I'm glad to hear that a lot of you like the whole idea of the gang in Egypt. Thank you for all the reviews! Hugs to all those who reviewed. Someone asked me if this story is based on a musical? No, it isn't.
I'm sorry that the names don't sound very egyptian. Because this is fan fiction, let's just 'pretend' because it would be very confusing if I did change the names. This story won't have much of a story line unlike You Had Me At Hello.
Sorry for the short chapter. I just think that it would be best if I stopped there and continued the rest in another chapter.
Chapter 2, ladies and gentlemen...
Disclaimer: Thief puts knife at neck. "You can have one last wish before I kill you,"
"I want to own Twilight."
"Uhh, no."
Wow, I never thought that I, Edward Masen, would be worthy enough to actually look at the stunning queen, I thought as we walked in a group towards the Pharaoh's temple (A/N Explanation is at the end of the page). His temple was the largest and the tallest out of the three other buildings that we had built; it also took the most time to build- a total of five years.
I remember those five years - since I was a young boy when they had first started building it, I - along with a few other boys - worked together to push large crates to and from the river. That's where I met Jasper and Emmett. We were the few from the group who didn't whine as much as the others.
"Aww, it hurts!" cried out Mike who was rolling on the floor. We hadn't even pushed the crates a quarter of the way there and he was already complaining.
"Yeah, I don't think I'll make it if we have to go any further," Tyler added who had joined Mike on the floor.
Emmett, Jasper and I rolled our eyes. I decided to introduce myself. I knew who they were, but never had the chance to meet them before.
"Hey, I'm Edward."
"Hey, Edward. I'm Jasper."
"I'm Emmett," then he looked as if he remembered something important. "Hey, you guys wanna see something cool?"
"Umm, okay." Jasper and I looked at each other wearily.
The, Emmett rolled up his sleeve and started flexing the muscles on his right arm. Surely enough, a small lump stood out. "Isn't it cool?"
I chuckled inwardly at the memory. From then on, we had become the best of friends. They then met Alice and Rosalie at the river. The two girls were doing some hard-core flirting with them. The boys, who were no better, flirted right back. Sure, girls flirted with me as well, but I never flirted back. It never felt right.
Emmett and Jasper stayed with the girls and had no eyes for anyone but them. They had found their special someone. I knew I was destined to be alone.
We then met Carlisle. He was one of the physiciansfor the slaves. When we met him, we found out that he had a huge crush on one of the nurses who worked with him.
Her name was Esme Anne Platt Evenson. She had long, brown hair that flowed down her face and gorgeous features. But he was always too shy to tell her how he felt. Finally, after constantly nagging him too - and one sad look from Alice - he finally told Esme how he felt.
Her reaction was very unexpected. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him, telling him that she's felt the same way too since the first time she laid eyes on him. They got married not long after. They acted as the parents of our group, always reminding us to do the rational thing.
As we reached the top of the stairs, Emmett pushed the doors open. My eyes widened at the grand sight before me. Inside the temple was a whole different world. Not like the one in Egypt where everything was dirty and sandy. No, this place was clean and decorated royally.
In nearly every corner of the room, you could at least see a glint of gold. I gasped as my head turned right and left to take everything in. Emmett and Jasper snickered at my enthusiasm.
"Well, we'll see you guys later." said Esme as she and Carlisle made their way into their quarters in the temple. The girls waved us off as they went to join the other women slaves.
"Come on. We have to get you clean before you can start your duties," Emmett said, motioning towards the room down the hallway.
Inside the room were many basins full of water. We shed our clothes and walked towards the basins.
"Okay, first you rinse yourself. Then, you wash yourself with some of this soap. Finally, you scrub away all the dirt 'till there is none. If the Pharaoh sees so much as a spec of dirt on you, he'll fire you immediately. That's how Tyler got sacked," Jasper shrugged.
I nodded, signifying I understood their instructions clearly. I splashed some water on my body until I was all wet. I then reached to take some of the soap which was in a small bucket. I slowly spread it to every inch of my skin and scrubbed my hair with it. The soap smelt really nice - at least, compared to the smells that I'm normally used to.
I grabbed the sponge and scrubbed all the smudges of dirt on my skin. I scrubbed so hard that my skin began turning red. When I finally decided that I was clean enough, I rinsed my body with water again, savoring the feel of the cool water on my skin.
I took the towel which I had hung earlier and dried myself.
"Whoa, Edward. I think you scrubbed a little too hard there. You look like a lobster," Emmett chuckled.
"More like on of those ripe tomatoes that the king and queen normally eat," added Jasper, laughing along with Emmett.
I blushed. "Blushing only makes it worse, Ed." Emmett said, now howling in laughter.
I just stood there glaring at them, waiting for their laughter to die down. After minutes of their continuous laughter and them rolling on the floor like a bunch of pigs, the finally stopped and noticed my glaring.
"If it makes you feel any better, you're less red now," Jasper grinned.
"Here, put this on. It's getting kind of awkward with you, standing there glaring at us, butt naked." Emmett said, shoving clothes into my arms.
I gave them one last glare before turning away to put on my clothes. Basically, it was the normal slave attire with an additional armor for the chest. When I turned around, Emmett and Jasper were wearing the same thing.
"All righty, then. Let's get to work!" Emmett said, throwing his fist into the air enthusiastically.
As we walked towards the Queen Bella's chambers, Emmett and Jasper enlightened me on the rules.
"Bow in the Queen's presence," instructed Jasper. Bow, got it.
"Looking at the Queen when the King is around is a big no-no," Emmett warned. No looking at the queen, got it.
"No looking at the Queen to long, no matter how beautiful you think she is." Jasper added. No drooling over queen, got it.
"The Queen is very friendly but you must never talk to her in the king's presence." he said, waving his index finger left and right in a 'no' motion
I nodded. Seems simple enough.
"Oh, and we finish once the Queen has fallen asleep. Then, we switch shifts." Jasper said as we turned right into another long hallway. I didn't know where we were or how we got there. My thoughts were too engrossed by the fact that I was going to be seeing the Queen's face in just a few minutes.
We finally reached to the end of a hallway. The doors were decorated with gold which had floral patterns on it. Emmett pushed the door open and shoved me into the room playfully. I stumbled into the room.
"Good luck, Ed. She'll be coming soon. Just make sure that you don't start drooling," Emmett said as he closed the door. I could hear them snickering from the other side of the door. I was to guard the Queen at all times, except when instructed not to and when she is changing or bathing, of course. Emmett and Jasper were the guards in charge of standing outside the door.
I decided to look around the room while waiting. Her room was full of stuff and had a balcony over looking nearly all of Egypt. Her bed was majestically decorated, just like the rest of the temple but her room had a more cosy feel towards it.
There was a vanity mirror at the corner of the room and papers messily stacked on the table. I walked to it and looked through the pieces of paper. As I flipped through them, I realized that they were paintings. There were drawings of beautiful plants which were brightly colored and pictures of Egypt.
I looked in awe as I flipped through all her papers. I carefully rearranged it again and lay it down on the table. I noticed that she left her headdress (A/N supposed to be a crown/tiara)and her ring on the dresser.
I wonder why she doesn't wear it, I mused. Maybe she felt it a burden to wear it all the times. But then, it could be because she doesn't want to be here. That is what Emmett and Jasper mentioned before, right? Hmm...
"Oh, you must be the new guard," said the most beautiful voice I had ever heard, pulling me out of my silent reverie.
I turned around and gasped.
So, yeah. That's it. If any of you have any interesting ideas for this story, please do tell me. New ideas are always welcome.
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You should also check out my other stories. My current best one is You Had Me At Hello which has recently been completed.
-Sabrina-
-- The temple is like the one in the movie '10, 000 BC' or the Aztec Temples in the movie 'Alien vs. Predators'. They're made out of the same thing as pyramids are made out of. Thank you to blinding-rainbow who told me that pyramids are actually meant for keeping the mummies and stuff. I feel so stupid now. --