Mallid gave an evil laugh. "Why should I?"
Yukai twisted her head and bit Mallid's arm. A yelp came from the older boy's mouth as he flung Yukai up into the air. Her body twisted and whirled as she tried to get a smooth landing. She fell into a glass pot on a table that rocked and fell onto the floor shattering.
Yukai stood up abruptly. "I will not be forced by a hyena for much longer. You allowed your brother to die!"
Mallid shrugged. "He was weak. You think you can stop even a God's orders?"
An old harsh voice came from behind Mallid. "Move aside and let me gaze upon Pharaoh's identical beauty."
Mallid moved to the left and tilted his head down. "As you wish."
A man dressed very fancy came walking past him. He had short blonde hair and cobalt blue eyes, like the sea. A forest green cape draped over his shoulders and to his ankles. His chest was bare and smooth, as his waist was covered in a white silk sheet and a royal purple and blue sash to hold it. He wore fancy golden sandals. His wrists had gold rings and his fingers were covered in fine silver rings. His arms had priceless rhyme stones imbedded on gold and silver armlets. His skin was a ghost white, but looked to have some tan.
"So, you are the Pharaoh's main slave, yes?" The man asked.
Yukai glared coldly at him. "Perhaps and perhaps not." Hate and anger burned fiercely in her purple eyes, directed at Mallid and the man.
"I suppose I won't get a straight answer from you then." He concluded. "Can you tell me your name?"
"Tell you my name?" Yukai asked back. "I believe your name is a valuable that is priceless that one wears for all their life."
"I'll tell you mine." The man countered.
Yukai's eyes grew suspicious of the man. "Fine. Who are you?"
"My name is Yiu." He said flatly. "I was a high ranked knight serving under the laws of Pharaoh Shou and his main wife, Leis."
"You won't find them." Yukai said. "Her royal majesty killed herself. Pharaoh Shou died in the war earlier."
"And their second son, Yami?" Yiu questioned.
"Is dead." Yukai said bluntly, as if there were no meaning in those words to her. On the inside, she was a disaster. Covered in tears and the idea of her friend and possible love being dead.
"I see." Yiu gave a nod, understanding the situation Yukai might be in. "I would like for you to come with me."
"Why, sir? My duties lie here, in protecting what remains of my Pharaoh." Yukai pointed out.
Yiu grew somewhat mad with Yukai, a ravishing beauty before his very eyes and she would not come to him. "I understand that, but since he is dead...don't you find it a waste to care of a carcass of a Pharaoh?"
"That 'carcass', as you speak, was my Pharaoh and still is. He is immortal and lives forever within my soul." Yukai yelled back.
Yiu looked to Mallid. "Prince, gather up what remains of the Pharaoh and throw it in the sea." He turned his attention to Yukai. "If you feel so strongly for the Pharaoh then perhaps you would like to join him?"
"That would be far to gracious of an act for a swine like you can do!" Yukai yelled.
Yiu yelled back. "Watch your mouth, you insolent cur!"
"Go ahead, call me whatever pleases you, m' lord. That won't make any difference to me. The only person's words who matter to me are that of his royal majesty, Pharaoh Yami Amenhotep."
Yiu glared, and watched as Yukai turned and walked away, as her flesh bled from the cuts of the glass. Mallid took a step forward, "Mage?"
"Kill her."
That night, Yiu held a meeting of those closest to Yami and Yukai. He spoke greatly of Leis, Shou, Yami and even Yukai. He closed up the night prayer for their souls to rest in peace by saying, "May they all live forever within this planet, and the true strength of their hearts is filled with love and compassion. The death of the Pharaohs, the Pharaoh's mother and his main slave is a sad and terribly tragedy that must be understood by all."
While leaving Jounouchi, Paradox and Rio met in the front gardens under the moonlight.
Jounouchi stamped his foot. "Dammit! Now, we have no Pharaoh and no one to take up the throne."
"I don't trust that cowardly snake, Yiu! I'm betting he killed Yami himself!" Rio growled.
Paradox clapped his hands. "Calm yourselves, boys. Yiu didn't kill Yami, but he ordered Mallid to kill Yukai. As for Yami's death, that was ordered as a punishment by the God Osiris."
"Punishment?" Rio echoed.
"Fer what?" Jounouchi asked.
"For, one, loving another Pharaoh. Two, loving a main slave though she aided in his father's death and not killing her; and a few more crimes that even I am not aware of. I'm sorry for your personal loses boys." Paradox finished. "Yukai said loyal and true words from her heart in the end and as such, I shall guarantee you two to meet up with both Yami and her once again in time."
"When?" Rio and Jounouchi questioned.
"When the time is right. Remember, you can create your own future, but you cannot alter your destinies." Paradox smiled at the two.
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I just realized that doesn't take a symbol I use for the next scenes and so on. So I'll try to remember to put a line between the title of the chapter and the next scene. But remember to see the chapters in their original intent you have to go to my website.