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Chapter 5 (wow, 5 already!)
Yugi blinked blearily, the foggy shapes coming into focus. He thought he had heard footsteps. As he began to fall back asleep, he heard someone speak.
"You are the pharaoh's other half," a deep foreboding voice murmured, cutting through the silence of the night. "He must die, the pharaoh, he no longer rules as is right. He forgives to easily. You must help to kill him little one."
'Kill him?!' Yugi thought. "I can't!" he shouted. "He gave me a second chance! He was kind to me! I can't betray him! And the Lady! What would she think then?"
The voice chuckled darkly. "If you will not kill him, then you must die by his hand. Do you still refuse?"
"I don't care!" Yugi screamed. "I can't betray their trust!" he looked wildly around and saw a dark figure standing below the skylight.
"So be it," the stranger said. "Be prepared to meet your death," and he sprang up through the skylight, leaving Yugi to lay awake, terrible thoughts and worries running wild inside his head.
Yami rose at dawn the next morning, walking through the dim, incense-filled halls until he reached the temple of Osiris. The building was made of white granite, sparkling in the rising sun. In the center of the temple was a large pillar going up through the ceiling. Wrapped around the column was the carved likeness of the great dragon god of the sky. Yami paid tribute to the god, leaving an offering by the base of the statue.
"May all ends meet for the greater good of my people," he murmured, and left as the first rays of sun shot into the temple making the rubies inset on the dragon's back shine like the stars.
As he walked, Yami found himself being drawn towards the tombs of the previous pharaohs. The guards bowed as he passed. Red eyes surveyed the hieroglyphs etched into the ornate walls. He had never really looked at theme before, but as he did, he wondered what had drawn Yugi there the day before. His father, mother, grandfather…so many, they went on and on until he came to a room unfinished. There were two places for sarcophaguses side by side.
"My tomb," he said looking around the chamber.
On the right side, a warm breeze seemed to be drifting through a hole in the uncompleted wall. Yami walked over and stood there looking out. Instead of seeing the scaffolding for the slaves he saw yet another unfinished room. It was smaller than the previous one but much less dingy, sunlight streaming in the huge gap in the wall. As he stepped in tentatively, Yami saw several symbols near the ceiling. Moving closer he saw the words read "Mou hitori no Yugioh." The other game king.
Yami pulled his head back feeling confused. The other game king…the dark and the light…together…he climbed up atop the huge tomb and into the scaffolds. When he reached the top he stood and gazed out over his kingdom, not knowing that the other stood similarly, letting the sad beat against his skin, looking over his home.
Yugi sat on the straw roof of his room. He had climbed out the skylight to watch the day being born. As he gazed out across the desert he thought he saw someone standing there, with golden flashes sparkling across them, but he blinked and the image disappeared. Yugi's mind went back to the mysterious stranger in his room last night. Had it all just been a dream? Or were the pharaoh and the kingdom really in danger?
"Oi! Yugi!" a voice called up through the skylight. Yugi pulled himself back over to the opening in the roof and saw Mitt's face peering up at him.
"What were you doing up there?" Mitt asked curiously.
"Watching the world wake up," Yugi replied, jumping down.
"Oh," said Mitt, raising an eyebrow. "Whatever. We have three feeding times a day but the first is just after sunrise so COME ON!"
He grabbed Yugi by the arm and dragged him off to the gardens. The two took care of the birds before getting breakfast for themselves. Once all the dishes had been filled, they raced off to the kitchen. Each boy got a bowl of thick porridge (which wasn't very good) and some fresh figs. They walked through the halls munching on the remaining figs, Mitt pointing out different statues and markers for telling you where you were.
"There are also little tiles along the edges of the floor," he said pointing. There were several different colored strips of tiles running parallel to the edges of the wall. "If you follow the pale green ones you'll eventually make it back to the garden," Mitt explained. "The gold ones go to the Temple of Ra, red to Osiris, dark blue to Obelisk. The light blue go to the priests, yellow to the kitchen, and dark green to the throne room. What?" he asked, seeing Yugi's troubled expression.
"Where do the black ones lead?" he asked.
Mitt looked at him, surprised uncertain. "the black ones? They lead…to the pharaoh's quarters.
Keturah walked slowly down the hall away from Yami's room, and was surprised to see Yugi standing alone peering out a window. What was he doing out in this wing of the palace?
"Yugi?" she called out softly. "Is something wrong?"
The smaller boy turned to face her, his amethyst eyes filled with doubt.
"I have this weird feeling," he said, "In the pit of my stomach. It feels like it's telling me something's wrong, and I should know what it is."
"Everyone seems to be having that feeling," she told him as someone passed behind her. "Whatever is going to happen will, it's no one's fault, and no one should know what beforehand."
"You put a lot of faith in the future," Yugi replied.
Keturah laughed. "I know," she said, "People tell me I spend to much time with Isis. She's beginning to rub off on me." ^-^
"Lady?" Yugi inquired timidly. "Why does the queen bother for the welfare of a poor country boy?"
She blinked. "Why?" Keturah asked. "Because I don't believe in throwing people's lives away if they can change. And you have something special that I want to hold on to."
"What's that?" Yugi asked surprise evident in his voice.
"A good heart," she told him. "But you know Yugi, I'm not the queen."
"What?" Yugi shrieked.
"Well," she said, laughing at his out burst. "I won't be for three more days yet." She looked at him carefully, considering something. "Yugi, would you like to be invited to our wedding?"
"Me?" asked Yugi, astonished. "I'd be honored," he replied as she smiled again.
As Yugi looked at her he noticed her eyes fix behind him and a puzzled expression cross her face. He was just about to turn around when behind Keturah he saw a dark shape looming upward.
"Lady!" he exclaimed, "Behin-!" but he was cut off by a sharp pain at the base of his skull. A leering smile was the last thing he remembered before he plunged into darkness.
OOOOOOOH! A cliffy! Hehehe! I have an idea for the "man in the shadows" but I still want opinions. ^-^ Hope everyone like the chapter, now do your stuff! R&R!!!
