Modern Day Pharaoh
Authoress' Notes: Hey y'all! Who here has been watching the new Yu Gi Oh series? The Egyptian Arc…Mana looks so cool! Utterly kawaii…I love the scene in episode 203 where she jumps out of the pot and attaches herself to Yami/Atemu…and the part where they are walking along and Mana is just skipping along. - Oh, just so you know, Shada is the name of Shadii in the past (from anime) Anyway… story/ fanfic…Eight chapters… and I haven't barely even gotten started! Sorry about this! I'll try and move the story faster, as I want to get to 'Resu's learning'. [Drum Roll] And now I present, chapter 8!
Chapter 8: New Room and Reflection
Kemetic translation
¹ Ii- wy em hotep em Ma'at – Welcome in peace and truth! (Used as Greeting)
² Annu – High Priest
³ Peter ren-ek? – What is your name?
⁴ Ren-I – My Name
Aniba gave a smile at the tone in Lynex's voice. She figured that her darker half would get hungry, so prepared for it. She stood there at the bags of clothing and looked over at the young Pharaoh who was currently turning circles in the lounge, trying to look everywhere at once.
"Resu? Resu! Watch-"
THUD!
He fell face flat on the floor.
"-out for the rug." She finished, then smirked. "Oh, Mighty Pharaoh of the Rug! What 'face-floor duties' do we have today?"
At that comment, Resu bolted straight up into a standing position only to hit his head on the lamp.
Aniba spread out her right hand, her Crest active, as the lamp froze in mid-air. Walking over she picked it up and placed it back on the table.
Resu was now sitting cross-legged on the floor holding one hand over his face and the other at the back of his head in pain. "Oww…"
"You okay?" Aniba asked, concerned.
Resu looked from behind his fingers, glaring at her with his crimson eyes, "Do I look it?!" He snapped.
"Yup!" Aniba said grinning earning an anime fall from Resu. She then skipped off to the kitchen and came back a few minutes later with a bag of ice.
"Here, put this on your head, it will reduced the swelling." She said, handing it over to Resu.
Resu looked at it confused, then took it in his hand dropping it as soon as he felt the striking cold come through the bag and to his hand. "What is that?!" He yelled as he shook his hand several times before holding it against his chest to get it warm again.
Aniba just shock her head in frustration before picking up the bag and placing it gently on his head. Holding it there, she slapped away his hand as he tried to brush it off. "Leave it!"
"But it's cold!" He whined.
"Just hold it there for about ten minutes. Then you can take it off." She said taking his hand in hers and placing it on top of the bag. "You got it?" She asked softly.
He nodded then stood, but almost dropped the bag due to the movement.
"I think it'd be best if you didn't move around. Sit on the couch." She said as she moved the cushions aside and patted the bare spot.
Resu sat down, surprised at how comfortable it was, "Cow-cuh?" He asked, trying out the word.
"Not, 'Cow-cuh'. Couch." She replied, sounding out the word.
"Coow-ch."
"Couch. Better."
"Couch!" He exclaimed, gleefully then winced at the pain in his head. "Oww…" He muttered as he pushed the ice-bag to his head harder.
"Well, I have to put everything away, okay?" Aniba said gesturing to the bags of clothing. Resu nodded and Aniba walked over to them, hesitating for a bit, then Resu saw a quick flash of gold. He looked at her hand; she had deactivated her Crest for now it was back in its tattoo form.
Picking up the many bags of clothing, she walked down the hall and off into a room, closing the door behind her.
/Lynex?/ She called through her link. /You there?/ She asked, dropping the bags on the floor.
There was a flash of purple light and a teenage-looking girl with cat-ears, tail and claws appeared. In one had she held a burger, the other a cup of coke which she was currently slurping. "Yeah?" She asked, looking at Aniba.
"Uh, just wondering if Resu could- hey, wait a minute! … Where did you get the coke?" She asked, glaring at her darker half.
Lynex sweat dropped, "I…uh…found it?"
"Found…it?" Aniba said giving her a look that clearly stated, 'You're lying'.
"Well…I kinda took it- wait! I paid for it!" She said, quickly noting the look on her Hikari's face.
"What do you mean 'took it' and 'paid'?"
"I…uh…took it…but left some gold coins behind…that is how you pay right?"
"Not exactly." Aniba said sighing. "Here, you have to use money…like Yen and Dollars…Though I suppose gold is okay. Did anyone see you?"
"No. I just used…my…uh…powers…" She said getting quieter with each word.
"What?!" Aniba said looking at her in bewilderment.
"No one was looking! So I just snuck in the shop in spirit-form, took the drink and left the gold coins behind! I still don't know how your ways work." She said in defense.
"I just seriously hope that no one saw you." Aniba muttered, rubbing her temples. "Anyway, what I wanted to ask you is, if it's alright if Resu stays here in your room."
Lynex just shrugged. "Fine with me. It's not like I use this room much anyway."
"You do when you spend long periods of time in your physical-form." She pointed out.
"Meh." She said, shrugging again as she stuffed the rest of the burger in her mouth. "Doesn't really matter. I got my Soul-Room still." She then began to fade away. "I'll talk to you tonight! Bye!"
"See you." Aniba said. She then looked around the room and her eyes fell on the bags. Walking over she picked them up and dumped the contents on the bed and began shorting out the shirts and pants and hanging them in the closet. She also took the pharaoh clothes and hung them up as well, however hid them from view along with the boots.
Once that was done she quickly headed back to the lounge where Resu sat, who was currently holding the bag of ice in his hand and poking it in amusement.
"The idea is to keep it on your head. Not poke it." She said looking over at him.
Resu looked up surprised, "Done already?"
"No. I still have to put this stuff away." She said pointing to the items she had brought earlier when Resu first arrived in her apartment. She walked into the kitchen then came back with a large cardboard box. Putting it next to the various items, she knelt down and began to place them in the box when Resu came over to join her.
"Need help?" He offered.
"There's a surprise." Aniba chuckled. "Since when?"
"Since I decided to better to help you then have to hear you complain later."
"Good response."
Within minutes all of the various items, clothing and foods were in the box. Picking up the box carefully due to how full it was she walked back off down the hall. "Don't worry." She started, before the Pharaoh could get a word in, "I've got it. It's fine, you just sit and keep the bag of ice on your head."
Resu gave a sigh before flopping back on the couch and placing the bag back on his head, watching Aniba's retreating back. He was about to take off the bag again to look at it, but stopped himself. To him, it was fascinating, much like everything else he had been to and seen today.
Looking around the lounge, he tried to figure out what each item was and it's purpose. He saw a few more of the 'life-like paintings', a weird black-rectangular box with a green symbol on the top, a strange thin panel that stood upwards and was on a table, and many more things. Leaning back into the comfort of the couch he sighed in content, closing his eyes. "This isn't too bad." He murmured, just as Aniba came back with the box and into the kitchen.
Placing it on the counter, she figured she could sort it out later. Looking at the clock, she noticed the time. 4:00PM 'Wow, had we actually been out all day?' She wondered to herself.
Looking over at the lounge, she smiled warmly. Resu looked about ready to fall asleep. His crimson eyes were closed, he was breathing deeply and he had a relaxed expression on his face. He didn't even move when the abandoned bag on his head started to fall off, then landing on his chest.
"I'll just let him sleep." She murmured, walking over to the lounge and carefully taking the bag away, she then put it in the sink. Resu still had his jacket on that Aniba, or rather Heq had brought. So with all the leather he had on, she doubted that he would get cold.
Walking back into the hall she made for her room and took off her denim jacket and dumped it on the desk in the corner. Slipping her shoes off, so she only had her socks, she put them in her closet before flopping onto her bed.
"It seems like it's been ages since I was here!" She thought to herself, rolling over in the four-poster bed, she shuffled to the side and opened the curtains more so she could get a better view of her bedside table. On there, she had a duel disk and five locator cards, along with her deck she had put there earlier and the gift she had gotten from Lyialla.
Sitting up, she picked the box open in curiosity, examining it. Lyialla always had a habit of knowing just what to get her and when she should open it, "When you need comfort..." She murmured.
Aniba had known Lyialla ever since she was nine, when she had moved from Egypt to America there was a concern for her safety so Lyialla was employed as her bodyguard. They had a very close relationship and Aniba would often see Lyialla as a motherly figure, she being the second closest friend Aniba had, Lynex being the first. In America, they were always moving, Pegasus was trying to promote Duel Monsters here, host a tournament there, among many other things. Maximillion Pegasus. Her legal guardian. This was agreed when she was eight years of age, though their meeting was a strange one. Both had lost loved ones, Pegasus his wife and Aniba her parents.
"Shada…Shadii…" Aniba murmured to herself, as the memories played through her head. Even meeting him was strange. Aniba had been trying to escape the constant yelling of her (at the time) abusive Yami, she had run off with no sense of direction. When she did stop running though, she found herself within crumbled walls and behind her a destroyed temple or palace, though it was hard to tell. This had made her upset, though even now the reason is unknown to her. After crying till she could cry no more at the loss, she had become hungry. Drying her tears on the dirty white dress she wore, with golden frills and trims, she looked upwards she gave a cry of joy. Nearby the wall was a fruit tree, though many of the fruits had been out of reach, so using her unknown Millennium Abilities, she had picked fruit without barely moving, the only move to grab the fruit as it sailed into her hands. While enjoying the sweet fruit, a shadow had fallen over her. Curious, she stood and turned, then gasped in delight. " Oh! Ii-wy em hotep em ma-at¹, Annu ² Shada!" She exclaimed in fluent Kemetic.
Shadii just looked at her thoughtfully then replied in the same language, "Peter ren-ek ³, young child?"
"Um…Ren-I⁴ Aniba Ishtar, I think…"
"What do you mean?"
"Well…I think that is my name, but I think some parts of it are missing…and this other person kept calling me Persia…so, I'm a little confused."
"I can sense your confusion, little one. Though, I ask you this one question, why did you call me Annu Shada?"
"Because…" She started timidly, "That is what I remember other people calling you. But why aren't you in your Annu-robes?"
"What do you mean?" He asked in his eerie-voice.
"Whenever I saw you around the palace you wore robes." She then stood on tip-toe and looked him directly in the eye giving him a questioning look, "But I don't remember you being this old."
Shadii had to smile at that, the child's innocence was actually quite amusing, and after much persuasion from the little girl, she had taken his hand and was literally dragging him through the market then through more crumbled buildings. After a short while, she and Shadii got to a temple that was hidden from view by the crumbled wall that surrounded it and the many vines and plants that had grown, hiding it even further from view.
"The plants grow green here because of the water from the Nile." She explained, pointing a small creek which flowed gently through the sand.
Shadii was amazed, never had he even seen a place such as this before. Though he was snapped out of his thoughts at the tug on his hand. "C'mon!" She urged. "I want to show you the pretty, gold phoenix, the red dragon and the blue monster!"
She led him through the temple, however didn't enter through the front entrance. "It's a trap." She explained when he had asked, instead she led him around a temple and to the back where the vines were thickest. Raising her right hand which had gold glowing on it, she waved it back and forth and the vines cleared, revealing a hidden door.
Leading him through several twists and turns, she finally let go of his hand and ran ahead. Shadii followed behind and his eyes widened considerably at the fact that a room so large could be found in such a small temple, though he remembered the many stairs that led down and came to the theory that it was underground.
His blank eyes scanned the large tiles on the wall and he was in near shock. They weren't tiles! They were Sealed Kaa's.
"Duel Monsters." He murmured.
Aniba skipped ahead along the stone monument which appeared to be a bridge and leap up on a pentagon shape in the middle of the room, spinning around, she exclaimed, "Welcome to the Temple of Ra!"
Authoress Notes: [re-reads chapter] Well…it's not that much of a cliff-hanger, so I don't have to worry too much…[nervous laughter] Anyway, the stuff in italics is actually memories (if you haven't guessed already), but more of that next chapter.
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Millennium: [Looks from glaring Nympthsis, to pouting Aniba and glaring Lynex] Uh…hi?
Nympthsis: You've bee leaving us out of your Authoress' Notes!
Aniba and Lynex: Yeh!
Nympthsis: You aren't letting us get any words in!
A & L: Yeh!
Nympthsis: [turns around] Shut up!
A & L: No!
Millennium: Um…er…sorry?
Lynex: [shrugs] Good enough
Millennium: Phew! Anyway… [whispering] See you next chapter!
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