Khasara
Matthew
Nye
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Chapter Four: The King of Thieves
A strong nauseating pain shot through Khasara's head as she slowly came to. Her vision was blurred, as she opened her eyes, continually blinking to clear her vision. Pain throbbed through her head as she sat up. Supporting herself with her left hand she put her right to her head. Just above her hairline was a large bump from where her head collided with the archway. She gently touched the tender spot, as she looked around for her torch.
"Whoa. I'm going to have a headache from hell for the rest of the day." She said to herself as she rose to her feet. "And I know I brought that torch with me. Now where could it be?" Khasara growled angrily. This was when she noticed that the tunnel surrounding her was bright. Defiantly not the dark hallway she had traveled through earlier.
"Well." She said in surprise. "That's new." It was then that she heard the sound of rustling and a voice coming from further down the passageway. Deciding that it was probably Matt Khasara continued down the way. Not even noticing that there was no old excavation site, and no lumber that she had dropped. The closer she got the louder the noises grew. As she turned the bend she noticed that a door up ahead was lighted.
"Matt. Is that you?" She shouted, and the noises suddenly stopped. "Hey Cowboy! What are you up to?" Then the sound of footsteps came from the door and the shadow of a man in sandals and a robe appeared across the threshold.
"There is no 'cowboy' here little one," came a voice that made Khasara's heart jump to her throat. "But I hate to say you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, my sweet." The voice came again as a silver haired man appeared in the doorway.
"Who are you? And why are you here? The tours ended quite a while ago, and there is no way back to town." Khasara told the man.
"Hah! The name is Bakura, but you can call me the King of Thieves." The man's sinister voice told her. "And I don't know what you mean by 'tours'. This here is my ground and I am the one who rules the dead lands of Egypt." Khasara gave Bakura a weird look."Ok. This dude's nuts, and I thought being stuck with Matt was bad. This is going to be much worst." She thought to herself. It was then that she began to feel uneasy as she felt the man's eyes upon her.
Bakura watched the woman in front of him. She was Egyptian for sure but her style of clothing was no where near the traditional Egyptian robes. When he noticed her become uneasy he proceeded toward her.
"Well isn't this just great?" Matt growled as he continued to walk down the tunnel. "I told her to be careful, but did she listen? Nooo. She just had to be her normal irresponsible self and get lost. Now what?" He ranted as he led Nye through along the hallway. Then another tremor ran up his spine and the hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.
"Ok. Now I am officially freaked out." He told Nye as the horse eyed him wearily. "OK KHASARA. I'M NOT GOING ANY FURTHER IN. I'M NOT PLAYING YOUR LITTLE GAME ANY MORE." He shouted into the darkness, and with no answer he turned and steered Nye back to the little campsite.
"I'm not going to stay here if that's what she thinks." He told himself. "Come on Nye lets go to the station where we're sure to be found in the morning. An with that the two made their way toward the exit, across the sands and back to the train station.
As Khasara saw the man approaching she quickly took a few steps back, but the further she backed up the more he walked forward. Bakura stopped with his head slightly looking down so his bangs covered his eyes, and he looked at Khasara through his hair. A sly smile crossed his lips, and he gave an evil chuckle.
"You're not afraid of me my dear, are you?" He asked.
"N-No not really." Khasara stuttered.
"Well you should be." Bakura growled. "You'd be a fool if you weren't"
"Oh really? And why should I be afraid of the likes of you? You're not even armed." Khasara commented straightening up and showing as much courage as she could muster.
"My dear, I don't need weapons. I have something much better than those sort of things." Bakura said as he brought his head up to look her in the eye. His steel gray eyes told Khasara that he was not lying. Fear surged through her entire body as she began to tremble. "And now to prove it to you. I call upon my beast Diabound. Come to me my creature." With the ringing of his voice a creature like no other appeared in front on Bakura. Khasara couldn't stand anymore and she sunk to her knees staring wide eyed at the terrifying monster before her.
Seeing the woman in front of him fall to the floor with fear brought power to Bakura.
"You will taste the wrath of my monster first hand." Bakura snared, and threw his hand in front of him pointing to Khasara. "Now my creature show her what true power is." The monster began to move forward. Khasara could do nothing but sit there on her knees as the creature moved closer. Diabound pulled its hand back and made ready to strike. Khasara crossed her arms in front of her face to protect herself, fear coursing through her.
Just before the monster could complete his attack the fear faded from Khasara. She dropped her arms from her face, stood up, and instinctively brought her arm up. From her fear a massive black Pegasus appeared between Diabound and Khasara. She stared at the beautiful creature before her. She knew not where it came from but something told her that she need not fear it. The Pegasus reared forcing Diabound backward onto the ground, and with one fiery attack Diabound disappeared. Khasara looked around to make sure that the terrifying creature was gone for good. Seeing that neither Diabound nor the Pegasus was anywhere to be found Khasara turned to a shocked Bakura. The face of Bakura made Khasara smile.
"Well now Mr. King of Thieves. All that talk of being powerful and your 'Thing' was blown to dust." Khasara said with a smug smile on her face. At the sound of her voice Bakura looked up from the spot were his monster had once been.
"B-b-but how could this have happened? No normal person such as she could have summoned a sacred monster." He commented to himself. Khasara heard him and grew angry.
"Normal! What do you mean normal? You obviously don't know me very well." She said thinking about all the times Matt had called her crazy. "And what do you mean sacred monsters? What are they suppose to be? And where did that thing you had come from? That was definitly not a normal." She continued until she noticed a evil smile had come across Bakura's face once again. "She has to be gotten rid of so that no one will be more powerful that me." He thought to himself, as he moved forward. This time Khasara let him get a few feet from her, when all of a sudden he lunged at her. Knocking them both over into a pile on the floor of the tomb.
Khasara was stunned by the sudden blow but did not let her guard down. Bakura had her pinned down by her wrists when she shoved her knee into his groin. He moaned in pain but kept her pined as he reached to his waist where Khasara saw the shining of a blade. With this she struggled even more, he brought his hand back to help maintain his grip but he was too slow. Khasara slipped her right hand from his grasp, and brought her nails down Bakura's face just below his right eye. He turned his face away and hissed but kept his weight upon her. When he turned to face her again a wide vertical gash shown where she stuck him. Khasara managed to keep her right hand free and again slashed her nails across his face. This time making a slightly slanted horizontal lesion producing a cross shaped wound on his face. He reeled back in pain. This gave Khasara just the right opportunity to slip out from under him. Her long black hair was covered with the sand from the ground. She pulled her hair out of the way and stood up against the support of the wall and watch Bakura grasp his face in pain. Fear again spilled over her as she tried to think of what to do next.
Khasara has come face to face with the King of Thieves himself. And awww he has a booboo. Bet you that made Bakura really mad now. Wonder what he will do to her now. And what about Matt? Well you'll find out in the next chapter. Thanks for reading see you next time.