[u][i]Library of Alexadria[/i][/u]

Thousands of years had passed within the walls of the Library, and the Anubi had not once been challenged at their post. Ancient magic, dormant since the very day the god Set had sung the spell upon the giant stonework demons, came to life in an instant. A shower of dust rained down from the Anubi’s bodies as they their limbs became fluid, and for a time their menacing forms were obscured by the cloud. The curved Khopesh blades flashed from their sheaths with a speed unnatural for their size. 

One of the Anubi rocked back with the sudden blow of hellish ice as it danced across his muzzle and face. A rumbling growl filled the library, and the creature moved with preternatural deftness to right his fall, managing to stop himself with a firm planting of a clawed foot. Anger flashed in the now burning eyes of the Anubi, and it reached out to grasp the hell hound and ice-demon firmly in his hand before flinging them like so much chaff into the library stacks.

The second creature took up a stance of readiness, the giant sword curving across his head like the tail of a scorpion. Glowing orange eyes assessed the attackers, affixing almost instantly upon the hulking figure of a Giant, ugly and menacing amidst the others. The Anubi lunged ahead, the deadly sword swinging in wide arcs before him.