Poison Orchid

Chapter 29

Gabriel did not think when he started scouting through the forest that he was going to witness such a scene. And that Isis had not only given birth to two children, she at the same time had done something far more dangerous. She had shifted the soul of the dying mother inside the boy child which she clutched at the moment pressed to her breasts as if someone was going to snatch them away from her arms.

She looked like a goddess protecting her younglings with might and strength which was foreign to the knowledge of any man. She had the power over life and death, this revelation struck Gabriel strongly as a blow directly to his chest which meant that she could do something with the spirits which were trapped inside the basement of his house but how the hell was he supposed to say this to her.

“ Did you name them?” asked Petrov from the back of the car who was silently sitting until now.

“I did not need to, their mother already did that in order to make them forget the pain of being a nameless bastard which they really are,” said Isis in a strong voice but hushed tones so that it did not awaken the babes in her arms.

“Well Isis they have a mother now, and she is strong enough to protect them and let them grow in peace and proper care and protection in case they do not have any surviving family,’ said Gabriel.

“ Who said they do not have family? They have family definitely but their families are living only waiting to die at their hands in a few years,” answered Isis.

Gabriel and Petrov both looked at her and their mouths gaping at the cool tone which she was using in case of murdering people and that too in the hands of the new born babies whom she had just saved from impending death.

“So what is the name of the sweetheart there?” asked Petrov on a lighter note.

Isis looked down at her and said smiling in a caressing tone,” She is Snow White.”

“That is the name of a Princess isn’t it?” asked Petrov.

“Yes that is,” replied Isis in a curt tone.

“Petrov, she is tired. Why are you bothering her peppering her with questions? She has enough on her mind at the moment,” said Gabriel chiding him like an elder brother does normally.

Isis looked at Gabriel when he spoke this and her heart started making somersaults in her chest once more. She did not know what to think about him, she knew that he was a living witness of she had done and was a threat to her but that did not stop her from falling even more deeply for the boy with purple gaze.

“His name is Ogon,” said Isis without taking away her eyes from Gabriel’s handsome face.

“That is a Russian name,” exclaimed Petrov behaving like an excited teenager.

“What does it mean?” asked Isis, still looking at Gabriel.

“It means Fire,” replied Gabriel looking at Isis and finding her dark green gaze fixed on him and at that exact moment He knew that she was his mate whom he loved with all his being but he could not express that so soon.

“So she has named her twins as antonyms to each other, that is something extraordinary,” commented Petrov.

In their conversation Isis found that her house was in sight and she said, “Would you please stop here, I can go the rest of the way myself.”

“We already once went to your home in order to give you the project homework that you need to submit in school. So let me take you a bit closer and then you can go all by yourself,’ said Gabriel.

“Is it that you are joking or you are seriously this dumb that you could think of something like coming down to my home? Or wait….You must be stalking me. Where from did you get my address?” asked Isis in a heated voice.

“I do not have any intention of making you feel uncomfortable or making you feel that I have disturbed you in any way then let me make it clear that it was never my intention to do any such thing to you. The Headmaster called me up and requested me that since I was last seen sitting with you when you came to school that I go to your house and give you the project,” said Gabriel trying to pacify Isis whose eyes were burning at the moment.

“Isis, if you don’t mind me saying, then your Aunt has made it abundantly clear that you do not need any kind of help and if we knew you then we would not have ventured this far to come and give you the project,” piped in Petrov.

“Why in case do you think that making fun of my aunt will make me laugh?” Isis turned her face and said.

And at the high pitch of Isis’s voice Snow started wailing at a high scale which in turn awoke Ogon as well and he also started crying like his sister. Now Isis was really angry, who the hell said these boys to such things which made her so angry.

“Even if we had not said anything you would be still angry because you have decided not to be happy and not to have fun. You have been named properly by your classmates, you are really an Ice-Queen,” said Petrov in an equally heated voice.

“And acting like a snooty b***h for so many years has made you like that only, you are no different from the girls you hate in your class,” continued Petrov and before he could finish the sentence Gabriel was choking him in the next blink of eye.

Isis could not even understand what just happened and found Petrov trying to pry off Gabriel’s fingers from his throat and Gabriel was saying, “How dare you insult her in this way? Who has given you the audacity to do such a thing?”

“Gabriel please, do not do this. He is your brother, please Gabriel you cannot do this to your own brother, please listen to me Gabriel, “pleaded Isis finding that he would really choke him to death and she outstretched her hand and touched Gabriel’s arm.

As she contacted his skin she felt electricity thrumming through her finger tips and flowing through her veins directly into her heart and Gabriel also felt the same thing and he looked back at Isis his grip from Petrov’s throat loosening and Petrov coughing. The babes in Isis’s arms started wailing at the top of their voice and Gabriel was back in his driver’s seat and he clutched Isis’s hands once again feeling the same hum of current once more.

Isis pried away her hands from his clasp and fumbled with the lock of the gate of the car and opened the door as fast as she could, she was not frightened of spirits but she was frightened of what was happening with this boy. She took up the bag from the floor of the car and said, “Thanks for the drop and the homework too,” and closed the door with a short bang.

The shrill and sharp cries of Snow and Ogon pierced the night sky with sure bursts and their continuous wails made Isis’s head hurt but she knew that she was carrying Riley in her arms along with another innocent soul. And she knew that anything might befall on her but she could not let anything happen to her children. Yes, they were her children.

She found Fluffy and Gruffy standing at attention wagging their tails as if they were welcoming two new guests to the house and hearing the noise outside her Aunt Rossetta had already opened the door and was standing there in her floral housecoat with the noise of the gramophone blaring from the basement of the house. The whole house knew that Snow and had come to their home and everyone was trying t do their part in their own unique way.

As Isis reached the threshold of her home she turned back and found Gabriel still staring at her with his burning purple gaze. Isis did not dare to acknowledge his presence with a nod or a smile because she did not know that she was afraid of whom that she did not even want to think that the boy who was still looking at the closed door was in love with her.

“So these are the priceless beauties whom you brought back from the forest….Give them to me, yes, slowly,” said Aunt Rossetta.

“I am sure you are strained out and tired like anything but you are a mother now Isis so you need to take them to the oldest of your family and get them blessed for the rest of their existence and see their future,” said Aunt Rossetta taking Snow in her arms.

“Do you know that both the kids whom I have brought in this house are shifted souls to the dead bodies of two children who died in the womb of their mother itself?”asked Isis kissing the forehead of Ogon in her arm.

Rossetta looked at Isis as if she had seen a ghost and then looked at the child in her arms.

“Please keep some milk ready, lukewarm for both the babies and please make sure that they do not have poison in it. They are born of normal human parents so they would not be able to sustain it. I shall take both of them to Grandma Brassia,” said Isis in a soft tone but the command in it was clear.

She again took back Snow in her arms and went downstairs to the basement shortly followed by Fluffy and Gruffy stayed back in the kitchen to check on what Rossetta was doing.

Isis entered the basement with both of them in her arms and smiled victoriously with a flourish.

“Do you have any idea Girlie what you have done?” asked Brassia with a cackle of laughter.

“No Grandma, I do not have the faintest idea about what I have done apart from knowing the fact that I have become a mother of two babes,” said Isis with her smile intact.

“Only our Great Priestess had this power that she could pull over the power of unborn souls or dead ones in the bodies of dead organisms and making them live once again. That is in the first place that the whole Kingship and the Pharaohs of Egypt worshipped her like a Living Goddess and you have the same power shows that you have been blessed by the Great mother herself. Now…now place both of them in the circle, let me bless them and ward them off against any evil and harm,” said Brassia her pale grey dead face glowing with excitement as she said the words.

Isis did as told by Brassia and to her amazement the babes stopped making any more noise once they were placed inside the circle.

“There are a few stones inside the box there on the fifth shelf from the right the second one. Go pick that box and drop the stones inside the circle,” said Brassia closely hovering over the kids and touching their faces.

Ogon and Snow were staring at Brassia and Isis noticed that.

“Can they see you, Grandma?” asked Isis thinking if they were humans or not.

“Most of the small babies can see spirits until they learn how to speak and spoil the innocence and so it is nothing unusual that they can also see them. Now bring those ,yes and yes, yes, scatter it around them,” said Brassia.

Isis did as she was directed and to her surprise she found that a few stones came forward and stuck to the skin of Snow and a few stones did the same for Ogon.

“She is the embodiment of life, so only the sapphires and the blue stones have got attracted to her power and he is the embodiment of death and destruction, he wears an obsidian and all the darker stones. They are the life and death in their physical forms and they balance each other and will do so for their entire lives,” pronounced Brassia.