The Book of Blood

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The tension is high in the room. Micro is leaning against the wall with his eyes closed. The rest of us look at each other, trying to figure out what the other is thinking. I choose to voice my thoughts. "I'm sure you all know what this means, right? She's betraying us for something or somebody. We have to eliminate her." Belle stops staring into space and her eyes snap to mine. "You can't do that. We've known her for too long and she's not doing anything wrong." Jannelle shakes her head. She walks to Belle and puts her hand on her shoulder. "She's going to try to kill one of us. It's not going to be you either. It's going to be-" I interrupt her. "Me. It's obviously me. Just think about it. I'm the one she's always trying to impress, always the one to "bully" her. It's me." I look at Micro, who looked incredibly bored at the turn of events. I speed towards him and look him in the eyes.
"Is there a way to change our fate? Will it change everything? Surely you would know the answer to these questions?" He returns my gaze with a nonchalant one. The book is blood red with gold lettering on it. The words read In Libro sanguis or "The Book of Blood." He gets up from the wall and snatches the book from Olivia's hands and flips through it. He stops in the middle of the book and beckons us to come over. We gather around him and look into the book. As he flipped through the book and everything we've been through is seen. I saw my childhood memories in the book as well... It was weird. Then we come to one page with only one word. Finis. Flipping the page, we see nothing.

The page was blank. I turned the page and it was blank as well. Micro flipped through the rest of the book and there was absolutely nothing. He slams the book shut and throws it in the air. It floats to a book stand that was in a space between two grand bookshelves. Above the stand, there's a picture with five girls in it. I get closer to look at it only to realize it's us. Olivia's figure was faint compared to the rest of us. All of us looked pleasant with half-smiles except Dominique. She didn't smile at all. I ask, "When was this picture taken?" He points to a gold label at the bottom of the frame. 

Ichor Dynasty (Right to Left): Belle, Olivia, Celene, Jannelle, Dominique 

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We all look at the picture in silence. It was a weird silence, the kind of silence that makes you think of things you don't want to think of.... the painful truth. Belle starts to cry and Olivia disappears to the mortal eye. Now, it's just Jannelle and I, looking at the black and white picture, wondering if we were truly happy in it. We're broken from our daze when Micro snaps his fingers. He shakes his head and says, "You can change your fate, Shadowblade. It's going to change the future. It's going to be a drastic change. Not for you and your mates, but for your descendants." Olivia reappears and Belle's sobs lower to whimpers when he says this. Olivia asks,"How will it change their future?" 

Micro says, "I'll get to that, but first we need to see how your fate is before we change it. Shall we go back to your time to see how it is?" A dark blue sphere appears in front of him with a white clock in the middle of the orb. Olivia turns to us with a pleading look on her face. I look at Jannelle, who shrugs as if she doesn't care, but I know she's worried. Belle's eyes are dry instantly and she's nodding frantically. My mind goes in quick loops.

 I don't want to see how I die. We have to die in the most painful ways. If I want to change my fate, I have to be able to see what happens. 

"Yeah, let's get this over with. I want to change this as quickly as we can." He smiles and says, "Well then, join hands with me." We all get in a circle around the orb and hold hands. As soon as our hands' touch, the lights flicker out. I look around to see we're in the stars. It's calm and refreshing. Then, a star explodes and our hands are pushed apart and we fall into the Earth. On instinct, my eyes are squeezed shut. My back hits the ground and all the air is knocked out of me. 

Slowly, I get up and look around me. Micro appears beside me and explains. He has the Book in his hands and he flips through the book.  "I call this the Fate Film. It shows our fate for now. Again, it can change. So everyone in this film, I call them 'Fate' whatever their name is. So, enjoy the film." 

 There was only a black and white scene in front of me, only showing all of us in color. I see our Past selves fighting against Daniel and Jax H. A and getting sucked into the mural. They arriving at the Future and teleport to our Descendants. We see them get to know the Descendants and learn more about the Future. Everything that we've seen is shown and things change. The scene changes and I'm running alongside Jannelle and Olivia. We're running towards Fate Belle and Fate Dominique who are fighting. Dominique sees them and transitions to her wolf form and tackles Belle. She scratches at her face and Belle screams and a burst of her power throws Dominique off of her. Olivia disappears and reappears behind Dominique. Before Olivia can react, Dominique breaks her leg by sinking her teeth into her knee. Olivia disappears with a puddle of blood in her spot. 

Fate Jannelle and Fate Celene ran in opposite directions. Fate Jannelle runs to Fate Belle, who's holding her eye. It's scratched out. The real Belle beside me gasps. My attention is drawn to Fate Celene, who's fighting against Fate Dominique. It looked as if Celene was winning. Her Rose of Death was glowing a blood red and she was slicing Dominique up. Then, she made a rash move and tried to do stab her paw, only to be knocked to the ground, her sword getting knocked out of her hand. The Fate Jannelle runs towards me and that's when it starts to look ugly.

Fate Celene rolls towards her sword and grabs the hilt of it. She gets up and looks up to Jannelle getting knocked out and ran over. The Rose of Death turns black and she limps, then runs towards Dominique. Celene slices her blade at her, only for it to be countered with one of Jannelle's daggers. They continue to fight. Finally, Dominique throws one of the daggers into Celene's right lung. She cries out in pain and falls to her knees. Fate Celene slices Fate Dominique's face, taking out her eye. Celene grins slowly and says, "That's for Belle, you bitch." Holding her right eye, she throws the other dagger and it punctures Celene's stomach. It goes in slow motion. Celene falls on her side. A huge hole appears and sucks up our Fate selves. 

Daniel is waiting in the Room of Murals and runs to Fate Celene. It goes to a normal speed and Daniel takes both of the daggers out her body and targets Dominique. Both of them hit her heart and she dies instantly. Belle and Olivia carry Jannelle to our room, while Daniel carries me to the Valkyrie Hospital. The scene changes and he's in a hospital room, holding the Rose of Death. A valkyrie comes out and a small baby is in her arms. She speaks inaudible and she gives the baby to him. The scene begins to darken as he holds the baby, shaking.

In a blur, we're suddenly back at the Descendants' house. We see them sitting there, playing on their phones, or working on homework. We don't say a word. We go down to the dead Room of Murals and we sleep there for the night.