Disclamer: I don't own Yu Gi Oh!
Life before oblivion
Chapter 1
An eight year old boy with tricolored hair and purple eyes put on a long and thick hood. He walked with strong, rigid and somewhat forced step.
"I am going to the city" he said to the palace guards.
"But, my lord…"
"No buts" he put his hood on covering his face and singular hair "I don't want you to follow me, refute or tell anyone" he used the strongest voice he could for an infant of his age. He didn't want to sound as a rude boy, but he always wanted to see what happened out of the palace, how the real world was and how the people he someday would rule were.
"As you wish…" ended the guard, he could be a child, but he was also the prince of Egypt, his little world would be stronger than theirs.
The boy walked around among the people feeling very normal, no bodyguards, no rules, no special treatment and no one looked at him weirdly… or that was what he thought. Once he got to the food area of the big market he could see how a kid stealthily took one apple and ate it. The seller realized it, so he got out behind the food stand and slap the kid very hard on his face, which made him fall. Atem ran before the seller could keep hitting the boy.
"Stop!" he cried standing between the boy and the seller.
"So you're brave, kid" the man snorted holding his hand into a fist.
Atem closed his eyes waiting for a punch that never came; he opened his eyes and found the seller on the floor and a little red hair girl holding his hand into a key. The boy behind Atem ran away while he was looking at the girl; she was beautiful and unusual, her eyes were light blue, her hair was bright straight and red, a fringe of five peaks and two locks framing her face, her tanned skin made her features seem weird and her clothes highlighted the obvious, she was too poor.
"Run!" she yelled making him exit from his trance, the guardians were coming with the seller. Atem didn't want the guards to see him there, he knew they would take him back to the palace and Ra knows what they could do the girl whom just saved him.
They ran away until Atem felt someone graving him rudely from the back of his clothes. From one second to another he was inside a dark cube underground with a stare upwards. Standing on the stare was the girl looking through the door on the ceiling what was happening outside.
"This time the guards are way too annoying" she said while she was closing the door walking downwards "You are very brave, even I haven't had a confrontation like that with Ahdor"
"Ahdor?"
"The guy from the apple stand" she said "Oh and who are you, by the way?"
"I…" he didn't think in that, right now he couldn't trust in anyone "What is yours?"
"Hey, you are in my house" she said "I easily can send you with the guards"
He sighed and said the first thing he thought "Yami…" said extending his hand to the girl.
"Serenna" she said taking it.
He looked around for a moment realizing the only check-light was the door on the ceiling "Where am I exactly?"
"In my home, underground, that's why the stair and the door upwards" Atem got surprised, so young and she was already living alone?
"What? And what happen to your parents? Where do you sleep?" it couldn't be possible that a girl so young had to live alone.
"I don't know, my grandmother told me they would back, but it didn't happen and when I was five she died… oh! And I sleep on the floor" she said pointing at the floor covered by straw "Now you answer me, where are you from? And with whom do you live?"
"I… uhm… I just got here… to the town" he lied "With my grandfather"
"Oh… well…" she didn't know what else to say "I think the guards aren't looking for us, well, I think not looking for you" she said looking through the door "Come" so they both got out.
When they were out Atem saw the ground, there was a lone stone which was the one she used to open the door from the outside.
"If you walk by the edged of the city and walk between the houses you will get anywhere you want without danger, bye!" she said before got inside her house again.
"See you soon" he said took leave indicating he would see her again.
He already had arrived to the palace being received by a very worried and little six year old Mana.
"Where have you been? I have been very worried!" she was talking very, very fast.
"You have nothing to be worried about" he said too calmed "I just took a walk"
Mana wasn't calmed down with that answer, just take a walk? She thought it was something else, somehow she knew it!
