Hikari: Sorry for the wait!
Topaz: Writers block!
Chapter 5
'Atem'
'Whose is there?'
'Atem, my son…do you not recognises your own mother's voice?!'
'Mother?! Is that really you?!'
'Yes my son, is it me'
'Mother….I've missed you soo much'
'And I have missed you my son, but I'm very disappointed with you'
'Why?'
'You are not yourself…you have become like your…your…father…'
'But…father was a strong king, and I want to be strong like him'
'Atem, my son….you are not your father, he was a cold hearted creature….you my son are..or..wasn't like him. You were a warm hearted child, it was your father who wanted you to be like him. You do remember how I died...don't you?'
'Yes….yes I do. Father killed you…I'm soo sorry mother'
'I love you my son'
"Mother…Mother…MOTHER!" Atem awoke from his dream, with tears running down his face. "I love you too".
"Y-you love who?" "Huh?!" Atem said in shock from hear a small voice, and look to the direction of the small angelic voice "Oh, it was you Yugi" "Are you ok, your Highness? Your crying" Yugi said quietly, so he did not anger Atem. But to his surprise Atem just smiled! Not an evil sneer or smirk, but a true honest smile. "I was saying to my mother, I love her" Atem said with a sigh "I miss her soo much" Atem looked away, as a small tear fell from his eyes.
"What happened to her? If you don't mind me asking" Yugi said, still afraid that Atem would become mad, but still Atem just smiled and seemed to know Yugi was afraid. So he opened the cage and when Yugi wasn't looking wrapped his tail around Yugi, then he slow carried Yugi out of the cage. Yugi stiffen that this, he thought Atem was going to harm him, but when he felt Atem rocking him back and forth, he felt calmer and safe. Atem's smile grew and he felt his heart beating like had years ago. "Your Highness?" Yugi asked "Oh! Yes, my mother. Well it happened many years ago" Atem said as he looked at a picture of his mother, which hung above fireplace. "I was only 12 years old , when she died. My father, former King Bahamut, wanted me to be like him. But my mother, Queen Helena, wanted me to be myself. So one night, my mother tried to run away from the castle, and to get me away from my father….but my father caught her. He grabbed me in told me to go back inside, I did as I was told, but I hide so I could watch my parents talking. I could hear my father shouting at my mother, telling her she had broken the vows of Aibous."
"What does 'Aibou' mean?" Yugi asked curiously. Atem smile grew even more, it was the first time he has told anyone about his past, and to Atem it felt like a weight had been removed. "The word 'Aibou' is a dragon word, it's what we call our 'Eternal Mates'" Atem said "Oh! Ummmm sorry I interpreted you, your highness" Yugi said as he lowered he's gaze. Atem felt that same stabbing pain in his heart "Yugi, you don't have to call me 'Your Highness'. Please just call me Atem. And it's ok. Now where was I…Oh yes. My father soon lost he's temper and….he…he killed my mother." Atem started crying, as the images of his mother being killed by his father, flashed through his mind.
"Please don't cry…A-Atem." Yugi said as he tried to calm down the dragon "I know how it feels to lose a parent. My mother died giving birth to me, and my father….he was killed in a great war when I only 4." Again Atem felt that stabbing pain in his heart, and thought to himself 'How am I going to tell him that I killed his father?!' "Atem…are u ok?" Yugi asked, his eyes full of something Atem believed he did not deserve. "I…I don't know how to tell you this Yugi….I killed your father." Atem watched as Yugi's face turned a death pale "You….you killed my father?! WHY! DID YOU DO IT!" Yugi screamed as tears fell from his eyes, Atem clutched his chest as the pain in his heart felt so bad, it was like some one ripping his heart in half. "I'm soo sorry Little One…..but then I didn't feel like myself….i felt like…like I was my father! My father wanted me to be like him" "YOU ARE NOT YOUR FATHER!" Yugi screamed "YOU ARE ATEM NOT BAHAMUT! " Atem was lost for words, his mother told him before to himself, and here was a young human prince telling him the same. "Yugi…" Atem tried to say something, but was interrupted by Yugi. "You should be yourself Atem!" then Yugi looked Atem dead in the eye "I forgive you Atem" Atem was shocked. Yugi had forgiven him for killing his father! "Thank you Yugi" Atem said as he nuzzled Yugi gently which shocked Yugi at first, but let Atem continue.
TBC