Fai & Isa: Love in the Fantasy World
Part 25 – The Awakening Beyond the Veil
The air grew unnaturally still. The remnants of the shadows had faded, but the presence that loomed beyond them had not disappeared. If anything, it had grown stronger.
Fai and Isa stood side by side, their breath heavy, their bodies tense. The sky had stopped swirling, yet an unsettling quiet had taken its place. It was the kind of silence that felt unnatural, like the world was holding its breath.
Then—
A whisper.
It didn't come from the wind. It wasn't a voice carried through the air. It was inside them, like an echo from a place beyond their reach.
"You are not alone."
Isa's heart pounded. "Did you hear that?"
Fai nodded slowly. His grip on his sword tightened. "Something's watching us."
The ground beneath them pulsed—once, then twice. It wasn't violent like before. It was… rhythmic. Like a heartbeat.
Then, in the distance, beyond the hills that stretched into the unknown, the land split open. A thin, glowing fissure carved through the world, expanding with each second. Light poured from it, but it was not warm. It was cold, foreign, like something that did not belong in this reality.
From within the fissure, a shape began to emerge.
Not the shadowy figure they had faced before. Not something they had ever seen.
It was something else.
Something that should not be here.
Isa reached for Fai's hand instinctively. "This… isn't part of our world, is it?"
Fai barely managed to shake his head. "No. This is something completely different."
The fissure widened. The light from within it pulsed again, sending a shiver through the ground.
Then, for the first time since they arrived in this world—
They heard something breathing.
Deep. Slow. Ancient.
And from within that glowing void, two eyes opened.
Not like the ones they had seen before. These were vast, endless, as if the universe itself had focused its gaze upon them.
Then—
The world shattered.
Everything twisted, blurred, and before they could even react—
The light swallowed them whole.