The Devil's Bride
By Rapwizzy Debaron
Episode 80: The Harbinger's Oath
Smoke curled through the cracked skies.
The battlefield was still, but the war was far from over.
Lucian stood in the smoldering silence, Seraphina's hand in his. Around them, allies caught their breath—wounded, but standing. The First Flame had retreated, its form fractured and bleeding ember.
But it wasn't defeated.
Just delayed.
Seraphina turned, her voice trembling with exhaustion and resolve. "We need the Harbinger now… or this victory means nothing."
Gabriel nodded, eyes clouded with prophecy. "She lies beyond the Veiled Labyrinth. Guarded by echoes, sealed by time."
The Chainbreaker grunted. "Then let's break time."
"No," Seraphina whispered. "We don't break it—we walk through it."
Lucian's blade reformed in his hand, now glowing faintly with celestial runes. "Then lead us."
They moved.
The Veiled Labyrinth rose like a ruin stitched from the remains of forgotten worlds. Vines of memory curled around shattered archways. Every step forward twisted time—a heartbeat in the past, a breath from the future. The walls whispered.
"Don't find her."
"Let fate rot."
"She'll unmake you."
But they kept walking.
Inside the labyrinth's heart, the air froze.
She stood there.
The Harbinger.
A girl with moonlight in her hair and eyes that saw too much. Chains of truth wrapped her wrists. A crown of silence adorned her head.
"You found me," she said, her voice soft yet infinite.
Lucian stepped forward. "The First Flame is rising again. We need your power."
The Harbinger looked at Seraphina. "You wear the mark of sacrifice. You know what I am."
Seraphina nodded. "You are fate's first rebellion."
The Harbinger smiled sadly. "And its last hope."
A silence fell.
"I will help you," she said. "But only if you are willing to pay the price."
Lucian's fists clenched. "Name it."
The Harbinger looked at both of them. "One of you will vanish from the future."
The words shattered something inside them.
Not death.
Erasure.
No memories. No legacy. No trace.
Seraphina's voice broke. "There must be another way."
The Harbinger stepped forward. "I'm sorry. That is the cost of changing destiny."
Lucian met her gaze. "We'll pay it."
Seraphina turned to him, eyes wide with sorrow. "Lucian—"
"No," he said softly. "We made this world bleed. We have to be willing to bleed for it."
The Harbinger lifted her hand. Light and shadow twisted, forming a blade of time itself.
"Choose."
Lucian stepped forward.
But Seraphina caught his wrist.
"No."
Tears slipped down her face. "We choose together."
They turned to the Harbinger—hands entwined.
And the Harbinger... smiled.
"A choice made in unity is the most powerful kind," she whispered.
She raised the blade.
And drove it into the ground.
The labyrinth shattered.
A new path opened.
One that had never existed before.
The Harbinger opened her eyes—fully awakened now. "You changed the future… without losing the past."
In the distance, the First Flame roared—aware of what had been undone.
"Let's go," Lucian said.
They walked into the new dawn—not as weapons, not as victims—but as the ones who rewrote destiny.
To be continued…
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