An Egyptian Tale

A beautiful slave girl's heart is taken by a certain pharaoh. They'll get married and live happily forever, right? Wrong. Her drunken master betroths her to a slimy man, and with her sister, they run away to find the pharaoh. Problem is, will he love her in return?

A/N: OK people, just for you to know I didn't make up the Ka thing just incase you're wondering. Or the Ba one either. I wouldn't have enough brains to do that. T.T Anyhow, this chapter is extremely short because I absolutely suck and the pharaoh will be back soon I just have to leave him out for this chapter ("That's mean!" – Yami). Actually this one's not as short as chapter one or two so be grateful it's actually longer…

(Boy I'm getting too many meaning schtuff! It's really taking up a lot of room!)

Ouji-sama means Prince.

Amun-Re is basically/kinda/the same as Ra.

Nehep means in this "making love"

Pesedj means light or back

Ka is our "double spirit"

Ba is "one's soul"

'Kun' should always be used at the end of a guy's name

Where We Left Off...

"Makyora!" yelled Master Garo. "Attack her!"

The one-eyed beast charged towards Serina. Serina tried to focus her energy and suddenly…

"Oh…" gasped Liana as a monster with a blue flowing robe came out of Serina.

Though Serina had never seen this monster before, she already knew its name. "Mahavailo!" Serina shouted. Mahavailo shot lightning from the sky onto Makyora, and Master Garo winced as Makyora dodged but still got hit by a bit of the lightning.

"Makyora, get rid of her feeble Ka!" ordered Master Garo. Makyora stabbed Mahavailo with his claws. Mahavailo disappeared and Serina fell to her knees, feeling pain that she had never felt before and while she held her stomach she coughed out a small amount of blood.

"Oh no! Serina!" cried Liana, tears clouding her vision.

Finally, Serina fell to the ground exhausted, darkness shrouding her…

Now Read on...

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All was dark around her…she was running…running away from something…

"Serina…"

…she had to get away! It was beckoning her…it was beckoning…

"Serina…"

…slowing to a halt, Serina looked behind her into the darkness…claws were reaching out to grab her…reaching…reaching…

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Serina screamed at the top of her lungs and she sat up with a jolt. SLOP! Something slipped off of her face and onto the floor.

Suddenly, a hand from behind her was clamped over her mouth and muffled the rest of Serina's screams. All Serina knew that she had to do was get away…and she bit into the hand.

"AYAH!" cried a voice that sounded…familiar to Serina… The hand released Serina. And with this Serina turned around to see—

"Ayah, Serina what was that for? Do you want to be heard?" hissed Anzu.

"…Anzu…" mumbled Serina, her vision going from hazy to clear and then back again.

"Serina!" said another voice in an urgent tone. Serina turned her head and saw Liana was standing near the...edge of the room and peering over it…

Then Serina realized where she was. She wasn't in a room but was on the roof of the house!

Attempting to stand up, Serina felt rather queasy and dizzy and though wanting desperately to get off the roof, with a groan she fell back onto the hard cold roof and then realized for the first time that it was dark and chilly night.

"Anzu, we must get Serina off of the roof…" whispered Liana. "She is…uh…well, she is…"

"Afraid of heights? We shall be sure to get her off." replied Anzu before looking down at Serina. "Serina, 'tis a cold night and I bring you a blanket for warmth. It shan't cover all your body but 'tis is enough for you and also I pray you hide it incase father catches sight of it. Be sure you hide it sister!"

Serina simply nodded, her stomach lurching and her throat too sore to speak. When Anzu wrapped the blanket around her she saw that her sister's face was strange when she looked into hers.

"Dear sister…what is of the matter?" Serina managed to croak.

Lip trembling, Anzu stammered, "N-nothing."

Then Serina licked her lips to speak again but stopped when she tasted blood. She licked her lips again and tasted the dried up blood on it, now haunting her, for on her tongue it would not move from. "What is wrong with me?" Serina continued to croak.

Both Liana and Anzu looked upset and tears were sliding down their faces. "Sister…" began Anzu, now bowing her head and clenching her fists. Her face was hidden in the dark but tears continued to fall like rain onto the roof.

"Serina…" Liana now began when Anzu could not finish. "You rested for long. For three days. All day and all night of those three days all one could hear in this house from our room were screams."

"What…?"

"You would scream in pain while you slept, while you were half-awake. Master would come in and…silence you…your face…" Liana mumbled, lifting her hand and pointing at Serina's face.

Placing a hand to her face, Serina found two large bruised scars on both of her cheeks that seemed to hurt a lot, which could have meant Master Garo focused all his energy and attention on those spots making it turn from a bruise to an ugly scar.

"Then master had enough. Here he placed you to freeze 'til death catches you." explained Liana. "Master knows your fear of heights…"

Serina moaned softly by the mention of 'heights' and heaved her self up into a sitting position. "Well…why do we wait for? I shan't wait here. I shall leave before dawn comes." Serina said, her voice cracking occasionally.

Both Liana and Anzu looked nervously at each other. "Sister, you are not well yet! You must rest and then we shall leave…I promised to never let father hurt you again…and I shall make sure that does not happen but for now you must rest! Energy is needed, for without energy how you will escape here I would not know how." Anzu said, brushing away her tears.

"We? What is this we you speak of?" asked Serina, the world still seeming to spin around her. But before anyone could respond Serina continued, "I would not care of what you say even if I had lots of energy. I shall leave this place now to search for Ouji-sama!"

"I knew you would say this…so I have brought you…" Anzu paused as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a gold pendant. Liana and Serina gasped. "Take it…t'was my mother's…but for your sake take it…"

"I-I…can not!" gasped Serina.

"I order you to take it! I am allowed to order you around and I order you to take this!" growled Anzu, shoving the gold pendant into Serina's trembling hand. "And…I have brought you some riches and keepings to trade along the way…" Anzu continued, pouring some gold and other items into Serina's cupped hands. "Put them away now." ordered Anzu and Serina obeyed by placing them into a little bag she had weaved herself. "And now…if you are to travel, it is best that you travel as a boy…they will allow you to go anywhere if you are a boy…so I hand you this…" Anzu explained, picking up the knife that lay behind her.

Serina reached out to take it but Liana had snatched it out of Anzu's hands before she could. "Liana—!" Serina hissed.

"What are you doing!" added Anzu.

"Sister…" Liana began looking Serina square in the eye. "Keep your locks, for they are longer than mine! Mine however…" and before she finished, Liana closed her eyes and hacked off her brown locks and Serina and Anzu watched in horror as they fell into a pile on the roof.

"Liana!" gasped Serina. "Why did you—?"

"Think nothing of it Serina…" Liana began, sighing as she looked down at her beautiful brown hair that now lay on the roof in a heap. Running her hands through her now jagged boyish-hair Liana ended by saying, "I'm coming with you!"

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Yes! Finally, I got up to the part where they're going to run away! Even though it took me forever to get to this part, I am like…so glad! So anyhow, the next chapter I promise will be much more longer cause this chapter was only two and a half pages so eh… SO PLEASE REVIEW AND I'LL CONTINUE!