A BAT IN STORYBROOKE:
Chapter 14
"Lord Anubis!"
Granny cowered as she went down on her knees and bowed to the so-called god.
"Seriously?" Emma sarcastically asked. "You're going to tell me now that there's an Ancient Egyptian god walking in Storybrooke now?"
On that day, Emma toughly learned to never question a god. For Anubis held out his hands and as his eyes brightened with immensely bright rays of light. Everyone had to cover his or her eyes except Emma, who squinted. Glowing hieroglyphics emerged from Anubis' hands and circled around Emma with bluish, neon light. Suddenly, Emma felt her skin drying. When she looked at her hands, she saw in horror that they were turning into dry, yellow skin that was gluing onto her bones, which she could now see through her skin. She looked down at her body and she saw that the same thing was happening to her legs, stomach, etc. Even her clothes were starting to rot.
"ALL RIGHT! I BELIEVE YOU!" she shouted. "PLEASE, I BEG YOU TO STOP!"
Anubis clenched his fists to his sides and the magic disappeared. Emma felt her skin hydrating and saw that she had returned to her normal self.
"The next time you question my power, Emma Swan, I swear I will turn you into a mummy for good and ferry you to the afterlife," Anubis said darkly. "Now where is my daughter?"
"Your daughter?" Emma frowned.
"Don't play coy with me," the god angrily said as he snapped his fingers, summoning his dogs to surround Emma. "She was with your son Henry."
"What are you talking about? Henry wouldn't…"
"I know!" All eyes turned on Granny. "Lord Anubis, I heard that Henry Mills was assigned to tutor your daughter Rosetta. He told me that she didn't feel well at school today and was sent back home."
"Wait! When did you tell you that?" Emma asked with a surprised tone.
"Why, he was here a few minutes before you came. He came to order a double of what Rosetta- such a sweet girl she is- usually gets here in order to give it to her as a hope-you-get-better gift."
"That sounds like Henry. Always trying to cheer up others," Emma smiled.
"Yes indeed." Emma turned to see Anubis walking towards her. His hounds made a pathway for their master. "Especially…considering the fact…THAT MY DAUGHTER ISN'T IN MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW!"
"She isn't?"
"Why in the name of Hell do you think I walked all the way from my shop after my wife called me and said that Rosetta didn't come out of the school building when classes were over and my wife had to go inside after an hour or an hour-and-a-half of waiting and Rosetta's teacher said that she hadn't seen Rosetta all afternoon since she 'apparently wasn't feeling well and had to go to the infirmary' and then the school nurse said she wasn't there, and to crown it all, HENRY MILLS WAS WITH ROSETTA THE LAST TIME SHE WAS SEEN?" Flames spread over the god's body as he screamed the last part. Customers ran out of the diner in order to avoid intoxication. Only Emma, Granny, a sick Ruby, Anubis, and the hounds were left.
"Look, I don't know what this entire thing is about my son dragging some…god's kid out of school, but I'll get on it as soon as I deal with the problem I have with…" Emma said calmly.
"The peg-legged Batrishan that crossed the town line?" Anubis asked sarcastically.
"Wait what? How did you…? So all this time the culprit was…indeed a Batrishan?
"Well obviously. Usually Batrishans are the least violent of all living things unless they must really use violence. The species extinct, of course, except for one sole survivor, who has been ditching death for a while. Feel free to ask your boyfriend about it, since he knows the Batrishan more than anyone in this town, but for now, your main focus will be to find my daughter!"