Absolute Chaos

Raijen needed time to absorb all that had happened over the last few days. He couldn’t bare to say goodbye to Amaunet, he froze in place as she fled down the huge mountain. His body became leaden, his lungs had filled with hot vile air and ceased to move within him.

He sat in the same spot as he did only those few nights ago when Amaunet had fallen from the stars, the very same spot where only hours before they had made sweet love.

It was easy to see the great pyramid of Temu clearly from here, its dark silhouette sat in crisp contrast against the sky, almost as if it floated on the dark horizon.

Raijen’s heart shattered over and over knowing Amaunet was deep below the thousands of enormous stones and sand that made up the immense construction. She would be sealed inside the dark cold vault and then drowned as the waters of the Nile are released from the pyramids heart.

He didn’t understand the whole process, although Amaunet had told him enough to get the gist. Once the waters were released they would flood the great pyramid, filling the ducts and chambers that ran under and throughout the entire construction. These all connected to the web of tunnels, chambers and rooms that ran deep underneath it.

There where two rectangular chambers built above the main chamber inside the pyramid and more smaller ones above them. These long rooms would charge the electromagnetic fields inside the heavy red granite and limestone that was packed with quartz crystal and fill the entire complex with a deadly blue plasma-like substance.

Every room and passage that Temu had constructed those thousands of years before had a unique purpose to activate that one small vault that Amaunet was now locked in. She was trapped under the suffocating thick slab, about to be drowned with the pure evil that was trying desperately to break out from her soul.

Raijen’s head swum inside sheer madness, the horror his Goddess must be feeling in this moment completely overwhelmed him.

Panic gripped him, Raijen scrambled to his feet, he did not know what to do. He wanted to fly to the pyramid and rip every oversized block from its four sheer faces, tearing his way into the Earth and snatch Amaunet from her cold dark destiny. He needed to hold her splendour once again to his aching heart, hold her for all eternity and never ever let her go.

As soon as Raijen’s feet finally obeyed his brain, the great mountain beneath him began to tremble, the harsh vibration cracking the ancient stone of the age old rocks. He looked towards the pyramid and could see a deep blue light illuminating the giant stone blocks of the huge prism.

Tiny shards of blue light filtered between the seamless joins of each huge block. The light was the exact same colour as Amaunet’s eyes, an endless ocean of the deepest darkest blue, the colour of the purest sapphires untouched by time.

A few fat rain drops slapped his sweaty flesh, although he could not see any clouds in the black starry dome above. Then from behind the pyramid, a large crack of lightning deafened the air with its thunderous roar, hitting the red sands with its maddening fury. More lighting followed, lashing the Earth, punishing her hateful sins.

Raijen could not believe what he was witnessing, his eyes widening in both awe and terror. The intricately carved capstone that graced the very top of Temu’s pyramid filled with a deep blue light, its four faces appeared to shift then fold open to reveal a breathtaking spiral of pitch black insanity.

The spiral shot up to the heavens blending with the dark night, pulsing furiously from the pyramids enormous base, up through each massive stone block and out from its elegant tip.

Deep blue light poured into the stream of black horror, smashing its way through the atmosphere and into the chaotic web that spun high above it.

The roar deafened him. Raijen swore he could hear his one true love, his beautiful Amaunet screaming into the heavens as Chaos sucked her through the mess of infinite oblivion.

Then as abruptly as it all began, the blue light splintered and went out. The black stream that led to hell had twisted into nothingness, dissolving in front of his eyes.

The mountain which Raijen stood upon stilled beneath his feet and a terrifying silence swarmed in the air around him, taking his breath again from his lungs.

Silence loomed, Raijen could not hear a thing, icy chills worked their way under his skin, crawling deeper and further with each passing second, searching his broken heart.

A few moments later a cold yet gentle breeze moved in from the east, eerily whispering between his ears. The silence then startled from its sleep and the slight breeze shattered into a harsh wind, slamming hard against his bare chest, stealing his air from within.

Raijen knew without a doubt it had fallen from Chaos herself, smashing the air of Otamia and forcing it down hard towards her sands. It ripped the tiny shards into a frenzy of searing pain against his cold flesh.

Huge gushes of water poured from the pyramid then, it came from her main doorway in a torrent of madness, drenching the sand, tearing deep channels into its depths. The dark fluid forced its way back into the Nile, raging furiously from her rude awakening.

The sand flew in pure rage, slicing Raijen’s skin and invading his eyes, barely seeing the world ahead of him. He was unable to move, nor walk in any direction, falling blindly to the ground, curling up into a tight ball trying to protect his flesh from the insane sandstorm that surrounded him.

Once the storm had finally abated, he slowly dug himself out from the layers of cold sand that covered him. Clambering to his feet, he shook the grit from his hair and flesh.

The last few days had been so surreal that Raijen wished it was all a dream, yet it was not.

He could not believe the scene that now lay before him, the sandstorm had entirely drowned the lands around him in the desert sands. The huge dunes that sat to the west of Otamia’s boarders had completely moved position and so had the dunes that spread into the south closer to the Nile.

The sand now covered the entire pyramid and beyond. It was as if the amazing structure had never existed, only been an invisible figment in time, a place in the creative part of his imagination, floating for a just a sweet moment in Earth’s unique history, then gone, ....vanished.