HD: Well here's chapter 4!
COH: HD dose not own Yu-Gi-Oh, whch is a shame.
Cole: pft.
Bea: just start the Ra-damned chapter!
Chapter 4
Ryou tried to push his way through the crowed of people. Tonight was the last night that Prince Yugi would be staying in the kingdom, tomorrow he would be leaving to Egypt to marry the Pharaoh, and Ryou, Malik, Amaya and Jou were going with him. Ryou was currently trying to find Malik and Jou so they could get back to the palace and finish packing. So far he had found neither hid or hair of the two. A drunken man stumbled back and almost hit Ryou.
'Where in Ra's name are they?' Ryou climbed onto an empty seat and looked over the crowd's heads. It would be easy to spot the two, as Jou and Malik had unusual blonde hair while everyone ells had brown or black. Ryou himself had odd white hair.
"Ryou is that?" Ryou looked down to see Malik standing next to the seat.
"I've been looking everywhere for you! Where have you been? Where's Jou?"
"Jou's at the food stall of course." Ryou jumped down from the seat and joined Malik as they pushed their way through the crowed too the food store, were sure enough Jou was, stuffing his face. He looked up at the two and grinned.
"Where have you guys been? You have to try the pork-"Malik and Ryou each grabbed one of his arms and dragged him away back to the palace. They climbed the staircase and down the hall to Yugi's bedchambers. Ryou knocked and waited for a faint.
"Come in." They opened the door and saw Yugi sitting on his window seat, wiping his bloodshot eyes. "H-hey guys."
"Yugi, what's wrong?" Ryou hurried over to the young prince and hugged him comfortingly.
"It's nothing Ryou. So are you guys ready?" Ryou gave him a look that clearly stated he didn't believe him but answered all the same.
"We have a few last minute things but we're pretty much packed."
"Ok." Yugi climbed down from the seat. "Need any help?"
"No."
"Not really."
"No thanks." Yugi nodded and walked towards the door.
"I'll take a bath then. Good night."
"Good night Yugi." The three left his chambers and went back to their own. On Ryou's way back to his chambers he ran into Amaya. Amaya was average hight with long tri-colour hair, black with dark gold tips and blonde bangs and glassy golden eyes.
"Amaya, what are you doing up so late?" Ryou asked.
"I went to get some food, where are you going?"
"To finish packing." Amaya nodded when voices drifted down the corridor. Not wanting to get caught, Amaya grabbed Ryou's arm and pulled him behind a pillar. The voices and footsteps got louder and King Sugoroku and Lord Ichiro, Amaya's father, came into view.
"I'm not so sure my King, if sending Amaya is a god choice, she's rather, out there, and she constantly needs to be watched, what if she offends the Pharaoh?" Ichiro asked. He and Amaya looked nothing alike, Ichiro's hair was short and dark brown and his eyes were pale grey.
"I know my Lord, but she and Yugi are close friends and I would rather he had more familiar people around him in Egypt, besides she'll be back here after the wedding."
"Dose she know that?"
"No, but Ryou, Malik and Jou will be coming back also…" They turned a corner and their voices faded. Amaya looked rather angry and was glaring at the spot her father once was. Ryou looked rather sad at the thought of having to leave Yugi.
"I can't believe their doing this." Amaya hissed quietly.
"But we are under the king's command, we can't disobey him." Ryou sighed.
"I'm not talking about us leaving, I'm talking about the fact that he's raising Yugi's hopes into believing we'll be staying then breaking them by taking us away. He's such a, such a horse's ass!" Ryou gaped at Amaya; no one insulted the King, even behind his back.
"Amaya, that's rather harsh don't you think? The King must have good reasons."
Amaya rolled her glassy eyes and stood up. "Giving your only grandson to a complete stranger isn't a 'good reason'." She stormed of leaving Ryou to think over the conversation between the Lord and King and what Amaya had said. Maybe the King wasn't so great.
The next day bought sweltering sun and clear skies. The team to take Yugi to the palace were packing last minute things. For safety reasons, in case of bandits, Malik and Yugi had swooped out fits and Yugi had, amazingly, gotten his spiky hair into a lather strap making a strange pony tail. Malik was dressed in a purple royal outfit and riding coat, the hood pulled over his face so no one could guess he actually wasn't the prince, and rode Yugi's white mare. Yugi wore common cloths of white material and a dark blue riding coat with the hood up and road Malik's chestnut stallion, Ryou road his grey stallion and Amaya road her dark brown mare. Amaya gave cold looks to both the King and her father, who stood waving them off. A guard rode over to the group of four.
"It is time to go, my Prince." Yugi nodded, said his finally goodbyes and rode of. Yugi, Ryou and Amaya rode around Malik, to make it look as though he were the Prince. By dusk the four were sore from riding and bored out of their minds. Until…
"BANDITS!" a lookout guard yelled. The four were led away from the carriage by two guards as several bandits came roaring down to the group. Two of the bandits rode over to them, Malik pulled out a sword from his belt and quickly handed it to Amaya, as 'Princes' weren't meant to fight and Ryou could never defend them. As one of them reached out for Malik Amaya swung the sword and sliced the man's ear of. Ryou felt his stomach turn as the ear and man fell to the ground, wailing in agony of having his ear cut off.
"COME ON!" Amaya yelled, slicing another man's hand as he reached for Malik. Ryou urged his petrified horse forward, following Amaya as she made a path through the fighting men. "MALIK!" That was the last thing Ryou heard Amaya scream as something hard hit his head and he blacked out…
TBC…
HD: sorry I haven't updated!
COH: and Ryou is NOT dead.
Bea: HAHA! He got his ear cut of!
Cole: and by a girl. How humiliating.
Bea: that just proves females are better than males.
Cole: right.
COH: thanks to Hedwig-the-MilleniumOwl and Sarah Costa! You guys get Prince Yugi plushies!
HD: please review and Thanks!
COH: Ja Ne!
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