Chapter 5: - Flying Lessons and Wizard Duels
By the following Wednesday there was still no clear winner between the yamis. Malfoy still couldn't remember what had happened that morning, but was being extra obnoxious for it, giving Yami, Ombre and Bakura many excuses for Shadow Gaming the git, but he was never on his own, he always had Crabbe and Goyle, two Slytherin thugs, who looked like they didn't own a brain cell between them. So the yamis couldn't get near him.
Kari leapt up from the chair by the fire as a notice was posted on the board, she read it then stormed back over to where Yugi and Joey were duelling with their charmed cards. She slumped into a chair and Yugi took his eyes off the game for a moment to look at her, "What's wrong?"
"You know how I was looking forward to flying lessons?" Yugi and Joey nodded, though Joey wasn't taking his eyes off the game. "Guess who we've got them with, and he's blonde and aggravating." Joey looked up as the turn passed to Yugi, who turned back to the game.
"Don't tell me we're with Mouthboy!"
"All right, I won't tell you." Kari sighed, and her cat jumped up on her lap. Kari stroked it without thinking, "They start tomorrow, actually I wouldn't know which is worse, having them with the Slytherins or having them with Bakura." Yugi snorted and played Monster Reborn, giving him three monsters on the field, Yugi looked at a card in his hand and smiled, Joey blanched as he realised Yugi didn't have to hold back since they were the only ones in the common room, "Oh come on Yugi, you wouldn't…!"
Yugi did, "I sacrifice all three for Slipher, The Sky Dragon." The Egyptian God monster appeared as a miniature version of the great beast that had helped him out during Battle City, Kari blanched, looking around, she couldn't see anyone though and turned back to the duel. She was unaware of the two just coming into the common room as Yugi's God attacked Joey's Gilford the Lightening. Harry had stopped to read the notice on the board and froze as Slipher's attack blasted away the rest of Joey's life points. It wasn't as if this was the first duel he'd seen come to a close, but he knew from television that, that monster was an Egyptian God Monster, belonging to Yugi Muto, this Yugi's 'namesake', the King of Games.
Another thing he'd noticed about Yugi and his friends, Yugi, Kari and Ryou all seemed to undergo personality changes, Ryou was the worst, going from sweet and fragile, to a devious and slightly insane person. Yugi changed from a innocent kid, to a much more confident and slightly cocky person. Kari went from a hot-headed girl to a sometimes calm and collected person with a huge temper if she was crossed, was it possible the three were possessed? And they all wore those amulets, even Seto Kaiba, in Ravenclaw. Harry wondered what the amulets were, if Joey, Yugi and Kari weren't all they seemed to be but he'd tried looking them up in the library with no results.
Harry read the sign and sighed, "Typical, just what I always wanted. To make a fool of myself on a broomstick in front of Malfoy." He had been looking forward to learning to fly more then anything else. Kari looked up startled, and Yugi quickly shuffled his God back into his deck, causing the magic causing Slipher to appear to vanish, causing the image to vanish.
"You don't know you'll make a fool of yourself," Ron said, waving to the others, "Anyway, I know Malfoy's always going on about how good his is at Quidditch, but I bet it's all talk. Hey guys, heard the news." Kari nodded glumly. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine."
Kari's new friend, Hermione Granger, was almost as nervous as Neville was, Neville had never been on a broom and Hermione couldn't learn this out of a book. Kari sighed when her lecture from a book called 'Quidditch through the ages' was cut short by the arrival of the post owls. Harry never got mail, over then Hagrid's note, neither had Joey or Kari. Kaiba sent letters to Mokuba and got letter back every few days, so his large eagle owl was often loaded with forms and letters from his company and from Mokuba. Yugi had his tawny owl which often came with things from his grandfather, they had no idea about Ryou, as he wasn't often at the breakfast table.
A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother, he showed Kari a glass ball the size of a large marble that was full of white smoke. "What is it?"
"A Rememberall, Gran knows I forget things, this tells you if you've forgotten to do something. Look you hold it tight like this and if it turns red…" And it did, his face fell, "you've forgotten something." Kari smiled as he tried to think what it was, loosing interest in the conversation.
Malfoy was passing the Gryffindor table, and snatched Neville's Rememberall. Harry and Ron jumped to their feet, Kari rose slowly, switching with Ombre halfway up. Yami and Joey were quick to follow. Malfoy wasn't sure why but something told him to be afraid of the magenta eyed girl and the spiky haired boy. All five were itching to fight Malfoy, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble in a flash, was there in an instant.
"What's going on?"
"Malfoy's got my Rememberall, Professor." Malfoy dropped the Rememberall on the table, backing away slightly, scowling and knowing he was outnumbered.
"Just looking." He said, as he walked away with Crabbe and Goyle behind him.
At three thirty that afternoon, the group hurried down the front steps to the grounds, for their first flying lesson. It was a clear breezy day and they headed towards a smooth lawn opposite the Forbidden Forest. The Slytherins were already there as where 20 broomsticks lying in neat lines. Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short gray hair and yellow eyes like a hawk.
"Well what are you waiting for? Everyone stand by a broomstick. Hurry up!" She barked. Kari took a spot opposite Malfoy and grinned sadistically at him. "Stick out your right hand over your broom and say 'Up'."
Harry's broom leapt into his hand, as did Yugi's and Kari's but very few others's brooms did. Harry smirked when he saw Malfoy's broom took four attempts to come to his hand. Kari was grinning. Madam Hooch showed them how to mount their brooms and corrected the grips of the students, causing the gang to smirk as she told Malfoy he'd been gripping his broom wrong for years. "Now when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet and then come straight back down by leaning forward slightly. On my whistle – three – two…"
But Neville, nervous and jumpy, pushed off before the whistle even touched her lips. "Come back boy!" She shouted, but Neville was rising too fast. Kari watched as he gasped, slid sideways off his broom and Kari threw her arm out, slowing his decent with her shadow magic, but not enough to stop…
Neville hit the ground with a horrible crack, landing in the grass in a heap. His broomstick escaped to the forbidden forest. Neville was being examined by Madam Hooch as Kari wavered, and was caught by Joey. "Broken wrist." Harry heard her mutter, "Come on boy, it's alright, up you get." She turned and scowled at the rest of the class, "None of you is too move while I take this boy to the hospital wing! You leave those brooms where they are or you'll be out of Hogwarts faster then you can say 'Quidditch.' Come on dear." Neville hobbled out of sight with Madam Hooch, who had her arm around him.
"I like having the power to move objects, even falling people." Kari whispered to Joey, who nodded and smiled at her. It had taken Kari ages to get the hang of her powers, which stemmed from her Millennium item.
"You OK, Kari?" Hermione asked, concerned for her friend as Kari regained some colour in her face getting to her feet with Joey's support. Kari nodded and scowled at Malfoy as he laughed, "Did you see the look his face, the great lump." The other Slytherins joined in.
"Shut up, Malfoy." Kari snapped testily, her head beginning to pound.
"Oh sticking up for him, Ironhide?" Said Pansy Parkingson, a hard-faced Slytherin girl, "And I thought you had a thing for Wheeler." Kari blushed and Joey finally removed his hands from her shoulders.
"Look!" Malfoy said, darting forward and nabbing something out of the grass. "It's that stupid thing Longbottom's gran gave him." The Rememberall sparkled in the sun.
"Give that here Malfoy!" Harry said quietly, everyone stopped talking to listen. Malfoy smirked nastily.
"How about I leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find? How about on the roof?"
"Give it here!" Harry shouted but Malfoy had leapt onto his broom and taken off. He hadn't been lying, he could fly well. Hovering in mid-air he called down, "Come and get it Potter!"
"Harry, no," Hermione called as Harry grabbed his broomstick, "You'll get us all into trouble." He ignored her and took off. Their words were lost to the rest of the groups ears as they two exchanged banter on their broomsticks. Joey gasped as Malfoy threw the orb as high as possible into the air. The orb shot up, then slowed and started to fall, gaining speed on its way down. Harry dived, catching the Rememberall and pulling up at the last minute, toppling onto the grass, the Rememberall safely in his grip. "HARRY POTTER!"
Yugi looked up from where he was giving Harry a hand to his feet, Professor McGonagall was running over, "Never – in all my time at Hogwarts – how dare you- might have broken your neck…"
"It wasn't his fault, Professor…"
"Be quiet Miss Ironhide."
"But Malfoy…"
"That's enough Mr Weasley, Potter, follow me." The group lost sight of Harry but Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were all smirking. Kari's stomach did back flips and Ombre took over, walking up to Malfoy. The boy looked at her and saw her eyes were magenta again, he didn't want to show weakness but took two steps back anyway.
"You wouldn't do anything."
"Try me."
"Alright, I challenge you to a wizards duel. Tonight if you like, wands only, no contact. What's the matter? Never heard of a wizard's duel before?"
"Of course she has," Ryou said, panting, he'd just run down from the infirmary, "I'll be her second. Who's yours?" Ron had wondered off.
"Crabbe." Malfoy said, sizing up his goons. They were relieved from the class early by Ryou's message. "Midnight? In the trophy room, it's always unlocked." Malfoy walked off.
Ombre rounded on Ryou, "What is a wizard duel? And what do you mean second?"
Ryou explained on the way back up to the castle. Hermione prodded Kari, would taken back control, they fell back from the group and weren't seen at lunch.
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Kari walked down into the common room and looked at the time, 11:45, she should go and meet Ryou, Hermione was stood at the entrance, glaring at her, "You can't stop me Hermione."
"It's not you I have to stop is it?" Hermione asked, "It's the other." Kari stared at her, and Ombre was shocked. "I've worked it out, you, Yugi and Ryou, you're all possessed aren't you."
"What do you mean?" Kari asked, pretending to be surprised.
"The changes in your eyes, your attitudes, it's been noticeable to me since the start of term. You're possessed and it was the other who accepted Malfoy's challenge wasn't it?" Ombre surprised Kari by appearing in her spirit form in front of Hermione.
"It was and I never back away from a challenge. My name is Ombre, you're a smart kid." Hermione's jaw dropped, she hadn't expected to actually get to see the spirit that possessed her new friend.
Kari looked at her watch, "Ombre we're going to be late." The spirit turned to Hermione, "It would be no good erasing your memories, you'd just work it out again, but don't get in my way." Ombre vanished and a golden flash showed up under her robe. Kari's hazel eyes turned magenta and she got a hard look, Hermione gulped.
"You'll get Kari into trouble if you're caught."
"I won't get caught." Ombre said, pushing her way out of the portrait, Hermione followed her, "Ombre, you're going to lose Gryffindor house points."
"I won't get caught." Ombre repeated, "Just go back to bed."
"Alright but when Kari's on the train home tomorrow remember I told you so." Hermione turned to got re-enter the common room but found the fat lady gone. "Now what am I supposed to do?"
"You'll have to come with me, stay close." Ombre said, as she cloaked herself and Hermione in shadow magic and they made their way to the trophy room. Ombre found herself explaining about Yami and Bakura, and about their past. They reached the trophy room, where she was surprised to find not only Ryou, but Harry, Ron and Neville as well. "Kari, what's going on? Malfoy challenged Harry to a Wizard's duel at midnight, but Ryou says Malfoy challenged you too." Ombre nodded and Hermione noted that the spirit answered to Kari when she was around people who didn't know about her and Kari.
"Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner."
"Filch!" Ombre growled quietly. The group scurried to the door the opposite side of the room and crept down a hall filled with armour. Neville tripped and grabbed Ron pulling them both into a suit of amour. Ombre turned but was too slow to stop the amour crashing into the ground, loudly.
"RUN!" Harry yelled, and they sprinted for it. Ending up near the Charms corridor, miles from the trophy room. "I think we've lost him." Harry panted, they were spread over the corridor, recovering from the run. Ombre was the only one who was not tired.
"I – told – you – Kari!" Hermione gasped, "I – told- you!"
"We've got to get Gryffindor tower as fast as possible." Said Ron.
"Malfoy tricked you." Hermione said to Ombre and Harry. "You both realise that don't you? He was never going to meet either of you – Filch knew someone was going to be in the trophy room, Malfoy tipped him off."
"Let's go!" Harry said, but it wasn't going to be that easy as Peeves came shooting out of a classroom in front of them. He caught them and gave a squeal of delight. A gold flash and Kari was stood where Ombre had been seconds earlier, and Ombre was stood, as a spirit, glaring at Peeves. "Be quiet Peeves."
"Wandering in the corridors at midnight? I think even you, Miss spoil-all-my-fun, are breaking the rules here. Tut tut naughty naughty, you'll get caughty."
"Not if you don't give us away Peeves."
"Why shouldn't I?" Peeves grinned insanely at Ombre, who was suddenly aware that Harry, Ron and Neville were staring at her and realised she'd given herself away. "I should tell Filch, I should, it's for your own good you know." Ombre growled and took a step forward, causing Peeves to float backwards but Ron took a swipe at him.
"STUDENT'S OUT OF BED!" Peeves bellowed, "DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR! STUDENT'S OUT OF…" He was silenced as Kari and Ombre raised their arms and used Shadow magic to silence the ghost. Ducking under the ghost, they ran for their lives, right to the end of the corridor, into a locked door. They could hear Filch's footsteps running to where Peeve's voice had come from. "Oh, this is it, this is the end!" Ron moaned and Hermione growled.
"Oh move over!" She grabbed Kari's wand, which sparked slightly, "Alohomora!" The lock opened and they piled into the room, as the shadow spell on Peeves wore off, shutting it quickly and listening to what was going on, on the other side.
"Where did they go, Peeves?" Filch asked, "Quick tell me."
Peeves had obviously learnt his lesson about messing with Ombre, "Say please." Or maybe he just enjoyed winding up Filch, who knew.
"Don't mess around with me Peeves, now WHERE DID THEY GO?"
"Shan't say nothing if you don't say please!" Peeves said, in an annoying sing-song voice. No he was just annoying Filch, which was obviously more fun the landing the girl spirit in trouble.
"Alright, please." Filch sounded as if he was about to snap.
"NOTHING! Haha, told you I wouldn't say nothing if you don't say please." They heard Peeves whooshing off and Filch cursing in rage. They heard his voice trail off and Harry turned to Neville who'd been tugging his robe for the last few minutes. "What?"
He turned and saw what the others were staring at, a huge, three headed dog was staring at them and it was starting to growl. They quickly worked out they were in the Forbidden Corridor, and just as quickly exited. The Gryffindors didn't stop running until they reached the fat lady's portrait on the seventh floor. While Ryou escaped in his common room a couple of floors down. "Where on earth have you been?" She asked them.
"Nevermind, pig snout, pig snout." Harry panted and they all piled into the chairs in the common room, as the portrait swung open.
It was a while before anyone said something, Neville was staring at Kari with an ashen face and looked like he'd never speak again. "What do they think their doing, keeping a dog like that locked up in a school like this?"
"You don't use your eyes do you?" Hermione snapped, "Didn't you see what it was standing on?"
"The floor?" Harry asked, and was immediately made to feel stupid by Kari and Hermione.
"No, a trap door, it was guarding something." She stood up, glaring at them, especially Kari, "I hope you're all happy. Now if you don't mind I'm going to bed before any of you come up with another clever plan to get us killed or worse expelled."
Ron stared at her as she left, "No, we don't mind, it's not like we invited her along." Kari grimaced, "You didn't?"
No, Kari admitted, "But she was talking to me and got shut out of the common room so she had to come."
Harry had been given two somethings else to think about, one he had most defiantly seen a ghost that looked almost identical to Kari, like he had in his dorm, with one that looked like Yugi, who was trying to wake the small boy up. And two what was it Hagrid said, 'Ain't no safer place, 'cept perhaps Hogwarts.' Harry realised he'd worked out where the package from the vault had gone.
Kari leapt up from the chair by the fire as a notice was posted on the board, she read it then stormed back over to where Yugi and Joey were duelling with their charmed cards. She slumped into a chair and Yugi took his eyes off the game for a moment to look at her, "What's wrong?"
"You know how I was looking forward to flying lessons?" Yugi and Joey nodded, though Joey wasn't taking his eyes off the game. "Guess who we've got them with, and he's blonde and aggravating." Joey looked up as the turn passed to Yugi, who turned back to the game.
"Don't tell me we're with Mouthboy!"
"All right, I won't tell you." Kari sighed, and her cat jumped up on her lap. Kari stroked it without thinking, "They start tomorrow, actually I wouldn't know which is worse, having them with the Slytherins or having them with Bakura." Yugi snorted and played Monster Reborn, giving him three monsters on the field, Yugi looked at a card in his hand and smiled, Joey blanched as he realised Yugi didn't have to hold back since they were the only ones in the common room, "Oh come on Yugi, you wouldn't…!"
Yugi did, "I sacrifice all three for Slipher, The Sky Dragon." The Egyptian God monster appeared as a miniature version of the great beast that had helped him out during Battle City, Kari blanched, looking around, she couldn't see anyone though and turned back to the duel. She was unaware of the two just coming into the common room as Yugi's God attacked Joey's Gilford the Lightening. Harry had stopped to read the notice on the board and froze as Slipher's attack blasted away the rest of Joey's life points. It wasn't as if this was the first duel he'd seen come to a close, but he knew from television that, that monster was an Egyptian God Monster, belonging to Yugi Muto, this Yugi's 'namesake', the King of Games.
Another thing he'd noticed about Yugi and his friends, Yugi, Kari and Ryou all seemed to undergo personality changes, Ryou was the worst, going from sweet and fragile, to a devious and slightly insane person. Yugi changed from a innocent kid, to a much more confident and slightly cocky person. Kari went from a hot-headed girl to a sometimes calm and collected person with a huge temper if she was crossed, was it possible the three were possessed? And they all wore those amulets, even Seto Kaiba, in Ravenclaw. Harry wondered what the amulets were, if Joey, Yugi and Kari weren't all they seemed to be but he'd tried looking them up in the library with no results.
Harry read the sign and sighed, "Typical, just what I always wanted. To make a fool of myself on a broomstick in front of Malfoy." He had been looking forward to learning to fly more then anything else. Kari looked up startled, and Yugi quickly shuffled his God back into his deck, causing the magic causing Slipher to appear to vanish, causing the image to vanish.
"You don't know you'll make a fool of yourself," Ron said, waving to the others, "Anyway, I know Malfoy's always going on about how good his is at Quidditch, but I bet it's all talk. Hey guys, heard the news." Kari nodded glumly. "Don't worry, I'm sure you'll be fine."
Kari's new friend, Hermione Granger, was almost as nervous as Neville was, Neville had never been on a broom and Hermione couldn't learn this out of a book. Kari sighed when her lecture from a book called 'Quidditch through the ages' was cut short by the arrival of the post owls. Harry never got mail, over then Hagrid's note, neither had Joey or Kari. Kaiba sent letters to Mokuba and got letter back every few days, so his large eagle owl was often loaded with forms and letters from his company and from Mokuba. Yugi had his tawny owl which often came with things from his grandfather, they had no idea about Ryou, as he wasn't often at the breakfast table.
A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother, he showed Kari a glass ball the size of a large marble that was full of white smoke. "What is it?"
"A Rememberall, Gran knows I forget things, this tells you if you've forgotten to do something. Look you hold it tight like this and if it turns red…" And it did, his face fell, "you've forgotten something." Kari smiled as he tried to think what it was, loosing interest in the conversation.
Malfoy was passing the Gryffindor table, and snatched Neville's Rememberall. Harry and Ron jumped to their feet, Kari rose slowly, switching with Ombre halfway up. Yami and Joey were quick to follow. Malfoy wasn't sure why but something told him to be afraid of the magenta eyed girl and the spiky haired boy. All five were itching to fight Malfoy, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble in a flash, was there in an instant.
"What's going on?"
"Malfoy's got my Rememberall, Professor." Malfoy dropped the Rememberall on the table, backing away slightly, scowling and knowing he was outnumbered.
"Just looking." He said, as he walked away with Crabbe and Goyle behind him.
At three thirty that afternoon, the group hurried down the front steps to the grounds, for their first flying lesson. It was a clear breezy day and they headed towards a smooth lawn opposite the Forbidden Forest. The Slytherins were already there as where 20 broomsticks lying in neat lines. Their teacher, Madam Hooch, arrived. She had short gray hair and yellow eyes like a hawk.
"Well what are you waiting for? Everyone stand by a broomstick. Hurry up!" She barked. Kari took a spot opposite Malfoy and grinned sadistically at him. "Stick out your right hand over your broom and say 'Up'."
Harry's broom leapt into his hand, as did Yugi's and Kari's but very few others's brooms did. Harry smirked when he saw Malfoy's broom took four attempts to come to his hand. Kari was grinning. Madam Hooch showed them how to mount their brooms and corrected the grips of the students, causing the gang to smirk as she told Malfoy he'd been gripping his broom wrong for years. "Now when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your brooms steady, rise a few feet and then come straight back down by leaning forward slightly. On my whistle – three – two…"
But Neville, nervous and jumpy, pushed off before the whistle even touched her lips. "Come back boy!" She shouted, but Neville was rising too fast. Kari watched as he gasped, slid sideways off his broom and Kari threw her arm out, slowing his decent with her shadow magic, but not enough to stop…
Neville hit the ground with a horrible crack, landing in the grass in a heap. His broomstick escaped to the forbidden forest. Neville was being examined by Madam Hooch as Kari wavered, and was caught by Joey. "Broken wrist." Harry heard her mutter, "Come on boy, it's alright, up you get." She turned and scowled at the rest of the class, "None of you is too move while I take this boy to the hospital wing! You leave those brooms where they are or you'll be out of Hogwarts faster then you can say 'Quidditch.' Come on dear." Neville hobbled out of sight with Madam Hooch, who had her arm around him.
"I like having the power to move objects, even falling people." Kari whispered to Joey, who nodded and smiled at her. It had taken Kari ages to get the hang of her powers, which stemmed from her Millennium item.
"You OK, Kari?" Hermione asked, concerned for her friend as Kari regained some colour in her face getting to her feet with Joey's support. Kari nodded and scowled at Malfoy as he laughed, "Did you see the look his face, the great lump." The other Slytherins joined in.
"Shut up, Malfoy." Kari snapped testily, her head beginning to pound.
"Oh sticking up for him, Ironhide?" Said Pansy Parkingson, a hard-faced Slytherin girl, "And I thought you had a thing for Wheeler." Kari blushed and Joey finally removed his hands from her shoulders.
"Look!" Malfoy said, darting forward and nabbing something out of the grass. "It's that stupid thing Longbottom's gran gave him." The Rememberall sparkled in the sun.
"Give that here Malfoy!" Harry said quietly, everyone stopped talking to listen. Malfoy smirked nastily.
"How about I leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find? How about on the roof?"
"Give it here!" Harry shouted but Malfoy had leapt onto his broom and taken off. He hadn't been lying, he could fly well. Hovering in mid-air he called down, "Come and get it Potter!"
"Harry, no," Hermione called as Harry grabbed his broomstick, "You'll get us all into trouble." He ignored her and took off. Their words were lost to the rest of the groups ears as they two exchanged banter on their broomsticks. Joey gasped as Malfoy threw the orb as high as possible into the air. The orb shot up, then slowed and started to fall, gaining speed on its way down. Harry dived, catching the Rememberall and pulling up at the last minute, toppling onto the grass, the Rememberall safely in his grip. "HARRY POTTER!"
Yugi looked up from where he was giving Harry a hand to his feet, Professor McGonagall was running over, "Never – in all my time at Hogwarts – how dare you- might have broken your neck…"
"It wasn't his fault, Professor…"
"Be quiet Miss Ironhide."
"But Malfoy…"
"That's enough Mr Weasley, Potter, follow me." The group lost sight of Harry but Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle were all smirking. Kari's stomach did back flips and Ombre took over, walking up to Malfoy. The boy looked at her and saw her eyes were magenta again, he didn't want to show weakness but took two steps back anyway.
"You wouldn't do anything."
"Try me."
"Alright, I challenge you to a wizards duel. Tonight if you like, wands only, no contact. What's the matter? Never heard of a wizard's duel before?"
"Of course she has," Ryou said, panting, he'd just run down from the infirmary, "I'll be her second. Who's yours?" Ron had wondered off.
"Crabbe." Malfoy said, sizing up his goons. They were relieved from the class early by Ryou's message. "Midnight? In the trophy room, it's always unlocked." Malfoy walked off.
Ombre rounded on Ryou, "What is a wizard duel? And what do you mean second?"
Ryou explained on the way back up to the castle. Hermione prodded Kari, would taken back control, they fell back from the group and weren't seen at lunch.
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Kari walked down into the common room and looked at the time, 11:45, she should go and meet Ryou, Hermione was stood at the entrance, glaring at her, "You can't stop me Hermione."
"It's not you I have to stop is it?" Hermione asked, "It's the other." Kari stared at her, and Ombre was shocked. "I've worked it out, you, Yugi and Ryou, you're all possessed aren't you."
"What do you mean?" Kari asked, pretending to be surprised.
"The changes in your eyes, your attitudes, it's been noticeable to me since the start of term. You're possessed and it was the other who accepted Malfoy's challenge wasn't it?" Ombre surprised Kari by appearing in her spirit form in front of Hermione.
"It was and I never back away from a challenge. My name is Ombre, you're a smart kid." Hermione's jaw dropped, she hadn't expected to actually get to see the spirit that possessed her new friend.
Kari looked at her watch, "Ombre we're going to be late." The spirit turned to Hermione, "It would be no good erasing your memories, you'd just work it out again, but don't get in my way." Ombre vanished and a golden flash showed up under her robe. Kari's hazel eyes turned magenta and she got a hard look, Hermione gulped.
"You'll get Kari into trouble if you're caught."
"I won't get caught." Ombre said, pushing her way out of the portrait, Hermione followed her, "Ombre, you're going to lose Gryffindor house points."
"I won't get caught." Ombre repeated, "Just go back to bed."
"Alright but when Kari's on the train home tomorrow remember I told you so." Hermione turned to got re-enter the common room but found the fat lady gone. "Now what am I supposed to do?"
"You'll have to come with me, stay close." Ombre said, as she cloaked herself and Hermione in shadow magic and they made their way to the trophy room. Ombre found herself explaining about Yami and Bakura, and about their past. They reached the trophy room, where she was surprised to find not only Ryou, but Harry, Ron and Neville as well. "Kari, what's going on? Malfoy challenged Harry to a Wizard's duel at midnight, but Ryou says Malfoy challenged you too." Ombre nodded and Hermione noted that the spirit answered to Kari when she was around people who didn't know about her and Kari.
"Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner."
"Filch!" Ombre growled quietly. The group scurried to the door the opposite side of the room and crept down a hall filled with armour. Neville tripped and grabbed Ron pulling them both into a suit of amour. Ombre turned but was too slow to stop the amour crashing into the ground, loudly.
"RUN!" Harry yelled, and they sprinted for it. Ending up near the Charms corridor, miles from the trophy room. "I think we've lost him." Harry panted, they were spread over the corridor, recovering from the run. Ombre was the only one who was not tired.
"I – told – you – Kari!" Hermione gasped, "I – told- you!"
"We've got to get Gryffindor tower as fast as possible." Said Ron.
"Malfoy tricked you." Hermione said to Ombre and Harry. "You both realise that don't you? He was never going to meet either of you – Filch knew someone was going to be in the trophy room, Malfoy tipped him off."
"Let's go!" Harry said, but it wasn't going to be that easy as Peeves came shooting out of a classroom in front of them. He caught them and gave a squeal of delight. A gold flash and Kari was stood where Ombre had been seconds earlier, and Ombre was stood, as a spirit, glaring at Peeves. "Be quiet Peeves."
"Wandering in the corridors at midnight? I think even you, Miss spoil-all-my-fun, are breaking the rules here. Tut tut naughty naughty, you'll get caughty."
"Not if you don't give us away Peeves."
"Why shouldn't I?" Peeves grinned insanely at Ombre, who was suddenly aware that Harry, Ron and Neville were staring at her and realised she'd given herself away. "I should tell Filch, I should, it's for your own good you know." Ombre growled and took a step forward, causing Peeves to float backwards but Ron took a swipe at him.
"STUDENT'S OUT OF BED!" Peeves bellowed, "DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR! STUDENT'S OUT OF…" He was silenced as Kari and Ombre raised their arms and used Shadow magic to silence the ghost. Ducking under the ghost, they ran for their lives, right to the end of the corridor, into a locked door. They could hear Filch's footsteps running to where Peeve's voice had come from. "Oh, this is it, this is the end!" Ron moaned and Hermione growled.
"Oh move over!" She grabbed Kari's wand, which sparked slightly, "Alohomora!" The lock opened and they piled into the room, as the shadow spell on Peeves wore off, shutting it quickly and listening to what was going on, on the other side.
"Where did they go, Peeves?" Filch asked, "Quick tell me."
Peeves had obviously learnt his lesson about messing with Ombre, "Say please." Or maybe he just enjoyed winding up Filch, who knew.
"Don't mess around with me Peeves, now WHERE DID THEY GO?"
"Shan't say nothing if you don't say please!" Peeves said, in an annoying sing-song voice. No he was just annoying Filch, which was obviously more fun the landing the girl spirit in trouble.
"Alright, please." Filch sounded as if he was about to snap.
"NOTHING! Haha, told you I wouldn't say nothing if you don't say please." They heard Peeves whooshing off and Filch cursing in rage. They heard his voice trail off and Harry turned to Neville who'd been tugging his robe for the last few minutes. "What?"
He turned and saw what the others were staring at, a huge, three headed dog was staring at them and it was starting to growl. They quickly worked out they were in the Forbidden Corridor, and just as quickly exited. The Gryffindors didn't stop running until they reached the fat lady's portrait on the seventh floor. While Ryou escaped in his common room a couple of floors down. "Where on earth have you been?" She asked them.
"Nevermind, pig snout, pig snout." Harry panted and they all piled into the chairs in the common room, as the portrait swung open.
It was a while before anyone said something, Neville was staring at Kari with an ashen face and looked like he'd never speak again. "What do they think their doing, keeping a dog like that locked up in a school like this?"
"You don't use your eyes do you?" Hermione snapped, "Didn't you see what it was standing on?"
"The floor?" Harry asked, and was immediately made to feel stupid by Kari and Hermione.
"No, a trap door, it was guarding something." She stood up, glaring at them, especially Kari, "I hope you're all happy. Now if you don't mind I'm going to bed before any of you come up with another clever plan to get us killed or worse expelled."
Ron stared at her as she left, "No, we don't mind, it's not like we invited her along." Kari grimaced, "You didn't?"
No, Kari admitted, "But she was talking to me and got shut out of the common room so she had to come."
Harry had been given two somethings else to think about, one he had most defiantly seen a ghost that looked almost identical to Kari, like he had in his dorm, with one that looked like Yugi, who was trying to wake the small boy up. And two what was it Hagrid said, 'Ain't no safer place, 'cept perhaps Hogwarts.' Harry realised he'd worked out where the package from the vault had gone.