This is a short work of erotic fiction containing furry, or anthropomorphic, characters, which are animals that either demonstrate human intelligence or walk on two legs, for the purposes of these tales. It is a thriving and growing fandom in which creators are prevalent in art and writing especially.
All work is fiction intended for fantasy only, regardless of content, and consent must always be acquired when engaging in any sex act with another adult.
Please note that all characters are clearly over eighteen and written as such in all stories.
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"Hm..."
Dr Harold, more commonly going by his first name, Eli, paused before the sarcophagus. Finally...he was there. Before the sarcophagus of Anubis himself, the god of death, sometimes known as Anpu. His hair was slicked back with more sweat than gel, though it had been a dirty-blonde colour before he had spent the day, once again, striving to source out the entrance to the tomb. There were a couple of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and across his brow, but Eli was only in his late twenties.
Still young enough, however, to be more than a bit reckless... And that was only going to turn out well for him, that time.
He adjusted the neckerchief, which was tied at his throat, though it was already encrusted with dust from the narrow passageway that he had had to traverse just to get down there and to slip into the tomb itself.
He did not dare touch the walls. He knew of the tales as old as time itself, of those that had found their way into other tombs and met their doom. Whether that had been due to deadly bacteria and mould on the tomb walls or a curse, Eli was not willing to chance things.
Not when he finally had his chance to see if the scroll was real...
Deep within the sarcophagus, Anubis slumbered, still aware of the world beyond their sarcophagus and their tomb. Long imprisoned like an Egyptian ruler within a sarcophagus, Anubis had not died. His followers... So very long ago they had turned on him, destroying his physical body before binding his spirit, locking it into the fibre of the inscriptions, laced with the blood of those that had sacrificed themselves for the ritual.
And then...he could only be freed. No more than that. He could only slumber, waiting, seething, churning in his fury for those that had betrayed him. Even when all seemed lost and an archaeologist with motives appeared with a scroll.
Finally...
Dimly, Anubis' consciousness flickered out, touching the presence of the human who had entered his tomb, still in slumber. Everything was slow, deeply sluggish, yet he recognised a change.
They have come...
For it was by no means a coincidence.
Anubis' influence had spread, while imprisoned, placing that very scroll in Eli's path, back in the research library, even though Eli was not to know that Anubis had orchestrated him finding that scroll, all so that he could free Anubis. It was not as if a god would have wanted to be imprisoned forever, after all, so Anubis' spirit had done a little night-walking, drifting between dreams, until it found the right human to serve him and free him. The fact that the scroll was the only one that could free him, having been the one to bind him too, was an added complication. And it had all come to fruition, or so the faint consciousness of the god thought, in that moment.
Mmmmm...
Anubis groaned, stirring slowly. His spirit swirled, clamouring against the inner walls of the sarcophagus, where it had been sealed shut. A canine-like muzzle opened in a snarl, though Anubis was so much more than a plain dog, no, despite his monstrous, dog-like form, with the dark head and body of a jackal that came from another world.
Yes... He hissed, words returning, fluttering around his head as something surged within him, finally feeling as if he had the physical presence of his chest there again. More... My followers... They still live!
Of course, he was not to know that it wasn't one of his followers, the devoted ones, that had come, as a chanting incantation wove around and around him, bidding him up and up and up. His physical body was coming, condensing into muscle and sinew, jaws lining with teeth, finally blinking, sitting up straight through the solid sarcophagus.
Eli reeled back, half-dropping the scroll, though his eyes remained wide, a greedy smile tugging at his lips. Finally! Anubis himself... The scroll... The ritual... It had all worked! Even though Eli was not just there to free Anubis, the rest would come to pass too, what he really wanted the god to do.
For him, of course.
It, perhaps, should not have been a moment of such pure revelation and joy, as if a thrill was coursing through him from an outside force. There was simply so much power there, flowing and swirling, his fingers tingling with the force of it, an unseen wind sending the scroll flapping wildly between his hands. Still, Eli held onto it, lips parted, finishing the incantation as the god of death himself lifted from the sarcophagus, hands spread wide, his glossy, dark fur gleaming with an otherworldly light.
"Ah..." Anubis rumbled. "This... My form... I have risen to enact my revenge!"
His eyes locked onto his follower, the small man, however insignificant he was -- ah, yes, he would be important to him! Anubis advanced, closing and opening his fist, letting the moment wash through him, the solidity that he felt in his new body, revelling in just how it had felt to tremble with power once more.
For it was his form, the scroll granting him a body with which to take his revenge and to lead his followers on a rampage of death -- of pure, clean, permanent death. His goals were simple, as a god, and he needed no ulterior motive to be who he was born to be, baring his fangs, his head bare but for his natural fur, though he would be able to form his true headdress in true form and time.
"You..." He rumbled, pointing a single finger, tipped with a shiny claw, at Eli. "You will bow before me!"
And yet...Eli had other ideas. He didn't need to merely release Anubis -- and that was not at all what the ritual was about for him, not as he smirked, heart pounding with excitement. Something twitched in his crotch, his need rising, clawing up within him, desire pulling taut where he had thought it would be well-restrained.
The scroll... It did not only contain information on how to release Anubis, no. But it told just how to change things up a little, so that the god of death would not only be released from his tomb and given his form...but also a way in which to bind Anubis to the will of the one who had released them.