The Demon of Egypt: Imhotep's Story by Amber Riel (reading an ebook TXT) 📕

Egypt was a peaceful place to spend life, even after life. The evening sky was beautiful with the dark blue color and the same lit stars. Of course the night was about to be lit up with blood knowing what her majesty was out doing to her new born child. Well, one of the two new bourns. The pharaoh and his wife had twins recently. A baby boy and a baby girl…. Joyful yeha whatever…. For some reason the queen wasn’t happy with her two children and believed that each of them were going to grow up to be evil. Evil, I thought as I looked out at the sky from the balcony I stood on.

Pharaoh Ramos, a good friend and my king walked out onto the balcony with anger raging on his face.

“What is it, your highness?” I asked.

“Eva…. She took Nala tonight.”

“Ah…. Young Princess Nala.”

“She did this last night with Niki…. The guards are out looking for her…. If I were a saiyan, I wouldn’t surrender to the good of mankind…. I would use the ability to teach my people a lesson that they can’t mess with me.”

I nodded at the sound of the kings words. “Yes some just don’t know what they have.... Inhuman abilities…. It’s a gift from the Gods and Goddesses and yet they want to throw it all away.”

“Nala and Niki each are saiyans.”

“How do you know that?  They’re just infants.”

“Eva told me…. Along with Maxumous…. They should know they’re both saiyans themselves….”

I nodded again as a guard ran up out onto the balcony.

“Sir, the queen…. They have her and their heading back….”

“And what of Nala?”

“She’s alive and well…. Eva had no chance…. They stopped her just in time.”

“Good….” Ramos turned his attention toward me. “Imhotep, come with me and when I give the order kill Eva…. I don’t want her to keep doing this every night…. She might wind up actually killing one of my two saiyan children…. If anything, I would want her to kill Simba instead but that doesn’t seem like a choice with her.”

I bowed my head. “Of course, your highness.”

I followed Ramos out of the palace doors and out into the open streets in midnight hour as the guard’s dragged Queen Eva over toward us. The queen’s wig had fallen off, revealing her black long wavy hair and sweat from fighting the guards. It had seemed that even for one with her inhuman ability she wasn’t all that strong. It was most likely from giving birth to the twins.

I stood behind Ramos, waiting for the right moment.

“Were you going to drown Nala like you were going to drown Niki last night, Eva?” Ramos asked in a tone which revealed anger but at the same time managed to stay calm.

“Because the both of….” Eva began to speak but Ramos cut her off.

“You didn’t try and drown Simba.”

“That’s because he’s not going to….”

“Imhotep.”

“Yes, sir,” I replied.

“I want you to put my wife to death.”

“Yes, sir.” I walked over to Eva and grabbed her arm. “You’re coming with me.”

I dragged her highness down to the mummification room where a few men were, wearing mask of Anubis. “Out,” I ordered and they nodded. I waited for the men to leave as I pushed the queen onto the mummification table pulled out a hidden knife.

“Imhotep,” she whispered as tears fell from her eyes. “Nala and Niki…. They’re going to grow up and become monsters if they’re not stopped.”

I shook my head and rolled my eyes.

“Please listen to me…. You must kill them now while you have a chance…. While their still infants or horrible things will happen….”

“Now why would I listen to you?  Is that your dying wish, Queen Eva?”

“Yes…. Look I don’t care if you kill me but you must stop them…. It’s the only way for Egypt to-”

I stuck the knife into the queen’s heart, interrupting her sentence. “What’s done is done, your highness?” I laughed as she took her last and final breath. “Have fun in the afterlife.”

Sixteen long years past and I found myself, hating the young prince and princess. Each of them were monsters but I was the one who was supposed to do the evil bidding not the two spoiled little brats the pharaoh called his son and daughter. Go get Nala…. I need to talk to her along with Niki and Simba, I thought to myself in anger as I walked down the hall and found her highness walking in the opposite direction. “Princess Nala,” I spoke, showing tolerance toward her, “your father is waiting for you in the dining hall along with your brothers.” I was ticked off with the fact that I had the pharaoh wanted me to rounded up his three children.

Princess Nala sighed. “Thank you, Imhotep.” She continued to walk toward the direction I was walking from which led toward the stupid dining hall.

“Oh and you might want to watch your behavior today, your royal highness.” I had to say something to tick the child off.  It was fun watching her stop in her tracks and clench her fist.

I knew she couldn’t resist the urge to spin around and eye me. “I don’t care who you are but  you shouldn’t disrespect me, especially in my home.”

“I wasn’t disrespecting you.” I laughed, evilly. “But come on, Nala, you have destroyed more than half this city within two full days…. What kind of princess does that?”

She continued to eye me with flaming anger growing in her eyes.

“You know they believe that you’re just a demon.”

“Oh what do you know?” she hissed the words as if they had some effect but I could care less.

I raised an eyebrow at the princess. “You’re a wolf in sheep clothing…. Or should I say girl?” An evil smile worked its way upon my face. “You know it’s true and there's nothing that you can do about it.”

“What I do to the humans who don’t obey me is up to me…. Not you.”

“Yes, threatening them is worth wild, isn’t it?”

I listened as she growled. I walked away from her because I had my fun.

I headed out into the hot sandy city and worked my way through the village to check up on the slaves. It was part of my job to make sure the guards had the slaves working and made sure they had no breaks. We couldn’t afford to let them stop in the middle of the busiest time before the rainy season. We needed to make sure we had supplies and the city walls could block the flood waters if the river over filled from rain. It wasn’t impossible and it had happened on occasion so we liked to be prepared when I ran into Maxumous and his son, Tommus.

Maxumous one of the pharaoh’s brothers and a saiyan along with his son just like Nala and Niki. His light brown dirty messy hair couldn’t seem to make up its mind.

His son on the other hand seemed to be more together as far as clean and calm went.

“Maxumous, Tommus, what pleasure brings the both of you here?” I asked.

“Nala,” Maxumous replied with a sadden tone. “We heard about the fire from the other side of the village and figured it was her.”

I sighed and nodded. “She is in trouble for that,” I spoke my words carelessly, knowing that the pharaoh would let her off without a fair warning.

“Imhotep,” Maxumous spoke with more sadness along with worry, “she must be destroyed…. I hate saying that and especially because of the fact that she is family but she’s dangerous and needs to be stopped before she only gets worse.”

“Sounds like you have to talk to your brother about this matter…. Seeing that Nala is his only daughter and knowing how much he loves his three children…. I don’t think it would be that easy.”

Maxumous took a deep breath.

“There’s nothing we could do, father,” Tommus spoke, softly. “At least not right now. We should head back home.”

“Don’t give up a fight that easily, Tommus,” I spoke with a small but sad smile even though my thoughts were to kill the princess myself. “She’s only doing what she knows she can get away with.”

“That’s the problem,” Tommus answered. “She gets away with everything…. Even murder.” His words were filled with sadness like his father’s words were. They were the ones who tried to do right instead of what we did in the palace.

“Don’t worry about Nala…. She’s-”

“Inhuman,” Maxumous finished. “I don’t blame Eva for trying to kill Nala and Niki as infants…. Egypt would be better off if she had…. Sometimes it’s the wrong things that can save the humans from this kind of danger.”

I stood as I watched Maxumous cross his arms and look up at the golden palace.

“This is dangerous,” he spoke in a soft voice. “Her and Niki both…. Niki is the lesser of the two evils.”

          I worked my way worked my way through the streets as I passed by working slaves.  Good, good, I thought as I nodded toward a few guards who were keeping the Hebrews under control.  I noticed a man in a dark cloak which hid his face and oddly enough the sleeves went beyond his hands.  He held onto a sithe as he kept his head down.  “Isn’t it a little too hot out here to be wearing that?” I asked as I walked over toward the mysterious stranger.

          “I’m always cool,” the man’s odd accent replied but he kept his head hidden from my sight.

          Odd, I thought as I examined the man trying to figure out what he was even doing around Egypt.

          “Someone’s about to die,” his words were eerie but deep and calm with a hint of sadness in his tone.

          “I don’t know what that---”

          The man vanished before my eyes and I jerked my head around, trying to figure out how he had done such a thing.  Was he a God? I thought as I turned around.  I backed away slowly feeling out of place.  Strange, I thought as I shook my head.  I walked around until I arrived at an opening and stood on a hill which let me view the city as I watched the guard work the slaves to death.  I listened as other Egyptians stood around watching and mocking the princess.  I smiled to myself, enjoying the moment of not having to hear her boss me around like the spoiled little brat she was.  That was when I watched as a girl appeared in the middle of the desert holding a servant in her right hand, keeping her nails in into the other girl’s skin.

          I eyed the princess; it was only a matter of time before she heard what the other humans thought.

          The princess not being fully human had the hearing of a mutt and was what most called her a wolf saiyan.  “So you think I’m a demon?” she asked someone in the crowd.  “And you two think that I’m going to destroy us all?” she asked