A God's Bargain (EgyptianGod!Brothers and Reader)

Chapter 13

The realization brought a wave of relief before I saw Set's clawed hand reach up and dig deep into my left leg.

A blink and the clawed fingers harmlessly passed through the air near my leg as Thoth adjusted his wings, my hands tensing in fear while tucking up my legs as much as I could.

"You damned bird!" Set snarled as he partially hunched under the deity of knowledge, his pale yellow eyes ablaze with red and green inner light, "She is mine!"

"Yet I'm the one keeping her safe," Thoth emotionlessly quipped as he adjusted his talons underneath my shoulders, my hands responding by hugging the width of one of his toes while he maintained his altitude, "Underestimate me again and you will be made a fool."

A howl of disdain sounded as the winds began to pick up around the quarreling pair, Thoth easily maneuvering in place as the desert sands began to swirl into a blistering storm focused on Set. With a wave of his monstrous hand, a sudden updraft of sand slamming into Thoth's right wing and offset his hovering, the ibis-headed deity holding firm to me as he corrected his flight immediately while keeping his attention on the sha-headed deity.

"...such impertinence."

"You know that it's only a matter of time until you grow weary," Set hissed through his gritted fangs, his wide pale yellow eyes locked onto my form. Thoth's throat vibrated with a hum barely heard over the whipping winds, the muscles in his claws slightly moving as the talons curled more around my torso like a protective cage.

"Time, you say..." The avian deity almost scoffed at the word, "Then you truly forget with whom you're speaking."

With a curl of his wings, he shrugged off the heavy sand that tried to settle between his feathers, lifting himself higher still as Set roared underneath him.

"Thoth, please..." I whimpered, my arms growing numb as I clung to his talons while my head partially pressed against the rough surface, "I don't want to be here anymore..."

I felt like crying out of sorrow and regret, the long-familiar desire to hide like a child against someone whom I thought could protect me from the harsh world and its reality coiling in my belly.

The taloned foot holding me merely flexed in affirmation, yet the deity remained hovering in the sky while the sandstorm raged beneath us.

"I have rewritten the contract that binds you to my guided one," Thoth spoke clearly, his expression barely shifting into disapproval as his pale green gaze remained on Set.

The deity of chaos let out an intrigued exhale, "You have no governing power over my words, bird."

"Any agreement with a mortal falls under my domain, Set. This includes (y/n)."

I could see a flash of red, green, and yellow from underneath the swirling sands as the storm engulfed Set, a pair of glowing tri-color eyes the only indicator that the deity was still present.

"What my bargain is with a mortal remains my own!"

"Your bargain no longer exists!" Thoth yelled back, the anger in his voice startling me, "(Y/n) is to remain under my protection while she resides within this time and you no longer have uninhibited access for any duration. You had your chance to settle this amicably, Set, but you've forced me to act in such a way since you sent your followers to raid my temple! To steal what was rightfully buried and protected!"

"Your damned Book can burn for all I care!" Set growled back, the storm gathering in strength as if it was feeding off of the deity's anger, "You're the one that barged in where you weren't wanted!"

"It was quite easy, due to your poor wording."

The tease from Thoth incensed Set into a rage, the heat wafting off the storm hotter than anything I've felt from the desert deity before. However, I kept my mouth shut, knowing it would be more than unwise to talk or complain during a debate between two powerful deities.