Chapter 10: Things Start to Spiral Down

After waking up form a deserved nap with his wife Fafir kisses her and goes into his daughter's room and picks up the sleepy child helping her to the bath and getting her clean. Ourana sleepily smiles and giggles as her father cleans behind her ears. She blows bubbles in the bath after she undresses and shows her feet to her dad.

"Daddy can ya clean my feetsies first please. I wanna play in the mud soon after my bath okie?" Ourana gleefully chuckled. Fafir placed a finger on her nose and laughed himself. " Cleanliness is important for a young lady Ourana. Your sister Destiny could tell ya that. Speaking of I saw her a few days ago. She says she wishes to meet you. Would you wanna meet your big sister?" Fafir asked the small girl. She lowered herself into the water and blowed more bubbles.

"Ourana. Darling please let me finish bathing you. You were always so hyper. What do ya want for breakfast my ginger snap?" Fafir said as he helped the small girl rinse the soap and shampoo off. He picked her up from the tub and quickly wrapped her into a towel and went searching for a robe for her to wear.

Ourana floated off her feet and gingerly followed her Papa.

As he was searching for a robe Ourana peeked from a nearby wall and chuckled in hopes of playing a prank on her father. This was not the case as Fafir sensed her right away and spooked her from behind. "Ahhh!! Papaaaaaa!! You startled me hehe. Up!! Up!!" Ourana giggled. Fafir smiled and wrapped a black fuzzy robe around the cozy Ourana. He picked her up and placed her on his shoulder.

"Papa so big and stronk..why Papa so strong? Will I be as strong as Papa one day?" Ourana ask feeling her father's massive deltoid. "Little spark of my eye. You already are. When you were born in fact, the very environment and sky changed color and shook at your wake. You are not a mere human my child, no..you are a god. Perhaps maybe not even that..but a Primordial." Fafir said as he notice Ourana was eager to learn more about what a Primordial is.

"Primordial? Are they stronger than gods? If they are and..your one. Does that mean Destiny and me are ones too?!" The crimson-haired child asked excitedly. Fafir walked into the kitchen and placed Ourana on a stool. He made some pancakes,eggs and juice for him,Panna and little Ourana. The small girl thanked him and smiled.

"Hmm..Primordials how can I explained them.." Fafir sighed with a hint of regret. Panna awoke and kissed her husband and daughter on the cheek. She notice Fafir was in deep thought of a past he long would've wish he forgotten. "Faffy? Is everything alright? You just spaced out for a minute." Panna asked her husband. Fafir looked to her and sighed a deep sigh.

"Ourana wants to know what Primordials are. Well the truth is..I am one of them,I've lived for billions upon billions of years. They were..they were my family." Fafir paused. Sadness filled his voice and Panna took this as a sign to get Ourana dressed for the day. The two left the kitchen as Fafir stared out the window thinking of the horrors he commited in the past. The old deity clenched his fist and swore to himself he would be better for the future. "She can not know..Not yet she is far to young to witness the mass atrocities and sins I commited. Not now." Fafir mumbled to himself. Later on Panna talked with him as Ourana played with some of the other neighborhood children. They played near the forest and Panna told them to stay close.

"I love you Faffy. You are not that same monster you once saw yourself as okay? I love you and will always love you." Panna said reassuring him. "She grew up so fast. She may be a grown woman to others,but to us..I have missed out on so much. I need to talk with her. Stay here Panna." Fafir commanded. The woman listened and watched as her husband and daughter walked into the forest.

Minutes of silence between the two as they walked Ourana stood in front of her much taller father and wanted to know more about her Primordial heritage. This very moment Fafir beheld a warrior. One who was not that cute little girl with crimson hair,but a muscular woman willing to defend all those she held dear to her heart. Fafir smiles and knelt to match his daughter's short height.

"What? Do I got something on my face? The pancakes were pretty good though heh." Ourana said with a chuckle. With a hand on her shoulder Fafir told her everything that happened between him and the Primordials of old. "Well I had hope to never tell you this Ourana..but the tales of the one vengeful Primordial murdering his own kin is...true." Fafir regretted what he would say next. Ourana continued to listen to her father's story.

"I was that vengeful Primordial. I did it all out for my beed of vengeance agaisnt Nea when the world was being created. I was banished to the very realm she told me not to go into the first time. I disobeyed her and once I saw my fellow Primordial brethren began to tell Nea I snapped and..and then..all that lead to that was death. Shocked by this Nea casted me aside to my punishment." Fafir said with tears in his eyes mourning his Primordial brethren.

Shocked and speechless by her father's past actions,Ourana hugged him still and forgave his past evil deeds.

"Well..they were probably asshats anyway. I mean you were one too according to Destiny. But hey. At least people know not to mess with my daddy." Ourana chuckled as she elbowed her dad on his gut.

"Hehe..Wow..you really are strong. Makes no sense why you were talking like a baby earlier. Than again..it was a dream more than likely." Fafir said as the two walked further in the forest.

Meanwhile as Panna was home all was right and peaceful. That was until a she heard a third coming from outside near the house. She grabbed a sword and a gun hidden in the floorboards of her home. As she crept across house she quickly shut thr lights off. The thud got even louder. Panna hid in a nearby closet awaiting her assailant.

As she waited in the closet. A man broke through the front door. He was dressed in a red robe fully hiding his face. "Hmm..the harlot of my lord. I smell you here. Come out and fight!! You will not interfere in Fafir's glorious rebirth to conquering his realm." The hooded man said trying to lure her out. Panna remain in the closet and cocked the gun silently.

Luckily the man didn't hear. Panna snuck out of the closet and slowly walked behind him. Before she could strike. The man swept her up from under her feet and kicked straight through the wall.

"Hmm..if it isn't the harlot my lord so foolishly chosen. I am the last of the chosen few from Fafir's army. You will not live to see the end of this day. Death awaits." The man yells. Panna shot him in his leg and sliced at him a few times with her sword. This angered the robed man more. He hobbled over to Panna and wrapped his gloved hand around her throat threatening to snap her neck if she tried anything else.

As they laid on the ground Panna waved her hands frantically and gradually began to loose consciousness. The man smiled and squeezed a little bit more. Panna let out a loud yell. She called for help. The man panicked and snapped Panna's neck killing her in cold blood. Ourana sensed this and Fafir soon followed.

Shocked by what he done. The cloaked man was motionless the blood of Fafir's wife was on his hands. Now understanding the consequences of his actions. Ourana appeared on the scene and was overcome by rage and anguish.

"MOMMA!!!!" Was all the crimson-haired girl could utter as she saw her mother lay lifeless and bloodied before her very eyes. Fafir showed up and was speechless at the horror the cloaked man had done. Tears roamed down his face and anger over took him. He then looked at the motionless cloaked man and demanded he run. "I...I PROMISE YOU THIS...I..will...I will..FUCKING MURDER YOU!!" Ourana yelled as the man ran.

Ourana fell to her knees and held her mother. Fafir dug a grave for his fallen wife. He lamented over his wife and yelled to the skies. Soon Zuma appeared escorting Panna's soul to Hexus. Fafir exchanged one look to Zuma and Zuma did so as well. "Paradise is her reward Fafir. I'm sorry this happened to you." Fafir said nothing he and Ourana buried Panna's body into the ground and reported her death to their closest of friends.

The funeral soon took place a few weeks later. Ourana and Destiny held each other tight. Fafir mourned the death of Panna. Luna hugged him and takes him by the hand to talk to him in private.

"I know she meant everything to you. I'm sorry that ever happened to you. Look..all that happened between us is under the bridge. Okay. You've suffered too much..but..I have news to share..Siivia also know. Um...I'm pregnant. And..I think..it's yours. " Luna said shocking Fafir. He was speechless and had nothing to say. He hugged her tightly and the two discussed how parenting the child would even go.

Silvia came by and discuss the parental arrangements. They figured Fafir could have two wives instead of one. Fafir paused and had to walk away. He took Destiny and Ourana by their hands and teleported back to his cabin to talk about the unborn child Luna was gonna have.

Ocielia was already inform by Luna and Silvia looked forward to a second child. The two woman sat at Panna's burial just in case anyone else wanted to pay their respects. Soon they left for home and the gravedigger began to bury the casket.

A few days pass Destiny and Ourana sat in the small cabin in nothing but thin nightgowns. They talked with one another and laughed as sister usually do. "I can't say it enough but I'm very proud of you both. You two could have even murdered that man,but ya didn't." Destiny giggled. Ourana groaned. Fafir walked in carrying some wood.

"I do appreciate you two accompanying me at this time girls. But now that both of you know the Primordial side of our ancestry. Now we must talk about the..um..child to be." Fafir said sounding embarrass by his entanglement with Luna. The girls raised their eyebrow and chuckled as they drank some tea.

"Boy or girl?" The two sisters asked their father. "Uh..umm..girl. Definitely I sense it. Plus Luna and Silvia. They also offer me to..bewed them." Fafir said in a awkward tone.

Both Ourana and Destiny giggled. "You're kidding right? You're actually serious about the whole thing?" Ourana said, laughing loudly. "No My dearest Daughter,I am completely serious." Fafir nervously stammered. "One more to the McFringe name huh? I mean Psion is your only son,you have two beautiful daughters and one more hehe. I already have a name for the little gremlin." Ourana said patting Destiny on the head. Ourana was taller than her sister by two measly inches. "Let's name her Meiyuros. It means Chaos and Beauty in Neotic." Destiny said trying to ahee her sister away.

Fafir placed a hand on his chin and pondered the name. He smiled and picked his two girls up effortlessly. "Come..let us go and enjoy a vacation. Nea knows we all need it." Fafir said as he walked out the door. "You mean DESTINY knows hehe. I'm the head honcho now. I'm your boss,Ourana's boss,pretty much all the Neotic Deities answer to me. I achieved your dream for me after all right Papa?" Destiny said teasing her father.

"Hush you four foot two gremlin. You are just as sassy as Nea ever was." Fafir retorted. "I'm four five Daddy. And if I'm such a gremlin why does my boyfriend Na find me so attractive hmm?" Destiny teased some more. Fafir didn't like the sound of his kids having boyfriends. So he sensed where Na was and immediately took off flying high into the air with his daughters screaming with excitement in tow.