Hey, guys. It's been a while. I'm sorry for the any delay of my stories, but my computer is sick with a bomb of a virus. So, I'm using my parents' laptop for a while.
Warning for sad scenes.
Here's the first chapter, everyone! Enjoy!
The Phantom Prince of Egypt
Chapter 1: Deliver Us
Many years ago, it was a time of pharaohs, a time of monuments in ancient Egypt. Egypt is known as the land of Majesty where the great pyramids of Giza stood under the golden sun, where the great river Nile flowed, and even the Sphinx was located, looking out proudly. Now, one would think Egypt's a land where is a paradise in the middle of a desert. Not in this case.
Back when the Pharaohs ruled, a race of religious people known as the Hebrews were enslaved by the royals, humans and ghosts alike. In the desert on a boiling day, thousands of slaves were pulling a head of a statue of the current Pharaoh, known as Pariah Dark, while slave drivers whipped them to make them work faster.
Mud…
Human slaves were working their sweat out mixing sand, straw, and water into mud with their feet to create bricks for the monuments they were forced to build.
Sand…
The Ghost slaves dumped sand, water, and straw in the mixing areas.
Water…
The water they dumped landed hard on some of the humans, making them fall in the mud.
Straw…
Faster!
The slave drivers whipped them, just to make them work faster without rest and delay.
Mud…and lift!
There were some slaves where they placed the brick mixture in molds to make the bricks while the others carried a load of them despite the heavy weight on their backs to where the monuments were being built.
Sand… and pull!
Some dug through the sands with pick axes. The slaves located near the Nile pulled large vats of water from the river. They lifted the bricks up to the other slaves building the monuments.
Water….and raise up!
Straw…
As the slaves threw straw in the mixing areas, their slave driver Bullet roared as he whipped a ghost slave.
"FASTER!"
As the slaves worked, they sang out loud their pain and despair as Bullet whipped a human, who was nearly exhausted from carrying a load on his shoulders, on the back.
From the sting of the whip on my shoulder
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
Elohim, God on high
Can you hear your people cry?
Help us now
This dark hour
Throughout Egypt, slaves worked harder and harder to get through their work. They carried heavy stacks on their backs while many others mounted a monument of the Pharaoh.
Deliver us
Hear our call
Deliver us
Lord of all, remember us here in this burning sand
Everywhere we see, both ghost and human slaves suffered the hard work, the scorching heat, and mostly, the harsh treatment and cruelty of their superiors. They only receive more scars from the whipping and no rest or respect.
An elderly human collapsed on the ground exhausted and reached his hand for help before he could die from exhaustion, and the centaur ghost grabbed his hand, and helped him up. He comforted the old man until Fright Knight came over and shoved the two slaves to make them get back to work while he kept a close eye on the rest of the slaves.
Deliver us
There's a land you promised us
Deliver us to the Promised Land!
Meanwhile, at a Hebrew village outside the palace grounds, hordes of ghost skeleton guards were swarming around the streets. The Pharaoh, Pariah Dark, feared that one day, the Hebrew population would rise up against him if their numbers grew, so he ordered his guards to search for every newborn Hebrew baby boy, whether they're ghost or human, and get rid of them, but they would only spare girls. That way, their numbers would shorten as well as showing his power to the slaves to remind them of who's their ruler.
From inside one of the homes, a woman with purple eyes, brown hair, and wearing a blue dress with a long red head covering, was watching outside from her window with worry and fear. She carefully hid from view as she held something close to her dress; her name was Maddie.
With her were two young children; one was her daughter Jasmine, though she prefers to be called Jazz. She's a nine year old girl with orange hair and aqua eyes, wearing a light blue headband and dress with a black sash.
The other was her adopted ghost son who is the young Ghostwriter. He's a seven year old boy with black hair and green eyes, wearing purple clothes and a grey vest. He was adopted into the family after his parents were killed by the Pharaoh's guards when he was an infant.
As Maddie watched the guards run through the streets, she sang in Hebrew as she held the bundle protectively.
"Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach. Al ti-ra vel al tif-chad."
She brought her head covering back, revealing a baby boy about three months old with black hair and icy blue eyes. The baby was a halfa since his mother fell for a ghost who died before he was born in a fight against some soldiers for defending some slaves. Ever since the baby's born, Maddie protected the baby for the last three months.
As she sang to the baby, she wrapped a blue blanket from his cradle around him to keep him warm.
My son, I have nothing I can give
But this chance that you may live
I pray we'll meet again
If 'He' will deliver us
Suddenly, Maddie and her children heard screams coming from the outside and watched out the window as the guards searched through the village, stormed into the Hebrew homes, took away and killed every baby boy they can find.
Deliver us
Hear our prayer
Deliver us
One skeleton guard shoved a human mother out of her way and came over to where her newborn son was and took him away. As he left the house, the mother cried over the loss of her child.
From despair, these years of slavery grew too cruel to stand
Maddie and her children snuck out of the house while she hid her newborn in her dress covering and Jazz carried a hand-woven basket in her arms.
Deliver us
There's a land you promised us
When the coast was clear, the family ran through the streets to find a way out of the village. They came to a stop and Maddie pulled Ghostwriter over to her when they saw more soldiers running above the streets. When they were gone, the family kept running through the streets until they were out of the village. They ran across a small part of the desert to the Nile and hid in the oasis to make sure they weren't seen.
Deliver us, out of bondage and...
Deliver us to the Promised Land
They hid deeper in the reeds until they got to the shore. As Jazz set the basket near the water, the baby started to cry. While the children looked on, Maddie comforted him as she sang to him softly while gently placing him in the basket.
Hush now, my baby
Be still love, don't cry
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
The baby boy fussed around in the blanket and managed to get his arm free and gripped his mother's finger gently.
Sleep and remember my last lullaby
So I'll be with when you dream
The baby started drifting to sleep. Maddie leaned down to kiss her baby son on the head and closed the basket as the baby yawned and fell asleep. Once her son was safely inside, Maddie went into the water and placed the basket down on it and sent it drifting down the river.
River, oh river
Flow gently for me
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere he can be free?
River, deliver him there...
As she finished her song, tears of sadness flowed down her cheek, saddened at giving up her beloved child.
Jazz followed the basket down the river through the reeds to make sure nothing happens while her baby brother was in there. "No one is going to hurt my baby brother."
The basket drifted down the river while some monkeys, sitting on a branch watched the basket drift past them. A bunch of fish jumped out of the water and birds flew over it.
Suddenly, a giant Nile crocodile jumped out of the water and a bunch of hippos came out of the water and started fighting each other while making the basket jump over them. Jazz kept up with the basket and gasped as she saw it drift near the fishing boats. The fishermen pulled the net full of fish up while the basket fell out of the net and back in the water as it drifted through the other boats. Fearful for her brother's safety, Jazz ran into the river but stopped and watched as the people in the boats row their paddles and the basket drifted through the strokes and she gasped when she saw the basket heading towards a boat. Thankfully, the boat came past the basket and the waves it made caused the basket to drift gently towards the palace. The basket went through the curtains, making the herons fly out of the water as it drifted to the land.
At the steps of the water gardens, a tall, beautiful ghost woman with blue skin, red eyes, purple hair, wearing a royal gold and black Egyptian dress and black sandals was standing in the shallows; she is the Queen of Egypt and her name is Pandora.
In her arms was a baby ghost boy about two years old with pale blue skin, red eyes, flaming white hair, wearing only a white diaper and a silver necklace. He was reaching out to a water lily floating in the water which Queen Pandora picked up and gave it to him. As she watched her son pulling off the petals in curiosity, Pandora gasped when she felt something beneath her. She looked down and saw the basket floating towards her. She put her son down on dry land and leaned down to look inside the basket.
Hidden from plain sight, Jazz arrived to the palace and peek from behind a curtain. She gasped, believing her brother would be killed should the royals saw him.
When Queen Pandora opened the basket, she gasped in surprise at seeing the baby halfa waking up from his nap. When the baby yawned, a flash of light and a set of rings appeared before the baby. The rings separated and disappeared, transforming the baby into his halfa form. His hair is as white as snow with glowing green eyes. He smiled at the Queen, earning a soft and gentle smile from her in return.
Jazz sighed in relief and smiled at the sweet happy moment. She sang as
she watched Queen Pandora take her brother out of the basket and holds him gently.
Brother, you're safe now
And safe may you stay
For I have a prayer just for you
Grow, baby brother
Come back someday
Come and deliver us, too
She watched happily as Queen Pandora held the baby in her arms and the baby halfa tugged her hair with curiosity and interest, and Queen Pandora kissed him on the head and held him closer; she had taken an immediate love for the baby and decide to adopt him as her own. Jazz gave her baby brother one last glance before she left to go find her family to tell them that the baby was safe.
Queen Pandora came onto the dry land and towards the servant ghost women, who were looking after her son and they looked at the baby halfa with shocked looks and disapproval as the baby cooed happily at his new adoptive mother. The girls looked at the baby, but Queen Pandora glared at them and they looked away.
The young prince held his arms up to her and tugged on the queen's skirt, wondering about what she found. "Mommy..."
Queen Pandora looked at her firstborn son and smiled as they walked together. "Come, Dan. We will show Pharaoh your new baby brother..." She finished as the baby boy cooed when she gently touched his nose, "Danny."
The Queen, the baby prince, and the servants made their way to the palace to show the Pharaoh his new adopted son while the Hebrews worked in their slavery day and night as they sang their song out loud.
Deliver us
Send a shepherd to shepherd us
And deliver us to the promised land
Deliver us to the promised land
As the song started to come to an end, we get a glimpse of the rest of Egypt, the royal palace, and the Hebrew village as the sun began to set. The last thing that was heard was Maddie's voice when she finished the song.
"Deliver us!"
Hope you like it! I'll try to update soon when I can.
FYI: Most of the charatcers would have traditional Egyptian or Hebrew clothing to fit in with the setting.
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