Alverna: Here is chapter 7. Sorry it took a month. It is offcially dedicated to Animefan12, for getting me off my lazy ass to type this.
I own nothing. Enjoy.
Chapter 7: The Third Item, Dance Time
A few hours later, a familiar sound of a horn rang threw all of Kehmet. With that cue, one tri-colored, one albino colored, one white-blonde colored, and one golden blonde hair colored merteens swam to their places as the Aknadin Festival started.
As the carriage came into town, it was immediately noted that there were a lot more manta shark guards.
"Your highness, look this way." a reporter called as he elbowed threw the high priests'. "How about a big smile for the camera?" Aknadin glared. "Close enough."
-CLICK!-
"Mantas." Aknadin snapped, and one manta came and bumped the reporter away.
"Hey, hey, hey, easy." The reporter glared. "Watched the camera."
After the reporter was out of the way, Aknadin stood.
"Kehmet," he called out, "do you adore me?"
There was cheering, but apparently it wasn't enough for Aknadin.
"I said, do you adore me?"
The cheering increased in volume, and Aknadin looked calm.
"Well," Aknadin's expression changed to one of anger, "I don't believe you."
Everyone gasped at the proclamation. What had happened to invoke their ruler's wrath?
"If you truly adored me," Aknadin continued, "one of you would give me information about Aknankanon's son."
This announcement brought gasps from everyone, even the high priests'.
"A half-human spawn of the wicked pharaoh who abandoned us all."
"A half-human?" one of the mermen near the group of merteens shuddered. "He sounds like a monster."
"He could be really nice." Joey shot back. "We really don't know."
"Now," Aknadin gathered their attention, "who can lead me to him? Swim forward."
No one moved. No one knew where the half human son of the previous pharaoh was.
"Fine then." Aknadin growled. "Mantas, High Priests', get me an answer. NOW!"
People began screaming as the mantas singled out people from the crowd.
"Wait!" a voice shouted, and Aknadin turned to see his head advisor's grandson swim out of the crowd.
"Do you information about Aknankanon's son?" Aknadin asked the small merteen.
"No." Yugi admitted. "But, I do have something for you. A gift to prove our devotion."
Yugi gestured behind him, and Ryou and Malik swam up behind him.
"I think you're really going to like it."
"I'd better." Aknadin sneered as the Millennium Eye glittered. "Otherwise, you know what happens."
Gulping heavily, Yugi took a deep breath.
"Hit it!" he called, and Joey started up a song with a hopping beat.
Yugi sang while Ryou and Malik provided background dancing.
"Calling all merfolk,
Now's your chance.
Give it up for your Pharaoh
With a brand new dance.
He razzles, he dazzles,
He rules the sea.
So let's rock the reef
For his majesty."
Ryou and Malik joined Yugi singing as Aknadin started to smile. As the crowed started to bounce along, no one noticed the other tri-colored hair male with an albino colored and white-blond haired people with him.
"Pop up, lean in
Side to side
Lay back, hang ten,
Go for a ride
Catch that curl,
Get into the groove.
Do the mahi-mahi
Make your tail fin move."
Yes, Bakura and Marik were in Kehmet as well. Turns out, after they had demanded info from their single parents after their hair went crazy, they were half merman to. And they were going to help. Just how, they wouldn't tell, and that always made Yami a bit worried.
"He's the King of the Games!
Check it out
He's spinnin'
His duels around.
King of the Games!
No one's gonna
Take away his crown."
"Pharaoh Aknadin is in town!" Joey cheered from his DJ position.
"Surf's up, bow down!
He's the King of the Games."
Yugi and his friends quickly got the crowed going, even some of the high priests started to groove a little.
"His smile, his style,
You just gotta stare.
The envy of
Merfolk everywhere.
A hunk, a stud,
And so in the know
His charms pull you in
Like undertow."
'I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.' Yugi thought.
He was sick to his stomach singing false praises to the false pharaoh, but he wasn't willing for Yami to put himself in harm's way to get the necklace.
"Pop up, lean in
Side to side.
Lay back, hang ten,
Go for a ride.
Catch that curl,
Get into the groove.
Do the mahi-mahi,
Make your tail fin move."
Yami also didn't like the idea of Yugi being so close to the crazy pharaoh, but Yugi had insisted and pulled out such strong puppy dog eyes that Yami just crumbled.
"He's the King of the Games!
Check it out
He's spinnin'
His duels around.
King of the Games!
No one's gonna
Take away his crown."
"Pharaoh Aknadin is in town!" Joey cheered again, this time half of the town joined him.
"Surf's up, bow down."
A silver rush of something shot past Aknadin, leaving him with a bare neck, shocked guards, and frightened merteens in front of him.
"What happened?" Aknadin yelled at Yugi and his friends.
"We don't know." Ryou whimpered. "Honest."
"Mantas." Aknadin snapped.
As Yugi, Ryou, Malik, and Joey found themselves surrounded, a hand found its way to the silver throwing star that had pinned Aknadin's protective necklace to the wall of a building.
'Thank you Bakura.' Yami thought as he swam away, necklace in hand.
Now he had one other thing he needed to do.
"Unless you four tell me what I want to know," Aknadin growled as the Millennium Eye flashed dangerously, "you will be in a world of trouble. Where is Aknankanon's son?"
"We don't know." Joey said bravely, traces of fear coming through on his voice.
"Wrong answer." Aknadin shouted as he prepared to deal with the fools in front of him.
He would have to find someone else to give him fashion advice.
"STOP!" a new voice shouted.
Everyone looked up to see a male merteen. He had hair like Yugi's, except he had crimson tips, along with crimson eyes and a muscle build Yugi didn't have. He had a crimson and black tail with crimson streaks that started at the knee and went down.
"What do you want?" Aknadin demanded.
"I am the one you are looking for." Yami said as he swam down towards the pharaoh. "I am the half human."
"You?" Aknadin snorted as Yami stopped a few feet in front of him.
"Yes." Yami snarled as he grabbed his tail at the hips and ripped it off, revealing his legs. "Let the innocent ones go. They have nothing to do with this."
"Very well." Aknadin waved his hand and the mantas left the merteens and surrounded Yami. "So nice of you to visit, my long lost nephew. Too bad you can't stay for very long."
Yami's eyes narrowed. He had a feeling that this would end badly, but he couldn't let Yugi suffer for what he was supposed to do.
Yes, he admitted it, we was in love with his merteen look alike.
"Behold." Aknadin cried, and started to swim in tight circle, the Millennium Eye flashing like crazy, until a whirlpool of shadow magic formed.
"Oh boy." Yami muttered.
"Push him in." Aknadin snapped to the manta sharks. "He gets a one way trip through the shadow realm to the bottom of the deepest trench in the ocean."
As the mantas started to push against him, Yami pushed back, but it did no go. They had rough skin, and were a lot stronger than he was.
"AH!" Yami cried out as the whirlpool sucked him in.
"Atemu!" Yugi cried out, his heart filling with an ache.
The reason he had fought so hard against Yami doing the dance, was because he had wanted Yami to stay safe. He had fallen in love with the half human prince.
And now he was gone.
Alverna: Hopefully chapter 8 will be out a lot sooner than this one was. It will be the last chapter. -SOB!-
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