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     1.4 +A/N- Serena comes into the story; her name has been changed to Neith.
     1.5 +Thanks for reading- Black Rose
     1.6 +
     1.7 +             Ra's Daughters
     1.8 +                  By
     1.9 +               Black Rose
    1.10 +
    1.11 +
    1.12 +               Chapter 4
    1.13 +            The Eye of the Storm
    1.14 +
    1.15 +   A woman with long blonde hair was pacing around her daughter's
    1.16 +room as she waited for her to return. She was Neith, the Queen of
    1.17 +Egypt: she was a kind and loving person, a fair ruler whom her people
    1.18 +loved. At the moment, Neith was very worried; she didn't know were
    1.19 +her daughter was. 
    1.20 + Neith put all thoughts of how terrified her duaghter must have been
    1.21 +out of her mind as she saw that the eye of the strom was directly
    1.22 +above her; she could only watch and wait for now.
    1.23 +"Ramla" she whispered to herself. As she looked up into the sky she
    1.24 +saw bird fly towards her. She had never seen such a beautiful bird:
    1.25 +nor indeed a bird that even remotely resmebled the one that was now
    1.26 +flying towards her. It was lager than the majority of the birds in
    1.27 +their land, and its plumage was as gold as the sands and as red as
    1.28 +the sun. It was beautiful, yes, but there was something ominous about
    1.29 +its presence… something unearthly. As the bird got closer, it landed
    1.30 +right in front of her and bowed. Neith's eyes widened as realisation
    1.31 +struck her.
    1.32 +"Is that a Phoenix?" she wondered and, to her shock, the bird nodded
    1.33 +its head as if it had heard her thoughts. She looked into its eyes
    1.34 +and saw Ra's symbol. She covered her mouth with her hands as she
    1.35 +gasped in shock. The bird began to sing a sweet, enchanting melody,
    1.36 +and Neith, who now felt more tranquil than she could ever remember
    1.37 +feeling before, closed her eyes and sat down next to it. She started
    1.38 +to hum along with it: the two together produced such beautful harmony
    1.39 +that it could be heared it all over the kingdom. A ray of light
    1.40 +landed on them, but Neith did not notice: she simply sat there, deep
    1.41 +within her own thoughts.
    1.42 +"So, this is Ra's Phoenix, I have this feeling in my heart that its
    1.43 +here to help, the song that its singing… I feel it's trying to tell
    1.44 +me something."
    1.45 +Images began to flash through her mind: she saw her daughter and
    1.46 +another woman talk to Ra himself, she also saw the Ra talking to his
    1.47 +wife, Selkhet: then it moved to Selkhet talking to what looked like
    1.48 +one of her Priestesses, and then it moved to that Priestesses talking
    1.49 +to her daughter and that other woman. 
    1.50 + Neith opened her eyes to see that the Phoenix was set in her lap
    1.51 +sleeping.
    1.52 +"Well, at less I knew she is well," she said, petting the bird and
    1.53 +smiling slightly. Then something caught her eye, something that made
    1.54 +her jump: her daughter, Ramla, and her dark-haired friend had come
    1.55 +into view, and when she looked again she realised that the Priestess
    1.56 +of Selkhet was also with them.
    1.57 +                                                            ********
    1.58 +The great Pharaoh sat on his throne, hearing nothing within his mind
    1.59 +but a song that spoke of utter peace and tranquility. His eyes were
    1.60 +closed and he was also in deep thought.
    1.61 +"Is that my wife, and is that also a bird singing with her, what is
    1.62 +going on here?"
    1.63 +As the Pharaoh was thinking, a young man in a priest's outfit that
    1.64 +bore the symbol of Anubis walked into the throne room. He was
    1.65 +strangely colourless, his hair and even his eyes being eerily white
    1.66 +of hue, even at his young age. He walked to the foot of the Pharaoh's
    1.67 +throne and bowed. 
    1.68 +The Pharaoh opened his eyes and saw the high priest of Anubis bowing
    1.69 +to him. He sat up stiffly and gave the younger man a look of utter
    1.70 +venom.
    1.71 +"What do you want, Priest? I did not call for you, so why do you
    1.72 +present yourself to me?"
    1.73 +The Priest didn't look up, merely stayed in his bowed down position,
    1.74 +averting his colourless gaze away from the Pharaoh's darker orbs. 
    1.75 +"I'm sorry, my Pharaoh, but I need to tell you something," he said,
    1.76 +a malicious smirk forming on his face, though his voice was grave in
    1.77 +tone so the Pharaoh realised nothing of his true intentions.
    1.78 +The Pharaoh was beginning to get agitated now; he could have done
    1.79 +without interruption from the Priest. He just looked over at one of
    1.80 +his guards and nodded darkly. The guard bowed back to his Pharaoh;
    1.81 +then walked over to the priest and kicked hard in the side so that he
    1.82 +fell to the floor in a heap. The priest cried out in pain and
    1.83 +clutched his side. The guard looked up to his Pharaoh, and saw him
    1.84 +nod. He kicked him one more time and walked back to his post.
    1.85 +The pharaoh was not happy; the song of trasnquility had stopped. He
    1.86 +sat back down on his throne, his expression bitter and steely.
    1.87 +"Well, High Priest of Anubis, what do you wish to tell me that is so
    1.88 +important that it cannot wait until I summon you into my presence,"
    1.89 +he asked, the anger clearly audible in his voice
    1.90 +The colourless young man got ahold of himself and answered his
    1.91 +pharaoh, trying his best to keep both emotion and pain from his voice
    1.92 +as he spoke.
    1.93 +"My Pharaoh, it is about you daughter the Princess," he said,
    1.94 +knowing that that would get him what he wanted.
    1.95 +The Pharaoh eyes widened, and he stared down at this priest that was
    1.96 +going to soon be married to his one and only daughter.
    1.97 +"What has happened to her? Because if anything has happened to her
    1.98 +it will be you life," the Pharaoh hissed in a voice laced with pure
    1.99 +malice. He may have never been open to his feeling for his daughter
   1.100 +or for his wife for that matter, but deep down he loved them both
   1.101 +very much.
   1.102 +  The priest just smiled; this was just what he had wanted to happen.
   1.103 +"Great Pharaoh, your daughter is fine, as is your wife: at least for
   1.104 +now. However I had a vision recently that showed that a woman with
   1.105 +black hair and strangely violet eyes will will come to take both your
   1.106 +daughter and this kingdom from you. I also saw a birdlike fire with
   1.107 +her," he told, keeping the laughter in his mind completely separate
   1.108 +from his voice.
   1.109 +"Well, this should be good, very soon I will be the greatest
   1.110 +Pharaoh, and you will be dead along with that wife of yours." His
   1.111 +face retained only seriousness, but inside he was laughing.
   1.112 +  The Pharaoh toke this information in and closed his eyes. "You may
   1.113 +go, Priest," he said with a wave of his hand. The Priest bowed and
   1.114 +left, back to the temple of Anubis, smiling the whole time. When he
   1.115 +was gone the Pharaoh opened his eyes again and looked around his
   1.116 +throne room.  Something about this Priest was just didn't feel right:
   1.117 +he closed his eyes again and fell into his own thoughts.
   1.118 +                                                 ******
   1.119 +In Ra's Temple, three young ladies were looking out the window that
   1.120 +the phoenix had flown out of the day before. They looked at one
   1.121 +another and nodded, then ran out of the temple and followed the
   1.122 +phoenix's course to the Palace. As they ran, Nakia stopped and looked
   1.123 +up in the Eye of Ra. Ramla stopped when she saw that Nakia wasn't
   1.124 +running with her: instead of continuing, she turned around and saw
   1.125 +her friend looking up at something. The sun was hitting her hair in
   1.126 +such a way that it made her look as if she were not a mere mortal but
   1.127 +a goddess. Ramla's heart was betting very fast now, and couldn't keep
   1.128 +her eyes off Nakia…
   1.129 +"She's so beautiful: I have never felt like this before; a part of
   1.130 +me just wants to run in her arms and never leave them," she thought.
   1.131 +Nakia felt the warm of the sun on her face, but she could also feel
   1.132 +someone watching her, and it was making her uncomfterble. She turned
   1.133 +her head to see Ramla's garnet orbs transfixed on her, then felt a
   1.134 +blush creep into her pale cheeks as she noted her friend's almost
   1.135 +ethereal beauty in that light. As their eyes met, she saw that the
   1.136 +princess was staring at her in longing… no, not longing; the
   1.137 +expression in her eyes was too warm for that to have been the case.
   1.138 +The emotion she could see in Ramla's eyes was something far deeper
   1.139 +thanl longing…
   1.140 +"I feel something, something that I have not felt in along time. A
   1.141 +part of me wants to hold her, and never let go."
   1.142 +The two stood there looking at one another, then Sanura ran up to
   1.143 +Palace to see her Queen sitting there: the phoenix resting in her
   1.144 +lap. Then she heared it, the song, a joyus melody to which seemed the
   1.145 +epitome of bliss itself. She walked closer towards the Palace and saw
   1.146 +that not only was the phoenix singing: so was the Queen. She moved to
   1.147 +the Queen's side just as her eyes opened and the melodious singing
   1.148 +ended. Sanura looked over to where the Queen was staring, and saw
   1.149 +what it was that had interested her so. Two beautiful young ladies
   1.150 +were staring at eachother in an emotion no less than pure love… two
   1.151 +beautiful young ladies that they both knew...
   1.152 +
   1.153 +Ramla and Nakia felt someone looking at them; they turned to see
   1.154 +Ramla's mother and Sanura looking at them and smiling at them. Ramla
   1.155 +turned back Nakia, smiled and held out her hand to her friend. Nakia
   1.156 +felt her heart jump when she saw this: she walked up to her and took
   1.157 +her hand in her own. They smiled at each other and walked over to the
   1.158 +two women that were waiting for them.
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   1.161 +
   1.162 +A/N- Hope you like this chapter eheheh; I hope to have the next one
   1.163 +up soon.
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