Atem was in the middle of a meeting with one of his scribes when he felt it. A ripple in the air, a pulse that he felt echoed in the marrow of his bones. He had never experienced anything like it, and yet he knew exactly what it was. He raised a hand to silence the scribe and looked around. Though there were several people currently in his throne room, not one of them seemed to have felt the same thing he did. The questioning looks they were giving him was due to curiosity born from his sudden command of silence, and nothing more.
“Guards.” His royal guard came within seconds of his call, and he gestured towards the open archway. “Someone is here. Go inform the guards at the gate to allow them to pass.” Even though Atem could see the question burning in their eyes, the men simply nodded and left, leaving the pharaoh alone with his council and the scribe.
“Mahad. Please escort this scribe out. We will finish our discussion later.”
Unlike his guards, Mahad did ask. “My Pharoah, who is here?”
Atem simply smiled. “An old friend.”
He could tell that Mahad was not satisfied with his answer, but his honour would allow him no more questions. He bowed, then turned to lead the scribe out of the room.
It did not take long for him to arrive. Atem could hear the boots clicking across the stone floors of his palace, a sound that no shoes produced here could make. And then there he was, his entrance as dramatic as ever. The throne room was silent, every eye turned to stare in shock at the unexpected guest. The guards had followed behind him, spears raised and ready to strike. Atem simply raised a hand, and although there was a moment of hesitation before they obeyed, they soon moved back to stand against the far wall, ready to act if their Pharoah commanded it.
Atem couldn’t help the small chuckle that slipped past his lips. Of course. Who else would even dare? He stood to greet the man, and that small chuckle turned into a full blown laugh when he saw that long familiar smirk, and the duel disk on his arm.
“I suppose telling you that you should not be here would be a wasted effort?” He sounds stern, but there is a smile on his lips that he cannot fight despite himself.
From the moment Seto arrived, he regretted wearing his jacket. Maybe not entirely - after all, built into it was anything he could ever need - but in the desert’s hot, arid climate, it was like the heat of a sauna multiplied by the digits of pi.
Keep yourself together, he lectured himself as he approached the building in which the pharaoh resided, followed closely by armed guards. You can take a little heat. Remember what you came for.
First he entered the building, then the throne room. The vastness of the walls echoed the click of his boots against the floor as he approached, making his entrance that much more dramatic, as if his outfit didn’t already. Once he was sure he was in the pharaoh’s line of sight, he stopped, readying his new duel disk and ignoring the departure of the guards that were at his back. A smirk played his lips - this was it, the whole reason he came here.
“You know more than anyone that nothing can tell me what I can’t or shouldn’t do. Prepare to duel and lose, Pharaoh.”
The laugh his entrance registered took him off guard, but Seto’s determined expression didn’t waver. Today, he would change the history the two of them had. Today, he would beat the Pharaoh once and for all.