This chapter revolves around the deaths of Vivian, Wong, and Aman.
{blah blah blah} is the gods talking to where Yugi can hear them.
Enjoy!
Chapter 11- The Death Sentence
The council, the priests, Aknankanon, Amara, Atemu, Heba, and Yami were sitting in the Meeting Room, discussing the type of execution that should be used on Vivian, Wong, and Aman.
"I say just behead them. It's quick and then they'll be dead." Karim said.
"After all they did, they deserve to suffer. Let's throw them in a snake's pit." Bakura said.
"Or throw them to the dogs." Marik added.
"Please. Let's just throw them to the crocodiles. It'll be painful, and there's no chance that they'll survive." Yami said.
"Could always just stake them out." Atemu said.
"Why not flay them? I think that would get the point across." Seth said.
"Some of these methods are rather cruel." Sereth said.
"I don't care about how harsh and cruel the method of death is. For all that they did against Egypt, they would deserve it." Aknankanon said.
Yugi had a hand to his head. His head hurt, but for a different reason.
{Just throw them the crocodiles. That's do it.}
{No. The dogs. That'll be a much slower and more painful death.}
{Why not the snakes? That will be painful, too.}
{Just behead them. It's quick and they'll be dead in no time.}
{I say stake them out and burn them. I mean, that has to be one of the worst ways to die.}
{Not a chance. Flay them. We could easily keep them alive so that they feel is as their skin is cut off.}
{That's just plain disgusting. How about one that would not involve such a disgusting method?}
"This is getting us nowhere. All we're doing is arguing the same point." Amara said.
"Well, no one seems to be able to agree on the method." Yami remarked.
Aknankanon looked toward Heba. "Heba, you were the one they did a lot to. What do you think?" Aknankanon asked.
Before Heba could answer, Yugi slammed his hands down on the table and shouted, "Will you all shut up?!"
Everyone jumped at the shout and turned to look at Yugi.
Yugi had stood up and his hands were on the table. He looked rather irritated.
Heba was the only one who wasn't startled by this because he had seen this coming. He stood up and walked over to his brother. "Problems in paradise, Yugi?" Heba asked.
Yugi glared at Heba. "I'm not in the mood for this, Heba. They're so damn irritating right now." Yugi growled.
"What's going on?" Atemu asked.
"Being made an ambassador for the gods isn't exactly a good thing. Until this whole ordeal with Vivian, Wong, and Aman is resolved, Yugi will have a direct telepathic link to them all, so he probably hears them arguing over the same thing that we are. The method that should be used to execute them." Heba explained.
"Yes, and they are about to drive me crazy." Yugi said.
"Do they have any preference?" Aknankanon asked.
"No. Not really. Everyone has their own opinion like here." Yugi answered.
"Well, perhaps there is new one that we could use." Mahado murmured.
"Meaning?" Aknankanon asked.
"Well, the Romans have us some lions as a peace offering, right?" Mahado asked.
"Yes. They did. We have them in a specialized section of the dungeons." Amara replied.
"Why not use that as a method of execution?" Mahado asked.
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea." Aknankanon said.
"It would be rather painful for them, and it would be in no way a quick death." Atemu mused.
"Pharaoh, I think that I would be a fitting way for them to die given all that they have done." Sereth said.
"It has promise." Aknankanon said.
"It sounds like a good idea." Seth said.
"Yes. Nice and bloody." Bakura agreed.
{Yugi, I believe that that method would be most satisfying for us.} Ra said to Yugi.
"Well, my father seems to like the idea of this execution." Yugi said.
"I believe that is what we will do then." Aknankanon said.
"Although there us something that you can do that would make is somewhat worse for them." Yugi said.
"What did you have in mind?" Aknankanon asked.
"Well, when there is more than one person being executed, don't you usually have them all thrown in at the same time?" Yugi asked.
"Yes. That is the tradition." Marik said.
"Well, instead of that, when they are thrown to the lions, you could throw them in one at a time. The last two would be the ones that would suffer more than the first because they would see what would happen to them and then the one that went last would be the one that is most horrifying." Yugi said.
Bakura and Marik smirked.
"You know, I like his way of thinking. Since we aren't allowed to torture them, we could do this. Technically, we're not torturing them." Bakura said.
"How do you figure that?" Yami asked.
"Simple. The law defines torture as physically harming someone. This has nothing to do with physical, and they are being executed at the time." Bakura said.
"Does anyone have any objection to this kind of execution?" Aknankanon asked.
Everyone knew better than to say that they had a problem with it, so no one said a word. Not that anyone had a problem with what was being planned in the first place.
"Then we will execute them that way. It will be announced to the kingdom in an hour." Aknankanon said.
With that, everyone left the Meeting Room.
Yugi, Yami, Atemu, and Heba left the room together.
"Well, this will certainly be interesting." Atemu said.
"I think I'll be sick." Heba said.
"Father won't force you to watch the execution, Heba. Given the gruesomeness of it, I wouldn't be surprised if he told Mother and Isis that they couldn't watch." Yami said.
"You're probably right. He's not one that would let women watch something like this." Atemu agreed.
"Yugi, you think that Father really minds this?" Heba asked.
"No. They just want it over with. Well, Mother and Father anyway. The others argue over what method, but I think that this will satisfy with them. Besides that, they'll have their real chance to deal with them themselves when they die." Yugi said.
"That's true. I know that they're not going to like their afterlife." Yugi said.
"Well, they deserve it. After all, with all they have done, I think that they deserve what happens to them." Yami said.
"True and I know that they are not going to like this at all." Atemu said.
Aknankanon stood on the balcony with Amara, Atemu, Yami, Heba, and Yugi.
Guards brought the chained Vivian, Wong, and Aman out for them to see.
"My people, I have called you here to make an announcement. Wong, his daughter Vivian, and the former councilman Aman have all been found guilty of high treason again Egypt for their false claims regarding Vivian's pregnancy as well as for kidnapping the Crown Prince's fiancé and taking his child and saying that it was Vivian. They also threatened to kill my entire court. I have decided that for their acts of treason they will al be sentenced to death." Aknankanon said.
The people booed when they heard what Vivian, Wong, and Aman had done. They then cheered when they heard that they would be killed for their actions.
Vivian, Wong, and Aman were startled by the fact that the people wanted their deaths. They had thought that the people would fight for their freedom.
Vivian and Wong were hated among the people because of the way that they would mistreat the people in their providence, and they always acted like they were so much better than anyone else. Their higher-then-thou attitude had been a reason that the people hated them. The fact that Vivian had falsely claimed that Atemu was the one who got her pregnant also angered the people as they knew that Vivian had lied from the start. It was a reason that the people were happy to hear that they would no longer have to deal with them.
"Their sentence will be carried out in the morning, when they will be thrown to the lions that were given to us by our Roman allies." Aknanaknon said.
Vivian, Wong, and Aman gasped when they heard what kind of execution they would have.
The people cheered at that.
Atemu and Yami smirked. They were more than glad that they would no longer have to worry about these three.
Vivian, Wong, and Aman were sitting in their cell after being returned to the dungeons.
"I can't believe this! I don't deserve to be thrown to the lions!" Vivian moaned.
"Oh, shut up. There's nothing that we can do now." Aman said.
"You bastard! This wouldn't have even happened if you had never suggested that we do this in the first place! This is all your fault." Wong snapped.
"You shouldn't have made it like this! If you and your daughter would have just waited until the baby was born to try and goad the Prince into striking her, then we would be fine." Aman shot back.
"You told us to! You said that if I pushed him hard enough, he would react in anger and strike me and then we could force him to marry me! It's your fault that this plan failed!" Vivian cried.
"At least I had a plan. You never even thought to do something!" Aman growled.
"We shouldn't have listened to you! At least we would still be alive!" Wong roared.
"You agreed to work with me on this! You only have yourself to blame!" Aman shot back.
"Will you three shut up!"
All three looked to where Shada and Karim were standing.
"Has the Pharaoh changed his mind?" Wong asked.
"No. You will die in the morning." Karim said.
"You can't do this!" Vivian cried.
"Shut up! You don't have any power in Egypt anymore." Shada said. He turned to the guards and said, "The execution will take place at dawn. Have them at the doors to the lions' den as soon as it is dawn. The Pharaoh intends to have this done immediately."
"Yes, Priests Shada." the guards said.
Karim and Shada then walked off.
"No! How can they do this to us? I don't deserve this." Vivian groaned.
"The only one that deserves this is you." Wong said, glaring at Aman.
"You were in on this as much as I was. You agreed to this when I told you of the plan. You wanted access to the throne and knew that the easiest way to get that was to have your daughter lie about that damned baby and say that Atemu impregnated her. You wanted to force him to marry her." Aman spat.
"You said that the plan was perfect, and that nothing could go wrong. Everything went wrong! That bastard Heba came back with his damned child, and now he's the one that is known for having the Crown Prince's child! He has what should have been mine!" Vivian screamed.
"It's not my fault that you weren't good enough for the Prince!" Aman shot back.
"How dare you!" Vivian shrieked.
"It's true. Maybe if you had been, you wouldn't have had to lie about it in the first place!" Aman said.
"You're to blame! All that you had to do was keep your nose out of our business, and we would have been fine!" Wong growled.
The tow guards looked at each, both getting rather irritated at the constant bickering and screaming and shouting that they had to listen to from these three. That's all that they had heard for the last few days, and it was working on their last nerve.
"They're working on my last nerve." the younger guard muttered.
"Don't worry about it. Just one more night and then they'll be dead, and we won't have to listen to them again." the older guard replied.
The younger nodded. "I'll love it when morning comes." the younger said.
"We all will." the older guard replied.
Morning came, and everyone who was planning to watch the execution gathered.
All of the priests were there except for Isis as Aknankanon had ordered that no females be present for this execution, so Amara was not there, either.
Heba did not want to witness this, so he decided not to go.
Atemu, Yami, and Yugi were all there to witness it.
"Why did you come, Yugi?" Yami asked.
"Although I don't particularly want to watch people die, it's mainly for my own peace of mind." Yugi said.
"I understand that. I want to see it for the same reason." Atemu said.
"I think that we'll have that very soon." Yami said.
"Did the Pharaoh decide the order in which they die?" Yugi asked.
"Yes. We know the Vivian is last. Because of all that's he did, he wants her to be scared the most by watching her father and Aman die first. I don't know that he has decided who will be the first to die: Aman or Wong." Atemu said.
"Doesn't really matter. They'll both die." Yami said.
Aknankanon stepped forward and said, "Bring the prisoners in."
Vivian, Wong, and Aman were led in, although no longer in chains. All three were held tightly by the guards so that they could not escape or try to harm anyone there.
"You three will die now for actions against Egypt. Are there any last words that you wish to say?" Aknankanon asked.
"Only that I deserve the throne, not that bastard!" Vivian hissed.
Atemu growled low in his throat, and the hands on his arms form Yami and Bakura were the only things that stopped him from attacking her.
"There's no need. She'll die in a few moments." Bakura said.
"I want to say that you're a fool for choosing that bastard over my daughter." Wong growled.
"It was a good plan, although there were a few things I didn't plan on." Aman said, glaring at Yugi.
"Normally, all three of you would be thrown in at the same time, but not this time. You will die one at a time, and the other two will watch." Aknankanon said.
The three were led to the edge of the pit where the lions were.
The lions looked up and roared and snapped at the people above.
The reality finally hit Vivian, Wong, and Aman as they realized that the Pharaoh was serious.
Aknankanon motioned to the guard that held Aman.
The guard knew the sign and pushed Aman down into the pit.
The moment that Aman was in the pit, the lions attacked him. Aman cried and screamed as the lions ripped him apart. It was a literal bloodbath.
Vivian and Wong paled as they watched what happened to Aman, knowing that they would also be forced into the same fate.
Once they were certain the lions were finished with Aman, Aknankanon motioned to the guard that held onto Wong.
The guard pushed Wong down into the pit as well.
Once again, the lions pounced on Wong and started to rip him to shreds as he screamed at the pain.
Vivian was shaking. She had just watched her own father die a gruesome death, and she realized that she should have never agreed to do what she did. But it was too late.
"Now." Aknankanon said.
The guard pushed Vivian in the pit as well.
"NNNNOOOOO!" Vivian screamed as she fell into the pit with the lions.
For the last time, the lions pounced on their victim and started to rip Vivian to shreds as she screamed.
Atemu felt a grim satisfaction as he watched the woman who had tried to destroy his life die. He knew that she would never bring disaster to his life ever again.
"Come." Aknankanon said when they were certain that Vivian was dead.
The group left the room and the dungeons.
"So, is it done?" Jou asked.
"Yeah. It's over." Bakura said.
"I have to say that I was rather pleased. They really suffered." Seth said.
"They deserved it." Yami said as they all sat down with Jou, Ryou, and Malik.
"You should have seen the looks on Vivian and Wong's faces when they watched what happened to Aman. I think that they really regretted all that they did then. Especially Vivian after she watched what happened to Wong right after she had seen what to Aman." Marik said, smirking.
"Well, if you ask me, they deserved what happened to them." Malik said.
"They did. After all, they caused far too much trouble." Ryou agreed.
"Well, they won't be causing trouble anymore. I can assure you of that." Seth said.
"Maybe now Atemu and Heba can have a normal relationship without them causing trouble." Yugi said.
'And maybe we can have that same thing.' Yami thought, eyeing Yugi.
Atemu walked into his room to find that Heba was sitting on the bed with Hasan in his arms.
"How did it go?" Heba asked.
"Fine. They're gone, and there is nothing for us to worry about anymore." Atemu said, climbing onto the bed beside Heba.
"Good. I would like to be able to have a normal relationship. I would also like to raise our son without them interfering every second." Heba said.
Atemu laughed. "Well, we have that now." Atemu said.
"Good." Heba said.
Atemu leaned over and kissed Heba on the cheek. "Don't worry. Everything is going to be okay now." Atemu said.
"Good. Maybe things can get normal now." Heba said, resting his head on Atemu's shoulder.
The two were content with the peace and quiet.
Until Hasan started crying.
Hope that you liked it. I knew the Romans used lions to kill people, so I decided to have them killed they way with the lions as a gift from the Romans. Thought that it would painful enough for them.
Next chapter is about Yugi and Yami. Not sure what exactly will be in it.
R&R.