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Chapter 10: Happy Birthday Seto Kaiba! (10/25)
October went quickly, and the twenty-fifth was nearing. Mokuba had secretly emailed Yugi telling him that the boy was coming to Hogwarts to wish Seto a very happy birthday and that there had better be a party for him. The problem was, since all of the Japanese/Egyptian students shared the same classes, it was hard to plan the party. They did try to create small meetings in the middle of the night after Seto would have gone to bed so he wouldn't figure anything out, but he worked late checking up on KaibaCorp. However, Marik figured the best time to work was when they went to Divination, because Seto went with Hermione to Arithmancy. With Umbridge inspecting and teachers piling up homework, a party was thrown together with three days of planning.
"Um, guys?" asked Harry. "How do we set this up without Seto knowing?"
"Ryou and I figured it out with Professor McGonagall. It'll work, or my name is Peanut butter ice-cream!" said Yugi.
October 25th arrived. Seto headed up to the common room after Arithmancy when McGonagall called to him from the stairs.
"Ah, Kaiba! We have been informed that Death Eaters were spotted near your place of residence last evening, and that your little brother went missing this morning," she said this from memory. Yugi and Ryou had come to her earlier with a small script that she had to play out in front of Seto.
Seto's eyes widened and he shook his head. "W-what?"
The things I do for my house, thought McGonagall, "Please come to my office." She led him away from the marble staircase and toward a completely different end to the school. Walking to the stone gargoyle at a wall, she spoke to it.
"Peanut Butter cup." (A/N: My favorite! A Reeses Peanut Butter cup (The white chocolate. Best candy in the world!) The stone statue leapt aside and they headed up to the Headmaster's office.
/Something isn't right here…/
/No really, tell me something I don't already know/
/Your sarcasm scares me…/
/Well, it should, so Ha/
/(sigh)/
"Mr. Kaiba, this letter should explain everything that has happened," said Dumbledore, successfully keeping a straight face. Yugi and Ryou had come to him as well. Seto took the letter and began to rip the seal. "No! Don't open it until you reach the Fat Lady's portrait."
Seto found this odd. "Is that all, sir?" Being the head of a major corporation, Seto found it strange to be saying 'sir' when he was used to people calling him that.
"Yes, that would be all," said Dumbledore. Seto strode off. The minute the door closed shut, Dumbledore smiled.
"Ah the imagination of the youth. What will Yugi and Ryou think of next?"
"Oh, only Merlin knows," said McGonagall.
Seto made his way to the Fat Lady.
/Are you alright/
/Alright? ALRIGHT? Death Eaters were found near my house and there is no contact from Mokuba. He could be missing or worse and you ask if I'm alright…./
/Didn't think of that/
/I could tell./
Seto stopped in front of Gryffindor Tower. Pulling out the parchment he ripped off the seal and opened it.
-Happy Birthday-
That was all it said.
/Seto, your worries have vanished…/
/There were no death eater, Set. It was a ploy to get me away from the tower. But why would someone go through the trouble of doing this/
/I can't believe you didn't figure it out…/
/Figure what out/
/Oh nothing…/ Set was laughing on the floor in his soul room. I can't believe you didn't get it Seto. The OLDEST trick in the book.
"Pharaoh's destiny."
The Fat Lady did nothing.
"Pharaoh's destiny!" he said, a bit louder.
Still nothing…
"Stupid door, OPEN UP!"
Meanwhile, inside the common room, Marik and Ron told the Fat Lady to not let him in until they gave the word.
"Yelling will not get you inside, young man," scolded the painting. Now, Seto was really getting annoyed.
"Was the code changed?"
She nodded.
"Oh great…err…pig snout? No, Wattlebird? Not that one either, huh? Mimbus Nimbletonia? Set stinks?"
/HEY/
/Oh shut up/
Harry waved his wand at the candles and torches in the room. "Nox." It became pitch-black. "Go on, Ron." Ron, who was standing at the common entrance the entire time, casually walked out and nearly ran into Seto.
"Oh, sorry, didn't see you. Bloody hell, Seto, what are you doing just standing around?"
"She wouldn't let me in!" He glared daggers at the painting, who just whistled and twiddled her thumbs in response.
"Oh, don't you know the password?" Ron turned to the Fat Lady, who immediately sprang to attention. "Pharaoh's Destiny." Seto stared, dumbfounded as she opened the entrance.
"Stupid picture," he muttered. "I thought the password was changed."
"No, by the way, mate. Happy Birthday!"
"SURPRISE!" yelled the common room inhabitants.
The lights went on. At the center of the table in the corner of the room was a big cake with 'Happy Birthday Seto' in big icy blue letters.
"Seto!" called out a very squeaky voice. Seto had no time to prepare as something with long black hair toppled him over in a very big squeeze. Harry came out of his hiding spot.
"You were a little early there, Mokuba."
"Not that he cares," said Marik, smiling. Fred and George supplied red and gold fireworks that went off and showed silent images of him clobbering Yami Yugi in a duel and him scolding Mokuba for being hyperactive and eating too many sweets.
Seto got up and looked at his little brother.
"How did you get here? Shouldn't you be at school?"
"Well, I talked to the head of Domino's Magic Academy for Boys and they let me come!" (Here, Mokuba attends a Magic school in Domino that's for boys only and starts in October. He's a first year. Seto didn't get accepted because he was too old.)
After being showered with presents and cake (which tasted quite good, made by Dobby and Winky), Seto felt nothing could spoil his day. Nothing.
6 days later. Halloween
During Breakfast, Dumbledore addressed the hall. "As you know, tonight is the Halloween dance! Costumes are required for those attending. You may have a partner for the festivities. There are costume stores in Hogsmeade for those getting last-minute shopping done on the trip this afternoon. Those going should report to the entrance hall after breakfast." When the food platters disappeared, there was a great rush to get out of the great hall. Those trying to find a date or their friends got muddled in the group going to Hogsmeade. Ron, Harry, Hermione and the transfers lined up in the Entrance hall.
Then it happened.
The fangirls arrived! A bunch of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaws swarmed around Harry.
He only heard a couple of the requests as they all spoke at once.
"Harry! Harry! I love you!"
"Marry me Harry!" after that request someone smacked the girl in the face with a book.
"No, forget her! Go to the dance with me, Harry!"
Harry shook his head and yelled, "NO!"
Seto had no luck either. Offer after offer was declined. Ryou had Yami Bakura handle his rush of girls.
"Go with me, Ryou!" screamed about thirty girls.
"Go with me!" yelled Romilda Vance. She spoke the loudest.
Yami Bakura turned to her. "Do Egyptians dance the polka?"
She thought the question over.
"No," she said stupidly.
"Bingo. Now move it!" She walked away in shame and moved on to Marik.
"No," he said before she could even ask.
Eventually, and after a lot of "no" the group made it to Hogsmeade.
Hermione went off with Ginny to the post office while the boys, led by Yugi, stopped in front of Honeydukes.
"Oh! Oh! CANDY STORE!" cheered Yugi and he ran inside, 100 percent hyper. Ryou smacked his head. Yugi was at it again. They all went inside, except for Seto.
"Aren't you coming?" asked Ryou.
"No, I don't eat sweets."
"What kind of human are you?" yelled Yami Bakura, shoving Ryou into his soul room, "someone who doesn't eat sweets, yea right!" He dragged Seto into the store.
Yugi, Marik, Harry and Ron were already finished. Yugi had already opened his purchased candy and was devouring it due to over-hyperness. Within a few minutes he would be bouncing off the walls, on the ground, to the moon and beyond.
/You are going to let me take over sometime today, yes, Yami/
/I don't know, Ryou. Maybe, maybe not. It all depends…/
/Depends? On what/
/On how well-behaved you are/
/You must have forgotten, evil one, that YOU are the mischievous one./
/…oh, that's right…/
/(sigh)/
That night, Hermione and the other girls were getting ready for the dance. The dormitory door opened and Natasha came trudging in, frowning. Both she and Hermione pitched in to custom make costumes that the two would wear, along with Harry, Ron, and the exchange students. Set had given them detailed descriptions of the costumes.
"What's wrong, 'Yasha? (Natasha's nickname. Did I get the name right, Dark Magician Grrl?)
"Remember the detention Snape gave me yesterday because I told Malfoy to shut up in the Entrance Hall?"
"Yes," said Hermione, not knowing where this was leading.
"Well, he made it tonight, so I have to miss the party!"
"He didn't!" exclaimed Hermione, "not tonight!"
"Yes, tonight! Now I can't wear my costume to the party because I can't go!"
"Maybe, if he'll let you out early and then you can go," Hermione hoped.
"Yes," said Paravati, who was listening in on the conversation.
"I guess," said Natasha, "but I also have his essay to do and that's due tomorrow!" she sighed and headed out to her detention.
Paravati and Lavender Brown were going as Trelawny, the divination teacher. Each of them had ugly pink shawls and huge, oversized glasses.
"What are you going to be, Hermione?" asked Lavender, currently curling her hair.
"Yugi, Seto, Ryou, Marik, Harry, Ron, and I are going to be figures from Ancient Egypt. Yugi, Seto, and Ryou's ancestry dates back to the Pharaohs so we're going to be the Pharaoh's Royal Court and Yugi's going to be the Pharaoh. (Hermione is going as Isis)." She slipped on her white and gold dress and her golden headpiece. She had a blue pencil-type strip at the collar of her dress and short blue wristbands on each wrist. The dress had a golden waistband that pointed at the bottom. Marik was going to see each of them downstairs and apply kohler (I hope I spelled it right, it's the black lining around their eyes).
"See you at the dance," said Hermione as she headed down to the common room. Marik was already there, applying kohler to Yugi's eyes. He was dressed as the Pharaoh. A crown was put through his bangs (Hermione enhanced Yugi's hair with a spell to make it look like Yami's hair) sticking up and to the left and right. His navy blue cloak was around his neck and in place by some type of golden collar thingy (no other way to describe it). The Puzzle was now hanging on a cord. He had long, golden earrings dangling and his white robe was separated at the waist by a thick, golden band. Golden arm bands were on his wrists and upper arms. Hermione smiled. "Having fun?"
"HOLD STILL, YUGI!" yelled Marik, almost sticking the pencil into the pharaoh's eye.
"Sorry," Yugi muttered.
"You're next, Hermione, or should I say, Isis," Marik said, smiling.
Seto descended the boys' stairs, dressed as Set. A blue and gold headdress with a cobra on it was tucked under his arm. The chest of his robe had a golden ankh on the blue cloth. He too had a golden band at his waist. Hanging from it on top of the white robe going to just above his ankles was a blue strip centered on his body and ending pencil-pointed at just below his knees. The cloak flowing behind him was connected behind his shoulder plates and flowed like his trenchcoat: it flared out and then curved sharply back at his sides. Arm bands were on his upper arms and on his wrists were long, golden bands, the same type he would have worn during Battle City except these were golden and had no studs. The Millennium Rod was in his other hand.
"Get in line, Seto, Set, whoever you are," said Marik at "the make-up" station. "You get a makeover after Hermione.
"Oh, goody," said Seto sarcastically. He looked at the girl in question. "You look pretty," he said turning pink. Hermione felt herself blush as well.
"Thanks," she said, blushing a deep shade of red. Why am I blushing so much all of a sudden. I've never felt this way about a boy before, not even Ron! Ugh, I hope no one noticed how red I am. Luckily for her, no one noticed. At least, not one non spirit.
Why do I always get all nervous around her? It can't be that I've fallen head over heels. Seto Kaiba has no time for girls.
/Admit it Seto, you like her./
/What makes you think I like Hermione Granger/
/Well, for one thing, you're beet red whenever you speak to her. No one noticed. Yet. Second, I think she likes you back, when you complimented her, she turned red. I noticed. Admit it! You know you want to/
/Shut up/
Ryou, Harry, and Ron came down next. Harry was going as Mahado. Since Ryou had the Millennium Ring, he didn't need a fake one. Like the others so far, Harry had golden wristbands and armbands. His golden collar went past his shoulders, holding up his cloak which was fastened underneath it. Instead of a golden waistband, Harry's was the same shade of blue as half of Seto's priest robes. His headpiece had white cloth going around his head hiding his hair and a golden piece around the top to keep it together.
Ron went as Karim. The strip of his cloak that usually was the only thing covering his chest was altered to a tunic, because he complained of showing too much chest hair. His cloak fanned out behind him. He had a simple golden collar, but since it wasn't big enough to hold his cloak, the front of his cloak was stuck into his blue and gold waistband.
Ryou was going as Bakura. He wore white shorts under a red and gold funeral robe. Ryou also complained he would show too much chest for his "loving" fangirls, that he hated immensely, so Hermione made his robe so it was closed at the chest and opened up at his waistline. The cloak fanned out here like a Kaiba trenchcoat. The Millennium Ring was around his neck.
Finally, Marik was being Aknadin, wearing a simple white robe. There was no waistband it made him look like he wearing a dress. An eye patch with invisible strings made it look as if he wore the Millennium Eye. Ron and Hermione were given fake Millennium Items. After giving everyone a make-up job (except himself, lucky Marik, Aknadin didn't wear Kohler), he turned and looked for Natasha. "Where's our Kisara?"
"She had to make up a detention and an essay. We might see her later," said Hermione. The Millennium Puzzle gleamed in the torch light. Marik shaded his eyes.
"How much did you polish that thing?"
"A lot. Didn't finish until every streak was gone!"
The portrait hole opened and Neville came through.
"Hey guys, there's a huge line of girls outside," he said. Seto smacked his head.
"Great, just what we need."
"I'll handle this!" Yami Bakura took over Ryou and left the portrait hole. In a few minutes, he came back, smiling an evil smile.
"What did you do?" asked Yugi. The crown on his head, slipped and he fixed it.
"Sent them away. With magic, made them think I would dance with them all later."
"You are?" Harry asked, dumbfounded.
"I'm not. Ryou is," he said evilly. Then Ryou came out, shoving Bakura back inside.
"I most certainly am NOT dancing with all of those fanatics!" he cried.
/Looks like you're going to have to now/ The thief chuckled in his soul room.
/Just you wait…you'll be sorry./ Ryou threatened.
/I am soooooo scared…/
They all headed down the fangirl-free corridor to the Great Hall. Hermione passed Natasha on the way.
"Snape slid the detention to next week. On to his essay and then the party!" called the running girl as she ran up the marble staircase.
After weaving through crowds of fangirls for other students they reached the Great Hall. The entire room was lit by candles, giving off an eerie glow. Dumbledore had booked the Weird Sisters for the event. Dancing skeletons performed on the stage. Harry saw Malfoy all the way on the other side of the room dressed as a dementor. Apparently, he and his other gang of Slytherin idiots were doing a little group skit as well. Crabbe was dressed as some hobo type of person and about five others were Dementors.
The long, house tables were gone, replaced by one refreshment table against a side wall.
/This is the oddest Halloween party I have ever been to…and that number isn't very big./
/You need to enjoy life. Life is NOT your computer. It is around you…make something of yourself besides being a computer genius/
/Social gatherings aren't my thing either…/
/(sigh) I remember what Mokuba said about you on your birthday…my, my Seto…you need to get out more./
/…what did Mokuba tell you/
/Oh, nothing/
/SET/
/If I don't tell…/
/I'll let it slip that you sleep in your soul room with a pink teddy bear and posters of Yami Bakura are all over the walls./
/You wouldn't! Besides, those posters are dartboards/
/Sure and my name is Joey Wheeler. Now spill/
/Alright, Mokuba wants you and Hermione to get together. At your party, he noticed how you both turned pink whenever you spoke to each other…he's a bright boy./
/You kept this from me because…why/
/(shrug)/
Natasha worked the last sentence of her essay.
"YES! Halloween party here I come!" She put away her books into her bag. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a shadow move up the boys' stairs and out of sight. Shaking her head, she went to the base of the stairs and looked up. Silly me, there's no one here but me! Natasha went up to her dorm to become Kisara for the rest of the night. The shadow, really an "invisible" figure came back down the stairs, one item heavier and left the dorm. Natasha came back down and fixed her collar. Party here I come!
"Hermione!"
"'Yasha! You made it!"
"Yep! Where's everyone else? We have to perform our acts soon, don't we?"
"Yes, Harry and Ron are over there and Seto, Ryou, Marik and Yugi are warding off the fangirls." She pointed to the other side of the room as the Weird Sisters finished another song. Dumbledore came onto the stage.
"Can all of those performing a skit get into your groups so we can number you for presentation?" he asked. The rest of the Pharaoh group got together.
"Glad you made it," said Ryou. Natasha smiled.
"Wouldn't miss it for anything."
The teachers all came around and gave numbers. Yugi's group was 1.
"Can group 1 please come to the stage?" called Professor McGonagall. While behind a makeshift curtain, the Yami's took over.
Yami took his place at Dumbledore's chair, which had been brought up by Flitwick. Harry, Ron, Hermione, Marik, Seto and Professor Shadi took their places beside the Pharaoh.
"Professor Snape! That group is against the rules! They can't cast a teacher!" complained Malfoy. Dumbledore chuckled, "actually, Mr. Malfoy, I never said you couldn't."
Draco scowled.
"You may begin," said McGonagall, and a magical spotlight shone onto the stage. The other candles went out.
A fake glow came from Hermione's fake necklace, "I see someone with great evil magic is approaching!" she cried, giving Yami Bakura his cue.
Yami Bakura ran onto the stage from behind the curtain, dragging a makeshift sarcophagus. "You need to protect your tombs, Pharaoh. This one was so easily broken into. Makes raiding a tomb so easy, and dull!"
"You! You raided Akunumkanon's tomb!" exclaimed Marik, "stealing from the Pharaoh is like stealing from a god! You shall be punished!"
"What the –" stuttered Ron. The fake Scales were tipping back and forth. "He evil cannot be weighed! He has great power!"
"Shada! Be careful not to lose yourself in the depths of his mind!" warned Harry. Shadi stepped forward, bearing the key. Suddenly he withdrew himself from Bakura's mind, even though he wasn't really there to begin with.
"There is more to him than meets the eye, he possesses a powerful demon within his soul."
"I bring out my Ka, Diabound!" A huge monster (not really Diabound, but some other fiend summoned through the effects of the Ring).
"What is that?" gaped Set.
"This is a God, not a demon. This will be easier than I thought. Once I take your lives, I'll get your items. What fun!"
"I summon Dios to the arena!" shouted Set. Yami Bakura quickly used the Ring to summon a normal warrior type monster.
"Bakura!" shouted Yugi, getting off of the throne (Yugi pushed Yami back into the soul room so he couldn't get a glimpse of his past). "Get off my father!"
"Suits yourself," said Bakura and he pushed the body to Yugi.
Hermione yelled "Scene change!" Yugi, Shadi, Hermione, Ryou, Ron, and Harry ran off and Natasha came on as Kisara. Ryou came out in a peasant costume, the Millennium Ring under his shirt. He secretly summoned a spider monster.
"It is said this girl possesses a Ka to rival a God," explained Marik to Seto (who had taken over). "Today we are testing that." Natasha went to the edge of the stage. The bug made a fake attack, but she did nothing. Seto ran in front to protect her.
"Set! What are you doing?" cried Marik, "get back here at once!"
"Master Aknadin, I cannot let you harm the innocent!"
"Funny, it was you who locked me down here, Set. But fine! Attack!" Ryou saw Seto wink at him secretly and Natasha began a fake chant, giving Ryou the time to summon a Blue Eyes.
"Destroy the enemy!" shouted Seto and the monsters disappeared. The lights went back on, and the audience applauded.
After a few more acts, Dumbledore announced the winners.
"The winners of the Halloween skits are group 1, or Team Pharaoh!"
The whole hall erupted in applause, as they were the best of them all.
Well, that's the end of chapter 10!
Next chapter, the Yami's (all of them) get a treat! Wanna guess what it is? I'll let you know next chapter if anyone guesses right!