the Awakening ch.16

    High in the clouds above the land of Egypt had one been up there they would have heard a deep voice speaking, “For months the H.E.P has been digging in the sand, while a member of the Order of the Golden Cross watches them. The Elite Paladins of the order search the deserts for any signs of Litmet while their librarian member Brother Keene searches through the archives back in the Vatican for any information on cat demons and the different types of vampires.”

 

    This loud voice is coming from above a single cloud floating high above the clouds, sitting cross legged on this solid floating cloud is none other than the Hinnen Ahm in all his golden glory.

 

    In the Vatican in his office the Head Inquisitor is on the phone saying, “Father Henry I am serious I can’t send the Elite Paladins to help you at this time, they are busy in the Middle East trying to save the world.”

 

    From the phone the loud noises of protest could be heard to which the Head Inquisitor responds, “Father Henry! Your family will just have to hold on and weather the Dire in your area until the current crises is over. Then I will send them to help you if you still need it.”

 

    The Head Inquisitor winces as Father Henry on the line slams down his receiver.

 

    The Head Inquisitor sighs and dials a new number on the phone thinking, “Better see how things are going with Rick.”

 

    On the Phone the Head Inquisitor asks Rick, “Have the Elite Paladins found their objective yet?”

 

   Rick answers, “Their have been no signs so far of Litmet or the Doh-Rong for some months now except the occasional unsolved murder or killed animal but those could just as easily been from people or animals other than our targets.”

 

   “That may be a good sign,” states The Head Inquisitor, “but they will still need to look until they find and exterminate those demons. Now has anything new developed with the H.E.P.’s activities?”

 

     Rick says, “They are still digging a huge hole in the sand. From my casual questionings of the locals working on the site they are growing more fearful of the hole. Several workers claim to be hearing voices and growl like rumbling noises coming from below the ground; however they continue to dig as their small village hasn’t gotten this kind of money since the days of the British digs.”

 

    Just after the Head Inquisitor said his thanks and good byes and Rick hung up a sudden loud series of screams echo across the desert from the H.E.P. camp.

 

     Rick quickly picks ups his binoculars than discards them for the night binoculars for the sun has just set. The sight before Rick is horrifying; several workers are fleeing the site only to be cut down and even cut in half by variously colored spinning arc shaped glowing blades that vanish into the sand after slicing through their targets. It’s like a rainbow of death, blue, red, purple, and green spinning blades slicing up the fleeing workers covering the sand in their spraying blood. As Rick looks on in horror other workers are cut down by beams of blue light or energy that incinerated the workers on contact.

 

    All the lights stop as the great voice of Sehkmenta resounds over the camp site, “Stay and do not run mortals and from your memories all this shall be erased and you will be allowed to go in peace.”

 

    Rick follows the sound of Sehkmenta’s voice with his binoculars and finds Sehkmenta in her grey silvery furred cat woman form standing atop the hill made by the dug up sand from the giant hole.

 

    Rick sees the same three Were-Dires as before walking up the hill to stand next to Sehkmenta but no signs of Dr. O’Conner or Al’Suad could be seen from where he was standing, Rick feared the worst. Rick noticed that the female with the orange tuft of fur above her cleavage (the one he knew was called Ophelia) was holding in her right hand a purple arc of energy that in her hand looked like a glowing piece of glass but Rick knew better as he thought, “Her, it was her that killed all those innocent people just for running away.”

 

    Rick’s attention is drawn by a very loud deep voice that shakes the very Earth its self beneath their feet coming from the hole, “WHO DARES DISTURB MY SLUMBER!”

 

    In the distance Litmet in her full winged form and Ananth once more in her humanoid form are sitting on a sand dune when Litmet’s ears prick up and she turns to the east and says, “Rho-Sho is here, and earlier I could have sworn I heard the voice of that Hinnen Ahm coming from the sky.”

 

    Ananth asks, “who is Rho-Sho?”

 

    Litmet responds, “Rho-Sho is a Suihrai, the true Suihrai, and a very old one at that. He proclaims himself a god of darkness and dwells in a pocket underworld dimension he calls the Abyss of Darkness.”

 

    Ananth says, “A god of light and the sky and a god of darkness and the underworld.”

 

    Litmet says, “Yes so lets hurry before we miss the all the fun”