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^ ^ Ii! Another chappie! Finally your questioned will be answered. . . to some extent.

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- - Transfer Students - - Yume Yui and Mahina Jaz Tanzir - - Chapter Ten: Ankhmute, Another Soul - - Setting ~ Modern Day Japan/Ancient Egypt - -

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Yume sat alone in front of the river. It was the same river where she had fallen in and almost drowned.

Her hand moved over the words inscribed on the box once again to prove it was the right one. Her fingers fumbled in her coat pocket and pulled out a simply fashioned key. It fit into the hidden key hole and unlocked the box.

The inside was lined with purple velvet and contained a small pendent of a lunar disk. It was the symbol of her master, Thoth. Along the disk in a spiral pattern was this; 'And by the moon and earth and sun I give this to my first daughter, Ankhmute. I bestow onto her, her past; if she ever losses it. Place it around your beautiful neck and whisper the forgotten words only you know and you will once again be my daughter. Simply Thoth.'

Yume slipped the necklace around her neck and ripped the velvet from the boxes inside. Her fingers ran along the polished surface searching for the words she needed. When they caught them she whispered under her breath, 'Bring to me my memories past. My love, my life, my losses hence. For once they are brought to my mind I will once and forever be the girl Ankhmute.'

Yume closed her green eyes and watched as her past played against her eyelids in fast forward. Suddenly it hit a crucial part and stopped to play abruptly.

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"Ankhmute!" The pharaoh yelled at the youth. The green eyes that belonged to the name cursed him silently. She looked up from the crumpled form of her sister and half-brother. "Ankhmute!" He yelled the name again waiting for her to acknowledge his call. Ankhmute stood to her feet, he softly hanging garments drenched in red blood.

"What is it you want?" She sneered the question in a disrespectful tone. Her eyes held his stare and watched the Pharaoh move from his throne to a spot two paces away from the daughter of Thoth.

"Bring to me the knowledge of Ra himself, half-breed. You will not stop me in my quest to become immortal. Daughter of Thoth, I have orphaned you since you were but an infant. Now it is your time to pay me back."

"I will never help you become immortal. You have shown your true rage by slaughtering you wife and son and my half-sister. And I am only beginning to name the people you have killed on your rampage. Your heart will weigh heavily upon the scale in the Hall of Two Truths." Ankhmute's eyes never wavering.

"You will give me the knowledge," the pharaoh commanded.

"I am half-goddess your superior! You will stand down, Amenhotep." A few remaining guards shuffled from behind Ankhmute. Amenhotep grabbed a few throwing knifes and silenced them.

Blood ran red against the floor.

"You will stand down!" He commanded moving towards one of the bodies. He pulled out a curved sword and weighed it in his hand to balance out the weight. He showed all too clearly what he would do with it. "Tell me how it is I will become immortal or I will kill you!"

"If you kill me you will only be inviting the gods here. They will certainly take revenge for all of those you have slaughtered today."

"Then I will follow you to the next life!"

"How honored I am that you would follow me there. Despite the fact that I will kill you then in my own revenge." Ankhmute's fingers moved into a fist clutching the sword at her hilt. She drew it with accuracy.

"You will never defend yourself against me with only that!" Amenhotep smiled peering at the rusted long sword. It was sharpened to a fine point on one end.

"Then it will protect me to my death!" Ankhmute yelled poising the blade to defend a blow. "I am not defenseless!" She yelled. Amenhotep smirked.

"Let us test your skills then half-breed," he sneered running towards her to attack.

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