"Hey Harry? What are you doing up this late?"

The almost eighteen-year-old black haired emerald eyed wizard looked away from the fireplace in the Burrow and saw the eldest Weasley child, Bill standing in the doorway to the kitchen "Hey Bill."

"Can't sleep Harry?"

Harry simply shook his head before he replied to the scared older male "Not really, got a bit on my mind."

Bill nodded in understanding as he came into the living room and sat down across from the teenager and handed him a glass of fire-whiskey "Now that Voldemort is dead and the war over, you don't know what to do with yourself huh?"

The last Potter looked startled as he took the offered glass "How did you guess?"

"Honestly it wasn't that hard to figure out. Want to talk about it?"

"Sure, don't see why not. See back in fifth year McGonagall asked me what I wanted to do for a career, at the time I said I wanted to be an auror."

Bill just nodded "And now that the war is done you don't really want to fight anymore."

Harry sighed but nodded "It's not that I won't fight for the right reasons, but it's not something I want to do for a living."

"How 'bout teaching?" seeing the younger wizard looking at him funny he continued "I heard about Dumbledore's Army where you taught the other students, and from what I heard you did a great job."

Harry thought about for several minutes while idly swirling his glass of fire-whiskey "It's an option I guess but, I dunno I want to get away from everything for a while, especially my fans."

Bill chuckled as he sipped his fire-whiskey "I can only imagine. If you want to get out of England for a while I might have an idea."

"I'm all ears."

"Fleur and I are leaving for Egypt in a few days, why not tag along, we'll teach you the basics of curse-breaking along the way. You've got more than enough power to bring down almost any ward we are bound to come across and you have great reflexes and instincts which are a must in this line of work. Aside from learning some new skills we're likely to find some interesting things."

Harry thought about the offer and found that he was seriously considering accepting "You know what? I think I'll take you up on your offer."

Bill smiled as he raised his glass in a quick salute before he downed the rest of his drink "Great, then you had best get some rest, tomorrow Fleur and I will get started teaching you the basics."

Harry simply nodded before he downed his fire-whiskey in one go making Bill laugh as Harry dropped his glass and belched a large stream of fire luckily right into the fireplace "Should have warned you about Fire-Whiskey, it's called that for a reason. Get some sleep Harry because you're going to need it."

Then next two days were spent by Harry learning some curse-breaking basics from Bill with Hermione sitting in on the lessons, and a crash course on ancient Egyptian history from Fleur. Finally, on the third day the three of them took a portkey straight to the dig site in Egypt.

"Damn it I hate those goddamned things!"

Bill simply laughed as he helped Harry back to his feet and Fleur brushed the sand from his clothes "It's because you don't use them as much as normal wizards Harry, you'll get the hang of it."

Fleur just shook her head at them "Come, ze dig site is just over zis sand dune."

Harry nodded but he was clearly still not happy about landing face first in the scorching desert sand before following the married couple up the dune. Once he reached the top of the sand dune he could see the top of a temple emerging from the sands and a wizarding tent barely ten metres from the partially uncovered temple "So who's this temple for?"

"Oh right, knew I was forgetting something, this temple is dedicated to Bastet."

Harry nodded and turned to Fleur "She's the cat headed goddess, right?"

Fleur laughed softly but nodded "Oui, very good Harry, glad to see you were paying attention."

The dark-haired teenager merely shrugged "Can we get out of the heat please, you two may be used to it but I'm not."

…

"So, what do you think Harry?"

Harry hummed to himself as he waved his wand in front of a large stone door they uncovered yesterday. A week had passed since they arrived and that time was spent going over more information on Egyptian history while they began to unearth a doorway, which went quicker since harry had massive magical reserves and once shown how could move large amounts of sand quickly. Currently he was scanning the wards on the large stone door.

"Seems to be a simple repelling ward and a rather strong shield wards placed all over the temple leaving only the door here as an entry point and the door itself is warded against explosions and concussive force so we can't blast it open. It can't be that simple, there has to be some traps on the inside of the temple. Are all temples this simple?"

Bill shook his head as he checked Harry's work "No most temples are warded so tight that it takes years to breach, this is surprisingly simple. You might be right about the traps Harry."

Harry grinned as he waved his wand again "So I just have to dispel the repelling ward" several seconds past before "Done, now we should be able to open the door."

Fleur shook her head as she grabbed his arm "Non. You are getting ahead of yourself 'Arry, you need to check the door itself, there could be hidden curses placed on any of these jewels to protect the door."

Harry nodded as he eyed the decorative jewels on the door carefully "Thanks Fleur." He spent the next hour checking all the jewels and found some nasty curses but managed to get rid of them all "Okay, I think I'm done here."

Bill nodded approvingly as he examined the young man's work "Not bad at all Harry, we might make a Curse-Breaker out of you yet. Now let's get this thing open shall we. Fleur check the other side of the door as we open it."

Fleur nodded as she watched Harry and her husband begin to force the large stone door open, it was hot out and both men were wearing shorts and wife beaters to keep cool and sunscreen and cooling charms to keep themselves from getting burned and overheating, so she allowed herself a moment to appreciate the two sweating, very attractive young men as they worked before she moved to the now slightly opened doorway and began to scan the inside of the passageway "Careful boys, there are several hidden trigger mechanisms on the floor way, I shall make them glow green so you don't step on them."

Without waiting for them Fleur began to slowly make her way inside the passageway and found several unlit torches which she lit and then took one with her as she carefully illuminated any traps she found. Only a couple of minutes later Bill and harry caught up with her and the trio made their way into the main chamber, inside was a large golden statue of a woman with a cat's head, the statues hands were holding a large orb of some kind which appeared to be made from some form of metal.

But the trio continued to check the temple for more traps before they started looking for anything of value. So, the three of them never saw the metal orb seemingly come to life like a television showing the image of an Egyptian woman with shoulder length black hear wearing a black headdress, the woman smiled to herself as she seemed to watch the three people before her eyes landed on the form of the black-haired teenager. The woman's grin turned slightly sinister as her eyes flashed gold and the image faded.

…

"Senna, Kree!"

On a planet far away from Earth, the Goa'uld known as Bastet watched as a dark-skinned woman who looked like an amazon wearing leather armour that protected her vital organs but still showed of her amazing figure and had a golden image of a cat's head on her forehead, approached the woman sitting on a large throne "You summoned me My Lady."

Bastet held up some sort of device which showed an image of the black haired teenage wizard "I believe that I have found a suitable host for my dear old friend Sobek. Be a dear and retrieve him for me."

The dark-skinned woman Senna simply bowed "It shall be done my lady, where is this human located?"

The Goa'uld System Lord simply laughed "That is the best part, he is of the Tau'ri. He is in my temple as we speak, you have my permission to access the data core for the address to the hidden Chappa'ai in my old temple."

The first prime had a large grin on her face as she bowed again "As you command my Lady."

As the woman on the throne and her loyal subject spoke, standing as part of the group that served the First Prime, a woman different from the others stood amongst them, she had lighter coloured skin then all the other Jaffa around her, dark hair shaved on the right side while the back was tied into a short ponytail and the left side hung freely, and instead of the symbol of Bastet on her forehead was the symbol of Apophis.

This young woman was Shen'auc of Chulak, and while outwardly she displayed an image of loyalty and devotion to her goddess, within her mind she was mourning the loss of yet another innocent in Bastet's need to torture the Goa'uld Sobek. As she looked at the image of the young Tau'ri she felt pity for him, he was young, and had his whole life ahead of him, probably had family that would miss him, and Bastet was going to take all that from him, make him a host to Sobek and then torture the old Goa'uld until either she tired of his torment or the host died.

But there was nothing she could do about it, speaking up would only get herself killed, and then the human would still be taken as a host, doing nothing but hastening her own death. All she could do was try and find a chance to end the hosts suffering as quickly and painlessly as possible. It was all she could do.

…

"So, any ideas what the hell is going on here Bill?"

The eldest Weasley shook his head as he tried a scanning spell again "No idea Harry, I've never seen anything like this, never heard of anything like this before either. Luv?"

Fleur just shook her head, sending her long blonde hair that was pulled back into a ponytail, waving about "Non, I have never heard of this either. But it seems as though something here in ze temple is interfering with our scanning spells. It can't be ze wards as we have brought them down."

It was then that Harry got a really bad feeling, Fleur noticed as Harry suddenly shivered as if he was cold, which was utter nonsense, and she nudged her husband and pointed to Harry, Bill looked at his young friend/protégé and saw him looking around wildly "Harry?"

"We need to leave, I don't know how I know, but something bad is about to happen."

Bill nodded "Alright, we'll play it safe. Let's go."

Fleur nodded and took off at a jog towards the temple with Bill and Harry following behind her, they had just reached the temple exit when it felt like a small earthquake hit the temple. The ground and walls shook, sand fell from cracks in the ceiling, as they went to exit, fleur had just made her way outside when what seemed like a blasting spell struck the wall next to Bill. Harry turned around quick as lightning, his reflexes second to none "Sectumsempra!"

The dark cutting curse struck the woman that had fired the blasting curse at them slashing her from hip to shoulder cutting her open and spilling her intestines. Behind her the group of female Jaffa that had accompanied the first prime could only watch as said first prime died a quick but painful death. Bill turned to exit the tomb only for the group to recover quickly and attack, firing blasting curses from the bulbous tip of their staffs.

Harry held back and created a powerful shield between himself and the approaching group of armed dark skinned woman "Hurry up Bill! I don't know how long I can hold this!"

Instead of exiting the temple, he looked at his wife "I can't leave him there, go get help!"

Fleur nodded knowing that they would need it, she ran back towards their camp as Bill turned and began to cast blasting hexes from around Harry's shield spell making the dark haired emerald eyed wizard scowl "What the hell are you doing!"

"I'm not going to leave you here to fight by yourself!"

Harry fell to one knee as he struggled to keep the shield up "Damn it Bill! I can't keep this up!"

Bill nodded and cast at the ceiling above the attacking woman and brought down a tonne of sand on their heads, thinking they were safe Harry let his shield drop and tried to regain his strength as Bill helped him up. Only for several of the women to leap from the darkness of the pillar filled hallway, Bill was struck in the back of the head rendering him unconscious immediately while Harry was grabbed by three dark skinned women and forced to his knees as a blade was held to his throat.

Harry glared as he struggled to catch his breath "Who the fuck are you, what do you what?"

The woman in front of him slapped him hard across the face "Rin nok! (Silence)" and then turned to the rest of the group who had Harry restrained and two others survivors of the cave in that where dragging Bill "Shal Tek."

Harry tried to struggle as the group of physically powerful woman dragged him back into the main part of the temple, only now one of the walls was gone and in its place, was a large room in which sat a pedestal of some kind and a large metal ring with numerous symbols on it.

The woman restrained him and the unconscious Bill and tossed them to the side while they approached the pedestal and started pushing what seemed like buttons on the top of the device. Harry sat against the wall and looked to Bill to make sure he was okay, as he did one of the women approached him and kneeled down in front of him and whispered to him.

"You put up a good fight, but your suffering has only just begun, I'll try to end it quickly when I'm given the opportunity."

Before Harry could respond the young woman lifted him of the ground and dragged him towards the gate while another grabbed Bill and dragged him along, Harry looked up in time to see the now spinning ring stop spinning and a burst of what looked like water shot from the ring and then sucked back into the ring forming an upright pool of water.

"What the-"

Harry didn't get the finish his sentence as one of the women stepped through the ring and then he was pushed through. On the other side of what he now knew was a gateway of some kind, harry found himself covered in ice, he shivered and struggled to move as the one woman who spoke to him pushed him forwards making him stumble and break the thing layers of frost that had built up.

Harry could do nothing as he didn't have his wand, having dropped it when the women caught him of guard, and he could see Bill's wand so he assumed that he dropped his as well.

Harry looked around and realised that they were in a large city that looked like it was Egyptian, as he was pushed through the city he noticed that most of the population was female, there were males but they were outnumbered three to one. He was led into a large palace and after a while of being marched through the palace he was thrown at the feet of a richly dressed Egyptian woman sitting on a throne.

Bastet grinned as she observed the fine form of the young human before her, before she looked at the Jaffa and noticed the absence of her First Prime "Where is Senna?"

"Dead my lady, this human killed her, some kind of energy weapon, it cut her open from hip to shoulder, she bled out within moments."

Bastet turned her angry gaze to Harry who just gave her a cheeky grin "Yeah, sorry about that."

Bastet let out a slight cry or rage as her eyes glowed and she held up her hand, upon which sat a device of some sort and placed it on his head, and Harry barely managed to hold back a scream. Several moments later the pain stopped and Harry fell to his side twitching slightly as Bastet leaned down and gripped him by the chin and made him look at her before she spoke in a deep echoing voice "Your suffering will be eternal."

Harry not really able to speak simply thrust his head forwards strike her in the face and breaking her nose. Bastet glared at him with blood dripping from her nose and covering her face "Bring the other!"

One of the female Jaffa grabbed the now awake Bill and dragged him before Bastet who began to use the hand device on him as well making him scream in pain. Harry tried to get up, to do anything but his body wouldn't listen., he knew that Bill had a higher pain resistance then most, but Harry had an insane amount of tolerance and knew that Bill wouldn't last, Harry knew that within minutes Bill would probably end up like Neville's parents in Saint Mungo's. Within moments Bastet stopped and Bill fell to the floor and just looked at Harry and spoke in a barely audible voice "Get out of here Harry. Find a way, like you always do. Tell Fleur I'm sorry."

Harry just shook his head as he struggled to make his body respond but still nothing but twitching, tears fell from his eyes as he could do nothing but watch as Bill managed to get to his feet, although he was struggling, and tried to rush Bastet only to be struck by several blasts from their staff weapons and fall to the floor of the palace, dead.

Bastet grinned and kicked the eldest Weasleys now dead body making Harry twitch in anger "Shall we prepare Sobek's stasis jar My Lady?"

Bastet shook her head "No, I want to hear this one scream for me first."

Harry could only glare as Bastet descended on him with her hand device again. But just as when Voldemort would hit him with the Cruciatus Curse, he didn't give them the pleasure of hearing him scream.

…

One week had passed since his capture, and in that time Bastet had been most creative in her torture, but even after a week of torture he still hadn't screamed. He could tell that Bastet was angered beyond belief that she hadn't broken him, and he took every opportunity to rub that fact in. he also knew that she had run out of patience and was preparing to have the Goa'uld Sobek take him as a host.

He knew it would do anything but he tried to break the chains around his arms that held him against a wall, but just as he expected, nothing happened. Even if he wasn't weak from torture and hunger he knew that he still wouldn't be able to break the chains holding him. He had tried casting wandless magic but he had no energy to cast with.

The sound of footsteps could be heard coming down the corridor, and moments later the door to his cell slide open and in came Bastet and one of her Jaffa holding a canopic jar with the head of a crocodile on it. Bastet merely grinned as she stepped up to him and placed a kiss on his cheek "It seems that your time is up human, too bad, if you had have just screamed for me, and accepted me as your goddess, the things I could have shown you, the pleasure we could have experienced together would be amazing. Oh well."

Before Harry could get out a smart-ass response the female Jaffa removed the lip from the canopic jar and held the opening up to his mouth with one hand and gripped the back of his head with the other to hold him in place. And the last thing he saw before the pain hit him was the serpent like form of the Goa'uld Sobek.

…

Bastet watched in sadistic glee as Sobek weakly exited the stasis jar, she reached out and forced open the humans mouth and Sobek entered his new host through the back of his thought and began to take control. She expected the host to begin to scream as this happened but still the host remained silent, oh he thrashed about and grunted in pain but no screams.

Normally a Goa'uld could take control of the host within moments, but she knew that this host had a strong mind, so it was no surprise that it took almost five hours for Sobek to finally wrest control of the host.

"This host has interesting memories, I particularly enjoyed the memory of your First Prime being cut open like a domesticated animal for food."

Bastet screamed in rage and pushed her Jaffa out of her way as she rushed forwards and jabbed Sobek in the chest with a Goa'uld torture rod. But just as with the host Sobek didn't scream.

"This host has a ridiculously high pain tolerance. A marvellous host you have given me Bastet. I will enjoy using it to kill you."

Bastet glared at Sobek wo just grinned at her, that same infuriating grin that the host gave her, she endeavoured to remove that grin and jabbed Sobek again and watched as he twitched and convulsed but still did not scream. Bastet held the torture rod to his chest for almost a minute before releasing him.

Sobek looked up at her, blood dripping from his lips obviously having bitten his tongue, his eyes flashed and instead of Sobek speaking, it was the Host!

"Sobek and I are both laughing at how pathetic you are, he's old, and weakened from age, and I'm young and weakened from hunger and torture, and still you can't get us to scream, I get the feeling that that pleasure you were talking about earlier, it would be one sided, and not in my favour. Given Sobek's memories of you and Kali, and how much time you spend surrounded by females, I don't think you'd know what to do with what I'm packing."

Bastet was furious, this human was still mocking her, even after being taken as a host, after being tortured for a week, this human was still mocking her!

Bastet screamed in rage again and jammed the Torture rod into the human's chest above the heart and watched as he convulsed.

…

Shen'auc watched from the doorway as Bastet tortured Sobek by cutting into his host with her clawed hand device, leaving long and deep gashes across his chest, sides, back and face before switching to the torture rod. This had been going on for a month now and this was the first time she had been assigned guard duty for the human's cell. She had heard the rumours that the human was able to retain control of his body at times, when she heard that she was impressed, she knew that there was something different about the human. She wished she knew his name so she didn't have to keep referring to him as the human.

She quickly stood tall as Bastet stormed out of the cell leaving the bloody human alone in his cell. She waited a few minutes to make sure Bastet wasn't returning and then entered the cell. There he was, chained to the wall and bleeding deeply from numerous deep cuts all over his torso. She leaned her staff weapon against the wall and drew a short dagger that was hidden in the bracer on her left arm.

She never took her eyes of the human as she stopped just in front of him when his eyes opened. She looked into those emerald green eyes and knew that she was looking into the eyes of the host, not Sobek.

"You finally made it."

Shen'auc nodded "I was unable to get guard duty until now."

Harry just grinned showing of his blood covered teeth "Do you still intend to end my suffering?" Shen'auc nodded and held up her blade "Then do it."

The young Jaffa female only nodded again before she then stepped right up close to him and pulled him into an awkward hug and placed the tip of her dagger at the base of his skull "What is your name human?"

Harry just chuckled as he rested his head on her armoured shoulder "Its, Harry, Harry James Potter, and you? What's your name?"

"Shen'auc of Chulak."

Harry just smiled "Thank you, Shen'auc."

Shen'auc of Chulak smiled as well before she steeled herself and quickly plunged the blade into the base of the skull, severing the spinal cord and cutting the Goa'uld Sobek in half. The last thing Harry saw before he died was a staff blast striking Shen'auc in the back.