Immortal

Rebellion

It was  the dead of night when Nadia and I were pulled from our bed. There were yells and screams down the halls. The sounds of the clash of swords echoed down the long halls to us. The rebel's has invaded. I looked up at my captor, the older guard from today's shift. 

"What is happening?" I asked sharply. I looked over at Nadia, she was unharmed and looked bored, I was instantly suspicious.

"The rebels have invaded, the pharaoh has demanded your presence to make a deal with the gods", the guard spat.

I looked at Nadia, worried. The bored look had been wiped off her face to a calculating one. 

"The last time someone tried to give us to the gods didn't go so well for them", Nadia hinted.

Her captor  guard scoffed at her, and dragged her more roughly to walk faster. 

I exchanged a glance with Nadia, wondering about our fate. We hadn't done our job as asked by Isis and instead had only become figureheads for the pharaoh to play with.

We began a descent into a tunnel that I hadn't known was present before. 

"Where are you taking us exactly?", I demanded of my captor, "tell me!"

"As I said, the pharaoh has demanded your presence for a deal with the gods, actually one god in particular, and you're part of the exchange", my captor spat back.

"We're going to the pharaohs hidden chamber to commune with the gods", Nadia's captor added softly.

Suddenly I was filled with foreboding, one of us or both wouldn't come through this experience with our freedom. I looked at Nadia with dread, she was gazing at me calmly, she had already accepted her fate. I wanted to scream but no sound would come out.

I closed my eyes shut tight and allowed myself to be dragged roughly forward through the tunnel. It felt like mere moments later, I opened my eyes  and we had entered a large room with a slope, we climbed up to the top and once up, a guard set a switch off.

"What's that? ", Nadia's captor asked. I had finally recognised him, he was one of our main guards who had been kinder towards us than most, but had still kept us within our room or the palace water gardens.

"You'll see in a moment, can't you hear them? Dumbasses", my captor chuckled.

I listened intently and could hear shouting and yelling, the rebel's had found the tunnel and were venturing down the tunnel  towards us. 

I suddenly realised what the switch was for and went to draw breath to  yell out, but my captor squeezed his hand over my nose and mouth.

"Yell to warn them and I'll make sure the gods torture you for eternity", the guard paused for a moment thoughtfully, "actually I think I'll ask the pharaoh if I can have you and torture you myself for Set".

Nadia's eyes went wide as she comprehended what was waiting for us. I became calm. I could accept my fate, as long as Nadia survived and was freed. I would negotiate this. I would survive this torture  for her.

The rebels had reached the room now, and looked at us from the top of the steep slope. The leader gave a yell and started forward toward us. My guard smiled and watched intently, his hand still over my mouth. The rebels were halfway up the slope when  there was a deep groaning sound. Large logs were released to roll down from the top of the slope down. The rebels cried out and started to run back down but they didn't make it. The sickening sound of crunching bones and flesh, the screams of those  severely injured,  pierced my brain.

I tried to turn away, but my guard pulled my face around. 

"Oh no, no, you get to watch. You wanted to yell and save them, like  you try to save the slaves everyday with different disasters, but it's not your place, you're not a god, you're a mere woman, and you need to be taught your place in the world, under a man", the guard whispered sickenly into my ear.

I struggled , trying to put distance between me and the guard but he pulled me closer and held my head to watch as the rebels tried to crawl out from under logs. The entrance to the room had been blocked by several logs and there was no escape for us or the rebels.

More guards came from behind us as the sounds of screaming got louder.

"Finish them off", my guard told them.

He then wheeled us around and dragged me onward, towards my doom.