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Note: A lot of this will necessarily go against the ending of the series Yu-Gi-Oh, in order to fit with what I've previously written.

A Special Request

Exchanging manly hugs Henry grinned at Sirus, glad to see his young friend again. "Who's tomb are we in anyway?" Looking around Henry frowned, getting his bearings as he began to realize his surroundings were somewhat familiar in the gloomy darkness. He'd been here before. But when? "Are we..in Rika's tomb?"

"Got it in one. I don't know why we're here exactly, just that I know somehow it's important." Shrugging his shoulders Sirus continued to lead the way, glad that they now had Aries awake and aware in case they ran into trouble. "So how's my big brother doing? Have you seen him?"

"He was rather clear about what he'd do to me if he ever saw my face again." Was Henry's dry expression. "As you'll recall, he made it brutally clear that I was no longer to be a part of his life and I doubt the fact that we both died once is going to change that."

"Yeah, especially when he finds out that Rika and Seto were getting it on while he was away. Guilt by association." Giving her brother a sympathetic pat on the shoulder Suzi felt for the poor guy, who hadn't deserved to lose his best friend for what he'd done. After it had come to light that her brother, as Aries, had been helping the High Priest circumvent the pharaoh's authority, their pharaoh had made it brutally clear that her brother was not to come within a mile of him or face death. It was why he hadn't been there to defend Yami when Bakura had come to challenge him. Aries had only helped Seto because after Ri's death the Pharaoh had been in no condition to oversee his kingdom properly. They'd all been just trying to help. The pharaoh hadn't seen it that way.

Feeling his sister start to stir Sirus turned his head slightly, shifting her against him so that her head, laying against his shoulder, was visible to him. "Ri? Can you here me, big sister?"

"Sirus?" Was her weak reply, her eyelids fluttering, though refusing as yet to open.

"Yes, it's me."

"I'm not dead? The dagger missed? Could have sworn..was a goner."

"No, it didn't miss, Ri. You've been reincarnated, remember?"

"Uh uh. So I did huh? That bites." Eyes opening to half mast Rika's eyes met her brother sleepily, struggling to focus. "At least tell me that bitch got what she deserved. I know she was responsible..no way she wasn't."

"There was no concrete proof, Father forbid us to harm her. She was sent into exile. Fortunately, Father thought that Yami was the only one who's word he needed to have on that. Joshua, Aries, Seto and I all put arrows into her while she was leaving." Smiling grimly Sirus could still picture the moment perfectly. Between the four of them they'd made Neferteri's head look like a pin cushion. "After that, Yami exiled father to a section of the palace, he died shortly afterwards. Yami's anger after you died..was a powerful thing."

"Did Seto take care of him? He promised he would."

Remembering all they'd gone through, trying to run the kingdom without his brother realizing what they were doing, Sirus winced but answered honestly. "He did his very best. It was only a matter of time before Yami clued into the fact that we were doing things behind his back. He banished many of us from his side after that. High Priest Seto and I were pretty much blacklisted, along with Aries and some of the others. Isis escaped his wrath because he needed her abilities too much, so she kept us informed as much as she could."

"Moron. Kick his butt..when I see him." Eyes opening fully now Rika looked around her, getting a sense of where she was. A tomb from the looks of it. Oh joy. "Ah well...once he finds out about Seto..that will be punishment enough, don't you think?"

"Well it will be interesting." Was Freya's smirking response to that, already picturing it in her head in graphic detail. Her money was on the priest. "His precious little virgin princess rolling around naked with his hated rival. Yami's going to have a cow. I can't wait."

"Yeah." Rika agreed with a yawn as Sirus helped her to her feet, keeping his free arm wrapped around her waist just in case. "He looks really good naked."

"Hey, brother here. Way too much information."

"Sorry."

Shaking his head Sirus started to move them back down the dark and twisting hallways, Rika frowning as they started to head down a corridor. "No, that's not right, we need to go left."

"Hate to break it to you, Rika, but you were dead the one and only time you were ever here." Henry pointed out dryly, not about to go anywhere off the beaten path. Ever since the dreams had started he'd been doing a lot of research on Egyptian culture and he knew exactly the sorts of things Egyptians liked to add to their pyramids as welcome for would be trespassers. He'd survived way too much to die now.

"I know that, But I've just got this feeling it's the right way." Moving away from her brother's side Rika stared down the darkened hallway that was going in the opposite direction of where Sirus had been leading them. "I need to go this way. You guys want to go visit my rotting corpse, feel free. No pictures please." Stepping into the hallway Rika gave a small gasp as the hallway was suddenly illuminated, the torches along the sides lighting of their own accord. "Yup. Definitely the right way. You guys coming?"

The hallways continued to illuminate around them as they walked, leading them straight to a large, ornamentally carved doorway, the doors pure gold and depicting what looked like a retelling of the Egyptian creation story. Once they were standing in front of it, the doors moved and opened, lights appearing in the great hall within. As soon as they walked through the opened doorway their clothing changed, becoming the Egyptian finery they'd once wore in their past lives. Even Alice's clothes changed to Egyptian attire, much to her horror. "I'm Scottish, God dammit! Catholic! Do I look like someone who should be wearing barely there clothes?" Outraged at how little the damn clothing was covering Alice glared mutinously at everyone that met her gaze.

"At least you aren't wearing anything as revealing as what Freya's wearing." Joshua pointed out to her under his breath.

"You aren't helping."

There was a large pool in the center of the room and Rika headed straight for it, standing on the small, knee high wall that encircled the clear, blue pool. Looking down into the water at her reflection Rika stared at herself, seeing the two sides of herself reflected back at her. She was Rika Nonaka, but she was also the reincarnation of a long dead Egyptian princess, one who had died in the place of her brother. Had died and left her soul behind, to wander at her lover's side until he'd joined her in the spirit realm. Seto. Bending down Rika touched the water with her fingertips, knowing somehow what to do. "Show me the past, what I was not alive to see."

The water beginning to bubble and swirl everyone crowded around to watch as the water changed to a mirror like substance, with images beginning to float across the surface with blinding speed. First was the massacre of the Kul Elna village, showing what was done to the people and how their spirits and bodies were trapped within the Millennium items. Then they were shown her being stabbed by Neferteri's assassin, carried out of the room by Seto while the guards surrounding Yami kept him from following them. They saw Ri beg Seto to promise to take care of her family, which he agrees to do as he took her to Latoya's rooms, where he lays her out to be examined. Yami arriving with the rest of the family in time for her to die in his arms. Images of her funeral were next, showing the devastation and the effect it had had on all those around her. Then the images turned to show the decline of the kingdom, the way Yami let his grief consume him after their father had refused to let him execute Neferteri, see Sirus, Seto, Joshua and Aries on top of a sand dune, bows drawn with the arrows at the ready before launching them into a departing caravan, killing the former queen. She watched as Joshua swore his loyalty to Seto and the four agree that they would take care of the kingdom until it was free of those who sought to take advantage of the pharaoh's current weak state. She saw her brother discover what they'd done, banishing Aries and Joshua from the palace, Sirus's and Seto's status reduced and becoming distrusted. Then there was the arrival of the King of Thieves Bakura, his desecration of her father's grave and his reasons for doing it. They all watched as the priests battled Bakura only to fall one after another, then the final battle between Yami and Bakura, ending with the sealing of his soul along with the evilness that was Zorc and Bakura.

Next were images of Queen Suna trying to rule, of Seto's assassination, poisoned and then slaughtered while he tried to get to his sword, a thief stealing Ri's necklace from around his dying neck. His burial in a plain, wooden box along side Ri in her tomb was next, the tomb, now sealed closed forever by a grieving Isis. Then the uprising of Rameses as he took over the kingdom and attempted to assassinate not only his step mother's supporters but the rest of his family as well. The mad chase to escape, the death of Ri and Sirus's younger brother at the hands of a soldier as he tried to defend his loved ones. Freya's attack on Rameses from behind, the torture that Freya, Latoya, Joshua and Sirus had been forced to endure, having remained behind to keep the enemy off while the rest escaped. The sight of them, so badly disfigured they were barely recognizable, laying in heaps at Rameses's bedside, where the dying prince lay watching, insisting on seeing their end before he met his own. Isis sealing them away in the Shadow realm, Aries's rescue of her from the palace to take her with those who had escaped. The desperate flight across the desert, Mai's arrival to warn them. They watched as Aries used a pressure point to knock Isis unconscious so that she couldn't stay behind with him, carrying her to the boats they'd arranged for. Aries ordering most of the soldiers to see the royal family across the river than, along with Mana, Mai, Joseph and seven other soldiers, standing alone to face down the massive army headed for them, with men totaling a little over a hundred. They watched as each of the warriors fell one after the other, dying with honor, as they had lived. The final images that flicked across the water's surface were those of the funerals Queen Suna's people had held for the fallen soldiers, the final image that of Isis, standing alone and off to the side, Aries's bloodied sword in one hand and her other resting on a chest, revealed to contain the Millennium items. Then it was simply water within the pool, no different than any they'd seen before.

"It really sucked to be us." Suzi finally said, breaking the silence that had descended since the first image had flashed before them. It was hard to speak, seeing it all, everything she hadn't remembered or hadn't been around to see. Her hand clutched tightly in her brother's it was all Suzi could do not to break out weeping.

"To stop the wars the items were created, and in the end, they nearly destroyed us." Shaking her head Rika hopped off the wall and headed straight for the ceiling high statues that depicted the gods and goddesses she'd once worshipped. "We have fought your fight for you, we didn't lose to the darkness; and we risked everything we held dear for it. I am Princess Ri Sakora Atem Rattoron, daughter and sister to Pharaohs of Egypt who served you well. I ask a boon from you now, for services I have rendered to you!"

It's never wise to tell gods or goddesses what to do so it was no surprise when more then a couple people in the room shuddered as the statues appeared to brighten in color as the fire in the rooms' torches started to flicker. "What boon would you ask?" Came a deep, male voice out of nowhere, which made it that much more frightening.

But Rika wasn't feared all over Japan for no reason. No one cowed her, even someone with the ability to smite her. "I want the Millennium Items destroyed. I ask that the souls that dwell within them be released from their prisons and be allowed to move on to their next life. I ask that the thief Bakura be pardoned for the sins he enacted against my family and that he be allowed to return to his family in peace."

"You would forgive the man who desecrated your father's grave? Who brought about your brother's end?"

"Had someone done to my family what mine did to his, I would have done the same. With our actions, we brought about our own ruin."

"So it shall be done."

Though there was no logical explanation for it wind began to shift around the room, the torches flames leaping higher against the inscribed walls. The waters within the pool going gold it began to shine golden light upward, six of the millennium items appearing within the light. Stepping forward Freya removed the Millennium Ring from her neck and threw it into the light, where it hovered along side the other items. Slowly cracks began to appear, the items shattering in front of their eyes as they crumbed into the water as rumble. The faces of people started to appear then within the light, men, women, children, all bowing their heads to their prince and princess before disappearing from sight. Face after face appeared until there was only one left, the face of a child that was the King of Thieves Bakura, as he'd been that day his village had been destroyed. He stood there, solitary in the light before giving a rough nod in Freya's direction. "Take care of the idiot for me." He said, looking directly at her. "He can't tie his shoes without my help."

"I will."

"Good." Turning to face the two members of the royal family Bakura just looked at them for a moment before giving them a short little bow, that was more saucy than courtly. "Thank you." Then he was gone as well.

"My thanks, my gods and goddesses." Bowing her own head in humble thanks Rika hoped that the people of Kul Elna would now rest in peace, free of the horrors her family had visited upon them. How her father must have grieved, when he learned what his step brother had done to save Egypt from the invaders.

As if the gods had heard her, the voice rang out again. "Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen, of the house of Atem...your daughter has chosen wisely. She has set free the souls your brother imprisoned, and you have done your penance for your part in the deaths of the people of Kul Elna. We free you, and those who chose to follow you to this world. So shall it be."

Not understanding everyone looked at each other in confusion, Alice being the first to notice the glimmer out of the corner of her eye. "What the hell!"

Everyone turning to where she was pointing they all watched in shock as the four digimon that had been laying near the door slowly began to change shape, first moving from their lowest forms to their rookie levels, before changing into familiar forms that none of them had ever expected to see again.

Kokomon became Lopmon, then turned into a muscular, pale haired man in his early twenties, dressed in the garbs he'd worn during his battle with Bakura, the clothes he'd died in. "Master!" Tears streaming down her face Suzi ran from her brother's side to launch herself into Mahado's arms, cuddling close as she was tenderly embraced in return, his scent and voice the same, as he murmured for her not to cry.

Viximon became Renamon, then turned into the form of an older version of Rika, a bejeweled headdress upon her head to indicate her royal status. The former Queen of Egypt smiled at her children, who stared back at her in stunned shock. "I'm so proud of both of you." She said softly, her arms opening as her children rushed over to her to come into her warm embrace.

Beside her Calumon became a small, dark eyed version of Sirus, the brother that had been killed defending his family during the desperate escape from the palace. Grinning his familiar grin he waved at Latoya, who ran over to gather him into her arms, so happy to see him alive and whole once more.

Finally, Gummymon became Terriermon who grew to become the former pharaoh of Egypt, Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen. Standing straight and tall as he moved to enfold all his children and wife into his arms, there was no sign of illness in his face or form. This was the pharaoh he would have been, had he been born healthy and whole. "Together at last. As I knew we always would be."

"Holy Crap." Was all Henry could think to say as he stared at the royal family, at his sister who had a death grip on the former High Priest Mahado, and didn't appear to be considering letting him go any time soon. "I did not see this coming. Our pharaoh was turned into a living plushie for a punishment."

Shaking his head Joshua patted his friend on the shoulder. "Well you have to give the gods credit for being creative."

"There is that."