~~~~~ NARRATOR ~~~~~
Zelda was meeting with Shada, Mahad, Ironheart, and Seto about the creature, Zorc. She was trying to find a way to defeat Zorc before Egypt is destroyed. Every now and then she would lose concentration so Mahad would bring ber back to focus. "Zelda." "Sorry Mahad." She was looking for ideas but her thoughts would always went to one person and that one person wasn't in the throne room. Atem has been unconscious for two days since theattack by Zorc. Seto had summoned Kisara so Zelda summoned her dragon and they attacked Zorc together.
Zorc had retreated from the attack from two monsters of light. So Egypt started to panic since their only ruler was unconscious. Zelda took the throne of Egypt as Queen because Atem and her were to be married. As future ruler, she handled every thing that needed to be handled. "That beast took the god monsters and beat them at the same time. There is no way you could beat him," said a man that barged in on the meeting He was upset that a woman was handling matters like this instead of the Pharaoh. "We will try everything in our power to make sure that Egypt is safe," she replied. "Yeah right, tell us, "M'lady, we heard that you weren't even from Egypt. How do we know you aren't going to destroy it? You could be the reason for this dark time." She stood up to press the issue before Mahad stopped her, "Remember, we have bigger problems." "Fine." She turns back to the man and replies, "We will talk about this when Egypt is out of danger." He nods and leaves.
About mid-day, she went to Atem's room. She would spend two hours with him then go back to work
~~~~ Your POV ~~~~
"I can't seem to stay focus for long. Sorry Mahad, but you know what the cause is," you told Mahad. "We know why you are not focusing but you must do it for the Pharaoh and Egypt. You know Egypt can't survive with out a ruler." Finally after two days, you were sensing Atem's mind surface. You just ran to his room hopefully in time to see his eyes open. Once there, his eyes were still closed but you stayed by his side and held his hand. About an hour later he started to wake up.
Slowly his eyes open and you never left his side so you stood when his eyes opened. He seemed confused then he asked, "Where am I?" You replied, "The palace. We brought you here after you fell unconscious from the attack and you're in your room." He slowly looks around and notices he was kinda stiff, "How long was I unconscious?" "For two days. Mana cast a spell to help you regain your strength but it was too weak. So I doanated some of my energy to make the spell stronger and some to you. How are you feelling?" "Stiff. Who was in charge while I was unconscious?" You just smile at him and replied gently, "Me." you gently stroked his face before he remembered the last thing he saw before he past out. "Where's the creature now," he asked trying to get up. You placed your hands on his sholders and gently pushed him back down. "You're not strong enough to get up yet and the creature retreated after facing the white dragons. My dragon gotten a lot bigger and stronger then the last time you saw it."
You just leaned in and gave him a hug. "I'm just glad you're awake." He hugs you back lightly like you were doing to him. You release the hug and look at him lovingly. "Welcome back," you whispered. He places his hand on your face so you lean in closer and give a kiss on the lips. Mahad finally came in and seen you kiss Atem. He walks around check on on Atem. "My king, you're awake," said Mahad causing you to break the kiss. Atem looks at Mahad and smiles repling, "Hey Mahad." "How are you feeling, my king?" "Stiff." Mahad looks at you concerned about something. Maybe now that he's awake, maybe you will be more focused when needed. You nod and he smiles. Atem asked, "Something wrong?" You explained, "He was just worried that now you're awake maybe I could stay focus now." You look at Mahad and ask, "Can you stay with him while I get him something?" "Of course my Queen." I still have to get used to that, you thought smiling. You left to get Atem some bread. When you got back you helped Atem sit up and handed him the bread. So what happened while I was... you know," said wanting to know the details was normal and you explained what happened including you assuming the throne. "Ok, well I'm glad you took the throne. If Egypt was panicing then you would've been the best person to rule and as my fiancee, you had perfect right to take it. So thank you," said Atem. You smile and was about to lean in to kiss him before a guard came in. "My Queen, that man wants to talk to you again," said the guard. You nod and turned to Atem. He closes his eyes and nod and give him a hug. You slowly walk to the throne room to meet with the man.
Once in the throne room, the man was pacing until you sat in the throne. "The Pharaoh still refuses to show with you," asked the man. You were annoied with him already so you replied, "The Pharaoh was unconscious for two days. He's recovering in his chambers now. Until he gets better, you will have to consult with me, understand?" The man stepped back surprised about what you told him. Zelda, easy. Calm down. Don't do something you'll regret, thought Atem. You took a deep breath and calmed down. "I'm sorry, my Queen. I didn't understand. That's why you weren't focusing that well, wasn't it?" You nod and reply, "We need to figure a way to seal Zorc away before any more people get hurt. I'm just glad he's recovering." "You just said he was unconscious." "I said he was unconscious, he came to about a few minutes ago." "That's good to hear, he should hear about this." "He is hearing this. He could hear my thoughts, what I'm hearing and I could hear the same with him." "So he's hearing us now?" You nod. "Well this can wait. I will bring this up again tomarrow when you are rested and are in a better mood." You just nod and he leaves. You went back to Atem's room. He was still sitting up waiting for you. You sat right beside him and place your headon his sholders. "You're exhaused. You should rest, have you been sleeping lately," he asked you. "Yeah but I have been very restless because I was sleeping in your old room. At the most I have been getting at least five hours of sleep," you replied tired and the sun was started to set. He started to rub the side of your face. "You should rest, I know how much stress you're under, because I was unconscious and you were trying to keep the kingdom safe. You're in need of sleep." Mahad came in the room and saw you and Atem laying on the bed. "You two were starting to have me worried," said Mahad. Atem replied, "Two of us? What do you mean two?"
"Zelda was having hard time staying focused. Every day while you were unconscious, she spent two hours with you at mid-day. I had to snap her out of her thoughts when she lost focus in the meetings we had. Several times a day I'd have to that. I even watched her as she slept and it was extreamly restless. Nightmares and nothing else." You looked down. It was true, nightmares about you, Atem, Seto, and almost everyone in the palace. Mahad continued, "She seems happier now that you're awake. She was slightly depressed, I don't know how much though, she did a good job hiding it from us." "From what I sense, it was pretty bad," said Atem, "How long have you been summoned, Mahad?" "About three days." The sun was all the way gone and you and Atem were getting ready for sleep. You help Atem lay back down and Mahad disappeared to let you rest. You placed your head on his sholder and got closer to him. Slowly but surely, you fell asleep, glad to have his arms around you again.
In the middle of the night, a hand slammed over your mouth making you bolt awake. You put a protection spell around Atem and the men grabbed your wrists pulling you off waking Atem up. "Zelda, no!" "They uncovered your mouth and two men held you by the arms while the the other punched you in the stomach. He punched you in the face cutting your lip. "You will regret the day that you brought the dark one here," shouted a man.
You headbutted the man in front of you then stomped on both their feet and the fight began. You punched one in the face and the other in the stomach followed by a kick. "Guards," shouted Atem. You managed to transform into your warrior form, before they could get their swords out, you used magic to knock one out then Mahad appeared and took care of the other two. You fell to a knee clutching your stomach and you placed your hand to the cut. When you removed your hand, it was covered in blood. You released the spell around Atem and slowly walk to him to keep him from getting up.
Once there, he sat up and you almost lost your balence but you used the bed to catch yourself. Atem places his hands on your sholders then wrapped his arms around your chest and pulled you on the bed. You were having trouble breathing because of the punch in your stomach. You were looking down with your eyes closed until Atem lifted your chin so you would look at him. He placed his finger under the cut to lightly check it. That... was the third... time in... three days, you thought through the pain. "What do you mean third time," asked Atem. You were having an easier time breathing now so you replied, "First time, I was in here hoping you'd wake up, they came in and tried to kill you. Second time they went after me in my sleep but Mahad helped me out." "Are you ok though?" "I'll be fine. Just a cut on my lip but nothing beyond that." Link came out of nowhere with a wet rag and gave it to Atem before disappearing. Atem let go of your chin to get the rag in the position he wanted then he put his hand under your chin trying to clean the cut. He lightly touched touched the cut to try to clean the cut but you flinched. "Sorry," said Atem, "I know it hurt." He continues gently touched it with the rag getting the blood on your chin off. Once the blood was cleaned off, he gently places the rag on the cut and says, "Hold this there for a while." You hold the rag in place when the guards came in and took the men to the dungon.
"Zelda, are you ok," asked Mahad. You nod and your mark started to glow. Atem takes the rag and removes it just in time to see it heal. You took a deap breath and look to Mahad. "Guess those guys ran out of luck," said Mahad. You nod and Atem asks, "Those were the same people the last two times?" "Yes unfortunatly. They got away the last two times. They didn't know how strong she is when you're awake then when you're unconscious." Atem turns to and asks, "Are you sure you're ok?" You nod and Mahad replies, "My king, we have..." Mahad didn't finish what he was saying before you blacked out.
~~~~ Atem's POV ~~~~
When I asked Zelda if she was ok, she only nods. She looked exhausted. How was she able to think about anything yet alone fight? "My king, we have-," Mahad didn't finish before Zelda fell onto me. She fainted from exhaustion. "Zelda! Is she alright," said Mahad worriedly. "She's fine, she just fainted from exhaustion. She overtaxed herself and her body wasn't able to take it." He sighed, "Well she deserves her rest. She's earned it. Both her and Seto." Zelda's head was at the base of my neck and I was the only thing keeping her sitting up. Mahad slowly disappears and I laid Zelda on her back making sure her head was on pilows. I also made sure she was under a blanket before I laid down and fell asleep facing her.
When I woke up in the morning, Zelda was still asleep on her back. I sat up slowly feeling the effects of being unconscious for two days. I look around to find a rag hanging out of a bowl of water with a note on the side closest to the bed. I grab it and read it.
"Pharaoh,
This will help Zelda keep cool if she isn't awake when you wake up. It might help her wake up as well. I trust you know what to do.
Mahad."
I put the note back on the table and grabbed the rag out of the bowl. I squeezed the rag to where there wasn't that much water left in it and started to gently touch her face with it. She started to moan and tried to move her face away from it.
~~~~ Your POV ~~~~
You feel something cool touched your face repeatedly. You let a moan out and try to move away from it. It just kept touching your face. You slowly open your eyes to finda blurred Atem. Then you remembered what you last saw but Mahad never finished what he was saying and you didn't remember falling asleep again. You bolted up right and started to breathing harder. "Zelda, you're safe, you're still in the palace," said Atem. Your vision started to become more clear and when your vision was back to normal you noticed you were still in Atem's room. "Atem, what happened," you asked when you looked at him. "You were exhausted from the lack of sleep and you overtaxed your body. You fainted from exhaustion." Now it made more sense to you but you were still confused about every thing. "First thing's first, how are you feeling," asked Atem. "A little tired but nothing beyond that." "Maybe you need to rest more, you do look like you could use somemore." "As much as I may need it, I can't. You're still not strong enough to be handling what's going on." "I'll be fine and we don't need you fainting again. Plus I could do every thing from here while you rest." "You sure?" "Yes."
You lean toward him and give him a light kiss. "Thank you," said after you broke the kiss. "You're welcome, now gets some rest, you've earned it," said Atem gently. You lay back down and slowly fall back asleep.
~~~~ Atem's POV ~~~~
As Zelda fell asleep, Mahad appeared to check on the both of us. "My king, how are you and Zelda doing," asked Mahad. "Good, Mahad, I'm fine and so is Zelda. I talked her into resting some more." "Well that's good to hear she's resting. Seto finally did the same thing a few moments ago but it wasn't willingly. He past out in training quite a bit ago." "Well, I'm glad he's resting but not like that." "Well he was being stubborn about it so he was it was probably the best for him." I kinda chuckled, "You may have a point on that one. Well I will be handling every thing today from here. I promised I would stay here." "Ok then. As I tried to say last time, we have been searching for a way to defeat that creature that we later found out to be Zorc the Dark One." "We're up against Zorc?" Now it makes sense, no wonder only Zelda's arrow of light was able to do anything to him, I thought.
"My king, are you alright," asked Mahad."Yeah, I'm fine. It took me by surprise." I just moved backward so I could sit against the pillows. Zelda felt my movement and puts her head near my chest. "Is this anormal occurence when she sleeps to do that," asked Mahad. "Yeah, she feels comfortable and safe when she's near me. She can tell who I am without hearing my voice or looking, she can tell by just a touch." I look at her to find that she was purring again.I let out a soft chuckle making surethat I don't her up."What is she doing," asked Mahad fasinated. She's purring. She does that when I'm doing something she likes." I start rubbing her sholder lightly and her purring gets slightly louder. Mahad softly laughs before Shada comes in. "My king, you're..." he shouted before both me and Mahad interupted him. "Shada, Zelda is resting. Please don't wake her," I said quietly.
I feel Zelda get closer and place her hand on my stomach then relax again. I let out a sigh glad she didn't wake up. "Glad to see you're awake, my king," said Shada more softly, "How are you feeling?" "Better, just a little stiff." "I see Zelda is finally getting some rest. Sorry I was loud." "You didn't know and it's good Zelda is resting. She needed it." Zelda got closer again where her head was the bottem of my chest. I start rubbing her side. Mahad said sadly, "Let's hope she isn't having another nightmare. She needs her rest." "Agreed," I said. "My king, some one wants to talk to Zelda," said a guard at the door. "Bring him here." The guard leaves and brings back the man Zelda was talking to yesterday. "Good to see you're recovering well, Pharaoh," said the man. "Thank you. You needed to speak with Zelda about something," I asked. "Where is she anyway?" "She's right here sleeping. What do you need to talk to her about?" "I have found a spell that might be able to you. It should be able to lock Zorc away in the seven items that brought him here. The only catch is it needs two sacrafices. Also there is a part I can't read. It's in another language comletely." "And you think she could read it?" "She might be the only one that can. I never saw that language before and we can't activate it otherwise."
I look at Mahad and ask, "What do you think, Mahad? Should we wake her?" "She would want to know about this and she might be able to translate the part of the spell considering her age. Knowing her, she would want to know about this right away." I nod and turn to Zelda. I softly shake her to wake her up saying, "Zelda. Love, wake up."
~~~~ Your POV ~~~~
The first thing you hear is Atem's gentle voice saying, "Zelda. Love, wake up." He was also gently shaking you to wake up so you get closer before opening your eyes slowly. You look up at Atem and ask sleeply, "Is there something wrong?" He replies, "We may have found a way to defeat Zorc." "Some one told you who we're up against, huh? Sorry for not telling you before." "I know your reason so there is nothing to forgive. Well it's a spell that needs two sacrafices but there is a part we can't translate. We wondered if you could be able to read it." "I could give it a shot." "It might help you with your memory." You chuckled slightly at the remark and sat up to meet theman from yesterday. "My Queen," he bows to you and you rub one of your eyes before getting closer to Atem. "Lets see that spell of your's," you said. He gives that was half written in Egyptian and the other in another language.
You take a closer look the other half and strangly enough you could read it. "Atem I'm able to read it," you said happily. That's when your head started to hurt badly and you placed your right hand on your head. "Zelda, are you alright," asked Atem anxiously. "My head- it hurts," you said trying to hide the pain but Atem saw though it. A vision came to you from your past. "Impa, we must hide but unfortunatly as long as there is a danger we won't be able to stay in on place for very long. And now that I merged with Link, I have his abbilities along with my own," you had said. "Princess, you know it's my job to protect you at all times." "I had another vision, it's time that I go on my own." "Princess!" "Hyrule is no longer here so I am no longer a princess. I will conseal myself as a commoner and wait." Impa looked at you shocked, but nodded in agreement.
As the vision was ending, you were able to see what was going on around you. You were leaning against Atem and he was hugging you tightly. The pain you felt in your head was starting to fade and once it did you were able to see every thing in front of you. "You alright," asked Atem. "Yeah, another flashback about my past. This one is closer to our present day, is when I had my guardian leave to go with the sages. About the time I merged with Link." The man looks confused so you say, "A while ago, I was found in the desert and brought here by the previous Pharaoh. I had no memory of my past or who I was but little by little I am regaining my memory." The man replied, "That's not question. How do you know this language? I know most language but I never saw that one before." "I didn't expect you too know,this language is older then almost every kingdom." "How old?" "Over 10,000 years old." "Then how do you know it and how old are you?" You look at Atem and think, Should I tell him? After all this languageis my kingdom's language. He chuckles and replies, Might as well. It's time the guardians to know as well so he might as well find out now too. So you reply, "Guardians of the Pharaoh, I have some thing to tell you. Isis did some research on my mark and found some information about my past. I am the princess of a 10,000 year old kingdom that was destroyed. I'm over 10,000 years old." Every one except Atem, Mahad, and Shada were shocked at the news of your age. "That's not possible," said the man. Your chest started to hurt so you hand went there. "Are you ok, Zelda," asked Atem. You closed your eyes only to sense Zorc was getting ready for attack and approching the kingdom. "He's coming,"you said almost in a whisper. Atem and Mahad knew who you ment. You get off the bed and walked to Atem's side of the bed whichwas in the direction of the door. Atem sits up, puts his legs over the side of the bed, you helped him stand.
"Wait, who's coming? Plus the Pharaoh needs his rest," said Shada protesting Atem standing. You look at Shada for a moment then returned your eyes back to Atem who was holding most of his weight on his own. Shada finally understood who you ment but the man was still confused. "How are you feeling," you asked Atem. "Little stiff but ok." The man protested, "Wait, who's coming? The Pharaoh needs his rest and he will be safer here if anything happenes." You look at the man and reply, "He won't be safe here if Zorc is coming here. He is safer with me then with the normal guards. I may not remember my past but I do remember my power when the time calls for it."
The man stood speachless before Seto walked in. "Did I miss something," asked Seto confused. You filled him in on the problems and said, "Seto, since Aknadin was your father, you're next in line of the throne. Me and Atem have to do something that we might not recover from." You turn to Atem and he nods. This is it, you thought. Both you and Atem saying unison, "Our final move, if this doesn't work then nothing will." Every one looks at you confused. You grab the spell and went to the balconey hand in hand. You had the six Millennium Items in a circle around you with the puzzle in front of you in the middle. Every one was watching in tears knowing what was going to happen.
Sky and Ialu were given the task of guarding the secrets of you and Atem. Seto was sad too, also losing the last family he had left. You turn to Atem with tears in your eyes and you both shared one last kiss before Zorc was closer to the palace. The two of you began the spell with the love you had for the other and the determination to stop Zorc. Atem read the first part, "In the name of the desert moon's and Egypt's sun, I beseech the Egyptian gods. Imprison the evil to wence it came and let not be released until called out mine name."
After Atem said the first half of the spell, chains wrapped around Zorc restraining him in seconds. Atem took your waist and pulled you closer to him. With tears falling from your eyes and Atem's, you shouted stronger then ever, "In the name of the Egyption gods, we offer our souls to protect the land of Egypt until the returnof the shadow games!" After this the Millennium Items started to glow brightly binding every one and that's the last thing you remember.
~~~~ Narrator ~~~~
When the light died down, both Atem and Zelda were on the ground. Zorc was now gone and every one was crying because they just knew what just happened. Both the rulers were dead. The Puzzle glowed one more time making both bodies disappear before shattering. Every one was shocked of what just happened. A guard had given Seto a box and he went to pick the puzzle pieces up. Seto is now Pharaoh and is sad that his only fanily is gone.
Seto told the story of the Nameless Pharaoh and his Love. The story was passed down from generation to generation until it became legend. Their story soon became the story of the classic love story of Romeo and Juliet.
"For never was a story of more woe,
than this of Juliet and her Romeo."