InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Celestial Chances ❯ Recovery ( Chapter 2 )

Celestial Chances

RavenCrow16

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Chapter 3: Recovery

Aset put Hiten in her royal guest room until his room was finished. The guest room was down the hall from her own. It had not been used since her older son had come to stay with her when his father took a second wife. The walls were a terra cotta color and was decorated in hieroglyphics that spoke of how the heavens came into being. Hiten's bed was covered in silken blue and silver sheets. There was a giant star in the middle of the comforter. It was the star of Osiris and an emblem for the Immortal Royal family.

For two days Aset sat by Hiten's side and caressed his face. She wanted to be around when he awoke so she could explain everything herself. About mid-day the third day she decided to eat lunch in the dining room. She told Ptolemy, her assistant, to come and call on her quickly if Hiten's condition changed even a little bit. When she returned Hiten was awake and sitting up in bed. Aset took a deep breath and continued to the chair and sat down. All the while his red eyes watched her intently.

"Where am I? And how am I alive?", Hiten said. The last he remembered he was waiting at the gates to the Underworld. The woman who sat next to him seemed oddly familiar. She had long black hair about mid-thigh, and her eyes were red and fiery like his. She was wearing a golden crown with a cobra pointing out so that it was facing all in its wake. Upon the cobra's forehead was a blue crescent moon. Around the rim of the crown were topaz and some sort of blue stones. She had two golden serpents snaking up her forearms. On her left hand was a ring with a ruby shaped like a crescent moon in the middle. The dress she wore was yellow at the top until about half way where it began to turn orange. It was a one strap that wrapped across the top of her right shoulder. He was jolted out of his observations by her response.

"You are in the palace of Aset, the Egyptian goddess of the heavens. You were brought back to life by my mother, Isis the goddess of life, and queen of the Egyptian immortals", she explained. She could tell the recognized her somewhat, which was surprising. Aset left him with his demon father, Khan, but not before turning him all demon. Both she and Khan had thought it would be best to make Hiten either all demon or all god. She thought it would be best if he became demon because he had a prophecy to fulfill, and he could not be a god to do it.

"And I suppose you are Aset?", the young demon inquired. He had heard his father speak of this goddess before, but he cared not for her. He had been told by his surrogate mother that Aset was his real mother but did not love him or his father and decided to leave them. He did not want her to know he remembered her so he played dumb. "Why did your mother bring me back to life?", Hiten was beginning to wonder what was going on.

"Yes. I am Aset. I asked my mother to restore you to me. I am your true mother, Hiten. You are my son", Aset said as she closed her eyes ready to absorb his wrath. She opened them after nothing happened. She could tell his demon instincts were taking over because his eyes were glowing.

"So you are my real mother?", Hiten managed to say. Usually he would have killed anyone who dared to insult the honor of the demoness who had raised him. Yet he could not bring himself to do so. "You're the woman I saw in my dreams as a child. You would sing me lullabies", Hiten said more to himself than to Aset.

"You remember? Well then I suppose you remember the day I left?", Aset was completely shocked. Hiten should not have been able to remember the dreams. She was forced to stay away by Khan. It was his way of revenge for her leaving.

"How could I forget? Father was devastated. He loved you…and you abandoned him just as you did me", he said through gritted teeth. He could not believe the audacity of her returning after being gone for over a century.

"Hiten, you must understand…I am a goddess…your father is a demon…"

"Was…he died over twenty years ago…defending your honor when a host of demons said you were just an immortal version of Cleopatra…that you had gotten what you wanted, bared a son, and left when you got sick of us", he hissed. His father was a fool for dying for a woman…even an immortal one. That is why Hiten believed that no woman was good enough. Whether she be human, demoness, or goddess didn't matter to him. They were all worthless.

"I am sorry to hear that…it must have been hard for you. I know you don't believe me, but I loved your father very much…"

"Then why did you leave him!? Was he not good enough for you!? Was a demon too dirty for the goddess of the heavens!?"

Before Hiten could get another insulting word out Aset slapped him. Her eyes were literally burning with anger. The sky became dark and lighting began to split the heavens. Then when Hiten was expecting to be electrocuted by the thunderbolts he felt a drop of water. He looked to see Aset crying. It was beginning to rain.

"You haven't a clue with whom you are speaking with! If you will not respect me as your mother than you will respect me as a goddess! Hate me all you like, but know that I am your mother and have loved you since the minute I conceived you! It was painful not being able to be with you!", Aset screamed. Over three hundred years of pent up frustration began to spill in front of Hiten. The mighty goddess of the heavens was falling apart before his eyes. She shot up from the chair and stomped out of the room.

Hiten was left completely confused. He should be the upset one. One side of him was saying she deserved it and another side said to go comfort her. He quickly shook the thought out of his head and noticed it quit pouring.

"You're exactly like your father. You didn't back down, not even when she began to get angry. You got your point across in the process. He raised you well", echoed a voice within the room. The rays of the sun began to point inward into the window in the ceiling. Within the rays appeared a woman wearing all gold. She looked exactly like Aset except with dark eyes and her hair only came to her shoulders. Hiten figured this was Isis.

" So you're Isis, huh…then I guess that makes you my granny?", Hiten spat out sarcastically. He noticed the woman cringe at the word `granny'.

"I am your grandmother, not your….granny. You may either call me Isis or Grandmother. And if you don't get a better attitude I'll turn you back into the pile of ash from whence you came. Yet I know Anubis will not be pleased to have you back so soon. Now get out of bed and follow me. You have rested quite enough", Isis said as she turned around. She walked ahead a few paces when she noticed that Hiten had not obeyed her command. Gracefully whirling around she closed her right hand just a little. Hiten doubled over in pain clutching his chest. Upon Isis opening her hand, all the pain ceased. A smile came to her lips. "I hold your life in the palm of my hand. I can easily burst your heart. Now stand up!", the goddess sternly stated.

A smirk graced Hiten's lips as he jumped out of bed and charged at Isis. He was violently knocked back by some barrier that surrounded her. Again she closed her hand and Hiten grasped his chest.

"You don't listen well, do you? You inherited that from your mother", Isis said with amusement dancing in her eyes. He definitely had his mother's spirit.

"Aset is not my mother. She hasn't been around all my life until now. Which raises the question…why now?", Hiten decided to find out the real reason he was here.

"It was she who bared you. For nine months she carried you in her womb. I would show a little gratitude to the woman who gave life to me", Isis said coldly. Most of the time the two goddesses did not see eye to eye, but no one would insult her daughter. Especially not a whelp who was still considered to be in the womb. He was but a baby compared to his mother, and more so when it came to the goddess of life, who was almost seven thousand years old. She could easily tell Hiten was barely past a hundred.

"She may have given birth to me, but that was all she did", Hiten growled back.

"Either way, she had a destiny to fulfill and still does. Something that was prophesied long before your birth. In fact, your birth was apart of it just as her being your mother is written in your destiny. It was written in the stars. Yet your mother was foolish and thought it best if she shielded you from your fate. That is why she could not be with you. She was banished from your world by her father. It was to keep her from changing your destiny. She could only come to you in dreams, but your father held a deep grudge against her leaving you both. He placed a barrier on you so that she could not reach you. So you can hate your father and grandfather for that. Now follow me seeing as how I have your attention", Isis explained. She decided it would be best to tell him everything herself. It would not be prudent for Aset and Hiten to be thrown together as of yet.

Sensing he was following her, she turned down a corridor and walked into the court towards the seeing pond. Isis sat near the edge of the water and signaled Hiten to do the same. "Look into the water. There you will see what really happened all those years ago", she requested as she carefully glided her hand across the surface of the pond.

The water began to swirl and show the history of Egypt's Immortal Royalty. The first image was a glimpse of Set killing Osiris. Hiten somehow knew that Set was his great uncle and Osiris was his grandfather. Again the water began to swirl and it showed Isis reviving Osiris. Another image revealed Isis raising his uncle, Horus, in the marshes. She was hiding him from Set's sight. The next scene was Aset's birth and how she fought with the pharaohs in time of need. The water showed wars raging in Egypt and Aset fighting in all of them. Finally the scene of his parents' wedding began to come to the surface. Hiten could see the love that the two had for each other. And last but not least the sight that had plagued him in his dreams. Osiris had come with about fifty servants to pack Aset's things. She turned around with pain and anguish in her eyes. She began to cry and it began to rain as she boarded her father's carriage. The child that stood but a few feet away could hear her voice in within his head. `Take care of your father, my conqueror, my Hiten'. He watched the carriage ride out of sight and out of his life.

The water became still. "Now do you remember why your mother left you?", Isis said turning to her grandson. She could tell his eyes were welling up.

"I had forgotten that Grandfather came and took her away. Why did he take her from me? Why did he destroy my family and keep her away?", Hiten said as his red met his grandmother's dark ones. He wanted to know why everything he held dear was ripped away from him.

"She was not safe in Japan. Set was looking for revenge against your grandfather and I. She was an easy target and would have been killed. Your father was strong but not strong enough to defend her from a god. Also she still had things to do here, in Egypt. Osiris thought it would be the right thing to do. Yet he did not read the stars carefully. After she returned home, all she did was cry. The rain flooded the plains and ruined crops as well as villages. He allowed her to return, but your father had already remarried and his wife was pregnant with your younger half-brother, Manten. Aset felt it would be best if she stayed away. She resided in Greece on Mount Olympus until recently", the goddess said as she looked at her hands.

"Why did she return to Japan? She should have known that my father would be upset and so would I", the young demon whispered.

"She wanted to return to her love. She also wanted to help you fulfill your destiny. You are the Champion of Egypt. You are the conqueror, Hiten. You are the Immortal Alexander. The reincarnation of Egypt's greatest warrior. And the young woman whom you last tried to kill is destined to be your wife. She is the Immortal Nefertiti, the reincarnation of Egypt's greatest queen. But you must gain Kagome's trust and her love. You must help her complete this Shikon no Tama that she is putting back together. Together you will become the new rulers of the Egyptian gods", Isis said turning her head towards the West.

"Why? I mean I heard that the mortal girl who travels with Inuyasha is the reincarnation of some shrine maiden. She is only human! And I…I am only a demon. Are you and Grandfather not the rulers? Are you not immortal?", Hiten questioned. He did not understand the logic of this so called "destiny". Why would he, the son of a demon and goddess, marry a mere human? Especially one who had the guts to speak to him as she did when she was his prisoner. Yet he had to admit she was stunningly beautiful for a ningen.

"You will become a god and she a goddess when the both of you confess your love and commitment to one another. Osiris and I are leaving for the West. There we will be at peace. We will leave with the last of the elves to the Valinor. As will your mother…eventually", Isis continued. She gently stood up. "Go now to your mother. She will help you." It was easy to guess that Hiten did not want to face Aset as of yet.

"Thank you Grandmother for showing me everything and telling me what is going on, but I cannot. I haven't the slightest idea what to say to her. I cannot fulfill this destiny. I am a demon not a god and I cannot marry a mortal I do not love", Hiten replied. This was just too much for him to handle all at once.

"Your mother's life as well as mine depends upon you succeeding Osiris. Set will become king and Egypt will come to ruin if you do not carry out your fate. He will have all of our kin killed. Kagome is far more than a human. She is a miko. A powerful one at that. It would be unwise to make her your enemy. If you do not wed her, she will become the most powerful demon slayer in the world. She will be betrayed by the half demon Inuyasha. She will carry a hatred for all demons. Either way your life will be destroyed if you do not fulfill your destiny", Isis explained. She layed out the cold, hard truth. He had to make up with his mother. Their bond would judge the outcome of Egypt. She turned and stood in the rays of the sun. She disappeared but not before she left a final thought for Hiten. `Go to her.'

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