The Book of Not: The Book of Gehenna: The Return of Set

[Distant SINGING can be heard as night falls.]

SINGER (bass, enthusiastically): I am the monarch of the sea...

[PAN across rooftops as the sun disappears from sight. Soon the camera is panning over desert and into the sand. A single fist, blackened and snakelike, reaches out of earth, sand running out between its fingers.]

VOICEOVER: ...Meanwhile...

[CUT TO: CAVE. Prominent therein is a giant penny and a stuffed Tyrannosaurus, as well as a red telephone. Camera pans right, where we see OSIRIS and ISIS speaking in hushed, meaningful tones.]

OSIRIS (half-cowled): I tried to avoid all this, but I can't.

ISIS: I just gotta know; are we gonna try to love each other?

OSIRIS: I'd like to... but he's out there. And I've gotta go to work.

VOICEOVER (bouncily): Back in Cairo...

[SET, who we recognize as the owner of the blackened fist from the desert, [ZOWIE ZOOM ON right fist, which he has yet to wash], is staggering through the streets of Cairo, hungry for blood and dressed in red and blue. He leers menacingly at groups of Egyptians, who scream and run away.]

VOICEOVER (slightly more sinister): Elsewhere in Cairo...

[A man wearing no shirt and carrying two ankhs, wearing a full-face cowl with an infinity symbol strides, gesturing urgently to his companion, a sinister Oriental man with a long mustache.]

DR. MOBIUS (nefariously): This cosm will be trivial to destroy, Wu Han!

WU HAN (insidiously): Yes, High Lord... [CRASH ZOOM on WU HAN, who turns to face camera, breaking the fourth wall] Little does he know that even now I plot against him! Mua-ha-haaaa--

[SET appears on screen, rising up from out of shot, behind WU HAN. He sinks his fangs into the Oriental's neck.]

WU HAN (insidiously): Aargh!

[DR. MOBIUS strikes against SET, taking several punches to no avail. SET breaks his neck with a single blow, and, mouth bloody, pounces onto MOBIUS's throat as well. After a few moments of feeding, OSIRIS, clad in black and a cape, appears from out of shot.]

OSIRIS (babbling): You had to do it, didn't you, Clark? The rest of us either gave up or left, but you... you let them use you... [he punches SET, who flies backward into the skies above Cairo. OSIRIS leaps into the sky, onto a rooftop, after SET.]

SET (furious): Grrr...

[SET dives at full speed, flying, at OSIRIS. He lets out a mighty punch and OSIRIS flies backward into a neon Coca-Cola sign, electrocuting himself and putting the sign out.]

OSIRIS (sinister): Grrr...

[OSIRIS flies toward SET, who is rocketed across two hemispheres to Washington, DC and through the roof of the White House. Within, the PRESIDENT is abasing himself before an ALIEN MADMAN]

ALIEN MADMAN: Now kneel! KNEEL before ZOD!

[SET takes a moment to feed on ZOD, and it is this delay that proves to be his end, as some LONG-HAIRED ELDERLY FREAK dangles in upside down through the hole that SET's landing created.]

LONG-HAIRED ELDERLY FREAK: Hiyo goddam silver...

[FREAK shoots a single arrow at SET, which penetrates his heart and sends him back into torpor.]

VO (joyfully): Is this the end for Our Heroes? Will Osiris and Isis find True Love? And what about Lois? Tune in next time, kids, same bat-time, same bat-channel...

NEXT: GEHENNAVISION PART FIVE. The Re-Awakening of Tremere

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