Daniel and the others woke up the next day in the grand plaza, Talus did his whole morning routine of hanging himself and cracking his neck to jolt
himself awake. Daniel rubbed his eyes and was lightly kicked by Zaiyal, "come on elf its time to go, we have to meet Ungar's friend at the sign in station at the
Tournament Entrypoint," said Zaiyal. "ALL OF YOU WE HAVE TO TALK!" said
Ungar. "What's the big..." said Daniel. "Now everyone!" say Ungar. The group
got in a circle and Ungar explained everything. "And that's it, this creature
apparently works for Lucifer himself. I know countless pieces of information, but I
barely remember that Satan wasn't just a fairy tale but a real being, and this goon
one of Talus's former-allies is one of them, I still don't understand why he fled?!"
said Ungar. "Well, does the demon know anything about this cretin," said Sarai. "I
was about to get to that," said Talus. Talus turned into Lord Nythothrotep and
began to cackle, "you think I'm just like that beast Daniel killed all those years
ago. You really are a fool," said Talus. "KNOCK IT OFF! Get the anecdote
prepared!" said Ungar. Talus returned back to his original form. Talus cracked his
neck and then began to rip parts of his flesh off of his arm; the flesh slowly began
to grow back until it had completely regenerated. "You have to eat my flesh, if not
you could be compromised by the spores of Salef's minions," said Talus. "I'm
eating anything from that monster he's just like the rest of them," said Just then a
man dressed as a Chinese peasant with the head of a slug walked through the door,
"did I miss anything?" said the slug man. "Perfect timing," said Ungar. Ungar told
Guan Fu, his old friend the slug man everything, Ungar was old friends with many
older slug people. "Well, my old friend, that's all I needed to hear," said Guan Fu.
And after he said this the Slug Man gulped down the piece of white plato like
flesh. After seeing this everyone fell in line, everyone but Ungar and Talus who
were immune to the plague. Daniel, Sarai, Zaiyal, Narcis, Sir Rhyme and Tashkent
all ripped off parts of Talus's flesh and began to devour it. "Now we have to all
head to the tournament, it's time to go," said Ungar. The group headed out into the
city and almost immediately they heard the hustling and bustling of the so-called
civilization of the gods. In that hustle and bustle there were several trolls bullying a
small pink creature with a turban he cried out as he demanded help. Daniel without
thinking leaped into action and the two trolls stood perplexed. "We're trying to
shake down this bloke for a couple of cents, what's a little pint like you think
you're going to do about it?" said one of the trolls. Daniel began to flare up with
anger and as this occurred Talus began to notice; "this elf there's something
different about him, why is he helping this little imp?!" thought Talus. Daniel
leaped into action and in mere moments the trolls were running for the hills. Daniel
put his sword in his scabbard. The little red creature began to thank Daniel. "Thank
you mister, my name is Muhammad ibn Zayd, I am a Jinnie and I thank you for
helping me," said the creature. "Muhammad? Are you a Muslim?" said Daniel.
"Yes I was born in 1545 or 952 AH in India next to a Muslim family of Jinn in the
Deccan region of India. I died in 2002 AD somewhere near Bombay but as you can
see I never grew to maturity and I was never able to make the Hajj to Arabia to worship Allah in Mecca," said the Jinn.
"I'm trying to win the tournament this
year, and I think I've gotten really strong!" said Muhammad. After he said this
Muhammad powered up and he started glowing with an incredible aura and power
with fire bursting all around him. When the display started everyone was
impressed especially Talus, 'so much power, there might be something to this
bleeding hearted intimately which at times made me wretch has a purpose, heh,
well played elf another powerful opponent to challenge in the future," thought
Talus. Everyone introduced themselves to the Jinnie. Ungar, Zaiyal, Sir Rhyme,
Tashkent, Narcis Matreya, Sarai, and even Talus greeted Muhammad. After the
group became acquainted with their new ally they got to see all of the beings
participating in the tournament. Ungar thought to himself I know many of these
people, "that's Frederick Nietzsche the 19th century German philosopher, that's the
13th century Andalusian Sufi scholar and Muslim philosopher Ibn 'Arabi, that's
the 18th century Orthodox Christian monk from Russia St. Seraphim of Sarov,
that's the Sikh woman warrior Mai Bhajo who battled the Mughals famously in
one battle in 1705, that's the mythical Japanese hero from Shinto folklore
Momotaro, 'the Peach Boy,' that's the Muslim Sultan Saladin who battled the
Crusaders in the Levant, that's Oliver Cromwell the Puritan Christian warlord who
terrorized 17th century England, that's the Indian monkey god Hanuman, that's
Adolf Hitler, and that's the Death Dealer, and that's the evil warlock from Slavic mythology Koschei the Deathless,... what are all these people doing here? Have
they truly been reborn as some sort of demi-gods?" thought Ungar. The announcers
read off everyone that was about to enter the arena within the hour. Everyone was
shocked at how powerful all of these famous individuals were. Talus was really
excited, "well... we only have an hour, why not grab some grub there's a shack
right there," said Talus. The others agreed and they entered the shack once again
everyone's jaw dropped now including Muhammad at the amount of food Talus
was shoveling in his mouth. Food was literally flying around. Ramen was being
slurped up one moment, and pork was being ripped by his four razor sharp fangs
another moment. Drinking the delicious sauce from the ramen, well grabbing what
looked like some alien looking burrito. There was a strange blue looking alien with
slug eyes that was looking at the group. Sarai began to whisper to Daniel, "what's
up with that alien guy? Why on earth is he staring at us?' said Daniel. Daniel
looked over at Muhammad, who gave a hostile look to this thug, "By Allah, this is
a troublesome person. We need to keep an eye out on him. By God, I know we will
see him again," said Muhammad. Talus with tons of food in his mouth quickly
swallowed and laughed, "you're all making a mountain out of a mole-hill, all we
need to worry about is being among the last 100 contestants in the tournament so
we can ascend to heaven and get closer to finding your precious philosophers'
stone," said Talus. "Don't be a fool imp!
That creature can hardly hold a candle to you but he could easily end the lives of many of us if he used stealth against us,"
said Zaiyal. "Well just don't get caught," said Talus. "You would say that you are a
disgusting monster. It makes me sick that we're sitting here breaking bread with
you," said Sarai. "Sarai please, you need to knock this off, we are a tomb," said
Daniel. "Besides, practically speaking Talus is an incredible asset," said Sir
Rhyme. "Yes, and all beings are capable of enlightenment," said Matreya Narcis. "I
DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOUR JUSTIFICATIONS, I'm done dealing
with this animal!" said Sarai. "SARAI, I WON'T ASK YOU TO STOP THIS
AGAIN! We have a mission to retrieve the philosopher's stone and to use it to
destroy Lucifer, you need to realize what's important and cut this out now! You
need to get your priorities straight!" said Ungar. "What's wrong can't handle a
former-footsoldier of the terrifying Mozaku, Wolf Man?" said Talus. "Tsh. Treat
this monster like a compatriot all you want. I won't give this monster the time of
day. I haven't forgotten anything. I'm still on the team, I'll see you all on the
battlefield in about 15 minutes. I'm still fighting with my team I just don't want
acknowledge this fucking monster, see you all soon," said Sarai. After a short
pause Daniel spoke up, "I'm really sorry Talus," which shocked Talus and honestly
everyone a little about. Talus looked perplexed, "What do you mean sorry? The
wolf is right, I am a monster, I don't care about any of you at all, not even myself,
just our future battle" said Talus. "If you're going to say something like that you better make sure you believe what you say. Lying about this is futile Talus," said
Daniel with a stern look on his face. Talus pulled his chair out, "Whatever, let's just
get to the damned tournament," said Talus. All the others did not look angry at all,
just perplexed with the exceptions of Ungar and Sir Rhyme as if they were
thinking, 'does Daniel know something we don't.' It was not known at the time but
Talus, just like Muhammad was a Jinnie.
Meanwhile in the realm of the Angels, Belthasar called a meeting about
what he declared, 'about an important warrior known as the Gatekeeper who could
be used to stop Lucifer's forces.' The angelic being known as Al-Khidr who
appeared on Earth to guide his persuasion of believers "the Muslims" known as
Al-Khidr or the Gifted One who had given guidance to Prophet Moses in the Quran
and who was a chancellor in the realm of the angels spoke up; "In the name of
God, the glorious and merciful for whom I am his slave and whom made the
human beings and the Jinn specifically to worship him and him alone but whom
rewards every other sort of being ten times more in paradise because unlike with
those two mortal beings [Salat being an obligation] with all others it is a courtesy
and not an obligation. I speak to the angels in the name of the one who's hands my
soul is in. I am intrigued by the magic of this being 'Talus,' this demon apostate. I
believe he could be used to fight the forces of Satan," said al-Khidr. After saying
this Al-Khidr took a seat.
The other angels debated for a moment and there was some great debating on the floor of the hall of the angels. Eventually Metatron was
chosen to be sent to defend Daniel and his friends.
Meanwhile in the chamber of the Emperor within his harem the emperor was
finishing up his night of debauchery. He was having sexual intercourse for a
combination of sexual slaves, free prostitutes, male prostitutes and male sex slaves
and young boys. He was in the most conservative of terms a base degenerate.
Down below several hours before the beginning of the tournament Talus was
taking a rest with the others and he decided to get his training started early this
year. He woke up, jumped on his two feet with his head pointed at the sky as he
started to snicker and shot two golden eye lasers into the sky above him. He did
this for a full minute at least waking up the others with the exception of Ungar who
never sleeps. The eye lasers traveled 40,000 light years to the palace of the
emperor in his harem and blasted through the floor near his bed and into the sky
above startling and angering him. When the lazer faded there was a hole in his
floor and his sealing and two of the sex slaves, two young boys 10 and 12 years old
were killed. He immediately put on his robe and went to one of his commissars.
"What happened?!" shouted the emperor. "There were two beams of light that
blasted into my chambers. I demand to know what happened NOW?!" said the
emperor.
"My eminence the lasers are coming from the tournament grounds about
35,000 lightyears due east in the part of space known as the Laquadia cluster that goes on for about 2,500 light years and where there is oxygen it resembles the pure
blue sky with small planets, clouds, and islands of people in the sky as well as
planets the planet "TIKRIT," is in the middle of all this where the tournament of
the gods is held every year. Should we alert the authorities and alert the masses of
an emergency," said the commissar. "No," said the emperor. "We will go there
covertly and say it is simply a surprise appearance at the tournament as I almost
never go and then we will begin to search for the culprit or cause of this
disturbance." A small fleet headed to Takrit to find the source of the disturbance.
Meanwhile, back in Tikrit Daniel, Sarai, Zaiyal, Muhamamd and the others
were furious at Zaiyal. They began to give him a peace of their mind as they
headed to the tournament ground until they were met by a strange creature made of
bricks and mortar with a curly mustache. "Excuse me, lads you've entered the
tournament?" said the creature. "Yeah, what is it to you?" said Zaiyal. The creature
began to jump up with excitement. "EXCELLENT! I've been waiting for a group
of chaps of your caliber to try to best me in the tournament. My name is
ADOLFUS BLOCKHUS from the Adratius nebula. And I am beyond pleased that
they're are other strong fighters in this tournament. I say as an intellectual who
went to the University of Frauberg Hty I know my way around different cultures
and as I am of an anthropological background I know that you come from a very
different religion and culture than I do. For example, I am guessing you do not worship the goddess of all bricks Zora-Quake?" said Adolf Blockhus. The others
were stunned, their eyes twitching and their mouths on the ground who was this
insane character.
"I received great honors in understanding the religions and
cultures of others, the history of the Fish people of Lagoon and the extra-abundant
cults of the Swamparius Aldramatia galaxy, Indeed a smorgasbord of different
dialects and persuasion. If only my IQ was under 186 then maybe I could enjoy the
simpler things, but ala..." Blockhus tripped and landed on the groin of a stronger
ogre that turned out to be a homosexual. The Ogre tried to make a move on the
brick creature asking, "You interested in a cream filling brick boy?" said the ogre.
As he began to shake Daniel jumped on the scene with the Spirit Blade in hand.
"Ah come on, today gets even better a little twink to satisfy my desires." He said
this as you could see his erection continue to grow under his loincloth.
Daniel knocked him to the ground with one punch. "ENOUGH! The
tournament is about to start, we have no more time for this foolishness!" shouted
Ungar. Ungar was right about the preliminaries being over. It was time for the
show to begin. Everyone, including their new blocky friend, entered into different
elevators. Talus was the most excited to start fighting in this tournament. His
elevator came out of the ground and he was in a giant field of fields of amber
waves of grain. Before him were several demons shouting;
"FINALLY THE
APOSTATE! We're going to kill you now you filthy traitor!" said a terrifying looking demon with sharp fangs and no less than eighty eyeballs. But several other
beings were there; they were all human. There were six of these human beings in
total and Talus knew who they all were from reading their minds, memories and
knowledge of Daniel and Ungar. They were the souls of Friederich Nietzsche the
19th century German philosopher [died in 1900], the famous Hanbali Sunni
Muslim jurist known to many Muslims as Shaykh-al-Islam Imam Ibn Taymiyyah
[died in 1328], another Muslim spiritual leader known as Ash-Shaykh al-Akbar ibn
'Arabi 'the Greatest master,' who was born in Andalusia or Spain and died in
Damascus, the famous Russian Orthodox Christian priest and saint of Eastern
Orthodox Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Church of
England the 18th century Russian Christian mystic St. Seraphim of Sarov, the
German Catholic Theologian, mystic and priest Meister Eckhart [died in 1328] and
the famous German fuhrer Adolf Hitler. There were only six human beings but
there were numerous demons, at least 20 of them in all making at least 26 demons
and humans alike surrounding Talus and united in their resolve to strike him and
destroy him. This kind of thing excited Talus greatly; 'well well, looks we have a
challenge,' he immediately jumped into battle. He first lunged at the humans
striking Nietzsche and overwhelming him before long both of Nietzsche's arms.
After Nietzsche's arms were shattered Talus unleashed a devastating blow to spine
with this knee as a result Nietzsche coughed a large amount of blood and flem.
After this Friederick fell to the floor and with one finger Nietzsche was destroy
from a beam of energy that came from Talus's finger reducing Nietzsche to nothing
but ashes. In a blink Talus leaped over to Ibn Taymiyyah who said, "you are
terrible if you want I can give you the path of God and his holy prophet," whereas
Talus said "no thanks Shaykh, I'm good." Leaping into the air punching Ibn
Taymiyyah directly in the face and then in a flash as Taymiyyah was being
launched into the background appeared in an instant behind him and blowing him
up with both hands turned the Shaykh to nothing but ashes. Without even blinking
he turned around and shot a laser from his mouth turning Ibn Arabi into nothing
but ashes. Then he leaped into the air and with both his hands shot a laser attack
each one directed at Meister Eckhart and the other St. Seraphim tried to run but the
energy blast caught up with them turning them to dust. Finally Hitler landed a blow
against Talus. Hitler began to stand firm, "the others were weaklings, prepare to
meet the greatest fighter of all time," after saying this Adolf Hitler began to glow
with red aura forming giant muscles and bursting out of his shirt and coat. He
lunged straight for Talus but Talus blocked him in an instant, shocking Hitler. Talus
snickered and said; "you've started to believe your own horseshit. You are not
exceptional at all. People have mythologized you they said you were worse than
any tyrant in the history of your world and your race; worse than Joseph Stalin,
Mao Zedong, Tamerlane, Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Alexander of Macedon, etc. but this is not true you're just some European dictator who committed standard
war-crimes there is nothing exceptional about you, you are no real devil. Your
enemies mythologized and made you 1,000 fold worse than you actually are, you
are not notable, you are nothing. Now prepare to feel the terror of coming against a
true monster. BEHOLD THE MALICE OF A TRUE DEVIL!" said Talus.
After he
said this Talus began to glow with a red aura and the entire arena began to shake.
The 20 demons around them were terrified, Ungar thought to himself, "that's
Talus's power, its incredible I never knew he was this strong." Sarai and Zaiyal
looked on in the distance: 'That monster what is he up to now?' thought Sarai.
Daniel for his part along with Muhammad and Narcis leaped into action to seek out
Talus and run in the direction of the energy increase. Hitler's arms were being
crushed. "What... are you some kind of monster?" said Hitler. "Heh... your
words." after this Talus crushed Hitler's skull and rammed it into one of the
demons killing them both with both legs planted Talus shot a laser from his mouth
disintegrating Hitler and the rival Demon destroying both of their mortal buddies
and reducing them to nothing but dust replying with one word, "ha, pathetic." He
then charged up more as he did so the whole galaxy and the air of quantum space
began to tremble all of the remaining demons began to tremble except one that
leaped before him, as a result Talus calmed down for a moment. "Well if it isn't
Grogomire?"
The fat pig demon smirked; "Talus its been too long I can't wait to taste your blood on my lips." Talus spoke up; "is that a fact, you've been waiting to
finish off little old me?" Grogomire began to howl with laughter; "GWARA
HAHAHAHAHA! I've hated you for years, fool but as you were a made-man I
could never do anything about it. But today is my lucky day. I've been told by the
heads of the Demon Clan that you're fair game now as a traitor. I've been waiting
for this day for a long time, I can hardly wait to tear you limb from limb," said
Grogomire. Talus began to laugh; "Hahahahaha! Tear me limb from limb. That's
quite a sense of humor you got there. But believe it or not I would thoroughly
enjoy a challenge, humiliation and death means nothing to me. [there was a short
pause] Unfortunately, for me I think this is nothing but a bluff. I have no time for
your big mouth spitting off checks it can't cash. Why not waste my time and take
off fool you fat fucking disgrace. I have no time for this nonsense," said Talus.
Grogomire began to turn red like a beat and shake with anger. "How dare you...
YOU INSOLENT WRETCH HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME THAT WAY!
I'm done with your wretched mouth," said Grogomire. "This fight won't be over
until one of us is left standing," said Grogmore. "AND YET, you don't stand a
chance!" said Talus. They began to fight each other and it seemed as they were
evenly matched the two went fifteen rounds and then they took a short break after
this Talus used a backward chop to the back of Grogomire's neck; "Know your
place rodent, crushed beneath my heel!" said Talus. The two landed blow for blow but neither of them seem to get any closer. "FOOL! There is neither man nor
demon nor creature that can stand against my wrath!" said Talus. After this Talus
unleashed a volley of blows on Grogomire's fat gut. "You could last this long
against me this impresses me Grogomire maybe it wasn't all bluff. But you have
unleashed the wrath of the great Talus. Your death will not be swift like the others
prepare to feel true pain!" said Talus. Grogomire coughed up green flem and was
choking uncontrollably. Grogomire fell to the ground; "how could you be this
strong. No matter what, all I need is to unleash a little pain Grogomire ripped off
his own arms. Talus smirked without showing any concern, "interesting, what are
you exactly up to, some new technique I'm unaware of," said Talus. Grogomire
grew back his arms. And began to glow with green energy he began to strike Talus
with lightning fast blows but it made little difference. He dodged every strike like
butter and then with a single kick to the chin knocked Grogomoire backwards.
Grogomire regained his balance and began to pant heavily. "Are you done? I have
last thing to show you before you depart." said Talus. Grogomire was intrigued,
"what are you talking about, traitor?" Talus began to cackle behold my newly
discovered form; Talus took a deep breath in and everything got silent and then the
wind began to pick up. Over a time a huge hurricane was unleashed the entire
planet was engulfed in this terrifying cosmic storm.
Far away even Ungar was
holding his hands up as his cape went fluttering in the breeze, he noticed that Talus was looking around from miles away, Ungar at first didn't know why and then he
realized it, " he's checking to see if any of his party is going to be anywhere in the
range of the blast he knows now that Daniel, Zaiyal, Sir Rhyme, Narcis, Sarai,
Muhammad, Adolfus, Guan-Fu, and Tashkent are out of the way and knows I'm
the only who would easily survive this attack without a scratch. But how powerful
is this attack? The energy coming from this storm is insane," thought Ungar. "He'll
kill at least 12,000 arena goers in the audience but as far as I can see it that will
spare them from a far worse fate which I fear cannot be avoided," thought Ungar.
After all this Sarai's hair turned turquoise blue and it shined with intense light,
"You're not Talus, what are you?!" said Grogmoire. Talus smirked, "You're right
I'm no longer Talus the Jinnie I'm a being far greater than that with the power of a
god, behold I'm Super Talus," said Talus. Talus cracked his neck and shirt
exploded exposing glowing blue beams or orbs of light forming under each spinal
column that began to go and ascend closer and closer to his neck until they reached
the top vertebrae and Talus began to having glowing blue aura coming from his
mouth, a storm the scale of 10 of the storms on Jupiter had completely engulfed the
planet and at this point Grogomire knew all he could do is plead and beg for his
life. "Please spare me Talus, I never liked the Demon Clan. We can team up against
them, please just spare me Talus, I beg of you," said Grogomire.
Talus to get angry
which surprised Grogomire, "There's nothing I hate more than a warrior who fears death, I grow sick of you, you disgusting putrid waste of oxygen. If you reincarnate
maybe next time come back as someone with any kind of value, [then he
whispered] now die fool," after this Talus unleashed the blast from his mouth which
flew straight at Grogomire killing many of the people behind him as well as
obviously Grogomoire turning them to nothing but mere atoms and like Ungar
predicted killing 12,000 arena goers the blast flew off world and went on to destroy
an entire star system which immediately got the attention of Commander Kesh. On
Commander Kesh's ship one of his men stated sir something powerful on Tikrit
destroyed the Alpahrus star system. Kesh was infuriated, "well let's go we need to
nip this little problem in the butt, head to Planet Tikrit immediately," said
Commander Kesh. "Yes sir!" said the soldier. Back in Tikrit Talus breathed a sigh
of relief and cracked his neck a little; 'eh, maybe I overdid it a little," said Talus.
He saw Daniel, Muhammad and Narcis who had just caught up with him.
"Hmmm... I wonder what those three want?" thought Talus.