Hello people this is my fourth story which was inspired by a story I was reading called Lion Heart by Moondalian. I hope you enjoy the story.
::DISCLAIMER:: I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH OR ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS STORY…mostly.
Chapter One
An Unexpected Visit
The Pharaoh Atem sighed as he walked through the dirt streets of the village. He was being led by one of his priests, Solomen, who wanted him to meet his grandson Yuugi. His grandson owned a small shop in the village that sold glass figures. The Pharaoh did not believe it though because the grandson was only seventeen summers old. He had seen the grandson once before when Solomen had been made a priest and was to raise Atem. Though that had been years ago….
Flash Back
Atem waited impatiently with his father, the great Pharaoh Aknunkanon. His father was going to be leaving on an important trip to negotiate with some rebels in the east and needed someone to watch the prince. The person chosen was a friend of one of the priests and would soon be arriving at the harbor. Atem, being bored out of his mind looked around. There were shops, merchants, and a kid on a bench tossing an orange in the air to the beat of the music playing nearby. The boy looked a lot like himself, well their hair was alike at least. His was ebony at the base and crimson at the tips. He had golden bangs and large amethyst eyes that radiated pure innocence. The only thing missing was that unlike the prince the boy did not have blond streaks going through the ebony. The crimsoned eyed boy watched as a small group started to gather around the other boy, who didn't seem to notice. That was until the music stopped and he lost concentration dropping the orange on the ground. The music had stopped because the ferry had come in to the harbor and was letting people off. The amethyst eyed boy rushed over, more than likely looking for someone. He had apparently found them because he started to run towards an elderly man who greeted him happily. His father had too begun to walk over to the elder man so he had followed.
"Hello dear sir. Are you by chance Solomen?" Atem was shocked. His father was being polite to a lowly peasant. The man turned away from the boy and bowed.
"Yes I am Solomen. It is a pleasure to meet you my Pharaoh." He said. The Pharaoh nodded and looked down at the small amethyst eyed boy.
"And may I ask who is this?" the boy who had previously been staring in awe quickly looked down.
"My name is Yuugi your highness." He said his eyes never leaving the ground beneath him. The Pharaoh smiled and pushed the prince forward.
"This is my son Atem. Atem meet Solomen, the one who will be looking after you while I'm gone." The prince nodded a hello and looked back at the amethyst eyed boy, Yuugi who returned the look with a confused gaze……………
End Flashback
His chain of thought had been disrupted by one of the shop keepers shouts. He looked up and saw a white haired thief running down the street with an extremely ticked off shop keeper after him. The thief was running at top speed, but hadn't noticed that the shop keeper had a knife which was thrown at the thief and hid him square in the shoulder, making him scream out in pain and drop whatever he had stolen. The shop keeper picked up, what looked like a small wooden bow and went back into his shop.
Yuugi was sitting on the sand floor of his shop. He was going to have to go buy another knife since the one he had was now in the shoulder of some thief. He glanced around looking at all the statues he had made. No one bought them usually, but people did come in to look at them. At the moment he had three favorites, two angels a red one with short wings with red where they connected to the body holding a heart. The other was painted with blue with large bird like wings which were blue near the edges holding an ankh. He also had a black horse with wings which had seen when a book from a treasure ship had been raided. It had been floating in the Nile. The final four were a green angel with wings that stretched straight back holding a lime, a sand colored cat licking its paw with its eyes closed, a dark green snake that was coiled up ready to attack, and a black and brown hawk with its wings spread. He looked at them triumphantly knowing how much work he had put into making them. He lay down on the hot sand, Ra the god of the sun high in the sky was shining brightly in his face as he closed his eyes to try and relax from that day's excitement. He lie there completely relaxed although the hot sand hurt his back he stayed there, that is until he heard the chime he had attached to the front curtain go off. He had put it there so even if he was in the back room he could hear if a customer came in. He sighed and hopped up from the sand to go see who had come in.
"Umm sorry but we are not selling anything at the mome-"he stopped what he was saying when he saw who he was saying them to. His grandfather was standing there admiring the statues. He wasn't alone though he had someone with him, someone Yuugi thought he would never see again. The great Pharaoh who he had met several years earlier, the great Pharaoh Atem. Yuugi just stood there with his mouth gaping. He hadn't seen either since the day his grandfather had arrived at the harbor and they both looked way different. The Pharaoh was taller and looked far more menacing than he had looked years before and his grandfather just looked older and was wearing beautiful clothes. Eventually his grandfather noticed him staring and said
"You really need to work on not staring so much Yuugi." The only thing that escaped his lips was
"Grandpa……"
End of chapter
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