Chapter 1: Bakari
Bakari ran through the maze of blocks. He could have sworn the Pharaoh was buried somewhere around here. The orange-brown of the strange rock that lined the catacombs of this tomb of the dead gave it a touch that made it seem like he was surrounded by death.
Where were Kakara and Ata? He was supposed to keep those two safe and now they had disappeared. Bad news considering that there were guards and priests everywhere, perfecting the defenses of the tomb against tomb raiders. In a couple of days the tomb would be sealed forever and no one would be able to enter it ever again.
As he was walking around he called out "Kakara, Ata where are you? This is Bakari."
He regretted it almost immediately as the response came "Who's there? I am a guard of the great pharaoh Ramses."
Bakari stopped dead in his tracks as he saw the owner of the voice turn around the corner.
"Hey, you there,, come here," He ordered.
Bakari took one look at the spear he was carrying and ran off in the opposite direction, scurrying through the many turns in this endless maze called the tomb. As he was running he could hear the guard yelling for him to stop. The guard was probably much faster than him but the shield and spear were making him much heavier and slower.
As he was running he came to a crossroad. One was well lit with torches every few feet but the other was almost pitch-black.
"The guard will think I went into the lit one," Bakari told himself.
Bakari ran off into the dark chamber and stopped to listen for the guard. As he was listening he heard a noise from further down the chamber.
He walked towards the noise and found a small rock which seemed to be shaking. Except it wasn't a rock. It was Kakara and Ata hiding under a small cloth made from camel hair.
He saw Kakara peak out from the cloth and squeal with excitement "Bakari, It's you"
He shushed her as he heard from further up the guard laughing in triumph. "I've got you now."
He quickly gestured for Kakari and Ata to get up and follow him but the two twins didn't seem to understand the importance. He grabbed them by their hands and dragged them through the chambers until he reached a small sideway that was almost invisible.
"Quickly, in here," he told them. "It's safe."
"How do you know about this, Bakari?" Ata asked.
Bakari paused for a bit, his brother had just asked for something he was supposed to keep secret. "Father worked on the project to build this t great pyramid and he told me that he made a small path that the Pharaoh could use as cover if he is attacked in the underworld."
It looked as though Ata was going to question again but the sound of the guard's heavy footprints kept him quiet.
Bakari could feel his siblings tense as the guard walked by, but he just kept on walking. Bakari could hear his footsteps as he walked away but skipped a beat when they stopped. He heard a gasp come from down the chamber and a voice called out like nothing he had heard before.
"IDENTIFY YOURSELF!" It screamed, "OR YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!"
"Is this the power of Ra?" The guard asked.
"FAILURE TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WILL RESULT IN EXTERMINATION! EXTERMINATION WILL NOW PROCEDE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
A sound pieced the air like fingernails scraping on a boulder and the room lit up in a bright blue-green colour revealing that the guard was standing in front of him. Bakari gasped as he saw the guard light up like Ra when he rode down the rivers of the heavens.
The guard fell over onto the ground dead. "EXTERMINATION COMPLETE!" The voice said.
Bakari held Kakari and Ata still for a few minutes before he was sure the thing was gone and quickly lead the two twins down the winding corridors and until they reached the exit none of them spoke.
Bakari didn't let down his guard until they walked out of the pyramid and saw the winding sands before the river Nile and the small town of Cairo.
Bakari turned to his siblings, "You two go back home to Crissera, I'll go to the market and get some food for tonight."
The twins nodded in understanding to their older brother and started running back across the winding dunes of Egypt back to Cairo.
Bakari waited until they were out of sight to look back at the pyramid and decided that he was never going to come back to this place of evil.
The Doctor looked over the TARDIS. After all this business with the Silence, it was time to have a vacation and erase himself from the universe.
He turned to the controls and flipped a switch that he hadn't used in a long time. It was time to use the Randomiser again.
Gahiji looked over the market square. It was full of the usual racket; people yelling about their stock, animals running loose and even a boy in his young teens stealing fruit while the shopkeeper was looking away. What was unusual about the scene was the noise of a wheezing, groaning noise that went unnoticed by the rest of the crowd. The other unusual thing was the sudden feeling that a storm was on the way.
It could only mean one thing.
The Doctor was coming…