Realm of Set
Ch 1
Prologue
"Medjai, my father needs you!" cried Nefertiti. The Pharaoh's bodyguards raced up towards the palace. Meanwhile, Anck-su-namun held up her dagger, and stab Seti straight in the back followed by Imhotep into the stomach. The pharaoh was repeatedly stabbed until he lay on the ground dead, the Medjai then burst into the room armed.
"You must go," said Anck-su-namun.
"I won't leave you," responded Imhotep.
"Only you can resurrect me," Anck-su-namun shot back. Imhotep's priests then ran into the room and attempted to drag him away.
"You shall live again!" cried Imhotep. Meanwhile Nefertiti watched as Anck-su-namun stabbed herself in the gut with her sword. After waiting a couple hours for news on Imhotep, she learned that he had endured the Hon Dai ritual. The princess smiled to herself, sweet vengeance, she thought. Suddenly six teenagers strutted into her room, three boys, three girls, each one armed with a dagger. They were Apepsari, Setni, Hataria, Wadjena, Isisina, and Osiro: the children of Imhotep by Anck-su-namun. They walked onto Nefertiti's balcony.
"What is it?" asked the princess.
"We come to tell you something: prepare to die," said Osiro, and with that he took out his dagger and stabbed Nefertiti in the side. He then shoved her into the range of Hataria, who stabbed Nefertiti in her, other side. Hataria then pushed her into Setni who gored the princess in the back. He then placed her in the range of Isisina who stabbed Nefertiti in the stomach. She then shoved her into Apepsari.
"Why?" the dying princess croaked.
"It was because of you that our mother died, and our father cursed, it as you once said 'sweet vengeance'," Apepsari hissed, and then he stabbed her in the chest and shoved her off the balcony to her death. Then out of nowhere the Medjai burst in. Each one of Imhotep's children was captured, and taken to the temple of Set, to experience, one of the darkest of all rituals: the Si Ka, only the Hon Dai defeated it in terror. The teenagers' souls were torn from their bodies and placed in the sacred Jar of Set. The Medjai mummified the children and placed them in sarcophagi filled with snakes. The jar was buried by the feet of Set, the god of chaos and the desert, they thought that the power of Set would keep them from escaping, but Set was fond of the children, and blessed their souls with the power over the storms and the ability to shape shift.
The Medjai buried the bodies of the teenagers in the temple, never to allow them to arise again, and the jar to be found. They knew that if they rose, they would not only resurrect Imhotep, but also bring a temple out of the sands. But not just any temple, it was a temple which opened a pathway to let the terrible demon Apep free from the imprisonment that Set placed him. And unfortunately Set, and given the children, the key to the gateway, to get revenge on Ra for banishing him to the desert. The Medjai could never let the children rise, because if they did they would rise the Realm of Set.