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Author: Wednesday Adaire
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The early morning mist clung to the ruins where the veterans had made their temporary base. An eerie silence hovered above the crumbled stone walls, broken only by the distant calls of crows circling the cracked spires. Something was wrong.

Joey walked briskly through the hallway of the main compound, boots echoing over broken tiles. His senses were sharp, every nerve on edge.

“Samuel,” he called, stepping into the training chamber.

The chamber glowed softly, golden light pulsing at its center. Samuel hovered a few inches above the ground, his eyes closed, arms raised, fingers curled as if pulling invisible threads from the air. Light gathered around him like strands of silk, twisting and swirling. It wasn’t just light anymore—there was something deeper in it now, something ancient.

Joey hesitated. “You’ve been pushing yourself too hard.”

Samuel slowly descended, the light collapsing inward and vanishing with a low hum. His eyes opened, revealing golden irises shot with thin cracks of
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    The sky above the veteran community turned crimson.It began with a ripple—a shimmer in the air like glass breaking, followed by a storm of obsidian arrows raining down from a chasm that tore the sky open. Shadows surged from the rift like liquid nightmares, forming the vanguard of Veil’s legion. They marched with purpose. Silent. Absolute.Inside the community fortress, alarms wailed.Joey stood on the northern wall, his armor dusted with ash, his jaw clenched. “They’re coming faster than we thought. Everyone to your positions! No one fights alone!”Below, the last line of veterans assembled. Their bodies were marked by Samuel’s awakening light—tattoos of luminescent gold and deep silver that pulsed when their emotions flared. Some had begun to master their abilities. Others trembled at the surge of uncontrolled power.Samuel stood at the center of the courtyard, unmoving. A strange calm radiated from him, as if he existed just outside the flow of time. His eyes shimmered with pale w

  • 277

    The sun didn’t rise that morning. Instead, a strange violet light shimmered on the horizon, as if the sky itself was holding its breath. The battlefield from last night was quiet now, soaked in blood, dust, and echoing grief.Samuel stood alone on a ridge overlooking the ruined valley. His chest rose and fell with each breath, but his heart beat with something deeper—something ancient. His veins no longer carried only blood, but threads of radiant energy and shadows interwoven in impossible harmony.Behind him, Joey approached slowly. “You’re glowing again,” he said.Samuel chuckled softly. “It’s not light. It’s... something else. I feel them—Light and Veil. They’re watching me now, whispering louder.”Before Joey could respond, a ripple tore through the air behind them. A portal, jagged like broken glass, split the sky open. From it, stepped a towering figure—half-beast, half-light, its face hidden beneath a silver mask. Others followed. Their forms twisted—some scaled, others transl

  • 276

    The battlefield had quieted for a moment—an eerie, unnatural silence, as if even the dimensions themselves were holding their breath.Joey stood on the edge of the breach, light crackling faintly in his palms. The remnants of the Veil’s Legion were dissipating like fog burned by sunlight. Behind him, the wounded were being tended to, and Samuel—still glowing faintly with the golden hue of the Light—hovered inches above the ground, his breathing shallow, his body trembling with effort.He was changing.The golden fractal tattoos that had bloomed across his arms and neck now pulsed erratically, bleeding faint trails of both darkness and light. Something was tearing at him from the inside. Not just power—but presence.Suddenly, a low whisper reverberated across the air—not from a mouth, but from everywhere."You’ve gone far, little bridge. Farther than I predicted. But every gate must be closed."Everyone froze. Even the air thickened. The sky above shimmered, parting like torn silk. Fro

  • 275

    The sky above the battlefield shimmered like a cracked mirror, caught between two opposing forces. Light and shadow bled into one another, pulsing in erratic waves that rippled across reality. The moment Samuel sealed the fracture, anchoring himself as the bridge between Veil and Light, time itself seemed to hesitate—then shatter forward in unstoppable momentum.Joey stood only a few feet away, staring at Samuel with wide, glassy eyes. His breath came in uneven bursts. Something was wrong.Samuel collapsed to one knee, golden light spilling from the runes that had burst open along his spine and chest. His veins glowed. The ground beneath him turned translucent for a moment, revealing glimpses of an alien realm beneath. The Veil had not retreated—it had melded with him.“Samuel!” Joey rushed forward, catching him just as his body sagged forward. “Talk to me. Are you still in there?”Samuel looked up, his irises flickering between pure white and an ink-like darkness. “I… I held it toget

  • 274

    The battlefield trembled beneath their feet, scorched and cracked from the weight of two dimensions colliding. Shards of energy pulsed in the sky like torn fabric struggling to stitch itself whole. At the center of it all stood Samuel—his body a fragile silhouette wrapped in blinding light and devouring shadow.He extended his arms, the trembling of his fingertips betraying the pain lacing through every nerve. Two opposing forces—Light and Veil—coursed violently through his veins, threatening to tear him apart. But still, he stood. Still, he tried."He's not going to make it!" someone shouted behind the barrier.Joey clenched his fists. “Shut up and trust him.”The others fell silent, eyes fixed on Samuel as a sphere of unstable brilliance formed around him. Veins of gold and ink slithered through the air, twisting together—never merging, always resisting. But there was a moment, a flicker, where they pulsed in unison."The fracture..." Marie breathed, watching from the edge of the ru

  • 273

    The sky split into two colors above the battlefield—blinding gold on one side, pulsing violet on the other. Samuel stood at the center, his arms outstretched, his breath shallow, his soul torn.He had made his decision.“I will be the bridge,” Samuel whispered, voice laced with pain and defiance. “Between Light and Veil. Between what was and what must be.”Around him, the land shuddered, caught between realms. The fractured barrier separating Light from Veil trembled, veins of shadow snaking through the air, stitched only by threads of his light. Every heartbeat cost him.Joey screamed from the ridge above, “Samuel, don’t do this! You’ll destroy yourself!”But Samuel didn’t flinch. He turned slightly, his eyes glowing with mirrored pupils—one golden, one pitch black. “There’s no other way. The fracture was never meant to be sealed. It was meant to be… harmonized.”Marie, her loyalty now proven despite past betrayal, stood beside Joey, disbelief painted across her face. “You’re binding

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