Chapter 40: The Girl Who Bled
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Scene 1: A Failed Attempt to Kill It
FLASH!
Jakku moves first — a blur lightning incarnate a force of Ether and fury.
He slashes Crown thrice across the chest. Two on the ribs and four on the back.
Blood — not red, not real — spills like spilled galaxies.
Crown only smirks.
A vine-whip lashes — too fast.
But Maiku cuts it mid-air, flame still on his knuckles.
Crown rises — levitates — no effort, no weight.
She spreads her arms. Whispers something.
Crown : "Awakening Bloom."
200 Bloomed Ones erupt from the ground.
Massacre.
Maiku: Sky-Fire Awakening — a burning tempest — kills 91.
Jakku, half-dead already, cleaves 87.
Gift slashes 21 through tears.
Matthew kills one.
Still bleeding. Still alive.
Then — a white-eyed bloom-pulse.
Green aura spreads like a god's breath.
The dead Bloomed Ones rise.
The injured are healed.
But so are the team.
Jakku's hand regrows.
Gift's eye returns.
Maiku — recharged.
Matthew — whole.
A flaw… turned into a gift.
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Scene 2: Narrow Escape
They try again. Blades against vines.
Nothing lands.
Crown is untouchable now. A concept, not a girl.
Jakku looks at Gift.
Jakku : "No more."
They flee — Matthew takes flight, carrying them in silence.
Crown laughs behind them, wild and divine.
Then: Stem-Born Jakku steps out from her shadow.
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Scene 3: Bloom Horizon
The sky ruptures. Half-Bloomed half starless void.
The world above the Vault bends.
Physics folds into a Bloom-shaped vortex. The planet buckles itself up.
Time becomes a heartbeat.
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Scene 4: Descent into the Stemwalk
The team decides NO it's time to end this.
Jakku(determined): "We can't just keep running. I must not like her now but she is still Reen."
Gift(determined) : "Now let's go back there and save our friend!!!"
Together in unison :
"Yeah!"
They walk the root-stairs beneath the Vault.
Each step: a hallucination.
Maiku sees himself crowned as a Bloom Hero.
Jakku sees himself ending it all, alone.
Gift sees Reen… alive, smiling. Fake.
Matthew sees Kaguya dying. Heartbreaking.
They blink it away. Keep going.
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Scene 5: Matthew's Last Stand (Signal)
Matthew, something tells him not to follow, he reroutes Ashroot comms.
His fingers shake, but he codes anyway.
Coordinates uploaded: The Seed Archive.
Failsafe.
Final shot.
He smiles through the blood.
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Scene 6: Reen's Final Memory
In the Heart-Bloom, Reen meets it:
The Original Seed.
A shape that doesn't stay still.
A voice that sings like her mother, then screams like Kenji.
She understands it now.
Why she was chosen.
Why she had to break.
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Scene 7: The Verdict Fails
Mai Heiko inserts Jiotaku's blood. She steps forward to forces his blood into the engine.
Verdict Engine sparks — activates—hums — screams. It violently short-circuits.
It dies. Corrupted. Rewritten.
The Bloom has re-coded the laws it was meant to follow.
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Scene 8: The Split Path
Gift: "Reen."
Crown: "She's buried."
Jakku: "Then let us finish this."
Crown reaches out.
"Merge with me, Gift. Become Seed-Keeper."
Jakku lifts his blade.
Jakku : "She's begging us to stop this."
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Scene 9: Memory Duel
Gift falls into the Bloommind.
Kenji awaits.
Not alive — not dead.
Blades forged from regret.
Shields of lost memories.
Something snaps—A vein pops out.
Gift jumps.
They clash.
Gift kills Kenji.
Kenji goes back into Crown's head.
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Scene 10: Reen Remembers
Inside Crown, Reen pulses within.
She starts becoming aware.
She was born as a resistance ally, not a god.
She remembers the resistance.
The laughter.
The fear.
The choice.
She speaks inside her own prison:
Reen : "I was the girl who bled for this.
I won't let her die for nothing."
It's a small fracture of hope. Reen is fighting to win.
The Bloom puts her in a prison. It's now Reen vs The Bloom Within.
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Scene 11: Hope Against the Impossible
The team goes back to Crown. She sees them.
And then.....
Crown screams. Rage forming blades.
Stem-Born Jakku attacks.
Jakku, Gift, Maiku ready themselves.
He forms roots on his arms—Gift leaps and slices the roots off.
Maiku: Sky-Fire Ascendancy Mode — white flame for fists.
Gift and Jakku: "Flash!"
They charge.
But.
SLASH!
Crown sends all her whips. They crash into a wall. 800 km/h. Unconscious.
Only Matthew stands.
His friends, broken. Crown, approaching.
She raises her whips ready to end them until—
Memory:
A 5-year-old Jakku.
A 4-year-old Gift.
Kaguya. Laughter. Sunlight.
A memory. Playing around.
Matthew's eyes turn deep gray.
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Scene 12: The Four Major Dragon Spirits
Vision.
Matthew sees four dragon spirits— glowing beasts.
Red with blue flame: Fire.
Sky blue: Water.
Toxic green: Acid.
Deep orange: Lava.
They speak together:
"You are worthy. You're physical and mental strength are strong.
You have walked through death with open eyes."
Matthew now, gained new powers.
Fire : His fire breath is now even hotter than before. From Blue to Gold fire and this fire slows down the regenerative powers of the Bloom.
Water : He can shoot out River sized water balls.
Acid : He can shoot out burning acid.
Lava : He can shoot out Lake sized Lava.
They bless him.
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Scene 13: Matthew's Last Stand (Awakened)
Matthew leaps.
Gold fire breath.
Crown screams — regeneration slows.
Stem-Born Jakku quickly appears.
Crown then poures spore enhancements. Stem-Born Jakku returns, mutated and enhanced.
Stem-Born Jakku makes sprouts roots from his hand trying to catch Matthew.
Matthew counters by spitting out Lava burning them away.
His whole body catches fire. He reels in pain.
Matthew jumps in and cuts him in the chest.
Stem-Born Jakku stops the burning and makes a Root sword.
He lunges and tries to slash Matthew on the face.
Matthew dodges and then uses his Pressure roar.
He bites Stem-Born's head off.
But doesn't eat it.
Instead, Matthew spits out fire and then Acid burning and disintegrating him. It's gone.
The Stem Axis: destroyed. Gone. Forever.
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Scene 14: Unbelievable Result
The others awaken. Mostly fine but dizzy.
They see what's left of Stem-Born Jakku — melted roots and ash.
Crown, stunned.
Matthew: silent.
He hurls a river at her. Shoots out water to.
She's swept away. Like a leave through a flood.
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Scene 15: Collapse Protocol
Crown rises.
Her voice is void.
Crown : "Collapse Protocol: Initiated."
The Vault starts disintegrating. Time seems slow. Gravity dies. Physics reverses, jumps and glitches. The world becomes unreadable. The team must escape or be erased and lost to history.
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Scene 16: The Unexpected Arrival
Suddenly —
The Root Avatar arrives.
A towering being of ancient vines and judgment.
It grabs Crown — limp now — and vanishes.
Back to the lair. To discuss on the downfall of humanity.
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Scene 17: Barely Alive
The Vault falls apart.
Matthew grabs his teammates ready to leave.
But there's a problem.....
Gravity's gone. Not functioning. Air flickers.
The team floats, helpless.
Then — The Ashroot arrive.
Mai : "Grab my hand!"
Matthew flies with everything he's got.
They do it!! They carry him.
Carrying them. Pulling them out.
The team thanks God that they are alive.
The team leave with an Ashroot airship back to the safety of the base.
Maiku(relieved) : "Thank you God."
Gift, relieved but sad yet still determined.
Jakku, stoic but happy they're alive.
Matthew, tired of this world.
Maiku, ready to shape the world he's always wanted.
Most importantly ; Reen, She fights and wants her friends and body back....
To Be Continued...
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Final Line:
> "The girl who bled is gone. But the war she bled for… just woke up."
> "Reen is coming. It's all just started."
Narrator (deep, reflective) :
In Chapter 40: The Girl Who Bled, everything shatters and everything begins. This is no longer a war of rebels and tyrants—it is now a war of memory, identity, and rebirth. Reen, once a girl who simply wanted to help, now becomes the battleground herself. Her blood—spilled, twisted, repurposed—becomes the price of a godhood she never asked for. And yet, buried beneath the bloom and madness, a whisper still breathes: Reen remembers.
The team's strength lies not in their powers, but in their refusal to surrender. Matthew, silent and burdened, rises. Gift fights memory with emotion. Jakku slashes through grief. Maiku burns through fate. Each step they take is one of pain—and love. When the Vault collapses, when physics die, when the Bloom rewrites creation itself… they survive not by force, but by bond.
And now, as the Root Avatar drags Crown away to judgment, and Reen begins to claw back her soul from the inside, one truth blooms with terrifying clarity:
This was never the end.
This was only the beginning of what she became.
The girl who bled is not gone. She is returning—with fire, memory, and vengeance.
And the world will remember her name.