Ra's Daughters

 By Black Rose

 Chapter Two

 Storm of Fire

 Moonpower02@Hotmail.com

 

 A/N: Alright Diana will be introduced in this chapter, but her name

 here is Sanura: she is also a human, not a cat. Anyway, I hope I got

 the tenses right this time… eheehhe- Black Rose

 

                      Ra's Daughters

                      By Black Rose

 

                      Chapter Two- Storm of Fire

 

     Ra sat on his throne petting his phoenix, which was pearched

 above him on the back of his gilded, golden throne. His eyes had a

 glazed look to them, as he was currently deep in thought. The phoenix

 had its eyes completely closed, and is was singing a haunting tune

 that, though quiet, filled the enitre room. 

 "I think that they are going to need help, what do you think?" Ra

 asked the phoenix, looking up at the brid as he broke out of his

 thoughts. His phoenix just moved its head a little in response. 

 "I believe you're right, my husband; they well need help", replied

 Selkhet as she walked up to him. The goddess Selkhet was the wife of

 Ra, the beautious goddess of the Moon. She was as fair and silver as

 her husband was radient and golden, and her moonlit skin emitted an

 almost eerily white glow. Her eyes shone mysteriously as she fixed

 her husband in her enigmatic gaze. 

  Ra looked back at her, seeing his golden features reflected in her

 silver pools, and smiled as she sat down next to him.

 "What do you think we should do about it?" he asked.

 "I will have one of my own Priestesses watch over them, and if need

 be send your pet down as well," came the reply.

 Ra thought about what she said and looked at his pet. The phoenix

 just nodded its head and took off flying around them.

 "I believe she is saying yes to your idea, Selkhet."

 Selkhet smiled and the both watched the beautiful bird fly around

 happily.

 "But which of your followers do you think you will be able to

 entrust with this task?" Ra asked his wife. "Surely not one of the

 High Priestesses; they have too much to handle at this time of rain."

  "No," Selkhet replied. "I actually never had the High Priestesses

 in mind. In fact, I know exactly who could carry out this task: her

 name is Sanura. She is only young, but she has served my order her

 entire life… though I must say, she also seems to have an affinity to

 Bastet, the cat mother. Perhaps her soul was that of a cat in her

 past life."  

  Ra nodded; the girl seemed to be one whom he could trust; after

 all, the sacred cat was only drawn to those who were pure of heart,

 and it was one with a pure heart who was needed to guide the

 Pharaoh's daughter and her companion at this time.

 "Selkhet, pleases let Priestess Sanura know that she needs to watch

 over those two. If she asks, tell her that I will be sending help,

 and send my phoenix to her" he told her. With that, he got up from

 his throne and walking to the golden doors with the eye of Ra on

 them. He opened the door and his phoenix flew out, all the while

 singing a joyus and melodic tune. Selkhet walked over to him, kissed

 him on the cheek, and walked out of the room. Before he followed her,

 he looked back and thought 'this should be good'. Then he left and

 closed the door behind him. 

                                               *******

 Down on Earth, Priestess Sanura was walking around in the temple,

 wondering what she was to do. All the higher members of the order of

 Selkhet were busy either in prayers to their goddess to stop the rain

 before a disatorous flood came, or they were busy preparing for the

 feast of Al-Selk-Ha, the mother goddesses feast, which was always

 held around the time the great river burst its banks. However, one of

 them was always needed to keep watch over the temple, and Sanura -

 being one of the youngest of their order - had been selected to do

 just that.

  As Sanura strolled around, she took time to fully observe her

 surroundings. She was tired and, in truth, all she wanted to do was

 sleep. She knew, however, that sleep was a luxury denied to her at

 the moment; she had a job to do, and, she supposed, why not enjoy it?

 She gazed around the room once more, not bothering to conceal her

 amazement. Even after all these years, her surroundings astounded

 her; there were statues of the goddess Selkhet all around the room:

 statues that, Sanura was sure, were made of nothing less than pure,

 solid gold. The statues, however, weren't even the height of the

 room's beauty; in the very center of the room stood a grand fountain

 that, even in times of drought, spouted clean, cold water, as it was

 connected to an underground river. It was because of the rivers that

 the temple was here, as rivers were a key symbol of the moon goddess,

 though no one knew exactly why that was.

  Sanura specualted that it was because Ra had created Selkhet from

 the waters of the Nile itself, then built the moon for her as a

 glorious palace: hence her assosiation with both the Earth and Moon.

 This was reflected in the design of the fountain, as it was of two

 huge hands that held the eye of Ra between them.

 Sanura stopped for a while besides the fountain and gazed at her

 mirror image as it appeared in the fountain.

   "What do you think I should do?" she asked her reflection.

 "I believe that you should take care of something for me" replied

 her reflection.

 Sanura shocked by that, and even more so when she saw her own

 reflection turn into the beautiful goddess Selkhet. Sanura bowed down

 to her goddess, who in turn smiled and nodded her head.

 "Priestess Sanura, you can get up, my child; I have things to tell

 you and very little time."

  Sanura got up and nodded. 

 "What can I do?" she hoped it would be something she could handle.

  "Believe, me I know you can," replied Selkhet.

 "Did she just read my mind?" she asked herself.

 "Yes."

 Sanura was so astounded that she couldn't move; it was not so much

 the fact that her mighty goddess had read her mind as the fact that

 the goddess had spoken to one of their order… to her.

 "Oh phoenix", Selkhet's face turned away from Sanura for a moment,

 "could you help our dear friend here, please?" then the reflection

 despaired and a beautiful bird flew right through the water and out

 the other side, where it landed next to Sanura.

 The phoenix moved its head and pecked at her. Sanura turned her head

 and looked back at the water were her goddess was smiling at her.

 "I'm sorry, my goddess, what can I do for you?"

 "Well, it's not really what you can do for me; it's more for what

 you can do for Ra. You see, he has a plan to help the Pharaoh's

 daughter with something that she asked him for, and in this plan is

 this other girl by the name of Nikia; I would like you to watch over

 them because by the time the Pharaoh's daughter become of age they

 will need one another."

 "Yes, I will do what I can to help, my goddess" she replied bowing;

 she was glad that there was something that she could do to aid her

 patron.

 "Before, I go Ra has left his pet phoenix with you. He will help you

 to to help those girls," Selkhet said pointing to the bird next to

 her. Sanura looked down at the bird and bowed to it. It bowed back in

 return. She looked back to the water and her goddess was gone. 

 "Will, its look like I'm going to have to find them, doesn't it?"

 she asked the phoenix. It just nodded its head, took off flying

 around her and out of the side window. Sanura thought about it, then

 it hit her like lightning. 

 "Ra's Temple" she thought. She ran out of the temple and through the

 dunes and rain. It was so strange for her to be outside. Indeed, she

 knew that the sisterhood would punish her for leaving her duty when,

 no if, she returned; they would not believe that Selkhet had spoken

 to a pristess as lowly as her. Sanura, however, did not care; she

 merely continued to run through the desert rains and follow the

 phoenix to the temple of Ra, wherever that may have been. 

  She then saw the phoenix flying around the top of a grand building,

 a building far more ornate and beautiful than even the temple of her

 goddess, Selkhet. It was then that she finally realised; this was

 Ra's temple, the place she had been searching for. Sanura smiled and

 ran to the bird. She then walked inside and saw two young women lying

 on the floor with the symbols of the eye of Ra on their foreheads.

 The phoenix flew in and landed next to her. She looked down and the

 bird nodded its head.

 "Will now it begins, and I will do my best to help" she thought and

 looked back at the young girls. 

 The wind was blowing hard now, but she could almost swear that she

 had heard a voice whisper 'thank you' before it was swept it away

 forever. 

 

 

 A/N: Thanks for reading my story. I'm sorry that this chapter was so

 short, but I need to get something out of the way. I hope to have the

 next chapter up soon. --- Black Rose