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beating the Dimme back.
    May the gods, ancient and new, have mercy on them all. "Damn you, Artemis," he snarled. The
    stupid bitch. By one act of selfishness, she'd condemned them all. And she didn't even care. She thought
    her own godhood would protect her from the demons to come.
    She was such a fool.
    Why do you even bother? All fighting would do was prolong his own death. But it wasn't in him to
    just stand aside and do nothing while innocent people were killed. Do nothing while the earth was
    overrun and destroyed. No, he'd been fighting back the gallu demons for too many centuries to just cede
    the earth to them without taking out as many of them as he could.
    They were hard kills, but the Dimme...
    They would rip him apart and laugh while they did so. Sighing, he turned the water off and reached
    for a towel. He paused as he saw the latest scar on his hand. Damn them for it. Unlike the Daimons the
    Greek god Apollo had cursed to live by stealing human souls, the gallu could turn humans into one of
    them. The poison in their bite could infect even Sin and make him a demon as well. It was why he had to
    burn the poison out every time it invaded his body. Why he had to make sure to behead the creatures
    and burn their bodies. It was the only way to completely destroy the poison and to keep them from
    regenerating.
    They were prolific breeders. One bite, one blood exchange... that was all it took. They didn't have
    to kill humans to turn them into demons. But the gallu enjoyed the killing so much that they usually did it
    just for shits and giggles. Once infected, the deceased human quickly lost control of their id to the gallu,
    who could command the human to do anything they wanted. The humans then became mindless blood
    slaves.
    Or worse.
    Eleven thousand years ago, there had been designated warriors sanctioned by the Sumerian gods
    who had been trained to fight the gallu off. When the number of those warriors had fallen and they'd
    become all but extinct, Sin and his daughter and brother had trapped the gallu to keep them from preying
    on humanity. But over time, and after the death of the Sumerian pantheon, the gallu had begun working
    their way free of their prison. They'd also become smarter and more organized.
    Now they were trying to find the artifacts Sin's brother had hidden to help awaken the Dimme,
    hoping that the Dimme would reward them for their loyalty. And the Dimme probably would.
    Yeah, in three weeks' time it was seriously going to suck if you were human.
    Sin towel-dried his hair. There was no use thinking about it tonight. He'd found the Tablet of
    Destiny. Tomorrow, he'd seek the Moon. Until then he needed a few hours of rest.
    Completely naked, he tucked himself into the bed and tried to put the night out of his mind. But it
    was no use. He could picture the gallu gathering their forces. See them turning the humans into creatures
    like themselves. It wouldn't take them long to overrun the world. Mother would turn on child, brother on
    brother. Theirs was a blood hunger that knew no satiation. The ultimate weapon, they'd originally been
    created to combat the Sumerian pantheon's enemies.
    Specifically, they'd been created to battle against the Charonte demons that Sin's father had been
    convinced would one day destroy them all. What his pantheon had never envisioned was the day when
    Atlantis would be destroyed and her Charontes along with her. With no other demons to keep them in
    check, the gallu had turned their attention and hunger on the humans.
    They'd laid waste to entire cities before Sin, Ishtar, and Zakar had corralled them. Sin could still
    see the bodies of the slain humans rising up as mindless demons to fight.
    But more than that, he could see his own children turning on him...
    Sin growled as he banished those memories. They would do nothing but cut him more deeply. And
    he'd been cut enough. The past was gone.
    He had a future to fight for and he'd need all his strength for