THE DEVIL'S BRIDE
Episode 27: The Devil's Secret
By Rapwizzy Debaron
The wind that night was different.
It didn't whisper.
It watched.
Lucien stood on the cliff's edge, alone beneath a bloodstained moon. His thoughts were storming. That mark on Kael's wrist—he hadn't seen it in a thousand years, and even then, it only existed in myth.
The Mark of the Origin Flame.
A power older than Heaven or Hell.
A power meant to end both.
He had hidden the truth for so long… even from himself.
And now, it was burning in the blood of the boy he'd sworn to protect.
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Evelyn entered silently behind him. Her voice low. "You knew, didn't you?"
Lucien didn't turn. "I feared."
"That's not the same."
He finally looked at her. His eyes weren't glowing anymore. They were tired. Human.
"Kael is not just our child," he said.
Evelyn's heart clenched. "What is he?"
Lucien exhaled, and the air grew colder.
"He is the child of prophecy. Born from a fallen king and a cursed queen. But more than that... he is the vessel."
Evelyn stepped back. "For what?"
Lucien's voice broke.
"For the flame that can burn both Heaven and Hell into silence."
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Back at the ruins, Kael was alone, staring at the mark on his wrist. It pulsed like a second heartbeat.
He heard whispers in his head—ancient, foreign.
"Kael..."
A voice called softly.
He looked up—and saw a figure cloaked in light standing in the shadows.
She stepped forward. Her eyes glowed like moons. Her wings were neither black nor white… but silver.
"Who are you?" Kael asked, his voice trembling.
"I am not your enemy," she said. "I am the guardian of truth."
He blinked. "Truth?"
"Yes. And you must know who you are—before they twist you into what they fear."
She reached out—and touched the mark.
Visions slammed into Kael's mind.
Flames.
Wars.
A crown of ash.
A throne of silence.
He screamed—and collapsed.
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Evelyn felt it from the cliffside.
So did Lucien.
They both ran.
When they reached him, Kael was convulsing in the dust, eyes wide and glowing with unearthly light.
Lucien dropped to his knees, grabbed Kael's shoulders. "Listen to me! Fight it!"
But Kael's voice echoed with a hundred others.
"The Flame remembers."
Evelyn grabbed Lucien's hand. "He's waking up."
Lucien looked at her.
"No," he whispered.
"He's becoming."
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That night, far away, Seraphina stood in a chamber of mirrors.
She smiled as she felt the power ripple through the world.
"The child is blooming," she said.
A voice behind her rasped, "Then it's time."
She turned—and knelt before a throne of glass.
A figure sat upon it.
Face unseen.
Power unspeakable.
The true enemy was never Lucien.
Never Evelyn.
It was always…
The One Behind the Flame.
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To be continued…
A child unlocking.
A secret unraveling.
And a flame that could end creation.
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