Chapter 8

As the fight continued in the real world, Selenia had awoken in a dark place. She didn't have to guess where she was as she had been to that place many years ago. Selenia picked herself up and began wandering around the darkness. after wandering around for what seemed to be hours, she began to try and force her way out. her first attempt was to use her magic but in the end failed. her second attempt was brute force and instead exhausted herself. She fell to the floor and began to yell out of frustration, if there was one thing she hated it was puzzles.

Selenia decided that she had enough and was about to use brute force again. that is until she felt a sharp pain on her shoulder, it felt as if she was stabbed in that area. she didn't pay much attention to it as a door appeared in front of her while being lit by a lantern. seeing as it was the only difference in her surroundings, she grabbed the doorknob and opened the door. when the door swung open a white light swallowed her and soon she found herself in a distant memory. it was the memory of her getting cheated on by her fiancé, it was also the day when she lost some of her emotions.

she no longer felt joy and would keep to herself. to Selenia she felt indifferent to this memory as she learned that love was useless in the world. the memory soon shifted to her trying to kill herself. She used poison, stabbing herself, falling from the 3rd floor, but nothing worked. something was preventing her from dying, and so she locked herself away. in her time in solitude, she learned politics, war strategies and sneaking around undetected.

Her surroundings changed yet again except this time her past self was standing inside a popular bar located in the city of Ishra. the bar was famous for its talented bards going there to play, it was also how those bards became popular and rumors about them spread. But there was one that stood out the most, some called him A Musical Genius while other called him The Glutton of Music. Selenias past self glanced around to where a man with fair skin, light blue hair and royal blue eyes. he was wearing a white dress shirt, a dark blue long tailed waistcoat, black trousers, and elegant black boots. he also wore a black cloak so he wouldn't stand out much.

he sat on a tall stool on a small stage holding a lyre. Selenias past self sat down at the bar and ordered some ale, and waited for his performance to finish. by the time he did finish, Selenia was already on her 20th bottle. The blue haired bard noticed her and sat down on her right while ordering a bottle. "Are those story's you tell true?" Selenia asked as she continued to drink. "you could say that." he said as he grabbed the bottle and stared at it with sorrow. "isn't it dangerous for a hybrid to be drinking this much?"

the man continued as he let go of his bottle and took Selenias away. "hey give that back." she screamed as the man was holding the bottle in his right hand. "ugh fine, but how'd you know I'm a hybrid?" the man put down the bottle and smiled at her. "i didn't, I just made a guess, but your not denying it so I was right." the man then started laughing. in her drunken state, Selenia took the opportunity to take back the bottle of ale she was drinking from. "hey, you shouldn't be drinking that, you might die." Selenia started to laugh at his concern and then looked him right in the eye. "if I did die then it would truly be a blessing but since I can't, drinking my problems away will suffice."

the blue haired man looked at Selenia with kind eyes and decided to stay with her until the bar closed. after a couple hours Selenia was on her 40th bottle while the blue haired man had finished around 4 barrels worth of ale. At that point she was rather drunk and was putting up a fight cause they had to leave. "but I don't want to leave, this place has the best ale I've taste in a while." the blue haired man started to laugh at her comment. after about an hour Selenia was out cold and the memory soon shifted to another one.

she found herself standing on what looked like to be clouds. the sun shining ever brightly making her cover her eyes with her arm. that's when she saw it, her arm covered in scars. her attention then focused on someone who looked exactly like her except she had two sets of angelic feather wings on her back and her eyes were golden yellow. when it looked like it was looking at her the place full of clouds changed to that of a disgusting dungeon. the woman who looked exactly like her was chained to the wall while being covered in bruises and scars, her once clean silver hair was now tangled and her bright golden eyes now dull.

her clothes had also be torn exposing deep cuts and blood on her pale skin. Selenia looked at her with pity, her heart growing heavy at the poor condition of this angel. it wasn't long until two people entered the woman's cell and began to torture her, the woman's screams were ones of pain. "Now that your wings are cut off, what do you plan to do Fiammetta. tomorrow will be a special day, so at least try to look happy in front of our master."

"you think you've beaten me, think again Michelle. even if you replace me i'll still be stronger than you." the golden eyed woman said to the woman who wore a blue long dress with armor on her chest, legs and arms. her hair was that of a golden brown color that would reached down to her shoulders. Michelle simply scoffed at her words and soon disappeared with the person next to her, who was wearing a white hoodie that was covering their head and body. Selenia dropped to her knees and began to cry as she ignored the intense pain from her shoulder. it wasn't until she felt a hand on her head that she felt at peace but that sensation didn't last long as she was overwhelmed by pain again.