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| Rachel ([email protected]) April 29, 2002 Evelyn has slippers on but kicked them behind a statue as she, Rick, and Olympus entered the 'sacred lake' fenced in area. She didn't want to make noise and moved as quietly as a cat as on the other hand her husband trudged in with good heavy 'running' boots on. Olympus and Ardeth went their own ways around the perimeter where in the middle of the large area you could see all being done. Nefret had stayed back with Jonathan to comfort him. Both Rick and Evie's hearts sank as they saw the woman known to them as Bonnie bring a half starved and very gaunt looking Alex out toward the pool of water. "Oh hold me back Rick." Evelyn warned as she sneered at the woman. "Shhhh." Rick replied as he held out an arm in front of her, just in case. "We need to take them by surprise...but we all need to be ready ourselves." He breathed to her as he lowered his head toward hers. Alex was in shackles, attached to his wrists and ankles, they all connected with a long chain that dragged on the ground and caused him to trip a couple times. "Speed up boy, we only have a couple minutes!" Nephthys snapped as she grabbed the back of his neck and pinched, hard. Evelyn heard her son's cry of pain, the back of the neck had been a main target with the whip, and now that it was tender, very tender; Nephthys used it as a means of getting her way. Rick felt his wife tense up at the sound and got a better grip on her, when he saw Olympus positioned across the area, he knew they had to get going. When Olympus and Ardeth disappeared into an opening in the wall, Rick realized that there was something else going on other then what played out in front of them. Therefore leaving just Rick and Evelyn to do this themselves. "Alright, honey, here's your chance, I'll go after the guy reading the scripts. You get your wench." Rick reluctantly allowed. Evelyn nodded. "It would be a pleasure." She announced, then without warning, left her husband's grasp. he caught up to her, however, and pulled her back to the wall. "Not yet!" Wait a moment, see if Olympus and Ardeth come back out." ~*~*~*~*~ Alex sped up his walk when he was pinched in the back of the neck. Now he was lead to the edge of a huge deep pool, just as the worse of his fears came to him he was suddenly pushed in. He only had on a thin cloth around his waist, therefore no heavy clothing was keeping him under, but the chains were very awkward and sort of heavy, therefore treading water was a struggle. In between being pulled under the water, he heard Seth start to chant out something in Egyptian, as he started this, Nephthys took the stairs into the water. The stairway stuck about three feet out from the corner it was in, so she stood on one of the lower steps getting in the water to about her waist. She then took hold of Alex beside her, where he couldn't touch bottom. When Seth started to repeat one line, she did the deed and pushed Alex under, holding his hair and the back of his neck directly under about a half a foot. Marion ([email protected]) April 30, 2002 Nefret stayed with Jonathan, calming him. It was something she had had a lot of experience with in her life. Her parents had been devastated with her sister's death, and she had had to cope with their sorrow as well as her own. Right now she was hugging the sobbing man, her intentions were just to comfort him, nothing more. She let him cry into her shoulder, not really understanding what he was saying for she had never heard his language before. When they had been traveling together she had relied solely on Ardeth's translation and now she wished that she could understand what Jonathan was saying. But, before she even had a chance to worry about what he was saying she heard rustling behind her. Quickly, in one stealth-like movement she unsheathed her scimitar and drew it, shocking Jonathan in the meantime. She turned around very quickly, facing the direction that the noise had come from, battle stance assumed. Her eyes took in everything despite the darkness surrounding her. Her heightened senses allowed her to witness things that other people weren't entitled to, and right now she was very thankful for them. Just then her fears were confirmed as Seth jumped out of the bushes in front of her. "Well, well pretty little girl, what have we here? I see your comrade is very upset..." Seth began to laugh. "What did you do to get him to embrace you so...? Did you rape him too like you did your little Med-Jai?" The anger that surged forth from Nefret at that instant was tremendous. She could feel it controlling her emotions, even her actions, but she forced herself to remain calm. Gradually the ferocious grip that she had held her weapon with relaxed. She said nothing. "Well, we didn't succeed in killing the boy, but soon his mother will die, for Nephthys is killing her as we speak!" The glimmer in his eye was apparent. Nefret breathed a sigh of relief that Alex whom she had heard Ardeth talk so much about had not been murdered. Seth noticed and was very quick to respond. "You know, ever since I took your sister away from you fifteen years ago, I have dreamed of this day. The day that the whole world will come under my control all of Egypt will be mine and I can watch you die beneath my blade like you should have so long ago." With that Seth drew his own sword mocking Nefret's rigid stance. "You won't be able to do it you know. You can't kill me, because a part of her lives in me, I touched her and in that simple touch that took the life away from her she became mine like you soon will be." "You are wrong! Nothing as pure as my sister could live in something as foul and bastardly as you! You are a liar, a murderer and worst of all a dead man!" With that Nefret plunged her Scimitar towards her enemy, striking right below his sternum. She thrust slightly down, making a small incision. Seth leapt backwards, his free hand automatically going to the gash that she had created. His light desert tunic was instantly torn, red blood spilling forth. He gasped in pain, knowing that the worst was yet to come. "My sister..." Nefret said through clenched teeth as she circled up again, gathering strength for a new attack. "is not dead, and she never will be. You took the life away from her but you did not take her soul. As long as I am alive she will live on. When you die you will |