FENG HUANG

BY: ADAM UNDERWOOD

PART ONE > >

     PRELOUGE:

“Many men and women have devoted their lives to religion. Many blindly and/or foolishly. Many others not foolish nor blind but profound and bold. Have you ever wondered what if it was evanescent? Or was going to fade from sight? This religion is ours, Neither am I professing this to be truth or my belief that religion doesn’t actually serve to be truthful, but instead I state, a what if. I’ll tell you a story of many men and women witnessing unexplainable occurrences. The true journey of one man and new ideas of what our lives are really about, what lies ahead, and the other side of the mirror. What if everything you believed and knew to be true, were to fade from existence and were all-false? What would you do, how would go about your everyday life? Many people have checked into mental asylums for these very reasons. The story I’m about t tell you, is a story that involves all these twists and turns, along with many more mysterious twists that all serve divine purposes, I challenge you, to free your mind, to see things with open eyes, and see that there may be other possibilities.” A man in an office like room says. The chair the man is sitting in faces the audience, not allowing anyone to see his face.

CHAPTER ONE:

THE ALPHA OF THE OMEGA TO THE WORLD IN WHICH WE KNOW AND KNEW

In a time way before the birth of God’s son, mankind had the opportunity to rid the need of Jesus and eliminate evil for as long as time would allow. In stories of good versus evil, good always seems to keep the upper hand. Sometimes, forces of evil cannot be overtaken, but fate is not always kind to those who try to change it. Since no records have covered this span of time, not much is know, including the time. This is what knowledge I have been bestowed with and I shall share it with you.

        In a land that knew no boundaries nor countries nor separations; forests, trees, temples, and living creatures were all that shrewd upon the land. Creatures such as vampires, wickens, witches, warlocks, and humans; just to name a few, existed to walk and triumph over all that lay before them. A large city near the Nile River and a forest called Gila was called Nenlado, in which a man named Zeltwit reined supreme. Zeltwit was nothing short of the devil himself. Zeltwit was in control of all things that were evil and all within his control were loyal. Just as there was evil, there was good.

        Across on the other side of the sea lay a human city named Palis, where Cutal governed all other humans. Humans outnumbered, all the laid in Nenlado, 5 to 1, and there were many humans. Cutal’s army was fulfilled with arrow shooters, knights, wickens, horse riders, and guards to protect King Cutal. Wickens never did fighting as they only knew healing magic and that was limited in its entirety.

        Lord Zeltwit, however had a secret weapon that no one in Palis, Nenlado, or Gila, knew of. Only Zeltwit knew of this secret weapon of his.  Today, the newly created Thirteen Dominions would learn of this ‘secret weapon’. The new members of the Thirteen Dominions were as follow: Balzar-leader of all vampires; Notorum-leader of the werewolves; Loland-second most powerful warlock known to anyone; Anna-female leader of wickens, witches, warlocks, and vampires. She alone was also very powerful, as she was a breed of all those she controlled; Oather-skilled warlock; Ether-mistress of Oather and leader of witches; Xol-skilled assassin; Donal-lead follower of Oather; Goner-lead follower of Ether; Comado-general of all human armies in Nenlado; Trump-spokesperson of all creatures in the forest of Gila; and Lord Zeltwit-Lord and controller of all that layeth evil.

        The thirteenth member was actually Zeltwit’s secret weapon. Zeltwit’s left-hand man: Setas-more powerful than one could possibly imagine. Setas had a gift that allowed him to see the future and this allowed Zeltwit to never lose a battle or Setas himself. Setas was the most powerful warlock known, as he could levitate and create eternal flames with the snap of a finger. Although Setas was not immortal no one; including him, knew how he could die.

        Another capability of Setas was that over certain animals. Setas controlled snakes, scorpions, and certain type of birds. No one knew of Setas’s emotions except Zeltwit and Setas himself as you see Setas rarely talked. The only thing the other Thirteen Dominions knew of him, was his name and power. After learning of his knowledge some of the dominions sent a couple of their soldiers to enter the pyramid, in which Setas lived, to gather more information, but all whom entered the pyramid died.

        Soon after Setas had a private meeting with Zeltwit. “Your lord, I have found some troops belonging to members of the Thirteen Dominions, on my way to the chamber of my pyramid” said Setas “I ask your opinion and I wonder it they realized the traps of an Egyptian pyramid or if they were just curious to find a way to kill me, in my chamber.” Zeltwit replied “I see you always speak the truth and I have seen this through the crystal ball gift you gave me, that allows me to see what you see. I see Balzar, Notorum, and especially Loland, sent troops out of jealousy to find a hint towards you assassination. I see none of the realized you lived in one of the most guarded temples. I also found you know about Loland and Anna being bounded together. Know this, I won’t allow you to change that and have Anna to yourself cause I know you are feeling love towards her already but, I have a question in return for you. When looking through this ball I saw that know the way towards your own personal immortality. Can you clear this?”

         Setas replied “Yes my lord, everything you saw is true. I know my way towards immortality, but it’s not complete. Yet, it would allow me to have the knowledge of my death, the one way I would be able to die. All this would be accomplished by killing Benu.” “Benu?” Zeltwit said. “Yes Benu. I know you would have knowledge of this as I only do so far. As you know, I have knowledge of a great deal and I know of Benu. You do too, but you don’t realize it. I believe you know Benu better as the Phoenix.” Setas spoke.

        “You mean the great fire bird who rises from ashes every time it is killed?” Zeltwit asked. Setas replied “Yes, that’s right, almost. Only I have access to its death. Soon I’ll leave to kill it. I’ll come back more powerful than now and an ability to engulf everything, including myself, in flames. But I would survive. Don’t worry about that, it won’t happen for a while, but in the meantime, tomorrow forces from Palis will attack the forest of Gila. Seems they know they can win a war and so the will declare it for they need all the land we posses. I suggest forces under the command of Anna, Comado, Balzar, Loland, and Notorum should be enough to maintain a win without and suspension from Cutal”.

        “I trust you so I’ll send for those Dominions” Zeltwit said to Setas. Zeltwit then got up and rang a gong, which brought a servant. “Bring forth Anna, Balzar, Comado, Notorum, and Loland at once,” he told the servant. Soon Notorum, Anna, Loland, Balzar, and Comado came forth. “What is the meaning of this lord?” Loland said. Zeltwit replied “How ironic for you to speak first since you are in the most trouble. Along with Balzar and Notorum you sent out troops as a means to find a way to kill our most powerful weapon. The result, valuable troops were lost. Not to mention without my permission you spiritually bonded yourself with Anna.” Lord, how can you possibly know this? If indeed it was to be true” Anna replied “This magic ball you see in front of me allows me to see everything. You can destroy this all you want, it would do you no good, since without killing Setas, I will always know those things, since he tells me. He see all through visions, which is why you are all her. Setas see that Palis will send an attack to our forest to start a war. Set troops up by morning and be prepared, as they will attack soon after sunrise. You and your troops were specifically chosen, now fulfill my choice as being right and depart now” Zeltwit said and the five left.

        After seeing the five leave, Zeltwit turned to Setas and said “If all you say comes true and we win this war I’ll allow you departure with Anna to your hearts content” he told Setas and left. Setas knew that the lord had lied to him but Setas decided to satisfy the lord, as Setas knew not what to do yet about his amazing growth of love towards Anna.

Meanwhile at Palis, Cutal was having a meeting with the body government. “You see, our city is growing with a vast number of people. We clearly need more land. We must decide to declare war on Zeltwit once more. Not just driving them out of their city, as we did last time, but destroy them completely. After we destroy Zeltwit, we will destroy Nenlado and Gila to build city’s that we can occupy. As you know we cannot lose this war, Zeltwit is vastly outnumbered and we know how to kill each of their creatures. So what do you say?” Everyone ethustically agreed. “Very well, we will attack making them declare war. Very, very, slowly will we kill them. Five thousand of our troops will be chosen to attack tomorrow after a full sun has risen. We are now adjourned. “ Everyone but Cutal left, cause he had a sense as if someone was watching him, he looked out his window to only see a black crow watching him and he shoed it away not knowing a powerful creature lay in the mist that would soon decimate Cutal and every in his past. Of course, this was Setas, and he was watching him through those crow’s eyes.

        Before the sun began to rise over Gila, Anna and Loland kissed as they waited to give orders to their troops. During the kiss Anna felt a little remorse, as if she could feel that Loland was cheating and lying to her but she knew of only one way to find out for sure. As for now, she would just pretend she didn’t know nor have any thoughts about it. For the reminder of the time they talked about their love as they always did. Soon the sun was three-fourths up and in the far, far, distance they could make out troops coming their way, so they made their way to inform to troops to ready arms.

        Before they proceeded, a messenger delivered a message from Lord Zeltwit, which read: “Kill as many as needed but spare the majority, as I plan to enslave all in a prison of hell until all are captured and then I will torture them until Cutal is left. Cutal, will suffer a death only I can imagine.” The troops moved closer and closer, not realizing what was waiting for them, until they got closer and then it was too late.

        They were surprised to see many creatures waiting for them, waiting for them to attack. Before they could retreat, Loland blocked their way out with a wall of sand. When they realized they were trapped and their plan demolished, they lost hope. Although they tried to fight back, the vampires sucked their blood to an inch of life; the werewolf’s bit of body part; witches and wickens put spells on them; and humans knocked them into the state of unconsusioness. At one point a group of twenty, of the opposing force, tried to gang up on Anna, but her agility, grace, and vampires strength was too much for them and she knocked down all that came near her.

        After all was said and done, four lay dead and the others were shackled together. While one of Comado’s troops took the four bodies and cut their heads off, and took them to Palis and left them at Cutal’s castle door, Loland and Anna prepared to take the captives to the prison. Loland announced over the crowd of prisoners, “Citizens of Palis, you cannot so easily destroy us. We knew you were coming but we do not have a rat or a spy. Yet, we have a visionary, who I despise of, who sees all that he wishes. Now you cannot tell anyone else as you are now on what I will call one of the many paths to hell”.

        Although the road back was not too difficult, two people died and the others were locked in the prison, much to Zeltwit’s delight. At the next meeting of the Thirteen Dominions, Zeltwit reported “As many of you notice there are only twelve of us present. Yes, Setas is gone but he is not dead; as Loland would hope. Setas sent to me a note, that said: ten thousand troops are coming from the Nile River to attack. He has chosen himself to prove himself of worth, and will take on all the come.” With that all said everyone wondered how that was humanly possible.

        After much discussion among the Dominions, Loland spoke out. “One man cannot possibly defeat ten thousand of Palis’ troops. We sent five of our armies to fight five thousand and we had some trouble, yet prevailed. One man can’t fight that many people and expect to win.” Zeltwit replied “If he is to be trusted, he will survive and we will have more prisoners. If not, he will surely die. Don’t you agree? Anyone that dares to enter Setas’s pyramid and lives will be punished and whom that controls that person will suffer the same punishment. I will notify you when we will fight again.” After that was said ten of the Dominions left.

        Zeltwit spoke then again, “Anna, why have you decided not to leave?” “I wish to know the truth” Anna said, and Zeltwit replied “The truth about whom; Setas?” “Yes, and if what I feel about Loland is true, that he lied and cheated” Anna said. “I have not seen anything about Loland and what you speak of, but Setas would know. If I catch you in his pyramid I will surely punish you immediately. And be careful around Setas if you confront him, he has fallen in love with you. I told him he could have you, but I won’t allow my best weapon to be occupied ever, even after the war. So what I lied to him, and do stay away from him” Zeltwit said as Anna left, but ignored his command.

        After leaving, Anna headed straight towards Setas’s pyramid. She sent one of her most skillfulets followers to find all traps and a path she can take to the main chamber. Soon after he gave her every trap in there and how to get around them and a way to get to the main chamber. Anna then put a spell of the man to make him forget. She then hid and waited for Setas to return.

         Meanwhile, near the Nile Rive an army of ten thousand confident troops marched to attack. As they marched and marched they began to see a man opposing them, ready to attack back. The general of the Palis army said “One man opposes us, that is their army? I laugh joyably at this, but we must kill this man to further our goal. Attack heavily and do not let up. One man cannot be so dangerous.” Setas then roared loudly back, which scared some horses and men, but the army charged to attack the single man that carried a sword and a bow with many arrows. As they began to attack Setas, soldiers began to fall and fall to him. Man after man was knocked helplessly to the ground. Setas’s power was unmistakably, unmarkable on by anyone’s standards. When only the general remained, the general attempted to run away, but the ground he rode on turned into quicksand and he had no choice but to fight Setas. Shortly after Setas quickly took over the general and cut off the general’s left arm and shot an arrow into each of his legs. Setas made a trailer-like object hooked to an elephant appear and loaded 9,986 of the remaining troops and took them on one of the so-called ‘paths to hell’. When Setas arrived, Zeltwit looked surprised. “Sorry for the doubt, Setas. But how in the bloody hell did you pull that off?” Zeltwit asked. Setas soon replied “No mortal can possibly kill me, only injure me. But, I can heal that; as long as no one knows about the sacred bow’s existence and location, I can live in peace. Do you know of the sacred bow Zeltwit?” “Little, it is said to be made of a silver-like metal called plutonium and the arrows consist of emeralds, rubies, and diamond at the tip that can shoot though anyone-killing them; even you. But no one has ever laid eyes upon it. It’s only a myth” Zeltwit said. “Yes someone has. I have and I know where it is. And I think I know a way not to die from it. But that’s after I become the Benu. Then only I could kill myself. Good-bye my lord, for now. A small army will be coming again from the Nile to find traces of the army I have captured. Send whomever you wish, anyone alone with their army is guaranteed a win” Setas said as he left.

        As Setas entered towards his pyramid, he had a very weird feeling. When Setas got inside, Anna followed. Setas sat in his chair, which was in the main chamber, and he heard a crack and spoke “I deem your worth of entering my pyramid. Are you aware of the consequences?” “Yes,” Anna said “Then you were lied to” Setas said as he turned around to realize it was Anna and shocked, he said “Anna” with all the heart-felt emotion in his eyes. Realizing what was happening, Setas stopped and said, “The truth is, Zeltwit can only see my pyramid when someone dies and I want him to see it. I have full control of what he sees through his so-called ‘magic ball’. But I, I see everything. So what brings you here?” Anna replied “To seek two truths; you and Loland have gave me wonders and questions that I must seek answers to.” “I can offer you both truths. First, I will show you the truth about Loland. Look in the puddle” Setas said and Anna did.

        When she saw what was in the puddle she gasped, as she saw Loland having an affair with Ether. “Yes, hard to believe isn’t it? But I know you know this to be the truth, you have the ‘genesacu’ in your eyes. You also know that is Zeltwit was to see this, he would never have told you.” Setas said and continued “I can offer you support if you wish.” “No that’ll be okay. All the support I need is the truth about you, never have I met a guy that truly loved me. They always cheat and lie, no one ever loves me.” Anna said. “True, but you never met anyone quite like me. I’ll tell you all you need to know about me.”

        Setas then sat down and continued “I was born and raised in the Valley of the Dead. I never met my parents and often I fended for myself. Early in my years I studied mythology and martial arts. I became one of the smartest and best fighters from many, many, hours of studying and fighting. That’s before I discovered my unique abilities. Every time I bled I would heal up unnaturally fast; sometimes I would never get a scratch. Soon I discovered I could have visions of things that would happen and things that did that I didn’t know about. Sometime after that I encountered a Pharaoh’s tomb, which is the one we are in now, and my visions were perfected to what they are not, via the inscriptions I read. Along with that all my skills and abilities were perfected, and I was given an ability to control certain animals. I did more searching and found more books the taught me the use of magic and sorcery; which is what you have seen from me. Along the way I stole treasures from many different places. You could also call me a dreamer like person. My dreams become reality. The most significant dream is that of becoming Benu.”

        “I believe you know the Benu better as the legendary Phoenix. Soon I will go kill it and become the Phoenix myself. Only then will I be able to determine many more things, including what to do about Lord Zeltwit, because he tried to control me too much for too long. Zeltwit and me go way back, back to the Revolution. That’s where Zeltwit tried to overthrow all of Palis. I found him and saved him, he made me an offer: the sacred bow for my services and a kingdom. I agreed, he then told me where the bow was and I made him forget it existed. I gave him his wishes and I am still here. See that sacred bow can kill anything, if it’s within my hands. After all it’s my destiny to kill the Phoenix. And that’s what the sacred bow does, kills the Phoenix. Then after that, only the sacred bow can kill me. It’s said only I could kill myself, but no one knows for sure yet.”

Setas continued “If that is to happen, I will come back when I am needed. And that’s the only time I can use that ability. After I complete my objective, I become mortal again. Unless I survive long enough till another crisis comes about. I guess you know the Zeltwit knows about my feelings towards you, so I’ll just make them crystal clear. Ever since I first saw you, I feel more and more in love with you, until I was basically more than head over heels in love with you. The truth is, I would never lie to you or cheat on you, for I don’t believe in that. And if I did, I would kill myself before anything else begun. Let this be known-I would have loved you forever if Zeltwit had allowed it to happen. But you and I know better” Setas concluded. Anna got up and sat on Setas’s lap facing him and said, “You know Zeltwit lied, I know you do. I feel all of your emotions and I know you speak all truths about everything. The truth is, I’m beginning to fall in love with you, just looking at you and hearing your story. Since you control what Zeltwit sees, I’ll stay here and we can have each other anyway.” After Anna said that, she kissed Setas for a while and later said “One more question, there’s a myth that say the woman that sleeps with you first will gain you powers and knowledge. Is this true?” Setas replied “Yes, but only if I love that woman and she loves me too. Then she gets my powers and knowledge. If neither I and/or the woman doesn’t truly love, neither gets any powers. Which means if she doesn’t love, I end up with nothing, even though I may have loved, and visa-versa.” “Well we don’t know till we try” Anna said and the two had long, passionate sex.

CHAPTER TWO:

THE DESTINY OF BEING BENU AND WHAT THE FUTURE MAY HOLD

        Setas awoke the next day realizing he had not had a dream, as Anna was laying a sleep upon his chest. Soon later she awoke and kissed him a good morning. Seats got up and levitated himself with a pin but didn’t bleed but a second, Setas satisfied and said to Anna, “Your turn” and Anna got up and tried to levitate. She struggled a little bit, but then levitated. She the poked herself with a pin and didn’t bleed but just for a second. Setas then said “You know what this means?” Anna then replied “Yes, that we loved each other and now I also posse your gifts” and Anna kissed Setas again, and Setas spent all day teaching Anna how to use her newly found powers.

        Back in Palis, the remaining 885,000 some people met in front of Cutal’s castle for the special meeting. Cutal then spoke “Silence, you all know we have declared war on Nenlado and we have lost three battle’s but not the war, not until we are all dead. The rumor says our warriors have all been prisioned and that one person was responsible for prisoning 10,000 of our troops. Unfourtanely, these are true as I have a spy who has access to the knowledge in Gila and Nenlado and has watched everything, and they told me the person responsible for the 10,000 troops knew before they even came. That person is very superior and powerful, but no need to worry. We will soon send 500,000 to Nenlado to demolish that person and many others, including Zeltwit. They have no chance in hell, for there are only 150,000 people in the Nenlado area. I will 50,000 of you as a warning message and to break out the rest of our troops in their prison. Now go prepare for our victories.”

        After all the city folks left, a man in a hooded-robe spoke to Cutal “Why you sacrificing 50,000 to go to prison?” Cutal replied “As a means to take down Zeltwit’s prison. These 50,000 that I will chose are experts at breaking out of prisons and I will have them lead an attack from deep inside of Nenlado to destroy all that they can.” But little did either person know, there were now two people, that could destroy the world if they chose to, to deal with and they were watching Cutal.

        “I feel as if we should just kill those guys and not let Zeltwit know.” Anna said to Setas, and Setas replied “Smart, and effective. Zeltwit should not know of this but he should know about the 500,000-troop attack so I’ll let him see that. And something else bothers me, that man sounded familiar. The one in the hooded-robe; I can’t figure out who he is, I know I know him. Never mind that, in the meantime, let us spar.” Setas said to Anna.

        So Anna and Setas began to spar in preparation for the battle that would soon be ensuing. Although Setas and Anna were supposed to have equal powers, Setas kept an upper hand over Anna and was always one step ahead of her. After a while, upon realizing this, Anna asked “How is it that no matter what I do or how I do it, you’re always one step ahead of me?” and Setas replied “Well since you have all the powers and knowledge that I have, I must see my own mistakes and capitalize on them. I also have a lot of experience, which you don’t have yet. That’s the only thing you need” Setas said as he smirked and the two departed to the Valley of the Dead-where the army of 50,000 was charging.

        Once there, the army stopped when they saw only two people; a solider spoke “Two? I thought it was only one. If we kill both, Cutal will reward us and we can easily demolish everything. Once their so-called ‘secret weapons’ are dead, we can do everything we want.” With that said the entire army charged and attacked. Setas said to Anna “You know where we are?” Anna replied “The Valley of the Dead”, Setas then added “my home and all these troops will die.” Setas and Anna kissed quickly and ran towards the opposing army with their weapons drawn.