Lady: The problem
by Nedaf
Chapter 2

With that, Lady started sending him visions and started telling him the tale. 'It began when the Egyptians were ruling the world. Cats were highly respected then, people even worshipped them. There were two catgoddesses. One was Bastet, the goddess with the head of a cat, who was a fertilitygoddess. The other was her evil counterpart, Sekhmet. She was associated with the destructive powers of the sun. She could bring deceases and was a goddess of revenge. She was send by the sungod Ra to destroy the humans that conspired against him. But when her bloodlust got so big that she threatened to destroy all humanity, Ra tricked her into drinking beer that was colored with red ochre, to make her drunk and make her stop slaughtering. She became the war-goddess of Upper Egypt, and the people of Egypt gave her names like Scarlet Lady and Lady of Slaughter, but also names like One Before Whom Evil Trembles, as she was seen as the Avenger of Wrongs.'
Spike had been listening to Lady attentively, but now he asked: “And that was like 2000 years ago. What does that have to do with me?” “Well you didn't let me finish, now did you? And besides, it's more like 5000 years ago.” Lady said. She continued her story.
'As the Egyptians' believe in their gods begun to wane, the gods became less powerfull and finally had no powers at all anymore on Earth. There is one text that describes how Sekhmet, just before vanishing of this planet completely, warned the people of Egypt that they should remember her, for she was a cat with 9 lives and she would be back to punish them for their betrayal of her.'
“And let me guess, she's back?” Spike said with a tone that clearly said, you gotta be kidding me. “The PTP think so, yes.” Lady said. “Lately there have been numerous catnappings, and at every place a cat has gone missing, a line has been written from the hymne of Sekhmet.”
“Ok, let's say I help you with this, what's in it for me?” “Eeh, a nice bowl of milk won't do, will it?” Lady asked, looking as cute as she possibly could, again. Spike just grunted to this answer, and said: “Fine, I'll help. I'm gonna need more information, though. I'm gonna need to go by Buffy and see if Giles has anything in his books about this.” “Great!” Lady said, “I've always wanted to meet the Slayer!” When Spike looked at her with wonder, she declared: “She looks like a catperson.”

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