Transmigrating from a zombie world to become the mecha kings wife-Chapter 632: The old deity vs one of the babies.

When the space ship finally arrived in the air space of planet Xeno, Scarlet had Alex reestablish communications with the Sun star and the Blue star. Then she contacted the princess Carana to make her aware of their presence. An unknown vessel could easily be mistaken for an enemy one and shot down.

Thinking about it now, Scarlet came to the realization that they had not encountered any danger along this journey, not even space pirates.

"Huh!" she softly said in wonder. Travelling with a deity sure had it’s perks. She stood up carefully from the chair and stretched her legs and arms. Her intention was to take a bath and dress up.

She had only been resting for thirty minutes so far and she wanted to look presentable for when they finally met the royals of Xeno.

"Alex, open the sleeping pods and wake everyone up." she instructed the AI.

She took two steps and stumbled a bit which prompted her to hold on to the nearby chair. What she needed now was Lythia’s milk. It always restored her energy faster than anything.

"I can give you a ride on my back." Severus told her.

She shook her head. If she could go five days with no rest, just fighting, then she could walk on her own. Scarlet was determined to be strong in every way and not rely unnecessarily on the hound when it came to simple things.

"You are pregnant, your body is heavier. Just look at how your eyes have sunk into the sockets. The children are feeding off your energy more and more. We have run out of rejuvenation water." he complained.

"I am fine Severus." she said weakly.

"Apheitos is gone, I am going to the underworld right now to see Lythia. It will not do the children any good if you collapse. You cannot protect them if you cannot protect yourself."

He teleported away without waiting for her to respond.

The deity Apheitos had basically declared her training done just a week and a two days shy of the deadline he gave her. She would have to continue training on her own. He wiped every memory of his existence from the minds of the humans just in case other deities tried to read their minds. Severus shared the powers of the pendant which shielded Scarlet’s thoughts and mind from them. Unless Scarlet or Severus willingly talked, no one would know what they had been up to.

Slowly, like an old woman with an aching back, Scarlet made her way to her room and climbed into the bathtub.

"Alex, send a robot butler to give me a bath." she croaked out.

Despite being in possession of a wondrous green flame, she was fighting off a chill. She couldn’t recall the last time she got a fever but this very much felt like one. The human body she was inhabiting was still very much human and it could fall ill when overtaxed. Her eyes were heavy and beyond tired so she closed them. Her breath slowed down and she drifted off to sleep.

It was not Lythia that found her first but the old deity. With all the teleportation she had being lately, it had not been hard for the ones tracking her to finally pin down her location.

She had only been sleeping for about ten minutes when he showed up.

Due to the ill condition she was under, she was grossly unaware of his presence.

He intended to take her back with him to the underworld, to his palace where she would stay put until she gave birth.

When he used his power to lift her out of the bath, a bright light was emitted from her and it formed a barrier around her, which stopped his powers from reaching her.

For precisely five seconds, the old deity froze. It was not Scarlet’s power for sure, that he knew. It was coming from one of the children. It was the same energy emitted by life angels.

"The power of life." he muttered.

The child that fate wanted, the child of life and death. This was the most powerful of all five children and apparently the most dominant and protective one.

A hint of displeasure crossed the old deity’s face. He whispered in the air, "You are a child of death, you should not be using the powers of life. We are the same you and I. You should be like us, like your mother and father. We all belong to the world of death. Don’t try to be different."

Lythia teleported in at that point and she caught his last sentence. She sensed the power of life just as the old deity did but she didn’t react as he did. This was already the reality on ground and it could not be changed.

Immediately she set out to warn the old deity halt his plans. "Stop whispering such thoughts to the child. This is what fate was talking about. She has not been born but you are already trying to suffocate a part of her, to change her. It must be why fate assumed that we would not accept the child in the underworld."

"She is a child of death.." The old deity said forcefully.

"And life." Lythia added.

Outside, the skies rumbled angrily, expressing the displeasure of the god of death.

Lythia didn’t care however. War was coming, Scarlet was distancing herself from them, Nyx and Esong had still not merged. There were more important things that needed their attention and influencing the soul of a baby was not one. "If you do this, Scarlet will grow to disdain us and so will Nyx. They are the key to us restoring the broken faith of the natural born reapers. If you cannot accept the child, let her be, you don’t need to interact with her. What were you trying to do anyway. Why did the child use her powers this early?"

She looked at a naked Scarlet in the bathtub whose body was covered by foamy water. The robot butler was washing her hair.

"I just wanted to bring her home." the old deity answered slowly.

"Not against her wish, and she is not going anywhere. Besides, she sent Severus to find me which means she is ready to return." Lythia bent down and approached Scarlet.

The powers of life were taken back, meaning that the child trusted Lythia which made the female deity smile. What a good baby she was! Lythia decided that she would give her all of the best fruits which she hid even from other deities when she was born.

The old deity pointed to Scarlet’s wrist and said in an irritated voice, "The mark of the bracelet of kin has lost it’s strength."

"Does that surprise you? We knew she wanted it gone." Lythia replied.

This guy was just being childish to her. He was simply agitated because he couldn’t control Scarlet like he did most of the reapers. He was also being deliberately obtuse because the baby liked her but not him.

Lythia froze the robot butler, lifted Scarlet’s head gently and put the cup of warm milk to her mouth.

"The day she finds out where that milk comes from is the day she will vomit it all out." The old deity sneered and vanished.

"You can come out now Severus, he is gone." Lythia shouted.