I'm going to keep this short, but I want to thank the ones who've reviewed the last chappie^-^ Your support means a lot to me! Now, no chitchat, start the chapter!

[Last time] ...Turning the last corner you saw that the door through Atemu's room was open, but before you reached it, you tripped and fell. A sudden flashback showed itself in front of you about the broken heart between the two bears you made earlier. The present I was about to give to Atemu... it got broken...

You lifted up your head, while a fearful feeling consumed your heart. "no..." you whispered to yourself, "... Atemu!!!"

Beginning with Your POV:
Two weeks just passed, but to you it felt like eternity. You touched Atemu's cheek carefully, regretting those words you said to him. Even though you knew weeping is no use, but that's the only thing you could do the last two weeks."I'm sorry."The only thing you managed to say these last two weeks. Two weeks already, it has been two weeks...

"Atemu, please open your eyes, I beg you, open your eyes!" you cried, grabbing his shoulder and shaking him. "Please..." you repeated dropping you head upon his chest, as you felt tears suddenly filling your eyes again, which have been dry for a long time. But no matter how many times you cry, how many times you tell him to wake up, he won't hear it. "Atemu, don't leave me! ATEMU!!!" you cried, "ATEMU!!!" Your grip at his shoulders loosened, as your eyes went dry again. Footsteps entered the room, as you lifted your head from Atemu's chest. "~~~~~~, my daughter." Sir Shimon said putting a hand upon your shoulder.

Sir Shimon has adopted you few days ago. You really like him; he has been so nice to you as if you're his real daughter. But you're still not used to call him father, but he said he understood. He knew it will take time. Not only father Shimon has been really nice to you, but Pharaoh Akunumkanon has been very caring also.

You wrapped you arms around your father, burying your face into his chest. Tears wet his clothes, even though you tried hard not to start crying again. You sobbed silently, as your father held onto you tightly. "~~~~~~, my daughter, don't cry and have faith in Prince Atemu, believe in him, believe he will awake eventually." father Shimon said softly to you. You nodded and lifted your head from his chest. You turned your head to see Atemu lying upon his bed, his eyes... still closed.

Pharaoh Akunumkanon POV:
You opened the scroll of paper and read the content. "My Pharaoh, who is it from? Is it...?" Seto asked you urgently. You sighed, while you rolled up the scroll again. "Yes... it is." you said. Silent fell in the throneroom. Everyone knew who you meant and what this meant.

Isis looked away, closing her eyes.

Karim took a deep breath, giving you the sign he was ready to fight.

Mahado nodded to you bravely.

Seto was rethinking a strategy.

Shada held onto his Millenium Ankh staring at it.

Akunadin was the only one left who was a bit calm.

"I knew this was coming, but I didn't know it would come this soon." you said. None said anything. None knew what to say at a moment like this. War is nearing Egypt. Ethiopia's army has been estimated to be three times greater than Egypt's and since the scroll has already been delivered here; Ethiopia's army must be at the borders by now. The chance of winning this war is...

You walked aimlessly through the corridors of the palace. "Why does this have to happen at the time like this?" Atemu still hasn't awoken or will he ever? You don't know."Why?" you asked. You had wanted to see your son at least one last time before the war should commence. "Why doesn't Ra even grant me this wish!" you yelled angrily to the sky. "As Pharaoh I still can do nothing to help my son!" you smashed your fist against the pillar.

Blood slowly emerged upon your knuckles, flowing down the pillar onto the ground. "My pharaoh..." you heard a woman's voice saying. You turned to see ~~~~~~ standing there watching you with tears filling her eyes.

"The King of Ethiopia has sent a scroll to announce the war?" Shimon said not believing it. "It's true, I believe they're at the borders by now." you said to him worriedly."No way..." ~~~~~~ said. "This soon..." Shimon exclaimed, being really caught by this news.

You turned your head to your son, who was lying down there. ~~~~~~ got off the bed, while you walked closer to him. "Atemu, my son..." you said not knowing what else could be said at the time like this. "Prince Atemu is strong, he has even hold onto till now, I know he will awake eventually." Isis said as she appeared in the doorway.

"Isis..." Shimon called her name, while she went into the room. "I came to tell you about the scroll, but I believe the Pharaoh already did." Isis said to Shimon but looking at the Prince. Shimon nodded. "We came to do the same thing." a male's voice said, which you recognize as Karim's voice. He entered the room, followed by the rest of your sacred guardians.

"My pharaoh, don't worry. With the strength of our army and the power of our Millennium Items we shall win this war." Karim said determined.

"We still have a slight chance of winning." Seto said.

"What did you say?" Karim asked him angrily.

"I'm telling the truth, with power of our army..." Seto couldn't finish.

"Seto!" Isis called his name painfully.

"How could you say something like this?!" Shada suddenly entered the verbal war.

"Who are you fooling, do you really think we can win?!" Akunadin said supporting Seto, his son.

"Of course we do!" Karim yelled back.

"Well then you should stop dreaming!" Akunadin yelled at him.

"Akunadin-sama, if we lose faith now, all hope will be lost!" Isis said with tears in her eyes.

"All hope has been lost a long time!!!" Akunadin said hatefully looking at ~~~~~~.

~~~~~~ was just staring blank at nowhere, she didn't seem to notice the deathful glare of Akunadin. "Do you have any idea how much bigger and greater Ethiopia's army is than ours?" Seto asked them. "At least three times!" Akunadin answered Seto's question. "You don't have to share the facts, we all already know that!" Karim said. "Enough you all, arguing won't help it." Shimon finally said, not being able to retain his patience. Silence fell for a moment, but soon Akunadin started to yell again. "We are talking about a war, what else do we have to do, sitting down and do nothing!?!"
You just sighed at the scene...

Atemu's POV:
Black... all black... You didn't hear anything nor see anything. You couldn't feel anything, all felt so empty. There's just nothing... nothing at all. "Where am I?" you asked. You tried hard to see, to hear, to feel. A presence, you could feel a presence of someone... someone who's really near to you. "Who's that?" you asked. You hear the voice from this person, so warm, yet so soft you couldn't hear what this person was saying. You heard more noises at the background. But too unclear to make out what's going on or what's been said. "What happened... where is this... who am I?" you suddenly asked yourself.

You started to focus on the voices. It was getting louder, getting louder...

~ "We are talking about a war, what else do we have to do, sitting down and do nothing!?!" ~

A war?

~ "Of course I know we're talking about a war, but what good will it do if we are going to panic, to argue?" ~

What's going on here??

"Ethiopia is nearing the borders, the war will soon reach the palace, is it really that strange that we're panicking?!" ~

War against Ethiopia??

~ "No I'm only saying arguing won't help the situation!" ~

Ethiopia is nearing?

~ "Do nothing will help!" ~

Why do those male's voices sound so familiar.

~ "Enough!!!" ~

That woman's voice... so familiar...

"That's ENOUGH!!! If you want to continue this argument, then LEAVE AT ONCE!!! THIS IS ATEMU'S CHAMBER, I WANT CALMNESS AND SILENCE IN THIS ROOM!!!" ~

That voice...? Why is it so famil... ~~~~~~!!!

"What are you to say anything peasant girl!" ~

Is that really you, ~~~~~~?

~ "Akunadin, enough! Leave at once." ~

Father!

"A war is coming soon and all you could do is sitting here! You should be ashamed of being the Pharaoh of Egypt!!!" ~

'You should be ashamed of being the Pharaoh of Egypt!'
'You should be ashamed of being the Pharaoh of Egypt!'
'You should be ashamed of being the Pharaoh of Egypt!'
'You should be ashamed of being the Prince of Egypt!'

I... I'm the Prince of Egypt... I caused all this... It's ... it's my entire fault, it's my fault...

~ "Enough! I beg of you, please leave, I beg you, please, please..." ~

~~~~~~, my... my love...

... for the sake of the citizens of Egypt...


Suddenly, you felt a surge of energy flowing through you body. Pain consumed your body while you regained conscious, but you could bear it. For the sake of your country, you must wake up. YOU MUST! You moved your hand a little, while using all the energy to slowly open your eyes...

I do not know whether you guys have found it out already, but this story had been published by me on Quizilla earlier. Few changes are made compared to the Quizilla-version, but only grammatica and spelling issues are changed and some paragraphs consist more detailed texts than before. The storyline is exact the same. The story has actually been going on for 2 and a half year (yeah, very loooong) now, so you might have noticed a change of writing style throughout the story, or not XD.

Within those 2 and a half year I've gained and lost a lot of readers because of the long period of waiting for an update of mine. I feel ashamed and sorry to my readers to keep them waiting again and again. Between the publishdate of chapter 35 and 36 there was a total period of 9 months. 0_o I can't believe it myself.

Though, what makes me happy as a writer is that there were actually people still patiently waiting for me and still reading the story even after those 9 months of no updating or other announcements of mine! Which actually indicates what people think of the story and actually like it!

So, all I can say for now is that this was also the last chapter I've published on Quizilla and I haven't started writing on chapter 37 yet... I'm afraid that it may take up a while before that chappie comes out.

Right now, I'm really lacking the time and inspiration to write, since I started my first year at the faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam... Seriously, it's a disaster if you ask me. I really don't know how to handle this, how to plan correctly, how to study correctly... Everything is like wham! Just so many things are coming at once... Soon I'm turning 18 (first of October if you were interested :P) and there's a lot of responsibilities coming my way, not the mention the financial matters I need to face...

Ok enough of those sad, sad things in life^-^ But, I hope you guys will understand and please stick with me till the next chapter comes out.

Because of the looooong waiting at Quizilla, I had asked the Quizillians whether I should continue the story or not, is it worth to continue? I'd like to ask you guys the same question, hope to receive many responses!^-^ Well, as always please ReViEW