Egypt: Hey there everyone! Welcome to another chapter of Assassination! I'm updating again so soon because I got so many awesome reviews and I'm happy! … Also because I don't know when's the next time I can update so I'm hoping to write at least two more chapters before I get bombarded with homework again…I hope anyway… :/

For those of you who know me, you'll know I'm English and tonight is bonfire night! In other word's I'll be staying up well into the night and probably the morning! So that means I get more time to write! :D

WARNINGS!: This chapter will contain some gore and also talk of rape! You were forewarned!

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Chapter 4
Begin the downfall of the Rebels

I stretched out, curling back up and resting my head on my arm and sighed. For the first time in many years, I had had a dreamless sleep, just peaceful darkness and silence. I wasn't stupid enough to believe I'd never hear the screaming again, or see the blood and faces, but that didn't stop me from hoping that there was a chance for redemption. But…is redemption possible…for a monster…without a soul? And if not…why am I starting to feel…? But I did wonder why I had had such a peaceful night… Was I dead? That would explain why I'm so comfortable and peaceful...but I thought wondering the world forever would be like hell...

Something moved the bed and I felt a weight on my back, not heavy but plenty enough to notice. I tried thinking back … I remember coming to the palace and becoming the Kings personal guard…I remember meeting Isis and spending the evening with him and that guy, Mahad…I remember coming back to his room and going to the balcony… So why am I in a bed? Then everything clicked together. I lifted the sheets and looked down. Well at least I'm fully clothed, so no reason to freak. So I just closed my eyes and relaxed again. Though I didn't expect what would happen next.

"Whaaaa!" I felt the sheets move and heard a thud. "Ow." Came a moan from the floor. I crawled to the edge of the bed and laid down, resting my elbows on the bed and then my chin on my hands to look at the boy on the floor, blushing a brilliant red and rubbing his head with his eyes closed. I raised an eyebrow.

"And what was with that reaction? It's not like we did anything." I got up and offered him my hand. He was still blushing a deep red but took my hand.

"T-thanks, and sorry about that." I shrugged indifferently.

"Don't worry about it, I was already awake." I turned and headed to the bathroom to get ready for the day, grabbing my bag from the foot of the bed, leaving the half naked boy behind me watching.

"Then why didn't you get up or react?" The boy asked softly, to quiet for conversation. Guess he didn't figure I have good hearing. I stopped and turned to the side.

"Because I was comfortable." I said honestly. Pink returned to the boy's cheeks but he smiled slightly. I quickly turned and carried on to the bathing chambers. It must have been too early in the morning for servants because the bathroom was empty. I got a quick bath then changed my cloths, coming out in a pair of trousers, tight around my thighs then loose at the knee, and a long black sleeveless top with a low cut and my belt low on my hips, putting my hair in a high baggy pony tail, feet, as usual, were bare.

I came out again and the boy went in after me. I went through my bag thoroughly. It wasn't a small bag but it was very simple. I went through, looking for my stuff. I emptied it's condense on the bed going through my cloths till I found what I wanted. I gathered all the weapons and put them to one side then put my cloths back. I picked up my dagger, hatching the sheath (cover) onto a small belt and tied it onto my left thigh, and put another onto the ankle of my right foot, hidden but my trousers with the handle pointing to the floor so it would be easier to grab if I needed it. I wanted to add my scabbard and sword to the belt around my hips but the soldiers had taken it. I'll have to ask the King for it back. But already I felt better for having something on me.

The boy came out a moment later dressed in a white tunic, a light blue kilt, a golden band around his waist to show off his slim figure, his winged crown, the usual neck piece with a golden neck band, bands on his upper arms and around his wrists and ankles, and ankh earrings dangling down. He looked at me. I waited a moment, confused by his staring.

"So, what are we doing today?" I asked at last. He looked up to my face, a thoughtful look on him features.

"Hm, well I have court and meetings like always…" He trailed off on seeing my blank face. Wow, that sounds riveting…cough, not, cough.

"Ok, you do that and I'll go through the scrolls on the slaves and do a little snooping around." The boy looked down to the floor, looking…disappointed? "I'll bring the scrolls with me so I can still keep an eye on you as well." His head snapped up and he smiled. He acts like a puppy…and why do I care if he's sad? Why did I say that anyway? I work better when I'm alone. The boy nodded and took my hand, leading me through the halls to what must have been his office, a small room with a wide window and a door that lead out to the Royal balcony, the main feature to the room was the huge desk. "Ok, you get to work and I'll go to Mahad's office and get the scrolls. Mahad said last night he'd leave them out for me on his desk."

"But he always locks his door." The boy said confused, looking up at me from his chair. I raised an eyebrow.

"And what makes you think a little lock is going to keep out an Assassin?" He nodded stiffly. I wonder if I'm scaring him yet…he doesn't seem the type to get scared easily though… My mind was idle as I walked through the halls, mostly thinking about the King and his strange actions, easily remembering the rout me and the boy had made the night before.

When I got to the door I knocked and pressed my ear to the wood, just to be sure no one was in. There was absolute silence so I crouched down in front of the lock and took out both my daggers. They were both thin bladed so the tips easily fit inside the key hole. It only took a second for a small click to sound, telling me I was in. I was careful with the daggers so there would be no scratch marks around the hole, no one would be able to tell the lock had been picked. I pulled on the handle and the door opened to reveal the smart organised office.

The scrolls were wrapped up tightly and in a neat pile in a corner of the desk. I picked them up and shut the door behind me, putting the scrolls down and locking the door behind me again. The boy was leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed, rubbing his temples. I shut the door behind me and headed to stand behind him, looking over his shoulder at the scroll in front of him.

"Is that one of the threats?" To my amusement, he shot out of his skin; hand flying to the place on his chest where the heart is. He breathed heavily for a moment then looked up at me.

"How the hell do you keep doing that?" I raised an eyebrow. "Appear out of thin air!" I shrugged.

"I don't, I'm just quiet."

"Training." We both said at the same time. I chuckled slightly and as did the king, turning back to the paper in front of him.

"And yes it is."

"May I?" He nodded. I leaned over farther and read. "Hhmmm. Well, at least we know it's not someone with rank. The Egyptian and grammar is poor, it's not very well presented…" I leaned closer and smelt the paper. Pulling back and straightening, nose twitching. "And they've tried to disguises the smell of dust and stone with cheap perfume."

"Dust and stone…the quarries." He looked up at me with a raised an eyebrow. "How did you pick up that scent?" I gave him a pointed look, staring at him until he got it. "Trained, right." I smiled.

"You catch on fast." I said with only a hint of sarcasm, but enough to make Atem blush. "Well I'll have a look at those scrolls and see if I can find anything suspicious."

"You think someone could be working inside the palace who's with them?"

"Someone sneaky, that's probably how the letters appear. I want to find them before they try something drastic." Atem nodded as I sat on the other side and looked through, reading carefully.

We both sat there in silence, the only sound coming from the ruffling of papers and the whisper of a paint brush as the king wrote. There was a soft, timid knock on the door a few moments later.

"Come in." Atem said, smiling, seeming to already know who it was. I watched as a small boy came to the door, about my height with the same spiky tri coloured star hair and bangs, only with less gold bangs sticking up against like the black like the Kings but with a small gold bang hanging from his centre partning in the usual lightning shape. He wore a simple white tunic and only a gold band around the tops of his arms, telling me he was a palace servant. The boy was skinny and weak looking. The King smiled softly to him. "Morning Yugi." Yugi smiled widely.

"Hello Atem." He said happily. "I brought you some breakfast." He said, holding up the tray. The boy looked at me then Yugi. Yugi followed his gaze to me and blushed, staring wide eyed at me. "O-oh, I didn't know someone would be with you!" I'm so sorry-" Yugi bowed but I held up my hand.

"Don't worry, no harm no foul. I don't really eat much anyway, I eat in the middle of the day." Yugi looked up at me from his bow, looking into my eyes. He broke out into a kind warm smile.

"Thank you Miss!"

"Just call me Neteru, and it's fine, you didn't do anything wrong." I said stiffly. Yugi giggled and nodded, putting the tray on the desk and waved to the King then, surprisingly, me…and…winked at the older boy? But then closed the door behind him. I looked at the King.

"Yugi has been a friend of mine since I was five. He was three at the time and his mother was a slave in the palace in the kitchens. We met in the palace gardens and played games together. We grew up side by side." He said smiling. I pondered on that. "And what about you? Didn't you know any other of the Assassins?"

"As I said before, I was kept separate, mostly, from the others because I was the only girl. If anything they all treat me harsher than the others. I was trained the hardest, beaten the hardest…" I trailed off, quickly looking back at the scrolls. I heard the boy's chair move and footsteps, and then felt that gentle warm hand again. He crouched down in front of me, lifting my chin with one of his fingers. I looked at him blankly, giving nothing away.

"What else did they do to you?" My eyes widened and I looked at him in shock. "Your blank look means your hiding something." He explained. And here I was trying to hide that very face. How ironic, I thought bitterly. I met his gaze and decided to live up to my promise of telling him the truth to every question he asked.

"What do you think is the best way to torture a girl?" I asked, letting him think it through. Finally his face turned to one stricken of disgust and horror. I nodded. "Rape is the worst kind of torture for a girl. I went through sexual torture training as well as pain training like the others did. We were whipped, beaten, but I was raped every other night since I turned five." The boy stared at me in terror, then suddenly and slightly roughly pulled me to him and tugged me tightly, resting his head in mine.

"That will never happen to you again. I promise to take care of you." To say I was stunned is the understatement of the millennia! No one-and I mean no one!-had ever said that to me! And I knew he was serious.

We stayed like that for a while, then went back to work. I could only find one real candidate for an inside job, a middle aged man whose family members worked in the nearby quarries only on the other side of the river Nile. The King went to a meeting, showing me where it was, then I went my own way off to the servant's quarters.

There was no one there, everyone doing their jobs. I entered the male's quarters and searched around. He was the only man with a link to the quarries so I had a good idea of what to look for. And there, just off the middle of the room, was a bed with sandals underneath, three pairs in fact made of descent leather, covered in dust from cutting stone. I looked around his small area, under his mattress and pillow, then checking his draws in the small tatty bed side draws. There was a lock on the bottom draw.

I got out my daggers again and started working on the lock. This hole was a lot smaller but I didn't care all that much about taking care of this job. The lock clicked and I opened it to find nothing, just an empty draw… But then why lock it? I knocked on the bottom of the draw. It felt slightly loose and feeble, but kept hitting something… I reached in to the very edge to try and lift it but gave up. Damn the cracks to small for me to pick at…but not for a blade. I picked up my dagger and picked at the bottom, finally latching on and was able to lift it off. And there they were, scrolls. I unrolled a few and read.

I smiled slightly to myself and gathered them up, tucking them under my arm after outing things back as I left them. Very cleaver taking the base of the set of draws off to hide the scrolls then using the bottom draw as the only accessible way in. But with a gap that small, a man wouldn't be able to lift it up. I have small fingers and I couldn't do it, he has to have something on him with a sharp edge and tip, and carry it around all the time with him so no one would find it in his personal area by mistake and rat him out. This also means he could be dangerous.

When I got to the room I knocked once. Mahad answered and looked right at the scrolls, eyes widening.

"Well…you were quick…" He stepped aside and let me in. I smirked, coming in and putting them down.

"How had them?" Isis asked curiously. I raised an eyebrow.

"I thought you could see the future." The pretty woman's cheeks turned pink.

"My sight is limited. So where did you find them?"

"A slave had them. According to the scrolls he came to the palace just before the scrolls started appearing as the King told me. He was hiding them in his bed side draw, he'd taken the base of and hid them there. From what I can tell he also carries a weapon, probably a dagger and I have a feeling he's not the one behind it, but the messenger. We should bring him in for questioning, but I have a hunch on where we'll find his friends." I said bluntly, emotionlessly. Everyone but the King looked at me in astonishment. He chuckled.

"I told you she'd prove herself." He said, picking up the scrolls and reading over them, then sighed. "Yep these are defiantly the same scrolls."

"They smell the same to. I'm going to go find that slave and see if I can get anything out of him before heading out." I turned to leave.

"Then I'm coming to." I turned to the side to look at him.

"But then that would mean you'd probably be in danger and that goes against my job." I reminded him, but he just rolled his eyes at me.

"I do a pretty good job of taking care of myself. Besides, someone's got to watch your back." I looked heavenwards.

"Oh Gods here we go." I mumbled, walking out and continued to mumble to myself. The scroll said he was a cleaning slave… I turned again to see not only the King following me but the bearers of the Items as well… As I said, when I research, I dig deep. I looked at Mahad, knowing he'd know. "Where are the cleaning slaves working right now?"

"The Great Hall." I turned to the boy beside me.

"Care to lead the way king?" He rolled his eyes.

"Just call me Atem." I simply nodded, not planning to follow through on that…at least not to his face anyway. We all moved through the halls swiftly, making it to the hall quickly. Atem went in first, then I stepped beside him. The room fell deadly silent, all the servants staring and dropping to their knees.

"I wish to see Panhsj!" I called out. The overseer looked around the crowd.

"He was here a minute ago!" I stepped up to the guard but kept looking around.

"Where was he working?" The guard pointed to the far corner, hidden my a large marble pillar. I held to my hand to tell the others to stay where they were and stepped forward slowly. As I got to the pillar, I could hear heavy breathing. I went the longest way round, hoping the man would think I'd approach the other way and catch him of guard. It worked, the man had his head turned in the other direction, trying to listen. I drew my dagger and put the blade to his neck, too quick for him to have time to react.

The man looked at me in horror. I nodded for him to move from the pillar. He did as he was told, striding out from behind the pillar, turned to face me. I kept the dagger to his neck as I stepped with him, keeping him at arm's length. I only had a second's warning before the tall strong man grabbed my wrist and pulled out his dagger. But a second was just enough. I ripped my hand back, slashing his hand open as I did so, and stepped back a few paces. The man cried out in pain, but gritted his teeth and lunged with the knife, aiming for my stomach. I waited until he was close enough then stepped quickly to the left, as he was passing me, I struck him hard with my elbow on the back of his neck. He dropped limply to the floor and stayed still. I looked to the King and the bearers.

"He's unconscious." I stated, shrugging and putting the dagger back into its sheath on my thigh. The king nodded to two guards to pick him up by the arms and dragged him out. I looked to the slaves. "Sorry for making a mess." Then turned and headed out of the Great Hall and stood in the corridor. The boy stood beside me, so I turned my head to the side to look at him as I spoke. "Do you want to wait for him to wake up? Or shall we go see what we can find out from the quarry?" He looked down at me and thought for a moment.

"We'll question him first." I nodded.

"Well it's going to be a while until he wakes up…what to get some lunch?" I asked casually. I was feeling a little peckish after missing breakfast…what? I didn't want to upset Yugi ok? He was innocent and soft, I didn't want to make the childlike teen to feel bad about it. Atem smiled down at me and nodded.

"Sounds good." He took my hand and led me to the gardens.

The Bearers of the Items all stood there, watching the two teens walk off, their King leading the girl by the hand and heading towards the gardens.

"Guess we're not invited." Mahad said in a sigh, making Isis giggle.

"They look cute together. It's clear our Pharaoh likes her…but I wonder how she feels for him…"

"Can't the Necklace tell you anything?" Seth asked after ordering the guards to take the slave to the dungeon until he woke then to take him to the throne room to await the Pharaoh. Isis shook her head.

"No. From what Neteru told us we know she doesn't understand emotions well…I bet even her herself doesn't understand what's happening…" The men all looked at her in confusion. "Honestly! Am I the only one who's noticed she's softened and lightened up since she's come to the palace?" They looked at her blankly. "Tell me you can see the look in her eyes when she looks at the Pharaoh!" But Isis only received blank looks. She rolled her eyes and groaned. "Ra help me! What am I to do with you all!" She stormed off, closely followed by Mahad while the other Bearers hung back, chuckling quietly.

"Maybe you should talk to her then Isis." Mahad suggested softly. Isis looked up at him, smiling and nodding.

"Yes, I will speak with her and help her if necessary. Maybe if she understands what's happening better, then they can come together.

"But is that wise? Or…safe?" Seth asked in hesitation, still in doubt.

"Yes it is. She's strong and cleaver. My Necklace has shown me, however, that she is loyal and trustworthy. She has already proven that to the Pharaoh." She said sadly, remembering seeing their conversation in the Kings office early in the morning and how honest Neteru had been. Isis could only imagine what that had cost the girl. "Just give her time, and you will see."

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