Birds of Prey: I would like to thank my readers and reviewers for their support, please enjoy. In this chapter you will now know who Raaham is.
This chapter is devoted to 'An Angel with broken Wings' for being patient to see her character, Sarah to make her entrance!
Chapter 7: Future Hope
ASWAN, SOUTHERN EGYPT—UNDERGROUND EMPIRE
"Kenueal!" asked a high pitched voice. "Kenueal! It cannot be!" the servant below his wrathful master flinched. "Please Master" he begged in his bowing position. "I'm only repeating what I was told to say"
His master clinched his fist tightly and stood up from his black throne. "Very well Avon" he hissed. "You are right; I shall deal with the spineless scum who sent you in their stead. You are to go and tell them to come forth and lock the doors after."
"Yes master Raaham" Avon answered and dashed away thankfully. Raaham stood there watching his faithful servant flee to fetch his assassins, Mailey and Nagu, those two failures of his entire recourses of his forming army. Raaham felt his stomach heave with disgust that the thought of those two. They were entirely pathetic idiots, he had sent them to do a simply job and they failed. To top it all off they had sent his servant in their stead to tell of their failure.
'Pathetic' Raaham thought as he stepped forward when the two approached with fear casting in their eyes. Raaham nostrils flared with contained rage as he watch the two linger as they came and sloppily bowed on their knees to him.
"Please forgive us master" they chorused, bowing their heads to the ground.
"Forgive you?" he asked calmly. "Why should I?"
"Because we are your loyal servants and we hate failure just as much as you do" replied Mailey with a loud voice. She blinked her green eyes several times to prevent herself from showing tears of fear.
"We love you master!" cried Nagu shifting his leather black wings on his back uncomfortably. "We repent of our failure; please…Trust us once more"
Raaham faced remained expressionless. "Trust you two fools once more?" he asked as he cracked his neck by leaning his head sideways. Mailey and Nagu flinched at the sound of the sickening crack. It was not a good sign for them. "When I released you two on a mission, you were highly trained, fully supported and carried my fate and reputation with you"
Mailey and Nagu were now shaking and crying openly. He was going to kill them, they knew it. Anyone who failed deserved death, they swore an oath to obey and conquer and now they failed. Punishment is death.
"And what happens on your mission?" Raaham asked as he walked over to the left side walls filled with weapons. "We failed" cried Mailey and Nagu together in anguish. "Correct" he answered lifting two blades from the wall and walked back over to them smirking.
"What did you do to fail your mission that was assigned to you?" he asked standing over them. "We let Ishizu and Malik get away" they sobbed together. Raaham lowered himself to the ground with the blades still in his hands. "What else did you do wrong?"
"Kenueal" Nagu began. Mailey looked at him with fearful eyes but agreed with his answer. "Kenueal was left alive when we were trained to slay him" he said together.
"Exactly" Kenueal replied with a cruel smiled and stabbed the one of the two dangers into Mailey's right hand and the other into Nagu's left. Mailey screamed with pain and Nagu whimpered and bite his tongue until blood poured to keep himself from crying out loud.
Raaham smiled contently. "You both had failed your mission to slay Ishizu and her brother Malik who are both pregnant with the former King of Daimonu and the former Queen of Arddion. "But how can the King of Daimonu live my Lord!" cried Mailey threw bitter tears. We have successfully killed Ammon!"
Raaham smiled faded and he cruelly turned the sword in Mailey's hand around three times ignoring her screeching pleas to stop. "You pathetic fool!" Raaham yelled as he slapped Mailey's face. "Idiot!" he snapped. "The child is within the womb of Ishizu! Not her husband Ammon! Ai! I'm surrounded by fools! Told both of you to leave none alive!"
Mailey shivered fiercely with tears running down her checks. "Forgive my sharp foolish tongue—ma- master" Raaham released his hands from the blades he secured into their flesh and removed his gloves brown gloves from his hands.
Mailey and Nagu eyes when wide with fear and they both began to shiver uncontrollablely with dreaded fear. "Now then" Raaham began smirking holding his hands up to show them. "Punishment is crucial"
"Yes master it is" Mailey and Nagu said together in broken voices. "By punishment when we do wrong, corrects us, correct?" Raaham asked looking into both their eyes.
"Correct sir" they both replied. "Good, I'm so terribly glad you agree" Raaham said and in a blink of an eye placed his hand on his both of their necks. Mailey and Nagu screamed wildly at the blinding pain that entered their bodies like hot wire being warped over them entirely.
After 7 straight seconds of torture, Raaham released his hands from their flesh. He watched amusement and laughed at Mailey's and Nagu's gasping and twitching as he placed back on his gloves. "I don't forgive, until now. Congratulations Mailey and Nagu. You two are the first to be forgiven and survive by my mercy."
Raaham continued to laugh cruelly as he harshly pulled his two swords out of their flesh. Mailey and Nagu were so suffocated, drained physically and mentally that barley felt the cold metal come out of their bleeding hands. "Avon, Leo, Twen, Balin, come!" called Raaham as he stood at his full height with the two blood stained daggers in his hands.
The four servants unlocked the door they were behind and came forth. "Yes master?" they chorused. "Avon, unlock all the doors and tell the cook I want median done green dragoon soup tonight. Leo, take these blades and wash the filthy blood from them and placed them back on the wall. Twen and Balin, take these two simpletons to the healers…Yes they're alive for once" Raaham ordered. "Yes sir!" the servants yelled. Avon darted away to unlock the doors and tell the cook of Raaham's order. Leo took the blades from his master's hand to be washed and polished and Twen and Balin carried Mailey and Nagu to the healers.
Once alone in his throne room, Raaham reseated himself on his throne in deep thought. 'Kenueal' he thought bitterly. 'I will take care of you, I swear I shall. You crossed me once and never again'
Mailey and Nagu were foolish but possibly helpful in the future. He placed so much work in them; it would have been just wasteful to kill them. They were valuable; they just got a little sloppy. What happened in his plans was a minor setback, that's all. At the end he will have all…so he can wait patiently for all to play out. Seth and Sekmet were fools for bringing him back from the damned. They were blinded by power so they forgot the risk of their own souls. It will be easy to over throw them and the rest of the Egyptian Gods threw his powers and the ones he hope to gain. And soon everything will belong to him. At that thought Raaham laughed madly. It was all too perfect and simply delicious!
"Victory shall be mine! Hahahahahahahahahahaha! Revenge is sweeter than blood"
FIRST LAYER OF THE UNDERWORLD
Horus looked into the clear casket. A teenage girl with brown hair laid inside in a sleeping appearance "This is her?" he asked with awe. Anubis drummed his heavy nails on the end of the metal table supporting the casket in annoyance. "Yes" he answered in an irritated hiss. "Why?"
"Nothing" replied Horus shaking off his question. "Just amazed this is it" Anubis rolled his eyes and murmured something that sounded suspiciously like 'Stupid' as he peered to get a closer look at the girl. "Sarah, last heir of the Medja Anbels."
"Gracious!" Horus exclaimed surprised at the information Anubis told him. "I thought the Medja Anbels were long gone"
"They are, expect for her. But I'm not sure it should be counted. She is less than half blood, one fourth to be accrued. Her mother buried her here in order to protect her from 'Scybel, the Anbel slayer' who slayed her afterward." Anubis informed standing back.
"I never under why Scybel slaughtered the family tree"
"Well either did I" Anubis admitted staring up at Horus. "Unlike you I refuse to keep up with information on creature's rows unless it crosses my path"
Horus looked sharply at Anubis. "Well unfortunately it seems we should have kept better relations with her family because now it is crossing all our paths. She must be awaken from her slumber at all cost."
Anubis lowered his head. "I usually agree at this point, but Horus look at her" Anubis said softly, nudging his head toward the casket. "She's young. Only 50 years old. It's not possible she evens knows where the book of Amun-Re is"
Horus shook his head, refusing to let Aunbis's prediction stick in. "There is a possibly she may know. I'll call my top servant to awaken her."
"Beg pardon to my objection but this girl who we think knows were the book of Amun-Re has been frozen for over sixty years!" Anubis argued. Even if she knew where the book was, she can't possibly remember now…there's just no hope—"
"Shush Anubis! Your hope may have withered and died— especially since you work around dead people all the time— but I still carrying hope. Its force still lives within me; you may take your leave. I thank you for guiding me here. But I shall stay until she is awake. If she awakens, then we shall all know if hope lives or it has died."
Anubis chocked his head sideways in amusement. He hardly seen Horus serious, he secretly respected that. "Fine, I hope you will succeed. May hope dawn for all of us" Anubis said quietly and disappeared like a wisp of black vapor leaving Horus and his minions with the possible weight of the world on their shoulders.
SHADOW REALM OF THE DOMINON OF THE BEAST—(Duel Monster World)
"Kenueal?" asked a dark magician girl quietly as she came around the curb of the lofty castle she knew as home since she was born. "Is something a matter?" she had been watching Kenueal for the past few weeks since him and the leaders of the duel monsters prepared themselves to protect the destine ones and their parents at all cost.
"Hmmmm" Kenueal hummed closing his eyes and folded his arms under each other. He was sitting on castle's wall in the courtyard. He wasn't surprised that Yudelle the dark magician girl was worried about him, she was always a gentle soul.
"I'm fine Yudelle" he answered with a smile of reassurance. "I just feel hopeless. I and the leaders had I have done everything possible to protect the destine ones and now it's left to fate—"
"And you cannot accept that?" Yudelle asked leaning against her staff. "You are not hopeless. In fact this situation is brimming with hope. It's burning like a torch into the night."
Kenueal heaved a sigh and let his hands fall into his lap. "I feel as if hope had forsaken me. What do I have to look forward to— failure?"
"Perhaps, the future is unpredictable" Yudelle agreed as she floated upward to Kenueal and sat down on the brick wall with him. "But we cannot give up our fight. Hope never forsakes, it is forsaken by the person who forsakes it."
Kenueal looked into her eyes beggingly. "Then how can my hope be reborn?" he asked. The dark magician smiled. "By this" she said as she picked up his hand and placed it over his heart. "It may be a flesh organ that keeps you alive but it holds also a spiritual balance. My heart holds my hope. Until the bitter end is decided, I will hold mine dear and tight"
There was silence; Kenueal squeezed Yudelle's hand in thought. "But doesn't your hope relay on something besides your heart and beliefs?" he asked. Yudelle narrowed her eyes thoughtfully. "You mean what keeps my hope pumping?"
"Yes"
Yudelle smiled and held both of Kenueal's hands. "My hope is in the future Kenueal. My hope is inside the wombs of the chosen parents. They were given the most wonderous and curseful tasks to be imagined. It all depends on them or perhaps not. Will the reincarnated Kings and Queens of pre-earth spread peace and joy or bring terrible destruction?"
"That's my question and fear" Kenueal admitted with a sigh. "We believe we are saving the innocent but what if we are only sparing hidden evil?"
"Then let it be so" Yudelle said. "There is a greater power at work Kenueal. Bigger than you, I and the Gods. Fate will lead us all to whatever is meant to happen. I hope you think about it. I trust to hope that the children will bring joy. You talk of Draco, the rebellious leader of the dragons finding his way? You better find your way and stay clear of the middle grounds." Yudelle stood up and glided upward. "I must go. Whatever was said stays between us, good night Kenueal"
Yudelle glided higher into the sky and landed on the stone balcony above and walked inside to go to her chambers. Kenueal sighed and laid down on the wall to look at the stars. The sky was littered with shining with stars and the moon gleaming its brilliant light couldn't smooth his mind. Yudelle was right, he was exchanging his loyalty, she knew him that well. If he didn't fight for what he believed in it was all hopeless and devoured in vain.
"Lord Kenueal! Lord Kenueal!" cried a hurried voice coming towards him. Kenueal sat up quickly to see the duel monster Dark Witch flying toward him with a look of great distress upon her face.
"What's a matter?" Kenueal asked preparing himself for the worst. "Report to the throne room immediately sir! The secret book of arts has been stolen and they need your presence now!" Kenueal felt his heart skip a beat. The secret book of magician arts has been stolen! The only copy of Lord Jurkien's teachings was gone!
"Right away!" Kenueal yelled as he jumped down from the wall and run at full speed to the throne room with the dark witch flying beside him at full speed. He prayed that the book can be recovered as soon as possible and there's not damage. Another thing he hoped that the thief would gain no knowledge of the destine one's whereabouts.
Or disaster will surely follow.
Future Hope of BitterSweet Revenge--- will TBC-- Please Review
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invisible girl-
thank you for devoting this chapter to me and the others who kept you going. also thank you for updating i realize that things can be getting rough with the school year ending and all. i liked the chapter. it was good and brought a lot into full view. i hope you can update soon
optimistic girl194-
Write more. This is good.
An Angel with broken wings- OI! WERE'S SARAH! I THOUGHT SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE HER APPEARENCE IN THIS CHAPTER!