A Dark Fantasy Series
EXT. DOWNTOWN/CENTRAL HUB — NIGHTFALL (CONT’D)
Connor and Autumn match each other running up a tall building. Their speed is unbelievable to the mortal eye, but the two are able to track each other’s movement with ease.
Connor strikes first again, leaving Autumn on defense as he evades another attack punch from Connor and slams him into the building with a grappling counter. Connor quickly summons a set of glaives behind Autumn and charges them through the air.
Autumn flashes out of the way of the glaives, allowing the glaives to attempt to impale his younger brother instead. Connor shifts into his purple mist form, avoiding the glaives as well before shifting back into his physical form, upon touching the city’s hub ground again.
Autumn appears before his younger brother as well.
AUTUMN: We’re going to alert the entire city brother. Please Connor, let’s stop this foolishness.
Connor breathes a series of heavy breaths.
CONNOR: You’re so full of it, Autumn. We can’t stop. We just can’t. Don’t you get it? You’re gonna be dad’s little puppet for however long he wants you to be. You’re not going to have any freedom or mind your own. Well that certainly isn’t the life for me.
Connor glances back and looks at Jolyn. Her eyes show concern. Connor then places his attention back on his elder brother.
CONNOR: If dad wants her dead, you tell him to find a way into this realm and do it himself. Otherwise, brother, I’m going to shred you into pieces over her.
Autumn’s voice finally jumps.
AUTUMN: You’ll do what!?
In the mist of his voice jumping, Autumn flashes back into range of Connor. Trailing nearly beside Autumn, are two waves of magic energy streams that blend with purple lightning. Connor or Jolyn didn’t catch when Autumn’s superior speed cast these magic waves.
Connor shifted into his mist form again, only giving him enough time to avoid the two blasts as he launched himself into the air. The timer on Connor’s mist form runs out, turning him back into his physical manifestation just as Autumn leaps into the air, and catches him by the throat.
CONNOR: (Gargles) Fuck!
Autumn quickly forms a dark orb of magic and blasts it into Connor’s stomach. The blast shoots Connor backwards through the air, having him crash into a nearby building in the process. The hub’s destruction is starting to become more and more outright.
Jolyn turns her fire powers on, getting ready to aid her lover. However, her power jumping, draws the attention of Autumn.
Autumn shoots down from the air and flies in her direction. A stream of mist attempts to catch up to him at a fast rate, leaving Autumn to glance and notice as he feels the surge of magic energy following him. Autumn ignores this and keeps going for Jolyn.
Jolyn braces herself, before expelling a strong stream of dark flames into the direction of the immortal. Autumn dives directly into the flames and a loud yelp is heard shortly after.
EXT. DOWNTOWN/CENTRAL HUB — NIGHTFALL (CONT’D)
Connor stands in place, now back in flesh form. The aftermath shows flames still burning against the ground, and two figures in the distance.
Autumn holds Jolyn by the throat, leaving her feet to dangle away from the ground. Connor is cautious about his next move.
Jolyn struggles, with Autumn simply looking at his younger brother as he effortlessly holds her in place.
AUTUMN: It can be over now, brother. All of it. We can go back to father, and I can speak to him about forgiving you. No more conflict has to be.
Autumn places his attention on the struggling Reborn.
AUTUMN: Her life, and it all goes back to normal. The past is made up for, and the future is saved.
Autumn places his attention back on Connor.
AUTUMN: Afterall, you were the one who started this plague.
A portal opens on the ground behind Autumn, unleashing a glaive that instantly pierces through Autumn’s back and chest. Autumn gasps and looses his grip on Jolyn.
Jolyn collapses to the ground, landing on her knees as she grabs her throat with a series of coughs to follow. She watches as a series of glaives come out of portals that quickly manifest from the ground all around Autumn.
In every direction, Autumn suffers impalement. Autumn yelps in pain.
Connor uses his super speed to get to Jolyn, helping her back to her feet. He wants to hold her, though he senses a strong disturbance in energy beside them.
Connor jolts Jolyn and himself away from Autumn. A massive purple storm erupts from Autumn, along with an echoing yell.
The echoing yell turns into a monstrous roar, and underneath that roar, the dark storm clears and unveils Autumn in his monstrous form. He towers in the distance of his younger brother and his true target.
The glaives are gone from Autumn’s new body. Autumn belches out a roar that stutters the ground around them. Connor steps forward, accepting his brother’s challenge, though Jolyn grabs him by the arm.
JOLYN: Connor, no. This is all too much. We can run together. We can get as far away as possible. I just…
Tears start to form in Jolyn’s eyes. Connor catches this, unable to turn his head elsewhere in this moment.
JOLYN: I just don’t want him hurting you, any further. I don’t want you to risk your existence for me.
Connor releases himself from Jolyn’s grip with a light tug. Jolyn respects his wish, watching as he removes himself from her.
CONNOR: Don’t you get it, Jolyn? It’s because of you I have an existence. You are the second person ever to give me this. I failed the woman I loved once before and now…
Connor takes his place in front of Jolyn, as if he is protecting her from his elder brother’s sight, and challenging the mighty beast before them, at the same time.
A flashing memory of Connor’s previous lover smiles in his head. This memory transforms into Jolyn and her own smile at the café.
CONNOR: I have someone new to love. Someone I won’t just watch my brother kill. I’ll kill him over and over again, for you.
Connor turns halfway to place his attention on Jolyn.
CONNOR: When this is all over, we’ll go anywhere in the world together. Anywhere you’d like. I just want the rest of my eternity to linger with you.
EXT. DOWNTOWN/CENTRAL HUB — NIGHTFALL (CONT’D)
There’s worry in Jolyn’s eyes. Connor’s eyes disregard this, signaling for her to trust his words. Her expression refuses to change.
She grips at his hands, though Connor lightly pulls away, going into the direction of his elder brother. Ready to face the monster ahead, Connor super leaps off the ground, bursting into a glide that directs him in the path of his levitating opponent.
Autumn’s fiend form breaks its neutral stance, reading its claw to swing. Connor continues his trajectory, going at his elder brother with full force.
The fiend nearly connects, with Connor placing his arms up to protect the side of his body that would suffer from the impact. The attack nearly lands, going through Connor instead of damaging him. Connor is confused.
The massive image of the fiend vanishes, resembling that of an illusion. Connor stops his glide as quick as he can, scanning the sky around him as he remains above ground.
Jolyn screams for him.
JOLYN: Connor!!
Connor is unable to react fast enough, swiftly turning around only to get impaled in the chest. A blue dagger is held in Autumn’s hand, with the receiving end being placed inside of Connor.
Connor becomes motionless, staring into his brother’s face as he awaits an explanation.
AUTUMN: It was the only way of stopping father from dealing with you, brother. The dagger that father once didn’t entrust in either of us…he entrusted in me.
Connor begins to gasp as he notices something start to change upon him. His skin begins to turn blue with small trickles of frost forming on him. Jolyn clutches her mouth with her hands as she watches the two levitate in the air, now at the climax of their battle.
AUTUMN: I wanted things to be different between us. I really did. But…the heart you don’t even have…those false feelings inside of you…lead you astray.
The ice starts to encase Connor at a more rapid paste, becoming thicker as everything is affected by the magical frost effects of the dagger, except the impalement area where the dagger still resides.
Connor gives Autumn a look of betrayal, though he cannot speak. Autumn fights back tears until he can’t anymore, holding the back of his brother’s neck with his hand.
AUTUMN: I love you, brother.
Autumn shoves the dagger deeper into Connor. Connor jerks and his entire body becomes a block of ice. He begins to plummet out the sky shortly after, with his brother watching as his younger brother eventually slams onto the ground, shaking the surface without shattering.
The extinction of vampires, known as Reborns, was a promise. Sent to be Death Dealers of their own kind, Connor and his elder brother Autumn, slaughter those who carry the less fortunate blood of vampires. Being Immortals — vampires with a pureblood lineage, they’ve been able to achieve this with ease. That is until Connor falls in love with a Reborn, turning the brothers against one another, as the elder brother wants to see their mission through, while the younger brother…wants to follow the guidance of his soul.
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