I'm having a bit of trouble with this story at the moments. I'm preparing other things that i'm going to post on my new account which (unlike this one) is owned solely by me. This does not mean that i will stop adding chapters to this story. I will finish any storys i put up here. I hope.
The name of my new account is Graceful Storyteller. It will be dedicated to Bakushipping which there is not enough of. If i have any more tendershipping ideas i will post them under the current penname.
Last chapter you asked where did Ryou get the dress? The Shadow Realm of course! Don't you know they have a great shopping mall with 10 percent discount for all frequent visitors?
Chapter 15
Yugi looked up from the game of Duel Monsters he was playing with Yami. "Bakura what are you doing here? I thought you'd gone to the library."
Bakura slumped down onto the couch, Ryou taking the seat next to him. "Stupid Librarian kicked me out for being too noisy," he grumbled.
"There was this group of girls staring at us. They kept pointing at us until Bakura lost it and told them to get lost. Only much less elegantly," Ryou explained.
"Can't we take you anywhere?" Yami asked, only just holding back his smirk.
"At least I wasn't found having sex under the tables," Bakura shot back.
Ryou and Yugi turned with wide eyes to stare at Yami. Yami held his hands up defensively. "It wasn't me!" he said quickly.
"Unfortunately it's not the pharaoh who I'm referring to. It was Malik and Marik; though what those two were doing in the library in the first place I'll never know," said Bakura.
"Did you not find out anything about dragons while you were there then?" asked Yugi.
"We found out how to clip their toenails but I don't see how that'll be of any use to me," Bakura said as he tipped back his head to stare at the ceiling.
"I guess none of you had any good ideas about how to get passed a dragon?" asked Ryou.
"Besides Jou's earlier idea of using a garden hose? Nope, nothing," said Yami as he started examining his hand.
Bakura turned his head to the side. He noticed Seto typing on his computer in the corner. It was then that an idea so ingenious that it would make everyone else's head spin appeared in his mind. He jumped to his feet and dashed over to Seto.
Seto felt a presence looming over him. He looked up and saw Bakura smiling. He noted that Bakura smiling was actually really creepy. "What do you want?" he asked irritably.
"I want to help you promote your company to these technologically challenged wizards."
This
perked Seto's interest. "And how will you do that?" he asked.
Bakura leaned forward and whispered something in Seto's ear. A
smirk slowly spread over Seto's face. The perfect plan.
Soon the day of the First Task arrived. The whole castle was filled with excitement. The anticipation of some good blood spilling action had seeped into all who were presently on the grounds of Hogwarts. Except the Champions who were worried that this may be their last day on earth.
After lunch Bakura said his goodbyes while everyone wished him good luck. He then walked with Harry and Professor McGonagall down to the Forbidden Forest to round about the place where the dragons were being kept. Before they reached the enclosure though they were led into a large newly erected tent. All the other champions were already waiting there, none of them looking particularly happy.
"Ah the last two champions are here!" Bagman said happily when they entered the tent. "Come in, come in, I have some important information that you all need to hear!"
Everyone came a bit closer around Bagman to hear what he had to say.
"When the audience have all arrived I will present you with a bag and you will in turn draw out your challenge. You each have the same task but some will have a…a harder time completing it than others. Everyone's objective though is to collect the golden egg!"
Bakura perked up at this. Gold? Would they be able to keep it? Well if they weren't he'd just have to steal it later wouldn't he?
The sound of people could be heard as they passed the tent, heading towards the stands. Bakura looked around at the other champions. All of them were looking slightly sick. Bakura was a bit nervous (what if his ingenious plan didn't work?) but apart from that he was fine. Then again, none of the other champions had really done anything dangerous like this before whereas Bakura had faced great peril by robbing tombs and going up against the pharaoh and his priests. The others obviously weren't ready for this.
After hearing the tales of Harry's battles against giant snakes and evil sorcerers Bakura would have thought he'd be alright but apparently not. The kid looked pretty green as if he was going to be sick. Bakura decided to be nice for once and try to cheer him up. "Come on what's the worst that can happen?" he said cheerfully.
"We get eaten; burnt to a crisp by a flaming ball of fire; ripped to shreds; flattened; anything I've not mentioned yet?"
"Lovely," said Bakura bitterly, seeing that he hadn't helped in the slightest.
Bagman then decided to draw attention back to him. "Ok everyone gather around again." He brought out a purple silk bag and offered it to Fleur. "Ladies first."
She put her hand into the bag and drew out a model of a green dragon with a number two hanging around its neck. Next was Krum. He drew a red dragon with the number three around its neck. Then Bakura choose the Hebridean Black dragon with a number four around its neck. Cedric got a blue dragon with a number one round its neck. Harry got the scariest looking black dragon with a five round its neck.
"Goodo! You've each pulled out the dragon that you're going to face and the order in which you will face them in. I have to leave now since I'm commentating. Mr Diggory, you're first so when the whistle blows just go out into the enclosure. Got it? Well see you all on the field!"
There was a tense silence as Bagman left the tent. Then the whistle blew and Cedric left the tent, looking very green. The rest were left to their own devices, to hear the sounds of the crowd and fear the worst when they screamed or gasped or yelled…
Time went slowly and quickly for Bakura inside the tent. He could feel his blood beginning to race from both anticipation and nervousness. He wanted to remain calm but with everyone else in the tent radiating such feelings of dread it was hard for anyone to remain calm.
Cedric and Fleur had already fought the dragon; it was Krum's turn now. Bakura was next. He prayed his plan would work. There wasn't much of an alternative if it didn't work. Just had to remain calm – everything would work out.
There was a round of applause from the audience. Bakura stood up, waiting for the whistle. The whistle was blown. Bakura took a deep breath and walked out into the enclosure.
"When is it going to be Bakura's turn?" Ryou asked anxiously.
The gang were up in the stands with Ron and Hermione. "There's been three champions fight the dragons already so it's either Harry or Bakura next," said Yami.
Ryou tapped his fingers against the rail they were leaning against nervously. He looked down at the people in front of him. One girl wearing a Gryffindor scarf was telling her friend that she felt like a cat while the people around her slowly backed away. Ryou frowned in puzzlement. How did one feel like a cat?
Ryou was jolted from his thoughts when people started to cheer. He looked up and grinned when he saw Bakura walking calmly (sort of) into the enclosure. Ryou then cheered along with everyone else, hoping the secret weapon Bakura had been bragging about for the last few days would help him beat the dragon unscathed.
Bakura stood proud as he faced the dragon. It was big and black and had leathery wings and claws and could breathe fire but Bakura didn't care. He could beat it without getting his hands dirty in the slightest.
Bakura took off the trench coat with really wide sleeves that he had been wearing to reveal Seto's new and improved Duel Disk. He switched it on making the sensor lights illuminate and the gears inside to spin like crazy. He pulled his deck from his pocket and liked it into the right slot.
Bakura faced the dragon that was watching him with mild interest. Bakura smirked, drawing the top card at lightning speed before slipping it into the magic card slot. "Spell Binding Circle!" he shouted as a giant pentagram encircled the dragon. The dragon roared in anger but was unable to do anything. It was frozen where it was, unable to attack or defend.
Bakura grinned as he saw that his plan had worked. Leisurely he strolled over to the dragon's nest. He reached in, pulled out the golden egg, and walked back at the same pace as before to where he had left his coat.
The crowd that had been stunned into silence suddenly let loose a cry of delight at the amazingly easy victory. Bakura walked over to the entrance of the enclosure, waving lazily at his adoring fans as he did so, to meet Professor McGonagall who shook his hand and congratulated him.
Bakura turned around as everyone quietened down to see how the judges would score him. Madame Maxime was first. She raised her wand in the air and a silver ribbon jumped out of it to form the number nine. The crowd applauded.
Mr Crouch was the next judge. He shot a number ten into the air. The crowd cheered very hard at this.
Next Dumbledore. Ten again!
Bagman – nine!
Last of all was Karkaroff. He raised his wand slowly, obviously deliberating with himself what mark he should give. The silver ribbon twisted into the shape of the number two.
"Two! You arrogant bastard that deserves more a lousy two!" Bakura raged. He threw some very colourful curses at Karkaroff that made a lot of people gasp.
When he saw that the marks were final he stamped off out of the enclosure, removing the spell binding circle from his duel disk on the way. He then used his shadow powers to send Karkaroff's chair to the Shadow Realm, only turning to snicker as the judge disappeared under the table.
When Bakura was away from the prying eyes of the crowd he got rid of the last of his frustration by beating up a tree. He would have preferred the stupid judge who had given him a two but since he wasn't available it was the tree that had to suffer. Sorry tree!
As Bakura was removing the bark from his knuckles he was tackled from behind. "Bakura! Oh I was so worried about you! I saw that first champion get hurt and I thought the same might happen to you but it didn't and you're alright – you're alright!"
"Ryou, get off of me. The worms are giving me funny looks," Bakura replied calmly.
Ryou moved off of Bakura so that he could turn around and face him. Bakura then pulled Ryou into his lap and kissed him. "I told you I had a plan so why were you worried? Don't you trust me?"
"No."
"We'll have to correct that then won't we?" Bakura said before the lips that had been inching closer finally met.
"Oh, isn't it cute!" an annoying voice said loudly, disrupting Bakura and Ryou's attempted make-out session.
Bakura looked up to see the whole gang gathered round them, all staring intently. "Fuck off," Bakura growled, pulling Ryou closer to him.
"Does this mean that you two are like…together?" asked Jou.
"We've been together for over six months. Don't tell me you've only just noticed," Bakura said, smirking wickedly.
Yami snorted. "Six months? Tomb robber I'm sure we would have noticed earlier if you had been together that long."
"Actually Yami we have been together six months," said Ryou, turning to shyly look up at his friends.
"Then why didn't you tell us!" asked Malik, slightly hurt that his two best friends had neglected to mention this important piece of information.
Bakura shrugged. "We wanted to see who would notice first. By the way, I have to say: it took you long enough!"
"Does this mean you've had sex together?" asked Marik eagerly.
Ryou's blush and Bakura's smirk was enough of an answer.
Just then Harry and Ron walked over. "Bakura, the champions need to meet in the tent now," said Harry.
"Alright," said Bakura as he stood up, bringing Ryou with him and collecting the golden egg that he had dropped when he started abusing the tree. "Wait here I'll be back in a moment."
Bakura and Harry left for the tent. When they entered they found that the other champions were already there waiting. Bagman soon bounced in shouting, "Well done to all of you!" He then became slightly more business like. "Alrighty then! The next task will take place at half past nine on the morning of February the twenty-fourth. To help you figure out what the task is you have the golden eggs. As you've probably noticed they have hinges on them. You open them up and the clue inside will help you to prepare for the second task! Did you get all that? Yes? Good! Then all of you go and have fun solving!"
Bakura left the tent and went back to where he had left the others. Ryou was the only one left. Bakura smiled, not the least bit upset that it would be just the two of them. He put his arm around Ryou's waist, leading him back up to the castle, the golden egg held firmly in his other arm.
For most of the way there was comfortable silence. When they neared the castle though Bakura thought of a question he needed to ask. "You know you said you were really proud of me and glad that I wasn't hurt?" he asked.
"Yes," replied Ryou.
"Well do you also remember that you promised me I could have you in any position if we got the others together?"
"Yes," said Ryou, seeing where this was leading.
"Well I think when we get back to our room you should show me how much you're glad I'm safe and then tonight you should honour your promise."
"When we get back the others are probably going to bombard us with questions about our relationship so I don't think we'll get a chance for sex," Ryou said reasonably.
"What about tonight?"
"Tonight I'm free."
"And Tomorrow?"
"We'll see."
They smiled and moved to kiss each other. "What if we don't go back to the common room right away?" whispered Bakura in Ryou's ear.
"Then I'll kick you in the shins and run for it," Ryou said, snickering slightly.
"Oh, bad boy Ryou," Bakura said in mock displeasure, removing his arm from around Ryou's waist and slapping Ryou's behind.
Ryou squeaked, held his abused behind, and glared at Bakura. Bakura smiled innocently before taking off like a shot, Ryou right behind him.
If you want to know why Bakura only got two points from Karkaroff then add up the total number of points he got and compare it to what Harry got in the Goblet of Fire. You'll see that it puts him in joint first with Harry and Krum. Clever ne?
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