Max: Hay everyone! This is my first story so I hope you like it. It came to me one day and would not go away, so I got to writing it down for you. It's the best way of getting out, and hopefully, many more. =)
Helen: HAY! Dont be hogging all the chat for yourself girl! (mumbles) frigin hog!
Sam: Be nice Helen! Apologize to Max!
Helen: For what! I was only being truthful! Your always going on about how honesty is the best police!
(Sam and Helen start bickering like siblings)
Max: STOP! (Silence-crickets chirping in the background) Thank you. These 2 are my best girlfriends, but they sure can be a handful at times. Helen is a fair-skinned, white girl from the U.S.A. Frizzy midnight black hair with dark green highlights and light green tips. Round face, freckles around her emerald-green eyes. Say hi Helen.
Helen: Whas up! )
Max: O.O Alrightly. Sam is a pale skinned white girl from the U.S.A. Blonde hair with light pink highlights and hot pink tips. Roundish, ovalish face with baby blue eyes and Okie accent. Say hi Sam.
Sam: Hi Y'all! =)-
Max: She can be a bit of a dits sometimes.
Sam: HAY!
Helen: TOLD YOU! TOLD YOU! TOOOLD YOU!
Sam: SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUUUUT UP!
Max: QUITE! Now who wants to do the disclaimer?
Helen&Sam: I DO! I DO! NO! MEEE!
Heba: I will, thank you very much. Max owns nothing except herself, Helen,Sam, and the plot.
Max: Thank you Heba. Well,... see you later!
Heba: You are welcome. Later!
Helen&Sam: NOT FAIR! WHY DID HE GET TO DO IT!
Max: STOP TALKING! BOTH OF YOU! Now while I take care of these two, you go ahead and read! Thanks!
Chapter One- Were it all Began
~Heba~
I had a lonely childhood, just me and my solo games. At 5'2" I'm small compared to everyone my age. With my child like features, my soft hair and big Amethyst eyes, It's hard to get a date with, well, anyone! I'm 17 almost 18 and I have no friends or family because of how I look. They think I mock the Pharoah with my looks,and hair. My hair is what I dislike the most because it looks most like the Pharaoh's, with its 5 black star like spikes lined in violet. My blonde bangs that sprout from the middle of my forehead and framing my face. I wish I could get rid of my hair, but it's the only thing I have to remind me of my long forgotten Grandfather.
The Kings hair is very similar but different you see because his 5 black spikes are lined in scarlet. When his bangs shoot up from the center of his forehead 3 stay upright, while the rest frame his face. The 3 bangs stand 1 in front of his top most spike the other 2 stand in front of his other 2 spikes to the left and right
See while I have soft-child like features, the King has sharp-man like features. His chin ends in a hard point while mine rounds out. While I have big doe-like Amethyst eyes, he has small sharp crimson orbs.
Sorry, it seems like I forgot my manners. My name is Heba Motou and welcome to my Home sweet Home. My alleyway.
My birthday's almost here and it will be spent in fear. because every town, city, and village that our Great Pharaoh rules over must send an 18-year-old tribute as they call it but it's merely called a sacrifice. We send up a "tribute" every year a girl and/or boy. If you send up a boy and or girl you don't have to send up a boy or girl the next our village always sends up one boy and girl. They have there sights on me and the most beautiful girl here,Anzu. We send up virgins up to him because, apparently, virgins blood tastes better I guess. There are 3 reasons why we send up our own people.
1) For a prosperous year(s) to follow
2)For a slave to the never-dying King and/or his priests
3)For a sacrifice to the shadows that the King commands over.
See, there's no way I can ever want to go willingly! But alas I must go to represent my village. I could just go into the desert and stay till the jobs done and have someone else go instead of me. But they get you to stay at a nice house till they take you to go up to the palace.
Todays the day. My 18th birthday and the day I get picked up to get pampered and head out to the palace, but I'm ready to go out into the desert. I have a bag packed with some cloths and food, but I'm still debating whether to throw this burden on someone unexpectedly. To run or not to run, that is the question! I think giggling a bit.
"Hay Heba!" Times up, I start running as fast as my short legs will carry me. Running to my alleyway to get my bag and either run into the desert or my hidey hole that's just big enough for me to fit in.
Shouts of "STOP!" and "HULT!" can be heard being hurled at me. I kep running telling myself over and over "Almost there", I mumble, "Almost ther...ACK!"I shout as I trip over a rock, falling flat on my face. Getting up I chance a glance over my shoulder to see how much ground they have on me, but, there's no one there. Did my paranoia make me belive I was being chased? I start to walk home thinking about this. Turing the corner to my alleyway when 2 strong muscular arms warp around me, one at my chest trapping my arms to my sides, and one around my waist trapping my hands at my thighs.
"Got you, you little punk!" The guard grunted "Your coming with me to the palace to have your fate decided by he Great King!"
"Put me down you..." I started to yell out loud but was cut off by someone else saying,
"SHUT UP SHORTY!" A 2nd guard said, putting a gag in my mouth while the 1st guard was binding my hands and feet be for chucking me into the caged cart. They started binding, gagging,and transporting in caged carts since 'tributes' found out how to escape from their carts.
"They don't pay us enough money anymore, Joey." said the 2nd guard to the 1st. The first guard, now that I got a good look at the two of them I see that the guard named Joey, has shaggy blonde hair and brown eyes. Tall,and very strong. He was wearing blue cloth pants,a white shirt and green armor, with a brown leather belt and steal sword at his hip.
"Got that right Tristan!" The guard named Tristan has short brown hair that ends in a tall point in the front of his head with brown eyes. Just a bit shorter than Joey. He was wearing black cloth pants,a white shirt and brown armor, with a blue leather belt and steal sword attached to his hip.
I must have fallen asleep because I woke up at the hut where I was to be bathed, clothed and be presented to the King.
I'm going to see the Pharoah tomorrow,we're leaving first thing in the morning so we can get there on time. It's a full days trip and the tributes are presented to the King one hour after dark. The outfit chosen for me to wear is a nice light blue silk tunic with nice little yellow stars covering them from top to bottom.
On the way to the palace we stop for sometimes to feed and water the horses. In this heat I could use some water.
"Excuse me,Sir, could I have a cup of water? I'm dreadfully thirsty from this heat!" I ask the one named Joey.
"NO! It's not even noon yet! Nothing till then, GOT IT?!"
"Alright." I reply with a small sigh. Slinking back into the corner of the cage.
"Whats this? A wise guy? You better shut it before I shut it myself!" Joey yells in my face. Frightened, I back up as far as I can in my corner to escape. Only to receive more ridicule from my prison warden.
"Scared are we?" He asks in a playful, sarcastic tone. Then he gives me the evil eye at me saying, in an extremely malevolent voice,
"You better be. 'Cause I'd rather kill you and save the Pharaoh the trouble of doing it himself. But sadly I have to wait and waste an entire day hauling your skinny, pale, ass all the way to the palace in the HEAT! When I can be doing better things with my time. So stay still, and stay silent and we shall be on our way. alright?" with a quick nod from me head off with the anger, fear, and heat hanging in the air the rest of the way, with no stops.
Arriving at the palace gates at sun down which means we have 1 hour till I'm to be presented to the King. Rushing i'M I'm lead to a room where my makeup is fine tuned and replied. My clothing changed to the same yet different tunic.
After one hour I was ready to be presented to the Great Pharaoh Atem. I had so many nerves I was sweating slightly and trembling slightly. Not so bad that I couldn't walk straight, but to where I had a shaking hand.
The time has come. Any second now they'll call my name and ell the Pharoah what village I represent. While in my train of what if's and why's I hear a woman say my name.
"Heba Motou-male- from Kada (*kaw-daw), Egypt-age now."
Getting up I slowly walk over to the huge gold doors, big enough for the gods to use. Look at me, I'm shaking like a leaf in a sandstorm. As I enter I walk up 10 feet, like I was instructed by one of the women who prepared me a 2nd time. As I kneel in front of him with my head bowed I say,
"My Pharaoh, I was chosen for my purity from my village of Kada."
Silence.. It's a dead silence, I can only expect the worst. Will the feed me to the shadows? Will he kill me? As questions race in my head, I hardly hear the foot falls echoing though out the vast, hollow room. After, what felt like an eternity or 2, I feel a finger under my chin and feel it being forced up.
Those eyes, those beautiful, crimson,eyes. Just staring into my Amethyst ones. It's almost like he's searching into my soul. I can't belive what is happening now, but the Pharaoh is looking into MY eyes and holding MY chin! This gives me a chance to get a good look at his face.
Like I said earlier, he has a ovelish face with a chiseled out chin, a normal size nose with a small point on the end. And his eyes, his crimson eyes that can pierce and/or search a man/boys soul.
"And, what of your beauty, little one?" He asks. Oh my RA! His voice is a deep, dark, sexy baritone voice that makes me want to melt and...wait, did he just wave his eyebrows seductively at me just now?
"Well?" He asks me, I only realize I have yet to answer him.
"I am no beauty, your Highness. They only choose me because of my purity and probably just to get ride of me." I anser, mumbling the last part.
"What was that last part? Hmmm?"
"Nothing Sire!"
"Please, call me Atem!" He, uh, Atem tells me. "Find him a room in the palace..." is all I hear before I black out.
~Atem~
One hour earlier
Sitting in the throne room bored out of my mind. so badly I don't even try to hide it anymore. After an hour or so hearing "Chosen for my beauty" and "Chosen for my insistence" can be really boring, especially when they are neither beautiful nor "pure"
Dressed in my black leather pants, sleeveless leather shirt with a V-neck collar. Black leather sandals on my feet with the Millennium Puzzle around my neck. I sit side-ways in my throne with my head and feet dangling from either end when I hear the next "meal basket" announced by... well I can never remember her name, when she said
"Heba Motou -male- age 18 from Kada, Egypt enter now!"As he enters I'm taken a back by his beauty. I can only see him, no one else, hear only him when, kneeling and bowing, he says
"My Pharaoh, I was chosen for my purity, from my village of Kada, Egypt." voice of an angle sent from the gods of the heavens. Before I know what I'm doing I jump off mt throne and lift his face to meet mine. As I stare into his huge Amethyst eyes I ask,
"And, what of your beauty Little One?" As his silence fill the room I study his face. He has the face of an angle with his round child-like face, smooth, silky skin. His full red lips and his huge Amethyst eyes.
"Well?" He seemed to realize he has yet to anser my question, only saying,
"I'm no beauty, Your Highness. They choose me for my purity and..." That is all I can hear, for he mumbles the end of his statement.
"What was that? Hmmm?" I ask.
"Nothing Sire!"
"Please call me Atem" I tell him. As I turn to one of my many servants to find him a room because he is to be a guest in my palace when I hear a thud. I quickly turn back to Heba and he's out cold n the floor. I call for someone to fetch the healer and to tell her to meet me in my room before picking Heba up, bridal style, and running to my room.
Max: Finily! I finished Chapter One!
Helen: Finished! Thats not finished! Thats not even partly finished! Now go back and finish it!
Sam: I thought there was going to be Tea/Anzu bashing. =(
Max: There will be Tea/Anzu bashing but later on in the story. So please Read and Review! (bows) Thank You! =)