Alright a new story! ^^\\ I kind of dropped my others because I couldn't figure out what to do with them. XD I hope I can finish this one soon though! Okay I don't own anything at all, except for the poor grammar (all mine) and the story line.
Silence. That is my skill in life. Without that, I would be nothing. Silence is what I am. I am the darkness around you and the very silence that makes your skin crawl and makes every hair on the back of your neck rise. With this potent skill I have lived; I am the Thief King! I keep Egypt's largest band of skilled marauders under my thumb. I am feared by all of Egypt. I have been put through the tortures of hell and my very existence is defiance to the Gods. I live by one simple rule, kill or be killed, and never feel remorse. Remorse for anything is merely a weakness someone can stab you in the back with.
Tonight we were going to switch it up a little from our usually raids of the tombs of pharaohs and villages. Tonight we were going for the real deal, the Pharaoh's place itself. The palace alone would be an easy fortune to raid, but what I was after is better than any fortune. We set off on our journey on the perfect moonless night. With nothing but the inky blackness around us, my hand picked and lethal band of five set off. With the night on our side, we swiftly made it to the palace in just under three hours ride. As soon as the palace neared, we split up. Two groups of two and myself. I headed up to the outer palace wall and summoned my Ka, Diabound. I turned into nothing more than a shadow and proceeded through the wall. Now the only problem with using Ka was that it took Ba, life energy, for every second I had him summoned. It took even more when I used one of his abilities, so this had to be quick.
I knew the palace like the back of my hand so getting to the palace's treasure room was going to be no problem. I kept in my shadow form to avoid any guards from seeing me, but the problem was that I did not see any. I paid no notice to this detail. It was just pure coincidence that I had not passed any yet and kept up the shadow form. I walked past the courtyard to see blazing lights. I paused to take a closer look only to see where all the guards were. There was a huge party of some kind going on and every guard in the castle was placed to watch them. Knowing now that no one would be around I quickened my pace. The gaurds were supposed to be hidden for the most part, but only a fool would not be able to see them. I now altered my course slightly and took a giant loop around the outer walls to avoid being seen. I walked toward the giant golden doors leading to the treasure room. To me, keeping all or most of your valuables in one place was rather stupid, but it just made it for people like me I guess. As I pushed open the giant doors, I noticed my colleagues had already done their jobs by the look of the decapitated heads. I mean come on why did they have to go and make such a freaking mess everywhere they went, total overkill. The view inside would stop any thief's heart. Piles of golden coins, furniture, and statues laid everywhere in an organized mess. Any normal thief would just take what ever they could carry and run, but I knew exactly what I was after. I disengaged my shadow form and walked past the piles to the back wall to see one of my acquaintances pacing the wall. I could tell who it was immediately by the short height.
"What's the hold up Marik?" I growled. He was supped to of already of found the secret entrance by the time I had gotten here.
The short hooded figure turned to face me sweeping back his hood to show a very frustrated face, "The map must have been wrong. There is no false wall anywhere! I sent the other three to keep watch that no more guards come." The blond crossed his arms and stared at the wall with a deathly glare.
I merely just slapped my hand on my face. My god I still had a lot to teach this noob. With extreme sarcasm in my voice I corrected the blond, "Okay for starters Marik it is not called a secret wall for nothing. There is not going to be some giant sign. You also have to look with more than your eyes to find something like this." I ran my hands down the smoothed stone wall. It had to be here somewhere. I felt the slightet rift in the wall under my fingers. I swiftly brushed my hands around until I had the whole door located. I summed Diabound and sent him into the wall. I waited a second and immediately the section of wall the sized of a small door shifted back and slide out of the way. A small-unlit passage reveled itself. A cooled breeze swept up the passage. This was it. I summoned back Diabound to save Ba, and I signaled for Marik to stay behind and headed in.
It cooled as I walked down the steps. The passage took a turn leading me into total darkness, but rather than not being able to see, I actually felt surer of myself and not so out in the open like I usually do in the light. The passage abruptly turned and the stairs ended. I walked down a flat pathway that had a glowing room at the end. The faint torch light cast shadows. I walked down the path into a giant room that held the source of the light. Two giant torches on each side of the room cast flickering shadows on the almost empty space, but in the center was the real treasure, a giant carved stone in the center. I grinned evilly. I leaned over the giant stone to see six different shapes carved out and empty. What I was after was the seventh carved out shape that still held its treasure, the millennium ring. The last owner of the ring, one of the pharaoh's adherents, had up and died out nowhere. I have no clue how that happened. So for "safe" keeping till they could find a replacement they kept it in here. I gave an evil grin and greedily snatched the ring out of its carved hole, and all of hell broke loose.
The first of many things that happened was the carved stone sank into the floor. With no need for more of a warning, I started to run. The whole room collapsed. I could tell by the deafening sound, but I was not stupid enough to actually waste time looking back. I jumped the steps five at a time. I turned around the last corner to see the door. It was closing fast and a frantic Marik was trying to hold it open. I was just about to the top of the steps when the very steps disappeared beneath my feet. I was suddenly sliding down one hell of an unpleasant slide. I got thrown from side to side as it went down the corridor. I franticly reached out to feel only smoothed walls to grip on to. I took the final sharp turn and looked down to see spikes had appeared at the bottom of this ghoulish slide. With no other choice I summoned Diabound to stop my fall. Luck was on my side because I did not have a second to spare with the spikes merely inches from me. I swiftly used him to lift me up the hellish slide. I went into my shadow form and melted seamlessly through the door. I rolled out on the floor completely winded and pissed. That little stunt had cost too much of the Ba I had left. I sat up and looked up to a concerned Marik. I gave him my sly grin and got up. I looked in my hand to see the millennium ring still tightly in my grasp. I shoved it in the pocket inside my cloak hoping to was worth all the trouble it was giving me.
"Come on we have to leave now." I said to a still staring Marik. I ran out the giant doors to see three other hooded figures.
"Boss," the first one said, "there are two squadrons coming from the north and west passages."
This was bad. " Alright, you, Marik, and I will take the north, and you two take the west hall. We will meet back up at the midpoint." I said gesturing to them. With that we split up.
We raced silently down the corridor lurking only in the shadows. We didn't have to run far. The group of soldiers didn't stand a chance. They appeared to be the first responders, but that didn't matter. I pulled Marik behind me as my other acquaintance stepped out in front of us. This was my other acquaintances specialty. He pulled back his hood to reveal a mess of blond hair and a set of flaming eager eyes. Out of no where he pulled out a set of small pin knives, and with deadly accuracy and speed he began his lethal dance, and in the end only one would be left standing and it was always him.
I grabbed Marik by the arm and pulled him off onto another hallway. I couldn't have my apprentice getting caught in the fire and killed on his first real mission. As we ran down the corridor, I could hear more soldier coming. I decided that if we were going to make it we needed to spilt up once more. The corridor came to an abrupt T I figured our chances and decided.
"You go to the left that should lead you to the outer chambers and you can find your way out from there. Don't be seen or heard, got it!" I franticly told him.
"Wait! I can't leave you!" a very confused Marik asked, but there was no time. I could hear the guards coming even closer.
"No time! Go Now!" With one last doubtful glance he ran the left and was gone. I ran right.
I on the other hand was running straight into the heart of the palace and there was nothing I could do I was being chased like a giant game of cat and mouse, but I wasn't about to go down with out a fight. I ducked behind a giant pillar. It only took seconds for the guards to reach the T. I heard a husky male voice decide to divide and go each way. He also announce bring who ever you found back dead or alive. I couldn't allow that. Knowing Marik he was probably lost and he would never go down without a fight. I had taught him too well. I summoned my Ka using the last of my Ba and waited. Too slowly the group ran past where I was hiding, and I attacked. I quickly took them out with one swoop of my Ka. The other half quickly ran back to assist, but all they did was run to their own death. With my blade and Diabound they were demolished.
I summoned my Ka back. I stared around at the silence and fell to my knees. My vision started to blacken. I was all but out of Ba. I don't even know how I was still conscience, except for the searing hot pain that burst through my side. I looked down to see my cloak was glowing. I reach in and pulled out the millennium ring to see it was not only glowing, but it appeared to be pointing. Knowing I had to get my but up before they caught up to me again, I got up and followed the ring. Not knowing at all where it was taking me, but it had to be better then to stand here waiting for them to get me. My vision continued to lesson but I had to ignore it. It led me down the opposite hallway. I turned the corned and it now pointed to a single room. Without thinking I mindlessly walked in, but before I could clearly see my surroundings. I collapsed on the floor. My vision went completely black and I passed out. My last thoughts were that I hoped they hadn't gotten Marik before they killed me, and my last sight was of that of a white haired angle.
Man the next chapter is going to be interest right! ^^ I mean how is Ryou (yes Ryou is the white haired angle I know a minor but obvious spoiler right) going to react to the now unconcious Thief king laying on his bedroom floor! All to be said in the next chapter. Hey don't forget to review! I love all good or bad preferably bad so I know where I can inprove!