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The Items
It had been hard these past months, hard to understand everything. Why was Mallid, heir to the crown
of Egypt trying to not become the ruler of it? He was Yami's (Yami no Yuugi Mutou) older twin brother.
Though they were twins they were very much different. Poor Yami was always said to be the "Weak
Link" in the chain of the dynasty. Mallid was great at just about everything, including picking on his
baby brother. This starts far back in Egyptian times, about a year before Yami became the King of
Egypt, two years before he was killed by Osiris, sacrificed by him, raped by him and then tossed into
the Millennium Puzzle along with the power of the Shadow Games with the other seven legendary
Millennium Items. Yami was about thirteen, and our story starts at night.
Yami was messing around in the room with all the Millennium, Century, Decade and Millennia items he had already finished. He was just putting the final touches into the Millennium Puzzle, the most powerful of all the items. It was late and Yami was growing tired, but still he worked. He had been up all day in the room working on the Puzzle. Yami's eyes lowered as he heard his brother calling out for him, not like it was for anything to be nice!
Mallid was outside the door, pounding on it. "Yami! Let me in! Let me in now!" Yami remained still,
working on the puzzle. The bangs grew louder. "Yami! I know you can hear me! Open this door right
now!"
Yami rolled his eyes. /He'll get in trouble soon enough. Mom never likes him banging on the doors like that at night, even if it is made out of stone/
No sooner then Yami had finished his thought did he hear a giant crashing sound outside the door.
He turned and heard Mallid yelling, not being able to make out his cries. He heard another crash and
Seth, the God (one of Yami's best friends), yelling at Mallid. Yami figured it was just another one of
Seth's little ideas to get Mallid into trouble. For all the years that Yami and Seth have known each other
many times has Seth tried to get Mallid into trouble. They didn't really see eye-to-eye and in the
beginning they didn't really start to get along. Of course, none of his tries have ever worked.
Yami heard Mallid yelling and then Seth yelling again. Then he heard the voices fade. Yami finished working on the puzzle and set all the pieces of it into the Forbidden Memories box. Yami blew out the torches and snuck out of the room to the throne room. He poked his head in. His father, Shou, was sitting on the throne with the crown on his forehead. He looked tired and partly sleepy, of course he hadn't slept in a week thanks to Seth and Mallid fighting so much.
Like all the times before, Yami lost his balance and tumbled face first into the throne room. He rolled forward and crashed into the farthest back pillar. Yami sat up and rubbed his nose.
His father blinked. "Yami, shouldn't you be asleep? It is much far past that of sleep time!" Yami became embarrassed. "Go to bed!"
Mallid stood in the doorway, his robes partly torn. He mimicked his father's voice, "Go to bed! Baby Yami! You are not wise enough to be the King of Egypt! You must be graceful as a angel and as sleek as a cat!" Mallid was hit on the head by Yami, who like always, was irritated by his brother.
"Can it, ash-can!" Yami gritted his teeth.
"Make me, fumble-boy!" Mallid grinned.
Shou stood up and clapped his hands together twice, getting the boy's attention. "Yami! Mallid! You both know much better then to go around at night and terrorize everyone! We all get enough of that from Bakur (Yami Bakura) and Mariku (Yami Malik)!"
Yami and Mallid walked out of the throne room and into the banquet hall. Yami closed his eyes and smelled in the sweet mint incense. Mallid sat down on the foot of the statue of Anukis and began to fix up his robes. Yami walked over and leaned against it with his arms crossed.
"If we're twins then how come you have blond hair and brown bangs while I have maroon hair and blond bangs?" When Mallid didn't answer Yami looked to him. "Ever wonder that?"
Mallid shook his head, still working with his robes. "The biggest difference between you and I cannot be seen!"
Yami sighed. "What's wrong? You never act all this mad before."
Mallid frowned, still mad, "I'm mad because pop has chosen me to become Pharaoh!"
"Don't you wanna be Pharaoh?" Yami looked to him, his crimson eyes mixed with amethyst shinning.
Mallid looked to his brother, his tsunami eyes churning, "NO! I don't want to be Pharaoh! Sure it'd be great to rule a country and all, but hey, let's just stop pretending, huh? We both know that you're the nicer out of us!"
Yami tilted his eyes to the sky, "That's not true. We both have our own strengths!"
"Oh? Then what's mine? Picking on you because of jealousy?" Mallid spoke in a joke-tone but was serious.
"Jealous? You? Of me? HA! I find that hard to believe." Yami snickered.
"I'm serious! Believe me or I'll"— Mallid was about to punch his brother when flashes of light lit up the dark sky far to the south. "Wha--? Wha's that?"
"I don't know!" Yami grew a serious face. "Listen, I know how much you hate me and all so let's just try and cool off for a sec, huh? Here!" Yami pulled out of his pocket the Century Ring. It looked like the Millennium Ring but was silver with a thick piece of leather tied to its hinge.
"What's this?" Mallid took it.
"It's called the Century Ring. It has strange mystical powers that only I know! It's weaker then the Millennium Ring, but isn't at all bad." He smiled. Mallid nodded and descended to his room for the night. Yami climbed up the statue and sat on its head, looking out to the colors of light that lit up the sky. "Pharaoh…what's it like to be Pharaoh?" Yami tilted his head up and saw a shooting star. "O God of the Heavens, please…can I be Pharaoh to take the hard burden from my brother? Please…"