Tittle: Phoenix's soul Volume 1: Pharaoh's heart Chapter 4 (1/3)

 

 

Anne: Hi guys!!... I hope you like the 3^rd chapter; I need to end the first volume of this to start new volume, enemy, love triangle, betrayal, power, and politics

 

NEXT VOLUME, THE LOVE TRAINGLE, THE ENEMY CALLED BABY BROKERS, BETRAYAL AND MORE .. HOPE YOU WOULD STAY READING

 

Ai-ka: I HOPE TOO…  

Anne: WELL, WE NEED TO MAKE YOUR LOVE STORY SWEETER AND BITTER… (Instead of better)

Ai-ka: OK, BUT IF YOU WANT TO WRITE QUICKLY YOU HAVE TO STOP READING YU-GI-OH MANGA’S OR WATCHING DUEL MONSTER

Anne: IT’S NOT JUST THAT I’VE BEEN DOING, I’M WORKING… YOU KNOW THAT, AND YOU KNOW HOW I LOVE YAMI!! SO I CAN’T PROMISE    

Ata: OH…OK<, 

Anne: THE FIRST VOLUME IS ALMOST DONE

ATA: SO… DO IT… (READ 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: THIS CHAPTER MIGHT CONTAIN BORING PART AND MORE EXPLANATION SO I CAN GO ON. FOR VOLUME 2

 

‘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 

 

Previously on the last chapter:  Heated kiss

 

“The king”

 

“What about my cousin Ania!”

 

“If we don’t hurry the king will die” she said looking on how the birthmark of girl glowed and how the girl seemed visible to suffer on pain even she was fainted

 

“No my cousin will live, he won’t die!!!”

“NO!!!!!!!!!”

 

“No, Ania, I know my cousin will live”

“I’ll do the best that I can, but I hope the girl would stay firm” she looks onto the girl again

 

“Please do everything you can, I have to leave to command all people to search the palace for the king’s assassin”

 

“Yes, my prince, I will”

 

The healer let the king lay on his bed while the girl laid on her room, Ata commanded some soldiers to watch the girl while the healer and her son prepared the things they needed to the remedial, while the king was unconscious, they can sense that the king was suffering on the pain as he twists and squirms his body and frowning as sweat covers all around his body…

 

Alim was suffering too much pain as it caused him to wander into his memories of past

 

*memories*

 

“Gone? What do you mean about she’s  gone”

 

“My king, someone took her away from us, they looked like your soldiers” the woman said

 

“What? My soldiers? But I haven’t commanded any of my soldiers to take the girl”

 

“Sakura!” the old woman beside her cries“ if he wasn’t the one who ordered then, who?”

 

“I am right mother, what she’s talking about that the pharaoh looking for her was wrong” the woman too, cried much more than the old woman…

 

“What? I was looking? Why would I look for someone I knew where there place was” the king was confused and almost on his edge…

“Yes sire, the town gossip was spread fast that you were looking for the person with a birthmark and you will kill it,”

 

“Kill? Why would I do that?”

 

“yes, she was so scared about this rumors and she ran away and then just about  an hour ago before you came here sire, they were three men who wore exactly the same as your warriors and  they took my child away, saying they have  orders” the woman explained as she cries…

 

“Soldiers took her away? Ata what’s the meaning of this“the king was furious about the news

 

“My king” Ata went near him…

 

“What is this all about? Who were those men who disguised themselves as my soldiers do you know anything about this?”

 

“I think sire, they were the bandits called ‘Kemosiri’ this group was known by disguising themselves as your soldiers”

 

“Kemosiri? Why would they take a woman? I mean why would they do that if they won’t have a fortune with that, surely they can steal or rob goods, food or jewelries why would they do that? And how they manage to look like our soldier”

 

“My king, I am not aware of their reason about taking neither your light nor how they manage to look like your soldiers, but this group was known to steal not goods, food nor jewelries”

 

“They won’t? But what would they steal?”

 

“Yes, my king, they are the people who go around taking children, from new-born up to 8years of age from the peasants and hand them over to wealthy classes for a high price. And the unsold child, they will brought to the slave market and there they will sold it in low price”

 

"WHAT!" the pharaoh roared" Why was this not brought to my attention?"

 

“MY--my, king you were in poor health and we still got nothing to prove or any information about this so called group” the prince defends himself

 

“Will my daughter  be  okay?, are these bandits what you said won’t be that heartless as it is said, right?” the woman interrupts the conversation, hopingly crying that her daughter will be alright but the king was too furious that he held the woman on her tunic and said

 

“YOU!!! Why would you do that, you’re her mother why would you let them take away your child, YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THAT GIRL TO ME” he shouted

 

“I tried to stop them sire, we know she’s important to you, but even if  she’s not still I will risk my life to stop them because she’s my daughter but the villagers stopped me’

 

“The villagers? Why would they do that, why would they let their neighbors child be taken?

 

“Because sire they’re crazy, they thought that she was a witch, they wanted to kill her”

 

“what?, this village is full of crazy people” he put the woman down and said “ if the time comes and still I haven’t  found the girl, I vow to myself, I’ll burn this village and you! YOU WILL BE PUNISHED LIKE YOU’RE A CRIMINAL WHO DID THE OFFENSE OF HIGH LAWS, I shall cut your head off and tear you into pieces honorably by my own hands”

 

*end of flashback*

 

“More water, Aneb”

 

The healer said as she started healing the king’s injury, her sweat was almost falling as she felt it hard to do so, the water followed her glowing hands as she closed her eyes to gain focus, the water attached to the part where the king was hit and there it glowed,

 

“Make it warm, Thoth”

 

“Yes” the magician closed his eyes and the water that was attached became warm and slowly the healer let the water pass through the wound slowly until it was totally inside the body,

 

“Well, what is it?” the magician asks

“This is just not any ordinary poison, this is a magical substance, a witchcraft art poison and this substance can slowly suck the KA of the body until it dies” she explains 

 

“But this kind of witchcraft needs strong magic, as I know only people on the council has this kind of strong power, which just because of the items the gods and goddess gave onto us”

 

“yes, I know, but there are people born with strong power without an item, this people, were fateh and ghameq’ or born magician, or even—“she was cut off

 

“The sorcerers, the demons… so they finally made their move” her husband supplied with furious mode 

 

“Mother? If it sucks the KA of the body the king will die”

 

“yes, normally, for a normal person, when the ‘KA’ or the vital essence of a person is gone, he will surely die, but our king has a unique soul, his KA wasn’t on his body but still this will affect him and if we won’t succeed on healing him, two persons will surely die” she said It softly 

 

“Yes, I know mother and we should, for our kingdom and for our friends, him and her” her son was too eager to do their best

 

The three just nods to each other and continued on healing the king, as the healer again took out the water slowly out of the body and placed on the basin as the other basin was again filled with water as her son enchants it with magic and again doing it repeatedly she slowly let the water in and when it’s done she takes it out and replaces with new one’s repeatedly.

 

While the healer and his magician family was busy healing the king the prince led the palace guards and soldiers to look for the suspect, for he was sure that the person who did it was surely still on the palace

 

“My command shall be that we should split ourselves; other troops go on to the east wing, others on to the north and south as we the council we go on to the west wing as the king chamber was located on there”

 

“Sire, what will we do if we find the suspect, should we kill him or bring him to you” all the men asked

 

“bring him to me, for I shall be the one who shall kill him for what he has done to my cousin but if he shows retaliation or hit any of you, you are allowed to hit him, but don’t kill him yet”  the prince spoke venomously and furiously 

 

The whole palace was too intense of what happened; all soldiers patrolled each wing and tried to find the person, who did this to their king,

But as the commotion happens the king was still emerged with his dreams

 

*flashback/memories*

 

“Hello your shortness” a very scary man, wearing red robe but still you can see his bare chest appear in front of the king

 

“Who are you? How come you managed yourself in, when we have lots of guards guarding” the king asked the stranger who was sitting on his window

 

“Well. I guess your guards weren’t that great, I am Sutekhi, I am a magical thief, the king of thieves if you want to know” the stranger introduced himself

 

“well, Sutekhi you have strong guts to show yourself in front of me, as you said you’re a thief, what business brings you here, I mean you wouldn't let yourself in for trouble just to come and say hello to me, right?” the king said it with amused tone

 

“I like you, your wise and straight to the point, so I won’t let the topic go around, I am here to propose a deal,” the thief also said it on amused tone

 

“What kind of deal? Thief” the king asked as he crossed his arms

 

“Well, I know you’re looking for the bandits, ‘the kemosiri’ as they were so called, and As I the king thieves as I said can help you locate them all”

 

“Hmmm… why would you think I would believe you, if you are a thief, then how can I trust you?” he said as he poured two glass of wine

 

“Well, I think you’re not interested, so I leave you in your impossible search” he said as he was about to leave but the king stopped him

 

“Wait, ok…hmmm… let’s say, that I am interested, how much do you want for this information, I know you want a high price for it” he said as he stared the man

 

“Ok, now you’re talking like my language, 100 gold coins for each information” he opened his palm and a scroll appears “this is a map you can locate them here”

 

“Huh! You can use magic” the king was shocked that the man can use magic

 

 Well, if you can understand what I said when I introduced myself, I said I-am-a magical-thief” the thief said with ‘what a dumb’ tone

 

“I am sorry, I thought you were just joking about it; well let me first see the map, before I hand to you the money”   

 

“hmmmm… nice attitude you have” he said as he throws the map to the king and the king catches the map, when he got hold of the map, he gave the other glass to the man and the man accepted it and the king looked into the map, but gasped as he opens the map a light glowing, something floating on the said part of the map

 

“The glow represents the bandit  and were it glows means the location of the bandits, you can also trace them every time they can escape” the man said but as the king rose his head towards where the thief was, he wasn’t there anymore, but the king can still hear the voice as it said “ there are many locations but if you choose the village of ‘el Khulna’ you can find what you are looking for”

 

“What a strange person” the king said as he took the glass from the window “sutekhi? Hmmm, wait—ah ,yes… that’s it, well I guess you can’t really fool me, but thank you, for your help” he said it with eyes widened as he immediately recognize the true identity of the man

 

“El Khulna, I can find her there?”

 

*end of flashback*

 

 

“El Khulna, I can find her there?”

 

The king whispers in his state as he was still unconscious, he was taunted by his memories as the poison slowly weakens him, while the healer still doing her best to take the poison out of his body and the others were busy roaming to find the person that did it to him

 

“Goddess Isis!! Let us borrow your strength, so I shall heal our king, please oh goddess of healing, I shall tap into your powers by using this item you have given to me” the healer shouted as the choker that she was wearing glows and the body that was under her palms glowed,

 

“The poison was spreading faster as I thought, even I used my goddess item still the king’s physical condition can’t be told” the healer said as she gave all her best to heal the king

 

“ I’ll do everything to support your power but keep healing him” the magician said as he transfers some of his magic to his wife to cure the king as their son also used his low healing skill to help her mother, But the king’s condition still worsened and still he was lost on his memories

 

*flashback*

“Alim? I’ve heard you got into a fight with the noble’s child, is that true? ” a sickly queen asks her son, as her son sits on the bed were she was resting

 

“Yes, mother its true” he said it firmly as if no regrets

 

“Hmmm… ok, why?”

 

“I’ve heard them talk ill towards Ata, my cousin and they told me that you were cheating on father, is that true mother?”

 

“sometimes, people judge on what they just see, or hear, but it never meant they have to be true, the gods gave us all our senses to know what’s truly going on, but it seems the people forgot how to use it well, sometimes what we see or hear is different  and we can see or hear more with our feelings  and that senses people have forgotten, as I always said to you, mortals can’t judge  other mortals only the gods and goddess have that rights”

 

“Yes, mother I will always remember that”

 

“Always---“she was cut off suddenly as she closed her eyes and death came to her

 

“Mother? Are you alright? Mother? Mother!!! Ania, Ania!!” he cried so much as the so called healer came and later on announced the death of the great queen,

 

When his mother died it hit him pretty hard and he closed himself, people around him tried everything they could think of to snap him out of it. But no one understood him except his personal servant as he felt the love and care as his mother used to give onto him,

 

“My prince, are you crying?” his servant asks

 

“No, Hepa, A prince never cries”

“But a child, who lost his mother can cry, right” she said as she hugs the prince as the prince hugs  her back as he cries on the servants shoulders

 

“B—but… Hepa, I should be strong, for I will become king, if they sense that I am weak, they’ll just step on me” he said it sobbingly

 

“Crying, doesn’t mean you’re weak, sometimes crying means you’re strong because you can express what you truly feel”

 

“Hepa, you will stay forever with me right, your loyalty will be with me right, you’ll be my mother from now on and you will accept that right, Hepa, Hepa please tell me, you’re not the same as my mother, please tell me you won’t go away like she did, please Hepa”

 

“My prince, I will be forever loyal to you and I will love and care for you as your mother did to you and I’ll be on your side always if you needed” 

 

*End flashback*

 

“Thanks hepa” the king whimpered as softly as he squirms again in pain as the healer tries to increase her power to make the poison out of his body

But meanwhile Ata and the rest of the council roamed around the west wing to find the man responsible, he commanded the rest of the council  to use the power of the item that were given by the gods and goddesses

 

“Find him, even if you should use your item to trace this murderous man,”

 

“I think I can locate that man with the ‘necklace of seth’ power” the low rank council speaks

 

“Ok, Apep, use your item and you priest Ameri, go with Apep in the upper level of this wing, while you high priest Kamewati go with priestess Aria to the upper level and I will look on the middle level” he commanded It with a firm final tone

 

Then the so called councils went to the respected area as commanded, while Ata was left alone, as he sustained his roving

 

But back to the chamber, loud screaming can be heard as slowly the poison was out of the king’s body, struggling and rolling as the pain increases but his mind still wanders on his memories

 

*flashback*

 

“Hey stop it” the prince shouted on one pregnant woman, who continuously beats a boy because he stole a fruit from her stall

 

“Who are you to dare, boy? He stole my fruit, he should be punished” the woman answered disreputably as she didn’t recognize the prince yet,

 

“Yes, I saw what you meant, but I followed him and found out he gave the fruit he stole to his family, there were 18 children, his mother was sick and he doesn’t have a father anymore”

 

“Still it doesn’t clear him that he stole something from me and he needs to be punished” the woman continued to beat the boy but her arms were caught by the prince

 

“what the uh…pri—prince?” the woman said as she was now fully aware that the boy who stopped her was the prince but it’s too late for her, as the prince said “mortals can’t judge any other mortals, you don’t have the rights to hurt him” a shadow was creeping towards her and ripped her into a pieces just in time to let the people and his father see what happened

 

“My prince, what did you do,… my wife… you’re a monster!!, a heartless monster” the husband of the woman shouted shocked as everyone gasped and  shouted

 

“The prince is a heartless monster!! What will happen to our beloved kemet if the next heir is a monster like him?”  He can hear people whispering to each other, people begun to fear him as everyone started to shout “heartless monster!!” “monster” MONSTER”  but the young child doesn’t seemed to care what the people said as he tried to ask the boy “are you okay?” but the boy was scared of him too, he shouted “ monster” as he scrams away

 

“Monster!”

 

*end of flashback*

(Continued on part 2 of this chapter) (Chapter 4: intertwined fates 2/3)