Value Part Three
****A Mummies Alive/Yugioh Crossover****

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"Guys, can't we ditch the whole guardian thing? I'm a teenager now!" Presley Carnovan complained, nestled in the middle of four mummies as the Hot Ra sped down the streets of San Francisco.
"All the more reason to keep up our constant vigilance." Ja-Kal replied, unfazed by his prince's complaints. "Teenagers are prone to trouble."
"You watch too much TV, I'm not stupid, I can handle myself."
"So speaks the pharaoh that almost got beaten up in gym class last week..." Nefer-Tina chuckled, turning a sharp corner and forgetting to stop at the red light. "Darn, oh well..I'll get the next one."
Presley sighed at the futile attempt of independence, turning his gaze out the window. His eyes widened when they sped past one seemingly normal street..except for the events occurring on it. "Nefer-Tina, stop the Hot Ra!"
"What for?"
"There's some shabtis attacking this kid!" Presley explained and that was all the mummies needed. Nefer-Tina yanked the wheel around, spinning the car to face the opposite direction. "That street...right there!" Presley pointed at the scene when the car came to a stop. A young boy completely surrounded by an army of shabtis.
"Stay here." Ja-Kal ordered his prince, letting Khati keep him safe as the mummies abandoned the car all at once.
"Let's kick some tut!" Armon shouted as his battle cry. The others grinned at the encouragement and grasped their amulets, calling upon their powers. "With the strength of Ra!"
Presley watched them transform in sharp bursts of light, absently petting Khati. "King Tut wasn't born until two thousand years after we all died...oh well, no sense in arguing." He murmured to himself.
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~Mental note...stone HURTS!~ Yami scowled darkly at the surrounding creatures and backed up another step. One moment he had been walking around trying to locate the wild-colored car and the next he found himself lost and surrounded by creatures. Stone creatures... He rubbed his left hand, still hurting from the one try he had at throwing a punch. His games of darkness did not work as these creatures had no minds...therefore, he had no way of protecting himself.
One of the shabtis managed to grab his arm and the Game King struggled, but knew he could not beat this being by brute force...then the shabti shattered right in front of him. He gasped and fell from the weight of the hand still gripping his arm. All he saw was gold for a moment as the hand was removed...and the Game King found himself staring at a god. The amulet was of the ram. An animal god. The god smiled at him before moving off to battle the rest of the stone beings with three other gods.
They were fighting over him!
Yami scrambled to his feet and moved away from the battle scene. Stone beings were one annoyance...but when gods entered the scene he knew he was in trouble. Trapped on all sides Yami ran to an alley only to find it a dead end, but at least there was a ladder. Glad that when he manifested his body was taller than Yugi's, Yami jumped up and climbed up the bottom rung just barely getting out of the reach of a shabti. Yami just kept going up the building with shabtis following him.
Rath frowned when he caught a look at the golden amulet hanging from the boy's neck that they were trying to rescue. "Something strange going on here...we need to get that child!"
"I think that's why he's running in the first place!" Nefer-Tina snapped from where she had shattered five shabti's with her whip.
"Nonsense, we are not hostile at all!" Rath stated, slicing through a stone warrior.
Ja-Kal took in the scene around him. The other three were handling the shabti's on the ground just fine, but numbers were adding up on them fast. It was time to leave. Activating his wings, the leader of the mummies jumped into the air to follow the chase up the building, but whenever he got close to the boy he would just run up more of the ladder or the shabti's would attack him. "We're not going to hurt you!" He called out, hoping he could get through to the child before he tired and the shabti's caught him.
Yami finally got to the roof and had nowhere else to run to. Trapped. The eagle god circled nearby and the stone warriors were closing in on him. The Game King grasped his puzzle tightly. "I'm sorry aibou..."
Ja-Kal reached out towards Yami. "I promise we'll get you to safety, but you have to trust me! Jump!"
Yami stared at the eagle god, then glanced back at the shabti's before running to the edge of the building and leaping into the eagle god's arms, grasping tightly. He could at least plead for his freedom with a being that had a mind...but gods were fickle. When he felt the eagle god's arms close about him, then fly off he felt an odd sense of relief. This eagle god couldn't be too bad...after all, he defeated all the others to get to him.
When they landed he was startled to find the other three gods run towards them and cringed in the eagle god's arms. Another fight, between gods now!
No fighting came though. Only running and the sudden safety of a car. Yami stared as he was carried inside just in time for the car to go speeding off down the streets. He blinked, swallowed and tried to get his thoughts together. This was the car he was chasing... The eagle god glanced at him and Yami could only stare with a look of confusion.
"You're safe now." The eagle god released him, sitting him down next to another boy before the golden armor of the god vanished. It was one of the people he had seen on the bridge.
If Yami could bow, he would. Even a pharoah had no place to share breathing room with a god...
A tap on the shoulder nearly sent the Game King into a panic. "Hey, you alright?" The other boy asked, completely at ease being surrounded by all these gods. "I think he's still scared Ja-Kal."
He called the god by a name!
Yami rubbed his eyes and gave himself a small slap. "Wake up, wake up!" This had to be a dream, it just wasn't possible.
Presley was getting worried at the reactions the other boy was showing. "I think I'll skip school today...this is really important. Hey, what's your name?"
Blood-red eyes turned to stare into his leaf-green ones. "I am called Yami by my aibou..."
"Yami? Okay Yami, why were you being attacked by those shabtis?"
"I don't know."
"I think it has to do with that amulet." Rath replied, pointing to the golden puzzle around Yami's neck.
The Game King grabbed his puzzle, hiding it from view. "Even if you are a god, you can't have it." The mummies all exchanged glances as they arrived at their base. "God?"
"Come on, we'll explain inside." Presely reassured Yami, giving him a smile that would melt hearts. He took Yami's hand and led him inside the sphinx with the mummies following. Presley brought him to the middle of the rooms where the mummies' coffins were propped up against the walls. "So why are you calling Rath a god?"
"Isn't he...the snake god?" Yami glanced at Rath, confused. "He wears the armor."
"We're not gods, Yami, we're mummies." Nefer-Tina laughed and leaned against her coffin.
"Is that why you ran from us?" Ja-Kal asked, looking down at him. "Don't worry, we're not gods, and we won't trick you into thinking we are. My name is Ja-Kal, and these are my friends. Nefer-Tina, Armon, and Rath. And this..." He turned to Presley. "Is our prince, the pharaoh Rapses."
Yami's face paled. A true pharoah...one not cursed from his throne... His eyes traveled down to view the amulet around Presley's neck before falling to his knees. "I ask a favor, pharoah." Rapses was a pharoah he remembered...he had died long before Yami and therefore was his superior. "Please, help my companion. I have traveled this city in search of help...I will pay any price you ask."
"Yami, why are you bowing to me?" Presley asked, a little weirded out to have someone fall on their knees before him.
"You are a higher pharaoh than I...than I was, at least."
Rat's eyes lit up with curiosity. "So that's why the shabtis were after you! You're from ancient Egypt!" He wanted badly to examine the amulet around Yami's neck, but the other seemed overprotective of it.
"I am, at least. My aibou, my companion, is not."
"Maybe you had better start at the beginning..." Ja-Kal sat down to listen, knowing it was going to be a long story.
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Yugi awoke to an empty hotel room as well as one of the soul rooms being empty. He sat up, rubbing his eyes and glancing around. "Yami?" He could sense the Game King's emotions and knew he was scared. Yugi quickly threw on some new clothes, grabbed the hotel key, then left the room in search of his other self.
Navigating the city proved to be difficult and Yugi just barely stopped before bumping into someone. He glanced up at the elder person and stared. He looked so old...
"Hello there." Scarab smiled down at him possessively.

To Be Continued....