"I am the king of the Thieves Guild

Disclaimer: I do not own YuGioh, if I did I would have made this story more accurate with the Atem's true past in the series.

Which was part of the reason why it took so long to update. The episodes of the last season I saw discouraged me BIG time.

That and finishing High school, starting college, the October fires, turning 20..

It's very confusing.

Prince of Egypt

The King of Thieves

The vassal guard led the group alleyway to alleyway deep into the core of the secretive city. Crude torches lit each the corners they passed as they fell out of reach of the desert sun. The passageways became longer and darker with shadows.

"Are we going underground?" Tea whispered keeping close to Bakura during their decent.

Though it was hard for her to see the albino nodded, "Seems like a logical place for a guild to hide from Pharaoh's soldiers. Even a city of thieves should take precautions." Reaching his hand back into his sleeve he lightly scratched a thin white line on the stone wall. "We may need to navigate out of this maze ourselves if we need to escape quickly."

Imhotept glanced around worriedly, "This was something I hadn't counted on."

Just when the shadows were at their darkest a bright blinding light appeared before them with the opening of two heavy stone doors.

The Nekken children, the drifter, even the guard stopped for several moments until their eyes adjusted to the light.

The visitors gave a whispered awe. A great massive room was opened up to them. The walls were lined with fine white limestone decorated with unknown hieroglyphs tinted with gold. Rolls upon rolls of silk of numerous colors stretched all over the ceiling and draped down from the pillars. Carved gemstone figures of gods and goddesses lined a stretch of hallway before them creating a path leading to a thrown. Possibly stolen from a foreign land. More guards filled the room as well, along with servants and slaves working tirelessly polishing the goods and fetching their masters food and drink.

"My my my, what do we have here?" a voice echoed thorough the regal chamber.

Everyone unfamiliar to the city looked around anxiously.

At the head of the long path before the throne a tall man took his seat at the throne. He wore shining robes of silk red as scarlet, or of fresh and blood whichever the thieves had preferred. He positioned himself on the throne leisurely allowing the long hairs of his pure white wig to fall down his thin shoulders. And around his neck was a gold and gemstone amulet shaped like an eye. "Visitors in my castle?"

"Visitors?!" Tea suddenly spoke up her voice echoed throughout the chamber. "Just who do you think you are? Dragging us down here!"

"Psst! Are you crazy?!" Bakura took her by the hand just in case the guard decided to attack them.

But the stranger didn't seem offended, "I am the king of the Thieves Guild. I've travel far and wide. Into many lands I came, searching for a name that's suitable for me."

Tea: "A name?"

"Yes. Believe it or not I hated my name. It doesn't sound like one that belonged to a powerful being that is me. A man of my stature deserves a powerful, DIFFERENT name that people will remember in fear of my power."

Bakura pulled Tea closer to him and whispered to Dark Magician, "Ok. He's nuts."

Imhotept nodded.

"I need an outsider's opinion on this one. I heard it during my travels across the sea at the bottom on the Nile. What do you think of… Pegasus? Now be honest…or else my guards will have something to sharpen their spears on."

The three of them huddled together as the closest soldiers pointed their weapons at them.

"Uhhh its…perfect!" Tea uttered out with a frightened squeak.

"Yeah, Pegasus….that's a good name…fits just right." Bakura nodded his head vigorously.

"Very well." The king said, his voice filled with approval of his choice, "Now, why exactly have you come here seeking the Hawk's Eye?"

The young thief took a small step a head of the others, "We need it…your highness.. we're looking for treasure..."

"Be a little more specific will yeh? This rodent invested city is full of treasure if you search long enough."

By then the spy who had led the guards and prisoners to the hideaway had reached the king's right side, "They're looking for THE treasure sir. The one that was entrusted to us after the rebellion."

He shifted his eyes to him curiously, "Oh. Is that so?"

"Yes. The one that the king's right hand gave you to protect the secret of the lost heir."

Pegasus raised a hand to his chin and gazed upward to the ceiling, "Hmm, I do recall the rebellion. Profitable time, you wouldn't believe how many weapons I sold. But I don't seem to recall a soldier giving me anything."

"The Eye of Horus that is around your neck…the one I gave you." Bellowed in unexpected voice. The Thief King, his right hand, guards, and Bakura and Tea, looked over to Imhotep who had lowered his hood.

"Where did all these soldiers come from?" Joey muttered under his breath as the three boys sat hidden behind a white cloth below a tradesmen table.

The occupants of the streets were joined by a battalion of uniform robed men. Each carried an exposed weapon from knives, to swords, to spears. Along the rooftops and high windows archers appeared, preparing their arsenal.

"What are they doing here?" Yugi asker nervously after stealing a glance to the outside.

"No doubt they followed us after we stowed away on the trade ship. They won't stop at nothing for the royal." Tristan said pulling Yugi away and reaching for a dagger behind the stand.

"I'm not so sure about that." Joey replied looked over the men more closely and how the people behind so calmly around them. "They don't look like they belong to the military. More like local militia."

"What would make them come at arms all of a sudden?" Yugi asked.

"I don't know." said Joey pulling backward, "But I don't think we'd want to find out."

Young Yuko felt helpless that he couldn't help his friends out from this predicament. Bakura, Tea, and Imhotep was nowhere to be seen or heard. "I hope they're alright." He thought.

However they did not have to worry for long, as the three Toshka boys were suddenly fell upon by three monster militia.

Pegasus the king of the thieves, and Imhotep the Dark Magician starred each down for an intense moment all other souls and activity of the room had been silenced to make the even more intimidating.

There was an obvious sense of fear and confusion within the eyes of the former official and thief. It seemed that their strong noble guide was more involved with the situation then they had realized.

The king gave his old 'friend' a pleased smirk, "I thought I would never see your ugly face again. I see your.. 'condition' hasn't improved yet."

This caused a shudder of fear run through young Bakura's body. Ever since he had first met the made he had always showed himself as a strong fearless companion on their journey. For Imhotep to have a condition.. that even he couldn't recognize right away? Suddenly their hopes of survival grew drastically thin.

But Imhotep didn't seem to be phased by the man's words. "The amulet…"

Pegasus rolled his eyes upward to the milti colored fabrics hanging on the walls. "I would if I could… but lately I've grown quite attached to it. After all it's been over fifteen years."

"Typical thief." The Dark Magician grumbled.

But the king merely gave him a smug look, "Don't think you can use you powers here my friend." He said indicating their attention to the statures surrounding the doors and windows. "Even tough your secrets had been lost to most of the country, I still know."
Imhotep glanced at the guardian statures. Carved from black stone gathered from within the shadow realm itself, The early kings used them to keep the monsters in check while in the mortal world. "Drat!" he cursed.

Just then more guards had entered the underground palace, each threw a young boy from a far away city with the other captives.
"Yugi! Joey! Tristen" Tea exclaimed as she helped them back up.

Dark Magician spun around to see that his other charges had been snared as well. This made his body feel tense and tremor a little. The loss of anyone of the humans could mean the end.

Far off in the eastern deserts, far north of the Nile delta the servants and nobles of the lord's palace took council and bickered amongst themselves over a letter they had received from Egypt. A summons to have their sacred Oracle sent to Men-nefer. It was a daunting task as the oracle that had helped their ally nearly two decades ago had died just months ago. His young apprentice, also gifted with the gift of foresight was an unusual specimen. Eventually they decided that they had no choice. They would send the Oracle off to Egypt. As soon as she had appointed a new right hand to be her protector.

Quote for Next Chapter.

"How about We play a little game.."

"Can't you blast him away like you did Alister?"

"No. Not with the numerous sacred seals around. My magic is that of darkness and those protection spells would purify and destroy them in an instant. It's hard for me just standing here."

"Well come on! Whose it going to challenge me?"

"I will!"

"Yugi!"

"No you can't!"

"I must guys. It's our only chance..."

Response to Reviews

Desert Thief: LOL I hope you didn't hurt yourself after finding the update :P Like my choice for the King of Thieves?

Patricia Barbera: I'm goanna try to update those stories more often.

Queen of Light 17: I hate to give spoilers but… YEP! He's going to appear again. And Dark is another story..

Sunrise Phoenix: Portobello Road is from 'Bed knobs and Broomsticks', an old Disney flick I've liked since I was a kid. The adaptation took forever!