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Symp, had been on the trail, of the one, who had summoned that thing, risen from an ancient grave?
The discovery of the Hu ica encampment had been a surprise. A lot more than she had believed would be there.
WHOever this demon was that had been raised from the dead.. IT had quite an army at its command. 
There were well armed AND their body armour may have been formed from early types it was still very effective.
The one good aspect was that it was also heavy.
Over long distances the transporter could take them at some speed but the hidden passages in the subterranean chambers were not so easy to navigate.
Their pets were iClone and super fast. NOT to be trifled with without being prepared to fend off any jaws wrapped around ANY part of you.
Those things, were created as Armaments of some fine quality. Joints, articulation were good. Precision when it came to its use as a weapon, very fast.
They were all much bigger than most Human(a).
Almost, one might say; giants. Genetically bred that way.
Amazonian, they were used to the dense forests, which surprisingly had not been cut back as much as had been expected. For others not so easy. The Ai entity with ITs well what had been, ITs iClones; was and had not been interested in the jungle primitives.
To them an unknown quantity. Too much of a variable too volatile. The same old story repeated over TIME.
The Orians, had not been the least bit interested. As for that whatever the hell it was that had allegedly risen.
Few knew where it had vanished to.. Yes some knew it had vanished.
The so called ones who were from ancient history part of those who worship IT and were its ;apossolates’.
Sworn to give their lives if it ever came to it? Absolute obedience, dedication to extremes where any who attempted to subvert their intentions... ended up sacrificed to their deity; their GOD.
The Hu ica.. were such a force now headed over to the meeting place. Where they had been ‘summoned’.
SHE waited there with their God. Their weapons were darts or arrows that contained poison that the moment it pierced the skin of its victim? INSTANT DEATH the only good thing about such..
There were toxins that could be used to deliver a slow lingering death.. ones that paralysed their host, left them to be eaten alive by the INSECTS, the CREATURES of the forest.
Symp was not a novice nor stupid when it came to having a good idea as to what lay ahead.
THIS whatever the hell it was had immense power. An ancient with a means to deliver unto those who fell foul of IT a terrible fate.
NOR was IT she knew unlikely to be selective in WHO ended up dead or what was laid waste to in ITs pursuit of whatever the hell IT was after. YES, it definitely was after achieving something. These ancient beings had in their past a history that often was totally subjective.
Good, bad or worse, indifferent, they could demand the obedience, the enslavement of and power of the Gods to have those around them, these PRIMITIVE life forms. to do as the were told, no ordered or face the consequences. Famine. starvation, desolation to have their submission. 
Souls. some were soul collectors. the most feared of all. Their presence on a planet, a colony wherever there were SOULS to be harvested?
They drained all that came before them. Ending a soul its existence, a soul did not become resurrected after being the feast of a soul collector.
Solus (Earth) had seen them from ancient history in the form of the beings that occupied a labyrinth.
The Minotaur myth tells of a monstrous creature, half-man, half-bull, born to Queen Pasiphae of Crete and a bull, imprisoned in the Labyrinth designed by Daedalus. To appease King Minos, Athens sent youths as sacrifices, until Theseus, with help from Ariadne's thread, navigated the maze, killed the Minotaur.
Ah yes MYTH. is often far more imaginative FICTION rather than FACT.
The being was a soul collector who was fed souls to appease it..
You see, the can feed on souls AND if fed to a level that maintains their existence,. no more are needed.
Fail to maintain the feeding they can break out and run riot.. harvesting souls and killing as they please.
Until they had reached ‘ fulfillment ’ where they could harvest no more until as one might say they had been sated; EMPTIED.
The ones who could destroy one of them? A being or thing that had no soul.
A hunter and ones the Galacia Federa deployed, to hunt them down.
The bounty hunters who ruthlessly targeted them .. They were created Silica based soul less things.. THINGS. NO emotions, no empathy, soul less. Merciless when it came to the termination of those beings.
BEINGS.. they were just that.. they lived, they breathed, existed BUT they were in essence a corrupted life form.
The soul collectors were easily identified. Their forms had illuminated circular lights on them that remained illuminated for a short while until the souls note the SOULS within it were consumed, no longer feeding it.
BUT I digress. Luckily for Symp she was not likely to meet one of those things..
Her concerns were focused on the Hu ica. Their numbers and the threat they posed to her continuing to exist.
She had seen the female pulled from the crowd near that thing when it had formed..
That young beautiful female with so much life ahead of her now sucked into the essence of and making up the renewed life force of IT. She knew some of those things drank the life from their prey, all bar for some reason, the bones. she had grinned.. the thoughts on calcium deficiency.
IF her strange dream had seemed to drag her to an underground chamber. to lift the stone and find within the cavity beneath it a bracelet that she lifted close to her arm to feel it wrap around her arm.. become part of it and not removable?
The flush across her senses had been like a sugar rush , a surge of endorphins . A lingering realisaton that any misgivings, about her future venture were gone. She felt powerful, invigorated.
The link between her and IT? She knew where IT was to be found. WHERE IT had been summoned to and by who or was it WHOM. NOT a local native of Solus 3 (Earth). The ‘female’ who was now seeing the arrival of the Hu ica at her command?
A time traveler. From a different time in the PAST.. using a time shift inter dimensional Portei to be here now and pursuing the objective of seeing these primitive life forms once again subjected, enslaved.
A meddler in time.. HER presence here was causing an instability, one that was affecting those who were also NOT of this time period. Nodu had felt and Yie also, the instability. A time paradox. YET somehow they knew that they did not have to do anything.
Told not to interfere, NOT to involve themselves. Others had also been aware, others had taken Symp to now assume the place of their champion. Confronting the one who had dared to trespass.
The knowledge she had gave her a new found reasoning.
HOW to destroy, no how to restore the balance, send back to where it had risen from AND sent the intruder the time meddler back to where they had come from. The DIAMOND.l. one that had been hidden by a Priestess from history. In that area fleeing her pursuers..
HE had helped her escape and in their brief moment of being free. had revealed what he had been carrying.
A massive, yellow in colour, gem stone. Round with serrated edges? She recognised it, almost instantly, gasping.
“It is, the eye of the Sun God himself
Hidden for centuries.. NOW Symp knew where it was concealed. Getting to it would not be easy.
The Hu ica IF IT discovered that that existed would seek it out.. The power it would give the one holding it was beyond comprehension.
The knowledge that IT could NOT stand against such a power.. as for the one, who, had trespassed, the time meddler.. DID they know of its existence.? NOT that this was her only competition to discover its whereabouts.
Holli the female who had recently visited M Pichu..
Was there and not by chance. The knowledge of that Diamond known to her.. where it was exactly was not so finite yet close to where it was could be said was indeed a truth. Holli was possessed, by the spirit of the Priestess. CRAAZY I know what you are all thinking but in truth; a TRUTH.
Her knowledge of the area.. the place she was in well if you were in her shoes and could spit one could say it could be over where that diamond, the Eye of the Sun was lying to be uncovered.
True she would need a rope. some ability to climb down to a cave .
“WHO are you.. ?” Symp had put down her cup of coffee. The female who now sat down opposite her,.
AN Amerius (American). Bubbly personality. NO holds barred, as she now too took hold of a cup turned it over to grab the coffee jug and pour herself some coffee.
“I’m Holli. YOU?” Symp put her cup down her bracelet flashed... not a good sign and yet it seemed to change colour from its red to a softer blue. Telling her whatever she believed to be a threat was definitely not.
“That’s pretty.. much the same as mine.” Holli pulled on her sleeve to raise it slightly.
There was the same almost identical ‘bracelet’. We share the same power that protects US. “ she emphasized the US.
“I know where it is but I need US, to get it. “ Symp seldom ever engaged in treasure seeking with others and yet? More coffee with nothing said. Then the last sip she placed the cup down . Shifted her arms to move closer to Holli. “Why would YOU know where it is where to find it, an American girl and not from here. ?”
“Never been here before.” Holli grinned as another female approached them. “Aims.”. (Aimee)
The female sat down, beckoning to the waiter to bring over a cup.. pouring a coffee. Symp by now was getting irate.
“Is she being difficult.” Holli grinned. “If only she knew what we had been through to get here.”
She sipped no slurped at her coffee which annoyed Symp even more. Her lips forming a scowl.
“Now see what you’ve done Aims. She’s annoyed.. not at all convinced.”
Symp went to stand up, leave them. “The place you found your bracelet.. the one I too have.. “ Holli described in detail, one might say finite detail which stopped Symp as she tuned back. Yes, a definite look of some surprise now visible.. the scowl had gone.
“Possesson. Holli is possessed by the female Pqua the sister of the notorious Atahualpa.
She was, a PRIESTESS. Whom had existed in the reign of Atahualpa. The Aztecs,. before the Spanish came.
She did not live to see a new dawn.
Sacrificed to the Sun God.. reborn but not in the time previous until Holli did what she deemed at the time to be stupid enough to do.. resurrect Pqua from her ‘sleep’. Taken over and unable to stop her from the journey ahead.
One that I have also been a part of.. for my SINS.. “
Ames looked at Holli.. and we sure until now have been toyed with .. Possession they say is 9/10ths of the law.. more like the LORE of the one who has and takes over. A power of such magnitude it has, HAS left others trembling in its wake.. Those who dare to interfere in its plans for Holli and why she is here now?
Tell her Holli.. She thinks that YOU tha Pqua does not know ALL about HER. “ Holli looked at Symp rattled off the information , highly personal and in some sentences bordering on highly sensitive.
“We don’t care about your past transgressions nor your certain ‘pravities’. “
The grin on Ames face made Symp scowl. “Look babes. whatever turns you on, is nothing to do with us.
an believe me when it come to Holli.. “ Her voice tailed off as Holli shifted to shove her.
More grinning from Aims..
“Look, It will not have anything, be of any relevance to our treasure hunt.. We have skills that you don’t have and you have proven talents we don’t have. OUR combined effort re the venture ahead are more than a match for any who dare to challenge us. “
Contacts, resources. Holli and Aims had them. HOW they had managed that Symp had to agree was a surprise. To hear Holli talk in the local language of the natives.. well some of them sealed the deal.
Speaking the so called gutteral tones of more than one language ?
The next morning they were packed up the mules needed for the trek, the provisions required re some sustenance, re water and ensuring they had enough.
“Why are we stuck with these disgusting smelly creatures.”
“Aims! How can you say that about your companions.”!
Holli burst out laughing, Symp was not amused.
“Where we are going other transport is useless.
We have some difficult terrain to traverse.
These, ‘disgusting’ creatures will get us there.” She patted the mule Aims was about to climb on..
“Never mind.. unfortunately we have to expect that there will always be those who will be rude .. You do share something in common.”
She leaned into whisper NOT heard by the others.. “Your butt her.. “
The mule eeaw eeaw almost mocking Aims.. well the one she was trying to climb on, shifting stamping its feet.. as though in protest.
Aims remained unamused..
Fallling about laughing Symp was not alone. Holli too was creased up almost stumbling with growls and serves you right muttering from Aims struggling to mount this ..
Completed, they set off. No desire to draw attention to themselves a story had been circulated re where they were headed.
A complete lie but suffice to say, for most a lack of interest, a few nods and that was it. Symph had made sure they were dusted.. with a dust that stopped mite, ticks and other nasties..
Aims had found the dammed dust not so much irritating as annoying. Looks, it was all about looks and this.. she looked like some ... ghoul.
They, had not seen the eyes watching them as they disappeared into the valley. Eyes, that were now, preparing their mules to follow them. A male and a female dressed to kill..
To wait until their prey had in their possession what they would take from them..
Symp, Holli and Aims .. ?
live evey moment as though it were your last.. might seem rather appropriate.
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