Rye: And we're back!

Star: And this time we're harassing Hao!

Hao: Damn it! Will you two leave me alone!?

Both: NEVA! *glomping Hao*

Yoh: Well by now you all should know that Rye and Star own nothing but their insanity, themselves and they do not profit from any of this.

Opacho: The warnings are the same too! Cussing, violence, yaoi, Naughty time between dad and papa and anything else they can think of! You have been warned!

5000 years ago a fierce warrior known as the Scorpion King led a great army on a campaign to conquer the known world. After seven years of bloody battle the Scorpion King was defeated. He and his army were driven deep into the desert.

One by one they perished until only the great king himself was left alive. Near death, the Scorpion King made a deal with the dark god Anubis , that if he would spare his life and allow him to conquer his enemies he would give him his soul.

The pact was made, and a great oasis sprang up in the desert, along with Anubis' army, awaiting their new commander's orders. The king and his army swept over the land like a plague, conquering and killing all in their path. But when the Scorpion king had finally conquered all he'd set out to do, Anubis took his soul as payment from him and his army vanished from the earth, but still wait for the day that they would be awakened once again.

~1933

Hao Akira walked silently through the seemingly empty chambers of the tomb. He took out his gun and used his torch to brush away a cobweb in front of him. Every sense was on high alert, who knew what was down here with them. A sound came from behind him and he whirled, teeth bared in anticipation of violence.

"Opacho!" He yelled, staring down at the ten year old girl grinning up at him.

"Whoa, dad, what did you think, a mummy had come back to life?" Opacho joked.

"I'll tell you the story some other time." Hao muttered, putting his gun away. "What are you doing down here, I thought we told you to stay up top."

"I found your tattoo." Opacho explained, grabbing Hao's wrist.

"What?" Hao asked as Opacho pulled the leather wrist band he always wore off.

"I saw your tattoo on the wall near the entrance, with the pyramid and the eyes and the two kings and everything." They together looked at the tattoo. Hao really knew nothing about it, but it had always felt like it was something important, like the dreams that he woke up from, only half remembering what they were about.

"Alright, I'll be up in a minute to look at it, but in the meantime I want you to wait for us up there." He said sternly to his adoptive daughter.

"But, Dad…" Opacho whined.

"No buts." Hao replied, pushing her towards the entrance. "Go on."

"But it's boring, what should I do?"

"I don't know, surprise me. Build a better mousetrap." Hao sighed.

"Alright." Opacho groused, stomping off towards the main temple floor. Hao shook his head and went looking for his husband.

Yoh was brushing dust off a wall when he noticed a snake slithering by. He gave it a look. "Go away." He said, and flicked the snake with his foot. Hao ducked, narrowly missing getting struck in the face with a flying snake.

"You know those things are poisonous, right?" he asked his husband.

"Only if they bite you. What was that all about?" Yoh asked.

"Oh, nothing. Opacho just wanted to show me something. She gets more like you every day."

"What, you mean more attractive, sweet and devilishly charming?" Yoh teased, fluttering his eyelashes at Hao. Hao pushed him against the wall and kissed him.

"No, she's driving me crazy." He murmured.

Yoh gave him an amused huff as they shared one last kiss before he turned back to his work, carefully disphering the hieroglyphs carved into the stone. He caught movement from the corner of his eyes to see Hao with his trusty Crowbar about to strike the wall.

"How about we try it my way?" Yoh asked, stopping him mid-motion, holding up a tiny hammer and even tinier chisel.

Hao stared at him, grinning when Yoh huffed and gave him the okay. It took two hits and the wall fell back to reveal a second chamber. Grabbing the torch, they entered the room, Yoh carefully picking his way around the scorpions, spiders as his husband crunched them under his boots, not caring at all that they were getting agitated. The room was like the last one, filled with mummies and covered in centuries of sand, dust and spiderwebs.

"Tell me again why we are here." Hao sighed, worried about Yoh's slowly thinning body.

"I told you! I saw it in a dream." Yoh repeated, not really paying attention to his husband as he got to the back wall and looked it over for a moment.

"Yoh-chan, please, there's nothing he-" he was cut off by Yoh pulling on the wall torch and a secret door opening.

"If it was a dream, then why is that I seem to know where I'm going?" Hao bit his lips as he pulled out a gun and took the lead...

Meanwhile Opacho was back in the main room of the Ruins, carefully setting a block of cheese onto a platform that was connected to an elaborate domino effect contraption that would cage the other mice on the other side of the room. She smiled at her handy work, but gasped when she saw shadows entering the room. Quickly grabbing her things, she climbed a rickety scaffolding and laid flat, spying on who was there. Three men came in, all of them shadowed by the light but she didn't need to see details to know they were bad news. They looked around before they began digging around, throwing pots and other hand made items about, calling them junk and rubbish.

"Stay here... I'm gonna look to see if them Japs are 'ere." said the leader of the trio. Opacho bit her lip, she wanted to call out a warning to her parents, but knew better than to do so with no guarantee she was going remain hidden. Suddenly a devious thought crossed her mind and she grabbed her sling shot, a gift from her uncle Ryu, and grabbed some rocks that had fallen from the temple's ceiling over time. Lining her shot, she used her free hand to pull down her goggles, the same pair her real father wore every day to his death, and placing the rock in the cradle. She waited as she pulled the stings back, aiming for the whinier bandit of the pair.

She let go and smiled darkly when it hit him right in the ass. His following shouting covered her snicker as he cried and yelped.

"Boris, shut up! This place is cursed... we should not be here..." hissed the more serious one of two, his eyes looking around, hoping that the gods would not suddenly appear and reap their souls.

"But Bill I got hit by so'thin'!"

"Just continue looking..." They got back to work, being more careful with their search. Opacho grinned as she lined up her second shot and when she got a clear shot she shot the whiner once more, this time pegging him in the back of the head, a slight cackle escaping her, but she quickly covered her mouth and held still.

But too late Bill had heard and ordered the other back to work, doing the same, but aware that someone was there with them...

Hao and Yoh walked down the hall, but as they walked Yoh felt a strange aura pass over him and suddenly he was in a well lit golden hall with a few Meji standing guard as one put a box down in what looked like a small vault before walking out of the room and closing the door, twisting a knob and locking the room and the guards within away for all eternity. The guard then turned to him, but he couldn't get a good look at his face as he literally walked through him. Yoh jumped at that, swinging the torch around a few times trying to get the place to light up like it had before.

"You know... if you swing it fast enough you can write your name." Hao chuckled a bit, though he sounded amused he was worried. Yoh's spells were coming more and more often now and he was losing sleep over it. Sleep and weight from the lack of eating due to the dreams and trances. The sooner they finished this the sooner his Yoh would get back to normal and he can worry less.

"I just had another vision..." Yoh told him, walking over to him and setting the torch in a holder as he walked up to the door. Hao had his crowbar trying to break the wall, but nothing was working.

"Yeah? Well did it show you where the door was and how to open it?" Hao snorted, sarcasm heavy in his words.

Yoh rolled his eyes and shoved his brute of a husband away and grabbed the knob and twisted it four times right, twice left and once right before shoving it back into place, a click sounding from the wall before a door opened. Yoh was shaking now.

"Okay... you're scaring me." Hao stated, looking from the door to Yoh as if they were creatures from another world.

"I'm scaring myself..." Yoh whispered.

Star: AND END!

Rye: Not a bad start!

Star: Nope!

Yoh: Well you know the deal: Review or something terrible will happen.