00:00I am Persephone. In this divine world, golden fate threads dictate wealth and life.
00:07My grandfather, the High Priest of the Fates, guarded these ancient secrets.
00:11On his deathbed, he offered my sister Eris and me a choice.
00:15The Golden Empire Token, or the Ancient Fates Seals.
00:20Break a seal, and the fates must grant you one absolute destiny.
00:24Last life, I chose the Golden Token.
00:26My false sister Eris took the seals.
00:29She broke the stones to command the fates.
00:32She cursed our parents to a brutal death, and slaughtered them.
00:35Bleeding in the dirt, I swore a blood oath to the fates for vengeance.
00:39My eyes snap open. I am back at the exact moment of the choice.
00:43Prometheus' blood dripped across the marble altar. This time, I will take the magic.
00:48Our temples are drowning in death. We need that gold.
00:51That gold is a death trap, father.
00:53Lesser gods scoffed in the torch-lit hall.
00:56When you starve in the dirt, sister, I will buy you bread.
01:00She tapped her own wrist exactly where her curse burned me last time.
01:03My breath caught in my throat. She knew.
01:06The fate sent her back too.
01:08Let us see whose thread burns first this time.
01:15Eris took the Empire's wealth and walked away.
01:18I sprinted back to our family's temple.
01:20Armed debt collectors were already smashing our doors.
01:23Pay your debts by sunrise, or lose your hands!
01:26A heavy boot slammed my father onto the stone floor.
01:30His blood pooled on the pristine marble.
01:32I locked myself in the dark chamber.
01:34My hand shook as I pulled the stone from my pocket.
01:37Crushed the first ancient seal until my skin tore open.
01:40Blue fire exploded into physical golden threads.
01:43They wrapped violently around my bleeding wrists.
01:46My command-a-loop!
01:47Let my parents' faults overflow with gold!
01:50The golden thread of prosperity shot into the night sky.
01:53I watched it race toward the heavens to save my family.
01:56Suddenly, the clouds burned a violent, toxic red.
02:00A mysterious blast of crimson fire erupted from nowhere.
02:03It slashed straight through the golden thread.
02:06Incinerated my wish into black ash mid-air.
02:14The black ash rained down upon our temple.
02:16Crimson flames traveled down the suffered strain like a lit fuse.
02:20It slammed directly into the woods.
02:22A massive explosion shattered toward the yard.
02:24The mysterious fire devoured my father's entire trade fleet.
02:28My command for wealth had mutated into absolute ruin.
02:31A collector raised his heavy blade over my weeping mother.
02:35Time's up.
02:37We're taking your hands.
02:39Eris stepped through the shattered temple gates,
02:41stared down at my ruined family with a cold smile.
02:44My bleeding father crawled forward and grabbed her ankle.
02:47Eris!
02:48Please!
02:49Pay them!
02:50Help us!
02:52Blame my sister.
02:54Die in the dirt.
02:55I stepped out of the dark shadows.
02:57Wiped the blood off my face.
02:59My wish for wealth brought them death.
03:01The magic was completely backward.
03:03Fine.
03:04If a blessing kills them,
03:07I'll curse them.
03:09My heart hammered violently against my ribs.
03:12I squeezed the second stone seal until it shattered in my palms.
03:16Jagged rocks cut deep into my flesh.
03:18Blue fire surged straight into my veins.
03:21Thick golden threads wrapped tightly around my arms like chains.
03:25I stared at my bleeding parents through the thick smoke.
03:29I screamed my reverse command at the top of my lungs.
03:32I command the loom.
03:33Let my parents wither into stone and suffer forever.
03:37The golden thread shot from my bleeding wrists.
03:39It raced upward into the dark sky.
03:42Come on!
03:44Burn it!
03:45I waited for the mysterious fire to intercept.
03:48No fire came.
03:50The sky remained perfectly clear.
03:53The golden thread arched back down,
03:56slammed directly into my parents' chest.
03:58A blood-curdling scream ripped from my father's throat.
04:06Grey marble consumed my father's bare tubs.
04:09A petrification curse swallowed his calves.
04:11Flesh tried to get stone.
04:13My mother collapsed, dragging heavy stone legs.
04:15Why?
04:16Why would you curse us?
04:19My blood froze in my veins.
04:21The wish didn't reverse.
04:23The debt collector stared at the spreading curse in terror.
04:25The fates cursed them!
04:27Run!
04:28They dropped their blades and fled the courtyard.
04:30Aeris stepped through the shattered gates with twelve Olympus guards.
04:33She bent down, leaned in until her lips brushed my ear.
04:37You still can't beat me, Persephone.
04:40I knew exactly what you would wish for.
04:42You are so naive.
04:45Just like your last life,
04:47Aeris shifted her face into a mask of furious grief and turned to the guards.
04:51She used dark magic to mutilate her own bloodline.
04:54She destroyed House Prometheus!
04:56Prometheus, arrest the disaster star!
04:58Exile her to the wasteland!
05:04Olympus guards dragged me by the hair to the realm's edge.
05:07They threw me violently into the mortal wasteland.
05:09Freezing rain slammed into my torn white robes.
05:12Two golden fate marks burned like branding irons across my shoulders.
05:16Every broken seal leaves a permanent curse on the flesh.
05:19A pack of Oracle bounty hunters surrounded me in the dark.
05:22Aeris pays extra if we bring your head back in a box.
05:25I gripped a jagged stone from the blood.
05:28Then come get it.
05:39I closed my eyes as the heavy blade swung down.
05:43Suddenly, the freezing rain turned to solid ice mid-air.
05:47The blade froze inches from my neck.
05:49A towering shadow stepped out of the black fog.
05:52He wore a cloak of absolute night.
05:54Eyes like frozen river water locked onto the hunters.
05:57Hades, the underworld lord.
05:59Someone intercepted a fate thread right above my territory.
06:04The magical explosion shattered the ceiling of my underworld.
06:09The bounty hunters lunged at the top of my head.
06:12Hades didn't even blink.
06:13He flicked his wrist.
06:14Black ice erupted from the ground and impaled them all.
06:17Their bodies shattered with frozen dust.
06:19He walked slowly toward me.
06:21He opened his massive black cloak, stepping into the storm.
06:24He pulled the heavy fabric over my head, completely shielding me from the violent rain.
06:28His towering frame trapped me in a sudden, freezing silence.
06:31He reached out with a pale, bare hand.
06:34His ice-cold fingers gripped my fever-burning wrist.
06:37The sheer cold slammed into my boiling veins, sending a shiver down my spine.
06:41His thumb traced the glowing fate mark on my skin.
06:44You commanded wealth, but Aerys' fire intercepted your thread mid-air.
06:49The violent collision blew a hole in my realm's barrier.
06:52My eyes widened in shock.
06:54It wasn't a magic backlash?
06:57Eric physically blocked it?
06:58Yes.
06:59She violated the rules of the living.
07:02So I came to find the one who caused it.
07:05Hades dragged me through the black gates of the underworld.
07:08Wailing shades swarmed around our ankles.
07:10He raised his hand to push them back.
07:12The effort tore his black robes open.
07:14A jagged black fissure cracked across his pale chest.
07:18Dark energy bled from the physical wound.
07:23What is that?
07:24Are you hurt?
07:24My domain fractures every time.
07:27Your sister abuses the fate's power.
07:29My territory crumbles.
07:31And my chest splits.
07:33He led me to a massive shattered stone wheel.
07:36Glowing in the dark.
07:37The fragments of the ancient fate loom.
07:39Touch it.
07:40The loom remembers everything.
07:42I pressed my burning palm against the cold stone.
07:44A violent vision ripped through my mind.
07:47I saw my golden thread flying toward the heavens.
07:50I saw Deimos strike it with red Ares fire.
07:52I saw Ares laughing as she paid him the gold.
07:55I pulled my hand back, gasping for air.
07:57Rage broiled in my blood.
07:59Hotter than the magic.
08:00She didn't just trap me.
08:02She turned my parents to stone.
08:05The loom's golden light illuminated Hades' sharp jawline.
08:08The corrupt Olympus Council won't believe a vision.
08:11Eryx controls the Oracle.
08:13They only trust her pendant.
08:14I clenched my fists until my nails drew blood.
08:17Then I have to make her confess from her own mouth.
08:19Hades stepped closer.
08:20Eryx wants to see you rot from the magic's curse.
08:25I will paint the rot of the dead onto your living skin.
08:28Make you look withered, dying.
08:31She won't resist gloating over your corpse.
08:34I stared at the black fissure spreading rapidly across his chest.
08:38I govern the dead.
08:39I don't care about pain.
08:41I only care if you are ruthless enough to kill her.
08:45His gray-blue eyes locked onto mine.
08:47I'll tear her throat out.
08:51I dragged myself up the Olympus temple steps.
08:54Hades' illusion clung to my skin like rotting flesh.
08:57Gray cracks covered my cheeks.
08:59I collapsed in the center of the golden courtyard.
09:02Eris strutted out of the council chambers with her armed guards.
09:05The blue oracle pendant glowed at her throat.
09:08She kicked me hard in the ribs.
09:10Disaster star, rotting from your own curse.
09:13I coughed blood onto the marble, forced my voice to sound weak and broken.
09:18You won.
09:19The fates reversed my wishes.
09:23Eris threw her head back and laughed.
09:26The fates didn't do anything, you idiot.
09:29I intercepted every single thread.
09:32I paid Deimos to burn your wealth.
09:35I played you.
09:36And you turned your own parents to stone.
09:40Beneath the illusion, my golden fate mark flared.
09:43It absorbed every single word she said.
09:45I stopped coughing.
09:47I looked up into her eyes and smiled.
09:49No!
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