The Draconian Sapphire

Hey guys, I am SOOO sorry I didn't get this out before I switched providers....so I missed last week and this week. So as a present to you all, I am giving you two chapters. I am currently writing chapter 8 and most likely by the end of the weekend will have chapter 9 started. Unlike the first one, this won't be fast, as I have a ton of ideas running through my head, so hang on for the ride!



Chapter 4

"As for you two, what is going on." Joey asked the Pharaoh and his light


"What do you mean?" Atemu said


"What I mean is why haven't you two consummated your marriage that Father performed for you?" Joey asked them, now sitting up


"The time hasn't felt right." Atemu said and at that Seto narrowed his eyes


"Want to try that again?" Seto said, his voice lower then normal


"We have kissed, and touched each other, but the urge for more just hasn't been there." Yugi said blushing fiercely


"At our wedding if we hadn't stopped you, you would have done it then. Why can't you now? And don't tell me that it is because you don't feel the attraction because that is bullshit." Seto said sitting up slightly so that he was able to look directly at the pair


"You two are soul mates, like me and Seto. How can you not want sex?" Joey asked them, feeling like he was missing a piece of a puzzle.


"We don't know. We just don't. I know that Ryou and Malik are no longer virgins, but I have tried to feel more, but it feels like something is blocking us." Yugi said as tears began to fall.


"Maybe there is." a voice said from the doorway


"Father?" Joey said as Apollo came inside


"Katsuya, if you remember, we still have no discovered who placed the curse on you, perhaps there is more to it then that. Remember that this is the first time that Yugi has been born, so if there was a curse on the Pharaoh's light, this would be the first instance of it. The question remains, who knew that Yugi existed. Only I, Ra, my Father, and Osiris knew that Yugi existed, and of course Atemu. Seth knew as well, but both of them would not have said anything. Tell me Pharaoh, did you ever mention your soul mate?" Alen said as he came further into the room and sat down on the stool that was by the balcony window.


"Once. There was a dignitary that had arrived from Greece and he had brought a slave girl with him. He wanted me to take her as a gift but I declined. The reason I gave him was I was remaining chaste for my soul mate. Jono came into the room at that time, as even though he was a Priest, he did act much like my personal bodyguard. The dignitary looked almost...shocked...when he saw Jono and offered the girl as well. Jono also declined stating that his soul mate would skin him alive if he touched another human being. It was later that day that Seth proposed to Jono and..." Atemu said and at that last bit Alen gasped and halted the speech


"That day. That day was Jono's birthday. The day you both turned down the slave girl in favour of your soul mates?" Alen said in a rush, trying to pin down the day


"Yes, I remember it clearly because Seth made a big production of it as there was feast for the dignitary and Seth proposed to Jono at the beginning of the feast, and it turned into the party for the two of them." Atemu said. He then saw the look of shock on both Joey and Alen's face as another of the puzzle began to fall into place


"That...that was Jono's 20th birthday. That was why the curse triggers on his birthday. It was laid on his birthday." Alen said rage flowing through him


"So if they had made love to each other after that night, it would never have triggered?" Seto said as he watched the two of them nodded.


"So...we know what exactly Jono's curse was. He had to make love to his soul mate before the end of his 20th birthday, so what is Yugi's curse?" Joey said as his father looked perplexed


"I wish I knew. If I had not witnessed what had happened, I would not have been able to figure out Jono's. Yugi's might be a bit more to it. Little Light, you said that while you want to make love to Atem, you feel that something blocks you, is this correct?" Alen said as Yugi nodded


"And what about you Pharaoh? Do you feel the same way?" Alen asked the Pharaoh


"Not exactly. I do not feel the block, but I feel the terror from Yugi if I attempt to push the issue. So while I have no issue with completing it, I can not hurt him like that." Atemu said


"How far exactly have you attempted to push it?" Alen asked and they both went red at that question


"Yug' I know this is making ya feel uncomfortable, but if we are to break it, we gotta know where it is. Besides, what is said, isn't leaving this room. None of the others are gonna know what is going on." Joey said and Seto nodded in agreeing to this.


"He...uh...he...um...." Yugi said stammering in embarrassment. Joey sighed as he realized that Yugi was just too embarrassed to say anything, so looking at his love, he took his hand and squeezed it gently and stood up


"Go down to the garden Little Dragon." Alen said suspecting that Yugi was too embarrassed to say anything.


Nodding, Joey walked over to Yugi, and wrapped his arm around his shoulders and led him out of the room. Closing the doors, Alen motioned the Pharaoh to where Seto was resting and they both sat on the bed.


"Since I am I guess your guardian, as Katsuya is Yugi's, spill. What exactly do you feel when you attempt to touch him?" Seto said, in a no-nonsense voice


"Well, everything feels fine, until I move to his genitals. When I do so, I get a feeling of abject terror from him, however visually it looks more like...well he scrunches his face, like he is in pain. But he says he is fine. As soon as I move away and kiss anywhere else, he is fine, and I can feel him enjoying my touch again. We tried it a few times in the beginning, but he was so scared of hurting me, as it appears that despite the feelings I get from him, he really isn't in any pain; that we just stopped trying and we just masturbate in front of each other, which seems to be fine. It appears that as long as I don't touch him there, we can enjoy ourselves. Even 'toys' is a problem. I try to move anything near him and the defensive mechanism takes over again." Atemu said frankly, yet blushing fiercely


"That is very strange indeed. I have never heard of a curse like that." Alen said thoughtfully, trying to figure out what exact curse had been placed.


"It sounds like what was placed was something to prevent you from taking pleasure in your soul mate. Whomever this dignitary was, he sure was pissed at you." Seto said


"If that is the case, with that reasoning, then while he must have been pissed at me, he HATED Jono. Why would he place a curse on him that would kill him?" Atemu said thoughtfully back


"Very true. So we are dealing with someone that maybe knew Jono?" Seto said but Alen shook his head in the negative


"That would be nearly impossible. My home is on Mt. Olympus and Jono was raised there. It was only in the Temple that he interacted with humans. And there, only the oracle could speak. Though..." Alen said


"What?" Seto said, curious now


"Well I did not mention it to that Tristan boy, but he, Jono and that Duke boy were best friends. Or more specifically Duke and Tristan, though that is not what their names were then, were together and Jono was their playmate. I wanted him to interact with others, so honestly if we are going to find out who did this, it would have to start with them three. Which means Atem, the others are going to have to know. Not obviously the details. We promised to keep it between us, but Duke and Tristan are going to have to talk with their souls to see if we can track down the last piece of the puzzle. Who the man was that hated my son, and was determined to make Atem pay for rejecting his slave, in favour of love." Alen said


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Joey led Yugi down to the Gazebo that was by the cliffs that Apollo's home was on. Unlike Seto's mansion that had a cove that was inaccessible without a lift, Apollo had created a pathway down to the hidden beach. But for now, Joey sat down at the Gazebo's table. As he did, one of his father's priests came by and asked if they wanted anything to drink or eat. Joey asked for a Tapas of cheeses and olives, with a few breads with a apple cider, and Yugi asked for a fruit bowl of strawberries and watermelon. Joey allowed him to be silent, thinking about how he was going to describe his non-existent sex life. As the priest came back, he bent low at Joey, as they had been taught to revere Joey and his brothers as the Sons of Apollo.


At first Joey had found it strange and rather embarrassing, but like he had gotten used to the servants at the mansion, he had gotten used to the attention. Yugi on the other hand, still seemed nervous, even though Ishizu had arranged for the distribution of Atemu's wealth, and they had their own house of servants that attended him and Atemu. Only in private though, did Atemu call Yugi his Queen, as he could tell that the title embarrassed him, and considering that they were unable to consummate their marriage, it was a touchy subject


As they finished their small meal, Joey sat back and looked at his little friend. Yugi was still silent, and thinking himself just how was he going to describe things.


"Come on Yug' spill. You have gone on for nearly a year lusting after Atem, and now that you have him, why haven't you gone through with it?" Joey said to him


"Joey, I want to...I really do, but when he tries to touch me there, it feels like a pressure on me. Almost like I am in water and trying to hold my breath, but I am running out of air...you remember that feeling right?" Yugi said reminding him of when Marik took over Joey's mind and the Millennium Puzzle was thrown into the ocean floor


"Yeah I remember...only too well..." Joey said with a wistful voice.


"The nightmares...they are getting worse aren't they?" Yugi said remembering the nights that he had woken up to find Joey thrashing on the bed with him, sobbing incoherently.


"Yeah, first night they returned scared the living hell out of Seto. And Father. Though I think Seto seeing Father naked was worse." Joey said with a slight grin, remembering that night that his father had shown up, attuned to Joey's state of mind at the time and popped into their bedroom to find out what was wrong with his youngest son. Only to see him in a state of distress that had been worse then what Johfrit had gone through, after that particular's son's first battle. The scars that Mariku had left him, compiled with the beatings that he had suffered had given him such nightmares that if Osiris had not assured him that the Marik that was present was NOT the one that had hurt Joey, he would have killed him


"Have you talked with anyone about the nightmares?" Yugi said concerned with him


"No, but you are distracting me. We are here to talk about you. You said it is like a pressure..." Joey said trying to steer him away from his own problems


"Yeah, and when he moves away from anywhere from below the belt...so to speak...the pressure goes away and I feel fine." Yugi said, still blushing but not as badly as before

"Well have you tried blindfolds? If ya can't see him, ya can't react to him." Joey said with sudden insight


"No...no we haven't! That's a great idea!" Yugi said and leapt off of the chair and ran around to his best friend.


"Well you should try it. And go slowly. Very slowly. The pressure is there, but try to breathe as well. Try feathers as well, they might help." Joey said nuzzling Yugi's hair, softly stroking the back of his head as well.


"Are you okay now Aibou?" Atemu said as the others had left Seto in the room so that he could rest. Alen and Atemu headed down to the Gazebo after speaking to one of the priests and they had told him where their young master was.


"Yes Atem, I am okay. Joey gave me a great idea and I wanna try it tonight!" Yugi said, his cheeks scarlet, but not stopping his train of thought


"Very well, we will try again" Atemu said, his eyes gleaming in anticipation.


"Pharaoh, you need to calm down and relax as well. If you are too eager, it will blend with what is happening. Relax, and don't think of joining with Yugi, but think of pleasuring him. It might help if your feelings are not the mating, but just the feelings before." Alen said to the young Pharaoh


"I will try." Atemu said, leaving out how much he wanted his little light. They had already made love to each other in the soul room, and had done so after having their own bodies, but he was eager to make it a reality and it was frustrating to him.


"As frustrating as it is Pharaoh, if you show those feelings it will be your downfall." Alen said reading the mind of the young one.


"My Light is a tempting treat..." Atemu said without thought and as Yugi blushed fiercely, Joey began laughing.


"Hmm...yes...anyways I shall let you go. I am sure my son wants to spend the afternoon with Seto, and I still have work to do." Alen said wrapping his hand around the young Pharaoh and his light.


"Is Seto still awake?" Joey said to the back of his Father


"Yes, though I suspect that he will not stay that way. Your husband does not 'do' idle" Alen said with a smirk in his voice


"No, no he doesn't" Joey said with a grin, thinking about his dragon, prone in bed and all alone


"Hentai...." Joey heard his father chuckle as he walked away with the Pharaoh


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Joey headed up to the room, anxious to see his lover. Being a bit sore from the previous night, he didn't want to have sex again, at least for a few days. But given Seto's condition, it might be longer, and he already missed his lover's body. Unlike his brother's, he had not gained his final height that the rest of them had achieved, and he was still the shortest of them at 6'0. Coming into the room, he could see the soft planes of his face, the beautiful red-brown eyelashes that graced his porcelain skin. Lingering in the door, he just softly watched his lover sleep, as he had been enjoying this action for the last six months since their marriage.


"Are you come over here or not?" a voice said from the bed, with a slight grin


"I can never sneak up on you.." Joey said coming over to Seto's bedside and crawled into the bed, as his lover moved his arm, so that he could tuck himself to the side of himself.


"Your scent will always give you away Katsu" Seto said leaning down and kissing his wife's forehead


"I can not control it around you." Joey said, kissing the right side of his lover's chest.


"I know." Seto said nuzzling his hair


"By the way, Mokie is okay. We already told him what was going on and he is okay. He is gonna stay with Grandma on Delos until things are settled. That way Yoshi won't be able to get near him." Joey said remembering that he hadn't told Seto about Mokuba


"I can't think of a safer place for him, other then Mt. Olympus." Seto said relieved that his brother was going to be safe.


"So...since we are gonna be staying here a few days..." Joey said and even though he could not feel it, he could sense the frown that marred his Dragon's beautiful features


"No. Don't even think about it. I said no." Seto said knowing he was going to try to approach the notion again of them moving in.


"You aren't even going to try to consider it, aren't you?" Joey said frowning himself at his husband's stubborn attitude


"I may not like that house, but it is my house." Seto said, having a feeling that a couple of other points were going to be addressed shortly

"Then let's get another one. One that is ours, but closer to Father. That is a good compromise, isn't it?" Joey said hopeful


"I will think about it." Seto said, allowing this one victory. The other two issues that he knows his husband was going to be discussing where ones that he was not sure if he was going to be as magnanimous about.


"You know what else I want to talk to you about, don't you." Joey said, sensing the tense body of his husband


"One I am willing to talk to you about, the other is Not Happening." Seto said, feeling his husband's body slightly shake. He then felt him move his head upwards and Seto looked down at him, seeing the pearly tears in his eyes


"Then we will discuss the Not Happening. Joh loves you. You know this. If I had a problem with this, then I would have said something. But I don't. He takes Seth with Jono, why can't you allow him this." Joey said, a few of the tears falling


"I have dreamed of you, and only you for 3 years. I am not interested in pursuing any other relationships. Why can't you see that. This is MY BODY we are discussing. Seth and Jono do not have any issues with sharing but I do." Seto said, softly stroking his lover's face


"We are not talking about relationships. Joh needs you. He doesn't feel complete, and he doesn't touch Seth as often as he should. Jono is very possessive of Seth, and for the most part it is a rare thing for Jono to allow Joh to be with him. But Joh has not topped. Nor will he. He doesn't feel it is right, as that right belongs to the soul mate. He is asking YOU to take him." Joey said, hesitant to follow through with the insights that he had gathered.


"There's more to it, isn't there." Seto said, sensing that there was more to it


"Joh is a Seme. But he has given all control to you both. He doesn't have his soul mate, the one person that would make him complete, the one that would fill his soul. He loves you both, because you both are so reminiscent of this person, but Joh's soul mate was a gentle soul. You know this. You spoke to him in the soul room." Joey said, with slight tears in his eyes. Both him and Jono were both individuals that enjoyed both aspects of Uke and Seme, but only Jono got to experience this. Which was the other subject Joey wanted to discuss with his bed-ridden husband.


"I know...and I wasn't supposed to tell you, but we are trying to figure out a way for the soul mates of the boys to come out. Seth has been sensing that something had been seriously wrong with the three of them, and wanted to help them. From what we can tell, only me and Seth look like each other. The other souls do not look like us. We don't know why that is, but Joh's soul mate was a red head that was beautiful. From what I remembered, he had fiery red hair and arctic blue eyes. He had our height, and he was chaste and pure...after a fashion." Seto said quietly speaking.


"What do you mean Set?" Joey said confused


"There was only one of our souls that was not a technical virgin. Mentally he was, as he had not willingly given himself, but physically, he had taken a woman. She had tricked him with a magical item and forced him to marry her and give her children. Inside of himself, he knew who he was, and he was grieving the loss of Johfrit, as Arthur had told him of his soul mate and the struggle he had to be with him. He vowed to be as chaste as his mate, and like Joh, serve Arthur. Arthur condemned the woman into forcing him, remembering what had happened. After Joh's death, the Grail disappeared and all of the other knights did not have any memory of Joh or the Grail, all but Arthur, who kept his secrets. When he tried again, when the soul was 15, the age that Joh had told Arthur that he was going to take him as his husband, Arthur made him a knight of his table." Seto said, knowing that he had said too much, and that Seth was going to kick his ass.


"Seto, who was Joh's soul mate?" Joey said trying to remember who all the knights of the round table was


"Bors de Ganis. The only knight to return from the search for the Grail. When Lancelot died and Arthur was laid to rest, Bors returned to the Temple of Osiris and asked to be taken to Joh. Osiris denied him, as he was no longer pure, even if it was not his fault. He then returned to Constantinople and lived with his son that the union had created. He had laid with her once, but that was all that it took. Because of the nature of his history, and perhaps as a throw-off to the legacy of Joh, Arthur allowed him to continue the search for the Grail, knowing that he was no longer pure. Only in his mind, did the image of Joh keep him sane, knowing that one day, they would be together. When he and the others found it, it destroyed the others, as they did not have the right to touch it. Bors was able to, because of Seth and his lives before. As well, it remembered who his soul mate was and the other half of the soul, the Pharaoh's light. That was when Bors first laid eyes on the soul and any impurity he had was removed. It also awoke his priest powers, long dormant, and with that, hid away the Grail from all mankind. It resides now in a place that only he will ever know. " Seto said, remembering the conversation that he had had with Bors when he was finding out about his lives. After Bors, the souls had gone downhill from there. All of them would not go near another woman, a few of them had become woman haters and devout Christians.


"Bors was the turning point of your lives wasn't he?" Joey asked now curious


"Yes, afterwards, I only had three lives afterwards. One of them, the last one before myself, was a horrible defiler of children, more specifically of women. He hated them because of the memory of the betrayal of Bors, that had denied him entry to where Joh was. It also knew that your cycle had ended for a time. It wasn't going to let you be reborn for a long time." Seto said with a tear in his eyes.


"Set, I already forgave you for your lives. Your soul is cleansed now." Joey said softly kissing his chest in comfort


"Well, that isn't going to help with figuring out what to do. Bors I know would willingly live again, to be with Joh, but the others..." Seto said slightly blushing


"What?" Joey said, knowing not much could make his soul mate blush


"Jorrin's soul mate is a girl. As is Jorma's." Seto said just waiting to hear the laughter. When he didn't get it, he looked down at his wife.


"I rather suspected as much. It would explain why they aren't interested in Seth's bed. They aren't homosexuals." Joey said thoughtfully and Seto looked at him, with surprise


"I thought you all were?" Seto said with a bit of incredulity in his voice. Joey then just smiled at him like he was a dumb child


"Seto we are whatever we need to be for our soul mate. Both me and Jono were born Homosexual because our soul mate was male. Joh is not as his soul mate was not born with him. He would have been gay if Bors had been born. Jorrin and Jorma are the ones in limbo because they had no interaction with their soul mate. So they are what they are. Hetero." Joey explained


"So is that why Joh doesn't use Lube?" Seto said with a bit of a tongue in cheek at remembering a conversation he had with Seth.


"I won't pretend that I know Joh's reasons. If you want to ask him that, you will have to ask him yourself. But be warned. He hasn't told us either. He doesn't tell us much about his feelings, other then wanting you. My honest feelings, is that you should say no, and work on your pet project. I think that if you managed to get Bors out, Joh will very quickly forget about you and will dissolve his marriage to Seth in a heartbeat. Course the second one will be him buried into Bors." Joey said with a smile.


"He really was going to wait until Bors could be in a relationship?" Seto asked now a bit more at ease, knowing that while Joey did not have a problem with Joh joining them, he too felt that it would not be right for Johfrit.


"Yes, he told Arthur often about it. He did not feel that until then it would be right." Joey said remembering the memories that he had with Joh.


"That was when Arthur first told Bors about Joh. Until then, he had only dreamt about a blond god." Seto said remembering as well


"Blond God eh?" Joey said with a smirk, that even Seto could feel against him


"Yes Katsu....you do realize that you and your brothers are sex on wheels right?" Seto said referring to a comment that Mokuba had used to describe his brother in laws.


"Blame dad...it's his looks. Though we got Mom's libido" Joey said and then showed him just what he meant. Moving his hand down his lover's chest and across the fantastic abs that Seto religiously kept up, he traced a finger along them. "I miss you already..." Joey said with a wistful voice.


"A few days without sex won't hurt us, though I know it will make you feel good. I am sorry I am so rough with you. Most of the time I can't help it." Seto said softly stroking and nuzzling Joey's head


"As Dad said this morning, your appetites are larger then ours. Besides, it's not as if I am complaining, far from it." Joey said gently stroking the abs, touching him softly and lightly, feeling him tremble. It was one of his favourite ways of teasing the cold CEO, as it made him very quickly hot.


"I know, and the last issue I know you want to discuss. It is hard for me to give up control. I know I haven't said anything about what Gozaburo did to me, but I just can't. I did love feeling you inside me, and it made me feel so full and wonderful, but it's so hard..." Seto said, a tremor in his voice that Joey had not heard in his voice ever


"Shhh Ryuu (a/n - Dragon in Japanese)...I have not pushed you. I know just how hard it is for you. The fact that you let me into your life is enough. You give me great pleasure, and even if I never have the privilege of ever taking you again, it is enough." Joey said though wistful at the end

"Just give me time..." Seto said as a promise to him


"We have all the time in the world." Joey said to him in agreement.

Stay tuned for Chapter 5 which is right up!