Disclaimer: I don't YugiOh, obviously. If there's someone in this story that you've never heard of on the show/manga before, most likely I own them :P

Okay, so by the time I got onto page six I realized that this was getting WAY too long. So I'm gonna save the rest for the next chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 2

The sun shone bright above Luxor. The sands scorched under Re's gaze as he reached the half-way point of his travels towards the afterlife. Despite the harsh May afternoon the streets where full of movement and life as people made their way to do their daily rounds and routines. This day however a new errand was being made. A tall stranger to the lands made his way through the crowds toward a group of men waiting for him at the place where it was planned for their departure. They greeted him as he approached. For a moment they made small talk as they walked towards the parked helicopter. Once inside the leader of the group started the helicopter and began to fly towards the outskirts of the city.

"I hope that your flight had been pleasant sir." The man next to the stranger asked.

"It was very much so, thank you." The stranger replied.

"It will not be long now." The pilot commented "we will be approaching Abydos within the hour."

The stranger made no reply to this statement but simply laid back and waited for their arrival. The great ruins rose higher as they drew nearer, and with it the stranger's eyes gleamed with anticipation; enough, so that his left eye began to glow a golden aura.

"Look, Ummi, look! See what I've found!" the little girl grinned triumphantly at she held, much to her mother's horror, a black scorpion.

"Laila! What on earth are you thinking? One touch of its tail and it will kill you!"

"But Ummi it's okay. See, I'm holding its tail. It can't sting me." she forced it closer to her mother so that she could emphasize her pale hand clutching the tail's length as it's body sat on her other hand.

"Laila!" Her mother hesitated in order to calm herself down so that her daughter would less likely throw a fit... and the scorpion. "Laila-azizety, be reasonable. How long do you think you can keep holding onto that scorpion like that?" the little girl shrugged her answer. "Precisely; Now wouldn't it be easier if you just let it back outside, that way you'd less likely risk getting hurt." The little girl looked down at what she hoped to be a new pet and sighed.

"Okay ummi. I'll let it go."

"That's better." Her mother replied. She pulled out a container from the cupboard and knelt down. "How about you put him in here and on the way to the excavation we can set him loose. That way he'll be far from other people. Agreed?"

It amazed her mother how naïve and innocent Laila was. It had been more than a year ago since her gift in reading demotic scriptures had been discovered. And despite taking on a job as a translator the child still refused to mature and gain natural human sensibility. She was still childish enough to find things like cobra, traps and scorpions as simple forms of amusement. She looked towards her daughter as she swung her legs together and tapped on the plastic container holding the scorpion. She shook her head again at her child's naivety and then turned her attention back on the road.

They soon reached the excavation site on Abydos and got out of the car. She allowed Laila to go off and find the other children as she would begin work. The first matter of business was to meet with the other archeologists and meet the patron of the dig. Once inside the tent she made her way towards her colleagues, all whom were speaking with, judging by the expensive suit, the patron. One her friends, Rihana saw her approach and smiled. "Salaam Nakuno. Keef Halk?"

"Ana bekheer, shokran." She replied with a smile. *

"Ah, hello there." The man in the suit said as he turned to greet her. Nakuno froze and gasped in shock. Could it be? She thought to herself. As she took a better look at the man's face though, she began to relax. "Is something the matter?" he asked.

"Oh no it's nothing. It's just that at first I thought you were someone I use to know." She replied with a giggle of embarrassment. The others looked from her to each other and nodded knowingly of the awkward situation.

"Well I suppose that it's too bad. It would have made introductions much simpler." He said with a laugh. He made a curt bow towards her and said with a smile. "Pegasus J. Crawford, a pleasure to meet you Ms…." **

"Nakuno Venesacia; and it is a pleasure to meet you as well."

"A lovely name." he commented. "Well, now that the formalities are over perhaps we can begin discussing the project..."

* Basically Rihana is asking how she's doing and Nakuno says that she's doing fine.

**In case you guys are confused, in the original Japanese version of Yugioh, Pegasus's real name was Pegasus J. Crawford. I think it sounds a lot better and more formal.

The project was a very interesting one indeed. Unlike most digs this man seemed to have little interest in things such as dates and history and the like. Instead, he appeared solely interested in the ancient country's mythology. He said that while he had lived in Egypt he had seen carvings of mythological creatures and became inspired to use those drawings as the basis for his new game that he was inventing. So the purpose of this project was to find as many carvings and descriptions of monsters as possible. Many of the archeologists found this to be rather abnormal, but never-the-less, it was a job so they made no complaint. They began to work shortly after the meeting and continued until nightfall.

For Laila the day was eventful mainly with playing games of tag and such with the other children of the archeologists. She knew that she wouldn't be much help during this project but seeing as she had no other family besides her mother in Egypt she was always with her mother when she had work to do. It was never much of a burden on either of them. While Nakuno worked Laila and the others where watched over by some of the wives of the other archeologists and they also were tutored since these projects meant that the children would be away from school. In fact, being at these digs were more like a home-away-from-home for Laila. She loved the ancient ruins with a passion and thanks to being constantly surrounded by researchers she had adopted an enjoyment of studying the ruins herself in her own time. Even that day, while the others rested in the tents, Laila had gone to an old temple on the grounds. It was one she had explored numerous times since Abydos was an area under constant study and as such, had come with her mother whenever she had work to do. This temple, above all others, had become her favorite playground for the last few years. Why it was so, was for the very reason that Pegasus J. Crawford had come to Egypt to see…

"Asim, I need your help!" A woman called to the professor, interrupting his conversation with Mr. Crawford. The man sighed and apologized to Mr. Crawford for the disruption.

"What is it Saleema?" he asked.

"It's the boys. They've started again and no matter how hard I try they refuse to stop!"

"Alright then I'll come." He paused and turned towards Mr. Crawford. "My apologizes sir. It appears that our sons and some of the other boys are causing trouble. I hope you don't mind if I…"

"Not at all professor, not at all. It's as they say, 'boys will be boys'."

So the couple and the patron went towards where the children were. Sure enough they found them all in a ring with two of the boys fighting in the middle. Asim walked straight through the crowd and grabbed the two boys in a flash by the collars of their shirts.

"Marid! Zubair! Stop this foolishness immediately!" Asim yelled.

The boys stopped thrashing and looked in fear at the man holding them.

"But baba! Marid was calling me a…"

"Zubair, enough! There will be no more of this, do you understand me?"

"Yes baba." The boy said sadly.

"Good." Asim let the boys down and they ran back to the others. As Asim went to join the adults Nakuno came running towards them.

"I heard that there was some trouble with the children. Is everything alright?"

"It's all fine Sayyida-Venesacia " Asim replied "It was just one of my boys fighting with Makin's son."

"Oh I see." She sighed with relief. "I hope neither of them were hurt?"

"Hardly." He replied curtly. Suddenly Asim felt himself being pushed aside by a small body.

"Ummi!" Laila said cheerfully as she hugged her mother's legs. "What are you doing here?" she asked

"I came over to make sure that you and the others were alright azizety. I heard that they were fighting."

"Ya, the boys were being silly and calling each other names. It was funny seeing them roll around on the ground like that." The little girl laughed. She then looked up and saw Pegasus. Both looked at each other curiously. Pegasus was curious because of the obvious differences between the parent and child, while Laila was curious because it was the first time that she ever met a man with the same coloured hair as herself.

"Hello there." Pegasus greeted the child with a smile.

"Hello." She said quietly back.

"So you're Ms. Venesacia's daughter? It's very nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too. And you must be… um…" confused, she turned to her mother. "Ummi, is he my ammu?"

All of the adults (minus Pegasus) tried, and failed to suppress their laughter. In between laughed Nakuno replied to her daughter.

"No dear, he's the man who organized this excavation. His name is Mr. Pegasus Crawford."

"But Ummi, he looks a lot like Baba." She rebutted. Pegasus raised an eyebrow at this and Nakuno sighed. Suddenly Pegasus let out a laugh.

"I see! So earlier when we met you thought that I was your husband!" Nakuno blushed and looked away in embarrassment. After this comment even Laila laughed.

"Oh Ummi, you're funny. Even I knew that he wasn't baba." She said with a grin. Nakuno sighed and the others laughed at the girl's comment.

Not long after the adults began to make their way back to their work. Laila on the other hand, intrigued by the patron, decided to follow him. "So Ammu-Pegasus, where do you come from?" she asked.

"I'm from America." He replied.

"Where's that?" she asked. He laughed at the child's adorable questions.

"It's very far from here."

"Oh, just like baba!" she exclaimed happily.

"Hmm, you're father doesn't live with you?" he asked.

"No. baba left before I was born. He's back in… I think Ummi said it's called uyrope."

"You mean Europe?" he asked.

"Oh, yep, that's it. Baba lives I Europe!" she said, satisfied. Pegasus chuckled as they continued to walk. "So Ammu-Pegasus what are looking for here in Abydos?" she asked.

"I'm looking to find inspiration for my new card game from the monsters they had in Egyptian mythology." He told her.

"You want to find monsters?" she asked wide-eyed. Pegasus laughed.

"Well, not real monsters. I just want pictures of them."

"Oh I see." The little girl replied. Suddenly her eyes lit up. "Oh, if you want pictures then you should go to the temple!" she exclaimed.

"What temple?" he asked.

"The Temple of Seti!" she said. She took his hand and started to drag him along with her. "Come on, Ammu-Pegasus, come on! Its not too far from here, you'll love it!" Confused, but interested, the young man had no choice but to follow the girl towards the temple.