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The Taur'i Pharaoh
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Yami glared at Daniel, not in the mood to deal with him or his questions.
"Well?" Daniel pushed.
"Will you stop you're questioning!" Bakura growled, getting as impatient as Yami. "Just butt out… this is none of you're business."
"Look, like I said before, you dragged me into this mess when you took over my body! I deserve to know exactly what is going on." Jackson glared at the two deceptive looking boys and continued. "How did you end up on Abydos? And how are you connected to this, Yugi…"
The Doctor wasn't able to finish his argument as Yami suddenly turned on the Thief. "Abydos? What the hell did you think you were doing unlocking the doors? You of all people should know the reason of why I sealed them! Has your sanity left you completely after all these millennia?! Explain yourself!"
"How was I supposed to know that they were still alive and kicking, for Ra's sake?!" Bakura snarled back, "I was only checking out my old haunts… anyway why should I explain myself to you, you have no hold over me."
"Bakura…!"
Yami was interrupted by Daniel. "How do you know of Abydos? What are these doors you're talking about? What do they have to do with the Stargate system? And what the hell are you people? Are you a Goa'uld, Yugi?"
Not be able to help himself, Bakura burst out laughing, the thought of just how much Daniel didn't realize he'd insulted the Pharaoh was hilarious. Something that didn't happen very often… and he'd been trying to do it for several millennia, now if only he himself had thought of saying that. He looked at Yami's face and couldn't help but laugh even harder. Wiping the tears from his face, he gloated. "Oh bloody brilliant! You have no idea how much you've just insulted the Pharaoh! I'm so glad I was here to see the day! You're one dead mortal!"
Daniel shook his head and muttered to himself, "Now I've seen it… here I am with two Goa'uld and one of them thinks it's an insult..."
He was cut off by Bakura suddenly lunging for him. He dodged the Thief's grasp by inches. Meanwhile the only thing that stopped Bakura from trying to kill Daniel any further was Yami's restraining hand on his chest. "Let go of me… I want to rip the mortal limb from limb!"
"Sit down…" Yugi's Dark growled and amazingly enough the Tomb Robber did. Hell, even he wasn't stupid enough to argue with an enraged Pharaoh… he did want to continue to live.
"You're a fool if you think we have anything to do with the false gods…" Yami told Daniel in a dangerously quiet voice.
"And why? Bakura made me a prisoner in my own body, while he had control over it… and you, one minute you're quiet and wouldn't hurt a fly… and at the drop of a hat you're a completely different person ready to kill someone." The Doctor argued. "There are no Tok'ra on Earth at the moment so therefore I can only assume you are Goa'uld."
Yami's eye's flashed a fiery red. "Don't… mention… that…. name… in… front… of…me," he punctuated each word in that same dangerously quiet voice.
"Look if you're not a Goa… uh… false God… then would you care to explain what you are."
"Your puny mind wouldn't be able to comprehend what we are, mortal," Bakura growled. "We are half of a complete soul… the dark halves that were ensnared to ensure the successful completion of an ancient ritual." The Thief smirked sadistically, "As I said, you couldn't possibly understand."
"Well of course I don't! That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Who ever heard of half a soul?!" Jackson glared over in Bakura's direction.
"You really should keep an open mind, Daniel-san," a quiet voice came from beside him.
Daniel's head whipped back around to face Yami and what he saw had him reaching shakily for support to help him stand. For standing beside the boy he assumed was Yugi, was an almost exact replica of the boy except the newcomer was transparent. His eyes drifted back and forward between the twins and began to note the differences between the two, the eyes and the hair being obvious. Their height was the next obvious thing.
"I'm sorry that you had to learn of this, Daniel-san, but it isn't the safest of secrets to divulge to others. I'm am Yugi, the one in control of our body is Yami, also known as Atemu, a Pharaoh of Egypt some 5000 years ago. We are both halves of the same soul… I am the Light while Yami is the Dark. Bakura over there is the Dark half of a soul while the one known as Ryou is his Light. Bakura also comes from ancient Egypt and was a Thief of the same time as Yami."
Daniel's mouth tried to form some words but nothing came forth.
"How…?" Yugi guessed what he was trying to ask.
Daniel nodded weakly.
The Pharaoh, surprisingly enough was the one to answer. "Several years after I banished the false Gods from my lands I came upon a more dangerous situation forcing me to do a ritual that required the presence of seven powerful souls that could wield the Shadow Powers… I was one of those seven, as was the Tomb Robber. For the spell to work the souls had to be sealed into seven Items. However only half of my soul and that of Bakura's were sealed into our Items, while the other halves were sent into the Afterlife to await the day of their rebirth. For 5000 years we had to wait for our other selves to find their Items and revive us…" Yami trailed off, his gaze settling off into the distance as he relived the last 5 millennia. Yugi placed a transparent hand against his counterpart's arm, reassuring him that it was now over.
Yami gave a small smile to his Hikari before turning his fierce gaze back onto the Doctor. "And now because of your stupidity everything I sacrificed might have been in vain! You know have reopened the Stargate! Something that I, the Pharaoh, forbade from being allowed to happen on the punishment of Death! Now explain to me why I shouldn't carry the sentence out?"
Daniel was still running his mind through what Yami had been saying… something about getting rid of the false Gods… and hadn't caught the sentence that had basically just been placed on him. With all the evidence had all been very convincing – the ghost part more specifically – that is once you got over the shock and disbelief. "You're the one that the legends speak of…"
Yami sighed impatiently, "now what's he going on about?"
"How did you do it? What did you use? Is the legend true? Could you help us?" Daniel fired the questions at the Pharaoh one after the other in a single breath.
Bakura couldn't take it anymore, "SHUT THE HELL UP!! That's it!" Not even waiting for anyone to make a comeback, he pulled together his shadow powers and released them into the space before him. Immediately a dark mist sprung up and formed a portal to the Shadow Realm, the Thief stepped through, not looking back.
Yami glared after him and shook his head.
/Come on Yami!/ Yugi disappeared back into his soulroom. /We've got to stay with him and help find Ryou!/
//Very well… but the Tomb Robber owes us after this.// Yami stepped through.
Daniel stared at the portal, quickly going over his options before coming to the conclusion he felt was probably the best. After all he had to keep an eye on the two… at the same time, try to get some information on how the ancient Pharaoh had succeeded where he, his team, the Asguard and half a dozen other races had tried and failed. Taking a deep breath, and stifling an oncoming sneeze, Doctor Daniel Jackson stepped through the rapidly closing portal.
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Sorry!!!! Work just wouldn't allow me to update any quicker!
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I'm afraid you guys shouldn't expect an update very soon but I'll try my very hardest. Anyway, hoped you all enjoyed (& don't worry Ryou will be seen soon enough!)