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I do not own Yugioh, and never will.
History Can't Help But Repeat Itself
Review: In case you forgot what happened last time…
/Probably, Dumbledore does not seem to be the type that would allow a potential threat into his school unless he could control it./ Yugi said.
Yami felt a little faint and knew that he had to soon return to the puzzle or be forcibly pulled back into it to allow the magic of the puzzle re-energize his own magic.
\I'm going back into the puzzle, I'm starting to feel tired.\ Yami told Yugi.
/Okay, I'll talk to you later/ Yugi said and watched Yami fade away until he had totally disappeared from sight.
Chapter 8
A sudden knock at the compartment door made Yugi look up. A bunch of three students that he remembered meeting in Diagon Alley, but had forgotten the names of opened the door and looked in cautiously.
"May we come in? There is nowhere else left on the train," the only girl of the three asked politely.
Yugi absently nodded to the three of them.
"Sure," Yugi agreed. "I'll leave you be, since you look like you need to speak together in private."
The three students looked at him a bit surprised by the bluntness of the person, they assumed was another student.
Yugi ignored their stares, it was normal for him. Not only did his hair, which made him stick out like a sour thumb, but his status as the world ranked number one duellist at Duel Monsters caused a lot of people to stare.
Getting up, he walked out past the students and began his way to where he had left his trunk earlier when he boarded the train.
Finding it exactly where he had left it, he was slightly surprised to see Horus sitting on top of his empty cage.
"Horus you are very strange bird. It's almost as if you knew I wanted to send a letter." Yugi commented to himself.
Slipping the armband on, Horus jumped from his position on the cage and onto Yugi's arm.
Yugi chuckled at the bird as it sat contently on his arm.
Using his free arm, he opened the trunk and rummaged around for a few moments so he could get a quill and a piece of parchment to write the letter on.
Carefully he pulled out a small ink pot which he still had to find the charm for making it unbreakable.
"Let's go and find somewhere to sit down shall we. I need to send a letter to Grandpa, amazingly I still haven't found time until now to tell him about my new job. Silly isn't it. Then again this was supposed to be a holiday as well," Yugi whispered.
Shoving the things in his pocket, Yugi started back down the train to find a place to sit.
Walking through the halls of the carriages, Yugi encounter many students who merely ignored him or stared at his hair. The only problem he encountered was from a blonde haired student who was being followed around by a pair of rather bulky looking students who seemed to be acting like bodyguards.
"Get out of my way," the blonde demanded in a cruel and cutting voice that almost reminded him of the way Seto Kaiba used to act before he had finally admitted to liking Joey.
"Speak with respect to your elders boy," Yugi said confidently, being around Yami so much, it had begun to rub off on him. "Do not make enemies of new professors before they have started to teach you."
The blonde arrogantly looked down at Yugi not in the least believing what he had just heard.
"Oh, and where would this new professor be exactly," the boy mockingly stated.
Yugi could feel Yami trying to take control and give the boy a good knock off of his high horse, but Yugi sent calming thoughts to him.
"I am," Yugi stated and brushed straight past the slightly shocked boy and his dim bodyguards.
In the puzzle Yami was furious and was trying to calm down not particularly enjoying the fact that he not been allowed to figuratively, knock the boy down from his thoughts of being the high and mighty lord of everything around him. Anyway who was he to talk to his aibou like that. No one spoke to Yugi like that without paying some consequence. The worst being a Shadow Game.
Yugi ignored Yami, and smiled at the protectiveness of his Yami. Even after all these years Yami was still had the same protective instincts even though he knew that Yugi could defend himself. It didn't bother Yugi in the least, Yami never overstepped the boundaries, and so it was not a problem.
Yugi lucked out and found an abandoned compartment. Sitting down, he made himself comfortable and began to write a short letter to his grandpa. Horus jumped off his arm and found himself a perch nearby.
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Dear GrandpaSorry that I haven't written or rung you in a while, but Yami and myself were having too much fun exploring London and catching up with the troublesome pair, Ryou and Bakura.
While we were in London we discovered that they have their own brand of Magic and they were looking for a History teacher for their school. I have accepted this position. I am going to be teaching History of Magic at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The magic that they use is similar to that of the Millennium Items, but at the same time it is so much different. Yami tells me that it is only about half as strong as that of the Shadow Realm. We thought that it might be an interesting experience if nothing else, we can learn about something new.
Love Yugi and Yami.
P.S. Ryou and Bakura enjoyed our stay so we plan on going back during the Christmas holidays.
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Waiting for the ink t dry, Yugi looked over at Horus, who was patiently looking over at Yugi.
Knowing that the ink was dry enough, he rolled the parchment up and sealed it so that it would remain that way. Horus just watched as Yugi attached it to his leg, waiting for the instruction on where it was to be sent.
"Find Grandpa, and please don't give him a heart attack. If you can't find Grandpa at the Kame Game shop, then give it to Tristan," Yugi told the bird.
Horus looked at Yugi and with a slight nod of his head, which made Yugi wonder if he was seeing things, opened up his wings and fluttered onto Yugi's arm when he offered it.
Opening up the window, Yugi, careful not to let Horus hit the edge of the window, stuck his arm into the wind. Horus took flight and disappeared into the sky.
Closing the window, Yugi made his way back down to the compartment with Remus, it would be nice to talk to someone who he knew, or at least knew that he was not a student.
Hoping that the students whose names he couldn't remember for the life of him were finished with their secret discussion.
Reaching the door, he saw the Blonde and his two bodyguards walking away from it, a little unhappy was an understatement by the way that they were moving.
Yugi frowned and went in.
"Who was that?" Yugi asked the kids as he took a seat beside the still sleeping Remus.
An angry look passed over their faces.
"Draco Malfoy," the red head hissed.
Amused, Yugi smiled and watched as their expressions changed to a more neutral one.
"I take it then, that you don't like Mr Malfoy?" Yugi asked
"No," the other boy, with the scar on his forehead replied.
A sudden flash of recognition flashed across the girls face.
"Hey, your that person that we met in Diagon Alley when we were going to get our school books for the year," she said.
"Yes, sorry but I have forgotten your names," Yugi said.
"Hermione Granger," the girl said.
"Ron Weasley," the red head said.
"Harry Potter," the last said.
They looked at Yugi, almost as if they expected some sort of reaction at the last name. He just ignored it and introduced himself.
"Yugi Mouto," Yugi said. "Currently, my friend Yami, who looks very similar to me, just a bit taller is else where. You will no doubt see him later on."
The three nodded and were silent, as they noticed that Yugi had not looked at the scar, or even asked any questions about it.
"We haven't seen you around before," Hermione said. "What house are you in?"
Taking the question in stride, Yugi just let it float for a moment as he considered how much he should tell them.
"I'm not. This is my first time to Hogwarts," Yugi said truthfully.
They frowned a little, he looked to be about sixteen maybe an older looking fifteen year old.
"If you aren't in a house, then you must be a transfer…" Hermione began only to get cut off by Yugi.
"No actually, I'm not. I'm sure that you'll find out later what I am, soon enough along with everyone else," Yugi commented mysteriously.
Harry suddenly blinked and stared at Yugi as if trying to remember something that he had forgotten.
"What are you looking at?" Yugi asked as politely as he could.
"Nothing really," Harry replied wistfully. "You remind me of someone muggle. Though they have very similar hair to yours. Their eyes are red and not a shade of purple."
Yugi nodded understandingly. People were always either commenting him on that, and he always told them that he wore contact lenses that made his eyes red to confuse people. Although all it was, was the natural colour of Yami's eyes and he enjoyed Duel Monsters just as much as Yugi did.
"Ah, I think I know who you are speaking of. The World Famous man titled the 'King of Games', most famous for his Duel Monsters defeats." Yugi asked.
"Yes, that is his title, I can never remember his name though. Yes I believe that he is not only the 'King of Games' but he is the Duel Monster Champion and has never been beaten before," Harry blurted out. "Why do you ask?"
Yugi smiled, it was funny enough that Harry was telling him all this when he already knew it. Yami could also hear and Yugi could almost feel his ego go up a notch.
"No reason," Yugi passively said. "I've been a fan of the Duel Monsters game since it was brought out by Maximillion Pegasus…"
Yugi stopped letting the sentence trail, not willing to reveal anymore.
Yami choose that exact moment to yell through the mind link causing Yugi to startle and sit up ram rod straight.
\Yugi! Some dark magical creatures are coming towards you. Be careful, and bring up the mind shields, I don't know what they will do\
Yugi thanked the gods that Yami had been paying attention and he started to feel the dark magic seep around them.
/Thanks for the warning/ Yugi replied.
The train was suddenly brought to an abrupt halt, the rain that had been pouring down for a while now, battered at the windows fiercely, and the wind howling by not making it any better.
The lights began to flicker and went out drowning everything in a blanket of darkness, making it much harder to see anything but dark shapes.
Not moving at all, Yugi spoke with Yami through the link.
/Are the dark creatures causing this do you think Yami/ Yugi asked.
\I think so, be careful hikari\
/What should we do? I don't like waiting for the bed guys to come to me. To many bad things happen to everyone else around me./ Yugi said.
\I know Yugi. I don't like it either; all we can do now is wait until the creatures show themselves. Make sure your mind shield is strong just in case.\ Yami said.
/Okay/ Yugi reluctantly agreed.
Coming back to the real world Yugi noticed that Remus was now awake, but was sitting still and waiting. None of the others had noticed.
Remus conjured a few small flames giving light to the compartment. He stood and went to open the door, but was beaten to it when something on the outside turned the handle first. The door opened and a strange cloaked figure stood towering to the ceiling, fully covered in its black hooded cloak seemed to peer around. It extended a grey hand that looked as though it was in the middle of the process of decaying in water, and seemed to breath in.
A long and deep breath, that Yugi noticed was pulling something from him and all the others around him. Harry seemed to be affected the worst by it. Yugi was sure that he had not received the full blast because of his mind shields and was thankful that Yami had suggested that he strengthen it.
Remus pulled his wand out of his robes as Yugi switched places with Yami, so that he was now in control of Yugi's body. Yami pulled out their duelling deck and flipped over the top card, and pulled it off the deck. It was the Dark Magician, he was always the best saviour for getting them out of trouble, even back when Yami had been living in Ancient Egypt.
Yami summoned the Dark Magician from the Shadow Realm, while out of the corner of his eye watched as Remus tried to make the creature leave using spells that they had never read. Unfortunately, the spells were not working, the creature didn't leave, it did not even back down in the slightest.
With the Dark Magician summoned, Yami looked up at Remus and quickly spoke.
"Remus, move!" he demanded forcefully.
The Dark Magician stood ready and awaiting orders right beside Yami. Remus moved out of the way, not even noticing the Dark Magician.
"Dark Magician, Dark Magic attack," Yami said.
Obeying his master and friend, the Dark Magician attacked the creature with a dark magic blast. The attack hit the creature in the middle, and it shattered much like glass, each fragment disappearing in a puff of smoke before disappearing altogether.
Yami turned to the Dark Magician who was standing beside him, "Thank you."
The Dark Magician nodded and smiled at he praise, knowing that he had done well and protected his master and friend. He returned to his card form letting the card float into his masters hand.
Yami returned the card to his deck and replaced it in the deck holder on his belt.
Remus meanwhile was staring at Yami dumbfounded, not quite sure if he knew exactly what had happened even though he had witnessed it. It was just not connecting in his head.
Not willing to let the wizards learn about their magic yet, Yami modified the memories of the people, making sure that they though that it was Remus who had driven the creature away. Using only his own magic, as if Remus had cursed the creature and that had been what had made it leave. Yami decided that he should also recede and let Yugi take back control of his body.
Yami and Yugi could feel the creatures leaving as they sat back down on the seats. The lights above flickered and came back on, the engine of the train restarted and the train ride continued much like the stop had never happened.
Remus had left the compartment and came back later with a large block of chocolate. No one had said anything while he had been gone and when he returned no one seemed to want to speak about what had happened. As Remus sat down, Harry, who had fainted after the creatures had entered, began to stir.
They spoke together until Remus broke the chocolate with a resounding snap, causing the students to jump. The only ones who didn't were Yugi and Remus.
Remus handed a large piece to Harry and told him to eat it.
Deciding that there had been enough silence, Harry broke it and asked the one question that everyone in the compartment wanted to know the answer to, but didn't want to voice the question.
"What was that thing?" Harry's voice was slightly shaky.
"A dementor," Remus answered blandly while giving the children chocolate. "One of the dementors of Azkaban."
Having handed out the chocolate, Remus left and soon after he had, the children continued to talk between themselves quietly until he came back. None of them had eaten their chocolate.
Still holding the chocolate, it almost looked as if he was trying to debate on whether it was poisoned or not, just as Remus walked back in the door.
"You know, it's not poisoned. It'll make you feel better," Remus commented as he entered. "We're going to be at Hogwarts in 10 minutes."
Remus suddenly looked around for a moment as if noticing that something was out of place or missing altogether. He turned to Yugi with a frown.
"Where is Yami?" he asked.
"I'm not sure," Yugi lied. "He can tell you himself when he gets back."
As if only noticing that Yugi was there, the children looked up at Yugi and stared as if realizing something.
Yugi was not too amused by this new staring contest and was starting to get a bit fidgety under their stares as he wondered what was wrong now.
"The dementor's didn't affect you at all Yugi." Harry mentioned.
The others nodded as they looked at him.
Reums looked at Yugi now to as he remembered, realizing that no it hadn't affected Yugi at all.
"I'm not sure exactly why, but I theorize that the dementors suck the happy feelings out of the air and make you relive your worst memories," Yugi started.
They nodded for him to continue.
"Well, your feelings come from your mind and I have had frequent practice shielding my mind from others, or any foreign invasion. It just happened to work for me," yugi finished.
"Oh," the children said.
Remus just sat there and said nothing, not even looking over at Yugi, he was deep in thought.
To be Continued…
I want to say thankyou to my reviewers for chapter 7:
silverwolf407
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Oh and silverwolf407, Silver Fang will be showing up later, but not for a while