Heroo 3 - Koriboh

Tea put her hands in front of her face so that she could just see over her fingertips. It really was him, he was here, in her world and time ... The great Pharaoh she had missed so much and her heart jumped when she saw him standing in front of her with Yugi.
Tristan scratched the back of his head indecisively. It was just weird to see that Yugi stood in front of him twice, even if it was more than visible that I was talking about two different people. Atemu was taller and his skin bronze colored, Yugi a good ten centimeters shorter, pale and his eyes were bigger and more open to everything that was going on around him.
Duke shrugged his shoulders, it didn't matter to him that they looked so alike, it wouldn't be any different with siblings or maybe even with cousins ​​... but he had to admit inwardly that he was also happy to see his friend again.
Joey picked up Tea's bag and sighed, "Take care of your stuff."
Yugi stood right in front of Atemu and looked at him. He smiled kindly and then jumped at him. "Welcome home Pharaoh! Nice to have you back!"
"Yugi ...", somewhat reminiscent of Mana, he hugged the friend and then looked at his friends. "I'm happy to see you again. But please don't call me Pharaoh, that's inappropriate at this time. You are also my friends, not my entourage or my servants."
"No ... breath ..."
"Atemu ...", he corrected Tea, who blushed slightly: "But ..."
"Of course, you as Japanese don't know any better. You all like to swallow letters and especially the U at the end. However, this is an Egyptian name and not Japanese, so the pronunciation is ATEMU and not ATEM," Duke explained.
"Oh well, then I don't care for Atemu! We're all together again!" Grinned Joey and patted Atemu on the shoulder. "I don't care why you're there, but it is certain that you need something to eat first. I don't feel like going to class anyway, let's skip and eat something! What do you get to eat in the realm of the dead ?!"
"You want to skip ?!", Tea stared at him: "That doesn't work! We can just take you to class, and after the 6th I have to wait for the exchange student who will be living with me for a few weeks from today. Mine Parents told me again that I had to take care of it. "
"Hm ?!" Tristan raised an eyebrow. "Yes, you said something like that ..."
Before the class started, Tea had said that her parents had accepted an exchange student who was only to stay with them for a few weeks. The girl was her age at 16 and a year younger than the boys who would graduate this year, their final year together before each set out on their own dream.
"I would like to meet her too. What I heard, the parallel class is over the moon because of you, an exotic ...", Duke remembered and winked at Joey: "If you're lucky, I'll leave your sister happy, then you can you choose Tristan as a brother-in-law. ""What ?!", Joey turned around to Tristan: "You buried my sister! Behind my back? What are you thinking of ..."
"Boys ...!", Atemu suppressed a laugh. "How about if you go to class and I sit on the roof. When you're done, you can pick me up there again and then let's go ..."; he paused ... "Well ... you can eat something then, I'm afraid I have no money for it ..." When he looked down at himself he really had neither ID nor money or anything else with which he could make a life here. When he was still in Yugi's body, he hadn't needed it because Yugi had shared everything with him. But it was different now. Now he was alone and it would only be fair who he would pay for his own living.
"We can do that!", Joey assured, who was pulled away from Tea.
"Yes, see you later!", Yugi waved to him and followed his friends.

"I'm back here ...", Atemu stood at the grating that had been attached to the roof as protection against falls and looked over the school yard and down at Domino City. All the students who were sweating in their sportswear on the sports field and the others who were enjoying their extended lunch break in their blue and pink uniforms in the courtyard were a familiar sight. Up here, so close to heaven, he was just one of many and yet he felt that, unlike everyone else here, he was a bit out of place. Something in him longed for the sand ... the hot, scorching sun that was born by Nut and swallowed up in the evening ...
However, he was here now and in this city there was a lot that was worth being here for. Not just his search, but rather his friends. It had been nice to see them and that he would walk this path with them again was reassuring.
If he remembered correctly then Mahado and Mana would also help him as black magician and black magician girl. In addition, Koriboh should help him, even if in this case he couldn't imagine how the brown, plushy, loving bouncy ball should be of help to him.
He grabbed his hip as if to get his cards out of his card pocket and look at them ... but when he felt nothing, only the linen, he winced. He had no more cards ... What was supposed to support him was locked in the cards, but he didn't even have them available. He could neither duel nor see the images of his friends' kas. They were further away than he realized. Even during his time with Yugi, the Black Magician and the Black Magician Girl were always close to him, visible and tangible.
He closed his eyes, just for a moment, when he was enveloped in warmth that couldn't be compared to the sun. A lukewarm, mild wind rose, as it had when he had hiked in the desert. He felt the gusts gathering around his feet and the sand being blown out."Ati ?!", a familiar voice ripples him ... not Pharaoh, Prince, Lord or Atemu, no, a nickname ... the name that only few people used, his mother and father when they were alone and ... When he tried to close his eyes open, he looked towards the sun. He wasn't able to do more than a blink, but it was the silhouette that had leaned over him. Long black hair flowed towards him and lay on his shoulder and chest. Shortly afterwards, strange lips gently touched his and the voice he had just heard could be heard again.
"Did you sleep well? Ra means particularly well today with the heat of midday ..."
"Hm?", He tried to see more, but because she had the sun behind her, it was almost impossible to see anything more than shadows. "The season fits. If it were different, we would have to take care of it."
"Maybe. Well, it can't be hot enough for me anyway, but I'm worried about you. You should have a drink before your father scolds me for not paying enough attention to you and Mana tears my head down because I'm hers "Let my beloved prince wither", the mischief in the clear voice was unmistakable, because he took the water hose from her and drank from it without contradiction.
"Cold ...", as he said it, he realized that it almost surprised him that the water from this hose was cold and ... "What's in there?", He had a strange taste in his mouth and felt something strange he wasn't used to.
"Water from an oasis. It is just not filtered as you are used to and yes it is cold, but if you want, you can get the filtered one that we took with us. That should be warm by now and taste pretty disgusting."
"Well then ...", he was surprised that he didn't get excited, but drank. "Tell me…"
"No ...", she interrupted him in mid-sentence without actually knowing what he wanted. "I think it would be wrong if you don't go back today. You are expected, my heart, and I'm not yet ready to feel at home in the wall of the pharaohs residence. I'm still a child of the desert ... I'm sorry , but you will have to wait, please don't ask so much of me. "
"A lot ?!", he pushed his hands on the floor to get into the sitting position, but the light blinded him so that he had to make an effort to look at her. "This is ... How much longer? Don't get me wrong, I like to wait, but it just gets on my nerves that I have to see the princesses again and again. It would be easier if you came, that would also be my mother and father satisfied. Since I have no sisters from my mother's point of view, the succession to the throne is not as certain as my father would like it to be ... "
"Ati ...", she sighed deeply and her eyes protruded against the sunlight, shining like liquid gold that I mixed with a trace of brown."Have a little patience with me, my family is not to be trifled with."
"You are the daughter of a high-ranking priestess in the Temple of Isis ... your mother is directly subordinate to mine. I don't understand what I ... we should wait for," he pulled her closer and tried to see her features, but again the sun made him one Dashed the bill.
"You know ... you still have to be content with my brown friend for the time being", she came closer to him again and kissed him so tenderly that his eyes closed. As soon as they were closed again, the heat disappeared and it became a few degrees cooler ...
Taking a deep breath, he opened his eyes and found himself on the roof of the school building. The noise of the students had increased, which probably meant that the last lesson was over and the regular lunch break had begun. The voices of his friends could be heard on the stairs, bringing him back from his dream for good.
"Atemu!", Joey yelled up to him while Atemu got up and lost a whole deck of cards that had been lying on his lap.
"What ?!", confused, he knelt on the roof and picked up one card after the other. Elven swordsman, Gaia, Black Magician Girl, Black Magician, Knight of the King, Queen and Booths, Watapon, Obelisk, Slifer, Giant Shield Gardner and his other spells and trap cards that he had used again and again recently, Ra was missing ... this card was gone and all the other cards were there ... 40 cards still room for 10 others that he could add at his own discretion, whereby the deck, as it was, bore his own signature. There ... the last one was on the parapet and when Atemu wanted to pick it up, Joey stormed at him from behind. "Hey