Modern Day Pharaoh
Authoress' Notes: Woo-hoo! School is officially that's o-f-f-i-c-i-a-l-l-y out!! [Does a little dance] … now, presenting… the much awaited chapter of the Pharaoh's first day of school…. Chapter 15! 'Its Modern School, Resu!'
Chapter 15: It's Modern School, Resu!
¹: Duat – [Kemetic] The Underworld
"School?" Resu wondered, 'I didn't think I'd actually be going!' His mind persisted, spearing the last piece of egg on his fork he ate it. 'Though it would be interesting to see how their school works.'
Abandoning his plate he wandered into the lounge where Aniba was. "The clothes you have to wear are there." She said, pointing to a pile of blue coloured clothes. "You can wear whatever shirt you want." She added and went back to looking through a pile of paper, muttering 'Where did I put that Algebra sheet?'
Resu gave a nod, grabbed the clothes and headed for the bathroom – he hesitated at the door for a moment, before going in. Aniba looked down the hall and shook her head.
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Once he was finished his shower, he came out with just the school pants on grumbling along the lines of 'stupid temperature changing contraption'! His hair was wet again and was straight down, just to his elbows. He had a towel in hand and was currently in the process of drying his hair. Looking around, he noticed that Aniba was no where to be seen. 'Wonder where she went?'
Going down the hall, he went to her door and knocked, "Come in!"
Gently pushing the door open, he saw that she was on the floor, sitting on her legs with various… "something's" scattered around her. He sat down next to her and continued drying his hair, "What are those?" He asked as he went to pick one of the 'something's' up, it looked like a dragon Kaa.
"Duel Monster Cards. There are six types, the green ones are Magic Cards, the pink ones are Traps, the yellows are Monsters, the orange ones are Effect Monsters, the purple ones Fusion, and the blue ones Ritual."
"There're so many." He commented, looking at the cards in awe.
"I got about fifty all together. But that's just my deck, I have spares that I use for trading."
"I see…" He frowned and picked up another card, attempting to read the text over the top but failing horribly, "Is it a coincidence that they look like Kaa's?"
"Nope. 'Cause they are, well, at least the modern form anyway."
"What does that say?" He asked, pointing to the title of a purple card.
"Mythic Dragon." She then waved her hand (which glowed then dimmed) over his face, "Pick up another and try and read it."
He looked at her confused, but did so anyway, "Petit Dragon." He read.
"Right."
"Hey, I read it!" He exclaimed happily.
She gave him a smile then collected all the cards into a pile, before slipping it into the side pocket of her bag which was right beside her.
"Aren't you gonna put a shirt on?" She asked, "Heq will be coming to pick us up later, so you need to be ready."
"Uh…Okay." He shook his head, the spikes starting to go up again as his hair dried. Getting up off the floor he headed back to his room, looking through the closet. "Hmm…what to wear?" He wondered, in the end he just ended up choosing a plain Kemetic-style shirt. Slipping it on, he gave an annoyed sigh as his puzzle became stuck under the fabric, so removing both the shirt and puzzle, he put the shirt back on, then the Millennium Puzzle.
There was a knock at the door, and in the doorway stood Aniba, "You left your jacket in my room – you have to wear it at school in case you're wondering." Striding over she handed him the jacket before leaving.
Looking at the jacket he slipped it on, but just decided to leave it open. Looking around the dark-furnished room he went off in search of Aniba once more.
"Resu! Where are your shoes? You're not going to walk around barefooted are you?" She looked at him as she slipped on her own.
Looking at his feet he wriggled his toes in amusement, and looked up apologetically, "Heh. I forgot, I guess." Going back into his room once more her grabbed a pair of white socks and his black-buckled boots. Sitting on the sofa he then proceeded to put his shoes on as Aniba ran off back towards her room. Once he was finished (he had accidentally put his shoes on the wrong feet so had to start over) putting his shoes on properly, Aniba walked back into the room, this time her bag was much like a backpack.
"Ready? Heq is picking us up."
"Yeh…I'm ready…. But with what?"
"His car." He froze, looking at her with horror.
"NO! Not again!" He whined, "Those things are out to get me!"
"No they're not." Aniba said, rolling her eyes, "Come on, lets go!" She grabbed him by the sleeve, tugging him along. "We're gonna be late for school."
Resu gave a defeated sigh and stood up, trudging after her. Aniba smiled brightly after him, then closed the door. Deciding to take the stairs this time, they did and went out the door and waited at the sidewalk.
"Who are we waiting for, Aniba?"
"Heq. He's going to pick us up." She decided to leave the car comment out of this.
"Oh. Okay." He looked around in interest, from one of the large screen TV's on the buildings, to the traffic lights, people on bikes, a car pulling up beside him – wait… "Kaa?!" He gave a yelp and jumped back just as Aniba opened the door. "Evil soul monster of Seth!"
"Aw, just quit being a baby." Aniba said, rolling her eyes as she pulled him into the back seat of the car and closing the door. "Okay, you can go now." She nodded to Heq as she set her bag on the floor, and fastened her seat belt.
"No!" Resu whined, then huffed in annoyance.
"Someone's grumpy." Heq commented. "So, how are you today Aniba?"
"Good, can't say the same for Resu." She said, gesturing to a pouting Resu.
"Right… Anyway, Resu will be able to get all of his school things from the office, all he has to do is show 'em his ID – have you got that with you?"
"Yeah." Aniba replied as she fished around in her bag, "I grabbed it earlier cause I knew for a fact that someone would forget it." She glared at Resu who glared back.
"Not my fault." He declared crossing his arms, watching everything go by in boredom.
Aniba sighed, knowing it was no use dwelling on the past, instead she pulled a book from her bag and opened it, reading through the pages, of which were comprised of various texts making it unreadable to most.
Heq decided to remain quiet and instead turned his attention to the road, spotting the school up ahead he slowed down and turned into a school parking lot.
Resu looked up in interest upon spotting the large school building, "What's that?" he asked.
"It's modern school, Resu." Aniba said smiling as she put her book away and Heq parked the car, turning the engine off. Resu was first out, followed by Aniba and Heq. "So, what do you think?"
"It's big." He commented, "I mean, compared to the small temples that are situated around the palace." Looking around with wide eyes he finally noticed what Heq and the other boys were wearing, "Hey. How come you got the same clothes as me?"
Heq grabbed his bag and swung it over his shoulder, "That's like asking why people of the same army have the same uniforms."
"Oh."
"Come on, you have to go to the office and get your stuff for school." She handed him his ID card. "Most likely, they'll want a picture to put on this to laminate." She adjusted the straps on her bag then ushered him along, "Come on!"
"Hey-! Wait-!"
Heq chuckled as he followed the two, though was stopped by a boy with blonde hair and honey coloured eyes, "'Ey, Heq! What ya up ta'?" He asked, waving at him.
"Oh, hey Joey." He grinned then looked back at Aniba.
"Just go and see him, I'll take care of Resu." She said, then quickly waved at the blonde.
"Okay." He ran off to meet up with Joey while Aniba continued dragging and pushing the resistant Resu along.
"Who's that?" He kept stopping, looking around, "That looks like Joseph, a stable boy back in my Kingdom." He stopped again to get a better look, but Aniba immediately got him moving again.
"That's Joey Wheeler, and he's not who you think he is. His really name is actually Joseph, but we call him Joey 'cause its like a nickname. He's also a reincarnation, believe me, you'll meet a lot of those around."
"…oh…" He stopped again and looked off in the distance, "I could've sworn I just saw Priest Seth."
"Another reincarnation." She sighed and tugged on his sleeve to get him moving, "That's Seto Kaiba, he's a CEO of a billion-dollar company called KaibaCorp."
"How many reincarnations are there?" He asked, bewildered.
"I don't know, honestly." She walked alongside him, not having to pull him along anymore as they walked up the steps and into the school. "Did you know that Heq and Pasenture are reincarnations as well?"
"Really? Well, I'll be darned." He smiled. "Hey! Is there a reincarnation or me?"
Aniba didn't get to answer the question as they were stopped by a teacher, "Now, who have we hear, Miss Ishtar?"
"Oh! Mr. Tatakini!" She looked at him apologetically, "I didn't see you there. Um, this is my cousin, Resu Fal, he's from Egypt."
"Really now?" He frowned at him, "Young man, you do know that hair dye is not allowed at this school."
"Huh?" He looked at Aniba confused, "What is he talking about?"
"Um, sir. His hair is naturally three colours. It's not dye."
"Oh?" He grabbed two strands of hair and pulled it.
"Ow! What's your problem?!" Resu growled, automatically reaching up to grasp his head.
The teacher inspected the two hairs closely, "Would you look at that." He smiled, "All the way to the root. Well, my greatest apologies Mr. Fal, my mistake." Resu just scowled but nodded as a response. "Carry on then."
After the teacher was out of ear-shot Resu growled, "What in the duat¹ was his problem?!"
"Just ignore it. You still have to go to the office." Aniba said, pointing to a door.
"Fine." He pushed the door open and walked through, closely followed by Aniba.
"Go up to the lady at the desk and tell her your name, and that you're a new student." She whispered.
"Uh, okay." He blinked then did as told.
"Why hello! How may I help you, young sir?"
"Er.. my name is At- I mean, Resu Fal. I'm a new student." He looked back at Aniba who nodded.
"May I see your school ID?" He handed her the card which she took and and scanned with a pen. "Hmm. Well, everything is checked and ready. Would you please sit just over there so we can take a picture?"
"Okay." He sat down where told and the lady looked at him while positioning a box-like object in front of her eye.
"Smile!" She said, cheerily and clicked the flash taking a picture.
"Eek!" Resu was blinded by a bright white light. He sat there blinking for several minutes while the lady set to work on creating his new ID.
Aniba walked over and looked at him worriedly, "You okay?"
"Ra has blinded me!" He whined, still blinking and rubbing his eyes.
Aniba looked at him, trying her best to stifle her laughter, "It should clear up. Just don't rub at it much." She took a hold of his hands and placed them in his lap.
"Alright, Mr. Fal. Which subject's would you like to choose?"
"Subjects?" He echoed, his vision slowly coming back.
"Y'know, for different lessons." Aniba explained, "Like Mathematics, History and stuff."
"Oh…what are there to choose from?"
"Here." The lady said, handing him a piece of paper and pen, "Just circle the one's you want."
Resu looked at the paper, able to read it with ease, taking up the pen he looked through each, as Aniba sent him mental notes explaining each one, 'Art, History, Science, Geography, Studies of Society and the Environment, Literature, Manual Arts, Home Economics…' The list just went on, finally he was finished, having chosen four subjects. "Science, History, Craft and Manual Arts." He said looking over his new timetable.
"Hey, Resu. I have to get to class now, but you need to stay here to finalize some things, you think you will be okay?" She asked.
"Yeh, I'll be fine." He smiled at her reassuredly.
"If anything goes wrong, just send me a mental note." She whispered then left.
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Upon reaching her homeroom she saw that most of the class was already there, "Hey Aniba!" A female voice called from the other side of the room.
"Oh, Téa." She said smiling as she went over sitting at a desk two across from the window. Hanging her bag on the side of her table, she noticed a duel was currently going on between Heq and Yugi. Going over she sat on a desk and watched in interest.
They were playing Battle City rules, Yugi was on 3500 Life Points and Heq was on 2500. Heq had Blazing Inpachi on the field equipped with Burning Spear giving it an attack of 2250, he also had two cards face down. Yugi had Dark Magician Girl on the field equipped with the Book of Secret Arts (ATK – 2300), he also had one card face down.
"My move." Aniba watched as the tri-hair duelist drew a card and played it face down, "I play this, face down and attack Blazing Inpachi with Dark Magician Girl."
"Activate Blast with Chain." Heq said smugly, flipping the card over, "This card is treated as an Equip Magic card upon activation and increases my monster's attack by 500, also if the card is destroyed I can destroy any card I wish."
Yugi's face fell as his Dark Magician Girl was sent to the graveyard.
"So, dat's 450 attack damage ta Yuuge." Joey said, putting a pencil to his head, "So 3500 minus 450 is…" He thought for a moment, "3050!" He crossed out the previous answer and wrote down the new one. "Yugi is still ahead." He said, poking Heq in the shoulder with the pencil.
"I know."
"I end my turn." Yugi said with a sigh.
"Great!" Heq said smiling as he drew a card, "Hmm… I attack your life points, directly!"
"Activate Magic Cylinder." Yugi said flipping a card over.
"Damn." Heq said putting his hand of cards down, "Should've known better to challenge the King of Games."
"Yeh! Yuuge wins!" Joey exclaimed, crossing out the 2500LP to put 0000 instead.
"Good game." He said, standing up to shake Heq's hand.
Joey stood up and turned, only to come face to face with Aniba, "Yah! When didya get 'ere?!" he demanded, "What do ya do? Just appear outta no where?"
Aniba giggled, "No. I was here just as Heq ended his turn when he was still on 2500LP."
"Oh." He then frowned, "'Ey, its not like ya ta be late. Why is dat?"
"Well, actually-"
"Class, please return to your seats immediately! We have a new student."
Authoress' Notes: Sorry for the delay! I've been kept busy with various things and I've been trying to get Prophecy moving along… I'll try and get the next chappy out ASAP!
Card Reference:
Blazing Inpachi
Group: Pyro
Type: Fire
Level:4
Atk: 1850
Def: 0
A wicked wooden spirit now burning in flames. Its fire attack is powerful, but it will soon be nothing but ashes.
Burning Spear:
Group: Magic Card
Type: Magic
Icon:Equip
A FIRE monster equipped with this card increases its ATK by 400 points and decreases its DEF by 200 points.
Dark Magician Girl
Group: Spellcaster/Effect
Type: Dark
Level:6
Atk: 2000
Def: 1700
Increase the ATK of this monster by 300 points for each "Dark Magician" or "Magician of Black Chaos" in either player's Graveyard.
Blast with Chain
Group: Trap Card
Type: Trap
After activation, this card is treated as an Equip Magic Card. Select 1 monster you control and equip it with this card to increase the ATK of the selected monster by 500 points. When this card is destroyed by the effect of another card, select 1 card on the field and destroy it.
Magic Cylinder
Group: Trap Card
Type: Trap
Negate the attack of 1 of your opponent's monsters and inflict Direct Damage equal to the attacking monster's ATK to your opponent's Life Points.
Thanks to the Reviewers!
Ain-Siti-Naunet: Thanks for pointing out the mistakes! :) I've fixed them so I'll be able to upload them again for the 're-write' where I edit through the mistakes and everything… Thanks for reviewing!
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Millennium: Hi everyone! We're back!
Aniba: …is that a good thing?
Lynex: [shrugs]
Y.M. & Nympthsis: [don't care]
Millennium: [claps hands together] Anyway, I wanted to tell you that in the up coming chapters, you're gonna help out with answering my reviews! [smiles]
Everyone but Millennium: [freezes in shock]
Y.M.: Uh… I gotta go… um… bye! [runs off]
Nympthsis: Me too. [runs after Y.M.]
A & L: We would love to but-
Millennium: [glares] Uh-uh, you're staying here and helping out and being useful and that's final! [crosses arms]
Y.M.: Sorry! I forgot something! [runs back into room grabs bar-fridge and runs back out]
M, A & L: [blink, blink]
Millennium: Riiight… so Aniba and Lynex now have a purpose! [grins]
Aniba: [whining] But I already have a purpose! I'm a muse and a character in your story!
Lynex: Yeh! Me too!
Millennium: Too bad! :-P [looks to readers] Okay… well, please review for me! Bye!
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