Chapter 28 Uruk Islands here we come

Katy hated the fact she has to swim to shore wearing a skirt but had no other choice.

She was just glad that the Asterite altered her DNA giving her and advantage over Sphinx and that she can breathe underwater.

Avoiding the dangers of this world on the other hand was a different story.

Swimming as fast as she can Katy leaped from the water in front of a startled sailor when a giant fish came flying out of the water. Sphinx leaped just behind it and shot it with some sort of weapon making the fish swim away in a hurry.

Leaping behind Katy he smiled roguishly.

Katy glared

"What can't handle a spinefish?" he said

That earned him a playful slap and a shove back into the water.

"So where do we go to get this crown?" asked Katy

"To Heliopolis Point," he said and paid the sailor allowing them entrance to his boat.

Once onboard it was a short twenty minute trip to the point of Heliopolis where they gotten off.

"Ok what is with the great wall of china?" Katy said and Sphinx gave her a confused look.

It was then that Icarus took over.

Sphinx could never get used to the way the two would switch off and would often forget that there was a symbiote living in Katy.

"Don't mind her she was referring to a giant wall back on her homeworld." He said and Sphinx nodded

"Anubis built this wall to protect the people of our world from the darkness of Uruk on the other side," Sphinx said.

Walking up through the desert sands it took them nearly the whole day to reach the wall from the shore. There were a few monsters that Sphinx had to kill but other then that they were fine. It was when they reached the great wall however that proved to be a problem.

"Um I can't jump that high," Katy took over and Sphinx smirked before leaping up onto the ledge.

"No fair you are part cat!" Katy called up to him.

She walked to the lowest part and tried to leap up but it was still too high by a few feet. When she reached for the ledge again this time Sphinx caught her and hauled her up.

Due to her weight however she landed on Sphinx when he hauled her up.

The awkward position had them both blushing as they leaped off of each other.

Trying to get over each others embarrassment Sphinx put on a pair of golden gloves and looked at three stones.

"What to do with these?" he said

Katy looked down, "Maybe they go on these marks right here," she said

Sphinx looked then nodded.

"You could be right," he said and pushed each and every one of the giant pillars towards the end.

Once they were on the spots their eyes lit up and the sound of a metal gate lowering was all they needed to open the entrance to where they needed to go.

Sphinx looked over at Katy as she seemed a bit scared.

"It is alright you can stay here if you want," he said teasing.

"As if Halfling," said Icarus taking over as he stormed off leaving Sphinx smirking as they entered the dark passage that would take them to where they needed to go.

The tunnel was dark and it took them nearly ten minutes till they finally saw some faint light up ahead.

When they gotten to the exit into a dark cavern however Katy was surprised by the vastness of the cavern.

"Yep this is what inside the wall looks like," Sphinx said as they navigated towards the end of the bride they were on.

At the end was a statue of a screaming person. Shaking his head Sphinx broke the statue easily and proceeded towards the lower levels.

Icarus being more cautious looked beyond and quickly grabbed Sphinx's hand.

"Wait," he said

And Sphinx was glad for the warning.

There on the floor just at the bottom of the steps were two creatures that both Icarus and Katy never seen before one resembles an armadillo except it was made with bones and the other is a weird looking skeleton on legs with the skull of a man the legs of a crab and the body of a snake.

"Fire Armadillo and Skull spider," Sphinx whispered to them.

As if to live up to its name the fire armadillo lit up and rolled at them.

Icarus barely gotten out of the way while Sphinx came from behind and hit it with a glowing sword.

The creature then turned its attention to Sphinx and attacked him leaving Icarus to think of a way to help. Something caught his attention and he ran for the stairs on the other side.

"Where in the hells do you think you're going!" Sphinx yelled.

"Keep them busy I got an idea!" Icarus cried as he leaped onto the dial and instantly the lights began to play in a sequence.

Knowing Katy does not have the mental capacity to do this Icarus did it for her and completed the musical sequence. Running into the room he found another statue like the one they saw earlier. Seeing the trunk inside Icarus opened it and found a bunch of darts that were cold to the touch. Grabbing a bunch he hurried out towards Sphinx.

Sphinx just captured two of the monsters when more of them appeared.

"They just keep coming!" he said

"Here!" Icarus cried and tossed something to him.

Sphinx used his cat-like reflexes to catch the darts and pulled out his blow gun. Leaping over the fire armadillo he fired a shot at it freezing it.

The skull spider fell victim also.

Heaving a sigh of relief he turned towards a panting Icarus.

"Nice thinking how did you figure that they were on the other side?" Sphinx asked

"I didn't it was Katy who spotted the device on the other side. We originally thought it was for a defense system but turns out it was used to activate a door that led to where these were hidden," Icarus stated.

Nodding Sphinx then saw the stones that had some sort of shrines on them. Pulling out the strange looking thing from his pack he turned to Icarus.

"If I heave you up will you be able to place this inside that shrine there?" he asked.

Icarus turned towards the shrines on the stones and nodded.

Sphinx refroze the monsters when they emerged and lifted Icarus towards the top. The Goa'uld then placed the first of the glyph keys into the hold and then suddenly heard some water stop flowing.

Both Katy who is now in control and Sphinx hurried over to where the water stopped. There on the other side was a strange looking statue or monument looking like a giant Ankh sitting there in the middle of nowhere.

Sphinx pulled out his blowpipe and blew a dart towards the Ankh and instantly Katy screamed when he disappeared.

Instantly he reappeared on the other side of the canal.

"Holy shit!" Katy said startling some monsters on the other side of one of the water fall.

"Stay there I will go look for the other keys and return to you!" Sphinx shouted.

He took about an hour before he returned and in the meantime Katy was watching the other monsters on the other side and they appear to not even come up the stairs; as if where the stairs end was the end of their territory. In fact the fire armadillo lifted up its leg and deposited something yellow.

Yep definitely territorial Icarus stated.

When Sphinx returned they once again froze the monsters while he helped Katy up onto the ledge to place the keys into the right shrines.

When all the water was gone Katy finally made a move to cross and was watchful of the slippery surface.

Sphinx joined them only taking two leaps where as Katy had to struggle.

Icarus was watchful for more monsters as they neared the third platform.

It was his warning that made Sphinx pause.

"Those are Knives cats thanks," he said to the Goa'uld.

"No problem," said Icarus as Sphinx snuck up on them and killed them both.

There bodies lay on the ground with multiple slash wounds to them while Sphinx had several on his body and bleeding.

Digging into her ever so present pack Katy pulled out a first aid kit.

She then pulled out a strange contraption.

A Goa'uld healing device let me use it Icarus stated as he took control and healed Sphinx's wounds.

"Thanks," he said

They managed to get to the area where some glowing ooze was dripping from the roof.

"A teleportation device," Sphinx said

"Like the matter transporter rings?" Katy asked remembering those well from her symbiote.

"Something like that," Sphinx said and then grabbed Katy and vanished.

TBC

A/n: a little pointless here but hey it is something to go through I am currently replaying the game so ha ha your stuck with it.