Soren's pov
My daily job has always required me to do one thing and that's serving.
I work in a nightclub as a server. You might think I work to satisfy customers sexually but no, I satisfied them with my presence.
I'll have to admit, I dance for a living as well. And today, I was asked to dance because the customer wanted me on stage.
Sometimes, I just do it without a care in the world but sometimes, it's like walking through a thin hole and if I don't fit, I end up getting crushed.
I stood behind the curtains waiting for the final signal to move, just then , the lights turned out and the curtains opened and I moved forward.
Going down on my knees, I waited for a few seconds and the lights turned back on. Everyone in the room cheered, loving just how much I made an entrance.
I slowly pushed myself up as I tried so hard to stay happy. I danced and swayed my hips left and right as the beat of the song played along.
They cheered, loving what they saw and what I was doing. I turned around, giving them my back and bent, just enough for my hands to rest on my thighs, then I began to twerk, moving my soft ass and flexible waist up and down.
Then I went lower, let my thighs rest on the cold floor while my hips and waist kept moving. I tore open the small crop that was covering my body and threw it away. Grabbed the bottle of water and began pouring it on my bouncing ass as it hit the floor and back again.
"Such a perfect ass, I want him to ride me on and on again"
I heard them, as they kept ranting, wishing to have me ride them dry of their juice.
I ignored them and continued doing what I knew best, until I could no longer keep on, only then did I stop and excuse myself.
"Wow, Bb you did awesome back there" melody praises as she followed behind, "did you see all those people? The way they stare at you moving like a pro, damn, they are all gone, they are hooked and couldn't take their eyes off you" Melody kept talking, completely oblivious about my change of mood.
I stopped abruptly and she bumped into my back.
"Ouch!" She cried , "sorry, I didn't see you"
"Can you please leave?" I meant to ask nicely but it came out rudely. I was all worked up and her endless ranting wasn't helping.
Melody blinked, "did I do something wrong?"
Realizing my fault, I exhaled deeply, "I'm sorry, I just want to be alone " I reached for her cheeks and caressed it, "please "
Melody understood and she knew me better than anyone. She nodded, smiled at me before turning away and left.
I turned around and walked into the curtains that hung on the wall, separating the room.
As soon as I got to the other side, I was suddenly grabbed by someone and pushed against the wall with so much force that left my back throbbing in pain.
I struggled to fight my way out but the person was too strong. Upon seeing who the person was, my heart dropped instantly when I realized it was no other than Dain, my possessive crazy ex whom I've been trying to push away for days now but he keeps coming back.
"Dain?" My voice cracked, barely audible. I was still in shock. How the hell did he get in?
This place is meant for workers only, how the hell is he here?
"I'm glad you remember me, it would have been a sin if you hadn't" Dain chewed and forcefully attempted to kiss me but I was quick to evade him.
"Do you think you can simply decide to walk away and I let you?" Dain snarled, his strong grip on me causing me pain.
"Dain, you are hurting me" I whimpered, and struggled to push him away.
"And does it look like I care?"Dain spat, "you dare cheat on me with that bastard and you think I wouldn't find out?"
"I never hid it from you, unlike you who pretended to be someone you are not" tears welled up my eyes as I spat out my heart, "I thought I knew you better, but I don't...I never did"
"All this while, you approached me with a fake personality, a fake mask and fake promises and I blindly fell for it... thinking you are better and I was so stupid to let you in" every word that left my mouth was accompanied with a sob.
"And is there something wrong with that? All I did was give you what you wanted...use a warm to catch a fish" Dain snorted.
His words hit me hard, so hard that I came to understand I asked him to be what I wanted and he went with the flow.
It hurts....so damn hard like I'm being roasted in an oven.
"I never asked for anything but love, did you ever love me? Even for the tiniest bit?" I asked but instead of answering, he said something completely insane
"Loving you was never the plan but keeping you, that's all I'm in for and once you are in, there's no F way I'm letting to leave, Soren, you are mine and no fucking person will take you away, not while I'm still all over your hot body" Dain grabbed my hair and pulled it, I yelled a scream.
"I will never let you move on from me...never" his voice was hard and aggressive, almost like an obsessed, consumed and absorbed freak.
And I just realized I dug up my own grave with my bare hands, opening my door thinking it was my savior not knowing the person I invited in was a monster and my own end.
Regret.....that's all I felt as my tears rolled
down my face and I tasted the bitterness and saltiness of it.
For a moment, neither moved.The world seemed to hold its breath. Only the wind dared speak — curling through the ruins, winding between broken archways and the hollowed bones of temples, whispering secrets too ancient for mortals to remember. Dust drifted like pale ghosts between them, glittering faintly in the strange twilight that bled from the torn sky.Soren’s knuckles whitened around the hilt of his blade. His pulse echoed the hum of the steel — steady, sharp, desperate. Across from him, Kaius stood like a shadow carved from grief and fury. Their eyes met, and in that silence lay the weight of everything they had once been — brothers in oath, defenders of a dying light.Now, they were the remnants of a shattered creed.Soren could see it in Kaius’s gaze — not only rage but hesitation, a flicker of the boy he once knew beneath all that armor and bitterness. Once, they had knelt side by side before the Sanctum’s altar, hands bound in pledge beneath the gaze of the old gods. Once,
The ruins stretched endlessly across the horizon.They weren’t just remnants of stone — they were bones of a forgotten age, an ancient carcass left to rot beneath a sky that no longer remembered color. Shattered marble columns rose from the mist like the ribs of some colossal beast, their fractured edges slick with moss, their crowns still smoldering faintly with the memory of divine fire. Between them lay slabs of obsidian carved with runes so old they bled light from their cracks, whispering to the silence that had taken their place.The air was thick, heavy not with smoke or ash, but with memory. Every gust carried the faint scent of old blood and the ghostly echo of prayers that had never been answered. The ground itself hummed — a low, mournful vibration that trembled through Soren’s bones, as if the world were breathing in its sleep.Soren stood in the heart of it, his boots sinking into the damp earth, eyes wide and hollow. The silence here was unnatural — not absence, but awar
When Soren woke, there was no sky.Only white — endless, merciless, and blinding. It stretched in every direction, without shape or horizon, as if the world had been stripped of color and meaning. The air shimmered faintly, cold yet heavy, carrying neither wind nor echo. It felt like existence itself had been scrubbed raw — a blank canvas after the gods had erased their first mistake.He didn’t remember falling. Only breaking.There was a weightlessness to his body, a strange dissonance where sensation used to be. His bones didn’t ache, yet something deeper did — a hollow ache in the part of him that used to pulse with another heartbeat. That ache was Travian’s absence, vast and consuming, like silence after music.He tried to breathe, but the air was dry and brittle. His voice cracked as he called, “Travian?”Silence folded around him. Then, faintly — not through sound, but through pulse — came an answer.I’m here.The voice vibrated inside him, resonating in the marrow of his bones.
The fire dwindled to embers by the time dawn reached the mountains.Its glow, once fierce and alive, had shrunk to a trembling pulse — a fragile heart beating inside a ring of blackened stones. Every now and then, the wind brushed through the ashes, scattering dying sparks into the air like fading constellations.Soren hadn’t slept.He sat beside the dying light, his cloak drawn tight against the cold, his fingers blackened with soot. The smell of char and iron clung to his skin. He stared toward the horizon, where gold met gray — where the new sun climbed slowly out of a sea of mist that still veiled the world below.The valley was unrecognizable. What had once been green and breathing now lay broken and burned. Trees bent like soldiers who’d forgotten how to stand. The ground was a scar of cracks and smoke, thin tendrils rising like the ghosts of what had been. The storm that tore through the night had left nothing untouched.And yet, amid the ruin, there was silence — too perfect,
The wind howled as Soren stood before the Gate.It wasn’t just sound—it was a living force tearing through the mountain’s bones. The storm had swallowed the peaks whole, reducing the world to a blur of ash-gray clouds and jagged light. Lightning clawed across the heavens, its veins carving furious patterns through the sky, while thunder followed like the growl of something ancient and vengeful awakening after centuries of silence.Yet none of it mattered.Soren saw only the shimmer before him—a rippling wall of pale light suspended in the storm, a wound carved between worlds. The Gate. It pulsed like a heart, slow and steady, and in that rhythm he felt something deeper. Beneath his skin, the same pulse answered—a faint echo, fragile but alive. Travian.He took a step forward, boots sinking into the rain-soaked ground. The taste of iron and ozone coated his tongue.“Soren.”Lucien’s voice drifted from behind him, smooth and low, cutting through the chaos with a deceptive calm. He sound
The light swallowed them whole.For a breathless instant, Soren felt himself dissolve—body, thought, soul—until even the memory of pain slipped from his grasp. Then came the quiet. A vast, eternal quiet, too immense to belong to any mortal realm. When he opened his eyes, the world was gone.Only the sky remained.It stretched endlessly in every direction—blue, gold, and black all at once, like dawn and dusk eternally colliding. Stars pulsed beneath his feet as if he were standing on the skin of the cosmos itself, each flickering ember whispering fragments of forgotten hymns. The air vibrated with a sound that wasn’t quite music, not quite language, but something older—something that remembered creation before memory was even born.Beside him, Travian shimmered. His half-formed body glowed brighter with each breath, blurring the line between man and light. The edges of his being wavered, translucent, like a candle caught between life and extinction.“This is the First Light,” Travian m