Here we have the second chapter, I want to thank my friend Light guardine35 from Quotev and AO3 for their help when I got stuck on a scene. Hope you all enjoy this chapter. :D
Chapter 2: The Spirit of the Millenium Fragment
When Sehrazat "woke up" again she had to look twice and pinch herself that she wasn't dreaming.
No, she wasn't.
How could this be possible?
She wasn't anymore in her bedroom, but in a room filled with toys from her childhood, a comfy-looking couch, a filled bookshelf and painted in soft golden colors.
What the heck was going on?
Was she kidnapped?
She felt how she started to sweat and her heart nearly leaped out of her chest. Sehrazat was more than afraid, she was terrified.
How could this happen?
The last she remembered was putting on the Millenium Fragment and then…nothing for a while.
"Wait a minute.", she mumbled to herself. "Has this something to do with the Fragment?"
Oh, dear Isis, she hoped not, that would mean all the crazy stories they told in her family were true, yet it would be better than being really kidnapped.
"I need to get out of her.", she told herself and looked for a way out.
Luck was on her side, there was a door and it opened!
If she really was kidnapped then her Kidnappers weren't that good.
Careful she looked around.
She was now in a corridor and before her was…a really, really creepy door.
There was again an eye of Horus who seemed to look into her soul.
Where by Osiris did she end up?
Suddenly the door before her opened slowly and Sehrazat wished she could run away. Yet something kept her there.
Maybe it was a morbid curiosity then it was not normal not to react to a creepy door slowly opening alone.
"So you have awakened?", said a melodious woman's voice from the room behind the creepy door.
Okay, now would be good to run away, but Sehrazat seemed to have turned into ice.
The woman the voice belonged to stepped out of her room and…no that couldn't be possible!
It was like Sehrazat looked into a mirror.
A mirror that made her look, older, taller, and hotter, with longer hair and sharper eyes even in her cutesy Dark Magician Girl PJs!
That was one sexy as-hell woman, Sehrazat bet any man or woman would get a heart attack at this beauty, it was just so weird and impossible that they both could be twins.
She didn't have a twin sister!
And why would a twin sister kidnap her to this creepy place?
What was going on?
Her look-a-like frowned at her and then gave her a small smile. She holds her hands up in a non-treating way.
"You must be really confused, aren't you? I understand, this is new for me too.", said the woman to her.
The blue-haired girl nodded slowly. She didn't trust her voice.
"Why don't we go back to your room? I will explain anything as well as I can."
Did Sehrazat even have a choice? The corridor looked like was endless and she wouldn't risk running away now. She had noted even how womanly her doppelganger was, she possed some muscles too.
That was not a fragile flower.
This was someone who could fight.
She was reminded of her favorite card the Amazoness Paladin. Her doppelganger was just as beautiful, but you clearly saw that she was a fighter!
So she nodded.
The Doppelganger gave her a reassuring smile and stepped as the first one in the toy-filled room.
How considerate of her actually. Sehrazat wouldn't have liked to have this woman behind her, so the woman turned her back to her.
She was showing Sehrazat some trust.
Well, she could at least hear out what she had to say. She couldn't be that bad if she was attentive to her feelings.
….That was not Stockholm-Syndrom talking out of her she hoped.
So Sehrazat got back into the room she woke up and gave the woman a hesitated and mistrusting look.
The other one was sitting on the couch, still trying to appear as non-threatening as possible.
Yeah, she wouldn't sit down beside her and stand where she was. The door she let open too, just in case she had to run away.
"Also.", began the woman. "Please don't freak out, but I'm a spirit. I inhabit the Millenium Fragment since a good 3000 years. You putting it on awoke me from my slumber. So you can see, I'm just as surprised as you are."
Sehrazat blinked at the doppelganger.
One.
Two.
And three times.
"I can't believe granny's crazy story is true!", she shrieked displeased.
Now the spirit was blinking at her, while Sehrazat remember what her grandmother told her when she was a little girl.
Sehrazat loved to visit her granny after pre-school.
Granny always made her, her favorite food backed her cookies, and told her amazing stories!
Her granny was a tall woman, with long dreadlocks and a beautifully aged face. She may not look like a typical grandmother, but she was just as sweet.
The little four-year-old girl snuggled more up to her granny, who hold her in her lap and listen to her newest story.
"The Millenium Fragment is special not only because of it's power, but the spirit of the great queen sleeps in it.", her granny told her.
Sehrazat looked with sparkling eyes at granny.
"Like Sleeping Beauty?"
Granny laughed heartily and gave her forehead a kiss which made her in turn giggle.
"You can say it, but she is not waiting for a prince charming to wake her up with a kiss. One day, the power of the great queen will be needed again. She waits in the Millenium Fragment for the right soul who will wake her up from her slumber."
"How granny?"
"When the time is right the chosen soul will wear the Millenium Fragment and awake so the queen's soul again."
"Unbelievable, you are the queen?! My ancestor?! All these freaky stories are true?", continue Sehrazat to shriek shocked.
How could she not if her whole world was flipped over in one instant?
The spirit frowned and title her head confused.
"I'm a queen?", she asked surprised. "I'm your ancestor? I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused. The only thing I remember is that I know my roots lay in ancient Egypt what you tell me is new information. Though it makes now sense why my soul room looks like a palace."
You know there could be a lot of things Sehrazat could ask the spirit, but she decide to concentrate on one thing.
"Your room looks like a palace?"
Her doppelganger just nodded.
"Huh."
A while later we find Sehrazat sitting beside the spirit finishing to tell her what she knows of her family stories about the Millenium Fragment.
"So to recapitulate, I once was a great queen married to two pharaohs, one who is only known as the Nameless Pharaoh saved once the world from the destructive shadow games. Then before I died my soul ended up in my Millenium Fragment and one of my daughters carried the duty to protect it and guard it against evil forces. She was the founder of your family, the Faizans. For 3000 years your family fulfilled this duty, now it's your turn and you didn't believe one bit of the stories and put Item one to prove a point. But so you awakened me, which I prophesized to my daughter, that I would be back when the right soul wore my Millenium Fragment and the world needed my power again. So that means the evil forces are back and I must be reunited with my first husband, whose spirit lives in the Millenium Puzzle."
Sehrazat just nodded, while the queen shook her head.
"I can understand you thought this was all a made-up story, I'm here and I can't quite believe it. I'm only a shadow of the person I once was, I can't be sure what your family told for 3000 years is the truth.", admitted the spirit.
"You really remember nothing?", asked Sehrazat to be sure.
"No, not one bit."
After that Sehrazat let out a loud sign. That wasn't good that the queen had amnesia, not when it seemed the world was in danger again.
"You know what.", started Sehrazat. "Till proven otherwise I think we can believe the stories my family told. We are clearly here together and you at least know you are a spirit bond to the Millenium Item. Better we can't do."
The queen agreed with a nod.
"Seems like you will be stuck with me for a while, Sehrazat.", the queen said.
"You will need a name, I don't want to call you spirit or the likes.", told her Sehrazat.
The queen was her ancestor, her 3000 times great-grandmother or so, she was family. It wouldn't feel right to not call her by a name. She was a human being.
"Do you have something in mind, Sehrazat?", asked the queen curiously.
The blue-haired girl mummed thoughtfully and gripped her chin.
What would be a fitting name for a once queen of Egypt?
One of the names of other famous queens?
Should she go with something modern?
Then it hit her. The queen had said she was only a shadow of the person she once was…
"How about Afya?"
Her ancestor put her pointer finger thoughtfully against her lips and looked up to the ceiling.
"Afya…Shadow…mmh, not bad. I like it. It fits me."
"Then it's settle.", cheered Sehrazat and hold her hand out to Afya. "It's nice to meet you official Afya, I'm Sehrazat."
With a laugh, Afya took her hand and shook it.
"The pleasure is all mine, Sehrazat."
Like any morning Kihana was on her way to wake up Sehrazat. She mummed happily a little song.
The weather was nice out there. So today they could eat in the schoolyard under the pretty cherry blossom trees. Kihana loved this about Japan, the cherry blossom trees were so wonderful.
She opened the door to her best friend's bedroom and started her greeting: "Good morning your highness, it's time to wake-"
The words got stuck in her throat as she saw Sehrazat sleeping peacefully, a golden amulet with an eye of Horus around her neck.
She never had seen it, but her mother had told her what all Millenium Items had in common, so she would recognize them.
The white-haired girl couldn't believe it!
"Sehrazat!", she shouted so loud, that her best friend woke up from her slumber and looked confused around.
"Wha, Wha, What?", comes still sleepy from her.
Kihana closed the door behind her and pointed an accusing finger at Sehrazat.
"Sehrazat Nefertiti Faizan, are you wearing the sacred Millenium Fragment?! You know it's not allowed!", reminds her Kihana waving her finger around.
Sehrazat sits up on her bed and rubbed tired her eye. The girl didn't quite catch what was going on, half asleep as she was.
"What Hana?"
Her best friend let out a loud sign. Of course, Sehrazat wasn't "online" so to speak. She still had to power up her system.
The blue-haired girl never was a morning person.
Well, Kihana knows what to do.
She started to tickle Sehrazat.
"Wa, wa, wa?! Hahahahaha! Stop it, stop it, Hana!", plead Sehrazat trying to get away from her best friend's fingers.
But Kihana was merciless.
"You are wearing the Millenium Fragment!", she repeated. "What are you thinking Sehrazat?!"
"Currently how to, hahaha, getaway, hahaha, from you!"
"Don't sass me, young miss!"
"Please have mercy, hahaha!"
"Explain yourself then!"
With that Kihana stopped and Sehrazat took a big gulp of air.
"Maybe it's better we go to the dining room, so I can explain to mama and the others this too.", meant the blue-haired girl.
Her white-haired friend let out a sign but nodded. It would be better if anybody knew what was going on. Amira needed to know this. Sehrazat had broken a rule of their family and only her mother could punish her.
So the two girls made their way to the dining room, where the rest of their family already enjoyed their breakfast.
"You guys are weird today.", said Maja to her two best friends and gave them a look.
It was lunch break at Domino High and thanks to the good weather they could eat at the schoolyard under their favorite cherry blossom tree.
Just Sehra and Hana wear so weirdly the whole day.
And the weird new amulet Sehra wore was giving Maja some strange vibes.
"A lot happened.", answered Kihana shortly, picking her Bento apart.
Maja raised an eyebrow.
"We saw each other just yesterday, what the frick, could happen that you guys are weird?"
"The world turn upside down.", sang Sehrazat a verse from Hamilton's Yorktown.
"I believe it my whole life.", said Kihana more to herself, yet Maja heard her. "But it's still so unbelievable. How can it be?"
The brunette just blinked even more confused at her friends. Normally she was the one who said cryptic nonsense to make them laugh, that was so not Sehra and Hana style.
"Okay, I'm going to guess you are acting weird because of Sehra new shiny amulet.", guessed Maja.
Kihana left eye twitched and Sehrazat nodded biting into her ramen noodles.
"Sehra!", hissed Kihana. "Do you think this is a good idea? I love Maja, but we can't drag her into this mess!"
It got weirder by the minute. In what kind of freaky situation did end up her friends and why can't she participate?
Maja pouted.
"I thought we three were best friends forever? I told and show you how I can do magic, why won't you trust me?"
Here Kihana whined and looked apologetic at her.
"It isn't like that Maja-Chan-"
"It's just Hana is still so fixed in our old family traditions that she doesn't know how to handle this now.", explained Sehrazat calmly.
"And you do Sehra-Chan?"
Sehrazat looked at Kihana. Oh, there they go having a silent conversation with their eyes. Maja wonders how the two do that. After a few seconds, Kihana let out a breath and nodded.
"As Aunt Amira said you can now decide who knows and who will not."
"Oh, goody, so I get an explanation now?", wanted Maja a confirmation.
"Maja-Chan, have you ever heard of the Nameless Pharaoh and the Shadow Games?", asked her Sehrazat in turn.
She admitted, she didn't expect that.
"Yeah, my grandfather told me that there was once a mighty pharaoh who saved our land and the world from something evil called Shadow Games.", said Maja. What was Sehrazat getting at? "Apparently you used real Monsters to battle each other in this game. It got out of control and somehow the Nameless Pharaoh put an end to this."
"You know a lot.", said Kihana surprised.
Maja shrugged her shoulder.
"In the village, my grandparents from Egypt live it's a folktale."
"Cool to know. So Maja-Chan what would you say when I tell you that the Nameless Pharaoh banned the power of the Shadow Games into eight mystical Items called Millenium Items?", wondered Sehrazat.
"Is this where now your amulet comes in?", pointed the brunette at it.
"She is a smart girl, Sehrazat."
Suddenly Maja heard this melodious woman's voice and not a second later a spirit-like being who looked like Sehrazat, just older and hotter, materialized beside her friend.
Maja gasped for air and pointed at the spirit woman.
"You….You have a spirit with you?! Since when?!"
"You can see Afya?!", shouted Sehrazat and Kihana shocked.
This "Afya" blinked rapidly at her, she seemed just as shocked.
The brunette got then a feeling in her belly that they would face many crazy adventures in the near future.
Really, really, crazy adventures.
Should she maybe get some alcohol? She had a feeling these adventures would give them a lot of frustration.
