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1 Ra's Daughters | |
2 By Black Rose | |
3 Chapter Two | |
4 Storm of Fire | |
5 Moonpower02@Hotmail.com | |
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7 A/N: Alright Diana will be introduced in this chapter, but her name | |
8 here is Sanura: she is also a human, not a cat. Anyway, I hope I got | |
9 the tenses right this time… eheehhe- Black Rose | |
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11 Ra's Daughters | |
12 By Black Rose | |
13 | |
14 Chapter Two- Storm of Fire | |
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16 Ra sat on his throne petting his phoenix, which was pearched | |
17 above him on the back of his gilded, golden throne. His eyes had a | |
18 glazed look to them, as he was currently deep in thought. The phoenix | |
19 had its eyes completely closed, and is was singing a haunting tune | |
20 that, though quiet, filled the enitre room. | |
21 "I think that they are going to need help, what do you think?" Ra | |
22 asked the phoenix, looking up at the brid as he broke out of his | |
23 thoughts. His phoenix just moved its head a little in response. | |
24 "I believe you're right, my husband; they well need help", replied | |
25 Selkhet as she walked up to him. The goddess Selkhet was the wife of | |
26 Ra, the beautious goddess of the Moon. She was as fair and silver as | |
27 her husband was radient and golden, and her moonlit skin emitted an | |
28 almost eerily white glow. Her eyes shone mysteriously as she fixed | |
29 her husband in her enigmatic gaze. | |
30 Ra looked back at her, seeing his golden features reflected in her | |
31 silver pools, and smiled as she sat down next to him. | |
32 "What do you think we should do about it?" he asked. | |
33 "I will have one of my own Priestesses watch over them, and if need | |
34 be send your pet down as well," came the reply. | |
35 Ra thought about what she said and looked at his pet. The phoenix | |
36 just nodded its head and took off flying around them. | |
37 "I believe she is saying yes to your idea, Selkhet." | |
38 Selkhet smiled and the both watched the beautiful bird fly around | |
39 happily. | |
40 "But which of your followers do you think you will be able to | |
41 entrust with this task?" Ra asked his wife. "Surely not one of the | |
42 High Priestesses; they have too much to handle at this time of rain." | |
43 "No," Selkhet replied. "I actually never had the High Priestesses | |
44 in mind. In fact, I know exactly who could carry out this task: her | |
45 name is Sanura. She is only young, but she has served my order her | |
46 entire life… though I must say, she also seems to have an affinity to | |
47 Bastet, the cat mother. Perhaps her soul was that of a cat in her | |
48 past life." | |
49 Ra nodded; the girl seemed to be one whom he could trust; after | |
50 all, the sacred cat was only drawn to those who were pure of heart, | |
51 and it was one with a pure heart who was needed to guide the | |
52 Pharaoh's daughter and her companion at this time. | |
53 "Selkhet, pleases let Priestess Sanura know that she needs to watch | |
54 over those two. If she asks, tell her that I will be sending help, | |
55 and send my phoenix to her" he told her. With that, he got up from | |
56 his throne and walking to the golden doors with the eye of Ra on | |
57 them. He opened the door and his phoenix flew out, all the while | |
58 singing a joyus and melodic tune. Selkhet walked over to him, kissed | |
59 him on the cheek, and walked out of the room. Before he followed her, | |
60 he looked back and thought 'this should be good'. Then he left and | |
61 closed the door behind him. | |
62 ******* | |
63 Down on Earth, Priestess Sanura was walking around in the temple, | |
64 wondering what she was to do. All the higher members of the order of | |
65 Selkhet were busy either in prayers to their goddess to stop the rain | |
66 before a disatorous flood came, or they were busy preparing for the | |
67 feast of Al-Selk-Ha, the mother goddesses feast, which was always | |
68 held around the time the great river burst its banks. However, one of | |
69 them was always needed to keep watch over the temple, and Sanura - | |
70 being one of the youngest of their order - had been selected to do | |
71 just that. | |
72 As Sanura strolled around, she took time to fully observe her | |
73 surroundings. She was tired and, in truth, all she wanted to do was | |
74 sleep. She knew, however, that sleep was a luxury denied to her at | |
75 the moment; she had a job to do, and, she supposed, why not enjoy it? | |
76 She gazed around the room once more, not bothering to conceal her | |
77 amazement. Even after all these years, her surroundings astounded | |
78 her; there were statues of the goddess Selkhet all around the room: | |
79 statues that, Sanura was sure, were made of nothing less than pure, | |
80 solid gold. The statues, however, weren't even the height of the | |
81 room's beauty; in the very center of the room stood a grand fountain | |
82 that, even in times of drought, spouted clean, cold water, as it was | |
83 connected to an underground river. It was because of the rivers that | |
84 the temple was here, as rivers were a key symbol of the moon goddess, | |
85 though no one knew exactly why that was. | |
86 Sanura specualted that it was because Ra had created Selkhet from | |
87 the waters of the Nile itself, then built the moon for her as a | |
88 glorious palace: hence her assosiation with both the Earth and Moon. | |
89 This was reflected in the design of the fountain, as it was of two | |
90 huge hands that held the eye of Ra between them. | |
91 Sanura stopped for a while besides the fountain and gazed at her | |
92 mirror image as it appeared in the fountain. | |
93 "What do you think I should do?" she asked her reflection. | |
94 "I believe that you should take care of something for me" replied | |
95 her reflection. | |
96 Sanura shocked by that, and even more so when she saw her own | |
97 reflection turn into the beautiful goddess Selkhet. Sanura bowed down | |
98 to her goddess, who in turn smiled and nodded her head. | |
99 "Priestess Sanura, you can get up, my child; I have things to tell | |
100 you and very little time." | |
101 Sanura got up and nodded. | |
102 "What can I do?" she hoped it would be something she could handle. | |
103 "Believe, me I know you can," replied Selkhet. | |
104 "Did she just read my mind?" she asked herself. | |
105 "Yes." | |
106 Sanura was so astounded that she couldn't move; it was not so much | |
107 the fact that her mighty goddess had read her mind as the fact that | |
108 the goddess had spoken to one of their order… to her. | |
109 "Oh phoenix", Selkhet's face turned away from Sanura for a moment, | |
110 "could you help our dear friend here, please?" then the reflection | |
111 despaired and a beautiful bird flew right through the water and out | |
112 the other side, where it landed next to Sanura. | |
113 The phoenix moved its head and pecked at her. Sanura turned her head | |
114 and looked back at the water were her goddess was smiling at her. | |
115 "I'm sorry, my goddess, what can I do for you?" | |
116 "Well, it's not really what you can do for me; it's more for what | |
117 you can do for Ra. You see, he has a plan to help the Pharaoh's | |
118 daughter with something that she asked him for, and in this plan is | |
119 this other girl by the name of Nikia; I would like you to watch over | |
120 them because by the time the Pharaoh's daughter become of age they | |
121 will need one another." | |
122 "Yes, I will do what I can to help, my goddess" she replied bowing; | |
123 she was glad that there was something that she could do to aid her | |
124 patron. | |
125 "Before, I go Ra has left his pet phoenix with you. He will help you | |
126 to to help those girls," Selkhet said pointing to the bird next to | |
127 her. Sanura looked down at the bird and bowed to it. It bowed back in | |
128 return. She looked back to the water and her goddess was gone. | |
129 "Will, its look like I'm going to have to find them, doesn't it?" | |
130 she asked the phoenix. It just nodded its head, took off flying | |
131 around her and out of the side window. Sanura thought about it, then | |
132 it hit her like lightning. | |
133 "Ra's Temple" she thought. She ran out of the temple and through the | |
134 dunes and rain. It was so strange for her to be outside. Indeed, she | |
135 knew that the sisterhood would punish her for leaving her duty when, | |
136 no if, she returned; they would not believe that Selkhet had spoken | |
137 to a pristess as lowly as her. Sanura, however, did not care; she | |
138 merely continued to run through the desert rains and follow the | |
139 phoenix to the temple of Ra, wherever that may have been. | |
140 She then saw the phoenix flying around the top of a grand building, | |
141 a building far more ornate and beautiful than even the temple of her | |
142 goddess, Selkhet. It was then that she finally realised; this was | |
143 Ra's temple, the place she had been searching for. Sanura smiled and | |
144 ran to the bird. She then walked inside and saw two young women lying | |
145 on the floor with the symbols of the eye of Ra on their foreheads. | |
146 The phoenix flew in and landed next to her. She looked down and the | |
147 bird nodded its head. | |
148 "Will now it begins, and I will do my best to help" she thought and | |
149 looked back at the young girls. | |
150 The wind was blowing hard now, but she could almost swear that she | |
151 had heard a voice whisper 'thank you' before it was swept it away | |
152 forever. | |
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155 A/N: Thanks for reading my story. I'm sorry that this chapter was so | |
156 short, but I need to get something out of the way. I hope to have the | |
157 next chapter up soon. --- Black Rose |