Moonlit Requiem (Moon Knight X Reader) SMUT

Chapter 3

Y/N pov

⚠️WARNING: abuse and cuss words⚠️

Song: Jacob and the Stone by Emile Mosseri

I waited for the crowd to die down to finally talk to Osiris and the others. The sound of voices lessened by the hour. "You really plan on going back in and talking to him?" Anubis spoke. "You know I'm still pissed off at you too right?" I crossed my arms as I looked up at him. I had been standing in the main hall behind the doors for what feels like forever. Anubis sighed, "I did what I thought was best for you. Regardless of whether or not you want to deal with people, you are going to be part of this mission. You don't even have to enjoy the other persons company, you can shut them out and focus on what needs to be done. Y/N you need to listen to me." I turned around to face him. "I did this because unlike Ammit, he would cause more chaos within seconds. You're the best we have and we chose you for a reason. It wasn't the easiest decision to be made but we both know you would kill without a second thought. These people, they aren't like you. You're a warrior, they are soldiers." I groaned in slight annoyance. "I would still have to deal with living with someone. I couldn't have done this by myself?" I questioned. I've been on plenty of missions before of assassinating people who were to close to finding out the truth about the Pyramid of Giza. "That is why you will be staying with me and the idiots, little bird" I turned around to see Khonshu in a white suit. "Your avatar? No offense but I'm not staying with those two, or three. I forget how many this man has." I spoke with sass. "I was there when he arrived in the underworld, trying to balance his hearts. Me and Teweret had never seen anything like him before. And before you say something, I made sure not to be seen by him, I was only around when they weren't there. He's a broken soul who needs help, not be put back into all this. And how much of me does he know about?" I questioned. "No one knows anything. They don't know who you are, your name, where you came from, nothing. All they know is what you look like and that was all your doing." Anubis spoke with such elegance but in an asshole way that not even I can describe. "He has a point little bird. You made quite the impression today. All I know is that you were the talk of the crowd once you left. Marc and Steven can't decide on if they hate you or want to know you. Nonetheless it's more hate than curiosity. Except the worm, I can only imagine he's not forgetting about you anytime soon." I gave Khonshu a deadpan look. "So I'm going to be staying with the mentally insane avatar, that hates me more than literally anything in the world?" I asked with my eyebrow slightly raised. Khonshu nodded his head to my question. "Perfect." A small smirk was shown on my face. "I believe it's best if you start to pack for the mission then and to start back on your training again. You have a week till you need to do the supposed tests that Osiris has planned." Anubis began to walk away to head back down to the underworld. "Good luck little bird." Khonshu gave me a nod before disappearing.

(Song: Spot Holes 1 by Daniel Pemberton)

The underworld was uneasy. The quiet waves of sand flowing underneath the boat. Living here was either my hell or my haven, no in between. The cry of wrongly judged souls screaming as they fall from the sky in a purple light. Teweret had been trying to keep the souls from forever being lost in the sand but it was no use. My job is to protect these souls, to make sure they don't end up in this hell. I stared at the endless sky, watching as the souls fell like rain would. One by one, no matter how many souls were already dead from the massacre, they kept coming. There was no hope for them, no field of reeds to see. Even I haven't been able to see the glorious field. How peaceful it might be, to see the sun ray down on me as I take in the quiet breeze. I may be the protector of lost souls, been alive for almost two hundred years, I'm still a mortal soul. A soul who can't be able to see the reeds unless I choose to seal my fate in the sand, forever frozen in time. "I can hear you back there. You can't sneak up on me anymore." I said with a small chuckle. "Shucks, I was really going to scare you wasn't I?" Taweret spoke in her sweet soothing tone. "You alright dear? I know it can be quite troubling when you have to go out on these awful missions." She spoke as she walked beside me to the railing of the boat. "It's not that. You know I'm never scared when I go out on these things." I spoke softly as I continued to gaze out into the sand dune waves. "Well, I know you well enough to know that something is troubling you. And I know you get scared, whether you show it or not, a mother knows when their child is bothered." I looked down a moment before looking at Taweret, then back at the sand. "I hate when you pull the mother card on me." I slightly chuckled. "Well I'm the closest thing to having a mother am I not?...I still remember the day you arrived. All bruised, frightened, your legs were shaky and you were barely able to stand from how much running you probably did. It was heartbreaking to see. I knew the other gods were just going to bicker and get at each other's throats. I knew the best solution was for me to take care of you. Now even when I may not have any children of my own, I do know how to take care of one. And I most definitely know you well enough to know that when you feeling troubled, this is where you go. So tell me, what's on your mind dear?" I sighed as I look back at the old memories of my arrival here. How she really was a mother to me. "This mission, something doesn't seem right to me. This time is different. I'm forced to work with someone, forced to live with this person, and to be able to get these people who just want nothing but "peace" and "balance" to earth. And it's the fact that Anubis and Osiris choose this assignment for me without asking first. I've been on what feels like thousands of missions, regardless of if it was told to me or not, I did it. I did what needed to be done that no one else would. This time, this is different. I'm going to be leaving this place for I don't even know how long. This place is like home, even though at times it doesn't feel like it. I just...I want to get this over with and return here. To get back at doing my job, to be able to protect the souls of the underworld, to be here...with you..." I said softly as I let out my emotions. I was resided to never let the enemy know my plans, my intentions, my thoughts, or my emotions. Hiding them and keeping them at bay is what I do best. But showing them, sharing how I feel, isn't as easy as I would want it to. It's like I'm carving my heart out and handing it on a silver plater. Taweret stayed quiet for a moment, probably thinking about what she wants to say. "Y/N, you know I'll always be there with you. And besides, I heard your partner is Khonshus avatar, no?" "Yea, what of it?" I questioned. "He has a wife, or girlfriend, friend? Doesn't matter, the point is, my avatar knows them. Meaning I won't be to far away from you. And you don't have to live with Marc and Steven, you can always come back here and sleep then return back. They are good people, we both know that. You were there when Marc went back to Steven. He chose to go back, he could have been happy, could have lived his life in peace with no fear...no worries. But he choose Steven, he choose to save the world from Ammit and Harrow. That says a lot about his character, does it not?" She spoke softly to me as she placed her hand on my back gently. "You can always act one way, then act another. That's how people are. I don't trust him, nor does he trust me. We are strangers, nothing more, nothing less. People who have to work together for the sake of the world...isn't to much pressure." Taweret stepped back a bit. "Still as stubborn as always Y/N/N (your nickname)...but you know I'm right. Regardless on what you may think, I know you enough to know that you always know I'm right. Now, don't stay up too late, Anubis is expecting you-" "he expects me to be up before the crack of dawn, before the sun could even shine a light on the surface, before even a single ray is shown in the sky. Yes, I know." I cut off her sentence as I spoke in a monotone voice with a hint of sass. I heard Taweret sigh, "I love you Y/N, and I always will. From here, to the moon, to the sand dunes, and back and more." And with that, she had walked through the doors of cabin on the boat that lead to temple. I sighed before looking down at the sand once more. Though the sand had no reflection, it always felt like it did. At least to me it did. To be able to see the softly healed scares on my face, the ones I've gotten from training over the years. Where Anubis idea of making me a warrior was for me to dive head first. To throw me into battles that he knew I couldn't win, to stab me three times to make me feel what pain would feel like without his power. To know what it felt like to be without water for months at a time, what starvation could lead to if you never train your body to handle it. To handle the stress, the pain, the feeling of when you feel as though with every breath you took you may fear it was your last. Though most of my scares have healed, barely even visible...except for me. It's almost made me wish I could go blind from seeing myself in any mirror. To remember how loudly I screamed for help, to remember how shaky my hands and legs were to the point I couldn't walk on own due to the lack of food. To remember each time I hit the ground harder and harder, all Anubis would say is "go again." People believe that hell is a place you visit once you die from all your sin...no. Hell is a place that can easily be created...and if you've been through enough shit...it can easily live rent free in your mind. The waves of sand dunes that could easily freeze you in time may be hell to some people, but I would much rather prefer that then being left alone with the hell in my mind.

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