REBIRTH

Chapter Four: Council of the Gods (or ethereal beings whatever you call them)

Isis sighed as she sat in her chair, with her powers she had overseen the birth of one half of her son, placed the other half into the care of another, and secured the power between another two. Cursing Chaos under her breath she lifted a mug of Shalab and drank it down. A door to her left opened and a man clad in a pure white robe stepped through it, cracking his back as he made his way to the table Isis sat at. God pulled out a chair and sat, after a few seconds of silence Isis offered him the mug and he drank it down gladly. A door suddenly appeared in front of them and Hera walked in, cursing under her breath. Hera suddenly stopped as she noticed the two then shrugged and pulled out another chair. Jesus handed her the mug and she took a sip. Silence descended on them as they wearily gathered their thoughts.

"Why is it that Chaos hasn't been completely destroyed?" Hera complained as she took another sip from the mug, frowning she put the mug down and conjured up a clay bottle of grape wine.

"Without Chaos there is no balance, my dear Hera." God calmly stated as he took the Shalab and swirled the vanilla drink. Isis gave an ironic chuckle.

"More like, Chaos is a single entity whose strength is parallel to all the combined strengths of the Gods." Isis muttered as she held out her hand for the mug. God returned the mug to her.

"So the two of you also had to fix that wrinkle?" God asked, Hera silently offered her wine to him. God declined with a shake of his head. Hera snorted at God's question.

"Chaos's little interference caused one of Diana's children to become pregnant with one of mine's child. The babe is going to have a hard life in front of him; 'Once a slave always slaves', as many of my people say." Hera grumbled as she took a swig of wine.

"You only had to deal with one child!" Isis complained as God produced a glass of cold water and took a sip, "I had to deal with three, no make that four! One child who is to hold Set, Two children to become Horus's vessels, and another unintended child who is to hold the power! Wait make that FIVE! I also had to make sure that there was to spillage of extra power to the intended child!" Isis hissed this last part out.

"It must have been hard on you," God soothed, "if any of the extra power had spilled into the intended child that child might have burned out from the strain of too much power."

After a minute of silence both Goddesses turned to God.

"Well?" Hera asked.

"Hmm?"

"What wrinkle did you have to fix?" Isis inquired.

"Ah," God looked sad for a moment then, "I had to call in the life of one of my lambs early to give the unintended one a place to live. I asked if the woman was welling, I even gave her husband visions of what might come to be." With a sad shake of his head God gazed into his water.

The three beings were silent.

"What did you mean when you said you had to create two vessels for Horus?" Hera asked, breaking the gloomy silence.

"Ah, that." Isis grimaced, "Horus was about to enter into the body of the new prince, but Chaos's interference caused a break in his Ba. Only the dark part of my son was able to enter the prince's body. I had to ask Ptah to create another body for Horus's lighter half. I was lucky; Ptah was already creating a body for the unintended soul that was thrust into this time frame."

God nodded solemnly, "Ptah does good work. He helped me create the rest of Earth."

"What now?" Hera asked.

"Now, we can only wait." God said, "Too much interaction with the mortal world is not healthy."

The other two nodded and they all stood.

"Until next time then," Isis said and vanished.

Nodding good-bye to each other, the other two also disappeared.