Vote for pairings! It can still go either way! ^_~
Serenity-Usagi/Yami 7
Serenity-Usagi/Bakura 7
Maakyurii-Ami/Shadi (That's final ^_~)
Marusu-Rei/Jono 3
Marusu-Rei/Malik
Marusu-Rei/Horon 1
Marusu-Rei/Seto
Marusu-Rei/Shadi 1
Marusu-Rei/Yami or Bakura 4 (Whichever one looses to Serenity-Usagi)
Yupiteru-Makato/Seto (That's final 2 ^_~)
Viinasu-Minako/Jono
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Viinasu-Minako/Malik
Viinasu-Minako/Horon 1
Viinasu-Minako/Seto
Viinasu-Minako/Shadi
Viinasu-Minako/Yami or Bakura 4
Nepuchuun-Michiru/Tennou-Haruka (That's final 3 ^_~)
* (He wasn't really in ancient Egypt but he has to have an Egyptian name, as for the names of the girls, well, let's just say it's the best they could come up with! ^_^;;;)
---Reality---
Serenity bolted straight up, sweat poring from her forehead, bangs quickly dampening. Eyes wide and scared, breath coming in heavy gasps, her hand reached for her forehead and whipped away the sweat. "What was that, a vision, or…or a nightmare?" she asked herself for there was no one else in the room to hear. Taking one last heavy sigh she let it out slowly steadying her breath and calming her nerves.
She swung her legs off of the bed and stood up proceeding out the door without looking back. She had just turned a corner when she saw to priests talking, "Do you think he is insane?" one asked.
"No, maybe it was just shock or his mind playing tricks on him," suggested the other.
"You don't think angels are real do you?" asked the first, a green haired man with forest eyes.
"Angel, did you hear what he said, she bore the mark for the moon, she had to be a Lunarian," retorted the second, a blue haired man with crown eyes.
"You think the prophecy is coming true?" asked the first hurriedly.
"Yes, you may be right, but that would mean that the shadow realm would be opened again," said the second hurriedly.
"Shadow realm," Serenity whispered to herself.
---Flashback, the Moon, the palace library---
A twelve-year-old version of the princess of the moon sat quietly in a corner of the candle lit room filled with row upon row of books. In her hands she bore a book, a book for ancient texts that she had uncovered in the back of the library. The text was ancient Lunarian hat only the royal family knew how to read for the language had faded out ears ago. Her eyes darted from one side of the page to the other as she quickly devoured the writing implanting it into her head, little did she know this would play a large role in her life.
The text read, 'Monsters from a darkened realm have breached there gate and come upon us, a battle we fort that was almost lost until an eternal sacrifice by us was made. The seal is strong but we fear it shall be breached once and again and when that comes we fear that now planet in the vast reaches of space is safe. We hope that we are wrong but the Luna race is almost never wrong, all we can do is wish that the terrors of the place we dub the Realm no Hikage shall never open again so no other sacrifice like the one we experienced shall rescuer.'
The next page bore information about life after that but as to the sacrifice itself, it wasn't there. The index said it was but looking carefully she saw that the page numbers jumped form 57 to 60 and a page was missing.
---The present, Egypt---
"The Realm no Hikage," she again whispered.
"But if it opened, the monsters would have to be banished before the gate could be permanently sealed," exclaimed the first.
"The sacrifice of a life…" the second stated.
"…And seven souls to seal," ended the first, both priests faces were grave and pale, but not as pail as Serenity's. 'So that is the sacrifice that was made, oh my,' she ran, ran away from where she had learned something she was not meant to know. She found herself running towards the meeting room and stopped outside when she saw Malik and Isis standing there.
---The Moon, the Royal meeting halls---
"Princess Maakyurii, I am forced to take away your powers," Queen Selenity said with confidence. Ever since it had been found out that Maakyurii had disclosed to the Hime no Tsuki the rivalry of Egypt and the Moon she had been under constant supervision. The council of the planetary elegance had declared that Maakyurii was guilty of trying to create a war between the planets and Earth and was there for to be trailed.
"No, stop," came an equally confident, voice but younger, all heads turned to the standing girl in a long forest green dress with emerald eyes and auburn hair in a high ponytail.
"Silence Yupiteru," Queen Selenity ordered.
"No, I won't let you do that," Yupiteru declared going and standing by Maakyurii, "it might be a good thing that Princess Serenity has gone to Earth."
"But the Hime is in danger, that is most certainly not good," Queen Kaiousei said rising in defiance to the words of the Hime no Mokusei.
"But what if she silences the rift between the Moon and Egypt?" asked Princess Viinasu.
"No it is impossible, it cannot be done," said Selenity defiantly.
"I never saw you try," cried out Marusu.
"But…" Selenity tried to argue but was cut short by the Hime no Tennousei.
"Would it be possible for us to disguise as people of Egypt and travel there to protect Princess Serenity?" that was her question and her best friend, more like partner stood up by her side.
"I think we should, it could even silence the idea of future wars," pointed out Princess Nepuchuun.
"She is right, although Serenity's…escapade runs the risk of causing a war now, if she were to discover the reason behind Egypt's feelings she could prevent many in the future. The future is a delicate thing that can be changed by one simple act and that is what we must consider, whether it is better to bring her back now and protect her here, or protect her there and protect the future Moon from Egyptian rebellion." The Queen of Meiousei declared.
Selenity was silenced and the Queens of the eight united planets, that included Queen Puruutoo who had recently inherited her planets throne. Them alone with the planetary council conferred on the matter and final decided to let the Hime's of the four inner planets, Neptune and Uranus go to Earth to protect Serenity.
---Planet Earth, Egypt---
"Usagi, wherever have you been?" Isis cried, flinging her arms around Usagi.
"I'm sorry if I worried you," Serenity apologized sadly but her eyes, her eyes were devoid of emotion and the usual spark that lay there. The priest's words had scared her truly.
"You shouldn't run off like that, who knows what kind of trouble you could have gotten yourself into," Malik said half glaring at Serenity who grinned back.
"You have no idea," she mouthed back; he raised an eyebrow but shrugged her silent statement off without concern. Serenity put the thoughts of what the priests had talked about behind her and her eyes regained their cheerfulness.
---The meeting hall---
Yami sat in his seat fidgeting a little, he still didn't get it and his father had surely been dead, as cold as ice even. His blood lay everywhere, was it a dream, no, it couldn't have been. It wasn't possible, one minute he's dead, one minute he's not. Yami however missed the key point to his fathers 'rebirth', when he last saw him he was dead and with Serenity, if he had noticed this then he might have caught on and put our princess in danger.
A few weeks later the whole thing of the Pharaoh's 'rebirth' had been forgotten as though nothing had happened and now Serenity has settled in to a certain extent. Yami isn't cruel anymore, he learned about the heart and Serenity's cheery personality helped a great deal. Serenity was friends with absolutely everybody that lived in the palace, even the Pharaoh and his wife.
We see her now carrying a tray of food fit for only a dog towards the dungeons, "Eww yuck, and the people down there eat this stuff?" she asked no one in particular.
"No," said Shizuka as she passed, "only that white haired tomb robber."
"You mean the one they caught last week, Bakura?" Serenity asked.
"The very same," Shizuka nodded at Serenity's question, Serenity had done well in hiding her origin and true name, no one suspected her to be a Lunarian.
"Gee that's harsh, even for someone with a crime like that no one deserves to eat this kind of stuff," Serenity said in disgusted, to emphasise her point she held the tray out in front of her as far as her arms would stretch.
"I promise not to tell," Shizuka said winking and tapping her nose gently with one finger, she could sense a Usagi scheme coming on.
"Thanks, Shizuka," Serenity winked back as the brunette smiled happily and turned to go and do whatever task she had been set. Serenity then dashed off in another direction, dropping the food off by the dogs that at it gratefully. After that she sped towards the kitchen in search of something more edible.
"Ah ha," she said as she picked up an apple, "this should do." She nodded to herself and snuck back out of the kitchen and down to the dungeons. She looked pityingly at the people in the cells. She walked to the one at the end and saw the white haired boy inside. Wrists and ankles bound, he was sitting on wooden bench that was his bed that jutted out from the wall. His hands lay in his lap and his head was hung low, eyes on his hands.
Serenity undid the lock and stepped in, closing the door and locking it behind her. His head snapped up when she entered and he growled at her until he saw the apple. "Would you like this?" Serenity asked politely holding it for him.
"You'll just pull it away when I go for it," he growled out at her.
"No I won't, I promise," she said kindly. He continued to glare at her but finally reached out for the apple and was surprised when she did not draw away.
"Aren't you afraid of me?" he asked taking a bite and relishing the juicy taste.
"Yes," was her short reply to his question, she stepped forward and sat down next to him.
"Then why are you here?" he asked taking another bite and looking at her.
"Because, believe it or not, I care," she said leaning forwards as he was.
"Why would you care about me?" he looked directly into her eyes, she flinched and tried to move away but he grabbed her wrist. "Answer me," he growled.
"Because, just because, it's who I am," she looked away from him and felt his warm hand on her chin pull her to face him. "Bakura…I," she didn't get to finish when she felt his lips on hers, her eyes went wide and she blushed when she felt his tongue run coaxingly along her lower lip. This wasn't the first time she served him his food, she'd served it too him about ten times now and each time she'd talked to him about something or other but they'd never kissed. She opened her mouth willingly and felt his hot tongue slide into her mouth; she could taste the citrus juice from the fruit she'd given to him.
---Flashback---
Serenity walked slowly through the dimly lit dungeons of the palace; she carried a tray on which was something that resembled white mud. Stopping outside the last door she opened it cautiously, scarred of the tomb robber that was imprisoned within. She saw him lying, back to her, on a wooden bench sort of thing that protruded form the wall.
Laying the tray down she said, "Um…excuse me sir, but…" she jumped back scared out of her life when he turned over and sat up in the blink of an eye. Calming a little she looked at him and could she the frustration in his eyes however well he hid it. Serenity just had a sixth sense that allowed her to read people like a book, any person.
"What?" was his short, and to the point, question.
"Um...your food," she replied timidly picking the tray up and taking it to him, she put it in front of his feet and dashed out locking the door behind her. Hiding out of his sight she listened. She heard him pick up the tray and then she saw the bowl smash against the bars of his cell. She was scarred out of her wits by this action and ran for her life as fast as her legs would carry her out of the dark and gloomy dungeons and into the well lit corridors of the palace.
---Flash forward---
Once again Serenity had been given food duty for the tomb robber, this time was no different, same disgusting looking gruel. She got the same snapped kind of remarks when she gave him her food and once again he through it at the entrance to his cell.
"You really should eat something you know," she said reappearing outside his cell he looked up.
"Oh, and why's that?" he smirked but Serenity didn't back down.
"It's not healthy and without food you'll die," she couldn't think of anything more to say that wouldn't make her blush, not that she wasn't already.
"So what if I die, who'll miss me?" he was starring seriously at her now, she just lowered her head, partly to hide the blush that his actions gave her and partly in shame that she couldn't think of an answer to his question. "Run along little girl," he said and Serenity gratefully complied.
---Flash forward---
This was the seventh time Serenity had served Bakura and this time she had been able to sneak a couple of slices of meet, which was now cold, from the dinner table. She knew it was rude to do so but she did feel sorry for Bakura, it was in her nature to be caring.
"Hey Bakura," he looked up and his eyes widened at the sight of the meat. Serenity giggled when she saw his mouth water, he snapped out of his trance at that and looked at her as she came in. "It's not much but it was the best I could do," she said sitting beside him and giving him the meat. Now it was her eye's turn to widen, he ate it faster than the speed of light. "Guess you liked that huh?" she said laughing nervously and putting one arm behind her head and scratching the back of it.
"Thanks, what's going on?" he asked, Serenity gave him a quizzical look not quite understanding the object of his curiosity, "in the palace?"
"Nothing much, two prisoners were released the other day," he growled she figured it was form jealousy, "a slave was executed," she shudder and Bakura chuckled, "what's so funny mister?"
"Looks like the little girl can't stand death," he grinned.
She just mock glared at him, "Oh shut up Bakura!"
"Hey how'd you know my name?" he demanded in shock.
She cowards and replied timidly, "Um...I was told it," he calmed down slightly but didn't look too happy.
"Well, since you know my name, what's yours?" he asked crossing his arms and putting one leg over the other as he raised a delicate eyebrow at her.
"Um…it's Usagi," she said, he nodded and then there came Isis's voice from somewhere down the hall.
"Usagi, you down here, you're needed come on," Serenity grinned at Bakura and waved at him before running off, not forgetting to lock the door. Bakura grinned and unknown to Serenity waved back slowly.
---The present, Bakura's cell---
She pulled away suddenly he smirked, then asked "Did you like that little girl?"
"Um…" she couldn't answer as her face went red from one ear to the other, "Bakura, what did you do that for?"
"It's my way of showing you I care," he was grinning now.
"I can't do this Bakura, I have problems that I don't want to drag you into," she was looking away from him now; she didn't want to look into his eyes again.
"Fine, run along little girl," he said grabbing her wrist and throwing her round so she was standing in front of him. She nodded, turned and departed the cell, running as fast as she could from the dungeons.
"Why did he kiss me?" she asked herself while running, "He can't love me, can he? No, we're too different, he's a tomb robber and he'd probably use me." With this conclusion firmly implanted in her head she refused to deliver food to him ever again, well, just not for a while, but a lot happened in that while.Okay, some things to say.
1) please review and vote for parings at the same time ^_^
2) This is what I meant when I said CRITICAL junction
Let me explain. Usagi can either realise she's in love with Bakura, or think that what he did was totally wrong and that her heart belongs to someone else. Then it goes on so that she's with Yami, the endings the same either way, souls in millennium items, sacrifice full filled and Serenity...
Now that would be telling! ^_~