HI!!... (is received with screams of anger and flying tomatoes...) I'M SORRYYY for this late update...
Im a lazy ass i know.. but! that doesnt mean i will stop writing and bother u out with my insane imagination! hah! so bear with me!
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'''evil light-shining-angel''': Spoiler: YAMI DIED!! MWAHAHAHAHA This will be Yugi's story from now on...hahahaha
Omg... i got another personality...
This is what happens when u are up until 0:25 trying to update this... im going insane...
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CHAPTER 13:
Shadi arrived to an office in the right corner of the large hall. He entered and was received by an Egyptian woman that was dressed similar to him, with white robes and gold accessories on arms, neck and head.
"How was it?" she asked, standing in front of him. Shadi closed the door so no one could spy them.
"Work done" he said. The female turned her back on him and put her hands in a prayer way. Closing her eyes, she murmured "Please lord, I know you can with this test, we trust in you, don't disappoint us lord…" Shadi imitated her and joined in her pray.
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The gang exited the museum and took a seat on the stairs outside. Joey first, next to him Anzu, then Yugi and Tristan, all of them in the same step. It was becoming dark already, and the only people there were them. They were thinking about the situation, what was going to happen? And what could they do about it? Yugi still hadn't broken his gaze of the puzzle he was grabbing with both hands. His friends noted it, and could understand he was death worried.
"Yug, are you trying to communicate?" Joey asked him inclining his body a little to see him better. Yugi negated his head.
"Is like he had disappeared" he said in a low tone. All went silent again, because neither knew what to say to him, or what to do to help.
"I just hope…" Yugi said breaking the ice again and making his friends look back at him "he hadn't believed all Shadi had said" he hoped and his friends lowered their eyes.
"Yugi… I don't want to say this but… I think he believed it" Tristan said solemnly. Joey reacted immediately.
"Then, he is a low jerk and a fool! Wait until I see him, I'm gonna--"Joey exclaimed but was cut off by Anzu.
"Shut up Joey!" she yelled and quietened him "This is not helping at all" she said and turned to look at Yugi who was still looking at his puzzle sadder than before.
"Yugi" she murmured with sad eyes "Yami…"
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ZZ Yami's world inside the puzzle ZZ
Still seating on the stairs of his soul room, Yami thought about what to do next and he came to a conclusion. If Shadi's words were true or not didn't matter, he knew deep inside he had done something bad and that is why he was trapped there… Shadi's words only confirmed that feeling of guilt he had deep inside.
Yami stood up from the stairs and for a moment he could swear he heard an evil laugh. Secretly, he took some steps forward until the center of the chamber and tuned his senses…
Nothing… but then, he heard it again but it was faint.
Yami felt his heart accelerate his rhythm just by hearing that evil laugh. It was a new feeling he never had experienced… it was fear.
"Shit" he couldn't restrain the word. He knew who was laughing like that and why he was laughing.
"I'm weakening my power…" he murmured and lowered his eyes to stare at his palms. His hands were trembling considerably.
"No… stop" he commanded for his body to stop shaking with a low voice, but it just continued slightly trembling.
"This is… fear, I somehow know it…" he whispered and tried to walk but, his body wasn't obeying his mind. "Fear is paralyzing me… I can't let it!" he yelled the last part and the eye of horus appeared on his forehead, shining brightly.
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The gang abruptly turned to look at the light that was coming out from the puzzle. Yugi stared in awe at it, without knowing what was making it react.
"Yugi, what's happening?" Anzu asked him worried.
"I don't know" Yugi said honestly still staring at the shine of the puzzle. Seconds later, the light faded and Yugi felt the link between Yami and him connect. Yugi raised his eyes to the front and saw Yami in ghost form, with a serious expression, but his eyes showed… sadness.
Joey, Tristan and Anzu, raised their eyes too when they noted Yugi stare at something ahead. Expressions of wonder and kind of happiness showed in their faces by seeing him standing in ghost form in front of them.
"Yami!" They exclaimed and stood up from the stairs. Yugi stood up last and didn't use the link, just talked so his friends could hear what he was going to say.
"Yami, are you ok?" he asked and the gang saw when Yami stared at the floor and negated his head. Joey reacted.
"You didn't believe that shit, did you?" he asked with a frown, in a kind of… harsh way.
Yami focused his gaze on Joey, who frowned more in confusion by this expression of defeat he was seeing in the face of the other Yugi. Yami stared then at Anzu and Tristan, whom detected the same thing Joey had. Last Yami turned to look was Yugi. He kept looking at him and Yugi just was growing impatience and worried for the lack of Yami's talking.
"What?! Just don't look at us like if you were going to leave or something!!" Yugi exclaimed with a frown and that statement made Yami widen his eyes. He never knew Yugi could read the eyes with so much precision…
/"Yugi, this is the last time you and your friends will see me"/ he send by the link. Yugi couldn't avoid exclaiming with a high voice "What?!"
His friends looked at him. "What did he say?" Tristan asked because they couldn't hear what he was saying.
Yugi ignored Tristan, and spoke again or more likely, he yelled. "Are you leaving us?!" when Yugi said that, all eyes focused again on Yami.
"What?" Anzu whispered feeling a hard pain in her heart. "It must be a joke! Right? Is not funny!" Joey exclaimed pointing his index finger at Yami.
/"Partner. It's for the safety of the world. I must not be here any longer."/ he said but Yugi wasn't agreeing.
"You did believe what that old guy said!" he exclaimed and Yami replied.
/"I don't care if what he had said is true or not. I just believe in what I am feeling now, and I always had the feeling that I did something bad, otherwise, I wouldn't be trapped inside this jail, don't you think?"/ he tried to convince Yugi but he only negated
"There must be other reason for you to be trapped. I don't believe you were evil! And you should do the same!" he exclaimed, tears forming in his eyes by not be able to change Yami's mind.
His friends, though they weren't listening Yami's part of the argument, understood all…
/"I'm weakening my powers… my father will wake up soon, I feel him crawling inside me slowly, I can't take any risks so, forgive me for what I am going to do"/ he said and the eye appeared once more on his forehead.
"What are you going to do!! Yami!" Yugi exclaimed while watching the light on his forehead. After some seconds, Yugi's world turned black…
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"What is he going to do?"Joey exclaimed to his friends but didn't receive a reply. After some seconds of the shining light, Yami's ghost form disappeared.
"Yami!" Anzu exclaimed with a hand on her heart and turned to look at Yugi who had his head and arms hanging and his bangs covered his face.
"Yugi! What happened to Yami!" she yelled but didn't receive a reply. Tristan turned to shook him a little but when he was going to touch him, Yugi raised his head to show that he wasn't Yugi…
"Yami" Joey whispered, noticing as the rest of them, that they had switched.
Yami didn't say a thing to them, and just grabbed the puzzle with his right hand and took it off, then he took some steps back until he was in plain floor.
"What are you going to do?" Tristan asked, while he stood there with Joey and Anzu, watching his movements.
Yami lifted his right arm as high as he could and stared at the now dark sky, then, he focused his eyes on them.
"Thanks for all. And, please…" he closed his eyes "Please…take care of Yugi" he said and gave them a half smile.
Like a flash, the gang seemed to understand what he was going to do. "I will not let you!" Joey exclaimed and when he was going to stop him, Yami threw the puzzle with all his force to the floor, and it smashed completely…
Then, the gang saw when Yami closed his eyes and fell face down on the floor, unconscious…
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The gang widened their eyes when they saw in slow motion how the puzzle ended in tiny pieces all over the floor, and Yami falling unconscious.
Anzu was the first in run to help him. "Yami! Why did you do that!! You fool!!" she grabbed and turned his body so he was laying face up on the floor. Holding him on her lap, she cried.
Tristan and Joey stared at the puzzle shattered on the floor and knelt to pick up the pieces. They were in that when Yugi's body moved and grimaced.
"Guys! He's waking up!" Anzu called them and they went to knelt besides Anzu, waiting for him to open his eyes.
Yugi opened his eyes abruptly and realized he was laying flat on the floor. The first he met was Anzu, who put a sadder expression when she saw him.
"What happened?" he asked a little disoriented.
Anzu wouldn't answer and she just turned her head away from him. Yugi looked at Joey and Tristan and they lowered their heads. Yugi frowned, and was going to stand up when his hand touched something on the floor. He looked at it, and widened his eyes.
"He didn't…" he took the piece and stared at the rest of the floor. It was full of the pieces of the puzzle…
His eyes immediately watered. "No…"
"We tried to stop him" Joey said "but, it was too late…"
"I'm sorry Yugi" Tristan said feeling extremely bad for not been able to do something
Yugi felt a knot forming on his throath and tears started to fall fluedly of his eyes. After some secs of sobbing, he yelled. "You are a fool!! Yami!!"
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ZZ Weeks later...ZZ
The bell of the school could be heard announcing the start of classes. All students, walked towards they respective classess, talking and laughing all the way along the halls.
In one of the classrooms, a group of teenagers were the only ones that sat in silence on the right corner of the room. Anzu, Joey and Tristan just threw silent glances at each other. Neither of them wanted to talk about something else.. their only concern was Yugi's behavior.
Since the incident, he was more into himself that in any other time... sometimes he didn't go to school and when he did, he never talked to anyone. Just saluted them but nothing else.. he was changing..and they didn't like it...
"He hasn't arrived yet" Joey said in a low tone, holding his face with his hands.
Anzu and Tristan just nodded, with a worry expression on their faces.
"Maybe he will not come today..." Tristan whispered and turned to look outside the window.
Anzu just placed her head on the desk and sighed.
Some mins after, the teacher entered in the classroom followed by Yugi. The gang perked their heads up when they saw him entering, with his bag on his back, and that expressionless face of him that they had become to know like his usual face every day since the incident.
Yugi arrived to his spot which was in front of Joey, and saluted them.
"Good morning" he said and didn't wait for a reply, just sat down immediately.
"Morning Yug!" Joey exclaimed trying to be cheerfully. The others replied in the same way, but seemed that Yugi didn't care about it.
The class started and all went normally..monotone..without any thing that signaled to the gang that Yugi was starting to feel better..nothing, he just was acting like a lifeless robot...
Anzu stared at Yugi from her seat, and a frown started to form on her face.. she was weary of Yugi's behavior... that she would put an end to this..after classes.
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ZZ After Classes.. ZZ
Yugi walked away towards his home but was stopped by Anzu, who grabbed him by the arm. He turned to look at her with a 'what?' expression on his face.
Anzu put her best smile and asked him. "Yugi, we are going to eat a hamburger, do you want to join with us?"
Yugi looked at her and negated his head. Turned to walk again but Anzu tightened her grip on him. "Yugi! Stop this already!" she yelled with a frown forming on her expression.
Yugi turned again to look at her and replied. "To stop what? My sadness? My deception? What do you want me to stop?!" he yelled with rage.
Anzu couldn't hold it and slapped him hard. Yugi just remained quiet, with his cheek hurting by the hit...
"Listen to me! You can't be like this all your life Yugi! You can't be consumed by these bad feelings!!" she yelled but Yugi just frowned
"Are you asking me to stop feeling what I am feeling? Then you ask me to die Anzu! I can't stop feeling this!" eyes started to water "I can't stop…"
Anzu grabbed Yugi by both shoulders and made him look at her in the eyes. She talked with a low tone now. Yugi just stared at her "Yugi. Do you know which one were the last words of Yami?"
Yugi didn't reply. Anzu's eyes started to water at this point "He.. begged us to take care of you…Yugi…" Yugi's tears started to fall now "he still cared for you until the very end…I know he wouldn't like to see you like this."
Yugi lowered his eyes for a moment. And Anzu released him.
"I miss him" Yugi said in a low tone. Anzu sighed. "I know.. I miss him too.. I miss him so much" she put a hand on her chest trying to ease her accelerated heart.
"I want him back.. I know he's not evil Anzu…" Yugi said and Anzu just listened "but.. when I start to solve the puzzle.. is like if the puzzle didn't want me to solve it.. is like if it rejected me…"
Anzu looked at Yugi sadly. Maybe Yami didn't want Yugi to solve it.. and that's why Yugi found it more complicated than last time.
"Then, you will have to keep trying" she said with a soft smile. Yugi looked at her. "Don't give up" she complemented still smiling at him. Yugi saw she was trying to cheer him up… Anzu was an excellent friend…
Yugi hugged her abruptly and she was a little surprised but ended up hugging him back.
"Thank you Anzu" he whispered and broke the hug gently. She just shrugged. "That's what friends do… now! Still want to eat that hamburger with us?" she asked grinning. Yugi nodded smiling.
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ZZ At the Restaurant…ZZ
"Anzu is taking too long…I'm hungry…" Joey said while his stomach growled.. Tristan sweat dropped…--;
Some minutess after, Tristan noticed Anzu walking towards them with Yugi by her side. He immediately elbowed Joey.
"Hey, look she actually got Yugi to eat with us.." Tristan whispered and Joey pulled out a big smile.
When Anzu and Yugi arrived, Joey saluted them. "Hey pal!.. you guys took too long.. I'm hungry! Let's go eat!" he guided the way inside the restaurant.
The three of them just blinked... "Ok…" and followed inside.
Took a seat on a table and a waitress took their order.
Some mins later, and their order was ready.. Joey and Tristan starting devouring all.. while Anzu and Yugi just ate slowly, looking at them..
"You guys never change ah?" Anzu pointed out the obvious. The aforenamed ones just peeked at her a little and continued with their devouring…
Yugi stayed quiet most of the time, thinking about how he had missed these moments with his friends. He felt a little good now but, still the emptiness caused by Yami remained..
Yami, at first was scary… he had to admit that. But, as time passed, he came to know him a little more and… he wasn't as scary as he had thought.
He turned out to be like the big brother he never had… he missed teasing him about Anzu… arguing with him, talking with him, learning things with him, he missed him so much…
Yugi lowered his eyes a moment, and thought again about why the puzzle seemed more complicated now… was it Yami who was making it appear more complicated?...
"I am done!" Joey exclaimed caressing a big belly. Tristan finished too and held his belly too. "I think I ate too much…"
Anzu just looked at them. She had finished too. "It was delicious! Right Yugi?" they turned to look at him and Yugi abruptly raised his eyes to meet theirs and put out a smile.
"Yeah. It was.. Though I wasn't able to eat it all" he said signaling what he left.
"Can I help you a little?" Joey said and didn't even wait for Yugi to say anything when he took the plate and ate what Yugi wasn't able to.
Yugi just blinked and replied while Joey was eating "S-sure… you can.. heh"
"So, Yugi… how are you feeling now?" Tristan asked, ignoring the sounds of Joey's eating. Yugi looked at Tristan.
"I'm fine. I guess" he said.
"I got some news for you. Actually, I got some news for all of us" Tristan said and pulled out some papers from his bag.
"Eh? What news?" Anzu asked while they saw how Tristan scattered these papers on the table.
Tristan just grinned. "You know Yugi, I wasn't going to give up on that matter just yet. So, I decided to research a little" he said and Joey raised his eyebrows.
"What?? U? Research? Who are u and what have u done to Tristan?" Joey exclaimed inclining himself away from him.
A vein popped on Tristan's forehead at that comment. "You know I can be vague but, I just wanted to research a little about it… besides it could be of help to Yugi" he said and turned to look at Yugi who was just looking back surprised.
"You researched?" he asked still surprised. Anzu just grabbed one of the papers and started examining it.
"Yeah! And you wouldn't believe what can one find on the web" he said and started searching for one paper in particular.
Joey grabbed a random paper to read it. Yugi just was seated still attentive to all that they were going to say.
"Here!" Tristan said and cleared his throat to talk more professionally
"Ok, according to what we heard about Shadi, and his strange clothing, I searched about all kinds of cults and sects that had multiples deities. You wouldn't believe how many I found…"
All were listening attentive. Joey asked. "Why many deities?"
"Because he said that 'gods' were going to punish him if he said something more… then, gods means many deities" he said while reading rapidly the paper on his hand to search for the specific paragraph he wanted to read.
"So, I minimized the search to only cults and sects on ancient Egypt and…"
Critic moment here. All were expectantly.
"… and I found this! Ok… prepare for an ancient Egypt lesson. I'm going to read this: (he reads from the paper) ''''''''''Ancient Egyptian Cults can be divided into several categories, including Divine Cults, which worshipped actual existing gods, Royal Cults for the worship of the king, Private Cults, animal cults and what might be referred to as other Funerary Cults for the worship of deceased private individuals. Of these, perhaps the second most important, after Divine Cults, were the Royal Cults.
The cult of the king was one of the most prominent features of ancient Egyptian religion. The Egyptian ruler, because of his status as a god, received both a cult during his life and after his death. He (or she) acquired and maintained his divinity as a result of specific kingship rituals, of which, the coronation was clearly the most important. In this ceremony, the king was transformed into a god by means of his union with the royal ka, or soul. All previous kings of Egypt had possessed the royal ka, and at his or her coronation, the king became divine as "one with the royal ka when his human form was overtaken by his immortal element, which flows through his whole being and dwells in it. As a god, the King became the son of Ra, the sun god, and he was a manifestation of Horus, the falcon god, as well as the son of Osiris" he stopped and thought about the eye of horus that appeared on Yami's forehead when doing something extraordinary.
Anzu seemed to think about the same, and Yugi too..
"The eye of horus" Yugi murmured. Anzu nodded. "It seems that… he really was a king after all, he is a manifestation of horus" she said. Tristan and Joey nodded. "Keep reading man, what else did it said?" Joey asked and Tristan turned to the paper once more.
"Also, from the Middle Kingdom, there was increasing emphasis placed on his relationship with Amun-Ra, and he was described as the son of Amun, the king of the gods. Thus, the king became an intermediary between mankind and the divine, responsible for sustaining the balance of the universe through maintaining ma'at, or divine order. Upon his death, the ancient Egyptians believed that he became fully divine and assimilated with Osiris and Ra. Cults associated with the living pharaoh were more significant during certain periods, and may have been linked with various political, economic and religious trends. Evidence suggests that, during the Middle and New Kingdoms, some successors could have been coronated prior to the death of the elder king. In these cases, the elder ruler may have been projected into a fully divine role, perhaps conceptualized as a living Osiris.
The cult of the living king probably had its greatest emphasis during the Amarna period, when Akhenaten focused the state religion on the supreme power of the sun disk known as Aten. His religious program emphasized the indispensable role of the king as the sole intermediary between mankind and the life giving force of the sun disk. Direct worship of the Aten was actually limited to Akhenaten himself, while the king and his royal family were intended to be the object of worship by the population at large. There have been unearthed offering stelae depicting the royal family belonging to private households, and such veneration of the king within domestic spheres represents an emphasis on kingly divinity not seen in other periods" Tristan stopped again.
"I think Shadi is in this 'divine cult of the king'… but… there is still missing what is the purpose" Tristan said.
"This info was really great Tristan… we learned something about these cults!" Anzu said still amazed of all that she had heard.
"Tristan, what were the names of those two people that the text mentions?" Yugi asked, for some reason he couldn't pull out.
"Hmm" Tristan searched the names "They were Akhenaten and Aten, why?" he asked looking at him. Joey and Anzu looked at him too.
Yugi looked back. "Nothing.. just wanted to know" he said and unconsciously looked at the clock.
"Guys I got to go… have to be early at home. Thanks for the meal!" he said and stood up hurriedly grabbing his bag. "Tristan thanks for that info! It would be of great help!" he exclaimed cheerfully and took off.
His friends just waved back smiling…they were starting to see the old Yugi again… a good sign.
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ZZ At Game Shop ZZ
"I'm home!" he yelled from the doorway and didn't wait for reply. Immediately went upstairs and closed off in his room.
Grandpa saw him but didn't say anything. Since his puzzle was broken, Yugi always closed in his room and just went out to go to the bath and to eat.
"He still needs more time…" Grandpa thought and continued doing whatever he was doing at the shop.
Yugi threw the bag on the bed and sat down on his desk. Took a big breath and stared at the pieces he had left scattered all over the desk.
"Yami" he talked staring at the pieces "You are doing this difficult, I just know it." All in the room was quiet, just Yugi's voice talking to the pieces made the silence broke a little.
"I will not let you win." He said determined grabbing two pieces with both hands "This is another game you are putting me… another test…" he said and joined the pieces slowly. "I will win this no matter what…" these words said aloud somehow made him feel more determined. He looked at the pieces on his hands and saw that they fit each other perfectly.
A huge grin appeared on Yugi's face. He took another random piece and starting to think the same thoughts and talking aloud "I will do this, I will solve it again, and again every time you want to smash it"
Like magic, that piece fitted perfectly too with the other two. Yugi smiled again. "Yes…"
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Inside a sea of darkness… clang sounds could be heard like echo around the place. Yami was like floating in that never ending sea and he was in a dreamless sleep, but, these clang sounds were more and more persistent as the time passed…
Because of that, Yami's eyes started to twitch slightly…
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'''evil light-shining-angel''': oh yami isnt dead yet?
No!!... and i will stop talking to u... i will go more insane... now!
'''evil light-shining-angel''': Next chapter will be COOL cause this akhenaten and aten stuff will got more complicated because u know aten is yami and-------
SHUT UP! U ARE RUINING IT!! (kicks '''evil light-shining-angel''' out of the pc) sorryyyyyyy
U never heard that! (evil glare to '''evil light-shining-angel''' ...) Now! thanks for reading and until next chappie...
''''''''''Oh this text I got it from here if u want to check it out..
www. touregypt. net / featurestories / royalcults . htm
I'm going to manipulate this into my story mwahahahahahahaha………….
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