Yes. I know this is late by a day. But guess what, I have a very good excuse! Been away for the past few days in a caravan, so no computer or internet for me! And then fanfic wouldn't let me upload anything for some reason. But I got it up, didn't I? And I swear next update you will actually have it on time!
Oh. And just encase anyone really wanted to know. Emira is 23, Zameel is 22, Fareed is 19 (but you all already knew that) and Ardeth is 30.

Disclaimer: I own nothing save a few characters, you all know who they are by now.

Princess of the Nile

Chapter 6: Reunited

"Hello Al-Shama." Emira said as she entered her brother's home and knelt beside the woman there. Her brothers wife was very beautiful. With long dark hair and shining eyes, high sculptured cheekbones and a smiling face. She gave a nod

"Hello Emira, it had been a long time since I have seen you."

"Near ten years, it's good to be back." Emira agreed, smiling gently "Are these your twins?" she nodded at the two tiny babies sleeping in small beds beside Al-Shama.

"Yes." The young woman said with a nod, "These are Yasmeen and Negma." She pointed to the two babies as she gave there names "Would you like to hold one of them?" Emira smiled and Al-Shama passed her Yasmeen. The smile on Emira's face broadened as she cooed over the tiny child in her arms.

"She's beautiful." She said "They both are." She looked up at Zameel and smirked "They take after their mother in looks, I'd feel sorry for them if they took after you." Zameel grinned back and sat beside his wife, pulling her into his arms

"If you weren't holding Yasmeen I'd beat you up for saying that." He told his sister

"I'd like to see you try." Emira snorted. She passed the baby she held back to Al-Shama and stood, wincing slightly in pain.

"You look terrible Emira." Zameel said seriously "Are you alright?"

"I am fine Zameel, don't worry about me, you've got to look after Al-Shama and the twins." She nodded to the two and quickly left the house.

"Emira!" Zameel shouted after her. She stopped walking to let him catch up

"What?" she asked, starting to walk again. Zameel grabbed her arm to stop her and felt her wince

"What has happened to you Emira?" he asked, pulling the sleeve of her tattered shirt up to look at her bruised arm "I've never seen a woman who's been beaten up so much, it's not right. What's happened?" Emira wrenched her arm from his grasp, lowering her head so she didn't have to look at him

"Nothing's happened." She said "Don't fret over me, you've got your own family to worry over now." She started to walk off again, but Zameel grabbed her shoulders and spun her round, making her wince more and bite her lip to stop herself screaming.

"Emira." He said gravely "You're my family, and my only sister. I'll worry over you all I want. What's happened?" Emira shook her head

"Come with me, I'll tell you and father and Ardeth at the same time, save repeating myself." She pulled herself from his grasp again and took his hand, pulling him with her.

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"Luzige knocked me out, when I came round again I was in a hotel room with this group of men. They wanted to know everything I'd found out about the statuette of Princess Chione. I wouldn't tell they, so they tortured me. In the end I said it was hidden in one of the Giza pyramids, I know the Med-Jai watch over the pyramids and you'd be able to stop them. I didn't count on them locking me inside one unless I told them the specific location, or if they found it themselves." She looked down at her feet, wringing her hands once she'd finished her account. No one moved for a moment, then Emira's father stood, walking over to where his daughter sat and rested a hand reassuringly on her shoulder.

"Who is Princess Chione?" Zameel asked. Emira looked up at him and smiled weakly

"Not much is known about her. Other than that she was a Princess of the eighteenth dynasty. I found an Egyptian text in one of the London libraries from around that time. She was evil, it was said that she tried to take over from her father, Ay, but was found out before she could kill him and suffered the Hom-Dai. The only other person to go under that that we know of was-"

"Imhotep" Ardeth finished for her, Emira nodded

"All of Chione's things were destroyed because it was thought that they held some of her evil powers." Emira continued "Only after everything was gone did Ay realise that one thing hadn't been destroyed."

"The statuette." Zameel said

"Yes." Emira agreed, standing up and beginning to pace the tent "It was a small thing made for Ay of his daughter, but he noticed it had vanished, and knew it hadn't been destroyed. It is said that he had a dream the night before he died, exactly a year after his daughter had been condemned to the Hom-Dai, the dream showed the room Chione was buried in, the statuette standing on top of her sarcophagus. He said that it would bring her back to life, and she'd take over the whole of Egypt, and later the world."

Next Update: 8th April. And feel free to hit me with a shovel if it doesn't come up on this day.