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Chapter 13

Ow.. Ow… it still hurts even in a dream.

…where am I anyway?

The darkness erodes and reveals a familiar scene. It was Egypt, I was back in Egypt again! I'm glad I get to see my home but where is everyone? I looked around but no one was in site. I started to run around streets and began to panic when I heard an explosion.

I ran to the source to be welcomed by a series of banging drums. There were five lines of drummers, 3 lines of constantly moving dancers and many other things that were going on, on the main street.

My shoulders relaxed, There was a white tent with a red border at the end of the parade. They were using fireworks.

The parade ended when all the members went inside the tent. It closed after them and a tall lanky man stood outside, explaining something to the crowd. I heard a very familiar voice behind me.

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"Come on Mahad! I want to get the front seats! Those are the best ones!" Said a cheerful voice. I turned around and saw Mana pulling Mahad trough the crowd.

Mahad sweat dropped apologizing to the crowd for Mana. I couldn't help but smile at this scene. They're the same. I directed my attention to end of front of the tent. They seem to be a traveling troupe, they had a lot of carriages.

I caught something in the corner of my eye. There were a group of people sneaking in with a side entrance.

I came closer to find that the group of people were me, my father and a few of the priests.

They were greeted by a similar looking man that was talking to the crowd. They must be twins.

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They went inside the tent in which I followed them. It was a lot larger than it looked like from the outside. The seats were the same color and pattern of red and white.

They were circled around the middle, a few feet from the flat platform in the middle. There were partings in the chairs in front of the four exits and 5 seats in the very front. The five including my former self took the seats. The crowd came pouring in and into the seats.

"ah! How did you get in so fast?!" Mana exclaimed pointing at Atem. Mahad just pulled her to the seats behind my little self.

"Quiet Mana the show is about to start." Just then the lights went off and the whole crowd grew quiet. Candles were lit simultaneously on the platform revealing a man in white cloak and a mask covering his eyes.

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Strange…they weren't there before. And I can feel a strange presence coming from the man.

He spoke in a low voice introducing the troupe. They were called the desert flowers…a strange name for a troupe.

The candles flickers out and light shone on the stage. The nine dancers from the parade were now on stage. They were in the same outfits but they had a different colored hibiscus flower armband.

They each had a white red scarf that flowed along with their dancing. They danced so gracefully. Tea would have loved to dance with them.

There were many great acts after them. A pair of animal tamers, with the same flame colored hair, gave them quiet a show with their trained tigers. Three identical acrobatics put on a magical act.

All of the acts had more than one person performing and looked almost exactly alike.

When the last of their shows were over they all appeared on stage and took a bow. I remember all of this now. Ow… another shock?

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"Thank you for allowing us to perform in your grand city. It has been an honor to perform in front of the royal family." The white cloaked man said. He didn't seem fluent in our language.

One of the tall twins came up to him and whispered something in his ear. He glanced at the exit and sighed.

"Before you take your leave I would like to introduce you to our newest member." He beckoned to the east exit. "She just joined last month. Say hello to Hikaru, but we call her Kaoru for short." A small girl walked to the stage.

She had golden bangles and armlets. Her white sleeveless tunic went down to her knees. She wore baggy red pants that hugged her ankles and held a deep red cloth around her.

Light music began playing out of nowhere. Then people on stage just shrugged and began dancing to the music.

They first danced with themselves then each other. Now they are picking people from the crowd to dance with them. I feel another slight shock around my chest.

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I couldn't help but to smile. Everyone was so happy including my former self. I stood unnoticed next to me when someone approached me.

It was the girl Hikaru. She looked up to gaze at me and the unmistakable face shocked me. She looked just like her except for the color of her hair. It was a soft dirt brown instead of lavender.

She bowed to my former self and held out a hand to me.

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"Little prince, May I ask for a dance?" She said in her soft voice. That confirmed my lingering suspicions. A few more shocks traveled throughout my body.

I looked to my father and he nodded. I watch them disappear into the crowd.

This was Lavi, but what is she doing here? And like this? And why didn't I recover this memory?

"May I know your name?" Hikaru asked me. Is that why? Did I not remember this because of my name being mentioned?

"Atem" I had said quietly. This all is familiar to me. This isn't an illusion, but still. Why didn't this memory return to me before?

The scene blurs and I'm surrounded by darkness again. I cried out in pain. What is this?!?! Its like lightning just cut through my heart.

The pain buzzed down and instead of pain I feel a soft warmth sitting on my chest. It eases all of my pain and stress. Blowing them all away.

.~.

"urhh…." Atem groaned. He tried to sit up but had no success. He lifted his head. He spotted Lavi sitting on a high rock, doing nothing but staring at nothing.

"You shouldn't push yourself to hard, Atem" Lavi said as he tried to get up again.

"w-what happened?"

"You fell unconscious." Lavi said in an unwavering voice.

"I know that. I'm asking why I fell unconscious." Lavi just shrugged.

"well you're no help."

"hm." She said still not moving.

Atem pouted and turned his abruptly. That's when he noticed his shirt was folded beside him.

"How are you feeling." Lavi asked. He tried to move his arm but found he could only make his fingers twitch.

"I can't move." Atem replied in an annoyed voice. Lavi snapped her fingers and he felt the feeling in his body come back. Unfortunately the feeling wasn't pleasant. It was searing pain.

"ARH!" He gasped trying to draw in a breath. Something was making it hard for him to breath. "On second thought, I like the numbness better."

Lavi snapped her fingers again and Atem lost most of the pain. He could move with feeling a few sharp pokes of pain at his chest.

He sat up and found his chest was wrapped tightly in bandages. The strips of bandages crossed over his heart. Quiet a sum of bandages were used.

"Why did you use so many bandages? I can hardly breathe."

"You wouldn't stop bleeding." Atem's eyes widened.

"what?!" He said in disbelief.

"You heard me. You were losing so much blood that it kept flooding through the bandages. You would of died if…" She stopped there.

"if what?" Lavi looked away.

"never mind."

"Lavi, tell me. What did you do." Atem got up and tried to walk. His feet almost gave way.

"I said don't push yourself to much." Lavi threw something at his face. Atem tore it off his head it was his jacket. "You must be cold."

She was right he was cold. Not just because he was shirtless but the temperature around them was cold as well.

Frost was starting to show on the trees. He pulled his shirt over his head with some difficulty.

"Why is it so cold?" He asked shivering. He put the jacket on and pulled what he could around him.

Why is she wearing a tank top!?! Its freezing!!

He looked at Lavi. The cold had no affect on her. She still hasn't moved.

"Aren't you cold?!"

"Not really, I feel a little too hot for my tastes."

"You're crazy!"

"Maybe." Their horses came up to them. The white horse nudged Atem and the black horse stood by Lavi.

"So you're the one who bandaged my up?"

"yeah" Lavi stroked her horses head.

That explains the slight shocks I had…but not why I had them.

"where did you get the bandages?"

"really? Is this how you thank some one for tending to your wounds?"

"ah.. I'm sorry. I just have this feeling that I'm not supposed to act like you're my friend" Lavi clenched her fists

"ok so we're not friends, but just because I'm not your friend doesn't mean you don't have to say thank you to someone who just saved your life!" She marched off.

well how do you like it? :P i think i'll try a POV for Atem for the nest chapter. Do you think i should? hmm maybe not. i could just make it their thought bubble :P you know in italics.

again, please check my poll.

I want to start a new story to get my writer nerves working.

i need to know what to write...

Oh i almost forgot! i draw my character :D

i'm still an artist in training so i got some poses from the internet and edited them :P

yeah... but some of them aren't that good :( well i think they're not

maybe it's just artists doubt...

anyway do you think i should post them on my profile?

do pictures even show there? like pic codes and stuff....

(edit) i saw some mistakes and noticed it was kinda crunched up so i spaced it out a bit and corrected the mistakes i caught.