Hello everyone I'm back from Texas and got a new chapter coming to you. Texas was fine, hot and of course I was dripping with sweat during all the performances! Man is it hard to play trombone with standing. Oh well, I had an awesome time.
Reminders:
/Ryou to Bakura/
/Bakura to Ryou/
'Thoughts or emphasis or whatever else I use it for, you get it by now!'
Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or Harry Potter but I do own the book that you will love created by my RL and I!
"Ryou wake up! Come on Ryou I'm annoyed enough as it is by having that raving lunatic next to me!"
"I am not a raving lunatic anymore so stop calling me that!"
"Well you haven't been doing anything but complain this whole time to me and it's getting annoying!"
"Would you two shut up, I'm trying to sleep!" Ryou was apparently awake.
"Oh but Ryou you promised me this weekend," came his reply.
"Marik, what the-what are you doing in here?" Joey crossed his arms at Ryou's surprise.
"You obviously didn't hear him yelling at you to wake up? That's sad Ryou," the blonde replied and Ryou shrugged sheepishly.
"I was sleepy, so what do you want Marik?"
"Throw on some clean clothing and come with me!" Marik pulled the white haired teen out of bed and began searching through the trunk next to it for clothing of any sort. Ryou grabbed a bit and left for the bathroom coming out not too long later fully clothed.
"Now where are we going?"
"Somewhere, now come on," with these words said Ryou was dragged out of the room by the blonde Egyptian. "We're going to the room you promised you look at with me!" he said as they walked down a deserted hallway.
"Oh, that. I forgot I had said I'd come with you, sorry," Ryou looked around as they continued their search for the mysterious room. He had never been down this hallway of Hogwarts. It even looked like it hadn't been used in ages.
/Yami, do you have any bad feelings about this/
/Not that I can pinpoint as of yet, do you/
/No, I just can't help but wonder where Marik is taking us. He seemed a bit freaked out about this room a week ago, now it's different. /
/Yes, he is acting excited; did he tell you anything about the room/
/No, that's also something that's been bothering me. /
Ryou felt the float-like feeling he always felt when his Yami took control and soon enough found himself in the center of his soul room. Few toys scattered the floor around him most of which were Role playing figurines. The majority of surrounding objects were the things he was starting to learn now. As Ryou looked around his soul room he couldn't help but notice just how many tarot cards and crystal balls there were. It seemed he had a whole deck of tarot cards scattered around the floor and each crystal ball held a different image. When had his soul room become this complex?
-With Bakura and Marik-
"Marik, where are you taking us?" demanded the Egyptian spirit which made Marik spin around in surprise.
"To the room I found, didn't I already say that?"
"What's in the room, I don't know if you noticed, but you haven't told anything about it!" the tomb robber was on the edge of his patience already.
"Well there was a cauldron and chalkboard and that was it. It was also really old looking!" he answered the question with a smile on his face.
"You mean to tell me you're taking us to a room that had a bit pot in the middle of it," Bakura stared at Marik like he'd grown another head.
"Not just a pot, a chalkboard too, duh!"
"You're a complete idiot."
"Well there was an eerie magical feeling to the room so I figured you'd want to check it out, maybe you'll find something worth while, it was pretty dark in there." Marik tried again hoping to sway the opinion of the ancient spirit.
"Fine, but nothing better happen got it?" Marik nodded as Bakura prodded his chest with his finger in a sharp jabbing motion.
The two, or three if you'd like, continued on their way and what seemed like half an hour later came across the room that Marik had described to the spirit who had told Ryou not too long afterwards.
"You were right, this is eerie feeling," replied Ryou who had gained control of his body once his Yami had grown tired of being around the weird hallway for too long.
"Yeah so you want to go in first?" asked the Egyptian.
"No, you go first," Ryou pushed his friend inside the room and followed. "So there's the cauldron and there's the chalkboard, big whoop."
"Well don't you feel how odd it is?"
"Yes, but there can't be anything in here, it's so empty."
/I wouldn't be so sure of that Hikari, be careful. /
Ryou mentally nodded. /Yes, I know, but what could be in here that's giving off this strange aura. /
/Don't ask me, you're the one enrolled into the magical school/
/Right, thanks for the reminder Yami. / Ryou sighed to himself and looked around for a bit, the floor creaking as he stepped on the old wood. He walked the perimeter and found nothing, the only thing he thought that he needed to check was the cauldron. Leaning over the big 'pot' as Bakura had called it he was about to sign it off as nothing when he saw a small white object. Without a second thought Ryou reached his hand through the cobwebs and grabbed it.
The small white object happened to be a piece of paper folded up. Ryou carefully unfolded what appeared to be some sort of note or message.
"What's that," asked Marik coming up behind him. "'Old magic can be dangerous so watch yourselves, if you found this note you are the destined souls. Be careful of new enemies and old ones as well, you'll find out soon what is meant when you look to the side.'" Marik looked at the note and laughed. "What is that supposed to mean!"
Ryou read the note over again to himself. 'Well any sort of magic is dangerous so I guess that's true, but who are the destined souls, me and Marik? It's always obvious to be careful of any enemies, but what does it mean look to the side,' he thought to himself.
"That is one weird note, Hikari," replied Bakura which forced Marik and Ryou to look in between them.
"Holy-Bakura what the-how did you?" Ryou stared at his Yami in complete shock.
"What? You look like you're seeing a ghost," Bakura looked at the two confused teens next to him. "Okay, jokes up what's wrong?"
"Bakura you're um, well it appears as though um…" Ryou couldn't find the words to explain it, but thankfully and unthankfully he didn't have to.
"May I ask why there are two of you Mr. Bakura?" Ryou turned toward the door and just about died. There stood the headmaster of Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Well I um, you see…"Ryou did the only thing he could do at that moment, he fainted as Bakura caught him.
"Maybe we should get back to my sister's office. It isn't too far from here," suggested Marik as Dumbledore nodded and lead them down the hallways to Isis' office. It's a good thing people decided they'd rather be outside or in the common rooms because neither Bakura nor Marik wanted to explain why there was a Ryou carrying a Ryou to the Defense teacher's office. The reached the door and Dumbledore politely knocked as Isis told them to come in.
"Isis we've got a problem!" Marik screamed as he ran in the room. ((A/N: Can you believe I thought when Astronauts said "Houston we have a problem" I thought 'Houston' was someone's name? Yeah, I'm oblivious like that))
"What do you mean problem, what did you do?" she asked suspiciously and Dumbledore shut the door behind the two white haired figures.
"That would be me," replied Bakura as Isis looked up and her mouth dropped.
"Bakura what happened," she sent a look towards her younger brother. "And why are you separated from Bakura in your own separate and solid body?"
"Really, I have my own body?" Bakura looked at his hands in fascination.
"Marik," started Isis warningly.
"Okay, when you were having that talk with Mai and told me to go away I went exploring and came across this room," Dumbledore helped Bakura set Ryou down in a chair as they both sat down afterwards to listen to Marik's explanation. "In the room there was a cauldron and chalkboard and it felt really weird. So I told Ryou who agreed to look at it with me. He did today and in the cauldron he found a piece of paper that we read and bam suddenly Bakura was next to us with his own body. Then Dumbledore found us and here we are!"
"So what did the paper say?" Isis asked. Bakura looked at the passed out Ryou and shrugged.
"Ryou held in the longest, but he's fainted so we can't really ask him."
"Now I have a question," Dumbledore startled everyone, but Bakura. "Who are you?" he asked the spirit.
"Me? Well I'm just you're friendly five thousand year old spirit who possesses one of your students!" he said with a proud smile. 'Could he be any more obvious,' thought Marik to himself.
"Meaning what exactly?"
"Well Professor why don't I explain this to you in your office while these two are left to wake up Ryou," Isis replied quickly as all in the room heard a groan.
"I'm up," replied Ryou who looked like he'd seen better days.
"Well then Marik you take Ryou to his dormitories and you," she turned to Bakura, "stay in my office and don't let anyone inside but Marik, Mai, or myself and don't touch anything." With these warnings said Isis and Dumbledore left for a much needed conversation.
"Well I'll be off then," Marik quickly left the room with a close behind Ryou who waved to his Yami before walking out after the Egyptian.
Some time later Marik came back and was let into the office by a very angry Bakura who quickly pinned him to the wall. "What were trying to pull in there, separating me and Ryou?" Bakura's glare promised death. "Did you have any thought whatsoever? Not only did you tell our secret to the Headmaster of this school but Isis told Ryou's father about me you imbecile!" Marik looked confused.
"Ryou's father is here?" Bakura swore loudly at his mistake and sat down in a chair to calm down, "And I have a question that I thought of when I was taking Ryou!"
"Oh wow, you can think," Bakura's voice dripped with sarcasm.
"Hey, well I was wondering, can you still communicate with Ryou by your mind link?" Bakura looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"I didn't think of that," Marik smirked at this while Bakura tried.
/Ryou, Ryou are you there/
/Bakura? Yes, I'm here, what's up/
/Just seeing if our mind link still works. /
/Oh okay. See you around then. /
"Yes it still works, thankfully. You've just saved your life."
LALALA
"You want me to what?"
"I am ordering you to spy on Hogwarts School and see what Harry Potter is up to as of late. I can't risk him seeing my plan," Voldemort said to an annoyed Yugi.
"Fine, but you better not force me and my group to do this again," he replied menacingly. ((A/N: Isn't that a bit hard to see Yugi as evil?))
"Yes, yes I know, you will be rewarded greatly. Shall I send some other death eaters with you to the school?" Voldemort watched the small boy for any sign of what he was thinking, though all he saw was a masked face. Either he was thinking very deeply about this or was very good at hiding emotions. Of course it could also mean both.
"No, I don't think that will be needed. Too many would make us too suspicious. My usual group is skilled enough to spy on a school full of magical children. I will only need someone to apparate us to this school." Without waiting for a reply from the dark lord, Yugi left to tell the rest of his small group. He had gone to total darkness now, worse than where the assassin Marik had been.
As Yugi left he thought about his new found enemies, not just the wizards, but his old group of friends. He hadn't even seen them around the neighborhood come to think of it. Did they move or were they somewhere unreachable. Where ever they had went, Yugi had the feeling he would be seeing them very soon, and they're meeting would not be a nice and polite reunion.
Well I hope that this chapter was much better than the last one was.
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-Maki-sama-
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