The Knight's Princess

Chapter 12

Princess Azaria, her sister Princess Naliyah, Prince Alonza, and a few guards arrived in Giza, Egypt for the tomb of Sahar. Not even five seconds after landing the helicopter Naliyah couldn’t help herself.

“Finally, we made it! I swear if I must sit in that helicopter any longer, I will no longer have my precious butt” Naliyah complained as everyone was getting off the helicopter.

“Come on Naliyah it wasn’t that bad” Alonza said while rolling his eyes.

“Speak for yourself Prince” Naliyah spats back with annoyance in her tone.

Azaria just ignored those two and commanded the guards to grab their bags and put it in the rental car. Once everyone got into the car, they made their way to the nearest hotel that was closet to the sighting of the pyramid that holds the tomb of Sahar. They decided to stay at Isis inn and suites for it was the closet to their destination.

They checked into their rooms the girls with one female guard were in one room and Prince Alonza with a male guard in the other room. As the night fell and everyone went to sleep to start their mission tomorrow morning Azaria couldn’t sleep right away. Her mind was filled with desire and wonder and Nkosi’s words replaying over and over in her head as she stares out the window looking at the brightly lit stars in the sky. And every time she thought about him her heart starts to beat a little faster. Wondering if he is ok and more importantly wondering if he is thinking about her like she is thinking about him.

Meanwhile in the city of Nobu Nkosi arrived at the training facilities to become a stronger better guardian. As he is looking around, he sees so many talented warriors with special abilities that are uncanny.

“Your mother came here to do her training as a guardian for Azaria’s mother” Gail said

“How do you know this? Isn’t this training for guardians only?” Nkosi asked

“This facility is not only for guardian training its for all special elite individuals” Gail responded

Gail and Nkosi made it to the front desk inside the building to register Nkosi into the training program. Once done Gail took Nkosi to his dorm room to get settled in.

“Once you are settled come down to the mess hall for dinner and we will see the headmaster afterwards for a quick meeting” Gail instructed. Nkosi just nods his head and starts to unpack his bag and look around his room.

While putting stuff up he runs into an old picture of him and Azaria side by side as kids. Memories of him expressing his love for her rush back as regret for how he left things with her. Later nkosi went down to the mess hall to meet Gail for dinner. He gets in line to grab some food from the buffet style display when some rude boy bumps into Nkosi’s shoulder on purpose.

“Watch where you’re going! You almost knocked my food on the floor” Nkosi yelled.

“Oh really? Maybe I didn’t hit you hard enough.” The man responded as he hit the tray of food out of Nkosi’s hand.

Nkosi balled up his fist ready to strike him when a hand reached his shoulder to stop him.

“Beano! What I tell you about messing with the new recruits?” the woman asked

“Do I have to tell the headmaster again about how you are treating the students here?” the woman threatened. Beano scoffed and just walked away with his followers behind.

“Sorry about him, he can be a handful at times, but he is a great warrior” the woman said

“A warrior without respect, morals, values, and self-control is just a jerk with skills” Nkosi responded while cleaning the mess Beano made.

“I’m Luna the female Head warrior of this facility” she introduced.

“Nkosi the guardian of the future Queen of Demenia” he responded.

Luna was shocked to know who Nkosi was and offered to replace his food that Beano knocked to the floor. Nkosi refused her offer and politely excused himself to meet up with Gail at the table. Luna became intrigued by Nkosi and was determined to make him hers.

Meanwhile back in Giza, Egypt Azaria and everyone were packing up the gear they were going to need to explore the tomb of Sahar. As they arrived, they met up with their guide to show them the through the pyramid.

“My name is Salem and I’ll be your guide through the pyramid” he introduced.

Azaria nodded her and introduced everyone attending the mission. Walking through the pyramid with torches lighting their way they came across some hieroglyphs on the walls. Salem explained how these tell of the legend of a great evil and how he is imprisoned in a endless void. Legend has it that the goddess Sahar trapped him inside with the power of her amulet. As Salem was explaining the legend Naliyah walked further into the pyramid to see that there are two different paths.

“Hey guys!” Naliyah yelled

“Yeah, what’s up Naliyah? Did something happen?” Azaria asked

“Yeah, which way are we supposed to go from here? There are two different pathways we can take but which one is the right one?” Naliyah asked.

When everyone turned around to look towards Salem for answers he just disappeared without a trace.

“Ok, where the heck did our guide just run off to?” Naliyah asked with slight fear and confusion in her voice.

“I don’t know he was just right there” Azaria responded.

After pacing back and forth Alonza came up with an idea to split up and one team take the right tunnel and the other team take the left tunnel. Azaria was not a big fan of that idea but when Naliyah took the male guard with her down the right tunnel without waiting for everyone to agree or disagree Azaria, Alonza, and the female guard just ended up going down the left tunnel.

While exploring the left tunnel the group saw a bright light at the end of the tunnel. They ran towards that light as fast as they could just to come in a room filled with a bunch of weird markings and stone door with stone like charms on it. As they were scanning the room Azaria had this eerie feeling being in there. Something about this room brought the feeling of death and despair to her core.

“Alonza, I think we should get out of here I don’t have a good feeling about this” Azaria suggested

But Alonza didn’t answer Azaria he was just standing their pupils wide and completely black. As Azaria was trying to get prince Alonza’s attention he pushed her aside and was walking towards the stone door that is sealed shut. The female guard tried to snap him out of his daze, but he just picks her up by the neck and threw he across the room. Once reaching the door Alonza took one of the stone charms and smashed it. Causing some sort of black fog to seep through. Right when Alonza was about to smash another one Azaria grabbed Alonza and tapped into her amulet’s power to snap him out of his daze.

“What? What happened? How did I get over here? Alonza asked head in a foggy confusion.

“You were in a daze it was like you weren’t there anymore mentally. Are you okay?” Azaria explained.

Right when prince Alonza was about to respond a massive earthquake started shaking the tomb causing the floor beneath their to c***k around them and completely gave out on them falling and sliding down a small tunnel and right into a cage hitting their heads knocking them out.