Mehemet carried his shield, holding tightly his spear. Walking through the eternal fields of the mystical land of the Gods, he breathed heavily. When Ramesses mentioned that he'd be walking through the Duat and onto the Heavens of the Gods, the warrior would have laughed at his face. The sky was full of milk. And he walked on a bridge made of gold. The stars shone like bright golden ear-rings. Looking down below, the empty void represented the colourful galaxies of this world. Mehemet's mission was clear. To find the land of Punt and re-establish contact. Egypt was in dire straits with the Hittites and the Assyrians threatened to overthrow Egypt into chaos. Ramesses could not allow this. Thereby he had sent his best warrior to help Egypt in a time of need and want.
He breathed deeper, knowing that the last obstacle in his path was Apep. The eater of souls. The snake slithered from the sky of Nut before slowly emerging into a vast dump of chaos. The snake began to over-tower the warrior until he could no longer see the giant above him. Mehemet gripped his shield and stopped. The cackle of Apep erupted into the sky, causing ripples of unimaginable magnitudes. Mehemet gasped in horror, seeing the mistreatment of Nut. He only wished that Ra the Sun God would arrive soon.
'Did you think I would let a mortal pass through the last gate of Heaven? Never. Until Ra's creation is mine mortal, I will never rest until I take back what was mine!'
Mehemet gulped.
The snake lowered it's ugly head to the warrior. 'Fear. I sense it. Why did Ra create beings of such cowardice?' The snake tutted before it roared into the air and went straight to Mehemet.
Mehemet raised his shield, ducking under it. Instantly, a giant ball of fire slapped into the serpent's head. The serpent hissed. The flying ball of fire went back and forth, ripping through the serpent's body. The serpent howled, before laughing slowly. It's skin regenerating. The ball of fire exploded, unveiling a tall figure floating in the sky. A Monkey, dressed in a suit far from Mehemet's imagination. Wearing a golden crown, holding a golden staff, the Monkey swung his staff across the snake, creating whirlwinds of tornadoes that rotated the giant serpent-like a toy.
The Monkey turned to the Snake withering on the galaxy. 'Listen up! Do you know who I am?'
Apep cursed. 'No, I don't you insolent monkey! One thing is clear to me. Those from not these realm should never come into the realm of Ra's creation!'
The Monkey cackled. 'Ha! Ha! You would dare mock me? I am Sun-Wu-Kong! The Monkey King! I defied the Heavens when they treated me badly. I'm a demon! But a benevolent one. Dare you to cross my wrath serpent, and I will thrust you down Ra's throat!'
Apep roared. 'Come then Monkey! I'll be happy to eat your corpse!'
The Monkey flashed a grin before whooshing straight to the golden bridge where Mehemet stood, shocked. The Monkey Kung grabbed his staff and whacked straight at Mehemet. Mehemet flew into the air screaming before landing onto a phoenix. The Monkey King appeared in front of him as the Phoenix rushed down towards the galaxy.
Mehemet buckled under the weight of the wind. 'What are you?'
The Monkey King, leaning alone on his staff cleaned his ears. 'Didn't you hear me? Sun-Wu-Kong! The Monkey King!'
Mehemet fell onto the wings before the Monkey King's tail swiped him back. Mehemet gasped. 'The Monkey King?'
The Monkey King smirked. 'I'd have thought I'd be more famous by now. I'm going to have increased my reputation then. Now to me Mehemet! Watch how real Gods fight!'
The Monkey King cackled louder than before, jumping into the sky. Throwing his staff into the air, the staff possessed a life of its own. The sky turned golden. The Monkey King shot further into the sky. The storm behind Apep rumbled with darkness and chaos, humongous like a wave of ninety metres. The staff crackled and broke, expanding longer and longer and longer. Until it was so huge that its length was eight hundred and twenty-eight metres. The Monkey King whooshed down, before holding it in his arms. The Monkey King let out a loud roar and shoved the staff straight towards Apep. Mehemet's eyes widened. The Monkey King released the staff, whooshing into the air. He landed straight on the staff hurtling its way throughout the heavens. The Monkey King cackled, running across the staff as wind and speed hurtled passed him. Apep's mouth opened, letting out a huge wave of fire. The staff disintegrated, breaking into little pieces as it went through Apep's mouth. The Monkey King jumped and descended down into the galaxy. Before rising up again, he thrust himself into a torando surrounding the snake.
The tornado whirled and blinded Apep's vision. The Monkey King appeared back and forth, cutting through Apep's body. The Monkey King whacked at the serpent's eye. He trudged through smoke and fire, jumping back and forth, summoning his staff to do the bidding. At one point, he walked through the tail of the serpent, using his staff to build a wall of lava across the cold body of the serpent. The serpent yelled before thrashing back. The serpent whacked the Monkey King with his tail. The Monkey King squealed in delight before being flung into the faraway galaxies never to be seen again. Apep turned on the phoenix, saliva dripping from his mouth.
In a sudden slow motion, the Monkey King thrust into Apep's face, his fist punching the eye of Apep. The serpent's shocked expression was too much for Mehemet. The Monkey King smiled, before rising in the air.
Apep screamed. 'What do you want you insolent monkey? Why can't you leave me alone? I have no quarrel with you.'
The Monkey King laughed. 'Demon! I am the King of Monkeys! Though I may be of evil, that doesn't mean I have to be. You are a curse upon this world! I shall thrust you into the fires of damnation!'
The Monkey King transformed into a million figures standing and floating in the sky. All of them laughed and cackled. The Monkey King thrust down towards Apep. Like flies, the clones of the Monkey King attacked the serpent. Kicking, attacking, stabbing, throwing huge chunks of the body. The Monkey King materialized his staff out of nowhere. The staff resumed its normal size, eight hundred and twenty-eight metres. The Monkey King raised it high in the air, and brought the descending crown of his glory over the Serpent's head.
The Serpent squealed in fear, trying to retreat. But the clones of the Monkey King did not let him move. Time and time again, they laughed and attacked as if he were a mere plaything. The Staff crushed into the body of Apep. Mehemet could not believe what he had just witnessed. The eater of souls, lay in the cloud as a pile of black ash. Something wasn't right.
The Monkey King booed at the ashes of the snake. 'Did you really think you'd last long demon? I'm Sun-Wu-KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!' He screamed in triumph.
A sudden rumbling jerked the Monkey King. He turned to see the giant snake over-towering him. 'Did you think I'd let you win? Your powers mean nothing to me, Monkey King!'
The Monkey King nervously chuckled. 'Heh...that was just a formality....run!!!!!' He whooshed out of sight. The snaked rumbled through the clouds back and forth. 'You can't run Monkey King! I can see your mind.'
Mehemet could only see the black coils of the snake covering the cloud like an evil descending on the goodness of nature. The Monkey King had disappeared. He didn't know what to do. Invoking Ra, he asked him to come.
Out of nowhere, the clouds turned into darkness. The Monkey King stood in the middle of the sky, floating. A huge solar barge entered from the sky. Ra himself had appeared. The Monkey King jumped to the solar barge and bowed. Ra and the Monkey King shook hands, as they transformed into a giant metal being. Half monkey, half bird. The giant metal being jumped into the air, glowing with as much radiance as it could. Summong both the staff of Ra and the Monkey King, it chopped the giant snake into half. The giant metal being distingerated. The Monkey King thrust the body of the snake into the Duat. Ra stabbed his knife into the snake's head. The pain of Apep's roar widened with fear before succumbing into his injuries.
Mehemet was shaking by the time he saw Ra and the Monkey King smiling at him. They stood on the golden bridge.
Ra smiled. 'Did you see a show worthy of the Gods?'
Mehemet nodded.
The Monkey King cackled. 'The poor mortal didn't know what to do!'
Mehemet pointed at him. 'How...did he come here?'
Ra chuckled. 'What else do you think? Alliances. Like my creation does. The Monkey King is a legendary figure. Never dis-respect him.'
'I shall not.'
'He will travel with you to the Land of Punt. Take his dragon.'
Mehemet turned to see a golden dragon, of a different colour, of a different look staring right at him.
The Monkey King slapped Mehemet's back. 'Don't worry. He's a great pet.'
Mehemet gulped.
Re: Genesis of Empires - an old dusty project brought out again! [OP Updated - 10/05/18]
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. Given that someone else also thinks it's nice, I think I might start putting it in use. However, if anyone still has suggestions, critiques, or alternate designs, I'd love to hear them.
Originally Posted by m_1512
