Alright! I'm back! Back again! Virgo's back! And hopefully this will be just as good, and even better than the last chapters! I won't be announcing reference winners this week, waiting for some answers (lol). So, without further ado, this week's chapter! Whoosh~!
I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh
It was a few weeks after the Burger World episode. The first Kaiba episode and watch episode passed without incident, though I did get beat up by Kaiba's goons. Today, Yugi and Téa were talking about an excavation in Egypt.
"Excavation in Egypt?!" Joey said, surprised.
So familiar... Is this an episode?
"Yeah." Yugi said.
"They found a king's grave in the Valley of the Kings." Téa said.
"Starting tomorrow, it'll be on display at Domino's museum."
"Neat." I said.
That proves that this is an episode. I distinctly remember this from an episode. I had made SURE to not start a conversation with myself. I had gotten wary of those.
"That sounds fun! Let's go! Let's go!" Miho said.
"The professor who found the grave is a friend of my grandpa." Yugi said. "He said he'd show us the excavations."
"The person in this photo, right?" Téa asked.
"Egypt is so mysterious. How lovely!" Miho said.
"Speaking of which, Yugi's puzzle was also found in Egypt, right?" Téa asked.
Yugi looked down at the Puzzle and said "Y-yeah. This is the Millennium Puzzle."
"But Yugi, didn't your grandpa say... the people who found that puzzle died a mysterious death?" Téa asked.
All but one. I thought. Remembering the story Granpa told Yugi at the start of season 5. I had had a fangirl squealing fit when I saw Atem in his Egyptian clothes.
"For real?! Are you cursed or something, Yugi?!" Joey practically yelled.
"Don't be silly." I said. "I highly doubt that Yugi is cursed."
"N-no way!" Yugi said. He then held the Puzzle up and stared at it.
While Yugi was thinking, the rest of us went to look at the paper. I was looking at the pictures on the page when Tristan said "Look! They found a mummy!"
"M-mummy?!" Joey said, afraid.
"What? Scared Joey?" I said
"N-no! Joey wheeler isn't afraid of anything!"
"Doesn't look like it to me." I decided to pick at him a bit further for fun and said, "Does Joey Wheeler want his mummy?"
"That's it!" He yelled, then balled his hands into fists, but before he could do anything Tristan said "Stop!"
"He just saved you a world of hurt." Joey said, then he relaxed.
"Geez, sorry man. Didn't know it would bug you THAT much."
I looked at the stupid grin on Tristan's face and barely able to mask the laughter dying to come out of my mouth.
Tristan said "Alright! Let's go to the Egyptian excavation display!" Once he was done with his fantasy.
"Then tomorrow on Sunday, let's meet at one o'clock at the museum." Téa said.
"I'll look forward to it!" Yugi said, to which I added, "Yea! Sounds fun!" But I thought I thought tomorrow was Saturday. because, as far as I could tell, we were using the american school system. I knew that we were supposed to be in Japan, and they had a different school system there, but as far as I could tell, today was Friday. Maybe it is Saturday and the weekend's Sunday and Monday. Hmmm...
-the next day-
We were standing outside of the museum waiting for Professor, I think the dubbed name was Hopkins if I'm guessing who he is later on correctly, and since we're using everyone else's dubbed name, I assumed we used his. I didn't pay attention to Granpa and Prof. Hopkins, I was busy looking at signs and things when I saw a flash of short, dark brown hair. Significance: Lexie had that hairstyle. I was about to investigate it when I also saw a flash of gold and looked over to see Shadi. And, I've missed the conversation, let's get involved now.
Prof. Hopkins was asking Granpa about the Puzzle then.
"You mentioned him?" Granpa said, although I have trouble understanding who mentions who in that sentence.
"Oh. So you're Yugi?" Prof. Hopkins asked.
"So that's the rumored Millennium Puzzle?!" Kanekura asked. He then grabbed the Puzzle and pulled it towards him, bringing Yugi along with it. "This is amazing! Truly a cultural relic of Egypt!"
Not that you care. I thought.
"Kanekura is a special art dealer, you can trust his eyes." Yugi then took the Puzzle back.
"Ummm... more important, let's hurry and see the mummies." Tristan said.
"Let's go, let's go!" Miho said, excited.
"Yugi, please! Let us display this Millennium Puzzle at this exhibit! Please!" Kanekura pleaded. As Yugi was thinking, I told him quietly, "Be careful who you give your Puzzle to, they may not want to give it back."
"Okay," he said, "it's only for a day after all."
"O-okay. Thank you Yugi. The Egyptian display is grateful as well."
-time skip-
I was off in another part of the museum than the rest of the gang. I had looked through the artifacts fairly quickly, not reading the little plaque things, and then wandered off to see what else they had. I was happy to see that they had a portion dedicated to Latin type things. I was also happy when I was able to decipher some of the chicken scratch that is Latin writing. Happier still when I successfully translated it in my head, I usually had to write the sentences down and translate each individual word. Of course, there were words that I didn't know, me only having had two years of Latin class, but they were either close enough to the English translation that I could reason what it was or the context of the sentence made it easy on me. Although, I was a little confused at what it said. "Ubi mors veniō, ego ostendō mei." It was so poor grammar, I barely understood that it said, "When death comes, I show myself." The main two things that were wrong were, it was not the artsy chicken scratch, it looked almost typed, and it was structured like an English sentence, subject, adjective, verb, others instead of subject, adjectives, object of verb, adverbs, verb.
Way too freaky, what does it mean? And why is it written like English and not properly conjugated and declined? I then spotted a museum worker and asked him about the writing.
"Oh, that?" He asked. "That's nothing special."
"But what about the Latin at the bottom, it's not declined properly and it's structured like english."
He then looked at me like I was crazy. "What are you talking about? It's perfectly normal."
I looked back at it. He must not see the bottom text, should I point it out to him? But when I turned around, he had gone.
Hmmm... Not exactly knowing what to do, I took a picture of the writing with my phone. Sure enough, the strange writing showed up. I then decided to quit with the Latin portion and head back to the Egyptian stuff. I got back as Joey pointed out the Puzzle.
Hm, I was gone longer than I thought. Oh well, not too much lost.
"It's true!" Yugi exclaimed as I reached him.
I wonder what they're gonna put on the plaque. And how true it's gonna be. The plaque basically just said it was a mysterious artifact.
"Yugi's treasure is famous!" Exclaimed Joey.
"I guess." Yugi said.
"We should take a memorial photo." Téa said.
"Sure, why not?" I asked. But before we could, Prof. Hopkins came up to Yugi and asked quietly, "Yugi, you didn't want to actually let the Millennium Puzzle go, right?" But I was close enough to hear what he had said.
He answered "Nope."
"This excavation wouldn't have been possible without Kanekura. I couldn't say anything in my situation."
Téa had out a camera by then and was holding it up. She said, "Okay everyone. Get in line. I'm about to take a photo.
"How about we ask someone else to take it, so you can be in this too?" I suggested.
"I am perfectly fine taking it." She said, a bit offended.
"Sorry."
Everyone was in position, Joey on the left corner, Yugi in front of him, me next to Joey and behind Yugi, Tristan on the right corner, and Miho at his right.
"Okay. Pose!"
After Téa took the picture, I went back to the weird writing, and found it wasn't there.
Way too freaky, am I sure it was here? I looked around some more, only to find nothing. Wow, just wow. Just the kind of thing that would happen. Wait, is the picture still on my phone? I checked my phone to find that it was there. Should I or should I not tell them? Probably should. Am I going to though? Probably not. It was time to go then, so I met up with the others outside.
"Ah, that was so fun!" Yugi exclaimed. Lot of exclaiming today, isn't there?
"Yeah! Miho is so touched!"Miho exclaimed in return. "Right, Tristan?"
"R-right." He said.
"Professor Hopkins, thank you for today." Granpa said.
"No, no. So I must return to the collage." And everyone said goodbye.
"Hey everyone. What should we do now?" Téa asked.
"I'm waiting 'till closing time." Yugi said.
"And I'm waiting with him." Guess.
"I want to get the Puzzle back."
"Then let's split up here." Téa suggested.
"See you again tomorrow." I'm getting tired of writing "said", so I'm just gonna write the name of who said it here. Yugi.
"Later." Joey
"Bye." Miho.
"Four thirty? Just thirty more minutes."
We then went back inside together and headed for the Egyptian section. It was a while before Shadi was supposed to show up, so I went and actually read the plaques to some of the artifacts that really interested me. After about fifteen minutes, I got bored again though, so I sat down and leaned against one of the brick columns and started playing Magic Piano on my phone, determined to get 75 smoola to get a song I really wanted. At about 4:50, Yugi had gotten bored and sat down too. Either that, or he just got tired of standing.
"Alright, it's about time to get the Puzzle back." He said at 4:55. He then got up, me following after a second, and started heading towards the office. After a few minutes of walking around, Yugi stated, "This museum really is a maze." I wasn't paying much attention. I had gone back to playing Magic Piano, with the volume off. REALLY hard if you don't know the song you're tapping, which I didn't. So, I almost didn't notice that Yugi had said his line and had almost kept playing, but the song had ended then and, frustrated with the fast beat, I turned off my phone. I looked up to see Shadi walking towards us, with the Puzzle and Scale.
"My Millennium Puzzle." Yugi, wait, do I even need to say who said what at this point? There's only one person who's gonna have the Puzzle. Just sayin'.
"So you were the one who solved this?" Shadi asked.
"Yeah! It was really difficult! But why do you have the Puzzle?"
A few moments passed and then Shadi closed his eyes, focusing.
"Key?" Yugi asked. I felt a laugh coming on. The way he says lines like that. The laughter wasn't too hard to contain, though, so no snorts. And the Key started pointing at him, though I didn't see it fly towards him, not entirely sure why.
After a few minutes, Shadi knelt to Yugi. Then after Yugi asked him if he was ok, he stood up, gave Yugi the Puzzle, and turned towards me. Skipping the rest of the normal lines.
Shadi's POV (Virgo: Prepare for possible writing failure during these kinds of parts)
This girl, she seems completely unfazed by what she has just seen, as if she's seen it before. I wonder...
Elisa's POV
I gained a confused look on my face when the Key started pointing towards me, and THIS time, I did see it fly towards me, but I somehow was actually unable to flinch, as if the Key didn't want me to move at all.
Shadi Third Person (Virgo: forgot what it's technically called, think it's third person omniscient...) POV
Shadi found himself facing a wall of a soul room with books and a few handheld video gaming devices with a few games strewn about to go with them. Upon closer inspection, he found the books were all of the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre. This must represent her love of the unreal and escapes from reality. Shadi thought. He turned around to find a third of the room covered in mist, as if part of the personality were unclear. And in that mist was a figure of the girl, but somehow different. He then heard the girl's voice saying, "Go ahead and look around, just don't touch anything. I don't want Elisa's personality to get screwed up. Hard enough dealing with her already sometimes." Shadi said nothing but took another look and left, disappointed at the fact he found almost nothing explaining this girl's comfort.
Back to Elisa! Yay!
I blinked and saw that the Key had returned to it's normal position around Shadi's neck, but Shadi had grown a disappointed look on his face.
^Okay, now I feel a bit worried. What the heck just happened?^
"There are still things I must do in this country. But when all the judgements are over, I will meet you again, I think. My name is Shadi. This is the first time I've told my name to strangers." Shadi said. He then walked away, leaving us in the middle of the Egyptian exhibit in
Domino Museum, Yugi making that final "Weird guy." comment, finally earning a laugh from me. After a moment, we started on our way back home.
Okay! So, I'm at least closer to target date this time. But staying up past midnight to get so. I am kind of tired now so I don't really have much to say... Hopefully I didn't screw up too badly on the soul room part. What exactly does the mysterious Latin message mean? Does it have anything to do with Lexie? find out, in an incredibly long time probably! Anyway... Um... YAYRANDOMHARDTOREADALLCAPSWRITINGTHATISALSOHOWREAL TRUELATINISWRITTEN! SEEYA!