All Chapters of Moonbound: Chapter 151 - Chapter 160

Reality did not explode.It did not burn.It did not collapse beneath the weight of Aria's power.Instead, everything became completely still.Emily could hear Kael breathing beside her. She could hear Elias whispering Stella's name. She could hear her mother's quiet sobs and the First Soul drawing a trembling breath. Beyond them, somewhere impossibly far away, an entire universe seemed to hold its breath.Aria's tiny fingers remained extended.A single point of silver light hovered above them.Then another appeared.Then another.The lights began connecting.Emily watched as the memories surrounding them transformed into something else. They were no longer images of what had happened. They became windows into possibilities.In one, Emily saw herself standing in a city beneath two suns.In another, Kael was older, his hair streaked with gray, sitting beside her on a porch while Elias laughed in the yard.In another, Stella was grown.In another, Emily's mother was young again.In anot

The first wave hit before Emily could think.Thousands of boots thundered across the ruined streets, shaking the ground beneath her feet. The sound was overwhelming, but it was the faces that nearly broke her. Every soldier running toward her wore some variation of the same face she had seen in the mirror for years.Her face.Some were young. Some were old. Some carried scars. Some wore armor. Others wore clothing from worlds she couldn't recognize. A few had wings. One had glowing markings running down her arms. Another seemed almost transparent, as though she were already halfway between life and death.But every one of them looked at Emily as if she were the enemy.Kael grabbed Emily's shoulder.“Move!”They ran.Emily held Aria against her chest as Kael pulled her toward the ruined buildings. Stella followed close behind, while Elias and the others scattered toward cover.A sword slammed into the stone beside Emily's head.She ducked.Another Emily charged.Kael blocked the attack

Nobody moved.For one impossible moment, Emily wondered if she had misunderstood him.The man standing on the roof looked like Kael.Not similar.Not related.Kael.The same eyes. The same jaw. The same crooked smile that Emily had memorized without ever realizing she had memorized it. But there was something different in him. Time had carved itself into his face. There were deep lines around his eyes, a scar across his cheek, and streaks of gray threaded through his dark hair.He looked like a man who had spent decades fighting a war nobody else knew existed.Kael slowly stepped in front of Emily.“You're not me.”The older man looked down at him.“No.”“Then who are you?”The older Kael's expression softened.“I am what you become.”Emily's heart pounded.“That's impossible.”The older Kael looked at her.“So was everything else.”Emily looked at Aria.The baby was still sitting in the grass.She wasn't crying.She wasn't frightened.She was staring at the older Kael as though she r

The laughter did not come from the creature in the sky.That was what frightened Emily.The creature remained perfectly still, its enormous hand suspended above the house, while the sound rolled through the darkness beyond it. It was distant at first, almost too faint to hear, but then it grew louder until the windows of the house rattled and the ground trembled beneath Emily's feet.Kael pulled Emily and Aria closer.“Where is that coming from?”The older man didn't answer.He was staring at Aria.Emily noticed his expression.He wasn't afraid of the creature.He was afraid of her daughter.“What do you know?” Emily demanded.The man finally looked at her.“Everything she remembers.”“Then tell me.”“You won't like it.”“I don't care.”“You will.”Emily stepped toward him.“My daughter is standing in the middle of something that wants to take her. If you know how to stop it, you tell me now.”The man looked at Kael.“You're just like her.”Kael frowned.“Like who?”“Your mother.”Kae

The man's face went completely still.For the first time since Emily had seen him, there was no confidence in his expression. No amusement. No ancient certainty. Only shock.The little girl stood beside Emily, staring at him with the calmness of someone who had just uncovered a truth everyone else had spent centuries trying to bury.“You're my son,” Aria repeated.The man took one step backward.“No.”Emily looked between them.“Aria, what do you mean?”The little girl didn't take her eyes off him.“He doesn't remember.”“Remember what?”“That he was born.”The man's voice suddenly became sharp.“I was created.”Aria shook her head.“No.”“I was created by her.”He pointed at Emily.“She made me.”Aria smiled sadly.“She made the body.”The man froze.“I made the soul.”Emily felt the ground beneath her tremble.The little girl continued.“You were the first child.”The man stared at her.“That is impossible.”“It isn't.”“Nothing existed before me.”“Something did.”Aria looked towar