The Demon of Egypt: Nala's Side by Amber Riel (good beach reads .txt) 📕

          “Thank you.  And you’re an evil man.”

          “I can’t believe this.”

          “Now, you know how my father must feel.”

          “I will come back and kill you.”

          “I know…. You already told me.”

          “I mean it.”

          As we turned our attention back toward the guards Antinique was dead and had already been mummified.

          “It’s your turn, Imhotep,” I told the man.  I laughed as the guards pulled Imhotep to his knees and one take the ax and fling it into Imhotep’s human skin.  The smell of his human blood hit my nose and as a wolf I wanted a taste but decided against because I wanted the chance to fight him again when he came back for revenge so he had told me a couple of times.

          I worked my way into my room and out to my balcony with an evil smile on my face as I looked around.  Two down, I thought to myself.  Now I can go after my family whose all planning to kill me as well.  Can’t wait for that war.

          “That was easy,” Grim’s voice spoke from behind me.  His tone told me that he was kind of angry.

          I turned to face him.  “How do you not enjoy this?  It’s so fun watching as others preferably humans die in such a cold hearted way.”

          “Death isn’t fun…. I hate having this as my job.  Imhotep and Antinique are suffering for their sins but soon you will join them.”

          I kind of laughed and shook my head.  “You don’t get it…. To the humans I am almost immortal…. Death means nothing to me….”

          “You are not immortal,” Grim replied kind of rudely I might add.  “You could drop dead right here and now…. I could do that to you right now if I chose to.”

          I raised an eyebrow at the skeleton.  He wasn’t scaring me with his threat.  I knew he wouldn’t have done anything to me.

          “You take your life for granted…. You take your inhuman form for granted…. One day, you’ll see that you’re just as weak as the humans.”

          “Yea yea…. Whatever.”

          “One day, your highness, you will regret everything you have ever done.”  He vanished into midair.  I shook my head.

          A few days had past and I was preparing for war when I noticed that my beautiful dessert city was starting to turn into an ice town.  What’s going on down there? I thought and teleported.  I roamed the streets until I came across an ice princess who was freezing my people.  I didn’t care to as why a princess with the ability of ice was even in the dessert in the first place as I walked over to her.  I could hear her mumbling to herself.

          “Please, don’t get caught,” the other princess whispered to herself.

          “Who do you think you are?” I asked, ticked off.

          “I’m Terra, the ice princess,” the girl answered.  She looked to be about eleven or twelve with long blond curly hair and was dressed for winter.

          “What are you doing to my people, Terra?”

          “I’m protecting them from…. You.”

          “If I wanted my people protected then…. I WOULDN’T BE KILLING THEM!”

          “YOU SHOULDN’T BE KILLING THEM!”

          “OH…. SHUT UP!” I hated being told what to do, especially by someone who was younger and didn’t have much experience in life.

          “I hope that you die in that war today.”

          “Just leave.”

          “Okay…. I will.”  Terra, the young ice princess, left.  I kept an eye on her, making sure she didn’t try to go another way around my city.

          Once I knew she was gone, I began heading back toward my palace to finish preparing for battle when a dark shadow stopped me.  I looked over and noticed that Imhotep was standing in front of me.  He didn’t even have a mark where the ax had been.  He looked alive and normal.  “Come back to kill me already?” I asked.

          “No,” he replied.  He wore an evil and deadly look on his face.  “When I come back to kill you, I will be much more alive than I am now.”

          I tilted my head in confusion.  I had absolutely no idea what he had meant.

          “Fight to the finish, your highness, and when I do come back for revenge you’ll be the first one on my list.”  His eyes narrowed as he slowly turned into dust and headed toward me.  I blocked my face, crossing my arms each other to keep the dust from flying into my eyes.

          When I removed my arms, I was covered in what appeared to be sand instead of dust and I looked around I realized that Imhotep was gone.  What is this?  A damn ghost town or something? I thought.

          I walked into an old dusty part of the palace which had been falling apart when I had noticed my father standing with my uncle and Tommus.  Ally had been prepared for battle wearing armor fit for a gator in battle.  Like she had said before, she was with my uncle and my cousin in the war.  I noticed that no one else was in the room, trying to figure out why that was.

          “We fight by the humans rules,” my uncle had told me and Tommus.  “Only because my brother here is human and it is only fair.”

          “Humans rules,” I kind of laughed as I whispered to myself.  “Simple enough.”

          “We fight with human weapons…. Ally, because there are only four of us,” my uncle continued, “will you help me or Tommus if one of us needs help?”

          Ally nodded.

          Of course, they need back up, I thought as I smirked.

          My father handed me a sword with a long silver skinny blade.  The handle was pure gold and it looked amazing.

          I locked eyes with Tommus who I could tell had worry in his heart.  The four of us prepared to fight in the four player war.

          “Well…. Nala and Tommus will go against each other…. And we’ll go against each other, Ramos,” my uncle told the four of us.

          “Shut up and start fighting,” my father replied.

          My uncle and father started sword fight.

I had already begun flinging shots at Tommus.

Tommus kept blocking all of my hits.  I figured that he was afraid because he wasn’t really fighting.  We both knew that I would be the one to survive that battle and when we were done I’d be the one with the victory.  “GIVE UP!” I shouted as I flung my blade at his stomach but he blocked the move.

“No,” he replied almost breathlessly.  “You might be a girl and my cousin, but I am not going to give up.

I kept flinging hits but he kept blocking and as it was he wouldn’t bother to throw a single blow at me.  I figured that it wouldn’t have been long when he fell and I was the victor.  At some point in the middle of our battle, I knocked Tommus’s sword onto the ground.  That was it.  That was the moment when I would finally kill him.  I prepared my sword to steak him in the heart when I felt a sharp pain my stomach.  My mouth felt open and blood came gushing out.  He moved out of the way as I pulled his sword out of my stomach.  “I’m going to…. Kill you for…. This.”  Everything went black.

          I stood in darkness and all alone.  Something was wrong, but I didn’t know what.  I couldn’t be dead because I was standing when Grim appeared surrounded by a dim light.  “Where am I?” I demanded.

          I watched as he took his left arm and pointed into the darkness.  He hadn’t spoken a word but I knew that whatever was going on he knew and he was a part of it somehow.  I looked toward the dark direction the skeleton pointed toward and saw a lifeless body lying on the ground in the room I was just in but darkness had surrounded the rest of the place.  I noticed that Tommus was standing in front of the girl with sadness in his eyes as he looked down at her.

          “That doesn’t answer my question.”  I was kind of ticked off.

          “That’s you, your highness,” Grim spoke in a soft but that didn’t stop an echo from repeating his words.

          I shook my head.  “That can’t be me.  She’s dead.  I’m not dead.”

          Grim sighed.  “Look closely, your highness.”

          “No…. Because that is not me,” I replied, angrily.

          Grim slid over to me, grabbing my arm with his right ice cold skeleton hand and dragged me over to the body as Tommus was picking up the body.  “Look at the body, your highness.”

          I looked and starred at my mirror reflection, hoping that it was all a nightmare.  I shook my head.  I didn’t want to believe it.  “That’s one of the servants disguised as me so just in---”

          “That’s you…. That’s your corpse…. You’re an idiot to believe any different…. This is God’s way of showing you that you can die and guess what you were murdered by a human’s creation…. A human weapon.”  Grim sounded angry.  He was more ticked off than I was.  “I tried to warn you…. I knew this would happen…. I tried to warn you not to fight because I knew that would be your end but you ignored me.  Child, you are nothing more than a dead princess…. Your rain on earth is done and over with…. At least it was for the best…. Now the humans can live happy good lives without you…. You’re suffering is only going to get worse.  This is your fault.”

          “I’m going to kill Tommus for this….”

          “Your cousin feels guilty already.  Unlike you, he doesn’t agree with murder and believe me he would rather have been the one to die.  But you had to underestimate him…. You did this to yourself.  It’s not his fault.  It’s yours.  I don’t feel bad for you because you did this to yourself, your highness…. I do feel bad for Vanessa though, knowing that she was stuck in the same body as you were…. She should have been the one to roam around freely in what used to be your living body but you kept her hidden because you didn’t want anyone to know she existed…. She was your conscience and you ignored her…. This is what became of your foolishness, your highness…. Your death.”

          I sat in silence as I watched Grim.  I hated him with a burning passion especially for letting me suffer.  He took my life away along with my cousin who was alive and well.  I plotted on what I would do for revenge toward Tommus.  I knew that I couldn’t do anything to Grim so I left him alone.  “Anyway out of this damn---”

          “Language please, your highness,” Grim hissed with a tone that told me to shut up.  “And no…. I will not let you leave knowing that you’re only going to cause havoc on the living.”

          “My cousin killed me.”