To SHV
I have a teeny-tiny present for you. A long time ago me and some of the Fangirls made memes poking fun at Jonah's Mom's coffee shop orders.
As some of you may know I'm fresh off the SoCal Fiction Thriller, Spy, Political Writer's Best In Espionage and Mass Production Delta Force Award Gala. It was great seeing Erik V in his element and I picked up a thing or two. That Leon !Thriller might get dug out of the vault
New Aeterna
I wasn't going to mention this new thing, but the comment came up so I introduced this in the comments,
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What : A 33K novella that is an FINISHED (but need editing) Bellum alternate universe. It was inspired by all the comments I saw when you all thought New Aeterna could happen . I thought about what would happen too and as a result I wrote New Aeterna alongside Bellum. For a brief moment I wanted Bellum III to be New Aeterna.So What ? : It's an Bellum AU that's not as apocalyptic as I think you all envisioned. It has a with a smidge of SHV style to it. This is heavily inspired by Veritas and Vice. Parts of this were originally going to be in a Sundays/Bellum crossover, in ways I will talk about more as we go on. It might feel like I stole huge themes and ideas from Vice/Veritas (and maybe I did). I think I even did world-building. I have no idea how SHV does it.
Also if you think I've gone soft based on the Bellum ending that's all about to change . . .
You : But. . . this isn't Pretty Little Things
Me : I know but, blame Muse
Here are some quotes from Bellumm II and III about what New Aeterna is. This is a quick recap.
"Ever since SGI returned to Homeland and found it in ruins, it's been the dream of each SGI leader to bring back our civilization."Helios fought other men's wars, fought forother men's countries in hope he'd have one of his own one day.
"Helios found more than he was bargaining for. Not only did he find a community of Angels but he found the perfect land to conquer. Manhattan has infrastructure, riches and eight million humans to live as second class citizens. Manhattan is also an island, so he can easily isolate it and put up defenses to take it as his own.
Helios spent years working for corrupt governments and organizations. He knows how to stage an attack and win, he knows how to take by force. Apparently he spent the past year learning the city and it's weaknesses.
"Helios' knows the United States government isn't going to just give him the island. Not even close.He's going to wage war to conquer the island, it should only take a few days for him to win and Helios loves the thrill of war.""He can't win. . . not with his small army. There's what ? 60 SGI"He made a sharp turn."Helios has a second army.""More Angels ?""No. . . he is getting an army of bloodthirsty daemons."
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[Leon] "Things are different at Queen Anne's. Your brother is replacing both Seraphina and Titus. Jona is efficient, a zealot for New Aeterna. The other hate--but are forced to respect--him. Even that bastard Demon Isaiah shows his face openly. He talks to Helios about recruiting for his human eating daemon army .When they are hungry. They are hungry. The humans don't stand a chance. Fuck, It's like you demons have come in and corrupted the SGI.""Helios let them in", I reminded him."Anyway, Helios has started planting explosives on all the bridges and tunnels. . . it should be done by early spring. Manhattan will be his in three months."
New Aeterna's Universe diverges the night Seraphina and Ariel runaway
“You”, Sera says looking up the stairs.
Dante’s hand is shaking when he pulls the brand away. He is look to me for some type of guidance or redemption but he won’t be getting it.
“You”, Sera says again but I think she has gone mad, “You did this. You traitor. You--”
She presses her palms hard into the stone and pulls herself to her barefeet and charges up the stairs, she has a small sleek knife in her hand. Her target is obvious. Her target doesn’t even have to time to get away when she uses her last bit of energy to knock him to the ground.
Traitor ?
When she raises her hand to strike a flurry of Brothers grab her and haul her away from him.
“You bastard”, she yells at Jona, “You traitor. You did this. You’ve been working with Helios this whole time. It was you. You. . you. . told him. . . you did this to me. . . you did this . ."
Her accusations turn into inaudible loud screams as the Brothers hold her back. Jona just stands there bored as she screams at him.
“Let her go”, I demand my brothers and they back away, “She’s traumatized. Someone go and fucking get Damien”
The Brother’s don’t heed my warning and Lysander hobbles down to the infirmary. Still screaming Seraphina collapses on the stairs out of exhaustion. Ariel scrambles up the steps to sit with her.
I look between Seraphina and Jona and it all clicked.
“Jona ?”, I look up at him, “You didn’t. Tell me you haven't been working with Helios.”
“Well, now we know where we all stand.”
“Where exactly do you stand, traitor ?”
“Not with you.”, he says cooly Then to everyone, "None of you should. If you are tired of hiding out . . . tired of working a meaningless job living a meaningless existence then join me. . . join Helios and we can all be Princes in New Aeterna or you can be buried beneath it."
Jona pulled out a gun and started shooting, bullets and warm blood flowed everywhere. We ran for the door. Outside an extermination squad of SGI were waiting. It was dark and raining and we all ran for our lives. Very few of us made it.
Something had gone wrong that night. The expolsives Helios was planting in the bridges and tunnels were set off to early. Bridges and tunnels were collapsing on all side. Us Demons were not to see New Aeterna. He kept me alive so I could see my Brothers die. H
It's been ten very long years. Now I'm going to take the city back.
Chapter One
Play List : New Aeterna
+1+ Pompeii - Jasmine
+2+ Rise Up - Andra Day
