The tall, strong young man walks across the desert. There are a lot of dead soldiers, his soldiers, on the ground at him feet. After many great battles with the Egyptian, they will never see their homes in Akkad again. But. the scorpion king didn’t die with his men because he wears the Bracelet of Anubis on his arm.
He stops and looks up into the sky
“I am the scorpion King!” he shouts. “Nobody can kill me!”
He walks away into the desert of Ahm Shere.
The scorpion King carries his knife in one hand. It feels heavy because he is very tired. Suddenly, he hears horses and looks up again. He sees thousands of Egyptian soldiers on horseback. They want to kill the great king from Akkad. They want to stop the battles. The scorpion King is going to die. Who can help him? He looks at the sky.
“Anubis,” he calls to the great god of the dead, “please, hears me! Help me today, and I will give you my life.”
The Scorpion King shouts loudly to the sky, but nobody answers him. The Egyptian soldiers are coming. His end is near.
Then he feels something on his foot. It is a scorpion! The scorpion King Laughs and puts the animal in his mouth. He eats the scorpion, and suddenly he is strong again. Around him the desert changes into green trees and blue water. Behind him he sees 10,000 soldiers with faces of dogs. They are the soldiers of Anubis, and now they are going to fight for him. Now they are his soldiers.
*BC: before Christ was born
The scorpion King shouts loudly to the sky, but nobody answers him.
For the next, the Scorpion King and the dog-face soldiers move across Egypt and kill more and more Egyptians. They at the end of the year, the scorpion King takes the city of Thebes. Anubis is waiting for him.
“Your life is mine,” says Anubis. “I want it today.”
“What will happen to my soldiers?” asks the scorpion King.
“You and these soldiers will leave this life. You will sleep for 6,000 years.”
The scorpion King feels very cold for a minute, and then he feels nothing .Nothing for 6,000 years.
...
People in Egypt told the story of the scorpion King and the great pyramid of Anubis. In the Year of the scorpion, they said, he and his soldiers will wake up. They will begin their battles again, and this time they will kill everybody and everything. Somebody has to kill the Scorpion King, or the world will end
Many people knew the story, but nobody could find the desert of Ahm Shere. Nobody could find the Scorpion King and stop him.
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น