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The Ashen crown

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The war began with a whisper in a language older than stone.

Three centuries before Malisa's birth, the Witch-Queen Seraphina DuMort discovered the Grimoire of Chains—a text written in the blood of the first gods, bound in dragon-hide and human skin. Within its pages lay the secret to dominion: not merely to kill supernatural beings, but to consume their essences, to harvest their power like wheat before the scythe.

She began with the merclans.

The Sirens of the Abyssal Depths had ruled the oceans since before memory, their coral cities gleaming with bioluminescent majesty. Seraphina walked into the surf at midnight, her coven of thirteen surrounding her, and sang a song of unbinding. The water turned black. The coral crumbled. And when the sun rose, the merclans were bound to her will—their voices stolen, their tails chained in enchanted iron, their warriors forced to drag themselves onto land to die in service of her conquest.

The werewolves came next.

The Pack of the Blood Moon, largest of the lycanthrope clans, fell in a single night. Seraphina didn't fight them—she became them. Using the essence of the Alpha she'd captured, she walked among them in wolf-skin, her magic disguised as fur. At the full moon's apex, she spoke the Words of Dominion, and every wolf within a hundred miles felt their souls tear. They became vessels—still conscious, still feeling, but unable to disobey the voice in their minds that wore their mother's face, their lover's voice.

The dragons were harder.

Ancient, proud, and few in number, the Draconic Houses retreated to their volcanic fortresses, their scales gleaming with elemental fire. For fifty years, Seraphina couldn't touch them. So she turned to the lesser beings—the fae with their glamour, the ghouls with their hunger, the djinn bound in their lamps—and built an army of the desperate and the damned.

The Dragon War lasted a decade. Mountains were flattened. Rivers boiled. The sky turned to ash for three years straight, blocking out the sun. When it ended, only seven dragons remained in the world, and Seraphina wore their brother's heart around her neck as a pendant, pulsing with captured flame.

By the time Malisa was born, the supernatural world had known nothing but subjugation for generations.

Werewolves patrolled the witch-territories as slave-soldiers, their golden eyes empty of everything but the compulsion to obey. Merclans served as living batteries—their water-magic drained daily to power Seraphina's spells, their bodies kept in glass tanks in her palace, slowly withering. The fae had been reduced to court jesters, their wings clipped, their immortality traded for decades of servitude. Ghouls fed only on what the witches permitted. Vampires—those few who hadn't been exterminated—lived in coffins beneath the palace, summoned only to kill.

And in the shadows, a prophecy waited.

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Chapter 1:the girl with striped hair
Malisa was born in the Reclamation—the hidden settlement where free supernaturals still fought, deep in the Ironwood Malissa was born after the war started; she was a combination of wolf blood and witch blood. When Melissa was born she was crying and kicking like every other newborn and her mother, Elena. the former ruler of the Witch Kingdom but was later betrayed by her step sister born of a maid to her father . She had escaped after Seraphina, her step sister, ordered a bounty for her and she had to run away to save her life. Her father, Davida the alpha king of the red moon Pack and a lycan who in a hunting game met elana.both of them met by coincidence as she was running for dear life. They later discovered they were mates which was unusual as it hasn't been in all ages known of a wolf and a witch being mated together . When Melissa was born the sky was dark and the moon hidden, an auspicious sign and the night clouds the color of blood. Malisa was born differently. She had crimson red hair and white stripes on them, her eyes a shade of Gray and blue, the midwife exclaimed in shock at the baby being given birth to. The mid wife Coraline was a merclan midwife who escaped alongside the wolves when the witches started the war and the wolf left the supernatural world for a wild life . “My lady” Coraline cried out her gills flaring with excitement.” she might be the one in the prophecy” the one to save us all “ she continues She has the red imprint on her a sign of the chosen one and .., “ And what “ Elena asked, her eyes getting tired and her body getting weak” And something I don't know of, but she's special” Coraline added. Malisa, unlike other children, didn't have friends while growing up. She was always known as the special kid. Though she wasn't a bully, the other kids fear her as she was known to be special. They hid her for seventeen years....hid their pack, away from seraphina's reach and eyes... There was a time when three years old Malisa sneakily followed her father to the deepest part of the forest but they encountered four rogue wolves alongside five ghouls who were in the influence of Seraphina's spell, but before her dad could notice she had single handedly killed them. also on her seventh birthday, after Davida toasted to his pack . Karen a Twelfth year old wolf, Malisa's cousin who grew up being trained how to fight in wars had challenged her, a seven year old. It was a tradition for every wolf celebrating a birthday to find who to duel with so as to know how strong they are from a young age, and even though Davida and Elena disagreed the other pack members voted for her to fight and that was the day her first shift happened, a seven year old shifting was unheard of and she was the first in history to shift. Karen almost lost his life there and then he had avoided her ever since. When she was seventeen the pack border received unexpected visitors. Seraphina's power had grown over the years and she had successfully made the other beings fear her to the point of trying to escape but that also was within her sight. The Merclan king after taking human forms has taken his people out of the water as the water had turned deadly and unfit for them anymore. After sealing their merform and turning humans the king fled because he knew seraphina's main target wasn't his people but him and what's in his possession. Along the way he encountered the dragon king and his son Rafael who was heading to the wolves territory as the witch queen likely won't dare barge in. On getting to the border they saw the fae king and his queen mab. He was injured and she was trying to help him stop the bleeding. Malisa was wandering out alone, her red hair dancing on her back as she ran stealthily. She was one with the wind as her speed was insane. She had wanted to go out but she heard sounds at the borderline. Without a wolf permission no outsiders can't come in hence when she went over to check what was going on she saw four people and a little boy in their midst while channeling all their essence to him but it went down hill when those powers noticed her and instead of entering Rafael the little dragon it went into Malisa instead and the last thing she remembered before passing out was the shocked eyes of little Rafael . Waking up she saw her parents and the strange dragon boy but she felt different……so different she could feel her body burn, closing her eyes she could feel her blood in turmoil and her eyes shot open as she screamed in pain. Red veins on her head and a moon tattoo appeared at the corner of her eyes. Her body shook convulsively and she passed out again.

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