Chapter 9
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Thought
Letter
-Telephone-
"Dialogue"
"Egyptian Language"
Emphasis
Dangerous tone
A Hard Decision
Atem was on his way into the thief's base, his eyes were fixed in a glare and he coldly killed everyone who blocked his way. "Mahad, where's Yugi?" He asked coldly.
"The room ahead, at the left." Mahad answered breathlessly as he tried to keep up with Atem's fast pace, Really, he thought in wonderment, Normally the Pharaoh acting calm albeit a bit childish, this is the first time I saw him angry like this. The Pharaoh was walking so fast while killing everyone who got on his way, Mahad was wondering where on earth the Pharaoh got that much of energy. Even though Mahad should be having a much more vigor than the Pharaoh since he got more exercise than the Pharaoh, he had a hard time keeping up with the angry Pharaoh now. I wonder if he's doing some secret training, he mused silently before noticing the Pharaoh stop dead in front of the open door, his face become so pale like he had seen a ghost. "Pharaoh?" He asked with a frown.
Atem gulped and entered the room slowly, "Yu . . . gi . . . ?" He asked with a shaky voice.
Atem was horrified- no, horrified was an understatement, he was terrified beyond belief at the sight that met his eyes when he opened the door to where Mahad said Yugi was. Indeed, Yugi was in the room, but the state of the boy was what caused him so terrified.
In the middle of the room, which was clearly the torture room by the sight of so many torture tools lying around and the blood in the room, Yugi was being hanged by his wrists with his feet hovering above the ground, and not only that, the boy was practically bathing in his own blood. Cuts were all over his body, some deep and some shallow, and there's so many bruises decorating the boy's face and body, they could be seen on the spot where there wasn't blood covering them.
"My Ra!" Mahad gasped out in horror when he saw what had caused the Pharaoh to freeze on the spot.
Atem's eyes watered when he didn't received any answer from the boy, "Yugi!" He gasped out as he ran forward and lifted the boy into his arms, "Yugi, please open your eyes!" He was panicking when he barely felt any life energy from the boy, "Mahad! Help me!" He looked up pleadingly at the High Mage.
Mahad broke out of his frozen state and cut off the rope that was being tied around the boy's wrists and helped the Pharaoh in lowering the boy to the ground, "We need to get him to Isis." Mahad said with a forced calmness, inside he was panicking as well for he too could feel the weak life energy the boy emanated, the boy was in need of help, and fast. "But first, we need to stop his bleeding." He looked around to see if there's something they could use.
Atem didn't have to look around and just decide to use his cape as a makeshift bandage, he removed his cape and began tearing it apart with his sword.
"Pharaoh?! What are you doing?!" Mahad gasped in shock.
"We need to help him, Mahad." Atem stressed as he keep working, "His life is more important than a mere cape, I can't bear myself to losing him, he is a dear friend and already like a Brother to me".
Mahad snapped out of his shock and began helping Atem with his work, Atem lifted Yugi up once again as soon as they finished before running out of the room. "Seth! I'm leaving you in charge! I'm going back!" Atem yelled when he saw his Cousin.
Seth gasped at the sight of a bloodied Yugi, but he nodded, "Leave it to me!" He answered to the Pharaoh, "Please return to the Palace quick!".
Atem nodded back, "Osiris!" The red Dragon dove into the ground and Atem jumped into it's back, "Fly to the Palace!" The Dragon roared before it flew as fast as it could to the Palace. Normally Atem wouldn't ride on the Sky Dragon, because Osiris was one of the Divine Beasts, but now he need to return to the Palace ASAP and only Osiris could fly that fast.
"Please don't die." Atem whispered on his way to the Palace, "Please, Yugi, don't die".
Atem felt Yugi's hand squeezed him lightly, "A- Ate . . . m . . ." He heard Yugi whispered weakly.
"I'm here, Yugi, I'm here." Atem pulled Yugi closely, mind of the boy's wounds, "Please hold on, we will arive at the Palace soon, just a bit more." He whispered to Yugi, ignoring the fact that he was crying and the fact that a Pharaoh should't cry in public because he would be seen as weak.
"It . . . hurts . . . " Yugi whispered, his voice was so soft that Atem nearly couldn't catch it.
"I know, but please hold on." Atem answered and looked up when he felt Osiris lowered itself, they had reach the Palace's ground and the Dragon was not hovering above the Garden, the place closer to the Healing Chamber than the front entrance. "Thank you, Osiris!" He yelled as he jumped from the Dragon's back and ran to the Healing Chamber, he know that it hurt Yugi when he run, but it's better than he walking slowly and risked losing Yugi.
Isis was coming out of the Healing Chamber when he turned the corner to the said place, "Your Highness!" She gasped in shock and her hand flew to cover her mouth, "What happened?!".
"Explanation later! Yugi needs help, now!" Atem yelled as he rushed pass Isis and carefully laying the boy down to one of the bed.
"I will try my best, please get out." Isis said calmly as she pulled out some cloths and basket, her apprentices running around to gather anything else that would be need.
"Make sure he will be alright." Atem said and left the room, he trusted Isis, but he couldn't help but be worried about Yugi.
Hours passed before Isis finally came out of the Healing Chamber, "How is he?" Atem asked as he stood up from his sitting position, he was sitting on the ground and leaning on the wall when he was waiting for Isis.
"Yugi is alive." Isis said with a smile, "You stopped his bleeding and it helped him, he didn't lose too much blood and his injuries are not bad as it seems." Her smile turned to a frown, "His body might be able to recover in a week or so, but I don't know if his mental is alright".
Atem nodded in agreement, "Yugi is not from our time and therefore not used to this kind of situation." He sighed sadly, "I'm grateful enough that Yugi is alive, but for him to not mentally scarred is a miracle".
"Yugi is a strong boy though." Isis reminded him as she walked to him, "I'm sure with enough time, he will be able to put all this experience aside and keep on with his live. Who knows? He might surprise us".
Atem smiled as well, "You are right, he is full of surprise." He agreed as he looked at the open door of the Healing Chamber, "May I wait on his side?".
"You may." Isis answered softly, "But I don't think he will regain consciousness soon, it may take at least a full day for him to be awake".
"It's alright." He answered and entered the Healing Chamber, "Seth and the rest would return soon, you will need all the space in this room, so I'm going to take Yugi to my Chamber".
"Ah, how about you, Pharaoh?" Isis asked, "Are you injured?".
"No, I'm fine." Atem shook his head, "I only get a few scratch that didn't need to get wrapped up, I only need to wash them with water and applied some salve, and I have the salve in my Chamber, so you can rest assure that I will be alright." He explained as he lifted Yugi up into his arms.
"If you say so." Isis answered and moved aside to let the Pharaoh get out of the Healing Chamber, "But please rest up yourself, you need it after all of this".
Atem smiled to Isis, "I will." He promised and began walking to the Royal Chamber, he would bring Yugi to his own Chamber because he need to be there when Yugi woke up, he was afraid that the boy would get freaked out if he woke up alone.
Atem gently layed the boy onto his bed before going to his Bathing Chamber, he take a short bath before going back into his Bed Chamber and sat down beside Yugi. He smiled at the younger boy as his hand gently combing Yugi's soft hair, "Get well soon, Yugi." He whispered softly.
What he said to Mahad was the truth, Yugi was a dear friend to him and Atem love the boy like he love his Cousin. Just as he would do anything for his Cousin, he would do anything for Yugi as well, that was one of the reason why he would listen to Yugi while he didn't listen to other people.
The other being Yugi was younger than him, but more mature than him that he was ashamed of himself for being so childish. Seth might be his Cousin, but Seth was older than him that he was relying on his Cousin too much, that's why he can act like a child still, because he trust Seth to be able to help him out of his trouble. While it's true that Yugi was often acting childish, but Atem was acting childish all the time. That's the reason why he listened to Yugi more than other people, he was so ashamed by himself that he was so childish compared to Yugi that he listened when Yugi told him something.
He thought that, 'If someone younger than me could act so mature, then I as the Pharaoh should be more mature than him', and it was the trigger of all the change in his behaviour, he didn't want to lose to Yugi in term of maturity.
Strange that I need Yugi to come to be able to change, Atem thought with a chuckle, but then he was reminded of the fact that Yugi came from another time, far away in the future. He looked down at Yugi's face sadly, the boy was sleeping so peacefully even after all the pain he had to go through, but that only pointed out that Yugi shouldn't be with him.
His time is in the Future, not in this time with me. Atem thought gloomily as tears filled his eyes again, I love him as my Brother, I really love him . . . but he will only suffer more if he stay in this time, where so many danger lurking around.
Yugi once told him that the place where he lived in the future was a peaceful one, even though thieves and crimes were still around, but they were not as often as in Ancient Egypt. Atem was so used with his life that he didn't mind it so much, he had tried to lower the crime rate, but it just couldn't be help when his people was so poor, that's why Atem tried his best to help his people. He didn't mind the fact that his world was not as peaceful as in Yugi's place, because it was his life, but Yugi was not originally from his time, so it must be hard for Yugi to be in Atem's time.
"In the end, I'm still losing you, am I not?" Atem whispered as he lowered himself and kissed Yugi's forehead, "I can't have you here with me, no matter how much I want you here with me".
That night, Atem was crying himself to sleep.
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"Your Majesty, you ask of me?" Mahad asked once Atem let the High Mage in.
Atem nodded, he was sitting beside Yugi again while combing his hair, it was the only thing that keeping him from breaking down again, "Have you found a way to let Yugi back to his own time?" He asked without looking up from watching Yugi's sleeping face.
Yugi had been sleeping for three days now, and it had conviced Atem more that his decision was the correct one, Yugi shouldn't be in his Time anymore.
"I'm sorry, but I have yet to find a way to send him back to the Future, My Pharaoh." Mahad said apologetically.
Atem finally looked up to the Ring Bearer, "I freed you from all of your duty." He said seriously, "From now on, all you need to do now is to find a way for Yugi to be back to his own Time, you are free of your duty until then".
Mahad's eyes widened, but his expression the softened and bowed to Atem, "Understood, Pharaoh." He said and left the room, he knew that Atem would need his time with Yugi when the boy woke up.
Atem looked down at Yugi and moved to comb his hand in the boy's hair again, only to find that Yugi was awake and was looking up at him with sad eyes. "Yugi?" Atem asked softly, "What's wrong?".
"You are sending me away." Yugi whispered sadly, "Am I a burden to you? You don't want me here anymore?" He bit his lower lip as tears started gathering at his eyes.
"What?! You are sending Yugi away?!" Mana gasped out at the doorway, "Atem, why?!".
"I believe that it's for the best, Mana." Seth said to her as he pushed the girl in and then entered the Chamber himself before closing the door, he looked at Atem, "I have to agree with you, this incident this time really make my blood boiled and frozen at the same time." He said then looked at Yugi, "How are you, Yugi? Are you hurt? I will ask Isis to give you something to ease the pain".
"Wait!" Mana yelled as she rushed to Yugi and pulled him into a hug before glaring at both Seth and Atem, "Why are you sending Yugi away?!" She demanded with pain filled eyes.
"Because it's for the best." Atem whispered as he looked at Yugi with sadness and despair shown clearly in his eyes, "You asked me if you are a burden and if I don't want you here anymore . . ." he reached out and took Yugi's hand into his, "You are never a burden, Yugi, never once I think of you as a burden . . . and I love you as my own Brother, Yugi, I love you." He smiled sadly at Yugi, "But no matter how much I want you here with me, this world, the Time which you called as Ancient Egypt, is a dangerous one for you. I don't have any other choice, you are not from this Time and never would . . ." He bit his lip to prevent himself from crying in front of them.
Yugi sighed, "I knew it . . ." He murmured sadly, "I knew that I would never be here forever, that I need to return to my own Time. I have Friends and Family, who are surely worrying themselves to death right now because I suddenly disappeared, back in my own Time." He smiled sadly at Atem as well, "But that doesn't mean I don't love you as my Older Brother, Atem, because I do." He pulled out of Mana's hold to look at Mana and Seth, "Mana, you are a dear Friend to me, you always manage to make me laugh no matter what happened. And Seth . . ." He smiled fondly at the High Priest, "I love you like I love my own Cousin, the fact that you have the same face as him is only a coincidence, and I love you for you and not because you look like him".
"Yugi . . ." Atem, Mana, and Seth called out softly, feeling touched by Yugi's words of love.
"That's why!" Yugi took all of their hands into his hands and he grinned at them, "Don't be sad! We may have to be separated, we may miss each other later, but we shouldn't let them to prevent us to have fun!" He slowly, after making sure that moving around didn't hurt him, stood up from the bed and looked at them, "Let's have fun together until Mahad find a way to help me get back to my own Time, let us make a memory together that we will treasure forever! Don't feel sad because I have to part with you soon, but let us be happy because even after I return to my own Time, we will have our memories with us!".
Mana was grinning at him and nodded vigorously, "You are right!" She agreed, "We shouldn't be sad, but be happy! So that we will have a happy memories together instead of a sad one!".
Seth smiled and nodded, "Right." He then ruffled Yugi's hair, "You are so mature, as usual".
Atem chuckled a watery chuckle, "And here I was the one who cried overnight because I can't have you here with me." He wiped his tears and smiled at Yugi, "Thank you, Yugi, you lifted my sadness from me".
Yugi's eyes softened and he smiled adorably at them, "You are welcome." He said softly in answer.
To be continued . . .
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