Royals and Thieves
By Youkiyra Solar alias Krystal Fox
Krystal Fox: Let the story begin!!!! Oh and Nothing of Yu-Gi-Oh Belongs to me it is all the creators of Yu-Gi-Oh to whom the original characters belong
Bakura: Save me!!! The authoress is going to be killing me save me!!
Krystal fox: no I am only going to have you kill your dad ....I should let the fans read the story.
Chapter 3 The beginning of the Tomb robber
Bakura turned and went inside. And then.
"Bakura just your self in here right now!!!" Bakura winced at his father's cruel voice that was yelling at him.
He slowly and cautiously went into the living room that had been turned into a workshop. He felt as if he knew what was going to happen for it happened far too often that he felt of remembering. Entering the dilapidated room he looked and saw his father bending over a table tapping his fingers impatiently for him to come in.
Bakura walked in and sat in the fetal position on a stool near his father and asked barely above a whisper, "Yes."
"Stupid son," Bakura winced at those words. "Where did you put the jewels you last stole that you gave me they are not here." He demanded.
"You sold them to some black market traders yesterday." Bakura said truthfully.
"YOU LIAR!!! You took them yourself and took them from me. For that you shall pay!!!!" Bakura's fears rose to their highest peak yet.
His father came at his with a rod and thwacked him across the temple leaving a bloodly trail of red in its wake. Bakura reeled at the force of attack and fell off the stool and lay stunned in shock at what just happened to him. Then his father lifted him up off the ground and rammed his head through the glass window of the living room. Bakura felt the pain of glass tearing into his skin.
His father then using shadow powers imprinted in his mind a command that he would have to do eventually. "Bakura I order you to always steal and steal the golden mirror of truth, after you have completed this Kill the Pharaoh.." This command was so imprinted in his mind that it was all he could think of was these two commands. He reeled from the force of mental power his father put in it. That he didn't notice a blur of brown come flying from outside and attack his father making him drop the wounded thief.
Darkness consumed him and he knew no more.
While he lay there, a small yet fierce fur-ball was massacring his master's father, chomping on his behind till the man rose and whapped him off then the man rose and fled out the door, and down alleyways to escape the vicious little ball. But not without a reminder of it, two huge scars were left from the Kureibos claws down his right side of face, and a leg that was left bleeding and most embarrassing a large imprint of a Kurebos teeth him his rear.
Trist (Bakura's kureibo) went walking over to his blood-matted master and whimpered.
"Kree Kree Hurt Hurt. Kura , Kura, Master Hurt." the little ball cried over and over again. In Bakura's dreams he unconsciously activated his change of heart card.
Change of heart came out and seeing the ball and her master immediately was upset.
"Kree Kree fix? Fix?" the Kurebo asked her and she nodded and began to work.
Kneeling brushed away the glass from Bakura and began the cautious job of glass pieces out of her master. Once all the pieces were out she carefully, (She is stronger then she looks) lifted her master and began to take him to his secret place, a place that Bakura fled to in his father's worst fits of rage.
Heart carried her master with the greatest of care and gently laid him down and placed his head on her lap. Began to wash Bakura's face and neck till he woke.
Bakura woke and felt the pain of his attacks coming back and he immediately wished he were in the land of darkness so that the pain would go away. Then noticed gentle slender hands brushing his hair from his face and washing his wounds.
"Master are you feeling better?" Heart asked in a voice that sounded a lot like his mother's. He just nodded then gasped for air as Trist jumped upon his chest knocking the air out of him.
"Trist be careful!" Heart scolded.
Getting his air back smiled, "So this little fur ball's name is Trist. Welcome to my life Trist. Heart my father had Shadow skilled an order into my mind."
Heart flinched. To shadow skill an order is to command a person to do something and they will either die doing it or go against it for the rest of their lives trying not to do it.
Rage filtered into her eyes and she slipped down and knelt beside his bed and asked , "Oh Bakura what did that Slime-dirt-rubbish order you to do?"
"He wants me to steal Yami's mirror of truth and then kill him. I can't do that, no I can't he is my best friend. And what about the time oracle in the truth mirror? With that my father would change the past so that I woe never have met Yami. Oh what am I to do?"
Heart looked sad then took the prone figure into her arms gently rubbing his back as he was in her hug , he relaxed feeling that he was in his mother's arms and listened to her proposition.
"Bakura, the only thing I see that you can do is to stay far away from Atem, far enough away that it would be impossible to even obey this command and it would grow dormant and once again you could return that is the only thing I see that you can do to save your friend."
Bakura realizing that this was his only alternative, small tears clung to the corners of his eyes.
"Where shall we go?"
"How about over in the Euphrates Valley, there is a kingdom there that you could live in fact that is where I came from before you found me." Heart said as she remembered her own past there as she had grown up.
"Then we shall go there."
Bakura recovered slowly his wounds were still sore when he left, Heart changed into a form that made her look like a human, with them a small fur ball stood protectively beside it's master.
Bakura sadly left Egypt and went east deep into the country of Canaan then past that to the Tigris and Euphrates river. There he found a good place to build and built a small simple home.
As he continued living there he noticed that there were more tombs here then even in Egypt! One night when the moon was full he went to go inside one of these tombs curious about what was in them even though the locals said it was unlucky to disturb the dead.
Going through the dark entrance he went deeper and went down many stairs, turned left and right finding many rooms some empty still, waiting to claim a dead body when the time came. Bakura turned around and realized that he had no clue which way was out!
"Damn it by the god Ra why did I not pay attention!!" Bakura began to silently curse himself.
He went wandering about the tunnels for what he recounted as hours upon hours. He came upon a beam of light and went to it, then froze the beam of light landed on a large upraised bed. It had on it a large skeleton, which was richly decorated with jewels and strings of gold and silver. This person was very rich it had chests of gold coins and precious gems all around on the floor on shelves of the wall, everywhere! Looking up saw sky through the hole in dirt.
Bakura not wanted to waste his trip through this blasted hole of a tomb and stuffed many jewels and much gold coins into his pocket. He shook off his superstitions and climbed up upon the platform kicking the bones off the platform he took the space and used it for jumping up and grabbing some roots beside the hole, after swinging himself to a better position and having grabbed another root, began to dig the hole bigger. He dug and dirt kept getting in his face.
"Put owe, pt, pt" as he spit dirt of his mouth. , "I should make a career out of this a tomb robber. I like that idea and as soon as I get out of this blasted hole and get sleep, food and a good scolding from Heart I will decide if a Tomb robber is the thing for me."
After much more dirt in the mouth and in his clothes he pulled him self out of the hole into the fresh air. He was to his surprise only 5 feet from the entrance he had walked in through.
"Why of all the blasted de DA , oh Ra I curse you Why did I have to be in there so long?" He grumbled and dusted him self off and went back to his home to find Trist and Heart looking very worried.
"Bakura where have you been!? You have been missing for over 4 days!" Heart demanded worriedly.
"Wow that is why I am so hungry and tired." To add action to that motion he nearly collapsed to the ground from fatigue.
Heart grabbing him sat him on the couch he had bought and brought out some left over soup to him.
As he sat there was a rapping on the door, neighbors were calling. With rapping on the door, heart went to answer it. (Here the townsfolk believed Bakura and Heart to be brother and sister. Heart was known as Heartens)
"Heartens bad news the worst of its kind, the gods tombs have been disturbed and their curses will soon spread over the land. The blacksmith found that the air hole to Murdock has been widened and now Murdock has been predicted to spread disease across the land. The village is leaving the area, if you wish you and your brother may come with us, we are heading to the safety of Egypt." the distraught neighbor hammered out.
"I am sorry but we can not go, for you see we were exiled from Egypt and may not return till the present Pharaoh dies. But go in peace and safety. We shall brave Murdock's curse we must." Heart said having a suspicion about who disturbed the tomb.
The neighbor nodded and quickly left and went to join the leaving caravan. Closing the door Heart went to Bakura who was falling asleep, shaking him awake and putting the empty soup bowl to a side .
"Hm, What?" A sleepy eyed thief said looking up at Heart's honey colored hair.
"Bakura did you steal and disturb that tomb?"
"Which tomb?" He said laying down atop Trist who made a fabulous pillow.
"Murdock's tomb silly."
"Oh you mean the tomb with lots of gold and treasure and a stupid skeleton that looked over dressed?"
"Yes!"
"Yes I went in that one. It was my only way out of that bloody blasted tomb. By Ra I curse that tomb and its stupid mazes. Even though I am going to steal from the tombs like that, I enjoyed it and am going to continue it."
Heart shook her head and sighed. Leaving him went to the window and wondered how life was doing over in Egypt and how the young Pharaoh was doing with out his best friend there to give rest and peace.
Atem shook his head, what happened? Two days ago he went with Hrist (His kurebo) to see Bakura. The house was abandoned and looked like it had been broken into. He couldn't figure it out, Trist was suppose to protect Bakura to point of death. But where was his friend?
Hrist had gone around the courtyard saying "Kree Kree gone gone, Kree kree Gone Gone" in a very melancholy voice.
Yami turned as Chaos and Magician Girl came into the room, "Any sign of him anywhere?"
Chaos shook his head. "We have looked everywhere, even Father (Magician Sage) helped look. Bakura is not in Egypt. The only answer is that he left Egypt for some reason."
"What about Reshtu, do you know where he is?" Yami asked, desperation in his eyes.
"He is with the thieves and the only thing I can do is try to find out who Bakura's mother's (Trilariana) side of the family is and hope he went to them." Chaos stated. "Dark is already searching in the library. Oh and Merric and Seth wish to speak with you. In the truth room. About what I do not know."
Yami nodded and left the room his Egyptian robes flowing behind him as he went quickly through the halls, he noticed the many blushing girls and females that he passed as they whispered about him as he went by. All the girls were fawning over him, infact every girl in Egypt had "fallen in love" with the young handsome Pharaoh. He hated it.
Arriving at the gates watched as Shadow beasts were changing shifts it was a terrifying thing to see. But he knew each one of them and how to make them smile, he walked past smirking that he could make each and every one of these terrifying things crack. Into the long hallways he went guarded by many Shadow beasts. Arriving at the main hall met Seth and Merric they were waiting.
"Your majesty." said his highest Lord of the land. Seth acknowledged his presence with a curt nod that only Yami let him get away with. The great magician Priest motioned them all to go forward. entering the two objects in the room were glowing.
They gathered round.
"Pharaoh, My lord Merric, this oracle" He motioned to the ball of crystal beside the mirror of Truth, "has revealed to me a piece of future that disturbs me greatly. It shows you Yami wounded and ill and at the hands of our enemies, then it changes to showing you a cruel leader of this nation. Then again changes to show you crying without another thought, over something in the shadows. I fear the meaning of these predictions." Seth said his voice doing the best to hid his fear.
"As do I," Merric said fear in his eyes. "It predicts something but we can not know what it would mean."
"the only thing we can do then is to wait." .........The three went into longer conversations and talked for hours till the Pharaoh's duties made him have to leave. He went first to the temple where he was supposed to lead his people in worship of Ra, Knut, Kata, Nefte, Hesmet, and more. Though most was spent in worship of Ra.
Yami went animatedly through all the motions ignoring that more females came to the temple every week then usually and he could figure out why too. Even Magician (Dark Magician Girl) had admitted that he had quite grown up and looked ruggedly handsome. He had grown very tall in fact to everyone's surprise he had grown to the height of Seth's shoulder before the year's end. He also was more often in the public eye.
Returning to his room he was physically and mentally exhausted but his duties were not finished, tonight was the celebration of the defeat of the Hyskos a people that he had destroyed completely with his armies two weeks before and he himself had killed their king.
Now his soldiers were wanting to honor their Pharaoh by celebrating their enemy's defeat by having a banquet with him.
He sighed, in truth he enjoyed being among the soldiers for he felt almost as one of them when with them. He changed to his battle clothes and went outside with his guards and Chaos to the party. In the courtyard his men gave a deafening cheer as he entered. Yami smiled then went through the mass soldiers and sat in the seat of honor and ate and drank with his men enjoying this part of his life.
Neither he nor any of the partiers noticed the dark figure of a soldier accused of deserting the army in battle so lost his high rank and was beat 45 lashes for doing so. His name was Artemis, he hated the Pharaoh, and he would kill the Pharaoh.
Getting closer acted more normal , just as much as other soldiers and silently slipped past the body guards of the Pharaoh, a shiny object came out of his pocket and everything else seemed to go faster and slower then time expected and Artemis found himself being drug off the Pharaoh and the soldiers furious that their leader was hurt became a mob and got hold of Artemis and he was torn limb from limb.
Chaos knelt and looked at his master his eyes were closed and he looked ill. A dagger protruding from his stomach. Chaos gathered him up and left with now a silent troops awaiting the news of how their leader was. They sat there waiting hoping that the warrior Chaos would tell them that their leader was fine when he returned.
Atem was laid down upon the bed as Seth, Merric, Dark and Magician came rushing in and waited to be told by Chaos what they could do.
Silence filled the air as Chaos gave orders of what should be done.
Yami dreamt of darkness and pain.
Far away Heart from a dream of terror feeling feelings of absolute hatred and also of absolute worry. Bakura woke with a shout and screamed "YAMI!!!" He woke quickly and ran to the door then realizing he was no longer in Egypt. He had dreamt of his friend dying, without him there.
He went to the table and his put his face deep into his hands his shoulders trembling, knowing if his order that his father gave him that he would kill Yami even if he didn't want to do. Oh what was he going to do?"
Heart turned her eyes towards the west longing in her glance, feeling pain that she could not comfort someone she cared for so far away.
Bakura soon asleep at the table went into restless sleep that even Heart no heart to leave him in, kept waking him.
What would happen next? What happened to Yami? Would Bakura's Shadow command ever go away to free him to leave to Egypt once again.
Krystal Fox: Hope you liked it Write more later.
Bakura: Why must you torture me?
Krystal Fox: Torture you Yami is the one hurt now not you! Heart healed you now but Yami still has a knife in him!
Bakura: Yes but for how long till you hurt me?
Krystal Fox: If you keep this up then it will be sooner Prince of Thieves
Bakura: I AM NOT A PRINCE!!
Krystal Fox: Yes you are now know that is your mother's family...Oops I am not supposed to be telling future chapters well bye everyone.