Disclaimer: Don't own either YGO or SG1 I only wish I do. Be warned – slight yaoi references – not much really but thought I'd warn you anyway!
The Taur'i Pharaoh
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The door opened admitting five adults. The darkness intensified tenfold as the old man and the dark man crossed the threshold. It was so strong that Yugi and Yami both physically flinched away from them.
Yugi quickly recovered and bowed. "Hello, I'm Yugi Mutou."
The one that appeared to be the leader of the new group spoke first. "Hey, the name's Jack O'Neill and these are Jacob Carter, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson and Teal'c," he pointed to each in turn.
Yugi politely bowed again. "Pleased to meet you, would you like to sit down?" The Lighter half indicated the seats around the room.
Sam smiled her thanks and took a seat, Daniel not far behind the rest choosing to stand.
"We're hoping to learn a bit about the holographic technology behind the dueling games," Sam enquired eagerly.
Yugi gave her a faint smile. "They're an invention of a friend, Seto Kaiba – owner of Kaiba Corporations."
"I'm just a bit surprised that the technology hasn't been used for anything else."
"If you mean for military purposes… Seto won't allow it, he has had bad experiences with them in the past. The big tournaments for Duel Monsters are all he allows them to be used for… though he has made two portable holographic interfaces for himself and one other person known as the King of Games."
"The King of Games?" Daniel put forward.
"It's the title of the person who cannot be defeated at both this game and anything else that he puts his mind to."
Jack's eyebrows rose in skepticism. Jacob was the next and took a step towards Yugi. Yugi, unable to help himself, took a step back.
The fear in the young duelist's eyes stopped Jacob from approaching any further. He asked his question from where he stood. "Could I please have a closer look at your pendent?"
Yugi shook his head fiercely. "I don't like people touching the Puzzle. It means a great deal to me and if someone was to accidentally cause it to come apart…"
"As you wish…" Jacob was thoroughly confused by the boy's unusual reaction but let it pass… it was, of course, none of his business.
Sam broke in. "Would you know where we might be able to find this King of Games?"
Yugi hesitated slightly.
//Don't tell them, Hikari. I don't trust them at all.// Yami urged him.
"Uh… No I don't… sorry…"
"No worries…" O'Neill reassured the boy. "Hey… were did you learn to plan your strategies like that?"
The Light looked at him and gave a slight smile. "You could say I was… born… with the knowledge…" he replied mysteriously.
The Pharaoh chuckled within his soulroom; his other half really knew how to twist the truth.
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Yugi slumped against the wall as the door closed behind the visitors. Yami appeared faintly beside him, drawing his other half into a hug. Each giving the other support, being that close to the darkness had been very draining for the two.
"You don't think that they found out… or even unburied the 'Gate… do you?"
Yami stroked the violet eyed boy's hair, soothing him before the Dark answered. "I'm not sure… but I think that the time isn't far off when we will have to deal with the Goa'uld once again…"
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"Interesting kid…" O'Neill commentated as they got into their car. "A bit to attached to his necklace though, if you ask me…"
"Selmak says that she's pretty sure she's seen it somewhere before." Jacob reported.
"I too believe that I have seen it before, O'Neill, during my time as First Prime to Apophis." Teal'c also supplied.
"Jack, when I lived with the people of Abydos, I recall them mentioning something about a Pharaoh… since we can't get a proper look at the holographic technology, maybe we could try and find out something on how the Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt was able to defeat the Goa'uld. Like I said if we could find out we might be able to use it again."
"Were do you suggest we look?" The Colonel posed.
"Pharaoh…?" Both Jacob and his daughter interrupted.
"Yeah… Danny, here, found some stuff talking about a Pharaoh who was able to kick the Goa'uld off of Earth…"
Jacob lowered his head and looked back up, a sign that his symbiote had assumed control. "Yes the Tok'ra have heard of the legend as well, unfortunately not much is known as to what really happened or who the Pharaoh was. Only that he had something unknown to the Goa'uld and used it to defeat them." Selmak informed.
"A place to start searching for information might be Abydos." Jackson suggested.
"… Alright… then it's Abydos next." Jack declared, he pulled out his cell phone and dialed the General's number. When George answered, Jack reported all that they had discovered and what the team had discussed.
"It's a pity that Mr Kaiba won't have anything to do with the military, however there's nothing we can do about it… as to the mission to Abydos it will be scheduled shortly after you get back to base."
"Understood," with that Jack hung up.
"I would like to accompany you, Jack." Jacob said from the driver's seat.
The Colonel shrugged, not fazed. "The more the merrier…"
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Bakura glared at the locked door of his soulroom. How dare the false God presume that he had the right to take over his Hikari's body! He raged silently, for only he was allowed to do that!
The Thief had been stuck like this for over two weeks, though it was hard to tell time within the soulroom and that wasn't helping his temper at all. Even though he had spent 5000 years like this before Ryou received the Sennen Ring, and therefore him. After tasting the sweetness of freedom once more, he despised the cage more than ever.
But then again not only did he have to escape from the soulroom without the Goa'uld becoming aware of him; he also had to warn the Ra-be-damned Pharaoh that the enemy was aware of his existence once more. Ryou had been able to hide information on Bakura from the alien's probes but not the knowledge of the Pharaoh's existence. As much as he couldn't stand being on the same plane of existence as him, Atemu was the only one with the best chance of defeating the liars once again.
Besides… at the moment there was nothing he could do to get rid of the snake from Ryou at least not without alerting the rest of the Goa'uld to his own presence. The Tomb Robber snuck a quick peek at the outside world. Well we're definitely on another world now, he commented to himself. It looked a lot like his Egyptian homeland.
Seeing some movement on the edge of his vision, he focused his awareness on what had caused the disturbance. Behind the sand dunes were five people. More interesting, they felt like mortals from Earth. At least three of them, the other two were a Goa'uld and one of their loyal servants – a Jaffa.
He contemplated on a course of action that would be the wisest to take, he was well aware that this might be the only chance he had. He considered using his powers to drop the Ring onto the ground and hope one of them would pick it up.
No, Bakura shook his head; it was too risky as a Goa'uld might find it instead. He decided on another course of action. He gathered his shadow powers together and shifted the Ring from his Hikari's neck and into the Shadow Realm. He then brought it back into the living realm and dropped it into one of the mortal's bags.
Relaxing he turned his attention back to his light and growled, You'd better not get yourself killed, weakling, or you'll be in severe trouble!
I'll do must best… was the vague reply.
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Daniel sighed when they found themselves safely back under Cheyenne Mountain. It had been nerve-wreaking to 'Gate to his old home only to find it once more tightly controlled by Goa'uld forces. SG1 and Jacob had a hard time keeping from the Goa'uld troops from spotting them. The only problem they had come across was the Goa'uld force that had been stationed at the Stargate. Luckily they had been dealt with quickly and fairly quietly.
"What happened?" Hammond called from the control room.
"The place was crawling with snakes, sir. Unless we had plenty of back-up we're going to have a hell of a Goa'uld task force to fight off if we tried to deal with them ourselves."
"Very well SG4 and SG7 will go through and do some reconnaissance. Our next step will be to contact our allies for any assistance they might be able to offer."
"The Asgaurd might not be able to help us because of the Treaty and their own problems with the war against the Replicators."
"The Tok'ra will be able to assist," Jacob assured them.
"At least we have one that can could possibly help… the Tollan might be worth asking for assistance as well." Jack said thoughtfully.
"Colonel, I want you to recall all SG teams that are currently off base, dismissed."
Jack nodded to the General and departed the 'Gating room.
Jackson began to rummage through his back pack trying to find his journal. Instead of meeting the soft cover, his hand hit something hard, cold and heavy.
"What the…?" He pulled the object out into the light and found himself looking at an elaborate, pure gold Egyptian artifact, one that could have come from the same collection to the one that he had seen hanging around the neck of the Japanese boy the tam had gone to see.
"Now how did that get in there…?" Daniel asked himself softly, bewildered at it's appearance.
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There you go!
Thanks to Target Zero & Cyberkat for reviewing, I'm glad you liked the first chapter!!
Bakura and Yami will meet up soon enough… don't worry…!! J