Agrabah 2932
By:Kalynn Osburn(writer)
Laura Huser((Creator of Nefret))
Nefret ran down the shinny hallways of the building, not really knowing which way she was headed, much less where.Anubis was hot on herb heels, giving short, questioning grumbles whenever his mistress would head in a new direction. "Oh hush up. I know where I'm going." Nefret scolded and again made a left turn. It was so damn difficult to know if she'd turned this hallway before. All the walls were covered with a kind of metel unlike any she'd ever seen before. It hummed whenever she walked by, like breathing. It gave her the very cirtian feeling that she was been monitered.
Once again they turned down a corridor and Nefret stopped to glance at a pannle of the wall with blinking red and green lights on it. "Odd...looks like a computer system." She knelt down and began prodding at it carefully. "Looks like it's one of those hacker peices...damn." She looked around for anything to pry it open with, but found nothing. "Looks like I'll just have to figure out the codes."
She leaned in for a closer inspection. On each red light there was a diffrent hieroglyph. On each green light there was a diffrent letter in English.There were twenthy-five on each side. The lights blinked sparatically, giving away no specific order. Of course it was easy enough to see how the code was supposed to be done. One had to match the Egyptian glyphs up with the English letters in order to spell a word. That part was easy enough for sombody who know both languages as Nefret did. But the problem was, she had no clue as to what word needed spelling. And for that matter, what would happen if she got the wrong word. This didn't look like the kind of place where the punishment would be light if she got the wrong code.
Anubis growled impatiently and sniffed the pannles alongside the code pannle. Truthfully, Anubis didn't know if he would be any help, but he was willing to try for Nefret's sake. Hise keen pharoah hound nose sniffed somthing irregular, dust and magic combined with electrical unites. An odd, nearly human-like frown crossed the dogs lips and he sniffed again. It didn't make sense. He'd smelt magic, and he'd smelt electrical appliances, but he'd never smelt them combined before. Gently, he prodded along the pannle with his nose and yelped when the pannle slide open, reveling Egyptian glyphs in the form of sentences.
Nefret turned as she heard her dog yelp. "Good boy Anubis."she whisperd and examined the words. Foot steps down the hall distracted her momentraily and she ducked down another passage, waiting for them to pass. Each step had been hurried so it was likely that they knew she was missing. As soon as the steps faded away, she snuck back across and looked a little more closely at the panle. She read the words aloud in a hurried voice. "I am of both love and destruction.My voice is that of pleasure. My screams are that of desimation.Who am I?"
Nefret looked over the puzzle a second time and humphed. That could name about twelve diffrent dieties she knew of and all of them in diffrent religiouse circles. She put fingers to her temples and though. Most likely, it was a goddess, since females tended to represent the traits mentioned. And if she was lucky it would be an Egyptian goddess, given the fact that the glyphs were Egyptian. That narrowed it down to one possibility. One that made her smile.
"Hathor." she whispered and went over to the pannle with the lights again. One at a time, she pressed the correct sumbols on the Egyptian pannle, then moved over and pressed the equivelent of the symbole on the English alphabet. Everything went dead for a moment, and then the lights all flared on and a large door slide open against one wall. "Yes!" Nefret picked up her gun and knife and began runing through the opened pannle.
The moment she entered, the pannle slammed shut and the sound of mechanical locks being firmly shut made her yelp. A red beam gave her enough light to see for a split second, before shutting off and being replaced by another beam. Then the bean multiplyed by two, causing three beams to shoot across the corridor. The six, the twelve, then twenty-four. Within a minuet the entier place was lite up by several dozen lasers, shooting from side to side. Nefret took off a sock and flung it into the lasers beams. Within a second the lasers focused and fired the sock, going back to their normal pattern.
"Of course! What would a giant building be without a feild of lasers."Nefret put the gun in her back pcoket and the knife in her belt. She setteled down and crouch infront of the beams, watchign them silently.Of course she could make a go of it and run straight through.She was sure she'd look great with a few hundred holes in her cloathing, not to mention her body.She paced back and forth for a moment, considering everything and watching the beams. There was only one option, a distraction. She couldn't use Anubis for this, she loved her dog too much to even consider it. But she needed somthing that would keep moving long enough to take attention off of her until she and her dog made it to the other side.
She searched through her pockets and grumbeled as she relaised they must have been searched while being cleaned. The only things Nefret had were her gun and knife. She thumbbed the gun trigger and looked on it, hoping to find an idea somewhere. Sure enough, there was an automatic fire button on the side, ment to continue shooting just in case of an emergency. Taking no aim, Nefret fired once into the lasers. Sure enough, the all diverted their attention to the small dent she'd made in the floor.
Nefret gathered up Anubis in her arms and clicked the button for rapid fire, flinging the gun into the lasers. As the blaster began fireing, it moved from side to side, avoiding the wall lasers blasting at it. Nefret took off past them,making a bee line for the other side. She's made it half way without a single problem when the sound of somthing being hit reached her ear and she noticed the smouldering pile that was once a gun on the floor less the five feet from her. "Oh shit!"
The lasers snapped around and headed straight for her. "Anubis run!" she screamed at her dog as the lasers divided, trying to shoot both tresspassers. She dodged one only to have a second nearly take her head off. Anubis gave a yelp as one of them singed his fur and they continued trying to run in a straight line across the floor. Nefret screamed as she tripped and fell to thr ground, Anubis stopping on the other side and turning around, barking for her.Nefret 's eye grew wide as she saw one of the lasers going straight for her.
Nefret ran down the shinny hallways of the building, not really knowing which way she was headed, much less where.Anubis was hot on herb heels, giving short, questioning grumbles whenever his mistress would head in a new direction. "Oh hush up. I know where I'm going." Nefret scolded and again made a left turn. It was so damn difficult to know if she'd turned this hallway before. All the walls were covered with a kind of metel unlike any she'd ever seen before. It hummed whenever she walked by, like breathing. It gave her the very cirtian feeling that she was been monitered.
Once again they turned down a corridor and Nefret stopped to glance at a pannle of the wall with blinking red and green lights on it. "Odd...looks like a computer system." She knelt down and began prodding at it carefully. "Looks like it's one of those hacker peices...damn." She looked around for anything to pry it open with, but found nothing. "Looks like I'll just have to figure out the codes."
She leaned in for a closer inspection. On each red light there was a diffrent hieroglyph. On each green light there was a diffrent letter in English.There were twenthy-five on each side. The lights blinked sparatically, giving away no specific order. Of course it was easy enough to see how the code was supposed to be done. One had to match the Egyptian glyphs up with the English letters in order to spell a word. That part was easy enough for sombody who know both languages as Nefret did. But the problem was, she had no clue as to what word needed spelling. And for that matter, what would happen if she got the wrong word. This didn't look like the kind of place where the punishment would be light if she got the wrong code.
Anubis growled impatiently and sniffed the pannles alongside the code pannle. Truthfully, Anubis didn't know if he would be any help, but he was willing to try for Nefret's sake. Hise keen pharoah hound nose sniffed somthing irregular, dust and magic combined with electrical unites. An odd, nearly human-like frown crossed the dogs lips and he sniffed again. It didn't make sense. He'd smelt magic, and he'd smelt electrical appliances, but he'd never smelt them combined before. Gently, he prodded along the pannle with his nose and yelped when the pannle slide open, reveling Egyptian glyphs in the form of sentences.
Nefret turned as she heard her dog yelp. "Good boy Anubis."she whisperd and examined the words. Foot steps down the hall distracted her momentraily and she ducked down another passage, waiting for them to pass. Each step had been hurried so it was likely that they knew she was missing. As soon as the steps faded away, she snuck back across and looked a little more closely at the panle. She read the words aloud in a hurried voice. "I am of both love and destruction.My voice is that of pleasure. My screams are that of desimation.Who am I?"
Nefret looked over the puzzle a second time and humphed. That could name about twelve diffrent dieties she knew of and all of them in diffrent religiouse circles. She put fingers to her temples and though. Most likely, it was a goddess, since females tended to represent the traits mentioned. And if she was lucky it would be an Egyptian goddess, given the fact that the glyphs were Egyptian. That narrowed it down to one possibility. One that made her smile.
"Hathor." she whispered and went over to the pannle with the lights again. One at a time, she pressed the correct sumbols on the Egyptian pannle, then moved over and pressed the equivelent of the symbole on the English alphabet. Everything went dead for a moment, and then the lights all flared on and a large door slide open against one wall. "Yes!" Nefret picked up her gun and knife and began runing through the opened pannle.
The moment she entered, the pannle slammed shut and the sound of mechanical locks being firmly shut made her yelp. A red beam gave her enough light to see for a split second, before shutting off and being replaced by another beam. Then the bean multiplyed by two, causing three beams to shoot across the corridor. The six, the twelve, then twenty-four. Within a minuet the entier place was lite up by several dozen lasers, shooting from side to side. Nefret took off a sock and flung it into the lasers beams. Within a second the lasers focused and fired the sock, going back to their normal pattern.
"Of course! What would a giant building be without a feild of lasers."Nefret put the gun in her back pcoket and the knife in her belt. She setteled down and crouch infront of the beams, watchign them silently.Of course she could make a go of it and run straight through.She was sure she'd look great with a few hundred holes in her cloathing, not to mention her body.She paced back and forth for a moment, considering everything and watching the beams. There was only one option, a distraction. She couldn't use Anubis for this, she loved her dog too much to even consider it. But she needed somthing that would keep moving long enough to take attention off of her until she and her dog made it to the other side.
She searched through her pockets and grumbeled as she relaised they must have been searched while being cleaned. The only things Nefret had were her gun and knife. She thumbbed the gun trigger and looked on it, hoping to find an idea somewhere. Sure enough, there was an automatic fire button on the side, ment to continue shooting just in case of an emergency. Taking no aim, Nefret fired once into the lasers. Sure enough, the all diverted their attention to the small dent she'd made in the floor.
Nefret gathered up Anubis in her arms and clicked the button for rapid fire, flinging the gun into the lasers. As the blaster began fireing, it moved from side to side, avoiding the wall lasers blasting at it. Nefret took off past them,making a bee line for the other side. She's made it half way without a single problem when the sound of somthing being hit reached her ear and she noticed the smouldering pile that was once a gun on the floor less the five feet from her. "Oh shit!"
The lasers snapped around and headed straight for her. "Anubis run!" she screamed at her dog as the lasers divided, trying to shoot both tresspassers. She dodged one only to have a second nearly take her head off. Anubis gave a yelp as one of them singed his fur and they continued trying to run in a straight line across the floor. Nefret screamed as she tripped and fell to thr ground, Anubis stopping on the other side and turning around, barking for her.Nefret 's eye grew wide as she saw one of the lasers going straight for her.