Set and Ari
I’m arguing with Set over something … just something that really isnt even important.
He says, Ari let’s go somewhere.
Where?
I don’t know where, where ever the circle takes us. Just read it.
You know your always up for an adventure.
Sigh. Ok. I’ll read your circle.
Huge thick black and orange flames appear.
Damn, Set you getting ready for Halloween or what?
The flames are so thick I can’t see through them. Set has to reach his arm through so I can grab his hand and walk through the flames.
The circle starts move crazy… Set what have you been doing?
What do mean?
I mean your circle feels like a tilt a whirl at a fair.
It’s making me feel nautious.
Hey no puking in the circle Ari!
Come here … Set pulls me close and wraps me in a tight hug.
The circle takes off… and then we land …
I step out of the circle and throw up.
Ari, are you OK?
Yea I just need to let everything settle.
Set grabs my arm so I can my balance.
Set, you know where we are?
No where.
On Saturn’s moon. The one that looks like a death star.
Star Wars , death star?
Yea one of Saturn’s moons loops like that. I can’t remember the name of it right now.
Can’t you tell it all feels fake somehow.
I bet we can find an entrance somewhere.
Well let’s walk and see if we can.
We walk a ways but my side hurts, I stop holding my side. Set turns and looks at me , Ari what’s wrong?
My side hurts.
Why?
I have an enlarged spleen, sometimes it hurts.
Set walks over to me cups my face in his hands , isn’t there something doctors can do?
No.
No?
They can’t remove it Set, I won’t have an immune system if they do.
Here you can feel the knot on my right side. I place Set’s hand over it. Oh… Ari.
It’s ok it doesn’t always give me a hard time.
Just if you don’t mind slow down a little … I have to work to keep up with you on my good days …
Set puts his arm around my shoulder and we start to walk at a slower pace.
How did you get an enlarged spleen… I never even noticed … it’s not really noticeable that much… but you can feel it.
I had mono in 3rd grade and then some years later a blow to that side.
It’s not that bad just not suppose to play contact sports, so I guess there goes my NFL career.
Right
Hey I make a pretty decent quarter back 
Oh hey, looks like we found the entrance…
We open steel doors that are in the ground and step onto some metals stairs that lead down and out .
This is like being in Star Wars , Set.
Yes it is.
Ok stay behind me.
Ok We walk on these long slim platforms that have no railings and the bottom seems to just fade into bottomlessness. .
I slip and I’m holding on to the side and Set grabs my arm and pulls me back up onto the platform.
If we start hearing Lord of the Rings drumming I’m gonna freak.
If we start hearing Lord of the Rings drumming we better run 
True.
Who the hell makes these platforms without safety rails. Geez.
We keep walking and make it to a room it’s dark inside.
Somehow we manage to land on the floor inside this dark room.
Set, where are we?
I don’t know.
Set, it feels like we are in a circle or something a ritual.
A ritual ?
Yea don’t you feel beings around us…
Set, Set we are I the star…
What star?
The fucking star Set … you know which one!
The dark star.
Look. .
The silvery glow of the dark star is drawn out. . on the floor and Set and I are dear center of it…
Set, this freaky. . You knew about this didn’t you??
No Ari , I didn’t know wed be here…
Yes you did Set! This is some craziness that put me in saw this a few weeks ago… another black magician showed me this star… and tried to get me in the center of it.
Then maybe it’s where you need to be…
Just calm down breathe. . Try to get a read on it Ari.
A read?
Yes …
Ok
What do you see?
A pyramid. It’s huge. It’s higher than the jungle it sits in. It looks myan … but so massive.
Inside there’s a place for a sacred flame but it isn’t lit.
There’s a hooded figure walking past me. With long silver hair and blind eyes.
Everything feels cold and asleep here. Like it needs to wake up.
Well maybe we should light the sacred flame.
How?
Your here … I’m here … we make sacred fire Ari.
True but how am I gonna get it there?
You have the blue diamond inside you still.
Are you sure that will work?
Aren’t you there now and here now?
Yes.
Ok then
Set this is crazy you don’t know what will happen if we do that.
I know what will happen if we don’t.
I don’t know Set this I alot and kinda overwhelming. .
Ari, stop pulling away from it. And lean into it.
Lean into it.
You want me to lean into yes…
Well shut up and kiss me then…
The black fire rises up on my flesh consuming my abdomen in it darkened flames. …
I catch a dancing flame in my hand and move from the star to the pyramid and light the sacred fire…
Something awakens.
A beast. With horns and hooved feet.
Set, there is a beast in the pyramid.
A beast …?
Yes.
Talk to him…
You talk to him…
Ari you can do it .
What’s he look like?
Like beauty and the beast
What?
Like that beast … but black fur and hooves
Well talk to him.
Fine.
Beast: why did you light the sacred fire.
Because it felt like the right thing to do.
It hasn’t been lit in very long time.
Why is there a scared fire in here?
Because she wanted a sacred fire …to burn
I felt the world spin for a moment.
Wait… is this a pyramid or a temple?
Aren’t they really both anyway.
…
Set! Set!
What Ari what?
It’s you… your the beast. The Set animal … the beast. It’s you.
Ari don’t freak out… don’t freak out on me…
What happened?
Find out.
Ari : beast, how did you end up here alone then?
There was a war. A huge war.
A war in heaven …
Yes.
And they took her?
But why?
Can’t exactly rule heaven without the queen of heaven …
But she wouldn’t just…
No… she wouldn’t. . Unless …
Unless something she protected…
Exactly.
The greatest mother ever. Isn’t that what Belial said?
Yes. Yes Belial did say that.
He was right.
So if my memory serves there should monkeys gaurding an entrance into the underworld here.
What?
The plan was the Prince of Darkness rises up from the abyss to meet the queen of heaven the light… and they make love and start a sacred fire that never dies.
So there must be some sort of stairs going into the dark belly of this with a pool of dark waters. . Guarded by monkeys.
Yes…
I need to baptise you in those dark waters…
What…
An unholy baptism. .
So you can be reborn… into the darkness and rise up.
Remember the raiser of Darkness
Yes… and the raiser of light.
So come on let me do this.
We go down deep… under the pyramid and there are statues of monkeys gaurding the way.
And there are the black dark waters.
Ari are you sure about this. You don’t know what’s in those waters.
Set, we have to do this,
Wait… are you scared?
Scared?
Are you really the freaking out now and not me?
Of course not…
Let’s do this.
What am I gonna rise as…
As the Prince of Darkness
And don’t worry … I’ll still be your light.
I dropped him under those dark waters …
And pulled him back up…
Pulled him close and asked… how do you feel?
Like a king.
He cups my face in his hands and says like a king awaking from a long sleep and seeing his beautiful queen. …
He kissed me and we made love in those dark abyssal waters.
The King has Returned.
