Tome 02

There was a big round platform with golden and white marble… surrounded by Babylonian suggestive statues… and in the middle of the platform a decorated fountain pulling the water from the river and pumping it unimaginably, you can't believe that such accuracy existed in more than four thousand years ago… turn a blind eye on all the naked girl laying or standing here and there next to a very handsome boy sitting quietly among them… look at the strength, youth of this good-looking young man… look at the charming nature and the charm of the Babylonian structures around him… you are now in one of the Babylonian royal palaces …. And this handsome guy is "Zahhak" the son of King Kush one hundred years from his birth…don't raise your eyebrows in astonishment because humans ages at that time were between five hundred years and millennia (a thousand).

Now you are turning your eyes left and right to fill them with this magical view… the best SPA in Hawaii looks awful compared to this magic… suddenly your eyes paused on something that had ruined your fun… a crippled old man … most of his teeth weren't in his mouth… a few long curly hairs came out of his chin in a weird way which you had never seen in the most ridiculous pictures… wearing a torn out black cloak … getting closer to the platform in limping steps. The old man climbed the marble platform… and he was met with resentful looks from the naked women…" Zahhak" tightened his beautiful eyes and looked at him calmly… he exclaimed in a sarcastic confident accent:

⦁ How did you get in here scabby freak?

The old man looked at him with suspicious sparkling looks… and said to him in a viper-like voice:

⦁ I limped through a lot of scabby freaks wearing funny cloaks while standing as if there were birds on their bellies guarding what they call the great son of "Kush", so I got curious to see this son of "Kush" and I found him laying like a donkey in the middle of these females till he became one himself … neither a drawn sword nor a counted spear.

The naked women covered their bodies with their hands … and the guards gathered around "Zahhak" …and all the eyes were on" Zahhak" who stood from his seat fast like a giant and swiftly snatched a spear from the guard and threw it with his expert hands till it went through the old man's heart and fell stone cold.

"Zahhak" said furiously:

⦁ Throw this scumbag to the lions….and apologize to them for the rotten meat we fed them today.

The guards carried the old man who seemed like he died immediately stone cold like a boulder and threw him in a vast hole, the walls were covered in walking lion drawings which are considered Babylonian symbols …. and it was full of real lions who roar in hunger and anger and it looked like a hundred hungry lions had torn out the body of the old man before it even lands on the ground… "Zahhak" growled:

⦁ Throw the platform guards after him … looks like my father the great King Kush doesn't know how to pick his men "Zahhak" left the platform and headed straight to the great Babylonian palace … and walked in it ferociously abusing the guards in front of him… till he reached his room which the door is decorated with a lot of colours and sculptures… he opened the door then angrily closed it … he…

⦁ I don't seem to remember that you had a name son of the great " Kush" He looked at the source of the sound with his eyes extended ... It was a man with more than half of his teeth missing … and dozens of weird hairs on his old man's chin and he wore a black torn-up cloak and his voice seemed more like a viper.

Here are we again in Babylon… but far from the royal palaces … outskirts of the city and the ordinary buildings were as astonishing as much as their castles… there was a man with royal clothes riding a stallion and surrounded by a lot of men with the same kind of clothes and stallions… he was the king's Chancellor "Onus" and he went to this city with a royal group to tell their people about the king's endless orders … the people gathered around him bored and worried… and "Sima" the king's horse watcher was among the ones surrounding Chancellor "Onus".

Among the silence of the people and their boredom, a horse's squeals cracked the air, coming from afar, insanely fast the heads of all the people were turned towards it, in astonishment followed by the heads of the royal delegation in anger. And all the astonishment was turned into admiration and all the anger turned into astonishment. The stillness of the scene was broken by a black stallion ridden by a fearless knight but that wasn't what changed the people's expressions that way, they changed because the coming wasn't a knight but it was "Semiramis".

⦁ Did I miss the big event?

She said with a merrily mixed with confidence which you wouldn't find except in her…. Forget the silence that met her phrase… and forget the people looking towards each other which can be translated to" look at this fine mare riding a mare" .... but forget about all that and look at the royal delegation specifically at "Onus" who lost his strictness veil which he was wearing on his face, it fell under his horse's hooves, and his eyes were flattened in a world which he never saw … his eyes got lost in the traffic of the beauty, tenderness and femininity and...

⦁ How are you running insanely with this mare in the city outskirts, Semiramis? Why didn't you keep up with the royal delegation?

⦁ You ordered me to tame the horse" lyjish" father…. And now it has become like a pony.

She said it with a feminine look to the Chancellor "Onus" which this look was enough to kill what was left of his boldness… and he said with a faint voice to the crowd:

⦁ Everybody dismiss to your affairs

The crowd left turning around and chattering and she turned around with her horse but" Sima's" loud voice interrupted her saying:

⦁ "Shiram" come here and kiss the Chancellor's hand and apologize to him…. because your entrance has ruined his speech.

Semiramis dismounted like a true horsewoman... And headed towards "Onus" looking at him with that feminine look …. which trembled him this time and it seemed like he was the one who made the mistake and wanted to apologize for something…. She landed her beautiful hand on him slowly and held his hand slowly…. but his hand dragged her suddenly to him to kiss her hand and said:

⦁ Miss "Shiram" the only way for my heart to forgive what you have done is if you willingly accept to become my wife.

"Semiramis" looked at "Sima" who was looking at her in smiley encouraging fatherly looks…. and then she looked at "Onus", a powerful man with the highest position in the state… her heart stepped aside and her brains spoke up with a validation…and in the next night "Shiram" became "Onus's" wife... the highest Chancellor to the great king" Kush" … the king of the entire Babylonian kingdom.