Seventh chapter of this story

I do not own Yugioh! or any of it's characters


"What?" he moved her in front of him and looked at her in surprise.

She looked at him with tears falling down her cheek like small waterfalls. She looked down and started to sob.

"My… grandmother… was… wronged… a long time…ago" she tried to talk but she was crying to hard.

"Shhh" Atem spoke in a soft voice and wiped her tears away with his cape.

"Eh?" she looked at him in confusion.

"You don't have to tell me if you can't because of your tears" he wiped away some more tears and smiled lightly at her "I can wait until you have cried out"

"Atemu-kun" she backed away from Atem and wiped her tears away herself. She then moved her knees up to her chest and hugged them.

"Why do you sit like that?"

"It's my safe position, I won't feel the pain I usually do, when I'm doing something imperfect" she looked at him above her knees and closed her eyes "My grandmother was wronged a long time ago. She fell in love with the pharaoh of that time, but he did not love her back. She became his servant, and could only watch as he found another woman. Her heart broke when they got married and she swore to kill the pharaoh. She was however, pregnant with his child"

"How could that happen?"

"I do not know. I was never told. But this was 300 years ago so there might have been different ways back then. But after she swore to kill the pharaoh, she had to return to her kingdom to have his child. It was my aunt; she died when she was only 10. My grandmother later had another child with my late grandfather, my father. She taught him to hate the human who had the title pharaoh. When he met my mother, they had my soon after. I was also taught to hate the Pharaoh but…" she looked at Atem and reached out for him. he nuzzled up against it and smiled gently at her.

"But you met me?"

"Yes, and you introduced me to the pharaoh. I found him too kind to hate, but I had my duty. I was to kill the one called 'Pharaoh' when I turned 15" she withdrew her hand and started to cry again.

"I see. And what happens, if you don't?"

"I'll be exiled from the mermaid world. At least from my own kingdom"

Atem looked at her and noticed the pain in her eyes #Don't look like that# he got up from the bed and picked Elishia up.

"What are you doing?"

"You need air" he answered and walked out of the room. The guards looked at him for a short moment but let him pass.

He walked away from the palace and out into a private spot near the river in the garden. He put her down and stepped back a little.

"Atemu-kun" she looked at him and widened her eyes when she realized why he had taken her out here "NO!" she shook her head wildly and stepped back.

"You have to do it" he stepped towards her and cupped her cheek "I will not let you get exiled because of me"

"No!" she slapped away his hand and took another step back "I'd rather stay on land forever than killing you" she felt water on her heel and looked back into the river. She turned around, bowed down and dipped her fingers and started to tear up again.

"Then stay with me" Atem said and walked up beside her.


I know that this chapter is short, but i wanted to cut it here because it felt right.

If anyone wonders why they got so close so quickly; they always had a close relationship with each other. I know I haven't really showed that a lot, but that's because I knew it myself and didn't think much of it.

Working on the next chapter already ;D