WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!
Disclaimer: don't own HP or YGO!
The end of the wonderful summer vacation came too soon for everyone's liking. They all had had a great time at Ron's home.On the last day before they left for the Hogwarts express, Mrs. Weasley conjured up a fantastic banquet for them all. Including the favorite dishes of everyone there. It was filled with conversations on expectations about what they were going to learn, who they were going to have as teachers, etc. During dinner, something rather funny occurred. Joey reached over for a large steak and plunged his fork into it, when two other forks speared the meat. Joey looked up and glared at the two food thieves. Bakura and Brian both glared at each other and at Joey. "It seems we're at a stalemate," Bakura said in a cheery voice. "Indeed we are Tomb Robber," Brian said in the same tone of voice. "So, how do we deal with this situation?" Joey asked them both.
"Hmm, good question," Bakura nodded. "How about we go outside and leave this up to hand to hand combat? No weapons but our fists and feet," Brian suggested. "Very well, and to make sure no one cheats, Percy can close the door and lock it behind us," Bakura agreed standing up and heading towards the door. Percy shook his head and once they were all outside, he locked the door behind them. "Are you sure we should let them do this?" Mrs. Weasley asked Yugi worriedly. He nodded, "It's a contest between men, there's pretty much no way to keep them from doing it. Winner of the battle gets the prize," he said, shrugging. Soon the air was filled with yells and noises from the front yard.
"I'm sorry but we have to see how this ends," Fred and George stood up and rushed to the windows to watch the fight. "Oooh...that must hurt," George said shaking his head. "Poor Joey, he really should've worn something down there," Fred agreed. "Blimey! Joey and Brian's ganging up on Bakura!" George cried out. Now, Set and Yami ran from the table to watch the fight. "Go! Kick the Tomb Robber's ass!" Yami shouted through the glass (hey, that rhymes!). "Get him! Bite him! Bite him!" Set yelled. "Hey that's no fair! Bakura you cheater! You agreed to no weapons!" Yami opened the door and shouted at him. Bakura replied by giving him the finger, which caused Yami to charge out and tackle him. "RUMBLE!" Ron yelled as he ran outside to join. Fred, George, Set, Kaiba, Harry,Yugi, Ryou and even Percy bolted from their spots to fight. The only ones left inside were Ginny, Tea, Lucien, Serenity, Mokuba, and Ron's parents at the dinner table.
After an hour of fighting, all the boys came back in the house, bloody and bruised. Mrs. Weasley sighed and gave them treatment from her magical remedy books and they would be healed soon. "So, out of the original three, who won the challenge?" Tea asked sitting down. Joey raised his fist into the air "Dat would be me! Now where's my steak?" he asked looking at the table. The steak was gone, "Hey! Who stole my steak?" he demanded looking at them all. Mrs. Weasley made them all a mug of hot chocolate as they relaxed from the fatigue. "Hey, Percy, I never saw you as a fighter," Kaiba said rubbing his jaw. "I am when I want to be, but mostly I tend not to lean towards such barbaric activities," he said fixing both his and Harry's glasses. "Hehe, I usually fight when my brother's life is in danger," Kaiba chuckled ruffling Mokuba's raven-colored hair.
When they were all finished, Mrs. Weasley ushered them upstairs to sleep, because they were leaving early in the morning to get to King's Cross Station to catch the Hogwarts Express. They all changed and lied down in their respective places in different rooms. Kaiba was about to fall asleep when he heard Mokuba move around. He turned over and looked at him, "What are you doing, Mokie?" he asked his little brother. "I didn't get enough to eat, so I'm having a bedtime snack,"he explained holding up something big, wrapped in a large napkin. He undid the napkin and held it out for Kaiba to see.
"You took Wheeler's steak?" he asked in disbelief. "Yep, I wanted a snack for later, I saw the opportunity, and I took it," he said grinning slyly. Kaiba shook his head, smiling. He looked at his brother and took a piece of the steak and popped it into his mouth "You're coming along nicely, Mokie," he commented. "Hey, Seto? Are you going to stop being mean around Brian now?" Mokuba asked him. "Mokuba, you were in an accident that involved his motorcycle. You were hurt and he should've been watching you," he said roughly. "But Seto, I took off without letting him know, it was my fault. If anything, he tried to get me to stop. He kept chasing me, yelling at me 'Stop the bike! Stop the bike!'. C'mon, Seto! You already beat the crap outta him, just forgive him!" Mokuba pleaded with his older brother. Kaiba only replied by turning on his side and started to sleep.
The next morning, everyone was running around the house screaming about things they were missing, or what time it was, etc etc. It was alot like the scenes in Home Alone. Mr. Weasley and the boys went outside to pack everyone's trunk and pets inside the car. "Not a word to Molly," he told them as he waved his wand to enlarge the capacity of the trunk space. They easily fit in the owl cages, and the small animal carriers inside along with the school trunks. Lucien whimpered when he was forced inside the carrier, in addition to the magic collar. Brian finally was able to coax him in with a chew toy, and afterwards they shut the trunk without any problems. Mr. Weasley then altered the space of the passenger area of the Ford Angelina so that everyone should get inside without any problem.
Everyone piled into the car and Mrs. Weasly looked in back to see all the kids sitting comfortably next to each other without and problem at all. "My, those Muggles really know how to make cars don't they? I mean, look at this from the outside and you never know that it was this roomy," she said shaking her head in amazement. They left and came back multiple times because everyone forgot something at least once. The last one was Bakura and when he came back, he was carrying a large square chest. "Bakura...what do you have in there?" Ryou asked his yami. "Just some stuff," he said casually, as they drove off to the train station.
By the time they finally arrived and put everyone's belongings on trolleys, they had less than five minutes to make it through the barrier. Set, Percy and Kaiba went through together, Ginny, Tea and Ryou were next, and then Yami, Fred, George and Bakura passed through. Ron, Mokuba, Yugi, Brian, and Harry were the last group, Mokuba and Brian watched as Ron, Yugi and Harry speed towards the barrier, and then crash into it. The carts toppled over, sending the boys to the ground along with their luggage. A fat, conducter came over to them and began to scold them about playing around in the station. "Sorry, lost control of the trolley," Harry lied as he picked up Hedwig and helped Yugi up.
Everyone other bystander began to talk about kids nowadays or animal cruelty. Mokuba and Brian walked over to them and whispered, "What happened to you guys?" Brian asked. Yugi shook his head, "The barrier won't let us through, something's blocking it,". Mokuba and Ron pressed their hands against the stone barrier, "Nothing," Mokuba reported. "Guys," Brian started. They turned and looked at him, he was pointing to a clock nearby. "We friggin' missed the train," Brian told them. "Aw man," groaned Mokuba pulling his hair. "So, what do we do now?" Yugi asked leaning against his trunk. "Looks like we'll have to go wait by the car," Harry said gripping his trolley. Ron grinned from ear to ear. "I got a better idea!" he told them, before taking off towards the car. "Hey, wait a minute! Ron!" Harry called after him before sighing and following him. Mokuba, Yugi and Brian just stared at them. "What's goin' on?" Brian asked.
They all emptied their belongings into the trunk of the Ford Angelina and climbed inside. Ron took the drivers seat, Harry took shotgun and Yugi, Mokuba, and Brian climbed in back with the owls and the Worg. "Are you sure we should do this?" Yugi asked Ron as he started the car. "It'll be fine, my parents don't need it, they can Apparate, besides no one's gonna see us," he said confidently. The car rose into the air and began flying into the direction the Hogwarts Express would be headed. "Now for some camoflauge (SP?)," Ron said pushing a silver button. The car seemed to flicker and then stopped. "What just happened?" Mokuba asked him. "Invisibilty Booster. Stick your head out the window and look at the side of the car," he told him.
Mokuba tried to move to the window, but Brian stopped him, "I'll do it. If you fell out that window, your brother would kill me," he said sticking his head out. "Hey, cool, we can see outside but no one can see inside. Now that's a handy feature in a car," he commented sitting back down. Yugi, Harry and Mokuba looked at him and started to snicker. "What? What's so funny?" he asked them. They just shook their heads and waved him off. "Uh oh," Ron said pushing the Booster button. "What is it?" Yugi asked worriedly. "Invisibilty Booster's failed, people are gonna look up and see a flying car!" he said in a panicked tone. "I take it that's a bad thing?" Mokuba asked him. Ron nodded furiously, "Oh crap," muttered Mokuba.
They spent the next few hours following the same scenery they saw on the Hogwarts Express in their effort to find it. "Harry, tracks!" Yugi said pointing downward out his window. They all leaned as far as they could to see the train tracks below. "Finally, now all we have to do is watch for the train, go down to the tracks and follow them until we catch up with it, Ron," Mokuba said tapping his shoulder repeatedly. "Ok Mokuba, bloody hell, stop it I'm tryin' to drive," he told him, shrugging him off. They descended onto the train tracks and within moments they soon heard the train whistle. "Alright, we're getting closer," Yugi said cheerfully. They heard it again as they moved farther down the track, but this time it was closer.
"I don't see it, where's the train?" Mokuba asked Harry. He shook his head, "I don't know Mokuba, I don't see it," he told him looking ahead. They heard the whistle again, much louder this time. "Wait a minute," Harry started. They all slowly, fearfully turned around to see the train coming up right on them. "AHHH!" they all screamed as the train whistled again. "PULL UP! PULL UP!" Brian screamed in Ron's ear. "I'm trying, stop yelling at me!" he screamed back. Ron was barely able to pull the car out of the train's way and now they were flying on the left of it. "Ok, here's a helpful hint, NEVER GET ONTO A SET OF TRAIN TRACKS!" Brian yelled at both Ron and Mokuba. "Brian, we're fine now so don't yell at them," Yugi frowned at him.
They followed the train until night fall. They soon saw the huge lake on the school grounds along with the large and beautiful castle that had windows everywhere. Yugi clapped Harry on the shoulder, "Welcome home, Harry," he said smiling. Suddenly the car began to sputter and drop. "What's going on?" Mokuba asked nervously. "I don't know, I think the car's out of gas," Ron said trying to keep it afloat. "Oh man," Brian moaned taking off his shades for the first time. "Try and land this thing in one piece," Harry said, gripping the door handle tightly. "I'll try," Ron said uncertainly as he steered the car towards the grounds. "Go right, go right...WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE!" Yugi screamed pointing ahead of them to a huge willow tree. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" they all screamed as they collided with the tree with a sickening crunch.
"Ow...I think something broke," Mokuba groaned as he pulled himself up to see over the front seat. "Yugi, you got a cut just above your eye," Harry said pointing to Yugi's face. He raised his hand and saw that blood was fresh. "It's ok, I'm sure the school nurse will be able to fix that up," Ron assured him. Suddenly the car was barraged by violent blows from all sides, causing the windows to shatter and large dents to form in the metal. "WHAT THE HELL?" Ron yelled over the noise. Brian looked out the windows, "The Ra-damned tree is hitting us!" he screamed back. Ron quickly turned the ignition and after a few moments of sputtering the car revved to life and fell to the ground and sped off towards the castle, just barely escaping the large tree as it slammed onto them. The car stopped and the cars opened up and the seats shot the boys out of the car along with the luggage and animals.
They watched as the car closed the door and sped off into the Forbidden Forest on its own. "Ok, we're here, let's just go to the banquet and sneak in," Brian grunted picking up his trunk and holding it on his head. They made their way to the entrance hall and set their trunks and pets with the others and headed up the stairs and stopped at the middle of the stairway, seeing someone familiar and mean. "Well well, we are in trouble aren't we?" Filch said glaring at them all. "Shimatta..," Yugi, Mokuba and Brian cursed.
"You were seen," Snape told them as they stood in his office. "Do you know how badly you've endangered the existence of our world? You alsodidsomedamage to a VERY valuable Whomping WillowTree.If you were in my House, I would have sent you back to the Muggle world immediately!" he snapped at them. "But luckily they are not in your House, Severus. These boys belong to Minerva to punish," came a soft voice from behind them. The boys turned around and felt the color drain from their face. Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall was standing there. McGonagall laid her eyes on the young Gryffindors.
"Explain yourselves," Dumbledore said in a stern voice. The boys told them the tale of what happened at the train station and how they landed into the rabid tree. "Why didn't you send an owl to tell us? I believe that you two have owls?" McGonagall asked looking at Harry and Yugi. "Ok, why didn't we do that? Why did we listen to him?" Brian asked nodding to Ron. "So, I guess we'll go get our stuff," Ron said miserably. "What are you talking about Weasley?" McGonagall asked him. "You're gonna expel us aren't you?" he asked looking at her. Dumbledore smiled and spoke in his normally soft voice, "We are not going to expel you, but if you do something such as this again, yes we will expel you,". "Hallajueh! (SP?)" Brian screamed.
"As for your punishments," McGonagall began before Mokuba interrupted her. "Please Professor, when we took the car and flew it here, term never reallyhad started, so we shouldn't get any points taken away," he said. McGonagall smiled slightly at him and waved her wand. A large plate of sandwiches and a large jug of pumpkin juice appeared on the table next to them. "You can eat dinner here, then head to your dormitories afterwards," she said as she, Dumbledore, and Snape left the room. They ate their dinners and drank the juice grateful they were still able to attend this school, before they left and went to Gryffindor Tower, but were blocked because they didn't know the password to get past the Fat Lady.
"There you are! Where have you been?" came a voice behind them. They turned to see Hermione and Tea rushing towards them. "People say you flew a car to Hogwarts!" Tea said to them, putting her hands on her hips. "We did, and before you start lecturing us, what's the password?" Ron asked impatiently. "Wattlebird, but-," Hermione started as the Fat Lady portrait opened up and the boys climbed through and were greeted by a large crowd of applauding and hooting people congradulating them on their stunt. "Nice one, Ron! You too, Mokuba!" Fred and George praised them as they clapped them on the shoulders. After the commotion, the noise receded as they went to bed so they could sleep. Brian sat up and looked at Yugi, "Psst, Yugi!" he called softly to his tri-colored haired friend.
"Yeah?" he asked sitting up. "You know that atheist that's always on the corner by your store?" he asked.Yugi nodded, "Yeah why?" he asked. "Remind me that when we get back home, to punch himhard in the face. That'll teach him to tell everyone that there's not a God!" he told him before turning over to go to sleep. Yugi just stared at him, then smiled and went to sleep.
Kilnorc: hope thats a good chappy for ya! i thought i needed something interesting at the Burrow so i put in the brawl. hope dis is good! sorry if it's not...i will update soon!
p.s. DAMN! ITS A LONG CHAPPY!