Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Millennia Sands ❯ A. Discoveries ( Chapter 1 )

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A. DISCOVERIES

The sun was blaring above them, making sure all the desert wanderers knew it was noon. A camp of tents circled around the site could have made an onlooker think they were a merchant tribe... except for the nicely dressed asian men standing around a sand covered object in the ground.

These men had stumbled upon the find of a lifetime...

The stone door was shadowed by their shadows as heiroglypics were engraved upon the smooth, unweathered surface with the Eye of Ra glaring up at the heavens to mark where a Child of the Gods may now rest. The Eye was glaring at those who wished to disturb what it was put there to guard.

Solomon Motou ran his fingers over the stone, his fingertips barely touching the ancient markings as he stared at them in awe. The center circle had seven objects carved around the circle, the Eye in the center, heiroglypics surrounding each item in a smaller circle, and then seven markings that could have been names. "Amazing." Kage Bakura whispered as he looked it over and started to mark down things in his well worn leather bound notebook for further reference.

They had just found the find of a century! An undiscovered Pharaoh from a time that was forgotten... forgotten to everyone and shunned by the predecessors to the Throne of Khemet- the Throne of Ancient Egypt.

Professor Arthur Hawkins stood above them with a smile on his face. "Well, my friends, shall we have the door removed and enter the tomb tonight or leave it for when the press start their stampede and remove many things we could possibly study?" he asked with his hands on his hips.

"We go in now." Kage stated as they stood up. "The press will annoy the hell out of us."

"They will also press for everything to be photographed and want to touch it and ask idiotic questions." Solomon stated as they agreed.

"Open it!" Hawkins stated as they backed away for the workers to remove it... instead they fell to their knees around the door and bowed their heads. "Why are you not removing the door?" the old man snapped as the leader frowned upon him.

"The door is sacred, kind sir." he stated with a polite bow. "It says ‘This is where the Guardian of the Dark Pharaoh lies till awakened’ and the men respect those marked down by the Dark Pharaoh."

"Who?" Solomon asked curiously, interrupting a yelling match that was about to start.

"He saved the world from a corrupt game, saved it at the expense of his own life and those that helped him." he stated seriously as Arthur huffed and Kage was out of reach, to far into his notes. "Those who disturb this tomb may not live to tell the tale."

"Bah! Curses and such hookey." Arthur stated, gaining a glare from Solomon and the guide.

"No curses, sir, a guardian creature that sleeps within guards something of great power and yet a great burden." his guide protested in fear. "A creature that sleeps and does not wish to be awakened but by his master!"

"Bah! Hogwash."

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The darkness of the tomb was still held as was the silence. A groan was heard in the room as movement soon followed, but nothing big. Footsteps soon followed before the tourches in the closed room were lit, spreading light upon the heiroglyphic covered walls and columns. In the center of the room a golden sarcofagus sat surrounded by nothing but the carved walls and magically lit torches.

"Impatient mortals." he muttered coldly as his blue eyes narrowed in anger. "Hoping to find something to sell."

He felt the pent up anger after the terrible troubles in the now past...

His grandchildren, lover, friends, family... gone due to jealousy.

"Well then, I shall give them what they want..." he stated with a sadistic grin as he waited for them to remove the door and enter his domain.

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As the sunset and the lights were on, shinning brightly upon the stone and the workers, but the desert didn’t warm the area. The shadows kept it cold, but not enough for the people to shiver. The heavy shadows was reminding them of what they were doing and what they were getting involved in.

Minutes later the door had been removed as the imposing darkness welcomed them, many of the workers drawing back and muttered their prayers and asked for mercy upon them for what they allowed to happen. Hawkins rolled his eyes and pulled out his flashlight as the other two followed, intellectual curiousity driving them more then the prospect of gold and riches.

As the enterance started to blend with the corridor, the group came upon the torch lit room.

"Welcome, mortals, to the resting place of the Guardian." a voice stated as the three jumped like an caffine hyped cat and turned to face the turban man with blue eyes. "Here lies the death of all those that seek the few things that taint ones soul, or the knowledge of the past so it may not happen again."

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