Chapter 2

I willed my mind to turn into mist. I did, I evaporated into nothingness.

With me gone, the tiger slammed into the corner. Her face making contact with the pyramid wall. The whole building shook.

I tried to keep parts of myself from floating away in different directions. I hated turning into mist. One time when I turned back into a human, my arm was missing. I found it a couple of feet from me.

I tried to keep that from happening now, so the moment i turned into mist, i quickly and floated behind the old lady, and turned back into myself.

I wasted no time and lunged at her. I aimed for her neck; it was the quickest way to kill. She threw me around; her wails filled the whole cavern. It was so loud that if I had regular ears, it would've burst. I was distracted for a second, but I focused again and wrapped my stone arms around her neck. In one swift move, I snapped her neck with my hands. There was a loud cracking sound, and the whole cavern went silent.

Green mist came out from her mouth. It shaped itself and surrounded me tightly. I had no trouble breathing, but it was trapping me. "You have made the fates an enemy," it whispered. And with that, the tiger and the mist disappeared all together.

I tried to put all the information i gathered. All of it made no sense. The fates, magic, and all of the monsters.

The pyramid rumbled and pieces of stone fell from the ceiling. I stood there, trying to move. But i couldn't. Something was holding me down. I looked at me feet; on it was a snake

The snake was long and green, and it was continually wrapping itself tighter and tighter around my feet and legs. I was paralyzed, and big chunks of stone were falling around me. I'm going to die, I thought.

I glanced up, and saw a particularly large, pointed rock headed straight towards me. Panicking, I threw myself onto the ground, and rolled out of the way just in time. The snake hissed angrily.

Clouds of dust were rising up around me. I choked and coughed, and tried to stand up. It was impossible; the snake's grip was too tight. I checked around the room desperately for anything I could use. A small glint about ten feet away caught my eye.

I rolled some more, and ignored the snake as it sunk it's fangs into my skin. More rocks were falling now, some just missing me by inches. I finally made it to the glint, which turned out to be an unbroken shard of glass. I grasped it in my hand, and stabbed the snake with it. The snake's grip slackened, and I threw it off of me.

I could finally stand up now, but just barely. The bite from the snake was beginning to swell up. I gritted my teeth and tried to look for a way out of the pyramid. The doorway was blocked by chunks of stone. There were no other doors, or obviously windows either.

I didn't give up though. If there was one thing Coach had taught me, it was never give up. I spotted a little strip of light was shining through the high up ceiling. It fell on the coffin. I looked up, and saw a small hole in the ceiling. I could climb out.

I took a deep breath, and shook out my arms and legs. I then forced my mind to focus on a lioness. The lioness was my animal; it represented power, ferocity, and incredible cunning. If I could focus on it enough, it would give me strength. Unsurprisingly, the tiger was the lion's worst enemy.

I thought once more of the fierce animal, and then began my climb. Adrenaline pumped through my veins with my new found agility, as I climbed on top of the coffin and up onto the wall.

Climbing the inside of a pyramid was weird. It was like trying to crawl up upside down stairs, which is no easy task. My arms and legs shook, but still held on. My fingers ran over the walls, finding even the smallest handholds. My snake bitten leg was becoming so swollen that it was useless, so i had to resort to using one leg.

Minutes later, I made it to the hole in the ceiling. It wasn't quite big enough for me to squeeze through, so I tore at it with one hand until it was as wide as my shoulders. I crawled out of the pyramid, and into the daylight.

I rested on the pyramid. No one was taking notice. But all of them were looking at the tip of the pyramid. I looked around. The pyramid was surrounded with golden light.

The light grew brighter and brighter until it suddenly disappeared. Where the source of the light was, a very pretty girl stood. She had a cloak made out of lion's skin. She had striking features, clearly marking her as a powerful person. From here i took notice that she had a lioness necklace.

I gasped. She was here. She was the only other girl that could tap into a lioness. The most powerful animal of them all. She was stronger than me. She had become a goddess after all the hard labors she had done. And after all of the maddening events that has happened to her in the short time. She had almost died, but they made her into a goddess.

I also wanted to be a goddess. But Coach told me it wasn't easy to become one. He said that it includes a great deal of pain and some loss.

She smiled at me. Instantly, i felt warm inside. I felt relaxed. And calm. And most importantly, safe. I hadn't been safe since…a long time ago. It felt like she was making me stronger. The throbbing pain in my foot was no longer there. My foot wasn't swollen anymore. She had fixed it.

I looked back up at the girl, she looked no older than me. She was 17 at the most. "Thank you," i whispered.

"You are welcome. You deserve it," she said in a honey sweet voice.

My smile grew bigger. I had no idea how she heard it, the space between us was very large. But she did.

"But you know, this comes this a great price…" She said, her eyes turning cautious.

I nodded; nothing was free in this world. Especially in my world. The world I was living in.

She nodded, she understood. "Til' we meet again…" she said in good bye.

I had questions to ask her, but she shimmered into gold powder and disappeared. The people down on the ground gasped at the same time, and fell into unconsciousness.

I sighed, I had to fix this or it will be on the news. AGAIN. It wasn't the first time i had met a god/goddess and the nearby people fell into unconsciousness. Really, it wasn't.

I jumped down, closing the distance from my spot on the pyramid and the ground in a second. I first checked that everyone was unconscious, if they weren't, the spell i was going to perform was going to kill them.

"Réveiller!" I said. Wake. All the tourists moaned and stood up from the ground. I quickly ran to a nearby stand that sold clothes and took some. I felt bad for stealing, but I got used to it.

I ducked under another stand and put on the layers. I needed to blend in. Once I was ready, I joined the Egyptian crowds and tourists…

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-Kat

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