A/N-2,246 words… whew! THAT took awhile. I hope you enjoy though. Let's see… My internet is messed up, so it might take me awhile to post again, I'm not sure. But it's snowing! If we have a snow day and the internet's working tomorrow, I'll try to update again. Oh, and I'm gonna try to update twice during the winter vacation. (I also have to update my other stories, so it might not happen) If I don't update until after the holidays, Happy Holidays!
Saying thanks to:
Kioku4-I've seen one other that starts before the 4th or 5th year, the author is Skyla Doragono. And thanks! I love it when ppl say I'm a good writer, since my past teachers thought otherwise.. U_U
setoobsessive-you think my story's cool? ^_^ yay! You'll see who goes in, and I think you'll like who. I'll check out your stories right after I post this, ok? Thanks for reviewing. ^_^
Mavelus-You'll see why Grandpa wants to get rid of them.. later though. Don't worry, I let Ryou go. Don't' cry. ^_^ You'll see who else goes in. but don't worry, I HATE Tea, she's so evil. Sorry Flame Faries and Writers Block Demons. Wow, Bakura told you twice to shut up. Harsh! Kick him for me. ^_^
Disclaimer-I don't own anything! Oh, and the translations I did (you'll see what I mean later) I did by dictionary.com.
Chapter 3
They were running as fast as they could, hurried through security check, and then finally, after what seemed like miles, reached the waiting area where people waited for the plane. Joey looked around, and felt a horrible drop in his stomach when he saw that there was no one there.
"Mr. Muto, what time is it? Did we miss the plane?" Joey asked slowly, dreading the answer.
"I don't know, let me check." Grandpa looked at his watch and gasped.
"What?!?" Yugi and Joey asked simultaneously. "Did we miss it?"
"No, I looked at the watch wrong earlier. Looks like we're gonna be here a few hours." Grandpa sighed, and sat down on one of the couches. They sat in silence for a few minutes, Yugi's mind wandering until he thought of one thing.
"What am I going to do about money?!?" Yugi asked.
"I'll give you some." Grandpa sighed, and reached into his pocket. Yugi grinned, while Joey glowered in the corner. What was he going to do about money? Oh well, he'd find a way to get money, but he wasn't sure whether he was going to get it legally or illegally……
A couple of hours later, they finally got on the plane. Joey looked like he could care less, but Yugi was crying and Grandpa looked like he was going to cry.
"I'll miss you!"
"I'll miss you too!"
Joey, sick of the cheesy goodbyes, grabbed Yugi's backpack and dragged him onto the plane.
*~*
"I think I'm gonna hurl!" Joey exclaimed in mid-flight after there had been some turbulence.
"Don't on me!" Yugi exclaimed.
"I'll.. try..not..to.." Joey said slowly, face green.
"Ok." Said Yugi, and he edged away from Joey just in case. That was a good idea, because a second later, Joey threw up all over his seat.
"Joey, here, use this bag," Yugi said quickly, and pulled a bag from the box under his seat.
"Thanks," Joey said, and threw up in the bag. Then his face turned from green to normal. "I think I feel better now." He exclaimed.
"That's good." Yugi said, looked out the window.
"What do you think England is like?" Joey asked him.
"I dunno. Lots of British people?" Yugi said.
"Yeah, but what do you think the buildings look like?"
"I don't know, I've never been there. We'll find out when we get there, right?"
"Right." Joey then tried to look over Yugi's hair to see the outside. "Can I switch seats with you so I can see outside?"
"Barfy seat, remember?"
"Oh yeah." Joey grabbed the newspaper from the person in front of them and put it on the seat. "There you go. No more barf, happy?"
"Uh, yeah…" Yugi said slowly, and then sat on the newspapers while Joey looked out at the beautiful sky and scenery below them.
"Uh oh…" Joey's face was green again.
"No! No! Not on MY seat!" Yugi exclaimed, but it was too late.
"Ugh.. I don't feel so good…" Joey said sickly. He closed his eyes and tried to pretend he was on the ground. It wasn't working. He opened his eyes dizzily, and from his lightheadedness, Yugi's hair looked like a trashcan.
"No! Not in the hair!" Yet again, it was too late.
*~*
Two hours later, Yugi was in the boy's room in London getting the barf out of his hair.
"Is your hair gonna be ok?" Joey asked tentatively.
"Yeah, most of the barf is gone now; the only problem is my bangs." Yugi said while scrubbing his used-to-be-yellow bangs.
There was silence while Joey looked at his reflection in the mirror. Then Joey looked at Yugi's hair again, and asked "Is your hair really like that, or do you gel it?"
"It's really like that." Yugi said softly.
"Really?"
"Yep." Yugi said, then studied his reflection. "I think it's good enough, but when we get a hotel, I call first shower."
"Fair enough." Joey said, but he was thinking 'How am I gonna pay for a hotel?'
"So where do we go from here?" Yugi asked.
"I have no idea. Let's just walk around London. Maybe we'll see something." Joey answered.
"That's a really good idea." Yugi said and smiled up at Joey while they walked out of the airport and into the bustling city of London.
*~*
They had been walking around London for hours, and still hadn't found anything. Yugi and Joey had tried asking random people, but maybe it was Yugi's 'punky' hair or Joey's dirty, barf covered clothes that made the people a little scared of the two. So eventually they gave up asking people, and continued walking. It was nearly sunset when they finally came to a little shop called the 'Leaky Cauldron.'
Yugi and Joey peered inside while random people gave them weird looks. Of course to them, it looked like the two boys were staring at an empty lot. They were still staring when Yugi and Joey heard voice behind them.
"Are yeh goin' in?" the voice boomed. Yugi and Joey looked up at the strange voice.
"Who are you?" Joey demanded.
"My name is Hagrid, keeper of keys and grounds at Hogwarts."
"Oh." Joey said softly.
"So are yeh goin' in?" Hagrid repeated. He studied them for a second, and then said "Yeh know this place leads to Diagon Ally." Just in case they didn't know.
"Really?" Yugi asked.
"What's Diagon Ally?" Joey said.
"It's where yeh can get all yer Hogwarts supplies."
"Really?" Yugi pulled out his list. "All this?"
"Yep." Hagrid went in, and Yugi and Joey followed.
"Do yeh want me to help get yer stuff?" Hagrid asked kindly.
"Nope, I think we can manage, but thanks." Yugi said, and Hagrid went to order a drink while Yugi and Joey went outside. The only thing outside there was a brick wall.
Yugi and Joey ran inside to Hagrid to ask him how to open the wall.
Hagrid did so, and then ran back inside to finish his drink.
"Wow." Yugi said, trying to find a word to describe the amazing sight before him.
"Yeah…." They stood there for awhile, until a blonde haired boy came along.
"Let me through, you filthy mudbloods!" He demanded. Yugi looked around him, and realized that him and Joey had been blocking the way.
"We'll let you through..sorry…" Yugi said softly.
"No we won't! You stupid idiot! Don't insult us!" Joey yelled, then tackled the strange boy.
"Get off me! When my father hears of this…" The boy yelled in a muffled way. (Joey had just pulled off the boy's sock and shoved it in his mouth)
"Joey, we just got here! I don't wanna get in trouble!" Yugi tried to pull Joey off the boy, but couldn't, of course.
"Stop-it-Yugi!" Joey hollered while punching the boy.
"Aren't you just a little bit over-reacting?" Yugi tried to reason with Joey.
While Joey was reconsidering, his grip loosened and the boy took his feet and kicked Joey in the stomach.
"Why you little-" Joey tackled the boy again.
"What are you doing?" said a man with the same colored hair as the boy. The man pulled Joey off his son, and threw him over to where Yugi was.
"Draco, are you ok?" The man drawled.
"N-n-no, my arm is broken, I think." Draco pretended to cry, and the man turned to Joey.
"How dare you hurt my son! Do you know who I am?"
"No." Joey said bravely.
"Oh, of course you wouldn't." The man sneered. "I am Lucius Malfoy, and I am very high in importance in the Ministry of Magic."
"There's a Ministry of Magic?" Yugi said, surprised.
"Of course there is. Now I must be going, I have a meeting with people who matter." Mr. Malfoy and he and his son departed.
Joey looked after them, and flashed the finger at their retreating backs.
"Are you ok, Joey?" Yugi asked.
"Yes, I'm fine." Joey stood up and brushed off his clothes.
"What was a 'mudblood'?" Yugi asked, remembering what the boy said at their first encounter.
"Dunno. It's getting late, should we just get a room and shop tomorrow?" Joey asked.
"Sounds good to me." Yugi said. They went back to the Leaky Cauldron and asked where they could find a hotel. The man told them that the Leaky Cauldron was a hotel too, and that it would be 100 galleons to stay the whole summer, and that that was a great price too.
"What are Galleons?" Joey asked.
"Money, of course!" The man said.
"We have money, but not 'galleons'." Yugi said. He held out his money.
"Oh, that's simple enough, just go exchange that at Gringotts." The man said, and brought them outside and pointed to Gringotts.
"Is that a bank?" Yugi asked.
"Yes." The man said. "Now hurry up, it's getting late."
"Thank you." Yugi said.
Joey and Yugi ran as fast as they could to Gringotts, and Yugi ran in one direction to go look for a place exchange money, while Joey decided if he could ask for a loan.
He walked into the Gringotts hall, and looked up at the poem placed on the second pair of doors.
"'Enter stranger, but take heed
of what awaits the sin of greed,
for those who take, but do not earn,
must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Their, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more then treasure there.'" Joey read the poem aloud. 'Hmmm…. That sounds so familiar somehow….' He thought.
"Rediculous!" Sneered a person behind Joey. Joey turned around, and saw a boy with white hair and cold eyes.
"Who are you?" Joey asked.
"My name's Bakura." Said the boy.
"Oh." Joey looked the boy up and down, and noticed a weird shape under Bakura's shirt. It looked like a ring. "What's under your shirt?"
"N-n-nothing." Said Bakura. His white hair had suddenly become less spiky and his eyes warmer, but Joey didn't notice.
(A/N-when did Ryou get his m.ring? Let's just say he had it now)
"Ok." Joey said.
"What's your name? Oh, and you can call me Ryou." Said the boy.
"Joey Wheeler." Said Joey. He then said he had to go, and goodbye. Joey went to the desk, while Ryou went to the money exchange.
"What can I help you with?" Said the goblin.
"Do you give out loans?" Joey asked.
"Yes, we do." Said the Goblin. Joey read the goblin's name tag, and found out his name was Jock.
"What's your name sir?" Jock asked politely.
"Joey Wheeler." Joey said.
"The Joey Wheeler?" Jock said in shock.
"Uh… I guess…." Joey said, bewildered.
"Your ancestors had lots of money. Come with me, I'll bring you to there." Jock said. 'Why doesn't he know of his ancestors? How queer…' Jock thought.
They went flying through the tunnels in the and to a door that said 899 in big bold letters.
"Wow…" Joey stared up at the huge door. "That's huge…."
"I need to take your hand while I open the door; that will be an automatic identification process." Jock said.
"Huh?"
"Basically, if you're not Joey Wheeler, the door won't open." Jock simplified. He grasped Joey's hand and put his other hand on the door.
"Wow……" Joey said again. Piles and piles of money. Joey felt like jumping in and swimming in it all, but he restrained himself. "How much do ya think it will cost to get all of my Hogwarts supplies?" Joey asked.
"Take about 50 galleons, that should cover it all." Jock advised. "And you could always come back for more."
Joey grabbed 150 galleons and then went back up to Gringotts main floor.
Yugi was having troubles. The main problem was that the goblin did not speak either English or Japanise. He spoke Italian.
"I…want….to….exchange…my money." He said slowly to the goblin. The goblin looked down at him. (Yugi was about a head shorter then the goblin)
"Soldi?" The goblin said tentatively.
"Um… sure." Said Yugi.
"soldi di scambio?"
"Uh, yeah." Said Yugi. He held out his money, and the goblin gave it back to him in Italian money. Yugi sighed. This was going to take awhile.
"Excuse me, I think I can help." Said a boy behind him.
"You can?" Yugi turned to see a boy with white hair.
"Yes. I have a language translator."
"Why did you bring a language translator?" Yugi asked.
"I didn't, but I brought a laptop." Said the boy. While the boy went to a translating site, Yugi asked what his name was.
"My name's Ryou. What's your name?"
"Yugi. Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too." Ryou was typing very fast now.
"Do you know what I should say yet?"
"Yes, say 'Devo scambiare i miei yen a Galleons. Potete farmi quello per per soddisfare?' Ok?" Ryou said.
"Ok, thanks." Yugi said that to the goblin, holding out his money.
"Amerei farvi quello per. Tenga sopra per un secondo, per favore." The goblin said, then put Yugi's money in a cash register and gave Yugi 200 galleons.
Ryou looked at Yugi and said, "Now say 'Grazie signore, arrivederci.'"
"Ok." Said Yugi. He turned to the goblin. "Grazie signore, arrivederci."
Yugi said thanks to Ryou and waited for Joey in the front hall. A couple of minutes later, Joey arrived and the went off to get a hotel room.
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That's the end, I hope you guys liked it! Please review!
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