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Harry followed his master around in the super market. Marik hadn't wanted to bring Harry with him; but when his Hikari had pointed out that they couldn't very well leave him alone in the apartment the Yami had no choice but to swallow his pride and agree with the plan. He was surprised to see that the creature acted naturally in the mundane human setting. His Hikari again reminded him that they had yet to hear anything on the monster's former life.
Harry could feel his master's eyes watching them as they moved around the story and he wondered what he had done to warrant to such close attention. He blushed knowing that his master wasn't the only one who was watching him closely, still the strangers watching him closely made much more sense considering his appearance. His master had been given time to grown accustomed to such an appearance and he could think of no other reason for his master's intense stare.
Yami Marik was quite done being in charge and allowed the Hikari to take over, Hikari Marik sneered when he saw a group of duelists come up. It seemed that no matter where he went he either had to deal with fans or wannabes and if it was a very bad day he had to deal with them both at the same time. It was one of those bad days when he was reluctantly signing autographs simply because they wouldn't let him leave otherwise. Then a loud voice said in front of the entire group "I challenge you to a duel!"
Harry turned when he heard the words and saw that a young man with spiky black hair and a mean looking face was challenging his Master's Hikari side. He was suddenly overcome by a strange feeling and looked down to see that the writing on his body was glowing and he could feel the eye of Ra glowing on his forehead as well. He didn't have much time to think before he disappeared from where he stood.
Marik yawned as he looked at the young duelist, it wouldn't take long to take this punk out and he had been incredibly bored today. He looked around to see if his creature would be watching and was surprised when he saw Harry nowhere in sight.
He frowned, he had been keeping rather close tabs on Harry so that the creature wouldn't be hurt or get lost. He shrugged thinking that he could always find him later, he did stand out in a crowd after all; and then turned his attention to the young duelist as he motioned outside "Let's go then."
Marik allowed his opponent to make the opening move, simply to see what they would do. He was disappointed when all they did was lay a card down and summoned Gear Golem the Moving Fortress. The rookie of course paid the 800 life points and attacked Marik directly; and that was the most interesting thing that had happened.
Marik looked down at his cards and knew that his opponent was not only reckless but also impatient he shook his head and smiled as he decided to play with this one slowly. He apparently didn't go slow enough as several turns later he had the opponent at half his life points. Though he couldn't be blamed it was mostly the boy's own fault. He frowned when he saw Helpoemer in his hand and remembered that he didn't know where Harry went. He put the card down in defense mode and decided to hurry and end this game.
Harry blinked as he felt a pulling sensation in his stomach, similar to when he was using a portkey. He frowned when he found himself on the field once again; he blinked and looked around before realizing he was in another duel. He remembered what it was called from being summoned here the first time. He soon noticed that he was kneeling and he instantly knew that he was guarding his master's life points.
Marik's eyes went wide when he saw Harry down on the field and then it all made sense. He had been challenged to a duel so his creature had returned to his deck in order to be summoned. He smiled and then refocused his attention on the duel.
The opponent grinned as he said "Perfect, now with only that monster guarding your life points I'll win this game shortly!" He looked at one of his face down cards and said "I use Micro Ray to lower your monster's defense to 0 and I'll offer my Cannon Solider a tribute to take away 500 of your life points and then attack your monster!"
Harry braced himself, knowing that the reason he was in his masters deck was for his special ability. He frowned he could hear the man charging towards him, he had his blindfold on again and readied himself for it to happen. The machine's arm sliced through him but he only felt a flicker of pain as he disappeared from the field.
Marik watched as Harry disappeared and then smirked as he said calmly, despite his loss of life points. "That was a rather foolish thing for you to do, because while I lost only a few life points you will start losing something far worse!" As he said this a shadowy hand appeared out of the other duelist's device and took one of his cards. At the young man's shout Marik knew that it was only a matter of time.
The duel ended quickly and he watched as the challenger walked off in defeat. He knew that the punk wouldn't have been able to defeat him, but it was fun to raise his hopes all the same. He looked down and saw that the Millennium Rod was glowing and Harry appeared before him in his creature dress, though once again without the hood or tombstone. He smirked at Harry and said "Well done."
Harry smiled up at Hikari Marik pleased that he was able to make his master proud at least in some small way. He winced inwardly as he felt pain around his midsection, but said nothing on it in case he ruined the moment between him and his master.
The flicker of pain did not escape Marik's notice, but the Yami inside decided that it would be best to take care of it in the privacy of their apartment. He picked back up their groceries and handed them to Harry to carry. "Let's go back." He said simply, keeping an eye on his monster and how the young man moved on the trip back.
Harry was surprised when the pain didn't go away; he had thought that it was an after effect of being 'killed' on the field. He shrugged it off, it wasn't the worst pain he had been in his life and he was sure that whatever it was he could make it heal later. After they reached the apartment Harry settled the groceries on the kitchen counters and began to unload them when he felt his master's strong form pressing against his back.
Yami Marik smirked when Harry instantly stilled and pressed the monster against the counter as he whispered in his ear "What are you hiding from me Harry?" he murmured, his lips brushing against Harry's ear. He and his Hikari both agreed that the monster 's body had an appeal to it; he put that thought to the side as he continued to see what was bothering his little mind slave.
Harry shivered at the heated whisper and answered back slowly "N-nothing master…I was just…it hurts…my stomach where the other monster sliced me is just sore right now." He wasn't telling the whole truth but Harry was soon finding out that he could not lie to his master. He paused to see if Marik would by it or not and his Master slowly pulled back. Harry breathed a sigh of relief until he heard "Show me."
It had not escaped Marik's notice that Harry's words sounded to be forced out of him. He was concerned about this pain that Harry spoke of and wondered too if it was a side effect from the battle on the field. He turned Harry around and pulled apart the leather belts that covered Harry's midsection, pausing when he uncovered a slice mark.
Harry looked down and saw with relief that the mark was not bleeding. He looked up at his master with a little smile and said "See? It's just a little mark…nothing to be worried about…" He heard no response from his master and wondered what this could mean.
Marik was surprised that Harry had actually been hurt from his battle on the field. For a split second Marik felt some of his older, darker personality come back and he wished that he had banished the punk to the shadow realms. He shook his head and traced his finger over the mark carefully. "Put something on it and we'll see what it does." He turned away and his Hikari took back over.
Harry frowned when his master disappeared and his lighter personality took his place. He tried not to show it, but he was sad that he had caused his master to go away. He had been so proud that he had served his master well during the fight, but now it seemed that that early victory was nothing.
Hikari Marik could easily read the emotions on the monster's face and put his hand lightly on Harry's shoulder "Don't worry about it, he just has a lot on his mind right now, and besides I haven't been out in a while." Hikari Marik shrugged it off and said "Let's finish these groceries."
The rest of the day passed slowly, Marik insisted that Harry sit on the couch and be careful about his midsection. Harry was unused to being fussed over though he did remember Madame Pomfrey and Hermione doing it to him, but never over something so minor. He shrugged and turned on the T.V pausing at what he saw there.
Bakura had returned to his world thanks to the dark magics. He and the Dark Lord had found a way to mimic what the Shadow Realms had done to Harry and applied it to those who were either prisoners or lower level members. Bakura looked down at his deck and smirked he certainly would be having fun. He had set to work right away, accepting any challenge that had come his way so that he could show off his new monsters.
It had worked, by the time he had started his third duel a T. V crew was following him doing a report on 'Monster's Coming to Life' he allowed them to watch him duel and then also catch on film his monster's coming back to him when the duel was over and the dueling system deactivated. He smiled and allowed his face to look innocent as he waved back at the cameras with his loyal monsters at his side.
Harry watched the screen in disbelief and it soon caught the attention of Marik as well "Oh this is not good…" the Egyptian said softly to himself as he picked up the phone to call Yami or Hikari Yugi who would in turn call Seto and Joey. Harry shook his head as he continued to watch the programming almost unable to believe what was happening before his very eyes.
On the screen smiling and waving back at him were several monsters, several were powerful like himself, but that was not what caught his attention, what caught his attention where the people who had become those monsters and he shook his head slowly and wondered softly "What has happened?"
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