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puzzleshounen["When Osiris's Chosen Falls without Ascending, the World will Go Into Darkness."
That was what they said.
It was an old saying in the court, often whispered amongst the old and the wizened and those with enough time in the world to remember where it came from, or to see more than one coronation and the usually cruel aftermath.
Most knew better than to forget it, but over time, the saying fell into dusty old papyri and was dismissed as the speech of old codgers who did little more than whittle their lives away reading instead of looking towards the future of the realm.
You see, it was said that Osiris's chosen would be found by a mark on his back. A birthmark, shaped like a great dragon in flight.
In the early dynasties, the son -- or in one case, the daughter -- who would ascend the throne had the symbol on their back, wings spread wide. The court knew better than to deny them this right, and would give them the throne with little fight, regardless of any political intrigue that may erupt from it.
By the time Akhamkhanon's other son was born -- born of a concubine, a woman not nearly as beloved or as politically powerful as the Head Wife -- it was all but forgotten. When the little boy Ihehy ("Jubilation") was born, he was cast out immediately. His back (and mark) was burned, but somehow he survived, taken in by a poor family with little more than a cartouche bearing his name around his neck.
Ihehy grew up poor, but happy...but all had to end eventually. When he was fifteen years old, his family was slaughtered by a group of men who decided to try to sell the boy into slavery. His anger burst out of him in the form of a dragon with black scales and red orbs, and promptly left the men as little more than ash.
It was then when he met his Itja ("Thief").
Bakura was his real name.
The young boy covered in ash and blood with a destructive power beyond his means fascinated the man; he could be useful in his quest to take down the pharaoh of Egypt. He took him under his wing, and the two bonded.
...
They fell in love.
Ihehy was too kind, his Itja too greedy: neither wanted to let each other go, and even when things seemed impossible, they stayed by the other's side.
Except it was not to be.
Ihehy was caught in an attempt to protect Bakura. He battled the Priest Set, and while he did defeat him, he was too weak to continue, and was taken into custody. As his lover watched in horror, Ihehy was butchered, his blood stained the sands, and his broken body was seared into Itja's memory.
Zorc Necrophades hoped this would happen.
"You will never get him back," he whispered. "His Soul and Body are rent and no longer in this world. Ihehy was precious, wasn't he? If he isn't there, what's the point of existence? What's the point of Anything? I can reunite you, though. I can reunite you in the Pits of Oblivion."
His words held true, and Itja willingly summoned the demon into the world.
Bakura's soul was sealed alongside -- intertwined, mingled with, the same but not -- with Zorc's in the Millennium Ring, certain that Ihehy had faced the Darkness.
Millennia passed.
Little Yuugi Mutou grabbed onto the Millennium Puzzle and solved it on his own, becoming the vessel for his elder brother.
And time would repeat itself, as the two souls were soon to meet again for the first time.
After all, a new boy named Ryou Bakura was set to be transferred into their class after having moved from another town...]
That was what they said.
It was an old saying in the court, often whispered amongst the old and the wizened and those with enough time in the world to remember where it came from, or to see more than one coronation and the usually cruel aftermath.
Most knew better than to forget it, but over time, the saying fell into dusty old papyri and was dismissed as the speech of old codgers who did little more than whittle their lives away reading instead of looking towards the future of the realm.
You see, it was said that Osiris's chosen would be found by a mark on his back. A birthmark, shaped like a great dragon in flight.
In the early dynasties, the son -- or in one case, the daughter -- who would ascend the throne had the symbol on their back, wings spread wide. The court knew better than to deny them this right, and would give them the throne with little fight, regardless of any political intrigue that may erupt from it.
By the time Akhamkhanon's other son was born -- born of a concubine, a woman not nearly as beloved or as politically powerful as the Head Wife -- it was all but forgotten. When the little boy Ihehy ("Jubilation") was born, he was cast out immediately. His back (and mark) was burned, but somehow he survived, taken in by a poor family with little more than a cartouche bearing his name around his neck.
Ihehy grew up poor, but happy...but all had to end eventually. When he was fifteen years old, his family was slaughtered by a group of men who decided to try to sell the boy into slavery. His anger burst out of him in the form of a dragon with black scales and red orbs, and promptly left the men as little more than ash.
It was then when he met his Itja ("Thief").
Bakura was his real name.
The young boy covered in ash and blood with a destructive power beyond his means fascinated the man; he could be useful in his quest to take down the pharaoh of Egypt. He took him under his wing, and the two bonded.
...
They fell in love.
Ihehy was too kind, his Itja too greedy: neither wanted to let each other go, and even when things seemed impossible, they stayed by the other's side.
Except it was not to be.
Ihehy was caught in an attempt to protect Bakura. He battled the Priest Set, and while he did defeat him, he was too weak to continue, and was taken into custody. As his lover watched in horror, Ihehy was butchered, his blood stained the sands, and his broken body was seared into Itja's memory.
Zorc Necrophades hoped this would happen.
"You will never get him back," he whispered. "His Soul and Body are rent and no longer in this world. Ihehy was precious, wasn't he? If he isn't there, what's the point of existence? What's the point of Anything? I can reunite you, though. I can reunite you in the Pits of Oblivion."
His words held true, and Itja willingly summoned the demon into the world.
Bakura's soul was sealed alongside -- intertwined, mingled with, the same but not -- with Zorc's in the Millennium Ring, certain that Ihehy had faced the Darkness.
Millennia passed.
Little Yuugi Mutou grabbed onto the Millennium Puzzle and solved it on his own, becoming the vessel for his elder brother.
And time would repeat itself, as the two souls were soon to meet again for the first time.
After all, a new boy named Ryou Bakura was set to be transferred into their class after having moved from another town...]
