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The Shadow Rises
Author: Jovial chirpy
last update2025-09-04 15:15:16

Kael’s voice cut through the silence. The shadow moves again! He stood by the cave wall, his staff trembling, his one eye scanning the glowing rift in Dracolys-East’s Eternal Cave. The dawn sky darkened, the valley’s air heavy with a cold breeze, the four-day darkness lifting into a tense morning. Ten knelt before the rift, the Tear of the Last Dragon pulsing in his hand, his green eyes narrowed with focus. Helena gripped her hammer, her blue eyes steady with a forming plan, while Liora held Ten’s side, her face tight with concern. Sari clutched a stone, her green eyes darting, and Torin raised his warhammer, his broad frame tense. Lira flexed her fists, her silver hair damp, as the Four Kingdoms’ fighters gathered, their spirits wary.

The silver shadow grew from the rift, its form stretching like a web, its red eyes glowing faintly. Veyra’s voice echoed, promising strength. Your power will serve me. The land guardian rose, its golden light steady, facing the shadow’s advance. Ten fel
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  • The Voice In Everything

    Helena's hammer spoke first."Forty-three Vocans. Seventeen possessed soldiers. Six corrupt officials. One innocent man." The metal hummed. "His name was Markus. Three children. They think he was a traitor. Should I tell them the truth?"Helena dropped it."I can't shut up. I'm in everything now. Every weapon. Every tool. I know their histories." The hammer laughed. "Want to know what your father's sword did? The things he never told you?"Helena threw it at a tree.The tree spoke. "That hurt. Two hundred years growing. And you throw metal at me."Helena ran back to camp."It's in my threads," Weave said, terrified. "The new VOID. Reading everything I see.""Can you block it?" Kael asked."No. It's part of reality now. Part of everything." Weave clutched her head. "It knows about Mordain trapped in paradox. It's thinking about freeing him.""Don't," Ten said to the air.Liora's dragon scale pulsed. "Why not? He's honest about his hatred. More honest than bearers pretending redemption

  • No more Trust

    "And we don't deserve forgiveness. Don't deserve mercy. We deserve execution. Deserve to face the same horror we inflicted on others. But before we die, let us fix it. Let us unmake what we made. Let us end the VOID properly. Then judge us. Then execute us. Just let us undo the damage first."Ten's corruption broke completely. He collapsed. Himself again. Free from Mordain's control. "You want us to help you? After learning you caused everything?""No. We want you to use us. Sacrifice us the way we sacrificed billions. Take our power. Our essence. Our everything. And use it to permanently end what we began." Devol looked at Kross. "Right?""Right," Kross agreed. "We're weapons. Use us to kill our own creation. Then dispose of us however humanity sees fit."Mordain screamed. "No! You're ruining everything! Confession doesn't absolve! It just exposes weakness!""Maybe," Devol said. "But it also breaks corruption. Look."Ten and Liora stood together. Themselves again. Free. The paradox s

  • The Bearer's Confession

    Kross demanded proof before leaving his farm."Show me Devol's alive. Show me Mordain's returned. I won't abandon my life on words alone."Weave held up the dragon scale. "This is connected to Ten and Liora. Watch."The scale blazed. Images formed. Devol fighting. Wounded. Bleeding essence. And Ten and Liora, corrupted, attacking him with blank eyes."No," Kross whispered. "Mordain actually did it. He corrupted a sacrifice.""He's doing worse," Helena said. "He's using them to hunt down every bearer. You're next on his list.""Then we leave. Now. Before—"The farm exploded.Not with fire. With absence. A chunk of reality just ceased existing. The barn. The fields. The fence. Gone.From the hole stepped Mordain. Ten and Liora flanked him like trained dogs."Kross," Mordain said pleasantly. "Been a while. Ten thousand years, give or take."Kross pushed his grandson behind him. "Leave. Please. The boy's innocent.""No one's innocent. Everyone's complicit in the lie." Mordain gestured at

  • The Scar's Truth

    "Ten's screaming," Weave said, clutching the dragon scale. "In the paradox. He's screaming and I can hear it through the threads.""Then we move faster." Helena pushed through exhaustion. They'd been traveling for eighteen hours straight toward the Scar. No rest. No food. Just running."I can't keep this pace," Torin gasped, stumbling. "I'm not built for this.""None of us are." Sari grabbed his arm, hauled him forward. "We do it anyway."The Scar appeared ahead. A massive wound in reality. Black. Empty. Wrong. Just looking at it made Helena's eyes water."That's where we're going?" Mara asked."That's where Devol hid whatever can stop Mordain." Weave stopped at the edge. The ground just ended. Dropped into nothing. "We have to jump.""Jump into concentrated VOID?" Kael stared at her. "That's suicide.""Maybe. But Devol survived it long enough to hide something. Which means there's a way through." Weave held up the dragon scale. "This is our anchor. As long as we hold it, we stay conn

  • The Forgotten Bearer

    Six months after Ten and Liora became paradox, Weave found the hidden chamber.She'd been searching the Eternal Cave, reading threads that led to places that shouldn't exist. Following whispers of knowledge the dragon had left behind."There's something here," she called to Kenal, who explored deeper tunnels. "Behind this wall. Something old. Something sealed."Kenal approached, wings folding against the narrow passage. "I don't see anything.""That's because you're looking. You need to feel." Weave pressed her hand to solid rock. "The dragon hid this. Deliberately. Before it transformed.""Why hide anything from us?""Maybe it wasn't hiding from us. Maybe from itself." Weave's eyes tracked threads that spiraled into the stone. "There's a memory here. Locked away. About the ancient bearers. About what really happened.""We saw what happened. You showed Ten and Liora the memory. The division. Therha's rejected plan.""We saw what the dragon wanted us to see." Weave's voice dropped. "Bu

  • What Remains

    Helena picked up the dragon scale. It was warm. Pulsing. Two rhythms overlapping like echoes."They're gone," she said. Her voice cracked."No." Weave knelt beside her, eyes tracking threads that shouldn't exist. "Not gone. Changed. They're everywhere now. In everything. I can see their consciousness spread across... oh.""Oh?" Sari demanded. "What's oh?""They're in the paradox. The space between yes and no. Between existing and not existing. They're conscious but not present. Aware but not here." Weave's face went pale. "They can see us. Hear us. But they can't touch. Can't speak. Can't be.""That's not living," Torin said. "That's prison.""It's sacrifice," Mara corrected, tears streaming down her face. "They trapped the Devourer inside themselves. Became its cage. And cages can't move. Can't change. Can't escape."The sky was clear now. No descending horror. No thousand hungry eyes. Just stars and the merged reality's impossible colors."We won," Helena said. "Why doesn't it feel

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