Marik was very surprised to find Seth at the docks with the reincarnation of his brother. Strangely he felt something akin to attraction to the albino.
Seth cheerfully appeared behind him, scaring him enough that he actually tripped on the boardwalk.
"Seth, you are an ass," said Marik with conviction.
"You know you love me anyways. In any case we have a new ally against short, spiked and boring!" said Seth with amusement
"Short, spiked and boring?" asked Ryou with a grin.
"The Pharaoh has serious height issues, and just barely clears five feet. His hair is natural, strangely enough and he is extremely boring to be around. His aura practically screams 'Worship me dammit!" said Seth flatly.
"Wait, if the Pharaoh barely clears five, how short is his Hikari?" asked Marik.
Seth grinned...and then used his hand to show Marik exactly how short Yugi was. Seth was in fact close to six feet (Bakura was roughly six feet, since he was an inch or two taller than Seth) so he had to bend down to look Yugi in the eye and that amused him greatly.
"Which reminds me... Marik, there is a kid called Mokuba Kaiba and if you try to kidnap him during this mess I will hide your motorcycle from you and force you to listen to the Pharaoh with a smile on your face while his hikari is on a sugar high," said Seth seriously.
"No! Keep your hands off of Hidalgo!" said Marik.
Seth blinked once and then said "I knew letting you watch Netflix was a bad idea. Just because you like Viggo doesn't mean you can reenact that movie."
Marik blushed. Seth had teased him, lightly, about his fascination for the actor. Other than his fascination for the actor, Seth had been most understanding.
Isis had apparently given him the 'talk', but from what Seth could tell it wasn't the one that Marik actually needed. Which is when he gave his own version, which Marik took to heart more than he had the one Isis gave.
For someone as interesting as Isis, she gave the worst speeches and couldn't write an interesting book to save her life.
"Why should I leave this kid alone?" asked Marik.
"Aside from the fact that I will hide...Hidalgo (there was a definite note of amusement in his voice) from you? The fact that his brother could very well keep you from dueling the Pharaoh. Seto Kaiba is his brother, and the one who wields the Blue Eyes. He is very overprotective of his brother."
"What does this kid look like?"
"I believe he's behind Ryou at the moment," said Seth.
Mokuba had been wanting to meet with Marik ever since Seth described him as a younger, more insane version of himself.
Seth walked up to Mokuba and playfully messed up his hair.
"Marik, this is Mokuba. I'm teaching him shadow magic so be nice. Keep him from being kidnapped before this is over, and I'll teach you too."
"Deal!" crowed Marik. Learning shadow magic from the only person who was alive back then? There wasn't a chance he was passing that up!
Seth growled. He told Marik not to kidnap anyone, but does he listen?
That thought derailed the moment he saw the spirit hanging over the blond's head. He face palmed.
"Why didn't I think to threaten him as well as Marik?"
Kaiba wasn't happy. Mokuba had been kidnapped and then he escaped using whatever hocus pocus Seth had been teaching him over the past week...and not the schizoid was dueling the mutt who wasn't acting normal.
Seth walked up scowling and took out a card.
"Dharc, come forth!"
Dharc the Dark Charmer (who at this point was very familiar with Kaiba) appeared.
"What do you need?"
"I apparently forgot to warn the other idiot not to mess with Yugi's friends. He kidnapped the kid who I warned Marik not to mess with against my wishes. Could you remove the control on the idiot holding the box about the harpy's head?"
"Why can't you do it?"
"I prefer to minimize exposure to a woman who's Ka happens to be Shining Friendship," said Seth dryly.
Dharc winced. People who had that monster tended to be optimistic fools who ranted about the perks of Friendship. Thankfully he had only ever seen two in the past 5,000 years.
Dharc used his natural attribute perks to break the control of the Ghoul, and the man fled when he was confronted by a cranky Kaiba.
Seth didn't go anywhere near Anzu, because he didn't want to be exposed to a Friendship Otaku. He merely cast an unlocking charm and hid behind Kaiba.
Anzu snapped out of her daze, realized she was free and shrieked. She got out of the way of the box above her before anyone tried to send it crashing into her. Seth, realizing how she would react to the blond and the midget dueling, immediately charmed Kaiba's ears and his own to avoid listening to her rant.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow but looked grateful all the same. He really didn't care who won to be honest.
When she finally shut up, Seth removed the charm.
"So...you've been teaching my brother about that power and knives?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Better me than one of those half assed teachers who call themselves wizards. Your brother has the potential to be a natural mage, you as well but I can tell you would rather not deal with it so I didn't mention it, but I'm mostly insuring he can handle any kidnappers without having to rely on me all the time."
"Why knives though?"
"Because small knives are legal and easily explainable. Besides, guns are far too noisy for my taste. Mokuba doesn't seem to mind," said Seth.
"Hn. Thank you for teaching my brother. That 'magic' stuff you showed him got him out of a kidnapping situation by whatever nut job grabbed him."
"I warned Marik to leave him alone... I forgot to threaten his alter ego to do the same. Marik seems to like him enough not to harm him at least."
"Alter Ego?"
"Like the Midget, only more insane. He listens to me only because I can kick his ass at any time, and because he doesn't perceive me as weak like he does the more sane half of his mind."
"How could he perceive his own mind weak?"
"...It really doesn't help that I was willing to brain him with a laptop he had tried to swipe from me to order more sharp objects..."
Kaiba stared at him...but he went back to watching the duel. It explained so much.
In the end, Yugi willingly lost to save his friend, but was prevented from getting dragged down by Seth hexing both of the cufflinks open.
"I am going to have a...talk...with Malik when I find him," said Seth annoyed. Endangering children...or teens who were still children mentally, was a fast way to piss him off.
Marik didn't know whether to run away or back away slowly before fleeing when he saw how pissed Seth was. His eyebrow was twitching, and that was never a good sign.
"Can you bring Malik out for a moment? I need to...talk...with him," said Seth.
Marik winced. Clearly Malik had done something to royally piss off Seth. He had thought the spirit knew better after nearly having his brain caved in by Seth hitting him with the laptop. Isis was still mad about the bloodstains on the electronic.
Marik quickly relinquished control...only to watch as Malik got chewed out by Seth. It didn't take long for him to find out why Seth was so mad.
Malik had kidnapped Mokuba, a child, and tried to kill Yugi, who was still a child in all but age. If it had been the Pharaoh in control at the time, he wouldn't have been so angry, but Yugi didn't have the Puzzle on at the time.
It didn't take long for Seth to drag Malik and Marik to the Shadow Realm, where he really lit into Malik while chasing him with a large metal bat intent on doing some real damage. Malik wisely didn't try to defend himself, and ran for his life.
Right when Marik was wondering if he should go for popcorn, someone appeared behind him with a bowl.
"What did he do to piss Horus off?"
"From what I'm able to understand, he kidnapped a kid previously declared off limits and tried to kill another," said Marik, accepting the popcorn. Then he saw who was right behind him.
"Aren't you that white haired kid from the docks?"
"I'm the spirit inside his Ring. Thanks to Horus I'm starting to remember who I actually am instead of being a construct," replied the white haired man.
His skin looked like it was halfway between Egyptian Tanned and albino white. The faint hints of a scar on his right eye were present, as if a scar had started to form, but wasn't fully there. Crimson eyes looked at him with some amusement that reminded Marik mostly of Seth. His hair stuck up worse that the albino he saw at the docks.
"Ah. Marik Ishtar, unwilling Tomb Keeper and apparently the descendant of the idiot with the baseball bat. I have the Millenium Rod."
"Akefia Bakura. Just call me Bakura and my hikari Ryou. Who's the idiot who pissed off Horus?"
"Malik. He's...my darker half I suppose. He'll listen to Seth, but that's about it."
"You have any love for that midget Pharaoh?"
"None in the least. I'm forced to serve him because it's family tradition, but I would rather throw him in a pit of snakes. If you're about to do that little test Seth had me complete, don't worry. I'm more on your side than his," said Marik, sensing what he was getting at.
"Good to know. Wait, did you say descendant? Did you get the mother's name?" asked Bakura.
"I went to the goblins for the test. The ancestor who gave birth to my line was named Peri-et-washet."
Bakura started crowing with laughter.
"Oi Horus! That girl you took pity on is the one who gave birth to his clan!" yelled Bakura.
Seth paused in his attack and looked at Bakura.
"You mean that girl Peri? Suddenly the idea of having a kid doesn't sound so damn ludicrous."
"Who is Peri?" asked Marik. Seth leaned on his bat as he looked at him.
"Peri was a girl I took pity on because she was so...ordinary...that most men wouldn't look twice at her. I helped to clean her up, since her mother was killed by one of the Pharaoh's men for refusing him, and she took a rather strong liking to me..."
"'Strong liking'? Horus, that girl followed your every word every time we went to that town!"
"Yes, but she also helped us a lot when you were too injured to be able to brew the higher level potions, and she never once betrayed us," said Seth patiently.
"Which was the only reason I didn't kill her outright. Which reminds me...when did you...?"
"Right before I headed back to the base and killed that priest. The second I grabbed the Key off him I was dragged here," shrugged Seth.
Bakura wolf whistled.
"Guess that girl got her wish finally. She had been trying to get into your pants ever since you showed her how to find the best hair products for the time," he grinned.
Seth shrugged again.
"It was either let her down gently and break her heart, or do the deed and make her happy for once in her life. You know my policy on innocents. I wasn't going to break her heart after all she did for us," said Seth.
"One of these days your kindness is going to get you killed Horus," said Bakura, shaking his head.
"More than likely it's going to be a failed robbery than kindness."
Malik tried to sneak past Seth, only for the boy to take the bat and hit him hard on the head with it without blinking or looking behind him. Marik winced at the sound.
"You can duel without his presence right?"
"I'm somewhat better than he is, but he's more sadistic towards his opponents," Marik confirmed.
"Good. Malik will be...indisposed for the next few hours unless something changes and triggers him to retake possession," said Seth.
The two left without once watching what Seth had in mind for the insane alter ego.
Seth was getting tired of being dragged to England by the old man. This was the third attempt, though at least he had used a different ritual. He would have had to after Seth had stolen the book he used before.
"I have said it before old man, and I'll say it again. Quit dragging me here!" growled Seth.
"If you truly are Harry, then I have no choice. We need to you to kill the Dark Lord," said the old man bluntly.
Seth noted two new people along with those who were there before. A man who had the aura of a mage bound by the chains of his wand, and what appeared to be a werewolf.
"I am not Harry Potter! I haven't been in years!" Seth said angrily.
The two new people tensed. Clearly they were more familiar to Harry than the others.
"So you are Harry. Why is it that you appeared to be in your twenties instead of your true age?" demanded the old man.
Seth growled. He was getting tired of being forced to come to England. He waved his hand, and a set of books shot to his hand. The vanished into his vault with the rest of his loot.
"Tell me this. Why the hell haven't you people dealt with this Dark Lord on your own time instead of bothering me? And why the hell should I care about some weak ass wizard?"
"Language!" barked the red haired woman.
Seth glared at her so venomously that she wilted under his gaze. Kaiba had nothing on him when he was pissed.
The two men behind her seemed nervous, as if unsure of how to proceed with this new Harry.
Once the old man explained about their dark lord, all Seth could do was ask again how it was his problem they were too chicken shit to kill him themselves.
"Now listen here...!" started the red head again.
Seth had pegged her as a meddling mother type, who tended to look down on people younger than thirty as children. After losing his village (and apparently his birth parents) to two mad men, he wasn't inclined to take any mothering very well.
"You have exactly five minutes before I take a portal home. I am not going to fight a war for some fool who's too afraid to fight for what he believes in," said Seth coldly.
The two men in the back apparently came to a decision about Seth. Right as he opened the portal, they rushed forward before anyone had the sense to do so themselves.
Seth looked at them once it was closed.
"So...who exactly are you besides a fledgeling mage and a werewolf?"
"My name is Sirius Black...this is Remus. Wait, how did you know he was a werewolf?" asked Sirius.
"For starters, he has the same aura as those cursed by the moon wolf. Also, the only people with eyes like that happen to have wolf animal forms. Now why did you follow me?"
"Are you really Harry?"
"If you are asking whether or not I was once called Harry Potter, the answer is yes. I quit using that name years ago. My name happens to be Horus...though I use the nickname Seth in order to keep that from being mangled," said Seth firmly.
"How is it that you look like you're twenty one?" asked Remus. That had been baffling him ever since Seth had told him his former name.
"I am 21. Bastet, the Egyptian Goddess of the moon and sun, cats and lower Egypt, claimed me roughly ten years ago this side of the time stream. I was raised in Ancient Egypt, roughly five thousand years into the past by my brother. Naturally I had more time to grow up, which is why I'm older than I should be."
"You were kidnapped by an Egyptian Goddess?" said Sirius in disbelief.
"Not kidnapped. From what little I remember of those...people, and I use the term as a joke...she rescued me from an abusive home. Even if I had a choice to reverse what she did and be raised normally, I wouldn't take it. I love my brother as if we were blood."
Sirius and Remus took that to heart. It was easy for Sirius to understand his position, because if he had a choice he would have preferred to be raised by James' father instead of his family.
"Well, since I have no intention of going back there and dealing with Dumbledore, what name should we call you?" asked Sirius.
"Seth. I go by Seth," he replied. Clearly they weren't going to try and change who he was just to fit their vision of who he should be.
As long as they kept that kind of attitude, he wouldn't mind hanging out with them.