Unwilling Students

Yugioh/HP Crossover

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Yu-gi-oh or any other references I may make.

AN: So here is the original Chapter 6 with some additions that I am hoping fix the future chapters which had some serious plot holes.

Anything relating to Gryphons I picked up off of wow, modern lore, and Mercedes Lackey's take on gryphons.

I hope you are all still interested. Please let me know what you think. Thank you everyone.

/mindspeech one on one/

[Group Mindspeech]

Things you need to know:

My Hierarchy for shadow court: Pharaoh-High Priest-Council of Priests-High Chieftain-Medjai Chieftains

Heir Presumptive (which is different from heir apparent): Seto, Yugi, Mokuba (in that order) assuming Atem and Mana don't have children in this lifetime.

Egyptian Arc Anime: I believe was Pharaoh-Vizier-Sacred Guardians (high priests plural?)

School Schedule:

MWF: (Potions with Slytherin, DADA with Slytherin, Transfiguration with Ravenclaw, Free period because I only gave them one elective)

Tuesday and Thursday: (HOM with Hufflepuff maybe or ravenclaw, Herbology with Slytherin, Charms with Hufflepuff, COMC with all houses)

6pm dinner. I think canon is way too early. Just my personal opinion.

Chapter 12

Seto, Ryou, and Marik woke up the next day to find Atem and Yugi still out cold. They went down to their common area refusing to go to the Great Hall for breakfast. Severus anticipating that the mages probably were not feeling overly social sent for Dobby to bring breakfast when he arrived at the dorm.

"How are Mr. Ishtar and Mr. Mutou doing?

"Not awake yet. What does it look like?" Seto said abrasively while glaring at their captor.

"Will you three be attending classes this morning?" Severus asked more cautiously seeing as Kaiba was already in a pissy mood.

"Not a chance." snapped Marik looking up at the man sharply from where he was sitting.

"I see." Severus said pursing his lips.

"If the Pharaoh and little prince wake up we may attend Charms and Care of Magical Creatures." Bakura said not really thinking about what he was saying or to whom.

Severus looked at Ryou funny at the slip up but did not say anything. Seto smacked Bakura behind the head. (Think Gibbs and DiNozzo NCIS smack)

"What was that for, Priest?" Bakura snapped immediately irritated at the High Priest.

"Think before you speak, Ryou." Seto said resisting his own urges to call the thief Tomb Robber and enunciating his name.

Snape just sighed he knew he was missing the whole picture as to who these teens really were but at least they reconfirmed who three of them were obviously descended from. Mr. Mutou had to be a cousin not that that wasn't obvious from their similar looks. The other two he had no clue except that they descended from ancient Egyptians from around the same time period. What was strange was the use of the nicknames in the first place and the hesitancy to use them in front of others even though it seemed to be habit. It just made no sense since Egypt hadn't had a royal family in power since the 1952 coup. He supposed he could find out by probing their minds but he wasn't sure how strong their mind magics were.

"The Headmaster may give you trouble for skipping classes."

"We really don't care." Seto sneered.

"Of course…" Snape replied drily.

"Snape what kind of spells do you think the old man put on these bracelets?" Seto asked changing the subject and attitude.

Severus blinked at the change in the teen's cold demeanor but answered. "They are most likely far older than the typical modern magic that is learned here however, I doubt it's as old as your magic. Very few wizards know olde magic anymore. Most of it has been banned by the ministry," Severus frowned at the ministries inability to realize that olde magic didn't mean evil but then continued on. "You may be able to remove the truth charm but I highly doubt you will be able to find a spell that will release you from not being able to leave the castle and the binding spell he used on your powers. Dumbledore is an intelligent man and I doubt you will find the spells he used in any books we have available here."

"Will you help us get at least the truth charm off?" Yugi asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

Severus sighed but didn't see much harm in it. "I have classes to get to but I can help you get started. Dobby!"

"Yes Master Snape." answered a bouncy elf as he popped in.

"Can you sneak some books about truth spells out of the library for the boys to do some research?"

"Of course!" bounced Dobby.

"And Dobby do not tell the headmaster anything should he call on you." Snape warned.

"I know to be cautious with the deceitful one. Harry Potter has warned me. Dobby is happy to help Harry Potter's friends." Dobby said seriously.

Relieved knowing Dobby's true loyalties Snape left for his classes and Dobby brought the books and left the mages to do their research. Ryou and Marik dug in while Seto emailed Mokuba.

Mokuba,
How are things on your end? Have the tomb keeper and guardian made any progress? Things are ok here. Atem and Yugi were injured last night. The old fool is trying to control us and tortured Atem to make his point. Please do not let Mana see this she will flip out. It is time for me to help with some research. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Seto

Just before lunch Atem and Yugi finally awoke and got ready for the day. Yugi greeted everyone as he came down the stairs.

"It's about time! Do you know how worried were?" Seto yelled relieved that his family was actually alright.

"We are fine Seto." Yugi said trying to pacify the irritated priest.

"Should we appear for lunch or stay here?" Atem asked coming up behind Yugi still feeling a bit sluggish from last night's escapade.

"Are you two up to the great hall?" Ryou asked them wondering if that was really such a great idea while looking them over for any signs of pain or fatigue.

"I think we can manage." Atem said simply.

The mages grabbed their Charms and COMC books, threw them in their bags, and headed for the Great Hall.

Severus walked up to them in the hallway genuinely surprised that they were out and about. He smiled slightly at the teens relieved that they were alright. "See you for tutoring tonight then."

"Ah, Severus how good of you to join us today." Albus greeted jovially.

Severus just scowled at the Headmaster still not overly pleased with him over last night's torture session.

The five mages greeted everyone at the Gryffindor table including Luna who had decided to eat with them today. Luna sitting with the Gryffindor students really didn't faze anyone anymore since they were used to her quirkiness by now. After lunch everyone headed down to Charms.

The mages entered into the narrow looking charms classroom and eyed the professor warily. They were not sure how this professor would treat them so they stayed on guard and sat as close to the door as possible. Fortunately Flitwick was not as overly aggressive as McGonagall had been. He tested the teens on how much Severus and Remus had covered and moved them onto the next lesson. Over-all the class went smoothly and they enjoyed themselves to some extent once they realized it was ok to relax a bit. The mages did their spells with little difficulty and ignored the class and professor as much as possible.

Care of Magical Creatures was the best class for the mages since the class was outside and they had not been out since their kidnapping. For class Hagrid introduced gryphons. They were beautiful majestic creatures. Hagrid seemed to have found quite a few of them. One had a body and feathers as pure as the whitest snow. Another had a chocolate brown color with maroon highlights. There was also a golden gryphon and an ebon gryphon that had all black feathers and a dark brown color on the lion part of its body. And then there was one as black as the darkest night. The five Egyptians were enthralled with the powerful creatures.

The gryphons watched as the students arrived to see them. They were quite amused by the different reactions from the students. They were also amused by the audacity of the two teens approaching them in a trance like state until they sensed the presence of ancient magic and spirits. The gryphons were surprised when they realized these two boys were ancient Pharaohs of Egypt. Some of their packs ancestors had protected the Pharaohs of Egypt and fought in wars with them.

"By Ra they are beautiful," Atem said while entranced by the regal creatures as he began to approach them.

"Indeed," Seto acknowledged just as enthralled.

There were not many gryphons in Egypt during his or Atem's reign. There had been a few smaller packs that lived around the capitol and Nile area but most lived in the Assyrian, Scythian, and Persian empires to protect the emperors and kings they were loyal too. He too tried to get closer to the small group of Gryphons.

Unfortunately Professor Umbridge ruined the moment, "hem hem. Professor what is the relevance of these creatures seeing as they were not native creatures of England?"

Hagrid tried to explain himself but she just tutted and wrote things down.

Hagrid having no choice continued on with his lesson, "What do you lot know of gryphons?

Hermione, Atem, Seto, and Draco put their hands up. Hagrid called on Hermione ignoring the others.

"Gryphons are magical creatures that have the head and forelegs of an eagle, a lion's hind legs and body, and powerful wings of eagles and hawks. They can live for about 200 years and they also generally run in packs of 5-30 gryphons," Hermione said in her know-it-all tone.

"Very good, Hermione. Five points to Gryffindor." Hagrid praised.

He then told his class that they were very intelligent and had the ability to speak if they so desired but one had to truly earn their loyalty. As Hagrid continued on with his lecture Professor Umbridge continued to interrupt his class by asking the students questions about his teaching methods and if he always brought in such dangerous creatures. Malfoy and some other Slytherin students spoke loudly against Hagrid. The mages ignored her and the others along with the golden trio. They listened to Hagrid's lecture in rapt attention. Once Hagrid finished his lecture he asked for a volunteer to come touch one of the gryphons.

"I doubt anyone wants to get mauled by one of those dumb beasts," scoffed Malfoy loudly for everyone to hear.

"Gryphons are highly intelligent creatures and I doubt they appreciate being called dumb," snapped an irate Atem as he squared off with the blond Slytherin.

Suddenly the snowy gryphon interrupted the argument by getting in between Atem and Draco.

"We will see how you feel when that thing sends you to the hospital wing you filthy mudblood," sneered Draco as he backed off from the snowy gryphon.

"Now lad, just stay still and ya should be fine." Hagrid told the mage nervously as he began walking towards the gryphon slowly so as not to provoke her. Evil or not Hagrid did not want the mage to get hurt.

But Atem was too enthralled to listen to Hagrid or Harry warning him to watch out. The gryphon stopped a foot away and bowed to the young Pharaoh. No one was expecting that. Atem showed faint surprise at the proud creature's actions. The others stared dumbfounded at the gryphon's actions. They couldn't fathom what in the world was going on.

(Greetings Young Pharaoh, a melodic female spoke in his head.)
(You know who I am? Atem said in surprise.)
(Of course. We can sense your ancient spirit along with your successor. Replied the snowy gryphon)
(What is your name sacred one? Atem asked the gryphon respectfully)
(My name is Verenna.)

"Well then I guess she has taken a liking to ya," Hagrid said with relief and surprise in his voice.

Atem felt an immediate bond with the snowy white gryphon. He touched her feathers gently and Verenna preened under his attention. She stayed close to Atem for the remainder of the lesson. The ebon gryphon Sakima did the same with Seto who was just as astonished as Atem at the gryphon's behavior.

Hagrid finished his lesson and assigned a report on their historical origins and significance. As the students left, Verenna and Sakima followed Atem and Seto to the entrance of the castle and said their goodbyes verbally, which surprised the golden trio a bit since the gryphons had not spoken a single word until now.

"Why did those gryphons follow you two to the castle?" Hermione asked as the gryphons flew off towards Hagrid's hut.

"They were just curious as to where we were going and wanted to be sure it was safe," Atem said in his usual confident tone.

"How could you possibly know that?" Ron asked curiously looking at the spikey haired teen like he had grown a second head.

"They told us," Seto stated like it was the most obvious answer.

The three Gryffindors just looked at the boys unsure what to think. The teens all headed to the Great Hall for dinner in a much lighter mood than they had been since they had been kidnapped. Though, their mood quickly soured as they ate. Every few minutes they kept getting mental prods that were starting to annoy the mages. Atem and Seto looked up to the head table suspiciously and saw Dumbledore staring intently at them.

[That fool is trying to get past our mental protections. Seto snarled mentally who was starting to get a nasty headache from all the attempts.]

[Let's just get out of here. Suggested Marik not wanting to deal with Dumbledore and his mental prodding fearing their secrets could be discovered.]

The teens all mentally agreed and got up saying their goodbyes to the others. The twins noticed that something was wrong and quickly disappeared following their new friends to their dorm room. The mages were surprised to see the twins but grateful for their new friends.

"What happened out there?" Fred asked frowning at the somber mood of the mages.

"The old fool tried breaking into our minds repeatedly to discover our secrets." Atem told the twins with an undertone of barely suppressed rage.

"He can do that? The persona he shows just makes it all so hard to believe sometimes even though we know he is not the kind person he would have everyone believe." George said in complete shock even more disturbed by the headmaster.

"Today was nothing compared to what he did to Atem last night. Did Harry tell you what happened? Yugi said as he shuddered a bit remembering the pain.

"No, what happened?" the twin's said together almost dreading the answer.

The mages explained the day before and the twins were horrified. "Well I know we can't do much but…" Fred began with that evil glint of mischief in his eyes.

"We can certainly find ways to make the staffs' lives much more difficult." George finished for his brother.

"Chaos is our specialty." They said together grinning manically.

So they all sat in the dorm and plotted ways to make the Headmaster and other staff members lives miserable. The twins helped them come up with a fun and harmless little prank for that Friday. Since it was only the first prank afterall.

Severus walked in at 7pm and saw the manic gleams in the twins' eyes. "Does that look mean I need to feign illness sometime this week Mr. Weasleys?" Snape inquired smirking at the two Weasley boys.

He actually got along with the twins not that anyone knew that. What most teachers never seemed to realize was that these boys were geniuses in their own way. When he discovered their talent for potions and inventing he had immediately taken them under his wing for partial immunity. To the outside world they were always in trouble and at odds with each other.

They just smiled evilly. "I will take that as a yes." sighed Severus. "I don't suppose you will have mercy on me?" Snape asked hoping he didn't have to endure whatever they had planned.

"Beware the breakfast food at the end of the week." George said proudly smirking evilly.

"I really should not allow this but I will disappear on Friday." Snape said not really meaning it. The twins knew he would not interfere. The twins were truly some of the few students who got to see underneath the mask that Snape had to wear constantly for the sake of his spying.

Lupin entered shortly after the prank conversation and apologized for his tardiness. He explained that he felt like Umbridge was suspicious of him but he was sure she hadn't seen through his glamour. Severus suggested he take the twins to do some homework while he worked with the mages.

The twins had soon grown bored with homework and decided to do some research with the books that were lying around the common room to see if they could help the mages. About an hour later the twins had found some truth spells.

Fred: Hey look what…
George: we found.
Fred: It is called Velieris Verum

"What is that?" Seto asked not knowing the Latin phrase off the top of his head.

"It's an older truth charm that can be cast on someone or objects." Lupin explained.

George: It gives the counter curse…
Fred: It's Verum Ostendo Sum

"This might be the right one but to test it could be dangerous. You would have to tell someone who doesn't know about you the truth." Fred said thinking about how that could cause all sorts of problems.

"And while our friends are great and all…" George began.

"We are not sure how they would take this kind of news. Most Gryffindors look up to Dumbledore and see him as someone who is incapable of ever doing anything wrong." Fred finished wondering who could really be trusted with this type of delicate information.

"There has to be someone trustworthy and not loyal to the headmaster that they could safely tell?" Remus said thinking out loud and slightly frustrated because the headmaster really did have most of the school and wizarding world under his thumb.

"Potter would probably have an idea. With everything going on with him this year I am sure he has a general idea of who is trustworthy." Severus suggested looking to see what the mages were thinking since they had been fairly quiet during this discussion.

"Well there is one way to find out I suppose." Atem said speaking for everyone.

"Dobby" Severus called.

"Yes Master Snape." Dobby said as he popped in.

"Can you bring Mr. Potter here and have him bring someone he explicitly trusts to not betray him?" asked Severus.

Potter walked in with a confused looking Hermione Granger a few minutes later.

"Are you sure Mr. Potter?" Severus asked unsure if that was the case.

"Positive," Harry assured.

"Harry?" Hermione questioned unsure what was going on.

"Don't worry Hermione. Just trust me on this one." Harry smiled at the girl trying to reassure her.

"Alright let's try the first spell. Yugi will you hold out your arm please?" asked Lupin. He touched the gold bracelet to his wand and said "Verum Ostendo Sum." The bracelet lit up bright blue and then faded. "I think it worked."

"We will know soon enough." Seto responded not really getting his hopes up just yet.

Hermione was bit confused but waited to see what it was she was brought here for. "Alright Kaiba try and tell her the truth." Lupin requested.

"I am a dark wizard that works for Lord Voldemort." Seto stated again startled at what actually came out of his mouth versus what he was trying to say. Hermione gasped and inched closer to Harry for support. Lupin reassured the girl and continued.

"Ok let's try Yugi and see if the truth comes out." said Lupin.

Hermione looked a bit frightened and confused still but listened trusting in Harry and her professors.

"We were all kidnapped by Dumbledore and we do not work for Voldemort." Yugi stated happily as the words he wanted to say actually came out.

"Sweet it worked!" George said excitedly.

Lupin cast the spell on the rest of them. They all sighed in relief; it was one less spell to worry about. After the spells were cast everyone sat down, Dobby brought them pumpkin juice.

"What is going on?" Hermione asked clearly flustered not understanding what was happening.

"Well we were kidnapped for "protection" against your dark lord and brought here by Dumbledore, those two (Atem pointing at Snape and Lupin) and three other guys," Atem said.

"He bound our magic so we can barely use it and trapped us in this castle with these bracelets we have stuck on us," Marik added.

"I have seen you all use your magic in class and you all seem to do fine," Hermione said confused.

"Remember this is our first time ever using your kind of magic. We know a different branch of magic that originates from Egypt. Magic is practiced differently there. We are all from Egypt though some of us have lived in Japan most of our lives," finished Ryou.

Hermione was horrified at what had happened to these boys. How could the Headmaster have done something like this? "And you three knew about this?" She questioned with a slightly hurt look in her eyes as she looked at Harry and the twins.

"Sorry Hermione but we were not allowed to tell anyone. We found out accidently." Harry said feeling bad about not saying anything especially since he had yet to tell her about what he learned over the summer. Though he only planned on telling her only about Dumbledore. He had no intention of telling her abut Ron and Ginny yet, it would make it too difficult to keep up the charade.

"You understand Miss Granger that you are not to speak of this to anyone, not even your other little friends." Severus bit out cutting off her train of thought as she was about to go into a barrage of questions.

"Of course Professor. I will not tell anyone." She said sincerely though she still had a mountain of questions but looked over to Harry who seemed to understand and gave her a silent que that he would explain everything later.

Professor Snape deciding it was getting late ushered her and the others out for the night needing to head out as he felt his dark mark suddenly burn.

When everyone left for the evening Seto checked his email and almost cringed seeing who it was from. "Pharaoh this is for you," he said as he handed his laptop over. Atem looked at the email and paled. Mana was pissed.

"I think we need to escape sooner than later. She wants to tear down the whole Ra damned school." Atem told everyone cringing as he finished the email.

"She is a tad possessive." stated Seto smirking with amusement.

"You think." Atem replied sarcastically. "I had better respond to her. I do not want her coming here and getting caught also. That's all we need is for Dumbledore to get a hold of the other shadow wielders." Atem said.

Mana,
Yugi and I are fine now. Please love; do not endanger yourself or the others. We will find a way out of here. We already got rid of one of the spells and hopefully will be able to get rid of the other spells soon. I will hopefully see you soon. Keep up on your studies. Stay safe.
Love,
Atem

"Hopefully she calms down," Atem said handing the laptop back to Seto.

"As much as I want out of here I don't want the students hurt or worse." Yugi said.

"Dumbledore is counting on our unwillingness to hurt innocents to help keep us here." Bakura said. The others nodded in agreement and hoped to get out of here without the castle being attacked.

Elsewhere…
Severus rushed to his private quarters to grab his Death Eater garb and practically sprinted out of the castle to the apparition point. The burning was getting worse. He was a bit late and the Dark Lord was none too pleased. He finally made it to his destination and quickly entered the room where the Dark Lord held meetings.

"Ah Severus so good of you to finally make it." Voldemort hissed as his follower came to halt and bowed to him.

"I apologize my lord." Severus said with his eyes down sounding completely submissive while he awaited his punishment. After waiting for what seemed like eternity Severus looked up surprised when no curses came and thanked the Dark Lord for his mercy and backed into a small circle of Death Eaters.

"Now as most of you know tomorrow night is the night. Our brothers in arms will be rejoining us. Unfortunately they will not be in spectacular health. That is partially why I have called you here Severus. Tomorrow night I will need to you to bring many healing potions and help the others recuperate." Voldemort explained quickly wanting to get to the rest of the meeting. They were prepared for the tomorrow's endeavor.

"As you wish, my lord." Severus responded internally berating himself for not knowing about tomorrows break out. Now it was too late if he said something to Dumbledore it would cost him his life.

Voldemort immediately moved onto the next topic. "Rookwood Report. Have you found anything useful on those shadow mages and their magic?"

Rookwood stepped forward to give his report. "I have found no additional information regarding shadow magic itself outside of what we already know. It seems the knowledge disappeared along with the history of that entire time period. We will probably have to get it directly from the mages themselves." Rookwood quickly continued realizing the angry look he was getting from his lord. "However, I did find something else in the Book of the Dead that might be useful once you have completed the ritual."

"And what might that be?" Voldemort hissed getting impatient with his follower.

"I found an easier way for you to attain the mages power for our cause. You won't need to control them, all you have to do is strip them of their powers and imbue the power into yourself and four others. No one would be able to stop you if you controlled their power instead of them." Rookwood explained while watching his lords face carefully to see if he was pleased.

"Interesting. And how do we do this?" Voldemort asked preferring this idea instead of having to deal with unwilling servants.

"It seems there is a spell that has to be chanted by the person taking in the power and a potion that will have to be taken by the one with the power to be done. I am working on the translation still and will have them both done soon my lord."

"Excellent. Keep working on it then. I want it done soon so Severus can get started on the potion aspect of it. I also want people to keep searching on the history of shadow magick. I want to know everything there is to know about it. Wormtail, Alecto, and Avery go back to Egypt and keep looking." Voldemort ordered as he turned to Severus once more.

"Severus, go back to Dumbledore. Speak of nothing about tomorrow's plans however you will need to give him something so tell him of my plans for the mages. That should keep the old fool busy." Voldemort said clearly dismissing his spy.

"As you wish, my lord." Severus bowed and headed out. He wished he could stay for the rest of the meeting, obviously something else was going to happen soon but he and no clue what it was.

"Now for our next project," the Dark Lord said to the others. "We need to get the mages and that is no small task. However I think I have some ideas. Once we get the others out of Azkaban we will strike Hogwarts. The mages will belong to us soon. Lucius and Nott stay with me for a while longer and we will make our plans to infiltrate Hogwarts." Voldemort said with a manic look to his facial features.