Taweret and the Tales of Heroes

Chapter 12: The Floating Temple of Alexandria Part 1

Over a day ago, the waters of Alexandria were struck with a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake. What became the 1955 Alexandria Earthquake would result in the deaths of 18 and almost wounding about 100 people. Hundreds of homes were damaged around the surrounding area, and other nations such as Cyprus, Greece, Syria, and Palestine all felt the quake too.

Almost eighty miles from Alexandra, a floating stone pyramid was floating on the water. It was like an island that jutted out of the sea. The monument at first could not be seen with the naked eye from miles away, but as you got closer and closer, one could tell a particular field of magical energy that was blocking your vision. Unless a ship got close to this spherical shield, no one could tell there was a pyramid in the ocean.

On the bottom of the pyramid was a glowing field of energy as Taweret saw before. Somehow this was allowing the structure to float almost miraculously as the sea waves barely touched it. The sides of the pyramid were perfectly flat. There were no signs of any bricks that lined the sides. The walls were seemingly white and tan colored than the orange sands of the great pyramids of Egypt. There was only one entrance on the front, and it was the open door that Sekhmet had indicated as before. There was a teleportation flash as three individuals materialized mere feet away from the edge that would lead you to the outside.

"Whoa!" Taweret replied. "Any closer and I would have ended up in the sea."

"It was the best I could do. Any closer inside and my teleportation spell would have been blocked."

Taweret looked around her. She stood at the edge of the entrance that led into the pyramid. The structure, while challenging to tell from the inside, looked massive in size overall. It stretched at least ten stories in height. She saw another tiny island where she could see other gods projecting magic from their hands. She could see the massive bubble that was being used to keep the pyramid from being seen from human society. She turned around and looked at the wall by the entrance. She could see the hieroglyphics etched into the stone wall that she had seen projected from the crystal from before. Inside the pyramid, itself was dark and ominous. The smell of the salty sea water perforated the area.

"Umm.....yeah, I don't feel comfortable going in," Taweret said. "Why don't we just wait for another Egyptian mythic to take the case, alright?"

Ammit shook her as she rested her butt to the stone floor.

Sekhmet looked into the cave. "Once we enter, we will not have the ability to use magic. It is designed to block any method of teleportation inside the structure itself completely. There is some sort of magical dampening field being generated in here."

"You went inside here, Seky poo?" Taweret asked.

"Yes, but only to test to see if there was a field, to begin with. I only went so far. There is a door that is closed, but I can't go any further than that. We can still summon our weapons if need be. We can summon our crystals, but I don't think they will work."

The darkness beyond that Sekhmet had mentioned made Taweret's stomach crawl. She started to get a little bit nervous. She looked and saw three torches mounted on the wall. The wicker wrapped sticks had a guard like handle to them that allowed the user to easily hold on to them without burning the holder's hand.

"Ah, much better!" Taweret excitedly said as she picked one of the torches. The torch magically lit up at the end and provided illumination to the dark cavernous tunnel. "I guess you don't need any, don't you, Seky?"

"Nah, I can see alright in the dark. Hmmm....." Sekhmet said as she looked at Ammit.

Ammit rolled her eyes as she made a deep snort and sigh. She almost pushed Taweret out of the way as her massive heavy four legged frame walked up to the set of torches. She used her front paws to perch up on the wall and opened up her powerful jaws to snatch one of the torches to carry in her mouth. The torch lit up as she got back on her all fours and looked around. The torchlight was making things hard to see in front of her. She dropped it to the ground and grunted.