The Ulangar: Book III, Part 6

This continues Book III of the epic I wrote between 1991 and 1996.

When the two lovers rose to the day star's coming

the others journeyed to the surface to divide into teams

Nergal being the creator of the Games of the Immortals

divided the players into teams

On the first team was placed Nergal the axe-man

and also was there Creusa the wielder of the claws

and finally there was Adar the giant of flame

On the other team was chosen Lamaraz the master of sword

and there was also spear wielding Painex

and also Fatirac the hammer carrying woman with the stature of man

So were the teams divided missing the ones not trained in the soldierly ways

sitting on the sidelines to support the fighters

When the battle began with the glittering gear charging forward

Lamaraz in his suit of steel plate ran the fastest and with the most blood thirst

and from the other side Nergal met the fighter's challenge

The two collided with the clang of steel on steel

and Lamara left a bloodied body groaning for relief

while tripping on his innards and slipping in his purple life

Lamaraz regrouped with the women

Creusa at his left and Fatirac at his right each running in step

but Creusa could not withstand the force of Painex's hurled spear

which crushed through the jaw and skull

slicing the brains and moving them to outside the body

in a gory puddle of ichor

With tall Fatirac at his side Lamaraz charged

wingéd Adar and swift Painex

The wooden staff struck the sword master's head

as the herbal blade sliced from right to left through the chest

stopping only at the left nipple of the scaled hide

showering both with a blue fluid

as a fountain shimmers in light

Painex without her spear could not withstand

the smithy blows of red-hairéd Inan's hammer

forged by the master smith Bartoc

when the world was young and the gods

were still enjoying their play with man

The blows melted bone and eroded flesh

forming a puddle of sticky goo

which once was woman fine

So did the battle end with Lamaraz and Inan side by side

soaked in blood of friend and self

and with the black gore gushing in great amounts

and grins of sadistic pleasure coated in black bile