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Chapter 6

"So…" Bakura/Demon said, "She will stay with the people at the palace? I'll teach her!"

With Keket

They were all wary of her at first but she showed them that she had no weapons(well, besides her heka(1)), they gradually began to trust her. After several months in the palace, she was like one of their own. It was when they had passed two floods(2), that Bakura struck.

It was a peaceful day with them talking in the shade of a date palm, She had learned how to control her heka, was going to receive her staff in 7 rebirths of Ra(3) and had found out that Atemu had a great deal of magic within him, when he lept out of no where, straight in front of Keket. "So, little sister, how's it going?" Bakura cackled merrily, "How is my Princess doing?"

Keket knew at once this wasn't her 'Kura. It wasn't just that he acted differently, his aura was tainted, smeared with darkness. She knew just what was happening. "Bakura." He started. She had not called him that for several floods now. What was going on? "I will not go back with you until you break free of the thing that controls you." She looked at him through those pale eyes. "You can fight him, I know you can. Good luck, and may the Gods be with you." With that she waved her hand and Bakura disappeared.

Seven Rebirths of Ra Later

Keket and Mahado were going to get their staffs. They were rather excited because it meant that they would fully qualified magicians(4). The man that led them to the shop was the head of the elite magicians under the Pharaoh's service. He had expected them to be nervous but they wandered along calmly, without a single word. By the time they got to the shop, he was seriously creeped. They have such control at so young of an age. Their emotions won't run out of hand and make their heka unusable. That was one of the greatest setbacks for a magician. When their emotions were out of hand, so was their heka.

The man who sold staffs crafted them each by hand, so not one was the same as another. There were mates and siblings, but they were each unique. When they arrived, Mahado teased Keket before they entered the shop. "You aren't going to be the way you were at the first supper you attended right?" he asked smirking playfully. Keket blushed at what had happened. They had just walked into the dining hall and Keket had been awed by the sheer amount of food. She had carefully taken small portions of food and stowed them away in an oilcloth. Mana found her carefully rationing them the next day, protecting them like they were her life.

As they walked into the store, Keket felt a presence that wasn't completely natural. It was older, much, much older, than one's mind should be. She started when she realized what it was. It was the presence of an immortal.

A man with large, pale eyes(5) came out of the back of the store, saying, "Ah. These must be the two new magicians. The Pharaoh has told me much about them." His eyes past over them, lingering just a bit longer on Keket than Mahado. "Now, will you be getting a wand or a staff?"

"Staff," They said together. Mana wanted a wand, but Mahado and Keket had agreed that staffs would be useful as a melee weapon as well as something to direct their magic through.

"And why do you want a staff?" the man asked, "Surely a wand would be easier to carry?" They had solved this problem as well. After hours in the Great Library, Atemu had finally found a tome that said if you put a piece of your heka inside the director, it can only be used by you and it will change as you wish for it. It was followed by a long complicated incantation that would allow you to draw out a piece of your magic, but, thankfully, they found out the Keket could manipulate other heka that was not hers. It turns out that her ka had more to it than it appeared. It was sentient, unlike other ka's, it could control itself without orders from its master, or Keket. Fukayna, apparently, knew a lot about how Keket's heka worked and how she could control it.

"We solved that problem not two rebirths of Ra ago." Keket replied coolly. "Now may we get our staffs?" She saw Mahado wince at her lack of manners. They had all painstakingly tried to teach her proper court behavior and had failed miserably. She had a quick temper and could not hold to her manners for long periods of time. Still, the man only nodded and motioned for them to follow him into the back.

As they stepped through the doorway, Keket felt a sudden pulse of power, and she and Mahado were separated by, something. Soon Keket could no longer see him and knew that she was far, far away from the world she knew. She was sure of it then. The man was definitely an immortal. She sent her heka ghosting through the area she was in and found, to her dismay, that she was in a separate dimension. The man walked in and looked at her with mild surprise. "You are a powerful one, to be able to spread your heka like that." He spoke with a calculating look on his face. "You would prob—"

"Why am I here?" Asked Keket, who was still telling her heka to find a way out. "What is this place?"

"This is the place where I make the staff. Or wand in some cases." He smiled around at the place around them, which Keket suddenly realized was covered in different materials. "The wand chooses the wizard(6)." He stated suddenly, turning back to her. "It is not your choice of how it's made but the staff's." He smiled at her. "In fact, I don't even make it. It makes itself. Watch." Just as he finished speaking, several things flew off the wall toward her, stopping a short distance away. "This is strange. Normally there are only two materials that come off… Unless…" He snapped his fingers and they spilt into to piles. "I knew it." He turned back to Keket. "Today you will not only gain a staff, but some other new weapons." He got to work. The first thing that came into being was her staff. It was quite beautiful, a four-foot-eight-inch long piece of twisted silver with a large sapphire in a knot of metal at the top. It was incredibly lightweight for its size, and she was slightly worried about the strength of the staff as a melee weapon until she realized that once she put her heka in it, it would become as hard as she wished. Even so, the man summoned up a large boulder that she repeatedly whacked with her staff, proving it's strength(7). When he was finally done with the rest of the materials, Keket was staring at two of the most beautiful and yet most deadly weapons she had ever seen. They were made of black iron, with silver and gold inlay on the blades. The hilts were wrapped in fine gold and silver wire, twined around each other. There were two wires though, that had been shaped like vines and were wrapped around the bottom of the hilt, Keket wondered at their purpose. "The two vines at the bottom twine around eachother when you place the bottoms of the hilts together. It then becomes a bow(8)." He motioned for her to try it. She picked up the blades, feeling the way they were shaped perfectly for her to hold them, and pressed the ends together. The vines came to life, growing and wrapping together to form a connection between the two blades. The blades themselves changed shape, becoming slimmer and duller. Then a problem occurred to her.

"What about arrows?" she wondered, "You give me such a magnificent wepon and yet, there are no arrows for me to use."

"Your magic. Create arrows out of energy." He smiled at her one more time. Then the world around them disappeared.

(1) I'm going to stop italicizing heka now. It gets rather annoying.

(2) Years

(3) Days

(4) I will be calling magicians magicians and magic heka.

(5) Guess who?

(6) Now it should be really obvious.

(7) I know that silver is usually really soft, but work with me here.

(8) Like Pit's knives.

AN: Hey guys! I told you to read the author's note up there. Okay. I'm planning on wrapping up this fic so I can start the first year at Hogwarts. There will be a lot of skipping in time. So about two or three more chapters and I Promise will be done. OK? Review!