Me: well since ive got good reviews on this one, I'll update again. but there's a catch, u guys have to wait until i get Is It Really Love and War Against Demons updated until they get to chapter 6. sorry but im trying to keep these three fics together so that i can finish them at the same time.
Author's Note: and thank u Onee-sama for the names of the objects that I had trouble with!XD
Disclaimer: I own nothing!
Chapter 6 The Deal
Through all the night Mahaado worked on Atemu's tail, and arm. Or what's left of it, the hand and arm was ripped off by the shark, leaving the upper arm that ends just above the elbow, which was also gone. The good thing is that Atemu escaped, unlike his mother ten years ago. When dawn came, Mahaado came outside the prince's room, nodding to Seto to go inside.
As Seto checked in on Atemu, Mahaado swam his way to the king on the news.
"How's Atemu?" King Aknemkhanen asked when the magician came.
"He's at least alive, but I'm afraid to break the news that he no longer has a right arm." Mahaado explained.
Gasps were heard through out the throne room.
Back with Seto, he made his way to Atemu's bed. The young prince slept on as the spells worked their magic, healing his arm and stopping the pain. Seto smiled weakly as he stroked his cousin's cheek and forehead lovingly.
A small sigh escaped the smaller prince, Seto blinked. Slowly the crimson eyes opened, Atemu groaned as he looked around. When the merprince noticed Seto, Atemu smiled.
"Seto?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you do me a favor?" Atemu asked.
"What is it?"
"Can you show me to the magician in the outskirts of the reef?"
"Wait...please you don't mean Malik?" Seto asked.
"...I guess I'll find him on my own." Atemu mumbled.
"No you're not! Is that the reason why you were lost in the open ocean?" Seto snapped.
Atemu whimpered. Suddenly feeling guilty, Seto gently pulled the other into a quick hug before he kissed Atemu on the forehead.
"You want to become human to meet that human you saved?" Seto asked, looking straight at the other's eyes.
"Yes." Atemu answered in a shaky voice.
Seto sighed. "I guess I can't do anything but help you, but I'm going with you to the human world."
Atemu blinked. "Really?"
"Yes, after you have a few days to rest." Seto teased.
"Aww, you're no fun." Atemu complained.
"That's because I'm worried over my cousin like a cousin should be." Seto said sarcastically.
"Do you have to be such a teaser?"
Seto chuckled.
Yugi woke up the next day, wondering how he got in bed in the first place! Even his clothes were changed! All that Yugi remembered was...wishing that he didn't keep the black pearl and then it shattered...and then it went blank in Yugi's memory. Getting up, the teen walked into the kitchen.
"Yo Yug! You were out like a light when you fainted." Joey exclaimed.,
"Wait wait wait! What happened?" Yugi asked.
"You fainted when you saw the the shattered black pearl." Tea answered.
"There was a report of a dead shark that the tide brought in. There was clear evidence that someone with long nails cut the gills and punched the gills, as well as whacking it with a strong force as an orca's tail." Grandpa informed.
Yugi blinked, could that be Atemu? "Do they know who killed the shark?"
"They found blood samples inside the shark, as well as a right arm." Grandpa answered.
Yugi's eyes widened in fear. "Has anyone died?"
"No, no report on shark attack deaths, there hasn't been one since the 1940s." Grandpa explained.
Yugi let out a mental sigh of relief.
"Hey, Yug, how about we go out on de beach when we finish havin our lunch?" Joey asked.
"It's lunch time?" Yugi wondered.
"No it's dinner time." Yugi's friends teased at the same time.
"Har har." Yugi replied with a fake smile.
"Here Yugi, I have your favorite! Strawberry pancakes." Grandpa said, giving his grandson the said pancakes with a smile while Yugi squealed.
A few days later...
Seto swam as fast he could to get away from the king, Atemu along his side. The two had a tough time to sneak away from the merking, expecially when you have a prince who is the only merperson with one arm and with the only tri colored spiky hair with his well known opal tail. It took all of Seto's power to convince Mahaado to use a spell to make Atemu look like a different merman.
A merman with a purple tail, pale skin, azure eyes, and black hair, as well as having both arms. As the two swam around, getting almost as lost as Atemu was a few days ago. After wandering for a few hours, the spell that Mahaado used wore off, leaving Atemu's disguise no longer in existance.
As the two merman swam around in cricles, two figures made themselves noticed. Seto was the first to notice the two figures, as the strange figures slyly made their way towards the two merman. Seto stopped swimming, soon Atemu noticed and looked over at his cousin.
"What's wrong?" Atemu asked.
"Look," Seto said as he pointed towards the two figures heading their way.
Atemu looked to the direction where Seto pointed, wondering what he was pointing at until he noticed the two figures as they came closer. The two merman waited until the other two were close enough to have a closer look. Both of the two strangers are merman, strange looking merman at that.
One has bronze skin, blonde hair, and his tail a deep purple that matches his eyes with spikes along his sides of the tail. The other was an albino, white spiky hair that hangs down, narrow brown eyes that has a sense of evil in them, his tail glistening white with spikes along the back of his tail.
"Well well, who would've guessed that our next customers were the merprinces themselves." the albino said, his voice deep and dark.
"Customers?" Atemu repeated.
"Yes customers, you know customers for wishes that Malik grants to everyone." the blonde explained.
"Where is his place?" Seto asked.
"You've been passing it for the past four hours." the albino snorted.
"More like swimming in circles around for four hours." the blonde chuckled, as a smirk appeared on both of the stranger's faces.
"Wait, if that's the case, then why haven't we found it let alone seen it?" Atemu asked.
"You haven't seen it because you were looking at the wrong spot." the albino explained.
"Now come on, we've got to get you two to Malik, he's getting impatient." the blonde urged.
"Oh yea like you'd know Marik." the albino smriked.
"Shut up Bakura." Marik snapped.
As the merman made their way towards Malik, Seto had a bad feeling that doesn't seem to leave his stomach. While Seto was feeling weird, Atemu wondered what to pay for Malik.
Let's see, I know some objects that he'll be interested in, but I don't have them...Oh I wish I thought this through! Wait a second you dope, you can teleport those objects when we get there. Atemu mentally scowled at himself to go half panicking over something small.
Soon the two merprinces found themselves facing a dark cave. Then all of a sudden there was shouting, and glass breaking coming from inside the cave. Atemu blinked when a merman who looked like Marik, but with wild, crazy, spiky hair with a very dark, almost black, purple tail with spikes on the back of his tail, and on his elbows.
A mermaid swam up behind the merman, screaming at him. The mermaid has azure blue tail that matches her blue eyes, and long black hair.
"Malik you dare try to transform me into a toad!" the mermaid screamed.
"I was bored! I couldn't help myself but to try and transform you into a toad!" Malik laughed, dodging a crab that was thrown at him by the mermaid.
"Ok ok, could you two please stop fighting!" Marik stepped in.
"Marik, please tell Malik to stop doing something that involves me!" the mermaid yelled.
"I'm sorry Ishizu but you know perfectly well that Malik can't even do a simple suggestion from you." Marik replied.
Ishizu scowled as she swam away from the mermen.
Malik turned his attention at the two merprinces. "Sorry about her, it's just so amusing to see her mad."
Marik and Bakura smirked.
"So, now that you two are finally here, what wish do you want me to grant?" Malik asked, looking from one merprince to the other until he noticed the missing right arm.
"Although maybe I should add a bonus as to give you another arm."
"No that's ok, I just wanted to know if you can transform the me and Seto into humans." Atemu explained.
Malik blinked. "Humans eh? You know that I'm gonna be fish food to the king if I do that."
"Just enough time for me to meet the one I love and apologize." Atemu said.
"So, the merprince is in love with a human eh? Well isn't that amusing...well I guess I'll have no choice in the matter." Malik chuckled as Marik and Bakura went inside the cave.
"What will be your payment?" Malik asked when his two friends left.
"We have some things for payment but they're in the palace..." Atemu trailed off when Malik began laughing.
"You've got payment but left in the palace. Well then, one of you can go back and get them." Malik smirked.
"I am not leaving Atemu here with someone like you." Seto growled.
"Easy Seto, I'll be fine." Atemu said quickly as he swam in between his cousin and the outsider.
"You sure?" Seto asked, still keeping his gaze at Malik who gave him an innocent look.
"Yes I'm positive, just please don't take too long to get back." Atemu smiled up at his cousin.
Seto sighed. "Fine, I'll swim as fas as I can. But if I get back and find something bad happening, I'm going to skin Malik like a fish."
Malik grinned. "I'll keep that in mind."
Seto nodded and left, swimming off as fast as he could.
"How will he know which object to get?" Malik asked the merprince.
"He'll figure it out, he knows which one to get and get back here before an hour goes by." Atemu explained.
A Half Hour Later...
Seto came back with a weaved seaweed bag with a few expensive objects from the palace itself. The tall merman swam up to the cave to find Atemu smiling at his return. After they shared a little reunion hug, Malik, Marik, and Bakura swam out of the cave with two bottles with a bright red liquid inside.
"So what's the payment?" Malik asked eagerly.
"Here's the objects I took." Seto said, taking the objects from the bag and set them on a table like rock.
The objects are a blue sphere that glows in the center, this is a one of a kind sphere that can show you whoever you want and whenever. Another is a locket music box that belonged to the former queen, along with her necklace that's made of diamonds, rubies, emeralds, silver, gold, and opals. The fourth object was a sword with sapphires on it.
Malik inspected each object carefully, picking them up and examining them.
"Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!" Bakura beamed excitedly.
"What?" Malik growled as he stopped looking at the sword and towards the albino.
"It's so sharp and shiny!" Bakura shouted with glee.
"Ok, if you like then I'll take this." Malik said rolling his eyes.
"Yay!!" Bakura squealed.
Malik kept hold of the sword, also known as Tidal Sword, as the spiky blonde used his free hand to pick up the Soul Orb, the blue sphere. Malik's cat like purple eyes looked intensly at the Soul Orb.
"Hmm, I like this one, I'll keep this one for myself and Marik, while the queen's necklace is for Ishizu." Malik said, giving the Soul Orb ot Marik while the spiky blonde picked up the beautiful jewel necklace, leaving the locket.
"Those four that we just took, is Seto's share of payment. What I'm taking away from Atemu is his most precious thing, his memories." Malik said, smirking at the same time.
"Wait, why his memories?" Seto asked.
"Because it's his wish to get back with his lover. But also because I'm adding a few bonuses, giving him a new right arm, and I'm getting the other bonus." Malik explained, motioning to Bakura.
Nodding, Bakura left, swimming back into the cave. Five minutes later of objects breaking and falling, Bakura came back out with a golden box with ancient and unknown writing carved on it.
"What's that?" Atemu wondered.
"This, is a puzzle that you and your lover will have to sovle." Marik answered as Malik used a spell, directing it at Atemu. The merprince blinked until the spell worked its wonders and created a right arm attached to Atemu starting from just above the elbow.
Atemu's eyes widened in shock. "I never thought that was possible..."
"Well now that you like it, you take these bonuses or leave it, and if you leave it then your wish will never come true." Malik said.
Atemu hesitated.
"Atemu, you don't have to become human to get back with your hu-I mean lover. You can visit his boat like you did that one time when you gave him the black pearl, or he'll be back." Seto whispered into his cousin's ear.
"I can't, the black pearl has been shattered, and I can't go to his boat when there's a risk that I'll be discovered." Atemu whispered back.
"That didn't stop you before." Seto growled lightly.
"I'm waiting." Malik interrupted, getting impatient.
"We'll take it." Atemu said, turning his attention back on Malik.
"All right, Seto you hold this box," Malik said when Bakura gave the golden box to the tall merman.
"And you two give them the potion that I made just for them." Malik smirked. Marik gave the bottle he was holding to Atemu while Bakura gave Seto the bottle of red liquid he was holding.
Gradually both princes drank down the red subsance, which tasted like...well let's say you don't wanna know because the two didn't know what it tasted like. Soon the two felt pain along their waist to the end of their tail fins, the tails twitching as they transformed and seperated into two! Atemu mentally screamed about the pain as Malik came up to him, using a spell to take all of the prince's memories and storing them into the mysterious object in the golden box.
Before Atemu lost conciousness, Bakura swam up behind him and put the music box locket around his neck. Then everything went black.
You get only six days and six nights for true love's kiss, on the seventh morning, your soul is mine.
Me: well, sorry this took so long but I had some internet access problems.AGAIN. and if u get impatient with this fic because I'm having it in pause for a little bit then I'll wait until I finish War Against Demons and Is It Really Love. and I mean it.
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