Bring back the Sun

Sasha Janre 2002

Author's notes: It's been a long time coming, but here's the beginning of the three-quel of the Yami/Bakura/Malik triangle saga. PAY ATTENTION HERE! This story involves two of my original characters, Rick and Sasha Janre.

To explain upon something: Rick and Sasha will discuss being a group called the Neo Gemstone Warriors. An evil time sorceress is trying to take over this time and all others, and 8 normal teenagers (4 girls, 4 boys) with a different element each, are called upon to defeat her. Each have an animal partner, and I'll divulge more information when the time comes. Rick's element is light, and Sasha's is dark. The two are identical twins, only Rick is 6 minutes older. If anyone is wondering, the title comes from Our Lady Peace.

Thank you everyone for waiting so long for this to be up. I'm sorry for the delay, but finals are coming up at an alarming rate and I had a dream about this so…hurrah! Don't expect this to be updated a lot, it's just to remind people that I haven't died yet or forgotten about this series. Enjoy and please review with your feedback or any questions about Rick, Sasha or the Neo Gemstone Guardians.

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Prologue

Egypt

Her medium length jet-black hair swished behind her as she walked through the halls. Her tan-coloured robes moved as she did, her voluminous sleeves hid her hands as they were clasped together. Her icy blue eyes held the wisdom of the future; a headband of gold encircled her forehead, a green jewel in the centre. From her ears dangled thick Egyptian style earrings. As she walked with a lithe grace, she passed many different artefacts, many of them thousands of years old. A thick, golden choker was around her neck, a stylised Egyptian eye in the direct centre.

These times had become volatile, and she was mentally kicking herself for screwing up the timeline of events that she had prophesied. It had been so pressing, so urgent that she tell her younger brother of the events, how could he conduct himself properly if he hadn't known? Then again, looking back on the recent string of events and what she saw in her mind's eye afterwards, it wasn't a good decision.

Reaching one of the newer additions to her museum, Isis Ishtar looked at a case that held what seemed to be a gold bar, curved downward at the ends with three sharp, claw-like protrusions coming out of it, and an Egyptian eye, much like the one on Isis' Tauk. How the object came into her possession was something Isis herself could not explain. Out of nowhere, a box addressed to her appeared on the doorstep of the museum containing the claws. After doing some tests, they appeared to be five thousand years old, and in magnificent condition. Had there been a return address on the box, Isis would have written them a very grateful thank you letter.

Alas, there was nothing, except two Japanese symbols. Isis herself was not versed very well in the Japanese language, and no one else could tell her what the symbols meant. She sighed, really hoping that those characters could have told her who sent the box to her. However, she had more important things on her mind. Today, two students on an exchange program from Canada were supposed to be arriving to work as apprentices in the museum. Both seemed to have extensive knowledge about ancient Egypt.

One of her employees walked in and she broke her attention away from the case. "The two students are here," the girl said and Isis nodded, dismissing her. Isis herself was quite excited to meet these two students, their papers on ancient Egypt were both in depth and quite accurate. Walking out into the main hall, she spotted the two olive-skinned youths. Their skin was a light brown, their eyes a darker hazel. They looked identical, right down to their hairstyles. The boy had spiked black hair, and blonde bangs that started from the middle of his forehead and framed his face, ending just below his chin. The girl beside him had the same bangs, but her hair was a little longer than Isis', and layered. They both stopped talking quietly to one another and turned to face Isis.

"You must be Isis Ishtar," the girl said, her voice soft yet there was something about her that Isis felt reminded her of her brother, Malik. She extended a hand to Isis, which the older woman shook formally. "My name is Sasha Janre, and this is my twin brother. Rick Janre." The two of them looked to be around 17 years of age.

Isis smiled and shook both their hands. "It is a pleasure to meet you. I must admit I was quite excited to meet the two of you. Your exposition papers were quite interesting and they certainly peaked my interest. If you'll come with me, I'll give you a quick tour of the museum and then we can start you two to work."

"Sounds like a plan, Miss. Ishtar," Rick said, with his smooth voice. Isis nodded and turned around, leading the twins around the museum.

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Rick turned to Sasha after Isis had left them alone in a room. "Did you see that thing around her neck? Could that be the Millennium Tauk?" he questioned quietly.

Sasha gave a nod and closed the door. Leaning against it, she crossed her arms over her chest. "She's also got psychic powers. That Tauk gives her those powers. But we can't lose sight of why we're here."

Her brother nodded and sat down in a chair. "I haven't forgotten. But we're lucky we got chosen to come here. Out of all those students that actually cared about all this stuff we got to come here. Let it not be said that your hacking skills aren't good." He laughed. "How do we go about finding this guy though? Our orders weren't exactly clear and crisp."

"More like vague and unfamiliar," Sasha agreed. "But then again, we're supposed to know him when we find him. And it must be like … completely obvious who it is. Hopefully… but in the mean time, we're lucky to be in here. We can learn all we didn't get from our leader during our stay. But as soon as we get that information, we're out of here."

"By the time we get it, our tenancy here may be up," Rick joked. "Our apartment's been set up by Ruby, hasn't it?"

Sasha nodded again. "Yes, she set up everything here before we arrived." Sticking her lower jaw out, she muttered, "the only good thing that guardian of Holy has done as of late." Rick raised an eyebrow to question Sasha's mutterings. "She's gotten too into her powers. She's becoming one of those leaders that no one would want to follow."

Rick gave a slight nod. "That's true, she's not the spontaneous girl we knew from school. But what can we do? Our powers, even yours of Darkness can't match hers." Sasha seemed to frown more as Rick pointed this out. Suddenly, Rick jumped up out of his seat. "Holy crap, did you feel that?"

His sister paused for a moment, then nodded. "Yes … it's a strong power. But yet it's divided into two…almost separate beings. It just arrived here in Egypt. Could it … could it be who we are looking for?"

"If it is, then man we didn't have to look far!" Rick exclaimed. "But hold on, what if what we're looking for is not here, but in that city called Domino that Alec suggested? There were two places we could go—Egypt and Domino. Why did we come here?"

"Isis for one thing, she's insanely valuable to our mission," Sasha answered. "As for why else, Ruby knew I had a vision of some recent events that happened here. Three people are coming here, and those three may be the ones we need to see. One of them is Isis' brother, Malik Ishtar and holder of the Millennium Rod."

"You mean that eyeball thing that controls minds?" Rick asked to his sister's confirming nod. "You could do some serious damage with that thing." Suddenly the conversation changed as suddenly as it had begun with Rick's, "just where is Isis? She just left us here to our own devices … not a very good thing for a hostess to do."

Sasha laughed. Soon though she turned serious and looked around the room. "I think we're supposed to start reading those books over there."

Rick sweatdropped when he saw the size of the books. "Oh you have got to be kidding me! I'm not going to finish something like THAT in such a short time!" He walked over and picked up one of them and began to read out of it. All of a sudden he stopped and blinked. "Hey Sash, you remember that stupid Pharaoh who sealed the Shadow Powers into the Millennium Items?"

Sasha raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Yeah, what about him? We know he was a coward, but he was also exceedingly powerful and the texts we've read have said that he wasn't too hard on the eyes either."

Rick rolled his eyes. "I am not going to agree with you on his looks, Sis. Apparently the Puzzle holds his spirit and…" He stopped, trying to decipher the rest of the sentence. "Hold on." He grabbed both end covers of the book, held it upside down and shook. A small scrap of paper fell from inside the pages of the book, and Rick picked it up. Squinting at the writing, he turned to Sasha. "It's been solved and now he shares the body with the kid who solved it."

"How do you know this? Even Ruby couldn't tell if the puzzle had been solved or not. Too much black magic was blocking her own," Sasha said, walking over and peering over her brother's shoulder. She rested her chin on his shoulder. Moving a little, she took the book from Rick and looked at the cover. "This is from a Domino library. How on earth could it have ended up in Isis' possession?"

"If she doesn't return it on time, she's gonna have to pay on hell of a late fee," Rick said off-handedly, squinting at the note some more. "Okay, from what I can make out from these hieroglyphs, apparently there was a ceremony and it's a little scratch list of characteristics of the ceremony to find some kind of antidote. There aren't a hell of a lot of people that can write in fluent Egyptian, much less this Ancient Egyptian. So, I figure it's a good guess that our Pharaoh wrote it."

"It would be quite an interesting experience if we could talk to this Pharaoh. No doubt his memory of his powers would be limited, but nonetheless," Sasha said, running a hand through her hair. "Anything would be useful. Then again, we don't know where he is, and also, we have no clue what he looks like."

"Don't you wish we had pictures?" Rick asked and Sasha laughed with a nod.

Next Day

Rick was leading a group of tourists around the museum, explaining candidly and in depth about each of the artefacts. The tourists seem to enjoy his style of storytelling, and the young ladies seemed more interested in him, than what he was saying. After the tourists left to go dawdle in the gift shop, the door opened and Rick turned.

Walking into the museum was a boy with snow-white hair, big doe eyes, and wearing a cricket sweater; cream coloured with purple and a blue stripe tracing down the line of the v-neck. He wore blue jeans, and sneakers. A bizarre looking ring with four pointers hung from a brown rope around his neck, a pyramid in the centre of the ring, with an Egyptian Eye. Rick thought the kid looked a bit feminine, and it took him a bit to realise that it was in fact a male. Then again, looking at himself, many people thought the same about him. He sweatdropped, and shook his head.

"Excuse me," the boy interjected, his soft British voice causing Rick to jump slightly. Rick turned to face him. "You wouldn't happen to know where the proprietor of this museum is, do you?"

Rick raised an eyebrow. "Uh, yes, I do know where she is. What's your name?"

The boy bit his lip. "Ryou Bakura." He extended his hand in a friendly gesture. Rick shook his hand and nearly jumped at the shock he felt. "W-who might you be?"

It took Rick a while to find his voice. "R-Rick. My name's Rick Janre." And so the two boys stood, looking at each other and not moving an inch.

-TBC-

Author's notes: Hurrah! Look, it's done. *Shows it off Vanna White style* I'm sure you're all confused, but everything will be explained during the course of the story. If you have any questions, email or leave the question in your review. Thanks and Ja Ne for now!