Reviews from the Peanut Gallery

SukiLuvsAnime- Glad you enjoyed it! It's always nice to hear praise.

SGCred- Yeah, Khayer is evil. I won't say anything about the char I didn't want having a bigger role, but that char will come out big next chapter. AndI'll let you wonderwith the hawk for one more chapter too! (winks)

ANAYAS-CREATOR- Gods are more fun to torture as it shall never end, but as a God, Khayer does have a bit more control that us. And he controls sin and evil, so he might enjoy that kind of torture...but would that make it torture? (feels dizzy) AAAAAHHHHH! I shall not ponder this further.

RobinIV- Thank you! I tried my best with the chars; I had to watch a lot of reruns over again to figure out what Sahara could see in each of them. And the hawk is not just part of the scenary, I'll just say that.

ZeldaAlly- Yugi hasn't really said much, yeah, but he's going to have more of an interaction with Yami and the others around next chapter (GAWD, everything is next chapter instead of this one! ugh.) Thanks for the cookie! (eats it) Yum.

ice suzaku- Thankies much, and I promise, I'll update as soon as I can!

Rainbow Guardian Angel- Being insane is GOOD, Mizumi. (winks) And yeah, it sucks when a slimeball god wants you for his wife. (rolls eyes) AND CHOCOLATE IS GOD'S BLESSING! (shoves some down her throat and bounces off the walls)


Chapter Six: Goodbye Forever?

POV: Sahara

It was then, as I held Yami close to my chest and cried my eyes out, that I heard a beeping of a car horn.

I looked up to see a very familiar purple car, and a second later, the doors opened to reveal two very familiar people.

"Mai," I whispered, "Joey…"

"Are you alright?" asked Mai.

"What happened to Yami?" Joey said, immediately taking his wrist and trying to find a pulse.

"He's alive," I assured him faintly, "The roof fell in. I didn't get hurt, but Yami's out cold…"

"C'mon," said Joey, "We've got to get some help for Yami. My house is closest, that's why Mai and I saw the flames."

"Do you really think it's safe, Joey?" Mai asked, making it sound almost like a reminder.

"Dad won't be home until midnight," Joey told her, "We won't have to worry about him…at least for now."

I helped Joey hoist Yami onto his back, and we loaded ourselves all into Mai's car.

POV: Joey

When we got to my house, we settled Yami down on the couch and Serenity got a blanket from the closet upstairs to cover him.

Suzanna immediately sat down next to him on the couch, looking down at him. Her face was almost in shadow, but I knew her eyes were sad.

About three minutes later, Yami's eyes opened. "Ugh…"

The first thing he saw was Suzanna. He smiled at her.

"Suzanna…"

She smiled back at him, before helping him sit up.

"You feeling okay, man?" I asked him.

Yami held his head and gave me a weak smirk. "I feel like I got hit in the head with an old pipe, but otherwise yes."

Suzanna coached him to lie down, and put a wet towel on his forehead.

"But what happened…?" he whispered.

"We don't know," said Mai, "The cops are just arriving at the scene, I bet."

"It probably was another bomb," Serenity sighed.

I was going to respond, but Suzanna interrupted.

"It never was a bomb."

We all turned to stare at her; Suzanna's dark blue eyes were filled with tears, but they were not tears of sadness: they were tears of fury.

"It was my cousin blackmailing me to come home," Suzanna said coldly.

"Your cousin?" Yami repeated, his eyes narrowing.

She nodded. "He's possessive of me, right? Well now, thanks to his marriage contract, I'm his property."

"Whoa, whoa, back up," said Mai, "Marriage contract?"

Suzanna nodded again. "I'm his property for all eternity. He can torture, beat or rape me, and it will be perfectly legal. I have no rights, and neither will the children he forces me to bear."

I felt my eyes narrow. Father may beat me sometimes, but at least he only did it when he was drunk and Serenity was spared…but Suzanna? She's one of the kindest people I've ever known!

POV: Yami

I felt hatred I had never known before coarse through my veins. How dare he even think of hurting Suzanna like that!

"That's not fair!" Serenity cried, "Is Egypt really that bad?"

Suzanna's eyes went into shadow once more, but I was close enough to her to see that she looked regretful.

"I'm afraid, my friends… that I've lied to you all," she whispered, "I was not born in Egypt. I was not even born in this dimension."

"What?" I could barely speak.

I looked at her closely. "You…were born in another dimension?"

Suzanna nodded. "I have lived in your world before, though…I grew up in it. But Khayer…my cousin…did not like this. So he and his father Seth, who was playing as my mortal father at the time, made a marriage contract, saying I'd marry Khayer when the time was right…and now the contract is ruled legal."

Something stirred in my memory.

"Seth?" I asked, my eyes wide, "As in…the god Seth?"

Everyone else was staring at Suzanna too at those words…and then slowly, Suzanna smiled grimly.

"You figured it out, Yami," she whispered, "My uncle is the god Seth. My cousin Khayer is his son. And that makes me…a goddess."

Suzanna held her hands out in front of her; white light surrounded her. Her hair flew up as if it was being blown upwards by a large gust of wind, and she started chanting words.

"Now I have a human form,

Now show me how I was born,

I'm done here, my task is done,

Though my battle's still not won,

I'm no mortal, they live less,

I am Sahara, innocent goddess!"

White fur appeared on her skin, cat paws replaced her long-fingered hands, white cat ears found a place in her brown hair, she had a little pink nose partnered with some brown whiskers and a white tail was clearly visible. But the eye and hair color were still clearly the same as the girl I thought I knew.

I stared at her. Even if she could be called strange-looking by any human, she had other-worldly beauty that could rival any human girl.

My mind felt as if it had gone blank.

Sahara…?

POV: Sahara

No one spoke. I looked up at the clock on the wall. Already my time on Earth had been decreased to a precious thirty minutes. But time on Earth always seems shorter to one who has lived in the God World.

It was then that a knock came at the door.

Joey rushed over, and was about to call, "Who is it?", but I told him, "Go on and open it. It's a friend of yours."

Joey blinked at me, but opened the door.

Tea came running into the room, and screamed when she saw Yami lying on the couch.

"YAMI? YAMI, ARE YOU OKAY?"

"I'm fine," Yami assured her, but she was checking his pulse and his temperature and everything else she could think of.

I could almost feel my heart breaking. I had suspected Yami might not remember me even after all this…but it looks like Tea will be right there to love him instead.

"He is alright, Tea, you have naught to fear," I whispered, my eyes downcast.

For the first time, Tea looked at me. She was ready with a glare and a comeback for "Suzanna," but when she saw me in the form I was in, she seemed almost speechless.

POV: Tea

"What…who are you?" I stammered

"My name is Sahara," she told me, her face in shadow, "But you first met me as Suzanna."

At those words, I was ready to snap at her to stay away from Yami, but then I noticed the tears falling down her cheeks.

POV: Sahara

I walked slowly over to Yami, and we made eye contact, intense scarlet on teared-up blue.

"I am sorry for lying to you," I whispered, "If things were different, you would've never had to deal with me or the consequences of my being here."

Yami looked ready to speak, but I stopped him.

"Do not argue," I said quietly, "It will only make things more difficult…"

I then looked at Tea.

"Tea…look after Yami for me, please…I know…" it took everything in me to whisper, "I know you will be happy together…"

I looked back again at Yami. "Goodbye forever, my Pharaoh. Forget me as you have in the past…"

Yami's eyes widened in realization. "Sahara-"

But I vanished before I could hear the rest of his words.

POV: Yami

I stared at the spot where she had stood.

"Sahara…no…" I whispered, my eyes filling up with tears I had not known for five centuries.

"Yami? Yami, are you okay?"

I looked up into Tea's worried eyes.

I stood up. "I have to go after her. I lost her once, and I refuse to lose her again."