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Yukiko shows ...
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In Kemet (Egypt), Atemu ...
Chapter 4 - Sea and Egypt
He agrees and she flies towards a mountain with the boy seeing that there was a considerable clearing. He sees from the top a beautiful and exuberant waterfall that had in its surroundings a beautiful flowered field.
It lands gently on the ground and Yuugi descends from the saddle looking in amazement at the various butterflies that flew in that field, in addition to seeing deer, rabbits and other animals. When you approach the lake that was formed by the water of the waterfall and whose contents flowed into a river whose course moved away from the place.
As he tilts his head to see the water mirror, he catches sight of beautiful fish while Yukiko assumed his human form to approach him.
"How did you like this place?" She asks as she follows her friend's gaze.
"It's beautiful!
"I saw him on one of my flights and was looking forward to showing you. You need to see this place during the night preferably on a beautiful night with a full moon. It becomes mystical."
"I want to see you at night."
"When it's a full moon, I'll show you."
Then, they sit in the flower garden and Yuugi observes that Yukiko raises her hand to the sky with her fingers shining and as she does so it starts to snow on them with the young man taking the beautiful ice crystals in his hands as well as the fluffy snow and cold.
Then, after a few minutes she ceases her magic and when she sees her friend being happy she smiles too. The albino used to invoke the snow where she lived so that they could make snowmen after showing him what a snowman was in addition to making snowball wars.
Sometimes, the albino invoked only the ice crystals that amazed Yuugi for the intricate shape they had, together with the ice creatures she created and enchanted him.
They relax in the room for a few hours until they prepare to leave.
Yukiko assumes her true form and Yuugi climbs into the saddle with her taking to the sky.
Then, while in the air, he looks to the right and sees a gigantic portion of water that never seemed to end.
"That is a strange lake, Yukiko." He asks with evident curiosity on his face.
She follows his gaze and explains. The albino always wanted to know how she had so much knowledge and what came when needed.
"And the sea."
"Sea?"
"A gigantic portion of salt water with strong currents that is lost on the horizon. You won't be able to see the limits, Yuugi." She adds when she sees that he seems to be struggling to see something making her smile at his innocence.
"Wow! This is amazing!". Then he remembers what she said "What do you mean salty?"
"Well, you better have a little taste. But I advise you to just moisten your tongue."
She turns her body and flies towards the ocean, gradually lowering her flight as she approaches the water mirror without touching it with her body while extending one of her fingers to collect some water through the curvature of one of her claws. .
After collecting a little water she extends it to Yuugi, who wets her finger and who after tasting it makes a grimace of disgust on her face with Yukiko laughing slightly at the face that the young man displayed.
"This is salty." She responds kindly.
"Why is the water salty?"
The dragon is surprised when the answer comes to her mind.
"This salt arises from coastal rocks. Seawater wears off coastal rocks like that." She points to one of the several rocks that surrounded that coastline "They fragment over time, dividing into small particles, including the mineral salts present in these rocks causing them to be carried by the ocean."
Yuugi gapes and asks what minerals and particles were with her explaining gently. Yukiko also answers other questions that arose from her explanation until her friend is satisfied.
"You know so many things! It's incredible!" He exclaims excitedly.
"I don't know how I hold this knowledge. It comes to my mind ..." She has an idea and smiles as she looks at him "Do you want to see the bottom of the sea?"
"The bottom?"
"Yes."
"I would love to! But I don't want to try the salt water again."
"I don't want to either, and to solve this problem I have the right magic. Come on!"
The albino begins the descent to dive into the water.
"Do you know how to swim, Yukiko?" He asks with evident concern on her face.
"No. But I have the means to move around in the water. It is not the first time that I have done this."
Yuugi realizes that he is wrapped in the same bubble as before in an ellipse and that her friend's body seemed to glow with him, swearing that he saw ice crystals covering her coat as well as her wings.
The dragon enters the surface and begins to dive with him noticing that she used her wings and tail to move in the water while the young man was fascinated by the fish he saw while seeing other beings with Yukiko answering what was each one of them.
The boy had been amazed to see turtles, corals, reefs, octopuses and sharks. The latter terrified him because he saw his sharp fangs and was fascinated by the knowledge she showed about that animal and the others.
Yuugi confessed that he was amazed by that different environment.
After a few minutes he realizes that she deepens the dive with the boy seeing that her friend seemed to be looking for something and when she was going to ask what she was looking for the child notices the smile of satisfaction that appeared in her jaws, starting to hear a sound that reminded her a corner and that was projected by the kind of sphere that surrounded it.
"What is it?" He asks with visible curiosity in the face of her.
"It is the song of the whales. It is a form of communication between them."
"Whales? Is it a fish?"
"No. It is a mammal like you and me." She had explained what mammals were to her friend some time ago by commenting that she did not lay eggs like other dragons.
He is stunned to see the beautiful animals swimming gracefully despite being large. The boy realized that they were very docile with the albino noticing his friend's dumbfounded expression, probably due to the size of the whales and he smiled to himself.
"They are beautiful, right?"
"Yes. And the singing is very soft. Are they really mammals, Yukiko?"
"That's right. They're not fish. Do you want to stroke them? I'm going to modify the sphere to allow you to touch them."
He shows a huge smile for her and stretches out his hand when he realizes that the translucent sphere shone slightly and is fascinated to feel the smooth skin and as he stroked it confirmed the fact that they were docile.
Then, dolphins appear that start to surround them with the young man being fascinated with the sounds that they made and that they seemed to play around them.
"They are dolphins, Yuugi."
"They are fish, right?"
"No. Mammals."
"Are they mammals too? This is amazing!"
"Below us is the abyssal Zone." Yukiko comments.
"Abyssal zone?"
She explains what the term was.
"It's like it's another world, so to speak. There are many beings in bizarre ways. If I want to meet you, I can take you. I'm using magic and I can intensify it to deal with the extreme pressure at that level by adding use of the vision shared with you so that you can see the beings that inhabit that place because it is a very dark place for the vision of humans. Do you want to know the Abyssal Zone? "
He is thoughtful and then nods, making her smile as she gradually submerges herself into the darkest part of the ocean and after a few minutes they reach the depths of the ocean with Yukiko using magic to share his vision with his friend so he can see in that darkness as if it were day. Yuugi is appalled by the beings he saw because they seemed to have emerged from a nightmare making him cringe.
"Can they go up to the surface?" He asks with evident concern in his countenance and voice.
"No. Their bodies can only cope with the intense pressure from that part of the ocean. If they try to emerge they will die. So they only survive in that place."
"What about you? Isn't the pressure hurting you?"
"I am using magic so that we can deal with the overwhelming pressure that wishes to act against us."
Yuugi confessed that he was very afraid of beings until he remembers Yukiko's words. She would always protect him and never expose him to a dangerous situation. If her friend took him to that place, it was because she could keep him safe and with that thought, the young man with tricolored hair relaxes, unconditionally trusting her.
After some time they finish the dive and ascend to the surface out of the sea. Yuugi noted that it was dry when the kind of translucent bubble around it disappeared.
"I didn't want to have my hair and wings soaked. So I used magic to protect my body from water and then I used another one to deal with the intense pressure, reinforcing it whenever we dived." She explains smiling as if she had read his mind.
He is surprised to smile later.
Yukiko decides to fly over the ocean with her friend smiling when she sees the dolphins jumping on the surface. The boy also sees some whales going up to the surface and then turning the body, watching the splash of water coming out of a kind of hole near their head.
Upon seeing that, he asks what that splash was with the dragon replying gently while trying to understand where his knowledge came from.
She returns to the forest adjacent to Yuugi's village with him assimilating the knowledge that they were far away because they took a considerable time to return to the sacred forest when the young man looks at the sun. In fact, the flight took several hours.
The dragon gently lands and he descends from it while the albino made the magic saddle disappear and it takes on its human form.
Then they arranged other flights with the boy realizing that she was genuinely happy to have him on her flight.
Yuugi decided to go fishing with Yukiko fishing with him, before the boy returned to the village to assist his father in his priesthood services and while fishing for the albino he decides to tell about her dream about the boy, listening carefully to the story.
"I also believe they were memories of your past. Don't you remember anything else? Didn't a name or something come up in your dream?" Yuugi asks after the albino finishes describing his dreams.
"Not." The albino speaks crestfallen after sighing.
"One day, you will remember! Believe me, friend!" He exclaims excitedly, wishing to pass on confidence to her, who smiles in agreement.
"I will believe this, Yuugi."
"Know that I will help you in any way I can! It is a promise!" He exclaims showing determination in her eyes making her surprised by Yukiko smiling while consenting with her head showing emotion in her eyes.
They talk about other subjects and from that day on, they always repeated the flight and visited the place with the lush waterfall with it showing him at night making his friend marvel at the reflection of the moon in the crystal clear water and the countless fireflies that flew around of them with some landing in his hands that amused himself to see them.
In Kemet (Egypt) located hundreds of kilometers from where they were, more precisely in the royal palace of that empire there was a young man three years older than Yuugi and whose hair resembled his with red tips instead of purple with the addition of some golden threads that ascended in the black threads. This young man had red orbs and golden brown skin.
This boy wore a stylized solid gold crown with elaborate reliefs containing some precious jewels studded on its surface. He wore necklaces and bracelets made of pure gold that lay around his neck, legs and wrist while he had robes that covered his torso below the knee leaving his arms out. He also wore pure gold earrings with his Ankh symbol on his ears.
He was on the wide balcony of his spacious and luxurious room with his arms supported on the balusters that surrounded him looking beyond the horizon while remembering the dream he had, in this case, of a boy who had spiky hair like him and who was smaller .
However, it was only possible to see the figure and when she tried to approach it, it moved away.
This boy's name was Atemu and he was not a simple nobleman. He was a crown prince who would inherit the throne of the vast and imposing Empire of Kemet since his father was Pharaoh with the people seeing their parent as a God on earth for being the son of the Sun God, Re (Ra), possessing thus divine authority and judgment.
The young prince remembered the dream he had since he was a minor and when he touched his parent's Sennensui (Sennen Pazuru) out of curiosity with his permission and after having the dream about this figure his dreams involving this mysterious child became a little more clear with him realizing that he was a boy and that his hair was spiked, in addition to the amethyst eyes being large and expressive. Those eyes were like two precious stones for Atemu.
After all, amethyst was a precious stone that was much appreciated in Kemet and associated with the Pharaohs, and seeing the boy with such precious eyes encouraged the young prince too much.
He also could see that the child's skin was pale, remembering the color of ivory and that it was distinct from the skin of his people and making him imagine that it must be someone from far away explaining that exotic skin tone by Egyptian standards. It was the same with his childhood friends, Jounouchi, Honda and Ryo. The different names and the distinctive appearance were brought about by their mothers who were Asian while his parents were noble Egyptian childhood friends of Pharaoh who when visiting a kingdom in Asia met them and fell in love with them with them moving to Kemet.
As they took on the exotic skin color of their mothers, their parents wished to name their loved ones' homeland with them by choosing names.
In the case of Jounouchi's parents, they had a daughter who was younger than the blond and who inherited the hair color of the late maternal grandmother and since her skin was as light as that of her brother and mother, the parent had decided that she would have one. different name just like the brother.
So the name chosen was Shizuka because it was the same name as the maternal grandmother.
Her father wanted to keep her untouched forever and to accomplish that goal he would receive the help of his eldest son with both of them deciding to scare off any man who dared approach her when she got older.
The prince never told his father about his recurring dream and limited himself to telling his dreams to his closest friends and among them was Mahaado, a young apprentice wizard who stood out in the empire as being very skilled and equally powerful.
He was even close to overcoming the wizard who taught magic and who was the same wizard who taught magic to Atemu and to a small child named Mana who was saved from slavery by Mahaado when he bought her from a merchant and then freed her with her attending classes with them.
The prince told Mahaado of his dream in search of help to understand it after he offered to keep it a secret. It was the same for Jounouchi, Honda and Ryo. Atemu didn't tell Shizuka because he didn't have much contact with her.
After all, although she was his friend she was not on the list of his closest friends other than the fact that she was very young.
In relation to Mana, she was younger than Shizuka and therefore could not help him even being on the list of his closest friends.
The reason he did not want his parent to know about her recurring dream was because his beloved father had many obligations and worries and did not need an additional one, just the eventual problems of the vast and prominent empire that was the Kemet.
While Atemu was thoughtful trying to remember any more details. a voice takes him out of his reflective state. It was his personal servant who fell down, leaning his forehead on the floor.
"Iry-pat (Crown Prince), Per'a'ah (Pharaoh) awaits you at the entrance to the palace."
"Let him know that I will come to your meeting." He speaks after sighing.
"With your license, Iry-pat". She speaks in a humble voice.
Atemu was going to answer something until she remembers one of her father's lessons and merely makes a gesture with her right hand dismissing her. He was aware that he urgently needed to train his conduct and voice in public because divine authority and a steady pulse were needed to maintain control and organization of the vast and powerful empire that was the Kemet.
The Crown Prince was aware that he needed to learn soon to put on the mask of a Pharaoh and God in public just as his father did.
After seeing the gesture she still walks away with her back to the door only turning around when she leaves the room closing the double doors behind her while the boy sighed because his father was too sad that day and that was leaving him worrying.