5th Rated God - Volume 1 Chapter 67 Sacrifice
Ra reassures Isis and reminds her,”Hurry, she doesn’t have much time!”
“R-right!”, finally back to her senses, she promptly took out a totem and it started to ring like a telephone. A few more seconds she got an answer.
Author: Who need technology when you have magic!
“Dear where are you!”, spoke to the totem
“My darling-“, a man voice sounded from the totem.
DAMMMMM! A large explosion was heard in the background.
“We are under attack! Various souls in Duat are already sacrificed, our forces are dwindling!”
BOOOOMMMM!
“Anubis has staged a coup!!!”
(I hinted at this in the banquet of the gods)
“What!!!!”, all the gods who heard Osiris’s voice gasped at the revelation.
“Why!? He was such an obedient boy!”
“No only that other underworlds are attacking, even the fox demon has shown herself!”
Currently various souls where waring in various territories in all the underworlds. All of them are related through death and there is a constant battle through various gods of death. Anubis was definitely not enough to go against the former ruler of the Egyptian realm. After retreating to the norse underworld, Hel, the nine tailed fox readied her hoard of Yokai stationed there, and proceeded to attack the weakened realm under the guise of them succ.u.mbing to infighting.
“Set must have pushed him to it, Set has taken his mother prisoner…”, Ra concluded.
“Now that you have mentioned it, she hasn’t been seen around lately even at the gathering, Set must have imprisoned her…”, many murmured
Isis clenches her hand. This must have happened due to her beloved sister helping her back in the days!
“Oh sister how much longer do you need to suffer!”, Isis laminated.
Nephthys was the goddess of mourning, lamentation, sleep, rivers, and all things gloomy. A perfect match for the raging monster, Set, as his wife. Legend has it she helped free her sister and played a part in reviving Osisrus. She had even nurtured Horus as a baby. (In some legends, set killed her after she tried to fly away when he confronted her)
“We must free her!!!”, the gods said, but how? They didn’t know what tricks Set did to kidnap such a prominent figure, even if they were once husband and wife.
“Darling I must get back to you later… they are coming-”
BUZZZZTTT, the totem went dead.
It looked like Osiris was in a intense battle and could not afford to talk to them anymore. There was a chasm between the realms of the living and the dead, the information they could transmit to each other will always be late. The conditions of both sides were unclear, the situation was getting even more chaotic.
Without the help of her husband, who will guide her Little Sun? The time of her little baby has waning. The black cursed flames started to fluctuated and deform with all the chaos it absorbed from Apophis’s body. Who knows how it would effect the phoenix’s mind.
Ra looks at the entwining form of Apophis, who seemed to be calming down. This new action of the once rampaging snake did not mean good news… Did set manage to subdue Apophis or was he devoured?
“We have no choice, we must send her to the underworld now”, Ra points his finger at the mass of flames and a flash of light dart to ward the phoenix.
“But-”
“I have granted her my protection, she should not be totally defenseless. Would you rather she be corrupted?”
“I-i understand…, just let me give her one thing…”
Isis proceeded to conjure a plant like object in her hand. She gently stroked it and with a firm look threw the object at the mass of flames. Strangly it didn’t durn when it was admits the flames.
“Oh, from the fields of reeds? Good choice.”, Ra commented.
“May it guild my little sun…”, tears dripped from her worried face.
Legend has it after a mortal dies they enter the underworld only after a series of complicated rituals. They must be mummified and when they enter Duat, their souls must be judged to be worthy. Their hearts are eventually put on a scale with a feather judged by Anubis. Should their heart be heavier it will be devoured by the Goddess Ammit, and their souls would be permanently lost.
Should the soul be worthy, their finally destination is the field of reeds where they would humbly work without disease and sickness. They would be immortal and granted the privilege to dine what the gods ate, or even be granted special privileges to communicate with their living loved ones. Some might even become gods themselves! (Well I made the last one up for the sake of the story) The reed was harvested from the underworld by Osiris himself as a moment to his beloved!
Ra tended to the dead in the underworld in his grand boat and fended off monster that may taint the souls. He naturally had a passage to Duat.
A gate to the netherworld was open by Ra, but it was fluctuating violently. A trickle of sweat remerged from his worn face.
“It’s unstable I don’t know where in hell she would land… it is up to fate…”, Ra said as a spacial gate that emitted netherworld energy swallowed the pitiful turkey.
Ra sighed as he thought he grown so weak he cant even grantee the safety of a great hero who staked her life on the battle field. Seeing his failing power, he was resoluted once again and sent a mental transmission to Isis.
Isis’s was immediately thrown off guard and momentarily ripped from her mourning, as his intention was to sacrifice himself!
“My lord!”, she didn’t know how to react to his decision!
“Isis, you still remember my secret name don’t you?”
“….yes”
“Huh?”, all the gods were confused why Ra would bring the topic up. It was extremely taboo!!!
“Nooooo, master!!!!!”, Bastet came between her master and Isis. She had been with Ra constantly, she knew what those worlds implied.
“My little kitten, you will always be my loyal daughter…”, Ra felt touched by her loyalty. He softly caressed her head, with gentleness. But even with his loving gestures, it didn’t make Bastet ease her aggression towards Isis at all.
“I-if yo’ur gone… MEOWWWW!”, as a last ditch attempt, brashly clawed at Isis to stop whatever they planned.
“@#%%#%”, Ra speaking in a incomprehensible sound, Bastet started to glow. She was stoped mid attack.
“!!!!!!”, Bastet could only constrict her eyes.
It was her secret name! He had never used her secret name to punish her or force her to do something she didn’t want to! Not even once, even when she drove the Egyptian phoenix species to extinction! She never felt more betrayed and hurt!
“@#%%#%”, Ra said Bastet’s name again and mystic hieroglyphs shined in front of him. They float on his hand and Ra unhurriedly started to rearrange and add new hieroglyphs to the mix like he was cooking without a recipe.
Bastet pale yellow cat like body started to bulge with muscle. Her claws grew sharper and her fangs longer and more savage! From a kitty to a fierce lioness, she transformed! The transformation was not painless as she was paralyzed with pain, she was momentarily stopped in her tracks.
“My most loyal servant and kin, I bestow you a fitting form as a goddess of war! Sekhmet, this shall be the name of your new form!”
This was the highest order of magic and unknown to all, but to the creator god himself. He changed her secret name and even empowered Bastet! The topic of secret names were closely guarded and of the most important secret one could have in the Egyptian ream. How he did what he did, the other gods had no idea what Ra did. There was but one exception who knew just exactly how brilliant the magic preformed was.
“You saw how I did it right?”
“Y-yes!”, Isis had just gotten over an enlightenment and her proficiency in the mystics had been greatly improved, she was able to comprehend a bit of the magic. She was in a daze analyzing the spell.
“You get the gist… do it!”
“Understood….”, Isis calmed herself and her papyrus staff was conjured. She clutched it with both hands and closed her eyes and began chanting.
“You who take form in the morning, Khepri”
“You who take form in the day, Ra”
“You who take form in the evening, Khnum”
One by one Isis named all his titles and eventually reveled his true secret name, “!#$&@##%$#”, unless wanted their secret name will not be audible to others.
Like formless water his body started to liquify into glowing energy and started to integrate with Horus. Even in his old bagged from, Ra stood proud and unfazed.
“Mother?”, Horus was horrified at what was happening. He looked back and forth Isis and Ra.
“I commend you! Give me your EVERYTHIING!!!”, Isis slames her staff on the ground.
With her staff in and she pointed at Ra and with great effort she tried to direct her staff to her son, but it was like her staff was stuck in mud and she struggled to point her staff at Horus. Slowly but surly her staffed was pointed at the right direction and the divine energy flowed along with it. Endless primordial might and force was entwined with Horus!
Many gods started to guess what was happening and dropped onto their knees with the utmost shock and respect.
“MASSSTERRRRRR!!!”, the Bastet turned Sekhmet, roared with all her might, full of desolation and unwillingness.
