Living Gods

Author's Note: What can I say? I felt like writing something sorta poetic. It's very hard to do it properly, I must say. This fic will contain my top three favorite Ancient Egypt pairings, and each chapter will be related to a different myth/legend from Egyptian mythology.

Pairing: AtemxMana

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

Geb and Nut

When we're young, we are taught how to behave.

But there are those of us who spite our parents' teachings and disobey.

While others still, never intended to fall into the traps that attempt to thwart common sense.

I am one of those unfortunate ones.

I think upon my life and I wonder.

I posses the title, the Son of Ra, with the crown that adorns my brow.

But there are days when I think and I wonder...

Am I worthy of such an honor?

I am not...

The title is mine...

But I am not the embodiment of Ra.

That is my father.

If I were the embodiment of any God,

I would be Geb, God of the Earth.

The story that explains the waxing and waning of the moons affects me deeply.

For Nut, the Goddess of the Sky, is married to Ra but in love with Geb.

The story goes that Ra found out and forbade her from having children.

Distraught, she went to Thoth for advice.

He took a portion of the moon and added five more days to the year.

This allowed Nut to bear five more children, two of them Set and Osiris.

I am Geb.

But my Goddess of the Sky, my Nut, is my beloved Mana.

My Nut is not married to Ra.

But Father would never approve of a union between us just as Ra forbade Nut.

I love her...

She knows it well...

But our lives are not a perfect reenactment of this tale.

We have no Thoth who will let us be together despite Ra's infinite wrath.

Yet the greatest flaw of all is perhaps the most tragic for us...

I cannot let her bare my children as the true Nut bore Geb's.

Many times, I wished that I had been born a commoner.

But it is not so...

And I know why this has happened to me...

This is Ra's way of punishing Geb.

And he's doing it through me...

But must he hurt my Mana in doing so?

It aches in my heart when I hear her sobbing from inside her room late at night.

It kills me inside when she looks at me with those glistening, tearful eyes.

Why must she be punished too?

I long for her and need her with me.

To feel the gentle caress of her fingertips on my cheeks...

To stroke my hand through her silken brown locks to the nape of her neck...

To hold her in my arms like I used to...

And let her tender, gentle kisses sooth away my anxiety.

Be it to cheek, to forehead, to neck, to eyes, or to lips...

I just want her back with me...

But I can't.

I'm forbidden to do so.

Mana, my love... I miss you terribly...

I see you standing there...

But all I can do is watch you from afar.

You are my soul's completion...

But you are also its eternal torment.

This is how we must live...

But how long must we suffer this daily torture?

Will we only find peace in death?

I pray not.

I don't think I could wait that long.

And I'm sure thou wouldst agree.

But this is our cruel reality...

Our fated destiny...

Together forever...

But eternally apart...

I got the last two lines from a very good movie called "Lady Hawk". Absolutely beautiful. But honestly, if any of you guys know me, are you that surprised that I did a Vaseshipping oneshot first?