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Naga Charmer Chapter 1

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The sounds of the whip cracking on the hot sand, the dragging of feet across the hot sand, the sweat of the slaves trickling down their tired bodies, the starvation and dehydration afflicting many of the older and younger slaves as they struggle to carry their load of stones to the building sites of either the pyramids or a new statue of the pharaoh or of one of the Egyptian gods, and the sound of screams filling the dry air as someone is whipped for being too slow or too weak. These are the sounds that a young slave, named Yuugi, had grown up listening to as he worked under the blistering sun of Ra, the god of all gods.

Yuugi is a sixteen-year-old slave who lost his parents to the work that the pharaoh had issued to them and a bunch of others slaves. It was a major accident when the statue came down onto his parents, but for him to witness the death of his parents at the age of eight was a devastating lost for him. Since then he had been working his butt off just to stay alive, but because of his small figure, making him look like he was twelve years old, he had the hardest time carrying heavy loads of stone. Each time he stumbled because of his load being too heavy even for him, his feet or his bag would be whipped and he would have to drag himself and the bag of stones to the building sites. Yuugi had lost the most important thing to him, besides his parents, and that was to love. Through his eight years of working, no one not even the other slaves had shown him any love or any compassion. They would just say that he was too small for his age, he was the weakest of the slaves, and that he just got in the way.

Ever since the new pharaoh took the throne, the work of the slaves had gotten harder and the work had to be done faster. The new pharaoh was Atemu, the son of the former pharaoh who grew up being very spoiled and getting anything he wanted. At his age, which was eighteen years old, you would not really expect him to be spoiled. Think again! He wanted everything and if he didn't get one, he threw a somewhat temper tantrum; he wanted was to have a huge statue of himself built, his pyramid to be one of the biggest pyramids in Egypt, and to have someone as a personally slave to him and him only. He was getting what he want, but he had not found that slave yet because most of the slaves that he has seen were not perfect in his eyes. He wanted his personally slave to be perfect in his eyes, one that he could take advantage of to pleasure himself. Most of the female slaves he had ever encountered wanted him, but he certainly did not want them. He swore on his life that he would find someone for himself, even if he had to spend all the gold coins and valuable jewels in his palace.

On one specifically hot day, the slaves were hard at work carrying even heavier loads of stones to the pyramid building. The pyramid was almost done, but more stones were needed to finish the top of the structure. Most of the slaves had to be careful with where they were walking otherwise they would fall into the pyramid due to the fact that there was a large enough gap in the middle of the structure and anyone could fall through it. The slave drivers, with their whips in their hands ready to strike, were watching each slave that came slumping up the hill with their heavy loads of stone. Where the top was being finished, Yuugi was helping some of the younger slaves move their rock to where they were needed, avoiding the hole as much as he could.

"Yuugi, you really need to be careful while you are up here," said a voice from behind him. Yuugi turned to see a tall, blonde haired boy approaching him with a very heavy load of stones. "Otherwise, if you fall into the pyramid you will either die or if you survive you will be trap within the darkness."

"Jou, don't worry about me," Yuugi said to the boy called Jou. "I'll be okay because I have been up here many times and have never lost my balance. Besides, no one else is going to guide the younger slaves to wherever they need to be."

"Whatever you say, Yuugi," Jou said as he trudge his way to the other older slaves with his heavy loads of stone. "Just remember that I am looking out for you."

Now here is something you need to know about the relationship between Yuugi and Jou. When Yuugi was younger, his family and Jou's family were really good friends with each other. Jou and Yuugi grew up together as really good friends and Jou was always looking out for Yuugi since he was so small back then. At the same time that both of their parents had died (Jou's parents died in the same accident that Yuugi's parents died), Jou vowed to watch out and care for Yuugi, but he knew because of all the harshness and pain that Yuugi had gone through, whether it came from the slave owners or from the others slave, had harden the little boy's heart. Jou knew that there was still some love somewhere in Yuugi's heart, that little light that still shined in all the darkness that represented all of Yuugi's harsh times.

During that time, the pharaoh himself, along with his high priest and the guards, was visiting the building site. Atemu was enjoying watching his pyramid being built and how fast the pyramid was getting finished.

"Behold, O Great Pharaoh. You're pyramid is coming along very nicely and the process to get it done by today shall be done," proclaimed the master of the slave drivers as he used his hand to guide the Pharaoh's eyes to where the slaves were finishing the top.

"Yes, I see that," Atemu said as he saw the slaves hard at work at the top. Suddenly he almost let out a little gasp for his eyes saw something that made the pharaoh himself almost fall to his knees. What he saw was a little boy, he depicted to be little, whom looked almost like him, except for the skin color. "Slave master, who is that boy up there at the top of my pyramid?"

"That is one of our younger slaves," answered the master. "His name is Yuugi and he is a pretty hard worker for someone his size."

"Bring him to me," Atemu commanded. "I want to get a better look at—"

Suddenly one of the slaves came running toward Atemu and the slave master. She was red in the face from working hard and having her skin exposed to the intense rays of the sun. She stopped before the slave master and the pharaoh and got on her knees to bow before Atemu. When Atemu told her she could rise, she spoke, with fear in her tone. "Master, Master!" she exclaimed. "We have trouble! Yuugi slipped into the hole and is hanging on for dear life! None of the older slaves are up there to pull him out!"

"What?!" exclaimed Atemu, his heart almost jumping knowing that the little lookalike slave was going to fall into the pyramid. "Guards! Go save that boy!"

The guards hurried to the top of the pyramid, pushing pass slaves who were either too slow to move out of the way or were just in the way. As soon as they made it to the top, they pushed the slaves out of the way to see Yuugi hanging on for dear life just like the female slave described. One of the guards carefully approached the hole to get a clearer view of the slave and he got down on his knees.

"Slave! I will get you out of there, just hold on!" the guard ordered, reaching his hand down to grab onto Yuugi's shirt. Suddenly the stones under both Yuugi and the guard began to crumble. The other guards pushed the slaves away, fearing that the area around the hole may collapse. The stones finally gave out and the guard scrambled backwards, thinking that he did grab Yuugi, but alas he did not. For Yuugi had fallen into the hole after the stones had collapsed under him.

'I guess this is it…' Yuugi thought to himself, a little tear coming into his eyes as he fell into the darkness of the pyramid. 'I guess it was my destiny to die on a building site like my parents did…"

He closed his eyes and waited for the worse to come…. But it never came. Something firm and strong had grabbed Yuugi by the waist right before he hit the ground and his feet were dangling at least three feet off the surface. Whatever grabbed him, he could not tell, brought him down gently down to the ground and placed him down upon the surface. Yuugi looked up to the hole to see some face peering into the hole, trying to see if he had survived or not. One of the faces he noticed belonged to Jou and he for once in his entire life was so glad to see his face.

"Jou! Jou! I'm okay!" he cried to him.

"Yuugi!" called back Jou, who was really glad to hear Yuugi's voice. "D-Don't worry Yuugi! We'll get you out of there! Just hold on!"

"Okay!" Yugi shouted after hearing what Jou said. Yuugi took a look at his surroundings, even though it was somewhat pitch black within the pyramid. The light that flowed in from the hole only showed anything it could reach out and envelop in light. The first thing that registered in Yuugi's eyesight were the black, snakelike coils that were wrapped around his waist. They look bigger than the coils of regular snakes that Yuugi knew and he practically freaked out when he heard a hiss come from behind him. He had fallen into the now home of one the most poisonous snakes in all of Egypt: the Egyptian Asp.
Chapter 1: Into the Pyramid

Here it is at last. Although I told myself I would not post Naga Charmer until I finished my other stories, I decided to post it for the heck of it. By the way, if you were wondering Jou's full name is Jounochi.

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Yuugi, Jounochi and Atemu belong to Kazuki Takahashi
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