BLOOD BOUND [NOVELETTE-COMPLETED]

EPILOGUE

Luna opened her eyes to see the True Gate Guardian. Her face is void of any emotions. She looked at him and bowed her head.

"I had finished my mission." She said with her monotone voice.

"Don't you want to see how it ends?" The guardian said in a kind tone. He was tall—even taller than the gates. Luna is only as tall as his hips. She was a tiny Goddess next to him.

Luna didn't respond.

The reality is, once someone is about to cross the True Gate, the person will be void with any emotions. She will be free from any feelings a living being can feel.

"Don't you want to see how our Father Almighty responded to you?" finally, Luna shifted her gaze and gave the guardian a simple tilt of the head. "Why don't you see for yourself through the looking glass?"

The guardian motioned her to look at her back, she did.

She saw Reddeline and her two daughters, Mojarru and Sunny, helping those who turned back from being ghouls. Those who hadn't have ripened yet to stay as ghouls. There are also those who are too late to cure, The Comandrus' and the Alpha teams unfortunately need to kill them.

Luna remained emotionless. She watched them clear the fire as well.

The scene changed.

Luna saw Stephanie clearing up the cafeteria, and a red headed child who's staring at one of the vampires from the back. She's performing a relaxing hypnosis. She's making sure to ease the trauma from each of the victims Stephanie has been protecting since earlier.

Another scene replaced the other.

Luna saw Mikaela with Linda and a child with pure white hair. Mikaela and Linda are both helping those creatures kept as prisoners in the chambers. Luna saw an elf with only half of her body remaining. She knew that it is a form of elf sacrifice. The elf could have done it to herself to help the others since she's the only one with such damage. The question will remain as a question for Luna herself lost all her power and gift as she stands in front of the True Gates. She stood emotionless.

She's almost passed the emotion test of the Gate Guardian. For if an emotion became present, crossing is not possible.

But then again, there was it, the trigger.

She saw the most familiar face of all she had seen, crying. Her heart skipped a beat. She felt her blood running through her veins. She blinked multiple times, tears blurring her vision and mouth gapped.

"Travis." She sobbed.

She fell on the cloud floor and held her mouth with both of her hands. Her tears falling generously down her cheeks to her chin, down to her lap.

There was a huge smile on her face while she was teary.

Travis is holding a little boy and a little girl in his arms. He was crying while kneeling on the stadium's cold floor.

Luna's heart feels both happy and in pain. The Almighty had answered her prayers. To have the love of her life happy despite her goodbye—He had given him their children. The sad part is she will no longer be by his side to take care of their kids.

Luna extended her hands to the screen and smiled genuinely. "Thank you, Father." She said crying. "Thank you."

Her smile died down as she saw something hit her daughter. Travis didn't have the chance to dodge it. "No!" Luna and Travis screamed.

Her daughter disappeared like fairy lights in different sizes and colors.

Travis jumped out of that place with his eyes flaring with anger.

Luna had her eyes shaking. A baby silhouette formed on it before her daughter finally is in her arms. She had her eyes shifting from the screen and her daughter.

She just died, Travis lost another love of his life. She can't even imagine how pained Travis is.

Her daughter started to float from her arms. She tried grabbing her but her hands went through her daughter's body. She sobbed. "No, please, she can't die yet. Travis needs her there. Please." She shook her head while crying.

"Moon Goddess, you should look at the screen." The Gate Guardian said.

Luna shifted her teary eyes to the screen. It was Ciero. She felt anger flaring inside of her. Ciero gave her the demon blood that made her mad before. She caused chaos because the blood acted like a drug that made her hallucinate.

She forgave her. She forgave her for doing what she did but Ciero is mad. She had consumed the blood herself and unlike Luna, Ciero couldn't stop herself from being consumed by the drug.

Ciero ate her daughter to become a different kind of ghoul herself—she's a half wolf and half elf cross breed who consumed her daughter from the chief she just used to bear a child. She started making vampires into ghouls and eating ghouls to become more powerful.

She even used Zallus' lost soul to act as the front. She made Zallus believe that he would be the one consuming the ghouls to be a God.

She also threatened Loona by using a planted curse that would hurt her blood bound Eiji. Because of it, Eiji made it sure to find a cure to the curse which he found with his blood mixture to Luna's.

Ciero was standing in front of Travis with Agus' head on her palm.

"It's funny when you people believe that I'm in love with someone or I'm doing this for someone." She chuckled. "I am the Night Goddess. I serve myself." Her laugh echoed.

Travis had his six blood wings showing. He held his child in a protective hug.

"You, I knew Luna couldn't do that without any reason. You poisoned her." Travis' jaws locked. "You forced Luna to kill herself and now you even killed our daughter!" Travis opened her eyes. His eyes are now all red.

Droplets of blood went around him too fast.

Ciero tilted her head. "Do you think you can defeat me? A Goddess had died without even having a chance to put a single scratch on me and you? A mere nephilim?" She snorted. "Fine, hope is the only thing that keeps my enjoyment of playing with you people alive."She stretched her joints. "Shall we—"

Ciero's eyes widened as the bloody fairy lights before once again became assorted. They all heard a baby's cry.

Luna couldn't help her tears from falling she saw her daughter next to his brother once more. She couldn't understand why or how but she was there. Her daughter is crying.

More lights showed.

"What is this?" Ciero whispered. A light fell on her shoulders and it sting. "ah!" Her face reflected horror. She dodged the lights.

Their babies cried in unison.

Luna cried with them in the other side. She can rest peacefully now.

Ciero cursed and disappeared—probably fleeing.

"I can peacefully enter now, thank you." She smiled at the guardian.

"Your emotions have gotten back. You know the rules, Moon Goddess. You can't come through the gates just yet."

Luna looked at the guardian with tear stained eyes. Her smile got bigger but is still shaky. "Father had given you another mission. Finish it and then go back to cross."

Just like her daughter, she floated, too.