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Teana smirked and gazed down at the sight before her. Down by her feet, lay her husband, on his knees and hunched over, occasionally spitting out blood. He seemed to be trying to stop the bleeding that was coming out of his abdomen. Holding up her dagger, she smiled at it, thanking it for what it had done so very nicely.
"Pharaoh! Teana, what have you done?!" A couple priests shouted, starting to stride over.
Teana muttered a spell under her breath that she knew all too well. In an instant, everyone in the gardens had frozen on the spot, except Yami, and her close by prisoners who were hiding in the shadows.
Lowering to her knees, she took another look at Yami, lifting his chin up slowly.
The new pharaoh winced at the action, grasping his stomach even tighter in the process. "What have…you done…Teana?" Yami asked, his body starting to tremble at a fast pace now.
Teana held up her dagger to his face to observe. "What I've been planning to do for quite some time now dear. I thought you knew," she stated, fake innocence in her voice.
Yami's jaw was trembling now. "…Why?"
Teana smiled, starting to twirl the dagger now. "One word; power." Yami gave her a look that she couldn't decipher, and then added, "Now that I am the queen over Egypt, and you are about to die, the power goes directly to me. Get it yet?"
Yami fully understood. If a Pharaoh were to die, it'd go to the next person in line, meaning the queen, and then the queen would rule over Egypt, and vice versa. But what the hell would Teana want power for?
Teana looked at Yami again, knowing exactly what he was wondering. "Simple. I don't believe that you have the knowledge that I am a Roman Princess. Your priests for a long time had an agreement that Rome and Egypt would have good trading qualities, but my grandfather secretly decided that the Roman Empire would take over your land," Teana started, watching as Yami's expression changed.
"So a couple years back, your father and my father decided to join forces and combine our two countries power. So that lovely marriage has been arranged for quite a while now. That's why you couldn't get rid of me," Teana explained.
"B-but what does…Yugi…" Yami trailed off, another wave of pain surging through his body.
"Give me a sec, I'm not finished. So before I had to come live in this place, I was told that I had to rule this country, meaning that well, you know. So pretty much, Rome is taking over your pathetic country," Teana finally finished.
"…But…Yugi…" Yami trailed off again; unfortunately another wave of pain had decided to crash in.
"Don't worry about that little brat, you'll see him soon enough. He's played his part very well." Teana smiled. Deciding that he wasn't going to be saying anything more for a while, she swiftly took off Yami's crown before she stood up and went to collect the millennium items that were present.
Soon, Teana had collected the millennium ring, scale, necklace, key, puzzle and she'd wait to get the millennium eye later. She found that the millennium rod was missing; along with its owner that she had seen almost everyday she'd been here.
'Where is he?' she wondered as she searched the gardens. Soon she gave up looking and decided to go back and wait for the prisoner that was supposed to have shown up by now.
"Ammon's going to be a dead man if he doesn't get here soon," Teana muttered under her breath as she took another look at Yami's suffering form, enjoying every second of it.
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"One…two…three!"
Three crashes were sounded and the overly large prisoner fell to the floor unconscious. The three instrumentalists silently cheered, happy that their plan had worked. Over sized pots can do wonders.
"Jounouchi! Honda!" Ryou cried out.
Jou and Honda went over to Ryou, but more specifically, their dear friend Yugi.
"Man, he looks really cut up," Honda commented. "What'd think happened to him?"
"If that no good lousy new Pharaoh had to do anything about it, he's a dead man," Jounouchi growled, still checking over Yugi's body. "Looks as if this was the work of a blade or something, but other than that, he's out cold."
Ryou nodded. "Lets get him back to the gardens. Someone there must be able to help."
After successfully getting Yugi up on Honda's back, the three made their way back to the gardens, hoping that someone would be able to help.
Unfortunately, when they arrived at the gardens, they were shocked to see everyone in sight completely frozen, all with a mixed face of shock, or a happy face turning into a concerned one. The only forms they noticed that weren't frozen were that of the two new rulers.
The pharaoh was shivering upon his knees, holding his stomach, while the queen held a triumphant smirk upon her face.
"What's going on here?" all three asked nervously, still in total shock.
"Ah, it seems that he has arrived after all, though, not brought by who I intended it to be," the queen spoke as she strode toward the three. "Now would you be so kind as to hand over the boy?"
"No way. Seeing what you've done already, I don't think that you'd be able to trust," Jounouchi expounded.
Suddenly, Honda felt a slight movement on his back. "Yugi?"
"…Uh, Honda?" came the weary response.
"Give him to me now!" Teana demanded, anger rising up.
Ryou and Jou immediately stepped over to Honda, seeing if their friend was really awake. "You alright? You don't look too good."
Yugi blinked and then replied weakly, "I'll be fine…where's Yami?"
"Ah, about that Yugi-"
Teana had reached her limit; she didn't feel like dealing with these idiots anymore. "Guards!" she screeched.
Within a second at least ten guards came up, one of them being recognizable to Yugi. Then, without any warning, Yugi was yanked from Honda's hands and his three friends where put under a freeze spell.
"No! What did you do to them! They didn't do anything to you!" Yugi shouted at the new queen, finally gaining a little strength.
"They're getting what they deserve, just like everyone else around here," Teana spat, taking hold of Yugi, putting the dagger from earlier to his throat.
"Teana…don't," came a weary voice from behind.
Spinning around, Teana's eyes widened in shock, she hadn't planned this to happen. "What the hell do you think you're doing? You have little strength, and you can barely hold yourself up!" she shouted at Yami.
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Yami had no clue what he was doing, but he had to do something. He knew Yugi was in the gardens now, luckily he could still hear his surroundings. He had been close to loosing conscious, but now that Yugi was here, he couldn't allow that to happen.
Still clutching his abdomen, Yami willed himself to get up as fast as he could. From what Teana had said earlier, Yami also couldn't let that happen. He was supposed to protect his country now. How his priests hadn't known this was beyond him. Once he was successfully on two feet, Yami couldn't bare to see the sight before him. Teana was clutching Yugi with a knife to his throat, and Yugi looked like he was in the worst state ever. What happened to him?
"Teana…don't," he called out with a weak voice, trying not to cough up even more blood.
Teana hesitated for a moment, and then twirled around, and started at him in total shock, and then screeched, "What the hell to you think you're doing? You have little strength, and you can barely hold yourself up!"
"Don't hurt…Yugi, he's done…nothing to you," Yami said, feeling a little stronger.
Teana sighed. "Yes, he may have done nothing terribly wrong, but he ruined my original plan. And seeing how you two had a relationship developing, it's always fun to tear it all up!" Teana felt Yugi trying to get out of her grasp, so she pushed the dagger down hard on Yugi's neck, causing it to bleed a little, and making Yugi cry out softly.
"Please, don't hurt him," Yami pleaded, taking two shaky steps forward.
"And what if I do?" came his response.
"…"
"I thought so," Teana spoke, then, "now, who cares to perish first, this is taking longer than I wanted."
"No one will be perishing Teana. I knew that there was something foul about you," came in a new voice.
"Ah, I was wondering where you were High Priest," Teana greeted.
Seto ignored her and used what power he had to send her flying to the nearest wall, along with her prisoners that she had released. Yugi dropped to the floor in a limp heap.
Yami was about to attempt to run to Yugi but Seto stopped him. "Wait Yami. You're badly injured, here, let me heal you as quick as I can."
Taking the advantage of gaining as much strength as he could, Yami let his cousin heal him. Anxiety bubbling up inside him to get to Yugi, Seto's treatment ended quickly, and Yami raced over to Yugi, gathering him up in his arms.
"Yugi, are you alright?" Yami practically shouted.
"I'm fine Yami, just stop shaking me," Yugi responded, sitting up as best as he could.
"Stay with Seto, I don't want you to be injured anymore than you are now, promise?" Yami begged.
"Promise."
With that, Yami handed Yugi to Seto who had come up behind him. He then set a scowl upon his face and picked up the millennium puzzle that Teana had dropped not too long ago. Putting the golden item around his neck, Yami absorbed all the energy he could to gain more strength.
Once he felt strong enough, Yami proceeded to march over to where Teana had landed from Seto's blow. Finally reaching Teana, he stopped to see her trying to pull herself up.
"You will not proceed with your plan after all Teana," Yami spoke, his eyes narrowing.
Teana wiped the blood off of her chin. "And how do you propose to do that dear?"
Yami growled at the word 'dear'. It was starting to tick him off. "Have you ever heard of the Egyptian Gods?" Yami questioned, inwardly smirking when Teana gave him a confused look.
"What are you talking about?" Teana questioned, becoming curious.
"Tough luck then." And with that he clutched his millennium puzzle and shouted, "Please come forth, my Egyptian God, Slifer the Sky Dragon!"
Teana watched the scenery around her. Something didn't seem right. The sky grew cloudy and dark all of a sudden, and lightening was appearing out of nowhere. But that's when she saw an enormous red dragon appear, growling with all its fury.
"What…?"
"Teana, I'll have the pleasure of introducing you," Yami started, "Slifer, this is Teana. Teana, this is the end of the road for you." Yami boomed. "Teana, I promise you I'll have no regret for what I must do now, you have threatened my whole palace, innocent people, and you have threatened my country," Yami vowed.
Pausing, Yami took a deep breath. It was now or never. "Now Slifer, attack with your lightening strike!" Yami commanded, willing Slifer to attack at Teana.
As Slifer was gaining his energy to make his attack, Teana desperately searched for any of the three prisoners that were around. In a matter of seconds, she spotted Bakura. "Get over here and defend! Now!" she demanded harshly.
In a huff, Bakura sped over to the woman that released him out of the hellhole he was in only a couple days ago. Just as Slifer was just about to strike with all it had, he summoned his beast.
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Yami saw the blast, and he was one hundred percent sure that Teana was no more now. Unfortunately, he didn't hear Teana's screams of agony. He'd have to wait until the smoke cleared up now. But when the smoke did clear up however, he wasn't prepared to see what was now in front of him.
"Diabound…?" Yami questioned in disbelief.
"Heh, can't call you 'prince' now, eh Pharaoh?" came a crude voice.
Yami looked around, finally finding the owner of Diabound. "Bakura, what do you think you're doing?"
"Shut up Pharaoh. If you want to get to this idiot, you have to get passed me first!" Bakura spat, not even caring when Teana shouted at him, putting the dagger up to his back threateningly.
"Diabound, attack!" Bakura shouted.
Yami took the blow unfortunately, but it wasn't too much damage. "Destroy him Slifer!" Doing as told, Slifer attacked, and caused great damage to Diabound, and Bakura. It was enough for him to draw his monster back, yet earning another scold from Teana.
Bakura growled. "You talk to much." And with that, he jammed his fist into Teana's jaw, breaking it. Ignoring the idiotic girl beside him, Bakura was just about to run off when he added, "See you 'round Pharaoh, just don't except to put your guard down just yet when you destroy the bitch." Then he was gone.
Yami wasn't paying any more attention on Bakura anymore. He'd just have to search for him later it wouldn't be any trouble. Focusing on Teana who was holding her jaw, Yami shouted, "Slifer, lightening strike. Now!"
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SS: Here's chapter 12! Hope you liked. Oh, just a heads up, there may be a character death, (other than the obvious) but I'm still debating on that. And again, thanks for all of the wonderful reviews. Please read and review!!
