CHAPTER 75~GABRIELLA'S POV~Elvis slapped Aralynn, then pushed her to the ground. He kneeled before her and continued to punch her repeatedly, his eyes filled with rage and insanity.As I watched in silence, tears filled my eyes. I didn't know why, but somehow I felt a bit of remorse for this woman who had tortured me all my life. Elvis continued to hit her, and blood started to pour out of her mouth.He raised his hand, and claws shot out of his fingers. I tightened my fist and clenched my teeth as my brows furrowed. My eyes turned a firey blue, and as he swung his claws at my mother's face, I kicked the door open and rushed toward him.“You ungrateful imbecile!” I yelled angrily, tears streaming from my eyes. With power I never knew I had, I grabbed my brother's throat and slammed his head into the wall repeatedly until he spat out blood.“After all she's done for you, this is how you repay your own mother!!” I yelled, throwing my fists at him in a fit of rage. Each punch I landed o
CHAPTER 76~GABRIELLA'S POV~“Can you hear it?” A female voice I couldn't recognize sounded softly in my head.“Hear… what?” I asked. My eyes were closed, and I could see nothing but darkness.“That song. The song you and your mate danced to in your dreams—the song she sang to you when you were still a youngling,” the voice replied.“I can't… I can't hear it,” I said.“Focus,” The voice whispered into my ear, fading away just as it came.I listened into the depths of the silence, and suddenly, the sound of humming got louder and louder.“I can hear it; it's clear." I said, smiling.“Good, now… Sing it,” the voice replied.I let out a soft breath, then gently pressed my lips against each other. I made a humming sound, following the melody of the beautiful song that played in my head. As I hummed the song, I could hear laughter, and I could feel the warmth of home in my heart. Colorful lights started to appear; they danced around to the rhythm of the song, and when it was over, I opened
CHAPTER 77~3RD PERSON'S POV~“Check mate!” Derren said as he moved his chess piece. Maria's eyes widened in shock as she examined the pieces on the board.“No! You cheated! I'm not playing this game with you anymore,” she said, folding her arms on her chest and furrowing her eye brows.“Common, I've won you ten times in a row; don't be like that. I'm just really good at the game. No one can beat me at chess,” Derren said with a smirk, relaxing on his seat's backrest.“You can keep your silly games and swollen head to yourself. I'll go play with someone who doesn't cheat,” Maria said with an upset expression on her face.Derren got up from his seat and walked over to her side of the table. He placed his palms on her shoulders and massaged them gently.“Don't do that; if you go look for someone else to play this game with, then I'll have no one to keep me happy and support me in my lowest moments,” Derren said.“Derren, it's just a chess game,” Maria said.Derren giggled a bit, then pu
CHAPTER 78~3RD PERSON'S POV~Marie's and Derren's eyes widened in shock as the mysterious lady turned around. Marie quickly wet on one knee and lowered her gaze to Anaya's foot.“Lady Anaya,” Derren said softly, his lips curving into a sinister smirk.“My lady. It's such an honor to have you visit us this fine evening.” Maria's heart raced as she waited for a reply.“You must be Maria, Luna of the Blackburn Pack. I've heard stories of yours and your Alpha's achievements. I'm certainly impressed that a young girl such as yourself has come so far,” Lady Anaya said with a soft smile.Maria looked up at Anaya and smiled back. “Thank you, my lady,” she said.“What brings you to my home, Lady Anaya? Have you come to plead on behalf of Alpha Steven? My plan to overthrow him is not something I can be talked out of,” Derren said.“Is that how you welcome your guests? You can't even offer me a seat or even a drink." Anaya scoffed at Derren's attitude toward her.She let out a sigh and continue
CHAPTER 79~3RD PERSON'S POV~“It's been 4 days straight, and Gabriella and the others haven't returned. I just hope nothing bad has happened to them,” Steven said, pacing around in his office.“Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be fine. Besides, they have Valerie to guide them; they'll return home eventually,” Clarabelle said with a worried expression on her face. She had come into Steven's office to deliver his meal.“I know, I just can't help but worry if only I could leave the dumb building,” Steven said, sitting on his desk.Clarabelle was surprised by his behavior. She had never seen her alpha so worried about someone before. He was usually this grumpy, serious person, and he never even spoke a word to his maids unless it was an order.“Could it be because of... Gabriella? Come to think of it, the alpha changed a lot when she came to the mansion. He smiles a lot more and speaks with his maids more. He is no longer the ruthless alpha we all once feared,” Clarabelle thought to herself
CHAPTER 80~3RD PERSON'S POV~Clarabelle rushed to her room and fell on her bed, shivering as the thoughts about what happened to her in the passage replayed in her head.Christine rushed into the room and turned to her bed with a worried expression on her face.“Hey, Clarabelle,” she said as she walked toward the bed. She sat beside Clarabelle, touched her thigh, and quickly retracted her palm, feeling the intense vibration of her body.“Hey, what's wrong? Some of the other maids told me you suddenly screamed on the way here. What's going on?” Christine asked. Holding Clarabelle's hand.Clarabelle remained quiet. Her eyes focused on the wall opposite her bed. Her irises shrank as she stared at the point where the wall and the floor joined. She raised her left index finger and pointed to it.“What is it?” Christine asked, turning to the area where Clarabelle pointed.Clarabelle said nothing; her eyes were still focused on that point, and her finger was stuck pointing in that direction.
CHAPTER 81~3RD PERSON'S POV~“The way the Abyss influences the mortal world is very limited because the moon goddess herself tried her best to minimize its interaction with this world's inhabitants; this is why strange elements are seen from time to time in this world but soon vanish without a trace.” Steven read to Christine from a book he took from his library. This book was written by a distant cousin who was very interested in the supernatural world and things that were hidden from the naked eye.“From the information in this book, an agreement between the moon goddess and her evil half was to share this world. But the moon goddess had to separate her creation's perception of reality from the creations of her evil half's. This was to prevent chaos,” Steven continued.“Well, that doesn't explain why an abyss demon is after my friend, Clarabelle,” Christine said. She sat on a seat in front of Steven's desk.“True, but let's go over this whole thing from the beginning so you can see
CHAPTER 82~GABRIELLA'S POV~“Owww, my feet hurt,” I said, grunting in pain as all three of us continued to push our way through the snow.“How is it that the snow here piled up so much? It's hard to walk, and the blood in my legs have almost completely frozen up,” Marie said in a frustrated tone.“You guys should stop exaggerating; we're almost there. Just a few thousand steps more,” Valerie said, trying to keep our morales up.“By the way, sorry to ask this at this time, but if the night walkers hate you guys so much, why haven't they killed your sister yet? Are they saving her for some feast, or are they waiting till all of you are together?" I asked.“Well, I don't know. I think we should just be thankful they haven't. But the fact that they haven't killed her yet doesn't mean she isn't going through a lot of pain right now, so we have to hurry,” Valerie replied.“You wanna know what I think?” I asked.“What's that?” Valerie asked.“I think those things called night walkers are fo
CHAPTER 310~GABRIELLA'S POV~Just as Clarabelle warned, the entire world forgot that there was such a thing as the alpha-J drug, and every trace of it vanished from the face of the earth after she reversed the fate of everyone who consumed it and became an artificial. Things went back to normal so quickly that it almost seemed like nothing happened at all—like all the struggles my friends were put through by Episteme, Evelyn, and Agnes were just a dream. People forgot that a company like Higher Wellness Pharmaceuticals existed and that Governor Gerald was a criminal.Newspapers and written reports about the matter disappeared without a trace. Because of this, Steven’s company was unaffected by Evelyn’s actions, and the criminals involved were convicted secretly by the council. Questions were asked about Governor Gerald’s and Queen Elizabeth's disappearances, but people soon got distracted by other things and lost interest in the matter. Steven offered to hand over the position of h
CHAPTER 309~3RD PERSON’S POV~Maria and Clarabelle stood in front of the gates of the Dragnon mansion with umbrellas above their heads and worry on their faces. They had been waiting for Marie and the others to return for hours, but there was no sign of them returning at all.Clarabelle did well to protect everyone from the intense heat, and now that the sun had moved away from the earth, she was sure that Marie and her friends had won the battle. In fact, as the Immortal of Fate, she already knew they would win, and she already knew who would bring that victory, but she wasn't allowed to say a word to anyone. What she wasn't sure of was if they had survived or not, because she refused to look that far into the future.“Do you think they'll return safely?” Maria asked with worry in her voice. She has lost her husband before and was very afraid of losing him again.Clarabelle turned to her and saw the worry in her eyes, then turned away. “Let’s just be hopeful,” she said softly. A f
CHAPTER 308~3RD PERSON'S POV~~Earlier~“Huh?” Gabriella blinked repeatedly in confusion as she stared into Lunaris's eyes. They both sat in a pool of water in the black, empty void that was Gabriella's mind. “What’s going on? I thought I died already,” Gabriella asked softly.“You did—well, not exactly. I put you to sleep for over four months to get some things done in your world. Now that my plot is complete, I'd like you to return and continue living the life you've always wanted,” Lunaris said with a smile.“Oh, you mean I didn't have to die for you to take my body?” Gabriella asked.“Yes, Gabriella. If everyone knew that you were still alive, they would not have grown as much as they have now... especially Marie. I had to make everyone believe that your death was necessary for me to come to this world, so that the plot I couldn't finish years ago would finally be completed,” Lunaris responded.“Oh, I can't believe it's been four months already. How's Marie and the others doing?
CHAPTER 307~3RD PERSON’S POV~Marie and her sisters, Cortana and Yuna, sat inside a large metal dome created by Angela. Angla had created multiple domes like this to accommodate the entire army of Vedantya, and this was because the temperature of the atmosphere has risen to an unbearable level. Daniella used her manipulation of heat to cool down the domes so the occupants wouldn't die of heat stroke.The air around the domes looked like it had been stained with gasoline fumes, and rocks around them had begun melting.Valerie tried again and again to open a portal but failed every single time. The spell that blocked her ability to use spatial magic wasn't very powerful but was somehow too complex for her to undo. It was like the spell reformed itself at light speed every time she broke it, and there was no way of stopping it.“This is bad. If we stay here longer than this, the whole world is going to melt down,” Angela said with worry on her face.“No, we can't give up yet; I'm sure I
CHAPTER 306~3RD PERSON’S POV~“What have you done to me?!!” Agnes yelled with a gory voice.“I poisoned you, Agnes. Ordinarily, poison wouldn't be enough to kill a witch like you, but depending on how powerful the poison is, it would be enough to weaken you. The souls of the fallen Immortals despise you, Agnes. But as much as they want to escape, as souls, they're not nearly strong enough to go against the spell you put on them. It's just like Sabbath and Mary; without Mary's body, Sabbath can't use his power. So, without Agnes's body, the immortals are weak to her spells. But spells require serious mental concentration and physical reinforcement to hold together, and once those two things weaken, the spell comes apart and the souls of the Immortals have their chance to escape.” Agnes gripped her stomach tightly as she felt an agonizing pain coming up. She bled from her nose and mouth as the souls of all the Immortals began seeping out of her body and flying off. “After the Immor
CHAPTER 305~3RD PERSON'S POV~~years ago~“You idiot, don’t go playing with sharp objects if you’re going to lose your mind like that; you know how dangerous that power of yours is,” Agnes queried.“I’m so sorry, I was only trying to get over my fear of blood; it’s really hard,” Mary replied nervously, stroking the back of her head slowly.“Don’t do that anymore. You’ll end up hurting everyone around you,” Agnes said. “But I’ll have you to slap me back to my senses before that happens, right?” Mary said.Agnes smiled. “Yeah, but next time I’ll make sure to slap you even harder so you get knocked out before coming back to your senses.” Both she and Mary laughed together, and the four teachers just stared at them with confused expressions on their faces.~•••~“I lied to you the other day, Mary. I’m not friends with you because you’re a good person or make life interesting for me. I mean, you do, but that’s not the reason.”“Then what is?” Mary asked.“It’s because I feel very ashamed
CHAPTER 304~3RD PERSON’S POV~Mary was accompanied into the building by a group of four people. Two of them were maids, and the other two were Agnes’s soldiers. All four of them still had that eerie smile on their faces, and their eyes still glowed bright red, making them look like their minds were being controlled. They walked into the glass building and led Mary to a magical elevator that didn’t require electricity to work. Mary had her guard up, prepared to launch an attack at anyone who tried to annoy her. At this moment, she was already very pissed off, and anyone who tried to attack her now would be walking into their grave.The elevator door closed and started to rise up the building. Everyone was unusually quiet, and none of Mary’s escorts wanted to make eye contact with her. Mary watched them through the glass wall in front of her—they looked like dolls, stiff and lifeless, like they had been programmed to only move when they were given orders.The elevator rose for over tw
CHAPTER 303~3RD PERSON’S POV~The team of eight continued to fight against the Asuras, cutting through and destroying their forces with as much speed, strength, and precision as they could. They all fought with rage in their hearts, determined to end the battle as quickly as possible, but the Asuras were just too many. It didn't matter what the team did or what amount of power they used; the Asuras just kept coming like an endless sea of stars.The Asuras armor-like skin had become so strong that Edith's blade and Anima Morning Star both broke on impact. The two Immortals had to summon their weapons again and again during the fight just to avoid getting killed. They had to look for a new way to kill these Immortals, and that way was to attack them at points where their armour didn't cover—the gaps in the skin that revealed their glowing orange flesh. Targeting these parts was especially difficult for the werewolves because they didn't have long-range weapons, and getting too close t
CHAPTER 302~3RD PERSON'S POV~Nicole and Melody moved swiftly through the forest, toward the area where the forcefield was located. Nicole hovered using a glowing, orange, magical disc, and Melody just flew around, dodging the trees and large rocks in the way. They both had already seen the helicopter fly off, so they knew Mary was already going against her parents. Their only problem was getting to the forcefield, as the distance it was from where they opened their portal was too much. “Hey, couldn't you just use spacial magic to take us there? It's starting to look like this forest is playing tricks on us,” Melody asked, turning to Nicole.Nicole looked around, her eyes scanning past each tree, shrub, and rock. “I can't use spacial magic or any other kind of magic. Something is blocking me from doing it. This is bad; it means we can't teleport home unless we can find a place where I will be able to use spatial magic,” she responded. “But you're right,” she continued, then stopped