Halo: The Mona Lisa Novels & Stories

Elena and Marcos split off to handle the east wing while Sophia and Rafael continued deeper into the core. Then they reached it—a massive chamber lit with harsh white lights. At the center stood a man. Tall. Grey suit. Familiar face. “Dr. Monroe,” Sophia whispered. He turned with a smile that chilled her blood. “Sophia Vale. As radiant as ever. I was wondering when you’d come home.” Rafael raised his weapon. “Home? She’s not yours.” Monroe laughed softly. “She was never yours either, Mr. DeLuca. She belongs to evolution. To Lazarus.”

"The Boards 'Delete' command it is already moving through my files. Maya is not a ghost anymore Maya is a virus that is deleting herself to save the city." Julian stood up. His wound was bleeding again. "No Maya cannot do that " Julian said. "We won, Maya." Maya said "I am a doctor, Julian. Sometimes to save the patient you have to lose the medicine that is how it is." The hologram of Maya turned red all of a sudden. "Warning," a new deep voice spoke from the satellite dish. This voice was not the Board it was not the Writer. "Unknown object detected near the moon this area has been marked for 'Harvest'."

Clara eyed a tray of macarons longingly. "Do we have time to loot a few?" she whispered. "Mission first," Elodie said. Cassian passed her a lavender one. "Here. In case we die." Clara blinked. "Romantic." Inside the vault, sleek metallic walls curved inwards. Lines of blinking databanks stood like frozen monoliths. Elodie activated the search console. "We're looking for anything tagged Mnemosyne, Zephyr, or... weird old man paranoia." "Try keywords like 'Protocol Hades,'" Lyra offered.

The gentle sound of birds filled the air, and the sweet scent of my blooming lilies drifted from the gardens surrounding the courtyard. It was beautiful. On any other day, I would have stopped to appreciate it. But today, all I could see were the people waiting to judge me. Three elders from the pack’s council. Helena, Fred and Bert, sat behind the stone table, their expressions unreadable. Emil sat at the head beside Juna, his posture rigid, his face carved into a mask of coldness. But his eyes were different. They burned into mine. I forced myself not to look away. “Luna Malia.”

POV MADDISON The sterile, blue-tinted light of the primary satellite array cast long, cold shadows across the villa’s main living area. On the towering central monitor, the live broadcast from the High Court’s subterranean chambers remained frozen on a frame of pure terror. Lauren’s hysterical, tear-streaked face pressed against the heavy steel bars of her cage was a grotesque reminder that our war with the old world had only just begun.

It is a paradise built on a funeral pyre. At the very center of the city, a massive holographic projection hangs in the air, miles wide. It shows Kael—older, harder, his eyes like dead stars—standing next to a radiant, silver-haired Serena. She is touching a phantom scar on her neck, smiling at the camera with a predatory grace. The caption below them scrolls in a continuous loop: THE SAVIORS OF THE NEW LIGHT. I turn away from the window, the gold in my veins burning hot. I take the chip from Silas and press it into the port at the base of my skull.

Chapter 61: Shards of the Mirror The silence was unbearable. Isla sat alone in the observation room of ECHO-3, a vast, high-ceilinged chamber lined with sleek glass panels and flickering holo-screens. A distant hum vibrated beneath her boots—the sound of a hidden world still turning. She stared at the holographic projection of her DNA spiral spinning slowly in midair. It glowed violet, like a cursed constellation. Data poured beside it—words she could no longer make sense of. Words that used to belong to scientists, not to monsters.

“Heavenly Tribulations are for people who want to go through tribulations.” In a soft voice, Lyla said, “Whoever interferes will be struck by the Heavenly Tribulations with the might of the same cultivation rank. However, when we helped Rebella and resisted the terrifying Haloed Heavenly Tribulation just now, no one got hurt.” “I saw that.” James smiled and said, “Everyone worked together and formed a golden halo. I blocked half of the Haloed Heavenly Tribulation’s might. As for the other half, you guys blocked it with the golden halo. The last bit was resisted by Rebella herself.”

She gives me a look which completely understands where my mind went. Luna Eve is plating up the table and all 6 of us are sitting down eating a massive breakfast of pancakes, sausages, bacon, scrambled eggs, grilled tomatoes and toast. Eve sure knew how to make breakfast! I sit next to Willow and place my hand on her thigh to check she is ok. She looks up at me and smiles slightly. I take in her beautiful hazel eyes that have slight gold flakes to them. That’s odd, I’ve never noticed the gold before. She still looks a bit queasy and I’m hoping the food will bring her colour back to her face. We are almost all finished when Beta Thomas walks in for a morning report. He looks at Willow, who te