The watchers

chapter 2- walk of immortality

Damascus stood at the border of the lower and upper House of Geb. She was a grand sight Four miles by four miles. The market was buzzing like any morning sun just rising over the sand dunes and sahjeht wearing his new robes of royal blue and silver walked by many children heading for their classes about the reptilian neighbors. As for him, he was heading for the temple for his morning prayers. He had to visit all four houses before noon because the messengers arrived with news from the other regions. The temple in the north was to Re the father of the gods, a majestic temple of granite with the decore of his rise from the Nu river.“Father who watches over us, give me strength to continue as the shadow is still spreading and the people are getting weary of the greying lands”(Yecta)he went from there to the eastern temple of Osiris ordained with the flying chariot and a great round orb of light “Mighty lord of resurrection, I beseech thee watch over us as the shadows descend and light our way home” the temple in the south was Anubis with scared jars on the walls,“merciful guider of our ancestors watches our path as shadow cross it, keep us from falling to Appep”in the west stood The lioness Bes where cats came and gone at will,“o might eye of night shadow falls across the world. I beseech thee, watch our steps and guide us to the morning light, please protect us.The jewel at the center of town lit up as the sun hit noon, and the smell of bread came from the bakery as riders came thru town from the eastern entrance as the waves from the Nile retreated, showing the young Sobekians in a panic,“easy little ones, easy. I got you” (Yecta) “waaat woouuuld a hhhumannn kknooowww?” (young sobek eldest) “I know more about this world than anybody else of the humans would ever, I looked over Sobek when he was ill.After all I was there with our Atum at the beginning” (yecta) as his hand went from flesh to scales just in their view, then back “The rrrvver never doesss ths, caan yyoouu llookk nnto ttt?” (youngest Sobek) By evening, Yecta found out what could block the Nile when he came to see a 7’ 00" crocodile with the crown of the lower half of House of Geb.Bes was on the shore with the scared young Sobeks. She stood at 7’00" in a gown on a knee, comforting them. “Yecta You’re late, what kept you?” (Bes) “That’s Yecta, but he’s human, at least, I think? Were there humans here beside him?” (middle Sobek) “The cost is clear; the next human settlement is from where he came from.” (Bes)At that comment, his flesh turned to scales, growing from 5’00" to 7’00" as a golden dragon. The Sobek’s jaw dropped at their uncle’s form.“This is yecta’s true form to our knowledge, now that you’re here we can get started.” (Bes)The land was turning grey and trees have fallen, rocks and twisted roots blocked the water flow along with what looked like a round stone structure with eleven archways ten feet tall with a seven-foot circumference. Yecta’s hands glowed as he extracted the lifeforce from the fallen trees and transferred it into the land causing the greying to revert followed by the land turning green with plant-like reeds growing along the Nile floor. The trees crumbled as Bes slashed at them with her claws and, with a mighty swing of Sobek’s tail, scattered across the Nile floor to be flushed by the water once the stone circle could be figured out. Together they removed the stones from around the Structure and placed them five feet from each other so that when the water returned, the tops could be used by birds. Each took their hands and waved it in front of an archway, and nothing occurred till Yecta’s hand glowed causing the archway to fill in and a distant world came into view, it was a red dusty colour and some sort of fire creatures walking around a beach with red waters holes were every, walking away the image faded out. “The mortals are not ready for this” (Bes) Yecta reached his claw out and extracted a life force from a nearby rock, crystalizing it and putting it at the center. “There, now put your energy into this and let us make it so we gods can summon this.”(Yecta)then they dug around the structure and moved out of the way as water poured past them and the Nile flowed again. The old man smiled to himself as the Sobeks swam and splashed each other before taking the long road home. Many moons passed as Damascus grew around the Sobeks and the humans got to meet the kids of a god.Upon the eve of the River tide dance 15 new teachers left for other makeshift camps by nomads to teach them and all those who turned 25 and became scribes turned into teachers, a messenger came into town with an urgent tone in his voice but was shot down by arrows, Sahjeht was ready for them, this time the chaos would not claim the city. “YOU WON’T TAKE DAMASCUS” (angrily Yectabut before he could act, a squad of Sobeks surrounded him and called for their father to take the old man (their uncle) to safety “No uncle, you are a life-giver. We won’t let you tarnish that repp....” ...they fell silent with spears in their chests and the light around Yecta turned dark. “AZUKA AND SHOW THEM THE PUNISHMENT FOR KILLING THE INNOCENT” (wrathful Yecta) Dragon march The ground shuddered as a figure rose from the town crystal; the ground formed its body; the water flowed around him as it became armour, the fire surrounded the armour forming `his meteor tail and gauntlets, and the air swirled near his back forming wings. A hound-like God rose up behind and wrapped his hands around Yecta and pulled him out of the city with. “can’t have you use those powers in anger. Justice and order must never kill” (Worried Anubis) The earth rumbled as the shadows moved along the border towards the western lands, big-bodied and low to the ground ran over everything that humans built near the mountains causing the people to panic, the handful of guards died underfoot while others were eaten. The trained armies lead the assault on the dragon-conquered areas trying to get back what their lands left to them by Etchula. now they needed Yecta’s help, and he isn’t around, but Hajeht sent his scribes to back them up. “What are librarians going to do?” (Mocking soldier) The scribes ignored the reticule and kept setting up posts to see what they were dealing with. The troops didn’t like that the fact that scribes ignored them unless they were gathering data, outposts were placed in each outer reach of dragon-controlled cities. Notifications of situation Post five- the dragons are walking on all fours, variant sizes. Big green body, a regular tail, no wings, fire breath, and keen eyesight. They have seen us up here but ignore us for the most part and we have seen the nests they are making from the rubble, from the rocky looks of their bodies they were of the earth type(evolved from triceratops into Moss Boulder dragons) they are five-foot with rock-like skin that when curled looks like a boulder-on a mountain, it hates water and rain. Post four report- these dragons have seen us and every hour they shot fireballs at us. Their bodies are covered in lava veins, have a foldable hood with life sensors, and some sort of steam that seems to be melting the surrounding stones. They made pools of magma at the center of the town by cutting their skin and letting their blood eat away at the groundbreaking future volcanos (Dilophosaurus evolved into the Molten dragons) Post three report- the dragons in this area come and go into the mini sea, they had the head of Sobek with a body of Sea blue scales and red fins going down its spine. The feet were webbed in water and claws on land and gills that sensed a change in the atmosphere. Its jet stream breath can destroy builds like they were hit by a flash flood going downhill (Mosasaurus evolved into the Sobek Levithan dragons) Post two report- the dragons in this muddy hill town seem to have no interest in our being here. They stood weird but had the most beautiful colour wings, and they had back claws with a raised piercing claw for catching prey. Their front claws were four feet off the ground with folding wings like a gargoyle statue from the northern territory. One of our people tried to get a closer look when the wings opened up and bit off his head (Velociraptor evolved into Ruby red raptor dragons, Saphire blue raptor dragons, Emerald green raptor dragons, pearl white raptor dragons, Dimond turquoise raptor dragons) Post one report-this strange dragon is a small and speedy thing. These guys look like the pictures of the Compsognathus only with the wings of a fey. It took the body of the small dino chicken and had monarch wings from its back. From what we can tell by the aid we rescued; their bites contain some sort of a neurotoxin that created a false death while they fed on the victims (Compsognathus evolved into the Del-fey fairy dragons) (ankle biters)