We arrived at the stables and I felt Yugi tug on my tunic so I looked down at him
"Yes?"
"Papa do we have to go on orses?"
"Unfortunately yes."
"But you had no orse when found me."
"Well I really didn`t want to be noticed with guards, but today while I`m out with you I thought I could check the kingdom as well."
"What for?"
"Well to make sure the people are behaving, and not being mean to others."
"Bad People, like the man who had me?"
"Exactly, I won`t let that happen again." I nuzzled my face into his hair making him giggle before I pulled away. I walked towards my horse and set Yugi on its back before walking over to pick up my saddle and walking back over to Yugi who was looking to his left with a concentrated look on his face and I chuckled making him look at me
"Is something wrong Yugi?"
"Who that?" he pointed to his left and at a figure curled up in corner shaking
"I don`t know, come on let`s go see." Yugi nodded and jumped onto my shoulder before I pulled the saddle on the horse and fastened it properly and stroking the horses neck
"I`ll be right back Heba, then we can go." The horse nodded and nuzzled my head in response before I walked over to the figure with Yugi still on my shoulder. As I approached I noticed he looked more and more like Marik. I stopped right in front of him causing him to snap his head up at me
"P-Pharaoh I-I`m s-so s-sorry, I`ll g-get back to work r-right away." He started to get up when Yugi jumped down from my shoulder and walked over to the boy and placing a hand on his stomach stopping him in his tracks
"No move, you hurt." Yugi said
"N-no I`m fine, please let me get back to work."
"It okay, Me no hurt, me only help, Papa no hurt you."
"Papa?" Yugi pointed up at me
"Papa, he no hurt you, let me help pwease?" I knelt down to their level causing the figure to jumped and back away only to come in contact with a wall and cry out in pain
"Me said no move!" Yugi yelled and I chuckled before looking at the figure again
"What`s your name?"
"M-Malik." He answered
"Are you a Neko?"
"H-how did-"
"I can understand the Neko language that`s how I knew."
"How can you understand the Language My Pharaoh?"
"There are other Neko`s in the Palace and I have a spell on me that allows me to understand Neko`s and their language."
"Other Neko`s live here?"
"Yes, one on them happens to be Yugi`s older Brother."
"Jono!" Yugi called out and I chuckled
"Pharaoh I`m really sorry, for not-"
"Calm down, you`re hurt, you don`t need to apologise, I`m not going to make you work if you`ve been hurt."
"You`re not?"
"No, I won`t who told you otherwise?"
"The Head of the stable, I was doing something for one of your Priest and I arrived here late so I was punished by the Head and he told me if you found me slacking off you would make we work twice as hard."
"Well that`s not true, and was the Priest by any chance Marik?"
"Um, yes it was, how did you know?"
"Just a theory, would you let Yugi heal you please? Then I can deal with the head of the stable, but first how would you feel about becoming a personal servant?"
"I don`t know, wait I thought you already had one."
"I do, I wasn`t meaning for me."
"Well I guess it`s better than being beaten every day."
"You hurt every day?" Yugi asked, Malik nodded and my Anger levels rose
"Yugi heal Malik I have someone I need to deal with, once you are done stay here, don`t move until I come back got it?" Yugi nodded and started to heal Malik while I stood up and walked off to find the head of the stable. It didn`t take me long cause I found him talking to some guards and I approached causing the guards to stiffen
"And then he lied to me saying that one of the Priests had asked him to do something, I mean who would ask that slave to do anything, he`s a freak-"
"And you would know he was lying how?" he spun around with his eye wide
"Well, he is an untrustworthy slave." He replied
"Did you check with the Priest to see if he was lying?"
"No."
"Then how do you know he was?"
"Pharaoh." I heard Seth say, I turned around to see Seth with a confused look on his face
"Seth, is something wrong?"
"No I just thought you had left already."
"We were about to leave when we came across Malik."
"Marik`s obsession?"
"Yes, Yugi and I found out he`s also a Neko, and this idiot-"I pointed to the head of the stable"- decided to punish him for being late without even checking his story first."
"And his story was?"
"Marik had asked Malik to do something this morning, and he arrived here late and got beaten by him." I pointed to the head again
"Well, I came by to give them your new law."
"What new law?" the stable head asked and I smirked
"The one that stated that no-one is allowed to harm a Neko in any way; if they do there will be punishment." Seth explained. The head paled
"And Since Malik is a Neko, and you beat him I believe it is time for your punishment." The guards he was taking to him before grabbed his arms
"Wait I didn`t know he was a Neko."
"Neko`s are very good at hiding, but never the less you should have checked his story first."
"Pharaoh what do you want us to do with him?" One of the guards asked
"Put him in the dungeon for now, I have other things to do." Both Guards nodded ad dragged him away
"Atem."
"Yes Seth?"
"Where`s Yugi?"
"Healing Malik, come on I`m surprised you didn`t see them when you walked past."
"Actually I came out of that door over there." He pointed to a door that lead straight to the hallways of the Palace
"Ah, now I get why you didn`t see them." We walked back to where Yugi was
"Thank you Yugi." I heard Malik say
"You`re welcome, me glad help." Yugi replied as I approached his ear twitched before he looked over at us and smiled
"Papa, Uncle Sef!" He ran over and I scooped him into my arms
"Hey little one, I wasn`t gone that long."
"Me still miss you." I chuckled and looked over at Malik to see him stood up
"Are you Malik?" Seth asked
"Y-yes." He replied
"Come with me I`ll take you to Marik, he`s been looking for you." Malik nodded and followed Seth as he left the room
"Papa we go now?" I looked down at Yugi and smiled
"Yes we can go now." I walked beck over to Heba and set Yugi on his back again before I walked over to grab a set of reigns and walked back over to the pair and Pulling them onto Heba and making sure they are secure before climbing onto Heba back and making sure Yugi was safe for incidents before pulling out of the stable and walking towards a group of Guards