phoenix's soul

 

 

Anne: Hi guys!!... This story getting way thrill

Ai-ka: yes, sweeter and bitter… well  

Anne: the bitter the sweeter it goes…

Ai-ka: caution this chappie has (blush) some mature parts

Anne: if you are   

Ata: 17 and below please don’t read the last part of this chapter

Anne: ok now go on with the opening Ata

ATA: (clear the throat) the plot...

 

PLOT: Ancient Egypt time, A heartless pharaoh “alim” was leading a raid on the town, after burning all, the only survivor was left, A girl… what will happened to the girl? And why would he felt pity on her? What secret behind this poor girl

 

CAUTION: A part of this chapter content mature (don’t read if you don’t like...)

 

‘BOLD’ -Alim’s thoughts

‘Italic’- Ai-Ka’s thoughts

Italic/times roman font - dream or flashback

“Bold” – shout or stress

“Normal” talking

‘Normal’ special mention word/or other characters thoughts

/italic/ Ai-ka’s mind link to alim

/bold/ Alim’s mind link to Ai-ka

// normal// sounded effect

// bold// shouted spell

//italic// whispered spell 

 

“OKAA-SAN!! OKAA-SAN”

 

It a silent night that was filled again with screaming and panting as the girl was continuously breathing heavily and squirming as her body was again covered sweat as her daily nightmare’s came, until slowly again she opens her eyes.

 

She tried to calm herself as she catches her breath. When she finally calm herself, she look into the window and saw it was still dark, she tried to rose up from the bed to the window but when she try, she found herself wrapped by a strong arms possessively and secure,  

 

She blushes so hot red when she was now aware of an ‘awkward position’ she had with the pharaoh.

 

The legs were intertwined, her left leg on the pharaohs waist, and the pharaoh’s left leg too was across her right leg, as his left arm hold strong on her waist, and his face snuggle near her neck and she can feel the king’s warm breath 

 

“Pharaoh” she whispered to herself, she try to move but when she does, the arms that was holding her tightens more as she shift,

 

“This is great” with a soft sighed

 

She tried to remember the thing that happens last night before she slept.

Leaning her head more against the pillows, let out a calming breath and closed her eyes. She struggled with the fact that she couldn't remember anything and wondered why she couldn't at the same time. Drawing out more strings of memories from the back of her head and she started bringing them together.

 

“That was it!”

 

Piece of memories of him holding her with so much warmth and care came into her sense as she looked over at king's sleeping form. And wondered why would he do that? “Why would he had stopped me from killing myself” she wonder

 

She tried to shift a bit, to look on the king’s face

 

“Well, even it’s a criminal crime to look on the king’s face, he’s asleep and no one here, it’s my opportunity to look on him clearly” she said whispery soft as if she can’t even hear what she said

 

She look on the king’s sleeping eyes “Well, he has a beautiful eyelids, beautiful red lips his nose is well define, wait, he looks like a woman, he was even prettier than a woman itself,” she said as she try to touch the king’s face “wow, his skin is so smooth, nice well toned tanned skin, and nice shiny long black hair, and well his hair is even more smoother and softer than I have” as she brush the king’s hair, she was too busy looking into the king’s face that she didn’t seemed to care that the distance she was in and just a one more move, there will be a ‘kissing incident’ will happen

 

“hmmm, he’s so handsome” she smile but “wait, no- no I am not falling into a heartless, worthless man,” she said it a bit loud that cause the king’s shift and he snuggle more and here as expected distance was close by a kiss, her eyes wide, and her heartbeat came faster, but later she given into the ‘accident kiss’ as she remember the warm of the king’s arm when the king try to comfort her last night,

 

“he’s too warm, he smells so good” remembering how she hugs the smooth warm body, she remember the intoxicating scent of cinnamon and rose petals, calm her scared body, and how she was amaze on perfectly she was fit on the king’s arms,

She tried to remember more, on how she hugs or shift even more and rose up even more to just to hug this owner’s lips, she also remember contented smile she spread when she holds this body so tightly

She was deeply emerged on the feeling she remember that she’s so lost in her trance that now she was pinning king on her weight and kissing the king so deeply… nibbling and biting the lower lip of the man as she brush her fingers through the king’s shoulder and into his bare chest, and his side…

As the king was so ticklish on his side he was awoken by the feeling he felt and slowly he open his eyes, and shock as he see the woman on her dreams pinning him? Kissing him?

“ai-ka?!!” startled and snapped out by her trance she quickly panic rolling into the kings side but her mistake; she rolls on the edge and with a loud thud she suddenly met the floor.

“no—nothing, I-I-I was dreaming, yes… a nightmare, yes that’s it a very, very scary one” she answer before she was even ask. With this the king just frown and raise an eyebrows with confused thoughts

“huh? Nightmares?”

“Yes” she got up and tries to fix herself as she can feel the pain on her back as the effect of loud thud on the floor “Maybe, I’ll just sleep on your closet, I think I’ll fit on”

“My closet?”

“Yes, my king, I’ll sleep there before ‘accident’ will happen”

“Why, would you sleep on my closet if you can sleep on my other rooms?”

“You have other rooms? And you kept me staying in the room where you stay and sleep?” she’s getting a bit annoyed

“Well it’s not I, who kept falling asleep on my bed, that’s why you kept sleeping here with me” the king said with a bit of smirk tone

With just a loud sigh “well, I think I’ll be going now on the other room. Can I ask where it is?”

“When you open the door, just in front of you, you can see the door to the next room”

“Okay I have to go now, before ‘accident happen’”

“Well at first I was thinking you’re raping me in my sleep”

“Never in my dream, you stupid king” she blush hot, and she was thankful that it was dark so she can hide her blush, she felt the king was staring at her smirking or even grinning, so when she was about to open the door “Kirai”

“What?”

“It means ‘I hate you’ and I think so much more” then she went to the next room ‘  phew, what on the RA’s name I was thinking to, I almost got caught raping the king where grrrr…wait I hope he can’t hear my thoughts’ she thought as she open the next door, she was amaze, the room was as big as the room she was in before, lots of nice decorative and even toys like a glass sennet and a wooden swords, “hmmm, nice room ”

She went roaming and she saw a painting of a beautiful young woman hang on the wall “Wow, maybe it’s the king’s lover, she’s so beautiful” she climbed on the bed and tried to sleep even more, but there’s a feeling bothering her that keeps her thinking about the picture, as if she was sad or something until she went asleep

Meanwhile on the other room where alim thought’s were still wandering

“Did she just kiss me and touch me? No-no-no, she said” at first he said it with hopefully thoughts but after he thinks about the last words Ai-ka said to him he felt so downfall about his feelings,

“well, I’m trying to learn her language and the first one I should really remember, ‘kirai’ and I hate that word” he felt so depress “she hates me, and she called me stupid king, argh alim, just sleep, you still have morning ritual to do, you have to get up early so just sleep think about it later” he told it to himself as he lay down, he was already missing the warm of the girl as he stare the blank part of his bed “I hope she’ll be okay on my old room, and also maybe she will meet my mom, mom… please watch over her, and calm her if she has a nightmare” he said smiling as he went asleep

Morning comes and king was getting ready for his morning ritual, Ai-ka woke so early and went to Alim’s room to ask what will her work on that day, as she was thinking as a slave she should have some work not just lying around and wait for the king to come back, she knocks and open by Hepa, which was helping the king getting ready for the day

“Ohayoo, Hepa…”

“What?” confused

“It means good morning” she said with a smile

“well, good morning” they walk inside and saw the king just came out from the bathing area, dripping wet bare chest and only a piece of cloth cover the sacred part of a man,‘oh, RA’ she thought as she kept thinking about what had just happen in the middle of the night,… gulped as many saliva as she thought she was drooling, ‘oh my BASTET, take this away from me’ she thinks ‘if you won’t oh goddess of pleasure this country well had their king drown by the drooling SEX slave, oh my RA’ and the king again try to read Ai-ka’s thoughts as he felt the gaze that was cause by the woman and smirk as he did,

“Ai-ka? Who’s drooling?” he tease the girl

“No one my king” she said firm as she hid her blush with her hair

“Ok, what brings you here, so early, did you sleep well in my old room”

“I am here to ask what work I will attend today, as a slave I need to do some work, rather than waiting for you my king, and yes I sleep well” she said it with complete manner on bowing and correct tone

“It’s so formal, just call me alim, and just don’t bow to me”

“Oh, I don't think I could. That would be disrespectful Pharaoh” she said

“But earlier you had no thought about being disrespectful when you were yelling at me for no apparent reason and you even—“he said but cut off he doesn’t want to open the topic

“I had a reason you kept upsetting me and you tried to—“ she was cut off too and also doesn’t want the topic, “I know I have no rights, I am sorry”

“Anyway, back to what I was saying earlier, if I give someone permission to address me by my birth name without any mention of a title then it is not considered disrespectful”

 Trying to get away from the topic, but still silent was there and awkward staring was almost visible to the third person listening and seeing both of them,

When the king almost done wearing all his garments, ‘well come to think of it she almost do things to me in my sleep, wait it is what she was doing’

“Ai-ka, hmmm”

“Yes, my king?”

“Alim... Call me alim, but could I ask you some questions”

“Ok… Alim” she blush

“Did you just try to ki—“he was cut off by Ai-ka

“NO… NO… not you stupid, idiot king, I won’t even think even if I die, as what I said I-HATE YOU, and I mean what I said!!”  she said almost shouting but again she immediately cover her mouth as she saw the servant open her mouth in shock as how she talk to the king

“I am indeed, sorry my king” she immediately bow,

“well, your job was pleasuring me, but as you don’t want it, just try to clean my old room, as from now on it will be yours and I have to go I need to attend my morning rituals” he said it with a visible sadness as he was so hurt about thinking the girl he like on his life hated him so much,

The king left, and Hepa and Ai-ka was there alone, staring at each before Hepa ask

“Did something happen between you two?”

“NO—NO, Hepa, nothing…” she blush so red that it is almost red as tomato

“It’s not what I mean lady Ai-ka” she smiled “I mean, I could feel awkwardness between you two, did you get into fight with him?”

“Well—short off”

“Hmm… what kind?”

 “well, I know you saw us yesterday, and you saw him mad when he left, and then you told me about him, it’s when I was about to do my job, he came back still mad at me, and” she explained

“What, my dear lady, what happened”

“He told me, that I am a lowly slave, that I am his toy” she was about to cry when Hepa comforted her

“well, my lady, he was just mad, he meant nothing he said, but if you know the true nature of him, you will know what I been talking now, just give him a chance to show how kind and caring he was, don’t close your mind on just a rumors, cause sometimes what you couldn’t see in your eyes can be seen in your heart”

“I’ll try, but still I am his slave, and I have no right to do something like that, I know it’s still my fault”

“You maybe think you’re his slave but did you ever think what he thinks about you?”

It was when, a knock was heard and the king came in holding some sweet treats,

“Blessed birthday Hepa, I made this treat” he said putting the treats on the table (Anne: this treats some like ancient cake) 

“Oh, my king, thank you, I am not worthy for your labor my king as I am just your servant” she said with bows and about to slice the treat into pieces to serve,

“NO, Hepa it’s your day and I’ll be the one serving it, and for me you are no servant, but as my family, you’re a mother to me Hepa”

“Thank you my lord, I am honored that you highly think of me” she smile as almost crying as the king bring the treat to her and hug her calming her,

Ai-ka watching the king, as she feel the kindness the king gives to her servant, as the servant cried for joy, she almost also cry in tears

‘well, he was kind to Hepa, maybe he was truly kind and why did the rumors spread he was a heartless when he was too kind for that rumors, well he’s handsome when he smile like that, wait did I just no-no’

“Well here, a treat for two of my important person,” he said as he kindly distribute the treat one by one but, blush a he came to Ai-ka place and their hands meet, as he said the last of the sentence

“Well thank you” Ai-ka said as she was blushing too

“Well sorry, this kind of, small celebration, you know people, There are always people who would attempt to take advantage no matter what I do, and if I do big celebration and they will think that you are just a servant Hepa, I am sure a lot of foolish gossip will be scattered”

“This… more enough my king, and I am so honored with this, you’ve always done this to me, every year”

“It’s what I want Hepa, oh here I have something for you it was a gift given to me from the king of Nubia, a simple bracelet” he said as he pull out some golden bracelet with red crystals on it, and it was clearly too expensive

“ no, my king you already given me enough, the last few year, my closet almost to explode from the gifts you have given me, and the other servant was jealous about it, I don’t want to give more other impression my king”

“no, last year or the other year was different, as I said you’re a mother to me, you’ve raised me like I was your own, you were there always to me when my mother died, I am who I am now because of you, and this gifts is not enough payment for the love and care you given me when I was still a child”

“I only do, my job my king, but yes… I have loved you as my child even it was foolish of me to think you as that”

“It’s not foolish Hepa, and I am grateful with that”

Ai-ka was smiling all the time of conversation as if she happy to know how the king’s true heart, 

“Well please excuse me my king but I have to do my other work” she was about to leave when she was shock that the pharaoh also leave the room and walked beside her, and the look on the face was clearly he had a problem

“Some problem, my king? You know you can always talk to me”

“Yes, I know but it’s your day you have to enjoy it”

“My king, my day or any day, I am here to listen, and if you need some advice even I am not your advisor I can give you some” she said as she shrug and pouts a little

“I know this is crazy, but I’ll ask you, did you ever fall in love Hepa, I mean argh….”

“know, my king, yes I been in love before, with my husband and we got married and have a child but unfortunate came he died along with my child on the battle, but he was romantic kind of person”

“Romantic? I mean do I have to do some—crazy thing just to, earned woman’s heart?”

The servant just chuckle a bit, and answer him “ well, my king romantic things is not doing some crazy thing as you said, but if you ever truly loved the woman, even it was indeed crazy, you can’t never think that it was crazy” she look on the king seriously “ if you want her , gain her trust, by doing things she never think that you could do, and you will know if it’s working when you can see her smile” she said point her lips that curved into a smile as she leave and disappear

“Do things that she never knew that I could do? What is it?”

##################### A WEEK LATER ###############################

It was a week later after the king hear the advice of his servant and still he haven’t think anything to do, and yet still the days become more awkward to each other,

As Ai-ka tried herself to do something he began cleaning her room and even the king’s room until she finds the king’s small garden, she like to stay more often there and spend her time taking care of the flower and sometimes making some weaved clothes and listening the sound of bird,

As Ata was worried about his cousin as he felt indeed his cousin has some worries and ‘girl problems’ as he always tease the king, he felt he must do something to help his cousin but he need to know what kind of person is this girl as the last time he saw the girl was the day alim brought the girl on the palace, so he decide to visit the girl when Alim was too busy doing his politics,

 When he went to the room and finds no one he decide to look on the other rooms, but the last place he finds the girl was in the garden sitting near the swam doing something like weave and so he went near the girl and

“Hey, hello…” but the girl seemed startled it seemed the man she saw was new to her

“Don’t be afraid, I am Ata, Alim’s cousin” he introduced himself

“The crown prince?” she immediately bow as she recognized the person as he wore a small circlet too on his forehead

“Yes, if you call me like that but please don’t bow to me, I came here not as a prince but as a friend and Alim’s cousin”

“Ok, sire”

“Please drop that thing, just call me Ata”

“Yes, Ata… well what brings you here, did the king told you to come?”

“No, the king know nothing indeed, I came here as a friend, no one had command nor order me to come, I just want to know you better, as you can see I haven’t meet you” he look on the sky “ well its getting dark  and cold in here we could get inside and talk there”

“Yes, it’s a good Idea”

They went inside the room and they seat on the bed, Ai-ka pull the sheet to cover her thighs and they begun to talk

“Well what is it Ata?”

“Ahm… u know… well my cousin, I felt he had a problem and I think he was worried because you hated him, well that’s as far I know, but may I ask why?”

“well, he’s too selfish and proud, he seem to look so high, I mean yes, he was truly high person, but even I think he don’t have the rights to think that we slave are ‘lowly person’ as he said”

“hmmmm… so you really don’t knew him well, you want some” he take a pouch of some ‘semeet’(some kind of food for the poor, I think)

“You eat something like this? But you’re the crown prince” she said as she took some, she was amaze how simple was the man, even the way he seated, the way he walk and talk, he can see that the person was indeed simple man even he was the prince ‘he’s too simple, not like his cousin, too arrogant, but this prince, is.. I think I like him, kind, simple, not to say handsome, but not just as handsome as his cousin, wait… no ,no, Ata is way better than Alim, I hate him’ she thought to herself

“Well, I am used to eat food like this before”

“What? How come I mean…you’re the prince now, even if before you’re not I think royal families doesn’t eat things like this”

“This, I tell you some secret, this is about me and Alim kindness”

“Ok, if you say so”

“Well…My mother was a sex slave too; one of the reasons, Alim doesn’t want the harem because of me”

“What? How come? I mean your mother was a sex slave? I don’t believe you”

“Well as I said, my mother was a sex slave, member of the king’s harem

She’s indeed pretty but as the same as alim, his father our great pharaoh Tutankhamen does want to use the harem as he doesn’t want to use some woman if it wasn’t about love, that time my father and his royal wife had a conflict, my father tried to do something to get the problem of on his mind, he went to the harem’s wing and choose a woman, he had chosen my mother and as my mother’s job was to pleasure any royal men or guessed of the king, she does everything she need to do, my father like’s the treatment that my mother give to him ,that makes him to promise to my mother, ‘a good wealth’, but his promise vanish as his wife born his son, that time my mother was deeply in love to my father, she beg for a relationship to my father, as my father felt proud to himself he mistreated and do sarcastic ways to my mother, until one time his wife visits her old town with their son, they were ambushed and killed, and found  nothing about of his child, the child was one summer old and it happens the same day I was born” he said sadly that Ai-ka heartfelt pity   

“What happen next?”

“the rumors spread that I was a cursed child of sinful act of my father that the gods took his wife and his child, and because of that my father mistreated more my mother until she dies, when I was young, people around the palace treated me like if they touch me, they will be curse or something so I was always alone”

‘He was like me, we have a same experience’ she said as she blush at the thought but she force herself to listen more

“but one day, when I was in the garden the place you were just a minute ago, the prince, Alim when he was just a little boy, came to me and I bow to him as the servants always do but he said this lines to me ‘cousin, why would you bow like a servant, when you are not a servant but a royal blood, stand up and take my hand” 

*flashback*

“Get up my cousin, come on”

“But my prince, we are not related; I am just a son of a servant, a sex slave to be exact so I am no royal but a servant”

“Oh, come on, your father was my uncle, so his blood was your blood too, and you’re still my cousin”

“Why sire, why would you think highly of me when people around call me a cursed man, aren’t you afraid of me?”

“mortals doesn’t have the right to judge other mortals, even my father, the king need to know first the person or need to learn the truth before he had to judge someone, only the gods have that rights, and for me your always be my cousin, when I grew up and become a king. I’ll crown you as the prince and my next heir if I don’t have a child of course, but  if I do have I’ll have you as my advisor instead so people well respect you,”

“But”

“No more buts Ata”

“Yes, and I vow to you forever will be, my loyalties will in you prince, king or not,”

“Well I bid, that I’ll have a child, I don’t want to use women without love, so I doubt”

“hehehe, I bid 10 copper coins for that”

“Make it 15 “

“Deal”

*end of flashback*

“Since then, I was always with him until now, he was the kindness person I ever know, he never disrespect women as a symbol of his respect towards me, even do I always tease him”

“Well, I think I really misunderstood him but—“

“But what? Well I need to tell you this, sometimes Alim acts like a woman, when he said something. sometimes it is opposite of what he really thinks or feel, if he said he hates you so that means he said he loves you” he smile “ you can’t see in his action but you can feel his care,”

When ai-ka heard the words she remember Hepa words about the things that can’t be seen by just an eye and then “wait Ata, said when he said he hates me that means he loves me, but he actually said he doesn’t like or love so does mean he likes’ at this thought she blush ‘and the feeling of warm on his arm, is his care? Wait… no,no,no don’t think this way’ if she blush pinkish, this time she blushed red as red as the tomato on her thoughts as she remember the midnight when she kiss the king,

“Did I say something?”

Ai-ka doesn’t want to pick up the topic so when there was a knock she rattle herself to open the door when she stumble with the prince and now she was pinning the prince under her weight when suddenly

“Ai-ka, little—on-one, Ata?”

“My king!!” said in unison

“WHAT’S THE MEANING OF THIS, Ata is this why you said you have important things to do and you”

The both young teen stand as the king went near them, first the king face Ata but he face the girl with a hurt, angry, fuming,

“you’re a WHORE” he said as he almost hit the girl but stop himself, but even the word itself hurt her much as she haven’t given time to explain things, now the king was mad at her, and not only that she destroy the relationship between the two cousin,

The king couldn’t express his emotion, and he doesn’t want to hurt the girl so he went to leave the two,

But Ata, was following him persistent to let the king listen to him

“My king; please listen to me”

“Why? -- The person I least to think to betray me was you but how could you do this to me”

 “My king please listen to me you misunderstood this, I meant no betrayal to my king, and if you want a proof, I am willing to cut my head off as the symbol of my loyalty to you”

“I am have no, hatreds towards you, but the woman, she almost killed herself just to escape my warm, but now she’s a whore, she’s—“

He was cut off when Ata punch him on the face and pinned the king on the wall as he was furious

“my king if you truly LOVE her, you speak no ill to her,-- Is this the new Alim, because the alim I knew, was the person who doesn’t judge  anyone without knowing the truth yet, if you truly love her, don’t judge her, know the truth first” he said with a loud, angry voice

And it’s new to Alim. As this is the first time he saw his cousin to be mad at him, and it came to his sense, that his cousin was undeniably right, he was wrong. He digs in right away toward his emotion, he quarry into his jealousy and now not only that he hurt the girl he wants but also his beloved cousin

After Ata finished his lines, his sense struck him down and he immediately bow, heads on the floor as the servant always does for forgiveness

“My king, I am indeed sorry about what I did to you, if you order your men to cut my head off, I’ll accept that but please forgive me”

“Cousin, why would you bow like a servant? When you are not a servant but the crown prince, here stand and take my hands”

“But my king, I hit you”

“Well, I think I really need that snapped out, and beside you’re not the first one to hit me, maybe the law was not applicable to someone that were important to me”

“My king” he said as he took the hands of his king

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