"Wait for us, Yugi!" cried Joey when we had reached the airport.
"Why are you guys here?" asked Yugi.
"Come on, do you really think we'd let you do this on your own?" I laughed
"Besides,' laughed Joey "Emily paid for the tickets.
"Try I lent you the money cause you two continently forgot your wallets!" asked Emily in a warning tone of voice.
"Of course!" cried Joey "And we are going to pay you back every penny!"
"My checks already in the mail!" piped in Tristan.
Emily looked at me and asked "I'm never going to get my money back, am I?"
"Nope," I laughed.
"If you plan on coming you might want to hurry!" called Kristin from the plane's entrance. We quickly ran up the ramp and into the plane.
"We made it." sighed Emily as we took our seats. Suddenly I became very conscious of where I was sitting; you see I was sitting right next to Yugi. I saw Emily cover a smile and I shot her a death glare and she looked away whistling, causing Yugi to look at me confused. I laughed at his confusion and waved it off with a toss of my hand.
Once we reached the Cairo airport we climbed out and started down when Kristin suddenly ran off to the small shop off to the right. She came back holding a snow globe with a pyramid in it.
"Great job Kristin, now everyone knows we're tourists." sighed Megan.
"So are they." shot back Kristin. I laughed as I saw Emily run off to another store, but when she returned she had a strange silver pendent called a cartouche, and gave it to Pharaoh who had just re-separated from Yugi.
"It's what ancient pharaohs carved their names into." said Emily as an explanation.
"But its blank." objected Pharaoh.
"I know that's why I bought it." said Emily "I thought that when you got your memories back you could carve your name into it so you'll never forget it again." Pharaoh smiled
"I don't know what to say," he said "I'll never take it off." Emily blushed noticeably but put her hand up to her face, pretending to be brushing away from stray hairs, to cover her blush. I covered my moth to smother a smile and quickly turned away from Emily's death glare.
"Hello my friends." called a voice from the crowd "It is so good to see you again." We turned to see Ishizu coming towards us.
"Hey Ishizu!" called Pharaoh "Good to see you!"
"Yeah!" called Yugi "How is it going?"
"What?" cried Ishizu "How are you separate?"
"We figured out how to separate a while back." replied Yugi calmly.
"Um…ok….well I suppose that works…it is unexpected, but it is our pleasure to be your guides to the tablet." said Ishizu uncertainty.
"The pleasure is all ours," I said calmly.
"Yeah," agreed Emily. Sarah nodded her agreement.
"Oh, my!" cried Ishizu "The whole royal family is here! As well as two members of the royal guard, the commanders no less!"
"What!" I cried "We're not royalty!"
"Yeah, what are you talking about!" agreed Sarah. Ishizu nodded.
"I don't expect you to remember, but you will soon." she said calmly. We looked at her confused but it was obvious that she was not going to tell us any more than that.
"Follow me," she said calmly. She then led us to a large jeep and we all got in. We drove through Egypt, everyone sitting quietly except Tristan and Joey who couldn't keep from exclaiming over the pyramids and the sphinx. Once we reached what seemed to be our destination we all got out.
"The tablet of lost memories is down there," said Ishizu, gesturing to a stairway that led down into the earth "the rest of the journey you must make on your own, but before you continue I think these will help you on your journey." She then pulled a golden sword with a leather scabbard, a golden dagger with a smaller leather scabbard, a golden spear, a golden bow with ten golden arrows, and a golden tiara
out of Odion's bag. She then held them out to us, the sword to me, the dagger to Sarah, the spear to Megan, the bow and arrows to Kristin, and the tiara to Emily!
"What will we need these for?" cried Megan.
"They belonged to your past lives, and I believe you will find them useful in your journey." replied Ishizu. We gingerly took the golden items.
"Why do I have a tiara?" cried Emily.
"You'll find out soon enough." laughed Ishizu. I looked at the sword and was surprised to see the same symbol that was on Pharaoh's puzzle engraved into it!
Kristin must have noticed the same thing because she looked up at Ishizu and objected "I thought there were only seven millennium items!"
"Um…we seemed to have made a slight miscalculation…" mumbled Ishizu, ashamed.
"Its fine," I laughed as I put away my sword "as long as we have them now." Ishizu nodded and smiled thankfully. We then turned and headed down the dark passageway. I glanced around, frightened, as we walked and slowly moved closer to Yugi.
"What's wrong?" whispered Yugi, worriedly. I blushed scarlet.
"I'm scared of the dark." I confessed.
"There's nothing to fear in the dark." he whispered comfortingly, but I could hear the fear in his voice as well.
"I know," I whispered I reply "That doesn't help though." I felt Yugi nod in agreement. We finally saw a faint light at the end of the tunnel. We walked into the light and I breathed a sigh of relief. There on the wall hung the tablet of lost memories.
"We made it," breathed Megan. Pharaoh walked confidently up to the tablet and held up the god cards. Suddenly a bright light filled the room and I had to shield my eyes from it! When it had faded I looked around and saw that Pharaoh had disappeared!
"Pharaoh!" cried Emily, franticly.
"He's fine," came a voice from behind us "he's in the world of his memories." We turned around to find a man with a off-white turban on.
"Shadi!" I cried happily "It's good to see you!" He looked at me and smiled.
"Yeah, hi Shadi!" agreed Emily. He turned to her and smiled again.
"It is good to see all of you again," he said calmly "I see you're here to discover the memories of your past life."
"What…" objected Emily "But we were alive back then."
"I know," replied Shadi "I've researched that and found that when you died in the past you were reincarnated five-thousand years before your death. It's hard to believe but it's true."
"How do you know each other?" inquired Kristin.
"Kristin," I said exasperated "we're over ten-thousand years old, remember?"
"Oh…right" said Kristin "Sorry." Sarah rolled her eyes at our immaturity.
"Sorry…" I said embarrassed "We got side tracked."
"Yeah, you did." agreed Megan. Suddenly another flash of light filled the room and the next thin I knew I was falling through what looked like a blue tunnel of light! I looked to my right and saw Emily, Sarah, Kristin, and Megan falling next to me.
Suddenly I found myself leaning against something with my eyes closed. I opened my eyes to find myself on top of a large palm tree and wearing strange Egyptian clothing! I jerked in surprise then struggled to regain my balance. Once I did I looked over to my left to find Emily, Sarah, Kristin, and Megan all recovering from similar close calls. Suddenly the way they looked seemed incredibly funny and I started laughing hysterically, which then caused me to fall out my tree. I landed with a thud but even that didn't stop my torrent of laughing.
"What's so funny?" called Megan from up in one of the trees.
"You guys should have seen your faces!" I laughed, between gasps for air. They looked at each other, then, one by one they began to laugh just as hard as I was and fell out of their own trees which just made the rest of us laugh even harder. Once we had all calmed down we got up and began to inspect our surroundings. We were obviously in Ancient Egypt.
"Hey, isn't Pharaoh supposed to being crowned Pharaoh right now?" inquired Sarah.
"You're right!" cried Emily "He is!"
"Lets go!" I cried. We set off at a run towards the palace, which was, apparently, was very far away. We were running through a village when we heard a large commotion and followed it to a crowd, which seemed to be centered around something. We pushed our way to the middle, which was surprisingly easy, because the people had seen us coming and, for some reason, moved out of our way. When we reached the center we found a teenage girl, with whit hair, laying on the ground, unconscious, and the crowd was throwing rock at her!
"Stop!" we cried in unison "What are you doing?" The crowd looked up in surprise, then many of them began to run away, but a few of them stayed.
"We are ridding ourselves of this menace before she destroys us all!" called a man at the front of the mob.
"Why?" I called.
"Yeah," agreed Sarah "What has she done to you?"
"Nothing yet," called another man "but she will, it's in her nature!'
"You are attacking an innocent girl!" cried Emily "Doesn't that upset you at all?" Some of the members of the crowd mumbled their agreement, but most remained silent.
"Go home!" ordered Kristin.
"And why should we listen to you?" called the man who had first spoken.
"Because she's got all of us behind her!" came a replying voice from behind us. We whirled around to find someone who looked like Seto in front of us.
"Seto!" we cried surprised.
"It's ok now." said Seto "We'll take it from here." We stood in shock as we watched Seto herd away the villagers. Suddenly I felt a tug on my shirt and turned to see Yugi standing next to me!
"Yugi!" I cried happily. The others turned to greet him and we followed him out of the crowd and over to another street where the rest of the gang was waiting, with a fat dude. They all ran up to greet us.
"Hey guys, who's the new dude?" I laughed
"You can see us!" cried Joey happily.
"Of, course we can see you, why wouldn't we?" laughed Megan.
"No one else can," replied Yugi "they walk right trough us, literally."
"Yikes." I laughed "I'd like to see that. But who are you?" I turned to the fat dude, trying to remember who he was.
"I'm Bobassa." he laughed
"We don't have time for this!" cried Emily exasperated "We need to find Pharaoh!" I looked at her and nodded. She definitely didn't like being away from him for very long.
"Lets go to the castle." said Yugi. With that he began leading the way. Emily fell back, thinking, and I fell into step with her.
"You like him." I accused, even though I already knew the answer.
"No I don't!" cried Emily, too quickly. I smiled and nodded.
"Of course you don't Emily, of course you don't." I said in mock understanding.
"Is it that obvious?" she whispered hopelessly.
"Kind of," I said sympathetically "you're not exactly hiding your anxiety to see him again."
"I can't help it," she said helplessly "remember what happens? I don't want him to get hurt!"
"I understand, believe me I do" I sighed. "But we've got to let it happen no matter how much we don't want to. If we don't, everything will be destroyed, including the ones we were trying to protect." She nodded sadly.
"Doesn't mean I have to like it." she said rebelliously.
"I know." I agreed.
"Hey you two!" came Sarah's voice from up ahead of us "Catch up!" We sped up our pace and caught up quickly.
"Sorry," I laughed "we got distracted." Sarah nodded and we continued on our way. Soon we could see the entrance to the palace. There was Seto leading in the girl with white!
"Wait up!" cried Joey as we ran to the gate, but they didn't hear him. We pounded on the gate but it didn't do anything.
"Now what?" inquired Joey as he slid down onto the floor.
"Now we have to wait." I said as I slid down next to him.
"Yeah, we should get some z's." agreed Megan.
"Now you're talking." laughed Tristan. Yugi slid down next to me and the others slid down around us. I looked at Emily to find her still standing up.
"We can't help him right now, Emily." I called to her "Get some sleep." She forced a smile.
"I guess you're right." she agreed heavily before sliding down next to us. I closed my eyes and was quickly swept away into troubled dreams, I can't remember them very well though.