Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh the song I use or anything but this fic itself.
Prince of Egypt
The Love is Gone
With her head hung low the fair Tea sauntered slowly to the majestic gazebo overseeing the gardens, where a man only a few years older than her waited. He was tall and lean, but not without strong tight muscles framing his body. His black wig was angled sharply forward, shaping like a thin helmet. Around his neck a pale blue stone mounted on a rare silver plate on a long thin gold chain nestled between his fingers; reflecting the light off the crystal water of the lake surrounding the gazebo. His cool steely eyes widened when he saw the woman heading his way across the stepping stones. "Nevertiri! You are a sight for sore eyes my dear." He said brightly as he rose from his seat and escorted her into the gazebo of smoothed stone.
Calmly she sat down on the golden chair next to his. The man reached his hand to the clear water and lifted out the flower from a water lily.
Tea smiled softly as he placed the flower gently in her smooth black wig. "You always provided the warmest of welcomes Alister." she said quietly turning her head away.
Alister grabbed another stone like his from his chair and tied the gold band around her neck.
Tea glanced down to see the rock of the pharaoh around her neck.
"An early wedding gift from Lord Dartz." Alitser answered her question before she could ask.
Tea starred at the stone for a long memorizing moment. She reached behind her neck and unclasped it off.
"What's wrong my darling? You're usually so glad to see me after I've returned from a mission."
Tea: "Except that you are away longer than you have ever been at home. I'm actuality more used to you being away."
Aster stood up and walked to the side of the gazebo, "It's not my fault that my work tends to bring me away from Nekhen."
Tea: "Work? You're looking for a child. A child that probably doesn't even exist."
Alister: "That child holds the secret to unlocking the powers of the shadow realm and to Lord Dartz's goal for peace."
"Peace! You call this peace?" Tea scolded throwing her hand toward the road that lead to the city, "Have you really looked at what's out there? Everyday there are more people on the streets without jobs. With every one of your attacks the survivors come here to rebuild their lives. But because there are no jobs they cannot buy food, even though the harvests have been one success after another. Our supplies are wasting away and there's no one we can export it to."
Alister tossed his arms behind his head and sat down at his seat, "You've been listening to that renegade bandit haven't you? And I suppose he also told you that our engagement is not meant to be."
Tea nodded in shame, "Yes, he did."
He sprung from his chair and grasped her hands tightly, "Know this Nevertiri, I'm doing all this for you. I love you."
Tea forced his hands off and stood up, "You did once.
There was a time when I was sure
That you and I were truly one,
That our future was forever
And would never come undone,
And we came so close to being close
And though you cared for me
There's distance in your eyes tonight
So we're not meant to be."
She turned her gaze to the lavish gardens away from Alister's gaze. Tears tried to force their way through her tightly shut eyes.
"The love is gone
The love is gone,
The sweetest dream
That you have ever known,
The love is gone
The love is gone,
I wish you well
But I must leave you now alone,"
Allister grabbed her by the shoulder and spun her around, "It's Bakura isn't it? Do you think your little peasant boy can take care of you better than I can?
Tea simply brushed his hand away
"There comes a moment in your life
Like a window, and you see,
Your future there before you
And how perfect life can be,
But adventure calls with unknown voices
Pulling you away,
Be careful or you may regret
The choice you make someday,
When love is gone
The love is gone,
The sweetest dream
That you have ever known,
The love is gone
The love is gone,
I wish you well
But I must leave you now alone,"
Nevertiri slowly approached the doorway out of the garden house. She felt ALister place a hand on her right shoulder and lowered her head.
Tea and Alister: "It was almost love
It was almost always
It was like a fairytale, we'd live out You and I
And yes some dream come true,
And yes some dreams fall through,"
Tea: "And yes the time has come for us to say goodbye,
Yes some dreams come true
Yes some dreams fall through
The love is gone
The love is gone,
I wish you well, but I must leave you now alone."
Neverterri slowly walked away into the deepest portions of the guardian. Alister was about to run after her when another Egyptian boy stepped out of the shrubbery.
"Leave her Alister. You're better off."
"I know. But I can't help but feel she's right. About the Kingdom and the pharaoh."
Just then the stone around his neck glowed resiliently. He lifted the stone in front of his face a good two feet or so away, "Alister here."
A short beam of blue light shone from the stone and an image of one of the high officials,
Raphael. "I see you're not entirely in distress."
"Hey, just stay out of my love life." Alister shouted to the image followed by a chuckle from Varon, "You too!"
Raphael: "Will you too stop it? (silence) Good. Now I have some news that might cheer you up. It seems like you have a potential in your mists."
Both Alister and Varon stopped and starred at their friend from the stone. "You've got to be kidding?" Alister said in surprise, "One of possible royals? In Nekhen?"
"Several actually."
"I'll take the guards and stop every trade ship and caravan from leaving the city until they're found!" Varon said enthusiastically while drawing his dagger out from his belt.
"Don't be so hasty Varon. Our spies in enchantments have informed us that one of the potentials is in custody of one of the rebel leaders. If our enemies actually obtain the real child before we do, our job will become considerably harder."
But the energetic teen just waved his dagger around like a full sword, "It's about time those blokes started poking their heads up. And with one of their leaders scuffling about in our turf we'll have the others before the day is out. See yeh!" Varon then raced through the lake and disappeared back into the governor's palace.
Alister sighed and turned back to Raphael, "Anything else we need to know?"
"Yeah, don't get killed." With that the general's image vanished.
The Captain sat down at his seat in the gazebo and pulled out a large rolled up piece of paper and unrolled it. Several glowing dots appeared in various spots on the map of the city and he gazed peculiarly at the one closest to his location, "Well Princess, the love maybe gone, but I still need you."
At the other end of town Joey, Yugi, Tristan, and Bakura had stopped behind a Courthouse to rest,
"Huf huf. I huf think huf we lost them. Huf." Tristan rasped heavily. All of them were bent over from running nearly three miles away from the robed hunters.
Yugi collapsed and sat himself against the wall, "That…was…close." He glanced over to Bakura who close to passing out, "Are you okay?"
The albino boy gazed over to him. His eyes blinked in surprise of the child's concern, "Yes…thank you." Bakura threw his bag of loot to the blond, "I owe you my life. How can I ever repay you?"
"You can start by giving Yugi back his charm." Joey scolded after searching through the contents in the bag.
Bakura pouted and reached into his robes. He dropped the golden eye of Hores and stood up, "Good day gentlemen."
"Hold it." Joey said grabbing him by the shoulder, "Those definitely weren't police marshals. So why are they after you?"
"I don't know!" Bakura shouted turning back to the taller teen, "I just know that they're spies for the pharaoh."
Yugi: "The pharaoh? You means Dartz?"
Bakura: "Yeah. Who else?"
Tristan glanced at Yugi and Joey, "Hey, do you suppose they think he's just like Yugi?"
Yugi: "A prince of Egypt?"
Bakura: "What are you talking about?"
Tristan: "Eh guys, we better get going."
The boys looked down the road and quickly hid inside four large pottery jars. Two tall robed men stopped in front of the jars.
Robed guy 1: "Where did they go?"
Robed guy 2: "They got to be around here somewhere."
A third ran to them from the other end of the road, "Our scanners have found another potential in the palace."
RG1: "What! How's that possible!"
RG2: "Never mind how let's get going!"
RG3: "But what of the albino?"
RG2: "Leave him. The marshals will get him soon. Now come on it's almost sundown."
The men disappeared down the road.
"Did you hear that?" Joey said poking his head from the jar.
Tristan "Sounds like there're more potentials in this city than we thought.
Yugi: "Joey?"
Joey: "Yes."
Yugi: "We've gotta find him and get him away from those guys."
Tristan: "Yugi! He's in the palace. We'll never get close to there alive."
Bakura gazed into the ceramic jar wide-eyed and afraid. He then sprung his head to the three travelers around him, "Why are you looking for those potentials yourselves?"
Joey glanced at him and frowned, "Cause my brother's one of them. We're looking for as many as we can get rid of Datz forever."
The white haired teen leaped out of the jar and sprinted down an alleyway, "Follow me I'll take you to the palace."
The three Toshka boys starred at each other before following the thief down the road.
Bakura: "Hold on Tea."
The hot desert sun had finally disappeared beyond the limestone structures and desert dunes. In the cool spacious bedroom of the mansion Tea was placing all her travel cloths and personal items in a fine wooden trunk.
"Where are you going my lady?" a servant asked who was waiting at the door.
"I'm going back to Kerma. I don't think I can stand another day with Alister of this government work. Can you see that my camel is ready to depart first thing in the mourning."
"I will my lady." The servant girl answered before disappearing through the silk cretins.
Tea looked through her dressers one more time before finding a folded parchment. She gazed at it for several long moments. The girl adjusted her ornamented wig and slid the paper into a carry bag.
"It's a shame you cannot stay with us Nevertiri."
Quickly she spun around to the balcony. Alister was sitting leisurely in a golden chair draped with the finest linen in the land. "Alister!"
He stood up and slowly neared her at the center of the room, "Unfortunately you will not be heading south."
"What are you doing here!" Tea shouted. She gasped when Alister drew a dagger from his belt.
Alister: "My master wants to see you, Princess."
I'm sorry I haven't update this in a while. I'll try to update the next shapter sooner. Say anything you want. The good ones with encourage a faster update, flamers will defrost my computer. R&R.
Celtic Guardian: What happened to it?
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