Get the APP hot
Home / Fantasy / Cursed Duality
Cursed Duality

Cursed Duality

5.0
5 Chapters
27 View
Read Now

About

Contents

Aiden, a half-human, half-Serakyn, has spent his life hiding his true identity. But when his power-hungry half-sister Zara seeks to destroy him, he must confront the dark truth about his bloodline and fight for his survival against a family torn apart by betrayal and ambition.

Chapter 1 Between Worlds

Aiden's POV

The wind whipped against me as I stood on the edge of the cliff, staring out over the landscape as the twin moons cast an ethereal glow over the barren ground below. This world was my prison and my heritage, and somewhere in the sky above was the human side of me I tried so hard to bury.

I was half-human, half-Serakyn, a creature caught between two worlds, and accepted by neither. Always hiding, always feared.

The Serakyns, with their silver blood and unyielding strength, ruled this world with an iron grip, ancient and bound by tradition. Full-blooded Serakyns were known for their purity and power. But I wasn't fully one of them. I was a Nyren, a half-breed.

My Serakyn blood gave me unnatural strength, speed and body built for survival. My human side, however, hidden and despised among the Serakyns. I looked back at how I had struggled to hide this humanity, moments where my compassion and empathy nearly exposed me. They were feelings I could never fully shake, qualities my kind considered weaknesses. I had led a precarious life, always wary of who might discover my human origins and turn against me. My father ensured that my human side was buried, for my survival, he said. But as I look out now, alone in this world, I wonder if it was worth it.

I'd learned to build walls that made me seem untouchable, unbreakable. And I suppose that's what they saw in me. The power and the coldness, the force and the fear. It made me strong, yes. But it also made me a monster in their eyes.

They didn't know how I had to keep that human side hidden, even as a child. I learned young that there were questions you could never answer and truths you could never speak. One wrong word could have ended me. So, I closed off parts of myself. And maybe it worked too well...because now, when I look inside, it's all walls and silence.

But Zara.... Zara was different. A faint smile touched my lips at the thought of her, a rare feeling of warmth thawing the icy fortress I kept around my heart. She was my half-sister, but it was more than that. She was the one person who saw me as something beyond strength and fear. When we were younger, we'd spend hours together, lost in stories and laughter, as if we were the only souls in the universe. For a few moments, I almost felt...whole. Almost believed I could belong. With her, I didn't feel the heavy weight of my secret. I didn't have to be Aiden the Serakyn, or Aiden the human. I could just be.

Yet, there was an uneasy feeling, I always worried that my affection for her could cost me everything. She brought out a gentler side of me, allowed me to be vulnerable, and showed warmth that I concealed from everyone else.

But even Zara didn't know the whole truth. She didn't know what I was, what I carried in my veins. My human side, the side that could destroy me. I knew if she ever discovered it, that bond we shared would snap, fragile as glass. A part of me wanted to believe she'd still look at me the same, that she'd still see the brother she cared for. But another part...the part that kept me alive all these years, knew better.

The sky was restless tonight. Something shifted in the air, dark and foreboding, like the calm before a storm. A faint sound...a distant rumble, or maybe it was just my imagination, echoed through the mountains. My fingers clenched, my muscles tensing, ready. Maybe I'd stood on this cliff long enough. A cold resolve settled in my chest. Whatever came, I'd face it. Alone, if that's what it took.

I took one last look over the landscape, the twin moons casting their ghostly light on the jagged rocks. I belonged to no world and yet, maybe I was meant to protect both. The silence broke only by the faint howl of the wind as I turned my back on the cliff, ready to meet the darkness ahead.

Continue Reading
img View More Comments on App
MoboReader
Download App
icon APP STORE
icon GOOGLE PLAY