Switched Loyalties II – The Forbidden Swords Chapter 2
Warrior-of-Darkness015 here once again with Switched Loyalties II, as the Cerulean brothers are now flying to The Sahara Desert in Africa but they had to make a stop in Cairo, Egypt which wasn't far away.
We landed in the city of Cairo as the wind slightly picked up, almost blinding me as I left the ship. Besides Storm, there were two others I was unwilling to see, Victor Von Doom and Ro's hussy The Black Panther.
I have NO romantic attraction to Ororo and she doesn't have any for me as far as I know, but someone should give that overgrown, Wakandan kitten that as he's always challenges me to something, whether it's a fight or not, just because his wife doesn't want to see us fight.
For someone who doesn't like to see us fighting, she does nothing but sit on her high ass throne and death-glaring at me instead of putting a leash on the 'king' who was now helping some village near the edge of the desert as Ororo levitated above, by the look in her eye something was wrong.
That dipshit brother of mine, although Panther isn't too keen of or familiar with meeting him, tackles Panther only for him to easily evade and kick his ass. With no intention of saving him from his fate, I hail Ororo as she lands and asks as she hugs me and I happily return it "Dairou, what brings you to Africa?" Only to see Darius get thrown towards me but I swatted him aside.
Panther now has a glare off with me "Dairou." He says as I reply "T'Challa." Ororo comes between us and pushes us apart "Stop this, you two."
"I only came to get a sword near here." I said as Darius butted in "For me!" That made T'Challa and I give him a look as he raised an eyebrow to me "For him?"
"You know me better than that, Panther." I warned him "He'll be lucky to even gets to see the sword. Is there something wrong?" I ask worriedly.
T'Challa turns and points into the sandstorm behind him and said "A man from this village who has become a grave robber stumbled upon an ancient temple and went missing" he said as I narrowed my eyes "This sounds recent. Either something's off about this or you can't control your criminals" as he continues and I became more alarmed.
"I wish that were all, friend" Panther touches my shoulder "but if you were just a mere grave robber, why would you stay at the grave site?" I shrugged "I don't know" as I looked at Storm and Darius with worry and gestured into the sandstorm as it dissipated "Shall we?" I asked as T'Challa took the lead.
Two to three hours later...
We were about halfway through the desert now and a quarter of the way to our supposed destination, Panther was still leading as I was second in line, Darius behind me and Storm at the back. Darius groaned behind me "Are we there yet?" That got on our nerves as I swung back an elbow which he blocked as T'Challa swung a kick past me to stomp him in the face but it was stopped just as fast as the kick Storm swung from behind.
He looked between our annoyed faces and asked "Did I say something wrong?" as we were now at the front of the tomb as we turned to see a perfectly normal Egyptian tomb. We were alerted by screams as a young man came sprinting out screaming something in African and Egyptian. I turned to Storm "Mind translating, Storm?" as she tried to calm him down.
The man says something in African that makes Storm's eyes widen. "Well?" I observed her and asked "What did he say?" She turned back to me as I noticed the slight fear in her eyes as she pointed at a figure behind me as I turned to see a very tall mummy as it said "Destroy intruders. Prove yourself worthy."
It then punched me away and attempts to mummify us with its wrapping. I recovered with no intention of letting that happen as Darius and I tackle him back into the tomb, freeing Storm and T'Challa.
Inside, we fell for a while before landing in a large room with a circular shape all around "Weird design for a square based pyramid, don't you think?" I looked at Darius as I thought out loud. He only nods while turning my attention to the centre of the room, I looked and there I saw the sword of fire stuck in the ground as it blazed a bright spectrum of red and orange.
The mummy then reappears in out path "If you are worthy, prove it by action more than words. Are you worthy?" It asked again with authority this time as I queried "What does that mean." That made him pound the ground and glare at me "words of man or mutant mean nothing here. Fight or die and cease to exist like the last grain of sand in an hourglass. This is all that matters!"
Darius stepped up to him or it, whatever and said "Yeah, I'll leave the fighting to you. There's a sword behind you with my name on it." He slips past the mummy as it looked at him as weirdly as I did, however as he was inches from touching the sword, he was grabbed and thrown away by the mummy. He hit the wall with a thud.
Darius pulled out his scythe this time and attacked the mummy but was relieved of his weapon and choked as the mummy glared at him and growled "Begone, pest." As wrapping from his arm binds Darius and he's thrown aside.
I drew my swords and drew his attention "Hey, you." I said "I came for THAT sword you guard and I'm not leaving without it, so... GET. OUT. OF MY DAMN. WAY!"
He throws punches at me and dodges as I try to dismember him. As I do so, I notice a bluish purple shimmer coming from his chest. His movements gave me a clear view of a gravity defying crystal levitating there, so I stabbed it.
Mummy-man reacted as we stopped fighting and his body eroded. He bowed to me and said "You are worthy, at least one of you." He sneered at Darius before freeing him and disappearing in a cloud of dust.
Darius walked up to the sword's alter and tried to touch it but I grabbed him by his hair and threw him back like the mummy did and glared at him "Hands off, brother" I growled as I grabbed hold of the handle of the sword and pulled it out.
It came out as easily as cutting butter as it created huge gusts of wind, the inscriptions on the blade shimmered in a silvery light and I could feel that it was powerful but very light. I put it in its sheathe and Darius and I left to find Storm and Black Panther and show them what we'd found.
Outside, we met with Storm and her hubby showing them what we found as they waited impatiently at the front of the temple where we left them. Suddenly I hear a cackle from above and looking up I saw Doctor Doom as he gestured for me to hand him the sword I just almost died to get...like that's gonna freakin' happen.
I look up to Doom with a cracked, insane grin as I let him finally meet my Yang personality for the first time "What took you so long, Von Doom?"
"I've come for that sword you hold, Cerulean" he said as he had the balls to hold the sword of fire in my hand but I think he really doesn't know who he's dealing with here as Darius, Storm and Black Panther back away from us and I looked him in the eyes as my smile slowly disappeared and I said "That's not going to happen"
He starts growling at me; like that does anything and his powers of electromagnetism create a ring around us as he grabs the sword trying to free it from my grasp.
I kick him and send him flying as he asks again "Hand that sword over to me, X-Man or else-" but he's stopped by me grabbing Darius' scythe and swing at him "I said go away! Are you hard of hearing?!" I just had to ask as Darius inquired "Maybe one, we could just go away and two, you can give my back my scythe back?!"
I listened but I wanted to make it clear to Doom that he ain't dealing with the Fantastic 4 here and I didn't want him following us so I grinned at him wickedly and pulled off his mask to see his true face as he got very afraid as much as I was creeped out as I gave him his helmet thing back and said "NEVER take that mask off around me again...EVER!" I punched him hard, burying him in the sand.
I said goodbye to Panther and Storm as I joined Darius on the jet and we left, I sat alone as my brother just stared at me and I quirked him a raised eyebrow "Problem?" I asked as he shook his head and moved away as I decided to go to sleep. I get the feeling that this is gonna be a looong trip to our next destination...wherever that is but the feeling that we had an uninvited person following us inched at the back of my mind.
A/N - With the sword of fire in Dairou's possession, they leave Africa but soon Dairou will discover that the swords have an effect on his ability to control his dark side as he can already feel the control slipping away from him, but not much with only the Sword of Fire. He fell into a long deep sleep and didn't snore or make a peep as a worried Darius glanced at his younger brother every once in a while with fear of his darker half evident in his blue eyes.
Warrior-of-Darkness015 out.