"I think he is finally waking up Lady Lygia," Mithra, one of the acolytes of Aphrodite, cried as she gently prodded Demetrius with her bare foot.
"Wha, what..., where am I?" Demetrius croaked, his throat dry and his mind just brushing away the fog of his temporary insanity and unexpected nap.
"Don't you remember? You are on the island of the temple of the great and glorious Goddess of Love, Aphrodite. Praise be to her divinity that you are awake" Lygia answered as she slightly smiled through her tear streaked lips.
Popping his eyes open wide as his mind rapidly cleared, Demetrius leaped to his feet as the memories flooded into his brain. "Holy fuck, how long was I out?"
"Not long, perhaps an hour..." Lygia said as she continued struggling to choke back her sobs. "But we have problems Demetrius and thank Aphrodite you are awake. We have big, big, big problems!"
"Oh? What has happened? Did the Fire Scorpions return?"
"Merciful Gods no, but, remember those black sails on the ships you were telling us about."
"Yes."
"They have landed and..." she continued as she fell to her knees weeping. "And your fears were completely justified Demetrius. They are not here on a friendly mission but are attacking our island and are wreaking pure havoc as we speak. Hundreds of Babylonian soldiers are swarming all over the beach and the ruins of the temple and they are hunting down all of the Priestesses that have not been captured already!"
Rapidly sitting up straight, Demetrius felt his face grow white as his worst fears seemed to have come true. Looking over into the grief-stricken and worried face of Lygia he asked, "How many of your acolytes remain hidden?"
"I do not know. By some miracle, Mithra and I were able to stay hidden, but I do not know how many of the others have been able to escape. I do know that the soldiers outside are desperately looking for us, so this is a raid with an explicit mission to capture us." Her voice cracking in a muffled wail she added "Oh Demetrius, you have got to help us. I overheard one of the soldiers while I was hiding in the ruins of the temple, and, and..." Her voice breaking into a quiver, she struggled to speak as she continued. "They are preparing to gang rape all of the Priestesses and Acolytes of the Goddess on the ruins of Aphrodite's altar for some sort of monstrous ritual! It is horrible! JUST HORRIBLE!" Wiping her eyes as she calmed slightly she added "I just do not understand why the Goddess Aphrodite has not returned to protect her loyal servants."
"Those fuckers! Don't worry Lygia, we will rescue all of them and then get the hell off of this island." Grimacing as he spoke, he felt his chest tighten as his blood boiled and he balled up his hands up into fists. Glancing over at Lygia and Mithra, he shook with rage as he saw the terror and grief in their eyes. What kind of men would attack an island of defenseless women? These were not men, but savage beasts! No matter what it took, or how it would be accomplished, he knew what his next task was going to be. He must save the girls and somehow get them all off of the island. But how, that was the question. How could one naked man and two female Priests defeat an army of Babylonian soldiers? Glancing back at the terrified women, Demetrius forced a warm smile on his face as he said "Lygia, have faith. There is no doubt that Aphrodite will return soon and avenge these atrocities. Really, you must not worry. Everything is going to be alright."
Looking around at his surroundings, he saw that he was in some kind of underground chamber carved out of the stony ground. Barely recognizable as a manmade structure, the dimly lit space was more of a cave than a proper room. Glancing over at some sacks of grain and barrels of flower leaning up against the wall, it was obvious that this was a storage cellar. "I assume it is safe here, but how on earth did you manage to drag me down into this place?"
"After your episode with Sintra, we brought you down here to recover from your coma. We store all sorts of medicinal herbs and potions in this cave and assumed that it would be out of harm's way if your warnings about the armada were accurate. It was safe, but Sintra and some of the others went outside to look for fresh water and never returned. After they had been gone about thirty minutes, I grew worried and I snuck up to the surface and discovered the horrible truth. They and most of the others have been captured by the invaders, and..." Clasping her hands over her eyes, Lygia struggled to continue through her soft sobs. "They have been stripped and bound on the ruins of the altar. It was when I was hiding that I overheard one of their commanders say that he wanted all of the Priestesses of Aphrodite captured so they can be anally raped by his men in some sort of sacrificial rite to their Babylonian Goddess. This, he stated, would make the great Goddess Ishtar very pleased and perhaps encourage her to return home. I did not understand what he meant, but one thing is obvious. They are going to violate my acolytes on the very ruins of the altar to the Goddess of Love! We cannot let this happen!"
"It will not Lygia, I promise!" Demetrius said as he gritted his teeth in grim determination. Closing his eyes, his mind desperately churned as he tried to think of a plan to rescue the girls and escape. Turning back to Lygia he asked, "How many soldiers did you see when you were hiding outside?"
"One hundred, perhaps more. I did not hang around long enough to count. Once I realized what was happening, Mithra and I ran back here to hide." Wiping her eyes, she added "What are we going to do Demetrius? I am so frightened. There are so many of them, and they are fully armed. We have no hope of defeating them and I am sure they will find this place eventually."
"Well, there is always hope" he answered as his lips curled into a smile. "Do you have any weapons in this cellar?"
"Sadly no. We are Priestesses to the Goddess of Love. Weapons are not allowed on this island."
"Hmmm, well, that makes it a bit more difficult, but not impossible. We do have one advantage, though, and one I assume they do not know about."
"Oh, what is that?"
"Well" he continued as he pushed back Lygia's tear soaked hair out of her face. "As part of my blessing from my long-ago tryst with Aphrodite, I have been made immortal. I can still feel pain, but I cannot be killed." Raising his eyebrow and smiling as he tried to comfort her he added "I think that may come in quite handy right now." Smirking he added "I do wish I still had my ring of invisibility, but..., sometimes we have to play the hand we are dealt."
"Yes, but you can still be overwhelmed and your imperviousness to death can't help you with that! You are outnumbered two hundred to one! How can you defeat those odds?"
Stroking his chin, Demetrius said "Well, I have an idea that is so fucking crazy it might just work. Remember what happened to Sintra when she was stung by the Scorpion."
"Of course."
"Well, what you don't know is, I captured one of those beasts and have it chained down on the beach on the other side of the island. With a little luck, she has not been discovered and perhaps..."
"Yes!" Lygia cried as her mind snapped to attention and she could understand the plan he was forming. "Perhaps we can milk that venom out of your captured Scorpion and somehow poison the soldiers. It had a pretty devastating effect on Sintra so hopefully it will work on them too."
"Exactly!" Demetrius said with a smile as he ran his finger down her nose. Glancing over into a corner of the room, he spied a stack of empty wine skins and pointed. "Gather those up and follow me. With Aphrodite's help, the Scorpion is right where I left her."
Gathering up the empty skins in their arms; Demetrius, Lygia, and Mithra snuck up the stone stairs to the surface of the ruined palace and stealthily crept outside. Seeing that the coast was clear, they hunkered down and started running towards the beach on the far side of the island.
While they ran off, down on the main plaza of the ruins of Aphrodite's temple, Commander Gudea stood still and grinned. Looking over at the ten naked women chained face down over the toppled marble column in the center of the courtyard he was very pleased. Glancing to his right, he watched dozens of his soldiers openly gape at the erotic sight. The tents in their tunics were quite prominent as they gawked at the excessively arousing display of so many perfect bare female asses lined up perfectly in a row.
"You there!" he screamed at one of his sergeants. "Get those men back to work. There will be plenty of ass fucking for everyone once all has been prepared properly."
"Yes, sir!" Sergeant Awil answered, before adding "But if you could give the men a small taste of this glorious pussy buffet, I think it would help them concentrate." Unable to not glance back at the line of women he said, "Holy fuck these girls are smoking hot! Seeing them all spread out naked in the open like this, their wide slits just waiting anxiously to be filled with our meat, it is quite distracting."