This chapter has fighting scenes in it. Major action for the next few chapters.
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Chapter 15- Kenshin Strikes!
~One Month Later~
Heba walked down the hall with Ryou, Joey, and Malik.
"I find it a little strange." Joey said.
"What's strange?" Ryou asked.
"Well, I thought that Kenshin would have made his move by now. I mean, he hates us with a passion, so why hasn't he tried to kill us yet?" Joey asked.
"I don't know, Joey, but be thankful. We should be thankful for the peace we have right now. I know that it's not going to last much longer." Heba said.
"He's right. Kenshin could do just about anything." Malik agreed.
"I know that, but I want us to be ready. We can't be caught off guard." Joey said.
"We are ready, Joey." Heba said.
"I just feel like we're not ready." Joey said.
"We may not know what he's planning, but we do know he's planning something. We are on guard, so there's nothing to be worried about." Malik said.
"I meant we're ready to fight. Joey is right about the fact that we're not ready for what he has planned since we don't know what he is planning do." Heba said.
"Is there anything we can do?" Ryou asked.
"Short of finding out what he's planning, no." Heba answered.
"Well, we're just going to have to stay on guard at all times." Ryou said.
"We will be." Heba said. 'I just hope we can stop him without anything bad happening.' Heba thought.
Kenshin stood starring out the window. He smirked. 'It's time to put my plan into action.' Kenshin thought.
"Emperor Kenshin, they are here." Matsumoto said.
Kenshin turned to find Matsumoto standing with five people.
"Good. Are you five prepared to go on your mission?" Kenshin asked.
"Yes, Emperor Kenshin. We are ready to carry out your orders. We will not fail you." the one who seemed to be the leader said.
"Cline. Ian. Max. Kiro. Humiru. Do not fail me in this." Kenshin said.
"We will not, Your Majesty." Cline said.
"Good. Sneak into the Egyptian palace. I want you to kidnap Atemu, Bakura, Marik, and Seto. I want them brought here alive. Knock them out if you need to, but bring them here alive." Emperor Kenshin said.
"Emperor, we will do this, but what should we do if there are others with these five?" Kiro asked.
"Bring anyone who is with them here. Just make sure that you bring those four here." Kenshin said.
"As you command, Emperor." Cline said before the five left.
"Emperor, if I may ask, why are you having those four kidnapped? I thought that you were planning to have Heba, Ryou, Malik, and Joey killed." Matsumoto said.
"I am, and this is how I am going to do it." Kenshin said with a smirk.
"I do not understand." Matsumoto said.
"It's rather simple. I know that they have all fallen in love with their husbands. If they are kidnapped, I know that all four of them will come rushing here, and I will be able to kill them in our territory. They will have no one to help them. Then, I can start my war with Egypt by saying they came here and killed all four of them and endangered my people." Kenshin said.
Matsumoto also smirked as he finally understood. "A well thought out plan, my king. We will certainly be victorious this time." Matsumoto said.
"I know that we will." Kenshin said. 'Soon, they will all join Yugi in the afterlife.' Kenshin thought.
Atemu, Yami, Bakura, Marik, Seto, Aknankanon, Amara, and Aknaudin were all in the lounge.
Aknankanon, Amara, and Aknaudin had taken the off from work to relax and had decided to spend the day with their family.
"So, how have things been with your husbands?" Amara asked.
"They are fine. I just wish we hadn't been so stubborn in the first place. We missed on getting to know some great people from the start." Atemu said.
"Well, the main thing is that you are all finally happy." Amara said.
"Yeah, when the mutt will shut his mouth." Seto grumbled.
They all knew that that was Seto's way of saying that he loved Joey.
"So, what are you all planning to do today?" Aknankanon asked.
"Nothing right now. All of our husband have decided that they will train intensely, so we're on our won for a while." Marik said.
"Why are they training?" Amara asked.
"The warning that they were brought that Emperor Kenshin planned to kill them still has them a little spooked, and since he hasn't made a move, they have decided to train to be ready for when he does make a move." Atemu explained.
"It's smart when you think about it." Aknaudin said.
"Indeed. It's better to be safe than sorry." Aknankanon agreed.
"Well, I personally think that they are being paranoid." Bakura said.
"They know him better than we do, so maybe they know that he will do that." Yami said.
"Yami's right. We probably shouldn't dismiss their concerns so easily. Their fears might seem irrational to us, but they may have some merit. After all, we only know a portion of what the Emperor is capable of. They know everything that he is capable of." Amara said.
"Still, it seems that they are letting their paranoia affect them a little too much." Seto said.
"Well, they train anyway, so this shouldn't be a big deal. It's not out of the ordinary." Aknankanon said.
Cline, Kiro, Max, Humiru, and Ian had easily made their way into the palace and were now looking for their target,
Using magic, the five had disguised themselves as servants so that they could blend in without being noticed.
It wasn't long before the came across the lounge and found everyone inside.
"Hmm. It seems we will have to take four extra prisoners with us." Cline said.
"The Emperor did say to bring anyone that was with them as well." Humiru said.
Cline smirked. "This is going to be fun." Cline said.
"Why don't we go and watch them train? There's no harm in it." Bakura said.
"Yeah, and I like to watch them train. They are really good at what they do." Marik added.
"All right. I thick I might come, too." Amara said.
"Go ahead. I think that I am going to stay here and relax. It's not often that I get the chance to do that." Aknankanon said.
"I'll stay as well." Aknaudin agreed.
The rest got up to go and watch the others train.
Before they could go anywhere, the doors to room were opened.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Aknankanon demanded, glaring at the servants.
"We have orders, Pharaoh." Cline said.
The group magically returned themselves to their Millennial states.
"And we will carry them out." Ian said.
"Millennials!" Amara gasped.
"Kenshin sent you!" Seto exclaimed.
Before another word could be uttered, Cline used his magic and sent them all crashing to the floor, unconscious.
"Don't kill them, Cline." Max warned.
"He shouldn't have spoken the Emperor's name in such a disrespectful way then." Cline said.
"Let's get them out of here before someone sees us." Kiro said.
They got the eight unconscious people before opened a portal and stepped inside of it, going back to the Millennial Kingdom with their captives.
Heba, Ryou, Malik, and Joey were in the middle of training when Heba suddenly stopped.
Seeing Heba stop in the middle of the training session, the others stopped as well.
"Heba, what's wrong?" Joey asked.
"Something's wrong. I can feel it." Heba said.
"What do you mean? What do you think's wrong?" Malik asked.
All three knew that Heba had a heightened awareness due to his stronger magic as a Prince of the Millennial Kingdom and were always going to listen to him when he said that something was wrong.
"Come on." Heba said. He ran back in with the others following him.
The group went to the lounge where they found the lunge doors opened.
"Uh, guys. Even when people are in there, the lounge doors are always closed." Joey said.
The group walked in and found no one.
"Maybe they just forgot to close the door." Ryou said.
"Guys, do you feel that?" Heba asked.
"Feel what?" Malik asked.
"Concentrate." Heba said.
The three did and sensed it.
"Damn it! Millennials were here!" Ryou growled.
Heba found a note. He picked it up, and the other three crowded around him to read it.
If you are reading this, my son, then you already know that I have had your dear husband kidnapped as well as the husbands of Joey, Ryou, and Malik along with anyone who happened to be with them. If you do not wish for them to die, come to the Millennial Kingdom. You will only get them back if you come here. You have until dusk. If you are not here, they will all die as your brother did.
Kenshin
"Damn it! We thought that he was going after us, but he went after them instead." Joey growled.
"No. He is coming after us." Heba said. He turned to face the other three. "Through the people we love." Heba said.
"He's been watching us. He knows how we feel about them." Ryou gasped.
"Now what?" Malik asked.
"There's only one thing to do. Come on." Heba said.
The other three followed Heba as he walked quickly out of the room.
Atemu was the first one to regain consciousness. He groaned as he opened his eyes. He starred up at the ceiling and realized he had no clue where he was. He sat up and looked around.
Yami was lying next to him, unconscious as well. Aknankanon, Amara, Aknaudin, Seto, Bakura, and Marik were around them as well.
"Yami. Yami, wake up." Atemu said, shaking his brother rather roughly.
Yami groaned before he opened his eyes and looked up at his brother blearily. "Atemu? What happened?" Yami asked as he sat up, rubbing his eyes.
"Yami, we've been kidnapped." Atemu said.
"What?!" Yami exclaimed.
"Don't you remember?" Atemu asked.
Yami did remember! "Those Millennials!" Yami exclaimed.
"Yeah. Help me wake everyone else up." Atemu said.
Quickly, the two woke up everyone else.
"Now what?" Aknaudin asked.
"I can't believe this! We actually trusted them, and they turned their backs on us!" Bakura growled.
"What are you talking about?" Seto asked.
"Don't you see? Our husbands had to help with this!" Bakura said.
"Not necessarily." Atemu said.
"What do you mean?" Aknankanon asked.
"They might not have known. We can't jump to conclusions." Atemu said, wanting to give all four of them, especially Heba, the benefit of the doubt.
"We can't jump to conclusions. In the meantime, how do we get out of here?" Aknankanon asked.
No one had an answer to that.
Heba had round up Shada, Karim, Isis, and Mahado, knowing that they would need their help.
"Kidnapped?!" Mahado exclaimed.
"I'm afraid so. My father made is move, and he has every one of them." Heba said.
"How could you let this happen?!" Shada demanded.
"I had no idea that it was going to happen. We weren't there at the time." Heba said.
Isis, knowing that Heba, Joey, Ryou, and Malik were their best chance at saving their Pharaoh and the others, said, "What can we do?"
"We have to go there as he said. It's the only way, but I don't know that my father will let them go that easily. That's why you're all coming with us." Heba said.
"Us?" Karim asked.
"Yes. We are going to need your help." Heba said.
All four handed them laser guns from the Millennial Kingdom.
"We don't know how to use them." Isis protested.
"It's easy. The gage that you see when you hold it shows how much power you have. Completely green means that it's fully charged. As the energy runs out, it will start to turn red. Other than that, all you have to do is aim and shoot." Heba said.
"All right. I think we can handle it." Mahado said.
"Just don't shoot us." Joey said.
"We won't. At least not purposely." Isis aid.
Heba nodded. He then opened a portal to the Millennial Kingdom.
All eight walked into the portal.
Soon, two guards came to where they were.
"Looks like the Emperor is ready for you." one of the guards said.
The eight were tense, not knowing what to do.
'A surprise attack is always the best.'
Atemu remembered Heba's words as he was training him. 'Well, I might as well try and out my training to good use.' Atemu thought.
The guards opened the doors and motioned them out.
They all filed out, knowing that they had no choice.
Atemu made sure he was the last one.
The two guards were right at him.
"Come on." one guard barked.
Atemu then kicked back into the man's stomach before he rammed his fist up into the man's chin, knocking the man back into the cell hard, knocking him out.
"Hey!" the other guard shouted.
Atemu grabbed him by the wrist and twisted his arm, forcing the man to drop the un he held before Atemu rammed his knee into the man's stomach and then rammed his elbow into the man's back, knocking the man down to the floor, also unconscious.
Yami, Seto, Marik, Bakura, Aknankanon, Amara, and Aknaudin all starred in shock.
"Atemu, where did you learn that?" Aknankanon asked.
"Well, I figured that I might as well put my training with Heba to good use. It's not like I was training for nothing." Atemu said.
"Maybe I should look into a few lessons from Heba." Bakura said.
"We don't have time." Atemu said as he got the two guns. He turned to Yami and said, "Do you remember how Heba told us to use them back on the plane?"
"Yeah. I remember." Yami answered, taking one.
"I'm glad that you two know what to do. We must hurry. We don't know how much time we have before it is found out that we have escaped." Aknaudin said.
The group then hurried on down the hall.
Heba and the others arrived in the Millennial Kingdom outside the palace, but inside the palace walls.
"It's quiet." Heba said.
"A little too quiet for this place. There's usually guards everywhere." Joey added.
"What does that mean?" Isis asked.
"That my father's up to something. We have to be careful." Heba said.
The group started to move.
Soon, they came upon two soldiers.
Heba and Malik nodded to each other before lunging forward.
Both guards were taken by surprise.
Heba rammed his foot into the throat of one before he brought his fist forward and hit the man in the head, throwing the man back into the wall hard.
Malik slammed his fist into the other soldier's chest before he turned and kicked the man in the face, throwing the man backwards and into a pillar.
Both soldiers were down.
"That was easy." Ryou said.
"It'll get harder. Come on." Heba said.
The group made their way forward.
Atemu and the others had found relatively little resistance as they made their way through the palace.
"It's odd that we haven't come across anyone." Amara said.
"Yeah, but we don't need to speak too soon. We have no way of knowing where everyone is at the moment." Aknaudin said.
"Not to mention the fact that we don't have the first clue where we are. We don't know this place, so there's a chance that we will end up somewhere we shouldn't." Atemu said.
The group continued on.
'I really wish that Heba and the others were here at the moment. We would be so much better off if one of them were here.' Atemu thought.
No one was sure where they were so, they were on complete guard at all times, and they were going to fight to get out of this mess. They were not going down without a fight.
"Well, well. What do we have here?"
All of them turned and found themselves facing six men.
"I think that we found out escaped captives." one said.
The group turned to run only to find six more at them. Every man had a gun trained on them.
"Drop the guns, and no one gets hurt." the one that had spoken said.
'Yet.' Atemu thought, knowing that they were going to get hurt in some way.
"Drop them boys." Aknankanon said.
Yami and Atemu looked at their father.
"Drop them. It's over." Aknankanon said. He wasn't one to admit defeat, but Aknankanon knew when they were outnumbered and overpowered, and this was one of those times.
Atemu and Yami did as their father had told them and tossed their guns aside.
"Come on." one of the men said.
Having no choice, the eight Egyptians allowed themselves be lead down the hall, not sure where they were going or what would happen to them.
Heba and the others had managed to make their way through much of the palace.
"Where do you think they are?" Karim asked.
"Chances are that he'll have them in the dungeon until he decides what he wants to do with them." Joey said.
"No. He won't have them there." Heba said.
"How do you know that?" Ryou asked.
"This is a trap, and we're playing by my father's rules, not the rules of common sense. He'll have them in the throne room." Heba said.
"Are you sure?" Mahado asked.
"I have seen my father's trickery enough to know that that's what he would do." Heba replied.
The group nodded and followed Heba.
'I just hope that we're not too late to save them.' Heba thought.
The soldiers led the Egyptians down the hall and right into the throne room.
It surprised the Egyptians that Kenshin wasn't there.
"I guess we have to wait." one of the soldiers said.
"Not like it's a big deal." another said.
The soldiers had taken extra precaution, and they had tied all of the Egyptians'' hands behind their backs.
'I wonder what he has in mind.' Atemu thought.
'This can't be good.' Aknankanon thought, knowing that they were in trouble.
Heba and the others arrived at the throne room and found that their friends were all in the room with the soldiers.
"You were right." Shada said.
"How do we do this?" Isis asked.
"Okay. Joey, Malik, Ryou, and I will go in. The soldiers will fight us. Just get to them and keep them safe. We'll handle the soldiers." Heba said.
The group nodded.
Heba, Joey, Ryou, and Malik looked at each other, knowing that they had no choice, but to do this right. They charged into the room.
"It's them!" one of the soldiers shouted.
"Come on!" another said.
All twelve soldiers completely forgot about their captives and attacked them.
Joey ducked to avoid the sword of one before he used his sword to block another sword. Joey forced them back ad turned to kick one of the soldier in the chest, throwing the soldier back into the wall. Joey turned and ducked to avoid a kick. He turned and rammed the blade of his sword into the chest of one of the soldiers. Joey pulled out his sword and ducked to the ground on his back to avoid a sword. Joey kicked up and hit the man so hard in the chin that the man's neck snapped, killing him instantly. The last soldier charged at Joey and brought his sword down at him, but Joey ducked and rammed his shoulder into the man. He then brought out a dagger and struck out across, slitting the man's throat, killing him quickly.
Malik did a back flip to avoid the swords and landed on a raised platform. Three soldiers jumped up after him. Malik blocked a sword with his own before he turned and kicked one of the soldier's in the chest. Malik jumped up and kicked a man in the throat, crushing his windpipes and causing the man to suffocate. Malik had the other two charging at him from both sides. Malik jumped up out of the way, and one of the men was impaled on the sword of the other, killing him. The other man went at Malik again. Malik used his sword to block each strike that was made at him. Malik forced the man's sword up before he rammed his knee into the man's groin, causing the man to double over in pain. Malik then grabbed his neck and snapped it easily, killing him.
Ryou ducked down to avoid a sword. He then jumped up and flipped over all of the men as they all brought their swords down at him. Ryou turned and rammed his sword through one of the soldier's backs so that it protruded through his chest before pulling his sword out, letting the man fall down, dead. The other two charged at Ryou, but Ryou easily avoid each swipe of the sword. Ryou held his sword diagonally to block of the men's swords before he forced them back. Ryou swung across with his sword and decapitated one of the men. The other man charged at Ryou, but Ryou kicked the man in the chest and sent him crashing back into a statue, impaling the man on the spear of the statue, killing him.
Heba had been battling with the last three, and the battle had slowly made it's way up onto the platform that the throne was on. One of the men charged at Heba, but Heba ducked and them jumped up, kicking the man in the neck. The man's neck twisted and snapped, killing him. The other two went right at Heba, but Heba moved back out of the way. He then grabbed one of them men and twisted him around before throwing him forward and impaling him right onto the sword of the other man. The last soldier went at Heba and struck out with his sword. Heba caught the man's wrist before he turned and snapped the man's wrist, causing the man to scream in pain. Heba then rammed his sword through the man's chest, killing him as well.
All of the soldiers were now dead.
Isis, Mahado, Karim, and Shada had gone and untied the other Egyptians.
"That was bloody." Amara said, looking sick.
"They would have killed us, Mother." Atemu said.
"He's right." Karim said.
"How did you find us?" Atemu asked.
"Kenshin left us a note telling us he had captured you. We came here to save you and enlisted their help." Malik said.
"I believe I owe you can apology for thinking that you had something to do with this." Shada said.
"You don't need to apologize. I understand why you thought the way that you did." Ryou said.
"I'm just glad you guys got here. We're lucky." Yami said.
Meanwhile, Heba hadn't moved from his place at the throne. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. "This isn't right." Heba said to himself. "That was too easy." he added.
Joey looked toward the throne and gasped. "HEBA! LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!" Joey shouted.
Heba turned and then gasped as a blade was suddenly thrust into his stomach, protruding through his back.
"Heba!" everyone shouted, horrified.
Kenshin smirked. "Welcome home, son." Kenshin said. He said son as if it were a crime to speak the word. "Join your brother." Kenshin added.
The sword was jerked roughly from Heba causing Heba to gasp in pain. Kenshin then hit Heba so hard that he was thrown to the side across the room, slamming right into the wall before falling down to the ground.
Kenshin turned to face the others, who were looking horrified. "Now, who's next?" Kenshin asked.
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