Modern Day Pharaoh
Authoress' note: Here we are at chapter 11! Yay! [big grin] Okay, I still need the names of the people in Pharaoh Akunumkanon's council! I got a feeling it will be revealed in episode 206 onwards, but at this rate, I can't even get episode 205! [wails] I've only got Akunadean of the Eye and Shimon of the Key so far and I need more of the characters! I'm beggin' ya! [puppy-dog eyes] PWEAZE?
Well, please do help if you can! Chapter 11 of Modern Day Pharaoh!
Chapter 11: Waterfalls, History of God, Atem
¹: Baka [Japanese] – Idiot/ Stupid/ Foolish Person (all out insultive word)
"Uh…You mean I get to stay here…alone?" Resu asked in disbelief, his crimson eyes becoming wide with excitement.
"Yes…" She muttered, putting her face in her hands, "Just think…you alone with technology! Oh, that's gonna be hell…" Suddenly she looked up, glaring through her fingers, "And don't you be getting any weird idea's or do anything stupid, you got that?!" She demanded.
"Er…what ever are you talking about?" He asked, laughing nervously.
"Remember the Car incident?"
"Uh…"
"Remember the soup incident?"
"Uh…"
"Remember the lamp incident?"
Resu was silent now, a very large sweat drop having decided to take residence at the back of his head, as each memory flashed by one after the other.
"Remember the large mirror incident? And the lighter incident? And the door-closing-behind-you incident? And the ink incident? And the 'miniature water fall' incident? And the you-trying-to-banish-the-toilet incident?" She had pulled her face out of her hands and was now naming each one off on her fingers, "And also the-"
"Okay, okay!" Resu said, putting his hands up in defeat. "You win. I won't get any 'weird idea's or do anything 'stupid' as you put it." He then rolled his eyes, 'Seesh!"
"Good. And be nice to Mafdet as well, 'kay?" She asked, looking at him.
"Alright, it's not like I'll treat you cat with any disrespect, she's a cat! A sacred animal and her name takes after a great deity!" He exclaimed.
"What? And yours' doesn't?" She asked, raising an eyebrow in question.
"What do you mean?"
"You mean you don't know?" She said surprised. "Your name, Atem, is also the name of a God."
"You serious? Really?" He asked, excitement plain in his voice.
"Yeh!" She then stood up and made her way over to the bookshelf, looking along the spines she came onto a Golden coloured spine. Pulling the book out, she brought it over to the table and flipped to the index, once she found what she was looking for she flipped to the right place and pushed the book towards Resu, "There? See?" She said, triumphantly.
Resu's eyes scanned over the page, the only thing he could read was an inscription about the after life, sighing he muttered, "I can't understand those symbols."
"Oh, sorry. I forgot, remind me to make you learn how to read tomorrow. Anyway, here we are, 'Atem – 'the All' – was the self-engendered creator go who arose from the primordial waters of chaos, Nun, in order to form the primeval mound and to bring the elements of the cosmos into being. As head of the Ennead, or Nine Gods, he held the title 'Lord to the Limits of the Sky'. His cult centre was at heliopolis, and he was regarded very much as a solar deity' Dah, dah, dah… 'Atem was very much associated with kingship, and was believed to lift the dead king-" catching the blank look on Resu's face, she said, "Pharaoh… Nisut?" He nodded, then Aniba continued, "- 'he was believed to lift the dead king from him pyramid to the stars…' It goes on to say what animals were sacred to him and how he began guiding all of dead people on their journey to afterlife."
"That…" He struggled to find the right words, "is such an honour! To be named, after such an important God, and not only was he apart of the Council of Nine Gods, but the leader as well! That is just amazing…What about you?" He asked, looking up at Aniba.
"Huh?"
"You, your name? Does it mean anything?"
"Actually, I hadn't really put that much thought into it…But I know Aniba is a place…and my last name, Ishtar, is the Egyptian Goddess of fertility and a heck of a lot of other things." She shrugged, "It's not exactly something I should dwell on at the moment, as I have to finish my homework." She said, gesturing towards the books lay on the table, "You can stay here if you want, as long as you don't sing or make too much noise, there are some Papyrus scrolls on the bottom shelf if you want to read through them." She then sat back down in her seat.
"I think I'll read." Resu said nodding, he had always been fond of history, stories, myths and legends. Going over to where Aniba indicated he took four or five scrolls and brought them to another table that sat in the corner parallel to the desk she was at now. Sitting down, he opened the first scroll and was astonished to find it was an account of the battle after the creation of the Items. "Now this is interesting."
Aniba looked up from her math book to try and see which scrolls he had taken, squinting slightly she saw he had a children's story, the legend of Ra, the Millennium Battle, the story of the Kaa's and a blank roll. Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, she pulled the Textbook closer and began working on the maths problems once again.
Within half an hour, according to her watch, she had finished her math homework, plus and additional three day's worth. Stretching her cramped limbs she gave a yawn then stood up, closing her books and stacking them one upon the other.
"Finished!" She exclaimed in content.
Resu looked up and brushed his bangs out of his eyes, "Already?"
"Yup!" She exclaimed with glee. "Which one you reading at the moment?" She asked, leaning over in curiosity, picking up some of the scrolls.
"The battle after the creation of the Millennium Items…I thought all record of this was destroyed."
"What? Why would any one want to destroy it?" She asked in surprise, her dream coming back to her.
"Well," He said closing his eyes, "The creation of the Items, history of how to unlock and release it's magic was supposedly destroyed, or went missing, for the benefit of the country so that evil forces wouldn't be able to use it for their own purposes." He explained, then opened his eyes, studying her confused face.
"It's not the book itself." She protested.
"Book?"
"The Book of Millennium Magic." Cursing softly, she paced back and forth in the room. She visibly shuddered, "The Alchemy of Darkness…" Resu watched in interest, never had he heard anyone speak of the event of when the items were created, to him it was still shrouded in mystery. Yet, here, Aniba, someone he barely even knew, knows so much on the history of the items.
"Ku…Ku…Ku something or other…" She muttered, racking her brain for the answers. "Sacrifice…" She gasped as memories came flooding back to her, red flashes of flame, blood, bodies, melted gold. She leaned on the table for balance, trying to see the room clearly, but all she could see from all angles was a burnt and bloodied village. Shaking her head violently, she stood up. "I need some rest."
She flashed him a reassuring smile then left.
Walking out of the room, she hid her feelings from Resu well on the outside, but on the inside she was shaking, and Lynex knew of this.
/./Hikari…What's wrong?/./
/Don't./ She said, forcefully, /Just don't press the issue, I don't want to talk about it./
Sighing, Lynex sent her a mental nod and cut off the link.
"Resu, I'm going to have a bath now, I won't be long, just…don't do anything that will cause damage, okay?" She asked, once she got a nod she left him be.
Heading off to her room, she grabbed a towel and her clothes, locking her bedroom door before going through another door that was in between her closet and the table. Closing the door behind her she turned on the shower and stripped then stepped under the warm water closing the sliding screen behind her.
Resu sat there on the couch, boredly tapping his fingers on the armrest. He heard a door close and looked down the hall in curiosity. Getting up he walked down the hall only to be confronted with another strange noise. "…Sounds like rain." He muttered, going up to the door he found the sound was muffled, moving across the wall with his ear close to it, he heard the rain sound get louder. /What's that?/ He wondered.
/"AHHHH!!!"/ Aniba screamed through the faint mind-link that she and Resu shared, and through her own set of lungs.
"Ow…my ears!" Resu whined, rubbing his pinkie in his ear.
/Don't. Talk. To. Me./ Aniba said, then mumbled, 'Pervert' before putting up her mental shields again. "Baka¹ Pharaoh." She muttered, turning off the tap.
Resu stood there, abit taken aback by her tone of voice, 'What had she been doing in there anyway? She seemed really annoyed at me…' He wondered back to the lounge and sat down upon the couch, left with his confused thoughts.
After about five minutes or so Aniba came down the hall in the process of drying her hair, she also had a pale purple bathrobe on.
A thought crossed Resu's mind and his features were tinged pink, 'No wonder she got angry.'
Aniba looked at him with a suspicious look then continued to dry her hair.
"You gonna have a shower now?" She asked.
"Shower?" He wondered.
Aniba sighed then placed her towel on her shoulder and let Resu to the other bathroom in her apartment. Opening the door, she suddenly remembered, "Oh, yeh. You better get a change of clothes. Uh, they're two doors down." She said, pointing back down the hall.
Resu gave a nod and within a few minutes he came back, handing him a fresh towel, she began to explain the shower.
"Now, this is called a shower… its kinda like bathing, 'cept standing up I guess." Aniba said, frowning slightly. "I usually use it when I don't exactly have time for a relaxing bath, but doesn't really matter." She said shrugging. "Anyway, if you want water, first turn the blue coloured tap, that will give you cold water. Now, if you want the water to be warmer, all you have to do is turn the red tap, however, I must warn you, it can be very hot," She cautioned, "So be careful…any questions?"
"None that I can't think of." Resu replied, still slightly confused.
"If you need anyone, just call through the link, and for the Love of Ra, please don't burn yourself in the shower." She said, as she left the bathroom.
Resu blinked as the door shut, ensuring it was locked, he looked around the bathroom for anything that would aid his cleaning. Shrugging it off, he figured he'd have to deal with what's here.
Looking around he spotted a white and blue coloured rock. Walking over to the sink he picked up the rock and smelled it, shocked at the perfume scent it gave off. Holding it closer to his nose so he could get a better smell, he breathed in the soft fruity smell when suddenly he was hit in the nose by something.
Clutching his nose in pain, he wondered what happened, then spotted the white and blue rock from behind him. "How did that get there?" He went to pick it up only to have it slip out of his hands. Growling in annoyance, he yelled, "I will not be defeated by a rock!" Giving a loud war-cry he dove for the rock and… success! He had it clutched in his hands.
Throwing it into the shower he soon followed after, throwing off his clothes so that they landed in various places around the bathroom. Looking at the tap he turned on the blue one and was immediately hit with a gust of cold water, "Ahh! Cold!"
Grabbing the red one he turned it slowly, deciding to take heed of Aniba's warning. "It's a Waterfall! That can be bent to my will!" he exclaimed. Looking around the shower he suddenly realized it was foggy. "What in the underworld?" He vaguely wondered, "Now where is that nice smelling roc-Gah!" He had taken a step and instead of remaining standing, he slipped and fell ungracefully to the floor.
Looking across the tiled floor of the shower he saw the white and blue rock just before his eyes, "I got you now!" He hissed, then made a move to grab it only to be blinded by a soap bubble popping.
"Oww!" He whined, then immediately began washing his eyes, "The demon stone has a mind and will of it's own! It has poisoned me!" He cried.
After many frantic scrubbing attempts, he was finally able to see once more. Glaring at the 'demon stone' he muttered, "This time, it's a draw. You just wait till we play a Shadow Duel." Turning off the taps, red first followed by the blue, he stepped out of the shower and tried to see around him, but the fog was in the bathroom as well.
"Where's my towel?" Squinting through the fog, he spotted it amongst his clothes. Grabbing it he began to dry himself off and put his clothes back on.
The clothes he chose where of Kemetic style, usually he wouldn't wear a shirt with it, but he had had worries about any more cold places, twice he had experienced their temperature changing abilities, 'Some Ice and the Freezer' as Aniba had called them, he remembered.
As he pulled on a simple white shirt with gold trimmings, he stifled a yawn. "I must be tired." He murmured as he tightened the cord on his pants.
Opening the door he walked back to the lounge where Aniba was sitting.
"Hey Mop." Aniba said looking up from her book as Resu emerged from the bathroom.
"…What did you call me?" He said lifting his wet hair from his face, indeed looking like he had put a wig on backwards, or as Aniba had suggested, a mop.
"I called you a mop… though that term isn't correct as the mop I have in mind is white." She said, making her way to the laundry and pulling out a mop, "See?"
Resu blinked in confusion, before going back into the bathroom, than emerging with a towel in hand as he attempted to dry his hair.
"Y'know," Aniba said in amusement, "when your hair is wet, it's not different to mine, except that yours is straight and mine is wavy." She snickered.
Resu just glowered at her and attempted to dry his hair faster. Aniba gave a big yawn then muttered, "I'm tired, you?" She asked, abandoning their previous conversation as she put her book away.
"Actually, yes." His hair was still a bit wet, but the spikes were beginning to form once more.
Aniba watched him as he tried to pick his gold bangs from his black and crimson-tipped hair whilst drying it. "Oh, let me do it." She muttered, then picked up a hand-held object from the table.
"What's that?" Resu asked.
"Hair dryer. I was using it not too long ago."
"Hair dryer…does it dry hair?"
"What do you think?" She asked, then turned it on. As soon as she hit the 'on' switch Resu began to panic.
"What kind of Kaa is that?!"
"It's technology you big baby." She pulled him closer and began to blow-dry his hair as she dried it with the towel, without much held from Resu trying to squirm away.
Once she was done, his bangs and spikes were relatively normal, just sagging from the weight of the water at the tips.
"I'm going to bed now." She said, stretching as she flicked a switch, turning off the Hair-Dryer. "In case you're wondering, your room is the one your clothes are in. The bed's made and everything, just make yourself comfortable." She said nodding as she walked down the hall, Resu following after, still with a towel in hand as he attempted to dry the tips of his hair.
"Goodnight, Aniba." He said softly as left for his room.
"'Night…" She replied, heading off to her room.
Taking off the bathrobe, she hanged it on the door and within seconds of her head hitting the pillow, she was asleep.
Authoress' Notes: Oh, yeh, I got the prologue figured out! It's at the start where the notes and disclaimer used to be! …is it just me or are the chapters getting longer? 0.o Oh well, usually my chappy's are about 2-5 pages, so 4 pages is okay.
Oh, and I got the names of the council now!
Thanks to the reviewers!
Pharaoh's Angel: Hey! Have you got me on an author alert or something? Cause you review so fast! I was looking around the house and trying to figure out what an ancient person would refer to lamps as... I figured Ra would be best, being a sun god and all. And yup, Resu and Yugi will be going to the same school... lets just say Yami get's a little worried that there's someone who looks like him. Thanks for reviewing!
Glitnir-Gebo: Thanks for reviewing chapter 10, 9 and the prologue... Do you really think the prologue was that fast? Well... I guess its true. [smiles] Thanks!
Ente: I'm happy you liked the chapter! That song that Resu was singing was actually from an Egyptian/ Kemetic story that I read, and glad that you understand the soul-room idea now. Did you get the list of all the words in my review for your story? Thanks for reviewing! And don't worry, I'm gonna continue continuing, ;-)
Ain-Siti-Naunet: Thanks for reviewing chapter 10 and the Prologue! You liked the part with Aniba's food inspection? Hehe, yeh its all good. ;-) You like Aniba the most out of my characters? Aww... thanks! And Lynex is coming seconds... yay! Yeh, I think in the prologue, there was a lot of room taken up from the monster descriptions... I did that because I find it annoying when people just list the card names and you have no idea what they look like... I tried to describe them the best I could, so thanks for the comments and reviews!
Millennium: [still running from Aniba] Hey again!
Y.M.: TIME FREEZE! [every except Millennium and Y.M. is frozen]
Millennium: [stops running.] 0.o
Y.M.: Now it's just us! [grins] How was your day at school, aibou?
Millennium: [mutters] Don't call me that [back to normal] Uh…weird…?
Y.M.: [smiling] Why is that, aibou?
Millennium: [through gritted teeth] Don't call me that. [normal] Because my English teacher as lost it and so have you.
Y.M.: [is confused] Eh?
Millennium: [sigh] Our teacher got us to play "Survivor Analytical Essay" [shudders] It was just …plain…weird…
Y.M.: … 0.0;
Millennium: And I quote, "Survivor Analytical Essay – Out Write, Out Quote, Out Analyze! 28 students are stranded in a classroom without any contact to English Literature or Dictionaries. It's an ultimate battle of Analyzing wits where students go head to head to compete for the ultimate prize. A Model Analytical Essay!" [shudders] The worst thing was when lesson was extended because we had a fire-drill and lock-down practice…thing…
Y.M.: English has drained all of your vocabulary, ne?
Millennium: [thinks] ….yes. The only interesting thing about the lesson was when the teacher covered her ears and hid in the corner rocking back and forth because the alarm was in our classroom. [evil grin] Vengeance is mine!
Y.M.: [to readers and reviewers] Well, my hikari has officially lost it and her brain is being drained by all the exams, so I'll have to take over for now… [looks at Millennium who is singing 'Every Heart' by BoA in Japanese]
Millennium: Every Heart, Sunao ni narerudarou! [puts music up full volume] Dareni Omaiwo tsutaetara
Y.M.: …. -.-;
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