Hello, everyone! Well, I put the poll up and only about 5 people responded to it! 5! Do you know how sad that is? Then again, I guess more then half of you weren't interested in my lame summary. Oh, well. I've got a name, and if you don't like it, TOUGH!
Note to everyone: EVENTUALLY, Bakura, Ryou, Marik, and Ishizu will be in the story. And Kaiba will wind up owing Kyra. *snickers*
Kaiba: Why?
Me: What?
Kaiba: Why will I wind up "owing her one" as you so eloquently put it?
Me: Wait and see.
Kaiba: *glares*
Me: *shrugs* Think about it. Who is the one person you care for more than anything? ;)
The first chapter is before third year in HP. Then it'll skip to fifth year in the HP world. Yu-Gi-Oh! cast will be in before the fifth chapter hopefully. If it's not, I'll let you know.
Thanks to Isana for giving me the idea for the Bracelet! And Lappalla for suggesting the name Kyra.
The Bracelet, the Earrings, the Belt, Aziza, Kyra and the storyline are MINE (well, Kyra's sort of mine). Everything else that seems familiar IS. NOT. MINE! Got it? Good.
Ginny Weasley walked through the pyramid with the rest of the Weasley family. They had been in Egypt for almost three weeks, and were going back to England the next day. This was their last tour through a pyramid.
Bill was talking about some sort of trap the Egyptian wizards set to catch the tomb robbers, especially a particularly slippery one who was only known as the Thief King. He pointed to something on the wall. Ginny couldn't see behind Fred and George, so she walked around them to get a better look.
The room went black- so dark, in fact, that she couldn't see two inches in front of her.
"Fred, George, what did you do this time?" Mrs. Weasley called from the front of the group.
"Mum! Why must you assume it was us?"
"Maybe because most of the time it is you," Ginny said dryly. The twins gasped.
"Ginny!"
"How could you say such a thing-"
"-about your own brothers?"
"We're so hurt!" they finished together.
"Shut up, you two! Lumos." Charlie had pulled out his wand, but nothing happened.
"Okay, we have a problem."
"Like I told you, no magic can be used in the inner rooms." Bill sighed. "There should be a switch in here somewhere. Along one of the walls. Find it, and we can get out of here."
Everyone started running their hands along the wall.
"Ow! That was my foot!" Percy exclaimed.
"Sorry, I can't see," Charlie said.
"It's fine. Just watch where you step."
"How can I? It's pitch black in here!"
"Guys! Less arguing, more searching," Bill snapped.
"I found something!" Ginny called after ten long minutes of searching.
"Me, too!" Mrs. Weasley called from the opposite direction.
"Ginny, try yours first," Mr. Weasley said.
Ginny nodded and brushed her fingers along the small eye shaped handle. She yanked down and a door opened in the wall. A golden light blocked their view.
"You found it!" Percy said.
"There's only one exit out of here, why are there two switches?" Bill asked himself, moving toward his sister.
Ginny stepped forward until Bill flung his arm out, halting her.
"Bill?"
"We go in together," he said. She nodded. He stepped in first, with Ginny right on his heels. Ron made to follow them, but the door fell shut with a bang, making the floor shake. Their light cut off abruptly again.
"Ginny! Bill!" they all cried, their eyes trying to readjust to the darkness.
A flash of light caused them to close their eyes, and suddenly the heat of the Egyptian sun beat down on their backs.
Ron was the first whose eyes could open without being blinded. They were standing outside the pyramid. He turned around to face the rest of his family. Mrs. Weasley was sobbing in her husband's arms; he, along with Ron's other four brothers, were trying to calm her down.
"Mum, they're all right. I can tell you that right now," Charlie said. Their mother looked at him with tearful eyes.
"How can you be sure? What if they're hurt, or worse-"
Charlie cut her off before she could continue. "Bill is an expert an navigating these pyramids. And Ginny can take care of herself. If anyone can get out of the pyramid unharmed, they can."
Ginny clutched Bill's arm tightly when the door slammed shut. "How are we going to get out of here?"
"I don't know, Gin, but we will. I promise," Bill told her. She nodded and turned around.
"Bill," she breathed. He spun around and gasped in awe. The room had a thin walkway a few feet ahead of them leading to a square piece of floor about ten feet across, where a statue about Ginny's height of a man with spiky hair held two gold boxes in his lap. Each had the eye of Wdjat engraved in the center. On the wall next the statue was a carving; Bill couldn't get a good enough look at it.
"It's beautiful," he exclaimed. "But who's the statue of?"
Ginny was more interested in the boxes on the statue's lap. "Bill, what do you think is in there?"
She took a couple of steps forward until she reached the little walkway. She stepped on the first, then the second set of stones…
And the stone under her left foot collapsed.
Ginny shrieked and backed onto the right tile before she could fall. Bill leapt forward, but he was stopped by an invisible force.
She has to do it on her own.
Bill looked wildly around. He could have sworn he heard someone.
"Bill?"
He looked at his little sister. "Keep going. You'll be all right. Get to the end and you'll be fine."
She nodded, and stepped forward. Her foot almost hit the right tile, but at the last moment she retracted her foot and stepped on the left one instead.
It was a wise choice on her part. Ginny breathed a sigh of relief, realizing now this was a trap. She stepped forward, then onto the next right tile.
Bill relaxed as she reached the square with the statue. He looked on in confusion as Ginny put her left foot forward and kneeled before the statue before taking one of the boxes from its lap.
Ginny opened the box, and saw a beautiful pair of earrings. They were completely gold, short enough that they wouldn't get caught in her hair, but they weren't stud earrings. They each started off as a solid gold pearl-like earring, but were attached to a strange eye shape, similar to the one on the box. The only difference was the bottom of the earrings, which had a sort of J-shape on the left, and a curl on the right. (A/N: Think Millennium Puzzle symbol.)
Ginny carefully took them out of the box, one by one, and fastened them in her ears. There was a soft whooshing noise, and then everything went black.
Bill watched as Ginny's hair grew darker, until it was an auburn shade. It also seemed to shoot into her skull a few inches, so that it hung right under her shoulder blades. He noticed that, once she stood, she had grown about a head.
Princess Aziza inhaled the first real air she had smelled in Ra knows how long. She fingered one of the Earrings.
"I never thought I would wear these again."
Well, you kind of stuck part of your soul in them. Her friend's voice sounded like she was laughing.
"My brother did it, not me." Aziza smiled and looked at the statue in front of her. "Ha! I'm taller than him."
One, it's a statue. Two, it's sitting down.
"So? Take all the fun out of everything, why don't you?"
Just get the Bracelet and put it on so we can get out of here.
Aziza rolled her eyes, but did what her friend asked. She opened the second box and took out a fine gold bracelet linked together. She attached it to her left wrist with the clip of the Eye of Wdjat, shaped exactly like the Necklace's Eye. It felt comforting to have it there once more.
Okay, a little help here, please?
"Do I have to?" Aziza pretended to whine.
What would our siblings say if they could see us now?
"They'd probably encourage this. I know my brother, at least, would want me to have fun once in my life."
Aziza moved away from the statue and walked to the carving on the wall. "Magician's Valkyria, I release you!"
A green light short from the image. A young woman with orange-red hair appeared. She wore a green and purple dress with pink underneath. She carried a weird scepter, almost claw-shaped. Her hat was tall and green, with a lighter green stone attached to what looked like a wing. Dark gold was threaded through her gloves, hat, and dress.
"I'm free!" she cried, hovering near the low ceiling.
Aziza laughed at her friend's antics. "Kyra, I know that!"
"Oh. Right." Kyra hovered closer to the floor. "Sorry."
Aziza turned and noticed Bill for the first time.
"Ginny?" Bill asked, though he highly doubted it.
Aziza tilted her head. "Kyra, why is he here?"
"He's Ginny's older brother. He came through the doorway with her."
Aziza closed her eyes and went to her Soul Room. She opened the door. "Ginny?"
The door opposite hers was cracked open, so Aziza knocked and pushed it open, but stayed in the hallway.
The girl was asleep on the bed. Her hair was a lighter red then Aziza's and slightly longer.
Ginny blinked. She was on a very comfortable bed, in a strange yet familiar room.
"Where am I?" she whispered, getting out of the bed. On the wall there were pictures of her family, Harry Potter, and her friends as well as posters of the Holy Harpies. There was also a broomstick against the wall, her wand and a Quaffle on top of the dresser, and more of her favorite things placed somewhere in the room. There was also a corner covered with shadows- Ginny knew instinctively that she didn't want to go over there.
"Your Soul Room," said a voice similar to her own.
Ginny whirled around, grabbing her wand and pointing it at the girl in the doorway. She looked almost exactly like her, except Ginny was a bit shorter and had lighter and longer hair. The girl had obsidian black eyes like Snape's, but hers were touched with a warmth Snape could never have.
"Who are you?"
"I'm Princess Aziza of Egypt."
"How did you get here?"
"I have a Soul Room, and you have a Soul Room. They're connected." Aziza waved her arm behind her. Sure enough, Ginny saw a corridor leading to a door with the same strange eye symbol that was on the earrings.
"What's a Soul Room?"
"It's what makes you who you are. Mind or spirit works as well. Now, I have a lot of explaining to do."
"You bet you do."
"All right. Can I come in?"
Ginny wondered if she could trust her; after all, only a few months ago she was being possessed by You-Know-Who.
Aziza tilted her head. "You can trust me. Who is You-Know-Who?"
Ginny's eyes almost popped out of her head. "How did you know about him?"
"Can I come in?"
She nodded and lowered her wand, but still kept a tight grip on it. Aziza walked in and sat down on the edge of her bed.
"Okay, here's the deal. I am…what year is this?"
"2000 A.D."
Aziza raised an eyebrow. "Okay, that makes it roughly five thousand years. Five thousand years ago, I was princess of Egypt. My brother was Pharaoh, even though he was only a year older than me. Our uncle made nine Millennium Items to bring peace over the land." Aziza sneered. "What a joke. It brought peace while we were children, but soon after my brother turned fifteen…" She shook her head sadly. Ginny sat next to her.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."
"I'll tell you what you need to know. And all you need to know right now is that my brother used the power of his Millennium Item- the Puzzle- and sealed me into the Millennium Earrings because I was dying. He told me the only way to save us and Khemet was to seal us away in our Items."
"So, because you were sealed in the Earrings…" Ginny started, hoping she would continue.
"You passed the tests and put them on. Now you and I share the same body. We can communicate telepathically as long as you're not too far from the Earrings. The Bracelet shows you what one person is doing at the moment you're watching them and you feel their emotions. I'll tell you more later; right now, your brother's waiting."
Ginny gasped. "Bill!"
Aziza nodded. "Yes. Bill."
Ginny looked around. "How do I get out of here and back into my body?"
Aziza pursed her lips. "Good question. Try closing your eyes."
"Try?"
Aziza rolled her eyes. "I've never shared a body with someone before."
Ginny's eyes narrowed; a reflex.
"Do you trust me?"
No.
Aziza smiled. "You're going to have to, one day."
"Doesn't mean that day's today."
"Good point."
Bill watched as the girl who could be his sister's almost-identical twin shrank a head. Her hair lightened and grew a bit. Ginny opened her eyes and looked at Bill.
"Ginny! What happened?"
The strangely dressed girl the other one had called Kyra spoke. "Bill and Ginny, you can't tell anyone about this. Ever. Do you understand?" she asked seriously.
"Why?" Ginny asked.
"People want what you're wearing. The less people that know about Aziza and the Items, the safer it is for everyone."
Bill and Ginny nodded.
She smiled. "Good. Now, one more thing."
A silver light formed from her scepter, enveloping her in it. The two Weasleys shielded their eyes. It imploded, then a card fluttered to the ground where Kyra had been moments ago. Ginny picked it up. It was Kyra, but the title said "Magician's Valkyria".
"Ginny?"
Ginny lifted her head and realized for the first time that she was still on the other side of the walkway. Strangely enough, it had repaired itself. She slipped the card in her pocket and crossed the pathway, not worrying about the traps- they weren't there anymore.
Bill hugged Ginny when she reached him again. There was a rumbling noise, and the door behind them opened. On the other side of the room, the platform that the statue stood on slid down into the floor, buried for the rest of eternity.
Fred looked around the corner, trying to see if Bill and Ginny were out yet. They were waiting in the first chamber, waiting for their eldest and youngest siblings to return. For some reason, they couldn't move forward.
Uncharacteristically, the twins were worried. This was supposed to be a vacation! Now two of the family went missing. It might not have been so bad if Ginny hadn't been taken into the Chamber at the end of last year. Fred still got shivers just thinking about it.
"Any sign?" Percy asked. Fred shook his head.
"Mum? Dad?" someone called from the end of the corridor.
"Bill?" Mrs. Weasley shrieked, relieved and panicking again.
"Bill, this is stupid. Someone use Lumos!" Ginny called.
Bill, Mr. Weasley, and Charlie lit their wands. From the small amount of light they had, Ginny and Bill could tell everyone had been having flashbacks of last year.
Ginny was the first to reach them, closely followed by Bill. Mrs. Weasley pulled them both into a bear hug.
"What happened?" everyone asked at the same time.
"Mum…choking…" Bill choked.
"Can't…breathe…" Ginny wheezed.
Mrs. Weasley released them at once.
"We don't really know what happened. One second, we were walking through the door, and the next we were in the room and you weren't," Bill told them.
"We got sent outside," Ron told them. "Do you know how that happened?"
Bill shrugged. "The Ancient Egyptians were pretty smart. We haven't discovered all their spells and counter-measures yet."
"Can we get out of here? I don't know about you, but I'm getting hungry," George said.
Ginny smiled. "Yes, let's just go. We're back safe, so you don't have to keep us on a leash for the next week."
The twins laughed lightly. They all left the pyramid together.
Your family is nice. They love you, Aziza thought to Ginny.
Yeah. I'm lucky. Don't you remember your family?
Yeah. Pieces here and there.
What was your brother's name? Ginny asked, curious.
She sensed Aziza hang her head sadly. I don't remember.
Poor Aziza.
Next chapter, we get to see the Bracelet in action! :)
Don't hound me for "update soon"s please! Homework sucks. Some of you are lucky because you get a longer holiday. I don't. Today was the end of my second week at school. And I have weekend homework. But I don't want sympathy. Knowing me, I'll leave it till Sunday night and rush through it, and get half of the problems wrong.
Just please leave me a review if you like it- despite the lame summary and the title (which I came up with on the spot. It can and may be changed).
ASHLEY