Valkyrie

My name is Seraphina Vale.
Once, I had seven older brothers. Seven protectors. Seven liars.

They said blood was everything. Turns out blood stains just as easy as it spills.

My brothers haven't looked at me the same since that night. Like I'm a sin they can't scrub clean.

Maybe I am.

Because while they've been busy pretending the past is dead, I've been studying the board they tried to keep me away from-

The king, the bishop, the rook, the pawns...
The silent pieces moving in the dark.
The ones who ruined everything.

They forgot one thing.

I learned how to play from them.

Checkmate, bitches.

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They say a Valkyrie comes with fire in her veins and death at her feet. That a Valkyrie is born of flame, with death trailing behind like a loyal dog.
But what if she never had a choice?

Seraphina was cast out by the brothers who once held her with gentle hands and soft promises. Blamed. Broken.

Forgotten.

And the world she was thrown into didn't offer mercy.

It taught her ruthlessness.
It carved survival into her bones.
It turned her heartbeat into a weapon.

Years passed in pain too deep to name.
Years spent learning the truth they never told her-
the truth about the game she'd been thrown into long before she knew she was playing.

A game built on kings and bishops.
Rooks and pawns.
A board drenched in secrets, blood, and betrayal.
A game where every piece moves in shadows...
and every move costs a life.

And Seraphina?
She's done being a piece.

She's the player now.
The threat.

Because one day, she's brought back.

Back to the home that turned its back on her.
Back to the boys who heard her cries yet never came.
Back to the family that let her burn.

And this time, she isn't returning as their sister.

She's returning as their reckoning.
With fire in her veins, death at her feet...
and checkmate already written in her smile.