The Sun God

Prologue:

The entrance to ancient cave crumbled under the hammering of the of men outside, lighting the cave and revealing a cylindrical stone object with a number of scrolls laying on top, the lead man entered the cave breathing heavily with excitement,

"I think we just found it!" he exclaimed, wiping the sweat and dirt from his forehead

"What is it David?" replied an excited colleague rushing to him, "Is it the scrolls?"

"Michael, we just hit the jackpot!" David said with a grin, as Michael arrived in the cave, "We need to get these to the preservation tent"

Michael's hand clasped over his mouth and ran slowly down his face as his eyes lit up at the sight of the scrolls, he looked at David as both men smiled at each other. They embraced each other in a celebratory fashion, jumping up and down letting out yells of joy.

Later in the preservation tent the scrolls had been laid out carefully to allow the men to inspect their findings, there were 30 scrolls in total all relating to the same person. The scrolls had been well preserved in their air-tight environment and all the writings were crystal clear which made the translation all the easier.

"Are they authentic?" David asked, biting the tip of his thumb

"It would appear so" Michael replied, inspecting one of the scrolls, "This seems to be the beginning of the collection"

"What does it say?" David replied curiously

Michael scanned across the first line of writings, "You will not read of this anywhere else in history as this is the only and sole remaining account of..." Michael replied as he smiled and looked up at David, "the Sun God"

"So the legends were true" David said with relief, as he looked into space pondering what this could mean for both men

"Well that's what we have to prove" Michael continued cautiously, "This could all be an ancient work of fiction for all we know"

"But the markings in Macedonia and Greece!" David rebuked

"That is only the beginning" Michael continued laboriously, "We have to be certain, one hundred percent!"

David sighed, "Well...what else does it say?"

Michael again scanned the scroll, "This seems to detail his birth or deliverance to a simple family..."

Chapter 1: Arrival

The cold night air stood still, the moon was stood strongly in the sky dimly highlighting the grooves within the desert sand. A lone man squatted close to his fire his arms outstretched to warm his hands as best he could, his eyes fixed on the dancing flames but his mind, his mind dreamed of being back home...with his wife. Far had he travelled in the hope that the holy men of the north could bless him so that the gods would one day gift he and his wife with a child but the holy men required a tribute so that the gods would favour him. His eye's narrowed with anger and frustration, he gave all that he could spare but this was not the gold and silver that the "gods" required, he had nothing more to offer and the holy men sent him away with nothing...not even the simplest of blessings.

He lifted a nearby stick and prodded at the fire stoking the flames and lay down onto his back and gazed into the depths of space hoping that one of the gods out that lay beyond the stars would hear his and his wife's prayers and grace them with the child they so desperately wanted. He sighed as he turned onto his side, his eyes once again fixed on the flames beside, why did he continue to pray? Years had he prayed for the same thing and he received no signs, no hope. His brow filled with the anger against them as he rolled back again to look into dark wilderness of the night sky,

"There are no Gods!", he shouted angrily, "I live by your rules all my life, yet you do not listen to the prayers of those who need you!"

"I, Jeremiah, hate you!"

His horse stirred getting to its feet,

"Settle down" Jeremiah firmly stated in the direction of the horse, checking in his anger.

The horse continued to neigh wildly and stand on its hind legs, jutting its front legs out forcefully. Jeremiah got to his feet and grabbed the reigns and brought his horse under control, rubbing and patting its neck gently. He looked around in the darkness trying to identify if there was anything else that could have spooked the horse other than his mad rantings at the heavens, his eyes narrowed a peering into the night,

"Nothing but the dark", he said to himself, as he continued to settle his horse.

The horse began to lower and shake its head repeatedly and tried to back away from Jeremiah, as he gripped the reigns tightly. He heard a faint rumbling that was getting closer and louder with every second, he looked around in all directions trying to pin point where it was coming from when he noticed a fire in the sky. Jeremiah looked on in fear as the fire drew nearer, why had he cursed the Gods he thought to himself, now they were coming for him. The horse suddenly stood on its hind legs once again sending Jeremiah crashing to ground.

Jeremiah let out a groan of pain as the rumble of the fire began to drown out the wild neighs of his horse, frozen with fear Jeremiah lay still as the fire shot passed him and crashed into a nearby dune. Breathing heavily he rolled onto his front and crawled up a slight incline, his head peering slightly over the summit to look at where the Gods fury had struck. He could only see the deep red hot glow of the tip of an object in the darkness, much like the glow of a sword being forged by a blacksmith. Jeremiah's lips trembled dreading what would happen next, a mechanical clank sounded from the object followed by a loud hum that drowned out everything else as it began to open. A bright light from the object inner structure pierced the darkness causing Jeremiah to turn away briefly as his eyes adjusted, the light was so white and intense it felt like it was bringing light to the entire desert.

"Please, do not harm me!" Jeremiah called out as he stood gingerly, holding out his hand to block the intense light

The hum began to die and the light dimmed as a new sound could now be heard coming from the object, Jeremiah's eyes widened as he could not believe his ears...a child's cry. He ran to stricken object and fell to his knees as he saw a child safely wrapped in a blanket, Jeremiah looked around confused as to what was happening,

"Let us get you to safety" he gently said to the child

He took the child lovingly in his arms and rushed him back to his camp fire setting him down gently and ran back to the object which had delivered the child to him and inspected the for anything that remained which could help him in discovering the source of this event. All he could find was a long crystal like object and he placed it in his pouch, there was also a metal object jutting out of the centre of the object. Jeremiah placed his hand on it and it slotted out, the dim lighting from the object faded completely out and it began to close. He ran back to the camp fire and knelt beside the fire, inspecting the metallic object now in his possession. There were strange markings on it, the like that he had never seen, Jeremiah sat back and ran his fingers over the markings and looked at the child laying quietly beside the fire. He tilted his head back and looked into the darkness, was this the Gods answer to his prayers?

"The Gods themselves have sent you" he quietly said with confidence, as his eyes fell back on the child's face, "I will keep you safe, I will love you like no other father can"

"I promise you that..." Jeremiah whispered laying his hand on the child's head "my son"