Huntress fell to the floor and covered her ears, the noise was deafening.
She discovered the sound had come from Dinah.
"Dinah stop!" she exclaimed, "Stop, you're hurting me!"
::Huntress, get out of there:: Barbara screamed alarmingly over the comm., :: Get out of there! ::
Huntress tried to get up, but it was useless, she fell again, the sound was slowly destroying her eardrums. Ra's now realized how strong Dinah's voice was.
"Dinah! Please!!" Huntress tried to crawl away, but it was impossible, she had never felt pain such as this, blood began to trickle out her ears.
"Have you changed your mind?" Ra's asked, stopping next to Dinah.
Huntress tried unsuccessfully to protect her ears with her hands, she felt as if her brain was about to explode. Her comm began to short circut.
"I think this will help you to think better" Ra's said.
"Oracle, help me!" Huntress cried out desperately, curling her body, her eyes began to flutter. Dinah smiled, again she had control, she closed her mouth.
"God." Huntress mumbled painfully, ".Oh God."
:: Helena? Are you alright? :: Oracle asked over the mic, she lost the signal again.
Helena couldn't hear her, all she heard was a resounding buzz in her head. Dinah leaned down, next to Huntress, "Had enough?" she began to remove the necklace and earrings, "You won't need this."
"No, Dinah." Helena whispered, she grabbed her hands to stop her, Dinah saw Helena's hands stained with blood from her ears. "Damn." she said "You should have obeyed the first time! Get up!"
Huntress couldn't move, she looked at Dinah trying to understand what's was happenig with her, why she was helping Ra's.
Dinah threw the accessories to the floor, "I said, get up!" Dinah ordered and pulled Helena's body up by the lapel, but Huntress remained too dazed, she couldn't hear anything, her head felt too heavy and dark, as if she had lost all comprehension.
"Wake up!!!" Dinah shook Huntress and then let her go; Huntress fell heavily to the floor.
"Don't worry Dinah, Ubu will help us, tonight is the night," Ra's smiled, looking at the unconscious Huntress on the floor, "Tonight is the night."
* * *
Barbara was more than concerned, Ra's Al was a very respectful villian, somehow he had been able to control Dinah with one of his potions, and he would surely try to do the same to Helena. After she had lost contact with her, Bárbara had called Reese, he would help her to obtain more hints.
Having only the facts of the robberies in the museums and the name of Ra's Al Ghul that appeared after so many years, she had to try to discover his den as soon as possible. The telephone rang and she picked up the call.
:: Oracle? I t's Reese.. ::
"Do you have something?" she asked anxious.
::I got the copies of the pieces of paper that the police found in the stolen museums, they were written in old Egyptian, I have just sent it by mail, can you see it? ::
Oracle looks in her mailbox immediately and opened it. They were copies of yellowish paper pieces.
:: Can you decipher what they say? ::
"I believe that I can make it... wait... One of them is an old fragment of the text of the Sarcophaguses: 'Bastet... it is there to stay until the earth is illuminated and descend to the hell he/she refers to one of the cycles of the transfiguration of one of the Egyptian kings, as vigilant together with Osiris.' "
:: It sounds strange::
"The other fragment comes from the Texts of the Pyramids, the declaration 508 'My mother Bastet has raised me, the one that lives in Nejeb has educated me; the one that lives in Dep has put their hands on me... ' Bastet appears in this text like the king's mother."
:: I don't understand very well, what is all this? ::
Barbara leaned in her seat and placed the pencil tip in her mouth and tried to explain to Reese, "The Egyptians adored animals, they represented manifestations of the divine things, these animals represented sacred concepts, they brought near and they united man, to the cosmos and the nature. The Egyptians adored animals in every period of their history, they were an integral part of his religion. The main sacred animals were the bulls, incarnation of Ptah, Ra, Montu and Osiris. The cat was representative of Bastet of Bubastis; the crocodile, Sobek; the hawks representatives of Horus."
Barbara meditated for a few seconds. "Ra's Al said Huntress was fated to be the reincarnation of Batset. I deduce that Ra's seeks return to the life to the goddess using Huntress."
:: Reincarnation? :: Reese asked surprised.
"A God doesn't die... Possession would be the most appropriate word..."
:: That is madness::
"Not according to him," Barbara noticed the monitor again "If you analyze the text: 'Bastet... it is there to stay until the earth is illuminated and descend to the hel'l, the symbolism here is that she is a vigilant and in the second one, she is a mother 'My mother Bastet it has raised me, the one that lives in Nejeb has educated me; the one that lives in Dep has put their hands on me'... A mother takes care and protects her children. Batset was a Goddess that symbolized the energy of the ethereal, warm and revitalizing sun, she was the connection with the cult to the moon, coming from the mysterious side and lover of the night, characteristic of the cats."
::What are you thinking?::
"Bast was a wild goddess. To those who were in her favor, she gave great blessings, but her wrath was legendary and she was sometimes listed as one of Ra's avenging deities who punish the sinful and the enemies of Egypt." Barbara put hand on her hair. "Ra's Al headed a criminal world organization whose mission was to purify the polluted planet and to restore the nature destroyed by the human race. If he has in mind that idea in mind. he is planing something now."
:: Are you telling to me that that lunatic seeks to bring an old Egyptian Goddess to life through Huntress? And he wants her to protect him and help him to achieve his plans? ::
"Indeed..."
"Dinah stop!" she exclaimed, "Stop, you're hurting me!"
::Huntress, get out of there:: Barbara screamed alarmingly over the comm., :: Get out of there! ::
Huntress tried to get up, but it was useless, she fell again, the sound was slowly destroying her eardrums. Ra's now realized how strong Dinah's voice was.
"Dinah! Please!!" Huntress tried to crawl away, but it was impossible, she had never felt pain such as this, blood began to trickle out her ears.
"Have you changed your mind?" Ra's asked, stopping next to Dinah.
Huntress tried unsuccessfully to protect her ears with her hands, she felt as if her brain was about to explode. Her comm began to short circut.
"I think this will help you to think better" Ra's said.
"Oracle, help me!" Huntress cried out desperately, curling her body, her eyes began to flutter. Dinah smiled, again she had control, she closed her mouth.
"God." Huntress mumbled painfully, ".Oh God."
:: Helena? Are you alright? :: Oracle asked over the mic, she lost the signal again.
Helena couldn't hear her, all she heard was a resounding buzz in her head. Dinah leaned down, next to Huntress, "Had enough?" she began to remove the necklace and earrings, "You won't need this."
"No, Dinah." Helena whispered, she grabbed her hands to stop her, Dinah saw Helena's hands stained with blood from her ears. "Damn." she said "You should have obeyed the first time! Get up!"
Huntress couldn't move, she looked at Dinah trying to understand what's was happenig with her, why she was helping Ra's.
Dinah threw the accessories to the floor, "I said, get up!" Dinah ordered and pulled Helena's body up by the lapel, but Huntress remained too dazed, she couldn't hear anything, her head felt too heavy and dark, as if she had lost all comprehension.
"Wake up!!!" Dinah shook Huntress and then let her go; Huntress fell heavily to the floor.
"Don't worry Dinah, Ubu will help us, tonight is the night," Ra's smiled, looking at the unconscious Huntress on the floor, "Tonight is the night."
* * *
Barbara was more than concerned, Ra's Al was a very respectful villian, somehow he had been able to control Dinah with one of his potions, and he would surely try to do the same to Helena. After she had lost contact with her, Bárbara had called Reese, he would help her to obtain more hints.
Having only the facts of the robberies in the museums and the name of Ra's Al Ghul that appeared after so many years, she had to try to discover his den as soon as possible. The telephone rang and she picked up the call.
:: Oracle? I t's Reese.. ::
"Do you have something?" she asked anxious.
::I got the copies of the pieces of paper that the police found in the stolen museums, they were written in old Egyptian, I have just sent it by mail, can you see it? ::
Oracle looks in her mailbox immediately and opened it. They were copies of yellowish paper pieces.
:: Can you decipher what they say? ::
"I believe that I can make it... wait... One of them is an old fragment of the text of the Sarcophaguses: 'Bastet... it is there to stay until the earth is illuminated and descend to the hell he/she refers to one of the cycles of the transfiguration of one of the Egyptian kings, as vigilant together with Osiris.' "
:: It sounds strange::
"The other fragment comes from the Texts of the Pyramids, the declaration 508 'My mother Bastet has raised me, the one that lives in Nejeb has educated me; the one that lives in Dep has put their hands on me... ' Bastet appears in this text like the king's mother."
:: I don't understand very well, what is all this? ::
Barbara leaned in her seat and placed the pencil tip in her mouth and tried to explain to Reese, "The Egyptians adored animals, they represented manifestations of the divine things, these animals represented sacred concepts, they brought near and they united man, to the cosmos and the nature. The Egyptians adored animals in every period of their history, they were an integral part of his religion. The main sacred animals were the bulls, incarnation of Ptah, Ra, Montu and Osiris. The cat was representative of Bastet of Bubastis; the crocodile, Sobek; the hawks representatives of Horus."
Barbara meditated for a few seconds. "Ra's Al said Huntress was fated to be the reincarnation of Batset. I deduce that Ra's seeks return to the life to the goddess using Huntress."
:: Reincarnation? :: Reese asked surprised.
"A God doesn't die... Possession would be the most appropriate word..."
:: That is madness::
"Not according to him," Barbara noticed the monitor again "If you analyze the text: 'Bastet... it is there to stay until the earth is illuminated and descend to the hel'l, the symbolism here is that she is a vigilant and in the second one, she is a mother 'My mother Bastet it has raised me, the one that lives in Nejeb has educated me; the one that lives in Dep has put their hands on me'... A mother takes care and protects her children. Batset was a Goddess that symbolized the energy of the ethereal, warm and revitalizing sun, she was the connection with the cult to the moon, coming from the mysterious side and lover of the night, characteristic of the cats."
::What are you thinking?::
"Bast was a wild goddess. To those who were in her favor, she gave great blessings, but her wrath was legendary and she was sometimes listed as one of Ra's avenging deities who punish the sinful and the enemies of Egypt." Barbara put hand on her hair. "Ra's Al headed a criminal world organization whose mission was to purify the polluted planet and to restore the nature destroyed by the human race. If he has in mind that idea in mind. he is planing something now."
:: Are you telling to me that that lunatic seeks to bring an old Egyptian Goddess to life through Huntress? And he wants her to protect him and help him to achieve his plans? ::
"Indeed..."
