The story of my Egyptian life✔️

Chapter 17

The cold air of death lingered on my hot skin, surprising me. I have never been cold before, and now that I was near death it was colder than being outside in the winter without a coat or shoes. It was dark here and the only support of light was the lava we were sailing through but not melting the boats interior and the balls of fire around us.

Dead people were clawing around in the old and black grass, digging themselves out of their graves. Souls nearby looked at me and stopped moaning, their disfigured features stop moving. "What is happening to them?"I ask Thoth. He looks at me with glazed eyes then smiles, looking back at the ghosts.

"If you look through the duat, I'm sure your mother taught you how, you can see a powerful and nearly blinding aura emitting from you and the ghosts are rejoicing in it. Haven't you heard the story of how Ra traveled through the Land of the Dead and made the dead feel as if they were living for even the smallest amount of time?"he asks.

I nodded, remembering. Ra always traveled in the night at the Land of the Dead, making the souls rejoice. It was freaky to know that his very own daughter is unknowingly doing what he used to do before he was thrown from his throne. Then, following his instructions to see what is making them stop mourning, I look at myself through the duat, a layered world where you can see many textures of life.

I looked at the others first, where Bast was a glowing purple cat with the body of a muscular but petite woman in Egyptian robes, Thoth a bird that looked like a stork and wearing battle armor, and Neith was....hmm, she wasn't near.

The ghosts were balls of darkness but as I passed them they turned into human bodies, smiling and laughing happily. Taking a look at myself, I saw that I was dressed in a light Egyptian gown that draped to the floor and around me was bursts of light, as if my skin were orange colored and inflammed flashlights.

I took myself out of the duat, feeling slightly nauseous. The boat bumped against the land, and looming above us was a pure black temple. The only bright color around us was the lava surrounding us like a lake, and our clothes. It was...strange here. Depressing and happy at the same time.

Behind me, Bast snarled and crouched down, her hair puffing out. "Bast,"I warned her. She shoke her head and sprinted back to the boat, glaring at something ahead of us. "Hello, Chike. Thoth."said a voice that sounded like a teenager. I turned slowly to look at what Bast despised of. The god of Death, Anubis himself, was staring at all of us with a raised eyebrow.

His chocolate brown eyes scanned me for a moment before he inclined his head to follow him. "Ammit, sit."he commanded of the ghastly god, Ammit the Devourer as he snarled at us. He eats the hearts of wrongdoers, that's all.

Osiris, sitting on his throne with blue skin and looking like the pharaoh Narmer, was talking to a man in a loincloth and holding a very long parchment.

"Osiris."I said, bowing my head and making the gods and my presence known. He stopped chatting to the man next to him with an urgent face, and looked at me with a smile. "Daughter of Ra! And Thoth, I see. How wonderful it is for you to come."he said, smiling widely. Thoth smiled back at Osiris.

"I assume you are here to learn about shadows to destroy Aphriam?"he asks. Slowly, I nod. He chuckles, then claps on Anubis's shoulder. "See here, I would have expected Thoth to know more than we do, right nephew?"he asks. Anubis rolls his eyes and smirks. "Yeah."

"So, child, come here."he said, beckoning me forwards. I walked slowly to him, watching his brown eyes twinkle as he watched me. He smiled in a way that was warm and fatherly, making me feel more comfortable in the Land of the Dead, before the god of Death and Funerals. It was just unbelievable, how I started off as a bullied waitress into a daughter of Ra, the god of gods and and the sun, talking to god who were a thousand times older than me.

"There are five parts to the soul. Your life force, your personality, your secret name, and the part that becomes a ba in the after life. The last part is your shadow, I kid you not. It is the darkened form of you, and your entire being replicated. If you destroy the person or object, it may destroy them but not completely. You must destroy the shadow as well to destroy the being from existence. That is how Apophis was destroyed, and I am proud to say it was by my own daughter and son! Isn't that right, Anubis?"he said, elbowing the blushing god.

He nodded and looked away, scowling. Osiris shoke his head and grimaced. "In honesty, the main idea is that the only thing you have to do is just capture the soul and destroy it with an exitration spell, (however you spell it)."

I nodded. "Great. Finding his shadow isn't impossible, is it Thoth?"I asked the god sarcastically. He nodded. "It is possible. Your mother already told you how and you know what you have to do. Don't you?"he asks. My jaw dropped and all the gods bursted into laughter but I glared at them, shutting them up.

"I really have to?"I ask. Osiris leaned forward, placing an elbow on his knee. "What do you have to do?"he asks. I looked around us, scared somebody will hear what I have to do. "Do you know a spell that allows only us to hear a certain language that is long forgotten?"I ask Thoth. He nods. "Only the oldest gods like Ra and Apophis know, but there isn't many left."he said.

I nodded to him to say the spell and he did, hieroglyphs green hovering in the air over us. "Okay...."I muttered, looking in Osiris's eyes.

"I...have to marry him."

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