Eye of Horus

Chapter 2: The Tomb

Sam and Dean stood outside of the mayor's office in their suits. Sam adjusts his tie as Dean opens the door and walks in standing tall and confident. The office was filled with cherry wood furniture, the desk, bookcases, and chairs all matched. The bookcase was filled with pictures and display cases of various knickknacks. In a glass case behind the desk hung a golden amulet in the shape of an eye. A leather cord was tied around the top of the eye and had a dim glow pulsing from it. As if it had a mind of its own.

A large fat man with thinning hair sat at the desk going through some paperwork he was given regarding the animal attacks around the town. "Can I help you gentlemen?" he asks before wheezing, never looking up at the Winchester boys.

Dean glances over at Sam before giving Sam a little wave motioning him to speak first. "We are sorry to disturb you Mr….," Sam starts to say before quickly stopping to look at the nameplate on the desk. "Wilson. We were sent by the FBI to deal with the animal attack issues. Do you have time to answer a few questions?" Sam says as he and Dean pull out their 'badges' to show to the mayor.

The mayor scoffs and finally looks up at Sam and Dean, his cold blue eyes looking between the two boys. "First that stupid archeology student and now you two? Just get out of my office, I'm too busy to deal with this shit," the mayor says before turning back to his paperwork, clearly being done with this conversation.

Sam goes to leave when Dean steps forward and puts his hand on the desk. "Wait Zahra was here? Why did she show up about this?" he asks just as Sam went to pull him away from the desk.

"Dean… let's go. We have another lead to follow," Sam whispers to Dean before pulling him out of the office. Dean adjusts his jacket after shoving Sam off of him when they reach the parked Impala.

"Watch the jacket!" Dean says dusting himself on before getting into the drivers seat and throwing his badge into the glovebox. Sam climbs into the passenger seat and turns to face Dean after shutting the door.

"Zahra knows more than she's letting on. That amulet in the mayor's office matches the one in her notes. The plaque said that it was a gift from an archeologist… from Egypt. Which happens to be where Zahra is from," Sam says as Dean starts to drive back towards the hotel. The short haired Winchester glances over at his little brother before turning to go back to Zahra's dorm.

"We need to talk to Zahra. Especially since it seems like the bear boy is onto her. She could be in danger," Dean says as he is stuck at a red light three streets down from the dorm. He leans back in his seat and sighs as all of the new information goes around in his head. "Wait… Zahra is from Egypt? I thought that she was from Greece or something."

Sam shakes his head with a chuckle before facing forward to watch the light. "Zahra is an Egyptian name and she has an Egyptian accent… and I called Bobby to see if she checks out. She was a hunter, started learning the trade at 12 when she was adopted and moved to America. She disappeared on a hunt 3 years ago… which is when she showed up here as a college student," Sam states as he looks through some notes he wrote down on the female hunter. Most of the cases she was reported to have worked on involved breaking curses and hunting minor ghosts solo. "Bobby said that she was working on breaking the curse of Sekhmet. The curse was placed on an amulet apparently," he says as he closes the notebook.

"Like the amulet we saw in the office!" Dean says parking outside of Zahra's dorm building. He looks out of the windshield to see a flash of hair as black as khol disappear into a fifth floor apartment. "She's here," he says climbing out of the Impala before Sam even has the chance to respond. He runs up the steps of the building not even looking to see if Sam was following behind him. Just as Dean goes to knock on the apartment door, Sam catches up after locking Baby.

"Thanks for waiting," Sam says sarcastically before knocking on the dorm door. Ten minutes pass by before Zahra finally comes to the door and opens it. She had gotten changed from earlier to be wearing a green tank top with cut off cargo pants. The bags from under her eyes had disappeared under a light layer of makeup and there was a half empty mug of coffee in her hand.

"Before you two question me, get inside. The nursing student across the hall got mad at me making too much noise once today already," Zahra says figuring that they had gone to the mayor's office already and that is why they showed back up at her door. She goes and sits on her couch having cleared everything up so there is actually room to move without knocking notes and blueprints all over the place. Two rolled up blueprints laid on the table along with the leather bound notebook Sam saw her reading at the bus stop. Sam and Dean go and sit down on the couch after closing the door behind them.

"The amulet you were supposed to find is on the mayor's wall. Why haven't you broken the curse on it?" Sam asks leaning forward to look at the teenage girl sitting across from him.

Zahra sighs before resting her forehead on her hands. "I tried to keep it from him. But my supervisor gave it to him as a present. It'll be easier if I just told you the whole story as to why I couldn't break the curse. It took me two years to find that amulet, I tracked it down to the Tomb of Atemhotep iii when I was 17. It was in a hidden chamber that archeologists having found or excavated. However… I found these blueprints that showed a group of hidden chambers. So I brought it to a professor I trusted for help. He was trying to get an excavation approved so students could get field experience. That is where the trouble began, the only willing donor for the project was the mayor. Mayor Wilson heard of an amulet that could grant certain people powers and that whoever held the amulet could control them. A condition was given that the amulet had to be given to him, but only the professor knew that. If I knew, that amulet would still be miles underground in Egypt…"

One year ago…

Dust filled the air as five people with headlights walked into the burial chamber of Atemhotep iii. Heiroglyphs covered the walls in what seemed to be a random pattern. Zahra quickly copies down the glyphs before going to touch the drawing of a woman with a lion's head. "Beware the curse that lies behind this wall. Only a child of the gods can wield its power and survive a test against their greatest weakness…" Zahra translates before scraping on the floors could be heard. The floor beneath them began to tremble as pieces of stone began to fall at the entrance of the chamber. The group runs towards the entrance of the chamber to escape certain death. Zahra was at the back of the pack and tripped over a piece of stone that came up in front of her. Stones blocked the chamber door right as the professor went through, behind his three other students.

"Never thought I'd die by being buried alive… at least it's better than trying to get rid of a giant pack of hellhounds with explosives," Zahra shrugs before heading back towards the back wall with the painting of what looked like an Egyptian goddess. A throbbing pulse filled her ears as she is drawn to a crack in the wall. A golden glow shines through the crack causing Zahra to look away to avoid being blinded. She lifts her arm up to shield her eyes as she feels around the crack to see how large it is. Stones fall away as the crack opens into another chamber. One lined with gold and jade. On a pedestal in the center of the chamber rested an amulet. The pulse grows stronger as drumming could be heard bouncing off of the walls. The noise becomes deafening as Zahra walks up to the podium to get a closer look at the amulet resting on it. Despite the decades old dust and dirt on all of the statues and weapons in the chamber, the amulet was in perfect condition. The gold of the Eye of Horus glittered as the leather strap looked like it was made mere hours before.

Her hand was drawn to the amulet as she picked it up to hold it closer to her eyes. The shining light seemed to go back into the eye as it rested in her hand. The golden Eye fit perfectly into her hand as if it was made for her. She slips the leather cord around her neck as the sound of drumming becomes louder. A golden light bursts out and surrounds her as she levitates into the air. Her head falls back as a roar erupts from her throat. Sharp black claws grow out of her nails and her eyes turn amber with a catlike slit in them. The light suddenly stops and drops Zahra to the ground in a heap. A shining light comes through a hole in the ceiling, the chamber was closer to the outside world than she thought. She bit her lip as she looked around the 20 foot tall chamber searching for a way up there. An itching starts in her hands and feet as she started to get the desire to run. She was barely able to keep steady as she made a running jump to the wall. Her claws stuck into the wall as she landed 12 feet up the back wall. Directly below the hole that could release her back into the mortal realm. Hand over hand, she climbed the rest of the way up. And emerged from the underworld.

Author's Note: This is all taking place between the third and fourth episodes of Season 1 of Supernatural. Should have said it earlier but oh well.