Mummies Alive/Clanverse: Part 4

“So, Presley,” June asked, her tone turning serious, “What magic do you use?”

“Me, use magic?” Presley sounded surprised. “That’s Rath’s job!”

“You’re not teaching him?” June gave Rath a surprised look, “Not even tricks that would help in his ability to evade Scarab?”

“You can do that?” Presley asked Rath with an odd expression, somewhere between a want to learn something as cool as magic, and a concern that Rath hadn’t wanted to teach him so far…

“Not until you have finished learning Egyptian, my prince.” Rath shook his head, wishing he could do more, “All of my spells are from our own time and require at least a basic knowledge of Egyptian.”

“You don’t know Egyptian?” June looked surprised, “It’s one of our basic languages.”

“He’s not a Clan Brat. Remember?” July prodded her sister.

“Yes, but didn't Great Seto and Great Yugi both know Egyptian because they were reincarnated?”

“Yes…”

“Great Seto?”

“Pharaoh Yugi’s eternal rival and the reincarnation of Pharaoh Seth.” May gave a hasty explanation. “We should speak to our father about getting Presley some training. How old are you?” She asked Presley, looking like she was thinking about something. 

“Twelve.”

“Too old to be enrolled in one of the magic schools.” She considered quietly.

“There are schools for magic?” Presley asked.

“We do not acknowledge or deny the existence of schools that teach magic at the current time.” June gave her sister a withering look, “You could still get into Duel Academy, you’d be safe from Scarab there and we could badger you for months.” She teased.

“Who said the Prince wanted to go anywhere?” Ja-Kal demanded, annoyed that the girls seemed to be making decisions without asking their opinions.

“Not us, we're just discussing options.” The trio smiled innocently up at Ja-Kal.

“They’re just trying to help.” Presley noted the look on the face of the leader of his guardians. “As long as you guys aren’t expecting me to actually, you know, be Pharaoh.” Presley looked around at everyone.

The sisters shared a looked and giggled, “Not unless you intend on marrying one of us.”

“What? No way!” Presley squeaked.

“He must have a girlfriend already.” June mock-mourned.

“Well there is this one girl…” Nefer-Tine teased her Prince by mentioning it.

“They are Princesses.” Ja-Kal considered.

“Ja…” Presley went bright red in embarrassment, the trio too.

“Too early. Way too early. Clan Rules say marriage can't be considered until age sixteen. We are not signing any contracts today!” May squeaked.

“How old are you?” Rath asked, looking them over as if considering if Shadow Princesses would be a good match for his charge.

“Thirteen and don’t even think about it.” July growled.

“Really?” Presley asked.

“If you make any short jokes we'll feed you to our Basilisk.” June warned him.

“Magic! We were talking about Magic! Not marriage. Not height. Magic! What Magic do you want to learn Presley?” May erupted, trying to break the mood that was settling, and asked, watching another group of brats arrive, this time through the door, and set up in the far corner.

Presley shuddered. “Not Necromancy.”

“No way.” June agreed, “We don’t teach that kind anyway.”

“Okay, well there's wanded, which you might not be able to do since the schools didn't pick you up. Shadow magic, like what we do, summoning and stuff. There's er...”

“Soul magic, which most anyone can do, but is rather dangerous, but a good counter for Necromancy.”

“I’d like to learn how to summon monsters and I want to learn how to counter Scarab’s magic. If I can defend Rapses’s soul then it’ll be harder for him to take it.”

“Are you sure it’s a good idea, my Prince?” Ja-Kal looked worried.

“No,” Presley admitted, amusing the girls, “But I need to do something. How many times I have I nearly lost my soul because I couldn’t defend myself?”

Ja-Kal recalled all the close encounters. “Too many, my Prince.”

“Then I should do this. If only to make your lives easier.”

“We’d better test you for any magical abilities you have, I mean for all we know you might be a firestarter or something.” June said, seriously thinking.

“Yep, it's better to know, than accidently set someone on fire.” May giggled, making her sisters smile.

“Did that really happen?” Amun asked, noticing that the group that had just come in where watching their group with interest.

“Uh huh. Accidental magic happens a lot where we’re from.” June caught Amun’s gaze and glowered at the group, two of whom were on their phones. “Should have thought about this before we came here.” She grumbled, “The Clubs are some of the most heavily warded places not on Demiguise, so only friends can get in, but it means that the fact we’re talking to mummies is going to get back to the Elders sooner then I’d’ve liked.”

“And this is bad?” Rath asked.

“I wanted to present all the information to the Elders.” June sighed, “They can get a bit…”

“Paranoid.” July chipped in.

“It’s not paranoia if they’re out to get you.” May countered.

“Right... so anyway, we should probably talk to one of the elders before they come storming in here.” 

Mummies Alive/Clanverse: Part 2

Ja-Kal had been horrified to see his Prince walk straight into the trap, arriving as the eclipse cast darkness over the entire world, backed up by some girl that Ja-Kal hadn’t seen before, of the Prince’s own age.

“Let Ja-Kal go.” The Prince demanded.

Ja-Kal was confused. Rapses… Presley didn’t seem nervous at all, surely if he had come to give up his soul to save him there would be a little fear there… what did his Prince know about the girl that he didn’t.

“I will release Ja-Kal, once you have preformed the spell for me.” Scarab smirked, completely unconcerned about the extra child.

A moment later he wished he’d been more concerned, as a knight on the back of a dragon and a winged woman struck his Shabti warriors, destroying them and freeing Ja-Kal, while a huge ox-like creature stopped him from reaching the Prince.

“Prince Presley is now under Domino Clan protection.” One of the girls that had arrived with the beasts told him firmly, with a dark scowl, “I suggest you leave him alone if you know what’s good for you.”

One of the girls picked the lock on the cuffs around Ja-Kal’s wrists, while the girl at his Prince’s side called her knight in green armour and with odd pointy ears, to their side.

“Domino Clan?” Scarab demanded, looking a little pale, “You’re from the Domino Clan?” Of course he’d heard of them, you couldn’t do anything regarding Ancient Egyptian artefacts without butting heads with them, and they were responsible for the most powerful businesses in the world.

“We are Domino Clan members of the Mutou-Potter branch.” The one with the Prince said with a scowl, as the dragon aimed a ball of fire just to Scarab’s right, a deliberate miss that was enough to have Scarab thinking about retreat, “Eldest daughters of Pharaoh Gerik, fourth Pharaoh of the Modern Age of Shadows, we could squash you with little trouble.”

Ja-Kal saw her body language and heard her tone. She believed that she was correct, that she and her sisters were more powerful then Scarab. He remembered the tales of the Age of Shadows, the time when Pharaohs could summon beasts of such power that they could destroy the world, but that time had ended long before he’d been born, almost fifteen hundred years before, in fact.

If these girls were the daughters of a Pharaoh of the time of Shadows, then Scarab was in trouble, but Ja-Kal wasn’t sure that the battle would be as once sided as the girls seemed to believe.

“You, you are the heir to the throne?” Scarab seemed to gain a, at least in Ja-Kal’s opinion, worrying grin.

The girl who had picked his cuffs looked to the skies, where the eclipse was ending and the sun beginning to shine once more, “I’d worry less about your immortality, and more about Gaia.” She indicated the knight, “He doesn’t like it when people threaten us.”

“I am afraid of no Shadow Beast.” Scarab smirked.

“Gaia!” The Dragon Champion responded to the call from the girl with his Prince by attacking Scarab, knocking him over the railings and into the water. The eclipse ended, letting the sun shine properly. “It’s over…”

“For now at least.” Ja-Kal agreed with her, as he looked over the edge.

Scarab decided to retreat for now, taking off using his beetle wings and fleeing towards the city.

“Don’t let him get away!” The girl who had originally arrived with the Dragon Champion ordered. The Knight chased Scarab across the skies, his dragon snapping at his legs. “Are you alright?” She asked Ja-Kal.

“I am. I thank you for aiding my Prince.” Ja-Kal bowed to her.

“You don’t need to bow to us.” The girl smiled slightly, “We just did what anybody would do.”

“Still…” Ja-Kal straightened, watching them dismiss their monsters, “You are Princesses and as such a certain level of respect…”

He was cut off by the arrival of the other mummies. A little late to the party, but they were here. Rath watched as the Dragon Champion returned to its summoner, reporting that he was sorry, but the beetle had gotten away.

“It’s okay Gaia, just by trying you have done me a great service.” She smiled at the champion, “You may travel home now, should you wish.”

“If I may,” Gaia looked at the other mummies, “I wish to accompany you and your sisters home.”

“Alright, but stay alert, Scarab may be back.”

“I will, my Princess.” Gaia nodded and took off again.

“Ja-Kal? Rapses?” Nefer-Tina looked confused.

“Our Prince is not the only royal in this time.” Ja-Kal explained, still a little confused over everything himself.

“If we may,” The girl who had picked Ja-Kal’s cuffs interrupted, “It would be easier to explain if we were somewhere where we would not be interrupted.”

The mummies hesitated, reluctant to show their hiding place to these outsiders, and the girls seemed to sense this, “If you would like to come to our club, we will explain everything. I swear on our honour as Duellists and as daughters of the Pharaoh, that we will cause you no harm.”

“Daughters?” Rath questioned.

“Please guys?” Presley kind of didn’t want to see these girls go. They seemed to understand what he was going through and the mummies were great and all that, but it would be nice to have some human company that he could talk about this with.

“We will follow you.” Ja-Kal nodded. “Lead the way.”