Chapter Five – Before the Prom!
It had been a week since Marik and Nua had gone shopping; now it was Friday morning, the day of the Domino High prom!
Nua had woken up, got dressed and went to her kitchen to eat some breakfast when there was a knock on her door.
She opened the door and it revealed to be standing there, her golden belt that said "Queen of Thieves" in hieroglyphs. Nua grabbed it and hugged the belt while Ishizu and Marik, who were also at the door, smiled though Marik also chuckled.
"Thank you Ishizu and Marik!" Nua said as she hugged both said people.
"We only just managed to finish it this morning so that it's ready along with the rest of your outfit for tonight." Ishizu told Nua who grinned.
"I'm so gonna floor that vampire bitch tonight!" Nua said ambitiously, her fist high up in the air, "Anyway, Marik you going to walk to school with me?" She asked Marik who nodded a yes.
Ishizu then left while Nua let Marik inside.
"I was just eating my breakfast, you want anything?" Nua asked him as she continued eating her food.
"I'm fine." Marik answered and he looked at some pictures on a shelf.
Marik noticed a picture of Nua standing in front of a tomb. It looked as though nobody had managed to get inside of it except for her.
"Heh, that tomb is mine, Bakura got some of his men to build it for me, Bakura got his own not so far away. Oh and your sister took that picture for me in case any fools find it while I am out." Nua told Marik when she saw what he was looking at.
Once she finished eating her food, she brushed her teeth and left to school with Marik.
Yugi and Ryou were both going to meet Marik and Nua at school.
Ryou was already in morning room when his brother told him something which he did not like,
"Ryou, you aren't going to the prom tonight, I don't care if you wanted to go, even if you got a date which I doubt unless it's that ugly Amai girl. I'm going to the prom with Phoebe and I don't want you ruining it, tell your little friends that too." Bakura had said and he then left Ryou to sit with Phoebe.
'What should I do?' Ryou thought to himself sadly.
Marik and Nua then arrived at school and straight away they sat with Ryou.
"Hey Ryou, what's up?" Nua asked Ryou, noticing that he was unhappy.
"Bakura told me earlier that I can't come to the prom tonight…" Ryou answered her and she laughed, Ryou and Marik gave her a look.
"Eh, reminds me of a time when Bakura told me that the point of rules is to break them. Don't worry Ryou, you can still come, you can stay at mine after school until we leave for the prom." Nua told Ryou who blushed and she rolled her eyes.
"Where's Yugi by the way?" Marik asked Ryou.
"I don't know, I have a bad feeling his brother has done something to him…" Ryou said with a fearful frown of great worry for his friend.
Then they noticed Yugi's brother walk into the classroom and sit with Bakura, Phoebe and his friends.
'Hm, that is the Pharaoh, isn't it? Well I'll have a word with him!' Nua thought to herself in anger.
"Be right back you guys." Nua told Marik and Ryou, she began walking up to Atem and his group.
Atem and the group noticed Nua walking up to Atem.
"What do you want?" Atem sneered at her.
"I want to know why Yugi is not here today." Nua stated with a warning look in her eyes as she crossed her arms.
"Like it's any of your business, he's unwell." Atem replied but Nua did not believe that one bit.
"You've done something to him haven't you?" Nua growled and all of a sudden she ran out of the classroom.
"Damn, she's going to find Yugi, isn't she?" Atem said quietly to himself and he began chasing after her.
As in her past life she had been a thief, she ran quite faster than normal people, easily dodging people and cars, she may her way to Yugi and Atem's house in little minutes.
She opened the door and was greeted by silence, running upstairs she found Yugi's room and opened the door to Yugi tied up in his bed and duct tape on his mouth.
Nua quickly took the duct tape off, making sure she didn't hurt him and she untied the rope around him so he was free.
"Atem doesn't want you going to the prom tonight does he?" Nua said and Yugi nodded, then both teenagers suddenly heard a slam of a door so Yugi quickly opened his window and Nua jumped out. Landing safely, she caught Yugi who jumped out after her.
"Let's get to school." Nua told Yugi and the two rushed to school.
The school day went smoothly but at Lunch Nua was walking by herself and she received a punch in the face.
She stumbled back in shock but then her eyes narrowed when she saw that it was Atem.
"You just love to ruin everything don't you, Phoebe is right! If we don't stop you, Yugi, Ryou and Marik, then you will ruin everything tonight at the prom!" Atem exclaimed and Nua frowned, it was Phoebe doing this.
"Pharaoh Atem, last time I saw you, many years ago, you were good hearted and fought for justice, but now you are the complete opposite. What has happened to the old you?" Nua asked him and he gave her an odd look before widening his eyes.
"The Red Rose Nua?" He gasped and Nua slowly nodded.
"I know that both me and Bakura are your worst enemies but please help us this once. Phoebe is a Vampire who is always looking for trouble. She knows my past and Bakura's, and she's trying to take him away from me, she is hypnotising him and I fear tonight she will choose to make him a vampire or even worse, she could kill him. Ishizu had been the first to see and greet me after I had woken up from the dead, she is Marik's sister and that explains why Marik is now on my side along with Yugi and Ryou, though they found out when Marik accidentally called me Nua instead of my surname Amai. Atem, please will you help me? Help Bakura? She has one of the few spell books from your palace in Egypt so she is very powerful!" Nua told Atem who gasped.
Suddenly there was a loud scream.
"What was that?" Atem said beginning to run to where he heard it come from, Nua followed him.
The two reached to just about outside of their school to see a girl hiding behind a tree.
"What's wrong Katie?" Atem asked the girl, she quickly looked at the two, shaking tons.
"T-that thing!" She stuttered as she pointed to a dead corpse.
Atem made a disgusted noise while Nua walked up to it and examined it.
"Atem, this is evidence that what I said about Phoebe is true!" Nua told Atem who glanced to see in the corpse's neck was two bite marks.
"This person died a week ago…" Nua estimated to herself out loud, and then a few more students appeared along with a couple of teachers.
Nua walked away from them and left to her next lesson which was Science.
Phoebe, Bakura and Ryou were in Nua's Science class, sitting straight away next to Ryou they began chatting about the prom after school.
"Ishizu finished the belt this morning, here look." Nua said and she opened her bag enough for Ryou to see a golden belt with hieroglyphs on.
"Wow…" Ryou said in awe at it and Nua let him touch the belt. He traced around it and then looked back at Nua when their Science teacher came in.
Throughout the lesson, Nua would keep looking at Bakura and Phoebe.
Phoebe had looked straight back at her a couple of times until Bakura noticed them, they then stopped at that point.
At the end of the lesson, Nua was glad to be out. She and Ryou began walking to their History class.
"Hey Amai" Marik greeted Nua as she sat down next to him.
"Hello Marik" She greeted him back, opening her History Book she wrote down the date and title for the lesson.
"You okay after morning room?" He asked her.
"Yeah, I found Yugi tied up in his room, I'm worried what goes on there, stupid pha-Atem." Nua said, as Bakura was close she did not say Pharaoh.
"Fatum?" Marik repeated with a chuckle.
"I meant Atem." Nua told him and the teacher arrived so they got on with the lesson.
Halfway through the lesson, Nua started doodling in her History book and by the end of the lesson she realised that she had drawn her outfit for the prom.
"Wow Amai, you're a really good drawer!" Marik said beside her and she thanked him for the compliment. Nua made sure that Bakura and Phoebe did not see it though by ripping the page out and folding it up, stuffing it into her bag.
Later that day at Lunch, Nua was with Marik and Ryou under their tree, eating their lunches.
"Hey Amai! Marik! Ryou!" Yugi greeted the three; they all looked up and were surprised to see Atem standing beside his brother Yugi.
"Hey, you guys! Oh and also Yugi you don't have to call me Amai anymore." Nua replied with a grin, patting the space next to her for them.
Atem was the first to sit down, next to Nua while Yugi sat in a space to close the circle they had formed.
"So, did you tell Atem then? Marik asked Nua and she nodded.
"Yeah, he might as well know that his other enemy back in Egypt is here along with Bakura." Nua said with a grin.
"Ew! Atem, what the hell are you doing with those losers?" The group all suddenly heard Phoebe say in disgust.
"What the hell do you want?" Nua asked in annoyance.
"I only wanted to speak to Atem about something." Phoebe sneered at Nua then looked at Atem innocently.
"Phoebe, I know what you really are and I will no longer help you. I am going to help Nua get Bakura back. He truly belongs with her, not you." Atem told her with honesty and she huffed at him before stropping off.
"Thank you Atem…" Nua said quietly and stared at the ground as she ate the rest of her lunch.
The bell went soon after that and they went to their final lesson before going home…