II. The Ixtán's Heir (Part 01/04)

Author: @Jaxnney /


The Ixtán dynasty; to which he belonged Delilah; was ruled by Sorón in the heavens and the god Al-Cibel in the divine city, but earthly of Lamuria, was at war with other dynasties in the world they had created since times before of the kidnapping of Delilah. The wars had devastated the creation well like to the Ixtán family. This war had pitted brother against brother, uncles against nephews, losing the lives of several of them, until of the immortals gods.


From the god Sorón's family and his five siblings, there is only him and his two daughters Alileth and Alesia. In addition of Al-Cibel and his wife Ahem and his two sons, the beauty Iór and Julhan, this ultimate is an adoptive son; the origin of this guy is Ecclex. There was no male heir to that the dynasty continues reigning. The prince Damien; big brother of Iór; had died in Ixtán games and with it the hope of union with Alileth and the continuity of the kingdom. Of the six siblings Ixtán, only one had a son who could inherit, this boy would be Damien. In change, Julian was son of the goddess Alazne; who was sister of Sorón. So Julian belonged to the caste of his father, the god Jenareth, of Ecclex house. The Ecclex dynasty had been a great enemy of the Ixtán house during the wars between Ixtán siblings, and of alliance of Sorón against the Denon and Dragon dynasties.


Like Delilah, Alesia should grow her first twenty-one years in the land of mortals. But unlike Delilah, Alesia don't grew up in Aldaba, but that she lived in the imperial palace of Lamuria. She lived surrounded by teachers who taught her the arts and languages. Along with this, Alesia grew under the care of her aunt Mira, sister of the goddess Ajha Lepmí. Mira had to take care of her, because Ajha Lepmí died during the birth, leaving orphans to her daughters Alileth and Alesia, and to a widower Sorón. This provoked the hatred of Alileth to with her sister, to who blamed for the death of his mother. And Alesia envied to her older sister fervently, because Alileth have met the love of a true mother.


Little lacking for the ascending of Alesia to the Heavenly Pantheon, and her father, the god Sorón decided to go to visit her daughter when missing three days for the celebration. This time the god was accompanied by his advisor Menet, who came to his side after he was ejected from the court of Al-Cibel. This upset a lot to the god reigning on Lamuria, but like this dates was for celebrations, Al-Cibel had decided to pass up this fact. The arrival of Sorón to the palace coincided with that of his niece, Enissen, who was queen of Alfumier island. Enissen had lost her immortality for married with Coldeno, a brave and intelligent men to who the goddess Jarone saved a big respect, Coldeno saved the life of her daughter Enissen when she was captured by the mortals rebel of the Aurumpolis island.


Within of the entourage of Enissen was Coldeno's sister, the beautiful Danae. She had nothing to envy of the beauty of Alesia, Delilah or Enissen, which were the most beautiful among the goddesses. Danae was endowed with great talent and intelligence. Her presence has not gone unnoticed before the eyes of Sorón and less for those of Menet, who see in her more something of the emperor hadn’t seen.


Following the introductions and greetings and corresponding to the protocol, Menet had met with Danae for setting a date between Sorón and her. If Menet would have lucky, he would achieved that both were attracted each other. And this was something that Menet wished with all his being. The ambient was so strain between the Ixtán brothers that something out protocol and of the rules could light the fuse that he had waited so much.


I. The Kidnapping of Delilah (Part 03/03)

Author: @Jaxnney /

The carriage came back to Lamuria with the gods, leaving the lifeless body of the escort. Imphios, brother of Al-Muzzer, he was to pick up the corpse of Armorad when no one was there. He carried the body in his carriage to the Ecclex palace. The carriage looked too old; in addition it was pulled by skeletal horses. When Imphios approached it the gates of the underworld, he listened the lira of his loved Foloranne. The charm, beauty and vanity of this paradise did that the carriage looked splendid. Crossing the gates, the car turned it beautiful, decorated in rich woods and with clothes with details gold and silver very luxurious. The skeletal horses, now they became beautiful horses with long manes; with horseshoes that was sounding and shining when they taking off their legs the way for forward. The valley of the underworld was beautiful; no mortal ever could have imagined where sins are paid this way in a place like this.


The car crossed the doors and entered in a beautiful hilly park and evergreen. He still had a long way to go before the tenth-hill crowned by the majestic Ecclex palace; built in marble, this palace is the life place of the god Al-Muzzer, king of the underworld and emperor of the Ecclex dynasty.


Once in the palace, the goddess Orama reconstituted the body of the guardian of Delilah, only with pass her hands over the wounds of a dead body. When the body was full again, Orama raised a golden sphere and from this she called the soul of the guardian. Delilah saw a cloud and a light left the sphere and this was introduced to the body Armorad. ''Just so you know you're an immortal guardian''. Orama said. Only then Al-Muzzer returned her spirit, so surreal was, that an eye was opened in the palm of the hand of Al-Muzzer; leaving to sight a huge ice camp. The eye was closed, and spirit joined with the soul inside the body. ''For that you are aware that you are an immortal guardian.'' He ended by saying Al-Muzzer. Before the astonished eyes of Delilah, her guardian rose from the altar where he was and was reinstated.


''Now that you've regained your life, you'll have a new mission. This will be the way to thank me for keeping my promise. Now, you will be my slave, otherwise you come back to died for treason. You will be who keep an eyes on Delilah, for that she never come back to see the sun light neither to the sight of god Oculum''. Looking to Delilah, ''You must understand it, my love. You will not ever get out of here, as happened to your cousins who came alive in my kingdom''. The vile god said.


A disconsolate beast followed aimlessly the car of Imphios, but lost it to sight, before halfway to Lamuria. Sad and he knowing that he will never see his beloved Delilah, Lycaon decided return to his home in Parna to the west of Lamuria and far away of this, crossing the Iaronis Mountain. In Parna he would meet with his family, without know how they reacted front to his new condition of zoomorphic. But if they will reject him, he could enjoy of the view, the landscape, and he would dedicate to write poems, poems for a love that ever would read it.


I. The Kidnapping of Delilah (Part 02/03)

Author: @Jaxnney /

"Well, guardian, what you see, is not an attack. Delilah ordered to Lycaon extract the heart of her. Then he put his heart on his chest. The divine heart of Delilah ate mortal heart of Lycaon, and then he will become immortal''.The Armorad's arm changed on a spear again, now to cut the throat of Lycaon, but in this moment Delilah awoke and forbade do it. The guardian stopped the attack, fell to his knees and began to mourn. ''Delilah now I will be decapitated by your whim, you have condemned to live lonely forever to Lycaon''. Said the guardian to princess.


Delilah approached her and said, "Only the immortal love will transcend. That's what you told me when I spoke you of Lycaon for first time''. Al-Muzzer offered her deal to Delilah for saves to Lycaon and Armorad. If the gods would discover a new immortal creature of origin non-divine, they would kill the guard for not fulfilling its duty and by to have immortalized a mortal.


''What I can do? Please help to her''. Said Delilah. The girl begged him to the god. Al-Muzzer promised to Delilah that will revive to Armorad after of death her. Also he promised to hide of the god's eyes to Lycaon. Although warned her not to accept the pact, the princess finally accepted anyway. She could not let her friends would die to cause her caprice.''How do I know that you will fulfill its promise?''. Asked Delilah. The god looked her eyes, and he been surprised to see the purity of these, Al-Muzzer asked trust him by her eyes.


Al-Muzzer cursed to Lycaon, transforming him in a huge beast, half man and half fox, with a beautiful red skin in the back and a white chest, until as beast, Delilah continued to find attractive, with to see this in the eyes of Delilah, Al-Muzzer gave large fangs and scary eyes to Lycaon. Now would be like that for all eternity. The beast looked at his beloved and jumped on him; Delilah felt fear and hugged Al-Muzzer. Lycaon lowered his ears and he regretted the attack. Then he knew that would no longer be together. His beloved asked him to hide from the gods. She ran into the arms of the beast to say goodbye, but Al-Muzzer did that she fall into a deep sleep. Armorad picked her up and handed it to the god of death. Lycaon, even as a beast, took to the attack against the being dark, but Armorad go through his the abdomen, so as would not to follow them to the underworld.


The Lamuria's carriage drawn by four hippogriffs and guided by the charioteer Vega, executioner of the Ixtán gods, is arriving. Seeing that the car approached, Al-Muzzer opened its huge wings like a bat, and covering his body and with the girl in his arms, plunged into the reflection of the moon eclipsed.


Armorad hid the body of the beast in the bushes, and when the cortege arrived at the shelter in the lake, they found nothing. Vega got out of the carriage and opened the door for that descends the gods: Akgrán, Sorón and Mira. The second god, which was that of justice, told to Armorad with compassionate voice, they had just seen as failing in its mission. ''You did hand over to Delilah to the Ecclex's pantheon, and you know the sentence for your betrayal'' Said Sorón. Mira, who was the goddess of prophecy, consoled the guardian: ''Anyway this would happen, is for a greater good and future''.


Sorón ordered to Vega carry out the beheading, but the goddess Akgrán, Delilah's mother, snatched the weapon to the executioner, and it was she who beheaded Armorad. She called to the winds, of which she was the queen, and ordered them to find the entrance to the underworld.


I. The Kidnapping of Delilah (Part 01/03)

Author: @Jaxnney /

It was too late, the princess Delilah was lying flat on the grass beside her lover, Lycaon, both with a knife in the heart, the gun remained fixed on the chest of Lycaon. The prophecy of the death god Al-Muzzer had been met, and Armorad nothing could do now.

For twenty-one years Armorad, the guardian who had cared for Delilah, living in a lost mansion in the forest near the city of Aldaba in the world of mortals, away from the world of the gods. When Delilah will be twenty-one-years, she would be ready to ascend to immortal life and live in divine city of Lamuria, where governs her uncle Sorón, god of gods, of justice and emperor of dinasties Ixtán and Rhaan. But one night before, the plan had changed.

But now things were different, the guardian saw the long hair and dark of the girl and she felt invaded for the fear and anxiety. She ran in tears to the lagoon near to the palace and seeing the reflection of the moon on the water she begged for his life. While wiping her tears, the moon was eclipsed in the lake, she looked up to heaven, but no eclipse took place at that time. Surprised, she looked into the water, and noticed a dark figure looking her at the other side of the lake, it was not human, or zoomorphic, was the very Al-Muzzer, god of the underworld.


He walked on water, crossed the lake and then caressing the face of Armorad, he asked hand over to Delilah. "Years caring the beautiful Delilah, the most beautiful in the cosmos, I wish that you give her to me, because she is destined to be the goddess of the Underworld, like my wife'' He said. Armorad removed his hand of Al-Muzzer from her face. "So you refuse'' - He said - '' Without know the why you must obey me, remember that I am who decide who must died and who don't must died. You are immortal, but you know the way of died of the immortals like you. Give me to Delilah and when you are dying by the gods punish, I will give you the life again''.

Armorad, which by their rank, was not allow to look into his eyes to the gods, stroked the breast of Al-Muzzer, fiddling with one of the necklaces. Soon his other hand took the form of sharp knife made of your bones, threatening to cut off Al-Muzzer neck. "I will die before seeing like my mission failed'' She said. The dark being sniggered of she; the princess's bodyguards attacked him, but only could scratch his neck when this vanished his body like ashes falling on the lake.

Armorad stepped back and hit back against Al-Muzzer, who had materialized again. "Have not you noticed, already failed in your mission, Lamuria's carriage will come in a few hours to find them, and they will find a third immortal and then you will be beheaded by guilt of Delilah''. She claimed him ''You are lying, Delilah killed to Lycaon and then fatally shot to herself, but we both know that she can not die this way, your body will regenerate and will be ascended anyway''. Al-Muzzer are turned smoke and dragged her to the tragic scene.

Dedication

Author: @Jaxnney /


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I want to greet my brethren Víctor and Catalina, because without
them, we never would have imagined a story so crazy
fantastic and full of unforgettable evening of games.

I want to thank to Margot Anacona, because without
her idea of publishing this story, you would not be reading this
lines.

I hope you enjoy this story, and also make them think
who we are as individuals and as a member of something
larger.

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Jn. Antonio