Thoth's Pyramid - How I Learned to Sail the Skies

The runes on the dais glowed and began to vibrate as Six Pages stood upon it. It was in the topmost room of Thoth's pyramid. The dais shuddered slightly as she began moving the pyramid. She watched as the others, her friends, were tossed about the small room like rag dolls. She felt a thrill of power in her belly as she steered the pyramid to a remote desert she hadn't even known existed.   This was wrong. It was all wrong. Six tried to resist the thing, the thing that she had let into her mind.   It had happened so fast. They were struggling to get through the long hallway, trapped between four crystalline statues that were proving difficult to defeat. They needed to get through the next door. It was marked with the eye of Thoth but it had a slash through it. That slash through the eye had given her a sense of foreboding but then the voices had come to her. At first it had been whispering as if people were all around her, invisible to ...to what? To this time or this place? She wasn't sure but the voices crowded out her own thoughts. One voice had grown louder as she tried to understand the words. It was calm, soothing. The masculine voice had offered help. He sounded generous, understanding and kind. 'Yes. We need help,' she thought.   As soon as she thought the words, she had felt a presence, a very strong magical presence. She snapped back to the present and watched as Paix ran towards her, towards the empty dais of the single crystalline statue they had managed to defeat. She wanted to stop her friend but couldn't get the words out before Paix had stepped onto the dais.   As if in slow motion, Six watched as the ceiling began to rumble and a portion of it began descending rapidly towards them. Sutrys would take the brunt of the damage in the large dragon form he had shifted into earlier. She was responsible for his form and now he might be killed. Paix quickly jumped off the dais but it didn't stop the trapped ceiling from its descent. The voice, that strong soothing helpful voice urged Six to step onto the dais. She knew in that moment that she could stop the unfolding disaster from happening. When she stepped onto the dais, she could suddenly see herself on another dais as if she where looking down at herself but the vision of herself showed her standing next to two others on dais's. It was thrilling and terrifying to see herself so powerful and strong. The ceiling stopped its rapid descent the moment she had stepped on to it. She had saved them. She felt strong as she rushed to the door with the slashed eye. The voice was helping her, helping them.   Six had known with certainty that no one else could open the door except her. She was strong and powerful. And she had been right. The strongest of them had tried to open it. She intervened and had pushed the door open as if it was her right. The door closed behind them soundly and they were enveloped in darkness that defeated even those with the best night vision. The wizened man with the lantern had come forward then.   Looking back, Six realized she should have known then. She should have known she was in trouble. She had invited the demon into her mind. Merely thinking the thought that yes they needed help had been enough for the monstrous thing. Now, he was not merely a voice urging her, instructing her, giving her power she had never known; he had taken the driver's seat in her mind. She had lost control to a horrific demon. She tried to overcome him but could not. When she began flying the Pyramid with her, no, its will, she could only watch with horror as her friends were tossed about the room like rag dolls.   When they landed, the deep mocking voice taunted her injured friends. "Did you really think that you could fool me? Did you really believe that you could deny me what I want and still get what I offered you?"   She or rather it had offered them a deal. Help him escape the Pyramid. All he wanted them to do, he had assured them, was to get control of the dais where the Sphinx lay. In return, he would give them Attet's heart and tell them where the Emerald tablet was. They had tried to trick him and failed. Now all bets were off. She listened as her friends discussed whether or not to kill her. They thought that if they killed her, the demon would be powerless.   Six was the only one of her friends uninjured from their flight to the desert west of the mountains that split the continent. She listened as the monster in her spoke to her friends, demanding they help him escape, telling them they would never go home if they didn't.