Tenshi- You're getting really lazy
Spirit- No, I'm just getting more busy. I have college to worry about, plus I'm usually always out with my boyfriend so I'm never home enough to right.
Tenshi- And when you are, all you do is lay on your bed watching tv.
Spirit-... Tenshi something shinny is over there!! Go get it::Tenshi takes off without Spirit even pointing in a direction:: Anyways, here is your next chapter.
Tenshi- ::in distance:: SHINNY!!!
Disclaimer- I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Sailor Moon. I do however own whatever OC's are in here.
Three years have past since the war with Hondo. There had been many losses during that dark time. Friends. . . and family. . . perished into the darkness. But over the course of these past years, those old wounds have healed. New allies have been made. New friends and loved ones have been found. A sense of security and peace had settled over the land of Egypt. What was destroyed, was rebuilt. The lives that were lost, are no honored and remembered with pride. The age of light had come and every one lived in harmony.
But like the day, peace does not last forever. Night, darkness is once again starting to appear. The time for serenity is ending once again. Weapons must be sharpened, armor must be shined. However, the people are now turning blind eyes towards the new threat. They no longer remember what loss and pain feel like. They no longer remember the cruelty of others and what it could bring. To those people, their arrogance will be their downfall. The ones who do remember, the ones who still live through the dark times in their minds are no fools. But will their knowledge and skills be enough this time? The evil is stronger, and far more strategic. If they thought the last threat was hard, then they better prepare for the new one. For the new evil has already arrived. It has been hiding in the alleys, it has been the neighbor or even best friend you thought you could trust. They have been concealing themselves for years. And now they are ready. Ready to blanket the land of Egypt in their hate and fury.
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Bakura smirked as he watched his lover ride into the gates of their secluded little town. The thieves had built it not to long ago in between some rocky mountains that would shield them from view. It wasn't much. Just a few buildings and many tents. Hotaru didn't look to happy, and that of course just asked for her to be picked on. After all, hell would freeze over if the two went a day without arguing. A now 13 year old Haku took the reigns of Hotaru's horse as she dismounted, then led it away to the stables. Pulling off her head wrap, short violet hair settled around her and she sighed. It was morning now, and she was extremely tired. Seeing Bakura standing there she scowled and walked over. She knew he was going to give her grief about being late. He always did. And it annoyed the hell out of her.
"What kept you?" he asked crossing his arms. Hotaru rolled her eyes and walked past him into the bar where she was greeted by Khalid and the others members of their band of thieves. Bakura followed her in, chuckling at her annoyed expression. Finally the girl sat down at their table and ordered a goblet of water. "So, you're just going to not talk to me then?"
Hotaru sighed. "I got the stone if that's what you're wondering."
"But it's not. I knew you would get it. What I'm wondering is why it took you 10 extra minutes to get back here. Your horse was well watered and fed before you left, it's not even hot yet, and there's no evidence of a sand storm on you." grumbling, Hotaru took a sip of her water. Sometimes she really did hate her husband.
"Someone else tried to get it from me once I rightfully stole it."
Bakura became serious. It was against the thieves rules to steal from another thief. "Who? It couldn't have been one of our men."
Hotaru shook her head. "It wasn't. It was that fool, Gahiji. You know the one trying to take your title? The idiot alarmed the tomb keepers, so then we had to ditch them. Oh remind me to thank Haku for the snake he found in the mead the other day?"at the last sentence a devilish smile formed on her face. Bakura raised an eyebrow at this, but thought it better not to ask. Having been trained for most of her life as an assassin, Hotaru could find even a toothpick handy in the most dangerous situations.
After giving a comforting kiss to his lover's cheek, the thief king stood up and left the bar. Seeing how Hotaru was in not such a good mood, it would be best to let her calm down some. This he unfortunately learned from experience. Heading over to the stables he saw Haku brushing the sand out of the violet eyed woman's horse's hair. The boy was growing up and looking much more like his brother, Hamadi, everyday. The only trait he lacked now was his older brothers flirtatious and slightly perverted ways. Speaking of Hamadi, it was almost the anniversary of his and Anzu's death. The thief wondered if Hotaru wanted to go visit their tomb.
Their tomb was the only one off limits to his band of thieves. They had gotten the word out to other bands as well. If either he or Hotaru found out their tombs were robbed they would hunt the perpetrators down and. . . lets just say you don't want to know what they'll do. Shacking his head of such thoughts he looked back to the young boy. Haku was just coming out of the stable and smiled when he saw him. Bakura smiled back.
"Hey, you done with your chores?" he asked.
"Almost. I just have to feed Akila and the other horses." he said indicating Hotaru's mare.
Bakura nodded. "Alright, but when you're done it's almost time for you and Khalid to practice your fighting." the boy nodded and quickly hurried to complete his last task. After that little mission Bakura decided to go out and pick up a few things at the nearest town. After all, traders never made it to theirs, nor did they really know where it was. Maybe there he would also be able to find out more about this Gahiji who was so bent on becoming the next king. Now Bakura wasn't really worried that the boy would actually claim that title, he just wanted to meet the kid and put him in his place. After all their was the thieves laws to uphold. Though there were few, they were not to be broken.
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It was a quiet and peaceful morning at the palace. The exotic birds that were outside were already awake and singing lightly. The beautiful scents of the flowers drifted in the air as they opened up to the suns light. Two figures were out in it all walking around. Atem smiled as he helped his two year old son to walk up a small flight of stairs out in the gardens. The baby, Eurus, slowly stepped up with his chubby legs. When they got to the last step, Atem sat down and took his son into his arms. The toddler giggled as his father rocked him in praise. Amara stood not to far away and smiled at the two men in her life. Her navy blue eyes twinkled as Eurus began to pull his fathers hair. Atem tried to make him let go, but to no avail. It always amazed him how strong babies were. Walking over to them Amara sat down one step below.
"You two bonding again?" she teased. Atem looked down into Eurus's reddish-purple eyes. The baby already had a full head of hair which was golden blonde with a few red tints in it.
"I think your mother's wanting time with you now." the baby just reached out to the blonde haired woman and said, "mama." Amara smiled warmly and took the child from her lover. Eurus clung onto her Greek styled pale blue dress and stood up in her lap. The two parents laughed as he tried to crawl all over her.
Amara settled him back down in her lap, "I see you both have been wrestling again. I could have sworn I told your father to stop teaching you that 'til you're older." she said, throwing a mock glare at Atem. The pharaoh just shrugged and stood up. Things had certainly quieted down over the past three years. The only problems they ever got now were a few raids, and of course the infamous Thief King. Still as long as Bakura and Hotaru didn't murder anyone, he wouldn't try too hard to catch them. Amara wouldn't be to happy with him if he put one of her best friends behind bars. It was actually kind of funny. The Queen of Thieves and the Queen of Egypt were actually best friends. Still he couldn't ignore the law all the time, eventually they might be captured. Then Amara would just have to deal with it.
With a pat to his sons head, and kiss to his wife's, the pharaoh left the garden. He walked down the long hall to the throne room where his priests were waiting. They had called for her earlier but he had to watch Eurus while Amara slept in a little. Their child had been sick recently so the woman had practically stayed up for two days straight to care for him. Atem could've ordered a maid to look after the child, but as a parent he felt it was his duty. He now wondered why the priests had requested a meeting so suddenly. Perhaps it was due to the drought that they were having. Or just some outside affairs with other countries. Whatever the reason the pharaoh entered the room with a straight face and walked over to the group. He noted that their expressions were rather troublesome. This was not a good sign at all.
"What is going on?" he asked, instantly registering that something was amiss.
Seto looked at him with a serious expression. "Our Red Desert troop was found slaughtered in the Sahara four days ago." Atem frowned.
"Any clue as to who had done this?" they shook their heads.
Shada stepped forward. "No, but they were all decapitated and some of the younger ones even had their hearts ripped from their bodies. Some heads and all of the hearts are missing." Atem grimaced. Who would do such a thing? This didn't seem like just a raid. Raiders would just kill men and leave them like that. They wouldn't bother with such details as taking out their hearts or stealing their heads. Was this a act of terrorism on his kingdom? Or perhaps some kind of sorcery? Whatever the outcome, something had to be done.
"I want you send out messengers to each of our fleets. Warn them of this and ask them to keep an eye out. I don't want the civilians alarmed though." the priests nodded and left.
All except one. When Atem reached his throne and sat in it, Seto walked up the steps to him. "Atem, would you like me to investigate this mater further?" he asked. The pharaoh raised an eyebrow to him. He knew the priest was very good about finding information for the criminal underworld and not just by using his Millennium Rod. It might be due to the fact that his sister happened to be part of that world. With a nod the blue eyed man bowed and left the room. Of course he himself could not freely walk into the thieves town, hell Seto didn't even know where it was. However he did know someone that did.
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A cloaked Bakura entered the small village. The market place was crowded as usual with women, men and children all running around doing their shopping. He passed by many stands, pretending to be interested. When the keeper wasn't looking, he took whatever fancied him. It wasn't much though, since they had plenty of supplies and gold back at the hideout. More so it was just out of habit. When he was far enough away from the stands he would give the children who were living on the streets whatever he stole. They wouldn't ask questions, only bow and run off before someone caught them with whatever it was. The one who was responsible for making him do this was of course Hotaru. She would always feel bad for the orphans and remembered what it was like before the Kaiba family took her in. Several times she would actually come back to their village with a couple of children and teach them how to survive better on the streets. She never adopted any of them, but did treat them as if they were younger brothers and sisters.
The man sighed at how many times she had done this and let the kids stay in their home. However, whenever they began to argue about it, the other female thieves would back Hotaru up, and he would lose. Stepping into an alley for a quicker route around the place Bakura quickly felt eyes following him. Shadows slightly shifted out of the corners of his eyes. Deciding to wait and see what would happen he continued on. This might prove to be entertaining to him.
It didn't take long for him to feel someone reaching into his coat pockets. Instantly he grabbed the person's hand and threw them against the wall. Bringing out a small knife he held it to their throat. "You've got 10 seconds to explain why you were trying to steal from me boy." a glint caught his eye and he quickly released his captured as a dagger made to cut his throat.
"You're quick. Thief King Bakura." looking up his crimson eyes clashed with blue-gray. "Like your girlfriend. You two train together?"
Bakura smirked. "Wife actually. I take it you're Gahiji." the teen bowed mockingly. "What's this I hear about you wanting to claim my title?"
"Exactly that. I want to be the next Thief King. And in order for me to do that. I have to beat you." he said unsheathing a sword. Rolling his eyes, Bakura brought out his own sword. This wasn't the first time some young, immature, shmuck challenged him, and he doubted it would be the last. Though a simple match wasn't going to decide who was King he might as well amuse the kid for awhile. After all, who was he to crush a young mans dreams? Actually. . . he took pride in doing that when it came to this.
"Alright boy, lets see what you've got."
Spirit- That's is for now. If I have time, I might update something again this month, but if not, you'll just have to wait til September.
Tenshi- ::still gone::
Spirit- ...wow...I this is weird. So yeah, here's some info on characters you may have forgotten:
Khalid- One of Bakura's closest friends along with Hamadi. I will write his description when he is seen in the story again. He will be appearing a lot more in this story
Hamadi- Bakura's best friend who died saving Anzu in The Red Sands of Egypt.
Haku- Hamadi's younger brother and sometimes messanger for the thieves. Will also be appearing a lot more.
Hondo Runihura- who could forget him?? The villian of The Red Sands of Egypt.
Nefura Kaiba- Seto's, Anzu's, and Hotaru's mother. She will be making brief appearances later on.
Jasmin- The Kaiba family's pet wolf who is living with Nefura now.
Darius- Hotaru's teacher and some what father. He had rescued her after her village was burned and taught her how to fight and about her powers. And I believe he is the last of my original characters. If there were more, I shall list them later.
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