A/N: Thank you to all my subscribers and reviewers! It's really making me happy! Umm no real tangent for this chapter just thanks to all of you! Updates might be a little slower now that schools back in my life and that Glee's on every Tuesday night instead of WH13…sooo yeah!
DISCLAIMER: nope last time I checked, I wasn't the amazing mastermind with the idea of historical objects with aspects of their owner's best (and worst) personality issues and the place their stored or who hunts them down. I do own an ancient Egyptian girl who's slightly insane…that's all though.
Last time:
THE GOLD SECTOR
"My gods, the girl, Sagira, knows with the help of Helena. My plan has begun to work. If we take charge without caution the whole scheme will die like the blond girl, Jane, or the girl Dominique. If we rush, our last chance will die. She does not understand her destiny or that she will be our saving grace. Let me continue to help her and we will make a great warrior, scholar, magician, and princess out of her."
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For the second time in a row Claudia awoke from her sleep in the middle of the night. This time it wasn't the broken and unnerving speech patterns of Sanura, no, it was the kind, magical, musical and powerful female voice that willed her eyes open. "My darling Sagira, this is a dream. Will your eyes to envision me. I am here, my dear." Claudia obeyed and saw a beautiful woman standing in her room. "Um who are you?"
"I am your tutor. I am sorry to say that you do not remember this, my darling. But understandably so, it was many lifetimes ago."
"Um okay. Either I'm dreaming or you are a hallucination and I really need to be back on my meds again. God I hope it's the first one."
"Oh. You should be saying Gods, because I am Isis, Goddess of Magic and Helper to All Women. I thought that it would be obvious to you. How I have helped you so…"
"Whoa, whoa, back up. Goddess? You can't be a Goddess! Let alone the Goddess Isis. She's been ancient mythology since before Warehouse 1! There's no such thing as Egyptian polytheism any more! You are just a figment of my imagination and nothing else."
"If that is what you want believe, my Sagira."
"What does that even mean? Why are you calling me that?"
"It means 'Dear one' and 'Beloved'. It is your name."
"Last time I checked, MY name was Claudia Lourdes Donovan, not Sagira."
"Listen, Sagira. Listen to my reasoning and to how I know that you are my scholar. You are more feminine that you care to let on. You want to show that you have power and abilities far beyond your age. When you were a young girl you saw what your powers could do. When you are back in your own time you will understand, Sagira, hold on to me." Claudia looks at her like she's insane.
"Hold onto what? You don't exist!"
"Please Sagira! You aren't going to be asleep for much longer. My sisters and brothers are awaiting you! Please come back!" But before Claudia could answer her mentor from another life was gone and Claudia awoke to the buzzing of her phone to "Walk Like an Egyptian". How ironic. I have a dream about an ancient Egyptian goddess and my phone alarm is that! She opened her eyes and was confused by the picture around her. She was lying in a bed…but it wasn't her bed. Then the beeping wasn't going away, and she saw Artie sleeping in the chair next to her. "Claudia?" a fermilarly obnoxious English accented voice said. "Are you truly awake? I've had close to ten dreams in which you awoke but I wasn't sure. Tell me something only the real Claudia would tell me."
"What the hell? Umm…okay here goes nothing. Ummm…I only change the streak in my hair to piss off Artimus Maximus the Cesar of Geezer…uhhh Myka and Pete should totes magotes go out just so I can refer to both of them as either Peka or Myte…anything else?"
"Good god it really is you! Thank you so much!"
"What happened…like dude…seriously, I'm in a bed in a hospital with frakking HG Wells and Artie Nelson here and Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer are nowhere to be found!"
"Claudia, we found you in the Gold Sector. You had bad cuts to your head and back…no burnt neck but your tattoos…well just look down at your arms. I think that Leena can see them too but I'm not completely sure."
Claudia dared a glance at her upper left forearm, and found that both her forearms were covered in identical tattoos. They actually extended past her forearm and up to her shoulders. "Um? How? When? What?"
"I thought you would ask. I honestly have no idea. All I can say is that you were loosing blood fast and then these markings showed up. The doctors can't see them."
Claudia looked around the room again. The clock read 10:30pm but what really threw her off was the date. The clock said that it was November 12, 2010, not November 2, 2010.
"HG, how long was I out?"
"Claudia, you were in a coma for ten days. I was curious, what was your dream? Sometimes, when one is comatose, strange dreams occur. Do you remember yours?"
"Yeah, vividly, it was weird. The Goddess Isis visited me. She told me to come with her but I didn't. I think that I might have died if I had. She told me that Sagira was my true name. Every time she called me that it felt like…god I don't know how to describe it! It felt like when ever you saw Christina, I think. Like home, like my true family was back. I never felt so good. Every moment that I had spent with the team or with Joshua didn't feel like this, those were nothing compared to how this unreal deity made me feel, her touch, her voice, ever her scent felt like…"
"Claudia, I'm bringing you back to the land of the living. Did you know what language you were just talking in? It was Aramaic, Claudia, that language has been dead since 1000 ad. It was actually a mix of Aramaic and small pieces of Hebrew; something tells me that you don't speak either fluently."
"Whoa, um no I don't speak either, at least not to my knowledge. When did I start talking in them?"
"Around 'Every time she called me that.' Claudia I think that we might be dealing with the 'Past Life Syndrome' which I really hope that you know what that is."
"Isn't that when my soul is actually just a recycled soul?"
"Sort of. Regeneration is a theory that people who did not have enough time to finish their life's work are reborn into the next person to be born. It is rather interesting."
"Yeah, okay. So this means that I'm not really me but Sagira in my body?"
"In a nutshell, yes exactly."
"But that means…"
"Shut up, Pete and Myka are on their way back and Artie is waking up."
The rest of the day past uneventfully for Claudia; she visited with Pete, Myka, Artie and Kelly but Helena was back at the Warehouse, trying to find a clue to who this 'Sagira' was and why she was so important to these false gods.
IN THE GOLD SECTOR
"My goddess, you could have killed our only chance! You possessed her to come here and still she is ill. She did not respond to you in her dream and now she may never wish to come here again!" Sanura was frightened. Her gods had promised not to interfere with her delicate process of bringing back her best friend, and yet they did. "Sanura, be calm and be quiet. Isis is the all powerful goddess and she knows what she has done. My kitten, the girl would not head our calls or our threats. What good is an empty threat?" the cat goddess purred out. "Please you my Gods, but she will not be still. You came to her in dreams; she does not believe her dreams the way we do. She must be trained before she can see any of you, that is how the others died! That is how I died! If it wasn't for Osiris I would still be dead! He told me that he would never save another Daughter for his entire existence!" The three goddesses looked at one another. Finally the judgment goddess spoke, "I was brought here to be told why our Saving Grace was ill. WE must head our Daughter, for she is one of the last ones. She will recrute the last one, along with Sagira. This is my judgment and this is how it will be."
AN2: sooo yeah! Are the gods real? Or are Claudia and Sanura just crazy? Who knows…including me cuz I've got no idea where this is going…well I've got a small one but you all will just have to keep reading to find out! Sooo yeah thanks for all of the nice reviews, please keep them coming! All you authors know how good they feel!
Forever Farie
