A/N- Thanks for reading - Black Rose.

Ra's Daughters
By
Black Rose

Chapter Six
Ra's Pet Dragon

The Phoenix flew very quickly down the hall, its eyes glowing redder
and get redder as it went. The flames its wings began to increase in
size and flare out on either side of it.  Layla felt something
powerful coming her way, closer and closer with every passing second;
she knew she should have been terrified, but whatever it was couldn't
be worse than the memories she was seeing, could it? The flashes of
her mother stopped and Layla slumped forward, gasping for breath as
though she had been saved from drowning. Anubis' Priest saw a glow
golden flame coming down the hall and narrowed his eyes.
"Well, it looks like time's up" he thought as he tried to walk to
the side door, but found that he couldn't move. The Phoenix dove into
the room, landed behind Layla and put its flaming wings around her to
shield her. Layla felt so safe and warm that she fell asleep, all
worries banished from her mind. The bird didn't take her eyes off the
priest: it so wanted to attack him, but it had to make sure that the
human was alright until other humans came… then he was going to feel
what Hell's fire really was. The Phoenix began once more to sing, but
this time it was a scream of pure rage and hatred, so loud that the
very palace itself began to shake. The Priest fell to the floor with
his hands to his ears so as to somewhat block out the infernal noise. 
"I believe that I have made it mad, will this should be fun," he
smirked, got back on his feet and began to concentrate: quite
suddenly his eyes turned black.
"So Ra sends his only pet to stop me; I'm not scared of you, so
let's play!" he yelled at it and laughed evilly.
The phoenix knew that he was up to something, but couldn't tell
what. She could hear someone enter from the left and then more from
the right. She saw the Great Pharaoh to the left: he was standing
there looking shocked and a little scared as to what was happening.
His eyes showed a different story; it showed power and it had the
eyes of a loving father. She then felt the humans behind her. She
removed her wings and took off towards Anubis' priest with anger. The
priest just saw the pharaoh and the women enter the room. He smirked
has Ra's pet came towards him: he let the firebird hit him and they
both went through the wall and out into the storm. His body rolled
around on the ground like a rag doll. He finally stopped when his
body hit one of the columns near the palace. The rain and wind wasn't
helping much with this, he noted: he slowly got up and looked around
for the damned bird. It was hard to see with this rain coming down
like it was, and the wind was trying to push him around. He finally
saw it and it was coming right at him. He could steam where the rain
had hit the Phoenix's flaming wings.
"Well, it looks like it's going to try to kill me, how quaint; it
will never truly be able to do that, but oh well, it seems that I
must kill it instead. I knew that I can't really kill you, my dear
Phoenix, but we're in darkness and that is my element." He thought as
he moved into the shadow of the columns and made his eyes glow black
again: then he disappeared into the shadows themselves. He moved very
fast in the shadows and got right beside the bird. He just smiled
evilly as a sword appeared in his hand and attacked the Phoenix. 
As the phoenix saw him disappear, she thought about where would he
attack. Then she saw something moving in the shadows. 
It was the High Priest; he was moving throughout the shadows in such
a way that she could have sworn he had become a part of them: still
she didn't have much time to think about that as he attacked. She
moved out of the way just before the sword hit her side. Golden
feathers shot from her left wing at him as she rolled to her side,
then he moved back into the shadow and disappeared.
The priest looked around and saw the feathers that came out of the
bird burst into flames.
"Well I didn't see that one coming, I believe it's time to disappear
for now, I can't win with the weather like this - it slows me down to
much. I will have other chance soon enough," he thought. He stepped
out into the open and saw the young women and the Pharaoh, who was
holding his wife. They were looking out into the rain watching what
had happened between himself and the phoenix.
"Well, it looks like I can take care of one problems before I go" he
thought evilly, then he moved as fast as he could through the rain,
trying to keep from be seen by Ra's little toy.
As the Pharaoh held this wife, his mind went back to what had
happened before all of this.

(Flashback)
The Pharaoh entered the room to see a fire-like bird shielding
something with its wings then he looked behind the animal and saw
this wife, daughter, and the two young ladies. One looked like she
was a priestess - he could tell by the clothes she was wearing - but
the other woman, the one with black hair, was wearing a tattered
dress that looked very old and worn. As they stopped behind the bird,
it opened it wings to reveal one of its wounds, she looked like she
was in bad shape. The bird had then taken off and attacked the
priest. With the power behind the flying firebird they both went
flying through the wall and out into the rain. The priestess walked
over to the young girl on the floor to see if she was alright. She
picked up her and as they left he saw his daughter holding on to the
other woman with black hair. His wife was just standing there with a
worried look on her face. He walked over to them. 
"I believe, my wife, that you have some things to tell me," he said:
it was not so much a question as a statement.
His wife just nodded and told her everything that she thought was
important. He believed what she told him; why would she lie? He then
looked over to his daughter and smiled at her. He walked over to the
hall with his wife to see what was going on. His daughter and friend
were close by and were still holding one another.
((End Flashback)

The Priest moved up to the Queen and Pharaoh with his sword ready to
attack. The Pharaoh just saw the man run right at him; he knew what
was happening, so he pushed his wife to the side, and took the hit
hard. The sword went through his heart like a knife through butter.
Lightning hit the ground as his body fell, never to get back up
again. The three women just looked on with shock. Neith saw her
husband mouth 'I love you' before he died. She slowly crept over to
him and closed his eyes. She looked over to her one and only daughter
and started to cry. 
Ramla saw her father fall and her mother crying. She looked up to
Nakia and saw a glowing like she never saw before. The feeling coming
from her friend was a deep sadness. She just held her with all the
power that she had. Nakia saw it again and again and knew that no
matter what pain she felt she knew that, for Ramla it must have been
a thousand times worse.
Her thoughts kept flashing back to that what had just happened
before for her and what had happen to her father. It was the same
thing, her mother crying over her husband with her little girl
looking on.
"Ramla, it's happing again, he needs to be stopped now," she told
her with a harder and sadness in her voice. She moved away from her
and started to walk to the priest, who was just grinning. She then
couldn't take it anymore and ran right into him; they both fell over
in the sand, which had by then been permeated with water and had
begun to turn to mud. The priest looked up to what pushed him over,
and saw that it was the black haired girl. He just grinned: he could
get rid of her sooner than he had thought. 
"Well, well, what do we have here? It looks like someone wants die
today," he thought. He got up, grabbed his sword and made another one
appeared in his other hand.
"So you want to play has well? Come on then, my dear," he snarled to
her.
Nakia slow got up, the rain and wind was now at its peak: the eye of
the storm was approaching, that much was obvious. She couldn't stand
straight because of the ferocity of the wind. She then felt someone
holding onto her. She looked to her side and saw Ramla looking up at
her with a smile and nodded. Nakia just nodded back: they both turned
to the priest with their eyes flashing white as his glowed black. 
  The thunder roared on in the background, but through the thunder
you could hear a song. They looked around trying to find out were it
was coming from. Ramla then spotted it: it was the phoenix. She was
on top of a nearby column and her red eyes were glowing with such
power that it started to scare them both. She was going to kill him:
first he killed the pharaoh, and the wanted to kill her human and her
human's lover. She spread her wings high into the air and started to
grow to a monstrous size until she was about as big as a dragon. The
flames coming off her were causing rays of light to break through the
clouds all around them. She cried out into the storm then she took
off and shot two golden feathers at the priest.
He was looking right at the phoenix in shock: he started to shake,
then he saw the two feathers coming right at him, and the gigantic
bird was right behind them. He flinched away in anticipation of the
blow but in never came. The feathers went past him to the two females
that were looking on. The bird flew behind them and landed.
"What is going on, the power coming from them is so great that it
making my head spin," he wondered.
 Ramla and Nakia watched the phoenix grow and shot something at
them. They could feel a power in them and it kept on growing: then
the two feathers stopped right in front of them and the gigantic
firebird land behind them. The two feathers started to change into
two beautiful swords. Both swords had the symbol of Ra on them and a
white flower going spiraling all the way down the polished steel
blades.
Ramla and Nakia closed their eyes and held out heir hands: it was as
if the swords were calling to them. The two swords disappeared from
where they were floating in the air and then reappeared in their
hands. The dragon-like phoenix covered them with its wings. Then a
flash of flames came from within the wings: it was so bright that the
priest had to shield his eyes, as did Neith. Then it died down and
the bird removed its wings: and there stood Ramla and Nakia in
Egyptian princess dresses with the symbol of Ra on their foreheads
and their eyes glowing eerily white.


A/N- I hope everyone like this chapter, the next chapter will be
about Ramla and Nakia as they take on the high Priest of Anubis. Oh
and if you have time could you review? I would really appreciate it.
Thanks-Black Rose