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Alternates of Me:
Chapter 1:
‘‘Wh-what?’’
It’ll take just a minute. You might wanna check on your dad. One of them really hates Blitzø.
‘‘What are you-’’
There was a blinding light coming from every reflective surface in the room before Iva left, Via could feel the lack of her presence.
What did she do?
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Stolas and Blitzø had been enjoying popcorn and the new season premiere of My Little Hellponies when Via ran out of a portal and barged into their living room looking panicked.
And in combat clothes?
It did kind of look like what she’d worn at the trial but she had weaponry on her; different kinds of knives, a sword and a gun. All angelic.
‘‘VIA!’’ Stolas couldn’t help but shout, shocked.
Standing up and running to her, not caring about the popcorn now spilled all over the floor, though he hesitated to embrace her.
Loona peeked her head out of her door, too. She shot Blitzø a look that asked what was going on, but he couldn’t answer her.
‘‘There isn’t any time to explain, we need to get to-’’ Octavia tried to tell them, but she cut herself upon noticing a glint, a light coming from the windowed, glass door to the balcony.
Blitzø must’ve noticed too, because he flipped the couch and pinned her dad and her to the floor on the other side, Loona simply ducking behind her door as the glass was shattered by a blow Via could only identify as magical, and pieces flew all across the room.
‘‘VIA!’’
‘‘STOLAS!’’
‘‘BLITZØ! WHAT THE F*CK!?’’
‘‘SH*T.’’ Via needed to get them out of here. ‘‘RUN!’’
They didn’t question her. They hurried out of the apartment and into the hallway.
‘‘Run where!?’’ Blitzø asked.
‘‘ROOF!’’ Via needed to see what the other her was up to.
But when they made it up there, she was waiting for ‘em. She looked a little taller than her but not by much. She couldn’t be much older than her either.
She was wearing a cloak that concealed most of her goetic features, but her eyes glowed a bright purple that gave her away.
‘‘Begone!’’
Via warned her before her dad could ask: “what the f*ck?”
‘‘You don’t belong here. Return to your own world!’’
‘‘Sure.’’ The other Via said.
The other me. Hmmm… T.O. Via… Tovia? No, Tavia. Makes more sense. Via decided to call her.
‘‘Right after I’m done here.’’
She charged at Blitzø with the same sword Via had on herself -guess their tastes were- but Via’d been expecting it, so she blocked it with a magic shield very easily. Tavia looked pissed now, though.
‘‘You’d shield that little filth that killed my dad!? Oh, but of course, what would you know about that? YOURS IS ALIVE, RIGHT THERE!’’
She pointed at Stolas.
‘‘Whatever.’’ She then seemed to calm, walking closer to them at a slow pace. ‘‘Get out of my way, or I’ll make you.’’
‘‘I told you, this isn’t your world. Things are different here. Events happened differently.’’
‘‘I. Don’t. Care.’’ She fought with magic this time, Via fighting back.
She’d never actually taken anyone on in a magic duel before, but managed to hold her own. For how long, she wasn’t excited to find out.
‘‘What do we do?’’ She barely heard her dad ask his boyfriend as if he’d know what to do.
The guy seemed to think the same thing. ‘‘Stolas, I don’t even know what this is! How’s there two of them?’’
‘‘She literally just said “other world”, dad.’’
‘‘Wait, that alternate universe bullsh*t is real?’’
‘‘I don’t know what the other you did, but she clearly wants you dead for it.’’ Stolas deduced.
‘‘Didn’t she say her world’s Blitzø killed you?’’ Loona asked while cringing at a blow Via took, but she got back up before Stolas could run over there.
Not to mention they were moving too fast.
‘‘I-I’d never…’’
‘‘I know, love.’’ Stolas reassured him. ‘‘We don’t know what happened there, and I don’t care about that, I care that we get away. She wants to kill you!’’
Blitzø was about to agree, and lead them back down the stairs, but he happened to glance at the alternate Via, and saw the look on her face as she looked at him.
He knew that look. ‘‘… No.’’
‘‘What?’’ The other two asked in about the same amount of confusion.
‘‘We can’t just leave Via to fend that lunatic version of herself, by herself, just because they’re fighting with magic that we don’t have.’’
He could tell Stolas didn’t want to either, and it was probably killing him inside that he couldn’t help her right now.
‘‘Tell me if I’m wrong, but she’s barely holding her own, isn’t she?’’
He asked his boyfriend who looked even more sad as he looked over to the two Goetian teenagers brawling with various spells.
‘‘The other one does seem to know more advanced spells.’’ The owl admitted.
‘‘She only wants to kill me because that other me hurt you, if I can convince her that I won’t, she might stop.’’
‘‘That actually makes sense.’’ His daughter approved.
‘‘Okay, let’s hope I can convince her.’’ He was probably going to get his a** kicked, and possibly his head severed, but he had to try.
‘‘HEY! VIA! THE ONE FROM THE OTHER REALITY OR WHATEVER!’’
The girls were both taken aback, which made them both halt mid-attack, making them fall on opposite sides of the roof before getting back up and staring at him.
‘‘WHAT!?’’
Blitzø turned to the alien one. Huh, Alien Via. Nice. ‘‘I don’t know what happened in your world, but I would never hurt Stolas.’’
She snarled like an enraged predator.
‘‘Ask her if you don’t believe me.’’ He pointed to their Via. ‘‘She would let me anywhere near him if that were the case.’’
‘‘Yeah, I really wouldn’t. And things are different here.’’
‘‘Things are, he isn’t.’’
Her opinion was pre-fixed for some reason.
‘‘You don’t know him. Blitzo Buckzo is a psychopath. He doesn’t care about anybody but himself and his people, and even that’s a stretch most the time.’’
That made Loona grit her teeth, but she didn’t say anything.
‘‘My world’s Blitzø was hired by mother to kill my dad. And not only did he take the job, but he could’ve done it with a single bullet, without pain, but he chose to seduce him and break his heart. My dad ended up taking his own life, but it was you who killed him.’’ She screamed at Blitzø.
Okay, so that’s the reason. A good one, too. F*ck. He was screwed, wasn’t he?
‘‘I’ve been travelling realities, getting rid of as many versions him as possible.’’ The alien Via told the native. ‘‘There were some that I couldn’t access, this being one of them, but today, that invisible barrier broke, and I just had to see why and how that was.’’
It must’ve been Iva. Because who else could it be.
‘‘I’m going to assume you won’t stop me now.’’ Tavia told her, before raising her sword again.
Their- NO. Her dad, walked in front of Blitzø.
‘‘This is for your own good.’’ She told him.
‘‘No. I-I’m sorry that happened to you, but you’re not hurting him. I won’t let you.’’
‘‘You don’t know better-’’
‘‘I do.’’ Via also stepped in between her other self and the others. ‘‘You’re blinded by your grief, which I can understand, but endless realities mean endless possibilities. You have to admit the fact that not all versions of him are cruel or evil. And this one certainly isn’t.’’
‘‘There is no world where he could be anything above what I know he is. He had the gall to show up at the funeral and apologize to me to avoid an execution! Spitting lies in my face after what he did. I killed him on the spot, and I haven’t regretted it for a single moment.’’
She pointed her sword at Blitzø.
‘‘THAT MAN IS A MONSTER, AND HE COULD NEVER BE ANYTHING ELSE. NO MATTER WHAT UNIVERSE.’’
‘‘Even if that were true, there’s no reason for you to kill him.’’ Via told her, walking closer.
She hadn’t wanted to reveal this in front of her dad, but it seemed she wasn’t going to listen any other way.
‘‘What?’’ Tavia looked confused for the first time.
‘‘I have him under contract.’’ She made the chains of their agreement come to light in a purple glow.
Her dad looked terrified, but she’d take care of that later.
‘‘He couldn’t hurt dad if he wanted to.’’
‘‘Blitzø?’’ Stolas asked, holding his hands that were bound with magic. ‘‘Wh-what? How? Since when!?’’
‘‘I…’’ He couldn’t tell him, still bound by the terms of the deal.
At least the alien Via seemed to actually consider not killing him now.
‘‘So, you don’t trust him either.’’ She tested Via.
‘‘I didn’t use to.’’ She looked over to the three.
Her dad was confused, Blitzø was worried and Loona looked pissed. Nothing she could do now, y’know, besides saving the assassin’s life.
‘‘But I do now.’’ She flicked her fingers.
It was an impulsive decision, but it felt right.
The chains that held Blitzø broke, the seal disappearing… The imp looked surprized. So did her dad, though Loona seemed neutral.
‘‘I’ve seen what he’s willing to do and how far he’d go to ensure my dad’s happiness. I trust him not only with his safety but also with his heart.’’
She drew her own sword.
‘‘You got a problem with that, you’ll have to take it up with me.’’