She went to the only place she could think Ramesses could have gone and now she knew the name of it as well. The pyramid of Hawara, where she first met Ramesses when he brought her to Kemet. The structure had once been a labyrinth of mystery in the real world containing knowledge on its walls that could have told the answers to humans on how to harness the power of Heka and even destroy gods or even imprison them into artifacts.
As the labyrinth slowly became destroyed throughout time Ramesses had summoned the last bit of its existence into this version of Kemet so it would not forever be lost.
Now that her mind was slowly filling with knowledge since she met Tafari and recovered her book she wrote long ago it was not hard finding the pyramid that was hidden amongst dozens more on this lunar planet.
There was no true entrance to get into the pyramid. Not that a mortal could see anyways. Only the ones who could harness Heka could walk through. Luckily for her she was learning rather quickly how to use this unexplainable magic. To her relief she was able to walk right through the sandstone bricks as if they had never existed and into the very core of the pyramid.
It was like she remembered it. Dark except the blue hue that kept some form of light inside along the walls and the ceiling. The eerie quietness of the large room disturbed her. As she walked towards the center where the stone slab was she had to pause for a moment to figure out if she was imagining what her senses were telling her. At a pillar close to the wall where she entered there was a quiet ringing. As if someone was tinkering with small chimes. She walked over to the pillar to see no change as she got closer. Ramuna pressed her ear to the pillar to see if the ringing was coming from within but as she stepped to lean in she felt something under her boot.
She quickly stepped back in fear of crushing it.
On the ground was a small amulet almost shaped like an acorn. It was moving around on the ground on its own, almost spinning in a circle like a top spinner.
Ramuna picked it up and held it in her hand but to her dismay it disintegrated in her hands and the remnants of it flew into her nose and eyes.
UGH!
Ramuna accidently tripped over her own feet frantically trying to back away, rubbing at her own eyes and nose as they burned horribly. She fell hard onto her back, groaning in pain. She was impressed that her back was not broken considering this was the second time she had made an impact with a hard surface in less than an hour.
She laid there still in defeat as she held her eyes as if pressing down on them with her fingers would stop the burning. Once it faded away she slowly sat up and blinked profusely.
In front of her past the stone slab at the far back end of the pyramid was a new entrance. An entrance that looked inhuman and unlike anything she had seen before and at this point that truly said a lot considering all things that had come to pass for her these past two months.
The inner part of the entrance was glowing blue and looked like something that was alive and breathing as it moved in and out of the entrance way. If Ramuna decided to walk through would she just be swallowed whole by the blue light? What was on the other side? Nothingness? The outer entrance way was what disturbed her. It looked like it had some form of purplish bluish flesh. This entrance truly was alive. It almost looked like the frame of it was made out of tentacles.
Ramuna slowly walked over and as she got closer she soon realized that the thing that made the frame of the doorway was not tentacles but in fact human beings. Dead bloated and decomposing bodies that were still breathing and very much alive.
She almost gave out a scream but clamped a hand down on her own mouth in horror. What if they woke up and attacked her? These things were giving the demon of Duat a run for its horrific figure!
A thought occurred to her as she studied the abomination of an entrance in front of her. Was Ramesses inside this doorway? Could she only see this entrance now because of whatever the hell it was of an amulet she picked up? Surely this monstrosity would have been the first thing she would have noticed as she entered the pyramid.
Refusing to let the appearance scare her into turning back now she walked through into the blue glowing light. Her vision was blinded and all she saw in front of her was the blue light as if she was staring into a blue illuminated lightbulb for too long and now that's all that her vision was. Yet there still continued to be ground under her feet to walk on so she kept going.
Wherever she was there was a huge commotion going on around her.
Ramuna heard something rather large hissing in the far distance followed by something shuffling on the floor. Or perhaps slithering? Whatever it was it was by all means bigger than her with how loud it was and causing the ground to tremble beneath her.
Then it was complete silent for a moment and then-
There was no mistaking it. The scream of agony she heard after the silence was Ramesses.
Ramuna had enough she felt a burst of anger bloom inside her. She was tired of not being able to understand anything that had been happening these past few months. Exhausted of being tossed around and lied to and-
Damn this blue light that clouds my vision!
Ramuna raised one hand abruptly as if she was holding a torch up and bright white light blasted from her hand and engulfed the bluish haze around her vision. She found herself in a dark cave with many tunnels.
Ah, the labyrinth of Hawara.
The walls were jagged and looked like they could cut someone if they happened to lose their balance and fall against the wall. The caves walls were of course obsidian black just like the pyramid itself. Unlike the center of the pyramid there was absolute darkness inside this cave. Until now.
The white light that shone bright in her hand illuminated the awful scene in front of her.
Ramesses was on the ground with a pool of blood surrounding him. Giant sized bite marks that looked like fangs showed deep punctures all over his body. Some of his flesh had actually been bitten off his body and there were chunks of him on the ground.
There was no way anyone could survive the state he was in. Not even a God.
Ramesses somehow was still holding up a spear, the end of it was sticking through the head of the giant serpent that had been roaming around the cave. The giant mass of gray was above him. It was the length of about thirty feet and its body the height of ten feet. Its eyes were open but showing no signs of life anymore as it slowly vanished. The same white light that Ramuna was holding up was the same light that was consuming the snake starting from its tail. Its fangs dripping green cloudy mucus, venom, was the last thing that showed before it was completely consumed in the light and dispersed.
The only thing left in the cave was Ramuna and Ramesses and the light she held in her hands.
Tears stung her eyes as she ran to Ramesses, his spear dropping out of his hands; the golden light had dimmed from his eyes and now were the same cloudy green that had been dripping out of the snake's mouth as if he was becoming the poison the snake produced.
Ramuna dropped to her knees beside Ramesses in the pool of blood. The light she had held now completely surrounded her as if she was the light source for the cave but not bright enough to blind either one of them.
Ramesses breathing was ragged and she could hear the blood in his lungs, drowning him, through each breath he tried to take.
Ramuna could not tell if he was aware that she was even here, he looked lost in his own pain, possibly feverish from the poison in his body or perhaps the shock from all the blood loss. She touched his forehead as gently as she could and felt that he in fact had a terrible fever. His eyes were focused on the ceiling.
"Ramesses?"
Ramuna had not realized how shaken she truly was till she heard her own voice. As if instinctively she pulled him up into her lap grabbing him from underneath his arms and holding him tightly to her; pressing her forehead to his.
"How the hell did you get here? This is part of the entrance to Duat you need to leave before something else shows up." Ramesses said slowly through his struggling breaths. He was wheezing now and gurgling on blood. Before she could even respond to him he started to cough out blood mixed with green venom.
Ramesses gripped her hand as he went into an awful fit fighting to breathe his face turning slightly blue.
Ramuna just held him tighter, ignoring his wishes. If they could heal themselves with Heka could they heal each other? She closed her eyes and focused hard on what she wanted most, to see him healed. To be strong enough to be able to explain whatever it was she had just witnessed.
They both stayed like that on the ground for a long time. It felt like hours to Ramuna yet she refused to lose focus and continued to push positive thoughts into his subconsciousness, urging him to heal himself. Finally after what felt like eternity to Ramuna his breathing started to become normal, she lifted her head to see that the poison was exiting his body through all the puncture wounds on his body before they finally closed themselves together. To her relief the only thing left on Ramesses was his shredded up suit and dried blood yet he looked beyond exhausted.
Out of nowhere and with no explanation of where it came from; a golden chariot that moved on its own without any horses slowly passed them without making a sound. The chariot glistened from Ramuna's white light showing its massive size. The chariot had to have been meant for a giant and not a normal sized person!
Ramuna watched it go down one of the tunnels inside the cave and completely vanish from her lights view. She shuddered. Something had been eerily familiar about that chariot but she refused to delve into focussing on it any longer. Ramesses was her first priority.
She heard Ramesses sigh deeply as if in relief.
"Another night's work done. The chariot of Ra made it to where it needed to go. Until next time."
Ramesses looked up at her and gave her one of those sly smiles she absolutely loathed. Maybe leaving him to fend off that serpent alone would have been the better choice.