November 22nd part 3: - 6406 words
Sirius and Joey were in the kitchen, cooking, keeping a sharp eye on the time, and trying not to think too hard, when Wolf arrived out of nowhere, with a passenger.
“Harry!”
Wolf had just enough time to let go of Harry’s rather grubby and damaged trousers and back away quickly before Sirius and Joey grinned and glomped Harry.
“You’re home!” Harry didn’t get a chance to say anything before Sirius had picked him up in what would have once been a bonecrushing hug and probably would be again once his body returned to the way it should be.
The young wizard felt guilty for wanting to run straight back across to the Monster World to find his friend, when it was so obvious that Sirius had been scared for him, so he said nothing.
“Harry what happened?” Joey asked, looking around and becoming worried when it became obvious that Yugi wasn’t going to be brought through to the human world by someone else at any moment.”Why have you got the Puzzle? Where’s Yugi?”
A brief flicker of anger crossed Harry’s face before he schooled it away, surprised that he even felt that way considering he knew full well that his friends had been just as concerned about him as they were about Yugi. Joey had, after all, shown that he was glad Harry was home and Yugi had been the blonde’s friend much longer then Harry had.
Harry explained about how they’d escaped, wincing in appreciation when Joey ranted and raved when Harry told him how beat up Yugi had looked when they’d escaped from the ruins, the meeting with Yue and Elios, the fight with the giant spiders and what had happened in the ‘fight’ between Yugi and Medan quickly, the one where Yugi had been recaptured, not wanting to linger and suddenly feeling incredibly tired, as if the sleep debt from the last couple of days had suddenly decided it wanted to be repaid in full this instant.
Joey was fuming when Harry had finished, and had some choice things to say about Medan, none of which could be repeated in polite society, or, indeed, in front of the man who was as good as his Grandfather. “I’m going back across.” Joey told them, after “It’s time for me to relieve Hermione and I’d be more use to them now any way. Research time is over. If I could Shadow Game the prick then I would. But I can’t so I’m going to send him to the Graveyard instead. That’ll take care of him. At least until he comes back again.”
“Take me with you.” Harry pleaded; ignoring Wolf’s angry growl at Harry’s plea, well aware of Harry’s exhaustion and refusing to take the boy back himself yet.
Wolf says to tell you that he’ll bite you if you take Harry back before he’s fully recovered. Tobias sent over the link, sounding both amused at Wolf’s protectiveness of the boy, and angry that the Winged Beast would even consider biting his partner, though he would have refused to take Harry back in the state he was in as well.
“No. Not until you’ve had at least a couple of hours sleep and something to eat and drink.” Joey shook his head. “If I’m not taking Yami back yet, I’m not going to take you.”
“How much longer do you think he’ll be out?” Sirius asked, his head turning towards the boys bedroom, where Yami was asleep on one of the camp beds.
“No clue.” Joey snorted, actually glad that Yami would still be out when he left, having not looked forward to the argument that was going to come when the Pharaoh woke up.
If anything it would be easier now Harry was back, even if... “Catch him!” Joey yelped as Harry fell asleep on his feet, unable to fight off the exhaustion any longer and his legs buckled underneath him.
Sirius did so, concern obvious. “Harry? Harry you ok?”
“He’ll be alright.” Joey said softly, not envying Harry the process of reverting to human form, “Just let him sleep. He can have my bed. I’ll see you later.”
“I hope you find Yugi soon.” Sirius said as Joey headed for the door.
“Me too.” Joey nodded at him before heading outside to meet Tobias.
Sirius carried his Godson up to the boys bedroom as Wolf explained what had happened, only to find that Yami was sitting up in bed, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, looking incredibly confused and slightly haunted as it took him a moment to remember exactly why he couldn’t sense Yugi.
“Hey.” Sirius murmured quietly, trying to not wake his godson and wishing that he didn’t have to be the one to talk to the Pharaoh, as he led Harry down on Joey’s bed.
“Sirius?” Atem looked around as everything began to sink in. “Why am I...?” His eyes rested on Harry and, in a rare unguarded moment, Sirius got to see just how concerned for his Godson the Pharaoh really was. “Harry!? Is he alright?” Then the concern for Harry was gone, not forgotten but hidden, “Where’s Yugi? What happened to him?”
“Harry’s unhurt, I think.” Sirius replied, offering the Pharaoh the Puzzle before tucking Harry in, not wanting to answer the latter part, already having seen what Yami could be like when Yugi was in danger and hoping that the Pharaoh didn’t take his Godson apart for leaving Yugi behind, especially considering that Harry hadn’t had much of a choice in the matter. He could see from the look on the Pharaoh’s face that he already knew.
“Yugi’s not here is he?” Atem demanded as he slipped the chain over his head, furious and only modulating his tone because Harry was asleep.
“No.” Sirius shook his head, noting the way Atem’s aura flared up, only for the Pharaoh to quickly control his temper, if only to avoid waking Harry up and causing an incident in the, surprisingly restored flat. “There was a fight and Medan recaptured Yugi. Harry tried to help him, but from what Wolf said, if Wolf had allowed him to help Yugi, Medan would have killed him. Medan took Yugi and vanished, leaving Harry with Mahado.”
Atem scowled. It wasn’t that he wasn’t glad that Harry was safe. He was relieved about that. However not knowing how badly injured his hikari was and what Medan was going to do him, or whether they were going to be able to get to Yugi before it was too late was driving the Pharaoh mental.
Atem got up and dressed before stalking down to the kitchen to get something to eat before he summoned Mahado, knowing he was going to need his strength for the battle ahead, only to quickly regret doing so as the meal, the first thing he had eaten in days, didn’t stay down. His body was still readjusting to human needs, and food hadn’t been added to the list of needs yet.
Of course the moment he was able he summoned Mahado to his side. “Where’s Yugi?”
Mahado looked frustrated at Yami’s demand. “My Pharaoh, I had a lead but you summoned me away from it.”
Atem’s ire drained away slightly at that. “What?”
“I managed to trace the path that the Swordstalker that helped Medan escape took, but I’m not certain I could find it again. I saw Yugi though. He’s alive.”
There was more to the tale; Atem could pretty much hear the ‘but’ in the Dark Magician’s voice. “Go on.” He urged his friend.
“Yugi was badly injured in the fight, my Pharaoh.” Mahado said quietly. “He was unconscious when Medan took him away.”
Yami loosed a couple of curses in Egyptian, ones that promised a certain person pain in their future, before sighing, his shoulders sinking as concern sank back in, “Wolf claims that Yugi’s ‘special effect’ kicked in during the fighting.” Yami told the Dark Magician, “How close are we to losing him, Mahado?”
Mahado frowned, it wasn’t good news, but it could be much worse, “He showed no signs of any change physically, but then you didn’t either when I sent you home...”
“Knocked me out more like.” Yami grouched quietly, still angry about Joey and Mahado’s little stunt, especially considering that they had managed to find Yugi only for him to slip away again.
Mahado didn’t acknowledge that little fact, well aware of the Pharaoh’s thoughts and feelings on the matter and feeling guilty about the fact that he couldn’t keep his promise, “So I don’t know off hand, but we do still have time.”
“I’m coming back with you.” There was no question about it, Atem would be coming with him to the Monster World if Mahado liked it or not, “Either you help me get there now, or I’ll keep summoning you until you do.”
“My Pharaoh... your body isn’t...” Mahado sighed, well aware that it wouldn’t matter what Mahado said to Atem, the Pharaoh had made up his mind and Mahado knew better than anyone how stubborn Atem could be when his mind was set on something, “Yes my Pharaoh.” Mahado took Atem’s hand, hoping that the Pharaoh was, indeed, recovered enough for this.
The pair left.
“Harry!”
Wolf had just enough time to let go of Harry’s rather grubby and damaged trousers and back away quickly before Sirius and Joey grinned and glomped Harry.
“You’re home!” Harry didn’t get a chance to say anything before Sirius had picked him up in what would have once been a bonecrushing hug and probably would be again once his body returned to the way it should be.
The young wizard felt guilty for wanting to run straight back across to the Monster World to find his friend, when it was so obvious that Sirius had been scared for him, so he said nothing.
“Harry what happened?” Joey asked, looking around and becoming worried when it became obvious that Yugi wasn’t going to be brought through to the human world by someone else at any moment.”Why have you got the Puzzle? Where’s Yugi?”
A brief flicker of anger crossed Harry’s face before he schooled it away, surprised that he even felt that way considering he knew full well that his friends had been just as concerned about him as they were about Yugi. Joey had, after all, shown that he was glad Harry was home and Yugi had been the blonde’s friend much longer then Harry had.
Harry explained about how they’d escaped, wincing in appreciation when Joey ranted and raved when Harry told him how beat up Yugi had looked when they’d escaped from the ruins, the meeting with Yue and Elios, the fight with the giant spiders and what had happened in the ‘fight’ between Yugi and Medan quickly, the one where Yugi had been recaptured, not wanting to linger and suddenly feeling incredibly tired, as if the sleep debt from the last couple of days had suddenly decided it wanted to be repaid in full this instant.
Joey was fuming when Harry had finished, and had some choice things to say about Medan, none of which could be repeated in polite society, or, indeed, in front of the man who was as good as his Grandfather. “I’m going back across.” Joey told them, after “It’s time for me to relieve Hermione and I’d be more use to them now any way. Research time is over. If I could Shadow Game the prick then I would. But I can’t so I’m going to send him to the Graveyard instead. That’ll take care of him. At least until he comes back again.”
“Take me with you.” Harry pleaded; ignoring Wolf’s angry growl at Harry’s plea, well aware of Harry’s exhaustion and refusing to take the boy back himself yet.
Wolf says to tell you that he’ll bite you if you take Harry back before he’s fully recovered. Tobias sent over the link, sounding both amused at Wolf’s protectiveness of the boy, and angry that the Winged Beast would even consider biting his partner, though he would have refused to take Harry back in the state he was in as well.
“No. Not until you’ve had at least a couple of hours sleep and something to eat and drink.” Joey shook his head. “If I’m not taking Yami back yet, I’m not going to take you.”
“How much longer do you think he’ll be out?” Sirius asked, his head turning towards the boys bedroom, where Yami was asleep on one of the camp beds.
“No clue.” Joey snorted, actually glad that Yami would still be out when he left, having not looked forward to the argument that was going to come when the Pharaoh woke up.
If anything it would be easier now Harry was back, even if... “Catch him!” Joey yelped as Harry fell asleep on his feet, unable to fight off the exhaustion any longer and his legs buckled underneath him.
Sirius did so, concern obvious. “Harry? Harry you ok?”
“He’ll be alright.” Joey said softly, not envying Harry the process of reverting to human form, “Just let him sleep. He can have my bed. I’ll see you later.”
“I hope you find Yugi soon.” Sirius said as Joey headed for the door.
“Me too.” Joey nodded at him before heading outside to meet Tobias.
Sirius carried his Godson up to the boys bedroom as Wolf explained what had happened, only to find that Yami was sitting up in bed, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, looking incredibly confused and slightly haunted as it took him a moment to remember exactly why he couldn’t sense Yugi.
“Hey.” Sirius murmured quietly, trying to not wake his godson and wishing that he didn’t have to be the one to talk to the Pharaoh, as he led Harry down on Joey’s bed.
“Sirius?” Atem looked around as everything began to sink in. “Why am I...?” His eyes rested on Harry and, in a rare unguarded moment, Sirius got to see just how concerned for his Godson the Pharaoh really was. “Harry!? Is he alright?” Then the concern for Harry was gone, not forgotten but hidden, “Where’s Yugi? What happened to him?”
“Harry’s unhurt, I think.” Sirius replied, offering the Pharaoh the Puzzle before tucking Harry in, not wanting to answer the latter part, already having seen what Yami could be like when Yugi was in danger and hoping that the Pharaoh didn’t take his Godson apart for leaving Yugi behind, especially considering that Harry hadn’t had much of a choice in the matter. He could see from the look on the Pharaoh’s face that he already knew.
“Yugi’s not here is he?” Atem demanded as he slipped the chain over his head, furious and only modulating his tone because Harry was asleep.
“No.” Sirius shook his head, noting the way Atem’s aura flared up, only for the Pharaoh to quickly control his temper, if only to avoid waking Harry up and causing an incident in the, surprisingly restored flat. “There was a fight and Medan recaptured Yugi. Harry tried to help him, but from what Wolf said, if Wolf had allowed him to help Yugi, Medan would have killed him. Medan took Yugi and vanished, leaving Harry with Mahado.”
Atem scowled. It wasn’t that he wasn’t glad that Harry was safe. He was relieved about that. However not knowing how badly injured his hikari was and what Medan was going to do him, or whether they were going to be able to get to Yugi before it was too late was driving the Pharaoh mental.
Atem got up and dressed before stalking down to the kitchen to get something to eat before he summoned Mahado, knowing he was going to need his strength for the battle ahead, only to quickly regret doing so as the meal, the first thing he had eaten in days, didn’t stay down. His body was still readjusting to human needs, and food hadn’t been added to the list of needs yet.
Of course the moment he was able he summoned Mahado to his side. “Where’s Yugi?”
Mahado looked frustrated at Yami’s demand. “My Pharaoh, I had a lead but you summoned me away from it.”
Atem’s ire drained away slightly at that. “What?”
“I managed to trace the path that the Swordstalker that helped Medan escape took, but I’m not certain I could find it again. I saw Yugi though. He’s alive.”
There was more to the tale; Atem could pretty much hear the ‘but’ in the Dark Magician’s voice. “Go on.” He urged his friend.
“Yugi was badly injured in the fight, my Pharaoh.” Mahado said quietly. “He was unconscious when Medan took him away.”
Yami loosed a couple of curses in Egyptian, ones that promised a certain person pain in their future, before sighing, his shoulders sinking as concern sank back in, “Wolf claims that Yugi’s ‘special effect’ kicked in during the fighting.” Yami told the Dark Magician, “How close are we to losing him, Mahado?”
Mahado frowned, it wasn’t good news, but it could be much worse, “He showed no signs of any change physically, but then you didn’t either when I sent you home...”
“Knocked me out more like.” Yami grouched quietly, still angry about Joey and Mahado’s little stunt, especially considering that they had managed to find Yugi only for him to slip away again.
Mahado didn’t acknowledge that little fact, well aware of the Pharaoh’s thoughts and feelings on the matter and feeling guilty about the fact that he couldn’t keep his promise, “So I don’t know off hand, but we do still have time.”
“I’m coming back with you.” There was no question about it, Atem would be coming with him to the Monster World if Mahado liked it or not, “Either you help me get there now, or I’ll keep summoning you until you do.”
“My Pharaoh... your body isn’t...” Mahado sighed, well aware that it wouldn’t matter what Mahado said to Atem, the Pharaoh had made up his mind and Mahado knew better than anyone how stubborn Atem could be when his mind was set on something, “Yes my Pharaoh.” Mahado took Atem’s hand, hoping that the Pharaoh was, indeed, recovered enough for this.
The pair left.