2025-03-01 05:15:55The battlefield was still.
For the first time since Titan had turned into a warzone, there was no gunfire. No screams. No destruction.
Only silence.
The Forsaken stood in perfect formation, their silver eyes locked on Kiera. They had once knelt in fear before the entity. But now? They were waiting for her command.
Kiera barely felt them. Her focus was elsewhere.
She turned to Jace.
He was still kneeling in the frost-covered ruins, staring at his hands. His fingers curled, his veins glowing with a new light.
Not silver.
Not gold.
Something else.
Something undiscovered.
Kiera swallowed hard. “Jace?”
He looked up at her.
For a moment, she thought she saw fear in his expression.
Not fear of her.
Fear of himself.
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Jace’s Awakening
Jace exhaled sharply. His breath came out in a visible mist, even though his body temperature should have prevented that.
His senses were too sharp. He could hear the ice cracking beneath Titan’s surface, feel the tremors before they even happened. His vision stretched farther than human eyes ever could.
“What did you do to me?” His voice was quiet, but the tension beneath it was impossible to miss.
Kiera clenched her fists. “I saved you.”
Jace shook his head. “No. This—this is something else.”
His hands trembled. His skin had changed, the veins under the surface pulsing with raw energy. He could feel something burning inside him, a force that hadn’t been there before.
And worst of all?
It felt familiar.
Kiera took a slow step toward him. “Jace, you have to trust me.”
His silver-gold eyes locked onto hers.
“That’s the problem,” he whispered. “I don’t know if I can.”
A low hum passed through the Forsaken. It wasn’t a sound—it was a feeling.
Something had shifted.
Kiera turned to them, her heart pounding.
The Forsaken had always followed her. They had bowed to her.
But now?
They were looking at Jace.
Like he was something greater.
Like he was their true leader.
Kiera’s pulse spiked. “No.”
The Forsaken did not speak. They did not move.
But Kiera felt their thoughts.
He is the first.
He is the bridge.
He is more.
Jace tensed. “What the hell is happening?”
Kiera gritted her teeth. “They’re… responding to you.”
Jace stood slowly. The air around him crackled with uncontrolled power. The energy inside him was different from hers, more volatile, less restrained.
Whatever she had done to him…
She had made him something new.
And the Forsaken knew it.
They could feel it.
Kiera took a step forward. “Jace, you have to control it.”
Jace’s breathing was ragged. “I don’t even know what ‘it’ is.”
And that’s when the ground shook.
The tremors started deep beneath the surface.
The ruins of the old colony began to break apart, ice and metal crumbling as something massive shifted below.
Jace staggered back. “What the hell is happening?”
Kiera’s vision blurred. The entity. It had left, but its presence was still here.
Titan was not meant to exist anymore.
The planet was tearing itself apart.
“We need to get off this rock,” Jace snapped, his voice sharp. “Now.”
Kiera didn’t move.
Something wasn’t right.
The Forsaken were still watching Jace, unmoving, unwavering.
They weren’t panicking.
They weren’t running.
Because they already knew what was coming.
Kiera’s heart pounded. “It’s not over.”
Jace gave her a sharp look. “What do you mean?”
And then—
A voice echoed through the ruins.
“No, it is not.”
A black rift split open in the sky.
Jace felt his stomach drop.
Not again.
Not now.
The entity was gone. It had retreated. So why was the void opening again?
Then Kiera froze.
Because this time, it wasn’t just a shadow emerging.
This time, it was an army.
From the darkness, they came.
Not Forsaken.
Not Guardians.
Something worse.
Creatures that did not belong in this universe. Twisted things of bone and void, their forms barely holding together.
Their eyes glowed with an unnatural blue light.
And the moment they touched Titan’s surface?
The ice did not crack.
It disintegrated.
Jace’s breath caught. “Oh, hell.”
Kiera’s mind raced.
These things were not the Forsaken.
They were something older.
Something designed to erase them.
Titan was not the battlefield.
It was the prison.
And now?
The real war had begun.
Jace raised his hands. He had no idea how his new body worked, no idea if he could fight—
But the moment he did, power surged through him.
Not Forsaken power.
Not Guardian energy.
Something else.
The ground cracked beneath his feet. The air vibrated around him. The creatures hesitated.
Kiera stared.
Jace had no control over it.
But he had power.
A lot of it.
Kiera took a deep breath.
This was it.
This was the moment that would decide everything.
She turned to the Forsaken, her voice cold, sharp, and filled with fire.
“No one kneels. No one runs. We fight.”
And then she turned to Jace.
“Are you with me?”
Jace exhaled slowly.
Then, for the first time since his transformation, he smiled.
“Let’s burn them to the ground.”
And then?
They charged.
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CHAPTER 24: THE UNMAKING
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CHAPTER 23: THE VOICE FROM THE VOID
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CHAPTER 22: THE FALL OF TITIAN
The Sky BurnsTitan erupted into war.Above the frozen wasteland, Guardian warships rained fire from the heavens, their cannons tearing through the icy terrain. Below, the Forsaken screamed in unison—a haunting, inhuman battle cry.Jace ran.He sprinted through the ruins, the battlefield collapsing around him. Shattered ice and molten debris rained from the sky, the very ground beneath his feet cracking from the impact of orbital strikes.But none of it mattered.Not the Guardians. Not the Forsaken.Only Kiera.He had lost her.The moment she rose into the air, silver light crackling around her body, he knew. She wasn’t Kiera anymore.She was something else.And now?She was leading the Forsaken against the Guardians.The war had returned.Jace’s comms crackled. “Jace, do you copy?”It was Commander Vale. A Guardian officer. The one who had given him the signal to call for reinforcements.Jace didn’t answer.Vale’s voice turned sharp. “Do you have a visual on the target?”Jace stopped
CHAPTER 21: THE FORGOTTEN WAR
The Throne RoomThe air felt heavy, thick with a pressure Kiera had never known before.She was still on her knees, struggling to breathe, her mind fractured by the truth.The woman—her reflection—stood above her, silent, waiting. The creatures around them didn’t move. Rows of them stood in the shadows, their silver eyes locked on her.Waiting.For her.Not as a prisoner.Not as an enemy.As their leader.Jace’s grip on his weapon tightened. “Kiera, get up.”She forced herself to move, her entire body shaking.She looked at Jace, and in his eyes, she saw something she had never seen before.Fear.Not fear of the creatures.Fear of her.Kiera swallowed hard. “Jace, I—”He took a step back.“Tell me it’s not true,” he whispered.She couldn’t.Because it was.She wasn’t human.She never had been.And Jace knew it now.---The ChoiceKiera turned back to her reflection—the woman who had once been her.“What… what am I?” Kiera’s voice was raw.The woman smiled. “You already know the answer
CHAPTER 20: THE TRUTH BENEATH THE ICE
The Storm OutsideThe walls of the ship shuddered as something slammed against the exterior.Kiera and Jace barely had a second to react before the ship’s emergency alarms screamed to life.“HULL INTEGRITY COMPROMISED.”“EXTERNAL BREACH DETECTED.”Jace spun to the console, his face pale. “They’re trying to break in.”Kiera’s heart pounded.Outside, the creatures were waiting.Not attacking. Not clawing at the hull like mindless animals.Waiting.Kiera felt it.A cold, gnawing sensation in the back of her skull.They were waiting for her.Jace grabbed a rifle, his voice tight. “We can’t stay here.”Kiera barely heard him. Her skin was burning again. The veins in her arms pulsed with silver light.Something inside her was waking up.She clutched the edge of the console, breathing fast.Then—A whisper.Not in her ears.Inside her mind.“Come home.”Her vision blurred—She wasn’t in the ship anymore.For a split second, she saw something else—a massive chamber beneath Titan’s surface, fi
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