After the trio had unloaded all the canny boxes and threw them into the tent where the provisions were kept they set down or maybe fell down would be a more appropriate describtion of the act next to a bonfire while Jackcame over with one of the boxes from the provisions tent filled up with bottles of beer.
"Alright lads, up the bottles!"
"Holy moly, this feels better than sex!" Chris moaned after taking a long gulp of ice cold beer while hugging the bottle close to his chest like his lover.
"Ahahahaha, ye you are right lil' drunkster. and the good thing about a beer is it won't bitch about anything even when you take as many of them as you can, hahaha" Dorian said while showering Chris in a spray of beer he "accidentely" waved in his direction.
"What the-, and you two always nag that I'm the prankster of us. Now look at you man." Chris sad with a hint of playful ennoyence in his voice while trying to wring the beer out of his long already greying beard.
"Serves you right you little devil hahaha!" Jack said satisfied and laughing while showering Chris in even more beer than Dorian did obviously getting something out of it all.
"Now now, stop wasting all the good beer you maniac", Dorian tried to argue with Jack, already starting to feel the alc rushing to his head after opening up two more bottles in the melee battle of beers that he observed between his friends.
"stop callin' me maniac you manic. I ain' no mania-hiccs. The passsion of youth is callin' for me so of I go to my sweet heart Sarah honeymouseyshnuckles-hiccs" Jack said as he tried to stand up and wiggle just to fall down face first back into the sand which earned him roaring laughter from the other two who couldn't stop neighing to his misfortune.
As the laughter subsided Chris and Dorian were able to hear some dull snoring from Jack who seemed to have fallen alseep with his face burried in sand. To keep his friend from smothering in the sand Chris kicked Jack in the ass which made him role over only to show his face covered in sand and droll which earned him another round of roaring laughter from the duo even though he was already visiting Sarah in his dreams again as the two surmised.
"Man I love this wild empty and free land. I wish I could stay here forever. With nothing more then the stars and you two idiots as neighboors." Dorian said with a light chuckle when he thought of returning back to europe where his current home was. He never felt the need to settle down in a certain country so when he was old enough he set out to travel the world and make his home where ever he felt like doing so. On his travels he meet both of his friends and since then they always stayed in a group working and living together in a certain way. They never shared an apartment or agreed to travel together, no they just always meet somehow even though the world is such a big place life always lead them back together somehow. At some point they just accepted that fact and kept on traveling together.
With his 35 years of age he was always asked if he doesn't want to get married and settle down but he never felt the need to do so. He had a family, even though it was most of the time a drunken one but he liked it. His parents died when he was still a teenager and even though they ripped a big hole into his life he found his two friends to fill that void with and sometimes, well, no need to lie. women do a pretty good job in filling the void as well.
Then at some point he found a passion in the acient mythologies and started to study the subjects with a passion unbeknownst to most. After some years he became one of the leading scientists in his field of research concerning ancient cultures and started doing field work in south america in the old city of Machu Picchu and there found a connection which led him directly to egypt, into the valley of kings. Now after 15 whole years his research had reached a pinnacle but as fast as it had started to hail new discoveries as fast did it subside. It was frustrating to no end but he knew he was onto something there couldn't give up now. Not after all these years and if that meant working until he would lay his body down next to the kings burried in this valley then so be it.
"I could live that way as well but I believe our maniac would have something against that plan. After all he is still chasing Sarahs ass and as we know him he won't stop until he got her." Chris said chuckling to himself.
They both opened up another bottle and couldn't help admiring the view in combination with the ice cold drinkable orgasm.
"I sometimes wonder if there is someone or something watching us all from above after all the stuff I have learning in my years of research and if the ancient people were right about some things."
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"Who knows. No use in overworking your brain in frustration. Better to just lie down and admire the view until you are satisfied and can leave without regret." Chris said with a rarely seen touch of sadness on his always smiling face.
"Ye, maybe you're right mate." Dorian said and lay down next to the fire and kept staring and the shining stars up above until his eyelids grew to heavy to keep them open and glided down into the soft embrace of sleep.
Hardly could his friends know that this would be the last time they would be able to see each other in a long time and that everything would change from now on for better or worse.
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The entity had been watching as the three man started unpacking the truck and then sat down next to the fire while grabbing bottles of beer and start drinking while laughing and joking with each other.
It felt the energy flow through the sand, the air, the fire, the men, the bottles, the beer and glided with its formless body along those rivers of energy. It did not make itself known to them for they would come to meet soon enough eventually should life progress in that direction. It watched them joke with each other giving them time to enjoy their company as long as they could. It knew it had to fullfill a task but it did not rush. Instead it watched. How simple life can be at times and then again it only needed one minor action or coincidence even to tilt their worlds upside down. But even so it wished them luck for they would need it in the days to come.
As the trio fell asleep it glided past them into the valley of the kings which it hadn't visited in millenia even though time did not matter to it since it was made of energy and energy cannot be destroyed, only changed, transformed and redirected. It kept on flying past the temples that once stood in glory errected to honor it and its companions, the pyramids, mighty buildings once used as gravyards and trainingsground to forge the first generation of servants who would help fullfill their only but eternal task but it was to be fullfilled soon which filled the entity with a sense of happiness for it would soon leave on a journey far away from it birthplace.
As it flew past the three pyramids of Giseh it reached the statue of a lion with the head of a human, the Spinx. I passed through the middle of its front legs right through its chest area and ended up in a long path that twirled up in a spiral and ended it the head. As it kept on going it reviewed the stories on the walls and made it remember how they had helped mankind grow and grow until it reached its momentary state. But it knew it was not enough yet, so it and its companions had chosen to activate their emergency plan which would force humankind and the humans they had taken to other planets in hope that one civilization would achieve the needed height to grow once more but not in knowledge. No. What they needed was mental growth. With all the funny technology, medicine and gadgets mankind had not become better. No, it has stopped what may lead to Transcendence one day. Evolution.
But that would soon come to an end and as it finished its journey up the winding path it came into a huge oval shaped room with a podest in the middle of it.
It walked up to the podest and manifested energy in its hand to interact with the podest. It weaved the energy into thin threads and ordered them into a certain pattern and pressed down so that the energy pattern descended. It touched the podest and soon after a soft humming sound filled the air as the podest started to vibrate softly.
"Now then children of the sun, may the light of the sun be your guide for you will need it. Good luck." The entity pressed its hand onto the podest and soon the eyes of the Spinx began to glow in a white light. What followed was a beam that shot in the direction of the star sign of the lion. as it reached the position of the star it gathered and fell down again to cover the whole globe which in turn caused a huge turmoil all over the earth. Governements readied their forces to prepare for war and people who believed in some god gathered into huge groups and prayed. Elsewhere anarchy was the result and people did what ever they felt like doing. Robbing stores, banks, raping and murder from panic stricken people became normal and soon the globe resembled more hell then heaven. But soon the light stopped covering the earth and everything became white. There was no noise, it was only white. And as the light faded the earth prior bustling with human activity was empty.