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Q4

Previously

Atem shook his head "did you just say that they could bear children?" he asked and Jou nodded. Atem frowned in confusion "but thats impossible."

Jou laughed. "For your kind maybe but not ours. At certain points of the lunar cycle, your world and ours luckily share similar cycles, their bodies change stubbly enough that if impregnated they can bare children."

Bakura raised one eyebrow and shook his head "Benefit of the doubt" he said and the other nodded.

Jou smiled sadly and turned to the water. "It wasn't long after his first child was bourn that the Cyclops came." Seth looked at Atem worriedly. "He came in a storm of green fire. His army... they were horrible. Monsters, demons! All of them more gruesome than the next. I know because the memories were stored in the deep caves. I watched them until I memorised them. I watched as our shallow water cities were torn apart. As families were slaughtered. Lupaka's first bourn, Katsuya was almost killed. Lupaka sacrificed his life for him and his sons unborn brother. The first Dom and Sub of our family. Several generations later only the deepest sea caves remained safe and my twin brother and I were only thirteen moon cycles old. We were attacked and Sake' my brother was stolen from us. I couldn't save him, I had to protect our younger brothers."

From the pool Ryou reached up and took the blonds hand "its ok. We'll find him" he whispered.

Across from the water beings, Bakura stared in rapture. The creature was beautiful. His pure white hair hung dripping around his shoulders, his doe brown eyes clear and innocent. His voice the sound of the rains at the beginning of the Nile flood. Jou squeezed his hand slightly and smiled at his brother.

"If that was when you were thirteen how old are you now? And what happened to the rest of your people?" The thief asked and Ryou darted behind his brother. The blond smiled as the white'et peered over his shoulder.

"I am now double ten and one moons old. Malik is double ten. Ryou" at this he pointed to the two brown eyes glancing over his shoulder "is ten and nine, and Yugi the youngest is the same. There twins." the thief raised an eyebrow.

"They look nothing alike" he said and the smaller white'et slipped back into the water.

"In any set of twins in our family they will only have one similar trait. Otherwise they are completely different. Yugi is colourful and Ryou is bereft of colour. But they both have the most beautiful of sining voices." the thief nodded and looked away.

They sat in quiet for a while until a gurgling permeated the silence. Marik blushed "sorry but I missed lunch."

Several minutes latter the boys found themselves at a table. They sat opposite the Egyptian lords. Fidgeting Yugi glanced at the Pharaoh who sat opposite him "So little one. Tell me of your home" the Crimson eyed man said and the boy gave a small "eep!".

The smallest boy looked at his brothers who smiled encouragingly "Well... um" he began and the Pharaoh smiled kindly at him. His red eyes softening. "We lived in one of the few air pockets beneath the water. Unlike others on the planet we could not breath under water. We still need to surface for air at times you see." the Pharaoh nodded "The cave was made of volcanic stone your people called obsidian. From beneath, the volcano vents kept us warm at such depths and lava crystals gave us light." Yugi went quiet as the servants served the food. As they left he continued "my first memories are of the red and blue crystals lighting up the black stone and creating beautiful Serpen'arches."

The Pharaoh frowned in thought. "Serpen whats?"

Yugi smiled as he blushed "nothing thats important." he looked down at his lap "the first time I ever saw the sun was on our journey here. Never before have I ever seen so far." the tri-haired boy sighed and clasped his hands in his lap. Ryou leant close and placed one hand on his. "our star ship, it contained water so we wouldn't dry out but for travel purposes we had to sleep."

Malik smiled and Marik turned to him "so, what do you think of our planet?"

The smaller boy blushed "um... well. I guess its our ancestral home so I can't complain. There is much water, and its warm!" the blond's face lit up "once when I was young I was able to go to the surface. I felt my first ever breeze, it was so cold. But the stars burned so bright!"

Ryou nodded. "Deep within the deep caverns there are the Rooms of Memory. They glitter with a thousand pin pricks of light. But there not the same as seeing the fires of the sky"

Bakura, Marik, Seth and Atem entertained the thought of such a sight for a few moments. "It must have been beautiful." Seth murmured.

Jou smiled at him watching a gentle blush appear on the brunets cheeks "It was." the eldest brother glanced at his younger siblings "but you'll never see them. They were destroyed in the last battle"