It was like being thrust into light after an eternal tunnel of darkness. The first thing that returned was her thoughts. As soon as the mind returned, so did the body, and it was very painful. At first, she tried to struggle, but there was no muscle to move with. Dull nerve endings felt tough and leathery like a dried skeleton.<br/><br/>The Ancient Queen Cleopatra would have screamed out in agony as her body reconstructed itself, but her throat was still withered decomposed ash. When she could, she let out a low moan through the gag as the pain finally began to subside as her flesh and bones began to live once again.<br/><br/>She wriggled in her bonds, and the chains holding her began to break, the old metal leaving muddy rust trails on the shriveled bandages that wrapped her body. As soon as her hands and arms were free, she clawed the rest away and pulled the old leather gag from her mouth. It broke away easily and fell apart in her hands.<br/><br/>Cleopatra slowly sat up and brushed her tawny skin of dust and fiber, beginning to seethe with anger. How dare those three do this to her! They would pay for their act with a thousand deaths!<br/><br/>She began to hoist herself from the sarcophagus, limbs still weak from an unknown slumber. She ripped the burial wrappings from her body and pulled away the dried cord around her limbs. As she did, the cover slid off and clanged to the floor, and with it charms and medallions that had been wrapped beneath the bandages. Cleopatra slid over the edge and onto a cold floor, completely nude as she had been when the three descended upon her and bound and gagged her.<br/><br/>The place she had been left in was not her palace, nor was it a tomb. The architecture was unfamiliar, but was filled with many objects that were familiar. The air was cool and drafty, not the hot dry breezes of desert air, and everything was lit with glowing orbs and tubes like the sun.<br/><br/>What was this place, and how long had she been sealed? She looked into the reflection of the golden sarcophagus and saw that she was once again her former self; deep black hair, melon-sized breasts, and a curvy voluptuous figure. Her power was slowly returning.