Author's notes: I couldn't wait for the poll results, since everyone wanted Toshiro to come with me to Egypt, 3 = 100%
Toshiro: These three people are smart.
FireWing Pegasus: Yeah, next chapter is the last chapter.
Toshiro: -grins and scans chapter before jaw drops- Wow, this is the longest chapter you have ever written, longer than chapter 8.
FireWing Pegasus: I know, I am just happy for this chapter. Toshiro, do your thing.
Toshiro: Hashira doesn't own anything, but her OC. Enjoy.
After two months, Yugi is due to deliver anytime, and Toshiro and me are on guard, Toshiro, because he is Yugi's personal bodyguard, and me, because of my inner horse and caring mothering instincts, which are annoying. I walk over towards Yugi and Atemu's chambers when I hear, "OUT!" I then see Atemu run out of their chambers, rubbing the back of his head. "Get thrown out again?" Seto asks as he and Joey stop to look at the heavily breathing prince. "Yeah." Atemu nods. "Isis said he could give birth at any time now, so I'm a little worried." "You're smothering him." Joey sighs. "Little wonder he threw you out." "Yeah, I don't smother him, I nurture him, even if I did smother him, he would forgive me, because it's in my instincts to do so. If Toshiro gets me pregnant, and he smothers me, like you to Yugi, definitely little wonder why he threw you out." I say with a smirk on my face "After he threw a book at me." Atemu admits. "A book?" Seto chuckles. "Shut up." Atemu growls. "Look." Joey steps in between the two cousins. "Just give Yugi some time to cool off. He'll be okay in a bit." "Alright." Atemu sighs. "I'll go see if Marik is up for a training session."
I poke my head into Yugi's chambers and say, "Yugi?" He looks up and says, "Hey, Hashira." "Atemu, smothering you again?" I ask. He nods and says, "How'd you know?" "He ran out of your chambers, rubbing the back of his head." I say with a smirk on my face. Yugi says, "Oh, I don't know what happened, my arm just reacted." I smile and go to horse form. I walk over to him and nudge his stomach. Yugi grabs onto my head and says, "The baby is kicking a lot." /Well, I can sense that the baby is close./ "How do you know?" /One, Isis says the baby is almost here, and two, I am in animal form and I can smell the changes in your scent and I just have this feeling that it might even come today./ Yugi smiles, and says, "Wow Hashira. I hope that it's today." He starts scratching behind my ear, which feels amazing, and he pets my mane. /You just hope that it's today so that Atemu wouldn't smother you anymore. Why do you think that I'm happy, that I'm not pregnant yet. When I get pregnant, I will be pregnant for 10-12 months and after a while, I'll have to be in horse form for the remainder of the pregnancy./ Yugi looks into my big ruby eyes and says, "You definitely have it worse than me." I lay down next to the bed.
After three hours, "Yugi?" Atemu pokes his head into the bedroom. "Hi Atemu." Yugi looks up from the story he's reading. /Hey Atemu./ "Hi." Atemu smiles back. "Yugi, I'm sorry I was smothering you earlier." "You're worried." Yugi replies as he sets the scroll aside. "Yeah." Atemu admits. "I am to." Yugi says, making Atemu look back up at him in shock. "I keep asking if I'll be a good mother, or if our child will even like me." "I ask those same questions." Atemu says as he snuggles up next to Yugi. "I think we'll be okay." /That's what I keep telling you./ I say with a horsey smirk on my face. "And I'm sorry about your head." Yugi says as he gently touches the small bump on the back of his husband's head. "I deserved it." Atemu replies as he takes Yugi's hand and kisses it. "Yeah." Yugi says absently. "But if you look back, it was kind of funny." /Oh?" Atemu and I say at the same time. "Who would have thought that I would throw reading material at the crown prince of Egypt?" Yugi giggles. "It never crossed my mind. My arm just reacted." "It did?" Atemu glares at the arm that had done the throwing, while I start nickering in laughter. "Bad arm. Very bad arm." "Atemu!" Yugi giggles as he smacks him before grimacing. "Kicking again?" Atemu asks as I get up and nuzzle Yugi's stomach. "No kidding." Yugi rubs his stomach. "This child is really active. Ow!" "What is it?" Atemu asks in concern as ears go up and face forward. "Bladder shot." Yugi answers with a small whimper. "Can you..?" "Sure." Atemu picks up Yugi and carries him to the bathroom while I lay down again.
30 minutes and a bath later, the two had dried off and pulled their clothes back on when I wasn't looking. "You sure you're okay?" Atemu asks as Yugi grimaces in pain again, and I walk toward Yugi smelling something not right. "I'm not sure anymore." Yugi admits. "There's a lot of pressure in my stomach, but I'm not sure if it's labor." I sense something and rush to Yugi. "We'd better be safe." Atemu says as he approaches Yugi, and I reach him. Just as Yugi opens his mouth to agree, a strong wave of pain sent him to his knees. As he gasps, a sudden wetness makes itself known between his legs. "Yugi!" Atemu exclaims and knelt next to his husband and I lower my head towards Yugi's stomach. "Are you okay?" "My water just broke." Yugi gasps. "Get me to the healing chambers." /Atemu, get Yugi on my back and hop on, we'll get there in no time./ Atemu nods and I let out a long neigh, that Toshiro would be able to understand. After 2 seconds, we hear a loud roar and I understand and run with the two on my back. Toshiro meets me half way to the healing chambers, in shadow creature form, grabs Yugi, I transform to shadow creature form, and we fly as fast as we can with our respective riders. As soon as we reach the healing chambers, Atemu jumps off, grabs Yugi and runs in.
5 hours later, we, minus Atemu who is inside with Yugi, are all waiting for the baby to come. Finally, one of the servants comes and tells us that the baby had arrived and it's a boy. We go to the doorway and hear Atemu and Yugi name the baby Aamir, the arabic word for prince. "It's a good name." Sugoroku says from the doorway. "Can you move so we can get in?" Joey's voice says from behind the emperor. "Impatient as always." Sugoroku sighs and steps into the room. "He's cute." Ryou sighs as he holds his seven month round stomach. "I hope mine is to." "I want ours to have a rough look." Bakura grumbles. Yugi rolls his eyes and looks down at his son. Aamir has Atemu's hair colors and bangs, but Yugi's amethyst eyes. His skin tone is evenly between Yug's pale and Atemu's sun kissed tan. "Hey Yugi, can I be the nanny, I do have a protective mothering nature and I would be a great nanny/protector, and it is my job seeing that he is the son of a member of the egyptian royal family, as Toshiro will protect him, seeing that he is also the son of a member of the japanese royal family." I ask with hope. Yugi nods with a smile. "We'll let you get some rest." Joey says after everyone gets a good look at the baby.
The next four months fly by amazingly fast, with Aamir growing just as quick. Ryou gives birth to his daughter, Haniya, who has his soft brown eyes but Bakura's rough looks, making her a mix of cute and rough. It has been decided that Toshiro would come with me to Egypt, much to our delight, because of him being Yugi's personal bodyguard and because no one thought it would be fair to separate him from me, and even though I haven't told anyone yet, I keep feeling like something is going to happen when we get back to Egypt.
"Are you sure you have everything?" Sugoroku asks as we watch his grandson pass a bag with baby supplies to Atemu. "Yes." Yugi smiles at his grandfather's fussing. "We've tripled checked everything." "I don't want you to forget anything." Sugoroku sighs. "It may be a while before we see each other again." "But it will be soon." Yugi smiles as he hugs his grandfather, and then does the same for Mai. "Take care Yugi." Mai says as she lets go. "I will." Yugi nods. "Oi!" Malik shouts and throws some dried meat at Honda and Otogi, who is returning to Egypt with them. "Get a room!" "Ready?" Atemu asks as Yugi climbs into the carriage. "Yes." Yugi sighed. "I'm ready to go home." "Toshiro, you prepared for some extreme heat?" I say with a smirk and Toshiro just pales.
"There it is!" Marik shouts. Everyone leans out their carriage window to see Khemet coming into view. As soon as we had made it to Egypt, Toshiro was practically screaming bloody murder at how hot it is, and now prefers to be in the form of his birth to conserve and gain more energy. A giant Komodo dragon at 13 feet long, and 350 pounds. He is also icy blue in color with his turquoise eyes making him extremely unique among Komodos. His blue scales like baggy armor, and drool coming from his mouth. When I asked him about it, he told me that it is deadly bacteria filled saliva. He could bite into a large animal, and if they escape, they will die from the bacteria within days and if a human gets bitten, they will die in about an hour. He says that in that form, he can get energy from the light of Ra, in order to be more active.
"We'll be home before sundown." Atemu smiles as he pulls his head back in. "That's going to make Aamir happy." Yugi smiles down at their six month old son. Recently Aamir has learned how to roll from his stomach to his back. He can't figure out how to get back onto his stomach though. He also loves making some vocal noises, especially when he's happy. "Mana is going to be all over him." Atemu chuckles. "And Haniya." "Of course she will." Yugi shakes his head. I look down at Toshiro, who is just laying down, and I start to scratch his back scales, making him do a reptilian purr. I say, "Drago-Shiro, we're almost there. Just a little bit longer and we'll be there. Although, people might scream seeing you in that form, probably thinking that you're a monster." I chuckle as Toshiro just flicks his tongue in annoyance.
"They're so cute!" Mana squeals the instant she sees Aamir and Haniya. "Down Mana." Mahad says as he places a hand on his apprentice's shoulder. He is obviously happy to see her after a year, but he obviously isn't about to admit that in public. "So you're really Japan's missing, now found, prince?" Mana turns to Yugi. "Yes." Yugi chuckles at Mana's expression. She turns to Toshiro and me, she points at Toshiro and says, "So is he your soul mate, Toshiro, Hashira, cuz he looks menacing." Toshiro goes to human form and we nod, before he goes back to, what I call, giant lizard form. "Let's move into the meeting room." Aknamkanon chuckles. "The one in Japan's more comfortable." Bakura complains. "Yeah." Marik adds. "Why can't ours be more like that?" "It you would actually look…" Joey lets the sentence hang as we enter the room. "What happened?" Marik gapes. "I sent a letter and asked if some changes can be made." Atemu smirks at their expressions. "You can catch birds with mouths like that." "Shut up!" Marik snaps while Malik collapses onto one of the cushioned chairs due to his laughing fit.
"My pharaoh," High Priest Karim looks to his ruler for permission to speak, "there is one matter of importance we need to attend to immediately." "Lady Tea and her claim?" Aknamkanon questions. "Yes." Karim nods. "My pharaoh." High Priest Shada enters the room holding an infant. "This is Lady Tea's son." Toshiro and I walk over, smell the baby and growl knowing who the kid's father and mother is. "He doesn't look like Atemu at all." Joey says. "I see hints of Tea, but no Atemu." "He looks like someone I know." Yugi says. "But I can't recall." "The father is Lord Wong." High Priest Aknaudin announces. "They are in custody." "Good." Aknamkanon nods. "We will deal with them tomorrow morning." "Rest time." Ryou sighs as he stands up and turns to Bakura. "When Haniya wakes up, you get her." "No problem." Bakura says as they head to their chambers. "Bed time." Atemu says as Aamir yawns cutely in Yugi's arms. "We'll get Tea later." "Agreed." Yugi sighs and leans onto Atemu, who picks them up. Toshiro and I follow, and they tell us that since we would typically stay in the same room as the couple, Toshiro and I get the room that Yugi slept in, when he was a servant.
Then next morning, we cheerfully meet with our friends in the dining hall. "Someone had a good night." Marik snickers. "We went straight to bed and didn't wake until Aamir did." Atemu glares. "He's just sore because he got nada last night." Malik chuckles as his fiancé glares. "Traitor." Marik grumbles, sending the room into gales of laughter. "And we're happy because Tea is finally going to get what's coming to her." Yugi says with a grin as big as the Nile, bouncing Aamir on his hip. "What gonna happen to her kid anyway?" Joey asks. "We don't know yet." Aknaudin answers. "Oh," Seto suddenly sits up straight. "Father, I completely forgot this last night, but there's someone I want you to meet." "And who is that?" Aknaudin asks with raised eyebrows. "Dad!" Mokuba runs into the room, making Aknaudin stare in shock before recovering. "Mokuba!" Aknaudin's eye fills with tears. "My son!" "After he was kidnapped," Atemu explains, "the slave traders took him to Japan. We found him, okay, Yugi found him in the palace. He had been a servant there for a few years." "He fell asleep before we got home last night." Joey adds. "He went straight to Seto's room for the night." "And now I'm home." Mokuba chirps happily.
"Slow down Joey!" Everyone turns to see Joey glaring at Seto, a piece of bread hanging out of his mouth. "Back off." Joey snaps before shoveling food back into his mouth again. "Whoa." Ryou blinks. "You're never this snappy." "Whatever." Joey shrugs. "Pass me the dates and chicken." "What?" Marik suddenly inches away while Yugi bursts out laughing. "Joey," Yugi chokes out between giggles, "when was the last time you were examined by Isis?" "Three and a half months ago." Joey asks as he looks at his friend with an amused expression. "Why?" "You're craving the same things Yugi did when he was expecting Aamir." Atemu chuckles. "And, as just proven, you're moods are all over the place." "So I'm…" Joey can't even finish his sentence, as Toshiro and I start sniffing him before nodding to everyone. "I'd recommend getting checked," Yugi says as his giggles finally end, "but I do think you're expecting." "Good." Joey grins as big as Yugi had. "I'll go do that after I eat, and then we can go kill Tea."
"Yee-ha!" Joey's shout can be heard all the way down in the throne room, Toshiro's and my ear drums. "Well it's been confirmed." Marik chuckles. "Congrats cousin." Atemu smiles at Seto, who also has a rare, small smile. "Seto!" Joey bursts into the room with an amused Isis behind him. "You're pregnant." Seto says evenly. "How'd you know?" Joey whines and he stops in his tracks. "We heard you all the way down here." Ryou giggles. "You were quiet loud." "Oh." Joey shrugs his shoulders. "I wonder if Gramps heard." "Joey!" Yugi shakes his head. "He's all the way in Japan." "Ya never know." Joey shoots back, and brings chuckles from everyone in the room.
"Anyway," Aknamkanon gathers everyone's attention as we calm down, "let us begin the trial. Bring in the prisoners." The doors open, and Otogi, Honda, and a few other guards, drag the Mazaki and Wong families in. All of them are dirty and look like they have refused the food they have been offered. "Atemu!" Tea cries out when she see the prince. "Help me!" Atemu ignores her as Otogi smacks her. "We told you not to speak unless spoken to." Otogi hisses. "So hold your tongue." "Families of the Mazaki and Wong," Karim reads from a scroll, "you are hereby charged with the conspiracy of impregnating Lady Tea, and passing off the child as Crown Prince Atemu's. You are also charged with attempted murder of the child, shortly after birth." "They what!" multiple voices all scream at the same time. I don't scream, seeing as how it just seems like Tea, if it doesn't happen as planned, kill it so no one would know. "How do you plead?" Karim continues. "Not guilty." Lord Mazaki and Lord Wong both proclaim for their families.
"Have they honestly forgotten what happened to Vivian?" Joey growls in Seto's ear. "They still think their plan will work." Seto whispers back. "But considering the fact that the five month old child looks nothing like my cousin, they will no doubt be found guilty." "Let the evidence be brought forth." Aknamkanon commands. Honda leaves the room and comes back in with the five month old child, who looks at everyone in the room with his blue eyes. "This is the child that was born to Lady Tea." Shada continues. "When we heard that she was in labor we left for the house as quickly as we could. When we arrived, Lord Wong had a sword over the newborn child, ready to kill it because it looked too much like him. Moving quickly, we were able to disarm him and save the child. After, the both families were placed under arrest to wait for trial upon your return." Aknankanon wears a blank face, but even I can tell that he is in outrage mode. There is no way he was going to let these families off the hook. "Are you going to condemn us just by what your priest said?" Lord Mazaki demands. "No." Aknamkanon answers lowly. "You're condemned by the fact the boy looks like you and Lady Tea, who is now striped of her title, as the law states."
"My pharaoh?" Ryou steps forward. "Speak." He orders. "One of my magical abilities is to read the thoughts of others." Ryou states. "If I was to touch them, I would be able to find out the full extent of their plot." "Very well then." Aknamkanon nods. Ryou steps towards Tea, who immediately begins to struggle, but is quickly subdued by Otogi. He places his hand on her forehead and gasps. "Tea became enraged when it was announced that Prince Yugi would marry Prince Atemu at his birthday." Ryou gasps out. "The Wong family wanted revenge for what had happened to their daughter Vivian, so they collaborated together." "He lies!" Lord Wong shouts. "Gag them!"Aknamkanon roars. "I don't want any further interruptions." "Their plan was to get Tea pregnant by Lord Wong and claim that Prince Atemu had slept with her." Ryou continues. "They planned, and hoped, that the baby would look more like her and force Prince Atemu to marry her as the law states. After the marriage, the Wong family would kill Prince Yugi, to compensate for Vivian's death. Once the grieving period was over, Tea would have Atemu all to herself. However, after the baby was born, it was obvious that it bore too much resemblance to Lord Wong, so they needed to kill him and get out of Egypt. But they were thwarted by High Priest Karim and High Priest Shada and thrown in prison."
"My mind has been made up." Aknamkanon stands up. "All of you are hereby sentenced to death for plotting against Egypt and planning to kill a Japanese royal. You will be tied down and fed to the Iriomote Mountain Cats, that Emperor Sugoroku sent back with us from Japan. Take them away." I smirk at the death sentence, the plan that they had come up with, definitely sounds like Tea and I'm glad to see her get what's coming to her. I turn to Aknamkanon and say, "My King, would it be possible for Toshiro to bite each one of them right before they are executed? His venom will make for a short and painful death along with the cats. It won't affect the cats, because Toshiro will make the venom not affect them." Aknamkanon thinks and then nods. "Honestly, how low can you get?" Joey huffs once the doors close. "Very low, apparently." Yugi answers. "Is the baby going to be killed?" Ryou asks timidly. "And what is his name?" "The baby will not be killed for the crimes of his parents." Aknamkanon answers. "I will not condemn an innocent life for simply being born." "And we named him Tamim." Shada adds. "It means strong, which he will have to be to survive this life." "And who will raise him?" Malik asks. "All of us can." Atemu answers. "But who should he look to for parents?" Yugi asks. "How about Honda and I take that role?" Otogi asks. "I can't have children like Yugi and his friends. We were thinking about adopting, and Tamim seems to like Honda." "If you call him trying to pull my hair liking me." Honda shoots back, bringing amused chuckles from the room.
At sunset, everyone gathers to watch the execution of the disgraced families. The Iriomote Cats are snarling and snapping, making several people back away from them, despite they stand roughly the same size as our house cats. "It's a good thing they're hungry." Marik says as he rubs his hand. One of the dark brown furred with dusky or grayish brown, dark spots in dense rows had scratched him with its unretractable claws. The five or seven dark stripes run along their necks stand on end as the condemned families are brought to the pit were they will be thrown into, with teeth marks on their shoulders, from Toshiro, starting to look disgusting and sick. The two white lines that ran from the corners of each eye across the cheeks outline their yellow eyes as their bushy, relatively short, and spotted tails puff out.
"Any last words?" Otogi asks. "Where's the brat?" Lady Wong, Vivian's mother asks. "If you mean Tamim," Otogi glares at the woman, "he's safe in the palace where Honda and I will raise him as our son." "And Prince Yugi is standing with Prince Atemu." Honda adds as he kicks Tea in the back of her legs as she tries to kick him, bringing a smirk to my face. "That short imp should have crawled into a canyon and died." Lord Wong spats, still upset about Vivian's death. "My daughter deserves to be queen." Lord Mazaki seethes. Lady Mazaki and Tea are too frightened by the Iriomotes to say anything. "Push them in." Aknamkanon commands. Raw meats of animals that the Iriomote Cats would normally eat have been tied down to the prisoners. When they have been thrown in, Yugi, Ryou, and Joey turn their head away so they won't see the blood bath they can plainly hear as the Iriomotes tear at the bared flesh, making them quickly leave. I just stand there with Toshiro, and the both of us are smiling wickedly at the blood bath, revenge for us.
"You okay?" Atemu asks a few minutes later as we settle into the lounge. "As I said when Vivian was killed," Yugi gives a weak smile, "I don't stomach large amounts of blood very well." "And being pregnant threw my stomach in for a loop at the sight of the blood." Joey adds as he and Ryou take small sips of water to calm themselves. "Pansy." Marik rolls his eyes. "Would you be saying that to Malik if he was pregnant?" Bakura asks with an amused look. Malik, on the other hand, looks like he will murder his fiancé if he answers wrong. "No comment." Marik quickly raises his hands in surrender. "Smart choice." Aknamkanon chuckles as he walks into the room. "I'm glad that's over with." Yugi sighs as he watches Aamir flip onto his back again. "No more Vivian, No more Tea, we all have lovers, life is great. "We all are." Atemu responds as he uses his foot to gently turn his son onto his stomach again. "Think we can catch a break after all this?" Joey asks. "With you pregnant…" Yugi pauses. "It's not possible." Seto, Mokuba, and everyone finish together. "I feel the love guys." Joey sighs with an eye roll.
Author's notes: Long chapter...-falls asleep in Toshiro's arms-
Toshiro: -smirks- Well at least Tea got what was coming to her. -strokes author's hair- Please review so she can write the last chapter of this story.
