Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, for the upteenth time... So no sue...

Warnings: OOCs, OCs, supernatural, and fluffy

Pairings: Malik/Rocky

Key: "talking", 'thinking'

Note: I'm skipping ahead to the end of the finals, since I missed basically all of the finals on Alcatraz Island and the Virtual World sagas... eheheh... I just caught the last two episodes of Alcatraz Island today! Yeah, I know, that's what I get for sleeping late on Saturdays throughout the summer... Sorry if it don't make much sence...

Key of the Heart
Chapter 7
Key of the Twilight
Rocky just finished watched the ongoing duel between the Pharoah and Marik. Tears were streaming down her tan cheeks as she watched her lover dissappear into the shadows, little by little. Now, she cried for the joy of her Egyptian lover conquering his darker half.

"I forfeit, Pharoah," Malik had said, his hand placed over his deck, "Begone evil spirit!" The last of Marik dissappeared, and the platform Yami and Malik stood on lowered.

"Malik." Rocky breathed, one hand covering her mouth, trying to restrain the tears that fell. He looked at her, and smiled.

"Hey Rocky, long time to see." he said, looking her over. Rocky had been knocked out for a while now, due to an insident involving her and a puddle of spilled coke left by Jou, so Malik had not been able to see her in a long time.

"Malik!" she screamed, running into his open arms. Immediately, she burried her face into his chest. "Malik, I'm so glad you're back." He hugged her and nuzzled his nose in her lavendar-scented hair.

"I am, and I'm glad to be back too." he whispered. Isis and Rishid smiled at the two.

"Now we can live a normal life, Malik." Isis told her little brother, who looked up at her in shock.

"But our tomb keeper tradition..." he started, Isis shook her head.

"No, you fufilled your destiny. I think it's time we started living in the light." she said, smiling. Both Rocky and Malik's faces lit up.

"You mean it?" Malik asked excitedly, earning a nod from his older sibling, "Yay! You hear that Rocky! I get to live a normal life now!" He picked Rocky up by her waist and spun her around.

"Hey!" she yelped when he did, surprising her. He put her down, both began laughing.

"I'm so happy!" he yelled, Rocky smiled and kissed his cheek.

"So am I, this means that we can go to school together, and you won't have to go back to Egypt!" she exclaimed, running and jumping around happily. She came back and kissed Malik full on the mouth, making him blush heavily.

"Calm down, Rocky." he said finally, Rocky just kept grinning.

"Lets get out of here, guys." they heard Joey say, and left.

A few months later

Rocky sat in the same park her and Malik had met that faithful day, staring at the crystaline sky above.

"Rocky!" she heard a voice call out, she looked over to see Malik running up. He wore his usual lavendar shirt and jeans.

"About time you got here." she said, standing up to greet him. He bent over, panting heavily, having run from his house all the way to the park. He looked up at her, smiling.

Rocky had changed a lot since the finals. Her sandy dress now cut lower at the top, to show part of a leather tank top. Two slits went up the sides of it, exposing a little of her strong legs, then hid under a pair of shorts. An ankh pendant replaced her turquoise one, and her headband was now gone. Her bangs hung down in her face, like Malik's.

"Sorry about that," Malik said, standing up straight now, "I had to get something before I came here." That caught Rocky's attention.

"Okay, what is it?" she asked, earning a smile from her.

"You'll see. How about we get some ice cream first." he sugjested, knowing that was one thing the Egyptian wouldn't turn down.

"Oo! Okay! I take it that you're buying?" she asked, crossing her arms over her chest. He sweatdropped.

"Oh no you don't!" he exclaimed, "Last time you did that, I nearly went broke!" Rocky laughed and stuffed one hand into her pocket.

"Oh don't worry, I got money this time." she said, grabbing his hand with her free one and ran off to the nearest ice cream shop. "C'mon!"

When they got there, Rocky had herself a hot fudge sundae, while Malik stuck to his banana split.

"You have to be the coolest guy ever, Malik." she said through a mouthful of the cold cream, he couldn't help but smile at her. Malik noticed a big difference in Rocky since the end of the finals. She wasn't as 'demented' as she used to be, now she was your normal hyperactive teenage girl. He also noticed something else about her...

"Hey Rocky," he said, trying to turn her attention away from the ice cream before she got brainfreeze, "I haven't seen you talking to spirits lately, what's up?" Rocky sat her spoon down inside her bowl and looked at him, a look of anger in the chocolate colored eyes.

"Lets just say, I try not to use them anymore." she snapped, causing Malik to flinch. He hadn't heard that much hatred dripping from her voice since she nearly killed Jounouchi for saying she was a prep, and she nearly suceeded since he caught her at a bad time of the month.

"Sorry, I didn't know." he said, looking down. He heard a heavy sigh from her side of the table.

"Nahh, I shouldn't of snapped at ya. I'm still a little touchy on that..." she said, standing up.

"Where are you going?" Malik asked, looking up at her.

"I should be going now, Malik. I'll see you tonight hopefully." she said sadly, kissing him on the cheek before she left. Malik sat there at the table, looking down at a pool of melted ice cream in the bottom of the bowl.

"What did I do? I couldn't of made her really mad, she usually forgives me pretty quick. Unless it's something else." he said to himself, not caring if anyone else heard or not. In the pool of melted sweetness he could nearly see a replay of Rocky snapping.

'Lets just say I try not to use them anymore.' she snapped, those words echoed through Malik's head. A drop of something felt into the pool, scattering the image. Malik felt of his cheeks and found salty tears running down them.

"Rocky..." he whispered, and reached into one of his pockets to pull out a small box. Tears still rolled down his tan cheeks like the river Nile runs through his homeland's sands.

Rocky sat in the living room of the house her and her brother shared, the said brother was out helping Isis down at the museum. The Egyptian girl sat there, hugging her knees to her chest, staring out into space.

"You okay, aibou?" her darker half, Rockastra, asked as she came down the stairs.

"If you call being powerless okay... Then I'm peachy." she said, her voice muffled by the cloth of her dress.

"Oh, aibou... You know you'd loose most of them if you let me have my own body," Rockastra told her light, kneeling next to her, "Besides, I figured you'd love being a normal human girl." She places a hand on the other girl's back, but Rocky jerked away from the now gentle touch.

"It sucks being normal. I feel powerless now, like anything in the world can beat me." she said, Rockastra petted Rocky's head, only getting a slight twitch before the girl began to relax.

"You're not, believe me. You still have most of your shadow magic, while I have as little shadow magic as you do shamanistic, maybe even le..." Rockastra was cut off by the doorbell ringing. "Comming!" She got up to answer the door, only to find Malik standing there.

"Is Rocky here?" he asked, she nodded and pointed over to the couch, where all Malik could see was the back of her curlled up form, "Thanks." He walked over and put his arms around her shoulders. "Rocky?"

"What is it, Malik?" she asked, voice muffled once again by her dress.

"I came to see if you were alright." he answered, moving to sit next to her.

"Just peachy." she said, uncurling herself and sitting up on the couch.

"That and I have something else I want to ask you." he said, scooting closer to her. Rocky had her arms crossed over her chest, Rockastra rolled her eyes and went over to sit on the steps, out of their sight, but made sure that they weren't. Malik reached into his pocket and fumbled with the small box.

"What is it, Malik?" she asked, staring at the floor, picking at the tan carpeting with her toes.

"Rocky," he said, gently clutching her chin between his thumb and index fingers, and gently turned her head so their eyes met, "Will you..."

"Will I what?" she asked, turning her body to face his. He pulled out the box and opened it, making Rocky's chocolate colored eyes grow wide. Inside was a beautiful engagement ring, amethyst and sapphire gems made up the one heart in the middle, tiny diamonds sat outside the heart, all placed in beautiful pure gold.

"Will you, my Rockestra, my queen of the Nile, marry me?" he asked, smiling. Tears of joy spilled from her eyes.

"Oh Malik!" she threw herself upon him, embracing him, "Of course I will."

Malik's POV

She said yes! I can't believe it! I pulled back, able to look into those shimmering eyes, full of tears. Tears of happiness. I gently touched her face, knowing that she felt the same for me. She looked at me with her chocolate brown eyes, and I gently ran a finger over her lips. They were very soft, like a roses petals. She lightly kissed the tip of my index finger and smiled. "I love you, Malik." she whispered, then wrapped her arms around me in an embrace I wish would last forever... No.. I knew would last forever. She is my Rockestra Nefertiti, my Egyptian shaman, my queen of the Nile, my eternal love.

Rocky's POV

Malik proposed to me, I can't believe it! I never knew this day would come so fast. Malik Ishtar was my childhood sweetheart, and now he is my fiance. My life could never of been so glorious if I had never had met him that faithful day in that market in Egypt. Malik Ishtar, my Egyptian miracle, my pharaoh of Egypt, my eternal love.

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