Krypton
(The God's Aren't Perfect)
The demons stole the night. The war was in its final days, and the Great Father unleashed a devastating blow to Chthonic, a universe in another time and space. Ptah stole his father's house and threw him into the void, but when the Great Father massed enough troops and power, he tried to eradicate Ptah from the universe. It was obvious that the son was much more elusive than the father, and annihilated his enemy's armies. When the Great Father fired the Omega Weapon, Ptah had been with the Great Mother intimately for nearly eight hundred thousand years. By the time the decay was noticed by the god, most of the southern region of Chthonic had collapsed, and he estimated he had two hundred thousand years before the verse ceased to exist.
He walked over to his younger brother, Ganthet, and said, "This verse is dying because of what the Great Father has done. We need to load all the codices of all the races, load them in the Celestial Kingdom's databases, so we can revive them in the next verse."
"But what about all the lives lost?" He asked. "Every being is special."
"I know brother," he said, "But I must prepare to move the Celestial Kingdom before it's too late."
Ptah and the Great Mother made love under the Polar Moon of Bry for nearly a million years behind her husband's (Cronus-Zeus) back. Consequently, the Great Mother carried on two relationships: one with the Great Father and one with her son, Ptah for the first five hundred thousand years of their illicit affair. She was merely trying to ensure the Great Father that her heart was always with him, but that wasn't the case. She took several, boldfaced absences from her husband to spend quality time with Ptah on the Polar Moon, and he impregnated her three hundred thousand years into their sordid romance. The aroma of rosewood permeated throughout Ptah's fortress, and the fires burned brightly in his chambers.
"I've found nothing but Nirvana on the Polar Moon with you, Ptah. When we make love, it's soul freeing," the Great Mother said, "But impregnating me wasn't a sagacious move on your part." She laid her head on her pillow and looked more humanoid than Gorgon. He didn't know why she chose not to appear in her snakelike body.
Ptah undid her blouse, slid his hand across her brown, protruding stomach, and said, "We must make father believe it's his child. Call him Hermes so I may know he's mine no matter where he goes in the verse."
"Are you mad, son?" She asked. "He'll know the child isn't his because he'll have your attributes. His face will be your face."
"Have we not dictated how life would be for millions of years?" He asked with a grimace. "Just tell the Great Father you took his semen to create new life to help us govern Chthonic. We must not fear him when we are the ones paving the way for a new tomorrow."
"Your hubris stands in the way of your sight. You perceive your father to be ignorant in the matters of the heart, but he knows things."
"Our love has transcended time and space, and he has never questioned us," he said, "He suspects nothing. And when you have our baby, he still won't suspect anything. We'll go about our lives the same as we did yesterday."
"I hope you know what you're doing, son," she said calmly.
The Polar Moon of Bry was about twenty-three degrees Fahrenheit at all times, but it had plenty of life on it because of Ptah. On the north side of the moon, he built a large city with approximately forty thousand mortals residing on it. They were a strong race of beings called the Gidisons that he designed with his flying computer named Orion. They worked for years to come up with a being who could save other races from extinction. He considered the Gidisons so important to the lifeblood of the universe that he placed colonies of them throughout the galaxy in case of a catastrophic event.
But when it came to the Great Father, Ptah was naive about his resolve and how he would feel about the betrayal. After Hermes entered into the verse, he should have stopped the affair with the great mother because rumors bantered about the galaxy that he was the speedster's father. Hermes moved at the speed of light to deliver communications between the gods when enemies interrupted transmissions. When Hermes reached the age of one hundred thousand years old, Ptah wanted his brother to have siblings, but the Great Mother was opposed to the idea.
For nearly fifty thousand years, Ptah and Orion worked a new strain of DNA that would create a sapphire race of gods who would cherish the law like no other race before it. He wanted a sagacious breed of gods who would be above the sinfulness of most mortals in the universe. The concoction the team made was a sapphire elixir that he had to consume before he engaged in coitus. It changed his DNA for a short period of time and allowed him to imbue the Great Mother with a new breed of gods. She flew to a planet called Maltus and gave birth to them, and even though their sapphire hue wasn't anything like the Great Fathers, he thought an anomaly in his DNA gave rise to them. He loved them.
After eight hundred thousand years, Ptah and the Great Mother's relationship continued to thrive, but she had virtually stopped engaging in coitus with the Great Father. He had a robust flock of mortal women that he engaged throughout the galaxy and the Great Mother had Ptah. When he slept in his royal chambers, his servants brought him some wine, fruit, and a nice rack of roasted unicorn meat. After a night of finding nirvana in the Great Mother's bosom, they enjoyed the wine and unicorn meat immensely. It was some of the most delicate eats in the galaxy, and Ptah couldn't get enough of the stuff.
When the servants took the trays of food out of his chambers, he looked back at the Great Mother as she wore her humanoid form, and asked, "Why do you put on this mask when we're together?"
"It's what you enjoy," she said with a subtle smile. He placed his hands in her hair, felt her scalp, and then pushed his energy into her body. In front of his face, she turned into a full Gorgon. He slid her tail to the side and made love to her intensely. When she was in her original form, the sex felt like paradise because there wasn't anything holding them back. He tossed her on the soft bed, and they grappled for the dominant position, but Ptah overpowered her and released his semen into her vagina.
"You must be careful," she said with a grimace. "I've had four of your children now. One day the Great Father will find out, and he'll kill us both." He caressed her emerald visage, kissed her passionately, and then Orion flew into the room.
"The universe appears to be collapsing in on itself, Ptah," she said, "It appears the decay started on the circumferential parts of the universe. I estimate in two hundred thousand years we all will cease to exist."
Ptah leaped off the bed, looked back at the Great Mother as she panicked from Orion's words. "The Great Father fired the Omega Cannon."
When the Great Father found out about his son's illicit affair with his wife, he built an army of demons to kill him. The demons descended on the Moon of Bry and eradicated the Gidisons without Ptah's knowledge, and it tore him apart. He flew to his get-away with the Great Mother, and when he saw the destruction of his kingdom, he fell to the ground and wept for all the dead. Due to the bodies being ripped into pieces, he couldn't restore their lives. When the young god went to his father over the demon attack, he asked his father why now when he knew about the affair thousands of years prior.
On several occasions, he saw some of the Great Father's minions spying on him, and he was pretty sure he knew about the relationship. It shocked him that he waited for so long to take revenge, destroy his kingdom, and jeopardize all life in Chthonic.
"Father, you've known for tens of thousands of years that the Great Mother and I have been engaged in a torrid affair. We've made passionate love under the moons of Bry, bathe in the waters of Aragon, and dined on unicorn flesh in the garden on the Celestial Kingdom. You've seen us intertwined on the Polar Moon, but you still attacked me as if it's all new."
Cronus-Zeus scowled at his son, and said, "The Soothsayers told me to consume you when you were in your infancy because of your treachery. But I wasn't angry over your relationship with the Great Mother. I was angry because she allowed me to believe Ganthet, Appa Ali Apsa, Hermes, and Scar were my children. I paraded them around the galaxy for thousands of years in the belief they were my boys."
Ptah laughed. "It's obvious they're of my seed," he said, "You should have surmised that because of their greatness."
"Just think of how I felt when the Great Mother told me I only had one son, and it was you? I wanted to drink a gallon of ambrosia, and then cut off my own head."
The young god laughed at his grieving father, and then said, "Your words don't hurt me. I still cuddle up to the Great Mother every night. We still make love like we did when the universe was whole."
"Tell me something, Ptah?" He asked.
The young god smirked at his father, and then said, "You want to know why I didn't stop the universe from collapsing! The reason I didn't stop it is that this dying verse will become your casket," he said as he held his father in place with his telekinesis. "It's been two hundred thousand years since you fired the Omega Cannon, and the complete destruction of this verse is only days away. Some may think I'm cruel for letting trillions of mortals die just to kill you. I have their codices. The different races will live again, but not you, father. Your time has come to an end."
It was obvious in the old times that Ptah's powers were above reproach, and he easily defeated his father and the army of evil spirits, but it drained him. Without his sons to help him, he warred with the old demons on the Polar Moon of Bry and used almost all his energy to win. He didn't plan on using so much of his powers to destroy the army of demons, and when he lay vulnerable on the Polar Moon of Bry, his brother, Ganthet, took over his kingdom and tried to turn his loyal followers against him. Ptah had to keep his mind private because the only thing that mattered to him was the codices contained in the databases on the Celestial Kingdom. The only way he could restore life was with those codices.
His mother left the verse and prepared a haven for when the Celestial Kingdom crossed into the new Universe. But due to his power drain, he laid his head on a rock on the Polar Moon of Bry and tried to focus his mind on his sons. The snow fell voraciously on his brown face, and he was almost covered completely. His body ached from the power drain, and if the Great Mother was with him, all she had to do was throw him into the sun for rejuvenation. All of his boys betrayed him in the war with his father, but he called on Appa Ali Apsa in spite of his betrayal.
"Why have you called on me?" Appa Ali Apsa asked with a grimace. He stood in front of the god he called brother, and said, "You're weak, vulnerable, and I could kill you now for what you've caused."
Ptah looked at the son he called brother and laughed. "You're so angry. We're only a few days from this verse dying, and I don't have the power to leave this planet. Just throw me into the sun so I may regenerate and have the strength to escape the decay!"
"You do understand that we've betrayed you?" He asked, "We want you dead because you're standing in the way of progress. In the new verse, we can have sagacious laws that free us from gods like you."
"You'd kill me, brother?" He asked.
"To save the next galaxy from destruction, I would kill you, brother."
"Can you not see that I'm your father?" Ptah asked. "Don't you understand the Great Father attacked me because you're of my seed?"
"What?" He asked, "This can't be."
"I'm sorry, son," he said as he reached out his left hand, and used his remaining powers to bring his son to him. He gripped him in a bearhug, and no matter how hard the younger god tried to resist, his father had him locked down. He drained him of his vital energy, and it looked like he was quickly killing his son. He shed tears as his boy screamed for him to stop, but he needed the energy because he had enemies in every corner of the galaxy. "I love you, son," he said as he left him emaciated on the ground. He took so much energy from his offspring that Appa Ali Apsa looked like an old, decaying corpse on the ground. He moaned at his father, but it didn't change Ptah's expression. Ptah stood to his feet, and he was strong and tall and full of energy. Reaching down, he picked up his frail son's body, flew into space, and siphoned energy from the sun. Once his entire body illuminated, he energized Appa Ali Apsa with it all and revitalized him.
Appa Ali Apsa looked at his father with a scowl on his face. Ptah wanted him to forgive him for all the wrong he had done, but it didn't happen. "I hate you, father," he said, "I wish the Great Father had killed you instead of you killing him."
He thought in time he could change Appa Ali Apsa's heart, but it never happened. All of his children betrayed him whenever it suited them. The betrayal pained Ptah, and when he confronted Appa Ali Apsa about it, he said, "I'm not ever telling my brothers you're our father. It would kill them."
"But it didn't kill you!" He exclaimed.
"I'm already dead inside," he said, "How can I ever reach the pinnacle of existence with the baggage I carry?"
When Ptah returned to the Celestial Kingdom in the new verse, he couldn't find it easily because Ganthet changed its frequency without warning him. Ptah approached his brother about it. "Brother, why did you try to take over the Celestial Kingdom?" Ptah asked with a grimace. "You've been by my side for nearly five hundred thousand years, but now you try to take what belongs to me. Have I not treated you with love and kindness? "
"How many times have you crossed me through the years, brother?" He asked as he stood in front of his older brother with a scowl on his face. "I hate you. I've always hated you."
"It's because the Great Mother loves me, isn't it?" He asked. "You witnessed us under Bry's moons, and it angered you."
"You can have the whore, Ptah," he said with vitriol in his voice. "Does it mean nothing to you that your infidelity is destroying the entire universe? Everything I loved is dying because of you."
"I didn't fire the Omega Cannon, you worm," Ptah said, "Cronus-Zeus fired it. I let you stand in my home, protected, and nourished you, but you spit in my face. You talk behind my back to your brothers, and call me a womanizer, and never once did you ask the Great Father what he did to me. But know this, your father is dead, and nothing is going to bring him back now. Enjoy this new universe because it's all we have now. "
Eighteen Hundred Million Years Ago…
Ptah and the Great Mother stood on a planet called El-Lala, a world with a hostile atmosphere, and the Great Mother hated it, even though she chose it. It stood approximately ten million miles from Krypton, the planet that the Great Mother loved. It was twice as big as Krypton, but the atmosphere was hostile to most life forms. El-Lala had a moon that Ptah called Little Heaven, but the atmosphere on the body was just as hostile as El-Lala. The temperature on the surface of the planet was approximately one hundred and sixty degrees Fahrenheit in the day, and with the right sequence on his terraforming machine, he could make it compatible for life.
Ptah loved standing on Mount Cherub that overlooked what appeared to be an ancient valley. When he looked up into the night sky, he could see Krypton glistening and the lights flickering, and it looked beautiful. For such a primitive race, they had already developed the combustion engine. From the time they first entered into the new verse nearly a thousand years earlier until now, Krypton went from developing the wheel to the combustion engine. He assumed the Great Mother interfered with their development, but when Ganthet found out of her godly interference, he had words with her.
"It's obvious that you've cheated, Mother," Ganthet said, "You've given Krypton technology they aren't ready to receive."
"How do you know this?" The Great Mother asked with a grimace.
"Do you not have an ounce of tact?" Ptah asked. "How dare you walk into the Celestial Kingdom, and accused your mother of such a thing?"
"I didn't mean any disrespect, Mother," he said, but when he turned to Ptah, he said, "You're compromised because you're sleeping with her. You're allowing her to interfere with another race. Something you've always rallied against."
"Are you saying mortals can't make that leap in tech?" Ptah asked.
"I did it," the Great Mother said. "I gave them advance tech because I want them to embrace the heavens."
Later in the evening...
The yellow sun was brutal, but it was some good, old fashion heat that he craved. Two thousand years after the gods arrived on El-Lala, the Great Mother had a long discussion with her beloved about their torrid relationship. In Ptah's mind, it hadn't grown cold because they often made passionate love in the Celestial Kingdom. When he walked up to Mount Cherub in the hottest part of the day, he sent out two drones to survey the land. One bot was named Orion and the other bot was called Veo, two ancient, robotic technologies that he built when he was engaged to Dora Star nearly three million years earlier. Dora was a large planet with many streams, oceans, mountains, and valleys. He spent his early years soaking up her waters and finding warmth in her crevices. They often had long conversations about life, and he found her intriguing. But as he thought about the past, he sensed the Great Mother ascending the hill. Ptah felt her touch on the back of his neck, and when he turned around to face her, he tried to kiss her, but she moved out of his way. It was the first time that she had ever rejected his kiss, and he found it confusing. "What's wrong?" He asked. "Are we not free from the baggage of the old world? Have we not reconciled with our past lives?"
"I've had a lot on my mind lately," she said with a serious look on her face. "For over a million years we've had a passionate relationship. It has been mostly good. Even now, I explode every time we make love, but I've realized it's time for us to part ways."
He gawked at her for a moment because her words were foreign. After so many years of loving her, he didn't think he could properly love another being. "What are you saying?" He asked with a grimace.
She placed her hands behind her back, and then said, "Our love caused the destruction of our universe, Ptah. Your father fired the Omega Ray, and you failed to stop the deterioration of Chthonic. Trillions of lifeforms died, and I can't help but feel like I'm part of the cause."
"You're acting like I could've waved my hand to stop the decaying process," he said, "I didn't have the tech needed to stop it."
She scoffed. "I heard what you told the Great Father, Ptah," she said, "You deliberately held back, and let trillions of people die. But for what? You had me. How do you justify killing all those people just to trap your father in Chthonic's decay?"
"There's no single answer for what I've done," he said. "Let's be honest. You're not looking for an answer. You're looking to break apart," he said, "Is that what you're doing?"
"I've spoken with the Soothsayers, and we all came to the conclusion that we must part ways for the greater good."
Ptah looked at her for a moment, and then with the wave of his right hand, sent her on the fiery side of the world for punishment, but she immediately returned to him with smoke emanating from her body. Her form was that of a snake's body with the face of a humanoid, and she was sage all over.
"I know you're upset with me," she said, "But let's not play childish games," She paused for a moment, and then asked, "How can you deny what we've caused?"
"I haven't denied anything, but how can you expect me to take this well?"
" When we're together we're destructive to the universe," she said with a grimace, "Why can't you see that as I do? Your greed will destroy this verse as it did the last, but I won't be privy to that.."
Ptah sat on a fiery rock and sobbed for a moment, but he was upset with his paramour mostly. "Since we've been in this world, you've spent all your time fascinated with the Kryptonians," he said calmly. "You spy on them as if they're something special. I think we can all agree they've advanced quicker than any mortal race in our universe, but you gave them an advantage."
She laughed for a moment, and then said, "Yes. I did. I do find them extraordinary. They're so close to flying that it's hard to believe. Within five hundred years, they'll take to the stars." He looked her in the eyes and knew she was enamored with the Kryptonians. He didn't know what made them special, but he didn't ask.
After he listened to her reasoning for dissolving their relationship, he flew to the Celestial Kingdom that stood right above the planet with its own atmosphere. He spent most of his time there, and since Ganthet, Appa and Scar decided to find their own world, he didn't have to worry about their backstabbing ways. Hermes lived among the Kryptonians, took notes, and fed them back to the Great Mother.
When Ptah returned to his Celestial Kingdom, he was pretty much by himself because most of his mortal staff died of a rare disease. He sent his home to the new world almost two thousand years before he crossed over to the new world. When he finally made it to the other side, he found out his entire staff died from some kind of pox, but couldn't ascertain its origins because Ganthet had already disposed of all the dead.
Now, the Celestial Kingdom was mostly empty except for a few intelligent animals, but they couldn't give him the love and conversation he desired. The lower creatures who survived the plague cooked his food, grew the fruits and vegetables, and prepared his meal of unicorn meat and dragon eggs every morning. The only meal that made him smile was fresh, wildly grown unicorn meat; it energized him.
Walking out to the botanical gardens, he loved the aroma emanating from the red apple trees. The large fruit was probably the sweetest in the universe, and when he stood in front of the fruit tree, he plucked one, bit into, and enjoyed it. For what equated to a thousand years was the last time he enjoyed making love to the Great Mother in his natural form, but he remembered her fresh scent. Their relationship originally lasted over a million years in the old universe, but now she wanted to spend most of her time overseeing the Kryptonian's progression.
He walked around his peaceful palace for nearly two thousand years before he decided to abduct a Kryptonian girl for play. Ptah was a cruel brute of a god, brutal to his subjects and even more so to the people he loved the most. He hated the loneliness. He wanted a noisy kingdom, a kingdom with nude girls running wild and drinking the strongest wine his replicators could make. Often, he flew to a world called Yendora in the Dark Corridor and made passionate love to a female dragon called Oola. Ptah can assume many forms, and he found the body of the dragon fascinating.
The first time he saw Oola frolicking in the river by the fiery forest, he approached her with his arms out. He stood above her, took her form, and engaged in coitus while soaking in the river. In those days, the planet of Yendora had thousands of brown unicorns grazing on the plains, and when Ptah became hungry and restless, he consumed a few. In time, he hoped he could love the dragon, and erase the Great Mother from his mind. But in the fortieth year of his romance with the dragon, he noticed a rash on her neck. He didn't think anything of it, but on his next visit, she was dead. Her body laid in the river and decayed in front of his eyes. She had been dead for months when he found her.
Saddened, he felt he needed to seek out the Great Mother about what he had seen, but she was embedded with the Kryptonian people. They were like her pets and felt she had to study their every move. In some ways, Ptah was jealous because they received the attention that he so desired.
Ptah watched the Kryptonians frolicking near a large river that ran freely in the northern portion of the nation of Rhea. It was a widely populated area with over seventeen million people. The girls bathed nude in the river, and from what he could tell, they had their natural color, a color as dark as the night sky. He wasn't handling the sight of the breasts dripping with water and begging to be caressed well; it was obvious he wasn't a sane god, the kind of god with love for the lower creatures. Since the Great Mother had shunned him, he wanted something to fill the void. Even though he was a powerful god, he often used his powers in a less than favorable way.
After the dragons died on Yendora, Ptah spent his days in the form of one of the ancient beast and flew majestically through the air. His elaborate disguise tricked the Great Mother when she flew down to the planet of Yendora on one sunny afternoon and then saw him as he played in the water. The Great Mother assumed her original form and stood approximately fifty feet high, the same height of the dragon. She had a reptile-like tail, green skin, and snakes in her hair. She embraced the strange beast, and then they wrestled in the water like little children, but when Ptah became aroused, he immediately took advantage of the Great Mother's ignorance about his identity. The way she straddled him next to some large Yendorian mountains brought back memories of the old universe.
"I don't know what it is about you," she said smilingly. "I find you pleasing to my soul."
Ptah laughed because he was finally getting what he wanted, and that was her. "Your beauty outshines the brightest star," he said, "It's been a long time since this old dragon has loved so deeply." He was so enamored with the Great Mother that he didn't take the time to discuss the phage with her. It was possible it was the same one that wiped out the mortals on the Celestial Kingdom.
When Ptah walked out on the veranda of the Celestial Kingdom, he waved his right hand, and a black hole opened. He reached within it and grabbed a woman from the river on Krypton. Her tenebrous brown skin was like his own and her eyes were a beautiful brown. Her hair flowed past her shoulders, down to her lower back, and she was beautiful. She stood in front of him in the nude, and it appeared to take her a second to realize she was no longer in the river. Her curves were tantamount to the Great Mother's curves, and she had a calm disposition. Quickly, she ran into the main room, tumbled to the ground, and cut her leg. It was apparent that she feared Ptah, but he didn't care because he wanted her badly. Her red blood dripped down her leg, onto the floor, and Ptah felt bad for her. With the power of his telekinesis, he picked her up off the ground and brought her over to him. When he touched her damaged leg, he healed her with his powers. But because she was unfamiliar with him, she backed away and coward in the far corner of the room.
For about ten minutes, he stood in front of the poor creature as she moved around frantically. She even picked up his golden knife off the table and tried to stab him with it, but the blade didn't penetrate his flesh. She then shoved him, but he didn't move at all.
"What are you?" She asked with a scowl on her face. "Man or god?"
"God," he said as he picked her up with his telekinesis. "I saw you washing in the river. Your beauty caught my eye. My name is Ptah."
"Cassie Va La is my name," she said, "I'm of the Va La Klan."
He took her into the dining room, and his animal servant roasted him some nice unicorn meat with some fresh fruit on the side. With the power of his mind, he picked up an orange wedge, handed it to her, and she took a bite of it. The juice raced down her bare breast, and it aroused the god. He towered over the poor creature, but it didn't matter. He reached out his right hand for her, and she tried to back away, but it was hopeless. When he dropped his garments on the floor, he stood in front of the poor girl completely nude. Even though he knew she wanted to abscond from his presence, he wouldn't let her run. She faced the table with her backside to him, and he quickly moved in behind her, and then out of nowhere, she started screaming for him to stop. She begged him not to violate her, so he sealed her mouth shut. He was about to make entry, but he felt something around his waist that threw him into the wall. Quickly, he broke free of the grip and then saw it was his brother, Ganthet with some kind of emerald ring. He put his younger brother in a choke hold, and then stripped him of his sage ornament.
"What is this toy?" Ptah asked as he looked it over for a few seconds.
"My finest creation," he said, "It's a ring that elevates me to your level."
With a smirk on his face, he said, "You think a toy will elevate you to my level?"
"I've surpassed you morally, big brother," he said with a grimace. "Ring or no ring, I'm better than you will ever be. First, you disguise yourself as a dragon just to have sex with the Great Mother and now I catch you abusing this poor little alien girl. You have a sickness."
"Just because I'm not asexual like you doesn't mean I have a problem, Ganthet," he said as he handed the ring back to his brother using telekinesis. "I swear if you tell the Great Mother that I've been assuming the form of a dragon to seduce her, I'll kill you."
"Tell me something?" He asked.
"What?" Ptah asked.
"Why is the Great Mother feeding these Kryptonians the best foods?" He asked with a grimace. "The only reason they're surpassing all the other creatures in the universe is that she's coddling them by giving them superior technology."
"You shouldn't care," Ptah said, "It's her business on what she wants to do with the Kryptonians." He turned to his brother for a moment, and then said, "Your jealousy is unbecoming."
"Unbecoming? Don't forget, big brother that it was your lust for the Great Mother that caused us to lose our beloved verse," he snapped, "You pushed father into using the Omega weapon, and now all we know and understand is lost."
"Lovers come and go," he said with a grimace. "It's obvious that Cronus-Zeus didn't have his priorities straight. He was so shallow that he wiped out trillions of lives. And for what? The Great Mother has shunned me for two thousand years now. You don't see me trying to blow up the universe."
Ganthet looked at his older brother crossed and then said, "You're still engaged in an illicit relationship with her, fool. What have you lost? Nothing. I've lost everything, but you still have your precious, Celestial Kingdom."
"Yes! I do. And if you ever mess with her again, I'll kill you, Ganthet. I'll cut off your head, grind it up, and fertilize my garden with it," Ptah said.
"And you call father shallow?" Ganthet said as he flew into the air. "I won't ever forgive you for what you've done, brother. Everything you touch turns to shit."