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Yami woke up to the smell of something unknown to him. Groggily opening his eyes, he was met with Bakura half smirking at him. That's when Yami noticed that his hands were tied behind his back.
"What do you want Bakura!" Yami spat when all of his senses came back to him.
Bakura frowned. "I've done nothing you ungrateful little piece of-"
"That'll be enough Bakura," a feminine voice called out. "I can handle him."
Bakura shut his mouth, and then growled as he stood up and backed away from the prince. Within a second, the girl named Teana walked in beside him.
Yami wasn't shocked. He knew Teana was up to something the minute he had found out that she hadn't left the palace when he clearly ordered her to. He tried to twist out of the rope that held his wrists together.
Teana seemed to notice this, and simply spat, "no need to try Yami dear, there's a spell on the rope to prevent escape."
Yami growled, and stopped struggling, trying to figure out where she had learnt so many spells. "Where's Yugi? Why are the priests frozen? What do you want?"
Teana raised an eyebrow as she walked over to her fiancé. "Why, so many questions Yami. I thought that you were supposed to be the smart one, not me," she stated innocently. "Well, I guess that the tables have turned, haven't they?" she said. Her voice was filled with pure anger and hate.
Yami's eyes narrowed. "I'll ask again. What do you want?" His voice was dripping with venom.
Teana smirked. "Easy. When you and I get married, we will share the power that is put over Egypt. And I want that power."
"But what does this have to do with Yugi?"
Teana scowled this time. "When your little 'Yugi' came in from that orchestra, I noticed that there was a relationship between you two, and it needed to be put to an end. And of course, I knew that you'd call off the wedding for that little brat, and so now here's the real deal that I have for you."
Yami raised an eyebrow, but asked his next question. "Why are the priests frozen with a spell?"
"All in due time sweetie," Teana said as she kissed Yami lightly on the cheek. "As for the deal, if you say that the wedding will still be on tomorrow, and we actually get married, I'll return your little brat unharmed."
When Teana said the word 'unharmed' Yami looked over her shoulder to see Bakura sniggering. He knew something was up. "Yugi's hurt, isn't he?" Yami blurted out, starting to struggle again.
"Very well, I may have lied about that, but I promise that he won't be hurt anymore than he is now," Teana said, placing another small kiss upon Yami's lips. "Can you promise me that dear?"
Yami licked his lips, trying to get Teana's taste off his lips. Thinking about that promise made Yami think twice before saying his answer. "Fine, the wedding will go to plan as it was before. I promise. Just don't hurt Yugi anymore, please," Yami somewhat begged.
Teana smirked. "Alright, just don't break that promise."
Trying to ignore the sour taste on his lips now, Yami asked for a third time, "Why are the priests frozen? And how do I know that you'll keep your promise?"
Teana stood up and walked over to Bakura. "As for the priest thing, you'll get it by tomorrow. And I'll keep my promise, as long as you keep yours."
With that, Teana and Bakura left the room that was unfamiliar to Yami.
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Yugi felt pain all over from the two knives and the mystery weapon had attacked him the previous night. Wait, what day was it? Was his group here already? Were they worried? Had they forgotten that he was still here?
Unfortunately, there were no windows, so Yugi couldn't tell if it had only been a few hours or a whole day since he had passed out.
Slowly and carefully picking himself up from the cold and moldy floor, Yugi groaned in pain. Sitting up against the nearest wall, Yugi studied his bloodied arms. By just seeing that his arms looked like shredded ribbons, Yugi immediately knew that the rest of his body probably looked ten times worse.
Grimacing when his body started to slide down the wall a little, Yugi pulled himself up, earning more pain than before. Yugi then thought things over.
"I wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for me to fall for Yami…" Yugi mumbled to himself, hating himself for doing something so foolish. "He's the only reason I'm in this state. I should've never came back after the performance that night so long ago…"
Yugi soon started to regret everything he had done with Egypt's prince. He knew well enough that Yami had a fiancé, and he should have just stated that he didn't want to be in the middle of their relationship. Not that they really had one anyway…
Slowly picking himself up from the ground, Yugi slowly made his way to the room's door. When he reached the door, Yugi found that it was locked, as he had suspected. He could also see two figures just outside the door's thick bars. It was probably Marik and Ammon.
Seeing that he wouldn't be leaving anytime soon, Yugi once again, painfully made his way back to a non-moldy wall to lean against. Hopefully he could find sleep with all this pain.
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Yami woke up as something hard kicked his side.
Looking up, he noticed that it was one of the prisoners…how had Teana gotten so many prisoners out of the dungeon? How many were out of their cells was the real question, however.
"Get up," the man demanded.
Doing as told, Yami managed to stand up, his wrists still bound together. As the prisoner grabbed his arm with his grubby hand, Yami wanted to shout and use his little shadow magic he had left to blast the prisoner away as he was dragged out of the strange room and down yet another unfamiliar hall. At the end of the hallway, there was a room and Yami's bound was cut, making his wrists free, and then he was suddenly shoved inside of the room, clothes hitting the back of his head as he fell to his knees.
"Hurry up and get dressed. Teana's waiting," the prisoner commanded, as he slammed the door shut and waited.
Yami's first idea was to look for an escape route, but found none. He didn't want to go through with the wedding, and he didn't know what was up Teana's sleeves, for she had done so much already that was unexpected. Picking up the clothes that were thrown at him, Yami unfortunately found them to be his wedding garbs.
Gripping the clothes tightly, Yami quickly undressed and then redressed in the wedding garbs. By the time he was fully clothed, Yami was wearing slightly baggy Egyptian pants that were white, and a white muscle shirt, that was really similar to his regular attire. He had yet to have kohl around his eyes and gold adorning his torso.
Suddenly the door opened and Yami was once again dragged out. He and the prisoner walked around the palace, Yami relieved when they came to the familiar part of the palace. But what puzzled him was that whenever they passed by a servant or priest, they would greet Yami, but not even notice that there was a deadly prisoner in their presence.
Yami was just about to question the prisoner on what was happening, but it was too late when he was pushed into yet another room where, as expected, the kohl was applied to his eyes and golden jewelry nearly made him fall to the floor.
As the servants left the room, Yami also noticed that the prisoner had disappeared as well. Then, Shimon ran into the room.
"My prince, were have you been? We can't hold this ceremony any longer! Please hurry!" the elderly man said, practically dragging Yami out into the gardens.
Once out in the gardens, Yami looked at all of the people that were there waiting for the wedding to start. It looked like Yugi's group had shown up; he had recognized the instructor immediately. All of the priests where present, a couple of other close friends of Yami's and Teana's had shown up, and some other country's rulers that Egypt had good relations with over the years.
Yami spotted Seto with a worried filled face, and his hands were urging his younger cousin to come forward, for the band had started to play. Yami hastily made his way to Shimon, the priest that would unite the prince and Teana together forever.
Yami gulped. 'For Yugi's safety, I will do this,' Yami promised himself.
As the music began to die down, Yami straightened up as he took notice that Teana was making her entrance. She was wearing a simple wedding gown. Pure white cloth with gold decorations near the bottom and golden jewelry adorned the upper half of her body. Lastly, she was holding a bouquet of flowers. Yami could swear that he saw a murderous look in her eyes.
The music stopped altogether when Teana stopped next to Yami. Yami felt Teana slip one of her hands into his. Yami tried not to jump away at the touch.
Yami suddenly thought back to when his priests were arranging the whole ceremony. Usually, it would just be a party and that the bride would just move all of her belongings into the palace, the priests wanted something special this time. It wasn't just a wedding day; it was also the day where their beloved prince would become Pharaoh.
Ahead of them, Shimon cleared his throat. At least this part wouldn't take too long. "By the powers of
Thoth and Amun, bless these two lovers. Bond them for the rest of their lives until death do they part."
Shimon gave them one last smile before nodding his head. Then looking over to Mahado, Mahado nodded and stepped forward, carrying two crowns. Taking the smaller of the two crowns, Shimon placed it over Teana's head. Then, taking the larger crown from Mahado, Shimon spoke, "Oh mighty Horus, please bless this young child whom is the next Pharaoh. And by the powers of Thoth, please bless him with the wisdom he needs to rule over Egypt." With that, Shimon carefully put the crown upon Yami's brow.
Stepping back, admiring the new couple before him, Shimon nodded to them both.
Teana smiled, and Yami put on a fake smile, still unsure of what was going to happen now. Before Yami knew it, Teana had pulled her head into Yami's and Yami felt Teana's sour tasting lips against his. Yami could hear their audience clapping in the background now, along with a few cheers here and there.
Wanting to desperately pull away from the kiss from the lack of air, Yami was just about to pull back when there was a sudden sharp pain in his gut, and he suddenly coughed up blood, collapsing to the ground.
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Jou, Honda and Ryou were now really starting to worry about Yugi. They hadn't seen him for almost a month, and today was the day the orchestra was to pick him back up from the palace, and they hadn't seen Yugi yet. Something seemed wrong.
Ryou also took notice that the prince that they had preformed for not too long ago seemed kind of nervous, and kind of jumpy looking, but Ryou probably guessed that it was just regular nerves.
"Ryou…psst, Ryou…" Jou whispered, poking his friend's arm.
"What?" Ryou asked, trying to concentrate on the ceremony.
"Honda and I are gonna go look for Yugi. Can you cover for us?" Jou asked, smiling sheepishly when Ryou gave him a certain look that described that they'd probably get into trouble if they left.
"C'mon Ryou, we'll only be gone for a little while," Honda spoke, joining the conversation.
Ryou was about to object, but then thought. Come to think of it, no one had seen Yugi yet. The instructor seemed to be getting worried too when he looked over his shoulder. "Then I'm coming with you," he simply stated.
Jou and Honda looked shocked by their shy friend's reply, but nonetheless accepted it. "Alright, lets go this way then," Jou instructed as he and his two companions snook out of the gardens.
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"He could be anywhere in this palace Jou! We may never find him! C'mon, lets go back," Honda pleaded to his blonde friend.
"No, lets just go down this way and see if Yugi is down here," Jou responded, fully determined with the direction he chose.
A couple of minutes later, the trio had made their way into a weird part of the palace where it seemed to be much darker and dank. Coming up to a pair of double doors, Jou tried to press through, but found the doors locked.
"Jounouchi, Yugi couldn't possibly be down here, the prince isn't that cruel," Ryou expounded, putting a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"No, just wait, I can hear something," Jou replied, pressing his ear up to the wooden door.
"Jou, you do know that you're trying to hear through really thick wood. You won't be able to hear a single thing you idi-" Honda was cut off.
"Shh…I seriously hear something…" Jou trailed off, beckoning his companions to listen through the door too.
Honda and Ryou couldn't believe it, but there was a muffled sound behind the door. There was some laughter and someone pleading for whomever it was to stop whatever they were doing. After about five minutes of listening, the trio heard a loud 'thwack' and then footsteps coming towards the door.
"Quick! Go around the corner!" Honda exclaimed hastily.
Dashing over to the corner that Honda pointed out, they all saw a man come out and he was dragging something…or someone Ryou closely observed.
When the man and the knocked out being passed their hiding spot, Ryou peeked out and got a glimpse of what or who it was. Ryou was in total shock.
When the man and person were out of sight, Ryou couldn't hold it in anymore.
"That knocked out person was Yugi!"
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SS: There's chapter 11. Goodness, I hope that the wedding ceremony wasn't too corny. Actually, I did some research on Egyptian weddings, and I was pretty shocked about what they really did. They pretty much just had a party and the bride would just move in. But I made it a little different since Yami was becoming the Pharaoh and all. So yeah…please read and review!!
