Unwilling Students

Yugioh/HP Crossover

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

AN: I know it has been a while. I hope there are still some people reading this. Sad as it may sound I had to go back and re-read my last few chapters quite a few times just to get this chapter finished. That's what I get for taking too long to update. Again I will never abandon the story but I cannot promise to finish chapters in reasonable amount of time.

So here is the beginning of the aftermath of the last few chapters. And no, I did not kill everyone...but that probably won't be addressed until the next chapter.

/mindspeech one on one/
[Group Mindspeech]

Things you need to know:
Voldemort's faction included: witches, wizards, dementors, giants, inferi, werewolves, acromantula (I think those are all the official ones) Not sure if this is relevant or not yet we shall see.

Chapter 30
Aftermath…

Ministry of Magic
Previously: "I guess we have something else to tell the Minister." Albus said frowning as if trying to concentrate. He shook it off and smiled at his companion. "Come my dear lady off to see the Minister!"

"Yes, we must have order. We must see Cornelius right away." Dolores agreed as they left Hogwarts.

Cornelius couldn't quite fathom what he had just experienced. He had just had the strangest meeting with his undersecretary and the headmaster. Neither one of them had made a lot of sense. After getting the jumbled report of a fire at Hogwarts and an attack on Hogsmeade, Fudge had sent Aurors to Hogwarts and had them check in with Hogsmeade to get an idea of what was going on since neither the Headmaster nor Dolores seemed to have any real idea of what was going on. All he got was a ferret told them there was an attack. When it had been confirmed that there was an attack and the fire was out, Cornelius sent Aurors to aid the citizens of Hogsmeade.

After that he still had a seemingly drugged up undersecretary and headmaster to deal with. So like any good politician he used the situation to his advantage and some good had come of it. Somehow with whatever was ailing Dumbledore it had allowed them to come to some sort of accord. He just hoped he could hold off the reporters until after his undersecretary and the headmaster were back to normal.

Hogwarts
McGonagall was borderline panicking inside but kept a calm cool exterior on the outside. She had no idea where the Headmaster was or what had happened in Hogsmeade. All she knew was, he was not at the castle and there had been some sort of attack. She activated one of the lockdown wards on Hogwarts as soon as the staff realized something was wrong. The nice thing about this particular ward was the students could keep coming into the school but once they entered their common rooms they were locked in until the ward was reset. It also took attendance from every room that was lived in so they knew what students and staff were missing. She kept directing students either to their common rooms or sent them with the professors that she had running back and forth to the infirmary if they were injured.

An injured Severus finally made it back to the castle entrance with a stunned Moody, grumbling under his breath all the way wishing he could leave the man where he was. But he knew Dumbledore would find out sooner or later about the altercation and he would be in enough trouble as it was. No need to make it worse.

"Goodness, Severus what happened to you and Alastor?" Minerva asked concerned as she walked towards the bloody potions professor when she saw him enter the school and deposit Moody onto the ground.

Severus sighed glaring at his co-worker defensively. He would have to tell her the truth since she would find out the truth eventually. "We had a bit of an altercation and I stunned him. He is fine."

"Severus! How could you? We do not have time for childish squabbles!" Minerva admonished angrily at the foolish man while casting an enervate on the ex-auror.

Moody quickly righted himself and stood up stiffly glaring at Snape. Dumbledore would here about his pet death eater's actions today. For now he had other things to worry about and chose to ignore Snape in favor of McGonagall.

"Where is Albus? I need to speak to him immediately."

"I do not know. He and Dolores have been missing for at least an hour or two. He did not tell me that he was leaving the castle." Minerva responded worriedly.

Moody almost growled. What in the blazes was going on? "What about the mages? Have they made it back to the castle yet?" Moody asked hoping Snape was right and they hadn't escaped somehow.

"According to the lockdown scroll two of them are in their common room. The others have not returned yet that I have seen and I have been directing students since we found out there was some sort of attack. What is going on?"

"Death Eaters came to retrieve the mages it seems but brought dementors along as well creating massive amounts of chaos." Severus responded leaving out some details.

"The Ishtar boy also created absolute chaos by summoning some sort of huge dragon that was taking out anyone in its path. He alone is responsible for taking out half the town." Moody added angrily while glaring at Snape for leaving out that important little tidbit. He was seriously starting to question Snape's loyalties.

Severus glared right back. Not caring what the mage did to protect himself and the others at this point. He would reserve judgement once he heard their side of things. Though, it wouldn't look good if the Ministry got word that a foreign power helped decimate Hogsmeade, there would be even more problems for the mages.

"Enough, you two we don't have time for this! Severus, go and get yourself healed up so you can be of some use." Minerva ordered angrily wishing these two grown men could get over their issues with one another.

Severus grumbled but grudgingly followed the deputy-headmistress's orders glaring at Mad-Eye once more. Who in turn just looked at the spy suspiciously.

Alastor stayed with Minerva waiting for the other mages arrival. He had to find out what had happened and how that mage had called upon a huge dragon that took out seemingly anyone who was in the way. He had barely escaped those flames. Moody shuddered, just thinking about it. That boy might be more dangerous than Voldemort himself.

Adrian, Terrence, and Atem finally arrived back at the castle with Harry and Yugi levitating behind them thanks to the two Slytherin boys. Minerva immediately sent the two injured ones with one of the staff to the infirmary while the Slytherins were sent to their dorms leaving Atem with two very angry adults.

"Mr. Ishtar you will go with Alastor. He wishes to ask you a few questions regarding this afternoon." She said while glaring at the mage and hoping Alastor could get some answer of what in the blazes happened out there.

Regardless of what Ishtar had done himself, this attack still was the fault of him and the others since Voldemort was trying to get them back. So Minerva fumed silently wondering again why Dumbledore insisted on trying to win them over instead of handing them over to the Ministry. They belonged in Azkaban as far as she and the other order members were concerned.

Atem paled at the request. She was handing him over to that man. He would be lucky if he survived the encounter. Atem narrowed his eyes at the man dragging him to some weird room that felt laden with magic. He would fight with all that he had left.

Alastor grabbed the young king roughly and dragged him to a room not many knew of just around the Headmaster's tower. It was an interrogation room the Headmaster used for extremely dangerous wizards. Very few people knew of the room. So no one would find them until he was through with the brat.

A few minutes later Lupin wandered into the main entranceway under his glamour with more students he had found hiding from the Death Eaters and dementors.

"Are there any others missing?" Remus asked Minerva ready to head back into the chaos to find more students if need be.

Minerva stopped for a moment and pulled out the magical scroll again that seemed almost blank but still had some writing on it. She looked at the list that deleted names as students entered the dorms or infirmary. There were not many more missing. A few were missing from each of the houses.

She paused when she saw some of her Gryffindor students were also still missing. She soon relaxed when she saw most of her lions enter the main hall. A couple of the missing Slytherins and Lovegood were with them as well as two of the mages. The teens were looking terrified but in good health. She immediately separated them and sent them back to the dorms.

Instead of sending Lupin back out to find the remaining students from the four houses she had him escort Kaiba and the Nkosi girl back to the dorms. Just as Minerva was about to send a different professor out to find the remaining students Severus had returned looking much better than when he had come in.

"Severus, thank goodness you are back. I need you to find the rest of the students. There are still nine students missing. Five from Slytherin, one from Ravenclaw, two from Hufflepuff, and one from Gryffindor. Then everyone will be accounted for except the Headmaster and Dolores of course."

Severus sighed but complied. He swept out of the main entrance using his wand to help him locate the remaining students with a tracking spell. He followed the spell until he found the missing students and sighed. It looked like Draco and his merry band of future death eaters were missing something vital. He wondered if the students could get their souls back or if this was a permanent thing. He did a mass levitate and brought the bodies back to Hogwarts. Minerva almost had a stroke upon finding out what had happened to the remaining students. She followed Severus to the infirmary ranting and raving about keeping the Dark Lord's allies at the castle. Severus just tuned her out since he knew the truth of the matter.

Mages Dorm
Bakura had been pacing the dorm room since the castle's magic had locked him, Ryou, and Marik in. He was not positive but he had a feeling it had to do with whatever was happening in Hogsmeade. He hoped the others were alright. They were too far away for the mind links to be of any use and so he paced. He was awaiting the others return while Ryou was upstairs watching over Marik. Finally after what seemed like an eternity the entrance opened and in came the High Priest and a shaken looking Mana being escorted by Lupin.

"What in Ra's name is going on out there? Where are the others?"

"Voldemort's attack was more brutal than expected. We are not sure. Yugi and Marik got into some trouble and the Pharaoh went to help them." Seto said as he and Mana sat down on the couches.

"Marik is here. Voldie got his hands on him and he was injured. The bracelet returned him to the castle." Akefia said leaving out the part that Ryou was also upstairs since Lupin was standing watch close by.

"I would assume Yugi is with the Pharaoh but they should have been back by now. When we last spoke he was headed back." Seto responded slightly distracted as he opened up his link looking for his connection to Atem except it was closed completely. Then he tried Yugi, there was nothing.

"Something is wrong the links are closed off. I cannot feel either one of them." Seto stated as he stood and began to pace worried for his family.

"Professor, do you know if they arrived safely?" Mana asked while continuing to try and open her connection with the boys as well.

Lupin sighed loudly. "I have not seen them. I will go see if I can find out what happened." Lupin said as he quickly exited the dorm room and searched for Snape to see what he could find out.

After searching the main entrance and great hall Remus finally found Snape stuck in the infirmary helping Madame Pomphrey. The infirmary looked like it had been expanded to fit all the injured and traumatized students comfortably. Pomphrey had everyone sorted out by severity of ailment with the most severe in the back where he found Severus who was running diagnostics to determine if soul loss was due to dementors or other magical factors.

"Ah, Severus sorry to interrupt but I was wondering about the location of two of the mages." He asked while Severus still had his back to him as he ran one final diagnostic.

"What are you talking about? They all returned to the castle, so they should be in the common room except for Mister. Mutou. He is currently in some sort of healing coma in here next to Mister Potter. Who is missing?" Severus asked as he looked up from what he was doing with a sense of dread beginning to fill him.

"Atem Ishtar is missing. He has not reported to the common room yet." Remus replied suddenly distracted wondering how Harry was doing. He hadn't known that Harry was injured.

Severus paled. That did not bode well at all. Did Minerva or Moody take the boy to interrogate him? He figured interrogations would wait until the Headmaster had returned and everything was settled.

"Potter is in a healing coma as well. He should be fine." Severus told the worried looking werewolf realizing Lupin was distracted. "As far as Mister Ishtar I am not sure but Moody was in a fit of rage after the events at Hogsmeade. He may have taken the boy for an interrogation."

Severus suddenly grabbed his left forearm in pain and glared at it. The Dark Lord's timing couldn't get any worse.

"I guess I should go find Minerva and see if she knows what happened to the boy." Remus said realizing Severus wouldn't be able to help him find the mage with Voldemort calling.

"That would be wise. I will return as quickly as possible. Hopefully Moody doesn't have the boy." Severus gritted out his words in pain. He wanted to help Lupin find the boy not grovel at his master's feet.

Remus left to find Minerva while Severus left to see the Dark Lord. The Death Eaters had failed their master once again. This would not be a pleasant meeting.

Voldemort's Mansion
Last time…
Voldemort was getting impatient. He was tired of waiting for another mage to arrive. What was going on? Why had no others appeared? Had something happened? Then suddenly he got his answer.

Death Eaters came pouring in and with them bodies of their comrades in arms. Something had gone wrong. Terribly wrong….

"I want a report now!" Voldemort demanded as he looked around the room that was in complete chaos.

Everyone froze when they heard their Lord's angry voice.

"My Lord everything was going fine we were creating chaos and had found some of your targets but then suddenly a giant light came down surrounding one of our targets and a huge dragon appeared. It immediately took everyone in the surrounding area. We had no choice but to retreat."

"What! What do you mean took?" Voldemort asked rubbing his wand in between his fingers just itching to use it on someone to let out his rage at yet again another failure.

"We think their souls My Lord. The bodies are still alive but they are empty and when you do a diagnostic it is not from dementors."

"You're telling me that those mages have a soul stealing dragon! Crucio!" Voldemort whispered to the poor idiot that was brave or stupid enough to give the report.

Voldemort finally let the curse go, knowing he couldn't damage his followers too badly with his Death Eaters dropping like flies every time they encountered the mages. It made no sense Dumbledore was keeping their powers under control how had one of them broken free? Voldemort paced thinking while trying to calm his rage. He needed an edge over Dumbledore and those mages.

He had to think, what did he know about the mages magick? Too little unfortunately, all the information he desired was with the Medjai tribes and those blasted mages, except the veil. That was of Egyptian origin from that mysterious time period where history had been erased. He wanted their magicks for himself of course, but their true strength seemed to be within the creatures they could summon. He wanted access to those creatures the mages kept calling on. Imagine an army of monsters that no one seemed able to defeat. Based on what they did know those creatures were tied to the shadow powers the mages had. He turned back to his followers. He needed to change his plans a bit.

"Rookwood!"

"Yes my lord" He said as he stepped in front of the throne and bowed while silently hoping he would not be punished for his Lord's anger.

"I have a change in plans. I have another mission for you. Someone else will take charge of attacking Egypt."

"But my Lord the secrets, the power we could gain…I know what we are looking for in Egypt." Rookwood caught himself wondering what the hell was wrong with him; did he seriously just question the Dark Lord?

"Do not question me! Do not worry. We will go after the scrolls and that book but someone else can gather those for you. Those mages will pay one way or another and we will start with their people. You will have your chance to destroy them all, however I think it would be best for you to focus on the Department of Mysteries. You said you recognized that archway in Wormtail's memories did you not?"

"Yes I did. It lies in the DOM but when I was an unspeakable I never got to study it all that much. But now…" Rookwood's eyes gleamed in anticipation.

This mystery could quite possibly be figured out just from the memories and some in depth research of the archway. They had all assumed it was a gateway to the afterlife but what if it was something else? What if the ancients had found a way to access the Shadowlands. Knowledge to access any otherworldly realm had been lost to time or so he thought.

"Yes those are my thoughts as well. If we could discover the powers of the veil and what it truly does it might just level the playing field against those mages. They are dangerous while in Dumbledore's clutches and it seems very resourceful. Rookwood get in there and find out what that thing does and how we can use it to our advantage!"

"Yes, my lord." Rookwood said as he backed up eyes gleaming in anticipation of the new mystery he would unlock. He began planning in his head as his lord called another follower.

"Dolohov!" Voldemort yelled thinking he would need one of his more bloodthirsty followers for the mission to Egypt.

Antonin came quickly to the dais where his lord was and bowed respectfully. "My lord?"

"You will take a team to Egypt. I want those scrolls and that book! You will find them and slaughter anyone who stands in your way."

"As you wish, my lord." Antonin said with a gleam in his eyes. He would bring death and destruction to those pathetic muggles who would dare hide magical secrets from them.

Voldemort looked over the rest of his followers and barked out orders to get the soulless and injured put in the medical wing. He wanted to keep the bodies alive. There had to be some way to restore his followers' souls. He assigned one of his more intelligent followers to find a way and if not they made great cannon fodder when he finally made his move against the Ministry and Hogwarts. He used one of his followers to call his spy to him once more and waited. He did not have to wait very long.

"Ah, Severus how nice of you to join me." Voldemort hissed to his potions master.

Severus quickly bowed to the Dark Lord and waited with baited breath to see what his master wanted now.

"Rise Severus. I have a task for you."

Severus rose with trepidation. What could he possibly want now? He strengthened his mental shields and awaited his orders.

"Severus I need information and you are going to get it for me. I want you to delve into the mind of the one they call Pharaoh and see what he knows about his powers and the monsters he controls. I want to know everything. Where the creatures come from, how he controls them, where his power comes from, can souls be returned, where are the souls that have been taken? Also see if he knows something about the serpent crown. We may need it."

"My lord, please Dumbledore hasn't gotten past their mental shields. I am not sure I could." Severus pleaded not wanting to even try this. He was also curious about what the serpent crown was but didn't dare ask.

"Do not question me. You are far stronger than Dumbledore in occlumency and legilimency. How else could you keep the old fool thinking you were on his side? I want answers and you will get them for me." Voldemort demanded as he fingered his wand idly.

"Forgive me, my lord. I will do as you ask." Severus said bowing once more.

"See that you do. And Severus, never question me again. Crucio." The Dark Lord whispered malevolently while he taught his spy a lesson.

Hogwarts
Severus had finally arrived back in his quarters. It was late. Dinner was over with. He was in pain, hungry, and exhausted. He quickly downed a potion for the pain and tremors and fell ungracefully into his armchair. He closed his eyes and rested his sore body but soon enough his peace was suddenly shattered by a knocking at his door.

Severus slowly made it to the door only to find Lupin. He scowled at the man. "Is there something you need that cannot wait until morning?"

Remus felt bad but he had not found the missing mage. "I am sorry Severus but I have yet to locate Mr. Ishtar and Minerva told me that Moody took him for questioning. She has no idea where he was taken."

"I will search for the boy. Go get some rest. I will bring him to his dorm once I heal whatever Moody has likely done to the boy." Severus growled while hoping the mage was still alive.

He worried where Atem could be if Lupin couldn't find him with his stronger senses. Where could they have gone? Atem was not currently trapped by the bracelet. There was the possibility that he took him off Hogwarts grounds. 'No he wouldn't do that.' Severus thought to himself. They have to still be in the castle. What was warded enough to keep a werewolf from finding them. Severus could only think of a handful of places and so began his search. At least all the inhabitants of the castle were still locked in their common rooms.

He finally came to the Headmaster's private interrogation room. He was one of the few who knew about this room and Albus' slightly darker side when he had someone in there. He used his magical signature to enter and paused at the sight before him. Moody was on the ground dead, unconscious, or soulless. Who knew and the mage was chained to the wall, hopefully only unconscious. He cast diagnostics on both and found Moody soulless and the boy surprisingly had little wrong with him. He would need some healing but it could have been worse. Severus cast a stasis charm on Moody and left him there. The Headmaster could deal with Moody whenever he returned to the school. He freed the mage and carried the boy to his chambers. He had everything he needed there along with peace and quiet. Severus sighed it was going to be a long day tomorrow when the shit hits the fan, as many muggles would put it.

AN: So Severus has Atem alone. No puzzle to protect his mind anymore. What will he see? or Will he ignore his orders from the most powerful dark wizard of all time?