Chapter 15- Mia's Trial
Aknankanon walked down the hall along with Mahado, Eternias, and Karim.
"Sire, when will Mia's trial be?" Eternias asked.
"I do not know yet. Is there a specific reason that you ask?" Aknankanon inquired.
"Yes. I believe that all the guards in the dungeons with be driven insane if she is not dealt with soon." Eternias said.
Aknankanon stopped and turned to face Eternias. "What do you mean?" Aknankanon asked.
"She is constantly screaming about how when she got out of the dungeons and was made the queen that she would have all of the guards in the palace killed and have knew ones replace them that would show her the respect she deserved. She also is screaming about how she had been unjustly imprisoned and that everyone involved would pay dearly for this humiliation, and when I say screaming, I mean literal screaming. I have heard her myself when I have been down in the dungeons. I think that all of the guards are tempted to kill her and pay the price just to shut her up." Eternias said.
"It's that bad?" Mahado asked.
"No. It's worse. She doesn't shut up for anything because she believes that she is more entitled than anyone else, and that she did nothing to deserve this kind of treatment." Eternias said.
Aknankanon growled. "She unjustly attacks Yuugi and injured Yami, and she believes that she is entitled to do anything she pleases without punishment." Aknankanon said.
"My pharaoh, I believe I speak for all of the priests when I say that having her trial as soon as possible would be satisfactory." Karim said.
"Yes. I would agree with that." Mahado added.
"Call the priests and my sons and wife. Mia has reached the end of my patience." Aknankanon said. Karim and Mahado nodded and left to do as they were told. Aknankanon turned to Eternias and said, "When all are assembled in the throne room, I want you to get Mia and bring her to the throne room. I also want Honda and Mercurious there as well."
"As you wish, pharaoh." Eternias replied.
"Good. Come with me." Aknankanon said and turned to walk to the throne room along with Eternias.
Isis had allowed Yuugi to return to her rooms with the warning that if she got out of the bed before she was well enough to that Isis would have her moved back to the healing chambers so that Yuugi did not hinder her recovery.
Yuugi had promised that she wouldn't do anything that Isis told her not to do and returned to her rooms.
After the attack, Aknankanon had decided to move Yuugi into another room, and they had moved all of Yuugi's things into the new room, much to Yuugi's surprise.
"Do you need anything, Yuugi?" Heba asked.
"For the last time, Heba, NO!" Yuugi shouted.
"You'd better stop asking, Heba, or when Yuugi gets back on her feet, she's going to kick your ass." Bakura said.
Marik snickered at the remark.
"Everyone in this room is close to being in the category if you people do not stop coddling me like I'm someone who can't do anything." Yuugi said.
Atemu, Yami, Marik, Bakura, Heba, Jou, Ryou, Malik Seth, Anzu, and Mana all gulped at the threat, knowing that Yuugi was liable to do what she was threatening.
"We're just worried about you, Yuugi." Mana said.
Yuugi sighed. "I know that, Mana, but I can only take so much coddling before I go insane. I know that I am confined to the bed, but that doesn't mean that I need you all to be here all the time." Yuugi said.
"Okay. So maybe we have been a little overbearing." Malik said.
"A little?! You are all here all the time except at night, and it is driving me crazy!" Yuugi said.
"Okay. So, maybe we should back off." Yami said.
"That would be a good idea." Yuugi told them.
There was a knock on the door.
Anzu went and opened the door. She bowed when she realized that it was Mahado that was at the door.
"Mahado, what are you doing here?" Atemu asked.
"I was looking for you, Yami, and Seth, and I figured that I would find all of you here, and I see that I was right." Mahado said, seeing that three in question were, indeed, in the room.
"Why were you looking for us?" Atemu asked.
"There is going to be a meeting in the throne room, and you need to be there." Mahado said.
"When is the meeting?" Seth asked, thinking it would be later in the day.
"As soon as everyone gets to the throne room." Mahado replied. He looked at Yuugi and said, "Sorry, Yuugi, but they're needed there."
"Take them, Mahado. Please." Yuugi said.
Mahado was slightly surprised at that. "What did they do to make you want to get rid of them so quickly?" Mahado asked.
"I think that we're driving her a little crazy with being in here all the time." Atemu answered.
"That is understandable. You'll have three less for a little while." Mahado said.
Seth, Yami, and Atemu left the room with Mahado, closing the door behind them.
"So, what now?" Malik asked.
"Well, I have some things that I need to do, so I'll see all of you later." Anzu said. She left the room as well.
"So, what now?" Malik asked.
"Malik, you don't want to know what I want to do right now." Yuugi said.
Malik gulped. He had a feeling that he didn't want to know.
"How about we play one of the card games since we can all play it?" Heba asked.
They all agreed, and they started to play the game.
"Mahado, what is this all about?" Atemu asked.
"Well, the pharaoh has decided that he's going to hold Mia's trial now." Mahado answered.
"Now?" all three questioned.
Mahado nodded. "Seems she being a pain to the guards, and the pharaoh has reached the end of his patience with her." Mahado said.
"Good. It's about time that she gets exactly what she deserved." Yami said.
Seth smirked. "I know that Jou, Heba, Ryou, Malik, Marik, and Bakura will be glad when they hear that she's been sentenced." Seth said.
"I thought that Father hadn't decided what he would do to her." Atemu said.
"I don't know that he has, but I have a feeling that he's not going to let her live." Mahado said.
"Well, she did attack me, and we all know that that act alone calls for her death by law. It's really a matter of how Father will kill her." Yami said.
Seth smirked. "I just want to see what she'll say to the pharaoh to try and worm her way out of this." Seth said.
"Oh, she'll try, but I doubt Father will let her out of this that easily." Yami said.
"He won't let her off at all. In fact, he has already said that she'll pay for what she has done." Mahado said.
The group entered the throne room to find that Amara was just now sitting down on the throne beside Aknankanon and that the other priests except for Eternias were in their places.
Mahado and Seth joined the other priests, and Atemu and Yami took their places by the throne.
Since they were all there, Aknankanon looked at Eternias and said, "Go and bring Mia in here."
Eternias nodded and left the throne room to get the prisoner in question.
'Now, she'll pay for what she did to my Yuugi.' Yami thought angrily.
Mia was glaring at Honda and Mercurious, who were guarding her. Mia was chained to the wall so that she was forced to sit and was not able to move very much. "When I get out of here, I'll have both your heads! Do you hear me?!" Mia shouted.
Honda and Mercurious ignored her as they had for the past few days.
"I'm the next queen of Egypt! You had better listen to me!" Mia shouted at them.
Once more, they ignored her.
"You'll pay for this! Once the pharaoh releases me, I am going to have you arrested and killed for keeping me here unjustly!" Mia screamed.
Mercurious looked at Honda and mouthed, "This bitch is getting on my last nerve with all her screaming and pointless threats."
Honda nodded his agreement. "We know she's won't be queen. She attacked the Crown Prince. I'll just be glad when the pharaoh sentences her." Honda mouthed back.
Mercurious smirked at that. "I want to watch her die." Mercurious mouthed.
Honda nodded in agreement.
"Let me out of here, bastards!" Mia shouted.
"Shut up!"
All three looked to see a rather irate Eternias glaring at Mia.
"My lord, may I inquire as to why you are here?" Honda asked.
"I came here because you two are going to help me escort Mia to the throne room." Eternias said.
"Finally! The pharaoh will have your heads!" Mia snapped at Honda and Mercurious.
Eternias glared fiercely at her. "You are being taken to the throne room as a prisoner. Leave the chains on her. She is no longer a free woman." Eternias barked.
"You can't do this!" Mia screamed.
"Pharaoh's orders." Eternias said.
Mercurious smirked. "With pleasure." Mercurious said quietly.
Eternias nodded in agreement, not letting Mia see the satisfaction he felt.
Honda unlocked the cell, and he and Mercurious walked inside and over to Mia. They unlocked the chains from the wall and dragged her out.
Mia glared at Eternias. "You will pay for this." Mia hissed at him.
Eternias didn't say anything. 'You'll pay for what you have done to Yuugi and Yami.' Eternias thought darkly. He led them out, with Honda and Mercurious holding Mia by the chains so that she didn't try anything.
'When I am queen, I will have them all killed! I will not be treated with such disrespect! Not even the pharaoh could stop me. Of course, by then, Yami would be pharaoh, and there would be nothing that he could do to stop me.' Mia thought, thinking that she would win in the end.
The throne room was silent with everyone lost in their own personal thoughts as they waited for Eternias to return with the prisoner.
'Mia has gone too far. I will not let her get away with unjustly attacking Yuugi and injuring Yami. I may have dealt with her continuous advances on both Atemu and Yami, and her habit of sleeping around, but this is too much.' Aknankanon thought furiously.
'I wonder what Aknankanon plans to do. Mia has committed serious acts of treason, and I know that he is going to be unforgiving toward her. Considering how Yuugi is, I am certain that she did nothing to warrant the attack. She deserves whatever Aknankanon decides.' Amara thought.
'I hope that Father gives Mia the most humiliating death that is possible. She threatened Heba, threatened me, disrespected Father, tried to kill Yuugi, and injured Yami. I hope that she is humiliated.' Atemu thought angrily.
'I know Father is going to kill Mia, but I hope that it is in the worst way possible. I want her to suffer for what she has done. She can't get away with nearly killing my Yuugi. I'll kill her myself if that is the only way to make her pay.' Yami thought angrily.
'That bitch is going to pay. She made every person's life miserable. She constantly berated everyone thinking that she was better than them, and she constantly said that she would be the next queen of Egypt when Atemu was the Crown Prince and now with Yami. She deserves whatever the Pharaoh decides.' Seth thought with hatred.
'Yuugi could have died because if what she did. Not only that, but she could have harmed Yami worse that she did. Death is the only punishment that can be given to her. I may not normally want that for a person, but I do know that Mia has brought it on herself and that she deserves it. Mia will pay for all her crimes.' Isis thought.
'Mia has brought nothing but trouble to the palace ever since she arrived. She was constantly after Atemu and Yami all because she wanted the power of being the queen of Egypt. That would whenever happened. She also constantly slept with every person that would allow her in their beds. She even came onto me when I knew all she wanted was sex. I'm just glad she finally gave up.' Mahado thought in disgust at the memory of how Mia had tried to seduce him.
The other priests also had the same thoughts in mind.
Everyone was brought out of their thoughts when the doors to the throne room were opened.
Eternias walked in with Honda and Mercurious behind him holding onto the chains that he'd Mia captive.
Yami, Atemu, and Seth all felt smug satisfaction at seeing Mia in chains, although their expressions did not show this.
Once near the throne, Honda and Mercurious pushed down on Mia's shoulders so that she was kneeling before Aknankanon and Amara.
Aknankanon stood up. "Mia, you have been charged with trying to kill Lady Yuugi as well as attacking my son, the Crown Prince of Egypt." Aknankanon said.
"That notch deserved it." Mia spat.
Aknankanon's eyes flashed. "Do not seek to insult her! It does nothing to help your case!" Aknankanon snapped.
Mia didn't care anymore. She hated Yuugi and didn't care what people thought. "That bitch deserved. She should have never come here! She doesn't belong in a place such as this." Mia said.
"Watch your tongue." Aknankanon warned.
Mia didn't. "Everything was fine until that little slut came. I was to be the next queen of Egypt, not that bitch." Mia said with contempt.
At Aknankanon's nod, Mercurious hit Mia so hard in her back that Mia fell to the floor of the throne room.
"Do not seek to speak of such disrespect to her. You, Mia, would whenever been the next queen of Egypt. You believed that people were oblivious to the fact that you were constantly in the beds of other people, but everyone knew about all the affairs that you had. Your reputation alone would have prevented you from being queen." Aknankanon said, not hiding his anger.
"She doesn't deserve that position." Mia spat.
"What you think does not have any bearing on anything that happens, Mia. What does have bearing on your fate are the actions that you have taken against Egypt." Aknankanon said.
"I did nothing against Egypt!" Mia cried.
"SILENCE! You knowing attacked Lady Yuugi without provocation and seriously injured her." Aknankanon said.
Mia decided to try to lie to make Yuugi look bad. "I didn't attack her! She attacked me first!" Mia cried.
"Really? You were in Lady Yuugi's chambers. You had no business being in there." Aknankanon said.
"I only wanted to talk to her and she attacked me." Mia said.
"Mia, the only injuries found on you were the ones that were caused when Seth forced you away from Lady Yuugi to prevent you from killing her and when the guards forced you out of the room." Aknankanon said.
"I got away. I attacked her to defend myself. I grabbed the dagger on her vanity." Mia said.
This time, it was Karim that spoke. "I took a look at the dagger that was left in Lady Yuugi's room. It was the one that you had used to stab Lady Yuugi in the shoulder. The dagger held the crest of your family, not Lady Yuugi's." Karim said.
"Had the dagger truly belonged to Lady Yuugi, the dagger would have held her family's crest on it, not yours." Shada added.
"Sh-she must have stolen if from my room." Mia said. She was grasping at straws now.
"How could Yuugi have stolen it when she does not know where your room is? Besides, it is against the law for anyone to have weapons unless approved by the Pharaoh." Seth said.
"Indeed. The fact that the dagger belonged to you showed that you may have intended to bring harm to either one of my sons or myself when you were around us." Aknankanon said.
Mia paled. She was starting to lose, and she knew it, but she wasn't about to give up. "I was supposed to be Yami's wife, but that bitch came in and tried to steal him from me! I had every right!" Mia screamed.
"No, you did not!" Yami told her angrily. "I never had an interest in you. I told you that, but you constantly came onto me. I told you that you would never be the queen of Egypt, but you never listened. Lady Yuugi stole nothing from you." Yami said.
"You have constantly caused problems since you started living in the palace. You tried to have servants and slaves punished for acts that called for none. They were simple mistakes that any person would make. You tried to have guards punished as well when they refused to do something for you which would mean leaving their post, something that they were forbidden to do. I constantly listened to your incessant claims that you would be the next queen of Egypt when I knew that neither of my sons had any plans on marrying you. You thought that you would be queen, and when Lady Yuugi came here, you thought she was a threat. From the start, you did things against her. You tried to have her whipped for something that she did not do. In fact, you did the same thing she did, which was call the Crown Prince by his name, and you thought it was fine that you say it, only Yuugi had permission to use his name when you did not. You could have been punished them." Aknankanon said.
Mia paled. She hadn't realized that he knew about that.
"You insulted her and threatened my future son-in-law's life when she was in the gardens with her family. Thos acts have not gone overlooked." Aknankanon said.
"That bitch didn't deserve anything she had." Mia spat.
"You don't deserve what you have. You forced your way into Lady Yuugi's chambers and threw insults and threats at her. You insulted me to her, and told Lady Yuugi that you planned to have her brother, Heba, killed, and that you would also have my son, Prince Atemu, killed. Merely saying that was treason. You ended up striking Lady Yuugi in her shoulder. My son, Prince Yami, pulled you away from her when you were about to kill her, but you decided that you would attack him and injured him as well." Aknankanon said with venom in his voice.
"It's all that bitch's fault! I would never have harmed Yami if it wasn't for her!" Mia shouted.
"Do not speak my son's name in such a way!" Aknankanon said. His eyes narrowed, and he said, "It was not Lady Yuugi's fault that you injured Yami. It was yours because you attacked him. Lady Yuugi had nothing to do with it."
"If that bitch had never come here, none of it would have happened." Mia protested.
"Lady Yuugi came here at my invitation so that she could see her brother and cousin. She did not come here with any other intentions. You caused all this, and I am now giving my judgment." Aknankanon said.
Mia's eyes widened. She thought that she would get away with it. That she would be absolved of all charges and that she would then be made queen so that it could make up for what she had been put through and then she could do all that she had planned to. She didn't think anything would happen to her.
"You are hereby stripped of your title and all your power and wealth will be taken from you." Aknankanon said.
"You can't do that! I'll be nothing!" Mia cried.
"Yes, you will be nothing. And I can do it because of your treasonous acts." Aknankanon said. His eyes darkened and he said, "For your crimes of attacking Lady Yuugi and Prince Yami, you are sentenced to death. You will die as a prisoner and a traitor to Egypt. Take her back to the dungeons. No one is allowed in her cell, and she is to be guarded at all times."
Honda and Mercurious jerked Mia up by her chains and started out the door with her.
"YOU WILL REGRET THIS! THAT BITCH SHOULD DIE, NOT ME!" Mia screamed.
Aknankanon sat down. "That woman is irritating." Aknankanon said.
"That is what she has done since she was arrested. Scream and threaten the guards that were guarding her." Eternias said.
"When will her sentence be carried out my pharaoh?" Karim asked.
"She will be executed publicly tomorrow at sunset." Aknankanon said.
All the priests nodded, knowing that it was for the best.
Everyone left the throne room except for Aknankanon, Yami, and Atemu.
"What now, Father?" Atemu asked.
"There is one other thing that I need you two to do for before you are free for the day." Aknankanon said.
"What is that, Father?" Yami asked.
"Go get Marik and Bakura and bring them to my study. There is something that I need to talk to Marik and Bakura about, and I want you two to be there as well." Aknankanon said.
"Why Marik and Bakura?" Yami asked.
"I will tell you when you come to my study. Go." Aknankanon said.
Not understanding, Yami and Atemu did as they were told and left the throne room to go and get Marik and Bakura.
Aknankanon's eyes turned dark. 'Mia is not getting off that easily. Death isn't the only things that I'm going to have done to her, but I think that Marik and Bakura are the perfect ones to pull off the rest.' Aknankanon said. He stood up and left the throne room to go to his study and wait for his sons to come there with the former King and Prince of Thieves.
That was Mia's trial. I hope you liked it. I thought letting you see Aknankanon's, Amara's, Yami's, Atemu's, Seth's, Isis', and Mahado's thoughts on Mia would give a little insight to how much she was hated.
The next chapter will be centered around Mia's torture by Marik and Bakura, since everyone said that she should be tortured, and Mia's death. Those are the main focuses of the chapter.
R&R.