Ancient Connections
Chapter 2
Enter The Puppeteer
Disclaimer: I'm not going to say it again! You can't make me! I won't!
Her mind raced as she watched her fathers' killer drive away without a second thought. Anzu wanted blood, and no matter what stood in her way she would have revenge.
She stood and shouted to the back of the pharaoh, "You will pay for what you have done! I will take your life with my own hands like you took my fathers!"
How was she to know that those words were going to complete her and destroy her very soul. A young boy was watching the whole scene take place from a nearby roof top and grinned.
"She's just what we need!" he said.
"I agree, now go!" replied a strange voice from nowhere.
The street regained its hustle and bustle not giving Anzu's father another thought. She wept as she saw feet walking past as if nothing had happened and she didn't exist. But when she looked again, a small pair of feet stood in front of her and she gasped in surprise. She looked up and saw the face of a boy about her age, with light blonde hair grinning down at her.
"Hi!" he simply said and reached out his hand to her.
"Are you ok?" he asked as she shrunk back in fear of the strange person in front of her.
Anzu had been told at a young age not to trust anyone, strangers could not be trusted, they could lie to you, steal from you or even worse, hand your soul to the gods when it wasn't time for judgment.
"My name is Marik, it's ok I'm not going to hurt you, what's your name?" he asked as he bent down and grabbed her hand. As he stood he pulled her with him and led her through the streets of the city.
"M… my name i… is A… Anzu," she replied with a squeak, still slightly afraid.
"Where are we going?" Anzu asked as they came to a small building in one of the back streets.
"Home," he said with a smile and led her inside.
They sat on a bed made of a course material, something like a Hessian bag filled with straw and talked for what seemed like an eternity.
Suddenly Marik became serious, "you want revenge don't you?" he asked.
Anzu looked at him in surprise, "yes, but what brought this on?" she asked, she had gotten used to him very quickly, as if she had known him her whole life.
"Anzu, come here," he said from the window.
Anzu stood and began to walk towards him, but lost her footing and felt towards Marik. She was caught before any real damage could be done and blushed at her clumsiness. She looked up and froze, for as she looked out of the window she saw the pharaoh's palace and the pharaoh himself standing on a balcony. The hatred she was building up inside her cam screaming to the surface.
"Tell me," she whispered; her face in shadow.
"What?" Marik asked, knowing full well what she had said.
"Tell me! Tell me how to get revenge!" She screamed as she yanked on Marik's collar.
"Good," he said, "now listen carefully and don't take your eyes off mine."
She complied, and when she did her eyes grew wide with fear; for what she saw was the tortured souls of the damned and what could only be known as hell itself.
"Now Anzu, the Pharaoh has taken from you hasn't he? He has taken what is precious to you; he has taken the very light from your world hasn't he?" Marik asked.
"Yes," was Anzu's zombie-like remark.
"You must repay him don't you? The only way to stop this evil Pharaoh is to kill him and every last person who can claim the throne! Now what are you going to do Anzu?" he asked, playing with her chocolate brown hair.
"I am going to kill the pharaoh and his family!" she said in a blood thirsty tone that even made Marik shiver.
As he looked at her, an evil smirk made it's way over his mouth.
"What are you grinning about!" Anzu spat.
This only made Marik's grin grow wider, "Nothing," he simply said as he looked beyond Anzu's then small and seemingly fragile frame, to the figure of his master behind her.
Everything was going according to plan for Marik and his master, they would get this girl to do the dirty work for them and then kill her when it was done. But what they didn't know was that she was the flaw in their plan, for not even they could see that she would grow to love someone; the pharaoh's son Atem.
I know it's taking me ages to update, but bare with me ' sorry about the shortness of this chapter I'll make the next one longer and I'm beginning to work on my other stories again
Till next time Toodles
Asuka2004
