Desert Rose
Lady Kaiba
AN/ I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. !_!
LK: It wasn't bad?! ::jumps up and down:: Yay!! I'm so glad!!
Lara: Only three reviews?
LK: Be patient, there will be more!
Lara: I don't think this story will have 100 reviews by its end.
LK: ::glares:: well it WOULD have, IF it hadn't been deleted.
Lara: Should have put it under R to begin with. . .
LK: ::nods:: Hai, hai, I'm trying a new writing style. If it's annoying, tell me. If it's better, tell me! Well, enjoy!
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Chapter 8~ Truth
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"She was here." The group looked to the entrance of the room to see two women standing there, cloaked.
"Talla," Saren sighed.
The first woman removed her hood, as well as the other.
"Anzu!" Yugi said, surprised.
"Hello Yugi, Jou, Honda. How have you been?" Anzu asked, smiling at her friends.
"Be quiet." Talla demanded, shushing Anzu immediately. The two sisters stared at each other in silence. Talla crossed the room, Anzu close behind her, and stopped a few feet from Saren.
"What did she say?"
"The normal stuff."
"So, she's disappointed in you also. I would have thought she'd be glad that you would have at least stayed in the palace. She won't even speak to me, she's so pissed." Talla said, sarcastically.
"At least she doesn't want you dead." Saren replied. Talla blinked.
"Why would she want that?" she asked.
Saren mumbled something as she turned and walked out of the room. Talla's eyes widened, when she translated the mumble, and she watched Saren leave.
"What is it?" Yami asked.
Talla didn't reply and turned to follow. "Play nice, Anzu." She said absently. Anzu stared at her mother sarcastically.
"I'm 17. I don't play."
"You mean you don't play with kids your own age!" Jou corrected with a big grin.
"Shut up!"
"Ow!"
Seto, Ryou, Bakura, and Yami sweat dropped at them, while Yugi and Honda laughed.
~*~*~*~
Talla walked quickly through the halls, following the path Saren's aura created. She stopped in front of a pair of doors. She pushed them open and walked slowly into the room. It was more an indoor garden than a room. As she walked along the path, she spotted Saren. She was standing at the edge of a pond, staring down at the water.
She walked over and placed a gentle hand on Saren's shoulder. "Are you sure about that?" she asked.
Saren nodded. "I foresaw it when Yami was born."
"I understand. For now, let's focus on why Isis is here. Do you know."
"The Shadow Realm."
Talla's eyes widened, again. "You mean, she will attempt to open it?"
Saren nodded. "It is our duty to protect it, even if we must sacrifice our lives."
"That is the price we must pay for being the daughters of Amun." Talla said, looking at her sister sadly. "Though he does not know it, Yami must also bare this task. Because of who he is."
Saren nodded, a tear falling into the pond. "I know. He shouldn't have to suffer though his, neither of them should."
" 'Them'?"
"Yugi and Yami. They are destined lovers. Neither of them should be forced to love others. It isn't right. To separate destined souls."
"I agree."
~*~*~*~
"What do you think they're talking about?" Anzu asked. Yugi shrugged.
"Isis, maybe?"
Anzu blinked, confused. "Why would they talk about Isis?"
"Because Isis is our problem at the moment." Yami replied.
"Problem? Is she going to try and open the Shadow Realm?" The group looked at her with wide eyes. "What?"
"How do you know of the Shadow Realm?" Seto asked, shocked.
"I'm one of its guardians. That's what mother tells me, anyway. She says our whole family has an obligation to protect it." She replied.
"Hm, so your mother knows of it as well. . ." Yami said thoughtfully. Anzu nodded, staring at him.
"I'm confused now. I don't want to talk about it anymore." She said, shaking her head.
"You have magic lessons?" Seto asked suddenly. Everyone turned to him, but he never looked away from Anzu.
"How did you know I took lessons?"
"Your mother is a sorceress, your aunt is a sorceress, and you were thinking about it." He replied.
"You can read minds, Seto?" Yami asked, surprised.
"Something I discovered while you were away." He replied. His eyes moved to Ryou and Bakura with a raised eyebrow, and Ryou looked away, blushing. Bakura just smirked and Seto looked away, rolling his eyes. 'Disgusting.' He thought. 'Something I *didn't* really want to know.'
~*~*~*~
"Well?" Pegasus asked as Isis stalked back into the room.
"Well what?" she hissed.
His lips turned up in a crude smile. "I'll take that to mean you have found them." Isis glared at him. She extended her hand to one of the men in the room, palm toward his face, and he was obliterated with a cry. Pegasus chuckled. "Angry are we?"
"He isn't *dead*! The pharaoh is still alive, your men *failed*." She hissed.
"Now, now. Don't get too excited. The men that failed will be punished accordingly, your Majesty. Though I still don't get why you want your grandson dead."
Isis turned to him angrily, glaring murderously. "Because I never meant for the son of Shalla and Seth to sit on the throne. *Saren* should be the one to rule Egypt. But no, *she* wishes to bare the child of that child pharaoh." She fumed to herself.
"You're angry because of that? Why do you even want this 'Saren' on the throne?"
Isis smiled evilly and her mood changed from that of anger to that of cool darkness. Pure evil. "Because, dearest *moron*, through Saren, I could have ruled over the land. That all changed when Yami was born."
"You were once Queen, why didn't you take over then?" Pegasus asked, watching as she killed another of his men. He frowned. 'Luckily that wasn't one of my best men. I was going to kill him later-'
"It appears I have done that for you." She interrupted his thoughts.
"Right, I forgot you have the power to read unprotected minds." He said tiredly.
"I didn't take over then, because I had my *plan*."
"What do you wish to do now?" he asked, throwing up his mental defenses.
Isis sat down in the black throne, pondering her thoughts. "What do you have in mind?"
He smirked. "I suggest we send some sort of a warning. Make it so that they are prepared for an attack, but attacking when they least suspect it."
Isis thought for a moment then smiled, small fangs peaking out dangerously. "I like your idea. Do that." Pegasus bowed with a smile and turned to leave.
'*My* plans have nothing to do with you, *My Queen*. *I* will be the one to rule this land! And then the World! Hahahahahahah!'
~*~*~*~
LK: . . . .what now?
Lara: ::smacks head:: *You* get to continue the story!
LK: . . . .Oh. . . .
Lara: What *now*?
LK: . . .I forgot. . .
Lara: ::smacks head. . .again::
~*~*~*~
"Saren, are you alright?" Yami asked as he walked over to her on her balcony.
"I'm fine, Pharaoh." She replied, turning to him. Yami stared into her gold eyes, noticing the light blush on her cheeks as he watched her. The setting sun always made everything more beautiful, especially her exotic eyes.
"I can sense that something is bothering you. Please tell me." He insisted.
Saren sighed and turned back to look over the calm land. Yami followed her gaze to the large pyramid in the distance. "The pyramid?"
"Your grandfather's tomb." Saren said. Yami looked back to her, but her eyes remained on it. "Isis doesn't have the ability to open the Shadow Realm."
"That's good."
Saren shook her head with an exasperated chuckle. "It is, but she will find a way. It rests within that tomb."
"I don't understand. I thought only your family had that ability." Saren looked to him, surprised.
"Did you assume that?"
Yami nodded. "Because Anzu said that your family's obligation is to guard it. I assumed you would be the only ones to be able to open it."
Saren sighed. "Anzu. That girl will bring destruction if she doesn't watch her mouth. She is correct."
"Then why would my grandfather's tomb hold the ability?"
"Because he was the Pharaoh." She answered, as if that answered it all.
"That means nothing to me."
"There is a device, called the Millennium Ankh. It is a key to the shadow realm. It belonged to him. And it rests with him."
"Was he chosen to protect it?"
Saren nodded. "Because he was the Pharaoh." She added.
"Then why wasn't it passed down to my father?" Yami asked. Saren turned her gaze to him.
"Seth thought it would be safer buried with him. As did Shalla."
"Wouldn't Isis know of it?"
Saren smiled. "No. She knows of the Ankh, but not where it is. She left long before Seth's crowning."
Their conversation was interrupted by a scream. "What was that?" Yami asked.
"Anzu!" Saren gasped. She and Yami quickly ran from the room and in the direction a second scream came from.
They reached the room Anzu was staying in at the same time as Yugi, Honda, Jou, Talla, Bakura, Ryou, and Seto. The doors burst open and they all ran into the room and gasped. A snarling green lizard with pointy armor and blades on either arm was cornering Anzu. She held her arm, which had been cut by one of its blades.
"Rude Kaiser!" Seto said.
"Seiyaryu!" Saren quickly yelled out. A pink dragon appeared in front of Anzu and roared at Rude Kaiser. Seiyaryu released a gust of flames, destroying Rude Kaiser. Talla ran over to Anzu and tended to her wound before holding her tightly while she cried into her mother's shoulder.
"Hahahaha!" An evil laugh echoed in the room, sending shivers down every spine. "Consider this you're warning. Next time, it will be worse. And it won't be that pathetic girl." Pegasus's evil laugh filled the room again.
"Why are you doing this, Pegasus?" Yami yelled. He was only answered with another evil laugh, before his evil presence vanished.
"Why does he do anything?" Talla growled. Everyone's attention was suddenly turned to a small, panting, form in the doorway. The young boy panted for breath, then looked up to the group.
"Mokuba?" Seto asked. "What is it?"
"Big brother!" Mokuba said, happy to see his brother. He quickly shook his head and looked at Yami. "Pharaoh! A monster is attacking the city!!" Yami's eyes widened and he rushed to the balcony.
"What?!" Before him, what appeared to be a Blue Eyes White Dragon was, indeed, attacking the city, setting everything on fire. "Seto, don't you poses all of the Blue Eyes?"
Seto nodded as he watched the dragon destroying the city. "Pharaoh, that is not the Blue Eyes!" Talla said.
"Then what is it?"
"A Red Eyes. Pegasus has the ability of illusion, he must be doing this."
Once again, the three Blue Eyes, Seiyaryu, and the Dark Magician were summoned to destroy the impostor and put out the city.
Yami angrily turned to Saren and Talla. "This is all happening and I do not know why. Explain!"
Talla nodded. "Isis is very unhappy with you being Pharaoh."
"And why does she want Saren to be? Why does she think she should be?"
Saren sighed. "Because it is my blood right." Everyone stared at her, shocked.
~*~*~*~
LK: Ooooooo!!! Cliffhanger!!
Lara; Don't sound so proud!
LK: Why not? I wrote this is ONE DAY!!! ^-^ And it's long too!
Lara: That's nice. Anyway, this is a bonus for you people. We won't update till we have, oh say, 55 reviews. Hey, that's only 16 more, so don't complain!!
LK: Please review!! Ja~!
Lara: You're annoying sometimes, hikari.
LK: ^_______^ Arigato! I try to be!! ^-^
Lady Kaiba
AN/ I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. !_!
LK: It wasn't bad?! ::jumps up and down:: Yay!! I'm so glad!!
Lara: Only three reviews?
LK: Be patient, there will be more!
Lara: I don't think this story will have 100 reviews by its end.
LK: ::glares:: well it WOULD have, IF it hadn't been deleted.
Lara: Should have put it under R to begin with. . .
LK: ::nods:: Hai, hai, I'm trying a new writing style. If it's annoying, tell me. If it's better, tell me! Well, enjoy!
~*~*~*~
Chapter 8~ Truth
~*~*~*~
"She was here." The group looked to the entrance of the room to see two women standing there, cloaked.
"Talla," Saren sighed.
The first woman removed her hood, as well as the other.
"Anzu!" Yugi said, surprised.
"Hello Yugi, Jou, Honda. How have you been?" Anzu asked, smiling at her friends.
"Be quiet." Talla demanded, shushing Anzu immediately. The two sisters stared at each other in silence. Talla crossed the room, Anzu close behind her, and stopped a few feet from Saren.
"What did she say?"
"The normal stuff."
"So, she's disappointed in you also. I would have thought she'd be glad that you would have at least stayed in the palace. She won't even speak to me, she's so pissed." Talla said, sarcastically.
"At least she doesn't want you dead." Saren replied. Talla blinked.
"Why would she want that?" she asked.
Saren mumbled something as she turned and walked out of the room. Talla's eyes widened, when she translated the mumble, and she watched Saren leave.
"What is it?" Yami asked.
Talla didn't reply and turned to follow. "Play nice, Anzu." She said absently. Anzu stared at her mother sarcastically.
"I'm 17. I don't play."
"You mean you don't play with kids your own age!" Jou corrected with a big grin.
"Shut up!"
"Ow!"
Seto, Ryou, Bakura, and Yami sweat dropped at them, while Yugi and Honda laughed.
~*~*~*~
Talla walked quickly through the halls, following the path Saren's aura created. She stopped in front of a pair of doors. She pushed them open and walked slowly into the room. It was more an indoor garden than a room. As she walked along the path, she spotted Saren. She was standing at the edge of a pond, staring down at the water.
She walked over and placed a gentle hand on Saren's shoulder. "Are you sure about that?" she asked.
Saren nodded. "I foresaw it when Yami was born."
"I understand. For now, let's focus on why Isis is here. Do you know."
"The Shadow Realm."
Talla's eyes widened, again. "You mean, she will attempt to open it?"
Saren nodded. "It is our duty to protect it, even if we must sacrifice our lives."
"That is the price we must pay for being the daughters of Amun." Talla said, looking at her sister sadly. "Though he does not know it, Yami must also bare this task. Because of who he is."
Saren nodded, a tear falling into the pond. "I know. He shouldn't have to suffer though his, neither of them should."
" 'Them'?"
"Yugi and Yami. They are destined lovers. Neither of them should be forced to love others. It isn't right. To separate destined souls."
"I agree."
~*~*~*~
"What do you think they're talking about?" Anzu asked. Yugi shrugged.
"Isis, maybe?"
Anzu blinked, confused. "Why would they talk about Isis?"
"Because Isis is our problem at the moment." Yami replied.
"Problem? Is she going to try and open the Shadow Realm?" The group looked at her with wide eyes. "What?"
"How do you know of the Shadow Realm?" Seto asked, shocked.
"I'm one of its guardians. That's what mother tells me, anyway. She says our whole family has an obligation to protect it." She replied.
"Hm, so your mother knows of it as well. . ." Yami said thoughtfully. Anzu nodded, staring at him.
"I'm confused now. I don't want to talk about it anymore." She said, shaking her head.
"You have magic lessons?" Seto asked suddenly. Everyone turned to him, but he never looked away from Anzu.
"How did you know I took lessons?"
"Your mother is a sorceress, your aunt is a sorceress, and you were thinking about it." He replied.
"You can read minds, Seto?" Yami asked, surprised.
"Something I discovered while you were away." He replied. His eyes moved to Ryou and Bakura with a raised eyebrow, and Ryou looked away, blushing. Bakura just smirked and Seto looked away, rolling his eyes. 'Disgusting.' He thought. 'Something I *didn't* really want to know.'
~*~*~*~
"Well?" Pegasus asked as Isis stalked back into the room.
"Well what?" she hissed.
His lips turned up in a crude smile. "I'll take that to mean you have found them." Isis glared at him. She extended her hand to one of the men in the room, palm toward his face, and he was obliterated with a cry. Pegasus chuckled. "Angry are we?"
"He isn't *dead*! The pharaoh is still alive, your men *failed*." She hissed.
"Now, now. Don't get too excited. The men that failed will be punished accordingly, your Majesty. Though I still don't get why you want your grandson dead."
Isis turned to him angrily, glaring murderously. "Because I never meant for the son of Shalla and Seth to sit on the throne. *Saren* should be the one to rule Egypt. But no, *she* wishes to bare the child of that child pharaoh." She fumed to herself.
"You're angry because of that? Why do you even want this 'Saren' on the throne?"
Isis smiled evilly and her mood changed from that of anger to that of cool darkness. Pure evil. "Because, dearest *moron*, through Saren, I could have ruled over the land. That all changed when Yami was born."
"You were once Queen, why didn't you take over then?" Pegasus asked, watching as she killed another of his men. He frowned. 'Luckily that wasn't one of my best men. I was going to kill him later-'
"It appears I have done that for you." She interrupted his thoughts.
"Right, I forgot you have the power to read unprotected minds." He said tiredly.
"I didn't take over then, because I had my *plan*."
"What do you wish to do now?" he asked, throwing up his mental defenses.
Isis sat down in the black throne, pondering her thoughts. "What do you have in mind?"
He smirked. "I suggest we send some sort of a warning. Make it so that they are prepared for an attack, but attacking when they least suspect it."
Isis thought for a moment then smiled, small fangs peaking out dangerously. "I like your idea. Do that." Pegasus bowed with a smile and turned to leave.
'*My* plans have nothing to do with you, *My Queen*. *I* will be the one to rule this land! And then the World! Hahahahahahah!'
~*~*~*~
LK: . . . .what now?
Lara: ::smacks head:: *You* get to continue the story!
LK: . . . .Oh. . . .
Lara: What *now*?
LK: . . .I forgot. . .
Lara: ::smacks head. . .again::
~*~*~*~
"Saren, are you alright?" Yami asked as he walked over to her on her balcony.
"I'm fine, Pharaoh." She replied, turning to him. Yami stared into her gold eyes, noticing the light blush on her cheeks as he watched her. The setting sun always made everything more beautiful, especially her exotic eyes.
"I can sense that something is bothering you. Please tell me." He insisted.
Saren sighed and turned back to look over the calm land. Yami followed her gaze to the large pyramid in the distance. "The pyramid?"
"Your grandfather's tomb." Saren said. Yami looked back to her, but her eyes remained on it. "Isis doesn't have the ability to open the Shadow Realm."
"That's good."
Saren shook her head with an exasperated chuckle. "It is, but she will find a way. It rests within that tomb."
"I don't understand. I thought only your family had that ability." Saren looked to him, surprised.
"Did you assume that?"
Yami nodded. "Because Anzu said that your family's obligation is to guard it. I assumed you would be the only ones to be able to open it."
Saren sighed. "Anzu. That girl will bring destruction if she doesn't watch her mouth. She is correct."
"Then why would my grandfather's tomb hold the ability?"
"Because he was the Pharaoh." She answered, as if that answered it all.
"That means nothing to me."
"There is a device, called the Millennium Ankh. It is a key to the shadow realm. It belonged to him. And it rests with him."
"Was he chosen to protect it?"
Saren nodded. "Because he was the Pharaoh." She added.
"Then why wasn't it passed down to my father?" Yami asked. Saren turned her gaze to him.
"Seth thought it would be safer buried with him. As did Shalla."
"Wouldn't Isis know of it?"
Saren smiled. "No. She knows of the Ankh, but not where it is. She left long before Seth's crowning."
Their conversation was interrupted by a scream. "What was that?" Yami asked.
"Anzu!" Saren gasped. She and Yami quickly ran from the room and in the direction a second scream came from.
They reached the room Anzu was staying in at the same time as Yugi, Honda, Jou, Talla, Bakura, Ryou, and Seto. The doors burst open and they all ran into the room and gasped. A snarling green lizard with pointy armor and blades on either arm was cornering Anzu. She held her arm, which had been cut by one of its blades.
"Rude Kaiser!" Seto said.
"Seiyaryu!" Saren quickly yelled out. A pink dragon appeared in front of Anzu and roared at Rude Kaiser. Seiyaryu released a gust of flames, destroying Rude Kaiser. Talla ran over to Anzu and tended to her wound before holding her tightly while she cried into her mother's shoulder.
"Hahahaha!" An evil laugh echoed in the room, sending shivers down every spine. "Consider this you're warning. Next time, it will be worse. And it won't be that pathetic girl." Pegasus's evil laugh filled the room again.
"Why are you doing this, Pegasus?" Yami yelled. He was only answered with another evil laugh, before his evil presence vanished.
"Why does he do anything?" Talla growled. Everyone's attention was suddenly turned to a small, panting, form in the doorway. The young boy panted for breath, then looked up to the group.
"Mokuba?" Seto asked. "What is it?"
"Big brother!" Mokuba said, happy to see his brother. He quickly shook his head and looked at Yami. "Pharaoh! A monster is attacking the city!!" Yami's eyes widened and he rushed to the balcony.
"What?!" Before him, what appeared to be a Blue Eyes White Dragon was, indeed, attacking the city, setting everything on fire. "Seto, don't you poses all of the Blue Eyes?"
Seto nodded as he watched the dragon destroying the city. "Pharaoh, that is not the Blue Eyes!" Talla said.
"Then what is it?"
"A Red Eyes. Pegasus has the ability of illusion, he must be doing this."
Once again, the three Blue Eyes, Seiyaryu, and the Dark Magician were summoned to destroy the impostor and put out the city.
Yami angrily turned to Saren and Talla. "This is all happening and I do not know why. Explain!"
Talla nodded. "Isis is very unhappy with you being Pharaoh."
"And why does she want Saren to be? Why does she think she should be?"
Saren sighed. "Because it is my blood right." Everyone stared at her, shocked.
~*~*~*~
LK: Ooooooo!!! Cliffhanger!!
Lara; Don't sound so proud!
LK: Why not? I wrote this is ONE DAY!!! ^-^ And it's long too!
Lara: That's nice. Anyway, this is a bonus for you people. We won't update till we have, oh say, 55 reviews. Hey, that's only 16 more, so don't complain!!
LK: Please review!! Ja~!
Lara: You're annoying sometimes, hikari.
LK: ^_______^ Arigato! I try to be!! ^-^
