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"Where are you…Tea?" Atem thought as he was now running to the left side of his palace searching for his friend. He continued opening the doors and asking anyone he come across if they had seen her but they only gave him the same answer, he sigh and continued running passing the garden without noticing someone standing there. Atem opened the door of the room where his dancers are resting, and when he does he surprised them. "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to scare you, I just wanna ask something." The leader came towards the pharaoh and asked, "What is it, our pharaoh?". Atem smiled, "Have you seen Tea?". The dancers smild and nodded, "I really don't know where she went afterwards, but my guess is she's just around near here somewhere." Atem smiled, "Thanks, and please you can rest now." He then went to search again and stopped in front of the garden when he noticed the figure standing there seems familiar to him, the pharaoh stared at her and whispered, "Tea." He then smiled and walked towards his friend.
On the other hand, Tea who continually thought of what happened a while ago was surprised when a hand touched her left shoulder. She turned around and sighed with relief when she saw that it was only Atem.
"Sorry if I scared, what's the matter? something wrong?" Atem asked looking worriedly at Tea. The young girl noticed it and thought that it is not the best time to tell anyone about her newly discovered power, not when the party is still going on.
Tea shook her head, "I'm fine, I was just surprised that you came here looking for me." Upon hearing this Atem blushed and then shook his head denying it, "No! it's not like that. It's just…I found out that you didn't came back at the party and our friends are really worried about you." Tea smiled, "Really? Sorry about that. Let's go back then." Tea started walking but then Atem's hand caught her wrist and stopped her, the young girl looked at her friend confused. "What's wrong Atem?" the pharaoh stared at her too long then heard her voice, "aren't you tired? You must rest Tea." The young girl shook her head, "I'm fine. I can rest after the party. But for now, let's just enjoy it. Come on!". She then began pulling Atem as they both return to where the party is.
When the two entered, Tea let go of Atem's hand and Atem felt sad not knowing why. Everyone looked at them, some with smiling faces and some with curious faces. Atem noticed it and said, "I guess there's no hiding it." He looked at Yugi, Joey, Duke, and Tristan and signaled them to come towards him, they all nodded and followed. Atem smiled to everyone as he pull closer Tea and Yugi who was standing in both his sides, "Everyone these are my friends! Joey, Yugi, Tea, Duke and Tristan."
Everyone looked at them causing the gang to feel uncomfortable since they weren't used to being looked at by other people, suddenly a child went in front of Yugi and the others saying, "Hi! Nice meeting you!".
At first Yugi and the others just stood there staring at the little boy in front of them while Atem is smiling, then they replied, "Thanks! Nice to meet you too."
Upon hearing this, everyone in the room welcomed the gang. Atem then release his hold on Yugi and Tea, "Please do continue the party! Enjoy!".
With that the party resumed, but then there was a certain person who just stood there watching the gang. She is none other than, Princess Anzu. She stood there locking her gaze to a certain someone who she surprisingly see looked exactly the same as her. But then the gang move and joined in the crowd, Princess Anzu lost sight of the girl. She then walk outside the room and a servant accompanied her asking, "Do you want to leave now, Princess?". Princess Anzu nodded and she was accompanied to her own carriage. As she went in, the carriage immediately leave the palace. Princess Anzu sat thinking about the mysterious girl. She can't help but wonder why that girl looked exactly the same as her. "Who was that girl? I have to know her name", she thought then sigh. Suddenly she remembered the guy with blonde hair who mistook her of someone else, "Oh Tea! Why did you change your dress?" Princess Anzu shook her head slowly as she laid her back on the soft chair of the carriage, she then looked at the moon that she can see outside the window of her carriage, "Tea, huh?".
Back to Atem's palace, after the party was over, the gang felt so tired as they cleaned the messy room where the party happened. Atem was there also helping clean-up the room even though his servants told him that they can do it and he could just rest, but he insisted. When they finished cleaning, the room was really sparkly. Atem came towards his friends and thanked them as he called some servants to accompany them to their rooms to rest, the gang also thanked Atem for the wonderful party and after that they all wave goodbye to him. As Tea came in her room, she thanked the servant girl and changed her dress with a white spaghetti strap dress that falls just below her knees. She then went to bed and immediately fell asleep.
"'Tea... Tea! Wake up…' Tea did what she was told, but when she opened her eyes she saw that she was in her room. 'Huh? I guess it was just my imagination…', She then closed her eyes again but she heard the voice calling her name again, she opened her eyes and sat on her bed.
'Who's calling me?' 'Tea! Over here…look here!' The young girl spun around but she saw no one, 'Where are you?'. 'Over here! In front of your door!' Tea look at her door and saw a girl who looked exactly like her except that this girl's hair was a bit longer than her and her dress was a sleeveless white dress that falls down to the floor. Tea stood up with a surprise look, 'Who are you?' she asked unable to move for some reason thinking that whoever might see them talking would think that Tea has a twin sister.
The girl laughed gently, 'I must be the one who should ask you that. But since you asked first, I'll answer it. My name is…Princess Anzu, how about you?'.
Tea didn't speak, why would she tell this girl her name? Even though this girl told her name to her already, she just couldn't after what happened this day. Suddenly she remembered something from earlier, "Good evening…I am one of Master Bakura's servant, Gopher. And I was sent here to kill you, Princess." 'Princess…wait! That's it!', Tea shouted then covered her mouth thinking she might wake someone. Princess Anzu was startled, 'What is it? Tea'. The young girl came towards Princess Anzu, held her hand and said 'You said your name was Princess Anzu, earlier someone tried to kill me because they've mistaken me to be the princess…now I know that the princess they're talking about was you. Anyway you knew my name already, its Tea.'
Princess Anzu smiled, 'I know, just checking if I'm right. And sorry about that, I didn't know someone looked the same as me. Anyway I have something to tell you.' Tea raised a brow, 'What is it?'. Princess Anzu looked down to the floor, 'I know this is not the proper way to ask for help but I need you…You see, a prophet visited me this morning and told me that i…will die after 3 days…'
Tea's eyes widened, 'What? That's awful.' Princess Anzu shook her head, 'It's fine, I accept what will happen to me but I wasn't expecting to die this fast. Please could you find a cure to prevent me from dying? Please! I need your help, this is for my people.' Tea flinched as Princess Anzu pulled her closer, she could see the sadness in the Princess eyes. Tea felt sorry, even though they just met and she have a lot of questions also to ask this princess, she set it aside. 'Alright! I will help you, but how could I bring the cure to you? I didn't know where you live.' Princess Anzu let go of Tea's hands and searched the room, she then saw the necklace Tea was wearing, it was a blue oval shaped necklace simple with no other gems but just the blue stone put in it. Princess Anzu smiled and pointed Tea's necklace, 'That! When that necklace glows bright yellow, it will point you to where I live, just follow it.'
Tea nodded, then Princess Anzu whispered something and kissed Tea's necklace as she hold it. Princess Anzu then look at Tea and smiled, 'Thank you so much Tea, I'll repay you somehow when we meet again someday. It was nice meeting you, bye!' After that Princess Anzu's body began to glow bright yellow and Tea smiled as she wave goodbye, but then she remembered something. 'Wait! Princess Anzu, I have some problem also…would you…help me too?', Princess Anzu smiled.
'I will, when we meet to my palace tell me your problem. See you there!' Tea nodded. Then Princess Anzu started glowing so bright that Tea had to shield her eyes, after the glow disappeared so was Princess Anzu.
'She's gone…', Tea whispered to herself. Suddenly she felt her whole body became hot, and saw that she herself was glowing. Tea then heard another voice calling her. She look around to see if the person was there but she couldn't find where the voice was coming, but she knew very well that the voice sounded familiar to her, it belonged to someone close to her. She stopped thinking, noticing her whole body shake, 'What's going on? Who's calling me?' She got afraid and was trembling as she heard the voice call her name again, 'Tea! Tea! Tea...wake up!'
Upon hearing this, Tea immediately opened her eyes and sat on her bed, she found out that it was Joey who was calling her. Joey looked at her worriedly, 'Something wrong, Tea?' he ask. Tea shook her head. Joey then smiled, "Alright! Very well, let's go out. It is now morning and breakfast is served."
The young girl nodded, she stood and looked around her room and then whispered, "Just a dream…huh." As they were walking towards the dining room, Tea stopped by in front of the garden which caused Joey to stop walking too.
"Something wrong, Tea?" "No, just go ahead. I'll come there in a minute", Joey looked at her with an expression showing worried at the same time curiousness but then agreed, "Ok…don't stay long."
When Tea knew that Joey already walked out, she came near the pond and sat there. She then holds her necklace and began rolling it slowly back and forth as she began talking, "So it was a dream, but you know it seems so real…talking with Princess Anzu." Upon saying that name, the necklace began glowing bright yellow. Tea got startled as she look at her necklace and let go of it, then her necklace stopped glowing. "What was that?" Tea asked herself confusedly.
After a few seconds Tea decided to leave but stopped when she heard someone calling her, "Huh? Who is it now? This is the third time already". "Tea! Tea…over here, In the pond. It's me, Princess Anzu." Tea who heard it came immediately towards the pond and saw Princess Anzu, because of too much shock she backed away and stumbled upon a rock falling down completely on the ground. "Sorry to surprise you Tea, you ok there?"
Tea stood then came closer again. She then looked at Princess Anzu smiling at her and she smiled back at her, "Yeah I'm fine" she replied. "So it wasn't really a dream is it? That we talked last night…", Tea asked and Princess Anzu nodded. "Alright, that's just the last thing I wanna know right now. I have to go, I'm supposed to eat breakfast with my friends…so what's the reason you called me by the way?" Princess Anzu shrugged, "Just saying hi and checking if you're alright I guess. But it seems you're doing fine, so you can go now and eat your breakfast." Tea smiled, "Thanks, I hope you already eat breakfast too…um, see you again next time Princess Anzu, Bye!". The Princess smiled and waved goodbye, "Bye!". Then after that, Princess Anzu's face disappeared in the pond.
Without any warning, Joey came back in the garden and called Tea. The young girl smiled and replied, "Coming!". After eating breakfast, Atem told his friends that they will stay in the garden, Yugi and the others nodded but they told Atem that they should go wash up and change their clothes. "Alright then…just go to the garden afterwards, I'll be there waiting for you guys. By the way, I ordered the servants to put your clothes in the cabinet so you will have no problem in finding one", Yugi and the others smiled then went to their rooms.
After taking a shower, each dressed up with their new clothes. This time the guys wore a white sleeveless clothe made of flax that falls just above their knee with a golden belt, matched with those leather Egyptian sandals and each wore a golden bracelet on their right arm. While Tea wore an off shoulder white fitting dress that stopped above her knee matched with golden Egyptian sandals, wearing golden bracelet each carved with hieroglyphics and was put on both hands.
As they arrive in the garden, they saw Atem drinking wine with breads served in copper plates as he read something in the roll of papyrus he was holding. Atem noticed his friends arrive and immediately put down the roll of papyrus his reading as well as the cup of wine he was drinking and greeted his friends with a smile, "You're here now, come now and sit. If you're still hungry, let's eat again." Yugi and the others looked at each other then came and sat in the wooden table with Atem, others just sat and listened to the conversation while Joey eat with Atem as he also listen to the conversation. The time moved fast as they talked accompanied by laughters as they mention funny things like how did their days went by without Atem and how Joey always got tricked easily by his friends. After eating and laughing, the gang decided to play in the fake grass planted in the garden. While Atem returned from reading the roll of papyrus he just put down a while ago, Tea on the other hand decided to check the flowers.
Suddenly trumpets were heard and soon a group of people dressed in purple with golden hieroglyphics embedded in the center from top to bottom, faces hidden by a purple cloak but some can see white beards in them indicating they are already old. The gang was frightened but Atem stood and whispered something to the strange people who just arrive and they nodded, Atem then looked at his friends and smiled saying, "Don't worry guys, these persons who came here are the elders council. They are well known to make rules and come in person to announce it, just play there. I'll be back afterwards, bye." Atem then walked out of the garden following the elders, while his friends look at his retreating figure with worried expressions.
Shimon then came towards Yugi and touched his left shoulder saying words with a reassuring voice, "Don't worry about the pharaoh, he'll be alright. Just go continue playing and don't show that worried face or else the pharaoh will also be worried." Yugi smiled and nodded, they then continued playing.
While back to the elders council and Atem…as soon as they arrive in the room, they immediately sat down and the elders got straight to the reason why they came here. "Pharaoh Atem…", said the elder sitting in the center, "We came here to announce a new rule we made." Atem nodded with a serious look, the elder continued, "We agreed that each pharaoh starting today should have a partner. But it should be a princess or a person with a royal blood, since we just said these to you today, we will give you a week to find your partner and you shall marry her."
Atem nodded and asked, "What if I couldn't find one?". The elder sitting besides Atem's right responded, "Then you'll be downgraded and cannot be a pharaoh anymore." "What?" Atem asked surprised but then sigh and added, "Alright, I'll do it." With that the elders and Atem stood, "Very well then…until we meet again Pharaoh Atem." The pharaoh only nodded and looked at the elders councils leaving the room, after they left Atem slumped on his chair and sighed. He then stared at the ceiling not noticing a pair of eyes watching him outside from the beginning until the end of the conversation.
While back to the garden, the gang felt tired of playing and decided to rest under the shade of a tree at the corner of the garden and noticed Tea was missing. "Where is she now?" Joey asked as they rested their backs in the tree and wiping their own sweat due to the heat of the sun. Tristan shrugged, "I bet she's just in the palace roaming around, or resting in her room since it's really hot in here." The others nodded and fell asleep afterwards.
After 5 minutes, Atem decided to return back to the garden realizing he told his friends to wait him there. As he came out of the room, a hand covered his eyes while the other was covering his mouth, he tried fighting but the stranger only push him back to the room and let him sat on the chair he was just sitting a while ago. Then the hands were removed and revealed that those hands belonged to Tea, Atem stared at her surprised then started whispering angrily to her, "What are you doing? I thought you were an enemy, you could've been killed." Tea smiled as she sat down beside him, and Atem realize that Tea could have been staying outside the room for too long and have heard about the conversation he and the elders talked about. "Tea, tell me the truth…did you hear my conversation with the elders?" Atem asked staring at his friend with a serious look yet his voice seems to be calm.
Tea was silent at first but then stood, "I didn't mean to eavesdrop really. Sor-". Her sentence was cut when Atem stood and punched the table with his right fist, "How much of the conversation did you hear?". Tea was surprised and felt her eyes starting to get wet, she wiped it with her hand and face Atem with an angry look, "I'm sorry alright! I didn't mean to hear it, I came here because I got curious what was the reason those councils came…and I heard everything…I'm sorry!". After shouting it, Tea's tears fell down her cheeks fast and she covered her face. Atem on the other hand felt guilty, "Tea…I'm sorry also, i…I didnt mean to shout at you and get angry. I was surprise, besides it was a private conversation…I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you." He then came towards Tea and hugged her tightly, Tea on the other hand got surprised with Atem's sudden action but then calmed down as she felt his warmth around her.
Atem suddenly realize what he was doing and pulled Tea away, "I'm sorry…anyway are you alright now?". Tea smiled and answered "Yes." "Very well, let's go back to our friends", Atem said as he started walking out of the room but Tea's hand grabbed his wrist and stopped him. He then look at her, "What is it?" Tea stood in silence.
"Well they said that you need a wife right? What if…what if you marry me so that you won't have to search anymore and won't have a problem adjusting because we're friends already." Atem's eyes widened, he saw Tea staring at him seriously and realized she was serious to what she was proposing. Atem then chuckled earning Tea a confused look, "What's funny, Atem?".
The pharaoh stopped laughing and looked at her, "I know you want to help but…in order for me to marry someone, she should be a princess or a person who belong to a royal family. And you, well…you're not a princess much less belonged to a royal family."
Tea looked down the floor sadly, "I'm sorry, I forgot." Atem smiled, "It's fine Tea. I really hope I could marry you but rules are rules." Tea suddenly remember about her powers, she didn't want to add another problem to Atem but she too needs an answer, she then told Atem about what happened in the garden during the party and as she ended, Atem only stared at her with wide eyes.
He then spoke with a hint of laughter, "You're kidding right? Tea, you couldn't possibly have powers. These powers you're saying can only be given to royal families, if you have those, it only means that you are a princess. But…it's really impossible. I'm sorry Tea."
The young girl then grabbed Atem's hand and pulled him closer to her, "Come on! I'm just helping you Atem." The pharaoh sigh, "I really appreciate your help but…if they know you're not from a royal family, they will…they will kill you."
Tea was silent for a moment then spoke, "I don't care! I will do this for a friend even if it will cost my life." Atem was surprised at Tea's words, he was stunned. But then smiled and hugged her, "Alright then. If you get killed, I will also have myself killed. We are in this together." Tea pulled away and looked at Atem surprisingly but still left Atem's hands touch her shoulders. "Seriously? Then…you will marry me?" Atem blushed thinking what his friend told him but nodded and Tea walked away from Atem then jumped happily.
The pharaoh watched his friend jump in joy but then added, "Still…there will be consequences, Tea." Upon hearing it Tea stopped jumping but responded with a smile, "I accept it." She then continued jumping and Atem just watched her, enjoying it as well. He couldn't help but feel excited as to what will happen to both of them after marrying each other, he can't wait to see it but for now his thoughts are only focused on one person, Tea.
To be continued…
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