Summary: Yami and his younger brother Heba have been spoon-fed tales about Ancient Egypt and the Lost Island of Atlantis from the time they were babies. Though Yami has grown older and more skeptical towards the tales he once loved, his brother Heba has become just as enamored of them as their Grandfather. Then their Grandfather, obsessed with all things history, dies. Heba, having become a history scholar, and Yami, as a veteran adventurer in his pursuit for all things regarding games, both get a mysterious summons from their Grandfathers old friend. This old friend had information that before he had died their Grandfather had actually discovered a piece of written literature that contained the location to the sunken island of Atlantis. The two of them get offered a chance to see for themselves if the fabled Atlantis was in actuality a real place, and to discover the mysteries of why it is that it sunk.
Disclaimer: I, FallTigerKisa, do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Neither it's characters, themes, nor plots (no matter how much I would have loved to make it into a yaoi). Nor do I, FallTigerKisa, own Atlantis The Lost Empire.
This idea I came up with when I was trying to fall asleep one night. Please note that I try to make the story-line with its assorted humor as close to the movie Atlantis as I possibly can, but I do enhance it so that I have as little OOC-ness as possible. I thought about making Yugi be Milo but the whole idea of Yami being saved by him is just a little too out of character for me (but it was just a way too weird to make Yami into the dorky Milo), so I made the brothers and cousins. Please note that I have made the characters as close to their anime/manga form as they can be while still being in their Atlantis characters. The jokes and humorous scenes are quoted from the Atlantis movie but changed slightly to fit the Yu-Gi-Oh characters (although some of the Atlantean characters have no Atlantis based counterparts, but I felt like I just had to squeeze them in somehow).
Also note, the Atlantis in the movie seems more closely formed to Native tribes and Greek/Latin myth, while in my fan-fiction it is more closely related culturally to Egypt than Greece. It is still technically water-related but it has Egyptian themes closer to the desert. You'll understand as I write later.
Please Note: THIS IS RATED M FOR A REASON! Filled with juicy yaoi and hentai goodness and enough lemons to make a roomful of fangirls sigh in bliss (or at least enough to make me satisfied without destroying the plot). Painings:YxYY, AtemuxHeba, SetoxJou, BxR, MxYM, and slight HxO, DMxDMG, SethxKisara, and MokubaxShizuka.
"Bold" is in a different language and I will have the English translation in (Parenthesis). ~Italicized~ with little squiggly lines are mind-to-mind conversations. And to really mess with you all I might just put them both together in which they are mind-to-mind in a different language. I assume you all do not need an example.
This does not include bashing of any kind, I have a high respect for all Yu-Gi-Oh characters (except Bandit Keith A.K.A Rourke) and I based their Atlantis counterparts off of strange connections I made up in my own twisted mind, so please do not get offended if an otherwise good Yu-Gi-Oh character is given a weird Atlantis counterpart, and vice versa.
Please Review! I take all comments; positive or negative, UNLESS they have to do with the yaoi, homosexual thing, in which I have only to say "DON"T LIKE, DON'T READ!" Can't get any simpler than that.
The Lost Egyptian Empire: Prologue
"… in a single day and night of misfortune, the island of Atlantis disappeared into the depths of the sea." –Plato, 360 B.C.
5,000 Years Before
Blue, an endless sea of blue; where ocean and sky met was merely a blending of different tones of that same professed color. Clouds of puffy whiteness floated along on the upper, lighter color of blue, given the simple name of sky. Ripples flowed gently accompanying the sound of waves, causing distortions to cross the deeper shade of blue, dubbed the sea. The sun was high in the sky leaving a crystal-clear clarity to the world, a sense of rightness and tranquility.
But then it was shattered, as a blinding light lit the horizon for a split second in an explosion of light. The light was gone a second later as small shadows appeared on the horizon in its place, gaining speed as they traveled faster and faster towards their destination. The sea churned, flowing towards the horizon where the figures were racing away from. Nine or ten smallish shadows were trailed by a much larger shadow as the sea seemed to rise up above them, as though trying to play a dangerous game of tag. Small, humanoid-shaped figures rode the smaller shadows that were quickly becoming recognizable as giant creatures like nothing seen on the planet Earth. Giant, multicolored birds and lithe dragons flapped enormous wings trying to speed their flight in a race versus life and death. Wings pumped faster on several blue colored dragons called Winged Dragon Guardians and feathered Skull Red Birds rushed to catch up. The remaining few Sonic Birds put on bursts of speed from their highly-technological booster-rockets in the hope of out-racing the accumulating wave. The massive shadow trailing behind the smaller winged creatures, as the largest of the creatures, a massive Roc of the Valley, had an assortment of humanoids on its back, greatly reducing wind speed and causing the bird to not go as fast as it wanted; or, sadly, needed. Golden harnesses adorned the fleeing creatures that seemed to strangely impair their flight not at all.
Humans, or at least they appeared human, gripped the harnesses attaching them to their respective beasts, hunching over to reduce wind resistance in the feeble hope to survive the growing tsunami that by now towered over them by many times. The wind caught and scattered the barely mumbled words that needed no translations for any language to understand; prayers.
Suddenly, one of the riders on one of the Winged Dragon Guardians turned to his left and pointed accusingly at the rider of a nearby Skull Red Bird and shouted angrily, "Gi puukh! Wi'shi tery ret tigiden! (You fool! You've destroyed us all!)"
To which the other looked frighteningly ahead, not even giving the other a glance, and shouted back in the same strange language, "Sho kuuton deshpon hetokoyiru! Kan'neh salan Atlantis! (The wave is gaining! We have to warn Atlantis!)" Pointing behind him at the all-encompassing wave they both paled as the water splashed their beasts.
"Dehsukaazen yohteruza! (Too late!)" The original screamed as the wave encompassed both of them and their beasts in a downpour of death. Five other beasts and riders were also taken over by the rapid tsunami, and they also screamed out a terrified yell before the wave crashed over them. Twenty people cried out in a split moment of terror as the Roc of the Valley let out a keening cry when it felt wetness on its tail feathers, before it too was engulfed in the wave.
The only two still flying were the Sonic Birds, and their riders spent barely a second to wipe away stray tears of loss from their eyes, before urging their Sonic Birds to go even faster. Incredibly, the two sped ahead at an even faster pace, outdistancing the wave. Enough for them to finally see the blurring green of grass from the outlaying islands that surrounded their beloved city of Atlantis. Smaller islands with their tiny towns were overwhelmed in split seconds from the massive wave and still it kept coming. The two riders on their Sonic Birds were finally within distance for their transceiver jewelry to send out distress calls to the capital of Atlantis. The messages for everyone within distance to head to the capital had just been transmitted when they cut off abruptly as the Sonic Birds were finally overtaken.
The sprawling city could see the massive tsunami bearing towards them as emergency alarms sounded, " Heh'wanptok paenkulah tehen'mpuwa ehtemphohkoh! (Everyone to the shelters!)", causing giant gongs to be banged repeatedly in urgent warnings that resounded through the streets for miles making people panic. People screamed and lost control of other strange creatures; some flying away in sheer panic. Some creatures simply disappeared as frantic owners chanted magical words to send their creatures back to the Shadow Realms from whence the creatures originated from, terrified that their life-partners would also die horrible deaths.
People rushed and crowded, heading towards the capital, all trying to at least get past the five statues that rimmed the inner city. One of the statues depicted an ugly golden man with a large headdress and had chains binding his wrists and ankles. Another humanoid statue was of a horrifying, black, golem-looking creature with blue markings with a drastically pointed headdress and large horns that flared out from his head. The largest of the statues was of a lithely coiled dragon of the brightest crimson, with two mouths of razor-sharp teeth. The brightest of the statues, made entirely of gold, was of a slightly humanoid body with the physique of a bird. The final statue was the most beautiful in that it was made of platinum and depicted a woman with chrome wings and gold markings. These were the five greatest creatures of the Shadow Realm and were said to only be conjured by the royal family. They were called Exodia the Forbidden One, Obelisk the Tormentor, Slifer the Sky Dragon, the Winged Dragon of Ra, and the Creator God of Light, Horakhty. These were the five guardians that the Atlanteans worshiped as gods, equal only to their sovereigns and they took relief from the familiar presences of them. They symbolized faith and hope in times of darkness, of which this was a time of.
At the palace two small boys were running, trying to keep up with their mothers the queens, Ishtar and Innana. The twin women were the only children of the last king of Atlantis and were given the whole of Atlantis to rule together when he died. They were much beloved and were both given the Spell of Life causing them to give birth to their two boys even though they had no husbands. The queens, mirror images of each other with bronze skin and long black hair with blonde bangs and magenta and maroon tips, hurried across the courtyard, trying to reach the safety of the palace walls while each held the hand of their respective son. Ishtar pulled along her young son Yugi, his strangely milk-pale hand clenched tightly in her grasp, while Innana and her son Atemu kept pace with her. Their stately gowns billowed around them as they ran towards the awaiting awning, but Yugi tripped suddenly causing Ishtar to stop with him in order to pick him back up. Yugi, the younger of the two princes by six years, could not understand why it was that the sky had gone so dark and had dropped his little Kuriboh doll which he tried to go back for, but the forward momentum of his mother kept him from reaching it and he fell as a result. Innana and Atemu, who had ran ahead a few paces before noticing that they had stopped, rushed back towards them, Innana urging her twin to hurry. But Ishtar had always been a little too emotional and squatted down to shake her son in a worried reprimand, "Yugi'to! Tohne sipugquayt! Namt'pwe nahna sykim! (Yugi! Just leave it! There's no time!)"
Yugi nodded his spiky tri-colored hair, his amethyst-colored eyes filling with tears, but his mother had already turned her head away, a look of surprise and wonder on her face as she turned her head towards the sky. The spotlights from the sky turned from their original warning red color to a golden color as the light touched her and her sister Innana. Innana had the same look on her face, as though the sky was singing and the gods and goddesses themselves were showing them the most perfect of worlds. Their necklaces, beaten gold inset with precious stones and the all-seeing Eye of Ra, began to glow golden and their eyes began to shine with that same golden light.
Suddenly, all of the spotlights began circling around the two queens until they coalesced together and shone onto their Eye's of Ra, sending what looked like jolts of lightning through the two queens. Yugi, his mother's hands still holding his shoulders, looked up at the sky in worried incomprehension while Atemu stared at his mother in confused alarm. The two queens suddenly began lifting into the air under the two blindingly golden spotlights. Yugi felt a sudden tugging at his neck and looked up causing the chain of his toy Millennium Puzzle, a three-dimensional golden puzzle in the shape of an upside-down pyramid with an Eye of Ra at its center, to lift over his head and float upward with his mother. With her hands on his shoulders the chain had inadvertently gotten caught between her clenched fingers and she still retained it while in her trance. Yugi cried out in surprise while Atemu desperately tried to grab his own mother from the light, but wound up with a piece of shredded cloth as the bottom of Innana's dress gave way to the weight of her son. Atemu fell back to the ground, a piece of white and gold embroidered silk still clenched in his hand as he looked up in mute terror.
Yugi, looking up at his mother as she was lifted higher into the light, lifted his hands, reaching for her, and shouted out with a child's need for comfort, "Makim! Makim! (Mother! Mother!)" His voice broke as tears streaked down his face and Atemu, although the older and more mature of the two, joined him in his calling for their mothers, hands still clutching the ripped piece of silk like a lifeline.
Golden lights began emanating form the hands of the five Guardian statues as a force-field-like shield began to spread outward over the city and upwards. Civilians crashed into the shielding, unable to get through; some banging on it in the desperate hope to reach the other side, to safety. The tsunami rolled closer, destroying buildings and snatching up people as it went. Those on the outside of the shielding knew terror in their hearts as they saw their death approaching; family members and friends gripped each other tightly for temporary comfort as hopelessness and desolation swept through them. They held each other as the wave swept over them and they knew no more.
The golden lights began to burn brighter and they were no longer two lights but one, and two figures sprinted across the pathway to reach the two princes. High Priest Seth, the twin queens' cousin, and High Advisor Siamun, the old king of Atlantis' closest friend, ran to the two young princes and swept them into their arms, shielding their eyes with their robes. " Hoh'kepemjen moa tera Yugi'to, Atemu'to! Kimn dera! (Close your eyes Yugi, Atemu! Look away!)" Siamun shouted to the two young boys as he and Seth bowed their own heads over the spiky hair of the two cousins to keep from going blind. The golden light that had been the two queens was being circled by an astonishingly fast rotating light as the golden light grew brighter and the force-field closed over the top to form a dome over the city.
The light grew even brighter until the wave crashed against the force-field. The tremendous force that had caused the tsunami crashed against the immovable force field and, unable to move or penetrate it, swept downward towards the bedrock that housed the city. The island groaned and shook while the force-field stayed strong and still radiated its golden hue. Then, with an earsplitting crack, the foundation of the city broke as cracks filled the Earth under what was the city of Atlantis and the wave crashed over the top of the dome. The golden-hued shield grew dimmer under the waves and the city of Atlantis sank beneath the waves; never to resurface again.