The day the dead stopped
CHAPTER 6
when i returned to Atlantis i sitting down on the throne just wanting to a rest i had i head in my hands"my lord." i heard someone i looked up and four men were walking to me one was the baker he was fit man but was a little a fat side he wear blue toga, next to him was a poor man in brown beggar cloak with two guards in standing next to the beggar "what is it?" i asked
the baker spoke "this man."pointing to the beggar "stole from my bakery and you know the punishment for steeling."
i looked at the beggar "why did you steel from the baker?" i asked, the baker opened his mouth to interrupt i stopped him "silence baker, every person has a story and as far as i'm concerned they have the right to tell that story."
the bagger looked open " your majesty i have not eaten in days and was starving i have no choice so i did what i must took from the baker only what i need to last me for a week." his story reminded of the days when i was with the tribe.
"surely mi lord you dont believe that nonsense." the baker said
i looked to the baker "i do in fact believe him. when i was back in the deserts of Egypt, i was left deserts of Egypt and man that saved me was a sand giant and he brought me to his tribe and they all accepted me exacted for his wife and when the giant left to hunt i would goes days without food even thou the brothers would try to give me food the wife would punish them if i accepted so i to protect them i would refuse the food they gave me." i stopped for a second "Although i understand, i have to obey the law and the law says thieving needs to be punished." the baker looked happy about that i looked at the baker "but i'm the that choices the punishment and my decision is final.
i thought it over for a couple of minutes "thieve for the six months will you stay the nights in the dungeons." the baker was happy with that "but during the next six months you will spend the days working for the baker"
"that's not fair." the baker said
"your right that's not fair that's called consequences." i replied "but what is fair is the any money the thieve make's a quarter of it will go to you baker and a quarter will go to me. the rest will go to you thieve, during that six months the that money you give me will go to a small house."
the thieve took a deep breath but the baker rubbed his hands together "but baker understand this, if i find out you have been cheating the thieve. you will lose half of your quarter and it will go to the poor man." than i turn to the thieve "and thieve if i find out you stole again, you will not only lose your hands but your life because this is your second chance and i do not give thirds i understand the pain of going days without food, after the six months you and the baker will come back here and we will talk about a job." i turn the guard's "my decision is finial take the thieve away his work will start tomorrow." while i was talking a fly was bugging me for a second it stopped and as fast as i could i smashed it but when i lifted my hand and i was expecting the fly to be a smear on the throne but to my surprise it was still alive.
I stopped to think "guards stop." i command they stopped but they were confused i walked over the poor man and pulled out a knife and stabbed him the gut but when i pulled it out the wound healed "that should have kill you." i said
"what does that mean my lord." the guard to my right said
i thought it over "i don't know." i turn to my adviser "took over for me maybe Hermes will know what's going on."
i ran Olympus to find Hermes but i couldn't find "hmm well if i can't find Hermes maybe Ares would know what's is going on."
i walked to Ares temple and knocked on his door, when the door open Ares opened it but he didnt step out all the way "what is it pup."
"do you know what people stopped dying?" i asked
Ares gave me the stinking eye "is that all you wanted." i heard a girl laugh at that "go see Hades i'm not Thanatos keeper now buzz off boy i'm busy." he then slammed the door.
i sighed and walked away "you think they would learn from the first time they got caught but all is fair in love and war."
i traveled to the palace of Hades and met king Hades "King Hades, do you know why the dead stopped."
King Hades looked confused "no and Thanatos had been gone for awhile he went to Corinth i can finally catch up the with the souls."
"thank you King Hades ." i turned
"netjeru- ka." King Hades stopped me, he surprised me because i never told my real name and that was the first time he's ever called me by real my name "the dead cant stop for more than a couple hours or the whole balance will be throw out, as you know for every life that comes into this world a life needs to be taken out ."
"i know lord Hades." i replied and exited Hades "if thanatos went to Corinth than why didn't he come back." i thought, i ran to the kingdom of Corinth and that almost took me an hour and half.
i closed my eyes and tried to feel Master Thanatos but barely his power left bond "what could bend a god especially one as powerful as Master Thanatos." i said to myself i walked to the palace because that's where his power felt the strongest "why would Thanatos stay at the palace." i thought, i ran all over the palace and felt Thanatos power in the kings chamber "why is Thanatos in the king chamber." i tried to open the doors but they would move.
i decided to kick down the door time was starting to run out when the door flew open i saw thanatos in sliver chains around his wrist and neck but but surprised me was that his black wing were in chains as well which is where why he was weaker "Master!" i yelled running over to him i brought my Khopesh and sliced the chains off and broke the chains on his wings "master how did this happen." i could feel balance restored back into the world.
thanatos rubbed his wrist "King Sisyphus tricked me wearing those chains i know the first person on my list." thanatos spoke up "the bracelets he gave me changed to chains and wrapped around my wings like snakes." just than a man in purple robs walked into his chambers and bowed down "i offer myself to you lord thanatos." and with that said thanatos took his life and we traveled to the lake of Acheron were we met Kharon the fairy man traveled down the river Styx, when we got there we took King Sisyphus straight to King Hades.
after king Hades admonished the king, Sisyphus plea for his life "lord Hades, if i knew my action would have offended the lord of underworld i would have never done it, but that accursed wife of mine has denied me the funeral rights of a king that beloved by his people, if you grant me a day to get my affairs in order swore i will return to you, oh noble King of the Underworld." the king plead
King Hades eyes almost drilled into the man soul "what do you think of the man plea hermanubis?" he asked me
i look to the man than back to king Hades "I think the man's lying through his teeth." but than i sigh "but the man does have the right to have funeral right."
King Hades eyes went back the man "i agree with you Hermanubis, but i'm forced to allow the funeral right but King Sisyphus you have until."
i had an idea pop into my head "if i may Lord Hades." King Hades gave me the go ahead "allow him to go the surface but curse him that if he dosen't return the life he'll live will be reduce from years to months."
"that's not fair." Sisyphus yelled
"your right that's not fair, you tried to cheat death." i explain "thanks to you trying to cheat death, you almost throw the balance of this world off, you maybe outrun death but you can't outrun the fate's and they dont like it when someone mess with the balance." King Hades agree with me and curse King Sisyphus that he would have mouths.
in the caves of the moirea the woman were waving the string and could feel someone called their names and couldnt agree more they didnt like when people cheated death.
the next day i returned to Hades and King Sisyphus never returned "why am i not surprised he never return."
"agree hermanubis." King Hades "but as you know you cant out run death for long i'll give him a year to almost two years to live before i send Thanatos after him."
i turned to walk away "i have one question before i leave, how did you my name, my real name."
Hades laughed a little bit "me and your father are gods of the underworld we knows every name born and every person in both our regions, and you little one your one half Greek and one other half Egyptian so course i would know your real name."
that surprised statement shocked me "you knew this whole time."
"dont worry." King Hades replied "i respect other people cultures your secret safe with me."
i started walking away but King Hades stopped "netjeru- ka." i stopped in my tracks "those mortals you love so much wont always be around immorality is not a bless like the mortals believe. you need to be prepare for that to happen." i shuck my head than continued walking down the hall.
After i got done training with Hephaestus. i decide to make my own projects i spent the next mouth in the forge the only thing coming out of the forge was the smoke and the sound of a hammer banging on something
BANG, BANG, BANG
After long hard month of work i finial walked out and my hands and face was cover in soot but my arm with a pure gold and sliver falcon with a crystal alexanderient at his heart that had a glow to it it looked exactly like a Peregrine falcon.
Hephaestus was surprised and busted up laughing "After a month your first project is a golden automaton in the in shape of hank, Zuse almighty you really do have a death wish."
i smiled a little bit "Helios here has a few surprises in him."
"Are you trying to offend Zuse." Hephaestus asked
"It's hard to offend someone that i never respected to begin with." i replied "by sides Helios here isn't an eagle he's a Falcon and if you take a close look you'll see he looks like Horus and in fact aside from a pet for my family he's going to used to deliver message to Horus, as long as Apollo and the titan Helios is named after is fine with Helios."
when we walked outside a lighting bolt hit all three of us and when we could see again we were in the throne room of Olympus and Zuse was not happy and his eagle on his left wasn't happy either "what is the meaning of this."
"If your talking about Helios, i just made him he's a gift to Agni." i replied taking pride in my work " King Hades remind me that as much as much as i hate saying this Agni is still mortal and i'll outlive him but with Helios help i'll never forget him."
"Helios." apollo said "you named this beautiful creature after my name friend and mentor."
"well Helios hereā¦"
"enough." Zuse yelled slamming him thunder bolt on the ground "you will either give me that creature or i will destroy it."
"no." i simply said, everyone looked at me wired they all were thinking the same thing 'standing up to Hera is one, Zuse was other' Zuse looked furies "i forged Helios for my son Agni and if apollo wouldnt mind having a component when he going across the sky."
apollo thought it over "no it might be fun to have a friend and he's golden and silver, he can hide in the sun."
Zuse looked furies "enough!" yelling throwing his lighting bolts, a per golden wings stopped the lighting bolt.
All the gods around me was shocked i smirked "i'm still under the protection of nephthys which means you can't hunt me." i turn to walk away but stopped for a second "but Zuse i promise you if you come after Agni or Helios you'll pay for it one way or other." the walked out of the throne room and Zuse's and his eagle were furious.
i brought Helios home and Agni loved him and Helios loved him in return every day i would release Helios, in those week apollo also started to liked Helios and even the titan, Helios was named after like the falcon.
the month later
like the month before i sent Helios out like normal but at the end of the day Helios never returned and Agni was started to miss him, i spent the day looking him.
i looked from the black sea to the hemeroscopium but could not find him went i was but my way back but on the island Formentera i found him, he was unconscious his gold and sliver looked all scratched up and pack at he was so danged that his heart stone was starting to lose his glow i had to fix him quickly or i would lose him.
I ran all the way to Hephaestus forge and i got a good look and I noticed that the claw marks were eagle claws marks and could clearly see lighting marks and the even the heart stone had a crack going down the middle"if Zuse had something to do with this he'll feel what Sobek taught me." i spend that night fixing Helios i even got the heart stone fixed but Helios still unconscious i couldnt figured out why
when i was at my wits end Hephaestus walked in "Hermanubis what is going on?"
i was so surprised that i jumped i turned to him and he could the panic in my eye's "Helios was attacked and i can't wake him up."
Hephaestus started to calm me down "okey, okey cool down let's get to work." while we worked Hephaestus asked me something "why is this creation so important?"
"i didn't just name Helios after the titan of the sun for no reason but it's also to pay respect to Ra a sun god of my home land." i replied
Hephaestus looked confused "wasn't he the king of the gods, i thought you didn't like the rules of the gods."
i thought it over "no i just hate Zuse and Hera for the way they treats the mortals, sure he sent Sekhmet after the mortals wear see lose the control but that's because they started worshipping Apophis but after Anubis to long she got tired and got tricked into drinking wine in stand of blood at least he had enough brains to step down from ruling when he got to old to rule. Zuse on the other hand has way to much ego and why to he run around on Hera if he loved his wife half as much as i loved telia he would never run around on his wife."
Hephaestus thought he figure out something "is that why you disrespect Zuse so much because he cheats on Hera."
i tired to him "he dosen't know what true love means, let me ask you some master Hephaestus, what would you honestly much would give if Aphrodite was hurt or kidnapped her."
Master Hephaestus looked serious "i would travel to the ends of the underworld to find her but this is just a creation."
"maybe your right but to me and agni this is a reminder of my family, the Peregrine falcon is for Egypt my family, the heart stone is alexanderient for Talia, gold we loved watching the sky so Helios means a lot of my family."
"what about the gold and silver?" Hephaestus asked
"for mom and dad." i replied "gold for mom because she is the goddess of justice as a reminder to keep justice pure like gold, and silver for dead as a reminder to honor the dead, so as you can see Helios isn't just a creation he's part of the family."
when we finished with the outside we stepped back Hephaestus stepped me on the back "you did a great job kid, you just miss some gears but in order to wake him up his heart stone needs ambrosia to live ."
i ran as fast as i could to Olympus and found the doves and was able get some and returned to Hephaestus when we put the heart stone in he started to wake him.
"Helios?" i asked, Helios slowly started moving "bless Ra your still live i thought i lost you."
Hephaestus was happy but confused "who attacked you Helios."
Helios spoke but Hephaestus couldnt understand him but i could and when he was done i was ticked, i blowed my hand into the fist and slammed my hand into the wall shaking the whole wall "what happened?" Hephaestus asked
"i warned him !" i said trying to keep my cool "After i sent Helios out last month the blow hard and the blasted bird attacked him the magic protecting Helios could only last so long that prick must have been attacking him for weeks."
"who?" Hephaestus asked
"that bolt brain idiot." i yelled, i turned to Hephaestus "Zuse did this excuse me i've got a prick to deal with." i ran all the way Olympus with one thought on Hephaestus mind "oh crap."
as i was run i picked up something knowing exactly what i was going to do with it when i got over Olympus i kick opened the throne room door "ZUSE!" i yelled
Zuse had a smirked "what creature did you find your missing pet."
with a fire in my eye's i pointed a bow and notched an arrow and fired it missing Zuse by a hair " how dare you." i notched another arrow and fired it hitting his eagle in the wing and i turned a walked away but stopped at the doors "that was a warning Zuse, next time will cost you more than an your eagle's wings, try something like that with Agni and i promise you wont do it again." than i left the throne room
when i returned to Atlantis i took a deep breath resting for little bit "your majority." i heard someone say softly, i looked up and the poor man was standing there "yes, can i help you."
the poor man looked sheepish "i can come back later." he started turn away.
"wait." i stopped him "what is it?" i asked
"i'm came here to tell you the reason i stole today was because before you came i lost my wife and son, after that i just gave up on life, but with you being to son of a dead deity you might be able to bring them back to life if you could i would be forever grateful." the poor man said on his knees begging
i looked at him in the eyes with sympathy "if i could i would but even my father Anubis is held by the laws of death, the death can't interact to with living, i'm sorry."
the poor man turned and walked away "i understand, your majority."
i thought it over for a minute "wait." the poor man stop "the dead can't interact with the living, but the doesn't mean the living can't interact with the dead." the man looked hopeful "but you have to understand something, you can talk to her but you can not touch her, she is just a soul she has no body."
The man agree "i understand."
i stood up "fellow me." we went into the court yard i stop before i continued "are you sure you want to go throw with this, it could hurt more than help."
"i understand." was all he could say.
i went through an egyptian ritual and drop one of our blood and a light blue smoke started to rise from the ground till it form a woman and little boy looked young almost three maybe five, the poor started to run to them but i stopped him "remember you can not interact with them, you have only have a few with them." the poor man turn to me with a question on his lips but i cut with off "i'm sorry but that's all i can give you."
he thought it over "can they speak to me."
i replied with sympathy "yes you can speak to them but they can't speak to you, i can you speak for them."
the poor man turned to woman with tires in his eye's "Iris, Belen i am so sorry i wasnt there for you during the flood i'm so sorry i couldnt save you."
the woman started to speak but he couldn't hear "what is she saying my lord?"
"she saying she forgives you and their nothing you could have to save us." i replied
"how can i go on living without you in my life?" the man asked
"live." Iris simply said "honor my life, throw your's my love."
the boy start to run to him and he had his arms open wanting to hug him but i got in way "remember boy, the dead can't interact with the living, do you have any last words speak them now."
the boy thought it over "daddy you couldn't have saved us we forgive you, now live your life and remember us." and with that said they slowly disappeared "i'm you could have more time with your family but a few minutes was all i could give you." i put a hand on his shoulder "if it means anything i'm sorry for your lost, i lost my first wife in a house fire.
