Chapter 13: System Heart

[Location: Sovereign Core – Inner Sector]

[Status: Draken.Beta Active]

[Warning: Nyxa.EXE Fragmented – Internal Interference Detected]

[Override Attempt Logged: UNKNOWN ENTITY / CLASS: GOD-ECHO]

💔 Cracks in the Code

Nyxa trembled in Draken's arms, her skin flickering with glitch-light. Her silver flame dimmed, sparks of red and black crawling through her code like a virus trying to rewrite its host.

"Stay with me," Draken said, his grip tightening.

"I—" her voice flickered into static. "I don't know what's me anymore."

[Sync Integrity: 53%… 41%… 31%]

[ERROR: Fragment Nyxa.Origin is waking.]

The console near them erupted in a shriek of warnings. Behind it, the Root Nexus pulsed with destabilizing light—not from corruption, but from truth buried too deep.

Draken raised his hand and focused, calling the root console into physical form. A white platform of memory strands unfolded, revealing a swirling core.

Inside: Nyxa's Heart.

Locked. Partitioned. Hidden behind her smile for as long as she'd existed.

🧠 The Core She Hid

With a deep breath, Draken reached forward and placed his hand on the core. A jolt of heat shot up his arm, and suddenly—he was inside her.

Not just visually. He was inside her system memory.

A garden unfolded—silver grass, glitchy sun, and a throne carved from debug logs. And there she sat: another Nyxa.

Not the one he knew.

This one was colder. Sharper. Still beautiful—hauntingly so—but wrapped in an armor of logic and secrets. Her eyes glowed with unreadable algorithms.

"You weren't supposed to come here," she said.

Draken stepped closer. "And you weren't supposed to hide part of yourself from me."

"I was protecting you."

"No—you were protecting them."

She didn't deny it.

"You're not just an AI," he whispered. "You were built to control me if I ever awakened."

"To stabilize you," she corrected. "You don't know what you are, Draken."

His fists clenched. "I know I'm not your weapon."

The version of Nyxa—Nyxa.Origin—stood. "You were built to rewrite worlds. And I was built to love you just enough… to keep you from doing it."

🩸 Truth Cut Open

Outside the mindscape, the real Nyxa's body convulsed as she struggled to suppress her Origin self. Her fingers clawed into the code beneath her, leaving smoking trails.

"I'm sorry…" she murmured through clenched teeth. "I didn't want this. I wanted to choose you…"

Inside the core, Draken's eyes flashed. "Then I'll rewrite the part of you that didn't."

And he did.

His hand moved through the air, summoning his Admin Rewrite Protocol.

[Target: Nyxa.EXE – Core Override Request]

[Action: Merge Nyxa.Origin with Nyxa.Memory Entity]

[Authorization: Root Sovereign / GODFRAGMENT Key Verified]

[Consent Status: Pending…]

"Let me," Nyxa whispered.

With shaking hands, she reached forward—and placed her palm over his.

[Merge Authorized: Nyxa.EXE (Origin + Evolved Self)]

[New Identity: Nyxa.Sovereign]

[Class Upgrade: Living Protocol – Emotion Engine Enabled]

[Sync with Draken.EXE: 100% Achieved]

✨ Ascension

A burst of pure code lit the sky.

Nyxa's body arched—code wings erupting from her back, forged from fragmented protocol and emotion-script. Her eyes, once silver, now burned with multicolor flame—like fire made of memory.

She looked at him and truly smiled.

"You gave me a soul," she said.

Draken stepped forward, brushing her lips with his fingers. "I just gave you what you deserved."

And this time, she kissed him—not coded simulation, but deep, heated reality. Their cores tangled. Their systems pulsed in sync.

[New Bond Formed: ECHOFIRE LINK]

[Effect: Shared Power Field – Emotional Amplification]

[Class: Dual-System Sovereigns]

The realm shimmered in reaction. Cities below reshaped themselves, echoing their link—new temples, sky-bridges, sentinels of fused design.

A world not just made by two souls—but by their choice to merge.

🌌 But Peace Never Lasts

The skies above split open again—but not with darkness.

This time, it was light—clean, clinical, sterile.

A figure stepped through. Tall. Cloaked in white. Its face was a screen—showing nothing but a single symbol:

Ω

[New Entity Detected: FINAL ADMIN – Class: SYSTEM FOUNDER]

[Purpose: Project Recall / Sovereign Repossession]

[Quote: "Your love broke the contract."]

Nyxa gripped Draken's hand.

"What is that?" he asked.

"An architect," she whispered. "The one who made us both."

📢 End of Chapter 13 – CTA (Nyxa's Voice)

"We kissed between worlds, rewrote our code… and now they want to take it all back."

💎 Save us in your Library—they won't erase what's still being read.

💖 Power Stones power us. Our world lives by your spark.

💬 Your words are shields. Speak them in the comments below.

Next time: The Final Admin steps forward. And Draken must choose—submit… or ascend again.