At the training grounds, the Medjai were outside the area while Amun was training alone to master his powers to continue with his Ka to make it stronger. Suddenly, they saw Pharaoh Atem walking with his other priests as the Medjai kneeled down to their presence as the Gravekeeper's Chief made his appearance before them, causing him to bow calmly towards them.
"Hello Chief. Is Amun inside?" Pharaoh Atem asked as the Gravekeeper's Chief nodded once.
"He is still perfecting his Ka. Since the incident with Bakura and his Diabound, he wishes to see if he could manage handling another Ka," the chief answered him.
"Another Ka? But that would make it difficult since the Ba and Ka have to be balanced. If he did that, he'll be splitting his own soul for multiple Kas," Shimon said.
"He knows that," the chief replied. "There is light side of darkness, there is also a darker side of darkness," he added calmly as he knew that his master would have a balance of the darkness to handle Bakura.
"May we see him?" Priestess Isis asked as the Gravekeeper's Chief looked inside the training area and looked back at them.
"Yes, but please do not break his concentration," the chief said as he lead them inside the training grounds.
As they came inside the training grounds, Pharaoh Atem saw Amun sitting on the ground, cross-legged, as he saw the aura around Amun with his other priests. 'What an intensive aura,' Isis thought as she wanted to used her Millennium Necklace to see what would happen if Amun had managed to use the darker Ka for battle.
Shimon looked at Amun as he watched the other releasing impulse of the dark Ka as he hoped the darkness would not consumed him like it has Bakura from their encounters. Pharaoh Atem cringed a bit as he knew that the aura was expanding as he sensed something was wrong, causing him to run towards Amun. "Pharaoh Atem!" His priests shouted as Amun had entered the dark aura, leaving them unable to see him or Amun.
"Amun! Amun, can you hear me?" Atem called out as Amun was still in his trance as their Millennium Items glowed brightly as Atem was taken to another world, causing him to be confused at first. The world resembled to a settlement that there were more Gravekeepers around as he figure that this is the place where he normally called forth his Gravekeepers. "Amun? Amun, wake up," Atem said as he gently shook his friend as Horus the Black Flame Dragon appeared and pushed Atem away from Amun with its wing as Atem looked up at it. "Horus," Atem said as Horus looked down at him for a moment and looked at the manifesting of the other Ka, causing it to make its eyes glow a bit. The Ka slowly manifested as it slowly resembled to a darker, more beastly form of Anubis.
Amun opened his eyes as they were crimson at first as he looked up at the creature. "Hello Anubis," he said as the creature looked down at him.
"I am not the Anubis you know. I am just a shadow of him," the Ka said. "You are the first mortal to reach out to me for something and I wish to know what that reason is," he added.
"I need your assistance to stop a mad man named Bakura and his Ka, Diabound. They are causing a disruption of balance within our world, but I fear there is a greater force coming our way," Amun answered calmly.
"Ah yes..Zorc Necrophades, Zorc the Dark One. He is a powerful entity that was born way before the Millennium Items were created," the Ka said. "You and your sister have the prototypes that lead to their creation from the handful of criminals," he stated. The Ka turned its attention towards Horus and Atem, causing him to scoffed. "Seems that the Pharaoh is here," he said as he looked over at Amun.
Amun looked over as he saw Atem, causing one of his eyes to return to their original color as he was stunned to see the Pharaoh in this world. "Atem, what are you doing here?" He asked his friend.
"I was worried about you. You were releasing more of the aura and I feared that the darkness would be taking over you just as it has with Bakura," Atem explained.
"Always been a worried one since we were children," Amun said as he couldn't stay mad at him as he had a good reason to be worried. Amun got up slowly as he walked over to Atem and placed his hand on his shoulder, looking at the young ruler in the eye. "Atem, I am not going to let the darkness consume me that would lead me to become like Bakura. I promise you that," he said to him as he looked at the other in the eye. "But if Bakura is going to conjured up something that lethal, I will have to use both shades of darkness to assist us in combat to prevent it from happening," Amun explained. Atem looked at him as he knew he had fears of losing more of his comrades as he felt a tug from the other in an embracing manner.
"I know you have fears, my pharaoh, but you must overcome them so the enemy would not exploit them," Amun said to him. "You need to remember if anything happens to either of us, we would return in the next life, even if we would not remember each other," he stated. "Do you understand?" He asked him as Atem nodded once.
"You act more of an advisor than a bodyguard for me," Atem said, causing the other to smile just a bit.
"Well, I do tend to act like an older brother to you sometimes," Amun answered as he looked over at the Ka behind him. "Pardon me, my pharaoh. I need to finished up business," Amun said to him as he walked towards the Ka as he looked up at him. "You know there's going to be a greater force besides Zorc, don't you?" Amun asked.
"Of course I know," he answered. "Set will be revived as well, which the world be in engulfed in darkness after the destruction throughout the lands," he stated. "Then assist me to prevent it, or all things will be lost that not even the Egyptian Gods cannot fix," Amun said as he looked at the other with a determined look. "You have a strong will. I will assist you to prevent this from happening. However, you will have to earn it without the help of others when the moment comes," the Ka said as he placed his claw on Amun's bracer and vanished, causing both men to return back to their world.
Amun held his forehead for a moment as he knew that he was going to handle having two spirits when the time came, since Horus was his best one so far, but wonder what would Anubis give him when he pass the test? He felt an arm around him to hold him up for support, causing him to turn his attention to see Atem next to him.
"Come, Amun. Let's go back inside the palace," Atem said. "You need to eat and rest to restore your strength," he stated as Amun nodded as both friends began walking back to where the remaining priests were as all of them headed back to the palace, which the Gravekeeper's servants vanished to their realm to let their master recover.
On the outskirts of the kingdom, Thief King Bakura looked at the palace as he knew that the time will come for his enemies to crumble before him, knowing also that his two former friends would fall as well. He grunted slightly as he sat on a large stone, pondering what his next move would be. He noticed the Millennium Ring activating on its own as he glanced down while raising a brow.
"What is it that you are telling me?" He asked the item as he watched the pointers pointing to the west, causing him to look over. "You are telling me to go there?" He questioned as the pointers remained pointing to the direction as he got up from his spot and got on his stallion.
"This better not leading me to some trap set by the Pharaoh's guardians," he said as he cracked the stallion's reins as it galloped towards the direction where the item was taking him. As night came, he stopped his stallion as he was in the middle of nowhere, causing him to scowl lowly as he glared sharply at the Millennium Ring's pointers that had dropped suddenly. "Why did you bring me to the middle of nowhere?!" He barked at it as his stallion began to whinny while moving side to side, causing Bakura to lift his head up.
He saw the full moon shining through from the clouds as he saw an ancient city emerging from its moonlight beams. He raised his brow as he got off his stallion and lead it towards the city carefully while trying to figure this reason of being there and if there was no way that anyone, even the Pharaoh, would know about it. He arrived as he tied the reins around one of the pillars as he looked at the statues that had the Egyptian deities associated to Light along with Anubis, the Protector of the Dead, as if it they were trying to seal whatever it was from ever coming to the surface from the Underworld itself.
'What is this place?' He thought as he saw the two doors in front of him, causing him to feel Daibound to emerge from him. "Daibound?" He asked as he was about to question his own Ka as it opened the doors with its power, causing it to slither in. Bakura followed right behind the creature as it lead him to an underground ritual that had the darker Egyptian deities. "I see. So the surface deity statues are keeping the deities of darkness at bay to prevent something from destroying the world itself," he said as he heard faint clapping, causing him to look over quickly to see a hooded man sitting on an altar.
"Very good, Bakura. Very good indeed," he said as Bakura slightly narrowed his eyes.
"Who in the pits of darkness are you?" Bakura asked as the hooded man lowered his hood calmly to let Bakura see who he was speaking to. The man had frog-like eyes as he smirked faintly while holding a headpiece that resembled to a frog.
"I am Keku. I'm sure you know what element I belong to," he said as he looked at Daibound. "Seems you've been treating your hatred into this marvelous creature. My lord will be pleased," Keku said as Bakura looked at him for a moment.
"Why exactly am I here?" Bakura asked.
"You want to bring utter darkness upon the world, don't you? Take revenge on your fallen people. Take back what you lost to the Pharaoh and his Sacred Guardians," Keku answered as Bakura stared at the other for a moment. "My master will give you that. Assist us and we will give you the very power to obtain your goals," he said to the Thief King as Bakura was yearning for revenge since he was a child.
"What about the other power that relies on the seven Millennium Items that were crafted from the souls of my people?" Bakura asked. Keku just chuckled. "What's so damn funny?" Bakura asked again as Keku just looked at him for a moment.
"You think that Zorc will give you power? He's just another underling that serves my master," Keku replied. "Besides, he'll be release if you do so. You know the location of the underground sanctuary, so just gather the remaining pieces," he stated as he closed his eyes. "So what do you say, Thief King Bakura?" He asked as he offered his hand out to the other calmly.
Seeing the out stretched hand from the other, Bakura was deep in thought for a moment. "If I join, there's only one thing I want to prevent from ever happening," he said as Keku raised a brow at him.
"That is?" Keku asked.
"I want you not to let anything happen to Amun and Anai. They're my childhood friends and I have strong feelings for them since I know deep in my wretched heart that they were manipulated into serving that bastard Pharaoh Atem," Bakura said as Keku leaned back a bit and closed his eyes. There was silence in the room as Bakura waited until the other agreed to his terms. 'What is taking him to think of something so simple?' He thought to himself as he felt another dark presence, causing him to shift his gaze to the corner of his eye.
"He's speaking with our master," another masculine voice said as he saw a man with serpentine eyes.
"Who might you be?" Bakura asked her.
"I am Apep," he answered as he looked over to his partner who was in deep meditation. "Speaking with master by setting a term for servitude isn't easy. Sometimes he'll rarely allow it or have us destroy you on the spot," he stated as he glanced at Bakura again. "Just for two people's lives to be spared?" He asked.
"Just two. No one else," Bakura answered. "I would enjoy torturing Pharaoh Atem for what his father did to my people and taking my friends away from me as well as turning on me," he stated as Apep curled his lips into a twisted smirk.
"That is something that we like. No mercy, thriving for power, seeing the world being engulfed in darkness for all eternity," Apep said as he turned his head over as he noticed Keku opening his eyes. "About time. What did he say?" He asked him.
"He'll allow it," Keku replied as he looked at Bakura, causing Bakura to grin a bit.
"Good. He got himself a good soldier for his purpose," Bakura said.
"Alright. Let's us begin our work," Apep said as the three began planning their actions.