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I'm just an average girl with to much time on her hands...and a very pervert(overactive) mind.
Chapter 1
Joey woke up with his head pounding and sand on his tan face. His warm chocolate eyes blinked, clearing away some of the sand that had gotten in them, and he noticed that all around him there was sand, miles and miles of pure white sand. 'Wha' tha fuck happen'!' Joey thought 'lets see, I was at Yug's and we...Fuck where is Yug', Ryou, and Marik!' Joey scanned the area for his friends. A few feet away from him laid three bodies, none of them moving. Joey raced to the nearest one, by the size he guessed that it was Ryou since he was smaller than Marik but bigger than Yugi.
"Ryou! Ryou, bud wake up!" Joey shook Ryou's shoulders, sand falling from their clothes because of the force.
"Hmm? Joey?" Ryou's voice came out in a rasp. His doe brown eyes squinting up at him.
"Yeah, ya O.K. man?"
"Yes, where are Yugi and Marik? Bloody Hell, we're in a desert?" Ryou looked around at the endless sand and deducted that they were in some desert, but that was impossible. They had been at Yugi's house and in his room, watching as Yugi finally finished a puzzle he was given seven years ago by his grandfather.
"Yeah, in a desert and Yug and Marik are o'er there." Joey pointed to the two other bodies, one was being to push itself onto his knees, by the pointy hair it had to be Yugi.
"Yugi!" Ryou scrambled to Yugi, while Joey walked to Marik.
"Ryou, what happened. All I remember is a bright light, when I put the final piece in the puzzle and now we're in the middle of the desert and my puzzle's turned into some sort of werid necklace" Yugi said, his amethyst eyes wide with confusion and fear. Around his neck hung the pyramid puzzle, it had shrunken and attached itself to the leather buckle collar that Yugi always wore. The golden pyramid shined in the harsh sunlight.
"I do not know. But Marik and Joey are here as well." And speak of the devils and so they shall appear. Joey and Marik walked up to them, Marik crossed his arms and glared at nothing in particular.
"Shrimp, you better have a damn good explanation." Marik growled, his lilac eyes narrowing and his mouth became a hard line.
"I..I don't know what happened. But my Granpa said something about a riddle that goes with the Millennium puzzle."
"So tha thin's cursed!" Joey exclaimed, running his fingers through his golden hair, his coffee eyes looked worried.
"Not exactly. It was just a simple riddle." Yugi frowned, playing with the medium size gold up side down pyramid on his collar.
"What did the riddle say." interrupted Ryou
"When the Millennium is complete,
new and old souls shall meet.
The Kings of Past
Will love at last.
When betrayal looms;
love guides from doom.
Once in time you have gone
nothing can be undone.
Only the those destined
shall find happiness."
"What kind of fucked up riddle is that!" Marik kicked some of the sand. They all frozen when they heard screams, women judging by the high pitch. They looked at each other and with out a word they raced towards the screams.
Joey and Marik were the first to see the horrifying scene. There were some tents and six men on horses were killing the males of the tribe and capturing the women. Blood stained the white ground and the pained yells and groans of the fallen men filled the air.
"Yugi, Ryou! You two get the women. We will take care of the bandits." Marik barked, running to a fallen sword. He picked up and swung at one of the horses.
"Right, be careful!" Yugi and Ryou ran the opposite way to where the women had been tied up.
Joey snatched up some sand and ran up to the closest horsemen. He grabbed the reins and threw the sand into the man's face. The man shrieked, falling off of his brown mare. The mare panicked when her rider lost control, she would have run off if Joey had not held firm on her rein. He quickly tied her to a nearby tent pole, before running back into the fight.
One of the guy's friends, pushed Joey from behind and they fell to the ground. Joey punched, kicked, and clawed at his attacker until he final was able to knock him out, but before the man stabbed a short knife into Joey's upper arm.
Marik had already take out one of the bandits, when the last of them decided to retreat.
"Brothers! We must flee." A bandit, probably the leader, called out.
Joey and Marik watched them run off into the desert, making sure that they did not turn back, before going over to where Yugi and Ryou were trying to calm the women and children down. Some of the remaining tribe men, stood near then as if on guard.
"Joey!" Yugi and Ryou exclaimed at the same time. They rushed over to where Joey stood, clenching his injured arm. Blood stained his shirt and seeped through his fingers.
"Dude, you seriously need to be more careful." Marik smirked, although his friends counld see the worry in his eyes.
"I'm fine. Dis is nothin' ta worry ova." Joey smiled as he straighted his back and let Ryou wrap an arm around him for support.
"I am thankful, strangers, for helping our humble tribe when in need. I am Alim" An old man with a long white beard and a kind face stepped out from amongst the men. His wrinkled face was kind and, although he bent over his cane a bit, there was an air of power around him.
"No problem." Ryou smiled at Alim. He knew that this must be the tribe leader, because the rest of his people showed him respect. "Can you tell us where we are?"
"You are in the heart of Egypt, near the Great Pharaoh's palace."
Yugi and his friends looked at each other in shock. How in the world did they get in Egypt? Did the puzzle somehow teleport them?
"What year is this." Yugi asked, Alim looked at Yugi and immediately went to his knees, pressing his head to the sandy ground.
"My Pharaoh! I beg forgiveness for not recognizing you earlier."
"Pharaoh?" Joey, Marik, and Ryou said at once, while Yugi looked bewilderedly at Alim.
"I'm not the Paraoh."
"But, sire, you look very much alike" Alim protested, raising his head to stare at Yugi. Taking in the spiked hair, soft purple eyes, and cherub face, Alim realized that this young child was indeed not their king. The Pharaoh was known to have ruby red eyes and sharp features.
"My name is... Layth(Lion)." Yugi decided not to use their real names. Joey and the rest seemed to silently agreed to do the same, luckily since Yugi's grandfather is an egyptogist they had learned how to speak in a good array of languages. Arabic being one of them.
"Layth?" The chief asked. It was such a strong name for such an innocent boy. Layth, lion in the arabic language, nodded before introducing his frends.
"Yes, and this is Isra(journey)" said Yugi, pointing to Joey. Alim noticed that unlike his name would suggest the boy had shining yellow hair, it was rare to see anyone with such a color of hair but it seemed that his companions had unusual colorings as well. Joey slightly lifted his hand in aknowlegement. "Siraj(torch)" Ryou smiled kindly at Alim, keeping his arm firmly around Joey's waist. Alim took in the childs white hair and dark skin, deciding to him self that the child was of mixed blood. "Izzah(power)"Marik kept an indiffferent look on his face as the old man turned to him. Alim was surprised to see that the youth had light purple eyes and pale yellow hair.
"Such unusual names. Where are your family? Children should not be alone." Said Alim.
"Our parents are dead, old man." Marik snarled. It wasn't a complete lie. Yugi's parents had died in an car accident when he was 3 and Joey's drunk of a father might as well have been dead. Ryou's parents had abandoned him when he had been a baby and Marik's had been killed.
"You four are orphans?" Alim asked, feeling sad at the idea of them having no one to call family.
"We're a family. All four of us." Yugi said, smiling at his friends. Alim gave a slight nod, before turning around.
"Come your friend Isra needs his wound treated." Alim lead them to a tent, amazingly it was still intact. Inside they saw a young girl dressed in a large shawl that covered her so that only her eyes were visiblel.
"This is Shifa, she is knowledge able in the art of healing." With that said Alim walked out of the tent, leaving them alone with the girl. She didn't say anything to them as she patched Joey up. It was not till she was walking out of the tent that she said "Follow me."
Alim watched as Layth and his friends entered and sat down in the tent. The one with the bright yellow hair, Isra, had his upper shoulder bandages with white cloth. They looked worn and tried, deep sorrow filled his heart as he watched the four children slump their shoulders. thiThe poor children must be tired and wiry.
"Layth, you and your companians, must seek audience with the Pharaoh. Maybe he can offer you children a place to stay and food to eat."
"The Pharaoh?" Ryou said, his mind racing through all of the possible out comes of meeting the ruler of Egypt. "Why? We have done fine on our own."
"If someone sees Layth walking around they will mistake him for the Pharaoh, much like I did, and try to do him harm." Alim calmly explained.
"We will think about it." Yugi said, ending the conversation. Alim nodded and motioned to Shifa to bring their guests food and drinks. The night went by slowly and the gang fell to sleep inside of a tent that Alim gave them.
As he watched the children drift off to sleep, Alim told one of his men to ride to the palace and inform the Pharaoh of the arrival of a doubleganger. The rider nodded and speeded off into the desert. Alim felt something tug on his old heart as he watched the children, by the morning's light the Pharaoh's guard would arrive to take them to the palace.
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