Annouhis chapter will focus on Risebelle

  Risebelle’s thoughts were ed by the overwhelming surge of her Water Magiergy, memories from her past life began to resurface, like fragments of a broken mirror.

  ’I’ve seen their cruelty,” Risebelle thought with a deep-seated anger surfag . ‘Humans, driven by their ambition, their thirst for power, and their willio trample over anyone in their way... I’ve wit all.’

  Risebelle delved deeper into her past life memories, she found herself transported to a time when she was just a college student. She had returned home one day, her heart heavy with the weight of her mother’s expectations.

  Her mother, a stern woman, wore a disapproving face after examining Risebelle’s report card. It was all A’s? So what was the problem? It wasn’t all A’s. A single B had tarnished an otherwise respectable record of grades, and her mother’s eyes bore into her like twin daggers.

  “This isn’t good enough, Risebelle,” her mother scolded, “We won’t get out of this life of poverty if you keep sg off.”

  Risebelle, her frustration boiling over, couldn’t tain her anger any longer. She looked her mother in the eyes.

  “I’m tired of this, Mom,” she retorted, her words ced with bitterness. “I ’t keep living my life acc to your pns and expectations. It’s suffog.”

  Her mother’s face grew even colder, like a gcier advang on a sunny day. “You think you know better than me, huh? You’re just a child, Risebelle, and you don’t uand how the world works. I’m trying to secure a future for us, and all you do is rebel.”

  “Rebel?” Risebelle scoffed, throwing her hands up in exaggerated disbelief. “Mom, I got a B in Advanced Quantum Psychics ,so ‘not’ in Sg Off!”

  Her mother crossed her arms. “A B is still a failure in this household. We aim for perfeaybe if you speime trying to sneak animals in and more time studying, we wouldn’t be having this versation,” her mother snapped back icy

  Risebelle paced around with fury and looked at her mother, her eyes bzing. “And maybe if you speime making me live your dreams, I’d have the ce to find mine!”

  As soon as the argumeed, the front door swung open, and Risebelle’s father stumbled into the house. He was a tall figure with a gruff demeanor that often turned votile when he had been drinking.

  At first, he attempted to interveer scratg his head. “Enough, you two,” he growled. “We don’t his right now.”

  However, as tensions fred between Risebelle and her mother, he quickly lost i in pying peacemaker.

  “Ah screw this shit, I need a smoke and a beer...”

  He retreated to the kit, leaving mother and daughter to their heated dispute.

  Risebelle’ trembled in the tinuation, “You’re both so focused on your own desires and problems that you don’t care about the pain you’re causing each other or me!”

  “Life is tough, Risebelle. You’ll uand one day when you have to provide for yourself. Now shut up!”

  Risebelle’s life had taken a different turn from the days of heated arguments with her mother. Ieenage years, she had bee the shining star of her school. Her academic achievements were nothing short of remarkable. She held the title of A Ranked girl among her peers.

  The day she received her perfect report card, adorned with praise from her teachers and a long list of aplishments, was a moment she had been w tirelessly toward. As she walked down the school hallway, her friends and cssmates surrounded her.

  One of her friends teased, “Risebelle, you’re so smart; you’ll o find a guy who match yrades!”

  Risebelle fshed a pyful grin and replied, “Oh, you know me, Angie. I’m just waiting fuy who recite poems while solving calculus equations.”

  Another friend chimed in, “And he should have a Nobel Prize in hand, right?”

  Risebelle chuckled and nodded. “Of course. I ’t settle for anything less!”

  When Risebelle arrived home that evening, she was met with an atmosphere of tension that hung heavy in the air. Her father, normally a man of few words, sat at the kit table with a somber look on his face. As she entered, he looked up aured for her to take a seat.

  “Baby girl, we o talk.”

  Risebelle furrowed her brow. “Where’s Mom? She should be proud of my grades. I finally got all A’s on my report card! Look dad!”

  Her father hesitated for a moment before responding, “Your mother... well, she’s not here right now, and we o have this versation without her.”

  Risebelle felt a growing sense of dread as her father’s words hung in the air. “What is it, Dad? What’s going on?”

  He looked at her with disappoi. “Risebelle, your mother and I have been struggling financially, and it’s been harder thao make ends meet. I’ve tried my best to provide for the family, but... we’re i, and we’re on the brink of losing our home, so…”

  Risebelle’s heart sank as she absorbed her father’s words.

  “But dad, I thought my good grades would help us get out of this situation. I’ve been w so hard for this! Isn’t that what you two wanted from me?”

  Risebelle’s father shifted unfortably in his chair, and for a moment, he couldn’t meet her gaze. Finally, he let out a heavy sigh and spoke with a tohat sent shivers down her spine.

  “Risebelle, there is a way to get out of this mess, but it won’t be easy, and it will require you to do something... unventional.”

  Risebelle’s eyes widened with fear and fusion. “Dad, what do you mean? What kind of ‘unventional’ thing are you talking about?”

  Her father finally met her gaze, and there was a ess in his eyes that she had never seen before. “I’ve made arras with some... ‘iial’ people. They erase our debts and secure our financial future, but they have a dition.”

  Risebelle’s heart raced as she listened, her apprehension growing with every word. “What dition, Dad? What do they want from me?”

  The sound of the front door creaking open shattered the silence, and Risebelle turo see a group of men in bck tuxedos and sungsses entering their home. Their presence was imposing, and they moved with an air of authority that sent shivers down her spine.

  Risebelle’s eyes widened with fear. She turo her father. “Dad, what’s happening? Who are these people?”

  ‘Little did I know, my father was a mooo...’

  “Dad, you ’t be serious!” Risebelle pleaded,. “What kind of people are you involved with? What do they want from me?”

  But her father remained cold and unyielding, his eyes devoid of the warmth she onew. “Risebelle, it’s the only way. They want you to... ‘Work’ for them. They have power, and they erase our debts, but you’ll have to do things you won’t like. Don’t worry. Iv’e seen you saying how much you hated studying, but you’re a Straight A Student. You handle doing a few more things you don’t like to do, ’t you?”

  Tears welled up in Risebelle’s eyes as the gravity of the situation became clear. She was being dragged into a world of darkness, a world she never wao be a part of.

  “Dad, no! Please! There has to be another way. I ’t do this! I won’t do this! DO SOMETHING!!!!”

  But her pleas fell on deaf ears. Her father’s resolve remained unshaken, and as the figures approached, he simply uttered, “I need a drink,” before turning away, leaving Risebelle to her fate.

  Risebelle’s life had taken a nightmarish turn. She found herself trapped in a world of cruelty and despair, stripped of her regur clothes and in a degrading attire of a sve. Her once-bright eyes now held emptiness, as if the light within her had beeinguished.

  Risebelle sat on the cold, hard ground of her makeshift cell, trembling with fear, anger, and despair. “I will kill them all,” Risebelle whispered to herself, “Every st one of them, including my own parents… They will all pay for what they’ve doo me!” Risebelle ched her fists, her nails digging into her palms as she seethed with anger.

  Her mind wandered back to the moment of her awakening in Dr. Kintovar’s b. It was a memory that felt like a lifetime ago, she remembered the coldish enviro of the b, the sensation of being encased in a pod, and the blinding light that greeted her as she emerged. Dr. Kintovar stood before her, a sense en her eyes as she wore her signature shades, but not yet her pink headphones.

  Dr. Kintovar was in the midst of a hurried versation with another woman. Risebelle listened as their words spilled out in hushed tones.

  “This is a long shot, but it’s our only ce. If we don’t act quickly, the humans will discover the b, and it’s ‘game over’ for us.”

  The other woman nodded. “I uand, Dr. Kintovar. We’ll do whatever it takes to protect our creations.

  The other woman, whose emotions were on the edge, cried out with tears streaming down her eyes in a much exaggerated manner, “Oh, my God! If they find out where we are, we’ll be executed, tortured, and... And... Forced to listen to bad elevator music for all eternity!”

  Dr. Kintovar, her attention focused on the pod taining Risebelle, began to expin, ”

  Ah! She’s awake! Good! This is Risebelle, one of our creations, and her abilities have the potential to ge the course of our--”

  Before Dr. Kintovar could finish her sentence, Risebelle’s eyes snapped open, the tank opening at the same time, and with a surge of anger arayal, she knocked Dr. Kintovar to the ground. The other woman’s cries went on in the background.

  “You’re a human!” Risebelle hissed, her hands gripping Dr. Kintovar’s colr as she tried to choke the truth out of her. “You’re one of them! I’ll kill you!”

  But Dr. Kintovar had anticipated this situation. She quickly activated a cealed device, and a small explosioed within Risebelle’s body. The pain was excruciating, and Risebelle’s vision blurred as she writhed in agony on the cold b floor.

  Dr. Kintovar, still rec from the attack, spoke with a cold, detached tone. “You should have listened, Risebelle. I have yet to expin this to you, but you are a creation, and I am your brilliant creator, Dr.Kintovar. You will do as I say, or you will face the sequences.”

  “You think you trol me? You think I’ll do your bidding just because you created me? You’re wrong, Kintovar. I won’t be your puppet!” Risebelle’s fists ched, her nails digging into her palms as she struggled to tain her rage.

  Dr. Kintovar’s lips curled into a sinister smile. “Oh, my dear Risebelle, you misuand me. I don’t seek only to trol you. I seek to guide you in the right dire to unleash your potential. Together, we make use of your talents and make those humans pay. Are you listening now?”

  Risebelle’s eyes narrowed, her anger shifting into curiosity. “What do you mean, ‘unleash my potential’? What the hell do you want from me?”

  Dr. Kintovar stepped closer, “You have been gifted with extraordinary abilities, Risebelle! Abilities that bring ge to this world. I want you to use them to elimihose who have caused us so much pain. Humans who deserve nothing but retribution.”

  Risebelle’s hatred for humans burned brighter with every word that left Kintovar’s lips. “Tell me what I o do,” she said without hesitation. “I don’t care what you decide to call me, as long as I get to kill those humans.”

  Dr. Kintovar’s ughter echoed through the b, a chilling sound that echoed within Risebelle’s very being. “Oh, Risebelle, you have no idea how much joy it brings me to see that fire in your eyes,” she said. “I will give you a task, ohat will mark the beginning of our vengeance. But first, we must prepare you.”

  Risebelle stood tall, “I’m ready,” she decred with a deadly whisper. “Tell me what I o do.”

  Dr. Kintovar’s eyes gleamed with satisfa as she outlihe task before Risebelle. The targets were carefully chosen to maximize the impact of their demise.

  As Dr. Kintovar finished expining the pn, Risebelle’s lips curled into a sinister smile. “sider it dohose humans will pay for what they’ve done, and I will make sure their punishment is swift and merciless.”

  Dr. Kintovar’s ughter filled the room once more as she twirls around in joy. “Remarkable, Risebelle,” she said with risiement in tone. “Fantastic! Extravagant! Brilliant! We shall unleash a storm of vengeance upon the world. And no one will be able to stand in our way!”

  Risebelle’s memories faded into the background as the harsh reality of the present reasserted itself. Her body trembled with the overwhelming surge of her Water Magiergy, and her surroundings blurred as she struggled to tain the power within her.

  She whispered to hersel, “I will end this, no matter the cost. For Roselle, for Runebelle, for all of us who have suffered.”

  As Risebelle gathered her strength and prepared to unleash her powerful water magic attack, a message from the system suddenly fshed in her mind:

  [[System]]

  “30% of Project Z.A.B Data Colle is plete.”

  Risebelle briefly aowledged the message from the system. Annoyance surged through her like aric shock, and she ched her teeth in frustration.

  “Not now, damn it..” she muttered under her breath, her eyes fixed on Aliana. The fate of her sisters and the oute of their battle depended on this.