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

“Nala,” my father spoke as he noticed me standing near the entrance.

I faked a smile, not to cause a scene.

“Antinique, my lovely daughter, Nala.”  My father had gestured toward me.

Antinique turned her attention toward me as Imhotep had made his way into the room.  Antinique had darker skin, more like tanned skin than anyone else.  Her dark brown eyes looked almost black.  The top of her dress was cut open at the top, kind of revealing which I found to be more pathetic than any of the servants.  I could sense that there was something off about her but I figured trying to tell my father that he wouldn’t have believed me.  “So glad to finally meet you,” Antinique spoke as she walked over to me, smiling.

“Whatever,” I replied.

“Nala,” my father whispered to me.

I smiled at the new human who would make my life a million times worse.  “You look like a prostitute.”

My father’s eyes grew in anger and embarrassment at my words.

Imhotep smacked me in the back of the head and I kind of snapped at him.

I could tell by Antinique’s expression that she was ticked off by my attitude, but she surprised me by playing cool.  Her smile grew.  “It’s nice to meet you too, Princess Nala.”  The anger was visible in her words but she tried not to show it.

“I don’t care, human.”

I felt Imhotep grip onto my left arm as he started to grow angry as well as everyone else in the room.  I knew that as my “babysitter” he was going to have to drag me out of the room.  That was my plan from the start.

“Apologize,” my father hissed at me.

I ignored my father’s command and spit on Antinique’s dress.

Antinique dropped her mouth in disbelief.

“Nala,” my father said, anger in his voice.

I quickly snatched my arm away from Imhotep before he could drag me.  I stormed out of the huge, golden brown throne room filled with riches and gold.

“I am so sorry,” I heard my father’s voice from the room as he apologized to his future bride.

“She just needs to get use to me…. That’s all,” Antinique’s voice followed.

I heard Imhotep’s footsteps follow behind me as I continued to walk away in anger.  I didn’t want to be left in that room for another minute.  The humanity in the room would have driven me crazy with anger and hatred.  I hated all humans expect for my father but even he was ticking me off.

Imhotep’s breathing was starting to annoy me.  The worse human ever.  “What you did in there was very disrespectful?” his voice told me as we came to halt.

I turned to face him.  I could feel the heat from the anger growing in my thin, slender human body.  My eyes narrowed as I began to growl like a mutt at Imhotep.  I felt my nose scrunch up and my wolf form was trying to take over my body but I kept it under control.  “Disrespectful?  My father brings home a human who I have to be nice too and expects me to play the role of an innocent human girl…. I don’t know if you know this but I’m not human and I don’t care about any of you…. I don’t need a human to come and control my territory….”

“You sound like a territorial dog.”

I kind of smiled, evilly at Imhotep.  “That’s because I am and I don’t want others who don’t belong here to come and take over.  It’s my territory, not hers…. She can live outside for all I care.  This is my home.”

Imhotep went to speak but I ran off before I could hear his words.

I ran into my room and out onto my balcony.  I looked around at the ground which had to be a good amount of distance to the away.  If I were human and jumped I would have killed myself, but seeing that I wasn’t I could jump and land on my feet like a devious cat.  A whiff of wind hit my face and I licked my lips as the smell of a black house cat touched my human nose. I haven’t tried cat before, I thought.

I backed up into my room and got a running starting.  I jumped over the railing of the balcony and transformed into a full grown dark brown almost black wolf as I landed on my feet.  I ran on all fours, following the scent of the cat.  As I grew closer to the scent, I began to slow down and my run turned into a walk.  Soon I bowed my head and bent my front legs along with my hind legs and crouched down to the grown.  I hid behind some bricks which were used to build a gate around the city.  I looked around until I spotted the cat near some small, black and white flowers.  I smiled, my teeth slightly revealed. Bingo.

I worked my way slowly toward the unaware feline.  The cat had no clue I was even there.  Where the cat turned his attention away from where I was hiding, I jumped out and attacked.  Before the creature could defend himself, I bit into his neck and broke his spinal cord with my teeth, paralyzing the defenseless animal.  The blood of the animal mixed with my saliva.  I took the cat in my mouth and carried it back to the palace, like a mother lioness would do with her cub.

I dropped the dead cat onto my bedroom floor and transformed back into my human attire.  I picked the cat up, sat on my bed, and torn him apart with my fingers.  I licked my upper lip as I looked down at my kill.  I broke off the left front leg and began to tear it up with my teeth like the humans would with roasted chicken.

I heard someone knock on my door.  I could tell by the scent it was Imhotep.

“GO AWAY!” I screamed with a full mouth.

The door opened and Imhotep walked in.

I rolled my eyes.  “I said, ‘Go away.’  What if I was changing?”

“I had a good feeling you weren’t….” I could tell by Imhotep’s expression that he noticed the dead corpse I was enjoying.  “What is that?”

I licked my lips.  “Cat…. Want to try?”

Imhotep covered his mouth in discuss, balling up his fist.  “Why are you eating the sacred animal?”

I licked my lips to get rid of the blood and because I liked seeing Imhotep grossed out.  “I don’t care.”

“But if other Egyptians find out---“

“I don’t care.”  I stood up holding the leg in my hand, dropping the rest of it on the floor.  I walked over to Imhotep and held the cat’s bloody, furry leg up to him.

Imhotep pulled away, repulsed by the thing.  “Demonic.”

I shrugged.  “Oh and go get a robe on, I hate starring at your bare chest, it’s creepy…. And also kind of looks tasty…. I don’t mean in the human sexual way either…. I actually mean if I have the chance, you’ll be just like this dead cat…. Bloody, dead, half eaten.”

Imhotep looked at me with a look that meant he was worried.

“Now out.”

“Yes, your highness.”  The man left and closed the door behind him.

I smiled, evilly.  I would have done it too if they had let me.

“You better watch your back, princess,” a man’s voice said from behind me.  It was an odd voice.  I hadn’t recognized and it was an odd accept.  One I have never heard before.

I turned to see a man’s outline in a pitch black coat.  He carried a long, brown sithe with a curve sliver blade in his right hand which was hidden in a long sleeve of the coat.  His face was hiding under the black hood of the coat as well.  I sniffed the air, trying to figure out what he was.  I watched him touch the cat with the blade of the sithe.

“Poor thing,” he spoke.

“Who are you?  Why are you in my room?  How did you get in here?”

The man’s hood moved up.  “You don’t want to know who I am, my dear.”

I growled and placed all of my defenses on.  I didn’t know who he was but I wasn’t going to let him get away with breaking an entry.

“As for the other two questions…. I'm here for the cat and I walked inside from the balcony.”

I went to open my mouth but stopped myself.

“You’re going to get yourself killed.”

“Whatever.”

“If you keep it up, you’ll die very soon…. I’ve seen your future….”

I kind of laughed.  “What?  Are you a fortune teller?” I asked, sarcastically.

I felt the man staring at me even though the hood kept his face in the shadows.

“Who are you?”

The man sighed.  “I am death.  The Grim Reaper.  Persephone was supposed to be here but she’s busy.”

I laughed.  Some guy was telling me that he was the Grim Reaper.  “Yea okay.”

He took his left hand and removed the hood revealing a skull with empty eye sockets and a boneless nose.  His teeth were revealed with darkness behind them.  His skinless neck revealed the boney spinal cord.

“Okay so you’re the Grim Reaper…. What are you going to kill me?”

“No, but like I’ve said before I have seen your future and if you don’t change, things won’t work out in your favor.”

“What?  Humans and human creations can’t kill me I’m unstoppable.”

Grim looked at me with his eyeless black sockets.  “Humans can’t but others can…. You’re not immune to death…. You’ll die alone and unloved…. The Hebrew man was warning you and if you temp God…. God will show you just what you are…. You’re not immortal you can die and it’ll be your fault.”  With that he vanished into thin air.

I rushed out to the balcony and looked down at the ground.  I looked back into my room and was alone.

I walked out of my room, disoriented.  Who does he think he is?  Telling that I’m going to die.  I looked up at the giant statue of Anubis.  He eyed me as if he knew me.  I growled, knowing that it was just a statue.  I disagreed with the Egyptian Gods and Goddess but something was telling me that the Hebrews’ God was waiting to doom me for my sins.  I don’t care.  It’s not true.  They all lie.

“Nala,” I heard my cousin’s voice from behind me.  I turned to face Madeline who was as afraid of me.  She was a year younger with long wavy brown hair, hiding under a long black wig.  She wore the same make up design I wore, with the gold and black theme.

“What do you want?” I growled.

“Just to…. To… Talk.”  She had always stumbled over her words, knowing that anything would tick me off.

“Go find someone who doesn’t mind talking because I hate it.”

“Nala.”

“No…. Now go.”  I stormed off.

          I sat on top of the round, brass palace roof top.  I sat there, deep in thought.  I felt fear creep in…. Fear…. No fear didn’t exist to me…. I was the one to put fear into my