Here comes the last chapter to my ff ^^
Have fun ^^



6




"Mana!"
"How nice to see you, Prince! Mahado and I were so worried about you! We listened to the Pharaoh's audiences every day to find out how you were! After all, you were in mortal danger and ... Oh dear, that too." I shouldn't have told the audiences now, should I? You will not betray us, or Prince. We are friends after all! And we only did it to find out how you are ... Which of course is not an excuse as Mahado say now would ... But after all, he also took part. But Shimon will give a lecture once he has found out. Prince? "
Atemu grinned broadly at the brown-haired girl. That was typical Mana! Cleo was just wondering how much this strange girl, who had jumped at Atemu, could talk in such a short time when Mana looked at her:
"Well? Who are you? I'm Mana. The Crown Prince's best friend!", She introduced herself.
"I've heard a lot about you. My name is Cleo"
"Nice to meet you, Cleo! So Atemu wrote about you in the letter. So you showed him the way home ... Thank you for bringing him back! Our Crown Prince has a sense of orientation like a stone!" "
"Hey!" Came it from Atemu.
Cleo laughed.
"I like her!", She said to Atemu.
"Yes, yes. You two would get along wonderfully! I thought so!"
The two girls grinned and Atemu laughed. Then he asked Mana:
"How do you get here anyway?"
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"Can you please say that again slowly so that we can understand something?" Asked the Crown Prince.
"I was supposed to be in the temple for a week and was on my way back when I suddenly recognized your hair and I rode here as fast as I could.Mahado and the others are over there, but I was just too fast. "
"Well-behaved"
Mana smiles like a dog that just got a treat.
"So come on, Prince! Get up we're going home"
Mana got up and pulled Atemu up.
"Take it easy!" he protested, but let himself be pulled to his feet.
"I'm coming on. Are you coming Cleo?"
But Cleo stayed seated.
"Cleo?" Atemu asked again.
"I brought you home. This is where our common path ends, Crown Prince"
"What? Mana please go ahead and tell the others that I'll be right there?"
Mana nodded and disappeared with her horse behind the next dune.
"Do you mean you won't come with me?"
"No. My life is here," Cleo replied. She was up in the meantime.
"Thank you, Atemu! You gave me my life back. I now know that I don't need to be bitter and that I can laugh again ... And who knows, one day I will forget what happened back then"
"I don't want you to go!" Atemu whispered softly.
"Why not?"
"Because I ... Because I love you!"
It was about Cleo! She wrapped her arms around Atemu and kissed him. The unexpected act on her part made the Crown Prince falter, but he soon returned the kiss. When his tongue asked for admission, she granted him it and their tongues began to play a game. For a brief moment the time stopped and Atemu wished the moment would never pass. Cleo's lips and tongue were slightly sweet and he enjoyed her tender, yet passionate kiss to the full, hoping that she loved him as he did. Finally, after a seemingly endless time, they broke the kiss, their embrace stayed. Cleo looked deeply into Atemu's eyes.
"I love you too," she breathed, closing her eyes and feelingly inhaled his scent.
Atemu was now sure that she would come with him. But then she let go of him.
"And that's exactly why I'm not allowed to be with you.I don't fit into your life, I would destroy you "
"B-But ..."
"Atemu please understand me! I cannot lock you in as my light in the darkness of my heart! You would go out at some point and I don't want that! Instead I release you and hope that one day you will be a light for someone else!"
As she said these words, she ran her fingertips over his cheek. One look into her eyes told Atemu that he couldn't change her mind and he nodded.
"Shall we meet again someday?"
"When I have managed my life so that I can love you, then I'll come back to you. But please don't wait for me"
Atemu nodded again and Cleo hugged him one last time. Very tight.
"Goodbye, Atemu. If we break the hug now, then turn around and run to your friends. They are already waiting for you. Don't look back!"
In response, Atemu squeezed her even tighter. Then they let go and immediately turned away from each other. Both ran in the opposite direction of the other. Cleo even ran. Atemu shouldn't see the tears in her eyes! Atemu's eyes were also moist when he made his way back to Mana, Mahado and the others.

"Pharaoh, a young lady wishes to see you," instructed Aknuadin Atemu. He had been on the throne for several years. When his father died at that time, he had taken over his role as Crown Prince. Atemu knitted his eyebrows. Could it really be? Could Cleo really have come back? Even if she had asked him to: he had waited! Every day for years he had hoped to watch her again ... to hold her again ... to kiss her again ...
"Let them step forward," ordered the Pharaoh, trying not to let the excitement show. Then the girl poked her head through the door. To Atemus' regret, her hair was pitch black. It wasn't Cleo! The girl came up to him slowly and deliberately."Well, what brings you here?", Atemu asked and looked at her curiously.
"A mutual friend. I think you know Cleo"
Atemu sat up and moved forward a little.
"Cleo"
The black-haired girl nodded.
"I'm your best friend. My name is Alexandra. I have something for you"
She walked slowly towards the throne. Once at the top, she pressed something into his hand. It was an amulet. Cleo's amulet! The amulet that had been so valuable to her because her father had given her. The amulet she had never taken off.
"I should give you this in case something happens to her"
Atemu looked at her with wide eyes.
"If something happens to her?"
Alexandra took a deep breath.
"She died some time ago. She was killed by a phantom," she replied tersely. She could see Atemu's face lose all of its color and tears gather in his eyes.
"I'm sorry!", Alexandra whispered.
"She was planning on coming back to you!"
"I'll see her again someday, I'm sure ... But not just yet! You, Alexandra? Will you tell me how Cleo lived after we parted ways?"


And for everyone who still wants a happy ending, I have the following:

"Come on Atemu, you will surely like the school!", Yugi said and pulled him with her.
Atemu had been back for a while. He should live his life to the end with Yugi and his friends.
"Yes, yes ... even Pharaohs have to go to school!" Said Joey.
"That means pharaohs, Joey!" Corrected Tea.
"Yes, dude. One shouldn't think that you go to school! Atemu is better than you!", Tristan said.
"Better THAN you, Tristan!", Tea sighed and everyone laughed.
When they arrived at school, they first sat down in the school yard. They still had a lot of time before class began. Suddenly a girl with blonde hair and poison green eyes came running towards the four of them."Tomorrow everyone together! Yugi, do you have the things for our presentation with you?"
"Of course Cleo"
"Cleo?" Asked Atemu.
"Yes, that's my name and what's your name? Are you Yugi's brother ... you look damn alike!"
"You could say that," said Joey.
"I- uh- so I'm Atemu"
"Nice to meet you!", Cleo smiled and sank into the wonderful magenta eyes that looked at her.


THE END


I hope you enjoyed it ^^