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History Can't Help But Repeat Itself

Review: In case you forgot what happened last time…

"We know that there are dangers going into the forest. It would not be called the Forbidden Forest if it were full of cute and cuddly nice things. Don't worry, Yugi and I are very able in the area of protecting ourselves. Be assured that we will come out before next lesson has begun."

"Yes, we would have come during the weekend, but we were unfortunately distracted by other duties," Yugi added. "We enjoy exploring and knowing about the Creatures in the forest could help us in the future."

Hagrid shrugged. They were teachers, if they wanted to go into the Forbidden Forest, who was he to stop them. "Just be careful, and beware of the centaurs, they do not usually react well to strangers and people in general."

"Thanks for the warning," Yugi said and with Yami headed towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

Chapter 12

Entering the Forbidden Forest, Yami noted that the light of the sun, where it had been very vibrant, but the instant that they crossed the imaginary line where Hogwarts grounds stopped and the forest begun was darker, and not just because of the trees.

Walking inwards the tree canopy blocked out almost all of the light, so that if you didn't know better you would think that it was night.

Yugi looked around at the trees and smiled, "Ryou and Bakura would enjoy this, wouldn't they Yami?"

Brushing away a branch that seemed to want tot catch onto his clothing, Yami smiled back at Yugi.

"Specially if they had you with them," Yami responded. "Ryou would purely enjoy the spooky atmosphere, where as Bakura would use the shadows and the spookiness of the surrounds to scare other people for infinite joy."

"True," Yugi said. "Very true. Ryou doesn't let him out to scare others very often and he does enjoy doing it when the opportunity is at hand."

A single twig snapped nearby, alerting Yugi and Yami in particular who was very aware of his surroundings so that he could protect his hikari no matter the situation. Quickly through the mind-link before Yugi could utter a word, Yami sent a single word.

\Shh\

Yugi nodded understandingly and happily obliged when Yami pulled him into a nearby shadow where they could remain hidden and escape to the Shadow Realm if necessary.

"Come out, we know you are there," Yami called as he left the safety of the shadow and into a lighter patch where he could be seen easily.

Out of the trees on the opposite side of where Yugi was hiding, appeared a half-man, half-horse creature that Yugi instantly recognised. It was of the same description as a centaur that was given in an ancient myth.

"Good day young one," the centaur said.

Yami snorted, then looked carefully at the centaur wanting to make sure that its intent for whatever it had come here for did not include the killing of himself or his love.

"You can let your friend come out to greet me, I have no desire to hurt or kill anyone or anything," the centaur stated.

For a moment Yami analysed what he had said and how the centaur had acted, taking his statement as a truth and sensing no lies he beckoned Yugi forward.

Complying with Yami's beckoning, Yugi trusted that Yami had made the right decision, as he had done many times before, he didn't hesitate.

"Young ones what are you doing this far into the Forest, should you not be at the school learning?" the centaur asked curiously.

"No, we are teachers at the school, we are allowed to explore the Forest, if that is what we desire to do," Yugi answered first.

"I am not as young as my body would suggest," Yami continued. "Add another five millennia and you'll be closer."

"Ancient one," the centaur murmured with reverence. "It was foretold of your coming, a long time ago."

Yami almost snarled in anger. When would it be over, foretold of his coming could only mean that there was another prophecy he had to fulfil or some duty to save the world which he was to be included in. The Fates just never seemed to want him to end his world saving.

"Not again," Yami groaned annoyed. "I don't have to save the world from eternal damnation again do I?"

"Yes the World is in grave danger of destruction, if you will total inhalation. A great evil that had been banished from life, but not to death will rise in approximately two years time, from banishing death to the living once again," the centaur said. "It will not be your job to vanquish the evil, but he will attempt to gain your ancient and most powerful magic to join his army of followers to destroy the world," the centaur stopped suddenly. "I have said too much."

The centaur turned and was gone before Yami or Yugi could react. Running into the mass of trees and disappearing from sight in moments. Leaving behind him Yami and Yugi both gazing wide eyed at the spot where he had been standing only moments before. Trying hard to comprehend exactly what they had just been told.

Blinking, Yami sighed uneasily, "Great, just what we needed right now." He muttered sarcastically.

"Lovely," Yugi said in a less than enthusiastic tone. "We need to talk to all of the other Millennium item holders they will also be targeted undoubtedly. They never only want one of the items they always want to be greedy and have them all. So Malik, Marik, Ryou, Bakura and Shadi are the most important to inform. Isis and Rashid will also want to know I suppose."

Yami agreed, they had to know, whoever had an item would be in danger of attack, of what kind wouldn't be known until it happened, but it would no doubt involve magic.

"Let's head back," Yami said while muttering to himself. "Just as we finally get some semblance of normalcy into our lives, we get thrown back into the pit again."

Yugi shook his head at Yami as he listened to the mutterings coming from his love.

"Yami, we had our semblance of normalcy for the past seven years," Yugi told him. "You and I both knew that it wasn't going to last forever, but we had to enjoy what time we were given to live like everyone else for a while."

"True," Yami responded thoughtfully.

Stepping over a large tree root, the leaves crunched underfoot as they walked back the way that they had come. Yami could barley hear the sounds of the students speaking.

"Maybe, it has something to do with that man who has escaped from that wizarding prison that everyone is speaking about. Supposedly found to be a murderer and a supporter of that Dark Lord that was in Britain until about twelve years ago. His name I believe was Sirius Black. But isn't he supposed to be dead?" Yugi voiced his thoughts.

"Perhaps," Yami conceded. "It is possible to live through a death, as I have done. Having the possibility that he could one day die, he may have done a minor form of what we did to keep him alive for longer."

"we can do some research on the weekend. Right now we should try and get back," Yugi said. "I think I'll start getting the newspaper sent to us each morning. Much easier to keep up with the times if you read it, but not take it too literally."

Looking down at his watch, Yami illuminated the air around it so that he could see the face of the watch properly.

"We should get back with plenty of time to overview the lesson plan for the next session," Yami said.

"Next time let's make sure that we have plenty of time before we next go in here. It's a lot more intriguing than I thought that it would," Yugi wistfully looked around himself.

Reaching the edge of the forest, Yugi listened into the voice of a rather snotty child, he recognised it as the voice of one Draco Malfoy. Without a second thought, Yugi knew that something bad was going to happen. Beside he Yami went on alert and protective mode as he felt the dread coming from Yugi.

Feeling the anxiousness, Yami could feel the same dread in the air as Yugi had, something bad was about to happen, and for some reason, Yami knew that someone was going to get hurt.

"I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you?" Draco sneered. "Are you, you ugly great brute?"

/NO/

\BAKA!\

Taking off at a sprint, Yugi ran towards the fool of a boy, Yami close behind him both already not too far away. Yami felt a great heap of fear as he knew Yugi would get there in time only for the hippogriffs reaction.

The hippogriff reared and let out a sharp cry, Hagrid moved quickly to try and subdue the hippogriff, but it got free enough to send a kick out at Draco. Fortunately for Draco Yugi had made it in time to protect Draco with his own body. The hippogriff not seeing the new addition kicked out fiercely, his hoofs hitting Yugi in the shoulder with a sharp and very painful bone-snapping crack. Yugi flew backwards into Draco.

The hippogriff looked to see what he had done, to see how much damage he had made on the insolent human but was horrified when he saw who he had hit and instantly fell back, and tried to move away.

"Aibou," Yami cried out.

The students all looked at the scene with horror and wonder as to how Yugi had managed to in front of Draco. Why he would do it at all seeing that he obviously knew that he was going to be hurt.

Blood seeped from the gash that had been made in both his leather top and his skin.

A light whimper escaped Yugi's lips as he slowly got to his feet with the help of Yami so that he could get off of the shocked Draco Malfoy. Yami was careful to not agitate the injury as he could feel the pain filtering through the block that Yugi had placed on the mind-link so that he didn't find out exactly how much it was hurting him.

The whole herd of hippogriffs moved towards Yugi and Yami in a protective semi-circle. A group of the Griffindors tried to move in to help, but instantly back away when one of the hippogriffs gave a low warning call. They backed away quickly not wanting to get kicked.

"Yami," Yugi tried to use a reassuring voice, but heard it crack half-way through the call.

"Aibou, it's alright. I'll take good care of you. We have to get you up to the Hospital Wing right now," Yami explained.

Picking Yugi up, Yami made sure that he was as comfortable as he could possibly be then hurried towards the castle trying as hard as he could to not jostle or move Yugi around to cause any more pain. Yami was more afraid that the pain that was getting through the link was too much and would break the block before he could get them to the safety of the Hospital Wing.

Behind him Hagrid was also making his way to the Hospital Wing with the unconscious Draco Malfoy in his arms. He had passed out after the fall.

Making it to the Hospital Wing just in time, Yami placed Yugi down on a bed and fell down into the chair beside him as the attending Matron, Madam Pomfrey quickly made her way over to them.

Yami was immensely proud of Yugi, he hadn't screamed even with all the pain that he was in. It was much braver than almost everyone else would be willing to do.

With a quick check over, the Matron quickly moved away to retrieve the necessary potions that she needed to heal the wound. All the while muttering about how he could have managed to almost shatter his whole shoulder joint.

She came back with a cup and a few vials as Hagrid came in the door with the unconscious Draco.

Taking the vials from her, she told him to give him the blue vial first, it was a pain potion so that he wouldn't be able to feel the stabbing and painfulness of the injury. The green one next would stop any blood from leaking out of the open wound and help stop infections. Lastly the white one, which was needed to regrow the arm joint as it had broken in too many places to be fixed with a simple spell.

"Yugi, open up," Yami murmured to his little hikari.

Yugi opened his eyes, the pain filtering through his purple orbs as he let Yami help him drink the potions without spilling them.

He shuddered at the taste, his taste buds were trying to revolt against him, but managed to keep them down none the less. The blinding pain quickly burst into a vigorous dance as it wanted to remain, but the potion quickly sent it away. The pain dispersed and he felt a lot better.

Yami took down the block in his mind as he felt the last dregs of pain disappear from Yugi's mind. He could feel the potions doing their work. Pulling back he pushed the sides of the slash in Yugi's shirt and watched in amazement at the gash as it healed. IT was almost gone, the gash had pulled the skin back together and knitted it back up as if the gash had never existed, except for a minor red line. Even that was fading and almost gone.

"How does it feel now Yugi?" Yami asked.

"A bit itchy, but otherwise, it feels fine. It's annoying that I can't scratch it, you never know it could destroy all the work that the potion has done to make it better," Yugi stated with a smile.

Gently moving my arm, he flexed out his shoulder to see if it was working.

"All fixed up then are we," Madam Pomfrey said as she appeared at his bedside.

"It appears so," Yami answered.

A smile graced both of their faces as they looked at each other.

"Thank you Yami," Yugi said.

"That's alright hikari. I really should send that child Draco to the Shadow Realm for his blatant lack of regard to listening to his teachers. I highly doubt that that was an accident, Hagrid is not an incompetent teacher. He would have told them about the hippogriffs temper and lack of patience for any rude remarks. Just as he did with us, and warned us away from the fence as we neared it," Yami said angrily.

"I know Yami, but I couldn't let the hippogriff hurt Draco, he could have killed him with that kick if it had hit his head and that was exactly where he was aiming the kick," Yugi explained.

Yami shook his head lightly at the answer. Yugi was always trying to help others, even if it didn't bode well to his general health.

"I know Aibou," Yami replied. "It's not in your nature and that's what I love about you among other things."

Yugi looked towards where the wound had once been in his shoulder, and noticed the gash in his shirt and growled lightly.

"I liked this top," Yugi said forlornly. "It's a shame that it is ruined. You can't fix leather with magic."

Yami let out a bark of laughter at Yugi's growl, and at the look that Yugi was trying to pass off. He was too cute and innocent to pull it off, so it looked much like a truly irritated person rather than an angry one.

"Come on then, let's go see to our class, we might even make it one time for their arrival." Yami said. "There is after all no point in being here any longer."

"Okay," Yugi agreed. "You'll be teaching them this lesson, I am not up to putting up with their behaviour at the moment. I can't write on the board either, so you can do that too." He turned to Madam Pomfrey. "Thank you for fixing me up Poppy."

"You are welcome Yugi, just be careful not to do anything too strenuous on your shoulder for the next few days. It's very weak at the moment and I'm sure that you don't want to come back here for something silly like reopening it or destroying the one altogether," Poppy said.

"Okay," Yugi agreed knowing that since Yami had heard it that he wouldn't be allowed to much at all since he would take it upon himself to make sure that his hikari recovered without any problems.

Exiting the Hospital Wing, Yugi walked with Yami down to the Great Hall knowing that it was close to dinnertime now. Upon the way they passed only a few students, but when Yugi saw one of them running towards the owlery, he stopped and frowned.

"Rats," Yugi mumbled, as he remembered that he had a few letter to write and send.

"What?" Yami enquired confused as to what had made his hikari suddenly stop. Could he be in pain? Did he need to go back to see the Matron?

"Nothing that can't be done later," Yugi said. "I was going to write those letters before dinner."

Still confused Yami looked at Yugi for a more detailed explanation of what he speaking about.

Yugi shook his head as he saw the confused look on his Yami's face, "Don't you remember the warning that we got while we were in the forest. We have to write to the others and warn them as well. Well except for Shadi who we can just summon later tonight."

"Oh yes, and research on who he was talking about on the weekend since we will be working on all of the kids homework during the weeknights," Yami responded.

"Yes," Yugi nodded. "But did you notice that while we were warned he didn't say when exactly it would happen either, vague as ever."

Yami went over what had been said in his head, approximately two years could mean up to six months either side of exactly two years to this date. They would be getting searched for and the ones who wanted to take over the world would be trying to gain their allegiance very soon in the near future no doubt.

"Indeed and the sooner it is done the better," Yami said. "We'll do it after we have had dinner, you need your strength, you have just healed and the sooner you eat the better I will feel about your well being."

Continuing on towards the Great Hall for dinner, they didn't see a small movement of shadows from an alcove in the wall. Three teens stumbled out of the alcove and had stunned expressions on their faces. The only girl of the three let out a small gasp and quickly put her hand up to her mouth. The two boys just watched the retreating backs of the two professors as they walked away.

"You don't think that they are working for Voldemort do you?" Harry whispered the question that every one of the three were thinking but would never be able to voice.

Ron gasped at the name, just like everyone else did, only for Hermione to glare at him for being silly. It after all was only a name, and names can't hurt you, no matter how much you want to believe that they will.

"No!" Hermione growled, defending the two men. "He couldn't. Professor Yugi is much to pure for that, he wouldn't be able to kill, let alone work for or with a killer. But what was he talking about? Remember what happened last time we threw around accusations. We were so wrong, not even close."

Begrudgingly Harry and Ron both nodded knowing that she was right, they still wanted to know what this mysterious warning was about and who they were going to tell and who was Shadi.

They continued to the Great Hall for dinner, not wanting to miss the meal. When they arrive they could see that quite a few people were looking up towards the teachers table where a fierce conversation was taking place between the two teachers that they had just been speaking about. It appeared that they didn't know that they were doing it or they didn't want other to know what they were speaking about as they wee speaking in an unknown language that no one in the room could understand.

The rapid speech was indistinguishable for a good reason, they were speaking in Ancient Egyptian diologue that had apparently been dead for many thousands of years.

"Yami what happens if this bad guy is a spirit and it is directing operations under wraps. What are we going to do when he tried to get he Millennium items?" Yugi said anxiously looking for an answer.

"I don't think that we should tell Dumbledore about the Millennium Items. If what I suspect is going to happen then we are going to be pulled into a magical war, a war of most magical types as both sides will look for stronger and more powerful entities to gain them the upper hand," Yami said. "We could of course leave it up to them to settle it, but it will no doubt bleed into the rest of the world and along the way could reveal magic."

"But how can our friends be safe from this new enemy. Hogwarts is thought to be the safest place in the world for trying to protect anything. If this guy is tries anything shouldn't we try to get them to safety even if we have to reveal the Millennium Items. They may even already know about them," Yugi argued.

To Be Continued…

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