Surviving Ouroboros

The Blooming of a Rose

A/N: This story is written as if season three never happened. It's written as a continuation after season 2. No KT appearing and DEFINITELY no Nina leaving. This is also a Neddie fic, if you don't like don't read. This story is AU from HOA's line

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Chapter 1: Prologue

She had been eight the first time her father had brought her to the pharaoh's court.

It had still been under King Akhenaten's rule and his son Prince Tutankhamen had not yet usurped him.

Amneris had been presented to the king as one of the rare 'blessed' children. A cause for celebration in the society.

She had been born with golden hair, violet eyes and milk colored skin to parents entirely opposite in phenotype as the moon is to a tree. The priests had proclaimed her to be the blessed product of the goddess Isis, though no one knew why the goddess had done such a thing.

Like Amneris, Khai too was a 'blessed' child. Although different in appearance as he was born with eyes of emerald, burnished gold hair and skin the color of Saharan sand.

Unlike Amneris however, he had been made aware upon his sixteenth birthday nearly two years ago, who his divine parent was, as well as his purpose amongst the humans.

According to lore Osiris only had one son, Horus, whose mother was Isis. However this was untrue. Osiris had another son that only a select few were aware of. They were unaware simply because Osiris' wife Isis, was not the mother of his second son, her insidious sister Nephthys was.

Most humans believed that Anubis, the god of the dead, was the product of a union between the goddess Nephthys and the god Set.

This, however, was a lie crafted by Nephthys to protect her child, Anubis, until he was old enough to protect himself.

His true heritage would not be discovered for another five hundred years and then it would set in motion a series of events that would effect the lives of mortals on earth forever more. 

Soon after Anubis was told of his true heritage, Osiris called for him. For at this time, he was beginning to notice untoward changes in the human world, and saw a means to fix it in his ill begotten son.

And so Anubis was given orders by Osiris to create a human blood line. 

So in an attempt to win his father's favor, Anubis soon sired a demi-god with Ma'at the goddess of truth and balance. Their child was destined to act as the pantheons champion in the mortal realm.

A realm with which the gods could not directly interact, without the direst of consequences.

And so Khai was born on the second day, of the second month, of the second year of the century, having been placed into the body of a mortal woman, who had prayed for a child for many years.

Khai was the grandson of Osiris and as the gods mandated the first True Osirian marked not just as all 'blessed' were with ethereal beauty and coloring but also with the mark of the gods.

A black Ankh emblazed with magic across his back.

Loved by both his divine and mortal parents, the godling lived a 'blessed' life.

Less than a moon cycle after his first birthday, Isis learned of the Osirian. Fortunately, instead of anger as her husband had expected, as well as the death of the infant, the wise goddess took pity on the child. Knowing the import of his survival, she instead crafted an equal for him.