Modern Day Pharaoh

Authoress' Notes: Hello Again! Because I've taken so long to update, I've decided to give a double dose of Chapters. Um… Not too many notes, but more humour will be coming sooner or later when we get to 'learning'. [cackles] Oh, I'm gonna have fun scaring the Pharaoh. [rubs hand together with evil grin on face] So, yeh…now I present "Chapter 7".

¹: 50 teaspoons of sugar – I tried this at home to see how many teaspoons of sugar I could fit in the cup, so its fairly correct! - …apart from the fact that I was taking really big scoops…hehe. But I used the sugar in cooking meringues later.

Chapter 7: Sugar and Pain Memories, unwanted?

Golden, intimidating eyes looked around the halls with boredom. "This is soo boring!" She complained. Aniba had forbidden her, Lynex, to not make contact with the Pharaoh, so for the past week and a half, she had to refrain from invading her light's kitchen and appearing regularly. Lynex understood fully, seeing as she had feline features and natural, Shadow Abilities, and that would raise a few questions. "Damnit, Hikari. Why'd you have to cut the link?" Sighing to herself, she went in search of some food. She was hoping for sugar, and lots of it, but Aniba had learned what happened when her Yami got into the sugar and caffeine.

-Flashback-

"What…is this?" Lynex asked as she stared at her reflection in the brown liquid.

"It's coffee. I myself don't like it much, prefer tea thanks. But you said you wanted to learn more about what I like an don't like…well… I don't like coffee." A younger Aniba said shrugging. "If you don't want to try it, that's fine with me."

"I am not afraid of trying anything new." She exclaimed.

Aniba just snorted. "Yeh. Sure."

"Fine, I'll prove it to you!" And with that, she lifted the mug and gulped a mouth-full.

Aniba stood there in shock, then started laughing at the disgusted look on her Yami's face.

Lynex jumped up and ran for the sink spitting the liquid out. "Bleah! Eurgh! Gross! That is really, really bitter." She said, turning the tap on and using her hands to cup and drink the water.

"You know, you could always add some sugar or salt to it." Aniba pointed out as she crossed her arms over a long-sleeved plain white shirt.

"I like that idea!" Lynex said, grinning happily as she abandoned the tap and made a mad dash for the jar of sugar.

Aniba rummaged in the drawer for a spoon before handing it over to Lynex who now carried the jar over to coffee. Dumping it on the table, she grabbed the spoon and put four teaspoons of sugar inside.

Taking a sip, she pulled a face. "Too bitter. Need more sugar."

Aniba rolled her eyes then sat down in a chair opposite her Yami. "This is gonna take a while." She muttered.

By the time Lynex had put 50 teaspoons of sugar¹ the before brown coffee now resembled a thick whitish syrup.

Aniba sat there gaping in shock as she saw her darker-half gulp the entire thing down. "Much better!" Lynex said happily with a very big grin on her face.

Aniba just continued sitting there blinking with her mouth hanging open. "You…just…sugar…drink…?!" Aniba managed to splutter out in her shocked stated.

"Hey Hikari? Wanna sing?" Lynex said with a slight giddy-slur in her tone.

"The hell?!" Aniba yelled as she grabbed Lynex by the wrist who was currently singing a strange song, along the lines of sugar.

"Oh, sugar, sugar, sugar! Wherefore art thou, sugar? Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet! Where are you, sweet? Oh, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine… COME TO ME! SWEET, SUGARED CAFFEINE!!!"

(O.o) "Right…." Aniba said, she was well and truly scared now.

"With sugar I can seee!!! All the fairies flying past mee!
With the caffeine I can flyyy!!! Up high in the skyyy!
Oh, high I am!!! I wanna see Aniba in a pram-!"

"What the HECK?!" (O.O) Aniba said, staring in shock at Lynex, who just shrugged.

"It was the only thing I could think of that rhymed with 'am'." She said giving a sugar-high cackle.

"You are making this up as you go along?" Aniba asked incredulously.

"Sure? Why not?" Lynex then noticed she was getting father an father away from the sugar jar as Aniba slowly lead her out of the kitchen. "NOOO!!!" She gave a wail. "MY SUGAR! Oh, sweetest food upon mine tongue, wherest thoth when I'll needest thy sweet taste most?"

"Stop reading my English books." Aniba said glaring. "You better had not done anything to the Romeo and Juliet book, cause I got an assignment on that!" Lynex just shrugged.

"Why art thou accusing me? I did nothing but good for thine fine book!" She mocked her version of Old English.

"Just go to your soul room!" Aniba demanded, pointing to the activated Crest upon her hand.

"That I will, fair maiden of foreign blood. Oh, why art-"

"-You not shutting up?!"" Aniba interrupted. "Just go." Aniba said impatiently tapping her foot.

"I bid thee goodnight, and shalt see you on the morrow. It thou thinkest a thought of what I do, I be singing songs of insanity." With that, she gave another sugar-high cackle and disappeared in a flash of bright light.

Aniba gave a groan as she heard her Yami's pathetic attempts at Old English, singing and rhyming."

-End Flashback-

"I wonder if I'd be able to get more of that sugar and 'cof-fee'." She thought out loud to herself. Then snorted, "I doubt that. Hikari remembers what happens… but it is always fun." () She started humming a soft, haunting tune when she heard a faint sound of praise.

"What the..?" Turning in the hall, she found the sound got louder and louder till….

"And I'd like to thank Aker, Khnum, Sobek, Ptah…" and the list went on.

"Ra-damnit!" Lynex cursed, "Its that damn Pharaoh again! Can't he keep his thoughts to himself?!" Grumbling to herself, she then trudged back the way she came in the hall and took a left at one of the doors and went down a set of stairs, starting to hum that soft tune again as she ran her claw-like nails along the wall across the hieroglyphs.

Lynex had never really had any interest in texts of any sort, apart from the ones Aniba said were for assignments. She didn't even know if she could read hieroglyphs, heretic or demotic, normally if Aniba would ask, she would just point to a hieroglyph and say 'picture'.

Sometimes, just to annoy Aniba, she'd pretend to 'read' the hieroglyphs, but really just used the pictures as if it were a children's' book and made up her own story along the way. Aniba had found it amusing since she was small, but often she would get annoyed then say something along the lines of, "It this were the apocalypse, and on here was your only hope of survival, would you still go on about birds and snakes?"

To which Lynex replied with a simple, "Yes." Then a grin to show she was kidding.

Lynex gave a sigh over the memories and sat down on the bottom step of the stairs, she had finally reached the bottom. "In the beginning, everything seemed so simple. But now, we have another psychopath with plans for world domination." She snickered to herself, "Stupid losers."

She looked up at the room she had been walking down too. The staircases which had lead her here started shifting, but all she did was place a hand on a tile prove who she was, and that she wasn't a threat.

Looking at the room absentmindedly, her eyes slid from one frozen image to another. All of which were small glimpses of Aniba past.

Aniba herself didn't even know this room existed, and Lynex had a feeling she didn't want know it did either. For it held many memories that Aniba hid from herself. Both she and Lynex wanted to forget how they were like to each other in the beginning.

Aniba wanted to live and forget, to move on. Lynex, it was harder for her. She didn't want to believe that it was she who had terrified her light. That it was she who was an abusive Yami. No. She wanted to put this all behind her, but no matter what, she always seemed to find rooms with more locked memories. Aniba not really interested in exploring the strange place of her mind.

One image however got to her. When her eyes fell upon it, they became filled with tears and she fled from the room and back up the staircase.

It was one where the scars for her claws still existed. The memory of a fearful child who had no memory what-so-ever and Lynex believing that Aniba was someone else.

Shaking her head, Lynex tried to clear her thoughts, "Aniba's forgiven me. She is no longer fearful. She stands up for herself." Lynex assured herself. She then tried to reach her light through the link they shared.

Nothing. Still blocked.

Giving a groan of annoyance, that was soon joined by a rumble of her stomach, "Oh, yeh." She thought to herself, laughing nervously. "I'm still hungry."

With that thought and determination of filling her stomach, she set off towards her Hikari's soul room. There was bound to be food there.

When she finally pushed the heavy door open she was met with a wondrous sight.

There laid out on the table was all of Lynex's favourite food, minus the sugar. There was also a note. Curiosity having gotten the better of her, she picked it up and read it.

Hey Lynex!

I figured you might get hungry, though you don't need to eat, but like to so yeh… anyway! Every item of food you see on the table is yours to eat. Most of it is take-away. Don't ask how, where and when, cause I ain't gonna bother answering it! :P

Well, I hope you enjoy!

Aniba.

PS If you want drink, there is some water under the table. No sugar for you!

"Typical." Lynex said sighing as she put the note back down. She then looked at the different foods to choose from. There were so many! And they were all hers…

Lynex clapped her hands together and rubbed them gleefully before digging in. She then yelled, //Thanks Hikari!//

/Anytime./ Aniba replied, slight amusement in her tone.

"Well, at least she's opened the link now." Lynex said between mouthful's of food. "Yes." She thought to herself. "She has definitely forgiven me, and no longer fears me."

She eyed the jug of water sadly, "Though I can't get sugar now…"

With nothing better to do, she sat there munching on the various take-outs and fast food, while looking at the hieroglyphs that covered about half of Aniba's soul room, not fully understanding them.

Authoress' Notes: Confusing? Sorry! I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this… it was 3:30 in the morning so I can't remember… Gomen, gomen. Anyway, I think I wrote that so people can get an idea of Lynex and Aniba's past…think… Oh! And I got my monitor back, so it back to big screen computer. [insert smile here]

Also, you may have noticed that the format has changed. I used to be able to use those weird star things, I can't now cause they won't show up, and my text smiles are gone as well...:-(

Hopefully ff.net fixes up their online editor so it works better... :-)

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