Chapter 9
Disclaimer: If I owned Yu-gi-oh, wouldn't I just pay my writers to add this into the story line? Think about it!
A/N: MUST READ!!!!! This chapter will be short and sort of an epilogue. In three weeks I'm writing part two of "A Forgotten Soul", but it will be under "A Forgotten Soul 2". This is just the first part to tell you about Abnore's past.
Dictionary:
Mastaba- an oblong structure with a flat roof and sloping sides built over the opening of a mummy chamber or burial pit in ancient Egypt and used as a tomb.
It had been a one-week since Abnore's death. The pharaoh's guard searched for the snitch that reveled her secret. Seto had found a lead that traced back to the criminal, Abnore's brother. Unbeknownst to anyone other than the five guards that arrived with Yami to Merrick's house, no one else knew that Yami had banished Merrick to the shadow realm.
Everyone in the kingdom began to mourn the lost of the pharaoh's wife. She had done so much good for the kingdom in her short reign as a royal bride. She also brought out a side in pharaoh that the people hadn't witnessed in a pharaoh for several generations.
As part of the early burial ritual, most of Abnore's organs were taken out and put into jars. After taking out organs (for the sake of this story) the person would be sewed back together and then after the viewing of the body, the body was wrapped in silk gauze. While during this part of the ritual the guards who preformed the ceremony noticed something odd:
"Hey George, what is that?" Joey inquired.
"I don't know, Oh no. It can't be!" George drew back in surprise.
"George, what is it?" Joey asked again.
"Of all the dumb luck! Why princess, why?" George whispered.
"George!" Joey shouted.
George broke out of his trance, sweating like a pig; he looked around wildly as if expecting to find someone listing in on the conversation. He drew near to Joey; in fact George was so close that Joey could smell the fish and grapes George had for breakfast.
One finger was pointed to the abdominal region, as Georgie slowly whispered into Joey's ear, "She was pregnant, by the looks of it, I'd say just about 4 or 5 months along."
"We should tell Yami," Joey ranted yelling as he turned away to return to the palace.
George clasped Joey arm tightly and hissed, "If Yami is torn up over the death of his wife, how's he gonna react when he finds out that she was pregnant?!"
Joey looked sympathetically over to Abnore'. She looked so peaceful, as if she had only been in a deep sleep. "Fine, Yami never finds out about this. After, the ending of the burial ceremony tomorrow, you and I will bring in a baby casket, and bury the child here in the mastaba. Yami will be too depressed to ever come down here, he needn't ever know."
The next day many people came to the mastaba, to pray for Abnore's soul, so that it could pass on to the afterlife. Others came to show their awe-inspiring support for Yami. In any case it was just about the biggest funeral turnout Egypt had ever seen. There wasn't a dry eye anywhere.
Among those who came was Seto Kaiba with his brother Mokuba in hand. As the two approached the body at the opening to the mastaba, Seto wanted to turn back. He couldn't face her even if she was dead.
'The fact of the matter is, that if he had not agreed to her "brother", she may very well be alive right now. Speaking of Abnore's beloved brother where was he? Why wasn't he there to mourn the lost of his early-departed sister? After what Merrick and I did to Abnore', the least that brat could do was show up.' Seto thought sulkily.
There was only one person ahead of Seto and Mokuba now… Yami. Although Yami was a strong leader and hardly ever showed signs of weakness he cried his heart out.
Seto was now gazing upon Abnore'. Her skin was golden, and her hair was tied in two braids with golden beads tracing down both of them. She wore her family air loom dress that was passed down to her. The one she wore when she first met Yami.
Abnore' looked so voluptuous lying there. She seemed to be quiescent. The creases in her mouth were curved up as if she were smiling. Although Seto tried to believe, she wouldn't wake up.
"I'm sorry Abnore'…" Seto whispered only to be cut of from his brother.
"It's not your fault, The Spanish government is the one who did this. They took her away from us!" Mokuba accused.
"Mokuba, why don't you go sit down now," Seto suggested. Mokuba halfheartedly headed for the closest seat he could find after one last glance at Abnore'.
"I'm sorry, if I had known that this is what your brother had in mind… If I had known that your brother's idea of your separation from Yami was death I would have never agreed. You believe me don't you?" Seto confessed.
After Abnore' was wrapped in gauze, she was put in the mastaba, and then it was closed.
At midnight, George came dawdling along holding the baby casket.
"What took you so long?" Joey whispered.
"Sorry, the baby is light as a feather, but the wood used to make the casket weighs a ton!" George exclaimed.
As the two men neared the tomb, they noticed a flicker of light from a torch in the mastaba. Joey left George with the casket to find out what was going on.
"…I've learned that these millennium items are no good. They only bring pain. I have to shield them from the world." Apparently Yami was speaking to Abnore' as if she were alive.
Still Yami went on raving, unaware that he was being watched, and "I can only trust you to watch these millennium items my love This puzzle will bring me luck, I can feel it. I will put it away with the rest, but not until I obtain, the others. Yours shall be the first of six." With that Yami kissed the casket representing where his wife's mummified face would be and left.
After crouching silently for thirty minutes Joey finally signaled George to bring the casket. They would have to hide it deeper in the mastaba if they were to keep Yami from knowing.
They later walked back to the palace in silence.
A/N: Ok, not the best ending. For those of you wondering this is a two part series. In three weeks I'm starting a brand new "A forgotten Soul 2". It takes place in Yugi's present time. Why am I waiting three weeks to write it? I need your help that's why! I have some ideas for how Yami and his wife will meet and what will happen, but it's not finalized yet. I'm giving you the reader or reviewer till December 20, 2003 to email me at chocolatelyblack@yahoo.com about your ideas. The people whose ideas I like I will give them credit in each of my new chapters, I will e-mail them first drafts of my story and chapter, and they also have to give me a name (doesn't have to be real one) that will represent them in a future story (I'll try to put you in "A Forgotten Soul Part 2" but I have not worked it out yet and I might put you in another story.). Also leave me your e-mail so I can e-mail you back. You do not have to be a member of fanfiction.net to participate. Good Luck.
-Chocolatedragon15