Modern Day Pharaoh
Authoress' Notes: I figured I should put this in to clear up any confusion with the names…
Table of Info
Yami Yugi- Yami/ Pharaoh/ Resu/ Atem (Bel-Um-Fal)/ Yuugi Ou
Mutou Yuugi- Yugi Muto
Ryou Bakura- Ryou (Still Bakura Ryou/ Ryou Bakura)
Yami Bakura- Bakura/ Kura/ King of Bandits/Thieves / Touzoku Ou
Hiroto Honda- Tristan Taylor/ Triton
Mazaki Anzu- Téa Gardener/ Téana
Katsuya Jounouchi- Joey Wheeler/ Joseph
Kaiba Seto- Kaiba/ Seto/ Priest Set
Ishtahl Isis- Ishizu Ishtar/ Priestess Isis
Ishtahl Malik- Marik Ishtar/ Malik
Yami Malik/ Marik- Marik
Black Magician- Dark Magician/ Priest Mahado/ Mahaado
Shaadii- Shadi/ Priest Shada
Black Magician Girl- Dark Magician Girl/ Mana
Mutou Sugoroku (Jii-chan) - (Grandpa) Solomon Muto/ Shimon Muulan
Kingdom of Kemet- Ancient Egypt
Simple? Good! [smiles] Onwards!
Chapter 14: Memory, upon Game
Disclaimer: Don't own Cocoa Pops… my box is empty… ; ;
Aniba awoke to flashing walls. Blinking, unsure if it was a dream she rubbed her eyes and opened them, looking around.
She was in her soul room and the usually blank and white walls were flashing as hieroglyphs were being written and engraved into the white stone by an unseen force.
Aniba sat up and turned, rousing her darkness, "Lynex, wake up! Yami… you need to see this!"
"Aneeebar… weave me to sweep a mittle while…" She murmured, her words slurring together then dropped off entirely only to be replaced by loud snores.
"Lynex!" Aniba giggled, "You have to wake up and see this!"
Lynex sat up, a blank expression on her face, "Is it the apocalypse?"
Aniba giggled, "No!"
"The end of the world?"
"No!" She said shaking her head.
"Emit has been banished?" She asked, hopefully.
"Not yet." She said smiling.
"Phorus has managed to travel back in time to the period when he ruled as Pharaoh and given up his position there for me?"
"Lynex!" Aniba said in an exasperated tone, "I just want you to lo-"
"By the great gods and goddesses! Aniba! Look! The walls are glowing and… hieroglyphs are being carved…" She murmured, jumping out of bed to examine the walls.
"That's what I've been trying to tell you!" She said rolling her eyes as her yami jumped out of the bed to examine the walls.
"They're being carved at this moment… Wonder why? Do you know?" Lynex asked, turning to face her.
Aniba frowned, deep in thought, "No." She murmured and the glowing started dying down. "Hey… what's happening?" She asked in confusion as the hieroglyphs un-engravedthemselves.
"That's weird." Lynex commented as the glowing stopped and the walls returned to normal – half covered by the hieroglyphs. 'Actually…that's predictable…that nightmare of hers was partially true, and apart of her past…the cause for the extra hieroglyphs,' she looked over at Aniba who was staring at her, 'So for them to disappear, must mean she's forgotten again.' Her thoughts drifted back to an incident when she was younger…
FLASHBACK
"Mr. Pegasus?" A male voice called.
A long, white hair coloured man with one bronze coloured eye and the other eye being made of gold. The Millennium Eye. "Yes?"
"Are you the Guardian, in question of Aniba?" Golden eyes watched the conversation in interest, going through the closed door.
"That's me."
"Well, we regret to inform you that Aniba has suffered a severe case of amnesia." The doctor said.
"What do you mean?" Pegasus asked in surprise.
The doctor adjusted his glasses before continuing, "She remembers nothing of her past. She doesn't even recognize the words 'parent', 'mother' or 'father'." He sighed as he looked back at the closed door, "She's a really bright kid. She's able to speak both Arabic and English quite fluently."
"No surprises there." Pegasus said, crossing his arms over his red clothes.
"Through our tests, we found that something happened in her past, a traumatic event of some sort that caused her mind to hide all memory of the event. The memory is still there, just buried behind many mental defenses."
"What does that mean?"
"Well, when someone experiences a very traumatic stage of their life, this can destroy them, however your mind comes up with a mental defense. It practically eases all memory of that event and anything connected to it from the mind as a way of protection. There aren't many cases of amnesia like that, but it does happen. Usually a person can go one leading a normal life, they just won't remember anything of the incident."
There was a turn of the knob and a little girl, no older than six with black hair that went just past her shoulders looked up with wide, light brown, innocent eyes. "What incident?" She asked curiously. She was wearing a simple pink dress with several bows and ribbons here and there, clipping back some of her hair was a small butterfly clip.
"Aniba!" Pegasus said in surprise.
Lynex narrowed her eyes at the doctor, disliking him more and more.
"Mr. Max!" She said, smiling up at him. "What was Mr. White Coat talking about?"
The doctor laughed at the nickname, then ruffled her hair, causing her to scowl. "You messed my hair up!" She whined, adjusting the clip.
Lyialla walked into the room, "Mr. Pegasus?"
"Yes." He said nodding, then knelt down so he was at her height, "Aniba, can you go with Lyialla please?"
"Okay!" She skipped off, humming merrily and took Lyialla's hand and allowed herself to be lead out of the room. Lynex looked over at her and disappeared.
END FLASHBACK
'Amnesia…' She murmured.
"Lynex?" Aniba called, waving her hand back and forth across her dark's face, "HEEELLLOOO!!! Is anyone in there? Lynex-"
Lynex grabbed her wrist and glared at her, Aniba smiled appolegetically and Lynex smirked. She then began to tickled her.
"No, Lynex! Ahh! That- hehe –that tickles!" Aniba laughed as she tried to pull away.
"Bwuhahahaha!" Lynex cackled.
Aniba just gave her a weird look before breaking out in laughter once more as Lynex continued her 'tickle torture'. "Lynex, st-stop!" She stuttered through her laughs. She finally managed to pull free then woke in her physical form.
Lynex materialized beside her bed. "Eep!"
"You can't escape!" She said in a sing-song voice.
"Yes I can!" Aniba yelled as she grabbed her uniform and ran into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
"Aww." Lynex sank to the bed, pouting. Mafdet gave a meow and jumped into her lap.
"Merow?" She said, blinking at her with blue eyes.
"Aren't you ever not hungry?" Lynex frowned at the cat.
"Mew!" The cat jumped from her lap and onto the floor and looked back at her.
"What?"
"Meow!"
"I don't get it."
Mafdet gave her an annoyed look before stalking out of the room. Lynex blinked at the doorway, then heard a scuffling sound. Pricking her ears up in interest she laughed as she saw Mafdet enter the room, dragging a food mat along which had her food bowl on it.
"Oh! So you're hungry!" Lynex said, grinning at the cat.
The cat gave another meow and batted at the bowl with her paw, looking up at her with wide, blue eyes. At that moment Aniba came out of the bathroom, dressed in her pink and blue school uniform and just finishing towel-drying her hair.
"You can feed her if you want. The food is in the kitchen."
Lynex nodded and picked up the bowl, mat and Mafdet and walked off to the kitchen. Aniba looked over at the her clock and realized with disappointment that she forgot to plug the clock back in. Sighing she did this and took her watch, checking the time.
4:00AM
'Hmm… no wonder its so dark.' Shrugging to herself she walked out of her room and headed to the kitchen where Mafdet was happily eating some tinned food.
Lynex was no where to be seen.
"Lynex? Hey, Lynex?" She called, looking around then walked off to the study.
There at the table with the laptop open, while continually muttering, 'Die, die!' was Lynex, her eyes focused on the screen.
"You wanna attack me huh? Then taste this!" there was an explosion sound from the laptop and 'loser music' played. "What?! A reflective barrier? No way!" She grumbled, closing the game, "That sucked."
Aniba snickered, "Havin' fun?"
"No."
"Look, its 4AM, and Resu is currently asleep. Just make sure he doesn't see you."
"Can, will, do!" She said and faded to a transparent form. "Ooh! What game is this?" She said, turning her attention on the laptop once more.
Going back into the lounge she noticed some blue clothes folded up on the table, along with the note. Picking it up in interest, she saw it was neatly written in hieroglyphs.
Aniba,
Heq dropped by when you were sleeping and left these clothes along with a weird, folded, papyri looking thing. He said that you'll know what to do. That's it I think.
Resu.
She re-read over the writing, "Weird, folded, papyri looking thing… what is that?" She picked up the blue cloth and an envelope fell from it. "Oh." Opening it she saw a bus pass, a school ID and another note.
Hey Aniba!
It's Heq! Enclosed in this envelope are some things for out Egyptian friend for school. I also got him a uniform (don't bother with paying me back), it should fit him since I noted the clothing sizes from that day you went shopping. I also enrolled him at Domino High earlier this afternoon (or yesterday if you're reading it tomorrow, today – never mind…I just confused myself) But yeh… that's it I think.
Oh! And I'll pick both of you up for school, saves walking to the bus stop.
Bye!
Love, Heq.
Aniba smiled as she shifted through the envelope. Picking up the uniform she shook it and it became unfolded. Looking at the blue pants and jacket, she saw that it was the right size. "He really knows how to take note of things." She muttered, then laid it on the couch.
Looking at the clock, she saw it read 4:30AM. There was another shout from the study room which sounded suspicious like 'You, Ra-damned, god-forsken, Anubis-cursed game!!! I destroyed your army! You're susposed to DIE! Not heal! DIE!!!' There was a strangled cry and a loud moan, "NOOO!!! NOT AGAIN! I LOST!!! I LOST TO OSIRIS-BE-DAMNED DATA!!!"
Aniba jumped as she heard a loud thumping of footsteps and Lynex stomped into the room, muttering darkly along the lines of 'computer', 'kill', 'smash' and 'destroy', before she disappeared back into her soul room.
/Er…aren't you hungry? Or don't you wanna eat?/
"Huh?" Lynex reappeared. "SUGAR!" She yelled and dove for the cupboard, pulling out the entire box of Cocoa Pops and devouring it. Within seconds, the box was empty and Lynex retreated back to her soul room, all events of a certain computer game gone from her memory.
Aniba shook her head in disbelief and began cooking some bacon and eggs. When she was finished, it was 5AM and there was a sound of a door opening and Resu walked into the kitchen, his eyes closed and just his nose guiding him…
Bad move…
BANG! – Straight into the fridge door.
"Oww…" Resu complained, rubbing his sore and now red nose.
"Um… Morning?"
"Is my nose bleeding?" He asked, pinching it.
"No."
"Okay." He said brightly and then added, "Good morning."
Aniba crossed her arms and pointed a whisk at him, "Is it a coincidence that you wake up just as I finish cooking?"
"…yes…" He said, crossing his arms over his bare-chest. "Gotta problem with that?"
Aniba sighed, "I have no idea." She then picked up the two plates of food and placed them on the breakfast bar, "You get the knives and forks."
"Wha? Why me?" He asked in a whiny voice, but did as bid anyway.
"Thanks." Aniba noticed that when he had walked past, he was wearing a pair of white Kemetic-style pants, his puzzle hung loosely over his chest.
"What?" He asked, swallowing a piece of bacon.
"Nothing." She started eating her breakfast and noticed with annoyance that Resu was currently flicking the bacon. "What in Ra's name are you doing?"
"…icky stuff." Aniba snickered at his choice of wording, but stopped as he glared.
"Sorry, but… That's sauce. Not 'icky stuff', just taste it."
He sniffed the sauce on the bacon then licked it with the tip of his tongue, before swallowing the rest of it down. "Tasty." He commented.
"Good." Aniba said, having finished her meal, she stood and placed it in the dishwasher. "Once you're finished, your clothes are on the couch. You can have a shower and get changed, you got school today." She said, smiling as she went off to pack her bag.
Resu looked over at her, before echoing, "…school?"
Authoress' Note: Hope you liked it! Sorry for the delay!!!
Thanks to the reviewers!
AinSitiNaunet – Er… I read through those you listed and there weren't any mistakes… Though I think you were trying to point out "favor" as "favour"… It can be either way, like "mum" and "mom". Thanks for reviewing!
Pharaohs Angel – Yeh, it was the Vegas fic! :) I got your e-mail as well, lucky I got it before my e-mail started messing up! (I've had to change my e-mail, you can find my new one in my profile!) Thanks!
Millennium: No comment… I just wanna get this chappy out there!
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