episode 2: DOOMSDAY PART 2

The first thing I felt was the air. It wasn’t air at all—it was alive. Every breath I took buzzed like static, filled with glowing dust that flickered between my fingers. The ground beneath me pulsed like a heartbeat, moss shifting colors under my shoes.

Sam was sprawled beside me, clutching her head. “Where… where are we?” she whispered.

I sat up. Above us, two suns burned orange against a green sky streaked with swirling constellations. Giant trees made of glass rose high as skyscrapers. Waterfalls of light spilled from floating islands. It was beautiful—but it reeked of danger.

“We’re not on Earth,” I said, still staring. “This has to be their world. The Fairy World.”

Then I heard it—a low, distant roar like a dragon waking. Something massive moved between the crystal trees. Wings flickered in the mist, and I realized the fairies here were different: bigger, sharper, more monstrous. Their wings stretched like blades, their eyes glowed red instead of black. This wasn’t the invasion force. This was their home turf.

Sam pulled herself up. “We have to find Leo. Maybe… maybe he’s here too.”

I clenched my fists. My brother was all I could think about. But my hand still burned from before. When I focused, faint blue flames curled from my palm. Power I didn’t understand.

A figure emerged from the mist. She was tall, draped in white feathers, her wings spanning wider than a bus. Her eyes weren’t voids—they were molten gold. “Outsiders,” she hissed, but her voice sounded like a song. “You’ve crossed the Veil. You are trespassers.”

“We didn’t have a choice!” Sam shouted. “Earth is being destroyed!”

The winged woman tilted her head, curious. Then she raised a clawed hand. The moss around us twisted into chains of vines, wrapping around our wrists and ankles. I struggled, but the vines burned like ice.

“You carry the Flame,” she said, staring at my glowing hand. “A weapon forged before the stars. Only one of your kind every thousand cycles carries it. You will not survive here without a guide.”

“Then help us!” I yelled, tugging against the vines. “Blackout is coming. He’ll destroy this place too!”

At the name Blackout, her golden eyes flickered. The vines loosened. “If the Destroyer crosses our realm, then the prophecy begins…” she murmured. “The human with the Flame. The war of worlds.”

Suddenly a thunderous crack shook the ground. A tear opened in the sky above, and a black tendril of energy reached into the Fairy World like a claw. The trees trembled. The suns dimmed.

She turned to us, wings spreading wide. “Run,” she said. “Run to the Spire before the Eclipse Knights arrive. Only there will you find answers.”

The vines dissolved, and we bolted. Sam’s hand in mine, the ground shifting beneath us, and above, the black tendril reached further, pulling reality apart.

This world wasn’t safe.

It was a battlefield.

And we’d just landed in the middle of it.

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