Hey there! This is the story that will 'replace' The One I Choose. I hope this story is a little bit better than The One I Choose.

This story, as you will read, is about a princess who's mother has died. Her mother makes the Pharaoh of the Higher Kingdom promise that he will not marry unless the bride is more beautiful than her. He makes the promise and she dies. After a few weeks of grief he needs out messengers to find the bride but in the end they don't. Than the Pharaoh notices that his daughter is more beautiful then her mother. So, he is determined to marry his daughter. But Kisara, Tea's friend, is determined to make sure that doesn't happen. They run away in the middle of the night and end up sleeping in a cave, who would look in a cave?

The couples would be Atem/Tea and Seto/Kisara. Warning, there will be some OOC-ness. If you don't like ooc then don't read, because Seto is kinda nice. ^^ Lot's of my stories will be much of ooc. So a bit of warning.

Disclaimer!: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh in any way, shape or form.

A Princess in Disguise

A Pharaoh once had a wife with chocolate brown hair who was so beautiful that none on earth could be found equal to her. It happened that she fell ill, and as soon as she knew she was about to die she sent for her husband the Pharaoh and said to him, "After my death I know you shall take a new wife, but promise me that, however beautiful she may be, if she is not as beautiful as I am you will not marry.

The Pharaoh had no sooner given his word than she closed her eyes and died.

For a long time he refused to be comforted, and thought it was impossible to take another wife. At length his counselors came to him, and said, "My Pharaoh, we understand your grief, but if you do not take another wife soon you would have to give your crown up as the Pharaoh of the Higher Kingdom and that would give the Pharaoh of the Lower Kingdom and the young Prince Atem time to take over the Higher Kingdom."

So at last he consented, and then sent of messengers far and wide to find him a wife that was equal to his dead wife. But none could be found in the Higher Kingdom so the messengers tried their luck in the Lower Kingdom. They found only one, the beautiful Mai, but she was already married to Joey, one of the best friends of Prince Atem.

The messengers came back with nothing and the news only crushed the Pharaoh further.

But the Pharaoh had a daughter who was equal in beauty of her mother, perhaps, even more with her short chocolate brown hair and shining blue eye that were like sapphires. She had all this beauty while growing up and the Pharaoh finally saw the striking similarities and was shocked he had not noticed before, for Téa, the young Princess was a mirror image of her mother. He called his counselors and said, "I will marry my daughter; for she is the image of my dead wife and no other bride can be found to enable me to keep my word to my dead wife."

When the counselors heard this they fell to their knees and begged, "But My Pharaoh! Ra will surely smite you for such a sin! Nothing but evil would only come to this union!"

But the Pharaoh held up his hand for silence. There was no stopping him. His word was final. But one servant with shining pale blue eyes that were wide and filled with horror stood in the shadows and when she was sure the Pharaoh was not looking she fled to Princess's Téa room to tell her of the horrible news.

"Princess! Princess Téa!" the servant cried as she ran into her friend's room. Téa look over at her servant friend and frowned. "What's the matter Kisara? Has father found a new wife yet?"

"He has, and even worse he has chosen you!" Kisara sobbed.

Téa rose from her seat and said, "Surely he knows that Ra would smite him for such a sin? It is true I love my father but not in that way! Have the priests and counselors have told him it is a sin?"

"They have, but your father will not listen! He is determined to marry you to keep his promise to you mother."

Princess Téa hoped to save herself and her father from this shame and disgrace so she and Kisara came up with a challenge. She went before her father and spoke strongly even though on the inside she felt like a timid child.

"Before I consent to your wish I shall require six dresses, one as golden as the Egyptian sun, one silvery as the moon, one that glitters more than the stars, one that is blue like the Nile, another pure white like a child's innocence, and finally another white dress, but this one must outshine the light that comes of the great sun, Ra."

"Ah!" she thought. "I have asked for impossibilities, and I hope I shall be able to make my father give up his wicked intentions."

The Pharaoh, however, was not to be diverted from his purpose. All the most skillful young women in the kingdom were employed to weave the six dresses, one as golden as the sun, one silvery as the moon, one that glitters more than the stars, one that was blue as the Nile, another pure white like a child's innocence, and finally, another white dress that outshined the light that came from the sun.

When the dresses were all complete the Pharaoh went to her room and laid them before her. He told her, "Tomorrow our marriage shall take place."

When he left the room Téa fell to her knees and sobbed into her hands. "Its no use Kisara!" she sobbed. "I have no choice but to marry my father!"

Kisara remained silent. Téa was her friend. Even though she was a poor girl who Téa found in the desert, she had managed to get her father to hire Kisara to be her personal servant. Kisara owed the Princess a favor, and it was time to repay her.

"No, you will not marry your father. I'm going to get some food for us, you will pack up the dresses and we're going to run away. I owe you a favor and if this is the way I have to repay you than so be it." She said determinedly.

Téa stared at her friend but shook her head. "But where will we go?"

"To Lower Egypt. You are mostly known in Higher Egypt, but barely in Lower Egypt, so you would be very safe."

"When will we leave?"

"Tonight. We must make haste! Hurry and get the dresses, money and whatever else you want to bring along, but make it sure it doesn't weight a lot."

Téa nodded and went to put the dresses in a bag than went to her jewel-case to a gold ring, a small good spinning-wheel, and a golden hook. Once that was done she put on a servant outfit and took the bag and found Kisara in the hallway. "Are you ready Princess Téa?"

"Yes, will we follow the Nile?"

"Yes, come on, we have to hurry and get out of this kingdom before dawn." She whispered.

Once they were out they ran to the Nile and followed it until they found a cave. "We can stay here and catch up on sleep." Kisara said sleepily. Both of them shuffled into the cave and got out their blankets and instantly fell asleep.

Prince Atem woke up to feel the warm light on his face. He sighed, sat up and stretched out and rubbed the sand out of his eyes. He got out of bed and put on his clothes, jewels and necklaces.

When he came out of his room he was assaulted by his childhood friend, Mana.

"Mana! Let go, I can't breath." he gasped. She giggled and let go.

"Your choices are here." She laughed while sending him a pitying look. Atem groaned and closed his eyes.

"Why must I go through with all of this? All of those Princesses are nothing but cold-hearted bitches! I'm sick and tired of all of them!" he growled. The pity in Mana's eyes grew.

"I'm sure that your father will understand that you want to marry for love. He also did marry for love."

"Yeah, but he got lucky with my mother, and it's mostly my grandmother who is demanding that I marry a proper Princess. Father can't say 'no' to her or disagree with her because she's his mother and since she's been around longer she disserves to be listened to. Well, I think she doesn't disserve to be listened to!" he snarled.

It was clear and easy to say that Atem disliked his grandmother with a passion. From the day he could remember all his grandmother did was yell at him when he would play his tricks or when he would skip out on his classes.

So just to make her stop yelling he did as he was told but his father secretly let him go out and explore or whatever he wanted to do. His cousin, Seto, would go with him to sometimes watch him but other times he would join him when he played games.

"I might as well just get it over with and say no to all of them." He snorted. But he knew that there was one Princess that he couldn't get rid of. Princess Vivian was the only princess that had managed to please his grandmother, and she was determined to get him to marry Vivian.

"Are you ready to face your choices?" came a voice.

Atem turned to see Seto, smiling in a pitying way. Atem smiled back. "Mind if you sneak me out for a minute. I just want to walk up and down the Nile. Do you mind?"

"If this walk helps you kick out those princesses sooner then let's go." He said. Mana giggled and said, "What do I tell everyone if they ask for you?"

Atem turned around with a grin. "Tell them I'm around the palace somewhere."

Mana laughed and skipped off. Atem smiled knowing that Mana wouldn't give him away. He turned around and continued to follow Seto.

About an hour later both were walking the Nile with a tan colored cat walking beside Atem. He sighed and picked up the cat. "I can't take this anymore. Why can't I just find a good princess that has a good heart, kind to my future people, kind to the children of Egypt . . . how come it's so hard to find someone like that?"

Seto looked over and sighed himself, "Because even though there is peace there are still wicked hearts. If it makes you feel any better the Vivian princess might have a shadow creature somewhere in her soul."

Atem snorted and looked over at Seto. "I bet she's naturally like that Seto." Seto choked and his shoulders started to shake with laughter. Suddenly the cat in Atem's arm jumped down from Atem's arms and walked up to a cave.

Atem and Seto looked at each other and went to the cave and to their surprise they found two women sleeping. Atem and Seto looked at each other again and than back at the two women. Hoods covered their hair half of their face.

Atem bent down to nudged one of them gently.

The one that he shook awake looked up at him and gasped, which caused the other one to wake up and the reaction was the same, shock. Finally she spoke. "Who-who are you?" she whispered in shock.

So, how did I do? Is it good? Bad? Should I continue? . . . . . . ummmm, I think I might continue this anyway. LOL! Thanks for reading!