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     1.4 +Ra's Daughters
     1.5 +By Black Rose
     1.6 +Chapter Two
     1.7 +Storm of Fire
     1.8 +Moonpower02@Hotmail.com
     1.9 +
    1.10 +A/N: Alright Diana will be introduced in this chapter, but her name
    1.11 +here is Sanura: she is also a human, not a cat. Anyway, I hope I got
    1.12 +the tenses right this time… eheehhe- Black Rose
    1.13 +
    1.14 +                     Ra's Daughters
    1.15 +                     By Black Rose
    1.16 +
    1.17 +                     Chapter Two- Storm of Fire
    1.18 +
    1.19 +    Ra sat on his throne petting his phoenix, which was pearched
    1.20 +above him on the back of his gilded, golden throne. His eyes had a
    1.21 +glazed look to them, as he was currently deep in thought. The phoenix
    1.22 +had its eyes completely closed, and is was singing a haunting tune
    1.23 +that, though quiet, filled the enitre room. 
    1.24 +"I think that they are going to need help, what do you think?" Ra
    1.25 +asked the phoenix, looking up at the brid as he broke out of his
    1.26 +thoughts. His phoenix just moved its head a little in response. 
    1.27 +"I believe you're right, my husband; they well need help", replied
    1.28 +Selkhet as she walked up to him. The goddess Selkhet was the wife of
    1.29 +Ra, the beautious goddess of the Moon. She was as fair and silver as
    1.30 +her husband was radient and golden, and her moonlit skin emitted an
    1.31 +almost eerily white glow. Her eyes shone mysteriously as she fixed
    1.32 +her husband in her enigmatic gaze. 
    1.33 + Ra looked back at her, seeing his golden features reflected in her
    1.34 +silver pools, and smiled as she sat down next to him.
    1.35 +"What do you think we should do about it?" he asked.
    1.36 +"I will have one of my own Priestesses watch over them, and if need
    1.37 +be send your pet down as well," came the reply.
    1.38 +Ra thought about what she said and looked at his pet. The phoenix
    1.39 +just nodded its head and took off flying around them.
    1.40 +"I believe she is saying yes to your idea, Selkhet."
    1.41 +Selkhet smiled and the both watched the beautiful bird fly around
    1.42 +happily.
    1.43 +"But which of your followers do you think you will be able to
    1.44 +entrust with this task?" Ra asked his wife. "Surely not one of the
    1.45 +High Priestesses; they have too much to handle at this time of rain."
    1.46 + "No," Selkhet replied. "I actually never had the High Priestesses
    1.47 +in mind. In fact, I know exactly who could carry out this task: her
    1.48 +name is Sanura. She is only young, but she has served my order her
    1.49 +entire life… though I must say, she also seems to have an affinity to
    1.50 +Bastet, the cat mother. Perhaps her soul was that of a cat in her
    1.51 +past life."  
    1.52 + Ra nodded; the girl seemed to be one whom he could trust; after
    1.53 +all, the sacred cat was only drawn to those who were pure of heart,
    1.54 +and it was one with a pure heart who was needed to guide the
    1.55 +Pharaoh's daughter and her companion at this time.
    1.56 +"Selkhet, pleases let Priestess Sanura know that she needs to watch
    1.57 +over those two. If she asks, tell her that I will be sending help,
    1.58 +and send my phoenix to her" he told her. With that, he got up from
    1.59 +his throne and walking to the golden doors with the eye of Ra on
    1.60 +them. He opened the door and his phoenix flew out, all the while
    1.61 +singing a joyus and melodic tune. Selkhet walked over to him, kissed
    1.62 +him on the cheek, and walked out of the room. Before he followed her,
    1.63 +he looked back and thought 'this should be good'. Then he left and
    1.64 +closed the door behind him. 
    1.65 +                                              *******
    1.66 +Down on Earth, Priestess Sanura was walking around in the temple,
    1.67 +wondering what she was to do. All the higher members of the order of
    1.68 +Selkhet were busy either in prayers to their goddess to stop the rain
    1.69 +before a disatorous flood came, or they were busy preparing for the
    1.70 +feast of Al-Selk-Ha, the mother goddesses feast, which was always
    1.71 +held around the time the great river burst its banks. However, one of
    1.72 +them was always needed to keep watch over the temple, and Sanura -
    1.73 +being one of the youngest of their order - had been selected to do
    1.74 +just that.
    1.75 + As Sanura strolled around, she took time to fully observe her
    1.76 +surroundings. She was tired and, in truth, all she wanted to do was
    1.77 +sleep. She knew, however, that sleep was a luxury denied to her at
    1.78 +the moment; she had a job to do, and, she supposed, why not enjoy it?
    1.79 +She gazed around the room once more, not bothering to conceal her
    1.80 +amazement. Even after all these years, her surroundings astounded
    1.81 +her; there were statues of the goddess Selkhet all around the room:
    1.82 +statues that, Sanura was sure, were made of nothing less than pure,
    1.83 +solid gold. The statues, however, weren't even the height of the
    1.84 +room's beauty; in the very center of the room stood a grand fountain
    1.85 +that, even in times of drought, spouted clean, cold water, as it was
    1.86 +connected to an underground river. It was because of the rivers that
    1.87 +the temple was here, as rivers were a key symbol of the moon goddess,
    1.88 +though no one knew exactly why that was.
    1.89 + Sanura specualted that it was because Ra had created Selkhet from
    1.90 +the waters of the Nile itself, then built the moon for her as a
    1.91 +glorious palace: hence her assosiation with both the Earth and Moon.
    1.92 +This was reflected in the design of the fountain, as it was of two
    1.93 +huge hands that held the eye of Ra between them.
    1.94 +Sanura stopped for a while besides the fountain and gazed at her
    1.95 +mirror image as it appeared in the fountain.
    1.96 +  "What do you think I should do?" she asked her reflection.
    1.97 +"I believe that you should take care of something for me" replied
    1.98 +her reflection.
    1.99 +Sanura shocked by that, and even more so when she saw her own
   1.100 +reflection turn into the beautiful goddess Selkhet. Sanura bowed down
   1.101 +to her goddess, who in turn smiled and nodded her head.
   1.102 +"Priestess Sanura, you can get up, my child; I have things to tell
   1.103 +you and very little time."
   1.104 + Sanura got up and nodded. 
   1.105 +"What can I do?" she hoped it would be something she could handle.
   1.106 + "Believe, me I know you can," replied Selkhet.
   1.107 +"Did she just read my mind?" she asked herself.
   1.108 +"Yes."
   1.109 +Sanura was so astounded that she couldn't move; it was not so much
   1.110 +the fact that her mighty goddess had read her mind as the fact that
   1.111 +the goddess had spoken to one of their order… to her.
   1.112 +"Oh phoenix", Selkhet's face turned away from Sanura for a moment,
   1.113 +"could you help our dear friend here, please?" then the reflection
   1.114 +despaired and a beautiful bird flew right through the water and out
   1.115 +the other side, where it landed next to Sanura.
   1.116 +The phoenix moved its head and pecked at her. Sanura turned her head
   1.117 +and looked back at the water were her goddess was smiling at her.
   1.118 +"I'm sorry, my goddess, what can I do for you?"
   1.119 +"Well, it's not really what you can do for me; it's more for what
   1.120 +you can do for Ra. You see, he has a plan to help the Pharaoh's
   1.121 +daughter with something that she asked him for, and in this plan is
   1.122 +this other girl by the name of Nikia; I would like you to watch over
   1.123 +them because by the time the Pharaoh's daughter become of age they
   1.124 +will need one another."
   1.125 +"Yes, I will do what I can to help, my goddess" she replied bowing;
   1.126 +she was glad that there was something that she could do to aid her
   1.127 +patron.
   1.128 +"Before, I go Ra has left his pet phoenix with you. He will help you
   1.129 +to to help those girls," Selkhet said pointing to the bird next to
   1.130 +her. Sanura looked down at the bird and bowed to it. It bowed back in
   1.131 +return. She looked back to the water and her goddess was gone. 
   1.132 +"Will, its look like I'm going to have to find them, doesn't it?"
   1.133 +she asked the phoenix. It just nodded its head, took off flying
   1.134 +around her and out of the side window. Sanura thought about it, then
   1.135 +it hit her like lightning. 
   1.136 +"Ra's Temple" she thought. She ran out of the temple and through the
   1.137 +dunes and rain. It was so strange for her to be outside. Indeed, she
   1.138 +knew that the sisterhood would punish her for leaving her duty when,
   1.139 +no if, she returned; they would not believe that Selkhet had spoken
   1.140 +to a pristess as lowly as her. Sanura, however, did not care; she
   1.141 +merely continued to run through the desert rains and follow the
   1.142 +phoenix to the temple of Ra, wherever that may have been. 
   1.143 + She then saw the phoenix flying around the top of a grand building,
   1.144 +a building far more ornate and beautiful than even the temple of her
   1.145 +goddess, Selkhet. It was then that she finally realised; this was
   1.146 +Ra's temple, the place she had been searching for. Sanura smiled and
   1.147 +ran to the bird. She then walked inside and saw two young women lying
   1.148 +on the floor with the symbols of the eye of Ra on their foreheads.
   1.149 +The phoenix flew in and landed next to her. She looked down and the
   1.150 +bird nodded its head.
   1.151 +"Will now it begins, and I will do my best to help" she thought and
   1.152 +looked back at the young girls. 
   1.153 +The wind was blowing hard now, but she could almost swear that she
   1.154 +had heard a voice whisper 'thank you' before it was swept it away
   1.155 +forever. 
   1.156 +
   1.157 +
   1.158 +A/N: Thanks for reading my story. I'm sorry that this chapter was so
   1.159 +short, but I need to get something out of the way. I hope to have the
   1.160 +next chapter up soon. --- Black Rose
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