City of Diya
Cave
Kamchatka Wilderness
Soviet Union
1960
Lizavet turned to them, holding two of the seven swords of Diya.
"You escaped!" Shorty blurted.
"And you have the other two swords!" Emily stammered.
"The children delivered them," Lizavet smiled. "Time runs differently here and as you face your fears."
"Are the kids ok?" Emily asked.
"Perfectly," Lizavet replied. "I sent them back to be with the Treasure Guardian. That's the safest place for them now."
"Are you all right?" Shorty started to lung toward her. Then he stopped. "I... I guess I should ask if you're actually you... The apkallu had a false you..."
Lizavet tilted her head slightly, a sweet smile on her face. "Korotkiy, if the Treasure Guardian sent the children - they would know their mother. And they would also know if I were true or not."
"Where's Dad?" Emily noticed her hands were trembling.
"He has not returned. But if we do not go back to the apkallu and destroy them - they will -" Lizavet was quiet.
"Start another world war?" Emily frowned.
"Much worse," Lizavet frowned. "You have seen how they refuse to die and take possession of human bodies."
"How'd you escape?" Shorty asked, his tone still cautious.
"They're embodied. They can't see into the supernatural. They chose to take on human form."
Emily glared. "That means it's time for them to die like the humanity they hate so much."
Shorty looked at her. "Do we even have a chance without the seventh sword?"
"They're human," Emily replied grimacing. "Chiba-apkallu died. I had cut his heart in half and stab him into the ancient world tree next to a deep watery abyss. And you saw or at least heard what happened to Mola Ram when he fell into the fiery canyon - he was probably embodied too."
"Water?" Lizavet asked, as the ground trembled. "And fire?"
"Yeah." Emily nodded grimly. "Things live in that water too. Just like in the fire."
"And there's lava lakes of fire all around this place," Shorty added.
Lizavet felt the earth tremble again. "The moment of volcanic eruption is getting closer. It will be very bad - when the lava and the water mix. Explosive. Hot and cold creating steam. The steam pressure will rip open the earth. Worse than your atomic bombs by the millions. We need to be far away from this place when that happens."
"Is there a way to tell when the volcano will explode?" Emily asked.
The earth shook them.
Lizavet paused. "If the tremors are the pangs of birth - the child would arrive soon. Very soon."
"Then we don't have much time," Emily whispered.
Lizavet looked at Emily. "You are injured? Did you run out of my poultice?"
"Got sliced open again," Emily explained.
Another tremor shook them.
Lizavet looked at the ceiling of the chamber. "All of this will collapse, or explode outward.... And we cannot allow the apkallu to escape with the eruption. They must die before then." Lizavet stepped between Shorty and Emily. "Each of you, put your hand on me. I'll use shaman travel to drop us in the middle of them so we can kill them by surprise."
Shorty wrapped his arm around Lizavet's waist. Emily put her arm on Lizavet's shoulder. Shorty stepped behind Emily to help support her through the dizzying shaman travel.
"Ready?" Lizavet asked.
They nodded.
She made a shaman motion.
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The Seven Swords of Diya: An Indiana Jones Fan Fiction - Part 2
FanficPart 2: Indiana Jones and his daughter Emily Ravenwood Jones continue their adventure in the frozen Soviet peninsula of Kamchatka, searching for seven mystical swords. With them is Indy's bodyguard from 1935 India - Short Round, grown up! And his re...
