The chosen Pharaoh
Last time so did Atem and his guardians continue to battle Bakura, Bakura defeated Karim's creature and Atem managed to protect Duos from destruction by letting Slifer take the hits, he then continued to chase Bakura with his guardians following him, he then used Slifer as bait to get Bakura to attack the dragon. Once Diabound attacked so did Slifer counterattack and managed to damage the evil creature enough to make him unable to defend himself and Slifer destroyed him with a second attack and sent Bakura to the shadow realm. Everyone cheered when they saw Bakura's soulless body and later that night so did he enter his room to find Mana waiting for him and it ended up with them revealing their feelings for each other. What will happen next?
Chapter 9- A fourth Egyptian god appears
It had gone a few days since Atem and Slifer defeated Bakura and his Diabound, it had been a few peaceful days and Atem had spent them together with Mana, the two of them were now a couple in secret, he didn't want to let others know about this for a while.
But there was something that was worried about something else, it was about Aknadin, he was still unconscious since Bakura attacked him in his stone sanctuary but there were something that still didn't make sense at all, why hadn't Bakura taken Aknadin's Millennium Eye while he had the chance?
He felt Mana place her head on his shoulder and he looked at her and smiled at her, "Atem you have promised me to not being the Pharaoh when you are with me". Atem smiled at her and put his arm around her, "I know and I'm sorry but I'm just worried about something".
But what the two of them didn't know was that someone were watching them, Isis smiled when she saw how the two of them liked being with each other, she knew that Seto also knew about this but they had decided to keep quiet about it until the Pharaoh decided that it was time to tell the others about his relationship with Mana.
AT THE SAME TIME WITH SHADA,
Shada entered Aknadin's room, he was worried about the old guardian, "What did Bakura do to you master Aknadin?" He held up the Millennium Key, "Now Millennium Key let me see inside his mind and what Bakura did to him". The key began to glow but just as Shada was about to look into his mind so did Aknadin's eyes open, Shada gasped and took down his key and looked at Aknadin.
"Master Aknadin you're awake". Aknadin looked at him, "Shada where am I?" Shada looked at him, "In your room, you were attacked by Bakura before the Pharaoh chased after him with the Egyptian god of the sky, Slifer the Sky Dragon".
Aknadin's eye widened and he sat up despite Shada's protests, he looked at Shada, "What happened during the battle, who was victorious?" Shada smiled at him, "It's finally over master Aknadin, the Pharaoh took Bakura and his Diabound down".
But what Shada didn't notice was that Aknadin's eye narrowed, since Bakura infused a piece of his own conscious into Aknadin so had it been releasing all the anger and jealousy Aknadin had felt for his older brother and his nephew, he wanted his son Seto to be Pharaoh instead of Atem. He had hoped that Bakura would be victorious and he also knew that only Bakura with his Diabound might have a chance at defeating Atem and the Egyptian god monsters.
Not knowing what was going through Aknadin's mind so did Shada continue, "Now that Bakura is gone so can we release all of the people that Seto and I brought to the palace". That caught Aknadin's attention, he looked at Shada, "Tell me did you guys find any strong souls out there?" Shada looked at him a little shocked over what Aknadin had asked but answered, "Yeah, we found a girl who held a power like I had never seen before, if I had to guess I would say this girl's spirit's power might rival the gods since its power was too much for my key to detect".
Aknadin's eye widened in shock, a power that was so great that even the Millennium Key couldn't detect its full power? That could only be the power of a god, he sat up, Shada rushed to his side, "Please master Aknadin, you must rest, we don't know what Bakura did to you". Aknadin looked at him with anger in his eye, "Get out of my way", he grabbed Shada's shoulder and pushed him hard enough to make him fall to the floor and walked out of the room.
Shada got up and ran out of the room and looked for Seto, he finally found him in his study room, he ran in and Seto looked at him shocked, "Seto there is something wrong with Aknadin". That was all Seto needed to hear and got up and followed Shada.
As they walked down the corridor so did Shada tell Seto what had happen and Seto got worried when he heard Aknadin's reaction when he had heard about the girl and made his way to the girl's room with Shada after him.
They soon reached the girl's room and Seto got worried when he saw that she was gone, he looked at the guard that he had placed outside the room, "Guard where did our guest go?" The guard looked at him a little nervous, "Uh I though you knew this master Seto, master Aknadin took her down to the underground trainings ground".
Seto gasped in shock and Shada asked if Aknadin had told the guard why he had done that and the guard didn't know what to say but at that moment so did Gebelk appear. "I might be able to explain master Seto, please follow me".
Seto looked at Shada, "Find the Pharaoh and tell him everything, then take him down to the underground trainings ground and then I will apologize to him once all of this is over". Shada nodded and ran of to find Atem while Seto followed Gebelk.
Atem sat and was talking to Mana when he felt a dark presence and then noticed that his puzzle both glowed and trembled, Mana noticed this as well, "Is your puzzle sensing something Atem?" Atem nodded and then he heard Shada call out to him, he turned around and saw the bald guardian come towards him.
Atem stood up, "What's wrong Shada?" Shada stopped in front of him to catch his breath, "Aknadin… is acting strange… you must come with me now". Atem's eyes narrowed and he ran after Shada.
AT THE SAME TIME WITH SETO,
Seto and Gebelk had reached the underground trainings ground, the doors and he gasped in shocked, he saw three men standing on platforms that were attached to the roof with chains with three huge creatures behind them, he couldn't believe what he was seeing.
But then he heard a shout, he looked to his left and saw Aknadin sitting in a throne-like chair, Aknadin told them to battle and a bold man yelled to his worm-like creature, "Now Gudoul attack now and destroy him", Gudoul attacked another one of the creature and it caught it with it legs, the man gritted his teeth when his creature got caught, "Don't give up Wicked Worm Beast hang on and defeat him".
But Seto saw that Gudoul was too strong for the Wicked Worm Beast, he saw Wicked Worm Beast's body began to crack before it was destroy, the man who control Wicked Worm Beast screamed and fell of the platform and into clouds of darkness which Seto knew lead people to the shadow realm, Seto gritted his teeth and ran towards Aknadin.
"Master Aknadin, have you gone completely insane? Forcing prisoners to fight for your own amusement? No I cannot allow this to continue you must stop this madness at once".
Aknadin continued to look at the battle while he answered, "Silence Seto, don't you see that I am executing your idea? Observe". Seto looked at the battlefield and saw Gudoul grow bigger, "look that monster is getting bigger".
Aknadin nodded, "Yes I decided to take your plan to the next level, you suggested that we build an army of shadow creatures". Seto looked at him, "Yes but not like this and besides that was to defeat Bakura and he has already been defeated so we were going to release most of these people".
Aknadin looked at the battle, "I found a way to grow them, by forcing them to fight for survival, as their rage increases so does the strength of the beasts within", the man who control looked at the last man, "It's time to finish you off". The other man shouted, "No, you will never take me and my Five-Eyed Horned Ogre", the Fived-Eyed Horned Ogre began to grow as the rage within the man increased.
Aknadin looked at Seto, "So you say that just because Bakura has been defeated that we don't need these creatures? Well I disagree because there is another danger out there". Seto looked at him shocked, "What are you talking about master Aknadin?"
"I'm talking about the Pharaoh, if he continues to rule then our land will self-destruct so we need to replace him with someone more qualified, someone like you Seto".
Seto looked at Aknadin in complete shock, what was he saying? "But you can't defeat him and take the throne like you are now, you will be in need of an army that can defeat even the Egyptian gods themselves, and that is exactly what I am creating for you here".
Seto took a step backwards and wondered what kind of dark force that was in control of Aknadin, Aknadin turned to a guard, "Take our next prisoner to the battlefield", the guard walked over to a cage there Seto saw to his horror the white-haired girl sit in, "You can't be serious master Aknadin".
Aknadin looked at him, "Seto, don't let this girl's appearance fool you, she's not the innocent girl she appears to be, she holds a power that could give you the throne". Seto looked at Aknadin angry, "This is an outrage, I will not stand here while you endanger an innocent girl, even if she holds a great power so hasn't she done anything to deserve this".
Aknadin looked at him and told him to not be a fool, Seto could only watch helpless as the guards dragged the girl to a platform and pushed her out on it and she turned around and looked at Seto with a look that asked him to help her, he really wanted to help her but he didn't know how. Then the doors flew open and everyone looked at it and Seto got a look of relief while Aknadin narrowed his eye when they saw Atem stand there with Shada next to him.
Atem was furious, on the way there so had Shada told him about what he and Seto had done and he that had made him very angry and now that he saw what was going on so did his anger increase even more. "Aknadin, what is the meaning of this? Stop this madness at once".
But to the shock of Atem and the other two guardians so did Aknadin turn away from him and told the prisoners to continue to battle. Atem ran towards him to stop this but a few stepped in front of him, he looked at their faces and wondered what they were doing when he saw the blank look on their faces, they were hypnotized and wasn't aware of what they were doing.
Atem looked past them and saw the two men gang up on the girl, he was a little confused, he had heard that she wielded a powerful creature so why didn't she summon it? He then realized why, she didn't know how and maybe even that she had a creature within her.
Atem was about to activate his DiaDhank when Seto jumped on the platform and stood in front of her, Atem was about to shout out to him when Aknadin in panic shouted out to him to get off the platform.
Seto used the rod to cut of the webbing Gudoul had shot at the girl, he turned to the men while he still looked at the girl, "You can relax now, I won't let them hurt you". She looked at him, "Thank you Seto". Seto's eyes widened, "So you really are the girl I saved all those years ago, you never told me your name", the girl looked at him, "It's Kisara".
Seto summoned Duos, "I will give you one chance to stand down now", but to his shock so did the men laugh, "Whose fault so you think that we are here huh? Well we should be thankful that you showed up because now we can get our revenge on you". The men's creatures were about to attack him but Seto was faster and ordered Duos to cut of the chains to their platforms making them tip over and the man who controlled the Fived-Eyed Horned Ogre fell into the darkness but as the same time so did Duos also accidently cut the platform Seto and Kisara was on.
Both Atem and Aknadin panicked and ran towards the edge and looked down to see Seto hold onto the remaining chains and held onto Kisara with his other arm. Both and Atem got relieved until they heard a laugh and looked up to see the man who controlled Gudoul being stuck in the air in a web and also saw Duos being stuck and helpless.
"I am saved from the shadow realm thanks to my creature but you won't be that lucky". The man ordered Gudoul to attack and Seto panicked, but just as Atem were about to summon Buster Blader so did the girl begin to glow and the glow got stronger and stronger and began to take on a form.
Once the light died out and Atem could see clearly so did he gasp in amazement, he saw a big white dragon with blue eyes, he saw the man who controlled Gudoul panic, "No it's the white dragon with the blue eyes, but I thought that it was just a myth". Atem looked at the girl and noticed that she was unconscious, he realized that the dragon only came out when the girl wasn't awake.
The man ordered Gudoul to attack them, Atem got worried and Aknadin screamed in horror, but then the dragon opened his mouth and began to charge up an attack, the dragon unleashed his attack and destroyed Gudoul and the man controlling. The attack continued upwards and Atem could feel the power of the attack, this dragon had power that even rivaled that of Slifer and Obelisk.
The attack broke through the ground and flew up into the sky, the guards helped Seto and the girl up and Atem could see that they were free from the hypnosis, Seto walked over to one of them, "Make sure that she gets some rest".
Aknadin looked like he was going to protest but decided against it, he walked past Atem who looked at Aknadin over his shoulder and he now knew where the dark presence came from, it came from Aknadin. Atem walked over to Seto, "We need to talk Seto". Seto nodded and they walked away to talk alone.
Atem and Seto sat in Seto's study room, Seto sighed, "I did what I thought was necessary at the time". Atem sighed as well, "I know but it wasn't right what you did", Seto nodded, "I know and we will release them but what about the girl, now that Aknadin have seen her creature so is he going to haunt her everywhere until he takes it from her".
Atem nodded and one thing that was worrying him was that he believed that the dragon was connected to her spirit so if it got sealed in stone she would be too. Atem looked at Seto, "We have to put her in a secret room, only you, me and the guard putting her there will know where and then we can figure out how we can help her out of this mess".
Seto nodded and then they walked to the girl's room and the guard outside the room and told him what to do and then the three of them took the girl to another room and made sure no one saw them, after that the guard swore to not tell a soul where she was and now it was up to Atem and Seto to come up with a plan to help her.
LATER THAT EVENING IN ATEM'S ROOM,
Atem sat down on his bed and sighed, he was really worried about what had happened earlier, he figured that Bakura might done something to Aknadin that caused his sudden change in personality.
He suddenly heard a knock on his door and told the person to come in, the door opened and he saw the person he really wanted to be with just now, Mana. Mana sat down next to him, "You looked troubled Atem, what happened earlier?"
Atem sighed and told her everything and once he was finished so did she look at him in shock, "What are you going to do Atem?" Atem looked down at the floor, "I don't know and that's the problem". Mana took and hugged him, he looked at her and she said, "Don't think about that right now, right now you are too confused to think straight so wait to tomorrow", Atem smiled and nodded, they then kissed and fell down on his bed.
AT THE SAME TIME WITH AKNADIN OUTSIDE THE CITY,
Aknadin was waiting, then he heard something behind him and saw Zorc's servants, he turned to them, "I will leave a secret passage to the palace open so you can get in and get what you need but you will need a distraction like a big attack, can you fix that?" The servants nodded and Aknadin looked at the palace, this was the beginning of the fall of Pharaoh Atem and the rise of Pharaoh Seto.
So the white dragon has appeared and Aknadin is planning to make Seto the new Pharaoh instead of Atem and is willing to betray his own nephew, what will happen next? Continue reading to find out and please review.