April 9, 2025

When One Door Closes - A Supernatural Showdown with the Past

When One Door Closes - A Supernatural Showdown with the Past
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(00:00:00) When One Door Closes - A Supernatural Showdown with the Past
(00:00:11) The Return of Ariel Mirren
(00:01:01) A New Threat Emerges
(00:03:07) The Charity Event
(00:10:17) A Hero's Call to Action
(00:13:54) Confronting the Past
(00:20:34) The Unexpected Ally
(00:25:43) A Promise of Vigilance

Arial Renaissance Mirren is trying to move forward after saving the multiverse—until her past, and a powerful enemy, return for revenge. When a vampire ambushes a charity event, Arial must rise again to defend the innocent, uncover deeper secrets, and face the terrifying truth about her origins.

When One Door Closes... by Rob Fields

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Ariel Miron is trying to move forward after saving the multiverse,

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until her past and a powerful enemy return for revenge.

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After being ambushed at a charity event, Ariel must rise

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again to defend the innocent, uncover deep secrets, and face

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the terrifying truth.

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What's that you want to be scared her? To come

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with me, you will experience tales over our broa, ghosts,

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and death. It is not recommended a foot of weak

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at heart heart listen as in the dark, it's more

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fun at that way way. This is weakly speaking.

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Hello, my spookies, It's Wednesday, and you know what that means.

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It's time for a little spooky in your weekly I'm

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your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto, and tonight we have

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a very special visit to Strickfield to check in on

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Aeriel Mirran and see exactly what's been going on ever

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since her massive battles in the Vampire Universe. But before

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for tonight, they say, once you close a door, another

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one opens. But what if the door that opens leads

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somewhere dark, somewhere twist it somewhere you were never meant

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to go. Well, Tonight's story is about a girl trying

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to build a new life, a hero, a survivor, someone

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who's faced monsters in more worlds than one. But the

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past does and stay buried, and the people who are

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supposed to love us the most become the ones we

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fear the most. So get comfortable. We're telling that story

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after this when one door closes by Rob Fields, I'm

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hanging out here at Strickfield Town Center Mall. I'll be honest,

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I haven't quite been the same since coming back from

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the Vampire Universe. I know I helped save the entire

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multiverse from Mayor Patrick Gunter and myself. I still can't

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believe that I was just as responsible for bringing that

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apocalypse about. Okay, not exactly me, my Vampire Universe counterpart.

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I keep remembering what Vampire Me said about how that

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universe happened. Believe me, I remember everything that happened between

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my mother, Adrian Miron, and me back in December. But

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to think Vampire Me snapped to where she helped Gunter

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conquer her world by going to the extremes she did

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is mind numbing. Let's be honest, I really wanted revenge

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on Adrian. The more I thought about it, the more

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I asked myself, why obsess over this? Yes, Queen Arcadia

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possessed me as her vessel. Going further, I know I

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can never be thankful enough that the Donnerly family took

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me in. They even took full custody of me when

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Adrian washed her hands of me. Go figure she couldn't

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get rid of me through Queen Arcadia, so ultimately she

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did it in a more farious and far more devious

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way legally. To be honest, I've never felt more free

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in my life. I don't have to live up to

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Adrian's expectations anymore. I can make my own destiny and

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be my own dominant mirn, just like Brian Chunk once

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told me, being my own dominant Mirn took on a

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whole new meaning in that vampire universe. When I discovered

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my new powers back in December. When I overthrew Queen

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Arcadia from my body, all I did was get rid

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of her. Her powers stayed with me. I've been practicing

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more with using them. Where do you go after helping

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save the entire multiverse? The truth is Cousin Felicia has

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been a real inspiration to me. She told me she's

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been trying to be more like Cousin Charity Felicia said,

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I can make our in name means something positive instead

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of its meaning being the top one percent of the

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top one percent. I've been sitting here near Center Court.

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There's a charity event scheduled there tonight. All the seats

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set up are full. I can see everything from my

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bench just outside the food court near Boble Topia. There's

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applause as Cousin Charity, who organized this event, is at

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the podium to say a few words. Cousin Harmony, the

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owner of this mall, is right beside her. Charity organized

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this event to help raise money for our chapter of

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the Make a Wish Foundation. To be honest, I really

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have never met cousin Charity, but I can honestly say

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I have a great deal of respect for her. Then

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I get upset over how many times I remember Adrian

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saying nothing but bad things, her speaking of bad Ever

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since coming back from the Vampire universe, It's like, I

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don't know, I'm having these feelings, like I'm being watched.

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I know I'm here at the mall where really anybody

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can see me, but I'm getting that feeling again. Mouse

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isn't here with me, but whenever she feels something in

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the pit of her tummy, she calls it her mousey sense.

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I think my best friend and surrogate's sister is rubbing

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off on me because I've been feeling my own intuition.

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Then I have a sudden thought and wonder if by

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chance any of those vampires might have followed me here

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from their universe. Believe me, we six were all in

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agreement about not seeing the last of the vampire universe.

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I'd like to think that maybe my boyfriend Carter Cross

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might be looking to surprise me or something. No, Carter's

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definitely not somebody who would make me feel the way

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I'm feeling right now. I chuckle to myself when I

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realize I'm thinking like mouse again when I pull out

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my compact. No, I'm definitely not summoning Mary Worth the

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way she does. I look back and forth from the

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mirror to the crowd. Then I gasp when I see

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the person sitting in an aisle seat, or rather it's

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what I don't see. The woman there is not casting

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a reflection. Seriously, what would a vampire be doing here

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at a charity fundraiser. I've been seeing Miranda Mason Phillips,

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the head reporter of the Strickfield Journal, moving around and

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taking pictures. Come to think of it, every time Mason

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Phillips gets close to the woman vampire, she gets swatted away.

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No pictures. The woman yells and this time swats the

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reporter's camera away When Mason Phillips demands to know what

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her problem is. The woman loses it and scares everybody

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by springing to her feet and vamping out. Charity's trying

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to help get everybody out of Harm's way. When Harmony

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sends her security guards to stop the impostor, the vampire

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woman grabs and flings them away like they're nothing. When

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I see the vampire grab hold of a little girl,

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that's when I feel deep down that I need to

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do something. I get up and sneak over to get

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behind an empty kiosk, making sure nobody sees me. I

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open my backpack. I don't exactly have a superhero costume,

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but I can improvise on the fly. I pull out

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my hoodie and a nail file and work fast. I

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cut the hood off my hoodie and make a makeshift mask.

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When I'm finished, I put it on and use the

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draw strings to secure it tightly. I put the rest

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of the hoodie on over my T shirt and zip up.

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Now that I'm sort of costumed, I use my Christmas

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powers to make my transparent red discs appear underneath my feet.

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It's still mind blowing that I've got these powers, but

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flying is my favorite thing about them. Now that I'm airborne,

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I fly right at the vampire. Woman put that girl down, bloodsucker,

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I yell, boy, she sure has chalk white hair. When

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she turns my way, I stun her with my eyebeams

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to make her let the little girl go. Her mother

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takes her child and runs. The vampire doesn't stay stunned

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for long. She's quickly back on her feet and looking

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right up at me. Now she's got this look that's

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either crazed or determined. Who knows. She kind of looks old.

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The vampire turns into a wolf and runs away fast.

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I turn and chase the wolf down. When it reaches

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a trash can, it becomes the old woman again. She

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easily picks up the can and throws it right at me. Likewise,

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I easily dodge it. You should have let it hit you,

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little one, she tells me. Look behind you.

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Don't go away weakly. Spooky will be right back.

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I turn and see I've made a rookie mistake. That

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trash can is heading right for innocent people at center Court.

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I'm frustrated, but I can't let my mistake hurt people.

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I turn around and fly fast. When I'm close enough

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to the can, I make a wall of light appear

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in front of it. The can hits the wall and

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fall to the floor. Nobody gets hurt, knowing everybody's okay,

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I turn in time to see ah, No, Miranda Mason

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Phillips retrieved her camera and just snapped a picture of me. Great.

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I really don't want to be on the front page

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of our paper. Ah. I can't worry about her right now.

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I turn back around and go chase down that vampire

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woman again. Okay, I'm a little irked by that reporter,

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but it's what that vampire said to me that really

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bugs me. You should have just taken the hit, little one,

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and then I know exactly who the vampire is. Likewise,

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she knows exactly who I am. I fly faster now, Seriously,

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I am so sick and tired of that woman still

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haunting me. When I reached best Buy at the end

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of the mall, I turned to the corridor and see

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one of the ex doors is propped open. The vampire

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wants me to follow her. I'm probably letting an experience show,

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but I can't just let her go. I fly down

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the corridor and out through the door. Soon, I see

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her standing at the entrance of the under Mole parking garage.

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When she knows I'm seeing her, she turns and heads inside.

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I have the feeling I'm being led into a trap.

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I'm not mouse, but the vampire seeks to trap me

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just like one. When I fly into the garage, I

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enable my infrared sight to see better in the dimly

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lit areas. I see the vampire easily and approach slowly.

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I know it's you, Adrian, Miron. I yell, You're the

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only one I know who calls me little one. My

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birth mother comes forward. Wow. I don't understand why she

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looks as old as she does. She must have aged

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a good twenty five years since she kicked me out

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of the mansion. At least it was only a matter

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of time before you'd return to me. Aerial renaissance. Miron.

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She points right at me. I'm taking those powers back.

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They don't belong to you. Clearly she can see my

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look of confusion about her age. But isn't she a vampire? Now?

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I cast a spell to absorb a vampire's essence and

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restore my youth, if you must know, Adrian snaps. Unfortunately,

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the essence is fading. Only Queen Arcadia's powers and essence

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can restore me, which you have. She suddenly raises her

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clawed hands. I will reclaim them from you, little one.

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I raise my fists and make red and green fire

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burn from them. Thankfully, the fire doesn't burn me. You

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want my powers, try and take them. I'll never return

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them to you. Why Adrian, why do you have to

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be so so so greedy? Those are the mere and ways,

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little one, she replies, shifting into a wolf. When she

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jumps at me, I throw a fireball and miss. Then

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I remember my time back in the Vampire universe when

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cousin Felicia told me to not fire blindly. I focus

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and throw the second fireball to repel Adrian. She yipes

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and falls onto her side. I fire my eyebeams, but

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she turns away quickly. As she shifts into a bat.

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She comes at me again and hits me to knock

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me off my discs Now, I'm flat on my back

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and feeling a little winded, but I can still move. Suddenly,

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my former mom is right on top of me. I'm

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taking those powers back, little one, she growls. You have

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been the bane of my existence for the last time.

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Then she gasps and feels her face. I'm still using

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my infrared site and see Adrian's skin aged a good

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ten to fifteen years more. Now she'll take the Queen

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Arcadia powers away from me to restore her youth. Knowing

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how Adrian is, she can never be trusted with those powers.

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The story of Adrian Well, she had gifted intelligence and

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learned far more than she should have about computer coding.

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She could make codes so advanced that she may have

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been the one who pioneered virtual reality. Her code was

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used to create three prototype consoles called the Virtua. This

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was back during the golden years of home video game consoles.

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By the way, the Virtua was far more powerful than

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then current arcade hardware and made consoles like the Atari

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twenty six hundred, the Intellivision, and the Caliko Vision look

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like Pong and the game that came bundled in the

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Virtua Christmas Arcadia. The graphics were so unbelievably realistic you'd

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swear everything you were looking at was real. You could

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even touch things in Christmas Arcadia and feel how real

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they were. Even the wind and cold felt real. Why

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was the Virtua never ultimately released simple. The computer world

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didn't want to give that kind of credit to a female.

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Things have changed since then, but that's how times were.

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Since Adrian was rejected, she implemented a software patch to

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literally bring Queen Arcadia, the game's central character, to life.

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For doing this, Arcadia granted Adrian immortality. From there, the

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two of them made a bargain. Arcadia granted Adrian even

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more knowledge, making her the greatest computer programmer in the world,

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which was how she made her vast fortune. In return,

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Adrian would bear a child to be Arcadia's vessel one day.

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In other words, Adrian used the mirror ways, but took

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it up several notches. When Arcadia finally had me as

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her vessel, she turned me against my friends. Fortunately, they

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discovered what happened and gave me the determination and strength

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to overthrow Arcadia. Little did I realize I was still

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far from normal. Recently, in the Vampire Universe, I tapped

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to my new powers and helped save the multiverse. That's right,

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I helped save the multiverse. I can stop Adrian. I

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grab her arms and make her scream. When I give

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her some voltage, she quickly gets off me. So this

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is how it is little one. Adrian snaps. Then I

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won't hold back any longer either. I don't really have to,

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since you're no longer my child. As I'm readying to

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give Adrian some more volts, she vampire warps right behind me.

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Then she grabs me and slams me hard against a

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nearby wall. I'm flat on my back again. This time

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Adrian knocked the wind out of me. I can't move.

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You're not safe yet.

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Weekly Spooky will be right back.

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Now.

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Little Arcadia's powers are mine, Adrian promises. When I'm finished,

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you will know what it's like to age rapidly. Then

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you're finally out of my life forever. She's pinning me

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down again as she starts uttering some strange words. I

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start to feel sick fast. I only wanted to use

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these powers to make a difference, just like cousin Felicia.

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Suddenly I'm feeling much better. I sit up and see

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that someone knocked Adrian away from me. I manage to

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sit up against a wall and keep working to get

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my wind back. I see someone else's down here with us.

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Now leave her alone, the person orders Adrian. It's definitely

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another woman wearing a mask. Adrian stands up fast. Then

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she cries out in pain and holds her sides. I

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use my infrared again and see Adrian's really looking bad now.

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She looks even older than great uncle Bartholomew Miron, and

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he just turned ninety. She sure aged fast since I

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pursued her from the mall's center court. The woman who

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saved me pulls two pistols out from behind her back.

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I mean it, you back off never, Adrian roars. She

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glares at me. Now I will reclaim those powers aerial renaissance.

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Mirrn Adrian comes for me once more. I lash out

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with my eyebeams in desperation, but Miss my Savior fires

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her weapons and makes Adrian roar as the energies crackle

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around her. She falls on to her side, just inches

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away from me. Now I'm able to stand up again

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and can get away from her. Adrian struggles to get

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back to her feet. When she does, she suddenly cries

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out in intense pain and falls again. When she lands

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on the concrete floor, her body just explodes into dust

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and goes everywhere. I look at the woman who saved me.

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Did you do this? She looks my way. I merely

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just stunned her, I promise, I'm no killer. Now she

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comes into the light, not knowing I can see her

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with infrared. Then she removes her mask. What it it

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can't be, I gasp, then point to the dust That

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was my mother. But you, that's the woman is another

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Adrian Miron. Don't you remember me, Ariel, she asks calmly.

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You very recently saved my life when you didn't have to.

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Now I understand. At the same time, I'm confused. You

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came here from the vampire universe, but how she smiles,

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that's not important. What is important is that I'm indebted

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to you for saving my life. I step back quickly

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when she approaches me. I won't harm you, she assures me.

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In fact, you helped me to see the error of

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my ways that day. I'm so thankful that you didn't

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end up like my Ariel because of my actions. I'll

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have to carry what she's done for the rest of

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my life. Our world came to an end because of

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me and how I treated my Ariel. You really touched

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me when you saved my life. I plan to atone

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for what I've done. I don't expect you to trust

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me good because I won't. I tell her, I'll have

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to win your trust, she replies, But at least let

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me make you a promise, Ariel. From this day forward,

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I will use my knowledge to atone for what I've

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done until my last day. You inspired me by giving

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me a second chance, and I'll do right by you

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in return. Then, she gives me a motherly look for

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the first time ever, and keep following your path. I

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truly believe you're going to do greater things in addition

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to saving the multiverse. Also, if you should ever need

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my help in any way, I believe you'll know where

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to find me. Other Adrian turns and walks away. Not

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only do I have to keep working to master my powers,

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I've got to worry about another. Adrian Miron, now cousin Felicia,

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said being a superhero wasn't going to be easy. If

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I didn't believe her, then I sure do now. But

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know this, Adrian Miron, I will learn your true motives,

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and if I must, I'll give it my all and

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I will stop you count on it. After putting my

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makeshift costume back in my backpack, I go to get

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my bike and head for home. I can't wait for

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Carter and Mouse to hear this story. Well, my spookys,

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I hope you enjoyed yet another trip to Strickfield to

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check in on Ariel Miran. The story of Ariel and

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her friends sure has grown in so many ways here

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