Chapter 4
Hathor found herself in a strange place similar to one that she had briefly been in once before when she had been part of her human self. The space around her was empty and above her glowed the chipboards of a computer system. She figured that she was inside the laptop that Emma owned which had remained unused since her death.
"Stop intruder!" She heard a voice call out to her through the emptiness. "Who or what are you?"
"I am the Egyptian goddess; Hathor, daughter of Ra and all that remains of your friend." she spoke up to the lights above her.
"What do you mean 'all that remains of my friend'?" Noah asked as he slowly floated down and stood opposite Hathor.
"You haven't had any contact with Emma for over two weeks now." Hathor told Noah what he already knew. "Haven't you wondered why?"
"I don't know how you know that." Noah said suspiciously as he eyed the stranger. "My guess is that she's been held up with media conferences, or finally gotten bored of me."
"She was murdered and I am here on her behalf to make sure that you are okay." Hathor spoke down to the boy.
"Murdered?" Noah repeated to himself in disbelief. "I should have known that something was wrong. She always managed to find time for me no matter how busy she was."
"Well now she's not here for you anymore." Hathor saw Noah become sad, but unlike the other two she had visited he did not cry. "She wouldn't want you to be on your own trapped inside this computer. I suggest that you move to your step-brother's system."
Noah shook his head. "I would never be fully welcomed or accepted by them both. And since the trouble that had been caused by Paradias, Kaiba Corp's security has been increased yet again. It would take somebody with the combined IT knowledge of Seto and myself to brake through the systems, so there's no chance that I'd be able to go and stay there."
Hathor thought about another possible option. "What about the girl who owns the website?"
"You mean Zene?" Noah thought this over. "Well I guess that I could give it a go. I spend a lot of time on her site helping her with it anyway. I don't see what harm giving each other a little bit more company could do." He laughed to himself. "If she doesn't accept me at first I'm just pretend to be Seto, or maybe even the big red button. There's no way she'd resist either of them."
"Well then its sorted." Hathor confirmed. "And now that everyone that Emma had been concerned about has been taken care of, I must continue on my way to find the pharaoh." She disappeared in a bright light.
Noah made his way across the internet to Zene's website. She was online at the time and he didn't have any trouble downloading himself to her hard drive.