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Nolan opened his eyes moaning, the sharp pain on his head it was unbearable, as he tried to move his hands, he realized that he was tied up and hanging upside down. With blurry vision looked around. With the corner of his eyes, he saw shadows moving back and forth, directly in front of him. Wooden logs carefully arranged to a large fire ready to be lit.
"Cybele." Called his wife, as he tried to free himself, suddenly, a pair of red fiery eyes and an evil face painted with intense colors appeared in front of him.
Nolan screamed. The face looked at him for a moment, and then walked He realized that he was captured by a tribe of Pigmies.
"Pigmies? Pigmies in the Amazon? That's impossible. What it's going on here. Cybele, Cybele." Yelled.
A group of six pigmies approached, and as they lifted him to a standing position, he saw Cybele, laying on an altar made of stone.
Cybele yelled, and as he felt something heavy hitting his head, he lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes it was dark, nearby a dying fire was emanating enough light to see the area. The altar was empty. There was nobody else around, unsuccessfully tried to free himself, and after several attempts, exhausted, he gave up.
He took a deep breath, and backtracked himself from the moment Cybele read the email she received from her brother in Brazil
It was a warm evening, as the sun gently began to drown in the horizon, Nolan and Cybele, were enjoying the evening at their condominium in Miami.
Cybele, a breath taking Brazilian high fashion model, and Nolan a very successful antique dealer, they were married for five years.
"Honey, after the antique show tomorrow, would you like to go out of town for the weekend?"
"I have a rehearsal on Saturday for a new fashion show." She said as she looked at the laptop.
"Oh, there's an email from my brother. Oh my god, Nolan my mother she had a heart attack, and she's in the hospital."
Eleven hours later, the 747 landed in Rio de Janeiro. When they got to the hospital it was too late, Cybele's mother was dead. after the funeral, as Cybele was going through her mother's belongings she discover a small wooden box, inside the box an old papyrus.
"Nolan take a look at that, looks like map."
As Nolan looked the papyrus, his eyes opened wide.
"Oh my god, that's impossible, how it can be? Cybele this is a map to Thor's hammer."
"Thor's hammer?"
"Yes. Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his extreme popularity during the Viking Age, where, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjllnir, were worn in defiance and Norse pagans. But that can't be in Brazil."
"My mother was a pagan, and my father German.
"You never talked about your father."
"My father disappeared when I was two years old, my mother never talked about him. He was an explorer, that's all I know."
"Your father was a German explorer and your mother a pagan, it has to be a connection with the papyrus, which it looks authentic. I have to interpret the hieroglyphics, and maybe we will be going to find Thor's hammer."
Cybele falls into his arms, and playfully says.
"You asked for a weekend getaway, this is better. I can use a little adventurous vacation. After all we both work hard and I've been feeling kind of tired lately, let's do it."
Few days later a small expedition, with Cybele's brother Ronnie as a guide, left Rio, heading North in the Amazon jungle.
Three day later the expedition traveled though a rocky area, as they stopped, Nolan Jumped off the Land Rover, and with his binoculars, looked at the vast empty horizon, it was very early morning, but he could smell the heat.
"It going to be a very hot day, we need to move to the forest, we are camping until sundown, we have to move along the river. According the map the temple it's on the other side of the mountain, the river will be our guide we are heading north."
At noon they finally reached the forest, under the hot sun, everyone was exhausted, they camped, and soon everyone fell asleep. The next thing he knows he opened his eyes and he find himself tide up
"The pigmies must have come as we were sleeping"
The sound of drum, made him look around, and in the twilight, he saw a group of pigmies armed with Hoes, they made him walk towards the direction of the drum.
As the sound of the drum became louder and louder, between the trees Nolan saw a temple.
"My god that looks like the temple we are looking for."
A long stairway took them below and under the temple, as they walked in very large oval room, Nolan saw Thor's Hammer. The hammer, surrounded by a deep green glow, it was floating in mid air, below it Cybele, laying on an altar carved on black stone surrounded by black candles.
"Cybele, Cybele, are you ok..."
But before he finished his sentence, the figure of a man appeared on the far end of the room. This one was not a pigmy. The man without touching the ground, hovered towards Cybele, and as he hovered around the altar, with perfect English, said.
"I never left you, I was there for you, you just didn't know it.
Then he hovered towards Nolan, he stopped at the front of him, his red eyes pierced Nolan. Then the man said.
"You love her, and that is very important to me. But now it's time for me to take my place, I don't need you anymore, and neither Cybele."
"Who are you? What are you?"
The man raised his hand, and with loud-echoed voice said.
"Too many questions, too many unnecessary questions, but I will answer them. In time, now, see your wife, as she becomes Thor's wife."
Then as the man raised his hand, Nolan felt that his feet wasn't toughing the ground, he was floating. petrified and unable to speak, watched the man lighting the candles surrounding the altar.
Surprised, saw that the candles were emanating dark, instead of light.
With every candle lit, the room become darker and darker, until there was no light left, except the green glow from hammer.
Then the ground started shaking, a crack appeared near the altar, and as the ground opened, a strong hot wind came rising up, along with yellow smoke. The pigmies were on their knees with they're face on the ground, the rotten smell of death, makes Nolan's eyes tear. Suddenly, a white glowing figure flew like lighting from above, and a woman appeared next to the altar.
Stop, she said.
"You got what you wanted; leave her alone, your greed for power will make you kill your own daughter. She has a life to live."
"She have a purpose not a life. Her purpose is to unlock the book of Thor, she is the only one that can do it, imagine the power, imagine what we can do. Join me, join me for all eternity my wife."
"No I will never do that, I will never join evil and neither will she, I will fight you, I will fight you for all eternity, but I won't let you touch her."
"So be it, war is what you want, war it's what you get."
A violent and vicious battle began between the two entities. The man attacked first, a glowing barrier appeared in front of the woman, the entity bounced back. With incredible speed went flying inside the rocky surface of the mountain, he attacked again. As the battle continued, Nolan released from the spell, and with a rumbling sound, the temple started crumbling down, in a storm of the falling rocks Nolan ran to the altar, and took Cybele, but the only way out was blocked.
Suddenly became quite. Nolan looked around, the entities were gone, Thor's hammer stopped glowing, nothing but darkness, then with a whistling sound, the ceiling opened above him, and light flooded the dark cave.
He looked at Cybele and said. "Baby, I'm going to climb up, and I will pull you up too."
As soon as he climbed on the surface, the familiar echoed voice of the evil entity sounded.
"As I promised, I will answer your questions. I am the son of Thor, Cybele she is my daughter, the pigmies, are my soldiers, everything was planned centuries ago. That was the only way to inherit, my father's power."
Then the ground closed, and the temple descended underground taking Cybele with it. When it's over there was nothing left just the forest, everything was peaceful like nothing ever happened. Nolan got down on his knees, and with his fists stuck the ground screaming. No, No.
