Destiny (Ronin/Witchblade
Crossover)
By: Yin-Yang & JanimeLee
~Chapter Six~
"Mother??" That was the question on everyone's mind as they watched Sekhmet and the woman seem to be having a kind of staring contest where neither said or did anything. Naomi wasn't sure what to say herself and stood a bit off to the side as if unsure whether or not she should be there right now.
The woman turned her eyes to Naomi and smiled warmly at her. "He would use your children to get you here," she said. "That's how I became a prisoner here, Sekhmet. That's why I left you in the Mortal World. I didn't want you to become like me. I loved you too much."
"You could have said something," he said tensely yet in a quiet voice. "All these years I kept wondering what I did to make you leave me and Reficul had you captive the entire time."
Anubis reached out to touch his arm only briefly after nodding to the older woman. "We better continue this at home. I don't like the idea of him sending anymore demons after us when we're in the open like this." That and Dini needed to see a doctor and fast.
Sekhmet didn't look pleased but he sighed deeply and nodded his head. "Fine. Are you going to come with us... mother?" he asked in a low voice, having not used that word in a long time without really meaning it.
"I would, but I cannot."
"Why?"
"I am bound to the land here, " she said. "As is the law of all Nagashin-'Forever bound to the land on which honored your blood.' When I gave birth to you here, that is how we became tied to this land. But being half human, that is how you managed to escape. And with the help of your friends."
Sekhmet grimaced at the memory of when the four Warlords left the Dynasty. Was the pain he had felt actually the loss and separation from the Dynasty?
Naomi felt sorry now for her, not being able to leave this place just because of the blood in her veins? "That's not fair," she thought out loud.
"Nothing even is, child," the woman spoke up and their eyes meet for a moment.
Dais looked at his daughter and held her tightly. "We have to go now. We have to come back anyways and have a score to settle with Reficul once and for all." The others silently agreed and knew their wives would be worried about them.
"Take Naomi with you," Sekhmet said.
"Dad," Naomi looked at him.
"I have to stay."
"Then I'm staying too."
"No," Sekhmet turned to his daughter. "This is too dangerous for you, Naomi. You're in this deep enough as it is." He walked beside his mother.
"Like hell!" Naomi ran to them. "She's your mother, which makes her my grandmother. I am not leaving either of you!"
"And we're not leaving you," said Dini.
Zenida slowly made her way to her friend and took her arm. "Naomi… I know how you feel but think about your mother. You should go just to show her that you're all right. Please?" she softly begged her.
The slightly older girl look upset but sighed deeply and reluctantly nodded her head. "Fine. But I'm coming back no matter what anyone says."
That's what you think, Sekhmet thought to himself. Don't let them come back here, he sent to the other Warlords.
"All right," said Cale. "Let's go, girls."
"Dad…" Naomi hugged her father tightly. She turned to her grandmother. "I do want to know you."
"And I would like to know you," the Nagashin woman said. "Later. When this is over."
"Yes," said Sekhmet. "Naomi, tell your mother… I said burnt pancakes."
"Burnt pancakes?" his daughter raised an eyebrow.
"A little joke," Sekhmet said. "Be careful. All of you."
"Same to you," Anubis
nodded to the both of them and stepped back a bit. Holding the girls close they
concentrated on creating another bridge back to the Mortal World but it would
be a bit difficult. Still they managed to transport all of them back to four
anxious women who were awaiting their arrival.
At a large studio the four ladies were anxiously awaiting the return of their husbands and daughters. So they were caught off guard when a light appeared in the middle of the room. As it died down it revealed three men in armor and four teenage girls. Immediately the women went to their family and fussed over them worriedly. Megumi was so worried once she saw how pale Dini looked and hovered nearby as Dais gently laid her down on the couch. Lupia was being smothered by both her parents and complained that the horns on the dark armor were very sharp and didn't want to be stabbed by them. Delia was trying very hard not to cry as she kept thanking Buddha for bring her family back to her.
Naomi hugged her mother tightly, feeling it being returned to her and told her the message. "Mom... what's the story behind burnt pancakes?"
Abigail started to laugh. "Your father tried to make me breakfast the morning after I found out I was pregnant with you. He burned the pancakes till they were nothing but char, and set off both smoke detectors."
"Good thing you took over the cooking," Naomi grinned.
"Where is he?" her mother asked. Abigail grew worried when Naomi turned her head away. "Naomi… where is your father?"
"He stayed in the Dynasty," Cale told her now in sub-armor along with the other two Warlords.
"Mom," Naomi looked at her. "There are some things you need to know about Dad and me. We're not completely human."
"I know; Nagashin."
Naomi blinked. "You knew?"
"Sekhmet cut himself once and I analyzed his blood at the lab at work," Abigail began. "It registered human and reptilian." She walked over to the window, staring out at the gathering rain clouds. "When I showed him the results, he told me what he was. And that he was a lot older than he looked, but he never told me about the Dynasty or the Armors."
"Why am I always the last to know about this?" she asked to no one in particular and rubbed the heels of her hands over his eyes before running them through her hair. "Well we both found out that there's someone else alive with the same bloodline. His mother."
She turned to look at her, as if asking if it was true. "But... he said that she left him when he was a child..."
"We all saw her. Reficul had her hostage the entire time but we don't know why. Yet," Anubis softly spoke up. Everyone was quiet for a minute before the pink-haired girl groaned softly.
"Can we please eat? I'm hungry to eat those tofu bars," she sighed and smiled some.
"Leave that to me," Megumi answered as she went to the kitchen and set a tray filled with sweet tea and some cutlets she had. Setting it down Dini went straight for the cold cuts, almost making a mess but her color was returning.
Abigail took a sip and looked at the other men. "Did Sekhmet say when he was coming back?"
Dais shook his head slowly. "No but the next time we're going back we're bringing him back. We still have a score to settle with that jerk."
"We all do," said Lupia.
"No," said Cale. "You're staying here."
Lupia turned to him. "But Dad-"
"Lupia," said Anubis. "He's right."
"Listen to them," said Delia. "What can you girls do?"
"More than you can think we can, Mom," said Zenida.
"My father and my grandmother are in the Dynasty," Naomi said. "I'm going back and helping them no matter what. I don't care about Reficul or anything else! I want Dad back home and I want my grandmother to come with us!"
They looked ready to argue with her but Abigail silently shook her head. Now was not the time to argue about this but she did want the rest of her family back. "I think we should take a rest for now. It has been a long day and we can think calmer after some rest." The others agreed and were soon formed a sleeping arrangement. Each family took one of the rooms and soon they were all silently resting but once the Warlords woke up they would have to head back to the Dynasty and help Sekhmet out.
Lupia slowly opened her eyes and looked at her parents who were still sleeping. She let her eyes focus on the bracelet her father still wore and with the utmost care touched it. Sensing her the wolf jumped to her wrist and tighten to where it fit her wrist comfortly. Easing off the bed she walked out of the room only to bump into her friends.
"We know where you're doing, Nightwolf. And we're not letting you go out alone," Dini softly spoke up and showed her arm to reveal the spider on her wrist.
"You know... we may get grounded for this," Zenida softly spoke up, lightly tracing the ogre on her own bracelet.
"Hey, you guys don't have to go," Naomi spoke up.
"Yeah right. And how would you get there?" Dini smiled and took a deep breath. "Let's do this. Um... how do these work again?" She shook her wrist as her friends sweat dropped a bit at her actions.
"Maybe if we imagine going to the Dynasty," Zenida suggested. She took hold of Naomi's arm. "Just to be safe."
The three girls held their bracelets close to each other and all four shut their eyes, picturing the golden landscape of the Dynasty with their mind's eye.
"Look!" said Dini.
A Gate appeared in the wall beside the window and opened.
"Let's go!" said Naomi,
and all four ran through.
Abigail woke from a dream where Sekhmet and Naomi were on a bridge above jagged rocks. The bridge vanished and both her husband and daughter fell, only to be caught by a strange person and brought up to safety.
I think a long vacation is in order for everyone, she thought, turning to her other side--only to find it vacant. "Naomi?" she whispered and jumped from the bed. "NAOMI!"
Her shout woke everyone else and they gathered into the living room.
"They took our bracelets," said Anubis
The gate closed behind the girls. "Well, "said Lupia, "Here we are again."
"Dad, where are you?" whispered Naomi. She didn't want to start calling out loud for him; that would only bring attention to the four girls and right now they wanted to stay out of sight as much as possible.
"So…" Dini shifted a little. "What do we do?"
"Why don't we head back to the cave we were staying in," Zenida suggested. "Maybe Sekhmet and his mother are there. They might be waiting for our fathers to arrive."
"Yeah," Naomi said. Boy, is he gonna flip when he sees us.
"I can only imagine what mom is going to do right now when they find out we're gone," Lupia said as they headed to the cave. Her mother would no doubt be yelling at her dad to bring them back. She sighed and rubbed at the wolf bracelet.
"Well they must understand this is our fight," Zenida spoke up, shaking soft light violet strands from her face. "Family sticks together."
The others just nodded silently. They arrived at the cave where they had been earlier. Dini didn't once complain about her wound and didn't notice as a thin veil of silk began to wrap around it. She peered in and asked, "Anyone home?"
"Dini?" Sekhmet's voice asked then he walked to the entrance, eyes in shock as he looked at the four girls and saw the bracelets. "You didn't."
"We did," said Zenida.
"Oh gods," the Warlord groaned. "Naomi, your mother will have a coronary when she finds out." He looked at the other girls. "And so will your parents."
"Hey, you know us," Lupia said. "When do we ever listen?"
"Children will be children," Sekhmet's mother walked outside. "And apparently you inherited the most traits from your fathers."
"Uh, thank you," said Dini. "I think…um…"
"My name is Ineisha."
"Grandmother," Naomi spoke. "How were you imprisoned here?"
"Naomi," said Sekhmet. "Now is not the time for that."
"I am getting very tired of hearing that; for once I want to know what's going on. I'm tired of being the last." It wasn't the words that seemed to make nearly everyone looked at her in surprise but the way she said it. The girls were so used to hearing her demand something or yell about it but here she was, calm, cool and looking at them with clear dark eyes. There never showed a true color but now they looked to be almost a muddy brown.
Ineisha placed her hand on Sekhmet's shoulder and nodded to the girls to enter the cave just in case Reficul had anyone watching for them. Once they made themselves as comfortable as they could she began her tale.
"Reficul... knew about the bracelets long before any of us did. You see the Armor of Venom has been in my family for generations and even we don't know how they came into existence. There are so many legends and myths we don't know which it true and which is false. The others also had been in the care of other families but somewhere down the line the bloodline died out and passed down to different families. When I was with your father, my son, I knew that my ancestral home was not safe so I moved to the village where you're fathers were living with their families. For the years afterwards I was safe, believing that Reficul wouldn't find us but he did... I didn't want to risk my only child and the armor… so I abandoned both in hopes that he would come after me. It worked but when I refused to tell him where they were, he imprisoned me in the dungeon."
"So dad was raised with their dads... and the bracelets chose them..." Naomi softly said to no one in particular.
"The bracelets are aware of their own existence," said Ineisha. "They don't allow to be controlled. Assist the wearer they will, but if they are used too much and too often, the bracelets will begin to take control of the wearer."
"How is that possible?" Zenida asked.
"That knowledge was lost long before I was born. It is rare if you hear a small mentioning about the bracelets, especially in this day and age."
"Too weird," Dini spoke up and just now noticed the silk wrapped around her arm but she didn't remove it. "So now what?"
"I still think this was not a very good idea," Sekhmet spoke up. "None of you are used to fighting like we have and I don't like the idea of seeing any of you getting hurt."
"But like we said this is our fight too. Reficul deserves to pay for the pain he caused us. Just one question... how do we call on the armors?" Zenida asked.
"You're not calling anything," said Sekhmet, "except to open the Gate to go back home."
Ineisha put her hand on her son's arm, looking at the cave entrance with a terrified look. "He's coming," she whispered. "And he's not alone."
"Shadow beasts," said Sekhmet. "Let's move."
Reficul was out of patience. Then again, he hardly had any to begin with. He yawned and scratched the back of his neck, shifting a little in the saddle, which was securely fastened to the blue-gray horse underneath.
You shouldn't have hidden him from me, Ineisha, Reficul thought. Time only makes wounds twice as painful--and spiritual ones are a lot more damaging.
One of the shadow beasts ran up to him and growled something. Then it scuttled off to the rest of the pack. "Excellent. Remember now do what you can but get the bracelets. Let's go." The beasts lunged out before him, seeking out the powerful auras of the bracelets and the wearers.
"Perfect. I can't wait to get my hands on him for using me like a puppet," Naomi stood up, pounding her fist in an open hand.
"Fight later, lets put some distance between us," Lupia said as she grabbed her arm and they made their way out. Sekhmet led them through the area, occasionally looking back as he kept the sub-armor on. It didn't protect as much as the full armor but it didn't give out as strong an aura.
"Where are we gonna hide?" Dini asked softly, trying to keep up.
"This way." Sekhmet jumped down into a lower passageway, and then helped the girls and his mother down into it.
The six ran down the tunnel and out into the open, which proved to be a mistake. Several shadow beasts jumped on top of Sekhmet, knocking him to the ground.
"DAD!" Naomi tried running to her father, but her friends and Ineisha grabbed her, holding her back.
Sekhmet made the sub-armor leave and quickly pulled off his bracelet, throwing it to his daughter. Naomi reached out her hands and caught it. The cobra sprung to life and wrapped itself around her left wrist.
"Raise them high!" Sekhmet shouted to them as the shadow beasts began to melt into the ground, taking Sekhmet with them. "Think of joining your animal companion, and becoming greater than you are now!" Then he and the shadow beasts vanished.
"Daddy…" Naomi whispered and tears rolled down her cheeks.
Ineisha hugged her granddaughter. "He'll be all right."
"How can you be so sure?" Naomi looked at her grandmother.
"Reficul's ego is so great; he would not even dare harm Sekhmet in any way."
"What do you mean?"
"Let's do what he said. Maybe... we can get him back." Slowly Lupia raised her bracelet to the air and soon the others followed the same suit. As they closed their eyes they each began to imagine joining with the animals. One by one the bracelets began to glow, enveloping them in a bright light that forced Ineisha to look away. When it died it reveal the girls to be wearing the sub-armors that once their fathers wore.
Dini looked at herself with awe, finding it so hard to believe how light it felt. "Very, very weird..."
Naomi looked at her hands and watched as they tightened. She swore to herself to get both her family members out of this place and nodded to the girls, "Let's do this."
Reficul paced his room angrily, growling to himself as he thought what to do to them. Well he needed the bracelets and with the one of the girls' fathers in his grasp he was sure he could get at least one of them. He stopped as the doors opened and the shadow beasts carried/dragged in his newest captive. He smirked evilly. "Sekhmet... a pleasure to have you in my humble home." He mocked bowed to the captive Warlord.
Sekhmet glared at Reficul. "You should never have showed your face around us again."
"Of all people talking about faces," Reficul smirked. "That was your mistake to leave and not make certain that I was dead. I always could put on an act. So could your mother. That reminds me, how was your brief quality time with Ineisha?"
"Nothing would make me happier than ripping your black twisted heart out and stomping on it after what she said you did to her!" Sekhmet hissed.
"That depends on what she told you."
"You left her rotting in a dungeon."
Reficul chuckled evilly. "Did more than that, and there were times when she was willing."
Sekhmet blinked at his words. No…it can't be…
"What can I say, my boy," Reficul shrugged. "You are."
"I'll kill you!!!" he hissed angrily, lunging at him only to cry out in pain and slumped to the ground. One of the shadow beasts raked its claws across his back and let him drop as he hit his head on the floor.
"Strong willed and stubborn. Take him to the dungeon where his mother was kept and guard it. I don't accept failures." His eyes glowed briefly and the beasts grunted in response, picking up the now wounded man and let for the lower levels. He smirked and went to a room where the viewing screens were held. Typing in a new command they now showed different areas of the Dynasty and showed the girls, in sub-armor and Ineisha walking through the woods known as Forest of Sorrows.
"Do be careful, my dear," Reficul said. "Family is precious. Watch where the girls walk, especially our little princess."
Sekhmet lay on his stomach in the dungeon, not bothering to move from the spot where the shadow beasts had thrown him. His back still stung from the gashes, but Sekhmet wasn't too worried about them. He healed a lot faster than normal people.
Normal…? Sekhmet thought miserably. Am I normal? Is Naomi normal? Her heritage from Abigail will save her. Mine will condemn her.
Reficul had taken away too much from Sekhmet. His life, his freedom.
But he would make certain that Reficul would not take away his daughter. Sekhmet would kill him with his bare hands if he tried to harm her.
Even if Reficul was his father.
Ineisha led the girls through the forest. "Be careful," she said. "Even the plants are dangerous."
A large bug, the size of a sparrow flew by them. A purple colored vine shot out and grabbed it, pulling the helpless insect to a green pod-like center with clear liquid in the middle. Large leaves closed around the bug and the vine shook as it digested its meal.
"We get the picture," said Dini, slightly gaping at the deadly plant.
"I'll never look at daddy's garden the same way again," Zenida said as she moved away from them.
Naomi and Lupia said nothing as they headed through. This place was so dangerous they just wanted to get out and get Sekhmet back. The plants seemed to watch them with beady eyes and vines snapping the air around them. Some even had teeth! The place was too creepy but now they knew why it was called Sorrows.
Ineisha stopped suddenly, causing the four girls to almost bump into her. Several vine-like plants swayed in front of their path, as if daring them to advance further.
"Oh great," Naomi muttered.
Ineisha walked closer. Before the girls could protest, Ineisha touched one of the vines and spoke in a language none of them had ever heard before. The vines seemed to listen; they weaved together and then stretched out over a large canyon.
"It's all right," Ineisha told them. "They will help us."
"Naomi," said Lupia, "your grandma has got to teach us how to do that."
"You're telling me," she whispered to her and followed her through. So far there was no danger coming to them until Zenida stopped and looked at an innocent looking plant. It looked almost like a rose only it was soft pink with the tips in dark blue. She knew better than to touch it and stood up to continue with her friends but the plant seemed to have other ideas. A thorny vine lashed out and wrapped around her before she had time to cry out but different vines reached out and pulled on her arms. If was like a giant game of tug-o-war.
"Help!!" she cried out, trying to pull herself free as she dug her feet into the ground. Dini grabbed her hands and tried pulling as well, batting the thorny vines away as they tried to tie her up as well.
Lupia and Naomi went to the weird rose plant but the thing tried to take a bite out of them. Still the girls were determined to pull the thing out by its roots just to save their friend. Ineisha tried to talk with the plant but it hissed and just pulled harder.
"Let her go!" Naomi shouted and swung at the vine. Her hand didn't even touch it, but the vine immediately released Zenida and shrank back in fear.
It knows, Ineisha thought as she healed the puncture marks on Zenida's arms.
"Wow, Naomi," Dini said. "Guess it knows who the boss is."
"I guess so," the green-haired girl replied. "Why wouldn't it listen to you?" Naomi asked her grandmother.
"Not all the plants here will listen," Ineisha replied. "I am the last pureblood Nagashin. My people were able to speak with all of nature. Nature believes the Nagashin are gone forever. My presence is doubted here, even though I can speak to them."
"Well it sure was scared of me," Naomi said as she looked around carefully. So far so good but they had to continue. "Let's go."
"You okay?" asked her friend, worry written in her pale blue eyes.
"Yes I'll be fine… but I now have a greater respect for plants," she weakly laughed if only it was her that found it funny.
The girls continued their way through the forest, finally arriving at he other side of it and were now meet with a barren desert that was littered with bleached white bones of unimaginable sizes.
"Desert of Death," the older woman softly spoke up, keeping her sight focused ahead and could barely make out the strong hold of Reficul in the distant. "No one has ever crossed this desert successfully or alive for that matter."
"Oh that's reassuring," Lupia snorted and glared at the golden grains. "There's no way around?"
"It would take too long even here in the Dynasty. We must go forward."
"Hey at least in sand we won't have to worry about man-eating plants." The girls just looked at each other silently. Or would they have to worry about something worse? They began walking, something stopping as they heard the shift in the sand dunes in the dead silence and continued after a moment of rest. But the dryness and the heat were beginning to wear them down still they pushed, especially Naomi as she was determined to get her father back.
Reficul watched the five ladies cross the Desert of Death with much amusement. He waved his hand and the screen changed to the dungeon where Sekhmet was kept.
"My poor, poor son," Reficul chuckled. "You would be standing at my side instead of fighting against me."
The ex-Warlord slowly looked around, thinking that he was being watched but saw nothing. Sighing deeply he just sat where he was and let his thoughts wander. He had to get out of here but how...
The girls were still walking, coming across no danger so far but maybe with the heat there was nothing wrong with that. But Lupia was becoming more and more irritable. She hated heat, she hated summer, she even hated spring! She drew a hand over her brow and wiped away sweat that just seemed be pouring down. Oddly enough the sub-armor was trying to keep her cool but still her attitude was so sour. She stayed in back of the small group, not wanting to bite anyone's head off and ran a hand through the damp electric blue strands.
"I would kill for a snow storm right now. Or maybe a giant Icee," she murmurs to herself and imagine that she was with her parents in the mountains that used to do when she was younger every couple of summers.
The moment after the cooling thought entered her mind, the temperature suddenly dropped and then snow began to fall.
"What the…" Dini gaped at the descending flakes.
Zenida held out her hand. "Snow…?"
"How does it snow in the middle of a desert?" Naomi looked at the cloudy sky above.
Ineisha turned around and looked at Lupia. "There's only one way. Lupia, you thought about snow, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I did," Lupia said.
"How?" asked Dini.
"Her armor," Ineisha said. "Each of the four armors is tied to the four seasons. Ogre to Spring, Illusion to Summer, Venom to Autumn, Darkness to Winter."
"But we weren't born in those seasons," said Dini.
"We're born in the season before," said Zenida.
"Your fathers were born in the same season as the armor they wore," Ineisha explained. "A woman wears the armor of the season after the one she is born."
"Why is that?" asked Lupia.
"Don't you get it?" Naomi spoke. "Each season leads to the other, like a woman gives birth."
The other girls let this silently register in their minds and they came to one conclusion. "Weird." But the heat was gone and it made crossing the now cold desert much easier. Soon they crossed it all and were looking up at the dark structure of the castle. It looked like a cross of different structures over the past couple of centuries. Looking around the gate was shut tightly and there seemed to be no way in except for the windows that were maybe 30 feet about them.
"Great. Anyone got any suggestions?" Lupia asked as she looked up, putting her hands on her hips.
"Um I think I do." The young girl with the bright pink hair looked up at the wall and cautiously placed her hand on it. When nothing happened she gripped it hard, her fingers digging into the wall some but just a bit and began to scale it like she was a true spider! Her friends stared up at her in awe but no one said anything. She slipped a few times but soon she pulled herself into the window and waved down to them. "Catch!" Silken ropes of spider silk came down and the girls each grabbed on and began to climb up. Ineisha was riding with Naomi as they scaled the walls and Dini held on tightly to the other end.
"Thanks, Dini," Zenida said when they were safe on the ledge.
One of you better go on a diet, Dini thought.
Naomi looked at the closed window, placing her hands on the smoky glass. She tried to open it but no luck. "Any ideas?" Naomi looked at her grandmother.
Ineisha touched the glass. "Well, maybe-"
She didn't have the chance to finish her thought for the glass spun, catching all five and sending them down a twisted stone slide. They fell through a ceiling and landed on a red walking carpet on top of a hardwood floor. When the girls regained their bearings, they looked around their surroundings.
Reficul was sitting on some kind of throne. Sekhmet was on his knees next to him, his hands tied behind his back and the cord then tied around his neck. The look on his face was one of misery, betrayal, disgust, and fear. And when he looked at Naomi, his expression intensified.
"Nice of you to join us ladies," Reficul said with a menacing grin. "I was beginning to worry that you would be late."
"Let my father go," Naomi demanded, completely ignoring Reficul's words.
"Let me think about that." He looked like he was actually considering that but then... "No."
"You lousy-"
"Hey hold it!!" Lupia and Dini held onto their friend but were upset as well.
"You'll never get away with this, Reficul," Zenida spoke up, hands clenched into tight fists. "Our fathers stopped you before and so can we. But this time permanently."
"I don't think so." Reficul leaned forward. "You see, the reason I survived is that a member of my blood is alive. I'm practically immortal now because there are two living."
"How is that possible?" asked Lupia.
"It's an advantage." Reficul reached out and touched Sekhmet's arm. He jerked away from Reficul and stared at the floor. Reficul smiled at Sekhmet then turned his eyes to one specific person. "Am I right, Ineisha?"
Naomi turned quickly to her grandmother. The Nagashin woman said nothing, only glared with hate filled eyes at Reficul. No… Naomi felt her stomach begin to churn as if she was ready to throw up.
"Three generations are here in this room," Reficul rose to his feet, "Naomi, Sekhmet, Ineisha and me. You have to admit, my dear, that we did have some fun times."
Buddha, Zenida thought as her eyes widened.
"Of all the men that existed then and now," Ineisha hissed. "I wish that any one of them had been his father--any one, but you!"
"Oh my god…" Lupia whispered.
Reficul was Sekhmet's father. And Naomi's grandfather.
~End of Chapter Six~