/ Story of Ka'an

/ Author: The Cowboy of Oklahoma

/ Pt6: The Hairpin ch2

/ word count: 1084

I shouldn't have done that. I really should not have done that! It took me nearly 4 hours to get them off their knees in worship of me, and grovelling at my feet for forgiveness. I completely didn't think about how cats were…, ARE worshipped in Egypt at this time.. Even calling me a Messenger of Bastet, the Lioness goddess. But, maybe I can use this to my advantage…, I need their help to secure a way to make the item I came for. And the book and magic is supposed to be ancient and mysterious. This could work!

I told the high priest that my presence was of the utmost secrecy. If the pharaoh or the people learn of my existence any further than himself and the few guards, it could spell doom for all of Egypt. We labored for nearly two years, then that particular priest was diagnosed, by a doctor of the times, with a deadly, incurable disease. The priest found it hard to move regularly, and needed assistance with the most mundane tasks. I recognized the symptoms as arthritis. It was a incurable disease at this time, and even if I wanted to, I can't alter the past. His death is inevitable, all of their deaths were. I cannot save even one of them…, not one.

The priest shared my secret existence with one other. I did not know it at the time, but this new face was destined to be a high priest, and his lineage would one day be very important. His children would live full lives of the times, then have their own children. And then on day would give birth to twin boys. Named Aknamkanon and Aknadin. But that was not important right now. Over the next 4 years, with this new student turned priest, we were able to finally finish the Millennium Tome. Using my knowledge of the future, and some new things I learned back then that were not in any historical record. The book is ready, but now, the knowledge must be lost. Records indicate that Aknadin works his whole life to research even one of the spells in the book.

So I take the book with me, I disappear into a rift right in front of the second priest. Leaving a warning, if any knowledge of my presence, or this book ever left these chambers, Egypt would be destroyed by the gods. He, his sons, and their sons would parish by my hands personally. A threat I had absolutely no intention of enforcing. I just needed to put the fear of their gods into him to keep his mouth shut. Traveling via the rift, I leap about halfway into the future between that priest and Aknadins birth, then the book would "mysteriously" drop out of a portal onto the floor in a high priest chambers. From there, history was to take its course.

Aknamkanon would become Pharaoh, his brother the High Priest, the Tome was deciphered, and then Egypt was attacked. I came out of the rift at about a day before Kul Elna, and I stayed up in the hills away from the village. It wasn't long before I noticed a dust cloud forming on the horizon, the Pharaoh's soldiers were coming. The noise, the screams, men, women, chi…, I shouldn't have come out when I did. I won't ever forget what I helped wrought upon these people. Murderer's and thieves, but still, I have done my best to not get involved in the killing of another species. I completely didn't think about the consequences of my actions towards the people of Kul Elna, or what comes from the making of the Millennium Items, Zorc.

Soon it was morning, the sun crept over the horizon, then I felt the sudden drop in temperature and the evil surging from deep underground. My own darkness lurched deep within myself upon feeling that sensation. I had to endure it, it should only be a moment, Aknadin is supposed to emerges from the caverns alone with all Millennium Items in tow. It felt like an eternity, I could almost swear that Zorc felt my presence and was even trying to recruit me, but then suddenly, it was gone. I could breathe again, I hadn't realized I was holding my breath. I waited there, watching the village, finally Aknadin came from a hole in the ground. I moved in once he was clear of the village.

Finding the hole, some stairs led down under ground. I made my way in the dark, letting my feline form take hold so my eyes would adjust to the dark. The stairs wound down deeper, and didn't let in so much as a glimmer of light. Soon even I was unable to see, so I decided to ignite my golden aura. Casting a gentle golden glow in the immediate area around me. I found a pillar, and the markings carved into it seemed to be carving themselves. I watched two glyphs form and the dust fell to the floor. I could feel something about the room, not as dark as the previous presence but it was there.

Finally finding the Millennium Stone at the back of the room, I noticed the rock wall behind the stone reshaping itself. Slowly, it began to form doors, it was almost like all the dust in the room was being pulled over to this spot. Fascinating, there was no record as to how the room was created, just that it was here. Back to the matter at hand, I went to the stone and checked its surface. The holes that gave the shape of the Items were present, but where is the…, ah hah! Just at the base of the stone, in the lower left side, a small rock poked out unlike all the rest.

Pressing it in, stone grinds against stone, and a small chamber opens on the side, it was completely invisible. I reached down to grab for whatever lay inside when the new Item rolled out and landed in my hand. It was light, despite being made of solid gold. In hindsight, I'm glad I thought to immerse this particular piece of the spell with good magic. And I may have added a shield of golden positive energy to it as well to ward off any of the evil that the other items had to absorb. Now I just got to get the 8th Millennium Item to Akiza. She'll love this.