is so busy at the moment" Mr Weasley said.
"Sure. Come on guys" Hermione said. As they led them upstairs Hermione said to them "There aren't enough bedrooms for everyone, so you'll have to share, OK?"
"Yeah, we don't mind, just don't put me in with Bakura" Marik said seriously.
"Bakura? I thought his name was Ryou" Harry said curiously. Think we should tell them? Ryou asked his Yami. If you want Bakura replied. Ryou looked over to Yugi, and he seemed to be having the same conversation with his Yami.
"Yes my name is Ryou Bakura, but Bakura is a spirit" Ryou said nervously. Harry and the others blinked.
"What he means is I'm a dead guy who inhabits his body" a creepy voice said. They all jumped and saw an almost exact replica of Ryou.
"Wha… who are you?" Ron asked suspiciously. "Do all of you have one of these spirits?"
"Um, actually only me and Ryou do" Yugi said, his own Yami revealing himself.
"What's the deal? These 'spirits' look just like you" Ron said.
"We are spirits that inhabit the Millennium Items our friends wear. We are around 5000 years old" Yami said.
"Does Dumbledore know about this?" Ron demanded.
"Yes, mortal…. Don't look at me like that, if I meant you harm I would have done it by now" Bakura snapped, noticing the doubtful looks he was receiving. Harry and his friends blinked again.
"Are you… evil spirits?" Hermione asked.
"Ye…" Bakura began.
"No" Yami cut off. "As much as Bakura claims to be evil, he is no longer harming innocent souls" Yami said coolly.
"Yeah, only the bad ones. How boring" Bakura sulked. The others rolled their eyes.
"Hey, Marik what did you mean about not sharing with Bakura? What's so bad about that?" Hermione asked.
"Well, whenever we're together, we tend to get into trouble" Marik said. Mokuba snickered.
"Yeah, like trashing my brothers tournament" he said. Bakura and Marik glared and Mokuba instantly shut up. Not doing what they told you was like signing a death wish. Harry and friends proceeded to show the exchange students to their rooms. Mokuba and Seto were obviously sharing, and the other three were together as well, despite the warning Marik had given them. They only maintained that Yugi could keep them out of trouble. Yugi sighed. 'Why me?' he thought to himself.
Mokuba ran downstairs later on that night to get his brother. Little did he know his brother had been working on something. When he found Seto, he found him working on his LAPTOP? "I thought they said electrical stuff didn't work here" Mokuba said with is eyes narrowed. Seto smirked at him.
"Well…" Seto began innocently… innocently as he could manage anyway. "I found a way to make it work here. Not that hard really"
"Seto, you promised" Mokuba whined. Seto sat there in mock thought for a moment and then
"Oh well" he said with a shrug. Mokuba anime fell and sweat dropped.
"Come on, everyone else is going to bed, you need to sleep too you know" Mokuba whined. Seto rolled his eyes at his brothers' childish behaviour, but packed his laptop away and followed him upstairs anyway.
Only two other people remained up. Marik sat in the living room, looking into the fire. He didn't here Enma come up behind him. "You seem sad" she said.
"Yeah" Marik said not looking up at her.
"What's wrong?" Enma asked.
"Even though I have changed, I'm not completely accepted by my friends. Don't blame them though, would you?" Enma frowned.
"What did you do to make them lose trust in you?" Usually she wasn't a nosy person, but Marik interested her.
"Well, during the battle city tournament… you know what that is right?" At her nod he continued. "At battle city I was a little… insane. I too had a darker half, but unlike Yugi's and Ryou's my darker half was born out of the anger in my heart. This darkness took over me and killed my father. I was led to believe that Yugi's Yami was responsible for his death, so I came to battle city to get revenge. But when my darker half took complete control of me, I learned the truth, and tried to help the Pharaoh be rid of him". He didn't know why he opened up to her. HE just seemed to know that she could be trusted.
"You shouldn't blame yourself for what you were led to believe and what your darker half did" Enma said quietly and gave him a small smile. He smiled back.
"Thanks. Your talk has helped. I'm going to bed now good night" and with that he walked out of the room, as he did so he heard a 'good night' from her and left her looking at the flames as he had been
Yami Pandora: well that took a while, or least it seemed a while to me, I've been so bored lately.Please review