TDW Aldara, Winged Gift

No Egypt in this chap...but Jou-kun is on his way to Egypt, the next chapter will most likely be in Egypt then the chapter after that will be S/J fluff ^^ just givin' ya summin' to look forward ta.

WARNINGS: Yaoi, CBT, D/S, H/C, Anal, AU, Oral, OC, Ship, Slave, SP, and Aphrodisiacs.

Orion (Mokuba) aka Ori.....................Son of Fire
Aldara (REBD)..................................Winged Gift
Damocles (the bad dude)...................from Mythology, a tyrant from Syracuse    [He'll probably be forgotten after this chapter]

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Running at full speed towards the village Amaranth growled and started hacking away at the men who were ravaging her village, that's right HER village.

Looking around she saw a man dragging a girl to the back of a shed. She went in pursuit; grabbing the son of a bitch by the hair she cut his head off with a clean stroke and pulled the girl up "run!" she said and went to look for more prey.

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The leader of the bandits, watching the desolation of the town from a high vantage point spurred his horse into a gallop deciding to join in the fun of the slaughter.

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Amaranth was getting tired; she had killed at least ten men but kept on going. She slashed again, 11 men dead, then twelve.

A horse reared and neighed, the lady gasped. There was only one boy who could ride THAT horse! Looking around she spotted a boy with raven hair on a roan mare. "Orion!" she called as loud as she could, making her way towards the boy killing as she ran.

The boy hearing his name looked around, "Amaranth!" he shouted back pulling on the reins of his mare to stable her.

"Ori! Go to the spring at the northern edge of the village, the one with the waterfall" she instructed. "Sere will be in a cave slightly to the left of the fall." Taking the boy's hand she kissed it. "Protect my daughter! Protect Sere!" she cried as she pushed the mare towards the direction of the spring.

"What about you?"

Amaranth was silent "I will protect the village."

"Alone?" the boy was asked. Her silence confirmed her answer. He nodded and spurred his horse towards the northern edge of the village.

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He gripped his bow tighter and grit his teeth. Hiding behind a grove of trees Fernec looked over the village he called his own.

Most of everything was burned down, destroyed, or stolen. "Slave Raiders." He whispered. Normal raids would leave dead bodies and his village had scant, though, whether to be thankful or remorseful he didn't know.

Looking into his arrow bag he checked how many arrows he had left, he had only brought 50 out of the 200 for the hunt. 40 remained. Closing his eyes he gave a prayer to Artemis, lady of the hunt. 'Let me live' he prayed and opened his eyes 'help me.'

Nocking an arrow he ran as fast as his legs could carry him towards his first prey.

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"Faster, Stupid Wench!" A buck-toothed raider pushed a 7-year-old girl into the gravel. He smirked, "Well look's like we need to give this little lass a little 'incentive' now don't we?"

"S-sir?" The girl stammered. Bucktooth smiled and started to undo his breeches, the raiders around him cheered and took seats where they could enjoy the show. Suddenly from nowhere a white fletched arrow flew and lodged itself into the raiders chest. The little girl ran as the man fell.

"What the?-" another arrow and another raider was silenced. In sudden panic the other raiders ran leaving most of the villagers to scramble into the forest. 3 more raiders fell before reaching any sanctuary and before anyone could reach any cover a deafening roar was heard.

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Looking down Fernec saw people from the village being herded into wagons. A child was pushed to the ground, from his vantage point he couldn't see the girl's face but he could see the raider's who pushed her down. Buck toothed and ugly he was one Fern knew he would hate instantly. The raider started to undo his pants.

"Bastard!" He narrowed his eyes and drew the bow—his hands shook. He knew he would miss if he shot at that moment. He relaxed the tension on the weapon. 'Draw and kill, draw and kill' he told himself, 'to draw and shoot will result in failure.' Drawing the bow again his instincts took over and he let the arrow loose.

The fletched shaft flew true and went through the bastard's heart. 'One down' Fern grimly thought. Another raider started to rise but fell with an arrow between his eyes. 'And two.'

The raiders ran and Fern let three arrows loose, silently he called for his friend in the forest, a mighty creature he had found and raised.

Aldara! Aldara where are you, I need you!

A yawn responded. Fernec?

Get down here you lazy bum!

Startled by the urgency in his voice the creature raised it's head. What's wrong?

Slave Raiders! They're taking the village!

Rage showed through the creature's eyes. It raised its black wings and flew into the sky roaring fiercely. Flying over the ruined village its red eyes glinted with fury. Finding the cause of the wreck the creature let out a ball of fire onto the marauders.

Bitches! Bastards! Whores! Mongrels! Hell spawns! She let loose another burst of flame.

Fernec abandoned his hiding place. Aldara come! He instructed come!

Seeing its master at the edge of the village the creature obeyed, landing and crouching down Fernec climbed onto the back of his beast. Fly he said, and as one they dove into the clouds.

Looking down from his skyward cover the boy chose a victim, ordering Aldara to dip slightly he shot an arrow at the man. Dip and kill, dip and kill, dip and kill that was their routine...until he saw his mother being held up by a man in black armor.

Fernec cursed. "Down here boy!" the armor clad man shouted, "or I slit the wenches throat!" he pushed a nice shiny dagger on Amaranth's neck.

Aldara stayed airborne for a second. "NOW boy!" applying pressure on the blade drawing a little blood.

Quick as the armored man said it the boy and the beast were down. The man who gave the order was clad in ordinary steely black armor and wore a helmet that covered most of his face. His visor was up and Fernec shivered at the sight of cold gray eyes.

He shifted to look at his mother, she was gagged and bruised and crying but other than that she looked fine. He thanked the goddess Eleos for his mother's safety and turned his attention back to the bastard.

"Drop your weapon and get off the beast." Fernec laid all his weapons on the beast and dismounted glaring daggers all the way.

"Interesting," The man smiled "I'd've never thought of seeing a Red Eyes Black Dragon in this filth of a town." Fernec bit his tongue, no use loosing his head with a retort now.

"What? No say? You are a smart one aren't you?" He came closer to the boy and grabbed Fernec's chin tilting it up he said "a pretty one too." Letting go of the boy the knight went over to Aldara and reached to touch her.

Fear raced through Fernec, it was taboo to touch a bonded spirit creature. He knew what could happen with one touch of an outsider.

Bastard! She retorted, the retort was heard in the form of a growl, and Aldara drew back.

The knight scowled. Aldara, return NOW! The Red Eyes without comment slowly disappeared taking the bow, knife and sword with her. It was better to die than for an outsider to desecrate the taboo of a spirit beast.

"So you've bonded with the beast?" The man said his voice low in anger, "impressive. That beast alone could wipe out entire armies and a little wench like you bonded with it!?" He slapped Fernec to the ground and kicked him in the ribs.

Amaranth whimpered and tried to run to her son, but was held back and beaten to the ground by a raider. "MOTHER!" The knight raised his eyebrows at the outburst.

"Mother eh?" He smirked, then drew his sword. "I think I'll collect recompensation for the men you killed." He turned heel and stabbed Amaranth through her back. She made a strange sound that sounded like a mew and a scream and fell to the ground limp.

Fernec stared, no tears fell, he just simply stared.

'Mother died' his head stated, no emotion behind it, 'she's not coming back.'

The man laughed, "See little whelp? No one dares go against Damocles without paying a price; looks like you killed your own mother." He laughed coldly and turned. "Get the boy to his feet and take him to my quarters."

A raider with a scar over one of his eyes dragged Fernec to his feet. "Learned your lesson 'aven't you boy?" He sneered, "Well looks like you're gunna have the trip of a lifetime. We're goin' 'cross the Mare Nostrum to the Black Land* and your goin' ta have ta bunk wit' da captain." He said with relish.

Fernec didn't hear anything the man said. All he could hear was the voice in his head. 'Mother's dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead. I'll never see her again.' he stared at his mothers crumpled body as he was lead away, tears started to fall.

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Clutching Sere's hand Ori pulled the girl to his chest, she sobbed. Everything was ruined; the houses were burned down, animals were slaughtered, everything that could be stolen was stolen.

Slowly the girl broke off sniveling. "We'll have to look for things to use." She wiped her eyes and left Ori to look for anything salvageable to help the both of them live. Taking his mare's rein Ori tied them to a piece of stable wood sticking out of the ground and left to follow Sere's example.

In the eastern side of the village all Sere could find were ruins, among those ruins though Sere found a money purse that one of the raiders most likely dropped in the haze of the quarrel, inside were a few gold and silver coins.

Looking around the eastern side, Ori scavenged a hunting knife and a long rope; from the fallen raiders he was able to snatch another knife and a small water flask.

They both met back to where they started around noon. "Nothing much" Ori said "but it's a start" he forced a smile. Trying to be courteous Sere returned the smile but it was as forced as the boy's.

After a small lunch of dried fruit and meat they separated in search of more salvageable objects, Orion took the northern side of town and Sere took the Southern end.

Climbing up a gravel road Ori panted slightly "For such an ignored town this place sure is big." He muttered wiping sweat from his brow. Seeing a tannery up a head he sped up his pace, Ocnus, the village tanner though incompetent at other things that didn't concern leather, knew of the consequences of raids that frequented the little unnamed town, hid a lot of his wares under a moveable rock beside the entrance. Hoping whatever stash Ocnus hid had been left unnoticed Ori crouched beside the stone, he knew, moved. Pulling the stone out of its place, Ori heard a high-pitched scream.

Whistling for his mare, which he had untied to graze where she could during lunch, he ran towards the center square of the village where his mare met him.

Sere was on the ground staring at a dead body, tears littered her face as she tried to remain conscious. "M-m-moth-er?" she stammered "Mom? Mother" getting on all fours she slowly crawled to the prone figure.

"Mother?" there was the beat of horseshoes in the distance.

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Fernec was shoved into a room on the large barge that was about to cross the Mare Nostrum. Turning he started to pound on the door.

"Let me outta here!" he screamed giving the door a beating it did not feel. After five minutes of futile hammering he decided to give up, but then as he made his way around the dark room he noticed the lavish in which it was decorated.

The walls were covered with map paintings of the Black Lands, Greece and routs around the great sea. A large bed centered the room, it had no headboard nor did it have a platform, it was situated directly on the floor covered with lavish black and purple silks, three pillows graced the head, and 3 more at the foot.

Fernec slowly walked further into the room. Fear raced through him as he heard light chuckling, reaching to where his dagger was he was dismayed to remember Aldara had taken all of his weapons wither her.

"Where are you?" He whispered to the darkness. Looking around he could see scant but what was described earlier. He felt hands around his throat and a sudden white-hot pain behind his eyes. Twirling around all he saw were cold gray eyes before everything turned black.

TBC...

*Mare Nostrum was the old name for the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Land was what Egypt was called (see I didn't not learn anything from the fieldtrip to Europe ^^)

To all: so...how was it? Good bad sucky? Wasn't really as long as I'd've wanted it too but I couldn't think of anything else aside from adding the Egyptians in but I didn't want that. I was originally wanting to put in Jonouchi's rape, but I wanted him to be a virgin for Set-chan ^^

Reviewers:

FF.net:

Hidden: thank ye very much ^^ I'll try to continue the way I started :D

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Jenniyah: I'm trying to make this fic as coordinated with history and culture as I can, don't worry like I said in the first chapter A/N I'll use the names I made up only when servants or unroyalty (?) speak of them, otherwise when addressed by friends they'll keep the same or as much close as possible name ^^

Johnny-Depp-Luv: Hai :D here's the update, Jou and Set-chan don't meet yet, just a chapter more and I promise they'll meet and have glorious sex and more glorious sex and more glorious sex ^^

the Ghost of Jounochi: *looks around crazily* are you stalking me? Mythology and History are my favorite subjects too! ^^ I never look at what's playing on the TV before looking at what's on the history channel. :D

Yami Ray: The names can get really confusing I admit great that you're getting used to it. I'll try to write as often as I can, but schools about to start and I have to write a 12 page essay... my writing will be delayed a tad. ^^' showwy

Seto_Girl: A LOT of people find the names a bother, but as I've said before I'm trying to make this fic as coordinated with history and culture as I can, I'll use the anime names as often as possible but with a mostly all guy cast I can't refer to everybody as he he he or it'll get confusing (and my English teacher'll scream at me) and using the names too often can make the story dull. I haven't read that far into the manga yet...damn, I should have looked for their Egyptian names before I started but I didn't know they had different names, I thought that they just used their Jap names *sigh* aw well I'll see what I can do... And Bakura means YamiB and Ryou is unYami.

AFF.net:

Kat: tee hee, you'd better wish to own Europe too cuz our school just had a field trip to Europe and I saw very purdy statues, some of which looked like...Jou and Seto O.o creepy but cool ^^

Grr: Hai, hai, patience is a virtue mon ami, dun worry I'll fill this story with a crack load of fucking, lovemaking, sex, and all that nice goody stuff, just wait another chapter or so and I promise you'll find what you so desire ^^

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DirtyD: *shrugs* I dunno I just like writing fics as a whole at one time, cuz if I don't write a whole I'll most likely forget the storyline X.x I get really confused *sniffle* I'll try to make the fics longer me promises ^^