The Ancients Chapter Five: The Genii of Gemini ( Brahma) in, The Hour time glass.

 

Brahma

Written by Peter Ripley (aka Peter Leo on IMVU.COM)

Time Frame: The year of Aquarius ( On Terra-Gemini)

He is only known as Sulfur the leader of the sandmen, creatures with sharp claws

Sulfur, the leader of the sandmen

that can cut a man in two. With a magic wand, Sulfur can summon these monsters who will do his will. A gang of cut throats and killers, and thieves of the desert region of the land known as Gemini, on the planet known as Terra-Gemini. He is about to attempt to kidnap the Princess known as Turtledove, the daughter of the king of the gypsies an nomadic people who wonder the sands of the Gemini desert. Lives in tents, selling trinkets to the big villages which spots the desert. Sulfur is planning to kidnap Turtledove hold her  for ransom of a valuable prize, the hour glass of time, if he gets it, he plans to travel in time to many worlds of the digital universe, including our own steal treasure, and live like kings.  Only one being can stop him, from a race of blue skin people call the Genii, Brahma the prince of only largest city in the dessert call Vallia. Can stop the sand pirates know as the Sandmen. 

 

Gypsy camp of Moluk King of the 
gypsies 

It happened one night in a gypsy camp in the desert of Gemini, a green gas was release in the camp, the gas seemed to have a mind of it's own floating tent to tent putting the small tribe of gypsies to sleep, even their king was knocked out, along with the guards, guarding the camp were put out. The only tent not touched by this greed cloud was the tent of the princess, Turtledove.  Sulfur entered the tent and confronted her, one of his sandmen came along. She wanted to scream for help, but it did no good, all her people were put into a deep sleep, she said to Sulfur, “ How dare you get out!” Sulfur answered, Good evening your highness, you are coming with us, now or my friend here will begin killing your people in their sleep, starting with your father, I'll leave a note for your father so he can read it in the morning.” She answered, You'll never get away with this, when the Genie hears of this!”

Sulfur kidnaps Turtledove the princess

Sulfur answered, “ I'm counting on it, now you come!” She had no choice to comply, they left the camp riding on winged horses they flew them away under a two blue moon light.

Moluk the king of the gypsies 

In the morning the camp was awakened to find the princess gone, and the king of the gypsies , Moluk, read the letter, it said, “ We have your daughter if you don't bring the hour glass of time to the valley of shiair in seven days, your daughter will die.”

The King then order, “ Break camp we leave for Vallia immediately.” 

The city of Vallia capital of the Genii

 The City of Vallia, the capital of the Genii, Genie Tea, it's ruler. Granted an audience to the king of the Gypsies, Moluk. 

Moluk stand before the master genie, called Tea

Moluk pleaded his case saying, “Oh mighty Genie Tea, please grant me my wish my daughter Turtledove has been taken by Sulfur and his sandmen monsters, and demand the hour glass of time as ransom, which your people have, please my friend, help save my beloved daughter from certain death, and torment.” 

The master Genie Tea.

King Tea answered, “When does this ransom demand is due?”

Moluk answered, “ Within seven days, starting today your Genie.” 

King Tea pondered this in his mind, if all of this is take place by the end of the week these bandits must not be to far, and the valley of shiair, is at least a week and a half trip from here, they must have a messenger or something to deliver the answer.  He answered his friend saying, “ I'm sorry my brother, we can't honor the request, we can negotiate with terrorist, if we do, it will only encourage other groups to do the same, with larceny on their minds, plus the hour glass of time can never fall into the wrong hands, it would spell disaster for this world.”

Then Tea's son,  Brahma interceded and asked Moluk, “ What else did the letter say?”

Moluk answered, “ It said to send up a red flaming rocket in the air, to signal you agree to the terms.” Then Brahma said, “ That means their messenger is close by, my father I sense a traitor in our mist, one who can lead us where the princess is.”  Brahma using his telepathic powers, point his finger at the wine tester, and said, there is the traitor, cease him!” 

Brahma exposes the traitor in their mist, the
wine tester, a Pan.

Being discovered the wine tester started to flee the palace, but was apprehended by the guards and brought to the king. The king looked down from his flying carpet throne and asked the wine tester, “You been serving me for five years, put my live in your hands, why did you betray me?” The wine tester answered, “ I could have poison your food and drink many times, but I didn't because I thought you would free my people from  servitude, my lord Sulfur will free all of us Pans one day, and give us our own homeland.” Pans were members of the sphinx humanoid beings, half man, half beast, in this cast half man, half ram/goats. 

The Brahma started to interrogated the prisoner with the jailer who was ready to take the Pan, to the dungeon.  With his sword in hand he pointed the tip of his blade at the Pan's throat and said, “ I'll give you a chance to redeem any honor you have left by telling me exactly where is the princess.” 

The wine tester answered, with Brahma's blade at his throat, “ Coz! Their at Coz!” Then Brahma ordered to jailer to take the Pan away, and said to his father, “ Coz is about five miles away by our flying carpet father, the city is on the border of the valley of shiair, may I suggest we fly the floating ship there, and find out where the outlaws are exactly at, the Sultan my be more forth coming with a show of our “magic carpet” hovering above their city.” The King Tea gave the order to launch the flying carpet.

The flying carpet of the Genii, a floating air ship.

The flying carpet was an air ship invented and built by the Genii, so did other species of the world of Terra-Gemini, far advance beyond their time which people were still living in the stone age, however thanks in part of their  former masters, the Fifth, who gave these people the knowledge to invent, and build such air craft, however the general public didn't have access to these inventions, only the rulers did. If any average person had got these devices they can rain down flaming rocks with hot tar on people below, or fire off cannon balls down to the ground causing death to millions. 

The City of Coz, a member of the Lynx named Jag is
the Sultan of the city. 

The Sultan of the city of Coz was a member of the lynx race, of humanoid creatures, part man part beast, in this case a Jaguar cat being named Jar. Jar looked the other way often when outlaws came causing trouble, only if he got his cut of the action.  He knew he was in it big, when he saw the Flying Carpet commanded by Brahma hovering over his palace.

The Sultan of the city of Coz, Jag

He said to his guards,  and associates around him, “ Prepare yourself for anything, we have company dropping in.” Then he thought to himself, “What I would do with a ship like that.”

Braham confronts Jag.

A beam of light came down from the bottom of the ship, transporting down Brahma and around 100 men to the surface, smaller hot air  balloons with archers floated around the palace, ready to open fire on Jar, and his men if they made any hostile moves. On the upper deck of the craft there were men ready to open fire with their cannons, and catapults with hot tar cover rocks to pound the city into dust.  Brahma came up to Jar, and said, “If I have to use my mind reading talents to find out what I want to know, I'll also place in you mind a nightmare, that you won't like, and I'll give the order of my flying carpet crew to turn you sand castle into a sand box which you'll have a mind of a kitten playing in it!” Then he asked the Sultan of Coz, “ Where is Sulfur hiding out, and where is the Princess?

Jar answered, “ I have no idea what is going on here, you come in with your sky ship, issuing threats to my people, and me we did nothing! Now go!”

Brahma answered, “ Don't even try that innocent act on me, we Genii are aware that you harbor criminals, that you look the other way as long as you get your cut of the action, now tell me you fat cat of the underworld!” 

Jar pondered for a moment and said, “ Sulfur is hiding out in a stone house in the shiair valley, just five miles north of here.” Brahma answered, “ You are coming with, I'm placing you under arrest for harboring criminals, my kingdom will send a governor to rule this city to bring back law and order.” Then he ordered his guard to put Jar on board the ship, and be put in a holding cell, he made of his aids as overseer of the city until a governor can be appointed. Then he boarded the air ship with most of his soldiers, and flew away on his ship toward the location where Jar said where Sulfur was hiding out.  

The huge sky ship hovered over land that wasn't to far away from the stone house, Brahma along with 200 men climbed a hill overlooking the stone house, Brahma noted the sandman creatures guarding the house, and ordered his men to take positions surrounding the house, each man carried crude water balloons type of devices to help to disable the sandman creatures. He sent up a flare signaling his air ship to move in and lend support. He then ordered the attack! Like clock work all of Brahma's troop swooped down and attack the camp. The battle took 90 seconds, the sandmen were turn into mud puddles when the air ship pour down gallons of water on them, the Brahma made his move and stormed in the stone house expecting to see a  damsel in distress, he saw the  Princess Turtledove standing side by side with Sulfur, a sandman creature was also present. 

Braham confronts Sulfur and the now "woked" Princess

 

Sulfur said just before he used his magic wand to open a portal to escape, “ She is coming with me while my friend here is keeping you busy, she is coming on her own accord.”

Turtledove chimed in, “ It's true I'm leaving with him by my will!”

Brahma sensing she spoke from her mind, asked her, “ You are betraying your father by doing this!” 

She answered, “ I woke now, tell him to deal with it!'

Then she wrapped her arms around Sulfur, and the portal opened out and they vanished through it!

In parting Turtledove, said, “ Tell my father, I no longer go by the name of Turtledove, I'm now Jezebel, now I'm woke, I start a new life!”

The fight with the sandman creature didn't last long, Brahma threw a water balloon and hit the creature with it, and turned the monster into a mud puddle.

The battle was over, the princess left with Sulfur, all Brahma could do at this point to go back home and give a report to his father, and Turtledove's father. 

He gave his report upon returning to the city of  Vallia, her father Moluk. Didn't take the betrayal of his daughter lightly. He said, “ As of now I no longer have a daughter, she would have inherited much upon my death, now it will all go to my son.” King Tea, answered, “Don't loose heart my friend, she might have been brained washed, we'll find Sulfur and put a fast end one day, and bring back your daughter, if that was the case being unduly influenced by Sulfur in promoting  this “Woke” nonsense. “ 

Moluk answered, “ I appreciated your efforts my friend to rescue her, now even you should bring her back she would be treated as an outcast by all the tribes of gypsies.  Thanks again old friend.” Tea answered we'll keep trying nevertheless.”

Then Moluk gave no answer, sadden, he walked out of the palace, and started back home...

To be continued.

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The Ancients: Chapter Four: The gift from Virgo, the Monk.

  

Written by Peter Ripley (aka Peter Leo on IMVU.COM)

Time Frame: The year of Aquarius ( On Terra-Gemini)

The month of the Lamb.

Our story begins back on Earth, in another reality, and time. The year is 1116 AD, in France, during the first the crusades in Europe. A Franciscan Monk, named Peter De -Virgo  was given an opportunity to spread the gospel to a completely differed world and reality this is his story, from the journal he kept about his adventures...

Peter De'Virgo is the Monk.

De-Virgo: “ The arch bishop approached me while doing my duties in the sanctuary of our church St. Mark's. He handed be a pouch with some scrolls inside, which were copies of the word of God, to be delivered to community not far off from our town, they were starting a congregation there, and needed copies of the Bible to begin their ministry there. So the next day I took my donkey, loaded with supplies for the journey there to the village known as Minsk. It would be a four day journey round trip. All I had to defend myself, and hunt for game was a dagger. Normally, I would spend time during the time of the Christmas holiday helping to prepare the Bishop in preparing for Christmas Eve mass, but this was a nice change of pace for me.

The Arch Bishop send De'Virgo on a mission
to deliver some scrolls to a near by village called Minsk.

So I started on my way not knowing of course where my footsteps would finally lead me, for now it was to Minsk.  As I journeyed there I heard a loud bell ringing, it was coming from a misty field, I looked and saw no bell there, but a dense thick fog. I thought, I was hearing things.  I went on my way and thought nothing of it.  Minsk was a small and friendly village, and the church there was happy to received God's word, they invited me to stay the night because it was close to dusk when I got there.  I inquired about the strange bell I heard no to many miles away from Minsk, the knew nothing about any church bells in the area. So I let it go at that. 

De'Virgo encounters a gnome with an offer
to spread the word of God to a strange new
world.

The next day I started for home, and along the way, passing that place I heard the loud church bell, I heard it again. This time I investigated, when I entered the field I saw a thick blue misty fog, with strange lights, blue, and red. When I got there I saw a huge bell standing in the middle of no where, with a small man standing next to it. I heard of mystical beings known as gnomes, but never imagine they were real, and I was about to meet one. 

I walked up to him and introduce myself he answered, “ Glad to meet you Peter De-Virgo, my name is Tuck, I was hoping you'd come by and meet me, I have an opportunity for you, to spread the word of your God to a new world, through time and space, to a world that needs God's law, and salvation just like this world, but on this new world there's two suns, and two moons orbiting this world known as Terra-Gemini, a world with your kind, and beings of myths, and wonders, some say it's some kind of dark magic, but it's not. It's real but in a different Universe than ours.”  He went on to say, “ The world maybe strange, skies different than here, but you, and some of your people can start a new life there, but, if you do choose to go, you'll never will be able to return, once there you'll be granted special powers to defend your self and others, also you, and will changed into what ever your heart is, for good or bad.” I answered, “ They'll never believe me, and it does sound like some sort of dark magic, how can I make my superiors believe and understand?” The gnome have me a small stone that allowed me a glimpse in this new word, and handed me a scroll to show the Arch Bishop, so he can see for himself this was no evil plot. Then in parting back to St. Marks, he said, “ You have four days to make your decision, I'll appear again here to see if your people, agree to take this once in a live time chance to spread word of your God.'

When I left the mist, and looked back, the bell, and the gnome vanished!

I reported what happened on my journey, to and from Minsk, to the arch bishop, as expected he thought I might have been possessed by the Devil, or became insane. That was even after I showed him the scroll, and the rock that the gnome gave me, that in its self made the arch bishop I was process somehow and started practicing witch craft, he was ready to call in the guards, and have me thrown in the dungeon,  he called a meeting of the church elders to see if they were going to charge me with witchcraft and burn me at the stake. This was back when anything that the church didn't fully understand was some sort of evil doings.  Our church's montsenior happened to be visiting, and during my “trial” he pointed out to the Bishop that Christ commanded to spread the gospel all over the world, he looked at this as a sign of God to go places where God's word needed to be taught, and not to be afraid of the unknown.

Released from Jail I was granted my mission

It was then I was released from jail, I was brought before the council, there was the arch bishop, and the visiting montsenior, along with a new convert named Esau Pari. Which was interesting, because new converts were never allowed in council decision making, Esau came across as ambitious to me, someone who seem to look for an opportunity to take charge, then again I wasn't a judge of a person's heart, only their actions and deeds. 

A wolf among sheep, Esau Peri, put in charge of
security

The Montsenior started, “ Son, we have decided to grant you this mission work, you'll will be in charged with 90 souls, men, women, and children, Esau will be in charge of safety of your flock. Good luck on your journey, sister Monica Benoit, will be your assistant.”

Monica Beniot was a beautiful brunet woman, who just taken vows to be a nun. It was odd to send a young woman who was the age of 30, they didn't send an older woman along to be my assistant, but I welcomed the help no matter whom it was. 

My party was ready to leave the next day, and all ninety-one of us traveled to the field where the gnome was to meet us, and as promised the huge church bell in a mist of a fog with blue and green mist it was night when we got there, and there was the gnome waiting for us.  There was Tuck, waiting, he said, “ Welcome travelers, a nice group of people ready to go on an adventure. Now De-Virgo ring the bell three times.”  When I rang the bell, suddenly a door way appeared before us, I was the first one go through the door way, the other 90 people came afterword, we traveled through a tunnel of light, and stars around us until we ended up on a strange new world.

Standing on a new world, my assistant Monica Beniot
helps me settle or people among the Gnomes.

There we stood on a strange new world with the skies above looking different from what we just left, under the night sky we came, there two moons, and a bright star in the night sky. There was snow on the ground, you cold see it under the moon light of the two moons, it was cold, but fortunately there were caves in the hills which we found to seek shelter until the morning. So we made do, we had live stock, and some axes to cut down trees, and make temporary covers for the entry way of the cave, made bonfires near the caves, to provide heat.

 As we were preparing to start working on our camp, I saw some torches heading our way, it was a group of gnomes heading are way, from their village just a mile away. The leader of the gnomes offered lodging for my group, but Esau rejected the offer, I didn't and we followed the gnomes to their village and stayed the night in their gingerbread looking houses, it was like a faerie tale village, I almost expecting to find Father Christmas or someone. My assistant Monica Benoit, and I started getting the ninety members group to get settle for our first night.  This didn't sit well with Esau, but he is not in charge of the group, that was something that Esau wanted be in charge, I would find out at the end, and he seemed taken with Monica, something she didn't want, he left a creepy feeling in her that Esau was a dangerous man, which would be proven as time went by. 

With help from the Gnomes our colony was established
not knowing at the time what evil is lurking among us.

The next day, the gnomes came with us to our camp, they brought along wagons full of supplies, and food, they even offered to help us build proper shelters for our people. So in the middle of the coldness of winter, they set about building a long house, and other wooden huts to house our people, the strange thing was the wood they were using glowed red, and gave off heat, which made the people warm during the cold winter nights. Most people stayed in the gnome village while the cottages, and long house was being build, it took close to two months to build these houses, and long house which I made as a meeting place for worship, and living quarters for myself. Monica helped our people to settle in their new homes, when they were ready to be moved into. 

Despite any impeding doom or trouble our small colony managed to celebrate Christmas on this strange world, the great gift to this world we brought was the gospel, the gift we got was new friends, and new opportunities, for the coming of the new year.” ---End of Chapter 4 of The Ancients 

Night Owl Comics is a publication of the Port Angeles Globe
Written by Peter Ripley aka Peter Leo on IMVU
Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and a happy new year

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