FELICIA VS THE ICE ELVES
The portal's glow shifted —
No longer the swirling green of lesser beasts.
Now it shimmered pale blue.
Cold mist rolled across the burning street, hissing where it touched fire.
Felicia felt it immediately.
A chilling pressure.
A foreign will.
Then they stepped out.
Tall, elegant, horrific.
Skin like carved ice.
Hair white as snow.
Eyes frozen blue, empty of mercy.
Ice Elves.
One spoke in a language she didn't know —
Yet somehow understood through its intent:
> "Capture her. She will kneel."
Another hissed, golden rings on his fingers glinting:
> "The fire one survives nuclear flame. Valuable."
Felicia's stance tightened.
"No," she growled.
The first elf blurred forward — faster than a human eye could track.
Felicia reacted on instinct:
FWOOM—
A sphere of fire erupted point-blank, engulfing the elf.
He didn't scream…
He simply turned black, cracked, and crumbled into falling charcoal shards.
The others stepped back sharply.
> "She kills easily."
"She burns hotter than expected."
Their voices echoed with cold malice.
Felicia shot forward, wings of fire lashing out.
She slammed both palms together, summoning a wave of heat that rolled toward them like a desert storm.
The elves countered instantly—
Each raising a hand.
Walls of ice erupted from the ground, crashing up with thunderous force, splitting the burning street apart.
Her fire met their ice.
Explosion.
Steam everywhere.
Felicia staggered back from the shockwave, coughing, flames flickering.
She had been reborn minutes ago — her body still unstable, her powers too raw.
An elf appeared behind her—
CRACK!
Ice cuffs clamped around her wrist, freezing her skin instantly.
Felicia screamed as frost climbed her arm.
The elf whispered:
> "Submit."
She spat fire in his face.
The ice shattered, but the cost was high—
Her flame dimmed.
Her vision blurred.
Another elf struck from the side —
A spear of ice slashing across her ribs.
Blood hit the ground.
Felicia stumbled.
Her knees buckled.
She clenched her fists —
But only sparks came out.
The elves closed in, forming a ring.
One smiled cruelly.
> "You will serve."
Felicia exhaled shakily.
Her wings flickered out for the first time since her rebirth.
She tried to stand, but her legs trembled.
More elves poured out of the portal.
Dozens.
Too many.
Felicia's heart hammered.
She knew—
She couldn't win this fight.
Not now. Not like this.
With the last of her strength, she ignited the ground beneath her — a burst of flame exploding like a small sun.
The elves shielded their faces, hissing.
Felicia turned—
Staggering through smoke and burning debris—
And ran.
Her breath was ragged.
Her vision doubled.
But she forced her body forward.
The elves gave chase, icy magic snapping through the air —
But the city's shattered ruins gave her cover.
Felicia dove between broken walls, collapsed buildings, crawling through molten debris until—
She disappeared into the smoke.
The elves reached the spot too late.
Their leader hissed in fury.
> "She escapes.
Fireborn always return.
We will hunt her."
They stepped back toward their portal, preparing to summon more troops.
Meanwhile, far away, hidden beneath twisted concrete and glowing embers…
Felicia collapsed, clutching her bleeding side.
Exhausted.
Burning.
Alive.
And aware that the world had just found a new enemy.
ALEX — INTO THE DARK WORLD OF TWO MOONS
The blast that shook Siberia felt like the earth itself tearing open.
The snowfield cracked beneath Alex's boots, splitting like glass. A roaring wave of heat washed over the frozen wasteland, turning the horizon into a blinding white flare.
He raised his arm, trying to shield his face—
But then the shockwave hit.
CRACK—BOOOOM!
The ice shelf collapsed.
Chunks of frozen earth crashed into the abyss.
Monsters — the ones he had been fighting moments earlier — slid screaming into darkness.
Alex barely kept his footing.
Then—
Silence.
Only the soft, eerie sound of falling snow.
A blue glow appeared ahead.
Faint at first…
Then widening.
A portal.
The same portal the giants had come from.
Alex stared at it.
Chest heaving.
Hands trembling from battle and fear.
He had already killed several giants, blood drying on his torn jacket.
He had already chosen the second orb, feeling its rage drilling into his bones.
He was no longer a coward.
But what stood before him?
This was something else.
Alex swallowed, breath fogging the air.
> "If the monsters came from that…
Then maybe there's a way to stop them."
He wasn't sure if he believed himself.
But standing here doing nothing would mean waiting to die.
He stepped forward.
One boot crossed the glowing circle—
Then his whole body was pulled through.
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THE OTHER SIDE
Alex fell onto cold, black soil.
Not snow.
Not ice.
Ash.
The air was crisp, sharp, painfully cold — like inhaling ground glass.
He lifted his head—
And froze.
Above him hung two full moons, one pale blue, the other crimson.
Both huge.
Both heavy with ominous light.
They illuminated a world of endless shadows.
A forest surrounded him — but not like Earth's.
The trees were twisted, leafless, branches like skeletal fingers reaching toward the sky.
And everything was pitch-black except the faint glow reflecting off the two moons.
Alex got to his feet slowly.
His breath rose in steaming clouds.
His body ached from the fight with the giants, but the Berserker orb inside him pulsed…
alive…
hungry.
His heartbeat sounded like drums.
Thump. Thump. THUMP.
The forest felt alive.
Watching him.
He took a step forward—
Snow-like ash crunching under his boots.
Another step.
The silence was suffocating.
Then—
Something moved between the trees.
A shape.
Tall.
Broad.
Breathing heavy.
Alex's muscles tightened.
Another shape appeared on his left.
And another behind him.
Their eyes glowed faint white in the dark.
Not giants.
Not human.
Something else.
Alex clenched his fists.
> "Alright…
Come on.
I'm still standing."
The creatures stepped closer — shadows within shadows.
Alex inhaled deeply.
The Berserker inside him roared.
His fear melted away.
Replaced with fire.
He lowered his stance—
Ready to fight in this dark world illuminated by two moons. But a thought came to mind move so he ran