Chapter 2

A light appeared at top of the stairwell in the Pegasus castle, lighting the darkness of the night that filled the huge area. Hathor stepped out from the light and glanced up to the picture of her former human self that stared out happily from the portrait which hung on the wall. Since Emma had been the last mortal that she had been part of she still had her memories and even felt some of her emotions even though being a goddess meant that she had none of her own. They were very weak but strong enough to force her to check on those that Emma had cared about before she was to continue her task of reminding the pharaoh of his destiny. She even thought that she'd be able to put some of the visits to better use and aid her along the way.

Hathor approached the door that led to the sleeping chambers of Maximillion Pegasus, and entered as she floated through the closed doors. She found the man asleep at his desk as he leaned on to old photos of himself and his sister. They ranged from when they had been small children to before she had left for Egypt with Shadi.

Holding her hand out Hathor hovered it slowly above Pegasus' head as she cleansed his mind of the vast amount of alcohol that he had consumed, which was obvious from the empty wine bottles that litter the floor around him. Slowly he began to wake and stared at her in disbelief.

"Emma!" he asked as he rubbed his eyes to make sure that he wasn't hallucinating.

"I'm afraid that the sister you once knew is no longer in existence." Hathor explained and saw Pegasus lower his head in sorrow. "All that remains is me, Hathor. She and I were one so I share her memories and emotions that have brought me to check on you, her brother, as she was very concerned about you in her last days."

For a while Pegasus remained silent as he remembered how he had been trapped inside one of the duel monster cards by a duelist name Mai Valentine who he had known from his Duelist Kingdom tournament. She had been working for the greater power of Dartz, the last ruler of the ancient city of Atlantis, who was bent on destroying all mankind. Eventually Dartz was defeated by the King of Games himself, so the world had been saved and all of those souls trapped within the cards were released. It was then that he was met with the news of Emma's death, and had rushed to Domino city to retrieve her body.

"Please tell me how she died." Pegasus asked in a weak voice. "The police investigating her death said that she had been seen throwing herself off of a bridge to escape from some duel monsters that had been rampaging there." He raised his head and stared directly in to Hathor's eyes. "But I don't believe that is the truth as she had some of the most powerful cards that I've ever created and would have stood her ground and fort them off using them."

"You're right." Hathor nodded. "She did stand her ground, but eventually she was overcome and thrown from the bridge." What she had said had been the truth, just not all of it.

"Why were her hands severely burnt!" he shouted in response to what he had heard believing that there was more to this than what he had been told. But as he saw Hathor's stare remain and not falter he began to sob. "When I find out who did this to her, they'd wish that they had never been born."

Hathor watched the grown man cry at the loss of his younger sister and only remaining family. She began to feel uncomfortable and wasn't sure how to react to what she was witnessing. She changed the subject away from Emma's death. "The bag that she gave you to store in her vault was placed there as requested?" she asked.

"Yes of course." Pegasus replied wiping tears away from his eyes.

"May I see?" Hathor asked.

Pegasus got up from his chair, knocking the bottles as he stood, and lead the way to the basement where the vaults were stored. Silently and gracefully, Hathor followed behind until they reached the vault in question where Pegasus opened the vault and removed the bag to open as she had instructed him to do.

Hathor glanced into the bag and raised her upper lip in disgust. "Stupid girl!"

"I beg your pardon?" Pegasus said to the goddess in surprise to what she had said. He looked down in to the bag and saw lots of golden fragments almost half fill it. "Are these pieces of millennium items?"

"No they are not." Hathor stated. "She was meant to believe that they were but in fact they are just replicas."

"How can you tell?" Pegasus asked as he raised one of the teeth from the millennium ring before him.

"The millennium items are made from gold." the goddess explained. "Were as these are clearly not since they shattered when she hit them, when in fact gold would just bend to form another shape from the force of the impact."

Pegasus continued to stare at the piece he held before him. Was this a clue to his sister's killer? Were they after these items from her? "Why did you want to see these?" he asked knowing that they must have something to do with Emma's death.

"I'm afraid my time here is over and I must go as I still have many things to do before I return to the elders." Hathor turned to leave through the light that had appeared behind her but stopped to say one last thing to the duel monsters creator. "As long as you remember her then she will always be with you."

After that Hathor and the light were gone, leaving Pegasus alone in his basement. He stared at the pieces in the bag once more.