Book 1 Chapter Twelve Part 1 of 3: Back to Mediterranean Sea

Ninurta, whom has business to travel to Babylon, thus, he travelled with Horus, Neith, Hathor, and Serket and arrived at Duba. It has been over a year since Horus been home. The wheat field outside the home, is still there, but it doesn't seem to have been harvest for a while.

Horus, Neith, Hathor, Serket and Ninurta walked towards the house. Inside the house, there was only one figure. It was Nephthys.

"Hey, kid." Nephthys said, you see sign of ageing on her, with a bit of grey.

"Lady Nephthys?" Ninurta was a bit surprise to see her

"Lord Prince Ninurta." Nephthys was equally surprised

"What are you doing here? It must have been, almost twenty years." Ninurta said

"After the fall of Osiris' reign, you were never heard of again. Everybody thought, you are dead." Nephthys said

"I stayed in the abyss, after hearing the death of the pharaoh Osiris. But what of you, I heard of the destruction of the Amazons, how did you survived?" Ninurta said

"It is a long story." Nephthys said

Ninurta and Nephthys are like old friends and started talking, exchanging story, of what happened within the last twenty years.

"So, if that is the case that means Horus here..." Ninurta said

"The son of Osiris and the rightful heir to the throne." Nephthys said

Neith walked into the room, "My Lady."

Nephthys said "And of course I recognise you, Neith, the great grand daughter of Ptah." Nephthys said "You trained under me as a little girl."

Nephthys smiled "Do you remember me." she asked

"Of course, how can I forget." Neith saidd

"Take a rest, you must be tire, after such a long travel." Nephthys said

"Where is mother?" Horus said

"Your mother, has on accept the request of Baal, to help lead his navy, against Seth in the war. I would have gone myself, but..." Nephthys lifted her right foot. it is obviously injured "I even need to start operating remotely as the town Sheriff." Nephthys has been the town Sheriff for over five years, in hope it can gain Horus some experience later, it wasn't difficult, consider she and Ishtar was the best warrior and by the time Horus turned fifteen, he became one of Nephthys' Deputy until he left to train with Baal. He might just been a small town cop for one year, but it was good experience for Horus.

Serket took a look at the leg and smiled "This is easy." she said "You leg must been stun by some sort of weed that contain toxin, while working the farm. I am guessing, this one." Serket said and took a dried sample of a weed, from her collection.

Serket went back to the carriage and grabbed out a wood, out of her backpack. "Bath your foot in a water with this wood, once a week and your feet will start to get better." Serket said

"If mother has gone to help in the war against Baal, I think I should return there, also." Horus said

Nephthys smiled "At least stay at home and rest a few days, before go on your journey again." Nephthys said

"Alright" Horus finally agreed

Neith and Ninurta didn't stay. Ninurta still need to complete his business in Babylon. Neith needed to return to the rebels in Egypt, to inform Khnum of her finding, she would travel with Ninurta on his quest within Babylon first, before returning with him, to the abyss, where they would be greeted by Ninurta's men that would again escort Neith to the Apep, where she make her journey back to Egypt.

Serket and Hathor decided to travel to the navy of Min, with Horus and to join the fight.

Horus, Serket and Hathor remained within Horus' home for two weeks, until they are ready to leave again.

Nephthys would have travel with them, but, Serket told her that with her leg just recently recover, it is unwise to overly exercise it. Horus left his horse at home, because his horse is now tired, after travelling for such a long time and replace it with a new horse.

The soldiers of Seth cover the entire coast line towards the Mediterranean Sea from the East and South. Technically speaking, Seth's forces is very easy to break, its army is spread out too thin, but, the problem is, despite he got a strong navy, Min doesn't got much of an army.

Horus, Serket and Hathor started to travel North, until they reached modern Iraq and then moved west, to modern Turkey. All of these are territory of Babylon and then, they reached Greece. For Serket, Greece is her home. They first arrived to Serket's hometown Atica, a city that will eventually become known as Athens. Here, the people are already fed up with the rule of the Governor of Seth and a strong underground resistance movement, is doing what they can to undermine their rule and is helping to sneak people to go fight in the Navy of Min. Through Atica, Horus, Serket and Hathor was soon to arrived to the Greek islands upon the Mediterranean sea, control by Baal. It doesn't take long for Horus to come across familiar faces, once he arrived here, including Resheph.

Throughout the Mediterranean Sea, people were preparing for war, they were building ships at a rate way more efficient compare to Seth, due to a great majority of their bronze tools are design for ship building, for years, the people of these water, has been making the way of the waters their business.

Sailors was been recruited and was been trained in navel combat, every able body man, has been drafted into the navy, some women has also been drafted to serve in logistic.

"Come, there is one person, I know would be eager to see you." Resheph said, as he lead Horus, Serket and Hathor to a tent upon the island of Sicily.

"My Lady." Resheph reported and led Horus into the tent.

Within the tent there was Min and Ishtar, each wearing the uniform, of an Admiral.

"Horus." Ishtar was overjoyed to see her son

"Mother" Horus said.

When Horus saw Ishtar, he got down on his knee "Forgive me mother, I've been away from home for so long and let you worry."

Ishtar was quick to help her son to her feet "None sense, I've always been proud of you, for what you were doing. Come, let mother take a good look at you. See how you changed."

"Mother, this journey I made to these waters, is also to hope, join the war against Seth. The war of these waters, if we won, it can become a turning point, against the rule of Seth, to end his savage rule, once and for all." Horus said

"My Lord, My Lady, Horus is personally trained under our program, he is an ideal candidate, as an officer, within this navy and his recent return from Egypt, will for certain provide us with an advantage." Resheph said

Baal and Ishtar took a look at each other and nodded

"Alright, if you want to fight, we will let you fight. Your father, he would be very proud of you." Ishtar said

"Thank you, mother." Horus replied.

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