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Prologue: The Origin of the Curse
In ancient times, it was a time, when the pyramids were still young and Thebes was thriving with prosperity and people were playing with dogs or doing their jobs in the markets. A chariot raced down and as the chariot was passing by a guard knelt down and placed the tip of their spear down as a sign of respect. Within the chariot was a man in his early forties with brown hair and purple eyes garbed in clothes suited for a pharaoh. Thebes was also crowned jewel of Aknamkanon the First.
Within the palace a man with dark skin, white hair and purple eyes who was dressed in red and white robes and he was staring sternly at the sight below him.
It was the home of Bakura, Pharaoh's high priest, Keeper of the Dead.
Birthplace of Prince Atemu the Pharaoh' son. Heir to the Egyptian throne.
A young boy with spiky tri colored hair and purple/red eyes dressed in clothes for an Egyptian prince was with his two sisters Kisara and Aria.
The girls almost looked identical and were dressed in robes of princesses, but Kisara was a girl with snow white hair that had hints of baby blue and sapphire blue eyes and she was as pale as a ghost. Her sister on the other hand was pale, but had black hair and flaming red eyes.
Atemu asked, "What's taking father so long?"
Kisara answered, "I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing. I don't trust Bakura with that whore who's going to be our stepmother."
Aria agreed, "I hate the idea of that. No other man is allowed to touch the pharaoh concubine."
Kisara heard some horses whinny and she cried, "Looks like father's back, you might want to tell Max about that. Hopefully that Bakura didn't touch her otherwise he'll be a scarab's appetizer. Though in all honesty, my Dragon would have electrocuted the bastard."
And birthplace of Maxina, Pharaoh's Mistress, no other man was allowed to touch her.
A girl with raven hair and cobalt blue eyes walked along statues that turned out to be men in disguise as they closed the doors dressed in clothes that gave a shining look to her. Her pace became slow and they shared a kiss with one another.
But for their love they were willing to risk life itself.
The doors opened and it was Prince Atemu who looked around as he saw the priests bowing in penitence.
He asked, "What are you doing here?"
He ignored them as they were shutting the doors again and saw Menhit leaning against a cat statue as if hiding something.
He saw the smudge and asked sternly, "Who has touched you?!"
Maxina's expressions changed from one of fear to relief as Bakura unsheathed a sword, Atemu turned to see the drawn sword.
He asked, "Bakura? Father's-?"
He yelled in pain as he felt a piercing in his back as blood was seeping from the stab wound. He turned to Max who was removing the sword from his back
He cried, "FATHER!"
He felt a sharp pain going across him as Bakura slashed the young man in his ribcage causing the teenage boy to collapse on his knees as they were about to deliver the final blow, a bang on the doors interrupted the two. The banging was the Pharaoh's bodyguards and the pharaoh himself and they were banging on the door to find out who was yelling in pain.
Max cried, "Go! Save yourself!"
Bakura retorted, "No."
Max stated, "Only you can resurrect me."
The priests dragged the protesting Bakura as the bodyguards and the royals barged in ready to take the traitor into custody.
Bakura made his vow, "I will resurrect you."
The bodyguards, pharaoh and the sisters stared in shock as Atemu was found bleeding to death and he turned to Max. The pharaoh felt very upset and became ill from the guilt that was torturing him and he had to be carried into his chambers while his daughter, Aria the eldest positioned herself as queen for the time being.
Maxina stated coldly as she took the murder weapon with the intent to plunge it into her heart, "My body is no longer his temple!"
She drove the knife into her heart. Bakura stared in sorrow as he saw the woman he loved dead and he knew he had to resurrect her as vowed.
Later that night, Bakura and his priests broke into the crypts of the two and stole the bodies. They raced into the desert with horsewhips snapping the speed to pick up; they took the corpses to Hamunaptra the city of the dead. It was an ancient burial site of the sons of pharaohs as well as the resting place for the wealth of Egypt.
For his love, Bakura challenged the gods' anger by venturing deeper into the city where he took a black tome like item that was known as the Book of the Dead from its resting place as it was considered sacrilegious to use the book to resurrect someone as it would upset a balance of life and death.
Both bodies were placed on a sacrificial table side by side, cleaned up and prepared for burial, but curiously Atemu was wearing a pendant that was an upside down pyramid at the time no one would imagine what power it had and five canopic jars for each of them were set beside them. Their vital organs were removed and placed in canopic jars to preserve them for the afterlife.
Bakura began the ritual by starting with Atemu as he had never performed a resurrection of such great magnitude. He wanted to make sure that he had done it right. He recited the spell as his priests chanted in Ancient Egyptian. Out from a dark pool was an apparition as it flew over to its body. As the chants intensified and became faster, the apparition slowly merged into its host.
Atemu gasped as he hunched over to his side on the table and coughed as his soul came back from the dead. Bakura proceeded to Maxina and just as he was about to stab her to place her organs back, the Pharaoh's bodyguards accompanied by Queen Aria followed Bakura and stopped him before the ritual on his lover would be complete.
Atemu's soul emerged from the body and it entered into the Millennium Pendant. The queen Aria watching her brother dying in front of her, but she took the pendant for safekeeping and in a fit of rage, she smashed the canopic jar that contained Maxina's heart. Maxina's soul emerged from the body and shrieked as it returned to the dark pool of souls.
Bakura cried out in anguish as he failed to resurrect his lover and he watched on in sorrow as his lover was getting wrapped in fine bandages and was entombed, "NOOOO! Maxina!"
Chamber of Embalment
Screams and groans of agony and the sound of organs being removed filled the chamber it was clear that Aria brought torturers, but this was different, Bakura's priests were not being tortured, they were condemned to be mummified alive and to become Fiend type monsters as their bodies began to slowly morph into fiendish monstrous creatures with nothing to bring them comfort or to ease their pain as it was their punishment for being accomplices in crime.
Bakura however was condemned to endure the Hom-Dai, the worst of all Ancient Egyptian curses. It was considered by the Egyptians so horrible that it was never bestowed before.
Bakura's mouth was pried open and his eyes widened as Aria pulled out his tongue with tongs and the priest screamed in agony and his tongue was chopped off and threw it into the sand causing a jackal to eat it. They wrapped him in bandages and placed him in a sarcophagus.
An embalmer carried jar of very hungry scarabs and poured it in the sarcophagus causing the unfortunate soul to scream in pain and the guards sealed the sarcophagus with haste. Aria used the Millennium Ring that she recovered moments earlier and she placed it on the center of the coffin and the coffin locked like a key and she had the guards seal the sarcophagus in another one to make doubly sure he would not escape.
Afterwards, Aria looked at the pendant and she started to see Atemu and in a fit of sorrow and anger from the recent events of the loss of her brother she smashed the pendant and it broke into pieces so no one would gain access to the tomb. Aria ordered the guards to erase every single record of the city's existence and to kill anyone that sets foot in the city.
Then she had Bakura to be buried beneath the statue of Anubis and the body guards were ordered to never allow Bakura to be released as he would rise a walking disease, a plague on humanity with powers of the sands and invincibility.
Author's Notes: I'd like to give a special thanks for MillenniumPrincess for permission to utilize two characters: Freya and Max in the next chapter we'll meet our heroes. Though I changed Freya's name to Aria to avoid confusion with another character who bear's the name Freya from the 2018 God of War.