Side Story to 'A New Awakening' Series:
The Seizure of the Underworlds
The First – The Red General
***WARNING, WARNING***
Spoiler alert for A New Awakening (Dani: Just a little one but it is a DOOSEY!)
(Dani: Legend is listed in Profile)
By Dani Yanega
Chapter One
The man stood tall and straight, his six feet four inch frame muscular and tense. His black Egyptian tunic fluttered in the breeze as the sand around him swirled like a cyclone partially obscuring him from view. His blood red cape twisted around him giving the illusion he was breaking free from a cocoon. His gaze was at the horizon it was not a stare of awe but of intense rage and hatred. His black eyes were narrowed slits, as his mouth formed itself into a sneer of disgust. He raised his hand and ran it through his jet-black hair pulling it away from his face. His dark honey colored skin was smooth and soft even though the climate around him was not conducive to this. His face appeared hard as if chiseled from a block of granite. His eyes were the most fearsome of his features. They were like twin voids of blackness, in their black depths one could lose themselves, only to find a hell worse than any they could ever imagine.
His sneer turned into a malicious smile as he raised his arm palm up, which revealed a growing ball of blue flame. He brought his arm back and threw the beach ball sized sphere into the sky aiming for the horizon, toward a target only he saw. The giant blue ball of flame soared through the air, as it reached its apex the ball slammed into an invisible wall that shimmered into existence as it was struck by the projectile. He watched as the shield shimmered then darkened against the power of his magic. His smile widened as it appeared that the force field began to weaken. Then his smile turned to an angry frown as his blast exploded back leaving no damage to his prison wall. In rage, he threw a succession of blasts at the force dome all having the same result as the first.
"I will be free, and when I am you will all pay for imprisoning me in this forsaken desert prison." He growled at the horizon his eyes tiny slits of glowing red.
"IT APPEARS GODLING THAT YOU MAY, NEED SOME HELP TO FULFILL THAT THREAT!" The voice behind him echoed in five distinct tones.
He whirled around a blast ready on his palm. The sphere faded from existence as he stared into the maul of a five-headed dragon. His head tilted back as the dragon towered over him the height of a five-story building. Its body and wings were a sleek shiny black while its stomach was a dull pale yellow. The scales covering it shimmered in the hot desert sun. The five heads upon its shoulders were each a different color.
The center head was a bright blood red and was the largest of the five. On the right side of the red head was a black dragon's head and next to the black was a blue dragon's head. The black was only slightly smaller than the red while the blue was smaller than both. As he stared at the dragon's heads he noticed the black dragon's head kept trying to bite the red and blue on either side of it; only to be attacked by the red and blue heads. On the left of the red dragon's head was a green dragon's head it was slightly smaller than the black still larger than the blue. Finally, next to the green head was a white dragon's head and it was the smallest of the five.
"JOIN ME IN CONQUEST OF THIS MISERABLE WORLD AND I WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR VENGANCE!" The five heads all spoke at once.
"I do not need the help of a monster with delusions of grandeur. I will free myself and the heavens and earth will be mine alone to rule!" The man snarled back a ball of blue flame appearing in his palm.
"BUT YOU CANNOT LEAVE YOUR PRISON WITHOUT MY HELP DARK ONE! COME BE MY FIRST GENERAL, SETH!" The five voices retorted back a lizard smile growing on their features.
Seth brought his arm back to ready his attack, but instead of releasing it he paused, his eyes growing wide as the flame slowly vanished. He watched in fascination as the huge behemoth began slowly to change. He watched as the heads began to merge into one, as the body shrank and became more feminine. He watched as the wings receded into her back leaving flawless white skin, as pale as alabaster. Seth could not help but drool at the beauty before him. She stood at five feet ten inches, her hair was as black as dragon scale and fell to her thighs in waves of tight curls. On her head sat, a sapphire blue crown in the shape of dragon's horns while her lithe and sultry body was barely covered in a bikini like outfit made of black dragon scales, the top being just a minimum of cover for her ample breasts. Seth's eyes flowed down her body to her thin waist and perfectly shaped hips. That were hugged tightly by the bottom half of her outfit. The bottom of the outfit was shaped like a 'V' with the leg holes cut high. The deep 'V' barely gave her any modesty. The high points of the bottom were attached to the top with a short link of gold chain on each side. From her shoulders, there hung a cape of blood red dragon scales. A belt hung loosely and low on her hips was made of white dragon scale with the skull of a child (Dani: don't write me it was probably a Kender's head) as the buckle. Seth smiled sardonically at this adornment. On each shoulder was an applet of a snow-white scull of some unknown beast that Seth could not identify. As his gaze traveled down her shapely legs he saw her feet clad in jade green sandal like boots that stopped at the knees. In the center of the lacing about mid way between her ankle and knee sat a large dark green emerald in the mouth of a green dragon as an adornment on each leg.
Seth's smile turned leering as the beauty before him slowly glided to him. She stopped when her body melded into his. She raised her hand and brought his lips to hers. She then kissed the ancient God lustfully. Seth's hand moved up her body starting at the base of her hip slowly up her side to stop only when his large hand wrapped around her left breast. His right hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her toward him tighter. She groaned into his kiss as his hands begin to explore her body. She pulled free of his kiss but not his hands. Her black eyes stared into his. Both full of lust and evil.
"Join me Godling rule by my side as my consort! Together we will destroy all who are against us!" She breathed lustfully into his face.
"And who are you to insult me with the title of 'Godling', wench!" Her malicious smile broadened.
"I am the daughter of Chaos, and the soon ruler of this ball of dirt Takhisis!" Her smile brightened at the shock forming on the ancient face of Seth.
"I agree WENCH!" Seth's own malicious smile broadened.
Takhisis pulled reluctantly from Seth's embrace and held out her hand that was covered in a crackling black lightening. Seth without hesitation reached out and took her hand in his. The black lightening coursed over his body obscuring him from view. Takhisis smiled with delight at his screams of pain and anguish.
When the black lightening faded, Seth was down on one knee panting heavily his right arm across his bent knee the other in a fist in the sand to stabilize him. He slowly raised his head, his eyes flashing red with anger, only to meet her smiling face and extended hand. He glared at her and rose without her help. He staggered under the weight now cladding his body. He looked down and saw his body covered in blood red armor made of dragon scale. He looked up at Takhisis only to see her reflection in an ornate full-length mirror framed by five chromatic dragons. He moved until he appeared beside her in the mirror. He stared at himself but mostly the dragon armor he now wore. It covered him from head to toe. All of it blood red except for the cape, which was as black as onyx. The helmet left only his black eyes showing and they were glowing bright red. The helmet looked like the head of a dragon, with long horns and short maul filled with sharp white teeth. He saw a slim white arm wrap around his waist and another as it appeared on his shoulder. He turned his head to face Takhisis. She smiled up at him as she gently stroked the side of his helmet.
"You are second to only me in my army and only you will be my lover! Together this planet and any world we wish will be ours." Her smile turned sardonic as Seth roughly pulled her around to face him.
"I will be second to NO ONE!" Seth told her, his armored hand slapping her across her delicate face.
She flew back landing in a heap some thirty feet from him. She rose up on one elbow, her other hand rubbing her cheek where a red mark slowly formed. She watched as Seth moved toward her his eyes flashing red. She smiled when the armor he was wearing began to glow red with dragon fire. His screams of despair and rage filled the desert. She slowly rose and walked toward him her smile becoming even more sardonic then before. She stopped some five feet from him and watched as he writhed in pain. She raised her hand and the fire around Seth slowly ebbed.
"You WILL be my second. I have learned from my errors. My generals will be loyal to me or die!" She told him with sadistic glee, as she squatted down, resting her forearms on the top of her legs.
"Besides my love you cannot leave here without my help. You have made your pact with me and I intend to see it through, now come we must leave this prison." She rose and turned from him, then headed toward the ornate mirror.
Seth watched with seething anger, he would break her spell and then destroy her for his mistreatment. He rose and followed her toward the mirror. He watched as the reflection darkened to black then reformed into the interior of a dark room with a large desk and wall-to-wall windows covered in dark curtains keeping the large spacious room in darkness. She turned to her new general and waved him forward. He looked at her suspiciously but he walked toward the surface of the mirror. He stretched his hand out and watched as it went through the mirror. With a sneering grin toward the horizon, he walked through the mirror Takhisis close behind him. Once both were through the mirror it vanished from the desert. The sky of the prison darkened as lightening cascaded down on the spot the mirror had once stood.
"Now we must visit the zoo to obtain my white dragon general." Takhisis' voice commented as the mirror vanished.