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I lost track of the time
Of all the dragons none are more stunning than the Egyptian Mane. Once ranged over Ancient Egypt and Nubia it is a dying breed now down to three small breeding colonies in Egypt, Britain, and Saudi Arabia. Dragon Researchers are hoping to relocate it back to it's homeland.
The Egyptian Mane has a horseish look to it's head and can range in vast colors from black to dazzling white. They have the gift of tongues and can live for thousands of years making them some of the wisest dragons ever known. Some reports that they have to power to change its size but are their size.
The Egyptian is said to have been the first dragon to walk the earth. The Ancient Egyptians hold this dragon scared and worshipped it. The Egyptian Mane is known for its viciousness and power and equipped with elongated fangs that can knock out a human and should be approached with extreme caution…
-Page from the Dragon Book of Dragons by Byrn T. Crisp
Chapter 3: Letters and Changes
THUNK!
THUNK!
THUNK!
Bes' escapade had gotten her by far her longest grounding sentence she had ever had. Bes lay sprawled on top of her bed throwing a baseball into the air and hitting the ceiling. She did it for two reasons. One: it was the only thing she was able to do, and second: it annoyed her uncle.
"Bes knock it off!" Khan shouted from upstairs.
Bes smirked and continued to throw the ball.
THUNK!
THUNK!
THUNK!
"That's it Bes!" Khan shouted as he stomped down to Bes' rooms. Bes quickly threw the ball under her bed hitting Seti in his head. When Khan reached her rooms he found her sitting, innocent looking, reading a book.
"Bes…" Khan said tapping his foot.
Bes fluttered her eyelashes at him. "I didn't do anything dearest Uncle…"
Khan's eye twitched and a vein in his forehead began to throb. He spun around and walked out of her room. As soon as he closed the door he shouted angrily. "WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH HER!"
Bes, her job complete, slid off her bed and got on her knees to retrieve Seti. But Seti beat her to it. He slithered out from under the bed with a great knot on his head.
"What wasss the meaning of that milady?" he hissed annoyingly.
Bes smiled sheepishly and backed out of her room, and disappeared downstairs.
Already summer had started and she was still trapped in the manor. Already she read all her books, and banging her head on the wall until she knocked herself out had really lost it's fun. The last thing on her list of things to do was to annoy her uncle until he lost his mind. From what Bes could tell he was nearing the brink of insanity.
Bes made her was down to stairs to the dining room where Khan was already seated reading the newspaper and drinking coffee. She sat down across from him and began to eat her waffles.
Khan sat down his paper and stared at Bes with his eyes burning. But before he could say anything the phone rang and Khan rose from his seat. "Stay put." Khan said before he left for the hall to get the phone.
Bes took this opportunity to switch the sugar and salt shakers then sneaked to the hall to eavesdrop on he uncle.
"Yes I know she's of age but she's not ready for. She doesn't even know anything about it sir." He said seeming to be a tad annoying. "She's not ready. Not until Bes realizes. Not until she gets it."
Bes ears perked up and leaned closer to investigate. "Well I'm not sure I can leave her at the moment… She's beginning to wonder about… The-You-Know-What-Place… Alright… You win… I needed to go…" Khan turned his head as the floor shifted where Bes was hiding. "To restock my stores… We can discuss this over at the Cauldron… Yes I understand… Ta for now…" Bes retreated back to the table and attacked her toast as her Uncle returned to the table.
"Bes, were you eavesdropping again?" Khan said his eyes falling on Bes. Bes looked up at her Uncle with an innocent look on her face. "No."
Khan let his head fall on the table in frustration. "Bes… For once in your life will you be honest for just one day. Do you have any honor? Don't you remember anything that I taught you" Bes just became interested in the plush white carpet. "What would your mother think…"
That pushed a button in Bes. Bes looked up at her Uncle who took her in after her mother has killed. "Your mother wouldn't want you to become a pathological liar now would she?" Khan said kneeling down to eye level with Bes.
Bes wore her emotional mask but felt that he was right. "Yeah I guess so…" She rose from the table and walked to the window.
Khan sighed. Now Bes was going to withdrawal from him. He walked up behind her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You know she loved you. That's why she gave her life for you. And that's why I took you in. I love you and I couldn't let some poor unfortunate soul get landed with you." Khan joked wholeheartedly.
Bes turned to her Uncle with a smile on her face. "Plus who else would be there for me to play 'Prank wars' with." Khan said as he ruffled Bes' hair playfully.
Bes playfully swatted his hand away and dodged Khan's lunge. "Khan straitened up and shook his head at her. "What am I going to do with you."
"You could let me out of the house." Bes said hopefully.
"I don't know…" Khan said thoughtfully. "Think you can behave long enough for me to go into London and meet with an old Friend."
Bes' face fell. London was a good half-day away. "Don't worry." Khan said as he noticed her face. "I have my ways and short cuts dear." Khan said heading for the door.
"When will you be back?" Bes asked Khan reached into the closet and pulled out what looked to her an odd coat.
"Sometime after ten." He replied heading over to the unusually tall fireplace and pulled something out that looked like a stick out of a cedar box on the mantle. "While I'm out stay in the house. Don't go out and ride. And don't leave to house at night." Khan said stuffing the slender stick into his pocket and pointed to the window. "Leave that window open we're expecting post soon. Don't open any of it." Khan said opening the door. "Oh and one more thing… Nice try with the salt… Saw it a mile away." Khan said with a grin and shut the door leaving Bes in the house alone.
Bes collapsed on the couch grunting that her prank didn't work. "Lets see here what's next on the list of pranks…" Bes said as she pulled a long roll of paper out of her pocket "We tried the Salt/Sugar Switch, the Rolling a Crown Down the Face, Chili Pepper in Chicken, Coffee Mud… We can try the Plastic Wrap on the Toilet…" Bes rolled up her list as Seti, still the knot on his head, slithered down the stairs.
"Isss he gone Milady?" He hissed as he curled up at Bes' feet.
"Stop calling me that…" Bes said as she picked up the remote to the TV that her uncle could never seem to totally figure out. She flipped through the channels as Seti snoozed on the floor. Before she knew it she started to doze off. Soon enough she fell into a deep slip dropping the remote from the grasp.
She slept unknown to the fact that an owl flew into the house and dropped a pair of letters onto the table and flew out the window...
"Bestet..."
Bes woke up with a chill as a cold wind blew through the open window. She rose and closed the window. She looked down at Seti who still appeared to be asleep.
Then to Bes' surprise the great grandfather clock with many hands chimed ten. Bes looked out at the darkened sky at the full moon that glowed down from the cloudless sky.
"Bestet…"
Bes turned around quickly. She was surprised that no one was behind her. "Okay Bes. Get of hold of yourself. You're hearing things." Bes said out loud to herself nervously, with her voice quavering. She looked at Seti who was still asleep. That's when she noticed the letters on the table.
She looked around once more to make sure no one had gotten into the house. She breathed a side of relief that there was no one was home but home but her. She picked up the letters off the table. By the light of the moonlight she could tell they were made out of a heavy, yellowed parchment. The addresses on the letters were written in what appeared to be green ink. Bes quickly lit the fireplace to give the room light,
The letters were both written in the same green ink. One was addressed:
Khan
Living Room
House on the Cliff
Drakealis' Glen
Bes turned the letter over to see a wax purple seal with an H on it surrounded buy a snake, lion, badger, and an eagle surrounding the H.
"How odd." Bes said as she threw her uncle's letter onto the table. The other letter had the same seal and emerald green ink as the other. But it was addressed to her.
Miss Bess Trilogy
Couch in Living Room
House on the Cliff
Drakealis' Glen
Bes was tempted to open the letter when the Window burst open.
"Bestet…"
Bes spun around to look out of the window. There was an unusual fog drifting on the lawn. Bes turned around to still se Seti still asleep.
"Bestet…" Bes heard the ghostly voice whisper again. The fog began to drift into the room.
"Bloody Hell." Bes said out loud as the fog found it's way to the door and it sprung open.
"Come Bestet…" The voice said again. As Bes approached the door the fog began to slip out the door and down the grounds into the woods. Seti woke up soon enough to see Bes walk out of the door. As Seti went after her the door slammed closed and once again looked itself. Seti could only sit and wait for Khan as Bes continued to the woods behind the house...
Khan unlocked the door and entered the house. He picked up the remote the Bes dropped and turned off the still on TV.
"Bes! I'm home!" Khan called out as he picked up the post and looked at the letters.
"Bes! Where are you!" Khan shouted out only to hear his voice echo throughout the manor. Khan glanced at the open window with its curtains billowing in the wind.
"BES!?" Khan shouted up the staircase only to be pelted with something into his chest knocking him to the ground.
"Quick Milord we must go!" Hissed the mass. Khan looked at the mass to find a green Cobra with it's hood extended. But the snake slithered off and slithered to the door.
"What?" Khan said as he followed to Cobra to the caves.
"We must hurry Ssssir. Bes is in grave danger. Sssshe is heading for the Cave Cambers. No time to explain!" The Cobra said slithering out the open door. Khan soon followed the serpent…
Meanwhile…
Bes followed the spiritual fog to the caves that she had explored a mere month ago. She stopped at the mouth of the cave, wary to step inside. Gently the fog stroked her check beckoning for her to enter. Slowly Bes took one step. Then another…
In the Forest…
Khan pushed by branches and bushes as he ran after the Cobra. The full moon lighting their path.
"What does he want with her?" Khan said with he leaped over a fallen tree in his path.
"He wants her to recognize her other half… The half that gave you that ssssacr…" The cobra who introduced himself as Seti.
Khan absently stroked the X-shaped scar that's along his jaw. You mean the one in his image." Khan said reaching the mouth of the cave.
Seti nodded. "We must hurry. Who knows what will happen…?"
In the Main chamber…
Bes had followed the fog until it vanished into a large chamber with thousands of tapestries and relics of old. Bes had picked up a rusted old sword and was polishing it with the edge of her shirt when she heard something.
"This way Bestet." The same ghostly voice that was loud and echoing coming from a small cache with a pair of torches that barely lighted the massive room. Bes approached the cache to see a giant dragon statue looking up to the ceiling carved from pure white marble veined with sliver and gold. Instead of carved stone eyes, a pair of red and black gems were inlayed in their sockets.
Slowly she approached the statue to get a better look…
Khan and Seti finally reached the mouth of the Relic Chamber. "Do you see her Seti?" Khan panted as he finally caught his breath.
Seti reared up to get a better look. "Sssshe's all ready beat us to it."
"No!!!" Khan yelled as he charged forward only to be stopped by some kind of invisible shield.
"Bes!!! No!!!" Khan shouted out in hopes of reaching her but he knew it was to late…
When Bes tried to turn around to see who shouted out to her to find that she couldn't move.
"Bloody hell!" Bes shouted out as she struggled against the invisible ropes. She looked up to see the eyes of the statue began to glow and its head looked down with it's eyes falling down on her shaking frame. Bes' breath became quick and ragged.
Then the great echoing voice came from the statue.
"Descendant of my blood...
You have come for your gift…
With this gift I give thee…
You'll be able to fly threw the clouds...
Run threw the forest…
Summon the great flames…
But never forget…
Your Great Founder whose blood runs threw your veins…"Khan watched Bes become engulfed in great jets of white light. Slowly her outline had begun to grow and change shape.
When the light faded Bes no longer stood in the chamber but a fearsome beast with a mouth full of sharp teeth.
The creature turned its' head to Khan and Seti then it liked it's lips. With a thunderous roar it charged Khan…
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