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

          “I think it’s time that someone should kill the princess before things get worse,” a man’s voice said.

          “She’s going to kill us all if we’re not careful,” another spoke.

          I began to growl as the inhuman senses took over.

          “She’s a demon.  Demons are evil and need to be murdered before it’s too late,” a woman’s voice replied.

          I knew they hated me but really?  How stupid were they?  Obviously they had no idea that as a wolf creature I could hear them as they spoke against me.  They had no idea how evil I could be.  I walked back into my room as a servant girl walked in.  She placed a large bowl of water on my vanity and looked at me.  Fear had controlled her as I continued to growl.  I grabbed her neck and broke through her warm, human skin with my long wolf-like nails and let her red, warm blood drip down her frail human skin. 

“It’s not your lucky day, human,” I growled.

“Please don’t hurt me,” the girl’s voice was innocent and soft, but I didn’t care.  Tears filled her golden brown eyes.

          “I’m going to show them.”  I teleported the girl and I to where I had heard the voices.  I stood holding the servant in my right hand, keep my nails in her skin, in the middle of the sourcing desert heat.

          The Egyptian guards and the Hebrew slaves stopped what they were doing and turned their attention to us.  I could sense fear coming from the individuals as they gathered around.  I searched for the three I had heard.  I listened to the voices of all the humans until I found the three I was looking for and I eyed them.

          Imhotep was standing at a distance behind them, eyeing me.

          “So you think I’m a demon?” I asked the woman.  “And you two think I’m going to destroy us all?” I asked the two men.  All three where in shock when I locked eyes with each of them.  An evil smile grew on my face.  “Well, I’m going to show you three what will happen if you keep disrespecting me.”  I looked around at the humans and then to the human servant who I held in my hand.  “It’s nothing personal,” I told the crying servant.  “I’m just showing them who they’re dealing with.”

          The servant tried to shake her head in fear, but I tighten my grip around her neck as I turned my attention back to the others.

          “This goes for all of you.”  I threw the human girl into a brick wall, breaking her fragile little bones.  I quickly teleported to the human as I reached down and placed my nails back into her skin.  With one hand, I snapped her neck, killing her instantly.  I stood up and turned to face the frighten humans.  “That goes for all who dare to play against my rules.  I don’t can who you are…. Egyptian, Hebrew…. Family, friends…. Guards, slaves….” My smile grew.  “I will do whatever it takes to show anyone of you pathetic, worthless humans that I am in charge here.”

          “I pray that you change your ways,” a Hebrew man called from my left.  “My God will change your heart if you let him.”

          I looked over at the man and raised an eyebrow.  I sighed.  “Okay, Hebrew,” I replied bored with the conversation.

          “You’ll burn in Hell if you don’t change, your highness.”

          I sighed and walked over to the man.  “You think that your God can change me?”

          The man nodded.

          “What about our gods and goddesses?  Nut?  Anubis?  Osiris?” I kind of laughed.  “None of them can change me…. Why do you think yours can?”

          “Because He’s the one and only god…. Your gods and goddesses are idols and demons.”

          “Whatever.”  I began to walk away.

          “Your life will only get worse.”

          I threw a hand up, kind of shrugging the Hebrew off.  I didn’t believe his words, how could I?

          I looked up into the pink-purple-blue sky and decided that it would be fun just to fly back to the palace made of beautiful golden-brown bricks when I heard someone behind me.  Not behind, but in my head.

          “You shouldn’t have shrugged that human off,” my voice spoke, except it wasn’t me exactly.

          I turned my head to see my reflection come to life.  I sighed, kind of angrily.  “What do you want?” I asked.

          “To warn you about what will happen if you keep on living life the way you do…. You’re going to get us both killed.”

          I rolled my eyes at the other girl.  She could have been my twin, but in order for that to have happened she would have been born.  I didn’t speak of her to anyone, but she was me.  My other half, my other personality nobody knew about, and I was going to keep it that way.  She didn’t belong in the world.  All she wanted was to help and keep the humans alive but I didn’t want that to happen.  “Leave me, Vanessa.”

          “You know I can’t do that.”

          “Yes, yes, well you don’t belong here.”

          “That Hebrew man was warning you.  If you come face to face with God, He’ll ask you why you deserve to be in Heaven…. If you tell Him because you belong there then He’ll send you to Hell.  It’s the truth.  You’re not a goddess…. You can die and you will not end up in a good place…. You’re not immortal.”

          “Why do you care about the Hebrews’ God?”

          “Because I listen to them, when you don’t…. Ignoring the truth won’t keep you alive…. If I have---“

          “ENOUGH!” I shouted and with that Vanessa was gone.  We were the same but different and I hated sharing a body with her.  It was prison; being in the same body with the girl who always wanted to do what she could to do right.  Whatever, I thought and continued walking when Imhotep stopped me.  “What do you want?” I asked, coming to reality.

          Imhotep tilted his head in anger.  “You keep murdering the humans, young lady.  Save it for something important.”

          I kind of laughed at his words, knowing the kind of human he was.  “If I could, I’d kill you right now.”

          “I don’t doubt that, but you have a duty and I have to make sure that you don’t get yourself killed.”

          I laughed again.  “You think I’m going to get myself killed?”  I shook my 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.”

          Imhotep eyed me, narrowing both of his eyebrows.  He knew I was right.  He, himself couldn’t stop me. 

“If you excuse me, I must---“

          “I’m supposed to babysit you.”

          I eyed him, dropping my mouth in disgust.  “Babysit me?”  I was sixteen, I didn’t need to be babysat.  I was the princess; old enough to be married and have children of my own but the one man who I hated had to keep an eye on me.  “Why?”

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

          “Of course.”

          “You’re to be watched like a hawk.”

          Imhotep’s words angered me.  I wanted to smack that evil grin on his slim, peach-tanned face.  I hated moments like that.  He had the advantage.  I knew I’d get him back eventually but it would be a while.  When I could catch him in a lie or one of his evil little schemes.

          I walked out onto my balcony again and listened.  The city was quiet, except for the crickets which had been working on tunes of sleep and night time sounds.  I looked up at the velvet dark blue sky with stars scattered all over the place and even the moon from distance.  I turned to face my lit room, filled with lit candles, hanging from the walls.  I walked inside and then moved toward my door.

          “You’re going to get us killed, Nala.”

          I looked at Vanessa who was sitting on my bed, eyeing me.

          “We’re the same but different and I’m trying to be yourself conscience….”

          “I don’t need you telling me what to do.  Why are you even awake anyways?  You’ve been sleeping for the past few years.”

          “I haven’t been sleeping, remember?  You threw me into a dark pit that left me lost for days, years.  Remember?”

          I smiled at the thought.  “I do remember…. But how did you find your way out?”

          “Easy, I teleported.”

          “Why so long?”

          “Because I wanted to work hard and try without anything super human to help me, which reminds me…. Just because you have super human abilities doesn’t mean you should use them, especially on humans…. Only if you really need too.”

          “You bore me, Vanessa.”

          “You should really try to listen more.”  With that Vanessa had vanished.

          I snapped to reality and noticed that someone was rattling the door knob on my door.  I waited to see if whoever it was would succeed with opening it or not.  Eventually, the rattling stopped and whoever was trying to get in knocked.  I rolled my eyes and opened the door, Imhotep stood there.  Of course it had to be him because no one else would do.

          I didn’t have to ask to know that I was being summoned.  I followed Imhotep down the long, golden brown wall filled with hieroglyphics.  I knew the stories which were told by the drawings from the wall.  I knew every word.  The stories where printed into my head and I could tell them how they were meant to be told.  The history behind the words were what had really interested me.

          Imhotep stopped without giving me any warning and I walked into him.  I eyed him.  I hated when he pulled that crap on me.  He turned to face me and held his hand toward the door.  “Right this way, your highness.”

I rolled my eyes.  There was always that mocking tone in his words.  I wished so badly for a chance to attack his white human flesh but I knew that some of the people would call me a cannibal if I had.  Not everyone in Egypt knew of my inhuman abilities which was surprising because almost the whole city had known.  As a wolf, I preferred raw, bloody meet, but as the human princess I had to watch out what I did in public. 

I closed my eyes to avoid the temptation and when I opened them, I walked into the open door which Imhotep had indicated.  I noticed that my father was standing in front of his beautiful, bronze throne with dark red cushions built in.  He had his hands clasped in the hands of a woman