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The Queen's moans echoed through the silent palace. She was moaning in pain while her husband, the Pharaoh, was holding her hand tightly and praying to Ra that his wife would be all right. She was giving birth to her first child and it was almost her 18th hour in labor.
"My dear, do not worry! I'm right here by your side." Pharaoh Seht whispered to his wife as he held her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead and the tears of pain coming from her eyes. The queen Nefertiti closed her eyes and endured the pain once more.
"That's it, Your Highness! One more push!" the midwife encouraged. She was worried for the queen's life because it was a more painful birth than usual because of the immense power this child was to possess and it was more intense.
Queen Nefertiti II once again shrieked in pain and then gave one final long push until she could bear it no longer. As she fell into Pharaoh Seht's embrace, she noted the silence of the child, which meant he was indeed special as very few babies are born into the world silent. The Queen then heard a sudden cough and then a wail coming from her baby.
"It is a boy, Your Majesties." the midwife said to the two waiting parents. She wrapped the crying newborn prince in a blue blanket and walked over to the Pharaoh and his aching wife.
Nefertiti opened her lavender eyes and gave a small smile to her husband, who was chanting a healing spell on her. She felt the working effects of her husband's healing spell on her and sat up and received her newborn son from the midwife, who she cradled in her arms for a few moments.
"Shhh. Don't cry, little one." Nefertiti cooed to her son. The baby prince stopped crying as his mother kissed him on his forehead. He grasped Nefertiti's finger with his tiny hand and played with it. The Queen removed her finger from her son's grasp, her gold turquoise ring glinting in the light. She smiled and then gave her son to the Pharaoh, who happily accepted him into his embrace.
Pharaoh Seht held his son into the light and took a look at him. Already the young man could see how unique his son would be in the near future. The child opened his crimson eyes and unknowingly glanced at his father and flailed his small arms. Seht smiled at his son and then turned back to his wife, whose lavender eyes twinkled at the sight of her husband and son sharing their first glimpses of each other.
"I can't believe it, Seht. We finally did it." Nefertiti sighed.
"Yes, neither can I, but we did do it together. Literally." Seht said. The young man then paused as the symbol of the Millennium Eye shone brightly on his forehead as he gave their son back to his wife. The light faded and the pharaoh breathed heavily.
"What is it, my king?" she said worriedly.
"Do not worry, my affectionate queen, there is nothing wrong with the prince. It is just that I sensed an immense power in our son that I have never felt before. This means only one thing. He will soon be the most powerful being in Egypt. Other than that, I can sense that his hair will be unique, too." he laughingly said. The Pharaoh had the powers to see into the future, heal people, read people's minds, be psychic, and sense good and evil.
Nefertiti sighed. "Ah, yes, then what you and the High Priests foresaw has come true." She turned back to her son, who was staring at her. His crimson eyes and her lavender eyes met as the newborn let out a yawn.
"So his name shall be…" she asked.
"He shall be known as the Egyptian Prince Yugioh, the heir to the throne, Queen Nefertiti II and Pharaoh Seht's son, and a child born of a combined power of the dark and light as tradition stated. He will also be known as Yami, meaning 'dark', in private because the power he controls and are vested in him are more dark than light. Other than that, he will just be known as our son."
"Yes, our son." the Queen said. She and the Pharaoh kissed and embraced their son and each other, full of happiness and pride. Unknowingly to them, a card suddenly appeared, tucked into the prince's royal blue blanket. It was the Dark Magician, a personal and very close ally of the almighty sun god Ra. Yugioh opened his eyes again and took one of his tiny arms and grasped the card with his hand. He then fell back asleep.
His mother felt him squirming in her arms and adjusted her son's blanket, only then feeling him holding something in his hand. Nefertiti moved her hand to remove the part of the blanket to reveal what her son was holding so tightly. She saw the card and her eyes moved from Yugioh's face to the card, then back again. She gasped. "Seht…."
"What is wrong, my dear queen? Is it our son?" Seht asked worriedly.
"Yes, it is our son, but I don't know whether it's good or bad. Look at this." Nefertiti said, giving the sleeping prince to the Pharaoh.
Seht examined his son and saw nothing wrong. "I see nothing wrong." he responded. He ran a gentle finger down Yugioh's cheek, making the newborn stir from his slumber. Yugioh opened his eyes and looked at his father and yawned again. Seht cradled him in his arms as Yugioh snuggled up to his father. It was at that moment when the Pharaoh realized why his wife was worried. Seht removed a part of the blanket and saw the Dark Magician card clutched in his son's hand. He gently took it away from Yugioh and held it up to the candlelight to examine it. He too gasped.
"My dear Queen, this Dark Magician card….I….I…sense something special about it." he said, golden eye glowing again on his forehead. "It seems as if Ra himself took a brief visit to see our son and gave this card to him personally. This can only mean one thing."
"What is it?" Nefertiti asked.
"He indeed will be the most powerful being in Egypt. And I can see more, but it is very cloudy….he is a divine being and is the chosen one to save Egypt."
"So you mean….divinity?"
"No." the Pharaoh said, touching Yugioh on his forehead with his finger, activating the golden eye that he was to control someday.
"But you just said he is a divine being…."
"I didn't mean it that way. But it is a possibility. What I meant was that he is, in a way, a divine person, being that Ra granted him powers. Nefertiti, all I can say now is that we have to raise him well and carefully and you must not worry about Yugioh. I can see that he will be able to handle his duties, coming from a long line of royals that controlled dark powers. Do not worry. We will be able to figure this out sooner or later. We just have to wait patiently until the time comes." Seht said, putting a comforting arm around his wife.
"I hope you're right. I don't want to harm Yugioh in any way, but if that is his destiny, and then I will do what is right. I swear on it as a student and protégé of both Shait and Maat." Nefertiti said.
"I too. As the protégé of Ptah, I know he will provide me with guidance. I know we will both do our best." Seht replied, taking his son and placing him in the crib near the bed. He then walked over to the throne in the corner and sat down.
"Yes." Nefertiti said, walking over to the balcony but not revealing herself. It was daylight now and she stared out of it and the sun glistened on her face. She whispered a prayer to Shait, Hathor, Maat, and Ra and all of a sudden she heard the people of Egypt calling her name and the Pharaoh's name as well. Word had spread last night that the Queen was giving birth to the heir to the throne.
She heard the people call her name and the pharaoh. Nefertiti walked back to the throne her husband was sitting in the corner of their room. She picked Yugioh up from the crib and into her arms. He was wide awake now and was marveling at all his surroundings. She smiled at her son and replied to her husband, "It seems as our people already knew about the prince. Come, Seht. We must tell them the good news." She flung her black hair back. Nefertiti knew that Seht admired her hair the most besides her eyes, being that it was streaked with a shade of yellow and was unique.
"Yes, you are right." Seht said, running his fingers through his red hair. When his wife flung her hair back, he knew she really was going to show herself to the public, so he followed her lead by fixing his hair, too.
The two walked together to the balcony and commotion arose in the crowd. The people saw their pharaoh in gold royal robes and they saw their queen wearing cream colored robes, the ones they only used for very, very special occasions. Each and every person then saw the bundle of blue blankets that the queen was holding and knew that moment that they had a new prince.
"My people, I assume that you all know what event has happened, seeing that you have all gathered here in front of us!" Seht yelled as the people cheered. "Yes, yes, and a very special announcement has to be made now." Seht looked at his wife, who gave Yugioh to him.
'Well, my son, now is the time you begin your life as the prince.' he thought as he looked solemnly at Yugioh. He then lifted his son up and presented him to the crowd.
"My dear people of Egypt, I now present to you my son, Prince Yugioh!" he announced.
The people dropped to their knees and bowed to the new prince. "Long live Prince Yugioh! Long live the Royal Family!" they chanted.
Seht and Nefertiti smiled as they took their son back to the room. Nefertiti then said, "Well, Yugioh did wonderful. I now also guess that Yugioh's life as the crown prince of Egypt officially begins now. But I can't help but worry about him."
"Yes, he did do marvelous. But I told you already, Nefertiti. I promise that he will be safe and will be able to accept and embrace his royal image. Don't worry so much." Seht said, giving Yugioh back to Nefertiti. They entered their quarters and Seht proceeded to the table in the shadows of the balcony to work on a bunch of new laws as Nefertiti sat down in her chair to feed Yugioh.
"Well, Seht, I hope you're right. I would die if anything happened to Yugioh or you, you know that." Nefertiti said.
"Rest assured." the Pharaoh said.
Yes, I most certainly will." The Queen looked out of the balcony once more and prayed to Ra that he would protect her son, being assumed that Ra was Yugioh's guardian god. She hoped that throughout the years to come that Ra would be able to provide her son with wisdom, knowledge, justice, and truth and hoped that he would look after him if anything went wrong. She sighed and went back to caring for Yugioh.
The Dark Magician card floated in the air, noticed only by Yugioh. The newborn prince saw the image come out of the card and appear invisible behind the Queen. Yugioh gurgled with laughter at the sight of the mage, who smiled at his master. The mage then tapped the Queen on her shoulder and spoke her name.
"Queen Nefertiti the second of Egypt, mother of my master Prince Yugioh. Turn around and face me. I have an important message from Ra."
Nefertiti turned around and saw the magician. "Dark Magician, how may I be of service to you?"
"Yes, how may we be of service to you?" Seht asked, walking towards his family.
"As you know, you had found my card in Yugioh's hand. You also figured out my purpose of being here. Yes, I am indeed your son's guardian. Ra is his guardian god." Dark Magician said.
"Oh…" the royals trailed. Yugioh took hold of the green orb on the spellcaster's staff and unknowingly saw an image of his future self as Pharaoh playing a Shadow Game.
"Yes, but Yugioh must not know that you are fully assured that myself and Ra are both his guardians until he is seventeen. You can give him my card and tell him that you think that we are his guardians and to keep it safe, but I will not show myself again until the time comes. Understood?"
"Yes. It is understood." Seht said, bowing to the Dark Magician.
"Yes, I too understand. I wish you well in the years to come, Dark Magician. Oh, and please, guard and watch my son well." Nefertiti said, also bowing.
The Dark Magician nodded. "As you wish, my Pharaoh and Queen. Farewell. I wish you luck and now bid you all goodbye." he said. He stroked his young master's cheek and said, "Until we meet again, little one…" and then disappeared back into the card.
The card fell down on the marble floor as Seht picked it up and put it in the empty square hole in the stone wall. "It will remain here until Yugioh is older." he said as his wife nodded. She stood up and placed Yugioh into his crib. Seht kissed Yugioh on his forehead and went back to his work. Nefertiti hummed a song to her son to make him fall asleep.
"Many nights, we prayed
With no proof anyone could hear
In our hearts a hope for a song
We barely understood
Now we are not afraid
Although we know there's much to fear
We were moving mountains long
Before we knew we could
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Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill
Who knows what miracles you can achieve?
When you believe somehow you will
You will when you believe…." she sang.
As Yugioh closed his eyes, Nefertiti sighed and kissed him on his forehead.
"Sleep well, my little prince. When you put your heart into what you believe in, there's nothing you can't do. 'You will when you….believe'. Just believe in yourself, my son, and it will prove to be possible." she said, watching Yugioh sleep soundly and wondering what he would be like in the future.