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Chapter Six: Gods of Egypt

(Giza, Egypt)

"The lot of you stay out here. I am going in by myself." Danny said as he stared at the pyramid in front of him. He did not know what kind of traps and defensive measures this pyramid had as in the show Osiris and Isis had long been taken away from this pyramid by the archeologist Sheldon Stewart.

"Are you sure my king?" Ka'ri asked him clearly wishing that she could follow him.

"I will be perfectly fine on my own." Danny said walking to the front of the pyramid and taking a good look at the object that was holding his prizes. "Raios give me a scan of the pyramid and see where the canopic jars might be." The canopic jars were hidden in a super-secret tomb that was probably at the center or the pyramid or in a secret chamber that was almost impossible to find unless you had some kind of clue.

"I am sending the results of the scans to you right now my king." Raios said as the map appeared before him. The pyramid was 820 feet wide and 360 feet wide. It went about twenty feet down below the ground.

"This place is huge." Danny said to himself.

"Do you still wish to go alone?" Ka'ri asked him.

"Yes. I am more than capable of surviving through whatever traps the ancient humans used to seal this place. If not, that is why I am carrying the sword we retrieved from Honduras." Danny said patting the handle of the energy sword that was at his hip. The sword of Telchak was bound in a leather sheath that was from the skin of a cow the Jaffa had slain. Afterwards it had been skinned by workers and forgers from King Henry's castle. The sheath latched on to the handle of the blade and held it in place so that it did not fall out. If he wanted to draw it out and activate the blade, he would use telekinesis to cause the latches to release.

"Very well. We will wait here." Nadu said.

Danny walked to the pyramid and phased through the walls. He had two duplicates holding flashlights so that he could see which was that he was walking. No natural light reached the inside of the cave and the torches had long been turned to dust.

"Why are you robbing the dead?" Qetsiyah asked appearing from behind him. It seems that since he had traveled to her dimension, he could now hear the spirits of the Other Side. All it took was shifting his perception and he could actually see them as well.

"Sometimes the dead have the best stuff. All you have to do is get past their annoying traps." Danny said as he took a step and the ceiling revealed that it had sharp spears contained within. "See the only reason that such things exist is because people want to protect something valuable."

"Are you not worried you might activate a curse? Places such as these are well known to have employed witches." Qetsiyah said.

"That is why I came alone. I could deal with such things easily. My Jaffa not so much." Danny said doubting that such "curses" really existed. This universe ran on the concepts of science. The supernatural creatures and events that happened could be explained away by science. In another universe the rules might be different but here magic was really just advanced science even if he liked to act like otherwise.

"Where did you find those soldiers of yours. They feel different from the people of this world?" Qetsiyah asked.

"Their ancestors came from this planet but that was a long time ago and they were changed to be stronger and faster than baseline humans." Danny said taking a look around at what was the statues of the ancient Egyptian deities. He could see Ra, Osiris, Isis, Heket, and countless others. All of them were either Nirrti's enemies or acquaintances that yet to be turned to enemies. He wondered how the originals would feel about the fact that the Goa'uld had taken their names and their stories if they existed at all.

"What are you looking for?" Qetsiyah asked.

"Something that was locked away a long time ago." Danny answered as he turned intangible and let the spears pass through him and stab into the ground.

"My King people are coming to the pyramid." Raios said with only his voice through the contact orb so as not to mess with the map he was using.

"How many?" Danny asked.

"Twenty my king." Raios responded.

"Do they look to hold aggressive intentions?" Danny asked as he saw a trip wire in front of his feet. He wondered whether he should step on it or not.

"Affirmative they are carrying weapons on them. They will be approaching in 30 hiks." Raios said. So about thirty minutes before these strangers arrived. It was probably going to take longer for him to search the pyramid.

"Fire at them with our weapons set to stun. I want to be able to question them when I am finished." Danny said.

"You are very merciful." Qetsiyah said mistakenly.

With his plan they probably would have preferred that he had killed them with one large energy blast from his ion cannons.

"I try to be." Danny said as he stepped on the trip wire and heard the sounds of a giant boulder rolling his way. He broke into a run wanting to see how far this path would lead him. He could hear his duplicates sigh at him, but he dismissed their annoyance as they turned intangible and let the boulder pass through them.

"Why are you running from this boulder? Can you not break it apart?" Qetsiyah asked him.

She was from a time before movies, so she had never questioned how it felt scouring an ancient pyramid for treasure while being chased by a giant boulder. The original Danny had dreams of such an event as he searched for ancient treasure and here, he is living them out. He was really glad that the original clone had accepted the deal.

"Because that would be boring." Danny said looking at the giant pit hole ahead of them. The trap was probably to get people to focus on the giant boulder following them that they did not see the giant pit in their rush to run away. The scared adventurer would be moving so fast they were not paying enough attention.

Danny jumped over the trap hole and watched as the boulder fell in blocking it about halfway.

"That was great." Danny said as he started walking again.

"You are so strange." Qetsiyah said probably thinking that he would not hear her.

"We are from different time periods. We think different things are fun. Yours is getting your revenge. Mine is escaping deadly traps." Danny said as they came upon a series of tunnels each marked with the symbols of the Egyptian deities which had been stolen by the Gao'uld.

"What does this mean?" Qetsiyah asked him.

"It is time to make a choice." Danny said as his duplicates lit up each side of the room and on the wall, he saw a riddle in ancient Egyptian.

For your sin of greed, you have let the path of Thoth

Turn to Set and you will be devoured

Anubis guards the path

Turn to the sun and you will be free

Let Hathor be your guide

Pick right and you shall be rewarded

Pick wrong and you will face the scarabs

He wondered how they would feel if they learned how much Ra hated Anubis. Anyway, back to the riddle. Hathor was the queen of Ra, and he was described as the god of the sun and order so if he chose that path he might be sent back outside the pyramid. Anubis was the god of the underworld and guarded the dead. It said he guarded the path so that probably meant he protected the canopic jars and the treasures. So, if he wanted Osiris and Isis that meant he would have to choose the path of Anubis.

"Which way are you going to choose?" Qetsiyah asked.

"This way." Danny said as he started walking.

"Are you going to tell me why you picked this path?" Qetsiyah asked.

"I had a good feeling about it." Danny said as he walked along the path that held images of a man with the head of a jackal.

"You are risking your life on a guess. You still have a deal to fulfil with me." Qetsiyah said as she came around in front of him.

"I know what I promised you. You gave me the location to Silas's tomb. You hold up your end of the deal and so will I." Danny said. The Alkesh was sending B.I.R.D.S. to look into the location. They could be taken off of their mission of looking for Setesh now that he had the assistance of Qetsiyah, The Other Side, and living witches looking for him.

"What do you expect to find in such an old place?" Qetsiyah asked him.

"Knowledge and treasure." Danny said. Osiris and Isis had been very close to Ra before they had tried to betray him and so they were probably aware of many locations that Ra had kept to himself after he declared himself Supreme System Lord. The Eye of Ra was just one example of the things they could be aware of. He was under no delusions though. The two Goa'uld could not be trusted as far as he could throw them. He wanted to see if he could take the information from them while they were stored in their jars. If that could not happen then he was going to make sure that wherever their new prison was it was going be guarded by people that had been dosed with Nish'ta. It was the only way he could trust someone to watch over them.

"It seems like you dealt with all the traps." Qetsiyah said and it was at that point that the statues of Anubis around them began coming to life.

"Thanks a lot." Danny said drawing his sword from the sheath.

"What are you going to do to golems with a metal rod?" Qetsiyah asked him.

"It is very special." Danny said as he ignited the sword and watched the blade extend.

"You have a sword of light?" Qetsiyah asked him with the shock clear in her voice.

She had clearly never seen anything like this in her life.

"Things like this are why I steal from tombs like this. There is always something amazing buried in them." Danny said as he ran to the first Anubis golems. He had plenty of one liners to say as he slew the golems. Are you Anubis or are you chickens? Guardians of the underworld guard your heads. You were born from dirt and now you return. You fear the sun well have some light. You serve the gods well let them appreciate this sacrifice.

"Are you done enjoying yourself?" Qetsiyah asked with a bored tone.

For such a pretty woman she could be a major buzzkill.

"When having fun it is best to take your time." Danny said as he finally stopped slaying golems. The sword of his somehow prevented the golems from healing despite how hard they tried so that was another useful function he learned. He had to make sure no one used this thing on him.

"I sense magic beyond here." Qetsiyah said as they approached a metal door.

"Seems like we found the place I was looking for." Danny said as he raised his hand and telekinetically pushed the door away from them. He stopped it before it hit the wall and laid it against it softly.

"Be careful." Qetsiyah warned him.

"I always am." Danny said as he sent two duplicates ahead of him to see what happened. The moment that they stepped into the room Danny felt an energy field appear in the room and watched as his duplicates were set on fire and vanished.

"I understand how it works now." Danny said. Just like he could see the spirits in The Other Side he could see the invisible cage surrounding the room with Egyptian symbols. The glowing ones were related to the fire but there were many others as well which he had no idea of what they did.

"I told you that in the ancient times places like this hired witches to protect their treasures." Qetsiyah said.

"That just makes me want them even more." Danny said taking a look at what was inside. Weapons, books, and treasure. The most wonderful things that you could find on a treasure hunt.

It took a few seconds for Qetsiyah to erase them from the room but just to be sure he sent another duplicate just to make sure that the room was safe. Once nothing happened, he personally took a step in and walked to the center of the room where the jars that held Osiris and Isis stood still upon a dais.

Today was turning out just wonderful.

"So have you found what you wanted?" Qetsiyah asked him.

"It would seem so." Danny said with a smile on his face. He was going to spend a lot of time searching over what he had recently gained. "Ka'ri I am coming out of the temple with my treasure. Make sure there are enough ships to take it back with us."

"As you desire my king." Ka'ri responded.

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(Space)

Danny walked across The Ha'tak to his personal quarters to place the canopic jars holding Osiris and Isis in a safe and secured vault. The vault was behind a picture of him being crowned king of Dinai by Nirrti and safeguarded by biometric scanners which could only be accessed by typing in names that no one in this universe could possibly know. The names shifted on a constant cycle by the day. He wanted to make sure that even if someone teleported onto his Ha'Tak or created a clone of him they could not reach them.

The rest of the pyramid's treasures were to be split in half. Half of it was to be placed in his quarters at the castle so that he could show them off. The rest was going to Kleak. It was a village that he had the Jaffa make while he was enjoying his stay at French Court.

"Now that they are safe it is time to check on the prisoners." Danny said leaving his room. He had some strangers to question. First, he would take whatever knowledge they had. Them coming to the same pyramid as them right when he was exploring was too much of a coincidence to be natural. Something had alerted them to his presence, and he wanted to know what.

The Jaffa had loaded the warriors captured outside the pyramid in a Tel'tak. They were too unconscious at the time to worry or care about space. When they woke up they were going to miss the peace that their unconscious had given them.

He had experiments to run.

He had been wanting to see the process by which someone became a vampire. The process of turning into a vampire was rather simple in this universe. Drink the blood of a vampire and die before the blood left your body. Drink human blood within 24 hours and the process would be complete. There were so many things to test. What would happen if a vampire drank the blood of a Jaffa? What would happen to a vampire on another world without the Other Side? Could a vampire be turned on another world? Would the weakness of a vampire be constant even if they were on another world? Could the blood of a vampire by synthesized and retain the same properties?

Depending on the answer the role of vampires in his army could be very different. Some could serve as rapidly healing soldiers fighting on the battlefield. Some could serve as spies and help him control the people he installed to rule his other worlds. Others could infiltrate worlds as healers and spread vampirism making sure he never ran out of troops. He just needed a way to control them all.

Vampires were hardly known for being loyal creatures.

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"Hello Laurent. How have you been?" Danny asked looking at his prisoner who had not been fed in the past two weeks. The others could hear the music which meant that Prince/King Francis knew he had come to the cells. He wondered if he was expecting a visit?

"I would pull your eyes from their sockets if you came any closer." Laurent said with a hoarse throat.

His skin was starting to gray out as if he were a mummy. Human blood was the reason that vampires could move around and act as if they were still living, breathing, baseline humans.

"You could try but remember how you ended up here in the first place." Danny said as he lowered the shield and walked in. The moment he took a step inside Laurent rushed at him. A simple twirl of the wrist and Laurent's neck was snapped, and he was sent into sweet nothingness. It would be a while before he woke up but that was plenty of time to drain him of enough blood.

"Kada bring the tubes." Danny said as he looked at the Jaffa waiting behind the corner.

"I am here my king." Kada said as brought the tray holding the bio-tubes that were going to suck out Laurent's blood.

"Good." Danny said as he used telekinesis to lift the bio-tubes and stick them into Laurent all at once. As the red line reached the top showing that they were full Danny removed them and placed most of them back on the tray while taking one for himself. "Now you take those nineteen bio-tubes. Four to go to the lab to be studied and synthesized. Six are to be injected to the Egyptian prisoners after they are stunned again, and the rest can go into cold storage after which you go back to your duties at the Pel'Tak."

"As you command." Kada said.

Danny raised the energy shield for Laurent's cell and walked away from Kada. He went down a flight of stairs to the floor where the Egyptian prisoners were waiting. Their weapons had long been stripped of them and placed in a cargo room. They were shaped as simple weapons of the time period. Spears, swords, khopeshes but important thing is that they were made of a mix of steel and refined trinium.

Clearly questions needed to be asked. Which is why he was here.

"I heard the lot of you were up. How are you doing this evening?" Danny asked as he stood outside the cell.

"-" The man said something but because he did not speak the language he did not understand. It was probably something rude given the look on his face.

"Looks like this is going to happen the hard way." Danny said as holding out his hand and then pulling it back bringing the man closer to the energy shield as well. The man's eyes widened as he started floating and tried to push back against the force pulling him. It did not work as there was nothing for him to hold on to or get leverage from. The energy shield preventing him from leaving made mind reading harder, so he had to lower it and bring the prisoner through. The moment the shield went down, and the man was floating in the air Danny went deep into his mind learning everything Abasi knew.

"Let me go witch." Abasi said glaring at him.

Abasi and the other nineteen men that came with him were Medjai. The Medjai were an ancient order of Egyptian warriors dedicated to protecting their land from the rise of evil. Whether that evil come from their ancient past or the current world. The original role of the group was to prevent the rise of Osiris and/or Isis. Medjai legend states that if Osiris and Isis were to rise that untold evil would engulf the world.

It was not like they were not wrong about the belief.

So, for millennias the Medjai guarded the pyramid so that no could steal its treasure or so that the grand evil could escape. As the ages went by though they had to change the nature of their order. Vampires and Werewolves had come to Egypt and so the order moved to prevent the chaos the "supernatural" would bring in their wake. They and their allies were prepared to die in the fight against such evil.

"I cannot do that. You and your group know too much. I will have to hunt down the others later but for now accept that you are going to be here for a long time." Danny said as he walked up to the floating man and injected him with one of the bio-tubes.

"What did you put in me?" Abasi asked looking at the injection mark.

"That is just something that will make you more cooperative when I come back to talk to you later." Danny said lying. In the off chance that some of the Medjai took their lives while being in that cell the few that he injected with Laurent's blood would be coming back.