『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ+ •*.』JOSHUA LOVED WATCHING COOKING CHANNELS ON A QUIET SATURDAY NIGHT.It wasn't particularly his favorite hobby but he enjoyed the cuisines the 21st century has so far offered. Pizza however still rivaling all things. One of the perks of being a 300-year-old Vampire, he imagined.He followed the human's instructions on the television screen precisely, while whipping another culinary masterpiece. "Too easy." He proudly scoffed. If he wasn't a guy that builds houses for a living, he would've taken off as a hot shot sue-chef. Even Scarlett would agree.He was very comfortable with her and her friends by the lakeside during their meteor shower party. And according to Gadiel and the Betas, no Alpha Vampires were spotted or sensed in the area. In fact, they were none sighted the day before yesterday. Which Joshua had to admit, was a really strange pattern.'What is Jagger up to?' He thought. Josh knew the Vampire King wouldn't regroup his disciples just like that. Th

『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ + •*.』 "HEY...WAKE UP..." A quiet voice whispered out to Scarlett, but all she saw was the enveloping darkness surrounding her. 'Where am I?' Her voice echoed out into the abyss. "Hey, hey...wake up. Sister, wake up." Scarlett somewhat struggled to do what the voice instructed. She felt restricted, caught in some invisible string. She felt uncomfortably wrapped around it like a tangled marionette. Her beating heart thumped as her anxiety began to skyrocket. She couldn't recall any event before when a gang of snake hybrids ambushed her and her friends. She began to stiffen as she remembered Shawn being stabbed by that blonde serpentine woman. What happened after that? Where was everyone? Did she actually get nabbed by those snakes? She didn't remember herself getting taken, so where was she? The voice that kept calling out to her somehow felt...recognizable. "Aurora! Get up else I will face our King's wrath by my own self." Scarlett's eyes stalked wide an

『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ꜰɪᴠᴇ + •*.』 ~THE VERY MORNING... Scarlett's 18th birthday was on the coming Tuesday. And she was getting scared by the second. She couldn't sleep throughout the entire early Sunday morning. She wasn't sure if she was sleepy anymore. Maybe her Vampirism was already starting to change her state of sleep, now she won't have dreams anymore. The only thing she will probably have are her mother's memories from now on. And what Garrix said stuck to her. "Simple. We help Scarlett control her abilities and let her fight off Jagger." Even though Kairos and Shawn explained what happened to her, she still couldn't get through to herself that she had abilities from not being a Vampire. But a powerful being that possessed mystical abilities that differed herself from humans and Mythic. The Crimson Bride. Scarlett still hasn't grasped all this knowledge yet. Her head rested on the soft pillows of the bed as she reminded her back to earlier. _________________________________

『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴ •*+.』 JOSHUA PERCHED ON A ROCKY CLIFF OVER PALISADE HILL. The forest around him was completely silent. His lips were stained in squirrel blood as he took his time to calm his anger while having the rodent's fluids. He's been outside since that night, it's probably been almost 10 hours since he's been staring at the exact same view. Joshua didn't really concern himself with time at the moment. He figured the mountainous views of Pastonville would ease his nerves. It was one of the best views in the whole town. Originally founded by him and his twin sister when they were little. He could still envision the memory of once long ago. The only difference was the cliff wasn't smaller as it was. Centuries of rock rotted away into the plunge pool below, yet the cliff however still looked the same. Joshua picked up a stone from the rock as vivid memories of his ten-year-old self throwing a rock out to the chasm water below. There were days that he wished Aurora was s

『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ɴɪɴᴇ+ •*.』EMERALD GREEN EYES GLISTENED AS THEY FLICKERED WITH A GREAT REALIZATION.Seated on his dark medieval throne in his grim stony castle, shielded from the harsh rays of the morning star was Jagger. Not long ago, the Vampire King sent Cora to find the bride but returned a failure. The Paradoxical Medieval Realm was a replica of the 15th century of the mortals' medieval time, a piece of a timeline broken and turned into an abandoned multiverse existing outside the current timeline.It was made by The Great Merlin, who sacrificed himself to trap Jagger and every other Dark Mythic. The Realm honed no mortal, which left the Alpha Vampires to starve to death. So one by one, his army reduced in numbers. And the sun was always open, either day or night. So the Alphas couldn't walk out if they wanted to. This was Merlin's punishment. And gruesome it is.However, they found a fatal flaw within Merlin's endless spell.The paradox between the main timeline and the realm