The Awakening ch.10

    In the middle of the night several miles to the south of the H.E.P. archeological site the lone robed figure of Danagan walks across the sands. He walks up to one of millions of rock outcroppings in a land of few land marks. Amongst these rocks he walks up to and stands before one of the larger stones, this stone stood up on its base more like a lone British monolith than a random rock. He stands before the smooth face and raises his right hand palm forward to the stone and speaks the words of an ancient spell, “By the lords of the night, the ruler of the land of darkness and the Naj makers of the gateways between the worlds I call this path to open to the land of Styx”.

    With that the smooth surface of the rock began to glow a bright blue and with out so much as uttering another word Danagan walked into the light which vanished from the rock just after him as though nothing had ever changed in its surface.

    He reappeared in a land one could only expect to see in a dream. All about him dark yet clear waters flowed between rocks and islands of land like some strange river system. The land was dark as the sky its self was like flowing waves of purple, black and violet clouds, which seemed to be the only source of light in this place. Around him the very vegetation seemed to convey a feeling of dread with its purple and black leaves not to mention its bark was as black as a moon less night sky and covered in thorns. This dark place was not to Danagan’s liking as it was far to dark and ominous for him as he journeyed north to his destination.

    Danagan finds what he has been searching for, which is an old cave exactly three miles north of the stone gateway. It has a flat ledge above the entrance and silver characters written just below the ledge above the entrance, written in fact in the forgotten language of some ancient race of legend in the Land of Styx. Danagan scoffs at the writings, “Ancient advanced race of gods, the locals must be kidding these scribbles are nothing but circles and swirly lines.”

    Danagan walks in to the cave going several miles deep into the back to see there a lone figure. This creature is clearly male in its humanoid frame although in its naked state before him it lacks external genitalia to confirm that fact. It is covered from the top of its bald head to its clawed five toed human like feet in shades of blue scales, from light blue in the abdomen and abdominal sides to dark blue atop the head, arms, back and legs. This creature’s eyes are the eyes of a crocodile set forward in the head like a human’s. Its face is basically human in shape aside from the scales and eyes. It reveals even more differences when it smiled which revealed its mouth to be filled with rows of sharp triangular serrated shark like teeth. Despite this creature’s appearance Danagan was not in the least bit startled by it.

    The creature spoke to him, “Danagan why are you wearing those ridiculous cloths here? There are no humans here.”

    The reason Danagan had no reason to fear this creature would be relevant to anyone viewing the scene as he removed his robes to reveal a nearly identical form to the other creature only shades of green in color instead of blue.

    The blue one speaks, “I take it Danagan you have good news?”,

    “Yes Sobecken,” Danagan responds, “I wouldn’t have requested we meet other wise. Finally Sehkmenta has awakened, things are going as according
to plan.”

   Sobecken smiles saying, “It took us long enough finally we can start our plan to create a new empire of the blood drinkers.”

    “HA, HA, HA, HA, You are so incredibly corny!”

     This sudden interruption caught Danagan and Sobecken so by surprise as to make them jump.

     Danagan says, “That was a woman’s voice, but where did it come from?”

    From the entrance a red and pink scaled petit female framed version of them selves walks into the cave saying, “Where else but the entrance could my voice have come from? Unless of course you two nimrods think the rocks are laughing at you.”

    Sobecken says angrily, “Who are you little girl? And what do you think you are doing here?”

    This red female says calmly, “My name is Ananth, and as to this plan of yours; it’s comical at best.”

    She walks right up to them raising her hand in a superior manner as though brushing them off before continuing, “Your plan, if it can even be called a plan was to wake up Litmet then Sehkmenta and with both these destroyers awake you would then defeat them than the humans would bow to your feet as their saviors for getting rid of these two cat demons. Besides this stupid plan Mr. Danagan it wasn’t you who woke up Sehkmenta anyway. I guess you weren’t going to tell your friend here she has been spending the last month watching TV with her new friends.”

    Danagan says, “Sobecken is my general, I was not reporting to him. So it doesn’t matter that some archeologists woke her up, it’s only a matter of time before she attacks them and starts her rampage.”

    Ananth not missing a beat says, “Really, Litmet has been awake for some thirty years now and hasn’t started some world wide campaign to destroy the world. Also in case you didn’t realize who they were those archeologists that woke up Sehkmenta are the minions of the Dire, as you would know them, Censa.”

     Danagan freezes for a moment then thinks, “Those dog demons are involved? Hold on?” He asks, “Hold on one moment, How exactly do you know what our plan is anyway!?”

    Ananth answers with the same smug tone as before, “Its common knowledge your general there told.”

   Danagan turns to Sobecken and asks in an angry tone, “What does she mean by that SOBECKEN!?”

    Sobecken growls under his breath and says in a pitiful tone, “A while back after our last meeting to the south of here I was confronted by a pack of those were-dire things. A gold colored female one, a black female one, and one grey male one. Along with the most terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life; a female Dire, her fur was black and white, striped like a combination between a tiger and a zebra. She was about fourteen feet in height, and a lot stronger than any mammal demon ever should be. She easily restrained me and went into my mind. That bitch took the information from me. Sorry sir but at least they are doing the same thing we were going to do anyway.”

     Danagan growls and says in a very aggressive tone, “We were going to use them to bring our empire back to life. There is no telling what they are going to do with Sehkmenta.”

    Ananth says as she turns back towards the exit, “Well your plan is a failure but if you want to be part of a working plan I just so happen to be involved in something that can help you. You may not like it but you can at the least be part of a new vampiric empire. Definitely not in charge but still part of a plan that has a better chance of working than your silly evil overlord cliché plan.”

    Danagan says, “We don’t need your help little girl.”

    Ananth quicker than a blink moves as though floating above the surface right up to Danagan’s face than back to her original position. She says in a (higher than thou) tone, “I am no little girl, and if you two tried staying in the loop a little more maybe you would have a clue. Well if you change your mind go to the village of Starfin to the north east of here about one hundred miles to be exact. I will be there for three weeks and only that long, any later than that and it’s your tough luck. See you then.” With that she vanished from their sight.

    Outside Ananth looks up to see the dark silhouette of Litmet herself crouched on the ledge above the cave entrance like some gargoyle adorning a cathedral. Ananth looks on as Litmet jumps down from the ledge and begins to change her form. The fur about her body recedes revealing a pale and lovely woman’s body. The spurs on the soles of her feet recede into her feet as they shrink and change into the feet of a human. Her head distorts from its natural feline shape first into a form more fitting to a house cat than to a beautiful straight faced woman with cat ears. The ears move down and shrink first into pointy elf like ears then into normal human ears. Lastly her wings, the membrane recedes into her body freeing up her arms as the long fingers shrink into the normal hands of a human, to her the wings are the simplest transformation. The only aspects of her form that do not change are that although furless her breast are still as big and perky as before; as well as her eyes which are still the same blue oval shaped pupil beauties as before, not to mention she still has long wavy black hair.

    With all the grace of a cat she walks over to Ananth who despite her five foot ten inch height is still a whole head shorter than Litmet in her now human form. Litmet and Ananth exchanged a passionate open mouthed kiss that to on lookers would have looked odd not just because of them both being women; what with this tall woman with her long black hair setting off her pale skin kissing this shorter red scaled bald reptilian woman.

    When they part faces Ananth is still in Litmet’s embrace, she looks up to Litmet and says to the taller woman, “Your plan is going as you predicted my mistress.”