Shadow's Story
Ok, one person reviewed, so I'll update. Thanks to Crystal Galadriel who reviewed. And, to answer your review, well, you'll just have to read the rest of the story, won't you? ^_^
Disclaimer- I don't own YGO, or anything affiliated with it.
P.S-Again, does ANYONE know how to keep 3 dots AS 3 dots? It's annoying when they all turn into periods-_-;
~The next day~
"Stupid.moronic.prince!" Shadow muttered to herself, as she ran down the hall, away from her mentor, who was to teach her what to do to be a chambermaid. "He told me he'd get me out of this! I swear.when I get my hands on him." Just then, she looked back to see how far she was from her mentor, when she ran into someone, knocking them over, and falling on top of them.
"Ow.Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."She said, getting up.
"That's okay." Prince Yami said, sitting up.
"You?! WHY I OUTTA!" She went to grab his cloak/cape that was draped around his neck, when her mentor yanked her back, and spun her around.
"You little brat! I told you to stay put while I went to see what happened in the courtyard!" Her mentor screamed in her face.
"Yeah, yeah." Shadow muttered.
"Shadahrien, why won't you take your lessons seriously?!"
"Shadahrien?!" Yami said, standing behind her, suppressing a laugh.
Shadow whipped around, and grabbed his cloak. "You want to make something of it?!" She growled.
Yami blinked, and looked surprised. No one, not even his own father had raised their voice at him. Now, he was being yelled at by a 5-year-old girl, who was to be a chambermaid?
"SHADAHRIEN!" Her mentor screamed, smacking Shadow in the side of the head.
Shadow quickly let go of Yami, and she fell to her knees, holding the side of her head. Yami blinked again, and looked at Shadows mentor, who was fuming.
"Excuse me, but why did you hit her like that?" He asked.
The woman looked at him, and quickly bowed. "I'm sorry you had to see that, Prince, but she would have surly strangled you, or hurt you in some way."
"I highly doubt it." Yami said, narrowing his eyes at the woman.
The woman shuddered, and reached down towards Shadow.
"Leave her." He said, as fiercely as he could, seeing as he was only 5.
The woman looked at him, then at Shadow, then quickly scurried away.
Yami watched her leave, them bent down to Shadow, whose bangs were hanging in her face.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
Shadow turned away from him.
"Please.", he reached out to her and she quickly, got up, and moved away from him. Yami got up, looking rather confused. Shadow quickly bowed to him, making sure the whole time he couldn't see he face, and she turned, and walked away.
Yami watched her go with sad eyes, then quickly ran to the throne room, to speak with his father.
~The next day~
Shadow got up that morning, and rubbed the side of her head. She had a large bruise where the teacher had hit her, and it still hurt. She sighed, and changed from her sleep robes, to her dress-like robes.
A knock came from her door. She blinked, and went over to it, and opened it.
"Yes?" she asked, as she opened it. A large burly looking guard stood in the doorway.
"Are you Shadahrien?" he asked.
"Uh, yeah." she said.
"You have been requested to appear in front of the pharaoh." He said.
".uh-oh." she muttered, her heart skipping a beat.
The guard turned, and began to walk away, down the hall, towards the throne room.
Shadow quickly ran after him, not particularly anticipating what would be waiting for her in the throne room.
~In the throne room~
Shadow bowed deeply to the pharaoh, at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the throne.
"Shadahrien. You have been found to have saved my sons life, did you not?" the pharaoh asked, shifting slightly in his throne.
Shadow stood, and looked up to the pharaoh. "Um.yes, pharaoh"
"I see.well, he has asked me to reconsider what you are to do, when you become the proper age, in the palace. So, I have instated, that you are to be taught with several boys, to become military persons."
Shadow blinked. "Um.thank you pharaoh" she said, bowed, and left the room.
".ARG! My gods.this sucks, my life'll be a living nightmare with those stupid boys." she muttered to herself, heading towards her bedchambers.
"I thought you'd do anything, as long as it wasn't becoming a chambermaid?" Prince Yami came up behind her.
Shadow turned to him. ".Thank you" she said, she bowed slightly, and continued down the hall.
"Why do you act so formal now?" he asked, catching up to her.
"What do you mean?" she asked, not looking at him, still going down the hall.
"Well, before you wouldn't even recognize the fact that I was royal, now your bowing to me every few minutes."
"So, what's your point?"
"I preferred it when you acted like I was a normal person."
Shadow stopped, and turned to him. "You're kidding, right?"
"No, why would I?" he asked, looking a bit shocked.
"Well, lets see," she began walking again, "you get all those perks, and everyone listens to you, who wouldn't want that?"
"I don't," he said sadly, walking beside her.
Shadow looked over at him. He seemed really sad about being prince.
"Fine then, well, if you really want me to act like your just another random person.ditch all the glitz" she said with a small smile.
"What?" He looked surprised.
"Get rid of all your jewellery, and stuff, and we can go play in the courtyard!" She said. Yami blinked, then a smile broke onto his face.
"Alright!" he then ran down the hall, and turned a corner to go to his room, and Shadow smiled to herself. Maybe he wasn't as stuck up as she thought.
(A/N-Contrary to how I make them act, they are only 5 years old here! Wayyyy back then, you had to act more mature, and do work when you were that age, ok?)
When Yami came back, he had taken off all of his jewellery, and had put on clothes that looked most 'peasantish', meaning that he had thrown on a beige robe-thing, much like Shadow's. He actually looked like a normal, every-day Egyptian, with the exception of his hair.
"Alright! You actually look normal."
"Didn't I look normal before?"
"Well, for a prince, yeah, but I mean, like everybody else!"
"Oh"
"Anyway, aren't we going to play now?"
"Yeah!" Yami looked rather excited.
The two ran down several halls, and down a set of alabaster steps to the side courtyard, which was filled with flowers, a lily pond, and the ground wasn't hard stone, like the main courtyard was, it was soft Nile grass. The two grabbed some sticks, and played war, until they heard panicked voices from just up the stairs in the palace.
"The prince! He's gone! Disappeared!" a female voice carried out to the courtyard. "Uh-oh" Yami said, looking at Shadow.
"We'd better go back inside, and you'd better get changed" Shadow said, looking as equally scared as Yami.
They ran inside, avoiding everyone they could, and went to Yami's bedchambers. "I have to go, see you later" Shadow said.
"Bye.and, thank you" Yami said with a small smile.
Shadow smiled, and turned, to run into someone.
"Well, well, what have we here?"
"Ma-Mahaado! How nice to see you!" Shadow said with a weak smile.
Mahaado was, at the moment, a 'magician', and priest in training. He was also at least 5 years older than Shadow and Yami, making him 10 years old.
"You two are in so much trouble." He said.
"Oh, please!! Don't tell anyone what we were doing! Yami just wanted to do something normal!" Shadow said.
"And what would 'normal' be?" Mahaado asked, frowning down at Shadow.
"Playing war in the side courtyard." Shadow muttered.
"Uh-huh.whatever. Yami, get changed, I'm sure your father is worried about you."
With that, Mahaado walked away. (A/N-Can anyone guess who Mahaado is??.Well, I'll tell you! He's actually the Dark Magician in the anime!! Weird, huh? Anyway, that doesn't really matter at the moment. If ya wanna know more, read the manga, I think it's issue 138 or something of weekly shonen jump)
"Well.that was weird.anyway, go get changed!" Shadow said, walking away.
"Right" Yami went into his room.
~The next day~
Shadow began her training as a future soldier/guard, and Yami was stuck in classes as well.
"No, no, keep your arm up! Yes, like that! NOW shoot the arrow!"
Shadow grumbled as the captain of guard, Semaharie, picked on her, for doing the slightest things wrong with her bow and arrow class. She thought it was because she was a girl. And, that WAS most likely it. Semaharie had never taught a girl before, and he didn't like it. He didn't think girls should be allowed to even be considered to join the ranks of the military. Which, he was pleased about, had never happened until now. Shadow shot the arrow perfectly, and was the only one in the whole class to get a bulls eye. Several in a row, to be exact.
Once the class was over, Shadow was called aside by Semaharie.
"Look, in order to be in our classes, you have to be a recognized person," He handed her a gold headband, that had wing-like pieces going off to either side, as well as several gold anklets and bracelets, "As well, as the fact that your hair has to be cut." Shadow had a long ponytail, which she loved because it looked very pretty, in her opinion.
Shadow, sighed, and turned around, so Semaharie could cut her ponytail off. He quickly did so, and her hair fell onto her shoulders.
She then ran into the palace, a silent tear sliding down her face. Her hair being cut, she could take, having to wear uncomfortable jewellery, she could take, even being picked on for being a girl she could take, but she couldn't take the fact that she had to change every aspect of herself, just to be in some stupid classes, and get a super low rank in the Egyptian military, and then die in some whacked out battle.
Shadow sighed, and flopped onto her bed, dropping the jewellery on the floor as she did so.
A knock came to her door. She slowly got up, and opened the door to her room.
"Yes?"
Yami stood in the door, a smile on his face. When he got a good look at Shadow, his smile faded.
"What happened?"
"What do you mean?" Shadow asked.
"Your hair, it's cut!"
"So?"
Yami shrugged. "It just looks weird" he said, he then noticed the jewellery on the floor.
"Man, they're decking you all out!"
Shadow shrugged, and motioned for him to come in, as she picked up the jewellery, and put it on a table beside the window.
"What's the matter?" Yami asked, sitting down on Shadows bed.
"I don't know." she muttered.
"Oh"
~One week later~
Shadow was like that the rest of the week. She had managed to keep her hair out of her face, by using the headband, and she had put on all of the anklets and bracelets. She really looked like someone important now.
She was in the middle of one of her classes, this one was about how to throw a dagger with exact precision, when she heard it. It sounded like Bakura, but she couldn't tell. She dropped her dagger, and quickly ran, before her teacher could stop her. She ran out the main gates to the palace, and into the town that surrounded it. That's when she saw him. He was standing beside his father, who was trying to sell something to a merchant. "BAKURA!" Shadow yelled, running over to him.
He turned, and looked startled. "Hi.who're you?"
Shadow looked downfallen, but then Bakura noticed the black choker with the ankh still hanging around Shadows neck.
"Shadow?!" Bakura asked, beginning to smile.
"Yeah!" She said, hugging him.
"Wow! I never thought I'd see you again!" He said, hugging her back.
"Me neither! Oh, I missed you!"
"Bakura, I'll be awhile, if you want to go do something." Bakura's father said.
Bakura smiled up at his father, and he grabbed Shadows hand and he pulled her along as they went.
"Where're we going?!" Shadow asked.
"The Nile!" Bakura said.
In all truth, ever since Shadow had moved to the palace, she had never seen the Nile before.
The two stopped right at the Niles edge.
"Oh! Wow.I've never seen it before!" She said, peering into the water.
"I know, it's magnificent, isn't it?!" Bakura said.
"Yeah." Shadow slipped off her shoes, and took off her anklets, and stepped into the water. "It's cold!" she squealed.
"Well, duh!" Bakura laughed.
~A few hours later~
The two had spent the whole afternoon together, playing in the water of the Nile, and running around the market place, playing pranks on the merchants.
It began to get darker, and Shadow began to panic.
"Oh no! I should've been back ages ago!" She said.
Bakura looked at his friend worriedly.
"I'm sorry, this was fun, but I have to go now!" Shadow put on all of her jewellery, and shoes, and ran back to he palace.
"Bye." Bakura muttered, watching her run.
Ok, one person reviewed, so I'll update. Thanks to Crystal Galadriel who reviewed. And, to answer your review, well, you'll just have to read the rest of the story, won't you? ^_^
Disclaimer- I don't own YGO, or anything affiliated with it.
P.S-Again, does ANYONE know how to keep 3 dots AS 3 dots? It's annoying when they all turn into periods-_-;
~The next day~
"Stupid.moronic.prince!" Shadow muttered to herself, as she ran down the hall, away from her mentor, who was to teach her what to do to be a chambermaid. "He told me he'd get me out of this! I swear.when I get my hands on him." Just then, she looked back to see how far she was from her mentor, when she ran into someone, knocking them over, and falling on top of them.
"Ow.Sorry, I wasn't paying attention."She said, getting up.
"That's okay." Prince Yami said, sitting up.
"You?! WHY I OUTTA!" She went to grab his cloak/cape that was draped around his neck, when her mentor yanked her back, and spun her around.
"You little brat! I told you to stay put while I went to see what happened in the courtyard!" Her mentor screamed in her face.
"Yeah, yeah." Shadow muttered.
"Shadahrien, why won't you take your lessons seriously?!"
"Shadahrien?!" Yami said, standing behind her, suppressing a laugh.
Shadow whipped around, and grabbed his cloak. "You want to make something of it?!" She growled.
Yami blinked, and looked surprised. No one, not even his own father had raised their voice at him. Now, he was being yelled at by a 5-year-old girl, who was to be a chambermaid?
"SHADAHRIEN!" Her mentor screamed, smacking Shadow in the side of the head.
Shadow quickly let go of Yami, and she fell to her knees, holding the side of her head. Yami blinked again, and looked at Shadows mentor, who was fuming.
"Excuse me, but why did you hit her like that?" He asked.
The woman looked at him, and quickly bowed. "I'm sorry you had to see that, Prince, but she would have surly strangled you, or hurt you in some way."
"I highly doubt it." Yami said, narrowing his eyes at the woman.
The woman shuddered, and reached down towards Shadow.
"Leave her." He said, as fiercely as he could, seeing as he was only 5.
The woman looked at him, then at Shadow, then quickly scurried away.
Yami watched her leave, them bent down to Shadow, whose bangs were hanging in her face.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
Shadow turned away from him.
"Please.", he reached out to her and she quickly, got up, and moved away from him. Yami got up, looking rather confused. Shadow quickly bowed to him, making sure the whole time he couldn't see he face, and she turned, and walked away.
Yami watched her go with sad eyes, then quickly ran to the throne room, to speak with his father.
~The next day~
Shadow got up that morning, and rubbed the side of her head. She had a large bruise where the teacher had hit her, and it still hurt. She sighed, and changed from her sleep robes, to her dress-like robes.
A knock came from her door. She blinked, and went over to it, and opened it.
"Yes?" she asked, as she opened it. A large burly looking guard stood in the doorway.
"Are you Shadahrien?" he asked.
"Uh, yeah." she said.
"You have been requested to appear in front of the pharaoh." He said.
".uh-oh." she muttered, her heart skipping a beat.
The guard turned, and began to walk away, down the hall, towards the throne room.
Shadow quickly ran after him, not particularly anticipating what would be waiting for her in the throne room.
~In the throne room~
Shadow bowed deeply to the pharaoh, at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the throne.
"Shadahrien. You have been found to have saved my sons life, did you not?" the pharaoh asked, shifting slightly in his throne.
Shadow stood, and looked up to the pharaoh. "Um.yes, pharaoh"
"I see.well, he has asked me to reconsider what you are to do, when you become the proper age, in the palace. So, I have instated, that you are to be taught with several boys, to become military persons."
Shadow blinked. "Um.thank you pharaoh" she said, bowed, and left the room.
".ARG! My gods.this sucks, my life'll be a living nightmare with those stupid boys." she muttered to herself, heading towards her bedchambers.
"I thought you'd do anything, as long as it wasn't becoming a chambermaid?" Prince Yami came up behind her.
Shadow turned to him. ".Thank you" she said, she bowed slightly, and continued down the hall.
"Why do you act so formal now?" he asked, catching up to her.
"What do you mean?" she asked, not looking at him, still going down the hall.
"Well, before you wouldn't even recognize the fact that I was royal, now your bowing to me every few minutes."
"So, what's your point?"
"I preferred it when you acted like I was a normal person."
Shadow stopped, and turned to him. "You're kidding, right?"
"No, why would I?" he asked, looking a bit shocked.
"Well, lets see," she began walking again, "you get all those perks, and everyone listens to you, who wouldn't want that?"
"I don't," he said sadly, walking beside her.
Shadow looked over at him. He seemed really sad about being prince.
"Fine then, well, if you really want me to act like your just another random person.ditch all the glitz" she said with a small smile.
"What?" He looked surprised.
"Get rid of all your jewellery, and stuff, and we can go play in the courtyard!" She said. Yami blinked, then a smile broke onto his face.
"Alright!" he then ran down the hall, and turned a corner to go to his room, and Shadow smiled to herself. Maybe he wasn't as stuck up as she thought.
(A/N-Contrary to how I make them act, they are only 5 years old here! Wayyyy back then, you had to act more mature, and do work when you were that age, ok?)
When Yami came back, he had taken off all of his jewellery, and had put on clothes that looked most 'peasantish', meaning that he had thrown on a beige robe-thing, much like Shadow's. He actually looked like a normal, every-day Egyptian, with the exception of his hair.
"Alright! You actually look normal."
"Didn't I look normal before?"
"Well, for a prince, yeah, but I mean, like everybody else!"
"Oh"
"Anyway, aren't we going to play now?"
"Yeah!" Yami looked rather excited.
The two ran down several halls, and down a set of alabaster steps to the side courtyard, which was filled with flowers, a lily pond, and the ground wasn't hard stone, like the main courtyard was, it was soft Nile grass. The two grabbed some sticks, and played war, until they heard panicked voices from just up the stairs in the palace.
"The prince! He's gone! Disappeared!" a female voice carried out to the courtyard. "Uh-oh" Yami said, looking at Shadow.
"We'd better go back inside, and you'd better get changed" Shadow said, looking as equally scared as Yami.
They ran inside, avoiding everyone they could, and went to Yami's bedchambers. "I have to go, see you later" Shadow said.
"Bye.and, thank you" Yami said with a small smile.
Shadow smiled, and turned, to run into someone.
"Well, well, what have we here?"
"Ma-Mahaado! How nice to see you!" Shadow said with a weak smile.
Mahaado was, at the moment, a 'magician', and priest in training. He was also at least 5 years older than Shadow and Yami, making him 10 years old.
"You two are in so much trouble." He said.
"Oh, please!! Don't tell anyone what we were doing! Yami just wanted to do something normal!" Shadow said.
"And what would 'normal' be?" Mahaado asked, frowning down at Shadow.
"Playing war in the side courtyard." Shadow muttered.
"Uh-huh.whatever. Yami, get changed, I'm sure your father is worried about you."
With that, Mahaado walked away. (A/N-Can anyone guess who Mahaado is??.Well, I'll tell you! He's actually the Dark Magician in the anime!! Weird, huh? Anyway, that doesn't really matter at the moment. If ya wanna know more, read the manga, I think it's issue 138 or something of weekly shonen jump)
"Well.that was weird.anyway, go get changed!" Shadow said, walking away.
"Right" Yami went into his room.
~The next day~
Shadow began her training as a future soldier/guard, and Yami was stuck in classes as well.
"No, no, keep your arm up! Yes, like that! NOW shoot the arrow!"
Shadow grumbled as the captain of guard, Semaharie, picked on her, for doing the slightest things wrong with her bow and arrow class. She thought it was because she was a girl. And, that WAS most likely it. Semaharie had never taught a girl before, and he didn't like it. He didn't think girls should be allowed to even be considered to join the ranks of the military. Which, he was pleased about, had never happened until now. Shadow shot the arrow perfectly, and was the only one in the whole class to get a bulls eye. Several in a row, to be exact.
Once the class was over, Shadow was called aside by Semaharie.
"Look, in order to be in our classes, you have to be a recognized person," He handed her a gold headband, that had wing-like pieces going off to either side, as well as several gold anklets and bracelets, "As well, as the fact that your hair has to be cut." Shadow had a long ponytail, which she loved because it looked very pretty, in her opinion.
Shadow, sighed, and turned around, so Semaharie could cut her ponytail off. He quickly did so, and her hair fell onto her shoulders.
She then ran into the palace, a silent tear sliding down her face. Her hair being cut, she could take, having to wear uncomfortable jewellery, she could take, even being picked on for being a girl she could take, but she couldn't take the fact that she had to change every aspect of herself, just to be in some stupid classes, and get a super low rank in the Egyptian military, and then die in some whacked out battle.
Shadow sighed, and flopped onto her bed, dropping the jewellery on the floor as she did so.
A knock came to her door. She slowly got up, and opened the door to her room.
"Yes?"
Yami stood in the door, a smile on his face. When he got a good look at Shadow, his smile faded.
"What happened?"
"What do you mean?" Shadow asked.
"Your hair, it's cut!"
"So?"
Yami shrugged. "It just looks weird" he said, he then noticed the jewellery on the floor.
"Man, they're decking you all out!"
Shadow shrugged, and motioned for him to come in, as she picked up the jewellery, and put it on a table beside the window.
"What's the matter?" Yami asked, sitting down on Shadows bed.
"I don't know." she muttered.
"Oh"
~One week later~
Shadow was like that the rest of the week. She had managed to keep her hair out of her face, by using the headband, and she had put on all of the anklets and bracelets. She really looked like someone important now.
She was in the middle of one of her classes, this one was about how to throw a dagger with exact precision, when she heard it. It sounded like Bakura, but she couldn't tell. She dropped her dagger, and quickly ran, before her teacher could stop her. She ran out the main gates to the palace, and into the town that surrounded it. That's when she saw him. He was standing beside his father, who was trying to sell something to a merchant. "BAKURA!" Shadow yelled, running over to him.
He turned, and looked startled. "Hi.who're you?"
Shadow looked downfallen, but then Bakura noticed the black choker with the ankh still hanging around Shadows neck.
"Shadow?!" Bakura asked, beginning to smile.
"Yeah!" She said, hugging him.
"Wow! I never thought I'd see you again!" He said, hugging her back.
"Me neither! Oh, I missed you!"
"Bakura, I'll be awhile, if you want to go do something." Bakura's father said.
Bakura smiled up at his father, and he grabbed Shadows hand and he pulled her along as they went.
"Where're we going?!" Shadow asked.
"The Nile!" Bakura said.
In all truth, ever since Shadow had moved to the palace, she had never seen the Nile before.
The two stopped right at the Niles edge.
"Oh! Wow.I've never seen it before!" She said, peering into the water.
"I know, it's magnificent, isn't it?!" Bakura said.
"Yeah." Shadow slipped off her shoes, and took off her anklets, and stepped into the water. "It's cold!" she squealed.
"Well, duh!" Bakura laughed.
~A few hours later~
The two had spent the whole afternoon together, playing in the water of the Nile, and running around the market place, playing pranks on the merchants.
It began to get darker, and Shadow began to panic.
"Oh no! I should've been back ages ago!" She said.
Bakura looked at his friend worriedly.
"I'm sorry, this was fun, but I have to go now!" Shadow put on all of her jewellery, and shoes, and ran back to he palace.
"Bye." Bakura muttered, watching her run.