Stuck in a Chinese novel

"What… What nonsense are you speaking, Gabe? That's her! Right there!" Andrew stepped forward, making his way to Julie\\Celina when Gabriel stopped him.

"What are you doing?! Let me go!" Andrew yelled again and again but Gabriel didn't let him go.

"Hahahahaha." An angelic laugh that was full of amusement flowed in the boys' ears. Gabriel couldn't help but shot a glare at Celina while he still held the struggling Andrew behind.

"Oh come on. You don't find this situation a least bit funny?" Celina asked with a coy smile.

Gabriel looked at Andrew who was yelling and struggling for him to let go but Gabriel knew he couldn't. He couldn't let Andrew go near Celina.

If she were to turn on the machine, Gabriel knew he wouldn't be able to stop what was coming. Not in time anyway.

"What do you want?" Gabriel asked Celina.

"That's a very good question. What could I possibly want?" She asked with a finger on her lower lip and an amused smile on her face.

"Stop playing games. I know you wouldn't kill everyone." Gabriel said.

"Oh, don't be so sure of that. The wall between dimensions is not that hard to cross." Celina said, calling Gabriel's bluff.

"With the lunatic gone, who do you think would be able to make it possible for you to do that?" Gabriel asked.

"There are still ways, sweetie. Even you know that." Celina said, once again calling Gabriel's bluff.

"Then do you think you would be able to escape after pushing that button on." Gabriel said as his eyes began to glow.

"No." Celina replied, since that wasn't a bluff. She knew she wouldn't be able to escape from Gabriel no matter how hard she tried.

But she also had a trump card.

"Hey, Andrew~" Celina playfully called Andrew who finally stopped struggling, "If you let him kill me, Julie might die along with me as well. There's still a little part of her left. I might give her back if you were to help me escape."

Gabriel let go of Andrew. The reason? Because Celina's coaxing worked. Andrew would do anything to save Julie and stopped Gabriel was not something that high up on his moral grade, even if it concerned all of the people of the world.

"Gabe," Andrew slowly called.

"Please," He said with terrible pleading in his voice.

"She will kill billions of people, Andrew." Gabriel said with an impassive expression. There was no pity for his brother. Only the will to do what was right.

"But it's Julie. My Julie." Andrew said, trying to reason with Gabriel.

"Julie's gone." Gabriel said before he added, "And do you really think she would give Julie back?"

Andrew had no answer to that but as long as there was hope, he had to try to he did what he knew was the only option he had.

"I'm sorry, Gabe," Andrew said as lightning crackled on his palm and in less than a second, he shot Gabriel with it.

Alas, for Gabriel, one second was more than enough. Gabriel simply raised his hand, the lightning strike hit him in his hand and passed through his body. Gabriel redirected it easily by coating his own energy around it and after he was done, he let it out from his other palm.

Aimed at Andrew.

Andrew was caught off guard and couldn't protect himself in time. Not to mention it was a technique he hadn't seen before, ever.

Redirecting lightning was something he had never even been able to imagine before because Andrew produced lightning sacrificing his own stamina. He never figured he could take lightning from something else as well, so although he was familiar with lightning, he was still harmed when he was struck from another lightning source.

With Andrew out of the way, Gabriel turned to Celina, his eyes relaying what he intended to do.

"Ah-ah." Celina hurriedly held up the remote and said, "No matter how fast you are, I'm sure pressing this would be faster."

Gabriel was confident he could make it, after all, nothing moved faster than light itself. But, he couldn't take a risk. There was too much at stake to chalk it up to confidence.

"What do you want, Celina?" Gabriel asked.

"What I've always wanted." Celina quickly replied before she added with love struck smile, "You."

"Not while you're in that body." Gabriel replied.

"Why not? You can even live up to the fantasy of two girls in one body." Celina playfully replied.

Gabriel, however, wasn't amused in the least. He knew he was going to kill Celina and that also meant killing her while she was in Julie. Julie wouldn't survive. No matter the scenario.

Julie would die if Celina leaved her body and she would also die if Celina were to stay in her body for an extended period of time.

"What was the plan? Get to me through Andrew using an innocent girl?" Gabriel asked.

"Oh, she wasn't so innocent, you know. Dad made sure to birth some children with his own blood. He made sure I would live forever, with vessels at my disposal." Celina said before she nonchalantly added, "This girl was just one of them. She was born to be my vessel. There's nothing wrong about it."

Gabriel looked at Andrew, who although injured, could hear every word Celina was saying.

"Let her go!" Andrew yelled at Celina but he couldn't move at all.

"I think we should end this now. Before lover boy's mind takes another hit by knowing that he never mattered at all. He was never important." Celina said before she playfully said, "Oops. Now he does."

Celina was about to push the button when she froze. Her hand stopped just before her thumb could press the button.

"I… don't." A strained voice, almost as if suppressed from within came from Celina but Gabriel knew it didn't belong to Celina, it belonged to Julie.

She looked at Andrew and Andrew looked at her, "Julie."

He muttered but Julie turned her eyes away from him. She looked at Gabriel and just said one word, "Please."

Gabriel moved before anyone could tell what was happening; before Celina could take back, before Andrew could properly say anything.

Crack!

A slight crackling voice was heard and Gabriel was pushing his hand through Julie's chest, killing her but not instantly.

Some functions were still intact. She was still alive. But she wouldn't be for long. Gabriel hurriedly took the detonator for the machine and stepped away.

Although he could have just taken the detonator, Julie would have died anyway and Celina would have taken over, and he didn't know if she had something up her sleeve to run away.

And he didn't want to risk it.

So he killed her while she was still Julie. He let Julie die as Julie.
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"No!!!" But Andrew wasn't willing to let her die. He ran and appeared near Julie before she could hit the ground.

"NO! NO!! NO!!!" Tendrils of lightning left his body, illuminating the night sky.

He was losing control of his emotions. Julie, with a last flicker in her eyes said while touching Andrew with her hand, "And..rew… your..s… forev….er."

Her hand lost any strength it had and the light in her eyes vanished.

"NO!!!!!!!" An electrical storm that shook the earth began to emit from their location, and while Julie's body was safe, nothing else in the vicinity was.

The sky was covered in thunder and a storm of lightning overtook the entirety of Chicago and past it.

People looked at everything, scared out of their wits but they were protected by the storm of lightning and the net of thunder that covered the sky by none other than Gabriel.

However, it wasn't long before that scene was overtaken by a scene of fire. The sky was covered in fire as if the sun was at its peak.

The night sky was illuminated by the fire in the sky, and not just Chicago, but the entire world was covered in fire. Only this wasn't a fire that was harmful to them but the fire that looked beautiful as hell.

And that beautiful scene was only possible with a sacrifice.

A sacrifice that forever created a monster.

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Bruce sat in his office, admiring the view with none other than his wife.

"It's beautiful." His wife said, her piercing blue eyes looking at the night sky illuminated by the solar flare.

"Just like you." Bruce couldn't help but say while looking at his wife. Solar flare wasn't as beautiful as his wife so he hadn't seen any of the solar flare from the beginning.

"Charming." His wife smiled before she asked, "Are you sure you should be here? What if he needs you?"

"Me being there would only increase his pain. Why didn't I do anything? He would ask that and I wouldn't have an answer to that." Bruce replied with remorse filled in his eyes.

"It's all right. He might understand if you tell him." His wife held his hand affectionately and said.

Bruce nodded and said, "I hope so. Because this isn't over."

He turned his eyes to the sky which was still red and said, "Far from over."