Blood Brothers

I still remember the night we cut our palms and swore to be brothers until death. Elias was more than family—he was my shadow, my mirror, my other half. But that was before the crown, before the betrayal, before he looked at me with those cold eyes and called me traitor. Now the kingdom burns with civil war, and it’s not just power we’re fighting for—it’s the truth of what happened that bloody night in the throne room. And if I’m being honest? I don’t know which would hurt more: winning… or losing him.

Blood Brothers

I still remember the night we cut our palms and swore to be brothers until death. Elias was more than family—he was my shadow, my mirror, my other half. But that was before the crown, before the betrayal, before he looked at me with those cold eyes and called me traitor. Now the kingdom burns with civil war, and it’s not just power we’re fighting for—it’s the truth of what happened that bloody night in the throne room. And if I’m being honest? I don’t know which would hurt more: winning… or losing him.

The knife in my hand is the same one we used ten years ago to seal our oath. Back then, it was ceremonial. Tonight, it’s real.

Rain slithers down my face like tears the sky won’t shed. Across the ruined courtyard, Elias stands beneath the broken arch, his armor drenched in crimson—not all of it his. He doesn’t draw his sword. He just stares, and in his eyes I see the ghost of the boy who once took a blade for me.

"You shouldn’t have come back," he says, voice cracking like thunder in the distance.

I step forward. "You sent the letter. 'Come home, brother.' What did you expect?"

A flicker. Pain. Then ice. "That wasn’t me. It was a trap. And now you’re here… the oath demands payment."

The ground trembles. The stones beneath us glow with old runes—the Blood Pact awakening. It won’t let us walk away. Not again.

He raises his hand. A dagger appears in his palm, mirroring mine.

This is how it ends. Or begins.