*Morsi's Mansion*
"Aaaaaaaaah!" Nut screamed. She rushed an attack towards Aposis, who was no longer disguised as Morsi. "You! Why did you stop me? Why did you hold me back? Why did you stop me from destroying that whole building? Aaaaaaaaah!" she screamed again, frustration exploding as she fired a power blast towards Aposis.
He dodged it swiftly, then teleported at light speed beside her and delivered a hard slap, which didn't seem to bring Nut to order.
"What?! You slapped me?!" she screamed in rage. "You are going to pay for this!" she yelled in pain. Immediately, she charged herself with full energy, letting her god form take over her being. Without hesitation, she started conjuring the elements of heaven, which were already upset, feeling her pain.
Aposis still didn't say a word; he merely stood by the side and did his own trick. He muttered some ancient chants to himself, as his demonic aura increased. He kept repeating the chants until their purpose began to manifest.
Nut's glow was being overshadowed by an intense darkness. Aposis was using the chants to subdue her aura.
In a matter of seconds, she started feeling the effect. It jolted her from her mindless fury; she came back to her mortal form and fell on the floor, feeling more pain than she had before. She started rolling on the floor, crying her eyes out and screaming for Aposis to stop.
"I'm sorry! I beg you, please stop!" she cried as she felt her body being torn into shreds. "Aaaaaaah!!" she kept screaming, but he still didn't say a word.
Aposis just sat on a sofa in the room, feeling relaxed. He looked unbothered, as if she wasn't there at all, staring at the ceiling like it was exceptionally gorgeous that afternoon.
"Please, demon lord Aposis! I beg you, please demon lord, stop this!" Nut kept screaming, looking up at Aposis who was still staring at the ceiling.
"Demon lord! Please!!" she shouted again, finally getting his attention.
Aposis gave her a death stare. He stood up from the chair and walked towards where she lay, wallowing in pain. He crouched beside her, still giving her the death stare before he started speaking.
"You, Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky, are the most senseless being I have ever met. Even mortals have a better level of awareness than you do. What do you want me to do now, stop the spell so that your punishment can end? I'm sorry, my dear, but that won't be possible." He ended with a face of disgust, as if her mere sight irritated his being. He stood up and took a few paces backward, away from her.
"Please, demon lord, I have learned my lesson. Please make it stop," Nut cried in a pleading voice.
"Wow, Nut, you learned your lesson?" Aposis asked with an evil smirk. She just nodded. "And if I may ask, Nut, what lesson did you learn?" His smirk turned into a serious face.
Nut fell into thought, needing to figure out an answer. She searched her mind but found nothing sensible to say, so she kept quiet.
"I said, what lesson did you learn?" Aposis demanded again, but received no reply.
"See? You learned nothing. How then do you expect me to release you?" he thundered, turning to leave, but stopped at the sound of Nut's voice.
"Please, demon Aposis, I beg you. It won't happen again. I won't lose control of my mind anymore. Please make it stop. It hurts so much," she pleaded.
Aposis turned to her and sat on the sofa again. "Nut, let me ask you something," he breathed before continuing. Nut, lacking the audacity to say 'no', just looked at him with pleading eyes, hoping he would show mercy.
"Can you remember how you and Geb were caught by the air god, your father?" Nut nodded quickly.
"Good. And what rat you both out to him and the whole of Egypt? I mean, what made him know where you both were?" he asked again. Nut had a quick flashback and immediately remembered: 'my will.'
"My will—the use of my will out of anger did," she said, relieved to have an answer.
"Good," Aposis breathed. "Nut, you are a very powerful goddess, and your will is even more powerful. It deals with the elements of nature, which means you have rights over nature herself, and I'm sure she doesn't like that fact." He stood up from the sofa and crouched to her level again.
She looked lost and dumbfounded. 'What did he mean by nature doesn't like that fact?' she asked herself. She knew her will affected nature and that she could manipulate it to some extent, but so could other gods and goddesses of Egypt. So why was hers out of line?
"You are the granddaughter of the sun god Ra. You are the first female from his loins, and he himself fears your will. What did you think was his reason for assigning such grievous punishment to you? Or did you feel like you deserved it?" he asked again, but she was too lost in her own thoughts to answer.
Aposis ignored her confusion and continued. "That your location is always found out whenever you use your will is nature's way of showing how much she scorns you. Nature is supposed to be a mother to all, and ratting people out is not what a mother does. She deceived you. When you discovered your will had such 'grace,' as you may say, you felt happy and proud, thinking it would make mortals respect and acknowledge you most among all the gods and goddesses of Egypt. But little did your senseless self know that it was all to your doom!" He rested all his aura on the last word. He stood and spoke again: "Have you ever thought or maybe found out the reason why you always lose control when you have issues with the other deities and need to hide, but end up ratting yourself out by using your will at a senseless provocation? You, my dear, have always been under the shackles of nature, and her bonds never cease to manipulate you, even with all your will as a goddess. She only tempts you whenever she knows it will cause your downfall because she desires nothing but for Ra's first female to be destroyed—and that, unfortunately, is you." He said, pointing a finger at her.
Nut was now more confused and shocked than ever. Did nature really do this to her, or was Aposis trying to manipulate her thoughts with lies? But then, there was at least some truth in what he was saying. Not just some—all of it was true. But why did nature do this to her? And why hadn't she realized in time? How could nature do this to her? And why did she want to bring down Ra's first female? What could have been Ra's crime against nature herself?
Nature may not be utterly a god, but she was a being acknowledged across the globe and not just Egypt. She was believed to be responsible for the formation of the globe and the installment of gods, who ruled with wills gifted by her.
However, the situation of a god being held by nature was almost unrevokable, and if that was her fate, then she was truly doomed. Fear gripped her immediately, and she started crying again.
"You should learn to act by your will and not let your will take over you, because that is the only way she gets to manipulate you. I'm sure you don't realize—or maybe you forgot—that the other gods back in your time could realize where you are if you rained hail or caused a thunderstorm, whichever you were planning to do. And who knows what they would do to you if they found you? In my opinion, I believe they would have destroyed your soul, or worse of all, turned you into a worthless mortal." He ended with a smirk.
Now Nut really understood what he meant. She truly needed to get a hold of herself and stop nature from manipulating her so it wouldn't lead to her doom. Still in pain, she raised her head to him and spoke with her godly tone:
"Oh demon lord Aposis, thou hast indeed favored me this day by thy words of revelation and wisdom. For thou hast done this, I, Nut, Egyptian goddess of the sky, pledge to you this: that never shall I be lost in my will, but my will shall be lost in me, as I shall take total control over all my being in order to overcome mother nature as it pleaseth thee."
With a voice full of pain, she hoped Aposis would call off the pain.
"Good. Be it so, as you have said, goddess," he said, finally calling off the spell. She sighed in relief and thanked him profusely.
"Don't thank me yet, goddess. We still have a war to wage" …