Chapter 1
Everywhere but home
Becka stirred, trying to sit up only to be engulfed in pain. Her arms hurt, her legs hurt, her head was throbbing; Muscles she didn't even know she had were aching. She slumped back down into her previous position: Lying weakly on the ground, eyes closed tight.
She tried to catch up with what had happened…What did happen? …Oh yeah. Memories came flooding back. The weird feeling, the pendulum, her and her yami being draw-… wait. She almost forgot!
Her yami.
Her eyes snapped back open almost instantly. She sat up and, ignoring the pain, she scanned the room for her dark. Nothing. She began to panic, until her eyes rested and a still, tan figure not to far off. Clutching her sides with one arm, she crawled over to her dark, shaking her softly.
"Yami? Can you hear me?" She said. Her yami mumbled something incoherent in response, before her gold cat eyes fluttered open.
She blinked, and then sat up with no problems. "What in the name of Ra are we doing here!" was her first statement as she stared at the dark, purple walls of the shadow realm.
"Humm," Becka began, "maybe it has something to do with that portal you open up in the middle of the room, maybe!" Becka growled, anger pushing away the pain.
"Heh heh, opps." Bastet laughed nervously under the fiery glare her hakari was giving her. Becka growled again.
"'Opps' doesn't even begin to describe the mess you caused, you moronic baka." She hissed; a habit she had picked up from the yami a long time ago and couldn't seem to quit. Her yami cringed.
"It's not my fault! I didn't know the pendulum would start working! I was just as surprised as you were!" She replied. She really needed her happy pills… (1)
Becka sighed. 'I'm surprised you're able to use any rational thought at all, baka neko." (2) She said simply. "So…" she began again, "how do we get out of here?" Blink. "You do know, don't you?" Shrug. "YOU MEAN WE'RE STUCK HERE!"
"I never said that. I'm just…not sure. I guess we'd go back the way we came, but the pendulum used too much of its energy getting us here. We'd basically have to find a door…or a gateway out of here…and fast, before the shadow creatures realize we're here." She shuttered at the thought of the monsters… not that she couldn't kick all their butts, they were just creepy.
"Then let's go find one!" Becka said annoyed, dragging her yami in the nearest random direction.
"It's no that simple!" Bastet shrieked, pulling away from her hakari. "This place goes on forever. Finding a door, much less the right door, would be like trying to find the clichéd 'needle in the hay stack'…almost impossible." She sighed.
"Then how do we find one!" The annoyed hakari asked. She was running out of patience…
"…Summon a monster." Bastet stated, and started sorting threw her deck. When she got to the card 'Hand of Nephthys', she held it up and started chanting.
"How will this help at all!" Becka yelled, exasperated. She had picked out the card 'Dark Scorpion – Meanae the Thorn'; she liked it so much because it reminded her of her self, a strong, powerful female.
Practically ignoring her hakari, besides snatching her hakari's card, Bastet continued to chant:
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" (3)
(A/n: The author would like to notethat the above chant is in the language of the priests and priestesses of Egypt and is not known or read by anyone else, so don't even try to read it.)
Suddenly, the cards started to glow. Bastet placed them on the ground, and the glow intensified so much that the hakari and yami had to cover their eyes to keep from being blinded. When the light dimmed, where the cards had been placed were now, two women.
One had tan skin, black hair in pig tails, gold Egyptian armor, and orange sleeves and an orange silk skirt. Flaming wings protruded from her back. This was the Hand of Nephthys. The other was dressed in a red mini skirt, black leather sleeveless shirt and arm
bands, and tall black boots. She had light toned skin, long, straight brown hair, piercing red eyes and a tattoo of a black scorpion on her arm. She carried with her a whip with thorns on it. She was Dark Scorpion Meanae.
"Wow." Was all Becka could say. She started shaking her yami. "Why didn't you tell me you could do that!"
Shrug. "You never asked." She said, simply, and then looked at the two monsters. "Take us to the nearest way out of here." She ordered, and the monsters nodded and started to drag Bastet, as her hakari had, in a random direction. Becka followed boredly, although very ready to get out of the horrendous place called the shadow realm.
Becka's p.o.v.
Man we've been walking for hours…no, I mean we've been walking for two hours and thirty two minutes. I'm not sure Those monsters even know where we're going…I sure hope they do. If not… we're doomed.
I-it's very cold in here. Like ice… by Ra, I can see my own breath! I don't want to be here. I really don't. I've heard that it drives people…. Crazy! Mad! Wacko! Loco in the coco! Disturbed! Psycho! Completely and utterly INSANE!...AHH! It's happening! HELP!
Hey! I see a door!
After informing my yami about the door, we walk towards it…
Normal p.o.v.
Becka reached towards the door knob, and then paused. "You think we should?" she said meekly. At a nod from her yami, she opened the door… and was sucked into another vortex. Let's just say their landing wasn't smooth.
"'Oww.'"
Becka: Yay! Finished the first chapter!
Bastet: took you long enough, hakari.
Becka: well it's hard thinking up a story!
Bastet: sure it is. You just keep telling yourself that. rolls eyes
Becka: grr….well, here's a few little side notes to help da' people understand the story. (The topics will be noted by numbers in the story.)
(1): Bastet's happy pills are mental medicine to keep her craziness under control. But she doesn't know that! Lol.
(2): 'baka neko' means 'idiot cat' in Japanese.
(3): The chant Bastet was…well chanting translates into:
'Shadows, obey my command,
Bring forth the monsters from my hand,
Give them life to end their still,
Let them give into my will.'
Becka: it was supposed to be a spell to let Bastet be able to summon monsters and they had to do as she said. It's stupid and creepy, I know, but it's the best I could think of on such short notice! I tried! And remember, read and review!