Anaya's Creator: Update! Wahoo! Only a few more chapters left!

Mokuba: (a gloomy expression now on his face) Aww man, this was fun.

Kaiba: What are you complaining about? We're in her other fic.

Malik: (pouts) But I'm not.

Anaya's Creator: (walks over from her computer and puts arms around Malik) Aww, poor baby. You'll be in another story.

Malik: I'm not a... you mean that? (looks at Anaya's Creator hopefully)

Anaya's Creator: If you don't annoy me to much. (Adds in undertone)Well your yami's actually in this one.

Malik: Rock on Anaya! Anaya's Creator does not own Yu-Gi-Oh.

Kaiba: What about me?

Anaya's Creator: You're already in two fanfics. What are you whining about?

Darn it, I can't think of a good chapter title!

Later that day after burying Sunichan, Akina searched the village with her ki again; however, there was nothing more to find.

The next day at sun rise they headed back to Egypt. This would be the time I would normally tell you that the ride back to Egypt was boring and monotonous... not this time.

Marik, Akina, and her mother had been riding until about noonday since they left the village. Now resting from the heat of midday, everything was as tranquil, monotonous, and humid as it had always been, but a strange heavy dark aura hung in the air.

"Marik," Akina said suddenly, giving him a little shake to wake him up if he was asleep.

"Yeah Aki?"

"Do you feel that?"

Marik raised an eyebrow.

"That negative impression, I sense it crawling around seething into everything."

Marik closed his eyes trying to figure out what to say to her. "I've felt it as well, but why would we sense it here? We're in the middle of the Territory of Shur; the oasis is another day's worth of riding, if you count the rest of today and half of tomorrow as one day."

"But your father, he could be still alive, sending his magic on us."

"But why? It was the pharaoh and Yami he was angry with when we spoke with him last."

"He was also angry that you sided with me and Yami."

Suddenly there was a loud seemingly angry cry, quite similar to that of a dragon. Marik jumped up and squinted towards the sky using his arm to block the glare of the sun. "There's something approaching us, it's really far away and really high up though," he said. "It could possibly be Aden, but why would he fly so high up?"

Aden flew onto Marik's shoulder and gave a loud indignant SCREECH! in his ear, indicating that he was all ready accounted for.

"Okay, okay, I was wrong then," Marik muttered. He looked up into the sky again and the thing in the sky had flown closer. "Oh my Ra! It's another dragon!"

Behind her eyelids Akina felt her eyes grow wide. My sword is useless to me now, Akina thought as her hand automatically went to the sword on her hip. But perhaps... Taking it out of its hilt Akina forced the sword into Marik's hand.

"What's been going on?!" Terentina demanded as she put a hand on her daughter's shoulder and Aden landed on the other.

"A dragon's approaching us. You two take the spare horses, get as far away as you can, I'll take Joshua when this is over and catch up with you." Marik told her.

"What, has fear gone to your head Marik? We're not leaving you behind." Terentina said firmly.

"Go, I don't want either of you getting hurt."

"I'm staying right here to help you." Akina insisted.

"How are you going to do that?"

There was another loud shriek, this one more ear-piercing. Marik turned, the dragon was much closer now, but when it came too close for comfort, he saw that the thing couldn't even be called a dragon. It was tiny, barely one cubit long and about a half cubit wide, and it seemed to be made up of several tiny bones the color of wet sand. It was merely the pathetic skeleton of a dragon. Marik had to bite back his laughter; the creature was barely fearsome at all, but there was still a dark aura around it so it could still have been dangerous.

Terentina felt her jaw drop. They had been fussing over running from a pint-sized moving skeleton?!

As the eyes holes in the skull of the dragon felt several stares fall on it, it gave a loud earsplitting wail. Everyone cringed; the sound had rocketed through their ears and straight to their brains. When the wail ceased Aden flew over to the creature and began attacking it viciously with his beak and talons. This sadly only worsened the situation, the thing wailed again, this time louder and it didn't stop.

Immediately, fingers were stuck in their owner's ears to dim the din, but it didn't help one bit. "Can't anything shut that pile of bones up?! Akina, can you communicate with it?" Marik shouted over the incessant cries, his own magic unusable because of the screeches stopped him from concentrating.

"It's whining is somehow blocking my ability. I can't understand a word it's could be trying to tell us," Akina yelled back. Wait a moment, she thought as she got a sudden idea. If I can block out the sound, perhaps I can try something. She fumbled for something in her pouch until she found what she was looking for and drew out two small waxy blobs of beeswax. She meddled with the blobs until they were soft, the stuck one in each of her ears.

"What are you thinking Akina?" Marik shouted as he saw her stick something in her ears, but Akina could no longer hear him. He saw a small stretch of grey ki reach out from her towards the sky, which began to darken and fill up with clouds. Then a sudden stroke of grey lightening came down and electrified the skeleton, with Aden dodging just in time to miss the blast.

The lightening hit the creature in the throat and engulfed its entire skeleton. It writhed and cringed and twitched in agony. When the lightening and clouds faded the creature gave a stifled cough and moved no more. "Is it dead?" Marik asked her.

Akina didn't move. Marik put a hand on her shoulder and she gave a sudden jump and moved away, not knowing what had touched her. As she moved, he caught a glimpse of something in her ears. He extended a hand towards her ears and removed the wax, then spoke once more.

"Is that thing dead?" he asked, making sure he spoke clearly in case there was still wax in her ears that he had missed.

"I don't know," Akina mumbled, and then she fell back as she fell asleep, but Marik caught her before she hit the ground.

"It's time we be going anyways," Terentina said sighing a little. She picked one of the blankets the three of them had been laying on, folded the skeleton inside it, and then put it with the other packs on the spare horse.

"Why are you bringing that thing along?" Marik asked her as he picked Akina up.

"So your brother can have a look at it when we get back. Things that are dead should not be moving around like this."

"I haven't seen anything like that in our scrolls, but you got a point." Marik said, walking towards Joshua.

Seeing that Marik's arms were full, Joshua laid down in the sand and let Marik mount him from the ground.

"Thanks Joshua," he said rubbing a hand against the unicorn's mane as it stood up.

Joshua gave a soft indignant snort as if to say I did this for her, not for you, and they started off once more.

I'm just going to skip my "It is pointless for me to describe the monotonous..." speech and say pretty much until they reached Egypt noting else happened. By the way in three days they had arrived.

The day before Yami's coronation, the palace was practically in shambles with chaos. Servants were running around everywhere, giving orders and patching up details. Akina was spending most of this day outside with Joshua and Aden.

Sometime near mid-morning Mokuba came out to join her.

"Lady Akina," he said. "It's me, Mokuba,"

"Oh Hello," she said giving him joyous smile.

"Wow, big brother was right you do have a pretty smile."

Akina blushed at this and said nothing, too flustered to speak.

"This may be just be rumor, but I over heard Marik talking about marrying you tonight,"

"No Bes, that's true. Tonight's the night for us at last."

Anaya's Creator: Cliffhanger!

Mokuba: How many more chapters are there going to be?

Anaya's Creator: I don't know, what did I say last chapter?

Kaiba: Six

Anaya's Creator: Well, there might not be that many.

Malik: Review People!

Anaya's Creator: Oh yeah, do you guys want a lemon scene for the wedding night? I'm not sure if I should put another in or if one is enough.