THE DEVIL'S BRIDE
Episode 11: The Blood Gate
By Rapwizzy Debaron
The sky cracked open.
Red lightning forked across the heavens as the ground shook with ancient fury.
The Blood Gate… was waking.
Lucien stood at the highest tower, eyes fixed on the horizon where shadows bled into the mist.
"They're coming," he said.
Evelyn joined him, cloaked in a new robe lined with flame.
"The army?"
"No," Lucien whispered. "Worse."
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Beneath them, in the forgotten catacombs, Ethan stirred.
He was healing… but slowly.
"I saw them," he told Evelyn when she checked on him. "In the dark. The things Seraphina keeps in the beyond. They're not demons, Eve. They're... memories. Lost souls turned hollow. And she's leading them."
Evelyn froze. "What does she want?"
Ethan looked her dead in the eyes.
"You."
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Later that night, Evelyn wandered into the old library.
The pendant Seraphina once gave her had started pulsing again.
Stronger.
As if calling.
She followed its pull — deep into the forbidden section, past shelves of bone-bound books and scrolls that whispered when touched.
And there, she found it.
A page torn from the ancient book of fates.
It bore her name.
And a truth no one had spoken.
"The bride is not just the devil's salvation…
She is the key to the human world's door.
Blood-born of both light and flame.
She who opens the gate… will also end it all."
Evelyn staggered back.
She wasn't just chosen.
She was created.
Lucien appeared behind her, quiet as shadow.
"You weren't supposed to find that yet," he said.
Evelyn turned, betrayed. "What else are you hiding?"
Lucien looked away. "You are the last of a bloodline I tried to erase. The line of the Gatewalkers — those who could open realms. My father feared your kind. I... I thought you were gone."
"But I'm not," she said. "And now they're coming for me."
Lucien met her eyes. "Then we fight. Together."
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At the Blood Gate, the sky burned black.
Seraphina raised her hands.
And behind her…
Ten thousand cursed souls screamed in silence.
The war for the Devil's Bride had begun.
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To be continued…
Evelyn's truth is no longer hidden.
Lucien's past is cracking.
And the Blood Gate stands ready to consume.
Vote if you're ready for war.
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