Zypher: Hello all and welcome to another chapter to Ode of Magic. Been a while since I last updated so I thought now would be a great time to start updating it again. Glad you all enjoyed the last chapter and I hope that you'll enjoy this one.

Ode of Magic

Chapter 4

Early the next day before classes started, everyone settled down in the Gryffindor common room. Ryou looked over to Yugi. "Yugi, thanks for helping out during the Flying Lessons yesterday. Don't really feel in the mood to be brought to the Medical room on my first day." Ryou said.

"Well I couldn't let you hurt yourself, Ryou. you're my friend and I would feel horrible if something happened to you. All because of some prank." Yugi said as he sat down in a chair. "Yeah but I'm guessing that even if Yugi couldn't help you, it looked like that Bakura kid was." Jou said.

"I'm glad he didn't. I'm telling you, Ryou. Stay away from Bakura. He's bad news. He may act nice now but just like Marik, I know he's teeming to play a trick on you as well." Ron said. Ryou nodded before they all decided to finish up the last touches to their homework for DADA.

"Draco! Draco where the hell are you!" Bakura shouted as he entered the Slytherin common room. "Uh oh." he whispered, trying to hide but was frozen in place by the Locomotor Mortis spell Bakura casted. He stomped over to him and grasped his shirt. "I should kill you right here and now for what you pulled yesterday but since I don't feel like hearing you father chew me out, I'll give you fair warning. Mess with Ryou again and you will be in so much pain." he hissed, dropping the other and cancelling the spell. "Why do you care for much for the new kid? He hangs out with Potter and you know how much we hate him." Draco said as he got up off the ground.

"So? Compared to Potter, he's the only person that interest me from the Gryffindor house." Bakura sneered as he went to sit down at the table and pulled out his books to do the assigned homework from Keara. "Maybe he's so interested because the kid looks so much like him." Toben snickered. "Quietus!" Bakura called, casting the spell onto Toben and he tried to speak but nothing was heard. He glared at Bakura who smirked at him before returning to his homework.

Yami, who was sitting quietly and was already finished his work, decided to get up and leave. "Where are you heading?" Draco questioned as he too pulled out his books to start on his homework. "Going out." Was all he said as he left out. "Wonder what's up with him? He and Aqua seemed to be a little secretive ever since yesterday." Ruby spoke. "I don't know but I'm trying to finish up my homework so who cares about what they're up to. We can check it out another time." Marik said as he busily started to write the last of his list before they head out for breakfast.

Yami, wearing the cloak once more, headed over to Hagrid's home and knocked on the door. Said person opened the door and looked down to him. "Morning, Yami.' he spoke before letting him in. "Did you get the dragon eggs?" he asked, pulling off the hood and looking to him.

"Not all but I do have five of them. The Antipodean Opaleye, Hebridean Black, Swedish Short-Snout, Romanian Longhorn and the Common Welsh Green dragons." he said as he brought him over to the five magnificent eggs that sat off to the side and hidden from any others who came to visit. Yami walked over to the eggs, tentatively touching the pale grey egg holding the Antipodean Opaleye dragonling.

"Hagrid, when do you think you will get the other eggs?" Yami questioned as he pulled out his wand and casted the Wingardium Leviosa spell to have the eggs float by his side. "It may not be for another week or so. You know this is a very hard and complicated order to fulfill. Especially finding a Hungarian Horntail dragon egg without the parent around." Hagrid said. He nodded before leaving out with the dragon eggs following behind him.

Before classes could start, Yami finally made it back to the Slytherin table, getting many looks from the others. "So, where have you been, Yami?" Draco questioned. "Nothing you need to worry yourself about." he said as he started to eat some breakfast before they all left out for their classes.

Classes went by as normally until they reached DADA and they all waited in anticipation for the lesson plan for the class. Yugi now sat by Yami, telling Diamond that he wanted to switch seats but didn't give a reason. Soon, Keara walked in holding a bag and placed it on the desk in the front before turning to the class.

"Ok, good morning everyone. I hope you all done your homework." she said, looking around the class and everyone nodded. "Alright then. As promised, I have a surprise for you all. Now, come with me." she spoke and took the bag once more and left out the door with the students following behind her.

Once they were out in the courtyard, Keara placed the bag down once more and turned to face the class. "Now, as I have told you, I wanted you to write a list of animals and pick out a select few. So today, you will actually be trying to become on of the selected animals." she said and gotten some cheers from the class. She smiles as she opened the bag. "Now, get into a line and come grab a potion bottle." she spoke, taking out a bottle filled with the potion and handed it to each student as they walked up to her.

Once everyone had a bottle, she closed the bag and looked to them once more. "Now I know you all are eager to try this but it won't be as simple as you think. Yes just drinking the potion will be easy but actually transforming will be hard so pay attention." They nodded and she gave them the signal to drink the potion.

"Now, I will also tell you that some animals will be excluded. Mainly dragons, hippogriffs and any other magical creature. This is solely based on regular animals, got it?" she said, looking to some of those, mostly Slytherin students, that were disappointed to some of their selected animals were now off the list.

"This is stupid. I'm going to do what I want no matter what she says." Draco said after he was done with the potion. Keara went into explaining how the potion worked and once she was done with the explanation, she left them to their own matters but kept a close eye to make sure they didn't disobey her directions about what animals they could shift into.

Yugi gathered up with his friends and started discussing what animals they were going to be. "I'm gonna try for a lion!" Jou exclaimed. "I'll try for something simple." Ryou spoke quietly. "Well, you better hurry. There won't be much time left if you waste it all on deciding." A voice spoke and they turned to see Bakura and Marik standing there. Ron growled as he stepped in front of the others, glaring at the two. "And what do you want here again? Don't you two have you own little group to stick around with?"

"Yeah, but I'm not going to stick around Draco if he gets himself in trouble." Bakura said before turning to Ryou. "And what about you, are you alright from yesterday?" he questioned. Ron growled and was about to confront them but backed away when he was almost bit. Bakura snarled, his form now that of a wolf, and a very big one at that, with silvery-grey fur. "I suggest you watch yourself, Weasel." he growled before stalking by him and smirked as he looked to Ryou. "Well, go on. I want to see what you'll shift into."

Ryou had a faint blush across his face before he shifted into a dove and flew off. Bakura snorted and shifted into an eagle, once again a silvery-grey, and pursued the other. "We should go and help!" Yugi, now a little fox, said. "You don't need to worry. He won't harm him." Another spoke and they turned to look at the panther that sat there, crimson eyes boring into their own.

Marik scrutinized him. "Yami?" he questioned. "No." he said, looking to him before turning back to Yugi. "But still, no need to worry." Yugi was contemplating this but Malik didn't think twice. "Well, I don't care! I'm worry about him and I'm going to make sure he's alright!" he said as he shifted into a jackal and bolted off in the direction Ryou and Bakura flew off.

Mari smirked as he shifted into a cheetah. "I do love a good chase." he whispered as he followed behind him. They watched him go before Ron cursed. "This is bloody perfect. I tell you, those two are up to no good." he said, stomping a hoof of the bull he decided to shift into. Aqua looked to him. "And how would you know?" Ron was about to say something when they heard a deafening roar and turned to see that Draco disobeyed and shifted into a dragon and was now terrorizing a few of the students from the other houses.

Keara glared at him and brought out her wand before casting a spell, making him shift back. "50 points from Slytherin." she said. "What! That's not fair!" he said as he looked to her. "You disobeyed what I told you and your house paid the price for it." Keara said. "I can do whatever I want! My father is a very powerful man and if need be, I can make him consult Professor Dumbledore and get you fired from here." Draco sneered. "I like to see you try." Keara challenged. "Fine, I will!" he said before he marched off back into the school. She shook her head as he watched him go.

"People like him is what gets everyone around him in trouble."

After they did more shifting into more animals of their liking, Keara brought them all back inside, after locating where Ryou, Bakura, Malik and Marik were, and gave them their books about shape-shifters and demons. "Now, I want you to read the introductions of demons and shape-shifters tonight. For extra credit, write down any new facts abotu them as you read the introduction." she said before dismissing them off their their next class.

After their classes, they all headed back into their house dorm but Yugi was in for a surprise when he found a note sitting on his bed.

'Yugi,

Tonight, look for the Mirror of Erised if you want to learn more about what's in store for you.'

Yugi looked everywhere on the note for some sort of sign of the sender but nothing was there. 'Who could've sent this to me then? Do they really know what I'm about to face?' he wondered as he tucked the note away and started to read the given pages of the books they were assigned.

Later that night, when everyone was asleep, Yugi woke up to Osiris' gentle purr. He looked down to the smaller dragon and stroke his head before getting up and left out the room without waking anyone else. "Now, where to find this Mirror of Erised." he pondered as he searched through the hallways, looking into any unfamiliar doors but haven't found anything. He heard someone walking around the corner and there was nowhere to hide so with fear, he watched as the person came around the corner. Keara looked down to him and smiled.

"Now what are you doing up so late, Yugi?" she asked as she walked over to him. "You should know to be careful out here since students aren't allowed to roam out on school grounds unless you have Astronomy."

Yugi rubbed at his arms lightly, glad that he encountered Keara instead of another teacher. "Well, I got this when I went into my dorm room today and since I'm curious about all this cause the sorting hat told me that I would become part of an ancient prophecy." he explained, taking the note out from his pants pocket and handing it to her.

She took the note and looked down to him once more. "I know where this is, Yugi." she said, giving him back the note before leading him off to where the magical object was contained. Once they reached the door where the mirror was contained, she looked down to him once more. "I may not know of this prophecy but even though I'm a teacher, I will help you in any way." He nodded and thanked her before entering the room.

When he walked inside, he spotted a figure standing by the now uncovered mirror. Hearing Yugi, he turned to him, crimson eyes glowing from underneath the hood. "So, you came." he whispered and Yugi noticed the voice. "Aqua?" Aqua removed the hood and looked to him. "Why did you call me here?" Yugi questioned. "Because, you should know by now that you will be soon a part of a mystery, more like a prophecy, that was kept hidden inside the walls of Hogwarts." he explained, looking back to the mirror.

Yugi, starting to become curious, walked up behind Aqua and looked into the mirror, gasping softly as he saw his reflection beside Aqua although he was behind the other. "How is that possible?" Aqua looked down to him. "It the magic of the Mirror of Erised. See." He pointed up to the top of the mirror where a message was written. "Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. What does that mean?"

"What it really says is 'I show you not your face but your heart's desire.' Many years back, we have came in here, by accident, and it showed us a vision of you. We didn't know what it meant at the time but soon, we found out and it led to a prophecy. One that you will learn soon enough." he explained before moving away from the mirror.

"You best head back now but if you want to speak with me or Yami privately, you can come here." he said before leaving the room with a swish of the cloak. Yugi watched as he left before looking to the mirror and walked up to it, seeing two reflections appear in the mirror. The closer the got, the more visible they were until he saw it was Yami and Aqua.

"This can't be right. This mirror supposed to show my heart's desire. How can it be them when I only knew them for only two days?" he wondered before he left, knowing it was getting late and he didn't want to be caught by another teacher that could be roaming around to make sure students were out.

With Yami, he was keeping an eye on the dragon eggs they had in a hidden preserve where they normally raise the demon dragons but the ones they already had were now living in the forest with the others. Aqua soon arrived and looked to him. "How long do you think it will be before they hatch?" he asked.

"Not long, probably by the end of this week they will hatch." he said before turning away from the eggs to look to him. "Did you meet with Yugi tonight?" Aqua nodded. "But I didn't tell him much except for if he wants to talk with us in private, he can meet us in the room where the Mirror of Erised is held." he said.

"Alright." he said and looked to the eggs once more before leaving out with Aqua trailing behind him. He closed the door behind Aqua and put an impenetrable lock on the door along with a cloaking spell. "Come, let's get to bed ourselves." Yami said before they both left form the area and headed back to Hogwarts.

Zypher: There, I'm done and now I'm very tired so I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you again with another. -falls back and two demon dragons caught me before taking me to my room- (if there are any mistake whether with info or something, I will fix it tomorrow. I'm too tired to make sure this is clear of and mistakes)

Spells:

Locomotor Mortis – the leg-locker curse, locks the victim's legs

Quietus - decreases the volume of one's voice