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The city of New York wasn't the city to sleep at night. It was always restless here and those who enforced laws knew nothing of day and night. For them, both were the same and they always would remain the same.

So they were used to the hectic atmosphere of the city at night. However, tonight, the atmosphere of the city was extra rowdy.

Sounds as if a thunderstorm woke everyone in the city up. As if the judgment day was upon them, they all turned to the sky to look at the beautiful scene that couldn't be explained in words.

Fire, heavy air, ice, lightning, light, and things that they couldn't even explain.

All of those rumbled in the sky as if they had a specific target but the sounds kept on coming for what felt like an eternity.

However, in truth, it was just barely a minute before everything went silent.

"Void of life!" Gabriel yelled as the space around him twisted and threatened to swallow his father.

However, Bruce simply waved his hand and tendrils of darkness emitted from them, erasing the phenomena of space around him.

"Hail of divinity!" Gabriel executed another skill and all around him, spears, swords, lances and anything that remotely resembled a weapon appeared. There were at least a million of them and Gabriel pointed his hand at Bruce, shooting all of them at him.

Bruce didn't even move and remained in his spot in midair as if he was standing on the floor.

The rush of weapons disappeared and disintegrated as soon as they came near him. They disappeared like they never existed.

Gabriel wasn't done yet. It was, after all, a diversion.

He disappeared from his spot and appeared beside Bruce to surprise him but the next moment, a terrifying force struck him in his abdomen and he was thrown miles away from his spot in tremendous pain.

He managed to come to a stop but just as he did, another bout of force assaulted him, throwing him towards the ground.

Gabriel, while falling, pointed his hand at Bruce and muttered, "Dragon's will."

A tremendous storm of fire erupted from his location and engulfed Bruce but unfortunately, his darkness even swallowed that fire.

Nothing was absolute in front of that darkness. It swallowed everything Gabriel could throw at it and it didn't help that all of this happened in just over a minute.

"Sixty two seconds." Bruce said as he landed gently beside Gabriel who had landed and made a crater in the central park.

He was in a worlds of pain and the only reason he remained conscious was his immortality. Otherwise, his regeneration would never work when wounds were inflicted from his father or his masters due to the shared power between them and his father.

Aliya saw that scene form far away but she didn't interfere. She knew that Bruce would injure Gabriel but he wouldn't kill him, no matter what.

But, someone else didn't hold the same view as her.

He only saw Gabriel on the ground, in pain and a man standing atop. It didn't matter that that man was his own father.

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Lightning rumbled as Andrew appeared juts beside Bruce, his fist brandished and ready to hit Bruce when Bruce simple extended his hand and grabbed Andrew by his neck, stopping his charge entirely.

Andrew struggled to get free but Bruce pulled him and threw him at the struggling Gabriel who was just about to stand up.

Andrew slammed into Gabriel and they both lay at the bottom of the crater.

"You want to know who he is, don't you?" Bruce said to the brothers who couldn't get up in pain. Gabriel had taken a lot more than Andrew but Andrew had taken a serious hit from Bruce.

"Well, there he is. See for yourself." Bruce said before he began to float in the air, his suit giving him a majestic feeling as he added before he took off to the skies, "Oh, and, a solar flare is coming."

Both brother were left in pain and broken and with broken bones. It took them a while to even register what that meant when Aliya came to them and said, "I see you, Gabe." Find more to read at My Virtual Library Empire

"I can see myself too." Gabriel replied sarcastically as he cast a healing skill on himself and his brother. Their bodies were so damaged that even Gabriel's strongest regenerative skill took some time.

"No, Gabe," Aliya clarified, "I see you in future."

"Where?" Gabriel asked, confused and curious at the same time.@@novelbin@@

"Chicago." Aliya said which changed Gabriel's expression but it changed for the worse when Aliya said the last word, "Muffin."

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"Can you explain what a solar flare is, doctor?" A journalist asked the guest who was a doctor in astrophysics. He nodded and explained the details of a solar flare.

Scientists predicted the solar flare to fall in a few hours, sometime before dawn.

However, there wasn't anything to worry about. The magnetic field around earth was well capable of stopping a solar flare and the extent of danger was only up to blackout around the world and even that for only some time.

So the public was calm and the government was taking precautions against the electricity mayhem.

However, one person wasn't worried about any of that. Gabriel appeared outside of an empty field in Chicago. It was also the place where he was a few years ago, well, a few years according to the earth's time. By his time, it had been millions of years but he still returned to that place with a heavy heart.

There was a string of devices laid out of n the ground and a giant pole was pointing towards the sky. Gabriel analyzed the product and he could easily tell what it was.

"What is this?" Andrew asked.

"It is a device to weaken the magnetic field around the earth." Gabriel responded.

"And that's bad?" Andrew asked since he wasn't able to understand the severity of the situation.

"Magnetic field not only protects earth from remnants of asteroids, it also protect the surface of the earth from several types of waves." Gabriel replied.

"And weakening that field would cause harm to us?" Andrew worriedly asked.

"Not to us, no. To people, yeah." Gabriel replied as he tried to sense the people with the control to the device since he couldn't just mess with it.

"Usually it would have been a problem. We not only have magnetic field protecting us, there are several types of gases in the different layers of atmosphere so as long as it isn't a long term issue, a slight delay in magnetic field wouldn't cause any damage." Gabriel said.

"Then why is it dangerous to people?" Andrew asked.

"Because a solar flare is coming." Gabriel replied.

"And that's bad, how?" Andrew asked.

"Because it would be like hundreds of volcanoes erupting at once and flooding the earth. Everything will turn into cinders, including people." Gabriel replied.

"Glup!" Andrew gulped when he just imagined such a scenario.

"Then we should hurriedly destroy it." Andrew said but before he could, a charming soft voice interrupted him, "I wouldn't do that if I were you."

As the person who said that appeared in view, Andrew was more confused than shocked because the person was very familiar.

"Julie." Andrew couldn't help but say.

Gabriel, on the other hand, wasn't surprised.

"You don't seen surprised, Muffin." Julie said with a seductive smile which confused Andrew all the more.

"Gabe, what's going on?" He asked Gabriel who continued to look at Julie as he replied, "That's not Julie."

"What do you mean 'That's not Julie'?" Andrew was all the more confused.

"Oh, how much of an idiot can you be?" Julie said like she was looking at a buffoon and said, "I'm not your girlfriend, Julie. She's sleeping. The me, me is Celina. Your sister in law."

Those words did nothing but confuse Andrew more before realization came with Gabriel's words, "Julie's possessed. By her, and her name is Celina. She's a soul master."

"She split her soul in many pieces before she died. One of those pieces invaded Julie's consciousness and took over her mind. It's like two souls in one body." Gabriel simplified.

"Then… Then we have to save her… I have to save her." Andrew said but before he could take a step, Julie raised her hand and a remote could be seen in it.

"Take one more step and I turn on the machine. As soon as it does, it weakens the magnetic field. No matter what you do then, this world will burn." Celina said.

"Ga-Gabe," Andrew hesitantly called Gabriel and asked, "What are we going to do? How do we save Julie?"

"She can't be saved." Gabriel replied with no emotion in his voice.

"What? What do you mean by that?" Andrew asked, his legs shaking and his life leaving his body.

"When Celina's soul took over her body, it also merged with it. The dominant soul always survives." Gabriel finally turned to Andrew and said with a heavy voice, "I'm sorry, brother. But Julie's dead."