Sadie ran to Najan's unmoving body.

"Najan! Wake up! Please!"

The god blinked his eyes and sat upwards. He grabbed for his shirt, but his hand sat on his bare chest, because his shirt was now no more than tattered shreds, blasted to bits.

"Are you okay? Do you need help? Do you need healing Najan answer-"

He rested his hand on her arm. "I'm-" he coughed, "I'm fine Sadie. I'm just...very tired, and weak at the moment. But I had to do it. If we stayed and fought all of them, there was no way we could've won."

Sadie nodded. Osiris and Walt helped the weak god to stand up. Najan wobbled for a quick moment, then regained his balance.

"I've made a decision. The only way I can beat my brothers...Is with help. Not of the gods, but of the first immortal being. Void. My father."

Osiris, Anubis, and Bast gasped at once. Osiris spoke. "But... didn't your brothers-"

"Yes." Najan said. "They imprisoned him. In the Duat. You think Apophis was trapped in the depths of the Duat? Void is trapped in the very, very bottom of the Duat, so far down that the very laws of existence themselves, cease to exist. So far down that time is merely a legend from above. So far down, that light is considered a myth. Void is buried in the Valley of Eternal Darkness. A forbidden trench so far deep in the Duat, only two beings are kept there. At the bottom of the Valley, Void is being held, his legs chained to the ground and his arms chained to the walls of the Valley. And beneath that ground...lies the embodiment of evil itself."

The other three gods nodded in knowledge. Walt, Carter, and Sadie stood stiff, in pure fear.

"So...we..we have to go to that place, and free Void?" Carter said, his voice shaking.

"I'm the only one that can go down that deep. Your souls would be crushed by the pressure. You guys too," motioning his hand towards Bast, Anubis, and Osiris.

The gods agreed. "Is it safe for us to wait at the top of the Valley?"

Najan paused. Then spoke. "Yeah, you guys will be OK up there. And if don't come back up... don't be worried. Void is unthinkably ancient. Sometimes he forgets who his sons are."

The group waited for Najan to open a portal into the Duat. He closed his eyes, and his muscles tensed. A red, twisting orb appeared in front of him.

"Everybody in."

Anubis and Osiris shed a few tears as they passed the Underworld on the way down. They were on a boat, and they passed the destroyed realm that was now infested with demons. Dead souls were tormented by Confusion's soldiers. His army patrolled the coast of the Underworld, checking for any signs of intruders, specifically, Najan. Sadie began to feel lightheaded as all laws of physics, relativity, gravity, and everything else ceased to exist. The boat sailed on clouds, and the sky suddenly became the water. They traveled underneath water, while still being able to breathe, up became left, right became down. Suddenly, Najan held up his hand, and the boat stopped immediately.

"We're here."

He stepped out of the boat onto the water. It immediately became a dry plain. The rest of the group stepped out. Sadie looked up into the sky, and she saw a dark mass. It looked like it could be the Sun, but the opposite. Instead of beaming light down, it seemed to be beaming blinding darkness down into the depths of the Duat. Najan walked, and the group followed until he came to a stop at a random location in the plain. Najan help a finger to his lips, and Sadie heard a faint scream. Even thought it was quiet, Sadie heard weariness, hurt, and betrayal...and anger. Najan leaped forward like he was diving into a swimming pool. Sadie almost went to check to see if he was okay, but the ground splashed like water, and he was gone. The ground that Najan had just dived into began to rumble, and then it split. There was a deafening crack as the ground split open, wider and wider. Carter grabbed his sister's arm and pulled her backwards. The group walked back to the edge after the rumbling subsided, and what they saw was astonishing. There was a huge gap between the two parts of the ground now. The huge valley went on so far, that Sadie couldn't even see the end of it. Or the beginning. Or the other side. But in the valley below...all she saw was darkness. And the scream got louder. The voice that the cream was coming from was old, unspeakably, unthinkably, unimaginably old. So old that her life was the blink of an eye to the being from which the voice came, and it made her feel...small. Then the voice let out a howl for the final time. There was a huge crack, and the whole Duat shuddered. Sadie was thrown to the ground as the scene around her shook. Everything rumbled until the ground itself seemed to shake away, and the group was just standing in pure darkness. Sadie felt sand underneath her.

"Where is everyone?"

"Wait! I have a light in my heel!" Velvet shouted. Sadie heard her taking off her shoe. Then, the light mad it so she could finally see in the pitch dark world.

She wished she had just stayed in the darkness.

All around her, there were monstrous, hideous, nightmare quality...things. She screamed, and the things began to squirm all about, yelling out vulgar words and words from ancient languages that had been lost long ago. Then, the Valley was blasted with red light. Najan appeared. He looked renewed, stronger, and cleaner. Next to him, there was a person in an outfit that completely covered their body. There was no skin showing...just his eyes. And they were scary. There were no pupils, irises, or whites. Just blackness. His eyes were totally, and completely black. Yet they shone white light. He spoke calmly.

"Bow."

Anubis, Bast, Osiris, Velvet, Walt, Carter, and Sadie immediately fell to their knees. They didn't do it on their own, their knees just buckled, seeming to obey Void's order. Void walked, or floated forward, to stand, or hover, directly in front of Walt.

"Baby is sick."

"Um, no disrespect sir, but I'm not a baby. I'm sixteen years old."

Void tilted his head in confusion. "Yes. Baby."

Najan interrupted. "Okay father, that's Walt. And that's-"

Void cut his son off. "Know names. Upworld."

Najan nodded. He clapped his hands and their boat appeared. It seemed like hours before they finally reached the Underworld. Every time they passed a realm, every creature would turn and bow to Void. In reply, Void hissed aggressively. When they reached the Underworld, it was a different story. The patrols attacked the boat. Najan began to get his red orbs ready, when Void spoke.

"Die."

The patrols immediately collapsed into unmoving piles. Sadie and the rest of the group were amazed at Void's ability to speak destruction upon any opponents. Najan and Void sat on the top deck of the semi-large boat, The gods and velvet sat at the back of the boat, watching the realms pass, while Sadie, Carter, and Walt sat at a table in the middle of the boat on the right side, looking out over the Duat's black river. Sadie was listening to Carter and Walt debate about the ability of Walt's charms, when she heard Void's raspy voice speaking to Najan in broken English.

"...distracting you from duty. You know outcome of this fight with brothers. Kane girl not good for you."

Sadie was shocked. She told the two guys she'd be back, and went into the boat's chambers. She climbed the stairs to the floor that Void and Najan were on, and sat down leaning up against the wall so it looked like she was listening to her iPod. She focused her hearing to the father and son's conversation.

"She's not bad for me. I think...I think she actually gives me a reason to think this world is worth saving."

Sadie silently gasped at Najan's words. She took a deep breath through a smile and continued to listen in.

"But you know what you must do. Girl will be hurt more when you-"

Najan interrupted his father. "Please father. Don't speak of it. It's hard enough knowing that I have to do it. Can we just end this? You need some rest. Let me take you to you quarters."

Sadie heard footsteps walking towards the door she was sitting near. She got up quickly, but Najan already had the door open.

"Oh, hey sadie. Can you stay here whle I take Void to his room?"

Sadie nodded, and in a few minutes, Najan was back, without Void.

"Now what it is you wanted to talk about?" Sadie asked.

Najan grabbed her hand and took her to his room. He told her to sit down on the bed and when she got settled, he spoke.

"When I face my brothers in the final battle..I'm gonna have to do something drastic. Really drastic. And...I'm gonna tell you what it is now, because it'll be hard for you to watch me do it. And please don't argue, because my fate is already set. There's nothing I can do."

Sadie took several deep breaths. The way he was talking, he was making her worried that he was going to...die. But that wasn't possible. He was immortal.

"But before you tell me..." Sadie rested her hands on his shoulders and leaned in.

Najan smiled and did the same. Their lips were barely touching when someone opened the door. It was Walt. Sadie and Najan shot away from each other instantly, but Walt had a suspicious look on his face.

"Am I interrupting something?"

Najan shook his head, and scratched his neck in a way that Sadie thought was too adorable.

"No," the god replied, "We were just talking."

Walt nodded slowly, but Sadie knew that he didn't believe it.

"Okay. I just wanted to know...Where are we going next?"

Najan sighed. "The heavens...again. The gods need to fight in the battle with my brothers. Even if Void is helping me. My father has been weakened by uncountable eons of struggling against his chains, and he won't be that much help. If the gods don't want to be slaves for all eternity, they need to fight with us."

Walt agreed, then went to tell the rest of the group. Najan shut the door, grabbed Sadie by her face and kissed her. She grabbed his wrists and kissed the god back, and then he broke it off.

"I've decided I'm not gonna tell you. It'd be depressing. Unlike this."

Najan leaned in and kissed her again, and his time he only broke off to take a breath. Sadie hugged him around his neck, and he held her around her waist. Najan moved them so Sadie's back was against the wall and he was standing over her. Well, a little bit over her. Believe it or not, Najan was only about 4 inches taller than Sadie. Najan ran his fingers through her hair, and Sadie grabbed his shirt and pulled him closer. She reached back up for his neck and pulled his face closer to hers. Najan broke off their kiss and took a deep breath, but didn't move his face away from hers.

"I think we should stop," he whispered.

Sadie agreed. "Before it gets out of hand..."

Najan and Sadie both smoothed their clothes over and walked out of the room. They went back out on deck to find the boat at a complete stop at a red portal.

"We're here," Najan yelled. "Void! Come out here!"

The ancient immortal hovered next to his son. The entire group walked through the portal at the same time, but this time, they stepped out in Atlantic City. Sadie saw the ocean from the middle of the street. The group walked towards a wooden ramp, and suddenly, they were in a crowd of tourists and beach-goers. They stood on the famous Atlantic City Boardwalk, and Najan froze. His red orbs began to form around his hands. He jumped in the air, waved his hands and yelled.

"Everyone! Leave the Boardwalk! You can't stay here! You'll all die!"

People turned and stared. They laughed, some listened to Najan and left, but most stayed. Suddenly, the ocean stopped. The waves ceased, and the water was completely still. Then, a giant whirlpool formed at the very edge of the sand. The sand mixed with the water to form a gigantic, spinning, dense tornado. It climbed miles and miles into the sky until Sadie couldn't even see the top of it. People screamed and ran in all directions. Sadie looked up and saw a very clear sign of who had done this...in the gray storm clouds, the letter 'C' floated round the tornado. Sadie tapped Najan and pointed to the formation, and her cursed. He hovered upwards and shot red lightning into the tornado. The tornado shortened slightly and lost a little power. Void hissed at the group.

"Get shelter. Under wood street."

Sadie guessed he meant Boardwalk, so she and the rest of the group scrambled to the other side of the Boardwalk to climb under it. Civilians screamed and all ran away from the Boardwalk. It began to be destroyed, wooden planks flew up into the spinning storm. Sadie and the group had found shelter under the shaking Boardwalk. Suddenly, there was a huge explosion and Sadie was blasted more than a hundred yards into the now thrashing ocean. She struggled to get her head above the water, until she realized that she was standing in about a foot of water and just stood up. She wiped the water from her eyes and saw that the tornado had vanished, and Najan trying to find the rest of the group in the water. All of their heads eventually popped up, and they walked to where the destroyed Boardwalk met the sand and sat down.

"This...this is insane. If I don't stop them soon, my brothers will destroy the entire country. And who knows what they've been doing in other parts of the world."

Sadie took a breath and stood up. "Are we going to the heavens?"

Najan nodded. "Let's go."

Bast, Anubis, and Osiris immediately disappeared. Najan joined hands with the rest of the group, and they ascended into the white, cloudy, bright heavens. The first god they saw was Horus. Carter shook hands with the god, and Sadie hugged him, along with Isis. Horus turned to Najan.

"What do you want?"

Najan was taken aback. "I have the first being to ever exist here. I think you should be bowing, first of all."

Horus looked around, until his eyes rested on Void, who was dressed in a body covering robe that only showed his pitch black eyes.

"V-Void?"

Horus and Isis immediately fell to their knees and bowed, then stood back up.

Najan smiled and continued. 'What I want, no, what I need is for you and the other gods to help me fight against my brothers."

Horus shook his head. "I told you before, Najan. The gods will not get involved in you and your brothers altercation."

Najan quickly became irritated. "Look, you ungrateful child, I've been wasting my own life force trying to help protect YOU from becoming enslaved for all of eternity. I'm not Mr. Nice Guy anymore. What you are going to do is fight with me, and you will put your all into it it, or else I'll cause your demise myself. Understand?"

Horus laughed. "Najan, you and I both know you can't fight me. That would be completely unethical, and I'd have to question you for showing signs of favoring Chaos."

Najan stepped closer to Horus, standing no more than an inch away from the other gods face. "You and I also know that you and your little gods can't hurt me and any way shape or form. I could take your immortality and banish you all into the Valley of Eternal Darkness, or I could even kill you. I haven't done that to any gods yet, because that would be cruel. But don't tempt me, Horus."

Horus swallowed. "Fine. We'll help. Just don't banish us into...that place."

Najan smiled and pushed Horus away from him. "Great! Now run along and tell your little gods what's going on. And if any of them have a problem, they can come and speak to me about it."

With that, Horus walked away to find the other gods. The group stood in pure astonishment; they had never seen Najan talk to anyone like that, ever. Velvet walked up to him.

"Are you okay?"

"Fine. Why do ask?" Najan asked confusedly.

"When you were talking to Horus..I don't know, I've never seen that side of you before."

Najan understood, and just said Horus needed some convincing. He walked over to where sadie was sitting on the misty ground, and sat next to her.

"So...That thing, that you're gonna do in the final battle...It's not, you know, dangerous, is it?" sadie asked.

Najan laughed. "Everything I do nowadays is dangerous. To be honest, what I'm gonna do is only a last resort. I'm willing to do anything to beat my brothers...I'm just tired of running."

Sadie rested a hand on his shoulder. "We'll beat them. I know we will."

Najan smiled and turned to face Sadie. He leaned in closer and kissed her on the cheek. Sadie felt her heart drop as she saw Walt turn and see the two sitting there, Najan's lips still pressed to Sadie's cheek. The tall teen put his hands in his pockets and walked away, his head down.

"Walt, wait up!" Sadie yelled.

Najan, startled and confused, flinched away as Sadie got up and chased after Walt.

"Walt!" she yelled as she caught up to him.

"Having fun?" he asked sarcastically.

"Walt, that wasn't what it looked like," she said, catching her breath.

"Really?Looked to me like Najan has some feeling for you. Newsflash, I do too. But I was here first, and I'm just a little bit upset."

Sadie took a deep breath. "I know you do Walt, and I know you were here first, but Najan-"

"Is a god who's only on Earth to fight his brothers, then leave. I'm gonna stay right here," Walt said, interrupting Sadie.

"You don't understand, Walt. You didn't hear the things he said about me when we were coming back from freeing Void, when we were on the boat."

"I bet he doesn't feel the same way that I do about you." Walt argued.

"You don't know that. You don't even know him, you haven't even tried to get to get to know him, ever since he's been here. You've just been mean and judgmental to him the entire time," Sadie retorted.

"Because I thought he was going to sweep you off your feet, and you were gonna leave me here!"

"Really? Where would I go, Walt?"

'I don't know! I'm sorry okay! I can't help but not like him. He's a rival."

"A rival? Really Walt? He's basically slowly killing himself to save you, me, and everyone else! And you think of him as a rival?"

"I take that back. What I meant was that we both like you Sadie, and that makes him my rival, and I'm his too."

"So basically, you want me to choose between you guys?" Sadie asked heatedly.

"Well...Yeah," Walt responded.

"Well I can't. And I won't. You can't make me."

Sadie ran off in an unknown direction. Before she knew it, She was in a land of tall pine trees and snow. But it wasn't cold at all. Matter of fact, it was a bit warm. She sat down in the snow, and when she thought about having to choose between to of the guys that mattered to her the most 9besides carter), she started to cry. Suddenly, there was a rustling behind her.

"Who's there?" she called.

From behind one of the pine trees, Void floated out.

"Oh...hello Void."

"Hello Sadie, Daughter of Osiris."

Void obviously was very old, with his dated speech. He could also obviously see the tear marks on her face.

"Why cry?"

She quickly wiper her tears away and rubbed her eyes. "Oh nothing. Guy problems."

Void floated closer to her. Two chairs appeared, facing each other. "Sit. Tell."

Sadie proceeded to tell Void all about what had happened previous to her running into the woods of Heaven. If she could see Void's face, it would have had a look of understanding on it.

"My son Najan is good child. Very kind, even as baby. He has been through much, and doesn't take liking to many people. But I see it in him, he like you. Much. Don't crush Najan heart."

Sadie smiled and nodded. Even though Void spoke extremely broken English, she got the message of what he had said. "Thanks Void. Do you know where Najan is?"

Void nodded, and suddenly they were back at then cloudy entrance to the heavens, where Najan sat, playing with clumps of clouds, tossing them around in the air. When Sadie turned around to say thank you to void, he had vanished. She shrugged and walked up to Najan.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"No. not really," she replied.

Najan stood up. "What's wrong?"

"Me and Walt had an argument. He saw you kiss me on the cheek, and he sees you as a rival, because you both have feelings for me."

Najan looked hurt. His hurt turned to anger. 'Are you being serious? He has the nerve to call me his rival? When I'm risking my immortality, and all my power to save him? I can't stand ungrateful people. Well, forget that immature little prick, he wants an enemy instead of a friend? Well, he's got one."

Najan walked off, and Sadie fell to her knees. She felt her stomach flip.

She'd made a terrible mistake.

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