Shadu: Sorry about the long wait. I just lost my momentum. But I just saw the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie, and was reinspire.

Ch. 7

Dragon Fang

"Yugi?" Joey called into the room after classes were done for the day.

Yugi poked his head out of his office door and a smile brightened his face when he saw Joey. Tromping down the stairs quickly, he greeted Joey warmly.

"How was your first day?" Yugi asked brightly, sitting down on a nearby futon.

"Okay, the kids were snots," Joey stated nonchalantly and shrugging in the same manner.

"When are they not anymore?" Yugi wondered.

"A few weeks on the streets would straighten out their attitudes," Joey noted bitterly.

"I agree whole-heartedly, Joey, but what can you do?" Yugi shrugged.

"Not enough," Joey agreed.

"So, what did you teach them today?" Yugi asked, looking at his friend's face expectantly.

"I taught them about Grantadracmords," Joey bluntly replied and then added, "Grey Wings," when he saw the puzzled expression on Yugi's face. "They all passed the dragon test and in a few classes, I had time to take every student up on one."

"But how could you?" Yugi wondered. "Grey Wing is a Duel Monster, and they live in the Shadow Realm."

"Did you not notice the new accessory around my neck ol' buddy of mine?" Joey asked as he held up a choker of a necklace that Yugi had indeed overlooked.

It was a plain necklace. It looked like a tooth of some sort on a leather band that hugged Joey's neck in a close, but rather loose embrace. A metal clasp glint in the light beneath Joey's hair on the back of his neck and the black leather seemed like it would nearly strangle Joey if even the slightest thing snagged and pulled it. But this sort of accessory did not surprise Yugi. Joey was, after all, from the rough side of town and appearances were everything. Even after all this time, the streets did not leave his blood. It's sort of like the old saying, revised, you can take the kid out of the streets, but you can't take the streets out of the kid.

"What's that Joey?" Yugi wondered, reaching up to gently touch it.

"The Millennium Fang," Joey stated proudly. "One of my colleagues found it on one of his excavations. He said that he thought I would like it and that it reminded him of a dragon tooth. When he took me to see where he had found it, I discovered that it really was a dragon's tooth. It can call forth all kinds of dragons, but only dragons. It may be able to do other things too, but I haven't found them out yet."

"That's cool," Yugi nodded.

He touched the smooth tooth. The pearly white color gleamed proudly in the lighting of the room. Yugi smiled. It pulsed with the same familiar magic as his Millennium Puzzle. So, Joey found a Millennium item too. That would bring the total up to nine, including the Pyramid of Light.

"What dragon do you think it's from?" Yugi asked, still stroking its smooth surface.

"I personally think it's from a Rubiusdracmord, but I don't really know," Joey stated, and then looked at Yugi's puzzled expression. "Sorry, I meant a Red-Eyes Black Dragon. See, around the office where I worked, we had to use the 'scientific' names."

"So, where exactly do you work?" Yugi wondered.

"Ministry of Magic, Magical Creatures Division, Dragon Subsection," Joey proudly stated with a pat on his chest.

"Wow, that's cool, a lot cooler than where I work," Yugi smiled.

"I can imagine," Joey nodded.

"Well, if it isn't two newbies," a familiar, slimey voice crept into the room.

The two heads whipped around to see Snape standing in the doorway while Magic glared down at the Potions proffessor from the balcony.

"Keep moving Snape," Magic snarled. "And if you don't, I'll make you keep moving."

Snape glanced at Magic and just sneered, challenging Magic's authority. Magic bared his teeth. Magic wasn't going to back down to a pompous windbag like Snape. He had faced many like him in Egypt and wasn't afraid of one who knew a few magic tricks. Snape rolled his eyes and turned his eyes back to Yugi and Joey.

"Just thought I'd let you know, Dumbledore doesn't like mistakes, and I will be watching," he stated and moved onto his room.

"That man really chaffs my hide," Joey grumbled.

"I'm sure you're not the only one Joey," Yugi nodded.

"I know you're not the only one," Magic interjected.

"But, again, what can you do?" Yugi sighed.

"Not nearly enough," Magic and Joey answered in unison.

Yugi just chuckled.

Yugi sat and stared at the ceiling that night, not really knowing what to think. He remembered, with horrid detail, what had happened the last time he had been here, long before he solved the Puzzle. Memories floated back, in and out of his mind.

Terror surged through him. How could he have done that? He didn't even realize he had until it was done. Yugi dropped to his knees beside him and cried.

…

"It was expected, I think," Dumbledore stated somely. "You just had too much power, you couldn't have controlled it in that state of mind."

…

"I'll never do magic again."

Shadu: Sorry it was short…;