Wow! I can't believe it's been a year and a half since I last updated this story. Sorry for making you wait more than year for I got completely busy with my school days and other hobbies that I couldn't find enough time to type this up.
P.S. Every time I wrote a chap, I first record it in a notebook that serves as my original copy then type it up in the computer after editing or finalizing the chap.
To my beloved readers, thank you for having a long patience. I really am glad to have you and you're the reason for having me continue this story. I love your reviews and making this story as one of your faves. Thanks a lot!
Note: The future chaps of this story maybe rated T, for it has some scenes that is not suitable for young kids. ^_^
As the gang was walking through the halls of the palace, Atem called a servant to accompany his friends to their rooms. "Sorry guys, I have to go. I'm scheduled to meet someone, please take a rest first and we'll just meet this evening. Bye", the gang agreed and was escorted by the servant to their rooms.
When the servant stopped, they open their rooms. When it was opened, they saw a wide fluffy bed, a big comfortable sofa, a cr(comfort room) and a window with a plain white curtain which matches perfectly with the golden yellow wall. It is a room that a person called "paradise". Their eyes widened as they saw those things and as soon as the servant was gone, they all jumped straight to their beds and immediately fell asleep.
A few minutes later…Yugi as well as Joey, Duke and Tristan felt uncomfortable, not because they don't like their rooms but because of the reason that the heat of the sun was directly hitting them as well as the clothes they wear make them feel more uncomfortable.
At first they tried to rest again but after a few seconds they gave up, "Argh! Ok that's it. It's really hot in here…I better go outside." Joey said angrily as he walked outside his room, while he was walking he found a good place to get some air, he was about to go there when the servant earlier suddenly called his attention. "Sir, the pharaoh ordered me to give you this", Joey then turn and look at the servant with a deadly glare and snatch the thing that the servant was holding.
After seeing Joey's expression, the servant sweat drop and apologize as he walk away while Joey entered his room angrier than before. When he came in, he opened the thing that was wrapped in a white cloth. When he opened it, he was surprised to see white clothes with only one golden belt. He got it and said to himself, "Is this the clothes I'm gonna wear? Hmmm….well I don't have a choice, do I?". He heaved a sigh and started changing his clothes, when he's already finished changing he got out of his room again and this time went to the room he found.
The moment he came in, he shouted and hide behind the sofa. "It's ok Joey, it's only us", Tristan said.
Upon hearing Tristan's voice, Joey came out with a red face and tried to make an excuse to avoid embarrassing himself. "Oh thank goodness it was just you guys, you scared me a bit", the others looked at him and after a second burst into laughter. Then they all turned serious, "You know it's really nice in here, although it's very hot. Hmmm? By the way, nice clothes Joey." Duke said teasingly referring to the one sided clothes with a golden belt Joey wears that was matched with his golden sandal, "Why you! Come here and I'm gonna punch that head of yours!" Joey said angrily as he and Duke ran around the room.
"That's enough you guys, we're all wearing the same clothes you know", Yugi said as a matter of fact as he tried to stop the two from hurting each other and of course the two stopped and sat beside Yugi with Yugi between them. "Phew! Glad that was over, I thought they would hit each other until one is hurt badly", Tristan said as he relax again, everyone becomes worried if two of their friends fight and they would try their best to stop the fight so that no one would get hurt.
Suddenly it turned quiet, so Joey, Tristan, and Duke tried to start a conversation but failed to do so because not one of them can think a topic to start with. Then they turn to Yugi, when they looked at him they notice that he was looking for someone or something. "Hey Yug, what's the matter?", Duke asked.
"Well, I just notice this a while ago…but, have anyone seen Tea?", they all look and scan the room and turn to each other. After a second, 2 seconds, and finally 3 seconds they panicked, "Ah! Where's Tea?". The four boys panicked in the room like they are in hell, not knowing that their friend (Tea) is sleeping in a room just beside them. Even when the heat of the sun directly hits her, she doesn't mind.
Even if her clothes make her feel uncomfortable, she doesn't care. But after a minute, a knock came outside her room. A small groan was heard and Tea stretched up her arm, then went to open the door. There outside her door stand a woman, with a necklace that seems familiar to her. It was Isis, she smiled to Tea as she handed something. When Isis noticed the expression of Tea, she explained to the young girl the reason why she had given her the thing wrapped in white clothing. "The pharaoh told me to give that to you, he said to me that it will be your dress for the meantime", then after that Isis bowed gracefully and walk away. Tea smiled at the retreating figure of Isis and remembered what Isis said, so she sat down to her bed and got the thing that Isis gave her. Tea first look at the white cloth and thought to herself, "Is this the dress I'm gonna wear?". She opened it and smiled afterwards, and then she said to herself "Not bad" as she undress her clothes and put on the dress that was given to her.
When she was finished, she immediately got out of her room and started finding her friends. It was not hard enough for her to find them, she just need to find a room which has a loud noise (more likely a war going on).
She look at the door where she heard noises, she took a deep breath and opened it, of course she found four boys who is panicking and she sweat drop seeing the scene that is happening in front of her. "My, my, my…you guys sure know what to do when I'm not around, it seems you're having fun without me", the four guys stopped when they heard a familiar voice. They all turn around with their eyes glimmering "Tea!", they shouted and was about to hug her when a man suddenly barged in.
"Hey! What the-", Joey said as he got surprised from the man who just entered the room. The man is wearing thick clothing with a white covering on his head and his face that looked very weary, he came close to Joey and begged while kneeling in front of the blonde boy. "Where's the pharaoh? I need to talk to him, please!", Joey became quiet and the others tried their best not to laugh at the scene but they can't and so they burst onto laughter which made Joey look at them with a deadly glare.
After seeing his reaction to them they all turned serious, Yugi came close to the man and said "Sorry, but the pharaoh had an appointment. If it's ok with you, we can just tell him what you wanted to tell." The man looked at Yugi and stood, he then said "Very well, please tell the pharaoh that there would be a party tonight and it would be held in here. By the way, I am Sham el-Nasseem. Sorry for the rudeness and thank you for the great help." The man then bowed to them and got out, "Wow! Atem is sure respected in here." Duke said with amazement and Tristan and Joey replied back in unison, "Of course he is! He's the pharaoh!". The three started to argue with sparks of electricity on their eyes, and Tea and Yugi sweatdrop as they watch the scene. "So there will be a party tonight huh? I wonder what can we do to help, and we also don't have clothes to wear on the party", Yugi said worriedly and Tea comforted him by saying "Don't worry, I'm sure Atem's gonna help us. And about the help, we could lend a hand on preparing as well as decorating the place where the party would be held." Yugi looked at Tea and found her looked at him with a gentle smile, after seeing it a small blush formed on his cheeks but he didn't let Tea notice, he then smiled back and nodded.
While away from Atem's palace, there is another kingdom and a beautiful princess with brown hair lived there.
She was standing in her balcony as she looked at the wonderful view, suddenly there was a light and before the princess eye stood a prophet. He bowed to her and told her a news, "Princess, I am the prophet. And I have come here to tell you news, the news that I will tell would be your future. I have seen a vision about you, telling you will die after 3 days and that the cause of your death is an unknown sickness." After that the light appeared again and after it disappeared, so was the prophet.
The princess frowned upon hearing the news and clasps her hands while saying "Before I die and leave this place, I promise that every girl who has my bloodline will receive my power little by little. But whoever shall be my great, great, great, great, great granddaughter will receive my power as well as her ancestors", then a knock was heard outside the princess door and the princess gently said "Come in."
A servant girl bowed down to her and said "Princess Anzu, your dress is now ready for the party tonight", Princess Anzu turned and looked at the servant girl with a smile and replied "Thank you." The girl smiled back and bowed down again as she walk out of the room.
Back to Atem's palace…it was already sunset and Atem's friends were waiting for Atem. Joey was walking from left to right repeatedly which caused Tristan to get annoyed, "Joey, will you stop that?". Joey then answered back, "What if I won't?". The two then stared at each other for a long time and Tea came between them as she tried to stop the two from fighting, "Ok, that's enough you guys. We shouldn't fight and cause trouble for Atem today." After hearing it, the two looked away from each other and return to what they were doing a while ago.
Suddenly a knock was heard and the door opened, Atem's friends turn to look who it was and there in front of them was Atem smiling. "So how's your rest? Sorry I made you all wait", he spoke gently with an apologetic face and Yugi answered "It's fine, our rest was fine too…ummm, we're glad you're here now…we have something to say to you…" Yugi was silent for a moment, and when he tried to speak again Atem continued what Yugi wanted to say in the first place, "There would be a party right?." They all looked at Atem with astonishment and the young pharaoh only chuckled, "I already knew it, don't worry." Then Atem came close to his friends and said, "Your dresses are now ready, and…nice dress by the way Tea." As Atem mentioned it, everyone looked at Tea who was wearing a strapped white dress which only fell above her knee matched with a golden belt showing her curves and a golden sandal matching the belt. Tea blushed and Joey teased her by saying, "He means he like you, Tea." But the young girl only glared him with scary eyes which made Joey stop, "He's just kidding, Tea." Yugi said to her and Tea calmed a bit, "Anyway, I'll meet you all in the party ok? See you there!".
With that, Atem waved goodbye to his friends forgetting what Joey said to Tea. Yugi and the others wondered if they can still help decorating the place where the party would be held, but their question was answered when a voice spoke to them. "Don't worry everyone, we've got everything prepared already", they all turn around to see that the voice belonged to Isis. "You should start changing your clothes now with the dress the pharaoh had prepared for you", the gang looked at Isis and nodded. "Very well, your dresses are there on your rooms. See you at the party." With that Isis bowed to them and went out as the gang also went to their respective rooms.
As Yugi and the others arrived in their rooms, they began changing and after 5 minutes they're all ready, when they finished changing they immediately go to the venue where the party was held.
As they all meet, they all look at Tea with surprise and the young girl blushed. When they entered the room as expected, many watched them with amazement. Each of them is looking great with those black tuxedos, but what really caught everyone's attention was Tea. She was wearing a backless dark blue dress with those golden belt and dark blue high heels, she really looked like a princess with her appearance that night. Even her friends and Atem looked at her with amazement, suddenly Atem who was sitting on his throne notice that everyone was silent so he coughed and everyone snap back. As Atem stood, everyone stopped talking as well as stopped whatever their doing. "I am really grateful, that many have attended this party. And to show you my gratitude, I've prepared something to entertain us tonight."
After he spoke, he sat down and suddenly the lights turned off and the room became dark.
After a minute, a fire appeared from the right and was followed by another from the left. Everyone was startled, all of them seemed to be amazed by the effects of the fire appearing in the dark. After the fires appeared, the lights turned on again. There stood in the center were dancers, they started dancing. In the middle of the song, they opened a big black box which was standing between them, and before the crowds' eyes, a girl dressed in a white tube matched with a white genie like pants stood.
It was Tea, who started performing belly dancing while the dancers stopped and kneeled with different pose. Everyone watched Tea with another amazed looked, Tea then stopped dancing and started moving towards Atem. The young pharaoh got startled. When Tea was now in front of him, she danced again a belly dancing and stopped when she came closer to Atem. The young girl smiled as she slightly tilt Atem's chin, both of them stared at each other for a long time until Tea gave Atem a rose and returned to the other dancers. As Tea came back, the other dancers joined her dancing. Atem can't help but stare at Tea, he didn't know why but when Tea stared at him a moment ago his heart began to beat rapidly. But he shook his head and thought, "What am I thinking? Tea is only my friend." He said firmly in his mind and watched again the performers as the crowd began cheering.
The cheer began to grow louder when Tea now tries to avoid each fire that was blown to her, and surely she avoided them gracefully. As the song came to an end, all the fire was blown directly to Tea and after the fire cleared, she vanished, leaving everyone with confused expressions.
Suddenly Tea walked to the center who is now wearing the backless dark blue dress, and bowed down together with the other dancers. The crowed clapped and cheered more, after that the party continued. "Phew! Glad that was over", Tea said to the dancers as they got out of the room. "Yeah, but thank you very much Miss Tea. Without you our dance wouldn't be this nice", one of the dancers answered and they all chuckled after that.
"Here we are, Princess", a servant said to Princess Anzu as they stood in front of the room where the party was being held. "Thank you", was the quick yet gentle reply of Princess Anzu as she entered the room. She was about to talk to the other guest but was stopped when she heard a voice shout to her, "Oh Tea! Why did you change your dress? Anyway it still suites you." Joey said as he came close to Princess Anzu, "Tea? I'm sorry, but you've must mistaken me by someone. I'm Pri-" Princess Anzu answered a little bit startled by the stranger in front of her but was cut in mid sentence when the blonde hair guy spoke again.
"Geez Tea! You don't need to be rude. Nice dance by the way, you really surprised us", Joey said as he pulled Princess Anzu closer to him with his right arm on Princess Anzu's right shoulder. "What are you doing?", Princess Anzu asked angrily as she pulled Joey's arm away from her. "Who are you anyway? Hmmm…never mind, I'll just forget about it. I have to go now", Princess Anzu said looking to Joey and then walk to the center and started talking with the other guests.
"Huh? What happened Joey?", Yugi asked as he as well as Tristan and Duke noticed the scene that just happened. "Oh, it's nothing really much. I thought that girl was Tea, that's all", Joey responded to Yugi as he scratched the back of his hair. "Whatever, guess I just mistaken her to be Tea", he added with a shrugged. "Really? Well you better not do that again Joey!", Tristan scolded as he punched lightly Joey's right arm. "Oh ok, sorry. I'll not do it again. Promise", "But for a moment there I really thought that girl was Tea, I mean she really looks like Tea except her dress which was an off shoulder but with the same golden belt and her shoes that was red which matched the color of her dress. Hmmm, guess it's only my imagination." Joey thought but didn't know that he discovered something unexpected in their journey.
(A/N: I just wanted to say to you my dear readers that at the part when Princess Anzu arrived together with a servant, Tea and the dancers already left a minute or so before Princess Anzu arrive. And Tea and the dancers left and went in the left side of the palace opposite to the side where Princess Anzu came in. so most likely, if Tea only left just in right time Princess Anzu arrive, they will meet. But I can't let that happen, I still have a lot of surprises installed for you my dear readers.)
"Oh, we're now here", one of the dancers exclaimed. "Sorry Miss Tea, but we have to rest now. Thanks again, and ummm…is it ok with you if we left you alone by yourself?", another dancer asked and Tea chuckled as she nodded to them. "Well, have a nice night Miss Tea. Take care of yourself", another dancer said worriedly. "Hmm, don't worry about me. I'll be fine, you should better get some rest now", Tea said to all of them with a gentle smile and the dancers nodded then lastly bid goodnight to Tea as she also bid goodnight to them.
After that the dancers entered their room and left Tea, the young girl smiled again as she stood in front of the door but left after a few seconds.
As she was walking, she found a garden which seemed peaceful to her. She smiled and said to herself, "Maybe I should take a rest here for a moment." She then walked in the garden and sat beside a small pond, "Hmmm…nice place, glad I've seen it." Tea thought as she look around the place and then stopped as she remembered where she and Atem stared at each other and when she did, she blushed.
"Speaking of Atem, I noticed his a little different when he arrived today", Tea thought but shook it off. "What am I thinking?", she said as she look at the pond. She then smiled as she saw the fishes happily dancing in the clear water with the reflection of the moon reflecting on it, she then remembered the first day Atem came back to them. The day they both talk in the balcony of her apartment with the no one interrupting them as they watch the moon, it was one of the moments that she will remember forever.
(A/N: Sorry for interrupting you again, in the next chap you'll find out what Tea meant when she said "Atem seems to be different today")
Back to Atem…after the event on which Tea danced with the other dancers, Atem had been finding her but with no luck. He heave a sigh as he watch his guest talk with each other, Shimon who was just standing right beside him noticed that their pharaoh doesn't seem to enjoy the party so he asked him. "Your majesty, is there something wrong? You seemed to be quiet after the entertainment that just happened and also…you doesn't seem to enjoy the party", the young pharaoh who heard his council turn to look at him and replied "I'm fine Shimon, sorry if I made you worry that much…anyway can I go out of the room?". Shimon who is now watching the crowd turned also to Atem and replied with a smile, "Of course our pharaoh, just be back after a few minutes." Atem nodded and smiled back, "Thank you" was his quick reply and then he stood. As he did this, the crowd became silent and looked at the young pharaoh and Atem understood why the crowd stopped and look at him. He just smiled at them and said "Please, do continue the party", and after that everyone returned to what they were doing.
Atem slowly walk out of the room and thought of someone, "Where are you Tea?". He was now walking to the right side of his palace in search of his friend, looking every room and asking everyone he met on the way if they saw Tea but everyone only gave him a "no" as a reply.
As Tea continued to recall her memories with her friends, a hand suddenly covered her mouth and began pulling her out of the garden.
Tea who was startled struggled to get free from the mysterious person behind her, finally she bitted the hand that was covering her mouth and the person let go of her. "Who are you?", Tea asked a bit confused on what just happened and the person who wore a black cloak(which is the same in the anime, the part on which Bakura always travels with his servants following him) laughed darkly. He then spoke to Tea saying, "Good evening…I am one of Master Bakura's servants, Gopher. And I was sent here to kill you, Princess." Tea heard what the person said and didn't spoke for a moment but only stared the person with a confused look.
As the mysterious person notice that the girl in front of him didn't move, he smiled darkly and started moving close to Tea. He started to attack Tea when the young girl notice him and dodged the attack just in time when he is only a meter away from her, "You've must mistaken me by someone, I am only a normal person and Bakura doesn't need anything from me!". Tea shouted with a tone that shows a hint of fear, "Oh no, Master Bakura is always right. And if he tells me to kill you…then I will do it!",
Gopher shouted and began attacking Tea with a sword. On the other hand, Tea who was more confused shouted "Stop! Please get away from me!". As she shouted those words, a ball of white suddenly came out of her hand and hit Bakura's servant.
Gopher winced in pain as he tried to stand again but notice that his whole body is starting to turn into dust, he smiled again and spoke his last words, "Mark my word, Princess. One day you will fall in the hands of my master and die!". Tea looked at Gopher as his whole body is slowly turning into yellow ashes or dust, and when he vanished, she looked at her own hands and thought "What just happened there? What is going on?", she stood in the garden with clouded thoughts, and a curious face on everything that happened to her this day. She herself didn't know how the ball of white came out of her hand and why is that person calling her princess, she didn't know the answer on these questions but she is willing to find out.
Not far from her, another person is watching Tea from the beginning of how the young girl managed to kill Gopher. The mysterious person smirked and said to herself, "You're not half bad, I have to report this to Master Bakura. I'm sure, he'll be delighted on the news I'm gonna tell him". And with that, the person disappeared in the darkness.
So finished, what can you say about the chap? I will be happy if you will review this, if not, it's ok. Maybe the next chap will be updated a bit longer since I have to plan still the events of the new character that just popped into my mind.