this is a story i came up with one day when i thought 'every yami has a past right? wel what about my yami?' well here it is, after teaming up with queen of the silent ones we made this. i own nothing! only Gen is mine. Storm belongs to queen.
Prologue: ancient Egypt
a young girl at the age of six ran down the alley with a leather bag clutched tightly in her arms,her midnight hair with unusual red bangs flying in the wind behind her.
Her face was the very image of excitement and pride, she had just completed her most difficult (and self-given) thievery and had succeeded! She couldn't wait to show her father that she, Gen Okami, had stolen Akefia Touzouku's prized knife right under his nose! She was practically giggling in excitement, which she hardly ever did. Her father would be so proud! But Akefia would no doubt get her back later, but not anything serious, he wouldn't hurt his best friend too bad. Right? You couldn't really tell, he was unpredictable.
"father!" she cried, running though her front door "father! Look what I did!" she showed him the bag that contained her snatched prize. Her father looked very pleased, pride shining in his eyes. Don't get me wrong, her father and Akefia's father where very close friends, hell, Gen and Akefia became friends through them, but they were somewhat rivals, almost like siblings.
"that was very well done my daughter" he smiled, carefully taking the weapon out of the bag, he knew that the knife meant allot to my friend so he didn't want to damage it. "but I think it would be nice to go and return it before he even notices, that would prove you to be a great thief" she beamed in happiness, that would be great, but she needed to mark it somehow, as a way to prove it. She shrugged. She would mark it on her way there.
She made her way down the same alley when she felt herself being watched, she slowed and tensed, ready to take down any possible attacker, she stole a glance, behind her, it was a faulty move. A body slammed into her from the front, knocking her over and pinning her to the ground. Her black eyes stared up into silver.
"give it back" Akefia hissed. his eyes flashed fire, making her shiver even though it was a warm night.
"give what back Bakura?" she asked, putting on her innocent face and using his nickname.
"don't play coy with me Gen! Give me back my knife!" he demanded. She smirked and rolled over, successfully pinning him to the ground.
"you want your knife back?" she asked, jumping off of him "then your gonna have to catch me first" she laughed as she took off running. She heard a yell and loud footfalls as he gave chase to claim his property. She laughed once more and ran farther down into the streets.
Gen was a fast runner but Akefia was slightly faster, he was just about to grab her when a loud explosion sounded behind them and hot air pushed them both to the ground, screams of the villagers sounded in the night air, fighting raged in the streets, the only thing that went through the two friends minds where, 'oh Ra the village is being attacked.
"RUN!" screamed gen as they scrambled to get out of the fires way. Soldiers flooded the streets, taking any of the people they could get their hands on. They killed the men and where openly raping the women as soon as they were dragged out of their beds, one of them was her mother. Her father pried the man off of her and punched him in the face, not noticing the soldier with a sword come up behind him until it was to late. She screamed as her fathers blood poured out onto the streets, soon joined by her mother's.
"MAMA! PAPA!" she screamed as she ran forward, but was soon stopped by a pair of hands roughly grabbing her by the waist.
"Hello there" a man hissed, lust in his eyes, gen knew what this mans intentions where, despite her age. She screamed for help as she was pinned down, thrashing as she fought him. The man suddenly went limp and sank to the ground next to her, Akefia towering over him with a bloody rock in his hands.
"Akefia!" she cried and flung her self at him, pulling him into a tight hug before he pushed her away.
"Theres no time for that! Come on! into the tunnels!" Akefia yelled, as they tried to make their way to safety, but fate had other plans. One burning beam lost all support and fell, gen noticed it about to fall on Akefia and screamed "BAKURA LOOK OUT!" and pushed him out of the way, I worked, but they were separated.
"Gen!" Akefia screamed "where are you?"
"I'm fine! Go! I'll meet up with you later! Run! Go!" she screamed back, and took off in the opposite direction, looking for the exit to the tunnels, she ran and ran till she saw a familiar opening in the ground, no one was even close to it so she assumed that Akefia was still inside. She was about to crawl in when she was grabbed from behind and lifted off the ground.
"Look what we have here men!" a soldier sneered, she screamed and thrashed around, trying to get away, but his grip held firm. She stole a glance at the tunnel and the soldier saw it as well. He smirked.
"Hey lads! Looks like an escape route! Get me a torch!" he called
"NO!" gen screamed as she thrashed and kicked harder. She couldn't let her best friend get killed, she just couldn't. He threw her into another man who bound her hands behind her back and held her tight while the other men poured oil and gunpowder into the tunnel. By now she was on her knees weeping and begging them to stop.
The man threw a torch into the tunnels, time slowed down for her, she screamed as the flame hit the oils and the tunnels exploded, time went back to normal.
"YOU BASTARDS!" she screamed "YOU KILLED HIM!" tears where flowing freely from her eyes as the men lifted her onto the saddle and rode off into the night. She didn't fight them, she felt that she had nothing left, so she just cried and wished for death.
A faint glimmer caught her eye, a little ways off she saw a boy walking through the desert, a boy with silver eyes and white hair. She couldn't believe her eyes, was this some kind of cruel joke for the gods? No it wasn't, it was really Akefia.
"BAKURA!" she screamed out of pure joy. His head snapped up, their eyes made contact before his widened, he began to run after them. He ran with all his might, and she screamed some more to give him motivation. He faltered and fell from exhaustion and she began screaming out of fear for her friends life but the guard decided that he had had enough. with one swift blow to the head Gen fell unconscious and the soldiers carried her off further into the night.
~ten years later~
Gen finished her dance with a pose that took extreme flexibility, she had been practicing the move for months now and was glad that she finally was able to complete it without much difficulty. The court clapped, signifying that they enjoyed her dance. she silently growled, she despised everyone of them, she had hated them ever since they destroyed her village and kidnapped her all those years ago. Now the sixteen year old woman was serving the Pharaoh as a belly dancer.
She stood and bowed to the Pharaoh, he had a satisfied smirk on his face and lifted an eyebrow in a flirtatious gesture, it made her want to throw up. He had been shamelessly flirting with her ever since she had gotten there and she was getting sick of it. She was about to excuse herself when the doors burst open and a man rode in. Her breath caught in her throat, her palms began to sweat.
He was the man that had been her childhood friend, the one that had chased after her on that terrifying night, he was Akefia.
Tears stung in the back of her eyes, a smile spread across her lips, he had grown so much since she had last saw him. The raggedy street urchin had turned into a full-fledged thief.
"Bakura" the Pharaoh growled. 'so he's been using his nickname? I feel so honored' she thought.
"What is your business here?" he demanded. Bakura smirked, but hate and revenge burned in his eyes.
"Oh quite simple Pharaoh" he replied, sarcasm dripping off his words "have you ever heard of Kul Elna?" he asked, the pharaohs eyes widened and Bakura launched into the horrific tale of his lost village. Gens eyes swelled with tears at the memories that resurfaced.
"That night, not only did you destroy my home" Bakura continued "but you also stole something very precious to me" she gasped, did he mean her? Bakura's eyes flicked in her direction at the sound and their eyes met once again, his eyes filled with recognition, but they turned into more hate when he saw what she was wearing and guessed what they had been making her do for the past ten years. He broke the gaze and turned his attention back to the Pharaoh.
"As a gift I've brought something that you might recognize" he said, and gestured to the thing that his horse had been dragging, the Pharaohs eyes widened in horror, Gen gasped once more as they both recognized the previous pharaoh's coffin. The Pharaoh moaned in grief and Bakura laughed, the priests jumped to their feet, and got ready to attack him, they all began chanting and their millennium items glowed. Gen gasped in horror when she realized that they were going to send his soul to the shadow realm.
'I have to stop them!' she thought and charged toward the nearest bearer, and tackled him to the ground, disrupting the connection and saving her friends life.
"go Bakura!" she screamed, but he was already long gone. The priest threw her off and struck her across the face. Before the beating could continue the Pharaoh shouted
"enough!" and all heads turned to him. His eyes burned with a hate and passion that almost matched Bakura's, and all that hate was pointed towards her. "take her to my chambers" he said, and walked away.
~a few hours later~
Gen's head snapped up as the pharaoh entered, he didn't look at her but instead walked over to the balcony where he stood there in silence for five painfully long minutes.
"Why do you betray your own country?" he said in barely controlled anger "why?"
"Because I wouldn't betray my own friend" she replied coolly. He cringed in anger
"A friend?" snarled, whipping around to face her "How could you be friends with a monster like him?"
She looked him dead in the eye.
"He wouldn't be a monster if your bastard of a father didn't destroy our home!" she said.
He back-handed her full across the face, then roughly kissing her on the lips. She pushed him off and slapped him but that only made him even more mad. He pushed her onto the bed and straddled her waist and legs before kissing her roughly once more. Memories flooded back from the night that her parents died, the man who had almost taken her, it was happening again, only this time Akefia wouldnt save her. She screamed into the kiss and thrashed but his grip was too tight. She felt her top unclasp and slip off, she rolled to try and get him off of her, but he wouldn't. She fought him with all her might, which resulted in shadow magic tying her to the bed. She was hopeless now, she closed her eyes and braced herself for what was to come.
~POV switch!~
Bakura jerked into a sitting position in cold sweat, he could have swore that he had heard a pained scream come from gen, the same kind of scream that begged him to save her just like the way she screamed on the night that the pharaoh stole her from him. He cringed in anger, that bastard pharaoh, he had her as a entertainer, no doubt trying to get her in his bed. He cursed, she was right there and he didn't do anything, while she had saved his life.
'gen' he thought 'I promise, no matter what happens, I will find a way to free you before that bastard does anything to you' he meant it, no one would touch his best friend, he just needed a way to do it. He lay down again, thinking that a good idea would come with sleep.
If only he knew, that gen was weeping on the floor of the pharaoh Atem's bed chamber, bleeding from unexpectedly being raped by the pharaoh himself.
~Gen's POV~
She had never felt such pain before, she was unprepared, leaving her defenseless when her virginity was forcefully taken from her. It hurt so much, she could barely stand, let alone walk, but she had too, she had to get away from him. The damn bastard, he stood there, smirking in triumph, just looking at him made her want to throw up her insides.
"Happy now?" she asked, finally able to stand, but was dizzy from blood loss. He grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at the disgusting smirk on his face.
"Oh yes" he said "I'm very happy, I just brought down the great dancer gen Okami to a mere Harlem girl"
She froze in shock, she hadn't realized that once you sleep with the pharaoh, you are either one of his wives, of a lowly slut known as a Harlem girl. She pushed him away and limped as fast as she could out of his chambers, she could hear his laughter, seeing her in such a weak state. Tears sprung into her eyes, but she quickly wiped them away, she refused to show any weakness, she would no longer entertain the pharaoh like this any longer, besides, tears wouldn't help her where she was going.
She limped down the hall before she found the chambers of an elite spell caster who had been her only friend ever she was dragged into this hellhole.
"Storm!" she called as she pounded on the door "STORM!" an annoyed grumble came from the other side of the door and the door was pulled open.
"What in the name of Ra do you want Gen?" she snapped "can't you see I'm in the middle of some-" her voice cut short when she saw her friend bleeding from her sexual areas and limping horribly. Her annoyance was replaced by rage.
"Who did this?" Storm asked apathetically, her eyes wide despite her tone.
"P-Pharaoh" Gen choked out.
~ later that night ~
It was near midnight, but Gen couldnt sleep, she was to busy thinking about what the Pharaoh and Storm had talked about earlier.
~flashback~
Gen followed Storm down the hall ways that led to the pharaohs bedroom, no doubt to tell him off. She knew that storm told her to stay in her room but she couldnt, she wanted to see storm yell at the pharaoh, but deep inside she feared that storm might fall to the same fate she did.
Gen followed as silently as she could, which was pretty quiet in her opinion, she had been from a village of thieves after all..
storm pounded on the door and gen melted into the shadows, she hid behind the door as gen entered the room.
"Storm, what troubles you?" she heard Atem ask. Her anger rose, he talked as nothing had happened! She heard storm growl, she calmed herself down as she impatiently waited for the long tell off scene that was to follow.
"Gen" Gtorm growled, Gen was ejoying this so much, maybe Storm would unleash a miniture sand storm on him like the one she showed her last week.
"Oh you mean my new concubine?" Atem asked. She silently growled, she could hear the smirk in his voice.
"You will not touch her" Storm spat
"Or what? You cant do anything to me, I own you" the Pharaoh countered
"I-I'll do anything" storm said
"Oh really?" he said, surprise in his voice "then kill the thief akefia" he said. Gen gasped before she covered her mouth with her hands, hoping they hadnt heard her. Could he be serious? No, I couldnt be, she wouldnt lose her friend again, not after what happened, but what would storm say? She dreaded the answer.
"Iunderstand" storm replied, silent tears slipped out of Gens eyes as she turned and crept back down the hallway before storm noticed her.
~end flashback~
Now she lay in a bed in Storm's chambers, thanking Ra that storm let her stay. She silently rummaged through the bag of belongings that she took from her chambers, searching until she found the knife that she had stolen from bakura at age six. She clutched it to her heart and cryed.
"Oh Akefia where are you?" she sniffed.
