T.D.K- Yes, I know this is late! I'm sorry. The second scene in this chapter was giving me trouble! At least, until I went back and wrote it the way I did. I'm still not happy with it.
Atem- Warning time! –pushes Ty away- This chapter has a T+ rating, which means a not very descriptive lemon. …Wait, can we still call it that?
T.D.K- I'm going to, just to be safe. I own nothing except for my oc, and the designs for the gods' human forms. I own the plot too.
Blue eyes regarded the god in human form warmly. Amused golden eyes gazed back just as warmly. A bit of fatherly pride showed in their depths. Long, black, feathery hair was tamed into a tight, neat braid. The darkly tanned skin pegged the tall, muscled god as one from the Egyptian pantheon. Confidence and power had rolled off the male divine in waves as a silent play of dominance, at least until his 18 year old dinner companion had arrived. The god had calmed his aura. His emotions swelled within him as he took in the demi-goddess.
He stood from his seat. The warrior god had barely suppressed the urge to sweep the young woman up and hold his child tightly. He wasn't sure the gesture would be appreciated, more so after he'd been forced to abandon her. The divine was stunned when the demi-goddess wrapped her arms around him. He sank into the hold.
"Baby Girl." He whispered, his overwhelmed emotions straining his voice. "Megan, I never thought I'd get to see you at all in this life, much less hold my daughter in my arms. You are everything to me."
"Yeah, same here, Dad. I never thought I'd see you outside of my dreams. I was happy that you'd found me. I needed this. My visions are becoming violent and I can't sleep at night because of them. It's always of a battle in the streets of Domino. That's all I remember when I wake up. …God, I scared the daylights out of Atem last night. Dad?" Megan frowned as Horus gazed at her worriedly.
"I do not like what I am hearing. Empress Wong is unbalancing the world by reviving when she should never have. There is no way of knowing what she's doing. She is descended from the Yellow Emperor, and as an Egyptian god, I can't touch her. …How are Atem and Yugi?"
"Good, mostly. Atem hasn't been very well. He's tired and has these debilitating migraine headaches. He was fine today, and I'm seriously hoping he and Yugi are taking advantage of having the house to themselves. Grandpa's out visiting a friend of his that's in town, and I'm going to spend the night at Anzu's."
"Atem's migraines, are they at the most random times and only when he's separated from Yugi for long?" Horus' brow furrowed. He sincerely hoped that they weren't. If so, then the former Pharaoh needed to be brought back to Egypt quickly, before the curse drained his life force. However, the migraines sent a bolt of fear through the hawk god. That curse was even more deadly to gods living as mortals.
"Yeah. What's wrong with him?! How do we make him better!?"
"Empress Wong has used an ancient, but dark curse to drain Atem of his life force. She's using it to feed her own and her powers. There is only one way to free Atem from the curse. He must immediately be taken back to Egypt. Once within the country, he and the three who accompany him will travel to Luxor and meet with a man named Akefia. He's also known as the King of Thieves. He is the god Apep in human form. He's looking for Ra, but he'll help.
"You and Yugi cannot go with Atem. Yugi has to find the physical entrance to the Divine Realm, and his three warriors must go with him. Megan, my eagle, you have to stay here. I must confess that you were once a full blooded goddess. Your name was Bennu. In the time before and during the Old Kingdom, you were the 'Bird of Ra'. As Bennu, you were so fierce a warrior, that even Sekhmet and Bastet were afraid of your wrath. You need to protect Domino and at least slow Wong from following Yugi." Horus closed his eyes. He wished none of this had happened. The hawk god would have preferred to let his daughter remember her true name on her own, but she needed the power the Ren would provide.
His golden eyes reopened. Across from him, the demi-goddess leaned back in the chair. Her posture had transformed from a teen to a warrior preparing for battle. By speaking her true name, the divine had awoken the power sleeping in Megan. Horus sighed, but nodded to himself. He was going to need his wife for this, if he was to take his own child under his wing.
"Atem, Baby, you alright?" I hum in reply, bliss filling my veins. I am far too happy, and content, and warm, and gooey to properly reply. I curl into Yugi's side after he falls to the bed beside me. He smiles lazily at me, wrapping his arms around me. My body aches in places I had never thought would host such wonderful pains again. Pale fingers push my sweat dampened hair back. "I need a yes or no. I need to know I didn't hurt you."
"No, I am fine. You would never hurt me, Yugi. Meri-I, I am so happy to be one with you again. I was afraid you would not make love to me because of my recent headaches and tiredness. Thank you for choosing me again, and allowing me to be your first and only once more." I nuzzle into his shoulder, smiling in bliss. He is as I remember his bare form, toned but not overly so. Every inch of skin is deceptively delicate, and somehow masculine at the same time. I trace over muscles I recently had the most perfect view of in action.
"Baby, I love you. I've been ready for us to be intimate again for a month or two. So, could we go again while you're not yet feeling sore? I just want to take advantage of having the house to ourselves tonight. Who knows when we'll have alone time like this." A wicked grin stretches my lips. I remember times when we would spend the entire night in each other's arms like this.
"Of course. Tonight, I am your bride, and will allow you to do what you will to me." A whispered request has my arousal rising in my blood once more. My legs part, as Yugi slides between them. His fingertips play over my skin, drawing noises of pleasure from me as if I am his instrument and he my musician. Lips join the dance of fingers and draw me more into Yugi's sensual touches. I open my eyes to meet his, irises darkened to almost black with his lust. I sigh as my lover draws back.
"Flip over, Atem. I gotta prep you." I do not want to lose eye contact with him. I lift my hips, whimpering. "Alright. Shh." Paler fingers run over my hip, soothing the skin stretched over it. My eyes fall shut again, not even opening as a chilly, slick finger worms into my body again. My form vibrates with the deep hum that escapes me. "Oh, gods, why don't you tense? Never mind."
"Yugi, little to my left, and really hard." I arch off the bed and up into him as he complies. "Oh, yes! Right there!" My breathing devolves into panting the longer my lover drives his fingers into me. I let out a whine as he pulls away. "Meri-I, please I need you; need to be one with you again."
"I know. Just give me time to get ready on my end, OK?" I throw my head back in pleasure as Yugi slides into me. The bliss of our coupling washes over me. Why did I allow him to take me so little in our last life? Had it been this pleasurable to submit to my one and only? Our bodies rock, meeting and parting in a rhythm Yugi allows me to dictate. It only lasts until my hips are roughly grabbed, and my lover draws back enough to be almost completely withdrawn from me. I am shifted roughly and Yugi hits my center with a wild, hard, thrust. "Baby, let me handle it from here. Just ride it out."
Another wild thrust sends me spiraling into completion with vision stealing strength. I pant as I come back from heaven, my lover finding his completion not long after. I feel as if I was on the crux of seeing something so familiar, yet foreign at the same time. I wonder if we were to merge again, would I see more than white light? Yugi's gentle kisses to my jaw bring me back to him. We lay, exhausted and entwined, for a while.
"Do not move, please. I want to stay connected like this until morning."
"Alright." Yugi sleepily murmurs. "Sleep, Baby. We'll have a nice hot bath for two in the morning." I surrender to sleep as I listen to my lover's even breath.
"That has got to be the proudest sex limp I have ever seen." Megan said as Yugi slowly hobble-strutted into the kitchen. Solomon frowned, but all things considered, he wasn't surprised. At least he knew it wasn't some fumbling idiot, who would probably leave a broken heart behind. Atem followed, his gait stronger, and limp slightly more pronounced. The oldest Moutu sighed. This is what he got for leaving his eldest grandchild with the former Pharaoh he loved. "I take that back. That is the proudest sex limp I've ever seen."
"Meg, how was your dinner?" Yugi asked quickly as he forced Atem into one of the padded chairs. A stern glance made the former mummy stay seated. "Who was it that invited you?"
"It was Dad. He's still living his human life. I look nothing like him, but he said I look more like Mom. So get this. My mom's Smenkare, the vulture goddess. Also found out what's going on with you, 'Tem. Dad said Wong put a very bad curse on you. It's sucking your life force and feeding it to her. The only way to remove it other than putting the beat down on Wong, is to get you to Luxor. Apep's there in human form, looking for a god that's been missing for a while.
"Anyway, Apep goes by the name Akefia. The bad news is that Yugi and I can't go with you. Big Bro, you gotta find the portal between the Mortal and Divine Realms. I'm the diversion to slow Wong in following you. Dad's staying in town, and Mom's got special permission to come and help us. They're going to help me here, and Mom's going to train me up. I had a dream about how we should split up. Anzu, Ryou, and Marik should go with you, Atem. Joey, Honda, and Mai are who I dreamt you were with."
"I don't like leaving you and Grandpa alone." Yugi spoke as he slid a plate before Atem and another on the table before his seat. "Why do you have to be the one to stay behind and slow Wong down?"
"Dad said my true name, the name imprinted on my soul, was Bennu. Bennu means 'eagle' and there was a minor warrior goddess who had gotten shredded. What was left of her became part of my soul." Atem's eyes widened. He remembered his mother tucking him in to stories of the Ra's mighty eagle. He remembered the tales of heroes trained for greatness. He remembered the myths of the bird's great battles. A tear slid down his face as he recalled the story of the goddess's final battle. Solomon smiled. He could see the connection, having once seen a mural of the warrior divine. "I was wondering if you would call me that from now on. It feels right, and I want that name back."
"Alright, Ben-Ben." Yugi replied. "We better start getting ready for this then. I'll text everyone to meet here later, if that's OK, Grandpa?" The oldest Moutu nodded. "Good. Should give us enough time to relax, before racing off into the unknown. Ok, slightly unknown." He modified at his sister's look. He knew better than to disobey that look, and that took attention away from the earlier part of his comment. The teen didn't need his grandfather knowing his relaxing time contained a shared bath with Atem, and practically cuddling each other to death.
Megan sighed as she looked at her motley assortment of legal family. Even though Horus had asked her to return to her home with him before she'd left, she wasn't leaving these three men. They needed her in their own ways. Solomon needed a woman to guilt trip Yugi into the shop every now and then. Yugi needed her to tease and be teased by in return. Atem just needed the people he cared for to need him. She smiled, knowing it would take more than some ancient Chinese empress to break this family up.
Horus leaned up against a wall in an alley near the Kame Game shop. A tall, elfin like woman was at his side. She had feathery dark brown hair, dusky sand colored skin, and dark Nile blue eyes. Tiny bones along with feathers of dark brown and black, and beads of neutral colors were woven into her hair. She wore a plain black tank top, and form fitting black leather pants. On her waist a Khopesh blade was sheathed. It was a special blade, made of golden metal that glowed like rusted metal in the light, which could kill any divine.
"Our daughter lives within that building?" She asked. The goddess wrapped her arms around Horus' waist, propping her chin on his shoulder. Her dark blues gazed at him warmly and lovingly. She often forgot how handsome her hawk could be in a mortal shell.
"Yes. Pharaoh Atem is with her, as is his beloved." He replied, turning slit amber to Smenkare. The vulture divine nuzzled into him. She was glad that both he and her baby eagle were as safe as they could be given the circumstance.
"Let us leave them be, for now. It has been some time since we last had a chance like this." The pair of bird divines smiled at each other. They left the alley arm in arm, Smenkare's head on Horus' shoulder. The pair appeared to all as the typical in love couple. Within the game shop, hawk sharp blue eyes watched them go, a soft smile on their owner's face.
T.D.K- Oh, look, I tied Apep into this! And his human form is one of my favorite thief kings! Go me! Who was wondering how I'd tie that in? Well, I did, and there's more! –puts hand up as Akefia walks in holding a sign of spoilers- Bad Ake! No one wants spoilers! –manages to shoo him out-
Alright, here's the who's who and what's what of the chapter.
Bennu- Ancient Egyptian female name meaning 'Eagle'; Megan's true name/ name of an oc minor goddess known as the 'Bird of Ra', or the first guardian of Ra's boat as it made its journey in Duat at night. Succeeded by Sekhmet and later by Bastet.
Duat- Basically the Ancient Egyptian version of Hell, holding place of Apep, the serpent of chaos.
Horus- Egyptian god of Pharaohs, Megan's father, married to Smenkare in story, animal is the hawk
Smenkare- Egyptian goddess who protected the Pharaohs, Megan's mother, married to Horus in story, animal is the vulture.
Atem- You have a dead line for the next chapter. Wouldn't hurt to start it after a nice long eight hours of sleep. Preferably cuddled to me, as Yugi's gone and I need someone to cuddle with.
T.D.K- Excuse Atem, he hasn't slept well lately. So, you all know what to do, and should there be ANY questions, please PM me. I'll answer if the answer isn't a spoiler!