The Boy Who Burned the Heavens

"They don't kill. They un-happen."

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🌌 [Scene: Forgotten Hour – Flameclock King's Domain]

Riven stood at the edge of his newly claimed realm — a place between ticks, beyond breath, where no event echoed.

The Forgotten Hour.

He gazed at the horizon — a still ocean made of frozen seconds, shimmering with memories never born.

> "I can feel time breathing," he whispered.

"It's afraid."

Behind him, Lyara stepped lightly.

Her voice was brittle.

> "Something's coming, Riven."

"Something that doesn't belong to any page…"

The Flamechron Pen trembled in his grip.

Then, the sky cracked.

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💀 Arrival: The Era Eaters

It began with a hum.

A low resonance, like the world trying to remember a word it had forgotten.

Then… they came.

Shapeless.

Ageless.

Eyes like censored lines.

Mouths stitched with expired prologues.

They weren't monsters.

They were eras.

Alive.

And hungry.

The Era Eaters.

> "What are they?" Mirael gasped.

> "Reality's cleanup crew," Lyara muttered.

"They erase timelines that shouldn't have existed."

One of them raised a limb.

And the sky rewound.

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🕰 Chaos Begins – History Unwritten

The world outside the Forgotten Hour stuttered.

Entire cities vanished from existence.

People screamed — then forgot why.

Statues melted into questions.

Riven's victories? Beginning to fade.

> "They're deleting outcomes," Mirael realized.

"Reversing consequences!"

Riven clenched his jaw.

His own name flickered in the air beside him.

Then—began to fade.

> "Not today," he growled.

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⚔️ Duel Begins – Riven vs. the First Eater: Verax of the Void Year

Verax was not a being.

He was a memory devourer.

He lunged, and the battlefield warped:

Riven forgot how he arrived.

His powers failed — their origins blurred.

Even his pain became unreliable.

> "He's unthreading your cause," Lyara shouted.

"You can't fight him with effect!"

Riven snarled.

> "Then I'll fight him with intention."

He planted Ashbrand Quill deep into the ground.

And wrote:

> "I burn… even when I don't know why."

A pulse surged.

Flame exploded.

Intention overpowered causality.

And Verax… screeched.

Then evaporated into canceled chapters.

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⚔️ Duel 2 – The Second Eater: Solan of the Skipped Reign

Solan appeared as a king without a crown, bleeding with timelines never allowed to bloom.

> "I was supposed to rule…" he hissed.

"But my paragraph was cut."

He raised his staff.

The world collapsed into a loop.

Riven watched his mother's death on repeat.

Watched himself die again.

Over and over.

Until he no longer cried.

> "This is mercy," Solan whispered.

"You'll never fear the future again."

Riven stood through the agony.

Bled.

Smiled.

> "Pain teaches. Loops trap."

He grabbed the loop by both ends.

And burned a line through it.

The timeline screamed.

Solan shattered into ash.

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⚔️ Final Duel – The Oldest Eater: Chronis the Original Edit

The sky turned black and red.

The ground cracked into timelines untold.

From the breach crawled a being without a beginning.

No face.

No sound.

Only eras dripping from its form.

> "I am Chronis," it said.

"I was there before your flame.

And I will stay after it dims."

Time stopped.

Every moment Riven had ever lived replayed behind him.

All his flaws.

All his betrayals.

All his regrets.

Chronis began to delete him from the first second he ever breathed.

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🌀 Time Duel – Author vs. Eraser

> "You're not fighting a beast," Lyara whispered.

"You're fighting the Edit itself!"

Chronis rewrote:

Riven's birth — gone.

His name — flickering.

His legacy — unreadable.

Riven collapsed.

But from the void, Mirael's voice echoed:

> "You're not just flame. You're written in memory."

And in the silence, something stirred.

Riven stood again.

Wrote one word:

> "Proof."

And screamed:

> "Erase my name — the world remembers me!"

"Erase my story — I'll scar time itself."

He struck with Flamechron Quill.

And carved into Chronis:

> "This one lived."

Chronis split down the middle.

And fell into the forgotten space.

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✅ The Era Eaters Retreat

Reality trembled.

The sky stitched shut.

Timelines fluttered — then stabilized.

Mirael collapsed.

Lyara wept.

Riven…

Still stood.

Eyes burning like clockwork embers.

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🔓 Powers Gained:

> 🕯️ Soulfont Recall: Access lost versions of yourself for brief moments of insight or power.

🌀 Rewrite Resistance: Becomes 50% resistant to timeline erasures.

⏳ Temporal Signature: Anyone trying to delete Riven from history must now confront his Flameclock imprint — an echo that burns them.

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📘 Hidden Lore Unlocked:

> The Era Eaters were released not by accident…

But by a writer who once ruled the gods.

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