Hi minna~ sorry if I haven't updated this one for such a long time, school's back and I'm busy again, also I've found out that I made two different plots on this chapter so I tried fitting the ideas here…Thank you for the patience and support. Anyway here's the complete chap.
Atem is sleeping soundlessly when a ray of sunlight flashed straight to him and woke him up. The young pharaoh groaned and covered his face with a pillow, he then slowly opened his eyes and peek underneath the soft cushion. Upon seeing the person responsible in waking him up, the young pharaoh smiled and sat on the bed. "Did I do something wrong that made you do this?" Atem teased still smiling as he faced his wife.
The young girl turn around and smiled as well, "You didn't do anything wrong Atem. It's already morning so I woke you up so we can eat breakfast together…Good Morning to you by the way."
Atem can't believe what he heard, why did his life with Tea suddenly turned like that of a married couple? Not that he forgot he married her, though why act so seriously when they are just alone and no one to suspect them? But seeing his friend greet him up with a lovingly smile is really new to him and admits that his life now seems to be more interesting than with his past life.
The young pharaoh then stood up from the bed and went near his wife, held her waist, then kissed her right cheek and whispered to her ear, "Good Morning to you too my Queen."
Tea's face immediately turned red with her husband's sudden action. She didn't expect him to kiss her on the cheek much more whisper something to her ear with a seductive tone, all these things are really new to her. The young girl slowly steps aside and began walking out of the room. "P-put on your upper cloth already and come to the dining room, I'll be waiting there" Tea said and closed the door.
As the young girl left the room, Atem looked at the door and smiled. He then covered his face with his right hand and said to himself, "What exactly am I doing teasing her that way?"
Five minutes passed and Atem arrived to the dining room where the foods were already served and his wife sitting across the chair that he usually sits. "Sorry to keep you waiting, Let's pray and eat afterwards" the young pharaoh said upon sitting and did what he said.
After eating, Atem was called by Shimon saying that he and his councils will be discussing about the request of the villagers. "What about teaching me the things that can help you?" Tea asked and Atem frowned, "Sorry Tea but I guess I'll teach you next time. Right now, I should attend the meeting concerning our citizens." Tea was saddened upon hearing her husband's reply though she didn't want to make Atem worry so she just smiled and nodded.
As the young pharaoh arrived at the room where the meeting is held, his councils were already in there waiting for him. Atem apologized to them and started the discussion. "So half of the village needed a decrease on the price of food…but if we do that, we need not only to lower the price on them but to lower the price to the others as well. If that happens…we'll have a shortage of food" the young pharaoh said and added, "I wonder what can be done to solve this problem."
"I have a solution," said a voice and everyone looked at the door.
Atem was surprised, "Tea…what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be practicing horse riding?"
The young girl smiled, "I cancelled all my appointments scheduled this morning. Anyway, I propose that we should go to the village today and give each of them a free sack of grains."
Upon hearing their Queen's proposal, Shimon answered "But our Queen…if you do that, we'll loose some stocks of food."
Tea looked at Shimon seriously, "Isn't one of our duties here in the palace is to provide help to our citizens?" the councils nodded. "Then losing a few stocks of food wouldn't be a problem," she added and Shimon replied, "Yes our Queen. I'm sorry for my rudeness."
Atem looked at his wife then smiled afterwards, "Thank you for your suggestion my dear…but correct me if I'm wrong, did I hear you say 'we'? You do know that if you're going with us that means there is no backing out"
Tea smiled sweetly to Atem, "Yes you did. I want to go to the village too and I won't back out, but before I forgot…" she turn towards Atem's councils and said, "Please call me Princess Teana from now on."
The councils smiled and nodded, while Atem just raised a brow still smiling. "So I guess, we should go to the village now. Mahad, please tell the others to put sacks of grains in the cart. Shadi, please gather some guards and tell the remaining to guard the palace strictly" Atem said and went out of the room while holding Tea's hand. The young girl began protesting telling Atem to let go of her as to avoid embarrassment while everyone followed behind them.
Meanwhile back to Bakura's place…"Frau and Mikhail, are the preparations in reviving Zork were fully readied?" Bakura asked and the two answered, "Yes our master."
Bakura smiled menacingly, "Well then…I guess we should pay a visit to our dear pharaoh. Call Tira and Chocolate, say to them to go with you as an order."
His two servants merely nodded, and walk towards their room.
While back to Atem…the young pharaoh and Tea together with the councils travel to the village, as 30 guards accompanied them. A soft whine can be heard on the carriage where the young pharaoh and queen are riding. "I change my mind…I don't want to go to the village anymore!" Tea said as she continues to whine and cover her body with a white covering.
The young pharaoh laughed, "Didn't I say there's no backing out? You should have just followed my advice and stayed in the palace."
After hearing her husband's comment, the young girl glared at him. "Well I'm sorry if I volunteered in coming to the village, it's not my fault that I'm worried about you." Hearing her own words, Tea immediately covered her mouth and looked towards the opposite direction of Atem.
While Atem stared at Tea a bit surprised but pretended he didn't hear it and continued looking at his window. Why is it that time hasn't gone too long yet, but Tea is becoming more closer to me than before? And why am I surprised by her sudden comment just a while ago? It's just normal since we're friends, Atem thought as he didn't want to add another problem in his mind right now but unfortunately, he will have to face this new problem as the days goes by.
Upon arriving at the village, the villagers were surprised to see their pharaoh visiting them. Everyone stopped on whatever they were doing and went outside just to greet their beloved ruler along with his wife. Not for long, the councils announced the reason they visited the village.
"To the faithful citizens of this village, you requested us to decrease the price of food. Now, our Pharoah came here in person to give you free sack of grains" Shimon announced and as every villagers heard it, they all exclaimed in joy.
"Please line up so that we can give you your sack of grains," Seto said and the villagers did what they were told to do. As Atem give each villagers their sack of grains, Tea on the other hand decided to roam the village herself. She was greeted by the children who tried their best to bow down to her correctly.
Tea laughed, "It's alright children. You don't have to do that as of now for me, I would be happy to teach you the correct ways." After that, she began teaching the children the proper way of giving respect to the royalties. The children enjoyed the time being with her and offered her to play with them. Tea smiled, "I would be gladly to play with you."
The children upon hearing their Queen's reply exclaimed in joy. A little girl with brown curly hair holding her ragged doll and dressed in tattered clothes came towards Tea. The young Queen looked at her then asked, "What's the matter sweetie?"
The little girl spoke softly, "I want to play too…can I join your Majesty?"
Tea smiled, "Why of course! No one's an exemption. Come now, let's play" Tea then offered her hand and the little girl held it tightly as they run towards the other children.
As Tea played with the children, Atem was busy giving the sacks of grains to the villagers. He was reminded of Tea when he asked if Tea is hungry, no reply came to him. Atem turn around to find out that Tea was not standing behind him anymore. "Shadi, please find Tea for me" He whispered towards Shadi and the millennium key owner followed what Atem ordered to him. After walking a few houses, Shadi saw their queen paying with the children.
"Alright, I'm the It. So everyone should hide now," Tea said then covered her eyes with both hands as she started counting from ten while the children found their place to hide. "Ready or not, here I come" Tea added after and started looking for the children one by one. She looked underneath the wooden table but found no one, the little girl with brown curly hair hide beside the wooden cart that is jut near the table. All the children were trying their best to stop themselves from giggling as their queen is busy finding them.
Shadi finally spoke up, "I'm sorry to intrude your game our queen but the pharaoh ordered me to find you and bring you back to him."
Tea looked at Shadi for a moment then realized what he was telling her, "Oh. I'm sorry for the trouble I caused, I guess I should say goodbye to them." The young girl then turn around and added, "Alright children, I enjoyed playing with you but please come out since I'm going back now."
Upon hearing Tea's words, the children came out of their hiding places with sad faces. Then the little girl with brown curly hair went closer to Tea, "your Majesty…you'll come back here again and play with us, right?"
Tea looked at the children for a moment then smiled, "Of course I will. Whenever I have time, I'll go here then play with all of you." As the children heard what Tea said, they rejoiced. A little boy with brown hair and eyes came towards Tea as well, "We will be waiting for you, your Majesty!"
After Tea hugged each one of them, the children waved goodbye to her. As she and Shadi were near Atem, a giant ball of light suddenly came just near Tea and created a large amount of smoke. Atem immediately went to where Tea and Shadi were standing and saw an unconscious Shadi protecting Tea. Atem rushed to her side and gently removed her from Shadi, "Are you alright?"
The young girl was still in shock of what just happened, so when she heard Atem's question, Tea only nodded. Atem sigh in relief, he then called out his other councils. "Isis and Shimon, take care of Shadi."
The two millennium holders followed what their pharaoh ordered them, Isis and Shimon gently carried Shadi each holding one of his arm and supporting it around their neck. While the guards rushed to protect their pharaoh and queen as more balls of light attack them.
"Protect the villagers and guide them to a safe place," Atem ordered the guards but the chief guard replied, "Our pharaoh. If we do that, we not only endanger the country but the villagers as well. If the ruler is killed then everything will end."
Atem looked at the chief guard, "Don't hesitate on my decision right now, just follow my order…I'll be alright. Now go!" the chief guard still looked at Atem with a worried and a hesitant expression but then followed his order and told his guards to follow him.
Meanwhile Atem carried Tea bridal style to a house that was abandoned already, when Tea was placed having her back rest on the wall, Atem then cupped Tea's chin and made her look at him. "Tea, I'm going outside to fight them, you stay here for safety…understand?" Atem asked his wife and Tea replied, "Why did this happen now? I can't just sit here while you fight and hurt yourself there in the battle. I'm joining you."
Atem shook his head, "You don't understand...I don't want you to get involved in the fight. Please Tea, just listen to me."
The young girl replied, "Then if you believe in me…you've gotta let me fight with you, after all we're now married and we should be supporting each other's back no matter what."
The young pharaoh sigh, "such a stubborn girl…well then, promise me that you won't die. I can't bear to lose you."
Tea was surprised, "Huh? What did you say, Atem?" the young pharaoh realized what he just said and replied, "I said I can't bear to lose one of my friends." Tea smiled, "then let's go fight those gate crashers." Atem smiled as well and nodded.
As soon as they went out of the house, they saw that the councils except Shadi and Isis were busy fighting people wearing black cloaks. They were surrounded and even with the guards added, they were still outnumbered. Meanwhile Isis decided to stay with Shadi to a safe place where the villagers were placed, everyone watched the battle happening below them with horrid and some worried expressions.
Not long enough, four more persons arrived wearing black cloaks but this time they were guarded by black horses having blue fire around their feet, back and eyes. They were like Death's servant ordered to reap the souls on the list. Atem and Tea faced them, while one of the four cloaked persons spoke in a rather familiar voice. "I'll handle the pharaoh myself," and the removed her hood revealing her to be Tira.
"Don't get too confident in facing him Tira, he needs an opponent as strong as him," another cloaked person said.
Another cloaked person spoke, "I'll fight him Tira. You have battled him already before, now it's my turn…and don't worry Mikhail, I won't lose to him." The cloaked person then jump from where she was standing and landed in front of Atem, she then removed her hood and bowed down to the pharaoh. "Nice meeting you, pharaoh. My name is Chocolate, Tira's sister and one of Master Bakura's servant. I will be your opponent today."
Upon seeing his new enemy, Atem smiled. "Nice meeting you too, but I guess this would be our first and last duel since I'm gonna defeat you and Bakura," the young pharaoh spoke and the red haired girl laugh, "Please. Don't say such things pharaoh, we're not weak opponents if that's what you think. My sister last time weren't really serious on your duel so I'll apologize on behalf of her."
Tira gritted her teeth and shouted, "Enough chit-chat already and fight you two! And don't get over confident too my foolish sister, he's really a strong opponent worthy of Master."
"Are we just gonna stand here and talk or get to fight already? You, the pink haired Lady! Tira…was it? I'll be your opponent" Tea said and the pink haired girl smiled, "Sure princess…just a word of advice, surrender now if you don't want to get hurt." "As if I'll let myself lose to someone like you," Tea replied and Tira snapped, "I'll show you whose the better one" and slid on the sand landing in front of Tea.
"So…who are we gonna face, Frau?" Mikhail asked looking at his ally who was just standing quietly.
"Mikhail, ready yourself…our opponents will be arriving," Frau said and just as he said it, Yugi along with Joey, Tristan and Duke arrived to the place each riding on a horse.
"Atem, are you and Tea alright? We heard that the village were attacked and-" Joey stopped midway when he saw Atem fighting with a red haired female while Tea was having a battle of her own with a pink haired girl.
"So you'll be our opponent huh? This won't take long," Mikhail said and removed his hood. He then vanished to thin air and in a blink is now standing in front of Joey. "I'll be your opponent…since there are four of you, me and Frau here will have to battle one against two" he added and Joey replied, "What?! One against two? You must be so confident in battling us huh! We're not weak duelist you know."
Frau vanished into thin air as well and is now standing behind his brown haired ally, he removed his hood and slowly walk towards Joey placing a hand to Mikhail's left shoulder. "I apologize in behalf of him, Mikhail is the type of person who speak without really understanding it…and as for you Mikhail, don't treat our opponents like weaklings. They are allies of the pharaoh, they aren't just normal duelist."
The brown haired guy sigh, "fine. Shall we duel now?" the four looked at each other then face their opponents and nodded, while Mikhail smirked and Frau merely stared.
The sun was shining brightly in a cloudless sky and the sands were adding more heat to the warm temperature. The village was deserted, and some grains were scattered on the sands. Not far from the place, many people were watching the scene happening below them with horrified expressions. Atem and his councils, as well as his friends were fighting Bakura's servants. "I summon black luster soldier envoy of the beginning," Atem shouted and the image of black luster soldier envoy of the beginning appeared on his golden disk, after that the monster appeared in front of the young pharaoh. "black luster soldier envoy of the beginning, protect the villagers from harm…attack!" Atem added and the monster followed as it went directly towards Chocolate.
"Hmph! Is that the only thing you've got? Summon Fortune Lady Dark," the red haired female shouted and the Fortune Lady Dark appeared before her. "Fortune Lady Dark, attack the black luster soldier envoy of the beginning!" Chocolate commanded. The mage followed what its master ordered and attacked the black luster soldier envoy of the beginning with its magic, completely trapping the monster in a dark sphere.
While Atem is busy dealing with Chocolate, Yugi also deals with his enemy, Frau. Even if the combat is two versus one, he and Joey couldn't lay a single scratch on the enemy. "I summon Silent magician," Yugi shouted while Joey followed, "I summon Red eyes black dragon."
"If that's the opponent I'm gonna face then I shall summon a monster that's just right for you two," Frau said as he caress his hair.
"Why you! Don't you dare say to us like we are weak…we'll defeat you and show you who's stronger," Joey replied as he started to move towards the enemy with a fist.
Yugi tried his best to stop his friend, "Joey it's fine. Don't let him get into you, he is just trying to provoke you."
Frau raised a brow and said seriously, "So are we just gonna stand in here and fight verbally? Or are we gonna battle?"
"We'll battle!" Joey and Yugi replied in unison. "Silent Magician…attack!" Yugi shouted and pointed Frau, "You too Red eyes black dragon…attack!" Joey said.
"Hmph! That couldn't defeat me, Summon…Dark Necrofear" Frau said and before him appeared the monster holding a sleeping child, its eyes opened and a dark aura surrounded it. When the red eyes black dragon and silent magician were near Frau, the Dark Necrofear took the attack as it uses its body as a shield, then it looked at the monsters and shouted in front of them with a deadly voice. The red eyes black dragon and silent magician vanished as they broke into millions of pieces.
"No! my red eyes black dragon!" Joey shouted and slowly fall down on the sands.
"My silent magician!" Yugi shouted as he looked at his monster slowly vanishing.
Frau smirked and whispered to himself, "Such weak monsters couldn't defeat me."
While near them as well were Duke and Tristan facing their enemy too, Mikhail. "So are you ready to lose too?" Mikhail asked with a serious tone and Duke and Tristan replied, "Not today."
"I summon Maximum Six" Duke said and the creature appeared before him, while Tristan also summoned his monster "I summon…Judge Man!"
Mikhail sigh, "Geez, I thought you would summon a much stronger monsters than that but…I think I expected too much. Summon, Gravekeeper's Dragon" With that, the three monsters battled. Not long enough Duke's Maximum Six and Tristan's Judge Man were defeated as both monsters flew far away and landed on the sands creating a massive smoke.
"No way…our monsters were…defeated," Duke and Tristan said.
"So princess, it seems to me that you and your husband are the only ones remaining that has not yet been defeated, but don't worry…I'll finish this off right away" Tira said as she summoned Dark Valkyria. Tea smirked and glared at Tira with a killing gaze, upon seeing her expression, Tira sweatdropped. "It seems that this girl hids a darker side too," the pink haired girl whispered to herself.
Tea faced the pink haired girl and replied, "Is that so? Well see about that. I summon Queen of Autumn Leaves" the two monsters battled, as Tea's Queen of Autumn Leaves attacked Tira's Dark Valkyria with sharp leaves trapping it inside like a whirlpool while Dark Valkyria countered it with creating a tornado like wind to destroy the Queen of Autumn Leaves attack.
As the two battled, Tea suddenly felt dizzy and lost consciousness for a bit, then a white light began surrounding her though normal people cannot see it but only those who are stronger. The young girl was still standing yet her pupils were gone as if her soul travelled somewhere, no one noticed it. A flash went to her mind and Tea saw a broken vase, two young people smiling, and a woman crying. After that, Tea regained consciousness, "Wh-what happened?" she asked herself and shook her head, "I need to focus on the battle."
Meanwhile Atem's black luster soldier envoy of the beginning has finally been freed from the Fortune Lady Dark's sphere and the two monsters battled again. "Why don't you just quit already so no one would get hurt…your life is more precious than these battle," Atem said and Chocolate didn't reply for a moment.
"My life is nothing and meaningless, I was born to serve Master Bakura and die for him," Chocolate replied and battled Atem personally. She released a string of metal that cannot be noticed fast and wrapped it around Atem's right hand, the young pharaoh struggled as he cannot move his right hand.
"What happened? Why can't I move?" Atem thought and caught something shine when the light hit it, "A metal string? She's using this kind of trick huh, then I guess I can cut myself loose if I use my power" And with that, Atem chanted a small incantation and suddenly a sharp leaf appeared behind Chocolate's back but the red haired girl sensed it and dodge it easily.
"Hmph! If you're trying to have a sneak attack on me, that won't do" Chocolate said and Atem smiled, "Are you sure you're the one I'm aiming?"
Atem's words finally hit Chocolate and realized that the leaf wasn't aiming her but the metal string itself, it went through the sand and cut the metal string. "Finally, let's resume on our duel shall we?" Atem said with a smile while Chocolate only gritted her teeth.
While Atem's councils were busy fighting Bakura's other servants, they were not as strong as the four but they can compete with the councils. "We should end this now, or else the villagers will be endangered," Seti said as he and the other councils were trapped in a corner.
Not far from where they were, Bakura stood and watched the scenes happening. He smiled with an evil aura surrounding him, "Now Atem, how can you and your friends as well as your councils protect the villagers? It seems to me that the winner has been decided. And Tea…it seems to me that I finally got some information about you that will be useful to me someday" And with that he laughed menacingly and vanished as a dark mist began surrounding him.
After hours of battle, a large crow flew above the field where the battle was happening. Frau signalled his allies to withdraw, the other three at first hesitated to continue the battle as they were now winning, but Frau looked at them seriously. "Well then, until next time. We'll continue our interrupted battle, and when that day came…we won't hold back anymore," Tira, Chocolate, and Mikhail said to Atem and the gang while they followed Frau and vanished as a large black mist surrounded them.
"I can't believe we survived! They prove to be a worthy opponent," Joey said and slumped on the sand.
On the other hand, Atem was busy aiding a few villagers and guards as well as his councils that were injured during the battle. Tea assisted as well and assured everyone that they'll be giving help to the villagers until the village is back to what it was before.
Meanwhile back to Bakura's place…Frau and the other three reported to Bakura what happened on their battle, not knowing that their master was there watching as well. The then walk to their room and Chocolate stopped, remembering Atem's words moments ago. "Why don't you just quit already so no one would get hurt…your life is more precious than these battle". Upon remembering it, Chocolate felt her blood boiling with anger. "I'll kill you the next time we see each other in battle, pharaoh" she said and went inside the room.
Back to Atem's palace…the gang were talking about the events that happened a while ago and the other encounters they had with Bakura's servants, it seems that they will be facing stronger opponents much different that the enemies they had already encountered.
"Atem, we should go to Bakura's village to gather his weakness…I'm pretty sure that he and his servants were planning as well on how to destroy us" Joey suggested and the others agreed.
"Not only that, but it seems that his servants aren't normal opponents. We need to train ourselves for the next encounter with them" Tristan said.
Atem listened to his friends, he's sitting with them yet gently massaging his forehead. Tea who sat beside him, looked at her husband worriedly. "Are you alright? I know we're all exhausted from the fight, shall we just end the discussion now and resume tomorrow?" Tea asked while placing a hand to Atem's free hand. The latter looked at Tea and found out that it's not only her who was worried but also his other friends, Atem smiled, "I guess we shall plan when are we going to Bakura's village."
After hearing their friend's remark, everyone looked at each other and nodded. "Then I guess, we'll start training ourselves tomorrow" Tea said with a smile.
Finished! The next chap would be a bit long to update, so please bear with me. Reviews are much appreciated, and stay tune for the next chap.
Also, if you don't know the monsters here, you can search it in google. I did a whole day searching for the right monsters to be put here, and I know that I did a pretty lame action chap here…so if anyone has some tips on how can I make the battle scenes interesting, please do help me. I would appreciate it. As for now, I gave my best in creating this chap's battle scenes a bit ok, I guess^^