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1 A/N- Serena comes into the story; her name has been changed to Neith.
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2 Thanks for reading- Black Rose
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4 Ra's Daughters
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5 By
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6 Black Rose
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9 Chapter 4
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10 The Eye of the Storm
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11
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12 A woman with long blonde hair was pacing around her daughter's
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13 room as she waited for her to return. She was Neith, the Queen of
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14 Egypt: she was a kind and loving person, a fair ruler whom her people
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15 loved. At the moment, Neith was very worried; she didn't know were
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16 her daughter was.
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17 Neith put all thoughts of how terrified her duaghter must have been
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18 out of her mind as she saw that the eye of the strom was directly
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19 above her; she could only watch and wait for now.
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20 "Ramla" she whispered to herself. As she looked up into the sky she
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21 saw bird fly towards her. She had never seen such a beautiful bird:
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22 nor indeed a bird that even remotely resmebled the one that was now
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23 flying towards her. It was lager than the majority of the birds in
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24 their land, and its plumage was as gold as the sands and as red as
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25 the sun. It was beautiful, yes, but there was something ominous about
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26 its presence… something unearthly. As the bird got closer, it landed
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27 right in front of her and bowed. Neith's eyes widened as realisation
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28 struck her.
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29 "Is that a Phoenix?" she wondered and, to her shock, the bird nodded
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30 its head as if it had heard her thoughts. She looked into its eyes
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31 and saw Ra's symbol. She covered her mouth with her hands as she
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32 gasped in shock. The bird began to sing a sweet, enchanting melody,
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33 and Neith, who now felt more tranquil than she could ever remember
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34 feeling before, closed her eyes and sat down next to it. She started
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35 to hum along with it: the two together produced such beautful harmony
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36 that it could be heared it all over the kingdom. A ray of light
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37 landed on them, but Neith did not notice: she simply sat there, deep
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38 within her own thoughts.
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39 "So, this is Ra's Phoenix, I have this feeling in my heart that its
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40 here to help, the song that its singing… I feel it's trying to tell
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41 me something."
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42 Images began to flash through her mind: she saw her daughter and
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43 another woman talk to Ra himself, she also saw the Ra talking to his
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44 wife, Selkhet: then it moved to Selkhet talking to what looked like
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45 one of her Priestesses, and then it moved to that Priestesses talking
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46 to her daughter and that other woman.
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47 Neith opened her eyes to see that the Phoenix was set in her lap
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48 sleeping.
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49 "Well, at less I knew she is well," she said, petting the bird and
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50 smiling slightly. Then something caught her eye, something that made
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51 her jump: her daughter, Ramla, and her dark-haired friend had come
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52 into view, and when she looked again she realised that the Priestess
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53 of Selkhet was also with them.
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54 ********
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55 The great Pharaoh sat on his throne, hearing nothing within his mind
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56 but a song that spoke of utter peace and tranquility. His eyes were
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57 closed and he was also in deep thought.
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58 "Is that my wife, and is that also a bird singing with her, what is
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59 going on here?"
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60 As the Pharaoh was thinking, a young man in a priest's outfit that
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61 bore the symbol of Anubis walked into the throne room. He was
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62 strangely colourless, his hair and even his eyes being eerily white
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63 of hue, even at his young age. He walked to the foot of the Pharaoh's
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64 throne and bowed.
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65 The Pharaoh opened his eyes and saw the high priest of Anubis bowing
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66 to him. He sat up stiffly and gave the younger man a look of utter
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67 venom.
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68 "What do you want, Priest? I did not call for you, so why do you
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69 present yourself to me?"
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70 The Priest didn't look up, merely stayed in his bowed down position,
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71 averting his colourless gaze away from the Pharaoh's darker orbs.
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72 "I'm sorry, my Pharaoh, but I need to tell you something," he said,
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73 a malicious smirk forming on his face, though his voice was grave in
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74 tone so the Pharaoh realised nothing of his true intentions.
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75 The Pharaoh was beginning to get agitated now; he could have done
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76 without interruption from the Priest. He just looked over at one of
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77 his guards and nodded darkly. The guard bowed back to his Pharaoh;
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78 then walked over to the priest and kicked hard in the side so that he
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79 fell to the floor in a heap. The priest cried out in pain and
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80 clutched his side. The guard looked up to his Pharaoh, and saw him
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81 nod. He kicked him one more time and walked back to his post.
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82 The pharaoh was not happy; the song of trasnquility had stopped. He
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83 sat back down on his throne, his expression bitter and steely.
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84 "Well, High Priest of Anubis, what do you wish to tell me that is so
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85 important that it cannot wait until I summon you into my presence,"
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86 he asked, the anger clearly audible in his voice
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87 The colourless young man got ahold of himself and answered his
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88 pharaoh, trying his best to keep both emotion and pain from his voice
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89 as he spoke.
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90 "My Pharaoh, it is about you daughter the Princess," he said,
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91 knowing that that would get him what he wanted.
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92 The Pharaoh eyes widened, and he stared down at this priest that was
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93 going to soon be married to his one and only daughter.
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94 "What has happened to her? Because if anything has happened to her
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95 it will be you life," the Pharaoh hissed in a voice laced with pure
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96 malice. He may have never been open to his feeling for his daughter
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97 or for his wife for that matter, but deep down he loved them both
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98 very much.
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99 The priest just smiled; this was just what he had wanted to happen.
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100 "Great Pharaoh, your daughter is fine, as is your wife: at least for
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101 now. However I had a vision recently that showed that a woman with
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102 black hair and strangely violet eyes will will come to take both your
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103 daughter and this kingdom from you. I also saw a birdlike fire with
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104 her," he told, keeping the laughter in his mind completely separate
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105 from his voice.
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106 "Well, this should be good, very soon I will be the greatest
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107 Pharaoh, and you will be dead along with that wife of yours." His
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108 face retained only seriousness, but inside he was laughing.
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109 The Pharaoh toke this information in and closed his eyes. "You may
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110 go, Priest," he said with a wave of his hand. The Priest bowed and
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111 left, back to the temple of Anubis, smiling the whole time. When he
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112 was gone the Pharaoh opened his eyes again and looked around his
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113 throne room. Something about this Priest was just didn't feel right:
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114 he closed his eyes again and fell into his own thoughts.
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115 ******
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116 In Ra's Temple, three young ladies were looking out the window that
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117 the phoenix had flown out of the day before. They looked at one
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118 another and nodded, then ran out of the temple and followed the
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119 phoenix's course to the Palace. As they ran, Nakia stopped and looked
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120 up in the Eye of Ra. Ramla stopped when she saw that Nakia wasn't
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121 running with her: instead of continuing, she turned around and saw
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122 her friend looking up at something. The sun was hitting her hair in
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123 such a way that it made her look as if she were not a mere mortal but
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124 a goddess. Ramla's heart was betting very fast now, and couldn't keep
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125 her eyes off Nakia…
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126 "She's so beautiful: I have never felt like this before; a part of
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127 me just wants to run in her arms and never leave them," she thought.
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128 Nakia felt the warm of the sun on her face, but she could also feel
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129 someone watching her, and it was making her uncomfterble. She turned
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130 her head to see Ramla's garnet orbs transfixed on her, then felt a
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131 blush creep into her pale cheeks as she noted her friend's almost
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132 ethereal beauty in that light. As their eyes met, she saw that the
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133 princess was staring at her in longing… no, not longing; the
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134 expression in her eyes was too warm for that to have been the case.
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135 The emotion she could see in Ramla's eyes was something far deeper
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136 thanl longing…
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137 "I feel something, something that I have not felt in along time. A
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138 part of me wants to hold her, and never let go."
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139 The two stood there looking at one another, then Sanura ran up to
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140 Palace to see her Queen sitting there: the phoenix resting in her
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141 lap. Then she heared it, the song, a joyus melody to which seemed the
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142 epitome of bliss itself. She walked closer towards the Palace and saw
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143 that not only was the phoenix singing: so was the Queen. She moved to
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144 the Queen's side just as her eyes opened and the melodious singing
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145 ended. Sanura looked over to where the Queen was staring, and saw
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146 what it was that had interested her so. Two beautiful young ladies
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147 were staring at eachother in an emotion no less than pure love… two
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148 beautiful young ladies that they both knew...
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149
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150 Ramla and Nakia felt someone looking at them; they turned to see
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151 Ramla's mother and Sanura looking at them and smiling at them. Ramla
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152 turned back Nakia, smiled and held out her hand to her friend. Nakia
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153 felt her heart jump when she saw this: she walked up to her and took
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154 her hand in her own. They smiled at each other and walked over to the
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155 two women that were waiting for them.
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158
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159 A/N- Hope you like this chapter eheheh; I hope to have the next one
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