Eliza (Book 1)

.+* Chapter 6 - Replace *+.

A year had gone by.
Sofia's View:
* Grim, I have no purpose here! Let me do it..!

He grabbed my hand.

"And let you go again? Sofia we're siblings, we can stick together now!" He was serious.

* We both know we want to be with our lovers Grim. I'll replace her...she'll replace me. We'll see each other again, I swear!

The portal opened. Eliza's soul was in my hands.

"SOFIA, STOP!"

I smiled, cupping his cheek.

* She chose the person ever.

The portal began to close, I had to. Grim's eyes watered as I stepped through the portal, Eliza's soul starting to take the form of a woman. I waved goodbye as the portal closed completely.

Eliza's View:
That bright light came again. Had Ellie taken my soul again...?

* Ellie why-

Grim faced me with watery eyes. He deserved happiness...I hugged him, promising him I'd never go again.

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We got home and we all hugged. Zir was happy to see everyone happy again. I baked cookies, we all needed it. We talked together, Mia glancing over at me every once in a while.

* Where's Ellie?

Grim looked at me, confused.

"You still want something to do with her after everything that happened?"

I smiled.

* It wasn't her fault Grim, it's harder for her as her feelings are... artificial I guess you could say. They're not her own.

We continued our lives as normal, Ellie returned back eventually. I helped her to understand herself more, with the help of Mia and Zir. I went to another timeline to go food shopping when the worst thing happened.

Ellie's View:
That stupid piece of sh%.

* Piss off Tord, you're irrelevant to me.

Tord stared at me, smirking. We hated one another so very much. I wanted to kill him right then and there.

* Ellie calm down.

* Shut up, Mia. I know Tord has been manipulating Grim into gaining his trust.

Tord disappeared. Where has he gone?

* I'll never-

I froze in my place as Tord stabbed right through my soul. Everything went double and blurry... I blacked out.
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Grim had left with Tord, he trusted him fully. Only to be drowned in hate and sorrow...separated from existence...from everybody else who could possibly save him. Everything he could've seen disappeared.

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I opened a portal and walked back through with food bags. Nobody was home. Perhaps they were in the forest? I looked about. No one. The barrier?

I stepped out, the sun looking gorgeous as it slowly went down, the sunset glistened in my brown eyes. In the corner of my eye, I saw a hand twitch.

* ELLIE!

I ran to her, checking her pulse. Her soul was badly damaged, definitely a knife or a sword or a scythe...who had hurt her so badly?! I dragged her to the boat and we went home. My magic couldn't...no, don't use magic. I called Sofia, and she knew what to do. I sent Ellie to the afterlife to heal and called Grim, but he didn't reply. Nobody replied. Where was everyone?!

Days went by and Grim was nowhere to be seen. Ink had scanned everything corner and Grim's presence wasn't anywhere to be found. No proof he was alive or dead. What had happened..

Everyone was miserable without Grim. The TV was simply filled with interviews of close friends and silence. I took a walk outside a week later and nobody showed a single sign of happiness. It had affected everyone greatly...I couldn't bare to see the misery, it hurt my heart to see everyone so miserable and broken. I had to take action.

I had to break my only promise to myself.

I closed my eyes, raising my hand. A purple aura filled the entire timeline and my magic rose within everybody. I had to change this awful reality. I had to show happiness to them all. The spell drained me but when I was finished, I put my hand back down and looked outside, people talking and being happy! Positivity filled the air.

But my head throbbed.

A few weeks later Ellie was able to come back. She was always tired but her soul was close to fully recovering.

* How are you feeling, Ellie?

She showed me a text from her phone as she snuggled deeper into the blankets.

Ellie,

You need to talk to Eliza, her magic is making the multiverse unbalanced. We'll come over tonight and talk to her if that's alright.

Thanks Ellie

Dream.

* Friday what's the time?

'It's 7:30PM, Eliza.'

A portal opened in front of me with Dream and Ink coming out. Dream smiled but Ink didn't looked so happy.

* Eliza we need to talk about this...reality changing issue.

* Ink, no we don't.

* It's weakening the timeline balances and unbalancing the timelines in this multiverse, Eliza...

I glared at them.

* I'm not changing anything.

* Eliza please! You have to be understanding here, we wouldn't be warning you if it wasn't having a negative impact.

I couldn't see so many people unhappy. Even Dream started to frown...and he never did.

* It's ok, I'll fix it all. Then, we can all be happy!
I smiled at them. Dream came up to me.

* You don't have to do this, Eliza. Every loss will always have a phase of misery but it gets better, I promise.

Purple auras rose around them.

* Eliza what are you doing?!

I expanded the magic. Dream could be happy with his brother again and Ink could be happy with no timelines being destroyed by Error! More and more timelines around me all went into my control up to the point...the multiverse what controlled by me. I couldn't undo this...I couldn't do all this for much longer...

* Eliza!
Ellie rushed over to me as I weakly fell to the floor.

MOTHER, NO!

D-Dylan?!

Ellie WAIT!

How could you do this to me, Grim.

It was so much, it was doing my head in. Ellie tried to get me to get up.

* Ellie, st-stop.

* Get up Eliza!

I glared at her with purple, burning eyes. It was so much magic to output. But I had no choice, I had to make everyone happy.

No matter my pain.