A/N- Serena comes into the story; her name has been changed to Neith. Thanks for reading- Black Rose Ra's Daughters By Black Rose Chapter 4 The Eye of the Storm A woman with long blonde hair was pacing around her daughter's room as she waited for her to return. She was Neith, the Queen of Egypt: she was a kind and loving person, a fair ruler whom her people loved. At the moment, Neith was very worried; she didn't know were her daughter was. Neith put all thoughts of how terrified her duaghter must have been out of her mind as she saw that the eye of the strom was directly above her; she could only watch and wait for now. "Ramla" she whispered to herself. As she looked up into the sky she saw bird fly towards her. She had never seen such a beautiful bird: nor indeed a bird that even remotely resmebled the one that was now flying towards her. It was lager than the majority of the birds in their land, and its plumage was as gold as the sands and as red as the sun. It was beautiful, yes, but there was something ominous about its presence… something unearthly. As the bird got closer, it landed right in front of her and bowed. Neith's eyes widened as realisation struck her. "Is that a Phoenix?" she wondered and, to her shock, the bird nodded its head as if it had heard her thoughts. She looked into its eyes and saw Ra's symbol. She covered her mouth with her hands as she gasped in shock. The bird began to sing a sweet, enchanting melody, and Neith, who now felt more tranquil than she could ever remember feeling before, closed her eyes and sat down next to it. She started to hum along with it: the two together produced such beautful harmony that it could be heared it all over the kingdom. A ray of light landed on them, but Neith did not notice: she simply sat there, deep within her own thoughts. "So, this is Ra's Phoenix, I have this feeling in my heart that its here to help, the song that its singing… I feel it's trying to tell me something." Images began to flash through her mind: she saw her daughter and another woman talk to Ra himself, she also saw the Ra talking to his wife, Selkhet: then it moved to Selkhet talking to what looked like one of her Priestesses, and then it moved to that Priestesses talking to her daughter and that other woman. Neith opened her eyes to see that the Phoenix was set in her lap sleeping. "Well, at less I knew she is well," she said, petting the bird and smiling slightly. Then something caught her eye, something that made her jump: her daughter, Ramla, and her dark-haired friend had come into view, and when she looked again she realised that the Priestess of Selkhet was also with them. ******** The great Pharaoh sat on his throne, hearing nothing within his mind but a song that spoke of utter peace and tranquility. His eyes were closed and he was also in deep thought. "Is that my wife, and is that also a bird singing with her, what is going on here?" As the Pharaoh was thinking, a young man in a priest's outfit that bore the symbol of Anubis walked into the throne room. He was strangely colourless, his hair and even his eyes being eerily white of hue, even at his young age. He walked to the foot of the Pharaoh's throne and bowed. The Pharaoh opened his eyes and saw the high priest of Anubis bowing to him. He sat up stiffly and gave the younger man a look of utter venom. "What do you want, Priest? I did not call for you, so why do you present yourself to me?" The Priest didn't look up, merely stayed in his bowed down position, averting his colourless gaze away from the Pharaoh's darker orbs. "I'm sorry, my Pharaoh, but I need to tell you something," he said, a malicious smirk forming on his face, though his voice was grave in tone so the Pharaoh realised nothing of his true intentions. The Pharaoh was beginning to get agitated now; he could have done without interruption from the Priest. He just looked over at one of his guards and nodded darkly. The guard bowed back to his Pharaoh; then walked over to the priest and kicked hard in the side so that he fell to the floor in a heap. The priest cried out in pain and clutched his side. The guard looked up to his Pharaoh, and saw him nod. He kicked him one more time and walked back to his post. The pharaoh was not happy; the song of trasnquility had stopped. He sat back down on his throne, his expression bitter and steely. "Well, High Priest of Anubis, what do you wish to tell me that is so important that it cannot wait until I summon you into my presence," he asked, the anger clearly audible in his voice The colourless young man got ahold of himself and answered his pharaoh, trying his best to keep both emotion and pain from his voice as he spoke. "My Pharaoh, it is about you daughter the Princess," he said, knowing that that would get him what he wanted. The Pharaoh eyes widened, and he stared down at this priest that was going to soon be married to his one and only daughter. "What has happened to her? Because if anything has happened to her it will be you life," the Pharaoh hissed in a voice laced with pure malice. He may have never been open to his feeling for his daughter or for his wife for that matter, but deep down he loved them both very much. The priest just smiled; this was just what he had wanted to happen. "Great Pharaoh, your daughter is fine, as is your wife: at least for now. However I had a vision recently that showed that a woman with black hair and strangely violet eyes will will come to take both your daughter and this kingdom from you. I also saw a birdlike fire with her," he told, keeping the laughter in his mind completely separate from his voice. "Well, this should be good, very soon I will be the greatest Pharaoh, and you will be dead along with that wife of yours." His face retained only seriousness, but inside he was laughing. The Pharaoh toke this information in and closed his eyes. "You may go, Priest," he said with a wave of his hand. The Priest bowed and left, back to the temple of Anubis, smiling the whole time. When he was gone the Pharaoh opened his eyes again and looked around his throne room. Something about this Priest was just didn't feel right: he closed his eyes again and fell into his own thoughts. ****** In Ra's Temple, three young ladies were looking out the window that the phoenix had flown out of the day before. They looked at one another and nodded, then ran out of the temple and followed the phoenix's course to the Palace. As they ran, Nakia stopped and looked up in the Eye of Ra. Ramla stopped when she saw that Nakia wasn't running with her: instead of continuing, she turned around and saw her friend looking up at something. The sun was hitting her hair in such a way that it made her look as if she were not a mere mortal but a goddess. Ramla's heart was betting very fast now, and couldn't keep her eyes off Nakia… "She's so beautiful: I have never felt like this before; a part of me just wants to run in her arms and never leave them," she thought. Nakia felt the warm of the sun on her face, but she could also feel someone watching her, and it was making her uncomfterble. She turned her head to see Ramla's garnet orbs transfixed on her, then felt a blush creep into her pale cheeks as she noted her friend's almost ethereal beauty in that light. As their eyes met, she saw that the princess was staring at her in longing… no, not longing; the expression in her eyes was too warm for that to have been the case. The emotion she could see in Ramla's eyes was something far deeper thanl longing… "I feel something, something that I have not felt in along time. A part of me wants to hold her, and never let go." The two stood there looking at one another, then Sanura ran up to Palace to see her Queen sitting there: the phoenix resting in her lap. Then she heared it, the song, a joyus melody to which seemed the epitome of bliss itself. She walked closer towards the Palace and saw that not only was the phoenix singing: so was the Queen. She moved to the Queen's side just as her eyes opened and the melodious singing ended. Sanura looked over to where the Queen was staring, and saw what it was that had interested her so. Two beautiful young ladies were staring at eachother in an emotion no less than pure love… two beautiful young ladies that they both knew... Ramla and Nakia felt someone looking at them; they turned to see Ramla's mother and Sanura looking at them and smiling at them. Ramla turned back Nakia, smiled and held out her hand to her friend. Nakia felt her heart jump when she saw this: she walked up to her and took her hand in her own. They smiled at each other and walked over to the two women that were waiting for them. A/N- Hope you like this chapter eheheh; I hope to have the next one up soon.