Balance
The news spread fast across Egypt, like no other information in recorded history, up to that point in time. The people of Egypt almost seemed to celebrate the news, which had been tragic to the thief society.
Standing in the pharaoh's court yard several thieves, disguised as normal towns people, cried out. Their emotionless exteriors breaking as the one thief respected and loved by all other thieves was ordered to be executed.
Tied to a pole, stationed before the pharaoh's throne, the silver haired prisoner was flogged repeatedly. But the single fact that the thief did not cry out, or even show signs of pain had angered the pharaoh. He ordered the death of the thief.
The thieves in the crowd, screamed protests, not caring if they envoked the wrath of the Pharaoh's guards. The pharaoh, to them, was not their king. The silver haired ghost of the desert, tied to the pole, was. No one before him had ever claimed the title of 'king of thieves', perhaps because no one had ever been as skilled as he, so needless to say, he was very a important figure to the thief clan.
The Thief king looked up at the others, who had begun to riot. They stopped, as they met eye contact with him. He shook his head. They stared up in shock at him, pleading with their eyes, but the Thief king's decision was final. They slumped their shoulders and hung their heads low.
"What have you to say Thief?" The high priest glance down at him, with a scowl. "Normal thieves are executed with out opportunity to choose their last words, but you are no ordinary thief. A king has the given right to speak before his own execution, so what will you say King of Thieves?"
"Nothing to you!" The thief cried indignantly. "But to the pharaoh: You havn't seen the last of me. As long as your spirit lives on this earth, so will mine. You and I are Kings of our right, therefore ones of our status will always linger. It's a scale that both of us must balance, so you have not won yet."
The words of the thief were wise. He knew the balance of power. The pharaoh also knew, but he was determined to try and prove it wrong, even though he knew that he could not change the laws of humanity, no matter how hard he tried. There would always be two sides of power. And the gods had destined it to be in the shape of a young pharaoh and an even younger thief: the two most powerful individuals in Egypt and possibly even the world.
The pharaoh's solution to this reacurring chain of events was to sentence the thief to death. Then hopefully things would go back to normal, with out the threat of such a intimidating thief.
The crowds shout died to silence when the pharaoh stood. He walked toward the thief. His hand flew across the thief's face and returned back to lift up the man's chin, so they were looking eye to eye.
"I will never be in the same class as you! You filthy thief!"
"Yes, you are as we speak. You are just as mortal as I. We bleed the same, breathe the same and will both die the same. Of course you will not see this until it is your turn to die."
"Well, you will not get the pleasure of seeing that day!" The pharaoh seethed grabbing for a dagger, intent on taking the man's life himself.
"Are you sure of that? You never know where I will be hiding, in body or spirit, my fellow king. So as you kill me remember, you havn't seen the last of me. Darkness doesn't disappear, it just relocates. Pharaoh, child of the light, you cannot exhist with out me. I am the darkness, which balances the light, never forget that!"
"This is the last of your days thief, good riddance!" The dagger went down on the thief's displayed neck.
5000 years later, a dark shadow steps forward.
"YOU!"
"I told you pharaoh," The shadow cackled, "Darkness can't be destroyed..." The shadow faded out. "Only relocated..." The voice echoed.
Yugi shot up panting as his mind retraced the dream. 'What was that?' he thought to himself. And looked over at the unfinished puzzle sitting on his desk, next to a gold box. 'I have to finish that puzzle!' He decided crawling out of bed unaware of what destiny had in store for him.
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Leo: Okay, that was just a little snippet I did when I was bored. I though, you know it'd be interesting to see a different version of the thief and Yami, before the story started.