Chapter 10: - Polyjuice Potion and Hatching Eggs
Harry woke up Sunday morning to find the hospital wing blazing with winter sunlight and his arm re-boned but very stiff. He sat up and looked over to Colin and Rebecca's beds. They were blocked from view by the curtains Harry and Yugi had changed behind yesterday. He looked over to Yugi, who was still sleeping deeply.
Madam Pomfrey saw Harry was awake and bustled over, with his breakfast tray, then began stretching Harry's arm and fingers. "All in order." She said quietly, as Yugi stirred and Harry fed himself clumsily with his left hand. "Once you've finished eating, you may leave."
Yugi blinked at them sleepily and Madam Pomfrey examined him, finally accepting his full recovery and getting him breakfast. The two boys dressed as quickly as possible and hurried off to Gryffindor tower, desperate to tell the others about Colin, Rebecca and Dobby, but they weren't there. The pair left to look for them, wondering where they could have got to and Harry felt slightly hurt that they weren't interested in whether he had his bones back or not. Yami had inquired how Yugi was the moment he'd woken up. Yugi had told them that Harry was fully recovered and he was feeling fine.
'Boh?'
Master! You're awake! Kuriboh sounded worried.
'What happened to Rebecca last night? Does Minneola know?' Yugi asked, worried, it wasn't like Kuriboh to worry about anything.
The Emerald Dragon will not wake, and he seems to be ill, I cannot sense him and only Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon can. We don't know what's wrong!
'Rebecca got petrified last night, could they be connected?' Yugi asked, further concerned, he knew there was a link between Duel Monsters and their partners but they had yet to test it since both Joey and Kaiba had argued against testing the link. Could their lifeforces be connected?
We don't know. Mahado and Mana have theories but we don't actually know. The Spellcasters think they read about a monster that could petrify or kill a person a very long time ago but aren't sure.
'Thanks.'
As they passed the library, Percy Weasley strolled out of it, looking in far better spirits then last time they'd met.
"Hello Harry, Yugi, great flying yesterday, really excellent. Gryffindor have just taken the lead for the House Cup, you earned 50 points between you."
"You haven't seen the gang, have you?" Harry asked.
"No, I haven't," Said Percy, his smile fading, "I hope Ron's not in another girl's toilet." Yugi just laughed and Percy walked out of sight, then rushed to Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. They couldn't see why the gang would be there again, but after making sure no one was around to see them, Yugi opened the door and the two boys heard their voices coming from seemingly nowhere.
"It's us." Harry said, closing the door behind them. There was a clunk, a splash and a gasp from thin air and then a few muttered words, Hermione appeared from out of no where, "Harry, Yugi! You gave us a fright!" She waved her wand and the invisibility spell vanished, revealing the entire group. Kari waved and smiled at them.
"Harry! Yugi! How are you both?"
"Fine." Harry said, joining the large group at the back of the room, inside an end cubicle Hermione joined Kari next to a cauldron which was perched on an old toilet and a crackling under the rim told the two boys they'd lit a fire underneath. While Kari had mastered warming spells, favouring "Chaleur" as the most effective, portable waterproof fires were Hermione's specialty.
"Refracting spell please, girls!" Joey said, Hermione and Kari laughed and they worked together, placing the spell on the group and the cauldron as a team.
"It's not a true invisibility spell, it's a combination of Shadow Magic and a light refracting spell." Kari said, "We'd've come to meet you but we decided to get started on the Polyjuice potion." She explained, "Yugi had told Yami you'd fully recovered and were going to be let out so we thought we'd make an early start."
"Sorry for cutting you off earlier, Yugi. Professor Dumbledore interrupted me." Their monsters were nowhere in sight, neither was a certain Egyptian Princess.
"Where's Ombre?" Harry asked, looking around.
"With Ryou." Kari said shortly, her mind link was blocked at the moment so she had no idea other then that.
Harry and Yugi started explaining about Rebecca and Colin, but Yami interrupted, "We already know, we heard Professor McGonagall telling Professor Flitwick this morning and then Professor Dumbledore wanted to talk to our Duel Monsters and explained. That's why we decided we'd better get going…"
"What's wrong with Minneola?" Yugi asked, Yami would have a better idea then he did.
"I don't know, but Hagrid is taking care of him. It took some work getting him down from the roof this morning, it took all the monsters to get him down." Yami said.
"The sooner we get a confession out of Malfoy the better," Snarled Joey, "I bet he was such a foul mood after the Quidditch match he took it out on Rebecca and Colin."
"There's something else," Yugi said, watching the two girls tearing up bundles of knotgrass and throwing them into the potion, "Dobby paid us a visit last night." The gang looked at them, amazed. The pair explained everything, including everything that Dobby had said, or not said.
"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened before?" Asked Hermione. Yugi nodded.
"That settles it," Said Ron triumphantly, "Lucius Malfoy must've opened the Chamber when he was at school here and now he's told dear old Draco, and probably Bakura, how to open it. Wish Dobby'd told you what sort of monster was in there though. I'd like to know how it's getting around without being seen."
Yami was watching Yugi carefully, concern in his eyes. Yugi hadn't been going to tell Yami what Dobby had said about him going home, but Harry had dropped him in it, Yugi knew he'd probably to have to explain at some point.
"So Dobby stopped us getting on the train and broke your arm?" Ron asked, "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life, he's going to kill you!"
"And now he wants to help Yugi too? Be careful pal, his help lands people in trouble." Joey said, with a small smile to Yugi.
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The news about Rebecca and Colin spread through the entire school by Monday morning. The air was thick with suspicion and fear. The first-years were moving around the school in groups. Ginny Weasley was distraught, unsurprising considering one of the victims was her best friend. Fred and George were going about cheering her up, the wrong way, scaring the girl half to death regularly, and didn't stop until Percy, who was even scaring Yami with his temper, threatened to write to Mrs Weasley.
Meanwhile a roaring trade in talismans, amulets and other protective devices, none of which Yami or the rest of the gang held in high regard, built up, sweeping the school. Neville had bought an unbelievable amount of these items, he was pure blood it was true, but as he pointed out to Ron, so was Rebecca and she hadn't been safe.
In the first week of December, a second roar arose from the Great Hall, causing Joey to get up and rush out of the Common Room, "WHEELER!"
"What is it Rich-boy?" Joey asked, he and Kaiba had been prepared for the eggs hatching for two weeks; they'd been slowly getting harder, "Are they...?" He followed Kaiba into the Great Hall, Hagrid was waiting there too, smiling at Joey, the two, Kaiba and Joey, had decided that one of the Dragons should go to Hagrid, since he wanted a dragon of his own.
The rest of the gang managed to push their way through the crowd surrounding the Ravenclaw table, which was closest to the fire and had the eggs on. Joey watched in anticipation as the eggs shook, he didn't care how Kaiba had gotten them down here from his Common Room as long as they hatched properly. Hagrid was hovering around one silver dragon egg. The other four were in a group, Joey closest to the black egg and a silver one, Kaiba the white egg and the last silver egg. The Headmaster had said the hatchlings could stay as long as the older dragons kept the hatchlings in line. Five hatchlings, to five… no currently four dragons, it would be a challenge but Joey was determined it would work.
Mahado, the Dark Magician, was refusing to have anything to do with the eggs except for glaring at them. Mana, Dark Magician Girl, kept glancing at Mahado and giggling. Boh stayed well away, since Blue Eyes had threatened to feed him to the hatchlings.
Joey bit his lip as the first egg cracked, splitting straight down the middle, revealing the occupant of Hagrid's silver egg. A tiny silver dragon, with imperial purple eyes. Hagrid's face broke into the largest grin the gang had ever seen, he had his own dragon, one he would be able to keep forever, without fear of it being taken away like Norbert.
Joey's attention was drawn by the sound of cracking, both his black egg and Kaiba's white egg were hatching at the same time, the black egg spilt into about 50 pieces, while the white spilt into only two, a revealing a tiny Red Eyes Charcoal-Black Dragon and a little Blue Eyes Egg-White dragon.
Kaiba smirked slightly, trust the mutt's eggs to make more mess. Then the grin was wiped off his face as his silver egg split into goodness only knows how many pieces which ended up everywhere as the hatchling tried to escape the table, opening it's hatchling wings but not getting any lift. This Purple Eyes Silver's eyes were a slightly different colour, Kaiba had to wonder if Gods were teasing him by giving his Purple Eyes Silver Dragon the same colour eyes as Yugi.
Yugi watched intently as Joey's last egg hatched, revealing a Purple Eyes Silver Dragon, with intense plum eyes, none of these dragons were identical, which was probably a good thing, but you wouldn't be able to tell the PESDs apart from a distance. Kari edged her way forward towards the hatchlings, and Joey let her pick one up, she did so, picking up the Purple Eyes from Joey's eggs. The tiny dragon nipped her finger and then snuggled into her, growling pathetically. Mana came forward, as did Ombre and Yugi, while Yami, Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Hagrid's.
"Feed them you idiots." Kaiba growled, a softer version of the food fed to the adult dragons next to him in a bowl. Kari made her way over, as did Joey who was holding the Charcoal Black Dragon, Yugi had picked up Kaiba's Purple Eyes Silver much to Kaiba's disgust, but he wasn't complaining too loudly as he was too busy trying to feed his Egg-White colour dragon. Hagrid and his dragon were the last to join the group, Kaiba was glad he'd thought to order the House-Elves to keep sending the mush up, once one lot ran out, until he ordered them not too.
Once the baby dragons were sated Kari found Joey's Purple Eyes Silver had hitched its paw in her Gryffindor Robes. The babies were falling asleep in the people's arms, with the little guy attached to her robes falling asleep first. Kaiba turned to Yugi, who was showing the little sleeping silver hatchling to Mahado, who was feigning disinterest. Mana however was positively fawning over the little guy attached to Kari's robes, Kari wasn't too sure how to dislodge the dragon without waking it.
"Yugi." Kaiba said softly, trying not to wake the Egg-White Dragon in his arms. Yugi turned and looked at Kaiba, realising the little dragon had to be returned now. Mokuba was straining to see, having been pushed to the back of the large crowd. He didn't get to see much of his big brother, and he hadn't gotten to see the eggs properly. Mokuba climbed onto a table so he could see and Kaiba spotted him and a passageway was left open for him once Kaiba had called him over.
Yugi handed Kaiba's silver dragon to Mokuba, whose face lit up like a giant torch. Blue Eyes White Chick took that inopportune moment to fly in through the main doors, which were open as students tried to get to and from class, and land headfirst on the Ravenclaw table, Mokuba's chick didn't yet have the grace of it's older and stronger counterpart.
Mokuba rushed over as the chick got to it's feet, and stared at him. It sniffed the hatchling, which was certainly smaller then he was and stared at Mokuba, That's a baby. It stated. Mokuba laughed.
'Obvious much?'
I've never seen a baby Duel Monster.
'Neither have I.' Mokuba replied, as he made his way back over to his brother. His Blue Eyes White Chick walking along the thankfully empty table. Joey looked Kaiba in the eyes.
"So what's the plan, you're a young father now, Mr Kaiba." Joey said, only half jokingly.
"Shut up, mutt." Kaiba growled.
"Nothing changes then." Joey sighed, as Kari spoke, "Now can someone please remove this dragon's claw from my robes?"
"I think you have a friend there Kari." Ombre said, eyeing the dragon warily, she did not want to make Blue Eyes, who'd somehow gotten in the room at the same time as them, think she was threatening her hatchlings. Yugi moved to help Kari remove Joey's Purple Eyes Silver from her Gryffindor robes and in seconds the little hatchling was free. Blue Eyes watched them carefully, as did Kaiba. It was rather unnerving to have them both watching them so closely.
Joey noticed the wings on his dragon had dried off during all the ooooing and ahhhhing from the crowd and that Red Eyes was staring at him.
Seto… Came Blue Eyes's mental voice, Kaiba jumped. Please tell the reincarnation of the Princess I want her to put my hatchling son down NOW!
'But where can you go with them?'
Our rooms your High Priest Dumbledore, set aside for us.
'He's our Headmaster and how would you get food to them?'
We have our own house elf, will you just tell the Princess's light to put my son down now!
"Ironhide." Kaiba called, Kari and Ombre looked at him, "You know which one I mean."
"What is it?" Kari asked, turning most of her attention back to the hatchling.
"Blue Eyes would like you to put her son down."
"But I'm not hurting him."
"I know but I'd recommend you put him down before…" Blue Eyes flew overhead and growled at Kari, who sighed and put the hatchling down.
"Kisara!" Kari called, the pure white dragon looked at her, and just roared at her. Kari sighed. "Fine, be like that."
"Blue Eyes, come down here now!" Kaiba ordered. The dragon landed on the High Table, playing you'll-do-what-I-tell-you-not-the-other-way-around. Kaiba growled, that had been deliberate. Yami had to fight to keep a smirk off of his face.
"Don't even think about it, Muto." Kaiba growled, not even needing to look at Yami to know he'd be smirking. "Blue Eyes, Ravenclaw table now!"
Blue Eyes just glared at him.
And Yami dissolved into extremely loud laughter.
Blue Eyes and Kaiba both glared at him.
Yami couldn't stop laughing.
Kaiba sighed and apologised to Hagrid, while he and Mokuba collected up the five hatchlings and put them on the High Table with Kisara. "Happy now?"
Yes, very happy. Kisara told him smugly, her voice echoing through everyone's mind who was in the great hall at that moment of time. Josie. The last word was directed else where, only Kaiba and one other heard it. A house-elf appeared.
"Josie is here to serve, mistress."
Could you help me carry up the little ones to my room?
"Josie would be honoured, mistress."
Seto? Kisara asked expectedly.
"You have a room?" Kaiba asked, realising he hadn't thought about where his dragon went when not on duty or with him.
Yes. Kisara replied, surprised Kaiba hadn't thought about it. Follow me and I'll show you, but you're not to come in uninvited, it's bad enough having to put up with the Fuzzball during class time! Curiosity made Kaiba follow without anymore arguments, helping to carry the hatchlings.
The door to the Duel Monster's wing opened as Kisara approached, and she flew in, followed by Kaiba and the house-elf. Kaiba almost laughed. Their Common Room had a large window that looked like it would open from both sides, wide enough for two dragons to fly out at once. But what was so funny was the several conflicting styles, it was like they had not been able to decide how to decorate the room, or had never really discussed it among themselves.
There was a coffee table in front of one of the doors, and several chairs and cushions scattered around, in many different colours, in all there were ten doors leading from this Common Room if you counted the one they'd just entered by and each of the doors were different. From the dull grey of the door blocked by the coffee table to the brilliant white and blue patterns that covered the door of Kisara's room, to the black and purple door that Kaiba assumed was the Dark Magician's.
Kaiba had to smile when he noticed that Blue Eyes and Dark Magician's rooms were as far apart as possible, Dark Magician's by the door and Kisara's by the window so they could easily avoid each other.
A notice board hung on one of the walls, with many notes, most seemed fairly recent and upon closer inspection Kaiba noticed that many of them dealt with rearranging their duty roster, Blue Eyes had been arranging things so that at least two dragons could be here at a time, and had made sure that one of those dragons was herself or the mutt's dragon. There was also the fact Emerald Dragon could no longer do his duty and that had safely been taken care of.
Another major amount on the board was dedicated to an on-going argument between Yami's spellcaster and Kaiba's dragon. Kaiba had to wonder if the other Duel Monsters had decided they were no longer allowed to talk face to face. Probably, if Kisara and the Dark Magician were anything like him and Yami.
They had almost reached an agreement it seemed, if Mahado would stop commenting on the eggs, Kisara would stop commenting on Mana and her lack of them. Kaiba wasn't sure if that was an agreement or a simple refusal to talk about the subject anymore, using cattiness as a weapon, and it had moved onto jam donuts. Who would want to have… ewwwww, Kaiba thought privately. Who'd… with… gross.
Anyone would have thought donuts were a safe subject, apparently Boh had suggested it, but now they were divided over who had eaten the last one.
Mahado said Boh deserved the last one because he'd only had two, while Kisara was annoyed because someone had eaten all the strawberry ones before she'd gotten there. Kaiba wondered who the dragons go to write the notes, the only thing he could think of is if they used a quick quote quill, which would record their 'speech' and write it down.
Then Kaiba looked further down and the argument had evolved into who's partner was the better duellist, and he was happy to see Yami had been marked down for losing to the veela in the quarter finals. While Mana, the Dark Magician Girl, was gloating because Kari had proved she could beat everyone, even without her Millennium Item. He was annoyed though to see that he was only one place above Yami, still above, but only by one place and how dare they put the mutt above him?
How was the mutt a place above him in the first place? Hadn't he proved that he could beat the dog any day of the week? He checked how they kept score of these things and growled, Joey got extra points from the monsters from coming so close to losing all those times and then somehow winning, it seemed they put more value on a difficult win then an easy one. So will he had more victories it was worth less because he overpowered his opponents, but he had to smile at the fact Yugi and Yami lost points every time they used the Gods. Apparently Mahado and Boh didn't approve of the God Cards.
Then how could Kari was at the top? She could normally crush her opposition? Then he snarled, she got points for being a good winner? And a good loser? And for the most varied amounts of opponents, but Kaiba had to admit that Kari had duelled more then anyone else he knew in more countries then most people saw in their life time.
He sulked as he turned away from the board, Yami wasn't at the bottom, Ombre was, but Yami was close second to worst. In order it ranked from best to worst, with Kari on top, then Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, Yami, and Ombre was dead last, but there was a note he'd missed, Rebecca had been promoted to honery first because she was in the hospital wing. It was the only thing Kisara and Mahado could agree on.
Kisara showed Kaiba into her room, where he left the hatchlings he'd been carrying on her bed and she shoed him out. He left the wing, memorising it's position should he need it in an emergency. Then he walked downstairs where he'd have to explain to the mutt and Hagrid, he realised as he went, that Kisara still hadn't given him a reason for the over protectiveness.
Madam Pomfrey saw Harry was awake and bustled over, with his breakfast tray, then began stretching Harry's arm and fingers. "All in order." She said quietly, as Yugi stirred and Harry fed himself clumsily with his left hand. "Once you've finished eating, you may leave."
Yugi blinked at them sleepily and Madam Pomfrey examined him, finally accepting his full recovery and getting him breakfast. The two boys dressed as quickly as possible and hurried off to Gryffindor tower, desperate to tell the others about Colin, Rebecca and Dobby, but they weren't there. The pair left to look for them, wondering where they could have got to and Harry felt slightly hurt that they weren't interested in whether he had his bones back or not. Yami had inquired how Yugi was the moment he'd woken up. Yugi had told them that Harry was fully recovered and he was feeling fine.
'Boh?'
Master! You're awake! Kuriboh sounded worried.
'What happened to Rebecca last night? Does Minneola know?' Yugi asked, worried, it wasn't like Kuriboh to worry about anything.
The Emerald Dragon will not wake, and he seems to be ill, I cannot sense him and only Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon can. We don't know what's wrong!
'Rebecca got petrified last night, could they be connected?' Yugi asked, further concerned, he knew there was a link between Duel Monsters and their partners but they had yet to test it since both Joey and Kaiba had argued against testing the link. Could their lifeforces be connected?
We don't know. Mahado and Mana have theories but we don't actually know. The Spellcasters think they read about a monster that could petrify or kill a person a very long time ago but aren't sure.
'Thanks.'
As they passed the library, Percy Weasley strolled out of it, looking in far better spirits then last time they'd met.
"Hello Harry, Yugi, great flying yesterday, really excellent. Gryffindor have just taken the lead for the House Cup, you earned 50 points between you."
"You haven't seen the gang, have you?" Harry asked.
"No, I haven't," Said Percy, his smile fading, "I hope Ron's not in another girl's toilet." Yugi just laughed and Percy walked out of sight, then rushed to Moaning Myrtle's Bathroom. They couldn't see why the gang would be there again, but after making sure no one was around to see them, Yugi opened the door and the two boys heard their voices coming from seemingly nowhere.
"It's us." Harry said, closing the door behind them. There was a clunk, a splash and a gasp from thin air and then a few muttered words, Hermione appeared from out of no where, "Harry, Yugi! You gave us a fright!" She waved her wand and the invisibility spell vanished, revealing the entire group. Kari waved and smiled at them.
"Harry! Yugi! How are you both?"
"Fine." Harry said, joining the large group at the back of the room, inside an end cubicle Hermione joined Kari next to a cauldron which was perched on an old toilet and a crackling under the rim told the two boys they'd lit a fire underneath. While Kari had mastered warming spells, favouring "Chaleur" as the most effective, portable waterproof fires were Hermione's specialty.
"Refracting spell please, girls!" Joey said, Hermione and Kari laughed and they worked together, placing the spell on the group and the cauldron as a team.
"It's not a true invisibility spell, it's a combination of Shadow Magic and a light refracting spell." Kari said, "We'd've come to meet you but we decided to get started on the Polyjuice potion." She explained, "Yugi had told Yami you'd fully recovered and were going to be let out so we thought we'd make an early start."
"Sorry for cutting you off earlier, Yugi. Professor Dumbledore interrupted me." Their monsters were nowhere in sight, neither was a certain Egyptian Princess.
"Where's Ombre?" Harry asked, looking around.
"With Ryou." Kari said shortly, her mind link was blocked at the moment so she had no idea other then that.
Harry and Yugi started explaining about Rebecca and Colin, but Yami interrupted, "We already know, we heard Professor McGonagall telling Professor Flitwick this morning and then Professor Dumbledore wanted to talk to our Duel Monsters and explained. That's why we decided we'd better get going…"
"What's wrong with Minneola?" Yugi asked, Yami would have a better idea then he did.
"I don't know, but Hagrid is taking care of him. It took some work getting him down from the roof this morning, it took all the monsters to get him down." Yami said.
"The sooner we get a confession out of Malfoy the better," Snarled Joey, "I bet he was such a foul mood after the Quidditch match he took it out on Rebecca and Colin."
"There's something else," Yugi said, watching the two girls tearing up bundles of knotgrass and throwing them into the potion, "Dobby paid us a visit last night." The gang looked at them, amazed. The pair explained everything, including everything that Dobby had said, or not said.
"The Chamber of Secrets has been opened before?" Asked Hermione. Yugi nodded.
"That settles it," Said Ron triumphantly, "Lucius Malfoy must've opened the Chamber when he was at school here and now he's told dear old Draco, and probably Bakura, how to open it. Wish Dobby'd told you what sort of monster was in there though. I'd like to know how it's getting around without being seen."
Yami was watching Yugi carefully, concern in his eyes. Yugi hadn't been going to tell Yami what Dobby had said about him going home, but Harry had dropped him in it, Yugi knew he'd probably to have to explain at some point.
"So Dobby stopped us getting on the train and broke your arm?" Ron asked, "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life, he's going to kill you!"
"And now he wants to help Yugi too? Be careful pal, his help lands people in trouble." Joey said, with a small smile to Yugi.
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The news about Rebecca and Colin spread through the entire school by Monday morning. The air was thick with suspicion and fear. The first-years were moving around the school in groups. Ginny Weasley was distraught, unsurprising considering one of the victims was her best friend. Fred and George were going about cheering her up, the wrong way, scaring the girl half to death regularly, and didn't stop until Percy, who was even scaring Yami with his temper, threatened to write to Mrs Weasley.
Meanwhile a roaring trade in talismans, amulets and other protective devices, none of which Yami or the rest of the gang held in high regard, built up, sweeping the school. Neville had bought an unbelievable amount of these items, he was pure blood it was true, but as he pointed out to Ron, so was Rebecca and she hadn't been safe.
In the first week of December, a second roar arose from the Great Hall, causing Joey to get up and rush out of the Common Room, "WHEELER!"
"What is it Rich-boy?" Joey asked, he and Kaiba had been prepared for the eggs hatching for two weeks; they'd been slowly getting harder, "Are they...?" He followed Kaiba into the Great Hall, Hagrid was waiting there too, smiling at Joey, the two, Kaiba and Joey, had decided that one of the Dragons should go to Hagrid, since he wanted a dragon of his own.
The rest of the gang managed to push their way through the crowd surrounding the Ravenclaw table, which was closest to the fire and had the eggs on. Joey watched in anticipation as the eggs shook, he didn't care how Kaiba had gotten them down here from his Common Room as long as they hatched properly. Hagrid was hovering around one silver dragon egg. The other four were in a group, Joey closest to the black egg and a silver one, Kaiba the white egg and the last silver egg. The Headmaster had said the hatchlings could stay as long as the older dragons kept the hatchlings in line. Five hatchlings, to five… no currently four dragons, it would be a challenge but Joey was determined it would work.
Mahado, the Dark Magician, was refusing to have anything to do with the eggs except for glaring at them. Mana, Dark Magician Girl, kept glancing at Mahado and giggling. Boh stayed well away, since Blue Eyes had threatened to feed him to the hatchlings.
Joey bit his lip as the first egg cracked, splitting straight down the middle, revealing the occupant of Hagrid's silver egg. A tiny silver dragon, with imperial purple eyes. Hagrid's face broke into the largest grin the gang had ever seen, he had his own dragon, one he would be able to keep forever, without fear of it being taken away like Norbert.
Joey's attention was drawn by the sound of cracking, both his black egg and Kaiba's white egg were hatching at the same time, the black egg spilt into about 50 pieces, while the white spilt into only two, a revealing a tiny Red Eyes Charcoal-Black Dragon and a little Blue Eyes Egg-White dragon.
Kaiba smirked slightly, trust the mutt's eggs to make more mess. Then the grin was wiped off his face as his silver egg split into goodness only knows how many pieces which ended up everywhere as the hatchling tried to escape the table, opening it's hatchling wings but not getting any lift. This Purple Eyes Silver's eyes were a slightly different colour, Kaiba had to wonder if Gods were teasing him by giving his Purple Eyes Silver Dragon the same colour eyes as Yugi.
Yugi watched intently as Joey's last egg hatched, revealing a Purple Eyes Silver Dragon, with intense plum eyes, none of these dragons were identical, which was probably a good thing, but you wouldn't be able to tell the PESDs apart from a distance. Kari edged her way forward towards the hatchlings, and Joey let her pick one up, she did so, picking up the Purple Eyes from Joey's eggs. The tiny dragon nipped her finger and then snuggled into her, growling pathetically. Mana came forward, as did Ombre and Yugi, while Yami, Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Hagrid's.
"Feed them you idiots." Kaiba growled, a softer version of the food fed to the adult dragons next to him in a bowl. Kari made her way over, as did Joey who was holding the Charcoal Black Dragon, Yugi had picked up Kaiba's Purple Eyes Silver much to Kaiba's disgust, but he wasn't complaining too loudly as he was too busy trying to feed his Egg-White colour dragon. Hagrid and his dragon were the last to join the group, Kaiba was glad he'd thought to order the House-Elves to keep sending the mush up, once one lot ran out, until he ordered them not too.
Once the baby dragons were sated Kari found Joey's Purple Eyes Silver had hitched its paw in her Gryffindor Robes. The babies were falling asleep in the people's arms, with the little guy attached to her robes falling asleep first. Kaiba turned to Yugi, who was showing the little sleeping silver hatchling to Mahado, who was feigning disinterest. Mana however was positively fawning over the little guy attached to Kari's robes, Kari wasn't too sure how to dislodge the dragon without waking it.
"Yugi." Kaiba said softly, trying not to wake the Egg-White Dragon in his arms. Yugi turned and looked at Kaiba, realising the little dragon had to be returned now. Mokuba was straining to see, having been pushed to the back of the large crowd. He didn't get to see much of his big brother, and he hadn't gotten to see the eggs properly. Mokuba climbed onto a table so he could see and Kaiba spotted him and a passageway was left open for him once Kaiba had called him over.
Yugi handed Kaiba's silver dragon to Mokuba, whose face lit up like a giant torch. Blue Eyes White Chick took that inopportune moment to fly in through the main doors, which were open as students tried to get to and from class, and land headfirst on the Ravenclaw table, Mokuba's chick didn't yet have the grace of it's older and stronger counterpart.
Mokuba rushed over as the chick got to it's feet, and stared at him. It sniffed the hatchling, which was certainly smaller then he was and stared at Mokuba, That's a baby. It stated. Mokuba laughed.
'Obvious much?'
I've never seen a baby Duel Monster.
'Neither have I.' Mokuba replied, as he made his way back over to his brother. His Blue Eyes White Chick walking along the thankfully empty table. Joey looked Kaiba in the eyes.
"So what's the plan, you're a young father now, Mr Kaiba." Joey said, only half jokingly.
"Shut up, mutt." Kaiba growled.
"Nothing changes then." Joey sighed, as Kari spoke, "Now can someone please remove this dragon's claw from my robes?"
"I think you have a friend there Kari." Ombre said, eyeing the dragon warily, she did not want to make Blue Eyes, who'd somehow gotten in the room at the same time as them, think she was threatening her hatchlings. Yugi moved to help Kari remove Joey's Purple Eyes Silver from her Gryffindor robes and in seconds the little hatchling was free. Blue Eyes watched them carefully, as did Kaiba. It was rather unnerving to have them both watching them so closely.
Joey noticed the wings on his dragon had dried off during all the ooooing and ahhhhing from the crowd and that Red Eyes was staring at him.
Seto… Came Blue Eyes's mental voice, Kaiba jumped. Please tell the reincarnation of the Princess I want her to put my hatchling son down NOW!
'But where can you go with them?'
Our rooms your High Priest Dumbledore, set aside for us.
'He's our Headmaster and how would you get food to them?'
We have our own house elf, will you just tell the Princess's light to put my son down now!
"Ironhide." Kaiba called, Kari and Ombre looked at him, "You know which one I mean."
"What is it?" Kari asked, turning most of her attention back to the hatchling.
"Blue Eyes would like you to put her son down."
"But I'm not hurting him."
"I know but I'd recommend you put him down before…" Blue Eyes flew overhead and growled at Kari, who sighed and put the hatchling down.
"Kisara!" Kari called, the pure white dragon looked at her, and just roared at her. Kari sighed. "Fine, be like that."
"Blue Eyes, come down here now!" Kaiba ordered. The dragon landed on the High Table, playing you'll-do-what-I-tell-you-not-the-other-way-around. Kaiba growled, that had been deliberate. Yami had to fight to keep a smirk off of his face.
"Don't even think about it, Muto." Kaiba growled, not even needing to look at Yami to know he'd be smirking. "Blue Eyes, Ravenclaw table now!"
Blue Eyes just glared at him.
And Yami dissolved into extremely loud laughter.
Blue Eyes and Kaiba both glared at him.
Yami couldn't stop laughing.
Kaiba sighed and apologised to Hagrid, while he and Mokuba collected up the five hatchlings and put them on the High Table with Kisara. "Happy now?"
Yes, very happy. Kisara told him smugly, her voice echoing through everyone's mind who was in the great hall at that moment of time. Josie. The last word was directed else where, only Kaiba and one other heard it. A house-elf appeared.
"Josie is here to serve, mistress."
Could you help me carry up the little ones to my room?
"Josie would be honoured, mistress."
Seto? Kisara asked expectedly.
"You have a room?" Kaiba asked, realising he hadn't thought about where his dragon went when not on duty or with him.
Yes. Kisara replied, surprised Kaiba hadn't thought about it. Follow me and I'll show you, but you're not to come in uninvited, it's bad enough having to put up with the Fuzzball during class time! Curiosity made Kaiba follow without anymore arguments, helping to carry the hatchlings.
The door to the Duel Monster's wing opened as Kisara approached, and she flew in, followed by Kaiba and the house-elf. Kaiba almost laughed. Their Common Room had a large window that looked like it would open from both sides, wide enough for two dragons to fly out at once. But what was so funny was the several conflicting styles, it was like they had not been able to decide how to decorate the room, or had never really discussed it among themselves.
There was a coffee table in front of one of the doors, and several chairs and cushions scattered around, in many different colours, in all there were ten doors leading from this Common Room if you counted the one they'd just entered by and each of the doors were different. From the dull grey of the door blocked by the coffee table to the brilliant white and blue patterns that covered the door of Kisara's room, to the black and purple door that Kaiba assumed was the Dark Magician's.
Kaiba had to smile when he noticed that Blue Eyes and Dark Magician's rooms were as far apart as possible, Dark Magician's by the door and Kisara's by the window so they could easily avoid each other.
A notice board hung on one of the walls, with many notes, most seemed fairly recent and upon closer inspection Kaiba noticed that many of them dealt with rearranging their duty roster, Blue Eyes had been arranging things so that at least two dragons could be here at a time, and had made sure that one of those dragons was herself or the mutt's dragon. There was also the fact Emerald Dragon could no longer do his duty and that had safely been taken care of.
Another major amount on the board was dedicated to an on-going argument between Yami's spellcaster and Kaiba's dragon. Kaiba had to wonder if the other Duel Monsters had decided they were no longer allowed to talk face to face. Probably, if Kisara and the Dark Magician were anything like him and Yami.
They had almost reached an agreement it seemed, if Mahado would stop commenting on the eggs, Kisara would stop commenting on Mana and her lack of them. Kaiba wasn't sure if that was an agreement or a simple refusal to talk about the subject anymore, using cattiness as a weapon, and it had moved onto jam donuts. Who would want to have… ewwwww, Kaiba thought privately. Who'd… with… gross.
Anyone would have thought donuts were a safe subject, apparently Boh had suggested it, but now they were divided over who had eaten the last one.
Mahado said Boh deserved the last one because he'd only had two, while Kisara was annoyed because someone had eaten all the strawberry ones before she'd gotten there. Kaiba wondered who the dragons go to write the notes, the only thing he could think of is if they used a quick quote quill, which would record their 'speech' and write it down.
Then Kaiba looked further down and the argument had evolved into who's partner was the better duellist, and he was happy to see Yami had been marked down for losing to the veela in the quarter finals. While Mana, the Dark Magician Girl, was gloating because Kari had proved she could beat everyone, even without her Millennium Item. He was annoyed though to see that he was only one place above Yami, still above, but only by one place and how dare they put the mutt above him?
How was the mutt a place above him in the first place? Hadn't he proved that he could beat the dog any day of the week? He checked how they kept score of these things and growled, Joey got extra points from the monsters from coming so close to losing all those times and then somehow winning, it seemed they put more value on a difficult win then an easy one. So will he had more victories it was worth less because he overpowered his opponents, but he had to smile at the fact Yugi and Yami lost points every time they used the Gods. Apparently Mahado and Boh didn't approve of the God Cards.
Then how could Kari was at the top? She could normally crush her opposition? Then he snarled, she got points for being a good winner? And a good loser? And for the most varied amounts of opponents, but Kaiba had to admit that Kari had duelled more then anyone else he knew in more countries then most people saw in their life time.
He sulked as he turned away from the board, Yami wasn't at the bottom, Ombre was, but Yami was close second to worst. In order it ranked from best to worst, with Kari on top, then Yugi, Joey, Kaiba, Yami, and Ombre was dead last, but there was a note he'd missed, Rebecca had been promoted to honery first because she was in the hospital wing. It was the only thing Kisara and Mahado could agree on.
Kisara showed Kaiba into her room, where he left the hatchlings he'd been carrying on her bed and she shoed him out. He left the wing, memorising it's position should he need it in an emergency. Then he walked downstairs where he'd have to explain to the mutt and Hagrid, he realised as he went, that Kisara still hadn't given him a reason for the over protectiveness.