"On this day...life goes none...nothing we do...can stop this.
Death is here...life has left...nothing can be done.
I know my fate is gone...I ran from a far.
We miss those gone...and pray them back.
But they never come to our words of hope and peace.
Spirits are more wise and profound..."
Yukai looked up into the sky as the sunlight of Ra was creeping its way up over the horizon. She continued to sing.
"Time is a wheel in constant motion.
Always rolling us along.
Tell me who...wants to look back on their youth and wonder.
Where have those years gone?
I don't know...what words I can say...to help you.
But I do pray, O Crikies, help me find a way.
A way to get away from this pain..."
A snicker in the debris came out over the end of the song. Yukai whirled around to it. A huge translucent black cat with hauntingly gold eyes came walking out. It had some scars on its face.
"Turai!" Yukai took some steps back. "Go away!" The cat just laughed hideously. "What do you want now?"
The cat tilted its head. "Turai wants your blood. You escaped my wrath last time but not twice may you flee!"
"Just try and stop me you big dork!" Yukai was frightened but like before showed no signs of it.
"Very well, human!" The cat ran forward with high speed. "Prepare for your end!"
Yukai gasped, took a step back, freezing. Just as the cat was right in front of Yukai a blast of golden light came out of the Sennen Eye on Yukai's forehead. The symbol had come back and saved her, again.
Yami gasped quietly and whispered. "So, that's how she survived, the Sennen Eye saved her!"
The cat stood up from the debris it had crashed into. "So, you've learned to use the Eye to your will, huh? Welp, that won't save you!" The cat lunged forward. Yukai couldn't move or speak; with the Sennen Eye still glowing, she closed her eyes tight.
"STOP!" Yami ran over and grabbed Yukai in a tackle just before the cat's talons hit her.
The demon looked at him, tilting its head from right to left, sad from the miss. "Who are you? This doesn't concern you, human! Leave us, unless you wish to die, too?"
Yami stood up, holding Yukai in his arms. "I won't leave her! You can't make me, you over grown house cat!"
The cat laughed, amused. "This is so fun! I just love terrorizing present day humans, don't you agree, Pharaoh-boy!" The cat continued to laugh.
Yami held tight to Yukai. "No, I don't...but then again I am a present day human...what the heck are you?"
The cat stopped laughing. "I used to be a human, thousands of years ago. There is no record on the first Pharaoh of Egypt because he was turned into a monster from his greed and his allegiance with Apep."
"Apep?" Yami held his toung, but still listened.
"Yes, I was the first Pharaoh of Ra and the first creation of Apep." The cat continued. "That mighty god bestowed upon me all his magic to do his wonders! Now, my beating heart can even make volcanoes erupt if I chose!" The cat snickered.
Yami snickered back. "This will be too easy! Okay, Pharaoh, leave her be! Since you are with Apep's magic that must mean you cannot attack another Pharaoh because they are under the protection of the other gods, like Ra!" The cat stopped snickering and hissed at Yami.
Yukai pushed out of Yami's stronghold. "It's me this beast wants, let him take me!"
Yami shook his head and wrapped his arms around Yukai. "I could never! I love you!"
Yukai ignored Yami's confession and tried to pull away. "Argh, if you stay here you're surly going to be killed—God protection or not!"
The cat twitched its strong tail. "She's right, keep my pray and I'll just send after you my Peeves!"
"Peeves?" Yukai and Yami chimed together, looking at the cat curiously. The cat nodded its mighty head holding pearl fangs.
Yukai pulled from Yami. "You want me, try and get me!" Yukai ran up the dunes to even more debris.
The cat ran after her. "A chase? This should be fun!"
Yukai tumbled and climbed through the huge and small pieces of debris. "O Crikies, shed your wisdom to me, please. I can't beat this thing alone."
Yami ran after the cat into the piles of debris. "Yukai!" Yami asked under his breath for Ra to aid him. Yami then remembered a chant Paradox had taught him when he was little to stop and reverse magic and if the magic took on a form with a heart the beast would die and the magic's effects would end. "Hey, I know!" Yami thought for a second. "How'd it go again?"
The panther jumped onto a pile of debris, laughing sinisterly. "If I can't get you I'll just squish you!"
"I remember! Hold on, Yukai!" Yami climbed farther into the sea of debris after the golden light that only he could see from her Sennen Eye. Yami began to chant: "Deplete the magic, go to the mart, I have a beating heart!" He repeated it over and over and over again.
Suddenly the cat was surrounded by a blur of golden light coming from every direction. The cat bared its teeth back and hissed at Yami, wherever he was. The cat then jumped up into the sky and disappeared in a flash of black clouds. Yami poked his head out of the debris and sighed.
Yami. "Whew...glad that's over."