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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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we get to that, I want to say a big
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thank you to everyone for tuning in and spending your
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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.