Chapter 9 The Forbidden Zone [The sound of war is developing with the rats, as they gather together from all regions of the woodlands, all 150,000 of them, to make a raid on the homeland of the Vipers, especially the holy city of Ral (as the Vipers are in a quarrel on who should get the right to destroy the ship; a scout rat has brought back this information). They are at the present, at the burnout campsite where they had done their war dance, feast, a few days ago, and had no sacrifice to offer the god of thunder. Now King Rat II, and his Son, Whimper Rat the III, who is not the bravest of all rates, but is very shrewd, will commence in a few hours to the mound area, second in command. He will lead the troops in surrounding the city, and invading it. At this very moment, both viper generals are thinking of a way how to avoid a confrontation with their king, and at the same time, thinking they should kill him, and both rule the 20,000-vipers together, and bury the king, say the two invaders came in the middle of the night and slay him, consequently, a good reason to destroy the ship when due.] Sweet Shadows
[From: 'The Cadaverous Beasts of SSARG...']
She hears echoes in the shadows
"Come follow, come follow"?
Leave Kings to Kings
And Queens to Queens
That will bring
Sorrow and laughter
Tomorrow."?
The wild shadow bears a hum,
Sunlight passes making to tremble
Veils of gray;
As they softly, shyly undo
[Stirred]
The dark, " ?
And say, "...here I am!"?
(Now hurry over the darkness
And Pray!)
#1330 4/29/06 [#2] Perhaps Arallets' fear was blocked by the instinct in her to exhibit her braveness before another person, Tangor in particular, she had shown weakness before, and Tangor had magnesium, something about him she liked. Who may know, it was as it was; what prompts one person's actions is a stranger to another. Tangor kept his spear hand alert, hand gripped tightly against his side, as they walked through the shadowy zone of the dark world. " ?Down! Came a haunting shadow. It shouted: "Attack is immanent, turn back!"? Moirommalit's do not run easily, or avoid combat, it is not part of their make up, should anyone study their habits, and history. Bu forward she walked, in defiance. "Who are you?"? the voice said, a moment's hesitation, Arallets did not speak, "and who comes so bravely into our land?"? said the voice again. "I am Arallets, daughter to the Great Queen Siren, who once ruled this world."? "Oh, I do know of her, but she did not rule this side of the world, I assure you."? Said the voice; "and you are from Moiromma than?"? "Yes I am,"? said Arallets [feeling kind of brave, and powerful as her mother's reputation soaked into her skin. "In this land you are either from the hive, or a stray from the dark world. This is the world of the dead, where all creatures come to when they die here on SSARG. Some go to the hive, others remain in the dark shadows doing penitence. We are area of two forms as you can now see...see me..."? and the being showed himself. He was about four feet tall; white, with white wings, a bee stinger on his back end, and a bat like body, with a human type head, long neck. "The only difference between us, and them, is they are black, and have no stinger. But not all of them care to do repentance for their evil deeds they did while in the physical (they were in a milky-misty form). They'd not like the hive, too may rules, like: no eating one another, or no fighting, or no raping, you know, the normal every day hideous sins we used to enjoy while alive."? Said Arallets with a joy to her tone: "Then you believe me, who I am?"? "Yes,"? said The Bee-bat: White-Guiar], who lived in the holy hive, "yes, I do, why not, if you lie here it would cause a disturbance."? "We are seeking a route to our ship in the Viper country but fear the rats will harm us, should we take the route around the forest,"? explained, Arallets. "Perhaps I can help,"? said White-Guiar. "That maybe be difficult,"? said Tangor, "it is quite a distance I think."? "That it is, indeed it is,"? commented Guiar, and this habitat is made for the dead of this planet, not for the living. And you cannot go to the hive, it is forbidden, until you die that is, and should you die in this land, I will put a good word in with the Great Holy One. On the other hand, you cannot remain in this world, there is no food, or places to sleep, it is just space, darkness, milk like darkness, and a permafrost ground, with sinkholes in areas. Again I repeat myself: it is for the dead. We have evil ones here, evil warriors, that care not to go to the holy hive, we call them: the gnome-bats: Black devil bats they live in the dark shadows. Many of us here were vipers and rats and all such creatures, and did not like ways of the many, I will permit you to go your way, and perhaps try to help if I can, but even I could get lost in this dark world."? Then out of nowhere appeared an evil warrior, a black devil bat blocking the path in front of Arallets: "Lucifer is my name,"? said the devil bat, four feet tall, with crooked sharp teeth, and a long neck. "The name sounds familiar,"? said Tangor, we got one of those on earth, but I suppose the name is popular throughout the universe."? "You make fun of me,"? said Lucifer. "Oh no, to the contrary, you are dangerous, and I just wish to step beyond you, get out of your way, leave you alone and get to my ship."? With his wide-open mouth, his teeth grinding on top of each other, the teeth of the bat became physical, and the teeth lunged at Tangor, but came short of touching him, as Guiar had interceded, and halted him, by pointing his stinger at his face. "So that is how it will be?"? said Lucifer. "For the moment, yes,"? said Guiar. "He is one of the trouble makes here, be careful of this one. But I have an idea on how you can shift quickly through the currents, the wind currents of this world, it would be a flash, if it works."? As they stood there for a moment, Guiar chanted: "Old blood with new blood, old flesh with new flesh...and they should turn into shadows."? Guiar had transmitted his blood, his essence, his residue into Arallets frame, and likewise, into Tangor's, and they had turned into a shadow form, "catch onto a current of wind now, and follow it, and you will be at the end of the darkness within minutes, and once you are, once you see light, chant these same words backwards."? And they did, they turned into shadows, caught onto a wind current, and Lucifer and they were on a race to the light, his teeth garnishing behind them, trying to catch them at every turn, and just as Lucifer had caught Arallets, she had chanted her words, and to her dismay, she had fallen out of the darkness to light, with Lucifer, he was hanging onto her during the transferring process. This world was knew to him, He had not seen light in over 20,000-years. And she thought as she stared at him: what have I done. And then Lucifer so engrossed with his new abode, walked aimlessly about leaving Arallets to herself, trying to figure out what new powers He hand outside of the dark world. Tangor now joined her, and as they started their long walk to the Mound area, they saw Lucifer walking into the Valley of Arrows alone, a smirk on His face. Chapter 10 The Battle of Ral
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