"Wow, the sea seems miles away" Ryou exclaimed after they all made their way down the small cliff to the beach outside their tent, all the hikaris had taken control to go and play on the beach that was outside their tent.
"It's like an Egyptian desert, only, much too cold... and wet... and windy... and just hardly any sun at all." Malik said shivering in a black hoodie; he just wasn't used to English weather at all, Ryou succeeded in suppressing an eye roll.
"Hey guys catch!" Yugi yelled, happily throwing a beach ball as hard as he could; Ryou jumped and caught it smiling back at him, then throw the ball in front of him and kicked as hard as he could towards where the sea would be; the yamis stopped whatever they were doing in their soul rooms and came out in spirit form to watch what was happening.
"First one to grab it!" Malik yelled childishly jumping up and down, and then sprinted toward it, Ryou grinned and sprinted after him leaving poor Yugi in the dust, or wet sand in this case. Ryou was the faster sprinter and quickly ran past him, Malik cursed and tried to speed up.
"Got it!" Ryou laughed, only to get tackled full speed by Malik, and the battle for the beach ball commenced.
The Yami's whilst watching started placing bets on who would win.
"Malik, Defiantly." Ishtar declared watching in amusement at their hikaris childish behaviour.
"Yes, I hate to admit but i think Malik too, my host is just too much of a wimp." Bakura agreed rolling his eyes as Ryou struggled out of maliks grasp on the sand.
"Well, i think Ryou, he is faster and will get away easily." Yami declared, as soon as he said it Ryou lashed out kicking both feet out in defence getting Malik in the stomach, then quickly sprang up and ran for his life with an annoyed Malik chasing him.
"Told you." Yami said proudly, nose held in the air, whilst the other yami's just stared in shock, though they tried not to show it they were still shocked by Ryou's outbursts of confidence, they were just too used to the quiet boy everyone knew, but since Ryou had started getting closer to the hikaris and yamis he also started opening up and talking more, especially since Bakura stopped abusing him, he was still quiet around others just not with Yuugi, Malik and the Yamis.
After a while the Yamis got bored of merely watching and took over their hikaris, Ishtar snatched the ball from Bakura, only to end up face down in the sand as bakura recovered and tackled him for it, Yami soon joined in, grabbing the ball and legging it with Ishtar and Bakura hot on his tail, Bakura being the fastest ran alongside him and punched the ball up into the air and caught it running off, they were soon playing their own game of taking the ball from each other, only their game was rougher resulting in nose bleeds and a lot of bruises. The hikaris in spirit rolled their eyes muttering about 'injuring their bodies' and 'stupid yamis'.
"I wonder who that cloaked guy was who was watching us? He was almost dressed like a Ghoul!" asked Malik as the hikaris sat and watched as Ishtar bopped Yami on the head with his rod and ran off hugging the ball to his chest shouting 'I SHALL NOW RULE THE WORLD!' as yami muttered Egyptian curses whilst rubbing his head, Bakura was in the background crying with laughter.
"I don't know but Yami says he will probably be back." Replied Yugi with a worried frown, just who were they dealing with here.
Suddenly, as if talking about them made them appear there was a whooshing sound and a red beam of light sailed passed them right toward their yamis, "YAMI!" "BAKURA!" "ISHTAR" they all shouted before retreating to their soul rooms.
Meanwhile the yamis hearing the whoosh turned just in time to see the red beam of light heading towards them, they all dived out the way and regrouped quickly, "What in the name of Ra was that!" Bakura all but yelled. Ishtar quickly opened a mind link between themselves and their hikaris with his millennium rod, Yugi quickly explained and they looked up just in time to see the group of flying cloaked men heading their way. "Get ready!" Yami said, whilst gathering the shadows ready to send a shadow blast toward the people on brooms. Bakura and Ishtar did the same and they all released their blasts straight at the cloaked figures, which cried out and ungrouped trying to get away from the purple mass rapidly heading their way, some did not make it however and dropped seemingly dead on the sand.
"I'm calling a monster!" Bakura declared and started shuffling his deck, Ishtar and Yami nodded and did the same, dodging the coloured lights if they were shot too close.
"DARK MAGICIAN, AID US!" Yami yelled holding out the card, in a flash the dark magician appeared clad in purple armour; arms crossed glaring at the enemy.
"DARK NECROFEAR, COME FORTH!" Bakura shouted a moment later, and a creepy woman cradling a broken doll appeared on the field.
"FELGRAND DRAGON!" Ishtar yelled simply, looking like he was having the time of his life as a golden dragon appeared circling the air above him roaring out its anger.
The Wizards were dumbfounded, staring open mouthed at the monsters before them, they soon recovered though and attacked, wanting to get this all over and done with.
"DARK MAGIC ATTACK!" "ATTACK NECROFEAR!" "SHOW THEM NO MERCY FELGRAND!" the yamis all yelled standing their ground against the light beams that kept being shot at them. The monsters attacked devastating the cloaked men who scattered trying to get away, or tried and failed to conjure up a shield. Soon only one masked figure was left, but before dark magician could attack and kill him he disappeared with a pop.
~who were they?~ Ryou asked the others through the still open mind link between them all.
~I don't know~ Yugi said sounded worried.
~Perhaps, this is the evil Shadi warned us to prepare for.~ Yami said breathing heavily from the amount of times he had to dodge the attacks.
~we have company.~ Bakura said, Ishtar and Yami both looked towards where he was looking and saw a group of robed people staring at them in various degrees of shock.
~shit.~ Ishtar said after a bit, Yami and Bakura could only nod in agreement, the hikaris were particularly silent.
Yami stepped forward, deciding they may as well find out how much these strangers had seen, and decide if they were the enemy or not, "who are you?" he asked.
Finally the strangers came out of their shock and realising that the shadow mages probably won't hurt them began to approach, Ishtar was growing impatiently with not getting any answer and called out, "WE SAID! WHO ARE YOU!" he yelled frustration clearly evident. The strangers stopped their approach at his threatening shout, but one, a weird looking older man with silver white long hair and beard, half moon glasses and blue robes and hat walked further toward them and answered the question, "My name is Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He said with a polite nod of the head.
Yami took another step forward and asked the next, more important question, "Are you an enemy, like those cloaked men?"
"As long as you are not a danger to us and other humans, you are no enemy of ours, and we are not on the side of the death eaters." Dumbledore answered smiling slightly.
"So that is who they were, those cloaked people, 'Death Eaters'?" Yami asked more to him and gave a glance in Bakura's direction who nodded slightly and a dim light came from the ring, as he checked their soul auras for their intentions.
"Yes, they work for a 'dark lord' mostly known as 'you-know-who' or 'he-who-must-not-be-named'" Ishtar laughed at the weird names they call a supposedly evil being. "But I suggest we go somewhere safe to discuss; the Death Eaters may come back if they haven't gotten all they wanted" Dumbledore said and resumed walking toward them the other wizards following.
Yami nodded, after Bakura confirmed the wizards as having good intentions, although none of them trusted them completely, Yami decided they needed some answers, and this Dumbledore may just have them.