The Weight of Souls

When the whirlwind of glass and sand surrounded the Mythenders Bomani continued to charge despite the shards of glass cutting and slashing his entire body. The growth provided by Sabah and the undead from Maat mauling Anubis granted the opportunity for Bomani to finally come within proximity of the god.

In Bomani's free hand, a small orb of light began to form. As he raised up his hand the orb began to pulse and grow larger by the second until it became a miniature sun. If there were any innocent mortals remaining they would have been scorched from being close by, however, as Anubis had annihilated them Bomani took his chance to use the gift provided by Ra.

Bomani then said to himself, "Today is the day you die, Anubis." and proceeds to toss the large orb towards the god.

Anubis throws up a hand to shield himself from the ball of light. It explodes into a blinding radiance that fills the wide-open room and is reflected as thousands of pinpricks on the grains of golden sand. When the light dies away, Anubis is standing, one metallic arm glowing white-and-orange hot, smoke rising from several places. His hand and forearm are half-melted, misshapen.

With his good hand, still holding the metallic and luminescent crook, he sweeps it wide around the room. The grains of sand on the floor begin to vibrate. Then they group together into a large hammer made of compacted sand, and quick as a flash, it soars across the room, striking the Mythenders.

Sabah raises her shield in defense, catching the sand-hammer blow. It breaks apart around her only to reform behind her and continue its attack. Sabah then uses this opportunity to charge forward. As she does so, she jumps off the fleshy growths, gaining speed with each jump as her touch makes them grow larger still. With her shield forward, she impacts Anubis at high speed, hoping to, if not break bones that she isn't even certain he has, at least make him stumble.

Maat, still connected to one of Sabah's growths, watches as the spirits claw and pull at the mechanical mask of Anubis, messing with its vision. As a result, this causes the sand hammer to miss him by just a few hairs. He sighs of relief, and cracks a smile.

Then he senses Sabah jumping towards him. When her feet touch the growth that Maat is attached to, it send a ripple of Sabah's energy through his body. Maat hones in on the spirits, seeing through their eyes and spots a weakness. "Souls of the underworld, tear this god to shreds!" he says, commanding the dark shapes to rip apart Anubis's face.

Bomani thought that using the Orb of Ra would certainly work against Anubis, but he is a god after all. When Anubis attacked, Bomani leaped to the stands they were previously at. He watched as the other two Mythenders continued their barrage and decided to continue to do the same. Since the undead were attacking the god's face and Sabah had impacted him with her shield, Bomani cracked the floor as he rushed Anubis to swing his axe at the uninjured arm.

With the sound of tearing metal, the shadows scratch open the eyes in Anubis's mask. Then they disappear into the holes they created, to wreak havoc inside.

At the same time, something is happening with Maat's eyes. They start to glow golden as the creatures he commands gain strength. He yells out, though it's not sure whether this is a cry of pain or a sort of battle cry. Then his back moves unnaturally, even though he has the hunch on his back, it forces him to stand up straight. The hunch detaches from the floral growth, cracks and releases black smoke that envelopes his whole body, giving Maat the look of a wraith with golden eyes.

He kneels down, and breathes heavily. The attack has taken a lot of his power. But it looks like it was at least effective.

The souls rip apart the lenses of Anubis's mask and begin to squeeze into it. The metal and who-knows-what foreign technological material it was made of begins to vibrate as more spirits pour in. Suddenly the mask explodes in dozens of pieces like a shrapnel bomb. Anubis drops to one knee and almost falls over. Finally Anubis's face, and most likely the others of his race, is revealed. The head is a tangled mass of luminescent tentacles, a white glowing ball of worms or some hundred-headed sea anemone. The light emanating from the head pulsed in some unmeasurable rhythm. Just then, Sabah crashes into Anubis while he was vulnerable and sends him flying backwards, disappearing into a small sand dune. After a few heartbeats Anbubis regains his (it's?) emerges from the dune, grains of sand spilling off him like hourglass waterfalls. He lifts his crook-staff in his one good hand and it begins beeping and flashing light. A bright red beam of solid light flashes out and he sweeps it around the room. Any bystanders too slow to react are instantly separated from the rest of their body by a sizzling black line burned right through it.

Sabah, standing right underneath the god-creature is hit by the blast. It burns her but she ignores the pain and continues her assault on him. Using her newfound power over life and growth, she begins touching Anubis himself, forcing unnatural, cancerous growths to bulge from him, just the right size and distance to each other for her to use them as handholds in order to get up towards his face.

Bomani was struck by the beam and was knocked into a pillar - shattering it completely and the debris toppled onto his body. He rose from the ground and spit blood before wiping off his lips.

"Is that all you got, you damn creature?"

From the distance he was at, Bomani saw Sabah attempting to climb Anubis to reach his face. He had to do something to make an opening for the two Mythenders to finish the job.

Bomani rushed forward towards Anubis once again and using all of his strength he used his axe to try and cut Anubis' good arm clean off.

Maat is still kneeling, gathering his strength when Anubis goes on the offensive with his beam of light. It travels across the floor, hitting sabah and Bomani, then heading straight towards him. For a moment it looks like this is the end of Maat, but then suddenly the light disappears. As if someone snuffed out a flame. All it leaves behind is a path of smoke that slowly drifts towards Maat and adds to his smokey appearance.

Through that smoke, a new light starts to flare up. Not that of a flame, but something glowing like his eyes. In his hands he is now holding a golden chalice. The chalice that was handed down in his family for generations and is the symbol of his house. It looks like the goblet just saved his life, and as a result, it glows bright with the absorbed energy of the beam.

He looks up at Anubis and sees Bomani charging. Thinking fast, he aims the golden cup at Bomani's axe. The red beam of light flashes across the room and hits it. With the added energy, the axe begins to glow red-hot just as it slices Anubis's arm.Blight
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Created by: Maat
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