Modern Day Pharaoh
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Authoress' Notes: Hey! I had some questions e-mailed to me (my e-mail can be found in my profile), about the Pharaoh's name thing and why I don't accept Anonymous Reviewers… Well, first question, Is the Pharaoh's name Atem or Atemu? Um, I'd have to say both, it just depends on which language its' coming from, Atemu is more of the Japanese one, whereas Atem, is more of the English one. Kinda like Karim and Karimu, but I'll be switching between both, depending upon who is speaking (e.g. Kaga [Japanese OC] She refers to him as Atemu), but don't worry, she'll be the only one who refers to him as that! ^_^ Next question, Why don't you accept anonymous reviews? I don't because if someone wishes to flame me, I'd like to see his or her works too, that way, if theirs is better, I'll stay quiet. ^_^; Hehe… and also, it doesn't take much to login once you are on ff.net… also it is another way of finding great fanfic! ^___^ Anyway enough with my insane rambling, we are all here for one thing and that is to read the story, so onwards!!! :)
¹: Nisut – (Same as Per-a'a) Pharaoh [Earlier in the language, therefore, more commonly used]
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5: Chance of Hope
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Heq took another bite out of his burger thoughts swimming around his head. 'Why do I always get left out of the action?' He gave a glance at the young Pharaoh who was deep in thought. 'He looks so much like his reincarnate, Yugi… though the eyes, he has red eyes while Yugi has purple.' He gave a sigh as he finished his food and drink, then placed his elbows on the table and leant forward slightly, smirking. 'I wonder if this will work…?' \Hey Resu! \ He yelled. Resu near fell out of his seat in shock, Aniba looked at the two glaring.
\Gah! What in Ra's name?! \
\Heq, don't do that. \
\Sorry, I just wanted to try it out, that's all. \ Aniba mentally rolled her eyes then spoke to Resu.
\Don't mind Heq, he's acting immature. \
\Hey! I heard that! \
\You were supposed to. \ Aniba 'said' grinning.
\Damnit! \
"Hey Pasenture." Aniba said, breaking the connection as she looked up.
"Yeh?" He asked curiously, having heard the entire mental conversation.
"Is Mafdet at your place still?"
"Yeh, she is… why?"
"Could you bring her around sometime today?"
"You know the goddess Mafdet? As in daughter of Bastet?"
"No… Mafdet is the name of my cat." Aniba said confused.
"Oh…"
Heq looked from one to the other blinking, he then clapped his hands together, "Anyway! What's the deal with that psychopath Emit?"
"You mean my Yami?" Pasenture asked looking up. Heq nodded.
"Yeh, what actually happened?" Aniba inquired.
"Well, Emit had pulled me towards his Time Dimension, and from there, he viewed Kemet after he had attacked it… He had expected to find the Pharaoh dead," Pasenture said pausing as he took a glance at Resu who had looked the other way, "However, Pharaoh Atem wasn't even in his altered Time Line. He got… 'Upset'… over the matter and tried to read my thoughts via our Yami/Hikari connection, and all he got was a memory of my Time Wizard in attack. He assumed that I had figured out how to summon it and control the Time Wizard, causing it to reverse Emit's Time Line."
"However, you didn't… it was me who saved Nisut¹, not the Time Wizard."
"That's right, he didn't know that though. He thought it was the Time Wizard, so he went back in time, around the time of Pharaoh Phorus' rule, and hunted down Nahktir, after that I was sent back to this plane and from there I cast a spell and froze time."
"Y-You can freeze time?!" Resu spluttered in shock.
"I can travel through time, so why can't he freeze it?" Aniba asked.
"I…guess. But what if someone tried to permanently freeze time, or even worse alter it?"
"That's already happened. I'm sorry." Heq said looking into his shocked crimson eyes.
"My…kingdom…people…loyal subjects…what about all of them?" Resu asked, the truth finally sinking in, even after Aniba had explained everything…
- Memory Flash -
"I had to take you away from your Kingdom for a reason!"
"Oh, and what reason was that?! How can I help my people if I'm not there?!"
"How can you help them if you are DEAD. Yeh, that's right. If you had remained there, you would have been devoured by the alternate time line, you would still be bleeding on the palace steps."
"Aniba…I…I didn't mean-"
"Save it. As I've told you already; You are no help to your people in your kingdom, its unsafe, unbalanced, unsecure…I didn't bring you to my time just to have fun y'know! I didn't even want to be involved in this, but I have. And now I have to fight, for what I believe in and what is right, for all people, of the past, the present, and the future. This isn't some Shadow Game; it's a hell of a lot more, and a hell of a lot worse. If you die in a Shadow Game, your soul is merely banished, here, in this battle, when you loose, you loose everything. You are wiped from history from the very day of your birth, in fact, you are never born. So think twice before you yell at me for looking out for you!"
- End Memory Flash -
"They will be lost forever, and can never return if we loose…if this time we are in begins to break, then we have no choice, but to return to the past, but in the meantime, we will do all we can to fix it."
"Yes," Pasenture said nodding. "It's the only chance of hope we got."
"Well, back to the story… this part I don't think Pasenture knows." Aniba said then continued where Pasenture had left off, "As you may, or may not be aware, I have the ability to sense every tiny flicker of Millennium OR Shadow Magic, no matter how far away, and that includes between Dimension's and Time Lines."
"Oh, Ow… my head hurts, Aniba, please! Don't go into too much detail about that power again, I was confused even the last time you explained it." Heq said as he held his head dramatically.
"Too bad. Anyway, my ability… I felt a disturbance in time, and as soon as time was frozen, I double froze it-"
"You – what it?" Pasenture asked, joining Heq in confusion.
"Double Freeze… this is freezing your frozen time, freezing you AND your Yami." Aniba said as she poked Pasenture.
"So that's how Overdrive was able to get to me so fast, you froze everything, summoned it, then consulted Thoth and asked him the best method to defeat Emit."
Aniba looked at him blinking; "You would make a great Mind Reader, apart from the fact that you got some facts wrong… I didn't consult an Egyptian God, nor did I defeat Emit, I merely got some guidance from Lynex-"
"That would explain the book." Pasenture said as he put a finger to his head in thought.
"But that still doesn't explain how you can be in two places at once." Resu put in.
"Hey! He stole the words out of my mouth!" Heq accused.
"No I didn't… how could I do that anyway?" Resu asked confused, Heq just sighed in annoyance at how little he knew of today's terms.
"It was Lynex, we kept switching… while I came to consult you, she dealt with Emit, when she was here, I dealt with him… see?"
"I think I'm following…"
Aniba sighed, "Lynex says to quit being stupid and use your head."
"Hey! I'm not stupid!" Heq yelled annoyed, causing a few glances from the other people eating at McDonalds. "What are you looking at?!" Heq snapped, they all quickly returned to their food.
"C'mon." Aniba said standing up, "Lets find somewhere else to talk… besides, everyone is finished their lunch." She pulled back her jacket sleeve and looked at a silver-star studded, black leather wristband. "Well, its 1:00 now," She said as she lifted up one star looking at a digital clock. "How about you come round to my apartment, around five. And you can bring Mafdet along with you." Aniba pointed out to Pasenture.
"Okay. 5:00 then. Bye for now!" Pasenture said waving as he left.
"See you." Aniba said waving.
"Alright." Heq said standing up, "Want a lift?" He said motioning towards the bags on the floor.
"Well, I guess it could be okay… But I need to see Lyialla, and Resu needs to get into his modern clothes."
"Well, he can get changed in the bathroom over there." Heq said pointing towards the men's toilets. Aniba looked at him.
"Would you…?"
"Yup, no probs. Alright Resu, you're coming with me." He then picked up the bag that had the leathers in it. Grabbing Resu by his cloak-
"H-Hey! Where are you taking me?"
- He then walked off towards the men's bathroom. "Meet me in the Car Park, I brought my Sports Car today, not the limousine."
Aniba nodded, then, picking up the rest of the bags, she bundled them up together under her arms, and in her hands, and made her way towards the Escalator.
**On the Way to the Toilets**
"Kaa… Park?" Asked Resu horrified.
"Yeh, it's a place were people put their cars, all together in the one place." Heq said grinning.
"They aren't…alive in the Kaa Park by any chance are they?"
"Like on? Nah, their engines are turned off, so they aren't 'alive'."
"Engines?" Resu inquired curious.
"Yeh, it's the…uh… 'Life Force', as you would call it, to keep the car running."
"What happens if you take it away?"
"The car breaks down… or 'dies'." Resu gave a grin.
'I think I know how to defeat a Kaa now…' "Take away its Life Force…"
"I don't think you'd want to do that, 'killing' someone's car, can get the owner really, really, really upset… and that is one hundred times worse then standing in the middle of the road with cars coming at you from all directions."
"Oh dear Ra… there goes my plan."
"Well, C'mon, get changed!" Heq said motioning to an empty section.
"We are here already?" Resu asked surprised. He then got the bag off Heq, and closed the door behind him. Within five minutes, he came out fully changed, looking great in leather, the black bringing out his red eyes and red tips. Around his neck on a brown leather cord, he wore a golden puzzle, the pinnacle of which was pointing down. In the center, on the side facing forwards was the Eye of Horus, also know as the Udjat or Sennen Eye.
"That's the Millennium Puzzle…" Heq said in surprise. "Isn't it a bit…noticeable?"
"What do you mean, 'noticeable'? I'm not putting the cloak on again just to hide my puzzle." Resu said as he brushed his golden bangs out of his eyes.
"No, it's just that certain people, such as Rare Hunters, may try and steal it from you."
"Well, they can be banished twice then judged against the feather of Ma'at and should they be unworthy their soul can be fed to Ammit."
" (0_0) Okay… remind me to never get on your bad side."
"Fine by me." He said as he adjusted the second belt around his waist. "Alright, what is the deal with this?" His asked as he shifted it round and saw it had an rectangular leather 'box' of some sort attached to it.
"Oh, that is where you put your Duel Monster's cards." Heq said motioning to one he had on the inside of his jacket. Resu looked closer at it, noticing that his box blended in with his clothing.
"Yours is a different colour to mine."
"Yeh, the outside is made from faded denim, so it matches my jacket, the inside from red silk so it doesn't damage my cards."
"Cards… you mentioned that before." Resu said following Heq out the door, Heq being the one holding the bag with Resu's past-time clothes (including boots) and cloak.
"I did. Didn't Aniba show you a store with any?"
"No… what are they?"
"These." He said as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a monster card.
"They look just like sealed Kaa's!" Resu exclaimed as he stepped onto the escalator, Heq right beside him.
"Cars?" Heq asked confused.
"Yes. Kaa's. Sealed Soul Monster. My Priests and Priestess' often used them in battle."
"OH! Kaa." Heq said nodding. "I see now- Up! Watch your step." He said grabbing him before he tripped over the bottom 'stair'. "I got to take you to a game store sometime, you'll love it."
Resu's ears suddenly pricked up, "Game?"
"Yup. But no time for that now. My car is here." He said motioning towards a hoodless red sports car, along both sides, there was a long black strip and directly below it (however leaving a space so the red could be seen) a black strip. Each strip was outlined with gold.
"It won't attack me will it?" Resu asked nervously, looking at Aniba who was leaning against it, eyes closed.
"No." Heq put the bag he held in the back, along with the other bags then walked over towards Aniba, "Hey, Aniba. Snap out of it." He said waving a hand in front of her face. Her eyes immediately snapped open and she grabbed his wrist hard, before quickly letting go.
"Oh, its you. Sorry. I was reliving a memory, I thought you were a Rare Hunter. Once again, my apologies." She said as she got off the car and walked over towards Resu who was looking at the car in some fear and admiration.
"It's okay. It won't attack you." She said giving him a pat on the shoulder. Heq jumped into the drivers' section, Aniba rolling her eyes. She grabbed the keys out of his hand and hit a button upon one of the keys. Immediately, all the locks became unlocked and two doors opened. One door near the passenger seat next to the driver and the other in the back. Aniba made a move for the back, however Heq grabbed the back of her jacket.
"No, you get in the front. I don't know where that bodyguard of yours lives."
"Oh yeh…" Aniba said smiling, "Sorry. I forgot. Resu, you can hop in the back."
He nodded then got in the same time as Aniba, once everyone was in; Heq turned on the engine, putting his foot down and took off out the Car Park and down Main Street.
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Authoress' Notes: Well… not that many flashbacks… oh well… they'll just pop up now and again.
Thanks to Ente for reviewing! ^_^ So far, you've been the main person who has been reviewing. :-)
Also some notes with Mafdet, these will help out in the next few chapters.
I did some checking with the name Atemu… I think in a way, it is Atemu, and not Atem, as the name Atemu was written in the hieroglyphs, not Atem… but then again, it was the manga from the Japanese version, but for the sake of my fanfiction, I'll just stick with my original "layout". Also, the cat Mafdet, I got this name from:
EGYPT – Gods, Myths and Religion.
Lucia Gahlin
LORENZ BOOKS
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Her breed, I got from:
The ULTIMATE Cat Book
David Taylor
Simon & Schuster
Mafdet's name, being after a god, plays a role in this (earlier in the fic). Her breed being an Egyptian Mau, these are a breed from Egypt (hence the name) the "Mau" bit of the name being there as an English pronunciation of the Egyptian/ Kemetic word for cat, "Miw", this name being called so for the sound cats make. Example: The Kemetic word for "Water" was pronounced, "Shh" for the sound the water made, a soft "Shh" sound. So, "Miw" or "Mau" as an "English Equivalent" has become a part of the cat name. Turkish Van Cat – These are a long hair type, creamy-red and white in colour, their main characteristic – their love of water. I hope this clears things up!
Nympthsis: Well it didn't.
Millennium: Aww… go home if you are gonna whinge! .
Nympthsis: But there aren't any online war games in the past! ; _;
Millennium: Then be quiet if you want to stay.
Aniba and Lynex: Yeh! ^_^
Nympthsis: *grumbles* : (
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