Princess: Yay finally the 2nd chapter I was able to finish the 2nd chapter at home. But man was it hard. I had to redraft 3 times. o.O creapy huh? Oh and thank you so much for the reviews . Thank you, thank you, thank you (bows) Now here's the chapter.
Aswan, in the Grand Chambers of the Pharaoh.
"So...she's not there, is she?" said the young Pharaoh, tapping his foot. His violet eyes looking at one of his messangers.
"Yes...s-she's not there, they say that she killed hereself, my Pharaoh" he said with a shaky voice. Even though he shouldn't be so frighten of his Pharaoh, but today was quite different. The young Pharaoh, Yami, had gotten mad when he had heard his future wife Atarashii Aoi Ame had gone missing. He had told all of his soldiers to look for her. And now he hears that she's dead.
Yami rubbed his temples and told the messanger to leave him be. When he heard the door close, he sighed. "So...Lower Egypt will no longer have any heirs...then...Egypt will be whole...once again, but I wish I would see your face again, princess" he murmered, looking through the curtains that covered the balcony.
Thebes
Atarashii walked down the busy streets of Thebes. Every now and then she got dirty looks from the people, she ignored them. Bastet was still in her arms, her ears moving to hear every sound. Her ears perked up, when she heard a faint whisper in the air. She looked around and nodded.
'Atarashii...you need to get a horse' Bastet told her, with telepathy. "Why" she whispered stopping. Bastet jumped out of her arms, 'Just follow me, my dear you will find out soon enough'.
Bastet ran down the street, Atarashii ran after her, bumping into people. "Opps, I'm really sorry" she said, when she bumped into a women who was holding her child, and a basket of apples. Atarashii looked around, if she can spot the feline goddess. Bastet was near a corner of another street, she ran into it. The princess ran after her.
Finally out of the busy street markets, she panted. "Bastet, where are you" she whispered, catching her breath. She heard a meow from the feline, she was near a stable. "My dear come here, we must meet the falcon" she purred, walking in. 'The Falcon?' Atarashii thought, doing as told.
Atarashii felt that something else was here. Not just another ordinary presence but that of a god-like presence. Bastet was sitting on one of the stables. She was licking herself, right beside her was a falcon. The tips of its wings were gold, which was something not falcon like. Atarashii put a finger on her mouth and thought for a bit.
'There is only two falcons that I know very well, Ra' and Horus but this one doesn't have the sun disk on its head, nor is it all gold looking so it must be...' she thought, her eyes widening.
She ran towards the falcon and grinned. "Hello Horus...nice to meet you, again. I haven't seen you since two weeks ago. Where's my hairpin?" she asked, the falcon froze. Atarashii's grin got even bigger.
"Ah..well...my dear old freind...I uh...accidently left...it in...my...uh...temple" he lied. Atarashii raised a eyebrow, knowing full well that was a lie.
Atarashii knew Horus ever since...well since she was born. And knew he wasn't a all good lier, but he was funny. But he must have lost her favorite hairpin. "Well then you better get it back" she said. Horus nodded, feeling relief wash over him.
Bastet cleared her throat, they both looked at her. "Horus and I, have something to explain to you, Atarashii" she meowed. She tapped Horus with her paw.
He nodded, flapping his feathers a bit. "Well, Atarashii you must go to Aswan, and see your husband, Pharaoh Yami" he chirped.
Atarashii shock her head, clenching her fists. "Please my dear, you must go" Bastet pleaded, Atarashii shock her head again. "No! I won't see my future husband, I won't marry and be a queen, like my mother!" she shouted.
"Just go to Aswan thats all we ask. Don't see your husband there. Be whatever you wish, but go to Aswan. You already on your path of what is your future, but no matter how much you try Atarashii, you can't run away from seeing Pharaoh Yami. You will meet him it is your destiny, and it shall be soon" Bastet hissed.
Horus stepped away from Bastet. Atarashii shivered. She looked at the falcon and feline. She was scared, no more like terrified, of them now. But should she be? No maybe she wasn't, maybe she was afraid of whats going on. Atarashii looked down.
"I will go, but I will not meet the Pharaoh. I will change my destiny, even if it kills me" she murmered. Horus sighed, he flew towards a black Arabian horse.
"Atarashii...ride this horse, it will be useful in our journey" he said. Atarashii looked at him and nodded. She looked over the horse, looking at its legs, eyes, ears, mane, and chest. "Looks like a royal horse" she piped. "Thats because it is, belongs to Pharaoh Yami" the falcon chirped, happily.
"Great, I'll be hunted" she said sarcastically. Bastet jumped off where she sat and walked towards. "Maybe, but we know just what to do" she purred, winking at her. Atarashii grinned, putting a reign on the horse. She grabbed the feline and got on. Putting, Bastet on her lap. Horus now sat on her shoulder.
Atarashii made the horse canter foward, out of the stable. She cantered out of the Thebes, heading towards Edfu. Then to where her future husband was. 'I will change my destiny and become the priestess that I wanted to be' she thought.
Aswan, Pharaoh's chambers
"Pharaoh, what do you wish" the High Priest asked. Yami looked at him, and then out his balcony. "Do you not sense it, the aura" Yami said slowly, "I want you to find whoever has it, and bring him or her to me. That person might be a danger to my people".
The High Priest nodded, leaving the chamber. A priestess was waiting outside for him. She had a necklace with a eye on it. "So we must find who this person is correct" she said, not looking at him.
"Yes, and you know who don't you, Isis" he asked, walking down the hall with the priestess. Isis nodded. "It is a women and thats all I know," she whispered, he nodded.
Nile Path
Atarashii walked in the hot sands. It was now the afternoon. The time when Ra' brings in the deadliest of heat in Egypt. Bastet lay on the horse's back, asleep from the heat or from not sleeping well. Horus panted and fluffed his feathers.
They were following the Nile. Even though they could have stopped, Horus said that they shouldn't. Since there was not much time till night. When bandits and thieves roamed the hotsands in the dark.
Atarashii's legs ached, she wanted to get on the horse, but Bastet would get quite angry at her for bothering her sleep. "Horus we need to rest just for a little while, I'm burning in this heat" she muttered, walking towards the Nile. Horus nodded. "Alright, just for a few minutes, and Bastet would you wake up!" he yelled.
Bastet glared at him, streching. "Just when I was about to have a dream" she yawned, licking herself.
The princess took off her sandels, and put her feet in the water. Even though she knew there was Nile Crocidiles in the river. She knew she wouldn't be bitten or killed.
She sighed. 'So now I go to Aswan to meet, Yami. I really hate being a princess' she thought,
Princess: Yay. It took me so long to do this wahoo. I'm so cool. Uh here's some more info on the gods and godesses hehe.
Horus-Horus (in greek) was a sky and solar god from Upper Egypt. Before the unification of the oldest gods in the Egyption mythology. He was the personal symbol of the local ruling Pharaohs to whom he gave protection and courage. Soon he became the comon Horus (the elder: Heru and the younger: Hor) and originated lots of combined deities like Har-pakhrad, Har-Wer etc, which had wide spread cults all over the Nile Valley. He defeated all evilness in the world (symbolically) by defeating Set (uncle) who had killed his father Osiris. He is said to be the twin-brother of Bast or Bastet and he was sometimes seen as a child being breast fed sitting in the lap of his mother, Isis. In his aspect Horakhty, he was combined as Re-Horakhty (Ra' and Horus put together)
Bastet (more info)- was an old cat goddess venerated in Bubatis, capital of the 18th province in Lower Egypt. She protected pregnant women and was patroness for singing, music, and dancing. Thus she was very popular. The rays of the sun were also symbols of hers. She was seen as a women with a cat's head or just a sitting cat but originally wore a lioness' head. In depictions she can be seen as a cat with a mask of a lioness (with rounded ears) in her hand. Many mummified Bastet cats have been found from all times and amulets and figurines depicting her as common. Her festival was very popular since she also was protector of love, joy and pleasure. During the New Kingdom she had a lion-headed son with the god Ptah: the ward god Maahes.
Aswan - City in Upper Egypt.
Princess: Ok please R&R. Pretty please and NO FLAMES .
