AN: So of all the stories I'm rewriting, I think this one will change the most. I think that because I'm only keeping two things from my original story the same. Not even the name is the same. But i am proud to say that some of the events in this story are historically active. Ok everyone, time for a quick history lesson! KEMET IS WHAT ANCIENT EGYPTIANS CALLED EGYPT! EGYPT AND KEMET ARE THE SAME THING!

Atem, the pharaoh of Kemet, sat on his throne, waiting for his new slave. The war against Nubia had been won. It was a long and bloody war but now it was done, with Kemet as the victor against the Nubians. Now Atem could focus on bettering the lives of his people.

The throne room doors were thrown open and two guards walked in with a struggling boy between them wearing only a kilt and a pair of leather sandals with a silver crown on his head. The boy was very short and looked to be about twelve but Atem knew he was sixteen, only two years younger than Atem was himself. He was pale with vivid amethyst eyes surrounded by thick dark lashes. Those eyes now glared in anger as his perfectly formed lips cried out in fury. His cute button nose was turned up in disgust from having to be in his enemy's territory. His hair was black as night and stood up in the air in a star shape with purple tips to match his eyes and blonde bangs framing his face.

Atem watched in amusement with a smirk on his face as the boy was dragged into his throne room kicking and screaming at the top of his lungs, threatening the guards as if he was at home in his own kingdom.

The guards dragged him along until he was standing in front of the throne before they started trying to force him to his knees while the boy yelled curses at them the whole time. It was obvious to Atem that the biggest part of him was his mouth.

The boy was small, about half the size of each of the guards. But as hard as the guards pushed he would not go down to his knees.

"Let go of me! curse you and all that you love! I will cut you into pieces in your sleep and burn the parts to ashes! I will make you SUFFER!" He snarled at them with an angered and wild look in his eye. Then the boy looked up and saw Atem quietly chuckling. "And I suppose you think this is funny pharaoh!?" He screamed at the king. "It would be funny to someone as cruel and evil as you! This sort of thing is fun to heartless bastards like you!"

Atem was about to reply when one of the guards holding the boy spoke. "Do not talk to the pharaoh that way!" The guard used his free hand to hit him in the head, hard. But he couldn't get his hand back in time before the boy turned and grabbed the hand with his mouth, biting down. The guard yelled out in pain and tried to pull his hand away but the boy wouldn't let him go. The guard on the other side started to hit him in the head, trying to make him let go. Only when he tasted blood in his mouth did the boy finally let go.

The guard pulled away and his hold on the boy weakened for just a moment. Atem watches in surprise as the boy broke away from the one guard and swung on the other one, hitting him in the stomach with more strength than Atem thought he possessed. He turned and pushed the other guard back hard enough to make him fall. The boy turned to run out of the throne room. His only thought was that he had to get out of Egypt.

Just as he was about to reach out for the throne room doors, black shadows began to creep up the front of the doors. The boy began to back away in fear as the shadows covered the door and started coming for him, forming hands to grab at him with.

Atem took a mental note of how agile and flexible he was as the boy avoided the shadows that would try to grab him. He was fast and good at avoiding the shadows that came for him but eventually, he was caught.

The shadows brought the boy over, kicking and screaming and presented him to their master, Atem. Atem watched the boy standing there with the shadows around his arms and hands, binding him. Suddenly the pharaoh had a thought.

"Shadows, force him to his knees." The shadows obeyed their master and tried to force him to his knees but somehow the boy remained standing. The two guards from earlier were about to go to the boy and assist the shadows in forcing him down but Atem waved them off, never taking his eyes off of the boy. "Interesting."

The quiet comment brought the boy's glaring eyes to him. "What could possibly be so interesting about this!"

"The fact that you, the son of my greatest enemy, are somehow managing to stand against my shadows just from sheer will power. I could have you killed just for who you are and yet you still defy me. So tell me, why do you that prince Yugi of Nubia."

"I would rather die by my enemies than bow before them! I will not bow to you, the murderer of all my people!"

"And I suppose you think your people are innocent? You have obviously forgotten that there is blood on their hands as well!"

"You mean there was blood on their hands! Before you killed them all!"

"Well... We didn't kill ALL of your people." Suddenly the throne room doors burst open again and a woman was brought in.

She had long blonde hair that fell to the middle of her back with a streak of black in it in the front that was tucked behind her left ear. Her lips were thin with a cute button nose above them. Her gray eyes glared as she was pushed roughly into the room by a guard. Chains were holding her hands behind her back and shackles on her feet kept her from moving too fast or running away. As soon as Yugi turned his head around and saw her he panicked. "Mother!" The lady looked up in surprise to see her son.

"Yugi!" The queen tried to run over to her son but before she could the guard grabbed her hair. She cried out in pain as he pulled her back roughly.

"Let go of her!" Yugi yelled and the guard just laughed at him and yanked the queen's hair again. Yugi started to get mad. Atem watched the boy curiously. He knew he should intervene but he had a feeling something interesting would happen next. He was not disappointed.

Atem saw something through the shadows around Yugi's arms. It started out small and grew with every second. Suddenly the shadows on Yugi's arms dissolved. When they did Atem saw Yugi's arms, glowing with light. "I said let her go!" Yugi started running for the guard holding his mother, light covering his feet and somehow making him run faster then any human could. The guard tried to draw a weapon. But he was too late, by the time he had his hand on his sword the boy's fist was already connecting with his jaw.

The guard went flying back into the opposite wall. The impact left the wall cracked and the man fell down to the ground, lying ob the floor unconscious and possibly dead. The light on Yugi's arms went away and he hugged his mother. "Oh mom, I am so happy you are ok!"

"Touching." Yugi turned back to Atem with another fierce glare as he stood protectively in front of his mother. "But we have a few issues we must discuss."

"I have nothing to talk about with the likes of you! Now let my mother go before I kill you!"

"Oh? And how do you plan to do that little one?" Yugi growled and suddenly the lights he had dispelled when he had hugged his mother were back. Atem chuckled. "Have you forgotten about my shadows already little one?" Black shadows spilled out from the throne and formed hundreds of poisonous black and purple snakes in front of Atem that hissed threateningly at Yugi. "Besides, I do not need to talk to you about this. I will just need to have a nice chat with your mother."

Yugi's eyes narrowed and he growled as he took a few steps closer to Atem, forgetting about the snakes that were guarding the throne for a moment. But the sound of the hissing brought him back to reality as he finally remembered the shadow creatures guarding the throne. "Do you think I am a fool? Why would I leave my mother alone with a madman?"

Atem's eyes narrowed at Yugi and the snakes hissed angrily. Yugi could tell he didn't appreciate being called a madman. "Because, I am not a madman and I am not giving you the choice. Either you leave the room, or I will personally kill you both." The shadow snakes started moving closer. Yugi formed snakes of his own out of his light magic but just as he was about to make them go to the shadow snakes, he heard a light rattle and felt a hand on his arm. Yugi turned around and saw his mother looking at him.

"Go, it is ok, I will be fine." Yugi looked like he was about to protest but the queen just shook her head. "No, go now. I will talk to the pharaoh and everything will be ok."

Yugi looked like he wanted to argue. But he just sighed, nodded and dispelled the snakes. With a reluctant look he turned to Atem. "Where am I going?"

Atem looked the boy over for a moment. He was beautiful, the most beautiful boy he'd ever seen. Atem stared at his nice flat stomach and beautiful legs. He could see the sexy curves his body held and remembered how flexible he was when he dodged the shadows. There was no doubt in his mind where he would go. "You will be joining my personal harem."

A look of absolute fury came over Yugi's face. "No! There is no way I will be used for your sexual pleasure! I won't do it!"

"Ok. You don't have to. I'm sure your mother is fully capable." Yugi suddenly had a bow and arrow in his hands, both made of light. Yugi aimed for Atem and quickly pulled back the string but before he could release it he heard a hiss. The snakes came for him and he shot them down one after the other, never missing the snake he aimed for. Every time he shot an arrow a new one formed in his hand. The snakes vaporized immediately when they came in contact with the light. Yugi's vision started to turn red from his fury of Atem suggesting such a thing.

The snakes seemed to multiply. When he hit one two more would replace it. Then four would replace those but it didn't stop Yugi as his rage kept him going, cutting through snake after snake. Finally Yugi broke through the snake army and swung his bow up, aiming at Atem.

Yugi was uneasy when he found Atem smirking despite the fact that there was an arrow pointed at his head. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't send this arrow towards your head for what you just said!"

"Turn around and I believe you will find plenty reason to lower that bow." Yugi stared at Atem for a moment, eyes clearly showing distrust. He slowly turned his head to see what Atem was talking about and he immediately felt his heart stop at the sight.

The guard that had before been thrown into the wall by Yugi was now standing behind his mother with a sword against her neck as silent tears fell down her face.

Yugi glared at Atem defiantly. But he was no fool. "I will be a part of your harem. Leave my mother out of it." Atem smirked and the guard stepped away. Yugi dissolved his bow and arrow. Atem was not at all surprised about Yugi's decision. He had known what he would pick.

Atem turned to the guards that had been holding Yugi earlier and motioned for them to come to him. They had both been standing in the corner watching the whole scene ever since Yugi got away from them.

"Take Yugi to the harem chambers. Make sure he makes it there unharmed. And make sure he doesn't do anything to get himself in trouble along the way. But first" Atem turned back to Yugi "give me your crown."

Yugi sent Atem a murderous look as he reluctantly removed his crown from his head. He slowly walked up to Atem with the guards by his side the whole time. Yugi handed Atem his crown. "The only reason I give you this crown pharaoh is so I can pry it from your cold dead hands later."

"Threatening me are you? I think that's ten lashes of the whip." Yugi could hear his mother's pleading cries for mercy. Atem turned to her with narrowed eyes. "The normal punishment for threatening me is death. Be grateful I am letting him off this easily." Then The pharaoh had a thought. "But" he said "I don't want him to have any marks on him to ruin his looks... Do not whip him. I personally will punish him later myself.

Yugi turned to leave the room. On his way out his eyes met with his mother's. The look on Yugi's mother's face soon turned to one of panic and worry in concern for her son. He gave her a reassuring smile. "I'll be fine." Yugi's mom tried to return the smile but it was obviously forced. She watched as he left out the large doors, the guards and his mother's worried eyes following him the whole way.

"Now then" Atemu said "I have some questions and you will answer honestly or you will suffer. Do you understand me?" The former queen nodded her head before staring down at the ground.

"Ok then. First question, your husband, and your top advisors are missing. Where are they?"

"I don't know." As soon as she said it she felt a sharp pain. She screamed and looked down to where she felt the pain and saw a shadow snake biting her. She looked up at Atem with pleading eyes. "Please! I am not lying to you! They vanished without a trace earlier this morning before your troops stormed the village! Please make it stop!" She cried in agony as the snake ripped its sharp fangs out of her arm.

"Next question. What sort of magic did your son use just now to fight with? Tell me everything you know about it."

"It was light magic, the very opposite of your shadows. It comes to him when he feels strong emotions. He knows how to manipulate it and dispel it. But he cannot always summon it whenever he wishes. He can summon it himself half the time though."

"Third and last question. And you better answer honestly. Do you know any people who survived besides your husband and his advisors?"

Yugi's mom hesitated. "No Nubians survived the assault besides Yugi and myself." Atem's eyes narrowed at her. Two shadow snakes sank their long sharp fangs into her arms. The queen screamed and tried to shake them off. But it just made it feel worse.

"I asked you if the anybody survived, not just the Nubians. As I recall you worked with the people of Kul Elna. Did any of them survive?"

"Yes!" The queen cried. "A man named Akefia! He was one of the generals in the war!" The snakes released her and Atem thought about this new information.

Atem wondered why the queen had tried to protect this man named Akefia. "Very well." Atemu said. "You will be a cook. The guard behind you will lead you to the kitchens unharmed."

The guard lead her out of the throne room to take her to the kitchen. Atemu sighed, knowing he had one last thing to do. It was time to punish Yugi.

AN: I have a good feeling about this story but this one will also probably be the one that changes the most.