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

creature.  The creature was monstrous.  It had two giant curved horns on top of its head and a smaller horn on its nose.  There was some kind of round protective plate on its head.  I was tiny compared to the creature.  It stood on all fours and its feet didn’t look like hoofs or claws or even paws.  It was round and fat with a long tail that could do some damage to a town.  What is that thing? I thought to myself.  It was something that I wasn’t used to seeing or even heard about.  It was something that might have been around long before I was born and died before anyone had the chance to figure out what it could have been.  I kind of smiled at the sight of the monster.  I’m supposed to fight this thing?  Hahaha…. I’m not afraid, I thought as I looked the creature up and down.

          I watched as the creature opened its small but large beak? And let out what sounded like a loud scream.  It wasn’t just any scream though it was the one that bothered my ears.

          I fell to the ground, blocking my human like ears while it screamed.  It was a thousand times worse than it had been when I first heard it.  I figured that was probably because the scream was coming from the creature which I hadn’t recognized and was now only a few feet away.

          I hear the Gods laughing at me as they enjoyed my pain and agony.  Once I had figured that the creature was done screaming, I removed my hands and noticed that the creature was heading straight toward me.  I teleported into the air and looked down at the creature.  I searched for a weak stop on the giant monster and had the feeling that the back was what I needed to destroy.  I flew down when one of the horns pierced my stomach.  They said that after death you don’t suffer or feel any more pain but that wasn’t true.  I felt the pain as I fought with the creature to get myself free.  “AAAAHHHHH!” I screamed in pain.

          The Gods and Goddesses kept laughing at my suffering.

          Once I was free of the creature’s horn, I threw myself against the wall and watched as the thing charged for me.  I quickly jumped into the air and kept myself from landing on one of those three sharp horns.

          The creature rammed into a wall and screamed again.  I blocked my ears, trying to keep myself in the air as long as possible.

Grim & Vanessa to the Rescue

          I slowly pushed myself up toward the ceiling when I felt a sharp shimmer of electricity bolt through me.  “Get down there, you worthless cheating wench,” a woman’s voice spoke from behind me.

          I felt on of the Gods or Goddesses place a hand on my back and push me downward toward the creature.  BOOM! I fell into the ground making a large round crater around me.  I looked up and the creature had fallen into the hole with me.  I slowly backed up as the thing charged and just as soon as I went to jump out of the way of the monster I felt the horn on its nose go through my left foot.  “AAAAHHHHH!” I screamed in pain.

          “Not so big and bad are you now, you’re highness,” Amun-Ra laughed as he spoke with mocking words.

          The creature shook its head violently and I felt as my foot was removed from the horn.  BAM! I went crashing into the wall.  I fell onto the ground face first and slowly started to stand up.  I was sore and in a mess of pain I never knew was possible.  I had to push myself up with my hands and feet as I tried to stand.  I lifted my head and watched as the creature took charge for me again but before it was close enough to me a dark but dim light blocked me from the attack.

          Grim and Vanessa stood in the middle of the room.  It was strange seeming them together but there they were.  Vanessa blocked the attack from the creature where as Grim made his way over to me.  “Look at what you have gotten yourself into now,” his voice sounded angry as he spoke.  He pulled me up to my feet.  “Luckily for you as the dead you’ll heal but it’ll be about a few days.”  He then turned his attention toward the creature and took his sithe and rammed the creature using his sithe to destroy it then he looked up and around at the Gods and Goddesses of Egypt.

          “If it isn’t one of the death dealers,” Amun-Ra spoke as he stood from his seat and looked down into the arena.  “What are you doing here?”

          “I’m here to retrieve the child for Persephone,” Grim replied.  “She wondered here because she still hasn’t learnt her lesson and after this…. I don’t think she’ll ever learn.”

          Amun-Ra laughed at Grim.  “Persephone one of the angels of death such as yourself, Grim.  You don’t need to be here.  This is his territory.”

          “I know but I have a job to do…. I can’t believe that after you all fell you chose to let the dead fight as if Hell wasn’t bad enough for the living make them fight as well?” Grim shook his head as he looked around.  “Demons who chose to fall Satan…. Come to destroy the world.  I am taking your pawn because she doesn’t belong here…. And introducing her sister….”

          Sister?  I don’t have a sister, I thought, confused.  I figured that he must have had me confused with someone else.

          “Ah of course,” Amun-Ra replied.  “Vanessa, the conscience of Nala.”

          What?  They had me so confused on what was going on.  I knew Vanessa was my conscience but sister?  She would have had to have been born in order for her to have been my sister.

          “I am taking Princess Nala with me and Vanessa.”  Grim grabbed my arm and the next thing I knew he had teleported us off to some dark dimly lit place.

Sisters

          I sat on the ground noticed that Grim had started some kind of fire.  I felt that he wasn’t going to let me out of his sight after what had happened.  I would have figured out how to destroy that creature and then I would have managed to fight off those stupid Gods and Goddesses for making me fight that thing.  “What was that creature?” I asked.  “I’ve never heard of or seen one of those things in my life.”

          Grim sighed.  “It was called a dinosaur…. A triceratops to be exact and of course you haven’t heard about one of them or any dinosaur in particular because they drowned in the flood a long time ago.  It was way before your time, your highness.”

          I kind of raised an eyebrow.  “What were you talking about when you told Amun-Ra that Vanessa was my sister?  She’s my conscience…. The personality that was I kept hidden from the world, not my sister.”

          Grim sighed again and looked at me.  “I know that but it makes more since for you to call her your sister…. She may not have been born but she was in your mind…. Your other half…. The part of you that would have actually done some good but you didn’t want that…. I call her your sister so if you were to ever tell a human or the living about her then to them it would make more since.”

          “Why is she even here anyways?  I locked her up in the part of our mind that she couldn’t escape from.”

          “Simple,” Vanessa replied as she worked her way over to Grim from the opposite side, “when the body died, I was released as well as you were…. That’s why I’m here now…. And you know what?  I’m not even mad that Tommus killed us because if he hadn’t then you’d still be out there destroying Egypt anyways.”  She sat next to Grim and looked at him.  She looked angry for some reason.  “Why didn’t we let her learn her lesson?  Why couldn’t we just leave her there?” I heard her words as she whispered to Grim.

          Grim held up his right hand to let her know to calm down.  “I know how much trouble she is, Vanessa, but she has to learn.”

          I raised an eyebrow wondering what the heck they were talking about.  Everything they were saying about me wasn’t hurtful, just confusing.  Why did death have to be the most confusing thing I had to ever deal with?

          Grim looked back at me and kind of smiled.  “I know and Persephone knows that one day you will learn that evil isn’t the right path but the right is something that we both agreed will take a while for you to find and figure out.”  He grabbed my right hand and looked at it.  “You look alive but you’re more of a spirit.  This is the place of cross over so they say…. Really it’s where all spirits are placed until judgment day well the spirits that are closer toward Hell which is where you were almost there…. Well, right now all kinds of spirits will be here for a little while but eventually it’ll become a place for cruel souls…. Anyways, you weren’t in Hell but you were close enough to it.  The so called Gods and Goddesses of Egypt are demons…. They came from fallen angels…. Sad day…. I didn’t want to go there at all, but once Vanessa got a sharp pain in her stomach, I knew that you had gotten yourself into trouble and I kind of had the feeling you were caught by the demons of Egypt seeing that you’re considered the demon who actually roamed Egypt.”  He looked at the flame which had begun to grow.  “Death can be kind or death could be cruel…. It’s up to the person who chooses the path.  You were weeping what you had sown on earth today and well that services you right the way you treated those people…. Those humans just because you wanted to have fun.”

          I shook my head.  I didn’t agree with Grim at all.  I was a princess with inhuman powers.  I should have been able to