Chapter One: The Return
A Young woman whipped at the reigns of her black stallion easily avoiding tree branches as the horses hooves pounded against the muddy floor. Her sapphire eyes stayed focused on the road ahead. The forest soon came to an end and she pulled on the reins to stop the horse when she reached dry sand. The young woman pulled down her hood letting her chocolate brown locks of hair spill as she overlooked the Egyptian sun as it rose to greet another day over the desert.
Inhaling and exhaling deeply she hadn't realised how much she had missed the clean air and hot sun on her porcelain skin until now. The sun continued to rise in front of her as she gave the horse a kick to start galloping again, there wasn't any time to waste. She needed to deliver an important letter to the Pharaoh.
Pharaoh Atem sat on his throne having just finished a meeting with his Royal Court concerning the land affairs when a commotion was heard coming from outside the room. His High Priest, Seto was the first to respond to the disturbance as a guard pushed open the large doors. He instantly dropped on his knees, "What is this about?" Seto asked.
"Great Pharaoh, there is a girl outside the wall on a horse, she said she has urgent business with yourself" he replied, still bowing.
Atem beamed with curiosity, "A girl, you say?"
The guard nodded as Seto turned to Atem, "Great Pharaoh, I'm sure the Royal council and I can sort out this matter-"
"No" Atem roared, "I Shall handle this"
They all bowed as Atem rose from his throne and followed the guard into the courtyard. Outside there were two more guards behind the iron gate which was closed to the ground. One more guard was atop the gate, with his bow and arrow pointing at the girl. "I'm telling you, I am a diplomat to the Pharaoh for goodness sake" he herd a female voice shout.
Atem knew instantly who the voice belonged to and walked up the small stairs that led atop the gate. Leaning over the stone wall he grinned down at the rider. The girl took of her hood and smiled back at him a little. Atem ordered the guard to lower his weapon. "she speaks the truth" he told them, "surely you have not forgotten my personal spy and diplomat, Anzu" he groaned shaking his head.
The guards all looked at each other scratching their heads. "Even if she does have shorter hair" Atem commented looking over the wall again, it seemed to suit her he thought anyway. He ordered the guards to open the gate which they did immediately. Anzu rode into the courtyard before dismounting her horse. Atem walked quickly back down the stairs and met her embrace.
"By the Gods Anzu, I thought you might have been killed" he whispered into her ear, "I missed you"
Anzu pulled away and smiled, "I missed you too" she said before looking around to see the guards looking at them oddly. Atem coughed and backed away from her, "Tell me Anzu, you have good news?" he said loudly as they walked away from the guards and into a section of the courtyard that was unpatrolled.
When they were far enough apart Atem cupped her face and kissed her sweetly. Anzu giggled and pulled away slapping his shoulder teasingly, "I do actually have news" she said and pulled out a letter from her cloak. Atem chuckled, "that can wait" he said before stoking her face with his thumb, "you need to bathe and change" he added seeing her cloak had dirt on it. Her boots were muddy too.
She looked down at herself and chuckled a little, "I suppose I do. I have been riding for a day straight though"
They started to head inside, "Then I shall have the kitchen prepare some food for you, can't have my favourite spy going hungry now can I?" he grinned just as the Royal council came out to see what the commotion had led to.
Author's Notes: So I'm new to Fan Fiction writing so would love some reviews. I posted my first story earlier called 'Valentines day' and I noticed after some spelling mistakes so I do apologise for that, I was never very good at English and spelling and since I'm new to this site I have no idea how to go back end edit stories. I also forgot to put a disclaimer on that one-shot too so here's one for both, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh and have no desire to make any money or anything from writing Fan-Fictions, just an avid fangirl wanting to share whatever stories pop into her head!
The next chapter will be up tomorrow night or Sunday by the latest. I decided to use Tea's Japanese name in this story because it sounds more Egyptian, maybe? I dunno, it does to me anyway. Don't worry ill explain the story about Anzu's hair being shorter in the next chapter, basically its the length it is in the anime but in my story it used to be longer until now.