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Chapter 22

Anuset froze and looked at him, struggling for words, finally finding them, "Apophis!" he cried, "What are you doing here? Have you grown bored on Cyndra?"

The dragon-like one looked at the Taur in wonder, "Seth? Is that you? You should get a better body, no one recognizes you."

"Seth and Anubis rolled into one. What are you doing here?"

"Your great mummies are eager to expand the system of caves, create new traps and relocate the Osiris fragments to compensate for their losses."

"That's what the fire is for. They want to melt the passages from the rock, because of the stability," concluded Anuset.

"I'm sorry if I startled you."

"That's okay. I could tell you weren't doing this by choice. But tell me, how can we end this?"

"You're asking me that? It's your people who are doing the nonsense here."

"Do you know if the fragments are still in their original place?"

"So far, I haven't noticed anything different. After all, I was just starting out with fire-breathing, too."

"Just stop it. We'll take care of the mummies," Anuset insisted.

"You? Who else is with you?" asked the underworld dragon.

"My partner Camillla, a hyena named Onari, my lover's butler, her stepbrother Stephen, and then Maahes, Sachmet, and Nephtys."

"Oh my. It's really like old times on Cyndra. Look, I'll stop this stuff, you guys flatten the mummies here, I'll join you, and officially you've beaten me once again."

"Cut the mythological crap. Everyone who's in on it knows," Anuset admonished him.

"Oh. How are you going to get me out of here? - And you really didn't put any drama into them that we have to fight to the death, that I eat the sun and am the ruler of the night, while you slay me and I spit out the sun?" inquired Apophis.

"Let us worry about that," Camillla suddenly called from behind, coming closer, "The problem with the mummies has been taken care of. Sachmet and Maahes are taking care of the remains inside these catacombs right now."

"Very commendable, but Apophis is right. He won't fit in the transporter," Anuset stated.

"Who are you, then?" the underworld dragon intoned.

"My name is Camillla Queen and I am Anuset's companion."

"Very pleasant Camillla, I am Apophis. But who is Anuset? - Whereby I can answer this Queenion myself, since the Taur is half Seth and half Anubis."

"Quite right," the fox-wolf confirmed, smiling briefly, "Still, an important Queenion for my understanding, how did you get him here if he couldn't fit in a ferry or a van?"

"Good Queenion. We weren't. He ended up on the Byblos and on Cyndra. It would only work with a dimensional distortion device. Unfortunately, the devices fell victim to the Gau," the Taur sighed.

"Not at all," the dragon interfered, "one still works and is in possession of your army. Anyway, I'm being pressured and if I don't obey, then I'll be transferred to a dimension from which I'm guaranteed not to return. Immortal and then in a permanent loop, I don't wish that on my worst enemy."

"That sounds like a nightmare we'll get you out of. - I didn't realize my undead were so creative."

"You're not really proud now?" indignant Camillla.

"I would be lying if I didn't, but the circumstances are very unpleasant. Therefore, I am torn," apologized the Taur.

"Just forget it, there you are all Seth and just incorrigible," Camillla whined, raising her arms.

"Is he actually still as busy as he was with Sachmet?" blurted out Apophis.

"What?" asked Camillla, irritated.

"Don't you dare, dragon," Anuset rumbled.

"For what it's worth ... I don't know what he was like with Sachmet, but he ate potency with spoons."

Apophis started laughing loudly, "I would have been surprised, too. Did he tell you about his numbers during the blast?"

"That's going too far," the Taur was indignant.

"Stop!", Camillla admonished him, "Now it's getting interesting. Sachmet was hinting at something."

"On Cyndra, a long time ago, we were blasting caves and tunnels into the rock below the surface for a scientific, experimental, and biological cybertronic facility. He and Sachmet had something going for a long time, thought we didn't know."

"Well, well," escaped Camillla.

"Apophis. Leave it, it's been a long time."

"Yet Sachmet still desires you," Camillla quipped.

"Ah. That's interesting," Apophis repeatedly added, "be that as it may. We had already created stable atmospheric conditions in the largest cavern, but we didn't know if the shielding would hold if we blasted. So everyone had protective suits on, including Seth and Sachmet. But since they couldn't leave each other alone, they hid behind some crates of explosives, and when we set off the blast, it went wonderfully boom, so did Seth deep inside Sachmet."

"With the protective suits?" echoed Camillla, irritated.

"Of course not," Anuset was indignant, "we had taken them off. In any case, we had just climaxed and the explosions drowned out our cry of pleasure."

"And then they both put their suits back on so no one would notice, however, they were custom made and suddenly had dents in places that didn't fit there," the Underworld Dragon revealed.

"How do you know all this?" asked Anuset, irritated.

"You don't think we didn't notice the whole thing, do you? You were drooling one after the other at all times," the dragon thundered with a laugh.

"And now?" drilled Camillla.

"I belong to you and you belong to me. I am Anuset and remain a Taur. Seth can go from me to Sachmet in his shell."

The fox-wolf got an enchanting smile on her lips, went to Anuset, hugged and kissed him devotedly.

"Um ..., shouldn't we get out of here first?" admonished Apophis.

"Oh, of course. We should collect the fragments and free the dragon from the catacomb using the distorter."

"That would be a very good idea," Apophis confirmed.

"What about the other catacombs, anyway?" inquired Anuset, "Can we count on your help?"

"Why not, we just need to adjust the distorter appropriately."

"What are we standing around for?" asked Camillla.

"We're waiting for the others? The ones that are still missing and are just dealing with the rest of the mummies on site?"

"Hello?" someone yelled from estimated far away.

"We're over here," Anuset yelled back.

"Where is, over here?"

"We found Apophis."

"Oh great. We'll come over to your place."

"I thought you guys didn't know where over was?"

"I do now."

"Was that Maahes just now?" inquired Apophis.

"Sounded like it, at least the comic humor speaks for the lion," grumbled the Taur.

Suddenly they heard footsteps and then the rest were standing next to them.

"Hello Apophis," Sachmet greeted the underworld dragon.

"I greet you Sachmet and of course Maahes, Isis and Nephtys. I'm afraid I don't know the rest yet, only heard your names from Anuset."

"He's charming," Onari noted, "and I was afraid he was going to barbecue us or eat Anuset."

"Have you cleared the area?" the Taur inquired.

"No mummies left. Everything dismembered and ground to dust."

"Fine. Have you found a dimensional distortion device, by any chance?"

"What? Boy, you know very well that this technology was destroyed in the Gau," Maahes growled, shaking his head slightly.

"Apophis?" the Taur prompted the dragon.

"I was kept here to melt more tunnels out of the rock, as well as to provide defense against intruders. There's another distorter here somewhere."

"But not ... or is it?" the lion began to doubt, looking askance at the dragon.

"How do you think I got here?", Apophis tried to get the lion to think.

"Okay ... Sachmet ... Anuset ... we will go to search, the rest will stay here," Maahes said.

"Can't we help after all?" asked Camillla.

"Do you know what a dimensional warp looks like?" echoed Maahes.

The she-fox shakes her head.

"Exactly, but if you want, you can accompany me and the rest can stick to the other two. However, Frank and Nephtys should stay here and take care of Apophis," Anuset decided and handed the Doberman a laser emitter.

"What am I supposed to do with this?" the male asked indignantly.

"Shooting?", Stephen helped him up.

"I already realize that, Mister Fang. But in what situation should I use it? Do you indeed assume that something is still moving here that could be dangerous to us? If so, then I can only accuse them of very sloppy work."

"Thanks for the flowers," Sachmet growled, "but there are always nooks and crannies that can be easily overlooked, and undead like to jump up quite suddenly."

"Is there anything else I need to be aware of?" inquired Frank Simson.

"Aim for the head preferably," Isis recommended, joining Stephen with the lion-headed Sachmet, while Anuset and Camillla headed off in a different direction and Maahes teamed up with the hyena Onari.

"So you got involved with Nephtys?", Apophis began to converse with the Doberman as the others left the catacomb.

"Do you know where to look?" echoed Camillla, addressing her beloved Taur.

"I don't have a clear idea, but I could make a guess. By the way, did you find anything like a toilet?"

"Yes. We feel very relieved. Wasn't anything like the comfort we're used to, though."

"Good, not that you're going to get my panties in a bunch."

"Don't worry, I'm very much in control in that regard."

"Excellent. We'll turn right up ahead, make sure you take a look in the chamber diagonally to the left. I don't like surprises that catch me off guard," Anuset tried a joke.

The fox-wolf pressed herself against the wall, slid forward inch by inch, turned on the spotlight on the laser rifle and literally threw herself into the room, shining the light around at lightning speed: "Clean," she called out.

"So you're the God of Carnage?", Onari tried to make some contact with the lion.

"It says so in ancient Egyptian mythology, but you know themselves that it's just folklore."

"Yes. It also amazes me, by the way, that you are a lion traveling with a hyena like me and didn't immediately object," Onari interjected.

"Why should I?", Maahes suggested, "I don't have any problems with hyenas."

"In the past, there was always minor friction between lions and hyenas, was probably due to our origins," explained the first officer.

"Those are primal instincts. We Antermerians don't have that anymore."

"You mean you are over-civilized and can no longer afford such things as emotion?" the hyena probed.

"Miss Onari!" the lion got a little louder, "We do have feelings, as long as you serve friendship, love, progress and togetherness in general, but we are also well aware of dislike and hate, anger and rage. We just, let me put it this way, have better control of it."

"You know the feeling of lust and desire, too? At least, I noticed that both are very much present in Anuset."

"Oh ... but of course. Whereby we have discarded destructiveness, for example, jealousy."

"You would share your partner and not even get mad?"

"Miss Onari, if I had a partner, it would be forbidden for me to share her. The exception is when both sides agree that the partnership is of no use and only breeds resentment. That's how it was with me and Sachmet at the time. So I released her because she felt, and probably still feels, that she belonged to Seth."

"And you're not even a little bit mad?"

"At first I did, couldn't understand it. But over time I understood and have been making a living on my own ever since."

"What a waste," the hyena muttered inaudibly.

"Miss Onari," the lion started up and stopped abruptly, "is this going to be an interrogation or are you going to sound me out and flirt with me?"

"What makes them think that?" the first officer was indignant.

"Hyenas have appetites too, and I can sense very clearly when someone seems interested in me. I've been alone too long for that not to be noticed," the lion rumbled throatily.

"My dear Mister Maahes. Your lust just pours out of their eyes when you look at me."

"What? That's really outrageous now. Who do you think you are?"

"Excuse me," the hyena quickly interjected, but Maahes simply continued, "Do you think I like a woman with spotted fur? A woman who has a clean, extremely powerful bite, excellently groomed teeth, prefers fresh breath, has wonderful green eyes, and calls a body her own, which is slickly trained, has muscles to the bone, and is probably wet as a waterfall between the thighs, so that a male lion like me could slide wildly and impetuously into the open vulva, so that all inhibitions are lost in pure horniness?"

Maahes stood there, breathing audibly hard, pupils dilated, staring at Onari, not moving.

The hyena had followed the lion's flow of speech, took a few steps towards him, reared up in front of him, embraced him tightly and began to kiss him.

At first there was no reaction from Maahes, but that changed abruptly when he realized what the hyena was doing to him, hugged her hesitantly, then more tightly, pulled her hard against him and drilled his tongue into her mouth, finding hers there.

This went on for a few seconds, turned into a few minutes before they both parted.

"It wasn't planned that way, Miss Onari," Maahes rumbled.

"Oh, was it that bad, Mane?"

"It was utterly horrific," the lion rumbled on, "It was so horrific that I want to repeat it at any time."

"Fine, you fool. There's so little sense under that mane of yours that I'll take pleasure in teaching you what it means to bond with a hyena and maintain it with all things."

"I'm curious if and how this is going to work," Maahes snarked playfully.

"Fine, very fine. I'm going to get a saddle. It's about time the lion got ridden."

"You filthy piece," Maahes snapped, "I could just ..."

"... Why don't you do it?" the hyena urged the lion.

"You forget where we are and what we are looking for?" he admonished.

"True enough, but don't you think we both have the few moments?", Onari continued to tease, "Oh yeah, before you stick your thing in me, my name is Lina by the way."

The Antermerian lion thought for a moment, looked around, grabbed the hyena, lifted it and set it on a ledge. As quickly as he could, he tore off his leg and abdominal clothing, while Lina Onari did the same, offering herself to him wide-legged.

"Take me," she moaned hoarsely, looking down at the lion's aroused member.

"Feel my hardness and my barbs, hyena," he still rumbled, placing himself between her thighs, penetrating her without hesitation.

At the same moment, both cried out, their voices echoing through the corridors of the grottoes as they came at the first intimate touch.

"Damn," Onari gasped, "that was record-breaking."

"Next time, we'll take more time," Maahes justified.

"I'm convinced of that. It seems that's exactly what we both needed."

"It was high time I felt something different."

"Spoke? You stay with me, big guy. I won't let you go again."

"I don't plan to do that either, and now we're going to get dressed again and look for the dimensional distortion device."

"Aye, sir," the hyena replied, jumping off the ledge and wiping the marks from her shame, "Quick, but productive. Would like to know what that will be if we take our time."

"You'll see when the time comes, you filthy scavenger."

"Don't sass me, filthy maned beast."

"Hmmm ... you know what I'm into."

"I have a certain something, but it's going to be a surprise."

"I'm open to anything," Maahes replied, grinning ambiguously.

"And you're desperate to get Seth back?", Isis started after the group of three with Stephen, her and Sachmet had advanced a good 100 meters.

"Why not? Maahes had released me because he felt Seth and I had more in common than separated us. I'm not going to let something like the mule-stallion hybrid take me away again."

"You also know that Anuset, that is Anubis and Seth fell in love with Camillla Queen and vice versa," Isis indicated.

"I'm equally not thrilled that it's the way it seems to be turning out right now. I take very good care of my little sister and can get very angry if someone hurts her," Stephen interjected.

"Stephen," Isis began, "Sachmet gets Seth in Seth's body, even if only a copy from our network. Camillla will keep her Anuset with all the mental and physical traits she desires, appreciates, and desires in him."

"That calms me down," the male wolf said, breathing a sigh of relief.

"There's nothing over here," Lina Onari called out after she had advanced a bit into the interior of the side chamber, "Is there anything like spiders in here?"

"What makes you think that?" asked Maahes in amazement, "As far as I know, the atmosphere doesn't support anything like arachnids or insects in general, and terraforming isn't exactly the best thing either."

"You're right about that, no doubt, but I thought I saw something like a spider web."

"Stay where you are, I'm coming," boomed the lion's voice.

A few moments later, Maahes stood next to his newly acquired hyena and looked around: "Where?"

"Up there," Lina said, pointing.

Maahes shines the flashlight: "That shouldn't really be the case. Unless, of course, the oxygen atmosphere that's built up and the dopey and careless dragging in has actually caused a spider to squat up there now."

"But so big?" the hyena doubted.

"Well, the web may be big, but the spider itself doesn't have to be."

Suddenly they heard a clacking sound in the background, turned around slowly.

"FIRE!" shouted Onari and opened the same.

A few seconds later, Maahes fired as well, and they both brought down the builder of the net, sending her into the realm of the dead.

"Unbelievable!" whispered Lina, "look at this monster."

"I wouldn't have expected a spider the size of a small earthly car for the life of me," Maahes sighed, "Let's search the cavern as quickly as possible and then warn the others."

"Forget it, we will immediately look for the others, warn them, and then return here in a larger group," Onari hubbed, "And no, that's an order, get used to it."

"No arguments?"

"Don't even think about it."

The lion sighed and surrendered to his fate, "Let's go."

Minutes later, they were both standing with Apophis, Nephtys and Frank Simson.

"Have you seen or heard anything disturbing?" asked Lina, addressing Nephtys.

"No. Should we?" interjected Frank before Nephtys could answer.

"It could have been that something damn big with eight legs ran into you," the hyena explained.

"Sounds like a spider?" asked Frank, unsure.

"Yes, someone probably brought it in and it mutated due to the thin atmosphere and increased radiation," Maahes explained.

"Very big?" drilled Frank.

"An earthly small car, so you can't miss it," Maahes replied repeatedly.

"That's pretty damn big," Nephtys sighed.

"Seems to have been a single copy, though. - Where are the others?"

Nephtys pointed in a southwesterly direction, saying nothing more.

"We'll be on our way then," Maahes sighed and shook his head, "Come spot," he whispered softly.

Out of earshot, the hyena looked askance at her lion, "Did you actually call me dot earlier?"

"If that was wrong, then I hereby apologize."

"No, it just came as a surprise, my shaggy mane."

"Ah - I see someone walking around back there," Maahes deflected, pointing in the walking direction.

"Who ...? Ah - very good, it's Isis," the hyena answered her Queenion herself.

They quickened their pace and after about two minutes reached the group around Sachmet, Stephen Fang and Isis.

"What are you doing here? Have you found anything?" asked Sachmet.

"As you take it," Onari added, "the distorter doesn't."

"What then?" intervened Isis, exasperated.

"We weren't supposed to search in small groups," Maahes began, "we both found a spider web on the ceiling and later the owner."

"Oh, there are no spiders or insects at all on Sirius," Stephen objected.

"Dragged in, already," the hyena interjected.

"Okay," the male wolf muttered stretched and scratched his left ear.

"And that's so important?" asked Isis curiously.

"When the spider mutates and is about three feet by two feet, unsuspecting people should be informed," Maahes reasoned.

"THAT," Stephen cried out shrilly, "is pretty damn big."

"That's why we're here. Where are Anuset and Camillla?"

"The other direction," Isis explained.

"Come on, there's only two of them too."

"But Camillla has Anuset with her," Stephen tried to reassure himself.

"Let's go. Anuset is no longer a robot and is vulnerable in his body," Onari growled.

"Why don't we have radios, anyway?" probed Stephen.

"Because, with our radio discipline and how we move around here, the mummies would have known where we were faster than we did? Besides, Anuset probably didn't expect such a strange resistance, let alone the presence of Apophis."

"Point taken!" retorted Stephen, raising his hands in the air briefly.

So the group set out, not to find the Dimensional Distortionist, but to find Camillla and her divine Taur.

While some were looking for a duo, moving purposefully in the right direction for once, the others, consisting of Camillla and Anuset, were puttering from left to right, looking around thoroughly everywhere, having no unusual encounters, no more mummies, not even a spider, no matter how big or small.

"Have you found anything yet?" asked Anuset, addressing his partner.

"Nope. Nothing so far, not even gold, jewels or jewelry."

"What's that for? You won't find that here either."

"I know we're looking for a dimensional distorter."

"Exactly! Looks like a laser long gun, but it doesn't have an elongated barrel, but a very short and blunt one, seems clunky overall."

"You had already explained that. - But something else. - What do the fragments actually look like, or how are you packed?" Camillla asked, stretching.

"In little sarcophagus-like containers. Why do you ask?"

"Because I just found three of them?" the fox-wolf answered half-Queenioningly.

"What, here? That can't be, and certainly not three of them," Anuset replied in irritation, walking over to Camillla and looking over her shoulder, "What the heck ...?"

"Hit?" the fox-wolf inquired.

"Bull's eye, all that's missing now is the distorter."

"There you are," Maahes called from a distance.

"Where else," escaped Anuset, "Which I wonder what you're doing here."

"We just wanted to warn you about introduced creepy-crawlies," added the lion.

"You must be really bad specimens if you all appear here together," Camillla said.

"If three feet by two feet is enough for you?" threw Stephen into the room.

"Okay, this is really big. But we can reassure you, nothing like that showed up here."

"We found something else for that," Anuset interjected.

"Fire away, big guy," Maahes prompted.

"Three small sarcophagi, though these really shouldn't be here," the Taur directed his words to Isis.

"What, that would finally be something positive?" the Antermerian gloated.

"Not necessarily," Anuset continued, "Good is that we have three fragments already. Bad is that there are three."

"You should now urgently explain to us what is good with you and what is bad with you," Onari urged him.

"As mentioned, three is good, only eight are missing. But ...", the Taur began and was interrupted by Camillla gruffly: "Sweetie, now come on. Heavens and dammit, if you're going to screw me, don't run a mile around the bed first either."

"... Actually, you of all people should know better," Anuset indignantly played.

"Well, you're a tasty sight, but feeling is always nicer than just looking at," Camillla noted.

"The first time, though, you wanted to take a good look first."

"That's because I had to estimate first," the fox-wolf justified herself, "By the way - Miss Onari, you make such a relaxed impression."

"That's up to me," Maahes snapped.

"Are you saying ...", Anuset didn't get any further and earning a stern look from his partner, came back to the topic at hand, "... if there are three fragments here and they shouldn't be, then the others are somewhere, but likewise not where they should be."

"Okay, that sounds like a long search," Isis sighed.

"Do you think there are any left in this catacomb at all?" echoed Stephen.

"No, if it's at least halfway normal, there are three fragments in each catacomb. We'll take these with us and be done at least to that extent."

"All that's missing is the dimensional distortion," Maahes growled, pointing in a direction the group hadn't yet gone.

"Let's go," Camillla motivated and led the way.

The rock walls were craggy, gray, had no protrusions.

"Looks like Apophis was active here before," Onari mused.

"It seems to me that we're on the right track, because if this is from the dragon, then it should be..." said Anuset, turning a little to the side, looking into an alcove and whistling loudly.

"Did you find anything?" asked Stephen.

"You bet - now we have everything," said the Taur, taking a step into the semi-darkness, bending down and conveying the distortion device he was looking for into the light, "Now that was too easy."

"I guess your mummies didn't expect anyone to be looking here," Camillla noted.

"I don't think they expected anyone to show up here at all. What a bumbling mess," snorted Anuset.

"Stop snorting."

"Why?"

"It makes me fuzzy."

"Do you want me to neigh some more?"

"Donkeys can't do that," Camillla countered.

"I'm a mule, not a donkey, there's a lot of horse in me."

"And Jackal."

"Just the teeth and the claws on the paws and hands."

"Could you continue your anatomical excursions later?" asked Stephen, annoyed, "I'd like to get out of here and on to the next catacomb."

"That's right. Off to Apophis. Collect Nephtys and Frank and then get out of here."

"Can we actually all use the distorter?" inquired Camillla.

"No. One distortion is enough for one person, so we send Apophis to the nearest catacomb."

"And then?"

"We need to talk to him. Maybe he can clean up a little bit before we get there."

"Let's go then," Camillla demanded gruffly, "What are we standing around for?"