Alverna: After many sorry excuses, it's here. The Sphinx King 2.
Yugi: Here's a reminder of what the character's can change into.
Sphinx- Can change into a real lion, or lion with human head and wings, or just a human. Egyptian sphinxes have wings. (Yes, I did do my research.)
Shape-shifter- Can change form into any animal on the savannah, excluding sphinx; shifters can't do that. Or they can change into one type of animal.
Atemu: Alverna does not own Yugioh or The Lion King 2. Enjoy.
Alverna: And this entire story in dedicated to Hopestar435. This person wanted me to make a sequel, so it is for them.
Parings:
Main
Tendershipping (Yami Bakura x Ryou)
Side
Blindshipping (Atemu x Yugi)
Puppyshipping (Joey x Seto)
Bronzeshipping (Marik x Malik)
Chapter 1
A lion's roar rang out as the sun rose over Egypt, and a song began to play on the breeze. Animals of all types began to make their way to the Egyptian palace: elephants, giraffes, wildebeest, antelope, hippos, and eventually humans,- all moving as the wind blew through the trees.
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala
Night, and the spirit of life, calling (Oh, oh, iyo)
Mamela (Oh, oh, iyo)
And a voice, with the fear of a child, answers (Oh, oh, iyo)
Oh, mamela (Oh, oh, iyo)
A man with silver hair and amber eyes stood on a balcony of the palace. His name was Pegasus, and he took the form of a baboon while he worked. But today for this task, he was human.
"Ubukhosi bo khokho." Pegasus called out, his voice leading the animals and people to gather below him. "We ndodana ye sizwe sonke."
Wait. There's no mountain too great (Oh, oh, iyo)
Hear the words and have faith (Oh, oh, iyo)
Have faith
(Hela hey mamela, hela hey mamela, hela hey mamela, hela hey mamela)
As everyone gathered the spirits of the past pharaoh's could be seen by all. The most prominent, was the last Pharaoh, Aknankanon. Pegasus raised his arms to the last Pharaoh, and gestured to all the animals bellow, the wind following his movements.
As the animals and people felt the spirit of Aknankanon blow past of the wing, they bowed, honoring the one who had ruled them justly for so long.
He lives in you. He lives in me
He watches over. Everything we see
Into the water. Into the truth
In your reflection. He lives in you
Doors behind Pegasus opened, and many people stepped out. The first six were the high priest of the pharaoh's court, Mahad, Karim, Shada, Isis, Mana, and Seth. They were followed by Mokuba, Seth's younger brother, and Joey, Seth's new mate.
Last of the arrivals were Pharaoh Atemu and his mate Yugi, who was holding their newborn son, Ryou, who was very alert.
Ryou had startlingly white hair and soft chocolate brown eyes that Yugi knew would be able to get many things he wanted from the palace servants, and possibly his father.
Pegasus smiled and gently took Ryou from Yugi's arms and held him up before the assembled crowd. As the people cheer, and Atemu, Yugi, and the rest on the balcony are blown by the wind from the approving figure of Aknankanon.
He lives in you. He lives in me
He watches over. Everything we see
Into the water. Into the truth
In your reflection. He lives in you
As the wind blew past Ryou, he struggled playfully in Pegasus's grip, his small arms popping free from under the blanket he was wrapped in as the elephants stomped and sent birds flying past.
After much cheering from the crowd, Pegasus lowered the boy and waved the staff he had placed next to him over the child's head. After glowing, a crown with The Millennium Symbol appeared on his forehead. Placing Ryou back in Yugi's arms, the new parents cooed over their child softly as the court watched.
"Ah Mokuba," Joey sighed at the sight. "Look at that little guy. A chip off the old block! And you gotta know who's gonna raise him."
"His parents?" the half sphinx half shifter asked with an eye roll.
"Okay sure, get technical." Joey rolled his eyes right back. "But who's gonna teach him the really important stuff? Like how to belch?"
"And dig for grubs?" Mokuba grinned, caching on.
"Yep." Joey praised his brother-in-law. "I'm telling ya, buddy... it's gonna be like old times. You, me, and the little guy."
"It is a girl." Atemu chuckled.
"Girl…" Joey repeated.
Then it sunk in.
"Girl?" Mokuba and Joey shouted in unison, before collapsing in a dead faint.
"How long should we wait to tell them Ryou really is a boy?" Yugi asked with a giggle as Karim carried Mokuba bridal style back inside while Seth took one of Joey's ankles and simply dragged him.
"I don't know." Atemu smirked. "I'm actually enjoying this."
A/N: This next part I'm assuming is a deleted scene. It was in the script I copied online, so I'm sticking it in.
Thunder and wind blew across the land, much like it had on the night after Atemu's presentation to the people and animals of Egypt. Inside a baobab tree home, Pegasus was busy painting a new sphinx cub on the tree. Next to it was the older drawing of a full-grown Atemu.
"Ahh, Ryou." Pegasus laughed as wind began to blow his hair wildly, signifying Aknankanon's presence. "Oh Aknankanon! Such a day this has been! Prince Ryou's birth, another Circle of Life is complete, and Egypt's future is once again secure."
As Pegasus put the final touches on the painting, the wind blew at it, scattering some of the markings.
"Aaah! Stop it, stop it, stop it!" Pegasus cried out in alarm. "Aknankanon- look what you are doing! The Circle is broken now. Why do you- Ooh... there is trouble in the Pride Lands."
A sudden realization suddenly struck him as he studied the markings toward the edge of the painting; at a rough sphinx figure.
"There is another cub? Hmm... where could this be?" Pegasus muttered to himself as the wind blew past and out towards a section of Egypt that was a barren desert, with strange rock formations everywhere. "In the Outlands. But that is where Atemu banished Aknadin's followers. Including his most loyal… Anzu."
-Time Skip, 3 years-
"Rrrah!"
An insect had made the mistake of landing on the ground. It had immediately been pounced on by a sphinx cub, when in human form would appear to be about 12 years of age. This sphinx cub had pale fur that was dirty so it actually looked brown, white semi-spiky hair, and dark brown eyes. If you didn't know any better, you could say his eyes were black.
This cub peaked in his paws to see the insect buzzing. Smiling, he opened his paws, and let the bug fly away.
"Bakura!" a female voice snapped as she snatching the insect from the air, and smashed it to the ground. "Don't let it go. What's the matter with you?"
This was a female sphinx, who a slightly worse for wear. She had brown shoulder length hair, blue eyes, and a bad attitude every single day of the week. She was Anzu.
"But Mother!" Bakura protested. "It wasn't hurting anyone!"
"There is no room for weakness here, my son." Anzu growled as she moved closer and pulled the cub against her. "Remember, Aknadin is your father."
"But I don't even know him" Bakura muttered, still upset about the bug.
"No..." Anzu agreed. "You never had that chance. But he chose you to become the next Pharaoh should his first born refuse. And refuse he did!"
"But why?" Bakura asked.
"Who knows." Anzu released Bakura and began to swat at the ground, railing against fate, "But when you rule, we shall no longer be forced to live in these dry, barren, disgusting, pathetic, termite-infested Outlands!"
Bakura looked down in quiet agreement. He had been born right after the banishment, so he didn't know any other life. But life in the Outlands wasn't exactly the greatest.
Suddenly, two other sphinxes came bounding up. The older of the two by a year was Marik. He had white-blond hair that seemed to resemble having a porcupine on his head and lavender eyes.
The second, a couple weeks older than Bakura, was Malik. Malik had the same colored hair as Marik except his hair lay flat, and lilac colored eyes.
Despite the two looking like one another, they weren't related.
"Anzu!" Marik gasped. "We were in the boundaries. We saw-!"
"In the boundaries we saw everything!" Malik picked up as Marik doubled over for air. "We saw Atemu's child!"
"What?" Anzu gasped. "Malik, what did you see?"
"Atemu's child is a male!" Malik shouted with glee. "But he's so gentle he couldn't hurt a fly!"
"This couldn't be more perfect." Anzu cackled. "Aknadin, my beloved… did you hear?"
"Who's she talking to?" Marik asked as he finally got his breath back.
"Ssshhh." Malik hissed. "Aknadin."
"Aknadin's dead genius." Marik rolled his eyes at the younger.
"Yes!" Anzu snapped, having heard the conversation. "Because of Atemu. If not for him, Aknadin would still be Pharaoh. And I, Anzu, would be his loving, devoted Queen!"
"You know, speaking of Pharaohs…" Marik paused knowing he was treading on thin ice. "I was thinking, since I am the oldest... maybe I should be Pharaoh! Huh?"
"Don't be a fool, Marik." Anzu glared.
"Just a thought." Marik chuckled weakly as he rolled over submissively on his back.
"Bakura is the chosen one." Anzu continued. "We must fulfill Aknadin's dying wish, and train Bakura to become Pharaoh."
"Oh, yeah." Marik sighed. "I guess I can do that."
Anzu ignored him and climbed up on a rock point to gaze out over the land. The others follow carefully behind her.
"Look at the land, my pets." Anzu said as he looked to where the edge of the boundaries of Atemu's kingdom was. "So green... so inviting. That is our home… where we belong. And soon, my beloved Aknadin… we shall reclaim your kingdom."
Here's translations.
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala- A lion and a leopard come to this open place
Mamela- Listen
Ubukhosi bo khokho.- Throne of the ancestors.
We ndodana ye sizwe sonke.- Oh, son of the nation
And here's to clear some things up.
Mana has replaced Aknadin as High Priest. She wears the Millennium Eye on a chain around her neck, but is still able to activate its powers.
I'm going to say this now, Anzu was Aknadin's concubine, so she was leader of the rebellion against Atemu when he claimed the throne, not intent on giving up her life of ease. Since she was pregnant with Bakura, Atemu banished Anzu and instead of killing her.
Alverna: What do you think?
Bakura: I'm in it!
Alverna: Yeah.
Marik: Me too!
Alverna: Oh boy.
Ryou: Please review and let us know what you think.