A/N- 1,160 words in this chapter. Oh yeah!!! I'm wicked sorry it took so long to update, but you know what school is like. So I'm going to try to update every couple of weeks, but with skating, babysitting, and the clubs I've joined at my school (Anime Club and Amnesty International) and homework of course, I'm not sure how often as I'll be able to update.

Review Responses:

Andromeda Island- I'm so glad you love the story

Dark-Latias003- you'll see when Yami appears.... I'm sure you can write. Everyone can if they put their mind to it

Supersayian1- Joey will most likely be removed from the Slytherin house eventually, probably in chapter 13 or 14, or maybe in the sequal to this that I haven't written yet.

Koriaena- yep that Joey, always getting into trouble...

Megan-thanks! And of course, I'm just not sure when.

Ssp- Yeah.. I apologize for the way I snapped at you. I didn't really, I was just stressed out with what was going on (my dad's friend was dying if you recall UU) So yeah, again, I'm sorry. As soon as I went back and read what I wrote for review responses, I felt bad for what I wrote, but it was too late then. --;; And about Kaiba, I'm really not sure yet. I guess I should have thought the story through more before I wrote it, but I definitely know how it's going to end...

DarkFire180-Yeah, summer reading can be annoying UU I've never written any kind of duel before, so when I write it, it'll be very, very... interesting to say the least...

Krista123-yeah, my dad's friend did end up dying (I don't know if I said that or not, but..) STUPID CANCER!!!! Someone really, really needs to find a cure. And I'm so glad that you'll keep reviewing. that makes me happy.

This chapter is dedicated to all the people (not just the soldiers, the civilians too) that have died or are suffering in Iraq.

Chapter 11

"So what's a wizard's duel?" asked Joey as soon as Malfoy and his thugs disappeared.

"You don't even know what it is and you agreed to it?" Yugi shouted.

"I wasn't going to back down in front of that slimy jerk!" Joey explained.

"I can understand that," said Ron.

"So what is a wizard's duel?" Harry asked.

"Oh, it's a duel between two wizards." Ron explained.

"Wow, really? I never could have figured that out for myself," said a sarcastic voice behind them.

Joey, Yugi, Ron, Harry and Ryou all turned around and were face to face with Kaiba.

"What are you doing here?" Joey asked.

"That's really none of your business, is it?"

Joey was about to shout back an answer, but Yugi intervened.

"Joey, you already have one fight to worry about! Don't cause any more trouble!"

"Me? He started it!" Joey pointed at Kaiba accusingly.

Kaiba frowned. "Well, I'll leave you five to your games. I have important things to attend to."

And with a swish of his cloak, he and Hermione were gone.

Joey grumbled and made a rude gesture with his finger.

"Just forget about it, ok?" Yugi said, putting a hand on Joey's shoulder.

"We're going to head down to Hagrid's, see you guys later," Ron said.

"Yeah, see you later!" Harry agreed, waving good-bye as they walked out to the grounds. Ryou waved good-bye too, and headed off up the stairs.

"What do you want to do?" Yugi asked Joey.

Joey shrugged. "I dunno. Go outside?"

"Nah, let's go to the library. Maybe we can find some useful spells against Malfoy." Yugi said.

"There's no way I could ever beat him in a 'Wizard's Duel'," Joey sighed. "We've only had a week of classes so far!"

"We can try anyway," said Yugi.

"I know what I want to do. I want to rip that stupid hat into a gazillion pieces for putting me in Slytherin!" Joey shouted. He took a deep breath and calmed down. "Do you wanna go visit the hat?"

"How can we? We don't know where it is!"

"Usually something important like that is kept in one of the teacher's offices," Joey said. "At least, they were in our old school. It's probably in Dumbledore's office."

"We'll get in trouble," cautioned Yugi, but it was too late, Joey was already half-way down the hall.

"Come on, Yugi! I don't have all day!"

Yugi ran after Joey down the hallway, but Joey was running too fast for Yugi to keep up. Joey was so excited about getting revenge against the hat that he didn't hear Yugi's desperate calls of "Joey! Wait up! I can't keep up with you!"

Joey's once-noisy footsteps faded off, and Yugi was all alone in the hallway. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but Yugi had no idea where he was. Yugi didn't let that bother him though, he just kept on running.

Five minutes later Yugi collapsed in the dark hallway. 'I'm so lost...' he thought to himself. 'And it's so dark; I could have run past Joey and not even known it! Why is it so dark?'

'What if this was all some stupid joke of Joey's?' Yugi thought. 'Maybe he's going to pop out behind a door any minute now and say "Got you Yugi! You looked sooo scared!"' Yugi waited and waited, but Joey didn't come out. He felt so alone and miserable, just like he had back when he was in school in Japan. 'Maybe Joey isn't really my friend,' Yugi thought. 'Maybe THAT'S why he's a Slytherin.' Yugi mentally shook himself. 'No! There's no way that could be!'

Yugi heard some footsteps, but they were loud, ground-shaking ones. 'Ahhh!' Yugi thought. 'A monster!' He backed against the wall, terrified. The footsteps came closer and closer, and the monster came into the light.

"It's a dragon..." Yugi gasped.

There were footsteps coming from the other direction, but Yugi was too dazed to hear them.

"Yugi! What in the world is going on here?" A voice exclaimed.

"Joey?" Yugi turned around and smiled. "I'm so glad you're here!"

"Watch out!" Joey dove at Yugi and pushed him out of the way just in time. The dragon had breathed a huge column of fire right were Yugi had been standing.

"Come on! We have to go!" Joey pulled at Yugi's arm. They ran down the hallway as fast as they could.

"We have to find a teacher!" Yugi cried to Joey.

"What do you think I'm doing?" Joey called back at him.

"Running?"

Joey shot Yugi a 'look', and continued running. "Come on, Yugi! The dragon is following us!" Yugi ran as fast as he could, but he was still out of breath from trying to find Joey.

They opened the door to the first classroom they came to, and saw Professor Quirrell holding up a strange object to the class.

"Professor Quirrell, there's a dragon in the hall!" Yugi shouted.

Professor Quirrell just stood there.

"Come on, you have to do something!" Joey shouted. "Lots of people could be killed!"

Professor Quirrell still didn't react.

"Let's go find Dumbledore," Yugi sighed. 'Great, more running...'

They ran out into the hall and bumped into Professor Snape.

"Professor, there's a dragon!" Yugi shouted.

"You have to do something!" said Joey.

"What are you two talking about?" the Professor sneered.

"There's a dragon! Down there! You have to do something!" Joey pointed down the hallway, but the dragon had turned left down another hallway, so Snape couldn't see him.

"Oh yes, what a gigantic dragon," Snape nodded sarcastically. "I have important work to do; I cannot be busied by this garbage." He turned around and headed into the dungeons.

"No one is going to listen to us!" Yugi groaned in despair.

"I'll take care of him!" Joey said.

"No, you can't, Joey. You don't know how!"

"I have to try, Yugi! Lot of people could be killed, and I'd feel horrible if I didn't even try to help."

"But Joey-"

"You stay here if you don't want to help."

"No! I'll help." Yugi exclaimed.

"Come on, we have to hurry before it gets Harry or Ron or anyone else!" Joey said, 'though I wouldn't mind if it got Malfoy or the stupid sorting hat.'

They ran down the hallway, following the path of scorched stone to find the dragon. Joey threw one of his books at the dragon, and it turned around with an angry look in its face.

It exhaled a huge flame, but Joey and Yugi both were able to avoid it. They threw whatever they could find at it, but they only managed to bruise it a couple times.

Flames poured at them again, and this time Yugi wasn't so lucky. The flame slammed him against the wall.

"Yugi!" Joey shouted.

There was a flash from the Millennium Puzzle, and Yami stood where Yugi had been just a minute before.

Woohoo! A cliffhanger! Not a very good one I guess, but still. Finally, Yami has appeared!

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