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“Are you OK ?” The shriek, piercing the air, an echo chamber adding to it a continuous stream of howls..
From behind Holli that thing was something out of her worst nightmares.. It had a white mist about it.. a distorted well if you could call it that; face. NOT that she was taking time out to decide how ugly and menacing it was..
Moving towards her, drifting in that milky mist.. it created a coldness, a sense of all of the warmth being sucked out of her. She shivered as it got closer it arms out its hands out.. seeking to take hold of her..
The impression Holli had, was its intent to grab hold of her.. evil.. that smell as well.. what was it; ah yes sulphur.
That deep crevice in front of her, the pitch blackness, endless shadows... a slight flicker of light from where Aims had shifted to attempt some illumination gave little comfort.. It made the shadows even more intense.
Darker.. more menacing, than that thing, whatever the hell and HELL was definitely on her mind.. it was.
The sensation of its ? hands ? on her shoulders.. the icy cold made her shiver.. she moved.. instincts kicking in..
Some inner being that was taking over.. The one who had taken possession of her body.. NOT willing to allow this spawn of hell to have any influence over Holli..
Finding her body flung flat her legs sweeping the ground behind her. Her upper torso, now pivoting on her hands, both on the rock surface.. allowing her to swing her body legs slamming against that spectre?
One of the worst experiences as she was later to recall, she had ever felt.
Thrown over in the abyss.. illuminated by the light flung against the wall all too clear well momentarily so.. it plunged down to disappear into the darkness below.. The echoes dying away of its one could find difficult to explain; ..scream, NO.. howling.. a pitched tone that when echoed several times reverberated around the chasm.
Coldness, an aura about it of death, something you might experience on meeting the grim reaper?
Symp had to acknowledge how that felt was something similar she had once experienced..
A ghoul yes that was what she called it.
Leaning over her.. across her lips almost touching leaning into kiss.. NO
Suck the life out of her. Her gold ornament that hung down across her front had shimmered.. An amulet well if it was she had not known of that .. the flare engulfed the evil; to disperse it..
She had breathed. yes BREATHED her quick gasps to restore her from the light headiness she had felt afterwards. Her thoughts jumbled.. all, of her senses in disarray; askew..
The sulphur. Yes that smell the distinct smell of rotten eggs.. As it passed Symp had been stood behind Ames.
She almost stepped back, into her, as she held on tight to the diamond, Symp shaking her head.. the smell all too clear.. “What the .”. mutters Sypm.. “Did you just fart.”
Falling about laughing.. Holli had now recovered peering into the hole to where they were? The pull on the rope telling her they were on their way up... The knapsack had the diamond now securely within it. Symph like Ames was a more than capable of climber.
It would not be long before they were now in the cave with Holli retrieving the ropes.. A brief stop whilst they sipped on some refreshments. Relating all that had happened, Holli was now opening the cloth... her form was changing and they saw the image of Pqua.
“So good to see you.. “ The diamond flashed.. the energy bathing them all..
“NOW you know what must be done. That creature must be stopped from getting to the temple of the Sun.. to perform the ceremony that will call upon the one they call iAii..
Symp knew almost instantly what that was.. the legend.. found amongst the Annunaki, the Sumerian texts.. described a GOD yes they called it a GOD but the truth was more of a DEMON.. One that legend said had been imprisoned in its own tomb. Locked in place by the Gods of creation..
Unknown? This so called God, resurrected here was being called by those who were SUMMONING it, to use its powers to locate it, to release it. IF that iAii gets here.. The whole planet will fall, with an extinction event erasing all life. in its presence..
WHY and how could it be summoned. Symp knew the answer to that. The scrolls had detailed the ritual.. the ones that had gone missing. but even they could not achieve the power to bring that thing here.. ?
The Arcan initialising the Celestial Clock powering the network.. The Netron power devices some from the chamber that Yie had destroyed.. left abandoned in the debris.. GONE.. vanished.. by who or was it WHOM..
Enough to power a Portei Semperu.. ! The one, the Ancients had left behind; the one that Nodu and Zad now had the power controller to. IF that were activated ? Those who would use it to open the Portei S. at the other end. Where the demon was ?!
IT would not need a controller.. ITs powers would use the wash of energy allowing it to traverse the Qiverse like a hop from one point in time to the other.. well the here; the now..
Nothing but NOTHING would stand against it.. well almost; an’ Omini i Imperricus’ might.. with the power to destroy a Jin.. BUT.. even that could NOT destroy the iAii.. It could send it back to ITs tomb.. reseal it.. but NOT destroy it..
IF for any reason that attempt failed, it would be released somewhere else..
TO destroy.. eliminate.. spread FEAR, TERROR, SUBJUGATION, far worse than any other beings.
IT had been known to raise up its own spawn, warriors, armies to sweep all aside..
The one here.. the one who was going to SUMMON this demon..
An army at its command.. to be empowered to the level where as its Apposolates.. its disciples.. this planet would see the rise of the ones who had once ruled this planet.. The Ancients Portei Semperu? At its core.. the place where that diamond would be placed to act as a relay, ten times the original power of the Netron devices.. no! 1000 times.
Symp and the others now knew they had to neutralize the Ancients Portei Semperu. Before Nodu activated the network. Before the power was restored at any level.. HOW to destroy it.. IF they used a particle accelerator using the Diamond inbuilt into it.. ?
An unknown. The A terra were from millions, MILLIONS of years ago.. NOT even the Annunaki or the Sumerian scripts contained any knowledge of such a race. Symp had been privy to the knowledge from Nodu.
What they had found, Zad was being very conservative about what she had been told.
YET Nodu and Zad knew far more than they were telling any others. Zad stood in the chamber was still not astonished by how complex, how advanced this terminus was. TERMINUS.
It was no simple Portei Semperu.. IT was an advanced version, far superior to any other PS.
Tpai.. The presence in the chamber as ‘she’ looked at Zad.. “Well sister. I was left here to stop this falling into the hands of these primitives. I suspected there must be more of us but! Nodu stared at them both..
“The Arcan, does not know. “ Tpai moved closer to Nodu..
“One of the race granted the powers of the Celestial Clock.”
Her arms raised, the entire chamber lit up. All of the instrumentation, control screens now flashed into life.
“This, is Ancient A terra technology. Some I sense that you Arcan have been granted knowledge of.
Unlike, the ones, you have gained such on, this is different.
IT has it own, built in Raetron Atomic Uranium, elemental substack power systems.
The Ancient A terra tricked the Ancients into their demands, that such devices, could only be powered by the Celestial Clock.. as a means of control by them. As you can see. it is fully operational BUT it can only be operated by one of us A terra.
It scans us.. knows WHO we are. There are NONE of these primitives that can do that. Some I sense believe they can but the truth is they will fail. So the risks involved in its misuse are not as some might perceive them to be including YOU; Arcan.. Your skills are impressive BUT replacing the power source with the Celestial Clock is insufficient to power this.. “
Zad nodded. “There is a way to use your power system.. one that will deliver an energy wave that our race discovered by chance.. Gives any possessing that power to use the device. Without being an A terra.
To allow others, to step through into here.. IF this device of course is activated..
A DIAMOND.. that oscillates at a set frequency.. BUT it must be PURE OSCILLATION, no distortion.
Consolation is that since the time of the Ancients the discovery of those on this planet ? Most diamonds now are imperfect. The extinction events, changed the planet so much it also changed the frequencies of those diamonds..
ONLY a DIAMOND from the original time of the Ancient A terra will work.. After the extinction event the 1st one when this was SOLUS NOT 2 or 3 we had no choice but to flee.. SOME of us put into time rift.. to monitor the device here.. OUR home worlds carry the others...
HERE was an outpost.. because of the Raetron, Atomic Uranium and pure silicates.
After our necessity to leave. ALL of the known resources jumbled. rearranged.. Deep oceans with the race the reptilian race known as the Mermui now retreating below.
Even they did not possess any Portei Semperu technologies until much later... Solus 2. Establishing their deep sea terminus with the Gods of Creation granting them the means to traverse worlds.. leaving behind the main Terminus.. NETWORKED by an Arcan ..
Yes even back then, YOUR race was here.. “ Zad grinned.. “Your race is one of the most ancient in the Qiverse but my race the A terra were and still are far more ancient than yours.. Our technologies far more advanced than any others BUT we do not speak too loudly.
Some of the Gods of Creation are jealous beings, how do these Human(a) say? Vindictive.
The A terra realized they like to play their games. Gradually we managed to shut most of them out.
Our new terminus did not respond to their commands. Assumed by them I think that they were faulty and though some of you Arcan were sent to repair.. Our technologies had produced the new shields.. Invisible and no longer relevant which helped us. They sent back a report to state the device was no longer there.
Of course it amused our scieste. We all know Portei Semperu cannot be destroyed..
Well unless it is the act of a God of Creation.. They and they alone can destroy them.
Trillions of them, the ones missing did not warrant any further consideration.
WE could take them modify them and produce our own network. Galaxies that were now open to us.
Allied with us. Races too that had grown weary of the games the Gods played.. Now left in peace.
Leaving A terra in place to operate the network.
Rebuilds and modified structures. The original Portei Semperu, especially the 3 headed ones.. we found were too primitive for our designers. The archways proved to be the most effective AND could be made big enough to transfer our space craft.. interstellar almost instant travel between worlds..
Planets under attack could use our archways to transport support forces to fight off any aggressors.
We produced and designed our own craft and that also of course increased our means to produce more arches.
Just as this planet had a number of the original 3 headed Portei Semperu..
Worlds with a number of ours to allow transfer to other worlds off world.. As this planet once did.
NOT even since the Orians has that happened. The Orians know of that tech but do NOT want these primitives discovering how it works,
Many would escape or worse still attempt an attack on their other worlds.. Ones that are Orians or enslaved by them. Insurrection the Orians know it can happen and has happened. These Primitives are subjected to the ‘Pite’ by them to subdue them, subjugate them BUT there are still thousands who are NOT infected by the ‘Pite’
Aggression is a trait these primitives have that terrifies them. Irrational, savage AND capable of slaughter on a scale that over the centuries has seen destruction, mercilessly against millions of their own.
The willing, to die for what they believe in, terrifies them even more.
To have access to the A terra technology is pointless without having the A terra to operate it..
No means for them to force us to do that. They can’t use their ‘Pite’ on us.. NOT means to force control on us.
To them we are best left alone.
They have experimented on other races.. to find ways to modify their ‘Pite’. Or use organisms, implants, some it works others it fails. Those not affected they leave them or leave toxins to destroy their biology, their physiology, mutations are not uncommon.
HOWEVER they are not invulnerable. Some races can enslave them, create the means to take the toxin and use it against their own. Colonies especially set up by them. Off world or satellite based installations.
Frequently come under attack, by those such as the race known as the ‘Warlords’.
The Matsupa they have an agreement with . NOT to attack their worlds.. their sacred sites.
The attack by those who are as fanatical remains in their archives. Total destruction, far in excess of whatever the Warlords deliver when they raid, seize, plunder..
The ones from the deepest darkest corners of the Qiverse..
the ones they call; the Sanctified..
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