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Disclaimer: The following will contain homosexual individuals and relationships and will involve interpretations of deities from various religions. No offense is intended. This is copyrighted to me (mewjen(at)ymail.com), so no using it without my. This is a work of fiction.

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"What have you done?"

I was barely conscious when I heard the panicked voice. I opened my eyes to see Ra standing before me. It was strange to see him looking so shocked and horrified.

"I'm not Osiris," I said quickly, despite knowing that my stepfather probably tried that numerous times.

"Obviously," Ra hissed. At my surprise, he added, "From whom did you think Anubis inherited his eyes?"

I knew Anubis had the ability to perceive certain energies and space-time warps, which I assumed came from being a Guardian, but I was not aware he could see through the near perfect disguises that Osiris was capable of creating. I wonder if he even knew that he could.

Ra waited testily, but when I failed to speak, "Well? What happened?"

"Just let me out. There is no time," I pleaded.

"Not until you tell me: how you found this place, how Osiris manage to get you in there, and how long it has been since he left?" Ra stood firm, patiently unaware.

"I do not know for the last," I answered honestly. "As to the first two, I may have used one of his old spells, which accidently created an assassin that he used to lure me here and to force me to switch places with him."

"And you used the term assassin because?" he asked wearily.

I looked at his feet, unable to meet his gaze in my shame. "He may be trying to kill Anubis."

I glanced up briefly and found his glare piercing, as he digested the statement.

"You are trying to kill my son now?" He shifted his stance slightly, and suddenly he was quite terrifying, as his wings spread out and his posture changed, adding to his apparent bulk.

"Not on purpose," I hastily added, before he got any angrier with me.

It was the oddest thing to see the panels that made up the walls of the corridor trying to both shatter instantly and spread massive cracks throughout, while also trying to resist the assault and remain perfectly intact and completely unharmed, as Ra channeled his anger.

"How strong did you make this assassin?" He tried to act civil, but he could not hide how upset he was at Anubis being in danger again.

I could not lie to him, even to reassure a worried father. "I do not know how to stop him. But I need to get to Set, before Osiris. I cannot let him get hurt."

"You need to go after your assassin, before it gets to my son," Ra demanded.

I brushed off Ra's overprotective nature, focusing on my more immediate goal. "Anubis can take care of himself. Set can't."

"Osiris cannot due any lasting damage to Set," Ra retorted. "My son, however, will not listen to any warning I give and can be kill by your assassin."

"No one can die yet!" I roared at the lie, losing my temper at Ra's attempts to interfere.

Ra pulled back, regaining his overbearing, self-serving, superiority-driven calm demeanor. "Those rules may not apply to Anubis," he stated firmly, "and I will not take the risk. If you want out, then you will save Anubis first."

"I will not abandon Set," I countered, mirroring his calm insistence.

"You cannot abandon Set," he agreed to my surprise, "but you must weigh the dangers."

In light of our shared concerns, which I still had my doubts about, I offered a compromise. "All I have to do is go home, grab him, and then I will go after that creature."

Ra took a moment, probably analyzing my solution in his head. "If you gave permission, would Set approved?"

"For what?" I asked hastily.

"To peek inside," he replied, with the weight of doing something terrible.

"Do it, please," I said, knowing it was the only way to know if I was too late.

I watched intently, as he drew in a deep breath, closing his eyes in concentration, and then opening them, they glowed gold, as he projected his vision into Set's chateau.

"Damn it," he swore, as the gold light faded. He turned back to me. "They are not there nor are they in the immediate area. Osiris has Set."

"No," I refuted meekly, not wanting to accept failure already. "Please, just let me out."

"If I do, you have to put Osiris back," he answered with resolve.

I made no attempt to hide my confusion. "Why not you?"

"That cell can never be empty."

"Why the hell did you design that?" I shouted, staring down at him, frustrated at the revelation.

Ra turned away. "I did not. Osiris built this prison for me." He took a moment, but pressed forward quickly. "I spent a long time in there. Forced to watch as he took control of everything I cared about. Forced to watch as Set battled him, while you and my son played pacifist."

I instantly defended Anubis, even though my newly regained memories made it hard to understand why I would agreed to not fight beside Set. "Anubis was just trying to protect me for when you regained power, and Set kept him out of it, safe from reprisal. But when you freed yourself, you paid Set back by splitting them up."

Ra turned back to me, but I could not read his expression. "They could not stay together."

"So you had to hurt him?" I sniped at him for what he did to my love.

He crossed his arms defiantly. "I protected them."

I knew that this argument would go nowhere, and time was still a factor for Anubis. "You are the most powerful being there is in this universe. Why would you want me to go after Osiris, instead of yourself?"

Ra let out a halfhearted laugh. "I am far from omnipotent. You want to be Set's protector, and I will not stop you. I just demand that you fix your mistakes and protect my son."

The cell was already shrinking, even though he was several yards from the lock.

"Fine," I said, as the bars descended and he joined me in the cell. "But I may need your help, so this had better work." I threw my phone at him.

When he reached for it, he missed by several inches, so it was several feet behind him, before it flew to his hand. He twisted it in his hand, looking at it from all angles. "Primitive," he stated, "but it should work." He waved his other hand over it, transforming my mobile into a headset that he quickly put on.

I glowered at him, as it disappeared from sight.

"No hands," he responded, almost lightheartedly, as I was pushed out of the cell and his body faded.

I pulled the wireless earpiece from Set's phone, trying not to think about the consequences of having his only line of communication in my hand. I placed the earpiece and hit my speed-dial.

I did not hear my ringer, but I heard Ra's voice echoing from behind me and through the earpiece. "Need help already?"

I sighed. "Get me out of here."

"Take the first left."

I turned around. "Seriously?"

"What?" Ra said defensively. "You took the long way?"

I waited until I was out, before I asked the question I needed answered the most. "How do you know Set will be safe?"

I heard Ra breathing, as he most likely unmuted me. "Anubis is at your home. Jaller is not with him." He waited, probably trying to confirm I was in motion before answering. "The reason I keep myself secluded is because...you are all my children. I cannot help myself when I see a child in distress, whether it be the pains of learning or true suffering. When I found Set, he was almost gone. It took quite a bit of effort to stop his soul from moving on to the next state. I healed what I could and brought him to safety, but it was not enough to satisfy my protective urgings."

As I listened, I was high in the air, about a quarter of the way to my residence, scanning constantly for my shade.

"So I placed a curse on every member of his family," Ra continued. "If any of them were to be responsible for his death, they would share his fate. Osiris will not kill Set, because either his existence will also be terminated or he knows where I will put him if he comes back. I should mention that Isis was a part of Set's exile, as such, you, as her son, share their fate."

"Great," I muttered. Another problem caused by my mother and her obsession with gaining power.

"I did not know you would grow to care for him," Ra offered. "As to physical harm, there are limitations in place, even if Osiris gains some form of control."

"Any idea where my clone is?" I asked, trying to focus on Anubis and hold the worrying for later.

"Your assassin is a clone?" Ra sounded surprised, and then I remembered leaving out that piece of information.

"Yeah, just darker."

"At your five o'clock," Ra stated hurriedly, after a minute of scanning. "Good luck."

I twisted around, and there he was, flying straight at me.

The longer he existed, the more his form seemed to distort. His wings were massive ashen clouds that look more at home on a dragon then my tiny form, which now had an extended neck, huge claws on each hand and foot, and red hate-filled eyes.

Its roar sent a spew of ash from its beak, aimed straight at me. "I WILL NOT BE STOPPED BY YOU." His deep voice booming through the rushing air.

I dived, and the ash-ball flew over me, but he continued his charge, and I found myself under him, as he sliced the air, his claws not quite in range. His tail however, now long and reptilian, wrapped itself around my waist, as I was pulled out of the air and thrown downward.

I barely caught myself. I cried out, as my wings felt the strain of the sudden air pressure under them. I drew my swords and charged at the circling beast. I stopped, just before I entered his fire's range and fired several green slash waves at his torso. Again, they did nothing.

"HA-HA-HA-HA-HA HA HA HAAAH," he laughed, twisting around to face me. "STAY DOWN."

I flew straight in, dodging his beak, as he snapped at me. I grabbed his flesh hard, as I struggled to straddle his neck. As he tried to throw me off, he snapped his jaw constantly, contorting his neck in an attempt to pluck me off or bite me in half. I plunged both sabers in his neck, and he roared out, as he rolled upside down.

I was able to keep hold of my hilts, until he shifted his form, as the flesh of his neck became an incorporeal ash cloud, and his beak changed into a long snout filled with razor-sharp teeth. I fell for a moment, before he rolled again, and I was caught by his wing, sending me into a daze, leaving me tumbling down the length of his body.

I regained consciousness just in time to grab the tip of his tail with one hand, which sent one of my blades flying backwards. "Damn it," I shouted, releasing the other, as I started to climb his tail.

The wind roared across my body, as my shade flew on. He seemed not to notice my presence as I climbed, burying my talons in deep into the sandstone-like flesh. It was hard going, and several times the flesh gave way, causing me to either slide back down or to be caught up in the slipstream, as I was ripped away from my handholds, just before I was smashed down again, because my footholds held.

"Get back here!" I shouted, when I finally made it to his back, which was now five times the size it had been. The turbulence made it impossible to stand without draining my powers, so I held close to his body, surveying my foe. I had to get him on the ground. This high velocity battle was impossible for me, and grounding him would leave me the only one with an aerial advantage.

The problem was his wings. They were huge, and his ash nature gave him the ability to reconstruct his form at will. His physical form was only limited by the number of active particles. Given the electrical nature he showed before, inverting the charge should separate them...or make him even angrier.

I slowly made my way to where his left wing-bone met his body. I kept an eye on his head and another on his tail, as I waited. I sensed my blades before I saw them. They hugged his body, as they flew to me, and upon reaching me, I took hold of each, smiling. I held both blades out in front of me, as I charged them, until they began arcing a deep green.

"This is for threatening my family!" I shouted, before stabbing into the wing. I saw a red eye flash towards me, as I released my perch, and using his speed against him, I flew along his wing, cutting the mass from his body, until it was free.

I let myself fly back far enough to be safe from his falling form, before I turned back.

His wing was dispersing now that the ash that made it was inactive. However, my shade was not falling. Instead, I felt a sudden drain in my power, as another wing grew from its body.

His red eyes stared at me. Its long tongue, licking his lips, savoring its victory. "I AM THE SUPERIOR HORUS," he shouted, lunging at me. "YOU WILL FADE FROM THIS REALITY, AS MY WILL SURVIVES." He sent out another stream of ash from his mouth, but this time electricity arced within it, and after being so recently sap, I was unable to do anything but fall.

My eyes were closed, as the wind rushed pass my ears. I could not defeat him. He was immune to my powers. His every injury was healed by my energies. His power themselves were fueled by mine. I might as well be attacking myself, instead of letting him drain me dry.

I opened my eyes in realization.

My powers were the key. Without them, he had nothing. He was nothing, except for what he had now. If I sealed my powers temporarily, he could not heal or spew those fireballs. But he would still have his form, and I would never be able to stay close enough for constant physical attack. But then, I had access to powers that were not mine.

But could I risk using Set's power again? I nearly killed him by accident.

I twisted and turned my head to find my shade's dragon moving ahead fast, baring straight towards Anubis.

"Forgive me, Set," I whispered. "But you would agree if you knew."

I pulled out of the dive and used my momentum to curve back up. It was hard to concentrate and race after him, but I managed to cut off the flow of my energies just before I was within three tail-lengths of him. Unfortunately, trying to carefully regulate what I took from Set would cost time that I did not have.

"Please, have enough."

My sabers glowed a deep maroon, as they hovered six feet in front of each hand. I swiped my arm up and the saber followed, staying collinear, as the deep maroon field extended another twelve feet from the blade's tip. I slashed down, and the maroon wave launched with a roar.

The dragon twisted its head back, its eyes growing as it witness the attack. He twisted to the side, but was not fast enough, as the wave hit its tail and continued on, slicing it from his body, as it disintegrated with a scream of pain.

He roared, baring his teeth, as his tail grew back. However, this time his body shrank to make up for the mass. There was a moment where we stared at each other, our eyes narrowing.

He launched himself at me, spiraling around, as to avoid giving me a clean shot. I used my other arm to ready another wave when his was in position. I fired, perfectly predicting his next move, but his body elongated and his thinner torso, just contorted around the wave, but his wing was not so lucky, as my wave made contact, just before he pulled around, cleaving a third of it.

At the same time, he caught my leg in his teeth. My blades spun around, cutting his tooth and freeing me, seconds before his jaws snapped shut. I tumbled across his head, almost hitting his right eye.

There was a flash of maroon, as I stopped myself above him. I took each sword, and in a flurry of motion, I launched a stream of slashes at his body. They did not penetrate through, but still rent boulders of ash from its flesh with each strike.

He continued to shrink, as he struggled to get out of my line of fire.

"FOOLISH!" His red eyes closed, as his form dissolved into a twister.

Without a large target, my strikes did nothing to the gale, as he closed in, surrounding me in his winds that ripped my blades from my hands, and batted me around, as I was sucked into the wall of the tempest.

I felt the charge building, as I was buffeted around by the counter-spinning winds. I knew I had little time, so I sent my blades to the poles of the storm. One at the top, one at the bottom, with my shade and I caught in-between.

We each screamed, as the energy arced between the swords, using our bodies as a carrier, amplifying what he was planning, neutralizing his body, in a blinding maroon flash.

Or so I hoped.

I saw his body coalesce as I fell. His size was gone, but he was left a cross between the image of me and the dragon he became.

I fired a sword at him, and a minute later, it pierced through his heart, assuming he had one. He clutch the blade, as he fell from the sky.

I tried to call on Set's power, but I was left spluttering in pain, as Set's power rejected my attempt.

I stared into the blue sky, as I plunged to the ground. It was quite beautiful.

I closed my eyes, letting fate take over.

I swore I could hear someone swearing at me.

I opened my eyes to witness the pale blue field wrapping around my body, anchoring me to the parachute that was being created. I smiled knowingly, as my descent slowed. I twisted around and saw my gardens below.

I could not see the gold fur around his eyes nor the fur of his ears. He was still a black blur in the distance, but I pretended I could see the gold shining through, as Anubis caught me in his shield.

I was unsteady, as his tethers disappeared. He actually had to create a chair just to stop me from hitting the ground, as he ran to me.

"Horus! What the hell!" he shouted, still nowhere near me, yards away. He stopped in front of me, bending over and placing his hands on his thighs, as he gasped for air. "Are...you...crazy?" he panted.

I do not know why, precisely at that moment, he suddenly looked so gorgeous. But he looked so perfectly...kissable that I did not know I had pulled him down and kissed him dead on, until my tongue was down his throat.

He pushed me away hard enough that my chair toppled backwards, as he stood up, shocked.

"What...the...hell?" he asked, completely dumbfounded.

I just shrugged from the ground.

"Apparently, I am very conflicted right now, 'Bis," I said, not really certain as to why myself.

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Author's Note: Hopefully, I was able to articulate the action well enough that it was enjoyable. As well as the re-introduction of the star of the previous story. You can guess who is next, though that means 'Bis will have to wait for a bit.

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