"This is called a portkey and will transport us safely to our headquarters." Dumbledore explained whilst holding out an old boot, the other wizards had all disappeared with Dumbledore's orders which left him alone with who he thought were just 3 very powerful wizards, they all touched the portkey with their fingers and with a slight pull from their naval they were gone.
A second later they all appeared in a street, by this time it was 7pm and the sun was almost set, none of them realised just how long the attack lasted on the beach it seemed like it lasted for days. Dumbledore showed them the address and explained that only people shown the address written by himself would be able to get in the building, they then watched in shock as they saw the house squeeze its way in between the other buildings. Soon they were all inside and walked through into the kitchen sitting down at the table.
~do you want us to take over Yami?~ Yugi asked.
~yeah, i don't think we should tell them about being possessed by spirits...~ Malik said mentally shaking his head, Ryou nodded in agreement.
~...okay. Malik keep the mental link open when you take over.~ Yami ordered.
~Yes Sir!~ Malik shouted doing a mock salute, whilst grinning madly, Bakura and Ishtar sniggered.
They sorted themselves out, the hikaris now in control just as Dumbledore spoke, "I'm sure you have many questions, and we have questions ourselves..." he began before Malik interrupted him.
"You answer our questions first." He demanded crossing his arms and glaring at them, daring them to object, which they wisely didn't, Dumbledore just nodded for them to go ahead.
"Er, well first, who are you all and where are we?" Yugi asked a little timidly.
Dumbledore smiled, "Well you know who i am, these are Mrs. Weasley, her husband Mr. Weasley, Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Alastor Moody, Severus Snape, Minervera McGonigall and Serius Black." He said while gesturing to them all.
"We are at number 12 Grimmauld Place, London, England. Which is currently the Headquarters of The Order of the Pheonix." He added.
"yeah, my DEAR old mothers place!" the man named Serius said with heavy sarcasm on the word 'dear'.
"Yes, we are an organization created to try and combat against the people you had to fight on the beach. You were brought here to safety following the Death Eaters attack, we are on the opposing side." Dumbledore said with a smile.
"erm, you said something about a 'you-know-who'" Malik said, trying not to laugh at the name, but ended up grinning anyway.
"Yes, that is only what people in our world refer to him as, they are scared to even say his name, his name is, however, Lord Voldemort, and he is the leader of the Death Eaters, he wants total control of the wizarding world (our world) and to terrorize non-magical people." Dumbledore explained, meanwhile in the mind-link Ishtar and Bakura were trying to save themselves from dying in laughter at the stupid name of this so called 'evil' man who wanted to take over the world.
Malik sniggered a little, "voldywart, huh? Weird name." He said with a grin, even Ryou, Yugi and Yami were a little amused smiling slightly. There was a bark of laughter from Serius when he heard the mocking way Malik referred to the Dark Lord, but everyone else apart from Dumbledore flinched. "Thats a good one. Remind me to call him that if I ever see him." He said between laughs.
When everyone had calmed down, Dumbledore spoke again, amusement still in his eyes, "Now, I believe it is our turn to get some answers, firstly what are your names?" he said, Malik groaned slightly, but Yugi was happy to introduce them.
"Hello, my name is Yugi Mutou, this is Ryou Bakura, and Malik Ishtar" he said smiling.
Malik quickly butted in, "Yes, but sometimes my friends refer to me as Ishtar, and Ryou as Bakura, and also to Yugi as Yami." He added quickly explaining the names of their Yamis before they would get suspicious. Yugi and Ryou nodded in agreement of the lie. The yamis were happy with that excuse.
Dumbledore was about to inquire about the monsters they had seen when suddenly two figures seemed to float right through the floor, one wore white robes and a white turban, he had deep blue pupil less eyes and a blank expression, the other was a tall teenager, with brown hair and sharp blue eyes, he seemed extremely annoyed.
Yugi, Ryou, Malik and their Yamis gasped, the yamis took over and stood up immediately.
"Shadi." Yami said, Bakura and Ishtar glared at him.
"...Yugi, Ryou, Malik." He said after a moment, knowing that the strangers would not know about the yamis.
"Oh great, can you just take me back, i don't want anything to do with this prophecy." Kaiba said since he realised who was in the room.
"What is Kaiba doing here?" Bakura asked glaring at him.
"He is an item holder now." Shadi said pointing to the millennium ankh around Kaiba's neck.
"I never agreed to this! You just put it on me and dragged me here!" Kaiba said and attempted to take of the item but it seemed to grow in weight, as if knowing his intentions, and not wanting to be thrown away, he growled and gave up glaring at everyone icily.
"Explain Shadi?" Yami demanded crossing his arms.
"My.. Yugi, my duty is to make sure the prophecy begins, the rest is up to you, Ryou, Malik and Kaiba, remember, Yamis and Hikaris must work together." He said before leaving the way he came, only this time, Kaiba was left behind.
"What about the death eaters! is Voldemort the evil you was talking about!" Yami asked quickly but it was too late, Shadi was gone. All was silent in the kitchen, Dumbledore was in deep thought about what had just happened 'interesting, who was that man, who is this Kaiba, and what prophecy? What could this mean.' He asked himself, the other members of the order were staring at the new person in shock, what had just happened.
Kaiba was glaring at Yami, Bakura and Ishtar, who were all staring back, Yami in thought, bakura and Ishtar in annoyance, "Well? Care to explain, why i have been dragged into yet another, 'saving the world from evil' conquest you fools seem to think is your duty to do. I'm fed up with all this talk of magic and past lives." Kaiba said thoroughly annoyed.
"Shut up fool! As if we would want you here with us!" Ishtar growled, Bakura nodded in agreement, Kaiba rolled his eyes.
"I don't understand, Shadi said 'yamis and hikaris' Kaiba isn't neither." Yami said suddenly, the others looked at him, he snapped round suddenly remembering the other people there, "Sorry, for the interruption, this is Seto Kaiba, he is the same as us." Yami said annoyed that he would forget about not saying anything too suspititious.
"Thats, quite alright. I was just going to ask about how you got rid of most of them death eaters. What were those monsters you had that aided you? They seemed to completely disappear afterwards.
"ahh..." Yami didn't know how to explain, and by the looks of Ishtar and Bakura they were rapidly going through potential ways they could lie their way out of this, before they could however, Kaiba not understanding the importance of them keeping some secrets spoke out, "HA! What idiots. Don't they know what Duel Monsters are? Looks like i have another market I should look into for my business." He said but still held his glare.
Yami almost facepalmed at Kaiba's carelessness, Bakura did facepalm, "You fool. We didn't know if we could trust these people to know that we were able to call on monsters to aid us. May as well tell them now." He growled pissed off.
"What the hell are you talking about? Wait, don't tell me, you're convinced you have magic that can make the duel monsters real. GET YOUR HEAD OUT THE CLOUDS RYOU!" Kaiba yelled slightly shocked that they still kept to the hocus-pocus crap he was sure they would just admit that it was not possible. Bakura was about to pounce on kaiba and punch his lights out when Dumbledore interrupted them.
"Magic does indeed exist, we are wizards ourselves," Kaiba looked skywards at this point as if saying 'why god why? Why am i surrounded my crazies?' "So you have a different magic to us, hmm, interesting is that all you can do, call on monsters to aid you?" Dumbledore continued.
"Yes it is all we can do." Bakura said quickly, but Yami decided to take it further.
"These items we each possess gives us the power to do so." He said holding up his millennium puzzle, Bakura glaring at Yami for giving so much away, held out his ring, Ishtar held out his rod looking bored, Kaiba laughed, "you mean this stupid gold key can actually do something." He said holding up his ankh to look at it closer. Dumbledore nodded satisfied, he knew they did not give everything away, but that was expected, "I would like to ask you one last thing" he declared, Ishtar and Bakura groaned, "The death eaters are seemingly after you for something, it could well be for those items you possess, I'm sure Voldemort would love such dangerous items in his possession, i would like to offer you a place at my wizarding school, Hogwarts, it is the safest place to be, and you will be able to learn our magic and maybe even enhance your own." He said smiling. Kaiba snorted 'wizarding school, whatever.'
"Yes, i think we should" Yami began, but stopped to ask a question Yugi had asked them all through the mind-link, "what about our family and friends, will they be safe."
"I'm sure they will be safe enough, where is it you all come from, i can hear a slight accent in three of you?"
"Kaiba and i are from Domino City, Japan. Ryou is from England but moved to Japan, and Malik is from Cairo Egypt but also moved recently to Japan." Yami answered as the others grunted.
"Okay, you can send your families a letter explaining your situation; you can stay here at our headquarters before the start of school." Dumbledore said.
"Dumbledore, i think they should get to bed now, they must be exhausted." Mrs. Weasley quickly said and sprang up as if her seat was on fire to start herding the shadow mage teens out the room, which looked both amused and annoyed at being told what to do as if they were little kids.
The room was very large, big enough to fit 4 beds with no problem, each with their own bedside table and lamps, the hikaris took over and put their pyjamas on, the yamis out in spirit form just sat on their beds, Kaiba stared from, Ishtar, to Bakura, to yami, then the solid hikaris, and back again eyes slightly wide.
"ehehehe, Kaiba can see us now he is a item bearer!" Ishtar said in delight grinning like a cheshire cat, Bakura laughed mockingly.
"wh-what? I must be seeing and hearing things..." Kaiba said but was uncertain.
"Kaiba, you must start believing now, you own a millennium item, which means you have a have to be responsible," Yami said tiredly.
Kaiba grunted, 'i guess maybe this hocu-pocus has some truths, well more power for me i suppose' he thought unsure, he hated being wrong, he walked to his own bed put his pyjamas on like the hikaris and sat on his bed, he seemed a little lost not having his laptop or briefcase.
"okay, fine, i'll go along with this magic bull! Now explain why i see two of you and explain exactly what it is these item things do." He finally said, deciding he would need more information.
The Yamis and hikaris took turns explaining everything, Yugi and Yami explained the most, with Ryou and Malik adding bits and peices, Bakura would add a sarcastic comment in some places but otherwise he and Ishtar found the whole thing boring. It was close to 2 hours when Kaiba found out everything, including getting demonstrations, and even doing a bit himself, he was able to summon a morphing jar but it took quite a bit of energy, he would have to practise, he started to kind of like the idea of having this kind of magic at his disposal, it sure was cool that duel monsters were real, he couldn't wait till he was able to summon his blues eyes white dragons. He tried to get used to the yami and hikaris stuff, but he just didn't want to believe it, cause that meant he had to accept his 'past life' they were always banging on about.
"I still don't understand." Yami said, after they finished explaining what a yami and hikari was and soul rooms, "Shadi said, it was Yamis and Hikaris that had to go against this evil, but as far as i know Kaiba isn't an hikari and doesn't have a Yami" he said, everyone went silent contemplating what shadi could have meant.
"Wait." Ryou said realization dawning on him, everyone even Kaiba looked up waiting for Ryou's idea, "Kaiba has only just got a millennium item, perhaps, he will get a Yami yet, the high priest is the only candidate for being his yami, but, didn't he have the millennium rod, maybe, he is still in there.." Ryou said nervous of all the eyes being on him.
"No way! I'm the spirit of the rod now. Not him!" said Ishtar a little angry that another yami was in his rod.
"I'm not sure. It seems the only explanation, maybe, Shadi took the spirit of the high priest out of the rod and into the ankh." Yami said thoughtfully.
"Is that possible?" Malik asked unsure.
"I don't know it's just a guess." Yami replied.
"What should i do, from what you've told me, if i do get this... yami, it will be an annoyance for the first month at least, running around trying to kill people?" Kaiba said angrily, he didn't want some spirit in his head, he had enough just spending a couple of hours with Ishtar, Yami and Bakura.
"Tch, deal with it pathetic mortal." Bakura said but looked amused at Kaiba's discomfort.
"I think we should just keep an eye on Kaiba, see if at any time his appearance changes, or his personality gets... well, i suppose darker? Well at least different." Yugi said, everyone nodded and agreed the yamis went back to their soul rooms, to either think, plan torture methods, or clean a few daggers. Ryou, Malik and Yugi said good night, Kaiba grunted, and they turned the lights off and went to sleep.