Title: Finding Home, Finding Heart
Author: MissAmazoness
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! at all.
Warnings: Nothing really. Maybe some dark situations, but not much. Oh, this isn't Yaoi, even though I have nothing against it. ^^
Author's Note: This is my first Yu-Gi-Oh! fanfiction, that and I hope for it to be my best. I plan this to be updated every week, maybe even twice a week, or sometimes three, who knows. ^^ By the way, you can call me Khensa. Well, please review! Thank you!
-Khensa
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The sun shone its golden rays down on Egypt, like thousands of golden coins shining from the sky. The sun gave earth many things, like the ability to grow food to survive. It also gave children time to play outside in the beautiful light. It gave many more things, many good, but sometimes bad. But sometimes, the sun came too early.
In a small alley along the one of the many streets of Ancient Egypt, three young boys were just waking up. Rustling around, they soon found room to stand up and stretch. They were all of the age sixteen, although one looked a little bit younger than the others.
The younger-looking was just shorter smaller, which sometimes gave off the impression that he was younger than he really was. This boy's name was Yugi. Yugi's bangs were golden-yellow, and the rest of his hair was black but it was outlined with the reddish color. His eyes were a beautiful crimson color, like pools of sparkling amethysts.
One of the other boy's name was Ryou, a quiet boy with brown-honey eyes and white hair. He was also a very cautious boy. He was the second shortest of the trio and also very kind.
The other boy's name was Malik. He was the toughest of the group, and was the tallest. He had violet eyes and golden-blond hair like the sun. He was the strongest of the group also.
All three boys were orphans, but only since the age 6 or so. There was some sort of confusion in the city and they were all separated from their families. Ryou had found Yugi wandering the street alone about 4 days after the separation and both of them found Malik a few days after. Food was hard to get for a while, but then some kind man said if he helped with his store for a day, they could have some bread and water and the end of the day. It was the best they could do at the time.
"Why must the sun get up so fast, it feels like I only got a few minuets of sleep." Ryou yawned. Malik nodded, but Yugi abruptly said,
"I think we're getting too tired because we work everyday. Maybe if we don't eat all the bread and drink all the water at once, we won't have to work so much.
The corners of Ryou's mouth twitched. "You mean 'Malik stop eating and drinking everything, we want some more food too', right?"
Malik gave him 'the stare' and Yugi just covered his mouth to prevent himself from laughing.
After they were all done gathering the few belongings that they had, they noticed that some of the other orphans looking quite frightened. They seemed to be looking for something. Or maybe looking for somewhere. After a while of walking, Malik stopped dead in his tracks. The other two boys turned around. "Hm, what's wrong Malik?" Bakura asked, tilting his head.
"I know what's wrong. It's that time again. The time when the Pharaoh is rounding up all the orphans." Malik said darkly. Yugi gasped and Ryou stared at the ground nervously. Almost every three months, the Pharaoh ordered his guards to find all the orphans in the streets to become slaves, or servants. The parents of children made sure their children were in the house at the time of the gathering, and if a child said he wasn't an orphan he had to show the guards where he lived. The parents were also not allowed to hide other orphans in their homes. Pharaoh Yami made sure of that.
Yugi, Malik and Ryou did not know much about the Pharaoh, except that he was very powerful and very cruel. Many feared him, and people were afraid to look him in the eye. If they ever got the chance, that is. If people who had never met him before were this scared of him, what would it be like being a slave or servant?
"Where shall we hide? Last time we hid in a hole behind that one farmer's house, but we were almost caught." Yugi said, looking at the sky. They had always hid from the guards and they were mighty good at it.
"I'm not sure. We have plenty of time to figure it out, though. They usually look at midday or dusk, don't they?" Ryou asked. It was still morning. Why were kids hiding now?
There was no reply to this. That was usually the situation, and orphans wouldn't be hiding until a couple of hours now. As an orphan they often saw around the streets ran past them, Malik grabbed the neck of his shirt. "Hey, why is everyone hiding now? The guards shouldn't be here until dusk or something…"
The orphan's face looked very panicky. "No! My friend saw them heading towards here not long ago! They decided to look around when we think they're not coming! They know this part of town is where many orphans linger, so they're coming here! I think the almighty Pharaoh knew that there was something going on!" He broke from Malik's grip and sprinted away.
The three boys stared at each other. What were they going to do? They didn't know the guards were coming today and they were coming earlier! The three boys started to run. No matter where they went, they heard screaming and fighting. It was like the day they all lost their families. Were they about to lose another family?
They heard things like 'Hey, there some go!' and 'Hurry! Catch them!'. But they knew their way around the city and could run very easily around it. But they had to think fast. This was like an ambush! They kept running but after a while the came to halt in an alley way.
"Come on, we're just going to have to do the best we-" Malik's words were cut short.
A deep voice spoke right behind them,
"Well, look what we have here. The Pharaoh will be very interested in this bunch." They didn't need to look around, they each started to run but it was no use. They were surrounded. It seemed many of the guards had been following them.
The guards grabbed them and they tried to break free, but again it was no use. Even Malik couldn't break free. How could it be like this? All taken away from them this fast? They screamed and thrashed, but all Ryou, Yugi and Malik received back was blackness.
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Author's Note: Well, there is the prologue! I hope you liked it. ^^ Please review! Thank you!
-Khensa