I'm You But Stronger Novels & Stories

You can feel it, can’t you? The energy here… It’s power. Draw it in. Let it flow through you. You’ll grow stronger. You’ll surpass them all. I shut my eyes and kept walking. Temptations like this, I could resist. Being stronger than everyone else wasn’t what I wanted. I just wanted to survive. Then another voice slid through the fog, sharp as a blade. Have you forgotten how powerful you felt when you killed Desmond?

“One more round.” I crack my knuckles too. We clash again. Sweat drips down my face. My legs burn. But something in me—some fire I didn’t have before—keeps me going. I’m no longer the broken girl who ran away from her rejection. I’m someone new. Someone becoming stronger every single day.

‘You are stronger than you can imagine, my love. My breath shudders as the words echo in my soul. Stronger. Stronger. I clutch onto them like a lifeline, refusing to let them slip away. A fire starts to burn inside me, slow at first, like embers being coaxed to life. Then it grows. It spreads, surging through my veins, licking up my spine, igniting something I thought had long been extinguished.

I just wish I could erase everything and rewrite it. ‘No! No! No!’ A voice inside my head roared firmly. ‘I cannot let myself suffer just like that again. Lizzy, remember the promise. You need to be the best version of yourself and you will become stronger and invincible. You will rule the world, change the law.’ I tell myself, finally dragging my body into a sitting position.

Her words made perfect sense, and I might have been doing it unconsciously. "So what am I supposed to do?" I asked, eager to know how I could get stronger. *Stop seeing yourself as weak. Embrace the memories of this body; merge them with your own. You have the instincts of a warrior right at your fingertips, but you’re afraid to use them because you think you’re still that girl who died without a fight. If you keep resisting, you’ll never unlock your true potential.* Akira was turning into a mentor of sorts, but her words made sense to me.

I'm stronger than you, I can fight back, I know I can. Without realizing it I was crying in the middle of my room, not of sadness, but of relief, I was so relieved to finally realize that I could do more, that I could defend myself, that I actually wasn't afraid of my room, that I could go on living, and I could be happy, because I knew, I knew that someone could beat my monsters when I had no more strength, I had been fighting alone all my life and now finally someone could fight together with me, but first, I had to ask him if he was willing to do it.

What else could I do if I was this strong? I turned now barring my teeth at him. “Think you’re stronger than me then?” He cracked a wide grin once more. “Run…” the wind whispered again. “I’m not impressed.” He shrugged and dared turn his back, “Until you shift back you’re still nothing to me.” How do I shift back? I took a step forward but fell once more. He was right, I was still useless. My false sense of strength was fading and I was just here nothing special. “Shift back now!” He growled flashing back at me his eyes glowing bright blue.

I’d panicked and if it hadn’t been for David and Trent, I would have been kidnapped. I had to get stronger. It was the only thing I could think of as I was going to sleep. I’ll get stronger. I won’t go back. I won’t.

“Are you ready for that?” “I want to be stronger. You said you will make me stronger.” “I said I will help you get stronger, no one is going to make you what you are not, that’s all up to you. But I can help you and guide you to be what you want to be and in this case, stronger.”

“You want me to be cruel? Ruthless? Exactly like you?” A dark, dangerous smile curved his lips. He reached out, tracing the line of my cheek with the back of his finger. His touch burned against my skin. “I want you to be stronger than me,” he corrected, his gaze locking onto mine with absolute certainty. “One day, I will not be here to stand between you and the world. One day, I will not shield you, fight for you, or destroy anyone who looks at you wrong. I need to know—when I am gone, nothing and no one can ever break you. That is the greatest gift I can give you. Strength. True power.”