Wow, yet another chapter. I must be on a role?
So, Ami's mom is a goddess to! Wonder who else will pop up?!
Note: This chapter is about the Mysterious person. Did you figure who he is yet? I gave little clues as possible. Let's see if you were right! If you knew me from some of my other coughs undone works. It's actually easy to figure out! Oh! And Chronos and Khronos is the same, the Greeks use Khronos, while in Latin it's Chronos. (Learn something new everyday don't we?)
Disclaimer: sighs I do not own Sailor Moon. But I do have her healing moon staff! In the name of the moon, I shall punish you! Dern plastic thinggie, it melted from my awesome awesomeness!
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- Return of the King - (Hahaha, LOTR joke!)
The strange man stood up. Looking behind him, staring at the painted door. "I'm at a tomb? Whose tomb?" Upon further investigation. The room had a maze like look to it. And at the end, a small altar, where something small could have sat. His brow lowered, he remember this place, the stories behind it. This is where the puzzle slept for 5,000 years. "This is my tomb."
A voice, familiar, old yet new echoed in the underground tomb. With a small sense of surprise hidden with it. "So, your really back?"
The man turned quickly. Crimson eyes stared right into blue cold ones.
"Seto."
"Yami . . no, your Atem now."
"Why are you here, no, how did you know?"
The blue eyed man shrugged. "Let's just say a strange bird told me in my dreams."
"I thought you didn't believe in such things."
"I didn't till he summoned Blue Eyes out of no where and had me flying through some dark place and I end up here of all places. Frankly, I'm not liking the idea of being dropped suddenly in an underground catacomb. On the other side of the word no less."
"A bird you say."
Seto didn't move for awhile. "A bird headed man." It sounded ridiculous, but when Yami was involved. Weird things always happened. He could swear they were linked together, where ever he goes, weirdness tends to come as well.
"An iblis? Thoth came to you in your dreams?"
"Don't go there Yami. I'm still finding it hard to believe in magic. Now you want to say the gods are real to? Don't be stupid. If there were gods, we'll be dancing in a field of flowers gaily, every freaking sunny day." Just the image picturing in his mind caused the stone faced dueler to shiver in disgust. Happy and pastels just don't go with Kaiba Seto. And flowers to? He grimaced at the thought and shook the though away immediately.
Yami was laughing. It would be amusing to see the stone cold Kaiba running freely in a field of flowers. But then, it would be terrifying as well. Like a sick omen. The glare Kaiba was giving him immediately shut him up and the image melting away. Coughing, "So, what now?"
"As if I know? I don't even know how to get back home right now. I roamed around earlier. This place more mutilating then the T-games I made." The memory was still fresh, with some hazy parts. But he remember what he did. Yet, you will never find him asking for forgiveness for what he had done in the past already. "Good thing it's already undone, someone was here a long time ago."
"Yeah, it's grandpa. I mean. Motou, Motou Sugoruku."
"Hmm, Shimon. That old geezer don't know the meaning of giving up. Sticking his nose where it isn't wanted."
"So you remembered."
"As much as I don't want to. Yeah. And other things. Since that duel ceremony, I remembered a lot of things. . . . . " He snorted a little, "Spiritual cousin." He twirls around, his coat still managing to flare out in a place without a breeze. "Just don't stand there, we need to get out of here before it gets to dark to even see." In a steady pace he was already leaving Yami behind him.
Shaking his head and smirking to himself. He would have Kaiba this way then any other way. Then he to trekked after his spiritual cousin, Seth.
- Out of the Darkness, into the Light -
Getting though the maze of a catacomb was easy, since most of the traps were already used up. It's just all the walking was starting to get to both their nerves. Neither wished to talk less one of them invoke the anger of the other. Soon the path got wider and higher. The surface was near. And the noises of people talking were up there as well.
"I thought you came alone Seto."
"I did."
"I wonder who else is here. We should be on our guard."
"Maybe, though, I get this feeling we know already whose there. Who else can hear the words of the gods."
"Isis."
"The one and only. And with out that thing to. . .something big is going to happen. And I hate sudden changes. Especially ones I cannot control."
"Hmm, but it might be fun."
"Humpth."
"Have you noticed. We're actually talking normally? You haven't asked me to duel yet."
"Wait till we get home."
"Spoke to soon."
As they neared the outer door, sun spilt in, in all it's glory. Bright and golden. And a voice they are both familiar with.
"Welcome back my pharaoh. Seto."
"Hello Isis." Yami peered his eyes open from the glare of the afternoon sun. The hot heat that it radiated was a welcoming feeling. "I am alive. . .but why? Isis?" With one last step, the former pharaoh of Egypt, has once again returned to his homeland. Greeted by Isis and the last remaining of her clan. All bowing before him, arms crossed at the heart and head lowered just as it were 5,000 years ago.
"Your reverend holy Father, Horus has granted you a second chance to life. He deemed that it is time for the gods to return to the holy lands. To prepare for the final battle."
"Final battle you say? What of?"
"That, I am unsure of yet my pharaoh." Isis rose her head, eye never looking at her lord.
"Isis, stop that, I am no longer the pharaoh of this land now. You can look at me."
"To look at the face of god is forbidden my pharaoh. You are, no, you truly are the living Horus now my lord."
Tanned hand cupped at her smooth cheeks, lifting her head up. "If I am truly the living god now, then my word is law is it not? I give you permission to look at me when speaking to me. I am not the ground you walk on Isis. I am . . human now."
Dark blue eyes raises to the crimson reds of her former pharaoh, and now the living Horus. "As you wish my pharaoh."
"And quit that. I have no kingdom to rule anymore."
"You will soon my pharaoh, you will soon." A knowing smile graces the Ishtar's elder.
"I don't think I want to ask what you know."
The elder woman chuckled. "Even if I could tell you, I'm forbidden to say so."
"A prophetess you've become now, eh, Isis?"
"In a way. Now. Come with us pha-" She shushed when he gave her a glare. "Follow me lord Atem. Seto. Our camp awaits for you. Malik should have travels prepared for your return to Japan."
"I'm going to Isis? I thought I could look around a little bit of my homelands." Yami almost pouted.
"I'm sorry my lord. There are people there, that you will have to . .get acquainted to. The both you."
Seto snorted at this. "I'm not interested in any of this Isis."
"There's nothing you can do about it Seto, it's already ordained you two meet these. .extraordinary females."
Now both the boys raised their eyebrows. "Females?!"
Isis chuckled at the identical grief that showed on their faces. They really were related, even if not by blood, but by spirit. "Be assured, they aren't your ordinary woman."
All that can be heard though out the travels were the groaning of two grown young men.
If you guess Yami? You were right! Here have a digital cookie! XD
This was one of the hardest chapter I had to do, I'm not even sure if I portrayed them the way I wanted them to. But otherwise, I'm glad I did it, and it's done!
So the gods are returning? Boy isn't things going to be fun from here point on!
I'll hopefully have the next chapter out before the 20th, I have to be back to school by then.
Next chapter: Return, the Children of the Gods.
A little something for this chapter I found that fits for Yami's future role.
"I am Horus, the great Falcon upon the ramparts of the house of him of the hidden name. My flight has reached the horizon. I have passed by the gods of Nut. I have gone further than the gods of old. Even the most ancient bird could not equal my very first flight. I have removed my place beyond the powers of Set, the foe of my father Osiris. No other god could do what I have done. I have brought the ways of eternity to the twilight of the morning. I am unique in my flight. My wrath will be turned against the enemy of my father Osiris and I will put him beneath my feet in my name of 'Red Cloak'."
[A passage from the Coffin Texts (passage 148) sums up Horus in his own words
Horus - His name means 'high' or 'distant' reflects his sky nature. He was seen as a great falcon with outstretched wings whose right eye was the sun and the left one was the moon. Since Osiris ruled over the land of the dead, Horus is that of the living.The pharaoh was considered to be the Living Horus, the temporal stand-in for Horus in the earthly domain.
Thoth - Is seen as a god of wisdom, magic, and the measurement, and regulation, of events, and of time. Thoth became credited by the ancient Egyptians as the inventor of writing, and was also considered to have been the scribe of the underworld.
