All Chapters of Rosie's Bloom: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

Aria POVThe moment the words leave my mouth She’s coming the hall freezes.Silence folds over everything, thick and suffocating.Even the runes on the floor dim, like they’re bowing… or bracing.Ares’s arm tightens around my waist.Clara steps forward, storm humming low like a warning growl.Both ready to fight.Both ready to burn the world down for me.And because of that…because I can feel their love anchoring me…I don’t collapse this time.I stand.My balance doesn’t sway.My glow doesn’t flicker.My heartbeat doesn’t stutter the way it used to.Because the merge has reached a point where I can feel everything the storm inside Clara,the gold inside Ares,the divine space inside myself…and the rot inside the goddess.She’s close.Too close.Her presence slithers across the edges of the hall like oil on water thick, hungry, cracking the realm with each breath she takes.She is weak.Wounded.Cracked from the backlash of the ritual.But she is still a goddess.And she is

Aria POVThe light fades enough for me to see her again.The goddess.She’s still standing still towering still stitched together from shadow and fractured divinity.But something is different.She’s… smaller.Not physically, but in presence.Like the world isn’t bending for her anymore.It’s bending for me.And she feels it.Her form flickers, edges warping, as though reality isn’t convinced she should still exist. Her eyes white voids cracked with ancient madness fix on me with something I’ve never seen from her before.Not fury.Not hunger.Fear.The goddess speaks my name like a curse.The syllables grind like stone against metal, wrong in her mouth, wrong in her voice.“That’s not my name,” I tell her quietly.She freezes.Ares steps closer behind me, gold crackling at his fingertips.Clara stands at my right, lightning dancing across her shoulders.I feel them both their warmth,their power,their fear,their trust.And I feel something else.Deep inside myself.A space

Aria POVThe goddess isn’t stepping back because she’s afraid of us.She’s stepping back because she finally understands something terrifying:We aren’t breaking the cycle.We’re changing its rules.My heartbeat is a wild, painful drum against my ribs as I stand between Ares and Clara my anchors, my halves, my impossible family.The goddess studies us like she’s seeing a mistake in the universe she didn’t intend to create.“Ares of the Lunar Guard,” she murmurs. “Storm-child. Moon-child. Your convergence will tear the realms apart.”“No,” I whisper, stepping forward.“It will make them whole.”The goddess’s eyes sharpen into long, slitted crescents.“You believe the merge is a bond,” she says softly.“But you do not understand. The merge is consumption.”A shiver slices down my spine.Clara’s lightning spikes at my side.Ares’ gold flares hot behind me.“I won’t be consumed,” I say.“You already are.”Her hand flicksAnd a wave of energy slams into my chest.I stagger but Ares catche

Aria POVThere is no ground.No sky.No up or down.Only motion slow, inevitable pulling me toward a center I can’t see but can feel in every flicker of my soul.The merge isn’t chaotic anymore.It’s rhythmic.Measured.Like breathing.Like a heartbeat.Not mine.Not Clara’s.Not Ares’.Something bigger.Something forming.The goddess we’re becoming.But I’m not afraid.Not anymore.My body feels distant like I left it somewhere safe and warm.My memories feel like windows I can open or close with a thought.But my emotions?They are here.Sharp.Clear.Alive.Clara’s storm brushes against me, looping around my essence playfully, protectively.Ares’ gold coils beneath us, lifting, anchoring, strengthening.I drift toward them without moving.Or maybe we’re all drifting toward each other.“Aria,” Clara’s voice reaches me, soft static across my edges, “you’re glowing like you swallowed a star.”I laugh a weightless, airy sound that carries sparks through the merge-space.“I feel like o

Aria POVThe first thing I feel is quiet.Not silence just quiet.Like the universe is holding its breath around us.Clara’s storm isn’t slamming against mine anymore.My moonfire isn’t trying to contain her.We’re not fighting.We’re not clashing.We’re not separate forces trying to dominate each other.We’re folding into each other.Softly.Slowly.Like two tides meeting in the middle.I feel Clara’s memories brushing mine the burn of her childhood scars,the coldness of her first kill,the ache of wanting to belong.She feels mine the loneliness,the hope,the fear,the longing for something I couldn’t name.We don’t trade memories.They just… blend.Her pain doesn’t override mine.My warmth doesn’t drown her.We balance each other like we were always halves of the same pulse.And then the third presence glows between us.Brighter now.Steady.Defined.Her awareness unfurls like petals opening underwater, slow and luminous.Her first emotion hits me hard:Curiosity.Then:Love.