DUNE-A False Haderach (OC X Shishakli) (OC x Alia)

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Chapter 29

REVEREND MOTHER GAIUS HELEN MOHAIM

The Bene Gesserit Sisterhood had spent hundreds of years orchestrating matches, pruning and pruning lineages, all in the hopes of achieving their ultimate goal, to bring forth a being not limited in ways the sisters of the Bene Gesserit were, the Kwisatz Haderach.

They believed that through this, the order would be able to do what they had always desired. For far too long, the sisterhood had hidden in the shadows, pulling strings behind the scenes, yet if the Imperium were to truly progress, then that could only be done through absolute control and power, something which the Kwisatz Haderach would allow them to have.

And yet now, with their plans nearing fruition, everything had become unravelled. They were set to achieve their goal, set to give birth to the Kwisaatz Haderach in one generation through a union between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, ending their idiotic feud, and to form the alliance that would replace House Corrino on the throne, with the latter House having lived out its usefulness.

It had all begun with a small defiance by her own apprentice as Jessica chose to defy their sisterhood's orders and gave birth to a son, something which she should have seen with how, even in her apprenticeship, she had helped the Queen Anirul, in her little act of defiance.

Plans had been modified and House Atreides was thought redundant, and their line was to be exterminated, and a plan of action was made rather easily employing the Harkonnen feud and the jealousy the Emperor held for the Duke and his male heir.

Yet all their plans had been naught, and in their attempt to end House Atreides, they had lost control over the planet, which was the only source of the Spice melange, because of the intervention of unknown factors. A third part perhaps?

A third party that she had been unable to identify until only a few days ago. Though now she had a name, Kazab, Inzal Kazab and that very name put her on edge for she was fully aware of what history the name held. It was the name Anirul had chosen for her abomination of a son.

The very son that she had letter entrusted to the deep ravines of the galaxy.

And yet she hoped things would become clear for the Emperor's ship landed on the desert planet of Arrakis, and the ship's gates opened. As they stood there, she and Hasimir Fenring and a whole crew waited for Emperor Shaddam IV, who arrived only a few seconds later in his full ceremonial garb, and they walked out as she scanned the congregation that had come to greet them.

And suddenly, she was taken aback as her eyes landed on Jessica and her protruding belly who stood beside the young Ducal heir whose eyes had only become bluer since the last time she had seen him, yet what troubled her the most was Jessica.

Even from far away she could feel it. She could see through those eyes, eyes that had become similar to hers.

'She has become a Reverend Mother, ' she thought, surprised and taken aback that her apprentice had undergone the ritual, more so in her pregnant condition.

On the other side stood none other than Princess Irulan, her face devoid of any emotion. Yet, despite her long years as a Reverend Mother, she did not miss the rage bubbling inside her, and she was straining all her muscles just to keep herself expressionless.

"I would like to welcome the esteemed Emperor to this land," she said, noting that her ex-student did not mention any titles apart from the Emperors.

"Where is the Duke? He should be here to welcome his liege," The Emperor asked, ignoring his own daughter.