SlayerFaith02: Yay! Chapter 2! only a slight ManaXMahado, but then hasnt it gotta start somewhere?
Faith: sigh Oi! Bakura! Read this already
Bakura: SalyerFaitho2 dose not own YuGiOh,
SalyerFaith02:...the only charicter i own is Yula, and a friend let me borrow Celta -...
Bakura: can i go now?
Faith: nod
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Chapter 2:
Mana was skipping along the wall in the palece gardens, she had only just left Nafretiti's room, and fanced a good old stroll across the grounds. Being 17 now, and closest friend of both Pharaho and Queen of Khemet. She sat on the wall and watched the fish swim by. Since the age of 10, she'd never been outside the palece walls. She watched as the stokes flew by, wishing to be like them. Going and coming when ever they plaesed. No walls or boundreys to contain them. Just free. Next thing she knew, she was a soft pair of blue eyes watching her.
"Morining Celta." Mana sighed as she looked at the young High Priestess, she had to have been around 16. High priest Set's little sister, and Pharaoh and Queens younger cousin, though she did get into a lot of trubble. Except today she wasn't with her friend, Keka.
"Hi Mana." Celta smilled her long red/brown hair was tied in a long ponytail. "What you doing?"
"Nothing" Mana answered "Shouldn't you be studying?"
"Shouldn't you?" Celta asked back, "Beside's Akundadin's tuotoring set." She answered "Keka's gone to the temple of isis" Celta answered. Mana Wached as the clouds flouted by.
"Ever woundered what it's like outside the palce walls." She asked, celta nodded. She'd been born and rasied in palce. Then an idea struck her. It was so simple.
"Come on Mana, we'er going to the market."
Mana looked at the young priestess. Celta just got hold of Mana's arm and pulled her back inside. Nearly knocking aside pharaoh's assistant, Yugi.
"Sorry" Celta appologised
"What are you up to young priesstess?" He asked, he was identalcal to the pharaoh in so meany ways. His rich amerthest eyes looked at them serspiusly.
"We're going to the market." Celta smilled at him. "Wanna come with us?"
"But, we're not aloud out of the palce walls." Yugi insisted, looking at Mana, who shrugged at him.
"If Mana whent, would you?" Celta asked, her blue eyes showed pleeding. "Please, even you have to admit it's boring here. We wont be long, no one will notice i promise." She ened, putting on her best puppy dog eyes. Yugi looked at Mana who sighed and nodded. He smilled and nodded. Celta squelled in excitement and the three of them headed to the stables.
In the stables was a young girl with golden blond hair and velvet blue eyes. She was bissy gromming Dawn, the queens hourse. A lovly chestnut horse with an ivory black main. She'd been working in the stables all day. Non-stop. She had been cleaning most of the palce room's untill the queen requested her to get out and have some fresh air, but a slaves work was never done in the palce. She herd the 3 teenagers eneter the stable and looked over in intrest. She sighed and whent back to groming dawn, calling over at the same time;
"try not to get into too much tubble." Celta got onto Kizzy, a lovly bay female. Beautiful like the rising sun. Mana hopped onto her's, the same, if not darker coloured hourse called Pippa, and Yugi got onto one of the spears known as Esscance, a silvery, gray female.
They got into the market, which was bissy as useral. Meany tock no notice of the three riders. Celta looked around her to see if thier was a gap anywhere, but thier was none to be found. She sighed, when another idea came to her. She called over to her friends from the crowd if they wannted a race. Mana and yugi both agreed and asked where too. Celta had to think about it for a minuet. A smille played on her face as she called over the deternation;
"The Blue Nile" Both Mana and yugi nodded to say that they ubderstood. "When Ra hits the middle of the sky!" She called over.
They waited for Ra to reach the destination. as soon as he hit the Middle of the sky, and not a moment too late, all three set off, raceing past the market as everything became a blur as each split up to loose the other. Yugi had taken the left, Celta the right, Mana straight though the middle. Poeple began to move out of the way quickly as the horse and rider came cantering past them, Pippa's hoof's hit the gound hard with such a force that you'd be crushed on contact. However, a young boy did not happen to see the on coming danger, Mana, being an expert on horses leaned forwords just in time for the horse to jump over the boy, lading hard a few meters away from the boy, how just stood and steired at the back of the girl as she called behind her;
"Sorry!"
She finaly got to the Blue Nile, turning out to be last, not that it bothered her. After dismounting Pippa, letting her horse take a rest from the race, drinking from the waters cool bedsides. It had turned out Yugi was first, not long after was Celta, and her, by an hour, last. However it was the sight of the Blue Nile that impressed her more. The water was crystal clear, a waterfull puonded the serface as it left the cliffs edge. The acteral cliffs themselfes stood like the gods. Proud and forever watching.
"Wow" Mana whispered as Ra began to end his journy. Celta and Yugi where playing in the water, calling over to Mana to join them. She tock off her shoes and stept into the water. The watched as she stood in the middle of the water, a light blue glow radeated from her body as she put on a water show, the droplets changed colour and shape, they each had to guess what it was before it tock it's shape.
"Celta!" Came a yell, making Mana drop the water over all three of them, socking then though and though.
"Opps" Mana whispered. It was Akunadin, the last person Mana wanted to see, he still hadn't forgiven her for that trick she played on thim meany sun's ago. She had jumped out of a pot and sceared him. It was funny at the time. However, Celta wasn't too happy to see her tutor.
"Dame, i was hopeing he wouldn't find us." She whispered before turning round to look at her tutor. He looked at Yugi with ice cold eyes, he looked away at one. Mana tock a deep braeth and steped forwords, shilding both Celta and Yugi, she knew him all too well.
"Please sir, please dont punish Yugi or Celta." Mana sid. Akunadin looked at her, she wasn't sceared of him, or his lapdog Set. She just wound them up with a friend of hers. She remembered one time when her and her friend, who was now a grate thief, tied Set's robed round him, making him look like he was in a caccon, thet'd also put make-up on Akunadin. It was funny, even when she remembered it, she couldn't help but smile.
"It's funny is it? Putting the futcher High Priestess in danger!" He yelled, Mana whiped the spit from her face.
"If i wanted it to rain, i'd pray to the gods thank you old man" Mana sneered, her dislike for him was strong.
"Right, back to the palce all of you. Yugi, im specking to Pharaoh about you," Yugi looked down in shame not saying anything "Celta, i'll deal with you by specking to Set,"
"Crap, two earbashings for the price of having fun"
"No! It's my folt. I encuraged them. If anyone should take the blame, let it be me!" Mana protested.
"Is this true?" Akunadin asked. Celta and Yugi looked at Mana, and slowly nodded as she gave them each a look that told them that she'd help them out. "Fine, im gonna have a word about this to your Tutor" Mana put her head down, she'd rather face a thousand rampageing buffalows, or a pit of cobra's, hell, even a lecture from her sister, Phenix would have been tourcher enough. Anyone of them but her Tutor.
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"What if something had happened to you three?" Mahado said to his student. How said nothing. She looked up at him for the first time since she had got back. She had to wait untill Akunadin had finished explaining the situation to him. He didn't look too happy at the news, at least the other two where fine. No point geting them in trubble. Celta was just young anyway, and Yugi's job ment evrything to him, so she didn't want him to have been told to leave the palce and never return. No, best for her to take the punishment, but now, she whished she hadn't done it.
"But nothing did happen! We're perfectly safe are we not?" She asked, trying to rase her own voice, she was just sick of being trated like a child! "We're not children!" she cried , forceing her tears back. "What are we serpose to do? Theres nothing to do here!"
"Mana," He sighed as he knelt down to face her, she had failed to keep her tears back, just like everything, just like faling to kepp her village protected from Akunadin's army, trying to protect her perants, even passing her schooling. "Youre my student, my responeablity. Im only saying this cause i cear, if anything where to happen to you..." He traled off on his word's, "Just promise you wont do it again"
"I cant make that promise, becuse i know i will"
"Go on. Get some rest" She left the room.
He watched her silently. When she was gone he sat on a chair with a deep sigh. She'd never know his true resons why he was so protctive of her. It was aginst the law to have a relasionship with your student, but he couldn't help the way he felt toword's her. Sure sometimes she was a pain, but wasn't everyone at her age. Thats what made her stade out to him. A challange from teaching more behaved students, and it wasn't the fact that she missbehaved, he serpose, apart from her cutie look's it was her personality that drew him to her. He sighed and watched the Nightlark's sing.
Thier came a knock on Mana's bedroom door. She whiped her tears away and opened the door. It was Celta, it looked as if she too had been crying. But why? Mana had taken the blame, so why was she crying.
"Celta, whats up?" Mana asked as Celta hugged her tightly.
"Im sorry i got you into trubble." Celta sobbed into her friend dress
"What?"
"I told Set the truth. I made him promise not to let Akunadin know, but i felt so guilty when i herd Akunadin tell Set what he told Mahado that i had to let Set know the truth." Celta cried. Mana hugged her cring friend tightly. "Im realy sorry." Mana looked out of the window when an idea struck her.
"Come on Celta" Mana smilled softly as she tock Celta's hand.
"Where we going?" Celta asked as they walked quietly down the hallway
"You'll see" and with that they enetered the stables, got thier horses and rode of into the night.
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SlayerFaith02: Awww, isnt Mana just the best? Next chapter a slight Yuri hint, but nothing that wont last...
Mana: Please R&R, it makes her ever so happy, weather it be inprovement or just what you think -