Pursuit of Immortality

Chapter 10

"Sena!" I heard a male voice shout and within moments, the queen was in control and feverishly looking for the source of the voice. No...

"Tutankhanman?!" The others gasped and the pharaoh appeared by my side, his body radiating love and fear.

"What are you doing here? You must leave. This is-"

"The sorcerer," he finished for me and I nodded, anger seeping into my heart. This man before us had ruined our entire lives. I wanted nothing more than to singe every cell in his body but his words had made me worry.

"Who is it that is connected to you?" I shouted in desperation, irritation and pain running through me. The body next to me stiffened and the despicable man before us grinned before looking toward the other vampire.

"Take a wild guess my queen," Ken sneered and inched his way to his hands and knees, the beast under my control following his every move. Every part of me went still and my eyes slowly found those of my king. So much pain was hidden inside of them.

"No..." A booming chuckle followed my single word and the threat of tears filled me up until I could not focus.

"Yes," he said and climbed fully to his feet, my beast looking between myself and its prey. I flicked my wrist in the man's direction and the beast used a large paw to slice into his thigh, a blood curdling scream reverberating out of his mouth, an echo of the scream being heard beside me. It was true. There on my love's thigh was a mirror slice like that of the lion's blade like claws had created on Ken.

"You bastard! How dare you!?" The skin slowly began to stitch itself back together, the blood the vampire had consumed helping to heal his body. I went to launch myself at the man when his eyes and fangs flashed at me in a warning. I halted and watched helplessly as he ran with his vampiric speed to the other female. He put his arms around her and lifted her like a fresh bride and gave me one last hiss before they both disappeared.

I ran to where they had been and frantically searched for any sign of them. To my chagrin, there was nothing in the sea of black save for myself, the males, and the lion.

"S-Sena, please explain what just happened," I heard Orlando's voice say and I couldn't help he tears.

"Hello. I go by Khan but I am better known as Tutankhamun, a previous pharaoh of Egypt." The boys took in air and looked at him as if he had grown a second head.

My king's arms wrapped around me and he pulled me to his chest in a comforting gesture.

"We will defeat him and get your friend back, I promise," he whispered and my tears poured out even more. He took Mary. I don't know where they went or how to save her. Just yesterday I was an average American in college, and overnight I became a queen. I lost my friend who I had vowed to protect and I had to figure out how to kill Ken without killing the one I love.

"Sena?" I glanced over to the two humans and wiped my tears away. I had to protect them at all costs.

"Orlando. Zack. My name is Sena but I am also Ankhsenamun, this man's wife. To put it simply, we are not dead. Well, I'm no longer dead, he is undead." They gravitated toward one another as we both spoke insane things.

"T-that's impossible... you can't be them," Zack pointed and quivered in our presence. I looked to the vampire still holding me and he looked just as lost as I.

"What can we do to prove it to you?" Khan asked the boys and their eyes connected before they started to whisper to one another. Khan seemed to be listening in on them with his vampiric hearing. A small grin appeared on his lips as the boys turned back to us.

"It was said that Tut and his bride had two children who were stillborn. There were no records of the names of the babies. What were they called?" I felt my heart fall and every part of me wanted to break down and sob. Khan's arms pulled me against him and I felt him shudder as if he were ready to cry as well.

"They were to be called Teferiamun and Alasamun. Please don't mention them. It is still a touchy subject." The unsaid words between Khan and I about our daughters were left just that way, unsaid. It was the reason we had grown apart in our last days alive.

"How do you know that for sure? How do we know if you are just making up names?" I narrowed my eyes to the two remaining boys and pulled away from the vampire holding me as I started to stalk toward them with venom in my eyes. If looks could kill...

Khan took my arm and pulled me back, keeping me pinned with a strength stronger than my own. He recognized the look in my eye to be the same one as the look Ken had when he wanted to kill me.

"Please do not antagonize her. It may have been over two-thousand years ago but the spirit of the queen within her is still very much fresh to the pain." The boys had grown stronger in heart since the vampire and Mary had gone but it was not stronger than the will I had over the death of my daughters. A part of me rationalized for a moment that the babies hadn't been mine. They had been the queen's not mine.

But the part that felt that was quickly pushed back as the queen's rage fueled her rise to the surface.

"So you truly are Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun?" Zack was nearly jumping with excitement. My tense body finally calmed down and I patted the vampire to let me go. His arms released me but didn't wander far as he kept contact with me.

"We are but now we are different people and go by different names. I was born in the United States and named Sena so that is who I am but I have two souls within me. Both are dominant and both are truly me. I am Sena but I am also Ankhesenamun. I did die thousands of years ago but I am alive today as well. The soul of the queen did not surface until confronted by something that she remembered so she could recognize who she was. And that something was her husband, the king."