Yesterday's Scars

Prologue

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Hall of the Gods

September 23rd

"I accept the throne," Horus, announced holding up what once been his crook and flail. "Ra has given me the authority to lead the gods and magicians in times of crisis."

Horus sat there in his human form, overlooking the crowd as he sat on the golden throne, his mother standing by his right side looking at her son haughtily. Isis had once again got him to become the Pharaoh of the gods and magicians, as she did eons ago. Fortunately for me, I was not poisoned by her in the process to get what she wanted. My most loyal subject now stood as the trusted steward of Horus, holding his iron staff, his red skin gleaming from the throne. He held himself firmly as if ready to serve his new Pharoah, but his amused smile betrayed. For thousands of years, they had fought a war without an end, and now he was the trusted steward of the Pharaoh. It was an entertaining sight to observe from where I was bowing.

"But for now we are at peace," he added. "The magicians can rebuild and expand the House of Life to it's full now; we will depart to the heavens until we are needed once more. For now, we must retire and depart from this world, for we have lost centuries of tranquility and now is the time to live in as we did before the problems" As he finished announcing he rose from the golden throne and bowed his head to the gods who had fought against Apophis.

One by one, the gods started leaving until only six of us were left. The hall of the gods changed back to my Sun Boat. It was like me at the moment, broken down and creaking with every movement it made across Duat. I felt the boat and my bones creak with each step I took. The battle had weakened my body while my mind raced towards the plans I was putting in motion. I snapped my fingers and quickly, my crew of glowing orbs came forward with drinks for them. Horus leaned sat on the edge of the boat and swiftly downed the wine that he was offered. They chanted Isis's name angrily once they saw her, making her uncomfortable. The first one to break the silence was Isis.

"Why did you call us here for Lord Ra?" she asked, standing upright as she accepted the wine from the orb and peering warily at it.

"Drink Isis," I insisted, waving my hand dismissively at the orbs "I, unlike others, don't have poison others to get what I want."

Bast snickered and took a swig from her drink, "Now that I am back to my senses once again. I noticed things did not go as they were supposed to occur." Everyone bowed their heads at this, knowing what I was precisely talking about. After all, they had just witnessed what it had caused a few hours earlier.

"And what do you expect us to do?" Asked Isis, she did not even try to wipe off the smirk that was her face. "We may be gods; the laws of time is something that we cannot change."

"Oh, but you had no problem breaking some laws to change the future," I said, looking straight at her. "Causing the disruption of Ma'at and the rising of Apophis. It is something expected from humans; we see their mistakes, hear their pleas for help and mercy from the effects of such arrogance and selfishness."

"Now I am not the only one to blame-"

"You're not" I sneered, gripping the armrest tightly. "Then why is everything we built and guided for Egypt to be the greatest civilization I knew and saw rise each day? Where is the nation that worshipped us, that respected us? All of it is underneath the sands! Forgotten! Gone because of your actions that let our world fall to chaos!"

"How dare you accuse me alone of these actions" she exclaimed

"From the moment you poisoned me Isis, you have continued to go through great lengths to get what you want." I said looking down for a second at the scar in my ankle "When your husband no longer had my position when I was gone, you took Anubis's rightful place in as king of the Land of the Dead in Duat so you could be the queen of something that was never meant to be yours. And that was not enough. You had to coerce the last queen to try and merge with the Romans, only for our empire to fall. Were you not imprisoned for centuries to recognize your transgressions."