Heir of Storms

The air over Forks changed. No longer just thick with mist, but saturated with potential. Something stirred in the ionosphere — a surge of possibilities.

Raiko sat cross-legged in the grass behind the Cullen estate, her eyes closed, hair drifting weightlessly despite the absence of wind. Each breath she took seemed to pull thunder closer.

Power had always come naturally to her since her rebirth. But now, it was changing — becoming responsive.

"I'm not just holding lightning," she murmured. "I'm becoming the storm."

Rosalie watched from the porch, arms folded, worry lacing her golden eyes. "You're pushing it again."

Raiko opened her eyes. "If I'm to face what's coming, I need more than raw force. I need control."

Alice stepped beside Rosalie, her gaze fixed on the sky. "Control comes with time. But we might not have time."

Raiko stood. The moment her bare feet touched the ground fully, pulses of violet light arced out in a ring around her.

The earth answered.

"Then I'll force the time to come to me."

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At the college, things had gone silent. Professors called out, students whispered, and Raiko noticed fewer people around her each day.

Whatever had appeared above Forks had unsettled more than just the supernatural.

Whispers of visions, hallucinations, voices in white noise — they spread like fog.

One evening, a young man named Darren approached her. He was pale, jittery.

"You're not… normal," he said.

Raiko didn't deny it.

"I saw it," he continued. "A shape in the clouds. It spoke in tones like bells breaking. And I saw you — glowing."

Raiko met his gaze. "Do you feel harmed?"

He shook his head slowly. "No. Just awed. You're part of it. The future. But not ours."

Raiko let him walk away.

Not everyone feared her. Some worshipped her already.

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Back in the Cullen home, Carlisle handed Raiko an old scroll sealed in wax. "A contact from the Amazon coven sent this. They say the last time the sky changed like this, the world cracked."

Raiko broke the seal. Inside were diagrams. Glyphs. A tale of an ancient entity: Tempus Aeterna — a judge of timelines, drawn only to those who disrupt causality.

Her existence — a reborn soul in a foreign body, wielding otherworldly power — had summoned it.

"The anomaly isn't just here to correct you," Alice said. "It's watching whether you rewrite fate itself."

"I already have," Raiko said. "But I haven't broken it."

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That night, thunder rolled with her heartbeat.

Raiko walked into the woods alone. At the center of a grove, she extended her hand, calling not lightning, but legacy.

From the ground rose a blade. Violet, elegant, humming with divine stormlight.

Her sword — a manifestation of her will.

She gripped it, and the world pulsed.

Memories surged — not hers, but Raiden Shogun's. Thousands of battles, timeless stillness, endless rule. She inherited not just form, but a crown.

The storm crowned her.

The air parted. The anomaly's voice echoed through the trees again.

"Heir of Storms. Your claim begins."

Raiko lifted her blade, the clouds above curling toward her like worshippers.

The sky had found its goddess.

And the countdown had begun.