Voices of the Dead
Summary: The Sibuna Club escapes the Society and Nina meets yet another family member.
Evie's Notes: Happy Sunday! I hope you all had a wonderful week . Thank you so much your support of this story, it truly means the world to me 💜! I hope that you all enjoy the this new update 🌺.
The Sibuna Club did not stop running until they reached the Frobisher chapel. The rain soaked students collapsed on the dirty marble floor, gasping for breath.
"What the heck was that?" exclaimed Amber, wringing the excess water out of her hair.
"They were killing Jason," cried Patricia. "Has he really been alive this whole time?".
"Were you able to get any good video?" asked Fabian.
Nina opened up the video app on her phone, and the group crowded around to watch the shaky recording. The video showed eight figures covered in red robes, each wearing different animal masks. Victor was wearing the Jackal mask which the older Sibuna members remembered from their 10th year. Vera was wearing a black cat mask with gold detailing, and the group watched horrified as she directed the snake and bird masked members to hold their classmate down on the stone table. Vera then placed a green stone scarab on the boy's chest which began to glow ominously as the members resumed their chanting. Jason's protests turned to screams of pain as the scarab's glow spread over his body, consuming him. The bright flash the Sibuna club had witnessed from the hallway turned out to be Jason's body suddenly disappearing. Victor then stepped forward to pick up the stone and stated his ominous threat. "Our sacrifice has been accepted by Ra, only seven more to go".
"NOPE! No Sibunaing yet. It's still September" protested Amber. "I can't handle dealing with possibly dying for the entirety of my final school year".
"It doesn't look like we have much of a choice Amber" disagreed Nina grimly.
"So, the next step is to call the police right?" asked Eddie.
"We can't do that" dismissed Patricia, from where she was leaning on his shoulder.
"Why not?" asked Eddie.
"Clearly the police and possibly the hospital are in league with Victor. That's the only way Victor and Vera would have been able to steal Jason" reasoned the punk girl.
"Which means that once again it falls to us to shut this down" moaned Nina. "So much for our normal year".
* Scent of Lavender * Scent of Lavender *
Nina hummed happily as she thumbed through another of Sarah's journals. While she knew that Englavista and his crew were bad news, she was grateful for the gifts he had given her. The journals and jewelry helped her to feel more connected to her great-aunt now that she could no longer speak to the woman. Nina would never begrudge the woman having gone to her eternal rest, but she did wish that Gran had been able to meet her older sister at least once.
Speaking of relatives, Nina eyed her cousin consideringly. K.T was currently facing off against Eddie in Mario Kart and utterly crushing him. The pair had formed an easy friendship shaped around their shared nationality and fun loving attitudes. Nina figured their friendship was truly sealed when Eddie found out about K.T's love of photography. The pair had spent many an hour comparing camera's lenses, lighting preferences and artistic aesthetics. In short it was truly a match made in heaven.
Unfortunately this new easy friendship was not helping ease Joy's dislike of KT. Joy saw this as her having to bitterly stand by as her best friend was once again stolen by a Martin. Despite Eddie's many assurances that she was still his number one, Joy's shattered heart and self esteem was not taking KT's appearance in the house well.
* Scent of Lavender * Scent of Lavender *
Nina contemplated Sibuna's next moves as she got ready for bed Sunday night. The crew had tried to push the knowledge of what their caretakers were up to from their minds, but Nina knew something had to be done. But what?
Reaching up to unpin Sarah's hair clips from her bun, Nina froze as she felt them burn hot against her fingers. "Ouch!" she muttered, pulling her hand back.
Turning to get a better look at them in her vanity, Nina froze in worry as she saw the diamonds inside the golden wings glowing a concerning green color. "This can't be good," she worried.
Touching the hairclips again resulted in what felt like an electric shock. "Okay… I'm not doing that again" Nina decided but he couldn't sleep with the hair pins in. Turning towards the door Nina let out a shriek of fear as she found herself face to face with a gorgeous woman wrapped in a faint white glow.
"You are to free me Chosen One" greeted the woman, but all Nina could think was 'Not Again!'.
"Sorry to interrupt, but Nina… want to introduce us to your friend?" asked Amber from her spot beside Patricia in the open doorway.
"I am Amneris, high priestess of Anubis" declared the spirit.
"Uh huh"
"Just come in and shut the door" directed Nina.
"I am a high priestess and your ancestor. Why are you not worshiping me, mortals?" questioned the spirit.
"Not interested in more random spirit worship, thanks" snarked Nina. "Last year was more than enough for us, thanks. Is there a reason you are in my bedroom?".
"You summoned me?" replied the spirit confused by the question.
"I certainly did not" disagreed Nina. "My hair clips started to hurt and then you appeared".
"You are the Chosen One, yes? My descendent?" clarified the spirit, Amneris.
"Yeah, but I didn't summon you. Honestly I have more than enough problems at the moment".
"How peculiar. The way the spell is set up, I am only supposed to be summoned when my descendants are able to help me move on to The Field of Golden Rushes".
"Says who!?" asked Amber indignantly.
"It is so written in the scrolls of knowledge" replied the spirit.
"I hate to break it to you, but we have no idea how to get you to The Field of Golden Rushes" argued Patricia. "The last time we tried you would need a body and none of us are leaving this earth yet".
"The matter of my body is easily fixed" brushed off the woman. "A combination of the gift of Anubis, a jade scarab, my crown and the Pharaoh's staff will be more than enough to fulfill the ceremony requirements".
"That's great and all, but we don't have those items" denied Nina.
"Why do you lie? I can feel their power here" demanded the spirit, clearly getting annoyed at Nina's attempts to shut her down.
"Great so Frobisher stole more valuable relics, why am I even shocked? We really should have been expecting this," sighed Patricia.
"Look, spirit lady," Nina began.
"Amneris"
"Amneris, it's late and we have school tomorrow morning. Can you just kinda poof off for now and we can discuss this more tomorrow?".
"Very well, I shall return as Ra begins his descent" announced the woman before disappearing from the room.
Evie's Notes 2: Yay, Amneris. I will preface her character for the rest of this fic with the statement that I have yet to watch HHA. My basis of the character is largely coming from the amazing Yvette aka sleepymarvel / lovelyamneris on Tumblr's blog and internet research. So she will obviously be OOC since she is essentially an OC. Still I hope that you will enjoy what I plan to do with her in this fic.
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