disclaimer: don't own Yugioh or its characters.
author's note: This was just a short little random fic I felt like writing. It's going no where and doing nothing. All just for fun and amusement. ;P
Prince Atemu...age 14 (and a half!)
Well, since I'm back to writing in this thing, you can guess why I'm writing. I've been sent to my chambers yet again! Maybe I should write a book about it all, "1000 ways to be sent to your room!" I think I have over a hundred already. This time though, it started out purely innocent and in truth it all was still purely innocent...an accident. But, my father and mother did not see it that way.
Where to start...Mana, Mahaado, and I were in the palace atrium simply enjoying the beautiful peaceful day. Mana was fooling around with her staff and turned a few fish in the fountain a bit rabid. They were swimming in mid-air chasing us! Mahaado dove for some shrubbery. I dove for a pot...only by the time I got to it, the opening was too small (am I growing!?). The fish were catching up to me. I starting yelling at Mana to try a 'freeze' spell. As she did, she dropped her staff into the fountain! So, the fish continued their pursuit of me. I ran along the corridors, weaving in and out of pillars until I ran out of pillars. Found another pot! As I dove in, a fish locked onto my ass. Now these fish normally don't have teeth, but when enchanted by magic...they have teeth. Pain is an understatement. I yowled, busted my out of the pot...breaking it in the process. I dove into the fountain, grabbed Mana's staff and tried to pry the fish off my ass. Meanwhile, Mahaado had left his hiding place to distract the other fish away from me. I told him to watch his ass. What I should've said was watch your frontside. Cornered against a wall, he backed up against it...ass protected against the wall, but frontside totally exposed. He managed to use a spell of his own to freeze two of the fish, but one dove beneath the other two and nailed Mahaado in the nuts. I had never heard him screech like a girl before! But, I think I would too if the fish on my ass had found the other location too. While Mahaado and I were yelping and trying to get these fish off ourselves, Mana was frantically trying to assist, but dared not touch either of us in 'those areas.' Despite the pain we both were suffering, we were actually laughing too! Mana, in full panic mode, flitting about from me to Mahaado, trying to touch a fish without touching our bodies was most comical!
But, we made too much commotion with our yelling, ranting, and laughing. Shimon and my father entered the foyer, saw us, and were extremely upset. By now, Mahaado had managed a spell on the fish latched onto him, but he was too sore to get to me. I managed a spell myself, but it flung the fish towards my father rather than freeze and drop. Stunned and not expecting a flying, biting, fish, my father didn't move. The damn thing latched onto my father's nose! Now I was in panic myself (I knew what was coming if I didn't do something FAST)...I forgot the words to the spell I needed to cast to remove the fish from my father's nose. My father was fuming by the second! Luckily, Mana grabbed her staff that I had dropped after the fish was off my ass. Mana managed to remove the fish from my father's nose.
Sore, bloody, and now in serious trouble, Mana, Mahaado, and I were escorted by my father and Shimon out of the atrium and into a private room. We were scolded, reprimanded, lectured, and then all sent to our respective rooms to 'contemplate our stupidities.'
So here I am, 'contemplating my stupidity.' And oh Ra, my ass still hurts! Good thing my father chose not to lash me there. I wouldn't be sitting to write this if he had. I'm worried about Mahaado though. THAT was not a good place to get bit. But then again, he's probably already cast a healing spell upon himself. I would too...except that's next week's lessons for me. I'm a bit behind since I'm not specializing in magic. Can't, I'm a prince...I must specialize in EVERYTHING.
My mother stopped in and yes, I got another lecture. This time it was about the rights and wrongs and I should know better and be watchful to protect my friends from harm. I told her that's impossible with Mana around. I then got yet another lecture about how I'm not supposed to talk back. She then flopped the lecture into something I hadn't expected. She started talking more about Mana. The way she talks, it's almost as if she wants Mana and I to be more than just friends. Mana is like a sister to me! Isn't she? Why would she be anything more? Would I care one way or the other? Why am I contemplating this? See, any time a female is brought up, I end up with a million questions rather than intelligent, rational thoughts. Or is that what my mother terms as my 'little brain' talking? If it's that bad, then maybe I need to be bitten by a fish there. It makes me dumb, stupid, and anything but what I really am. Dangerous thing. Why can't it just be used for it's one functional purpose...to relieve oneself? Why must there be 'other' functions of it? Sometimes I wish I were a girl. They don't have to deal with such things. Life must be so much easier for them.
But onto better subjects. Father gave me a new horse the other day. A fine, well bred white colt. He'll make a fine stallion one day. Maybe he and I will win a few races too. I still have a bone to pick with that arrogant priest named Seto who bested me in a horse race last week. He fouled me though! Cut my horse off around a turn! Why does he think he has to best me at every sport or game? It's almost like an obsession for him. And to think he's going to be one of my priest when I become pharaoh? Well, at least I'll be able to put him in his place if his head grows too large for his hat. But right now...I'll let him have the small satisfaction of besting me now and then. It shows his weaknesses easier. Stupid fool.
Food of the day...roast goose. I love roast goose! Tastes like chicken...what more can I say?
Went hunting with my father yesterday morning. He keeps giving me strange looks. I can't figure out why? Every time he did, I became self-conscious and was looking for bugs or my skirt up or something. He's going to make me paranoid! Beside that though, the hunt was peaceful. My father speared a warthog. Roast swine for dinner tonight! Yummy! All I got was a bunch of grass and dirt and sand. Not bad though...that's three things to my father's one. Too bad the stuff I caught isn't very edible. I'm not much of a hunter with spear though. I prefer a bow, but my father insisted spears.
While my father was with the guards, hooting and roaring over his kill...I strolled over to the river. Across from the river I noticed a couple of girls...commoners from a nearby village I guess. They were fetching water for their families I suppose. Neither couldn't be any older than I. They didn't notice me so I simply continued to stare and observe them with fascination. What fascinated me...I don't know...but I couldn't take my eyes off them. I noticed everything...every detail from their hairdress to their sandals. Why was I mentally taking note of all this? Again, I do not know...but it seemed like the right thing to do. One took off her hairdress and had the cutest short brown hair. She seemed intelligent and independent from the other. The other kept looking to this one for directions or instructions. Two boys sprung on them, scaring them out of their wits! But the brown haired girl turned the tide and flung the boys towards the croc infested waters. How admirable a trait and in a mere girl! She can definitely defend herself. I watched them depart. I now know which village they reside in. Perhaps I'll meet this firey brown haired girl another day? I didn't even notice that my father was observing the observer! When he coughed as if to clear his throat (and get my attention), I finally noticed he was behind me! He gave me another one of those strange looks and a goofy grin. And did I see pride in his eyes? Why? Embarrassed, I climbed out of my perch and tried to stroll back to the hunting area as dignified as my humiliated butt could muster.
Yikes, I'd better close this now. I have just been summoned by my father to the throne room. Swell...another day of standing, bored out of my mind!