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"Slifer, lightning strike. Now!"
Slifer gained up all of his energy, positioning his blast at what his master ordered him to attack. Gaining up all of the energy as he could, Slifer released his attack at his target.
Yami gazed at his wife, not regretting what he was about to make Slifer do. If this attack went as he planned, he wouldn't have to worry about her idiotic remarks, and torments that were regularly made upon servants. He wouldn't have to worry about any innocent civilians being hurt, and he wouldn't have to worry about Rome taking over his country.
Yami looked at where Slifer had just ended his attack. There just seemed to be rubble lying around, not his wife. What had happened?
His eyes widening, Yami spun around, now looking at a struggling instrumentalist. Teana had somehow escaped Slifer's blast, and made it over to Yugi, freezing his last priest in his tracks. By the looks of it, it looked like Seto had healed Yugi, for most of his hideous scrapes where gone. That's when Yami then noticed a blade was put up to Yugi's neck threateningly.
"Teana, don't!" he called out.
Teana didn't say anything, probably because she didn't want to hurt her already broken jaw, but just pressed the blade even harder on Yugi's neck.
"Please, don't harm him in any other way," Yami begged.
Teana's mouth started moving slowly. "…You know what I…want," she said, barely over a whisper.
Yami stared for a moment into Yugi's pleading eyes. "You want the power that badly, don't you?" he said in a low voice that sounded helpless.
Teana nodded.
Yami took a couple steps forward. "What has he done to you?" he asked, feeling as if he had never gotten an answer from the other times he had asked.
Teana's voiced seemed rusty, and dangerous, "He's something precious…to you, isn't he?"
Yami nodded, not seeing where this was going.
"It's always fun taking away something precious from…you, when you can pretty much do anything…you want to," she continued, wincing when her jaw moved further than she intended it to.
Yami seemed puzzled for a moment, but quickly dismissed the statement. "Don't. Hurt. Him," he stated dangerously, taking another couple steps forward.
Teana half smirked, raising the blade, readying herself to strike. "Say…goodbye to your precious one," she hissed.
Seconds seemed to go by like minutes, and minutes seemed to go by like hours. Very, very slowly, everything happened.
Seeing the blade go down at a fast pace, Yami couldn't think of anything else to do. He couldn't order Slifer to attack; that would take much too long. So he ran, hopefully he'd make it there fast enough to reach Yugi.
A sharp scream was heard, as though slicing the thick air into many halves.
The body that sounded the scream fell to the floor with a thud, as did a blade.
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Yami grabbed Yugi as fast as he could as Teana's body wobbly fell forward. "Yugi, are you all right?" he asked, panting as heavy as a horse after galloping through a long journey.
"I'm fine, thanks to your high priest back there," Yugi motioned to the frozen Seto, "are you all right?"
"Peachy. I guess that it was a good thing I had that hidden knife, otherwise, this would've turned ugly," Yami replied, dropping his knife.
Yami sat down, gently pulling Yugi down with him. "Why didn't you use that before? None of this would have happened if you revealed it sooner," Yugi expounded.
Yami smiled. "You saw what spells she was able to perform," Yami explained. "If she knew I had that, she would have been able to take that away from me without breaking a sweat."
"I see," Yugi said, sounding a little drowsy.
Yami noticed this and picked Yugi up in a bridal-like fashion. Yugi didn't seem to mind. Setting him down by a nearby flowerbed, Yami instructed, "Stay here while I unfreeze everyone in the room. They may be able to help with our predicament."
Yugi smiled sleepily and leaned up against an oversized flowerpot, as he watched Yami walk away…
"Yugi, wake up. Yuuuuggggiiii…"a friend called out.
Yugi shook his head slightly and cracked his eyes open to see Ryou, Honda and Jounouchi hovering over him, worried expressions painted on their faces. "Hey guys."
"Hey? Hey! What do you mean, 'hey'? You nearly scared us all to death Yuge! You could've died!" Jounouchi, Yugi's overactive hyper friend responded, shaking his smaller friend.
Ryou scowled at his friend. "Jou, don't do that, you'll just hurt Yugi even more!"
Jou reluctantly let go of his friend's shoulders and whispered, "sorry Yuge."
"It's all right Jou." Yugi smiled.
All three were quiet, not really sure of what to speak of next. "Ah…so Yugi, how's it been in the palace?" Honda asked scratching the back of his head.
Yug was glad that the silence was over and replied, "It's been alright, except for, well, you all know," Yugi said, lowering his head.
"Yeah…but it's a good thing that that priest was able to heal you, right?" Jou added.
"Yes it is, I feel much better," Yugi responded, stretching his arms a little.
Once again, an awkward silence engulfed the group. Usually, when they were traveling with the orchestra, things would never be this quiet for this long. There were many things to talk about, but unfortunately, there weren't many today.
"So…where's Yami?" Yugi asked, looking at his lap so that his friends wouldn't see his small blush.
Ryou was the first to reply, "we didn't get much information, but we heard that he's dealing with government issues, and making sure that all the laws are enforced for some reason." Then, switching to a different matter, Ryou added, "The instructor is making sure that the group is all together, he said that we're leaving tomorrow."
"Oh, okay," Yugi said, a strange feeling in his gut as he remembered the last time his group was going to leave the next morning.
"Where's Teana's body?" Yugi asked, wanting to make sure that she was gone forever.
Honda cut Jou off as he was just about to speak, "Don't really know, but I think they said something about burning her body, so don't worry Yuge, she isn't coming back," Honda said, hoping to reassure Yugi's worried face.
"Thank the gods," Yugi mumbled.
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Yugi closed the door, making sure it didn't creak loud enough to wake up about sixty people all at once. Successfully closing the humungous door, Yugi turned on his heal and made his way to the courtyard.
Glad that he wasn't going to the cursed gardens this time, Yugi thought back to when he last sneaked out to meet the prince…wait, now it was pharaoh. Yugi had to remember that.
Reaching the courtyard, Yugi looked around, the only source of light being the moon and some torches. Finally seeing a figure, Yugi raced over to it, only to be pulled into a tight embrace, with a couple of kisses.
Pulling back from the kiss the two lovers were at the moment sharing, Yami stated, "So tomorrow you have to go back, huh?"
Yugi nodded, his eyes saddening. "I'm afraid so…don't try taking me away from them again, promise?" Yugi asked a somewhat playful tone in his voice.
"Unfortunately, I promise," the new pharaoh promised.
Both were silent, until, "Yugi, I'm sorry, it's all my fault you ended up in that horrible mess, I-" he was cut off from Yugi's finger over his lips.
"No, please, don't be sorry Yami," Yugi apologized. "Even though at first I couldn't stand being here, and away from the only family I've ever really known, I'm actually glad I stayed here for a while," Yugi explained. "Even though I went through all that nonsense, I don't hate you like I did at the very beginning.
"The only one to hate should be Teana. And fortunately, she's dead, and all shall be well since I'm hoping you figured all of those other issues." Yugi smiled. "I…" he trailed off, seemingly forgetting his train of thought.
"Don't worry, I won't need another fiancé any time soon," Yami said softly, giving Yugi another passionate kiss. Pulling away, Yami continued. "My priests and I figured all of that nonsense out, so I am now able to rule Egypt without a queen. We also dealt with Rome, so they won't be evading any time soon."
"What about those prisoners that Teana let out?" Yugi asked curiously.
Yami scowled. "Bakura we'll have to deal with sometime later. But all of the others were put back into their cells. But now, we'll have put more guards around the dungeon's area, for they may have been taught by Teana how to get out."
"Oh. That's good, I guess…more guards I mean."
Yami smiled.
Yugi sighed, everything seemed back in order now. Yami didn't have to deal with Teana anymore, or anyone for that matter, and he could rule Egypt in peace. Hopefully Yami felt the same way.
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"Come on people! We need to get to our next destination by nightfall!" the elderly man shouted over the orchestra.
People rushed and hurried about, grabbing their needed supplies, each running out of the palace gradually, all going to where they were supposed to meet up before leaving.
"Gee, this is heavy! It was never this heavy before!" Jou exclaimed, trying to lift up his small carry on.
Honda and Ryou snickered behind him, both saying in unison, "well Jou, maybe if you didn't put so many rocks in your bag, it wouldn't be so heavy!"
Jou growled, then opened his bag. His eye twitched in anger. "Why did you guys put actual rocks in my bag!"
Yugi sighed as he watched his friends bicker with one another, eventually dropping the argument. Watching his group bustle about seemed really old nowadays, but nonetheless watched them, with no amusement. Today he was going to be leaving a palace that he had grown used to and he was probably never going to see it again.
Although he was happy that he was going to be back where he belonged, he was also going to be saddened that he wasn't going to see the young pharaoh anymore.
Picking up his bag, Yugi strolled over to his friends and gave them a small smile. Knowing that they were all ready to go, the small group of friends started to make their way to where the majority of the orchestra was waiting. Rounding the last corner of the extremely long hallway, Yugi was pulled back and put into a tight embrace, along with a long passionate kiss.
"Yami, what are you doing? I need to go!"
"Stay with me," the pharaoh insisted.
"I can't, my instructor is expecting me to come this time," Yugi protested softly.
"Please?" Yami begged like a little child.
"I already said no, I mean, I'm sorry. I wish that I could stay, but I can't."
Yami's head lowered.
Yugi felt terrible talking to Yami this way, but then an idea popped into his head. Pulling off his backpack, Yugi opened the flap and rummaged through the numerous items he held dear.
"Here," Yugi said, pushing an item that was wrapped in cloth into Yami's hands.
"What's this?" the pharaoh asked confused as he watched Yugi put his carry on back over his shoulders.
"You keep it," Yugi said quickly, now hearing his name being called.
Looking over Yugi's shoulder, Yami stated hurriedly, "Promise me that you'll come back to the palace; and soon."
Yugi smiled. "I promise."
Putting the unknown item down by his side, Yami carefully gripped Yugi's chin with his other hand. Pulling Yugi close, Yami swiftly swept his lips over Yugi's. One last kiss.
The kiss seemed to last a long time, pleasing each male to no end. But unfortunately, Yugi's name was called out yet again, this time louder, and now closer.
Yugi embraced Yami one last time, before slipping out of the small corner, before yelling, "Keep good care of it!" And then he was gone, his friend's arms draped over his shoulders.
Yami was puzzled by Yugi's last statement, before looking down at the still covered up item. Untying the piece of string that was around it, Yami unfolded the cloth and peered down at the item.
It was the instrument that Yugi cared most about-the Ney.
But more importantly, it was Yugi's instrument.
Feeling the need to go run and catch up to Yugi's group to give back the instrument, Yami decided against it. Yugi did say to take care of it.
So finding the only thing he could think of doing was softly blowing into the headpiece, and lifting his fingers up on the small holes along the Ney's body. Yugi had taught him the tune, and this tune was what drew him to Yugi in the first place. But this wasn't just any tune…
It was a Wonderful Tune.
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SS: Ah…is this an okay ending? If it isn't, I could write a sequel. Guess it depends on how you guys liked it I suppose. Okay, I know that most of you were probably worrying you lil heads off about another character death, but I wrote two versions of this chapter, and that one just didn't seem that great. And I guess I should've warned last chapter that this chapter was the last one…sorry! But on a happier note, IT'S FINISHED!!!
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Until next time, SwimmingSamurai
