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Chapter One
Taka, Seto, and Mokuba Kaiba were the children of their mother's kingdom, Sabaku Oukoko (Desert Kingdom). Their mother had remarried a man known as Jinan. He loved their mother but not them. He would ignore the children and sometimes even curse at them when their mother wasn't around. Taka was eleven, Seto was twelve, and Mokuba was only five.
"You pathetic boy," Jinan once said to Seto, "You'll never make it as a king."
Seto growled at him and took both his sister and his brother's hands.
"Let's go," he said.
"Where?" asked Taka.
"Away from him," Seto looked back at a smirking Jinan.
Once Taka told her mother what Jinan said to them but Jinan just laughed and said 'what a sweet girl. I wonder why she would say such things to hurt my feelings.' But when her mother left for a message he hit her and threatened all three of them that if they say anything else he'd do more then just a slap.
Taka had glistening long black hair, and a violet color eyes. She wore a black and red gown. Seto wore a blue tunic and the same color pants and Mokuba wore almost the same thing as his older brother but in a darker blue. The three walked into the market. Seto stopped and began looking at some things at a stand. The market was huge with hundreds of stalls. Clothes, jewelry, weapons, and tons of other stuff could be bought.
"Good morning, Lady Taka," said the woman running the stand, "would you like to buy something today."
"No thank you," replied Taka as she wandered away.
The people in the kingdom would treat them with respect and like they were regular people because of how kind a queen their mother was.
Seto hadn't noticed she wandered away and thought she was with him and continued walking with Mokuba who tried to tell him Taka was behind. Seto tugged Mokuba's hand and kept walking. Taka walked the opposite way looking at all the things at the stands.
xXx Nearby xXx
Malik and his older sister Ishizu stood at a stand while Ishizu bought some food. Their family were quite poor and recently their father had died leaving the siblings with only Rishid to take care of them. Rishid stood nearby. Malik yawned.
"Okay, let's go now Malik," Ishizu began walking.
Malik grinned and began running.
"Malik! Wait!" Ishizu ran after her brother but she wasn't as fast.
Malik laughed and kept running. He enjoyed teasing his sister. He looked back seeing she was far behind.
"Oof!"
He bumped into someone. Both had fallen to the ground. Malik rubbed his head and opened his eyes. Taka sat on the ground in front of him.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
Ishizu caught up and gasped.
"Princess!"she exclaimed, "Malik you have to watch where you're going!" she scolded as she helped Taka off the ground.
'Princess?' thought Malik.
"I'm fine," she said as she pulled away from Ishizu.
"Taka!" Seto called from behind them.
Seto and Mokuba walked up to them.
"Finally we found you," he said.
"Well you wandered off," said Taka with a grin.
Malik laughed along with Taka.
"Come along Taka," urged Seto.
"Bye," said Taka with a smile as she hugged Malik.
"Bye," said Malik as he blushed slightly.
Taka giggled and ran to catch up with Seto.
"Now let's go Malik! You've caused enough trouble," Rishid took Malik's hand and walked off with him and Ishizu.
xXx at the palace xXx
The siblings walked in and went to their mother's chamber when they didn't find her anywhere else. Their mother's maid met them at the door.
"Oh children," she said with a sad voice, "I feel sorry for you," she walked off.
Seto opened the door to see his mother still in bed.
"Mama? Why are you still in bed?" asked Taka.
Their mother opened her eyes and looked at them.
"She's sick," said the nurse as she sighed, "she won't survive long now."
"What!" exclaimed Seto.
"She has pneumonia."
The nurse walked out leaving the children bewildered and Mokuba began to cry, though he didn't understand, but he knew something was wrong.
Thank you Bourei no Hikari for your advice. I rewrote this chapter and now I'm sticking with English, except for the kingdom's name.
