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

          The servant tried to move her head but we all watched as Nala’s grip grew tighter around the poor girl.  The princess turned her attention back toward the crowd.

          “This goes for all of you.”  With that said, she threw the girl into a brick wall which most likely broke her bones.  Then Nala teleported over toward the girl as she bent down and stuck her nails back into the girl’s skin.  We watched as Nala broke the servants neck which killed her instantly.  The young princess stood up and turned to face the humans.  “That goes for all who dare to play against my rules.  I don’t care who you are…. Egyptian, Hebrew…. Family, friends…. Guards, slaves….” Her smile grew as she spoke.  “I will do whatever it takes to show anyone of you pathetic, worthless humans that I am in charge here.”

          “Lord God in Heaven, please watch over the living humans,” I looked over and noticed the mysterious man who spoke to me earlier standing next to me.

          “You mean Ra?” I asked, confused.

          The hidden face of the man looked at me and shook his head.  “I pray only to the creator, not to the fallen angels…. My fallen brothers and sisters have chosen a dark path to follow and are dragging humans with them.”

          “What?” I asked, trying to make sense of the stranger’s words.

          “I have a job to do now.”  With that the man was gone.

          I looked around, wondering how he managed to vanish before my eyes twice.  You’re just seeing things, I thought to myself as I shook my head and noticed that her highness had got lost in a conversation with a Hebrew slave.  They’re voices were low so I couldn’t understand what they were saying but  Nala’s expression seem as confused as I was when I talked to the masked stranger.

          Whatever they were talking about seem to have Nala fearing for her life but no one else could see it.  She began walking away as the man told her something again then she shrugged it off and vanished.

          Now I have to go and throw her back into the palace…. Stupid mutt.

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          I hurried into the palace and found my way over to the throne room where the pharaoh stood with a couple of guards.

          “Ah, Imhotep, any news?” the pharaoh asked.

          It was my chance to rat out the princess for her evil deed.  “Yes as a matter of fact,” I spoke as if the words were troubling for me to speak, “Nala murdered a servant girl not too long ago out in the city.”

          I watched as the pharaoh dropped his head and shook it slightly.  “Of course, I should have known…. Thank you for telling me, Imhotep.”

          “I thought you would want to know.”

          “Yes…. Imhotep, please watch over her for a while and make sure she doesn’t continue to do this…. I’m going to be getting remarried soon and right now I don’t want half the city dead because I do want guest to show up…. Any other time it would be different but right now isn’t the best time for me.”

          I bowed my head as I agreed.  “I will not let you down, sir.”

          “Good…. Now go.”

          I searched for Nala along the path outside of the palace.  The one thing that bothered me the most about the princess was the fact that she could fly or teleport which meant making it harder for me to keep an eye on her or finding her.  I worked my way around unfinished walls and past guards and their slaves heading home before evening fell upon the land when I finally spotted her highness heading my way.  I quickly moved in front of her to stop her dead in her tracks.

          “What do you want?” she asked.

          I tilted my head as anger filled my thoughts.  “You keep murdering the humans, young lady.  Save it for something important.”

          She kind of laughed with a mocking type tone.  “If I could, I’d kill you right now.”

          “I don’t doubt that,” I admitted, knowing that the fact she wasn’t human made it easier for her to get the job done quickly, “but you have a duty and I have to make sure that you don’t get yourself killed.”

          She laughed again with an arrogant tone.  “You think I’m going to get myself killed?” she asked as she shook her head.  “Imhotep, you and I both know that can’t happen.  Who out of the humans can kill me?  I’m a wolf-like creature, I’m inhuman.  I can transform from a human to half wolf to full wolf form and kill anyone and anything I’d like…. That includes you.”

          My eyebrows narrowed as I eyed Nala.  She had a point which I couldn’t argue.

          “If you excuse me, I must---”

          “I’m supposed to babysit you.”

          She began eyeing me as her mouth dropped as if she smelled a rotten corpse heating up in the desert heat.  “Babysit me?  Why?”

          “Your father wasn’t happy to hear about the servant girl who you murdered earlier.”

          “Of course.”

          “You’re going to be watched like a hawk.”  I watched in enjoyment as she grew angry at my words.  An evil grin grew on my face.

          I walked into my small room in the palace and closed the door.  I walked over to my small but deceit size cot and laid down.  I stared up at the ceiling.  It was a long day, I thought to myself as I closed my eyes when I felt the presence of someone else in my room.  I sat up and noticed the strange man in my room next to Queen Eva?  How was that possible?  “How did you get into my room?  And your highness, you’re…. You died…. I killed you myself….”

          “You and Nala are in for trouble,” the strange figure spoke.

          “Who are you anyways?” I asked the man.

          “I can’t tell you….”

          I began to reach for his head to remove it when Eva’s ghostly cold hand stopped me.

          “You can’t touch me yet,” the man replied.  “If you do then you will die and as of right now you are not supposed to die…. Not right now.”

          “You must kill Nala,” Eva spoke, “or Egypt will only get worse…. You shouldn’t have murdered her while she was an infant…. She grows stronger each day and will cause more destruction for Egypt….”

          I kind of laughed.  “I do plan on killing her but not for your reason…. I hate that spoiled little brat….”

          “Whether or not you want her dead according to some kind of troubling problem you have with her or not…. She is evil and uses her abilities for evil,” the man replied.  “If you don’t get yourself killed first…. Playing with fire will only make your life worse than it already is….”

          I stared at the hooded man with confusion.  His words made no sense and I had no clue how to react toward them.  I was still confused to as why Eva was standing in front of me as well even though she had been dead for sixteen years.

          “I tried killing her and Niki to save Egypt,” Eva replied, “and I know that you have other reasons for murdering her but if someone doesn’t do something to her soon then life as you know it will be destroyed.

          I watched as Eva and the man vanished as I shook my head, trying to make since of the scene.  What just happened? I thought.

          I had Nala follow me down the hallway which was filled with hieroglyphics along the walls.  Our Gods and Goddesses danced along the golden brown pavement which kept the palace standing.  I stopped suddenly as we approached the throne room which made Nala bump into me.  I turned to face her as I noticed she was eyeing me with anger which didn’t surprise me and I held my right hand out toward the door.  “Right this way, your highness,” I spoke with a mocking tone as if she didn’t know where we were.

          Nala rolled her eyes.  I knew she wanted to attack me but because I was protected under her father she knew she couldn’t touch me no matter how much she wanted to.  She closed her eyes and when she opened them, she worked her way into the room.

          I stood outside of the door.  I figured that I would let the pharaoh have a chat with his daughter before I walked in.  The thought had occurred that the pharaoh mentioned that his wife to be was arriving.  I hadn’t met her yet but I had a good feeling that the time was nearing when I would finally get to meet the future queen.  I had quite a bit on my plate because on my list of things to do not only was I supposed to keep an eye out for the evil princess but Ramos also had made plans to have me show his mistress around the palace.  She’s probably going to be a thousand times worse than the damn princess.  I rolled my eyes at the thought.  Women and royalty once they lay their hand in gold it’s nothing but trouble.  Everything with them is trouble.

          I continued to wait out in the hall for a few more moments as Prince Niki walked past me.  His black eyes narrowed like a sharks hungry blood thirsty mind kicked in.  I decided it was time to go in.

          “Antinique, my lovely daughter Nala,” the pharaoh spoke as I walked in through the door.

          I looked over at the queen to be and I couldn’t help but notice how lovely she was.  She blended with the others so well but there was something about.

          She looked over toward Nala was I continued to work my way into the room.  I had to move my attention toward Nala so I wouldn’t become mesmerized by her beautiful tanned skin and her lovely dark brown eyes and her long black hair.  She was a sight to see.  “So glad to finally meet you,” her voice told Nala.  The woman made her way over to the princess as I stopped in my tracks.

          “Whatever,” Nala responded out of rudeness.

          “Nala,” the pharaoh replied in a harsh whisper.

          “You look like a prostitute,” the princess replied with a cold hearted smile.

          The pharaoh had grown angry and embarrassed by his daughters behavior toward his bride to be.

          I smacked Nala in the back of her head and she somewhat snapped back at me for it the way a mutt would snap at a human out of anger.

          Antinique was obviously ticked off but played along as