Episode 2: Ashura and Ancient Egypt
(Opening theme nana mizuki destinys prelude)
After cleaning up that mess, Ashura and his tome fairy Mavis invite Ben Grimm on there night out as a token for keeping his secret safe
"It's no problem, mr grimm" the tome said "I've learned long enough for the world that how to obtain currency is no issue"
"So ya two have jobs, you look like your still in middle school" Ben said as he pointed to herwhich made her eyes twitch
"She may be small but she's the smartest in my missions" Ashura said to Ben "Why just a couple hours ago, she help direct my mission with ease so I wouldn't get lost" he praises her which calms her down she mumbles "I'm basically an adult" and drinks her soda pop
"So Ben why were you chasing the robber?"
"What kind of question is that, it's my job to keep these jokers in line with mr fisty and the left hook!" He says as he gets a big pizza wheel
"Oh then that means we have the same job" he takes a bite of pizza while Ben looks at Ashura suprised "So that's whu you took down that creep, your heroes too?"
"Well I can't call myself a hero yet, I just started"
"A newbie huh?, well outta good sportsmanship, let's meet up here again and I'll teach you a' thing' Or two about heroing"
While Ashura looks at his generosity "That's great news thank you"
"No probs" Ben smiles and eats his food while Mavis looks a bit envious 'why doesn't he tell me this? Is it guy thing?'
The next day
Ashura gets his suit of armor ready and stretches his arms "So Persona what's todays mission"
"This one is far from our 'new' home country Ashura" she writes down what she heard in the radio "Apparently there's trouble at Egypt saying rumors of treasure robbery"
"That's all?" He wonders as it seems less of a threat "Don't get iver confident, maybe you'll find some new threat"
"I guess so" he says and flies away
"So where is the tomb of the treasure I must search?"
[Just go straight ahead and move 100 miles to the left side of the desert] Persona said in the minicom
He sees his location and floats down to one the pyramids chosen by a nearby archeological site but sees most of the diggers are gone he goes into one of the tents to put on a cloaked disguise
"You sure no one will see me?" He spoke to Persona
[Positive, I checked online about schedule the diggers and there off on the lunch break which gives you about and hour to check the tomb of some mummy named 'hatap'] she said
"Okay, I'll just bust my way through and..."
[Wait! Using your axe or sword could cause a the pyramids to break and catch some unwanted attention, but don't worry I left something in your belt]
"Huh?" He checks and finds two things a pair of goggles and a mini drill
[I figured you may one day run into a stealth mission that wouldn't allow to show off so I built these two utility tools, a tiny fluroscope able for you to see through and see where exactly to go through, and a special drill made from dismond structure]
"Seems a bit unnecessary but thank you for making them" he puts on the goggles to see through and sees a mummy's sarcophagus and takes off the goggles "got it" and uses the drill to pierce to penetrate this tough rock in mere minutes until he finally breaks through the inner sanctum of the tomb "Okay took longer than I thought but I'm in"
He looks to find a sarcophagus "Okay I'm not good with certain hieroglyphics, but I'll try to translate as possible...hmm" he feels the words and trys to remember the certain words and phrases "tch, typical" Ashura said a bit upset
[what's wrong?]
"It's says this guy was a mad pharoah andhad knowledge of black arts which made him pull ruthless crimes"
[Black arts?... magic is used here?...that's not a good sign. magic users are very crafty]
" I know" Ashura remembers his heritage again "either that or a common lie to scare the locals, now it's time to do my task" he opens it and sees a mummy tightly wrapped seeing this as some false alarm "Um, Persona the mummy is still here"
[What could it have been a lie, no otherwise it wouldn't be such an emergency]
"Well maybe we're here early before any..." Ashura turns around and sees the mummy gone "Persona the mummy's gone!"
[How it was only a mere moment?!]
"I'm not sure, I'll go look outside"
[Be careful it's clear your not the only character in the area]
"Understood" he nods and flies out of the pyramid and sees no one around "Hours almost over, I better add more time" he uses his axe to start a mighty but harmless sandstorm to keep other archeologists and diggers away for awhile
He takes a deep breath to try to think about what happened until "good, boy! We're well rid of those foolish archeological fools!"
Which makes Ashura jump back"Who are you!" Ashura demands but sees the similar crest on that from the tomb on the mans finger "That ring, the ASP ring from the tomb"
"Is that all you recognize? Look at my face!"
Ashura tries to remember but figures it out "Your have the same face as the mummy from the tomb"
"Correct I am Hatap! The mummy they are seeking, but nobody carried me off I simply walked out of the sarcophagus!"
"That's impossible, no being can return from the dead!" Ashura stated
"Who said I was dead?!," the self proclaimed mummy stated and looked like he was about to tell a story
"According to history I was killled during battling cleopatras army! But when I stagered my rebillion against Cleopatra, I took certain precautions against my defeat, by the time cleopatras soldirrs reached me, I lay motionless on the ground..."
Ashura whispers to persona 'is this possible Persona"
[It's quite likely otherwise I wouldn't be this old...forget what I said...don't call me old]
Back to the mummy's story "Cleopatra had me emballed and emtombed according to my final will and instructions...I deceived all of them boy! I had swallowed a serum that put me in a state of suspended animation which lasted 2000 years!" He is now gloating "Now I shall return to the past, defeat cleopatra, and rule the Egypt as I had originally planned!" The tyrant looks at Ashura "However you boy will return with me! For I have leaned how different you are"
"Sounds nice but I don't want to see a country taken over"
The mummy looks mad "once you see what I have done to the camp you will have to agree to me terms!"
"What are you taking about" he looks concerned
"With my sorcery I have caused a disease to affect the workers! The plague will spread unless you enter the past with me! For only I know the cure!"
While Ashura gets serious 'that dirty!...what a minute' Ashura realized he has an expert whos used to such ordeals He turns around and whispers to persona 'Persona do me a favor and find a hand mirror on the house wall'
[why?]
'it's like a phone to my old home there's someone who can help the workers just say 'call brother'
[um alright but what about you?]
'Um, looks like I'll have to be careful'
"Fine I'll see this past" Ashura had his arms crossed
Minutes have passed and the mummy 'claims' to have ended the plague but Ashura didn't abort the call for his brother to arrive incase if he lies
"Now rub this lamp twice and you'll shall transported in the past with me!"
Ashura observes the lamp 'good at least I know my way to return back if I. Get Out of this'
Ashura finds himself forced to ride on a floating chariot through time 'Amazing I know I've crossed worlds before but never through time...No I have to focus I need to separate' Ashura knows he could have escaped and stopped the mummy but he didn't want to risk innocent archeologists if he made that choice.
Suddenly the space around Ashura ends and sees the desert again but with no campsites proving he's in the past
"Better now than never!" Ashura said and uses the diamond drill to create a smoke smog and jumps into the sand dunes to not risk exposing more of his power
"Fool you cannot escape me! Here in the land of pharoahs I am supreme! " the mummy guy attempts to search for him
Lucky for Ashura he has learned to hide himself because...he may have gotten lost once or twice during one of training days in the frost giants realm jouhtenhelm. He hides between two sand hills and removes his cloak 'now this is a treat! I get to stand out in public while seeing a famous historical battle' he snickers
"Boy! Where are you? Answer me!" Said the enemy
But Ashura ignores him and flies up causing a sand hole from the bottom and smoke
It shocks the pharoah " perhaps
That is why the boy doesn't reply! That flying monster has slain him!" And runs away
"Ashura looks to see the guy run "Weird I was expecting a fight, but at least I have no obstacle to where I want to go" he said to himself
He continues flying as he sees something that he's seen a lot in life, a giant battle'the first thing I should do is the find the court of cleopatra' Ashura looks down at thatthe bottom of the battle field 'This must be a mighty legion of...romans I think...I'm not certain...wait there attacking an Egyptian palace...so that means the other side are the invaders'
"Oh this is going to be fun!" Ashura flies down and lands directly onto a roman catapult
"By the gods a flying warrior decends from the sky!" Said a soldier
Ashura sees the hot fireball fron the catapult he just destroyed and hokds it with no signs of burns on his bare hands
"Look how he picks up our red-hot missiles in his hands" said another roman soldier
"Heh like playing catch" Ashura said as he threw the anmo at one of the enemy ships
Ashura sees incoming spears but just deflects them with swift slap and some that did touch him snapped like twigs
The soldiers retaliate "no matter! We can run him over with our chariots!"
'That's what they think, I think it's time for a scare' he smiles and just stands still as the chariot hits him but brakes apart like it crashed into a hard wall 'Now for their attack leaders ' he thought as he charges and uses his axe to run through a hord sending a few soldiers flying
This scares the roman army giving Ashura the chance to use his axe to summon wind in the sand causing a sandstorm to make them run away But no before Ashura hearing what they said
"Can it be?! Is he an Egyptian god come to earth to rescue them?!"
"He is no ordinary mortal!"
"Quick take to the hills! Escape while still have the chance!" Said the soldiers
Ashura sees them flee and thinks about what they said 'Egyptian...Probably not...but a god? That's not me either' He thoughts as the Egyptians walk out of there secluded city "It's a pity the queen fled just before you arrived! Even now a roman galley might be taken her barge!" Said a concerned follower of Egypt
"I see, I'll head out there now!" Ashura said seriously but in truth 'woah, now I have a chance to meet a historical monarch in person that's no Odin for once!' And flies away
Ashura arrives at river bank of where the galley went,
'I see a ship, maybe it's hers' he thought to himself as he decides that maybe swimming there maybe be fun...but he has to cancel that as also sees "And not a moment too soon Another roman galley!" Ashura speeds up his arm to throw himself with the axe like thor does with his hammer and flies at a fair speed
He rams into the ship bashing through like a bullet. Unaware that this catches the attention of the Egyptians "Your higness! Observe! A flying stranger has sunk the roman gallery saving our lives!" Finally which makes the Egyptian ruler come out of a silluotte with dark hair dress in a special silk like dress with a unique foreign desert theme with pale skin and big deep blue eyes (picture cleopatra fate grand order) Which makes her observe his physical appearance and mask of mystery which makes her think one word 'astonishing...'
After a few hours to escort the the Egyptian army back to their city, Ashura finally meets the siren of the nile
"My people say I owe my life to you, who single handedly defeated the romans!" The monarch says
'So she has a bit of a thankful I guess but I have to admit" Ashura thought to himself 'her beauty is about an equal match to my mother or even brunhilde'
"Um if you have a moment to listen, I am not just a warrior but recently a bearing of important tidings Cleopatra"
After a few minutes, Ashura explains his tail to her "So hatap the evil sorcerer is not dead! Alas, I consider him a bigger threat then the romans!" She looks serious "even now he must be gathering an army" she silently grits her teeth unnoticed
"Yes but I should be able to fix that problem if he bothers you" Ashura said which makes her eyes widen at the generous aid So she walks to him "Oh noble stranger," she puts her hands on his armored chest at a close didtance "I will grant you anything...any wish, if you would rid Egypt of that evil pretender to my throne!"
He has dome pink on his cheeks 'well I don't know if she can grant me the lamp to get back' so he holds her hands back "Don't worry, all I ask is to be serve you for this challenging ordeal"
Which makes her smile "there is something different about you. I sense that you are-not a god who protects Egypt but...who are you" she says as she msy or may not be aroused in the mystery
He takes a step, back "Heh heh I'm still trying to figure that out" he chuckles a bit which makes her giggle
At the enterance of cleopatras summer palace,
"May you return victorious over hataps forces!" She shouts from inside the palace, "I will observe your battle from a distance!" She says in a way of cheering him on
"Okay" Ashura says and flies with some of cleopatras forces 'After the mummy, I have to reach that lamp, it's my only way back!' He thought with some sense of stress at being stuck in the past
While on near on an oasis where the enemy crawls,
"Noble hatap! A small force of cleopatras forces approaches led by a flying figure!"
It makes the tryant look 'It is he, the creature he destroyed the boy!' The enemy thought "Quickly to the chariots!"
Which confuses his soldiers at they follow in there chariots "can you not work some magic that will conquer the enemy? You remember how they defeated us once before!" Complained a soldier
"How can I forget? Did I not take the serum which left me in a state of suspended animation for 2,000 years?!" As the enemy holds the lamp "but now, I have another escape from death!, I only ub this charm twice and I'll be transported to present day...safe from my enemies swords' the villian thought as he plans to abandon his army
While with the Egyptians
"Our forces is larger than theirs! Charge!" Scatter them into the sand!" Said a Egyptian soldier
While Ashura looks at the enemy fleeing, 'Okay enough playing cat and mouse' he thought as he stops and swings around his axe
"What is the flying warrior doing?"
Ashura heard and said "Sorry it's something you wouldn't understand!" And throws himself like a bullet again
While as one of the villians army sees "hatap! Something approachses with the speed of lighting!"
It makes the mummy look behind in fear and sweat "It is the creature! But how? What?!"
Ashura crashes straight into the tyrants army of romans causing a massive shock wave that sends the enemys flying again With a giant smog of sand covering the area
Ashura gets up and waves away the dirt in the air and sees the pharoah attempt to use it's the golden charm, he's going to escape!' Ashura thoughts
With no time he grabs a shield on the ground and knocks it out of the villians hands
' it slippout of my fingers! Before I could rub it I-I must get it back!' The pharoah thought as he runs towards to but bad luck hapoens when Ashura sees the fake mage run towards a turned up sword stuck in the sand
"Wait you fraud watch out for that sword!" Ashura warns the enemy
But hatap doesn't hear his warning and...
"I'm losing my balance!" The pharoah said as he fell to his death as he got stabbed
Ashura looks and at this as he picks up the lamp "Sigh, every time I see some death, there's some irony in it" he says sadly ''though I hope all this death around me doesn't attract the attention of death herself...that is a confrontation even I am not ready for.' He thoughts at the mystery of death as Ashura sees the pharoahs flee for the second and last time
He sees cleopatra and her forces arrive to Ashura's location as he prepares to go, he finds himself embraced by the arms of cleopatra who was indeed grateful "Oh wonderous stranger, whoever you are, say you will remain and share my throne with me!" She said with a blush
This shocks him serious 'never in his whole life as a female ever confessed to him before, 'unlike his brother who associated with wanda maximoff, Ashura rarely talked to any women except Persona/Mavis.
He unconsciously rubs the lamp with slowly starts to make him fade back into the present "I'm flattered really I am, but it looks like I am needed elsewhere" Ashura starts to fade
"Look he's vanishing!" Said one of the Egyptian soldiers
Cleopatra softly holds the side of his cheek where it is not covered in his helmet "For though I do not know your real identity...I cleopatra have lost my heart to you" She said as she kisses his cheek
He was stunned but glad someone liked him "And I'll remember queen...for all time" he makes a happy smile as he fades completely
Back at the present
"Hey...hey"
*slap!*
"Ow!" Who did that?" Ashura says as he gets up and looks to see himself bavat the tomb with Boruto standing
"Oh hey brother how are the archeologists? "
"They are fine, I've checked for any illness"
"Thanks for coming man" Ashura says but he sees something shocking on the wall. He looks to see a stone carving of himself with cleopatra holding him "hey brother can you take a picture of this" Ashura asks him
"Huh? Why?"
As Ashura looks at the wall "Reminds me of... something sentimental" he smiles but stops too see something else "what?"
"What is it now?" His brother asks
He looks and sees something written on the other wall "This was never on the wall before" Ashura serious said
"Maybe you ignored it?" He sweatdrops
"No, I've checked the tombs and this certainly wasn't there" Ashura sees a picture of a big guy on top of a pyramid with a storm behind him
"Well what's it say?"
"Well most of the words are hard to read but I can read one...en sabah nur..."
Back at home Ashura flies back through the window still processing about what has happened but sees Persona sleeping on the desk with her book
'Has she been waiting this whole time?' Ashura thought as he walks to her and wakes her up
"Hmm...huh? Oh welcome back" she said in a dazed tone
"Yeah sorry about that"
"Where have you been?"
"Nothing special I chased a guy around the whole desert"
She raises her eyebrow and looks up to his face "it took a mere day for you to search for one guy at speed?" But looks closer at his face "Huh? What's that on your face?"
"What do you mean?"
The tome fairy floats up on her book and takes off his helmet pointing at the kiss mark on his cheek
"Seriously is that where you been?" She said with her arms crossed "I thought you were on a mission" she said on not a happy mood
Ashura sighs at this "I'm going to have to explain don't I?"