I was awakened by the sound of galloping hooves. I opened my eyes and jumped up, already knowing who it was. The other followed my lead, just in time to see Pharaoh and Bakura (Yami) ride past us.
"Pharaoh!" cried Emily, but he didn't hear her. They were a little ways of before we were able to get our bodies to respond to our commands.
"Let's go!" cried Yugi as we took off after them. I quickly changed into my wolf form and chased after them. Once I had caught up (which didn't take long) I turned to them, ignoring their surprised expressions.
"Want a ride?" I inquired "I can run farther and faster than any of you, not counting Emily, Kristin, and Megan." Emily, Kristin, and Megan shook her head no and the Yugi and the others stopped and climbed on. Then we were off, Emily, Kristin, and Megan all kept in perfect pace with me and I could feel Sarah and Joey holding on for dear life. I laughed in pure acceleration. I heard Yugi's echoing laugh and I felt freer than I ever had in my life, I was going too fast for the normal human to see me and I was having the time of my life (not counting the fact that Pharaoh was in trouble). Finally we could see and Pharaoh at the bottom of a cliff with Slifer above him. Suddenly a blast from Diabound (Bakura's monster) flew at Slifer and he was destroyed! Pharaoh clutched his chest and struggled to stay on his horse but it didn't work. We were almost there when Pharaoh began to fall from his horse, unconscious. Emily's legs went into overdrive as she raced towards him.
"Pharaoh!" a frightened cried tore from Emily's lips. She caught him gently as he fell and held him in her lap as we reached them.
"Is he ok?" whispered Yugi worriedly, as he dismounted me along with the others.
"He's alive." replied Emily grimly. We all gathered around them, worriedly. After about two minutes, Pharaoh stirred. His eyes fluttered open and he looked at us surprised.
"Emily!" he exclaimed weakly "What are you doing here?"
"To help," laughed Emily, as calmly as she could "are you ok?" Pharaoh smiled at her and nodded.
"I'm fine," he assured her "but you shouldn't be here, it's too dangerous."
Emily laughed at this "Do you really think that's going to work on us?"
"Hey I can try, can't I?" sighed Pharaoh. We all laughed nervously at this. Emily reached down and took his hands in her own and held them tight.
"Just remember that we're all here for you, and you can do it." she said encouragingly. Pharaoh squeezed her hand, reassuringly, and quickly stood up and jumped atop his horse.
"Your rain of terror ends here, Bakura!" cried Pharaoh as he held up his Dia Dia Ankh (the Egyptian version of a duel disk) "I summon The Winged Dragon of Ra!" Bakura looked like we had just slapped him.
"How can you summon a beast so powerful when you were almost out of life energy a minute ago?" cried Bakura, shocked.
Pharaoh simply smiled and called to Ra. "Send your fiery wrath upon this enemy of Egypt!" Ra seemed to light on fire as it hurled at Diabound, destroying it and , somehow, setting Bakura on fire! Bakura's horse bucked him off and ran for its life. I smiled and we all turned to each other happily.
"So you won, right?" said Joey.
"Yes," said Pharaoh "Egypt is safe…for now." We sighed, relieved.
"You did it!" cried Yugi happily.
"No, we did it," corrected Pharaoh "together." I put out my hand (just to annoy Emily) and everyone put their hands on top of mine.
"How did I know this was coming?" laughed Joey. Suddenly a great whirlwind began to form and we were swept away from Pharaoh!
"EMILY! YUGI!" cried Pharaoh "Come back!" "Pharaoh!" cried Emily. Suddenly we found ourselves running through the city again, me back in my wolf form!
"Is it just me or have done this before?" asked Tristan confused.
"It's not just you Tristan, we've been here before." said Yugi "Bakura must have found a way to reverse time!" We ran as fast as we could, but this time when we got there we saw Pharaoh holding out the Millennium Puzzle to Bakura!
"Pharaoh, NO!" cried Emily as she ran towards him. Then, out of nowhere, Diabound attacked to ground beside Pharaoh and sent it crumbing down into a huge hole! Bakura laughed and took the puzzle before stomping the ground where Pharaoh was holding on and sending him down into the hole!
"PHARAOH!" screamed Emily as she ran to where he had just been. Yugi, Joey, Megan, Kristin, Sarah, and Tristan all watched in horror as Emily, without a moments hesitation, plunged into the hole after him!
"EMILY!" We cried in unison as we ran forward. We stopped at the edge of the hole, looking down in dismay. Suddenly Tristan spun around and punched Bakura in the mouth!
"That's for Emily and Pharaoh!" he cried, furious. Bakura looked shocked but then he smiled and grabbed him by the throat and began choking him!
"Let him go!" cried Sarah as she started towards Bakura. He smiled and threw Tristan onto the ground and turned to her.
"Maybe you should be looking for your friends instead of pestering me?" he taunted. Sarah advanced towards him but I grabbed her arm and began to pull her away.
"He's not worth it." I growled, more at him than anyone else. The others followed me and we set out to find Pharaoh and Emily. We ran until we found a way down into the canyon and at the bottom we found a river flowing through it.
"If we follow this river we should find him soon enough." reasoned Megan. We all nodded and started on our way. After a while we saw a girl who looked like Dark Magician Girl, trying to use magic to make a fish dance around her head.
"Hey!" I called to her "Who are you?" She spun around, letting the fish fall. She took one glance at Yugi and bowed low.
"My pharaoh, what happened?" she cried "You've shrunk and you're wearing strange clothing! Oh my, princess Ma'at, princess Selket, commander Satet, commander Bat! My apologies, but why are you wearing such strange cloths? And where is the future queen Anet? I've never seen you without her." We looked at her confused.
"I think you have us confused for somebody else…" said Sarah slowly. Yugi nodded.
"I'm not the Pharaoh." he agreed.
"Don't be silly princess Selket how could I get you confused with anybody else? You're the only people that look like you in the kingdom!" laughed the girl.
"Um…could you point out who's who, please?" Sarah asked nervously "Just to make sure you remember!" she added quickly after seeing Mana surprised expression.
"…If that is what you wish, my princess." Mana said surprised, she then pointed at us one by one and said what must have been our incarnation's names. She started with Sarah ("princess Selket"), then she pointed to me ("princess Ma'at"), then to Megan ("commander Bat"), and finally Kristin ("commander Satet"). I smiled at her and nodded.
"You got it right." I laughed "except for Yugi, he's not the Pharaoh."
"But what about the others?" she said pointing at Joey and Tristan, "I don't know them!" We smiled at her.
"You can see us?" inquired Joey.
"Yes…" said Mana, unsurely "Why shouldn't I?"
"Not may people seem to be able to see them." Sarah informed her "They walk right through them." Mana, forgetting her earlier question nodded and turned around to keep working before she froze.
"Wait a minute!" she cried "If you're not the Pharaoh than he must be missing!" We nodded solemnly.
"That's why we're out here" said Megan "To find him." Suddenly Bobassa came running up holding a big fish.
"I got us lunch!" he cried happily.
"Bobassa!" cried Kristin "We're supposed to be looking for Pharaoh not lunch!" Then Bobassa held up two royal blue capes.
"I found these floating in the Nile." he informed us.
"Bobassa, there didn't happen to have bodies attached to them, when you found them, did they?" inquired Sarah suspiciously
"No," said Bobassa "but they did have some tasty fish floating next to them."
"Can't you think about anything but food!" cried Sarah exasperated.
"But I'm hungry," moaned Bobassa.
"Would you like a knuckle sandwich?" asked Sarah coldly.
"No thank you," said Bobassa "that doesn't sound too tasty." Sarah sighed exasperated and I had to muffle a laugh. I caught Sarah's glance my way and I turned away, whistling.
"Shouldn't we be looking for the Pharaoh?" asked Mana "the whole kingdom is going to go into an uproar if we don't find him." We all nodded and followed Mana, who had taken the lead. We walked a ways until we came to a cliff, on the other side of the cliff stood Emily and Pharaoh, looking out at the river.
"Pharaoh! Emily!" We all cried (except Mana called Emily Anet). We ran down to them happily and I had the pleasure of tackling Emily first!
"Get off!" cried Emily as she pushed me off, only to be tackled by the rest of the gang. Once they had gotten off her Pharaoh found himself in the center of a giant group hug, that was made of everyone in the gang, minus me, Mana, Bobassa, and Emily. Once everyone settled down Mana was able to talk to Emily and Pharaoh peacefully and scold them royally about "scaring us all like that" as she put it. That set us all into a fit of laughter that she couldn't understand.
"What's so funny!" she demanded.
"If you've been part of this group as long as we have, you learn that if you fear the worst all you're doing is upsetting yourself and it's not really as bad as it seems." laughed Emily. I nodded and patted Mana on the back.
"We've been through many tight spots before." I informed her. Suddenly we heard hooves behind us and spun around to find Seto leading the royal guard.
"Mana!" called Seto as Mana tried to sneak away.
"Yes sir?" inquired as she peeked around from behind Pharaoh.
Mahad glared at her before continuing. "Are you trying to tell me that you knew where they were the whole time!"
Before she could answer Sarah piped up in her place, "No sir, we went looking for them too and we just happened to find them a little while before you did." Mahad looked at her surprised.
"Excuse me princess Selket," he apologized "I did not mean to offend you."
"Enough with the princess thing!" I cried, annoyed "Just call us by our names!" Mahad looked at me surprised then nodded.
"If that is what you wish." he replied as he looked at Sarah, who nodded her agreement.
"Well we'd better get back to the palace." said Seto "If we don't the wedding will be late."
"What wedding?" I inquired "Who's getting married?" Seto looked at me surprised then shook his head in a way that I'd find out in due time. I sighed and followed Seto as he motioned for us to follow him.
"You guys go," said Yugi and Joey as Tristan nodded "we'll go and try to find Pharaoh's name." I looked back at them and nodded in agreement.
"We'll probably need it soon" I agreed.
He led us back to the palace where he pulled Sarah, Kristin, Megan, and I off to the side.
"It is time to prepare Anet for her wedding to the Pharaoh." he informed us. We looked at him startled then nodded.
"Just don't tell her what's going on." warned Seto "It's supposed to be a surprise." We nodded and ran off to a room where Isis had dragged Emily into. When we got in there Emily had a blindfold on and Isis was comparing two Egyptian styled dresses. We walked in and helped her chose a dress, shoes, a tiara, a veil, and makeup for Emily. We then began to dress the blindfolded Emily who began to panic about being dressed up in something she couldn't see.
"Is that a dress?" she cried "Why am I wearing a dress?" We simply ignored her and finished her makeup before leading her to the room where she was to be wed.
We saw Pharaoh at the end of the aisle, looking confused. No one had told him about this either. When he saw Emily her veil covered her face but also told Pharaoh what was going on and he tried to run out of the building but Mahad pulled him back to his place and held him there until Emily was next to him and we were out of the way. Then Seto began the ceremony and Emily looked as if she wanted to run away, but she didn't, thankfully. Finally it was almost over and all that was left was for Pharaoh to kiss Emily. He lifted her veil and froze, as did Emily. They were both shocked about who they were marrying. Emily tried to say something but it all came out in a stuttering mess that no one could understand. Seto leaned in and reminded that the whole kingdom was waiting for this wedding to be final. Emily and Pharaoh were leaning towards each other when Bakura came busting into the building, interrupting everything. He rode straight up to the front and snatched Emily from the stand before turning around and jumping right over the guards who were trying to stop him!
"Pharaoh help me!" cried Emily as she was carried off. Pharaoh quickly ran and grabbed his horse and rode after them, we quickly followed suit, not willing to lose them again. The guards ran to grab their horses as well and rode after us.