The Seven Swords of Diya: An Indiana Jones Fan Fiction - Part 2

Chapter 330: Underground Temple, City of Diya, Cave, 1960

Underground Temple

City of Diya

Cave

Kamchatka Wilderness

Soviet Union

1960

The devouring worm reared back, screaming at the sword's wound, sinking into the lava... the chain around its upper body, tightening, pulling it backward, as if there was someone or something behind it, forcing the creature back into the punishing lake of fire.

The devouring worm snapped at Indy's face as a final rebellious protest.

"Dad!" Emily cried out.

Indy turned back to her, gentleness in his expression despite the dangers surrounding them.

"Dad! Are you ok?" She asked, scrambling to her feet, on the narrow stairs above the lava pit.

"Do I look ok?" Indy asked. He glanced at Em, then back at the sword, staring at it strangely. "It worked this time..."

"There's something.... Weird... like... you're glowing..." Emily swallowed, looking at her weapons. "Glowing like the swords. Is that why they're working now?"

Indy glanced at their mystical swords and made certain Emily wasn't hurt. They were oddly glowing... like some mystical power was held in them. "I don't know.... But its it's a good guess. Something about using them in the supernatural unseen realm makes the sword work, when they didn't work on the surface."

The devouring worm collapsed behind them. Lava spewed up from its body's impact, nearly splashing them.

Emily skittered out of the way as Indy shielded her.

Emily looked at Indy. "What did you say to it? Why did you call it Abaddon?"

Indy shrugged. "It made sense. The ancient texts talk about a destroying fallen angel named Abaddon showing up at the end of time."

"Yeah. It's let loose to terrorize before the final judgement at Armageddon." Emily looked over the edge as the lava burned at the worm's body... but not the chain. "Did I also hear you mention the Ark of the Covenant?"

"Damn, Em," Indy grinned. "You heard and understood a hell of a lot."

"You were having a conversation with it." Emily answered, "I could hear you - but not the replies."

Indy led the way, climbing the stairs, as the lava bubbled below them. "When I went after the Ark with your mother in 1936, the Nazis got it and opened it."

"Did they not read the text?" Emily blurted. "Plague and death come out of it! Gods collapse! People get fried for touching it!" She stared at Indy. "What was in it?"

Indy grinned. "An avenging angel."

"Of course!" Emily grinned, running up the remaining stairs beside Indy. "The avenging angel that was with the Ark as the Hebrews made their way into the promised land!"

Indy reached the top of the stairs. "Why did it take me that long to figure that out?"

Emily grinned. "You knew it, Dad. You taught me about it when I was afraid of the dark... and how Moses' face glowed... in the presence of the Hebrew God, who has a strange habit of showing up looking like a person, so we the real humans, can understand what the heck is going on..." she looked at the swords. "Dad...? Since you saw what was inside the Ark... and the apkallu and Abaddon destroyer worm, are afraid of you... Does that mean...?"

"What are you tracking on, Em?"

She looked at the swords. "The swords are gonna work? We've descended into hell... like in the book of Enoch and we're gonna get out of this... as in resurrection? And the apkallu get reminded that they're gonna be defeated and have to stay in prison until the end of time?"

"There's a certain legendary symbolism," Indy admitted, hesitantly... his own words against the destroyer echoing back at him and what he'd seen in the mirror. "But in order for a resurrection to happen - there's gotta be a death."

Emily looked at him strangely. "Dad - is there something you're not telling me?"

Indy smiled and took her by the shoulders. "That's all you need to know, hon. C'mon - let's find Shorty and Lizavet before this place melts!"