Chapter 1 - Slaves of Sodom

The ancient city of Jericho was attacked from the unnatural beasts from the east. The city of Sodom had grown to power with it's serpent worshipping lizard-men, because according to them, their serpentine Ishkur god was the heart of the land and it controlled everything.

The Emperor-lizard pointed it's reptilian finger that was encrusted with sparkling jewels and pointed to the west where the human beastmen lived, they were to sack the city and take the beast men for slaves where their skulls would help to build a new temple in Ishkur's honour.

The lizard armies came forth over no mans land on the backs of their thundering horned Brontotheres rides. Like a reign of terror, the lizard-men of Sodom crashed into Jericho's city walls and slaughtered those in cold blood who dared to fight back.

By the time of the blazing sun's zenith, the battle was over. The King of Jericho was be-headed and his skull was held up to those who still dared to rebel against them.

The city was burnt to the ground and the remaining population of Jericho was chain-ganged together in a line, and forced over the seething hot desert back to Sodom, and those who fell to their knees in exhaustion were dragged along the ground until the skin tore away from their bones.

Back in the city of Sodom the Lizard-Emperor's high advisor warned the emperor that new temples would have to be built in Ishkur's honour to appease him, and the labour of the slaves from Jericho was all they needed, until when they were slaughtered and their skulls would be used to cap off the great colomns of the completed temples.

In the slavery grounds of the temple construction sites, the people of Jericho were put into work groups where the labour was hard and those who were too weak or were too ill were either beheaded and thrown to the lava pit or slaughtered and put on a serving platter.

Moses was a slave in the seventh group. He once farmed the lands around Jericho. He was fed up of being hissed at by the Lizard-guards and whipped until his naked back bled onto the ground.

One night when all was quiet, he and four others from his group sat up and organised an escape. After the temples were built, they were all going to die anyway, so he convinced his fellows that why not die anyway by trying to get away. One of his fellows called Judas was privy to the plans but was unsure if they would or even could succeed.

After many moon cycles of planning, the time had come for them to put their escape plan into action.

The great temple itself was nearly finished as it was carved out from the side of a smoking volcano. Its great athousand foot colomns rose up into the smokey skies, where their tops would soon be soon topped with their very own skulls.

The lizard-guards, dressed in their bronze armour and helmets that bore resemblance to their serpent god, grew suspicious and were keeping close watch from where that sat upon the backs of their horned Brontotheres.

But this was not to stop the band of slaves escaping on a moonless night. Moses took advantage of them being unchained on the construction site. He had paved an escape through the dark allies and over the walls made out of human bones. Moses led his exodus of escaping slaves across the wilderness and away from Sodoms city perimeter and the smoking volcano that towered over the city.

Running away by moon cycle and by sun cycle, Moses led the group of former slaves into the white mountains where beautiful meadows lay and the ice loomed from the vast cold that ruled the north.

The Lizard-men of sodom were angry and at once they went out and an searched the deserts for their slaves, but they couldn't find them. The Lizard-emperor ordered a remaining slave called Judas to knee before him in his ivory throne room. Judas was giving a stark choice, he and his family would be allowed to live if he told him who was responisble for the exodus of the others.

Judas saw this as a vehicle of power and told the emperor that it was Moses that led the slaves.

Judas and his family were rewarded well, unbeknown to them he and his wife were fed the rotting meat of their own slaughtered children.

And now, as Moses and his people set to build a new Jericho, a mass army gathers as the lizard-men of Sodom regroup to find and bring Moses back to justice...

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A/N: A Bronothere is a prehistoric beast that lived before the flood.