A/N OK ok I know I said the next chapter would be more substantial but, theoretically, this one is just a part of the previous one) It's an insight view on Akunadin. Enjoy.
Ch. 14 I am Akunadin
I AM AKUNADIN and they belong to me.
I am LIGHT. They belong to me.
I tried to protect him. He was so young when I left, but I had no choice. My land needed me. My king needed me. It was my job and my responsibly. A task much bigger than my family.
I am sorry.
I can still see before my eyes his small frail stature as he waved me good-bye. I can still feel that throbbing ache in my chest as I had to leave them behind.
I am sorry.
I never left his side. I always made sure that he was safe, that he had everything he needed and when the time had come I took him as my apprentice and I made him the man he had become.
He did not know who I was and that was for the best. For my heart could not have survived to see the hatred in his eyes. I would not have survived if he had told me he hated me.
It was the best to keep myself hidden from him. That way, at least, I could guard him.
My punishment for leaving them would eat me in the after life.
I am sorry.
I was so proud. He was the High-Priest of Egypt, inferior only to the Pharaoh. The land needed him. And he was the right person to protect it and its people from evil.
I am DARKNESS. They belong to me.
He didn't deserve such a destiny. Atemu didn't deserve to be the pharaoh of Egypt. My son did. Seth did. He was considerate, intelligent and powerful. He alone could protect Egypt. He alone was becomingly to be a pharaoh. He alone.
So I did everything to make sure he would receive what was rightfully his.
I don't regret it. I don't regret what I have done.
He deserved it. It was his right.
And then she came and for some reason I lost him. For some reason he began to distance himself from everything. He began to neglect his studies; the kingdom's rounds and I didn't understand.
Why?
Why?
It was all her fault. She put a spell on him. She bewitched him with her demonical beauty and he after all was a man. He gave in.
He gave in to lust and passion and that I could understand.
I love her, he said. That… I could not understand. That I could not allow.
Passion and lust comes and goes in a blink of an eye. Passion and lust you can forget after a good's night sleep.
Love is something that poisons your mind, which dissolves your reason until you become a puppet in strings; that dances and whirls according to the lover's whim.
Useless, pitiful creators. They're worth nothing more than dirt.
I would have killed her on spot, if it weren't for her power.
What she held was the key to Seth's future as pharaoh and whether he wanted it or not, I would force her on him. He would get her strength. He would get her ka and the monster that could defeat even the gods.
For that I gave my soul to darkness. I sacrificed everything, my body and soul, to grant him the life of a king.
I tried to convince him to dispose of her but he wouldn't listen. I love her. Those words I couldn't stand. His attitude I couldn't stand. So I did the only thing I could do.
I killed her. I took the power myself. If he wouldn't become pharaoh then I would.
So I killed her. I shot a blast through her heart and in an instant she was gone. The power was mine. She got what she deserved.
He cried. He screamed out of pain and misery, but I did not care. He was not my son. My son was a fighter and a winner. The youngster lying on his knees with the girl's body in his arms was just a coward. He got what he deserved.
There was no place for weak people in the world.
I had to destroy him. Darkness swallowed him. Everything was supposed to have ended in a few moments.
But then something happened. That girl. She came back. She broke through the darkness and released him from the fiery chains of hell.
Her light had destroyed me.
Her light had saved him.
I was defeated … for now.
I am DARKNESS. I will come back. They belong to me.
I am LIGHT. I will come back. They belong to me.
I will get my revenge. I will seek them both. I will destroy them both and I will throw them to the pits of hell where there's only pain and sorrow. And I will enjoy it.
I will make things right. It is my entire fault. I am sorry. I will seek them both. I will bring them together and I will set right what was meant to be for thousands of years.
I will make things right.
I am DARKNESS. I will destroy them.
I am LIGHT. I will save them.
I will hunt them.
I will protect them.
I will fight everyone that stands in my way.
I will fight everyone that stands in my way.
This is my time.
This is my time.
I am DARKNESS and they belong to me.
I am LIGHT and they belong to me.
I am AKUNADIN and they belong to me.