Disclaimer: I don't own Yuugi-Ou. It belongs to its respective creators who ignored that Egpyt had racial diversity.

A/N: This takes place some time before the Egypt Arch saga. I imagine around half a year before. Also Jono is the Egyptian life for Jonouchi (Joey), Habib is Honda (Tristan) and Safiya is Shizuka (Serenity). I have a reference picture if you would like an image: http/www,deviantart,com/view/30582677/ Replace the commas with periods.

Also any anti-Sematic language is for the effect that racism is bad. Very bad. I hope that gets through.

Mock Forms

Chapter II: Street Fighting

Jono lived on the western side of the capital city. He wasn't particularly wealthy, by any means, but this social class put him in a comfortable situation. He lived alone for a time after his parents went through a messy divorce. His father had been of a low class, not to mention a violent gambler, and it had panned out very badly. This is when he decided it was best to try to make it on his own. He took his mother's class, which was slightly higher than his father's, and a job as a craftsmen. He lived alone for almost a year before a childhood friend of his decided to move in. The childhood friend had been a Hebrew named Habib, enslaved in the palace since they were children. Habib had been in a very bad situation as he was going to be sold. Jono had pulled some strings, asked some favors and had gotten an arrangement for him to move in. Shortly after, he took in his younger sister who was being bullied into marrying by their mother. He was protective of her, to say the least, and didn't like the idea of his little sister being shoved into marrying. So after a long and bitter fight with his mother, he left with his still unwed younger sister. Her name was Safiya and she had had trouble with her eyesight since she was very little. The three lived in relative harmony; despite obvious problems, that may arise, when you have an overprotective brother, naïve young woman and a monotheist in the same small home.

They were going out to the market that day. Safiya always enjoyed it more than Jono and Habib. They didn't see why but they weren't one's to dwell.

"Brother, why are you going so slow? The market is going to be closed before we get there." Safiya whined impatiently and ran off ahead.

"I don't see why she's so excited." Habib commented getting something to carry things in out of the adobe.

"Don't ask me. She just likes it, I guess." Jono replied with a basket over his shoulder. They both spoke Hebrew and Egyptian. Jono had learned Hebrew at a young age while playing with Habib and Habib had learned Egyptian from his parents and from the overseers at the palace. They didn't use either when talking to each other. They used a mix they had invented as small children. No one could understand it completely besides them, not even Safiya.

Safiya ran back and bounced impatiently. "Are we going or not?"

"We're going, Safiya." Habib said in Egyptian, walking out of the house. Jono followed him.

The market was always busy in midday. People tend to do most of their shopping then. "Safiya, don't run away. Its crowded." Jono said a few minutes too late. She was already gone.

"Don't worry so much." Habib said grinning. "You're acting like you're her mother."

Jono fumed and grabbed him by the collar of his shirt. "WHAT!"

Habib grinned. "I just mean you know where she's going?" His voice quieted. "Besides you're causing a scene. I thought you didn't want to draw attention."

Jono let go of him. He was right. He didn't want to draw attention at all. A sibling, young unmarried man and a Hebrew all living with each other was not something to draw attention to. A situation that strange was not common or welcome. "Sorry."

"Maybe, you shouldn't do that in public, either. I'm a slave remember." Habib said quietly.

Jono growled to himself. "Fine."

"Should I go get her?"

"No. I'll do it. You go to the market. I'll be there soon."

Habib nodded and left to the booths in the market.

Safiya was on a far corner of the market. She was listening intently to the 'thief king' himself. She did this as often as she possibly could. It was the reason she loved going to the market. Everyday that the guards were not on duty, he would stand on the streets and give long speeches. Speeches about justice. She was probably the only one of the spectators that planned on watching him. Most came over out of curiosity as to what all the noise was about. Safiya was usually the only one who stayed more than ten minutes.

Jono walked to the far end of the market and saw Safiya. He fumed and quickly walked over to her grabbing her arm. "Don't listen to him, Safiya. He's crazy."

The Thief King stopped at the remark. He was a thief, and it is true that most didn't listen to him but, he wasn't crazy. "Who are you calling crazy?"

Jono went blank for a minute. He really didn't expect him to say anything.

"You're the one whose crazy!" This was the only bit he actually said to Jono directly. The rest ran into a new speech. "Upholding! Glorifying! And Benefiting from a Broken System that Uses the Blood of Others to..."

"Shut up!" Jono yelled interrupting him. "And leave me and my sister out of this! We don't want to hear about your crazy ideas!"

Thief King snarled and his crowd dispersed quickly mumbling things as they went. Jono stomping off with them. Safiya didn't move and stared at Thief King for a moment. She felt sorry for him and guilty about what her brother had said. She walked over to him and pant his shoulder. "I don't think your ideas are crazy."

"Safiya!" Jono yelled standing a few yards away.

Safiya groaned to herself, looking from Thief King to her brother and ran off.

"Stay away from him, Safiya." Jono said firmly.

"He's not crazy." Safiya said angrily.

"What?" Jono said surprised.

"He isn't. He's right. What he says is right." She said making fists with her hands.

"What he says is crazy and gets people killed."

"It does not. He talks about how things aren't fair. And they aren't. You know, they aren't. You say they aren't fair. You always say how its not fair that Habib..."

Jono cringed and covered her mouth to stop her from finishing her thought. "Don't say that... do you know what the priests would do, if they knew?"

She removed his hand. "He's right, though. He talks about that and some people say he's going to be deified one day."

Jono hated that rumor. He did not believe it at any stretch. He personally thought that all that that thief was going to do was get himself killed and probably take half the social oddballs with him. That category including Jono. "He's not a god. You know that and so do I." Jono said firmly. "So don't listen to him."

Safiya would have argued if the next event hadn't occurred. A large gold dragon flew through the alley at her brother and herself. Jono noticed first, grabbed her and jumped out of the way. He looked up as he lay on the ground. The gold dragon was serpent like with four legs and wings. He had no idea what it was but it emitting some type of light.

Jono and Safiya stood up and Safiya scrambled behind her brother. Jono braced himself as he stood in front of her. Jono had no idea what he was going to do. He didn't know what the dragon was, let only what it wanted. It was then the dragon attacked again. Jono grabbed Safiya and pushed her out of the way. The dragon missed yet again and hovered low.

"Do you like it?"

Jono turned toward the voice as he made sure Safiya was safely behind him. "Whose there?"

The voice was from a young man named Serqmaaker. He was standing by an alley. "It really isn't polite to ignore a question from a noble."

"A noble?" Jono and Safiya echoed.

Serq chuckled to himself. "So peasants are deaf and dumb. I thought they were more noble than that. Me and my idealism." Serq cackled and pointed.

The gold dragon attacked again. Jono jumped out of the way with Safiya a third time. He panted and looked over at Serq. The young man was carrying something. It was staff which was over half his body length. The staff was gold with a sphere on the end topped by a sharp spike and two gold wings on either side. "What is that thing?"

Serq chuckled to himself. "This is the Sennen staff. A little trinket of mine." He said pointing his staff. He redirected it toward the dragon. "And that is a Ka beast. This little one is the Kaiser Dragon." He lowered his staff. "I was taking her out for a walk."

"Kaiser dragon?" Jono said to himself.

Serq laughed aloud. "That's right. The Kaiser Dragon and I think she's hungry." Serq laughed maniacally and pointed at them with his staff. "Attack Kaiser Dragon!"

The dragon screeched and charged at Jono and Safiya. Safiya cringed behind her brother and Jono stood up against trying to shield Safiya. He knew the dragon was lethal, it was obvious from the size of it, but he had to protect his sister. He braced himself and prepared for the worst, as Safiya screamed behind him. The dragon sped toward them; then suddenly ignited in a blaze of purple flame. The creature shrieked in pain and stammers on the ground.

"That's impossible! How could you summon a Ka!" Serq yelled in amazement looking up above Jono and Safiya.

Jono looked up and Safiya followed suit. A large black dragon with red eyes was flying directly above them. The dragon was surrounded by the same glow as the Kaiser Dragon. The dragon screeched and hovered lower to the ground in front of Jono and Safiya.

Safiya clung to her brother. "Now, there are two monsters!" She said terrified as she clung tighter.

Jono stared at the monster. Somehow he knew it. He didn't know how. He had never seen it before but he somehow did know it. He looked at Serq for a moment then back at the dragon. "It came from me. The Red-Eyes Black Dragon." He said it quietly to himself. He then straightened his stance. "Red Eyes Black Dragon attack the Kaiser Dragon!"

The Red Eyes shrieked and obeyed his master attacking the Kaiser Dragon. The Kaiser Dragon reacted dodging the Red Eyes attack.

"So, you can control your ka. The things peasants do." Serq said chuckling. "Kaiser Dragon destroy the Red Eyes Black Dragon! Let's see how you do without any Ba."

The dragon charged at the Red Eyes that stood in front of Jono as protective as his master did for Safiya. The dragon was hit directly and, monster and master both yelled out in pain.

"Oh..." Serq whined. "I underestimated you again, peasant. You don't even know how a Ka duel works and a half of your Ba is already gone. What a shame."

"Shut up!" Jono said pulling himself up as Safiya as supported him from his right side.

The duel hadn't been as loud as it could have but screaming men didn't usually go unnoticed. Habib hadn't been far away and recognized it instantly. He ran to the alley where Serq had ambushed Jono and Safiya and couldn't believe it. Two two monsters were standing or more hovering in front of the two parties. He didn't recognize the man on the far left. But between him and his companions were two large glowing dragons. The one closest to Jono and Safiya was a solid black and the one further away was a gold.

Habib recoiled at first then turned to Jono and Safiya. Jono was hunched slightly. He appeared to be hurt but Habib didn't see any blood. If the monsters had attacked him, there would have been blood. Wouldn't there? Habib shook it off and ran over to Safiya and Jono. He quickly got on the opposite side of Safiya to help her support Jono. "Are you alright?"

Jono tried to straighten himself. "Yeah, I'm fine. Done shopping, huh?"

Habib could have hit him and if he weren't obviously hurt, he would have. "Jo..."

"Brother, how could you make jokes right now!" Safiya said almost hysterically. She wasn't crying but it looked like she was about to.

Habib shot Jono a look then turned to the monsters out of the corner of his eye. "What are those things?"

"Ka's. The black one is mine and the other one is his." Jono panted slightly still trying to stand up. "He attacked me and Safiya."

Habib looked at the monsters. He didn't believe in Ka's. He didn't think they existed or that someone could use one if they did. He had been taught not to believe in them. However, it was something and the black dragon did seem familiar. He didn't know why but it did. "What's going on?"

"I have to stop his ka with mine." Jono said looking at Habib out of the corner of his eye.

Habib thought it sounded crazy but he was going to go with it. Whatever was going on wasn't normal anyway. "Fine."

Serq smirked at he watched the three talk with one another. He enjoyed seeing them confused. "Well then, I see, we have a trio." Serq looked at Habib. He was slightly paler than Jono and Safiya. He recognized him almost immediately. "A slave!" Serq burst into a cruel laughter. "You stay in the company of a slave! That's... cute." He said sarcastically with a grin.

Jono snarled. "Shut up! Leave him out of this!" The Red Eyes screeched aggressively at Serq. He was an exact copy of his master's emotions.

Habib and Safiya restrained him. It wasn't too difficult. He was significantly weakened by the Kaiser Dragon's blows. "Let it go. Its not worth it." Habib said as he restrained Jono.

"Isn't that cute? Defending one another. I hope it helps you in terms of Ba." Serq chuckled and the Kaiser Dragon charged at the Red Eyes again. Jono screamed in pain with the Red Eyes. After the attack, the Red Eyes Black Dragon was transparent. They could see through the monster to their attacker. Then the Red Eyes disappeared.

Safiya screamed as Jono went limp. She had been trying to hold him up, he weighed far more than she did, causing her to almost fall from the weight.

Habib shook him. "Jono. Jono!" It was at a loss as to how this could happen. Ka's weren't real. Magic wasn't real, not the kind the Egyptians did. Jono shouldn't be hurt but he was. Habib quickly became hysterical, cursing and yelling in Hebrew. He turned to Safiya, still hysterical, and told her to go. It was lost in translation. Safiya didn't know Hebrew like Jono, or even the hybrid, they had made up. It was lost to her which one was being spoken and it is doubtful that Habib could tell you either.

Safiya was now kneeling on the ground from when Jono had fainted. She was terrified, too. "I-I can't understand."

Serq, meanwhile, was thoroughly enjoying himself. He liked the confusion. It was a chaotic change from the metronome- like pace of the palace. "She can't understand you, slave!" He said mockingly. "Try another language! Maybe Sumerian!"

Habib was now hunched over Jono protectively. He turned to Serq cursing under his breath, calling Serq several things in Hebrew he would never want Safiya to hear in Egyptian.

Serq laughed aloud. "You think that you scare me! I'll show you, slave!" The Kaiser Dragon shrieked and attacked. However, again, it was unsuccessful. The dragon shrieked in pain as it was being piggy-backed by a large glowing lion. The lion had a single razor sharp horn on its forehead and had its claws dug into the sides of the Kaiser Dragon. The dragon continued to howl in agony and thrashed as the lion held fast.

Safiya looked over at her brother. He was still unconscious. It wasn't him. Then she turned to Habib. He was holding her brother up with one arm around his waist. He was frenzied with rage and a newfound hatred for the man across the alley. His eyes were tightly focused on him. Habib had summoned the monster and it was as apt to destroy the dragon as Habib was to do the same to Serq. "Habib?"

Serq stood dumbfounded. "How... a slave! How could a slave summon a ka!" Serq looked at the monster. "Gazelle, eh? You, my dear slave, have the king of beasts living inside of you." Serq mused to Habib and himself alike. "A weak ka but a ka. Unusual, indeed."

The truth of the matter was that the monster was not quite as weak as Serq thought. The beast had been strengthened far beyond its normal level by Habib's rage. The beast was a noble one, a lion, but generally not a brutal fighter. But like his master, he was not one to turn away from an injustice like this and was cunning to boot.

Habib was still in a rage. However, he was more composed now. He turned to Safiya. "Get out of here, Safiya."

"What?" Safiya was surprised by the request.

"I said get out!" It was no longer a friendly suggestion but a direct order.

She nodded and obeyed fleeing the alley. Serq simply chuckled following her with his eyes as he let her pass.

"If you attack her..." Habib threatened.

Serq ignored him and chuckled to himself playing with his right earring.

Safiya ran as fast as she could. She needed to get help. Real help. But who? Who would care about her and Habib, about an unmarried woman and an illegal slave? She thought as she ran. Until, it hit her. Her friend would. The man on the street corners. The one who talks about people like her, who was someone like her. She turned and headed for his street.

Her friend, in question, was sitting on the same street corner with his cheek in one hand. His daily protest, against all that was the establishment, had been a disaster. The worst of it all was that he hadn't even attracted any guards. If he had, he would have been stopped violently bashed over the head and have looked like a hero. No such luck.

"King."

He looked up. He wasn't used to being called 'king', alone anyway. It was more of a self proclaimed title, "Thief King". He had wanted something dramatic. He had never thought it would be said so seriously or without the thief bit. He snapped out of his musings and looked up. It was the girl from earlier today. She really was a sweet girl. She came to almost every one of his protests. He sighed and looked up at her, still sitting on street corner. His eyes were little blank. "No more today. Come back tomorrow."

Safiya was half way to tears anyway and this pushed her over the edge. She burst into a solid wail at his reply.

Thief King lowered his hand surprised by the reaction. He quickly got to his feet and began waving his hands. "Calm down. I'll be back tomor..." He couldn't believe he was this demanded. "Um... you cannot halt it! Justice..."

He stopped abruptly as he noticed the young girl was now firmly hugging him around the waist. She was sobbing profusely and clinging to his maroon coat. "Please, Mr. Thief King... mimhba..." she said, the ending muffled as she clung.

Thief King felt awkwardly and had his arms risen so not to touch the girl. He was never very good with comforting or anything that involved too much human contact. He preferred the anonymity of audiences, mobs, guards or even occasional inanimate object. "Um... girl, I mean... you... could you let... what are you doing?" He said continuing his quest to avoid touching her.

"My brother... My brother was attacked... Habib is trying to... but there's a... he fainted..." She then burst into a strong fit of tears again. She was hysterical now.

"Your brother's name is Habib?" He thought that seemed odd. Her brother had seemed strictly Egyptian earlier.

"No... H-habib is m-my b-b-brother's f-friend..." She was looking up at him with huge brown eyes. "S-someone is u-using m-magic with th-their g-gold..."

"Magic?" Thief King suddenly snapped out of his awkward half daydreaming state to full alertness. He de-attached the girl from his waist and looked her straight in the eyes with his hands on her shoulders. "You're sure, its gold and magic."

Safiya nodded. "With an eye on it."

"You're positive." He said insistently.

She didn't like the look in his eyes. It was something unkind in them. "Yes."

"Where are they?"

Habib was not fairing well. He felt himself getting weaker every time his ka was attacked. He was lucky the monster was clever. It could dodge better than the Kaiser Dragon and attack more often. However, that only went so far. He panted as he supported Jono and tried to stand. "Hang on, Jono."

Serq was still enjoying himself. This had been more of a challenge than he thought. It was fun. "Tired already, slave? And I was having fun." Serq smirked as he saw Habib's temper flare. "That's right. Rage is what this duel needs."

"If you want to kill Jono, you'll have to kill me first."

Serq raised an eyebrow. "Such loyalty to such a poor master." Serq grinned. "You must be mad, slave."

"He is not!"

Habib and Serq turned. Safiya was standing behind Serq and with her was the protester Jono had yelled at earlier, the Thief King, himself.

He surveyed Serq and felt a rage. "You possess a sennen item. You disgusting..." Thief King straightened. "You may find attacking peasants funny but how will you fair when they fight back."

The Thief King tightened his fists and a gigantic glow appeared behind him. The glow became a pearly figure. It was much like a man but with three horns on its head rounded at the end. The figure's body had no legs but grew into an elegant feathered serpent. The figure also had two pairs of feathered wings. It was almost angelic as it was a brilliant white. "This is Diabound and he would like to duel." With that the figure attacked the dragon. The blow doubled Serq in pain and the dragon flickered from its true form to a jackal and back again.

Serq looked at Thief King with fear and disbelief. "You're the 'thief king'."

"I am." The thief king said proudly.

Serq withdrew his ka and tried to run off. Diabound blocked his way and growled.

"Let him go." Safiya said pulling Thief King's arm. "He learned his lesson."

Thief King hated to do it but with withdrew his ka and watched as Serq ran off.

"Thank you." Safiya said with a smile.

Thief King sighed. He hated to do it but... "You're welcome." he couldn't disappoint someone had listen to him rant so loyally. So without attacking, he walked off.

Safiya stood for a moment and smiled. "Maybe he is a god, after all."

Ta Da. Reviews are greatly appreciated.