THE DEVIL'S BRIDE
Episode 31: Flames of Truth
By Rapwizzy Debaron
Darkness.
Silence.
Then… a voice.
"Open your eyes."
Kael's vision returned slowly. He was still in the burning forest—the same dream-trial where the child version of himself had questioned him.
But now, he wasn't alone.
Lucien stood there. Not the man he knew, but younger. Softer. His wings still white. His crown still gold.
Kael stared, confused.
"You're not real."
"I'm a memory," Lucien's image said. "One you were never meant to see."
The forest trembled, and a flash of flames revealed another figure—Seraphina.
But not as she was now.
As she once was.
Innocent. Beautiful. A guardian.
"This…" Kael whispered. "This is before the fall."
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MEMORY
Lucien and Seraphina stood beneath the celestial tree, hands intertwined.
"You believe we can stop the war?" she asked.
"I know we can," Lucien replied. "If we bind our powers—angel and demon—we create balance."
"But the gods won't allow it."
"Then we defy them."
They kissed.
And in that kiss, a curse was born.
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Back in the burning forest, Kael stepped back.
"What is this?" he demanded.
"The truth," the child version of him said. "The truth they buried."
"What truth?"
"That you are their consequence."
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Outside the trial, Kael's body began to glow.
Lucien watched with horror.
"He's waking up," Evelyn whispered.
"No," Lucien said, voice shaking. "He's changing."
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Inside the vision, flames circled Kael like a halo.
His heartbeat echoed like thunder.
"I choose…" Kael repeated.
"…not just to save…"
"…but to know why it all began."
The Flameblade rose into the air.
And transformed.
From a sword… into a crown of light.
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Seraphina stumbled back.
The barrier around Kael shattered.
He descended from the air, wrapped in glowing embers, his eyes no longer mortal.
Lucien dropped to his knees.
"My king," he whispered.
Evelyn covered her mouth in awe.
Selah bowed.
The battlefield stilled.
Even Seraphina froze.
Kael's voice boomed like prophecy:
"The true war begins now."
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To be continued…
Secrets unlocked.
Pasts revealed.
And Kael no longer walks in anyone's shadow.
Vote if Kael's transformation left you breathless.
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