A/N- Sorry for the long wait. I was planning on updating last weekend, but
I got really busy and...well, you know how it is with school and
everything. Ok, I also know that it looks really weird that I keep
switching the little dividing...things (for lack of better word) but I've
finally figured out a way that I plan on doing it from now on. Sorry for
this inconvenience. (Now it is *~***~* or *~*text*~* except at the
beginning.)
Ente: ^_^ I'm glad you are enjoying it so much!
Mists: Well, I'm glad you like it! I had a couple friends vote on it and that's what they picked! I hope you can remember them because I can't! I always want to call them by their real names...^_^
Wokie: Hey! ^_^ Yup! Ooo! Yummy! *eats some m&m's* ^_^ hehe! I'm glad you think so! Lata!
anime26angel: nice name! ^_^ Glad you think so!
Nekostar 2: glad you like it! ^_^
Nicky: well, if you drew them it would be a lot better than if *I* drew them! ^_^ Yeah, I was thinking about the nicknames today and thought that I might not use them that much. Basically it was a way to take up space...^_^ Wow! You figured the whole Bakura Ryou thing out already?! *shakes head* I don't know how you do it...HAHA! UR forgetting them because there are no aerodynamic circles! ^O^!
Subieko: Hey! ^_^ Ok, I'll try to explain this for you. They aren't really in Egypt...that's just like a setting type thing...like they don't have electricity, but they aren't really in Egypt so they can speak Japanese...does that help? I'm glad you like my writing! Well, technically speaking it would be hard since in the manga it took Yuugi 8 years to put it together all the way, but this is AU so things happen differently here...
Una: Ooo! That's a lot. I don't envy you, but then again I have my own work as you already know. Glad you liked it so much! Ja. ^_^
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Chapter 4- Putting Pieces Together
It was the beginning of a beautiful day as the sun started to creep up the horizon. The dark midnight blue sky started to become flecked with orange, yellow, and pink. A soft wind blew silently as it followed the floating clouds in an elegant dance around the world.
Nothing stirred in the open air, but inside a beautifully crafted palace the Emperor Seto was restlessly pacing the throne room, a cowering figure bowed in respect in front of him.
"Have you been able to find the two brats of the king, servant?"
"N-n-no sir. N-not yet, sir."
"Well? What seems to be the problem?! It's been eight years since they escaped you! What have you been doing in that amount of time?! They could be anywhere by now! You shouldn't have delayed once you found that they were missing! I WANT THEM FOUND!! Don't you realize that if we don't get rid of them before they become of age they could destroy us! You DO remember the prophecy don't you?" Seto asked his servant shrewdly.
"Y-yes. B-but, but you said that that was only nonsense."
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID BEFORE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING NOW. I AM IN CHARGE HERE AND YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME NO MATTER WHAT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!" Seto roared.
"Y-yes s-sir."
"Good, and don't forget it again. I want you to send out your best spies to all the surrounding villages and have them search for the children. They should look similar to their father and considering his appearances they should be easily spotted. You will stay here and lead the search where I can keep my eyes on you..."
The servant heard the veiled threat behind the words and shuddered.
"Y-yes...s-s-sir."
"Good, now get out of my sight and prepare, scum."
The shaking man bowed and exited the room as quickly as he could without actually running.
*~*Akiva*~*
Akiva had retreated back to his room to look more closely at the strange box with carvings all over it and the interesting golden pieces that lay within, that he had discovered. Making sure his door was tightly closed, he put the box on top of his bed sheets and took off the lid, setting it down beside the box. Climbing up into the bed so he could look at his treasure properly, he began taking all the pieces carefully out of their box and spreading them out on the bed.
"Sugoi! (Awesome/Amazing) It's all made out of real kin! (gold)" Akiva whispered to himself, eyes alight with happiness. "I wonder where Mai ever found this! It has to be really expensive! Hm...maybe she tried to put it together and wasn't able to so she put it away? That's it! I'll put it together and surprise her when she wakes up! She'll be so proud of me!"
With this thought in mind he began looking at all the pieces trying to sort through them and put them all together before his guardian, Mai, woke up and discovered what he was up to.
*~*Mitsu*~*
Mitsu walked back inside the house as quietly as he could and went back into his room; never once did his eyes waver from the golden box with the puzzle pieces inside. Once he was safely back in his room, with the door closed so that no one would be privy to what he was doing, Mitsu took the puzzle box and set it on top of the bed. He opened the lid and took out all the pieces, scattering them on top of it as he laid down on his stomach, feet waving in the air, as he began the exciting task of completing a puzzle...his favorite toy.
*~*Mai*~*
Sunrays started peeking through the curtains of Mai's bedroom once the sun started its lonely trek up the sky. A light breeze rustled the curtains in her room so that they billowed out and became big bellied with the wanton wind. (That's from Shakespeare just so you know, starting with "and")
Slowly, Mai came back to consciousness and slowly opened her bleary eyes. Taking in her surroundings, she sat up, stretched, and yawned. She threw the covers off of her lower body so that the bed's sheet formed a triangle. Then, throwing her legs over the side of the bed she put her feet on the floor only to flinch at the coolness of the ground. She then grabbed a robe that was hanging over the end of her bed and put it on over her nightclothes. Then reaching over to the other side of the bed she pulled out her slippers.
Getting out of bed once more, Mai made her way down the hall to her charge's bedroom. She carelessly opened the door and stepped inside. The sight that greeted her made her eyes widen in surprise and her mouth to drop open in shock.
There on the bed was Akiva, he was sprawled out on top of the sheets with the golden box she had been given by Shadi on the day the two princes were born. Shadi had told her to hide it and indeed she had, knowing Akiva would never look in her special box full of clothes and other treasures from her days of the palace, hidden all the way at the bottom, but here he was with it, the lid off to the side and the near completed contents in his hands.
Akiva must have fallen asleep while putting it together because there were only three or four pieces left to go in on top of the blankets by his hand opposite the one holding a pyramid-ish shape with one point missing, still needing to be completed. She shook her head, knowing it was time, as soon as he finished the puzzle, to tell Akiva/Yami his real name and his destiny to overthrow the great evil that had taken over the world.
Then something else came to Mai's attention. If Akiva/Yami had found his puzzle then his brother, the other prince Mitsu/Yugi would have found his as well. Isis would probably come to her soon. The two maids had kept in touch, telling each other about the princes' progress as they grew, and asking advice from each other on what to do about certain situations they did not know how to handle.
Looking back down at Akiva/Yami she decided to write a note and send it to Isis asking about Mitsu/Yugi. Mai smiled to herself and left the room, letting the small boy in bed sleep a little longer as she closed the door softly behind her.
*~*Isis*~*
The horizon blushed with dawn as the sun slowly rose, illuminating Isis's room as light streamed through her window. She shuddered as a chill ran down her spine from a breeze that had crept through her slightly open window, causing her eyes to open slowly and blink to clear the sleep away. She took a deep breath of the scented air around her that smelled of all the flowers in her garden.
Slowly she sat up, stretching her arms above her head as the covers slid down about her waist. Isis frowned at her shadow on the wall as she brought her arms back down to her sides. Something about the day felt out of balance as if something bad was going to happen. She usually took these thoughts seriously, but the beautiful day outside comforted her troubled notions and she pushed it to the back of her mind to deal with later.
After getting out of bed, Isis dressed slowly still thinking. Yesterday had been the twins' birthday and Isis was wondering how prince Akiva/Yami was doing. She smiled at the thought of the two boys, they were such wonderful children and she was glad she was chosen to take care of Mitsu/Yugi.
Isis finished dressing and pushed open her door, walking down the hall to the bedroom right beside hers, and opened the door. There, on the bed, lay Mitsu. He was slumped over something that was hidden from Isis from this angle, but as she drew closer Isis could see that it was the golden box she had hidden inside a tree. She gasped in surprise and covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes wide. Shadi had told her and Mai that the boys would find them and she had believed him, but there were still doubts.
In his hands was an almost completed puzzle, only three or four more pieces to go until it was totally complete. It seemed that now was the time that her young charge would leave her and go off to face his destiny. It was a very despairing prospect in Isis' opinion. Knowing how the king and queen had died at the hands of Emperor Seto, and knowing that the two princes would have to leave to face off against the monster, Isis was very concerned for their well being. Isis bowed her head in submission as she remembered that it was their destiny to save the kingdom and they would not fall, but as she turned away towards the door to give the young child some more time to sleep her head shook as if she wished she could take the place of the said boy and face all the dangers she knew he would have to overcome.
*~*Akiva*~*
Akiva awoke to the sounds of birds chirping outside his window and looked blearily around the room. Nothing had changed since he had fallen asleep except that the room had more illumination and the door was cracked open.
Wait a minute! The door was cracked open? Akiva looked again and noticed that the door was indeed not completely shut and anyone could peak in and see what he was up to. As silently as he could, Akiva moved swiftly to the door and closed it once again with a soft click. Turning back to the bed, Akiva's eyes lit up in excitement...he had nearly finished the puzzle! There were only a few pieces left and they would be easy to fit in place.
In a few strides, Akiva had crossed the distance of the room and was, once again, back at his bedside. Akiva picked up the pyramid-ish shaped, golden object in his hands and felt warmth spread from the puzzle to his hand and up his arm until the feeling was swarming inside him making Akiva feel at complete ease and peace.
Taking the last pieces in his other hand, Akiva started putting all the parts in their proper places until only one piece was left...
*~*Mitsu*~*
A soft click stirred Mitsu from his sleep and he looked around, eyes still half closed before rubbing at his eyes with his fists. Attempting to look around again, Mitsu found that he was able to see much easier so he glanced at the door, or the direction the clicking sound that had woken him up had come from. There did not appear to be anything misplaced and nothing that would make a sound like that. Mitsu frowned, wondering what the sound had been, but shrugged it off thinking he had imagined it.
Mitsu sat up and stretched his arms above his head then looked down at what he had been working on the night before. He smiled in glee at the nearly whole puzzle lying on the bed in front of him. Mitsu picked it up in one hand and felt a rush of excitement and the familiar tug on his heart as it inundated him.
Then with the other hand, Mitsu picked up the last pieces of the puzzle one by one and placed them in the proper slots until only the last piece remained.
*~*Akiva and Mitsu*~*
(a/n- I couldn't think of any other way to show you that they were putting the pieces together at the same time so this is how I'm doing it...)
Gripping the last pieces tightly in their fists, Akiva and Mitsu carefully slid in the only pieces that remained.
CLICK
They fit...
It was as if an explosion was unleashed. Raw, untamed power detonated from the puzzles and surged into the two youth as crimson and violet light surrounded them as it fled the corridors of the puzzles through the Millennium Symbols in the direct middle of the Millennium Puzzles.
Mitsu glowed with an amethyst light as the room around him was pulsating with a bright white light that would blind anyone that looked at it as the same situation was occurring with Akiva and his glowing ruby aura.
Akiva and Mitsu had become Yami and Yugi, the princes of the king and heirs to the throne. And it finally became their destiny to overthrow the evil that threatened the world and save the land to reclaim what had been taken from their father.
*~*Emperor Seto*~*
"Have you sent out any of your men yet?"
"N-no sir. Th-they are waiting for your command, sir."
Seto glared at the servant walking beside him and the man cringed under his fierce gaze. That's when it hit them...a wave of power so strong it knocked both men off of their feet to the ground.
The servant looked all around for the disturbance, trying to find what had knocked him over, but Emperor Seto seemed to be listening to music that no one else could hear. Shaking his head, he stood up and pulled the servant to his feet.
"That was not a physical attack ahou masu (pathetic fool)! That was the magic of the Millennium Puzzle being unleashed! The twins have received their power. Now we need to capture them or kill them before they learn their true destinies. It originated from the city west of the palace. I want you to check the entire village and look for anyone wearing the king's puzzle or looks like him; do you understand? Bring them back to me immediately. Do not hurt them unless you have to and make sure they don't get away."
"Yes sir."
"Good, now GO!"
*~*TBC*~*
A/N- well, I hope you liked it. It took me forever to write because I kinda kept repeating myself with all the waking up and stuff as you could see, but we made it through. Hopefully I'll be able to do a good job on the next chapter. I'm not really sure what I want to write. Well, I hope everybody has a nice month! ^_^
Until next time...
Ente: ^_^ I'm glad you are enjoying it so much!
Mists: Well, I'm glad you like it! I had a couple friends vote on it and that's what they picked! I hope you can remember them because I can't! I always want to call them by their real names...^_^
Wokie: Hey! ^_^ Yup! Ooo! Yummy! *eats some m&m's* ^_^ hehe! I'm glad you think so! Lata!
anime26angel: nice name! ^_^ Glad you think so!
Nekostar 2: glad you like it! ^_^
Nicky: well, if you drew them it would be a lot better than if *I* drew them! ^_^ Yeah, I was thinking about the nicknames today and thought that I might not use them that much. Basically it was a way to take up space...^_^ Wow! You figured the whole Bakura Ryou thing out already?! *shakes head* I don't know how you do it...HAHA! UR forgetting them because there are no aerodynamic circles! ^O^!
Subieko: Hey! ^_^ Ok, I'll try to explain this for you. They aren't really in Egypt...that's just like a setting type thing...like they don't have electricity, but they aren't really in Egypt so they can speak Japanese...does that help? I'm glad you like my writing! Well, technically speaking it would be hard since in the manga it took Yuugi 8 years to put it together all the way, but this is AU so things happen differently here...
Una: Ooo! That's a lot. I don't envy you, but then again I have my own work as you already know. Glad you liked it so much! Ja. ^_^
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Chapter 4- Putting Pieces Together
It was the beginning of a beautiful day as the sun started to creep up the horizon. The dark midnight blue sky started to become flecked with orange, yellow, and pink. A soft wind blew silently as it followed the floating clouds in an elegant dance around the world.
Nothing stirred in the open air, but inside a beautifully crafted palace the Emperor Seto was restlessly pacing the throne room, a cowering figure bowed in respect in front of him.
"Have you been able to find the two brats of the king, servant?"
"N-n-no sir. N-not yet, sir."
"Well? What seems to be the problem?! It's been eight years since they escaped you! What have you been doing in that amount of time?! They could be anywhere by now! You shouldn't have delayed once you found that they were missing! I WANT THEM FOUND!! Don't you realize that if we don't get rid of them before they become of age they could destroy us! You DO remember the prophecy don't you?" Seto asked his servant shrewdly.
"Y-yes. B-but, but you said that that was only nonsense."
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID BEFORE, THAT DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING NOW. I AM IN CHARGE HERE AND YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME NO MATTER WHAT! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!" Seto roared.
"Y-yes s-sir."
"Good, and don't forget it again. I want you to send out your best spies to all the surrounding villages and have them search for the children. They should look similar to their father and considering his appearances they should be easily spotted. You will stay here and lead the search where I can keep my eyes on you..."
The servant heard the veiled threat behind the words and shuddered.
"Y-yes...s-s-sir."
"Good, now get out of my sight and prepare, scum."
The shaking man bowed and exited the room as quickly as he could without actually running.
*~*Akiva*~*
Akiva had retreated back to his room to look more closely at the strange box with carvings all over it and the interesting golden pieces that lay within, that he had discovered. Making sure his door was tightly closed, he put the box on top of his bed sheets and took off the lid, setting it down beside the box. Climbing up into the bed so he could look at his treasure properly, he began taking all the pieces carefully out of their box and spreading them out on the bed.
"Sugoi! (Awesome/Amazing) It's all made out of real kin! (gold)" Akiva whispered to himself, eyes alight with happiness. "I wonder where Mai ever found this! It has to be really expensive! Hm...maybe she tried to put it together and wasn't able to so she put it away? That's it! I'll put it together and surprise her when she wakes up! She'll be so proud of me!"
With this thought in mind he began looking at all the pieces trying to sort through them and put them all together before his guardian, Mai, woke up and discovered what he was up to.
*~*Mitsu*~*
Mitsu walked back inside the house as quietly as he could and went back into his room; never once did his eyes waver from the golden box with the puzzle pieces inside. Once he was safely back in his room, with the door closed so that no one would be privy to what he was doing, Mitsu took the puzzle box and set it on top of the bed. He opened the lid and took out all the pieces, scattering them on top of it as he laid down on his stomach, feet waving in the air, as he began the exciting task of completing a puzzle...his favorite toy.
*~*Mai*~*
Sunrays started peeking through the curtains of Mai's bedroom once the sun started its lonely trek up the sky. A light breeze rustled the curtains in her room so that they billowed out and became big bellied with the wanton wind. (That's from Shakespeare just so you know, starting with "and")
Slowly, Mai came back to consciousness and slowly opened her bleary eyes. Taking in her surroundings, she sat up, stretched, and yawned. She threw the covers off of her lower body so that the bed's sheet formed a triangle. Then, throwing her legs over the side of the bed she put her feet on the floor only to flinch at the coolness of the ground. She then grabbed a robe that was hanging over the end of her bed and put it on over her nightclothes. Then reaching over to the other side of the bed she pulled out her slippers.
Getting out of bed once more, Mai made her way down the hall to her charge's bedroom. She carelessly opened the door and stepped inside. The sight that greeted her made her eyes widen in surprise and her mouth to drop open in shock.
There on the bed was Akiva, he was sprawled out on top of the sheets with the golden box she had been given by Shadi on the day the two princes were born. Shadi had told her to hide it and indeed she had, knowing Akiva would never look in her special box full of clothes and other treasures from her days of the palace, hidden all the way at the bottom, but here he was with it, the lid off to the side and the near completed contents in his hands.
Akiva must have fallen asleep while putting it together because there were only three or four pieces left to go in on top of the blankets by his hand opposite the one holding a pyramid-ish shape with one point missing, still needing to be completed. She shook her head, knowing it was time, as soon as he finished the puzzle, to tell Akiva/Yami his real name and his destiny to overthrow the great evil that had taken over the world.
Then something else came to Mai's attention. If Akiva/Yami had found his puzzle then his brother, the other prince Mitsu/Yugi would have found his as well. Isis would probably come to her soon. The two maids had kept in touch, telling each other about the princes' progress as they grew, and asking advice from each other on what to do about certain situations they did not know how to handle.
Looking back down at Akiva/Yami she decided to write a note and send it to Isis asking about Mitsu/Yugi. Mai smiled to herself and left the room, letting the small boy in bed sleep a little longer as she closed the door softly behind her.
*~*Isis*~*
The horizon blushed with dawn as the sun slowly rose, illuminating Isis's room as light streamed through her window. She shuddered as a chill ran down her spine from a breeze that had crept through her slightly open window, causing her eyes to open slowly and blink to clear the sleep away. She took a deep breath of the scented air around her that smelled of all the flowers in her garden.
Slowly she sat up, stretching her arms above her head as the covers slid down about her waist. Isis frowned at her shadow on the wall as she brought her arms back down to her sides. Something about the day felt out of balance as if something bad was going to happen. She usually took these thoughts seriously, but the beautiful day outside comforted her troubled notions and she pushed it to the back of her mind to deal with later.
After getting out of bed, Isis dressed slowly still thinking. Yesterday had been the twins' birthday and Isis was wondering how prince Akiva/Yami was doing. She smiled at the thought of the two boys, they were such wonderful children and she was glad she was chosen to take care of Mitsu/Yugi.
Isis finished dressing and pushed open her door, walking down the hall to the bedroom right beside hers, and opened the door. There, on the bed, lay Mitsu. He was slumped over something that was hidden from Isis from this angle, but as she drew closer Isis could see that it was the golden box she had hidden inside a tree. She gasped in surprise and covered her mouth with her hands, her eyes wide. Shadi had told her and Mai that the boys would find them and she had believed him, but there were still doubts.
In his hands was an almost completed puzzle, only three or four more pieces to go until it was totally complete. It seemed that now was the time that her young charge would leave her and go off to face his destiny. It was a very despairing prospect in Isis' opinion. Knowing how the king and queen had died at the hands of Emperor Seto, and knowing that the two princes would have to leave to face off against the monster, Isis was very concerned for their well being. Isis bowed her head in submission as she remembered that it was their destiny to save the kingdom and they would not fall, but as she turned away towards the door to give the young child some more time to sleep her head shook as if she wished she could take the place of the said boy and face all the dangers she knew he would have to overcome.
*~*Akiva*~*
Akiva awoke to the sounds of birds chirping outside his window and looked blearily around the room. Nothing had changed since he had fallen asleep except that the room had more illumination and the door was cracked open.
Wait a minute! The door was cracked open? Akiva looked again and noticed that the door was indeed not completely shut and anyone could peak in and see what he was up to. As silently as he could, Akiva moved swiftly to the door and closed it once again with a soft click. Turning back to the bed, Akiva's eyes lit up in excitement...he had nearly finished the puzzle! There were only a few pieces left and they would be easy to fit in place.
In a few strides, Akiva had crossed the distance of the room and was, once again, back at his bedside. Akiva picked up the pyramid-ish shaped, golden object in his hands and felt warmth spread from the puzzle to his hand and up his arm until the feeling was swarming inside him making Akiva feel at complete ease and peace.
Taking the last pieces in his other hand, Akiva started putting all the parts in their proper places until only one piece was left...
*~*Mitsu*~*
A soft click stirred Mitsu from his sleep and he looked around, eyes still half closed before rubbing at his eyes with his fists. Attempting to look around again, Mitsu found that he was able to see much easier so he glanced at the door, or the direction the clicking sound that had woken him up had come from. There did not appear to be anything misplaced and nothing that would make a sound like that. Mitsu frowned, wondering what the sound had been, but shrugged it off thinking he had imagined it.
Mitsu sat up and stretched his arms above his head then looked down at what he had been working on the night before. He smiled in glee at the nearly whole puzzle lying on the bed in front of him. Mitsu picked it up in one hand and felt a rush of excitement and the familiar tug on his heart as it inundated him.
Then with the other hand, Mitsu picked up the last pieces of the puzzle one by one and placed them in the proper slots until only the last piece remained.
*~*Akiva and Mitsu*~*
(a/n- I couldn't think of any other way to show you that they were putting the pieces together at the same time so this is how I'm doing it...)
Gripping the last pieces tightly in their fists, Akiva and Mitsu carefully slid in the only pieces that remained.
CLICK
They fit...
It was as if an explosion was unleashed. Raw, untamed power detonated from the puzzles and surged into the two youth as crimson and violet light surrounded them as it fled the corridors of the puzzles through the Millennium Symbols in the direct middle of the Millennium Puzzles.
Mitsu glowed with an amethyst light as the room around him was pulsating with a bright white light that would blind anyone that looked at it as the same situation was occurring with Akiva and his glowing ruby aura.
Akiva and Mitsu had become Yami and Yugi, the princes of the king and heirs to the throne. And it finally became their destiny to overthrow the evil that threatened the world and save the land to reclaim what had been taken from their father.
*~*Emperor Seto*~*
"Have you sent out any of your men yet?"
"N-no sir. Th-they are waiting for your command, sir."
Seto glared at the servant walking beside him and the man cringed under his fierce gaze. That's when it hit them...a wave of power so strong it knocked both men off of their feet to the ground.
The servant looked all around for the disturbance, trying to find what had knocked him over, but Emperor Seto seemed to be listening to music that no one else could hear. Shaking his head, he stood up and pulled the servant to his feet.
"That was not a physical attack ahou masu (pathetic fool)! That was the magic of the Millennium Puzzle being unleashed! The twins have received their power. Now we need to capture them or kill them before they learn their true destinies. It originated from the city west of the palace. I want you to check the entire village and look for anyone wearing the king's puzzle or looks like him; do you understand? Bring them back to me immediately. Do not hurt them unless you have to and make sure they don't get away."
"Yes sir."
"Good, now GO!"
*~*TBC*~*
A/N- well, I hope you liked it. It took me forever to write because I kinda kept repeating myself with all the waking up and stuff as you could see, but we made it through. Hopefully I'll be able to do a good job on the next chapter. I'm not really sure what I want to write. Well, I hope everybody has a nice month! ^_^
Until next time...