Author: I really enjoy seeing three reviews so far in this short story. Don't worry, they will meet eventually. But it's just that…err…ouch; I almost burst out what will happen. That's for you readers to find out what happen to them in the end and for me the author to laugh about making bad endings.

Author laughing hysterically

I'm going to end this life period fast so please do not get confuse.

LAST CHAPTER:

"By marrying the girl who my father will choose to marry me then."

"No thanks, Atem, I'm scared of you but I'm more scared of Mai."

"How dare you speak so to the future pharaoh!" Atem roared.

"Atem, mind others hear you." Jou laughed.

Atem looked annoyed at the calm face of his best friend. That is another reason why this brave warrior here is his best friend. He stands up for him, to him when no others do except his father and Shimon.

Atem sighed deeply, opened his worried eyes. "Have you got a plan?"

"Yes and no. No, Atem, listen to me." Jou stopped Atem from answering him. "I have something up in my sleeve but I'll have to make sure it works out perfectly so, until then, you will just have to be a nice boy to daddy and be patient."

Atem lifted an eyebrow, unshedding his sword by his side, ready to kill the man in front of him.

Jou roared with fright and laughter at the same and ride as quickly as possible from the prince. Laughter filled the air as two best friends race after one another.

Meanwhile, Anzu had started her journey with a maid named Miho. 'Just you wait father, I will get revenge on the pharaoh. I will prove that I am worthy in your court.'

THIS CHAPTER

Anzu arrived at the gate of the grand palace of Egypt. She stared hard at the palace with a passion of hate. Miho had gone for some fresh water before they enter the palace tomorrow. Anzu gave out a deep sigh as she headed back to the hotel.

When she was about to step into the door, a clothed figure ran out and almost knocked her down if it wasn't Miho who was behind her.

"Anzu-sama, are you alright?" Miho lifted Anzu back up from her arms.

"Genki desu, who was that?" Anzu wobbled a little.

They both walked into the inn they have booked. The innkeeper went up to the both of them with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Sorry, but the room you have booked just awhile ago was…in…a little mess right now. Is it possible that you want to change to another room?"

Anzu whispered something to Miho, both of them nodded.

"I thought your inn is filled."

"Well, just awhile ago two people just signed out suddenly. They both in the military you see, an emergency note just came in that they need to report back to the group. Therefore, the room that they occupied just then became empty."

"I'll take it, but I do hope it's the same status of room we booked." Anzu said.

"It's our fault that your prepared room had a little accident so I wont charge you extra." The inn keeper smiled gently. "You girls should need some rest. I'll send the dinner up later."

Both girls thanked the innkeeper.

"Anzu-sama, we will wait for the rest of the troops to catch up so we can enter the palace. With the amount of soldiers we have now, we won't even make a proper entrance." Miho said.

"I have found out something today Miho." Anzu said.

"What is it?"

"Father's enemy is at death bed this very minute."

"What do you mean Anzu-sama?"

"The pharaoh is sick, that is why they made his son to take up the throne so hastily. The ceremony tomorrow is to choose the new pharaoh a wife and for him to take the throne." Anzu sighed.

"What will happen if the pharaoh dies?"

"His son should pay for his father's sin." Anzu narrowed her eyes.

Both of them took my mother away, my father's pride, my kingdom's freedom and power. It's their entire fault. Anzu though bitterly.

"Anzu-sama, what made you think they have to make us exchange the room?"

"I think their little accident has something to do with the military guards. I don't even think those guards the inn keeper was talking about are even guards."

"Why made you say that Anzu-sama?"

"Military guards don't live in inns like this crap place."

"Anzu-sama, please, your language!" Miho gasped.

Anzu rolled her eyes slightly, Miho, her childhood companion, her maid, her best friend although Miho always keep the relationship distinctly between master and servant. Anzu never treats Miho as a servant, but Miho on the other hand, always fuss like one.

Anzu sighed deeply. Tomorrow, she shall meet her faith.

Deep in the night, the inn's sleepers were awakened by a loud racket.

Without warning, the real military guards came up to Anzu's room.

"What in the world is going on here?" Miho demanded loudly.

"We are here under the order of the general that the thief Bakura and Marik is here in this room. Also, they have a girl with them with brown hair and blue eyes. She is one of the most wanted criminal around here. I demand you to give hand them to me!" A tall armored man stood out of the crowd with the spear pointing at Miho.

"I do not know what you are talking about, there's no criminal here. We have just arrived today and…" Miho began.

"Foreigners eh? Even more suspicious. Guards, seize this girl and look inside the room if anyone else is in there!"

"Yes, sir!"

The guards held on Miho tightly in their grasp as the rest rushed inside the room.

"Anzu-sama, run quickly! These obnoxious Egyptian guards are here to capture someone else for someone else but they think that person is you! Anzu-sama!" Miho yelled loudly.

Anzu has already woken up when she heard the heavy foot steps. She hid behind a thick curtain to see what is happening until she heard Miho arguing with the guards.

She quickly stepped out and tried to save Miho, but Miho kept telling her to escape.

"I demand an explanation this very minute! What is this all about?" Anzu yelled with an authority tone that the guards stopped on their spots.

"We are here under the order of the general about…"

"I heard that part so no need to repeat yourself. What I am demanding is a proper explanation on your intrusion into my room!" Anzu burst. "I am princess of Sierra, here on behalf of my father to meet with the pharaoh. How dare you show such disrespectfulness towards me!"

The guards paused a little while; they took a proper glance at Anzu, ignoring her order although they were a bit shocked at the tone of voice she used.

She looked exactly like the description they had for San, one of the most wanted criminal who work with the infamous thieves – Bakura and Marik.

"Capture her, she is the one who we are looking for." The captain ordered, ignoring Anzu's words.

Anzu took out fork-like sword and flipped away two spears that were aiming at her, threw them aside with a slight move of her wrist.

"Miho…" Anzu gave Miho a look, Miho understood it quite well what it means.

Miho flipped the guard who was holding her hands behind her back to the ground. She then flipped towards Anzu knocking two more guards down meanwhile.

"Do not underestimate women from Sierra." Anzu said quietly. (I just put Sierra as a name of a big tribe, a tribe that is so big it can make up a small country, Sierra here is not a country so I hope everyone understand that.)

"Let's go Anzu-sama." Miho said.

Both of them jumped down from the window to their left, making their way through the darkness and away from the shouts behind them.

"Miho, I think the guards with us are held down. Go and save them, we will meet at the gate of the palace. I need to get a demand from that pharaoh." Anzu said.

"Hai, Anzu-sama, please be careful." Miho left Anzu to distract the guards.

Anzu quickly moved to her right, opposite to Miho's direction. She rushed to the trail of a small river then turned upward. She heard shouts are getting nearer behind her. A hand suddenly shot out and pulled her into a dark corner with another hand to cover her mouth.

When she was about to struggle, a harsh whisper reached her ears, "Shh…shut up if you don't want them to catch you."

Anzu stopped her struggle; however, she disliked this man who is holding her too close for her own comfort.

'I'll deal with him later.' She thought.

After the guards passed by, a few minutes later, the person released her.

She quickly turned to him, flung her arms as fast as lightning to give him a slap across his face. However, it seemed he expected this, he merely took a step backward to avoid his face from been hit.

'What a fiery woman.' He smirked. 'I like…'

"Who the hell are you?" Anzu snapped.

"My, my, a fine woman like you shouldn't use language like that." He said.

"Show me your face."

The man stepped out from the shadow, Anzu gasped at the handsome face she saw. Amethyst eyes, tanned skin, broad shoulder, dark hair brimmed with red and gold bangs, golden jewels around his neck, his arms and his forehead.

"Are you satisfied to see such a handsome man like me?" He smirked more.

Anzu sweat dropped inside her head. "Sorry, I saw men who are more handsome than you."

"What, where are you from? I'm the handsomest man here in Egypt, you are suppose to know that if you are around here." The man's eyes widened in mockery as if he didn't believe her words.

Anzu ignored him and walked away but she was pulled back.

"I saved you, where is the thanks I am supposed to get?" the man looked at the fiery woman in front of him who only reached his collar bone. He liked this woman more and more.

"If you are asking for a night in bed, then the answer is no. if you want me to chop off your hand or any other parts of your body, I think I would like that." Anzu glared at him, if glare could kill, the man would have already been turned to a pile of melted flesh.

(Author: that's disgusting…)

The man laughed out loud. His face turned serious now, "I over heard that you are a criminal, namely San."

"For your information, my arrogant capturer, my name is not San, but Anzu." Anzu said.

"Anzu ka…?"

"Now that you know my name, aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

"Ah…forgive my rudeness, my name is Yami. Prince of the night if you want to call me by that name." Yami laughed some more. "But you do fit the description of the infamous San quite well."

"I'll pass. If I ever see that man who gave that stupid and non-specific description of the San you all are talking about, I'll swear I'll give him a piece of my mind!" Anzu stomped on the ground.

Yami lifted an eyebrow; he liked this girl more and more by the minute.

"I guess I shall help you."

"Don't tell me you are the general." Anzu's eyes turned sharp.

"No, of course not," Yami quickly denied. "The general is someone with blonde hair and jade eyes whose name is Jou. I, on the other hand, who is the prince of the night, help those who are in need."

"What will you do then? Go and give him a piece of your muscle?" Anzu said. "I doubt you have much on you anyway."

Yami choked on his saliva, "Excuse me, my dear lady, I'm the infamous man here who can faint any girl who looks at me."

"Except me."

"Well, except you yes, perhaps you are not a girl."

"I can tell you that I'm a woman inside and out. One more word, I'll skin you alive with these." Anzu pulled out her fork-knife in a second.

'Not bad…not bad at all.' Yami thought.

"I've decided."

"You decided what?"

"I want you." With that he turned around and left.

"And I want to tell you that we will never meet again."

"Why would that happen?" he said to her with his back towards her.

"I'm going to marry tomorrow. That's the reason I'm here."

"…" there was a pause, "We shall see about that. I promise you we will meet again."

He disappeared into the night.

Anzu snorted, she never wanted to see that face ever again. "Why that arrogant jerk!"

She turned back on her way to the gate of the palace. The sun began to rise and shone upon the fields and people of Egypt.

"Anzu-sama, are you alright?" Miho ran towards her direction as she saw Anzu's figure.

"I'm fine, where are the guards?"

"They are all here."

The guards were now bowing and apologizing unstopping with a thick rope around them. "We are sorry, we are sorry, please forgive us, please forgive us."

Anzu lifted an eyebrow.

"It seems like they weren't in the inn last night, I found them in a whore bar drinking."

Anzu narrowed her blue eyes. A light shown across it.

"Anzu-sama, please, we will never do this again!" each of the guards has at least five bruises across their faces or their body. Miho must have done this out of anger.

"Give me a proper reason." A demanding tone put a stop to all the cowardly whines.

"… …"

"If there's none," she turned to the captain. "Tell me what your purpose on this trip is?"

"To-to protect, to-to protect Anzu-sama…and-and her…her safety in…in Egypt" the captain stuttered.

Anzu narrowed her eyes. "Wrong, that was your purpose; your purpose is whoring and drinking here with these swines beside you."

"Anzu-sama, please forgive us…we…we…will not do it again!"

"Certainly not, of course, you will not do it again."

Anzu gave Miho a nod, Miho immediately understand what her mistress is saying.

Anzu left them so she can cool off. If she sends them back to her father, not only they will not receive punishment, they will laugh about her behind her back. What a lousy soldier! Even if she is a girl, her father expects her to be nothing to train and learn like a boy, even have her long brown hair cut.

She had done everything better than any of her brothers or men in court. Whether in fighting or learning, she almost became a man in everyone's eyes. However, when her figure as a woman decided to show, her father stopped her from doing all the activities she loved.

No more hunting, fishing, swimming in the river, or fighting, she had to stay indoors to learn how to do crafts, sew, dance and sing.

She doesn't know who her mother was; her father had so many wives Anzu was surprised that he didn't die from spending so much time with the women in bed. She loved her father, respected him and will do anything for him. Now that she finds out why her country is at a war with Egypt, all was because of her mother, who abandoned her so long ago.

Her father told her that her mother was the reason that he started to have so many wives. The rest she didn't heard because her heart was broken when she heard her mother was kidnapped by the pharaoh of Egypt.

Her father will never settle down or die peacefully if Egypt doesn't go down.

'Father, I'll get back mother for both of us and Egypt will go down for sure.' Anzu thought.

Miho came up behind her signaling the job is done. Both of them headed towards the public women bath to take a bath after all the sweating works. By the time they ate, cleaned and picked out their properties, it was afternoon. They hired a few personal guards, chosen by Anzu this time to carry their properties.

She arrived at the very gate of the palace; she had on a silvery blue sick sari-liked dress. Jewels hanging from her hair and a golden ring wrapped around her exposed right arm. Her left foot had five silver bells hanging around the ankle, singing at each step she made.

She gave a piece of papyrus paper towards a guard at the gate. The guard quickly ordered a few others to take cases from the personal guards. Anzu gave one of the chests to them, "share them fairly in front of these kind guards, if you kill, please remember what will happen."

After sharing their short journey, the personal guards realized how powerful Anzu was along with her maid, Miho. They all nodded and decided that they will do things fair and square for once.

The guards at the gate were surprised that the guards Anzu hired actually listened to her orders.

"Hey, aren't those the hired assassins?" one of the asked the gate guard beside him.

"Yes, hired by nobles only."

"What made them to share so fairly in front of us?"

No one can answer that.

The servants put Anzu's chests into the room she was assigned to, they were about to put scented oils on Anzu's skin, Anzu stopped them.

Despite of their complains that ladies in the court must have scented oil to attract men. Anzu ignored them all.

"Our Anzu-sama is born with natural jasmine scent. There's no need to scent her anyway." Miho explained to the servants after Anzu left the room.

Anzu and Miho stepped into the grand hall; they saw a lot of women were standing dutifully beside their personal maid at the side with their heads down.

"Anzu-sama, your scarf…" Miho reminded her.

Anzu pulled her scarf that ran half way around her head down to her legs to cover half of her face. She secured her scarf from falling with the pieces of jewelry on her hair.

She entered the hall like a spirits with her bells twinkling on the way.

She was the last to enter. Everyone stared at this woman who dared to be late at this time. Anzu kept her eyes down at her toes, walking gracefully towards the throne, talked with the tone of voice and attitude she would never use but in serious occasions.

"I apologize, my pharaoh," Anzu started, wanted to kill the man before her in her mind. "There was a little trouble on my way here."

The man before her had the coldest blue eyes and stiffest brown hair she had ever seen. His eyes narrowed at this woman. His glance signaled her to step down back to her supposed space.

Anzu turned and walked to a small reserved area that was filled with cushions and a small table with foods and drink on top of it. Miho kneeled beside her as soon as she reached there.

"Let the ceremony start." The pharaoh said.

"We have Princess of Saudi Arabia, she would like to perform a music performance." The Priest Shadi lifted a long paper calling names that the pharaoh had chosen to perform that night. No one knows who will be performing, they all have to prepare. One mistake and they are out.

(Author: would you all like to guess who is the pharaoh? Hahah Hahah…I'm imagining the person who is sitting on that throne's face now…veins popping, cursing a certain somebody and hands gripping hard on the throne with his ears throbbing because he is annoyed with the annoying music the princess playing.)

The ceremony goes on with the list until finally, the last one.

"Princess Anzu Mazaki of Sierra step forward please."

At this moment, another face popped out behind the thick curtain behind the throne.

The pharaoh sent a deadly glare towards that person. A 'cheese' was the reply.

They both turned towards the last person who was supposed to perform. They both sighed deeply for they are tired of these performances.

Anzu put eight long, gold rings on all her fingers except the thumbs, she put on two more strings of bells that were smaller than the echoing bells on her left ankle on her hair. The strings reached her back.

Miho took out a linked drum and a board with keys like metal on top of it. She also had two sticks to knock the instruments with.

These instruments were seldom seen around these places, maidens who fascinated with music looked at the instruments with interest.

Some whispers rises among the crowd.

"What can she do with such small amount of music?"

"Those instruments are rare around here."

"What is she going to do?"

"Yea, she was late so she was not able to announce her choice of performance to the priest."

"Why the pharaoh chooses her anyway?"

"Silence!" the pharaoh roared in irritation though no one knew that, they thought he was angry for they were chattering instead of allowing the performance to start. "Princess Anzu, please proceed. I hope you will entertain me well."

Anzu bowed and she walked towards the center stage.

"My pharaoh, if you go disappearing on me again, I'll personally skin you alive." The pharaoh whispered to the person beside him who was smirking.

"My, my pharaoh, I'll just use Shadi next time instead of you my dear cousin." The person replied also in whispered.

"Where were you this time?"

"Sparring with Jou."

"That mutt, I'm going to…"

"Seth, the show is starting, pay attention."

"Atemu, I mean it, you almost gave everyone heart attack here. Besides, these so call entertainments are irritating me."

"Now, do you know how I feel?" Atemu giggled lowly.

"I do, I've felt it long ago, but you are the pharaoh, it's your responsibility. You just got your throne this morning and now you are…" Seth growled then sighed.

"Ah, silence…this is the last one Seth, just one more, hang in there, I'm here you know." Atemu's eyes turned to the maiden at the center stage.

"Yes, my lord."

All eyes are on Anzu.

Author: all finish for now, something is going to happen next chapter so please review and support this story.