Hello peeps! Only seven more chapter left of Tom Riddle's Item! Then the sequel! I do have some information for you about it, like a sneak peek!
If any of you readers have seen the new Capsule Monster Movie, that takes place in the gang's summer vacation, but not all of the gang takes place in it. The others do something completely different.
Unlike the Capsule Monsters Movie, it doesn't take place when the gang is in school, because that would mean that Hogwarts doesn't exist, which it does…
And to the readers, if anyone has seen the new movie, if you would review in the name of Grandpa's archeologist partner dude person…yea.
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Chapter 15!
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
Hermione jumped a foot in the air.
"Natasha Edwards! Don't scare me like that!"
Natasha looked hurt, "is it so wrong to give Christmas cheer?"
"Well, no, but…oh forget it! Merry Christmas!" Both girls left the girls' dorm and hurried downstairs where Harry and Ron were already opening presents, wrapping paper strewn all over the floor.
"Wow, you two waste no time," said Natasha.
"Why would we want to," remarked Ron, "everyone else sleeps in too late!"
"Ron," said Hermione, "it's only eight thirty."
"Still, everyone sleeps in too much!"
"AHEM!"
Harry looked toward the voice. In the corner, Seto was in a pair of black pajamas, a black bathrobe, and gray slippers.
"Correction, mate," grinned Harry, "everyone but Seto sleeps in."
"MERRY CHRISTMAS SETO!" called the mop of black hair in a Santa hat. Mokuba gave his brother a big hug and hurried over to the tree near the extinguished Gryffindor fire. "Can I open my stuff now? Can I, can I , can I? Huh? Huh? (very hyper) Hermione and Natasha laughed.
Seto nodded. "YEY!"
"Aren't you coming as well?"
"I have to find them first. It's a tradition," said Mokuba as he dug around the tree. "Here's one! Come on Seto! Daily Prophet can wait."
He moved from the chair in the corner to another chair near the tree.
"GAHHHHHHHHH!"
Everyone looked to the boys' staircase.
"HEEEELLLP!" Ryou came dashing down the stairs and ran around in a circle, hysterically, waving his arms up and down like a chicken with its head cut off.
"Yugi's gone! He disappeared!"
"What?" asked Ron, "how?"
"I was there with him! He was putting on his slippers and poof!"
"Uh oh," muttered Harry.
"This is terrible!" Ryou blurted, hysterical, "what if something happens to me? What if I poof next? What if –"
"SHUT UP!" yelled Natasha, "we get the point! The question is, where is Yugi now?"
"Voldemort," said Seto, "obviously, don't you remember what Shadi said?"
"Oh, right," said Ron.
"What did Shadi say?" asked Natasha, "I'm confused.
"Voldemort has most of the Millennium Items and needs Yugi, Seto, and Ryou to get them to work properly. There must be random portkeys everywhere!"
"Let's go to Dumbledore," said Ron, "he must have some fancy gizmo in his office that may be able to detect other portkeys!"
"Good idea!" Harry jumped up and ran to his dorm to dress. A minute later he was out of the common room.
As the portrait hole closed, Ron turned back to the others, "I meant that we would all go together as a group!"
Dumbledore's office was empty when Harry arrived. He turned to leave and find Professor Shadi when the doors opened and Dumbledore, Shadi, Ishizu Ishtar and McGonagall all entered.
"Ah! Harry, what's on your mind?"
"Something happened like you predicted Professor," blurted Harry, "Yugi disappeared. He went to put on his slippers and poof!"
"Poof?"
"According to Ryou anyway."
"Indeed," said Shadi, "Voldemort is getting what he wants. Now he has the Pharaoh and his reincarnate. Chaos will arrive quicker than expected."
"How is this possible!" Ishizu asked, "Voldemort cannot use the items! He isn't related to the Ancient past!"
"No, there is an eighth."
"The rumored Millennium Sword!" Ishizu gasped. "How is this possible! The only way the item was to be created was by Priest Aknadin of the Nameless Pharaoh's court, but the date of creation was after his death!"
"It is a possibility that another kidnapping will occur," said Dumbledore, "if one happens, do not hesitate to find us!"
Harry nodded and left the Headmaster's office
He landed with a thud. Yugi opened his eyes. It was dark, and wherever he happened to be smelled of old, moldy bread and a mixture of sweat socks and Snape's office.
A tiny window near the ceiling illuminated a corner of the room. It seemed to be some kind of dungeon, as the light showed a skeleton with half of a headhanging on the wall.
SKELETON! ACK!
A door opened from the corner and two Death Eaters entered.
"Out."
Yugi followed them through the chilly dungeon-like hallway, chills going up his spine. It was rather cold, and he was only wearing a pair of star-pajamas and sun-and-moon socks.
He was taken into a room with a warm fireplace and a beaten armchair facing away from him. Yugi looked down. Nagini was circling him, then curled up on her small rug near the fire. He looked around. A table near the armchair had a laptop closed, and next to it…
The Millennium Puzzle, Rod, Ring, Eye, and some sort of sword! So that's Voldemort in the chair! Finally, some answers!
"This way, Yugi Muto," said a high cold voice. Yugi slowly walked to the fire and turned around, facing Voldemort.
Voldemort cackled, "I imagined you taller."
"Sorry," Yugi said coldly, "it runs in my family."
The Millennium Items began to glow and the spirits phased out.
"Yugi!"
"Hey Pharaoh…"
"Please tell me that you're not the rescue mission, because I have to listen to the Pharaoh drone on all day and night I might just die! AGAIN!" Bakura snickered.
Set smacked his head. "OWWW!"
"No," said Voldemort, "I've had Wormtail transform random everyday things that you all use into Portkeys, all set to go at random times. Let's see, there was slippers, schoolbooks, a laptop, a necktie, shoes, and a brown sock. Wormtail had no idea to whom the items belong, but after the third person arrives, they all deactivate! You are my first victim, Yugi Muto. However, before I spill my evil plan I need the rest of my guests! This way I don't have to say everything multiple times!"
"Give me back the Millennium Puzzle! You have no use for it!" said Yugi, looking at the Pharaoh.
"Sorry, I need them for my evil plan. You can have it back though, if you join my cause!"
"What are you planning to do?"
"Rewrite history…"
"NEVER!"
"You say that now," said Voldemort, leaning forward in his chair, "but I'll give you two weeks to decide. Goyle! Take Muto back to his "room".
"Wait!" yelled Yugi, as Goyle grabbed his arm.
"You reconsider?"
"Um…no. Just a few questions…"
"Oh goody. Spill."
"How long am I going to stay here?"
"Until I get what I want done…then I might kill you…we'll say a long, long, long time."
"You're not going to starve me, are you?"
"No…"
" Do I have to stay with the skeletons downstairs?"
"Is that a problem?"
"I have a fear of skeletons…"
"Wimp!" yelled Yami Bakura. The Pharaoh kicked him in the rear. "OWWW!"
"Oh well! Goyle take him away!"
A week later (Friday)
Classes started back up again. Of course, the first class of the day was none other than Potions with everyone's favorite crybaby, Snape (see Chapter 12).
"It appears, we are missing one," drawled Snape noticing Yugi wasn't in attendance.
"Too bad," he continued, "today we will work in pairs…"
The class cheered. Snape cleared his throat. "But I will choose them." Everyone fell awfully silent. Snape then began picking off students. "Bakura, Goyle. Potter, Malfoy. Granger, Ishtar. Weasley, Longbottom. Kaiba, Crabbe. Edwards, Thomas….
"We will be working on the Draught of the Simmering Silent. When consumed, the drinker, while also under a truth potion, will not have to answer truthfully, or at all. If made correctly, that is. If brewed wrong, the drinker may be muted for the rest of his life. The instructions are on the board and you may begin."
Snape circled the classroom, watching like a hawk, looking for someone to insult.
"Your potions should erupt clear-blue mist around now."
Harry looked around the room. Hermione's potion was at the halfway point, the correct misty color emerging. Many others were correct also.
"Hey Potter, watch what you're doing!" Malfoy sneered.
Harry quickly withdrew his hand as Malfoy continued to stir. He had almost poured half the bottle of muresitirev (Veritiserum backwards) when the potion only required a bit under half. Finally, the potion emitted clear-blue mist, as the bell rang.
Everyone cleaned up their cauldrons, placed a sample on Snape's desk and headed out. Harry and the others headed back to Gryffindor common room for a break between classes when they saw Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore enter the common room. Dumbledore held some sort of gadget in his hand.
"Professor?" Ryou stepped up, "what are you doing?"
"Just in case another portkey or portkeys have been set, this will find and deactivate them," he said simply waving it around. "The fuzzy ends here will spin if a portkey is detected.
Nothing happened.
Dumbledore headed up to the sixth year dormitory. It was empty. Dumbledore waved it around Yugi's belongings. The ends began to spin around a pair of shoes, and bunny slippers. "Aha," said Professor McGonagall, and she took out her wand. "Deactius!" The shoes were no longer portkeys and the gadget stopped spinning. Dumbledore then moved on to Seto's bed. There was nothing out of the ordinary, except when the headmaster turned away, the laptop suddenly appeared, glowed bright green for a second, and returned to normal.
"Hmm," said Dumbledore, waving the item around. Nothing happened.
"Albus, do you think that since Voldemort has such an obsession with these children, that he has portkeys go off at random moments?"
"I believe so, Minerva. They must all be extremely cautious."
The next week (Monday afternoon, during break between classes) "Hey guys? Where's Bakura?" asked Mokuba, "he promised to play Wizards Chess with me!" "I'm not sure," said Natasha, turning to her friends, "have you seen Ryou?" "Where was he last?" asked Hermione. "I thought he was here in the common room with us!" exclaimed Harry.
"Maybe Marik or Seto is with him," thought Natasha aloud.
"I'm right here!" called Marik.
"No, Seto's upstairs taking a nap before Transfiguration next period," answered Ron, from the corner, playing Exploding Snap with Harry.
Just then, Ryou came in through the portrait hole.
"Where were you?" asked Natasha. Ryou looked confused. "Mokuba was looking everywhere for you!"
"I was talking to Professor Flitwick about our test tomorrow. I told Ron to tell you."
"Sorry! Forgot!" called Ron from the corner of the room.
"Can we play our game now?" asked Mokuba.
Ryou nodded. "Sure, we still have a half-hour before our next class. Ron, can we borrow your chessboard?"
"I'm using it!" Natasha called from another corner of the room. "Check!"
"I should have seen that coming," said Marik.
"We'll use Seto's. He won't mind," Mokuba headed up the boys' staircase. In no more than ten seconds he was back downstairs, crying into Natasha's robes.
"Mokuba! What's wrong!"
"Seto! He's not there!"
"What do you mean, he's not there?" Marik knelt next to the younger Kaiba.
"He…poofed….like Yugi!" Mokuba said between sobs. "Laptop's missing!"
"Oh no," said Hermione, kneeling down next to Marik and giving Mokuba a sympathetic hug, "It'll be ok, your brother can take care of himself…"
Mokuba cried harder.
"We'll go to Dumbledore!" Marik and Ryou ran out of the common room and down the hall.
KEY:
/Pharaoh
( ) Set
(Bold)Bakura
(Italics)Voldemort
/I wish we could get out of here and find Yugi…/
Why do you need him! He can't get us back to school!
/I didn't ask you, thief! I was merely thinking aloud…/
(Technically, since we're all speaking mentally to each other through some random link, why can't we talk freely?)
YEA! Listen to the smarter royal cousin, Pharaoh!
/Are you calling me stupid/
Hm…Maybe…
(Stop! I sense a familiar presence!)
/Yugi/
Wimpy?
(No…wait, who's Wimpy?)
Ryou.
(No, it's Seto.)
/Seto! Hm…/
Why can't it be Wimpy! Then I can take over him, steal the items, and get us out of here!
/Interesting idea…/
You see? I have a nice big brain! Full of knowledge!
(Yes, you do…)
Why, thank you!
(…when you aren't using it to plot our demise!)
Watch your nose, Priest, before it winds up in the back of your left big toe!
Now, now, stop fighting!
Oh great. It's you…the bald nincompoop!
And what is that supposed to mean!
Two things, baldy! ONE, that you are not wanted in this conversation. TWO, that you are a bald nincompoop!
/Yes, and right now, you are VERY MUCH not wanted here/
To tell the truth, I don't want to be here with you either, Pharaoh..
Yugi sat in the corner of his dark cell, as far away as possible from the headless skeletons on the wall, on a mound of straw, hay, whatever it was. He was half-asleep and trying to contact Yami.
/Yami/
Nothing.
The small window near the ceiling gave a small crack of light, illuminating the creepiest stuff in the cell. Skeletons.
I wonder when food's coming. Everyday now, Voldemort brought me to his room and asked if I had reconsidered. Every time I refused, he sent me here and a half hour later, someone brought me food. Now, he didn't call me at all, and it's already nightfall.
The cell door opened, letting more light into the cell from the dungeon hallway. Before he knew it, there was a thud and the door shut again.
Food?
Yugi squinted in the dark. The shadowy lump on the floor was too big to be food.
Maybe it's a blanket…I'm freezing…
He then discovered that the moonlight reflected off of the shiny Gryffindor emblem thingy that's pinned onto a school uniform. It took Yugi a minute, but then saw the Duel Monsters locket in the darkness.
"Seto!"
He groaned and sat up, rubbing his arm from where he had landed on it.
"Ouch…" he muttered, "Yugi! Where are we?"
"In Voldemort's dungeon…I think. Somewhere below his house, castle, wherever we are..."
"Oh, wonderful," Seto muttered, sarcastically. "Do you know where the Millennium Items are?"
"Yes. With Voldemort," said Yugi, shivering. The moonlight left the window, leaving the room in darkness. Yugi could barely see his companion in the darkness.
"Here," said Seto, taking off his cloak and giving it to Yugi.
"I can't wear this! It's like, ten times my size!"
"Fine then, freeze…"
Yugi put it on, his arms well inside the sleeves.
"Well, it's warm."
Seto pulled his wand out of his pocket. "Lumos." The tip of the wand lit up.
"You know, Yugi, you're sitting on a bunch of skeletons…"
"GAHHHHHHH!"
Seto smirked, then lit an abandoned torch with his wand, giving the cell somewhat warmth and light.
"How come Voldemort didn't take your wand?" Yugi asked.
"It wasn't like anyone searched me. Some idiot brought me to Voldemort, listened to him drone his evil plan six times, asked if I wanted to join him…actually, it seemed like he was threatening me, told me I had two weeks to reconsider my refusal and threw me in here."
"Wow…"
"So, what was the portkey that got you here?"
"My laptop. The second I got here, it went back and deactivated itself, I think."
Yugi sighed and sat near the torch where it was warm. At least he wasn't alone and hungry anymore. Now he was just hungry.
Mokuba sat by the fire in Professor McGonagall's office.
"Mokuba, am I right?" asked Dumbledore. Mokuba sniffed and nodded, as tears fell from his big eyes, making him look like he was puppy-facing when he really wasn't.
"Can you tell us what happened? If we are going to find Seto and Yugi, you must tell us! Now when you entered the dormitory and found him missing, was anything out of the ordinary?"
Mokuba thought back, "it happened so fast! I don't think…wait! Seto's laptop had re-appeared on his bed right before I left!"
"So something was going on with that contraption!" exclaimed Minerva, "It was glowing earlier today!"
"That's right, Minerva," said Dumbledore.
"I will go back and warn the students not to touch anything of the boys' belongings, incase of still active portkeys," said McGonagall and she left the room.
While she was gone, Marik and Ryou ran into the room.
"Professor! We were walking with Hermione back from the library and Ryou dropped his schoolbooks!"
"Hermione picked them up for me," said Ryou, " and then she poofed too!"
"Hermione too?" asked Mokuba, teary eyed, "not again!" He cried into Marik's robes as McGonagall returned.
"The students have been informed – Ishtar, Bakura, what are you doing?"
"Hermione poofed!" cried Ryou, hugging Mokuba, "she's gone too!"
Footsteps were heard. Yugi quickly blew out the torch, so there were no signs of magical activity in the cell. Seto was pacing back and forth, trying to think of an escape plan.
The door opened again and something big was pushed inside, colliding with Seto, sending them both to the ground. The next thing Seto saw was another Gryffindor emblem.
"Alright, someone has to get off me…" said the CEO, annoyed that he was knocked over and had probably landed on a pile of rotten bones.
"Hermione!" Yugi exclaimed, getting up to help her to her feet. However, he stepped on Seto's Gryffindor cloak, because of its size and fell over as well.
Hermione got up on her own. "Yugi! Seto! Where are we?"
"Voldemort's house, castle, whatever. We're in the wonderful dungeon," said Yugi, obvious hints of sarcasm in his voice.
"Dungeon?"
"Could be a torture chamber," Seto added, "at one point in time. After all, there's a skeleton in the haystack you're sitting on, corpses hanging on that wall over there, and Hermione, your sitting next to a pile of stiffs with half of a head…and it's not completely decomposed…"
She shrieked and moved to the complete opposite wall. "I hate skeletons," she said. "Yugi?"
"Yea, 'Mione?"
"What are you wearing?"
"Seto's cloak…but I don't think I need it anymore, here." Yugi tossed the garment back to it's owner who put it on. Yugi leaned against a wall, and out of the blue, it moved and a rumbling sound was heard. The stone tiles Seto was standing next to disappeared, a stairwell and lit torches in its place.
"Looks like a way out…anyone coming?" asked Seto, grabbing a torch and heading down.
Slowly and carefully, they made their way down the uneven, narrow stairs.
After Hermione, being the last one down, cleared the entranceway, the floor reappeared, leaving the only light coming from Seto's torch. Yugi held onto the walls for support.
"These walls are awfully lumpy. Seto, shine the light on it."
Hermione screamed, as the light illuminated the wall.
"I think we know why all of those skeletons and bodies were missing heads and body parts…" she cried.
The walls were made of thousands of skulls and body parts, held together by dirt and stones. Some of the bodies in the wall weren't completely decomposed and looked as if it came from a really, creepy horror movie.
Well, that's all for Chapter 15, folks. Not much more left, but I will tell you this! There will be a duel in this fic…and Voldemort's the one dueling! The chapter after the duel, I'll give the complete list of cards in his deck. Voldemort's deck is currently my deck, up to date tournament rules!
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Michelle