The Awakening ch.14

    As the sun sets Rick sits in his small camouflaged tent in the Egyptian desert with his radio scanning for any transmissions in the area in the hopes of catching any communications in the new and much larger H.E.P camp. Rick watches the camp though his new recording binoculars for he can look back later at the tapes for anything he missed.

 

     He picks up his tape recorder and speaks into it, “After finding a strange giant golden Ankh about the size of a medium sized dog in the Saudi Arabian desert the H.E.P camp came to this location in the Egyptian desert and has gathered a large work force of their own people and local civilian workers to excavate a large hole for an as yet to be seen reason.”

 

    Going back to watching the excavation site Rick sees Sehkmenta in her human form talking with Silver.

 

    He speaks into his recorder again, “Sehkmenta, since coming here around all these civilian workers has yet to appear in her cat like form outside of her tent. Also through my casual questioning of the civilian workers in their nearby village in their bar I have learned that her name is in fact Sehkmenta instead of Sehkmet as we had originally thought it to be. Undoubtedly her name was changed to Sehkmet when it was passed down through the ages by oral traditions before being written down.”

 

    Rick’s attention is suddenly grabbed by a loud man’s scream coming over the radio, requiring Rick to quickly turn the volume down for fear of the night air carrying the sound to the excavation site.

 

    Just after sunset what would have appeared to be a caravan of nomads atop trucks and camels to any onlookers was passing through the desert heading to the south. On closer inspection it would become obvious this group was made of nothing but well armed men carrying many crates of assault weapons on their way to their buyers in the south. Before any of them could do anything two figures in the night sky had descended upon them.

 

    In his terrified haste one of the men radioed for help screaming over the radio, “HELP, some one in the name of Allah please help us!! Our caravan is under attack! Two devils are ripping our men to pieces, a red dragon! Oh please I don’t want to die.”

 

    Next over the radio could be heard much sobbing before the man continued, “Two monsters, two beasts of hell I swear to Allah its true!! One is a dragon… a red dragon! Oh dear Allah save us!!”

 

    In the back ground one could clearly hear the screams of men as well as gun fire from machine guns and even explosions, as well as the strange sound of a mountain lion like scream and roaring with hissing like some thing of hell.

 

    The man continued after an explosion that sounded very close to the radio on the man’s end, “Another beast is here too! It’s a woman! A woman with bat wings like a demon and the head of a lion!!” She is killing us and their eating us, Plea…*thud* *bzzzzzz*”

 

    Rick listened to the man on the radio whose call was suddenly cut short by the sound of a sudden thud than static.

 

    “What the hell is going on?” Rick thinks, “That description of a dragon?

And that other creature sounded just like one the murals Al’Suad described to me on the wall of that tomb Sehkmenta was sleeping in. But she’s right here, this doesn’t make any sense. If a dragon of some sort is nearby Al’Suad has to be warned, and what the hell is that other creature?”

 

    Ricks thoughts are cut short by a woman’s voice on the radio. A voice that causes Rick’s eyes to shoot wide open in surprise, a cold chill to run down his spine, and his face to turn as pale as a sheet as though he had seen a ghost.

 

    The sweet seductive sounding voice said over the radio, “People with in the sound of my voice, I am Litmet the future ruler of this world.”

 

    The next part caused Rick to fall to his knees in sheer shock as the voice of Litmet continued, “Rick I know you are listening to this my little treat, you can just call me the woman of your dreams.” This was followed by a high pitched strangely cat like laugh.

 

   Rick says out loud to himself, “My God what the hell is going on here?”