Starry Night Dreams
Chapter 10
A Not So Perfect Day
" Sirius I cannot allow it! It is simply not safe, it puts you and the order at risk. Dolores Umbridge will be arriving this week, I give you until this Wednesday morning to head back to headquarters." Dumbledore said.
"But I'm in disguise, she won't know that I'm Sirius Black! I don't want to go back to Grimmauld Place." Sirius argued. " Please Dumbledore, at least here I can be useful to the order!" Dumbledore sighed, " Not when Professor Umbridge arrives, we shall have to end this Sirius. I believe someone is waiting for their lesson to begin." Dumbledore pushed the slightly ajar door completely open to reveal Serenity clutching her bag and wand looking nervous.
Sirius clasped his hand to his forehead, " I completely forgot. Sorry, Serenity, why don't we reschedule?" Serenity stared frightenedly up at the two professors, " Umm…alright, I think I'm much better anyway. I don't need any more lessons. Sorry, I interrupted your meeting." She went to rush out the room but Dumbledore halted her. He looked up and down the hallway and then shut the door. " Serenity, I believe you heard some of our conversation," he stated. " A bit, yeah." She said hesitantly. "I had just arrived, I didn't mean to listen and I wasn't going to tell anyone." Dumbledore smiled kindly at her. " Yes, you're very good at keeping secrets, as you have a few of your own, I presume that you have questions?" Serenity looked slightly surprised but replied, " Yeah, what's the order?" she looked questioningly at Dumbledore.
A few minutes went by before Dumbledore replied, " The Order of the Phoenix is a secret society that was formed for the purpose of defeating Voldemort and his DeathEaters. Only a few trusted personnel are in the order. That is all you need to know about that. Any other questions?" She turned to Sirius, " Yeah, who's Sirius Black and why is he hiding?" Sirius grinned grimly. " I think I can answer that. I'm Sirius, Serenity. I'm a convicted murderer and a traitor. Also, I'm the first to escape from the wizard prison Azkaban." he finished. " But don't worry, I'm innocent. I was framed, by a former school friend."
"Well, I must get going. If those are all of your questions Serenity, I must take my departure." Dumbledore went to leave. " By the way this meeting never happened."
The next day at breakfast, Malik sat hurrying a reply to Ishizu's last letter.
Dear Ishizu,
I'm really worried about your last letter. Please be careful around those robed men. They can be dangerous and I know they're not Rare Hunters for a fact. I learned from Harry and his friends of these people called Death Eaters, they wear hooded robes and work for this Voldemort guy. There part of this new wizarding world. Also, we think that someone's trying to hunt down the millennium items by the shadow realm. Keep yours safe and stay close to Rishid, he'll protect you. Tell me if anything else weird happens and I'll come straight back to Egypt. Stay well and tell Rishid that I've been missing my brother.
Malik.
"Well I'm done." Malik heaved a sigh and rolled the piece of parchment up. Ryou was eyeing the Slytherin table nervously. " Aww…Ryou, give it a break .I mean Halloween was Saturday, it's Tuesday now. He's probably forgotten by now." Ryou glared at him. " I spent the whole of Sunday in the common room and yesterday was wasted trying to avoid Malfoy and his cronies. I don't know how you could go along with one of his plans!"
Malik rose up from the table, " Stay here and lecture if you want, but you'll be late for Charms. C'mon Yugi." He grabbed Yugi and dragged him from the hall. Ryou frowned. / That's it! I'm not letting you out of your soul room for a week. / Bakura sniggered / Really? Like I've never broken down your defenses before/ Ryou clammed up. / Don't remind me, let's just go to class. / Sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up, I -/ Just drop it Bakura! I don't want to talk about it. /
Yugi scribbled down some notes in his charms book about the proper movement of the wrist and hand while talking with Yami. / Serenity seems distracted today. / Yugi looked to the left of him where Ryou sat. Serenity was on Ryou's other side. / Really? I didn't notice. Actually, Ryou looks slightly bothered himself. / Yami contemplated for a moment / Well, Malik seems cheerful enough, maybe they'll feel better as the day goes on. / Yeah, right. / Yugi continued with his notes.
Serenity sat staring out the window during their charms class. She was remembering what happened last night after Dumbledore had left. An awkward silence had followed but then Professor Ein Cloud or Sirius Black as he really was called had perked back up. "So how about tomorrow night for our lesson instead?" Serenity shrugged, " I'm alright with Defense Against the Dark Arts now. It's alright, I mean it'll be your last night, you wouldn't want to waste it." Sirius frowned, " I know you probably feel nervous around a mass convicted murderer but, hey if you change your mind just come, alright?" She had left after that, she still didn't know if she should go. It was a big shock for her to find out that her favourite teacher wasn't who he said he was. That wasn't even how he really looked. ' Your being stupid Serenity!' She told herself, ' what did you want him to do? Say hi, I'm Sirius Black an escaped convict and I'll be your new defense against the dark arts teacher? It isn't his fault, get a grip you silly girl!'
" Hey Ishtar, Bakura thought Saturday night was funny huh?"
" Great!" Ryou mumbled, " Just what I need, a fight with Malfoy." Malik pat him on the back, " Cheer up! I'll handle this." Malik scowled and turned to Malfoy, " I don't want trouble Draco. I mean we warned you didn't we? It's not our fault you didn't listen. It's not like we begged you to come with us."
" Your lucky that I'm in a generous mood today Ishtar! I'll watch your backs if I were you though. Things are about to change at Hogwarts!"
Malik frowned, " What's he talking about?" Hermione came up behind them. " Don't you remember? He's talking about the High Inquisitor." She spoke again. " Also, we should get going, we're going to be late for Arithmancy."
Malik sat at his usual seat, in the second to last row by the large breezy window, listening to Professor Vector explain some complicated array of numbers and letters on the board. Then he was in his soul room. It was a room painted in pale, pretty colours, there was a huge bed with silken, gold lining and there was a container filled with things. There were motorcycle parts, paintings, brightly coloured paper and most of all books, tonnes and tonnes of books. But the strangest feature of this room was a stream. It was a stream that hardly made any noise at all and divided the room in half. On the other half of the stream, there was nothing except for a door. A door bolted and covered with heavy chains and locks. A dark evil sense evaded from the door, there was no doubt that behind that door lay something pure evil. Something that would make the bravest person in the world's hair stands on end.
Malik sat on his side of the stream watching his reflection. There was a child about ten staring back at him and then he was thirteen and his innocence drained away. He shut his eyes tight, then reopened them and saw the lavender eyes of his fifteen-year-old self-staring back at him. Why was he here? What brought him here? Was there a reason? "Hikari. Malik let me out. You need me." Malik jumped. " What! Your not here! You can't be, Yami banished you. The pharaoh cast you into the shadows." The evil chuckle of his yami was what replied. " Stupid Malik! You're the only one that can rid yourself of me. Face the inevitable, I shall break through and then I'll deal with you and everyone else. I will become Pharaoh!
Malik shook his head. " Your not real! Go away, get out of my head!" he screamed. Malik opened his eyes with sweat running down his face to see everyone staring at him. " Are you alright Mr. Ishtar?" Professor Vector asked kindly. " Uhh… sorry professor, I just need some fresh air to clear my head." Malik got up, picked up his bag and left avoiding Yugi and Ryou. He headed outside and sat down by the lake watching the giant squid. ' I should tell someone. Ishizu? I can't she already has a lot to think about. Rishid then? He'll want to come to school with me if I told him and I need him to protect Ishizu. You were probably just daydreaming what you need is probably some rest.'
" Malik, wait up. Are you alright?" Serenity asked staring at him with concern. " I'm fine!" Malik said more harshly then he had intended. " Just tired I guess but I am sort of worried about you. You seem faraway today." She smiled, " Like you said, I'm fine. You'll need to get the notes you missed though, you missed a whole double period!"
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