(Alea's POV)

I woke up the next morning to a hissing sound next to me. It was Ini-herit. "…no, ten more minutes," I groaned. But he kept hissing and started crawling over me like a cat. "Ini-herit…let me sleep," I said. But he wouldn't stop. "Alright, I'm getting up," I said. I got out of the bed and put my dress and shoes on. Ini-herit wrapped himself around my neck. I walked out of the room and out into the ruined village.

As I walked through it, I came across several skeletons. They took me completely by surprise. They were all open-mouthed, still screaming. I walked further and came across a very small skeleton. It's skull had a large hole in it and its mouth was also open. I then remember Bakura talking about how everyone, including children, was killed. I looked at this little skeleton and felt tears coming to my eyes. Why did my father do this? Ini-herit sensed my sadness a moved his head to my cheek. I had to move away from this.

I walked to a more open area. Suddenly, something vapor-like came speeding at me and went right through my body, knocking me to the ground. "W-What on earth…" I looked up and saw a skull-like ghost looking at me. I tried to back away, but it left anyway. I breathed a sigh of relief. I guess when the people here died, their spirits never rested.

I moved to get up, but all of the sudden I saw a cobra crawling towards me. I stayed perfectly still, hoping it would leave me alone. But it was coming in my direction. I became scared. It moved right up to my ankle. It raised its head to strike. I let out a loud scream, hoping someone would get to me. However, before it could bite me, Ini-herit sprang from around my neck and attacked the cobra. I watched the two snakes fight each other. Ini-herit was able to bite the cobra, but that was all he could do. He wasn't a poisonous snake.

Suddenly, the cobra struck Ini-herit and he writhed in pain on the ground. The cobra then went back to me. In the blink of an eye, a blade came down and stabbed through it, killing it. The holder of the blade was Bakura. "Are you okay?" he asked. He seemed very concerned, a little more than he should have been. "Yeah," I replied.

I rushed to Ini-herit. He was lying still. I picked up his body and held it in my arms. There was still a little light in his eyes. "Come on," I begged. "Don't die, please." Bakura knelt down next to me. Ini-herit moved his head to look at us. He tried to move towards his master's hand, but couldn't. He then tried to move up to my face. But his head fell back and in that moment all the light left his eyes. "No," I breathed. "Ini-herit…" I started crying. "He's gone," I said, my voice shaking. "He's gone…and it's all my fault." Bakura held me close to him. "It's not your fault, Alea," he said. "But…I could have done something to keep that cobra away."

"No…that cobra was trained to kill everything," Bakura said. "It wasn't your fault…don't think that." I cradled Ini-herit's dead body in my arms. "Who trained that cobra?" I asked, my tone a combination of sadness and spite. "My enemy," he replied. "He's been wanting to kill me for years." "Then why kill Ini-herit and me?" I questioned. "He'll kill anyone who gets in the way," Bakura said. "That's why…we have to get out of here…for a little while at least."

"What?"

"It won't make it easy for him to hurt any of us if we move from place to place…we should leave tonight."

"Okay…but I want to bury Ini-herit first." Bakura seemed hesitant, but smiled. "Okay, we have time for that," he said. He helped me up. We took Ini-herit's body to Alexandria and she mummified him. She put him in a small decorated jar and gave it to me. Bakura then took me to an area that was partially shaded. I took a small curved stone and started digging a hole. When it was big enough, I placed the jar in it and filled it in. I knelt on the ground. Tears fell from my eyes. "Osiris…please…allow Ini-herit into the afterlife…please," I prayed. I stood back up.

It was already sunset. "We need to leave," Bakura said. I just nodded. He came up and wiped my tears away. "Don't be sad," he said. "He died trying to protect someone important to him…it wasn't in vain." I just nodded again. "Besides, there's something that might brighten your day," he said. "What?" I asked. He took me to a small wooden building. When we went inside, I saw someone I never thought I'd see again.

"Midnight!" I exclaimed. I rushed over to her. She whinnied at me. "I missed you," I said, softly petting her nose. "She'll be coming with us," Bakura said. "…thank you," was all I could say. We packed several bags and saddled the horses. Before another word could be said, we left Kul Elna behind. I hoped that no one else would be hurt during this journey.