Well, I'm back with a new story. If you read the description you'll know that this story is about how all the other duel monsters were obtained 3,000 years ago. I mean, we already know how they got monsters like the Dark Magician and Blue Eyes White Dragon, but the others have storieds too. So I'm going to write them. Enjoy^^
Quick Disclaimer: I don not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any other references I don't own but I forgot I made.
This story is indeed about people and their Ka's, but I believe this story would be best to start with the story of how the Millennium Items came into being.
Many of you may know the tragic story of the making of the Millennium Items, a story of mass murder kept secret from the Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, but for the sake of this story we shall all hear it again as to acknowledge why any of this happened at all.
The original reason the Millennium Items were created was to protect Egypt from incoming invaders. Egypt had tried everything to stop them, but nothing had worked and now the foreigners' arrival would be in seven days.
"Is there no way we protect the kingdom…?" Akhenamkhanen asked at the news of the intruders' arrival date.
"Great Pharaoh…this is more than an invasion. The enemy knows what we have." The Pharaoh's brother, Akhenaden, said. "They want the Millennium Tome passed down by the high priests since ancient times. Even foreigners have heard the legends…of spells which can summon gods and demons…of Heka, magical power, which can bring even armies to their knees! If this tome were to fall to the invaders they would gain even greater power… and the entire continent would be theirs."
"But after 100 years of trying, we haven't deciphered the spells…" Akhenamkhanen said despairingly.
"No great Pharaoh. The translation is finished." Akhenaden said.
"What? Is that true, Akhenaden?" Akhenamkhanen asked in shock.
"The tome describes a form of magic called Shadow Alchemy. It changes…worthless objects…into precious metals. The book tells how to make Seven Treasures, each of which grants mysterious powers." Akhenaden told his brother.
"Seven Treasures!" Akhenamkhanen thought to himself.
"I, the philosopher Akhenaden and these three magicians…have already made the preparations to perform this Shadow Alchemy."
"…How long will it take?" Akhenamkhanen asked hesitantly.
"Seven days…" Akhenaden replied.
"But…to unleash such a great power could bring disaster…" Akhenamkhanen thought.
"Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, there is no time! What shall we do?" Siamun asked the Pharaoh.
"I have no choice!" Akhenamkhanen told himself.
"I entrust the fate of Egypt to the seven treasures!" Akhenamkhanen exclaimed.
"My lord!" Akhenaden said as to accept the duty his brother had given him.
"It is in your hands now, Akhenaden…my brother…"
And thus with the permission of the unknowing Pharaoh the blood bath went forth. Akhenaden brought his soldiers top the Village of Thieves, or Kul Elna, and murdered 99 of them; leaving only a small boy named Bakura alive. They melted down all the dead bodies, and in 7 days the Millennium Items were finished, just in time for the foreigners to come.
Egypt won the battle that day, even though it was hundreds of thousands against seven. But those seven had Ka from stone tablets to back them up, and even though the origin of these first Ka is not quite known, some other were Ka acquired over the time Akhenamkhanen was still Pharaoh and these are their stories.
Chapter 1: Kuriboh
Miu was a little 8-year-old Egyptian girl with short, choppy brown hair. She had big round violet eyes and she was just a sweet innocent little girl. In fact, her name was an Egyptian one meaning "gentleness".
Her family lived on the outskirts of the capital and was quite content with their farming life. Miu didn't really expect anything eventful in her life to happen, even though she would often see people fight all the time where the guards of the city wouldn't find and arrest them. Miu considered herself a very weak individual who could barely protect the crops from bugs, nonetheless one person from another; but she was content being this way for a daughter of a farmer didn't really have to be anything more.
But one day changed Miu forever.
"Come oooooooooooonnnnnnnnnn." Mana pleaded to Atem (sorry, but if you didn't know that was Yami Yugi's real name, I just spoiled the entire series for you. But you were going to find out eventually, right?).
Even when Mana was little, she didn't like being in the palace all day. She found it much more fun exploring the city then learning to control her magic so that when she was old enough to take actual lessons it wouldn't be too tough on whoever ended up being her teacher.
"*SIGH* Fine. But only so you don't end up blowing up the capitol." Atem said as he gave in to Mana's constant pleading. He knew he couldn't win; Mana had once stopped eating for a whole week just so she didn't have to eat vegetables anymore.
"This is sooooooooooo fun! Look at all the people!" Mana exclaimed as soon as they set foot in the city.
"*SIGH* This is going to be a lllllllooooooooonnnnngggggg day." Atem mumbled as he chased after Mana.
It only took two minutes for Atem to lose Mana.
"Why am I not surprised? Mana! MAAAAAANNNNNNNAAAAAAA!" Atem started shouting in hopes to find his energetic friend.
Atem wandered around for a long time, often asking if anyone had seen Mana, but he would often find himself going in circles. He eventually wandered upon a girl in a field on the outskirts of town.
"Excuse me!" Atem called out to the girl.
The girl turned around and smiled.
"If you're looking for someone they're probably behind the sand dunes back there." The little girl said as she pointed towards the desert. "That's where most people go when they fight."
"Oh, no. I'm not fighting anyone. I'm just looking for a friend of mine who wandered off." Atem tried to explain. He couldn't believe that someone who was around the same age as him could think he was going to get in a fight.
"Oh. I'm sorry, but it actually makes me happy someone came here and wasn't planning to get into a fight. Who are you looking for?" The girl asked.
"My friend Mana. She has the same color hair as you an-"
"Hi Atem!" Mana exclaimed as she pounced from behind onto Atem.
"You could have told me you were looking for Mana. She came a while ago and said she'd help me on the farm. I thought it was very nice of her." The girl said as she continued with her work.
"Let me introduce you Atem! This is Miu. Miu, this is Atem the future Pharaoh!" Mana said as she pulled Atem towards Miu.
"So that's what the legendary Pharaoh's son's hair looks like." Miu said as she examined Atem's hair. "It is strange…"
"My hair? Legendary?" Atem asked confused as he looked to Mana.
"Well…you know I visit town a lot and how I like to emphasize your coolness to your future subjects who never get to see you because you're usually in the palace all day? Well, I might have made your hair legendary during that time." Mana said with her cute innocent face so that Atem wouldn't get mad.
"MANA! I can't help it if I was born with hair like this!" Atem pointed to his hair to emphasize its' craziness. "Now I'll be self-conscious when I walk in public!"
"You shouldn't worry. People will see it, and then they'll get over it. It's that simple." Miu said reassuringly.
"Well, Mana, we have to get going. We're already late for dinner, so they'll know we snuck out." Atem said firmly to Mana.
"Aaaaaawwwwww. Ok. Bye Miu! I hope to see you again!" Mana called out as she ran after Atem who had already started walking towards the palace.
"Heh. What nice people. Funny, too." Miu said to herself as she returned to farming.
Little did the three children know that another was watching them from the shadows of the day. One who was full of anger and vengeance because of what happened to his entire village. One named Bakura.
Bakura hated the Pharaoh and all people related to him in some way. He didn't even bother to know the name of the current Pharaoh; he didn't need to know it to hate him. So when Bakura saw that the son of the Pharaoh was just walking around in such a dangerous place, an idea formed in his mind.
He approached Miu when he was sure Atem and Mana were out of hearing distance.
"Do those two come here often?" Bakura asked without wasting any time.
What Bakura did would usually shock someone at least a little bit, but Miu was so used to weird people coming out of nowhere and asking even weirder questions. So she answered like he was a well known friend of hers asking an average question.
"No, this is the first time; but I do hope they come back. They were very nice."
"Hm. Good bye." Bakura then took off, leaving Miu all alone once again.
"Today is a good day." Miu mused to herself. "A very good day."
"I have to get the Pharaoh's son back to the outskirts of town." Bakura thought to himself as he ate some cow meat he had stolen earlier that day. "That girl said herself that people fight there all the time. Maybe the guards don't make regular rounds out there. If that were the case then that place would be the perfect place to start my plan of revenge by killing the Pharaoh's son. It would be perfect! But…how DO I get the Pharaoh's son to come back?"
Bakura thought about it for a while; tossing ideas back and forth between himself as he ate in the desert, but none of them really seemed right to him.
"AUGH! I'm a thief! I steal things, not think of ways to lure people into traps!" Bakura yelled out in frustration.
"Wait…I steal things. Why not steal a person? I could send a note saying I stole that girl they met today on the farm and say if he wants her to be returned to her home safely he'll come to the desert near her house at night! It's brilliant!" Bakura exclaimed as he finally figured out his plan.
"But I have no intention of actually stealing her. That would be too much work. Now I just have to figure out how to write…"
"Would you care to explain why you two were late for dinner?" Akhenamkhanen asked his son and his friend.
"Well…we went into town and Mana wandered off so I went to go look for her, which took a really long time." Atem tried to explain.
"And then we met this girl named Miu who lived on a farm on the outskirts of town!" Mana exclaimed as if she didn't realize the trouble she was in for leaving the palace with Atem.
"Wait, you guys went to the outskirts of town? Do you know how dangerous it is out there?" Akhenamkhanen asked harshly.
"No…" Atem said as he looked down at the ground.
"People often get into dangerous fights out there! You're lucky you didn't get hurt! I want you to both got to your rooms and realize why I set the rule that you can't leave the palace without telling someone." Akhenamkhanen said sternly as he pointed towards the two children's rooms.
"Yes Dad." "Yes Sir." Atem and Mana said in unison as they left Akhenamkhanen's presence.
"Well, that explains why Miu thought I came to get in a fight…" Atem thought to himself. "But still…that must be hard to deal with everyday…"
When Atem got to his room he noticed a rock on his bed with writing on it.
"That's strange…" Atem said at first analysis of the rock.
"You know the girl you met at the farm today? Well, if you want to see her alive again you'll come to her farm. Alone. Tonight. I'll be waiting." Atem read aloud from the rock.
"Oh no! Miu does live in a dangerous place! And I just made it that more dangerous by showing up there! I put Miu in danger so she's my responsibility. Don't worry Miu, I'll save you." Atem said to himself.
Atem looked around his room quickly to make sure no one saw or overheard him. The rock said to come alone, so he needed to make sure no one followed him.
"Alright, time to go." Atem said as he jumped out his window onto the building right next to the palace. He jumped again to the ground and ran in the direction of Miu's farm.
Atem approached the outskirts of town, but this time he was a bit more nervous because of what his dad had told him; not to mention now it was night time and he was all alone looking for an unknown kidnapper.
"You came…" hissed a voice from the darkness.
"Who's there? Where's Miu?" Atem asked frantically as he searched the darkness for the person the voice came from.
"Who?...Oh the girl from the farm! Yeah…" Atem suddenly felt someone behind him when he heard the voice whisper "She's not here."
Atem was abruptly hit with a giant hand and flung into some sand dunes. He turned around to see a young boy and a monster about 8 feet tall with a snake for a tail.
"What is that?" Atem cried out as he pointed to the monster.
"That? That is my Ka, Diabound. I'm sure you've heard of them at the palace right?" The voice asked as Diabound approached Atem.
"Not yet Diabound." The voice said to make Diabound instantly stop. "To tell you the truth, I'm shocked you even came. I mean, you just met the girl today and you came to rescue her! Isn't that kingly of you. You might have been a good Pharaoh if I wasn't going to kill you right here." The figure said with a laugh in its voice.
"I don't get it; what do you have against me? Did I do something to you?" Atem asked as to better understand the situation.
"Did you do something to me? Perhaps not directly, but I pretty much blamed everyone for what happened. And don't you dare tell me you don't know what I'm talking about" The figure hissed.
"But I don't know what you're talking about!" Atem pleaded.
"Kill him Diabound." The man said coldly.
"NO!" Came Miu's voice as she stepped in front of Atem to shield him from Diabound.
"Miu! What are you doing here?" Atem asked frantically.
"You guys weren't exactly quiet." Miu responded with a warm smile.
"What is with you people? You two just met today! Oh well, doesn't matter. Kill them both Diabound." The shadow said.
"I overheard your guys' conversation and it sounded like you made me a hostage and that's why Atem came. If he's willing to protect me as a friend, then I'll do the same." Miu said without any signs of intending on backing away from Atem.
"And just how do you plan on doing that?" The voice asked.
"I don't know!" Miu thought to herself. "I won't be of much help if I don't come up with something quick, but I've got nothing!"
That's when Miu heard a sound come from her heart say "Kuri…"
"Huh?" Miu asked aloud as she looked to her now glowing heart.
"What's going on Miu?" Atem asked as he looked over her shoulder.
The light emitting from Miu's heart appeared in front of her and went into her hands. An instant later, a brown fur-ball with green limbs and purple and yellow eyes looked up at Miu and seemed to smile.
"What is that Miu?" Atem asked.
"It's…it's a Kuriboh. That's its name." Miu said in shock.
"Ha! That's your Ka? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Diabound, crush that puny thing!" The figure directed his Ka.
Kuriboh turned around and was freaked out by the giant Ka coming towards it.
"Kuriboh! Please help us!" Miu pleaded to her Ka.
Kuriboh turned back around to the frightened Miu and shook its body "yes". Kuriboh then began to glow again as it lifted into the air.
Diabound's hand came crashing down on the spot where Miu and Atem were standing and a giant explosion went off.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes! Yes!" The voice, Bakura, exclaimed in victory.
But as the smoke cleared, it was obvious Miu and Atem were okay and shielded by tens of thousands of Kuribohs.
"WHAT?" Bakura exclaimed in anger. "Diabound! Attack again!"
Diabound did as he was told, but the result was the same. Diabound's fist only hit Kuribohs that protected Miu and Atem, and thanks to the fact that the Kuribohs exploded on contact, another explosion occurred.
The worst part is the Kuribohs never stopped multiplying. Bakura blew up one, but 10 more were already multiplied.
"NO!" Bakura yelled with only more frustration.
"Thank you Kuriboh." Miu said as she looked up at all the Kuribohs. All of the fur balls turned around to Miu and smiled at her.
All of a sudden a giant rumble came from behind Miu's house where Exodia the Forbidden one was soon visible.
"Siamun!" Atem exclaimed.
"AUGH! Diabound, let's get out of here!" Bakura then jumped onto Diabound's back and the both of them flew off into the night.
"I'll come back for you, son of the Pharaoh!" Bakura called to Miu as he fled into the skies.
"Well well well." Siamun's voice came as Exodia disappeared. "Look who left the palace without permission again."
All the Kuribohs began to form back into the original one that now sat in Miu's arms. Miu began to pet it and snuggle with it; much to the joy of Kuriboh.
"I'm sorry Siamun. It's just that-" Atem tried to explain.
"No need to explain. I saw you sneaking out and followed you. I saw everything, so I don't think your father needs to know." Siamun said with a wink.
"Thanks Siamun!" Atem exclaimed.
"Now you young girl…" Siamun said as he redirected his attention to Miu. "That's quite a Ka you have there."
Miu looked down to Kuriboh and back up at Siamun and smiled.
"Yep." Miu said.
"If you really wanted to, we at the palace could train you how to master it." Siamun said.
Miu looked down at Kuriboh and then up at Atem and Siamun.
"Is there a way that I could let Atem use Kuriboh?" Miu asked.
"Why, the only way to do that would be to put your Kuriboh in a stone tablet in one of our Ka sanctuaries." Siamun said in shock at the question.
"Yeah, but that guy said he'd come after Atem again. If Kuriboh would be okay with it, I would much rather he protects Atem than me. Would you be okay with that Kuriboh?" Miu asked Kuriboh.
Kuriboh looked up at Miu and smiled again. It then raised itself out of Miu's arms and gave her a sort of kiss on the cheek and went to Atem.
"I can't accept your Ka!" Atem protested.
"I have a feeling you'll need him more than I will. I'm just a farmer's daughter. I just ask you take the best care of Kuriboh. And that, maybe I could visit him once in a while." Miu said innocently.
Atem looked at Kuriboh and back at Miu.
"I promise I will take better care of Kuriboh then of myself. And that anytime you want to see him you are more than welcome." Atem said.
Miu ran up to Atem and gave him a big hug.
"Thank you." Miu said as she felt a few tears fall down her face.
"Well, we better get going Atem. We can ask one of the priests to aid us in sealing Kuriboh in a tablet. And thank you young miss for protecting our future Pharaoh. Let the gods bless you for your sacrifice." Siamun said as he began to leave.
"Thank you. Goodbye Atem. I hope next time I see either you or Mana it will be so we can play together." Miu said as she waved goodbye to Atem and Siamun.
"Me too." Atem solemnly as he looked down at Kuriboh who was now sleeping in his arms.
And that is the story of how Kuriboh came into Atem's possession of Ka tablets. We do indeed later see Atem use the Kuriboh one, which I'm sure made Miu very happy.
I'm planning on probably doing Red-Eyes Black Dragon next, So keep a look out. And if you have any monsters you'd like me to write the origins about, let me know. I would love any suggestions. Actually, I would love any comments in general. SO PLEASE COMMENT!
And thank you for reading!^^