(A/N) I am very sorry Tom but it had to be done!
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(A/N) HA HA HA!!!! Sorry…
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There were eight of the program students in the dormitory.
They were sleeping in the dorm above Harry and Ron's and all there stuff had been brought up including Bastet but not including Malik and Yugi's owls as they had been taken to the Owlery. The other three boys they had to sleep with were Tom Robertson, who was tall in stature and had curly brown hair, Evan Davies, who was shorter and had shoulder length, light brown hair and Jake Fox, who was slightly taller than Tom and had short mousy brown hair. It also seemed that the boys knew each other, which wasn't really unexpected.
The morning after the feast the boys went down to breakfast together and found that they were in most of the same classes. Ryou poked at his sausages and stared at his timetable. Bakura sat on his left and next to him was Malik. Yugi and Atem sat with Evan and Tom opposite and Jake was sat the Hikari's right.
'So where are you from?' Tom asked. His question was directed at Ryou but it was Yugi who answered.
'Japan. Well, four of us are. Malik's technically from Egypt but he's been living in Japan for a while now, haven't you Malik.' Malik nodded, his face stuffed with sausages and egg. 'What about you?' Atem asked curiously. Tom smiled at them.
'Well, we all originate from different places. I come from Egypt, like Malik, but I moved to Australia when I was 10 so I couldn't go to the Egyptian school because it was too far away but I hadn't been in Australia long enough to be excepted there.' Tom explained. 'I think Jake comes from Australia, don't you Jake?' Jake turned to them and grinned.
'Yup! But I'm half Spanish as well.'
'I'm from Switzerland but I have family in America so we go there every year or so for a year at a time.' Evan stated before taking another bite out of his sausage. Suddenly, he turned and grinned as he spotted the girls out of the corner of his eye. 'Hey Amy, Leah, Tiffany! Over here!' He called as he swallowed and waved, drawing the groups attention to the girls. Ryou blushed slightly as he saw the girl who had been sitting next to him at the feast and Yugi and Bakura chuckled as they noticed this.
'Hi guys!' She said as she walked up to the group. 'Who are your new friends?' she asked looking curiously at the five. 'Wait, I know you, I sat next to you at the feast right? Your Bakura and Ryou, yes?' the boys nodded as she pointed at them. 'And your Atem and Yugi?' They nodded. 'And, ummm, Malik?' Malik nodded and she grinned. 'I like you hair by the way.' She added to Atem and Yugi, who blushed slightly. 'And I'm Amy, in case you can't remember! Now shove up.' she said the last part to Jake as she sat down between him and Ryou.
'And I'm Leah.' said a girl with long, strawberry blonde hair and glasses as she sat next to Malik.
The third girl, who had short, blonde hair and blue eyes, sat next to Atem on the other side of the table. 'Tiffany.' she said as she grinned at the look on the pharaoh's face. 'So what's first?' she asked as they passed them their timetables. It wasn't long after before Harry, Ron and Hermione came to sit with them.
'So you have transfiguration first?' Ron asked through a mouthful of beans. Ryou nodded. He had been abnormally quiet since Amy had arrived and the blush had never entirely left his face, though that may have been more due to the amused smirks his Yami kept giving him.
'Come on then! Or well be late!' Amy cried. The others checked there watches and there eyes widened as they realized she was right.
'See you later guys!' Yugi waved to the three 6th years as they sped out of the hall and towards the Transfiguration classroom. They made it just on time and only because Malik had pulled out a map of the school to see where they were going. They walked into the classroom and took there seats. A few seconds later, Professor McGonagall walked in and began the class.
By lunch the group was completely exhausted from running from class to class so they weren't late if they got lost. They had double potions in the afternoon and Bakura was looking forward to it. 'Come on Ryou, It'll be fun!' he assured his Hikari. He, Ryou and Jake were the only ones at the table in the great hall. Yugi and Atem had gone to the library and Malik had gone to challenge Kiba to the duel but they didn't know where the others were. Ryou shook his head and gulped, shoving a sandwich down his thought before anyone could question him on the matter. Bakura sighed.
'What's the matter?' Leah asked as she came over to sit next to him. Bakura looked at the girl and smirked, deciding to wind his little hikari up a bit.
'I think he's missing his Amy-Chan.' he replied, sighing dramatically and cocking his head to look at Ryou who had gone beetroot red. Leah's eyes lit up in interest.
'Is he really? Looks like Tom has competition.' She said smugly as she looked at Ryou's blushing face. Bakura raised his eyebrows a small grin sliding onto his face.
'Oh?'
'Yeah, Tom's had a major crush on Amy for about a year now but she keeps rejecting him. I think its driving her insane!' Jake explained as Ryou looked up from his sandwich, wanting nothing more than to drop through the floor. 'Where are they anyway?' The taller boy asked, turning to Leah who laughed.
'At the library, where else?' She told the boy.
'What even Evan?' Jake asked, a confused look on his face. Leah shook her head.
'No, I think he went to the toilet and I think tiffany went to see professor McGonagall about something or other.' Leah said, calming slightly before turning to Ryou. 'I hope you like the books 'cause you've got your eyes on a bookworm my friend, big style.'
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Double potions past quickly and Bakura loved every minute of it and as it turned out he was very good at it. 'Well when your a tomb robber you need to know about poisons and there antidotes, in case you got hit by a poison tipped spike or something.'
They soon learned not to talk about private matters in Japanese when Amy was around ether. 'I'm part Japanese, part English.' she said one day when the boys had asked where the girls were from. 'I lived in England until I was 5, then moved to Japan where I stayed till I was 11 and moved to Australia where I met the other guys.' she explained. The Japanese students gave each other wary looks before deciding to use ancient Egyptian when she was around.
They also caught glances of Kiba at the Ravenclaw table at mealtimes. He often had his laptop out and was usually on his own. Hermione was beside herself. 'How? How can he make his laptop work in Hogwarts? It's just not possible! Muggle technology doesn't work in Hogwarts, there's too much magical interference!' Malik shrugged.
'He's Kiba. If he wants something he usually gets it, unless of course, it's beating Yugi or Atem at a duel, that's something he never gets.'
Summer was soon turning into autumn and Halloween was fast approaching. The group was looking forward to the Halloween feast that was to take place that evening. 'Do we have to dress up?' Atem asked Harry a few days beforehand. Harry chuckled.
'No, you just need to wear your robes, nothing special, nothing fancy.' Atem looked relived causing Harry to laugh harder.
Harry, Ron and Hermione had introduced the group to Hagrid and they had all come to like the giant man, even Bakura.
One evening in the Gryffindor common room, Amy had gone up to the king of games with a deck of duel monsters in her hand and had asked him to check them for her. Yugi gladly agreed and Atem came to look at them over his shoulder. 'You have some pretty powerful cards.' The spirit said thoughtfully as Yugi gave her them back.
'Thanks, but is it ok?' She asked slightly nervously. Atem smiled.
'It's a great deck.' He assured her and Yugi nodded. 'You seem to have thought about it allot.' Amy nodded.
'I did. I made the deck in Japan but no one duels in Australia so I haven't dueled anyone in a while.' She explained as she took the deck back.
'What's your favorite card?' Bakura asked, joining the conversation from the other sofa. Amy looked at him.
'Magician of Black Chaos hands down. I just love the guy, he's so cool!' she told him and the thief smiled slightly before his eyes lit up and his face split into a mischievous grin.
'I have an idea, why don't you and Ryou have a duel. He's the most patient of us and if you haven't played in a while you should now. Besides, Yugi just looked through your deck and would have and advantage.' Ryou blushed and gave his Yami a slight glare. Amy however, was grinning.
'Sure, that sounds like fun! You want to Ryou?' Ryou tuned to look at her and grinned.
'Sure.' He said and they went over to one of the tables and began to duel. They took the rest of the night to finish and Amy surprised everyone by winning by 1200 life points.
'It seems I haven't gotten too rusty then.' She yawned. And Ryou smiled.
'No, it was a good battle.' He said and giggled slightly as Amy yawned again.
'Time for bed I think.' She said cheerily as she walked towards the girls dormitories, saying goodnight to everyone before she walked up the stairs and out of sight.
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'Come on Atem; get your stinking butt out of bed!' Malik called from where he sat on his bed as Yugi struggled to get the groggy pharaoh up. Malik sighed. It was the morning of Halloween and the rest of the group was in high spirits. Without thinking, he shrugged off his pajama top and turned towards his bed, revealing his back to the room. Someone gasped and he froze, realizing what he had just done. Quickly, he pulled his top back over the hieroglyphic scars carved into his back.
'Woh Malik.' Evan breathed and Malik dived onto his bed, pulling the curtains around him as he did so. A couple of minutes later, he reemerged, his head down as he rushed for the stairs as quick as he could.
'Hey! Malik!' Jake called as he ran down the stairs after him.
'Jake, Stop!' Yugi called as he followed. Amy, Tiffany, Harry and Ron were the only ones in the common room as the three boys hurried in and they watched as Jake caught Malik's shoulder, stopping him in his tracks.
'What the hell happened to you Malik?' He asked as Malik gave a half hearted attempt to get loose.
'What's up?' Amy asked, concern evident in her voice. Jake turned to look at her with a look of disgust on his face.
'He's got loads of scars slashed into his back!' Malik flinched and Amy looked horrified.
'Please, leave him alone Jake.' Yugi pleaded quietly. Jake ignored him.
'So, what on earth happened?' Jake asked aggressively as Malik gave another attempt to get loose.
'I don't want to talk about it, I just want some breakfast.' He whispered deadly. Amy looked at him and frowned, making up her mind and nodding at tiffany. She nodded back and got up.
'Let go Jake.' the blonde warned. Jake ignored her and stopped Malik again as he tried to break free. Amy sighed.
'We tried to warn you.' She said as she and Tiffany pulled out there wands. Jake looked at them. With no way to no who was going to curse him, he had no way to block and he readied himself for what was to come. 'Petrificus Totalus!' Amy cried and Jake stiffened, falling to earth like a plank of wood. Malik looked at them from under his fringe and Tiffany smiled happily.
'Go on Malik, I thought you said you wanted your breakfast?' Malik nodded slightly and hurried out the portrait hole. Tiffany smiled sadly. He didn't want pity, so she wouldn't give it to him. She knew that better than most people did.
'Thanks guys.' Yugi muttered smiling thankfully at the two girls.
'Welcome!' Amy said happily and an evil grin came to her face. 'And now for Jake's punishment. Tiffany, get your makeup'
'Yes mam!' the blonde girl agreed, saluting at Amy and running up the stairs to get her makeup bag. Yugi, Harry and Ron sweat dropped. Never get on that girl's bad side they all thought simultaneously as they watched Amy's grin grow as Tiffany came back down the stairs holding a small white bag.
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The makeup stayed on for several days after that and the tall boy fast became the laughing stock of the school and Draco Malfoy's favorite victim. The girls had used a spell that had stuck the makeup to his face. No matter how hard he rubbed, it didn't want to come off.
Malik had almost gained all his spunk back and had begun spending more time with the girls and the three became fast friends along with Leah at points but he decided he didn't like her as much as the other two. (A/N um, sorry Leah, I don't mean to make you feel unwanted or anything, its more what they did for Malik that makes him like them. Don't kill me!)
Halloween passed and winter began to take over as it filled the castle with its icy presence. Soon the two spirits were experiencing there first snowfall and the idea of frozen water falling from he sky both fascinated them and terrified them. Even Bakura had been seen taking a few cautious steps into the white fluffy wet stuff before running back inside again growling, a sight that Ryou had found very amusing.
Admittedly though, The Pharaoh had been worse. He had point blankly refused to take one step into the snow before Ron had decided it would be funny to trip Malfoy up causing him to stumble into Atem's back sending them both sprawling head first out the open door and into the cold snow outside. The taller boy had stayed far away from the exit from then on, but even he had to admit it wasn't the snow itself he was trying to avoid.
'Ra, Pharaoh! I never would have put you for being scared of snow!' Malik laughed, rolling around on the floor in mirth. Atem growled and began to glare at the tomb keeper.
'Shut it Malik.' he growled menacingly but his threat was diminished by Yugi as he struggled and failed to control his own laughter. Growling again and feeling slightly betrayed, he turned and walked out into the common room leaving Yugi and Malik rolling around on the floor in hysterics.
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A blonde haired boy in a Hogwarts Uniform looked around cautiously as he crept around the corner. It was way past the curfew, but Draco Malfoy had been given a special assignment by The Dark Lord and he planned on doing it and doing it right. Slowly, he made his way towards the 7th floor.
Luck was on the blonde's side as he arrived at the room of requirement without meeting a soul. He ran a hand through his hair nervously as he desperately begged the room to give him what he needed. The room responded. A small door formed on the wall and Malfoy rushed through it, his robe's whipping out behind him. Smiling smugly, he looked around the large room. It was everything he needed to carry out his master's request.
Pulling four small flasks of bright amber liquid, he placed one in each corner of the empty room. Coming back to the door, the boy pulled out his wand and climbed up the five steps up to the door. Slowly, he placed his wand between his two palms and pointed two of his fingers up to hold the wand in position whilst the other six crossed around each other. He then brought his hands up so his thumbs rested under his chin.
Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, he began to chant slowly, picking up speed as he went.
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Far from Hogwarts a dark figure was standing next to a large floor that looked rather like a map. he was chanting. Suddenly, the map began to glow. the cloaked figures around him backed away from the glare and began putting there hands over there faces to shield there eyes. Wind whipped around them tossing there black cloaks all over the place.
The man's red eyes popped open to reveal a glint on malaise and excitement as he screamed the final word causing an explosion of white light.
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Malfoy's cold hard eyes were full of fear as they flew open and he yelled the last word of his chant. 'MOBILICUS-SEN-DREEA!'
The strong wind whipped his head back and almost sent him flying as he struggled to remain standing. The four bottles of amber liquid exploded, sending a wave of colour from each corner sailing across the room, spreading quickly across the floor.
A bright white covered the room and Malfoy had to cover his eyes against the glare. When the light died down, the wind vanishing with it, Malfoy lowered his arm and stared at the marvel before him. The whole floor had become a map. He reached out to touch it but stopped as a voice rang through his head.
'Do not touch Draco.' The voice scolded and the boy sucked in air before bringing his arm back his side and standing up. 'Well done Boy. You and your family will be rewarded graciously for this.' the voice hissed happily and Malfoy nodded, feeling the uncomfortable presence leave his head. Sighing with relief, he walked cautiously towards the door taking a last look at the magnificent floor in front of him before walking back out the door watching it disappear behind him.
Looking around, he cautiously made his way back to the Slytherin common room before his absence became noticed.
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(A/N) Wow! Another chapter finished and I still haven't published it yet! Well, I will have when you read this but I haven't yet! (As in, while I'm writing this right now.) still waiting for the BETA version done by...what's his FF name again...oh...um...cant remember! ^_^
I thank you guys for reading and beg you to review! Please!
(BR/N-Beta Reader Note) Animeaiedail and I'm not going that slow Amy, you just forgot to give me this chapter :P
(A/N) No, I gave it to you, you just lost it or something stupid like that…