Chapter took me longer to write because I just started and finished on my first college project for this semester. Whoopee.
Anyways it's finally here. While writing this I listened to 2 brilliant songs I couldn't stop playing and that's "Poison" by Alice Cooper and "Some Nights" by Fun. i swear that lead singer from Fun has Freddie Mercury's voice. Should totally check that song out.
Enjoy!
8,000 B.C.
Today is the day for the young man's coronation as the Pharaoh's councilman. Everything was being prepared all day and it was now almost in the afternoon. The women of the palace helped decorate themselves for the event.
A woman named Alliah helped Nekta with doing her makeup over with what she already did giving her a shinier complexion. Alliah raises her eyes with an unbidden smile. "You are glowing more than usual Nekta, Keep it up and you'll look transparent through this."
Nekta squints as she grins harder. She couldn't bare to keep it in herself any longer. "He proposed the day before yesterday."
"That's great news Nekta, a councilman and he is a soldier too," Alliah exclaims excitedly for her friend. "You two are set for life like Royals alongside the Pharaoh and his family."
Nekta smirks and chuckles. "No, we are going to live an hour away in a home we are both going to build together. It is an absolute beautiful place." Nekta spoke very flawlessly already imaging it in her mind.
Alliah looks bewildered. "But you both have everything here, out there you'll have to do work all the time."
Nekta smiles and nods without a reply. She knows.
"Well," Alliah continues on changing the subject. "Since I'm now interested in this occasion when is the wedding?"
"We want to marry in the spring. By then we would've already worked on our home." Nekta glows a lot more as she speaks about her plans along with her fiancée. She couldn't wait to begin her life with him.
"When were you planning on telling everyone Nekta?" Alliah asks in a teasing rage.
"Soon as we are still planning it out," Nekta gets up from her padded pillow and makes her way to the tents flab overturning it to glance outside.
Nekta could see Kames standing far away with her man touching his shoulders looking eye to eye as they converse privately. Alliah joins Nekta as they glance out together.
"He is a fine young man Nekta," Alliah compliments. "You did mighty well for winning his affection over."
"He really is a good man," Nekta curves her lips into a whispering 'O' and smiles.
VVVVVV
"I'm not lecturing you," Kames said to the young man. "I'm just letting you know that sometimes on this job you'll more than likely do something you wouldn't like to do. Pacis was right on some things he told you."
"I don't care what he said," The young man shakes his head. "I've come up with a few strategies to discuss this matter with the Pharaoh."
"Man," Kames cringes almost enraged biting his lips and calms down before he continues. "You can't just claim his councilman before discussing any strategies with him first. Your plans could backfire or not work."
"They will work Kames," The young man drifts away from Kames' clenching on his shoulders. "I have to go stand in my place since it's about to start."
VVVVVVV
Everyone around the palace and village came up for the event as the Pharaoh makes his way out with his Queen who is now a few months pregnant. The Pharaoh etches the side of his beard and he raises his hands high to get a moments silence from everyone that came out that day.
The young man glances towards Nekta from the back and Nekta looks back at him with a proud smile as she stood along with all the other maidens. The young man could see Nekta's caressing smile behind her sheer red veil covering her mouth and bottom nose.
The young man mouths the words 'I love you," towards Nekta. Nekta smiles deeper back at him underneath her veil and mouths that she does too and turns back to look at the Pharaoh.
"Today we are gathering in the honor of a new prosperous year," The Pharaoh began his speech with his hands still risen bringing them to the length of his broad shoulders. "With a few retirements happening, along with the splendid and happy news of my queen bearing the child that will one day take the place of me when I am one day gone."
The crowd cheers a little when some clapped for the Pharaoh and their Queen.
"And now I would like to introduce my new," The Pharaoh began and ended in the most tragic way possible. A sharp and agonizing scream came from the queen as a sphere faster than lightening struck the Pharaoh straight through his heart and out from his back spine.
Everyone in the crowd became speechless, not a murmur or gasp was heard in the few seconds that the Pharaoh looked out to them with the most perplexed and scared look before clashing to the ground and rolling down the steps of the palace dead. That was when everyone went into a shrieking frenzy.
The young man is about to go and help when a loud cry came from the tall walls beside him. "This young man right here did it! He's betrayed us and our own Pharaoh!" Pacis shouts as he points to the young man.
The young man looks up at Pacis infuriated and jolts his head quickly at the soldiers coming up toward him. "No!" Nekta screams and the young man looks over at her. Tears stream down her unbelievable expressional face as she was being held back from going to him.
The young man ran in an abrupt pace away from the guards and crowd giving Nekta one last look before darting off.
The guards gained on him as the young man reaches a long drop narrow bridge and the young man jumps over the ledge landing on his feet and makes way into a dark tunnel. He couldn't hear the footsteps behind him anymore so the only thing now running through his mind was the pharaoh, getting into deep turmoil for something he didn't commit and how to escape.
At the end of the tunnel an arm and hand reaches out towards him from the side and the young man is thrusted up against the wall. "Kames what the hell!" his heart raced faster as he felt the intensity of everything that has just happened. "I didn't do it like Pacis said I did."
"I believe you son," Kames shushes him. "I was watching you the whole time. That sphere came out of nowhere."
"It was Pacis," The young man outbreaks. "I was the one he blamed first off. I should've seen this coming."
"We'll talk once we get out of here. The guards should be arriving over here soon, quickly," Kames said and the young man run to the nearest horses and mounts on them in a rush getting out of there.
Present Day: Arnia
Queen Jill and Tristan stare straight up at the tall and odd circular object before them. It landed about fifteen acres away from where they were at. Queen Jill was glad to see that her husband the King Tirian came through the woods with most of their people from Cair Paravel.
King Tirian nods to his wife happy to see that she was alright and looks up at the strange thing. Queen Jill speaks up. "It's something electronic. I've seen such material in my homeland before, but never have I seen something like this."
King Tirian walks in between the arches of the circular monument studying every detail engraved onto it. "This is indeed some strange work here."
King Tirian turns his glance across the other side of the wood hearing horse hooves beating on the ground. Squinting his eyes to see who was coming he saw two people, his daughter Jane sat on the back of the saddle, her arms wrapped tightly around Ra guiding the horse.
Tirian cringes as he narrows his eyes at the sight of them. He looked outraged as his face turns red but he kept his mouth shut as Ra stares sternly at him back when he brought the horse to a stop and helps Jane down and mounts after her.
Turning his attention away from King Tirian, Ra slowly gapes up at the object and his jaw suddenly drops lower then everyone elses. "I've seen this before." He said walking up to it.
"Is it from another world?" Jane asked looking at the object as well standing next to her twin brother Tristan.
Ra didn't reply right away, he noticed that where King Tirian stood was a very dangerous spot. "King you need to move out of the way from the iris."
"How do you come to know what this is?" King Tirian asks harshly.
"Move or else if that thing turns on you'll be sucked away to your death." Ra exclaims bitterly. Tirian didn't ask anymore and steps out of the way like Ra said.
Ra turns around to everyone first looking at Jane. "This thing that you are all looking at comes from a galaxy species called the Goa'uld," Ra continues as he saw everyone was following him. "It's a portal to reach other worlds throughout the universe or into a Goa'uld's starship."
"What about these as you say Goa'ulds?" Tirian crosses his arms. "What exactly are they?"
"Parasites within humans, they use humans as hosts and portray themselves as ancient Gods," Ra replies looking at everyone and always landing his gaze upon Jane more than anyone else. "They must've somehow found out about this world or else this stargate wouldn't be here."
"A stargate?" Jane said almost mesmerized by the word as if she knew the term before.
Ra already had his gaze on her. "That's what this thing is. Once you set your destination on where you want to go you travel the speed of light across the galaxy to reach it."
"The real question is," King Tirian started and Ra turns his attention to the king again. "Is why did the Goa'uld choose us and what will they do?"
Ra tried to find a way to explain this easily to everyone before he spoke again but there were no easy way. "The Goa'uld are going to do things to prove to you that they are real Gods. If you show them that you are not convinced or try to fight with them they'll burn this whole place, they'll take you as hosts and grab your children from you."
"How do you know all of this?" A man from the crowd asks.
Everybody stares up at Ra waiting for his reply. "Because I've learned this when I travelled through space before coming here."
"How did you come to be here then?" Another person from the crowd asked.
Ra shakes his head. "I'm sorry but that's not important right now. I hope you people are listening to me because these Goa'uld, they don't stop at nothing to get people like you to believe in them as the real thing."
"We believe in only one God and that is Aslan," Tirian narrows his eyes again tightening his arms as he kept folding them.
'Please just trust me on what I just told you." Ra softly plead to the king.
King Tirian gives Ra a long pondering look before deciding to nod his head at Ra's idea.