Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Pretending ❯ Chapter 4

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Chapter 4

 

The men had not returned. It had been a week. Akunadin paced in the throne room. Seto watched without a word, though he felt irritated.

“Do you think something happened to them?”

“I hope not. The Sanctuary is just a magical building. Surely there is nothing there that could take out that many men.”

“Just in case, I could send my Spirit Supiera to visit?” Aishizu suggested.

“Yes. That would be wise.”

Aishizu nodded and summoned her Ka monster.

 

When Supiera returned later, she was in one piece, though her eyes were haunted. Aishizu frowned, as she and her Ka beast joined hands and their memories melted together. She opened them with a gasp.

“What did you see?” Karim asked.

“The Sanctuary… is where the Pharaoh was keeping Crown Prince Yami.”

There were several gasps at that. Akunadin felt rage boil inside his mind. So that was where his meddling elder brother had put his precious son!

Well, it was no matter. They would bring the Prince out of the Sanctuary. There would be plenty of time to kill him in court later, so Seto could have the throne.

“Well then we must fetch him at once.”

The rest of the Court nodded, and leaving Aishizu and Karim behind to guard the Palace, they raced out to find the desert's best kept secret. The Sanctuary.

 

They saw the corpses before they got too far in. The men were littered all over the place; bodies reduced to skeletons or desiccated structures. Shadah paled and Seto wondered if they should have brought all the Elected Priests.

What had caused this? A battle?

Akunadin stood before the door to the Sanctuary, Sennen Puzzle in hand. If he really were the Crown Prince in there, he ought to give him the Puzzle. And if not, well, it would allow them to call out extra monsters in the fight that would possibly arise.

The door opened.

 

Crown Prince Yami stood there, dressed in black linen with a red cape fluttering behind him. Gold coiled over his arms and legs, the belt at his waist, the wesk at his throat, and the crown upon his forehead, the Eye of Ra in the center.

That would not have been cause for comment, except that on his chest glittered the Sennen Ring.

So the Pharaoh had sent High Priest Mahaado here as well… he had not abandoned Egypt as they had thought…

 

“Yami! You're safe!” Akunadin said, moving forwards, only to step back suddenly as Yami smiled at him and touched the Sennen Ring. Brilliant light flared, causing them all to shield their eyes.

The shape that formed was one of a humanoid, and the creature summoned floated in front of his Prince, emerald staff in his hands, ready to attack. Dark purple armor swirled in gold; a face framed lavender hair, with slanted eyes smooth silver…

But it was whom the monster looked like that cause them to involuntarily pale.

High Priest Mahaado…!

How - how had this happened? Had some tragic accident befallen them here? Why would Pharaoh lock his son in a Sanctuary of dark magic? None of it made any sense!

 

“Are you here to take me away?” Yami asked, and his voice inflected like a child's, and his eyes were vacant like a child's, and Akunadin realized with a sinking feeling that whatever sickness had plagued the Prince before the war had not been cured.

“Yes.” Seto, never one for being blunt, spoke. “It is time to take you home.”

“Home?” Yami tilted his head at them quizzically. “But home is here. And if you take me away, Mother will kill you.” He inclined his head and the Ka monster that was not Mahaado snapped its staff forwards into attack position.

Seto lost his temper. It had been a long, few days of hard riding in the desert and he'd never had much of a temper to begin with. Now he had to deal with a royal brat! Before Akunadin or Shadah could stop him he had summoned Dios. The creature growled and swung its sword forwards, intending to kill the Ka monster…

Only to freeze as a black circle snapped around it's arms and chest, pinning it.

Yami laughed. “You're so mean. Mother doesn't like you. I don't like you either.” He nodded again and the Ka monster launched a flurry of green energy balls, and Dios writhed under the assault.

Shadah was ready to summon his own monster, but Akunadin stopped him. Seto gave a grunt as he called Dios back, his Ba gauge mostly depleted. He wasn't stupid enough to be suicidal.

Yami looked at them, almost carelessly, before his eyes settled on Shadah. His eyes crinkled in the semblance of a smile. “High Priest Shadah?”

Shadah snapped to attention. “Yes, my Prince?”

“You wouldn't lie to me, right?”

“I would never lie to my Prince.”

Yami nodded. He held out his hand, and Shadah took it. The Ka monster that was not Mahaado closed its eyes and faded away, apparently back into the Prince's heart. It was his Ka, after all.

Yami nodded. “Mother trusts you. I'm ready to leave.”

 

They rode back to the palace without any more conversation, Yami's attention focused on the Sennen Ring. He traced its contours over and over, almost petting it. That was very disturbing.

Aishizu greeted them with a sad smile and Yami gave her an impulsive hug. He nodded at Karim, though Karim noted with unease that the Sennen Scales jangled as the Prince looked at them.

Why?

Surely the Prince was not evil… no, that was not it. The Prince was not evil, simply ill at ease. Why?

It was a question he had no ready answer for.

He wondered if it had something to do with High Priest Mahaado's disappearance. The fact that the Prince held the Sennen Ring had not escaped his notice.

Did that mean that Mahaado was dead? He had been a good friend…

 

Yami quietly followed Shadah to the rooms that had been his. They were still fresh and clean, and Aishizu shook her head as the door closed behind him.

“What's wrong, Aishizu?”

“I do not know. I cannot see… the past of the Sennen Item holders. You know that. I cannot see his future either, and that worries me.”

Akunadin frowned, and looked at the Sennen Puzzle he still held. For a second, he could have sworn it flashed red.

 

End Chapter

Completed 5/5/06

Yes! In manga, it is canon that Aishizu cannot see the future of those who are Sennen Item holders or dead. As Mahaado falls under both categories, and Yami falls under the first, she can't see their past either.