Anubis took the stairs down from his room towards the halls near the dining hall, there he found Thoth and Khepri still in conversation with each other and opted to chime in with them. "Thoth, I need to ask you something." Said Anubis as he approached Thoth with his arms tucked behind his back and his face cold as ice.
Thoth looked over to Anubis, and sighed out as he saw the young deities face. "Yes Anubis? You seem to be serious on something judging by your expression on me. What do you need? Consoling after Set's rampage at the dinner table, or do you need my wisdom in another form?" Thoth used while Khepri used his hind legs to scratch his leg.
"No, a different matter altogether. I'll need to visit Neith within the moment and ask for her advice on the prediction I received back in the Void. I figure bringing you along could help me out with understanding whatever prophetic language Neith may excelled in." Anubis sighed out as he leaned back against a pillar in front of Thoth and Khepri. His mannerism speaks of uncertainty and a troubled mind who was trying to find some certainty in his life for the sake of himself and his fellow deities.
"Ah, I see your point there Anubis. Well, Neith is a well known cryptic talker when it comes to matters of the future. Hence the mortals are divided into two camps as I have taught you." Thoth replied to Anubis levitating his book in the air with the pages flipped out revealing segments and chapters regarding the future of events to come.
"One speaks of personal agency, the other of the inevitability of fate." He replied, the jackal's memory and recollection of his lessons from Thoth was very strong and well, giving him a very significant insight into the souls of mortals who all entered the Underworld and be judged by Anubis and Thoth. For the Jackal who had constant contact with mortals, the manner of each one in embracing their inevitable death showed the reasoning behind their creation, a species devised with knowledge, intellect, individualism, concepts of masses and common identity all into one complex machine that tirelessly labor to find absolute truth to their existence. "Personal Agency is what you do to define your future based on what you know, to be honest, even for deities, our knowledge and awareness of things are limited just as the mortals. Let's go." Anubis first went inside the armory of the palace, there he inspected the weapon he would take for himself in case if push comes to shove. The tathibs were discarded this time around as Anubis saw no purpose in a mere wooden staff to fight off enemies. Instead, he picked up a short sword inside its sheath, he drew out the blade seeing its shine and the reflective surface of the sword can be used like a makeshift mirror. He was quite impressed with the blade's quality and sharpness, no doubt that the Greeks made this weapon. What struck Thoth and Anubis the most was its curve almost like a cow's horn. Anubis would then tied the blade to his belt on his right hip as a ready to use close quarter combat weapon.
Thoth himself was impressed seeing Anubis now hold a much larger and much more demanding weapon. He stroked the bottom of his chin and tilted his head as he watched Anubis arm himself for any possible coming dangers. It was apparent to Thoth as well that there was now a clear danger if they were going out into the desert. By now, Thoth imagined, that Set may have developed his rage into something more potent and deadly. Thoth still recalled just what his actions were like at the dinner table, and the zombie like nature he developed. Thoth didn't understand what Set was busying himself with in the desert, but Thoth knew self seclusion like this wasn't healthy. Despite Set being a being of malice Thoth still had the right to be concerned for those of which are not in good health. But even Thoth knew self preservation was the key here to survive. As such he settled on the "killing him softly" method by taking a small bow with an intricate curved gold grip, and some very thin bows. Despite their appearance however they seemed like they could pierce through mountains. "Trust me. This is my profession as a ranged weapons expert. Instead of casting spells I shall casts mighty arrows." Thoth said levitating one of the arrows upwards. The Arrow's point facing his finger.
Anubis would then walk out of the palace with Thoth and Khepri following them, Anubis mounted on his horse Ramiel and began to ride out with Thoth and Khepri towards the home of Neith. Despite the size of Ra's palace, Neith seemed to prefer living alone in her own estate. The place was noble estate on a single isle in the middle of the Nile with multiple river streams crossing out and intersecting with one another. The current here was violent and unpredictable like one's own future. One single stream mixing with another, clashing their tides at the earth's detriment. Whatever ground that was left there was already draining away, eroded one by one by the powerful streams. The vegetation there was equally sporadic, with only palm trees and grasses on solid banks while the isle and mounds in the middle have none, even Neith's garden was barren as well. "Here we are, let's use the bridges since she always find them useful." Said Anubis as he crossed the bridge with his horse. He saw that Neith's room was lit up with candles and lanterns, apparently she was busy with something.
Thoth however was caught by the beautifully chaotic sight that was Neith's personal preference of where she wished to live. Thoth however hoped Neith had put a method of preserving the isle she resided on since he could only think of the horrible possibilities should the isle fall to the waters below. He thought of the clashing waters all forming together in one massive whirlpool sucking anything treading down the rivers like a watery black hole. Thoth seems to have distracted himself with his thoughts however, and he saw that Anubis was ahead of him. Thoth sighed out, and stirred his horse to continue moving forwards. Once he got onto the bridge it seemed Thoth suddenly had a fear he did not know of before. "Uh… Well. This bridge is certainly… High above much of the waters below us… Oh dear I feel a faint coming on…" Thoth said as his eyes crossed together. He however shook his head out again and huffed. "Just don't look down Anubis!" Thoth shouted. Even Anubis knew that this was really Thoth yelling to himself.
"Eyes forward and you'll be fine. You taught me this before." He replied while keeping his focus firmly on Neith's home. Once he arrived, he dismounted his horse and stepped to Neith's door. He knocked on it three gentle knocks and Neith was already there opening the door, "Expecting us?" He asked her and she nodded to him and Thoth as she welcomed them inside her home.
"I know that you would come to me eventually for advices on the future, on prophecies and such. I can even teach you how to forming your own prophecies." She advertised to them as she acrobatically make backflips into the inner sanctums of her resident while Anubis hung his cape and hood on a chair and follow her.
"A strong man doesn't need to read his future, he makes his own." Anubis's reply can easily be interpreted as a decline to Neith's offer of tutelage on the last part as he venture deeper into her home. He looked around and saw that she had her own store for the endless amount of threads and silk she used to weave fates for others. "Neith, the prophecy of something returning from the graves, what do you make of it?" He asked as he entered a weaving room of Neith with her spinning her thread to weave another fate for someone.
"It is true, something evil, primordial and truth to be told, incomprehensibly evil is coming back." She turned her head to face Anubis as she spinned the thread without even noticing, her dexterity was so proficient that the process seemed to work on its own. She then whispered cautiously into his ears. "He-who-must-not-be-named is coming back. Somewhere, somehow, he shall rise from the grave ever more powerful than before, devouring all in his paths."
Anubis's ears twitched a bit, hearing the subject Neith was referring to seem to give him confusion regarding what was she actually saying. He turned to Thoth with his confusion and asked him. "Thoth, has there ever been a figure called He-who-must-not-be-named?"
Thoth gulped at the question directed to him. The name in question didn't seem to be familiar to him, but him being wise as he is made a rough guess in his mind. The rising from the grave is what made his eyes widen however. "Oh dear… Well… It could be Apep… or… Something worse than Apep… i truly do not know. The text here seems so deprived of crucial information…" Thoth said with a cold shudder. "Why can't the being be named? Is it physically impossible, or would the fear form the name give it power through fear?…" Thoth asked.
"Then what about the last one, about my suffering in the future?" He asked Neith, curious at how she will answer him this time. However, Neith refused and remain silent on the matter seemingly not giving Anubis any details on what she obviously knew. "You're the Weaver of Fate, don't tell me you don't know." He demanded her with his voice grew increasingly stern not letting up and refusing to let give her any moment of rest.
"I don't know Anubis, sometimes I could have difficulty seeing the future of things to come. But I can tell you about the first one, he who Ra and Set slain in the past will return when the time is right." Said Neith in an ominous tone, the answer she gave to both Anubis and Thoth was a dire revelation to say the least, to think that the effort that was to kill Apep permanently went in vain with just one comeback from the graves.
Thoth as such seemed to rub his temple more as the thought burning into his mind. He groaned feeling a headache and sense of dread form in his body. His gut felt heavy, and his heart seemed to get colder, and thump harder than before knowing the cursed snake was to come back. But worse now was Set was not likely to lend his hand in this fight. "Oh dear… With Set banishing himself, and preferring to keep alone…. How do we combat it?..." Thoth asked in a morbidly fearful tone.
"I have no clue." Neith replied in a hopeless one, her head slumped down in depress as Anubis sighed out disappointingly at the utterly bleak situation they found themselves in. He then turned away from Neith out of the chamber, however, something made the jackal froze in place his ears perked straight up and his eyes to change and he look around towards the West end of the mudbrick house, he then began to make his way towards it without saying anything at all. This was most concerning to Thoth, as he saw that Anubis was pulled into a trance by an invisible, intangible force.
Thoth looked over and made a quick groan as Anubis made his way over towards the jackal deity. He made a quick stirred and kept his pace the same as Anubis's so he could talk while walking still. "Uh. Anubis! You seem to be admiring the air around you. Or you have caught the sight of a ghost, and you can not simply look away. What is in your mind child of the dead?" Thoth said in a quick order.
Anubis did not answer him instead he keeps on going, until finally he reached a room where much to Thoth's horror, Neith stored her tapestries of fates. Many mortals and deities were stored here with countless more to come, one of them depicting Ra's birth with his umbilical cord snapped out of him and become the dreaded Apep serpent as they all knew it. Another showed something too painful for Anubis to watch, his own birth and how Osiris's tapestry was interwoven into his. Every details of his life, woven into place as if his life had no meaning whatsoever and he couldn't decide his fate, his birth was inevitable, his torment and his mother's death all were predetermined scripted events that no one can avoid but must come to as Neith saw fit. Not only that but the last portion of the tapestry, the one that represent Anubis's life to come remain unfinished it was as if it Neith hadn't finished the job quite yet.
Thoth held a hand over his beak looking at Neith's darkest secrets. Everyone's past, present, and futures all woven and premade still. Thoth dare not look at his since he was already feeling a depressed helpless feeling come over him. Suddenly nihilism was becoming present within Thoth's mind. As he looked at each fate woven, and premade with horrific out comes he fell to his knees, and looked at the floor below him. "...Is it really all for nothing?..." Thoth said stabbing both his and Anubis's souls with a simple phrase. Before him he saw that Neith had woven Set, Apep, Osiris, and other to have such morbid fates in their lives, and had created foul personalities. "Does it all really matter, or… What purpose is there?..." Thoth said trying not to lay on the floor. Anubis for as long as he has known Thoth had not yet heard him cry, but he looked over to see Thoth's tears streaming slowly down his face, and his beak sniffing while his lung seemed to have issues holding in air or forcing air out.
Anubis's anger began to show, his self loathing began to take hold of his mind when he saw the kind of twisted fate that was set up for him, it was a joke, his whole life was a joke. Meaningless deaths and suffering all for the sake of Neith's neverending plans and games, even when she didn't know it, her works tantamount to playing others like fiddles. "She played us like damn fiddles!" He growled out as his blade was drawn, gripping it tightly he ran back to Neith's chamber where she was still weaving, with one hand gripping her neck and the other holding the sword he positioned the blade around her torso ready to carve out her stomach. "You make my life, before I was born, before I can even make a choice all of the scenarios have been forged for me? Then what's the damn point of living!?" He threatened her and slammed her into the wall, the scuffling would have no doubt caught Thoth's ears and Khepri.
Khepri having the most amount of legs, and the dirty currently not yet blinded by nihilistic thoughts barged into the room Anubis held Neith. Khepri gasped in shock and terror seeing Anubis ready to kill Neith. "Holy moly guacamole the kid's gone nuts again! Anubis no!" Khepri dug each of his bug claws at the ground repeatedly, and rolled forwards in a roller ball at Anubis. All while Thoth entered the room finally only to see Anubis hold Neith in his own dreadful look of horror. He shielded his eyes shut knowing Khepri was about to enter a dangerous fight.
"Don't stop me!" Anubis fired his Mummification at Khepri, holding him in place before proceeding to slap Neith down on the floor and kick her by her stomach. The weaver of fate grunted and groaned as she felt the teenager violently beat her up. "Every ounce of suffering, every seconds of my life was a carefully orchestrated soap opera by you! What else do you hide from the world?" He then grabbed her head and slammed her into the wall, trying to force the answer out of her mouth.
Thoth dashed over to Khepri and used an arrow from his quiver to cut each of the mummified bind on him loose. Khepri feel to the floor squirming and pulling around in a pian like way. "ewww… it feels gooey, and cold…" Khepri complained. Thoth however shook his head out and dashed over to Anubis, and Neith. "Unhand her Anubis! You're not going to gain anything by eliminating her! You'll lose a fellow deity, and the whole pantheon will be driven into…." Thoth stopped and looked back at the pain regret filled Neith. "...Chaos. Was this your plan all along?... Just a never ending stream of chaos for us?..." Thoth said as his shoulders slumped down.
"No...that's not it. I weave the fates of the deities and mortals to give their lives meaningful existence provide for them in the afterlife. Of course, I never told Ra about the truth that Apep is his twin brother." She squealed in Anubis's grip as his anger boiled over, he looked over to her spindler, he directed his anger into it and with a slash by his blade, he torned it into two in one fell swoop. "Anubis! What have you done!? Without it all lives are uncertain and what of their fates?" She protested as Anubis's grip on her began to burn through her skin.
He directed his gaze at her eyes, she can see that his eyes were full of rage and burning with aggressive desires to end her immediately. "DON'T SAY A WORD ABOUT FATE! What's the point of living if your life has already been decided by someone else? What's the point? I have no say in my life and what will become of me, all has been decided by you beforehand! You will answer to Ra, and as for your tapestries, he'll decide what will become of them!" He growled at her face before throwing her down on the floor and tied her hands together with her threads into a neatly put together bow tie. "Let's go! Khepri, pack her tapestries as proof, be sure to bring the most important one, the one of Ra's own life." He glared at Khepri menacingly.
Khepri nodded quickly and stepped backwards. He was so caught by Anubis's anger he didn't hesitate or even think on changing to his human-like form again with the black scarab mask. The mask's cyclops optic glew yellow again, and the scarab shaped mask reflect all light in a warm golden color. "Y-yes man! I'll do this real qu-quick!" Khepri exclaimed while he stumbled around in an uncoordinated manner. Each step he took seemed to be drunk, or in a fashion that spoke of him not being used to a more human shape. Anubis saw him tearing down the tapestries in quick pulled backwards. Khepri's more human shaped back bent backwards, and in his uncoordinated state he fell to his back after pulling each one down.
Thoth reluctantly accepted rolling each of the tapestries in a neat tidy roll. He sighed as he tried not to look at Neith knowing a dark though in his mind. "Set will fester off of this ensuing chaos…." Thoth said with a gulp. Khepri quickly turned back into a massive scarab form, and let Thoth wrap each of the weaving on his hard armored carapace.
Anubis couldn't care less and simply dragged Neith out of her humble, he forced her on Ramiel's back before climbing on the horse's back as well. The jackal deity would then stirred his horse to lead the way for them back to Ra's palace while Khepri followed behind hauling the tapestries. Along the way, Thoth would see the manner in which Anubis was exacting his punishment on Neith, his reasoning and thought process was unorthodox as he was going into conflict with a deity of Fate itself. Fate, the all powerful force over both mortals and deities but what Thoth and Ra may have found comfort in might as well be the same thing that left them complacent.
Thoth by now was feeling a massive inner conflict working into his mind. On one hand Neith was possibly the oldest deity in the Egyptian pantheon, but she was also the all powerful God among God's. What would Anubis's plan cause for the future of the pantheon? Thoth could not answer this. He felt that even using his wisdom would be giving into a fate he had no part in. Then he though that not using his powers would also be giving into fate as well. He could not stand it. The hopelessness that each turn would give was really a massive wrong turn towards fate and destiny. All he could think on now was how Ra's rage would effect the sun, and the entirety of the pantheon. "I do hope you planned this out Anubis…" Thoth said quietly.
"You'll see…" Anubis replied as they arrive at the palace, he dismounted Ramiel and dragged Neith down with him, her hands were tied by her own threads with a string left out for him to hold her on a short leash. "Move." He pushed her back causing her to stumble forward before finally start walking up the stairs.
"Anubis, please rethink your actions, I'm trying to…" Neith pleaded to him only to receive a feral growl at her face, giving her an obvious warning to either shut up or be physically assaulted again. "Anubis...I want to give you a meaningful existence, you are still young after all." She sighed out trying to remind him that his life has yet to reach its apex and the youthful spry was still there with him. But the cynical and nihilistic upbringing he had seem to have killed whatever she spoke of long ago. They arrived at Ra's chamber, disturbing the sun God greatly just by seeing Neith on her knees with, Anubis holding her prisoner.
"Before you say a word, Neith lied to you on one matter." Anubis said as he looked back at Khepri, expecting him to unveil the tapestries that they have confiscated from Neith. "Khepri, show him what I'm talking about." Said Anubis As he tapped his feet on the ground.
Khepri nodded nervously ina quick and shaken matter. Each head nod was quick and to the point in a fast erratic matter. "Oh jeez kid calm down man…. I'll do it!" Khepri said. He started shaking his heavily armored body in a back and forth circular motion like a dog shaking water off of its fur to get dried. Only now Khepri shook in fear and quick panic. The tapestry that spoke of Ra's life however flew off of his body, and like a punch to the gut to Neith conveniently fell and rolled open displaying to Ra his own fate. As if fate had decided itself was tired of Neith controlling it.
Ra narrowed his eyes at the weaved art work. He recognized this to be his mother's as his childhood was spent seeing her weave, but he never knew what. That was until now at least. Like a timeline with picture and hieroglyphics that displayed representations in Ra's life pointed out that Neith had been concealing Ra's past to him. When he saw the picture of Apep being his umbilical cord, and possible twin Ra gagged in nausea. "No… Mother no… What is…" Ra fell to his knees and began panting feel his soul burdened by a heavy concealed truth. "This cannot be! I can't be related to that thing! I can't be related to a monster! A defiler to our ways of life! A demon!..." Ra excalined in disbelief. The palms of his hand met the cold unforgiven floor right in front of him, and he began feeling tears form in his tear ducts causing each one to ache in pain. "Mother… What have you done to us?... What have you done to yourself?..." Ra said as his body pestered him to take a fetal position.
"My little sun, I dare not told you of the truth because...because…" She began to croak as her head slump down, unable to muster any amount of strength or even reasoning skill to tell the truth or at the very least, the reasoning behind her action. "...I can't tell you, that monster I created, I had to give a contra to the world. With your sun there must be a darkness to oppose, a shadow that the rays of sunlight will cast over." She pleaded to them while tears began to shed down her cheeks.
"So then...all you did was to create a monster for Ra to oppose? One that can give life a dynamic but you intend for it to run around aimlessly in an endless cycle?" Anubis's deduction gave Neith chills as her reasoning behind Apep's creation sent shiver down her spine as his cold and cynical words unravel the construct that was life as made by her. "And my suffering, was there a point to it? You taught us that life is only meaningful when we make choices by ourselves. But your tapestries speak of superficial decisions. Why live at all if all has been decided by you?" He questioned her hard and clenched his hands while looking at her fetal form.
Thoth stood up covering his long beak in his hands. Both of his eyes nearly as large as the moon itself just from the shock he was going through. Anubis as he knew was a teenager, but one that was already prosecuting and judging the follies of other deities. Except Thoth knew who he was. What his fate had clearly been led to. At this point he was unsure if Neith had written in her fait like this, or if Thoth himself was acting on Neith's commands. "I- I- I-... The evidence placed against you Neith is to weigh in that you have made our dooms inevitable, and have further toiled where you should have not. I'm afraid i must judge your actions…." THoth said regrettably.
Khepri hissed out in a sharp hiss. "Damn man this bird is cold as ice… he just laid out the hurt with his book…" Khepri said.
Ra however clenched his heart and fell on his side. He however made a drunken limping crawl over to his own mother and groaned loudly. He could be heard making a painful weeping noise however. He placed himself on his back and arched forwards. He picked Neith up and placed her back on his chest, but he could only glare a sad tearful expression towards her. His sharp masculine cries of pain were rare put as he held her knowing this may be the last he would see of his mother was too much for him. "Whyyyyy… Mother… You… I thought you were always pure... " Ra said as more golden tears streamed down his continued trying to hold in his emotion, but only for each one to slip out in a loud crying groan, or inwards shaken breaths.
"I have...always been, when I realize what was Apep's intention I toiled to render him vulnerable to your efforts so you can slain him. But I do not understand that he can somehow defy his fate and come back from the graves." She whimpered and wept harder, crying a river with tears falling down her eyes, the streams were of black water, the primordial water that created the Nile and everything else. But now, they weren't creating any life whatsoever when they fall down on the ground.
"You created a demon. Now you have no ideas how to end it." Said Anubis, he sighed out disappointingly at her for her secret and everything that she had done in the past. But for him, he seemed to take the hardest burden and most personal of all with the death of his mother and the fact that Set's transgression stemmed from a mixture of jealousy and carefully orchestrated scripting. "You will not dictate anyone's fate anymore. From now on, you are confined to the dungeons Neith. And your work, destroyed." He declared his verdict sounding contemptuous of Neith as he picked up the tapestries of countless persons and deities. His included.
Thoth opened his book and hesitantly began scribbling in the book a new page for neith's fate. It pained his very soul to do this to her, and yet he must do his job. "Neith, now Former Weaver of Fates… For your lies and secrets kept from the pantheon of Egypt, and for… Creating more conflict, and chaos within our pantheon I give you the guilty verdict. You… have been judged.." Thoth said.
Ra however groaned louder than before and glared down at his mother in both rage and sadness. His left hand held the left side of her face as he seemed to store her as if he were trying to find some way to cope with his own mother being a malicious entity. He cradled her into his own muscular chest and cried masculine sighs and breasts. "Dammit all… DAMMIT ALL!..." Ra shouted feeling the one who he called other betray him in such a way it hurt every fiber of his being.
Anubis sighed out and grabbed Neith's arm while she cried into Ra's chest, Anubis pulled her away from the sun god and dragged her off to the dungeon where he slammed the door shut and lock her tight inside a cell made for imprisoning only the most dangerous of deities. It had a massive water tank easily took up the space of a normal holding cell, this cell however was three times the size with Neith chained up and lowered into the embalming liquid, the Goddess first felt her strength leaving her body, without her bow and arrow, she was helpless for sure as her body sank into the tank with bubbles bubbling up constantly, for the time being and for the foreseeable future, Neith shall remain there suspended in time and space.
Ra during the whole time could not look at what was to become of his own mother. Rather he put his face on Thoth's left shoulder and buried his tears into his most trusted allies garment. Ra now felt the most empty he had felt in his life. His only mother, and possibly the one diety to keep him stable besides Thoth now gone from his life, and now a traitor to him. He didn't know what to think anymore and as such could only do what was natural and cried tears into Thoth's shoulder.
Thoth however glared at where Neith was placed, and understood just where Anubis had come from. His entire life so far was just suffering and mental, and physical pain. It hurt to watch a former ally suddenly turn dark, but it hurt worse to witness his best friend Ra in so much pain. Thoth looked to Anubis and sighed. "You did what you felt was right… I don't know what else to say because it hurts us all…" Thoth said as he wrapped an arm around Ra to pat his back.
Anubis was silent to Thoth's words, he did not make a remark on the matter and simply look down at the tapestry that was his life, the one Neith weaved and dictated every moments of his life. The jackal deity torn off the tapestry in fury, ripping it to shred without batting an eye before wrapping the pieces into a pile and tossed it into the nearby bonfire of additional tapestries. "We make our own fates, like any mortals would. Practice what you preach." He stated.
Ra finally breathed inwards, and stumbled over to the fire. He gave off a more than crippled appearance feeling himself to be broken and betrayed."I suppose this was an absolute must… This evil… This absolute weaving of evil needed to be taken care of…" Ra said, but he choked on his own words making a grunt. "E-even if this evil w-was my own mother…." Ra said as he began to weep out again. The fact that he and Apep were the closest to brothers now bothered him the most, and broke his will. He didn't understand how, or why neith would conceal this, but Thoth knew something.
"Without darkness there can be no light, and without light there will be an overhanging dark shadow… Chaos and order must both exist for a functioning world…" Thoth admitted. "And yet she created too much for herself…" Thoth finished.
"Too much and she created an imbalance." Anubis commented coldly as he watched the bonfire burned. With Neith out of the picture, he felt a certain sense of liberation coming over him but he can't be certain of his future now that she was gone. All was up to his own personal agency.
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It was a tearful goodbye for everyone as the ship was beginning to set sail from Alexandria's port. Ra was there to personally see them off waving goodbye to them as the fire of the Pharos lighthouse burn ever brighter in the night. Isis and Horus were seen on the ship's deck waving goodbye to Ra as the ship's silhouette disappeared into the mist and out to the open sea of Poseidon. The Greek styled Bireme ship sailed out of Egypt and made its way to the island of Rhodes, where the statue Colossus of Rhodes held his torch high, burning bright in the night to guide ships into the island's port after long journeys around the Mediterranean Sea.
There they dwell, for years and years, Horus grew up with Isis, Anubis and Thoth on the island of Rhodes. Isis nurse her son, Anubis play and train with Horus while Thoth taught the two of them. For Anubis, he felt some pain for Horus as his childhood was spent elsewhere instead of in Egypt where Horus should be with fellow natives that Horus could relate to. Here on Rhodes, they lived with strangers and Greeks who worshipped a different pantheon instead of them. Even Anubis felt homesick from time to time, he missed the Nile river, Lycopolis, the Papyrus reeds and the grand architect masterpieces of expert craftsman and builder. The temples and palaces with grandiose statues and incense burning in the air, those were his memories of Egypt now Horus grew up in a different land instead of the one he will govern gave Anubis concern that the prince will not uphold the traditions that Ra passed down to them and make the sun god proud, at least once.
By now Horus was fifteen, a teenager who has spent his childhood on an island far from home for his own sake and safeties, he was outside of his home on the beach of Rhodos practicing with Anubis the art of the blade. "Harder!" Anubis shouted as he struck Horus's blade harder, nearly causing the young prince to fall on his back. The falcon prince would then swung his blade to the side of Anubis, aiming for a blow at his side and ribs, Anubis swiftly moved his blade to block and parry the attack. Only for him to be caught by Horus's left leg sweeping him off the ground and falling on his back. Horus would then pointed his blade at Anubis's neck showing that he had bested Anubis in combat. "You're getting better with you blade. But not with your surrounding." He commented before gripping Horus's legs with his feet and knock the prince off balance.
"You're crafty as always brother, but really, you can lose focus in the middle of a battle like this." Said Horus as he got up to his feet again from the fall. He held his blade high above his head in an eagle guard stance ready to strike from above like the avian that he was. "You pour so much emotion that you let yourself be swayed by a slight intrigue." Horus cockily remarked as he took tentative steps forward, each one was like that of a bird spreading its talons and gripping the earth underneath. Anubis's eyes trail the movement of the feet, noticing that they were weak and uncertain of the ground they were on, he would then make a sweeping slash at the legs, only for Horus to jump in the air with his wings flapping causing Anubis to be blindsided by a strong gust of wind, he shielded his eyes only to be met by Horus's kick in his chest, forcing Anubis to fall on his back. "See what I mean brother? You let yourself be defeated so easily by emotion." The young falcon prince then extend a hand at his older brother, helping him up to his feet, Horus was spry and upbeat, cocky and arrogant even, perhaps a trait he inherited from Ra and the late Osiris but Anubis couldn't quite tell for sure.
"And you're too cocky in your victory, sleeping on your triumphs and your enemies will suddenly emerge victorious later on." Said Anubis as he got up and dusted the dirt and sand off of his bare chest. On his chest, there were impressions of Horus's talons and some scratches from the kick, he sighed out at the flesh wounds and proceeded to wrap a white piece of cloth around his chest to hold the wounds.
Thoth came out to the practice grounds, and saw that the dueling brothers were seemingly finished with their trailing. Within the seeing decade Thoth himself had developed as well. With his teachings to the younger deities he seems to have learned how to act as a more skilled teacher figure, and also the almost seeming father figure for the two of them. He himself didn't seem to age physically, but his mind has aged like a fine wine. He only got better with age. When he walked now he did so with a very confident swagger, and placed one foot in front of the other in a slow, calm, and steady stride while his dark blue energy stayed beneath his feet. He looked to also have made his wardrobe in a better order as well since each of his garment looked cleaner than before. He saw however both of the brothers were with injuries from their fight, and he made a "tsking"noise in his mouth while shaking his head. He raised a finger and spun it around slightly in the air. "Oh dear… You seem to have gone a bit overboard this time." Thoth said with slight disappointment.
"You know what I have to do Thoth, push ourselves harder and harder so we can be ready." Said Anubis as he came to Thoth with the bandaged wound on his chest. "At least we didn't kill ourselves in the process." He finished as he sat down exhaustively untying the bandage and reveal the falcon marks on his chest, it would seem that Horus's kick was a powerful punch indeed that got Anubis hard. "Maybe I'll have a walk around the area, get some fresh air and peace and quiet to calm my nerves." Said Anubis as he began to turn his face over to the rolling hills nearby looking at the beauty and green open plains down below and the seaside town that the family lived in with ships coming and leaving by the docks with the statue of the island nearby. A wind blew over his ears as he felt the strange directioning of it giving him an idea of who was on the island beside them. "Hermes is here, along with Aphrodite, guess they're taking a visit to the mortals who worship them on this island."
Thoth made a slight grunt out of his mouth hearing Hermes's name. His eyes open slightly more, and he looked back and forth. "Oh. Good… What a wonderful surprise visit by… Hermes…" Thoth said in a slow and worried tone. Already Thoth seemed to be exhausted hearing Hermes's visit was soon. If his facial expression wasn't enough he rubbed his face and sighed slowly letting off a disappointed sigh. "Let's just hope he isn't too excited today."
Anubis nodded and sighed out annoyed by the fast talking messenger tendencies. "I hope so too…I'll be back by dusk. If not sooner." Said Anubis as he began to walk off towards the first rolling green hill. He felt the wind blowing at his body, the grasses rustling against one another and his legs as he walked up to the hill. He breathed out feeling the warm Mediterranean air as he looked at the town by the seaside when his ears twitched hearing something coming towards them.
"Uh...no, like personal bubble Hermes. I got heels higher your standards and they can run faster than your fancy smancy sandals. Like Olympic fast." Said Aphrodite's feminine voice as she levitate next to Hermes coming up the same hill as Anubis while scowling him for the endless mocking the mischievous deity of thieves, messengers and trade.
Hermes shrugged his shoulders upwards, but the shrug was fast enough to be missed if one was to blink then they would have missed the gesture. "Oh come on Aphrodite. You know by now i'm the quickest thing here. I'll race you to prove it. Come on race. I can beat you. All the way up the hill. Not a chance you'll beat me. Guaranteed me winning. Not a chance of you beating me! I can do it! Race me!" Mercury said in a repetitive fast talk.
"Ugh! Word! Do you know who I am? I can't race you while wearing these high heels, they're still season for once, and two they're not meant for racing." She remarked to Hermes as she came up to the hill seeing Anubis who was sitting on it. "OMG, you look like a Monet, beautiful from afar but ugly up close." Said Aphrodite in an insulting manner towards Anubis, which prompted the jackal deity to huff out at her while crossing his arms.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Said Anubis as he turned his face away from her. Aphrodite would then snorted out seeing Anubis's appearance in general was rather athletic and his physique was incredibly masculine to say the least, it would look like he could easily seduce any woman in the world if he wanted to.
"You're so in season, did anyone ever tell you that you are like...totally hot like so hot Ares fumes with jealousy and Narcissus eat his heart out jealous." Aphrodite's flattery of Anubis fell on deaf ears as he remain deadly silent towards her giving her apathetic look on his face. "Cold shoulder much." She then lean over to Hermes and whisper into his ears. "I think I like this guy." Said the Goddess of Fertility and Greek women.
Hermes raised a brow to her statement, and cringed a bit. "Oh jeez not again. C'mon with you and hot guys. You're so easy to swoon around I swear. This is the same thing with the other guys before! I mean c'mon with you. This is just too much now." Mercury said fast. He then looked to Anubis and chuckled. "Jeez though you are getting turned on by a dog time. I mean no offence buddy, but I dont think i've seen a black jackal before, but jeez you got these undead eyes you keep staring at me with like you've seen a war or something. Jeez i think Aphrodite want your puppies or something." Mercury said in a frequent manner before laughing to himself.
Aphrodite then huffed at her brother before proceeding to slap him across his cheek, causing him to fall on his back and rolling down the hill before walking towards Anubis in her high heels. "Ignore the loser runner, we're like totally made for each other here. Why? Cause for obvious reasons, we're like totes matchies." She giggled while leaning against the young adult Anubis's chest, causing him to raise a brow at her behaviours and took a step back. She then pushed him down on his back making him increasingly concern over her interests and intentions for him.
"What are you doing?" He asked her sounding a bit annoyed by the advances she was taking towards him.
"Like no worries, my birds are so going over the details now." Said Aphrodite as she seized Anubis's lips with a passionate kiss while her birds flew over them, shower the two with love and feeling of ecstasy to "Encourage" Anubis to accept the kiss much to his dismay. Her hands then move about massaging his muscle masses and chest while pressing on the nerve spots on his body to ease the jackal deity into the experience.
However, as Aphrodite seduced Anubis the two of them heard a familiar bird-like throat clearing sound only that of an ibis can make. "Ahem. I hate to intrude on this… Moment, but perhaps you two could of had a better time to build up a foundation before moving in for more passion…" Thoth stated. When they looked they saw Hermes behind Thoth making a sly smile and a rapid wave. Thoth gave Anubis a questionable father look while his arms were crossed together. "Yoo-hoo! I made a little tattle to the birdman here!" Mercury said laughing.
"Ugh! Really Hermes? You're such a toad sometimes." Aphrodite groaned in annoyance by the interruption but before she can speak any further, Anubis was quick to push her aside and wiping his lips in annoyance and disgust.
"Perhaps the Greek Pantheon have a tendency to start affairs left right and center." He retorted to Aphrodite showing his pure disgust towards her desires for him. The jackal deity would then get back on his feet just as Aphrodite did but she kept an uncomfortably close proximity to him, often batting her eye lashes at his was prompting him to turn away in annoyance of her romantic advances. "Stop it Aphrodite, it won't get you anything, not even your breasts can seduce me. And Thoth, before you say a word, let me make this clear. She forced me first." He pointed his index finger at her rather busty C-Cups breasts bouncing around whenever she made a motion, even the slightest one can cause them to jiggle greatly.
Thoth blinked his eyes once, and slapped his right hand to his face to cover his eyes. He then turned his head upwards slightly while he placed his book over his crotch while his face flushed red in a blush. "Please would you two disperse from each other before this leads to a… conception?... Might I recommend just some minor talks to get to know yourselves better?..." Thoth said grumbling.
"Whatever...I'll be seeing you soon handsome." She winked at Anubis before turning away and put on a pair of fashionable shades, the lens were star shaped giving her a rather highly diva like appearance as she went off to other parts of the island.
Anubis sighed out in relief seeing her gone before looking back at Thoth before crossing his arms. "You know, I think she inherited Zeus's playboy demeanors a lot. The last thing I want to have right now is a child considering I didn't get to be one." He huffed out before proceeding to descend the hill with Thoth towards the Greek settlement that they were living in. As the two came down the hill, they found a copple road stretching from the settlement out to the other parts of the island with carriages going in and out of the town ferrying goods and trades. "You think she'll be back?" He asked.
Thoth shuddered at the thought and awkwardly looked away from Anubis. He tried to keep his eyes on the setting around him and watch as the trades drove past him. "Oh well… She is the daughter of Zeus, and knowing his persistent personality… Quite so…" Thoth said sighing. He looked back to Anubis and smiled. "Now tis not that i do not wish for you to engage in a meaningful relationship. It's more that I want one to develop naturally. First starting off as great akwantansces, advancing to arranged meetings sometimes in a park or with some food, then perhaps physical romance, and then-" Thoth abruptly stopped, and blushed red again.
"No Thoth I mean that she's a creepy stalker and a woman who keeps on hounding men whenever she sees fit. The moment she laid her eyes on me is the moment she will keep coming back for me with sexual harassment in mind!" He growled out in a mixture of annoyance and frustration, Thoth could tell that he was also sounding slightly nervous by the sound of it or that he was craving adult desires but simply can't quite put himself through it for some reasons. As they went into town, the Agora or open air market was bustling with men and women going about shopping and selling goods to each other, ranging from olive oils to sandals and fishes. Other stalls were seen selling metal works and other craftsman products and artisan works.
Thoth looked to the fish market and felt himself grow hungry by the delectable catch. Even Anubis heard Thoth's stomach growl for food. "Oh my. It must be about lunch time." Thoth said clearing his throat out. "Now as for Aphrodite I think I can offer some assistance in watching over you. Literally. Ibises are not flightless bird despite our size. Lithe we are, and capable of taking off to the skies. I can perhaps offer you some eyes from above." Thoth said as his eyes locked onto one of the catches of the day. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a tiny sack that jingled full of metal currency.
"I guess I'll keep an eye out on the ground then, preferably an eye for a crowd or something." Said Anubis as he looked over at the diner at the corner of the market where shoppers and merchants often convene to enjoy a meal or two. "Guess we've found our meals." Said Anubis as he walked towards the diner and pushed the door open, the sign above had a pot of soup boiling with shark fins on top. He went inside and start looking for a table for them and went to sit down on the second floor, overlooking the guests below. The two were then given two scroll menus and they took their time to order their meals. "Thoth, I think the matter of Aphrodite I should handle it myself considering that she doesn't seem to be too keen on meeting me while I'm accompanied." Said Anubis as turned a page on the menu when he felt the wind blowing the doors open, the figure was obviously Mercury/Hermes who ran up to them on the second floor, huffing out exhaustively. "Hunger struck and the runner kneels to it." He commented on Hermes breakneck speed towards the diner.
Hermes breathed in and out and felt his stomach growl in a loud way. He looked around and saw that the place was packed full of customers, but saw that Anubis and Thoth both had a couple of spare seats. "Oh hey guys. It's been awhile since we saw each other. Man am i glad to see you guys. Say you think i can have a seat. With all that laughing I think I forgot to eat. Man I'm starving. Can I sit with you two since I know you? Huh? Can I can I can I can I?" Mercury asked repeatedly causing Thoth to awkwardly bury his face in his menu.
"You forgot to eat i just don't hope you don't forget to breath…" Thoth said.
"First thing first, the moment you are able tell Aphrodite that if she really wants me then perhaps she should consider my consent first." Said Anubis as he sighed out and waited for the meals to be served for them. The jackal deity slumped his head over with both hands forming a barricade to hold him back from falling completely down on the table. "Anyway, just tell her this. Meet me by the docks, tonight. Period." Said Anubis as picked up his wooden cup and drank from it, enjoying the Greek's grape wines that was a fine treat along with their cuisine filled with the blessing of Athena's olive oil. "I know that she'll pop up again and the moment she does, I'll be sure to document our encounter." He huffed out in a mopey dopey manner, sounding not quite excited for the meeting with Aphrodite again.
"Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I can do that. I can do that! For sure for sure!" Mercury exclaimed while he sat down next to Anubis. He grabbed one of Anubis's hand and shook him up and down at the near speed of light with a rapid shake that even made Anubis's torso and legs shake around. "You're the best pal! I can't thank yah enough! Best pal right here! Number one top dog! Get it because he's a dog! Boy I thought I was going to starve out there for sure!" Mercury spoke rapidly.
"Yes, yes, yes Hermes but really just keep your eyes on the job." Said Anubis as their meals were brought up. Anubis's plate was a meal of fried fish with salad and olive slices on the top, Anubis took a moment to relax himself and sniff the smell of his meal and began to take a bite out of the first fish and chew the piece of meat slowly while steam rose from the interior of his fish into the air. "At least the food is good here, I feel sad for Horus to be honest, he has to grow up here, far away from his home land for his own safety. Can you believe it? For us Egyptians this is hard because we don't leave the Nile, its length and the fertile land around it is our home." Anubis mused and looked up at ceiling, the triangular roof of the structure gave him homesick feelings, he missed the mud brick flat tops design of the Egyptian homes that he grew up in and the scenery around the Nile. Lush green places following the river's length and arid desert stretching to nearly infinite, the Greeks may shrug it as dust bowl or sandbox, for Anubis, it was home.
Thoth as he ate a Greek salmon fish salad covered with parsley and mixed up with some red onions, black olives, and some zucchini took notice of Anubis's lost and saddened expression. Thoth himself sighed out disappointed, and took note. He too missed home a bit and there was a sense of homesickness as he had to part ways with his dear friend Ra. He swallowed some of the salad, and sighed. "Well I can certainly watching you two grow as brothers and watching you grow and mature has been one experience for me. I would not have grown my own wisdom without the experiences. I can tell you miss home as well as do I, but there is a bright side to every dark corner." Thoth said.
Hermes however continued munching down his calamari, and did not stop to think on their wisdom. Rather he cut into the cooked squid legs with a knife as fast as lighting, and munched down on them as if this were some type of race to who could eat faster. "Awww you guys miss home? I don't think i've been away from greece that much. Really i need a vacation, but i kinda can't. Phew though the place you guys come from sounds like a big oasis in the desert. I can see it now. Me sun tanning on one of the balconies of the places watching the river. Man that sounds like a good vacation. You guys think you can give me a place to stay when I get some hours off?" Hermes said casually.
"Sure. Alexandria always sound like a nice place. To be honest, I seem to like the city and its seaside location more than the typical riverside Lycopolis." Said Anubis in a surprising tone, he sounded like he was genuinely enjoy an idea of a fine place to live instead of moping and being sarcastic of things around him. "To be honest, perhaps living here on Rhodos may have given me some affections to the Greek's own seafaring prowess, bringing it back to Egypt and train my mortals there may give benefits to the Kingdom." He mused with both eyes closed apparently in the absence of visual display of reality, Anubis can slip into a dreamlike mindscape where he can ponder on thoughts and ideas, visualizing fantasies of an Alexandria with ports that rival that of Carthage and Athen with the city's docks teaming with ships and traders moving in and out daily. For around 3 minutes Anubis was deep in thought before he opened his eyes and continue to finish his meal on the table. "I have a feeling that a city built by two cultures is always more exciting than a city built by one." Said Anubis as he scratch his fur.
Mercury yelped out hearing Anubis's voice. "Phew boy you gave me a jump. I thought you fell asleep and need a nap. I mean i would need one too if Aphrodite did that. Eugh. Yeah I'll talk to her for you for sure." Hermes said quickly. He wiped his face off and sighed. "So I'll think on these vacation spot. I think if they have some Greek stuff I can fit right in. Feel at home. Get some chicks. Get some nice food." Mercury said belching slightly. He intertwined his fingers with each other and stretched his arms out to crack his fingers. "And speaking of chicks… i best get to Aphrodite and tell her not to be such a Thoth- I mean thot." Mercury said in a nervous chuckled with Thoth glaring at him.
Anubis likewise glare at Mercury for making a gaffe at Thoth due to his fast talking nature. However, his gaze on Mercury did not last long as the speedy Greek Messenger of the Gods ran off and out of the diner, across the Agora, Hermes/Mercury would see an upscale restaurant made for the more upscale and noble Greek folks where he would immediately catch Aphrodite in her dress sitting on a table with a plate of BBQ duck ready for consumption. The Goddess of fertility and women was seen combing her hair and trying to keep her head dress in order. Clearly, she wished to look better than Athena and Narcissus combined.
Mercury quickly sped into the doors, but rather than crash into them he instead caused them to fling open. His powerful wind gusts were felt on Aphrodite before he even announced his presence to be in her vicinity. He then sped up to her table, and stopped instantly halting all momentum in a seemingly impossible stop. "Meep-meep! Hey Aphrodite! I talked to that- is that roasted duck?" Mercury asked eyeing her meal.
"Pretty much the point, I really need to enjoy myself this time around. So what do you want now Hermes? Better be something other than another boring blind date with...surprise...Ares." Said Aphrodite as she moved her hands in an air quote manner when reaching the "Surprise" bit of her snarky remark. "By the way, I got to tell you that Anubis look so smoking hot like I mean totes beat Ares. Ares got the buffy beefcake look for sure but he looks so overload with it and war is such a turn-off. But Anubis is like a beefcake but totally not overload and look kinda like well all around." Aphrodite swoon with her face directed at the ceiling sighing out at the fantasies of Anubis's picture perfect, well-sculpted body and toned body stature.
Mercury snorted a bit finding the fact that she wanted to date a jackal headed god a bit funny, but he pointed to her. "And guess who I just saw! Anubis me and Thoth had some lunch together when all the other table were full of people. Thoth had a salad, Anubis had a plate of fish, and I got some of that good old calamari. Damn that was good. Anyways I think i was suppose to tell you something. Hmmm. Lets see. Oh right. Anubis said he wanted to meet you tonight at the docks. I dunno maybe you did something to him and got his dog head messed up. Boy I don't know maybe you got a thing for dogs. Why do you want to date a dog anyhow? Man I can't figure you out." Hermes said in his usual quick self.
"Wait Anubis wants to meet me tonight at the docks? OMG, that is like so amazing I think my total dominant strategy is working. YES!" She squealed in front of Hermes much to his chagrin as the goddess celebrated her victory over Anubis. One thing was for sure to Hermes, tonight was going to be interesting to say the least.
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Night has fallen across the isle of Rhodos, Ra's sun has set to the West with the power of Khnum guiding it down the horizon. The city itself had to light up its torches to light the way for its various inhabitants. Anubis himself was alone at the docks waiting for Aphrodite, he sighed out feeling nervous by the fact that he risked meeting her again just to settle his problems and timidity with relationships with women to say the least. "She's supposed to be here by now." Said Anubis as he went back and forth at the dock's entrance looking out at the moon and starry night sky, it was like a deep blue blanket with diamonds tinted on its surface. "Soon Ra, soon I'll be Horus home to you." Said Anubis as he kept his hands tucked behind his back.
He soon heard what sounded like pop music in the background, and then he felt the winds of love graze across his fur in a very slight touch. From above he heard birds tweet in unison with a melodious song. He then saw Aphrodite make a catwalk like motion as she came to him. Her appearance was over the top to say the least since she left a trail of purple and pink colored smoke around her while a pink cloud above her shown light on her much like as if she were on a stage. The spot light cloud switched the lights from various shades of pink to red. Each time she took a step she would purposely flashing her wide hips from side to side while the back of one foot met the front foot. She also had both of her hands on her hips. Once she got close enough to Anubis she raised one of her palms to her mouth followed by her blowing a pink heart shape cloud to Anubis. "Hey their hunky. Now why did you have to give me all the trouble of coming out here in the dark spooky docks? You can't see my body in all this darkness." Aphrodite said with a smirk.
"Well...darkness is my shroud and friend, it protects me from harm." He answers timidly, as Anubis began to shudder at Aphrodite as his speech stutter along. For most of his life, fear has been a prevalent force that influenced his mind and decision making. But those were the days of fear of reprisals by Set, fear of violence and other acts of aggression. This time, he was facing a completely different fear altogether, an uncertainty and fear of social interaction with women. "Well...I uh...was thinking that maybe I could get to see the moon and stars here as well you see. It's a beautiful sight." He said awkwardly, since his mother's death he developed a sort of aversion to getting attach to any woman for fearing their deaths might cause him great grief.
Aphrodite looked to the stars as well, and swoon at Anubis's more tender nature. She didn't know what was the cause for his shy demeanor, but she giggled still. "Awww. He's a stud and he's got a soft spot. Ares could learn from this. All he cares about is himself and his muscles. Now you care about things besides yourself you cute." Aphrodite said. She however motioned into Anubis closer and wrapped an arm around his back, and brought her left hand around the left side of his chest to hug him in closer.
Anubis would then make a surprise gasp at her mannerism as his consent was confirming whether or not would he enjoy an evening escapade with her but already his mind was being conflicted by her advancements. "You know Aphrodite, I didn't really appreciate how you just shove yourself into my private space and violate me on the hill." He groaned out remembering the sudden and nonconsenting kiss of Aphrodite from before before looking down at her, his eyes traced down her picture perfect feminine body down to her voluptuous breasts. They bounce and jiggle as slight movements cause them to, much to his dismay as he can't quite picture himself suckle them in lust. "But I'm willing to forgive if you don't do that again." He sweated at this statement with his eyes on her breasts and the crevice in between.
She giggled again, and looked up to him. "Hey uh. Anubis. Eyes are up here, but mmmkay. I think I can hold back just a little bit for yah. Like that's not a problem at all. I can't help you have the perfect body though." Aphrodite said as she pressed her body closer to Anubis's. Her left breast pressed against him, but she used her right hand to place her palm on Anubis's hard muscles. She stroked her hand around his chest, and felt each feature on Anubis's chiseled body. "Hmmm. I didn't know fur could be sexy" She said with a wink.
Anubis smirked at this finding both a compliment and a creepy pick up line on her part. "Uh...thanks. I think." He can't quite blame her as his jet black fur gave off an aura of mystique that attracted other women and men towards him. He was a marriage between a relatable human figure and an animal with a form that appealed to many, he held one hand around her waists before his other follow on wrapping them both on her and pulled her in closer as he felt ecstasy rising. "Are you...up for boating tonight?" He asked her hesitantly as his paw pads held her pinkish skin and gently rubbed her body.
Aphrodite not surprised her charm worked on him as did other men nodded her head. "Uh like sure. That sounds like a totally fun time." She said with a giggled. She looked up at him, but as promised she did not go in for a kiss just yet. Though in the back of her mind she wanted Anubis's lips to press on her's. She hummed in thought as to get the evening rolling to her favor, but was taken back by Anubis's kind, and yet shy nature. Not many of the men she had been with were this way. "Hmmm. you're like so soft, and shy. Most guys would have been 'all lets go boating' without me wanting to go. You are like the sweetest thing dear. Yeah let go!" She said as she hugged him tighter. She giggled again for some reason as she pressed the side of her face to his chest. "You feel like a more beefy teddy bear." she said.
Anubis blushed brightly red as he went to a small wooden boat on the dock, he flipped the boat down to the open sea and hop on it with Aphrodite following him onboard, the boat had a lamp mounted on its bow to allow the seafarers to see each other in the dark mist of the sea. He began to row the boat out to the bay of the harbor where countless other ships were seen moving in and out of the harbor, there were also other couples who were young and wild like Anubis and Aphrodite were right now. "You know Aphrodite...I think that you do look rather...voluptuous is the only word come to mind. But still rather accurate to summarize what I think about you." Said Anubis as he paddled them out, grunting and huffing as he make his way out further until turning back to keep themselves safe in the dock.
Aphrodite looked down at herself, and smiled to Anubis again. "Oh you really think I look good? Or are just talking about these?" Aphrodite said still smiling as she swirled her upper torso to make her breasts jiggle to Anubis. "Don't worry. Say what you want to Anubis! I'm the deity of fertility and beauty. Well that's what, like, they all say. I have heard it all, and so far not many of the other boys are as nice like you." She said with a huff. She crossed her arms, and sighed, but so far as Anubis had seen this was not like her. She seemed to think on something in her head with a rather disappointed expression on her face.
"You mean Ares? The God of War and bloodlust and child molesters?" He asked her about Ares as they hung about in the bay, tucked away at a corner all to their own while ships moving in and out of the harbor, the fire of the statue's torch lit up the night, illuminating the dark sky with the silhouette of the island of Rhodos for them to enter and leave. He lay himself down on the boat lazily as he arched his chest and stomach upward snapping some bones inside of him to secure his body's functionality. "I'm sorry to hear about other men being...shallow on their thoughts about you. I don't have much on my mind about women to be honest, since my mother's death, I felt an aversion, a certain retraction from committing myself to a relationship with a woman for fearing death may sting us both too hard." He glanced up at the night sky, trying to imagine the stars above as something that can ease his pains, perhaps, one of the stars was Nephthys looking down and smiling at him.
Aphrodite widened her eyes, and made a quiet gasp out. Interested in the story she moved up to Anubis's left side, and laid herself down by his body. She sighed out and smiled at him however. "Ohhh… That's why you're all like shy and sweet. You poor thing have nothing to be shy about. I mean like look at your body! How has no other girl come up on you like i do? Is there like a girl shortage in Egypt or something?" She said with a frown. She placed a hand under Anubis's jaw and tilted his head towards her. "You know what though? How about I like teach you?" She asked while gleaming into Anubis's eyes.
"Teach me?" He asked her curiously while sounding rather hesitant at her attempt, however, as their distance closed in his canine cock began to harden and slowly erect eventually rising up to full mast. Anubis looked down and blushed brightly red at this embarrassing turn of event. "Don't tell anyone about this…" He said to her while stuttering a bit, he would then moved his hands down towards his trousers and began to unwrap the fabric, slipping it down to reveal his 7 inch canine penis with a pinkish tip waiting for her to enjoy its intrusion. "Your turn." He grinned slyly at her, expecting her to throw off her clothing on the boat's wooden floor.
Aphrodite shivered at the sight of Anubis's penis. She grinned, and looked into his eyes. "That's better." She reached behind her, and undid the strap of the bra she was wearing with her hands. She however teased Anubis by holding her hands on her breasts with the skimpy dress item acting as a thin barrier between her breast skin and her hands. She moved her hands up and down bouncing her breasts up and down in a manner to tease Anubis. Her breasts jiggled in a very exaggerated way before she finally dropped her bra to Anubis's abs showing Anubis her round heavy breasts with tiny pink nipples that were ready to be erect. This drove Anubis's mind mad with lust with her teasing.
Anubis gasped and coughed out at the sight of Aphrodite's teasing him apparently she was dying to get him inside of her. He then grabbed on to her thighs and spread them out slowly with his canine face having a look at her vulvar, his erection began to rise up, hardened and fully erect at the sight and now he was beginning to probe at her vulvar. Grinding and slowly moving its tip to meet her Vulvar and gently pushing it inside slowly to give her a nice tease of his own. But Aphrodite can feel that he was still unsure of himself and his session with her. But he was getting comfortable with the feeling of pleasure and intense burning desire to intercourse with her.
She slowly let off a soft moan as he entered her vaginal canal. She pressed her hands down on his chest and massaged Anubis there softly. Inside of her Anubis felt her warm vaginal walls clamp and wrap around his penis, but as she was turned on by Anubis's size she couldn't help, but release some slick liquids to help the intercourse's session ride along smoothly. She looked down into his eyes, and smiled. "Oh come on babe you're already inside of me. Why not just loosen up. Like OMG you're throbbing dick feels like heaven now." She said as she slowly made herself raise and lower over Anubis's throbbing cock.
"Oof! Like...heaven? You have to! OOF! Be kidding me…" Said Anubis in a grunt as he began to push his penis into Aphrodite's vulva, pushing it in deeper and deeper. His pace was slow at first but as his penis throbbed harder inside her flesh walls, the pacing began to pick up when he felt the desire to mark her as his own. "OOmph! You want it? I'll give it!" He grunted as he pushed harder and harder into Aphrodite's vulvar and began to pull her lying down on him with her breasts now in his face, giving him a chance to suckle her breasts which he did without relent.
Aphrodite feeling her vagina continuously thrusted into gasped and moaned loudly in pleasure. Partly due to her charm working on Anubis, and getting what she wanted, but also because she enjoyed the pleasure she felt from Anubis. Anubis as he suckled on her breasts felt her nipples become errect as Anubis suckled her tit. The taste of mitl entered his mouth coming from her soft breast. The texture of her breast was sure to be energy from him as her lovely soft skin gave his tongue something to enjoy. She wrapped her arms around Anubis's body and rubbed his back in a light massage while her vagina continued bouncing up and down his hard rod.
The jackal deity continued his thrusting as he felt his penis now getting to her body's cervix and he was probing it harder. Meanwhile, his mouth was enjoying her milky stream coming from her breasts as he arched his body up in the thrusting motion, yanking her nipple a bit. But he didn't lose himself in the motion as he let go of her nipples while still groping her breasts with both hands. He then arched one more time and felt his penis penetrating her cervix into her womb, the push this time was climax for sure as he let loose a torrent of his sperms into her womb.
Aphrodite gasped feeling his warm seed fill her fertile womb surely inseminating her. She however moaned loudly as she felt her own climax shake her body. Her legs however sook back and forth in rapid quiver as her loins were closest to them while she experienced a tingling pleasure that let her body release more liquids out of her vagina. The clear love juice leaked on Anubis's penis and coated him in a mix of semen and pussy juice. She looked down and kissed Anubis on the lips in a slow loving manner while she continued moaning to him.
He howled out feeling the deed has been done and Aphrodite was filled by his semen, his first night with a Goddess was certainly a harrowing experience for him as he looked back at the leaking of their respective juices. He huffed out and panting exhaustively as he laid back down on his back. "Well...I hope that was what you were looking for...because you won't have something like twice from anyone else." He awkwardly boasted while slowly falling asleep on the boat's wooden deck while basking in the afterglow, knowing that the two were safely ashore.
She giggled a bit as she fell asleep, but she seemed satisfied with him. She pressed her lips on his, and got herself dressed again. She got her panties and bra back on while she helped Anubis while he was asleep by adjusting his garments over his own loins. After this though she moved over to his right side and laid her head down on his upper arm while her right hand moved over his chest. "Mmmm. I think I can get used to this guy. Maybe a night away from the glamour and fashion of home could use a break. Oh this so bad omg!" she said in a rebellious manner wanting to fall asleep with Anubis here away from home.
