Chapter 114
“To tell you everything that you need to know this will take a while, please take a seat and would you like a drink?” The old woman asks as chair pop into the room along with a tea kettle.
“Thanks” Nix says as she curls up into the most comfortable looking chair that she has every seen.
“I want something stronger than tea for this talk” Tennessee mutters as he moves the chair closer to Nix.
“Where am I going to sit?” Shakti mutters as she looks at the three of them seated. The Old woman turns her head and blinks slowly as raises one eyebrow and snaps a chair into the room.
“What, I am not sitting on something that is not comfortable” Shakti mutters as she glares at the woman.
“I suggest you sit on the chair, or you can remain standing. I feel slow talking may come on and drag this out longer than necessary” The woman growls at Shakti.
Shakti shuffles and sits on a small stool with no back rest and only about thirty centimetres from the ground.
“Ok, let me start. If you have any questions, then please let me know. Otherwise, once I finish talking then we will discuss any questions you may have” The woman says with a clap of her hands.
“I don’t like this?” Tennessee mutters as he takes a sip of his tea.
“When the higher beings decided to create the supers, we all agreed on letting them make their own decisions. We saw how it worked for the Humans and decided that it was fair to let each super decide their own lives. That was working well, we even had a super that was the strongest of their own kind and made them gods or goddesses. We did this to make sure that everyone was behaving and living well. However, one day a rumour started that a really strong being was going to be born that she was going to be so strong that all the birds would bow down to her. It just so happened that when Phoebe was born, she was also born with her twin sister. Phoebe was the oldest and she had a slight power reading when she was a newborn. Athena didn’t have any, so we assumed that Phoebe was the one that was going to be the next Goddess.
We were wrong, we knew it when Athena ascended to the heavenly realm when she was only thirteen. Phoebe took until she was in her early twenties. We tried to correct our mistake but because Phoebe grew up living and breathing that she was the best of the best the next goddess the power went to her head she became jealous of Athena.
She caused so much pain and suffering for Athena that we tried several times to step in, but we couldn’t nothing we did could deter Phoebe.
Then about ten or so years later after Phoebe ascended to the heavenly realm we were told of a black witch, a black witch that was so strong that she would rival Hekate so once again we watched and waited, we offered praise sparingly as we didn’t want another Phoebe on our hands. The Black Witch didn’t want to go to the heavenly realm she just wanted to be left alone so we watched and tried to show her the right direction that was working until the first cosmic power super was born in over a millennium and she was strong, but she was also entitled and selfish. The others spoke of her manipulation and trickery of her hate and anger, but we didn’t listen and because we didn’t listen and didn’t try to stop what she was doing she got worse. She started messing with people, at first it was the human they reported many killings and torture of human beings but couldn’t find the one that was doing it.
Some of the fates said that Shakti was a cosmic being and that she was a problem. Her mother reported her so many times for cruelty and blatant misuse of powers. We got the Phoenix involved trying to get them to seek justice but the thing we didn’t know was that the Black witch and Phoebe had already met and formed an alliance as such. When Shakti tricked her way into the heavenly realm we tried to right that wrong by sending Archon his real mate but once again Shakti was one step ahead of us. When they took you Nix and sent Shakti away, we were relieved that she was gone. We simply put it down to blessed timing that Shakti was gone, we knew that Archon had already figured it out that Phoebe was poisoning them, so we watched and waited” The old woman says.
“Lots of watching and not a lot of action. Did you ever think that maybe you should have stopped this as soon as it started.” Tennessee muttered
“We had to watch and wait; we didn’t want to interfere” The woman snaps back.
“Funny how you watch and wait and now we are in the biggest cluster fuck of a situation and what? Instead of fixing the issue you are asking for someone else to fix the problem that you all sat on your asses for the first time” Tennessee growls as he glares at the old woman.
“Did it ever cross your minds that it is fine for free will until it isn’t. I mean hell you had not one, not two but three times that you could have stopped this shit show, and you didn’t try even once” Tennessee yells.
“I know that you are upset Tennessee, but there are times that life isn’t fair” The woman replies with a raise eyebrow.
“Yeah, maybe Nix and I will just watch this unfair life and leave you to the rest of this bullshit” Tennessee growls as he stands up.
“You can’t go” The old woman says with a raised voice.
“Yes, we can. This is you and your higher powers problem not a us problem. We have been living our shit show of our lives for years and we can continue to do so until such time as we are welcomed to the neither” Tennessee yells
“Nix can undo this; she can undo it all and we can return to a time where none of this has happened. Phoebe doesn’t get the power; the black witch continues to live a mundane life, and Shakti never makes it to the heavenly realm and the Phoenix never get killed off. Nix can do this she can undo everything” The old woman gasps out as Tennessee continues to tug Nix’s hand.