A/N- Serena comes into the story; her name has been changed to Neith.

 Thanks for reading- Black Rose

 

              Ra's Daughters

                   By

                Black Rose

 

 

                Chapter 4

             The Eye of the Storm

 

    A woman with long blonde hair was pacing around her daughter's

 room as she waited for her to return. She was Neith, the Queen of

 Egypt: she was a kind and loving person, a fair ruler whom her people

 loved. At the moment, Neith was very worried; she didn't know were

 her daughter was. 

  Neith put all thoughts of how terrified her duaghter must have been

 out of her mind as she saw that the eye of the strom was directly

 above her; she could only watch and wait for now.

 "Ramla" she whispered to herself. As she looked up into the sky she

 saw bird fly towards her. She had never seen such a beautiful bird:

 nor indeed a bird that even remotely resmebled the one that was now

 flying towards her. It was lager than the majority of the birds in

 their land, and its plumage was as gold as the sands and as red as

 the sun. It was beautiful, yes, but there was something ominous about

 its presence… something unearthly. As the bird got closer, it landed

 right in front of her and bowed. Neith's eyes widened as realisation

 struck her.

 "Is that a Phoenix?" she wondered and, to her shock, the bird nodded

 its head as if it had heard her thoughts. She looked into its eyes

 and saw Ra's symbol. She covered her mouth with her hands as she

 gasped in shock. The bird began to sing a sweet, enchanting melody,

 and Neith, who now felt more tranquil than she could ever remember

 feeling before, closed her eyes and sat down next to it. She started

 to hum along with it: the two together produced such beautful harmony

 that it could be heared it all over the kingdom. A ray of light

 landed on them, but Neith did not notice: she simply sat there, deep

 within her own thoughts.

 "So, this is Ra's Phoenix, I have this feeling in my heart that its

 here to help, the song that its singing… I feel it's trying to tell

 me something."

 Images began to flash through her mind: she saw her daughter and

 another woman talk to Ra himself, she also saw the Ra talking to his

 wife, Selkhet: then it moved to Selkhet talking to what looked like

 one of her Priestesses, and then it moved to that Priestesses talking

 to her daughter and that other woman. 

  Neith opened her eyes to see that the Phoenix was set in her lap

 sleeping.

 "Well, at less I knew she is well," she said, petting the bird and

 smiling slightly. Then something caught her eye, something that made

 her jump: her daughter, Ramla, and her dark-haired friend had come

 into view, and when she looked again she realised that the Priestess

 of Selkhet was also with them.

                                                             ********

 The great Pharaoh sat on his throne, hearing nothing within his mind

 but a song that spoke of utter peace and tranquility. His eyes were

 closed and he was also in deep thought.

 "Is that my wife, and is that also a bird singing with her, what is

 going on here?"

 As the Pharaoh was thinking, a young man in a priest's outfit that

 bore the symbol of Anubis walked into the throne room. He was

 strangely colourless, his hair and even his eyes being eerily white

 of hue, even at his young age. He walked to the foot of the Pharaoh's

 throne and bowed. 

 The Pharaoh opened his eyes and saw the high priest of Anubis bowing

 to him. He sat up stiffly and gave the younger man a look of utter

 venom.

 "What do you want, Priest? I did not call for you, so why do you

 present yourself to me?"

 The Priest didn't look up, merely stayed in his bowed down position,

 averting his colourless gaze away from the Pharaoh's darker orbs. 

 "I'm sorry, my Pharaoh, but I need to tell you something," he said,

 a malicious smirk forming on his face, though his voice was grave in

 tone so the Pharaoh realised nothing of his true intentions.

 The Pharaoh was beginning to get agitated now; he could have done

 without interruption from the Priest. He just looked over at one of

 his guards and nodded darkly. The guard bowed back to his Pharaoh;

 then walked over to the priest and kicked hard in the side so that he

 fell to the floor in a heap. The priest cried out in pain and

 clutched his side. The guard looked up to his Pharaoh, and saw him

 nod. He kicked him one more time and walked back to his post.

 The pharaoh was not happy; the song of trasnquility had stopped. He

 sat back down on his throne, his expression bitter and steely.

 "Well, High Priest of Anubis, what do you wish to tell me that is so

 important that it cannot wait until I summon you into my presence,"

 he asked, the anger clearly audible in his voice

 The colourless young man got ahold of himself and answered his

 pharaoh, trying his best to keep both emotion and pain from his voice

 as he spoke.

 "My Pharaoh, it is about you daughter the Princess," he said,

 knowing that that would get him what he wanted.

 The Pharaoh eyes widened, and he stared down at this priest that was

 going to soon be married to his one and only daughter.

 "What has happened to her? Because if anything has happened to her

 it will be you life," the Pharaoh hissed in a voice laced with pure

 malice. He may have never been open to his feeling for his daughter

 or for his wife for that matter, but deep down he loved them both

 very much.

   The priest just smiled; this was just what he had wanted to happen.

 "Great Pharaoh, your daughter is fine, as is your wife: at least for

 now. However I had a vision recently that showed that a woman with

 black hair and strangely violet eyes will will come to take both your

 daughter and this kingdom from you. I also saw a birdlike fire with

 her," he told, keeping the laughter in his mind completely separate

 from his voice.

 "Well, this should be good, very soon I will be the greatest

 Pharaoh, and you will be dead along with that wife of yours." His

 face retained only seriousness, but inside he was laughing.

   The Pharaoh toke this information in and closed his eyes. "You may

 go, Priest," he said with a wave of his hand. The Priest bowed and

 left, back to the temple of Anubis, smiling the whole time. When he

 was gone the Pharaoh opened his eyes again and looked around his

 throne room.  Something about this Priest was just didn't feel right:

 he closed his eyes again and fell into his own thoughts.

                                                  ******

 In Ra's Temple, three young ladies were looking out the window that

 the phoenix had flown out of the day before. They looked at one

 another and nodded, then ran out of the temple and followed the

 phoenix's course to the Palace. As they ran, Nakia stopped and looked

 up in the Eye of Ra. Ramla stopped when she saw that Nakia wasn't

 running with her: instead of continuing, she turned around and saw

 her friend looking up at something. The sun was hitting her hair in

 such a way that it made her look as if she were not a mere mortal but

 a goddess. Ramla's heart was betting very fast now, and couldn't keep

 her eyes off Nakia…

 "She's so beautiful: I have never felt like this before; a part of

 me just wants to run in her arms and never leave them," she thought.

 Nakia felt the warm of the sun on her face, but she could also feel

 someone watching her, and it was making her uncomfterble. She turned

 her head to see Ramla's garnet orbs transfixed on her, then felt a

 blush creep into her pale cheeks as she noted her friend's almost

 ethereal beauty in that light. As their eyes met, she saw that the

 princess was staring at her in longing… no, not longing; the

 expression in her eyes was too warm for that to have been the case.

 The emotion she could see in Ramla's eyes was something far deeper

 thanl longing…

 "I feel something, something that I have not felt in along time. A

 part of me wants to hold her, and never let go."

 The two stood there looking at one another, then Sanura ran up to

 Palace to see her Queen sitting there: the phoenix resting in her

 lap. Then she heared it, the song, a joyus melody to which seemed the

 epitome of bliss itself. She walked closer towards the Palace and saw

 that not only was the phoenix singing: so was the Queen. She moved to

 the Queen's side just as her eyes opened and the melodious singing

 ended. Sanura looked over to where the Queen was staring, and saw

 what it was that had interested her so. Two beautiful young ladies

 were staring at eachother in an emotion no less than pure love… two

 beautiful young ladies that they both knew...

 

 Ramla and Nakia felt someone looking at them; they turned to see

 Ramla's mother and Sanura looking at them and smiling at them. Ramla

 turned back Nakia, smiled and held out her hand to her friend. Nakia

 felt her heart jump when she saw this: she walked up to her and took

 her hand in her own. They smiled at each other and walked over to the

 two women that were waiting for them.

 

 

 

 A/N- Hope you like this chapter eheheh; I hope to have the next one

 up soon.