HEART OF STONE
Heart Of Stone - Episode 94&95&96
(..Sold•To•The•Pit•Of•Hell..)
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The confession from Pearl seemed to lift an unseen weight from Dominika's shoulders.
The hard contours on her features lessened, and she readjusted her poise, but still keeping the arrow tip intact on Pearl's throat.
Her eyes went to the love thread on her finger, and she tore the thread apart in one swift move.
Pearl couldn't even gasp, she stayed still. Cos one wrong move would send her to a deep sleep.
"It's obvious, your thread is fake too," Dominika commented, smirking. "A real love thread should be seen by your partner alone—the god of air who doesn't even exist in this lifetime. And I'm guessing the thread you grew for Ryker in your past life was also fake."
"Yes. I created the thread using the toxins in my mind's eye, but I meant no harm. I swear I love Ryker so much and I just wanted him to reciprocate! I thought if he saw the thread, he'd take pity on me and grow a thread too!" Pearl confessed further, the blood from her stomach staining her shaky palms.
"You created a fake love thread using the toxins in your mind's eye? How dirty is your mind's eye at this point? Everything about you is unreal, are you even real yourself?" Dominika queried, bending to get closer to her reddening face.
"Are you?" She whispered.
Pearl whimpered, the weight of her body pushing against the throne.
"After Ryker disappeared during the feast, what happened? Why did you start pretending to be pregnant after he came back? And what were you planning to do with the pregnancy?" Dominika continued her queries.
Pearl folded her lips, hesitating again, and that angered the woman, prompting her to use the second arrow.
She rammed it into Pearl's belly, joining the first one.
Pearl's womb tore apart from the inside, and more blood rushed out. Not through her stomach, but through the middle of her legs.
"Stop! I'll tell youuu....stop!!!!! I said stop!!!!!!!" She cried, holding Dominika's hand as the dark claws of anguish had her hooked.
"I lived with him as his wife for years during our last life, and he once went to war with the god of air. It was tough, and Ryker ended up getting poisoned, but he still won. He killed the god of air. After the war, he suffered pains from the poison, and he disappeared for two years. During those two years, I searched for him like a madwoman, till I found him sleeping in a seclusive abyssal universe, dark and quiet under the root of the life tree." Pearl narrated, groaning.
Dominika reduced the grip of the arrow on her stomach, giving her more space to talk.
"When the feast was approaching last month, I caught a glimpse of him and saw the look in his eyes, it resembled the look I saw when he got poisoned in our first life, so I knew he was poisoned again, and I knew I would soon have my chance. I waited till the poison took effect on the feast day." Pearl continued.
"And? What happened after that." Dominika probed further.
Pearl looked up, tears falling out of her eyes.
[Last Month, Feast Day]
After Pearl heard the news of the chaos at the East Palace, she knew the time was here.
She travelled far to the life tree which stood in the middle of The Resting Vale.
It's a giant nameless tree whose origin is void, but it's just known as the life tree where gods come to rest whenever something catastrophic happens to their life core.
Pearl was dressed in her best black robe cos she knew he loved black madly, and she made her eyeshadow frosty blue to compliment his millennial ice color.
She was ready to spend time with his unconscious body in the tree, but unfortunately, the tree roots weren't open. They were closed, they gave no space for her entry at all.
She dropped the basket of her belongings on the ground and started crying, loud and disturbing.
"This can't be happening! This can't happen! He's inside all alone why is it not opening!" She hugged the tree.
"Is it because I don't have the fire goddess mantle in this lifetime?" She gasped, blinking.
"Listen to me, Ryker. You might be in there unconscious, but your ears are working! You're not even the real ice god in your first and present life! The mantle was dumped on you in your mother's womb so you have no right to even love Shayla! You don't own that bîtch! And you know what happens if you refuse to drop the mantle in you for the owner? You'd die horribly! Even if you drop it, you'd still meet your end! I just want to spend the rest of your time with you! Is it such a crime? Is it a crime to love you this much?" She cried, hugging the tree again.
Her tears just cascaded hotly, and her lips kissed the tree.
She kissed again till she couldn't take her lips away. Imagining it as Ryker, she kissed the hell out of it.
She took off the first layers of her robe, leaving her in her see-through linen singlet and underwear.
She hugged the tree again, romancing it and giving it her all.
So far Ryker is inside, she's fine.
[Present Time]
"Who cares if it was the tree? He was inside, and that counts. The romance counts! I even came back to take condoms! I planned to stage a pregnancy show to ruffle Shayla's feathers and deceive her to betray him, that's it!" Pearl said.
"You're a sick one, Pearl." Dominika muttered, awed beyond words.
"I love him, and I deserve him! You won't understand! Why do you think my parents bought me the mantle in my first life? Why do you think it was so easy? Why do you think I didn't die after one year back then despite the fact that the mantle wasn't mine?" Pearl continued, laughing with her gnawing pains.
"It's because Shayla has always been this soft, angelic, pure fool. She has no desire for power! It's the fire mantle we're talking about, the most powerful of all the mantles. Even the deities are aware of the intensity, and it was bestowed on a gentle idiot like her? They contrast each other and she'd never be able to control it unless she toughens up which she's not ready to do. During that past life, my parents were rich alchemists, and her mother gave birth to her in our alchemy center. My parents recognized the mantle the moment they saw it in her..."
"She has been a gentle fool since birth, so she was uncomfortable even as a newborn baby, she was crying like a fool! My parents secretly extracted it and gave it to me. I was tougher, so I didn't suffer the one year consequence cos I deserved the mantle more! The only punishment I got was Ryker's hate for me, and we would have lived forever in that hate if I didn't catch him cheating with Shayla and killed all of us."
"Then we got reincarnated. Caspian dumped the ice mantle on Ryker for the second time, and he became the millennial ice demigod again. I reincarnated as the Underground Goddess with no partner cos Ryker killed the air god during our first life. And Shayla? She got her mantle back and reincarnated as the fire goddess, but the idiot is still lazy as f+k!" Pearl laughed at Dominika.
"Ryker has been managing it well cos... he's very cold and heartless himself—he compliments the ice power. Despite the mantle not being his own, he didn't suffer the one year consequence during our first life cos of that, and also because the real owner had no desire to take it. This second life, he managed it well too, he has lived for 350, hasn't he? He would have lived longer if the real owner didn't grow desire for powers. Caspian's desire is destructive, and if Ryker refuses to forsake the mantle, he dies, even if he does, he dies."
At this point, Dominika stood, turned her back on Pearl and wiped a little tear from her eye corner before facing Pearl again.
"How did you know this much, especially about the real owner stuff?" She asked in a low voice.
Pearl chuckled ominously, the sound full of pains from her tummy that's still bleeding with the two stuck arrows inside.
"In this lifetime, I was born into the dark Millions Family, and I was once locked in a basement for being blind and useless. During those times, I had no memory of my first life yet, but I had dreams of Caspian Yusluv and Ryker Morozov going to war cos of the mantle, with Shayla in-between. I found out the history in my dreams. I was blind, but I could see clearly in my dreams back then, and I knew I was destined for greatness. I guess the heavens knew I would always be a villain, which is why they blessed me with the truth."
Pearl struggled to stand up.
The blood from her tummy was already clotting thickly as she smiled drowsily at the woman.
"Let me tell you something... The heaven deities are secretly on the side of the villains. If that's not the case, they should have rewritten the rule and make Caspian unable to get the mantle back, but you see...they love villains. And that's why even in my next life, I'll be reincarnated as a villain, a hot villain!" She laughed derisively, letting go of her tummy.
She staggered.
"You were the last person to use the godslayer sword in your last lifetime. Where is the sword located in this lifetime?" Dominika asked calmly, trying hard to digest every information Pearl is spitting.
"Only godslayers can wield the sword, so the theory that I killed with the godslayer sword in my first life is fake. I used an ordinary sword, and Ryker knowingly allowed me to kill him and Shayla cos he knew Shayla would reincarnate with her fire mantle in this lifetime!" Pearl spilled.
"I've never seen the godslayer sword, I swear! No one has seen it."
Dominika removed the two arrows from Pearl's tummy, and she stepped back once.
"You're not going to put me to sleep like you said?" Pearl asked.
"Putting you to sleep would be a favor I'll never do you. I'm not that kind." Dominika smiled cruelly.
"Then...who are you?" Pearl asked curiously, keeping her distance.
"Dominika Morozov," Dominika replied, lifting herself off the ground.
She touched a stone with her leg, and like that, she left through the stone roof just the way she came.
Pearl fell on the ground, scrapping the small stones with her nails.
"Dominika? The supposed dead demigod mother? Impossible." She laughed, so loud it echoed.
But it was short-lived, and she gasped the moment she stopped.
She stood and started walking out, but she barely took two steps before she crumbled and fell again.
"Since things have come to this, I better prepare for the climax of this second life. I live and die with Ryker no matter what!" She groaned.
She tore a part of her robe and wiped the blood between her legs and the one on her tummy.
She tore a longer part of her robe and tied it on her stomach, crawling out of the palace.
--
[Vipers Household]
Faye brought Rumi here, and Astor joined them after a while.
The three have been here, silently.
Rumi just sat on the bare ground of the room they're in, and as she stared into space with traumatized eyes, Faye and Astor studied her.
"It's worth getting traumatized, I understand." Astor nodded.
"You killed Winona?" Faye muttered.
"Yeah. Faster than I thought, but it only hastened things up, and I like it." Astor shrugged.
"Now you only have Kasia to take care of, and I'll take care of Blaise." Faye replied.
"Are you sure you can really take care of Blaise?" Astor muttered.
"What do you mean?" Faye faced him with a scowl.
"I see the way you've been relaxing around that redhead." Astor replied.
"You know nothing, father." Faye said, avoiding his gaze.
"Why did you two save me?" The expected question finally came from Rumi, and they both faced the girl on the ground.
"Once, I was a poor farmer, and I had a wife who was pregnant with Faye. One night, my wife and I were on our way back from our apricot plantation when i fainted cos of my chronic chest pain. My wife was running to the city to get help when her water broke. She gave birth on the way, and unluckily, she was on the Spectres farmland. They got angry and killed her, also proceeded to kill every member of our household, all because my wife birthed on their land." Astor narrated.
"That didn't answer my question," Rumi stood from the ground.
"It turned out that my wife didn't give birth alone that day. She had help from a woman called Dominika. The woman was her way into the woods when she saw my wife labouring, and she helped, but when the Spectres were approaching, my wife begged the woman to take the baby far away, and she did that."
"When I woke up from my deep fainting, my peaceful household was gone, and I wanted to die, but my hope was rekindled when Dominika found me and handed baby Faye to me. Since then, I have pledged the life of I and my daughter to her." Astor said, finishing the narration.
"Dominika? There's only one Dominika in Luminaria. My mother, and she's dead! She was killed by Azura and Zeke after she gave birth to Ryker, and father buried her in our household by himself." Rumi argued.
"Born godslayers never die unless they kill the gods they were destined to kill. Your mother's body died that day, but her soul simply entered another body. She's alive." Faye said.
"And that's right," Dominika replied from the door, entering.
With quickness, Rumi turned, and her eyes widened so much when she saw the tall giant woman, clad in red.
Her legs soundlessly took her to the woman. She staggered several times before she arrived.
She's already shedding tears, again.
"You're...you're mother?"
"I came from an ordinary family, but I was shocked when I found out I was actually a godslayer. I mean...slayers are hella powerful, the only creatures with the ability to kill gods." Dominika smiled, starting her story.
"But then I got pregnant with my third child. It was simple like a normal pregnancy during the first month, but at the second month, things changed. I guess that was when the mantle entered the foetus's body. I started craving blood, and I started growing the urge to kill my own baby. I tried suicide multiple times, but it was futile, but when the pregnancy clocked seven months, I learnt that I was carrying a god in my tummy. I'm a godslayer, carrying a god? Meaning I was destined to kill my own baby? What could be crueller than that?"
"That realization made me calm. I started thinking of ways to help myself out. Instead of thinking of suicide, I bit myself like a beast, cos I didn't want to hurt my only male child. I fought my slaying urges boldly, then I got an additional ability—the ability to hear thoughts and read minds. I could hear thoughts of people, and that included your father. I read in his mind that after I gave birth, he was going to kill me and steal my baby's powers, so I used that greed against him. I became his Master on call everyday."
"I formed a fake belief that whoever kills the god with the godslaying sword and takes his FrostOrb would have the gods powers and become a Bloody Demon. With that believe, I sent him to the Millions Family cos I knew the sword was there, and it's the only thing that'd kill my baby. My plan is that once he gets the sword and hands it over, I'll destroy it and die with it to protect my baby Ryker, but I never expected things to go so bad to the point of ruining our family."
"So...the theory about the FrostOrb empowering people is also fake?" Rumi asked speechlessly.
"I formed every fake theory. The FrostOrb or FireStone belong to the gods alone, and it won't empower anyone who's not a god. The only beneficial thing about them is their blood. Unless you can catch a god and drain their blood to drink, you can't have any share from their powers." Dominika smiled.
"Damn, I love you!" Rumi ran into her arms, hugging her very tight.
"I love you so much, mother."
"I was always watching you from the shadows when you were still at the motherless camp. I made you realize your spell casting ability that day when the bullies wanted to take your bread pieces." Dominika said.
"It was you..." Rumi broke the hug to look at her face.
Dominika nodded.
"And when Anatoli came to get you, I didn't fight it cos I wanted you to see for yourself who exactly he was, which has already happened now."
"But Xena..." Rumi said.
"I'll get Xena back in my own way," Dominika assured.
"And Ryker. Will he ever forgive me for hating him for years? Will you ever forgive me for being a druggie? I did coke, molly, ecstasy and everything hard." Rumi sniffled, and Dominika smiled, holding her face.
"It's all my fault, and about Ryker...I'm going to get the sword first before we talk about him. He's the legend we have to settle last."
"I understand," Rumi nodded, hugging her again.
"Father siphoned my ability, and I think he took Xena's ability too."
"Your abilities will come back to you both when Anatoli dies, I promise." Dominika assured.
"That was a long reunion," Faye commented, and Faye chuckled.
Rumi hugged Dominika tighter.
--
[Clouds Castle]
Ryker barged in, and Eternus stood from the high chair he was sitting on in his vine room.
"Finally remembered your old acquaintance?" He grinned, but the grin was short cos Ryker pulled his hair, and dragged him to the wall.
"Ryker you can't always solve everything with violence and your hotheaded stubbornness! Your anger issue would solve nothing! You can't always win so let me go! You killed my original body, you can't kill this one too!" Eternus spat.
Ryker still jammed his head to the wall, and the seer bled.
"Ryker! I'm telling you, you can't—"
"Why didn't you tell me about this shitty occurrence? You're a damn seer you should have seen it since months ago!" Ryker demanded loudly, the blue in his eyeballs so deep that it scared Eternus when their eyes clashed.
Also, in the middle of Ryker's forehead, there's a small freezing ice mark that's glittering too.
"Oh no you're loosing it! Ryker! Ryker calm down! Ryker!!" Eternus shouted, but Ryker only jammed his head again, harder.
"Give me an answer, why didn't you tell me!"
"Cos I didn't know!!" Eternus yelled. "I'm a seer but you both are legendary gods. I've been unable to see the future of you and Shayla. It has always been darkness whenever I tried, and that's why six months ago when you bought her as a slave and started feeling her warmth you came here to ask if she was your partner but I lied that she wasn't cos I didn't want the dark future to manifest! I thought if you didn't grow attachment, things would change."
Ryker let go of him, but Eternus grabbed Ryker's robe fast.
"You need to calm down, like calm to the base. This anger would ruin you!"
"Calm and start thinking of her with the real owner of the mantle? Everytime I think about her with him, I run mad! I've ran mad close to a thousand times since I got the realization! I've suffered the ice freezing tribulation for years till she came six months ago to calm my suffering, and now I have to let her and the mantle go for him? Even if I don't do it, I still die!" Ryker laughed, wanting to grab Eternus again.
The seer quickly shifted.
"They think there's no other way?" Ryker smirked, that mark in the middle of his forehead turning brighter. "Well they're in for a pleasant surprise."
Eternus's eyes widened, realizing what he means by that.
Ryker dashed into the room where the FrostOrb is and shattered the glass prism with his hands.
He took the orb.
"I had to take this out of my body 300 years ago cos it was worsening my stupid cold, but now? I'm going to f+kin die with it."
He returned it into himself through the tummy, then he went for the door
"Ryker, I know what you're thinking, but no. You can't..."
He waved Eternus away from the door and vanished out of the castle.
"Ryker!!!!"
--
[Human Realm, Cold-hearted Harem]
Expansion of the harem is going on, and Caspian himself is supervising with his arms behind himself and a big smile on his face.
"Her favorite color is pink, paint everywhere pink, even my own bedroom!" He instructed.
The workers, who have been wondering the kind of visitor he's expecting, exchanged glances.
But they ordered for the bowls of pink paint anyways.
"Flowers too, she loves them. Get from the florist!" Caspian ordered
Another batch of workers started working on creating a flower garden at the backspace of the large mansion.
Caspian sighed when he felt the presence of the head of his spies behind him, and he turned.
It's Rivera.
She went on a knee, bowing after folding her wings.
"I befriended Sadie, and though she's hard to tolerate, but I've been there. Soren's birthday is actually tomorrow, but everyone believes it's still some days away. Only the family are aware of the real date, and I'm aware cos of my bond with Sadie. I've proved my loyalty to the family many times, too. At 12am tomorrow, the sword appears." She reported.
"Interesting. Return, I'll be in Luminaria before the end of today, and tomorrow, I'll claim what's mine." Caspian replied.
Rivera flapped her wings, flying off to the skies.
"I better start prepping my bag of money to climb the ascension ladder." Caspian laughed, rushing down the hall.
--
[Luminaria, Fire Palace~Shayla's Bedchamber]
Shayla has stayed inside alone, nursing her nausea alone by stuffing her mouth with walnuts.
She's not even tasting it on her buds, she just chewed and spit it out to stop herself from throwing up.
She sat in front of her mirror, staring at her own pale face and eyes.
What's happening to her?
This can't be because of her mother's death, Liza ain't that important.
Though, it's somehow painful that Kade is now motherless, but what can actually be done? She's gone.
She's still troubled about the real mantle owner tale, and darkness is fastly covering her bright ray of sunshine, but still...she trusts there'd still be a solution.
So why the change in her face?
Also, her laps are growing more, too. Though not noticeably.
Even her br+à $ts are getting slightly larger, and her nîpples have become so painfully €+ect.
Cheyenne uses Google a lot, so she picked up her phone and searched for her symptoms on Google.
The first thing she saw—pregnancy.
She spranged up from her chair, her eyes so wide.
"Am I really..." She touched her belly, her heart slamming.
If partner gods don't grow a love thread, they can't impregnate each other, so does this mean their love is greater than the love thread?
She's really carrying his baby?
But why was she still menstruating? Could it be part of the goddess hormonal difference stuff?
Maybe that's why the period was so painful. Maybe.
She covered her mouth as tears of joy spilled out of her eyes.
Finally, there's a way out.
She quickly rubbed a scented powder, covering her pale face with the makeup.
She rushed out of the room to break the news, but surprisingly, she found Ryker by the door. He sat there with a porcelain bottle of liquor.
Though he's drinking, he looks sane and fine, and he immediately stood from the ground to hug her.
"Sorry for killing Liza instead of you, I was just too pissed. Couldn't let her live one more day." He muttered.
"Why would I be angry for that? I only felt bad for—"
"Kade?" He broke the hug to place a finger on her lips. "Don't mention his name here."
"I won't, but tell me everything about what's going on, hmm?" She touched his face affectionately.
"Pink Island?" He smiled.
They both vanished.
Cheyenne and Sage appeared at the fireside pavilion, both sitting face-to-face.
"Things are getting messy," Cheyenne muttered.
"I'm scared, for real." Sage said.
"Wait till for 12am for the sword's appearance." Cheyenne replied.
--
[Pink Island]
Shayla sat on Ryker's laps, a table full of fruits spread in front of them. A blue moon sat on the illuminated sky, obeying Ryker's ice color.
It's deep blue, and it's beautiful, casting a mystical glow on the pink Island and making it prettier.
Shayla's head is on his chest, and he's caressing her thighs and scalp with gentle strokes, his head filled with what he's going to do already.
He already narrated everything about what Pearl told him when he was stuck in the life tree, but he avoided the parts about how he'd die no matter the choice he makes.
"I heard there are several Vales for gods. Forsaken Vale, Resting Vale, Judging Vale, Receiving Vale, then on top of them all is the Nine Heavens." She said, playing with the bracelet on her wrist.
"You heard right," he replied, rubbing his nose in her hair, sniffling the flowery hair oil.
The flowers around them bloomed, and the blue moon rotated in the sky
"Why haven't i gained access to any of the Vales before?" She asked.
"Cos you're too soft, Firefly. You have no desire for powers. Your wish is still to live as a human in the human realm, isn't it?" He replied.
Shayla looked up, nodding.
"But maybe if you teach me how to turn cold-hearted like you, I can learn." She muttered.
"Finally decided?" He smiled.
"Cos I want to be with you, and you want that. Even the fire inside me wants that, so I have no choice." She replied, rubbing his ear.
"Then after getting the sword at 12, after my revenge, we get to practice." He replied, and she nodded, giving him a light kiss.
"Promise me that love thread or not, nine heavens or not, you'll stay with me forever." She said.
"That shouldn't be a question," he replied frankly.
"Obeshchay mne, Ray (Promise me, Ry)" She insisted in Russian, her eyes resembling a doe's.
"Obeshchayu, vashe vysochestvo (I promise, your highness.)" He replied resolutely in Russian.
"After we get the sword, I have something to tell you," she smiled.
"Mmm, first time you prepared a surprise, now I can't wait." He smiled
Their lips sealed again, deep and obsessive.
They kissed till they bled, but they ate through the blood.
Ryker's dark thought kept dominating his head. It never changed.
The blue moon poured down from the sky, filling the island with rare divine sparkles.
--
[West Palace, 11PM]
It's one hour before 12, and everyone is already prepared to leave for the East Palace.
That's where the battle for the sword is happening at.
But as everyone appeared down the staircase, Winona was nowhere.
It's just Kasia and Astor, Faye and Blaise.
"Now that I think about it, I haven't seen Winona for a lot of hours." Kasia said worriedly.
"Actually, since she left in the morning. After Astor and Faye left, she followed them and that was the last I saw her." Blaise said.
"Darn, where did she go? This ain't the time to be lost." Kasia picked her phone to dial her.
Blaise picked the Channeler Shell to connect with her too.
"I'm guessing what Rumi told you before was that you should go to the East Palace at 12, get the sword and kill the god to get his orb?" Astor suddenly said.
"It was Xena, not Rumi." Blaise rolled eyes.
"It was Rumi, disguised as Xena." Faye said.
"What!" Blaise dropped the shell.
"And how did you even know what she told me when you weren't here during the whispering?" Kasia looked up from her phone.
"Cos... today is the day of reckoning?" Astor replied with a corny smile.
"Meaning?" Kasia asked.
Faye vanished, and one minute later, she reappeared with Winona's body which she threw on the floor.
Kasia and Blaise screamed.
--
[East Palace, 11:50]
Xena has no idea why the wedding had to be tonight or why it has to be some minutes before 12, but that's the least of her problems right now.
Soren had thrashed her earlier today, and she had no idea how this wedding was planned.
All she knows is that when she regained consciousness, she was healed and she said everything she knew about Ryker. She signed the contract and she was tucked into a wedding robe which she's putting on right now as she walked down the staircase with Soren.
Her legs trembled inside her shoes cos suddenly, she could feel his aura. It's terrible, like death.
It's choking her, and she's scared as fûck, but there's no one to tell.
Not even her father who's among the guests below the staircase.
Anatoli is happy, jamming his palms together with the rest of the guests which only includes family.
Mercury, who's giving her a death stare like a hateful stepsister.
She's almost crushing the glass of wine she's holding.
Sadie, who's also giving her another death stare, and that one already crushed the wine glass she's holding.
Rivera, a neutral guest who's just blank, watching everything and waiting for the right time to snatch the sword for her master.
Esme, Granny Tara and Zeke who look the happiest tonight with their wine cups high.
They're aware that lots of enemies are surrounding this palace now, waiting for the sword to appear so they'd grab, but they have a backup plan for the enemies.
Anatoli can't hide his smile. Tonight, he's taking the sword and nothing is stopping that.
He's going to kill Ryker and Xena and Rumi, waste everyone in this city and then become the greatest richest demon alive.
The plan is grand and unstoppable.
The closer they got to the end of the staircase, the more Xena trembled, and Soren could feel her fear which only made him happy.
"From lifetime to lifetime, I'll haunt you. In the next life, and the next and next." He whispered in her ear just before they descended the last step.
Xena started crying, but no one even saw her tears cos at exactly 12am, everyone raised their glasses.
"Happy married life!" They chorused.
"And happy 341st birthday, Soren. Enjoy the rest of your life in hell." Zeke muttered, pulling out a knife—same one they sliced Jude with.
One second, the knife was with Zeke, and in the next, he threw it.
Soren didn't see it coming.
The knife met his throat, and his blood splashed on Xena's face.
"No!!!!!!!!!" She cried.
"Ren!!!!!!!!!" Sadie screamed.
Soren was already on his knees.
His rabbit Sensei ran down the staircase, but before it could land, Soren died completely.
His body crashed below the rails, blood soaked his red wedding robe, but then he transformed totally.
The image was blurry at first cos of how his body and soul shredded right in front of them, but then...
Slowly, it became clear.
He transformed into the GODSLAYING SWORD.
He's the sword.
TBC.
whoaaaaaaaaaaa
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