FICTION
SPAWNING IN:
BROKEN
By William O’Hara
Time seemed frozen. All hell was breaking loose, yet everything happened at a staggeringly slow pace; so
much so that Ullr could have noticed everything from the cracks in the walls to the dust in the air.
H
e could have noticed Loki
at his head. She pulled her own
sneaking behind Neith,
bowstring, arrow at the ready.
poised to strike, and he could
Ullr’s gleaming arrow
for the faintest hint of a smile.
Rising into the air, Anubis
bearing down on Ullr, his eyes
have noticed the door cracking
emerged from the murky darkness
started to glow, sparking with
open a fraction, but he didn’t.
of the swarm of locusts, its
some sort of evil energy. Loki’s
He focused on the one thing that
path not deterred by the attack.
body erupted, causing Neith to
mattered at this exact moment,
The penis shattered, the arrow
flinch and cover her eyes. The
which was whether he could
loosed, The door opened, and
real Loki took this opportunity to
stop the resurrection of Osiris.
yet again, the chaos ensued.
appear from behind her and thrust
His bow held firm, string
As the shards spread around
both knifes towards her spine.
Time seemed frozen, all
taught and wavering, aimed
the room, glittering like fireflies
directly at the object in Anubis’
in the torchlight, Anubis roared
except for a single robed figure
hand, the item which held the key
again. This roar began as a sad
walking into the room through the
to the resurrection. Beads of sweat
howl, but got filled with the hatred
now open door. Now time actually
rolled down his head and made
his palms sticky. The arrow aimed
straight at the golden phallus.
He released the string.
Suddenly everyone
exploded into action.
“THERE WAS A LOOK OF SHOCK
ON HIS FACE AS HE SLUMPED TO
THE FLOOR AND CRACKED HIS
HEAD ON THE COLD FLOOR.”
and anger only the God of Death
was frozen. The sparks in Anubis’
releasing a jet of locusts that
could muster. The arrow that Neith
eyes faded and were replaced
swarmed the arrow and removed
fired had struck perfectly, hitting
with a glaze of confusion. Loki’s
it from Ullr’s vision. Loki sprang
Loki square in the face. There was
daggers dropped from his hands
at Neith, both daggers in hand,
a look of shock on his face as he
and clattered to the floor. The
ready to bring her down. However,
slumped to the floor and cracked
robed man continued to walk.
she seemed to be expecting it and
his head on the cold floor. Blood
swung her bow up, blocking his
oozed out of the wound, and his
normal for the presence that he
wrists, keeping the bow aimed
face was completely blank, save
brought into the room. “I think
Anubis roared in anger,
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