Ch 156: Ancient city of Blood [R-21]

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Darkness hazed over my sight and the tv fades away. For whatever reason, my connection with Egypt triggered my psychic time-gap gift. Mentally, I was traveling elsewhere. The image of my location slowly surfaced before my gaze. And I couldn't believe I found myself right in the middle of the high-class area of this ancient city in Egypt, I had excavated.

The whole city was restored to its original beauty. In their day and age mud-brick buildings were up and the statues of the gods they once believed in; before they changed over to Christianity, stood tall.

Fan trees were planted in random spots for decorations. Clay potteries were filled with plant life and they had mini gardens and wells. Narrow yet wide enough roadways were in almost every section throughout the city. Far in the distance was the farming land behind the palace.

Mud-brick buildings stood throughout the high-class. Merchant stands were around their streets. Then the marvelous palace has tall colorful pillars between the walkway that led you to this brick stone arched entryway. Two huge statues of their gods stood on each side of the entrance. The whole city was spectacular and downright breathtakingly majestic.

Most of those mud-brick structures weren't standing whenever I excavated them. Only some rooms of the Palace hadn't completely collapsed. Each pillar and statue was gone beyond recognition. Not even those stone steps survived the ages. Those steps were all but a flat surface on the ground. This brilliantly built city was left relinquished. Only to be destroyed into nothing but ruins over a millennium ago.

"Aaaaah!" Suddenly I hear screams and crying children. Egyptian people from the city were fleeing up ahead. Women and girls wore white linen dresses. Men and boys wore linen kilts. A decent crowd ran through my body. There was shoving and pushing among them. People were tripping and trampling over each other in an un-orderly fashion.

Pushing against the gravity pull, I walked around only to find blood splashed on the walkways and splattered on the brick walls. Along with blood, there were bodies nearly everywhere. Some of the people had their throats ripped out. Others only had their necks twisted. Limbs were torn to the bone and muscle. Claw marks slashed across the flesh on their bodies. A good handful of warriors were disemboweled as if an animal mauled them. Never have I seen such a horrid sight.

Nauseate to my stomach, I turned back and still heard screaming and desperate cries. Loud hissing and scurrying sounds were echoing around the screams. Fastly, I turned my shoulder and saw eight warriors fly through the air. Their bodies hit the brick so hard that they died instantly upon impact. People were falling into their pottery and over their basins of food as I still tried to follow. Chaos was erupting throughout the whole city.

By the corner of my right eye, I saw a man and woman get swooped off their feet and dragged away. I looked over just as they disappeared down the narrow, darker passage. In this huge force, I push myself through to see if I can figure out who's attacking the city.

My head killed me but I didn't stop. I entered the narrow pathway between these two buildings. I was shocked to find the man and the woman with bloody bite marks on their necks. Yet I still saw nothing here as the people around the area were screaming within the distance.

I left this narrow pathway and pushed myself further and did the best I could to run through. Pain throbbed in my head and crushed my chest but I ignored it.

Everywhere I looked more bodies were piling up and laying across the ground. Blood was dripping off tables and even covering the sandy dirt.

Swoosh! A vast wind whipped past me as emitted cries filled the city. Another big whip of air came from behind me. But I looked everywhere only seeing blood on the mud bricks.

I carried forth to find dead animals like dogs, cats, cattle, and horses with crushed rib cages or they had their necks broken. Even this one beautiful light brown horse had a bite mark on its neck. My mind was frizzled as to what was going on.

Still, I ran into many countless dead bodies. Some people were laying dead across the doorway of their homes. Then the most heartbreaking site was seeing the children but I didn't look and passed by.

What seemed to last forever, their massacre all but ended in a matter of minutes. All the cries were silent and I heard nothing. Not one living soul was left breathing. Bodies were scattered every which way I took to glance.

All the while, my head felt heavier and my breath was weak. But I didn't stop fighting the gravity to slow down. I had to know what killed everyone.

Teardrops crammed my heart to find a woman sitting up against a brick wall with her infant. I couldn't even look in that direction or else the image of them will forever haunt me. Mostly I stared down but even my shoes stood over top of fresh blood. I passed by being careful where I looked.

A loud scurrying commotion was heard up ahead. I looked up ahead and saw a group of people wearing black linen cloaks. With a hood over their heads to block their faces. Not one of them had any sword or any ancient weapon at hand.

Silently, they crept, stepping over the individual bodies like it meant nothing to them. I stopped in my tracks as they neared me in their mysterious stride. It was like they weren't people, but something else lurking. Something far darker.

"Clean up this mess!" I heard a thunderous command from behind that sounds very familiar.

I went to turn, but my head stung as if this sharp blade had struck me. My body grew weaker and I fell to my knees. Just as those people wearing the black draped cloaks walked through me. I tried to look at them but things were turning dark and all I saw was their backs withering away.

"Someone get help!" Orlando yells. Blackness sealed my eyes shut. My body was spasming and shaking roughly. Blood filled my nostrils and mouth. I couldn't breathe! Yet I heard my friend's panicking voices. I gasp trying to breathe like a fish out of water. Nonetheless, I faint into deeper suffocation.