Accidentally Grim

Act III: Ouris

"What do you want to hear?" Ouris asked a creature with a golden upper body chain mail sitting on a stone slab in front of his throne. There were two more heavily armored creatures standing on both sides while the rest of the huge room is filled with perfectly crafted stonework and silence.

"I brought peace and stability this region has never seen for millennia," he beckoned with a small rise in his voice, "a millennium which all of you have apparently forgotten."

"Imme apue eth mahk thullim" he then commanded a few servants who came out from an antechamber bearing baskets full of a variety of nuts, seeds, and fruits. He gobbled the feast that was all placed in front of him without making any offer to the creatures ahead. When the last servant left the stone room, Ouris stood while clenching out some small fruits and he proceeded near three horizontal windows where the middle one is slightly much wider. He overlooked a hundred steps below and scanned over the few palm trees and the distant vista enamored by the rising Sun.

"I will build over in these lands a marvel for the world to see, with my men who are the only capable army perhaps in the world, we shall be the mightiest among the mighty."

"Be careful of your words" a woman's voice came from the creature wearing the chain mail.

"Why is it so?" Ouris replied while he returned to his throne and seated scantily with his legs. He was only wearing fine white linen over his waist and woven grass sandals. His bare shoulders both have bluish dye in a shape of a bird while his head is clean with tiny spots of hair. The left side of his face also has a blue and black dye with the shape of the rays of the Sun while the rest of his skin tone is darkly tanned.

"You said there are only a few of my kind that is left and we are all divided by these oceans. The only threat next to you is my kind".

Ouris paused for a moment and wandered at the creatures he still considered to be guests.

"Or is this the day of days where it came to pass?" He asked.

"Ahk aksim simhu umme pathe zimm" Ouris continued with his tirade shifting to another language.

"Diye peth unnu-Ourus" she refuted calmly.

Ouris smashed the empty basket near him, he is still angered by something that is bothering him and it showed on his face when he looked and wondered at their presence.

"Amma num epthellim" he said after being interrupted.

"Please, let us continue to speak in this tongue" she then requested.

Ouris sat forward with his right elbow on his right knee. He is feeling more tense.

"Lend me the imspheres and I will fill them with death" he requested, "send me a handful of your beautifully armored men and let me take those two".

He looked at both the magnificent creatures towering over the woman in the middle.

"I have been faithful and have done things that are within reason. I harbored these men and treated them much better than my favorites while this land remained cruel and unforgiving. This domain that I never sought in the first place is taxing the life out of me and has been so for a hundred years."

Ouris kept his gaze to the floor when the woman spoke in response.

"You were never banished here and in your hundred of years we, I still came for you.

"You tell it like I owed the countless stars in the heavens". He kept grounded.

"In the passing of ten millennia of this time, with the passage of one of the many favorites of your ancestor Shuri, a new comet in the northern part of the Earth will rise and in two years of your time, your ascendancy will come."

She sounded familiar.

"Mnu said the only reason you are helping me is that you and father's father are the same" He laments and said while he grew weary.

" I have always enjoyed talking with your mother but heed my words Ourus, this battle is for you alone and we do not take any part."

"But I have seen it before, you showed me where they all fought" Ouris broke his sadness.

"What I have shown you is a mere thousand years ahead of time, this Gehenna you speak is different in a way the darkness bends the light and thus the same flicker must continue to last. Your trial began in this setting and once it completes, you will have a better place and recognition".

"Is it true then that you are who is called Tamiel?"

The rays of the Sun finally peeked over the wide center window and lit the lone woman in the room. She felt the light as if it has rejuvenated her and while hearing the serious tone came from Ouris' question, she drew a glyph in the air and its essence flew right through him.

"This has happened as well as what is about to come," she said and with her last words, a temporal vortex appeared and engulfed the creatures.

Ouris labored breathing and he has both his palms on the floor. It took a few minutes before he could move and be back to normal.

"These old gods..."

He looked at the empty stone slab in front and the rest of the vacant room. He knew these gods have the means of knowing everything and he restricted himself from saying any more words out of his thoughts. His mind wandered while he stayed motionless and seated on his throne. There were thoughts of war, destruction, death, and he can not avoid them. He could not understand the cycle of it either. While he was consumed with his worries, three of his previous servants reentered. They were covered with little layers of linen while some parts of their body were bare and even one had no covering on her feet.

They look up to him as their god while they cleaned up the baskets and brought him his favorite drink.