The chosen Pharaoh
Last time so did Bakura attack the palace and challenged Atem and his sacred guardians, the guardians battle this enemy who threatened the new Pharaoh and dishonored the former Pharaoh but all six of them were defeated at once. Atem then stepped down to the battle field and summoned one of the three Egyptian gods, Obelisk the Tormentor. The power of Obelisk was too much for Bakura and his Diabound to handle but Bakura still managed to escape but not before he swore to defeat Atem's god next time, Atem then rushed out on the balcony to see Bakura escape from his guards before he ordered some of his soldiers to help put out the fire in the city. What will happen next?
Chapter 3- Mana and practice battle
A HOUR AFTER THE BATTLE,
Atem sat on the throne and saw a couple of soldiers come in, they had been in charge of the soldiers Atem had sent out to help the city, they bowed down before him and he asked them how much of the city that had been damaged from the fire.
"The damage from the fire was luckily not that big my Pharaoh and it was a miracle that no one got seriously got hurt but it will still take some time to rebuild the damage my king".
Atem nodded and thanked the soldiers and they bowed again before they left, Atem looked at Shimon, "I want all of the soldiers and the guards to keep an eye out for Bakura all the time, he won't get away with what he did". Shimon nodded and said that he would talk with Mahad about it.
At that moment so did Mahad come into the throne room and he looked really worried, he looked at Atem, "My Pharaoh I can't find Mana anywhere". Atem stood up with a look of fear in his face, Mana was his childhood friend who was the same age as him. She, Mahad and he had always been together no matter what.
He quickly ran down from the throne and ran out of the throne room with Mahad after him, he ran down the corridors and looked everywhere he thought Mana could be, after 15 minutes of looking like crazy so did they stop and began to think, "Atem what if Bakura took Mana?" Atem looked at Mahad. "I hope that he didn't but I swear if he did so am I going to hunt him down and…"
Mahad told him to calm down, "Easy Atem we still don't know if he took her, let's keep looking", Atem took a deep breath and nodded. They continued down a corridor when they heard a sound from one of the big vases that stood there. They turned towards it while Mahad prepared himself in case this was another attempted on Atem's life.
They waited a few seconds and then so did a beautiful brown-haired girls jumped out of the vase and wrapped her arms and legs around the top part of Atem's body, the young Pharaoh blushed as he realized how close Mana was to him, he was both relieved and a little disappointed when Mahad grabbed Mana and pulled her off him.
"Mana have you been in there the whole day?" Mana looked at Mahad, "I went inside there a little after the coronation ceremony, I wanted to surprise my oldest friend on his first day as Pharaoh, by the way why did the entire palace tremble earlier?"
Mahad sighed, "We got attacked by a thief who called himself the thief king Bakura, he had a creature that was able to take on all six of the sacred guardians at once". Mana was in complete shock, "Really how did you defeat this guy, please tell me Atem... I mean Pharaoh".
Atem smiled at her, "Like I have told Mahad Mana so do I want you guys to call me by my name when we're alone and I don't want you guys to be formal with me, what no one knows doesn't hurt anyone. Now to answer your question Mana, I stepped down to the battle field and defeated Bakura by calling forth one of the three gods that is sealed inside the Pharaoh's stone sanctuary, Obelisk the Tormentor and his power caused the palace to tremble".
Mana blinked a few times as the information sunk in, "Wait when you say the gods do you mean the three Egyptian god monsters that no one didn't even knew the names on?" Atem nodded and she was amazed, "So you're the chosen Pharaoh from the prophecy Atem? I knew you where special".
Atem held up his hands, "Whoa calm down Mana, we don't know if I'm the chosen Pharaoh and if I am then the names of the other two gods should come to me later but right now I only knows the name of the great war god Obelisk, also since Mahad couldn't find you so did we think that Bakura might have hurt you or kidnapped you".
Mana got a sad look on her face, "I'm sorry I worried you two, if I had known what was going on then I would have made sure you knew I were okay". Mahad looked at her, "Just don't scare us like that again Mana but now I would like to ask you a thing, how did you get past the guards I post here?"
Mana smiled and looked a floor down, Atem and Mahad looked as well and saw a few guards frozen, "Well my magic is improving", Mahad looked at her, "Don't tell me you used your freezing spell on them, we need them to guard the palace Mana".
Atem nodded, normally he didn't mind Mana's pranks or her freezing guards and servants, it has gotten him out of a lot of boring lessons in the past, but after the thing with Bakura so did he want all of his guards and soldiers to be ready if he strikes again.
Mana looked at Atem and gave him one of her sheepish smiles. "Ops my bad, I release thee". The guards glowed purple for a second but then the glow disappeared so were they still frozen, Mana got worried, "Uh oh".
Atem shook his head, it looks like Mana hasn't gotten any better with the freezing spell after all, Mahad looked at Mana irritated. "Your magic is improving is it?"
"Let me see", Mana's spell book appeared in her hand and she looked through it for the page with the freezing spell and Mahad stood next to her and told her to hurry up. Atem looked at the scene and chuckled, he was all too familiar with the situation but he never got tired of it, he looked up into the sky and got a serious look on his face, he knew that Bakura would strike again and they had to be ready when he did.
AT THE SAME TIME AT ATEM'S STONE SANCTUARY,
Aknadin stood and looked at the three god tablets, he still couldn't believe that his nephew might the chosen Pharaoh who could control these beasts. He heard someone come towards him and turned around and saw Seto coming, the young sacred guardian stopped next to Aknadin, "Any sign of Bakura Seto?" Seto looked at him, "No but our soldiers are searching the entire kingdom, we will catch him soon".
Aknadin looked at the god stones again, "We can't underestimate him again, if it hadn't been for the Pharaoh so had Bakura destroyed us all, we were lucky that he could call upon Obelisk". Seto also looked at the god stones and then at Aknadin.
"Master Aknadin we can't rely on the Pharaoh every time we enter a shadow game, but after seeing Diabound's destructive power, I got an idea there might be others like Bakura out there and I think we should use the Millennium items to capture these creatures and seal them inside stone tablets".
Aknadin looked shocked at him, "Seto we can't just grab people on the street without reason even if they have creatures inside them". Seto looked at him, "I'm going to do this in order to protect our king and our kingdom", Seto turned around and walked out before Aknadin could say anything more.
Aknadin sighed and looked around, he knew that Seto were right but what he suggested that they should do was just not right and he should know after what happened at Kul Elna. Aknadin then thought back to Bakura's reaction when he had seen Aknadin. He wondered if Bakura was a survivor from Kul Elna, If he were so would it explain the power of his creature because his hatred would be immeasurable.
Aknadin sighed and turned around and began to walk out of the sanctuary, he hoped that he was wrong but he was sure that he was right and in that case so would Bakura most certainly come after him for revenge for what he did to the Village of Kul Elna.
THE NEXT DAY WITH ATEM AND MANA,
Atem was walking with Mana next to him through the palace garden, she walked backwards while looking at him, "So how much will change now that you're the almighty Pharaoh Atem?" Atem smiled at her, "Well I will not be able to spend much time with you anymore Mana".
Mana immediately got a sad look on her face, Atem quickly said, "I will spend time with you just not as much as before that's all", Mana nodded and looked down in the ground a little depressed, she wanted to have Atem next to her forever, as soon as she thought that so did she blush and shook her head. Atem looked at her and asked if she was okay, "Yeah yeah I'm fine Atem why do you ask?"
Atem was about to say something when he heard someone call out to him, he and Mana turned around and saw Shimon come towards them, "I'm sorry for disturbing you my Pharaoh but the guardians are going to have a practice battle and they want you to watch it, they will pair up three and three".
Atem nodded and looked at Mana, "Would you like to come with me and watch the battle Mana?" Mana smiled and nodded, she always got excited when she saw a battle between shadow creatures and was hoping that one would be born inside of her one day.
They arrived to the throne room and entered to see the practice field and the guardians divided into two groups of three standing against each other, on one side were Mahad, Isis and Karim and on the other side were Seto, Aknadin and Shada.
Atem sat down on the throne with Mana and Shimon on each of his sides, he held out his hand, "Let the practice battle begin". They activated their DiaDhanks, Seto were first to call a creature, "I now summon the creature that was born from my heart, my mighty Duos".
Seto's mighty swordsman appeared, Shada took and summoned Zelua and Mahad and Isis summoned Illusion Magician and Spiria. Atem looked at the field, it was now three creatures on the field that had been born inside their controller's hearts, Spiria, Illusion Magician and Duos and since he knew their different battle styles so did he know that it would be power vs skill.
"Duos attack, slice Illusion Magician in half", Duos lifted his sword and flew towards Illusion Magician, Mahad smirked, "Have you forgotten my creatures special ability Seto, Illusion Magician activate Binding Illusion".
Illusion Magician formed and it flew towards but at that moment so said Aknadin, "I use this moment to summon my Dark Ushebti to be trapped by the Binding Illusion instead of Duos". The sarcophagus creature appeared in front of Duos and got trapped inside the Binding Illusion while Duos continued towards Illusion Magician.
"I won't let you because I know activate my creatures special ability, I now activate Spiria Shield". Spiria formed her shield in front of Illusion Magician blocking Duos attack much to Seto's shock and irritation and Atem smiled, Isis and Mahad used teamwork and tactic to stop Seto's raw power.
Shada lifted his DiaDhank, "I now activate Zelua's special ability, he can cancel out the special ability of a creature, and I chose your Spiria Shield Isis". Zelua negated the Spiria Shield but at that moment so said Karim, "Now I summon the Desert Trapdoor Spider and it will now trap your Zelua". The spider appeared and fired webbing at Zelua making it unable to move.
Seto smirked at Shada, "Thanks for the help Shada so now let me repay you". Duos turned around towards Zelua and to everyone's shock cut him in half, Shada held his chest in pain. "When Duos sacrifice one of his teammates so does his power increase so right now his power doubled and now I'm going to sacrifice Dark Ushebti in order to triple his power".
Duos destroyed Ushebti as well and then charged up his sword, "Now Duos, Aura Sword attack, destroy all of their monsters at once". Duos took and destroyed Spiria, Illusion Magician and The Trapdoor Spider all at once with one swing of his sword and Shimon declared Seto's group as the winners.
Atem narrowed his eyes, he wasn't surprise that Duos power could increase by sacrificing his allies, that's something Seto would do in order to win, Karim stood up and looked at Seto, "You may have won Seto but it was not a good victory since you sacrificed your own teammates monsters".
Seto smirked at him, "I might listen to your advices when you can defeat me in a shadow game Karim, if our Pharaoh hadn't been able to summon Obelisk so had all of us been destroy so that proves that power is everything that matters".
Atem got a smirk on his face, "I admit that it's good to have powerful creatures Seto but you shouldn't underestimate the weak either, it could become embarrassing for you". Seto smirked at him, "Oh really, then why don't you prove it Pharaoh? Let's battle you and me right now".
"Seto you are insulting the Pharaoh right now and…" Atem cut Shimon off by standing up, "Very well I accept the challenge Seto". He walked down to the field and stood against Seto who smirked, "I'm going to enjoy seeing the power of Obelisk again".
Atem smirked at him, "Didn't I tell you already? This battle will prove the power of the small so Obelisk will have to sit on the sideline today, now summon your Duos". Seto wasted no time and summoned his Duos, Atem activated his DiaDhank, "I now summon thee, come forth Kuriboh".
All of the guardians got shocked when they saw him summon Kuriboh, the little furry creature had barely any power at all, Mahad wondered what Atem was thinking when he heard Shimon whisper: "Clever Pharaoh, very clever indeed". He looked at Shimon and saw a smirk on the old man's face, he realized that Kuriboh must have a good special ability so that he could stand up to Duos.
Seto laughed, "I can't believe you summoned that thing, but that works for me anyway, I win Pharaoh, NOW Duos attack his Kuriboh and defeat the Pharaoh". Duos flew towards Kuriboh and prepared to slice Kuriboh in half.
But Atem chuckled and Seto got shocked when he saw that dozens more Kuribohs appeared, "I activated Kuriboh's special ability, he has the ability to multiply and I won't take any damage until you have destroyed all of the Kuribohs but they won't stop multiplying until the battle is over".
Seto growled in anger, he had to destroy all of them to win but they would appear faster than he could destroy them, he gasped in shock as the Kuribohs began to cover Duos entire body, soon so were Duos completely covered by Kuribohs and couldn't move an inch.
"See how your precious power is failing right now Seto and I have one more thing to tell you, when Kuriboh attacks so does he self-destruct in contact with the enemy, Duos might be able to handle one Kuriboh self-destructing but can he handle many self-destructing?"
Seto got worried, Duos wouldn't be able to handle all of these Kuribohs self-destructing on him, Atem ordered Kuriboh to attack and every Kuriboh self-destructed and destroyed Duos. Seto went down on a knee and held his chest in pain when his Duos was destroyed, he looked at Atem who just stood there, "Since my Kuribohs was destroyed by attacking so doesn't I lose life force when their destroyed, now I think you have something to say to the others".
Seto growled and got up and looked at the others sacred guardians, "I apologize for my attitude, it seems that I was wrong about that only power can bring us victory". After that he left the throne room and the others soon left leaving only Atem, Mana and Mahad in the throne room.
Mana ran up to Atem and hugged him causing him to laugh, Mahad came up to him with a smile on his face, "That was impressive Atem, I don't think Seto ever thought that his Duos would lose to a creature like Kuriboh but even so I think Black Luster Soldier would have been able to take down Duos with no problem at all".
Black Luster Soldier was the creature that was born inside of Atem's heart and it was a powerful warrior with a sword and a shield, "That's true but that was not the point of all of this, I wanted him to realize that power alone won't be able to beat Bakura and that we need to work together". Mahad nodded and knew that Atem was right.
AT THE SAME TIME OUTSIDE OF THE CITY,
Bakura sat on a cliff and looked at the palace, "Maybe I was a little hasty by trying to obtain all seven items at once, I will have to weaken the Pharaoh and his guardians by taking them down one by one and no matter how much I would like to take out the old man with the eye who destroyed my village so do I think I will go after the one with the ring first, I think his name was Mahad. Well Mahad beware because I'm coming after you next".
So Atem taught Seto an important lesson but now Bakura is planning his next move, what will happen next and can our young Pharaoh stop the thief king from gathering the seven items? Continue reading to find out and please review.